Torture
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Witness to The Beating to Death of Ms. Wang Qiuxia in Dalian City Forced Labour Camp -- Belated Testimony
2003-12-23From the window of the cell, I repeatedly saw people coming out of the warehouse. After they washed their sweat away with water, they would run back in and continue the beating. This went on until Wang Qiuxia was dead. Duan, the head of the cell where I was detained, came back and said, "Wang cannot breathe! They are administering artificial respiration. Someone went to report what has happened." A short while later, Ma, the division leader, brought the labour camp doctor, and they took an oxygen bag into the warehouse. Before long I saw that several people carried Ms. Wang out. I saw that Ms. Wang's legs were black and blue. -
Jinan City Brainwashing Centre's Actions Reveal the Senselessness of the Persecution
2003-12-23The security guard went to talk to the officer in charge. He came back seething with anger and said: "It's too absurd! I told them that I did not commit any crime and they have no reason to hold me here. My mother's life is in imminent danger. I have to take care of her. But they refuse to let me go. I told them that I will sue them. They said 'You go ahead to sue us if you dare.' They told me that I have to find another person from my factory to substitute for me if I want to get out of here, and that otherwise I have to be detained here with the Falun Gong practitioners." -
Liu Qingyu, Director of Shuangcheng's Detention Centre Has a History of Torturing and Murdering Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-12-23They force-fed another Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Liu Jie, and she died in the same way. Liu Qingyu directed the use of force-feeding as a method of torturing practitioners. Every time he sent Falun Dafa practitioners to the forced labour camps or prisons, he had to bribe someone because these institutions would refuse to accept severely wounded practitioners. Liu Qingyu would personally bribe these institution officials to accept them without the mandatory medical examinations. -
Ruthless Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Dabei Prison Hospital
2003-12-23A policewoman named Wang Ying from Dalian Detention Centre frequently carries out orders to persecute practitioners. No matter how severely ill a practitioner in the detention centre is, she always tries to send him or her to Dabei Prison for intensified persecution. Qu Meie was one of her victims. Wang attempted to move Qu to Dabei Prison on two occasions, but due to a serious heart condition, Qu was rejected on both occasions. Wang Ying then sent her to the Prisoners' Hospital nearby. -
Recently Released Facts: 63 Year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Wu Simin Tortured to Death 3 Years Ago
2003-12-22He was beaten to the brink of death, and was sent to the Yongning Hospital on January 5, 2001. He died after rescue efforts failed. His body was covered with bruises. Wu Simin's older brother found the Director of the local police substation, and told him that he would sue them. The former Assistant Director Zheng Jianmin said, "Can you afford a lawsuit? You can't win no matter what the circumstances. We officials look out for each other." -
Schizophrenia and Being Crippled : The Sad Consequences of Torture in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2003-12-22In order to further devastate Dafa practitioners' physically and mentally, the guards did not allow Dafa practitioners to sleep or even close their eyes. Thugs were put on four shifts every day watching practitioners. Some practitioners were forced to sit on a small stool for all day and night for over a month. Some practitioners were sleepy and fell down to the ground from the stool. One practitioner was not allowed to close her eyes for five days and nights. Finally, this caused her to become schizophrenic. -
Dr. Lin Yanqing Suffers Great Hardship For His Courage in Appealing for Falun Gong
2003-12-22He only had the final oral exam and essay remaining to fulfill in order to acquire his postdoctoral degree from HIT. Dr. Lin anxiously waited for his advisor at HIT to notify him to complete the final stage of the postdoctoral program. However, the notification he anxiously anticipated turned out to be a bomb: in October 2002, HIT officially terminated his postdoctoral research work and withdrew his postdoctoral candidacy. Meanwhile, the Quanzhou City Public Security Bureau refused to give him a legal address, or register him as a legal resident in Quanzhou. -
Dafa Practitioner and Her Brother Abducted While Visiting Their Mother in Zhengzhou City Prison
2003-12-22Under the pressure of all the threats, no relatives dared to accommodate Yanli. Yanli lost her residence after the school expelled her; and she could not gain residence at home because the Dongsan Road Police Station refused to accept her application because she practised Dafa. Yanli's ailing father was unable to suffer any more hardship and coercion; he passed away on December 2, 2002 at only 54, leaving his 13-year-old son who was being cared for by Yanli's uncle. A good family was destroyed. -
Police Prepare a Death Certificate in Advance, Then Attempt to Beat a Dafa Practitioner to Death
2003-12-22The detention centre police and guards tied his hands with steel wire and hung him up. Dozens of people together beat him savagely. As a result, Yang Guang was covered with wounds all over his body. Moreover, the "610" police colluded with the detention centre authorities and prepared a death certificate stating Yang died of a sudden illness. With the certificate in hand, they planned to beat him to death. -
Mr. Xun Ruilin's Wife is Threatened by Police after Seeing the Injuries on his Dead Body
2003-12-21When Xun Ruilin's wife went to Linzhang County to see him, the police did not allow her in. Two days later, she unexpectedly saw her husband's dead body in Linzhang County Hospital. She saw that there were shocking injuries all over his body. His face had many wounds. Blood stains were seen on the corners of his mouth and on his nose. The police threatened Xun Ruilin's wife that she was not allowed to tell anyone about his condition. Neither was she allowed to look into the circumstances of her husband's death. Linzhang County Police Department hurriedly cremated Xun Ruilin's body. Such a kind and good person who cultivated himself by following Truth-Compassion-Tolerance lost his precious life this way. -
Ms. Han Zhongcui's Life is in Danger from Continuous Torture in a Brainwashing Centre
2003-12-21When she arrived at the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre, the merciless guards took no consideration of her fragile condition, but handcuffed and then hung her in a confinement cell in Lanzhou City Labour Camp. She was not allowed to sleep, drink water, or even use the toilet. She was continuously cuffed and hung for days and nights. Because she is determined in her belief, the guards took her to an underground cell where she could see no light. Here, she was cuffed from behind her back onto a specially set-up torturing tool. A week later, she was carried out because she was unable to move her hands or feet. -
The Brutal Tactics Used by the Wanjia Labour Camp Guards to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-12-21New detainees and Dafa practitioners from the different brigades who are considered steadfast are sent here for brutal torture and forced brainwashing. The prison guards play tapes slandering Teacher Li and Dafa all day long. Whoever refuses to cooperate is brutally and continuously tortured with tactics such as the "Big Hang Up,"[1] being shocked with high voltage electric batons, having to squat with one's mouth sealed, and brutal beatings by criminal offenders. -
How Xiangcheng City Authorities Mistreat Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-12-21Under the Jiang Zemin regime's implication policy, the Party Secretary of Xiangcheng City was demoted and fined several thousand Yuan because practitioners of this city went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. As a result, he became very angry with Falun Dafa practitioners and was eager for revenge. He detained practitioners indefinately and claimed that nobody would be released from detention without paying 70,000 Yuan. Even after the detention centre agreed to release some practitioners, he still kept them. -
The Truth About Jiutai Forced Labour Camp's Persecution of Dafa Practitioners
2003-12-21Although the guards have established a "no beating and no cursing" rule, because of detained practitioners' firm resistance and outside practitioners' exposure of the guards' crimes on the Internet, they still do bad things secretly. Under the guise of "setting up a class" they added a name and changed the location of the persecution, but their lies, crazy beatings and verbal abuse remain the same. -
To Cover up Evidence of Death by Torture, Kaiping Labour Camp Cremates Mrs. Cui Yulan's Body
2003-12-20In the spring of 2001, the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp telephoned the family to come and take Cui Yulan home. When the family went, they only saw the box of her ashes and the clothes and blanket that were being returned. They were not told how long ago she had died or the circumstances of her death. The prison police were afraid that details about their responsibility in her death would be exposed, so they secretly cremated her body without notifying her family.