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Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lei Ming, 30 years old, lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province. He worked with other practitioners, and successfully broadcast the truth clarification videos about Falun Gong on a cable TV network in Changchun City on March 15, 2002. The videos exposed the lies fabricated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang Zemin's regime. This helped many people awaken from the bombardment of the CCP's lies about Falun Gong.

Mr. Lei was illegally arrested after Jiang's regime issued the order "kill without pardon." After he was savagely tortured in Tiebei Detention Center, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison in Changchun City Intermediate Court. He was sent to Jilin Prison, where he was subjected to the "Stretching Bed" torture and other cruelties, in addition to around-the-clock brainwashing, threats, and intimidation. These gross abuses led to disability in both legs and muscle atrophy. He could not walk, could not take care of himself, and also had severe, active tuberculosis. Jilin Prison officials sent Lei Ming back to his family in November 2004 when he was on the brink of death. He weighed only about 77 pounds, and he was extremely weak. The local police and prison officials constantly harassed him at his home after his release. He went into exile to avoid the harassment and died on August 6, 2006.

Mr. Lei Ming passed away on August 6, 2006

Torture at the 1st Division of Changchun City Police Department

Police and other officials first arrested Mr. Lei for broadcasting the truth clarification video on March 15, 2002. They took him to Qingming Street Police Station in Changchun City. He was later sent to Changchun City Police Department, where the police brutally shocked him with electric batons. They eventually transferred him to the 1st Division of the Changchun City Police Department where officers Liu Huibin, Jiang Tao, Gao Hang, Jiang Bo, and section head Gao persecuted him.

Lei Ming in illegal detention, March 2002

The police placed Mr. Lei on a Tiger Bench, tied his legs and tightened the rope, inserted a metal bar through the holes in the two armrests, and locked the bar in place. They handcuffed him behind his back over the chair back with his armpits pressed against the chair back. They then put a leather belt through the handcuffs and through the lower column of the chair legs and upwards. Two officers violently yanked the belt downward while another officer fiercely kicked the handcuffs to increase the pain.

More officers besieged Mr. Lei and slapped his face. Two officers, each carrying an electric baton, removed his clothes. They proceeded to shock his neck, mouth, thighs, chest, genitals, and anus, making Lei Ming scream in pain. The police did not stop until the charge in the electric batons had run out.

Photos Reenactment photos of the tortures experienced by Mr. Lei

While they recharged the electric batons, another two officers wrapped Lei Ming's head in a plastic bag. They tightened the bag opening around his neck, so no air could enter. Mr. Lei almost suffocated. They loosened the bag and tightened it again after he had taken just a few breaths. They repeated this until the batteries in the electric batons were fully charged. Another two officers joined in and began shocking Mr. Lei. They also took a screwdriver, heated it on the stove, and burned his neck with it until pieces of charred flesh and skin peeled off.

Three photos Reenactment photos of tortures experienced by Mr. Lei

Lei Ming gritted his teeth to bear the pain. The police shocked the fresh burn wounds on his neck with electric batons and then poured water down his neck. The pain was unimaginably excruciating. The police covered his head with a big metal bucket and banged the bucket as hard as they could with a huge metal bar, producing a deafening noise. The police also inserted a wooden stick into his anus before shocking his anus with an electric baton to cause even more pain.

Within four or five hours, the bones in Mr. Lei's arms and wrists were pulled out of joint. His clothes were soaked with sweat. One officer took Mr. Lei's hands, which were cuffed behind his back, and raised them as far as he could, forcing Mr. Lei's chest to press against his thighs and making the metal bar grind against his stomach. They kept him in this torturous position for about five minutes. His right arm was dislocated at the shoulder joint from being forcefully jerked upwards, and his right forearm turned black and was disabled, swinging listlessly in the air. Both of his hands were swollen, and his fingers were two to three times their original size.

Reenactment photos of tortures used on Lei Ming

The police took turns torturing Mr. Lei for four days around the clock. They eventually took him to Tiebei Detention Center where, on arrival, he was told to take off his clothes for a physical inspection. The guards at the detention center saw that he was severely wounded and refused to accept him. However, officers from the city police department talked them into accepting him.

After Lei Ming had entered the cell, he was first told to take a shower and get a haircut. When he took off his clothes and his injuries were revealed, all the prisoners were shocked. He had black electric shock wounds and burn wounds on his neck and the rest of his body, along with scars on his wrists, arms, and ankles. The injuries were horrific. The head prisoner said, "Before I saw this, I did not believe that Falun Gong was severely persecuted! Now I totally believe it, and I also believe that the CCP will collapse, for such a ruthless regime cannot last."

Persecution at Jilin Prison

Mr.. Lei was held at Tiebei Detention Center in Changchun City for more than six months, and, as stated above, Changchun City Intermediate Court sentenced him to 17 years in prison. He was sent to Jilin Prison on October 25, 2002, and held in Group 1 of Prison Ward 4, now called Ward 7. Several inmates brutally beat him on the first day. They tried to force him to write a guarantee statement, flicked his eyeballs, and crushed his testicles. He protested the cruel treatment. Group head Song Yufeng and guard Liu Tiejun sent him to the Strictly Controlled Team for more intense persecution.

The officials used a special bed to stretch Lei Ming, which immobilized him for seven days, inflicting great physical pain. After that, they forced him to sit on a small bench from 4:50 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. They gave him only a small bun and a bowl of vegetable broth for each meal.

Lei Ming's health deteriorated after five months of torture in the Strictly Controlled Team, and his weight dropped from 143 to 72 pounds. He could hardly walk and was sent back to the regular section of the prison.

Mr. Lei's weight dropped from 143 to 72 pounds

The officials saw Mr. Lei reading Master Li's articles on February 18, 2004. Guards Song Yufeng, Liu Tiejun, and Yu Zhongze sent him once again to the Strictly Controlled Team and held him there for four-and-a-half months. During this period, officers Li and Wang from the Education Section probed and pressured Mr. Lei every day for the source of Master Li's article, which caused him to vomit blood for a long time. He was severely emaciated.

Mr. Lei Ming was carried back to the regular prison cell on July 2, 2004. He was skeleton-like and could not walk or take care of himself. He developed symptoms heart disease, acute, active tuberculosis, and several other illnesses. The authorities sent him to the Jilin Prison Hospital on November 8, 2004, and transferred him two days later to the Changchun Labor "Re-education" Hospital where he stayed for four days. After that, Mr. Lei was transferred to the Jilin Railroad Hospital where he remained for 15 days. The prison authorities refused to pay the medical fees because they thought he was not going to live very long. They didn't want to take responsibility for his death and released him on medical parole in 2004. He was already on the brink of death.

Mr. Lei Ming passed away in exile as a result of the ruthless persecution

Lei Ming was carried home from prison. Although only 30 years old, his legs were disabled and the muscles atrophied, the result of barbaric torture, and he could not walk. He also had severe tuberculosis and could not take care of himself.

The local police and prison authorities frequently harassed Mr. Lei at his home to further persecute him. He had no other choice but to go into exile. He weighed only 72 pounds when he left prison and was bedridden. He coughed constantly and had difficulty breathing. He could not sleep at night and had to sleep partially sitting up. If he lay flat, he would choke on phlegm. He could not eat much at all, and he was skeleton-like. He finally passed away at 7:00 a.m. on August 6, 2006.

Falun Gong practitioners walk through streets and villages to distribute flyers and post banners. They endure pain and suffering with fortitude. They risked their lives to broadcast videos to clarify the truth about Falun Gong and to reveal the beauty of Falun Gong. At the same time they are exposing the bloody persecution that is "top secret" and heavily guarded by the CCP. They awaken people's conscience and kindness within their hearts.

Since 2003, more than 70 practitioners have been forced to step down from the teacher's platform in Dazhu County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. More than ten of them have refused to be "transformed" and are still out of a job. The others are still forced to go to work daily and are being monitored. Mr. Hu Yunxiang passed away on August 23, 2006, after long-term brutal persecution.

Mr. Hu Yunxiang, age 42, was an elementary school teacher in Yangjia Town, Dazhu County, Dazhou City, Sichuan Province. He previously had many ailments, but in 1999 all of his illnesses disappeared after he began to practice Falun Dafa.

Since July 20 1999, Jiang Zemin's regimen began persecuting Falun Gong and Falun Gong's founder. Mr. Hu went to Beijing in November 1999 to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. He was illegally arrested and brutally beaten and only narrowly escaped death. The local police transferred him back home, held him for another four months, and reduced his salary one level.

In January 2001, Mr. Hu Yunxiang's school administrator, Hu Fabi, was afraid that Mr. Hu would go to appeal again and the school would be entangled with his case. Hu Fabi, along with officers from Yangjia Town Police Station, arrested Mr. Hu and held him in the Dazhu Detoxification Center (No. 2 Detention Center) for over 20 days. Mr. Hu's hands became infected and festered. After he was released, he continued practicing Falun Dafa, and his hands recovered without any treatment.

In July 2002, Yangjia Elementary School, under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dismissed Mr. Hu and sent him to a remote village school. It took two hours, one way, to walk there. Liu Dewan who worked in the Education Bureau, also confiscated Mr. Hu's hand-written copy of Zhuan Falun.

In February 2003, Ms. He Dacui, a teacher from Huangjiaxiang Elementary School, was arrested and sentenced to five years because she told the students, "Falun Dafa is good, Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance are good." Shortly after that, the 610 Office head, Li Yuexue, along with County Party Secretary Huang Shengguo and Education Bureau Chief Yuan Xiaofan, forced 70 teachers who practiced Falun Gong to give up their teaching positions, only allowing them to sweep the floor and be doormen. In the second semester of 2003, Li Yuexue, along with You Shicheng, Liu Dewan, and other 610 Office officials, used the threat of layoffs as a condition to force all teachers to declare their stand on Falun Dafa; only when they accepted the brainwashing could they go back to teaching. This hurt many teachers that were practitioners, as well as their students.

In August 2003, the County Government and Education Bureau deceived Mr. Hu Yunxiang and sent him to a brainwashing center. He was held for over four months. Mr. Hu refused to give up his belief and he was not even allowed to go to his father-in-law's funeral.

Mr. Hu was under long-term persecution at the hands of the local county government, the Education Bureau, and his workplace. He was constantly harassed and threatened, and his health deteriorated. He died on August 23, 2006.

At the current time, practitioners Zhang Zhanping, Zhang Fushou, and Liu Huiying have been held in the No. 1 Detention Center in Dazhu County for over four months. The authorities are planing to prosecute and convict them.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qu Jun from Dalian City was illegally arrested on August 2, 2006. Responsible for the arrest were officers from Wanli Police Station in the Dalian Development District. She is now being held at Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City. Practitioners Liu Qingtao, Yu Changshun, Cong Peijing, Wang Li, Yu Xiaoli, and others were also arrested. It was learned that the officers from Wanli Police Station planted some truth clarification materials inside practitioner Liu Qingtao’s van. Then they claimed they had found Falun Gong materials and subsequently arrested the practitioners.

The CCP regime has persecuted Ms. Qu Jun’s family many times. Ms. Qu was detained several times; her younger brother, Qu Bin, was sentenced to four years in prison and is now being held at Dalian Prison. Their 70-year-old father, Qu Tingyue, was held at Dalian Forced Labor Camp for one year; their mother, traumatized by the persecution, had a stroke and is at times absent minded.

Ms. Qu Jun

Ms. Qu Jun and her young son

Qu Jun, 37 years old, is from the Jinzhou District in Dalian City. She was held at Jinzhou Detention Center under administrative detention for 15 days for going to Beijing to appeal in May 2000. She was fined 4,000 yuan. Dalian City National Security Bureau agents tried to arrest her younger brother, Qu Bin, in May 2002. They tapped his phone and located and arrested Ms. Qu and her non-practitioner husband when she was calling her brother. They took the couple to Dalian City National Security Bureau. Ms. Qu Jun jumped from the building. She broke her spine, pelvis and ankle(s) and was taken to Dalian Friendship Hospital. The doctor said she might not survive. She lived, but was permanently disabled.

Officers from Yinchuan District Police Department in Tieling City arrested Qu Jun on October 9, 2002, and held her at the Tieling City Detention Center. She was brutally force-fed, handcuffed, shackled, and savagely tortured. Her family picked her up after two months and after having 2,000 yuan extorted from them. Ms. Qu was arrested again on August 2, 2006. Officers from Wanli Police Station participated in the arrest. She is now being held at Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City.

Ms. Qu Jun’s younger brother Qu Bin

Ms. Qu Jun’s brother, Qu Bin, 33 years old, lives in the Paoya Neighborhood District in Dalian City. He was detained many times and is now incarcerated at Dalian Prison. Mr. Qu Bin was handcuffed and hung up and shocked with electric batons between December 2000 and August 2001 at Dalian Forced Labor Camp. He developed scabies all over his body. On January 11, 2003, officers from Zhongshan District Police Department went to Mr. Qu Bin’s workplace, a print factory in Dalian City, to arrest him and then sentenced him to four years in prison.

Ms. Qu Jun’s father, Qu Tingyue, 70 years old, went to Beijing to appeal in March 2000 and was held at Jinzhou Detention Center for over 40 days. He was fined 5,000 yuan and had to accept a reduction of three years' salary. He was detained several times and held at Jinzhou Detention Center three times, for a total of one year. The local government conducted a large-scale arrest in April 2002. They again took Mr. Qu Tingyue to Jinzhou Detention Center. One week later they sent him to Dalian Forced Labor Camp for one year of forced labor for practicing Falun Gong. At his release from the camp in April 2003, he chose to live in exile for one year before returning home to take care of his sick wife.

Among the arrested Falun Gong practitioners arrested on August 2, 2006, some have been persecuted repeatedly since the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999.

Mr. Liu Qingtao was sentenced to five years in prison. He was barbarically tortured at Huazi Prison in Liaoyang and could no longer take care of his family. Practitioner Yu Xiaoli was repeatedly sent back to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Each day, families of the arrested practitioners go to Wanli Police Station, the Development District Detention Center, the Development District Police Department and Yaojia Detention Center to plead for the practitioners’ release. The police are terrified, and they try to get away whenever they see the families. The police are trying to persecute the practitioners with the false charge of "disrupting social order as a group."

The home of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shi Chunde was invaded on the evening of December 9, 2003. Over a dozen police officers from the Lianshan District Police Department entered by force. They presented two documents: "Permission to Search" and "Summons," but these documents bore no official stamps as proof of legality. The officers ordered Mr. Shi to sign the papers, but he refused. Not deterred, they conducted an illegal search and took Mr. Shi to the police department. Mr. Shi protested their illegal activities. Officer Liu Shijun said, "Don’t you dare argue with me! I will send you to a place where you can really argue." After that, without following any legal procedure or presenting documentation, they sent Mr. Shi to a detention center. Seven days later, again without following legal procedures, he was sentenced to three years of forced labor. Officer Liu Shijun was the primary individual responsible for Mr. Shi's illegal detention and forced labor sentence.

While in the labor camp, Mr. Shi Chunde wrote a letter to appeal his illegal detention; however, Liu Guohua, head of the 6th Group, and Yang Lianyuan, the administration section head, withheld the letter and never delivered it to upper level authorities. Mr. Shi inquired about his letter many times. They lied to him, saying, "There has been no reply." Mr. Shi countered by saying, "The letter was sent five or six months ago! Why have I still not heard from upper management?" The labor camp officials continued, "Nobody cares about your complaints. No one can handle a Falun Gong case at this point. Do you understand how the CCP deals with Falun Gong? The CCP is in strong opposition to Falun Gong. If you have done anything related to Falun Gong, no matter how little, you will be sentenced to as many years as they wish. There is nowhere for you to appeal. You'd better stay here!"

Mr. Shi was compelled to begin a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. On July 26, 2004, at 3:00 p.m., three guards, Wang Yongming (a squadron leader of  the 6th Group), Fan Yongjie (team head), and Song Yunbin (political head) were drunk. They dragged Mr. Shi into the guard duty room and closed the door. They hit him with electric batons and punched him, taking turns for half an hour. Wang Yongming was the most ruthless. Mr. Shi bled from his mouth, his teeth became loose, and his face swelled. He sustained many blisters from the electric shocks, felt dizzy, and experienced ringing in his ears. Guards continued in their attempt to force him to give up his belief in Falun Dafa and to eat, but he refused.

On the tenth day of Mr. Shi Chunde’s hunger strike, he pulled out his feeding tube, refusing the force-feeding. The three guards had initially planned to re-insert the feeding tube at a hospital that afternoon and had already obtained permission to leave with him. However, after they beat Mr. Shi in their drunken state, they were tired and decided not to go to the hospital. Four days later, they sent Mr. Shi to the hospital to have the feeding tube re-inserted. Mr. Shi reported the beating incident to Liu Guohua. However, Liu completely denied the report, saying, "No such thing happened. I have already asked the guards and none of them admitted to hitting you!"

Around August 20, 2004, Liu Guohua accelerated the persecution. First, he put out a so-called "Central Government Document" and a provincial government document and threatened Mr. Shi. Liu Guohua said, "According to the upper level authorities, anyone who has held a hunger strike must be heavily punished. The individual must be detained elsewhere besides the local area and will receive a heavy sentence." This did not frighten Mr. Shi. Liu Guohua then forbade Mr. Shi from sleeping for 24 hours and made him sit on a board. He also forced Mr. Shi to read literature that slandered Falun Gong. (Practitioners Du Jincai and others also underwent this torture at the same time). Liu Guohua, being unsuccessful, arranged for several criminals to beat and otherwise physically punish and insult Mr. Shi, Du Jincai, and the other practitioners.

From being constantly beaten and kicked, randomly hit with bamboo rods, threatened, forced to undergo "reformation," and being pressured to eat, Mr. Shi’s legs were injured and he walked with difficulty. His hearing and vision also deteriorated. The primary abusers included Qi Ying from Xiaosi Village in the Hongluoxian region of the Lianshan District; Pei Xiaofei from the Suizhong area; and Yuan Bing, an electric welder at a chemical plant. Several criminals who did not want to take part in beating Falun Gong practitioners were either verbally abused or were beaten by police officer Wang Yongming.

In order to involve more criminals in the persecution, Liu Guohua and Wang Yongming arranged for several criminals to hit the practitioners. Most of those who did not hit the practitioners were themselves beaten. Mr. Shi told the truth to those who beat the practitioners, but they did not listen. Criminal Qi Ying shouted, "It is illegal to beat others, but the beating of Falun Gong practitioners will be rewarded!" Criminal Yuan Bing said, "Without permission from upper level authorities, would we dare to beat you?" Mr. Shi reported those persecution incidents to Liu Guohua and expected that he would stop the illegal goings on, but Liu Guohua replied, "They will hit you if you deserve it! I am unable to control them." Liu Guohua also said, "We rely on them to take care of you. Do you know what kind of people they are? As human beings they are the worst! You have to be controlled by them!" Mr. Shi reported these incidents to deputy head Pang Guodong. Pang listened and did not say a word. Later, these three criminals were rewarded by being released earlier than their terms warranted.

By August 25, 2004, Mr. Shi Chunde had been on a hunger strike for more than 40 days. He was extremely weak from the constant torture and other violent mistreatment. He felt dizzy and walked with difficulty. That afternoon, Liu Guohua and Wang Yongming called criminals Qi Ying, Yuan Bing, Pei Xiaofei, and others to the office. After they returned from the meeting, three of them suddenly shouted abusively and threatened Mr. Shi and Mr. Du and other practitioners to give up their belief in Falun Gong and to eat; otherwise, they would be attacked. The criminals showed off about how they could ruthlessly beat people. However, Mr. Shi refused to cooperate with them. Instead, he told them the truth and urged them to stop their illegal acts. They not only did not listen, but also attacked him cruelly by punching, kicking and beating him with a club. After this, Wang Yongming called them back to the office. When they came out they asked Mr. Shi, "Do you plan to eat? Chief Wang has prepared two electric batons and is waiting for your response." "No," replied Mr. Shi. They started beating him again. At this time, Chief Wang Yongming came out of the office and asked, "How did it go?" Qi Ying responded, "It did not work and he wouldn’t eat." Wang shouted, "Grab him and bring him over!" Mr. Shi was dragged to the office. The clothing above his waist was removed. Yuan Bing held his hands and forced him to sit on the floor. Liu Guohua and deputy chief Qi Zhiping sat on a sofa and watched the whole process. Two electric batons were charged, and a pot of cold water sat on the side. The entire room was filled with a menacing atmosphere. Wang Yongming had a cold expression and asked Mr. Shi, "Are you going to eat?" "No, I am not," Mr. Shi replied. Wang Yongming took two electric batons and shocked his armpits, then asked him, "Are you going to eat now?" Wang continued to shock Mr. Shi until the power ran out. He recharged the two batons. In the meantime, Liu Guohua watched and used both persuasion and threats. Mr. Shi Chunde was compelled to eat, but refused to be "reformed."

That day, practitioner Du Jincai was beaten so fiercely that he fainted. He came to after being splashed with cold water. They shocked him twice more later that day, but he continued to refuse to eat. He was released after being on a hunger strike for 200 days and paying 5,000 yuan in extorted fines.

Mr. Shi Chunde sustained some severe, long-term physical problems from the gross abuse he suffered during incarceration. The symptoms, as already mentioned above, included dizziness, leg pain, and frequent falls. By May 2005, he could not walk anymore. He relied on other people to carry him to the bathroom and had to live with assistants. A doctor's diagnosis revealed severe hypertension, insufficient blood flow to the brain, leg and back pain, blurred vision, deafness, and several other symptoms.

Mr. Shi’s family had requested outside treatment for him several times, but Liu Guohua and the camp's female doctor, Gao Guirong, foiled their requests in any way possible. Deputy Head Pang Guodong even said, "After he gives up Falun Gong, he will be allowed to treat his illnesses." Shi Chunde firmly refused to give up his Falun Gong practice and went on a hunger strike again. After 104 days on a hunger strike, Mr. Shi became skeleton-like. His weight had dropped from 169. to 102 pounds. The officials were afraid that he would die at the labor camp, so they sent him home on September 8, 2005.

Mr. Shi could not walk for four months after his release and has to have assistance in his daily life.

The officials at my workplace persecuted me psychologically and financially after my release from the labor camp for the second time, paying me only about 100 yuan salary in a whole year. When I went through the retirement procedure in 2004, the officials attempted to coerce me to give up Falun Gong, but I firmly refused. The officials reduced my pension. Up to this day I only receive a portion of my regular retirement pension.

I began practicing Falun Gong in late April 1997 at the age of 57. All of my illnesses disappeared through promotion of xinxing and doing the exercises. I benefited physically and mentally from the practice.

I wanted to speak up for Falun Gong after the persecution started, so I went to Beijing on December 18, 1999, with some fellow practitioners. I was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. I went to Beijing again on December 29, 2000, and was held at Lianhuacun Detention Center for one month after I returned to Chengdu City. Officials from the Wuhou District sentenced me to 18 months of forced labor a few days after I went back to work. I refused to sign their fabricated documents.

Persecution from the police and my workplace

I went to the provincial government on September 22, 1999, to clarify the truth. Officers from Jiangxi Street Police Station in Chengdu City interrogated me. They forced me to write down information about my workplace and all the members of my family. They told officials from the Security Division at my workplace to come pick me up after 2:00 a.m. The officials were angry with me and said I was bringing shame on my workplace. From then on, the police and agents from the security division of my work unit frequently called me to ask questions, and the officers called me over to the Security Division every few days. They always told me to come over immediately, even if it was pouring outside. When I arrived, they would not say anything and simply told me to leave.

A few practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal at the end of 1999. The police and workplace security officers handcuffed us and took us back to Chengdu City. They sent us immediately to a drug rehabilitation center. The police forced the other practitioners' and my family members to attend a three-day brainwashing session at work for going to Beijing. They also took all of my Falun Gong books and extorted more than 3,000 yuan from me, calling it a "fine." My family was traumatized. I was forbidden to work after I was released from the labor camp for the first time. The police and security officers constantly harassed me and compelled my family to watch me.

I went to Beijing to appeal again, along with some other practitioners at the end of 2000. Right after we got off the train the police tried to coerce us into cursing Master Li and Falun Gong. We firmly refused, so they sent us to the police station. When we got there, I heard the police hitting fellow practitioners with batons. More and more people were brought into the station, and the police stopped their atrocities. Police and security officers from my workplace arrived and recognized me. They took me back to Chengdu City, where they held me in a small room at the police station. There was nothing in the room besides an old rag. They gave us a bowl of leftover food in the evening and interrogated us the next day. I was transferred to Lianhuacun Detention Center after the interrogation. Security officers from my workplace picked me up after one month of detention. My family was fined another 3,000 yuan. Several days later, I was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor.

As stated above, people from my workplace continued to persecute me mentally and financially. When I went through the retirement procedure in 2004, my supervisors again attempted to coerce me to give up Falun Gong, but I firmly refused. My salary has since been reduced. I only receive a portion of my rightful retirement earnings to this day.

Security officers at my workplace confiscated my ID in 1999 and gave it to the police. I have repeatedly asked for it back, but they have refused to return it to me.

Persecution at a detention center and labor camp

I went to appeal for Falun Gong at the end of 1999. When we arrived at Tiananmen Square, a man dressed all in black asked us if we practiced Falun Gong. We answered, "Yes" and were taken to the Tiananmen Detention Center by car. The police took our Falun Gong books and put us in a room with metal bars. The room was already filled with fellow practitioners from all over the country. Some practitioners were being regularly transferred. We were held there until around 6:00 p.m. Then officials from the Sichuan Province Liaison Office in Beijing took us to another location. We were immediately stripped naked and body-searched and were individually interrogated in the evening. The police and security officers from my workplace arrived and took me back to Chengdu City by train.

I was immediately taken to Qingyanggong Drug Rehabilitation Center after I got off the train. The police questioned us one by one, asking if we would continue to practice Falun Gong. We were slapped across the face for answering "Yes." They forced us to kneel in the wet dirt with our backs straight. Those whose backs were not straight were beaten. Our knees hurt terribly after kneeling for several hours. They handcuffed us behind our backs and hung us from a metal door by our handcuffs. They let us down at around 4:00 p.m. and made us stand in a row. They ordered drug addict inmates to sit across from us and to curse Falun Gong. I cried and told them that they absolutely could not insult Falun Gong. They said in a small voice, "There is nothing we can do; if you say that you won’t practice [Falun Gong] anymore, they’ll let us stop." Their voices grew weaker and indistinguishable after a while, and the police let them stop.

Before leaving the drug rehab center after 48 hours, the police talked to us individually and said that our families and careers would be affected if we continued to practice Falun Gong. An overweight police officer screamed at us for a while. We were then transferred to a detention center. They again removed all of our clothes, searched us and our bags, and cut all our belts and the strings on our clothes and pants. They forced us to recite prison policies, leave our fingerprints, and wear a black sign to have our photo taken. They often took us to a small metal hut to interrogate us and told us to read Falun Gong-slandering newspapers. We firmly resisted the persecution. The police dragged us outside and beat and cursed us.

Persecution at Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong

I was held at Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong the second time. They searched my bags and me right after I arrived. They took whatever they liked from me and cut our hair messily to humiliate us. One practitioner obtained a copy of Zhuan Falun after much difficulty. We cherished the book more than our lives. The guards took the book, and we went on a hunger strike in protest. The guards and "civil control group" people tightened control and beat and kicked us. Once, the guards kicked my head several times with hard boots. I saw stars and was unable to get up for a long time. Three practitioners including myself were doing the sitting meditation when people from the "civil control group" poured a bucket of water down our necks and completely soaked our clothes. One evening a practitioner was sent to a solitary confinement cell. We ran into the cell and demanded the persecution immediately stop. All of the guards surrounded us and brutally beat us. After the beating they dragged us back to the storage room, one by one.

The guards divided all of the detained Falun Gong practitioners into two groups on June 20, 2000. Two practitioners whom the guards thought to be "leaders" were transferred to the then Group 5. The rest of the practitioners had to listen to official Wu. Wu said, "We are a totalitarian agency within the country, and we have high voltage electric batons here!" They body-searched us again and sent us to the newly established Group 7, where the officials watched us 24 hours a day. They violently assaulted us whenever they saw us reciting Falun Gong articles or doing the exercises.

I recited Hong Yin with another practitioner on the day of my arrival, and someone from the "civil control group" slapped our faces. They gathered us together and made us sit down and call out numbers. We did the sitting meditation instead. The guards jumped on us and beat us. They used fists and feet in the first few days and later resorted to numerous electric batons. The electric sparks flew from the practitioners’ bodies. My wrists, abdomen, neck and other body parts were shocked. Several batons were broken right away. The guards gathered us together again and told us to do roll call and eat. Many practitioners refused to count off and were forced to remain standing for long periods of time. One practitioner lost consciousness. The guards changed their tactics again and patrolled every 30 minutes at night. They savagely beat and electrically shocked practitioners they saw doing the Falun Gong exercises. The practitioner also had to stand and endure sleep deprivation. They made us stand and sit in military postures in the daytime. People from the civil control group read Falun Gong-slandering books to us and tortured us in various other ways.

I did nothing wrong by being a good person. I demand that the regime restore my right to practice my belief, restore my right to be a good person, and restore our environment to practice Falun Gong.

The Hohhot Women's Forced Labor Camp (the sign on the building says: Hohhot Women's Labor Technical School) is located inShuaijiaying Village, Zijie Township in the Xiaoheihe Region. It is on the south side of Hohhot City, right next to the women’s prison, newly built in 2003. Since 1999, this labor camp has used vicious methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. It is a very evil place, and it was decorated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the so-called "Advanced Transform Unit."

Ms. Wang Xia has been detained there since November 1999. She was the first practitioner in the region illegally put into a forced labor camp. The guards and inmates often tortured and abused her. At one time, when Ms. Wang was doing the Falun Gong exercises on the upper berth, the guards dragged her down and threw her to the ground. When her pregnancy was confirmed, the guards still forced her to do heavy labor.

Practitioner Ms. Qin Kejing was tortured there as well. Due to persecution, she developed stomach cancer in detention. In late 2002, she died shortly after being released.

The labor camp guards followed Jiang Zemin’s CCP evil regime closely. They actively carried out Jiang’s instruction to eliminate Falun Gong and deepen the persecution against practitioners. They went to the Chaoyang District in Beijing to learn persecution methods in the spring of 2005. Upon their return, they arbitrarily tortured practitioners in May of the same year, using various torture methods. Sixty-year-old Ms. Wang Xiufang was hung from a door frame. She began a hunger strike that lasted for more than 40 days. Guards force-fed her in a barbaric way and two of her teeth were knocked out in the process. After this violent and coercive "transformation" policy was instituted, many practitioners couldn’t bear the vicious torture. Under the intense mental and physical pressure, some of them knocked their heads on the wall, jumped from the building, or wrote the "guarantee letter" against their own wills. (Note: Extreme pain may cause a person to threaten to commit suicide or inflict self-harm to escape the suffering. This type of tragedy often happens when a human being severely persecutes another. However, these are not the actions and thoughts that a practitioner should have, because they do not conform to the important requirements of Falun Dafa, which strictly forbid killing and suicide.)

The labor camp held a so-called "exposing and criticizing" meeting in 2002. Falun Gong practitioners stood up against it. Guards dragged those practitioners to a higher level of the building and used electric batons on them. Practitioners rolled back and forth on the floor after the high voltage shocks. Ms. Li Ronglan threatened to harm herself to protest the illegal and brutal persecution. Guards tied her to the pole of the bunk and forced her to stand there for a long period of time. One female practitioner suffered a mental collapse due to torture. The labor camp decided to deliver her home. On her way home, the car rolled over. Although she had cosmetic surgery, her face was ruined for life. Another practitioner also became mentally disordered due to the torture. She would strip herself naked and run in the camp yard. The team leader even used this to mock and slander Falun Gong. Practitioner Ms. Hu Suhua was hung on a window frame for a long time. The guards refused to let her use the restroom. Later, she became mentally traumatized.

Common Torture Methods Used by Guards for Persecuting Practitioners:

Squat: Heels align against each other. Within minutes, the muscles become sore and numb.
Stand: No time limit. For days and nights not allowed to close one's eyes.
Hang: Tips of toes barely touch the floor, hands are handcuffed and hung. Ms. Li Ronglan was once hung for over 40 days.
Fly: Feet off the ground, arms handcuffed together and hung high.
Back cuff: The same posture as "carrying a sword in the back."
Beating: Utilizing fists and kicks, sometimes using broomsticks to hit one’s mouth. Blood drips on the floor.
Electric-shock: Using electric batons to shock face, neck, and other sensitive spots. Pour water on the floor and connect it with electricity. Oder practitioners to stand in the water barefoot. Some people couldn’t stand this torture and eventually "enlightened" down an evil path.
Starve: Give practitioners only a small bun for each meal.

There are many more vicious methods. Guards often used confined drug-addicts to torture practitioners. These wicked individuals were eager to fawn over the guards. They treated practitioners badly. The drug-addict in charge of "monitor and control" said, "If I don’t beat you, the team leader will curse me and add prison time to my term." Practitioners became healthy after they practiced Falun Gong. But because of the long-term mental and physical torture at forced labor camp, many of them suffered severe physical harm. Many developed symptoms of heart disease and high blood pressure, some were as high as 220 and 240. Some practitioners suffered unbearable heartaches, and some became mentally disoriented. Their cheeks often turned black and red from fever. Nevertheless, the guards still forced them to complete highly intensive labor quotas.

While practitioners suffered physical persecution, they were also subject to the more vicious psychological torment. They were watched for long periods of time and were not allowed to talk to each other, especially those who were not well "transformed." Guards and drug-addict inmates tried everything possible to humiliate practitioners. They threatened and intimidated practitioners to watch programs of deceit and lies, forcing practitioners to express their opinions, state their thoughts, and slander Falun Dafa. They organized collaborators to circle around and attack practitioners who refused to be "transformed" and those who were not well "transformed." At meal time and lineup time every day, they forced practitioners to sing the CCP’s song. The labor camp would hold a "raising the flag" ceremony every Monday when practitioners were forced to hold up their hands and say the "vow." (1) Sometimes, they made practitioners watch "The Same Song." (2) All these methods were used to achieve the goal of brainwashing practitioners. At holidays and New Year's, the labor camp would organize artistic performances and they forced practitioners to participate.

In 2003, the labor camp brought out a new rule: At the Chinese New Year, they would allow a few people who were "well-behaved" and near the end of their term to go home to spend the new year. Their purpose was to have those people write letters of gratitude to the guards, as well as writing "exposing and criticizing" letters that slander Falun Dafa.

Inmates are required to get up at 6:00 a.m. and to start working at 6:30 a.m. There are three intervals for meals: 7:00 a.m. for breakfast, 11:30 a.m. for lunch, and 5:30 p.m. for dinner. The rest of the time, inmates do slave labor. They work until late at night. Nevertheless, the guards increased the intensity of the labor again and again. Wrapping up at ten o’clock is considered early. Sometimes, practitioners work till 3 o’clock in the morning. Every day, practitioners spend long hours working, and the work is ultra-intense. When someone can’t finish the quota, she has to work until early morning. Then, after dawn, she begins a new day’s work. If she still can’t keep up with the work, the labor camp adds more time to her sentence.

Food

At 7:00 a.m. in the morning, breakfast is a wheat bun tainted black. Everybody gets a little serving of vegetables, such as a dried turnip strip. At 11:30 a.m., they eat a repulsive vegetable soup made of rotten vegetables dug out of a garbage pit and a few pieces of potato or pig skin. At the bottom of the soup bowl is a layer of dust and sand. Supper is similar to lunch, with a wheat bun and soup. Every year for about one or two months, there is black sand in the meal. Chewing the food often produces a hissing sound. When the price of rice is higher than flour, so for nearly ten months during the year, the inmates don’t see any rice.

Deception

Whenever there is an inspection, the labor camp conducts a complete cleaning. The food is changed. They closely keep watch on "people with problems." During the SARs period, the camp conducted a so-called "isolation." A team leader, carrying a spray can, sprayed here and there. Three days later, he stopped spraying. The team leaders and delivery persons came in and out, which didn’t meet the requirement of "isolation." A TV station came to video record the labor camp. Guards ordered some practitioners to stand and do physical exercises. They also ordered several people to pretend to play basketball. They made a few practitioners lay down their work and go to the library to pretend to be reading. Two officers of the Procuratorate in Heihe came and held a meeting. They asked inmates to report whether they were abused. The team leaders stood on the side and watched, sneering. They got a female attorney to give lectures in the labor camp. Guards dragged a few practitioners to listen to the lecture and "inquire." From the top to the bottom of the system, there was blatant deception. Everything was falsified. The labor camp gave physical examinations. Doctors drew blood from everyone, saying that it was to check whether anyone had liver disease. But they didn’t give back any test results. Now, it is known that drawing blood is possibly a preparation for harvesting Falun Gong practitioners’ organs.

Greed

The labor camp store sells products for a much higher price than the market price. The labor camp assigns sugar and tea to everyone and deducts money from everyone’s account. When family members bring money in, things like "forgetting to add to the account" often happens. Situations like having more deductions to the account than it should have or deducting money from the wrong account often occur. Upon release, many practitioners found their accounts were short of money for no reason. A one or two hundred-yuan shortage is considered a small amount. At other times, when practitioners thought that their money was missing, they asked the team leaders to examine their accounts, but they still couldn’t find out what happened.

Viciousness

When one practitioner was arrested, her husband, a practitioner in Shanghai, escaped. The labor camp made the practitioner induce her husband to visit her. When the husband got there, the guards detained him and sent him to the 610 Office. Therefore another practitioner was detained in the labor camp. The guards heard that her sister was a practitioner. They immediately asked her to call her sister. Their purpose was to find out her sister’s work address and home address. Soon after, the sister was arrested and sent to the labor camp. The labor camp makes people implicate their relatives, such as their mother, daughter, aunt, nephew, or sister.

Notes:

(1) Vow: A vow that affirms one’s loyalty to the CCP.

(2) "The Same Song:" Originally an ordinary song, but later used by the CCP as a tool to brainwash practitioners. Please see /emh/articles/2006/1/18/69094.html

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Zili was arrested on her way to visit a fellow practitioner on April 2, 2006. Participating in the arrest were two police officers from the Tiefeng District Police Department in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. The police did not explain the reason and did not identify themselves. They also did not follow any procedure and simply seized Ms. Shen Zili on the street. She was sent to Tiefeng District Shuguang Police Station and interrogated and cruelly tortured.

Ms. Shen refused to answer any questions during the interrogation. The police inhumanly tortured her using the tiger bench, electric wires, bamboo board, and metal pipes. Police station chief Chu Chun, deputy chief Xu Zhonghe, and police officers Sheng Tao, Fan Kai and Wang Bin participated in the torture.

1. Tiger bench: Police immobilized Ms. Shen Zili's hands and feet onto the Tiger Bench, taking off her shoes, socks and jacket. They pulled her feet up from the bench while pulling her head down toward her body and tied them together. Ms. Shen endured unbearable pain.

2. "Dragged by five horses:" Seeing trhat Ms. Shen did not give in, the police started more brutal tortures. They handcuffed her behind her back and immobilized her feet separately, then affixed her hands and feet onto two metal pipes at her right and left sides. The police pulled her head toward her legs and tied them together. Then they put the pipes onto two high metal chairs and swung her. Soon Ms. Shen’s hands and feet started bleeding. She suffered severe pain and became unconscious. The police said, "This torture is good! She seems unable to bear it! Let’s continue!"

3. Whipping with a bamboo board. Officer Sheng Tao whipped Ms. Shen’s soles with a two-inch wide bamboo board until she fainted. She could not move her feet after the torture.

4. Clipping fingers with metal rods. Police put a metal rod between Ms. Shen's fingers and squeezed them together. It was so painful that Ms. Shen almost stopped breathing.

5. Stabbing Ms. Shen's ribs very hard. The police used their fingers to fiercely stab between her ribs.

6. Hammering on her thighs and hitting her head with fists. The police affixed Ms. Shen onto the tiger bench, stretched her hands behind her as far as they could, and then handcuffed them onto a wide metal chair behind. Her arms were nearly fractured from being severely stretched. The police also hit Ms. Shen's head with their fists and hammered on her thighs with a metal hammer until she lost consciousness. Ms. Shen has since lost the feeling in her legs, which are as stiff as wooden boards.

The tortures made Ms. Shen faint several times. The police woke her up by pouring icy water on her and burning her with cigarettes butts. Seeing her in critical condition, the police were afraid she would die. They sent her to a hospital for emergency treatment, to avoid taking responsibility.

Six days later, the police officials sent Ms. Shen Zili to the Qiqihar City' 1st Detention Center. The detention center officials refused to accept her, worrying that she might die there. The police then sent her to Gannan County Detention Center. Ten days later, a medical exam showed Ms. Shen had kidney disease and gall stones She was hospitalized for twelve days. On April 30, 2006, Ms. Shen was sent back to the Qiqihar City's 1st Detention Center. No matter where she was, Ms. Shen maintained a hunger strike to protest the persecution. After 38 days of imprisonment Ms. Shen was released, since the police were afraid they might be held responsible for her eventual death.

While persecuting and torturing Ms. Shen, the police also extorted money from her family members. Ms. Shen's family paid agents at the Tiefeng Police Department and at the Shuguang Police Station the sum of 23,000 yuan (about US$2,800).