Torture
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After The Truth About Falun Dafa Is Broadcast over a Loudspeaker in the Chongqing Police Department, Practitioner Zhang Qiyong is Tortured to Extract a "Confession"
2004-07-29
One day in May 2004, the truth about Falun Dafa was broadcast over a loudspeaker into the detention centre in Chongqing. The broadcast lasted over 20 minutes and awakened the guards to the realization that all their bad deeds would be recorded and would have to be paid for. Zhang Qiyong, a Falun Dafa practitioner who was detained there and on the verge of death due to persecution, was questioned while being tortured and forced to "confess". -
Harbin Prison Secretly Transfers Practitioners to Other Prisons in Order to Conceal a Torture Death
2004-07-29On July 1, 2004, the Harbin Prison suddenly and secretly transferred more than seventy Falun Gong practitioners to prisons in other cities of Daqing, Tailai, and Mudanjiang. During this period, Wang Dayuan, a Falun Dafa practitioner who was a young scientist and lecturer in Harbin Industry University, was tortured to death on April 5. In order to conceal the truth and evade the responsibility for the crime, the Harbin Prison secretly transferred the practitioners to other prisons. -
Details of At Least 60 Practitioners in the Shijiazhuang Area Arrested Over the Past Six Months
2004-07-29Since the beginning of 2004, persecutors in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei province, have escalated their persecution of Dafa practitioners. The persecutors include the "610 Office" of Shijiazhuang City and surrounding counties and towns, Political and Security Subsections, all police sub-departments within Shijiazhuang City and public security bureaus, procuratorial bureaus and people's courts of the nearby towns and counties. They trail practitioners, appoint people to keep practitioners' homes under surveillance and arrest them. Over 60 Dafa practitioners were arrested, of which 2 were sentenced to jail terms, and several others were sent to forced labour camps. -
Dafa Practitioner Ms. Geng Xuezhi from Shandong Province Died As A Result of Torture
2004-07-28Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Geng Xuezhi went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa near the end of 1999, but the police arrested her and took her back to Pingdu City, Shandong Province. The persecutors brutally tortured her during her detention. She was detained in an old building with broken windows in the middle of winter. As a result, Geng Xuezhi became very ill from the extended exposure to extreme cold. She continued to suffer from her illness after she was released, and medical treatment over a long period of time failed to save her life. -
Chongqing City Forced Labour Camp Hangs Up Dafa Practitioners by their Handcuffs for Extended Periods (Illustration)
2004-07-28In July 2000, Qiu Cuixiang, from Chongqing City, was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labour. They tried to force her to give up the practice of Falun Dafa. They handcuffed her and hung her from an office window metal railing. Her whole body was suspended in the air with only her big toes touching the ground. They also deprived her of sleep around the clock for 30 days. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yang Jiuhe from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Region Unjustly Imprisoned Leaving Family In Dire Straits
2004-07-28Mr. Yang Jiuhe is a 40 year old farmer from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. In October of 2003, Yang was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. His condition remains unknown. Now that Mr. Yang is incarcerated, his wife must care for his eighty-plus year-old mother and their young child by herself. This has put an enormous burden on his family's finances and living conditions. -
56 Year Old Dafa Practitioner Ms. Cao Jinling Dies as a Result of Persecution in the Fuxin Forced Labour Camp
2004-07-27Ms. Cao Jinling, a 56 year old farmer from Liaoning Province went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was illegally detained in the female division of the Fuxin Forced Labour Camp. During her period, she was forced to do heavy labour, which led to long term, prolonged bleeding. In September 2001 she was released. However the bleeding continued and was diagnosed to be in the late stages of cervical cancer. She passed away on June 17, 2004. -
Comprehensive Report: 165 Death Cases Reported in the First Half of 2004, 75 of These Died This Year
2004-07-27According to data obtained from the Clearwisdom.net, in the first half-year of 2004, 165 cases of Falun Dafa practitioners dying as a result of persecution were confirmed through nongovernmental channels. Among these cases, 75 practitioners were tortured to death. In total, from July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's and his followers started to brazenly persecute Falun Dafa, to June 30, 2004, 998 Falun Dafa practitioners are confirmed to have died as a result of persecution. -
Some Details about the Persecution Suffered by the Late Dafa Practitioner Han Zhenju
2004-07-27"After reading the article "Death of Han Zhenju from persecution by Kaiping Labour Camp in Tangshan City", I am putting down here details of some of the inhuman conditions at the various camps that led to his death. Although the guards there knew very well that Han had a history of cardiac problems, they still used high voltage electric batons, as well as other torturing devices on him. Han refused to take food for another 50 or more days to protest against the officers for taking away his Dafa books and the notes he wrote about the persecution. Finally, on May 15, 2004, Han collapsed and died from the persecution he was subjected to." -
Dafa Practitioners Zhao Ming, Zhao Liang and their Mother From Huludao City Suffer Persecution
2004-07-27Dafa practitioner Zhao Liang and his eldest brother Zhao Ming were sentenced to one year of forced labour on July 26, 2000, and were sent to the Huludao labour camp. They were cruelly beaten and tortured in the labour camp. Zhao Liang had his sentence extended four months because he was firm in his belief in Dafa. After he was released in November 2001, the police still didn't stop harassing him, so he had no choice but to leave home to avoid unlawful arrest and further persecution. -
Mr. Dong Dejun from Jilin Province Dies after Brutal Beating in Labour Camp
2004-07-2661 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Dong Dejun, lived in Jilin Province. Mr. Dong was arrested and brought to the Yinmahe Labour Camp in Jiutai on March 27 2002, where within only two days he was beaten until he was physically disabled. His nervous system was damaged and he could no longer take care of himself. After experiencing pain from the torture for over 800 days and nights, he tragically passed away on June 27, 2004. -
Brutality at the Harbin Female Prison: 60 Year Old Qu Jie Tortured to Death
2004-07-26Ms. Qu Jie was a practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. She was a retired worker around 60 years old. Because she firmly cultivated Falun Dafa, she was arrested in late April 2002 and later sentenced to four years in prison. Recently Ms. Qu was tortured to death at the Harbin Female Prison in Heilongjiang Province. The details of her death are yet to be investigated. -
Drawings of Torture Techniques - No. 32: Intentional Suffocation
2004-07-26Intentional Suffocation is one of the torture techniques used in interrogation and torture rooms, forced labour camps, and brainwashing classes of the public security system in China. It is commonly used on Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to give up their belief. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Chang Shuzhen From Qingdao City Died As A Result of Persecution After Appealing in Beijing
2004-07-25Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chang Shuzhen went to appeal for Falun Gong after the unlawful persecution began in 1999. The police detained and tortured her. Other Dafa practitioners told the police Chang Shuzhen had died, and the police drove her to hospital. Around 6:00 a.m. the doctor examined her and said, "She can't be saved. She is gone." -
Elderly Ms. Yuan Cuirong from Henan Province Died with Injustice in Her Heart After Being Forced to Give Up Her Belief
2004-07-2557 year old Ms. Yuan Cuirong was a resident of Henan Province. Because she went to Beijing to appeal for the end of the persecution, she was incarcerated in a forced labour camp. After being subjected to brutal and savage persecution in the forced labour camp, Yuan Cuirong heavy-heartedly said she would give up her belief in Falun Dafa. She became depressed and developed cancer of the spine. Yuan Cuirong finally died on June 21, 2003.
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