Individual Accounts

  • A Practitioner's Experience of Torment and Anguish

    In October 2001, because I was persistent in practising Falun Dafa, police from Division One of my hometown police department arrested me. They took all my Dafa books without a search warrant. In the evening, they led me blind-folded to an unknown place. In the enquiry room, they handcuffed me to a tiger bench (a torture device). Two policemen in their 20's told me that they had forced an older lady to stay outside in the winter for a whole night. She fainted in the cold and was injected with medicine to wake her up in the morning. They threatened to beat me so badly that I would lose control of my bowels and bladder.
  • Jealous Officials in Chengdu City Lead Police To Shoot at Dafa Practitioner

    Yang Yuanqiu, a Dafa practitioner from Shuangnian Village, Chengdu City, was the alternate supervisor of the village. Because Mr. Yang conducted himself according to the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" he was an upright official. The party secretary of another village and that village supervisor were jealous of Yang Yuanqiu and feared him because of his righteous behaviour. They were afraid that the fact that they embezzled over 100,000 Yuan would be exposed. (note: An average urban worker's monthly wage in China is about 500 Yuan) So they staged an action to frame Yang Yuanqiu.
  • What A Dafa Practitioner Saw and Heard in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun

    During the campaign to "assault fortified positions" period in April 2002, day after day, he kept lecturing practitioners over and over again, "The Communist Party pays me, and I do whatever it tells me to do. Since it forbids you to practise Falun Gong, you just can't practise. The only choice you are facing now is being reformed. Just listen (Dafa practitioners' painful cries while being tortured could be heard all over the building.)! In several days, you will be assigned to these Units. Who can bear this?
  • Husband and Sons in Sichuan Province Assault Practitioner Forcing Her to Escape

    Because of the policy that implicated them and threatened their interests, they took it out on me by resorting to all forms of violence -- banging me against a wall, attempting to throw me down a flight of stairs, slapping me on the face, strangling me with their hands, and pinching me leaving wounds all over my body. The neighbour saw that I was beaten up and said: "Is Falun Gong really that good? Your two sons and your husband hit you so heartlessly, yet you didn't fight back or scorn them."
  • Why Are Good People in Prison Instead of with Their Families?

    He started to refuse to eat what I cooked and stopped talking to me. Later he said he would rather have a wife who was not as good as me as long as she did not practise Falun Gong, to bring him a peaceful life. I thought as a couple we couldn't suffer together and go through tribulations as well. He pushed me so hard that I agreed to get a divorce. I felt very hurt. I lost my home and stayed at my work unit's dorm.
  • Chongqing University Removed and Changed Specific Information in Its Website To Conceal Rape Case

    In order to conceal a very depraved case of a female postgraduate student being raped by the policeman in public, Chongqing University went so far as to delete the speciality of "High-voltage Transmission Power" from its website and then claimed that there was no such a student. The university has really gone too far by taking these actions.
  • Heilongjiang Province Break Rib of Elderly Dafa Practitioner During Illegal Arrest

    During the Moon Festival of 2002, Wu, an elderly Dafa practitioner from Longquan Village, was illegally arrested by the police. During the arrest, the police kicked him so hard that one of his ribs was broken. He was later sent to a detention centre. At first, the police tried to extort 5,000 Yuan from his family, then later lowered the amount to 2,000 Yuan in exchange for his release.
  • The Inhumane Torture I Suffered in the Panjin Forced Labour Camp Could Not Weaken My Firm Belief

    Team Leader Yi Xiuyan screamed: "This time you must 'reform'!" I realised a bigger test was coming. They rushed at me, when one person became tired of beating me, he was replaced by another person. When they were all tired, they beat me with the barbed sticks. To them, I was nothing more than a sandbag; they attacked with all their strength around-the-clock.
  • An Elderly Practitioner Clarifies the Facts Wherever She Goes

    This old lady clarified the facts to whomever she saw, and everywhere she went, including the police in the detention centre, people from the "610 Office," the head of a factory, and passers-by. The evil persecutors couldn't do anything and were helpless. They tried to murder the old lady but failed. They sent her home and locked her inside, not allowing her to go out. The old lady behaved the same way, telling people that Falun Dafa is good and that Jiang's regime is deceiving and harming people.
  • Falun Dafa Cured My Illnesses, but the Jiang Regime Has Relentlessly Persecuted Me for My Firm Belief

    On the day of a farmer's market, the police legal assistant and the tractor station director took me to the police station and cuffed me to the front door of the station. Then, he viciously told me that I would serve as a warning to the market attendees: those who would go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong would know what to expect. They forced me to wear a big display board (slandering Falun Gong) in front of my chest. Thus, I was humiliated until they took me back to the farm, which was after 5.pm.
  • Account of Permanent Physical Damage Received in Shibalihe Female Forced Labour Camp

    Then they kicked and stepped on the back of my knees for a while, and finally went away. Soon after, they came back with ropes and viciously said, "We have never had the chance to use these ropes since we bought them a few years ago. Now they can be used on Falun Gong." Then they forced me to take off my winter coat and tied me up with the ropes. They even said that because I was old, my suffering would be less compared to other Dafa practitioners.
  • How I Suffered a Mental Collapse Due to Torture and Recovered After Resuming Cultivation

    We went on hunger strikes to protest, and the vile guards force-fed us with excrement. I was force-fed twice with excrement, and afterwards, I had a fever of over 40 degrees Celsius (about 104 degrees Fahrenheit) and serious diarrhoea. Under the severe physical and mental torture, I suffered a mental breakdown. The labour camp, afraid of taking responsibility, asked my family to take me back home in August 2001.
  • Personal Account of how a Young Falun Gong Practitioner had Experienced Mentally and Physically Suffering

    They kept grabbing me by the shirt and yelling at me. They shook my head and body violently. I felt extremely sick and threw up until I couldn't anymore...Later I was sent to a hospital...My face was pale and swollen, and I was hardly conscious. It turned out that I had suffered a concussion.
  • Honour Student at City and Provincial Levels Barred from High School

    During this period, the teachers and the schoolmaster gave me "ideology education" and tried to force me to tell them the whereabouts of my parents. I was deeply hurt mentally. My classmates looked at me with strange looks. Sometimes when I was in class, I would be asked to leave, by the teacher saying, "A leader from the education bureau wants to talk with you. You should just listen and say nothing."
  • Account of the Torture I Suffered in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp During the Past Three Years (Part 1)

    The author of this article has been illegally detained at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Shenyang, Liaoning Province since October 1999, only because she practised Falun Gong. In the laour camp, the torture she suffered caused her to almost become blind, and she lost her hearing from being beaten. She was shocked by electric batons, heavily beaten up, shut up in a closed cell, and forced to perform hard labour.