Torture

• "Restricted Rooms" Used to Torture Practitioners at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province

  2008-02-13
  Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp guards send steadfast practitioners to "restricted rooms" in attempts to force them to write the so-called guarantee statement [promising to abandon the practice]. The guards handcuff a practitioner's hands to the corners of a bed, then use leather belts from underneath the bed to tie the practitioner's knees so as to restrict all movement. Someone constantly monitors the practitioner and forces the her to eat, drink, and relieve herself on the bed for days at a time. They send collaborators, former practitioners who assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners, to try to persuade her not to make trouble for the guards.
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• Practitioner Ms. Kong Xiangying from Mengyin County, Shandong Province Recounts Years of Brutal Persecution and Torture

  2008-02-13
  In 2001 the Jinan City Women's Forced Labour Camp imprisoned over 800 practitioners. The oldest was 62 and the youngest 16. The inmates and practitioners were forced to work more than twelve hours a day. Most of the work was to produce products for export, including gluing flowers, embroidering, sewing quilts, tying ribbons, making medicine boxes and putting the name of Nanjing Pharmaceutical Factory in Jiangsu Province on the boxes. The glue contained a lot of chemicals. Inmates often fainted in the damp and muggy basement. We were also forced to pack pencils and make woven bags. We were held to strict deadlines and given quotas. We often had to work overtime and often until 1:00 a.m. to meet the deadlines.
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• Li Donghong, a Freelance Writer, Was Arrested Again and Is Being Severely Persecuted

  2008-02-13
  Practitioner Li Donghong was monitored by two drug addict inmates. They took turns sleeping on the cement bed and took turns torturing Mr. Li. He had to stand for 24 hours and was not allowed to go to sleep or sit down for a break. The inmates would beat him if he closed his eyes as he stood. The guards in the labour camp boasted that they had more than a hundred vicious methods they could use to persecute and torture practitioners, such as severe beatings, forcing practitioners to eat faeces and spit, and burning their eyes with high power light bulbs. In the severe cold of winter they would force practitioners to stand outside without wearing any clothes. During the hot summer days, they forced practitioners to run in winter coats.
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• Brutality in Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

  2008-02-12
  In March 2005, practitioner Ms. Niu Lanyun was force-fed in the Women's Forced Labour Camp. Guard Liu Zhongmei ordered drug addicts to give Niu Lanyun a hard time. The four dragged Ms. Niu to the labour camp clinic twice a day for force-feeding, and then repeated the routine in the jail cell. They pinned Niu Yulan to the floor, pried open her mouth with a spoon and grabbed her jaws so they could inject food into her throat. This horrible practice made her mouth bleed and her hair was pulled out and spread everywhere on the floor. The guards did not want to hear Niu Lanyun's protest, so they told the criminals to gag her with a towel and handcuff her arms behind her back. More than 70 days of extended torture made Ms. Niu very skinny and weak. The guards did not want to see her die at the camp, so they ordered her family to pick her up
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• Ms. Chen Zhuoyi was Persecuted in a Detention Centre, Mental Hospital and Forced Labour Camp

  2008-02-12
  Ms. Chen Zhouyi was arrested for appealing against the persecution of Falun Gong and sent to a detention centre and tortured. She went on a hunger strike and was then sent to Baiyuan District Mental Hospital for "treatment." The hospital ordered the drug users to give injections to her. Doctor Chen Dezhi ordered three drug users to beat Ms. Chen Zhuoyi. While they were beating her, they said, "There is no responsibility for beating people to death in a mental hospital. If you continue to practise, we will beat you to death." By then many parts of her body were a dark purple, her ribs were fractured and painful. She had a hard time turning her body in bed. She needed help to get out of bed. After that she got scabies all over her body. Some parts of her body festered and swelled.
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• Exposing the Tragic Experience of Being Expelled from University for Practising Falun Gong

  2008-02-12
  On May 18th, 2007, I put up eight posters exposing the persecution at public places around the university. Two days later the secretary of the Communist (CCP) Youth League asked me to come and see several leaders of the university and the head of security. I became very scared and hesitated to say anything, especially because I had never come across this kind of situation. After half an hour, the deputy head of the Security Department, Chen, presented a piece of paper and a pile of documents. I was dumbfounded when I saw them. I tried to remain calm and not let them notice my fear. Chen said, "You put these up, right? You'd better tell us all the details and do not try to hide anything. We can severely punish you because of this issue." Later the CCP expelled me from University.
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• Brutal Persecution at Jiangxi Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-02-12
  In order to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs, one of the common means used by the camp is to confine them in black cells. The guards separately detain those practitioners who firmly believe Falun Dafa into small cells, the area of which is less than 6 square metres. Each practitioner is isolated from the outside and has to complete his daily life in the cell. The cells have very bad smells and practitioners suffer from biting mosquitoes. The guards want to utilise such means to destroy practitioners' will. In order to get more bonus money, the camp implements so-called "fortification fight" (i.e. forced brainwashing). The guards do not let practitioners go to sleep. Without normal rest, some practitioners suffer mental disorders, even mental collapse.
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• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Persecuted My Parents and Me

  2008-02-11
  Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, they have instilled lies into people's minds about Falun Gong and didn't even overlook the primary school students. The students treated me as an enemy, threatened me, bullied me, and punched and kicked me. Many times I didn't dare to go to school due to the beatings. I reported this to my teacher but he couldn't effectively prevent them from doing bad things to me. My parents have been detained in brainwashing centres and severely tortured. I was traumatised and lagged behind in my studies as a result.
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• Cases of Jinan Forced Labour Camp Officials Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-02-11
  Practitioners who are currently incarcerated are forced to do heavy labour. Regardless of age, they are given high output quotas and are punished if the quotas are not met. The punishment ranges from standing for extended periods of time, writing self-criticism papers, or sleep deprivation. They are subjected to mental torment and physical torture every moment of their incarceration. Ms. Han Aiwen did not cooperate during roll call, so the guards ordered eight criminal inmates to beat her. She was beaten so badly that she let out bloodcurdling screams.
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• Schoolteacher Mr. Wu Renhui Arrested for the Third Time in Guizhou Province

  2008-02-11
  Mr. Wu Renhui, 40, is a teacher. On January 16th, 2008, Mr. Wu was arrested for the third time, leaving his mother, wife, and child at home. The authorities demanded that he give up cultivation and provide other practitioners' names and information. After Mr. Wu refused, they sentenced him to two years of forced labour and took him to the Guizhou Province Zhongba Forced Labour Camp. His mother and wife are both unemployed.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Unjustly Arrested, Harassed

  2008-02-11
  73-year-old Ms. Chen Ling was unable to live a peaceful life. Persons 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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• Ms. Li Xiumin Forced to Await Trial in Custody, Despite Serious Medical Condition

  2008-02-10
  Ms. Li Xiumin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province was arrested and has been detained by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities for eight months. She is now suffering from a tumour in her uterus. Li Xiumin was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by judge Ding Hong from Xinhua District Court, with the 610 Office controlling the court behind the scenes. Li Xiumin appealed to the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Court. The judge of the No.2 Criminal Court, Wang Yingchen, has been refusing the request for Li Xiumin to obtain a guarantor, forcing her to await trial while in custody, despite the fact that her life is in danger with each passing day.
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• Hainan Local Police Station in Hailin City Brutally Persecuted Ms. Ning Yan in 2005

  2008-02-10
  On the evening of March 4th, 2005, practitioner Ms. Ning Yan in her 50s, was arrested in NanLagu, Hailin City, by local police. Because Ms. Ning refused to give her name and address, the Hainan police chief beat her without restraint and handcuffed her to an iron chair for a whole night [Note: Because of the Chinese Communist Party's system of implicating and harassing Dafa practitioners' family members, friends and work associates, practitioners often refuse to give their name and address when they are arrested]. The next day, a police officer came to work and beat her again. Seeing that Ms. Ning was determined and would not yield, he used a glass bottle to pound Ms. Ning's head until only the neck of the bottle was left in the police officer's hand.
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• Police Brutally Torture Ms. Gai Xiulong in Shandong Province

  2008-02-10
  On December 19th, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Gai Xiulong saw local officials defacing a Falun Gong poster exposing the persecution in front of her house. Ms. Gai went over to persuade them not to do it. They then called the police and six or seven officers took Ms. Gai into custody. Police chief Cui Jianming used an electric baton to shock Ms. Gai in the face, legs, neck and other sensitive areas for nearly ten minutes. During that time, police officer Sun Libin punched Ms. Gai in the head four times. Ms. Gai was handcuffed for more than five hours before the police took them off.
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• Already Tortured To The Point Of Critical Injury, Ms. Lin Daihong From Baishan City Is Arrested Once Again

  2008-02-10
  On January 15th, 2008, the chief of police and head of the 610 Office in Baishan City, Jilin Province, instructed eight policemen to drive two police vehicles to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Daihong's home, and break into her home to arrest her for the second time. Ms. Lin had previously already been tortured to the point of critical condition in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp and had not yet recovered. She was taken directly to the labour camp again.
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