Torture
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In Remembrance of Practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaojie from Shijiazhuang City
2007-02-15
Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaojie was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2002. On January 26th, 2006 Mr. Yang died as a result of inhuman torture at the age of 40. He left behind his 70-year old parents, his beloved daughter and wife of 13 to 14 years. His wife, Ms. Liu Runling, had been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment for practising Falun Dafa and she is now held at the Hebei Provincial Women's Prison. -
Harbin Women's Prison (Heilongjiang Province) Authorities Intensify Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners through Strict Monitoring
2007-02-15
Liu Zhiqiang (male), director of the prison, said, "The focus of our work in 2007 is to forcefully 'transform' Falun Gong practitioners. Those who wear mechanical tools are regular prisoners. We will give each of them a notebook so that they can record practitioners' behaviour, how much they eat, and the depth of their spiritual understanding..." In each room were two inmates, two so-called "helpers," one of the collaborators, and one prisoner. They worked together to control practitioners, forcing them to listen to slanderous articles and watch videos that slandered Falun Dafa, and forcing them to sit still from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. -
First Hand Experience of Cruel Brainwashing at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp (Part 1)
2007-02-14The labour camp carries out systematic and continuous mental torment of practitioners. The camp staff observes the practitioners' emotions, and studies the practitioners' thoughts and actions with the evil motives and the eyes of professional trainers. They probe the practitioners' hopes and wants at the labour camp, and every practitioner's willpower and endurance, their personality, strength and weakness, hobbies and pet peeves, and things that make them happy or sad. They also have detailed information on every practitioner's academic profile, career profile, work places and achievements. They know everything about the practitioners' parents, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children and relatives, and so on. -
Additional Information Regarding Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Chengjun, Who Was Persecuted to Death in Jilin Prison
2007-02-14Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Chengjun was from Nongan County, Jilin Province. On March 5th, 2002, he went with fellow practitioners to broadcast facts about Falun Gong and the persecution on Changchun and Songyun TV stations. He was arrested and sentenced to nineteen years in prison and was held in Jilin Prison. He was subjected to all sorts of torture and passed away at 4:30 a.m. on December 26th, 2003. He was only 32 years old. In order to cover up the criminal act, the prison authorities cremated his body at 10:40 a.m. that morning without his family's consent. -
Recent Persecution Against Falun Gong Practitioners at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2007-02-14On December 5th, 2006, Ms. Cui Defeng was reported by Inspector Xue Dan because "Falun Dafa is Good" was embroidered on the inside of her coat. Group leader Ren Huaiping and Wang Shuzheng cuffed her wrists to a bed, tied her legs with cloth strips, slapped her face and denied her food and toilet use. Wang Shuzheng kicked Ms. Cui Defeng in the face, and she wasn't released until the evening. Her arms, legs and face were swollen from the beatings. -
Crimes Committed by the 610 Office of Xuanhua City, Hebei Province, in Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners
2007-02-14On November 27th, 2006, Ms. Lei Wenxia was explaining the facts about Falun Dafa to people in Xuanhua City. She was arrested by the police from Nandajie Police Station and taken to the Detention Centre of Xuahua City, where she has been detained for over two months. When Ms. Lei Wenxia was first sent to the detention centre, she could eat and do things well. Later, her health declined. She was unable to eat, vomiting if she tried. The detention centre gave her intravenous injections against her will. -
Recent Persecution at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2007-02-13In September 2006, the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp "borrowed" a gang of guards from several other places. These guards colluded with the local Masanjia female guards to torture, using excruciating means, the practitioners who refused to be "reformed." The guards handcuffed practitioners to two metal beds, stretching their hands as much as possible in the process. Some practitioners' hands were bound to their calves, forcing them to bend down without the ability to stand straight or sit down. Over time this is extremely painful, as all the body's weight is concentrated on the handcuffed positions -
Prison Guard Gao Hu in Wumaping Prison (Sichuan Province) Uses "End-of-Year Review" as Excuse to Persecute Imprisoned Falun Gong Practitioners
2007-02-13Gao Hu is a prison guard at the No. 4 Division of Wumaping Prison in Sichuan Province, in charge of persecuting the imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. Every year in January, he uses the "end-of-year review" and "quarterly review" to escalate his torture of practitioners. He was enraged when all the practitioners imprisoned in the No. 4 Division boycotted the review process. Gao repeatedly goaded prison inmates responsible for monitoring practitioners to use violence on practitioners. Later, Gao transferred practitioners one by one to the so-called Intensive Training Team where they suffered from escalated levels of torture and abuse. -
Concentration Camp Under Construction In Liaoning Province Women's Prison
2007-02-13In October 2006, in the rear courtyard of Liaoning Province Women's Prison, construction on a new building was begun. The new building's foundation has been laid and the planned date of completion is spring 2007. According to an internal news disclosure, this new building will serve as a Hospital for Infectious Diseases and the patients will come from various provinces and cities in China. But it is rumoured that patients will be brought here to establish a concentration camp for harvesting organs. -
The Persecution Suffered by Falun Dafa Practitioners Mr. Cui Jian and Ms. Liu Cuiping from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
2007-02-13On June 20th, 2003, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Cui Jian and Ms. Liu Cuiping were suddenly arrested by police officers and transferred to the Tiexi District Police Department in Shenyang City. The police utilized many cruel methods to torture Mr. Cui, including brutal beatings, burning his fingers with cigarette lighters, threatening him with a knife, using needles to stab his fingers and toes, forbidding him to sleep for four consecutive days and nights, and handcuffing him against a wall with his arms behind his back. The handcuffs dug into his flesh, and both of his hands became swollen and numb. -
Ms. Liang Ying from Chicheng County, Hebei Province Re-Arrested after Serving Five Year Prison Sentence for Handing Out Informational Materials
2007-02-13On January 30th, 2007, Liang Ying, a Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province was reported to the police while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in her hometown, Mayingxiang. Public security police from Tianjiayao District secretly followed and arrested her. She was then sent to a detention centre in the city of Zhangjiakou. -
Lawyer from Jinan City, Shandong Province, Mr. Liu Ruping, is Tortured at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp
2007-02-12Mr. Liu was sent to the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp (Wangcun Forced Labour Camp), after publishing an article entitled, "Stop the Brutal Brainwashing of Falun Gong Practitioners. He was subjected to brutal torture. Mr. Liu was forced to sit on a small bench in the freezing cold hallway from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. After an extended period of time like this, his buttocks were bleeding and torn flesh stuck to his trousers. However, the guards did not even allow him to take a shower or wash his clothes. -
Crimes against Practitioners Committed by Mudanjiang City (Heilongjiang Province) Detention Centre and Labour Camp
2007-02-12Torture methods used on practitioners in Mudanjiang City Detention Centre include: 1. Laceration by the "Little White Dragon": Practitioners' trousers are removed. Guards beat them with the Little White Dragon (a plastic tube) until the flesh is lacerated and bleeding; 2. Bracelet Binding: Practitioners' hands and feet are restrained with a metal ring behind their backs for over 12 hours; the pain thus inflicted is excruciating; 3. Savage Forced Feeding: Other prisoners wrench open practitioners' mouths and then force-feed them. -
The Brutal Persecution of Ms. Meng Gui from Linshan County, Guangxi Autonomous Region
2007-02-12Ms. Meng Gui, in her sixties, was in good health and weighed about 165 pounds before suffering persecution at Nanning Women's Labour Camp. As a result of the tortures, she became emaciated. Her heart problem also recurred. Her whole body went numb due to prolonged hanging. She could no longer feel the pain from the beatings or the needles that were injected into her body. She lost the ability to talk and move her body. She didn't respond to intravenous injections. Authorities at the labour camp were afraid she might die and released her on medical probation. One of the conditions for her release was that her family call the labour camp every 10 days to report her condition. The labour camp sent her home in the middle of the night in order to cover up their tortures. -
Practitioner Ms. Yao Guihua from Zibo, Shandong Province Arrested
2007-02-12Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yao Guihua is 42 years old. In September of 2006, she was arrested by the Cicun Township police while she was explaining the facts about Falun Dafa and distributing literature. At present, she is still imprisoned in the Zibo City Detention Centre. She has been subjected to severe physical and mental abuse for over four months.
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