Individual Accounts
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USA: Please Help Rescue My Mother, A Retired Physics Professor in Jilin Province (photo)
2002-11-27
Once, I called my father and he deeply sighed, "If our family's suffering would allow hundreds of thousands of families to be free of such suffering, my heart would be in peace." I wept upon hearing this. My heart was touched by my father's kindness. Even more so, I wept for the plight of millions of Falun Gong practitioners and their families who are suffering the persecution simply for their steadfast belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. -
Canada: Dafa Practitioner Calls for Help to Rescue Her Illegally Detained Father in China
2002-11-27On July 4 2002, my father was taken away for questioning and about 7 police officers came to our house. Without a search warrant, they ransacked the house. Later, my father was charged with various "criminal" offences and detained. No visitors, not even relatives, were allowed to see him. On November 12, the family received a call from the police department, saying that my father would soon be put on trial. -
The Inside Story: Shibalihe Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Fabricates Television News Reports
2002-11-27The guard took the plate of rice and pretended he was feeding a "sick" practitioner gently, bit by bit, for the TV camera. He even pretended to say some comforting words to her so the reporter could record it with a TV camera. Very soon, the story was shown on the Henan Provincial TV station. Afterwards, that fake "sick practitioner" told us, "I felt terribly hot and was soaked with sweat. It gave me an awful feeling." -
Germany: Urgently Rescue German Resident's Wife Mrs. Wang Xiaoyan
2002-11-26
Falun Gong practitioners in Germany are appealing to the German government, international human rights agencies and the kind German people on behalf of German resident Zhang Zhendan's wife Mrs. Wang Xiaoyan. She was arrested for distributing Falun Gong leaflets at the end of 2000 and sent to a labour camp for brainwashng. After her release she has been forced to live on the streets to avoid further persecution. -
Australia: Persecution Ruins the Family of Hairdresser Ms. Chen Jianrong
2002-11-26
In August 2000, Ms. Chen's brother and sister-in-law were arrested, abused and mistreated in a detention centre. Her brother was released, but his wife Ms. Li Cuiling [pictured] was sentenced to three years of forced labour. Ms. Chen worries about her family members' safety in China and hopes the kind people of the world can extend their help to end this brutal persecution soon. -
An Account of the Abuse I Suffered at Xigemu Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province
2002-11-26Once, some inmates tried to force me to recite the prison rules, but I refused. Because of this, they kicked my back with their leather boots, which caused a chronic injury that prevented me from moving when sleeping... Police on duty and other assigned inmates watched us from the hallway. We were forced to sit on the small stools continuously for 20 hours every day. We had very little time to sleep each day, and what little sleep we had was often interrupted. -
Canadian Citizen Asks for Help in Rescuing His Nephew who was Kidnapped by Chinese Police
2002-11-25He actively clarified the truth of the persecution to everyone around him and encouraged them to clarify the truth, too. Unfortunately, the police illegally arrested him this March and his whereabouts are uncertain. It was said that he might be sentenced to serve in a forced labour camp for several years. -
An Individual’s Shocking account of Torture by Prisoners in Yongchuan Prison
2002-11-17One day, they asked me to roll up my trousers to show them my wounds there. When they saw the wounds in my legs were festering, they asked me where I hurt most. I told them it was my right leg. Then they used bamboo stalks to hit my right leg. After the event, prisoner Zhou Chengbing told me in private, "Team Leader Liu said in order to reform you, it does not matter if we break one or two of your bones." -
I Was Cruelly Tortured By Police from Hebei Province In Order To Obtain Information
2002-11-15The police tortured me relentlessly. They beat me till I became seriously injured and could not take care of myself. These villains used electric batons to shock all the sensitive areas of my body in order to inflict excruciating pain...To make me suffer even more pain, they attached more than 10 kilograms of books and newspapers to my body. More than ten people pushed me around like a swing. I was suffering such unbearable pain. -
Urgent Rescue: My Memorable Encounters with Zheng Xujun
2002-11-14
Zheng Xujun was a visiting scholar in the University of Liverpool (UK) before returning to China in 1999. Because they practise Falun Gong, Xujun and his wife Su Nan are now being detained in forced labour camps suffering unimaginable miseries. European citizens have launched an urgent rescue campaign to get these innocent people freed immediately. -
Urgent Rescue: Please Help Falun Gong Practitioner Zheng Xujun
2002-11-12Zheng Xujun was a visiting scholar at Liverpool University, England in 1999. In July 1999, he made the brave decision to go back to China. He put enormous effort into telling people the truth about the brutal suppression of Falun Gong and endured much persecution. He ignored an opportunity to go abroad because he knew that his skills and abilities are needed most by his fellow practitioners in China. He is now kept at Beijing Tuanhe labour camp. -
My Personal Experiences of Inhuman Torture
2002-11-09The vicious guards gagged me with a hand-towel, tied my hands and arms tightly and lifted them behind my neck. Instructed by guard Zhao Naiwei, eight to nine guards shocked me all over my body with four electric batons. When the electricity was used up, they would recharge the batons and keep shocking me. -
Personal Account: Nearly Tortured to Death by Police in Sichuan Province
2002-11-04They handcuffed both my hands and feet to iron bars in the spread eagle position [hands and feet pulled apart to opposite extremes] and pulled my head backwards by my hair, making my head squeeze into the space between the two iron bars that was narrower than the width of my head. This caused me extreme pain and dizziness. With my face looking upward, he tightly held both my nose and check, and started savagely force-feeding me. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Su Ying Suffers Savage Torture at the Panjin Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2002-11-03Labour camp officials beat and kicked Su all over her body. They then shocked and beat her over thirty times with an electric baton, leaving her covered with cuts and bruises. Her lower back and buttocks were especially swollen and turned black. After the torture, the abusers tried to force her to sign a paper slandering Falun Dafa and Teacher Li but she refused. -
I Didn't Stumble When Faced with Difficulty
2002-11-01"I will beat you for the sake of Beijing people," one officer said. He beat me on the face using his hand and then using a police baton. Later I was detained in another cell. The criminals there brutally beat me. I shouted out "Falun Dafa is good." When the police heard this, they came over and beat me with an electrical baton.
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