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

  • Jinzhou City Police Harass and Detain Falun Gong Practitioners (Photo)

    On August 25th at around 10 p.m., Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Jing Cuizhen, who is over 60, and Ms. You, who is over 70, were arrested by the police and security personnel when they were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution . They were taken to the Nu'erhe Police Station. The police interrogated Jing Cuizhen attempting to force her to give a confession through torture. Jing Cuizhen was brutally beaten, and her eyes were blue and purple with hyperemia. Her lips were swollen and bleeding. The front side of her coat was covered with blood stains and her hands were cuffed behind her back. The handcuffs dug into her hands. Her hands were badly swollen and her knees were black and blue.
  • Authorities at Xi'an City Women's Labour Camp Lace Falun Gong Practitioners' Food with an Unknown Substance for an Extended Period of Time

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Shulian is locked in solitary confinement where she is forbidden all contact with the outside world, and, two drug-addict prisoners keep her under constant surveillance. At each meal, one inmate opens a capsule filled with a powdery substance and pours the unknown white powder into Ms. Li Shulian's bowl, afterward mixing some broth and vegetables in it. After practitioners eat the vegetables, their stomachs swell. They feel weak, get headaches and nausea. They want to vomit when they see the vegetables. Ms. Li Shulian must have ingested a lot of this poison because she has withered down to skin and bones.
  • Two Female Senior Citizens Arrested in Xintai City, Shandong Province - One Brutally Tortured, the Other's Whereabouts Still Unknown

    The Public Security Bureau in Xintai City arrested practitioner Ms. Ying Peikun, in her 60s, again on September 1st. She had been detained in a forced labour camp for two years until released at the beginning of this year. ey forbade her from speaking. If she spoke, they would pull her hair and pinch her mouth and cheek. Her upper teeth were pulled out, leaving her with only four teeth. They sealed her mouth and bound her arms, hands, and legs with tape. They pulled out several clumps of her hair. The day after her arrest, another practitioner from the same village, Zhu Minglin, also in her 60s, was arrested as well.
  • The Story of 64 Practitioners from Kunming That Appealed for Justice for Falun Gong in 2000

    On April 4th, 2000, 64 practitioners went to the Appeals Office of the Yunnan Province Communist Party Committee to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Several practitioners represented the group to talk to the staff in the appeals office. They peacefully described the wonders of Dafa and asked to have Teacher's [Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa] name cleared, for the persecution of Falun Gong to stop, to be able to practise legally, and to have all the detained practitioners released. Half-an-hour later, several police cars arrived, as well as two buses and one mid-sized van. They were taken to their local police stations. Two days later, those who were steadfast in their belief were sent to different detention centres in Kumin City and were detained for half-a-month or one month. Later, over ten practitioners were sentenced to forced labour.
  • Details of a Recent Brainwashing Session at Jishu Town Reservoir, Shulan City, Jilin Province

    Shulan City Politics and Law Committee officials, along with agents from the 610 Office and police department, held a brainwashing session at the Jishu Town Reservoir, for the purpose of forcing Falun Gong practitioners into giving up their beliefs. They used various methods including bullying and terrifying, lies, slander, intimidation and deception. One person was initially in charge of each practitioner. Later there were two, three and more assigned to one practitioner. Sometimes more than a dozen perpetrators attempted to "reform" one practitioner using the above-mentioned abusive methods.
  • Mr. Sun Xianming Brutally Tortured in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province

    On November 15th, 2001, at about 4:00 a.m., Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Sun Xianming, 56, wrote a message exposing the persecution at the over-pass of the Second Department Store. For his act, he was arrested and officers sentenced him to a two-year term of forced labour. During his unjust incarceration in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, Mr. Sun suffered brutality at the hands of guard Zhu Shenglin, who broke Mr. Sun's arms and hung him from a bunk bed while shocking him with several electric batons simultaneously. Sun Xianming suffered severe burns to his chest. Not only did he not receive medical treatment for his broken arms and severe chest burns, he was forced to pick corn stalks in the cornfield all day, which caused severe swelling in his arms. His pain continued into the evening because he was forced to sit on a small backless stool until midnight.
  • Police Mistreat Practitioners Ms. Liang Xiuqin and Her Son, and Ms. Duan Guiping and Her Daughter from Hebei Province

    At around 10:00 p.m. on August 10th, 2007, police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lian Xiuqin and her son Li Qiulin (college student, not a practitioner) and confiscated Li Qiulin's motorcycle. Police accused them of putting up Falun Dafa posters. At 4:00 a.m. the next day, six or seven police officers forced their way into practitioner Ms. Duan Guiping's home by climbing over the wall around her house, awakening her husband Li Dong and her daughter Li Anli, who were sleeping soundly. When Ms. Duan Guiping's husband, Li Dong, asked the police, "What are you doing here so late at night?" A police officer threatened him and said "Don't move as this is a criminal offence case." At that time, Ms. Duan had only her night clothes on. The policemen did not allow her to get dressed and dragged her out.
  • Gross Abuse of Older Practitioner Ms. Xu Jinying at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

    On April 7th, 2007, police arrested and ransacked the house of 58-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Jinying. She was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Xu Jinying went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards force-fed her cruelly each day. She sustained severe stomach injuries from long-term insertion of the feeding tube. In order to prevent her from pulling out the tube, the guards trussed her upper body and head with a rope, thus keeping the tube in place all the day, which caused her nonstop suffering. She was emaciated.
  • Several Practitioners Arrested by Police from Xingyang City, Henan Province

    Recently, the 610 Office and Public Security Bureau of Xingyang City, Henan Province, has been actively arresting Dafa practitioners from around the region. On the morning of August 15th, five police officers from the Wangcun Police Station went to Rongzai Village, Gaocun Township. They took practitioner Mu Jun into custody. Leaflets exposing the persecution were also confiscated. On the afternoon of July 1st, 69-year-old practitioner Ms. Li Xiuzhi was arrested by police from the Xingyang National Protection Team while she was putting up posters exposing the persecution at the Xingyang Train Station. She was taken to Sunzai Detention Centre in Guangwu.
  • Mr. Wang Huai from Hebei Province Has Been Imprisoned for Seven Years

    In the winter of 2001, Mr. Wang Huai was arrested by police, who had used wiretapping and tracking methods. The police handcuffed him and then brutally trampled on his handcuffs, causing serious bleeding and extreme swelling of his arms. They then wrapped his head in a bed sheet and dragged him downstairs to take him to Hongqilou Police Station. Mr. Wang Huai was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment at the Baoding City Prison in 1999. Because Mr. Wang Huai has persisted in his cultivation of Falun Dafa, he has suffered brutal torture for several years.
  • Inmates Torture Practitioners in Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioners who arrive at the labour camp are detained in the First Division and held among the regular inmates. The camp guards require that each practitioner memorise the labour camp rules within a certain time. Those who can not or do not recite the rules are not allowed to sleep between midnight and 2:00 a.m. Instead, they are forced to stand for those two hours and do the regular forced labour work the next day. Every day, they have to start work right after breakfast and work from 7:00 a.m. to noon. Then they are forced to stand until 2:00 p.m. Afterwards, they have to resume work again until 10:00 p.m. and sometimes until midnight.
  • National Security Bureau Agents Arrest Yang Xuejun, from Dengzhou City, Henan Province

    On August 10th, 2007, police suddenly broke into the home of Falun Dafa practitioner Tian Xiaoshu, arresting her 31-year-old daughter, Yang Xuejun, also a Dafa practitioner. Tian Xiaoshu's son, Yang Yongdong, tried to explain the truth to them about Falun Dafa, but they refused to listen, and said, "I do not fear retribution, and I will kill you and destroy your family." The police tried to arrest Yang Yongdong, but he escaped and became homeless. He is still unable to return home.
  • Forced Labour Camps in Shanghai Enslave Inmates to Produce Toys for Export

    Shanghai Hali Toys Ltd is a large enterprise in China that produces toys. A subsidiary of The Haixin Group, the company exports some of its products to Europe and U.S. The company specialises in producing and selling stuffed toys. For some of the "Made in China" products that are exported, the production base are forced labour camps in Shanghai. In order to reduce costs and meet fast delivery deadlines, the company violates international trade laws. It colludes with the forced labour camp to enslave Falun Dafa practitioners and other inmates, forcing them to work extra long hours and do extra harsh labour work.
  • Daqing Public Security Bureau and 610 Office Persecute My Family

    During the first few years when we were forced to drift around on the streets to avoid arrest, the police often went to our home and knocked on the door. At that time, our little daughter was the only person at home and she got very scared. She would cry and say on the phone, "Daddy, I miss you and Mummy. But you must not come home. The police hide somewhere downstairs. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine as long as you're safe."
  • How Wanjia Forced Labour Camp Persecuted Us

    On March 16th, 2002, my daughter and I took a train to Beijing. After we arrived in Tiananmen Square, as we walked, we called out, "Falun Dafa is good! Restore the good name of Dafa! Restore the good name of our Teacher!" A group of police officers tried to drag us into a police vehicle as they beat us. We tried to get away, but they pushed us into the vehicle and beat us. My head swelled up. When we explained the facts about Falun Dafa to them, they pounded on my chest and covered my mouth. They sprained my arms and cut my hands. My property was seized, I was fined 10,000 yuan, and three months' worth of my salary was confiscated. Eventually, I was sent to Wanjia Forced Labour Camp for three years.