Torture
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Guard in the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province Threatens Practitioner "We Will Send You to the Hospital to Have Your Organs Harvested!"
2007-01-08
The guards tortured practitioner Liu Quanyi by shocking him with electric batons. They kept him handcuffed for five days and nights. The guards ordered him to sit on a hard stool or stand for seventeen to eighteen hours each day. When Mr. Liu refused to give up Dafa, they transferred him to the No. 8 Division. Zheng Wanxin, head guard of the division, handcuffed him for eleven straight days and nights and then put him in solitary confinement. The guards also forced him to sit on a stool the entire time he was in isolation. One of the guards told him, "If you refuse to be 'transformed,' we will send you to the Qilu Hospital to have your organs harvested." -
Persecution at the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shanxi Province
2007-01-08Practitioner Zhou Yating refused to be "transformed." Guards Li Zhen and Bai Xiao called her into the office and pinched her face, shoulders and back with 2.5 inch needles, which were used to sew mats. After the wounds healed, there were many round spots. Drug addict Zhang Fan, from Yulin, took a leather belt and tightened it around Zhou Yating's neck while she was sound sleeping. Zhou awakened and shouted for help, which saved her life. It is very common to be beaten or cursed daily. When Ms. Zhou Yating held a hunger strike to protest, she was violently force-fed multiple times. -
Persecution Facts about Mr. Zhang Jingqi of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
2007-01-08Mr. Zhang Jingqi was tortured at the Babaishang Police Department by being burned with cigarettes, suffocated with cigarette smoke, being stripped of clothes then having cold water poured on his body and left outside in the snow to freeze, being deprived of sleep for four days, choking/burning from having chili oil or mustard oil poured on a mask that he was forced to breath through, being suffocated with a plastic bag repeatedly, having his back scalded with boiling water. -
Questions Concerning the Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Luo Shuchun, Who Fell from a Building in Changchun
2007-01-08Ms. Luo Shuchun, 55 years old, was a former national second level police supervisor. She was dismissed because she practised Falun Gong. On December 13th, 2006 after 11:00 a.m., Luo Shuchun suddenly made a phone call to nearby practitioners saying, "The police are knocking on my door." Afterwards, when practitioners called her back, her telephone had been turned off. That afternoon around 2:00 p.m., fellow practitioners obtained the news that Luo Shuchun had fallen from the fifth floor window when the police rushed into her room. Prior to her fall, Ms. Luo made a phone call to her fellow practitioners asking for help, and she obviously did not have the thought off jumping from her building. -
Ms. Xing Qiuhua Dies of Depression at 58 After Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Media Fabrication
2007-01-07The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to force every practitioner to "reform." Ms. Xing Qiuhua was pressured to speak about her understandings of Falun Gong according to the CCP's requirement at an employee meeting, but she refused. In an exhibit slandering Falun Dafa sponsored by the Shijiazhuang City government, the media videotaped her secretly, tricked her into talking, and cut and edited her original words to fabricate an "interview" in which she appeared to be slandering Falun Dafa. This fallacious videotape deceived people and severely damaged Ms. Xing both mentally and physically, causing her to be depressed for a long period of time. She died on November 29th, 2006. -
Father Appeals for Son, Mr. Li Feng from Anguo City, Hebei Province, Who Is Ill in Prison
2007-01-07Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Feng's family members went to visit him on December 28th, 2006, at No. 4 Prison in Shijiazhuang City. They noticed his sallow complexion and profound weakness, to the point that he was unable to keep his eyes open. His eyelids drooped and he was short of breath. It appeared to indicate that his heart disease and hypertension had not improved. Even so, the officials in charge still refused to release him. -
Details of Torture Methods Used On Falun Gong Practitioners in Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-01-07A very common torture includes sitting on a hard bench over a long period of time. As long as practitioners are blamed for violating the so-called division rules, they have to suffer this type of torture. One practitioner, about 35 years old, had been forced to sit on the bench on the fourth floor for a very long time. She had to maintain a 90-degree angle between her body and legs, and was forced to sit this way from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Although deprived of all her basic rights, the guards failed to force her give up her belief in Dafa. Hence, she was able to leave the forced labour camp in the end without compromising with the authorities. -
Persecution Details of Practitioner Ms. Sun Yanchun from Yantai City, Shandong Province
2007-01-07In July 1999, when the party began persecuting Dafa in China, 52-year-old Ms. Sun Yanchun and fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Dafa. They were mercilessly beaten by the police from the local police station. The residential district office imprisoned them and forced them to write a guarantee statement promising to cease their practice, and extorted their family members of large amounts of money. The residential district office threatened the village committee secretary into deducting an entire year's salary, and instigated the village committee to imprison several of these Falun Gong practitioners for persecution. They threatened to fine the employers and coerce them into dismissing Falun Gong employees. -
610 Office Sentences Xiangtan City Practitioner Mr. Huang Deming to Forced Labour
2007-01-07On the evening of November 7th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Huang Deming and Ms. Luo Jinxiu, from were both arrested by local police while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The Xiangtan City 610 Office had Mr. Huang Deming sentenced to one year of forced labour on December 10th, 2006, and he was taken to the Xinkaipu Labour Camp in Changsha City. Another female Falun Dafa practitioner, name unknown, was sent to the Changsha City Women's Prison. -
Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Qiu Subi from Leshan City, Sichuan Province Dies of Persecution
2007-01-0666-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Qiu Subi suffered long term persecution because of her persistence in cultivating Falun Dafa. In November 1999, Ms. Qiu and her son went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They were detained for one month. After being sent home, they were forced to report to the local police station in the morning and were not released until the evening. They had to do this for over six months. In 2005, police arrested her and held her at a brainwashing class for over a week. From 1999 to 2006, the local police station have searched Ms. Qiu's home at least twelve times. She was also followed wherever she went. Ms. Qiu Subi died on November 9th, 2006. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Yunyi from Guangxi Autonomous Region Dies at 31 as a Result of Torture
2007-01-06In March 2000, Mr. Li Yunyi was arrested and threatened because he wrote an appeal letter to expose the persecution. After that he was arrested, detained, sent to brainwashing and had money extorted from him several times for appealing for justice for Falun Dafa. In September 2005, Mr. Li was arrested and detained for producing leaflets exposing the persecution and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Mr. Li was severely tortured during his detention. In February 2006, he was released for medical treatment. He passed away at his home in November 28th, 2006 due to the long-term persecution. -
Murder Suspected in Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui’s Sudden Death
2007-01-06Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui slipped into a vegetative state in July 2004 as a result of a skull fracture from a beating at Suzhou Prison. He had been held at the No. 100 Hospital in Suzhou City where he was under constant surveillance by the prison authorities. He died suddenly on December 12th, 2006 at the age of 40. Some analysts stated Suzhou Prison officials ordered Chen Guanghui to be murdered, in order to cover up the abuse and to avoid an international investigation and criminal charges. -
Practitioner Liu Juhua from Guizhou Province Dies Two Hours After Her Arrest
2007-01-06Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Juhua, in her 50s, was arrested from her home by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel at about 9:00 p.m. on December 5th, 2006. She died two hours later. It is reported that the police paid 100 thousand yuan (to be verified) and claimed that she "jumped from a tall building." But Lu Juhua's body did not show obvious injuries. The details are yet to be investigated. -
Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Gansu and Jilin Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution
2007-01-06Ms. Sun Yuling, 48, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yantai City, Shandong Province. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour in December 2002 for practising Falun Dafa. She developed a fatal disease as a result of being tortured and persecuted, and was released from the forced labour camp ahead of the original term. She was as thin as a skeleton when she got home. She died unjustly four months after she returned home. All the villagers protested for her and said, "Such a good person died unjustly. Those Communist party villains are too inhuman." -
Elderly Mr. Guo Haishan, Retired from the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology, Died as a Result of Persecution
2007-01-05Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Haishan, who was blind, had retired from the 19th Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology (CAMT). Because he was determined to practise Falun Gong, he was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre at the end of the summer in 2002 and in the summer of 2006, where he was subjected to torture. On November 26th, 2006, Mr. Guo died at the age of 71 as a result of the persecution.
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