Torture

  • Petition Letter from the Mother of Yang Xiaojie, Who Died as a Result of Torture (Photos)

    "I am the mother of Yang Xiaojie. At 11:15 a.m. on January 26th, 2006, my beloved son Yang Xiaojie passed away. His face, seen by his family, was kind. He didn't want to leave his parents, both in their 70s, his dear wife, and especially his 16-year-old daughter, the apple of his eye. I was with my son when he died. I screamed until my throat was dry and all the strength had left my body. I held my son's hand and shouted continuously, "Xiaojie, come back! You can't leave. You are a tough boy. Mum can't live without you! you tried not to describe the tortures you suffered at the prison because you didn't want me to worry about you."
  • Two Falun Gong Practitioners Imprisoned at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province Have Disappeared

    Over the past few years, many Falun Gong practitioners have died in hospital because of the persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Many others died shortly after they were released to go home. Some have become paralysed. Others were severely injured and/or disabled. Two Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Li Jingyi and Ms. Liu Guifang, were tortured until they were close to death. It was written on the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp blackboard that they were taken to hospital, but no one heard from them or saw them again.
  • 68-Year-Old Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Suying from Huainan City Secretly Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

    To avoid continued persecution, three years ago 68-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Suying from Huainan City was compelled to escape from home and wander around. Then she was again arrested and secretly sentenced to five years in prison. She is now incarcerated in the Suzhou Women's Prison in Anhui Province.
  • Nine Practitioners in Jilin and Sichuan Provinces Died As a Result of Persecution

    58-year-old Mr. Liu Benhong was arrested by police. They tortured him for three days and nights in a township brainwashing centre. In the daytime they forced him to do filthy work and refused to let him sleep at night. They beat him at will. They disqualified his children from joining the army or applying to any university. Mr. Liu was later held at the police department for six months. They once handcuffed him to a railing for seven days and nights. They deprived him of food and water. Later, one police officer gave him half a glass of water to which unknown drugs had been added. After Mr. Liu drank it he had a severe headache and stomachache, lost consciousness, and later talked nonsense. He passed away on December 16th, 2005.
  • Zhongba Forced Labour Camp Officials in Guizhou Province Torture Falun Gong Practitioners.

    At the "newcomer team" of Zhouba Women's Forced Labour Camp, Falun Gong practitioners were also exposed to forced brainwashing, punishment by being forced to stand for several days and nights, sleep deprivation, forced feeding, forced injections, being forced to write "the three statements," being subjected to solitary confinement, being hung up and beaten, being tied up, electric baton shocks, having their fingers pierced with needles, wearing instruments of torture, and other methods.
  • Belated News: Mr. Li Xianming Tortured to Death on the Same Day He Was Arrested

    On the evening of April 6th, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Xianming from Sichuan Province was arrested in front of the county government hostel. National Security Bureau agents staged the arrest and pushed him into a small, unmarked car. They took him to the county detention centre, where they savagely tortured him. The guards injected him later with a poisonous substance. He died the day of his arrest, on the evening of April 6th, 2005.
  • More Details Regarding the Torture Death of 31-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Chang Shuai

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chang Shuai was 31 years old. For his belief in Falun Gong he had to do hard labour in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. Chang Shuai refused to write the "three statements" and he held several hunger strikes to protest the persecution. The vicious guards removed Chang's clothes and used electrical batons to shock him for over thirty minutes. They did not stop until the electric batons ran out of battery power.
  • Mr. Fan Zhongzhuang Was Abducted and Persecuted

    Mr. Fang Zhongzhuang was interrogated for five consecutive days in a detention centre and brutally tortured just because of his belief in Falun Dafa. He was sent to hospital in a coma, had a compound fracture of the cervical spine, and injuries and wounds covered his entire body. The doctor stated that he was dying. He is still bedridden.
  • Practitioner Ms. Li Xiumin Diagnosed With Tumour; Calling for Her Immediate Release on Medical Parole

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiumin has been detained in Shijiazhuang City Labour Camp for more than 18 months. She has recently been diagnosed with breast hyperplasia and an uterine tumour, a medical condition in all likelihood caused by maltreatment under the persecution. The uterine tumour measures about 1.2 inches in diameter. The doctor urged her to immediately undergo surgery. She also suffers from retinitis. Her family is truly concerned for her. Retinitis can result in loss of eyesight if left untreated. We urgently call for the release of Li Xiumin on medical parole.
  • Panjin City National Security Police Use Perjury to Heavily Sentence Falun Gong Practitioners

    On September 12th, 2005, Panjin City's Xinglongtai Court held a secret hearing to levy criminal charges against Mr. Xin Minduo and his wife for their belief in Falun Gong. Three days later, on the afternoon of September 15th, the court handed 13 year and 12 year prison terms to Mr. Xin and his wife, respectively. Their family members did not find out about this until September 20th, 2005, from a private source. There is no evidence of their "crime." The evil Communist regime's practice prevailed, as usual: arrest first, then fabricate "evidence."
  • Persecution Reports from Yang'ai Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province

    Practitioner Ms. Wang Shanchun is currently being held in the Yang'ai Forced Labour Camp where she is being tortured. When Ms. Wang was held in Anshun City, she was handcuffed to the torture bed for 33 days. The wound on her back that resulted from repeated beatings started to rot and grow maggots. She was restrained on the torture bed with both handcuffs and shackles, and the guards brutally force-fed her. She was forced to urinate and defecate in her clothes.
  • Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Guards Laugh While Torturing Practitioners

    "In December, 2002, after a few months of being on a hunger strike, guards tied up my waist for a few hours, handcuffed both of my hands on my back, and tied both of my legs in the double lotus position for several hours continuously. As the time period was very long, my bones and muscles became excruciatingly painful - so painful that I screamed out loudly and lost consciousness. Policeman Zhang Chunguang shocked me with an electric baton so severely that my heart was twisting, both of my legs trembled, and I was dizzy. The pain was so bad that it seemed my heart had torn apart, while the police was laughing wholeheartedly."
  • Ms. Wang Xiuxia Died as a Result of Torture at Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison

    After nearly four years of brutal torture at the Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison, Ms. Wang Xiuxia, a Falun Gong practitioner passed away on January 24th, 2006 at age 41. While detained, she was beaten, forced to sleep on cement floors, soaked with a dozen buckets of cold water, and forced to work overtime performing slave labour. In December 2005, when she was emaciated, swollen in many places, and near death, the prison released her to her family. She died soon afterwards.
  • Practitioner Ms. Su Baoli Recounts 18 Unconstitutional Detentions

    On July 20th, 1999, the wicked Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong. That date marked the end of our peaceful life. In the past six years, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners, including myself, have experienced unprecedented cruel persecution only because we persisted in our belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and being good people. Our families were broken up, and many of us were thrown into prison. I was detained 18 times in violation of the Chinese constitution, and my family was fined 43,500 yuan. I recently broke free from the latest incarceration and cannot put into words the amount of suffering I have gone through.
  • 74-Year-Old Ms. Fan Defang Prosecuted in Chongqing City

    Police arrested Ms. Fan Defang, a 74-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Chongqing City, and practitioner Ms. Yuan Suxian on January 28th, 2005. Ms. Yuan Suxian was tortured to death, and Ms. Fan Defang was illegally prosecuted. Ms. Fan Defang and Ms. Yuan had picked up several Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution off the ground and gave them to passers-by. They were arrested. Ms. Fan was bedridden the entire time she remained in the detention centre. Police were worried that Ms. Fan would die in the detention centre, so they told her family to take her home with the caveat that she would be tried later.