Torture

Falun Gong Practitioners Suffer Relentless Torture Inside Shandong Prison

2014-10-02

The eleventh ward in Shandong Province Prison is dedicated to housing and torturing Falun Gong practitioners. The prison authorities require practitioners to do forced labour in a dark, damp, poorly ventilated, and dirty basement. They have to work from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., with very little time to eat in between, let alone rest. The practitioners have to make handbags that require use of a toxic glue. The solvent quickly evaporates from the glue and makes many of the practitioners sick.

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Ms. Wang Jingxiang's Family Believe Her to Be Paralysed from Torture, Detention Centre Denying Them Visitation

2014-10-01

Ms. Wang Jingxiang’s family recently learned that she has become paralysed as a result of torture in the detention centre where she is being imprisoned for her belief in Falun Gong. Ms. Wang was arrested by police officers when she was distributing Falun Gong informational materials at a market on May 24th, 2014. Ms. Wang is 58 years old. She has been detained in labour camps four times for her belief in Falun Gong. She was persecuted in Banqiao Women’s Forced Labour Camp for six years and was beaten, force-fed and injected with unknown drugs.

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A Minghui Whitepaper - Brainwashing: China's Hidden Industry

2014-10-01

In late 2013, the Chinese regime claimed to shut down its notorious forced labour camp system after tremendous pressure from the international community. However, this was a change in name only; many of the camps were simply replaced by “black jails”— extralegal detention and brainwashing centres. These centres are a critical component in the Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong. Brainwashing supports the regime’s goal of wiping out Falun Gong by forcing its practitioners to renounce their beliefs through coercion and torture, both physical and psychological.

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Details Revealed on Severe Beating that Caused Shanxi Practitioner's Death

2014-10-01

Further details about the severe beating in Jinzhong Prison that led to the death of 67-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Han Haiming have been revealed by an insider. The beating occurred on April 4th and Mr. Han was hospitalized on the same night. He died of a brain haemorrhage in the early morning of April 8th. Two days prior, Mr. Han had come under attack by the prison authorities for denouncing the “guarantee statement” he had signed under coercion and declaring that he would resume his practice of Falun Gong.

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My Story of Facing Personal Cruelty and the Death of My Dear Family Members

2014-09-30

I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Daxing'anling, Heilongjiang Province, and I'm 65 years old. After 15 years of persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I have been turned from a healthy person into a frail old lady riddled with health problems. I lost control of the right side of my body, and my whole body is swollen and feels numb. The CCP persecuted my family members as well. One of my brothers and my husband lost their lives due to constant rounds of threats, extortion, and extreme anxiety.

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Elderly Ms. Li Xiaojing Died Just Months after Release from Prison

2014-09-30

Ms. Li Xiaojing passed away recently, just three months after being released from prison on a medical parole. She was diagnosed with throat cancer as a result of torture in the Xinxiang Women's Prison in Henan Province. She died at the age of 69. She was arrested on September 8th, 2012, for distributing informational materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was held at the Kaifeng Detention Centre before being sentenced to three years in prison on June 5th, 2013.

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Not To Be Forgotten: Practitioners Tortured in Hebei Xingtai Brainwashing Centre (Part 2)

2014-09-30

Wang Lihua was four months pregnant when she was arrested in March 2009. Police took her directly to the Xingtai Brainwashing Centre, where she was forced to listen to former practitioners who had been “transformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] slander Falun Gong. When her baby was born its body was covered with blisters. The baby died shortly after birth. The doctor told Ms. Wang, “I can't pinpoint what toxin caused this, but there is poison in the baby's body.” Ms. Wang realized she had been poisoned in the brainwashing centre. She recalled that the drinking water she had been given had been tainted yellow, and her prison cell had a foul, indescribable odour.

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Not To Be Forgotten: Practitioners Tortured in Xingtai Brainwashing Centre in Hebei Province (Part 1)

2014-09-30

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Guangcai was detained at the Xingtai Brainwashing Centre facility twice in 2004. Mr. Zhang was held there for three months. He was starved, subjected to sleep deprivation, and allowed only restricted use of the toilet. Mr. Zhang was handcuffed behind his back with one arm over his shoulder. He was then shocked with electric batons. A guard from the brainwashing centre said when Mr. Zhang was being tortured, “Beating [Falun Gong practitioners] to death won't be blamed on us--it's recorded as suicide.”

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Systematic Brainwashing of Practitioners: Isolation, Bombardment of Lies, and Physical Abuse

2014-09-30

The prison developed a systematic approach to conduct brainwashing of practitioners in its attempt to make us renounce our belief in Falun Gong. Within each ward, the practitioners were placed in separate cells and not allowed to see one another. Under isolation, we were bombarded day in and day out with various materials vilifying Falun Gong. Chen forced us to read Party propaganda and watch videos slandering Falun Gong, commit disrespectful acts against Falun Gong and its founder, and write “thought reports” renouncing our beliefs. Each practitioner must also pass frequent “tests” to demonstrate parting ways with Falun Gong. Those who failed the tests were subjected to more coercive brainwashing, mental and/or physical abuse.

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Torture Methods: Police and Prison Guards Use a Wide Variety of Everyday Objects to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

2014-09-30

The prison guards and police officers frequently torture their victims in ways that produce the most pain, but leave the least visible injury, hoping that by doing so they can escape responsibility by “hiding the evidence”. The resulting injuries are sometimes so severe that practitioners are disabled or even die. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dong Fengshan was beaten to death just six days after he was admitted to Siping Prison, Jilin Province. When he was unable to stand up after a brutal beating, a guard drove a sharp metal shovel into his chest, and he died instantly.

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Heilongjiang Woman in Solitary Confinement for the Second Time in Three Months

2014-09-30

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Jianhui is again in solitary confinement for refusing to give up her belief. Her family found out on September 22nd, 2014, when they went to visit her in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison. She was previously subjected to the same torture in July. Her family could hardly recognize her when they saw her in late August. “She was skin and bones and looked 20 years older. She was so weak that she had difficulty breathing and walking,” her family recalled.

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Family Suspects Guiyang Practitioner Injected with Toxic Drugs

2014-09-29

The family of Ms. Lang Dafen, a Guiyang resident and Falun Gong practitioner, reports that she was injected with toxic drugs at the No. 368 Armed Police Hospital. The daughter received critical condition notices twice during Ms. Lang's stay there from mid October to early November 2013. She remained in a semi-conscious state after returning home on November 4th, 2013. And when she was awake, her mind didn't seem to be clear. She often grabbed and pulled her hair and would get very anxious, according to her family.

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Guizhou Accountant Dies Within Two Months on Medical Parole

2014-09-23

Ms. Chen Lizhi, a retired Guizhou Aviation Group accountant, died from multiple organ failure on September 9th, 2014, within two months of her medical parole from the Guizhou Women's Prison. She had been subjected to forced labour and brainwashing since her transfer there on December 19th, 2012. She was sent to the public security hospital for medical treatment earlier this year, but she didn't improve. She was released on medical parole at the end of June. She was skins and bones and couldn't take care of herself. She died at the age of 69.

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Tragic Events Unfold after Brutal Prison Beating

2014-09-21

In a tragic sequence of events, prison guard Lin Danrui brutally beat Falun Gong practitioner Han Haiming at Jinzhong Prison in Shanxi Province on April 4th, 2014. Mr. Han died from his injuries four days later. Falun Gong is rooted in traditional Chinese culture, which believes that those who persecute genuine cultivators or religious believers are committing huge crimes, even worse than regular crimes. Chinese people still have a sense that those who commit bad deeds will meet with consequences in the form of retribution, not only to themselves, but possibly also to their families. A few months after Mr. Han's death, the daughter of prison guard Lin Danrui, the main perpetrator in this incident, was killed in a car accident.

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Puppets of the 610 Office: How the Chinese Court System Persecutes Falun Gong

2014-09-17

For the last 15 years, the Chinese Communist Party has been leading an oppressive persecution of the peaceful spiritual practice Falun Gong, resulting in the unjust incarceration of countless Falun Gong practitioners in prisons and forced labour camps. The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) was established on June 10th, 1999, for the specific task of implementing the persecution nationwide.

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