Torture

• Eventual Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms Bai Xiushuang a Result of Persecution in Jilin Province

  2004-05-24
  Forty three year old Dafa practitioner Ms. Bai Xiushuang was a resident of a village near Jiutai City, Jilin Province. Ms. Bai Xiushuang went to Beijing after the persecution began on July 20, 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong. She was unjustly detained and then sent to Jiutai City's compulsory brainwashing class for one month. After her release the police frequently harassed her. Thus Bai Xiushuang made the choice to leave home to avoid being persecuted. Consequently, she suffered much physical and mental torment. Finally at the end of 2003, her previous illnesses, which had disappeared after she began practising Falun Gong, recurred, leading to her eventual death.
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• Illegal Extortion in the No. 1 Female Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province

  2004-05-24
  The No. 1 Female Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province not only mentally and physically tortures Falun Gong practitioners, but also uses many means to extort money from them. The following are some cases of the forced labour camp extorting Falun Gong practitioners' money. To "help and educate" (brainwash) one practitioner, he/she is charged 3,000 Yuan. This is not forced labour, but one who is "helped and educated" has no personal freedom. Usually, these brainwashing sessions last from twenty days to three months.
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• The Masanjia Labour Camp, under Bo Xilai's Rule, Persecutes Young Women to the Point of Mental Collapse and Death

  2004-05-23
  On April 22, while visiting the US, the Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai, was served a summons from the Washington, DC, District Court for abusing huge amounts of government funds to persecute Falun Gong during his term as Liaoning's Provincial Governor. According to reliable sources, agonizing screams were often heard outside the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. In October 2000, at Masanjia, 18 female Falun Gong practitioners were stripped naked and thrown into the cells of male criminals. The cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Masanjia has led to at least five deaths, caused seven to suffer mental collapse, and physically disabled many.
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• Cruel Torture at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp: Burying Practitioners Alive, Force-feeding with Urine, and Gagging with Soiled Sanitary Napkins

  2004-05-23
  I am a Falun Dafa practitioner and was abducted by police and taken to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. When I got there, the guards took me and a few other practitioners into the wilderness to be buried alive. The guards lit a campfire and dug a big hole. They pushed us into the hole and said that if we did not give up our faith, we would be buried and that if we died, it would be called suicide. We refused to renounce our belief even though we were buried up to our waists.
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• The Facts of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Changming's Torture and Death in the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp

  2004-05-23
  "One day we heard Liu Hongguang and Zhang Zhenhua ordering others to drag Mr. Zhang Changming into the solitary confinement compartment. We heard Mr. Zhang shouting, "Help!" Later on we learned that Mr. Zhang had been tortured to death during his second time in the solitary confinement compartment. We cannot imagine the horrors that went on inside. According to Liang Jingui, when he saw Mr. Zhang Changmin in the morning, his body was already stiff and his body was horribly misshapen."
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• Illegally Detained and Searched in the Hong Kong Airport, Officials Call it "Routine Inspection"

  2004-05-23
  "On the night of April 29, 2004, I went to Hong Kong via China Airlines to attend a Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference legally permitted by the Hong Kong government. I was issued an entry permit by the Hong Kong government a week prior to my trip. However, when I entered customs, I was immediately escorted by the airport police to a small room and searched. I asked them in surprise, "Will it always be like this to enter Hong Kong in the future?" They replied, "This is just a routine inspection." I asked again, "Which Hong Kong law have I breached for you to treat me like this?" They answered, "Sorry, we are just conducting a routine inspection.""
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• Sixty-Three-Year-Old Ms. Chen Guilan Beaten to Death in Labour Camp in Gansu Province (Photo)

  2004-05-22
  63 year old Falun Gong practitioner Chen Guilan passed away on September 27, 2002, only three days after she was sent to the Second Labour Camp of Gansu Province. Sources report that Chen Guilan's husband found distinct blue and red bruises on his wife's body when he was ordered to go to the Second Labour Camp to deal with his wife's death. He wanted to take photos of her body, but was forbidden from doing do. Furthermore, the Camp did not allow him to move his wife's body to their hometown and cremate it there. In the end, the Camp cremated Chen's body.
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• Chengdu Practitioner 74 Year Old Ms. Zhou Qifeng Dies of Persecution

  2004-05-22
  74 year old Chengdu City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Qifeng encountered detention, harassment and persecution by corrupt local officials. After she was released the authorities threatened to put her in a brainwashing centre if she did not renounce her belief. She knew the cruelty of brainwashing classes and under extreme distress and fright, she checked into a hospital so that she could avoid being sent to a brainwashing centre. However she was discharged and died in injustice on September 20, 2003.
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• Seriously Ill Son Passes Away After Mother Returns from Forced Labour Camp

  2004-05-22
  Fan Guang was a student from Shulan City, Jilin Province. His father was a coal miner who had lost his life in an accident many years ago. He and his mother Wang Pengying depended on each other for their lives. Due to the fact that she practised Falun Gong, his mother was arrested and detained in a labour camp. After a year and a month in the labour camp, Ms. Wang Pengying came home to find her son was dying. Fan Guang's heart and stomach were very weak. He couldn't eat anything because he had been very ill and malnourished for a long time. Ms. Wang took him to see many doctors, but it was too late. On April 10, 2004, Fan Guang died. His body was so emaciated and pale that the staff of the crematorium was moved to tears for him.
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• Beijing Police Create "National Guard Team" to Implement State-Terrorist Tactics Against Dafa Practitioners

  2004-05-22
  The police stations in all districts and counties of Beijing maintain a team of people -- the National Guard Team -- whose job is to constantly monitor Falun Gong practitioners. This team organizes and scouts for opportunities to abduct practitioners and ruthlessly strikes whenever they are given the order. In parts of the countryside, this team has climbed over walls and entered windows to raid homes and abduct Falun Gong practitioners. The team was especially active around the Party's 16th Congress, when Jiang Zemin's regime issued a secret order whereby all districts and counties were required to arrest Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Doctor Liu Haibo is Dead from Torture Received in the Weizigou Labour Camp

  2004-05-21
  Liu Haibo was accused of providing a hiding place for Dafa practitioners who had broadcast the truth about the persecution on the national TV system. For this reason, The authorities brutally tortured Liu in order to obtain a confession. About 1:00 a.m. in the morning, he was tortured so severely that his heart stopped beating (It is not known what method of torture or measures were used by the police). He was sent to the emergency centre at the Changchun City Hospital, but the staff officially claimed they could not revive him, even though the emergency centre was well equipped with the proper equipment and trained personnel to successfully revive him. His family was not informed of his death. Liu Habo's father is over 70 year old and still doesn't know his son has been tortured to death. His 5 year old son is being raised by his grandmother.
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• Hunan Province State Security Police Responsible for Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Xin Jingwen

  2004-05-21
  Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Xin Jingwen, 68, from Yueyang City, Hunan Province, was abducted on April 28, 2004. As many as 10 police vehicles were involved in her arrest and subsequent abduction. On May 2, 2004, she was found tortured to death in theYunxi Detention Centre in Yueyang City. Police cremated her body on May 6. Those mainly responsible for her death are state security police officers Sun Guanping and Li Wanyi.
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• Persecution Causes Practitioner Ms. Qi Yuna from Tangshan City, to Suffer a Mental Breakdown

  2004-05-21
  Qi's hair had turned white by the time she left the psychiatric hospital. Because of the destructive drugs she was given, her body and face became unrecognizeable. Her eyes looked dull and she was having a hard time recognizing acquaintances. She was no longer capable and smart. She had an average heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. Her heartbeat was irregular and if she moved quickly, she could not catch her breath. Her hands trembled a lot. She would hide in a corner trembling and acted up when they stimulated her. She gradually lost her memory and her mental faculties became worse.
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• Beijing Policemen's Brutality: Stripping Female Practitioners Naked, Putting Them In Snow, Burning Their Private Parts with Cigarettes

  2004-05-21
  "One practitioner who was interrogated during the daytime on the second day was a girl about 20 years old. After she came back from interrogation, her clothes were messed up and her hair was dishevelled. She seemed to have changed into another person, and she was seriously hurt physically and mentally. I asked another practitioner what had happened to the girl, and she said, "The police took off all of her clothes and forced her to sit in the snow for 2-3 hours. The most evil thing was that the policemen ordered drug-addicts and prostitutes to burn her private parts with lit cigarettes..." This practitioner was overcome with grief and could not continue to describe the torture that happened to the young girl."
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• Ms. Yu Fenghua from Liaoning Province Tortured to Death

  2004-05-20
  Ms. Yu Fenghua was a music teacher. She was 57 years old and practised Falun Gong. She lived in Liaoning Province. One night in January 2001, Yu Fenghua was hanging a banner reading "Falun Dafa is Good" in the downtown area of Dalian. She was abducted by police who had been following her. While in detention, she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong and firmly resisted the persecution. She also went on a hunger strike to protest. Soon she was sentenced to 8 years in prison. On May 5, 2004, Dabei Prison informed her family to pick her up. She was on the verge of death. When her family arrived, she was carried in on a stretcher. After returning home, she passed away at around 6:00 p.m. on the night of May 10.
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