Torture

  • Head of Health Clinic at Heizuizi Labour Camp Stabs Long Needles Under Practitioners' Fingernails

    Guo Xu, head of the health clinic at Heizuizi Labour Camp in Changchun City, took advantage of her position to torture practitioners. Using the excuse of "giving a physical examination" or" performing medical treatment," she first asks prisoners whether they are Falun Gong practitioners, and if the answer is yes, she takes out a 10 cm-long needle and inserts it under practitioners' fingernails.
  • Additional Information on the Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Duan Shiqiong

    Dafa practitioner Duan Shiqiong endured more than a year of incarceration, gross abuse, torment and persecution in the Chengdu City Detention Centre. None of her family members received any information about her during that period. Even in the final moments of her life, Chengdu City Detention Centre officials still did not inform her family. When her husband saw her body, it was impossible for him to recognise his wife. Her face looked completely different. She only weighed about 50 lbs.
  • Details of How Liu Chengjun Was Tortured to Death in Jilin Prison

    Mr. Liu Chengjun was tortured to death on December 26, 2003. Jailed after tapping into Chinese cable TV networks and broadcasting the facts about the evil nature of the persecution, Liu Chengjun was an example of the courage and upright actions of Dafa practitioners in China as they break through Jiang's death-grip on the state-controlled media. News of his death has brought public outcry, as practitioners demand his murders be brought to justice. The following is an account of the circumstances surrounding his death
  • An Insider Reveals How Ms. Chen Jingru was Tortured in Heizuizi Labour Camp

    I was sent to a forced-labour camp. I was not a Falun Gong practitioner, so I was not treated as harshly as they were, but I had the opportunity to witness the brutal torture of many Falun Gong practitioners, and I also had the chance to meet with some steadfast Dafa practitioners. Chen Jingru, nearly 40, is gentle, quiet, restrained, and able to endure hardships. I have a very deep and good impression of her because of the way she carried herself.
  • Fearing Public Exposure, the Secret Trial of Qinghua University Students Is Moved to a New Location

    In order to avoid further persecution, Chu Tong and Yu Chao were forced to give up their highly paid jobs and leave home, taking their son with them. In August 2002, Yu Chao and Chu Tong were arrested in Beijing by agents from the National Security Bureau and "610 Office." According to an October 2002 report on Minghui Net, Chu Tong's father could not return home because he didn't want to be sent to a brainwashing class.
  • More Details About the Torture Death of Zhengzhou City Practitioner Ms. Cui Ningning

    Cui Ningning insisted on unconditional release and had the courage to uphold her belief in Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, which cost her her life. The detention centre police initially did not pay any attention at all, until her health had severely deteriorated and she was near death. Afraid to take responsibility, the police released her on July 18, 2003. Eleven days after her release, Cui Ningning died at home.
  • More Information Regarding the Painful Death of Chongqing City Practitioner Ms. Long Gang

    Due to the brutality of their methods, the tube didn't always feed into the oesophagus but also went down the trachea. This vile method of torture damaged her lungs tremendously and caused her to cough constantly. She suffered from extreme pain in her lungs and grew thinner and thinner. To shirk their responsibility, the detention centre claimed that she had contracted tuberculosis, and asked her family to obtain a medical parole for her and take her home. From that time on her health declined to the point where she could hardly walk.
  • Gaoyang Labour Camp's Atrocities: Savage Overnight Torture, Burying Practitioners Up to Their Necks

    Labour camp police took Dafa practitioners, mostly female, to two different tents sites for torture every day. The police officers dug a hole about 2.5 feet by about 5.5 feet deep in a vegetable field. In an attempt to persuade the practitioners to give up their belief, they would throw one practitioner in the hole and threaten to bury her alive. They even buried some Dafa practitioners up to their necks, leaving only their heads above ground.
  • Facts about Dafa Practitioners Being Persecuted at Universities in Hebei Province (Part 1)

    Since July 20, 1999, one practitioner enrolled at the university has been sent to a labour camp, at least five practitioners have been illegally detained while their homes were ransacked, three practitioners have lost their jobs, at least two students have been expelled from school, and two practitioners have been sent to a brainwashing centre. The school officials at the university deceived all the students by telling them lies about the situation of students who were Falun Gong practitioners, forced everyone to publicly state their attitude towards Falun Gong, and coerced students to produce 10,000 signatures against Falun Gong or face repercussions.
  • Mr. Ma Xuejun, Is Near Death after Suffering Brutal, Long-Term Torture in Jail

    Ma Xujun has been at the edge of his life many times, but the Jiamusi City Police Department refused to release him. After family members' many attempts to secure his release and under pressure from the strong protest and condemnation of many people seeking justice, on the night of December 26, 2003, the Jiamusi City Police Department sent Ma Xuejun home on a stretcher, put him down, and left, shirking the responsibility for his condition. At that time, Mr. Ma had become unable to move or speak. The long-term hunger strike made him like a skeleton.
  • Authorites Force Pregnant Falun Dafa Practitioner To Have Abortion In Order to Detain Her in the Guangxi Forced Labour Camp

    Because her husband, Deputy Secretary of a certain county in Baise City, refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa, the police forced Mrs. Luo to have her baby aborted at the hospital in retaliation. Both husband and wife were then illegally sentenced to terms in a forced labour camp. Immediately after the abortion, even though her body was extremely weak and still bleeding, Mrs. Luo was taken to the Guangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp.
  • Atrocities Committed Behind the Scenes at the Baimalong Labour Camp

    The prison guards kept telling her family members how Ms. Hu was "against the government" and how well the forced labour camp treated her by giving her injections of albumin and spending more than ten thousand Yuan on her in medical expenses, and so forth. At that time, Ms. Hu Yuehui could not remember anything at all, but only could say "It is not wrong to practise (Falun Gong) exercises!" Her family members thought what the guards said was true. As soon as her family members left, the guards placed her in a storage room in the hall where nobody could see her.
  • Five Female Falun Gong Practitioners are Paraded Through the Streets in Chongqing City

    On January 16, 2001, authorities from Tongliang County held a so-called "public trial" of the five practitioners. Using a method to publically demonise the practitioners that was popular during the Cultural Revolution, the authorities hung a plaque with the words "Falun Gong elements" around each practitioner's neck and paraded them through the streets in order to incite hatred against them.
  • Over 100 Practitioners Still Being Held in Jilin Province Prison Need Our Help

    Jilin Prison, also known as Jilin No. Two Prison, holds male practitioners sentenced there for more than ten years. The prison authorities have used the most inhumane tortures to persecute the practitioners. The following examples are tortures inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners -- not on the common prisoners. The common prisoners are bribed and pressured with money, privileges and bonuses to torture the practitioners to write the "four statements."**
  • Special Team Formed to Torture Practitioners at the Sanshui Labour Camp

    Since December 2002, authorities of the Sanshui Labour Camp in Guangdong Province have been following the orders of the "610 Office" and using all means to force Falun Gong practitioners to write the so-called "three statements" [statements denouncing Falun Gong and promising to give up practising it]. They also published the statements written by practitioners under pressure on the website of the "610 Office." Below is an account of a practitioner who went through such torture.