(Clearwisdom.net) Since 2001, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group (FalunHR) has submitted more than 10,000 cases to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), many international NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) and many governments. These cases are about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and many of these cases have been included in the annual report of the UN Human Rights Council. Meanwhile, these reports have been submitted to many governments to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. According to The Telegraph in England, the 2007 UN investigation report of the CCP's use of torture showed that nearly two thirds of all kinds of cases about torture received by the United Nations Committee against Torture were related to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP.

Among all the submitted cases, several severe cases of persecution have attracted the attention of officials from the UNHRC and the international community. For example, regarding the charge brought by FalunHR to UNHRC about the CCP harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' internal organs when they were still alive, Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Sigma Huda, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking, first addressed this issue with the CCP regime in 2006 and then asked the regime to explain in 2008. Regarding the facts revealed by FalunHR about the torture experienced by female Falun Gong practitioners, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women questioned the CCP regarding the torture experienced by dozens of female Falun Gong practitioners. Also, on December 29^th, 2005, the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Religion and Torture jointly questioned the CCP regime about the cases of two female Falun Gong practitioners, Jizhi Liu and Yuzhi Liu, from Hebei Province, who were raped in custody. The CCP had to admit the fact. (Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/8/4/99508.html)

Painting "Light and Darkness" from the Truth-Compassion-Forbearance Art Exhibition. In the CCP's forced labor camps, the police guards inject poisonous drugs into Falun Gong practitioners, damaging the central nervous system.

Another notorious form of persecution involves forcing Falun Gong practitioners into mental hospitals, where they are shocked with high-voltage electric batons, tortured and forced to take drugs which can destroy the central nervous system. These drugs cause practitioners to experience severe pain, strokes, vomiting, mental confusion and a strong sense of humiliation, until finally, under extreme pressure, many are forced to give up Falun Gong. Many Falun Gong practitioners become physically disabled, mentally incapacitated or die after this psychiatric torture. Some practitioners lost their ability to speak and were on the verge of death when they were finally sent home. This created difficulty for the collection of evidence, and also reflects the deceitful nature of the CCP. For a long time, FalunHR has been working on collecting and submitting these kinds of persecution cases, and the persecution is now attracting more and more attention from UN human rights organization and many international organizations.

In March 2002, FalunHR submitted a report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights--UNCHR (which was the predecessor of United Nations Human Rights Council)-- in which the peaceful and rational practice and cultivation of Falun Gong, the truth of the "April 25" incident and the shocking torture and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP in China were described. Many cases had been collected about practitioners being forced to take unknown drugs and being persecuted in mental hospitals.

Shuijin Mo was euthanized by the 610 Office. Shuijin Mo, female, 64 years of age, retired from the Changan Bus Company, Chongqing. In May 2001, Shuijin Mo was arrested because she is a Falun Gong practitioner and was sentenced to two years of forced labor at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labor Camp. She started to cough up blood after 50 days of detention. In order to torture her, the camp guards sealed her mouth with tape and locked her in a small isolation cell. After several months of torture, Shuijin Mo was on the verge of death. The Local 610 Office transferred her to the Changan Hospital and arranged for a policewoman to pretend to be a hospital staff member, who gave Shuijin Mo a shot to kill her.

Shouqiang Li died from poison in a detention center. Shouqiang Li, male, 37 years of age, worked for the Beijing Auto Assembly Factory in Chaoyang District, Beijing. On March 8th, 2000, Mr. Shouqiang Li was arrested for appealing for justice for Falun Gong. He was sent to the Changping Detention Center and tortured. The detention center added a lot of drugs to his drinking water, which severely damaged his nervous system. On the evening of March 18th, 2000, the Panjiayuan Police Station called his relatives to take him home. Mr. Li's mother and brother saw him in a steel cage when they went to the police station. Shouqiang Li could not speak clearly and he told his family members intermittently that the police forced him to drink water laced with drugs, did not allow him to spit, and they said those drugs would kill him in two days. When Shouqiang Li got home, he was found to have wounds behind his neck, on his back and in between his legs. On the morning of March 20, 2000, Shouqiang Li died from poisoning, just as the police predicted.

Xuzhi Wang was tortured to death after being forced to eat excrement. Xuzhi Wang, male, 30 years old, was a driver for a water company in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. At the beginning of December in 1999, Mr. Xuzhi Wang was arrested and sent to the Jiurucun Detention Center in Chengdu City. In the middle of January of 2000, he was secretly sentenced to one year and six months in Ziyang City's Dayan Forced Labor Camp. During the detention, the police beat his head with a gun butt and sometimes in one day there were more than 200 criminals beating Mr. Wang in turn. Mr. Wang then went on a hunger strike for 150 days to protest the illegal detention. In the meantime, he was forced to eat excrement. Because of this long hunger strike and maltreatment, Mr. Wang was very weak and on the verge of death. In order not to take the responsibility, the detention center released Xuzhi Wang. However, Mr. Xuzhi Wang never recovered and died on August 5, 2000.

Hongfeng Lu, deputy school principal, was tortured to death with drugs. Hongfeng Lu, female, 37 years old, was a deputy principal of a primary school in Wuling City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In March 2000, the Wuling Bureau of Education suspended her job because she signed a petition letter to appeal for stopping the persecution of Falun Gong. On June 7th, 2000, her husband, together with the authorities, sent her to a mental hospital for persecution. She was tied up on a bed in the hospital and injected eight times the normal dosage of a certain drug, in order to force her to give up Falun Gong. After 5 days of torture in the mental hospital, Ms. Lu's nervous system was destroyed and she became very weak. In July 2000, she was sent back home. However, she was continually injected with large doses of drugs by her husband until she died on September 6, 2000.

Gang Su died in a mental hospital because of being given large dosages of a drug. Gang Su, male, 32 years old, was a computer engineer at the Qilu Petroleum and Chemical Company in Zibo City, Shandong Province. He also had a Masters Degree in computer science from Shandong University. In 2000, he was arrested three times by his company's security officers because he practiced Falun Gong. In order to force him to give up Falun Gong, company officials sent Mr. Su to the Changle Mental Hospital on March 23, 2000, where he was tortured until May 31, 2000. In the hospital he was force-fed large amounts of a drug which destroyed his nervous system. After Gang Su came home, he was totally changed. He had become numb, pale and his responses were extremely slow. Also, his four limbs were stiff. Although his family members took care of him, his condition became worse and Mr. Su died on the morning of June 10, 2000.

Peng Gu tortured to mental illness. Peng Gu, female, 27 years old, was from Baoding City, Hebei Province. She was a kindergarten teacher at a cigarette factory in Baoding City. In January 2001, she was arrested with her husband and six-month-old baby for going to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. After being sent back to Baoding City from Beijing, her husband was detained in the Baoding Detention Center. Ms. Gu went there to ask for the release of her husband, and the local 610 Office detained her in a mental hospital. Every day she was forced to take drugs and receive injections. She became very weak. Now, Ms. Gu has become mentally ill. Her baby suffers a lot because of losing her mother's care.

Among all the cases submitted by FalunHR, a large proportion are of psychiatric torture. Because this kind of torture is particularly cruel, FalunHR pays much attention to them. For example, in March 2008, FalunHR presented another similar report about psychiatric persecution to the UN and all governments, to expose 12 Falun Gong practitioners' deaths from injection of an unknown drug in Qinghai, Hubei and Shandong Provinces.

Consistent exposure of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has attracted international attention. During the 41st session of the annual meeting of the UN Committee Against Torture from November 3rd to 21st, 2008, the CCP's drug torture and compulsory psychiatric hospital detention was discussed. In the published annual report of the UN Committee Against Torture after the meeting, there was special criticism about this.

About forced medical treatment we noted that article 18 of the Criminal Law allows a mentally ill patient who has committed a crime but is not to bear any criminal responsibility for it to be given compulsory medical treatment by the authorities. The Committee also notes with concern that this provision has been misused to detain some people in psychiatric hospitals for reasons other than medical. The case of Hu Jing was raised by the Committee, but the CCP authorities have not provided a satisfactory answer (art. 11).

The CCP authorities should take action to ensure that no one is involuntarily placed in psychiatric institutions for reasons other than medical. Where hospitalization is required for medical reasons, the CCP authorities should ensure that it is decided only upon the advice of independent psychiatric experts and that such decisions can be appealed.

While welcoming the information provided by the delegation of the CCP concerning its efforts to provide human rights training to law enforcement and judicial officers, as well as grass roots officials, on the prevention of torture when they start their posts, when they are promoted and when they are posted in the field, the information provided does not clarify whether this training has been effective. The Committee regrets the insufficient level of practical training with regard to the provisions of the Convention for law enforcement officers. The Committee also notes with concern the lack of specific training to detect signs of torture and ill-treatment for medical personnel in detention facilities (art. 10).

The CCP should intensify its efforts to reinforce and expand existing training programs, including with non-governmental organizations, on the absolute prohibition of torture for law enforcement officers at all levels.

The CCP should also ensure adequate training for medical personnel to detect signs of torture and ill-treatment and integrate the Istanbul Protocol of 1999 (Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment) in such training.

In addition, the CCP should develop and implement a methodology to assess the effectiveness and impact of its training programs on instances of torture and ill-treatment.

The UN's statement usually is very important. At the UN Committee Against Torture's 41st session of the annual meeting, the review of this issue, just like the review of the CCP's other serious infringements of human rights, aroused widespread international interest. Most influential mainstream media such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Central News Agency, New York Times, Radio France Internationale, Voice of America, New Zealand television, Canadian news, Voice of Germany and others, made reports. The annual report which summarized this session was also sent to committee members, including China.

During this session, international media such as Radio France Internationale, interviewed FalunHR. Once again FalunHR exposed the torture of Falun Gong practitioners, including drug torture and mental hospital maltreatment.

Observing from the following UN action, it can be seen that the UN's attention is enduring. For instance, on January 14th, 2009, the UN Committee Against Torture submitted a report to the UNHRC during its annual meeting, in which they made several points. For instance, at the time of the Special Rapporteur's visit to China, "enforced drug rehabilitation" programs (qianzhi jiedu) were a specific form of administrative detention. This has aroused the UN's attention and an appeal has been sent out for standardization, to prevent the CCP from torturing healthy and harmless Falun Gong practitioners with medical maltreatment!

The evil fears exposure, especially continuous exposure. When many special international interest groups close their mouths facing the enticement of benefits from the CCP, Falun Gong practitioners are resisting the enticement, facing the violence and exposing the persecution without stop. In this sense, Falun Gong truly is the righteous force which the CCP fears most in the world.

It is well known that the CCP can never give up its evil nature, and the exposure by FalunHR will not stop just because of some achievements. Just after the 41st session of the annual meeting of the UN Committee Against Torture, FalunHR immediately followed up and submitted another very important report: the Psychiatric Torture Report (March 2009). This report further exposes the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the CCP with psychiatric torture by including more cases. Some of the cases are listed as follows:

Ms. Jiafang Zhao was tortured to death after being injected with an unknown drug in Qijiang County, Chongqing. In August 2001, Ms. Jiafang Zhao was arrested, sentenced to eight years and six months of forced labor, and sent to the Yongchuan Forced Labor Camp. At the labor camp Ms. Zhao was constantly forced to work overtime doing slave labor. She passed out three times in the camp. She was finally taken to the labor camp clinic, but after she was injected with some unknown drugs, she appeared to have difficulty breathing. To avoid being held responsible for her death, the labor camp authorities released her for medical treatment on October 1, 2007. Her family immediately took her to the Coal Mine Employee Hospital, but she did not recover. She died at 3:40 a.m. on December 21, 2007.

Mr. Zhao Peijie, 32 years of age, was from Xiaonigou Village, Datong Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. He was beaten, abused and forced to take drugs which destroyed his central nervous system. As a result, this once healthy and lively young man became a disabled, mentally ill person who could not take care of himself. His father and stepmother believed the CCP's propaganda. Instead of looking after him, they expelled him from their home. He had to wander around homeless, suffering hunger, cold and abuse. On June 28, 2008 he died in the wilderness.

In April 2006, Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, was arrested and the officials of the Chibi City Police Department, Hubei Province sent her to the Psychiatric Department of the Pufang Hospital and ordered the doctors to torture her. At the Psychiatric Department, Ms. Liu was brutally beaten, injected with toxic medication, fed with mentally debilitating drugs, shocked with high-voltage electric batons, and insulted by male, mentally ill patients. In August 2008, Ms. Liu was released since she was on the verge of death. She never recovered and died on the afternoon of October 26, 2008.

All practitioners tortured in Chengdu City Legal Education Center were forcibly injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system. They suffered severe symptoms of mental trauma. They all appear emaciated, stare into space, are in low spirits, have slow reflexes and speech, and their bodily functions are abnormal. Whether or not they give in to the brainwashing, they all have a long and hard time recovering. Thousands of practitioners have been tortured in this place over the past six years. For instance, Ms. Li Xiaowen, 67, lived in Shuangliu County in Sichuan Province. In November 2007, she was arrested and taken to the Chengdu City Legal Education Center, a brainwashing center located in Xinjin County. She was tortured to the point of being in critical condition, and was released in March 2008. She experienced heavy bleeding ever since. In the beginning of May 2008, Ms. Li passed out due to the bleeding, and died at the beginning of June 2008.

Mr. Zhao Shouzhu, 38, lived in Bei'an Village, Yaobao Township, in Xinmin City of Liaoning Province. On the evening of March 31, 2008, Domestic Security officers from the Xinmin City Police Department arrested Mr. Zhao while he was passing out materials to expose the persecution. He was detained in the Xinmin City Detention Center where he went on a hunger strike. He was sent to Xinmin City Hospital and was brutally force-fed with unknown drugs. Since his condition became critical, on April 14, 2008, Mr. Zhao's family bailed him out. He was not able to recover and died several days later around April 20, 2008.

In fact, the CCP is destroying the Chinese people's morality, and many people of conscience either are suppressed or choose to keep silent, which makes the evil even more rampant. Furthermore, many people from almost all social levels and all occupations are forced to commit crimes. These crimes become the prerequisite for obtaining leadership positions within the CCP system. People's consciences are sold cheap and the whole nation from top to bottom is controlled by the evil. However, maintaining this situation depends on the extreme numbness of large quantities of ignorant people. Taking the exposure of the psychiatric torture by the CCP in this article as an example, many people are involved. Some of them are forced to do it, but some do it voluntarily, believing the CCP's lies from their heart. They believe that those Falun Gong practitioners under their poisonous needles are insane and that what they are doing is for the country and the party. They think that they are above the law and not committing a crime, which is very similar to the Nazi mentality. At the end of January 1933, in Germany, among 52,000 doctors who had licenses, 2,786 doctors were Nazi party members. By the last period of Nazi rule, about 45% of German doctors participated in the Nazi party; 10% of the doctors were Schutzstaffel's member; 2/3 female nurses joined the Nazi party or its related organizations. What about these people's future? After World War II and during the global investigation of more than 1,000 doctors, more than 350 doctors participated in "the choice"-- the deadly injections and the experiments on living persons in the concentration camps. More than 600 doctors participated in "race health" and "the non-painful death" and more than 2,000 nurses willingly became war criminals. These people were to pay for their sins with their lives.

Whether it was the German Nazis eliminating the Jews with poisonous drugs or Japanese invaders doing experiments with drugs on the Chinese people, these things happened during times of war under extreme conditions. However in today's China, where the Party says that "human rights conditions are the best ever", and in this modern civilization's peaceful age, the CCP is persecuting its own people with toxic drugs and electric batons in mental hospitals. This is inconceivable.

Therefore, FalunHR will continue to pay close attention to and continually expose the CCP's crimes, in the fervent hope that people of conscience throughout the world will help us do what we are supposed to do at this critical historical moment.