Torture
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Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Whose Father was Taken Away: "Life Is Worse Than Death!"
2006-07-28My father, Guo Changcai, has been arrested because he handed out Falun Dafa materials exposing the persecution in 2006. He was sent to the Xinkaipu Labour Camp in Changsha City with an 18-month forced labour term. Ever since my father was arrested, I have had to live with my grandmother. She is over eighty years old, very sad about my father, and her temper is getting bad. She recently became sick with a severe disease. I feel pain in my heart, because life is worse than death! I hope my dad can soon return. -
Practitioners Are Still Tortured and Killed at the Wangcun Men’s Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province
2006-07-28After Jiang Zemin and his followers started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners on July 20th, 1999, several thousand Falun Dafa practitioners have been imprisoned at the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp for Men in Shandong Province. By order of the Chinese Communist Party and the provincial 610 Office, many practitioners were brutally tortured to death. Many other practitioners were crippled and disabled. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zou Yuantao from Hubei Province, Died as a Result of Persecution
2006-07-27Mr. Zou Yuantao, 34, went to appeal, practised Falun Gong and distributed materials exposing the persecution, all in accordance with the law. However, he was repeatedly persecuted by Jiang Zemin's regime, unjustly detained, and brutally tortured in detention centres, mental hospitals, and labour camps. Prisoners took turns beating him. They kicked him, pulled out his hair and hit his chest with their knees. They also held his arms up like an "airplane," whipped his back with a rubber tube several inches in diameter, burned his toes with cigarettes, and smashed his hands and feet with stools. Mr. Zou Yuantao was brutally tortured in the Shayang Forced Labour Camp. After he was released in late 2005, his health did not improve and he became even weaker. He passed away on June 24th, 2006. -
Mr. Wang Shoushan is in Critical Condition Due to Persecution by Juxian 610 Office in Shandong Province
2006-07-27On March 7th, Liu Yanping, the leader of the Juxian 610 Office broke into the Juxian Xiaodianzhen People's Hospital and arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Shoushan, who worked in the hospital as the director of the Chinese Medicine department. He was taken to the Juxian Detention Centre and detained for 27 days. The 58-year-old man was forced to work from 6:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening, twelve hours per day. He was made to do jobs such as folding gloves, peeling onions, and cleaning peanuts. They did not give him enough food to eat during the entire time he worked. -
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Destroying Murder Evidence Under New "Regulations"
2006-07-27On June 26th, 2006, the Yanzhao Metropolitan newspaper posted an announcement that says, according to the Shijiazhuang City Funeral Management Regulations, "The listed bodies have been stored in the funeral home for too long. Families and employers of these bodies are asked to arrange to have these bodies cremated within sixty days, otherwise the funeral home will cremate these bodies and save the ashes for six months." Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zuo Zhigang, who was tortured to death, is among the thirty. His family did not receive any notice from the funeral home or the Weiming Street Police Station. -
Persecution and Death of Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Cao Fengying from Gansu Province
2006-07-27Ms. Cao Fengying, 62, was terrorised by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials during a 3-year period. She was detained in a detention centre and tortured. After Ms. Cao went home, officers from Guangzhou Road Police Station in Jinchang City frequently went to harass and threaten her. Her husband soon passed away. Her son, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was sentenced to nine years in prison at the Jinchuan District Court for making materials exposing the persecution. Her daughter-in-law was also sent to a labour camp. Ms. Cao Fengying passed away on January 8th, 2003 due to the persecution. -
Mr. Li Zongming Dies after Being Tortured in Yushan Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin City
2006-07-27Mr. Li Zongming, 37, was sentenced to three years in Yushan Forced Labour Camp. He was released after suffering horrific torture in 2004, and died in March 2006. The means of torture used in Yushan Forced Labour Camp are very cruel. Practitioners are deprived of sleep for long periods of time. They are forced to sit straight on a small stool, and they are jabbed with needles, punched, and shocked with electric batons whenever they move. Guards use long needles, screwdrivers, electric batons, and wooden sticks on practitioners' heads, private parts, and other sensitive places. They beat practitioners who hold hunger strikes very brutally, shove toilet brushes into practitioners' mouths, force-feed them with faeces and chilli powder, and burn their fingernails and toenails with cigarette butts. -
Force Feeding in Jinchang Detention Centre
2006-07-26Over a three-day period, many people suddenly turned up at the detention centre to persecute practitioners. Each person was taken to the office individually and held down on the ground. With both hands and both legs tightly pulled in four directions and someone seated on her stomach holding her head and nose, the practitioner could not move even a little bit and had difficulty breathing. Then a dilator was placed in the practitioner's mouth, through which they forced a mixture of powdered milk and white flour. Twenty to thirty minutes later, the practitioner was almost suffocated, and the white mixture covered her face, neck, hair, and clothing, which quickly froze due to the low temperature. -
I was Tortured by Methods of the Tiger Bench, Electrocution, "Dragged by Five Horses" and Hanging
2006-07-26I am a 64-year-old resident of Heilongjiang Province. I practise Falun Dafa and live according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," so I have been arrested, detained and tortured on numerous occasions ever since the Jiang Zemin regime began the brutal persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. These torture methods include being "dragged by five horses" in five different directions, electrocution, "tiger bench" and being hung by the handcuffed wrists for long periods of time -
I Suffered Four Years of Persecution in Tiebei Prison in Changchun City
2006-07-26After fellow practitioners and I were sentenced in 2001, I suffered all sorts of physical and mental persecution in Tiebei Prison, such as being locked up in a small cell that was like a steam box, being hung up in the air by hand cuffs, and continuously forced to undergo brainwashing. I was cuffed and hung up naked outdoors for the whole night, while it was snowing. The next morning, several policemen (the temporary guards always served as hatchet men) practised boxing and kicking me in turn. A police officer surnamed Wang who claimed to be an instructor and another unknown police officer beat me black and blue with a club and then brought one big and one small electric baton to shock the sensitive parts on my body, until the power ran out. -
Facts Concerning the Persecution and Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City
2006-07-25A gang of ruffians led by police officer Chen Wanyou illegally arrested practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. They sent her to the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp on January 6th 2003, to continue her persecution. Ms. Wang was tortured to the verge of death and was taken home in early September 2003. She soon passed away. The following gives some of the facts concerning the persecution of Ms. Wang. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at the No. 3 Prison in Anhui Province -- Part 2
2006-07-25Mr. Wu Jianghai, a student was arrested and sent to the prison for speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. He renounced Dafa after brainwashing and barbaric torture in 2004, after which he lived in tremendous anguish. He wrote a "solemn announcement" soon afterwards to nullify his renouncement. The officials abused and mistreated him for three or four months afterward. He endured all kinds of torture including electric baton shocks, sleep deprivation, and solitary confinement in the freezing winter while not being given any food. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Expose the Persecution and Ms. Liu Jieying Is Released
2006-07-25On May 19th, the police arrested Liu Jieying from her workplace without showing any warrant, and sent her to a brainwashing centre. Her family only was told that she was sent to "study," but they did not know the place or time. Only after a few days did her family find out that Ms. Liu was detained in the brainwashing centre. After the news was released, fellow practitioners disclosed the persecution of Liu Jieying. They called the police and warned them to stop the persecution. Liu Jieying was released; however, she is still being monitored by the police, even though she is back home. -
Mr. Pan Yujun and Many Other Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested by 610 Office Agents from Laizhou City
2006-07-25On May 6th, 2006, corrupt agents associated with the 610 Office State Security Team in Laizhou City arrested Mr. Pan Yujun, Mr. Sun Shouyu, and many other Falun Gong practitioners. The police agents took them to Dianzi Forced Brainwashing Centre. Mr. Sun Shouyu escaped the following day but he was rendered homeless. The other practitioners were transferred to Laizhou Detention Centre. They began a hunger strike and suffered brutal force-feeding, administered by the prison doctor. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at the No. 3 Prison in Anhui Province -- Part 1
2006-07-24In less than one week Fang Yingzhou's body became deformed. Every morning and afternoon he could be seen on his way to the prison hospital to be force-fed. He painfully walked in very small steps with great effort, his heavy handcuffs and leg-irons dragging noisily on the ground. People who haven't personally suffered the persecution can hardly imagine the cruelty of the prison hospital. When he came back he always held his chest with both arms; there was always blood at the corner of his mouth and purple bruises on the backs of his ears. His expression was always one of extreme pain.