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

  • Elderly Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhou Yuqin from Hebei Province Died as a Result of Torture in 2001

    Ms. Zhou Yuqin, 59 years old, lived in Tangshan City of Hebei Province. On June 9, 2001, police officer Zhang Zhiqiang and others from the Kaiping Police Station came to her home and detained her in the Kaiping Brainwashing Centre. She was given only three and a half steamed buns each day to eat. The cruel physical and mental torture she was forced to endure made her weaker and weaker, until her life was in danger. The brainwashing class personnel feared to take responsibility, so they ordered her family members to take her home. Forty days after she returned home, all the attempts to restore her health failed, and she died on September 1, 2001.
  • Mr. Tian Lifu Passed Away in 2001 from the Torture He Received In Detention in Wuhan City

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Tian Lifu was around 50 years of age and lived in Wuhan City. In February 2000, Tian Lifu was abducted and sent to a Detention Centre in Wuhan City where he was physically and mentally tortured. Soon after, he was sent to a Brainwashing Centre where he was further abused and mistreated. His condition worsened by the day but the persecution didn't end. He was handcuffed even when he was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment. He was sent home and put under watch. During this period, he was constantly harassed, threatened and interrogated. Tian Lifu passed away in November 2001.
  • Ms. Sun Qiuxiang and Her Pregnant Daughter Beaten Unconscious by "610 Office" Personnel in Shandong Province

    Fifty -three year old Ms. Sun Qiuxiang is a farmer's wife from Huying Town, Shandong Province. Her daughter and herself were both arrested and tortured by police because they practise Falun Gong. Her daughter was pregnant at the time. She could not endure the torture and passed out. The head of the "610 Office," Li Xiaoming, beat her face and legs after she lost consciousness. Later they took Ms. Sun's daughter to the hospital for an intravenous infusion. The next day, when they saw that she was doing OK, they again brutally beat her. They were even so cruel to a pregnant woman.
  • Account of Mental Trauma and Persecution Suffered by Falun Gong Practitioners from Sanhe City

    Sanhe City in Hebei Province is a small city with a small population. In 1999, it was officially said there were more than 3,000 Falun Gong practitioners there. It is just a rough estimate that since July 20, 1999, at least 41 practitioners were sent to forced labour camps. Hundreds of practitioners were detained and subjected to savage torture. Ms Jia Xueyun used to be very healthy from practising Falun Gong. When the labour camp sent her back home, she had been mentally traumatized and was so emaciated that she weighed only a little over 30 kg [approximately 66 lbs].
  • Brutal Persecution Suffered by Female Falun Gong Practitioners Inside the Nanmusi Women's Labour Camp in Sichuan Province

    "I am a female Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province. I was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labour education and sent to the Nanmusi Women's Labour Camp in Sichuan Province. Nanmusi Women's Labour Camp is a brutal environment and those incarcerated there consider it to be hell on earth. two foreign reporters came to the camp to investigate whether the reports that they had a water dungeon which they used for torture were true. They asked one practitioner. She only replied, "I won't say anything." After that, the guards hung her by her hands from the window frames for four days and four nights."
  • Dafa Practitioner Tortured for Delivering Truth-Clarifying Materials

    "I am a farmer, resident in Bin County, Heilongjiang Province. In August 2000, a fellow practitioner and I were reported to officers while we were delivering materials that clarify the truth about the persecution. The head of the local police station, and several police officers threatened me. They wanted me to tell them where I got the materials. I refused to tell them. Then they played all kinds of tricks before they began to torture me physically. I was sent to a detention centre and detained for four months.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xia from Sichuan Province Suffers Mental Collapse Due to the Persecution

    Ms. Zhu Xia, a 32-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province, was severely persecuted. After facts about her persecution were exposed, other Dafa practitioners tried many different methods to rescue her. As a result, she was released and returned home to Chengdu City on April 2, 2004. However, after suffering nearly one and a half years of illegal forced labour and 10 months of cruel and repeated torment and torture, Ms. Deng was so seriously devastated both mentally and physically that she suffered a mental collapse.
  • Dispelling Confusion Around the Lawsuit Against Jiang -- Interviews Regarding Bringing Jiang to Justice (Part 1)

    Jiang and his regime have forced the Chinese people to choose between "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" and being able to live a normal life. People who refuse to denounce "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" face unemployment, being dismissed from schools, harassment, brainwashing, extortion, arrest, prison or labor camp terms, being sent to mental hospitals, torture, and even death. During this persecution, Jiang is destroying people's conscience.
  • Jiang and His Regime Poison Young People with Lies as the Moral Standard

    The "plan" detailed individual responsibilities in a chart listing names, offices structures, discipline committee, each subject department, Student Association, Youth League committee, Online Education department, Teaching Research office, Human Resource office, etc. All this manpower and material has been put into squelching "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" at just this one small community college, deceiving innocent students to slander Falun Gong, and using them to influence their parents.
  • Abuse in a Mental Hospital: The Experience of 52 Year Old Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Hongzhen from Zhenjiang City

    "My name is Liu Hongzhen and I am 52 years old. I live in Jiangsu Province. I was sent to a mental hospital against my will. The place looked terrifying. The first night, a sharp pain awoke me. When I looked, I saw a nurse giving me an injection. I confronted her, and she said she was giving me sedatives. I wondered why they gave sedatives to a sleeping person. Around 8:00 a.m. the next day, I was called to the nurse's office where there were many people inside. They started to give me large doses of injections and pills and threatened that if I didn't cooperate they would tie me up and shock me with electric batons. A doctor surnamed Fang said I had "illnesses resulting from Falun Gong practice" and I would be "cured" if I stopped practising Falun Gong.
  • Harbin City's Female Prison Brutally Tortures Dafa Practitioners

    On November 28, 2002, Dafa practitioners, detained at Harbin City's Female Prison peacefully resisted the persecution they received, such as being forced to stay outside on a very cold day. As a result, seven practitioners were locked in a small cells for 33 consecutive days. In addition, their undergarments were forcefully stripped off in a time when it was winter. They could only wear coats without buttons, and were shackled to a ring set into the floor. They had two extensions staying in this small cell, because they refused to wear prison name labels or participate when the police were conducting the head count.
  • Follow-up Report on the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yang Yufang from Zhangjiakou City

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Yufang was 49 years old. On May 17, 2003, Yang Yufang was arrested. She went on a hunger strike to protest the unjust treatment. So they brutally force-fed her. Yang Yufang suffered all kinds of torture at the hands of the authorities. On June 16, 2003, Her youngest son received a phone call from an official who told his family to come over. The authorities said, "Yang Yufang suffered from acute diabetes at the detention centre and was rushed to the No. 5 Hospital on June 14. For three days she was under constant care and died at 12:05 p.m. on June 16. Yang Yufang's husband was shocked by the news, because she never had diabetes in her whole life. How could such a healthy and strong woman die in less than one month? When they saw her body it was in a terrible state. Her family were beyond shock!
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Forced into Intensive Slave Labour in Hazardous Conditions at Chaoyanggou Labour Camp

    In April of 2001 Chaoyanggou Labour Camp ordered practitioners to work in a factory producing floorboard materials. There the harm of inhaling plastic dust was a very serious problem and almost no safety equipment was offered. Practitioners were forced to do hard labour even when they were not given enough food to eat in any one of the three meals in a day. When they were loading and unloading PVC material, everyone had to carry bags close to or over one hundred pounds and pile them up neatly. Practitioners were soaked with sweat, gasping for breath, while the guards and the head of the hooligans were shouting and cursing the practitioners to work harder.
  • Police Beat Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Xianglan to Death in Shandong Province

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xianglan, a 48-year-old woman from a village in Shandong Province, was taken by police to the police station in 2001. When Li Xianglan was taken, her family, who were rural people, became very frightened that they would also be implicated. so they did not even go to the local police station, which was less than 500 meters from their home, to inquire about her. When she was released she was in poor physical condition and barely able to walk. She collapsed on the ground and her distressed husband called for his daughter and son-in-law. They moved her to a bed and discovered that she had already died. Upon viewing the body, they noticed that her legs were all bruised and missing skin in places.
  • Additional Facts Regarding the Torture Death of Ms. Liu Caiyun at the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Caiyun, over thirty years old, came from Yongzhou, Hunan Province. In October 2000, she was abducted by police while she was walking to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police took her to Zhuzhou's Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured for eight months. Ms. Liu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. In March 2003, Ms. Liu Caiyun was tortured until she was in critical condition. Later, Liu Caiyun died as a result of the continual torture she was subjected to at Zhuzhou's Baimalong Forced Labour Camp.