Torture

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Shi Yulan from Liaozhong County Died From Persecution

    Ms. Shi Yulan was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province. She was detained a forced labour camp and tortured brutally. The persecution of Falun Dafa hurt her terribly in her mind and body. After her release she continued to be harassed by police and developed tuberculosis. She died on April 17, 2005.
  • A High School Student Is Forcefully Expelled from School: Nie Yingchao's Personal Account

    "My name is Nie Yingchao. I am a 10th grade student. I used to be in the class of Literature and Arts at the Yinan County 2nd High School in Shandong Province. Near the end of 2004, I was in my 10th grade class, one evening during self-study period, when my teacher who was heavily misguided by the lies and propaganda against Falun Gong, suddenly became furious and flew into a rage. He wanted me to leave school. My teacher then slapped my face once, and announced to the class that nobody was allowed to discuss Falun Gong. Anyone doing so would be subject to expulsion from school. Against my will I was abducted from school by "610 Office" agents and expelled, just because I believe in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance."
  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Ren Conghuai Died under Persecution

    62 year old Ms. Ren Conghuai from Chongqing City was steadfast in her practice of Falun Dafa. She was mistreated by the authorities on multiple occasions. When her life was in danger, she was still sentenced to five years in prison, and police and State Security Agents were still come to harass her, monitor her. She was deeply frightened, and died on April 6, 2005.
  • Ms. Gui Lifang Dies From Persecution in Detention Centre in Hunan Province

    Ms. Guo Lifang, a 54-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was detained and cruelly tortured her in a detention centre. Ms. Guo used the only option left to her after all her human rights were taken away by going on a hunger strike. Even this last resort of a person's right to protest unfair treatment was taken away from her when she was force-fed. On April 17 cellmates found Ms. Guo dead in the cell.
  • "610 Office" Collaborates With Police to Persecute Practitioners, Terrorising an Elderly Grandmother and Her Grandson in Jiamusi City

    In April 2002, "610 Office" officials in Jiamusi City came up with a sinister plan to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Five of them ended up arresting a group of practitioners, including an elderly lady of 80 and a child of just 2 years old. The child was panic-stricken when he saw so many policemen shouting demands at his grandmother. He hugged his grandmother's neck and buried his head deeply, not daring to look up again. The policemen struggled to prise the child away from his grandmother and eventually they were separated, with the poor child howling and crying.
  • Teacher Arrested by "610 Office" Personnel for Showing a Falun Gong Video in Class

    According to reliable sources, the District Court of Maojian District in Hubei Province will soon put Ms. He Jiao on trial. She is a young teacher at the Shiyan City Experimental High School. The court officials admitted that the case has already been decided by "upper level authorities" and that the court and the government lawyers will "merely follow the routine procedure." Her crime? On January 4, 2005, He Jiao showed the Falun Gong video, "Walk Forward in the Wind and Rain," to a class of junior high school students where she was employed.
  • 70-Year-Old Practitioner Shi Zhimin Holds Hunger Strike to Protest Persecution in Meng County Detention Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Shi Zhimin, a retired textile plant manager in his 70s, was arrested by police as he was returning to his hometown in Henan Province in December 2004. He is currently in a detention centre and has been on a hunger strike for months protesting his detention. Mr. Shi is extremely weak now. Each day he is taken to a hospital and given injections, and then taken back to the detention centre at night.
  • Elderly Sichuan Province Practitioner Mr. Tang Wenwu Mentally Traumatised by Persecution

    Mr. Tang Wenwu is retired from the Sichuan Province Aerospace Administration. Because he is a determined Falun Gong practitioner, he was brutally persecuted. Since 2001, under orders from the police and his former employer, he has been under house arrest and his salary suspended. Eight people were assigned to guard his house day and night. As a result of this long-term persecution, he suffered a mental collapse and is now receiving treatment in hospital.
  • New Photos Expose the Mistreatment of Practitioner Lei Jingxiong from Hunan Province

    During the time Lei Jingxiong was imprisoned, he was beaten unconscious by police and received many injuries to his head and face. He was found to have blood accumulation under his skull from the beating, the left side of his face was paralysed, and his left ear and left eye were seriously injured. He couldn't eat, and he suffered from memory loss. The following photo shows Lei Jingxiong after two month's treatment in the hospital. The damage to his face is still clearly evident.
  • Seventeen Practitioners from Beijing, Jiangxi Province, and Inner Mongolia Who Died After Being Persecuted

    Mr. Deng Ziwen, 76, suffered from angina, heart attack, and various other diseases. He often carried medicine with him, and needed emergency assistance on several occasions. Soon after he started practising Falun Gong in 1995 he discarded all of his medicines, as his health improved. He was persecuted for a long time. The CCP officials ordered his neighbours to watch him closely, and local police repeatedly went to his home to harass and threaten him. The pressure was too much for him and it caused his previous diseases to return. He passed away in June 2004.
  • Elderly Mr. Cheng Xueshan Beaten to Death by Police, His Family Not Allowed to Collect His Body

    Mr. Cheng Xueshan was a 64-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. On April 9, 2005, while distributing exposing the persecution was arrested by policemen from the Political Security Division of the Fuyuan Police Department. Three days later, Mr. Cheng died due to the brutal torture he experienced at their hands. The police tightly guarded the hospital mortuary, and did not allow Cheng Xueshan's family members to see or pick up his body.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Naifa from Fujian Province Tortured to Death by Force-Feeding Through An Incision in the Throat

    Mr. Chen Naifa, in his 40's, was formerly a traffic policeman. Because he practised Falun Dafa, he was sentenced to two years in prison. In order to protest the persecution, he went on a hunger strike without water, facing torturous force-feedings. To force-feed him, the police brutally cut a hole in his throat. Mr. Chen's physical condition was already not good because of the tortures he had endured over a long period of time, and he died under such inhuman mistreatment around April or May of 2004.
  • Father of Yao Yaoyuan: Losing My Son in My Old Age Has Made Me Grieve Terribly

    "On June 4, 2003, my son Yao Yaoyuan sadly left this world. I felt great sorrow upon his death. Only because of his saying one sentence, "I want to go out to find a job," he suffered brainwashing for 10 months. What was heartbreaking was the fact that without any trial, without giving his family any written judgment, while he was seriously ill, my son was wrongfully charged with "disturbing the social order," and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He was finally persecuted to death."
  • Accounts of the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Brutally Torturing Practitioners (Reenactment Photos)

    Because Ms. Li Hongshu insisted on practising the Falun Gong exercises, the guards stripped off her warm clothes, in winter, bound her legs with rope, forced her to sit on the cold cement, and shocked the soles of her feet with electric batons.
  • Ms. Li Hongying from Heilongjiang Province Dies from Torture at the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Hongying suffered from haemorrhaging since returning from the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre in mid-February 2005. She had been bleeding for a year at the rehab centre, during which time the guards forced her to work, and abused her with various torture implements until her entire body swelled up and she bled non-stop. The guards told her family to pick her up when she was at the brink of death. She passed away on March 26, 2005.