Torture

  • Five Practitioners from Xinjiang, Liaoning and Hebei Provinces and Beijing Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Cui Fenglin, 49 years old, was a worker in the branch factory of the Jinzhou Heavy Machinery Plant in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He started practising Falun Gong in June 1995 and went twice to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was detained and sentenced to one and a half years in the Dalian Labour Camp. He was subjected to inhuman treatment there, punitively force-fed several times and persecuted by collaborators. He was extremely weak at the time of his release. In mid-January 2005, he started to vomit anything he ate and he could not defecate. He passed away on December 13th, 2005.
  • 55-Year-Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Zhang Zhunli Tortured to Death in Henan Province

    On January 13th, 2006, another brutal case of persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners occurred in Henan Province. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Zhunli, 55, was arrested by the Shan County National Security Team and brutally tortured to death that same day. The police were afraid of being held responsible, so they threw Ms. Zhang out of a fourth-floor window, creating a cover-up to claim that Ms. Zhang committed suicide. After that, they sent Ms. Zhang's body to the hospital for emergency treatment. In fact, Ms. Zhang was dead well before arriving at the hospital.
  • Practitioner Ms. He Xiuling Was Tortured to Death in 2004; Her Husband Is Still Forbidden to See Her Body

    "My wife, He Xiuling, persisted in Falun Dafa cultivation and for that she was tortured to death on March 11th, 2004. Those responsible were Communist regime agents from the 610 Office in the Yantai Police Department and others. Her body remains in frozen storage in a Yantai City funeral home. As of today, the unjust detention and murder of He Xiuling has not been investigated by the authorities, nor have the guilty parties been brought to justice."
  • More Information About How Mr. Zhao Guoan, in His Fifties, Was Tortured to Death at the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province

    In August 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Guoan, 54, was arrested and sent to the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province. The head of Team No. 1, Jia, kept cursing the founder of Falun Dafa while using the "rope tying" method on Zhao Guoan. He snarled, "Let me see how long you can endure this. Nothing can make me believe that you will not write the "three statements"! At the end of December of the same year, he was tortured to death by Jia Zhigang and other policemen because they could not "transform" him.
  • Baoding City Party Members Persecute Dafa Practitioners Over TV Interception Incident in Tianjin

    Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities in Baoding City, Hebei Province plotted to hold an illegal trial of Dafa practitioners Wei Haiwu, Liu Yongwang, Zhang Rongjie and Zhi Zhanmin at the Baoding City Xinshi District's Court at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, February 17th. These Dafa practitioners were arrested last August on the grounds of the TV interception incident in Tianjin. Amongst these practitioners, Liu Yongwang has been persecuted most brutally and is currently on the brink of death.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wang Xinbo from Zibo City Passes Away Due to Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Xinbo was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was released at the brink of death. In October 2005 the brutal captors deprived him of sleep for four days and four nights in order to "reform" him [force him give up his belief]. More than ten abusers took turns beating him. In order to resist the persecution, Wang Xinbo didn't eat or drink for four days. When he lost consciousness and showed signs of whole-body oedema. Soon after Wang Xinbo went home. He passed away on February 10th, 2006.
  • Information about the Death of Practitioner Mr. Pan Qichu from Jiangxi Province

    At the end of May, 2003, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Wang Meixiang and Mr. Pan Qichu from Yichun City in Jiangxi Province were arrested while they were distributing materials exposing the persecution. They were detained in Yichun City Detention Centre and Mr. Pan was tortured to death on June 2nd, 2003. According to witnesses, Mr. Pan was tortured by being hung up in the detention centre and was later sent to the hospital when he was dying. After he died, an autopsy was performed and excrement was found in his stomach.
  • Three Dafa Practitioners Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Liu Runzhi, age fifty-seven, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa in November 1999, shortly after the persecution began. Over the last six years she has been held in a brainwashing class, the Female Correction Centre and harassed numerous times by the police. She was forced to leave her home and became homeless for over a year. Police arrested her from another practitioner's home where she stayed temporarily in 2005. She was sent to another brainwashing class. She was extremely weak and became ill after being brutally tortured. The authorities released her for fear of bearing responsibility for her death. Ms. Liu Runzhi passed away on January 11th 2006.
  • Gangbei Prison in Tianjin Has Persecuted Dafa Practitioners Long-Term

    Many Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in Gangbei Prison, including an engineer named Zhou Xiangyang. He was from the Third Investigation and Design Institute of the Railroad Department. He was sentenced for nine years. They have to work long hours, with a heavily overloaded work schedule every day. There are many different kinds of labour, including making flower arrangements, sewing and mending footballs, picking out nails etc.
  • Exposing the Savage Treatment of Practitioners in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin

    Zhao Shuang, head of the No. 5 Division at this forced labour camp, used extremely cruel methods to persecute practitioners. Besides using high-voltage electric batons, tying practitioners to a metal chair, handcuffing them to a bed, hanging them up, beating and slapping them, he used other methods. This thug also pinched, pushed, and poked practitioners' bodies, pinched practitioners' private parts, and used a plastic bag to cover practitioners' heads.
  • Methods Used by Jilin Prison to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners (Drawings)

    As soon as a Falun Gong practitioner is detained in Jilin prison, he is sent to a zone in which there are around ten persons. Then he is sent to a sub-zone. At the sub-zone, the "educational instructor" assigns some prisoners to monitor this practitioner and "transform" him. Three to four prisoners work in shifts around the clock. Except when it is time to have meals, use the toilet, wash or sleep, the only thing the practitioner can do is "sit on a board." Sometimes, one is forced to do so until after 10:00 p.m. or even until midnight. Meanwhile, those prisoners who are responsible for watching him can beat and curse him at will.
  • Imprisoned for Not Swearing

    Mr. Z, a non-practitioner, was thrown into jail because he did not want to swear - isn't that hard to believe? However, this really happened under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) brutal regime. A Falun Dafa practitioner had given Mr Z some information explaining the facts of Falun Dafa and the police caught him with them. The police questioned him repetitively, "Are you a Falun Gong practitioner or not?" Mr. Z said he was not. The police said, "If you are not a practitioner, swear at Li Hongzhi a hundred times, and we will let you go home. If you refuse to swear, you will be sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp." Mr. Z responded, "I never had problems with him, why should I swear at him?
  • Ms. Liu Aimin and Ms. Zhang Jianqing from Hubei Province Suffered Persecution Prior to Their Deaths

    After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Fifty-year-old Ms. Liu Aimin gave numerous personal testimonies to support Falun Dafa and was arrested, detained, and fined many times. She was sent to forced labour camp twice, brutally beaten up seven times, and suffered tremendous physical and spiritual torture. Her workplace turned against her, and her husband divorced her after she was released from the labour camp. In 2003, she was forced to become homeless to avoid persecution. She lived on a minimum of food and in barely adequate shelter. Enduring great physical and mental pressure, she was diagnosed with leukaemia and died on June 3rd, 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Ding Yanhong Dies from Persecution

    37-year-old Ms. Ding Yanhong was a Falun Dafa practitioner. Police detained her and took her to forced labour camps many times because of her belief. When detained in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, they force-fed her for 7 months. After she was released, she was sickly and never recovered. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members living in her community often went to her home to harass and threaten her. As a result, Ms. Ding's physical and mental health was seriously harmed. She became increasingly weaker until she passed away on February 13th, 2006.
  • Elderly Mr. Zheng Dinguo Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Zheng Dingguo, 64 years old, was very healthy when he was first arrested, but died only two and a half months later on February 19th, 2006 after being detained in a detention centre . His toes were very dark with the bones exposed. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official said he died of a stroke, but he never had such a medical history, and why would a stroke cause his toes to turn black?