Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

  • The Persecution Takes the Lives of Three Lady Falun Dafa Practitioners from Heilongjiang Province

    Three ladies, aged 61 years, 43 and 50+, were all arrested and incarcerated without proper legal process, because they had the courage to stand up for what they believed in: Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance. In a dangerous environment they bravely told people the facts about Falun Dafa and exposed the brutality of the regime that is persecuting practitioners. For this they were persecuted to death.
  • Three More Falun Gong Practitioners are Now Known to Have Died of Persecution

    62 year old Ms. Xu Xiufen from Liaoning Province was sentenced to forced labour. She was tortured brutally and her health deteriorated. Ms. Xu died in December 2004. In 2002, Mr. Fang Boying's children were arrested and persecuted for practising Falun Gong, which tormented him so much that he fell ill and passed away at the age of 74. Ms. Wang Chaoyin was harassed on numerous occasions by police. Her home was also ransacked and she was forced to write statements denouncing Falun Gong. Soon, old illnesses recurred. and Wang Chaoyin passed away in January 2000 at the age of 48.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chu Guiren from Jilin Province Is Tortured to Death

    The family members of Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Chu Guiren from Jilin Province, have been jailed six times with sentences totalling nine years because they have tried to be good people and validate the fact that Falun Dafa is good, that Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are good. Mr. Chu Guiren was very frightened after being tortured in a forced labour camp. He suffered a mental collapse as well as uremic poisoning, combined with kidney stones and died on January 16, 2005.
  • Falun Gong Student Ms. Wu Yuqin Arrested and Her Husband Beaten to Death by Liaoning Province Police

    At the beginning of November 2004, police officers in Liaoning Province arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Yuqin. On November 7, Ms. Wu's husband, Mr. Sun Youlin, tried to find out her whereabouts and argued with the police officers who were giving him a hard time. He was then beaten to death. There was a hole at the back of his head and burn marks from the electric batons were all over his body. After killing Mr. Sun, the police came to his home for three consecutive days just to convince his family that the police had nothing to do with his death.
  • My Experience of Long-Term Imprisonment in a Chinese Mental Hospital

    "Having practised Falun Gong for nine years, I was in good health, yet I was thrown into a mental hospital for 3 year and suffered brutal persecution. It cost me, as well as my workplace tens of thousands of Yuan in medical expenses on top of the time lost and pain and suffering. This has worsened my family's already poor financial situation and put us in serious debt."
  • Family Seeks Justice When a 74-year-old Practitioner Is Disabled by Torture; Court Refuses to Accept the Case

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ning Bo, 74, is a resident of a village near Panjin City. In May 2004, while he was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong, police seized him and forced him to walk over 10 miles with them. They fiercely beat him the entire way, and severely injured and eventually disabled him. He was then thrown into jail. Ning Bo proclaimed his innocence and requested that the court investigate the police officers' criminal acts. However the court refused twice to formally hear the case.
  • Heilongjiang Province Practitioner Mr. Pan Xingfu Has Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Pan Xingfu from Heilongjiang Province was 33 years old and an employee of the Shuangyashan City Post Office. He was tortured repeatedly because he upheld his faith. Mr. Pan's physical condition began to severely deteriorate in January 2005 yet he could not afford any medical treatment or even emergency aid at the hospital. He died in January 2005. His wife was sentenced in 2003 to nine years in prison for speaking out against the persecution of Falun Dafa.
  • Ms. Yu Jinhua, from Heilongjiang Province Died in 2004 After Being Forced to Give Up Her Practice of Falun Dafa

    40 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yu Jinhua went to Beijing to appeal for the rights of Dafa practitioners in 2000. She was arrested, sent to Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, and her family was charged 10,000 yuan for bail. After she was released, Ms. Yu's family members prohibited her from practising Falun Gong in hope of avoiding further persecution. However, on August 30, 2004, Ms. Yu Jinhua died from a sudden stroke.
  • The Torture and Persecution That I Sustained Inside Wangcun Forced Labour Camp

    "Recently, "CCTV" [China Central TV]broadcast a series of fabricated lies and rumours alleging that Falun Gong practitioners are not tortured when they are arrested and detained by the authorities. This is completely untrue and so I hereby document and submit my personal experience of the torture and degradation I experienced when I would not go against my own conscience by giving up the practice of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance;" the practice of Falun Gong."
  • Cruel Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners Suffer in Jilin Prison - Part 1

    The cruellest torture in Jilin Prison is the "stretching bed." The police fix the practitioners' limbs on a specially made bed on which there are 4 rings. Their hands and feet are fixed in the rings then the police apply force to the rings, so that the practitioner's body is pulled up away from the bed as their limbs are stretched. If more force is exerted, one will pass out in a few seconds.
  • Belated Report: Four Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioners from Heilongjiang Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    Four Falun Dafa practitioners, between the ages of 55 and 70 were all striving to live their lives according to the prionciples of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance. As a result, they were severely punished in detention and brainwashing centres. They had to suffer cruel physical and mental torture, extortion, threats and harassment, devastating their spirits to the degree that they could no longer withstand it. They all died between the years of 2000 and 2003.
  • Atrocities at the Heilongjiang Province Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp: The Skin on My Inner Thighs Was Peeled Away

    "In 2002, I was sent to the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp. Guards gave me a pen and a piece of paper, and ordered me to write a "Repentance Statement" and a letter that attacks Falun Dafa. I firmly refused .They started torturing me in an effort to destroy my will. The guards ordered inmates to beat me. They yanked off my cotton-padded trousers, and pinched and pulled at my inner thighs until the skin was gone. Blood and fluid seeped from my thighs. Then they started pinching my thighs until small pieces of flesh came off."
  • My Experience in Anshan City Forced Labour Camp

    "After I was abducted and illegally detained at the Anshan Forced Labour Camp, many other Falun Dafa practitioners and I were continuously persecuted both physically and mentally. Prison guard Zhang Zhenyang once said to us, "All the torture methods we use on you have been approved by the Party and the government." The director of the prison, Xu Baoyu, challenged us, "Which one of you wants human rights?" Falun Dafa practitioner Li Peisheng stood up and said, "I want human rights." The prison guards later beat Li for 20 minutes."
  • More Information about Mr. Cao Yang, a Chongqing Practitioner Who Was Tortured to Death in 2001

    Because Cao Yang refused to renounce Falun Dafa, he was sent to a forced labour camp to a team specifically set up to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. On August 26, 2001, he was found dead in the washroom. The labour camp authorities did not inform his family of his death until two days later.
  • Jilin Province Falun Gong Practitioner Yang Xiaohai Put on Trial

    On January 19, 2005, the Jiaohe City People's Court put Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaohai on trial. During the trial, the security in the courthouse was extremely tight. The gatekeepers were on duty outside the entrance, and from courtroom eight to the lobby. Outside the courtroom, police officers served as guards. Family members were kept away from the building. Also, Mr. Yang Xiaohai was not allowed to hire a defence lawyer.