Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Three Practitioners from Yunnan, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces Die after being Persecuted

    When Jiang Zemin’s regime started to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Chen Wei, 58, went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. The police ransacked his home and he was sentenced to one year of forced labour education. He was imprisoned in Longshan Rehabilitation Centre in Shenyang City, and both his physical and mental health were greatly harmed. The local police and the neighbourhood association harassed him after his release, which caused his health to deteriorate. He developed cancer and died on July 2nd, 2006.
  • In Critical Condition from Torture and Abuse: Mr. Liu Xueming in Zigong Prison, Sichuan Province

    Mr. Li Xueming was arrested at his home in September 2002 by police and Jinxing County Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. On June 5th, 2003, Mr. Liu was sentenced to 7 years by a judge in Xinjin County CCP court. He was detained at Zigong Prison on July 24th, 2003 where he was cruelly persecuted. Mr. Li's health condition is precarious because of the mistreatment he endured.
  • The Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jiangsu Province (Part 2)

    We are Falun Gong practitioners in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The police put three of us in mental hospitals against our wills for three months in 2000. During that time, we were tied to beds, forcibly injected and force-fed medicine. The medical staff there injected large quantities of unknown drugs into our bodies that caused us to immediately lose consciousness. Right after the injections, while the drugs were active, we experienced such severe pain that we would roll on the floor, yell and slam our bodies against the wall. When we regained consciousness, we asked them, "Why do you inject and force-feed us, though we do not have any mental problems?" They said, "We have to follow orders from the top.
  • Brutality at Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    In 2004, An Senbiao refused to be "transformed" at Suihua Forced Labour Camp. He protested the persecution by hunger striking for six months. During the hunger strike he suffered all kinds of brutal tortures. He was hand-cuffed to a death bed for a prolonged period of time, force-fed through the nose and tortured continuously by four collaborators, who forced him to drink salt water and burned his mouth with boiling water. The collaborators also wrapped up An Senbiao's private parts with cayenne husks, making them swell so much that he could not urinate. In order to prevent him from crying out they sealed his mouth.
  • Three Dafa Practitioners from Hebei Province Sentenced to Forced Labour

    While distributing leaflets exposing the persecution on the night of July 20th, 2006, Dafa practitioners Yarn Mao and Cheng Ming were arrested and taken to the Kongjiazhuang Police Station by local patrol officers. Dafa practitioner Zheng Guiqin, along with her son, were followed and arrested by undercover officers from the local police station while they were putting up signs to expose the persecution. They were sentenced to forced labour.
  • Mr. Dai Xianming from Hubei Province Died due to Persecution

    62-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Dai Xianming started practising Falun Dafa in 1996 and all of his illnesses disappeared. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Dafa in 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal and was brutally beaten by police. In March 2002, he was arrested and cruelly tortured. He was near-death when his family bailed him out. In the ensuing years, Mr. Dai Xianming was arrested four times and forced to leave home once to avoid being arrested. Due to this long term harassment by the police he died on June 16th, 2006.
  • The Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jiangsu Province

    71-year-old Mr. Zhang Wannian went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in February 2000. He was arrested. The police forced him to stand up and "reform," after which they savagely tortured him for 13 days. The police saw that he would not give up his belief, so they extorted 7,500 yuan from him, then sent him to a detention centre and tortured him there for one month and then sent him to the mental hospital, where they abused him for 45 days. Mr. Zhang Wannian was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He went on a hunger strike in mid September 2000 to protest the persecution and was extremely weak after seven days. The police feared taking responsibility should he pass away in their custody, so they hastily carried him home. Mr. Zhang Wannian died one day later.
  • Practitioner from Shandong Province in Critical Condition - His Family Members Harassed

    The 610 Office arrested Wang Shoushan and attempted to brainwash him, which caused Wang serious harm. He can no longer take care of himself. He was staying in a hospital where his son and daughter-in-law work. When the 610 Office learned of this, they went to the hospital to coerce the head of the hospital to threaten his family.
  • Older Practitioner, Ms Zhou Liru From Inner Mongolia, Suffered Atrocious Persecution Before Her Death

    Ms. Zhou Liru, 50, went to Beijing to appeal. The police detained her in Zhalandun Nantou Prison. A prison guard beat Ms. Zhou with the "longest death stick" because she refused to wear a prison uniform. He handcuffed Zhou Liru and Wang Chunyan together for fifteen days. One of Wang Chunyan's arms was tied to the death stick, which was tied to Zhou Liru's feet. This caused severe pain in Ms. Zhou Liru's back, hips, legs and breasts. Later, Zhou Liru was sent to Tumuji Forced Labour Camp for two years of forced labour. The camp released her early due to her deteriorating health condition. Zhou Liru died in March 2005.
  • More Details on the Persecution Death of Mr. Liu Shuchun at Lechang Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

    Practitioner Mr. Liu Shuchun was very weak when he was sent to the Lechang Labour Education Centre. During his incarceration Mr. Liu refused to be "transformed," so the guards stripped him of his clothes and drenched him with cold water. Mr. Liu felt like he was being stabbed with thousands of knives. After an hour of this torture he was shivering violently and unable to speak. He felt as if his internal organs were under pressure and he could hardly stand the pain. Guards punched and kicked him, yelling, "Tell us, do you want to practise or not?" Mr. Liu Shuchun stopped breathing, but the punching and kicking continued. In less than six hours inmates had beaten Mr. Liu Shuchun to death.
  • Practitioner and Her Son Handcuffed and Taken Away from Their Shop - Mother Unjustly Detained

    Practitioner Ms. Yang Zehui owns a small food shop and treats every customer according to the standards of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance." She posted the three words at the front of the store on opening day, September 1st, 2006. Local police officers demanded that Ms. Yang remove the three words, which express the essential principles of the practice of Falun Dafa. Ms. Yang Zehui and her family said, "What’s wrong with these three words? We believe in it." Police tore down the three words. Ms. Yang's son tried to reason with them. They pinned her and her son down, handcuffed them, and took them away. The police then detained Ms. Yang.
  • "The Full Moon is No More"

    It was recently heard from the Beijing Women’s Forced Labour Camp that Ms. Yang Xiaojing has finally been released. Ms. Yang is the wife of Mr. Cao Dong, who met with European Union Vice President The Honourable Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott. After two-and-a-half years of incarceration, Ms. Yang was to be reunited with her husband. Unfortunately, however, Beijing National Security Bureau agents secretly and unconstitutionally arrested Mr. Cao Dong after he met with Mr. McMillan-Scott.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Yang Youyun from Hunan Province Missing for Three Years after Being Forced to Leave Home

    60-year-old Mrs. Yang Youyun was arrested, brutally tortured. and detained numerous times for practising Falun Dafa, appealing for justice. From June 2000 to June 2002, Mrs. Yang was held in a forced labour camp. Her term was extended by one additional year by the authorities. She was held in Baimalong Women's Labour Camp, suffered inhumane persecution, and was once given poisonous injections. From May to July 2003, she was detained four times and was brutally tortured. In July 2003, she was forced to leave home and has been missing ever since.
  • Five Dafa Practitioners Imprisoned in the Pingquan Detention Centre in Hebei Province

    Five Dafa practitioners are currently imprisoned in the Pingquan Detention Centre in Hebei Province: Ms. Han Shuzhen from Taitoushan, Ms. Tao Suqin (60 years old), Mr. Yu Hanying (67 years old), Yu's daughter Ms. Yan Shumei, as well as one other anonymous Dafa practitioner who had travelled to Yu Hanying's home and was also arrested. This anonymous practitioner has already held a hunger strike for more than twenty days at the detention centre, become severely ill, and is on the brink of death. Yet the detention centre refuses to release this practitioner and is instead covering up any information about the practitioner.
  • Two Practitioners from Hebei and Heilongjiang Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Luo Hongyan, 56, went to Beijing to appeal at the end of November 2001. She was sent to Wanjia Labour Camp for two years. Because she refused to give up her faith, she had to endure all sorts of cruel tortures, such as the "big hang up", electric baton shocks, being locked in a small cell. These tortures caused severe damage to her mental and physical health. After she was released, she was constantly harassed and threatened by local 610 Office agents. She was not allowed to practise and lived in fear. She died on August 14th or 15th, 2006, at home.