Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • Practitioner Li Miaoneng and Her Daughter from Henan Province Face Unjust Trial

    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) judicial system in Luoyang city, Henan province is attempting to hold a "trial" of Falun Dafa practitioner Li Miaoneng, who has already been tortured in a detention centre to the point of being unable to walk, and her daughter. At present, they are still being detained at Luoyang Detention Centre. She was tortured until she was unable to walk. After she went on a hunger strike to protest, she was ruthlessly beaten.
  • Mr. Liu Yongwang in Critical Condition After More Than 15 Days on Hunger Strike to Protest Unjust Prison Sentence

    "On October 13th, 2002, police carried me into a room where they used to torture determined Dafa practitioners. They shocked me with electric batons and hit me with rubber clubs and coerced me to attack Dafa and "reform" [renounce Dafa]. I told them, "It's against the law to beat people." They hog-tied me and then whipped my face with rubber clubs and leather belts and they knocked out one of my front teeth. They shocked the top of my head, the inside of my thighs and other sensitive body parts with electric batons until the smell of charred flesh permeated the room. They tortured me for three days. I went on hunger strike on the first day of the three-day torture. After the three-day torture, they tied me spread-eagle in a metal bed 24 hours a day for 21 days."
  • Chongqing City Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Quanliang Framed by Police During Torture Session

    Chongqing City Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Quanliang was abducted by police in December 2005. He was hung up and beaten for six days and nights and was detained in Li Ziba Detention Centre, Chongqing City. Police used mind-altering drugs to make Mr. Zhang talk about his work to expose the persecution. Then police used this as evidence to sue him for further persecution. The police submitted a legal document against Mr. Zhang to Yuzhong District Court, trying to put him in jail.
  • The Persecution I Suffered at Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

    On the evening of September 30th, 2003, I was sitting in meditation. Suddenly a group of policemen rushed in from downstairs and frantically knocked on the door. My husband asked, "Why are you making an arrest?" The police simply did not pay attention to him. They arrested me and another fellow practitioner and took us away in a police car. On the third morning of my detainment, the police opened the cell door. They brutally handcuffed us and pushed us on a tour bus. After getting off, a nurse gave us injections. We asked, "What’s this?" "Vaccine," was her reply. (Actually it was a drug that impairs the nervous system). Two practitioners lost consciousness right away. I was transferred to hospital for force-feeding. I almost suffocated to death.
  • Exposing Crimes Committed By Staff at the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre in Sichuan Province

    The "instructors" take food to practitioners' bedrooms. Practitioners are not allowed to get their own food. The purpose of this rule is so they can drug the food. The different kinds of drugs come either in liquid or powder form. They use different kinds of drugs for different practitioners. Generally they put drugs in water and regular meals, but sometimes they inject brainwashing drugs into particular foods or even fruits. The drugs will take effect in about half an hour. The main symptoms are headaches, dizziness, protruding eyes, sleepiness (some practitioners feel sleepy after over 10 hours of sleep per day and are still lethargic) shortness of breath, chest pain and irritability.
  • Persecution in Prisons and Labour Camps in Hebei Province

    In October 2000, a group of Falun Dafa practitioners from all parts of Hebei Province were sent to the Kaiping Labour Camp. There was a shortage of cells, so bungalows with brick beds [a heatable brick bed used in northern China] were built in the men’s division, located behind the women's division. A dozen practitioners slept on one large brick bed. We could only sleep on our sides. Dafa practitioners are often hung from the trees. When government officials come for an inspection, the labour camp authorities hide all steadfast practitioners.
  • Ms. Zhou Yongping Tortured by the First Division of Changchun Public Security Bureau

    I was arrested and taken to Changchun Public Security Bureau. A policeman holding an object I couldn’t identify came up behing me. He used that object to punch the point between the thumb and the index finger of my left hand. A purple swelling the size of a ping pong ball appeared on the back of my left hand. Then they handcuffed me behind my back, lifted my hands (while handcuffed) over my head to the front, pressed my upper body toward my legs, and cruelly pressed my head until my face touched my thighs. Two policemen fiercely struck my back with their fists, while my chest and abdomen were pressed against the iron rod. All this caused me excruciating pain. Every second I felt out of breath.
  • Practitioners Brutally Tortured at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioners are still being brutally tortured at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Practitioners are handcuffed twenty-four hours a day, and tied to a bed in the shape of cross for at least fourteen hours a day. Such tortures have lasted for more than half a month. On April 29th, 2006, Yan Chunjiao was struck in the face over ten times by a police officer. The office director forced Yan Chunjiao to kneel down. After she refused to do so, Ma Jishan kicked her right foot, causing her ankle to swell up and become dislocated.
  • Exposing the Persecution Crimes in Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province

    Practitioners are forced to perform slave labour. Those who refuse are berated on the spot, forced to stand for extremely long periods of time, and not allowed to use the toilet, drink water, or take a shower. Moreover, their terms in the labour camp are extended. Practitioner Ms. Hu Xiaoxian was released only after her term had been extended by more than four months. Guards impatiently wanted me to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Dafa, which they had already composed in advance. When I paid no attention to them, they started to beat me, claiming that it was a demonstration of their authority. They also forced me to watch many brainwashing videotapes.
  • Mr. Wang Guibing's Experience of Being Arrested in Hebei Province

    Mr. Wang Guibing is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Zhangjiakou City. On the night of May 8th, 2006, five security guards from Ximalin Village, and police broke into Mr. Wang Guibing's house and arrested him. He was sent to Kongjiazhuang Detention Centre and was detained there for three nights. During this period, the guards did not allow Mr. Wang to eat or drink. The policemen confiscated all Falun Dafa materials and some personal belongings.
  • I Suffered Four Years of Persecution in Tiebei Prison in Changchun City

    After fellow practitioners and I were sentenced in 2001 after appealing for justice for Falun Dafa on Tiananmen Square, I suffered all sorts of physical and mental persecution in Tiebei Prison, such as being locked up in a small cell that was like a steam box, being hung up in the air by hand cuffs, and continuously forced to undergo brainwashing. We also underwent suspicious and very detailed physical check-ups, but were not aware of the real purpose for this.
  • I was Tortured by Methods of the Tiger Bench, Electrocution, "Dragged by Five Horses" and Hanging

    I am a 64-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. I live according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," so I have been arrested, detained and tortured on numerous occasions ever since the Jiang Zemin regime began the brutal persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. These torture methods include being "dragged by five horses" in five different directions, electrocution, tiger bench and being hung by the handcuffed wrists for long periods of time
  • Four Practitioners Unjustly Tried at the Luzhou City Court; Liang Jinhui, Sick and Disabled, Sentenced to 2.5 Years

    On May 10th, 2006, four Falun Gong practitioners, who had been detained for ten months, were sentenced at the court of Naxi District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Liang Jinhui was sentenced to two and a half years, Jiang Jiyun was sentenced to three and a half years, Hu Jingbin was sentenced to two years, with a three-year suspended sentence, and He Shifang was sentenced for a year and a half, with a two-year suspended sentence. The four practitioners were turned in for distributing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and calling on people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
  • The Brutal Torture I Experienced in 2002 at The Haidian District Detention Centre

    The Haidian District Detention Centre brutally beat Falun Gong practitioners. My face was beaten until it was distorted beyond recognition, with wounds covering my entire face. Anyone who saw my face at that time would have been horrified. My chest was also beaten so badly that I had difficulty breathing and could not stop coughing. Coughing caused me to double over in severe pain. To further torture Falun Gong practitioners, the Detention Centre created a device that had a sharp side pointing up regardless how it was placed on the ground. The sharp edge was about 4 centimetres (less than 0.39 inches) high. When I was forced to sit on this torture stool, the sharp edges cut into my flesh and hurt severely.
  • Four Dafa Practitioners from Anhui Province, Receive Unjust Prison Terms

    Practitioner Chen Xiuan went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in October 1999. Since then he was detained several times and kept under surveillance on his release. On April 25th, 2005, police arrested him a third time and they secretly sentenced him to an thirteen years in prison. The police arrested practitioner Huang Bangjun, 64, and his wife, 63, and sentenced them to three-year and two-year prison terms, respectively. The police also sentenced practitioner Wang Ziqiang to thirteen years in prison.