Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Practitioner Ms. Zhang Lianrong from Hebei Province Suffered Mental Collapse After Repeated Torture and Died in Accident

    Ms Zhang Lianrong recovered from all her illnesses after she began practising Falun Dafa. She obtained both mental and physical health. Since the persecution began in 1999, Zhang and her family members have been constantly harassed and threatened by local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government officials and police. In spring of 2001, Zhang was abducted to the police station where she was tortured to the extent that she became mentally unstable and physically ruined. A few days after she returned home, she was found dead beside the Juma River near the village.
  • Ms. Guo Fengge Found Dead One Day after Being Released from a Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Guo Fengge was in her 50s. Her husband is the Town CCP official. He brutally beat Ms. Guo many times and threatened to divorce her many times. At the end of 2004, Guo Fengge was arrested and sentenced to forced labour. On August 1st, 2006, she returned home after her forced labour term ended. Her fellow practitioners saw that she was in good spirits, and greeted her. However, Ms. Guo died early in the morning on August 2nd, 2006, near the railroad tracks at the Miyun County Train Station.
  • Call for an Investigation into the Death of Ms. Yuan Suxian in Chongqing City in 2005

    It has been a year since the persecution death of practitioner Ms. Yuan Suxian in the Jiulongpo Area of Chongqing City. Another practitioner, Fan Defang, who was also arrested at the same time and was the person who revealed the details of Ms. Yuan's death due to persecution, has been sentenced to three years in prison. In January 2005, Ms. Yuan Suxian picked up Falun Gong materials off the ground, showed them to someone, were reported, arrested and sent to jail. On July 29th, 2005, Ms. Yuan suddenly passed out in the jail, foaming at the mouth. She died the next day in the hospital. The jail did not give any explanation to her family members regarding the cause of death.
  • Further Details About Mr. Xu Jishan's Being Tortured to Death in Daqing City Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Jishan, 41, was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in March 2004. He was incarcerated in Daqing Prison because he handed out Falun Gong materials and often tortured. On June 5th, 2005 many people witnessed the whole process of torturing Mr. Xu through the door. Criminal Ying Youzeng peeked through the door and said, "These people are killing a Falun Gong practitioner. He is dying!" He was sent to hospital but it was too late and he died.
  • Practitioner Ms. Wang Lianrong Passes Away While Living in Exile After Losing Two Sons and a Daughter Due to Persecution

    Three of Wang Lianrong's four children died as a result of persecution. Her oldest son Chen Aizhong was tortured to death at the Hehuakeng Labour Camp in Tangshan City on September 20th, 2001. Her younger daughter Chen Hongping had both legs broken from beating and was eventually tortured to death at the Gaoyang Labour Camp on March 5th, 2003. Her younger son Chen Aili was tortured to the brink of death at the Jidong Prison, Tangshan City and passed away on November 5th, 2004. Her older daughter Chen Shulan is still held in prison.
  • Due to Persecution Mr. Su Yonglun Dies One Day after His Release from Chenzhou Prison in Hunan Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Su Yonglun was sentenced to five years' imprisonment because he refused to renounce his belief in Dafa. Su Yonglun was in very good health before he was arrested. He was persecuted to near death at Chenzhou Prison. Mr. Su's daughter and wife went to see him. They almost could not recognise him. His complexion was sallow and skinny, and his abdomen was swollen. His voice was so faint that it was hard to hear. He was not able to walk by himself and two persons supported him. Chenzhou Prison was afraid to take responsibility and released Mr. Su on August 16th, 2006. He died as a result of the persecution the next day.
  • Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp Authorities Torture Falun Gong Practitioners with Strait Jackets and Sewing Needles

    Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp authorities use various tortures to persecute practitioners: handcuffs, electric batons, forced standing, continuous squats, beatings, stabbing the body with fingers and sewing needles, confinement in strait jackets with hands tied up behind the back. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Qing, was monitored by five prisoners. They gagged her with tape and beat her on her head and body until the broom and small backless stool they were using broke.
  • Personal Testimony Regarding Persecution in Huadian City and at Heizuizi Labour Camp

    We experienced the most agonising fourteen days of suffering from various tortures there. That same afternoon and the entire evening of our arrival at the detention centre, the guards forbade us from eating and sleeping. It was during the chill of winter. No one in the detention centre provided us with anything to keep out the cold. Several criminals who sympathised with Dafa practitioners shared their bedding. The food at that detention centre was fit only for animals. We were subjected to interrogation at the detention centre, and the guards attempted to force us to provide our fingerprints. Our fingers were broken but they failed.
  • A Female Guard Shouts: "We'll Have You Cremated Alive"

    After I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on December 13th, 2000 to appeal for Falun Dafa, the police arrested and detained me in Beijing's Fangshan Detention Centre. Because I refused to reveal my name or home address, they handcuffed me behind my back for thirteen days. During that time, I was forced to sit by the ice-cold pond day and night, and I was brutally force-fed every day. A female head guard shouted, "If you persist, we'll have you cremated alive!"
  • Mr. Zhang Dongsheng Tortured to Death in 2005; His Wife in Forced Labour Camp

    In 2001, Mr. Mr. Zhang Dongsheng and his wife were both arrested and detained for ten months in a brainwashing centre and were forced to endure enormous mental pressures. One month after being released from the brainwashing centre, Mr. Zhang was transferred to mental hospital. His family had three thousand yuan extorted from them for "treatments." On his release from the hospital, Mr. Zhang's reflexes were slow, and neither of his legs functioned normally. He had a stroke. Mr. Zhang Dongsheng died on June 18th, 2005. On August 23rd, 2005, his wife was arrested again and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour.
  • 60-Year-Old Liu Xiwen from Heilongjiang Province, Died After Enduring Long-term Persecution

    Mr. Liu Xiwen was a 60-year-old teacher. He was relieved from his suffering from all kinds of diseases after he began practising Falun Dafa. After July 20th, 1999, he was beaten up and tortured several times by the police. Vicious prison officials subjected him to long-term persecution. The Education Director also held back 15 months of Liu Xiwen's salary. The persecution brought depression, nervousness and terror into Liu Xiwen's life. His body and mind suffered severe damage. He passed away on May 20th, 2002.
  • Nineteen Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Death in Suihua Forced Labour Camp

    A guard in the forced labour camp personally told practitioners that they have tortured nineteen practitioners to death in this camp since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. Suihua Forced Labour Camp forces practitioners to work and subjects them to mental and physical abuses and torture. All the practitioners had to take baths first, with water pouring on them from head to toe, covered with water. If they resisted, they would be beaten at once. Practitioners who didn't cooperate with the guards, so they were beaten and shocked with electric batons by guards.
  • Practitioner Deng Yunlan Dies as a Result of Persecution in Guangdong Province

    Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Deng Yunlan was over 70 years old. Because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, she was detained several times, and imprisoned in a forced labour camp twice. She was tortured and abused physically and mentally. She was forced to walk long distances, was deprived of sleep and forced to do heavy manual labour. On July 15th, 2006, under harassment and threats from the 610 Office of Shaoguan City, she passed away.
  • Sixty-Year-Old Female Practitioner's Home Ransacked and Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Wang Wenshu, 62, was jailed, beaten, fined and verbally abused after she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999. She was forced to move bricks and other harsh labour, and coerced to give up Falun Gong. On December 11th, 2000, a few policemen arrested Wang by barging into her home. Wang's face was whipped repeatedly with a leather belt. The police ransacked her home more than four times during Wang's detainment and over 4500 yuan worth of checks and over 500 yuan in cash were stolen.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Fu Keshu Recounts Persecution in Late 2005

    Dafa practitioner Fu Keshu, a retired senior teacher and her nephew Xu Genli disappeared in Jinggangshan in November 2005. Guided by some locals, their family members went through the valleys and caves in the nearby mountains to search. They also petitioned the Jinggangshan City government to help find the two missing people but to no avail. The bodies of the two practitioners were found in Jinggang Mountain. It is believed that their organs were harvested and their bodies were disposed of in the mountains.