Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • The Persecution I Suffered at My Workplace, in a Detention Centre, and in a Mental Hospital

    As I was repeatedly locked up for extended periods of time I suffered much mental and physical damage. I was sent to the City Mental Hospital. Doctors and nurses force-fed me and shocked me with electric batons. Manager Zhao shocked me with electric batons three times. Another male doctor also shocked me with electric baton three times. They force-fed me unknown medications, injected me with unknown drugs, and further shocked me with electric batons. This abuse was carried on for almost two months. As a result, I became mentally disordered and temporarily lost my ability to speak and was overcome with fear. It took me a long time to recover after my release.
  • Conditions Surrounding Some Falun Gong Practitioners in Sihui Prison, Guangdong Province

    Shang Dongping, head of Sihui Prison, issued orders that at least one Falun Gong practitioner must be "reformed" in each division. He connected this quota to work appraisals and year-end bonuses of all prison employees. As a result, the guards stopped at no evil to persecute Falun Gong practitioners to ensure self-interest and to achieve "reform rate during detention" and "reform rate when leaving prison." At the Special Division, a group of guards would start videotaping Falun Gong practitioners when they first arrived at the prison to "find out their weaknesses."
  • Dentist Li Yongquan from Inner Mongolia Framed and Sentenced in Beijing

    Former dentist, Li Yongquan was constantly persecuted by local police simply because he believed in Falun Dafa. In August 2004, he was framed; the police detained him and beat him up. Now he is detained in Baoanzhao Jail in Inner Mongolia. After being beaten up his right side of the rib cage fractured in many places; his right eye, cornea injured; his left knee joint injured and he has pulmonary tuberculosis in the right lung.
  • Elderly Practitioner Ms. Shan Zhiying from Beijing Arrested for the Third Time

    Sixty five year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Shan Zhiying was arrested for the third time in a coordinated effort by her employer, the local police, and the street community office on June 14th, 2006. She is detained at a brainwashing centre in Beijing. Before this Ms. Shan Zhiying and her husband left Beijing due to the persecution.
  • Supplemental Information about the Persecution of Practitioner Mr. Zhou Jiangang in Qinduankou Prison

    On March 10th, 2006, after Mr. Zhou Jiangang was arrested, Xiao Wenhua, from the Prison Political Section, ordered criminals to "teach him a lesson" (referring to Zhou Jiangang). One criminal asked asked, "Where should I hit them? What will happen if the beating causes a problem?" Xiao Wenhua said ruthlessly, "Except the kidney, feel free to strike them anywhere on their bodies." The criminals then rushed toward the practitioners to beat them.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhu Aizhen and Others Persecuted at Brainwashing Centre in Xi'an

    Zhu Aizhen and several other Falun Dafa practitioners who were detained by the Xi'an City Lianhu District Police Department on April 25th, 2006, are being imprisoned and persecuted at the brainwashing centre located at Shaanxi Workers Hospital. Currently the physical condition of Zhu Aizhen and the others are extremely weak, and they have become emaciated. The police even shamelessly said, "We haven't done anything to Zhu Aizhen and the others except deprive them of sleep.
  • Practitioner Liu Xiuli from Jilin City Suffered Persecution

    In October 2000, Ms. Liu Xiuli went to Beijing to appeal, seeking justice for Falun Gong. She held a banner at Tiananmen Square with the words "Falun Dafa is Good". She was pushed down onto the ground by police right away and was beaten. Her head bleed because of the beating. She was later sent to a police station, where police forced her to stand in the baking sun. Because she refused to say her name and address, police used needles to poke at her stomach, and used electronic batons to shock her mouth and face.
  • Arrest and Subsequent Release of Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Liping's Lawyer in Hegang City

    Xiangyang District Court commenced a trial on June 13th, 2006 against five Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioner Liu Liping's lawyer submitted a "not guilty" plea for her. Liu Liping had told the lawyer of all the severe tortures she had experienced inside the detention centre. He had not imagined that Falun Gong practitioners had been treated so badly. With Liu Liping's request on May 28th, Liu Lijuan's husband and the lawyer went to the police department to ask for the return of 2,500 Yuan confiscated from her. The police said, "The money cannot be returned." Later that day the lawyer was preparing to go to Harbin City and six riot policemen arrested him giving no reasons for the arrest.
  • Thugs Liu Jie and Liu Jinhu from Weihai City 610 Office Brutally Injure Dafa Practitioners

    In the brainwashing centre of the 610 Office, one time officer Liu Jinhu repeatedly beat a practitioner until the practitioner fell down. He asked the practitioner to get up and then beat the practitioner again until the practitioner could no longer stand. The practitioner said, "I won't get up. You are just going to beat me again." Liu said, "Who beat you? Who saw it?" Practitioner Ms. Tian Li was tortured by the iron chair, and because it was so painful, she moved on the iron chair and caused the chair to fall. As a result, Tian broke her neck and was paralysed. Tian was arrested by Liu Jie on May 22, 2002, and passed away on Feb 21st, 2005. She lived in excruciating pain during the last three years before her death. Liu Jie and Liu Jinhu are directly responsible for Tian's death.
  • Practitioner Liang Zhenxing, A Key Person for 2002 Changchun Video Broadcasting, Now in Critical Condition from Abuse Suffered at Siping City Prison, Jilin Province

    Shiling Prison officials phoned Liang Zhenxing's family members on June 5th, 2006 and requested that they come to the prison for a meeting. The prison officials clearly stated that his wife was not permitted to attend the meeting. They also said that Mr. Liang was extremely weak from a month-long hunger strike. Two prison officials physically supported Liang Zhenxing as they brought him out of the prison cell for the meeting. He had a force-feeding tube in his nose. Sixteen to seventeen prison guards then surrounded Liang Zhenxing's family members. Liang Zhenxing confirmed the fact that he had been tortured.
  • After March 5th TV Broadcast Interruption, I Encountered Cruel Persecution by Police from the First Public Security Bureau in Changchun City

    After I read the article "The Cruel Persecution of Practitioners Suspected in the May 5th TV Broadcast Interruption by the Changchun First Public Security Bureau", I proceeded to write down the things I knew to expose the persecution. After the broadcast interruption incident, police frantically arrested practitioners. At the time, they suspected that I was one of them and treated me as a "special target". At the police department, about 8 policemen stood in a circle around me and slapped me again and again. One slapped my face more than ten times, and another kept hitting my face until blood spurted from my mouth. They handcuffed both of my hands, and then lifted me up with rope so that only the tips of my toes touched the ground.
  • Personnel from Yantai 610 Office Plan to Cremate Ms. He Xiuling's Remains to Destroy Evidence of the Persecution

    In 2003, officials from Yantai City 610 Office arrested Ms. He Xiuling in Wendeng City. She was imprisoned in the detention centre for a long time, where she suffered brutal torture. At 7:30 a.m. on March 11th, 2004 the authorities sent He Xiuling to the mortuary even though she was still alive and breathing. She was stripped below the waist and left to freeze in the mortuary. He Xiuling's husband, Falun Gong practitioner Xu Chengben, made a formal request to conduct an investigation on the actual cause of his wife's death. After some discussion an agreement with the operators of the mortuary was reached that no one had the right to dispose of He Xiuling's remains without Xu Chengben's consent.
  • Elderly Practitioner Gu Jingshan in Heilongjiang Province Dies after Prolonged Persecution

    Mr. Gu Jingshan, 63 years old, was arrested while posting materials exposing the persecution. He was imprisoned at the city detention centre for five months, his body was seriously injured, and the symptoms of a stroke he had before reoccurred, severely limiting mobility in both of his legs. During this time he was infected with scabies and was released. At this time, the scabies spread over his whole body, oozing pus and dripping fluids, and the painful itching made him extremely uncomfortable when he scratched them. For this past year local police officers frequently went to his home to harass and threaten him. Due to the pressure, Gu Jingshan's health deteriorated and he died on February 25th, 2006.
  • Six Practitioners from Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Shandong Provinces Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Qian Xiuying was sixty-two years old. On January 1st, 2001, she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. She was arrested but managed to get away from her captors. On Chinese New Years Eve, malicious people from her community, along with the local 610 office and the local police substation arrested her and sent her to the Fushun City Forced Labour Camp. They tried to brainwash her there. After she came out, she continued to distribute materials exposing the persecution. She was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp twice. Unable to withstand the relentless abuse, her health deteriorated and she died on April 9th, 2006.
  • Zhuozhou Rapist He Xuejian Sentenced; Justice Still Not Served in the Case of Victim Liu Jizhi (Photos)

    The Baoding City Intermediate People’s Court in Hebei Province recently conducted three secret trials concerning the case in which a policeman from Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province raped two Falun Gong practitioners on November 25th, 2005. The court finally delivered a judgement: Defendant He Xuejian is guilty of the rape charges and is sentenced to eight years in prison. He is also guilty of indecent harassment of women and is sentenced to three years in prison. The court decided he would serve eight years of imprisonment.