Exposing the Persecution

Torture | Kidnapping | Brainwashing | Illegal Detention and Imprisonment | Extortion | Persecution Throughout Society | Inside the Labour Camps | Individual Accounts | 6-10 Office | Death Cases | Organ Harvesting

  • Three Typical Methods Used to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

    An artist used these drawings to depict how police beat and shock practitioners with electric batons. These paintings were exhibited at Austria's "Art Dynasty Night".
  • Exposing the Sadistic Crimes of Changchun City Policeman Chen Wenzhuan

    Chen Wenzhuan bears a bitter hatred for Falun Dafa and has sworn to eliminate Falun Dafa. Prior to March 2002, Chen took five practitioners who had been transferred from the Hongpo Road brainwashing centre and did an experiment on them. The purpose of the experiment was to find which torture method was most painful. Based on the outcome, he intended to intensify the persecution of other Falun Dafa practitioners in the centre.
  • Belated News: Death of Elderly Female Dafa Practitioner as a Result of Torture at the Hands of Beijing Police

    The next day, the cowardly police became worried she would die, so they sent her to a hospital. A doctor said, "She can live at most two to three months." The police was afraid of taking responsibility so they released her. With great fortitude, Ho Lijun went home by herself. Because her internal organs were severely damaged, she died in March 2001.
  • Inhuman Abuses of Practitioners at Chongqing City Brainwashing Centres

    When practitioners held hunger strikes to protest the abuses, guards would tie their hands and feet, or send the practitioners to mental institutions for force-feeding. The "teachers" (the authorities at the Centre) squandered the money confiscated from Dafa practitioners on vacations, fine dining and gambling.
  • Unimaginable Atrocities Committed at the Dalian Reform School

    They force practitioners to start work at 7 am and go until 10 pm. If they cannot finish the task they are forced to continue until 1 to 2 in the morning. The next day they are forced to get up and work the same hours. The bags they have to haul around are 80 kilogrammes. Even the elderly practitioners in their 50s and 60s and the disabled are not spared. One elderly practitioner was so tired that he vomited blood.
  • Practitioners With Paraplegia and Other Disabilities Are Imprisoned at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    She has paraplegia [paralysis of the lower half of the body] and cannot work at all. She has been illegally detained in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. As indicated by the camp's name, one of the criteria for being detained there is the ability to perform manual labour. However, the Masanjia Woman's Second Centre (also known as the Liaoning Province Thought Education School) has been illegally detaining many female Falun Dafa practitioners who are completely unable to perform labour.
  • An Elderly Practitioner Clarifies the Facts Wherever She Goes

    This old lady clarified the facts to whomever she saw, and everywhere she went, including the police in the detention centre, people from the "610 Office," the head of a factory, and passers-by. The evil persecutors couldn't do anything and were helpless. They tried to murder the old lady but failed. They sent her home and locked her inside, not allowing her to go out. The old lady behaved the same way, telling people that Falun Dafa is good and that Jiang's regime is deceiving and harming people.
  • Property Of Overseas Investors is Confiscated By Chinese Authorities Because They Practise Falun Gong

    Mr. Cai asked the police why they ransacked his factory and seized the truck, since his company did not violate any law. Brigade leader Huang Jingwei replied, "This had nothing to do with you or your company. It is a political matter. You have to come here in person to claim your truck." Mr. and Mrs. Cai had always lived abroad and had never encountered such blatant law breaking activity by police. They thought it was like the recurrence of "the Great Cultural Revolution." They had no idea where to go from here.
  • Brutality in Xiguoyuan Detention Centre: Handcuffs and Shackles Cut into Flesh, Infected Wounds Are Left Untreated

    Since he was detained, he has been forced to sleep on the ground under the bed. Because the cell was gloomy, cold and damp, scabies developed on his body and he had difficulty squatting or sitting. He was still forced to do hard labour. The sanitation at the detention centre was very poor and the scabies infestation made it difficult for him to move around. He had to work kneeling on the ground. As of February of 2003, he had been forced to sleep on the ground for five months
  • Three Sisters Inhumanly Tormented by Shijiazhuang Police

    On May 8, 2003, police from the Shijiazhuang "610 Office" arrested Li Huiqi's other sister Li Huixin (who had been forced into homelessness in order to avoid being arrested). They then dragged Li Huixin to Li Huiqi's home, and arrested Li Huimin who was taking care of Li Huiqi at the time. Li Huimin tried to reason with the police: "Li Huiqi is completely paralysed and she needs constant care. If you take her caretaker away that is as good as killing her. If you take me away, who will take care of her?"
  • Practitioners Illegally Imprisoned in Rujiang and Taiyu Forced Labour Camps

    They also sent batches of steadfast Dafa practitioners to the "706" (Taiyu Female Labour Camp). There, police administered week-long sleep deprivation combined with intense brainwashing. The torture Dafa practitioners endured there cannot be imagined. Those practitioners who went on hunger strike to protest their illegal detainment had their hands and feet tied to an iron bed. Police inserted a rubber tube into their nostrils and forced it down to their stomachs, and then aggressively poured in salt water mixed with food.
  • Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp Attempt to Cover up True Reason for Death of Elderly Lady Dafa Practitioner

    Later, she was found dead beside a sink outside the workshop. Wang Yan, the labour camp chief, said that Sun Guilan, "hung herself on a rope from the water pipe in the toilet." However, according to observations, the water pipe is less than one metre above the floor, so it would have been impossible for Sun Guilan to die from hanging on this pipe. The labour camp tried to use various means to cover up Sun Guilan's death.
  • Atrocities Committed in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp Leave Dafa Practitioners Unrecognisable to Relatives and Friends

    The prison guards brutally shocked her mouth with electric batons, and continued again the next day. This practitioner''s mouth swelled very badly, making her not only unable to eat, but nearly unable to open her mouth. Hence this practitioner could not take care of her daily life by herself. When her relatives and friends came to visit her, they could not even recognise her. Furthermore, prison guards forced her to stand in front of a big mirror and insulted her.
  • Appalling Torture of Female Dafa Practitioner in Benxi City

    For more than ten days in the detention centre, Zhang Huishuang was persecuted to the point of becoming incoherent. After she got out, and after two months of being in a state of half-life, half-death and under the tender care of fellow practitioners, Dafa's miraculous effects caused Zhang Huishuang to finally awake and stand up again.
  • Fearful "610 Office" Orders Police to Monitor College Student Around the Clock

    The "610 Office" sends a policewoman to "escort" her everywhere she goes, and she is not even allowed to live in the Conservatory's student dorms. She was assigned to a separate house where she is under strict surveillance at all times except during her classes. She has to return to the Brainwashing Centre during holidays. Even when she goes back to visit her relatives and friends, she's only allowed to stay for one to two hours.