Torture

  • Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp Authorities Torture Falun Gong Practitioners with Strait Jackets and Sewing Needles

    Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp authorities use various tortures to persecute practitioners: handcuffs, electric batons, forced standing, continuous squats, beatings, stabbing the body with fingers and sewing needles, confinement in strait jackets with hands tied up behind the back. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Qing, was monitored by five prisoners. They gagged her with tape and beat her on her head and body until the broom and small backless stool they were using broke.
  • Personal Testimony Regarding Persecution in Huadian City and at Heizuizi Labour Camp

    We experienced the most agonising fourteen days of suffering from various tortures there. That same afternoon and the entire evening of our arrival at the detention centre, the guards forbade us from eating and sleeping. It was during the chill of winter. No one in the detention centre provided us with anything to keep out the cold. Several criminals who sympathised with Dafa practitioners shared their bedding. The food at that detention centre was fit only for animals. We were subjected to interrogation at the detention centre, and the guards attempted to force us to provide our fingerprints. Our fingers were broken but they failed.
  • A Female Guard Shouts: "We'll Have You Cremated Alive"

    After I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on December 13th, 2000 to appeal for Falun Dafa, the police arrested and detained me in Beijing's Fangshan Detention Centre. Because I refused to reveal my name or home address, they handcuffed me behind my back for thirteen days. During that time, I was forced to sit by the ice-cold pond day and night, and I was brutally force-fed every day. A female head guard shouted, "If you persist, we'll have you cremated alive!"
  • Mr. Zhang Dongsheng Tortured to Death in 2005; His Wife in Forced Labour Camp

    In 2001, Mr. Mr. Zhang Dongsheng and his wife were both arrested and detained for ten months in a brainwashing centre and were forced to endure enormous mental pressures. One month after being released from the brainwashing centre, Mr. Zhang was transferred to mental hospital. His family had three thousand yuan extorted from them for "treatments." On his release from the hospital, Mr. Zhang's reflexes were slow, and neither of his legs functioned normally. He had a stroke. Mr. Zhang Dongsheng died on June 18th, 2005. On August 23rd, 2005, his wife was arrested again and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour.
  • 60-Year-Old Liu Xiwen from Heilongjiang Province, Died After Enduring Long-term Persecution

    Mr. Liu Xiwen was a 60-year-old teacher. He was relieved from his suffering from all kinds of diseases after he began practising Falun Dafa. After July 20th, 1999, he was beaten up and tortured several times by the police. Vicious prison officials subjected him to long-term persecution. The Education Director also held back 15 months of Liu Xiwen's salary. The persecution brought depression, nervousness and terror into Liu Xiwen's life. His body and mind suffered severe damage. He passed away on May 20th, 2002.
  • Nineteen Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Death in Suihua Forced Labour Camp

    A guard in the forced labour camp personally told practitioners that they have tortured nineteen practitioners to death in this camp since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. Suihua Forced Labour Camp forces practitioners to work and subjects them to mental and physical abuses and torture. All the practitioners had to take baths first, with water pouring on them from head to toe, covered with water. If they resisted, they would be beaten at once. Practitioners who didn't cooperate with the guards, so they were beaten and shocked with electric batons by guards.
  • Practitioner Deng Yunlan Dies as a Result of Persecution in Guangdong Province

    Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Deng Yunlan was over 70 years old. Because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, she was detained several times, and imprisoned in a forced labour camp twice. She was tortured and abused physically and mentally. She was forced to walk long distances, was deprived of sleep and forced to do heavy manual labour. On July 15th, 2006, under harassment and threats from the 610 Office of Shaoguan City, she passed away.
  • Sixty-Year-Old Female Practitioner's Home Ransacked and Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Wang Wenshu, 62, was jailed, beaten, fined and verbally abused after she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999. She was forced to move bricks and other harsh labour, and coerced to give up Falun Gong. On December 11th, 2000, a few policemen arrested Wang by barging into her home. Wang's face was whipped repeatedly with a leather belt. The police ransacked her home more than four times during Wang's detainment and over 4500 yuan worth of checks and over 500 yuan in cash were stolen.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Fu Keshu Recounts Persecution in Late 2005

    Dafa practitioner Fu Keshu, a retired senior teacher and her nephew Xu Genli disappeared in Jinggangshan in November 2005. Guided by some locals, their family members went through the valleys and caves in the nearby mountains to search. They also petitioned the Jinggangshan City government to help find the two missing people but to no avail. The bodies of the two practitioners were found in Jinggang Mountain. It is believed that their organs were harvested and their bodies were disposed of in the mountains.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Guili Sent to Harbin Women’s Prison While Unconscious

    Police broke into Ms. Wang Guili's home in April 2002 and forcibly arrested her. She was in very poor health when she arrived at Harbin Women’s Prison. She could not take care of herself and had to be carried into a vehicle. During the physical examination, the doctor at the prison said, "I can’t detect your blood pressure; let’s just write 50. We have orders from above that the deaths of Dafa practitioners are counted as suicides." Ms. Wang Guili was unconscious the whole day and found herself lying on a table when she came to.
  • Ms. Wang Bing Spits Up Blood After Being Force-Fed at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Bing is detained at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp. Inhumane force-feeding administered by police guards has severely damaged Ms. Wang's stomach, causing her to spit up a large amount of blood. A policeman forced Ms. Wang to write the "three statements". He forbade her from sleeping, tied her onto a death bed, and tortured her, causing terrible chest pain. Ms. Wang frequently vomited blood and her body is currently very weak.
  • Three Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Hebei Province and Hunan Province

    Practitioner Ms. Xiao Ruoying was a campus clinic doctor employed by Hunan Province Economic Institute. Her employer, who was the security office head, along with 610 Office agents in her hometown, arrested her. She was tortured to death within six months. The local police said that she died of cancer. Her husband, one of the officials in charge of the institute in the Hunan Province Business Bureau, divorced her under pressure.
  • Lanzhou Practitioner Su Anzhou Loses His Wife and Son During the Persecution

    Ms. Geng Cuifang, in her forties, and her husband Su Anzhou had travelled to Beijing to appeal for Dafa in late December 2000. Su Anzhou was unlawfully incarcerated at a forced labour camp. Geng Cuifang was arrested. Later she jumped from the 6th floor to escape further persecution, but died from the fall. Geng Cuifang’s son was less than 18 years old when all this happened. His mother had just died, and his father was imprisoned. He was later diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer and died around August 5th, 2006.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wen Yingxin from Shenyang City Persecuted to Death Within Nine Days of Being Arrested

    On August 7th, 2006, police officers in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wen Yingxin because of posting Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. She died in hospital on August 16th, within nine days of her arrest. Before being arrested, Wen Yingxin was very healthy. She weight over 130 lbs. How could a healthy person who weighed only 130 lbs, and was 34 years old develop kidney failure within 9 days?
  • The Brutal Persecution of Yang Shunfa, Gong Zhihui, Que Faxiu and Que Fazhi, Who Died as a Result of Torture

    Mr. Yang refused to tell the police who had given him the leaflets, so the police made him wear handcuffs and shackles for four straight weeks. A few days before he was transferred to Wumaping Prison, Mr. Yang's family went to visit him and saw that his front teeth had been knocked out. His family went home and found the quilt full of bloodstains. They were overcome with grief.