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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Tortured To Brink of Death, then Sent Home to Die: Baoding Labour Camp is Responsible for the Passing of Di Wanqing's Life
2003-05-27To protest the brutal torture, Di Wanqing and other practitioners held a hunger strike. They were brutally and frequently force-fed. Because of this long-term torture, Di Wanqing developed severe oedema, with extra fluid in his stomach and intestines. He couldn't move and was on the verge of death. The guards quickly sent him home to avoid responsibility for their actions and his condition. Unable to recover, Mr. Di Wanqing passed away on May 1, 2003. -
Female Dafa Practitioner Passes Away Following Torture and Abuse by Jixi City Police
2003-05-27because Ms. Zhao went to appeal for Falun Dafa, she was arrested and detained at the Hengshan District Branch Office of the Jixi City Police Department, where she was beaten and sworn at. After Ms. Zhao was released, she kept on diligently practising Falun Dafa. In April 2003, she was again arrested by the Hengshan District Branch Office. The police brutally tortured her in order to extract a confession from her. As a result of the torture and abuse, she passed away in May. -
Elderly Practitioner Dies at Hands of Wuan City Police
2003-05-27Because medical examinations indicated that he was very weak, the labour camp refused to take him. He was therefore taken back to the detention centre. Because of the brutal torture he received, his legs were swollen and he had difficulty swallowing food. Seeing that he was in critical condition, the detention centre extorted 3000 Yuan from his family and asked them to take him home. -
Recalling the Haunting Memories of Two Years of Torture and Persecution
2003-05-27Holding my head down with her foot, she handcuffed me with hands behind my back and shocked me repeatedly, then cruelly sprayed me in the face with a hot pepper spray. I could not open my eyes with the burning pain! My eyes and nose ran profusely and I almost suffocated. My face and hands were swollen and full of scars. The asylum had three rooms designated for detaining Falun Dafa practitioners, labelled with a sign on a blackboard reading "rooms for insane people." -
CCTV's Li Yuqiang Acknowledges That Part of the "Self-Immolation" Scene Was Staged
2003-05-27They mentioned evidence such as the example of Wang Jindong, who had been severely burnt, yet a Sprite bottle full of gasoline remained fully intact between his legs. Confronted with evidence and analysis Li Yuqiang had no choice but to acknowledge that they had laid the Sprite bottle between Wang Jindong's legs after he had been burnt, and that the scene was staged. She tried to argue that the scene was arranged in an attempt to prove to the audience that Falun Gong practitioners conducted the "self-immolation." She even admitted that had they known that someone would doubt its authenticity they would not have shot it. -
Further Evidence to Incriminate Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp for Death of Practitioner Shi Zhongyan
2003-05-26Around April 23, as a result of relentless persecution, Mr. Shi's life was in danger, and he was sent to the emergency room of the 205 Hospital (Military Hospital in Jinzhou City). On the morning of April 25, some time past 6:00 am, labour camp policeman Zhang Jiabin called the Shi family. He claimed that Shi Zhongyan suddenly fell ill; he was in a coma and had difficulty in breathing, so he was sent to the Hospital. An eyewitness said that Mr. Shi was extremely thin, his toes were dark purple with one of them covered with dried blood, and he was in a deep coma. -
Fuyu Forced Labour Camp of Hangs Up Dafa Practitioners For Several Months, Torturing One to Death
2003-05-26They handcuffed Dafa practitioners to the frame of bunk beds and heating radiators, and hung them up. Eleven practitioners experienced such torture. Practitioner Zhou Shuyou was once hung up from 1:00 am to midnight. Under the torture of ruthless prison guards, Fu Zhiyu passed away on February 1 from a cerebral haemorrhage. Lu Yongjin and two other practitioners were unbelievably hung up non-stop for three months. Zhang Huabin and others were hung up there for over two months. -
Shijiazhuang City Dafa Practitioner Disabled by Torture at the Hands of "610 Office" Personnel
2003-05-26According to inside information, for nearly two years Li Huixin had become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested for her belief in Dafa. After she was captured, the police tortured her in order to extort a confession and hung her up by her handcuffs for 24 hours. This caused serious injuries to her hands and wrists, and she had many bruises all over her body. -
Falun Dafa Cured My Illnesses, but the Jiang Regime Has Relentlessly Persecuted Me for My Firm Belief
2003-05-26On the day of a farmer's market, the police legal assistant and the tractor station director took me to the police station and cuffed me to the front door of the station. Then, he viciously told me that I would serve as a warning to the market attendees: those who would go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong would know what to expect. They forced me to wear a big display board (slandering Falun Gong) in front of my chest. Thus, I was humiliated until they took me back to the farm, which was after 5.pm. -
Jiang's Genocide Continues Unabated-Over Seventy Practitioners From Heilongjiang Province Who Provided Information to Support the Lawsuit Against Jiang Are Illegally Arrested
2003-05-25According to reports, after Jiang was sued abroad, he secretly organised a series of systematic mass persecution in China while at the same time "working on" the United States through diplomatic means. He ordered China's National Security Department to set up a special task force to deal with the lawsuit. -
Another Female Dafa Practitioner Tortured to Death by the Mishan City First Detention Centre
2003-05-25In March the police arrested dozens of Dafa practitioners and put them into the detention centre. They brutally beat and force-fed the practitioners. Moreover, they shackled practitioners' hands and feet together, sometimes for over 20 days. Under the constraint of the heavy shackles, practitioners could not squat down, nor could they sit up straight, causing immense pain. They couldn't go to the toilet, either. Kicking and beating by the guards were commonplace here. -
Relentless Torture in Mengzhou City Detention Centre Results in Death of Lady Practitioner
2003-05-25Although this lady practitioner suffered all kinds of inhuman torture, she remained firm in her conviction of the righteousness of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. No amount of bullying or torture could make her renounce her belief. -
More Details about the Unjust Death of Mr. Shi Zhongyan at the Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp
2003-05-25They beat him so severely that they broke his eardrum, almost causing permanent hearing loss; they broke his teeth; and the criminal prisoners rode on top of his back to humiliate him. He went on hunger strike to protest. The Director of the labour camp told his family that he was not aware of any beatings, and promised his family that they would not hurt him. However, after making this promise, the persecution became even more vicious. On October 2, 2000, in order to resist the persecution, Mr. Shi refused to do any labour. The labour camp, as a form of punishment, forced him to sit on a bench in a fixed position from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day. -
Huludao City Business Owner Tortured to Disfigurement
2003-05-25The police removed his pants and shocked his genitals using the electric batons. Then they forced the electric baton into his rectum. He was tortured to the point of hovering between life and death. The police poured water on him and continued to shock him. He felt as if his head was going to explode. Bruises were all over his head; his eye sockets swelled up to the point that not even a thin slit could be seen. He was horribly disfigured. -
The Persecution Ms. Huang Lisha Endured Before She Was Tortured to Death (Photo)
2003-05-24At a work meeting held on July 9, 2002, they announced that she "can't say Dafa is good, can't get in touch with others, can't clarify the truth, and can't visit her neighbours." On the same night, she left her work unit and her whereabouts were not known. Her work unit stopped looking for her in early November and later told people that Lisha had died in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.