Torture

  • The Repulsive Criminal Acts of Jilin Province Policeman Xu Shaobin

    Ms. Zhu Lin was sentenced to re-education through forced labour for her belief in Falun Dafa. During her detention in the Nong'an Detention Centre in July 2003, she was cruelly tortured by policeman Xu Shaobin and many others. Ms. Zhu was burned from her breasts down to her lower abdominal area with cigarettes. The burn marks looked frightful. The following day, Xu unremorsefully and shamelessly went up to Ms. Zhu and asked her, "Do you hate me or not?"
  • After Her Daughter Chen Ying Was Killed, Ms. Chen Xiuling Was Kidnapped and Tortured in Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

    "My name is Chen Xiuling, and I am 54 years old. I was a marketing director in Heilongjiang Province. My daughter Chen Ying, who is listed as the first among practitioners who were killed during the persecution, used to practise Falun Dafa with me. She was a good child. I was also arrested and sentenced to three years at Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp. Now I am still suffering a lot. Because of the persecution, I now have many illnesses all over my body."
  • Non-practitioner: My Sister Died as a Result of Persecution - In Memory of My Sister Li Xuelian on the 100th Day after Her Death

    "It has been one hundred days since my sister died. Apart from the sorrow, I am full of indignation. My family members have been ruined or have died. However, those torturers, those guards, and those plunderers are communist party members, government functionaries, and officials. They claim Falun Gong practitioners are disturbing the public order, but my sister's case tells me that Jiang Zemin and his followers are genuinely jeopardizing the public order and destroying this country."
  • Additional Information About the Torture and Death of Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Sun Xiucai

    Ms. Sun Xiucai, aged 50, was a resident of Shandong Province. In December 2000, local police tortured Sun Xiucai after she was reported by a local villager and arrested for distributing truth-clarifying materials. Ms. Sun's wounds would not heal and she died less than one month later from the serious injuries sustained during the torture.
  • Dafa Practitioners Are Brutally Tortured at Tianjin City's Jianxin Forced Labour Camp

    The Jianxin Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin City has been systematically persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, using extremely brutal, inhumane means. If practitioners refuse to write the "Three Statements" the guards threaten: "If you do not change your mind, what awaits you is only death, and your death will be counted as a natural death." Jiang Zemin and his followers refer to the brutal process of forcing people to give up their thoughts and belief as "transformation." This is the appalling truth of the so-called "transformation" we have witnessed.
  • Remembering Ms Zhao Jinhua, the First Falun Gong Practitioner Tortured to Death in Police Custody

    Ms. Zhao Jinhua was 42 years old and lived in Shandong Province. Police officers arrested her on September 27, 1999 for practising Falun Gong. Just ten days later, on October 7, 1999, they had tortured her to death. Ms. Zhao Jinhua was the first Falun Gong practitioner tortured to death in China, and her case caused strong repercussions around the world. Since July 1999, the Zhaoyuan City Committee, the city's "610 Office" (1) and the police department have adhered to Jiang's secret directives of, "No need to apply the law when dealing with Falun Gong," and "death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide," and to cruelly persecute Falun Gong practitioners in Zhaoyuan City.
  • Ms. Du Yuqing from Sichuan Province Dies as a Result of Torture

    40-year-old Ms. Du Yuqing was from Sichuan Province. The police arrested her and ransacked her home in 2003 because she clarified the facts of Falun Gong to the public. They also threatened her family, causing a great mental burden on her husband, who passed away not long after. Their son was left behind with no one to take care of him. While in detention, Ms. Du suffered inhumane beatings. In May 2003, seeing she was dying, the police released her. After several months of suffering, she passed away around February 24, 2004.
  • Ms. Yang Junping Suffers Life-Threatening Disease as a Result of Persecution and Passes Away

    Dafa practitioner Yang Junping, in her 30s, was a resident of Inner Mongolia. Before practising Falun Gong she was further diagnosed with cancer. She recovered completely after learning Falun Gong. Because she persisted in practising Falun Gong, in December 2001 police arrested and persecuted Yang Junping, causing her to have a relapse. In August 2002, Yang Junping passed away as a result of the persecution.
  • Jiang's Regime Persecuted Our Family and Caused My Husband's Death

    "I am 66 years old, and am a resident of Henan Province. Because I practise Falun Gong police arrested me several times and then harassed my family. While I was in detention, the policemen broke into my home numerous times and frightened my family members with brutal threats. Due to all of this stress my husband suffered a serious illness. Nonetheless, the policemen continued to break into my home to harass him, even though he was bedridden. He passed away not long after. My sons and daughters were also persecuted because of my persistence in practising Falun Dafa. They were told that they would therefore have trouble with their future promotions and suffer economic losses if they refused to cooperate with the police."
  • 82-year-old Former Sichuan Province Doctor Mr. Yang Yongshou Dies from Mental and Physical Pressure

    For firmly refusing to give up his faith in Falun Dafa, Senior Doctor Yang Yongshou from Nanchong City, Sichuan Province was troubled multiple times by the government's suppression of Falun Dafa. At the end of September 2002, perpetrators from the Yingshan County "610 Office" put Doctor Yang under close surveillance, and withheld his salary. They saw Dr. Yang become very weak, but he still refused to give up his faith. Then they stopped paying his living cost for two months. Under both mental and physical pressure, he died on December 10, 2003 in the hospital. No one took care of his body until three days after he died.
  • Mother, Father and One-Year-Old Child Imprisoned by Qinhuangdao City "610 Office" Personnel

    It is very possible that in present-day China no one would believe that someone would be detained merely for wanting to be a good person and for not wanting to renounce ones beliefs. Yet, this miscarriage of justice happened to a family of three: husband, wife and their one-year-old daughter. All three were detained in prison. The mother, Liu Aihua was sent along with her one year old child to a detention centre for 23 months followed by a brainwashing centre for more than a year.
  • Ningbo City Police Abduct and Torture Practitioners in Mental Hospital

    During the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, the Political and Security Office of Ningbo City Police Department commonly deceived practitioners' family members by saying, "If you sign to agree to sending the practitioner to the mental hospital, he/she will be released very soon. You don't need to pay for the medical expenses, and the practitioner will not lose their job. A person sent to a mental hospital is a patient, so after being released, the reputation of the practitioner is still good. If you don't agree, we will sentence him or send him to a forced labour camp." As a result, many relatives of practitioners were cheated into signing the agreement.
  • Shandong Province "Anti Evil Religion Reconnaissance Military Unit." Seize Teacher at School

    Falun Dafa practitioner Yang Depeng was very kind and outstanding in his work as a teacher. However, on the afternoon of January 2, 2004 around 4 o'clock, while he was teaching his class, he was seized by Captain Xu Guangrong from the Zhucheng City's police task force known as the "Anti Evil Religion Reconnaissance Military Unit." Captain Xu Guangrong searched his desk, took his computer from his office and detained him giving the reason that Yang had typed, "Falun Dafa is great" on his computer. Yang was detained for a month. Police forced his family to pay 3,000 yuan before he was released.
  • Li Lin, a Yushu City Dafa Practitioner, Loses His Eyesight Due to Severe Torture

    Li Lin, a Dafa practitioner from Yushu City, was detained at the Yushu Detention Centre for one and a half years simply because he was determined to continue practising Falun Dafa. He was so severely tortured in detention that he became blind in both eyes. In 2004, the prison guards extorted four hundred yuan from his family, followed by another two thousand yuan, stating that it was to pay for his medical treatment.
  • The Persecution in Tianjin; a 77-Year-Old Practitioner Is Imprisoned and Brutally Tortured

    Mr. Wang Shouke is 77 years old and from Tianjin City. After practising Falun Gong, he was healed of brain atrophy. On March 4, 2004, Mr. Wang was arrested and imprisoned in the Tianjin City Prison simply because he firmly insisted on practising Falun Gong. Because of torture and the shocks received from an electric baton, he was left in a state of dizziness and only semi-conscious.