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  • Practitioner Wan Liji Dies as a Result of Persecution in Nanchang City; His Daughter Is Left without a Father

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr Wan Liji, 34, died as a result of persecution, leaving behind his four-year-old daughter, who is now being cared for by her maternal grandmother. Liji used to be a member of the special police at the Nanchang Public Security Bureau and part of the Donghu Police Squad. He was mentally and physically persecuted for five years for practising Falun Dafa. He passed away on February 9, 2004.
  • Ms. Hu Qinglan, a Practitioner in her Fifties from Gansu Province, Died from the Persecution in 2001

    Ms. Hu Qinglan, in her fifties, was a practitioner from Gansu Province. She went to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities on behalf of Falun Gong. She was arrested and brutally tortured. During that time, the guards didn't allow her to drink water, even though she was forced to do hard labour under the scorching summer sun. When she was finally released in the middle of August 2000, she was extremely weak. She was hospitalized in March 2001 and died at the end of April 2001.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Yanxiang Remains Unwavering Amid Horrific Torture and Atrocities

    56 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yanxiang, was abducted by officers from the local police station in November 2002. The police took her to the Tangshan No. 1 Detention Centre, where she was detained for more than 100 days before she was illegally sentenced to a forced labour camp. In the forced labour camp the guards stripped Liu Yanxiang naked and nine deputies pushed her onto the floor. They used electric batons to shock her hands, feet and back simultaneously. Ms. Liu lost consciousness in a short amount of time due to the intensity of the torture.
  • Current Situation of the Two Sons of Falun Dafa Practitioner Zang Dianlong, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    At the time of their father's death, Haoran was 14 and Haotong was 12. Later that day, on July 8, 2002, the boys were taken to Harbin City. Both of them were handcuffed. An official asked the police to interrogate them separately. After being detained in Harbin City for one month, the two boys were sent to Wanjia Labour Camp where they were held for another month. They were not released until they developed scabies all over their bodies.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Yang Xiaojie and Liu Runling in Shijiazhuang City Illegally Sentenced to Prison; Their Daughter is Living With Grandparents

    Because her parents were sentenced to prison for persisting in their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance", Yang Wenjing was forced to live with her grandparents, who are in their late 60s and have very little income. Their home belongs to Yang Xiaojie's work unit and is about to be demolished. Yang Wenjing and her grandparents are about to become homeless.
  • Five Year Old Du Yuxin is in the Care of Her Grandmother After Losing Both Parents in Persecution

    Du Yuxin is five years old. She lives at 15 Yongsheng No.1 Lane, Songpu Town, Songbei District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She was only four when her mother Zhao Shuhong died.
  • Police Extract Confessions with Piercing Bar Torture Method

    Torture method - Piercing bar: Victim's hands are tightly cuffed and feet are shackled. He is then forced to squat down and both arms embrace his knees. An iron bar is slid in above his arms and underneath the back of his knees. The police then lift the bar on which the victim is hung and put it on two desks. At this point, the victim is hanging upside down, with head facing the ceiling.
  • Stories about 50 Year Old Chongqing Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tang Meijun, Who Was Relentlessly Persecuted to Death in 2003

    On December 28, 2003, the forced labour camp informed Tang Meijun's family that they could come get her from the Army Hospital in Chongqing City. When her family saw her, she had been dead for two days, but she still looked as though she had firm and unshakable resolve in her belief in Falun Dafa. After suffering the cruel persecution and torture by Jiang Zemin's regime for over two years the Chongqing Falun Dafa practitioner was killed. Tang Meijun was just 50 years old.
  • Wang Tongchun, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Jilin Province, Was Arrested and Persecuted Because He Exposed Torture

    The Police and Security Section said, "Mr. Wang Tongchun was followed and then arrested on the way to Beijing because customs agents found pictures of a simulated torture exhibition made to represent conditions he supposedly suffered in a forced labour camp and which were then mailed to individuals outside of China."
  • Background Information on Du Juan, Orphan of Falun Dafa Practitioner Liang Suyun from Fushun City

    It was not until the next morning that Wang Yulan heard Liang Suyun was being force-fed in the hospital. Wang Yulan wanted to visit her daughter and brought noodles to the hospital. Only when she went there did she find out that Liang Suyun had passed away.
  • 2 Year-Old and 12 Year-Old Daughters Left Without a Mum When Practitioner Yu Xiuling Was Tortured to Death

    Ms. Yu Xiuling was from Group Four of Duchengzi Village, Damiao Town, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. At 8:00am on the morning of September 19, 2001, she was transferred to Longcheng Police Office, where she was tortured to death the very same night. At the time of Yu Xiuling's death, her youngest daughter, Feng Lei, was only 2 years old. Husband Feng Dianxiang felt unable to look after both children at the same time, and sent his youngest daughter to live with his sister and her husband in Laoxigou Village, Damiao Town.
  • The Brutal Means Used by Wanjia Forced Labour Camp to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Torture method: The two arms are cuffed to the upper portions of two separated bunk beds. Then four people pull the two beds apart. This stretches the body of the person and results in horrible shrieks from pain as his internal organs are stressed. To prevent the victim from shouting out, guards seal the mouth with tape and then repeatedly pull the beds apart.
  • Several Stories of a Just Policeman in China

    The wife of Mr. Li Qiang, a Falun Gong practitioner in our camp, came to ask for a divorce. After Director Yang heard this he met with her for over two hours to find out more. He told her, "All Falun Gong practitioners are good people. Li Qiang is a righteous and kind man who has been temporarily detained here, like other practitioners, because of his beliefs, not because he is a bad person. If you make a wrong decision now and divorce him, it will be difficult for you to find for such a good man again and you will regret it."
  • Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr Cui Fengqi Dies as a Result of Persecution

    40 year old Mr. Cui Fengqi became fit and healthy after he started practising Falun Gong in 1998. After the unjust suppression of Falun Gong began in July 1999, he continued to promote and clarify the truth about Falun Gong. He was detained at his workplace many times. He was later subjected to abuse by the Tangshan City Detention Centre, where he was seriously injured both physically and mentally. He was fired from his job, harassed and humiliated by police. Due to the physical and mental torture that he suffered, Mr. Cui passed away on October the 15th 2004.
  • Torture and Harassment Led to Death of 49 Year Old Guangdong Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yang Mingxia

    Ms. Yang Mingxia, 49 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Guangdong Province. She was arrested and sent to the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province for three years of forced labour. She suffered from severe physical tortures and spiritual abuse in the labour camp. Ms. Yang was released in January 2004 and went home. She continued to be monitored, harassed and threatened. As a result, four months later, in May 2004, Ms. Yang Mingxia passed away.