Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Yukun from Chongqing City Tortured to Death in 2001

    It has been learned that Dafa practitioner Ms Li Yukun, a worker of Chongqing City Grinding Machine Factory, was tortured to death at the end of December 2000 when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa for the second time. Another practitioner went to Beijing together with Li Yukun. As soon as their train arrived in Beijing, they were arrested and taken to different places. Several days after she came back to Chongqing, on January 5. 2001, she heard from Li Yukun's family that Li had died and that they had come back from Beijing with a box containing her ashes.
  • Atrocious Behaviour of Police at the Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province

    Zhang Bolin is the team leader of the National Security Team of the Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau. He beat up most of the Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested. He used very ruthless tactics. Many practitioners that he beat up went into shock. He tortured a female practitioner, Luo Junling many times. In November 2002, Zhang Bolin took Luo Junling at night many times to a torture location that they had been secretly set up.
  • More Details about the Persecution Death of Henan Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Chen Lijun

    Forty-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Lijun was from Henan Province. She was sent to Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp twice without any legal grounds. The headwomen of the labour camp subjected Ms. Chen to all kinds of tortures, including "Tying the Ropes". They would also strike her violently all over her body including her chest, stomach and private parts. The policewomen also ordered drug addicts to seal her mouth with used menstrual pads or put excrement on her mouth. As result of the persecution, Ms. Chen died at 4:00 p.m. on September 29, 2004.
  • Seventy-Year-Old Woman Mistaken as Falun Gong Practitioner, Beaten to Death

    70-year-old Ms Wang Lianying had taken up Falun Gong before July 20, 1999 for health reasons. However, she stopped practising after the persecution of Falun Gong began. On September 18, 2004, she was arrested while sleeping, taken to the police station, and beaten to death on the same day. Upon hearing the news, Wang's family was furious. On the morning of September 19, as a protest, they strung a banner across the street that read, "Give Back Our 70-Year-Old Mother." With hundreds of spectators and bystanders, the traffic was in complete chaos. Later, they hung a banner across the hospital saying, "Knowing the law yet breaking the law, the police treat human lives like straw."
  • Practitioner Zhang Jiuhui of Heilongjiang Province Demonstrates the Torture Methods She Suffered (Photos)

    Ms. Zhang Jiuhui, 26, is a resident of Heilongjiang Province. On February 20, 2000, she was practising the Falun Gong exercises outdoors when she was arrested. At that time, she was 21 years old. She related the story about how three young policewomen tortured her. "This kind of persecution caused me to feel both painful and itchy at that time. Later my skin turned black and blue, and for more than two weeks I could not turn over in bed. This was not merely a persecution of my body, it was also an insult to my dignity."
  • Husband Tortured to Death, Wife Develops Mental Disorder as Result of Persecution

    According to reports, Falun Gong practitioner Mr Li Xianwen, who lived in Sichuan Province, was tortured to death while detained in a brainwashing centre in Chengdu City. Li Xianwen's mother still does not know about her son's death. Li Xianwen's wife Yu Guiying is also a practitioner, who has suffered brutal persecution in a labour camp. As a result, she has developed a mental disorder. The labour camp has released her and sent her home.
  • Continuous Persecution in Jilin Prison leads to Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr Cui Weidong

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Weidong wrote a solemn declaration in Jilin Prison stating that all the guarantees to stop practising Falun Gong he made under the persecution were done so against his will and therefore null and void. After nearly four months of persecution, the prison authorities allowed him to be released on bail for medical treatment, but with the condition that he write a guarantee to give up Falun Gong. Cui Weidong rejected this demand. The prison hospital sent Mr. Cui back to a prison cell in August 2004. In less than a month, his condition worsened and he died on September 10.
  • Anhui Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jiang Lingsheng Dies from Torture-Induced Disease

    Anhui Province Dafa practitioner Mr Jiang Lingsheng was healed of leukemia through the practice of Falun Dafa. In December 1999, Mr. Jiang Lingsheng went to Beijing to appeal and to share with the government his firsthand experience of Falun Gong practice and the tremendous benefits it had brought him. However the authorities would not listen to his story and instead arrested and detained him. In May 2001 he was arrested in Tongling City for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and was sentenced to three years of forced labour in Anhui Province and was not allowed to practise Falun Dafa. His old illness recurred and he died on August 3, 2001.
  • The Torture I Suffered in Beijing's Lugouqiao Police Station (Illustrations)

    In August 2001, when my mother and I went to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, plainclothes policemen on Tiananmen Square abducted us and detained us for 24 hours. Then they sent me to Beijing Lugouqiao Police Station, where I suffered inhuman and atrocious torture. Several policemen kicked me until I fell face down on the floor, and then they turned my head over and stomped on my face with their leather-soled shoes.
  • 68 Year Old Practitioner Mo Jiaying from Guangxi Province Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Mo Jiaying, 68 years old, was a Falun Fong practitioner from Guangxi Province. In 2001 when she was posting Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials, she was arrested again and was detained at a Brainwashing Centre. As she refused to give up practising Falun Gong, she was then illegally sent to three years of forced labour at the Nanning Forced Labour Camp. When she was sent back home in March, 2003 she was already at the brink of death. She died tragically on March 20, 2004.
  • Practitioners Ms Zhang Guiqin and Mr Qiao Yanqing from Jilin City Die from Persecution

    Ms. Zhang Guiqin lived in Jilin City, Jilin Province. Prior to her retirement, she was the vice principal of No. 39 Middle School of Jilin City. Due to the persecution, she sustained grave mental and physical trauma. She passed away on December 9, 2003. Mr. Qiao Yanqing was born in 1941, and was a senior engineer at the Jilin City Refrigerator Factory. He also lived in Jilin City, Jilin Province. In late January 2001, before the Chinese New Year, he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. He was arrested at the Beijing Train Station as soon as he got off the train and sent back to Jilin City where he was tortured by enforcers from the "610 Office" and the police. He passed away not long after on January 30.
  • 61 Year Old Falun Gong Practitioner Li Chunwen from Hebei Province Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Li Chunwen, sixty-one years of age, was from Hebei Province. Just a few days after Mr. Li learned Falun Gong, rheumatic heart disease disappeared. Li Chunwen told everyone he met, "I could have lost my life a long time ago, if I had not practised Falun Gong." Since the persecution began Li Chunwen tried to go to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was arrested and since then suffered relentless mental and physical torment over the years, whilst in detention and when at home. He became so weak and thin that he would fall down frequently. He could not breathe properly and his internal organs were constantly in pain. In this condition, his life lasted until June 10, 2004. On that day, Li Chunwen fell down unconscious and died.
  • Mr. Chen Heping, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hubei Province, Dies from Prolonged Persecution

    Hubei Province Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Heping was 53 years old. In 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. The "610 Office" arrested him and sentenced him to two years in Shayang Forced Labour Camp. While in the labour camp, he was subjected to many tortures and forced to do hard labour. He was released on medical parole when his health deteriorated. In October 2003, he was unjustly brought to a brainwashing centre and persecuted until he became very frail. Due to the prolonged period of harassment and physical torture, Mr. Chen Heping passed away on October 15, 2004.
  • Ms. Zhao Qiumei Brutally Beaten by a Group of Policemen in the Changchun Hezuizi Labour Camp (Photos)

    On February 14, 2003, some policemen called Falun Dafa practitioner Ms Zhao Qiumei to the guards' room and cruelly beat her. After the beating, someone had to help Zhao Qiumei walk back to her room. Her hands were swollen, black and blue, and her right eye and right eyebrow were bleeding. She could not raise her right arm. Her left leg was lame.
  • Ms. Li Xuewei Is Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison after Four Years of Persecution

    Ms. Li Xuewei lived in Japan for seven years. In February 2000, when she went to visit her relatives in China, she was arrested for having a "Falun Dafa in Japan" newspaper with her. The Chinese authorities illegally detained, tortured and threatened her. They revoked her passport, thus preventing her from returning to Japan with her husband. After suffering four years of persecution, she was unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison on September 21, 2004.