Torture
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Xindi Detention Centre Use Brutal Means of Torture on Dafa Practitioners
2004-03-30Wang Qingyun would yell viciously, "Punish them! Punish them hard! However much is vomited, that is how much more has to be fed!" Over time, the prison staff found that they couldn't succeed in feeding through the mouth, and so they started to use a super-sized syringe for animals, and used that to fill the funnel. In this brutal way they constantly force-fed the practitioners. A policeman once said with a sinister smile to a criminal inmate assisting them, "You will learn enough for a good animal hospital if you stay here for two more years." -
Chinese Official Bo Xilai is a Criminal Defendant in Germany
2004-03-29On March 9th, 2004, "Friends of Falun Gong" and “The World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong” (WOIPFG) submitted a list of 102 key responsible persons who actively participated in the persecution of Falun Gong to the U.S. government, including Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing, Zhou Yongkang, Li Lanqing, Wang Maolin, etc., and urged the U.S. government to prohibit these people from entering the U.S. Bo Xilai's name was on both of the lists. In the criminal lawsuit filed with the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Germany by forty Falun Gong practitioners, Bo Xilai was one of the defendants on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Yuanguang from Daqing City Dies as Result of Torture (Photos)
2004-03-29In the afternoon of July 12, 2000, Jing Aiguo, the local police head and other police officers including Xia Yanbing arrested Mr. Li Yuanguang. Eight police officers led by Sun Wanku ordered a locksmith to open the door to his home. These people even opened a sealed sack of rice to search for things....Li Yuanguang weighed less than one hundred pounds when he died. Everyone present could not help but cry when they looked at the wedding picture of the handsome Li Yuanguang and then at the one with the stark physical changes in the photo taken at his death. -
Fifteen Practitioners Suffer Persecution After the 2002 Truth Clarification Television Broadcast in Gansu Province
2004-03-29The authorities wanted to detain Dafa practitioners en masse, so they secretly transferred a huge sum of money to rebuild the Haomen Prison at Menyuan County, Qinghai Province. It is not known how many Dafa practitioners are being detained there at present. From information provided individually, the forms of torture carried out there are extremely barbaric. Two policemen from the prison were overheard boasting about how they trained dogs to attack and ravage prisoners. One of them said: "Once you arrive at the prison, you will cease to be treated as a human being!" -
The Unwarranted Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Female Prison in Heilongjiang Province
2004-03-29The fourth team police deprived the practitioners' rights to phone calls, meet with visitors and purchase necessities. They forced all of the practitioners to refer to themselves in the third person as "criminals" when requesting to make phone calls, etc. But since Dafa practitioners are not criminals, they refused to do so, and in this way their requests were denied. When their families came to visit them, the police lied to them, telling them that the practitioners did not want to see them and sent them away. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Chuanjiang Beaten by Jiamusi Police and Now Unable to Keep Food Down
2004-03-29On January 5, 2004, Liu lost consciousness twice. Guards had to send him to a hospital. After an inspection, they claimed, "There is nothing serious." Everyone could see that Liu has been cruelly tortured and was emaciated. However, the prison doctors said, "There's no problem here." Liu Chuanjiang's life is currently in danger. According to people in the know, guards won't release any practitioner until he or she is in critical condition. -
More Details on the Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tong Guijie
2004-03-28We learned from family members of the former director of Xingfu Police Station that before sending Ms. Tong to Changchun City, the police asked the local "610 Office" director, "She is in critical condition, do you still want to send her to the labour camp?" The answer was, "Yes, send her even if she dies. No one will be responsible for her death." After Ms. Tong's death, the detention centre lied, saying that she died from a heart attack. We are still investigating the details of the abuses Ms. Tong suffered. -
More Facts about the Torture Death of Practitioner Ms. Cao Yali from Jilin Province
2004-03-28The police blindfolded her and jailed her in a secret interrogation facility, (Some people have revealed that it was a place called, "Jingyuetan" in Changchun City). There they tortured her for one whole day and night...Then, without presenting any evidence, they sentenced her to two years of forced labour at Changchun City Heizuizi Female Detention Centre...On February 6, 2004, she died from complications that resulted from the prolonged torture and mistreatment she endured. -
Policeman Zhang Liang and His Accomplices Extort Money from Chongqing City Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-03-28On the third day, they took the sisters to a jail where Zhang Liang interrogated them. In front of another policeman Zhang said to them: "Your living or dying depends on what I say. As long as you are willing to pay, I can let you go with my one word." But how could they have any money? The 4,750 Yuan that Zhang took away was Fu Ruxian's retirement savings. Because they had no money, Zhang detained them for another 36 days. -
Six Inner Mongolia Family Members Suffer Harrowing Persecution
2004-03-28All six members of Mr. Tian Fujin's family from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, cultivate Falun Dafa and have become the main targets of persecution from the local lawless police. All six have been detained and sent to labour camps many times. Tian's wife, Liu Xiurong, filed an appeal against policeman Shao Jun for extorting money and harassment. Recently, Tian Fang, the eldest daughter of Mr. Tian, was arrested again when she went to prison to see her third sister and her father. -
Changchun City Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yu Xianjiang Tortured then Discharged from Hospital to Die (Photo)
2004-03-27The next day when his neighbours came to pay him a visit, they found he had already left the world. The local residents all knew that he was a good person and he was tortured to death. The police officers Ma Aihui and Yuan Ye who persecuted Yu Xianjiang were promoted for their persecution of him. Another police officer named Bai was also responsible. These several officers had abducted nearly 100 local practitioners. -
78 Year Old Ms. Fang Yuqin from Liaoning Province Dies as a Result of the Persecution
2004-03-27On the night of February 3, 2002, Ms. Fang's third daughter, grandson and granddaughter were planning on hanging some truth-clarification banners, when they were arrested by the police. The grandson was able to escape, however, the third daughter and granddaughter were sent to Masanjia Labour Camp. Ms. Fang was very worried about her children and grandchildren. The arrest was a heavy blow to her, and her health started to deteriorate. Nine months into her destitute life, she passed away on May 29, 2002. -
Mr Zhao Guo-an Tortured to Death in the Henan No.3 Labour Camp -- Family Only Allowed to See His Ashes, and Not His Body
2004-03-27Yet, at the end of December 2003, county police suddenly notified his wife, who was detained in the Yancheng Brainwashing Class, that she should go to the labour camp. To her horror, she only saw her husband's ashes. One male employee of the Houji Township government acknowledged Zhao's death, and said he died over 20 days ago (when people called in January). We have learned that besides Mr. Zhao Guo-an, two Falun Dafa practitioners have been tortured to death in the No.3 Labour Camp. They are young lawyer Li Jian, and Normal School teacher Yao Sanzhong, both 34 years old. -
Exposing Shocking Slave Labour Practices Inside Chinese Labour Camps (Part II)
2004-03-27Guard Shen Jianwei from the No. 3 Labour Camp often said, "A while back, when the labour camp was short on funds and was about to be shut down, many Falun Gong practitioners became available. The government allocated 20,000 yuan [$2,416 USD] to force each practitioner to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa." The labour camp spent eight million yuan [$966,561 USD] worth of government funding to construct residential buildings and encourages the guards to persecute these practitioners. Right now, the labour camp is "buying" Falun Gong practitioners from other places for 800 yuan each to use as slave labourers, to increase the volume of products for the labour camp. -
Lanzhou City Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhao Xudong Tortured to Death, His Wife and Mother Still in Detention
2004-03-26On February 7, 2004, after two months of imprisonment, Zhao Xudong died from persecution in the Dashaping Rehabilitation Hospital. On February 8, the Lanzhou City Public Security Bureau and the Police Division of Lanzhou City Chemical Industry Company informed Mr. Zhao's family members that he had died from a lack of oxygen to the brain . Zhao Xudong's father discovered blood in his nose, but was too anguished at that time to pay attention to this detail.