Torture

  • Persecution Crimes in Fanjiatai Prison

    On September 13th, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xiong Jiwei was brutally beaten in Fanjiatai Prison. Prison guards brutally kicked his chest with their leather boots. This cruel beating lasted over 20 minutes. The Prison Director and Prison Doctor witnessed the beating, plus many guards were right outside the metal bars. Not a single person tried to stop such brutality. For the next two weeks, Mr. Xiong Jiwei's body was covered with bruises, and he experienced extreme pain whenever he coughed.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mrs. Chen Jianhua Tortured to Death - Ningbo City Police Propose a 300,000 Yuan Settlement in Exchange for the Chen Family's Silence

    The police illegally arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Mrs. Chen Jianhua on May 20th, 2005, when she was distributing materials exposing the persecution. Mrs. Chen was savagely tortured in detention and died. On August 20th, the police told her family to claim her body. The authorities proposed to pay her family, represented by her husband, 300,000 yuan in exchange for their silence regarding Chen Jianhua's death.
  • Four Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Being Brutally Force-fed in Detention

    There are many persecution cases indicating that the force-feeding of Falun Gong practitioners in forced labour camps takes place not out of humanity, but rather is intended as one of the most brutal methods of torturing those who hold hunger strikes. With this method, a thick and dirty tube, without lubrication, is inserted repeatedly into a practitioner, first through one nostril many times, then taken out and inserted into the other nostril. During this process, the tube is intentionally pulled out and pushed back down to intensify the torture. These actions cause the hunger striker to experience nausea, a choking sensation, violent coughing, and also excruciating pain.
  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Shandong, Hebei, Hunan, and Jiangsu Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution

    58-year-old Ms. Yu Caihua experienced her illnesses being cured since she practised Falun Dafa. Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Dafa, the party members in the town prohibited her from practising and often harassed her. Her husband was frightened by the party's ever-changing political movements and also stopped her from practising. He beat her until his hands hurt. Ms. Yu was forced to rent other land to farm. The farmers recall that they repeatedly saw several persons arresting Ms. Yu while she was working the land. Since Ms. Yu suffered for so long from the terror and persecution, in 2001 her health deteriorated, and she died soon thereafter.
  • Practitioner Mrs. Fu Guiying Dies From Persecution After Her 18-year-old Daughter Passes Away

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mrs. Fu Guiying and her family in Inner Mongolia, persisted in practising Dafa and were often persecuted. She and her husband were arrested and held at a labour camp. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary forced their young daughter, Zhang Yichao, to write a weekly statement at school to cut off her relationship with her parents. She was ousted from school and had to work to provide for herself. She passed away on April 6th, 2005. Due to long-term persecution her mother, Ms. Fu Guiying, died on December 17th, 2005.
  • The Life of Hebei Province Practitioner Ms. Li Huiru at Risk

    On the evening of December 2nd, 2005, the homeless Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Hurui was arrested on her way to her mother's house. It was not the first time she had been arrested. The policemen drove three police cars to her mother's restaurant and arrested Ms. Li without showing any documents. The detention and torture made her blood pressure rise to a dangerous level. Now, her life is at risk. To avoid being blamed police asked her family to take her home on December 10th, 2005. However, the police still go to her house every day to harass her.
  • Third Division of Jilin Province Prison Detains One Falun Dafa Practitioner Per Square Metre

    Falun Dafa practitioners held in the Jilin Province Prison are suffering from severe torture every day. Especially in the Third Division, prison guards have purposefully made the living conditions very odious. Within only 160 square metres, they hold 160 practitioners. Sometimes practitioners could only get one cup of water to drink at night. The persecution in the prison is continuing and the prison guards are doing bad things every day.
  • Corrupt Officials in Sichuan Province Persecute Practitioners

    In 2001, while imprisoned in Xinhua Jail in Mianyang, the wardens left drug addicts to monitor Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lin. They exposed him to the snow during winter and the scorching sun in summer. Wardens Wei Ze and Zhao Yong encouraged the detainees to beat him. He was only allowed two to three hours of sleep a day. A female police officer told him, "I thought you were dead."
  • Three Practitioners Died as a Result of the Persecution in Shandong Province, Chongqing City, and Sichuan Province

    Mr. Gan Guoping, 41 years old, went to appeal at the Beijing National Appeals Office in December 2000. He was arrested and Mr. Gan was brought back to the Neijiang Detention Centre. During his detention, he was tortured and harassed by the police, and he was forced to pay the travel expenses of the 610 officers and police for bringing him back. The total cost was several thousand yuan. He was arrested again later. During the persecution, Mr. Gan Guoping suffered severely both mentally and physically. In December 2004, he was diagnosed with terminal cirrhosis of the liver. He passed away on December 17th, 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liao Youyuan Tortured to Death at the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp

    Someone reported Liao Youyuan on June 14th, 2005, when he was telling people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa. Police officers arrested him, searched him, and beat him. Close to evening, a group of police ransacked Liao Youyuan's home and sent him to a detention centre. They threatened his family and demanded money from them. His family refused to give the police extortion money. They sent Liao Youyuan to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City on July 8th, 2005, where Mr. Liao was later tortured to death on December 18th, 2005.
  • Elderly Practitioner Mr. Fan Weihuai from Liaoning Province Suffers Persecution and Dies a Result

    74-year-old Mr. Fan Weihui persisted in exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and validated Dafa, from which he had personally gained benefits. On April 17th 2002, he was arrested by officials who disregarded the law. He was then sentenced to a long jail term by officials of the Chinese Communist Party. On December 7th, 2005, Mr. Fan Weihuai was found to be suffering from terminal liver cancer in jail. The jail authorities knew he was close to death, so in order to shift the responsibility, they released him. Mr. Fan Weihui passed away on December 12th, 2005.
  • Mr. Su Guohua Dies from Effects of Persecution in 2003 in Hebei Province

    The 610 Office and the local Judicial Department arrested 73-year-old Mr. Su Guohua many times. The authorities once handcuffed Mr. Su to a big tree and then shocked him with electric batons. Mr. Su always refused to sign any repentance statement, admitting remorse for practising Falun Gong so the authorities constantly harassed him. The vicious torture and persecution took Mr. Su's life in December 2003. Because of the torture, the long-term persecution and the constant harassment, Mr. Su left this world in December 2003.
  • Torturing Practitioners at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In order to "transform" practitioners, guard Li Qi poisoned them using strong drugs to put them in a deathtrap. Prisoner Cao Jiemei was ordered to force-feed practitioner Ms. Liu a bowl of liquid that contained a nerve-damaging drug and a strong poison (provided by Li Qi) in front of another prisoner. Within minutes Ms. Liu Jingli felt intense pains in her abdomen and then vomited blood. Two hours later, she started hallucinating. The next morning, when she wiped her teeth with some tissue, the poison turned the paper green.
  • Practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuying is Extremely Weak Due to Torture in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuying has been suffering from the brutality of slave labour in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp and also from severe torture by guards. Her physical body is extremely weak and she suffers from urinary incontinence, is frequently dizzy and often loses consciousness. The guard Wei Hongling is still constantly threatening Ms. Zhao, "If we cannot find the cause of your illness, we will not let you go."
  • Deputy Director of the Police Department: "If Our Police Do Not Torture, How Can We Be Called the Chinese Communist Party Police?"

    The deputy director from Daqing City said, "How can we be called the Chinese Communist Party's police if we do not torture? So as long as we think you are the one who did it, you must admit it whether you really did it or not. We will push you down to the ground and four police officers will use rubber hoses to beat you one by one for half an hour. Your back will be swollen an inch high. It will be worse when your body is bruised and lacerated. Then we will put salt on your back and step on your wounds. Who will not confess after suffering from this?