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Crimes Committed by Policewoman Li Xueyan at Beijing's Fengtai Detention Centre
2004-06-15Li Xueyan, about 30, is a policewoman at the Fengtai Detention Centre in Beijing. She is responsible for persecuting the Falun Gong practitioners at the detention centre. To persecute practitioners that were holding a hunger strike, the criminals would gang up to attack them. The head of the cell said, "If each of us forty prisoners feeds you one mouthful of food, you will be full." After such a "feeding," the face and body of the practitioner would be covered with bruises. -
Dingxing County Police, Hebei Province Resort to Stabbing Practitioners Legs with Needles and Whipping them With Plastic Pipes While in Detention
2004-06-15In Dingxing County, Hebei Province, Falun Dafa practitioners who live according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" have been brutally persecuted for being good people. Several practitioners went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution. The police forced them to remain awake for as long as four days and nights. They would cruelly torture practitioners such as kicking them hard, beating their buttocks with heavy iron rod, smashing their ankles with wine bottles, jabbing needles into their legs, whipping their body with plastic pipes, forcing them to kneel on steel bars, etc. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr He Shaohuai Tortured to Death in Detention Centre in Sichuan Province (Photos)
2004-06-14Mr. He Shaohuai was 53 years old and he lived in Sichuan Province. He was arrested and detained in the County Detention Centre. On September 15, at 8:00 am in the morning, Mr. He could not get up. He said he had a pain in the chest. Two people went to help him get up, but he collapsed before reaching the cell gate. He died on the way to the hospital. The police then notified his wife and did not tell her the truth. The police only said Mr. He was in the hospital, and that she should go and see him. Instead, the police took her directly to the funeral home. The autopsy report showed that he was tortured to death. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Zhen, an Economist from Hunan Province Dies as a Result of Torture (Photo)
2004-06-14Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Zhen was 52 years old. He had worked as an economist for Xiangtan City Science and Technology Committee Equipment Company. In February 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. Later in the month, he was abducted and beaten by agents from the National Security Bureau, who illegally sentenced him to two years of forced labour. When a Labour Camp in Hunan Province refused to accept him because of his poor physical condition, his family paid 3,000 Yuan for him to receive medical parole. Because of the physical tortures and especially the long term mental torture Li Zhen suffered, he passed away on May 26, 2004. -
70 Year Old Ms. Xiao Yuanxiu from Chongqing City Dies As a Result of Persecution
2004-06-14Dafa practitioner Ms. Xiao Yuanxiu was a 70-year-old retiree from Chongqing City's No. 69 High School. Since 1999, the school has been persecuting Ms. Xiao. It sent her to a brainwashing centre four times and deducted several hundred yuan from her retirement compensation every time the brainwashing sessions were over. Due to the long period of physical and mental torture, her physical condition deteriorated, but those vicious people did not stop persecuting her. When the police tried to abduct her she suddenly fell to the ground and died on March 7 2004 -
Persecution Renders Young Woman Paralyzed from the Waist Down (Photo)
2004-06-14During my school years in Changchun, I began to practise Falun Gong. I was arrested in 2001. The police officers said plainly, "Yes, we are doing this for the sake of money. For every Falun Gong practitioner we arrest, we'll get 500 Yuan" Later to avoid being arrested and persecuted again, I was forced to jump down from the fifth floor. I suffered fractures in my back and legs. Two police officers pulled me to my feet and forced me to walk, which promptly damaged the nerves in my back and legs. When my parents saw that I was paralyzed, they angrily questioned the police, who had no explanation. -
Persecution and Retribution
2004-06-14At the front of the parade was a Falun Gong practitioner carrying a sign that bore the large-sized Chinese character for “Mourning.” It was solemn and heartrending . As I watched the female practitioners attired in long, snow-white dresses, holding photos of the Falun Gong practitioners that had been tortured to death by the police in China, tears welled up in my eyes. All the people in the pictures were beaming with a glow of kindness. You could tell that they were not only innocent and law-abiding civilians, but also honest and trustworthy people. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr Chen Xiaoqin from Hebei Province Tortured to Death at Baoding Labour Camp in 2001
2004-06-13Dafa practitioner Chen Xiaoqin was from Baoding Area, Hebei Province. Before practising Falun Gong, Chen was in the late stages of cancer and doctors had determined Chen wouldn't live long. However, after Chen began to practise Falun Gong, the cancer disappeared. After Jiang's regime began the persecution of Falun Gong, Chen went to Beijing many times to appeal. In the spring of 2001, Chen was sent to the Baoding Forced Labour Camp, and was later tortured to death there. -
Torture Method 13: The Tiger Bench (Illustration)
2004-06-13Torture Method 13: The Tiger Bench: During this torture, police tie the victim's legs tightly to the tiger bench using belts. They then put bricks or some other hard objects under the victim's feet. They keep adding layers of bricks until the belts break. Victims endure unbearable pain and often pass out during these torture sessions. Other tortures are often used on the victim at the same time, including shocking the victim with electric batons, cuffing the hands behind the back, burning the body with cigarettes..... -
More Information about How Ms. Chen Xingtao from Hunan Province was Tortured to Death
2004-06-13"With the government coming to arrest people every 3-5 days, my mother could not bear the anxiety, and died from the stress of threats and intimidation on August 10, 1999. My wife Chen Xingtao became crippled as a result of the persecution and died a painful death on May 27, 2002. My father saw the family broken apart by the persecution and was grief-stricken and indignant. He died on December 23, 2002. What happened to human rights? Where is humanitarianism? Is there no justice from government officials at any level? I must have justice. -
Mother of Child Less than One Month Old Is Illegally Imprisoned
2004-06-13My name is Lu Yanna, and I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Because my husband Diao Xihui and I persisted in our belief in Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, appealed according to the law and clarified the facts of Falun Gong, we have suffered from persecution. Now, we are imprisoned illegally and have lost our personal freedom, so I am unable to take care of my less than one-month daughter, Shanshan, in person and have been forced to hand over Shanshan to my husband's mother for foster care. -
Illustrations of Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (9 - 12)
2004-06-12Torture Method 9: "Feeding the Insects" - In the summer time, especially around dusk or dawn, the police strip practitioners of every piece of their clothing and handcuff them to a pole in a place where mosquitoes and other insects swarm. Practitioners are bitten over and over again all over their bodies by various insects. Not long after, their bare skin is covered with itchy bumps. Sometimes they cannot even open their eyes because their eyelids are so swollen. -
Detailed Information about the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Guilan by Police in Shaanxi Province (Photo)
2004-06-12Ms. Sun Guilan used to be an employee at the Petroleum Machinery Factory in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. On the afternoon of October 8, 2001, Ms. Sun was tortured to death after brutal force-feeding at the detention centre of Jintai Police Department in Baoji City. She was only 46 years old at the time. The criminal detainees that witnessed the crimes of these evil policemen all cried. Many of them had learned about the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners from the practitioners that were detained there, and now witnessed this brutal persecution firsthand. -
The Facts Regarding the Death of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Song Gang, a Former Deputy Section Head at Yichun City's Government Legal and Law Office
2004-06-12Mr Song Gang, in his forties, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was illegally arrested by the police. He was often interrogated during his detention and suffered brutal torture. In the end, seeing that he was on the verge of death, the police released him temporarily, for fear of taking the responsibility should he die in their custody. In order to monitor his movements more easily, the police forced him to go to work and closely followed him. Under such mental and physical stress Song Gang's health condition worsened and he died on January 28, 2001. -
Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yixia is Handcuffed and Suspended by Her Arms in the Shandong Weifang Industrial School
2004-06-12Ms. Xiao Yixia, a Falun Dafa practitioner and well-known artist, was kidnapped and taken to the Shandong Weifang Industrial School. She has been held there for more than a month. Because Xiao has not given up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," the brainwashing centre has used vicious means to torture her mentally and physically. Even though currently Xiao's body is very weak, they are still torturing her by handcuffing and suspending her in the air by her arms.