Torture
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Tianjin City Women's Forced Labour Camp Exports Products Made by Slave Labour
2004-08-22
Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Tianjin City Women's Forced Labour Camp has detained many Dafa practitioners. The camp has contracts with some bean vendors. Under the contracts, the camp is responsible for putting beans into individual bags weighing from 110 lbs. to 180 1bs. For each bag of beans, the camp earns 0.8 Yuan. Practitioners are forced to put beans in bags and carry them to a designated place. The working conditions are very poor. -
Jiang Xiaoying Suffers Mental Breakdown Following Relentless Torture at Forced Labour Camp in Jiangxi Province
2004-08-22Practitioner Jiang Xiaoying from Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province is around fifty years old. She was a doctor in the Jiujiang Mental Hospital. Due to long-term torture at Majialong Forced Labour Camp, she suffered a mental breakdown. In 2002, soon after she managed to escape from a Detention Centre, she was arrested again and sent to the Majialong Forced Labour Camp. When she was carried into the labour camp, she was unconscious. She could not recall what she had experienced, as she had been unconscious. It is suspected that the loss of memory resulted from severe beating. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Xie Zhaoming from Chongqing City Tortured to Death
2004-08-21Mr. Xie Zhaoming was a 50-year-old laid off worker from Chongqing City. Because he used his mobile phone to send text messages to people to clarify the truth of the persecution, he was flagged by the internet monitoring and targeted by the police for surveillance. In 2003, he was arrested and thrown into Jiangjin Detention Centre. On June 1, 2004, he was sentenced to five years in prison. Because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa, he was tortured to death by the authorities in the Detention Centre on July 28, 2004. -
Mr. Shang Baolin, a Farmer from Shandong Province, Collapses and Dies after Repeated High Pressure Tactics from the Local Authorities
2004-08-21At midnight on September 28, 2002, over ten policemen broke into Mr Shang Baolin's home and threatened him, trying to force him to tell them the whereabouts of his wife. They told him that if he refused, they would arrest him and beat him. Finally, under severe pressure he told the police his wife's location at her parents' house. On October 10, 2002, Shang Baolin collapsed suddenly and died. At age 39, he left this world with a frightened expression on his face. Now, his wife and his ten-year-old daughter are living a lonely and impoverished life. -
Authorities Torture Practitioners Using Electric Shocks and Beatings in Liaoning Province
2004-08-21In November 1999, police detained Dafa practitioners, who went to Beijing for an appeal, in a Detention Centre in Liaoning Province. Ms. Ma Xiuwen was electrically shocked with a generator and kicked till she bled after she was discovered practising the Falun Gong exercises. A group of Dafa practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the brutal mistreatment she received. In retaliation, the County Police Department sent a large number of policemen to brutally torture the detained Dafa practitioners. -
Mr Zhao Qiang of Shandong Province Suffers a Mental Collapse from Torture at a Psychiatric Hospital
2004-08-20In the autumn of 2001, Zhao visited a fellow practitioner's home and was arrested there. He was then forcefully sent to a mental hospital and deliberately injected with drugs that harmed his central nervous system. Two years later, at the time of his release, Zhao suffered from a mental disorder due to the torture. His consciousness was unclear, and he lost the ability to lead a normal life. All of this has brought tremendous pain and harm to Zhao and his family. -
How the Moganshan Female Forced Labour Camp in Zhejiang Province Cruelly Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-08-20Ms. Zhuo Ainu lives in Jinyun, Zhejiang Province and is about 48 years old. The first time she was detained, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour. The second time, she was sentenced to three years of forced labour. Because she is steadfast in Falun Dafa, she was tortured three times during her incarceration. The first time was during a very hot summer. She was placed in a cell and the perpetrators closed the door and windows and used thick black cloth to cover the windows. They turned on a hot 200-watt lamp in the cell and didn't allow Ms. Zhuo Ainu access to any water. -
Invading a Citizen's Privacy--National Security and Police Monitor Readers in Shanghai Library
2004-08-20In 2002 and 2003, I set out large amounts of Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in the Shanghai Library. As a result, several police officers were sent to patrol the different reading rooms, which have since been closed. After hidden cameras were installed in the entrance lobby ceilings, the police set me up as their target. In February 2004, I went to renew my expired library card. When I came back, I found several police officers and library staff members waiting at the reading room door. -
Ms. Gao Rongrong, Disfigured by Electric Shock Torture, Is on the Brink of Death - Shenyang Officials Order "Don't Allow Her to Go Home Even If She Dies" (Photos)
2004-08-19Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong's life is in danger. Her face was severely disfigured by electric baton torture in Shenyang City's Longshan Forced Labour Camp in May. Doctors expressed that her life is in danger, and has repeatedly issued Terminally Ill Notices, but Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau and the superior of Longshan Forced Labour Camp, refused to release her, and claimed that "If there is any danger, let the hospital treat her. Don't allow her to go home even if she dies." -
Director of the Xi'an Police Station Is Prosecuted for Beating a 73-year-old Practitioner
2004-08-19Relatives of Ning Bo, a 73-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, are trying to sue Zhang Minghiang, the director of the Xi'an Police Station, because he brutally beat Ning. Zhang Mingjiang threatened that he would put the old man in prison as retaliation. Ning Bo, badly beaten, is now being held at the County Detention Centre and his family members are forbidden from seeing him. -
Wang Chengbiao Subject to Weeks of Sleep Deprivation
2004-08-19Wang Chengbiao was put through an extended period of sleep deprivation. He was forced to keep in a squatting posture for extended periods, even when he was eating, and not allowed to go to the toilet. Meanwhile, they organized a group of collaborators to try to coerce him into renouncing his belief. Sometimes, this kind of torture would last for over 50 days. Due to its long term application, it can be much more systematically traumatizing than physical torture which lasts for a shorter period of time. -
Changchun Practitioner Li Zhiyong Near Death from Persecution in Jilin Provincial Prison
2004-08-18Changchun Falun Dafa practitioner Li Zhiyong is detained in the Jilin Provincial Prison. He presently suffers from a serious kidney problem, brought on by the persecution. According to medical experts, it is virtually unheard for a 26-year-old man to develop such a severe kidney problem within ten days or so, unless he was hurt in a car accident or was severely beaten to the point of unconsciousness. On May 18, Jilin Provincial Prison authorities informed Li Zhiyong's family that he was ill and his life was in danger. Two months have passed, but Li Zhiyong is still being detained in the prison. He is presently on the verge of death. -
The Husband of a Dafa Practitioner in Hebei Province Describes the Hardships the Persecution Has Brought to His Family
2004-08-18My wife is a Falun Gong practitioner, while I am not. After July 20, 1999, the police from Shenzhou City have come to harass my family many times. They have broken into my house and ransacked it and have abducted and detained my wife illegally. They also fined me 885 yuan. During my wife Li Bo's detainment, I could hardly take care of my family. My 14-year-old daughter is paralyzed and bedridden and my 11-year-old son is a student. The heavy burden of life all weighed down on me. -
Private Prisons Set up in China to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (Photo)
2004-08-18While former Chinese president Jiang Zemin was still in office, he abused his power and huge proportion of China's national resources to build private prisons to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. These prisons were usually set up secretly. Now, almost every county and city in the nation has such prisons. The "610 Office" is directly in charge of these prisons, whereas judicial and legal departments often administer regular prisons. Such private prisons are often mislabeled as "Legal System Education Classes" to deceive the public. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Deng Jingping from Chengdu City of China Has Been Tortured to Death
2004-08-17Falun Dafa practitioner Deng Jingping was a 42-year-old lady from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. On March 13, 2004, she was arrested by Chengdu City Police and sent to a detention centre. After five months of torture at the detention centre, Deng became mentally disabled. She was then sent to Qingyang People's Hospital. At 12:30 p.m. on August 11, 2004, she died in the hospital.
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