Torture

  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Sun Yuhua Beaten to Death at Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    They stuffed human faeces into her mouth. However, despite the torture, Sun Yuhua was always determined. One day Sun Lijie and others beat Sun Yuhua so badly that she passed out. When they carried her to the prison hospital the next morning, she was already dead. Even so, they still kicked her, claiming she was faking death. In no more than one month, Sun Yuhua was beaten to death.
  • Death of Heilongjiang Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Yuhua as a Result of Torture

    Ms. Sun Yuhua, 48-years-old, was a Dafa practitioner from Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province. She was tortured to death on March 8, 2004. Her husband was sentenced to prison for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong, and her 18-year-old daughter was also sent to a labour camp. The whole family suffered because they adhered to the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance.
  • Story Behind Making China's "Sanitary" Chopsticks -- Exposing Slave Labour Practices Inside Chinese Labour Camps (Part 1)

    We were escorted to the Department of Dispatch for Forced Labour Personnel in Beijing near the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing District. Several days later, we were asked to do the work of hand-wrapping disposable chopsticks. Although the packaging was labelled "sanitary" it was not sanitary at all. All the inmates including those who had hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases had to do this job. We were not asked or allowed to wash our hands before working. In a room crowded with about 40 people, the chopsticks were piled all over the floor and on the beds. The room was filled with sawdust. The sanitary conditions in the Department of Dispatch were extremely poor. We were escorted to the Department of Dispatch for Forced Labour Personnel in Beijing near the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing District. Several days later, we were asked to do the work of hand-wrapping disposable chopsticks. Although the packaging was labelled "sanitary" it was not sanitary at all. All the inmates including those who had hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases had to do this job. We were not asked or allowed to wash our hands before working. In a room crowded with about 40 people, the chopsticks were piled all over the floor and on the beds. The room was filled with sawdust. The sanitary conditions in the Department of Dispatch were extremely poor.
  • 70 Year Old Practitioner Mr. Zheng Zhong Dies As A Result of Being Detained Five Times and Forced Into Homelessness

    Because of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang Zemin's regime, the Huangzhou police detained Zheng Zhong in the detention centre five times in succession....The police and "610 Office" personnel monitored and followed Zheng Zhong's two sons for a long time. They also tapped their phone, and harrassed and threatened his daughter-in-law and her parents. Due to the hardship of being away from home for a long time, Falun Gong practitioner Zheng Zhong died on March 9, 2004.
  • Ms. Lu Guiling, Practitioner Who Participated in Transmitting Truth-Clarifying Cable TV Broadcasts, Wins Release from Prison after Enduring Inhumane Persecution (Photos)

    In 2002, four Falun Gong practitioners from Shandong Province successfully transmitted cable television broadcasts that clarified the facts about Falun Gong to different areas in Weihai City, Shandong Province. Lu Guiling, one of the four practitioners, was sentenced to 19 years in prison. She began her prison term on January 23, 2003. Since she was first detained more than one year ago, after experiencing repeated persecution and staging a long-term hunger strike to protest her illegal detention, her weight has dropped from about 143 lbs to only 68 lbs.
  • Paralyzed Legs, Life in Danger: Shocking Facts of Female Falun Dafa Practitioner in Masanjia Female Prison

    The authorities in Masanjia Female Prison, Liaoning Province, have been carrying out horrendous persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners. The police there have claimed, "We can make it so Falun Gong practitioners will find nowhere to appeal, and nowhere to redress injustice. We can even make a healthy person go insane. We'll kill you for no reason and your family members won't even be able to find your bodies."
  • Ms. Cao Yali Dies as a Result of Brutal Torture in Heizuizi Labour Camp

    In the evening of January 24, 2002, Cao Yali was forcibly taken from her home by a dozen local policemen. She was blindfolded and detained in a secret interrogation room in Changchun City, where she was tortured over a 24-hour period with various brutal methods, including savage beatings to her head with an iron bucket, sitting on the "Tiger Bench", electric shocks, sleep-deprivation, and having cold-water poured over her lightly-clad body in minus 20 degrees outdoor temperatures.
  • Shandong Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Yanxun Died of Torture in 2000

    On March 1, 2000, he was unjustly detained in the village police station, and on March 4, he was transferred to the county detention centre. While in detention, he was brutally tortured. The inmates even forced this 50-year old man to imitate a frog jumping on the ground. When he failed to jump high enough, they beat him. The police witnessed this, and just turned a deaf ear. In the end, Mr. Zhang was tortured to the point of being unrecognizable.
  • Xinjiang Tebian Electric Corporation Teams Up with Changji Forced Labour Camp to Make Products with Slave Labour

    This illegal TBEA workplace is poorly set up and thus the detainees are continuously exposed to dust and other pollutants. They produce the parts for the final products, but do not often have the tools or know-how to do it well. Thus the products would not pass quality control in a normal workplace, especially since the raw materials used are scraps and waste materials from TBEA. It is hard to imagine what kind of trouble products assembled under such conditions will bring the buyer. However, TBEA does not care about the suffering of the detainees, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and the inferior quality of the products, they only wish to continue to increase production to receive more and larger orders and make big profits.
  • Laishui County Police Viciously Torture Practitioners; One Thousand Lengths of Rope Used up in a Few Days

    When I was in the 4th Division of the Gaoyang Labour Camp, I was forced into slave labour. Each day we got up before sunrise. Thirty people were responsible for 800 mu (130 acres) of cornfields. The guards carried sticks. If we slowed down in our work even a little bit, we would be struck by a large stick. We harvested the corn by hand. The work was so gruelling that our hands bled. Due to the suffering from the effects of the long-term persecution, my body became very weak, yet I still had to endure highly intensive physical labour. I lost more than 65 lbs. in three months. They did not allow us to take a rest at all. There are no human rights or laws here.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xie Caile Dies as Result of Torture Suffered at Chengdu City Detention Centre

    Ms. Xie Caile, in her 30s, was from Xindu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. She was unlawfully sentenced to five years in prison in June 2003. Ms. Xie held a hunger strike at Chengdu City Detention Centre and was force-fed. One month later, although she could no longer be force-fed, the guards refused to release her. She passed away in October 2003.
  • "610 Office" Personnel of Chongqing City Beat and Force-Feed a Thirteen-year-old Girl

    Dafa practitioner Chen Si is only 13 years old. Her family all live their lives according to the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, yet because of this her family has been torn apart - Mother in a forced labour camp, Father in a brainwashing centre. Despite the trauma of the separation Chen Si has the courage to remain firm in her belief and to tell people how the authorities brutally mistreat practitioners. This young girl has now sadly also been a victim of the authorities' terrible abuse and has been barred from going to school.
  • Persecution Brings Endless Suffering to Wang Hongbin's Family and Causes His Tragic Death

    Wang Hongbin's family of three suffered continuous persecution. Their house was ransacked and property confiscated five times, and the couple was arrested six times. First, Wang's family life was shattered, then they were forced to become homeless, travelling from place to place to avoid persecution, and finally the family was totally ruined. Wang Hongbin was arrested, beaten up, tortured and sentenced to forced labour. On October 9th, 2003 he died at the age of 39 because of the torture he suffered. He left a wife and a 13-year-old son behind, who are in dire financial straits.
  • Savage Torture Suffered by Falun Dafa Practitioner in Gangtun Town

    Zhao said they had the word from the higher authorities: "Death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide." We were not allowed to eat on a regular schedule, and only had 10 minutes for each meal. We had to eat in a squatting or kneeling position. At one point they fed us for many days in a row with small potatoes that were bitter and tart, causing us to throw up right after we ate.
  • Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Duan Qingfang Dies as a Result of Torture

    During detention there, the police handcuffed them and paraded them in the streets in the rain to humiliate them. The police forced these practitioners to kneel on the ground at each place they went. If the practitioners refused to kneel, the police would kick them to the ground. In the evening, the police handcuffed Ms. Duan Qingfang outdoors in the rain. The torture lasted about a week before they were released.