Torture
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Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhuang Gangxiang Brutally Persecuted and Taken to the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp
2006-09-19Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhuang Gangxiang was arrested on February 26th, 2006 and taken to a detention centre. He held a hunger strike to protest the persecution, was brutally force-fed and injected with unknown drugs. While in excruciating pain and beside himself, he swallowed the needle, yet the perpetrators sentenced him to 21 months of forced labour and sent him to the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. His family has not seen him until now. -
Persecution in Prisons and Labour Camps in Hebei Province
2006-09-18In October 2000, a group of Falun Dafa practitioners from all parts of Hebei Province were sent to the Kaiping Labour Camp. There was a shortage of cells, so bungalows with brick beds were built in the men’s division, located behind the women's division. A dozen practitioners slept on one large brick bed. We could only sleep on our sides. A wall separates the right side of the bungalow from a large classroom on the left where Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to brainwashing and torture. A solitary confinement cell is in the centre. -
Ms. Zhou Yongping Tortured by the First Division of Changchun Public Security Bureau
2006-09-18My name is Ms. Zhou Yongping. Since I persisted in practising Falun Dafa and following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," I was brutally persecuted by police from the First Division of Changchun Public Security Bureau. They tortured me by making me sit on a Tiger Bench, making me wear only underwear while staying outside, and beating my head as if it were a punching bag. One guard said to me, "If you do not obey us, we will torture you to death. No one knows where this place is and you were secretly arrested. There is a big pit behind this house. After your death, we will bury you in the pit and no one will know about it." -
Female College Student in Guangdong Province Arrested By 610 Office After Three Times in Forced Labour Camp
2006-09-18Falun Gong practitioner Chen Li was a fourth year student in the Fine Arts School of Shantou University, Guangdong Province. She has been sent to a forced labour camp three times since November 1999, and she suffered extremely cruel treatment because she persisted in practising Falun Gong, such as being shocked with electric batons and confined with handcuffs and shackles. Recently, agents from the Zhuhai City 610 Office arrested her again and sent her to the brainwashing centre in Zhanjiang City. -
Ms. Meng Lijun Lost Her Memory Due to a Poisonous Injection
2006-09-18Ms. Meng Lijun has been mistreated multiple times during the persecution of Falun Gong. However, it was during the September 2005 arrest that she was injected with nerve damaging drugs, resulting in her memory loss. Ms. Meng could not remember her past, she could not remember Falun Dafa, and she only cried, "I want to go home! I want to go home!" Ms. Meng's mother felt heartbroken upon seeing that her loving daughter had become so incapacitated. In spite of, or because of, this circumstance, she was made to face her charges for arrest at a trial and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. -
Ms. Liu Liping from Daqing City Is Tortured at Hegang First Detention Centre
2006-09-17On September 7th, 2005, Ms. Liu Liping was arrested by police. They unlawfully detained and tortured her for more than eight months at the Hegang First Detention Centre. The policemen whipped Ms. Liu's feet with bamboo sticks. Her feet were severely swollen. The policemen interrogated her constantly for five days and nights, not letting her sleep. She lost consciousness many times, beaten from head to toe violently. Chief Yang and police officer Zhang Shengjun of the Xiangyang Police Station, spent 2,500 yuan of Ms. Liu's money for their own entertainment. In the meantime, the court is preparing to sentence Ms. Liu. Police arrested her defence lawyer while he was walking on the street. -
A Group of Practitioners I Keep Thinking About
2006-09-17After the evidence of organ-harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners was disclosed to the world, I was reminded of a group of practitioners who were taken to a mental hospital by the police at the end of 1999. There were at least twenty of them from all over the country. Where are they today? How are they? 1n 1999, many Dafa practitioners went to Beijing to speak about the facts of Falun Dafa to the central government leaders. However, agents from the local public security bureau blocked the appeals offices. Very soon thereafter, two buses appeared, and the Falun Gong practitioners were loaded into them, and I was surprised when we were abruptly taken far away and put in jail. Those of us who refused to identify ourselves were detained. -
Four Falun Dafa Practitioners from Yucheng County, Henan Province Unjustly Arrested
2006-09-17Four practitioners from Henan Province, were arrested by police between August 16th and 18th. They are now being detained at Yucheng County Detention Centre and elsewhere. The police confiscated Falun Dafa books, and leaflets exposing the persecution from over 50 years old practitioner Ms. Wang Jingping's house and arrested her. She is suffering from the police’s brutal persecution. The police not only refused to release Ms. Wang, but also threatened that they would send her to the forced labour camp. -
Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Die Due to Persecution in Liaoning, Gansu, and Jilin Provinces
2006-09-1762-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cao Fengying went to Beijing twice to appeal, was detained twice in the Jinchang City Drug Rehabilitation Centre, and was later transferred to the Jinchang City Detention Centre. She went on hunger strike to protest the persecution. Her family paid two thousand yuan to bail her out, but police often came to her door to harass and threaten her. She had been forced to put her fingerprint on a guarantee statement promising to stop Falun Gong practice. She died six months later on January 28th, 2004. -
Second Air Force Aviation College Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners by Means of Political Record Examination
2006-09-16As specified in the Second Air Force Aviation College, Institute of Early-Warning Command Guide, it is required that all students--prior to their graduation and employment--agree to slanderous materials against Falun Gong during the Political Record Examination. It states "Based on policy of the Air Force Political Department--[2003] Political Security File No. 36--as well as orders from higher officials, students need to pass 'strict Political Record Examination' and 'ensure no involvement with personnel or activities of Falun Gong.'" -
Mr. Yu Changshun Paralysed Due to Torture in Dalian City Detention Centre
2006-09-16Mr. Yu Changshun was arrested in Shenyang City on July 7th, 2001, and severely tortured. He was later sentenced to three years of forced labour and sent to Dalian City Forced Labour Camp, where he was tortured until he became paralysed and diagnosed with a complicated syndrome. His family picked him up on November 17th, 2003. Through studying the Falun Dafa teachings and doing the exercises, he recovered miraculously. He is now paralysed, incontinent, and unable to take care of himself. He is in critical condition due to tortures received in Wanli Police Station and the Development District Detention Centre. -
Deaths of Four Elderly practitioners from Jilin, Liaoning and Sichuan as a Result of the Persecution
2006-09-1672-year-old Mr. Jiang Fengshan was spotted while carrying Falun Dafa materials on a train. He was arrested confined in the Tonghua Nanshan Labour Camp for three years. While he was imprisoned, Jiang Fengshan's health deteriorated because of mistreatment at the hands of the guards. He started hemorrhaging from the digestive tract, and suffered from a duodenal ulcer, pancreatitis and prostatitis. In April 2001, he was released on bail for medical treatment. After he went home, a police officer often harassed him and tried to force him to sign the "five statements" (statements renouncing Falun Dafa, similar to the three statements). Jiang Fengshan passed away on January 9th, 2006. -
An "Outstanding Nurse" Talks about the Persecution She Suffered
2006-09-16On February 2nd, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and was sent back to a detention centre. I went on a hunger strike to demand my unconditional release. They forcefully injected some unknown medicine into me. The guards brutally beat and persecuted practitioners. During hunger strikes, most practitioners were force-fed. The prison doctors and guards inserted big rubber tubes into practitioners' mouths. When the tube was withdrawn from the body, bloody liquid and food came out with it. They didn't change the tube, instead they threw it onto the floor, stepped on it and then inserted the same tube into another practitioner's mouth. -
Persecution Facts of Mr. Bai Shunqi in Shenzhou City
2006-09-16Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Bai Shunqi, in his 40s, lives in Hebei Province. Since being arrested at his home in April 2006, he has been detained and tortured in Shenzhou City Detention Centre to the point where he can no longer take care of himself. The detention centre is responsible for his condition, but the administration forced his family to pay for his check-up at the hospital. In August 2006, guards escorted Mr. Bai Shunqi to Shenzhou City People's Hospital, accompanied by his wife and sister. Mr. Bai Shunqi was very weak, wearing handcuffs and ankle-shackles, and could not walk upon exiting the vehicle. Mr. Bai's wife Wang Fengzhun asked if they could borrow a wheelchair, and was brutally refused by the unknown guard. -
33-Year-Old Mr. Xin Minduo Tortured to Death in Nanshan Prison
2006-09-15Falun Gong practitioner Xin Minduo was sentenced to a 13-year prison term on February 21st, 2006. Because he knew he was innocent, he refused to follow any prison rules. He refused to wear the prison uniform, refused to do forced labour, and demanded to be released as he was not guilty of any crime. For these actions, he was put into a small cell by the police, force-fed, and subjected to torture. On September 1st, 2006, Xin Minduo was persecuted to death in Nanshan Prison.