Torture

  • Practitioner's Body and Mind Severely Traumatised by Being Force-Fed Urine and Excrement

    There, policeman Wang Yingzhou along with five other policemen again tortured me with the "tying with rope" torture. When I asked them why they were persecuting me, they told me it was because I had "minded others' business" -- that is, when another Falun Dafa practitioner was being violently attacked by a gang of criminals instigated by the police, I had tried to stop them.
  • Cases of Persecution I Witnessed

    On August 19, 1999, I was illegally arrested and held in the Qianmen Detention Centre in Beijing City, where there were over twenty Dafa practitioners who were illegally arrested. There was a 30 something female Beijing practitioner who was not willing to have her family and her company implicated and persecuted with her. She courageously refused to tell the policemen her name and where she lived. Because of that a few hired thugs pulled her out and beat her terribly.
  • Dafa Practitioners Imprisoned and Abused in Appalling Conditions at the Shenyang City Police Dispatch Station

    Upon entering the lobby, a vile smell almost suffocated me. There, on the cement floor, lay a woman with mental problems, her lower body naked and her two legs bruised and oozing pus. She was suffering from an infectious skin disease, and was dirty beyond recognition. There was human waste all over the place. Another dozen mental patients were inside the room and it was frightening.
  • Shocking Facts about Shooting of Anshan City Falun Dafa Practitioner

    Practitioner Zhang Li told us, "Xu Zhaobin was involved in a cable television broadcast clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa, and was shot by the police in his thigh and nose." Taking off his pants, Xu Zhaobin showed us the bullet hole in his thigh. We saw that the front and back of his thigh were covered with a very thick layer of toilet paper, with blood seeping through.
  • Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp Guilty of Relentless Human Rights Abuses

    Li Chunyuan said that when he was in the West Building he was often deprived of sleep, forced to kneel on one leg, and to endure other abuses. The persecution he suffered was so severe that he almost collapsed. The prison police in the West Building once told him, "In the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp, if you are not willing to be transformed you either die or end up crazy."
  • Shandong Province Female Dafa Practitioner is Tortured and Unjustly Sentenced to 12 Years Imprisonment

    At the moment, Liu Qingmei is unable to stand up nor is she able to eat, and she is in critical condition. Liu Qingmei told the practitioners who were to be released, "If I die, my death would be caused by police torture. Do not let people be deceived with the lies of 'suicide.'"
  • Liaoning Falun Dafa Practitioner Shot in the Leg

    Since September 19, the police chief Liu Wangquan and deputy chief Li Shuoguo mobilised all the officers from the police station to search for him. They arrested all the local Falun Gong practitioners, and everyone who was related to Huang was under surveillance. Some practitioners were used as hostages and were detained at the police station for seven days. Only one practitioner escaped.
  • Barbaric Torture in Handan Forced Labour Camp

    In June 2001, Dafa practitioner Miao Xinshan was tied with ropes and beaten with batons more than 70 times. He was hung up and his legs were pinched with pliers, as a result his legs turned black and blue, and months later he still had not recovered.
  • Police Hide Violence Behind Closed Doors at the Tuanhe Transfer Office and Xin'an Labor Camp in Beijing

    Police proclaim to the outside world that Falun Gong practitioners are living a good life in labour camps and that "everyone has a potted flower and a pet gold fish." In fact, those fish were brought by Falun Gong practitioners' families because police ordered them to do so when they came to visit practitioners. Police wanted to use such things to cover their brutal treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • The Depravity of Police Towards Falun Dafa Practitioners in Hebei Province Exposed

    They wet her wired thumbs to achieve the maximum possible shocking effect. The inhuman police feared that her horrible shrieks (while being shocked) would be heard, so they gagged her with a wet towel. As a result of the electrical shocks and the iron chair torture method, her fingers were burnt and she was unable to walk.
  • Constant Violence Towards Dafa Practitioners at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    However, they could not shake Dafa practitioners' determination to practise at all. The police treated the male Falun Gong practitioners even more brutally. Once they beat practitioner Yang so badly that his back was covered with cuts and bruises. It was summer, and very hot. Because they were not treated properly, the cuts became infected and crawling with vermin.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Endure Brutal Acts in Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp

    As for those female Falun Gong practitioners who firmly insisted upon their belief, refusing to write "criticism" and "guarantee" letters, the authorities threw them into the guardroom. Inside the practitioners had their four limbs handcuffed to a bed, and criminals are incited to beat Falun Gong practitioners, twisting their hands, choking them with cigarette smoke, burning them with cigarettes, stepping on their chests, and sexually assaulting them with wooden sticks.
  • Practitioner Whipped Mercilessly in Liaoyuan Forced Labour Camp

    He then forced me to bend over with my hands holding the desk. Han grasped the whip with his two hands, and lashed it hard against my body. I endured only 5 blows before I fell to the ground, feeling excruciating pain. A bloody cut appeared after each lashing, and he lashed me a total of 15 times. The most agonising lash was one against my neck.
  • Police in Changji Forced Labour Camp Torture Practitioners for Exposing Their Crimes

    Once, during a TV interview practitioner Chen Yujiang told a reporter "You must report the truth." Immediately after the reporter left, Zhang Yan dragged Chen into an office and used an electric baton to shock him. Authorities in Changji Labour Camp are afraid of people outside the camp knowing they violate laws while they are supposed to be enforcing laws. Whenever there is some investigative group or other visitors coming through, they hide Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Disgusting Deeds Against Female Dafa Practitioners in Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp: Force-Feeding Faeces!

    In order to win the distinction of being "Number 1 in Transfer Rates" and thereby earning huge bonuses (as much as 8,000 Yuan reward for successfully breaking one Falun Dafa practitioner), the police stop at nothing. They electric shock, beat, twist, and pinch. They force practitioners to do the "Sitting Squat," use hot chili peppers, and mercilessly degrade them, hoping that they will give up their cultivation.