Torture
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Practitioner Su Baolan from Shandong Province Died from Persecution in 2001, Her Family Members Were Recently Arrested Again
2005-04-18
Falun Dafa practitioner Su Baolan died as a result of persecution in October 2001 at 37 years of age. On March 15, 2005, the Anqiu City Police Department mobilised police officers in various townships to launch a mass arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. According to a preliminary estimate, 17 practitioners were abducted, including the parents and younger sister of Su Baolan. Their home was ransacked. They are currently being held at the Anqiu Detention Centre. -
Methods of Torture Used at Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province (Re-enactment Photos)
2005-04-18
An officer made a promise to the convicts: Whoever managed to make a practitioner give up Falun Gong would be rewarded with a reduction of his sentence. Since then prisoners have increased their torture of practitioners including using lit cigarettes to burn their sensitive areas. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Gu Qiang from Heilongjiang Province Dies from Persecution
2005-04-18Mr. Gu Qiang was 50. Police sentenced him to forced labour at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. During his detention, he was brutally beaten. Prison guards took turns abusing him, and caused wounds all over his body. He was sent to a hospital. However the expensive medical fees were too much of a burden for his wife and put her in debt. She could not endure the stress, and divorced him. Mr. Gu had no place to live, and suffered severe mental stress. His old illness returned, and he died on March 9, 2005. -
Ms. Shi Yinghua from Heilongjiang Province Suffers Mental Collapse from Persecution
2005-04-18Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Shi Yinghua suffered a mental breakdown almost six years ago as a result of persecution. The scars left on her from torture by 610 Office agents are still evident today. The once healthy and lively Ms. Shi Yinghua is gone. Instead, her eyes are dull, her mind is not clear, and her speech incoherent. Every time she suffers a relapse, she runs around the street and can't recognise anybody. The one-by-two-centimetre raised scars from the shackles on her wrists and legs are clearly visible. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Baojie from Liaoning Province Tortured to Death
2005-04-17Ms. Li Baojie was 32 years old. She was arrested and detained many times for firmly cultivating Falun Dafa. After being sentenced to three years forced labour in August 2004, she served time at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Li went on a hunger strike the entire time at the labour camp to protest the unjust incarceration and she was force-fed. She was tortured until she had trouble breathing and could not talk coherently. She died on April 8, 2005. -
24 Year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Chen Lijuan from Hunan Province Died From Extreme Mental Stress in 2004
2005-04-17Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Lijuan went to Beijing to appeal when she was a student in the Finance Department of Hunan Province Finance Institute. She was then expelled from the Institute due to her firm belief and the bank fired her from her part-time job for refusing to sign a guarantee statement to give up cultivating Falun Gong. Under extreme pressure from the persecution, she suffered a mental collapse and died on November 11, 2004. -
Eight Falun Dafa Practitioners Died as a Result of the Persecution
2005-04-1748 year old Mr. Fu and his wife both practised Falun Dafa. After July 20, 1999, Mr. Fu's wife went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. After that the police often harassed her. In March 2002 while she was having a meal at home, police arrested her. One of them threatened Mr. Fu and said, "We will inject drugs that destroy the central nervous system into your wife, send her to Shijiazhuang City to brainwash her, sentence her to a long jail term, and fine her 12,000 yuan." Under great pressure, Mr. Fu finally came up with 3,000 yuan to give to the police. However, they said it was not enough and still refused to release his wife. Mr. Fu was hurt mentally, and he suffered from a sudden illness as a result. He died 4 months later. -
Imprisoned and Deprived of My Wages Because I Believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance"
2005-04-17My name is Wang Yizong. I am a 63-year-old economist. On the afternoon of October 20, 2000, I was sentenced to three years in prison without any legal procedure, for the so-called crime of distributing Falun Gong flyers. Because I didn't want to give up the practice of Falun Gong, police punched and kicked me. They said, "As long as you practise Falun Gong, beating you to death is nothing, and no one will stand up for you." Also, my wages were stopped in November 2000 and to this day they remain unpaid. Since that time I haven't received even a penny for living expenses. My son and daughter help myself and my wife financially and in order to survive I've also been cultivating two Chinese acres of land. -
The Tragic Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Sun Yuhua
2005-04-16Ms. Sun Yuhua was a resident of Liaoning Province. She was 37 years old when she was tortured to death. On March 11, 2003, Ms. Sun was sentenced to four years in jail. When her family visited her on March 28, 2003, Ms. Sun was in good physical and mental condition. When they went to visit her again on April 9 prison officials told them that Ms. Sun suffered from heart disease and could not eat, and had been sent to the prison hospital. Ms. Sun never had heart disease. On April 11 police told the family that she had died from heart disease. When they saw her body there were dark purple bruises on her face, on her front, her back, behind her ears, her arms and there were blisters on her buttocks. -
A Family Struggles for Justice After Shangzhi City Court Secretly Sentences Ms. Zhang Shuzhi to Prison
2005-04-16Since the Shangzhi City Court tried practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuzhi on February 4, 2005, her family have continued to ask the detention centre for information about her health and whereabouts. But to no avail. Her family have had no choice but to go to the Shangzhi City Court. The staff member Ma Yuyan told them that Zhang Shuzhi was sentenced to four years in prison. The family said, "Why didn't you inform us right away? On what did you base the four-year sentence?" Ma Yuyan said, "We did everything according to our laws. The family then went to the Court Appeals Office. Unexpectedly, Judge Zhang ferociously said, "Four years imprisonment is not severe enough for her. She should be sentenced to death." -
Force-Feeding As a Means of Torture in Hebei Province Detention Centre
2005-04-16Around 3 a.m. on February 24, nearly 20 police broke into the home of three Falun Dafa practitioners and arrested them. In order to resist the persecution, they went on a hunger strike. Five days into their hunger strike the head of the detention centre ordered the practitioners to be brutally force-fed. A stomach tube was inserted through the nose into the stomach, and the tube was connected to a balloon filled with air. After not having food and water for several days, one practitioner almost suffocated when the stomach tube was inserted, so the tube had to be taken out and reinserted. Another pulled out the tube dripping with blood, and the balloon burst. Both of the practitioners started to vomit until bile came up. -
Practitioner Ms. Qi Suchun from Liaoning Province Died as a Result of the Persecution in 2001
2005-04-16
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qi Suchun from Beining City, Liaoning Province, was abducted in March 2001 and sent to the Zhaotun Town government building to undergo brainwashing. It was reported that she fell from the fourth floor of the government building and died upon impact. The true cause of the tragedy is unknown. -
More Information About How Wang Ziguang Was Tortured to Death
2005-04-15Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Ziguang was a teacher in Jilin City. He injured himself at school so badly that he had to leave his teaching post. Mr. Wang started to practise Falun Gong and his back pain disappeared. He appealed for Falun Dafa and was imprisoned in a forced labour camp. Mr. Wang was beaten frequently and could not get enough to eat. Under such bad conditions, his health kept getting worse. He developed liver ascites and died in December 2000. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. An Fengbo is Critically Ill from Torture at the Jilin City No. 3 Detention Centre
2005-04-15For several years, police and guards at the detention centre have used various persecution methods on Dafa practitioners who righteously resist their demands to renounce Falun Dafa. They use many forms of physical punishment, including using other prisoners to beat the practitioners, shackling the hands and feet of practitioners together for long periods of time, brutal force-feeding, and other inhumane acts limited only by their imaginations. -
The Persecution against 51 Year Old Ms. Tan Shaolan in Chengdu City
2005-04-15Because 51 year old Ms. Tan Shaolan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, her workplace stopped her pension and she was not even allowed the most basic living expenses. She was arrested and sent to a "legal system study class" in Chengdu City, where they brainwashed her and detained her for one year and four months. The authorities made Ms. Tan's family pay 750 yuan per month for her living expenses while in the class. Ms. Tan's pension will not be reinstated until she pays the entire 12,000 yuan in living expenses for her detention in the legal system study class.
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