Torture

  • Three Practitioners from Liaoning Province, Hebei Province and Hubei Province Pass Away Due to Persecution

    75-year-old Ms. Miao Xueying started practising Falun Dafa in late 1996. In November 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, but she was arrested and sentenced to forced labour. While being held in the Longshan Forced Labour Camp, her mind and body were greatly injured and she started to have illness symptoms, including hypertension and heart disease. Six months later she was released to seek medical treatment. During the past several years, police and CCP staff members often came to her house to harass her, making it difficult for her to practise Falun Dafa. As a consequence, her health worsened and finally she passed away on January 11th, 2006.
  • Ms. Huang Aihua from Jiangxi Province Died Due to Repeated Persecution

    Ms. Huang Aihua, 53, benefited both physically and mentally from practising Falun Dafa. Because she exposed the persecution of Falun Dafa, she was repeatedly persecuted by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents. Due to repeated threats and torture as well as the constant harassment by the police at home, Ms. Huang Aihua's mind and body were both greatly damaged. She passed away on December 12th, 2004, from the recurrence of former illnesses.
  • Mr. Yang Xiaojie Tortured to Death in Prison in Shijiazhuang City, His Wife Still Detained in Hebei Province Female Prison

    Practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaojie passed away at 11:15 a.m. on January 28th, 2006. Because of his belief in Falun Dafa, Mr. Yang had been detained in the Northern Suburb Prison of Shijiazhuang City. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members tortured him with numerous methods to make him give up his belief. Even after he was tortured to the brink of death, and he had become emaciated, prison staff did not inform his family members. They were not allowed to visit him for more than a year. People who knew Mr. Yang's story are deeply anguished about this miscarriage of justice. At the same time, they are shocked by the CCP members' brutality and enraged about the murder.
  • The Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp Has Tortured More Than Ten Falun Dafa Practitioners to Death

    The methods Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp have been using to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners include the following brutal tortures: "Carrying a Sword on the Back", hanging up from the upper bed, pouring freezing water over people, "Dead Person's Bed", electric baton shock, hammering nails into practitioners, sleep deprivation, sitting on a "Small Tiger Bench", inciting criminals to brutally beat practitioners and over-strenuous forced labour.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners from Yunnan Province, Heilongjiang Province and Tianjin City Passed Away Due to Persecution

    80-year-old Ms. Lin Yueying, 80, was from Heilongjiang Province. When she saw that her daughter recovered from many types of illnesses after practising Falun Dafa, Ms. Lin also started to practise. However, soon the CCP started to persecute Falun Dafa. Officials went to her house to interfere with her practice repeatedly. Because Ms. Lin was worried about her daughter being arrested, she could not sleep or eat well, and started to suffer from severe illnesses. However, a police officer still constantly went to harass her, and thus aggravated her illnesses. Ms. Lin passed away on August 15th, 2000.
  • 610 Office Personnel in Nanjing Persecuted Elderly Practitioner Ms. Liu Daohai to Death

    73-year-old Ms. Liu Daohai was once detained in a forced labour camp because of her belief in Falun Dafa. After she was released from the labour camp, the labour camp personnel continued to persecute her. Liu Daohai's son locked her in her room and did not allow her to go out. She even had to get permission when she wanted to make a phone call. Due to the intense persecution by the 610 Office and her family, Ms. Liu committed suicide by jumping off a building in April 2003.
  • A Case of the Chinese Communist Party Damaging Family Relationships

    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted Mrs. Zhao, in her sixties, many times because of her persistence in Falun Dafa cultivation. At the instigation of the CCP her son and daughter-in-law have also persecuted her. Her family watched her twenty-four hours a day and did not allow her to study the Falun Dafa books or do the exercises. They destroyed her Dafa materials. In addition, they recorded speeches defaming Dafa and made her listen to the recordings repeatedly. They beat her, swore at her and even taped her mouth shut. Mrs. Zhao's son threw her out of the house at 6:00 a.m. one morning. She is now homeless.
  • National Security Team of Muleng City Police Department in Heilongjiang Province Extorts Money at Will

    Li Shuzhi and Xiao Gao have been sent to Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp and Lao Peng to Mudanjiang City Forced Labour Camp. None of their families were notified at the time they were sent. All these practitioners who were "illegally arrested" were cruelly tortured while held in detention. For example, Sun Shiwei, who is over 50, lost two teeth when he was force-fed. The guards smashed his mouth and teeth in the process and blood flew all over his clothes and stained his bedding.
  • How the Guards From the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp of Changchun City Persecute Falun Dafa Practitioners

    In the past several years, the authorities at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp have brutally tortured detained Falun Dafa practitioners both physically and spiritually. Those held there are deprived of freedom. They are forced to work from morning to night each day. Every day they have to work for over ten hours. Once, the practitioners were forced to pick beans after dinner. Lan Mingjuan (female), who is the deputy chief of the seventh division, complained that the practitioners did not pick enough beans. She forced the practitioners to work until 1:00 a.m. before they were allowed to go to sleep.
  • Belated News: Nine Practitioners in Hubei Province, Beijing, Liaoning Province and Other Parts of China Died As a Result of Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Shen Jinyu was 65 years old. In September 1999, Ms. Shen went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. Officials sent her to a brainwashing class where she was hung up by her handcuffed hands, put in a metal cage and had her hands shackled behind her back. In December 2002, officials arrested Shen Jinyu again and sent her to the police station where they handcuffed her hands behind her back and beat her for the whole night. In 2003, Shen Jinyu was again taken to a brainwashing class. She passed away on January 1st, 2006.
  • The Painful Experience of a Family of Dafa Practitioners in Hebei Province

    There are five people in this family: The couple, Mr. Yu Zhengang and Ms. Chang Zhenying, and three daughters -- Yu Yaxin, Yu Yajuan and Yu Yajing. All of the family members successively learned Dafa and began cultivation practice in 1998. After Jiang Zemin's regime began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, in order to maintain their legitimate right to practise, all five people of this family stepped forward and opposed the persecution. As a result they suffered torture and other kinds of brutal persecution. The parents were unjustly imprisoned, one daughter sent to forced labour and the teenage daughters were also arrested and then had to leave school.
  • Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp in Shaanxi Province Incites Drug Addicts to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners

    The Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp prison guards are known for cruelly torturing Dafa practitioners. After the labour camp's persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners was exposed to the public, the guards now incite drug addicts to beat the practitioners in order to cover up their own crimes. This way, if problems arise or when they are questioned by the practitioner's families and the public, they can shirk their responsibilities and blame the drug addict inmates by claiming, "We don't know what is going on among the inmates." They even lie, saying that they will punish the drug addicts who beat practitioners.
  • The Chinese Communist Party Praises Daughter Who Persecutes Her Own Mother

    Falun Dafa practitioner Bai Suqin has been a steadfast Falun Dafa practitioner for a long time, although her daughter, Xin Hao, has always objected to her practice. Xin Hao and her husband visited her mother one evening and found other practitioners there. They called the police and as a result Bai Suqin and the other practitioners were arrested. After that, the CCP flaunted Bai Suqin's daughter and son-in-law as good examples and praised them for "punishing guilty family members".
  • The Liaoning Province Women's Prison's Methods of Persecution and Abuse of Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Brainwashing took the form of forced watching of videos and reading of books that slander Dafa. Such activities were followed by forced written critique reports that must include words attacking Falun Gong. Since the inmates and guards all had an interest in seeing Dafa practitioners complying with their demands, they used any kind of method, even torture, to get the practitioners to comply. One of these tortures meant the practitioner had to stand from 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. except for meals. This was done for several days in a row, leading to severe swelling of the legs. A further punishment was a practitioner would have to spend time standing in a water dungeon or the toilet in freezing weather during the evening.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Fengqin Tortured to Death

    On the morning of October 11th, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Fengqin was illegally arrested by State Security agents. They extorted money from her, beat her, and brutally force-fed her. After ten days she was near death, and her family members sent her to the hospital. The doctor said they couldn't do anything to save her. Ms. Li died on the afternoon of January 30th, 2006. She was only in her 50s.