Torture
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Beijing Women's Prison Resorts to "Public Bidding" to Brainwash Practitioner Ms. Xu Na
2006-02-02
Ms Xu Na, a practitioner from Beijing, has been detained in Beijing Women's Prison for more than 4 years, where she has suffered all kinds of torture. She refused to renounce her belief, despite being brutally beaten, locked in small cells, forced to sit in lotus position with both legs crossed for long periods of time, tied up, deprived of sleep, left in the snow and many other gruesome tortures. Over the past 4 years the authorities at Beijing Women's Prison failed to force Xu Na to renounce Falun Gong. -
Practitioner Mr. Liu Changling from Shandong Province Died Due to Persecution
2006-02-02Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Changling, an engineer from the Qiuji Coal Mine of Qihe County in Shandong Province, was arrested and detained numerous times after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Dafa in July 1999. Mr. Liu passed away on July 22nd, 2005, at the age of 56. Just over a month before he passed away, Mr. Liu was still under surveillance and was almost arrested. -
Five Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning, Inner Mongolia Provinces and Chongqing City Died As A Result of Persecution
2006-02-02After the persecution began in 1999, 34-year-old Mr. Li Baoqing went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was detained many times. Once an engineer, he was demoted and worked in a factory. In October 1999, he was sentenced to two years in a forced-labour camp, where he suffered all sorts of torture. His company fired him while he was incarcerated. They confiscated his house, and his wife divorced him and took all the money they had saved together. The long-term persecution destroyed his health, affected his spirit and cut off his income. On July 3rd, 2005, he died on the way to the hospital. -
Mr. Yu Huinan Dies from Torture at Suzhou Prison; Mr. Chen Guang in Coma for Six Months
2006-02-0160-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yu Huinan was tortured at the Suzhou Prison for five years. He died on January 4th, 2006. His wife and two daughters are incarcerated. Practitioner Chen Guang was sentenced to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong. Mr. Chen suffered severe brain damage from torture on July 29th, 2005 and has already been in a deep coma for six months. -
Four Falun Dafa Practitioners from Shandong, Shanxi and Heilongjiang Provinces Die as a Result of Persecution
2006-02-01Ms. Wang Chongxia, in her 60's, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Dafa on December 22nd, 2000. The police from the Qianmen Substation arrested her. Later on the Shanxi Government Office in Beijing detained her. The police also raided her home. In April 2001, she was sent to a brainwashing session located in the Zhenchen Male Labour Camp in Taiyuan City. She did not get home until July. Policeman Gao Feng continued to harass her by visiting her home frequently. Serious symptoms redeveloped and she passed away in June 2005. -
Three Senior Citizens from Jilin Province, Gansu Province and Chongqing City Passed Away After Enduring Persecution
2006-02-01Ms. Yu Yonghua was over 70. After July 20th, 1999, due to the severe persecution of Falun Dafa, and also due to the intense pressure from the local government in which her second son held the position of the Chief of the Village, her oldest son and daughter-in-law kept her from doing the exercises. Consequently, Ms. Yu's old illnesses recurred and she passed away in January 2003. -
Six Persecution-Related Deaths of Practitioners from Sichuan, Hebei, and Jilin Province
2006-02-01Mr. Lu Bin, 50, was a practitioner from Hebei Province. He worked at the county's fertiliser plant but was fired from his job because he refused to give up Falun Dafa. When he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in 2000, the government officials took him to the Shijingshan Police Station in Beijing and subjected him to cruel treatment. Both his mind and body suffered severely. As a result, his former illnesses recurred, and he died in the winter of 2002. -
In Memory of Fellow Practitioner Ms Zou Guirong
2006-01-31"Zou Guirong was had big eyes that shone in her round face and she smiled gently all the time. I remember the first time I met Zou Guirong; it was at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in February or March of 2000. The wicked guards at Masanjia stripped such a kind woman, poured cold water on her, and four or five female guards shocked her with electric batons, and said, "This is fun." However, Zou Guirong did not surrender to the torture, which lasted for more than four hours. All of the inhumane torture was conducted in secret. I witnessed that her body was covered with injures, black and purple all over." -
Practitioner Mr. Liu Jianjun from Zhangjiakou City Tortured to Near Death in Detention Centre
2006-01-31Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Jianjun from was repeatedly persecuted. The authorities caused him to lose his job and forced him to work at night as a doorman in a shop to make a living. On December 22nd, 2005, Mr. Liu Jianjun was arrested by police officers. He was secured onto a "Tiger Bench" to be tortured. Later, he was taken to a detention centre. Mr. Liu Jianjun went through fifteen days of torture, and was savagely force-fed until he could not breathe. In the end, the police took him back to the computer store where he worked, and left him there while they ran away. -
Lanzhou Practitioner Ms. Zhen Fengru Dies as a Result of Persecution
2006-01-31Ms. Zhen Fengru, a Falun Gong practitioner in Lanzhou City, was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre on October 26th, 2004. She suffered tremendously from the inhumane persecution both mentally and physically. She was later isolated from her son and confined to her house when her son was threatened by the authorities. She collapsed mentally and passed away in September 2005. -
Four Elderly Practitioners from Shanxi, Hebei, Jilin and Anhui Provinces Pass Away Due to Persecution
2006-01-31Practitioner Mr. Liu Mingzhong, 68, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. He was arrested by police and taken to a forced labour camp, where he was brutally tortured by the guards. All of his clothes were stripped off and cold water was poured on him from head to toe. He was forced to sleep on the cold floor. The guards also used the toilet brush to brush water onto his body. After several days of torture, Liu Mingzhong became critically ill and was released to seek medical care. After Mr. Liu returned home, he was constantly harassed by the police. Mr. Liu Mingzhong's spirit was greatly injured by the severe persecution, and he finally passed away, with sadness, in August 2005. -
How Elderly Practitioner Ms Liu Xingyun Was Persecuted to Death
2006-01-30On November 18th, 2005 65-year-old Ms. Liu Xingyun passed away due to persecution. Before her death, she suffered numerous forms of persecution, such as illegal arrests, detention, extortion, and illegal searches of her home. The day before she passed away, several staff members from the local 610 Office and police department went to Ms. Liu's home to harass her. The Tanghai County Government, county police department and the so-called "Transformation School" (brainwashing centre) are responsible for Liu Xingyun's death. -
The Plight of Several Dafa Practitioners in the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp
2006-01-30Ms. Han Guixia's lower body was paralysed from torture and she lost bladder control, wetting the bed. The group chief didn't let her eat and locked her out of the dining hall. Wang Xin pinched Ms. Han's lip and made it bleed. Also, Wang verbally abused her in front of everybody and claimed that Ms. Han was pretending to be sick. Ms. Han was tied onto a "Tiger Bench". Policemen forbade her to go to the toilet, forcing her to urinate in her trousers. She was tied to the bench for the whole night. -
The Truth about the So-called "Loving and Caring Centre" of Luotai Villa in Fushun City
2006-01-30To fulfil the quotas for "transformed" practitioners, fake practitioners are sent from various areas to the brainwashing centre. In September 2005, to complete the quota, a community in Fushun City sent a resident with low pay to the brainwashing centre, and the community paid him 20 yuan per day. When they were "transforming" him, he didn't know anything. When they asked him if he'd ever learned Falun Gong, he said he hadn't. When asked how he'd come to be there, he said the secretary in his community told him to come, telling him he'd be expected to study for a few days and could then return home, for which he would be paid a wage plus food and expenses, which he said was better than staying at home. -
Exposing Incidents of Persecution at Tiebei Jail in Changchun
2006-01-30In December 2001, jail administrator Mou Zhanfu tried to brainwash practitioner Ms. Liu Ziwei but she resisted. Mou Zhanfu then hung Ms. Liu by her left hand from a pine tree near the jail. Because Ms. Liu Ziwei is short and could not touch the lowest branch, Mou Zhanfu placed two bricks under her feet to hang her up. Ms. Liu still refused to give in, so Mou Zhanfu kicked away the bricks under her feet and Ms. Liu was left dangling in the air. She hung there for half an hour in the freezing weather. Her handcuffs dug into her flesh, causing the muscles to cramp and leaving deep scars. Her left arm lost all feeling for half a year.
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