Torture

• Tortures in Tilanqiao Prison of Shanghai City

  2008-05-02
  One torture method in the Strict Management Ward is called the "ground handcuff". The victim's hand are cuffed behind his back. Then the cuffs are connected to the ground with a 4 inch iron hoop. The victim is subjected to the "ground handcuff"even when he sleeps. In addition to the "ground handcuff", they put an unbreakable helmet on the victim, tie the victim's feet with a "death knot", and submerge the victim in urine. Another torture method is a practitioner is forced to sit on an uneven plastic bench in the middle of a cell that is less than 32 square feet. His hands must remain on his back. He must stay motionless for more than 15 hours a day; otherwise he is beaten.
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• Inhuman Torture in China: the Tip of the Iceberg

  2008-05-02
  Mr. Li Hongfu was repeatedly jailed and tortured for telling people about the persecution of Falun Gong. The torture included the "tiger bench", electric shocks, nailing bamboo shoots under his fingernails and merciless daily beatings by convicted drug addicts. The brutality caused Mr. Li's spleen to rupture and his ribs fractured. He vomited and had difficulty breathing. He weighed less than 40 kg (88 lbs), could no longer walk unaided, and was in constant excruciating pain. Mr. Li never recovered and died on December 8th, 2006, at the age of 31.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Chen An'ai Persecuted in Juancheng County, Shandong Province

  2008-05-02
  Ms. Chen An'ai, 58 years old, was sentenced to three years of forced labour in 2004, leaving her 13-year-old daughter, Chen Shumei, at home alone. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Chen has been continuously mistreated. In 2000, police officers tortured Ms. Chen. She was hung up in the air by handcuffs locked behind her back, and she was punched and kicked and not allowed to sleep nor eat. She has suffered all kinds of torture. The aim was to force her to give up her faith.
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• A New Practitioner from Jiamusi Arrested by Xiangyang Police Station Officers and Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2008-05-01
  On September 28th, 2006, up to six policemen from Xiangyang Police Station broke into my home with the excuse of checking for registered permanent residents. Then they began to search. They took two Falun Gong books, said that I practised Falun Gong, and dragged me into a police car. The police took me to a detention centre. After two days I was taken to a forced labour camp. At the forced labour camp I was given corn buns to eat. All the food there was of poor quality and everyone who ate the buns got diarrhoea. I had to do hard labour everyday. If I did not read the regulations, the guards would beat me. Practitioners could not say they practised Falun Gong. If you said you practised Falun Gong, you would be beaten.
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• Ms. Feng Jixiu from Xushui County, Hebei Province, Detained in Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp

  2008-05-01
  On July 16th, 2007, three groups of police officers and personnel from the Xushui County 610 Office forcibly entered the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Feng Jixiu, searched the home and arrested her. Ms. Feng was taken to the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp. In 2000 Ms. Feng was arrested on her way to Beijing to appeal against the persecution. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials forced her to take off her warm coat and forced her down on her knees. Guo Haishan, Party Secretary of Ansu Town, grabbed Feng Jixiu's hair with one hand and slapped her face many times with the other. Afterwards, Town Governor Niu Jun also slapped her face many times the same way. Both of them heavily hit her buttocks with sticks and batons, which made her black and blue for more than two weeks. They tortured her so that she would "confess."
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• Legal Training Centre in Guiyang Detains Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-05-01
  The "Legal Training Centre" (a euphemism for "brainwashing centre") in Guiyang is located at a remote, hard to find location. The front door without even a single sign is tightly closed, and the building is surrounded by tall walls. Entering the front door, there is a two-story building. This is where the officers detain Falun Gong practitioners. The longest term for this kind of detention here is one and a half years. The other inmates are basically unemployed workers. Although they know that to monitor the detained practitioners is against the law, they have been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ploys and refuse to follow their consciences. Someone with a conscience made these comments in private: "It is really a big joke to call this place a 'Legal Training Centre,' since what it does is all against the law."
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• Direct Experience of Persecution in Shanxi Province - a Statement from Ms. Zhou Yunhua

  2008-05-01
  "On August 7th, 2006, a fellow practitioner and I went to distribute Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Someone reported us to the police and we were arrested. I was sentenced to forced labour. In the forced labour camp, I met a "transformed" practitioner, but I did not know that she had been "transformed" when we first met. I told her that we should expose the wrongdoings of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), so she turned me in. The guard ordered two drug user inmates to search me, and to strip off my clothing and shoes. They stole my cash and watch and forced me to stand for two days and nights without sleep. I could not take it any more and, against my will, wrote a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong."
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• Mr. Zhao Shouzhu Tortured to Death in Liaoning Province

  2008-04-30
  Practitioner Mr. Zhao Shouzhu, 38, was forcibly taken into custody in 2000. Because the guards found him doing the Falun Gong exercises they beat him fracturing three of his ribs. Prisoners also beat him down to the floor, forced him to stand up, then beat him down again. They held his head down to the floor and took turns kicking him with their leather boots all over his body, even his head. Upon being released, Mr. Zhao had to leave home to avoid being arrested. On March 31st, 2008, Mr. Zhao was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. He began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The police had people from the City Hospital brutally force-feed him with unknown drugs. He died around April 20th, 2008.
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• Wang Zhihai's Head Wounded Badly Due to Torture at Chongqing City Xishanping Forced Labour Camp

  2008-04-30
  On September 28th, 2007, Mr. Wang Zhihai, a Falun Gong practitioner was sentenced to a forced labour camp for two years. He was taken to Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. On March 18th, 2008, several inmates beat Mr. Wang so violently that he suffered a head injury, his teeth were loosened, and his eyes became bloodshot. He also had a concussion and vomited, and his blood pressure shot up. His family is now demanding his release, but officials from the forced labour camp continue to hold Mr. Zhihai. In 2003, his wife, Ms. Duan Shiqun, was tortured to death at the detention centre. Now Mr. Zhihai's son, Wang Jing, who is only nine years old, is left without anyone to take care of him.
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• Husband and Wife Mr. Xia Maoshu and Ms. Li Zhonghua Detained at Dehui Detention Centre

  2008-04-30
  Mr. Xia Maoshu and Ms. Li Zhonghua, husband and wife, live in a village in Jilin Province. On March 6th, 2008, village head Chen Jibin of Weizuizi Village and officers from the Xiajiadian Police Station ransacked the couple's home and confiscated many of their personal belongings, including all of their Falun Gong books and a satellite receiver. Both husband and wife are currently detained at the Dehui Detention Centre. According to an inside source, Mr. Xia Maoshu was physically assaulted while in custody.
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• Practitioner Mr. Wang Hongfa Sentenced to a Forced Labour Camp--His Wife and Daughter Are Monitored and His Father is Seriously Ill

  2008-04-30
  Practitioner Mr. Wang Hongfa was taken into custody on July 16th, 2007. On August 20th, 2007, he was sentenced to a one-and-a-half year forced labour term at the Huadu Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou City. Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Deng Yi, has tried to visit him four times, but was refused by the forced labour camp officials each time. Mr. Wang's father is 70 years old and was diagnosed with liver cancer. Since he is critically ill, Ms. Deng asked the labour camp officials to allow Mr. Wang to see his father for one last time. The labour camp officials, however, refused her request and also threatened her.
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• Mr. Fan Dezhen Dies in Police Custody in Liaoning Province

  2008-04-29
  Mr. Fan Zhende, 33, was a Falun Gong practitioner had been been detained and violently beaten multiple times. In 2001 he went to Beijing to appeal and was detained in the Huludao Forced Labour Camp for three years. In order to force him give up his faith, several guards shocked him simultaneously with electric batons, and beat him cruelly, causing his whole body to be injured and swollen, and his face to be deformed. On February 25th, 2008, Suizhong County Domestic Security Division Leader Li Changhua arrested eleven practitioners, including Mr. Fan and his wife Yang Xiaoxue. Mr. Fan died at around 7 a.m. on April 20th, 2008 in the Suizhong County Detention Centre.
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• Male Police Officers Allowed to Take Part in Medical Procedures on Women at the Beijing Forced Labour Camp Dispatch Centre

  2008-04-29
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tu Xiaomin, 45 years old, was arrested and sent to the Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Centre on November 8th, 2007. Policemen wanted to extract urine from Tu Xiaomin for testing. This procedure was not necessary at all, they just wanted to humiliate her. Tu refused. Despite her cries and struggles, policemen cuffed her and pulled off Tu's underwear. They also raised Ms. Tu's legs up, exposing her private parts to let the policewomen do the exam. The policewoman inserted metal equipment into Tu's private parts up to her uterus. Tu also bore the pain of an exam of her private parts. Her private parts bled until the next day.
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• Information about the Persecution of Mr. Peng Fangjian, Tortured to Death in 2003 in Sichuan Province

  2008-04-29
  On January 28th, 2003, Mr. Peng Fangjian was arrested by 610 Office agents and detained at Renli Town Police Station. According to inside sources, He was brutally beaten by the officers. Three days later, Mr. Peng was imprisoned at Lingquansi Detention Centre. Mr. Peng began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was tortured to death on February 10th, 2003. Someone who had been imprisoned with Mr. Peng at the detention centre said that Mr. Peng had been subjected to brutal torture by prisoners, and that his mouth and nose were always filled with blood. Mr. Peng refused to renounced Falun Gong and his mind was always firm. He was on a continuous hunger strike, and the police brutally force-fed and tortured him. This prisoner also said that he had seen Mr. Peng's body being taken to a car.
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• Exposing Atrocities at Inner Mongolia's Tumuji Forced Labour Camp

  2008-04-29
  Practitioner Ms. Baosiqin Gaowa was imprisoned there two times and was put in the brainwashing centre three times. The first time she was brainwashed for more than 40 days. A man named Guan beat her so severely that she became injured. A one-inch long scar below her mouth is still visible today. The second time she was put in the brainwashing centre again for more than 40 days. The third time she was in for over three days. She was forbidden to sleep for two whole days and was forced to stand. Her feet swelled. Criminal prisoners at Tumuji Forced Labour Camp make up only one per cent of the inmates. The majority of those incarcerated are people that believe in a religion or people who went to appeal to the higher authorities.
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