Torture
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Torture Techniques at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City Used Against Falun Gong Practitioners (Re-enactment Photos)
2005-04-10
Torture method used in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp: Pinching the flesh with pliers. Police order the criminals to pinch practitioners' skin and flesh with pliers. After this torture, the victims' bodies are covered with purple bruises. -
The Family of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Tao Hongsheng Suffers Tragic Experience (Photo)
2005-04-10
Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Tao Hongsheng and Ms. Yu Fengyun from Hebei Province were both repeatedly persecuted by the local officials. As a result, Mr. Tao was tortured to death on September 20, 2000 and his wife is still imprisoned. For the past several years, their two daughters have been dependent on each other for survival. During this period of time, the daughters have had no income except the financial support of kindhearted people and other Falun Dafa practitioners. -
Officials at the Liaoyang City Detention Centre Tortured and Sexually Humiliated Women Practitioners
2005-04-10In May 2002, Ms. Luo Li went along with other female Falun Gong practitioners out to let people know the truth about Falun Dafa and distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. Some people who had been poisoned by the propaganda defaming Falun Dafa reported them, and they were arrested and sent a detention centre. The policemen beat two practitioners unconscious and three others until their bodies were black and blue. The police forced and assisted prisoners to strip the practitioners and to beat their bare bodies. They even forced the nude women to go through the male wards to humiliate them. -
The Inside Story of the Death of Ms. Dong Cui
2005-04-09There have always been differing accounts of the death of Dong Cui at the Beijing Women's Prison in Daxin County. She was detained at a Detention Centre in Beijing for two years. Later, she was transferred to the Beijing Women's Prison, where she was severely tortured. The government produced various documents to show that she died from lung thrombus. Yet at the time of death, her body was covered with bruises, and there was a hole in her head. -
Jiang Zemin's Evil Regime, as Seen Through the Suffering of a 70-Year-Old Lady
2005-04-09I am a seventy-year-old woman who has been detained, persecuted and forced to be homeless for close to three years, simply because I distributed leaflets that exposed the lies about Falun Gong being spread by Jiang Zemin's regime. In the police station a policeman with alcohol on his breath came over to me and said menacingly, "Old woman, can you see I have had a few drinks? I am capable of doing anything when I am drunk." Soon he threw me in a detention centre. -
Practitioners Shot At in 2002, Then Seized and Tortured in the Liaoyang City Detention Centre in 2003
2005-04-09On October 12, 2002, Falun Dafa practitioners Wang Jingchun and Wang Jinping, a couple who lived in Liaoning Province, rode on a motorcycle to post leaflets exposing the persecution along a highway. The police spotted and decided to arrest them. During the arrest, the police shot at them twice (orders from higher authorities are that when the police see practitioners posting leaflets exposing the persecution the police can shoot right away). -
Zhangjiakou City Police Persecute Ms. Cai Jinhua and Extort Money from Her Family
2005-04-09On December 15, 2001, practitioner Ms. Cai Jinhua went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. Police arrested her and placed her in the Haidian District prison. Local officials forced her husband to pay 3,000 yuan for her release. Her husband could only borrow 1,000 "yuan" from his work place to pay them. On December 18, police again arrested Ms. Cai and put her in the county jail. The 610 Office threatened her husband, saying that she would be put into a forced labour camp. He was so afraid for her that he borrowed 5,200 yuan to pay the authorities. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yin Huafeng from Sichuan Province Died Following Repeated Torture
2005-04-08Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Yin Huafeng had been persecuted by twenty-three different units and detained seven times within sixteen months. She was sentenced to forced labour three times, and forced to become homeless for more than two years. She was tortured repeatedly, and even when she was on medical parole she was sentenced to 18 months forced labour. Ms. Yin Huafeng died on March 8, 2005. -
Shameless Persecution at the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp
2005-04-08A 40-year-old female practitioner was brutally tortured at the Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp. In mid-May, because this practitioner didn't cooperate with the guards, inmate group leader Chen Hong reported her. The guards locked her in a small room and instigated drug addict convicts to take turns torturing her for 83 days, which caused severe internal injuries. Once inmate stepped on a practitioner's foot and pulled her nipples until they bled. -
Five Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Died from the Persecution
2005-04-08Ms. Liu Yulan was a 62-year-old practitioner from Henan Province. She was abducted and fined many times, and the police also searched her house and confiscated her property. In June 2004, she was reported for posting Dafa flyers exposing the persecution and detained in a detention centre for about a month. She was fined over 2000 yuan. After that, police often harassed and threatened her at her home. As a result of the long-term torment, she passed away on December 14, 2004. -
Sixty-year-old Woman from Guizhou Province is Tortured to the Brink of Death in Just Ten Days
2005-04-08"My name is Zhou Liqiong and I am a female Falun Dafa practitioner from Guizhou Province. I was captured for informing people about the persecution and sent to a detention centre. I went on a hunger strike to resist my unjust incarceration. During the ten days of my hunger strike, a guard ordered eight strong men to tie me to a chair with a thick nylon rope to force-feed me. She forced a large amount of prepared food and water down my throat, and the procedure was extremely gruelling and torturous. It nearly suffocated me. This is how this group of inhumane people tortured a sixty-year-old woman. -
Ten Falun Dafa Practitioners, Many in their 50's and 60's, Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-04-07The deaths of ten Falun Dafa practitioners have come to our attention. Due to the difficulty in gathering information about the persecution and the great risk for practitioners in China to inform the websites, many of the deaths occurred years ago. Yet there are no less tragic for that. Many of the practitioners were over 50 years old and had had remarkable recoveries from serious illnesses through practising Falun Dafa. Yet all were prevented from continuing their practice, causing terrible mental anguish, so for many of them their old illnesses recurred and they passed away. -
19 Practitioners in China Passed Away As a Result of Long-term Persecution
2005-04-07Ms. Xi Zhaolin was 66 old and a retired official from Shanxi Province. After July 20, 1999 when the persecution of Falun Gong started, the local security office repeatedly sent people to harass and threaten her and to force her to give up her belief. Her workplace threatened her with the suspension of her retirement pension if she did not renounce Falun Gong. They demanded that she to write a guarantee statement promising not to practise again. Under the pressure of repeated torment and harassment, she became extremely weak. She passed away on September 19, 2003. -
Four Practitioners from Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning Pass Away due to Persecution
2005-04-0737 year old Ms. Yang Xiuyun, 37, was a practitioner from Liaoning Province. On July 16, 2003, personnel from the local politics and law committee and police came to her home and forced her into a vehicle. They arrested her and put her into the Fushun City Brainwashing Centre, where she was detained for 15 days and severely abused. This brought on a serious illness, and on September 28, 2004, she passed away. -
Five Practitioners in Anhui Province, Guangdong Province, and Jilin Province Have Died from the Persecution
2005-04-07Ms. Wang Conghua was 82 years old. Soon after she started practising Falun Dafa, she recovered from past diseases, including prolapse of the uterus. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, her family members were afraid of being persecuted and didn't let her practise Falun Gong anymore. Also, her eldest son passed away, and her two daughters and a son-in-law were detained. She could not take the tremendous mental stress, and her past diseases returned. She passed away on March 5, 2001.
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