Torture

  • Nearly 20 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Fushun City, Liaoning Province

    At 7 a.m. on September 25th, 2012, nearly 20 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested and detained in Fushun City. Police officers broke in and handcuffed them after verifying their names. They confiscated their personal belongings including bank deposit slips. Officers scaled the fence and broke the lock on the door to get in. They also threatened to shoot anyone who tried to run away. They also detained the practitioners' friends and relatives who happened to come over to visit. If they were Falun Gong practitioners, they were arrested. Some relatives were later released after they were arrested and taken to Fushun City.
  • Details Regarding the Persecution and Death of Older Mr. Wang Kaiming and His Wife, Yao Guilan

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Kaiming had a brain haemorrhage for the second time in January 2011 in Panjin Prison. He became unconscious and went into a vegetative state. Mr. Wang passed away on December 20th. Mr. Wang Kaiming's wife Ms. Yao Guilan was arrested in March 2009 because she was speaking the truth about Falun Gong in public. Ms. Yao was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp , where she started to have illness symptoms. She passed away on August 9th, 2009.
  • Ms. Zhang Yingdong's Personal Experience of Brutal Persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Heishan, Liaoning

    Ms. Zhang Yingdong practises Falun Gong. She has been brutally persecuted and was tortured in detention centres and forced labour camps. She suffered life-threatening situations several times. Brainwashing in Masanjia is normally not done by guards. Instead they arrange for collaborators (former practitioners, brainwashed against Falun Gong, made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners) to try to “transform” you. They would first chat with you and not allow you to sleep. Then, when you are muddle-headed, they indoctrinate you with their distorted ideas.
  • Shandong Province Police General Hospital Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners to the Brink of Death

    Shandong Province Prison sent the body of practitioner Lu Zhen, who had already been beaten to death, to the hospital in a car. To fabricate false evidence, they put his body on an intravenous drip then did an ECG and took photos of his body. This took nearly two hours. They finally declared that he'd had a relapse of a heart attack and died after efforts to save him failed. Over 50 convicts were present and saw wounds as well as bruises all over Lu Zhen's body.
  • Ms. He Yingtao’s Personal Account of Persecution--Husband Wrongfully Indicted and Dies As a Result of Torture

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Yingtao from Xiapu County, Fujian Province, has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 13 years. She was given a two-year prison term and twice forced to leave home and become destitute for a year. Her practitioner husband, Mr. Zheng Xidi, was given a three-year sentence while he was critically ill. He passed away in late 2009.
  • Ms. Yang Hong, 57, Disabled in Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Hong, a Falun Gong practitioner was abducted on February 25th, 2008, and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Ms. Yang was forced to do slave labour in Liaoning Province Women's Prison and broke her right leg. The prison refused to release her for medical treatment even though she is now disabled. Ms. Yang had been very weak from tortures, but she was still forced to intensive labour for extended periods of time. On October 8th, 2012 she tripped over a wooden board in the workshop and broke her right leg. When her family visited her, she was in a wheelchair.
  • Investigation Lead: Organ Harvesting in Shijiazhuang First Detention Centre

    Shijiazhuang First Detention Centre executed two groups of criminals in late March and late June 2009. The executed were required to sign “voluntary” organ donation agreements. One of them refused to sign. All were told to get agreements from their families so their organs could be donated, but they were executed before responses were received from any of the families. The inmate who refused to sign was executed on March 29th, 2009. Both groups were taken out of the detention centre at around 8:30 a.m., but weren't executed until noon. What happened before noon on those days is not known.
  • Ms. Shen Huafeng Sentenced to Four Years in Prison and Denied Her Pension

    The Bureau of Labour and Social Security in Hexi District, Tianjin, recently refused to process the application for retirement and a pension for Ms. Shen Huafeng, because she practises Falun Gong and is incarcerated. Ms. Shen is being held in Tianjin Women's Prison. She turned 50 on October 19th, 2012, and qualified for retirement. Due to her unjust imprisonment and being denied a pension, her family has encountered financial difficulties.
  • Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Qi, a Teacher from Shandong Hydraulic Vocational College, Sentenced to Labour Camp

    When Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Qi arrived at his workplace in the library building of Shandong Hydraulic Vocational College at 8 a.m. on October 19th, a group of about 8 people, who were unknown to him, suddenly surrounded him and started pushing and beating him. They then tied his arms behind his back and forcibly bundled him into an awaiting van. He was taken to the 2nd Men's Forced Labour Camp in Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. When Mr. Zhao arrived at the labour camp, personnel there forcibly took a blood sample from him.
  • Once Wrongfully Imprisoned for Ten Years, an Excellent Teacher Again Arrested

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ren Shuxian was sentenced to seven years in prison and imprisoned twice at labour camps for a total of three years. During the ten years of imprisonment she was viciously tortured. Two years after her release she was arrested again, on the evening of September 10th, 2012. Ms. Ren was previously imprisoned in forced labour camps. In 1999, she was held in Xigemu Forced Labour Camp. Practitioners were forced to do hard labour every day, including picking peas and loading and unloading trucks carrying bags that were double their own body weight. They worked 13 to 16 hours each day and were often beaten and punished.
  • Mr. Cao Guitang from Hebei Province Arrested Five Times for Practising Falun Gong

    Mr. Cao Guitang and his wife are in their late 70s and once suffered many illnesses. After they became Falun Gong practitioners, they became healthy without seeing a doctor. They could have enjoyed their retirement, were it not for the 13 years of persecution of Falun Gong in China. Their home was ransacked and their belongings confiscated. Chinese officials threatened, arrested and held them in forced labour camps. Just a month ago, they were arrested again because they were distributing DVDs of the Shen Yun Performing Arts show [a world-class traditional Chinese cultural show]. This was Mr. Cao's fifth arrest.
  • Jilin Province Police Arrest Practitioners, Ransack Their Homes

    Over the course of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)13-year persecution Falun Gong practitioners, the Jilin 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and Public Security Bureau, under the command of the Political and Legal Committee, have adopted the most despicable means to persecute practitioners. They have used undercover police officers to follow practitioners, ambush them, and break into their houses. The police have arrested practitioners and extorted money from them. Robbing practitioners of their property has become their official duty. Police have also freely ransacked practitioners' houses, taken away their belongings and damaged their property, acting like bandits.
  • Attorney Mr. Zhu Yubiao Sent Straight to Brainwashing Centre after Serving Prison Term, Now in Critical Condition

    When lawyer Mr. Zhu Yubiao’s two-year prison term expired on August 17th, 2012, he was transferred straight to the Guangdong Province “Law Education Centre” located in Sanshui City, Guangdong Province. At the time of this writing, Mr. Zhu is in critical condition. Between 2005 and 2006, he defended a total of three Falun Gong practitioners who were tried. His defence arguments were so thorough that the court officials appeared stunned. Mr. Zhu was first arrested on February 10th, 2007, and taken to the Guangzhou City Third Labour Camp and tortured.
  • Practitioners Arrested After the “700-Signature Petition Incident”

    When Xi Jinping invited a U.S. governor to visit Daizhai Village in Zhengding, agents from the Zhengding 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the police used this as an excuse to arrest Mr. Li on June 7th. Mr. Li is being held at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp. Villagers were shocked that the authorities arrested Mr. Li because a U.S. governor was coming for a visit. As a result, 200 villagers and those from nearby areas, totalling 700 people, signed a petition calling for the release of Mr. Li. The police then went from household to household asking the villagers who had signed the petition. They made it known that “whoever signed the petition would be in trouble.” Sixteen practitioners and their family members were arrested and tortured since July 22nd, 2012.
  • Female Engineer in Nanjing Persecuted Repeatedly; Disabled Due to Forced Ingestion of Unknown Drugs

    Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zhu Jianling has been detained multiple times. In 1999, she visited Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong, but was arrested. In 2000, she was arrested for distributing Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and placed in a forced labour camp for three years. In 2004, she was taken to a forced labour camp for an additional three years. In 2008, Ms. Zhu was sentenced to forced labour for the third time. She has now been detained for eight years. During her incarceration guards routinely added unknown drugs to her beverages, and her entire body swelled up; she subsequently developed serious cardiac disease symptoms.