Torture

  • Follow up Report on Ms. Zhang Lianxiu, Who Was Beaten to Death by Police in Henan Province

    Police went to her home on June 6th, 2005, asking her son, "Does your mother have heart disease?" Her son answered, "No." Police then asked again, "If you say your mother has heart disease, we will let her return home." After thinking it through her son answered, "Yes". The police quickly had him sign his name on a form, after which the police told him, "Your mother has died." Before her body was cremated, Zhang Lianxiu's daughter saw that her body was covered with wounds. She asked loudly, "Just because my mother practised Falun Gong, you beat her to death?" No one dared to answer her question.
  • 55 Year Old Practitioner Mr. Liang Xiujun from Hebei Province Dies of Persecution

    Mr. Liang Xiujun, 55 years old, lived in Zhuozhou City. He was unyielding in his practice of Falun Dafa and told about the goodness of Falun Dafa to the people he met. He was arrested and detained multiple times and was subjected to intensive brainwashing between 2001 and 2003. At the Nanma Brainwashing Centre, he was forced to undertake heavy labour and had money extorted from him. Due to the brutal torture, he was paralysed when he returned home.
  • Practitioner Mr. He Yuanhui from Liaoyuan City Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. He Yuanhui from Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in October of 2002. He was tormented so harshly while detained in the Second Prison of Jilin Province that he fell critically ill, losing so much weight that he looked like a living skeleton. After Mr. He was sent home from the prison hospital, he was mentally disoriented and he would often forget to dress or eat, and he eventually died on June 25th, 2005.
  • Mrs. Xu Hongmei, Separated From Her Baby Girl, Detained In Qiqihar City Labour Camp Beyond Term

    Mrs. Xu Hongmei's mother tried to visit her when she learnt where she was. The head of the labour camp would not allow her to see Mrs. Xu and said a lot of bad things. In order to see her daughter, Mrs. Xu's mother turned to some relatives for help, and she finally got a chance to see her daughter. Mrs. Xu had much difficulty walking. Two police officers made sure that they did not get close to each other. They feared she would tell her parents about the torture. The meeting was no more than twenty minutes long. Mrs. Xu Hongmei is still being detained although her term has expired.
  • The Persecution of Practitioner Lu Yongchang and His Family: All Four Family Members Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

    Around 9 p.m., the whole family went to bed. The flashing lights of a police car woke Lu Guixia up. There was a loud noise as the door was pried open, then the police broke into the house, carrying shovels. Lu Guixia didn't know what was going on and jumped out a window. She was knocked to the ground by police officers that were hiding there. Several policemen beat her savagely and dragged her to a waiting police car. She was taken to the police substation in Jiutai City, where officers were posted to guard her and the other three members of the Lu family.
  • How Policewoman Luan Yuqin Persecuted A Female Practitioner in Her 60s for 68 Days

    The next day, Luan applied a different torture. She covered my head with a plastic bag and placed a blue plastic bucket over my head. She then continuously beat the plastic bucket over my head with a 60mm long (about 20 inches) wooden baton for a whole morning. She didn't stop beating until she broke the bucket. I remained silent as before. After lunchtime, Luan ordered her group to bring a steel bucket and fill it with books. She told them to hang the bucket from my neck. The book-filled bucket weighed about 10 kilos (22 lbs). They forced me to carry it around my neck the entire afternoon. The steel handle of the bucket, which was as thick as a chopstick, left a deep mark on my neck as thick as a thumb.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tian Huiying from Guangdong Province Tortured to Death in Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp

    On February 15, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Tian Huiying from Maoming City, Guangdong Province was arrested again. She was tortured in Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp until she was emaciated, and died on July 6, 2005. The officials at the labour camp lied to her family, saying that she had been hit by a vehicle inside the labour camp, and that that this was the cause of her death. They compensated her family 30,000 yuan and cremated her body. She left behind three children who are left at home without care.
  • In Critical Condition in Detention, Practitioner Mr. Lei Lichun Exposes the Persecution: Wife Forced to Leave Home, Elderly Parents and Two Babies Left Unattended

    Mr. Lei Lichun, from Guan'an, Sichuan Province, was arrested in June 2004 and sentenced to four years of imprisonment because of his belief in Falun Dafa. During his imprisonment, Lei Lichun has been mentally and physically tortured so severely that he is currently on the brink of death. His family asked the prison many times to release Lei Lichun. The hospital already issued a notice stating Lei Lichun's critical condition; the prison didn't want to receive him because of his critical condition, and the local detention centre informed the concerned units handling the case from Guan'an to come and take Lei Lichun back. But the concerned units refused the release of Lei Lichun. Presently, Lei Lichun is in a critical situation.
  • A Falun Dafa Practitioner in Liaoning Province Reveals Her Suffering at the Hands of the Chinese Communist Party

    They also entangled my whole body with plastic wrap, put a cotton cap on my head, and wrapped my face with adhesive tape. They punched two nose holes in the tape with chopsticks, then poured in ethyl alcohol, garlic water, highly concentrated salt water, dirty water, and even urine. During this force-feeding, they pushed a steel bowl that was flattened into my mouth. My mouth was full of blood and my lips swelled up. They also put several dozen hard-shelled insects on my body. They scurried about everywhere all over my body. They caught a big live spider and put it into my mouth. They ruthlessly poured dirty water on my body. By then, my whole body was covered with wounds.
  • The Repeated Persecution of Ms Mo Yimei from Yangchun City, Guangdong Province

    In June of 2004, several officers drove to Ms. Mo Yimei's fruit shop and tried to force her into their car. Yimei cried out: "The police are seizing good people!" She sat on the floor and many bystanders gathered. Some said, "It is not right to seize people without reason!" "She is a good person, why do they arrest her?" The officers saw that many people were against them, so they fled with their car, leaving Yimei behind.
  • Brainwashing Sessions Used to Intensify the Persecution of Practitioners in Hunan Province Women's Prison

    These practitioners are forced to carry out slave labour every day. They have to peel broad beans for more than 10 hours every day, leaving them very little time to rest. When some practitioners resisted the slave labour, the prison guards used all kinds of methods to torture them. The practitioners experience intense mental persecution when they are brainwashed day and night.
  • More Facts about the Persecution and Death of Schoolteacher Ms Hou Youfang from Gansu Province

    On one occasion she escaped but didn't make it far. A policewoman immediately beat her so hard that Ms. Hou could no longer stand. When Ms. Hou Youfang was carried back to Team 2, she screamed in pain, "It hurts so badly. My arms and legs have been broken!" Not long after the police officers carried her to the labour camp hospital. The police took Ms. Hou to the hospital, planning to destroy the evidence.
  • Practitioner Ms Wang Aihua from Chongqing City Is Imprisoned

    On the evening of June 30, 2005, practitioner Wang Aihua was arrested when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The police searched her home and took away two computers (one was newly bought for her child's studies), Falun Dafa books and other materials. Her daughter was left at home with an eighty-year-old grandparent. Wang Aihua is currently detained at the detention centre in Chongqing City.
  • Ms Rao Mianhua Arrested Again After Being Paralysed as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Rao Mianhua, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hubei Province, was blinded and paralysed as a result of the persecution, and now relies on a wheelchair to move around. Even in this condition, the local police officers often harass her at her home. Recently, they arrested her in mid-June. After five days on a hunger strike, she was released in an emaciated state.
  • Tortured to Death by Police and then Thrown into a Pond to Re-enact a Drowning - the Awful Truth of the Death of Practitioner Ms. Su Jingyan

    An insider from the Jinqiao Public Security Bureau in Dashi City, Liaoning Province, recently revealed how practitioner Ms. Su Jingyan died. On August 21st, 2001, Ms. Su Jingyan was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution when local police arrested, tortured and interrogated her. After she was beaten to death, her body was thrown into a local pond, making it look like an accidental drowning.