Torture

• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Peng Guangjun Beaten to Death by Police at the Beijing Tuanhe Labour Camp

  2004-02-17
  Mr. Peng's head and body were black and purple. There were bloodstains. His face was covered with marks caused by electric shocks. Some of his bones were also fractured. Peng's family had thought to seek justice from the authorities, however, they were frightened by the representative, who threatened them by saying, "If you don't follow the government's arrangements, we will have your whole family lose their jobs and go broke. You will have no way to survive."
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• Silver Medal Winner at the Asian Games for the Disabled Sentenced to 8 Years

  2004-02-17
  After the Spring Festival of 2002, when two Dafa practitioners in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province came to Jianping County to obtain truth-clarifying materials, they were followed by the police. Mr. Wang Zhiguo, a 40 year old Dafa practitioner and winner of a weight lifting silver medal of the Asian Games for the Disabled, was abducted and illegally sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. He is currently imprisoned at the Dabei Prison in Shenyang City.
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• Cruelties at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

  2004-02-17
  After those officers left, the police instructor, brigade leader He, and group leader Zhou beat her up together. They kicked her, slapped her face, and knocked her down to the ground. Then they pulled her up and beat her again until they were exhausted. Zhang Xiaodan said, "It's too good for her if we prick her only with small needles, let's use larger needles." They continued to beat her until she collapsed. They wanted to assure that she would no longer dare to report them
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Hebei University of Science and Technology's College of Engineering

  2004-02-17
  On January 3, 2000, since Qu Ping and Han Junhong did not give up the practice, COE sent two administrative teams of 5 people each to their post. The teams read the college's punitive decisions to them, and requested them to wrap up personal possessions and leave immediately under the teams' supervision. In addition to removing them from the post, COE also stopped their bonus pay.
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• Detained Ten Times: Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Suping Tells Her Painful Story

  2004-02-16
  "If you write a promise letter (to give up Dafa cultivation) and pay 5,000 Yuan, we will send you home instead of the detention centre." I refused. Frustrated, they went to my husband's work place, my child's school and my parents' house to tell lies and threatened them. They told them that I would receive jail sentences. When my sick father heard that, he was so shocked that his physical condition worsened and he became bed ridden. My husband could not bear their constant harassment and paid them 2,000 Yuan, thinking that they would release me. But the police still sent me to a detention centre for 15 days.
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• Jilin City Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Minli Describes Her Story as a Victim of Persecution

  2004-02-16
  Some of the policemen who knew the truth about Falun Dafa brought me some daily necessities, while other policemen smoked in my hospital room. A nurse nicknamed Xiao Xiu asked them not to smoke cigarettes in the hospital ward, but they refused to stop smoking. They replied matter-of-factly, "We are here to watch her, not to provide medical care. It is none of our business if she dies."...Then Wang Zhongren threatened me, trying to make my family pay him 30,000 yuan within three days. He said, "Otherwise, I will put an ad on the newspaper and sell you as a mail-order bride for 30,000 yuan."
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• Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guirong's Life Is in Danger From Torture in Acheng City

  2004-02-16
  In the hospital, two policemen from the detention centre and four criminal prisoners took turns guarding her. They handcuffed both her hands and feet to the bedposts while she was having intravenous injections. On January 27, Luo Huanrong and the other four people came to the hospital to threaten her, saying, "We will beat you if you do not eat; we will keep you here until you die."
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• Falun Dafa Practitioners Forced to Perform Slave Labour at Chishan Prison in Hunan Province

  2004-02-16
  There are over a dozen procedures necessary for making one doll, but carrying out many of these steps are countless numbers of people who don't get paid, and when payment does occur, it is only the equivalent of about twenty-five cents. The dolls are exported and sold all over the world. After being handled by over a dozen workers, the dolls are packaged without sterilization. The working conditions are very bad and because of the lack of proper hygiene, the inmates suffer from all kinds of diseases. The Hunan Labour Camp Bureau is using Chishan as a pilot site, and has plans to promote this type of labour activity to every prison in Hunan Province.
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• Two Dafa Practitioners from Shanxi Province Die from Torture Sustained in Forced Labour Camps

  2004-02-15
  It has been confirmed that two male Falun Gong practitioners from Yangquan City, Shanxi Province have been tortured to death in labour camps. Guo Jifang, over 50 years old, died from brutal abuse two years ago in the Tuanhe Labour Camp in Beijing. Li Huiwen, a young Chinese medical doctor, was tortured to death a year ago in the Xindian Labour Camp in Shanxi Province.
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• More Facts About How Ms. Hou Youfang Died as a Result of Torture in Pingantai Forced Labour Camp

  2004-02-15
  Ms. Hou Youfang was a 49 year old Falun Gong practitioner and a teacher at Xipuo High School in Jinchang City, Gansu province. She was taken away by police in August 2002 for distributing truth-clarifying materials to people. She resolutely refused to write the so-called "Repentance Statement". So the police began to cruelly beat her. She died on November 29, 2002 because of the torture. It was said that she suffered from internal bleeding. Her rib cage and pelvic cavity were broken as a result of the beating.
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• The Crimes of National Security Brigade Captain Gong Chuanxing against Dafa Practitioners in Chifeng City

  2004-02-15
  ...Policemen from the National Security Brigade left nothing in the Suns' home untouched, and the floor was strewn with objects the police had thrown around. These policemen kept cursing and uttering nothing but profanities while they ransacked the Sun's house, and they then knocked down the wardrobe. Finally, the police abducted Mr. and Mrs. Sun, and left their 13-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son alone at home with no one to care for them...
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• Cruel Methods of Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Weifang Forced Labour Camp

  2004-02-15
  The former head of the Weifang "610 Office"* Song Jiwu, in collaboration with the Weifang Forced Labour Camp, has been holding brainwashing sessions since March 15, 2001. Over 100 Falun Dafa Practitioners have been brutally tortured and persecuted in these brainwashing sessions. The deputy head of the Forced Labour Camp, Zou Jintian has been directly involved in the brainwashing. The Head of the Camp's Second Division, Ding Guihua has also directly arranged the persecution of practitioners.
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• Fifty Three Year Old Lady Tortured to Death by Tianjin City Women's Labour Camp

  2004-02-14
  In mid-November 2002, policewomen Kou Na and Gao Huachao led drug addicts to beat her savagely on many occasions. They stripped her off her clothes at night and threw her into a pig pen...They later pushed her to the front of the dog cage, threatening to jail her together with a dog. All these humiliations and tortures brought tremendous damage to her both mentally and physically.
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• Fifty One Year Old Xingtai City Practitioner Ms You Zhilan Dies of Police Abuse

  2004-02-14
  Officer Chen took the mobile phone that You's son had just purchased as well as 100 yuan. You's family worried about her health in the detention centre, so they sent gifts to their relations to get her out. They spent over a thousand yuan just to treat Zhang Yinchao and his family to dinner. (Zhang is the one in Xingtai Police Department in charge of the Falun Gong issue.) Zhang also took from them two or three thousand yuan in cash. When You was released, she was again fined 3,000 yuan. Altogether, You and her family were extorted over 10,000 yuan. [The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 yuan.]
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• Gansu Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhang Youqing Tortured then Sent Home to Die

  2004-02-14
  A policeman said ferociously, "If you continue to practise, we will send both of you to jail." Then they left. However, they returned just several minutes later and forcibly took the couple away. They jailed them in the Longxi County Detention Centre and delivered a notice to the couple's family stating the couple was detained on criminal charges....On April 22, a release notice was issued for Zhang. However, Song Jianhua said, "The higher authorities did not instruct us to release Falun Gong practitioners and we can't release him according to the release notice." They also said that they would keep the Falun Gong practitioners in jail until they died.
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