Torture

  • Mr. Wang Xiaosheng from Jilin Province Has Been Missing for Four Years

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaosheng, 35, lived in Jilin City, Jilin Province. He was arrested at his home in 2002, because he was printing leaflets telling the facts about Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution. Police interrogated him in the State Security Division, but Mr. Wang escaped custody the next day. He has not been heard from since.
  • Further Exposing the Crimes in Guizhou Province Lannigou Brainwashing Centre

    Since July 20th, 1999, encouraged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Guizhou Province Lannigou Brainwashing Centre has held several dozen brainwashing sessions. Personnel closely monitor Falun Dafa practitioners: there are three monitors for each practitioner. Of the three monitors, two watch the practitioners 24 hours a day, and the third one is in charge of the brainwashing materials. The CCP officials use all sorts of inhuman means to reach their brainwashing goals. They have even deceived practitioners into taking drugs that damage the nerves.
  • Hebei Province: Plainclothes Police Break into Practitioner Cui Fengluan's Home and Take Her Husband Away

    On October 11th, 2006, four plainclothes policemen broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Cui Fengluan. They did not identify themselves and rummaged through the rooms like criminals. Li Zengxiang, Cui Fengluan's husband,who is not a practitioner, thought they were robbers and tried to stop them. But two of them beat Li Zengxiang and then pushed him into a waiting vehicle. When asked by several people, they just said they were police searching for Falun Gong materials. However, they did not show any identification. They also beat the residents. Cui Fengluan escaped when they were not looking. Li Zengxiang was detained until midnight.
  • Sichuan Province Authorities Relentlessly Persecute 62-year-old Mr. Zhu Yajun

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhu Yajun from Chongzhou City, Sichuan Province is 62 years old. Over the past seven years, Mr. Zhu's family has been constantly harassed and monitored by Chongzhou municipal government officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The huge mental pressure Mr. Zhu suffered has harmed his health. Mr. Zhu and his wife have also been refused retirement pension. The director of the residents' committee told Mr. Zhu that only when he signed a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Dafa would they give him the basic living expenses. Mr. Zhu firmly refused.
  • Ms. Liu Xiangfen Escaped to the U.S. and Described Her Persecution Suffered in Beijing

    I am a Falun Dafa practitioner who came to the US from Beijing, China. Starting in 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong, I was detained four times. Two times I was held in a detention centre and the other two times in a forced labour camp. After I was released in 2005 my two-and-a-half-year-old daughter didn't recognise me any more and saw her babysitter as her mother. My elder daughter (10 years old) had also changed. My husband had a child with his mistress when I was detained at the forced labour camp and asked for a divorce.
  • Ms. Chen Weijun Again on the Brink of Death from Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

    Practitioner Ms. Chen Weijun was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment in 2002 because she practised Falun Gong. Now she is detained in the First Prison District in Harbin Women's Prison in Heilongjiang Province. In June 2005, after being tortured dozens of times, Ms. Chen was diagnosed with late stage uterine cancer. She was on the brink of death and released. In November 2005, she was sent to prison to be persecuted again by Nenjiang County Police Station.
  • Day in Court? How the Communist Party’s Court in Laixi City, Shandong Province, Denied Justice

    On October 8th, 2006, Judge Wang Huanxian from Laixi Courthouse called Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Yuxiang’s family and notified them that her court date would be October 10th, 2006. He did not tell them the location. Ms. Chen’s family went through much trouble to find out the location the next day and learned it would be inside the Dashan No. 3 Detention Centre in Qingdao City and that the actual date would be October 11th. On October 10th, Ms. Chen’s family requested to attend the court proceedings. The judge replied, "Chen Yuxiang has already signed the document refusing to have anyone defend her and refusing to meet with her family." (The truth is that Ms. Chen never signed such a document.)
  • Life in Danger in Panjin Prison: Mr. Tian Genghai from Dalian City, Liaoning Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Tian Genghai is now detained in Panjin City Prison in Liaoning Province. He refuses to participate in forced labour or to attend brainwashing sessions. Mr. Tian was tortured from August 18th, 2006, to August 21st. They shocked him with electric batons, slapped his face, and made him sit on the "Tiger Bench". Mr. Tian was on a hunger strike for 60 days. He is being force-fed, and his life is in danger.
  • Ms. Zhang Shulian from Shandong Province Taken to Jinan Women's Forced Labour Camp

    At noon on September 12th, 2006, after Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Shulian arrived home from shopping, police broke into her home and searched it thoroughly. They then tried to force Ms. Zhang to come with them, but she refused to cooperate and did not want to get into the vehicle. They hit her with their fists, kicked her, and physically carried her into the vehicle. They have by now secretly taken Ms. Zhang Shulian to the Jinan Women's Forced Labour Camp.
  • Exposing the Crimes Against Dafa Practitioners Committed in Inner Mongolia by the Labour Camp Bureau

    A letter written by a practitioner and secretly smuggled out of Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp: "Li Weidong gagged me with a towel and tied my hands behind my back. Then guards shocked me on the ears, face and neck with electric batons. The electric batons sparked and the electric shocks made my head shake continuously. Being tied up, my body was unable to move. I fell down. They turned my body over and shocked my forehead and ears. I bit the towel and endured the extreme pain. They shocked me with electric batons for thirty minutes, but I didn't give in. One guard took off my trousers. Li Weidong started shocking my belly. Later, he took off my underwear and shocked my anus with the electric baton."
  • Practitioner Tian Huiying Persecuted to Death at the Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province

    Tian Huiying had been subjected to inhumane abuse and torture such as beatings, insults, threats and deprivation of sleep for long periods of time. She was in a trance-like state, though her mind was clear. I saw red and black scars on her body and legs while she was bathing, and there was an imprint of a hand with five fingers on her back. This was specifically recorded by prisoner head Gao Qing. We asked how Tian Huiying was wounded. She told me that she was beaten by the people on the fourth floor.
  • Mr. Zhang Zhizhe from Jilin Province, 56, Dies from Injures Caused by Torture in 2001

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhizhe was arrested in September 2001 by 610 Office agents while posting stickers explaining the facts about Falun Dafa. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers shocked him with seven electric batons simultaneously. Mr. Zhang was severely injured, and his kidney was severely damaged. He was sentenced to three years of forced labour under such physical conditions. Guards at the camp sent him to the hospital, and extorted another three thousand yuan from him. Mr. Zhang endured huge pain both mentally and physically during the last five years of his life. He died on October 17th, 2006.
  • Mr. Su Guilin from Liaoning Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Su Guilin, in his 60s, had been harassed, threatened, and detained many times. On September 10th, 2005, police arrested Mr. Su Guilin at his home again and detained him in Tieling County Detention Centre. We heard that he escaped the next day when he was doing forced labour, and had to become destitute and homeless to avoid being arrested at home. On September 19th, 2006, Mr. Su Guilin suddenly returned home, as thin as a skeleton, and extremely weak. He died the following day.
  • Two Older Practitioners in Jiangsu Province Died After Being Subjected to Cruel Torture

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Juan, 72, a physician, was arrested when she was exposing the persecution at a hospital in the summer of 2005. When she was detained, she was brutally tortured by guards. She was tortured on the "tiger bench" for 28 days. Also, guards continuously berated her, and did not allow her to eat. After Ms. Chen Juan was tortured both mentally and physically, she did not recover. She died on May 15th, 2006.
  • More Details about the Murder of Practitioner Ms. Zhou Caixia in Inner Mongolia

    Ms. Zhou Caixia was arrested several times for practising Falun Dafa. In 2000, she was tortured by the police day and night and was then sent to a detention centre. In 2001 the police sent Ms. Zhou to the Huhehaote City Women's Labour Camp. There, she was persecuted to death's door and then released. In 2003 she was detained again in prison. The prison warden beat her severely. After she was tortured for many days, she was again beaten severely and then hung up by her handcuffs from the basketball hoop. The prison warden, Zhou Jianhua, did not release her until the next morning, after Ms. Zhou had been dead for a long time.