Individual Accounts

A True Story told by a Kind-hearted Non-practitioner Who Knows about Police Torture of Dafa Practitioners

2001-12-29

They beat his body at will with a wooden stick. They locked him up against iron chairs with his hands twisted around, and then they hit his head, neck, chest, wrists, and ankles with an iron bolt. The torture was so painful that he cried out loud, so they stuffed his mouth with a tablecloth and tied his jaw with a rope to stop his cries. At night, they would take off all his clothes and pour cold water onto his naked body. Then they would drag him to the backyard and freeze him in the snowy weather of 12 or 13oC below zero.

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Female Practitioner Tortured, Disabled and Forced to Leave her Family

2001-12-29

The detention lasted from January 9 to May 10 on the Chinese lunar calendar. Since my husband was out of town for work, I had to take my child with me. Everyday we ate nothing but thin pancakes and drank only cold water. My two-year-old son had a toothache because of the cold water, and he became skinnier, day by day. Every day the guards would hit my son until he cried. In the beginning there was a chair for sleeping, and they even took that away. Sometimes they kept both of us locked up so we couldn't even go to the restroom. They detained me for five months, but the nightmare was not yet over.

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Zhang Sufang, Where Are You?

2001-12-27

On the Chinese Labour Day of this year (May 1st), practitioner Zhang was again handcuffed behind her back and hung on a window; her cries touched everybody who witnessed the scene. She said, "Because I spoke the truth, I was tortured inhumanely and my family was greatly harmed.

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Two Illegally Detained Practitioners Go on Hunger Strike

2001-12-25

Two policemen would drag her out, add a large amount of salt into the food, insert a tube into her stomach, and force feed her bean powder. Every time after she returned from the force feeding, she vomited everything. She has a fever and pains all over her body. Suffering a great deal, she moans throughout the night.

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Nobly Walking Out of the Forced Labour Camp After a 119-Day Hunger Strike

2001-12-23

At the beginning of December 1999, my husband and I went to Beijing to appeal. We just wanted to tell the truth about Dafa. Only after we arrived at the National Appeals Bureau did we discover that this bureau didn't welcome any appeals. Instead, it had become a police department for arresting Falun Gong practitioners.

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Urgent Call for the Rescue of the Wife of a Taiwan Citizen Who Is Being Illegally Imprisoned In China

2001-12-22

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My Experience of Being Kidnapped and Taken to a Mental Hospital Because of Holding True to My Belief

2001-12-20

they said, "We know you are normal and you are not muddled. In fact, you have been very sober. But, it is illegal to practise Falun Gong, and you are being treated for your sickness of believing in Falun Gong. "You should not have been sent here in the first place. It was your factory that insisted on sending you here. Without the consent of your factory, I cannot let you leave here since you have a political problem."

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Latest Statistics of the Persecution in Sichuan Province

2001-12-19

After several months of interrogation and brutal torture, the police didn't get one word from Leng Tao. He was jailed with other inmates. The police encouraged the criminal inmates to persecute him. The inmates rode on his head and urinated on him. They use a toothbrush to rub his penis raw. Also they beat him inhumanly.

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The Torture of Practitioner Liu Guangxiu

2001-12-19

Since Liu Guangxiu did not cooperate with the abusive policemen, they undressed her, leaving her wearing only her undergarments. They forced her to stand outside on the snowy ground for 24 hours. In the meantime, they poured icy water all over her body and force-fed water through her nose.

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Persecuted for Her Strong Belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, the Former Deputy Director of Hesheng Township is Forced from Her Hometown

2001-12-15

Because I never cooperated with the evil people and insisted on practicing the exercises, I suffered brutal beatings many times and was forced to wear shackles. Shackles are normally only used for death sentence criminals. When the mobsters brutally beat me, they kept pushing and pulling my limbs, stretching me and beating me with batons, almost crazily. I was beaten black and blue and lots of my hair was missing. They beat me with a big iron ring on which hung the keys to all the cells. Seeing this, many common prisoners cried.

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"Give Me Back My Father!" - A Twelve Year-Old's Appeal

2001-12-13

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Please Pay Attention to the Illegally Detained Practitioner Li Yongjun

2001-12-12

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Barbarous Torture of Female Practitioner- Your Help is Needed to Save Her

2001-12-11

While in detention, she was brutally tortured and was later sent to the Yanqing Hospital for treatment. On November 29, 2001, Wang was on the verge of death. At that time she was emaciated and had been unconscious for a long time; however, her respiration and heartbeat were normal. One doctor briefly examined her and said to himself, "Falun Gong practitioners are really strong."

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Dafa Practitioner Liu Shuqin's Life is in Great Peril after 26 Days on a Hunger Strike

2001-12-09

Liu Shuqin faced the detention with a fortitude that commanded admiration and respect. She refused to report her name or to cooperate with any orders, instructions, or requirements. She has been on a hunger and water strike ever since. It has been 26 days, and her life is in great danger. However, the police still won't release her, but continue to torture her weak body and force-feed her with salt water.

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The Persecution I Suffered

2001-12-09

He also kicked my legs and hips and howled, "I don't believe I can not control you! I don't need you to speak any more! I will break your legs! ..." The wicked policeman Shao Chongchun got tired from beating me, he took off his shirt, pulled up his sleeves, and continued trying to get a confession through torture. He frenziedly beat, kicked, and cursed at me and he pulled my hair. Later, he hung me up on the heating pipes, my body was suspended with only the tips of my toes touching the ground. He beat me up and intentionally made my body swing to cause me further pain. Because of the long duration of the malicious persecution, the handcuffs cut deeply into my wrists.

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