Torture

  • Re-enactment of Torture Methods Used at No. 1 Detention Centre and Xigemu Forced Labour Camp in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province

    This photo shows a reenactment of the police in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province torturing practitioner Ms. Du Jiahua with hanging. She also suffered handcuffing from behind, tying with ropes, and shocking with an electric baton.
  • A Tribute to the Memory of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Jia Cuiying from Hunan Province

    "When I heard the news of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Jia Cuiying's death from lung cancer on October 20, 2004, as a result of the persecution in the Hunan Provincial Women's Prison, I was upset for a long time. In grief and indignation, I reflected on the knowledge that the healthy and optimistic Ms. Jia would never have died so prematurely if it weren't for the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners perpetrated by Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If the Hunan Provincial Women's Prison authorities hadn't tormented her physically and mentally, she would still be alive."
  • Ms Cao Yanzhuo and Other Practitioners On Hunger Strike to Protest Persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, the local police have constantly harassed forty-three year old Ms. Cao Yanzhuo because she refuses to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Ms. Cao was forced into a homeless situation, but she kept appealing for Dafa. On July 10, 2002, Cao Yanzhuo was reported to the police when she was exposing the persecution about Dafa. She was arrested and sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Re-education Camp, where she has been detained ever since.
  • Chengdu City Dafa Practitioner Tao Naihua Tortured to Mental Disability at a Brainwashing Centre

    Ms. Tao Naihua, a Falun Dafa practitioner in her 60s was abducted and taken to a brainwashing centre for more than 20 days. When released on June 22, she appeared mentally disabled. It is apparent that during detention, Ms. Tao was injected with unknown drugs, causing her to become mental disabled in just 20 days.
  • Nine Falun Gong Practitioners from Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Jilin Provinces Die as a Result of Being Persecuted

    Ms. Wang Xia, 36, lived in Guizhou Province. She had illnesses throughout her body before she learned Falun Gong, and became healthy after she began practising. After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, policemen savagely beat Ms. Wang because she was steadfast in her Falun Gong practice. The beating broke her wrist and she was incarcerated for 15 days. After Ms. Wang returned home, her whole family regarded her as a bad person. People from the government monitored her, and personnel from her work unit went to talk with her and threaten her. Due to many forms of pressure, Ms. Wang's physical and mental state deteriorated. She died on March 29, 2003.
  • Practitioner Mr. Li Zhenzhong of Hebei Province Crippled by Police

    After his arrest, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhenzhong was severely tortured by the police. The torture caused permanent damage to his hands. Even though he can no longer take care of himself, Mr. Li is still in detention. In addition, practitioner Gai Xinzhong was arrested by the police and died during a force-feeding torture session.
  • Sun Jihong's Daughter, Sun Yubo, Learns the Truth of Her Father's Death

    Sun Jihong and his wife both practised Falun Gong. Both were tortured to death, Sun Jihong in 2002 and his wife, Yuan Hezhen in 2003. Until recently their daughter Sun Yubo did not know the details of these horrible murders. Under the threat of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), her grandparents and other relatives feared telling her the truth of her father's death.
  • More Details Surrounding the Death of Practitioner Mr Zhang Zhagen

    Mr Zhang Zhagen was sent to the Kaifeng Medical College Hospital for emergency treatment. According to the doctors, Zhang Zhagen was nearly dead when he arrived at the hospital. The doctors did all they could. If he survived, they felt he would have remained in a vegetative state. The labour camp assigned a guard to police the entrance of the intensive care room 24 hours a day to prevent family members from visiting. On the night of June 27, 2005, he passed away.
  • Ten Practitioners from Hebei, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Li Xiaodong was around 30 years old. In 2002, officials from the Siping City Public Security Bureau arrested practitioners on a large scale. Mr. Li Xiaodong and his brother were arrested at their home and sentenced to forced labour. They were detained and tortured in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City. Because Mr. Li Xiaodong refused to renounce Falun Gong, the police ordered the inmates to beat him. An inmate hit him on the back of his neck so hard that he could no longer raise his head. His younger brother had to help him walk. His health deteriorated. The labour camp authorities feared to have to take responsibility for his death and released him. Mr. Li Xiaodong died one month later.
  • Practitioner Ms. Ren Shujie from Liaoning Province is at the Brink of Death from Torture

    Ms. Ren Shujie was detained in forced labours camps for three years for cultivating Falun Dafa. She could not eat normally after returning home due to her mistreatment in the labour camps. She is now so weak that she is dying. She used to weight 80 kilograms (176 lbs.) but now weighs less than 40 (88 lbs.). Her life is ebbing away.
  • More Information on the Torture Death of Practitioner Mr Liu Baoyuan

    Mr. Liu Baoyuan was thirty-three years old. During the end of August and early September in 1999, he was detained at the Gaoli Town Police Station. He was brutally beaten every day during the interrogation, leaving wounds all over his body. In 2000 he was detained again. Upon his release he was forced to leave home to avoid recapture and further persecution. In September of 2002, when trying to escape from the police, he accidentally fell from the third floor and died.
  • Several Practitioners Arrested and Subjected to Brainwashing in Anhui Province

    On April 19, police officers came and took Ms. Dai Gouqin, over 60 years old, away. Ms Dai protested with a hunger strike and was then taken to Heifei City No. 8 Hospital and given an injection against her will. The authorities failed to extort a "hospital fee" from her family members, so they had to release her. At 9:00 a.m. on May 8, about five or six officials again broke into her home and took her to the brainwashing centre.
  • Five Practitioners in Liaoning and Heilongjiang Provinces Passed Away as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Yang Guizhi was seventy years old. Before practising Falun Gong, she was very weak and suffered from various diseases. After she started practising Falun Gong in 1998, all of her diseases were cured and her complexion became rosy. When Jiang Zemin's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, she lost the environment for cultivation. In addition, witnessing her family members who also practise Falun Gong being brutally tortured, Ms. Yang was devastated mentally and physically. She suffered serious disease in 2003 and passed away in 2004.
  • Ms. Jin Xiuqing Tortured to Death Within One Day of Arrest by Police Department Political Security Office in Liaoning Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Jin Xiuqing age 60, from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province was tortured to death in little more than ten hours in Fengcheng City. On the afternoon of June 28, 2005, at around 3:00 p.m., the Political Security Office head Mr Guan Wei and another policeman arrested Ms. Jin while she was walking in her apartment hallway on her way home. It is estimated that Ms. Jin was tortured to death sometime between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on June 29, 2005, while in police custody. Her family strongly requests that the killer be identified. Her body is still at the funeral home.
  • Police Torture Ms Jiang Lanying of Jiangxi Province to Verge of Death and Force Family to Accept Responsibility

    Ms Jiang Lanying, a Falun Dafa practitioner, has been tortured and force-fed for two years and eleven months at a hospital connected to the Jiangxi Province Forced Labour Camp. She is now on the verge of death. In June 2005, the police forced her parents to sign a document making her family responsible for whatever happens to her at the hospital. The police told her parents, "We will not release her. Let her die here."