Torture

Appalling Torture of Female Dafa Practitioner in Benxi City

2003-05-28

For more than ten days in the detention centre, Zhang Huishuang was persecuted to the point of becoming incoherent. After she got out, and after two months of being in a state of half-life, half-death and under the tender care of fellow practitioners, Dafa's miraculous effects caused Zhang Huishuang to finally awake and stand up again.

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Recalling the Haunting Memories of Two Years of Torture and Persecution

2003-05-27

Holding my head down with her foot, she handcuffed me with hands behind my back and shocked me repeatedly, then cruelly sprayed me in the face with a hot pepper spray. I could not open my eyes with the burning pain! My eyes and nose ran profusely and I almost suffocated. My face and hands were swollen and full of scars. The asylum had three rooms designated for detaining Falun Dafa practitioners, labelled with a sign on a blackboard reading "rooms for insane people."

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Fuyu Forced Labour Camp of Hangs Up Dafa Practitioners For Several Months, Torturing One to Death

2003-05-26

They handcuffed Dafa practitioners to the frame of bunk beds and heating radiators, and hung them up. Eleven practitioners experienced such torture. Practitioner Zhou Shuyou was once hung up from 1:00 am to midnight. Under the torture of ruthless prison guards, Fu Zhiyu passed away on February 1 from a cerebral haemorrhage. Lu Yongjin and two other practitioners were unbelievably hung up non-stop for three months. Zhang Huabin and others were hung up there for over two months.

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Huludao City Business Owner Tortured to Disfigurement

2003-05-25

The police removed his pants and shocked his genitals using the electric batons. Then they forced the electric baton into his rectum. He was tortured to the point of hovering between life and death. The police poured water on him and continued to shock him. He felt as if his head was going to explode. Bruises were all over his head; his eye sockets swelled up to the point that not even a thin slit could be seen. He was horribly disfigured.

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Courage in Clarifying Truth of Falun Gong to American Journalists Results in Three Years of Brutal Persecution

2003-05-22

Once, at Tiananmen Square, he exposed the fact that the Chinese TV portrayed a thief as a Falun Gong practitioner to deceive TV viewers. He also gave his business cards to journalists. With Liu's business card, an American journalist visited the Chinese Foreign Ministry and asked them why they fabricated news.

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Practitioner Tortured to Verge of Death Yet Still Detained in Fanjiatai Prison

2003-05-21

As of January 2003, Mr. Xiong has suffered from a respiratory infection and bronchitis due to the torture that has been inflicted on him. While in prison, Mr. Xiong would often receive both physical and mental torture to a degree that one cannot even imagine. However, facing the violence, Mr. Xiong peacefully and righteously resisted the evil persecution, treated everyone around him with compassion, and clarified the truth to everyone with whom he came into contact.

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Letter To the Editor: Dafa Practitioner Ms. Dong Cuifang Tortured To Death At Daxing Forced Labour Camp; Authorities Block Her Family's Appeal

2003-05-19

Recently, the authorities demanded that Dong's parents rescind their legal appeal and informed them they would be given over ten thousand Yuan in exchange for dropping the case. However Dong's parents rejected this offer. Now, the authorities are attempting other deceitful means in order to prevent Dong's parents from going forward with their appeal.

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Brutal Abuse in the Dalian Forced "Reform School"

2003-05-17

Cruel and heartless Han, the head of the Female Division, prompted criminal inmates to strip and torture her. She was hung in an iron cage from 3:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. the next morning. She was sexually tortured with a mop handle. She was tortured to incontinence but still refused to cooperate with the corrupt officials, and persisted in her belief.

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Criminal Methods Used to Persecute Dafa Practitioners in Hunan Women's Prison

2003-05-17

They tortured practitioners by inserting high voltage electric batons into their mouths, causing them to bleed. Dafa practitioners were handcuffed and suspended in the air in torturous positions, including "The Sword" and "The Airplane" and restrained them with reverse handcuffs. (The above three handcuffing methods are particularly cruel).

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How Come a Single Word Can Make the Difference Between Life and Death?

2003-05-15

There is one question I haven't been able to find an answer to. If someone agrees to stop practising Falun Gong, then he can have freedom, can go back to work, simply because he said "Yes" to their demands to stop practising. If he does not say this, he is put into a forced-labour camp and loses his job. Giving in and saying this one word determines how somebody is treated by the authorities. I really can't understand how this can be justified.

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Guards in Kaifeng City Forced Labour Camp Use Brutal Persecution Methods

2003-05-15

Cheng Junbo slandered and scolded Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners by threatening both practitioners and their relatives. For example, in order to take credit for persecuting Falun Gong, he demanded that the practitioners' families give him flags of honour, trophies, or baskets of flowers. For the sake of their loved one they felt they had no other choice but to unwillingly give into his demands.

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Help Rescue Two Practitioner Brothers Suffering from Unwarranted Persecution in Jilin Province

2003-05-14

During this period, he experienced various forms of unwarranted torture and abuse, to the point that he was once sent to the local Police Hospital for emergency treatment. In January 2000, after his sentence had been arbitrarily extended for seven months, he was sent to Xinglongshan Brainwashing Centre in Changchun. He was later sent to serve in the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp in Changchun City and remains there today.

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Three Hellish Years of Brutal Persecution I Suffered in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp (Part II)

2003-05-10

I heard that practitioner Jiang Wei from Chaoyang was persecuted into insanity and incontinence. Jiang Wei used to be very smart and capable. She owned and managed a large restaurant in Chaoyang before being persecuted. Yet how terrible that the camp reduced her into such a condition that she had to be sent to a mental hospital!

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Falun Gong Practitioner Suffering Painful Force-Feeding in Fanjiatai Prison

2003-05-09

Every day the police tortured him by force-feeding him or administering injections against his will which caused him a lot of pain. Every time when he was force fed, he suffered severe heart palpitations. In the Fanjiatai jail hospital, the guards and the chief of staff restrained Xiong with handcuffs and shackles for ten days until his family members visited him.

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Grotesque "Menu of One Hundred and Eight Dishes" Tortures by Police

2003-05-09

I was hit and knocked out twice. When falling down, I knocked over a pot of boiling tea on a stove causing my leg to become seriously burned. Agonising burns and blisters the size of eggs were all over my leg. After 3 days, yellow watery pus came out, and my leg became infected. My pants stuck tightly to my leg. Criminal prisoners even sprinkled salt on my wounds to inflict further pain.

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