Torture
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Dafa Practitioners Who Tried to Appeal Through Legal Channels are Tortured and Murdered
2003-11-07
Later, team leader Jia Weijun said during a meeting, "You guys make trouble [He calls practitioner's legal appeals as making trouble]. I will make up evidence to report to the higher ups. I would say that I am fulfilling Jiang's order to crack down on you financially." As a result, Dafa practitioners who were detained in Fuyu Labour Camp were arbitrarily persecuted for their legal appeals, and two out of the four who were sent to detention centres have been mercilessly tortured to death. -
Account of the Torment Suffered by Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Gao Chunlian in Heibei Province
2003-11-07In order to protest this outrageous treatment, she went on a hunger strike. The vicious persons tortured her again by brutally beating, force-feeding and handcuffing her arms to the bed every night. After more than a month of this torture, she vomited continually. It was not until she was at the brink of death that her tormentors notified her family to take her to the hospital. When they heard about such cruel and inhuman persecution, the local citizens were all very indignant. -
The Phenomenal Cruelty in Harbin Women's Prison
2003-11-06Ms. Zheng Jie, the former head of this division, who has no shred of conscience or sense of decency, was rewarded for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. In January 2003, she was transferred to the package workshop, where the torture has escalated. The police do not give practitioners enough food, and punish other inmates who bring more food to practitioners. They often brutally beat practitioners and even bring male police to beat female practitioners. -
Elderly Practitioner Is Brutalised for More Than Six Months
2003-11-06Jiang Zemin's followers refuse to do good deeds for the people; they do not care if the many poor peasants live or die, or if unemployed city dwellers find jobs. However, they go to great lengths to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, even the elderly and weak ones. The criminals have broken apart many families. Mr. Xu is only one of innumerable practitioners who have been persecuted. -
Harbin City Middle School Teacher Suffers Unjust Persecution
2003-11-06His wife Wang Fenglan was hunted down, just like a dangerous criminal, by the police and was forced to leave their home. They have no ability to pay their mortgage payments. The creditor drove their three children out of the house and took it over. The children are now with relatives. This is the sad fate of a family who practise Truthfulness -Compassion - Tolerance. -
A Retired Member of the Military Recounts the Torture She Suffered over the Past Four Years
2003-11-05We felt so hungry and cold after being tortured and being forced to stand in the rain for over 10 hours. Our clothes were soaking wet and we were trembling because of the cold. (6 among us were over 60 years old.) All others could go back to their cells, but we 4 were locked in a cage less than 10 square metres in diametre for 2 months. We ate, drank and urinated in that cage. The vicious policemen were in the adjoining rooms. The cage was in their path for them to see when walking back and forth. They could see us when we urinated. -
The Crimes of the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre in Lanzhou City
2003-11-05People being held here are given no terms for their detention. No paper work is filed. No one is released until he/she gives in to the pressure and signs the "Three-Statements" [to denounce Falun Gong]. Brainwashing director Shan Yongsheng claimed that no one can walk out without agreeing to stop practising Falun Gong. According to Shan, if the brainwashing class fails to reform someone, the person will be sent to a forced labour camp. -
For Speaking the Truth Practitioner Ms. Liu Congmei Incarcerated in Bingzhou City Mental Hospital
2003-11-02Liu Congmei was illegally held at the Shandong Women's Forced Labour Camp for 8 months. During that period, she and other practitioners were forced to work more than ten hours a day, suffering untold hardships. She was finally released after 8 months. Returning back home, she continued to appeal for Falun Dafa and clarify the truth about the persecution. As a result, she was sent to the No. Three Mental Hospital in Binzhou City, Shandong Province by the local government officials and unfortunately is still there. -
The Persecution of a Hebei Province Associate Professor
2003-11-02Ms. Yang's husband divorced her when he could no longer take the pressure caused by the persecution. In addition, their only daughter was also jailed for 10 months, tortured and shocked with electric batons several times, simply because she had gone to Beijing to appeal. At the time she was only sixteen. Her father eventually got her released with the help of his friends and with 3,000 Yuan. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Chengjun Transferred to an Undisclosed Location
2003-11-01According to the reports above, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong has confirmed that Falun Gong practitioner Liu Chengjun held a hunger strike to protest the brutal persecution at Jilin City Prison. The prison authorities beat and tortured him into a critical condition and Mr. Liu Chengjun is on the verge of death. The authorities sent him into the Comprehensive Unit of the City Central Hospital for emergency treatment. Liu Chengjun is in unconscious condition at the hospital. -
Daqing Petro-Chemical Corporation Collude With Police to Persecute Dafa Practitioners
2003-11-01The corporate leaders at the Daqing Petro-Chemical Corporation persecute Dafa practitioners who work at the company for their own political gains. For several years, based on an incomplete survey, the company's security director Li Yanting has authorised at least 100 Dafa practitioners to be arrested on criminal charges, and 30 of them have been sent to labour camps. There is also a direct order, given orally and secretly that whoever catches a Dafa practitioner posting truth clarification materials will be rewarded 1,000 Yuan. -
Jilin Province Dafa Practitioner Liu Chengjun Barely Alive Due to Vicious TortureWho
2003-10-31I saw the chilling and unforgettable sight of Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Chengjun from Nongan County, Jilin Province on October 24, 2003. He was unconscious. His familiar face was hard to recognise, and his eyes were grey and dim. He was relying on oxygen therapy and intravenous injections to sustain his life. -
Family Torn Apart, Husband and Wife Suffering Torture, Child Alone At Home in Chengdu City
2003-10-31Fang Hui is in critical condition and was sent to hospital because she is on a hunger strike to protest her illegal imprisonment...The couple has a 10-year-old child at home living without any care. Their wages have been cut off, which includes the child's living expenses. This family is in a desperate situation. -
Torture and Humiliation Commonplace in Shizishan Drug Rehabilitation Labour Camp
2003-10-31The guards then went to the various classes to threaten the drug addicts: if Falun Gong practitioners do not wear the "red cards of strict discipline," the entire class will be deprived of sleep. Some drug addicts forcibly put the red cards on us. We sternly warned the prison guards, "We are good people and are practitioners. The red cards are not something that we should wear." We were then dragged into a dark room, one by one, where four or five 1.8-metre-tall people were waiting with electric batons. -
Shocking Torture Methods in the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp: Chop Stick Stabbed into Oesophagus, Legs Broken
2003-10-31The full name of the shock brigade is the "Educating and Reforming Shock Brigade." It was founded in July 2002. It includes two special police force members, 5 policewomen, and over 10 prisoners. Zheng Xia, the head of the prison, even participated in some secret training session [of torturing]. Four prison cells serve as their torture chamber. They detain one practitioner in each cell. The means of torturing are shocking.
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