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  • Details of Torture Methods Used On Falun Gong Practitioners in Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp

    A very common torture includes sitting on a hard bench over a long period of time. As long as practitioners are blamed for violating the so-called division rules, they have to suffer this type of torture. One practitioner, about 35 years old, had been forced to sit on the bench on the fourth floor for a very long time. She had to maintain a 90-degree angle between her body and legs, and was forced to sit this way from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Although deprived of all her basic rights, the guards failed to force her give up her belief in Dafa. Hence, she was able to leave the forced labour camp in the end without compromising with the authorities.
  • Persecution Details of Practitioner Ms. Sun Yanchun from Yantai City, Shandong Province

    In July 1999, when the party began persecuting Dafa in China, 52-year-old Ms. Sun Yanchun and fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Dafa. They were mercilessly beaten by the police from the local police station. The residential district office imprisoned them and forced them to write a guarantee statement promising to cease their practice, and extorted their family members of large amounts of money. The residential district office threatened the village committee secretary into deducting an entire year's salary, and instigated the village committee to imprison several of these Falun Gong practitioners for persecution. They threatened to fine the employers and coerce them into dismissing Falun Gong employees.
  • 610 Office Sentences Xiangtan City Practitioner Mr. Huang Deming to Forced Labour

    On the evening of November 7th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Huang Deming and Ms. Luo Jinxiu, from were both arrested by local police while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The Xiangtan City 610 Office had Mr. Huang Deming sentenced to one year of forced labour on December 10th, 2006, and he was taken to the Xinkaipu Labour Camp in Changsha City. Another female Falun Dafa practitioner, name unknown, was sent to the Changsha City Women's Prison.
  • Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Qiu Subi from Leshan City, Sichuan Province Dies of Persecution

    66-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Qiu Subi suffered long term persecution because of her persistence in cultivating Falun Dafa. In November 1999, Ms. Qiu and her son went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They were detained for one month. After being sent home, they were forced to report to the local police station in the morning and were not released until the evening. They had to do this for over six months. In 2005, police arrested her and held her at a brainwashing class for over a week. From 1999 to 2006, the local police station have searched Ms. Qiu's home at least twelve times. She was also followed wherever she went. Ms. Qiu Subi died on November 9th, 2006.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Yunyi from Guangxi Autonomous Region Dies at 31 as a Result of Torture

    In March 2000, Mr. Li Yunyi was arrested and threatened because he wrote an appeal letter to expose the persecution. After that he was arrested, detained, sent to brainwashing and had money extorted from him several times for appealing for justice for Falun Dafa. In September 2005, Mr. Li was arrested and detained for producing leaflets exposing the persecution and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Mr. Li was severely tortured during his detention. In February 2006, he was released for medical treatment. He passed away at his home in November 28th, 2006 due to the long-term persecution.
  • Murder Suspected in Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui’s Sudden Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui slipped into a vegetative state in July 2004 as a result of a skull fracture from a beating at Suzhou Prison. He had been held at the No. 100 Hospital in Suzhou City where he was under constant surveillance by the prison authorities. He died suddenly on December 12th, 2006 at the age of 40. Some analysts stated Suzhou Prison officials ordered Chen Guanghui to be murdered, in order to cover up the abuse and to avoid an international investigation and criminal charges.
  • Practitioner Liu Juhua from Guizhou Province Dies Two Hours After Her Arrest

    Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Juhua, in her 50s, was arrested from her home by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel at about 9:00 p.m. on December 5th, 2006. She died two hours later. It is reported that the police paid 100 thousand yuan (to be verified) and claimed that she "jumped from a tall building." But Lu Juhua's body did not show obvious injuries. The details are yet to be investigated.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Gansu and Jilin Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Sun Yuling, 48, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yantai City, Shandong Province. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour in December 2002 for practising Falun Dafa. She developed a fatal disease as a result of being tortured and persecuted, and was released from the forced labour camp ahead of the original term. She was as thin as a skeleton when she got home. She died unjustly four months after she returned home. All the villagers protested for her and said, "Such a good person died unjustly. Those Communist party villains are too inhuman."
  • Elderly Mr. Guo Haishan, Retired from the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology, Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Haishan, who was blind, had retired from the 19th Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology (CAMT). Because he was determined to practise Falun Gong, he was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre at the end of the summer in 2002 and in the summer of 2006, where he was subjected to torture. On November 26th, 2006, Mr. Guo died at the age of 71 as a result of the persecution.
  • Practitioner Ms. Ma Meiying from Shijiazhuang, Hebei, Died after Being Tortured

    Ms. Ma Meiying was from Dongtian Village, Xinle City, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. In 2003 Ms. Ma Meiying went with two practitioners to Zhili Town to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. They were reported and police detained them in Xingtang Detention Centre for six days. She went on a hunger strike to protest being persecuted. Police ordered other prisoners to violently feed them through a tube. Ms. Ma was injected with an unknown substance and force fed with salt water. She developed partial paralysis. To escape their responsibility, Xingtang police took Ms. Ma home on the sixth day, but she never recovered. Ms. Ma Meiying died on November 28th, 2006.
  • Mr. Chen Jun Learned Falun Gong in Prison and Was Beaten to Death at the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai City

    Mr. Chen Jun, from Hunan Province, was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He was beaten to death by the Tilanqiao Prison staff in Shanghai City because he started practising Falun Gong while he was serving his sentence. The prison guards flew into a rage from shame after discovering that Chen Jun started practising Falun Dafa. On January 18th, 2006, they started malicious physical torture and daily beatings. After one week of continuous physical torture, Chen Jun's life was in danger. He was sent home but Chen Jun passed away about a month later.
  • Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Zhejiang Province Die as a Result of Persecution

    Wang Huiyue was 86 years old when she died as a result of the persecution. Prior to Falun Gong practice, she had high blood pressure and other illnesses but since Ms. Wang started practising Falun Gong she became a healthy, energetic person again. When the CCP launched the persecution in 1999, her son was afraid that he would be implicated in the persecution, so he forbade his mother from practising any longer. Wang Huiyue fell ill shortly thereafter. However, her two daughters, who also practised Falun Gong, helped her to start practising again and she recovered. They were arrested and heartbroken Wang Huiyue passed away.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Sun Changde from Changchun City Dies at 43 as a Result of Persecution at Jilin Prison

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Sun Changde, 43, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2002 and was held at Jilin Prison. He was savagely tortured and developed severe tuberculosis. The prison authorities refused to release him despite his condition, and his health continued to deteriorate. He was eventually released in June 2006, when both of his lungs had completely ulcerated and he was coughing up blood. He passed away on November 28th, 2006.
  • Everyone in My Family Was Persecuted

    My father unfurled a banner at Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and suffered a brutal beating by the police on the square. Though he was injured and in pain, the guards still ordered prisoners to watch him and not let him practise the exercises. They forced him to sit on a wooden board all day and memorise prison rules, and they beat him if he did not remember them correctly. After three months of detention, his healthy body reverted to the illnesses he had before practising Dafa. He had difficulty urinating and his body was covered with extremely itchy and painful scabies. It wasn't until my father was at his last gasp that the police allowed him to go home with my mother. He passed away on May 8th, 2001.
  • Ms. Zhao Yuhua and Her Husband Forced Into Homelessness; Young Daughter Dies in Grief

    Practitioners Mr. Meng Qingzhen and Ms. Zhao Yuhua, a married couple from Heilongjiang Province were arrested, sent to forced labour camp, hounded by the police, and eventually forced to stay away from home. Their teenage daughter suffered a heart attack when they were being persecuted and died in sorrow, as her parents were not able to take care of her.