Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Four Falun Dafa Practitioners from Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Shandong Provinces Died Due to Persecution

    Mr. Dong Shengli was in his 30s and worked in Shandong Province. His long-term diabetes was cured after cultivating in Falun Dafa. He was inhumanly tortured at a Detention Centre, causing his diabetes to return. He was then dismissed from his job, and his wife divorced him due to the intense pressure. Mr. Dong was repeatedly harassed, threatened, and subjected to brainwashing. He continued to cultivate firmly and did not want to give up his belief. However, he died in March 2004.
  • Five Practitioners in Guangdong, Shandong, Sichuan and Hebei Provinces Passed Away Due to Mental and Physical Abuse by Police

    Ms. Li Rufen 63, was from a village in Sichuan Province. She started practising Falun Dafa ten years ago. Her late-stage colon cancer was cured and she completely recovered. Beginning in 1999, she was subjected to long-term house surveillance, and her house was repeatedly ransacked. She had to ask permission even to go grocery shopping or visit her children. Due to the long-term harassment, threats, and financial extortion, she suffered serious diseases including heart disease. She passed away on January 24, 2005.
  • Urgent Rescue Needed for Practitioner Jiang Quande from Changchun City

    Mr. Jiang Quande is in prison because he practises Falun Dafa. To resist the persecution, he went on a hunger strike and is now locked up in solitary confinement. To keep Mr. Jiang in confinement and persecute him further, the prison guards fabricated lies that he "beat up people inside the prison" and refuses to see his family. His is in a critical condition.
  • A Re-enactment of the Torture Methods Used at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing - Part 2

    This is a torture reenactment: Hung Up and Beaten. Prisoners wrap the Falun Gong practitioner in a bed sheet, so their injuries won't be visible, and hang him from a door or a window. Then the whole group surrounds him, beating him savagely with wooden clubs. When the practitioner loses consciousness, prisoners splash cold water on him.
  • Handicrafts for Children Made with Slave Labour at the Mansajia Forced Labour Camp

    Products labelled as "Made In China" can be seen in every corner of the world. However, how many people know that many of the gifts they buy for their children and grandchildren, such as these necklaces and bracelet, are actually made with slave labour?
  • The Abuse of Practitioners at Qinduankou Prison in Hubei Province

    Currently, Falun Gong practitioners detained in Qinduankou Prison in Hubei Province are being brutally tortured. Chen Chuanhong, the political instructor of the Third Prison Ward ordered a criminal inmate to brutally beat practitioners and was praised by the prison system for it. After he was transferred to the Third Ward, Chen was directly responsible for torturing practitioner Hong Weisheng to the point of disability.
  • The Tragic Story of a Family in Northeast China

    Mr. Guo Wenxiang's family of ten used to live a peaceful and happy life. During the past 5 years, however, they have been wrongfully accused and have suffered tremendously at the hands of the authorities. Some of the family have been sent to prisons, detention centres, forced labour camps, and brainwashing centres; some were tortured and some even lost their lives.
  • Mr. and Mrs. Ma Shutian Died Within Months of Each Other as a Result of Police Harassment

    Mr. Ma Shutian, a Hebei Province Falun Gong practitioner, passed away the day after the local police harassed him at his home in 2001 and extorted more than 10,000 yuan from him. He died at the age of 58. His wife, Ms. Zhang Yumei, had passed away just months earlier in June 2000 as a result of the local police's threats and interrogations. His daughter-in-law gave in to the pressure and gave up practising Falun Gong.
  • My Husband and Son Died One After Another Because of the Persecution

    "On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin's Communist regime banned Falun Gong. I wept deep within my heart because such a wonderful practice was suppressed without any reason. The police often came to our home to harass us. They never let up. My husband could not withstand such continual harassment, and he passed away. My paraplegic son also passed away. Now only my grandson and I remain."
  • Another Nine Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of the Persecution

    The number of reports of Falun Dafa practitioners persecuted to death are increasing. We are still getting notification of deaths going back four or five years ago, because of the information blockade by the Chinese authorities and the danger that is ever present for practitioners in China in revealing the true, horrific situation. Nine more persecution deaths in six provinces have come to light. The practitioners died between the years 2001 and 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Qu Hongkui from Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Torture

    41 year old Mr. Qu Hongkui, risked his life and went out to tell people about the terrible persecution many times. As a result he was sentenced to three years of forced labour and developed tuberculosis. He was released in December 2004, however he died on February 13, 2005.
  • Re-enactment of Torture Methods Used at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing - Part 1 (Photos)

    The guards at Xishanping selected the strongest and most merciless prisoners from the 8,000 in their charge (of which more than 90% are convicted drug addicts) to perform violent acts for them, and utilized them to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Currently, a few dozen practitioners are still being held at Xishanping. One of these addicts said, "It is a living hell there."
  • Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Pan Xingfu, and the Persecution of His Wife, Mother, and Five Year Old Son

    As of January 31, 2005, a five-year-old boy named Zhuangzhuang would never see his father again. His father, Pan Xingfu, was persecuted to death for his beliefs. Mr. Pan gave his life for his firm belief in Falun Dafa, "Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance" when he was only 31 years old.
  • Announcing the Persecution Related Deaths of Nine Falun Gong Practitioners

    It has been learned that 9 Falun Gong practitioners passed away between 2000 and 2005. They suffered physical and mental torment; were prevented from practising the Falun Gong exercises and studying the teachings; their freedom restricted and their basic human rights totally denied. Under these circumstances, their spirits were crushed and extinguished.
  • 62 Year Old Ms. Wang Xiuzhen from Hebei Province Died as a Result of Persecution in 2001

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuzhen was 62 years old and had been bedridden due to illness before practising Falun Dafa. Through the practice she completely recovered from her illnesses. Perpetrators from the village, town, and county level tortured her numerous times. Suffering from persecution that included illegal arrests, extortion, having her home ransacked, and police intimidation, Ms. Wang died on August 5, 2001.