Torture
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Torture of Practitioners at the Seventh Team of Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province
2007-09-09
Section A is a high security area, where practitioners who are not cooperating with the guards are detained. There is no break for lunch. Apart from basic needs like eating, drinking, use of the toilet and sleep, practitioners are forced to sit on small benches for as long as over 10 hours a day without moving. The guards beat and verbally abuse the practitioners if they move their limbs even a bit. Sometimes practitioners are deprived of normal sleep and kept awake until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. -
Ms. Fan Qingqing from Weifang City, Shandong Province Suffers from Persecution and Torture
2007-09-09Five officers were assigned to torture each practitioner. These officers immobilised the practitioners, then pinched their nose, pried open their mouths, and force-fed them. The "dead man's bed" is supposed to be used only for death row prisoners. However, Director Guo used it to torture practitioners. One of the torture means in the detention centre was known as the "cross." Three wooden boards, each 8 inches wide, were made into a cross shape. A practitioner was handcuffed onto it with arms stretched out horizontally and legs spread wide open. They laid the practitioner on it, so that the wooden board in the centre pushed up against the practitioner's spine. The whole body weight fell on the spine and caused extreme pain. Soon the practitioner would start sweating because of the unbearable pain, their entire body would become numb and they would lose consciousness. -
The Crimes Behind Shanghai's Prestigious Labels - "High Class" Products Actually Made at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai
2007-09-08Bee & Flower (Feng-hua) and Maxam (Mei-jia-jing) are both well known brand labels from Shanghai in China, and their products are sold in southeast Asia as well as all over China. Very few people however know that some of these products, such as the soaps, are processed in Tilanqiao Prison and other jails. The companies behind these prestigious labels are participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners, which is in violation of international laws. -
Honest and Upright Mr. Lu Yuping Was Tortured to the Brink of Death in Tailai Prison
2007-09-08Mr. Lu Yuping was widely recognised as a model of honesty by his superiors at the Land Tax Bureau and was even awarded the title of "Model Worker for Honesty and Uprightness" at the county level in 1996. Starting in 1995, when he began to practise Falun Gong, he became mentally and physically very healthy. Yet he has been tortured to near death because he refuses to give up Falun Gong. Police beat him using a special leather belt, the soles of their shoes, and handcuffs. When he passed out, they poured cold water all over him to revive him and then beat him again. They released him from the chair and squeezed his head, hands, and feet. They stripped him naked and slapped him hard with a leather belt and whips until they were almost broken. -
A Non-practitioner Describes the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province
2007-09-08I noticed that Falun Gong practitioners received even worse treatment. Guard Hong Ying made me monitor practitioners and compelled me to report practitioners' activities, including making a list of who practitioners made eye contact with or smiled at. Two drug addicts would not let practitioner Ms. Gong Jinxiu sleep. At night they made her kneel by a barrel full of urine. When she nodded off, her head would drop into the barrel. Her hair and clothes were wet with urine. -
The Persecution of Two Older Practitioners
2007-09-08Ms. Sun Shou Fen is 67 years old. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999 she has been persecuted, detained and sent to brainwashing sessions in the forced labour camp. Police damaged her eyes. As a result, she suffered from optic atrophy and her vision deteriorated. Ms. Sun could hardly even see well enough to walk. When she practised Falun Dafa she was able to stop wearing glasses! However, under the persecution, she almost lost her vision completely. On August 2nd, 2007, she was arrested by policeman Liu Jinhu and others for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in public. When her family members went to the detention centre in Weihai City, police extorted 5,000 yuan from them as guarantee money. -
Mr. Yang Xinyu Tortured to Death in Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region
2007-09-07On May 31st, 2007, police arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yang Xinyu and his newlywed wife Ms. Zhen Haiyan. Policeman Zhang Shibin pointed a hand gun at Mr. Yang Xinyu's head while four to five agents carried him to the vehicle. Mr. Yang was forcibly taken to a brainwashing centre. Zhang Shibin pointed at Mr. Yang Xinyu and said in front of everyone, "If you refuse to be transformed, I will cremate you." The guards encouraged prisoners to beat him cruelly. Thus, Mr. Yang started a hunger strike to protest. Mr. Yang Xinyu's uncle went to visit him twice while he was being severely mistreated, but the Detention Centre Administration refused to let him see his nephew. They called his family only after he died. They found his body had dark bruises under his neck. -
Exposing the Crimes of the National Security Division in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province
2007-09-07Before July 20th, 1999 there were over one hundred Falun Gong practitioners in Wugong County. Most of them started to practise Falun Gong in 1999. They hadn't cultivated long before the persecution of Falun Gong started. The chief of the National Security Division, Yan Yong (female), led perpetrators to persecute Dafa practitioners who believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance". They raided practitioners' homes, fined them, detained them, sent them to the forced labour camps, threatened them, and forced them to write guarantee statements to give up practising Falun Gong. -
Ms. Liu Ying Taken Away by Director of Daqing People's Hospital Zhang Tiehui and Police
2007-09-07On August 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 a.m., Zhang Tiehui, the Director of Daqing City People's Hospital and Harbin Medical University's Fifth Hospital, coordinated the arrest of Ms. Liu Ying while she was at work. The arrest was carried out with the help of Zhang's brother, a police officer, and Liu Rong, a plainclothes agent from the city's Public Security Bureau. Liu Ying's home and office were ransacked, and her computer and personal belongings were seized by police in the raid. -
Practitioners Mr. Liu Fufeng and Ms. Zheng Shuhua Die as a Result of Persecution
2007-09-07Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Fufeng, 54, benefited greatly from practising Falun Dafa both physically and spiritually. After the persecution of Falun Dafa began, he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. There he was harassed and threatened by officers from the local police station. He was then arrested and detained at Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. He was sentenced to forced labour twice. Both times he was tortured severely. As a result of the persecution, he also suffered the symptoms of diabetes. When he was released after his term of forced labour ended, his health worsened. He died on August 18th, 2007. -
Practitioners Tortured in Solitary Confinement Cells and Poisonous Salt Ponds at Jidong Prison, Tangshan City
2007-09-06Every division of the Jidong Prison has solitary confinement cells, which are two metres in length, one metre in width, and have only a small skylight on the ceiling. The walls of these cells are padded with foam to prevent distraught detainees from committing suicide. Solitary confinement in these cells is nerve-racking. Some inmates have nervous breakdowns, and may howl day and night. These solitary confinement cells are the first thing that greets sentenced Dafa practitioners. Each practitioner is locked up for at least 15 days, and sometimes up to several months, until he gives up Falun Dafa. Wardens deprive practitioners of sleep, and as soon as a practitioner closes their eyes, wardens order inmates to prick them with needles. Inmates often kick and hit Dafa practitioners with sticks and triangular belts. -
Ms. Xu Hui and Her Son from Liaoning Province Arrested in Tiananmen Square Over A Month Ago; Family Members Worried
2007-09-06Falun Gong practitioners Xu Hui and Cai Chao are mother and son from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. They went to Beijing together on July 20th, 2007. Mother and son unfolded a banner as a way of appealing for Falun Gong, but Beijing Tiananmen Police Station officers arrested and held them in the Beijing Dongcheng District Detention Centre for over a month. Her family members are very worried about them, especially for Cai Chao. When they saw him the last time, his face was swollen and deformed. -
A Happy Family Is Persecuted and Torn Apart by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
2007-09-06In February 2005, because Ms. Shi Chunni, a Falun Dafa practitioner, distributed leaflets exposing the persecution, she was reported to the authorities. She was arrested and was persecuted for three years in Wang Village Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province. After Ms. Shi was arrested, her husband, Liu Sizhen, and her son, Liu Jun, were devastated. Liu Sizhen was distraught and drowned his sorrow and worry with alcohol all day long. His health became worse and worse. And he was hospitalised many times. Not until Liu Sizhen was on the verge of death did the police from Wendeng National Security Team send Ms. Shi home. He died four days later. The police wasted no time in taking Ms. Shi back to the forced labour camp. -
Witnessing Atrocities in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province
2007-09-06From 2001 through 2004, the periods of forced labour in the camp were especially long and the work was especially intensive. Wake-up time was 5 a.m. We worked until midnight. Once we worked with dyed bird feathers. To keep the feathers from flying about, they had us close all the windows in the middle of summer. The temperature in the room was so high that it was like being in an oven. he dye from the feathers was toxic and irritated people's throats and harmed their health. We used the feathers to make handcrafted birds for export. On the boxes were American logos and dollar signs. The guards stayed next door and watched us work. They did not care how unbearable it was. -
Ms. Hu Yanrong from Liaoyuan City, Liaoning Province, Persecuted to Death
2007-09-05
Seven police vehicles were dispatched with wooden batons, electric batons and picks, on August 1st, 2007, to arrest over 40 Falun Dafa practitioners at a meeting. Ms. Hu Yanrong was among them. She was beaten into unconsciousness. She jumped from the police vehicle, seriously hurt her head, and lost consciousness. Hu Yanrong died on August 5th, at Lingyuan City Prison Administration Sub-Bureau Hospital.
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