Individual Accounts
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Tragic Account of Suffering of Family of Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-04-26During three years' persecution, my relatives have also suffered from the pain of separation, and from continued fear and worry. My grandmother, who is in her 80's developed senile dementia after her daughter and son-in-law were sent to a forced labour camp. -
Classmates Forced to Closely Watch Female Practitioner at College Campus
2003-04-23After this term ended, I returned to school, where my department arranged for two classmates to live with me off campus. These classmates were assigned to report to the department office. They had to follow me closely, never leave me alone, and were even threatened that if I went to appeal or did other things for Dafa, they would not graduate. -
15-Year Old Dafa Practitioner Submits Evidence to the WOIPFG For the Lawsuit Against Jiang
2003-04-18My family, once happy and harmonious due to our practice of Falun Dafa, is now persecuted by Jiang's regime so severe that my family members cannot even reunite. At the age of 15, I am now deprived of my parents and the privilege of going to school. Even more, during this time period, which Jiang's regime hails as "the best time of China for human rights," a 15-year old child has become the victim of reckless police kidnapping and pursuit. -
15 Year Old Recounts Experiences of Suffering Persecution under the Jiang regime
2003-04-05After we came back home from shopping my mum was illegally detained for another 15 days in accordance with the government's policy of maintaining "public security." I will never forget that Chinese Spring Holiday that I spent alone. During those holidays, I didn't even have one meal with my mum like other kids did and I only wished she could come home soon. -
I Sue Jiang Zemin for Making My Family and I Suffer for Almost 4 Years
2003-04-04The third day another two hatchet men from the public security bureau came. As soon as they saw me, one of them said, "It's me who tortured Song Hengjie to death." The other one said, "No responsibility is noted for torturing Falun Gong practitioners to death. If they die, it's counted as a suicide." Song Hengjie and I lived in the same district. He was tortured to death in 2001. Police lied by saying that he committed suicide. -
Head of the Politics and Law Committee Exclaims to Practitioners: "We Can Find a Place and Have You Destroyed!"
2003-04-03A local head of the Politics and Law Committee often called out: "Even though you Falun Gong have over 100 million people, you are still a minority. You will have to give up the practice of Falun Gong even if you are unwilling to. For those stubborn ones, our Party has all kinds of methods to make you succumb. We can find a place and have you destroyed. Our government has made up their mind to eradicate Falun Gong." -
University Student Tells His Own Story: Dismissed from School for Persisting in His Belief
2003-03-29The practitioner was kicked from one policeman toward another, and then that policeman started to kick him. I felt extremely saddened. All the people in the room saw this atrocious scene. One person shouted to the police who were doing the beating, "It is forbidden to beat people!" She tried to rush out of the room after saying this but as a result, she was shackled to an iron column by the police. -
Three Horrifying Years For A Female Dafa Practitioner in Weifang City, Shandong Province
2003-03-19They quickly isolated the woman of more than 50 years old to another room and beat her up. Coming from the other side through the wall, I could hear shouting, screaming and moans of agony. And on this side, a police officer beat me on the head with an electric baton, and used different ways of abusing me until I finally collapsed on the ground. Then they ran a dirty mop over my face again and again. This went on until midnight. -
Atrocities at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp
2003-03-19Inside the strict control room, there were only a few wooden boards on the bed without any covers, and my hands and feet were shackled to the bed 24 hours a day. I could not move at all. I was bleeding terribly under the cruel torture, my pants were full of blood and faeces, my blood made the boards all red, and my whole body was so cold that it shook and made the whole bed shake along with it. Worrying that other people could hear the miserable cries from the small cell, they stuffed dirty rags into practitioners' mouths using a steel wire to fasten it there. -
FDI: Practitioner Song Xu Tortured To the Verge of Death - Fellow Practitioners Call for Urgent Rescue
2003-03-17Henan Agricultural University alumnus, 29-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Song Xu was abducted a fifth time by the local police officers. He suffered terrible tortures and his health is in a desperate condition. In early January 2003, he was sent to Jinshui Hospital for medical treatment. Around February 10, he was sent to an emergency room for rescue and he has been there for more than 20 days up to present. Overseas Falun Gong practitioners call for an urgent rescue of Song Xu. -
Horrific Smell of Burning Flesh Fills the Air as Dafa Practitioners are Brutally Tortured in Jinzhou Labour Camp
2003-03-09The 2nd Brigade in Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp is a concentration camp to torture Dafa practitioners. I was detained there for about four months, and witnessed the insanity of the demonic police officers. Since September 2002, determined Dafa practitioners were brought to the torture chambers. There are two such chambers in which Dafa practitioners were tortured in two different ways. -
Letter to United States District Court: Poignant Facts of the 3-Year Persecution of Jilin City Husband and Wife Falun Dafa Practitioners
2003-03-01On the morning of October 1st, around 8 a.m., I unfurled a 5-meter-long banner that said, "Falun Dafa is Good!" Several dozen police began beating me, some with long iron bars hidden in their sleeves to strike my head repeatedly. My head and entire body were bleeding. My clothes were soaked with blood. I passed out on the spot and was carried by the police to Beijing's Qianmen Police Station. The police threw me in a quiet place while I was still unconscious and left me for the night. -
Changchun Female Dafa Practitioner Cruelly Tortured: Nipples Burnt, Face Covered with Bloody Blisters, Thighs Festered from Shocks of Electric Batons
2003-02-25...My neck was swollen to the size of my head, my face was full of bloody blisters. My ears extended because of swelling. My lips were swollen and turned to the outside. When I took off my clothes, all the people were so stunned that many of them burst into tears and dared not look at me. On my breasts and under my armpits, were bruises and scars from wounds strung together like beads. My breasts swelled up and were too painful to be touched, my nipples were burnt black. -
Young Teen's Heart-Rendering Story: Parents Sent to Labour Camp and Brother Sentenced to Jail
2003-02-22Then they handcuffed my parents and forced them to go to a detention centre. It was a frightening scene! I didn't want them to go, but the strangers didn't listen. It's been two months since then. I miss my parents very much! My uncle went to the detention centre to try to get my parents to come home, but he was told, "Both were sentenced to forced labour education for three years. -
Germany: Speaking Out for My Former Classmate, Wang Weiyu
2003-02-19In the September of 2000, I saw Wang Weiyu when I returned to China. At that time, he had been forced to leave school and become homeless. He told me his experience of visiting Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong and of being tortured in the police station. In August 2002, he was kidnapped in the company where he worked part time. To date, it is unknown where Weiyu is.