Torture

Henan Province Family Ruthlessly Persecuted for Practising Falun Gong

2003-07-04

To avoid further persecution, he stayed away from home from then on. His family was poor in the first place. His children were persecuted one after another because they also practised Falun Gong. Mr. Hao was forced to work at odd jobs in order to survive. After staying at a number of places, he settled on a farm in Inner Mongolia, and died in Karichu Village, Yili Township of Inner Mongolia.

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Relentless Persecution of Female Dafa Practitioner in Shijiazhang City

2003-07-03

The officers forced her husband to the ground, beat and kicked him and hit him on the head. At first they used a broom handle, and later a mop handle. Then they poured cold water down his neck. The police yelled hysterically while the beating was going on, "We'll beat you until you don't know where you are. You wouldn't even know who beat you! If you end up dead, nobody would know who beat you to death."

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Police Brutality at Nanmusi Women Forced Labour Camp

2003-06-30

Some practitioners' clothes were worn to shreds; even their jeans were worn out. Some practitioners were dragged to a secluded area where they were brutally beaten by those criminals, which caused these healthy and strong practitioners to lose consciousness. Li Qi also forced some Dafa practitioners to face the wall, standing from 5:30 a.m. until 2 or 3 o'clock the next the morning. They did not even spare 60-year-old ladies. The practitioners had to stand there until she was satisfied.

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Depraved Jiang Regime Officials Humiliate Dafa Practitioners in Public

2003-06-30

Sun Yaoting was beaten to the point of disability and could not get up. She was hospitalised for several days. However, later, with boards hanging from their necks and hands bound behind them, they were escorted onto trucks to be paraded through the streets of every village in the township against their will. The officials also posted malicious slogans everywhere, such as shamelessly writing: "Make Those Who Practise Falun Gong Live in Poverty, Break up Their Families and Make Them Become Homeless."

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Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Beijing Area

2003-06-30

Without warrants they forcefully handcuffed Mr. Jiang Hai and took him away from his bed. Mr. Jiang Hai did not even have time to put on his shoes. His wife went to the police station several times but could not get information about his whereabouts; instead she was beaten by Ding Guangming, the Director of the Kangzhuan Police Station and driven away. It was more than a month later before Mr. Jiang Hai's wife found out he was being detained at the Fengtai District Detention Centre of Beijing.

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Gross Mistreatment of Dafa Practitioners at Qiqihar City Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp

2003-06-29

That day, practitioner Liu Jinyu was forcibly dragged by a number of policemen to the office. She was screaming as she was dragged, and one policeman started to beat her while shouting, "Did I tell you to scream, did I tell you to scream?" At the same time, the policeman used two fingers to jab at her neck, causing her to become unable to speak. When Wang Yan suggested that Liu Jinyu be put to work and was rejected, Wang Yan immediately said, "Take her upstairs and fix her!"

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Atrocities in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp

2003-06-28

They also used other horrifying torture means including ironing the practitioners' soles and cutting their flesh open with a knife. Even the head of the camp Meng Xianglin later acknowledged, "The methods used are a little too much."

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The Agony Experienced by Falun Dafa Practitioner in Guangshui City

2003-06-27

In addition, he was beaten with batons, rods, and bamboo strips, and suffered bruises and wounds all over his body. All this, together with the bitter living conditions in the detention centre, made his health extremely fragile. Several times, he almost fainted. However, before letting him return home, Guangshui City Police Department extorted 13,000 Yuan [the average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.] from his family, while the detention centre took a living expense of 400 Yuan from his family.

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Cruelty to the Extreme: Handcuffed and Hung on a Steel Post for Days

2003-06-26

My mother is 76 years old, and after hearing that I had been detained, her hair turned grey overnight. One day, my husband came to see me; the female person in charge pointed at me and said, "Your husband does not beat you, I will beat you for your husband to give vent to his anger." Then her hand started falling on my face like raindrops, she was beating me and swearing at me non-stop. While she was beating me, she was asking, "Do you still practise or not?"

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Senseless Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Qiqihar City

2003-06-26

Ms. Dong Qiuyan is 39 years old, and was a teacher. She was discharged from her job for being a Falun Gong practitioner, and was also arrested and detained several times. In May of 2002, the police broke into her home and forced her into a police vehicle using clothing to cover her head, leaving her 11-year-old daughters alone at home to fend for themselves. Police beat Ms. Dong terribly in order to try to force her to reveal information about other practitioners.

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Jilin City Police Secretly Transfer Female Dafa Practitioner Fearing Further Exposure of Their Crimes

2003-06-26

Police pushed Wang Minli out of a 6th-floor window while she was trying to protect Falun Dafa materials in her rented room. Her body sustained many injuries, however the police continued to brutally torture her and caused serious bleeding. Since Wang Minli refused to cooperate with the evildoers and continued to clarify the facts to surrounding people, the police lacerated her larynx (so that she was unable to speak). Now she is in Jilin City Hospital under 24-hour surveillance by the police and nobody is allowed to visit her.

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Agonising Death from "Restriction Jackets" at Shibalihe Female Forced Labour Camp

2003-06-25

Then they pull their arms up over their shoulders to the front of their chest, tie up the practitioners' legs and hang them up in the air from the windows. At the same time, they gag practitioners' mouths with a cloth, put earphones in their ears and continuously play messages that slander Dafa. According to an eyewitness account, people who suffer this torture quickly sustain broken arms, tendons, shoulders, wrists and elbows. Those who endure this torture for a long time have completely broken spines, and they die in agonising pain.

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Innumerable Atrocities Committed Against Dafa Practitioners in Hunan Province

2003-06-25

On March 14, 2001, to protest the cruel persecution, the illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners went on a hunger strike together. Police officers bound their arms and then dragged them out of the jail to be force-fed. Police officers fed Dafa practitioners with chili powder, chili pepper water, or heavily salted water. The event shocked the Hengyang City government. Afraid of taking responsibilities for causing the deaths of Dafa practitioners, evil police officers promised not to torture Dafa practitioners any more, but they later continued their cruel behaviour as usual.

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Court Forces a Divorce, Tearing Apart a Falun Dafa Practitioner's Family

2003-06-24

Some officials then tried to pressure him to divorce me. I did not consent, but the judge said, "I'll rule in favour of a divorce if you continue to practise Falun Gong!" I responded that nowhere in the constitution does it say that practising Falun Gong is grounds for a divorce. The court refused my appeal and said they were informed that they must rule in favour of divorce if someone practises Falun Gong. Because of the unjust persecution of Falun Gong our happy family was torn apart and my son and I suffered a great deal.

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Vile Acts against Guangdong Province Female Practitioner Doctor

2003-06-23

After learning of her tragedy, her sister, who lives in the United States, came to China to see her. At first, the labour camp did not allow her sister to see her. Later they changed their mind and allowed the visit. After her sister returned to the U.S., she wrote to the labour camp, warning them that she would expose their crimes to the international community if they continued persecuting her sister. Afterwards, the labour camp lessened their persecution a little bit, but Su Mei's current situation is not clear.

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