Torture

  • Retired Military Official Mr. Wu Zhongming Died as a Result of Persecution

    After the communist regime launched the persecution on July 20th, 1999, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wu Zhongming not only had long-term fear while facing threats and harassment from the police, but also experienced great mental torment. He developed a fever and lost consciousness on May 4th, 2004 and was sent to the hospital for emergency care. He became paralysed, and his family had to take care of him. Mr. Wu died on the evening of January 26th, 2011, at the age of 81.
  • Third Arrest of Ms. Peng Dongjun from Tongliang County, Chongqing

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Peng Dongjun, 58, was arrested by four plainclothes police officers at the Anju Township bus station on June 24th. She has since been secretly detained at Tongliang County Detention Centre. Ms. Peng went on a hunger strike to protest her arrest and her physical condition is critical. This is the third time Ms. Peng has been arrested. She was previously imprisoned for four years, during which time she was tortured via various methods, including having her hands cuffed behind her back.
  • Ms. Hu Miaomiao Finally Returns Home After Numerous Ordeals Including Sexual Abuse at Labour Camp; Local 610 Office Continues Harassing Her

    Ms. Hu Miaomiao suffered extensive sexual abuse and torture in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was due to be released on July 11th, yet 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) attempted to immediately take Ms. Hu from the labour camp to the Yubaodun Brainwashing Centre for one more month. In the end, as a result of Ms. Hu's father and younger brother's strong resistance, the perpetrators had to send Ms. Hu home. The following day, the county 610 Office head Qian Jinli, along with about ten other people, harassed Ms. Hu at home, threatening her and her father.
  • 610 Office Takes Mr. Zheng Fengxiang Directly to a Brainwashing Centre After His Prison Term Ends

    Mr. Zheng Fengxiang should have been released on July 1st, but unexpectedly, guard Zong Mingjun of Gongzhuling Prison conspired with the local 610 Office and Jiangnan Gaoxin Police Station to continue persecuting Mr. Zheng. Mr. Zheng's wife watched him being taken away by the police and didn't even get to talk to him. She sat by the side of the road and burst into tears. Shey only knows that he was taken to the Sishe Welfare Brainwashing Centre. During his four years at Gongzhuling Prison, Mr. Zheng was subjected to various methods of torture. In early 2010, he was seriously mistreated and contracted tuberculosis.
  • Handicapped Practitioner Brutally Tortured

    Ms. Guo Ling was arrested on January 15th, 2009, and later sentenced to a four-year prison term. Her family didn't know her whereabouts until more than a year after she wa incarcerated in the Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison. On June 14th, a prison guard called Ms. Guo's family, asking them to come immediately. Only two family members were allowed to visit her. The next day Ms. Guo's husband and daughter went to the prison. When they saw Ms. Guo, she could not walk without assistance. She was emaciated and weak, and she seemed to be incoherent.
  • Yiyuan County Officers Arrest and Extort Money from Practitioners

    Ms. Jiao Fangyu and Ms. Zhang Xiaorong and Ms. Li Zaihua were arrested while speaking with people about Falun Gong in Yiyuan County on May 16th. The police extorted about 100,000 yuan in value and belongings from Ms. Zhang, and extorted 30,000 yuan in cash from Ms. Li. Ms. Jiao was given a term of one and a half years of forced labour and taken to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Zibo City.
  • Mr. Tian Yongjian Sentenced to Prison, Family Visits Denied Repeatedly

    Mr. Tian Yongjian was secretly sentenced by the local courts and sent to Shandong Province Prison for an eight-year sentence. The court did not inform his family of his trial and refused to give them a copy of the verdict. The prison blacklisted him and, as a result, his family members could not visit him. Over the past three years, Mr. Tian's wife asked many times to visit her husband, a constitutional right given to all family members. However, she was allowed only one visit and was not allowed to speak to him during that visit.
  • Mengyin County Authorities Persecute an Outstanding Teacher in Shandong Province

    On March 4th, 2011, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yi Shuling was arrested and again sentenced to forced labour in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province. Over the past 12 years, Ms. Yi Shuling has been arrested several times and tortured by Mengyin County authorities. She was also tortured in the mental health hospital. She has suffered extensive persecution, and, as a result, she lost her job, her husband, and her home. Previously, at the Shandong No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Yi was not allowed to to use the toilet, denied food and water, force-fed, tied up, and hung up. She was tortured nearly to death.
  • Mr. Wang Junqiang, a Respected Technician from Fukang City, Xinjiang Autonomous Region is Subjected to Physical Abuse and Torture

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Juqiang, was reported for having several Falun Gong informational DVDs in his dorm room. Police arrested Mr. Wang and he was sent to the Wujiaqu Forced Labour Camp on October 27th, 2010, for a term of two years. In order to force Mr. Wang to give up his belief, the labour camp guards employed all kinds of torture on him. Once, the guards handcuffed his hands and feet to a wall in a spread eagle position and shocked him with four high-voltage electric batons, causing him to lose consciousness. Several dozen scars from being electrically shocked can still be seen on his body.
  • Ms. Li Guangyan Drugged in Xinjin Brainwashing Centre, Sichuan Province

    On June 21st, police barged into Ms. Li Guangyan's home, arrested her, and took her to the Caiwan Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Li was detained in a room by herself, except for two assistants (hired from the countryside and trained by the centre) who watched her 24 hours a day. Only half an hour after her first meal, she was in excruciating pain. Ms. Li has been arrested more than 10 times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, and she was detained in Xinjin Brainwashing Centre before. She knew that her reaction after lunch had to have been caused by drugs in her food and that the brainwashing centre authorities were trying to force her to accept the brainwashing while her mind was not clear.
  • Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Tan Cuiying Beaten to Death by Domestic Security Officers in Ningyuan County, Hunan Province

    When Ms. Tan Cuiying went to the Domestic Security Division Office to seek the release of her husband, Ou Yicheng, she was brutally beaten until she passed out. Within three weeks, she died from her injuries on July 18th. On May 13th, police stormed into Mr. Ou Yicheng's home, ransacked it, and arrested him. He was held in the Ningyuan County Detention Centre and was Ms. Tan's sole source of financial support. On June 30th, Ms. Tan went to the Domestic Security Division to request the release of her husband. Officers beat her so brutally that she passed out on the ground. She was incontinent and mentally disordered and could not dress herself or take care of herself.
  • Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Nanjing Sentenced to Forced Labour; Ms. Li Li's Situation Critical

    On March 16th, 2011, Ms. Li Li was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in front of Jinrunfa Supermarket on Danfeng Street with her mother, Ms. Yuan Yuzhen, when they were seized by police. Ms. Li was imprisoned in the Nanjing City Detention Centre. Ms. Yuan was sent to the Gulou District Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Yuan, who is in her 70s, has since returned home. Ms. Li has now been on a hunger strike for several months as a protest, and she is once again emaciated. Yet, the prison police continue to torture her using a variety of inhumane methods. She is now near death.
  • Ms. Duan Xiaoyan Paralysed from the Waist Down after Seven Years of Torture in Qinghai Province Women's Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Duan Xiaoyan was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in Qinghai Province Women's Prison. Every day, she had to work over ten hours. Sometimes she was even deprived of sleep the entire night. Ms. Duan resisted the persecution and was hung on an iron door for eight days and eight nights, which caused her legs and feet to become swollen and extremely weak. She was tortured numerous times there with electric baton shocks and became paralysed from the lower back down.
  • Bai Zijian from Macheng, Hubei Province, Imprisoned for Four Years, His Family in Dire Straits

    Mr. Bai Zijian has not been home since June 22nd, 2007, because he is serving a four-year sentence at the notorious Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang, just because he believes in Falun Gong and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. After his four years was up, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent said that Mr. Bai would be sent to Hubei Province “Legal Education Class” (i.e. Banqiao Brainwashing Centre) for further persecution. Mr. Bai has been imprisoned five times and has paid 15,000 yuan in penalties and fees. His wife, Zhang Shuiying, has been beaten by police officers many times. During his absence, his elderly mother, sick wife, and young son have been having a hard time making ends meet.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Liu Wei, from Shijiazhuang City, Died from Persecution after Term in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Wei, from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, was in good physical condition and had healthy, lustrous, black hair. She was 5 ft. 9 in. tall and weighed 165 pounds. When she was released from detention at the beginning of March, 2010, her weight had dropped to 110 pounds, and her hair had turned completely white. After being subjected to severe physical and mental persecution in the forced labour camp, she passed away on December 10th, 2010 at the age of 55.