Exposing the Persecution
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Police Brutality: Putting a Female Dafa Practitioner in a Cage to be Bitten by Mosquitoes
2004-08-28
Dafa practitioner Ms Hu Aiyun went to appeal in Beijing against the persecution and was detained in a detention centre. A policeman put Hu into a steel cage with her hands cuffed to the top of it. Inside the cage, she could neither stand straight nor squat down. The cage was placed under a tree. The summer weather was hot and humid, and the air was thick with swarms of mosquitoes. She was forced to remain in the cage outside for eight days where she was subjected to thousands of mosquito bites as the swarms covered her. -
Dafa Practitioner's Husband Dies From Shock and Grief After Repeated Arrests of His Wife
2004-08-28"On August 31, 2001 I was sent to the Shibalihe Female Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, where I was tortured, beaten, force-fed, cuffed, and hung up by my handcuffed wrists. I left the labour camp alive on January 11, 2004. After five years of torture and abuse from the persecution, I was left with permanently swollen legs and my feet numb and sore. For four years, since the year 2000, my left shinbone has suffered from a fracture that was not treated properly. At present, I am disabled and cannot work. My husband passed away three years ago, from the constant fear and pressure. During the past few years, our only daughter has been forced to struggle to live on her own, with very little money." -
57 Years Old Dafa Practitioner Wang Qingzhou from Shandong Province Dies from Torture
2004-08-27Mr. Wang Qingzhou, 57 years old, lived near to Weihai City, Shandong Province. He began practising Falun Gong in 1997 and went to the local government to clarify the truth after the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. In January 2003 he was again arrested and sent to a detention centre where he was tortured before being released in May 2003. After he returned home, he had constant pain in his abdomen. Mr. Wang Qingzhou passed away three months later. -
Ms. Sun Xiuhua Dies as a Result of Persecution in Jilin Province
2004-08-27Ms. Sun Xiuhua, 47, lived in Nong'an County, Jilin Province. She was sent twice to the Nong'an Detention Centre and released only after forcing her to pay 6,000 Yuan in fines, both times. Due to the persecution of her body, the enormous pressure on her mind, and the large amount of fines she was forced to pay, Ms. Sun started to suffer both physically and mentally, and her health deteriorated day by day. Tragically, she died on June 16, 2004. -
Anti-Falun Gong Hate Camp Established to Poison the Minds of Young People in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
2004-08-27Sources say that a so-called "rejecting cult" programme for young people from elementary and high schools in the Dongshan District, began operations on July 30, 2004. Being the first of its kind, the camp was organized by Guangdong Province authorities to spread propaganda and instill hatred toward Falun Gong among those youngsters. The plan is to indoctrinate close to 70,000 young people in Dongshan District every year by making them attend the camp. -
Practitioner Zhou Zhi Tortured to Death at the Second Prison in Liaoning Province
2004-08-26Mr. Zhou Zhi, around 38 years of age, was an engineer in Liaoning Province. He was arrested last May for downloading Falun Gong truth-clarification materials from the internet. After his arrest, Zhou had been on hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. Last November, he and three other practitioners were sentenced to 11 years in prison. Zhou was tortured to death on August 16 this year at the Second Prison in Shanyang City, Liaoning Province. -
Description of the Torture of Practitioners in Xinhua Labour Camp, Sichuan Province (Photos)
2004-08-26Illustration 1. This happened inside the Xinhua Labour Camp in Sichuan Province. This torture method is called "tying the ropes." It is often used by the guards there. They strip practitioners of their' upper body clothing. Then they take a rope the circumference of a small finger and tie the rope tightly around the practitioner's arms, making the rope cut into the skin. They put the practitioners' arms behind their backs and raise their hands. This causes extreme, unbearable pain. According to the official camp "rules," such torture cannot be used beyond 15 minutes, otherwise both arms will be disabled. -
Seventeen-Year-Old Teng Jiajun Deprived of Right to Attend College Despite Her Excellent Performance in National College Entrance Exam
2004-08-26In China, a student needs to pass both the national college entrance exam and the political examination in order to get accepted by universities. The political examination is in fact an examination of the student's political performance. The authorities would check to see if the student has participated in any activity that may "harm the country" according to the Chinese ruling party's laws. If the student is considered to be politically qualified, then the authorities would sign certain forms that are needed for enrollment in universities. If a student cannot secure such signature, he or she would have trouble getting into universities. -
Ms. Zou Guirong's Letter Home from Prison Before She Was Tortured to Death
2004-08-26"I have left you and been gone for nearly two years now, something that I am most sorry about. I know that I am supposed to be with you to carry out my filial responsibilities, but I am unable to do that right now. I know you miss me dearly and are afraid that I will suffer in the labour camp. Mum, I want to tell you, if I didn't practise Dafa, the pain and hardship that I've suffered in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp would have been more than enough to kill me." -
Practitioner Wang Yan in Critical Condition from Torture after being Arrested for Broadcasting a Documentary about Dafa on TV in Hebei Province
2004-08-25Practitioner Mr. Wang Yan, who participated in a TV signal interception in Hebei Province to broadcast a Dafa documentary video explaining the truth about Falun Dafa, has been tortured in Xingtai's No.1 Detention Centre, and is now in critical condition. Wang Yan and his wife Li Yue were illegally arrested together on February 2, 2004. Before dawn one day in late June, Wang Yan escaped from the hospital where he was being detained in handcuffs and shackles, but a few days later he was captured again. -
Follow-Up Report on the Death of Ms. Peng Chunrong from Chongqing City
2004-08-25Ms. Peng Chunrong was a resident of Chongqing City. On April 11, 2004, Ms. Peng died in police custody in the courtyard of the Duzhou Township government building. After Ms. Peng's death, the "610 Office" and rounded up local Falun Gong practitioners and ransacked their homes, to intimidate the practitioners as well as their friends and neighbours in the community. -
Feng Jitang and Wu Hongxia Cruelly Torture Practitioners in Gansu Province
2004-08-25Over the last month, Mr Feng Jitang led the police in Gansu Province to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners anywhere they can be found. According to inside sources, plainclothes police have been covertly monitoring practitioners in the dark of night, then secretly arresting them. We heard that each arrested practitioner held in brainwashing classes is required to a) betray three fellow practitioners, b) write a Statement of Dissociation, and c) pay 3,000 yuan before they can be released. -
Three Deaths of Female Dafa Practitioners From Torture at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2004-08-24Ms. Wang Yan, from Dalian City was around 37 years old and had a college degree. She was imprisoned in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for about two years where she was subjected to torture. We have since learned from her younger sister that Wang Yan was tortured to death. Ms. Wang Wenjun, in her 40s, was sentenced to three years of forced labour for appealing for Falun Gong in Beijing and imprisoned in the Camp. After subjected to horrific torture she died at home on July 22, 2003. . -
Shandong Province Practitioner Mr Liu Yongjin Force-Fed to the Point of Near Death
2004-08-24On the night of June 10th, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr Liu Yongjin from Shandong Province was kidnapped by people from the local "610 Office". They sent him to a forced labour camp without notifying his family. Liu Yongjin went on hunger strike to protest this treatment. He was repeatedly tortured through force feeding. Force feeding through intubation itself is extremely painful. To increase the pain, they repeatedly inserted and removed the feeding tube. He is now on the verge of death, but the labour camp still refuses to release him, claiming that they will detain him as long as he's still alive. -
Jiang Zemin's Regime Has Never Obeyed Laws When Dealing with Falun Gong Practitioners
2004-08-24"After my arrest, when my case went into the prosecution phase, I made inquiries to related departments through normal channels and urged these people frequently, but didn't get a response. Inside sources working with these cases told me that all Falun Gong practitioners' cases had been dealt with according to a procedure called "combing three trials into one." Before the case went through the first trial procedure, it had already gone through the investigation phase and the court's internal assessment in the third trial."
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