Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • Ms. Guan Hua Severely Tortured by Wanjia Forced Labour Camp Guards

    On February 1st, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guan Hua was sentenced to one year and six months of "re-education" through forced labour in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. The guards attempted to force the practitioners to take a so-called test. The guards decided that Ms. Guan failed her "examination," so they forced her to stand on a stool, then pulled both hands behind her back. A guard tied her hands with one end of a rope, then passed the another end through a heating pipe above a window, while two other guards pulled forcefully on the rope. Ms. Guan then hung helplessly in the air. In order to cover up their torture activities, guard Jiang Tao used adhesive tape to cover Ms. Guan's mouth.
  • Practitioners Viciously Beaten and Tortured in Laizhou City Domestic Security Division in Shandong Province

    On August 8th, 2008, Laizhou City police scaled the wall of the place where I was staying and arrested me and took me to Dianzi Brainwashing Centre. During the 12-day detention in the brainwashing centre, there were eight days when I was hung up [by handcuffed wrists] and deprived of sleep. Because my arms were cuffed for so long, I couldn't move them at all after I was finally let down. My legs and feet were swollen to the point that I couldn't wear my shoes. My hands had no feeling and I couldn't straighten my fingers. Now that seven months have passed, I still have numbness in my hands, and my ears sometimes ring. My left arm still hurts and I can't move it very quickly.
  • Ms. Yuan Shuzhe Tortured at Twelfth Police Station in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

    On February 19th, 2005, police arrested Ms. Yuan Shuzhe in front of the Shijilianhua Market. At he police station, Ms. Yuan's hands were handcuffed behind her back. They stepped on her to make her squat. Then the short torturer squatted before her, and while holding her chin, asked, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" She would not answer. They repeatedly struck her head with full water bottles for a time until the short torturer asked again, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" Still, she did not answer. All three of the torturers beat her head. The two tall torturers stretched her arms upward as far as they could, inserted a needle into the tip of her right middle finger until it was about halfway in, then he turned the needle and pulled it out.
  • 65-Year-old Woman Persecuted Numerous Times and Now Unable to Return Home

    Ms. Xiang Maohua, 65, is a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Sichuan Province. During the past ten years, the police pursued and later arrested and detained her five times. She recounts: "The fourth time I was arrested, police slapped me in the face and grabbed my hair and knocked my head against a wall. They also forced me to stand for long periods of time. For twelve days in a row, they subjected me to various tortures, non-stop. My blood pressure suddenly shot up to 180 over 220 and I spat out blood... I was in grave danger."
  • A Practitioner from Holland: "Beijing National Security Police Unjustly Interrogated Me"

    I work for a famous Dutch travel agency as a tour leader and have guided tourists in China for 18 years. In the second half of April 2009, while leading a tour group in China, I was arrested and interrogated by officers with Beijing's National Security force. On May 11th, after I took a tourist group to the airport, I went back to my hotel. At about 3 p.m., someone knocked on my door. It was hotel security. They told me that the police wanted to ask me some questions. I tried to close the door immediately, but they pushed their way in and arrested me.
  • I Witnessed the Shocking Condition of Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Jinzhong's Body Five Years Ago

    Five years ago, Falun Gong practitioner Wang Jinzhong from Shenyang was tortured to death and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police sent his body to the hospital "to save him," but did so only after his death in an attempt to cover up their guilt. An eyewitness named Zhen witnessed the miserable shape of Wang Jinzhong's body and has verified that Wang Jinzhong was sent to the hospital only after he had been tortured to death by the policemen.
  • Thirteen Practitioners Arrested and Detained by Police from Anhua County, Hunan Province

    On June 6th, 2009, about a dozen police officers from the police station in Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province intruded into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiao Jianqing's house after they shut off the electricity. They arrested 20 practitioners who were having an experience-sharing conference. Since July 20th, 1999, Chen Yongsheng, the 610 Office director in Anhua County has relentlessly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Starting in 2001, Chen launched massive arrests of Falun Gong practitioners and ransacked their houses, taking away all their valuables. His subordinate beat practitioner Zhou Fuliang to death, yet such a perpetrator has gone unpunished.
  • The Persecution of 80-Year-Old Ms. Deng Meizhen

    I went to appeal for Falun Gong's human rights in Beijing, to tell the authorities my personal experience of benefiting from Falun Gong. But I was arrested and detained. Later I went to Beijing to appeal again. I was detained at the Dianbai County No. 2 Detention Centre. I was handcuffed to a window frame, deprived of sleep for five consecutive days and nights. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and they brutally force-fed me. One time, the deputy head of the detention centre pushed me and I fell down hard. He violently kicked me several times in the abdomen. Other personnel and practitioners quickly pulled me out, fearing I might die from his brutality. Another time, Deputy Head Liang pushed me and made me hit a cement bed.
  • Five Practitioners in Cang County, Hebei Province Were Sentenced

    On May 8th, 2009, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court in Cang County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province sentenced five Falun Gong practitioners. Pu Jinfeng was sentenced to six years, Zhao Junfeng five years, Zhang Kanzhong four years and six months, Li Bing'an four years, and Liu Rujun three years and six months. At the beginning of March, 2009, Cang County Procuratorate made up charges and sent this fabricated case to Cang County court. The court then set a trial date for March 24th.
  • I Was Forced to Drop Out of School When I Was Thirteen Years Old

    My name is Liang Yan. My father is Liang Lijin and my mother is Yang Xiuqin. When I was a little girl, I witnessed the persecution that our whole family suffered for practising Falun Gong. This experience caused me a lot of mental anguish and scarred my heart. My school leaders repetitively asking me to break ties with my mother. So I stopped going to school. In March 2002, my mother was arrested. Later, she escaped and we lost contact with each other. In May 2002, police arrested my father and beat him.
  • Siping Prison Inmates Beat Practitioner to Death Under the Connivance of Prison Guards

    Mr. Dong Fengshan was sent to Siping Prison in October 2008 to undergo "transformation" because he persevered in practising Falun Gong. Five prison inmates beat Mr. Dong for a total of two hours, under the connivance of prison guards. They used special leather whips that made noises so loud that the whole prison could hear them. Mr. Dong was a steadfast practitioner who did not utter a word and simply silently chanted "Falun Gong is good" while being beaten. Mr. Dong was so badly injured that he died the next day.
  • Zhang Min in Huaihua City of Hunan Province Was Persecuted During the Beijing Olympic Games

    On May 22nd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Min was arrested by police and her home ransacked. Ms. Zhang was taken to the Huaihua Brainwashing Centre. In the brainwashing centre, she was forced to write the three statements to give up Falun Gong. After being detained for a month, the 610 Office staff extorted 15,000 Yuan from Zhang's husband as a "guarantee deposit" and demanded that he sign a guarantee statement before he could take his wife back home. After Zhang was released, she was still closely monitored and harassed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members at her work place.
  • Police in Baoshan District, Shanghai Arrest and Gag Innocent People with Plastic Bags

    On April 25th, 2009, several police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qian Yuhua's home, held her to the ground and handcuffed her. Her daughter-in-law held on to her mother-in-law to prevent her from being taken away. The police grabbed her barbarically, then handcuffed and arrested her daughter-in-law. The police were afraid that the neighbours might be alarmed if the two women protested the arrest loudly, so they covered their mouths with plastic bags, making it difficult for them to breathe. Ms. Qian Yuhua was taken to the Baoshan District Detention Centre.
  • Two Female Farmers in Shandong Province Wrongfully Sent to Forced Labour Camp

    On January 2nd, 2009, Ms. Jiang Xiumei and Ms. Cui Xiuhua, two farmers from Laixi City, Shandong Province, were arrested and sentenced to a forced labour camp for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Because Jiang Xiumei is nearly seventy, the labour camp refused to take her. Cui Xiuhua however, is being tortured in the labour camp. After Ms. Cui Xiuhua was arrested, the police would not allow her family to visit, nor did they tell them her whereabouts. They even extorted over two hundred yuan from her family.
  • Mr. Shi Xiaochun, Practitioner from Heilongjiang Province, Sentenced to Forced Labour Five Times

    On April 10th, 2008, officers from the Qianjin Police Station in Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province broke into 48-year-old Mr. Shi Xiaochun's home. They ransacked his home and arrested him. On May 21st, 2008, his family received notice of his sentence of forced labour. He was sent to the Suihua Forced Labour Camp on the same day. Mr. Shi has suffered through many periods of detention and various torture methods since the persecution of Falun Gong began. This has left his family in turmoil as well.