Torture

  • Exposing the Lies of the 610 Office in Langfang City

    Ms. Zhou Shuying died of persecution by the local 610 Office and police on December 24th, 2004. Han Zhiguang, head of the 610 Office in Langfang City, Hebei Province, stopped at nothing in his attempt to brainwash and "transform" Dafa practitioners. He even made up a story about deceased practitioner Zhou Shuying. He distorted the facts to deceive practitioners forced to undergo brainwashing sessions. He maintained that Ms. Zhou died because she refused to take medicine after practising Falun Gong.
  • Mr. Xue Yutian Forced to Give Up Practising Falun Dafa and Passed Away from Severe Illnesses

    Mr. Xue Yutian was around fifty-six years old. Before Mr. Xue Yutian started to practise Falun Dafa, he was so ill that he had totally lost his ability to take care of himself. In order to treat his illnesses, he was overloaded with debt. In May 1997, Mr. Xue Yutian started to practise Falun Dafa. He gradually regained his health and he could do almost all kinds of farm work by the autumn of 1997. After the persecution started local village Chinese Communist Party members tried to force Mr. Xue Yutian to give up Falun Dafa numerous times, leading to the recurrence of his old illnesses. Finally, Mr. Xue Yutian passed away in the middle of November 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Ma Wensheng of Qiqihar City Died as a Result of Torture

    The police tortured Ma Wensheng with the method known as "the big hang-up", among other methods. They beat Ma Wensheng until his legs were broken and his body became deformed. On the morning of October 20th, the police told Ma Wensheng's brother that Ma Wensheng was hospitalized in the Qiqihar City Railroad Hospital. His brother saw an unconscious Ma Wensheng at the hospital. He passed away before his brother could get food and soap, a towel and some other things for him.
  • The Persecution That 53-Year-Old Ms. Long Lianqiu Suffered Before Death

    53-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Long Lianqiu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa twice during 2001. Police arrested her and detained her. During 2002, the police harassed her at home on numerous occasions, also arrested her and forced her to work with other prisoners for more than 12 hours a day. She became ill because of this inhumane treatment. Later police took her to a brainwashing centre. After receiving brutal treatment, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and developed hemiplegia. She finally died on September 11th, 2005.
  • Four Practitioners Died Due to Persecution

    71-Year-Old Mr. Lai Changming was arrested in October 2000 while he was on his way to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. Police sent him to Xinzhou Detention Centre and forced him to go to the Liuji Brainwashing Centre at a cost of over 3000 yuan. After he returned home, local policemen and other perpetrators frequently came to his home to harass and threaten him, keeping him from his practice of Falun Gong. He died in 2005.
  • Dehui City: the Plight of Children of Persecuted Practitioners

    In 2000, Mr. Bai and his wife went to Beijing to protest against the persecution of Falun Gong. As soon as they returned to their home, the police arrested them and left behind their little girl, Bai He, who had not yet turned five at the time. The girl called out for her mum and dad in a panic, "Mummy, Daddy," but the police ignored her pleas. They arrested Bai He's parents and took them away. The neighbours did not dare to help out, except for another Falun Gong practitioner, W, who quietly took the child home. The police came and yelled at W, "Give up the child right now, or I will arrest you." The police indeed arrested W and sent her to a labour camp, falsely charging her with "disturbing the social order."
  • Ms. Ye Lianping Tortured to Death by Police Officers in Mudanjiang City

    Police officer Qiao Ping was very active and did his utmost to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners in Aimin district. Later he was transferred to the City Police Department to specifically persecute Falun Dafa. Police officer Li Fu from the city Police Department has been persecuting Falun Dafa since 1999. It is reported that these two officers are the ones responsible for cruelly torturing and murdering Ms. Ye. We hope people who know inside details of Ms. Ye's death provide information about the incident. The murderers must be punished and justice must be served.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yu Shujin at Brink of Death From Cirrhosis As A Result of Torture at Shulan Detention Centre

    On June 25th 2004, police from Shulan City arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Shujin from Yongji County, Jilin Province. He was tortured until he developed liver cirrhosis and abdominal fluid retention after twenty days of detention. In December 2004, a Shulan City Court sentenced him to twelve years in prison and sent him to the Tiebei Prison in Changchun City for further persecution. He was at the brink of death.
  • Middle School Teacher and Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun Beaten to Death; Police Do Not Conduct an Investigation

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun spoke to a man about the persecution of Falun Dafa whilst in a shop. The shop owner turned him in to the police. The police arrived and quickly closed the shutters before beating Fei Chongrun to death. There are many injuries on different places on Fei Chongrun's body. Two of his front teeth are missing and one tooth is broken. His wounds show that Fei Chongrun sustained bodily injuries in the front and back, and on both the right and left sides. Fei Chongrun is survived by his three-month-old daughter, and his unemployed wife. Right now, the police are refusing to conduct an investigation.
  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Jiangsu Province, Tianjin City, Shandong Province and Liaoning Province Die Due to Persecution

    53-year-old Practitioner Mr. Wang Shihai was from Tianjin City. In June 2002, Mr. Wang's house was ransacked by police officers. He was taken to the police station, where he was yelled at, beaten, and starved. Mr. Wang was mentally traumatised and his blood pressure rose to over 200. Later Mr. Wang was detained for one month. After he returned home, police officers constantly went to his house to harass him. Mr. Wang's mind was severely disturbed and his health condition worsened. Finally he passed away in July 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Tang Zhiqiang From Sichuan Province Passed Away Due to Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Tang Zhiqiang changed from being a disabled person who could not take care of himself into a healthy and confident person after practising Falun Dafa. Because he persisted in his belief in Falun Dafa, the lawless Communist Party officials detained him, ransacked his home, and threatened and harassed him, which caused his health to deteriorate. On March 29th, 2004, the police arrested Tang Zhiqiang when he was making materials exposing the perscution. The police officers took turns beating, kicking and insulting him throughout the night. They sent Tang Zhiqiang to a detention centre and held him there for more than five months. Tang Zhiqiang passed away on December 9th, 2005 at the age of 40.
  • Torture Experiences of a Dafa Practitioner in Tangshan City

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Dang Aimin has been arrested, detained, sentenced to forced labour, subjected to brainwashing and brutally tortured several times since July 20th, 1999, merely because he believes in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. In a detention centre guards ordered criminal detainees to use three-inch-long needles to stab his body and face. He was stabbed over 100 times. He was bleeding badly, yet the guards kept asking, "Will you still practise Falun Gong? If so, we will keep stabbing you."
  • A Review of the Inhuman Persecution in Guangdong Province (Part 2)

    In December 2000, Ms. Tang Jinai went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. She was two months into her first pregnancy. Local police arrested her. When they realised she was pregnant police dragged her to a van. One of them said, "We are from the Family Planning Office in Zengcheng. We heard you are pregnant. We checked with the Family Planning Office and discovered that you did not apply for the right to get pregnant and you are not included in the quota for allowed pregnancies. They blatantly lied, "In Zengcheng one must be granted the right to be counted under the quota before becoming pregnant and getting a birth permit!" Then they took her to the Family Planning Office. Five to six males held her on the operating table for a forced abortion!
  • Five Dafa Practitioners in Liaoning Province, Heilongjiang Province, and Hebei Province Passed Away as a Result of Being Persecuted

    Mr. Cheng Jinsheng was a seventy-two-year-old practitioner. He and his wife, also a practitioner, were reported when they were handing out materials exposing the persecution in a supermarket. Police took Mr. Cheng to a detention centre and imprisoned him. He was forced to work for more than ten hours every day and had to sleep on a cold concrete floor. His health quickly deteriorated. When he came home he could no longer walk and had to rely on crutches. In May 2001 police came and took his wife away to a brainwashing session. Mr. Cheng was overcome with anxiety and was bedridden. His health continued to decline and he passed away on December 15th, 2004.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners in Heilongjiang and Hebei Provinces Died under Persecution

    Practitioner Ms. Li Xiaohua, in her 40s, was a primary school teacher. On November 17th, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. She was severely injured from a beating sustained in custody, and her head swelled. Ms. Li was detained in the local detention centre and then later sentenced to forced labour at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. She was rejected by the camp because she had high blood pressure sustained from torture. Ms. Li was detained in the detention centre until her relatives helped to get her released on medical parole. The 610 Office members and State Security Agents constantly harassed Ms. Li at her home until she died on January 2nd, 2002.