Torture

  • Abuse at the Weifang Detention Centre Leaves Practitioner Ms. Zhuang Aiping Mentally Traumatised and Suffering from Heart Problems

    Ms. Zhuang Aiping is a Falun Dafa practitioner who was unlawfully incarcerated for four months at the Weifang Detention Centre. Her family members went to see her for the first time on June 12th, 2006. According to her family member, she suffered from torture-induced mental trauma and was very weak. When her family members visited her, she had some medicine in her hand. Her family asked her, "Are you taking some medicine?" Ms. Zhuang replied, "The policemen gave me the medicine." Her family then asked her, "Have they beat you?" She kept silent and said only, "They sent me to the Jinan Prison. I was checked out to have heart problems, so the prison refused to accept me. I then was sent back here."
  • Officials at Division 1 in the Changchun Police Department Brutally Torture Dafa Practitioners Who Broadcast Falun Gong Videos Part 2 (Re-enactment Photos)

    The police shocked Lei Ming's neck, mouth, chest, genitals, rectum and thighs with electric batons. Another two officers arrived and wrapped Lei Ming's head in a plastic bag. They tightened it so that Lei Ming could not breathe. He almost suffocated. The officers then loosened the bag. Lei Ming took a few breaths before they quickly tightened the bag again. They repeated it until the batteries in the electric batons were recharged. Then the first two officers took over. The officers thought their tortures weren't brutal enough, so they put a flattop screwdriver on the electric stove. Then they put the red-hot screwdriver on Lei Ming's neck, which caused pieces of flesh and skin to detach.
  • Twenty-six Additional Deaths of Falun Gong Practitioners Under Persecution in China were Confirmed in May 2006 (Photos)

    Twenty-six additional persecution-caused deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China were confirmed in May 2006. Fourteen of those were female practitioners. Thirteen of the 26 practitioners were over 55 years old. Nine of the 26 deaths occurred between January 2006 and May 2006. Two deaths occurred in May 2006. Minghui/Clearwisdom website statistics have confirmed at least 62 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China between January 2006 and May 2006. Since Jiang Zemin's group and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, civil channels have verified the deaths of 2,904 Falun Gong practitioners.
  • A Shanxi Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured to Death at the Dongcheng Detention Centre in Beijing in 2001

    A Falun Dafa practitioner from Shanxi Province, in his 50s, and a woman practitioner went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in early March 2001. They were arrested. The male practitioner was detained and later tortured to death in Dongcheng Detention Centre in Beijing. The guards claimed the practitioner hung himself from a shower head. Detention centre officials watch practitioners' every move. Surveillance monitors are installed inside the practitioners' rooms. The practitioners are also followed when they use the toilet or take a shower. Practitioners are completely deprived of personal freedom. Besides, how can a shower head withstand the weight of a grown man of more than 120 pounds?
  • Additional Information on Ms. Liu Gai's Death

    54-year-old Ms. Liu Gai, a Falun Gong practitioner was arrested on September 26th, 2002, and persecuted to death in the next day. In the crematorium, a family member found that her naked body was placed in a black bag. Her two wrists were cut open with gaps a dozen centimetres in length (4.7 in.) and four centimetres (2 in.) wide. It seemed that a piece of flesh had been sliced off both her hands. When her sons and daughters-in-law saw the body, they could not keep from screaming out, and shouted, "My mum was murdered!"
  • My Husband Li Junqing Died of Injustice

    Since the persecution started in 1999, the authorities imprisoned me in a forced labour camp for one and a half years because I upheld my practice of Falun Gong. During that time, my lonely husband, Li Junqing, travelled around Jilin Province. Because he carried some leaflets exposing the persecution, the local police arrested him and imprisoned him in Yinmahe forced labour camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province. After a few months of imprisonment, he died in police custody.
  • Practitioners Mr. Qiao Jianhui and Mr. Hu Jiancai Unlawfully Sentenced to 4.5 Years by the Yinchuan District Court

    The Xingqing District Court sentenced Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Hu Jiancai and Mr. Qiao Jianhui to four and a half years in prison. Both of them have filed appeals. The Yinchuan City Medium Court was scheduled to listen to the case on June 19th, 2006. On June 9th, 2005, Mr. Cai Guojun was tortured until he was paralysed. The police of the Shizuishan State Security Department tortured and battered Mr. Qiao Jianhui and Mr. Hu Jiancai for information that would assist the persecution of Falun Gong
  • 66-Year-Old Ms. Gao Yuqin Dies as a Result of Persecution in Jilin City

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao Yuqin was 66 years old. She went to Beijing to make an appeal on behalf of Falun Gong at Tiananmen Square and was arrested and sentenced to three years of forced labour at the beginning of November 2000. Her family spent more than 10,000 yuan and did everything they could to bail her out on medical parole at the end of December 2000, after she served four and a half months. Due to living in such a severe environment for a long period of time, her mental and physical health was severely damaged. She died on March 19th, 2006.
  • Mother in Labour Camp, Father Persecuted to Death

    The Public Security Bureau in Shenyang City detained practitioner Mrs. Zu Liming on May 23rd, 2006. The authorities sentenced her to two years of forced labour and sent her to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Her young son Miao Yumeng is now at home, all alone. His father Miao Qisheng was persecuted to death in May 2002. What Miao Yumeng has experienced in the last seven years is beyond imagining for a child his age. The emotional trauma has been terrible. From being homeless to having a broken family, there were only few days he spent with both of his parents, and the happy times they spent together are only a memory.
  • Brutal Persecution that I Witnessed the Two Times I Was Sent to the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp

    During my detention, I witnessed many instances of police brutality towards practitioners. In July 2004, guards directed four drug addicts to torture 57-year-old Mr. Xu Shaoan. They beat him and used sewing needles to stab his fingers and toes. He was injured in many places and lost consciousness. After he came to, they continued to torture him. Police mixed drugs into his food and tied up his hands. He could not stand up. He was only allowed to be in a sitting position. His face became disfigured due to torture. He was finally released after being tortured until he was mentally traumatised.
  • Zhang Hongwei's Wife Describes the Persecution Her Husband Suffered

    My husband Zhang Hongwei is a Falun Gong practitioner. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was locked in a small cell for more than two years for persisting in his belief in Falun Dafa. During the two years, he was tortured on a "Death Bed" for over 50 days. He also was tortured in the "Big Hang-up" position. Jailers instigated criminals to beat him savagely. He suffered tremendously due to the brutal torture.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Sha Litian from Tianjin City Arrested

    After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Sha Litian was brutally tortured repeatedly. On January 1st, 2003, when he was held in the Jianxin Forced Labour Camp of Tianjin City, the temperature was 15 centigrade below zero (5 degrees Fahrenheit) and it was snowing. All of his clothes were ripped off and he was locked in an iron cage for seven days, with the windows and doors around him opened and an electric fan running. Three to four guards wearing insulated coats used high voltage electric batons to shock him. On June 18th, 2006, he was arrested by police again and taken to the Wuqing District Detention Centre.
  • Officials at Division 1 in the Changchun Police Department Brutally Torture Dafa Practitioners Who Broadcast Falun Gong Videos Part 1 (Photos)

    In order to explain the true situation of Falun Dafa to people deceived by the CCP's propaganda, Lei Ming and other Dafa practitioners broadcast Falun Gong videos exposing the persecution in Changchun City. Police arrested him and savagely tortured him after Jiang Zemin issued the secret order, "kill without pardon."
  • Additional Information About Zeng Xian'e Who Was Killed in Hubei Shayang Labour Camp

    I witnessed how a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hubei Shiyan area was persecuted to death. I only knew her name was Zeng Xian'e, and she was in her 30s. Around midnight, we suddenly heard rapid footsteps and people talking about sending her quickly to the hospital. She was beside the room where I was, so I raised my head to watch after I heard the sound. The second day, practitioner Zeng died. We asked the police how Zeng was. They said she died of "heart disease". I thought the autopsy was done at the request of her work unit leader and the family to verify the reason of death. Now however, I am clear that it was done because they wanted her organs.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Qu Ping From Dalian City Dies from Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qu Ping from Dalian City, Liaoning Province was arrested and held in detention centres and labour camps many times because she persisted in her belief in Falun Gong and its principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. She suffered tremendous physical damage from the tortures and passed away on May 22nd, 2006 at the age of 51.