Persecution Throughout Society

  • Taiwanese Resident Doing Business In China Forced to Sign a Guarantee Letter Because of a Sitting Meditation Photo in an Advertisement

    However, because of this picture, several employees of the company were sent to the Public Security Bureau and were detained for a long time. In the end, under pressure from the Public Security Bureau, they were forced to sign a letter guaranteeing that they have nothing to do with Falun Gong before they could be released. There are no Falun Gong practitioners in the company. However, even this law abiding company was not able to escape from this type of harassment. These types of actions on the part of the Public Security Bureau in China, which violate people's human rights, have chilled the hearts of the Taiwanese doing business in China.
  • A Blind Man Says "Falun Dafa is Good!" And Receives A One Year Prison Sentence

    In 2001 he went to City Hall to appeal his job situation. At that time there were many people appealing at City Hall. When he started talking about Falun Gong with the people around him, he said frankly, "Falun Gong is good. They (practitioners) are very kind. Even in the face of the persecution they have always been kind. If all the peasants practised Falun Gong, we wouldn't need any other regulations." When he was overheard making this statement, police put him in the detention centre for more than 10 days. They then ransacked his house and sentenced him to a ludicrous sentence of year and a half of prison.
  • Jiang Zemin's National Security Department Starts to Investigate Falun Gong Practitioners' Relatives

    Recently, the branch of Jiang Zemin's national security department in a northern city started to collect information about Falun Gong practitioners' relatives, their relatives' employers and their home phone numbers. Apparently it has something to do with the lawsuit overseas that is charging Jiang with genocide. The national security department is trying to figure out the practitioners who have overseas relatives and block the channels that might be used for the delivery of evidence about the persecution.
  • Questionnaire Slandering Falun Dafa Meets Resistance in Weifang City Schools

    Recently the Kuiwen District Education Bureau of Weifang City, Shandong Province conducted a prize-awarding survey, requesting that each student answer a set of questions. All the questions are designed to blacken the name of Falun Gong and its founder.
  • Sichuan Province Elementary School Students Forced to Watch a Movie Defaming Falun Dafa

    For the duration of the movie, several people guarded every exit. They asked students to stay put even if students didn't want to watch. The evil people twisted one student's ears and slapped his face when he walked out of the theatre. The student was so frightened that he cried. To make it worse, upon returning to the school, the students were forced to write down their impressions after watching the movie.
  • Report from the "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" Reveals Chinese Government Lies -- Official Government Media Seriously Violate Basic Reporting Principles and Professi

    A group called the "Tiananmen Self-immolation Investigation Committee" under the auspices of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) made an important discovery through their publicly reported analysis and investigation of the Tiananmen self-immolation incident. They have published the second part of this investigative report regarding this incident. The complete report can be found on http://www.upholdjustice.org/. The report reveals at least 14 contradictory and blatantly bogus plots and fake witness accounts cited in the government report.
  • Dafa Practitioners' Children Are Also Victims of Jiang Zemin's Persecution

    Their unjust detention forced them to leave behind their eighty-four year old mother and three young children (the youngest is still in elementary school). The new term is near but the three children are facing the grim possibility of leaving school because their parents are detained and they have no income.
  • Authorities in Shandong Province Spend Large Amounts of Money for "Name Lists" to Persecute Dafa Practitioners

    In 2001, Longkou's Lower Dingjia Town Power Plant officials spent nearly one million Yuan to build a "610 Office" brainwashing centre. According to incomplete statistics, until now, nearly 400 Dafa practitioners have been detained and are being brainwashed there. Some practitioners have been illegally imprisoned for more than one year and still have not been released...Since 1999, they spent thousands of Yuan going to Tiananmen Square, and the National Appeals Bureau bought name lists of practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal.
  • Authorities in Henan Province Again Issue Secret Orders to Intensify Persecution

    Recently, more secret orders for the persecution of Dafa practitioners were forwarded to various levels of government in Zhoukou City. They still follow the previous method of transmission: officials at higher level directly read the order that comes via fax, then destroy it and pass it on verbally.
  • FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Company Illegally Dismisses Employees For Practising Falun Gong

    FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Company, Ltd., located in Jilin City, Jilin Province, is financed and managed jointly by the China FAW Group and Volkswagen AG Germany. It has over 3,000 employees. Since July 20, 1999, this company has expelled over a dozen employees for practising Falun Gong.
  • Lawless Police Openly Intimidate and Persecute Family Members of Falun Gong Practitioners

    After failing to get any information (their family members indeed did not know where they went), the police illegally detained one of the practitioner's daughter (a non-practitioner) at the end of June for more than 50 hours. Later the daughter's employer bailed her out. The police threatened, "If we cannot put the Falun Gong practitioners under arrest, we will not let their family members live a normal life and we will arrest all of them."
  • Xiangcheng City Police Use A Tragic Murder to Slander Falun Gong

    After looking at the scene a police officer asked: "Did your eldest son practise Falun Gong?" Liu Zhixin replied: "My eldest son has never practised any Qigong". The police said: "Just claim that he did practise, otherwise we won't take care of your family's case". Liu Zhixin said: "Regardless of whether you take care of it or not, I just cannot tell lies to mislead people". But in order to deceive people and slander Falun Gong, police still spread the lie that "Liu Zhixin's eldest son became psychotic and killed people because of practising Falun Gong".
  • Handan City Court Breaks Up a Happy Family

    Simply because I practise Falun Gong, I was illegally detained and abused by the police. My job was taken away and my family members and friends were all affected. I had to leave home and lead a vagrant life to avoid further persecution. In the past year, the police frequently broke into my home and harassed my family, and they also harassed my husband in his workplace many times. As a result, my husband's job and salary have been suspended for a long time.
  • Dr. Lin Yanqing, Sentenced to 3 Years of Forced Labour by Police in Fujian Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Dr. Lin Yanqing, PhD, worked at the Harbin Industrial Institute. He was illegally detained in 2000 and was tortured so much that both of his hands have been crippled. He was also dismissed from his job. Lin has also been put on a Wanted List and police have also openly declared that they "want to implicate all of [his]relatives!"
  • Jiang's Regime Killed My Beloved Son

    After July 20 of 1999, Jiang's regime began to persecute Falun Gong. Police agents started to come to my home, harassing and intimidating us. My teenage son was still in school. Under the tremendous pressure from school and society, he could not continue his peaceful cultivation in Falun Gong. His health quickly deteriorated. Four months after the persecution started, he sadly passed away.