Exposing the Persecution

Torture | Kidnapping | Brainwashing | Illegal Detention and Imprisonment | Extortion | Persecution Throughout Society | Inside the Labour Camps | Individual Accounts | 6-10 Office | Death Cases | Organ Harvesting

  • More Information about How Ms. Chen Xingtao from Hunan Province was Tortured to Death

    "With the government coming to arrest people every 3-5 days, my mother could not bear the anxiety, and died from the stress of threats and intimidation on August 10, 1999. My wife Chen Xingtao became crippled as a result of the persecution and died a painful death on May 27, 2002. My father saw the family broken apart by the persecution and was grief-stricken and indignant. He died on December 23, 2002. What happened to human rights? Where is humanitarianism? Is there no justice from government officials at any level? I must have justice.
  • Mother of Child Less than One Month Old Is Illegally Imprisoned

    My name is Lu Yanna, and I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Because my husband Diao Xihui and I persisted in our belief in Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, appealed according to the law and clarified the facts of Falun Gong, we have suffered from persecution. Now, we are imprisoned illegally and have lost our personal freedom, so I am unable to take care of my less than one-month daughter, Shanshan, in person and have been forced to hand over Shanshan to my husband's mother for foster care.
  • Illustrations of Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (9 - 12)

    Torture Method 9: "Feeding the Insects" - In the summer time, especially around dusk or dawn, the police strip practitioners of every piece of their clothing and handcuff them to a pole in a place where mosquitoes and other insects swarm. Practitioners are bitten over and over again all over their bodies by various insects. Not long after, their bare skin is covered with itchy bumps. Sometimes they cannot even open their eyes because their eyelids are so swollen.
  • Detailed Information about the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Guilan by Police in Shaanxi Province (Photo)

    Ms. Sun Guilan used to be an employee at the Petroleum Machinery Factory in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. On the afternoon of October 8, 2001, Ms. Sun was tortured to death after brutal force-feeding at the detention centre of Jintai Police Department in Baoji City. She was only 46 years old at the time. The criminal detainees that witnessed the crimes of these evil policemen all cried. Many of them had learned about the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners from the practitioners that were detained there, and now witnessed this brutal persecution firsthand.
  • The Facts Regarding the Death of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Song Gang, a Former Deputy Section Head at Yichun City's Government Legal and Law Office

    Mr Song Gang, in his forties, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was illegally arrested by the police. He was often interrogated during his detention and suffered brutal torture. In the end, seeing that he was on the verge of death, the police released him temporarily, for fear of taking the responsibility should he die in their custody. In order to monitor his movements more easily, the police forced him to go to work and closely followed him. Under such mental and physical stress Song Gang's health condition worsened and he died on January 28, 2001.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yixia is Handcuffed and Suspended by Her Arms in the Shandong Weifang Industrial School

    Ms. Xiao Yixia, a Falun Dafa practitioner and well-known artist, was kidnapped and taken to the Shandong Weifang Industrial School. She has been held there for more than a month. Because Xiao has not given up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," the brainwashing centre has used vicious means to torture her mentally and physically. Even though currently Xiao's body is very weak, they are still torturing her by handcuffing and suspending her in the air by her arms.
  • Drawings of Torture Techniques -- Nos. 1 - 7

    Flying (an Airplane) - This is one of the common tortures used in labour camps and brainwashing classes on Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to give up their belief. In this torture, the head is bent down until it cannot go down any further, while the hands are pulled up and held up at the highest point against the wall. The practitioner is forced to hold this position unchanged for a long time period (more than 10 hours). If a practitioner refuses to comply, he/she will be shocked with an electric baton or beaten to the point of losing consciousness. Police will then roughly wake up the practitioner and continue the torture.
  • Further Details on the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Chi Yulian from Dalian City

    Based on inside information, in June 2001, Ms. Chi Yulian was illegally detained in the Dalian City Detention Centre. She went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution. The police handcuffed her and shackled her, fastened her to the floor and neglected her until she lost consciousness. Even a seventy-year-old woman had to withstand such torture. That same night, Chi Yulian was sent to the hospital, but she died after a failed rescue effort.
  • In Memory of My Father, Zhang Baicheng, Who Was Tortured to Death Two Years Ago

    My family and I live in Meihekou City in Jilin Province. It has been exactly two years since my father Zhang Baicheng passed away. I often cry when I think of him. He was a very good father. In 2000 my father was also sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp for posting Dafa truth-clarifying materials. In December 2001 he was sent home because he had been brutally tortured! It was too horrible to look at him! In that den of evil, my father suffered extreme torture, both physically and mentally. On February 19, 2002, my father passed away, two months after he came back home.
  • Tragedy in the Classroom -- The Attack on the Chinese Educational System Resulting From the Persecution Policies By Jiang and His Followers Against Falun Gong (I)

    In the beginning of 2004, Jiang Zemin encouraged his confidant, Chen Zhili, the current Secretary of the Department of Education, to start a campaign throughout the nation's educational system under the slogan, "Fight the XX (slanderous words omitted) and Alert the Educational System!" Chen Zhili created the slogan, "Fight the XX," to defame Falun Gong. This is the second time that Jiang and his followers have attempted to poison and corrupt Chinese youth since 2001, when they conducted the "One Million Signature" campaign to attack Falun Gong.
  • Ms. Wang Juan Dies From Abuse in Baoding City Prison

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Juan lived in Hebei Province. She was 37 years old. Since she refused to renounce her practice of Falun Dafa, people from Dingzhou City "610 Office" arrested her on April 24, 2004. On April 26, 2004, only two days after being arrested, Wang Juan died in Baoding City Mancheng County Prison due to the abuses she suffered there.
  • Ms. Yang Jinying Dies from Torture Suffered in Police Custody in Anhui Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Jinying was abducted in April 2002. They held her for 20 months, during which time the perpetrators tortured her and tried to force her to give up her practice of Falun Dafa. She became paralyzed and incontinent from the torture, and could not take any food. As she was on the brink of death, the perpetrators sentenced her to three years in prison and told her son to sign a document for medical parole. She was sent to a hospital. The next day, the hospital issued a "critical notice." Several days later, Yang Jinying passed away.
  • Mr. Li Chuanwen Dies of Torture Suffered in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

    54 years old Mr. Li Chuanwen lived in Jilin Province. In September 2002, he was sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province. Not a day went by without him being insulted and beaten. By the second half of 2003, Li Chuanwen could no longer keep going under this abuse. He suffered from severe malnutrition and had completely lost his appetite. During the New Year of 2004, he had a physical examination. The doctor who had examined him told the camp," This person needs to be released right away." He was only released in March and passed away on March 19 in hospital.
  • Two Young Practitioners in Shandong Province Share Personal Stories of Persecution

    "My name is Liu Liang and I live in Jiaozhou City. I started practising Falun Dafa in 1997, when I was fifteen years old. Since I began following the principles of Falun Dafa, my teachers, parents and my classmates recognized me as a good student, a good son, and a good classmate. At the end of July 1999, I went to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing. I was sent to the Changping Detention Centre. I was burned by a policeman with a lit cigarette on my wrist, which left three marks."
  • China's Supreme People's Procuratorate Claims to Battle Crimes Against Humanity; Will It Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice for Committing the Largest, Most Severe Crime Against Humanity in China?

    If the Chinese government were really trying to relieve itself from international condemnation of its human rights violations, the best way would be to just end its senseless, meaningless and immoral persecution against the law-abiding and innocent Falun Gong practitioners, which Jiang Zemin has poured a massive amount of national resources into suppressing.