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  • Eyewitness Account: Female Dafa Practitioners Ruthlessly Tortured in Liaoning Province Dabei Women's Prison

    "I was sent to the Dabei Women's Prison of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province in 2003. On the day of my arrival I received inhumane treatment. The prison guard ordered prisoners to threaten me and violently stripped off all of my clothes. They tore the bedding that I had brought into pieces and stole everything I had with me, including several hundred Yuan. I was given only one blanket, a washbasin and two handbags. I was offered no food all day."
  • Illustrations of Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (14 -- 15)

    Torture Method 15 - Burying alive: This method is so heinous that they have to do it at night so that no one will see their crimes. Over half a dozen police officers drag a practitioner to an open rural area. They start a fire for light. Then they dig a hole and push the Falun Gong practitioner into the pit. They shine flashlights directly into the practitioner's eyes so that he cannot see them. They bury the practitioner up to his chest. At the same time, they constantly use electric batons to shock his head.
  • Review of the Facts: Beijing Police Officers Interfered in the Funeral of Zhao Xin and Arrested Photographers

    "One day in late December of 2000, I received the information about the funeral of practitioner Zhao Xin. I rushed to the Babaoshan Cemetery. A number of police vehicles were also parked in the cemetery. There were plainclothes policemen all over the place. Over a thousand practitioners failed to enter. Whoever attempted to enter the cemetery was quickly grabbed by the police officers and thrown into the big bus that was waiting there and later driven away. It turned out that the authorities told Zhao's family that no personal review of Zhao Xin was allowed.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms. Jing Shuhua from Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Dafa practitioner Jing Shuhua was a 56-year-old lady from Yanji City, Jilin Province. On the morning of April 29, 2004, the police ransacked her home and took her away. After her arrest, the police would not allow her family members to visit her. Even when later her family heard she had a relapse of her heart problem and wanted to send in some medicine and clothes, the police still refused to let the family see her, nor did they give the medicine to her. On May 25, Jing Shuhua was released but she was already on the verge of death. Jing Shuhua passed away early on the morning of May 27.
  • Dafa Practitioner Qiu Liying is in Critical Condition, Authorities at the Hedong Police Station Still Refuse to Release Her

    Dafa practitioner Qiu Liying from Shijiazhuang city has been on a hunger strike for over 40 days to protest her illegal detention. Her breathing and pulse have become very weak. Since May 22, Qiu Liying's muscles have been cramping, and her life is constantly in danger. Following the orders of his superiors, the director of the Hedong police station, Su Wenxing, still refuses to release her. The police officers there added false accusations and trumped-up charges to her and other practitioners police records in an attempt to illegally sentence them to forced labour terms.
  • Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 63, Suffers Five More Months of Severe Torture

    On May 29, 2004, having been detained in Chibi City Detention Centre in Hubei Province for 5 months, the long-term illegal detention and torture led 63 year old Ms. Liu Xiaolian to lose her ability to take care of herself and she became bedridden in the cell. She was carried home by county officers and police station personnel.
  • Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Zhang Liang on Hunger Strike in Detention Centre To Protest Persecution

    Mr. Zhang Liang is about 30 years old and a native of Shandong Province. On the evening of April 24, 2004, he was arrested by Weifang City police and agents from the National Security Agency. He is now detained at Hanting District Detention Centre. Later, the Hanting police issued a formal arrest warrant. Starting May 19, 2004, Zhang Liang began a hunger strike to protest against the persecution.
  • China Resorts to Recurring Strategy and Delays UN Investigation of Torture

    Although terms of the visit had been negotiated for nearly a decade, the Chinese authorities still claimed at the last minute that they needed more time for preparation. Critics have commented that Jiang's followers couldn't possibly hide their crimes any longer, no matter how much time they are given, because of the tremendous amount evidence of the torturing of Falun Gong practitioners that has found its way out of China.
  • Ten Methods Commonly Used to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners (Illustrations)

    Under Jiang Zemin's orders to, "physically destroy" Falun Gong, Falun Gong practitioners have suffered many kinds of torture. All the tortures were used to augment the spiritual persecution in order to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their practice and write the "three statements" (guarantee statement, breaking away statement, criticizing statement), and give up their beliefs. Tortures include: heavy pressure applied to the lower abdomen of young women; heavy pressure applied to the lower abdomen; long bamboo shoots are forced under the fingernails etc
  • 26 Verified Deaths from Torture During May 2004

    According to statistics from Clearwisdom.net, 26 innocent Falun Gong practitioners were verified to have died as a result of persecution in police custody during the month of May, 2004. This caused the total death count of Falun Gong practitioners to reach 973. The 26 deaths from torture are from 15 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities nationwide, including Hebei (5), Liaoning (4), Jilin (3), Gansu (2), Sichuan (2), and one each from Henan, Guizhou, Shanxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Hainan, Guangdong, Hubei, Shandong, and Xinjiang.
  • Behind the Pleasant Facade: Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured and Used as Slave Labour at Labour Camp in Henan Province

    From the outside, the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province is a pleasant looking place. Officials will tell you how well the prisoners are treated and how the staff "educate inmates, use persuasion to help the inmates change, and how the inmates are remedied." However, insiders and the people that have been held there have an entirely different view. From a folk rhyme that is circulating in the area, we can get a sense of what the place is really like. "The Labour Camp is a demon's training barracks. I'd rather spend three years in jail than one day in the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp."
  • More Details on the Torture Death of Zhao Guoan at Labour Camp in Xuchang City

    Mr. Zhao Guoan was tortured to death in a Labour Camp in Xuchang City. It was some time before Falun Gong practitioners learned of his death because the news was blocked and a report was released saying that Zhao Guoan had been sent home because he was sick . According to two prisoners, Zhao Guoan was tied to a chair with his hands behind is back and his feet bound for three days. Two days later, the two prisoners said that he had been sent home. We never saw Zhao Guoan again after he was dragged out the workshop.
  • Getting Out of Police Station With Firm Belief and Righteous Thoughts

    "When I returned home on February 18, 2004, there were many policemen there. They confiscated many Dafa truth-clarification materials. Then, they forcefully took me to a Police Station in Qinhuangdao City. Police sergeant Wang said "It's time. Take out the rope." An officer gave him a piece of thin, green plastic rope. He said, "This rope is covered with many practitioners' blood." Two policemen constantly hit my arms. Wang yelled, "Tell me where you got the materials!" I replied, "I picked them up somewhere. I don't know anyone." The other policemen stopped hitting me. Wang called out, "Release her."
  • Violence Inside Shijiazhuang City Prison: Sleep Deprivation and Driving Nails into Practitioners' Fingers

    The guards in Beijiao Prison, Shijiazhuang City, have used all kinds of methods, combining brutal tortures with threats and coercion, to persecute Dafa practitioners. Zhao Jun, a police guard from the Education Division drove nails into practitioner Li Mingtao's left hand little finger and thumb. Today, after over six months, one of Li's fingers is still festering. Because of the strict information blockade, a lot of news cannot reach the outside world. The above information was sent out by a practitioner who risked his life to break through the blockade.
  • Dafa Practitioners Mr. Xiao Huisheng and Mr. Xiao Zhiqiang Brutally Tortured for Refusing to Do Slave Labour at Prison in Hunan Province

    Mr. Xiao Huisheng from Hengyang City, Hunan Province is a doctor in his 20s. He was arrested and sent to Chishan Prison in Hunan Province at the end of 2001. He was ordered to do slave labour but protested at the unjust conditions and refused. Another practitioner named Xiao Zhiqiang, in his 60s, was also ordered to do hard labour and refused. Criminals then hung up Xiao Huisheng and Xiao Zhiqiang by handcuffs from basketball supports, with their feet barely touching the ground. They were also beaten by criminals for over 10 days.