Torture

• The Torture of Female Practitioners at the Tiananmen Police Station (Illustration)

  2004-06-24
  "Practitioners described to me how they were tortured at the Tiananmen Police Station. The police placed each practitioner in small individual cells which had a water hose hanging from the ceiling. The police stripped off practitioners' clothes and poured ice cold water on them for over a half hour. The cell was so small that a person could hardly turn around in it. In the cold winter police poured ice cold water on the heads of practitioners."
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• Primary School Teacher Ms. Li Huiping's Family is Destroyed Due to the Persecution

  2004-06-23
  Ms. Li Huiping, a primary school teacher in Yunnan Province was forced to leave her job in 2002 and was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labour. The day after she was arrested her husband Bao Weiyuan was ordered to sign a "Notice for Interrogation." Mr. Bao refused and said, "You arrested and detained my wife for no reason, which infringes upon the fundamental human rights of a citizen and violates the Constitution." About ten days later he was found dead at home. Now, her only son, who suffers from several illnesses, is left at home and nobody is taking care of him.
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• Anhui Province Police Department Terrorises Family

  2004-06-23
  "On July 2, 2002, people from the Police Department in Haozhou City, broke into my office. They took me to the Longhua Hotel and tried to force me to confess that it was illegal to talk about Falun Gong and the persecution to others. They continued to persecute my family and me for 6 days and finally sentenced me to 5 years in prison. My husband was terrified and shocked. Even though it has been a year now, he is still badly traumatized. My daughter was traumatized mentally and physically. She cried the whole day after she got home and often woke up from nightmares."
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• Practitioner Ms Zhao Shurong from Bozhou City Lists the Crimes of Local Persecutors

  2004-06-23
  "On March 20, 2002, I was walking on the street when officials from the District Political and Judiciary Committee grabbed my mobile phone from me and threw me into a police van. They took me to a Police Station, where they handcuffed me for at least four hours and then sent me to Bozhou City Custody Centre for months of detention. On June 12 of that year, they sent me again to the custody centre. I have been continuously held since then, suffering terrible brutalities"
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• 18 Year Old Girl High School Student in Anhui Province Detained Multiple Times and Threatened by Police with a Gun

  2004-06-22
  "I have experienced terrible things that a teenager would not normally experience only because I wanted to say, "Falun Dafa is great. Falun Dafa is righteous" and because I believe in "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance." I did not do anything wrong and did not violate any law. I am supposed to have freedom of speech and belief. I oppose this persecution. I hope the legislative departments and courts can correctly judge right from wrong. Punish those criminals who torture Falun Gong practitioners and give me back my freedom!"
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• Eyewitness Account: Female Dafa Practitioners Ruthlessly Tortured in Liaoning Province Dabei Women's Prison

  2004-06-22
  "I was sent to the Dabei Women's Prison of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in 2003. On the day of my arrival I received inhumane treatment. The prison guard ordered prisoners to threaten me and violently stripped off all of my clothes. They tore the bedding that I had brought into pieces and stole everything I had with me, including several hundred Yuan. I was given only one blanket, a washbasin and two handbags. I was offered no food all day."
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• Illustrations of Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (14 -- 15)

  2004-06-22
  Torture Method 15 - Burying alive: This method is so heinous that they have to do it at night so that no one will see their crimes. Over half a dozen police officers drag a practitioner to an open rural area. They start a fire for light. Then they dig a hole and push the Falun Gong practitioner into the pit. They shine flashlights directly into the practitioner's eyes so that he cannot see them. They bury the practitioner up to his chest. At the same time, they constantly use electric batons to shock his head.
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• Review of the Facts: Beijing Police Officers Interfered in the Funeral of Zhao Xin and Arrested Photographers

  2004-06-22
  "One day in late December of 2000, I received the information about the funeral of practitioner Zhao Xin. I rushed to the Babaoshan Cemetery. A number of police vehicles were also parked in the cemetery. There were plainclothes policemen all over the place. Over a thousand practitioners failed to enter. Whoever attempted to enter the cemetery was quickly grabbed by the police officers and thrown into the big bus that was waiting there and later driven away. It turned out that the authorities told Zhao's family that no personal review of Zhao Xin was allowed.
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• Dafa Practitioner Ms. Jing Shuhua from Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2004-06-21
  Dafa practitioner Jing Shuhua was a 56-year-old lady from Yanji City, Jilin Province. On the morning of April 29, 2004, the police ransacked her home and took her away. After her arrest, the police would not allow her family members to visit her. Even when later her family heard she had a relapse of her heart problem and wanted to send in some medicine and clothes, the police still refused to let the family see her, nor did they give the medicine to her. On May 25, Jing Shuhua was released but she was already on the verge of death. Jing Shuhua passed away early on the morning of May 27.
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• Dafa Practitioner Qiu Liying is in Critical Condition, Authorities at the Hedong Police Station Still Refuse to Release Her

  2004-06-21
  Dafa practitioner Qiu Liying from Shijiazhuang city has been on a hunger strike for over 40 days to protest her illegal detention. Her breathing and pulse have become very weak. Since May 22, Qiu Liying's muscles have been cramping, and her life is constantly in danger. Following the orders of his superiors, the director of the Hedong police station, Su Wenxing, still refuses to release her. The police officers there added false accusations and trumped-up charges to her and other practitioners police records in an attempt to illegally sentence them to forced labour terms.
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• Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 63, Suffers Five More Months of Severe Torture

  2004-06-21
  On May 29, 2004, having been detained in Chibi City Detention Centre in Hubei Province for 5 months, the long-term illegal detention and torture led 63 year old Ms. Liu Xiaolian to lose her ability to take care of herself and she became bedridden in the cell. She was carried home by county officers and police station personnel.
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• Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Zhang Liang on Hunger Strike in Detention Centre To Protest Persecution

  2004-06-21
  Mr. Zhang Liang is about 30 years old and a native of Shandong Province. On the evening of April 24, 2004, he was arrested by Weifang City police and agents from the National Security Agency. He is now detained at Hanting District Detention Centre. Later, the Hanting police issued a formal arrest warrant. Starting May 19, 2004, Zhang Liang began a hunger strike to protest against the persecution.
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• Ten Methods Commonly Used to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners (Illustrations)

  2004-06-20
  Under Jiang Zemin's orders to, "physically destroy" Falun Gong, Falun Gong practitioners have suffered many kinds of torture. All the tortures were used to augment the spiritual persecution in order to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their practice and write the "three statements" (guarantee statement, breaking away statement, criticizing statement), and give up their beliefs. Tortures include: heavy pressure applied to the lower abdomen of young women; heavy pressure applied to the lower abdomen; long bamboo shoots are forced under the fingernails etc
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• 26 Verified Deaths from Torture During May 2004

  2004-06-20
  According to statistics from Clearwisdom.net, 26 innocent Falun Gong practitioners were verified to have died as a result of persecution in police custody during the month of May, 2004. This caused the total death count of Falun Gong practitioners to reach 973. The 26 deaths from torture are from 15 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities nationwide, including Hebei (5), Liaoning (4), Jilin (3), Gansu (2), Sichuan (2), and one each from Henan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Hainan, Guangdong, Hubei, Shandong, and Xinjiang.
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• Behind the Pleasant Facade: Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured and Used as Slave Labour at Labour Camp in Henan Province

  2004-06-20
  From the outside, the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province is a pleasant looking place. Officials will tell you how well the prisoners are treated and how the staff "educate inmates, use persuasion to help the inmates change, and how the inmates are remedied." However, insiders and the people that have been held there have an entirely different view. From a folk rhyme that is circulating in the area, we can get a sense of what the place is really like. "The Labour Camp is a demon's training barracks. I'd rather spend three years in jail than one day in the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp."
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