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Inner-Mongolian Autonomous Region: Two More Practitioners Die as a Result of Abuse and Torture
2004-01-22Ms. Geng Xiulan was arrested while she was distributing Dafa truth-clarifying flyers a few days before the 2001 Chinese New Year. Chief Li Cai and his teammates forced Ms. Geng to provide a list of practitioners who participated in this event by beating her, using an electric baton and wrapping wire around her two fingers to electrically shock her. As a result of being tortured with electric shock, her cardiovascular system was damaged, she now has constant seizures. Later, police handcuffed her onto heating pipes. She had to keep a position of half-way squatting on her heels and half-way standing. -
After Suffering Torture, Dafa Practitioners Speak Out for Justice in a Courtroom in Jilin Province
2004-01-22On January 6, 2004, the Shulan City Court brought to trial four Dafa practitioners without due process. Two policemen dragged practitioner Fu Hongwei into the court, whose legs were seriously injured due to torture. Because family members saw through the attempt by the court to secretly hold a trial for the four practitioners, they immediately requested permission to be spectators. In the court, Fu Hongwei shouted: "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is the righteous law! Restore the rightful reputation of my Teacher!" -
Police Direct Inmates to Force Dafa Practitioners to Ingest Heroin and Other Drugs As A Torture Method in the Shizishan Labour Camp
2004-01-22In the Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, the authorities have resorted to the basest methods to torture Dafa practitioners into giving up their belief. Police even instigated drug addicts to put heroin paste and other poisonous drugs into practitioners' food. A Huangshi City practitioner who exposed their crime publicly was sent to a mental hospital for further persecution, on police orders. -
Additional Information on the Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Duan Shiqiong
2004-01-21Dafa practitioner Duan Shiqiong endured more than a year of incarceration, gross abuse, torment and persecution in the Chengdu City Detention Centre. None of her family members received any information about her during that period. Even in the final moments of her life, Chengdu City Detention Centre officials still did not inform her family. When her husband saw her body, it was impossible for him to recognise his wife. Her face looked completely different. She only weighed about 50 lbs. -
Details of How Liu Chengjun Was Tortured to Death in Jilin Prison
2004-01-21Mr. Liu Chengjun was tortured to death on December 26, 2003. Jailed after tapping into Chinese cable TV networks and broadcasting the facts about the evil nature of the persecution, Liu Chengjun was an example of the courage and upright actions of Dafa practitioners in China as they break through Jiang's death-grip on the state-controlled media. News of his death has brought public outcry, as practitioners demand his murders be brought to justice. The following is an account of the circumstances surrounding his death -
An Insider Reveals How Ms. Chen Jingru was Tortured in Heizuizi Labour Camp
2004-01-21I was sent to a forced-labour camp. I was not a Falun Gong practitioner, so I was not treated as harshly as they were, but I had the opportunity to witness the brutal torture of many Falun Gong practitioners, and I also had the chance to meet with some steadfast Dafa practitioners. Chen Jingru, nearly 40, is gentle, quiet, restrained, and able to endure hardships. I have a very deep and good impression of her because of the way she carried herself. -
New Policy for Guizhou Police - ID Required for Internet Users
2004-01-21To ease public pressure, Guizhou Police Department used propaganda to lie and spread terror. First, they spread lies in the media, saying that the Internet monitoring system was only to monitor illegal websites and would not monitor typical internet users. Second, they threatened the Internet café managers that they would be shut down if they didn't comply. They restricted access to articles on the Web that expressed any discontent about the new policy, and coerced café owners to comply with threats of fines and detention. -
Fearing Public Exposure, the Secret Trial of Qinghua University Students Is Moved to a New Location
2004-01-20In order to avoid further persecution, Chu Tong and Yu Chao were forced to give up their highly paid jobs and leave home, taking their son with them. In August 2002, Yu Chao and Chu Tong were arrested in Beijing by agents from the National Security Bureau and "610 Office." According to an October 2002 report on Minghui Net, Chu Tong's father could not return home because he didn't want to be sent to a brainwashing class. -
More Details About the Torture Death of Zhengzhou City Practitioner Ms. Cui Ningning
2004-01-20Cui Ningning insisted on unconditional release and had the courage to uphold her belief in Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, which cost her her life. The detention centre police initially did not pay any attention at all, until her health had severely deteriorated and she was near death. Afraid to take responsibility, the police released her on July 18, 2003. Eleven days after her release, Cui Ningning died at home. -
More Information Regarding the Painful Death of Chongqing City Practitioner Ms. Long Gang
2004-01-20Due to the brutality of their methods, the tube didn't always feed into the oesophagus but also went down the trachea. This vile method of torture damaged her lungs tremendously and caused her to cough constantly. She suffered from extreme pain in her lungs and grew thinner and thinner. To shirk their responsibility, the detention centre claimed that she had contracted tuberculosis, and asked her family to obtain a medical parole for her and take her home. From that time on her health declined to the point where she could hardly walk. -
Gaoyang Labour Camp's Atrocities: Savage Overnight Torture, Burying Practitioners Up to Their Necks
2004-01-20Labour camp police took Dafa practitioners, mostly female, to two different tents sites for torture every day. The police officers dug a hole about 2.5 feet by about 5.5 feet deep in a vegetable field. In an attempt to persuade the practitioners to give up their belief, they would throw one practitioner in the hole and threaten to bury her alive. They even buried some Dafa practitioners up to their necks, leaving only their heads above ground. -
Facts about Dafa Practitioners Being Persecuted at Universities in Hebei Province (Part 1)
2004-01-20Since July 20, 1999, one practitioner enrolled at the university has been sent to a labour camp, at least five practitioners have been illegally detained while their homes were ransacked, three practitioners have lost their jobs, at least two students have been expelled from school, and two practitioners have been sent to a brainwashing centre. The school officials at the university deceived all the students by telling them lies about the situation of students who were Falun Gong practitioners, forced everyone to publicly state their attitude towards Falun Gong, and coerced students to produce 10,000 signatures against Falun Gong or face repercussions. -
Mr. Ma Xuejun, Is Near Death after Suffering Brutal, Long-Term Torture in Jail
2004-01-19Ma Xujun has been at the edge of his life many times, but the Jiamusi City Police Department refused to release him. After family members' many attempts to secure his release and under pressure from the strong protest and condemnation of many people seeking justice, on the night of December 26, 2003, the Jiamusi City Police Department sent Ma Xuejun home on a stretcher, put him down, and left, shirking the responsibility for his condition. At that time, Mr. Ma had become unable to move or speak. The long-term hunger strike made him like a skeleton. -
Authorites Force Pregnant Falun Dafa Practitioner To Have Abortion In Order to Detain Her in the Guangxi Forced Labour Camp
2004-01-19Because her husband, Deputy Secretary of a certain county in Baise City, refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa, the police forced Mrs. Luo to have her baby aborted at the hospital in retaliation. Both husband and wife were then illegally sentenced to terms in a forced labour camp. Immediately after the abortion, even though her body was extremely weak and still bleeding, Mrs. Luo was taken to the Guangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp. -
Atrocities Committed Behind the Scenes at the Baimalong Labour Camp
2004-01-19The prison guards kept telling her family members how Ms. Hu was "against the government" and how well the forced labour camp treated her by giving her injections of albumin and spending more than ten thousand Yuan on her in medical expenses, and so forth. At that time, Ms. Hu Yuehui could not remember anything at all, but only could say "It is not wrong to practise (Falun Gong) exercises!" Her family members thought what the guards said was true. As soon as her family members left, the guards placed her in a storage room in the hall where nobody could see her.