Torture

  • The Persecution of an Older Couple in Qiqihar

    In December 2004, police surrounded the whole building where another practitioner and I lived. They broke the lock, and several people barged in and pushed me down on the floor, stepping on my face. I was only in my underwear, but they still threw me into a van and drove me to a secret site at Yaohulu Police Farm. I was forced to sit on an iron chair in just my underwear. My hands and feet were shackled. Officer Jiang Chen stepped on and kicked my hands and feet while they were cuffed. On July 20th, 2006, I was sentenced to prison and were sent to Tailai Prison in Qiqihar. In 2007, the prison tried to brainwash all of the Falun Gong practitioners and make us write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong. On April 6th, 2008, I was released. Now my wife and I have no fixed place to stay.
  • Details about the Persecution of Deceased Schoolteacher Ms. Huang Yanli

    In 2002 Ms. Huang Yanli was sent to a detention centre because she made Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Ms. Huang was sentenced to six years in prison and was sent to Nantong Women's Prison. She was unable to eat for four months, and the prison gave her intravenous solutions often and unknown drugs. She was usually unconscious. When her condition was critical, the prison sent her back to Nantong. Ms. Huang passed away on December 15th, 2004. She was only 35 years old.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Liu Limin Persecuted in Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Limin is from Wuhan. She was taken by the guards from a labour camp to Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre in June 2010. Liu Limin was cursed and beaten She has been tortured to the point of losing vision, having difficulty walking, and extreme weakness, but the brainwashing centre authorities refuse to release her.
  • Wuling District Court Gives Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Heavy Sentences

    Eight Falun Gong practitioners from Changde City in Hunan Province were sentenced from three to ten years in prison on November 4th, 2010. Wang Yongkang, director of the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Changde City, recently dispatched several hundred officers to arrest more than 30 practitioners and ransack their homes. The officers took away the practitioners' Falun Gong books, as well as equipment and supplies used for producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. The practitioners were sent to detention centres. The practitioners were tried by the court of Wuling District in Changde City on June 11th. When the practitioners tried to defend themselves in court, presiding judge Deng Liping became irrational and smacked the table. The trial was just for show, with the outcome predetermined by the authorities.
  • Ms. Li Caina and Ms. Li Suting from Raoyang County, Hebei Province, Arrested and Detained

    Police recently arrested Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Caina and Ms. Li Suting, and are holding them in the Raoyang County Detention Centre. After the Chinese Communist regime started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Li was arrested four times and twice had 5,000 yuan extorted from her. She lived away from home to avoid the persecution for more than a month. The township police station officers ransacked her home and harassed her on all the Party holidays. She has also been intimidated and threatened numerous times.
  • Ms. Li Xiangmei and Ms. Guo Rongxian from Gaoping City, Shanxi Province, Sentenced

    According to an unofficial source, Ms. Li Xiangmei, 58, and Ms. Guo Rongxian, 56, from Gaoping City, Shanxi Province, were recently sentenced to prison. The local court sentenced Ms. Li to four years and Ms. Guo to three years. Around October 15th, they were taken to the Shanxi Provincial Women's Prison in Maoerling. Ms. Li's daughter was sent to the same prison three years ago because she firmly believes in Falun Gong. Mother and daughter were separated for several years. They met in the prison and cried on each other's shoulder.
  • Ms. Liu Shuling, 55, Tortured to Death in Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Liu Shuling and eleven other practitioners were tortured in the Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province from July 1st to July 3rd, 2010. Ms. Liu Shuling died on July 3rd. According to a witness, she was tied to an iron chair and died after being shocked with an electric baton. Ms. Liu was sent to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp in 2008, and was supposed to be released on July 26th, 2010. There were bruises from electric shocks on her left ear and on her neck. Her family requested to see her whole body, but the police did not allow the family to investigate further.
  • Mr. Cong Zhongxiao from Dalian City Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

    On November 4th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cong Zhongxiao was sentenced to three years in prison by Wensheng District Court in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. He is preparing his appeal to the Liaoyang City Intermediate Court. On May 8th, 2010, he gave a Falun Gong DVD to a person he ran into on the street and he was reported to authorities. Police arrested him. They went to his sister's home and ransacked the place. They also beat him up and knocked out three of his front teeth. Then they sent him to the Liaoyang Detention Centre.
  • A Seventy-year-old Practitioner Detained, Her Family's Visits Prohibited

    Minhang Court officials sentenced 70-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shi Jinhua to four years in prison on October 25th, 2010. The Minhang District Detention Centre authorities refused to allow her lawyer or her family to visit her. Police arrested Ms. Shi Jinhua on June 4th, 2010, because she mailed several letters that explained the facts about Falun Gong. Over the past eleven years since the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Shi has been detained more than 14 times, and was even subjected to violent beatings and torture. The police ransacked her home numerous times, seized her personal belongings and extorted money from her.
  • Practitioners Wang Lixin and Li Xiurong Sentenced in Jiamusi Court

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Wang Lixin and Ms. Li Xiurong were sentenced by officials from Jiaoqu Court in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, on November 14th. Ms. Wang was sentenced to three and a half years, while Ms. Li was sentenced to three years. Both of them refused to sign the sentencing documents, and said that they would appeal. Ms. Wang and Ms. Li were arrested on July 19th, and sent to the Jiamusi Detention Centre because they sent Falun Gong materials to their acquaintances.
  • Ms. Chen Min from Yueyang City Sentenced to Three Years in Forced Labour Camp

    Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Min on October 11th, 2010. Without presenting any documents, they ransacked her home and took away her computer and personal property valued at about 10,000 yuan. After interrogating her, the police sent Ms. Chen to the Yueyang Detention Centre. She was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp on October 19th, and transferred to the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp on October 29th. The labour camp accepted her without going through any procedures as required by law.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Li County, Hunan Province

    On November 9th, police arrested several Falun Gong practitioners. They are currently being detained in Li County Detention Centre. Police in the county and city started arresting Falun Gong practitioners in the morning during rush hour and continued their efforts through the night. Ms. Zeng was arrested as she was walking her child to kindergarten. Her house was also ransacked. According to sources, the raid was initiated by police from the National Security Brigade. Arrests took place in the streets, workplaces, and homes. After police finished ransacking practitioners' houses, everything was in shambles, and they had taken away their personal belongings.
  • Mr. Lin Zhiliang and Wife Ji Shuying from Dalian Sentenced

    Mr. Lin Zhiliang and his wife Ms. Ji Shuying were arrested in July 2009, by police. Both husband and wife were detained at the Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian for nearly a year, and sentenced to prison - Mr. Lin for five years and Ms. Ji for three years. After receiving the sentence, Mr. Lin filed an appeal, but it was rejected by the Intermediate Court.
  • Police from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province Arrest Wang Baoyu

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Baoyu was arrested by two police officers on November 16th. She is currently being held in Jinshantun District. Her dormitory room was also ransacked. Ms. Wang's husband, Mr. Qin Yueming, was sentenced to prison in 2002. He is currently being detained in Jiamusi Prison. Ms. Wang was forced to work outside of her hometown, and her two daughters are now homeless.
  • Ms. Wang Sulan is Tortured to the Brink of Death

    Because of torture by the local police and prison wardens at Hebei Provincial Women's Prison, Wang Sulan is suffering from multiple diseases and has been sent for emergency treatment several times since she was imprisoned. Wang Sulan was secretly sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in 2009 because of her belief in Falun Gong. The wardens forced her to call home asking for money to be sent to the prison. Her mother-in-law received the phone call and was really troubled by her suffering. Her husband felt there was no other choice but to send the prison 16,000 yuan as required by the wardens.