Torture

• Practitioners Forced to Package Contaminated "Sterile Chopsticks" in the Handan City First Detention Centre

  2004-03-22
  On January 16, 2003, the police guards brought us returned chopsticks that needed to be repacked. Once we opened the gunnysack, a foul odour came out of it, which made it hard for us to breathe. Those chopsticks had been packed, but due to the dirty and humid environment, they had become mildewed before they were shipped. Peeling off the moldy packaging made the conditions in the cell worse, as there were no sanitary equipment or procedures. Many people were allergic to it, with symptoms of a rash on their face and body that was too itchy not to scratch, but they could not stop working.
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• Letter to Officials from Wife of Song Youchun, a Practitioner from Hebei Province, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

  2004-03-22
  Meanwhile, they said that they were unable to resuscitate Song Youchun after a sudden heart attack and stuck to their story that it was a natural death. They strictly blocked the news to the public. When we asked, "Why did you inform family members of the death at 8:30 a.m. on the 16th when Song Youchun died at 6:40 p.m. on the 15th? What did all the people in charge do during these 13 hours? Why didn't the detention centre notify the family members and the local government in time to arrange medical treatment with family attendance in there, and medical treatment outside the detention centre when Song Youchun was critically ill?
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• Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Wrecking Lives and Destroying the Human Conscience (Part II)

  2004-03-22
  A female Falun Gong practitioner who survived life in Masanjia said, "In Masanjia, the most evil part is not the physical torture or humiliation -- people can easily tell that those are evil. The persecutors do not always use such overt tactics because they are also afraid (of being exposed, etc.), so they wait for the right time to do even worse things." "The most evil part is they use both persuasion and threats to destroy practitioners' minds and spirit.
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• Barbaric Treatment of Female Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2004-03-21
  The police utterly disregard laws when mistreating Falun Gong practitioners. Patrol chief Wang Yali and the head of the No. 8 prison area Zheng Jie declared publicly, "We are the law! We are the wicked police, and we are lawless!" The brigade leader Zhang Xiuli said, "This is a place where facts are distorted, and police officers can beat people." Then she said, "Who will know if nobody sees it?"...The brigade leader Zhang Chunhua told the criminals, "If you torture anyone to death, it will be regarded merely as a natural death."
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• Dafa Practitioners Tortured in Jilin Prison's "Correctional Hospital"

  2004-03-21
  Jilin Prison houses criminals with heavy sentences. The inmates there are mostly criminals charged with serious crimes, such as murder, arson, and robbery, etc. Their sentences generally range from 10 or more years to life imprisonment, even including death sentences. During the several years of persecution of innocent Falun Dafa practitioners, many male practitioners in Jilin Province were illegally sentenced and sent to Jilin Prison; their terms of imprisonment range from three to twenty years.
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• Persecution Facts of Falun Dafa Practitioners at Hubei Industrial College

  2004-03-21
  Zhang Huaping was a teacher in the college library....In November 2001, Nanhu police ransacked his home and harassed him again. In February 2002, they detained him for one month at the Nanhu Police Station. In 2002, some people on the Hubei Industrial College Committee changed Mr. Zhang's 2001 performance evaluation from "qualified" (which had been the assessment of the staff as well as the head of the library) to "unqualified." Consequently, his salary was suspended for one month and he was ineligible to apply for a technical post title for three years.
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• Jilin City Middle School Pupil Dismissed from School for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong

  2004-03-21
  On March 4th, 2004, a teacher who was deceived by the propaganda about Faun Gong reported her to the school board for clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to her classmates. As a result, Li Xinxin was dismissed from school. Her father Li Bailong did not understand why the school made such a decision. "My child told her classmates about Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance. What is wrong with that?" Li Xinxin is currently barred from going to school.
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• Liaoning Province Student Expelled from High School for Clarifying the Truth

  2004-03-20
  This hurt Wang Zhe and his family badly. Wang Zhe's father had a relapse of his heart condition. Wang Zhe's grandmother came from Shenyang despite a big snowstorm, and his grandfather, uncle and aunt were all extremely worried. All the students, their parents, and teachers have been talking about this matter and condemned the school leaders for making the wrong decision that hurt Wang Zhe and his family.
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• My Slave Labour Experience at Tuanhe Prisoner Dispatch Centre and Xin'an Forced Labour Camp in Beijing

  2004-03-20
  Female practitioners are forced to perform excessive physical labour. We were forced to unload trucks full of bagged materials weighing over 100 pounds each. We had to carry the bags on our shoulders from the truck to our cells. Other physical labours included digging pits, planting trees, and transporting fertilizers. The police exploited our labour to create illegal income for themselves. The dispatch centre did not compensate us for any of our work.
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• Guangdong Province Undergraduate Student Forced to Leave School and Sentenced to Jail for Thirteen Years

  2004-03-20
  Chen Nianqiang is now the party secretary of Guangdong Industry College. Since July 20, 1999, he has closely followed the Jiang Zemin regime in slandering and attacking Falun Dafa in staff meetings, and in playing a role to brainwash Falun Dafa practitioners. In particular, the party secretary of the Navigation College at the university, Zhong Pan, had forced 11 students in his college who were Falun Dafa practitioners to go through brainwashing so that he could gain political capital.
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• Jilin Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Jiang Quande Had Arm Broken by Police and Sentenced to Eleven Years

  2004-03-20
  Jiang Quande's arm was broken by the police, and he was sentenced to 11 years. He is still has not recovered from his injuries. Before this, he was once persecuted at a labour camp in Changchun City. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, his term was extended. After his extended term expired, the authorities sent him to Fenjin Labour Camp, where he, along with other 35 practitioners firmly resisted and refused to give in no matter what kind of cruel persecution was forced upon them.
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• Hubei Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Guo Maoquan Dies From Torture

  2004-03-19
  Guo Maoquan, 54, became very healthy after he learned the practice of Falun Gong. His fellow villagers all knew that he was a kindhearted person. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Guo Maoquan was arrested many times for persisting in practising Falun Gong. In December 2000, Guo was planning on going to Beijing to appeal, when he was reported to the police. Kanjiang Police Station police deceived him into coming out of his home, then stuffed his mouth with towels and beat him savagely.
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• Shandong Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Xiao Pifeng Suffered Extreme Abuse at the Qiugu Labour Camp Leading to His Death (Photos)

  2004-03-19
  Mr. Xiao Pifeng and his wife Li Guangying were both Falun Gong practitioners. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, the couple went to Beijing many times to appeal for Falun Gong. Both of them were brutally persecuted by the local government. The authorities beat Xiao, hung him up, forced him to stand on the ice barefoot in the freezing winter, and stabbed him with a sharpened awl. Despite the torture, Xiao never gave in.
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• Belated News - Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Shubin is Tortured to Death While Detained in the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp

  2004-03-19
  While Sanshui policemen persecuted Wang Shubin without a shred of conscience, they extorted money from his family, by threatening to kill their son....But his body was abused so badly and had lost its regular shape. His weight decreased by more than 35 kilograms [77 lbs]. After the perpetrators had used up all means to torture Wang Shubin, they finally released him home when he was on the verge of death. The authorities assigned local "610 Office" personnel to continue to monitor him.
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• Masanjia Forced Labour Camp -Wrecking Lives, Destroying the Human Conscience (Part I)

  2004-03-19
  Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, also called the "Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province," is located in a suburb of Shenyang City, and is known worldwide for its forced-brainwashing techniques. Over the past four years and seven months, from July 1999 to February 2004, at least 99 practitioners were murdered there because of their belief in the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Their ages ranged from 27 to 65 and majority of them were only between 31 and 39 years old.
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