Torture

  • Cases in which Officials in Xinjiang Autonomous Region (AR) have Tortured Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Wang Juan was a pregnant female practitioner from Kuerle City. After July 22, 1999, despite her pregnancy, the local police hung her up by handcuffs and tortured her so that she would hand in Falun Dafa books.
  • Labour Camps Invent New Implements of Torture to Use on Falun Gong Practitioners

    Their newly implemented method of torture is to use a plastic bag to totally cover a practitioner's head and then strangle his throat... Not only does this form of torture leave no trace, it can make the victim feel that living is worse than dying because they are so suffocated that they would rather ram themselves into a wall and die in order to end their torture.
  • Cases of Police Battering Falun Dafa Practitioners in Shulan City, Jilin Province

  • The Persecution I Encountered in Beijing

    Not long after my arrival, four policemen started threatening me, saying lots of filthy words. One of them, who looked to be around 30 years of age, brought a loaded hunting rifle, pointed it at my chest and threatened: "If I shoot you, I get rewarded, and you have no place to complain. Another two policemen were extremely sadistic; they used their fingernails to dig in and cut through my nipple until my nipple fell off.
  • The Tuanhe Labour Camp Tortures Practitioner Lu Changjun to the Point of Paralysis

  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Endure Horrific Electrocutions

    These practitioners' bodies became black and blue all over. The scoundrels also shoved an electric baton down the shirt of one practitioner and shocked her back until her entire back down to her legs turned black and blue. You could hardly find a good patch of skin. A layer of blisters had formed on another practitioner's lips after they were burnt from electric shocks. Furthermore, she had to endure having both of her hands cuffed behind her back and having each of her ten fingers pricked with needles. The third practitioner also had wounds all over her body.
  • The Police in Yonghong Police Substation Severely Beat a 14-year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner

    Policeman, Guo Weishan, from Jiamusi Yonghong Police Substation has severely beaten Falun Dafa practitioners many times. In August, a 14-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner was arrested while clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to the people of the world. The little girl's face was beaten black and blue, and her eyes were swollen. This evil policeman has been exposed on the internet several times before.
  • Changlinzi Labour Camp Officials Brutally Beat Practitioners

    Director Shi also commanded that the practitioners' hands and feet be tied with ropes. They grabbed the ropes and dragged practitioners back and forth on the ground. All other practitioners shouted from inside the room, "The guards are beating people!" At this time, practitioners outside also rushed to the door and shouted, "Don't beat people."
  • Exposed: The policemen who use Despicable and Inhuman Means to Torture Falun Gong practitioners

    Two officers from the Wushun City Labour Camp who visited the Dalian Labour Camp said to them, "You are so behind here; Falun Gong practitioners don't need education or persuasion, they only need to be beaten. This method is being adopted nationwide."
  • Ten-year-old Boy Arrested, Hung by His Hands and Beaten

    "Last October, Zhouzhou and over ten other practitioners were arrested. Police interrogated him to determine his parents' whereabouts. After getting no information from him, the police hung him up by his hands and beat him, while yelling that they would kill him by splitting him in two. His trousers were torn, but he did not yield."
  • Ms. Yao Guoxiu Tortured to a State of Mental Collapse in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp - Dies Tragically Thereafter

    Ms. Yao Guoxiu, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Heilongjiang Province, was subjected to cruel persecution by forcibly brainwashing her, confining her in a solitary compartment, forcing her not to speak, and restraining her on a metal chair, with both arms and legs tied, for long periods of time, until she mentally collapsed in the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. After she was released, she jumped from a high building and passed away on March 13, 2005.
  • Engineer Mr. Zhang Yulong Abused in a Mental Hospital for Over Ten Years

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Yulong has been held in the Nanjing Brain Hospital (a mental hospital) for over ten years. It has been reported that Mr. Zhang is being forced to take medication and receive injections every day. He has been greatly harmed both physically and mentally. He has become delirious and can no longer take care of himself. Mr. Zhang was held in Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp in 2000 and 2001.
  • Mr. Li Decheng from Gaizhou City Recently Sentenced Again

    Mr. Li Decheng, 66, is a practitioner from Gaizhou City in Liaoning Province. He has previously been sentenced twice due to his belief in Falun Gong, totalling 9 years. On February 24th, officials at Gaizhou Court sentenced him to another 6 years in prison. When Mr. Li's family told the court to provide evidence for their decision, they were made to leave the court. Mr. Li later appealed.
  • 610 Office Pressures Family of Elementary School Teacher Ms. Li Xiaoyu Prior to the End of Her 10-year Prison Term

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Xiaoyu was imprisoned in the West Sichuan Women's Prison of Longquanyi District, Chengdu. Her ten-year prison term is to end on April 9th, 2012, but Jiang Dongtao of the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), has recently demanded that Ms. Li's mother persuade her to sign a guarantee statement renouncing Falun Gong. The 610 Office has sent several practitioners to a brainwashing centre after they were released from prison, and Ms. Li's family fears this will happen to Ms. Li. Ms. Li was brutally tortured in detention because she refused to renounce her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Traumatised by the abuse, she suffered a mental collapse.
  • Shandong Linyi City Procuratorate and Court Hand Down Seven and Nine-Year Sentences to Falun Gong Practitioners

    The local police department, Procuratorate, and court in Linyi City, Shandong Province, have openly violated the law by secretly trying Ms. Deng Liangcun and sentencing her to seven years in prison. Ms. Fu Guiying was similarly sentenced to nine years in prison. Their attorneys from Beijing were astonished by these harsh sentences.