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  • Female Practitioner's Personal Account: "Falun Dafa Cured My Terminal Disease but the Persecution Devastated My Body"

    Because I refused to give up my faith in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," I was under close surveillance. Later on, I twice solemnly stated to the deputies that I believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," yet I received more hideous tortures. They shocked me with electric batons to the point that I fell unconscious to the floor with my body twitching and twisting. They tried to force me to give up my belief. In the process they mentioned Jiang often. They told me, "Jiang Zemin told you not to practise Falun Gong already and you better follow orders. If you practise you break the law. How can an arm overpower the leg?"
  • Vile Torture Used on Dafa Practitioners on a Daily Basis in Dalian City Labour Camp

    In the first few weeks in Dalian Labour Camp, the guards tried to destroy us with heavy labour. They ordered me to take rocks (picked out from the coal) back to the mine shaft. They required me to move 120 wagons full of rock each day and they said I had to run. I collapsed on the first day, because I was too weak, but I had to do the same heavy labour the next day. Sweat poured out of my body. I was covered with salt crystals from the sweat. I felt dizzy under the baking sun. But I tried to be strong and never lowered my head.
  • Catalogue of Gruesome Cruelties Used In The Harbin "Drug Rehabilitation Centre"

    The basement, which holds over one hundred people for work during the day, becomes one of the main places for persecuting Dafa practitioners at night. One only has to say the word "practice" and they will be dragged into the basement and beaten up. Once this is done, all their hair is cut off. Sometimes the hair is entirely cut off leaving the scalp exposed. Other times, they cut off all but one strand of long hair. The policemen's shouting, the noise of the electric batons being used to shock people, and the criminals' cursing, kicking, and beating people (sometimes using square clubs) makes the dark and damp basement even more ghastly and horrifying.
  • Exposing the Crimes of the Third Detention Centre in Changchun City

    Why is force-feeding considered brutal and intentional torture? Please think about it. Why is nearly saturated salt water used? Why were practitioners force-fed on their first day of hunger strike? According to medical regulations, people have to be checked for certain diseases before feeding, such as flu, heart disease, and inflammation of lungs and stomach, which are diseases that prohibit feeding. However, the police never check practitioners' health. The head of the management division, Han Xinguo, shouted: "You are not going to the hospital even if you are dying from the force-feeding".
  • Ten Dafa Practitioners Face an Illegal Trial with Righteousness in Anhui Province

    During the trial, fully armed police filled both inside and outside of the courtroom. The "610 Office" specifically arranged news media to come interview, attempting to cook up more news to slander and frame Dafa. However, the ten practitioners were very steadfast and righteous in the courtroom, despite the fact that they were not given a fair hearing. They shouted in unison "Falun Dafa is great! Falun Dafa is a practice! Restore the reputation of our Teacher!"
  • Elderly Woman Goes Blind Due to Appalling Conditions in Shuangcheng Brainwashing Centre

    Female practitioner Ms Wang Benying was of old age. She became blind because of the long detention. The guards said, "There are no vegetables and the food is not nutritious, thus people will become blind. Hurry up and write a 'Guarantee Statement'. Only if you state that you give up with Falun Gong will you be released." Ms Wang Benying's family wasted no effort to get her released for medical treatment, but without positive results. The guards refused to release her. One of the guards named Wang Peng said, "We will not be held accountable if someone leaves the room on her last breath and died outside the door."
  • Dafa Practitioner's Business Devastated by Xingyang City Police

    On July 5, 2000, a gang of policemen suddenly burst into the book shop run by Zhang Xiaorong's husband Li Qinjun and asked him: "Are you still practising Falun Gong?" "Yes," answered Li. So they forced him to where his wife and another 6 practitioners were detained, and put him under detention for 8 months too. Li's son had to take turns staying in different relatives' homes during that period.
  • The Lawless Officials Who Persecute Falun Gong Are Despised by the People

    In the beginning, when Jiang Yongjian first came to Taoxu Town and started his term as Party Secretary, he had said viciously, "If any officials are found out to be corrupt, I will cuff his hands [meaning throw him into prison]." Just before he finished his term, his own "hands" were cuffed because of rampant corruption. The one who had made a great effort to label himself as a "clean" official eventually became a prisoner of his own doing.
  • Police from Mudanjiang City Recently Kidnapped Over a Hundred Dafa Practitioners

    Since the end of October, Aimin District Public Security Sub-bureau, Mudanjiang City, has been frantically arresting Dafa practitioners. At present the situation is urgent. It is known that over 100 people have been arrested, and many of them had been arrested illegally several times before. Now most of these Dafa practitioners are imprisoned in Mudanjiang Detention Centre located at Xinglong Town. Because the perpetrators do not wish to have their deeds exposed, they have blocked all reporting of this event. The situation inside the detention centre is not clear.
  • Beijing West District Detention Centre Tortures Dafa Practitioners

    They then shocked her head and the other side of her body. Upon seeing that she was not frightened, the police brought buckets of cold water and poured it down the front of her clothes. She was so cold and leaned forward, so the police pulled back her collar to pour water down the back of her clothes. Finally, they poured a bucket of cold water onto her head. She was trembling badly from the cold. She condemned the police for their behaviour. The police interrogated her for over two hours and sent her to the cell after midnight. They did not allow her to sleep and refused to let her change out of her soaked, freezing clothes.
  • 21st Dafa Practitioner Tortured to Death in Daqing Forced Labour Camp

    Zhang Mingzhu was also one of the disciplinary guards directly responsible for the murder of another practitioner He Huajiang. Because Zhang was highly "accomplished" in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, he was promoted to Assistant Brigade Leader of Daqing City Forced Labour Camp. Zhang once declared, "There is no legal consequence for killing [Falun Gong practitioners]." Daqing City Forced Labour Camp is currently sealing the records about Mr. Lu's death. When asked about Lu Bingshen's death, the response was the following: "Mr. Lu Bingshen died of heart attack."
  • Elderly Dafa Practitioner Forced to Endure Two Months of Torture in Mudanjiang Prison

    This elderly, harmless gentleman, who should have been enjoying his retirement in peace has lost his life. His tragic death has become yet another grim statistic in this senseless and unjust persecution, of law-abiding citizens who practise Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhou Caixia from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is Tortured to Death

    Ms. Zhou maintained her steadfast belief in Falun Dafa despite brutal beatings, shocking from electric batons, and many other forms of atrocious torture inflicted by Luo, Captain of the disciplinary guards, Ma, Na, and Yang in the Women's 2nd Squadron...In July 2003, Ms. Zhou was transferred to Baoanzhao Prison in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A few days later she died from the injuries caused by the torture she had endured. The details about how Ms. Zhou was persecuted in 2003 are yet to be investigated.
  • "610 Office" Sabotage Dafa practitioners' Funeral Ceremony

    After Duan Shiqiong from Chongqing City died at the Chengdu Detention Centre, officials from the Political and Judiciary Committee and the "610 Office" in Chongqing City feared that her husband Wang Zhihai, also a steadfast Dafa practitioner, would make her death known to the public and post it on Dafa website's. They tailed her husband everywhere, and together with a large number of police officers from the National Security Department, they brazenly prevented her family members from holding a funeral for her.
  • Outstanding Teacher from Describes How She Has Been Persecuted

    After the illegal labour reform forced on me since July 2000 ended, I went to the school and asked for my job back. I said to the principal: "I am a working teacher and the classroom is my work place. I did not do anything wrong by practicing truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. Why won't you let me come back to work?" The principal got very mad at me, "Even now you still think this way, how can you come back to work?!"...I found the secretary and asked him for my job back. The secretary told me the school does need a teacher like me, but I would have to write a guarantee letter saying that I will never practise Falun Gong again. I refused immediately