Torture

  • Current Situation of Some Practitioners in Jidong Prison (Hebei Province)

    The prison officials use many brutal methods to torture practitioners in order to try to make them renounce Falun Gong, such as shocking them with electric batons, forcing them to stay under the burning sun, beating them, and putting them in solitary confinement in cells without sunshine for several months. They have ordered the criminal inmates to surround and beat practitioners and threatened to beat them to death. Some practitioners were deprived of sleep for a long period of time. They also invited people who gave up the practice of Falun Gong to come to the prison to help force the practitioners to give up their beliefs.
  • A Practitioner Exposes the Crimes Committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) After Her Memory Is Restored

    "I once lost my memory due to the brutal persecution I endured. I was arrested at home and forcibly taken into detention. I was brutally beaten while my arms were handcuffed behind my back and my head was covered by a thick blanket. Officer Xu forced powdered red pepper into my nose, eyes and mouth. Officer Guo inserted two lit cigarettes into my nostrils. They shocked me with electric batons and repeatedly kicked me with heavy boots. Both of my arms were broken from the beating, and I lost feeling in both hands. I fainted several times during the ordeal."
  • Report on the Unjust Trial of Mr. Ye Zhenghui and Mr. Mao Dexing Held at Mishan Court in Heilongjiang Province

    On January 12th, 2007, Mishan City Court held an unjust trial of two Falun Dafa practitioners, Mr. Ye Zhenghui and Mao Dexing. When the judge asked Mr. Ye Zhenghui if the public prosecutor’s statement was true, Mr. Ye replied that Jixi City National Protection Team agents had extorted a confession from him via torture. They had beaten him by putting an electric baton into his mouth and shocking him, and shocking his genital areas and other sensitive areas with electric batons. The presiding judge interrupted him crudely and asked why he insisted on practising. The presiding judge had been breaking the law during his executing the law, and he declared that Mr. Ye Zhenghui was guilty.
  • Ruthless Persecution by 610 Office and Police in Weihai, Shandong Province

    I am a woman in my 60's. Because I practise Falun Gong, I have been arrested, and my home has been ransacked numerous times by officials from the Weihai 610 Office, the Weihai Zhudao Police Station, and the Weihai Huangguan Police Station. I have been detained, fined and sentenced to forced labour, and the authorities tried to brainwash me. Policemen cruelly tortured me, and I have suffered mental and physical harm, bringing irretrievable losses to my family.
  • Mr. Wang Xiaoping Tortured in Ganshan Psychiatric Hospital in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province

    In October 2005, officials arrested Mr. Wang Xiaoping and detained him in the Ganshan Psychiatric Hospital in Luzhou City, where Mr. Wang was forcibly given drugs and injections designed to treat psychiatric patients. In addition, Mr. Wang was forced to pay two or three thousand yuan per month for this so-called treatment. The cost has reached tens of thousands of yuan by now. The torture has devastated Mr. Wang's physical and mental health.
  • Tianshui Prison in Gansu Province Utilises Criminals to Persecute Practitioners

    Tianshui Prison in Gansu Province utilises criminal convicts to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Practitioner Mr. Liu Zhirong, who was imprisoned in the First Prison District, was often severely beaten by inmates. Criminal inmates bound his arms and legs before they went to work and stuck him under a bed. Then they released him when they returned from work. Mr. Liu has been tortured to death, and his body bears a wound under one ear caused by beating.
  • Nanjing Women's Prison Coerces Dafa Practitioners' Family Members to Sign "Contracts" Justifying Their Persecution

    In order to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners, the Nanjing Women's Prison coerced their family members into signing "helping and educating" contracts. When the guards tortured practitioners, they would say, "It's your family members who have entrusted us to educate you." The guards especially like to shock the practitioners with electric batons until they fall unconscious. Some practitioners have become partially disabled as a result. Some have developed limps, and others have developed a hunchback and cannot walk normally.
  • Recent Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

    On December 16th, 2006, twelve Falun Gong practitioners were sent to the intensive training team at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City. Four of them were forced to sit on the "iron chair" that day and were tortured, and the other eight were hung up by their handcuffs, beaten, and shocked with electric devices on the afternoon of the following day, all because they refused to write the "three statements" promising to give up Falun Gong. Practitioners were also shocked on their mouths with electric devices for shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" In order to assist in the persecution, the nurses and doctors in the forced labour camp worked overtime, and more guards were dispatched to provide support.
  • The Criminal Actions of Those Who Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners in Taiyuan City and Shanxi Province

    Lu Ping, political director of Xindian Woman's Forced Labour Camp of Shanxi Province is the main person responsible for persecuting practitioners in the woman’s forced labour comp. Prison guards Liu Zhongmei, Leihongzhen, Meng Hao, and Chen Chunxiang are the most vicious in torturing practitioners. Liu Zhongmei even shouted out, "Our task is to torture you to death."
  • Exposing the Malicious Deeds of the Railroad Police in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province

    Ever since Jiang Zemin's regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, the Railway Police Station authorities in Mudanjiang City have done everything possible to try to stop practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police even put Teacher Li Hongzhi's, [the founder of Falun Dafa] pictures on the ground next to the entrance to the platform, asking passengers to step on them before boarding. They arrested those who refused to step on the pictures. The railway police arrested and imprisoned practitioners many times in the Mudanjiang area.
  • List of Practitioners from Shanghai Who Died Due to Torture or Other Persecution Means

    It's been eight years since the persecution began. The 610 Office in Shanghai has ordered the Procuratorate, judicial and legal institutes, the military, police, special agents, news media, psychiatric hospitals, local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisations, and residential commissions to participate in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. More than 30 practitioners in Shanghai have died as a result of persecution; numerous practitioners have been tortured and left physically disabled, suffered mental collapse, deteriorated mental health, job loss, and many have had no choice but to leave their homes. Their families have also suffered tremendous physical and mental anguish, as well as economic hardship.
  • Practitioner Mr. Wang Lianqing from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Wang Lianqing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested by policemen and detained at the Muling Mine Security Office. Han Congjia (male), beat Mr. Wang brutally, to the point that he had a mental breakdown. Eighteen days later he was released, but he could not work or live normally. He was totally different from the compassionate, rational individual that he was before. No one knows what kind of torture he suffered when he was detained those eighteen days. Sometimes, when people wished to talk to him, he would not say anything and sealed his mouth. On July 18th, 2006, as he was walking along the street aimlessly, Mr. Wang Lianqing was hit by a car and died.
  • Supplementary Information on the Persecution of Mr. Zhou Jiangang, Paralysed at the Qinduankou Prison in Hubei Province

    Since Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Jiangang was sent to the Qinduankou Prison on November 2nd, 2006, he has been tortured so brutally that he has been rendered severely paralysed. He is paralysed from the neck down and can only move his eyes and mouth. Even after Mr. Zhou was tortured so badly, the prison guards still restrained his feet with rope. Now, Zhou Jiangang can only take in liquids, and has lost control of his bladder and bowels. Because of the paralysis, he cannot turn over and his body is covered with blisters
  • The Crimes Committed by the No. 4 Team of Jidong Prison in Tangshan City, Hebei Province Continue

    In 2001, a Falun Dafa practitioner passed one of Teacher Li's articles to another practitioner. He was not allowed to sleep for six days and nights. They hung him up by his handcuffs and whenever he closed his eyes they beat his ten fingers with a bamboo board. One blow would cause so much pain that his whole body would be covered with cold sweat. He was forced to stand outdoors and read slogans that slandered Teacher Li and Falun Dafa. When he refused to read them they beat him with a rubber baton and shocked him with an electric baton.
  • Exposing the Crimes of Wang Xiaofeng, Political Instructor at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

    Wang Xiaofeng, female, about 40, is the Political Instructor of the Third Division of the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. Wang has committed a lot of vicious crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. Wang Xiaofeng tortured practitioners by depriving them of sleep, handcuffing them to heating pipes, restraining their arms and legs, hanging them up, solitary confinement, tying them up, freezing them, etc. In December 2002, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Xue Feng hung practitioner Ms. Wang Yulan to the heating pipe in the Division Head's office. Her right hand was burned so badly by the heat that the flesh rolled off.