Torture

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xinzhong from Qingzhou City, Shandong Province Tortured to Death by the 610 Office

    In July 2004, practitioner Mr. Zhang Xinzhong, 41, was tortured to death, within only ten days, by the staff of the Qingzhou City 610 Office. He was held to the floor or bed, and beaten, pinched, bitten and tortured in many ways until he lost consciousness. These evildoers did not stop until his heart stopped beating. Mr. Zhang Xinzhong's brother-in-law saw black and purple marks on his neck, hands and arms, and on his face.
  • Elderly Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Meizhen Tortured to the Brink of Death at Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    On March 9th, 2007, the family members of 66-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Meizhen received a call from the Liaoning Province Women's Prison to take Liu Meizhen home. At that time, Ms. Liu was already extremely weak due to the torture she endured, and was unable to walk. The horrific environment at the prison had worsened Liu Meizhen's already-poor health. Because she could not control her bladder, the prison guards called her family and asked them to bring more toilet paper. She also lost several teeth and could not eat the cornbread and pickled vegetables at the prison.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhang Hongquan of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province Persecuted to Death

    I was heartbroken when I read the news that Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Hongquan was persecuted to death in Mudanjiang City Prison. Yet another Falun Dafa practitioner has lost his life in the persecution carried out by the Chinese Communist Party. Mr. Zhang was stripped of his clothes and put in freezing water for several hours in winter. He walked unsteadily ever since then. The guards incited the prison inmates to beat him severely. When I saw him, he was unable to move one of his hands due to the beating, and his hands were full of blood blisters. Later, he went on a hunger strike with no food or water for 10 days to protest the persecution. The prison doctor sent him to the prison hospital and force fed him with concentrated salt solution. His suffering from the force feeding was so great that he vomited continuously.
  • Ms. Han Wenmin from Tianjin Sentenced to Forced Labour; Daughter Close to Giving Birth Denied Justice

    Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999, the officials and police frequently harassed practitioner Ms. Han Wenmin. Ms. Han firmly persisted in her belief and refused to cooperate with the officials. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour. She was later sentenced to forced labour for a second time and is currently held at the Tianjin Women's Labour Camp. Han Wenmin's pregnant daughter made numerous trips to the Tianjin Women's Labour Camp in the second half of 2006 and requested her mother's release. The camp officials refused to release her.
  • The Persecution at Kaiping Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

    I am a Falun Gong practitioner and I was arrested by the police and sentenced to three years forced labour. To protest the unjust persecution I started a hunger strike. Six days after I started the hunger strike, I was force-fed with heavily salted water. Every time they did it, I threw up. It was so salty and painful. On the ninth day, I was force-fed twice and threw it all up. After I threw up the first time, Yan Hongli said "It doesn't matter if you do it again, the camp has enough salt for you!" and she told a criminal prisoner to seal my mouth with her hand. But after the next force feeding, the brine still came out from between her fingers. They were scared and kept far away, and didn't try it again until my lips turned black and my face turned pale.
  • Seven Practitioners from Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and Hunan Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Bai went to Beijing four times to appeal for justice for Dafa. In October 2000 she was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. After Ms. Bai's family members sent 15,000 yuan to the authorities, the sentence was changed to suspended for three years, meaning she could serve the term outside of prison. Ms. Bai was released and returned home in August 2001. During her nine months of imprisonment, the authorities had severely tortured her mentally, which led to her hands constantly shaking. The police officers continued to harass her even after she returned home. The authorities extorted money from her husband during her imprisonment. The entire family has been under severe mental harassment. The relentless pressure of the persecution eventually led to Ms. Bai's death on February 2nd, 2007.
  • A Practitioner Recounts the Brutal Persecution by Police in Shenqiu County, Henan Province

    On October 12th, 2000, police arrested me because I would not give up practising Falun Dafa. The police head, Lu Feng, ordered me to write a "Repentance Statement." I refused to write the "Repentance Statement," so they sent me to the detention centre. During the interrogation, Lu Feng brutally tortured me and dispatched someone to monitor me. He forbade me from sleeping. The police called this torture the "enduring eagle." After a long time of torture, one's mental state collapses, and feels worse than death. The police saw me reciting Dafa articles and added a shackle weighing 19 kilogrammes (42 lb.) on me. I wore it for one month. This is the heaviest shackle in the jail, usually put on criminals to be executed. When I once spoke to another practitioner, they added another handcuff to the shackle. Beating practitioners is common in jail.
  • Beijing Practitioner Ms. Li Guiping and Her Family Have Suffered from Persecution for Six Years

    During the last six years, Li Guiping's family has never had a family reunion, even at the Chinese New Year. The child lost his mother's love when he was less than a year old, and he is still waiting for his mother to return. The child's father is over 60 years old and is bearing the heavy burden of the family expenses and the suffering of a broken family. He is raising the child by himself. Li Guiping's parents are about 73 years old, and they cannot be happy without their devoted daughter. They also have to bear the bitterness of missing their loved ones and worrying about their daughter and grandson. Furthermore, there are thugs watching them and people who don't know the truth are giving them the cold shoulder.
  • Dafa Practitioners Brutally Tortured at the Langfang City Police Station and Detention Centre in Hebei Province

    Officers from the Langfang City Police Station have tortured Dafa practitioners in many inhuman ways. Then the policeman took me into that room, and put me on a big metal chair. A young policeman came toward me while holding a high-voltage electric baton. It was rectangular shaped with two needles. When he put the needles on my body, it made a crackling noise. It felt like two big needles went through my body at once. He shocked everywhere on my body; when it got to spots like my armpits and below, the pain was really almost impossible to bear. This inhuman torture continued for two whole days and nights.
  • Exposing the Persecution in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province

    The police hate the firm and resolute practitioners. The police adopted various torture methods like chopping at the face with iron spikes or pen tips, forcing practitioners to kneel down, spitting at them, hitting their faces, burning, handcuffing, and tying them up, hitting practitioners with a spiked baton, and shocking them with an electric baton. The chief of the prison, Su Xin, policemen Zhang Xiaoming, Pu Jing and Shen Rui were the vanguard of persecution. They abused the practitioners and declared, "I am beating you, but so what? The more you appeal, the higher will be my post and my salary."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Qu Shuqiong, Qu Shuxian and Sun Lanxian from Yuxi City, Yunnan Province Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    On November 16th, 2006, a group of Falun Dafa practitioners went to a mountain area to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. They were reported and subsequently arrested by the police. On November 17th, the police went to search Liu Shuhua's home and took away valuable items. On the same day, the police went to Liu Shuhua's work place and handcuffed Liu Shuhua's colleagues and threatened them. When those who were handcuffed asked for the reason, none of the policemen could come up with a justification.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuzhen from Hebei Province in Critical Condition After Three Days of Abuse

    A group of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuzhen's home on March 13th, 2007 and arrested her. Zhang Shuzhen was unconscious from the persecution when she was taken to the Zhuolu County Police Department. Police officers injected her with a potent drug, causing her to completely lose all muscle control. Officials drove Zhang Shuzhen home on March 16th. Zhang Shuzhen lay on a stretcher. The officials violently yanked her up and smacked her down on purpose when getting her out of the vehicle and onto a bed. The brutal treatment resulted in a severe back injury. Zhang Shuzhen could not move, yet the officials accused her of faking disability. Zhang Shuzhen is now paralysed and incontinent, and she drifts in and out of consciousness.
  • Yuhua Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City Is Still Persecuting Practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaofeng

    Mr. Wang Xiaofeng has been severely persecuted since 1999 like many other Falun Gong practitioners, because he is steadfast in believing in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance". He was arrested for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong, and he was interrogated and forced to resign from his job. He was also forced to become homeless. His young wife Feng Xiaomin was tortured to death, and he was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. He had to leave his young son in the care of Feng Xiaomei, his wife's sister.
  • I Was Brutally Tortured in the Gansu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    The guards in the forced labour camp wanted to put on the statement that I “admit” practising Falun Gong was wrong. The captain then pressured the drug offender to put words that slandered Falun Dafa at the end of my statement and read it in public.I strongly protested and asked them to give me the statement, and went on a hunger strike. Captain Fan ordered 4 or 5 drug offenders to pin me to the ground and cuff my hands behind my back, with one of my arm up and the other down. I screamed from the pain. They then cuffed me to the bed frame. I was locked in a position in which I couldn't stand, kneel down or squat. I was forced to change my body position and reposition my legs constantly. Even the drug offenders felt sorry for me and shed tears.
  • Ms. Shi Yan from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province Subjected to Torture

    Ms. Shi Yan was arrested and sentenced to forced labour. She was brutally tortured to the point that hospitals refused to accept her. Currently, she is still suffering tremendous pain. After Ms. Shi had been detained for ten months, the section chief in the Judicial Bureau in charge of labour camps extorted 15,000 yuan from her family and released her on medical parole. After she got home, the labour camp still dispatched officials to harass her brother. They also told the local residential committee to monitor her activities. As a result, Ms. Shi continues to live in fear everyday. Her family also worries about her, and her health has further deteriorated.