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  • The Truth about how Dafa Practitioner Shi Yueqin from Hainan Was Persecuted to Her Death

    Ms. Shi Yueqin, about 30 years old, lived in Wenchang City, Hainan Province, and was an employee at the Hainan Food Supplies Department. She started practising Falun Gong in 1997; after the persecution began, she too fell victim. At the Hainan Mental Hospital they injected her with a large amount of drugs that damage the nervous system, and as a result upon her return home she was severely disoriented. Tragically, on the morning of March 6, 2003, she jumped out of a building and died.
  • Account of the Persecution Suffered by Practitioner Ms. He Xianggu, a Nurse at the Hunan Province Mother and Child Care Hospital

    Ms. He Xianggu, 43, is a nurse in the Emergency Room of the Hunan Province Mother and Child Care Hospital. Ms. He was sent to the Hunan Province Mental Hospital. Leaders of the Hunan Province Mother and Child Care Hospital often went to the mental hospital to abuse and deride her, and made suggestions to the doctors on how they should abuse her. The Secretary of Outpatient Department of Hunan Province Mother and Child Care Hospital, shouted: "You still want to stay in the mental hospital, do you?! If you keep insisting on practising Falun Gong, we'll make you lose your family, son, husband, job, and money!"
  • Practitioner Ms. Feng Xiaomin from Shijiazhuang City, Dies Due to Persecution; Baby Now Motherless

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Feng Xiaomin suffered severe persecution for practising Falun Gong. She was forced to leave home to avoid the relentless harassment and constant threat of arbitrary arrest by the authorities. She and her husband had a baby in 2002, which added extra mental pressure in such a difficult living situation. The chief of Police applied even more pressure on the couple. Under enormous mental pressure, her health deteriorated and she passed away on June 1, 2004. Her child is now only one year and 10 months old and hasn't even been permitted to obtain proper residency registration and identification.
  • Retired Worker From Luoyang Glass Factory is Repeatedly Brainwashed, Jailed and Tortured -- Her Husband Dies From Sudden Stroke Right After Police Threaten Him

    Ms. Cai Qiao, is 54 years old and a retired worker from the Luoyang Glass Factory. In February 2001, the "610 Office" and the glass factory Public Security Unit sent Cai Qiao to the Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province and detained her for two years, only for practising Falun Dafa. She suffered relentless torture. To add to her pain her husband died suddenly from a stroke after he was threatened by a chief at Cai Qiao's workplace.
  • "Hanging a Barrel" -- A Torture Method Used by the Dalian Police to Persecute Dafa Practitioners (Illustration)

    "Later, the police drove me to a remote location to continue to abuse me. They found some hard and strong nylon rope that is used specifically for the boating and fishing industry. They suspended the rope from a roof-level heater pipe and hung me up, with both arms tied, and poured water over my face. The police then located two plastic rectangular "barrels" full of water, each able to hold about 40 to 50 jin [approximately 45 to 55 lbs.]. They said, "Since your are female, we will fill them slightly less." I was tired and in pain, carrying two barrels of water which weighed almost 100 lbs., across my shoulder."
  • Slave Labour in Chinese Forced Labour Camps: The Inside Story

    "I am a Dafa practitioner forced to work in a prison in China. Throughout these years I have faced a brutal reality and have witnessed countless inhumane incidents and circumstances inside the prison. After seeing the investigative report published on Clearharmony.net about the Chinese forced labour camps producing products using slave labour, I decided to make public some of the facts inside the prison where I work."
  • Jiang's Trip to Jiuhua Mountain

    Jiang does not let people practise Falun Gong because they believe that Buddhas and Gods exist. Yet according to a report in January 2002 by Hong Kong's Open Magazine, Jiang transcribed Ksitigarbha Sutra at home and spent huge amounts of money asking lamas to pray for his good fortune and long life. Jiang worships a Bodhisattva, yet, at the same time, he uses the excuse of the Chinese government's being atheist to persecute Falun Gong.
  • What Dafa Practitioner Mr. Song Changguang Suffered Prior to his Death: Relentless Beatings and Electric Shock Torture

    Mr. Song Changguang was 26 years old and lived near Dehui City. He was arrested in late 2000 for displaying a banner at Tiananmen Square and then he was sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. After May 2001, Song Changguang developed scabies. His scabies spread all over his body, the damaged skin reaching as high as 60%. Once the blisters formed, the guards slapped the scabies to cause excruciating pain. After over a year of torture, Mr. Song, who was once healthy, had become skin and bones. When he was in a critical condition he was released, however he died on November 12, 2002.
  • Vice Copy Editor Ms. Wang Yue of China People's Publication Sustains Severe Spinal Damage from Torture

    Ms Wang Yue, about 40 to 50 years of age, was the vice copy editor from China People's Publication. She was beaten in a brainwashing class located in Beijing because she appealed against the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. She was injured in the cervical area of her spine. At the same time Wang Yue may have suffered brain damage. Her reaction time has slowed down considerably, she needs to sleep more, her hearing, memory and reasoning ability have weakened. The situation is serious and dangerous, and has received attention from all areas of society.
  • Repeated Torture Causes Practitioner Ms. Zhou Wenli from Shijiazhuang City to Suffer a Mental Collapse

    Ms Zhou Wenli worked at a Pharmaceutical Company in Hebei Province. She was twice taken to a brainwashing centre. Zhou Wenli was humiliated and deprived of freedom and sleep for at least eight days. She was forced to watch propaganda that denounced Falun Gong and forced to write a statement of "guarantee" to stop her practice of Falun Gong. Subsequently, she has suffered a mental collapse and has been hospitalized many times.
  • Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts in Hubei Province Stages TV Shows to Deceive the Public

    One afternoon in May of 2001, a show was staged and filmed by the Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts in Hubei Province. Ms Liu Shengli, who had given up her belief in Dafa under duress, was putting on an act talking with Dafa practitioner Ms Deng Taoying as if she was concerned about her. At the same time, Ms Yan Ting, who had also been forced to give up her belief in Dafa, was pretending to talk to her mother on the telephone in Shandong Province. After editing and dubbing, the videotapes were made into a special TV news programme to show how Shizishan Labour Camp "cares, educates, helps and saves" Falun Gong practitioners.
  • International Community's Immediate Attention Needed: Bodily Organs Removed and Sold From Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Death in China

    Using violence, deception, and corruption, the Chinese dictatorship covers up many of its horrible crimes. The theft and sale by the government of bodily organs from executed prisoners has been confirmed by witnesses and condemned by the international community. Witnesses say that Falun Dafa practitioners who are tortured to death sometimes have their organs stolen and sold to third parties.
  • Interview with Zhao Ming in Vienna

    Zhao Ming is a former post-graduate student of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. He now resides in Ireland as a refugee. Because he practises Falun Gong he was unlawfully arrested when he went back to China for Christmas in 1999. Zhao Ming was imprisoned for twenty two months and suffered unimaginable torture daily. In March 2002 he was released from prison and he returned to Dublin. Ever since then he has been informing the international community about the unlawful persecution in China.
  • Canadian Citizen's Mother is Abducted and Taken for Brainwashing in Wuhan, Hubei Province

    Police in Hubei Province abducted Ms. Li Guangzhen in March of this year. Ms. Li is the mother of Canadian citizen Mr. Xiao Jin. She was abducted because someone reported her to the police for appealing against the persecution of Falun Gong. After North American media exposed the abduction of Ms. Li Guangzhen, her situation received widespread attention. However, the public outcry from the international community fell on deaf ears. Ignoring the appeals, the "610 Office" forced Ms. Li Guangzhen to attend a brainwashing class that slandered Falun Gong.
  • Elderly Practitioner Suffers a Fractured Spine from Beatings Received at the Tuanhe Labour Camp

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Qian Shiguang is in his 60's and from Lanzhou city, Guansu province. Recent reports revealed that Mr. Qian Shiguang was beaten at the Tuanhe labour camp in October 2003, and suffered a fracture to his spine. He was then sent to the Tuanhe Hospital (a hospital affiliated with the labour camp). There it was found that his injury could not be repaired leaving him unable to care for himself.