Torture
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Four Practitioners Arrested in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia
2005-12-18
Practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaodong, 29 years old, went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He persisted in his belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and his sentence was extended four times for a total of ten months. During the detention, Wang Xiaodong held a hunger strike and was force-fed. His term was extended by three months. During the time he was held at Tumuji Labour Camp, Wang Xiaodong was shocked with electric batons, and his term was extended another three times for seven additional months. He had lost his job by the time he went home and the local authorities constantly harassed him. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Miao Jianguo and Others Are Near Death Following Persecution in the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp
2005-12-17Practitioner Miao Jianguo was in critical condition on December 2nd, 2005 after long-term torture and persecution. To evade responsibility, Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp authorities sent him to the Jinzhou City Hospital and later to the University Hospital. Both hospitals refused to accept him. They finally dropped Miao Jianguo at the Guta District Hospital and handed him over to his family members before taking off. The next day six guards from the labour camp forced their way into Miao Jianguo parents' house and arrested Miao Jianguo again. His physical condition is critical. -
I Was Tortured with Injection of Unknown Substances
2005-12-17"I used to be a long-distance running champion in college, with a very healthy body. In 2003, the local police officers illegally arrested me, and took me to a detention centre. Later, in a prison hospital, I was injected with unknown substances. My lower body was bleeding, and I went into a coma. When my heart stopped beating, I was rescued by emergency medical means, but remained in a coma. The second time I was injected with the unknown substances, the same thing happened, and later they rescued me again. Afterwards, the bottoms of my feet bled and oozed pus, and it took over a year to heal." -
Brutal Forced-feeding: "Saving" Lives at the Daqing Detention Centre and Labour Camp
2005-12-17Force-feeding is a horrifying experience. At Daqing Detention Centre, the process of the first forced-feeding administered to every Falun Gong practitioner who was involved in the September 23rd arrests was videotaped. They use it as "evidence" to report to the 610 Office. Watching the practitioners' struggling, vomiting, bleeding and screaming during force-feeding, the perpetrators often mock, make fun of or even beat them up. Practitioners once asked the participating doctor: "Don't you fear that they will die from such cruel force-feeding?" That doctor said, "If that happens, it has nothing to do with us. We can say that you died from disease." -
Over Thirty Local and National Security Officers Break into a Practitioner's Home for an Illegal Search and Seizure in Hebei Province
2005-12-17At 3:00 p.m. on November 22nd, 2005, over 30 people and ten police vehicles broke into Dafa practitioner Yan Aizhi's home and arrested her again. They searched the whole house and the courtyard, stole money, and took away her mobile phone, Walkman, Falun Dafa books and other personal possessions. Her family's valuables were also taken. At present, Ms. Yan is being imprisoned in the Kongjiazhuang Town Local Police Station.This police station's personnel have been known to use violence against practitioners. -
How Mr. Hao Wenmin Was Persecuted to Death by the Handan Forced Labour Camp
2005-12-16Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hao Wenmin, 43, was from Hebei Province. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, he was harassed and tortured by the vicious local police, the 610 Office and the Handan Forced Labour Camp. After he was released in April 2004, he couldn't work. He had to depend on his wife to care for him. Police harassed and threatened him at home. Unable to endure the cruel persecution, he passed away on October 15th, 2005. -
A Five-Year-Old Child Repeats Over and Over: "I Want My Father and Mother to Come Home"
2005-12-16
"I received your photo today. When I saw it, tears kept running down my face, and my heart was bleeding for you, for your old ailing grandmother, for your uncle Bai Xiaojun, who was cruelly killed by unlawful policemen, and for your parents, who are suffering the brutal persecution because they are kind-hearted Falun Dafa practitioners. Your parents have been absurdly arrested by the insane Chinese Communist Party." -
Methods Used Recently by Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-12-16Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp has been using all sorts of inhumane methods to torture practitioners both physically and mentally. The tortures have included brainwashing, extension of sentences, slave labour, the tiger bench, electric baton shocks, police baton beatings, wolf-teeth clubs, leather belts, bamboo sticks, tying up with thin ropes, cuffing arms and legs to an iron bed, exposure to the baking sun, exposure to extreme cold, merciless beatings, confinement in water dungeons, forced feedings, beating the joints of arms and legs, stabbing women's private parts with chopsticks, incarcerating nursing mothers, and humiliating practitioners by stripping them naked. -
Seven Falun Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Shandong Provinces
2005-12-16Ms. Song Min, 34, worked in the Hubei Institute of Hydroelectricity. She started practising in 1998. During the persecution, the political office in the Institute frequently threatened her to renounce Falun Gong. In December 2001, Institute officials and 610 officers arrested Ms. Song from work and took her to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre. Torture emaciated Ms. Song. Following her release in August 2002, Ms. Song was relegated to a lower position at the Institute. The persecution severely injured Ms. Song physically and psychologically. She passed away on November 7th, 2005. -
A Practitioner in Germany Recalls the Persecution He Endured at the Shanghai Forced Labour Camp
2005-12-15"My name is Wang Zhen and I am from Shanghai. After the persecution began in July 1999, I refused to give up Falun Gong and was detained in detention centres and forced labour camps. I was forced to do hard labour at these camps, such as carrying baskets of animal manure, cutting grass, sewing stuffed toys such as bears and monkeys, and making beaded purses, Christmas gifts and electric connectors, among other things. Many of these products were exported. I worked from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. daily without any salary. In addition, Falun Gong practitioners were treated worse than the common inmates. We were subjected to brainwashing as well as physical torture." -
On a Hunger Strike for More Than 200 Days, Mrs. Meng Guiqiu was Denied Family Visits
2005-12-1551-year-old Dafa practitioner Mrs. Meng Guiqiu was arrested by the local police in April 2004 and sentenced to three years in a labour camp. Warden Su Jing handcuffed her because she refused to wear the inmate's uniform and let the other officers grab her by the hair and hit her head against the bed. Su Jing told her threateningly, "I'm going to fix you." Meng Guiqiu's been on a hunger strike for more than 200 days in protest of the persecution. The authorities denied her right to family visits. Her family is deeply concerned about her current condition. -
A Year of Persecution by the Shanghai Judicial System
2005-12-15Since Chinese New Year's Day, 2005, in Shanghai alone, more than 90 practitioners have been arrested, detained, sentenced to forced labour camps and brainwashing centres, and tortured to death. According to recent reports, practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying is on the verge of death because she is refusing to accept any food or water to resist the brutal persecution of forced labour. This was Ms. Zhang Ying's third arrest. Before this she was sent to a forced labour camp for two and a half years for producing Falun Gong materials. Six months after being released she was arrested again and was forced to undergo brainwashing. -
Zhao Fenglian Persecuted to Skin and Bones in Lanzhou Women's Jail
2005-12-15Ms. Zhao Fenglian, 54, started to practise Falun Gong in 1996. Although she is not literate, she actively spread Dafa. In 2001, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour because she was caught delivering leaflets exposing the persecution. In October 2003, she was arrested again and secretly sentenced to 4 years in prison. From September 2005, when Ms. Zhao was detained in Lanzhou Women's Jail, her health quickly deteriorated and she suffered from gastritis. As a result, she was unable to eat anything and became emaciated. After so-called "treatment," Ms. Zhao's health became worse and worse, and soon she was only skin and bones. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Tortured to Death in Police Custody
2005-12-14On November 22nd, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yan Li and Mr. Wang Xiaodong were arrested by State Security Agents from the Chifeng City Police Department. Mr. Yan Li went on hunger strike to protest the persecution after being arrested. On December 5th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family received a phone call indicating that Mr. Yan Li was arrested, and that the family would receive the notice in the mail within several days. On December 7th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family arrived Chifeng City, but found out that Mr. Yan Li had already died. -
Yu Zhenghong's Family Exposes How She Was Persecuted to Death
2005-12-14"My wife, Yu Zhenghong, died as a result of the persecution on November 17th, 2005. Around 6:30 a.m. on September 27th, 610 Office agents ransacked our home and took my wife. They sent her to Wendeng Detention Centre. They used despicable means to attempt to force her to give up practising Dafa, and she held a hunger strike. She was taken to hospital on the 12th day to be force-fed. On the 14th day she was tortured to the brink of death and then transferred to Wendeng Central Hospital. My wife never recovered, and she passed away on November 17th, 2005 (at the age of 43)."
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