Torture

  • Atrocities In Beijing: 8 Fingers Beaten and Broken

    Several policemen pressed his arm against the ground and smashed his hand with rubber batons. The eight fingers on both hands with the exception of his two thumbs were broken. They also broke his nose and face, spraying blood everywhere. His light gray sweater was soaked with blood and turned red. The intense pain and severe loss of blood caused his face to turn ashen, and his body began shaking uncontrollably.
  • Elderly Lady Practitioner Sustains Severe Maltreatment by Police

    There, the guards used two handcuffs and a big chain to tie me to a heating pipe, and I could not sit, bend, and could only talk to them sideways. They had more than ten people torturing me in turn and did not allow me to sleep. This kind of torture went on continuously for five days and nights. Because I'm an elderly female, I could not sustain their torture and finally fainted.
  • Vile Acts Towards Female Dafa Practitioner

    Then, they tried to force me to drink a "medicine" that they had prepared beforehand, but I refused to drink it. Several people grabbed me and forced it into me. The party secretary said: "See, this is what you get for going to Beijing. Take her outside, freeze her!" They tied my two hands behind my back and tied my legs with duct tape from the ankles up. They dragged me outside to let me freeze, dragging me along like a log. They even took off my shoes. Later, I learned that the "medicine" was human urine.
  • The Persecution of a Former Soldier

    Since the start of the persecution on July 20, 1999, the cadres in the Army who practised Falun Gong were transferred to civilian work, and soldiers who practised Falun Gong were forced to leave the Army. Communist Party members who practised Falun Dafa were forced to leave the Party. Companies or units within the Army were forbidden from accepting Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Ugly Scenes in Chaoyang District's Dispatch Section in Beijing

    In the Dispatch Section, if practitioners said that they would continue the practice, police would shock them with electric batons. If practitioners still continued to say that they would not stop the practice, police would drag them into a cell, lock them to a bed, and shock their armpits, the back of the neck and the back of the ears, all sensitive places to cause great pain. Afterward, police would write a guarantee statement and force Dafa practitioners to stamp their fingerprints on it.
  • The Courage of an 11 Year Old Girl Practitioner In Spite of Persecution

    In July 2001, I went with a young practitioner the same age as myself (11 years old) to Tiananmen Square. We held high a banner with the words, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" on it. We were knocked to the ground with one kick from the policemen and were dragged away by our hair. In China, the people in power are cruel and violent, even to harmless and defenseless school children like us. It is really inhuman.
  • Agonising Screams Heard from Female Practitioners in Changchun City Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In October 2002, there was an unknown female practitioner in the No. 1 team of the No. 2 Division (Dafa practitioners are not allowed to say anything to each other when they meet, therefore her name remains unknown). A policewoman Wei ordered an old common prisoner, He Huanping, to drive steel needles into this practitioner's fingertips. The entire camp could hear this practitioner's agonising screams.
  • Nanchang City Retired Female Doctor Detained Again After Suffering Several Rounds of Torture

    The thugs tried to force her to write suicide notes, saying, "It counts as suicide if we beat you to death." They also instigated the common criminals to beat her brutally. These criminals forced her to kneel on the ground with a towel in her mouth. They slapped her on her face and beat her with metal hangers, especially on the infected parts of her body.
  • Atrocities in Tangshan City: A 66 Year Old Retired Female Teacher is Brutalised in Freezing Weather

    Zheng Chunsheng warned them, "I will beat you all to death, and then use gasoline to burn your bodies. I will just claim that you committed self-immolation." He then slapped Zhang Muying on her face and said, "I will listen to whoever pays me." Zhang Muying asked him to stop beating her, but he replied, "The Party ordered us to beat you up. If you dare to get out of this room, I will beat you to death!"
  • Haikou City Detention Centre Inflict Terrible Suffering on Falun Dafa Practitioners

    On the afternoon of January 8, 2003, policemen Chen Wen and chief Lin from Qiongshan police department's political and security section raided Li Qi's house and handcuffed her. They carried her out of the building against her will. Witnessing the violent incident, neighbours were outraged, saying, "Are they kidnappers?" People felt terrible.
  • Elderly Lady Beaten, Frozen Outside in Winter by Xinle County Police Department

    Those vicious people had no humanity at all; they even didn't think twice of torturing me -- an elderly lady! The evil policemen cruelly forced me to take off my clothes until I only had on my underwear and a shirt. They also forced me to lie on my stomach on a pile of snow in the yard, and they then piled ice on my body and poured cold water on my body from my head to my toes.
  • Brutality in Tiananmen Square Police Station: A Dafa Practitioner's Fingers Are Chopped Off

    There was one police officer hitting a male Dafa practitioner on the face and head. He dragged the practitioner into a room in the front of the police bureau. About half an hour later, this practitioner came back and said: "They chopped off my fingers." I saw there were only two thumbs left on his hands, which were wrapped in cloth. At that time, the cloth had turned dark gray because of his blood.
  • Perforated Eardrum, Burned Fingernails: Atrocities Against Falun Dafa Practitioners in Jinzhou City

    Since September 2002, Jinzhou Labour Camp officials madly persecuted Dafa practitioners and brainwashed determined ones. They used high voltage electric-shock batons, sleep deprivation, wooden boards to beat their faces, forced them to sit on small wooden stools in fixed positions for long periods of time, brutal beatings, and other atrocities to torture Dafa practitioners.
  • Dafa Practitioners in Critical Situation in Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Centre

    When other practitioner called the centre, it was a male who answered the phone and he claimed that there was no persecution at the drug rehabilitation centre and asked the practitioner to come to take a look. The practitioner said, "If I go there, you'll arrest me, right?" He did not answer. The practitioner told him, "I will go over to your place, we are investigating the situation." He listened for a while, and hung up the phone.
  • Once Energetic and Healthy: Now Lady Cruelly Tortured to Mental Collapse

    In July of 2001 Shen Shuwen had a mental breakdown due to the pressure of being tortured by the police. She still has not recovered after being treated by a doctor at a mental hospital (it is not clear what kind of drugs she was given). Although Ms. Shen Shuwen was a normal person prior to being persecuted at the forced labour camp, she became mentally unstable while there.