Torture
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High School Student in Jilin Province Indicts Police for Arrest and Torture
2006-10-10
On July 14th, 2006, 17-year-old high school student Zheng Yunlong, his father and his mother were taken to the Changjiang Road Police Station by eight police officers. They were interrogated and tortured to extort confessions. Police officer Li Chengbao beat Zheng Yunlong. He squeezed his mouth, punched his nose, and kicked his stomach, chest and legs. Several policemen kept kicking him while he lay on the ground and didn't allow him to sleep for 24 hours. -
Practitioners Mr. Liu Mingyue, Mr. Liu Shuhua, and Ms. Yang Shengyun from Shandong Province Suffer Persecution
2006-10-10On June 9th, 2001, Ms. Liu Shuhua was tricked into the Xiadingjia Brainwashing Centre by her work place. On June 13th, her husband was also taken there. In the brainwashing centre office workers repeatedly played audio and video tapes that slandered Falun Dafa. The detainees were also forced to reprimand Falun Dafa and to write the so-called three statements. Those who refused to write would be tortured and starved, confined in a solitary compartment, put under surveillance 24 hours-a-day, deprived of sleep, as well as physically tortured. There are tens of thousands of elderly people like Mr. Liu Mingyue and Ms. Liu Shuhua suffering from persecution in China. -
Detention Centre Doctor Values His Mobile Phone More Than the Life of a Falun Gong Practitioner
2006-10-10Because of my belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," I was arrested in 2001 and detained in a detention centre in Jilin Province. In order to regain my freedom, I started a hunger strike on the fifth day of the detention. Five or six prisoners held me down, and I could not move at all. Some of them pinched my nose and pried open my tightly closed teeth. Doctor Chen, who participated in the forced-feeding, dropped his mobile phone out of his shirt pocket into a basin of water. The doctor didn't care about my critical condition caused by the forced-feeding. He was more concerned about his mobile phone than me. He took it out of the water, cleaned it, wiped it off, and shook it. -
Information about Four Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution
2006-10-10Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gu Bengen, 59, quickly recovered from all of his illnesses since practising Falun Dafa. Mr. Gu was forcibly taken to a brainwashing centre for five months. During this five-month period, Mr. Gu's salary and bonus were withheld for six months, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials extorted 30,000 yuan from him. He was constantly harassed by officials. They either went to his home or called him on the phone, which severely interfered with his practising Falun Dafa. As a result of the relentless persecution, Gu Bengen died on September 1st, 2006. -
Relentless Persecution Causes Countless Tragedies All Over China
2006-10-09
Practitioner Ms. Wen Yingxin, 34 years old, was an accountant. She was posting Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution, when police officers arrested her. She died nine days later, on August 16th, 2006, covered in bruises. Ms. Wen left behind a seven-year-old son. Her husband had already divorced her because of tremendous pressure. Her parents, both in their 60s, were devastated by her death. Her mother is now bedridden. -
51-Year-Old Mr. Zhang Guibiao From Changchun City Persecuted to Death
2006-10-09Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Guibiao, 51, went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. Later in 2004, Mr. Zhang was arrested while producing leaflets exposing the persecution. They put a face mask over his head and took him to an unknown place. They tortured him by cuffing his hands behind his back, forcing him to sit on a tiger bench, and exposing him to freezing conditions. He was later sent to Tiebei Detention Centre in Changchun City, where he was detained for 18 months. Mr. Jiang Yong was tortured to death in July 2004 inside the Detention Centre. -
Ms. Wang Liqun from Heilongjiang Tortured to Death
2006-10-09On September 29th, 2006, Shuangcheng City State Security agents in Heilongjiang Province arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Sang Guizhen, Mr. Jia Junjie, Ms. Wang Liqun, and Ms. Wan Meijia (Ms. Wang Liqun's daughter) from Shuangcheng City. They also arrested practitioner Ms. Li Lan from Yilan County. On the evening of September 30th, 2006, Ms. Wang Liqun was tortured to death in the Second Detention Centre of Shuangcheng City during interrogation. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Cao Huashan from Shaanxi Province Persecuted to Death
2006-10-09Dafa practitioner couple Mr. Cao Huashan and Mrs. Li Shulian were teachers in Yan'an Middle School. They were persecuted numerous times and were forced to leave their home. In July 2006, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials arrested the couple, leaving their nineteen-year-old son home alone. The couple was once again sentenced to a forced labour camp. Mr. Cao was held in Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp in Shannxi Province and passed away from being persecuted sometime around August or September 2006. -
Torture Causes Mental Collapse of Dr. Li Huiyun, 42, Associate Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology
2006-10-09Dr. Li Huiyun was an associate professor at Hebei Technology University. She was severely persecuted because of her practice of Falun Gong at a brainwashing centre. She was deprived of sleep for several days, burnt with a cigarette, struck on the head, and verbally abused. She eventually suffered a mental collapse. On August 10th, 2004, Dr. Li was sent to a mental hospital. After one and a half months, she was then transferred to Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp for two years. Due to the intense pressure at the labour camp, she was sent to a mental hospital again in October, 2005. -
Mr. Li Jianbo and His Wife Liu Xiuyun Imprisoned – Their Eight-Year-Old Daughter Is Heartbroken
2006-10-08For refusing to renounce Falun Dafa, practitioners Mr. Li Jianbo and his wife Liu Xiuyun have been sentenced to prison for eight and four years, respectively. Mr. Li Jianbo was beaten until his head bled, and he still has a long scar on his head today. He was allowed to see his family only once before going to prison. Ms. Liu Xiuyun was fined 10,000 yuan. Their eight-year-old daughter cries every day, wishing to see her parents. She lives with her grandparents, who are both almost 70 years old, and do not have the ability to take good care of her. -
The Arrest of a 65-Year-Old Practitioner from Shandong Province
2006-10-08On September 18th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Jianguo’s home was ransacked. Following this incident, he and his middle son were both detained at Shilihe Detention Centre. Police officers from the township police station participated in ransacking Zhang Jianguo’s home. Since the Jiang Zemin regime started persecuting Falun Gong, Jiang Jianguo’s family has been harassed continuously. He is the backbone of his family and the main breadwinner, as his wife is unable to work. Yet she is now alone. -
Dalian City Police Arrest Practitioner Zhang Guoyu Again; His Family Can Find No Refuge from the Persecution
2006-10-08Xuanxuan, the 7-year-old son of Zhang Guoyu, misses his father very much. He wrote on a piece of paper: "There is nothing wrong with believing in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Give my father Zhang Guoyu back to me." On September 12th, 2006, police broke into Dafa practitioner Zhang Guoyu's workplace, arrested and detained him at a detention centre. Zhang Guoyu is now on a hunger strike to protest the unjust detention. -
57-Year-Old Woman is Left Paralysed from Torture in a Chongching City Mental Hospital
2006-10-08Dafa practitioner Wei Hua was arrested and forced to stay in a mental hospital by the local Chinese Communist Party secretary Yu Fulin and others, under the pretext that she had a mental disorder. In the hospital, Ms. Wei was tortured until the left side of her body was paralysed. She is now emaciated, has difficulty speaking, and is incontinent. She is in great pain and her health condition is precarious. -
Leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant Relentlessly Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners
2006-10-08The Huaneng Electric Power Plant in Dezhou, Shandong Province is one of the main thermal-electricity power plants of Huaneng International. It is also one of the most vicious and severe places in persecuting Falun Gong. Huaneng International is a centralised enterprise directly reporting to the State Council and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, the leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant declared that they would actively cooperate with the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. -
Prison Authorities: "We Won't Release Him Even If He Dies Here" -- Mr. Xin Minduo Died at 33
2006-10-07
The prison authorities threatened his family, "We won't release him even if he dies. It doesn't matter, even if you appeal at the State Department!" Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xin Minduo, age 33, was tortured to death at the Nanshan Prison in Jinzhou City on the evening of September 1st, 2006. He was brutally persecuted during the past seven years of the persecution. He died with his eyes wide open. His family could not close them, no matter how hard they tried.
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