Torture

• The 610 Office and National Security Office of Guangshui City, Hubei Province, Persecute Mr. Zhang Pengfei

  2006-11-18
  On Wednesday, September 6th, 2006, Deputy Secretary Hu Dekui of the Guangshui Administration Office in Hubei Province took Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Pengfei to Xiaogan for a brainwashing session. Mr. Hu said, "The order to apprehend Mr. Zhang came all the way from the top. State officials are not allowed to practise Falun Gong, and because Mr. Zhang practises, he must be "transformed." We didn't really want to do this because we don't have the funds and now we'll have to pay a few thousand yuan for his living expenses and send along an official to accompany him."
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• Ms. Chen Weijun Persecuted in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2006-11-17
  On September 30th, 2006, practitioner Ms. Chen Weijun was sent to the prison hospital. After 10 days, not a single doctor had checked in on her or asked her about her condition. On October 5th, a criminal inmate named Xu Jinlan saw that Ms. Chen was meditating and slapped her in the face. Then head inmate Xiu Shufen had two other inmates watch her 24 hours a day. They also had many criminals surround and shout at her. They said they had orders from Zhao Yingling to do so. The criminals also used the the cover of a plastic box to slap her face. They punched her and threw her from one bed to another. As a result, her legs turned black and blue.
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• Six Deaths Due to the Persecution Recently Learned

  2006-11-17
  During the last seven years of bloody persecution by Jiang Zemin's regime and the Chinese Communist Party, many practitioners who cultivate the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" have been persecuted both physically and mentally. The Jiang regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used each other for their own ends to inhumanely persecute this most kind-hearted group of people in Chinese society. As a result, many practitioners have been physically harmed and mentally injured. Some of these practitioners have even died while uncleared of false charges.
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• Recent Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison

  2006-11-17
  Ms. Liu Dan is 31 years old. On March 1st, 2006 she was arrested and taken to Heilongjiang Women’s Prison and has been on a hunger strike for more than four months. Convicts Xiao Lihua, Zhang Jing and Gao Hong used forced-feeding to torture Liu Dan. Every time they force-fed her they tied her to a chair or a bed and taped her mouth or pulled her to the floor by yanking her hair. Ms. Liu Dan was persecuted until she became very weak. Finally the perpetrators had no choice but to send Lui Dan to the infirmary, where murderer Li Guixiang continued persecuting her.
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• Stories of Practitioners Who Died as a Result of Persecution

  2006-11-17
  On September 28th, 2001, 52-year-old Ms. Wang Xiurong was arrested by the police and dragged down the stairs from the third floor. She was detained at the local police station, where she was severely beaten by the Deputy Director, and was not released until she was tortured to near the point of death. The 610 Office also forced her to write a letter renouncing her beliefs and practice of Falun Gong, otherwise her son would lose his job. She developed rectal cancer and passed away on September 23rd, 2003.
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• Practitioners Poisoned Intravenously at Weifang Detention Centre in Shandong Province

  2006-11-16
  After being injected with this poisonous material, the practitioner immediately felt dizzy with blurred vision. His feet and hands began swelling the next day and getting worse by the day. He had generalised muscle aches with worsening oedema, and he became covered with blisters all over his body accompanied by extreme itchiness. After the skin was scratched open it formed layers of scars, leaving black or brown discolouration. One month after the injection, his nails began to fall off and he experienced hair loss. In the end he lost almost all of his hair.
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• Further Information on Elderly Ms. Cheng Guilan's Death in 2002 As a Result of Persecution by the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp in Anning District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

  2006-11-16
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cheng Guilan, was over 60 years old and a senior engineer. One night in October 2002, she was sent to the No.2 Forced Labour Camp in Lanzhou City. Within 48 hours, she was secretly tortured to death by the guards in the forced labor camp. In order to cover up their crimes, the labour camp lied by saying that Ms. Cheng's life had been in danger when she was brought there. Yet the prisoner assigned to monitor Ms. Cheng admitted, "When she was sent here, she was very healthy."
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• In Remembrance of Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong

  2006-11-16
  In 2004, after suffering a series of inhumane tortures, Mr. Zhang Zhong was in critical condition – all his organs were malfunctioning, he had spasms in muscles all over his body, partial psychological paralysis, breathing complications, irregular heartbeat and he was in a coma for long periods of time. His blood pressure constantly oscillated around 40-50 mm. Hg. He was reduced to skin and bones. Only in this near-death situation did the prison agree to have him bailed out for medical treatment. Even then, the city was barricaded and Zhang Zhong was not allowed to go outside Daqing City for treatment in Harbin. Seeing his emaciated son, Zhang Zhong's father could only cry silently and helplessly.
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• Jiuquan Prison Authorities in Gansu Province Frenziedly Persecute Dafa Practitioners

  2006-11-16
  Prisoners tried to force practitioners to write the "four statements" to renounce Falun Dafa. Practitioners who refused to give in would be brutally tortured by policemen and prisoners alike with methods such as: scalding with boiling water and burning with cigarette butts; striking with a iron hook and scalding with a heated iron hook; eight policemen and prisoners hold one practitioners down and savagely beat him; placing live rats in practitioners' trousers; chaining practitioners in a way that they could neither stand nor squat.
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• Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jiang Yuejun Suffered from Persecution at the Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp

  2006-11-16
  A member of Mr. Jiang Yuejun's family visited him in Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp. They learned that Mr. Jiang's throat was so severely damaged that he could barely speak. The sound of his voice had completely changed. Mr. Jiang said his throat was injured because of the beatings the guards gave him under orders. Division head Feng said, "We were quite nice to him in the first week he was here." Mr. Jiang has been imprisoned for more than two weeks. It's apparent that Mr. Jiang was subjected to severe abuse during the second week. Mr. Jiang told his family that his "environment" was very bad. He lost so much weight that he now weighs less than 100 pounds.
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• Ms. Li Bin Recalls How She Was Tortured and Shocked by Guards in the Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Office

  2006-11-15
  Practitioner Ms Li Bin experienced ruthless torture, especially electric shocks, which nearly killed her. In an interview a reporter asked: "How did it feel when you were shocked by electric batons?" Li Bin replied: "When the guards us shocked me, I was sweating all over and my clothes were wet. I first felt pain, as if I was being pierced with needles. I heard the sizzling noise. It was truly horrendous. I could also smell the burning of my hair and skin. Sometimes the electricity went to my brain. That was even worse. It felt like I was having a seizure because the nerves were stimulated on top of the pain. You can only try to imagine what kind of feeling that is."
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• Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Guo Lirong from Chengdu City Persecuted to the Point of Multiple-Organ Failure

  2006-11-15
  45-year-old Ms. Guo Lirong was arrested after work on September 8th, 2006. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was taken to the Qingyang District People’s Hospital, a prison hospital that colludes with government officials in persecuting Dafa practitioners. She was handcuffed in a hospital bed and forcibly given an IV infusion. It was recently learned that Guo Lirong has developed symptoms of multiple-organ failure due to long-term persecution, and her life is in danger. The police released her on October 8th, 2006.
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• The Chinese Communist Party Is Arresting Falun Dafa Practitioners with the Excuse of Protecting the Olympics

  2006-11-15
  On October 30th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Fengqiu was arrested by police and sent to the Masanjia Labour Camp in the afternoon. When Ms. Li's family member went to the Taihe District Police Department to request her release, Officer Han Yaobang from the legal justice office told them that Falun Gong was interfering with the 2008 Olympic Games that will be held in Beijing, and hence, all Falun Gong coordinators must be arrested.
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• The Plight of a Woman's Family in Wuhan

  2006-11-15
  From October 1999 to present, Hu Mingxiu has been detained five times. Her husband Liu Yongsheng has been arrested three times and he is now detained in Qinduankou Prison. Her family’s home was ransacked three times. Her elderly mother ultimately died from the stress of this long-term intimidation. This is the unjust story of an ordinary working woman who, simply because she practises Falun Gong and tries to improve her moral standard, has suffered so much persecution.
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• The Life of Zhao Yougang from Shandong Province in His 30s Is in Danger Due to Severe Persecution

  2006-11-14
  Zhao Yougang, a Dafa practitioner from Weifang City, has been tortured in a prison in Wuxi City for several years, and his life is now in great danger. On the first day there, he was tied to an "iron chair". He had already been on a long-time hunger strike, which made him very weak. Half an hour later he fainted. He was then sent to the hospital. This hospital was notorious for its violence and mistreatment of prisoners. Zhao Yougang weighed very little, but because of the torture, his body was swollen like a balloon. Under the strategy of "if he isn't transformed, let him die," the prison launched one campaign after another to torture him.
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