Torture

  • Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tang Yun from Chongqing

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Tang Yun was born on March 22, 1970 and had lived in Chongqing. She had worked at Zitong Town Department Store. On December 4, 1999, Tang Yun went to Beijing to appeal for and validate Falun Dafa with her own experiences. Her son was only two years old at the time. Tang Yun was arrested and tortured to death on her police-escorted trip back from Beijing.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhou Yong from Guiyang City Died As a Result of Torture in 2001

    Mr. Zhou Yong, around 20 years old, was from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000 but was illegally arrested and sent to Tianjin City where he suffered severe persecution. He was later sent to Hebei Province where he was tortured to the brink of death. He died in hospital in 2001, but only now has the news of his death escaped from China.
  • Daqing Prison Guard Li Fajie Torture Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Zhong to the Brink of Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhong is illegally detained at the Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Because he refused to write a "Guarantee Statement" denouncing Falun Dafa, and persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises, he was tortured to the brink of death by Daqing Prison policeman Li Fajie. The prison authorities are currently ignoring the fact that his life is in danger.
  • Ms. Sun Lancheng from Hebei Province Died of Persecution in 2002

    Sun Lancheng was a 41-year-old female practitioner from Hebei Province. After suffering many detentions and poorly treated, she was arrested again in December 2002. The police sent her to a labour camp, but the labour camp again refused to admit her because of her poor health. The police had no alternative but to send her home. Not long afterward, she passed away at home on February 3, 2003.
  • Practitioners Ms. Zhu Yourong and Ms. Zhang Zhibin Tortured to Death at Labour Camp in Hebei Province

    In December 2000, authorities in Hebei Province First Forced Labour Camp (also called Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labor Camp) tortured Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhu Yourong and Ms. Zhang Zhibin to death. Ms. Zhu Yourong was in her thirties. She had been sentenced to forced labour around 2000. Guards tortured her with force-feeding, physical abuse, beatings, and curses. Ms. Zhang Zhibin was thirty years old. She, along with other practitioners, demanded an investigation into Ms. Zhu Yourong's death and was also tortured to death in response.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Tan Yanjun Paralyzed by Torture

    Mr. Tan Yanjun, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested three times and experienced all kinds of torture while in detention. As a result, he suffered a heart attack and a perforated eardrum. Currently, he is completely paralyzed and can't look after himself; he can't eat normally or look after himself. He has to lie on the floor of the detention centre. however, Hegang First Detention Centre still refuses to release him.
  • Authorities Deny Shen Xiaodu the Right to Earn a Living

    Falun Dafa practitioner Shen Xiaodu is the grandson of the late Mr. Shen Junru, one of the main founders of the China Democratic League. Shen Xiaodu was tortured for over two years at Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province. After his release the company that had previously employed him refused to arrange for his re-employment. The company has also scheduled people to monitor him 24 hours a day. The constant close surveillance ultimately caused Shen Xiaodu and his son the humiliation and hardship of being forced to move in with and become financially dependent upon his mother, who is nearly eighty years old.
  • Lingyuan City Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Li Chunrong Died in 2000 as a Result of the Unjust Persecution

    Police abducted Li Chunrong, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, and took her to a Detention Centre in July 2000. There she was subjected to brainwashing and other psychological torture. After she returned home, she could not sleep for three days and nights, and developed a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. She lost consciousness for five days and died as a result of the unjust persecution on August 9.
  • More Information about Dafa Practitioner Pan Jianjun's Death as a Result of Persecution

    33 year old college graduate Mr. Pan Jianjun was abducted by police when he was clarifying the truth about the persecution at a friend's house and sentenced to 3 years of forced labour. His forced labour term was extended to four years when he was betrayed by a "collaborator". Jianjun was seen in a detention centre at Huaihua in August 2003. At that time, he was as thin as a skeleton. He could not stand straight and had suffered severe injuries. On February 5, 2004, the prison sent a notice to his family members saying, "Pan Jianjun has died."
  • Additional Facts About the Torture Death of Elderly Dafa Practitioner Li Xifang from Liaoning Province

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xifang was fifty eight years old. On September 18, 2001 Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, and was tortured to death there. The policemen claimed that she had jumped to her death from a building. If this were true, then why did they refuse an autopsy to be done and forbid the family members to look at her body closely. Her 7-year-old grandson looked at her body from the outside the reposing room, and said that Ms. Li's head was swollen badly and had a hole in it.
  • Hebei Province Mayor, Feng Guoguang, Died from Forced Feedings in Labour Camp in 2002

    Former mayor in Hebei Province, was forty-three year old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Feng Guoguang. He was barbarically force-fed in January 2002 while unlawfully detained at Baoding City Forced Labour Camp for refusing to renounce his practice of Falun Dafa. Feng Guoguang started to continuously vomit blood. He was sent to the hospital and treated for ten days. By then he was in a critical condition. The police saw that his condition was critical. In order to escape responsibility for his death, they allowed his family members to take him home. Subsequently, Feng Guoguang passed away as a result of the torture he received in the labour camp
  • Hongye Group Cooperates with Labour Camp in Shandong Province to Exploit the Slave Labour of Falun Gong Practitioners

    Shandong Province's Changle Forced Labour Camp made several efforts to get a contract with the Hongye Group. The Hongye Group is a Chinese-American joint venture that produces hand-woven rugs and exports them to the U.S. The labour camp authorities force Dafa practitioners to weave rugs in a heavily polluted environment. The practitioners have to work more than twelve hours a day, and they barely have time to take a bath or wash their clothes. The intense work and terrible food dramatically damages practitioners' health, and they have become weak and emaciated. On top of that, they often suffer brutal torture from the police.
  • Officer from Fuzhou Military District Reveals Jiang Zemin's Secret Instructions for Executing Falun Gong Practitioners in the Military

    In January 2000, one of my relatives, an officer from the Fuzhou Military District in Fujian Province, came home for a visit. Two days after arriving, he received a telegram from the military unit ordering him back to the Fuzhou Military District at once. First, he thought it was a military emergency. After returning, however, he attended a meeting in which Jiang Zemin's secret instructions on persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the military were conveyed: "Military personnel are strictly forbidden from practising Falun Gong, and anyone caught disobeying this order can be executed by firearms. It is not required that the execution be reported to higher levels."
  • Illegal Agencies Established to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners in the Shengli Oilfield, Shandong Province (Photos)

    The "610 Office" directed Shengli Oilfield to hold three brainwashing classes. Since 2000, these classes have been used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. Dafa practitioners are abducted and held for long periods of time at these classes, and forced to watch and listen to Dafa-defaming materials. They are forced to write the "Three Statements" to renounce their belief in Dafa, their salary is reduced or withheld from them, they are beaten, some are sent to mental hospitals, some are force-fed, sent to additional brainwashing classes in Wangcun, sent to forced labour camps, and the authorities assert pressure on their families.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Shuchun Beaten to Death in Shandong Province Labour Camp in 2001

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Shuchun was beaten to death because he refused to give up his belief in "Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance" After Liu Shuchun was beaten to death, in order to keep news of their crime from being leaked, the police wrapped up his head and entire body with a cloth and carried his corpse out of the labour camp the next day. However, staff members of the People's Hospital accidentally disclosed information to the news station that the dead body from the labour camp had obviously been beaten to death. The labour camp then requested that the hospital announce his cause of death to be from disease. A few days later, the labour camp told Liu Shuchun's family members that he died from diseases.