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

  • Inside Story of the Nanchong City Brainwashing Centre of Sichuan Province

    The “Nanchong Law Education Centre” is a secret brainwashing facility that targets Falun Gong practitioners. The "assistants" brainwash and deceive practitioners into giving up their belief; force practitioners to write so-called guarantee statements to give up the practice; force practitioners to hand copy articles and books that slander Falun Gong, and to watch slanderous video programmes; punish practitioners if they refuse to be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] by depriving them of sleep, forcing them to sit on the floor without moving, torture and weakening the practitioners' will, or threatening them with forced labour.
  • Husband Imprisoned, Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Hongxia was arrested by agents from the Qinghe District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Qinghe Domestic Security Division in Huaian City, Jiangsu Province, on May 12th. After being detained for a month, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to the Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp on June 12th. Her husband, also a practitioner, has been imprisoned since 2009.
  • An Upstanding Person Faces an Unjust Trial

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Zhichen received a phone call on March 4th, 2011, from the director of the Wangqi Town Police Station, requesting to meet him at Mr. Liu's home. Although no family members were at home and the door was locked, Mr. Liu found the police sitting inside his home when he came back. Obviously the police broke the lock to forcibly gain entry, but they denied it. Upon ransacking Mr. Liu's home, the police found printing equipment. They took away Mr. Liu's personal belongings and Falun Gong DVDs. Mr. Liu has since been detained at the Jilin Detention Centre. Mr. Liu is well known in his village for helping his fellow villagers for years. Mr. Liu faced a trial on June 25th.
  • Ms. Deng Xiuyan Incarcerated for Over Four Months, Her Relatives Detained for Seeking Her Release

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Xiuyan was arrested on January 5th, 2011 and has been detained in the detention centre of Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Her family and friends went to the Yangguanlin police station on May 20th and requested her release. However, they were not successful and even worse, one of them, Mr. Zhang Lijun, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on the spot by police. That afternoon, Ms. Deng’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law took some food to the police station for Mr. Zhang Lijun. Yet all of them were arrested.
  • Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping Arrested

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping were arrested by the police on May 28th. The details are under investigation. Ms. Jia Liyuan, 49, had been arrested by the Qianan Domestic Security Division Police several times before. Once, in 2008, the police used electric batons to shock her neck, hands, arms, chest and back, then poured boiling water on her face and used other cruel methods to torture her.
  • Shanghai Engineer Sentenced Again, Prison Denies Family Visits

    Mr. Zhang Qin, 54, was arrested for the sixth time for practising Falun Gong in June 2009, and sentenced to five years in prison by a Xuhui Court in March 2010. This action represents the second unjust sentence he has received. He was taken secretly to Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai. The prison has not allowed Mr. Zhang's parents to visit him since last November. Previously, in detention guards mercilessly beat Mr. Zhang. He was forced to stand facing a wall continuously for six days and nights at the Xuhui District Detention Centre.
  • Neighbours and Friends Outraged When a Salon Owner Is Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Wang Weichuang, the owner of Quanmei Salon located in Songhuajing in the Huanggu District of Shenyang City, was arrested on April 21st, by the Lingdong Police Station of Huanggu District Public Security Subdivision. The deputy director of the station, Liu Haitao, trumped up charges against Mr. Wang and had him sentenced to forced labour for one year and three months just because Mr. Wang is a Falun Gong practitioner. Lingdong Police Station committed this crime in the pursuit of benefits and bonuses. During the arrest, there were many bystanders, and his neighbours and friends were outraged by what they saw.
  • Elderly Practitioner Li Yuzhen’s Family Hires a Lawyer, 610 Office Retaliates with Threat of Heavy Sentence

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Yuzhen, 68, was arrested in March 2011, then the local public security office, procuratorial office, and the courts conspired to send Mr. Li to prison. Mr. Li’s family hired a lawyer to defend him, but the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) created obstacles in every possible way for the family and the lawyer. The head of the 610 Office even threatened, “Li will get a heavy sentence if the family hires a lawyer to defend him.”
  • Crimes Committed by Chinese Communist Party Officials in Hubei Province “Legal Education Centre”

    The following are some of the torture methods used in Hubei Province “Legal Education Centre”, a brainwashing centre: standing for long times, handcuffing and hanging up, shocking with electric batons, hitting against the wall, violent beatings, and more. Police officers or a gang of thugs violently beat practitioners there every day. The most commonly used tactics are: grabbing a practitioner's hair while slapping him or her in the face; hitting them on the head; hitting the person against the wall and choking him or her; kicking the feet, treading on the feet; slapping the person's mouth with a broom; and beatings with various implements.
  • Tortures that Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Sheng Lianying Was Subjected to at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sheng Lianying, 56, was detained numerous times since the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. She was detained twice at the Masanjia Labour Camp. She was tortured in many ways including force-feeding with suffocation, forcibly given nerve-damaging drugs, Death Bed, “Big hang-up”, force-feeding with hot pepper or mustard powder, force-feeding dirty water, mouth stuffed with faeces, shocking with electric batons and more. As a result of the torture, she is physically weak with atrophied legs and deformed teeth.
  • My Experience of Having Abnormal Physical Reactions in Wuhan City Women’s Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

    When I arrived at Wuhan Women’s Forced Labour Camp on September 30th, 2009 guards demanded that I write a guarantee statement to renounce my belief. I refused. Shortly after lunch on my third day there, I suddenly felt severe pains in my head, as if it was about to explode. I shivered from head to toe, as if my internal organs were shaking and my heart was about to drop out. I couldn’t stop vomiting and had difficulty urinating. I was unable to stand, sit or walk steadily, and there was an immediate increase in my blood pressure. My hands and feet became stiff. My vision became blurred and my responses were very slow. Very often I didn’t know where I was, what time it was or even if I had eaten. I lost my hearing and my hair quickly turned white. My family members are very worried about my condition, and suspect that I was poisoned.
  • Ms. Wang Meiling Sentenced to Forced Labour and Brutally Treated

    Ms. Wang Meiling has been persecuted many times since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. She was sentenced to a forced labour camp and her term was extended on a number of occasions. She was sentenced in 2002 to three years of forced labour in Yunnan Women's Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Wang's term in Yunnan Women's Forced Labour Camp was extended for eight months, and she was severely tortured. She was finally released in 2006. On March 10th, 2011, Ms. Wang was reported to the authorities when she was seen talking to people about Falun Gong in a park. She was arrested by police. Chuxiong Court sentenced Ms. Wang to three years in prison on May 26th. She is now in the process of appeal.
  • Family Files Lawsuit for Ms. Su Dan's Torture in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp

    When Ms. Su Dan was home on February 20th, the neighbourhood administrator deceived her into opening the door by saying that she needed to check her residential permit. Three police officers stormed in and arrested her. Ms. Su told her lawyer that the guards at the Shunyu District Detention Centre had brutally beaten and severely injured her. Ms. Su was sentenced to forced labour and taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was forced to sit up straight on a small chair 18 hours per day, with both hands in her lap and without moving. If she moved, three prisoners assigned to watch her would beat her. Ms. Su's husband complained to the Beijing Forced Labour Bureau about Ms. Sun being tortured. The labour camp authorities asserted that no torture or beatings of any kind took place.
  • 77-Year-old Engineer Mr. Li Peigao of Kunming City Sentenced to a Three-year Prison Term

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Peigao, 77, was seized by the police before the 2008 Olympics in China. On April 2nd, 2009, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He had been incarcerated in the fifth prison ward of the Yunan Province No. 1 Prison. He was released in January 2011 before the Chinese New Year.
  • Wang Yu, a Teen from Beijing, Arrested Again

    Young Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Yu, 17, was arrested by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in December of last year and taken to a brainwashing centre for 13 days, because he was talking about Falun Gong to his teacher and fellow students. After returning from the brainwashing centre he was monitored and harassed by the 610 Office, which demanded that the school expel him. He became homeless. On June 5th, Wang Yu was arrested again and his whereabouts are currently unknown.