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  • Practitioners Poisoned Intravenously at Weifang Detention Centre in Shandong Province

    After being injected with this poisonous material, the practitioner immediately felt dizzy with blurred vision. His feet and hands began swelling the next day and getting worse by the day. He had generalised muscle aches with worsening oedema, and he became covered with blisters all over his body accompanied by extreme itchiness. After the skin was scratched open it formed layers of scars, leaving black or brown discolouration. One month after the injection, his nails began to fall off and he experienced hair loss. In the end he lost almost all of his hair.
  • Further Information on Elderly Ms. Cheng Guilan's Death in 2002 As a Result of Persecution by the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp in Anning District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cheng Guilan, was over 60 years old and a senior engineer. One night in October 2002, she was sent to the No.2 Forced Labour Camp in Lanzhou City. Within 48 hours, she was secretly tortured to death by the guards in the forced labor camp. In order to cover up their crimes, the labour camp lied by saying that Ms. Cheng's life had been in danger when she was brought there. Yet the prisoner assigned to monitor Ms. Cheng admitted, "When she was sent here, she was very healthy."
  • In Remembrance of Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong

    In 2004, after suffering a series of inhumane tortures, Mr. Zhang Zhong was in critical condition – all his organs were malfunctioning, he had spasms in muscles all over his body, partial psychological paralysis, breathing complications, irregular heartbeat and he was in a coma for long periods of time. His blood pressure constantly oscillated around 40-50 mm. Hg. He was reduced to skin and bones. Only in this near-death situation did the prison agree to have him bailed out for medical treatment. Even then, the city was barricaded and Zhang Zhong was not allowed to go outside Daqing City for treatment in Harbin. Seeing his emaciated son, Zhang Zhong's father could only cry silently and helplessly.
  • Jiuquan Prison Authorities in Gansu Province Frenziedly Persecute Dafa Practitioners

    Prisoners tried to force practitioners to write the "four statements" to renounce Falun Dafa. Practitioners who refused to give in would be brutally tortured by policemen and prisoners alike with methods such as: scalding with boiling water and burning with cigarette butts; striking with a iron hook and scalding with a heated iron hook; eight policemen and prisoners hold one practitioners down and savagely beat him; placing live rats in practitioners' trousers; chaining practitioners in a way that they could neither stand nor squat.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jiang Yuejun Suffered from Persecution at the Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp

    A member of Mr. Jiang Yuejun's family visited him in Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp. They learned that Mr. Jiang's throat was so severely damaged that he could barely speak. The sound of his voice had completely changed. Mr. Jiang said his throat was injured because of the beatings the guards gave him under orders. Division head Feng said, "We were quite nice to him in the first week he was here." Mr. Jiang has been imprisoned for more than two weeks. It's apparent that Mr. Jiang was subjected to severe abuse during the second week. Mr. Jiang told his family that his "environment" was very bad. He lost so much weight that he now weighs less than 100 pounds.
  • Ms. Li Bin Recalls How She Was Tortured and Shocked by Guards in the Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Office

    Practitioner Ms Li Bin experienced ruthless torture, especially electric shocks, which nearly killed her. In an interview a reporter asked: "How did it feel when you were shocked by electric batons?" Li Bin replied: "When the guards us shocked me, I was sweating all over and my clothes were wet. I first felt pain, as if I was being pierced with needles. I heard the sizzling noise. It was truly horrendous. I could also smell the burning of my hair and skin. Sometimes the electricity went to my brain. That was even worse. It felt like I was having a seizure because the nerves were stimulated on top of the pain. You can only try to imagine what kind of feeling that is."
  • Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province (Photos)

    Practitioner Ms. Xu Suxia was held in solitary confinement for several months right after she was brought into the labour camp. When we saw her for the first time, the flesh on her ankles had ulcerated, and there were blisters on her arms and hands from repeated electric shock. She was dragged outside one winter night and handcuffed to a tree for several hours. They also left her in a room without any heating system for several days. She persisted in her belief in Dafa. She was locked in a room for more than twenty days without any quilt or bedding. She slept on a wooden board. A male guard pushed his feet down onto her chest until she almost suffocated.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Guo Lirong from Chengdu City Persecuted to the Point of Multiple-Organ Failure

    45-year-old Ms. Guo Lirong was arrested after work on September 8th, 2006. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was taken to the Qingyang District People’s Hospital, a prison hospital that colludes with government officials in persecuting Dafa practitioners. She was handcuffed in a hospital bed and forcibly given an IV infusion. It was recently learned that Guo Lirong has developed symptoms of multiple-organ failure due to long-term persecution, and her life is in danger. The police released her on October 8th, 2006.
  • The Chinese Communist Party Is Arresting Falun Dafa Practitioners with the Excuse of Protecting the Olympics

    On October 30th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Fengqiu was arrested by police and sent to the Masanjia Labour Camp in the afternoon. When Ms. Li's family member went to the Taihe District Police Department to request her release, Officer Han Yaobang from the legal justice office told them that Falun Gong was interfering with the 2008 Olympic Games that will be held in Beijing, and hence, all Falun Gong coordinators must be arrested.
  • The Plight of a Woman's Family in Wuhan

    From October 1999 to present, Hu Mingxiu has been detained five times. Her husband Liu Yongsheng has been arrested three times and he is now detained in Qinduankou Prison. Her family’s home was ransacked three times. Her elderly mother ultimately died from the stress of this long-term intimidation. This is the unjust story of an ordinary working woman who, simply because she practises Falun Gong and tries to improve her moral standard, has suffered so much persecution.
  • The Life of Zhao Yougang from Shandong Province in His 30s Is in Danger Due to Severe Persecution

    Zhao Yougang, a Dafa practitioner from Weifang City, has been tortured in a prison in Wuxi City for several years, and his life is now in great danger. On the first day there, he was tied to an "iron chair". He had already been on a long-time hunger strike, which made him very weak. Half an hour later he fainted. He was then sent to the hospital. This hospital was notorious for its violence and mistreatment of prisoners. Zhao Yougang weighed very little, but because of the torture, his body was swollen like a balloon. Under the strategy of "if he isn't transformed, let him die," the prison launched one campaign after another to torture him.
  • Urgent Rescue Needed for Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yu Ziming from Sichuan Province

    On June 29th, 2006, the police arrested Mr. Yu Ziming and another practitioner, Ms. Gao Huifang, for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, and detained them at the Longchang County Police Station. At 1:00 p.m. that same day, the police tortured and killed Ms. Gao. Mr. Yu is being held at the Longchang Detention Centre, where he has developed scabies due to the poor conditions. Because Mr. Yu was a witness to the murder of Ms. Gao, the Longchang Police said, "He won't leave this place alive." They are currently trying to sentence Mr. Yu. Please help to stop this evil plan.
  • Mr. Sun Changping Tortured For 30 Days at Fusong County Detention Centre in Jilin Province (Photos)

    On September 19th, 2006, Sun Changping, a Falun Dafa practitioner, was taken by Tang Longping, head of the Lushuihe Police Department, from his workplace. Mr. Sun was viciously beaten and then detained and tortured in the Fusong County Detention Centre for thirty days. He was tied to a "death bed". Two bones in his back were broken and protruding. After such vicious torture, Mr. Sun had great difficulty walking. He was recently released from the detention centre.
  • Ms. Zhu Xiyu Suffers Mental Breakdown from Torture at the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province

    When I was detained at the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp, I watched with my own eyes the completely inhumane, brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Xiyu. Because she refused to comply with the guards' orders, she was often beaten and yelled at. Some of the other detainees also beat her at the command of the guards. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and her detention, and was force-fed by camp doctors. Often she ended up with dark bruises on her face. Sometimes when she returned from the labour camp clinic, her face was covered in blood, and she had a tube inserted into her nose. Later I heard that Zhu suffered a mental breakdown.
  • 70-Year-Old Couple Liu Yanqing and Yang Zhixiu Arrested in Suining City, Sichuan Province

    On October 2nd, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Liu Yanqing (70 years old) and Yang Zhixiu (68 years old) were arrested by officers in Pengan County Train Station, Suining City, Sichuan Province during the night when they visited their former classmates. The police also took away their Falun Dafa books and leaflets exposing the persecution that they had with them. Now they are being detained in Pengan County Detention Centre.