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Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zheng Zhiqiang’s Dead Body Hung Up from Window by Officials in Dalian Prison Clinic
2004-05-29
Mr. Zheng Zhiqiang was a 37 year old practitioner from Liaoning Province. He had been severely tortured because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa. Mr. Zheng was finally brought to the Dalian Prison Clinic in an extremely weakened condition during the Chinese New Year Season. On the morning of April 4, 2004, witnesses saw his dead body hung by the neck in the window of No.2 room. Prisoners were shocked, and said that the prison officials plotted this to escape responsibility for their crimes. -
Gansu Province Practitioner Mr. Yao Hui Suffers Mental Collapse after Severe Beating
2004-05-29High school student, Practitioner Yao Hui lived in Gansu Province. He was sentenced to a forced labour camp in 2001 for two years and two months because he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. The police didn't tell his family of his imprisonment, causing them great distress. On January 27, 2004, police kidnapped Yao Hui and ordered camp prisoners to brutally beat him. He was tortured until he lost his senses. He was released. However, by then, Yao Hui could not even speak clearly, and has lost the ability to live independently. -
Teacher Arrested after Registering Her Marriage Plans- Court Cancels Marriage License
2004-05-29The most painful experience was losing my right to marry, even after losing all other freedoms. In 1998, I met Yu Wensheng, an archive manager from Harbin Normal University. We were very much in love. In 1999 we travelled to Beijing together to appeal for Falun Gong. In Tiananmen Square, police took him away from me. In June 2000, when I was heavily monitored by the police, he came to Qitaihe City to marry me. I went to Harbin in order to marry him, however, Harbin police learned about our plan and detained me. -
"Horror Could Be Felt Everywhere" - Exposing the Cruelties in Masanjia Labour Camp
2004-05-28"Toward the end of 2002 in Masanjia's Second Women's Camp, the police were forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to renounce their belief, while horror could be felt everywhere. The police carried handcuffs and ropes with them. The authorities were going wild. I now stay on the first floor. This is the floor where the tortures take place. Observing the unwavering Dafa practitioners being persecuted until their last, weak breaths and until they are mentally unstable is horrifying to watch" -
Authorities on the Rampage Destroying a Happy Family in Shandong Province
2004-05-28Falun Dafa Practitioner Diao Xihui is twenty-nine years old. His wife, Lu Yanna, is thirty-one years old. They are from Longkou City and are both teachers. Their first child was born on March 29, 2004 and only ten days later Diao Xihui disappeared, presumed arrested for telling people about the persecution of Falun Dafa. Realizing that she was in danger, and not having recovered from giving birth Lu Yanna moved out to avoid further persecution. However, she did not escape. Police from Longkou City found her and took her and her daughter back to Longkou City even though her daughter was not even one month old. At present, no one knows where Ms. Lu is. -
Brutal Force-Feeding Used to Torture Practitioners in Huludao City Detention Centre
2004-05-28The violent force-feeding used at Huludao Detention Centre in Liaoning Province is an excruciating torture. The guards demand that criminal inmates force-feed hunger striking Falun Dafa practitioners. The prisoners are usually reluctant to do it, and they often vent their anger on the practitioners that are to be forcibly fed. They curse, beat and otherwise abuse their victims while force feeding. -
The Suffering of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
2004-05-28The "Legal Education Centre" in Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (AR) is in fact a vicious brainwashing centre.On November 4, 2002, right before the 16th Chinese Party (CCP) Congress, the police in Yakeshi City mass arrested many Falun Dafa practitioners for having firm beliefs in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." Participating personnel exerted pressure on the workplaces of the arrested Falun Dafa practitioners, and forced their workplaces to collude with authorities, send their employees to the brainwashing centre, and pay 5,000 Yuan room and board for the arrested practitioner(s) and "helpers" from the workplace. "610 Office" personnel and police officers used violence and torture on practitioners, and threatened them with forced labour and imprisonment using mean and shameless methods. -
Mr. Yan Liyou from Hainan Province Dies as a Result of Torture
2004-05-27Mr. Yan Liyou was the former general manager of Huayi Industry Development Company in Hainan Province. When he was young, he was in a car accident and was paralyzed. Even though he spent lots of money to seek a cure, there was no effective treatment and he was confined to a wheelchair. At the end of 1998, he started practising Falun Gong. Soon he was able to stand up and walk on his own. When the persecution started against Falun Gong he went many times to appeal against the injustice and was brutally tortured. Despite the torture, he held firm to his belief in Dafa. After nine months of torture in a labour camp, he was only skin and bones. He kept throwing up blood. Not until he was near death did the police release him. he eventually passed away on April 12, 2004. -
Elderly Practitioner Ms. Huang Yongmei Tortured to Disability in Hubei Province
2004-05-27"I am the husband of Huang Yongmei, who is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan City. After my wife was illegally kidnapped to a brainwashing centre, I went to talk to the head of the "610 Office" whose name is Xie Guanchang for a total of three times. The first time I told Xie, "When Huang Yongmei was arrested, she was in good health. You must allow her to come back in good health, because she's the head of my family." Xie said, "Mr. Liu, please be at ease. I'm responsible for Huang Yongmei coming back in good health in one month's time." Huang Yongmei was tortured terribly in the brainwashing centre by these so-called "state officials." She became disabled from the torture. Seeing that Huang Yongmei could not take care of herself, my mother was very worried. Later on my mother had a stroke because of the stress and passed away. My family has become worse and worse, and one misfortune after another has occurred, leaving my family broken and ruined. -
Dandong City "610 Office" Forces Elementary Students To Report Dafa Practitioners
2004-05-27Recently, the Liaoning Province, Dandong City "610 Office" coordinated with the City Education Bureau and other government organizations to campaign among all the city elementary school students to "expose and criticize" Falun Gong. At Fuchun Elementary School, they forced every student to report on any other students, teachers, or parents who may practise or have any relationships with Falun Gong practitioners. The intense pressure was terrifying. -
Atrocities by the Mudanjiang City Police: Force-feeding with Black Mustard Oil, Electric Shocks, and the "Tiger Bench"
2004-05-27In early 2002, the State Security Group of the Police in Mudanjiang City, along with the city's "610 Office" arrested over 10 Dafa practitioners. The male practitioners arrested were sentenced and sent to Jianshanzi Prison, and the female practitioners were sentenced and sent to Heilongjiang Women's Prison. The police used brutal means to torture practitioners in order to force them to renounce their faith: force-feeding with black mustard oil then covering their heads with plastic to suffocate them; electric batons to shock practitioners on the chest, hands, and face; and the "Tiger Bench" - practitioners were tortured so badly that they fainted from the pain. -
The Persecution of Mr. Li Jian in Sichuan Province Illustrates the Scale, Severity and Pervasive Nature of the Suppression of Falun Gong
2004-05-26On February 16, 2004, Chongqing First Intermediary People's Court sentenced Mr. Li Jian to 13 years in a forced labour camp. His "crime" was helping to relay the facts to the world about a policeman from Shaqu who raped Ms. Wei Xingyan, a graduate student at Chongqing University, in front of two female prison inmates. Chongqing First Intermediary People's Court sentenced Mr. Li Jian to a long prison term on charges of "damaging the image of the Chinese government and slandering a Chinese government employee" for their righteous action of exposing the brutal rape. -
57-year-old Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Fu Meihui from Guandong Province Died as a Result of Torture in 2001
2004-05-26Ms. Fu Meihui was a 57-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Guangdong Province. In violation of the Chinese Constitution, the police arrested her for practising Falun Gong and she was forced to do slave labour for over ten hours a day. Unable to eat or drink during detention, both her body and mind were severely damaged. Seeing her at the brink of death, the police sent her home without giving her any treatment. Her husband had already been arrested for practising Falun Gong and their home had been ransacked. Under the pressure of these multiple calamities, Ms. Fu Meihui passed away in January 2001. -
Elderly Practitioner Ms Wen Huiying from Hunan Province Recounts the Brutal Persecution She Has Suffered
2004-05-26"My name is Wen Huiying. I'm a retired worker from the Taoyuan County Shipping Company in Changde City, Hunan Province. Because I believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, I was unjustly and brutally persecuted by Jiang's regime. I have been arrested and detained many times since the persecution of Falun Dafa began on July 20, 1999. Twice I was sentenced to a forced labour camp. Now I am homeless and have to move from one place to another in order to escape the persecution. At home, I have an eighty-year-old father-in-law who needs my care. My husband has several dislocated vertebrae and has problems taking care of himself. My son is working out of town and my family needs my care. But I'm forced to drift from one place to another and cannot return home." -
The Authorities Arrest Two Sisters; their Mother Dies of a Heart Attack Brought on From Worry and Grief
2004-05-26In January of 2004, police officers in Handan City, Hebei Province arrested Ms. Tang Hui, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Handan. Upon witnessing both of her daughters being dragged into the police vehicles, Li Lunhui was extremely worried and very upset. Soon Li and her husband went together to the office of An Zhenzhi, the person responsible for arresting her daughters. The couple insisted that they be permitted to visit their daughters, but were refused. Having learned that her daughters were being tortured while in custody, Ms. Li became extremely upset. She suffered a sudden, massive heart attack, and died at 6:30 a.m., March 30, 2004. In such a short period of time, a happy family was torn apart by tragedy as a result of the persecution.
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