Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Professor An Fentian from Beijing University of Chemical Technology Died as a Result of Torture - His Wife Sentenced to Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Professor An Fentian, a professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and his wife Chen Haifeng, were often detained and persecuted for practising Falun Dafa. He suffered tremendously during the brutal persecution. An Fentian passed away on October 16, 2004. His wife was abducted and sentenced to prison many times. She is currently in detention.
  • Unable to Bear the Persecution, A Practitioner's Husband Takes His Own Life

    In 2002, Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhang Min from Weifang City, Shandong Province was reported to the authorities when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She escaped, but her husband Chu Zhiming, a non-practitioner, was taken away by police. Because of the torment he suffered while in detention, he became mentally disoriented. As a result he took poison to commit suicide. In order to avoid further persecution, Zhang Min left home and is currently still homeless.
  • Acts Committed by the Police from the Heilongjiang Province Rehabilitation Centre

    In October 2002, police officers ordered three criminal inmates to beat Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Jiang Rongzhen, who was locked inside a small cell, because she refused to be "transformed". After they beat Ms. Jiang to within an inch of her life, they pulled her from the room and tried to force her to write a statement to renounce Falun Dafa. Ms. Jiang had already been knocked unconscious, but the three inmates claimed that she was pretending and continued to beat her until she died. This was how Ms. Jiang Rongzhen was beaten to death.
  • Information on Five Dafa Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Zheng Chengkui was 80 and lived in Hunan Province. She was arrested in 2002 for handing out leaflets exposing the persecution. The police raided her home, confiscated her personal property, and detained her for three months. The police continued harassing Ms. Zheng after her release. The authorities also ordered her children to confine their mother at home and force her to take unnecessary medicines. Ms. Zheng Chengkui passed away in May 2004, as a result of the relentless persecution.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. An Fenghua from Heilongjiang Province Was Tortured to Death in December 2004

    47 year old Ms. An Fenghua went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Dafa, and was arrested, detained, and sentenced to forced labour both times. She had to squat down on the floor so that she could be handcuffed to the basement's metal fence for at least several hours at a time, and sometimes even several days. An Fenghua was tortured until she became paralysed and blind. She contracted TB, and died on December 21, 2004 in the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre.
  • 64 Year Old Ms. Zhang Lanhua from Hebei Province Died from Persecution-Related Illnesses in August 2004

    Ms. Zhang Lanhua was 64 years old. In November 2000, police ransacked her home without a search warrant, confiscated her belongings and detained her. They viciously assaulted Ms. Zhang Lanhua during her detention, shocking her with electric batons, a brutal torture which blistered her mouth. After Ms. Zhang returned home, her health was consistently bad and village officials frequently came to her house to harass her. On August 16, 2004, Ms. Zhang Lanhua passed away.
  • Twelve Falun Gong Practitioners Who Were Persecuted to Death

    Nine out of twelve Falun Dafa practitioners who were persecuted to death were over 50 years old. Most of those were in their 60's and even one was 80 years old. Seven of these elderly people were ladies. How could the Chinese authorities consider these harmless, elderly people, who were only trying to live by the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, a threat to social stability? In looking at the true situation, it makes this persecution all the more senseless and heartbreaking.
  • Parents Illegally Detained in Forced Labour Camp, 10-Year-Old Son Left Unattended

    Recently, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Luo Yulin and Ms. Meng Qingwen, a married couple from Shandong Province, were detained in forced labour camps for the second time. The first time they were abducted by police, their son was only 6 years old. Last December police again arrested the couple, leaving their now 10 year old son in tears and once again deprived of his family.
  • 57 Year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Chen Huixuan Tortured to Death

    Ms. Cheng Huixuan was 57 years old. She firmly cultivated Falun Dafa and was arrested by the police many times. She was abducted and sentenced to three years forced labour at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. In the camp, Ms. Chen was tortured with the "big hang up" and beatings, denied sleep, and forced to perform heavy labour for over ten hours daily. When her whole body was swollen and symptoms of severe diabetes appeared, she was released back home. Her condition continued to deteriorate, and she died at 5 a.m. on March 21, 2005.
  • Torture Techniques at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City Used Against Falun Gong Practitioners (Re-enactment Photos)

    Torture method used in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp: Pinching the flesh with pliers. Police order the criminals to pinch practitioners' skin and flesh with pliers. After this torture, the victims' bodies are covered with purple bruises.
  • The Family of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Tao Hongsheng Suffers Tragic Experience (Photo)

    Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Tao Hongsheng and Ms. Yu Fengyun from Hebei Province were both repeatedly persecuted by the local officials. As a result, Mr. Tao was tortured to death on September 20, 2000 and his wife is still imprisoned. For the past several years, their two daughters have been dependent on each other for survival. During this period of time, the daughters have had no income except the financial support of kindhearted people and other Falun Dafa practitioners.
  • Officials at the Liaoyang City Detention Centre Tortured and Sexually Humiliated Women Practitioners

    In May 2002, Ms. Luo Li went along with other female Falun Gong practitioners out to let people know the truth about Falun Dafa and distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. Some people who had been poisoned by the propaganda defaming Falun Dafa reported them, and they were arrested and sent a detention centre. The policemen beat two practitioners unconscious and three others until their bodies were black and blue. The police forced and assisted prisoners to strip the practitioners and to beat their bare bodies. They even forced the nude women to go through the male wards to humiliate them.
  • The Inside Story of the Death of Ms. Dong Cui

    There have always been differing accounts of the death of Dong Cui at the Beijing Women's Prison in Daxin County. She was detained at a Detention Centre in Beijing for two years. Later, she was transferred to the Beijing Women's Prison, where she was severely tortured. The government produced various documents to show that she died from lung thrombus. Yet at the time of death, her body was covered with bruises, and there was a hole in her head.
  • Jiang Zemin's Evil Regime, as Seen Through the Suffering of a 70-Year-Old Lady

    I am a seventy-year-old woman who has been detained, persecuted and forced to be homeless for close to three years, simply because I distributed leaflets that exposed the lies about Falun Gong being spread by Jiang Zemin's regime. In the police station a policeman with alcohol on his breath came over to me and said menacingly, "Old woman, can you see I have had a few drinks? I am capable of doing anything when I am drunk." Soon he threw me in a detention centre.
  • Practitioners Shot At in 2002, Then Seized and Tortured in the Liaoyang City Detention Centre in 2003

    On October 12, 2002, Falun Dafa practitioners Wang Jingchun and Wang Jinping, a couple who lived in Liaoning Province, rode on a motorcycle to post leaflets exposing the persecution along a highway. The police spotted and decided to arrest them. During the arrest, the police shot at them twice (orders from higher authorities are that when the police see practitioners posting leaflets exposing the persecution the police can shoot right away).