Individual Accounts

  • The Story of My Family’s Terrible Persecution

    In the freezing cold winter the callous and depraved abusers showered her with icy water, forced her to eat human excrement, shocked her feet and body with electric batons, and forced her to take psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs. During sleep she was often dragged into the hallway to be severely beaten, and in a few instances she was beaten unconscious, with an egg-sized chunk of hair and skin torn from her head.
  • My Suffering Over the Last Three Years

    I was transferred to the city hospital, hoping that the pain would end; but actually it was just a prelude to something even worse. When my wounds were dressed I cried because of the agonising pain; so my mouth was stuffed to muffle my cries.
  • Calling On the Graduates of Shanghai, Xian, and Hsin Chu Chiau Tung University to Help Release Detained Falun Gong Practitioners

    I would like to call on the graduates of Shanghai, Xian and Hsin Chu Chiau Tung University to help secure the release of Chu Yen Lai and other detained Dafa practitioners. We need overseas Chiau Tung University graduates to speak out and offer their support to end this ruthless persecution of innocent people.
  • Dafa Practitioner Lin Jieping Tortured at the Lishi Women's Prison

    While in detention, she remained steadfast in her belief and refused to write a letter denouncing Dafa. The prison has been constantly intensifying the persecution of her. At present, Lin Jieping is forced to do hard labour with handcuffs on. In addition, the police force her to do physical work that normally only men can do. She has to work from early in the morning until late at night.
  • Disabled Lady Firmly Resists Evil Persecution at the Brainwashing Centre in Shanghai

    Seeing that they could not deceive her into following them, several policemen kidnapped Xia and carried her from her home. The neighbours were all astonished by what they saw. They could not believe that such a kind-hearted disabled woman could be illegally arrested in Shanghai, an international metropolitan city.
  • My Personal Experience of Torture and Illegal Imprisonment While Detained at the Huadian Police Station

    On October 8 2002, I was tried in court. The so-called confession and plea read by the prosecutor were not my words. I told them that the police didn't record what I actually said and it was not my confession at all. I was deceived and coerced under severe torture. I told them that the police officers are the real criminals.
  • The Torture Suffered by Female Practitioner Gong Zhihui from Panzhihua City (photo)

    During her detention, Gong went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was kicked, punched and force-fed with food and medicine. The guards usually did not do it themselves. They ordered the criminals to pinch her tendons and force-feed her while plugging her nose. They were also responsible for the multiple bruises on her arms and legs. She was unable to walk and two of her teeth had been knocked out.
  • Three Months Without Food is Unable to Weaken the Steadfast Belief of Liu Yongwang

    Dafa practitioners are illegally imprisoned without trial and are sentenced to long prison terms for believing in Truth, Compassion, Tolerance. They are tortured and beaten with no way to appeal and very little chance of revealing their situation to the outside world. Therefore, many practitioners in China have had to resort to hunger strikes to protest against the unlawful and inhumane persecution that they are subjected to.
  • Practitioner Fang Siyi is Brutally Tortured in Jilin Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Fang Siyi used to be a hairdresser and had a loving family. Because of the Jiang regime's persecution, the family was broken apart. Her friends and relatives now have to take turns in caring for her three-year-old daughter. Mother and daughter cannot be with each other anymore.
  • Barbaric Torture in Masanjia Labour Camp Could Not Shake My Steadfast Belief

    Sadistic policemen stripped off my clothes, leaving only my underwear and forced me to sit on the floor. They started to beat me and shocked me with three electric batons simultaneously. I cannot begin to describe the pain and humiliation from this torture! My underwear was stained with blood.
  • The Torture Endured by a Practitioner in Sanshui Female Labour Camp

    Sometimes the practitioners were stripped and forced to sit on the cold floor all night long to freeze in the cold, and they were not allowed to go to bed to sleep or use the toilet. Sometimes, several evil persons took turns slapping practitioners in the face with a book...
  • Practitioner Yuan Lin Endures a Year of Torture for Revealing the Truth

    Just for revealing the facts about Falun Dafa, in December 2001 Yuan Lin was abducted and imprisoned. She has since endured torture and horrors that cannot be imagined even in our worst nightmares. Now it is not known where she is, or if she is dead or alive…
  • How I was Battered and Bruised from Policemen's Lust for Violence

    For three or four nights in a row, the police directed four or five prisoners to take turns beating me. My chest and back were swollen and I was bruised all over. I believe in being good and kind to all people, upholding the values of Falun Dafa. So what crime had I committed that I should be subjected to such inhumane and degrading thuggery?
  • Horrific Torture I Endured at Jiangong Police Station

    "If you still do not tell us where the book came from, we will take you to a hill, dig a hole, throw you in, and pour gas all over your body to set you on fire. Your family will have no clue at all about where you are. And we will just tell those people that you set yourself on fire to reach consummation."
  • Ordeal of a Sixteen-Year-old High School Student :Where Can I Study in Peace?

    However it hurts me to be separated from my family. My parents have been illegally detained many times. My mother has had to leave home in order to avoid the persecution and I am not able to see her, although I miss her very much...Every day, I felt depressed or even that it was too painful to live. I often felt that my mind was on the verge of collapse.