Torture

• Communist Party Regime Agents in the Towns of Xinjia and Longkou in Longkou City, Shandong Province Use Physical Torture to Try to Force Practitioners to Renounce Their Beliefs

  2006-11-01
  On October 6th, 1999, Mr. Yin Xiangyang and his wife went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong to the Supreme Court and to report on how Falun Gong was being persecuted. Communist agents escorted them to the local detention centre and locked them up. The guards ordered the prisoners to beat Mr. Yin with their slippers three or four times. When Mr. Yin's detention was almost over, guard Xing once again brutally beat him. When they found that Mr. Yin did not yield to their brutal beatings, they then used electric batons to shock him.
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• Four Practitioners in Shandong and Yunnan Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution

  2006-11-01
  Mr. Xu Zhiming was 56 years old. Mr. Xu travelled to Beijing and appealed for Falun Gong several times, but the local regime arrested, detained, and tortured him, and ransacked his home many times. One evening in 2003, while Mr. Xu was doing the Dafa exercises with another practitioner, local police station broke into his home, arrested him, and detained him in Laixi City Prison, where he was tortured. They then sentenced him to two years of forced labour and didn't release him until December 2004. After that, 610 Office often harassed him at home even though his health was deteriorating. In June 2006 he was diagnosed with late stage gastric cancer and died on the afternoon of August 24th, 2006.
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• For Seven Years Mr. Song Jiwei and His Family in Donggang City, Liaoning Province Have Been Persecuted

  2006-11-01
  In June 2000, Mr Song Jiwei was arrested by the police after he sent a Falun Gong article to another practitioner. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour and brutally tortured mentally and physically. The police used all kinds of tortures including "sitting on a board" [the victim's legs are stretched straight on a board, movement is not allowed, and should he move, he is beaten. As a result, the victim is unable to walk immediately following this torture.], "sitting on the triangle iron board" [the victim must sit on a triangular iron board at the edge of a bed, stretch his legs and clamp a piece of paper between his feet. When the paper falls, the police beat him and use a cigarette lighter to burn his toes], and an electric baton to persecute him.
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• Chen Zhongsheng of Zhejiang Province Arrested Again and Put Into Forced Labour Camp

  2006-11-01
  Chen Zhongsheng, 38, was fired because he practised Falun Gong. On October 10th, 2000, he was sentenced to forced labour for two years and sent to the Shiliping Forced Labour Camp. The camp started a ten-day torture process on him with the aim of brainwashing him into opposing Falun Gong. He was ordered to sit on a bench that had a wooden back and a seat made of two narrow metal bars. They then tied all his limbs to the bench and made him immobile. They forbade him to sleep, urinate, or defecate. He was allowed only a very small amount of rice and water each day. Most people would not be able to last for a day or two without sleep, but he was deprived of sleep for ten days.
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• After Meeting with Vice Chairman of European Parliament, Mr. Cao Dong Is Secretly Arrested and Transfered to Gansu Province

  2006-10-31
  Because of the meeting with Vice Chairman Edward McMillan-Scott, one of the six members of the of the European Parliament (MEP), Mr. Cao Dong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing, was secretly arrested and imprisoned in a detention centre in his hometown in the Gansu Province. On September 29th, 2006, the Chinese police issued an arrest warrant, claiming that Mr. Cao produced Falun Gong materials. It is quite evident that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its accomplices deliberately concealed the true reason for the arrest and the location where Mr. Cao is imprisoned for fear of international condemnation.
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• Details of the Death of Mr. Xiao Peng, 30, from Liaoning Province and the Persecution of Whole Family

  2006-10-31
  Falun Gong practitioner Xiao Peng suffered brutal torture for eighteen months in Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp. These tortures included electric shocks, brutal beatings, being detained in a consolidated compartment, being tied on the death bed, being forced to stand straight for a long time, intensive labour and more. Xiao Peng suffered a mental collapse, so the labour camp sent him home. On June 9th, 2002 he died at the age of 30.
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• Practitioner Mr. Hou Zhen'an from Jiamusi Passed Away after His Entire Family Was Persecuted

  2006-10-31
  Mr. Hou Zhen'an, 71 years old, was repeatedly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because he refused to renounce Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution and told people the facts of Falun Dafa. In June 2003, police found leaflets exposing the persecution in Mr. Hou's home and he was imprisoned in a tiny cage. His family also were arrested. The long term harassment, arrests, and threats took a tremendous psychological and physical toll on Mr. Hou, and he passed away on September 30th, 2006.
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• The Persecution of a Peasant Woman in Tianjin City

  2006-10-31
  63-year-old practitioner Ms. Li Qinglian repeatedly appealed for justice for Falun Dafa and was detained several times. Police applied all types of means to physically torture her to force her to renounce Dafa. On In June 2001 she was taken to the Jianxin Forced Labour Camp, where they tried all types of brutal torture methods, such as beating, cursing, strenuous physical labour, as well as other types of corporal punishment. By March 2003, Ms. Li Qinglian suffered from hypertension, and on March 18th, she had a stroke. Ms. Li has become handicapped due to the severe torture and can no longer take care of herself.
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• Supplementary Information Regarding the Death of Wen Yingxin

  2006-10-31
  On August 7th, 2006, Wen Yingxin was reported to the authorities when he was posting Falun Gong materials and arrested. He went on a hunger strike to protest. From August 8th to August 16th, he was force-fed in the Shenyang City Detention Centre and then in a critical condition he was sent to hospital and passed away. The Shenyang City Detention Centre, the Xiaobei Police Station, and the No. 739 Hospital refused to give his family a Medical Certificate. The detention centre authorities claimed that Wen Yingxin died in the hospital, so they do not bear any responsibility.
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• Mr. Zhang Zhong, 35, Died in the Harbin City Police Hospital in Heilongjiang Province (Photos)

  2006-10-30
  After tapping into cable TV in Changchun City to broadcast a video exposing the persecution was successfully done in 2002 by practitioners in Changchun, Mr. Zhang Zhong was arrested in April 2002 and sentenced to ten years in prison and detained in the Daqing City Prison until July 2002, where he went through inhuman tortures. Later he was arrested again. He died on October 16th, 2006, in the Harbin City Police Hospital.
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• A Falun Dafa Practitioner's Wife Tearfully Exposes the Persecution of Her Husband

  2006-10-30
  In 1999, Jiang Zemin and the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong for no justifiable reasons. My husband was repeatedly called into the local police station. The local police and the 610 Office all wanted him to give up the practice. He refused. Because he refused, he was taken to the Brainwashing Centre by the 610 Office. At that time, they forced him to write the so-called Three Statements. Later he was arrested again and taken to prison. Several thugs beat him until he started to spit blood.
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• The Torture Experienced by Practitioner Ms. Zhang Sufang from Henan Province

  2006-10-30
  I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing three separate times. I was immediately taken to the Chaoyang District Detention Centre, where I suffered from all types of torture. The guards ordered four criminals to beat me and to rip off my clothes. Only my underclothes were left on. Then they punched and kicked me while wearing their leather shoes for more than three hours. My whole body was black and blue. I was spitting up blood, and I fell on the ground. I was also force-fed with pepper water.
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• Ms Li Guiqin Tortured in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province

  2006-10-30
  On October 30th, 2002, Ms. Li Guiqin was sentenced to three years of forced labour and was taken to Jiamusi City Labour Camp. In 2003, the authorities tortured her in an attempt to force Ms. Li to write the "four statements." On February 17th, 2004, Ms. Li was locked with cuffs for four days and three nights. Guards kicked Ms. Li's face with their heavy leather boots. Two of Ms. Li's incisors were knocked out at that time and three teeth became loose from the kicks. There was blood everywhere on the ground and on her body. Her term was extended without any reason.
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• 120 Falun Dafa Practitioners Detained in Lanzhou Prison Hold Group Hunger Strike

  2006-10-30
  Guards at the Lanzhou Prison have intensified the persecution of practitioners. They force all practitioners to write so called "critique reports" monthly. If a practitioner refuses, they forge the report and forcibly apply the practitioner's fingerprints to the document. To protest, 120 practitioners went on a group hunger strike on September 26th. They have become very weak and guards refused family visits this month.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Suxiang Tortured to Death - Family Threatened Upon Seeking Justice

  2006-10-29
  On September 12th, 2006, practitioner Chen Suxiang was arrested and officers took her to the Kaiping Police Station. They chained her hands and feet with handcuffs and shackles and tortured her for twenty four hours. Chen Suxiang died the next day, on September 13th. Chen Suxiang's mother went to the Kaiping Police Station to appeal for justice but nobody admitted guilt and only offered her 40,000 yuan bribe, which she refused. Next, Chen Suxiang's family visited the Kaiping Procuratorate asking for justice. The family was told that the Kaiping Police Station did nothing wrong when executing its law enforcement.
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