Torture

  • Practitioner Ms. Yuan Zheng Missing, Taken to "Undisclosed Location"

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yuan Zheng is about 38 to 39 years old. In September 2001, she was arrested while explaining the true situation of Falun Dafa in public. She was detained at Zhuhai City Detention Centre No. 2. Ms. Yuan did not give her name. Therefore, the guards recorded her as "no name" on the chart. In June 2002, Yuan Zheng was taken to an undisclosed location. No one has heard of her since. I worry deeply about Ms. Yuan Zhen, who disappeared many years ago, since hearing the horrible news concerning the Shenyang Sujiatun secret concentration camp, where they harvested organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and sold them for transplants.
  • My Experience of Being Imprisoned Three Times at Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp

    "When I was taken to Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, seven or eight police officers dragged me to the "discipline room" to beat me up. They pushed me down to force-feed me with drugs and injections. They humiliated me by taking away the belt from my trousers. I had to hold my trousers up with my hands. They dragged me around by my hair. Guard Zhang Xiaohui said to me, "If you do not transform, I will torture you. You will wish to die." They laughed at me hysterically, made lewd remarks towards me and tortured me for over an hour."
  • An Unfinished Letter from Prison

    They tried all sorts of things against practitioners in Jinan Women's Prison over the past several years. Once practitioners enter the prison, they are detained in the enforcement division first, and forced to write "three statements1" to give up the practice and defame Dafa. If they refuse, they are deprived of sleep and the use of the toilet. Food is also restricted. They are forced to squat, to stand for extended periods, or put into solitary confinement. Guards and inmates armed with sticks take turns to watch practitioners. When practitioners move a little bit, they are beaten. A practitioner was once forced to squat down for more than 40 days, and was unable to stand up afterwards.
  • Gangbei Prison in Tianjin Has Persecuted Dafa Practitioners Long-Term

    Besides the forced labour, the ways that Gangbei Prison tries to mentally force practitioners to "transform" are even more vicious. For instance, they have to write "thought reports" regularly, they are cursed at, violently beaten, and locked in dark cells for a long time, etc. While their relatives visit, all conversations are monitored by the jail's security monitoring system. If any of the relatives mentions anything against the "brainwashing" or the so called "thought transformation," these practitioners are immediately deprived the right to see their families again. Also their families are strictly prohibited from bringing them anything.
  • Tianjin Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiangjun Persecuted Repeatedly

    The police started cursing, "When the Chinese Communist Party says that you are wrong, you are wrong, even if you are not. We can tell you that our superiors have instructed us that if you are not 'transformed' ideologically, then you will be transformed by fire (cremation). Even if we kill you, you will die in vain, and we will get our bonus." Seduced by money and succumbing to orders from above, they started savagely torturing Zhang Xiangjun. They tied him to the tiger bench and used seven electric batons to shock him simultaneously.
  • The No. 2 Prison in Xinjiang Province Brutally Persecutes Female Dafa Practitioners

    Ms. Li Xianghong has been severely persecuted. In October 1999, her workplace sent her to the No. 4 People's Hospital (a mental hospital) for two months. They injected some drugs into her body without her permission. In April 2001, she was sentenced for a three-year term in a forced labour camp. In March 2002, she was arrested again and was sentenced for eleven years and kept in the No. 2 Prison in Xinjiang Province. In the prison, she suffered all kinds of persecution. The police beat her, abused her, would not allow her to sleep and tried to brainwash her.
  • Belated News: Falun Gong Practitioner Qi Cangyun's Left Foot Disabled by Police Beating in Xinji City (Photo)

    On September 30th, 2001, Falun Dafa practitioner Qi Cangyun was arrested. He was then taken to the Xinji City Police Department. In the afternoon of the same day, the police savagely beat Qi Cangyun with a large metal pipe, disabling the big and second toes on his left foot and severely injuring the foot itself. He was also fined nearly 10,000 yuan.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhou Chuanzhong and Family, and Other Practitioners Arrested by Police

    Falun Dafa practitioner Zhou Chuanzhong and his family were forced to live away from their home as a result of the persecution. On the morning of February 25th, 2006, about a dozen vehicles from the Yanjiao Police Department and the 610 Office suddenly surrounded the temporary home of Mr. Zhou. The police arrested Zhou Chuanzhong, Wang Shuhua, and their son. Without presenting any documents, they ransacked the house and confiscated a computer, a copy machine, Falun Dafa books, and other things. It was said that the police officers drove away with several cars full of property.
  • The Brutal Persecution of Dafa Practitioners at Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province

    Since January 2005, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Camp has escalated. On December 2nd, 2005, the police carried out an unprecedented and rampant persecution of all Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp. Many practitioners were tied up tightly, pinned down to the ground, had their heads beaten until they were swollen and bloody, and were shocked by electric batons. On top of that, it was decided in a meeting that their confinement and "re-education" in the camp would be extended.
  • Crimes Committed Against Dafa Practitioners at Suzhou Prison in Anhui Province

    In early January, 2005, officials and criminal inmates brutally tortured Dafa practitioner Hu Wenkui for several days. Under -10 degree Celsius (14oF) temperature, they opened the windows and used an electric fan to freeze Hu Wenkui, who only wore thin clothes. They hit and kicked him all over his body. They handcuffed one of his hands to the window frame and tied his other hand with ropes. Several criminals pulled the rope and hung up his entire body. Then they started to hit his chest and back. A few criminals held him down in a corner, stretched his legs into a straight line and hit his groin again and again. They also used electric batons to shock his groin for more than thirty minutes.
  • The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Mudanjiang Prison

    Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Li Baohua, 30 years old was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. In the Extensive Training Team he was not allowed to wash his hands, face or clothes. Practitioners were not allowed to lie flat, and one had to sleep curled up on one's side. There were bugs crawling all over the bed. Many people got bites that itched terribly. When working, one had to use their hands that were infected and itched, to select and pack "clean chopsticks". If a practitioner could not finish the work, his feet would be whipped by the head of the criminals in front of the guards, using "the little white dragon"-- white plastic tubes. After the arches were swollen, one was forced to jump on the ground.
  • The Harassment and Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Jia Jinfeng of Shanxi Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Jia Jinfeng from Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province was ruthlessly persecuted by agents from the Chinese Communist Party. She's been continuously harassed by police ever since. She was unlawfully detained and subjected to forced labour for one year. Before the arrest the police had tried numerous times to send her to a labour camp, but failed.
  • Practitioners Stripped and Left to Freeze in the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp

    During the month of November 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Song Wenjuan was tortured in the training ward at Wanjia Labour Camp and then sent to the 12th ward. The guards inhumanly tortured her for more than one month by forcing her to squat near an open window wearing only underwear. During the night, she was forced to sit on a metal chair. Along with the physical tortures and mental humiliation, collaborators mentally tortured her by forcing her write the three statements.
  • Crimes of the Prison Doctor at Changliu Detention Centre in Tonghua City

    Every Falun Gong practitioner detained in Changliu Detention Centre in Tonghua City has been persecuted. At Changliu Detention Centre every practitioner is forced to work over ten hours every day. The detention centre director knows that forced labour is illegal, but he turns a blind eye to it. Falun Gong practitioners are provided with two meals per day: corn buns and radish soup. On Monday the bun is made with very crude flour. Daily necessities are sold there at two to three times fair market price.
  • Yang Lijuan and Four Other Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City

    Because Yang Lijuan refused to attend the slave-labour activities, the guards punished her with long-term standing. While her fellow practitioners were force-fed, Yang Lijuan stood up to stop the persecution, which meant she was beaten with electric batons. In such a difficult situation. She constantly fought for the basic rights of living and freedom for fellow practitioners as well as herself. Yang Lijuan wrote and delivered a letter to the head of the labour camp. After that, however, five Falun Gong practitioners, including Yang Lijuan, were strictly monitored and forced to "study" the fact-twisting theories by watching video programmes defaming Falun Gong.