Torture
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Methods Used to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp - Part 2 (Re-Enactment Photos)
2005-12-25
This re-enactment photo shows a torture method that the authorities at the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp frequently use against Falun Dafa practitioners. The practitioner is tied with crossed legs, with his back to the floor. Guards then use the electric batons to shock the bottom of the practitioner's feet, the breastbone and mouth. -
Police Officers and Village Party Officials in Tianjin City Persecute Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Honglan
2005-12-25
41-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Honglan, lives in a village near Tianjin City. After the persecution started in July 1999 the local officials started persecuting Li Honglan. Between 1999 and 2003, officers from the Wuqing District Detention Centre, the local police department and the village Party officials, constantly harassed Li Honglan at her home. They ransacked her home, detained her, fined her and tortured her. They electrically shocked her through a wired telephone, force-fed her, slapped her face and forced her to stand in a military posture. They tried to make Li Honglan give up her belief in Falun Dafa. -
A Non-Practitioner Eyewitness Account of the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Yaojia Forced Labour Camp in Dalian City
2005-12-25I met a woman who had been released from Yaojia Forced Labour Camp. She was a convicted criminal, and she told me about the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Yaojia Labour Camp that she had witnessed when she was there. The guards tie Dafa practitioners with iron chains onto a bed. They don't allow practitioners to use the toilet, leaving them no choice but to relieve themselves on the bed. Then they order the criminals to clean it up. The police make the criminals force-feed practitioners. She also witnessed a guard using needles to pierce each finger of a practitioner. -
Hebei Province Police Try to Hide the Truth about the Recent Police Rapes of Practitioners
2005-12-24Three officials, Dongchengfang Town the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary Song Xiaobin, General Office Chair Chai Yuqiao, and Xituan Village CCP Secretary Yang Shun, recently teamed up to hide the truth about the recent police rapes of two Falun Gong practitioners while in police custody. They follow and threaten the families of the rape victims, do not allow them to take long trips, and have blocked their gates overnight for the past several days. -
Torture Methods Used at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp, Including Reenactment Illustrations (Part 5)
2005-12-24
To prevent the detained practitioners from speaking, the guards coil thick metal wire around a piece of cork and put it into their mouths. The cork presses down on the tongue and reaches down to the throat. Then they bind the wire around the victim's head. Anyone who is tortured this way feels like vomiting. The guards also put earphones on their ears and turn the volume to the loudest setting and force them to listen to slandering words against Dafa. -
Mr. Wang Liwu in Gansu Province Suffers Mental Breakdown and Dies After Being Tortured
2005-12-24Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Liwu from Gansu Province, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in 2001. He was detained in Qingyang City Detention Centre, where he suffered a fractured skull at the hands of the police and a mental breakdown. Mr. Wang's mental state was so confused as a result of the torture that he took his own life by drinking agricultural chemicals, even though the teachings of Falun Dafa prohibit all killing, including suicide. -
Neighbours Call for the Release of Elderly Mr. Tang Jianguo from Wuhan City
2005-12-24Mr. Tang Jianguo, an elderly gentleman from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was arrested by District State Security Agents because he was passing out copies of the book, Nine Commentaries on the Communist Partyto persuade people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His son was also arrested, and no one knows his whereabouts. Their neighbours have all gone to the local police station to request his release. -
The Hidden Truth Behind the Rape of Falun Gong Practitioners by Hebei Police
2005-12-23Four top level officials planned, organised and carried out the arrest of the five Falun Gong practitioners in Dongchengfang Town on November 24th, 2005. Officer He Xuejian raped two of the Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Liu Jizhi and Ms. Han Yuzhi, while officer Wang Zengjun watched and did nothing to stop this atrocity. Officer He even tried to force the two female practitioners to sleep with him and Wang in their dorm room. He knew that he did not have to worry, as Secretary Song and Director Chai were of shady character and would certainly sanction such cruelty. -
Chief of the She County Detention Centre: "Throw Them into the Furnace When They Die"
2005-12-23One practitioner in the detention centre is currently on the brink of death. The torture has severely damaged her body, and she will be facing a trial very soon. A severely tortured female practitioner who has suffered a hip bone dislocation and a crushed leg bone is so emaciated that her weight has dropped down to 90 pounds from her usual weight of 117 pounds. She has started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Yang Cong, chief of the detention centre has shouted madly at her, "You asked for it, so there's no way for you to get out of here alive. I will simply throw you into the furnace when you die." -
Five Senior Citizens in Heilongjiang, Shandong, Jilin, and Other Provinces Pass Away Due to Persecution
2005-12-23Mr. Liu Cunnian, 65, had twice appealed in Beijing to make public the truth of his own benefits from Falun Gong. Because of the Communist Party's sinister efforts to deprive people of the freedom of speech, he was arrested and sent back to his hometown where the local police unlawfully searched his house, confiscated his personal property and arrested him. They extorted fines of a few thousand yuan. Mr. Liu's wife and daughter were detained and sent to a forced labour camp. For six years, Mr. Liu Cunnian endured so much mental anguish that he became ill and passed away on October 17th, 2005. -
Three Falun Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning and Guangdong Provinces Die Due to Persecution
2005-12-2345-year-old Ms. Zhao Yuzhe was completely cured of multiple diseases after she started practising Falun Dafa in 1997. When the persecution of Falun Gong started, lawless officials from the township police station harassed her many times at her home. In January 2001, the officials tricked her into going to the township police station, where she was detained for over ten days. She passed out and threw up there, and she was very weak. However, the officials didn't care or ask about her. The officials then continued harassing her at her home. After Ms. Zhao Yuzhe had suffered extreme injury, she became very sick and passed away on November 27th, 2005. -
Nineteen Cases of Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death Confirmed in November
2005-12-22Independent channels have confirmed another 19 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. The latest findings came in November 2005. Since former president Jiang Zemin and his followers ordered the persecution, the regime is to blame for at least 2,790 death from savage acts under this persecution. Statistics for these 19 deaths are as follows: 11 were female practitioners, 55% of the total; seven practitioners were above 55 years of age, 37% of the total. Fourteen practitioners died in 2005, six of those in November 2005 alone. -
Musician Liu Zhifang Tortured to Death in Gansu Province Brainwashing Centre
2005-12-22Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Zhifang was a Pipa (Chinese lute) musician employed by the Gansu Province Yu-Opera Institute. She died at the end of July 2005, due to being hung up for a long time with her hands cuffed behind her back. The details are yet to be investigated. The administration of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) "Legal Education School" follows Jiang and his regime's secret order that "Killing Falun Gong practitioners counts as suicide;" they spread around that Ms. Liu Zhifang's case was suicide, and strictly sealed off any information. -
Thirty-Four-Year-Old Ms. Sun Guifeng Tortured to Death at the Wancun Brainwashing Centre in Shandong Province
2005-12-22The brainwashing centre exerts intense pressure on Falun Gong practitioners' minds, deceives and entices practitioners' affections, twists thoughts, and brainwashes them. Officials there take turns physically torturing practitioners. They use soft and hard tactics when trying to transform practitioners, that is to force them to renounce Falun Dafa. When practitioners hold hunger strikes to protest the persecution, the centre force feeds them. Ms. Sun Guifeng experienced continuous inhuman torture until she was both physically and psychologically injured. By the time her family took her home she was already in critical condition and passed away in April 2005. -
My Experiences of Persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2005-12-22"The heavy workload in Masanjia caused me severe arm pain, and my fingers became deformed. In February 2004, I was poisoned as a result of working with some kind of rubber material and experienced many symptoms including headache, dizziness, ear problems, vertigo, nose bleeds, mouth numbness, coughing, stomachache, vomiting blood, swelling and weakness. Sometimes I was so weak that I could not even move my hands. I had itchy blisters on my head, face and all over my body. My hair fell out, and I was nearly bald until recently."
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