Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • A Year of Persecution by the Shanghai Judicial System

    Since Chinese New Year's Day, 2005, in Shanghai alone, more than 90 practitioners have been arrested, detained, sentenced to forced labour camps and brainwashing centres, and tortured to death. According to recent reports, practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying is on the verge of death because she is refusing to accept any food or water to resist the brutal persecution of forced labour. This was Ms. Zhang Ying's third arrest. Before this she was sent to a forced labour camp for two and a half years for producing Falun Gong materials. Six months after being released she was arrested again and was forced to undergo brainwashing.
  • Zhao Fenglian Persecuted to Skin and Bones in Lanzhou Women's Jail

    Ms. Zhao Fenglian, 54, started to practise Falun Gong in 1996. Although she is not literate, she actively spread Dafa. In 2001, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour because she was caught delivering leaflets exposing the persecution. In October 2003, she was arrested again and secretly sentenced to 4 years in prison. From September 2005, when Ms. Zhao was detained in Lanzhou Women's Jail, her health quickly deteriorated and she suffered from gastritis. As a result, she was unable to eat anything and became emaciated. After so-called "treatment," Ms. Zhao's health became worse and worse, and soon she was only skin and bones.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Tortured to Death in Police Custody

    On November 22nd, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yan Li and Mr. Wang Xiaodong were arrested by State Security Agents from the Chifeng City Police Department. Mr. Yan Li went on hunger strike to protest the persecution after being arrested. On December 5th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family received a phone call indicating that Mr. Yan Li was arrested, and that the family would receive the notice in the mail within several days. On December 7th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family arrived Chifeng City, but found out that Mr. Yan Li had already died.
  • Yu Zhenghong's Family Exposes How She Was Persecuted to Death

    "My wife, Yu Zhenghong, died as a result of the persecution on November 17th, 2005. Around 6:30 a.m. on September 27th, 610 Office agents ransacked our home and took my wife. They sent her to Wendeng Detention Centre. They used despicable means to attempt to force her to give up practising Dafa, and she held a hunger strike. She was taken to hospital on the 12th day to be force-fed. On the 14th day she was tortured to the brink of death and then transferred to Wendeng Central Hospital. My wife never recovered, and she passed away on November 17th, 2005 (at the age of 43)."
  • Torture Methods at the Ping'antai Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province, Part 1 (Re-enactment Photos)

    This is an extremely cruel torture. According to the drug addicts, no one can last ten minutes while being tortured this way. The practitioner's arms are pulled behind him. His hands are tied together so that the inside of his wrists are turned away from the body, and he is then hung by a pair of handcuffs. The pain is so excruciating that the practitioner usually cannot move his arms after a few minutes and will not recover until after a few months. Practitioners have become disabled through this torture.
  • Practitioner Cui Shimin Persecuted, Jailed, and Denied Medical Treatment

    Mr. Cui Shimin, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaoning Province, went to Beijing several times to appeal for justice for Falun Gong after the persecution began in 1999. He endured persecution by both the city and county police departments and eventually was fired from his job and forced into homelessness with his wife. In February 2005, police forcefully arrested Mr. Cui. The officers were so violent that they threw him to the ground, injuring his back as he held onto the home heating radiator while resisting the arrest. The injury was so severe that that even now he cannot walk with his back straight.
  • Methods Used to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp - Part I (Re-Enactment Photos)

    This photo shows a re-enactment of the torture method of spreading the body. Guards at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp tie a practitioner to the metal bars of the bed with the arms and legs spread apart. Guards and criminal inmates (under the instruction of the guards) take turns beating the practitioner, kicking the practitioner's abdomen, forehead, back, face and mouth.
  • Five Dafa Practitioners in Hubei, Hebei, and Jiangsu Provinces Passed Away as a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Ma Jianshe, 53 years old, used to have diabetes. After he practised Falun Gong, the disease vanished. After the persecution began he went to Beijing to appeal, but he was arrested, pummelled by the police, detained for more than 40 days, and illegally fined 2,600 yuan. Police went to Mr. Ma's home many times to search the place and harass him and took him to a brainwashing session. They threatened, "If we find even a little Falun Gong material, we will go after you until you have lost everything." He suffered a relapse of his old disease and left the world on June 13th, 2005.
  • Five Senior Citizens Died from Persecution

    Ms. Liu Baolan, 67 years old, was a retired teacher. To tell the facts to the government, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice. She was detained and sent to the notorious Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Although she was over age for a labour camp, the government agents gave her a one-year sentence anyway. For years after that, the agents harassed her at her home. She was thrown into a stupor, became paralysed, and developed oedema all over. Liu Baolan passed away on November 8th, 2005.
  • 97-year-old Man Dies Without a Chance to See His Unjustly Imprisoned Son and Granddaughter

    In November 2005, the 97-year old father of Falun Gong practitioner Tian Fujin was severely ill and bedridden. He was expecting his son and granddaughter to come home and see him, but both were in prison. The Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp, however, refused to release them. On November 18th, 2005, Tian Fujin's father died. Tian Fujin and his daughter did not see him before he passed away. Mr. Tian Fujin's family has been torn apart for the last six years, six of his family members were subjected to persecution and sentenced to forced labour camps and prisons.
  • Mr. Li Yequan Has Been on a Hunger Strike for Fifty-six Days and Is Near Death (Photo)

    Mr. Li Yequan is a 38-year-old practitioner. He is now being brutally abused at the Daqing Detention Centre. He has been on a hunger strike for 56 days to protest the illegal treatment. Every day, for 24 hours, he is handcuffed, shackled, and force-fed. A guard forced a litre of hard liquor down his throat and spat on him. They also poured cold water on Li Yequan. Due to being force-fed three times a day, Mr. Li's oesophagus has been badly injured. He shows symptoms of pneumonia and mental disorientation and his body temperature has dropped. He is extremely weak, has slipped into a coma many times and is now dying.
  • A Mother from Yanji City Was Persecuted for Being a Good Person, Her 11-Year-Old Daughter Suffers a Mental Collapse

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jin Minghua has been sentenced to forced labour camp twice for her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and for her steadfast insistence on being a good person. Jin Minghua's 11-year-old daughter suddenly lost her mother's love and the warmth of her family. She had to live at home all by herself. She suffered a mental collapse and was sent to a mental hospital. The family was originally told that the hospitalisation would be free of charge. In March 2005, after being released from the forced labour camp, Ms. Jin Minghua went to visit her daughter in the hospital. Her daughter's medical bill was more than 20,000 yuan.
  • The Heinous Acts of Officer Zhao Shuang of the Changlinzi Labour Camp

    Zhao Shuang is head of Division No. 5 at the Changlinzi Labour Camp in Harbin City. He is extremely cruel when persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. He follows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and frequently said, "Killing a Falun Gong practitioner is just a matter of filling out a form saying it was a normal death. The labour camp has a large enough death quota." Zhao Shuang often told practitioners, "Torturing you is entertainment for me! Don't tell me about humanity! I do not have any humanity! If you make me upset, I might torture you to death."
  • The Shocking Results from Searching "Unknown Drug" on the Internet -- Part 2

    In Xuzhou Mental Hospital practitioners were tied to beds, given injections and force-fed unknown drugs. Medical staff members injected large dosages of unknown drugs. Immediately after the injections, we would lose consciousness. After some time, we regained consciousness, and then the medical staff would untie the ropes (used to restrain us). When the drugs took effect, it felt very painful, as if our internal organs were being torn apart. We would roll on the floor screaming with pain. After we regained consciousness, we would question the medical staff, "Why did you inject us and feed these drugs to us when we are not sick??" They answered shamefully, "It is not up to us. The people at the top instructed us to do so.
  • Zhao Hongli in Critical Condition, But Panjin Prison Refuses to Release Him

    Recently the family of Dafa practitioner Zhao Hongli received a phone call from Panjin Prison authorities. They were requested to visit Zhao Hongli, who had already been on hunger strike for more than forty days. When Mr. Zhao's family arrived at the prison, Zhao Hongli had already been taken back to the prison from the hospital. When the family saw Zhao Hongli, he was lying on a bed with his face up, and he could not move. His hands and legs were cuffed, he was given IVs and plastic tubes were stuck in his nose. The prison was forcibly giving him IVs and feeding him. Zhao Hongli was emaciated and had difficulty talking. They never mentioned releasing him.