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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Jilin Province Dafa Practitioner Mr. Cui Jianbo Dies of Torture-Induced Illness
2004-03-31After his release, Cui recovered a bit. But he was still very weak. His wife was sentenced to a labour camp for her belief in Dafa, which also caused a great mental burden for him. He also needed to take care of the heavy housework with his emaciated body. In late 2003, his condition worsened. He was twice rushed to the hospital. The doctors said his lungs were rotten. After he came back from the hospital, he struggled for another 6 months. On February 14, 2004, he passed away with his illness not cured. He was only 41 years old. -
Belated News: Ms. Zhang Yanju Confirmed to Have Died of Persecution Four Years Ago
2004-03-31A policeman from Chengdong Police Station (phone: 86-418-8823404) confirmed Zhang's death and told the caller that it was the police department that ordered them to send Zhang to the detention centre. But he refused to provide any further information, claiming that the campaign the authorities waged against Falun Gong is a political battle and he cannot answer relevant questions. The above news indicates that many of the death cases of Falun Gong practitioners have been intentionally blocked. The actual death toll of Falun Gong practitioners should have far exceeded the figure of over 900 known to the public. -
The Death of Han Chunyuan - Caused by Brutal Force-Feeding in Jilin Province Female Prison
2004-03-31Then Zou, a prison guard from the education section showed up. Zou is evil and is in charge of newly arrived prisoners.... Jilin Province Female Prison blocked the news that Han Chunyuan died as a result of the persecution. Instead, they lied that Han Chunyuan had been sent home. The prison guards threatened inmates who were at the scene not to reveal the true story if they were asked. We don't know what fabricated stories the prison told her family. -
A Country Woman's Open Letter to the International Community of Judges and Lawyers
2004-03-30At that time, my son was fifteen years old and studying at Nanlan Middle School. On the night before my home was searched, the police woke him up. Terrified and dressed only in his nightclothes, my son shivered from the cold while the police interrogated him. The next morning, when he arrived at school, he learned that he had been suspended. When he returned home, he was shocked at seeing the mess caused by the police's search. Not knowing what to do, my son slept in a cold corner for the night. -
Practitioners Forced to Do Slave Labour and Exposed to Environmental Contamination at the Qingpu Female Forced Labour Camp
2004-03-30During that time the work was to connect light bulbs. A practitioner had to link eighteen small light bulbs together with metal clamps, which meant connecting two wires for each section. The goal was one and a half bags, or connecting many sets of a total number of 4,800 light bulbs daily. Many people's hands became deformed, finger-nails broken and some suffered from stiff finger joints or tendonitis. The practitioners were not allowed to sleep until the goal was reached. Meanwhile, the captain and monitors accused them of being lazy. -
Recent Cases of Junior High School Pupils Expelled from School for Practising Falun Dafa
2004-03-30Young Dafa practitioner Chen Si from Chongqing City is only thirteen years old. She lives in the Shuangbei Dongfeng Chemical Factory in Shapingba District of Chongqing. She goes to junior high school and her parents are both Falun Dafa practitioners. Her mother was illegally sentenced to forced labour for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. During the summer vacation of 2001, Chen Si was arrested while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials. The people who arrested her beat her up despite her young age -
Xindi Detention Centre Use Brutal Means of Torture on Dafa Practitioners
2004-03-30Wang Qingyun would yell viciously, "Punish them! Punish them hard! However much is vomited, that is how much more has to be fed!" Over time, the prison staff found that they couldn't succeed in feeding through the mouth, and so they started to use a super-sized syringe for animals, and used that to fill the funnel. In this brutal way they constantly force-fed the practitioners. A policeman once said with a sinister smile to a criminal inmate assisting them, "You will learn enough for a good animal hospital if you stay here for two more years." -
Chinese Official Bo Xilai is a Criminal Defendant in Germany
2004-03-29On March 9th, 2004, "Friends of Falun Gong" and “The World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong” (WOIPFG) submitted a list of 102 key responsible persons who actively participated in the persecution of Falun Gong to the U.S. government, including Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing, Zhou Yongkang, Li Lanqing, Wang Maolin, etc., and urged the U.S. government to prohibit these people from entering the U.S. Bo Xilai's name was on both of the lists. In the criminal lawsuit filed with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Germany by forty Falun Gong practitioners, Bo Xilai was one of the defendants on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Yuanguang from Daqing City Dies as Result of Torture (Photos)
2004-03-29In the afternoon of July 12, 2000, Jing Aiguo, the local police head and other police officers including Xia Yanbing arrested Mr. Li Yuanguang. Eight police officers led by Sun Wanku ordered a locksmith to open the door to his home. These people even opened a sealed sack of rice to search for things....Li Yuanguang weighed less than one hundred pounds when he died. Everyone present could not help but cry when they looked at the wedding picture of the handsome Li Yuanguang and then at the one with the stark physical changes in the photo taken at his death. -
Fifteen Practitioners Suffer Persecution After the 2002 Truth Clarification Television Broadcast in Gansu Province
2004-03-29The authorities wanted to detain Dafa practitioners en masse, so they secretly transferred a huge sum of money to rebuild the Haomen Prison at Menyuan County, Qinghai Province. It is not known how many Dafa practitioners are being detained there at present. From information provided individually, the forms of torture carried out there are extremely barbaric. Two policemen from the prison were overheard boasting about how they trained dogs to attack and ravage prisoners. One of them said: "Once you arrive at the prison, you will cease to be treated as a human being!" -
The Unwarranted Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Female Prison in Heilongjiang Province
2004-03-29The fourth team police deprived the practitioners' rights to phone calls, meet with visitors and purchase necessities. They forced all of the practitioners to refer to themselves in the third person as "criminals" when requesting to make phone calls, etc. But since Dafa practitioners are not criminals, they refused to do so, and in this way their requests were denied. When their families came to visit them, the police lied to them, telling them that the practitioners did not want to see them and sent them away. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Chuanjiang Beaten by Jiamusi Police and Now Unable to Keep Food Down
2004-03-29On January 5, 2004, Liu lost consciousness twice. Guards had to send him to a hospital. After an inspection, they claimed, "There is nothing serious." Everyone could see that Liu has been cruelly tortured and was emaciated. However, the prison doctors said, "There's no problem here." Liu Chuanjiang's life is currently in danger. According to people in the know, guards won't release any practitioner until he or she is in critical condition. -
More Details on the Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tong Guijie
2004-03-28We learned from family members of the former director of Xingfu Police Station that before sending Ms. Tong to Changchun City, the police asked the local "610 Office" director, "She is in critical condition, do you still want to send her to the labour camp?" The answer was, "Yes, send her even if she dies. No one will be responsible for her death." After Ms. Tong's death, the detention centre lied, saying that she died from a heart attack. We are still investigating the details of the abuses Ms. Tong suffered. -
More Facts about the Torture Death of Practitioner Ms. Cao Yali from Jilin Province
2004-03-28The police blindfolded her and jailed her in a secret interrogation facility, (Some people have revealed that it was a place called, "Jingyuetan" in Changchun City). There they tortured her for one whole day and night...Then, without presenting any evidence, they sentenced her to two years of forced labour at Changchun City Heizuizi Female Detention Centre...On February 6, 2004, she died from complications that resulted from the prolonged torture and mistreatment she endured. -
Policeman Zhang Liang and His Accomplices Extort Money from Chongqing City Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-03-28On the third day, they took the sisters to a jail where Zhang Liang interrogated them. In front of another policeman Zhang said to them: "Your living or dying depends on what I say. As long as you are willing to pay, I can let you go with my one word." But how could they have any money? The 4,750 Yuan that Zhang took away was Fu Ruxian's retirement savings. Because they had no money, Zhang detained them for another 36 days.