Torture
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Weifang City Government Owned Company Unjustly Persecutes Falun Gong Employees
2003-09-04Since June 1999, company officials followed Jiang Zemin's regime and started persecuting Falun Gong. More than a dozen employees were fired, expelled, terminated, or forced to resign because they practise Falun Gong. One of the practitioners was forced to have a divorce. The lawless officials use every opportunity and method to coerce practitioners to give up the practice. For example, they refused to issue marriage certificates to practitioners. -
Hefei City Female Practitioner Suffers Gross Injustice
2003-09-04On June 6, the Shushan District Court, Hefei City, put her on trial - putting the legal profession to shame. They said to her, "Are you going to continue to practise (Falun Gong)? If you are, you will be sentenced to three and a half years. If you are not, you can go home." Yang said, "Yes." She then appealed to the Mid-level Court of Hefei City. Without notifying her family and lawyer, and without going through any legal procedures, she was sentenced to three and a half years. Yang was taken away on July 25th and no one knows where she is now. -
Force-Feeding with Detergent is Routine Torture at Guangzhou City Rehab Centre
2003-09-03Those perpetrators used irritating chemical agents such as detergents and shampoos to force-feed Dafa practitioners so Dafa practitioners couldn't stop vomiting. The kind of pain Dafa practitioners endured was beyond imagination and the terrible scene was beyond description. They filled up a toilet bowl with water and hung steadfast Dafa practitioners upside down and pressed practitioners' heads into the toilet bowl. -
Relentless Persecution Leaves the Lives of an Entire Family in Tatters
2003-09-03After Baodong's escape, his family led a very difficult life with his mother disabled and his father unable to take care of himself. While Baodong was in detention, his wife Shuying was also forcefully taken to a brainwashing class to be tortured. Their two children were forced to take care of their grandparents while they went to school. The hardships the whole family suffered were overwhelming. -
Seven Common Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
2003-09-01Normally an electric baton has voltage of tens of thousands volts. When it discharges continuously, it emits blue light with static-like sound. When the electric current goes through a person's body, it feels like one is being burned or being bitten by snakes. Every shock is very painful like a snakebite. The victim's skin turns red, broken, burned and festering. There are even more powerful batons with higher voltage that make the victim feel like he is being hit with a hammer. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner in Critical Condition On Hunger Strike Protest in Shenyang City
2003-09-01Ms. Zhang Yaping is presently detained in the Dabei Prison Hospital of Shenyang City. Her condition is critial. Our hope is that her family members can find out about her current situation and help her get out of there as soon as possible. -
Hebei Province's Evil "610 Office" Tortures Younger Sister to Paralysis, Older Sister to Disability
2003-08-20The "610 Oficee" sent people to threaten Huiqi's husband, numerous times, even though he does not practise Falun Gong. In the end, the family was forced to separate. Huiqi's medical expenses and care primarily come from her eldest sister, Li Huimin, who is already experiencing financial hardship. Moreover, on many occasions the "610 Office" attempted to illegally shut down the family's small shop, which is their only source of income for the entire family. -
Three-Hundred Female Falun Gong Practitioners Suffering in Harbin Women's Jail
2003-08-18When her mother visited her, she even received high-pressure treatment that almost endangered her life. Guard Zheng Jie also tried to force her mother to sign the Death Statement, which indicated that her mother promised not to make the jail take responsibility if her daughter died. This practitioner's mother got so angry that she fainted on the spot. Zheng Jie still would not let it go and tried to force this practitioner's 16-year-old daughter to sign the statement. Eventually, Zheng Jie didn't allow any more family visits. -
The Torture and Slavery Behind the Façade of "Civilized Management" at the Baoding Labour Camp
2003-08-17Practitioners were forced to do hard labour for more than 11-12 hours daily. Prison guards were paying lip service by saying that practitioners should rest on Sundays, but in fact they were assigned lots of work that could not be finished even after working for the whole day on Sunday. Sometimes they would even work until midnight or 1:00 a.m. -
Dafa Practitioners from Qianjiang City Oil Field Tortured During Interrogation
2003-08-17After enforcers from the Jianghan Oil Field Police Division had persecuted these Dafa practitioners, the police there killed one thief during torture and extortion of a confession. Because of this incident, three guards suffered heavy penalties and were sentenced to jail, the police chief was also forced to resign. -
Innocent Elderly Female Dafa Practitioner Beaten by Police in Detention Centre
2003-08-17In fact, she didn't recover her hearing until more than one month later. After the brutal beating, brutal officer Yu Deming put practitioner Wang Ping in handcuffs and heavy shackles that are usually used for criminals on death row. He strutted through the divisions and claimed, "I'll cuff Wang Ping for a week. If she doesn't obey me, "I'll put another one on her until she's dead." -
Hebei Province Police Viciously Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners to Disability
2003-08-17The policemen would not allow the practitioners to use the toilet or to eat. They told the practitioners, "No matter whose name you call out for help, it's not going to work." As a result of this severe torture, Ms. Zhang Fengzhi's lower limbs were paralysed. Whenever there was an inspection, the policemen dared not keep the disabled practitioners in this detention centre, so they secretly transferred them to another detention centre. -
Handicapped Falun Gong Practitioner Cruelly Shocked by Electric Batons in Water in Dabei Prison
2003-08-14Wang's elderly mother went to Shenyang to see him. After she returned home, she was distraught by her son's situation. However, she dares not let Wang Guozhi's 90-year-old grandmother know about it, fearing that she could not endure the news. Whenever Wang Guozhi's wife talks about him, she breaks down crying. She has two young daughters to care for without their father. -
Prison Doctor Brings Shame to Medical Name With His Vicious Force-Feeding Methods
2003-08-14At the same time, so-called Dr. Zhu Xiaobo also hit Ms. Zhang's head very hard and shouted: "Aren't Liu Jie and others all dead? Have you even seen any of us be punished?" These evil-doers did not care whether a Dafa practitioner lived or died as they pinched Zhang Jingyan's nose, forced her mouth open to breathe, and force-fed her. They also threatened that Zhang would have to undergo forced-feeding twice a day if she did not eat again. -
Horrific Torture Rendered Female Dafa Practitioner Unable to Walk in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2003-08-13Fearing Yang's family would see from her appearance that she was being tortured, the guards did not allow them to visit her. They also deceived her family. Presently poor Yang Chunfang still cannot walk by herself, but she never gives in and always remains firm in her belief.