Torture

• Police Brutally Torture Four Falun Dafa Practitioners from Chenxi County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province in 2002

  2008-02-21
  On March 6th, 2002, the police interrogated Ms. Yu Shanmin about the origin of Falun Gong leaflets that were found on the street, but she also did not answer the questions. The police handcuffed one hand to a window frame and the other to a table leg. Then they pulled the table in the opposite direction, almost splitting her apart. The police call this torture "five horses splitting a body." This torture is very brutal. When the handcuffs are pulled in opposite directions, the victim feels tremendous amounts of pain. After a while, the hands swell and the handcuffs dig into the flesh, and sometimes the hands are disabled. Ms. Yu Shanmin cried from pain frequently. When her arms were pulled in a straight line, her legs were laid straight on the floor and the policemen took turns stepping on them with their leather shoes. Agent Zhang used a cigarette to burn Ms. Yu's face and left two black scars on her face.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Unjustly Arrested, Harassed

  2008-02-21
  Seventy-three-year old practitioner Ms. Chen Ling was unable to live a peaceful life. People from the residential committee often interrogated her, "Did you go out today? Did you go to his or her home?" Residential committee Party secretary Ji asked her, "Is Falun Gong good, or is the Chinese Communist Party good?" Ms. Chen Ling was held in a detention centre five years ago, owing to her practising Falun Gong. They handcuffed her, forced her to be photographed and provide her fingerprints. The mental torment she suffered was enormous. Her teeth all fell out and her hair turned white. Four generations in her family were affected. Her husband was frightened so badly that he could not eat anything. Her four-year-old old grandson got sick from fear of the police. Her neighbours said indignantly, "Such a nice lady was arrested and her home raided, just because of practising Falun Gong!"
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• Changsha City Women's Prison in Hunan Province Tortures and Enslaves Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-02-20
  The prison staff have forced older practitioners over sixty years of age into slave labour. They force practitioners to peel fava beans. Each practitioner is assigned to work on thirty to fifty kilogrammes of fava beans. Their tiny cells are their place of work. There is water everywhere, all over the ground and even on the beds. These practitioners have been living in dark and humid cells for a long time. Because Falun Gong practitioner Mrs. Mao Siyuan didn't call out her name to report her arrival, she was forced to work eighteen hours straight. Practitioner Ms. Zhang Lanhui had a blood pressure reading of 220 to 300, and yet the guards still forced her to work. The repetitive work destroyed the flesh on her fingers, but she was still forced to peel beans.
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• Numerous Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Beijing, Their Homes Ransacked

  2008-02-20
  On December 25th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cai Changhe from the Shengli Residential Quarters in the Shunyi District of Beijing was arrested. On January 25th, 2008, police officers were spread all over the streets of Beijing. They stopped the incoming and outgoing cars and requested all passengers get out and show them their IDs. Their aggressive behaviour caused panic in Beijing. With the 2008 Olympics coming, the Chinese Communist Party still persecutes and arrests Falun Dafa practitioners on a large scale, which really causes social turbulence. Their ugly atrocities violate the spirit of harmony, friendship and unity, which the Olympics promotes.
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• The Seventh Division of Yang'ai Prison in Guizhou Province Brutally Persecuted Falun Dafa Practitioners

  2008-02-20
  When I was detained in the Seventh Division of Yang'ai Prison in Guizhou Province, I witnessed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prison police brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The police were inhuman. Falun Gong practitioner Qu Jing used a hunger strike to protest the persecution against her. The police tied her up on the "death bed" for a very long time and force-fed her. The food that spilled onto her during the brutal forced-feeding sessions soaked her shoulder for a long time, causing the skin to fester and become infested with maggots. Prison policeman Tian Weiwei also brutally beat Qu Jing and incited the criminals who were sent to watch Ms. Qu to brutally beat her.
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• Mr. Huang Fujun Tortured to Death, His Family Seeks Justice to No Avail

  2008-02-19
  On July 24th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Huang Fujun was arrested by police and beaten until both of his feet were crushed and broken. On November 2nd, the police notified his family to visit him in hospital, when he was dying. He was unconscious, as thin as a skeleton, his face deformed from force-feeding tubes, which were still inserted in his nose. His buttocks were covered with terrible festering sores. Even in such a critical condition, guards still cuffed and shackled his wrists and ankles. Mr. Huang was taken home on November 4th. A 44-year-old man who was in good health, was tortured to such a degree within only three months. On November 6th, he died with his mouth and eyes open.
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• Torture, Brainwashing and Slave Labour at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province

  2008-02-19
  Ms. Zhou Rong was sent to the No. 4 Team, where the inmates were forced to do very heavy labour. They had to process pig hair all day long. The pig hair was soaked in a caustic solution. After a while the labourers' hands rotted from prolonged contact with this solution. Because Zhou Rong refused to write the so-called "ideological re-understanding" or to read books slandering Falun Gong, guards made her stand till late at night. They also threatened to add more hours to her workload.
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• Practitioner Mr. Su Kun from Yunnan Province Tortured at the Dapingba Forced Labour Camp

  2008-02-19
  Thirty-three-year-old practitioner Mr. Su Kun is a computer science teacher at the Yunnan Vocational College of National Defence Industry. On December 6th, 2004, he was sentenced to three years in Dapingba Forced Labour Camp for refusing to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa. During his imprisonment he was brutally beaten, verbally abused and physically punished.
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• Facts about the Persecution of Dai Xiaoping at the Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

  2008-02-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Xiaoping was incarcerated in the Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp in the autumn of 2001. That is where I got to know her. As soon as she arrived, she was sent to the most vicious Division No. 5. As she was very steadfast, she was locked up in a solitary cell and made to undergo "reformation" [brainwashing] for long periods of time, which she resisted. The guards became more determined to brainwash her. They locked her up and tortured her more cruelly. They vowed that if they did not succeed, they would never let Ms. Dai go. Ms. Dai Xiaoping's husband was physically abused until he became partially paralysed on one side of his body. He died on June 13th, 2004 as a result of the persecution.
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• Mr. Yang Baochun Unjustly Imprisoned in a Psychiatric Hospital

  2008-02-18
  Mr.Yang Baochun, 40, is from Handan City, Hebei Province. He travelled to Beijing in July 1999 to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. He was arrested, escorted back to his hometown, and taken to a forced labour camp. He subsequently lost his right leg due to torture in the labour camp. He was then taken to the local psychiatric hospital, Ankang Hospital in Handan City, where he is still being held. At the psychiatric hospital, Mr. Yang has been tortured, starved, shocked with electric batons, and beaten. They also broke his cane, making it difficult for him to get around.
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• Psychiatric Hospital Used as a Tool for Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-02-18
  The Jiujiang City Fifth People's Hospital in Jiangxi Province, a psychiatric hospital, detains Falun Gong practitioners in order to persecute them. This kind of illegal detention defies conventional wisdom that psychiatric hospitals offer nurturing care. Ms. Jiang Xiaoying, a practitioner, has had her arms and legs tied, and she has been injected with nerve damaging drugs and other unknown drugs. Psychiatric patients have been instigated into attacking and insulting her, and family visits have been denied for several years. Ms. Jiang has protested against her detention on many occasions. Ke (male, first name unknown), an employee from the hospital's security office, threatened her by saying, "We will send you to forced labour if you protest again."
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• Police Torture a Retired Teacher, Causing His Stomach to Burst, Requiring Extensive Emergency Surgery

  2008-02-18
  Mr. Lei Zhengxia, is a 62-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. On January 14th, 2008, he was arrested from his home by police officers. Police interrogated Lei Zhengxia by use of torture every day. Policeman Li Hong personally attacked Lei Zhengxia's stomach, chest and other vital spots of his body until all the internal organs were severely damaged. Lei's stomach had burst from the torture. Police sent him to the hospital on January 27th where emergency surgery was performed. We heard that the medical and operation fees reached nearly 40,000 yuan up to February 2nd. The police didn't want to pay for the medical expenses since that might mean legal responsibility for the interrogation by torture and intentional injury. Lei Zhengxia's younger sister and other family members worry about being able to afford the huge amounts of medical expenses.
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• Practitioners Brutally Tortured and Brainwashed in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2008-02-18
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Jiayu was sent to the newly built 13th prison ward in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison on December 27th, 2006. The 13th prison ward was built specifically to hold Falun Gong practitioners. Guard Xu Zhen and a prisoner began brainwashing Ms. Xu Jiayu on December 28th. Ms. Xu talked to them about the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong and they became angry. The guards set up a TV and VCR. They put in a tape slandering Falun Gong. From 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., the guards took turns asking non-stop questions. This created a tremendous mental pressure that lead some to succumb to the authorities demands to renounce their practice of Falun Gong.
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• Persecution at the Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province

  2008-02-17
  I want to tell of some of the abuses I have experienced and witnessed at Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp. I am doing so to refute the Communist Party's false claim of "now being the best period of human rights in Chinese history." The Camp's goal of "reforming" or brainwashing us amounts to transforming human beings into subservient robots. In order to achieve this goal, the officials resorted to savage beatings, electric shocks, tying us onto the Death Bed, long-term handcuffing, sleep deprivation, and toilet bans, among other methods. The inmates were authorised to do anything they pleased with me. They beat me, pinched my nose until tears ran down my face on numerous occasions. They slapped my face with shoe soles and burned my heels with cigarette lighters, saying it would cause agonising pain when I walked without leaving a scar, thus no evidence of torture.
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• Details of the Persecution Ms. Ren Shuzhen Suffered in Yongdeng Country, Lanzhou City

  2008-02-17
  After she started cultivating Falun Gong, Ren Shuzhen's illnesses disappeared. Following the onset of the persecution, she went to Beijing to appeal. She travelled twice by train and walked all the way the third time. Authorities arrested and detained her on all three occasions. The officials sentenced her to one year in a forced labour camp in 2001. While in the camp, the guards verbally and physically abused practitioners, regardless of their age. They used violence to compel good people to "reform." Ren Shuzhen refused to write statements defaming Falun Gong, resulting in her being subjected to a severe beating at the hands of the persecutors. Following this abuse, she was unable to turn over for more than 20 days. Another beating followed, at the hands of guard chief Hu, who beat for persisting in her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." This beating affected her hearing, and she also became incontinent.
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