Torture

• Dafa Practitioners Speak Out for Justice in Wuhan City Court

  2003-12-05
  Although the four practitioners had suffered severe mental and physical torture and lost their freedom, they took the opportunity of the trial to expose the deeds of the authorities in a dignified manner, to speak out for justice, and to validate the goodness of Falun Dafa...Yu Ganghai presented the fact that Dafa practitioners are good people everywhere to expose the crimes of Jiang Zemin's regime, who confuse right and wrong and try to ruin people's conscience. He also told the judge that it is not a crime for us practitioners to clarify the truth to people.
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• Three Months After Being Given 10 Year Prison Sentence Yanji City Detention Centre Tortures Ms. Song Yonghua to Death

  2003-12-04
  During the detention, her health deteriorated. She suffered from acute heart diseases and other illness symptoms. She became incapacitated and was unable to take care of herself. During the spring of 2003, she was transferred to a Detention Centre. While there she was sentenced, between June and July of 2003, to ten years in jail. She died on October 30, 2003 at the Helong Detention Centre. Her relatives tried to have her released for medical treatment, but did not succeed.
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• Writer from the Hebei Province Writers' Guild Secretly Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment

  2003-12-04
  On September 29 and October 3,Dongli and Ninganlu police kidnapped another two people. The number of illegal arrests reached eight. At around the same time, the Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau mobilized almost its entire security force to search the whole city, investigating and arresting the so-called "Important Persons." All known Falun Gong practitioners and their friends and families were being followed, their phones and mobile phones tapped and recorded. Mr. Zhao Lishan's son, Zhao Liang, was detained for no reason for four days. Shijiazhuang City was in a shroud of terror.
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• The Barbaric Slavery and Treatment of Dafa Practitioners at the Xinbing County Jail

  2003-12-04
  Because the practitioners protested the illegal detention and the police's brutality by going on a hunger strike, the jail personnel subjected them to barbaric force-feeding. As they suffered, other policemen would wickedly encircle the practitioners and laugh at their misery. Upon returning to the cell after being force-fed, Mr. Jin Zhe threw up a lot of blood. Seeing this, the non-practitioner prisoners were disgusted and condemned the depraved acts of the police.
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• Unspeakably Ruthless Torture in Changlinzi Labour Camp

  2003-12-04
  After learning all kinds of torture methods from other provinces and the notorious Wanjia Labour Camp in Harbin, the police brutally tortured practitioners in order to try to force them to give up their belief...One policeman told me, "Several days ago, Jiang Zemin sent someone here to check the transformation rate. I know that three instructors in the fourth division will get promoted and a bonus." In Changlinzi Labour Camp, one can get a 200, 300 or 500 Yuan bonus if he transforms one practitioner.
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• Humiliation and Force-Feeding Human Excrement

  2003-12-03
  In order to force practitioners to give up their belief in Dafa, the staff members there first attempt to be falsely nice to them. If practitioners still refuse to give up cultivation, they then force practitioners' work units to stop their salaries, and coerce the practitioners' family members to exert pressure on practitioners. Now they have cut off all contact with the outside and are not allowing family visits or phone calls. Every day they force practitioners to read materials slandering Dafa and Teacher. According to a practitioner who escaped the brainwashing centre, the staff members there force fed human excrement to determined practitioners. They also strip practitioners naked and force them to run laps in the courtyard.
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• A Personal Account of Being Brutally Force-Fed

  2003-12-03
  Without waiting until we swallowed the salt water, Xu Changbao would again force-feed us with another bowl of extremely salty water causing us to cough and vomit. I used my tongue to block out the salt water and vomited it out. He became very angry seeing me vomit and continued forcing me to drink the salt water and shouted, "force-feed them to death and let's see if they want to eat or not!" My neck, cotton jacket, and the clothes I was wearing became all wet, causing me to become extremely cold. Due to not eating for several days, my stomach felt very uncomfortable as if it was burning from the salt water. We had to suffer this kind of force-feeding every day.
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• Hengshui City Detention Centre Chief Viciously Beat Dafa Practitioners

  2003-12-03
  After that, the detention centre guards kept mercilessly beating practitioners one by one for a whole day (except lunch time). At that time, I counted that only three among all the 28 Falun Gong practitioners had not been beaten mercilessly. The other 25 were all savagely beaten by Geng Zhanwu, then by Guo Yangying and Li Jinliang. The next morning, Geng ordered policeman Gao to brutally beat Ms. Liu Shujun, breaking her ribs. A female practitioner (Zhang Yongli's mother, who was in her 50s) vomited after the brutal beatings, but her hands were still cuffed behind the back. As a result, she urinated in her pants. After a female practitioner was beaten for a while, I began to count the beating sound of the police baton. When the policeman stopped, I had counted 396 blows.
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• Dafa Practitioner Sentenced in Secret Trial to Six Years in Prison for Appealing Against Persecution

  2003-12-03
  On March 25, 2003 a secret trial was held at the Daqing Ranghulu District Court and Guan was sentenced to six years in prison...Guan's parents miss him. They are seventy-nine and seventy-eight years old, respectively. Their health condition is poor and they need others to care for them. Their son's situation causes them great emotional trauma.
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• Kaifeng City Detention Centre Guards Force Practitioners to Meditate on Snow-Covered Ground in Freezing Weather

  2003-12-02
  Shortly after 8:00 P.M. on February 8, 2000, guards at the Kaifeng City Detention Centre in Henan Province yelled, "Falun Gong! Come out and practise your exercises!" It was freezing cold, with bone-chilling winds. Policemen poured basins of water on the snow-covered ground and then forced practitioners, barefoot and dressed only in underwear, to meditate on the ground. Some were even forced to sit on the snow bank by a wall. The guards didn't even spare practitioners who were having their periods.
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• Shuanghe Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province Purchases 80 Torture Chairs

  2003-12-02
  They allow persecutors to take turns to hound those who have not given up their beliefs. Sometimes, they harass the practitioners until late into the night, and the practitioners are not permitted to interact with anyone else during that time. They supervise the practitioners 24 hours a day, and force them to watch videos that defame and slander Dafa. If the practitioners refuse to cooperate, they are tortured using various tools, such as metal torture chairs, until they give in. This summer, the Shuanghe Labour Camp purchased 80 of these chairs.
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• Partial List of Members Who Persecuted Falun Gong in Shandong Province CCP Committee and "610 Office"

  2003-12-02
  Shandong Province is one of the provinces in China where the most severe persecution against Falun Gong have been taking place. Up until November 15, 2003, ninety-four deaths of Falun Gong practitioners were verified, which placed the death toll in Shandong the 3rd highest nationwide...The main agencies involved in persecuting Falun Gong in Shandong Province are the "Leadership Team to Deal with Falun Gong Problem" in Shandong Province Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee and its long-term standing work office "610 Office," whose corresponding government agency is "The Office of Preventing and Handling the Evil Cult Problem." Starting from the second half of 2002, its formal name released to outside changed to "Provincial Leadership Team for Maintaining Stability" under the Shandong Province CCP Committee.
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• Another Falun Gong Practitioner Dies; Death Toll in Heilongjiang Province Reaches 132

  2003-12-01
  According to statistics, Heilongjiang Province has the highest death toll of Falun Gong practitioners among all provinces in China. So far, 132 of the 824 Falun Gong practitioners whose torture death have been verified come from Heilongjiang Province. The youngest is the 17-year-old Chen Ying, a student from the Shuren High School in Jiamusi City, and the oldest is Zhou Jingsen, a 68-year-old professor from the Economy Management Institute, Harbin City.
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• After Only One Day in Daqing City Labour Camp, Practitioner He Huajiang Tortured to Death

  2003-12-01
  The police were afraid of He Huajiang's shouting, so they choked him, beat and kicked him to push him into the vehicle. When his son heard his shouting, he ran out the door. The policemen even pushed his son into the car. The father and son were taken like this and then later separated at the police station. At the same time, He Huajiang's home was ransacked. He Huajiang was sent to the Longfeng detention centre that night. He was kept at an undisclosed location, and it was said that he would be put into a labour camp for a few years. He Huajiang's son was not allowed to go home until 11 o'clock that night. During that time, policemen threatened him and tried to force him to tell who some of his father's fellow practitioners were.
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• A Detailed Account of Horrific Acts of Sexual Abuse and Torture by Authorities in the Dalian Forced Labour Camp

  2003-12-01
  On June 29, 2003, the "News Overview" programme broadcast on Dalian's TV Station reported on the situation of Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. The Chief and the "educators" (who are actually prisoners) from the labour camp swore in front of the camera, "Our policy towards Falun Gong practitioners is 'to educate and influence them with compassion.' We and Falun Gong practitioners are like 'brothers.' There is absolutely no such thing as persecution here." The TV station also showed the staff in the labour camp singing, dancing, and playing in a yard that was full of flowers and grass. Is this really the truth? The following will unmask the staged kindness of the Dalian labour camp staff.
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