Illegal Detention and Imprisonment
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Yongchuan Women's Prison of Sichuan Province Brutally Beats Falun Dafa Practitioners
2002-10-19When she was sleeping, criminals would come up to her, take off the quilt, and then punch her to wake her up...After ten days and ten nights, she was tortured to such an extent that she could not see straight. Her two feet were so swollen that they felt as if they would explode. -
Police at Chaoyang County Detention Centre Brutally Beat Practitioners
2002-10-09At one time, they tortured some fellow practitioners with electric batons so badly that we could hear the sizzle from the next room and could even smell burning skin. -
Dafa Practitioner Wang Xiaosong of Sichuan Province Is Missing after Severe Torture in Prison
2002-10-09If he couldn't keep up the running, he would be shocked with an electric baton. Wang fainted from the electric shocks, and he was dragged to a solitary jail cell. To this day, other practitioners in the prison have not seen or heard from him again. -
Public Display of Police Brutality: Openly Shocking Dafa Practitioners With Electric Batons In Court In Changchun Cable TV Tapping Trial
2002-10-07This brave act threw the policemen who were present into confusion, and they revealed themselves to be the thugs that they are. A group of them rushed out and madly shocked the practitioners with high voltage electric batons, turning the courtroom into a torture chamber. -
The Illegal Courts in China
2002-09-06Law courts are supposed to prosecute the evil and protect the righteous. However, under the reign of the totalitarian regime, the law courts in China have become a political tool to suppress the people. -
Three Henan Practitioners Detained Over a Year, Then Sentenced to Prison for Seven to Ten Years
2002-08-23Although the three practitioners had been persecuted for over a year and suffered all kinds of torture, in court they appeared compassionate and dignified. Their kind and gentle way of speaking and their righteous words moved everyone in the court. -
A Letter from a Dafa Practitioner Detained in Jail
2002-08-20"They wrapped my head with a plastic bag to suffocate me over ten times, and then they exposed my nose and blew the smoke of a cigarette into my nostril...they shocked me with electrical batons on the head, hands, feet and body..,beat my head continually and burned my hands and feet with a cigarette...I hope my family members will also boycott the persecution against "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" by siding with justice and the truth." -
Illegal Four-Year Prison Sentence for Dafa Practitioner Qiu Yuanjin of Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province
2002-08-17Police sent Qiu Yuanjin to Jiaozhou City Detention Centre where he was detained illegally for four months. While there, police put him in heavy shackles since he continued practicing the Falun Gong exercises and clarifying the truth. -
A Letter Smuggled Out of a Chinese Prison
2002-07-30 -
Practitioners Receive 10 Years Imprisonment and Severe Beatings for Revealing the Truth
2002-06-24Six of the practitioners were severely beaten by thugs. Even two older practitioners in their late 60s or early 70s were not spared. An older female's feet turned black and blue from the vicious beating. A thug violently kicked a female practitioner around 30 years of age with his heavy boots and also beat her. -
Three Women Practitioners Face a Set-up "Trial" with Openess and Dignity
2002-06-22"Falun Gong is innocent and so are we; therefore, all that you are asking is invalid. History and time shall be our witness." -
Wishes for Mother' s Day--To All the Mothers Suffering in Jail for Practicing Falun Dafa
2002-05-18 -
Public Trial Perverts the Course of Justice
2002-05-02The public was not allowed to observe this trial, as only those who received official tickets could get in. There were no juries and no defence lawyers, as the court does not allow Falun Gong practitioners to retain defence lawyers. -
Two Years Imprisonment for a Just, Upright Soldier Who Wrote "Falun Gong Is Good" in Letters to His Superiors
2002-03-20 -
Chemical Plant Enslaves Falun Dafa Practitioners and Conducts Illegal Business
2002-03-15At 11 p.m. they finished work and then had dinner. Upon returning to the dormitory, they were dirty, exhausted and hungry. Yet, the cruel policemen on duty often wouldn't let them wash up, so they had to go to sleep with chemical dust all over their bodies and faces. With the combined heat, over exhaustion and sweat (combined with chemical dust), practitioners' skin became very itchy and painful. When the sweat evaporated from their skin, a "ringworm" shaped rash appeared.