Torture
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Photographic Evidence of Torture: Mr. Guo Shijun Dies from Injuries Received at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp
2005-06-10
52 year old Mr. Guo Shijun suffered tortures such as being electrically shocked, and forced to sit bound to a metal chair in a forced labour camp. After one year of inhumane torture, and on the verge of death, he was sent back home. On February 9, 2005 he passed away, eight days after his release. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jiang Yiyun from Sichuan Province Tortured to Death by Police
2005-06-10
Several police officers from the State Security Bureau in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province tortured Mr. Jiang Yiyun to death and discarded his body on May 17, 2005. The police then spread rumours that he had committed suicide. There were severe injuries on the head and face, and Mr Jiang's body was also covered with wounds from torture, making it clear that he was tortured to death. The police would not allow the family members to take the body. Instead, they shipped the body to a crematory for cremation that same morning. -
Seven Falun Gong Practitioners From Shandong, Guangdong, and Liaoning Provinces Pass Away from Persecution
2005-06-10Ms. Cao Guiying, 66, was a practitioner from Liaoning Province. In 1999 and 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal. She was unlawfully arrested, and sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. Ongoing persecution in the labour camp caused Ms. Cao to develop an illness, and she was released to a hospital on bail. She passed away in July 2001. -
Practitioners Persecuted in the Women's Division of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia
2005-06-10The Women's Division of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia started a brainwashing class in its hospital on August 2, 2004 in order to force practitioners to give up cultivation in Dafa. They assigned six police officers and two guards to watch one practitioner and harass her both physically and mentally. Many practitioners were severely persecuted. -
Elderly Mr Yang Xifeng, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hebei Province Died from Persecution in 2002
2005-06-09After he started practising Falun Gong, 60 year old Mr. Yang Xifeng recovered from his illnesses, including cerebral arteriosclerosis and diabetes. Ever since the persecution of Falun Dafa began on July 20, 1999, lawless persons from the police station and the street committee harassed him, searched his home, and arrested him. The police forcibly sent him to a detention centre to persecute him, which resulted in a relapse of his old illnesses. He became very weak and unable to keep his balance while walking. He died on October 24, 2002. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wan Jixiang Has Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-06-09Mr. Wan Jixiang was an employee of the Yincheng City Department of Industry and Commerce in Hubei Province. He was cruelly persecuted at a detention centre. As a result, he became deaf in his left ear. On June 28, 2003, Mr. Wan was sentenced to Qingduankou Prison, where he suffered unbearable stress and had to perform excessive, hard labour. His hair turned grey, and the pain in his left ear intensified. On May 24, 2005, he died from the persecution. -
Over Twenty Dafa Practitioners from Jiangxi, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Sichuan Provinces Were Persecuted to Death
2005-06-09Mr. Zhang Jun, over 30 years old, was a practitioner from Jiangxi Province. At the beginning of 2000, he was persecuted and sentenced to a forced labour camp, where he was subjected to the torment of incarceration.. The team leader was especially vicious toward practitioners. He incited the prisoners to beat Mr. Zhang. Afterwards, Mr. Zhang was sent to the Gao'an Labour Camp for further persecution. As a result of the long-term torture, Mr. Zhang was reduced to a state of catatonia interspersed with episodes of incoherent murmuring. At the end of 2002, Mr. Zhang still refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. The camp officials were concerned that he might die in custody since his condition had seriously deteriorated. They released him and he died soon thereafter. -
The Police in Yinchuan City Set a Trap for Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-06-09On May 14, 2005, Yinchuan City Police Department members held an exhibition to slander Falun Dafa. Many practitioners who had learned about the propaganda arrived at the exhibition. Plainclothes police used the phony excuse of "someone reported you" to forcibly check practitioner Ms. Zhang Wenjuan's bag, and arrested her and another practitioner. Then, the police searched Ms. Zhang's home and took away many leaflets exposing the persecution and Video CDs of The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. He Lihua at the Brink of Death, Ms. Yang Yuhua Died During Force-Feeding; Practitioners in Daqing City Urgently Call for Help
2005-06-08Dafa practitioner, Ms. Yang Yuhua, a middle school teacher was arrested from her home on the evening of April 16, 2005. She was sent to Daqing Detention Centre, where she was savagely beaten and tortured. On May 12, many guards and inmates force-fed her, which caused her death. Ms. He Lihua is incarcerated at the same detention centre and has been holding a hunger strike since April. She was brutally force-fed. Right now her life is in danger. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chunhua from Beijing Dies Due to Persecution
2005-06-08Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Chunhua was arrested and taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2001. The camp guards directed drug addict prisoners and collaborators to torture her day and night. The beatings were severe, and Ms. Liu often screamed in pain. She was released after suffering a mental collapse from the torture, and she died in early 2005 after falling from a building. -
Sixteen Falun Dafa Practitioners from Shandong, Gansu, Hunan, and Zhejiang Province Died Due to the Persecution
2005-06-0873 year old Ms. Dong Linrong was handicapped before she practised Falun Gong. She looked pale and sickly. Her festering leg wounds that she had suffered for several decades were cured when she started to practise Falun Gong. After the persecution started in 1999, Ms. Dong told people the truth about Falun Dafa. Therefore, the local police arrested her. The police came frequently to her home, confiscated her property and threatened her family. Even Ms. Dong's relatives were implicated in the persecution. Ms. Dong was harassed for a long time and suffered because of the pressure from her family and from the authorities. She was mentally traumatised. She became semi-paralysed in September 2004 and died in March 2005. -
Torture Methods Used in the Zhuzhou Women's Forced Labour Camp: "Five Horses Splitting the Body," "Hanging in the Air," and "Modelling in the Air"
2005-06-08"Inside Zhuzhou (Baimalong) Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province, the persecutors tortured me with several of the torture methods at their disposal: "Five Horses Splitting the Body," "Up in the Air," "Modelling in the Air," etc. They were part of the so-called: "Educate and Save," "Re-Educate and Re-Save" and "Ideological Education Like Spring Showers and Breezes" programmes initiated by the purportedly lenient policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)." -
After Ten Months on a Hunger Strike, Life in Danger for 55 Year Old Ms. Li Yushu
2005-06-07The Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province education committee director, Ms. Li Yushu, fifty-five years old, was detained, sentenced, and persecuted in the Harbin Women's Prison because she firmly practises Falun Dafa. Ms. Li has been on a hunger strike for 10 months and her life is in danger. Every day her hands are tied with a rope and her mouth is sealed with adhesive tape. -
Two Older Practitioners Died from the Persecution They Endured in the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp
2005-06-07Two elderly Dafa practitioners, 63 year old Ms. Guan Shuying and 59 year old Li Jinrong died recently due to enormous mental and physical pains inflicted by tortures that they suffered at the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Because she was so determined, the guard beat and shocked Guan Shuying repeatedly. She lost consciousness several times during the tortures. Li Jinrong also suffered repeated electric shocking and slaps from a guard causing partial paralysis in her body. -
Ten Practitioners Who Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-06-07Mr. Ma Laidong was repeatedly persecuted for telling people the truth about Falun Dafa and explaining that practitioners are innocent people being wrongfully persecuted. He had been sent to detention centres and brainwashing centres, where he was cruelly tortured. After being released, he was often followed and monitored. They also forced him not to practise Falun Dafa, thus his past illnesses recurred and he became extremely weak. He died in October 2004.
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