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

  • Bazhong City People in Tears Due to Tortured State of Dafa Practitioner's Corpse (Photo)

    On August 6, 2003, his physical condition worsened. The police from Chengdu City then ordered his family to go to the hospital, where they were forced to sign a statement guaranteeing that they would never try to hold the police responsible. Then his family was allowed to carry him back home. The people from Zhao Yong's hometown who saw his condition were all in tears. On August 31, 2003, Zhao Yong died at a young age.
  • Self-Confessed "Evil Heads of Satan" in Wuhan City Brainwashing Centre Mercilessly Torture Dafa Practitioners

    In the classes, these people openly call themselves local thugs and evil heads sent by Satan. When persecuting Dafa practitioners they are more base, deceitful and cruel than anyone before them. The assistant director of the "610 Office," Xie Xiaofeng was appointed Party secretary of the brainwashing centre. Xie Xiaofeng has authorised the team leader, Li Wei, to use any means to "transform" Dafa practitioners. Before coming to Etouwan Brainwashing Centre, Li Wei had graduated from the police academy and worked in the Public Safety Department, where he had viciously beaten many innocent people, often to the point of disability.
  • One Female Falun Gong Practitioner Tortured to Death: the Rest of the Family Unjustly Detained in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

    The Dayangshu policemen could not find Mr. Li Jinrong, so they detained his eldest son in the detention centre as a hostage, and his son did not even practise Falun Gong. After learning the news, Mr. Li Jinrong went back to ask for the release of his son, and was thus captured by the police. His son was released after being held for 15 days, but Li Jinrong wasn't set free until 8 months later, and only then after his family continually demanded his release.
  • Dafa Practitioners Seriously Injured by Torture in Jiamusi Labour Camp

    When she was sent to the hospital, the doctor told her that she must receive immediate medical treatment within one hour the next time she suffers the same symptoms, otherwise she faced the danger of going blind. When the doctor inquired as to how she had received such an injury, Sun Limin, the policeman who accompanied her, stopped her from telling the doctor. By this time, Shan Jinying could no longer eat any food. She required two people's help to hold her up, and she was emaciated.
  • Disgusting Atrocities in a Tangshan Detention Centre: Hammering Nails Through Bones and Force Feeding With Human Excrement

    Mr. Sun Jianzhong was tortured close to death. His wicked captors decided to let him go and contacted his family to take him home. Mr. Sun was allowed thirteen days at home, until the policemen saw that he did not die. They went to his home and arrested Mr. Sun again, detaining him once more in the First Detention Centre, only to sadly endure more torture. Mr. Sun took part in a hunger strike while in captivity. This caused the disgusting policemen to force feed excrement and other solutions into Mr. Sun's stomach.
  • Tortured in the Pigsty - Another Inhuman Scene at the Heilongjiang Women's Prison

    The temperature in the small cells was as cold as outside. Practitioners detained in these cells were fed with two bowls of watery corn soup a day, more water than corn. As for those who went on a hunger strike, a device was forced onto their mouths to keep them from closing, day and night.
  • Wudang Court Hands Illegal Sentences To Practitioners Who Participated in Broadcasting Falun Gong Programmes on TV

    On August 22, 2003, the Guiyang Wudang Court again came up with some unjust excuse to prosecute practitioners. This time, in the name of supposedly "damaging broadcasting and TV installations," they illegally sentenced Falun Gong practitioners
  • Cases of Inhuman Persecution Of Dafa Practitioners in Anhui Province

    After half a month, she was again arrested at her home, and encountered the vicious beating of policemen in the First Department. Furthermore her husband did not give up practising Falun Gong either and he too was illegally sentenced to 3 years in labour camp, and has not returned. At present, Zhang Heping's 6-year-old daughter and her mother-in-law are left home with no one taking care of them.
  • Dingzhou City Police Cause Painful Death of Female Dafa Practitioner

    After she said this, Sun Shouqi lost the ability to speak. She pointed at the spot on the bed where she slept, and later we realized that she became incontinent from torture, and she didn't want to soil the other people's bed sheet. She couldn't speak and her mouth foamed. We immediately notified the detention centre authorities who called the prison doctor. The doctor said coldly, "Now it's your turn to speak." Later, when they saw Sun Shouqi was on the verge of death, they called a doctor from a regular hospital who took Sun's temperature. Between 9:00-10:00 p.m., they carried Sun Shouqi away on a stretcher.
  • More Than Ten Relatives of a Dafa Practitioner Kidnapped

    In the prison, his cousin was so brutally beaten by the policemen that he cried out pitifully to the next room: "Father, help!" His father, who was detained in the next room, cried back: "My child, I have no way to help you!" The boyfriend of his sister is a newly graduated student from the Policemen University of Henan Province and had not been assigned a position yet [in China, the government arranges jobs for newly graduated university students]. The policemen in the prison threatened him: "You will never have a job arranged for you if you can't find Shi Dongxin!"
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Detained in Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Labour Camp Are Cruelly Tortured

    Other than allowing for one short break to walk outside the cells during the SARS epidemic, the officials had not granted practitioners any outdoor activities. The meals offered lack of nutrition. Practitioners are given one small bowl of rice water, a small steamed bun, and a small pickled vegetable to be shared among four people. Carrot or cabbage soup without any oil or flavour is served for lunch and dinner. Many practitioners suffer from malnutrition as a result of living off these meals for a long time.
  • Chengdu City Retired Female Senior Engineer Kidnapped and Brutally Tortured by Lawless Policemen

    But not more than half an hour after she arrived home, lawless policemen and officials of the "610 office" broke into and illegally searched her house. They arrested her and took her to Chengdu City Detention Centre, and tried many times to force her to write a guarantee. However, Ms. Li didn't cooperate with this unjust demand at all. Then they expressed their intent to send Li Binnan and several other practitioners to the Nanmusi Female Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong City for further persecution.
  • Eyewitness Account of the Vicious Beatings in Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp Which Resulted in Female Dafa Practitioner Death

    On April 25, 2003, I bore witness to policemen's brutal persecution of Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Yinfang. Ms. Zhu refused to give up practising Dafa, and just as she started to practise the exercises that day, she was spotted by a few prison guards. They started beating and kicking her. The shocking beatings continued throughout the whole morning in the bedroom.
  • Testimony of Nanguan Village Residents, Hebei Province Regarding the Unceasing Persecution of Dafa Practitioner and his Family

    Xin Baodong's son was purchasing some items at a shop when a bunch of plainclothes police rushed in and without any explanation and arrested everyone there. They were taken to the Public Security Bureau, interrogated, and their work units were contacted. Finally, the shoppers were released, but Xin Baodong's son was made to stand in the corridor till school was almost over, then he was allowed to go home. When he returned to the school, the teacher asked the child what happened and he described the event. The teacher cried and the child was also sobbing.
  • Nearly One Hundred Handan City Police Surround Village to Illegally Arrest Practitioners and Ransack Their Homes

    The head of the Quzhou "610 Office," the Handan City "610 Office" director arrived at Houcun Town. Then with the help from Houcun Town Police Station Director Niu Mingtang and Assistant Director Li Bin, they drove to Chenyangu Village in 11 police vans and blocked every street entrance of the entire village. Armed with pistols, electric batons, and rubber clubs, the police and officials ordered everyone to stay in their homes and threatened to shoot anyone who disobeyed.