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
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Ms. Wang Ya and Ms. Zhang Zhifen Tortured in Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2012-09-28Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Wang Ya and Ms. Zhang Zhifen are being tortured at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp. They are in critical condition. The guards locked Ms. Wang and Ms. Zhang in solitary confinement and deprived them of sleep and basic personal hygiene. The practitioners were also given very little food. The inmates assigned to monitor the practitioners took turns to beat them around the clock; they also used many other torture methods. Since the Chinese communist regime started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Wang has been imprisoned several times--for a total of 7 years--because she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. -
Wife and Daughter of a Practitioner Who Was Tortured to Death Have Themselves Been Physically Abused and Tortured in a Forced Labour Camp
2012-09-28Ms. Wang Xiuqing and her youngest daughter Ms. Qin Hailong were both sentenced to 18 months of forced labour because they sought redress for the death of their husband and father, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qin Yueming, who died in Jiamusi prison as a result of torture on February 26th, 2011. -
Police in the Wanzhou District in Chongqing Arrest and Persecute Two Women in Their 60s
2012-09-25On June 19th, 2012, police officers arrested and persecuted Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Tan Jiafen and Ms. Zhang Tingzhen, who are both in their 60s. Ms. Tan was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to Chongqing City Women’s Forced Labour Camp, without being charged with any crime. Ms. Zhang was forced to become homeless. -
Exposing the Forced Labour Situation at Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2012-09-25Forced labour is used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) labour camps to further punish, abuse, and torture Falun Gong practitioners and implement a long-term persecution of Falun Gong. People have to stand to pack mung beans. Some people do the weighing, some do the bagging, and others do the sealing and transportation. Since the mung bean bags are heavy, our arms are very sore at the end of the day with our waists and backs also in great pain. We are exhausted every day. For one batch of work, we may have to work from a few days to as long as two weeks. Packing dry tea is also a very tiring job. Prior to packing, several cartons of tealeaves are poured onto a large table. The dust from the tea gets onto people's clothes, skin, eyes, ears, mouths, and lungs, making one choke. -
Mr. Liu Wenping from Wuhan City Arrested, Family Denied Visitation
2012-09-25Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Wenping was arrested in August 2012 and sent to Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre. His family has tried to visit him but were rejected repeatedly by the related Chinese Communist Party (CCP) branches. Mr. Liu's wife went to the Domestic Security Division and asked to see her husband. The director told her that it was against the law to practise Falun Gong and that she was not allowed to see her husband. Mr. Liu's wife pointed out that practising Falun Gong was not against the law and said, “You don't have any legal documents. How can you arrest people without any legal papers?” The director could not answer her and could not show her any legal document for Mr. Liu's arrest. -
Ms. He Haifen Arrested Again after Recovering from Severe Torture
2012-09-25On August 14th, 2012, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Haifen was arrested by Communist Party officials who broke into her house. She was taken to Anping Town Police Station, and, in the afternoon, she was transferred to Hengshui brainwashing centre. After the Communist regime began its persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. He Haifen was arrested and detained many times. Three times she was tortured until she was on the brink of death. At one point she was tortured into a vegetative state. -
Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Shenyang, Liaoning Province Arrested, Sent to Labour Camp
2012-09-25Four female Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police on July 19th, 2012. The practitioners' families went to the Xinchengzi Street Police Station and demanded their release, but their request was denied. Chen Min and Niu Guihua were taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp on August 22nd. Chen Min was sentenced to forced labour for fifteen months and Niu Guihua for eighteen months. Because Niu Guihua did not pass the physical exam, she was rejected by officials of the forced labour camp and returned home on August 24th. -
Wife and Daughter of a Practitioner Who Was Tortured to Death Have Themselves Been Physically Abused and Tortured in a Forced Labour Camp
2012-09-25Ms. Wang Xiuqing and her youngest daughter Ms. Qin Hailong were both sentenced to 18 months of forced labour because they sought redress for the death of their husband and father, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qin Yueming, who died in Jiamusi prison as a result of torture on February 26th, 2011. Ms. Qin Hailong showed very obvious signs of being subjected to physical abuse and torture when her older sister visited her in Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. The guards had beaten and shocked her with electric batons in attempts to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. -
Jia Zhijiang and Wife Li Rongmei Arrested, Their Young Son Now on His Own
2012-09-25The parents of 14-year-old Jia Shuo, an elementary school student, were both arrested by the police in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Jia Shuo's parents are both Falun Gong practitioners. The couple followed the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and never did anything illegal. On the day Jia Zhijiang was arrested, Jia Shuo cried to the police, “My dad is a good person. He didn't steal, he didn't rob, and he didn't kill or commit arson. Why are you doing this to him?” In 2008 during the Olympics, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conducted massive arrests of Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Jia and his wife were both detained. Ms. Li was detained in a forced labour camp for one year and Mr. Jia was forced to leave home. -
Jiamusi Practitioner Liu Jie Arrested, Property Stolen by Authorities while Family Was Reporting Her Missing
2012-09-25On July 24th, 2012, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Jie suddenly disappeared and was missing for three days. Her family looked for her everywhere and reported her disappearance to the local police station. The police searched and ransacked her home instead of helping her family find Ms. Liu. Authorities told her family that she had been arrested and was being held in the detention centre. -
Ms. Lei Guiling Arrested Again Years of Severe Physical Abuse and Torture
2012-09-20Ms. Lei Guiling was arrested on August 3rd, as she distributed Falun Gong DVDs. Police took her to the police station and ransacked Ms. Lei's home. She was eventually sent to Linyi City Detention Centre on the afternoon of August 4th. Previously in 2000, Ms. Lei Guiling and her husband were tortured brutally by police. Police slapped her face viciously. Ms. Lei's head was buzzing and she saw stars in front of her eyes. She also could not hear anything for quite a while. One night, Liu Xingshi hit the couple so hard that they fell to the floor. Then nine thugs beat them with wooden sticks for a long time. The couple's clothes were soaked in blood and they were in unbearable pain. After torturing the couple for over ten days, the police also extorted 8,000 yuan from them. -
Ms. Zhao Chunxia Arrested, Her Two Daughters and Son Detained for Protesting the Persecution
2012-09-20Three children were walking along the busiest street in Lindong Town, on August 14th, wearing banners which read, “I Want my Mum Back, I Want to Eat,” and held placards which read, “My Mum was Arrested by Police for Practising Falun Gong, My Dad's Whereabouts are Unknown, Our Money was Taken, and We are Homeless.” The three children included Ms. Zhao Chunxia's two daughters. They walked straight to the Balinzuo Banner government building. Police dragged them to a room. They were detained and were not given any water or food. -
Longkou City, Shandong Province: Over a Dozen Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested
2012-09-20The New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts' company promotes traditional Chinese culture. The Shen Yun artists have toured the world for the past six years and the performances are highly praised by people from all walks of lives. However, the Chinese authorities prohibited the group from performing in China, because the programmes contradict the ideology promoted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). When practitioners distribute DVDs of Shen Yun's performances in China, they are being threatened, arrested, imprisoned, taken to forced labour camps and more often than not face torture. On April 11th, the police arrested 13 practitioners involved in ordering cases for Shen Yun DVDs. -
What's Behind the Guards Saying “Practitioners Don't Want to See Their Family”
2012-09-20In 2004 at Jinan Women's Prison, Shandong Province, prison guards transferred two Falun Gong practitioners, 61-year-old Ms. Liang Su'e and 55-year-old Ms. Liang Mingfeng, from a senior group to a young adult group. They were forced to perform intensive labour 20 hours a day. When their families went to visit them, the guard said that the two women did not want to see their families. This is clearly a case of prison guards barring Falun Gong practitioners from family visits because they are afraid of exposing the forced labour abuse in prison. -
Steadfast Practitioners Transferred from Beijing to Inner Mongolia Forced Labour Camp to Intensify Persecution
2012-09-20In early July 2012, 25 Falun Gong practitioners in the Beijing Forced Labour Camp for Women who refused to be transformed [forcibly renounce Falun Gong], along with some younger practitioners, were transferred to the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia. They were even more severely tortured here after one regular inmate (not a practitioner) was tortured to death and the dead inmate's family went to the Bureau of Justice in Beijing to complain. This caused some of the involved guards to be punished with jail sentences and other penalties.