Torture
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Stories of Practitioners from Tianjin Province, Hebei Province, Liaoning Province, and Shandong Province Who Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-31Ms. Sun Yazhi was an 86-year-old resident of Liaoning Province. She was a retired teacher from a primary school. In 2002, police officers and other officials went to her home many times to arrest Ms. Sun's daughter who also practised Falun Dafa. Sun Yazhi was distressed by the harassment and as a result, suffered a relapse of her old diseases. She died on November 6, 2002. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Elderly Ms Li Sufen and Middle-Aged Ms Kang Yuxia from Liaoning Province Die as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-30Two lady practitioners enjoyed great benefit to their physical health through the practice of Falun Dafa. When the persecution was instigated by Jiang Zemin in July 1999, both ladies felt compelled to exercise their constitutional rights to appeal against this gross injustice and went to Beijing. Both of them suffered immeasurable mental and physical harm. One suffered a stroke, steadily deteriorated and passed away on October 1, 2004, the other was diagnosed with stomach cancer and passed away on April 16, 2000. -
Practitioner Ms. Yan Xiangzhi of Hebei Province, Died as a Result of Police Harassment and Threats
2005-01-30Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yan Xiangzhi lived in a village in Hebei Province. After she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on January 1, 2000, she had to go into exile to avoid being persecuted. On January 13, 2002, police again arrested Yan Xiangzhi and her husband. She was soon released, but her husband was sentenced to six years in prison. He was severely tortured and eventually released. However, the authorities often went to his home to harass and threaten him and Ms. Yan. Under the huge pressure of such threats and her husband's failing health, Yan Xiangzhi passed away on August 15, 2004. -
73 Year Old Practitioner Ms. Luo Bu-e from Shanxi Province Persecuted to Death in 2003
2005-01-30Ms. Luo Bu-e was 73 years old. After July 20, 1999, the village's police constantly harassed and threatened her at her home, causing severe damage to her mental state. Her children were detained and sentenced to a labour camp and prison. During that difficult period, Ms. Luo was very worried for her children. She lost weight and strength, and suffered from shortness of breath. Doctors found that she had late stage lung cancer, with fluids in her lungs. She died on December 17, 2003. -
Filled With Anguish for Her Persecuted Daughter, 82 Year Old Ms. Li Xiuying from Hebei Province, Died in 2001
2005-01-30Ms. Li Xiuying was 82 years old and lived in Hebei Province. When the persecution against Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, she went with her daughter to Beijing to appeal. They were both arrested and sent back home to a police station to be tortured. After releasing Ms. Li and letting her go home, her daughter was repeatedly arrested, detained, and harassed because she continued to appeal. Ms. Ms. Li Xiuying was so worried for her daughter that she became sick and died on October 9, 2001. -
Mr. Feng Jianyong, a Practitioner from Shanxi Province, Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-30Mr. Feng Jianyong was a 30 year old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shanxi Province. In order to avoid police harassment, he was forced to leave his home and go into hiding. Over the past two years, he suffered both mentally and physically. As he was not able to regularly study the teachings or practise the exercises, he developed physical complications, which caused swelling in his body. Even in hospital police intimidated him. He died on October 21, 2004. -
Ph.D. Zhang Lei from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Was Tortured to Death in December 1999
2005-01-29Falun Dafa practitioner, Dr Zhang Lei, obtained a Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At the end of November 1999, he was arrested on Tiananmen Square while practising the Falun Dafa exercises, and detained. He died from a fall from a building on December 16, 1999. The details are being investigated. -
Crimes of the Laiwu Iron and Steel Complex "610 Office": Mr. Shang Qingling Tortured to Death, Ms. Jiao Fangyu Forced to Have an Abortion
2005-01-29The "610 Office" in Laiwu City have committed many unspeakable crimes against Falun Dafa practitioners: Mr. Shang Qingling suffered barbaric force-feeding in a detention centre, which led to his lungs becoming infected. He died on February 1, 2001. He left behind a wife and a son, with no one to care for them. A six months pregnant lady was forced to have an abortion and then was thrown into a brainwashing centre and forced labour camp. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners Permeates Every Aspect of Life in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp
2005-01-29The Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp provides a good example of the how the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners permeates every aspect of life in China's labour camps. The labour camp provided only two meals a day. Generally, nobody got enough to eat. Meals were made using coarse grain, which is actually animal fodder. For six months, one of the daily meals would be porridge made from the coarse grain. For another six months, both of the daily meals were steamed bread made from the coarse grain, along with frozen Chinese cabbage and salty rutabaga soup (which is served year-round). -
Corrupt Officials from the North China Oil Field Defame Falun Gong and Persecute Practitioners
2005-01-29Besides the fabricated story of the 1,400 death cases, which was broadcast after July 20, 1999 to defame Falun Gong, two additional fabricated news stories originated from the North China Oil Field. Case 1, "Ma Jianmin cut his belly open to look for a law wheel" Ma Jianmin and others in his family had a history of psychiatric problems. Upon his death, China Central Television produced the fraudulent story "belly cut open to look for a law wheel." Yet his son repeatedly declared that Ma Jianmin's death had nothing to do with Falun Gong. -
Mr. Cheng Jingshan, a 64-year-old Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hebei Province, Dies As a Result of Torture
2005-01-28Mr. Cheng Jingshan was a 64 year old farmer from Hebei Province. At the end of 2003, Cheng gained his release after 28 months of unlawful detention in a forced labour camp. In the autumn of 2004, he was arrested again. The police beat him cruelly and he thus became disfigured. Subsequently, Cheng was transferred to a brainwashing centre and then to a forced labour camp for a 3-year term. Mr. Cheng was tortured until he was in a critical condition. In May 2004, his family members carried him home. However, he was brain damaged and his mind was not clear. He died on January 11, 2005. -
Ms. Liu Baoying, A Guizhou Province Practitioner In Her Fifties, Died as a Result of Persecution in 2001
2005-01-2851 year old Guizhou Province practitioner Ms. Liu Baoying suffered tremendously both mentally and physically due to persecution inflicted by the neighbourhood committee. The neighbourhood committee also mentally isolated Ms. Liu Baoying. They didn't allow other people to talk with her, and threatened them if they tried. They slandered Ms. Liu, telling others that she was a bad person.Her suffering led to relapses of old illnesses. She gradually became very skinny, and died unjustly on February 23, 2001. -
A Death Due to Persecution: What I Learned at Beijing's Dongcheng Detention Centre
2005-01-28"I was arrested and sent to a Detention Centre in Beijing.Once I was shifted to another cell, and found my cellmate to be an elderly lady (a criminal) from Inner Mongolia Province. On October 21, 2001, a Falun Dafa practitioner was tortured to death. That practitioner had only been imprisoned for a few days and the elderly lady was imprisoned with her. The practitioner was on a hunger strike. Nobody knew her name or where she came from. On October 21, 2001, she was dragged out of the cell and force-fed by police at the detention centre. She never came back." -
Cruel Treatment of Practitioners at Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province
2005-01-28Because she persisted in practising Falun Gong, Ms Jia Quanmei was locked up in a solitary confinement cell over 40 days in early 2004. She was forced to stand and deprived of sleep. She was handcuffed extremely tight until her bones were nearly exposed. After she was released from the solitary confinement cell, Jia Quanmei became very weak. She was then locked separately in a room with two criminal prisoners, monitoring her. Under the instigation of a guard, a criminal pressed Jia Quanmei's head into a commode and forced her to drink urine. -
50 Something Mr. Hu Weiping from Hunan Province, Died Recently As a Result of State Security Police Brutality
2005-01-27Mr. Hu Weiping, an employee of Hengyang City Petroleum Company in Hunan Province, was a kindhearted person. On the afternoon of April 16, 2004, officers from the Hengyang City State Security Unit broke into his home and abducted him. He was handcuffed and hung up, viciously beaten, and force-fed unknown toxic substances as the officers tried to pressure him to give up his belief. On December 27, 2004, he died from complications of injuries he sustained during a beating by the state security police.