Torture
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Atrocities in Baoding Forced Labour Camp: Beating Practitioners with Wooden Bats and Electric Batons, Severely Shocking a Male Practitioner's Genitals
2004-08-03
On the afternoon of July 29, 2003, the Baoding Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province carried out a so-called "test" for Falun Gong practitioners. Many guards grabbed wooden bats and electric batons to carry out this "examination." The exam questions were created to slander Dafa. When Dafa practitioners answered questions, if they did not answer with the stipulated "standard" answers, the guards used the electric batons to threaten them to revise their answers. If one did not revise their answer, the guards would use electric batons to shock him or wooden bats to beat their abdomen and chest. -
Mass Arrest of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Heilongjiang Province
2004-08-03On the afternoon of February 28, a dozen people, including policemen Sui Guangcheng, Yu Zhanjun, and Secretary of the Political and Judicial Commission Sun Jihua, drove three cars into all surrounding villages that have Falun Dafa practitioners. They searched the houses of suspected practitioners looking for Falun Dafa books, and materials about the persecution of Falun Dafa, forcing anyone who had Falun Dafa banners, CDs, or fliers to go to a forced labour camp. -
A Young Dafa Practitioner is Killed in Custody While Three Months Pregnant, Her Little Daughter Suffers After Losing Her Mother (Photos)
2004-08-02"Wearing a beautiful dress, with a face as lovely as her mother's, Kaixin showed the shy curiosity of a little girl. While I was looking at her I couldn't help but think about the loss of her mother and the love she held towards her father. We really felt pity towards this little girl who had suffered so much. The sad scene on December 5, 2002, reappeared in my memory. Little Kaixin, who was less than two years old, arrived in Guangzhou with her paternal grandparents after traveling a great distance hoping to see her mother, but all that awaited them was the dead body of her mother." -
Protect Women's and Children's Rights: An Appeal for the Release of Nursing Mother Ms. Lu Yanna, a Falun Gong Practitioner
2004-08-02In 2000, the policeman in Longkou City, Shandong province beat an elderly lady to death, simply because she was exercising her constitutional right to appeal the injustice against Falun Gong. The elderly lady's name is Ms. Xiangcui Tian. Today, the authorities abducted and illegally detained a young mother, Lu Yanna, who was still breastfeeding her baby. The officials in the government of Fengyi Town, took these actions to retaliate against Ms. Lu because they discovered that Ms. Lu had publicly exposed their crime of beating Xiangcui Tian to death. -
A 60-year-old Female Falun Dafa Practitioner is Subjected to Brutal Forced Labour for One Year and a Half
2004-08-02I'm a senior citizen in my 60s, a female working person, which is the most common type of person in Chinese society. I believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," and follow our Teacher to cultivate my character to be a good person, always striving to be an even a better person. This is all beneficial to society, causing no harm. Any natural leader should acknowledge our Teacher and these Dafa practitioners. However, Jiang's group slanders and persecutes us without any humanity. -
Practitioner Jiang Yong Dies as a Result of Torture in Changchun
2004-08-01Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong was 46 years old, and lived in Jilin Province. He was tortured to death on July 4, 2004. According to those who saw his dead body, there were rope marks on his neck, and many dark bruises on his chest and upper back. His eyes were wide open, and blood oozed out of his mouth when his body was touched. Some tissues were placed under his rectum. Police were frantically stopping people from taking photos of his body, and even beat his family members. -
An Account from Dafa Practitioners form Jiangsu Province: Xu Ruhua's Long Separation from Her Infant Son
2004-08-01"My name is Xu Ruhua, and I used to live in Danyang city. On February 21st, 2001, without following any legal procedures, policemen took me to their station by force, charging my husband and I with distributing Dafa materials. At that time, I was holding my 9-month old son in my arms. On the night of February 22nd, I was forcibly separated my son and I. I was sent to a Detention centre and detained there for 25 days. The Lianyungang Police Station also sent my husband to a forced labour camp for 1 year." -
Ms. Ou Xianyan, a Minor in Guangxi Province, Is Sentenced to 4 Years for Her Belief in Dafa
2004-08-01Ms. Ou Xianyan is a Dafa practitioner from Wuzhou City, Guangxi Province. In 2002, while studying at a vocational school in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, she clarified the truth about Falun Gong to her classmates. However, her classmates reported her to the school. The security department of the school then sent people to monitor and interrogate her, ordering her to give up her practice. -
Seven-Month-Old Baby Suffers Life Threatening Infection From 48 Hours of Neglect, When Police Arrest his Parents and Do Not Give The Baby Proper Care
2004-07-31Mr. Tan Zhiqiang and his wife Ms. Xu Li were arrested, leaving their seven-month-old son at home alone. After repeated requests to breast-feed her child, Ms. Xu Li was taken to the hospital to see her son. Only three days ago, her son, Zhengzheng, was still a healthy baby, but now he was lying in bed. He was wearing an oxygen mask, and an oxygen tube was inserted into his nose; he was receiving intravenous injections through a needle in his head, his eyes were closed, and he was unconscious. -
Cases of Illegal Arrests After the Supreme Procuratorate Published the Bulletin, "Strictly Investigating and Punishing the Crime of Impinging on Human Rights"
2004-07-31The Chinese Supreme Procuratorate decided to carry out a one-year special campaign to strictly investigate and punish the crime of impinging on human rights from May 1st to June next year. This decision affects five categories of crimes. They are illegal imprisonment, illegal searches, extorting a confession by torture, collecting evidence by using violence, and abusing prisoners and illegally extending detention terms. But, after this bulletin was published, the cases of illegally arresting and detaining Falun Gong practitioners have increased. -
Guards at the Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labour Camp Severely Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners
2004-07-31Section Chief Jianzhong Zhang in Kaiping Labour Camp, followed by two other officers, broke into a room where Ms. Shugui Dong was sitting in lotus practising the Falun Dafa meditation exercise. They asked Shugui Dong to take her legs down. Dong did not move. A guard came forward, stepped on Dong's head and dragged her to the ground by her hair. Other practitioners tried to stop him but he slapped Ms. Lili Ma so hard on her face several times that her ears were ringing. The guards continued to beat up other practitioners. -
Mother and Newborn Baby Arrested and Sent to Brainwashing Centre
2004-07-30On April 8, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Luu Yanna, who had just given birth ten days earlier, was unjustly arrested. She and her newborn baby named Shanshan were taken to Longkou City, Shandong Province 300 miles away, and they are now detained at a Brainwashing Centre. The young mother, who is still breastfeeding her baby, has been tortured by policeman Ma Xiangyang to the point of losing consciousness three times. -
A Hundred Tortures Illustrated (16 - 18)
2004-07-30In order to torture steadfast practitioners, police place a type of electronic device onto the practitioners' heads or chests, which results in their instant collapse. This torture device can severely damage the brain and internal organs, resulting in loss of memory, confusion, lack of energy, extreme pain, but no visible injuries to the surface of the body, because the damage is inflicted by sound waves or vibrations. -
Pregnant Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Guijin Arrested and Separated from Husband and 4 Year Old Child
2004-07-30At the end of February 2004, perpetrators abducted a whole family of practitioners in Zhoukou City, Henan province. Mr. Song Zhenlin, his wife Ms. Wang Guijin, and their 4-year-old child were all taken away. The wife was released after it was realized she was pregnant. A while later, police detained the pregnant Wang Guijin again, openly violating the nation's law. -
Police Brutality at the Daqing Prison In China
2004-07-30Between March 10 and April 23, 2004, the Daqing Prison stepped up its brutal persecution of illegally detained Falun Dafa practitioners. Division chief Li Fengjiang and Xiang Zhenchen in the seventh prison section ordered inmates to violently abuse Falun Dafa practitioners. They cruelly tortured them by tying them up, beating them, pouring cold water on them, and burning them with cigarettes.
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