Torture

  • Before Her Death from Persecution, Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Shi Zhongling Recounts the Living Hell of Brainwashing Centre

    The "Big Truth" programme of Jiangsu Province TV Station depicted the Suining Brainwashing Class as heaven, where people could play badminton, poker, and chess, and where employees treated practitioners like family. The real truth was that Falun Dafa practitioners had to pay two thousand yuan each month, while they got less than one hundred yuan worth of food. The practitioners had very little to eat every day. That place was truly a living hell, and the employees were savages. The reports in the "Big Truth" were all lies created to deceive the general public who did not know the truth.
  • Mr. Zhang Shouren from Shanxi Province, Died in 2001 Because of Brutal Beatings

    On October 17, 2000, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Shouren, aged 66, went to the National Appeals Bureau in Beijing to ask the Chinese government to stop its persecution of Falun Gong. He was going to share with the officials how he had benefited from the practice. However, the police abducted and confined him in a detention centre There, he was brutally beaten. His health steadily deteriorated after the beatings. On August 24, 2001, Mr. Zhang died at home.
  • Ms. Wu Yuqing Murdered by "610 Office" Agents

    On December 25, 2003, 48 year old Ms. Wu Yuqing, from Inner Mongolia, was abducted from her home by the "610 Office" and police. She was persecuted to death that same night. The police claimed that Ms. Wu Yuqing had committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of the police building. Her body was very pale, and there was a 3 cm. (1.2 inch) hole in the left side of her skull. There was no blood on her nose and ears. If she had jumped off the building, she would have bled from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • Seven Falun Dafa Practitioners Die, Including Six Elderly, As A Result of Persecution

    90 year old Mr. Gu Qingchun from Jilin Province began practising Falun Dafa in 1996 when he was 81. He practised very diligently. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, lawless officials interfered with his practice, arrested his family members who were practitioners, ransacked their homes, and sentenced them to forced labour camps. He suffered tremendously and was very depressed. He declared his withdrawal from the CCP on February 23, 2005, and died on February 28, 2005.
  • Police Cruelly Beat a Woman With a Thick Iron Bar

    "In the afternoon of January 30, 2002, police forcibly took me from my work place to the local public security bureau without any excuse or legal procedures. They dragged me to the fourth floor and cuffed both my hands to an iron chair. They then stripped off my clothes, leaving me in only my underwear. They shocked my breasts with electric batons. The electric shocks were too painful to imagine. This policeman threw away the baton, grabbed a one-inch thick iron bar, and beat my legs and hips to the point that my legs were covered with bruises and stains. They tortured me for about two hours."
  • Remembering Fellow Practitioner Ms Chen Guijun

    "While I was detained in the No.1 Detention Centre in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, I had contact with 62 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Guijun for a short period of time. She went on a hunger strike. She was so emaciated that only her bone frame was left and she could not be transfused. She died as a result. In order to absolve themselves from any responsibility, the labour camp asked the local police station to carry her out of the prison and take her home."
  • How The Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Treatment Institute Tortured Ms. Jiang Rongzhen to Death

    In November 2002, the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Treatment Institute in Harbin tortured 42 year old Ms. Jiang Rongzhen until she died. Her body was cut and bruised all over and had scars from apparent electrocution. There was a hole in the front of her head and a swollen lump on the back of her head. When prison officials saw that she had died, so they hurried to find a doctor. They then wrapped her body in a blanket and sent her to the hospital to be "rescued."
  • Elderly Farmer Ms. Li Hongjin from Liaoning Province Died under the Persecution

    Ms. Li Hongjin was determined to practise Falun Dafa. She went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Dafa and was persecuted. She was held at a detention centre and was so brutally persecuted that she was at the brink of death. Even when she was released the police continued to monitor her closely and prevent her from practising Falun Dafa. She passed away on June 6, 2004. Before she died, she was still telling her family that Falun Dafa is great.
  • 61 year old Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Hao Zhimei from Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hao Zhimei , 61 years old, was a retired teacher from Qiqihar City. She was abducted on the evening of March 16, 2005, by police and detained at the City First Detention Centre. She was tortured to death on March 24, 2005 yet the police claimed she died of a "heart attack". The police told the family that no cameras or mobile phones were allowed when preparing her body for the funeral and during the funeral. They were no doubt afraid that criminal evidence would be recorded.
  • Sichuan Province Falun Gong Practitioner Xiang Changyin Dies from Torture

    Mr. Xiang Changyin had already been persecuted in a forced labour camp prior to his arrest in June 2004 while he was distributing leaflets about Falun Gong and the persecution to people. He was tortured, unlawfully sent to forced labour for four years. Although Xiang Changyin was sent back home, his life was in danger and died on March 11, 2005 as a result of torture.
  • More Details of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Gu Xiuhua's Death Due to Persecution in Harbin City

    Because she did not give up practising Falun Dafa, 40 year old Ms Gu Xiuhua was imprisoned in a brainwashing class where she was brutally persecuted. Ms Gu's body and mind were seriously injured due to torture and abuse. Sometimes, she was not able to eat, drink water, or sleep for more than ten days at a time. Her abdomen was often in pain. After leaving prison, the local police intensified their persecution against her and her family was extorted for money on four different occasions, for amounts totalling 25,000 yuan. She was forced to become homeless in order to avoid being persecuted. In November 2004, Ms. Gu Xiuhua passed away.
  • Mr. Zhao Guangsheng Badly Injured and Deformed after Police and Criminal Inmates Cruelly Torture Him

    Mr. Zhao Guangsheng was arrested by police from the "610 Office". They cruelly beat him with a leather-thonged whip for 3 hours. On another occasion guards ordered several criminal inmates to put some toilet paper between Mr. Zhao's toes and then set the paper on fire to burn him. His agonising screams broke the silence of the night until he passed out from the pain. When Mr. Zhao's wife went to the prison to see him and saw how hideously deformed her husband was, she couldn't stop crying and borrowed money from her friends to pay for his release.
  • Elderly Ms. Yue Shunjiao, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hubei Province, Dies as a Result of Police Harassment

    64 year old Ms. Yue Shunjiao was held several times in detention centres because she appealed for Falun Gong. Officials operating outside the law had placed her under surveillance and continually harassed her because she steadfastly believed in Falun Dafa. On November 19, 2004, Ms. Yue died as a result of this persecution.
  • How the Perpetrators at Police Stations, Forced Labour Camps and the Party Committee Devastate the Conscience and Murder the Spirit

    Ms. Wang Zhijun, who endured savage, ruthless persecution, then went on to betray her conscience and change from being an honest and good person to assisting her persecutors in slandering Falun Gong and persecuting practitioners. She doesn't have the courage to admit to the tortures she suffered because of the coercion and pressure asserted on her by her tormentors.
  • Practitioner Zhou Bin's Genitals Were Seriously Injured in Shanghai Prison

    On February 24, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou, who was in a small cell wearing handcuffs, was brutally beaten by the inmate in-charge at the orders of prison guards. Zhou Bin's genitals were badly injured. When the prison guard saw that he might die, they sent him to the hospital. After committing such a brutal crime, these policemen tried to cover up the truth and told the other prisoners to lie.