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

Hainan Female Forced Labour Camp Physically and Mentally Tortures Falun Dafa Practitioners

2003-01-26

Practitioners went on hunger strikes as a last resort to protest their unjust treatment. In dealing with practitioners who went on hunger strikes, they would cruelly force-feed them with a thin porridge containing a very highly toxic concentration of salt. This forced the practitioners to drink a lot of water and caused their legs to swell up.

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Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Wrongfully Sentenced in Xinjiang Autonomous Region

2003-01-26

His wife was giving birth when he was arrested a second time. Before he had a chance to get a good look at his infant son, he was taken away. His young wife has wept so much that she is nearly out of tears. It was her husband's righteousness and compassion for upholding the truth that supported her, and helped her survive two years of painful suffering. As his young son is growing up, he will not know his father. Yet he will be proud to know that his father believed and stood up for the noble values of Truthfulness –Compassion –Tolerance.

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Elderly Practitioner Suffers Mental Collapse in Brainwashing Centre

2003-01-26

The brainwashing tactics are relentless, with no let up. From all angles the practitioners are bombarded by propaganda, along with violent coercion. Under the great pressure, this elderly practitioner became distracted and began speaking incoherently. Fearing to take responsibility, the "610 Office" told his daughter to take him away. She took him to her home, where, in his delirium, he walked from the building.

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Dafa Practitioner Is Suffering From Brutal Persecution in Beijing’s Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp

2003-01-25

It was so humid and hot that it was very difficult for a person to breathe even for one minute, but Li Xupeng was forced to sit in the room for over ten hours. He was not allowed to stand up, walk, use a fan, or take a shower. After several days of the torture, Xupeng was physically exhausted, had serious symptoms of dehydration, and lost consciousness. The vicious police did not let him out, but instead they force-fed him with drugs, claiming he was ill.

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Families Torn Apart Due to Persecution in Gansu Province

2003-01-25

On March 7 he and his wife were arrested and sentenced to the most severe prison terms of 12 and 8 year respectively. Their 16-year-old son was left with no one to take care of him. A happy family was thus torn apart because of the persecution. The damage to the family in material terms is devastating, but in psychological terms it is maybe beyond repair.

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Child Left to Fend for Herself: Parents Tortured in Brainwashing Centres

2003-01-24

A responsible member of Lanzhou City's Political Consultative Committee was stripped of his position, arrested numerous times, detained and his wife forced to become homeless. Had he committed any crime? Had he become corrupt? Did he abuse his position? No - He aimed to live a virtuous life and to conduct himself according to a high moral standard, as the principles of Falun Dafa require. For this he was punished in a despicable way, and his family torn apart.

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Dafa Practitioners Are Tortured by Police in Qianjiang City

2003-01-24

Practitioners have had their sense of security and belonging to their communities torn away. At any given time their homes can be invaded by lawless police, intent on doing malicious damage to their property, and inflicting pain and torture at will. They are persecuted in this way to try to force them to give up their innocent belief in Falun Dafa's principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance.

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A Human Tragedy: Supplementary Report on Heart-Breaking Torture That Led to Practitioner’s Mental Breakdown

2003-01-23

Even though Lin Chengtao barely survived the inhuman physical punishment and torture, the police continued to spare no effort to torture him mentally… They publicised a letter that his wife wrote from Tiantanghe Women's Labour Camp. After she was brainwashed, his wife actually suggested that the police in the Second Brigade torture Lin Chengtao with the same methods that the Tiantanghe Labour Camp used to violently "transform" her, such as shocking with electric batons, sleep deprivation, etc. Mr. Lin was deeply injured by this.

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I Was Kidnapped, Beaten and Imprisoned by the Yilan County Detention Centre

2003-01-23

Five or six policemen roughly pulled me off my bed and dragged me outside. I was wearing just underpants and did not have shoes on. I struggled and shouted out. My child was crying for her father, and my wife was desperately trying to stop them also. The policemen forcibly stuffed me into their vehicle. In the process, my head sustained a two-inch cut and my face was covered with blood. Not only did this practitioner and his family suffer, being violently wrenched from home, he was robbed of his livelihood and plunged into poverty.

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Atmosphere of Terror in Changsha Female Prison

2003-01-23

An inmate said, "I have been in this jail for almost 10 years, and this was my first time that I ever witnessed such miserable things. This is just horrible." One time. a policeman used an electric baton on a practitioner, all the while saying, "Feel free to sue me. It wasn't me who hurt you, it was the electricity!" Time and time again the guards' words and actions have shown how much they want to make the practitioners suffer in retaliation for exposing their brutality to the outside world.

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Fears For Safety of Professor Incarcerated in Anhui Women's Labour Camp (Photo)

2003-01-22

At the end of August 2002, the American Psychiatric Association held a press conference to officially request that the Jiang regime stop using the profession of psychiatry to persecute Falun Gong practitioners...The doctors from China who participated in the conference were asked about the situation in China and their opinion on the persecution. Every doctor felt uncomfortable with his own conscience and was ashamed of the crimes instigated by the Jiang regime.

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Outrages Committed by Police in Kaiping Labour Camp

2003-01-22

The practitioners are treated worse than animals and the behaviour of the police is so base it bears no resemblance to that of humans. On one occasion, vicious guards found a practitioner doing exercises, so they kicked her from the second floor down to the first floor. After she fell unconscious, the police claimed she was feigning death, so they kicked her face, stepped on her head and rolled over her hands with their boots until her fingers were bruised and lacerated with blood.

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Horrifying Torture of Dafa Practitioners in Anshan Forced Labour Camp

2003-01-22

The police do not allow practitioners to sleep or talk for a long time. They force practitioners to face the wall, hang them up, strip their clothes off, tie them up to the bed or iron chair, shock them with high-voltages, put on heavy torture instruments and play loud noises against their ears.

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My Experience in a Brainwashing Class

2003-01-21

On my legs are scars from when policemen kicked me with their leather boots. On my chest are scars from when the police and drug addicts' pinched and twisted me. One time, several of them simultaneously and ferociously hit me on my chest, on my back and on the back of my neck. I almost lost consciousness, but, despite the unbearable pain, I still refused to sign any "guarantee statement."

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Horrible Torture Methods Used on Dafa Practitioners in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

2003-01-21

During the family visit, the chief, guards, other prisoners -- over a dozen people --monitor the visit. It is forbidden for visitors to ask about injuries to practitioners or the issue of practising the Dafa exercises in the labour camp. Some practitioners have wounds on their bodies, so the despicable police require them to wear hats, gloves, etc., to hide the injuries.

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