Torture

• Savage Torture Methods at the Shandong No. 2 Forced Labour Camp: the So-called "Five Passes"

  2005-07-19
  I was arrested in 2002 and locked up in the Shandong No. 2 Forced Labour Camp for three years and three months. Because I didn't give up practising Falun Dafa or stop believing in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," I was ruthlessly tortured as a "key" person with sleep deprivation, sitting on a narrow bench, hung up by handcuffs, beaten and brainwashing. I escaped death many times, but even now, I still tremble when recalling those experiences.
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• Information on Eleven Practitioners from Zhejiang, Jilin, Guangdong, Shandong and Other Provinces Who Died from the Persecution

  2005-07-19
  69-year-old Ms. Cao Guimei lived in Liaoning Province. Between July of 1999 and December of 2000, she was arrested twice and tortured at Longshan Forced Labour Camp. She went on a more than 40-day hunger strike and the guards repeatebly force-fed her with highly concentrated salt water. Afterwards, Ms. Cao could not stop coughing and vomited blood for a month. She became emaciated. The authorities finally released Ms. Cao who then died at the end of 2002.
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• Twelve Practitioners in Tianjin, Shangdong and Liaoning Provinces Died Due to the Persecution

  2005-07-19
  Mr. Hu insisted on practising even after the government suppression of Falun Gong began. He was ordered to the police station to talk about his "realisation of Falun Gong." He went to Beijing in July of 2000 to tell people about the goodness of Falun Dafa and was detained for half a month. From February 28th to March 15th, 2001, Mr. Hu was detained at a farm, where he was brainwashed and persecuted. Mr. Hu got a high fever from the harsh treatment but was not allowed to go home. In May of 2001, because of the great mental pressure and having no way to live since his salary had been suspended, Mr. Hu became ill, fell down, and never got up again.
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• Ms. Zhang Xiaoli and Her Family Suffer Brutal Persecution in Hebei Province

  2005-07-18
  Ms Zhang Xiaoli is critically ill and extremely weak due to persecution in Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. She has been examined in hospital and found to have tumours in her abdomen and uterus. One is as big as a goose egg, and another one is as big as an egg. She also has a cyst in her ovary. She cannot eat; if she does, she will vomit. Ms. Zhang has become so emaciated that she now weighs just 100 pounds. The doctor in the No. 252 Hospital suggested that she be treated outside of the labour camp; however, Baoding City Balizhuang Labour Camp has shown no concern for her life at all and they refuse to let her go.
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• Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Yan Xiaoge from Hebei Province, Abducted and Persecuted, Her 12-year-old Daughter Suffers Intimidation from Police

  2005-07-18
  On June 29, 2005, the 12-year-old daughter of Falun Dafa practitioner Yan Xiaoge from Li County, Hebei Province was waiting for some delicious food to be brought by her mother after she completed the elementary school graduate exam. But her mother didn't arrive. Instead, the police came and banged on the door. The daughter spent a fearful night at home, alone. Upon seeing the strangers outside the door, she was so frightened that she curled up in the corner of the room, trembling. She didn't dare to open the door. Whenever the police banged on the door, the child recoiled with fear. She still didn't know her mother had been arrested. The young girl had to silently weep alone for an entire night.
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• The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Jianfu's Family in Beijing: Husband Imprisoned, Wife Mentally Traumatized

  2005-07-18
  Without any evidence and despite her daughter having no one else to look after her, the police incarcerated her mother in the police station for as long as a week. Zhang Zhiyun protested with a hunger strike and the police then had to release her; however, they still kept harassing her. The severe hardships in her life and the long-term harassment from the police traumatized Ms. Zhang, which eventually led to her mental collapse.
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• Update on the Atrocities at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2005-07-18
  On May 14, 2005, Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Team Leader Shi beat Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Yun, who had been on hunger strike for one year. Shi was drunk and hit Ms. Zhu's head and slapped her repeatedly until she lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground. After she came to, Ms. Zhu discovered the guards had covered the mirror in the toilet with paper so she could not see herself. According to witnesses, her eyes were bloodshot and her face was seriously swollen and deformed.
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• Practitioners Tortured with "Life Tiger Bench" Technique and Dragged Behind Moving Vehicles

  2005-07-17
  Ms. Xi Liying, a woman over 60 years old was continually tortured by police. She was forced to sit on the "life tiger bench," a torture method in which a person's hands are bound behind the back, using rope to tie the forearms. The person is then suspended by the rope from a high iron frame, so the toes barely touch the floor. The feet are then bound together with a rope which is pulled by several police, so the victim hangs in the air. Then another rope binds the victim's waist, with the other end secured to the floor. With several guards pulling the feet, the person's suspended body is bent into a right angle, like the posture of sitting on the tiger bench. Ms. Li lost consciousness several times during this torture. They would then take her down so she could be doused with cold water from head to toe. After she was revived, the guards would resume their torture.
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• Ms. Chen Guoxiang, a 70-year-old Practitioner, Died Due to the Persecution

  2005-07-17
  Ms. Chen Guoxiang was a 70-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. After the persecution of Falun Dafa started, although she was illiterate, could not speak clearly and had never gone far from home, Chen Guoxiang travelled to Tiananmen Square in Beijing by herself around December 8, 1999, to appeal for Dafa and tell people about the goodness of Falun Dafa. She was arrested on the outskirts of the city and detained in Beijing. She was beaten, made to suffer freezing cold weather and was forced to stand for extended periods of time. After she was released she was forbidden to return to her daughter's house, who had been arrested and tortured for practising Falun Gong, and was harassed frequently by police. She suffered terrible mental strain, the magnitude of which is hard to image. In the early morning of May 21, 2005, the elderly Mrs. Chen fell over suddenly while on the toilet and slipped into a deep coma. A week later, she died.
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• The Persecution of Dong Jingzhe, Who Helped Rescue Gao Rongrong, at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2005-07-17
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dong Jingzhe, who was brutally tortured to the brink of death in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, once said, "Throughout the ages, when people look at their past, they will feel gratified by the memory of their maintaining kindness in life, if they ignored their conscience and chose otherwise, they would regret it. And there are some people who became enemies of the honourable, thus ruining their futures forever. I wish that all mankind would protect goodness and maintain their most precious thing in life - their conscience. Telling people about the goodness of Falun Dafa is not meant to create hatred towards the perpetrators, but instead, is meant to bring people a brighter future."
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• Dafa Practitioner An Fengbo Sentenced - His Family Has No Way to Appeal

  2005-07-17
  In 2001, Mr An Fengbo was sentenced to a two-year labour camp term in Jiutai Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp for practising Falun Gong. He suffered inhuman tortures and abuses by police and inmates. He lost all his front teeth from being savagely kicked in the mouth. He never gave in to the evildoers and continued to firmly appeal for Dafa.
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• Ms. Xie Xiulan's Personal Testimony of the Persecution She Suffered at Dalian Forced Labour Camp

  2005-07-16
  "I was arrested at approximately 7:00 p.m. one evening in June 2000. The very next day, I was taken to Dalian Detention Centre where I was held for 42 days. I was then transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp where I was tortured for two years. Later, I was transferred to Dalian Forced Labour Camp where I was sentenced to two years of forced labour. When Dalian Forced Labour Camp was closed down, I was returned to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for further persecution. I believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," the principles of Falun Dafa, and I did not do anything wrong, yet I was brutally tortured with small cell internment, brutal beatings, being hung up with handcuffs, the Tiger Bench, and my nose was broken from the torture."
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• Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province Profits from Detained Practitioners

  2005-07-16
  Tiantang brand umbrellas are produced in the forced labour camp. Those who worked fast could sew 70 to 80 umbrellas a day. The prison guards treated Falun Gong practitioners as money-making machines and forced them to work day and night. Even former family visiting days and holidays were turned into working days. Meanwhile, their food was of low quality. A bowl of porridge in the morning had to sustain them for five hours and the pickled vegetables smelled of maggots. Their lunch and supper each had only one vegetarian dish and the vegetables were dirty, rotten, bitter, and tough. Some Falun Dafa practitioners developed bottom sores and swollen legs as a result of their long working hours. Those who could not finish the assigned tasks were slapped in the face, beaten with rubber sticks, shocked with electric batons, handcuffed, punished by being forced to kneel down for long periods of time, and put into solitary confinement.
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• Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Office Conspires with Forced Labour Camp to Exploit Practitioners' Labour for Profit

  2005-07-16
  Because of long-term torture in a forced labour camp, practitioner Ms Wang Lei became mentally ill. On November 17 2004, almost eight months after she was released, police arrested her again and sent her to the Fangshan Detention Centre. During her hunger strike, the police continuously force-fed her. She was again sentenced, this time to two and a half years of forced labour, and sent to the Daxing Forced Labour Dispatch Office. The office knew that she had mental problems but still admitted her even though, according to the law, forced labour camps cannot accept people with mental problems. She was extremely weak, but the police still forced her to stay in the "sit on a bench" posture, with her hands on her knees, for 17 hours. In order to force her to write a "guarantee statement", the police appointed six criminals with drug-related convictions to beat, abuse, humiliate, and torture her.
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• Twelve Falun Dafa Practitioners from Hubei, Liaoning, Sichuan, Hebei, and Other Provinces Died from the Persecution

  2005-07-16
  70-year-old Mr. Li Huazi went to Beijing to appeal. Police arrested him on the way and locked him up in the Shijiazhuang Detention Centre. While there, he suffered a brutal torture: the police hammered a row of nails into a wooden block, with the nails protruding one or two centimetres. They then punctured Mr. Li's palms with the wooden block. Later, Mr. Li was transferred back to Hanchuan City and sentenced to one year of forced labour. Mr. Li again suffered savage torture, which resulted in him becoming extremely weak. He suffered oedema and asthma. In spite of this, when his term was over, they still didn't set him free. Mr. Li thus underwent a hunger strike and was released in December 2001. Since then his health deteriorated steadily, and Mr. Li passed away on May 26, 2005.
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