The Changlinzi Labor Camp and others are known to employ brutal forced feedings as a way to keep practitioners who engage in hunger strikes alive. The forced feedings are typically administered by untrained prison guards or even other prisoners. Repeatedly inserting and removing the tube from the victim's mouth or nose is considered a form of torture, and has resulted in internal bleeding, choking, lung damage, and in many verified cases, death. The substance used in forced feeding is often heavily salted water, but wine, industrial cleaning fluid, and human waste have also been used.

Image for article FDI Media Alert: Wife Witnesses Husband Shackled to Iron Bed Five Days Before His Death in a Labor Camp

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11/9/2001 [ http://www.faluninfo.net/ ]


NEW YORK, November 9, 2001 (Falun Dafa Information Center) - On June 17th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lan Hongyu, a 35-year-old resident from Hebei province in western China, died after 10 days of torture by police.

Image for article Practitioner Fang Xianzhi Tortured to Death in Chengdu City

(Clearwisdom.net)

Fang Xianzhi was a 60-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, a retired employee of a design company who lived in the western region of the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province. On January 18, 2001, during the nationwide campaign to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners, he was arrested and detained at the Ningxia Street Detention Center in Chengdu. He was in good health at the time of his arrest. At the detention center, the warden forced him to stand in a ...

Image for article Reuters: Falun Gong follower dies in custody in China

Friday November 9, 3:34 PM

BEIJING (Reuters) - A former judge in China's southern province of Jiangxi died in detention after being jailed for involvement with the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong, a prison doctor said on Friday.

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