Torture

  • Information About Ms. Liu Liyun's Death in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    44-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Liyun was sentenced to four years imprisonment on December 6th, 2001. She was persecuted in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, and died on July 23rd, 2002. The prison claimed that she died from illness and forcibly cremated her body. When prison officials found out that Ms. Liu had died, they immediately fabricated a story. They moved her into a hospital and spread a lie that Ms. Liu had died from a hunger strike.
  • Practitioner Mr. Chen Jiansheng Killed by IV Drip Infused with Urine after Force-Feeding with Highly Concentrated Salt Water at Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp in Shaanxi Province

    Mr. Chen Jiansheng was thrown into Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp and tortured to death. In September 2005, Mr. Chen went on a hunger strike to protest the cruel tortures forced upon him. To punish him, inmates subjected him to the "Death Bed torture" as well as the torture of force-feeding. The purpose of force-feeding is never to nourish the victim. In fact, violence is always used in the process of force-feeding Falun Gong practitioners. In Mr. Chen's case, it caused profuse bleeding in his nose and mouth. The torturers force-fed Mr. Chen with highly saturated salt water. He was then given an IV solution mixed with urine, which caused Mr. Chen to die in terrible agony.
  • How Jiamusi City Labour Camp Persecuted Falun Dafa Practitioner Wu Chunlong to Death

    Mr. Wu Chunlong was sentenced to three years of forced labour for practising Falun Dafa. Two criminals, tortured him for more than a month. Every day they carried Wu Chunlong to the washroom, took off his clothing and poured cold water over him. Being doused with water during the winter is extremely cruel! One freezes instantly. Because Wu Chunlong maintained a continuous hunger strike, the evildoers kept the inserted nasal tube in place and filled it with a large amount of a mixture containing powdered milk and lots of saline-solution. Wu Chunlong was released when he was close to death, but he was suffering from renal failure. He died shortly after his returning home.
  • Mr. Shi Fafu in Shandong Province Died after Being Forcefully Sent to Labour Camp by 610 Office

    On July 5th, 2006, 66-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shi Fafu was arrested by local "610 Office" agents and sent to a forced labour camp where he was was forced to do heavy labour and tortured until he was very weak. He was released home after a doctor could not treat him any more. He died on November 14th, 2006.
  • The Mental Torment and Physical Persecution I Have Endured from the Age of 16

    After police arrested me at home I was sent to Jixian Detention Centre. Guard Wang Yan beat me. My nose bled. They forced me to half-squat. They burned my face with cigarette lighters. They also put water-filled bottles and wooden sticks between my fingers. If I moved a little bit, they'd start to beat me. Later that evening they stopped and sent me to a cell. I was only 16 years old at the time. They noticed that I was young, so they tried to intimidate and scare me. They wanted me to renounce Falun Dafa but I did not.
  • Practitioner Mr. Yu Ming Suffers Brutal Tortures at the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing

    Mr. Yu Ming was arrested on March 3rd, 2006 and is detained at the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. Several criminals were ordered to torture him every day. If they refused, they themselves would suffer brutal beatings by the guards. Yu Ming was tied to a bed 24 hours a day and suffered from brutal force-feeding. The police doctor mixed sedatives and sleeping medications with the mixture they force-fed him. Yu Ming was sedated all day long. He was tied to the bed and unable to move. His physical and mental condition has been severely damaged, and he is very weak.
  • Practitioner Mr. Yu Jinfang, Imprisoned for 4 Years Because He Aided Another Practitioner, Passes Away 10 Days After Release from Prison

    63-year-old Yu Jinfang was held at Lanzhou Prison because he refused to renounce Falun Dafa. He spent five years in prison and became physically and psychologically devastated. The sentence imposed on Mr. Yu expired in November 2006. His family took him home on November 13th. He was emaciated, extremely weak and could not eat anything. He vomited frequently. He said the condition had started two months before his release from prison. It became increasingly difficult for Yu Jinfang to eat, and he vomited even more frequently. He passed away at 6:00 p.m. on November 25th.
  • Mr. Chen Jihai Persecuted at the Erdao Township Police Station in Jilin City, Jilin Province

    Chen Jihai was detained in Fengman Police Station. Under numerous types of cruel mental and physical torture, Chen Jihai suffered tremendous mental stress. On his way to the toilet, he fell down from the fifth floor accidentally. He lost his balance when policeman Su Xiaodong was pulling him and thus suffered a severe arm fracture and two cracked ribs. His feet have been paralysed ever since. He also fell unconscious with physical paralysis, and has lost the ability to live independently.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Yang Xuehua's Whole Body Paralysed from Torture Administered by National Security Agents in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Yang Xuehua was arrested and tortured by police on September 11th, 2006. His whereabouts were unknown for a while. Recently, it is reported that Yang Xuehua's whole body is paralysed and he suffered a mental collapse from the torture. The police had to send him to Zhuozhou City Hospital for emergency treatment and spent more than 60,000 yuan for his care.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Sentenced in Qiaodong Court, Zhangjiakao City, Hebei Province

    Since Jiang Zemin's regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Chen Yanqing, head of the Qiaodong Court and other offices in Zhangjiakao City, Hebei Province, sentenced and detained many Falun Dafa practitioners. For the past seven years, more than 14 innocent practitioners have suffered torture in prison, had their families torn apart, and have seen their relatives and close friends suffer harassment and mental devastation. The large number of practitioners sent directly to forced labour camp without any judicial procedure is difficult to count.
  • Current Conditions of Practitioners Persecuted in Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province

    Li Degao, director of the Public Security Bureau in Liupanshui City, has actively participated in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. He plotted the arrests of many practitioners while he was the head of the 610 Office in the Zhongshan District, Liupanshui City. He was promoted to director of the Public Security Bureau in Liupanshui City and continued rampantly arresting practitioners. In October, three practitioners from Wangjiazai Mine were arrested.
  • Woman Killed For Writing Quit CCP Slogans on Bank Notes

    Cao Aihua from Akesu City, Xinjiang province was tortured to death within one week of being interned in a labour and re-education camp for writing a slogan of quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a Chinese bank note (Renminbi). Cao's family was unable to accept the fact that she was tortured to death and filed a lawsuit against the Urumqi Women Labour and Re-education Camp. The case has now been transferred to the Xinjiang Supreme People's Procuratorate.
  • A Female Practitioner Who Escaped From China: I Was Persecuted in Shanghai Women's Prison

    I am a Falun Gong practitioner who just escaped from the clutches of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I am one of those fortunate enough to reside overseas. The CCP sentenced me to five years in the Shanghai City Women's Prison. All the products made by the inmates at the prison were for export. Inmates made clothes, trousers, cushion seats, national flags (I made over ten thousand British flags), toys, wool sweaters, shirts with shiny beads, bedding, chopsticks, napkins, envelops, lunch boxes, plastic bags, paper bags.
  • Ms. Zhang Guiqin from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province Dies in Detention, the Lives of Ms. Qi Dawei and Ms. An Jingtao Are in Danger

    Ms. Zhang Guiqin went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution at the end of October 2006. On November 8th she was sent to the Hepingchang Hospital. Ms. Zhang Guiqin was in deep unconsciousness, had bowel and bladder incontinence, and difficulty breathing. She was dying but was still guarded day and night, and even had ankle shackles put on during the night. Ms. Zhang Guiqin died around 1:00 a.m. on December 4th in the Hepingchang Hospital.
  • Police in Tianmen City, Hubei Province, Break into and Ransack a School Teacher's Home

    On November 9th, 2006, Ms. He Meirong, a teacher was in her office correcting students' homework when the school principal and the director from the police station asked her to come out for a talk. She saw through their ill intention, so she refused to go with them. She tried to run away, but the two caught her and dragged her to the school entrance. With the help of some kindhearted people, she was able to escape. 610 Office officials ransacked Ms. He's home and took away her computer, Dafa books among other things. At present, she still cannot return to her teaching position.