Torture

  • Practitioner Lin Shixiong from Yanji City, Jilin Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    Lin Shixiong was a manager of the Mitsubishi Repair Division in Yanji City, Jilin Province. He had a happy family and a career many people admired. However, during the seven-year persecution, he almost lost everything he owned. The CCP regime sentenced him to thirteen years in prison with fabricated charges. When he was confined in the Jilin Prison, he was forced to give up the management rights of the factory he had built from scratch, was made to divorce his wife and gave up custody of his child. Mr. Lin was sent to the Jilin Prison. He passed away around November 20th, 2006 as a result of persecution.
  • Persecuted in Beijing, Practitioner Mr. Yang Guangyu Fled to Thailand

    Practitioner Mr. Yang Guangyu, 50 years old, lived in Beijing. He was brutally persecuted for a long time for practising Falun Gong. His family has been living in constant fear since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. His wife subsequently divorced him, and his teenage son suffered a heavy mental blow. Yang Guangyu fled to Thailand on April 2nd, 2006, and sought help from the United Nations Refugee Agency.
  • Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Wang Bing at Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City

    Seven police people broke into Ms. Wang Bing’s home and ransacked it. They took mobile phones, computers and other things worth about 10,000 yuan. They sent both practitioners to Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp on April 30th, 2006. Ms. Wang went on a hunger strike to protest the detention and was force-fed many times, which caused severe stomach injury and profuse bleeding. Her life was in danger, and she was sent to the Jilin Province Prison Hospital.
  • Practitioner Ms. Chen Yachun Arrested by Public Security Bureau in Beizhen, Liaoning Province

    On the evening of October 25th, 2006, Ms. Chen was suddenly arrested for practising Falun Dafa by local police. Later, Ms. Chen's family repeatedly went to the local police station to request her release but they were not allowed to even visit her. On November 2nd, Ms. Chen Yachun's mother went to the police station to speak out for justice. Not only did the police refuse to listen to her, they also locked her in a room, forbade her from speaking, and kicked and punched her.
  • Ms. Lu Zhongqin, 56, from Heilongjiang Province Recounts the Persecution She Suffered

    In order to awaken the local police and officials, I wrote and mailed letters to explain the facts about Falun Dafa to them. Police came to my family-run restaurant to check my handwriting to determine if the letters sent to them were from me. My home phone was tapped and I was monitored. I was asked to sign in with them every day. I refused, and the local police rushed to my restaurant to harass me. One policeman said, "If you don't listen to me, we'll arrest you." My whole family was made to live in fear and couldn't even sleep well.
  • Huang Jingxian and His Wife Are Persecuted in Guangdong Province

    Practitioner Mr. Huang Jiangxian and his wife have been persecuted since July 1999. His wife has been forced into homelessness, while Mr. Huang has been imprisoned in a forced labour camp. He once tried to escape on the way to a hospital. Policemen caught him and beat him severely. They stepped on his face and pressed it against the cement floor, which caused a cut of four centimetres.
  • Ms. Bai Jialing on a Hunger Strike to Protest Inhuman Torture in Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province

    On April 21st, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Bai Jialing was arrested and taken to the police station. She was beaten and so she went on a hunger strike. On April 30th she was taken to Henan Province Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp. The guards dragged her many times, stripped her, and then videotaped her to insult her. The guards also instructed drug addicted prisoners to closely monitor her 24 hours per day. In order to stop their inhuman torture, Ms. Bai Jialing has gone on hunger strikes many times.
  • Lawless 610 Office Agent Su Yizhao Persecutes Practitioners in Chongqing City

    According to a reliable internal source, Su Yizhao (male) from Division 1 of Chongqing City Police Department, who also works at the Chongqing City 610 Office, has been actively persecuting practitioners by participating in arrests, tortures and issuing heavy sentences to Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Use of Drugs on Practitioners in Brainwashing Classes in Wuhan City, Hubei Province

    According to concerned sources, Wuhan Falun Dafa practitioners have been arrested and sent to brainwashing classes. They have been persecuted with the use of drugs, as those responsible poisoned the food and water the practitioners ate and drank. The drugs secretly put into the food are poisons that affect the nervous system. Previously healthy practitioners have developed many symptoms as a result of this form of persecution. Symptoms range from dizziness, irregular heartbeat, unusually fast heart rate (resting heart rate of more than 100/minute), unusual physical responses, irregular mind/body coordination (for example, being mentally alert without restlessness, but yet with a heartbeat far above normal).
  • Mr. Xie Hongmin Was Sent to a Brainwashing Centre in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province after His Forced Labour Term Expired

    After July 20th, 1999, Mr. Xie Hongmin went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and hoped the state leaders would stop persecuting Falun Gong. He was arrested in Beijing and sent back to Chengdu City. He was first detained in Chengdu Drug Rehabilitation Centre. Then he was sent to Dayan Forced Labour Camp for one year of forced labour. After his release, he was kept under surveillance by his local hometown government. He was arrested for leaflets exposing the persecution and sentenced to four years of forced labour and sent to Guangyuan Forced Labour Camp.
  • Hebei Province Taihang Prison's Atrocities Against Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Liu Jinying refused to accept brainwashing. The guards incited criminals to take turns to beat her. There was a criminal called Ma Li. She grabbed Ms. Liu's hair and hit her head against a wall more than 300 times. Another criminal called Zuo Maomao deliberately stepped on Liu Jinying's feet and ripped off three of her toenails. She sexually assaulted Liu Jinying and hit her until her body was black and blue all over. She scratched Ms. Liu's oral cavity raw. Ms. Liu's face was also bruised. These tortures lasted for more than half a year.
  • The Shanghai City 610 Office Fabricated Evidence to Put Mr. Lin Mingli on Trial

    On the morning of November 10th, 2006, the Putuo District Court of Shanghai City sentenced Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lin Mingli to six years in prison, but the trial is based on fabricated evidence. During the trial, the prosecutor only provided Ms. Li Hua's statement and one disc as evidence, and Ms. Li Hua, the witness, wasn't present at the trial. Ms. Li Hua called the disc the "master disc," but in fact, any disc can be used as a master disc to make copies. More importantly, this disc was not found in Mr. Lin Mingli's house, but was provided by Ms. Li Hua.
  • Mr. Cao Dong, Arrested Immediately After Meeting With VP of European Parliament, to Stand "Trial" on Friday in Lanzhou City Court, Gansu Province

    Gansu Province People's Court, a body of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) totalitarian rule, is planning to put Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cao Dong on trial. Mr. Cao Dong met with Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott on May 21st, 2006 and exposed the persecution of Falun Gong to him. For this, the CCP is arranging for him to be tried on charges including: Illegally connecting with an international "anti-China force". Ever since Mr. Cao Dong was arrested on the day of his meeting with the European Parliament Vice President Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, his parents, parents-in-law, and his later-released (from Beijing Women's Labour Camp) wife have not been allowed to visit him.
  • Persecution-Related Deaths of Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Verified in November 2006

    Ms. Cao Aihua had breast cancer before practising Falun Dafa. After only one week of practising Falun Gong she started to recover. After the persecution began, she persistently appealed for Dafa and was detained and sent to a labour camp multiple times. Her mother knelt before the police officers. She told them how her daughter regained her health from practising Falun Gong, and begged them not to put her daughter into the forced labour camp. In November she was sent to the Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Xinjiang. Only several days later she was tortured to death.
  • A Mother Loses Three Family Members to the Persecution (Photos)

    On September 3rd, 2004 prison guards tied Bi Wenming to a Tiger Bench. Starting at noon, five or six guards took turns torturing Bi Wenming with an electric baton. Every time a guard shocked him, Bi Wenming twitched painfully on the Tiger Bench. He would barely regain consciousness from the last shock before the next one came. At first Bi Wenming clenched his teeth and kept quiet, but after more than ten minutes, he couldn't take it anymore and screamed in pain. Bi Wenming was having trouble breathing. This young man had been tortured to death by the guards in less than 30 minutes.