Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

  • Four Practitioners Illegally Sentenced to Nineteen and Twenty Years in Prison For Courageous TV Broadcast

    In 2002, practitioners Huang Min, Lv Guiling, Zhang Lejin, and Jiang Luguang succeeded in transmitting cable television broadcasts which clarified the true facts about Falun Gong to different areas of Shandong Province such as Rongcheng, Rushan, and Wendeng of Weihai City, etc. They did this in an effort to prevent the world's people from being deceived by the lies coming from Jiang Zemin's regime. They had no recourse in the state-controlled media to expose the cruelty of the persecution or explain the real nature of Falun Gong to the Chinese people.
  • Dafa Practitioners Serving Grossly Unjust Sentences in Chuanxi Jail

    The police once tied her to a tree and continuously electrocuted her using electric wires. After a few hours, she lost all consciousness and remained that way long after she was untied. The police also once hung her up by her hands by using thin electrical wire, the wire cut deep into her flesh while she hung in the air.
  • Guard in the Beijing Prisoner Dispatch Centre for Forced Labour Camps Admits: "We Have a Quota for Deaths"

    Since many Falun Gong practitioners had endured all kinds of torture before being sent to the labour camps, many of them had wounds and injuries from the torture. Also, many practitioners had gone on hunger strikes in the detention centres to protest the illegal detention. So many of them were very weak. It was difficult for them to walk fast while carrying their luggage. The police then said viciously, "Don't think you will get released for having health problems. Even if you die, it doesn't matter. We have a quota for deaths."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Minli Escapes the Evil with Righteous Thoughts and Continues to Expose the Persecution

    Since Minli's wound on her throat had not yet fully healed, the police used cigarette smoke to choke her, which made her cough badly. It also caused her to suffer severe chest pain. She could hardly breathe. She could hardly get any sleep, sleeping only one to two hours each night. She could only eat half a small bowl of gruel every day. Zhang Shouyi also viciously threatened that he would suffocate her to death with a pillow and then announce her death as a case of suicide. The police tried all means to threaten her so as to aggravate the persecution.
  • Letter to the National Security Brigade in Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province: "Unconditionally Release My Sister Liang Hua Immediately!"

    Since July of 2001, several Chinese high-ranking officials who had initiated or executed the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners have been sued in US and European courts. These Chinese officials include the former Chinese Chairman Jiang, Luo Gan, Zeng Qinghong, the head of the "610 Office" -- Li Lanqing, the head of Police Bureau in Hubei Province -- Zhao Zhifei, the secretary of the Party of Sichuan Province -- Zhou Yunkang, former mayor of Beijing -- Liu Qi, and the Deputy governor of Liaoning Province -- Xia Deren.) Jiang is facing a worldwide prosecution for committing genocide.
  • Atrocities Committed Against Liaoning Province Falun Dafa Practitioners by the Chaoyang County Public Security Bureau

    During their detention the practitioners exposed the facts that the local police used the case of Dong Li, who allegedly killed his wife and hurt his daughter, to frame Falun Gong. Dong Li admitted that he was not a Falun Gong practitioner when the practitioners talked to him. An inmate held at the detention centre disclosed that Dong Li was arrested in 2001 and at that time, police officer He Naifeng beat him for a day and a night to force him into defaming Falun Dafa.
  • Famous Bridge Engineer Illegally Sentenced to Prison for Practising Falun Gong

    During his illegal detention, the Changchun City Mayor asked for his release in person because he was needed for a project. But his company said, "As long as he writes a pledge, his job will be reinstated and his salary compensated." Since this practitioner steadfastly holds on to his belief, he didn't agree to any of the conditions offered. In the end, he was sent back to the No. 2 Detention Centre in Changchun.
  • U.S Permanent Resident Arrested While Visiting Her Family in China and Sentenced to Two Years of Forced Labour

    Fifty-year old Ms. Li Meizi, is a permanent resident of the U.S. In September 2002, she went back to Beijing from Florida to take care of her elderly parents. One day in November of the same year, while having dinner at her friend's home, the police broke in and searched the whole place. The police found two copies of flyers in her handbag. As a result, she was arrested and sent to a detention centre.
  • The Brutal Torture and Illegal Sentencing of Practitioner Song Xu from Zhengzhou City

    The policemen took off all the practitioners clothes and dumped him onto the concrete floor of the toilet. After he finished, the police found a wooden stick and harshly stabbed it into his rectum, then used a hose to douse him with water. Song's feet were injured from the rope, and were numb. He was unable to move one of his legs. Still, the police refused to stop the torture and abuse. They hit and kicked him every day. Because Song Xu refused to give in, the team leader called Pan poured salt and chili powder into Song's nose to induce further pain.
  • Dalian Detention Centre Detains and Persecutes Dafa Practitioner Mr. Lu Kaili

    Because he refused to relinquish the practice of Falun Dafa, he was sent to the infamous Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. The work at Masanjia was extremely arduous. They were forced to carry out work on cornfields and rice fields, and were given poor and meager rations. Due to long periods of malnutrition, physical and mental abuse and very grueling work, Lu Kaili's feet became swollen and he was unable to walk.
  • Baimalong Forced Labour Camp Inflicts Untold Physical and Psychological Damage upon Falun Dafa Practitioners

    For more than three months, they tortured her with injections of nerve debilitating drugs once a week whereas the normal dosage for actually ill patients was once a month. These medicines caused severe damage to Yang's body, including: nausea, vomitting, fatigue, memory loss, unconsciousness, and loss of body control. Yang still had serious complications from these drugs half a year later.
  • Nursing Mother Incarcerated in Shayang Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Chen Liqun is a Dafa practitioner in Wenquan Area, Xianning City, Hubei Province. She has a new baby, less than one-month old. While clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution on May 22, 2003, Ms. Chen was reported to the police. She was arrested and sent to the Maoershan Detention Centre.
  • Wuhan Authorities Imprison Practitioner for Extended Period

    Mr. Yan has now been illegally imprisoned for more than 9 months. He has been unable to be at home with his wife for over 2 years. Policeman Xiang Hui frequently calls to harass his wife and child. Once he threatened the child: "Don't tell your mother where your father is. If we find that she contacts other Falun Gong members, your family's property will be confiscated and you will be driven out of the apartment."
  • Forty-Seven Falun Gong Practitioners Transferred to Lanzhou City Brainwashing Centre

    Authorities there don't allow them to talk to each other or walk around. Everyday, sinister people use both hard and soft tactics to threaten and persuade them. They even force some former Falun Gong practitioners, who collapsed under the mental pressure and recanted their belief, to try to spread their warped ways of thinking to the practitioners, and they punish those practitioners who do not cooperate with the evil people.
  • Well Respected College Teacher and Director of Company Suffer Unjust Persecution in Zhoukou City

    In December 2001, she was again abducted from the college where she worked and her home was ransacked again. She was illegally detained in Shenqiu Detention Centre until July 2002, when she was unjustly sentenced to three years of forced labour in Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, only for practising the peaceful exercises of Falun Gong. She is still in detention to this day.