Individual Accounts

  • Where did "Repentance Statements" and "Fingerprints" Come from?

    This is how Jiang Zemin's Regime came up with many of these "Repentance Statements" and "Fingerprints." They forced practitioners to sign their names on those "Repentance Statements" against their will. Most of those statements are fabricated by the police to meet quotas set by the Jiang Regime and avoid being implicated themselves..
  • Police Atrocities in Deyang Forced Labour Camp

    Because I did not give up the belief of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," I was cruelly tortured on four separate occasions in one year. Later I was transferred to another prison section. This section used the excuse of military training to physically punish and torment steadfast practitioners. We were woken up at 5:00 a.m. every morning and forced to stand facing a wall for a long period of time while all other prisoners were still sleeping.
  • The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Yu Shuang at the Daqing City Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    They then tied him to a chair and extended his term for three months. The 11th rib on the right side of his body was fractured. He was in excruciating pain whenever he moved his body even a little bit. He was forced to sit in the chair motionless for seven days and nights, wearing shackles. As a result, his legs were swollen and he had great difficult walking. The labour camp did not allow Yu Shuang's family to visit him, fearing that their crimes might be exposed.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zuo Guoqing Is Being Persecuted at Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Daqing City

    The Security Department then detained Mr. Zuo. About ten days later he was tortured severely. A policeman took him to the People's Hospital in Daqing City for an examination and returned him to the Security Department again afterwards. After that, Mr. Zuo was secretly sent to the Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang province, a place notorious for the severe persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Zuo's health has deteriorated as a result of the abuse that he has suffered.
  • Severe Beatings by the Xiangtan City "610 Office" Render Mr. Peng Lame

    Following his "interrogation," he was so black and blue from bruises all over his swollen body that he was unrecognisable. In later interrogations, agents of the "610 Office" beat him so badly that they broke one of his legs, which never healed correctly, and caused him to walk with a severe limp. Although it has been a year and a half since his detention, Peng Shiqing's family members have continually been denied visitation.
  • After the "Wei Xingyan Rape Incident" Was Exposed, "610 Office" Officials from Chongqing City Take Revenge on Dafa Practitioners

    In the morning of August 1, the "610 Office" special unit drove a white van onto Chongqing University premises to monitor the communications within the school and arrested all faculty who discussed this matter. That van was equipped with a complete set of modern equipment that can monitor wire and wireless communications. On the evening of August 3, the special unit officers arrested over a dozen Dafa practitioners on the Chongqing University campus. They were all faculty members and there were about two or three professors.
  • The Case of Practitioner Ms. Liu Shujun from Hengshui City of Hebei Province

    In the detention centre, the head, Geng Zhanwu, beat her brutally, causing severe internal injuries in her heart and lower back. Later, she was sentenced to a two-year term of forced labour and was sent to Gaoying Labor Camp of Baoding City. She had been steadfast in her practise of Falun Dafa and has never yielded to official attempts to have her renounce the practise. After she was released from the labour camp, the "610 Office" of Hengshui City and the city police department tried several times to arrest her but failed in their attempts.
  • The Cruel Persecution Suffered by My Family: Husband Detained as Hostage, Mother Dies in Worry and Anger

    Only because I practise "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," my family was broken up because of the persecution by Jiang's regime. What I experienced was only the tip of the iceberg; hundreds and thousands of fellow practitioners have suffered inhuman torture. The crimes that Jiang has committed against practitioners who cultivate "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" are countless.
  • My Experience of Appealing for Dafa Six Months After I Started Cultivation Practice

    On the way to appeal, the Beijing policemen interrogated me. They took away my appeal letter and all of my money, and tried to force me to slander Dafa and Teacher. If you did not obey them, they would beat you up. After I was illegally detained for a couple of days, my work unit brought me back home. The public security office then asked for 3,000 Yuan as a penalty, and my work unit later laid me off.
  • Chinese Police Threaten Australian Citizen: "We'll Make You Disappear"

    I requested to see an Australian embassy officer. They rejected my request and said, "What do you want to see embassy officers for? Do you intend to stir up conflict between the two countries? We will make you pay if you do not behave." They confined me there for seven hours and kept threatening me. "We have seen many cases like you. You must have been away from China for too long and not too familiar with the situation here. Listen, there are thousands of people with the same name as yours in China. It means nothing if one of you disappeared.
  • Police Station in Sichuan Province Persecutes Dafa Practitioner Qing Mingzhen and Harasses Her Family

    Police sent Qing Mingzhen's brother sent her to the "Wuhou Legal System Learning Class," which is actually a brainwashing centre. Qing Mingzhen did not cooperate with any instructions from the police, so police captain Liu slapped her face heavily 18 times in front of the family, causing her dizziness and profuse bleeding from her nose. Police then handcuffed her hands behind her back to a tree. With righteous thoughts, Qing Mingzhen left the brainwashing centre, and now has become destitute and homeless.
  • Being Beaten and Exposed to Freezing Conditions in Snowy and Windy Weather -- An Elderly Lady Practitioner Recounts Her Experiences (Part 1)

    They took off our clothes, shoes, and socks, and made us stand barefoot on the snow, while at the same time we had to bend our bodies and legs. They would lash us with leather straps if we slightly disobeyed them. Under our feet, the ice covering the ground was over one foot thick. It was snowing and a strong wind was howling. They pushed an old lady in her 70's to the edge of an open sewer, which was over one metre in diameter. They kept beating and pushing her and almost made her fall down into the sewage pit. Even these words cannot describe the barbarity!
  • Horrendous Personal Experience in the Forced Labour Camps of China

    A practitioner refused to cooperate, so evil policewoman Li Shoufen and some prisoners physically abused her and posted papers on her face, which were full of slander defaming Falun Dafa and Teacher. Li Shoufen let those inmates torture the practitioner to death and then write something to certify she died of illness. One of those who had been brainwashed refused to do so, therefore, Li started to abuse her. During these years Li Shoufen tortured countless practitioners.
  • Bitter Recollections of Being Doused in Cold Water, Stripped Naked and Lashed in Winter

    After the guards finished their dinner they started to torture me again. I was handcuffed and was squeezed into a corner. They used their feet to compress my chest. That made me unable to breathe and I suffered pain in my ribs. They then used a lighter to burn the hairs on my chest, my beard, my eyebrows and my genitals. The torture lasted a long time. I struggled and sweated a lot. They continued torturing me with such dirty, vicious and brutal torture until they felt tired.
  • Several Accounts of Dafa Practitioners being Illegally Detained and Persecuted for their Belief

    During his detention at the Anshan Forced Labour Camp, under the direction of the Party Commission Chief Zhang Zhenyang, the police and criminals cruely tortured him. They used sleep deprivation and relentless false propaganda to attempt to brainwash him. Zhang Quan suffered a great deal both physically and mentally, leading to his suffering a mental collapse. He lost his desire to eat or drink, had blood in his urine for more than a month, and his health deteriorated rapidly.