Torture

  • Liang Shaolin Taken to Brainwashing Centre After Five-Year Detention

    Ms. Liang Shaolin, 58, has suffered repeated persecution because she practises Falun Gong. On September 24th, 2009, 17 policemen from the Maoxi Police Department broke into her house by breaking down her double doors with an electric saw. She was then taken to the Maoming City Brainwashing Centre. Prior to this event, Liang Shaolin was severely tortured in the Shanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province. In 1999, she was sentenced to a forced labour camp for two years because she went to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in Beijing. Because Ms. Liang refused to give up her practice of Falun Gong, she was not released until March 2005.
  • Ms. Wang Xiaoying Tortured and Sentenced to Forced Labour in Xinjiang

    Ms. Wang Xiaoying, 31, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shihezi City, Xinjiang Province, was beaten, tortured, and taken to Wujiaqu Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changji City. Ms. Wang has been beaten by the guards in the labour camp. She has protested this abuse by means of a hunger strike. Her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter cries every day for her mother. Ms. Wang is now appealing her case.
  • Exposing the True Nature of the Shengjian 83rd Factory in Shandong Province

    The Shengjian 83rd Factory in Shandong Province, also known as the Shandong No.1 Forced Labour Camp, is located in Zibo City, Shandong Province. Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners are being detained as forced labourers. At one time the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp detained more than 800 male practitioners and over 1,000 female practitioners.
  • Mr. Feng Zhen from Wuhai City Arrested Eight Times and Imprisoned for Seven Years

    Since the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Feng Zhen has been arrested eight times and imprisoned for seven years due to his refusal to renounce Falun Gong. In December 2002, the Wuchang District Court sentenced him to 7 years in prison. He was then sent to the Quanqingkou Prison and then the Fanjiatai Prison in Hubei Province. On October 28th, 2008, Mr. Feng's prison term was up. He got his release certificate the day before. His family came to the prison gate at 5 a.m. on the day of his release. However, the prison officials refused to release him and told his family that he had left. After his family left, the officials from the 610 Office arranged to transport him to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre. He was subjected to brainwashing for a month.
  • Wu Zhengping Detained in Guangzhou Chatou Forced Labour Camp for Two Years

    Ms. Wu Zhengping has been arrested and detained four times since the persecution began in July 1999. Her happy family was destroyed by the persecution. Wu Zhengping now lives in a very difficult situation with no financial resources. Because of the endless persecution, her husband refuses to help. In detention in the Guangzhou Armed Police Hospital, Wu Zhengping became emaciated. She weighed less than 90 pounds, and her body was extremely weak. Even in this condition, police dragged Wu Zhengping to a prison cell and bound her feet and arms to the bed, force-feeding her in front of many people in the same cell. They did not remove the feeding tube which had been inserted through her nose into her stomach until the next afternoon.
  • Mr. Zhang Xu from Yitong County, Jilin Province, Has Suffered Five Years of Detention and Persecution

    Mr. Zhang Xu is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yitong County, Jilin Province. In March 2002, he was arrested and tortured. In November 2002 he was sentenced to five years and sent to Jilin City Second Prison. When he was arrested police tortured Mr. Zhang in the police station. Police hit him with metal objects, leaving injuries on his wrists, lower back, and ankles. They also stabbed his fingers with needles and covered his head with plastic bags. They didn't give him any water to drink or allow him to sleep. One man put a copy of a Falun Gong book on his chest while another man banged the book with a hammer.
  • Ms. Huang Guifen from Rongcheng, Shandong Province Persecuted

    Ms. Huang Guifen was arrested in May 2007. Later she was sent to Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp and tortured brutally there. Ms. Huang was deprived of sleep. She was not allowed to brush her teeth or to shower. They forced her to sit on a little bench for a long time. The guards also instigated Wang Meixia, who helps the police to persecute practitioners, to watch Ms. Huang. Wang Meixia did not allow Ms. Huang to speak. She even watched Ms. Huang when she used the toilet. In the meantime, the perpetrators kept playing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) recordings and videos that slander Falun Gong. Guards forced Ms. Huang to work every day for 13 hours.
  • Justice System in Shuangyashan City Co-operates with the 610 Office to Persecute Ms. Hu Qili

    Ms. Hu Qili was fired from her job for practising Falun Gong. For the same reason, she was detained and imprisoned in forced labour camps many times. On September 25th, 2009, the Jianshan District Court in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, held a trial for Ms. Hu. From her arrest to the trial, the justice system violated the law on numerous occasions. During her most recent arrest, police officers deceived her into opening her door by pretending to be fee collectors. Once inside her home, they searched it without a warrant and seized private property and cash. According to an insider, in early August, the Shuangyashan City 610 Office held a justice system meeting. They ordered the Jianshan Court to find Ms. Hu guilty and have the trial finished by September 15th, 2009.
  • Ms. Sha Yulian Repeatedly Arrested and Tortured by 610 Office Agents

    Ms. Sha Yulian is retired from Baoji City Light Machinery Factory. She is sixty-one years old. She began practising Falun Gong in September of 1996. Since Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Sha Yulian has been persecuted numerous times by the 610 Office because she refused to give up her belief. She was arrested and held four times and sentenced to a labour camp twice.
  • Ms. Wei Maoxia and Her Son Arrested and Her Husband Became Homeless to Avoid Further Persecution

    Wei Maoxia and her family has suffered continuous harassment and persecution. Three police officers from Yanzhou Domestic Security Division in Shandong have repeatedly searched Wei Maoxia's home several times and have detained her on and off during August and September. Now Wei Maoxia and her son Zhang Chao are being mistreated in a detention centre. Wei Maoxia's is now homeless to avoid further persecution.
  • Methods of Torture Used in Chongqing City Women's Forced Labour Camp

    The authorities of the labour camp screened the most ruthless, poisonous, and wicked inmates to control the practitioners and provided them with special training session just for that purpose. During the training, the inmates were told publicly, "Any benevolence towards Falun Gong is an injury to yourself." The guards publicly incite and force the inmates to do evil, and the inmates go all out to persecute the practitioners to gain rewards.
  • Cao Dong Locked in Solitary Confinement

    Practitioner Mr. Cao Dong's wife, Ms. Yang Xiaojing, died as a result of persecution on October 1st, 2009. Her family requested many times to allow Mr. Cao to visit his wife before her death, but all their requests were refused. After her death, Ms. Yang's parents carried her ashes to the prison authorities and begged them to let Mr. Cao see her ashes, but they were also refused. Mr. Cao has been locked in solitary confinement with his cell windows sealed, and no one is allowed to contact him or to even come close to his cell.
  • Mr. Liu Laibin, 67, Dies After Enduring Five Years of Imprisonment

    On June 24th, 2003, practitioner Mr. Liu Laibin was arrested and detained in the Yingkou City Detention Centre, where he was brutally beaten by other prisoners. Guard Yi Zhaoyun forced Mr. Liu to do more than 10 hours of labour, and he often had to work overtime and into the night. He had very little sleep. The authorities put Mr. Liu on trial on December 5th, 2003, and sentenced him to five years in prison. Mr. Liu's life was in danger twice due to torture, but the prison refused to release him. He died on October 10th, 2009.
  • High School Student Persecuted to the Point of Mental Collapse for Practising Falun Gong

    Wang Jinghua, 22, is from Pengbei Village, Dingsiqiao Town, Xianning City, Hubei Province. While Wang Jinghua, 22, was studying at Dingsi Middle School, and Xianning City High School, he explained the facts about Falun Gong to his classmates, and was thus scrutinised and pressured by the school administrators. He was harassed and threatened many times and later forced to quit the school by the Xian'an District 610 Office in Xianning City, and schools. He was eventually driven to mental collapse in November 2006.
  • Good Wife and Loving Mother Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Wang Huijun, a fifty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and resident of Beian City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested and sent to Beian Detention Centre after she told people the facts about Falun Gong in Shengli Village in mid-June 2009. In late July she was sent to Harbin Forced Labour Camp for a term of one-and-a-half years.