Torture
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Dalian Reform School Police Abuse and Inflict Excruciating Pain on Female Falun Gong Practitioners
2003-09-13The Reform School's claim was "education, reform, and saving." The fact is they inflicted excruciating pain in order to achieve the so-called "rate of reform" and lacked all sense of humanity. This is a veritable dark den of evil. -
Dalian Forced Labour Camp Officials Intensify Mental and Physical Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners
2003-09-13During the process, the prison guard first pretended to be friendly and chatted with the practitioners, but gradually spread rumours about them, and then proceeded to harrass them non-stop. Once practitioners saw through the facade and exposed their true natures or resisted them, they would threaten the practitioners with "forcible transformation" and "extended labour camp sentences." Any practitioner who went on a hunger strike would be physically tortured. -
Calling for Urgent Rescue of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chengyan in Fushun City
2003-09-12Ms. Liu passed out from the beating and the hunger strike whilst in detention and was sent to Fushun City Central Hospital for emergency treatment. The detention centre requested money from her family. Her family didn't have enough money, so the police sent Ms. Liu back to the detention centre. Detention centre head Yu Guide said to Ms. Liu's father, "Liu Chengyan may die! You people should pay for her to be treated." But poor Liu Chengyan's father didn't have any money to pay for his daughter's hospital bills and she is now on the verge of death. -
Twenty-Seven Vile Methods of Torture Used In the Wutongqiao Detention Centre, Leshan City
2003-09-12Sichuan Province utilize 27 cruel methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners. The group leader of a local "610 Office"* Du once said, "You will be melted even if you are made of steel, and every Falun Gong practitioner will go through this treatment." -
Over Forty Practitioners Hunger Strike in Jiamusi Prison -- Police Respond with Torture and Claim to Have a "Death Quota"
2003-09-10To suppress the resistance, the wardens instigated the imprisoned inmates to torture the practitioners and some of the wardens themselves also beat practitioners. They heartlessly claimed that: "The superiors have assigned us a death quota, so we can kill a certain number of you without responsibility." The "death quota" is another piece of evidence for the genocide crime of Jiang Zemin and his "610 office." -
70 Year Old Female Dafa Practitioner Incarcerated in Liaoning Women's Jail
2003-09-10It is said that the Liaohe Oil Field's "610 Office" got involved with this case. They cold-heartedly insisted on sending the 70-something Ms. Xie to a forced labour camp. They would not release Ms. Xie, even with bail bonds from the oil field unit. -
Exposing The Criminal Record of a Public Security Division Head in Weifang City
2003-09-10On the evening of June 11, he urged his police to break into Dafa practitioners' homes by climbing over the walls, prying the doors open and breaking the locks. Then they abducted three female Dafa practitioners separately, taking them to the Weifang Industrial Officials' School for attempted brainwashing. At these homes the police left four rubber-covered police batons and one steel rod, and these implements became the evidence of their persecution against Dafa practitioners. -
Cases of Unwarranted Persecution Against Falun Gong Practitioners in Shanxi Province's Female Labour Camp
2003-09-10In January 2003, Dafa Practitioner Ms. Hou Qiuguo from Changzhi City was sent to the No. 3 Team. The police immediately started to attack her every day, taking turns. She was forced to endure brainwashing and suffered brutal beatings and scolding. Under such evil attacks,poor Hou Qiuguo suffered a mental collapse due to the torture in less than 10 days. She was not able to take care of herself. In March 2003, when she was in such a sorry state, the labour camp finally let her family take her home. -
Authorities Cruelly Torture Falun Gong Practitioners
2003-09-09Fifty two year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Tong'e was arrested and held at the Zhuhelu Police Station of Hanshan District Public Security simply because the police found a Falun Dafa banner at her home. About three or four vicious policemen took turns shocking Li Tong'e using high voltage electric batons. When she cried out in pain, the policemen took off her socks and stuffed them into her mouth and continued. -
Taiyuan City Police Department Madly Persecutes Dafa Practitioners
2003-09-09In the past four years, Wanbailin Branch Office and the 16 police stations in its jurisdiction have carried out the policy of "defaming practitioners, bankrupting them financially, and eradicating their physically." They have ransacked practitioners' homes, followed, abducted, detained, brainwashed, tortured, sent practitioners to labour camps, and sentenced them to prisons. -
Dafa Practitioner Crushed by 220-Pound Basket of Stones and Alcohol Poured into the Wounds (Photos)
2003-09-07I was smashed to the floor, they ground the basket against my neck and shoulder, causing my skin to immediately bleed and split open. This happened right in the midst of summer, and because they did not treat my wounds, my wounds became rotten and stank. They used a toothbrush to spread drugs, alcohol, and vinegar into my wounds. It was extremely cruel. It was not until a few months later that my wounds began to slowly heal. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Lose Ability to Live Normal Lives as Result of Torture at Maoming City Brainwashing Centre
2003-09-07She was on hunger strike for more than 30 days. During this time, she was locked in a room with sealed windows on the highest floor. The temperature outdoors was above 80 degrees, and it was over 98 degrees inside the cell. They did not allow her to drink water. Now practitioner Li Yanmei is bedridden at home, unable to gain clear consciousness. Her younger daughter has to take care of her. Her family is having even greater financial difficulty. -
Police Mercilessly Beat Six Months Pregnant Dafa Practitioner With a Wooden Rod
2003-09-06At the time, I was six months pregnant, but the policeman still pushed me to the ground, and beat my back and stomach with a wooden rod before forcing us into a crowded vehicle. I tried to escape but was caught. They jumped on me and again beat me with the stick, while grabbing my hair and punching my face. My face and mouth were covered in bruises and blood, I had loose teeth, and my clothes were bloodstained. -
Cold-Hearted Police Brutally Torture Dafa Practitioner in the Daqing Forced Labour Camp
2003-09-05On March 6 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhuang Gangxiang was spotted by police carrying "Falun Dafa" banners. They surrounded him and beat him severely. The beating left his head cut and bleeding due to numerous wounds caused by blows from hard instruments; his face was bruised and swollen. He could not stand up straight nor walk. He was carried to Daqing Forced Labour Camp on a stretcher and was in a such a bad condition that he could not control his bladder. The following day, labour camp officials began to torture him. -
Elderly Female Practitioner and Others Repeatedly Beaten with Club in Pengzhou City Brainwashing Centre
2003-09-04Despite the fact that Tang has been on a hunger strike and is dying, the "6-10 Office" asked her and her family to write something to testify that she would give up cultivation in order to release her. Because she refused to cooperate with their evil demands, Tang has been illegally detained for life. The cruel "6-10 Office" staff said to her with no shame: "Every day or every other day, we will force-feed you with some water, or rice soaked in water. You won't die, and we won't release you either."