Torture

  • Ms. Yin Jinmei Injected with Unknown Drugs By Jiangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yin Jinmei was taken to the Jiangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp in March 2009. The labour camp gave her unknown drugs against her wishes repeatedly. After Ms. Yin was released from the labour camp, she felt extremely weak, was out of breath, had poor appetite and could not sleep. More recently, she has been struggling with severe symptoms of poisoning and was near death.
  • Two-year Detention for Ms. Du Wenhui at a Brainwashing Centre in Lanzhou, Gangsu Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Wenhui has suffered repeated arrests, detention, and brainwashing since 1999. She was released in September 2010 after two and half years of detention in the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Du went on hunger strike to protest the persecution in the Brainwashing Centre. Guards punched her in the neck. The staff force-fed her for nine days.
  • Two Sisters Sentenced to Chatou Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Xiaoling and Ms. Zhang Yueqi were arrested by police on August 3rd, 2011. The older sister, Zhang Xiaoling, was sentenced to two years in Chatou Forced Labour Camp and the younger sister, Zhang Yueqi, was sentenced to one year in the same camp. Zhang Yueqi is only 16 years old. Their mother has not been allowed to visit them.
  • Practitioners Persecuted at Sansheng Temple Brainwashing Centre in Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province

    Practitioners incarcerated in Sansheng Temple Brainwashing Centre are forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong and its teacher, and are physically and mentally tortured in various ways. To avoid others seeing or hearing the beatings, all of the windows, doors, and curtains are closed, and the volume of the TV is turned up to its maximum. Assistants are also used to persecute practitioners at the brainwashing centre. They are usually friends or relatives of people working there, and are rewarded with financial incentives.
  • Summary of Abuses in Recent Years at the Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labour Camp

    Since the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 1999, numerous practitioners have been tortured, disabled, and lost their lives in Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labour Camp. In particular, after preparations for the Beijing Olympics began in 2008, more than 100 practitioners were sent to the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp. From 2000 to 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Baohua was imprisoned four times, totalling more than seven years. Ms. Zheng was released from the Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in November 2009, because she had late-stage tuberculosis. She died on April 18th, 2011, at the age of 32.
  • Ms. Ma Chunli Tortured at Harbin Women's Forced Labour Camp, Now Physically Disabled

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ma Chunli was tortured at the Harbin Women's Forced Labour Camp to the point of being physically disabled. She showed symptoms of serious blood loss over an extended period. Ms. Ma's relatives visited her at the labour camp in September 2011, and found her to be both emaciated and pale. She needed to support herself with a makeshift cane in order to walk. One leg was severely atrophied and didn't reach the floor, and the other leg was also losing body mass and could barely touch the ground. Every step she took was painful.
  • Jing County Teacher Mr. Liu Jinqiang and his Wife Arrested--Their Home Ransacked by Police

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Jinqiang drove a three-wheeled motorcycle with his wife, Ms. Wang Jing, and their friend, Ms. Zhao Jinrui, into Dezhou City to go shopping on September 20th. When they were on their way home after shopping, they were followed and stopped by four police vehicles. Many plainclothes police officers got out of the four vehicles and forcibly took Mr. Liu Jinqiang, Ms. Wang Jing, and Ms. Zhao Jinrui to their vehicles. A villager who witnessed the incident said, “Mr. Liu Jinqiang ran a few steps but he was caught and then handcuffed by the police. The police also pulled Ms. Wang Jing by the head and dragged her into a vehicle.” Ms. Wang is detained in the Dezhou Detention Centre. The police also confiscated what they had just purchased in Dezhou City, which cost over ten thousand yuan.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yu Zhenjie, 54, from Inner Mongolia Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Zhenjie was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) numerous times. As a result, she died on September 7th. Ms. Yu refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced twice and spent a total of seven years in the Zhalantun Detention Centre and Hohhot Woman's Prison. In prison she was brutally tortured until she was in critical condition and diagnosed with cervical cancer and Hepatitis C. In order to free themselves from responsibility, the prison authorities released her to seek medical care. After she was released, the police from National Security Team from Zhalantun still harassed her at home, and her condition worsened. She passed away in great mental and physical agony.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Peng Had His Term Extended Two More Years After Suffering Ten Years of Imprisonment

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Peng was a teacher from Nanhua University in Hengyang City, Hunan Province. He was arrested in February 2001 and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was incarcerated in both Chishan Prison and Wuling Prison. His term has now been extended for two more years. He is now being held and brutally mistreated in the strictly regulated division of Wuling Prison.
  • Court Fails to Inform the Family of Mr. Li Huosheng of His Trial

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Huosheng, 53 was arrested on April 20th, 2011. More than 30 people broke into Mr. Li's home, searched it everywhere and took a computer, a printer, and all his Falun Gong books. Mr. Li was covertly tried on September 27th. Court officials didn't inform his family, so they could not attend the court proceedings.
  • Crimes Committed by Song Wanzhong, the Head of Panjin Prison

    Song Wanzhong, 45, is from Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province. As the head of Panjin Prison, he has been actively persecuting Falun Gong practitioners and has ordered guards there to torture practitioners. He then attempts to cover up his crimes. At least five practitioners have died of torture since Song became the prison head. Mr. Huang Cheng was brutally tortured after ending up in Panjin Prison, including being shocked simultaneously with eight electric batons and having needles inserted into all 10 fingers. This led to a stroke, half of his body swelling up, and death.
  • Brutal Persecution Suffered by Female Falun Gong Practitioners in China – Part 1

    During eight years of the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Wang Yuhuan was arrested and detained more than ten times. On one occasion, she endured the torture method of tiger bench for three days and two nights until the bones in her ankles were exposed from the constant grinding of the shackles, and the tendons in her arms were torn from the repeated beatings by the guards. Ms. Wang's face was charred from the constant shocking of electric batons. Her eyeballs were burnt with cigarettes, and her eardrums were punctured with bamboo toothpicks. Her body was completely covered with bloody lacerations. She was stripped naked and tied down on wooden boards with her limbs spread out for 26 days, suffering insult and humiliation by guards, prison doctors, and male inmates. Ms. Wang passed away on September 24th, 2007 as a result of torture.
  • Bureau of Prison Administration Hides Crimes of Torture, Victim's Family Continues to Appeal

    The mother and wife of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Xiangyang have insisted on lodging a complaint against Binhai Prison for torturing him. They recently went to the Tianjin Prison Administration Bureau where officials told them, “It's none of our business, it's not within our jurisdiction to handle it.” Since Mr. Zhou was arrested and taken to the Binhai Prison (formerly Gangbei Prison) in Tianjin on March 5th, 2011, he has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. His family complained to the Binhai Prison authorities for physically abusing and mistreating Mr. Zhou, using the “floor anchor” torture on him. Binhai Prison personnel didn't stop their evil deeds.
  • Beijing's Haidian Court Sentences Ms. Wang Fuling Without Notifying Her Family

    On June 25th, 2010, while practitioner Ms. Wang Fuling was posting signs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Shuguang residential area in Haidian district, she was spotted by Hu Xuejun, a policeman from the Shuguang Police Station. Hu called the security of the residential district. Together they arrested Ms. Wang and took her to the Wanshousi Police Station. Later, Ms. Wang was detained in the Haidian Detention Centre. One month later, she was transferred to the Beijing Detention Centre. The next month, she was transferred back to the Haidian Detention Centre. During this period of time, her family was never allowed to visit her.
  • Fuzhou Domestic Security Division Agents Arrest Many Falun Gong Practitioners

    On September 16th, 2009, police officers arrested retired teachers Falun Gong practitioners Fan Kejuan and Wang Xiuqin, who were in their seventies, and ransacked their homes. They not only took Fan Kejuan's computer and printer, but also her husbands computer which he used to conduct scientific research. They were held in Fuzhou No. 2 Detention Centre, and Fan Kejuan was sentenced to three years and held in Fujian Women's Prison. Wang Xiuqin was held for one year before sentencing her to three years in prison with five years' of probation. After she returned home in September 2010, she was frequently harassed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs.