Individual Accounts
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The Horrendous Torture I Experienced in a Detention Centre and Labour Camp
2002-09-28When we could go on no more, the police relentlessly beat us with belts and cursed us at the same time. When we collapsed, they pulled our heads back by the hair to make us start walking again. Many of us fainted from the torture. -
Canadian Practitioner Shares Her Family's Story
2002-09-28Songtao had been tortured to death by a police officer on November 3, 2000 for not giving up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. And his wife, my sister, was "missing"... -
Dafa Practitioner Righteously Defends his Innocence in Court
2002-09-22The Judge asked: "What evidence [of torture] do you have?"Dafa practitioner Kong Xiangzhu lifted up his clothing, and revealed the scar which he received from an emergency rescue after police had almost killed him and said "This scar serves as evidence." -
Associate Professor of Institute of Civil Engineering Is still Held in a Mental Hospital
2002-09-19She had been force-fed and locked in a confined cell. Her mouth was once stuffed with a used sanitary towel and a cloth that was used to clean the toilet. She was compelled to take psychiatric drugs and she had also suffered electric shocks while she was tied on a bed. -
The Abuse I Suffered at a Brainwashing Centre in China
2002-09-19Using all the methods that they had learned at labour camps, they punched, kicked, and slapped me, beat my head, dragged my hair and slammed my head into the wall. They also forced me to squat and kneel down, beating me harder when I refused. -
Policewomen in the Nanmu Labour Camp Brutally Beat Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Tinglian
2002-09-18At that time another lawless policewoman, Yang Shifeng, was passing by. She then struck Wang's chest very hard with her elbow. Till now, practitioner Wang still suffers from chest pain. -
Brutal Torture of Practitioner Ms. Xu Menglan to Extort a "Confession"
2002-09-18Lawless policemen required Xu to admit that she bombed a building in Harbin City. As long as Xu didn't admit it, they kept brutally beating her, kicking her and tortured her into unconsciousness three times, but each time they revived her by splashing cold water on her. -
The Cruel Torture We Suffered in Kaiping and Gaoyang County Labour Camps
2002-09-17"If she dies, I have to go to jail." Police officer Yan Hongli who was standing nearby, replied, "Don't worry! I will give false testimony to the effect that she died of a heart attack." -
Changchun University in Jilin Province Persecutes Female Dafa Practitioner Zhang Yufen
2002-09-15Zhang Yufeng's husband sent his own wife to the brainwashing class, where she was then forced into a police car and sent to the Xinglongshan brainwashing class in Changchun. During this period, her husband decided to divorce her under intense pressure from the authorities. -
My Persecution -- A Canadian Resident's Experiences
2002-09-14They incited criminals to strip off my clothes and search my body. They abused me by beating me during the search. They punched and kicked me, slapping me in the face, beating my head and lower abdomen. -
The Story of the Song, "Little Fadu Misses Her Dad"
2002-09-14Her father had to leave home because the "610 Office" continuously escalated the persecution. After a while, the news spread that he had been tortured to death. Soon after, her grandfather collapsed and died. -
Female Practitioner Sentenced to 16 Years After Enduring Severe, Prolonged Torture in Shenyang City
2002-09-13The police violently and fiercely hit her legs with an iron rod, then covered her head with a sealed motorcycle helmet and inserted a lit cigarette through the vent to force her to breathe smoke and overheat her. -
The Tribulation of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liao Kairun from Hongjiang City
2002-09-13This cruel torture treatment would last from several hours up to more than a twelve days and causes severe damage to the practitioner, both mentally and physically. During the hunger strike, he was brutally force-fed but then released after his health declined. -
Kaiping Labour Camp Hospital Conducts Inhuman Experiments on Practitioners
2002-09-13The officials were testing how much the practitioners could endure. Sometimes, they would not feed or allow practitioners to drink during the hottest time of the year to observe their endurance. They treated some practitioners as experimental specimens to find better ways of persecuting practitioners. -
Wanchun Mental Hospital Administers Drug Overdoses and Electric Shock to Break Falun Dafa Practitioners' Will
2002-09-10..the doctor dragged Yang Chongyu away for an electric shock "treatment" and then dragged Chen Jinhua to see Yang Chongyu's alarming appearance after the electric shock - her face green, her lips black, her whole body unable to move.