Individual Accounts

  • Ms. Li Yushu Brutally Tortured in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

    Ms. Li Yushu was sentenced to a 12-year prison term in Heilongjiang Women's Prison in May 2002 for practising Falun Gong. She was held in a small cell once and in an isolation cell six times. She ended up emaciated. Ms. Li recounted the torture she suffered during her imprisonment: "Guards force-fed me. On December 10th, Li Mingying pinched my nose and Wu Xiangfeng and Liu fengzhen sat on top of me, forced my mouth open, and poured liquid food down my throat. I resisted with all my strength and vomited. Generally, force-feeding went on for one to two hours, twice a day. After each episode I was exhausted, had blood all over my face, and sustained injuries to my mouth."
  • Ms. Tu Xiaomin Recounts the Persecution She Endured in Huhehaote Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Huhehaote Women's Labour Camp bought 40 detainees from the Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Division on January 24th, 2008, to be used as slave labour. Ms. Tu was one of them. Here is her account of her experience: "Guard Lu Junqing again asked me what I thought of Falun Gong. I told her I would never change my mind regarding Falun Gong and that she should give up trying to "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me. Lu Junqing put drug addict Xia Congling to watch over me. Xia had brutally beaten many practitioners. Xia grabbed my hair and starting hitting and kicking me. She also put me in a headlock and nearly choked me and knocked me down. My glasses were twisted, and my face and hands bled."
  • Tortured for Seven Years: Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yinying from Beijing

    Ms. Zhang Yinying, 52, started practising Falun Gong in February 1998. She has been detained in a forced labour camp three times for her firm belief in the practice. Ms. Zhang was tortured in Daxing Women's Forced Labour Camp in Beijing and Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. As a result of the torture, she lost almost all of her teeth. In her own words she recounts: "Guards locked me in a small room with six detainees who were ordered to beat me. Some hit me, while others stomped on my stomach. One of them used a water bottle to hit my legs. I got two black eyes after the beating that night."
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Du Hui from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province Severely Tortured, Sexually Assaulted and Injected with Drugs

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Hui from Jiamusi was arrested in December 2005 and sentenced to forced labour. Du Hui said: "This has been the most painful time of my life. The physical and mental torture drove me to the point of wanting to die. Throughout this heinous persecution I was disrespected, deprived of all personal liberty and was often in extreme agony...The hardest for me to endure was the mental torture. One time both doctor Li Xuena and the director of the forced labour camp tried to forcefully inject me with an unknown drug. There was no explanation or reason given for the injection. I firmly refused the injection. At day six, my arms were full of puncture holes...and my blood was all over the floor."
  • Ms. Liu Guifu's First-Hand Account of Officially Sanctioned Persecution and Brutal Torture

    My name is Liu Guifu. Shortly after I started to practise Falun Gong in 1994, all of my illnesses disappeared and my life was filled with joy. However, my life took a dramatic turn after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. Because of my belief, I was subjected to relentless persecution. I was arrested and detained eight times, including five instances of long-term detention. I was imprisoned for a total of four years, during which time I was made to suffer unbearable tortures. I managed to escape and came to the United States.
  • Female Falun Gong Practitioner Persecuted by Communist Officials in Zhucheng City, Shandong Province

    Cao Jinhui was a Zhucheng Domestic Security Division section chief. After the persecution began, he beat numerous practitioners, causing injuries to countless people and resulting in four deaths. Cao Jinhui had a private jail set up on the third floor of the Domestic Security Division Hotel. With all the windows tightly covered with curtains, the room was equipped with a metal chair, electric batons, and a rubber club. While drunk, Cao hit my thighs and kept asking if I'd still practise Falun Gong. He didn't stop until he was exhausted. I ended up with purple bruises.
  • The Persecution Suffered by Sichuan Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Liu Yingxu

    After the Chinese Communist regime began to suppress Falun Gong in 1999, Mr. Liu Yingxu was persecuted many times. He was sent to a labour camp twice and imprisoned for three years in total. He was once detained in a brainwashing centre for seven and a half months. Recounting his ordeal in a labour camp: "I was assigned to make bricks. I often had to work until late at night, and with the lights on for quite some time. Initially, I was assigned to push the dump trucks and shovel debris. However, it was too strenuous for me, and I nearly fainted several times from exhaustion. My whole body ached after finishing work for the day. My hands were blistered, and I could not straighten my arms."
  • An Elderly Mother's Appeal: "Give Me Back My Daughter"

    On June 22nd, 2010, Ms. Sun Libin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiamusi City, accompanied a teenager to see his mother, a fellow practitioner who is incarcerated in the Jiadong Police Station. Ms. Sun was arrested by the Jiadong Police. It has been over fifty days, and her mother has yet to find out her whereabouts. Sun Libin's nearly 80-year-old mother has made an appeal to the Jiamusi Procuratorate and related government officials.
  • Ms. Man Shujie From Jilin Province Recounts Her Experience of Persecution

    On September 17th, 2005, as I was picking up some Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution I was followed by policemen. They arrested me and took me to the State Security Unit. The police then went to my home and confiscated my Falun Gong books. I was sent to the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp in Changchun. I had to work 15 hours a day. My work included making food boxes for use on airplanes, cotton slippers, peeling garlic, and making paper butterflies. The glue we used to make paper butterflies had a very strong odour, and we kept coughing from it.
  • Disabled As a Result of Repeated Beatings and Torture: Personal Account of the Horrific Persecution Endured by Ms. Chen Zhenbo

    I was arrested on December 25th, 2008, after being reported to the authorities while handing out fliers about Falun Gong. I was held at the Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. In attempts to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me, the officers at the labour camp used inhuman physical and mental tortures. Guards cuffed each of my hands to metal bars to the side of the window. They covered my head with a pillowcase and roughly pulled me forward. About five minutes later, I had acute pain in my neck, which was hard to endure. I was let down after seven days and my hands had lost sensation. I was carried home disabled on July 2nd, 2010.
  • Please Help Rescue My Wife Whose Life Is in Danger

    Just because my wife, Ms. Li Xiuqin, followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecuted her many times. They detained her, sentenced her to forced labour and extorted money from us. In 2005, my wife was tortured and became emaciated. She went into shock twice at the detention centre and her life was in danger. Despite repeated requests, the police bureau officials refused to to anything for her. They claimed that she was all right and took her to a labour camp instead. The guards at the labour camp refused to take her because of her physical condition.
  • Personal Account of Persecution by the Late Mr. Liu Quanguo from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Quanguo was arrested without a warrant, detained, sentenced to forced labour, tortured, and injected with unknown drugs. The head guard publicly said to him: "You'll die after you are released." And after Liu Quanguo was released, he did pass away on February 16th, 2008 at the age of 45. Before his death he recounted: "In Shuangcheng Detention Centre, the guard interrogated me again and again, trying to find out who organised our Falun Gong group. I was forced to stand for 24 hrs, and made to pick up a toilet bucket weighing 50 kilograms. The guard ordered prisoners to beat and kick me, I had black eyes and a bleeding nose and mouth."
  • Please Help My Mother Song Dan

    Several days ago, my mother, Song Dan, was talking to some people about Falun Gong, hoping that more would benefit from the truth and her experience, but she was arrested by police from the Tangyuan County Police Station. They did not allow us to visit my mother. There are elderly people at home who need her. My whole family urgently hopes my mother will come home soon. I hope that kind people everywhere will help us to rescue my mother!
  • An Open Letter from Mr. Xu Dawei's Wife to Chinese Regime Agencies

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Dawei was tortured at Dongling Prison in Shenyang City to the extent that he suffered internal organ failure, his body was covered in injuries, and he suffered mental collapse and memory loss. In February 2009, 13 days after his release from serving an eight-year term in the prison, Mr. Xu died at the age of 36. In March 2010, 376 villagers in the five villages in Ying'emen Town, Qingyuan County jointly signed an appeal letter on behalf of Mr. Xu. This incident has resulted in an investigation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has resorted to threats and harassment of the letter's signatories. Attorney Mr. Wang Jinglong, hired by Mr. Xu's family, has faced suppression from the Liaoning Province Justice Department.
  • Eyewitness: Shanxi Province Women's Prison a Processing Facility for Counterfeit Drugs

    In 2007, the Shanxi Province Women's Prison was rated as a "Civilised Prison," but based on what I saw there, I think it would be more appropriate to call it a "processing site for counterfeit drugs." I was detained in the prison's processing facility. The workshop facility processes almost everything, from food and clothing, to items used on a daily basis. Two rooms on the second floor were used to package many different kinds of fake drugs. The majority of the drugs processed were used to treat heart disease and high blood pressure.