Torture

A Fourteen-year-old Practitioner's Difficult Life

2006-08-22

This year, I am fourteen years old. I have practised Falun Gong for nine years. It was through practising Falun Gong that I obtained a healthy body. After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, the police persecuted my family and broke us apart. My mother and aunt were not only detained, but also sent to a forced labour camp for one year. Facing the brutal fact of my mother's year in forced labour, I felt that the sky had collapsed. Every minute and every second I longed for mother's return. Every night I went to sleep with tears in my eyes. Mother told me that while at the forced labour camp, the brutality had taken a toll on her body both spiritually and mentally. Every day she was subjected to hard labour for seventeen to eighteen hours. She witnessed fellow practitioners enduring electric shock torture, their faces disfigured by the charring from the constant electric baton shocks.

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The Persecution of a Family: Husband Tortured to Death, Wife Forced Into Homelessness and Imprisoned, Children Harassed (Photo)

2006-08-21

Ms. Liu Yumin's husband Mr. Wu Yanshui died on May 20th, 2001 as a result of persecution. Immediately after his death, authorities from the Laishui county government demolished her house to widen the street. With the house demolished, Ms. Liu Yumin and her two young children became homeless, having to go from one place to another. During these desperate times, police hunted for Ms. Liu and her two children everywhere. One night in 2002, the police climbed the wall, crossed the courtyard, pried a window open and broke into the temporary housing of Ms. Liu and the children. Ms. Liu Yumin didn't even have time to put on her shoes when the police broke in and arrested her. Her little girl wailed and screamed in protest, but the police grabbed her and shouted, "If you scream one more time, we will take you too!"

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Exposing Crimes at the Lanzhou Women's Jail in Gansu Province

2006-08-21

On April 27th, 2006,, the ward incited two inmates to beat Dafa practitioner Ms. Lei Zhanxiang and deprived her of sleep for three days and nights. They also forced her to watch the brainwashing recordings. Ms. Lei's face became extremely swollen from the beatings, to the point of drooping down nearly to her shoulders. In addition, her eyes were very red. During a medical examination, she was diagnosed with high blood pressure and a heart problem. In spite of this, the jail forced her to take several unknown medicines. As a result, her stomach ached severely.

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Supplemental Information Regarding the Persecution-Caused Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Li Yutong in Jilin Province

2006-08-21

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Yutong died on November 6th, 2003, as a result of tortures he suffered at the Yinmahe Labour Camp. Li Yutong was arrested, sent to labour camp(s), and tortured many times for his belief in Dafa. It was learned that Li Yutong was force-fed a large quantity of a toxic fluid before his death. Therefore, he was murdered. The labour camp saw that he was dying and told the family to take him home. He was diagnosed with kidney failure and passed away. His daughter was still held at the labour camp at the time of his death, a few days' short of the expiration of her term. The labour camp officials nevertheless refused to let her see her father for the last time.

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Malicious Police Break the Law and Abuse Human Rights

2006-08-21

On June 14th, 2006, Zhang Pengfei, an official with the Fengning County State Security Department 610 Office in Hebei Province, along with more than ten policemen from the Heishanzui County Police Station, broke into the home of Ms. Deng Guilan, a Beizhouying Falun Dafa practitioner. They confiscated her Falun Dafa books and leaflets exposing the persecution. They then invaded another practitioner's home in the same village and did the same thing.

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Persecution Facts of a Farmer in Shandong Province

2006-08-21

From August to September of 2000, Mr. Sun was tortured when he was arrested for printing and delivering Falun Gong materials. In the Weibei Prison Factory, the political instructor forced Mr. Sun to sit on the ground with his hands backwards and his legs straight. Two guards stepped on Mr. Sun's legs, which caused his legs to be covered in dark bruises. They also forced Mr. Sun Zhitian to take part in line training. An inmate suddenly pushed him from behind many times, which caused Mr. Sun extreme pain in his legs. Guards also ordered the head of prisoners in the wool section to open the door and then forced Mr. Sun to stand by the door to freeze. This lasted over ten days.

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A Falun Dafa Practitioner from Jiamusi City Recounts the Persecution She Suffered

2006-08-20

When I was in the forced labour camp, because I refused to renounce Dafa, I was handcuffed behind my back twice. Police used high voltage electric batons to shock me and at the same time beat and kicked me. They also pulled my hair. The brutal handcuffing behind my back torture severely injured my arms. It took over a year for my right arm to heal. My left arm was even more injured. In the evenings it hurt so much that I could not fall asleep or turn. I could only rely on the practitioner next to me to help me to turn over during the night.

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The Persecution of 69-Year-Old Ms. Hui Ruiying

2006-08-20

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hui Ruiying, 69 years old, was arrested several times for appealing for Falun Dafa and speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. She was arrested in September 2004 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was taken to the Anqiu Detention Centre and held there for 27 days. While incarcerated, the police ransacked Ms. Hui's home. She was tortured at the detention centre until she suffered a heart attack. Agents from the 610 Office were afraid she might die. They extorted 10,000 yuan from her family before letting her go home.

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Exposing the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Baotou Detention Centre

2006-08-20

Wardens at the Baotou Detention Centre of Inner Mongolia have brutally persecuted Dafa practitioners for a long time. The persecution methods include force feeding, handcuffing behind the back, tying practitioners’ hands and feet with steel chains so that they can hardly walk, thus making it extremely difficult to use the restroom, etc. Many Dafa practitioners were persecuted to the point of becoming disabled and couldn’t even take care of themselves in their daily lives.

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Mr. Wang Xiaodong Was Unjustly Tried, His Mother Followed and Harassed

2006-08-20

It has been more than four months since Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaodong from Huadian City, Jilin Province was arrested at home while carrying water to his house. Because he would not confess to the police, they tortured him using methods that included force-feeding with petrol and a machine used to shake his head. The 610 Office planted fabricated evidence to take Mr. Wang Xiaodong to court, but the Huadian City Procuratorate rejected their requests three times for a lack of sufficient evidence. The 610 Office continued to collect so-called "criminal evidence" and after several delays the Procuratorate held a closed trial for Mr. Wang Xiaodong on July 6th.

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Additional Details on How Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Yunjie from Dalian City Died as a Result of Persecution

2006-08-19

Ms. Wang Yunjie, a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning Province, was taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, where she was severely tormented by prison officials, who used all kinds of brutal methods to torture Wang Yunjie in hopes of "transforming" her. This caused her to develop symptoms of end-stage breast cancer. After a while, her breast started to fester and was horrible to look at. She died in mid-July, 2006.

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More Details on How Falun Gong Practitioner Tan Xueli Was Tortured to Death

2006-08-19

On July 25th, 2005, Dafa practitioner Tan Xueli was arrested by police. Four to five police officers into Mr. Tan's home and sent him to the Hechuan Detention Centre. Tan's wife visited him but could only see him through a glass partition. She found that he could not speak, so she wondered if he had been injured. On June 13th, 2006, Tan Xueli was transferred to Yongchuan Jail. At around 2 p.m. on June 19th, he was tortured to death. Wounds were visible all over his body.

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Brutal Torture in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp

2006-08-19

I was sentenced to a 2-year term of forced labour and sent to Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province. A guard said, "Don't you want to practise? I will let you completely enjoy it. You have to enjoy it no matter what." She ordered collaborators to forcefully put my legs in the full lotus position and bind them with rope. They also twisted and tied my arms behind my back. It felt so painful that I could not help crying. They stuffed my mouth with a dirty rag and sealed my mouth with transparent tape. I was tortured in this way for two days. Then they forced me not to sleep for six days and nights. Yan Shuming beat me whenever my eyes closed. In this way, they did not allow me to sleep for six days straight.

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Six More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

2006-08-19

Ms. Xing Shuyuan was from Dalian City, Liaoning Province. After the persecution began, her two daughters were both arrested and detained, one sent to Dalian Forced Labour Camp and the other to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. During her daughters' detention, the local police and residential committee staff also went to her home to harass her, demanding that she write statements guaranteeing to stop the practice of Falun Gong. Ms. Xing was devastated by such pressure. She passed away on August 15th, 2003, at the age of 70.

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Shandong Province Women's Prison Put Harmful Medicine in Practitioner Meng Lijun's Food

2006-08-19

On July 5th, 2006, the family members of Dafa practitioner Meng Lijun went to Shandong Province Women's Prison to visit her once again. When Meng Lijun came out with the guards, her family members found that her body looked puffy and she seemed a little bit dull-witted. After conversing with her, her family members discovered that she could not remember things that had happened to her previously, and she even forgot what she said minutes after saying it. But she did tell her family members clearly: "They put harmful medicine in my food bowl."

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