Torture

  • Practitioner Jiang Fuxiang's Husband Dead and Son Homeless From Persecution in Benxi City, Liaoning Province

    Ms. Jiang Fuxiang is a 58-year-old Dafa practitioner, who has a strong belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and shares the true facts about Falun Dafa with others so they too can benefit. For this, the Communist regime has arrested her three times over the last seven years. The police also planned to arrest her son. A good-hearted person informed him and he was able to get away and remains on the run, homeless, to avoid being persecuted. Fuxiang's poor sick husband was left home alone. He had a stroke and passed away in early December 2006.
  • Recalling the Savage Abuses I Was Made to Endure at Shayang Forced Labour Camp, Hubei Province

    My name is Dong Dengzhi. I was arrested on August 29th, 2003 for handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and was sent to Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Jingmen City. As soon as I arrived, the camp officials designated two criminals to monitor me. They attempted to force me to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Dafa, but I refused. One criminal hit me hard on my chest, stomach and back, kicked my genital area very hard, which made me scream.
  • Families of Practitioners Call on the International Community to Pay Close Attention to the Persecution of Practitioners in Shiling Jail, Siping City, Jilin Province

    When the family visited practitioner Mr. Wang Liansu, they saw that his right leg was obviously hurt; he couldn't walk properly. Sources from inside the jail revealed that it was a police guard that injured him, and it was because he refused to give up his belief that he suffered this mistreatment. But the head of the jail, Li Wendong, denied it, and said, "You can go sue wherever; it's not going to do any good." Mr. Wang is also restricted from going to the toilet; a lot of other practitioners are restricted as well. When Mr. Wang was first captured, he was shocked with electric batons on his private parts. It was excruciating. Now he cannot urinate. One cannot imagine the pain.
  • Disabled Practitioners Arrested and Persecuted by Police in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

    On December 22nd, 2006, practitioners Mr. Jin Chengshan and Ms. Cui Xin were arrested by the police. Mr. Jin and Ms. Cui are both disabled and are unable to walk or even to tend to themselves. The Deputy Bureau Chief of the Hulan Public Security Bureau Jiang Jimin, relied on the influence Jiang Jizhi, his brother, to become the mayor of the Hulan District. In the past few years, he has sent more than 60 practitioners to labour camps, more than 20 other practitioners were sentenced to prison, and three practitioners were persecuted to death. Now, he has arrested two disabled practitioners who cannot even tend to their daily needs.
  • Brutal Torture Suffered by Practitioner Mr. Dou Jinbao in Changle Forced Labour Camp

    Changle Forced Labour Camp, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Dou Jinbao was stripped naked, and his buttocks and bare feet were beaten with a belt until the belt was broken into three pieces and his buttocks showed traces of blood. Mr Dou recalls: "The head of the labour camp saw the scar on my head and asked me about it. I said it was due to a beating. The next day collaborators were sent to threaten me, telling me that I had to say that the scar was due to a boil I had had on my head. Because of the fear in my heart I cooperated with them."
  • Stories of Practitioner Ms. Li Guangqin from Shandong Province During Her Imprisonment

    Ms. Li Guangqin was sentenced to two and half years in Shandong Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. Once a guard was verbally abusing a practitioner. To support the practitioner, Ms. Li Guangqin started to call out, "Falun Dafa is good." Other practitioners followed her and called out together. The labour camp guards wanted the practitioners to write a so-called "education summary" but no one wrote anything. When they wanted to take a practitioner away, Li Guangqin held onto the practitioner and stopped them. Two male guards were called in and forcefully took Li Guangqin and the other practitioner to a solitary confinement cell. Li Guangqin was handcuffed to a heating pipe for three days and nights.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tan Xiangyu from Changsha City, Hunan Province Forced to Become Homeless to Avoid Further Persecution

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Tan Xiangyu is is 60 years old. Because of her persistent practice of Falun Gong, she was forced to leave home and wander about to avoid further persecution by the Women's Prison of Changsha City. Due to persecution Ms. Tan Xiangyu's lung was perforated. She could not walk, her feet were swollen, and her liver was also in serious condition. Her whole body looked very pale, she could not eat, and was vomiting blood. Now more than one year has passed, and the prison guards still attempt to persecute her. They are looking for her everywhere.
  • Remembering Ms.Yang Ruiyu, My Fellow Practitioner Who Was Tortured to Death in China

    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) typically goes after what it perceives to be the leader of a group it wants to persecute and make an example out of him or her. Because Ms. Yang Ruiyu was the coordinator of seven practice sites and travelled to other districts to spread the practice, the CCP went after her and persecuted her severely. After Ms. Yang Ruiyu died as a result of the persecution, the Fuzhou Police Station would not allow any memorial services for her and ordered her body to be incinerated the same day she passed away. Her husband and daughter were not allowed to get close enough to see her. It was reported that there was a fist-sized hole in her body.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Sun Zhouying Was Detained With Other Practitioners at Shanghai’s Songjiang Women’s Jail for Four Years

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Zhouying is nearly 60 years old. In the year 2000 Ms. Sun was detained and kept in custody for the next four years. Because she refused to renounce Falun Dafa, the authorities of Songjiang Women’s Jail tortured her by forcing her to stand or sit for long periods of time. She was constantly dizzy due to sleep deprivation and suffered severe beatings at the hands of the jailers and their lackeys. Ms. Sun was forced to clean the public toilet but forbidden to use it.
  • Ms. Deng Jianmei is on the Brink of Death at the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

    On March 21st, 2005, the dean of the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison led police and criminals to drag practitioners into the hallway. Dafa practitioners, including Deng Jianmei, were brutally beaten, dragged and had their blood drawn, which rendered them too weak to walk. Ms. Deng Jianmei had a heart attack from this torture. Ms. Deng Jianmei had a heart attack from this torture. At that time, her body kept trembling. Now, she has heart attacks several times per day. She is very weak and lean, and cannot eat. Her body still trembles and she has difficulty walking. Sometimes, she can not move for several days. She is on the brink of death.
  • Mr. Liu Ruisheng from Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province Secretly Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison

    On April 23rd, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Ruisheng was arrested by State Security agents and detained for three months in the City Detention Centre. Liu Ruisheng vomited blood three times during this time period, and he was bailed out on the evening of July 28th, 2006. A few months later agents arrested him again at home. Mr. Liu's family heard that the Longshan District Court had sentenced Mr. Liu Ruisheng to nine years in prison.
  • A Lecturer in Hebei Province Medical University Facing Trial

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Feng Ruixue, a former lecturer, was arrested on April 6th, 2006, for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution on the Hebei Province Business University campus. The flyers exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Police detained Ms. Feng. She was scheduled to go on trial December 29th, 2006.
  • A Practitioner Recounts the Crimes of Police Officers Xu Bin and He Shibing of Guangan County, Sichuan Province, in the Persecution of Falun Gong

    Xu Bin, in her 40s, was a Public Security Commissar in Guangan County before she was promoted for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. On November 30th, 1999, she worked with He Shibin of the Public Security Bureau to kidnap more than 30 practitioners who'd gone to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. They detained the practitioners in the Guangan Detention Centre and fabricated false evidence to report to the authorities. With the assistance of the Guangan County 610 Office, Xu Bin and He Shibing slandered Falun Dafa on the air at the Guangan City TV station.
  • Guards from Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp Mentally Torment Falun Dafa Practitioners' Family Members

    On the last Thursday of each month, the hours of 9-11 a.m. are the visiting hours for detained Falun Dafa practitioners in the Shijiazhuang City Labour Camp. On December 28th, 2006, in a small room in the Fifth Ward of the Camp, guards were checking every family member that came to visit. They had to first show the "non-practitioner" statement issued by the local police station, and then they had to read through a page full of words slandering Falun Dafa; otherwise, they were not allowed to visit.
  • Heilongjiang Women's Prison Persecutes Practitioners Who Learned Dafa in Prison

    Several criminal prisoners detained in Heilongjiang Women's Prison had the good fortune to start practising Falun Dafa, and they began to understand the real meaning of life since then. Though prison guards used reduced prison terms or even release from prison to tempt them, these practitioners still refused to renounce Falun Dafa. Instead, they firmly insisted on practising Falun Dafa, and therefore suffered cruel tortures such as being detaining in solitary confinement, being handcuffed with their arms behind their backs, and being injected with unknown drugs by the prison guards.