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

  • The Persecution of Practitioner Lu Yongchang and His Family: All Four Family Members Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

    Around 9 p.m., the whole family went to bed. The flashing lights of a police car woke Lu Guixia up. There was a loud noise as the door was pried open, then the police broke into the house, carrying shovels. Lu Guixia didn't know what was going on and jumped out a window. She was knocked to the ground by police officers that were hiding there. Several policemen beat her savagely and dragged her to a waiting police car. She was taken to the police substation in Jiutai City, where officers were posted to guard her and the other three members of the Lu family.
  • A Falun Dafa Practitioner in Liaoning Province Reveals Her Suffering at the Hands of the Chinese Communist Party

    They also entangled my whole body with plastic wrap, put a cotton cap on my head, and wrapped my face with adhesive tape. They punched two nose holes in the tape with chopsticks, then poured in ethyl alcohol, garlic water, highly concentrated salt water, dirty water, and even urine. During this force-feeding, they pushed a steel bowl that was flattened into my mouth. My mouth was full of blood and my lips swelled up. They also put several dozen hard-shelled insects on my body. They scurried about everywhere all over my body. They caught a big live spider and put it into my mouth. They ruthlessly poured dirty water on my body. By then, my whole body was covered with wounds.
  • The Repeated Persecution of Ms Mo Yimei from Yangchun City, Guangdong Province

    In June of 2004, several officers drove to Ms. Mo Yimei's fruit shop and tried to force her into their car. Yimei cried out: "The police are seizing good people!" She sat on the floor and many bystanders gathered. Some said, "It is not right to seize people without reason!" "She is a good person, why do they arrest her?" The officers saw that many people were against them, so they fled with their car, leaving Yimei behind.
  • Brainwashing Sessions Used to Intensify the Persecution of Practitioners in Hunan Province Women's Prison

    These practitioners are forced to carry out slave labour every day. They have to peel broad beans for more than 10 hours every day, leaving them very little time to rest. When some practitioners resisted the slave labour, the prison guards used all kinds of methods to torture them. The practitioners experience intense mental persecution when they are brainwashed day and night.
  • Practitioner Ms Wang Aihua from Chongqing City Is Imprisoned

    On the evening of June 30, 2005, practitioner Wang Aihua was arrested when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The police searched her home and took away two computers (one was newly bought for her child's studies), Falun Dafa books and other materials. Her daughter was left at home with an eighty-year-old grandparent. Wang Aihua is currently detained at the detention centre in Chongqing City.
  • Ms. Zhang Xiaoli and Her Family Suffer Brutal Persecution in Hebei Province

    Ms Zhang Xiaoli is critically ill and extremely weak due to persecution in Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. She has been examined in hospital and found to have tumours in her abdomen and uterus. One is as big as a goose egg, and another one is as big as an egg. She also has a cyst in her ovary. She cannot eat; if she does, she will vomit. Ms. Zhang has become so emaciated that she now weighs just 100 pounds. The doctor in the No. 252 Hospital suggested that she be treated outside of the labour camp; however, Baoding City Balizhuang Labour Camp has shown no concern for her life at all and they refuse to let her go.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Yan Xiaoge from Hebei Province, Abducted and Persecuted, Her 12-year-old Daughter Suffers Intimidation from Police

    On June 29, 2005, the 12-year-old daughter of Falun Dafa practitioner Yan Xiaoge from Li County, Hebei Province was waiting for some delicious food to be brought by her mother after she completed the elementary school graduate exam. But her mother didn't arrive. Instead, the police came and banged on the door. The daughter spent a fearful night at home, alone. Upon seeing the strangers outside the door, she was so frightened that she curled up in the corner of the room, trembling. She didn't dare to open the door. Whenever the police banged on the door, the child recoiled with fear. She still didn't know her mother had been arrested. The young girl had to silently weep alone for an entire night.
  • Update on the Atrocities at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    On May 14, 2005, Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Team Leader Shi beat Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Yun, who had been on hunger strike for one year. Shi was drunk and hit Ms. Zhu's head and slapped her repeatedly until she lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground. After she came to, Ms. Zhu discovered the guards had covered the mirror in the toilet with paper so she could not see herself. According to witnesses, her eyes were bloodshot and her face was seriously swollen and deformed.
  • The Persecution of Dong Jingzhe, Who Helped Rescue Gao Rongrong, at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dong Jingzhe, who was brutally tortured to the brink of death in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, once said, "Throughout the ages, when people look at their past, they will feel gratified by the memory of their maintaining kindness in life, if they ignored their conscience and chose otherwise, they would regret it. And there are some people who became enemies of the honourable, thus ruining their futures forever. I wish that all mankind would protect goodness and maintain their most precious thing in life - their conscience. Telling people about the goodness of Falun Dafa is not meant to create hatred towards the perpetrators, but instead, is meant to bring people a brighter future."
  • Dafa Practitioner An Fengbo Sentenced - His Family Has No Way to Appeal

    In 2001, Mr An Fengbo was sentenced to a two-year labour camp term in Jiutai Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp for practising Falun Gong. He suffered inhuman tortures and abuses by police and inmates. He lost all his front teeth from being savagely kicked in the mouth. He never gave in to the evildoers and continued to firmly appeal for Dafa.
  • Ms. Xie Xiulan's Personal Testimony of the Persecution She Suffered at Dalian Forced Labour Camp

    "I was arrested at approximately 7:00 p.m. one evening in June 2000. The very next day, I was taken to Dalian Detention Centre where I was held for 42 days. I was then transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp where I was tortured for two years. Later, I was transferred to Dalian Forced Labour Camp where I was sentenced to two years of forced labour. When Dalian Forced Labour Camp was closed down, I was returned to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for further persecution. I believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," the principles of Falun Dafa, and I did not do anything wrong, yet I was brutally tortured with small cell internment, brutal beatings, being hung up with handcuffs, the Tiger Bench, and my nose was broken from the torture."
  • Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Office Conspires with Forced Labour Camp to Exploit Practitioners' Labour for Profit

    Because of long-term torture in a forced labour camp, practitioner Ms Wang Lei became mentally ill. On November 17 2004, almost eight months after she was released, police arrested her again and sent her to the Fangshan Detention Centre. During her hunger strike, the police continuously force-fed her. She was again sentenced, this time to two and a half years of forced labour, and sent to the Daxing Forced Labour Dispatch Office. The office knew that she had mental problems but still admitted her even though, according to the law, forced labour camps cannot accept people with mental problems. She was extremely weak, but the police still forced her to stay in the "sit on a bench" posture, with her hands on her knees, for 17 hours. In order to force her to write a "guarantee statement", the police appointed six criminals with drug-related convictions to beat, abuse, humiliate, and torture her.
  • Chinese Student in Switzerland Appeals for the Rescue of his Illegally Imprisoned Mother in China

    My name is Wang Xiaoyang and I am a Chinese student studying in Switzerland. I have three close relatives in China: my eighty-four-year old grandmother, my sixty-year old father who has not been well, and my fifty-four-year old mother. My mother is a Falun Gong practitioner and is the centre of the family, who provides both financial and spiritual support. They are ordinary law-abiding citizens whose only desire is to live a peaceful life.
  • Ms. Jiang Meilan from Hunan Province Has Been Persecuted to the Brink of Death in Zhuzhou City's Baimacheng Forced Labour Camp

    On March 24, 2005, Ms. Jiang Meilan was abducted by police. She was sentenced to one year of forced labour and was sent to Baimacheng Forced Labour Camp. She has been on a hunger strike ever since she was abducted in March, more than three months. She has received injections and been force-fed in the Baimacheng Forced Labour Camp. She is now very weak and cannot walk by herself. She can only walk with the assistance of two inmates, who have been assigned as monitors. Right now, Ms. Jiang Meilan is on the verge of death.
  • Re-enactment of Torture Methods Used at No. 1 Detention Centre and Xigemu Forced Labour Camp in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province

    This photo shows a reenactment of the police in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province torturing practitioner Ms. Du Jiahua with hanging. She also suffered handcuffing from behind, tying with ropes, and shocking with an electric baton.