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  • Practitioner Mr. Yang Jisheng, In His Fifties, Died as a Result of Torture in 2005

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Jisheng was sentenced to forced labour in 2002, and was tortured in the Jinzhou City Labour Camp. He refused to accept the brainwashing, and guards deprived him of sleep and forced him to sit on a wooden board for a long period of time. A criminal was incited by the guards to beat Mr. Yang cruelly, causing Mr. Yang to have such a severe headache that he could not talk, and had no strength.The torture resulted in his having severe headaches caused by fluid on the brain, and he had to have an operation. He lost the sight in both eyes, and his whole body was swollen, including his legs, which prevented him from walking. Yang Jisheng died in June 2005.
  • Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City Persecute Another Dafa Practitioner to Death

    Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, actively cooperates with the city 610 Office and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They have systematically killed close to ten Falun Gong practitioners. Many Falun Gong practitioners were force-fed there and injected with nerve-damaging drugs. On May 5th, 2007, another Dafa practitioner, Ms. Zhao Zhonglin, was killed at the hospital. She was only forty-four years old.
  • I Became Disabled in Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    On January 25th, 2005, I explained the facts about the true nature of Falun Gong to a person called Liu Lijie. He reported me, I was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labour. In the evil den that is Heigemu Forced Labour Camp, the food and living conditions were horrible. We were only given soup for all meals, with nothing but a few vegetable leaves or chunks of turnip in the soup. One day, I even found a dead mouse in the soup. Besides the horrid living conditions, we were forced to do 10 hours of labour every day. To do the labour, we were forced to sit in a dark, cold workroom for a long time and no one was allowed to move or talk. If one couldn't finish the task, one had to work overtime. And the guards would constantly beat and verbally abuse us every day. I was under intense mental and physical stress for a long time.
  • Details of the Persecution Professor Wang Guilan Has Endured Over the Past Eight Years

    Ms. Wang Guilan is an associate professor at the College of Public Health at Hebei Medical University and a Falun Dafa practitioner. Since July 1999, Wang Guilan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but she was repeatedly detained. In 2000, she held a hunger strike to protest the unjust detainment and four people held her to the ground and force fed her through a rough tube despite the risk to her life. Later police stepped on her legs, slapped her, pulled her hair, and tortured her with the "killer rope." The rope cut into her flesh, and her arms became purple and blue. The torture made her arms numb for almost a year.
  • Recent Incidents of Cruelty Against Practitioners in the Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    On March 14th, 2007, because practitioner Mr. Peng Shuquan persisted in cultivating Falun Dafa after being imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party at the Suihua City Forced Labour Camp, the guards tortured him with the "Handcuff Hanging Torture", sealed his mouth with adhesive tape to silence him, inserted three boxes of lit cigarettes as well as garlic and hot pepper in his nose, completely burned all of his pubic hair, burned his finger with a lit cigarette and a cigarette lighter until it was completely charred, and also shocked him with electric batons.
  • After Three Years of Torture in a Forced Labour Camp, Mr. Qi Mingli Is Transferred to Fushun City Brainwashing Centre in Liaoning Province

    Mr. Qi Mingli is a practitioner from Liaoning Province. After detaining him in a forced labour camp for three years, the police transferred him to a brainwashing centre located in the Luotai Mountain Retreat area of Fushun City, where those in charge continue to torture him. Due to the persecution, Mr. Qi became disabled long ago and his vision is getting worse and worse. He is only able to see things within a range of less than two metres (6.5 ft).
  • Women's Prison in Shandong Province Uses Unknown Drugs on Practitioner Meng Lijun

    Ms. Meng Lijun suffered all sorts of torture at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because she practised Falun Dafa. In 1999, in a detention centre, police handcuffed one of her hands and hung her from some metal wiring, leaving her feet barely touching the ground. She was hung like that for three or four hours. Her face, hands, and feet all changed colour. One young policeman came and put a charge of electricity into the metal wiring from the electric baton he held. When Ms. Meng was taken down, she couldn't stand and felt nauseas. Over the years Ms. Meng was arrested many times and in 2005 she was sent to prison. Police put unknown drugs into her food and water. She had swelling all over her body and suffered from amnesia.
  • Ms. Ma Youjuan Is Detained, Her Non-Practitioner Father Sent to a Forced Labour Camp

    On October 15th, 2006, after being homeless for over four years, practitioners Ma Youjuan and Yu Kejun were arrested. In the evening of the same day, their eight-year-old daughter was also taken to the West City Police Station and detained there. The following day, Ma Youjuan's father, Ma Yiqing, took the child home. One month later, Yu Kejun was sent to a forced labour camp for a year, while Ma Youjuan has been detained at the Weifang City Detention Centre to this day. Because Ma Yiqing, who is a non-practitioner, went to the police to appeal for the release of his daughter, he was arrested and sent to the Changle Forced Labour Camp for a one year term.
  • Ms. Li Huiqi from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province Dies Five Years after Being Paralysed by Torture at the Shijiazhuang Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Huiqi was paralysed in 2002 from torture at the Shijiazhuang Labour Camp. She became a quadriplegic [whole-body paralysis] and was in a coma. Her trachea was cut so she could only breathe through a tube. Her husband divorced her after being unable to bear seeing her suffer. Li Huiqi died on April 27th, 2007, at the age of 40 after enduring five years of excruciating pain.
  • Four Canadian Residents' Family Members Persecuted in China

    Shen Yue, a Chinese student in Montreal recounted the experience of his mother: "My mother was sentenced to prison and incarcerated between 2000 and 2001. She was held in labour camp(s) many times after the persecution began in 1999. The situation was terrible. My mother told me, 'Someone stopped me in the street and asked if I practised Falun Gong. I answered yes and was put in a car.' No explanation was given. Shen Yue said his mother was savagely tortured. "When my mother was released from the custody centre I saw blood all over her toenails. She had not completely recovered from her injuries. She told me the practitioners were forced to walk around the drill ground wearing 11-pound shackles."
  • The Party Persecutes My Father, Calligrapher Gao Zongzhen, and My Entire Family

    At school, because of lies propagated by the CCP, teachers and students were all very harsh to me, saying that I was the daughter of a Falun Gong practitioner. In order to realise personal political gain, many vicious policemen often came to my home to harass us. They used both "harsh and soft" methods to try to manipulate my mother to help them persuade my father to give up his belief in "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance." They threatened my mother by saying, "Gao Zongzhen (my father) has practised Falun Gong. It will become very difficult for your entire family to find any jobs in the future. Your children won't be able to go to school or find a job either. If you can ask Gao Zongzhen to give up Falun Gong, we will ensure his job in the future; and the family won't be effected, either."
  • Mr. Zheng Zhicheng Arrested for the Third Time Along with His Wife, Ms. Cheng Chao

    On April 14th, 2007, police arrested Mr. Zheng Zhicheng and Ms. Cheng Chao. Zheng Zhicheng had already been imprisoned in Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp for three years. The guards there are brutal in their efforts to "reform" practitioners. One of their methods is "Stool Sitting." Every day, from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. they force practitioners to sit on a 10-cm (4-inch) wide and 20-cm (8-inch) tall stool. Everyone has to sit still; no one is allowed to use the toilet or eat outside the fixed schedule. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are ten minutes each. Each person is entitled to use the toilet twice a day for five minutes, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. During their many days of "Stool Sitting" the practitioners are forbidden to change clothes, brush their teeth, or wash. Some get lice.
  • More Information About the Death of Practitioner Ms. Liu Juhua from Yuping County, Guizhou Province

    Officers from the Yuping County Police Department in Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province and the Dalong Police Station of Dalong Township conducted a joint arrest of Falun Dafa practitioners in late 2006. Police entered practitioner Ms. Liu Juhua's home, ransacked it and arrested her. The police brought Ms. Liu Juhua to the detention centre, where they interrogated and tortured her until she died. The following morning, officials Peng Changping and Yang Bo notified Ms. Liu's family and lied to them, saying that Liu Juhua had committed suicide by jumping from a tall building. They threatened the family members and told them to cremate the remains and not to make it public.
  • Guard Tied Ms. Cui Huanying to a "Death Bed" and Whipped Her Across the Eyes with a Saw Blade at the Brainwashing Centre in Wangdu County, Baoding City, Hebei Province

    On January 3rd, 2002, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cui Huanying was taken to the brainwashing centre in Wangdu County. When she did not follow the authorities' orders, she was barbarically force-fed, beaten, and whipped with a saw blade across her eyes. She has lost sight in her left eye. the guards tied up Ms. Cui on a "Death Bed", pulled her arms straight, and tied them to wooden clubs in the shape of a cross. Both of her arms became disabled. She can no longer take care of herself.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Lingzhi Details Torture by Policeman Feng Jitang in Letter to Procurator

    "I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Because I posted flyers that informed people about the persecution, I was arrested on February 9th. I was taken to Daobei Police Station. In about 20 minutes, Feng Jitang appeared. Before he said anything, he kicked me in my back. He handcuffed me to a bedpost, cursed me and took one of his leather shoes and hit my head and ears like a madman. He also said, "I am going to beat you to death today!" He beat me so hard that he broke two clubs. He got another one and continued beating me. I cried out from the severe pain. I am suing Feng Jitang for the excruciatingly painful torture he used on me.