Torture

  • Reenacting the Tortures Inflicted upon Weifang City Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Liu Haobin and Others (Photos)

    Since October 2000, lawless people in Xingbu Town have been hired to persecute practitioners. Some of the methods they have used include: shocking practitioners with electric batons and stun guns, flogging them with hard rubber hoses, kicking them with leather boots, intimidating them, threatening them, deceiving them with false rumours, starving them or giving them only meagre rations, administering physical punishments, extorting money from them, striping off their clothes and leaving them to freeze in cold weather, and forcing them to curse Falun Gong and the founder of Falun Gong. The
  • How Two Practitioners Were Killed as a Result of Persecution in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    This is an eyewitness account by a detainee in the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp Hospital. She witnessed the persecution of practitioners Ms. Liu Limei, Ms. Fu Guilan, and Ms. Wu Yajie between 2002 and 2004. During their imprisonment in the labour camp, this detainee witnessed the miracle of Falun Dafa and the practitioners' steadfast faith and determination to validate and safeguard Falun Dafa with their lives. As a result, this eyewitness embarked on the path of Faun Dafa cultivation and became a determined practitioner.
  • Ms Gao Rongrong Recounts Her Suffering at a Hospital and How Her Relatives Were Stonewalled in Their Appeal on Her Behalf

    Ever since May 7, 2004 when severe and continued electric shocking with batons disfigured Gao Rongrong's face, the departments concerned with her case have not made any comments. Her family members appealed according to the law, but the only reply they got was that her case had been taken over by the "special cases team." Two of the policemen who participated in tormenting and abusing Gao Rongrong, were assigned to guard her in hospital. On July 2, three people from Shenyang City's Political and Judiciary Committee even tried to pick off the dark scabs on her face, right in front of her family members.
  • The Whole Family of Dafa Practitioner Wang Zideng from Shandong Province Is Subjected to Persecution

    After Jiang Zemin's group began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Wang Zideng and his family suffered numerous unjust acts against them. First he was forced to close his business, and in late 2000 he was compelled to leave home. His daughter was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labour in April 2001 when she turned just 16 years old! Wang Zideng's sister and brother-in-law were sentenced to three years of forced labour. Mr. Wang's niece, died at age four as a result of the family being repeatedly harassed and frightened by police during the persecution.
  • High School Teacher Murdered in March, 2004 in Heilongjiang Province, More Practitioners Illegally Sentenced to Forced Labour Camps

    Since July 20, 1999, at least 26 Falun Gong practitioners in Daqing City have been persecuted to death. Even though most people have come to understand the truth about Falun Gong and are no longer deceived by the propaganda, the wicked authorities are still out of control. At the end of March 2004, an excellent Daqing City high school teacher, Gao Shuqin, was murdered by the Hulu Sub-Railway Department just because she wanted to uphold her right as a citizen and not abandon her belief in "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance."
  • Ms. Liu Tongling Tortured to Death on the "Iron Chair" at the Harbin Forced Labour Camp in 2003

    Ms. Liu Tongling, over 50 years old, was a practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. She was abducted and taken to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp in September 2003. Within a month she was dead. On the last day of her life, as she was being beaten on the "Iron Chair", the guard even had others remove all of her clothes to humiliate her and let her freeze. That day Ms. Liu Tongling died, naked, on the iron chair.
  • Mr Peng Shiming Died as a Result of Persecution, His Wife Liu Xiaolian Died from Mental Trauma, both in 2002

    Hubei Province Falun Dafa practitioners Peng Shimin and his wife, Liu Xiaolian were repeatedly harassed and detained many times. Peng Shimin unfortunately passed away, mentally and physically debilitated from persecution, in October of 2002. His wife Liu Xiaolian was seriously traumatized after her husband's last arrest, and she died on February 14, 2002.
  • Two Brothers, Liu Fuming and Liu Fuli, Severely Tortured by Police in Inner Mongolia

    On September 16, 2001, two brothers, Liu Fuli and Liu Fuming from Inner Mongolia were arrested because they publicly clarified the truth about the persecution of Falun Dafa. that was the beginning of a nightmare consisting beatings lasting up to 20 hours on several occasions. At one time a police officer held a gun to Liu Fuli's head and said, "Are you going to tell us or not? If not, I'll shoot you--shoot you dead without having to worry about any punishment!"
  • Mr. Xu Zhibin, Illegally Sentenced to 14-years in Prison, Now Weighs Only 88 Pounds and Is Extremely Frail

    The District Court in Dianlian City sentenced Mr. Xu Zhibin to fourteen years of imprisonment in September 2002 because he practised Falun Gong. When his family members asked Hu Xiaoping, the department chief, on what grounds the verdict was based, she replied, "This is discipline. No one can talk about it." Xu Zhibin is now detained in Wafangdian Prison, Liaoning Province.
  • Torture Leaves Shandong Province Practitioner Ma Zhixin Disabled - His Wife Is Unjustly Jailed

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ma Zhixin from Anqiu City lost the ability to take care of himself due to persecution. His wife, Zhang Zhenfang, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2002, because she practises Falun Gong. Currently she is being detained in Jinan Women's Prison. On top of that, in the past five years of persecution, Ma Zhixin and his family have had a total of 69,842 yuan extorted from them, by officials and police.
  • Remembering Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr Fan Xuejun from Shenyang City

    "Fan Xuejun was one of my best friends. When I read the news about his death, that his skull had been caved in, that there was a big hole on his back and a big gash on his leg, my heart felt very heavy. I didn't want believe that it was true. I had been imprisoned because of my practice of Falun Dafa and was released at the end of 2003. When I asked about Fan Xuejun, I found out that he had been sentenced to seven years in prison."
  • Sad Tears of an Elderly Woman Call for Her Son's Return

    It's hard to spot this elderly woman among a sea of people, but she has walked slowly to a bus stop every day for the past month, in order to try to find her dying son. This elderly lady has gone to the detention centre or the police department every day to ask for her son. Each day at sunset she goes back home, empty-handed and tired as usual, full of disappointment and sadness.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Fuzhen from Shandong Province Died Due to Persecution (July 2003)

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Fuzhen was in her 60s. In April 2002, the County "610 Office" workers stormed into her home and abducted her. She had been deeply disturbed mentally and tortured physically during the brainwashing. The County "610 Office" kept harassing her after she was released, resulting in her old sicknesses returning, and she died in July 2003.
  • Chongqing City Falun Gong Practitioner Tang Zhenghua Dies as a Result of Torture

    After July 20, 1999, the local authorities continually persecuted Falun Dafa practitioner Tang Zhenghua. In May 2001 when he clarified the truth about Falun Gong, police officers arrested him and sent him to a detention centre, where he was cruelly tortured. The guards didn't allow him to sleep for many days and nights. Later, they forced him to sleep on the wet floor. He suffered three broken ribs from being beaten, and blood clots spread from his right side throughout his body. He also developed oedema. Mr. Tang passed away on October 9, 2004.
  • Practitioner Mr. Li Changrong from Hubei Province Arrested; Wife Passes Away

    Mr. Li Changrong is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hubei Province. Over the past five years, his home was searched and he was arrested six times. He spent a total of 450 days in detention. In order to catch Mr. Li, the police went to his home every day and intimidated Ms. Wang Zihua, his wife. She passed away on the night of September 24, 2004. It is unknown what was the cause of her death, but there were obvious bruises on her body. On October 25, 2004, police arrested Mr. Li soon after he returned home.