Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • Gansu Province Women's Prison Orders Criminals to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    The Gansu Province Women's Prison subjects all female Falun Gong practitioners to persecution in an attempt to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. Every day, practitioners are forced to watch videos that slander Falun Gong for more than 10 hours and then they are forced to write reports about their views on the subject. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Xiulan, in her 60's, was beaten, not given food or water and was forbidden to perform personal hygiene or go to the toilet. When she was forced to wet her trousers, she was not allowed to change. Inmates spat on her and forced her head into a toilet bowl.
  • Li Guiyun and Five Other Falun Gong Practitioners Are Tried by Nongken Court in Baoquanling City, Heilongjiang Province

    On April 19th, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Guiyun, Ms. Zhao Hongyu. Ms. Qi Xiumei, Liu Hongbin, Liu Gui, and Lu Chengying were put on trial in Nongken Court. During the trial, Ms. Li Guiyun recounted how the police used torture to extort confessions from practitioners. When Ms. Li was detained in Lingxi Police Station and Nongken Public Security Bureau she was interrogated. Officers Zhang Aiwu, Wu Yinglong, and Wang Xuejun repeatedly used torture in an attempt to extort a confession from her, yelling “I will kill you and leave no evidence, so no one will know.” They turned off the monitoring device and twisted her hands behind her back. They then handcuffed her to a torture device with her feet off the floor. Her arms had to support her entire body weight, causing excruciating pain. Within a short time, she lost consciousness.
  • Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison, Elderly Practitioner Mr. Luo Laiyang from Nanchang City Dies As a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Luo Laiyang was arrested and sentenced to 9 years in prison in 2007 for distributing information about Falun Gong. He passed away as a result of persecution, at age 73 on April 6th, 2012 at the Jiangxi Prison Hospital. During his imprisonment, Mr. Luo held a hunger strike to resist the persecution, and developed symptoms of illness. However, the prison authorities refused to release him on medical parole, citing the fact that Mr. Luo refused to write a “repentance statement” renouncing Falun Gong.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Systematically Murdered for Their Organs: Refuting the Chinese Regime's "Death Row" Explanation, Chapter IV

    In this section, we will explain why we are assuming that the number of death row inmates with organs suitable for transplantation is 30% the total. Organs from death row inmates are a one-time resource. Unlike organs hosted by a pool of living people, organs from death row inmates cannot be reserved for future use. Due to perceived political needs, the Chinese Communist regime makes a habit of executing death row inmates on national holidays, such as New Year's Day, May Day, or National Day, to get the most exposure from the event. Quite often, the dictated times of such executions mean that the inmates' organs are not used.
  • Law Officials Sentence Ms. Zhao Deqiong at Her Home

    On March 7th, 2012, more than a dozen Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and police including judge Xu Wenying from the Shunqing District Court, officials from the Shunqing Procuratorate broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Deqiong's home. Judge Xu Wenying entered the bedroom where Ms. Zhao was bedridden and ordered her to sit up and answer questions. Xu declared that Ms. Zhao was guilty of using a heretical organisation to undermine the implementation of law because she appealed for justice for Falun Gong and wrote “Falun Gong is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” on a girl's hand in the park.
  • Ms. Gong Qiumin Handcuffed to “Death Bed” in Baishan, Jilin Province

    On February 16th, 2012, after visiting a supermarket on their way home by bus, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Gong Qiumin and Ms. Xie Yuhong were arrested by police and held at the Jiangyuan police station. Ms. Gong was chained to a death bed and cruelly force-fed. She almost died. She has returned home, but police officers are continually harassing her. From 2001 to 2012, Ms. Gong has been detained and sent to forced labour camps four times. She was persecuted and tortured in four different places.
  • Four-and-a-Half-Year Sentence for Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Hu Huomei

    Ms. Hu Huomei of Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province, was arrested on September 25th, 2011 just because she practises Falun Gong. She refused to confess to any crimes forged by the authorities or to sign any legal document stating she would no longer follow the principles of Falun Gong. The Nanchang County Court sentenced Ms. Hu to four-and-a-half years in prison. She appealed the sentence.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Systematically Murdered for Their Organs: Refuting the Chinese Regime's "Death Row" Explanation, Chapter III

    Some may wonder whether the massively growing organ market was the result of a sudden increase in China's death row executions. According to the article, "The number of death row executions has decreased significantly," posted on Chinanews.com on September 6th, 2007, "For more than a decade, the People's Court has continuously been strict and prudent in the use of the death sentence, resulting in the steady reduction of death row executions." Although there is little credibility in the Chinese Communist government's propaganda, it is a fact that there was no sudden, massive increase of death row executions during the peak of China's organ market between 2003 and 2006.
  • Ms. Xie Xiugai from Anping County, Hebei Province, Subjected to Cruel Torture

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xie Xiugai, who is over 50 years old, has followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance since she started practising Falun Gong in 1996. As a person who's benefited both physically and spiritually, she deeply understands the significance of Falun Gong's acceptance throughout the world. Since July 1999, when the Jiang Zemin regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime started brutally persecuting against Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Xie has been arrested five times and sentenced to nine years in prison. During this period, she suffered brutal torture both physically and spiritually. She was released and returned home in the autumn of 2011.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Systematically Murdered for Their Organs: Refuting the Chinese Regime's "Death Row" Explanation, Chapter II

    There is overwhelming evidence of the Chinese Communist regime's chilling role in systematically murdering Falun Gong practitioners, harvesting their organs while they are alive, and making huge profits from doing so. In response to the international outcry, the Chinese regime has attempted to explain away one of the main pieces of circumstantial evidence--the meteoric rise in the number of organ transplantations in recent years and the extremely short wait times in a culture notoriously averse to organ donation--by stating that it has harvested organs from executed criminals after their deaths.
  • 80-Year-Old Retired Minister of the Prefectural Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Propaganda Bureau Again Sentenced

    Mr. Wang Shengli, an 80-year-old retired Minister of the Fuyang City Prefectural Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Propaganda Bureau, has been a steadfast Falun Gong practitioner. Police arrested him when he was having dinner with friends on December 5th, 2010, and sentenced him to a three-year prison term. Ms. Ma Yuling, who is in her forties and from Linquan County, was arrested at the same time and sentenced to a three-year prison term for practising Falun Gong.
  • Twenty-three Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested by Police in Yentai City, Shandong Province

    On the morning of March 20th, 2012, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of Yentai City, Shandong Province ordered police officers in Zhifu District to harass and arrest 23 practitioners who have refused to give up their beliefs. The average age of the arrested practitioners is about 60 years old, with the oldest being 75. All were women except for one man.
  • Recent Crimes Committed by Guards at the Handan City Labour Camp

    There are approximately 120 prisoners presently detained at the Handan City Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province. Twenty of them are male Falun Gong practitioners who have been detained there and subjected to forced labour. On the night of March 6th, 2012, practitioner Gao Zeng was shocked with an electric baton multiple times by labour camp guard Huo Xuebin because he refused to give up his belief. On March 10th, Yi Ruijun was shocked with an electric baton for 10 minutes by Huo Xuebin as punishment for speaking to other practitioners.
  • The Persecution of Pregnant Women by the Handan Police

    Current Chinese law stipulates that under normal circumstances, pregnant women cannot be subjected to arrest and/or detention. But how is the law executed in the real world? Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Junfeng travelled to her hometown to visit her sick father in July 2008. The local police arrested her and intended to send her to a forced labour camp. Ms. Wu was four months pregnant at the time. According to the law, the detention centre could not hold her. The police then conspired with staff from the birth-control office and forced Ms. Wu to have an abortion. They put handcuffs and shackles on her, force-fed her drugs and gave her an injection of Oxytocin. Just four days after the abortion, the police arrested Ms. Wu again and took her to the labour camp.
  • Ms. Ye Biyu Recounts Imprisonment, Brainwashing, and Harassment by the Communist Regime from 2000 to Present Day

    Ms. Ye Biyu was subjected to harassment, arrest, torture, detention, forced labour and imprisonment for steadfastly believing in the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and practising Falun Gong during its persecution these last ten years. She recounts: "Guards forcibly took me to the Shuimokeng Brainwashing Centre. I was detained there for over a month. During my incarceration, I was made to watch video programmes and read articles that slandered, attacked and defamed Falun Gong. They also forced me to write a guarantee statement promising not to practise Falun Gong again."