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  • 16-year-old Boy Beaten Unconscious for Clarifying the Truth of the Persecution of Falun Dafa in Beijing

    In December 2000, five Falun Dafa practitioners, Li Yueming, Zhang Jian and Zhang Jian's 16-year-old son among others from Xiangheng County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, travelled to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They opened a banner reading, "Falun Dafa is great," at the Tiananmen Gate Tower. Li Yueming and the 16-year-old practitioner raised the banner together and shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" and "Return Teacher's good name!" Later, police tried to savagely snatch the banner away. The boy rolled the banner around his body to avoid having the police seize it.
  • Hebei Province Panicked Authorities Indiscriminately Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners in Retaliation for TV Tapping Incident

    Certain lawless authorities were very panicked after Falun Dafa practitioners in Xingtai City and Shahe City, Hubei Province successfully inserted signals clarifying the truth about Falun Gong into a local TV programme around the Chinese New Year. The Hebei Province Party Committee ordered Xingtai City to "solve the case" by a deadline; otherwise the mayor would be fired. In the meantime, some officers from Hebei Province Police Department stationed in the Yongnian area have arrested several practitioners.
  • Two Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioners Pass Away after Suffering Severe Abuse in Labour Camps

    It was recently confirmed in Hebei Province that Falun Gong practitioners Gao Shiping and Li Shuli died in December of 2003 due to the abuses they suffered in Baoding City Gaoyang Labour Camp and Tangshan City Hehuakeng Labour Camp. Currently there are as many as 89 confirmed deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in Hebei Province due to the persecution.
  • Labour Camp in Qiqihar City Responsible for Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Xuelian

    People who knew the inside story said that ever since July 20, 1999, Li Jianfei had many times led his thugs to ransack Falun Gong practitioners' homes. He claimed that whoever practised at home would also be sent to labour camps. When a reporter called Li Jianfei at 86-455-8258869 verifying the death of Li Xuelian, he hung up immediately upon hearing her name. The reporter called again and Li Jianfei hung up again without saying anything.
  • Exposing Those Responsible for the Murder of Meng Jincheng in the Tangshan City Forced Labour Camp

    In fact, Mr. Meng had already been killed by the beatings and torture. To cover up the truth behind his death, the police in the squad had Chen Fu read the following concocted story, "Meng Jincheng, a hard-core Falun Gong practitioner, suddenly became sick while serving his term in the labour camp. He was quickly taken to the hospital for treatment." Chen Fu, Chang Fuhai, and Lu Jiang were all rewarded as a result of their false testimony.
  • An Inmate's Testimony:

    Due to lack of understanding of Falun Gong, when I was first imprisoned I even slapped a Dafa practitioner's face. Due to slander from the television programs I felt that all Falun Gong practitioners were bad people. However, once I had personal contact with them, I gradually realised that they were all very kind people. There were lots of mosquitoes during summer but they never killed any mosquitoes. They told me that even a mosquito was a life and that they did not kill anything.
  • Detailed Information of How Elderly Ms Ye Wenying was Tortured to Death by Pengzhou City "610 Office"

    Wang Chengdong, 30 years of age, is from Group 12, Section 1 of Gongtian Village in Tongji County, Pengzhou City. He served in the army in Xinjiang Province for four years. He was hired by the 610 Office after he came back home from the army. Together with Luo Ke, he often cruelly tortures Falun Dafa practitioners. They always repeat filthy language such as, "A man will disappoint the Central Committee of the Party if he does not patronize prostitutes. A woman will disappoint Jiang Zemin if she does not prostitute herself."
  • More Facts about the Murder of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Song Youchun

    His family immediately questioned the detention centre: Why didn't the detention centre send Song to a hospital for treatment? Why didn't the centre inform Song's family when his condition was so serious? Why didn't the centre inform Song's family immediately after he died? Why did they wait fourteen hours before they let the family know about Song's death?
  • Hunan Province Authorities Demolish Dafa Practitioners' Homes and Subject them to Public Humiliation

    In the next few days, the village organized a gathering in which they criticized Falun Gong. Students were forced to leave their classes and come to watch. Police officer Su Chaowen ordered a few other police officers to bind us and push us onto a truck. When the truck got to Sandun village's playground, there were more than 10,000 people already there, and the propaganda banners were everywhere. Before the meeting, the village government officials Li Guoqiang, Su Mingfeng, and Su Chaowen had already beaten Dafa practitioners viciously.
  • Former Deputy Director of Benxi City Cultural Bureau Suffers Inhuman Torture in Labour Camp

    In the labour camp, he often suffered torture and other forms of physical punishment such as being forbidden to sleep and being confined in a solitary cell. He was once sent to the "stretching room" where the police tied up his hands and feet and stretched them in four different directions continuously for four days. His hands and feet were swollen terribly afterwards, which caused him difficulties in moving for more than a week.
  • Hebei Province Dafa Practitioner Lived through Hell in Unjust Detention

    I was also shocked with an electric baton, burned with a cigarette, my hands were beaten with a bamboo strips, I was beaten and kicked, and so forth. The police spoke viciously, "No practitioner who hasn't confessed under these devices and means can walk out of here." This just goes to show how cruel their torture methods are.....The Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp is just like a hell on earth. Every day we were beaten, forced to do hard work, deprived of sleep and not allowed to go to the toilet.
  • Jilin Prison Torture Method: Extended Torture on the "Fixed-Bed"; Excessive Stretching Causes Skin to Rip (Illustration)

    On October 27, 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Juncheng went on a hunger strike and wrote a letter to the Prison Party Committee requesting that Falun Gong practitioners be treated with justice. Because of this plea, he was sent to solitary confinement and tortured on the "Fixed-Bed," a cruel torture method. He was taken off the torture bed in the beginning of December, after he had been tied up for more than 30 days, suffering intolerable pain.
  • The Crimes Committed by Sadistic Wu Wei and Others in Fushun Forced Labour Camp

    A young police officer at the sidelines was shocked, and came forward to stop the violence, fearing her life might be in danger and was afraid of the consequences. However, Wu Wei had lost control and still hit her, at the same time saying, "I am upset whenever I see you! Who told you to be the leading one? Today I must beat you so they take you to the mortuary, and see who can do anything about it."
  • Forced Injections and Drugs Given in Jiaozhou Mental Hospital Leads to Mental Damage for Dafa Practitioner

    The next day my family came to talk to Sun Zhijun, a head doctor at the hospital, demanding my release. My family argued that I had never been mentally impaired. Sun Zhijun retorted that only those who had brought me to the hospital would be allowed to release me; family members were not eligible. Sun also claimed that I was "mentally hindered" and had to take medicine.
  • Criminal Acts of Police at the Harbin City Female Drug Rehabilitation Centre

    An official named Yang is in his fifties. He is a section head in charge of administrative affairs. His job is to decide sentence extensions or reductions. In November 2002, during a brainwashing session, he read a document that said, "Those who refuse to transform will be subjected to an extended forced labour term." In addition, he shamelessly whitewashed the practices of torture and brainwashing. He was quite proud of the evil crimes he and other police had committed. He often bragged to practitioners' employers, "We used force on these women."