Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office
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Mass Arrest of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Heilongjiang Province
2004-08-03On the afternoon of February 28, a dozen people, including policemen Sui Guangcheng, Yu Zhanjun, and Secretary of the Political and Judicial Commission Sun Jihua, drove three cars into all surrounding villages that have Falun Dafa practitioners. They searched the houses of suspected practitioners looking for Falun Dafa books, and materials about the persecution of Falun Dafa, forcing anyone who had Falun Dafa banners, CDs, or fliers to go to a forced labour camp. -
A 60-year-old Female Falun Dafa Practitioner is Subjected to Brutal Forced Labour for One Year and a Half
2004-08-02I'm a senior citizen in my 60s, a female working person, which is the most common type of person in Chinese society. I believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," and follow our Teacher to cultivate my character to be a good person, always striving to be an even a better person. This is all beneficial to society, causing no harm. Any natural leader should acknowledge our Teacher and these Dafa practitioners. However, Jiang's group slanders and persecutes us without any humanity. -
An Account from Dafa Practitioners form Jiangsu Province: Xu Ruhua's Long Separation from Her Infant Son
2004-08-01"My name is Xu Ruhua, and I used to live in Danyang city. On February 21st, 2001, without following any legal procedures, policemen took me to their station by force, charging my husband and I with distributing Dafa materials. At that time, I was holding my 9-month old son in my arms. On the night of February 22nd, I was forcibly separated my son and I. I was sent to a Detention centre and detained there for 25 days. The Lianyungang Police Station also sent my husband to a forced labour camp for 1 year." -
Cases of Illegal Arrests After the Supreme Procuratorate Published the Bulletin, "Strictly Investigating and Punishing the Crime of Impinging on Human Rights"
2004-07-31The Chinese Supreme Procuratorate decided to carry out a one-year special campaign to strictly investigate and punish the crime of impinging on human rights from May 1st to June next year. This decision affects five categories of crimes. They are illegal imprisonment, illegal searches, extorting a confession by torture, collecting evidence by using violence, and abusing prisoners and illegally extending detention terms. But, after this bulletin was published, the cases of illegally arresting and detaining Falun Gong practitioners have increased. -
Guards at the Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labour Camp Severely Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-07-31Section Chief Jianzhong Zhang in Kaiping Labour Camp, followed by two other officers, broke into a room where Ms. Shugui Dong was sitting in lotus practising the Falun Dafa meditation exercise. They asked Shugui Dong to take her legs down. Dong did not move. A guard came forward, stepped on Dong's head and dragged her to the ground by her hair. Other practitioners tried to stop him but he slapped Ms. Lili Ma so hard on her face several times that her ears were ringing. The guards continued to beat up other practitioners. -
Dafa Practitioners Zhao Ming, Zhao Liang and their Mother From Huludao City Suffer Persecution
2004-07-27Dafa practitioner Zhao Liang and his eldest brother Zhao Ming were sentenced to one year of forced labour on July 26, 2000, and were sent to the Huludao labour camp. They were cruelly beaten and tortured in the labour camp. Zhao Liang had his sentence extended four months because he was firm in his belief in Dafa. After he was released in November 2001, the police still didn't stop harassing him, so he had no choice but to leave home to avoid unlawful arrest and further persecution. -
The Torture I Suffered in a Police Station and a Forced Labour Camp
2004-07-25"My name is Liu Cuiqing. I live in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. I was arrested by the police for printing materials that explain the truth about Dafa. Eight people assaulted me. I was secretly sentenced to three years of forced labour, and put me in Kaiping Labour Camp. In the labour camp, the methods they used to persecute practitioners were very cruel. My family members also went through tremendous suffering." -
The Atrocities Behind The Term "Civilized Management" at Tuanhe Labour Camp in Beijing
2004-07-24Tuanhe Labour Camp tried every trick to boast that what they were doing exemplified "civilized management." They invited Dafa practitioners' family members to visit the camp, organized holiday celebration parties between labour camp deputies and those who were transformed and their family members. Many Dafa practitioners' families have been deceived by such propaganda, resulting in their hostility towards Falun Gong. -
Eyewitness' Account of the Death of Zhang Yali and Two Other Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-07-24"I would like to tell you about the death of three practitioners, Ms. Zhang Yali, Ms. Zhang Baoju, and Ms. Guan Ge in a labour camp. Zhang Baoju said, "We cannot just watch our fellow practitioners be tortured and forced to renounce their belief''. They all wrote their wills, which stated, "This is not suicide. We do this under the circumstance where the evildoers rampantly persecute practitioners. we all know that Teacher states clearly in "Zhuan Falun" [the main text of Falun Dafa] about the issue of killing...we are willing to give up our young lives." The three of them hanged themselves on June 4, 2003." -
Chen Fukui, Former Chief of the Research Institute of Paper Mill Suffers Persecution for Speaking the Truth
2004-07-24"I am 66 years old and am the former chief of the Research Institute of Ningan Paper Mill in Heilongjiang Province.On February 3, 2001 while I was at my relative's home, police arrested me for no reason and took me to the detention centre of the Dongli Police Department. On November 19, 2001, they sentenced me to four years of imprisonment. This is very unjust. I did not commit any crime." -
Former Associate Chief of the Secrecy Bureau in Dengyang City, Mr. Yang Daifu, Unjustly Sentenced
2004-07-24On May 22, 2003, Deyang City District Court, Sichuan Province sentenced two Falun Dafa practitioners without any charge. The two practitioners were Mr. Yang Daifu and Mr. Jiang Shengui. Mr. Yang and Mr. Jiang were sentenced to five and four years of imprisonment respectively. No one was allowed in the courthouse except for their relatives. When Yang Daifu appeared, his relatives and those who knew him were shocked to see him. They could hardly recognize him. It was clear that he had been cruelly tortured. -
Persecution of Ms Yue Lihua at Shandong Province Female Forced Labour Camp
2004-07-23Ms. Yue Lihua: from Jinan City, about forty years of age, rented seven rooms to Dafa practitioners who were destitute, was sold out by someone, and was unlawfully sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp (till September, 2004). The police, seeing that she may inspire the others who were brainwashed to wake up, transferred her to the Second Brigade. This Brigade was specially regulated to deal with religious adherents, such as Christians, who did not attend the state-run churches (regulated by the Communist Chinese government) but had religious meetings at home and were labelled as believing in evil religions. -
Murder, Disfigurement, Torture and Enslavement: Longshan Forced Labor Camp Commits New Crimes in Order to Qualify as a "Provincial-Level" Camp (Photos)
2004-07-21A civic-level forced labour camp insanely and inhumanely tortures Falun Gong practitioners in order to accumulate "achievements" so as to meet the upgrade criteria. This clearly demonstrates that under Jiang's policy to annihilate Falun Gong, brutally persecuting Falun Gong practitioners not only becomes a criterion for promotion for personnel in public security, procuratorial organs, people's court and judicatory organs, but also a criterion for the promotion in status for forced labour institutions. -
Mr. Xie Chengshan and Two of his Family Members are Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labour
2004-07-20In February 2004, the "610 Office" in Chongqing, sent three more Falun Dafa practitioners to a labour camp, because they distributed truth-clarifying Dafa materials These three practitioners are part of one family: Mr Xie Chengshan, his wife and his son. Each were brutally tortured and have received a three year sentence. -
The Inhumane "War Against Steadfast Practitioners" in the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre
2004-07-19One evening in December 2000, police came to my house and asked me to go with them for a quick talk. Nine months later, I finally returned home, after police had extorted over 10,000 Yuan (1) from me. They detained me simply because I cultivate Falun Gong and believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance."