Torture
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A Four-Year-Old Boy Is Orphaned When Mother Is Sentenced and Family Members Die
2006-10-13
In March 2004, police from the 610 Office in Zhaoyuan City arrested practitioner Ms. Mao Fulian and sentenced her to a five-year prison term. Her son was only two years old at that time, and her husband and parents-in-law were looking after him. In 2005, her mother-in-law and husband both passed away. In September, her 78-year-old father-in-law was hospitalised due to illness. Now, there is no one who can take care of her four-year-old son. -
Several Practitioners in Henan, Hunan, Hubei and Liaoning Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution
2006-10-1368-year-old Mr. Mo Dechu was a practitioner from Hunan Province. He previously had many illnesses. When he learned Falun Dafa his illnesses got much better. After July 20th 1999, he was monitored, threatened, and intimidated by the authorities. He appealed for Dafa in 2000 and was detained by the police many times. The lawless people went to his home to subject him to brainwashing, and forbade him from practising Falun Gong. Mo Dechu passed away on October 20th, 2003. -
College Teacher Mr. Meng Fanquan from Hebei Polytechnic University Was Arrested and Tried
2006-10-13
On September 12th, 2006, Mr. Meng Fanquan was brought to Lubei Court in a police car and subjected to a sham trial. Only three of his family members were allowed in to listen. Mr. Meng represented himself, defending his innocence. There were about 50 or 60 people in the yard who had come to support him. One of them cried: "Release Meng Fanquan and declare him not guilty!" As he was about to step into the car, his wife bravely rushed over the security line, but officers pushed her away. Someone called out: "Don't beat people!" -
A Practitioner's Personal Account of 33 Days in Detention
2006-10-13On August 9th, 2006, I went to Mingyang City Market to explain the facts about Falun Dafa to people. I was caught by five or six police officers. I refused to cooperate and they told me to put my hands up. Resisting their orders, I tried to run away but they caught and threw me to the ground. I could not move my lower body. They tried to take me to the police car, but I refused to get in, so they dragged me in. In the car, they beat and kicked me while holding me down in the empty space between the seats. I struggled to get on the seat. I was then taken to the police station where a policeman interrogated me. -
7-Year-Old: "I Want My Mum and Dad to Come Back"
2006-10-12"My name is Tiantian and I'm seven years old. One day in September 1999 some policemen broke into my home and forced my mum and dad into a police van. Mum held me tightly in her arms. At the time I was only ten months old. The policemen wouldn't let us go home and they detained the three of us in a deserted building. Every day there were four guards watching over us in shifts. How terrible and cold that broken building was! Another time policemen dragged my mum from home and took her away. The policemen dragged me from her, and I desperately cried, "Mum!" I was so scared and I didn't want to leave her." -
Details on the Persecution of Practitioners at Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia
2006-10-12Besides using forced labour to torture practitioners, they also force practitioners to attend "brainwashing sessions," where they use despicable, underhanded methods to persecute practitioners. Information about these crimes is tightly sealed, and even regular criminals or non-participating guards do not know what goes on inside. The more-than twenty practitioners imprisoned there are subjected to both physical and psychological tortures that are inhumane beyond words. They have been beaten with electric batons after midnight so that their cries and shouts are not heard. The guards handcuff the practitioner, put a motorcycle helmet on his head, and then shock him with several electric batons. -
A Mother Goes to Visit her Son in Prison for Three Years but is Denied - Only For Him to Be Secretly Transferred by the 610 Office on His Release
2006-10-12During the three years of her son's prison detention Mr. Wu Zhiqiang's mother never gave up appealing for her son. On every family visiting day, she would arrive at the prison in the early morning and ask to meet her son. However, she was never allowed to see him until he was released. After his release on August 3rd, 2006, the director of the 610 Office Xie Guanchang, led a group of people to abduct Mr. Wu. He was sent directly to a brainwashing session for further persecution. -
Exposing the Torture of Practitioners in Hunan Province Women's Prison
2006-10-12I have been detained in Hunan Province Women's Prison due to my belief in Falun Dafa. Practitioners are locked in solitary confinement for reading Falun Dafa articles, or doing the exercises, and their hands are cuffed behind their backs, with one arm over the shoulder. Sometimes their feet and hands are cuffed together. Guards with electric batons shock practitioners, or hang them from their handcuffed wrists, only allowing the tips of their toes to touch the floor. The solitary confinement cell is very small, and practitioners must eat, drink and go to the toilet in the cell. -
The Persecution Tore Apart My Family
2006-10-12In Guizhou's Zhongba forced labour camp, Falun Gong practitioners are forced to perform slave labour for long periods of time. Food rations are poor quality and scanty. Imprisoned practitioners work from 8:00 a.m until 3:00 a.m. the next morning. Sometimes, practitioners have to work all night, and the same routine continues the next day. All this time, prison guards and inmates constantly beat practitioners. The extended work hours and prolonged sleep deprivation damaged my brain. Now, whenever I think hard, I feel dizzy and get a headache. -
18-Year-Old Girl Sentenced to Three years in Prison for Appealing for Her Father
2006-10-1118-year-old Zhu Xiuyun was working outside of her hometown and heard news that her father, practitioner Mr. Zhu Yanghe, was arrested, and sentenced to prison and that her home was raided. She could not understand why all of this took place. On August 19th, 2006, Zhu Xiuyun went to the county courthouse with an appeal letter. The courthouse contacted the head of the county 610 Office, Li Shilin, who called the county police station. Over ten police officers showed up and arrested the young girl without any documentation or just cause. She was sentenced to three years in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. -
Authorities of Shandong Province Viciously Persecute Practitioner Mr. Gai Guangqi
2006-10-11Mr. Gai Guangqi is a 56-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. After becoming a practitioner, his health improved and his spirit was uplifted. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Dafa, Mr. Gai went many times to appeal in Beijing, speaking out in support of Dafa. As a result, he has been detained, suffered extortion and torture many times at the hands of local authorities, suffered three years of forced labour, endured brainwashing and more. -
The Tortures Practitioners Have Been Subjected to at Duyun Prison in Guizhou Province
2006-10-11In their attempt to force Falun Dafa practitioners to give up their belief, the officers at Duyun Prison use all kinds of torture methods to torment and brutalise them. They have given these methods nicknames and compiled an assortment of tortures into what they call a "menu" e.g. "Stir-Fry Kidney": One or two prisoners raise the practitioner's arms and strike at the waist and kidney area with their elbows until the victim vomits blood; "Plucking Chicken Wings" The practitioner's hands are cuffed behind the back and then he's hung from bunk beds, or the arms are stretched and cuffed between bunk beds. -
Retired Couple from Tsinghua University Sent to Forced Labour Camp; Daughter in US Pleads for Their Release
2006-10-11Falun Gong practitioners 63-year-old Mr. Fu Yong'an and 63-year-old Ms. Liu Xianglan, both retired employees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, were sentenced to forced labour camps for two years. Ms. Liu's family members were allowed to meet with her for the first time on September 11th, 2006, after she had been detained for six months. The family met with Mr. Fu once at the end of July 2006. According to the family, Mr. Fu and Ms. Liu are both now very thin. From their conversations with the couple, the family learned that the conditions at Qinghe Detention Centre are very bad. -
Persecution in the No. 9 Ward of Harbin City Women's Prison
2006-10-11Harbin City Women's Prison brainwash the practitioners under duress. Starting in the spring of 2002, they dictated that the practitioners who refused to renounce Falun Gong have to walk all the time, from spring to winter. In 2003, the different teams dragged outside female practitioners who refused to cooperate. Then male guards would torture them. They used whips and electric batons against the practitioners, in addition to punching and kicking them. In winter, they make the practitioners go outside and stay there for several days in a row. The practitioners are also forced to lie on their stomaches on piles of excrement. Some practitioners' feet and hands have become frostbitten. -
64-Year-Old Ms. Liu Xizhen from Jilin Province Persecuted to Death
2006-10-10Ms. Liu Xizhen, a 64-year-old Dafa practitioner, went to Changchun City with several dozen practitioners to appeal to the local government for the release of all arrested Falun Gong volunteer coordinators in July 1999 and was arrested. She was sent to a brainwashing centre to try to force her to renounce Falun Dafa . Later she was detained in a detention centre tortured by criminals, who urinated on them and fed unhulled, rotten corn soaked in water. Ms. Liu suffered tremendous mental pressure and lived under constant stress. At home she suffered constant break-ins, threats and extortion. On August 30th, 2006, Liu Xizhen passed away during the night.
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