Torture

  • Pension of Cheng Hua from Guizhou Province is Suspended, Causing Her Elderly Mother to Have No Money for Food

    Ms. Cheng Hua, a former veterinarian in her sixties, has been in good health since practising Falun Gong. After the persecution of Falun Gong was initiated by Jiang Zemin's regime in 1999, Ms. Cheng remained steadfast in Falun Gong. In 2002, she was arrested and sentenced to a three-year forced labour term by the authorities. During the term of forced labour, burglars ransacked Cheng Hua's unattended house. What's worse police confiscated Ms. Cheng's retirement pension five years ago, with the excuse of following orders from their supervisors. Cheng Hua has an elderly mother in her eighties who now has to survive on wild edible plants . At present, they are in a very difficult financial situation.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Jiaju Abused at the Baimalong Prison in Zhuzhou City

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Jiaju is in her 50s. She started practising Falun Dafa in 1997. Various agents from different levels of government had detained her after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. She was also abused at a labour camp and prison. She spent four Chinese New Years inside prisons and labour camps.
  • Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Xu Jiayan from Guangxi Province

    After the persecution against Falun Gong began in July 1999, lawless officials frequently harassed Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Jiayan. They detained him, ransacked his home, monitored and intimidated him at his home and took him to a brainwashing class. In the detention centre he was forced to do slave labour for fifteen days.
  • Husband Persecuted to Death, Wife Detained in a Forced Labour Camp

    On October 31str, 2001 when I was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, policeman Wang Xiaodong saw me and arrested me. Officials from the County Public Security Bureau sentenced me to one year in a forced labour camp and sent me to the Heizhuizi Labour Camp in Changchun. The wardens there appeared decent on the surface but behind the scenes they did evil things with utmost cruelty and with no mercy at all. Practitioners were forced to work for sixteen or seventeen hours a day. If they couldn't finish the job or refused to cooperate, the wardens shocked them with electric batons. My husband was brutally persecuted in the Jiutai Labour Camp and his former liver disease relapsed. He passed away on November 28th, 2004.
  • Urgent Situation: Wang Xiaodong on Hunger Strike to Protest Being Persecuted in the Wuyuan County Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

    National Security Team of the Public Security Bureau officials mobilised six or seven police cars, leaped over a wall and broke into a resident's home near the Balibao Small Bridge. They arrested eight Falun Gong practitioners and a four-year-old little girl by force. Wang Xiaodong was among them. After his arrest, he went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. He was force-fed in the Wuyuan County Labour Camp in Bameng, Inner Mongolia.
  • Mr. Xin Minduo's Life in Danger

    Mr. Xin Minduo has been arrested, detained, and sentenced multiple times in the past years just because he believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and being a better person. All of the mistreatment has brought huge damage to his family, both mentally and financially. His parents are very old, and the family never told his father about how he is being tortured. The sudden information caused his father's blood pressure to go up to 190mm. He could not bear such an attack, and it was as if a cloud covered his eyes. He could not see.
  • 61-year-old Disabled Woman in Guangxi Province Persecuted Again by Police

    On November 18th, 2002, 61-year-old Ms. Chen Peizhu was arrested and secretly held in the Nation Hotel because she spoke to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. During the interrogation, the police cursed her. She stood by holding onto a table, but the police kicked her down to the ground. She gradually stood up and was kicked to the ground again. In order to destroy her will, the police covered her eyes with cloth and drove her around town once, then they threatened to send her to a labour camp. Despite their ruthless tactics, she did not give up her belief in Falun Dafa. Therefore, she was sentenced to four years' imprisonment.
  • Persecuted for Being Good - Two Family Members Pass Away As a Result of Persecution

    The police director came to harass my family quite a few times. My older parents and my 13-year-old son were greatly disturbed. Later they sent me to the Longshan Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City and I was sentenced to two years of forced labour camp. When practitioners first arrive, they are strip searched, everything to do with Falun Gong is confiscated, and their money is confiscated as well. No one is told where the money goes. Policeman Tang Yubao abused Falun Gong practitioners either by swearing at them or beating them. They shocked Falun Gong practitioners often to the extent that their hands and feet were full of blisters and bleeding. Within these several years I have lost two family members. This was caused by Jiang Zemin's criminal regime persecuting Falun Gong.
  • Heilongjiang Middle School Teacher Mr. Sun Peichen Dies Soon After Repeated Cruel Torture at Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

    47-year-old Mr. Sun Peichen, was a teacher who firmly believed in Falun Dafa. So he was repeatedly persecuted by the Communist party members. He was tortured in many cruel ways, including having his private parts crushed by police in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. He was tortured until he was near death. On June 7th, 2006 he was sent home. Mr. Sun died soon after, on July 3rd, 2006.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Huang Yongzhong Died from the Beatings He Received at Beijiang Prison (Photos)

    Mr. Huang Yongzhong from Guangdong Province, passed away on the afternoon of July 21st, 2006, more than 10 days after his parents brought him home from Beijiang Prison, where he was beaten and persecuted until he was in critical condition. On July 2nd, 2006 Mr. Huang’s parents received two phone calls asking them to hurry to the prison. Prison officials told them Mr. Huang was in the hospital, so they went there in a hurry. When they finally found him he was shackled with handcuffs and leg irons to the hospital bed. His mother looked under the blanket and saw wounds from beatings all over his body.
  • Practitioner Ms. Chen Guoxiu from Hunan Province, Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Guoxiu was repeatedly detained and tortured by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel. In detention police forced her to kneel on the ground and beat her for more than two hours. Her home was repeatedly ransacked. She was forced to become homeless and destitute in order to avoid being arrested at home. On July 14th, 2006, Chen Guoxiu died as a result of persecution.
  • The Persecution Suffered by Wei Xiaodong Before his Death (Photo)

    Mr. Wei Xiaodong, 34 years old, was a lecturer in Heilongjiang Province. He was detained at Jixi No. 1 Detention Centre for eighteen months. According to his personal testimony, his family paid at least 600-700 yuan each month to cover his daily expenses. His family paid over 10,000 yuan, which did not include medical expenses of over 3,000 yuan. In December 2003, Jixi Detention Centre sent Wei Xiaodong to Jianshanzi Prison for further persecution. After repeated beatings and ongoing sleep deprivation, Wei Xiaodong’s illness became serious. On March 20th, 2005, Wei Xiaodong was dying. The police still tried to force him to give up Falun Dafa. He firmly said the last word of his life, "Practise!" On March 21st, Wei Xiaodong died from the persecution.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaolun's Whereabouts Unknown, His Wife Arrested when Enquiring about her Husband

    Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xiaolun is from Hebei Province. After he was detained in the Gaobeidian Detention Centre for a month, personnel from Gaobeidian National Security Division took him away, on the morning of July 7th, 2006. The day before Wang Xiaolun’s wife went to the detention centre and asked for the release of her husband. Instead, she was arrested.
  • Jinan Women's Prison in Shandong Province Is a Hell on Earth

    The Jinan Women's Prison authorities capitalise on the hard labour that Falun Gong practitioners are forced to do, while at the same time practitioners are tortured for their belief in "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance." The work conditions and environment at the prison are very poor. Practitioners are forced to get up at 6:00 a.m. and begin work at 7:00 a.m. Although the prison says that practitioners only work until 10:00 p.m., in actuality, they are not allowed to stop working until as late as 2:00 a.m. If they do not finish the assigned quota, the prison guards then force practitioners to bring their work back to their cells and don't let them sleep until they are done. Thus, practitioners have to work sixteen to eighteen hour shifts many days.
  • Wang Xianguo from Jilin Province Dies as a Result of the Persecution

    Wang Xianguo had been persecuted by the police several times since 2000. On March 2nd, 2006, over ten people from the national security brigade arrived at Wang Xianguo’s residential area in three cars. They intended to arrest him and ransack his home. They surrounded the whole building, with one car parked on the west side of the building, one car on the east side and a third car right in front of the building. Policemen were stationed in front of and in the back of the building. They pounded on the door of Wang’s apartment madly, trying to get the door open. During the more than two hours of frenzied actions by the police, many residents came out to watch. People were terrorised by this incident. Wang suffered both physically and mentally. He passed away on May 24th, 2006.