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  • Additional Information about the Unjust Death of Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Xiucai in 2001

    50 year old Ms. Sun Xiucai from Shandong Province was reported by a local resident when she went to a village to distribute truth-clarifying materials about the persecution. Ms. Sun was taken to a police station where she was brutally beaten by policemen Li Shaolin and Guo Yugui and suffered all manner of unspeakable tortures. She was sent to a detention centre where health worsened every day. The police hastily ordered her family to take her home. Sun Xiucai died on January 4, 2001.
  • An Account of the Atrocities at a Detention Centre in Liaoning Province

    The Yingkou City No. 1 Detention Centre in Liaoning Province has been illegally detaining Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioners for quite a few years, and is carrying out inhumane tortures against them. Many Dafa practitioners were maimed as a result of torture, including 38-year-old Li Wei. The common criminal inmates used tin-snips to cut both of his nipples off. Falun Gong practitioners were routinely tortured and beaten. Their physical and mental health was constantly under threat. They were also forced to perform prolonged hard labour. Sometimes they were not allowed to sleep in order to work overtime through the night.
  • Deputy Director of Police Department Sent to Forced Labour Camp for Practising Falun Dafa

    Mr. Zou Zhengming, 62 years old, was the Deputy Director of the Urumqi Police Department, Xinjiang Province. In August of 2002, policemen from the local "610 Office", forcibly took Mr. Zou away from his home for a three-day-long interrogation. The policemen didn't care that Mr. Zou was a senior cadre in the police department. They tortured him with electric batons and confiscated his home without informing any of his family members. He was forced to do heavy physical labour. Mr. Zou is now very thin, and his hair has turned all white.
  • Couple from Qinhuangdao City Suffer Severe Persecution -- The Experience Leaves Their Young Child Traumatized

    Mr. Dong Junming and his wife Ms. Wang Shumei, are both Falun Gong practitioners. They were both imprisoned and tortured because they held fast to their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Ms. Wang's 3-year old girl witnessed her mum's violent arrest, causing her severe emotional trauma. She screamed in her sleep and awoke from nightmares for more than three weeks. Every time she saw a car, she thought someone was coming to arrest her, and she was so frightened that she cried for her grandparents. She became afraid of strangers. Even when relatives from other cities came to visit her, she was frightened and screamed for grandma.
  • Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp Enslaves Practitioners, Forcing Them To Produce Traffic Control Batons and Toothpicks

    In Changlinzi Labour Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, the Dafa practitioners who have better eyesight are forced to weld together traffic control batons used by traffic police. The batons are exported to South Korea. Practitioners with worse eyesight are forced to make toothpicks. The labour camp forces them to work 16-17 hours a day. Those who can't work as fast end up having to work day and night.
  • An Account of How Wang Dayuan was Tortured to Death by Police in Harbin City No. 1 Prison

    Mr. Wang Dayuan, thirty-six years old, a resident of Harbin, was a lecturer and faculty member in computer studies at Harbin Institute of Technology. On April 2, in order to compel him to write a statement criticizing Falun Gong, the prison police took turns to beat him up and punish him by making him stand in painful postures for a whole day. He was not given any food. On April 3, Wang Dayuan was forced to write a self-criticism statement under undue pressure from the violent beatings. On April 5, Wang Dayuan was in a very bad condition but the police still forced him to work. They also violently beat him in the afternoon. Wang Dayuan stopped breathing that same day.
  • Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuzhen Dies as a Result of Torture in Brainwashing School

    On the night of February 17, 2004, Zhang Yuzhen was arrested at home and sent to a Detention Centre. She went on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful detention. Then she was sent to Shalingzipiandi Legal School (an illegal brainwashing class) to be tortured. In mid-April, when her family went to visit her, they found she was not clear-headed and seemed to be in a state of mental disorder. However, the police refused to release her or provide any treatment for her. As a result, she died on May 4, 2004. The Dajingmen Police Station didn't inform her family until after her death.
  • Ms. Pei Xiuyan Died Due to Delayed Treatment by Detention Centre in 2001

    On January 21, 2001, her cellmates saw that she was on the verge of death and called the guards for help. Only then did captain Yang Shunqing and prison doctor Lu Yushu come to her cell to take a look. A little after 10:00 that morning, they sent her to the hospital. After the checkup, they took her back to the detention centre. Several hours later her cellmates had to call for help again since she again was in critical condition. When the guards came in, they saw she was dying. In order to shirk the responsibility, they sent her again to the hospital around 2:00 in the afternoon. At 9:00 that night she passed away.
  • Policewoman Takes Revenge on a Dafa Practitioner Who Spoke in Accordance with Justice in Shenzhen City Detention Centre

    On the morning of February 18, 2004, the Shenzhen City Women's Association brought gifts in honour of Women's Day (March 8) to the women imprisoned in the Futian Detention Centre in Shenzhen City. Zheng Yuyan, a Falun Gong practitioner spoke to the leader of the Women's Association and the reporters about the true situation of Falun Gong and the persecution. She said, "I have a grievance! Falun Gong is falsely accused! The accusations and persecution against Falun Gong violate our constitution, and all the rumours and accusations against us are fabricated lies! After the visitors left, policewoman prison guard Zhou Li stormed into Zheng Yuyan's cell, harshly shouted "You, Zheng Yuyan, have to be punished severely for your behaviour." She continued, "We'll see if you can shout out grievances now!"
  • Letter from Former Three Gorges Immigration Comptroller to Government Officials: My Daughter Is Innocent

    "During the last few years of continual brainwashing and constant torture at the labour camp, Yao Hui has suffered a lot of inhumane treatment. In order not to let us worry about her, she has never revealed the details. I am now advanced in age and confined to a bed. My wife is suffering serious depression due to my daughter's imprisonment, and is developing various cardiac problems. Whose fault is that? Who has turned a stable society into turmoil and a happy family into a broken home? Who has given the authority to arrest my daughter so that she can't come home to see us?"
  • UK Falun Gong Practitioner Xie Weiguo: My Fiancée Zhu Yongjie's Situation is Very Worrying

    In the UK, Falun Gong practitioners have collected over twenty thousand signatures appealing for the release of Zhu Yongjie, Zhu Baolian, He Jian and other UK practitioners’ family and friends persecuted and detained in China. In China there are many other practitioners like Zhu Yongjie who are investigated by the Ministry of State Security. Their situations are of great concern. Only when more people stand up for the end of this persecution can the situation fundamentally improve.
  • 66 and 70 Year Old Gentlemen Cruelly Tortured to Death in Gansu Province

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Caihou was 70 years old and lived in Gansu Province. In early 2000, perpetrators from Shuangcheng Town arrested and tortured him for six hours, which caused severe injuries. Seeing his dangerous condition, the perpetrators ordered his family to pick him up. He passed away on May 27, 2000 at home.
  • Vomiting Blood Resulting from Torture in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zheng Fuxiang Passes Away

    35 year old Dafa practitioner Mr. Zheng Fuxiang lived in Jilin Province. In March 2002, Dafa practitioners in Changchun tapped into the cable TV network and broadcast programmes clarifying the truth about Dafa. Immediately afterwards, the police started a frenzied wave of arrests. They smashed the windows, entered his home, and viciously beat him and his wife. He was sentenced to three years in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun and subjected to unimaginable torture. Prior to his death, Mr. Zheng Fuxiang was constantly vomiting blood. On the day he passed away, the police went to his home to monitor his family and attempted to arrest Zheng Fuxiang's wife Deng Lijuan. Deng Lijuan was denied the chance to see her husband for the last time before he passed away on April 7, 2004.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Brutally Force-Fed to Death in Shuangcheng City Detention Centre

    Ms. Xiao Yali, a 37-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, died on March 6, 2004 as a result of being force-fed by police at the No. 2 Detention Centre of Shuangcheng City. She died after being in police custody for only ten days and leaves behind her husband, her parents-in-law and two five-year-old twins. All of her family members are suffering unbearable grief, and many of her neighbours also wept for this kind woman and in empathy for her family.
  • Dead Just Thirteen Days After Being Arrested: Further Investigation into the Death of Ms. Li Shuhua

    The public security officer said that the police officer still could not get any answers from Li Shuhua, so he angrily struck her eyes with his fists, causing her to become blind in one eye. Li Shuhua instantly lost consciousness from the pain. The policeman who committed the crime was afraid of taking responsibility, so he asked his superiors for instructions, and then killed Li Shuhua to eliminate her as a potential witness against him. This public security officer said that if she had not been blinded, the police wouldn't have beaten her to death.