Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • How Tangyuan County Police Department in Heilongjiang Province Tortured Practitioners (Reenactment Photos)

    "At 2:00 a.m. on January 31, 2002, Tangyuan County policeman Xu Qing tried to strangle me with a scarf and also hit me about the eyes and temples. I collapsed to the ground when he let me go. My eyes were in such pain that I could hardly breathe."
  • 50 Year Old Ms. Liang Xiuzhen from Inner-Mongolia Autonomous District Died As a Result of Torture in 2002

    Ms. Liang Xiuzhen was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Inner-Mongolia Autonomous District. She was 50 years old. She was arrested by Chifeng City and State Security Police in May, 2001, while clarifying the truth to people. Police officers used electric batons to shock her repeatedly for an entire night, severely damaging her both mentally and physically. She died in March 2002.
  • Inside Story of the Persecution Death of Practitioner Mr Li Guoshun from Fujian Province (Photos)

    Police arrested Mr. Li Guoshun, a practitioner from Longyan City, Fujian Province, on August 23, 2004, charged him with distributing Falun Gong materials and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He went on a hunger strike to protest but was ignored by the police and the prison hospital staff. He died on October 14 after enduring over 50 days of misery. The family members he left behind were extremely sad, especially his mother, who was hospitalized for many days because of the traumatic experience.
  • Chongqing City District Court Officials Break into Falun Gong Practitioner Mr Zhang Peijin's House to "Conduct a Trial" and Announce a Severe Sentence

    On the morning of December 10, 2004, officials from the Beipei District court and the district police bureau of Chongqing City broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Peijin's house after his family went to work. Without notifying his lawyer, they announced a sentence of eight years in prison, abducted Mr. Zhang from his bed, detained him in a detention centre, and did not allow his family to visit him.
  • Young Woman Zhang Ziru from Inner Mongolia Suffers Mental Collapse from Persecution

    Ms. Zhang Ziru, about 29 years old, lives in Inner Mongolia. For appealing to the government on behalf of Falun Gong, she suffered cruel persecution at the hands of police officers and during her detention at the Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp. As a result, she suffered a mental collapse. The forced labour camp even blamed Ms. Zhang's mental breakdown on the practice of Falun Gong. In actuality, beginning in August 1999 and for almost one year of being persecuted, Ms. Zhang had not been able to practise the Falun Gong exercises at all.
  • Three Falun Gong Practitioners, Former Residents of Liaoning Province, Tianjin City and Jilin Province, Are Tortured to Death

    Three women Falun Dafa practitioners, 75 years old, 50 years old and 38 years old practitioner, from three different provinces in China, all suffered the same cruel fate for believing and upholding Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance - they were brutally torturedby guards in detention centres and forced labour camps until they died. No matter whether old or young, male or female, Falun Dafa practiitoners are subjected to the same unspeakable tortures and officials have discarded any shred of humanity in themselves for the sake of money and power.
  • Mr. Su Huili from Hebei Province Died in 2001 from Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Su Huili was from the Baoding Area of Hebei Province. He recovered from a terminal illness after practising Falun Dafa. After the persecution began in 1999, local officials repeatedly beat Mr. Su, and he was not able to continue practising Falun Dafa. His illness returned, and then he died in May 2001.
  • Police in Weifang City Detention Centre Shackle Practitioners to Crosses and Torture Them

    A practitioner handcuffed to a cross went on a hunger strike in protest. Police inserted a tube into her nostril to force-feed her. They did not remove the tube when the force-feeding was over
  • In a Conspiracy to Abduct Ms. Gao Rongrong, Whose Face Was Disfigured by Torture, the Judiciary Department in Shenyang Exploits the Transportation Radio Station

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong's face was disfigured by a Labour Camp and the Judiciary Department of Shenyang City. The persecutors severely burned her face with electric batons. Her subsequent escape from the detention centre on October 5, 2004 has caused much panic to the Judiciary Department, because her injuries are indelible evidence of their extreme cruelty in persecuting Falun Dafa. Officials directed Liaoning Province's Transportation Radio Station to broadcast fabricated news in order to ferret out Gao Rongrong's whereabouts and arrest her.
  • Practitioner Bi Wenming Tortured to Death at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province

    Even after the facts of the persecution of practitioner Jin Jiling were exposed earlier this year, guards at the Dingxi Jail in Gansu Province showed no remorse for their actions. On September 3, 2004, two Falun Dafa practitioners were beaten by jail inmates under the guards' instigation. Practitioner Bi Wenming was beaten so badly that his spleen ruptured and he died on the scene.
  • Ms. Zhang Yuling, from Gansu Province Tortured to Death in 2002

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuling was arrested in October 2001, while distributing truth-clarification materials in Ningxia Province. Later her home was ransacked and her husband divorced her under pressure from the authorities. She was later jailed for six months and tortured severely. Ms. Zhang's health seriously deteriorated. However, the detention centre only released her when she was on the verge of death. Ms. Zhang's family rushed her to the hospital. However, despite rescue efforts, she passed away in December 2002, at the age of 30. The police tried all means to shirk their responsibility for her death.
  • Investigating the Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Zhao Wenyu

    Zhao Wenyu was a Falun Gong practitioner in Hebei Province. She had been arrested many times for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and appealing. During detention, she suffered torture, brutal beatings and mental torment from coercive brainwashing. On February 3, 2004, when trying to escape illegal arrest by the police, she fell from a building.
  • Torture Methods Used on Falun Gong Practitioners at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp (Re-enactment Photos)

    "At noon on May 11, 2002, 610 Office staff and police burst into my home and forcefully took me away. I was imprisoned in a forced labour camp, where a policeman slapped me in the face. Two of my front teeth were knocked out as a result. Then, he put me in an extra small cell and handcuffed me to a ring on floor and beat me. After he was tired of beating me, he burned the back of my hand with a cigarette."
  • Falun Gong Practitioners 59 Year Old Mr Wang Jicheng and 60 Year Old Mr Xu Congxin from Chongqing City Died As a Result of Persecution

    Two elderly Falun Gong practitioners were both imprisoned at Chongqing City Xishanping Forced Labour Camp because they stood up for what they believed in - Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance. They were mercilessly persecuted: 59 year old Mr. Wang Jicheng, was released on bail for medical treatment, yet after returning home in October 2003, Mr. Wang's health was constantly in a critical condition. He finally passed away on November 30, 2004. 60 year old Mr Xu Congxin passed away on July 19, 2003 as a result of torture he suffered.
  • Police in Sichuan Province Force a Six-months Pregnant Practitioner to Have an Abortion

    A young pregnant woman from Sichuan Province was forced by police to abort her six-month-old unborn baby without her family being notified. The woman was then sentenced to seven years in prison. In November 1999, when the police were ransacking the home of an elderly teacher, they did not spare searching the bed on which her daughter was recovering during her maternity leave. The daughter, who is not a practitioner, had just given birth to her child and she has not yet recovered from the mental trauma of that day.