Torture

  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner and Army Official Mr. Ding Han Dies as a Result of Persecution

    77 yhear old Mr. Ding Han lived in Dalian City. He was a deputy director and an army official at the Navy Headquarters' Political Bureau in Liaoning Province. He started practising Falun Dafa in May 1996. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, the Retired Navy Officials' Home in Dalian City held three Party group meetings, and persecuted Mr. Ding. He experienced symptoms of a stroke and passed away in November 1999.
  • Many Practitioners Employed by the West Open Mine in Inner Mongolia Autonomous District Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Sun Shuzhen was the 62 year old wife of a mine employee. She formerly had breast cancer and had undergone surgery to treat it. Then she started practising Falun Dafa and became very healthy for five years. When the suppression of Falun Dafa started in 1999, the local "610 Office" and the police kept harassing her, extorted money from her, and forced her to attend a brainwashing class, which damaged her both mentally and physically. Ms. Sun died of bone cancer in May 2004.
  • "610 Office" Staff Beat Elderly Woman to Death in Her Own Home in Fujian Province

    At 9:00 p.m. on December 27, 2004, during a house raid by personnel from the "610 Office", Falun Gong practitioner Chen Xiuchong, who was about 74 years old, was beaten to death in her own home. They forced their way into her home and ransacked it. During a dispute between Ms. Chen and the "610 Office" staff, Ms. Chen was knocked to the ground while trying to protect her Falun Dafa books. She lost consciousness immediately. They continued kicking and beating her, saying she was faking. Ms. Chen passed away that night.
  • Mr. Hao Shouzhong and His Wife Ms. Chen Ruixue from Shandong Province Persecuted to Death

    Practitioners Mr. Hao Shouzhong and his wife Ms. Chen Ruixue started to practise Falun Gong in September 1997, and they became healthy physically and emotionally. After July 20, 1999, they were both harassed frequently and persecuted. Mr Hao died on December 22, 2002. Ms. Chen suffered as much as Mr. Hao. In addition to that, she had to take care of him. She died on December 22, 2002.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yin Guizhen from Shanxi Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

    49 year old Ms. Yin Guizhen was tortured at a forced labour camp and harassed by the local police. Her husband was sent to a detention centre, which frightened her and she almost experienced a mental collapse. Her husband had to pay a fine of fifteen thousand yuan before being released from the detention centre. Upon returning home he found that Ms. Yin's health had worsened. On the afternoon of February 9, 2005, she had a stroke, and rescue efforts failed. Ms. Yin died on February 14, 2005.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Died Due to Police Harassment

    80 year old Ms. Zhao Yunjie, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province. Her white hair miraculously turned black after she started studying the Falun Dafa teachings and doing the exercises in 1998. After the persecution started in 1999, local policemen ransacked her fifth daughter's home. Her third daughter went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, was detained, and fined. Ms. Zhao suffered long term harassment and mental pressure. She was affected both mentally and physically and died in December 1999.
  • Huaiji County Commerce Bureau Director Mr. Liang Tianhua and His Wife from Guangdong Province Died under Persecution

    Huaiji County Commerce Bureau Director Mr. Liang Tianhua and his wife Fan Shaoqing from Guangdong Province were abused many times by members of the 610 Office. Mr. Liang was not allowed to go to the hospital when he was dying, and he died in June, 2001. Ms. Fan Shaoqing was at the forced labour camp, and was deeply traumatised by the tragic death of her husband. She died on December 31, 2004.
  • Fourteen Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted to Death, Including Five Elderly

    76 year old Mr. Yang Fakui lived in Hubei Province. He benefited from Falun Dafa, both mentally and physically, since he began practising in 1997. However, he was harassed and threatened many times by the police after July 20, 1999, when the persecution began. He was arrested three times. In March 2001, he was taken to attend a brainwashing class. His daughter was detained, and his son-in-law was sent to a forced labour camp. He suffered a great deal emotionally and died a sad man on May 30, 2002.
  • Twenty-two Falun Gong Practitioners Died As A Result of Persecution, Including Six in Their 70s

    Hunan Province practitioner Ms. Wang Yingmei, 69 years old, was murdered. Perpetrators from the factory 610 Office often broke into her home to harass and threaten her, and created tremendous stress for her. In the evening of August 7, 1999, personnel from the 610 Office again broke into her home, and a few thugs also entered amidst the chaos to steal things. These people brutally murdered Wang Yingmei. She was poor and had few outside contacts. People who knew her all liked her.
  • Police Force Pregnant Falun Gong Practitioner to Undergo an Abortion

    The authorities forcibly took me to the Family Planning Office in Guangdong Province. There, an ultrasound was done, and I was then sent to the operating table. I held onto the door and didn't want to enter the operating room. Five or six men put me up on the operating table and didn't leave until two women held me down. I was so scared! After the surgery, they took me back to the police station. The personnel there didn't want to keep me, so they sent me home. I lay down on the bed with a blank mind. These evil people deprived a two-month-old life of its opportunity to live!
  • Seven Falun Gong Practitioners from Jiangxi Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province and Shandong Province Were Persecuted To Death

    Mr. Li Yizhong, 62 years old, was a school teacher from Jiangxi Province. In July 2000, the police arrested him and detained him in a detention centre. During detention the police ordered seven inmates to take turns beating him. After his release, he vomited a lot of blood and his health took a turn for the worse. In 2001, Mr. Li was arrested in Tiananmen Square for appealing for Falun Gong. After being released, he could not go home for fear of further persecution. He was homeless for over three months and his health worsened. The 610 Office ransacked his home, fined his family, the school fired him. Under such stress Mr. Li died on March 14, 2005.
  • Three Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners from Liaoning Province Died from Persecution

    Not only have Falun Dafa practitioners endured extreme torture and physical abuse in this relentless peresecution but they and their families have also suffered heartache, pain and loss as family members are arrested, incarcerated, tortured and even killed. Such is the case of 69 year old Ms. Wang Fuqin, whose three daughters were sent to jail for practising Falun Dafa, one of whom was badly tortured. She could not take the huge blow of the series of events of her family members being persecuted, and in March 2004, Wang Fuqin passed away.
  • Jilin Province Police Hammer Thumbtacks into Fingernails of Practitioner Accused of Tapping into TV Signals

    The Jilin Province Police Department has revealed that in March 2002, they captured a Falun Dafa practitioner because he had intended to tap into the cable television system and broadcast a video exposing the persecution. The practitioner, whose name remains unknown, was very determined and refused to answer any questions. So, whenever the desired result was not immediately forthcoming, the police would hammer a thumbtack into one of his fingernails. It remains unknown exactly how many thumbtacks were hammered in, because the interrogation team soon began doing it after each question. No mercy was ever shown.
  • Torture Methods Used on Practitioners in Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison

    In Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison Falun Gong practitioners are detained with death row inmates. Prison guards treat practitioners the same as these dangerous criminals except that they are not handcuffed. However, they are often treated worse than the criminals on death row. Practitioners are detained in the three-by-three-metre prison cells for 24 hours a day, year after year. There is unremitting mental torture. Withering leg muscles and sores are common for practitioners. Their bodies and minds are severely tormented.
  • Mr. Ge Xinzhong Dies as a Result of Persecution for Taking in a Fellow Practitioner; Police Attempt to Cover It Up

    Practitioner Mr. Ge Xinzhong took in another practitioner who had been released from a labour camp and for this he was arrested and put in a detention centre. In the detention centre, Mr. Ge Xinzhong went on hunger strike for nearly 30 days. After being tortured by force-feeding until he was at his last gasp, he was sent to the county hospital, where all efforts to save him failed. He died on March 25 of this year.