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

  • Practitioner Cui Yaning's Life in Imminent Danger at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Cui Yaning has been illegally detained and abused in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Because of her poor health, she was sent to the Internal Masanjia Hospital. A checkup revealed extremely low blood pressure and an abnormal electrocardiogram. Supervisor Zhang Xiurong knew about the situation but lied, saying that Yaning had no problems and was in good health, refusing to release her. Currently Cui Yaning's life is in imminent danger, but prison guards paid no heed to this and simply locked her up in a small solitary cell.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured Mercilessly in the Shanxi Female Forced Labour Camp

    The authorities at the Shanxi Xindian Female Forced Labour Camp are severely torturing Falun Dafa practitioners in an attempt to make them renounce their beliefs. Upon arriving at the labour camp, each practitioner is immediately monitored by two prisoners. They are not allowed to speak to other practitioners. Elderly practitioners are both mentally and physically tortured the entire day. They aren't allowed to rest, and are being treated inhumanely.
  • Jilin Prison Transfers Falun Dafa Practitioners to Siping Prison in Order to Thwart International Investigation

    Currently, even though Siping Prison does not cruelly torture Dafa practitioners as does Jilin Prison, practitioners are still closely monitored. Every Dafa practitioner is accompanied by two criminal inmates who follow them everywhere. Family members who visit Dafa practitioners are also strictly monitored. They prohibit visits by family members who practise Falun Gong. Dafa practitioners are also subjected to forced labour.
  • Labour Camp Torture Gansu Province Practitioner Ms. Liu Wenyu to Death

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Wenyu was 53 years old and worked at Tianshui City's Railroad Hospital. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour without any trial. Ms. Liu Wenyu refused to cooperate with the labour camp personnel as she was not a criminal. She was force-fed as a form of torture, which caused her stomach to bleed profusely. Aside from this abuse, she was subjected to all manner of additional brutal torture. After her release, the authorities from the Beidao District constantly harassed her. She passed away in February 2004.
  • Practitioner Ms Zhang Haiyan Dies After Suffering from the Inhumane Persecution in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Haiyan from Liaoning Province, was illegally sentenced to two years forced labour just because she exercised her constitutional right to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in Beijing. She suffered from brutal torture during the detention in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. On March 21, 2003, when her family brought her back home, she was already mentally traumatized and could not look after herself. There were clear scars on her head, hands and other parts of her body. She died unjustly on January 18, 2004.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Shuhua Is Blinded, Then Murdered by the Public Security Police

    Ms. Li Shuhua, 32 years old, of Yushi City, Jilin Province was murdered by the police on October 6, 2003. A public security official who knew Ms. Li's case revealed why she was tortured to death. During detention she was struck so hard in the eye that she was blinded. Then the jail police asked for instructions from their superior officer, and the conclusion was that a dead person would be silent. That public security official commented that if Ms. Li had not been blinded, there would have been no reason to murder her.
  • Mr. Wang Hengyou, from Inner Mongolia Dies From Untreated Internal Injuries as a Result of Being Tortured By Police (Photo)

    Mr. Wang Hengyou, 47, lived in Inner Mongolia. In September 2 2002, Wang was transferred to a labour camp where he was brutally tortured. The police did not allow him to sleep. Due to the constant torture, he became extremely weak. He often felt his pain in his head and stomach. He was eventually released on medical parole. At that time, he was emaciated and near death. Even after he returned home, the local police still kept coming to his home to harass him. With untreated internal injuries, he passed away on April 4, 2004.
  • Hunan Province Practitioner Mr. Pan Jianjun Tortured to Death

    Mr. Pan Jianjun was 33 years old and a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hunan Province. Initially he was sentenced to 3 years in a labour camp for publically exposing the persecution. Then his term was arbitrarily extended to 4 years and then again to 7 years. Someone saw him there in August 2003. He looked like skin and bones, his lower back was injured and there were wounds on his body. On February 5, 2004, the Prison Administration notified his family that he had died.
  • Beatings So Monstrous Mr. Huang Lizhi Never Recovered and Died in 2001

    Fifty-three year old Gansu Province Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Huang Lizhi was abducted by police because he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. Mr. Huang was interrogated, during which time the police tried to force him to abandon cultivation practice of Falun Gong. He firmly refused their request, so the police cruelly beat him. Mr. Huang was tortured so badly that he almost died. Frightened that he might die in their custody, the police hastily sent him home. Two days later he was dead.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms Ma Liqin Is Completely Paralyzed by Police Torture

    On March 15 the No. 2 Detention Centre director, Yin Zhongliang, dragged 47 year old Ms. Ma Liqin into his office and viciously tortured her. She lost consciousness at the scene, yet the police thought she was just pretending. Later Ms. Ma's family members learned the news, and rushed to the detention centre to insist they take her to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed Ms. Ma with two clots of blood inside her brain. There were also bruises all over her lower back, legs, feet, and hands. She woke up four days later, but she had completely lost the ability to move her body.
  • Brutal Torture in Shandong Province -- Sleep Deprivation For 3 Weeks, 12 Electric Shock Batons Used Together on One Person for 8 Hours

    Li Xingjian suffered the most brutal torture: not being allowed to sleep for over three weeks at a time. Two common criminals, following police orders, took turns watching him to prevent him from sleeping. Holding the shoulder pole in their hands, they would slam the pole into his chin or forehead. The torture got worse. The police later stripped off his clothes and beat him with a dozen electric batons in a torture room for a total of eight hours.
  • Policemen in Baochang City Violently Abduct a Small and Weak Female Practitioner

    "One day in April, when I walked by the Grain Bureau Building, a scene unfolding in front of a clothing store caused me to stop. I saw four or five men gathered around a woman; one man grabbed her with one hand and threw her down from the top of a flight of stairs. Such ruthless and violent behaviour dumfounded me. Upon taking a closer look, I found that the man was policeman Zhao Baoming, out of uniform, followed closely by two more plain-clothed policemen. The three of them dragged that woman into a van. She struggled hard, all the while shouting, "I practise Falun Gong. I am a good person. This is persecution!""
  • Shandong Province Corrupt Captain, Zhu Pengde, Committed Crimes of Extortion and Torturing Dafa Practitioners to Death

    Zhu Pengde, 50 years old, is the captain of the political security brigade of Zhucheng City's Police Department in Weifang Region, Shandong Province. In order to be able to move up in his career, he has done all he can to initiate and participate in plans to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Zhu Pengde made a specialty out of capturing and detaining Dafa practitioners in Weifang's liaison office in Beijing, he used his political power to extort large sums of money from practitioners' families for his own personal enrichment, ranging from 1,000 Yuan up to 10,000 Yuan. Zhu Pengde is also one of those officials who is directly responsible for deaths of practitioners in Weifang.
  • The Cruel Behaviour of Policewoman Deng Liyan and Her Colleagues in Chifeng City Detention Centre

    In 2002, Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Yanxia went on a hunger strike to protest her illegal detention. To further their persecution against her, Deng Liyan led a group of criminals to viciously force-feed Ms. Zhao, which led to her instant death. This is just one of the terrible crimes that this so-called "policewoman" has committed.
  • Slave Labour and Disguised Extortion in Detention Centres in Hubei Province

    Detention centre guards in Wuhan, Hubei Province force detainees to do slave labour in their prison cells. For example, in Xiangfan City No. 1 Detention Centre, they force the detainees in their cells to produce medicine boxes, and to assemble elementary and preschool textbooks. The detention centre enforcers also collect tainted money. Not only do the slave labourers not get a single penny; but on top of that, some detainees are forced to pay 20 Yuan in "accommodation and meals fees" for each day they are locked up.