Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

  • Three Practitioners Abducted By Police in Shenzhen City

    Li Wei, a Falun Dafa practitioner, worked for the Police Station of Shenzhen Airport and was once awarded as one of the "Ten Top Police Officers of the City." He had just been released after being jailed for over a year for not giving up Falun Dafa. On July 30, he was again abducted by the airport police station. His whereabouts is currently unknown.
  • The 110 Emergency Hotline Is Used as a Tool to Persecute Falun Gong

    After the police abducted one Dafa practitioner, the practitioner witnessed this scene: A 110 staff member's mobile phone rang suddenly and they realised that they were being notified of an emergency to which they would have to respond. The person in charge said, "Turn off the mobile phones and pagers, and do not let them know where we are. Arresting an escaped criminal is not the same as arresting a Falun Gong practitioner. Falun Gong practitioners do not fight back when they are beaten or sworn at, and we can arrest them any time. However, it could be life-threatening to have to arrest an escaped criminal. What if something should happen to us?"
  • Brutal Brainwashing in Wuhan Women's Prison

    Two prisoners pressed her down and another one squatted behind her back, grabbing her hair and pulling it down, in order to take the photo by force. Because she refused to recite the prison rules, she was tortured with the method of "digging the wall" for two days. Since she was detained in the 4th Section of No.1 Division, she was often deprived of sleep and was not allowed to use the toilet, as a punishment for refusing to write statements renouncing and slandering Falun Gong.
  • Ten Dafa Practitioners Face an Illegal Trial with Righteousness in Anhui Province

    During the trial, fully armed police filled both inside and outside of the courtroom. The "610 Office" specifically arranged news media to come interview, attempting to cook up more news to slander and frame Dafa. However, the ten practitioners were very steadfast and righteous in the courtroom, despite the fact that they were not given a fair hearing. They shouted in unison "Falun Dafa is great! Falun Dafa is a practice! Restore the reputation of our Teacher!"
  • Two Shandong Province Women Practitioners Unjustly Sentenced to 4 Years Imprisonment

    Here in Shandong, brainwashing takes place to force the practitioners to give up Falun Gong. Even saying, "Falun Dafa is a righteous practise" will get you sent to jail, and fined 2000-5000 Yuan. Also, you would be forced to sign a "guarantee" to stop practising. If you refuse to sign the guarantee, you could be detained and subjected to brutal torture, such as deprivation of sleep for days. The sole purpose of the torture is to try to get practitioners to give up their belief in Dafa.
  • Exposing The Persecution Against Dafa Practitioners Detained at Chongqing City's Xishanping and Maojiashan Forced Labour Camps

    If the police are doing nothing wrong, why would they deprive citizens of the right to follow the law to appeal and why do they punish people that get involved? According to the law, after practitioners finish their jail terms, their local police departments should send police to take them home. However, some local police departments have not sent anyone to take the practitioners back. Therefore, Labour Camps are arbitrarily keeping practitioners and not releasing them.
  • Practitioners Tortured in "Intensive Reform" Building at Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp

    This kind of "forced reform" is very cruel. After forcing Dafa practitioners to say something against their wills, their words are used in propaganda to defame Dafa and mislead other people. One incentive used by Jiang Zemin's regime is to reward police officers with 1000 Yuan for each practitioner they "reform." Under such instigation, some police officers exhibit heartless and inhuman behaviour.
  • Shock of Secret Trial: Dafa Practitioner Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

    He was recently "tried" again, this time in secret, and was sentenced to an outrageous sentence of 12 years in prison. All because the Jiang Zemin regime has outlawed a practice which has tremendous benefits to body, mind and spirit and follows Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance
  • Former Deputy Director of Guangdong TV Station's General Editorial Department Illegally Imprisoned Once Again

    Now, nearly four months have passed, the police still haven't allowed his family members to visit him, and the government refuses to disclose the location where he is being imprisoned. However, inside sources say that he is being held in the Sanshui Labour Camp in Guangdong Province, and that members of the notorious "610 Office,"* knowing that Chen Ruichang's case has strong impact abroad, hope to brainwash him into renouncing Falun Dafa and becoming what they call one of the "key transformed people" so they can use him against Falun Dafa.
  • Fourteen Years Prison Sentence Meted Out to Gansu Province Dafa Practitioner

    After being taken to the Xifeng Public Security Bureau, Xu Feng was forced to sit on an iron chair in a detention room while handcuffed to a flue. The police were on 3-shift rotations so they could interrogate him 24 hours a day. It was hard for him to eat, drink, or wash his face. After 7 or 8 days, his bottom was abraded and bleeding but he was still not allowed to sleep or take a rest.
  • Provincial Government Employee Wang Wei Is Interrogated, Tortured, and Sentenced to Forced Labour in Changchun City

    Wang Wei was taken to an unknown area for interrogation. Gao Peng, with a group of 4 or 5 people, brutally tortured Wang Wei and detained him at the Tiebei Detention Centre. Later on, Changchun Forced Labour Education Committee illegally sentenced Wang Wei to a two-year forced labour term for "disturbing public security." They sent him to Weizigou Labour Camp of Changchun City. Wang Wei wanted to appeal and protest against the unfair judgments made and expose the brutal and evil actions of the Changchun City Police Department. However, Weizigou Labour Camp unreasonably turned down his request and confiscated his materials.
  • Outrageously Heavy Sentences for Three Innocent Guilin City Dafa Practitioners

    On October 1, 2001, Dafa practitioners from Guilin City in Guangxi Province: Mr. Huang Tenghui, Mr. Li Jun and Mr. Zheng Yuanhu, were arrested for making Dafa truth clarifying materials and detained in Guilin City's Second Detention Centre. On January 31, 2003, the three were illegally sentenced to outrageous terms of 10, 9 and 8 years of imprisonment, respectively.
  • Innocent Falun Dafa Practitioner Illegally Sentenced to Three Years in Jail

    Since July 20, 1999, police in Yunfu City, Guangdong Province have detained Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lai Zhenxian many times, ransacked his home, fined him and forced him to attend brainwashing sessions. They also searched Zhenxian's relatives' homes and threatened both his relatives and friends. In 2002, during a birthday party for his ailing father-in-law, more than twenty policemen barged in roughly to arrest Zhenxian and threatened to arrest whoever tried to hide him.
  • Entire Family of Hubei Province Dafa Practitioner Has Been Illegally Detained in Labour Camps

    Over four years of bloody persecution, Mr. Zhou's house has been searched more than ten times. During some of the searches, policemen stole money and property. One day in November 2001, a motorcycle disappeared from the house and was never found. Mr. Zhou's colleague witnessed four policemen carrying the motorcycle to the police car and driving away, no better than common thieves.
  • Wudang Court Hands Illegal Sentences To Practitioners Who Participated in Broadcasting Falun Gong Programmes on TV

    On August 22, 2003, the Guiyang Wudang Court again came up with some unjust excuse to prosecute practitioners. This time, in the name of supposedly "damaging broadcasting and TV installations," they illegally sentenced Falun Gong practitioners