Torture
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Electric Shock Batons used Inhumanely on Female Dafa Practitioner
2003-04-26Afterwards, the amoral police tied her up with rope, hung a sign saying "Falun Gong Fanatic Cao Xianghui" around her neck, and paraded her through the Qianhu Street in Yueyang City. Then they threw her in the Hubin Detention Centre, where she was kept for half a month before she was transferred to the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province. -
Practitioners Zhang Jian and Hong Weisheng in Great Danger Due to Repeated Torture
2003-04-26At the same time, the "610 Office" said to the practitioners already in prison, "Based on orders from our superiors, there are only two choices for Falun Gong practitioners. They can either renounce their beliefs or die. Not only will we not be held responsible for their deaths, but we will also claim rewards and benefits for having Falun Gong practitioners give up their practise." -
Fuyang City "Law Training Class" - a Place for Torture
2003-04-26In January 2000, there was a heavy snow. The temperature was below 10 F. Practitioner Liu was detained for 17 days. He had no cotton blanket. He was stripped all his clothes and the thugs forced his head into the Cess pit [in China, simple toilets are made of walls around a pit in the ground. Urine and faeces are collected in the pit]. The thugs then poured cold water on him. -
Daqing City Forced Labour Camp Enact Abominations Against Dafa Practitioners
2003-04-25The policemen in the labour camp stripped off Dafa practitioner Ren Liang's clothes, forced him into a steel chair and then poured cold water onto the chair, making it unbearably cold. This lasted for several hours. After that the disgusting policemen even forced human excrement and urine into his mouth twice! Ren could not walk for a whole week as a result of the beating and the torture. -
Sichuan Province: A Red Cross Mental Hospital Is Used as a Torture Chamber for Falun Gong Practitioners
2003-04-24He vomitted blood to such an extent that he could no longer be force-fed. The hospital also forced his father to write a statement declaring "if Qian Youbang died, his death had no relationship with the "610" Office, no relationship with the Municipal Detention Centre, no relationship with the local government and no relationship with the mental hospital." -
Crippling Tortures in the Changchun No. 3 Detention Centre Render Practitioners Unable To Stand For Several Days
2003-04-24Upon seeing the terror of the persecution, some criminals with heart disease became so frightened that they had heart attacks and had to receive emergency treatment. Doctors were running around everywhere in the corridor. Some of the criminals said angrily: "How brutal! Only these policemen could think of such cruel ways to torture these innocent Falun Gong practitioners." -
Appalling Acts Committed by Police Towards Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Province
2003-04-23In Linyi District, local police officers kidnapped a 70-year-old man during the Autumn of 2000. The police brutally beat him and used extremely vicious torture methods on the elderly man. Several brutal policemen forced his hands into a big pot full of scorpions. His hands were badly stung. They also incited a venomous snake to bite his neck. This is what the practitioner told me himself. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Experiences Anguish in Fushun City Mental Hospital
2003-04-22After a while, the nurses realised that I wasn't a mental patient. However, they still forced me to take that small white pill, saying that this was at the doctors' and chief doctors' requests...By then, I had been detained at the mental hospital for over 10 days. Even though they knew that I was not mentally ill, they treated me the same way as the patients, which caused tremendous psychological anguish. -
Shameful Acts Committed Against Female Dafa Practitioner in Yanqing Prison
2003-04-21They slapped me, burned me with a lit cigarette, and fondled my breasts. Their behaviour was cruel and obscene. These gangster policemen forced me to take off my coat so they could torture me with an electric shock baton. They shamelessly shouted, "You are over 50 now. If you were still in your 30's, we would take off all of your clothes -
In the Face of Brutal Beatings and Cruel Torture in Sichuan Province
2003-04-21Because the majority of the practitioners had been forced to give up their cultivation, they turned around and assisted the evildoers to persecute me. They monitored me and did not allow me to speak. I could not even look at other practitioners or they would accuse us of encouraging each other. For this, they punished me even more. They would stand beside me even when I went to the toilet. -
Hunan Province Elderly Practitioners Persecuted by Cold-Hearted Police
2003-04-20They brutally tortured Mr. Hu to force him to give up practising Falun Dafa. He refused and protested, angering the persecutors. Yu Wuodong, in an wicked frenzy repeatedly struck Mr. Hu's head causing him to lose his eyesight. Afterwards, they removed all valuables from Mr. Hu's home. As a result of the brutal persecution, Hu Xuanju is now blind and deaf. -
Sixteen-Year-Old Girl from Hebei Province Subjected to Horrific Torture
2003-04-19To protest the illegal arrest, she went on a hunger strike. Under orders from the deputy head and a director at the centre, cold-hearted police officers inserted a tube through the practitioner's nose and administered a large amount of toxic salt water, injuring her stomach. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured to the Point of Disability For Refusing to Renounce His Beliefs
2003-04-19Eventually, the thug-like police's kicking broke my back, and I lost feeling in both legs. My work unit dismissed me because I insisted on practising cultivation, and my family lost financial security. The medical expenses for my injury alone cost me more than 20,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.] I lost my good health, I lost my livelihood. -
Stripped, Handcuffed to a Tree in Winter and Beaten: How I Was Brutally Tortured for My Lawful Appeal
2003-04-18During the periods I was detained, the police would not leave my poor family alone, including my over 80-year-old mother and my teen-age child! My wife was illegally detained in the police station for three days and nights. My elder son was detained for one year, and my younger son left home and moved from place to place for two years to avoid further persecution. -
Urgent Appeal: Dafa Practitioner Tortured to the Verge of Death at the Qingling Detention Centre
2003-04-17Because Hong Weisheng was not allowed to meet with his family for a long time, the details of his condition are yet unclear. Recently, he suffered a ruptured appendix and was on the verge of death. He was sent to the No. 4 Hospital of Wuhan City. He was in a terrible condition because he had suffered inhuman treatments for such a long time.