Torture

  • Inner Mongolia Police Torture Practitioner Mr. Yan Li to Death - His Family is Now Being Monitored (Photo)

    The family of Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Li was notified on December 5th, 2005, that Yan Li died under the persecution from the police in Inner Mongolia. The local police offered 5,000 yuan in exchange for the family's silence. Yan Li's wife was at first overwhelmed and confused, and then said, "Yan Li wasn't supposed to die. I won't take it, even if they give me 500,000 yuan, not to mention 5,000 yuan." She is trying to get a lawyer to obtain justice.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Raped by Death Row Prisoner in Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    As revealed by a Falun Dafa practitioner recently released from the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Huang Xin, in her 50s, was locked in a men's cell after being stripped, and was raped by a death row prisoner. There were eight female Falun Dafa practitioners tortured in this inhuman way at that time. Huang Xin is still detained in the prison and locked in the hospital in a dazed state of mind due to being forced to take the drug Chlorpromazine every day, even though she was of sound mind.
  • Heilongjiang Province Railway Police Cause the Death of a Young Teacher

    Mr. Ma Zhigang, was 30 years old and a teacher. He picked up a Falun Gong flyer exposing the persecution on a train to Beijing. The railway police observed him reading it and suspected that he was a Falun Gong practitioner. The police detained the passenger even after their investigation failed to verify him as a Falun Gong practitioner. The police then put the passenger on a train going in the opposite direction. The two railway police officers decided to interrogate the passenger a second time, putting the passenger under great mental strain. In this condition, he fell off the train and died after failed medical intervention.
  • More Information on Mr. Han Zhenju's Death from Persecution in Kaiping Forced Labour Camp

    On the morning of April 29th, 2004, Dafa practitioner Mr. Tang Zhenju was persecuted to death in Kaiping Labour Camp. When Mr. Han's family received the notice and went to Kaiping Hospital, Mr. Han had already passed away long before they arrived. In order to shirk their responsibility, the labour camp police lied to the family and said that Mr. Han Zhenju suffered a sudden heart attack and passed away. However, when Mr. Han's family secretly checked Mr. Han Zhenju's body (the labour camp didn't allow them to inspect the corpse), they found Mr. Han's back was purple and his body was emaciated, the result of long-term physical and mental torture.
  • Ruthless Persecution at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp, the Chinese Communist Party's "Nursing School for the Heart"

    The detainees are forced to work all year long, and some are forced to work for six days straight without sleep. Sundays and legal holidays are totally disregarded. The only breaks they get throughout the year are four days: May 1st, October 1st, Chinese New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. The condition for taking these four days off is that the detainees must finish their workload for the "off" days the day before. Over the past few years, the main work at the labour camp is processing coloured light bulbs. These are produced for a company in Zhuhai City and are exported to France, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, USA, Germany and other countries.
  • Lawyer Mr. Liu Ruping in Jinan City Arrested, His 84-year-old Father Dies in Distress

    Mr. Liu Ruping, a 41-year-old lawyer and also a Falun Gong practitioner was arrested and put in a brainwashing centre on October 17th, 2005, because he had posted up a notice from the Falun Dafa Association. His 84-year-old father heard the news that the Changqing District Police Department was going to send Mr. Liu to a forced labour camp if he did not renounce his spiritual beliefs within a week. The old man was so upset and worried that he subsequently died of a sudden stroke on November 15th, 2005.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Li Ping of Dalian City Passed Away After Long-term Persecution

    48-year-old Ms Li Ping was arrested and imprisoned many times for her persistence in practising Falun Gong. She was jailed in Dalian Forced Labour Camp twice and suffered brutal torture. After she was persecuted to paralysis, guards covered her with three blankets in the summer time and put insects on her body to bite her. Under the Chinese Communist Party's long-term persecution against Falun Gong, Li Ping passed away on November 27th, 2005.
  • Extreme Brutality at the Zhaoyuan Brainwashing Centre

    Ms. Liu Yaohua, in her 40s, was arrested and brought to the brainwashing centre. They put handcuffs and leg shackles on her and an iron chain that was fixed to an iron chair around her neck. Ms. Liu could not move. Though she was tortured for the next several days, she refused to renounce Falun Dafa. The guards used shoes and books to slap her face until it was swollen and her mouth was bleeding. They wouldn't stop until they got tired of beating her. Director Xu used a hard object to smash Ms. Liu's head and blood streamed out and covered her face. Xu used his fingers to poke her eyes. He then stomped down heavily on her toes with the heel of his shoe and ground them into the floor. Ms. Liu fainted due to the excruciating pain.
  • Tears and Blood of Dalian - The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Luu Kaili (Part I) (Graphic Photos)

    In Masanjia, the guards forced Mr. Luu Kaili to do prolonged, labour-intensive work on a farm, causing him to become physically very weak. Work in Masanjia was especially tiring, planting corn and rice. The practitioners were never fed well. Because of malnutrition, physical torture, mental abuse, and being overworked, Mr. Luu's legs started to swell up and he couldn't walk. Even though he was in such terrible condition, the guards had other prisoners carry Mr. Luu in a basket so he could work removing corn kernels
  • Update on the Death of Mrs. Hu Zhengxi in the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province

    Ms Hu Zhengxi, a retired practitioner, died as a result of persecution by the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp on May 5th, 2005. After receiving notice of her death from the forced labour camp on May 7th, her family members were told that Hu Zhengxi went on a hunger strike for more than ten days and died, the cause of her death was unclear, and in the mean time the forced labour camp hurriedly cremated her body.
  • Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Wang Shengtang was arrested was twice arrested, once in September 1999 and again in July 2001. The arrest in 2001 happened in the middle of the night. At that time over ten policemen forcibly searched his home. They scaled the wall and broke into his house. They turned his home upside down and then took him away without a warrant. Mr. Wang was subjected to constant harassment, threats, intimidation, and brainwashing. He suffered tremendously under this persecution and was under constant fear and stress. He suffered a stroke as a result and passed away on October 12th, 2005, at the age of 70.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Mudanjiang Prison

    Around November 10th, 2005, prison guard Zhang Qingshan beat Mr. Guan Lianbin, a Falun Gong practitioner who is detained in Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province. Zhang also tortured Mr. Guan with electric batons for more than three hours. During this process, Zhang kept saying, "I'm an evil policeman! I'm an evil policeman!" He used electric batons to shock Mr. Guan's private areas and inner thighs. Mr. Guan was badly injured.
  • Torture Methods Used at the Pingantai Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province Part 2 (Re-enactment Photos)

    The Pingantai Forced Labour Camp has been used as a place to torture Falun Dafa practitioners in Gansu Province since the persecution began. Several hundred practitioners have been held here. The guard and inmates, many of whom are drug addicts, have used various brutal methods to persecute practitioners. They have used sleep deprivation, brainwashing, beatings, psychological abuse, and other forms of persecution against the practitioners.
  • Twenty-nine Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested While Attending an Experience-Sharing Conference in Shandong Province

    The Linyi City brainwashing centre is an evil place that has tortured countless Falun Dafa practitioners. On June 20th, 2002, Ms. Zhou Xiangmei (a practitioner, employee of Nanfang Credit Union) was surrounded at her office by police who were trying to send her to this brainwashing centre. In order to escape, she was climbing down from a fifth floor window with a rope that she made with bed sheets, when she fell and died.
  • Practitioner Ms Yang Hong Arrested for Viewing the Minghui Website

    On November 18th, 2005, the Lianshan District National Security Division police broke into 49-year-old Yang Hong's home and arrested her and her daughter on the grounds that Yang Hong and her daughter used a computer to log on to the Minghui (Chinese Version of Clearwisdom.net) website. The police also confiscated their computer that is worth over 5,000 Yuan, as well as their Falun Gong books. Yang Hong's daughter was later released.