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November 15, 2004
TO: COMMISSIONERS
FROM: ROBIN S. TOMA
RE: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE FALUN GONG
I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Cook and other practitioners of
the Falun Gong last week. After discussion with them, and based upon the
staff research, I attach a draft proposed resolution for your consideration.
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
Resolution on Falun Gong
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful and non-violent form of personal
spiritual belief and practice that originated in the People's Republic of
China, but has grown in popularity worldwide, with a multitude of
practitioners in the County of Los Angeles; and
Whereas, Practitioners of Falun Gong have not only experienced human
rights violations in China, well-documented by Amnesty International, but
have also been targeted by individuals and representatives of the
government of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles County and
elsewhere for accusations about the Falun Gong with the purpose of
denying their right to engage in their spiritual practice and to educate
others about it; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission firmly believes in upholding
every person's First Amendment fundamental human right to freedom,
personal belief and practice, expression, and assembly; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission also firmly believes in
upholding a citizen's human right to practice and pursue their religion in a
peaceful and law abiding manner, without being targeted for discrimination,
harassment, or false accusations regarding the nature of their practice;
Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a
concurrent resolution, HCR 304, which expresses the sense of the House
regarding oppression by the Government of the People's Republic of China
of Falun Gong in the United States and in China;
Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Los Angeles County Human
Relations Commission 1) extends respect and protection of the free beliefs
and peaceful activities of Falun Gong practitioners, 2) recommends to the
Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution concurring with the HCR 304,
advising the Los Angeles County Congressional Delegation of its action,
and requesting the Commission to advise the appropriate officials of city
governments of Los Angeles County of this action; and 3) will encourage
the community through our networks to report incidents of discrimination,
harassment or intolerance against the Falun Gong or its supporters to the
County Human Relations Commission and/or other appropriate
government and community agencies.
Adopted, by the Human Relations Commission of the County of Los
Angeles this xx day of xxxx, two thousand and four.
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Elaine Doerfling
From: albertroman76@adelphia.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:04 PM
To: Elaine Doerfling
Subject: Brief Follow up
Mayor Reviczky, Councilmen, Tucker, Yoon, Keegan, and Edgerton, and Ms. Doerfling,
Hello. I just wanted to thank each of you for listening to my concerns at the, council
meeting last night.
Councilman Yoon, thank you for agreeing to draft a resolution or simply write a letter.
If you send it to me, I will be more than happy to make copies and send it to the
government officials I mentioned last night. Of course, if you'd prefer to send it on
your own, that's fine.
Councilman Edgerton, thank you for your kind encouragement and suggestion. Yes, I'm in
contact with Congresswoman Harman's office. For the past few years, I've met with her
assistants annually both locally and in Washington, DC. You're right. I should continue
to focus on the "big picture" and utilize the appropriate channels of communication by
speaking with officials who deal with foreign policy issues. I, nevertheless, still wish
to raise awareness about this in my community. Thanks for allowing me to do so at the
council meetings.
I'm stoked to live in Hermosa Beach! (and to live in this wonderful nation)
Take care,
Albert Roman
124 -21st Street
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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November 15, 2004
TO: COMMISSIONERS
FROM: ROBIN S. TOMA
RE: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE FALUN GONG
I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Cook and other practitioners of
the Falun Gong last week. After discussion with them, and based upon the
staff research, I attach a draft proposed resolution for your consideration.
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Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
Resolution on Falun Gong
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful and non-violent form of personal
spiritual belief and practice that originated in the People's Republic of
China, but has grown in popularity worldwide, with a multitude of
practitioners in the County of Los Angeles; and
Whereas, Practitioners of Falun Gong have not only experienced human
rights violations in China, well-documented by Amnesty International, but
have also been targeted by individuals and representatives of the
government of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles County and
elsewhere for accusations about the Falun Gong with the purpose of
denying their right to engage in their spiritual practice and to educate
others about it; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission firmly believes in upholding
every person's First Amendment fundamental human right to freedom,
personal belief and practice, expression, and assembly; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission also firmly believes in
upholding a citizen's human right to practice and pursue their religion in a
peaceful and law abiding manner, without being targeted for discrimination,
harassment, or false accusations regarding the nature of their practice;
Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a
concurrent resolution, HCR 304, which expresses the sense of the House
regarding oppression by the Government of the People's Republic of China
of Falun Gong in the United States and in China;
Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Los Angeles County Human
Relations Commission 1) extends respect and protection of the free beliefs
and peaceful activities of Falun Gong practitioners, 2) recommends to the
Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution concurring with the HCR 304,
advising the Los Angeles County Congressional Delegation of its action,
and requesting the Commission to advise the appropriate officials of city
governments of Los Angeles County of this action; and 3) will encourage
the community through our networks to report incidents of discrimination,
harassment or intolerance against the Falun Gong or its supporters to the
County Human Relations Commission and/or other appropriate
government and community agencies.
Adopted, by the Human Relations Commission of the County of Los
Angeles this xx day of xxxx, two thousand and four.
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Thomas Saenz, Esq.
Commission President
November 15, 2004
TO: COMMISSIONERS
FROM: ROBIN S. TOMA
RE: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE FALUN GONG
I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Cook and other practitioners of
the Falun Gong last week. After discussion with them, and based upon the
staff research, I attach a draft proposed resolution for,your consideration.
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Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
Resolution on Falun Gong
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful and non-violent form of personal
spiritual belief and practice that originated in the People's Republic of
China, but has grown in popularity worldwide, with a multitude of
practitioners in the County of Los Angeles; and
Whereas, Practitioners of Falun Gong have not only experienced human
rights violations in China, well-documented by Amnesty International, but
have also been targeted by individuals and representatives of the
government of the People's Republic of China in'L'os'Angeles County and
elsewhere for accusations about the Falun Gong with the purpose of
denying their right to engage in their spiritua`I-practice and to`educate
others about it; and \
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission firmly believes in upholding
every person's First Amendment fundamental human right to freedom,
personal belief and practice, expression, and assembly; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Comm cion also firmly believes in
upholding a citizen's human right to.practice and.pursue their religion in a
peaceful and law abiding manner, without beingtargeted for discrimination,
harassment, or falseaccusations regarding the'nature of their practice;
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Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a
concurrent resolution, HCR.304;which;expresses the sense of the House
regarding oppression by, the Government of the People's Republic of China
of Falun Gong in the'United�States and in China;
Now Therefore Be It Resolved," that the Los Angeles County Human
Relations Commissiori,1) extends respect and protection of the free beliefs
and peaceful activities )of Falun Gong practitioners, 2) recommends to the
Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution concurring with the HCR 304,
advising the Los,Angeles County Congressional Delegation of its action,
and requesting the Commission to advise the appropriate officials of city
governments of Los Angeles County of this action; and 3) will encourage
the community through our networks to report incidents of discrimination,
harassment or intolerance against the Falun Gong or its supporters to the
County Human Relations Commission and/or other appropriate
government and community agencies.
Adopted, by the Human Relations Commission of the County of Los
Angeles this xx day of xxxx, two thousand and four.
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Thomas Saenz, Esq.
Commission President
November 15, 2004
TO: COMMISSIONERS
FROM: ROBIN S. TOMA
RE: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE FALUN GONG
I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Cook and other practitioners of
the Falun Gong last week. After discussion with them, and based upon the
staff research, I attach a draft proposed resolution for your consideration.
Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
Resolution on Falun Gong
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful and non-violent form of personal
spiritual belief and practice that originated in the People's Republic of
China, but has grown in popularity worldwide, with a multitude of
practitioners in the County of Los Angeles; and
Whereas, Practitioners of Falun Gong have not only experienced human
rights violations in China, well-documented by Amnesty International, but
have also been targeted by individuals and representatives of the
government of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles County and
elsewhere for accusations about the Falun Gong with the purpose of
denying their right to engage in their spiritual practice and to educate
others about it; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission firmly believes in upholding
every person's First Amendment fundamental human right to freedom,
personal belief and practice, expression, and assembly; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission also firmly believes in
upholding a citizen's human right to practice and pursue their religion in a
peaceful and law abiding manner, without being targeted for discrimination,
harassment, or false accusations regarding the nature of their practice;
Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a
concurrent resolution, HCR 304, which expresses the sense of the House
regarding oppression by the Government of the People's Republic of China
of Falun Gong in the United States and in China;
Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Los Angeles County Human
Relations Commission 1) extends respect and protection of the free beliefs
and peaceful activities of Falun Gong practitioners, 2) recommends to the
Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution concurring with the HCR 304,
advising the Los Angeles County Congressional Delegation of its action,
and requesting the Commission to advise the appropriate officials of city
governments of Los Angeles County of this action; and 3) will encourage
the community through our networks to report incidents of discrimination,
harassment or intolerance against the Falun Gong or its supporters to the
County Human Relations Commission and/or other appropriate
government and community agencies.
Adopted, by the Human Relations Commission of the County of Los
Angeles this xx day of xxxx, two thousand and four.
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Thomas Saenz, Esq.
Commission President
November 15, 2004
TO: COMMISSIONERS
FROM: ROBIN S. TOMA
RE: PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON THE FALUN GONG
I had the opportunity to meet with Sarah Cook and other practitioners of
the Falun Gong last week. After discussion with them, and based upon the
staff research, I attach a draft proposed resolution for your consideration.
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Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations
Resolution on Falun Gong
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful and non-violent form of personal
spiritual belief and practice that originated in the People's Republic of
China, but has grown in popularity worldwide, with a multitude of
practitioners in the County of Los Angeles; and
Whereas, Practitioners of Falun Gong have not only experienced human
rights violations in China, well-documented by Amnesty International, but
have also been targeted by individuals and representatives of the
government of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles County and
elsewhere for accusations about the Falun Gong with the purpose of
denying their right to engage in their spiritual practice and to educate
others about it; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission firmly believes in upholding
every person's First Amendment fundamental human right to freedom,
personal belief and practice, expression, and assembly; and
Whereas, The Human Relations Commission also firmly believes in
upholding a citizen's human right to practice and pursue their religion in a
peaceful and law abiding manner, without being targeted for discrimination,
harassment, or false accusations regarding the nature of their practice;
Whereas, the U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a
concurrent resolution, HCR 304, which expresses the sense of the House
regarding oppression by the Government of the People's Republic of China
of Falun Gong in the United States and in China;
Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that the Los Angeles County Human
Relations Commission 1) extends respect and protection of the free beliefs
and peaceful activities of Falun Gong practitioners, 2) recommends to the
Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution concurring with the HCR 304,
advising the Los Angeles County Congressional Delegation of its action,
and requesting the Commission to advise the appropriate officials of city
governments of Los Angeles County of this action; and 3) will encourage
the community through our networks to report incidents of discrimination,
harassment or intolerance against the Falun Gong or its supporters to the
County Human Relations Commission and/or other appropriate
government and community agencies.
Adopted, by the Human Relations Commission of the County of Los
Angeles this xx day of xxxx, two thousand and four.
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Thomas Saenz, Esq.
Commission President
2000 - 2003
United Nations Reports
on China's Persecution of Falun Gong
The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
All rights reserved
First Printing
Oc tober, 2003.
1-931035-14-8
The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
Cover Photos
From left:
1. AP Photo: Police seize a female Falun Gong practitioner on Tiananmen Square, Beijing in December 1999.
2. Two Falun Gong practitioners hold banners that say "Truth -Compassion -Forbearance" as plainclothes police
close in on Tiananmen Square, Beijing in May 2001.
3. Ms. Chen Xingtao, on crutches after her release from police custody, shows photos of the injuries she sus-
tained. Police torture had paralyzed her from the waist down and left a large hole from necrosis in her buttocks.
The necrosis continued to worsen, and Ms. Chen died in May 2002, after more than one year of agony.
United Nations Reports
on China's Persecution of Falun Gong
A Collection of Excerpts from Annual Reports of the Special Rapporteurs of
the UN Human Rights Commission, 2000-2003
October 2003
The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
Table of Contents
Preface iv
Background vi
I Reports by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention 1
II. Report by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 23
III. Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture 29
IV Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,
Summary, or Arbitrary Executions 79
V Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women 99
VI. Reports by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General
on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders 119
VII. Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Freedom of Expression 129
VIII. Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
IX. Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on
Freedom of Religion or Belief
137
141
APPENDIX. Torture Methods Used by Chinese Police 147
III
Preface
Perpetrators of crimes against humanity have never admitted guilt for the resulting carnage,
and the government of the People's Republic of China is no exception.
Despite more than four years of heinous crimes and horrific atrocities against tens of millions
of innocent and peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, the PRC government continues to deny any use
of violence - because the violations are so blatant that even the PRC government can find no
defense but to resort to categorical denial. What the PRC government counts on is effecting indif-
! ference in the international community through deceit and coercion.
However, ink -printed lies can never conceal bloodstained facts.
Collected in this book are excerpts from annual reports of the United Nations Human Rights
Commission's Special Rapporteurs, documenting cases of human rights violations committed by the
PRC government against Falun Gong practitioners. The PRC government is a member of the UN
Human Rights Commission and a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power.
However, it cannot veto the findings of the Special Rapporteurs.
These findings are just the tip of the iceberg of the ongoing slaughter. Many Special
Rapporteurs and their assistants have indicated that the vast number of cases is simply beyond
their capacity to process.
We hope, however, that this small collection will serve adequately as independent and
\ authoritative evidence for those who still wishfully believe that the PRC government is moving
towards rule of law and that Falun Gong practitioners are "all treated according to the law."
We further hope that this small collection is enough to stir the conscience of the internation-
al community - including the United Nations Human Rights Commission, which appointed those
i Special Rapporteurs - to come to the aid of the victims.
In publishing these reports, we want to express our utmost respect and indebtedness to the
Special Rapporteurs and their assistants, many of whom have faced hardship because of pressure
from those who do not want the reports to see the light of day.
These reports are also a tribute to the suffering Falun Gong practitioners, without whose
courage and peaceful conviction these crimes could not have been exposed.
Everyone who has worked for human rights causes knows that the first and most difficult step
in ending systematic violations is to expose the evil. Falun Gong practitioners in China have coura-
geously taken this first step; isn't it upon our conscience to come to their defense, so that their
sacrifices shall not have been in vain?
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Background
This book is a compilation of excerpts from the annual reports of the United Nations Human Rights
Commission's Special Rapporteurs, documenting cases of human rights violations committed by the Chinese gov-
ernment against Falun Gong practitioners. A brief introduction is given here to provide significant background
information.
Falun Gong, a Practice That Has Benefited 100 Million People in Over 50 Countries
Best known for its meditative exercises, Falun
Gong emphasizes improvement of mind, body,
and moral character.
Falun Gong is an ancient form of qigong. Qigong, which translates as
cultivation -exercise, is the generic term for practices of mind and body refine-
ment through special mental and physical exercises. Throughout China's history
and in some other parts of the world, numerous schools of qigong have existed,
each with its own characteristics and emphasis. Some schools have taken the
form of religion, some have been passed down from one master to only a few
disciples, and some have taken the form of popular exercises. Taichi and some
branches of Yoga are examples of popular exercises, while Buddhism and Taoism
may be considered religious forms of qigong, with the former emphasizing mind
cultivation and meditation and the latter paying particular attention to body
refinement through unique exercises.
Falun Gong distinguishes itself from other qigong practices by emphasiz-
ing both mind cultivation and body refinement. Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of
Falun Gong, teaches his students that to achieve total health one must first be
a good person of high moral character. Following Falun Gong's principle of
Truthfulness -Benevolence -Forbearance," practitioners of Falun Gong devote themselves to the cultivation of
their inner selves and the improvement of their mental and moral quality. This, combined with five sets of gen-
tle exercises of proven efficacy in health improvement, has enabled practitioners to achieve purposeful living,
morality, improved health, and inner peace. As a testament to its superior benefits, Falun Gong had become a
global phenomenon of over 100 million practitioners across more than 50 countries by 1999, just seven years
after its introduction to the public.
The Chinese Government's Increasing Hostility towards Falun Gong
The benefits of Falun Gong practice to people and to society were originally recognized and commend-
ed by various levels of the Chinese government. In fact, the authorities' positive regard had facilitated the
spread of Falun Gong in the early 1990s. The state-controlled media - including national and local newspapers,
TV, and radio stations - frequently covered activities and benefits of Falun Gong practice.
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Over 10,000 practitioners appealed outside the
State Council Appeal Office after the first illegal
arrests and beatings in Tianjin, China.
The increasing popularity of Falun Gong, however, proved to be too
much for a few officials within the Chinese government. From clandestine
undermining in early 1994, to the orchestrated smear campaign and the ban-
ning of Falun Gong books in 1996, to police harassment in 1997, certain power
blocs within the Chinese government gradually escalated their underhanded
persecution to overt assault. On April 23, 1999, in broad daylight, armed
police forces in the city of Tianjin violently assaulted hundreds of Falun Gong
practitioners and arbitrarily detained 45 of them.
The "April 25th Peaceful Appeal" by Falun Gong Practitioners
Two days later, on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners
gathered quietly in Beijing outside the State Council Appeals Office, located
next to the Chinese leadership compound, to request the release of the prac-
titioners detained in Tianjin and the lifting of the ban on Falun Gong books.
The gathering was peaceful, orderly, and lawful. After Premier Zhu Rongji met
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a few of the gathered practitioners and ordered the release of those detained in Tianjin, the practitioners qui-
etly dispersed. Because of this gathering Falun Gong began to receive international attention.
Jiang Zemin Ordered All -Out Persecution
However, China's Chairman, Jiang Zemin, resented the peaceful solution. Apparently seeking a
resounding conquest to augment his personal authority, on July 20, 1999, without due process, Jiang ordered
the persecution against Falun Gong to commence, despite the fact that many within the government were
already either practitioners themselves or held favorable views towards Falun Gong. Later, in October, Jiang
ordered the Chinese national legislature to pass a law to allow a tougher crackdown. The Washington Post
noted in an article on November 2, 1999 that "When [China's Communist leaders] found themselves without
the laws they needed to vigorously persecute a peaceful meditation society, the Party simply ordered up some
new laws. Now these will be applied - retroactively, of course ... By these standards, Stalin was a scrupulous
observer of civil rights."
Since July 20, 1999, over 100,000 practitioners, including pregnant women, the elderly, and young chil-
dren, have been sent to labor camps without trial; thousands have been illegally jailed, with terms of up to 18
years; and millions of innocent people have been arbitrarily arrested and detained, almost all under inhumane
conditions. Thousands of practitioners have been detained and severely tortured with nerve -damaging drugs in
mental hospitals. Thousands more have died in custody, while countless others are still unaccounted for.
Meanwhile, Jiang created a nationwide system of "610 Offices," with absolute authority over the judiciary and
all levels of the Communist Party, expressly to eradicate Falun Gong. The scope and severity of the atrocities
are difficult to fathom.
A Staged Self -Immolation and the Deception of World Opinion
Jiang's regime has also launched a far-reaching campaign of disinformation to justify its persecution
and to escape world condemnation. State-run media have flooded the printing presses and airwaves with fabri-
cations about Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong. As with all lies, the propaganda fails miserably in the details. For
example, the Chinese government made up claims that the practice of Falun Gong caused 1,400 people to die
or to become insane. This number, even if assumed to be true, divided by 100 million practitioners, would be
many orders of magnitude below the national average. In another example, the Chinese government claimed
that Mr. Li Hongzhi had falsified his date of birth, and even produced a "hospital record" to prove that his
mother was treated with oxytocin in 1952 before his birth. Oxytocin, however, was not to be identified until
1953.
In early 2001, desperate to turn the tide, the Chinese government attempted an outrageous stunt: a
staged self -immolation of five people in Tiananmen Square. The state-run media then blamed it on Falun Gong.
This staged self -immolation, however, has been analyzed by neutral reporters and by careful observers of the
same videotape that was published by the Chinese government:
1. An investigative story published by the Washington Post revealed that Ms. Liu Chunling, one of the
"immolators," had never practiced Falun Gong;
2. Police were mysteriously patrolling Tiananmen Square with dozens of pieces of firefighting equipment
that day;
3. Liu Siying, the 12 -year-old girl, was purported to have had a tracheotomy, but spoke and sang clearly,
a medical impossibility;
4. Ms. Hao Huijun, another immolator, was reported to have graduated from a Henan Music College in
1974, a year in the Cultural Revolution when no students were graduated;
5. Mr. Wang Jindong was shown to have been badly burned; however, his hair and the plastic 7 -UP bottle
that he had "used to dowse gasoline" remained miraculously intact.
These holes prompted International Education Development, a UN NGO, to issue the following statement
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Background
during the 2001 session of the UN Sub -Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights: "The
regime points to a supposed self -immolation incident in Tiananmen Square on January 23, 2001, as proof that
Falun Gong is an 'evil cult'. However, we have obtained a video of that incident that in our view proves that
this event was staged by the government." (For an analysis of the CCTV footage of the staged immolations, please visit:
http://www.faluninfo.net/tiananmenlimmolation.asp)
The Chinese Government's Global Coercion of Conscience
The sole objective of the Chinese government's persecution is to force
Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief. This coercion against con-
science, however, does not stay just in China.
Dozens of police violently arrest practitioners
peacefully appealing against Jiang's "shoot on
sight" order outside the China Liaison Office in
Hong Kong on March 14, 2002.
The Chinese government has repeatedly made threats of economic
sanctions towards countries, states, cities, and businesses that dare to criti-
cize its persecution of Falun Gong. This creates a fear, a fear of being left out
of some economic gain, a fear of speaking for conscience. With this tactic,
the Chinese government has induced several major Western news media cor-
porations to apply self -censorship in reporting China's human rights violations,
forced cities in a number of countries to rescind their moral support to the
victims, and even coerced some democratic governments to stifle the voices
of Falun Gong practitioners.
The Chinese agencies, however, do not stop at blackmailing. Canadian
Member of Parliament Rob Anders had the following to say about a physical
assault by Chinese diplomats in February 2000:
"I wore [a T-shirt that talked about Falun Gong] out to a function that was being hosted by the People's
Republic's embassy here, in this building [Parliament]. I stood at the back of the room, and then all of a sud-
den I had four or five men surround me and start to harass me, and point fingers, and jostle me physically,
saying that I had to leave, that I wasn't welcome, go home, you know, cowboy, you don't know what you're
doing... and what crossed my mind immediately was four or five people that comprise a gang on behalf of the
People's Republic of China think they can get away with doing that to me as a Member of Parliament, on
Canadian soil, in my place of work, in the House of Commons - can you imagine what they're doing to people
back home in their own country? It was absolutely over the top! And then when a media reporter came over
with his camera, they started to grab his camera, they tried to force it down to the ground, they told him to
go away... They were issuing orders to a member of the free press here in Canada. ... It was absolutely outra-
geous. And it just proved what Falun Dafa is up against. We're at a very critical moment. ... If we don't.
take a stand now, history will look back at us and sigh."
Similar incidents of intimidation and assault have also happened in the United States, Iceland,
Germany, Australia, Russia, Romania, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, and many more. Simply put, the
Chinese government has exported its persecution to the world as a global campaign of evil against conscience.
The Struggle Between the Truth and Lies
For their belief, and also for humanity, Falun Gong practitioners have stood up against the evil: In con-
trast to the Chinese government's violence and deceit, Falun Gong practitioners have adhered to peace and
truth.
Throughout the brutal persecution, Falun Gong practitioners have remained true to the principle of
"Truthfulness -Benevolence -Forbearance." They remain peaceful during police beatings; they remain peaceful
when inmates are instigated by police to torture them. Their great tolerance, compassion, and righteousness
have even inspired many torturers to become Falun Gong practitioners.
VII
Background
As the persecution is completely based on and sustained by lies, Falun Gong practitioners also take
great risks to inform the public of the truth.
AP Photo: Zenon Dolnyckyj, a Canadian citi-
zen, being arrested by Chinese police
on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
On March 5, 2002, Falun Gong practitioners in the city of Changchun suc-
cessfully tapped into the local cable TV system to broadcast documentary films
exposing the Chinese government's brutal persecution. Similar broadcasts fol-
lowed in many other cities. For these righteous acts the practitioners suffered
enormously. In Changchun alone, over 5,000 people were arrested, and at least
a dozen died of torture during "interrogation." Even a visiting US citizen, Dr.
Charles Li, has been jailed with a three-year term`on the charge of "intending"
to carry out a similar broadcast.
Falun Gong practitioners of foreign nationalities have also participated in
clarifying the facts to the Chinese people. On November 20, 2001, thirty-six
westerners gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to stage a peaceful peti-
tion. Since then, hundreds of foreign citizens from dozens of countries have
been to China to tell the Chinese people that Falun Gong,iswelcomed and
legally practiced everywhere else in the world. All of them were arrested, mis-
treated, and deported; many were severely,beaten.
Falun Gong practitioners have made great sacrifices to expose the persecution and clarify the true
facts of Falun Gong. Their benevolence has awakened many from being misled by the propaganda of hatred,
from blindly following government orders, and from being unwitting accomplices of the evil.
The Quest for Justice by Falun Gong Practitioners and
the Quest for Rights and Dignity by Chinese People
It is important to point out that the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong is no deviation
from its 50 years of continuous persecution of intellectuals, labor activists, dissidents, Christians, Buddhists,
and other nonconformists. Various studies by Western scholars have indicated that eighty million or more have
perished because of the non-stop persecution under the Chinese communist rule. These killings far outnumber
even those of the Nazis, and they are all born of the.same purpose: the destruction of human nature.
The peaceful persistence and horrific suffering of Falun Gong practitioners have
drawn international attention to the Chinese government's heinous crimes against humanity.
With the help of many prominent human rights lawyers, Falun Gong practitioners in eleven
countries have filed lawsuits against Jiang and his lieutenants for, among others crimes, geno-
cide, torture, and other crimes against humanity. In the courts of New York and San Francisco,
Falun Gong practitioners have won their cases by default. As more and more shocking facts of
the Jiang regime's hate incitement, state terrorism, violence, and cruelty are revealed, the
day of a new Nuremberg trial for the regime's crimes against conscience is bound to come.
An Appeal to AU Good People of the World
The persecution of Falun Gong is still going on in China; the death toll rises daily. Many
Falun Gong practitioners have risked everything to publicize the violations they or their fellow
practitioners have suffered. The cases reported by the Special Rapporteurs of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission account for a very small fraction of the tragedies, but they
must not be taken lightly, lest the values of hope, courage, and the most fundamental human
rights be forsaken. In presenting these documents, we now ask you to speak for those who
have no voice, to do all within your power to stop the injustice and cruelty.
One of the hand gestures of
Falun Dafa's fifth exercise.
VIII
Reports by the United Nations Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention
2001-2003
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-eighth session
Item 11 (a) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:
TORTURE AND DETENTION
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
The present document contains the opinions adopted by the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention at its twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first sessions, held in
November/December 2000, May 2001 and September 2001, respectively. A table listing all the
opinions adopted by the Working Group and statistical data concerning these opinions are
included in the report of the Working Group to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-eighth session (E/CN.4/2002/77).
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OPINION No. 35/2000 (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Communication addressed to the Government on 2 February 2000.
Concerning Yuhui Zhang
The State has signed but not ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights
1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by the Commission on
Human Rights resolution 1991/42. The mandate of the Working Group was clarified and
extended by resolution 1997/50, and reconfirmed by resolution 2000/36. Acting in accordance
with its methods of work, the Working Group forwarded the above-mentioned communication to
the Government.
2. The Working Group conveys its appreciation to the Government for having forwarded
the requisite information in good time.
3. The Working Group regards deprivation of liberty as arbitrary in the following cases:
(i)
When it manifestly cannot be justified on any legal basis (such as continued
detention after the sentence has been served or despite an applicable amnesty act)
(category I);
(ii) When the deprivation of liberty is the result of a judgement or sentence for the
exercise of the rights and freedoms proclaimed in articles 7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20
and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also, in respect of
States parties, in articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (category II);
(iii) When the complete or partial non -observance of the relevant international
standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the
relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned relating to the
right to a fair trial is of such gravity as to confer on the deprivation of liberty, of
whatever kind, an arbitrary character (category III).
4. In the light of the allegations made, the Working Group welcomes the cooperation of the
Government. The Working Group transmitted the reply provided by the Government to the
source and received its comments. The Working Group believes that it is in a position to render
an opinion on the facts and circumstances of the case, in the context of the allegations made and
the response of the Government thereto.
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5. It would be appropriate to set forth succinctly the allegations which have been brought to
the attention on the Working Group by the source.
(i)
Mr. Zhang Yuhui, a Chinese national aged 35 years, who has resided in
Macao for over nine years and owns a cleaning business there, was arrested
on 10 November 1999 in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic
of China. According to the source, it is unclear whether he was presented with an
arrest warrant upon arrest, or whether he has been formally charged and, if so, on
the basis of what legislation.
(ii) In early November 1999, Mr. Zhang undertook a business trip to the People's
Republic of China with his wife. He was arrested in Kainping City and detained
on the ground that he was practising Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual practice
with millions of followers in the People's Republic of China and throughout the
world. Falun Gong, as an organization, was banned by the Chinese authorities in
July 1999.
(iii) The source notes that many Falun Gong practitioners have been detained since
July 1999 and sent for re-education through labour without trial, because they
refuse to denounce their belief. Other followers have been sentenced to prison
terms.
(iv) Yuhui was an active Falun Gong practitioner in Macao. Following the
government crackdown on the movement, he wrote numerous articles on Internet
web sites to guide readers to think about the Falun Gong issue rationally. His
writings were popular among both practitioners and non -practitioners. Yuhui had
also written to the Macao office of the Xinhua news agency, voicing opposition to
the ban on the movement in July 1999. It is argued that all Yuhui did was lawful
and transparent. He himself had told his friends several times that he was in fear
of being arrested, as he had been warned by the Xinhua news agency for
expressing his beliefs.
(v) The source does not identify the facility in which Mr. Yuhui is currently detained.
It notes, however, that the authorities have thus far refused permission to his
family to visit him.
6. The nature of the Government's reply makes it difficult for the Working Group to
appreciate the conclusions arrived at by the court when it ruled that the defendant had "posed a
threat to national and state security". It is apparent from the file that the activities of Mr. Yuhui
were peaceful and that he was in no way directly involved in any violent activity. The Working
Group believes that article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been violated.
It reiterates that everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression and that the said
right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media, regardless of frontiers. There is nothing to suggest
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that Falun Gong uses other than peaceful means to spread what the organization believes in. The
Government of the People's Republic of China in its response has stated that Mr. Zhang Yuhui is
a native of Kaiping City in Guandong Province. In 1986, after graduation from the University of
International Business and Economics in Beijing, he was employed to work with the units of the
customs houses in Guangzhou and Lianhuashan. He was thereafter transferred to Macao in
January 1990. The Government accepts that he was arrested on 11 November 1999 by the
Guangdong Province public security authorities because, since July 1999, he had been engaged
in illegal activities and disrupted the social order. According to the Government, Zhang had
confessed his error and displayed a willingness to correct it, pursuant to which his punishment
was converted to house surveillance. The Government states that the public security authorities,
in dealing with Zhang Yuhui, have acted in strict compliance with the People's Republic of
China's relevant laws and regulations. The Government also informed the Working Group that
Zhang Yuhui was released on 21 December 1999 and claims that Zhang was not arbitrarily
detained.
7. Taking into account the response of the Government, the Working Group believes that
the reasons for Zhang Yuhui's detention have not been denied. It is not denied by the
Government that he wrote numerous articles on Internet web sites relating to Falun Gong. The
Government also does not deny that his writings were popular both with practitioners and
non -practitioners. Neither does the Government deny that Zhang Yuhui opposed the ban on the
Falun Gong movement in July 1999. The reasons given for Zhang Yuhui's detention are
propagation of his ideas and beliefs. That he expressed his beliefs and opinions peacefully is not
in issue. The Government decision that these activities are illegal and disrupt the social order
and therefore justify arrest by the public security authorities cannot be justified since his
detention is in direct violation of article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
8. The Working Group, consistent with its practice, would not have rendered an opinion
with regard to Zhang Yuhui's detention, on account of his release on 21 December 1999.
However, the Working Group believes that the fact that Zhang Yuhui was detained for
propagating his ideas and beliefs peacefully is sufficient reason for the Working Group to render
an opinion, despite Zhang Yuhui's release from detention.
9. In the circumstances, the Working Group is of the opinion that the detention of
Zhang Yuhui from 11 November 1999 to 21 December 1999 was arbitrary and contrary to
article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and falls within category II of its
methods of work.
10. Consequently, the Working Group requests the Government of the People's Republic of
China to take all measures necessary to remedy the situation and, consistent with article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, not detain people for the peaceful propagation of their
opinions.
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OPINION No. 36/2000 (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Communication addressed to the Government on 1 February .2000
Concerning Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, Ji Liewu and Yao Jie
The State has signed but not ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights
1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by Commission on Human
Rights resolution 1991/42. The mandate of the Working Group was clarified and extended by
resolution 1997/50, and reconfirmed by resolution 2000/36. Acting in accordance with its
methods of work, the Working Group forwarded the above-mentioned communication to the
Government.
2. The Working Group regrets that the People's Republic of China has not provided its
comments on the allegations made by the source.
3. The Working Group regards deprivation of liberty as arbitrary in the following cases:
(i)
When it manifestly cannot be justified on any legal basis (such as continued
detention after the sentence has been served or despite an applicable amnesty act)
(category I);
(ii) When the deprivation of liberty is the result of a judgement or sentence for the
exercise of the rights and freedoms proclaimed in articles 7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and
21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also, in respect of States
parties, in articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights (category II);
(iii) When the complete or partial non -observance of the relevant international
standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the
relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned relating to the
right to a fair trial is of such gravity as to confer on the deprivation of liberty, of
whatever kind, an arbitrary character (category III).
4. The Working Group would have welcomed the cooperation of the Government of
the People's Republic of China. On 1 February 2000, the allegations from the source
were communicated to the Government. In the absence of a response, the Working Group is
left with no alternative except to deal with the allegations and render an opinion in the light
thereof.
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5. It is appropriate at this stage to refer to the allegations forwarded to the Working Group
by the source. These allegations relate to four presumed leaders of the Falun Gong spiritual
movement, Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, Ji Liewu and Yao Jie . They have allegedly been sentenced
by the Beijing Intermediate Peoples Court to prison terms of between 7 and 18 years.
(i)
The court found them guilty of organizing and using a cult to undermine laws,
causing deaths and illegally obtaining and disseminating State secrets. According
to the Xinhua news agency, the judges ruled that the four defendants "organized
and used the Falun Gong evil cult organization to spread superstition and heresies
and deceive people, causing deaths". The trial reportedly was the Government's
most significant prosecution since outlawing Falun Gong as a menace to the
public and State interests in July 1999.
(ii) The source alleges that for the trial, held on Sunday, 26 December 1999, the
authorities cordoned off the courthouse to ensure that Falun Gong members did
not stage peaceful protests such as had been held repeatedly in defiance of the
Government's ban. Although State media reported that the four defendants had
lawyers and that family members attended the proceedings, one relative indicated
that each defendant was only allowed one family member in the courtroom. As
some of the charges related to theft and dissemination of State secrets, part of the
proceedings were held behind closed doors.
(iii) According to the source, in setting out its case through the media, the Government
merely displayed its fears about Falun Gong's ability to mobilize large numbers
of followers, which was underlined by the fact that all the defendants were party
members with good jobs in government and business. According to the Court,
Li, Wang, Ji and Yao "set up 39 command posts, more than 1,900 training posts
and 280,000 contact posts". They were said to have "plotted and directed"
78 protests, and to have stolen 37 top secret or otherwise classified State secrets
and disseminated them or included them in protest letters. Finally, the four were
said to have organized "proselytizing sessions and printed group literature
illegally netting hundreds of millions of yuans in profits".
(iv) The defendants contended that they had merely engaged in peaceful activities and
protests, and defended the tenets of the group.
6. A response from the Government would have enabled the Working Group to appreciate
the conclusions arrived at by the court when it ruled that the four defendants had "organized and
used the Falun Gong evil cult organization to spread superstition and heresies and deceive
people, causing deaths". The alleged role of the defendants in causing deaths could have been
better appreciated had evidence for such conduct been furnished to the Working Group. In the
absence of hard evidence, it is difficult for the Working Group to accept the conclusions of the
court in this regard. The manner in which the courthouse was cordoned off to obstruct peaceful
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protests, the allegation that only one member of the family was allowed in the courtroom and the
secret nature of the proceedings indicate that the Government dealt with these four defendants
merely because they had the ability to mobilize a large number of followers. It is apparent that
their activities and protest were peaceful and that they were in no way directly involved in any
violent activity. The Working Group believes that article 19 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights has been violated. The Working Group is of the opinion that everyone has a right
to freedom of opinion and expression and that this right includes the freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media,
regardless of frontiers. There is nothing to suggest that Falun Gong uses other than peaceful
means to spread what the organization believes in.
7. In the above circumstances, the Working Group is of the opinion that the detention of
Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, Ji Liewu and Yao Jie is arbitrary, is a direct violation of article 19 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and falls within category II of the Working Group's
methods of work and that the situation requires to be remedied, since the deprivation of the
liberty of Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen, Ji Liewu and Yao Jie is arbitrary and without reasonable
cause.
8. Consequently, the Working Group requests the Government of the People's Republic of
China to take measures necessary to remedy the situation and, in the light of the opinion of the
Working Group, to act consistently with the principles enunciated in article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Adopted on 27 November 2000
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-ninth session
Item 11 (b) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTION
OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
The present document contains the opinions adopted by the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention at its thirty-second, thirty-third and thirty-fourth sessions, held in
November/December 2001, June 2002 and September 2002, respectively. A table listing all the
opinions adopted by the Working Group and statistical data concerning these opinions are
included in the report of the Working Group to the Commission on Human Rights at its
fifty-ninth session (E/CN.4/2003/8).
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OPINION No. 5/2002 (CHINA)
Communication addressed to the Government on 3 September 2001
Concerning: Tang Xi Tao, Han Yuejuan, Zhao Ming and Yang Chanrong
The State has signed but not ratified the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights
1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by resolution 1991/42 of the
Commission on Human Rights. The mandate of the Working Group was clarified and extended
by Commission resolution 1997/50, and reconfirmed by resolution 2000/36. Acting in
accordance with its methods of work, the Working Group forwarded to the Government the
above-mentioned communication.
2. The Working Group conveys its appreciation to the Government for having provided the
requisite information in good time.
3. The Working Group regards deprivation of liberty as arbitrary in the following cases:
(i)
When it manifestly cannot be justified on any legal basis (such as continued
detention after the sentence has been served or despite an applicable amnesty act)
(category I);
(ii) When the deprivation of liberty is the result of a judgement or sentence for the
exercise of the rights and freedoms proclaimed in articles 7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and
21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also, in respect of States
parties, in articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights (category II);
(iii) When the complete or partial non -observance of the international standards
relating to a fair trial set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
in the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned is of
such gravity as to confer on the deprivation of liberty, of whatever kind, an
arbitrary character (category III).
4. In the light of the allegations made, the Working Group welcomes the cooperation of the
Government. The Working Group transmitted the reply provided by the Government to the
source, which has not provided it with its comments. The Working Group believes that it is in a
position to render an opinion on the facts and circumstances of the case, in the context of the
allegations made and the response of the Government thereto.
5. Because of their similar nature, the cases of the four following practitioners of
Falun Gong are being dealt with in a single opinion:
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(a) Mrs. Tang Xi Tao according to the information received, is a 64 -year-old retiree
who has studied and practised Falun Gong since 1996, which has helped her to overcome health
problems. She has been detained several times, the latest being while she was on her way to
Canton on holiday, and was sentenced to two years in a labour camp for disturbing public order
and membership of an illegal organization. It is also alleged that her trial took place in camera
and that her request for a lawyer was denied. She was reportedly subjected to ill-treatment,
which led to heart trouble and psychological problems;
(b) Mrs. Han Yuejuan, 43 -year-old widow of Liu Mingfang, a former United Nations
military observer, graduated from Zhongshan University. She is a former Secretary-General of
Dongshan District Literature and Arts Federation, a former Director of the Theory Education
Section of the Propaganda Department of Dongshan District and a Falun Gong practitioner. She
was first detained for 15 hours on 22 July 1999 and was pressed to give up her faith in
Falun Gong. She was again arrested on 26 July 1999, in early June 2000, in July 2000 and in
December 2000, when she was allegedly subjected to ill-treatment and even torture. In
June 2000, she was dismissed from her post, and in October 2000, her application for a passport
was refused. On 23 June 2001 she was arrested in Guangzhou by members of the police and was
taken to an unknown destination where she was interrogated every two hours for three
consecutive days. On 27 June 2001, Ms. Han was taken to Tianpingjia Detention Centre in
Dongshan District in Guangzhou, where she is currently being detained;
(c) Mr. Zhao Ming , 30 -year-old, a graduate of the Department of Computer Science
of Tingshua University, a postgraduate student at the Computer Science Department of
Trinity College in Dublin, a former network engineer with Tingshua Unisplendour Group and a
practitioner of Falun Gong. He was arrested on 13 May 2000 in Beijing at the home of a fellow
Falun Gong practitioner, after his passport was confiscated to force him to give up his faith, thus
preventing him from returning to Ireland to continue his studies. On 7 July 2000, he was
sentenced to one year's imprisonment in a labour camp, and was allegedly tortured and subjected
to ill-treatment. His sentence was extended for a further period of six months;
(d) Mr. Yang Chanron, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on
27 December 2000 at his home by members of the police who did not show an arrest warrant.
His wife, Ms. Zhou Fengling, was also arrested. According to the source, she died in prison
on 12 July 2001, allegedly as a result of torture. It was reported by the source that she was seen
handcuffed to a torture device known as the "Forbidden Board" at Xilin Detention Centre. It
was also reported that their five-year-old son had been missing since, they were arrested.
Mr. Yang was later sentenced to three years' imprisonment in a labour camp.
6. In its reply, the Government reported that it has carefully reviewed the circumstances and
stated the following concerning the persons in question:
(a) Tang Xin Tao , a 64 -year-old woman with an elementary education, lives in
Guangzhou City. From March to May 2000, she repeatedly took part in activities directed
against government institutions, seriously disrupting social order and the regular work of
government departments. In June 2000 she was ordered by the Guangzhou Re-education
through Labour Commission to undergo two years of re-education through labour
until 17 June 2002 for disrupting social and administrative order. On 6 July 2000 she was sent
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to the Chatou labour rehabilitation facility in Guangzhou. When she entered the facility, her
relatively advanced years and difficult life were taken into account, and she was frequently taken
to the clinic for check-ups and was given prompt treatment for her complaints;
(b) Han Yuejuan is a 43 -year-old college graduate and native of Dongshan District in
Guangzhou City. On 21 July 1999, Ms. Han, in collusion with others, plotted and organized
nearly 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners to besiege the Guandong provincial government, and on
numerous occasions thereafter organized and instigated activities aimed at undermining public
security, seriously affecting social order and disrupting the work of the Government and the lives
of the masses, to the disgust of the broad masses. On 5 July Ms. Han was detained on the order
of the Guangzhou Municipal Security Department on suspicion of organizing and utilizing a
heretical organization to break the law and commit crimes. The Guangzhou public security
authorities are currently investigating her case in accordance with the law;
(c) Zhao Ming is a 30 -year-old Han Chinese male and a native of Changchun City,
Jilin Province, who graduated from Qinghua University in 1998 and went to Ireland in
March 1999 to study at Trinity College, Dublin, at his own expense. In May 2000 Mr. Zhao was
ordered by the Beijing Re -Education through Labour Commission to undergo one year of
re-education through labour for having participated in the illegal activities of a heretical
organization and for having disrupted the social order. While serving his term, Mr. Zhao
violated re -education -through -labour disciplinary regulations on numerous occasions, and his
period of re-education was consequently extended for 10 months, that is until 3 December 2002;
(d) Yang Chanrong is a 41 -year-old male high school graduate from Changzhou City,
and an employee of the Shuyan Industrial Raw Material Supply and Marketing Corporation.
Since July 1999, he has repeatedly engaged in Falun Gong activities. On 3 November 2000, the
Changzhou Re-education Labour Administration, acting in accordance with the relevant
regulations, ordered Mr. Yang to undergo three years' re-education through labour. His wife,
Zhou Fenglin, was also engaged in illegal Falun Gong activities and she was detained in
accordance with criminal legislation for the offence of organizing and utilizing a heretical
organization to break the law and commit crimes. While in prison she started refusing food
because of her obsession with Falun Gong and desire to achieve a state of "completeness", fell ill
and although the public security authorities and medical department organized a prompt rescue
effort, they were unable to save her life. Her death, according to the medical examiner of the
procurator's office, was caused by lobar pneumonia and electrolyte disturbance. The
Government concluded by saying that the six-year-old son of Ms. Zhou and Mr. Yang has not
disappeared and is currently being raised by Mr. Yang's elder brother.
7. The Government stated that the above-mentioned persons have been under investigation
and are undergoing re-education through labour, their legal rights having always been fully
protected, and that the allegations transmitted by the Office of the High Commissioner that these
persons have been subjected to cruel punishment and ill-treatment are complete fabrications.
8. The Government stated that, like other organizations such as the Branch Davidians in the
United States or the Aum Shinrikiyo in Japan, Falun Gong is quite simply a heresy. On the
theoretical level, Falun Gong advocates doomsday and other extreme heretical ideas to create an
atmosphere of terror; on the practical level, it legally amasses wealth and uses propaganda,
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founder worship and other fallacies to control the minds of Falun Gong practitioners. A great
many persons obsessed with Falun Gong go overboard in their infatuation and their minds
become affected that they attempt suicide.
9. The Government also stated that, to date, more than 2,000 people have been injured or
have died as a result of practising Falun Gong, and more than 650 have gone mad. In fact,
Falun Gong has such extreme phenomena in China as collective immolations of obsessed
persons and the derailing and overturning of trains; it is a very dangerous heretical organization.
The Chinese Government has lawfully banned the Falun Gong organization precisely to protect
the fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, including Falun Gong
practitioners and their families, and in so doing has obtained the broad support and endorsement
of all segments of society.
10. The Government repeatedly stated that in the process of banning the Falun Gong, it has
acted in strict compliance with the law. In the case of the overwhelming majority of ordinary
practitioners the measures taken have consisted mainly of persuasion and education aimed at
helping those persons recover their former everyday lives. Only a very few law -breaking
criminal elements have been punished under the law. The Government concluded its remarks by
stating that its methods are identical to those used by any other country in combating heretical
practices, and therefore are universally understood by the international community.
11. In the light of the foregoing, the following may be concluded:
(a) The Working Group notes that Mrs. Tan Xi Tao was arrested because of her
practice and defence of Falun Gong, in which she did in a peaceful manner and in exercise of the
rights to freedom of belief, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, and
to freedom of opinion and expression, which are guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights;
(b) In the case of Han Yuejan, the Working Group notes that she was detained several
times, the latest for membership of Falun Gong, and that the Government also accuses her of
organizing and directing a demonstration, but neither indicates that the demonstration was a
violent one nor offer any details to that effect. Consequently, Ms. Han Yuejan was detained for
the peaceful exercise of internationally protected rights, such as the right to assemble and to
demonstrate, freedom of belief and freedom to express opinions, including those which run
counter to the opinions of the broad masses, as the Government stated in its reply;
(c) In the case of Zhao Ming, no satisfactory explanation was provided as to why his
passport was confiscated, which prevented him from continuing his studies, nor was any reason
given for his detention other than the fact that he freely exercised his rights to freedom of belief
and opinion in the manner to which he was entitled;
(d) In the case of Yang Chanrong (Canrong, according to the source), the
Government acknowledged that he was sentenced to re-education through labour for
involvement in Falun Gong activities, as was his wife, who died in prison. The Working Group
considers that the right to freedom of opinion and belief signifies that the mere adherence to or
practise of a discipline or belief cannot be invoked as the only ground for detention.
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12. The Working Group considers that, according to the inforination provided concerning
these cases, the activities and protests of these four Falun Gong activists were peaceful and
devoid of all violence. In particular, in these cases the persons concerned were detained for
having peacefully exercised their right to demonstrate their belief in Falun Gong, which the
Government has not denied. The Working Group is of the opinion that article 19 of the
Universal, Declaration of Human Rights, in particular, has been violated, as. everyone, according
to this article, has the right to freedom of belief, conscience arid religion and as this right
includes the freedom to manifest one's religion or belief and the freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to impart them, either al"one or in community with others; in public or
private and through any media.
13. In its report on the visit to China (E/CN.4/1998/,44/Add.2) the Working Group stated that
administrative detention for re-education through labour should not be imposed on any person
exercising his or her fundamental freedoms; as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of.
Human Rights. In the cases at hand, detention does constitute a coercive measure designed to
undermine the freedom of those persons to adopt beliefs of their own choosing.
14. In the light of the foregoing, the Working Group is of the opinion that the deprivation of
liberty of Tang Ni Tao, Hari Yuejuan; Zhao Ming and. Yang Chanrong is arbitrary, as_ being .
contrary to article`s 10, 11, 18, 19 arid 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and falls
within category II of the principles applicable to the consideration of cases submitted tb the
Working Group.
15. Consequently, the Working Group requests the Government to take the necessary steps to
remedy. the situation of these four persons and to bring it into conformity with the standards and
principles set forth iri the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and encourages it to ratify the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Adopted on 18 June 2002
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OPINION No. 7 /2003 (PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Communication addressed to the Government on 28 August 2002
Concerning: Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Zhong Bo, Liu Li; Wu Xiaohua, Gai Suzhi,
Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai, Zhu Xiaofei
The State has signed but notyet ratified the International Covenant on Civil and
PolliticaRights .... - --
1.
1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established by resolution
1991/42 of the Commission on Human Rights. The mandate of the Working Group was
clarified by resolution 1997/50, and extended by resolution 2003/31. Acting in.,
accordance with its methods of work, the Working Group sent to the Government the
above-mentioned communication.
2. The Worldng Group conveys its appreciation to the Government for having
forwarded the requested information in good time.
3. The Working Group regards deprivation of liberty as arbitrary in the following
cases:
• (i) When it manifestly cannot be justified on any legal basis (such as
-zonti ention-afte malias-rear-sexved despite-au-applicahle est _-
act (category
1);
(ii) When the deprivation of liberty is the result of a judgement or
sentence for the exercise of the rights and freedoms proclaimed in articles 7, 13, 14, 18,
19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also, in respect of
States parties, in articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights (category II);
(iii)When the complete or partial non -observance of the international
standards relating to a fair trial set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and in the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned is of
such gravity as to confer on the deprivation of liberty, of whatever kind, an arbitrary
character (category III).
4. In the light of the allegations made, the Working Group welcomes the co-
operation of the Government. The Working Group transmitted the reply provided by
the Government to the source, which provided the Working Group with its comments.
The Working Group believes that it is in a position to render an opinion on the facts
and circumstances of the case, in the context of the allegations made and the response
of the Government thereto.
5. According to the information transmitted by the source:
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Mr. Chen Gang, male, 28 years -old, resident of Tianshui City, Gansu Province. It was
reported that this person was arrested in April 2002 by members of the Police of Lanzhou
City, who beat and ill-treated him. He is detained in the Luergou Detention Center, Tianshui
City, Gansu Province, and is reportedly in a critical condition.
The source further reports that Mr. Chen Gang was detained in November 1999 for 15
days, when he went to Beijing to ask the Government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.
In January 2000, the Chief of the Politics and Law Committee of Tianshui City detained him
for one month. Later, he was sent to the Ping'antai Labor Camp in Lanzhou City for one year
of forced labor. While in detention in this camp, he suffered severe tortures. According to the
-reports-fa-dived; guards bounded ibis arms -and legs, sealed his mouth and nose, and. then
shoved him under a small bed board before stomping on it. In March 2001, he was released.
But the police did not allow him to go back to work and his salary was stopped by the work
unit. It was further said that the police often went to his residence to harass him, which
motivated him to live on the streets and become homeless.
Mr. Zhang Wenfu, male, a resident of Dalian City, Liaoning Province. It was
reported that this person was arrested on 19 January 2002 and sent to Pulandian Detention
Center for 50 days. It was alleged that on 8 March 2002, without any legal procedure, he was
transferred to the N° 5 Division of Dalian Labor Camp where he was put under strict
supervision for over 40 days. He was not allowed to wash his face or brush his teeth, and was
forced to do heavy labor for long periods each day.
On 18 April 2002, he was transferred to the N° 8 Division of Dalian Labor Camp,
Dalian City.- On 28 April 2002; he started to hunger strike to protest the conditions of his
detention;. =in-zesponse;=�iewa 11egedl1 to clr bat three -team- icaders ic:Xzezhoffg, Li
Shaofu and Peng Dahua, and by an inmate, Chi Diandong. His mouth and eyes were sealed
with tape, his two hands were handcuffed and his head was beaten with a rubber baton. He
was beaten with a wooden board. Torturers used chopsticks to poke inside his mouth, causing
Mr. Mang' s mouth to bleed profusely. Later, he was locked into a . solitary compartment,
handcuffed and forced to lie on a wooden board for a day.
Ms. Zhong Bo, female, 42 years -old, employee of the Anda Chemistry Factory,
resident of Anda City, Heilongjiang Province. It was reported that this person was arrested at
her home on 31 May 2002 at 9.00 a.m. by six policemen lead by Liu Yingshan, an officer
from the 610 Office, an agency reportedly created specifically to persecute Falun Gong. At
the compound of the Politics and Administration Department in Anda City, she was beaten
with a wooden stick by six policemen led by Wang Jun, the Vice Director of the Anda City
Police Station. The 610 Office officer shocked her back with an electric baton. The corner of
her ,eyes bled and her face became black and swollen. That evening, she jumped from the
second -floor window. The examination at Daqing City Hospital in Heilongjiang Province
showed that two of her right ribs and her teeth were broken. She lost memory of what
happened and cannot take care of herself
Ms. Liu Li, female, resident of Taonan City, Jilin Province, blind in one eye. It was
reported that this person was arrested at her home on 28 July 2002 together with 11 Falun
Gong practitioners and was taken to the Taonan City Police Bureau. The Chief of the
Department of Politics and Security, Liu Jinwei, announced her that she would be send to the
Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun City. If they could not accept her, she would be send to
reeducation classes in Daan City. He told her that she will not be released unless she would
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renounce Falun Gong.
Professor Wu Xiaohua, female, 47 years old, an associate professor of the
Environment Art Department at Anhui Civil Construction Engineering College at Hefei City,
Anhui Province. It was reported that this person was placed under house arrest in October
2001, during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Sununit held in Shanghai. Later, she
was sent to a female Labor Camp. She was allegedly tortured in the camp in a variety of
ways, including having her mouth stuffed with rags and tissue soaked in urine and menstrual
blood. In mid-October 2001, on the tenth day of a hunger strike she initiated to protest against
her detention, she was sent to the N° 4 People' s Hospital at Hefei City, Anhui Province. At
'the -hospital she -was -stripped -of her clothes and shocked with -electric needles and an electric
baton all over her body. She was threatened by a medical doctor, Dr. Li, to be electrically
shock until she becomes unconscious. She was also forcibly given injections and force-fed
drugs.
It was further reported that Professor Wu Xiaohua was first arrested in December
1999 for appealing in Beijing to the Govenunent to put an end to the persecution of Falun
Gong. She was allegedly tortured at the Anhui Female Detention Center at Anhui Province.
Later she was transferred to the N° 4 People' s Hospital of Hefei City where she also was
tortured, including being locked in a 150 square -meter bathhouse full of mosquitoes during
one night, or being forced to use as toilet a pigpen full of spider webs. In the end of April
2001, she was again arrested.
Ms. Gai Suzhi, female, 63 years -old, a retired employee of the N° 2 Petrochemical
Factory at Fushun City, Liaoning Province. She was arrested -in August 2001 and sent to the
Wujiabaa-Guhor ampt Fushun:City pito-of-the act=th b3E-lave- or cantp_is-not
allowed to detain anyone who is older than 60. To protest her illegal detention, she has gone
on a hunger strike several times at the camp. Her weight is only about 35 kilograms now and
she has become extremely sick. It was alleged that she has been cursed, beaten and tortured
very often at the camp.
It was further reported that Ms. Gai Suzhi was first arrested in December 2000, when
she went to Beijing to protest against the persecution of Falun Gong. She was detained for
more than two months. After that, she was arrested twice again.
Mr. Liu Junhua, male, aged 36, employee of S anjiang F ood Company at Jiamusi
City, Heilongjiang Province. According to the information received, this person was arrested
on 9 April 2002 at his home at Jiamusi City by members of the Nanwei Police Station for his
belief in Falun Gong. He is imprisoned in Xigemu Forced Labor Camp, Heilongjiang
Province. H is w ife w as forced t o t eave h ome t o a void further h arassment a nd p ersecution
from local police. He had been previously detained in sentenced to two years of re-education
through forced labor. At the end o f O ctober 2 001, he was re -arrested in Mishan City and
released after he went on 44 days of hunger strike.
Mr. Zhang Jiuhai, male, aged 35, from Liudian Town, Pinggu District, Pinggu
County, Beijing City. According to the information received, this person was arrested at his
home on 6 August 2002 and send to re-education classes in Pinggu County, to the east of
Hanzhuang Town Government Office. It was further reported that this person was previously
detained, from August 2000 to February 2002, in Tuanhe Labor Camp, Beijing, where he was
severely tortured, reportedly because he refused to renounce Falun Gong. In April 2002, he
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was arrested again and shocked with electric batons at the Haidian District Police Bureau,
Beijing. The local police ransacked his home six times and detained his father twice.
Mr. Zhu Xiaofei; male, former employee of Lushun 4810 Factory, resident of
Lushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. It was reported that this person was
arrested on 26 November 2001 at his workplace by members of the Police. He was directly
sent to Dalian Forced Labor Camp, in Liaoning Province; where the guards allegedly ordered
the criminals to monitor him and physically torture him by shocking him with electric batons.
He was later transferred to Guanshan :Forced Labor Camp in Changtu City, Liaoning
Province, where he is forced to do hard labor.
It was further reported that Mr. Zliu Xiaofei had been previously detained twice at the
Lushunkou District Police Station, where Police officer Ye Qiang tortured him, chocking him
with a rope around the neck, and shocking him with electric batons.
According to the source; the 9 above-mentioned persons are illegally, being held; in
detention exclusively because their belief in Falun Gong. Many of them have been sent for
re-education through forced labor without trial because they refuse to denounce their belief.
The source adds that their activities were always peaceful.
6. The Government provided the Working Group with the following information:
Chen Gang, male, aged 25, resident of Tianshui city in Gansu province. In
February 2000, Chen was ordered by the Tianshui city labour rehabilitation committee to
serve one year's labour re-education for repeatedly disturbing the peace. In September 2002;
the--Tianshui-citglabout-rehabilitation=committee-ordered=C ewe=three-yte-are-lab'o r
re-education, for once again having disturbed the peace. While serving his term of labour
re-education, Chen has not been subjected to any harassment or ill-treatment.
Zhang Wenfu, male, aged 40, resident of Dalian city in Liaoning province, was
ordered by the Dalian city labour rehabilitation committee to serve two years and six months'
labour re-education, to run from 20 January 2002 to 19 July 2004, for disturbing the peace:
While serving his term of labour re-education, Zhang has never embarked on any hunger
strikes.
thong Bo, female, aged 42, resident of Anda city in Heilongjiang province. On
21 October 2002, Zhong was taken into criminal detention for repeatedly disturbing the peace
and, on 11 November, she was granted medical parole. She has never been subjected, as
alleged, to any harsh beatings, nor did she jump from a second floor window and break two
ribs.
Liu Li, female, aged 46, resident of Taonan city in Jilin province. On
3 February 2001, Liu was ordered by the local labour rehabilitation committee to serve one
year's labour re-education for disturbing the peace, but, because she is blind in one eye, the
order was amended to allow her to serve the term of labour re-education outside the custodial
facility. While serving her term outside the facility, Liu was once again ordered, in April
2002, to serve one year's labour re-education for disturbing the peace, which term was to be
served outside the custodial facility. Liu is currently leading a normal life at home.
Wu Xiaohua, female, aged 48, formerly an associate professor at the Anhui
Construction Industry College. On 28 January 2000, Wu was ordered by the labour
rehabilitation authorities to serve one year's labour re-education for causing a serious
disturbance of the peace. While serving her term of labour re-education, the facility
employees noticed that her mental state was very distracted and observed that she displayed
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other abnormal symptoms, such as a tendency to injure herself without cause or reason, to
refuse food and other aberrations. On 17 July 2000, she was diagnosed by the Anhui
psychiatric appraisal committee to be suffering from schizophrenia (of the paranoid variety),
and incapable of responding to labour re-education. The labour re-education facility
promptly took steps for her to receive medical attention.outside the facility and she was
thereupon discharged from her term of labour re-education. After undergoing treatment,
Wu's state of health improved, but she once again conducted activities which seriously
disturbed the peace. On 2 June 2001, the Hebei municipal labour rehabilitation committee
ordered Wu to be examined by the expert appraisal committee of the provincial psychiatric
hospital, with a view to identifying her psychiatric disorder. The diagnosis found that, during
the periodwhile her schizophrenia was in•full remission, she was capable ofresponding to
labour re-education, whereupon she was ordered to serve, two years' labour re-education.
While Wu was undergoing her term of labour re-education, the responsible authorities, acting
on humanitarian grounds, frequently arranged prompt medical treatment for her and she was
not subjected, as alleged, to any cruel treatment or insults or made to endure any electric
shocks or physical beatings.
Gai Suzhi, female, aged 62, resident of Fushun city in Liaoning province. In
October 2000, Gai was ordered by the Fushun city labour rehabilitation committee to serve
two years' labour re-education, to run from 19 October 2000 to 18 October 2002, for
disturbing the peace. Inview of her age, her poor physical condition and her many ailments,
the labour re-education facility, following the relevant regulations, decided to allow her to
serve her term of labour re-education outside the custodial facility. While serving her term
outside the facility, Gai once again caused a breach of the peace and was ordered to serve a
further three months' labour re-education. Gai completed her term of labour re-education on
8 January 2003.
Liu JuahuaT al aged 6, resident -of i us city-in=Hnilongjiang-proYince. Liu
was ordered by the Jiamusi city labour rehabilitation committee to serve two years' labour
re-education, to run from 23 October 1999 to 22 October 2001, for disturbing the peace.
While serving his tern of labour re-education, Liu caused breaches of the facility rules and
regulations and, on 3 November 2000, he conspired with other inmates of the labour
re-education facility to escape. On 28 September 2001 he was reapprehended by the public
security authorities and returned to the Jiamusi city labour re-education facility to continue
serving his term. On 9 June 2002, the Jiamusi city people's court, acting in accordance with
the law, sentenced.him to 10 years' fixed -term imprisonment for the offence of sabotaging
implementation of State law.
Zhang Jiuhai, male, aged 35, resident of Beijing. In July 2000, Zhang Jiuhai was
ordered.tq serve one, year's labour re-education for causing a disturbance of the peace. On
1 April 2002, the. Beijing city labour rehabilitation authorities ordered him to serve two years'
labour re-education; for having once again disturbed the peace. He is currently serving his
term. .
Zhu Xiaofei, male, aged 26, resident,of Dalian city in Liaoning province. On
1 October 2001, Zhu was ordered by the Dalian city labour rehabilitation committee to serve
two years and six months' labour re-education, to run from 26 November 2001 to 25 May
2004, for causing a disturbance of the peace. He is currently serving his term in Guanshan
labour re-education facility in Liaoning province.
In his observations, the Government states that China is a country governed by the
rule of law. Chinese law fully safeguards the lawful rights and interests of persons
undergoing labour re-education. Where persons undergoing labour re-education are
concerned, the basic policy followed by the labour re-education facility is that they should be
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re-educated, guided by persuasion and thus reformed; that they should be accorded the same
solicitude as parents accord their children, teachers accord their students and doctors accord
their patients; that they should receive consideration, assistance and education; and that their
lawful rights and interests should be protected in accordance with the law. At the same time,
in the actual practice of labour re-education, full use is made of such procedures as the
remission of terms, the granting of parole for terms to be served outside the facility and early
release from detention in the facility, so that those undergoing labour education are reformed
to the maximum extent. Once released from the labour re-education facility, students may
return to their studies, employees and workers may resume employment and their rights to a
normal life and job are fully upheld.
7. In its reaction to the reply from the Government, the source states that the Chinese
government used "disruption of social order" as the pretext for detaining Thong Bo, Liu Li,
Wu Xiaohua, Gai Suzhi, Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Zhu
Xiaofei. According to the source, the Chinese government failed to name the specific
offences.
8. The source notes with an interrogation how people of different ages (from 25 to 62),
different professions (from worker, professor to retiree) and different locations, suddenly
develop this same tendency to "disruption of social order", many even repeatedly.
9. According to the source, Zhong Bo, Liu Li, Wu Xiaohua, Gai Suzhi, Chen Gang,
Zhang Wenfu, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Thu Xiaofei are all Falun Gong practitioners
and were persecuted for exercising freedom of belief guaranteed by China's Constitution.
They were repeatedly detained and tortured for refusing to renounce Falun Gong.
10. The Working Group notes that the Government of China has informed it that
Thong Bo, Liu Li and Gai Suzhi are no longer being detained. When this information was
transmitted to the source, it was not disputed.
11. The Working Group further observes that the Government has not denied that
Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Wu Xiaohua, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Thu Xiaofei are
Falun Gong practitioners, or that they were detained in connection with the practice of this
discipline.
12. As there is no evidence that Falun Gong is a violent, non -pacific belief, as far as the
cases under consideration are concerned its free exercise should be protected by article 18 on
freedom of belief and article 19 on freedom of opinion and expression of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
13. Even though the sentence of labour re-education is, as claimed by the Government, a
more favourable measure offering better possibilities to the person concerned than a prison
sentence imposed by a court judgement, it still constitutes, in the opinion of the Group,
administrative deprivation of freedom that may be arbitrary in character, as found by the
Group in its Deliberation 04 of 1993 (E/CN.4/1993/24).
14. In its report on its visit to China (E/CN.4/1998/44/Add.2, para. 95), the Working
Group stated that the measure of re-education through labour should not be applied on any
person exercising his or her fundamental freedoms, as guaranteed by the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. In the cases at hand, detention does constitute a coercive
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measure designed to undermine the freedom of those persons to adopt beliefs of their own
chasing.
15. The Working Group therefore deems that these persons were prosecuted and sentenced
to the administrative measure of re-education through labour, and therefore deprived of his
liberty, mainly for exercising fundamental rights which are laid out in articles 18 and 19 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to freedom of conscience and religion
(art. 18) and the right to freedom of opinion and expression (art. 19).
16. In the light of the foregoing, the Working Group issues the following opinion:
Since Thong Bo, Liu Li and Gai Suzhi have been released in the meantime,
the Working Group decides, pursuant to paragraph 17(a) of its methods of work, to
file their case, without taking position as to whether their detention was arbitrary or
not.
The detention of Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Wu Xiaohua, Liu Junhua, Zhang
Jiuhai and Zhu Xiaofei is arbitrary, being in contravention of Article 18 and 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and falls within the category II of the
categories applicable to the consideration of cases submitted by the Working Group.
17. Consequently, the Working Group requests the Government to take the necessary
steps to remedy the situation of these persons and to bring it into conformity with the
standards and principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and
encourages it to ratify the International- Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Adopted on 9 May 2003
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Report of the Working Group on
Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
2003
Editor's Note: Paragraphs relevant to Falun Gong are marked by asterisks (*).
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GENERAL
E/CN.4/2003/70*
21 January 2003
Original: ENGLISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-ninth session
Item 11 (b) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:
DISAPPEARANCES AND SUMMARY EXECUTIONS
Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances
Report of the Working Group on Enforced
or Involuntary Disappearances
Submitted in accordance with Commission resolution 2002/41
* Reissued for technical reasons.
GE.03-11318 (E) 040303
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E/CN.4/2003/70
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China
67. During the period under review, two new cases of disappearance were transmitted by the
Working Group to the Government of China, of which one occurred in 2002 and was sent under
the urgent action procedure. At the same time, the Working Group clarified five cases on the
basis of information provided by the Government that the persons concerned were either in
detention or at liberty at the address provided, on which no observations were received from the
source.
* 68. Most of the 106 cases of disappearance reported to the Working Group in the past are
said to have occurred between 1988 and 1990, or between 1995 and 1996. The majority of these
cases concern Tibetans, 19 of them monks who were allegedly arrested in Nepal and handed
over to the Chinese authorities. Other cases concern persons who reportedly disappeared
following celebrations to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous
Region. Eleven cases concern Falun Gong practitioners who were allegedly arrested or abducted
in 2000 and 2001 by police, security services or local administrative officials. One other case
concerns an autistic boy who reportedly disappeared in 2000 after having been questioned by
Hong Kong immigration officers.
* 69. The newly reported cases concern a woman who was allegedly arrested in 2001 for being
a Falun Gong practitioner; and a Chinese citizen legally residing in the United States of America
who was allegedly detained and held incommunicado by persons believed to belong to the
Ministry of Public Security.
70. During the period under review, the Government provided information on two
outstanding cases. In one case, the person concerned had, in accordance with the laws of the
country, been assigned to 18 months of re-education through labour, and is regularly visited by
her family. Information on her current whereabouts was provided. The Working Group decided
to apply the six-month rule to this case. In another case, the Government informed the Working
Group that investigations have established that the person concerned, originally from China,
formerly employed at Beijing Normal University, had left for the United States in 1986 and is
currently resident in Boston. On 19 April 2002, travelling on a borrowed passport under the
name "Rao Qing" (Passport No. TCHN147315384), he arrived on flight UA851 and illegally
entered China from Beijing airport. He then proceeded to carry out activities in China using a
forged identity document. His activities were in breach of the Chinese criminal code.
On 21 June, following the issue of an arrest warrant by the second division of the Beijing city
people's procurator's office, he was arrested by the Beijing public security authorities and, in
accordance with legal procedure, his family was duly notified of his arrest and his case is
currently being heard at first instance. The Chinese Government is of the opinion that the
present case has nothing to do with the issue of "enforced or involuntary disappearances".
71. Of the 69 cases clarified by the Working Group, 60 were clarified on the basis of
information provided by the Government and 9 on the basis of information provided by the
source. In a majority of cases clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government,
the persons concerned were living at liberty at the address that was provided. In respect
of 38 outstanding cases, the Working Group is unable to report on the fate and whereabouts of
the persons concerned.
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ANNEXES
Annex I
Decisions on individual cases taken by the Working Group during 2002
• Countries
Cases which
allegedly occurred
in 2002
Cases transmitted to the Government
_ during 2002
Clarifications by:
Discontinued
cases
Urgent actions
Normal actions
Government
Non-governmental sources
Algeria
1
1
12
2
1
0
Angola
0
0
0
1
0
0
Argentina
7
7
0
0
0
0
Cameroon
0
0
0
3
0
0
China
1
1
1
5
0
0
Colombia
9
14
0
1
2
0
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
0
0
1
0
0
0
Guatemala
1
1
0
63
0
0
India
1
1
0
0
0
0
Indonesia
5
5
0
0
1
0
Iran
1
1
0
0
1
0
Japan
0
0
4
0
0
0
Lebanon
0
0
3
0
0
0
Mexico
7
6
1
14
0
0
Myanmar
0
0
1
0
0
0
Nepal
14
24
4
0
5
-. 0
Pakistan
' 0
0
0
2
0
0
Philippines
4
0
6
0
0
0
Russia
10
2
9
0
0
0
Rwanda
0
0
1
0
0
0
Spain
0
0
4
0
0
0
Sudan
0
0.
0
198
0
0
Syria
0
0
4
0
0
0
Tunisia
1
0
1
0
0
0
Turkey
0
1
0
1
0
0
Ukraine
0
0
0
1
0
0
United Kingdom
0
0
1
0
0
0
United States of America
1
1
0
0
0
0
Yugoslavia
0
0
0
1
0
0
Zimbabwe
0
0
2
0
0
0
Annex II
Statistical summary:
Cases of enforced or involuntary disappearance reported to the Working Group between 1980 and 2002
Countries/
entities
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reported to the Working Group during 1971-2002.
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Reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur
on the Question of Torture
2000-2003
Editor's Note: Paragraphs relevant to Falun Gong are marked by asterisks (*).
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E/CN.4/2000/9
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-sixth session
Item 11 (a) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS INCLUDING QUESTIONS OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Sir Nigel Rodley,
submitted pursuant to Commission on Human..
-Rights resolution 1999/32*
CONTENTS
Executive summary
Introduction
I. MANDATE AND METHODS OF WORK
II. ACTIVITIES OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR
Paragraphs Page
4
1 - 2 5
3 5
4 - 8 6
III. INFORMATION REVIEWED BY THE -SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR WITH
RESPECT TO VARIOUS COUNTRIES 9 - 1205
7
Afghanistan 11 - 12 8
Albania - 13 8
Algeria 14 19 8
Angola 20 24 9
Argentina 25 30 10
Australia 31 36 11
Azerbaijan 37 77 13
* Communications received from Governments between 15 December 1999
and 15 February 2000 regarding allegations transmitted by the Special Rapporteur
in 1999 will be reflected in document E/CN.4/2000/CRP.2.
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China
Regular communications arid replies received
208. By letter dated 15 November 1999, the Special Rapporteur advised the
Government that he had received information on the following individual cases.
209. Jingsheng Liu was reportedly detained on 28 May 1992 and•sentenced on
16 December 1994 to eight years in prison for leading a "counter-revolutionary
group" and another eight years in prison for "counter-revolutionary propaganda".
He is currently being held at the Banbuqiao Detention Centre. He has reportedly
been held in solitary confinement since 1996 and is allegedly not in good health.
•
210. Yang Liming, Yang Wenli and Zhang Wenqing were reportedly arrested in
December 1992 for burglary and murder in Wuwei city, Gansu province. Their
confessions were allegedly obtained through 10 days of torture. Upon the
confession of another individual to the alleged crimes, these three individuals
were freed in February 1996.
21 1. Yu Dongyue, an art editor of Liuyang Daily, was reportedly arrested on
23 May 1989 for participating in pro-democracy demonstrations in Hunan. He
was allegedly sentenced on 11 August 1989 by the Beijing Intermediate People's
Court for "counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement" and "counter-
revolutionary sabotage". He was allegedly tortured in Hunan Prison No. 3 at
Lingling. He was allegedly held in solitary confinement in a tiny windowless
damp cell for at least two years. The Special Rapporteur had already intervened
on his behalf in 1992. According to recent information received, Yu Dongyue is
now held in. Ruanjiang prison in Hunan, where he is allegedly showing signs of
mental disturbance and of having lost control of some bodily functions
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* 218. The Special Rapporteur has also received reports regarding the alleged
torture of Falun Gong practitioners who have reportedly been arrested since
July 1999 and on behalf of whom he sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on 23 July
1999. It is alleged that most of the practitioners, including children and elderly
persons, have been insulted and beaten by the police at the time of arrest and
during their subsequent detention. Electric shock batons and a device called "Di
Lao", in which alleged victims' wrists and feet are shackled and linked together
with crossed steel chains making it nearly impossible to walk or sit down, are said
to have been used. In particular, the Special Rapporteur has received information
on the three following individual cases.
* 219. Zhao Jinhua was reportedly arrested on 27 September 1999 by the
Zhangxing county police. She was allegedly beaten to death in police custody. On
7 October 1999, she allegedly lost consciousness and was sent to the county
hospital emergency room. She was then reportedly returned to the police where
she was allegedly interrogated about her Falung Gong practices and tortured
again, allegedly with police electric clubs. She is believed to have died the same
day. An autopsy report by forensic doctors of Yantai City dated 8 October
reportedly confirmed the presence of injuries, wounds and haematomas on many
parts of her body, except the head, and revealed that her death was caused by
beatings with blunt instruments.
* 220. Practitioners from Hunan province were allegedly ill-treated at the time of
their arrest. Yu Hanxin was reportedly arrested on 24 July 1999 by members of
the Public Security Bureau of Yueyang city at his publishing enterprise, where
books on Falung Gong were seized. It is reported that his feet were broken by the
assistant director of the Yueyang Public Security Bureau at the time of arrest. Li
Juhua was reportedly arrested on 25 July 1999 by members of a local Joint
Defence Team, who allegedly raped her. Zhou Zhi, from Dichen district, Chande
city, had his home allegedly ransacked on 25 July 1999. He was allegedly
severely beaten at that time. Yang Junhua was beaten and injured by No. 7 Joint
Defence Team of Xiangtang city on 26 July 1999.
* 221. Xiao Hong Zhang was reportedly arrested on 9 September 1999 and
chained back to back with another Falung Gong practitioner for 23 hours, during
which
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time they were allegedly denied food, sleep and to go to the toilet. From 10 to 14
September, they were reportedly individually handcuffed in the back in such a
position that they were unable to lie down in order to sleep.
222. Concerning the situation in Tibet, the Special Rapporteur has received
information on the following individual cases.
223. Ngawang Kyonmed, who was taking care of a shrine in the Drepung
complex in Tibet, and Samdrul, both monks, were reportedly arrested in
September 1998 on suspicion of having prepared a letter addressed to the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, during her visit to Tibet in
September 1998. The letter is believed to express concern about the detention of
the Panchen Lama, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, as well as details of the May 1998
protests at Drapchi prison which were mentioned in a communication by the
Special Rapporteur dated 3 September 1998 (see E/CN.4/1999/61, para. 116).
Ngawang Kyonmed was allegedly beaten severely and detained at the Gutsa
detention centre in Lhasa. He were reportedly transferred to a prison. An urgent
appeal was sent on their behalf on 13 January 1999 by the Chairman-Rapporteur
of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
224. Norbu, a 17 -year-old monk from Nalanda monastery, was reportedly
arrested along with three fellow monks on 25 February 1995, following a police
raid on the monastery. He is said to have resisted the police who wanted to search
fellow monks' rooms. He was reportedly taken to Phenpo County Public Security
Bureau detention centre. He was reportedly transferred on 28 February 1995 to
Gutsa detention centre in Lhasa city, where he spent almost a year in
incommunicado detention. He was allegedly brutally interrogated by the prison
guards and accused of hiding documents on Tibet's independence. He was then
denied medical treatment, despite the fact that his health was constantly
deteriorating during his detention. In particular, he is said to have sustained
damage to his kidneys. When he was returned home, in February 1996, he was
still in a very serious condition. He allegedly could not turn his head or bend one
of his legs and could not speak properly anymore. He is said to have died at home
in March 1999 from injuries sustained at the time of his arrest and interrogation.
225. Tashi Tsering reportedly died in the first week of October 1999, while
still hospitalized, allegedly due to the beatings he sustained at the time of his
arrest. Security police officers of the People's Armed Police (PAP)
reportedly beat him so badly that his hands and feet may have been broken and
his arm fractured. His head was struck against the back of a vehicle and by the
time he was dragged into the police van by security personnel he was unable to
walk. It is thought that his head injuries contributed to his subsequent death in the
Tibetan Autonomous Region police hospital, near Sera Monastery, where he had
been immediately rushed. He is said to have been arrested soon after having
lowered the Chinese flag in Potala Square and attempted to hoist the forbidden
Tibetan national flag during the Minority Games, held in Lhasa, on 26 August
1999.
Urgent appeals and replies received
226. On 17 February 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal in
conjunction with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of Hemit Memet, Kasim
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Mahpir and Ilyas Zordun, three young Uighur men, who had been forcibly
returned from Kazakstan to the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on
11 February 1999. They had been arrested while attempting to cross the border
between the Republic of Kazakstan and the People's Republic of China. They
were said to be suspected of involvement in "ethnic separatist activities", and in
1998 a warrant to arrest them was reportedly issued by the Ghulja Municipal
Bureau.
227. On 14 June 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal in
conjunction with the Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the
right of freedom of opinion and expression and on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions on behalf of Zulikar Memet and Saydakhmet Memet, who
had reportedly been detained in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 1998 and February 1999, respectively. It was
reported that they were accused of "assisting separatist terrorists" and arrested
owing to the fact that they were brothers of Hemit Memet, who had been detained
on 11 February 1999 along with Kasim Mahpir and Ilyas Zordun, all reportedly
accused of involvement in "ethnic separatist activities" (see above). They had
reportedly been moved from a prison in Urumqi to the public security police
detention centre in the city of Gulja (Yining).
228. On 1 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of
Ngawang Choephel, who reportedly went missing in August 1995 when he was
travelling through Tibet, tape recording traditional Tibetan folk music. He had
reportedly been sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for committing espionage.
On 19 May 1999, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared his
detention arbitrary. He was reportedly originally detained at the Nyari detention
centre, in Shigatse, but has since been transferred to the Powo Tramo prison in
Tramo county. His health has allegedly deteriorated since his imprisonment. In
particular, since 16 August 1998 he has reportedly been vomiting blood and is
suffering from tuberculosis and a gastric disease. A letter was reportedly written
to the Higher People's Court in China requesting permission for him to have
medical treatment, however no response was received.
229. The Government replied on 15 December 1999 that in September 1998 the
Xigaze Intermediate People's Court found Ngawang Choephel guilty of spying
and on charges of separatism and sentenced him to 18 years' imprisonment,
including four years without political rights. The Government further replied that,
on appeal, the Tibet Autonomous Region Higher People's Court upheld the guilty
verdict, after a closed hearing. The Government advised that the hearing was
closed because the case involved State secrets. The Government further advised
that he is currently serving his sentence in Bomi prison in Tibet. In relation to
medical care, the Government replied that all offenders are entitled to receive free
medical care, including annual check-ups, as well as timely treatment if they
become ill. The Government reported that in October 1998, Ngawang contracted
bronchitis, a lung infection and hepatitis and was treated at the prison hospital for
over two months. He received a check-up in January 1999 which found him to be
showing signs of recovery and he is now recuperating with oral medication. The
Government stated that as in the past, law enforcement authorities are providing
every respect and protection of his rights.
* 230. On 23 July 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent action in
conjunction with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention on behalf of a large number of Falun Gong practitioners who had
reportedly been recently arrested. Falun Gong is said to be an organization
committed to the improvement of its practioners' physical and mental well-being
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through exercise and meditation. The authorities reportedly banned the Falun
Gong practice in public or private on 22 July 1999, and have accused the group of
"engaging in illegal activities, advocating superstition and spreading fallacies", as
well as "jeopardizing social stability". Since 20 July 1999, organizers of the
group were' detained in several cities, including Beijing, Tianjing, Nanchang,
Harbin, Changchun, Tai Yuan, Shengyang, Benxi, Xinbin, Hengyang, Qinyuan,
Wafangdian, Cangzhou and Shijiazhuang. Many persons have allegedly been
beaten at the time of and after their arrest. More specifically, it was reported that
Lu Shu Zhen,the mother of the Falun Gong founder, Li Hongzhi, had received
death threats on 22 July 1999 from four non -uniformed members of the Chinese
State Security Bureau. Her sister, Li Ping , and her children, Li Mai Yi, Li Pao
Yuan and Li Pao Man , were also threatened. They reportedly remain under
house arrest with constant police surveillance. Since the early morning of 20 July,
Li Chang, Ji Lie-wu, Qi Bao Lei(female) and other
individuals have reportedly been detained in Beijing. In Dalian, the following
men were reportedly arrested: Yu Xiao-de , Li Fang -jun, Yang Chuan -jun , as
well as the following women: Guan Shu-Qing , Tang Qiao-yunin, Gao Chun -
mei, Yang Li-ying, Tang Qiao-yun. In Shijiazhuang, Duan Rong-xin, Miao
Ying-zhi, Wang Hong -bin, Xie Zheng-yuan, Xu Xin-mu, and Feng Xiao-mei
(female) were reportedly arrested. Lu Wenjie and Wang Hongbin, two Falun
Gong practitioners who were reportedly protesting the arrests at the
Governmental Appeal Bureau in Dalian were allegedly beaten by four policemen
who forcibly took them to the police station.
231. The Government replied on 7 October 1999 that the Falun Dafa Research
Society has not been legally registered: it engages in illegal activities,
preaches superstition and heresy, deludes the masses and manufactures
disturbances. The Government reported that the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs
had determined, in accordance with the Regulations on the registration of public
organizations, that the Falun Gong organization was illegal and resolved to ban it.
Furthermore, the Chinese public service organs had taken coercive measures
against the organization and individuals suspected of using the Falun Dafa
Research Society to cause criminal disturbances to public order, who would be
brought to justice as the law required. The Government reported that no beatings
or ill-treatment had occurred as a result of the coercive measures taken. It
reported that allegations of beatings, ill-treatment, torture and house arrests
were sheer fabrications unrelated to the facts.
* 232. In relation to Lu Shuzhen and Li Ping, the Government reported that on
22 July 1999, Beijing municipal security organs visited Li Hongzhi's mother, Lu
Shuzhen, and Li Ping to obtain information about Li Hongzhi's circumstances
abroad. The Government reported that the meeting was amicable, civilized and
law-abiding, and that no restrictive measures of any kind were taken.
* 233. On 17 August 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal in
conjunction with the Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions and on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion
and expression on behalf of Zulikar Memet, who had reportedly been sentenced
to death on 25 July 1999 by the Ili Prefecture Intermediate People's Court, in the
Xinjian Uighur Autonomous Region. He was allegedly accused of involvement in
"ethnic separatist activities". He reportedly told the court that his confession had
been extracted under torture and showed the court the signs of the torture he had
allegedly suffered, including finger nails which had been pulled off His brother,
Hemit Memet, as well as eight other unidentified
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Original: ENGLISH/FRENCH/
SPANISH
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-seventh session
Item 11 (a) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS
OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Sir Nigel Rodley, submitted
pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/43*
* The executive summary of this report is being circulated in all official languages. The report
itself is contained in the annex to the executive summary and is being issued in the languages of
submission only.
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law. In this connection he agrees with the recommendation of the Human Rights Committee
(CCPR/C/79/Add.104 of 30 March 1999, para. 9) that the law should be amended so as to
restrict the jurisdiction of the military courts to trial only of military personnel charged with
offences of an exclusively military nature.
236. He fully supports, in particular, the following recommendations of the Human Rights
Committee directly relevant to his mandate:
That there be established an independent body with authority to receive and investigate
all complaints of excessive use of force by the police and other security forces;
While noting improvement as a result of recent legislative reforms, that the law be
reconsidered with a view to eliminating incommunicado detention altogether; this
applies, in the Special Rapporteur's view, whether or not such detention is ordered by a
judge;
That there be established "institutionalized" mechanisms for monitoring conditions in
prison and for investigating complaints by inmates; such mechanisms should, in the view
of the Special Rapporteur, include a substantiate component from civil society, including
human rights non-governmental organizations.
China
237. By letter dated 10 August 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that
he continued to receive information according to which the use of torture and other forms of
ill-treatment, in particular in Tibet and in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is
widespread. In addition to methods reported in previous years, the Special Rapporteur has
transmitted information on the use of trained dogs to attack prisoners; the use of live electric
wires to give electric shocks, inter alia, to the mouth and genitals; the insertion of sticks or
needles under the nails or having fingernails pulled out with pliers; the hanging of prisoners from
a rail with one foot and one hand for 24 hours; the shoving of paper into the anus of detained
persons and the setting on fire of this paper. The Special Rapporteur has transmitted further
information on prisoners being made to run in the "flying aeroplane" position, arms spread out
and bent forward; having their hands tied behind their back and having them pulled up behind
them, causing intense pain; and on prisoners being made to stand barefoot in the snow and
having cold water poured over them in freezing winter temperatures.
238. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received
information on the methods of torture specifically used in the XUAR, namely the use of
injections which cause victims to become mentally unbalanced or to lose the ability to speak
coherently; the insertion of pepper, chilli powder or other substances in the mouth, nose or
genital organs; and the insertion of horse hair or wires into the penis. The torture of prisoners is
said to be common in prisons, detention centres and labour camps, such as the Liu Daowan jail
in Urumqi and a labour camp near Kashgar. Torture methods reported from the labour camp
include prisoners being hit on the head, stomach or genitals with electric batons; having electric
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244. Salam Kari, from Gulja-(Yining), was reportedly arrested in May 1997 in connection
with protests in Gulja in February 1997. His dead body showing marks of torture was reportedly
returned to his family a few days after his arrest.
245. Nizamidin Yusayin, a 70 -year-old scholar from Urumqi and former journalist for the
newspaper Xinjiang Daily, is believed to have been arrested on or after -September 1997 on
suspicion that he had sheltered people wanted in connection with the February 1997 protests in
Gulja. He was said to have been detained incommunicado in the Urumqi City Public Security
Bureau. On 7 April 1998, he reportedly died allegedly as a result of being beaten and tortured by
the police in order to force him to make a confession.
* 246. The Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information
according to which the authorities have been conducting a major: crackdown on the movements
of the Falun Gong, Falun Dafa and other Qi Gong groups. Practitioners are said to be put under
pressure to renounce their beliefs. Reports have been received that practitioners have been
subjected to public humiliation for their membership in the Falun Gong movement. Tens of
thousands of practitioners have reportedly been detained by the police for varying periods of
time. Many of them are said to have been sent to labour camps without charge or trial for
periods of up to three years for "re-education through labour", or detained in psychiatric
hospitals, where they were often administered drugs against their will, for periods of up to
several weeks. Many of them are said to have suffered torture or ill-treatment. The Special
Rapporteur has transmitted information on the following individual cases.
*- 247. Xian Jin-ying, from Haiyan county, Zhejiang Province, and three other practitioners
reportedly went to Tiananmen Square on 25 October 1999. They were allegedly sent to a nearby
police station where between 50 to 60 practitioners were said to have been held. The police
reportedly handcuffed about 12 practitioners in a very painful manner with one arm bending over
the shoulder to meet the other hand on the back. The police subsequently made them kneel on
the ground and hit their heads against the wall. Xian Jin-ying's arm allegedly broke under the
• pressure. On 26 October, a doctor refused to examine her arm because of her Falun Gong
membership. On 27 October, she was taken to hospital.
* 248. Liu Juhua, from Tangshan city, Hebei Province, and Yang Xuezhen, were reportedly
arrested in Beijing on 22 September 1999 after resisting a police officer who allegedly attempted
to take Falun Gong books away from them. They were reportedly taken to Beijing Qinghe
detention centre where they were allegedly interrogated, deprived of sleep, had their arms tied to
their feet behind their backs and to have been burnt with cigarettes on their hands. They were
reportedly transferred to Kaiping detention centre in Tangshan city. Another practitioner
detained at the same time at the Kaiping detention centre had reportedly been tortured with
electric shock batons and beaten with a large club.
* 249. Zhang XiaoHong, from Da Lian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999. She
was said to have been detained for 15 days in the detention centre in Dalian. On 9 September,
she reportedly asked the prison authorities for permission to do herr exercises but was refused.
On the same evening, she was allegedly chained together with another Falun Dafa practitioner,
back to back. They reportedly had to sit on the wooden floor, were prevented from sleeping and
from using the toilet and were deprived of food. On 10 September, the two practitioners were
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reportedly placed in single cuffs which chained their hands to their back and got further
tightened as a result of movement, preventing them from sleeping. On 14 September, the cuffs
were removed. They were released the next day.
* 250. Yin XinQin, from Da Lian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999 and placed
in the Dalian detention centre. On 8 September 2000, she was reportedly chained to a fence for a
total of 21 hours. On 9 September, she was said to have been chained with another practitioner
back to back until the next day. On 10 September, they were chained separately with their hands
behind their backs until the morning of 14 September, when they were asked to work. On the
evening of the same day, they were allegedly again chained with their hands on their back.
On 15 September, they were said to have been released.
* 251. Xin XiuJuan, from Da Lian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999 and
detained in the Dalian detention centre. She was allegedly chained to the grill of the window in
the jail room. On 8 September, she reportedly had rusty iron frames fixed to her feet (a method
of torture known as the "under -earth jail"). She was then reportedly ordered to walk fast, which
resulted in the iron frames cutting her feet. She was reportedly kept without food for six days.
* 252. Zhu Hang, an Associate Professor of the Department of Humanity and Social Sciences
of the Dalian University of Science and Engineering in Dalian city, was reportedly arrested
on 30 August 1999 when she was practising Falun Gong exercises in a park and subsequently
detained in the Dalian Yao Jia detention centre in Nan Guan Ling. There she was reportedly tied
to the Di Lao device (literally translated as "prison in hell" device) by which her hands and feet
were reportedly chained to a heavy steel frame 20 inches high and 15 inches wide. She
reportedly went on hunger strike. After seven days, the authorities reportedly ordered several
guards to force feed her and caused severe injury on her mouth. They are said to have installed a
pipe to feed liquid to her. She is believed to have lost consciousness because of the treatment
she was subjected to and was sent to the People's No. 2 Hospital in Dalian city to recover. She
was reportedly later sent to a mental hospital by the Chinese authorities for revealing her
experiences in detention.
* 253. Zhang ChunQing was reportedly arrested on 3 September 2000 with her granddaughter
and was subsequently reportedly detained for 15 days in the Dalian Nanguan Yaojia detention
centre. On 5 September, she is said to have been insulted and slapped hard on her face and
hands with a ring -binder by the section chief for practising Falun Gong in prison. She was
allegedly subjected to the Di Lao device. She was allegedly ordered to walk 200 feet to her cell,
which she could only do one inch at a time and which took over 40 minutes, and not permitted to
have it taken off to use the sanitary facilities. On 9 September, she was again insulted and
placed in the Di Lao device with three other practitioners. Thirty six other practitioners were
reportedly handcuffed with self -tightening handcuffs to window rails in the prison hallway.
They are said not to have been allowed to use the toilet or move their legs. On 10 September,
about 30 practitioners allegedly recited together and were reportedly beaten, inter alia on their
face and mouth, by five or six guards as well as by prisoners wanting to shorten their prison
terms. In the evening of 10 September, they were reportedly handcuffed in twos, back-to-back,
and were not allowed to move or talk. In the evening of 11 September, the handcuffs were
removed. They were said to have caused blisters, swollen hands and scars.
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* 254. Shuzhen Lu, the 71 -year-old mother of Hingzhi Li, the founder of the Falun Gong
movement, has reportedly been kept under house arrest in a suburb of Beijing
since 22 July 2000. She is said to be suffering from a heart problem, which reportedly
has worsened since her house arrest, leading to a diminution of her vision and a swelling of her
legs, restricting her from moving around. The police reportedly refused to offer her medical
treatment or to provide her with sufficient food and water.
* 255. Xu Yanzhong, from Jiaozhou city, Shandong Province was reportedly sent
on 25 April 2000 to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city for practising Falun Gong. He was said
to have been tied up and forced to take medicine and have injections in the 10 days that
followed. He allegedly suffered physical and mental mistreatment. As a result of the injections,
he reportedly suffered weakness all over his body, difficulty in opening his eyes, nervousness
and depression.
* 256. Kuang Bencui, from Jiaozhou city, Shandong Province, reportedly went to Beijing.
On her way to Tiananmen Square, she was reportedly arrested and sent to the Jiaozhou Liaison
Office in Beijing. Then, she was sent to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city. During her time in
the mental hospital, she was reportedly forced to take medicine and have injections. When she
refused, two men allegedly seized her arms, pinched her nose and drove a chopstick between her
teeth to force-feed her with medicine. She was reportedly force-fed three times a day, the dosage
being increased from one tablet at a time to six tablets at a time.
* 257. Tan Guihua,was reportedly arrested by officers from her work unit and the Politics and
Law Commission in her home on 12 September 1999 and taken to the mental hospital.
There, she was given an injection. As a result, she reportedly felt faint and sick and her heart
beat accelerated rapidly. She allegedly lost consciousness. She received electric shocks on
seven occasions. After an injection, her periods reportedly stopped, she could not move her eyes
and had slowed -down reactions. A few days later, another medicine was said to have been
added to the injection. As a result, Tan Guihua's body shook violently. This was said to have
lasted 20 days. At the time of her release, she reportedly suffered from memory loss, she had
problems speaking, her eyes were dull and her reactions had slowed down.
* 258. Huang Jinchun, a civil court judge at the Beihai Intermediate People's Court in southern
Guangxi Autonomous Region was reportedly arrested at his home on 15 November 1999 and
detained at the Long Qianshan mental hospital in the city of Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. There
he is said to have been prevented from seeing his family for three months and to have been
injected with tranquilizers after he continued to practise Falun Gong meditation at the institution.
* 259. Wang Fenglan from Yujia village in Shiduitou, Ma Yufeng from Xiaojiajia,
Zhan Keyun, Wang Haohong, from Heya village, and Zhao Jinhua, a resident of Zhaoyuan
city in Shandong Province, were reportedly arrested on 27 September 1999 by the Zhangxing
County police. They were said to have been detained in the local police station, where they were
allegedly subjected to ill-treatment by police officers for refusing to read a book that denounced
Falun Gong. On 1 October 1999, while the practitioners were reportedly doing the Falun Gong
exercises, a number of police officers entered the cell and violently kicked and punched them
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and beat them with rubber clubs. They reportedly struck Wang Fenglan several times with a
club, tied her up with a telephone cord and gave her electric shocks. As a result, she is said to
have lost consciousness.
* 260. Liu Jing, a female Falun Gong practitioner from Jiangxi Province, was reportedly
arrested on 22 December 1999 on Tiananmen Square for practising her exercises. She was
reportedly taken to the Tiananmen Square police station and held until 24 December. During
that time she is said to have been subjected to a full body search, interrogation and torture by the
police. She reportedly sustained severe bruising on the back of her legs.
* 261. Cheng Fengrong and four other practitioners were reportedly arrested for attempting to
audit the trial of four Falun Gong practitioners on 26 December 1999. They were allegedly
detained in the Nihe detention centre of Shunyi county in Beijing. Cheng Fengrong was
allegedly forced to stay in a half -squatting position and was punched and kicked whenever she
could not maintain it. Police officers reportedly poured two basins of cold water on her back and
neck. The cold water allegedly froze under her feet. She was further said to have been brutally
beaten by police officers using a broom.
* 262. Gao Yulan, a female practitioner, was reportedly arrested at her home in Jiangsu
Province at 5 a.m. on 31 December 1999 when she was practising Falun Gong. A policeman is
said to have pulled her hair, slapped her face, kicked her and pushed her head under water. She
was reportedly detained for 16 days.
* 263. Chen Lingmei was reportedly arrested on Tiananmen Square on 19 November 1999, and
taken to the police station of Zhuozhou city, Hebei Province, where she was reportedly beaten
during interrogation. She was allegedly subsequently sent to a training centre with three other
practitioners, Zang Cuiqing, Chang Hengchun, and Xing Junhua Zang, to be "re-educated".
There, they were reportedly subjected for several hours to electric shocks all over their bodies
and to kicks and blows to their faces with a one -foot long wooden stick for refusing to write
statements promising to renounce Falun Gong.
* 264. Bai Lili was reportedly arrested and sent to Dongcheng detention centre in Beijing
on 25 October 1999. Police officers reportedly stripped her of her clothes. They are said to have
pulled her arms and hair in order to confiscate books. The next day, they reportedly tied up her
feet and arms and pushed her to the ground.
* 265. Wang Wei, Hu Shuzhi and Ning Guiying, three practitioners and contact persons from
Anshan in Liaoning Province, were reportedly arrested at their homes on 24 September 1999 and
detained in the Yuemingshan detention centre in Anshan city, Liaoning Province. They are said
to have been hung to a heating pipe and to have been beaten for a whole night for declaring they
would continue to practise Falun Dafa.
* 266. Chen Yajun, a woman from Ulumuqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,
and 15 other practitioners, from Jilin and Shaanxi Provinces, were reportedly arrested in an
apartment in Beijing on 19 September 1999. They are said to have been detained by the
ChaoYang branch of Beijing Public Security Bureau in the early morning of 20 September.
Chen Yajun is said to have been handcuffed behind her back until 24 September. She was
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reportedly forced to stand for 13 to 14 hours without any place to lean on and without access
to toile t facilities. A prison official is said to have verbally and physically abused her.
On 25 September, three policemen reportedly forced her to lie on the ground, tore her mouth
open and inserted pipes from her nose into her stomach to force-feed her.
* 267. Huang Xiuling was reportedly arrested by policemen and taken to Tiananmen police
station on 9 September 1999 and was allegedly transferred to Majuqiao police station and then to
Qiaozhuang detention centre. An officer is said to have ordered prisoners to beat her in order to
force her to hand in her books. The prisoners subsequently reportedly pulled her arms and legs,
punched and kicked her and stripped her of her clothes. The next day, she was reportedly
shocked with an electric club for practising Falun Gong. She was reportedly subsequently
placed in handcuffs and shackles, and dragged to each cell, where she is said to have been
shocked with an electric club as a warning to other prisoners.
* 268. Sixty detained practitioners, who had allegedly begun a hunger strike
on 7 September 1999 which continued for about nine days, amongst them two women
practitioners, Zhang Xihong and Jin Gang, were reportedly interrogated for between two and
three hours every day, insulted and beaten by police officers in Qiliqu detention centre in
Changping county, Beijing. On 10 September, a police officer reportedly forced them to stand
under the burning sun for three hours. Zhang Xihong reportedly had been on strike for 10 days
and was said to have been kept in chains locking her hands and feet together, so that her head
almost touched the ground when she walked. About nine other practitioners were reportedly
handcuffed for practising or being suspected of practising Falun Gong exercises in the detention
centre. A number of policemen of the Pre-trial Department reportedly tortured the prisoners,
using belts, iron wires and screwdrivers. They allegedly forced practitioners to bow 90 degrees
with their hands elevated over their heads, until they were close to losing consciousness.
Jin Gang was reportedly twice severely beaten on the seventh day of her hunger strike.
* 269. Wang Yan was reportedly arrested by the police in Shanhaiguan city on 22 July 1999.
The next day, she was said to have been transferred to Jinzhou and finally detained in the Fuzhen
police station in Liaoyuan city in Jilin Province. She was reportedly beaten and insulted for
refusing to sign a statement promising to give up Falun Gong.
* 270. Gu Zhiyou from Chongqing Tax School, Sichuan Province, was reportedly arrested
on 19 July 1999. In the jail, she is said to have been subjected to 24 types of ill-treatment,
including the "tiger stool" (where the thighs are reportedly tied to a bench and the legs are bent
into the opposite direction by adding bricks under the heels), piercing through fingers with sharp
bamboo sticks, electric chair, and electric shocks to the head and anus.
* 271. Zhang Xuefeng and other practitioners, amongst them Liu Xirong and Li Juhua were
reportedly arrested by two officials from Daqinjia town government, in Xiaozhuanshan village
on 1 January 2000. They were said to have been beaten with sticks and clubs in the village
office, and further at the county office.
* 272. More than 300 Falun Gong practitioners, amongst them a woman whose surname
was Xu, were reportedly detained in Balibao prison in Changchun city, Jilin Province,
before 1 October 1999, for refusing to write so-called "confessing statements". They are said to
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have been subjected to ill-treatment, such as being burnt by cigarettes and being beaten with big
clubs to the extent that the clubs broke during the beating. Xu was reportedly handcuffed, hung
up by a rope and beaten, which caused extensive injuries to her back.
* 273. Jimmy Zhimin Zou, a United States citizen was reportedly arrested
on 1 December 1999 on Tiananmen Square in Beijing for being a Falun Gong practitioner and
detained at Tiananmen Square police substation. There he was reportedly punched on his eyes,
shoulder and arms and had his legs kicked by three police officers. He was said to have been
subsequently handcuffed forcefully and to have been given electro -shocks to the waist with a
stun baton. He was then reportedly sent to the Anhui Agency in Beijing, where he was
reportedly detained in a room with about 30 other Falun Gong practitioners, where he was
allegedly body -searched, and punched in the face, chest and stomach area by two police officers.
One officer reportedly struck his feet with a baton. On the fourth day, he and two other
practitioners were reportedly dragged out of their cell by seven officers for practising
Falun Gong exercises. They were said to have been beaten and forced to stand facing the wall
with their knees bent.
* 274. Fourteen students of Tsinghua University in Beijing were reportedly arrested by the
police when they were attending a Falun Gong conference on the campus on 21 October 1999.
They were said to have been handcuffed, beaten up and tortured.
* 275. Hang Jizhen, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, reportedly went to Beijing
on 23 December 1999 to appeal to the central Government against the ban on the Falun Gong.
In Tiananmen Square, she was reportedly arrested and beaten. Police officers are said to have
escorted her back to Nanjing and to have detained her in Nanjing mental hospital ("Nanjing
Hospital for Brain Diseases"). She was reportedly given injections and pills, which are said to
have caused her to feel sick and extremely weak.
* 276. Ding Jianhua, the head of the Department of Health Care of the Public Security Bureau
of Jiangsu Province, was reportedly sent to the Nanjing Brain Hospital on 3 October 1999 for
refusing to give up her belief in Falun Gong. There she was said to have been subjected to
forced treatments which reportedly slowed her reactions and blurred her eyesight.
* 277. More than 20 practitioners, among them teachers from the Laiyang School of
Medicine, teachers from Laiyang Higher Education through Broadcasting and TV, doctors from
the Laiyang central hospital, and a practitioner from Qingdao city, are said to be detained at the
Yantai Mental Recovering Centre, located in Laiyang city in Shandong Province as of the end of
February 2000. They were reportedly forced to take medicines and given injections. They were
further said to have been required to pay expensive medical fees.
* 278. Bai Lili, Xu Wei (aged 4), Wang Youqun and Wang Shuge, four females, and
Yu Tian (aged 5), Zhao Qun, Li Hongshen, Luo Lijuan, Fei Menlin, Ju Linyan and
other Falun Gong practitioners reportedly gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing
on 4 February 2000 to appeal to the Chinese central authorities in relation to the ban on
Falun Gong. Lili Bai and Wang Shuge, who were holding up flags with the Falun Gong emblem
were reportedly pushed to the ground and brutally beaten, especially on the face, by police
officers attempting to seize the flags. They were reportedly subsequently arrested. Practitioners
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holding banners were allegedly beaten by plain -clothes agents and uniformed police officers and
taken to the Tiananmen Square police station. A family, including a 5 year old child, Yu Tian,
were arrested. The practitioners from Linyi, Shandong Province, Zhao Qun, Xu Wei, and
Li Hongshen were reportedly beaten to the ground by six police officers and were subsequently
taken to a police van. More than 100 practitioners who are said to have practised meditation
sitting in the north-eastern corner of the square were reportedly frantically beaten. Women
practitioners were allegedly dragged to police vans by their hair. Dai, a practitioner from
Australia, was said to have been kicked in the back three times by a police officer and then
arrested. Zhen, a practitioner from Linyi district of Shandong Province, was reportedly severely
beaten and had blood on his face.
* 279. Liu Wenjie, Wang Hongbin, Zhang Zhaodong, and three women, Li Qun,
Qu Xiuhua and Liu Shuziang, were amongst thousands of practitioners who reportedly
petitioned the Governmental Appeal Bureau in Dalian city, Liaoning Province on 20 July 1999.
Policemen reportedly started beating them, in particular young male practitioners. Li Qun was
reportedly dragged by her hair and arrested along with nine other practitioners . In the police
station, many practitioners were said to have been beaten.
* 280. Six Falun Gong practitioners who had reportedly been arrested for appealing to the
central authorities in mid -1999 were reportedly paraded in the streets of Liqiaoxi village,
Guangrao county, in Shangdong Province in order to dissuade other Falun Gong practitioners
from going to Beijing. The so-called "parade" was reportedly led by five police cars and
followed by a police truck hung with anti -Falun Gong banners. The practitioners, who were
reportedly forced to wear large paper hats and only thin clothing in the cold temperature,
allegedly stood on both sides of the truck.
* 281. Fifteen Falun Gong practitioners who had gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong
were reportedly forcibly marched barefoot through the crowded streets of Pengjia town in
Shuangliu county, Sichuan Province, by the local police on 8 January 2000.
* 282. Zhao Xin, a lecturer of Beijing Industry and Commerce University, who was reportedly
arrested on 19 June 2000 by police officers of the Haidian police substation when she practised
Falun Gong exercises in the park. Several days later, her family is said to have received a
"critically ill" notice about their daughter, detailing that the fourth, fifth and sixth vertebrae in
her neck were fractured, that she had minor injuries to her head, that her left eye was bruised and
swollen and that she had problems breathing. She was reportedly transferred to Haidian hospital
in shackles and handcuffs. In hospital, she is said to be fed intravenously and to be supported on
a respirator.
* 283. Cheng Zhong was reportedly approached in Menghe town of Wujin city,
Jiangsu Province by a group of policemen and members of the Department of Civic Affairs
on 25 September 1999 and taken to the "Centre for Mental Diseases", Hospital No. 102 in
Changzhou. He was reportedly threatened. On 28 September, he was reportedly taken by
police officers to a mental hospital, the Third Hospital of Wujin city, where he was reportedly
forcibly medicated and subjected to electric shocks five times by doctors or policemen. He was
forcibly given medication for more than 10 days.
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* 284. Han Ji-zhen, from Nanjing City, reportedly went to Beijing to appeal to the authorities
on 23 December 1999. She was said to have been arrested upon arrival by a police officer, who
reportedly severely beat her. She was forcefully admitted to a mental hospital, the Nanjing
Brain Hospital, where she was said to have been forced to take injections and medication which
reportedly made her feel nauseous and weak.
* 285. The following cases of deaths in custody of Falun Gong practitioners have been
transmitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Government.
* 286. Gao Xianming, from Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, was reportedly arrested in
Tianhe park in Guangzhou city on 31 December 1999. He was allegedly subsequently
transferred to the Tangxia detention centre in Tianhe district. He reportedly died in police
custody on 17 January 2000 as a result of having been force-fed with highly salted water while
he was tied up and had his nose covered with a wet towel.
* 287. Liu Xuguo was reportedly arrested in October 1999 for protesting against the ban on
Falun Gong. He was said to have been sentenced to three years of "re-education through labour"
and sent in early February 2000 to a labour camp in Jining, Shandong Province. He is said to
have started a hunger strike before 5 February and to have been taken to a hospital the following
week, where he was reportedly brutally force-fed through a tube which severely injured his wind
pipe and led to a lung infection, which is said to have caused his death in the labour camp
on 11 February 2000.
* 288. Wang Xiuying, from Daowai district of Harbin city, reportedly went to Beijing
on 12 May 2000 with another practitioner. She was reportedly arrested on 13 May 2000, and
detained in the Jiaomen detention centre of Chongwen district in Beijing. While in detention,
she made several requests to the detention centre to allow practitioners to continue practising
Falun Gong and to unconditionally release all detained practitioners. They are said to have
subsequently started a hunger strike. The guards ordered that these practitioners be forced -fed
with high-density salt water. Wang Xiuying was reportedly forced -fed six times, five times with
high-density salt water which caused severe dehydration and loss of consciousness. After
delayed emergency treatment, she reportedly died in the evening of 22 May 2000.
* 289. Chen Zixiu, from Beiguan Xujia Xiaozhuang, Weicheng district, Weifang city was
reportedly arrested at Weifang railway station on her way to Beijing to make an appeal to the
authorities, taken to Chenguan Sub -district Office in Weicheng city and detained there for forced
"re-education" purposes. In the morning of 21 February 2000, her body was reportedly
transferred to the municipal hospital. Her body reportedly showed the following injuries: her
mouth was reportedly bloody, her teeth were broken, she had a distended abdomen, her legs were
swollen and covered in black and blue bruises from the hip down.
* 290. Chen Ying, from Jiamusi city, Heilongjiang Province was reportedly arrested at the
beginning of August 1999. She was said to have been sent back to Heilongjiang Province under
police escort. On the trip from Beijing to Heilongjiang Province, she was reportedly subjected to
insults, beating and threats by the police. As a result, she is believed to have jumped out of the
moving train and died.
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298. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted information, according to which a campaign
against the unregistered church in Guangdong Province, in south-eastern China, had been
initiated in October 1999, which is said to be typified by arrests, beatings, detention, forced
labour, raids, confiscation of property and heavy fines. The campaign has allegedly primarily
focused on Pastor Li Dexian; who is said to have been. arrested 15 times between October 1999
and May 2000. In May, he was reportedly tortured and held in chains with his wrists tied to his
ankles for five days, causing severe pain:
* 299. The Special Rapporteur received information on the following death in custody.
Zhao Dong, from Jixi city in Heilongjiang Province, who had been accompanied by police
officers, reportedly died from his injuries after jumping from a moving train. He had reportedly
been tortured by police and was in handcuffs at the time of the fall.
300. Finally the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of a number of cases
transmitted in 1998 and 1999 regarding which no reply had been received.
Urgent appeals and replies received
301. On 12 May 2000, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Xu Wenli,
who was reportedly in need of urgent medical attention. He had reportedly been detained
on 30 November 1998 and sentenced ori 21 December 1998 to 13 years' imprisonment. He
was' reportedly detained at Beijing Yangqingxian Labour Camp. The Chinese authorities are
reportedly denying him medication obtained by his wife for hepatitis.
302. By letter dated 21 November 2000, the Government replied that Xu Wenli had conspired
to establish an illegal organization in an attempt to subvert the State power and had received
financial aid from foreign organi2ations. On 21 December 1998, the First Intermediate People's
Court of Beijing found him guilty of crimes of subversion, and punished him to 13 years'
imprisonment and three years' deprivation of political rights. Upon being questioned by his
lawyer, he indicated that he would not appeal the sentence. The hearing was attended, upon the
showing of their identity cards, by his wife and 22 other people. When the indictment was read
to him, he stated that he would not accept a court-appointed lawyer. The court appointed a
lawyer to defend him at the first hearing. After meeting him, Xu Wenli accepted him as his
defence counsel. His trial by the judicial department was conducted in strict accordance with
legal procedure, and the trial was open, just, lawful and punishment was meted out on a strict
legal basis for his criminal activities in violation of Chinese law. Since having been diagnosed
as a hepatitis B virus carrier, he has been taking medication as directed by his physician. An
examination conducted at the prison in August 2000 indicated that his condition was back to
normal. He said that he was feeling very well. He has never suffered from hepatitis A. ,
Article 54 of the Prison Law provides for medical services for detainees. Medical care for
detainees should be included in sanitation and epidemic prevention plans of the area in which the
prisons are located. All prisons have their own medical services for the treatment of sick
convicts. There is a general hospital under the prison administration of every province,
autonomous region and municipality directly under the central Government. Convicts suffering
from serious diseases which are difficult for prison hospitals to manage are sent to prison general
hospitals or better -equipped local hospitals, or are released on bail for medical treatment.
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315. Concerning Chen Jinchang, Wen Shaorong and Yao Zeldin, the Government confirmed
that there had been a miscarriage of justice. On 17 February 1998 the Yunnan Provincial Higher
People's Court pronounced them and another person not guilty. They were released and
awarded compensation of 100,000 yuan renminbi. The Government confirmed that more
than 10 policemen and prosecutors were disciplined.
316. Concerning Fan Zhen, she is allowed 15 to 20 minutes exercise every hour. An inquiry
has confirmed that Fan Zhen herself states that she has not been subjected to any torture.
317. Concerning Abdul Helil, the Government indicated that he is now serving his sentence in
the Yili Prefecture detention centre. No evidence of extortion of his confession by torture during
his detention has been found.
318. Concerning Zhou Guiyi, he hanged himself the night stolen items from the
Xinzhou county post office, Hubei Province, were found at his place. Concerning Xiao Beizhou,
he was released on bail on 4 January 1998 by the Xinzhou County Procuratorate of Hubei
Province. On 8 January, he tried to hang himself at home and was immediately transferred to
hospital for emergency care, but he died on 13 January due to prolonged lack of blood and
oxygen in his brain and some complications. Concerning Yu Li, he was arrested on
26 February 1998 by officers of Xinzhou county. He injured himself during his arrest and was
immediately transferred to hospital, but he died on 23 May in the Xinzhou County People's
Hospital.
319. Concerning Liu Dongjie, the Government indicated that he had been arrested
on 12 August 1998 and had confessed in writing that he had taken a bribe. The following day,
he escaped and arrived at Peijia Village, Jiutai Municipality, Jilin Province. He later doused
himself with two buckets of petrol and burnt himself to death. It has been confirmed by the
investigation by the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that
the allegations that lie had been tortured contained in the letter referred to in the communication
transmitted by the Special Rapporteur are groundless.
320. Concerning Cheng Meiying, the allegations of torture are groundless.
* 321. Concerning Zhao Jinhua a Falun Gong practioner, the Government indicated that she
had refused to go to hospital for treatment although she had been suffering from heart disease for
a long time. Nevertheless, on 7 Oetober 1999, she fainted and was iminediately taken to
hospital. She was subsequently transferred to Zhaoyuang municipal hospital for intensive care,
but died on the way. The autopsy confirmed that she died of heart failure caused by acute
myocardial infraction. The allegations of torture are groundless.
* 322. Concerning Yu Hanxin, he was arrested in August 1999. On 23 December 1999, the
People's Procuratorate of Yueyanglou district, after examination of the case, decided to
countermand his arrest and the police released him without delay. An inquiry has revealed that
the local police did not torture him during interrogation.
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323. Concerning Bazu, whose Buddhist name is Ngawang Kyonmed, he was detained
on 17 December 1998. On 10 March 1999, proceedings were instituted against him and
on 6 January 2000 the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to three
years' imprisonment on the charge of incitement to split the State. He is currently serving his
sentence and is in normal physical condition.
324. Concerning Samdrul, whose Buddhist name is Chilai Qudan, he was detained
on 19 June 1998 and arrested on 17 December 1998. On 10 March 1999, proceedings were
instituted against him and on 6 January 2000 the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People's Court
sentenced him to four years' imprisonment on the charge of incitement to split the State. He is
currently serving his sentence and is in normal physical condition.
325. Concerning Norbu, whose Buddhist name was Liexie Danqu, he was arrested
on 5 May 1995 on suspicion of protecting criminals. On 22 November 1995, the Lhasa
Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to one year's imprisonment. In
February 1996, he was released after serving his sentence. He died in his home town in 1998.
The Government indicated that an inquiry had confirmed that he had not been tortured while in
detention.
326. Concerning Tashi Tsering, he was arrested on 26 August 1999 in flagrante delicto while
trying to ignite some explosives in Potala Square in Lhasa. He candidly confessed to the crime.
During his detention, he attempted to kill himself on several occasions. On 15 October, his
arrest was approved by the Lhasa Municipal People's Procuratorate. On 10 February 2000, he
committed suicide to escape punishment by severing his veins with a sharp instrument. An
inquiry confirmed that he had not previously been tortured.
327. Concerning Li Juhua, Zhou Zhi, Yang Junhua and Zhang Xiaohong, the Government
indicated that it was not able to determine their whereabouts.
328. Finally, the Government indicated that it had consistently prohibited torture and other
forms of ill-treatment and had adopted various effective measures to prevent and to punish such
acts. It stressed that the People's Republic of China was one of the earliest States parties to the
Convention against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, and has conscientiously fulfilled its obligations. Article 246 of the Criminal Law
provides that any judicial functionary who extorts confessions from criminal suspects or
defendants or extorts testimony from witnesses by violence shall be sentenced to fixed -term
imprisonment of not more than three years, or to criminal detention. If their victims are injured,
maimed or killed, they shall be punished with due severity. Article 248 provides that if
supervisors in prisons, detention centres and other places of detention subject the inmates to
beatings, other forms of corporal punishment or ill-treatment, they shall, in serious cases, be
sentenced to fixed -term imprisonment of not more than three years, or criminal detention; if the
circumstances are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed -term imprisonment of not
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less than three years and not more than 10 years. Article 22 of the People's Police Law provides
that police officers are forbidden to extort confessions or to subject prisoners to corporal
punishment or ill-treatment. They are not allowed to beat prisoners or instigate others to do so.
Police officers who commit such acts shall be subject to administrative sanctions. If the acts
constitute crimes, the perpetrators' criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to the
law. There are similar specific provisions concerning prison officials in the Prison Law. Finally,
the Government stated that victims are completely free to appeal, in accordance with legal
procedures.
Observations
329. The Special Rapporteur appreciates the responses of the Government and is encouraged
by the reference to a specific case of law enforcement officials being found guilty of extorting
confessions. Nevertheless, he regrets that the Government has not been in a position to consider
that its invitation to the Special Rapporteur to make a "friendly visit" to China (that was to take
place in May 2000) amounted to an acceptance of the Special Rapporteur's request for a standard
fact-finding visit. He has sought to pursue contacts with the Permanent Mission of China to the
United Nations at Geneva, with a view to finding a solution that would take account of the
Government's concerns, while remaining consistent with the Special Rapporteur's belief that his
standard methodology is important to his work and that he should not discriminate between
countries.
330. Meanwhile, he notes that the Committee against Torture, in its review of China's third
periodic report under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment in May 2000, expressed its concern about "the continuing allegations
of serious incidents of torture, especially involving Tibetans and other national minorities"
(A/55/44, para. 116). The Special Rapporteur shares that concern and, in the light of the above
allegations, considers that the same concern must also extend to adherents of Qi Gong groups,
such as Falun Gong and Falun Dafa.
331. Among the important recommendations of the Committee against Torture, he believes
the following should be highlighted:
That a definition of torture that fully complies with the definition contained in the
Convention be incorporated in domestic law (ibid., para. 123);
That consideration be given to abolishing the requirement of applying for
permission before a suspect can have access for any reason to a lawyer whilst in
custody (ibid., para. 126) and to abolishing all forms of administrative detention,
in accordance with the relevant international standards (ibid., para. 127); and
That the prompt, thorough, effective and impartial investigation of all allegations of
torture be ensured (ibid., para. 128).
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NATIONS
Economic and Social Distr.
Council GENERAL
E/CN.4/2002/76/Add.1
14 March 2002
Original: ENGLISH/
FRENCH/SPANISH*
ENGLISH/FRENCH/SPANISH ONLY
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-eighth session
Item 11 of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO
ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT, IN PARTICULAR:
TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING
TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT
Report of the Special Rapporteur, Sir Nigel Rodley, submitted
pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/62
Addendum
Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received*
*. In view of its length, the present document is being issued in the original languages only, the
Conference Services Division of the United Nations Office at Geneva having insufficient
capacity to translate documents that greatly exceed the 32 -page limit recommended by the
General Assembly (see Commission resolution 1993/94, para. 1).
GE.02-11402 (E) 150402
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China
287. By letter dated 22 August 2001; the Special Rapporteur.advised the Government that he
had received information according to, ,Which no presumption of innocence is incorporated iii
Chinese law, nor the right to remain silent, nor protection against self-incrimination. Evidence
obtained through ill-treatment is said to be admissible in court and defendants are believed to
have few means to expose ill-treatment by Ale police before or during trial, as judges are reported
to have the power to limit arbitrarily a defendant's or defence lawyer's right to speak.
Furthermore, a defendant who speaks out in court is said to open him/herself to retaliation by
Prison officials if he/she is convicted.
288. The 1996 revised Criminal, Procedure Law (CPL) is said to repeat provisions in the 1979
law prohibiting the use of torture to extract statements, though not to exclude specifically the use
as evidence in court of confessions, statements or additional evidence extracted as a result of
torture. The Supreme People's Court's "Decision on specific issues in the implementation of the
CPL" (effective 8 September 1998) is said to stipulate only that such statements: "61.... cannot
become the basis for determining a case". It is reported that evidence extracted under torture
may still be used to supplement the major evidence used to determine a case, and that material
evidence derived from such coerced statements would not be excluded. The three specific
offences covering torture and other forms of ill-treatment in the 1997 revised Criminal Law,
i.e., torture to coerce a confession, extortion of a testimony by violence, and ill-treatment of
prisoners, are said to be applicable only to a limited range of officials in limited circumstances or
locations. Article 247 of the revised Criminal Law, which is said to criminalize "torture to
coerce a confession", reportedly provides that this crime is applicable to "judicial officers" who
inflict such torture on a "criminal suspect" or "defendant". Punishment is said to range from
detention for one to six months in a criminal detention centre, to three years' imprisonment.
Where such acts cause injury, disability or death to the victim, heavier punishment shall
reportedly be given, according to the provisions. of articles 234 (intentional injury)
and 232 (intentional homicide). Similarly, article 247, which also criminalizes the act of
"extorting testimony by violence", is said to be.applicable to "judicial officers" extorting
testimony from "witnesses". "Violence" is said to be generally limited to direct physical
violence. According to the information received, it is unclear whether "witnesses" cover all
remaining relevant parties to an investigation and trial, including victims and experts.. "Judicial
officers" are said to be defined in article 94 of the Criminal Law as "persons who exercise the
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functions of investigation, prosecution, adjudication and supervision or control". Prior to the
revisions, a wider range of officials could reportedly be prosecuted for "torture to coerce a
confession". Article 94 was said to apply to "State personnel" defined as "all personnel of State
organs, enterprises and institutions and other personnel engaged in public service according to
law" (1979 CL, arts. 136 and 83). Concerns have been expressed that this more restricted term
may not apply to officers hired temporarily, or seconded from non judicial departments to assist
in criminal investigations. Furthermore, it is reported that academic opinions appear to indicate
that only "judicial officers" with specific responsibilities for interrogation could be prosecuted
for these crimes. Previous judicial interpretations are also said to have given de facto powers of
interrogation to security divisions in non judicial government departments, enterprises and
organizations, and it is allegedly unclear whether such staff may now be prosecuted for these
crimes. Furthermore, the use of the term "criminal suspect" or "defendant" in article 247 would
appear to mean that these offences do not apply when the victim of torture is being detained
outside the criminal process.
289. In addition, the procuratorate, which directly investigates and prosecutes torture and other
offences committed by public officials, is believed to continue to set criteria for taking up cases
which further limit the application of these offences. Under the 1999 Trial Rules, such cases
should be filed for investigation only when the offences have involved one of the following:
cruel methods or evil impact; they have resulted in suicide or mental disorder; they have caused
unjust, false or erroneous cases; coerced confessions/extorted testimony by violence more than
three times or against more than three people; or instigating, instructing or forcing others to
coerce confessions/extract testimony by violence.
290. Sanctions applied for the police and procuratorate are believed to be insufficiently severe.
Provisions for the procuratorate (25 May 1998) reportedly stipulate that the minimum sanction is
a "demerit point", and that in cases where the "circumstances are serious or cause serious
consequences" the disciplinary sanction may only be demotion. Under the 1995 Police Law, the
minimum administrative sanction is said to be a warning and the most severe the expulsion of
the person found responsible. Later regulations are believed to state that responsibility for
"errors" (including for forcing confessions or testimony) will not be pursued, inter alia where
judicial interpretations are inconsistent; where the police officer was carrying out an order from a
superior; or where the police officer was handling a case according to regulations on cooperation
with other units.
291. The Special Rapporteur also transmitted information on the following individual cases.
292. Chimey Rinzin was reportedly arrested in 1997 in lieu of his father, who had been
evading arrest, and detained in Ngaba Prison, where he is believed to have been tortured in order
to make him confess his father's whereabouts. As a result, he suffered from brain damage and
died while in detention.
293. Zhou Jiangxiong, a farmer from Hunan province, was reportedly tortured to death in
May 1998, when officials from a township birth control office allegedly tried to make him reveal
the whereabouts of his wife, suspected of being pregnant. He was reportedly hung upside down,
repeatedly whipped and beaten with wooden clubs, burned with cigarette butts, branded with
irons and had his genitals ripped off.
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301. Xue Jifeng, a labour activist from Zhengzhou, Henan Province was reportedly forcibly
confined in Xinxiang City Psychiatric Hospital from 17 December 1999 to 20 June 2000 by the
Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau, after attempting to register the Zhengzhou Workers'
Association. He was reportedly forced to take drugs producing serious side effects. He was
released only after agreeing not to participate in politics or "care about other people's affairs".
He had reportedly been detained in the same hospital in November 1998 for one week after suing
Henan Province Communist Party for its role in the winding up of the Three Stars investment
company.
302. Liu Haitao, a member of the Chinese Evangelical Fellowship, was reportedly arrested
on 14 September 2000 in Jiaozuo City. He reportedly died whilst detained by police in
Xiaoyi County Detention Centre, Henan Province on 16 October 2000, as a result of severe
beatings. Food and hygiene conditions were also allegedly poor and he had developed a high
fever, with vomiting and breathing difficulties, in early October, for which he was reportedly
denied medication.
* 303. Zhang Zhenggang, from Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province, was reportedly arrested
on 2 March 2000 and transferred to the Huai'an City Detention Centre. He was reportedly
severely beaten on or around 25 March, suffering severe head injuries, from which he never
regained consciousness. On the evening of 30 March, after doctors found Zhang Zhenggang's
pulse very weak, about 40 police officers reportedly cordoned off the ward and intervened with
the doctor to shut off his oxygen supply and blood transfusion. Subsequently, police officers are
said to have removed Zhang Zhenggang's body to the city crematorium and to have attempted to
bar access to the family.
304. A newborn "out of plan" baby boy was reportedly beaten and killed by birth control
officials in Caidian village, Hubei Province on 15 August 2000. The baby had first been rescued
by a health worker, who had taken him home. There, five birth control officials reportedly
grabbed the baby from her, kicked him repeatedly and then drowned him at a paddy field.
Earlier, they had reportedly brought the nine -month -pregnant mother to their office and had
injected her to kill the baby. When the baby was born alive, they instructed the father to kill
him. Chen Shengli, Director of the State Family Planning Commission's Information and
Education Department allegedly said the officials had "unfortunately ... killed the infant, and
there is not much we can do now to change the outcome".
305. Xi Zhaofu, aged 17, reportedly died on 5 February 1999 after being beaten in the chest
by an adult inmate in Huaihua City Detention Centre No. 2, Hunan Province, on transfer into a
new cell, together with four other prisoners. His attacker is said to have been a prisoner serving
a suspended death sentence for intentional injury and to have been executed as punishment for
the attack.
306. The Special Rapporteur has transmitted information on the following individual case in
the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
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321. Lobsang Sherab, a monk whose lay name is Norbu, was reportedly detained in
early October 2000 by Security Bureau officers under the suspicion of involvement in
pro -independence activities, and detained in the Tibet Autonomous Region Public Security
Bureau Detention Centre, during which time he allegedly suffered ill-treatment, resulting in a
fractured leg and head injuries. He was reportedly released on 24 November 2000 before
sentence. His condition allegedly deteriorated drastically, and he reportedly died
on 20 October 2000 from a brain haemorrhage.
* 322. The Special Rapporteur has continued to transmit to the Government information
according to which many Falun Gong and Falun Dafa practitioners, alone or in groups, have
been taken by law enforcement officials to mental hospitals where they were reportedly detained
for periods varying from a few days to several months, without receiving a psychiatric
examination before being detained. They are also said to have been forced to take drugs.
On 20 January 2000, a spokesman for the Changguang police station in Fangshan district in
Beijing, is said to have confirmed to a foreign journalist that around 50 practitioners, mainly
women, were being held at the Zhoukoudian psychiatric hospital near Beijing. He reportedly
said that they were "not patients", but that they were confined "to be re-educated".
323. With respect to Falun Gong and Falun Dafa practitioners, the Special Rapporteur
transmitted information on the following individual cases.
* 324. Zhang Shuqi was reportedly arrested on 26 December 1999 and detained in Xicheng
Detention Centre until 14 January 2000, when her relatives were told to pick her up. During the
journey home, she reportedly told them about the ill-treatment she allegedly suffered, including
force-feeding through the nose during a hunger strike. Within an hour of returning home, she
allegedly started to vomit and lost consciousness. She reportedly died on the following day in
Beijing University Hospital.
* 325. Liang Quing (f), from Dalian city, Liaoning province, was reportedly sentenced without
trial to three years of "re-education through labour" for having sent information about the torture
of fellow Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Chunqing (f) to the foreign media. She was reportedly
first detained for 26 days from 20 July 1999 at the Yaojia detention centre in Dalian, and again
on 24 October. Zhang Chunqing (1), who had given an account of her ill-treatment at the
Yaojia detention centre in September, was reportedly also re -arrested in October and sentenced
to three years "re-education through labour" at the Mashanjia camp.
* 326. Liu Jiankun from Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, was reportedly assigned to one year
re-education through labour in February 2000 in Baiquan labour camp. When he continued
practising Falun Gong exercises, guards reportedly instigated inmates to beat him severely.
In May 2000, he reportedly complained of pains in his chest and by 2 July he was unable to eat.
He was reportedly required to continue with heavy labour until 5 July, when officials notified
his family to collect him for medical treatment. City and district hospitals are said to have
confirmed that his ribs were fractured and fluid had accumulated in his chest. He reportedly died
in hospital on 27 August 2000.
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* 327. Wang Xingtian from Dayang Ningjin County, Hebei Province, was reportedly detained
in the "legal education centre" of his village to prevent him from travelling to Beijing to appeal
against the Falun Gong crackdown on 21 February 2000. He was reportedly transferred to
government offices in Beiquanli village around 23 March, where he was denied food.
On 25 March, he was reportedly beaten by hired workers using batons and iron rods. Wang's
family reportedly had to pay a bribe before they could take him home in an unconscious state.
He reportedly died later that day.
* 328. Liu Xiaoling (f) was reportedly arrested on the eve of the 2000 Chinese spring festival,
and detained at the Zhaodong City Detention Centre, where she went on a hunger strike.
On 13 or 14 May 2000, the police reportedly force-fed her. As a result of beatings, her ribs
were fractured, causing them to puncture her lungs.
* 329. Mei Yulan (f) was reportedly arrested on 13 May 2000, detained in Chaoyang District
Detention Centre, Beijing, where she was allegedly force-fed saltwater and soya bean milk
through her nose on 17 May, by a fellow inmate with no medical skills who guards claimed was
a nurse. Shortly after returning to the cell she allegedly began spitting blood, but she reportedly
did not receive medical treatment until the next day. Her hands and feet reportedly became cold
and her eyeballs stopped moving. She was reportedly transferred to the Minghang hospital,
where she died on 23 May.
* 330. Zhuang Yongxing from Qionghai in Hainan, was reportedly arrested on 7 October 2000,
and taken to the seventh floor of the Jingrong building for interrogation. On 8 October 2000, he
was found dead in front of the same building, his body covered with cuts and bruises. The police
reportedly claimed that he had jumped from the building's balcony to avoid punishment.
* 331. Yang Guibao, a resident of Beixingbao village, Zhangjiakou City, was reportedly
arrested on 24 October 2000 in Beijing, and detained at the Xuanwu District Detention Centre,
where police took turns beating him and ordered other detainees to do so for a day. He was
reportedly escorted back by the Beixinbao village local police (Huailai County, Zhangjiakou
City) on 27 December 2000, where he is believed to have been kicked, beaten with a bamboo
stick and shocked with an electric baton. He reportedly died in hospital on 14 January 2001.
The doctor allegedly identified the cause of his death as suffocation from concentrated salt water,
to which he had been subjected after going on hunger strike.
* 332. Xu Bingyuan and Lou Aiqing were reportedly arrested on 20 December 2000 in the
central city of Qingdao for having hung up posters saying "Falun Gong is good" and were both
beaten to death.
* 333. Xia Shucai reportedly died as a result of police beatings on 22 December 2000,
two weeks after his arrest at a train station in Caiyang City, Shandong.
* 334. Zhang Maoxing, a resident of Chenzi, Jiangxi Province, was reportedly arrested by
police on 25 December 2000 and detained at a Beijing detention centre, where he is believed to
have been severely beaten. He was subsequently returned to Jiujiang County Detention Centre,
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where he allegedly died a few days later. He reportedly sustained bruises all over his face and
lip. His wife is said not to have been allowed to see his body, which was cremated as soon as
he died.
* 335. Zong Hengjie was reportedly severely beaten on 1 and 3 October 2000 in the Tiexi
district police substation, resulting in his death. The police allegedly claimed that he committed
suicide. The authorities reportedly did not allow an autopsy and ordered his body to be
cremated.
* 336. Wang Bin was reportedly beaten for three hours by guards at the Dongfeng labour camp,
and subsequently died on 5 October 2000.
* 337. Xie Guiying reportedly died as a result of beatings he was allegedly subjected to at a
police station in the eastern city of Zhunan on 18 October 2000.
* 338. Zhao Yayun reportedly died on 20 June 2000 at the Wanjia Labour Camp in Harbin
City, Heilongjiang Province. She reportedly bore bruises around her eyes and shoulder blades,
her face was swollen and strangulation marks were visible on her neck. On the same date, at
least 14 other female Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of the torture they were allegedly
subjected to. Officials from the central and provincial governments are said to have
subsequently inspected the camp.
* 339. Shi Yingchun (f) was reportedly arrested for practising Falun Gong in a local park
on 5 October 2000. In custody at the Huludao Detention Centre she was reportedly beaten by
the guards when she continued to practise Falun Gong exercises. Two guards repeatedly beat her
buttocks, using nail -studded clubs and plastic hoses. She was also handcuffed and shackled for
several days.
* 340. Zhao Shuijing (f) was reportedly caught by a group of plainclothes policemen
on 18 November 2000 when she went to Tiananmen Square, beaten and kicked and, as a result,
lost consciousness. She was allegedly dragged to the Tiananmen police station in a bad
condition and subsequently released. She had a bloody eyeball, a swollen face, a one -inch -long
cut inside her upper lip and a dislocated right shoulder.
* 341. Xin Ran, a 14 -year-old girl, and her 13 -year-old sister were reportedly detained at
Fangshan County, Beijing, on 16 December 2000, when they went with their mother to Beijing
to appeal for Falun Dafa. Xin Ran was allegedly slapped, pinched'on her face and beaten on her
buttocks with a stick by Fangshan police officers. The sisters were allegedly brought back three
days later to their school by local policemen from Sanhe City. Their mother is believed to have
been on a hunger strike and to have been released on 22 December 2000:
* 342. Li Jingchun (f) was reportedly detained in the Mentougou Detention Centre in Beijing
since 18 December 2000. She allegedly went on a hunger strike, on the fifth day of which, the
guards allegedly fed her through her nose. She was reportedly released on 30 December 2000
but her fever was said to have got worse and she was vomiting. She reportedly died
on 4 January 2001.
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* 343. Chu Congrui (f) was reportedly arrested in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
on 1 December 2000. She reportedly died in the Haidian District Detention Centre
around 13 December 2000. Her face and lips were reportedly swollen, her ears bloody and her
nose was broken. Her body is believed to have been cremated in Changping County, Beijing
on 18 December 2000.
* 344. Tian Baozhen (f) was reportedly arrested by officers of the Tiananmen police station in
November 2000, when she.went to Tiananmen Square. When she refused to reveal.her name and
address, she was reportedly sent to Xuanwu District Detention Centre in Beijing. She allegedly
went on a hunger strike and was subsequently interrogated, beaten and force-fed. She was
released and died several days later, on 11 December 2000.
* 345. Tong Zhentian was reportedly arrested and severely beaten by police in January 2001,
when he went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. He was taken to Shulan City police and then
sentenced to one-year at Jilin Labour Camp, where he was allegedly subjected to further
ill-treatment. He reportedly died on 4 July 2001 as a result of his injuries.
* 346. Tan Yongjie was reportedly arrested on 26 April 2001 for distributing flyers urging the
Government of China to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. After being severely
beaten by the local police, he was allegedly sent without trial to a labour camp in Boluo County,
where he was reportedly held for over a month and repeatedly beaten, and hung from a cell
window by a pair of handcuffs, with his feet barely touching the ground, for over five hours.
On 2 June 2001, his legs were reportedly burnt 13 times with a heated iron.
* 347. Li Changiun was reportedly detained on 16 May 2001 in Wuhan, for printing materials
that were believed to reveal human rights abuses against Falun Dafa practitioners in China. His
family is alleged to have been notified of his death on 27 June 2001. His face and neck were
bruised and distorted, most of his teeth were missing and his back was burnt.
* 348. Zuo Zhigang was reportedly arrested in his workplace, on 30 May 2001 by police from
the Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City and the so-called "610 office", taken to the
Qiaoxi District police station in Shijiazhuang, where he was allegedly interrogated and beaten to
death. His corpse reportedly bore many scars, there was a mark on his neck showing that a
string had been pulled tightly around it, and two big square-shaped holes on the back of his torso.
* 349. Liu Dongxue, a peasant from Dalou village of Shenxing town, Hebei Province, was
reportedly detained at the county detention centre, along with his wife, on Chinese New Year's
Eve 2001. He allegedly resorted to a hunger strike for four months to protest his illegal
detention and persecution, during which he was reportedly forced -fed and severely beaten.
At the end of May 2001, he was reportedly covered with cuts and bruises and weighed less
than 25 kilograms. It is reported that he was sent home, where he died on 31 May 2001.
* 350. Wu Qingbin reportedly died on 20 July 2001, after being forced to drink disinfectant at
Huainan labour camp. He is alleged to have been in and out of re-education and labour camps
since March 2000 and to have suffered repeated torture for his refusal to renounce his faith.
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351. By letter dated 30 September 2001 sent jointly with the Special Rapporteur on violence
against women, its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government
that he had received information on the following individual cases.
352. Between March 1997 and June 1998, the director and deputy director of Qinjia Township
police station, Xinhua County, Hunan Province, had illegally detained 42 young women who
worked in other provinces, handcuffing, kicking, beating, humiliating and threatening them in
order to extract confessions that they had engaged in prostitution. In September 1999, they were
reportedly sentenced to one year and to six months in prison respectively for detaining the
women. Both sentences were allegedly suspended for one year.
353. On 17 May 1999, the head of the Public Security Bureau Communication Department of
Xinmi City, Henan Province, a police colleague and a security guard reportedly apprehended a
young woman, detained her at their office, demanded that she admit to prostitution, beat her with
police batons, gave her electric shocks to her breasts and thigh, sexually assaulted her, kicked
and beat her. They reportedly forced her to sign a guarantee, threatening to send her to a labour
camp. They reportedly told her they had been lenient to her and that, with women from other
towns, they would apply electric shocks to their vaginas until they confessed.
354. By letter dated 31 August 2001 sent jointly with the Special Representative on human
rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received
information on the following individual cases.
355. Wang Wanxing, a human rights activist, was reportedly forcibly taken to Ankang
Psychiatric Hospital in Beijing on 23 November 1999, and then to Ankang Public Security
Hospital, managed by the Beijing Public Security Bureau, on 3 June 1992 after trying to unfurl a
banner in Tiananmen Square. His wife was allegedly told he was suffering from a condition
called "political monomania". On 19 August 1999, Wang Wanxing was reportedly released
for a three-month period on condition that he not contact the media and dissidents. On
18 November 1999, he reportedly asked the authorities if he could hold a press conference on
expiry of the period. In response, he was forcibly returned to the hospital on 23 November.
* 356. Li Lanying, Chen Shihuan, Liu Jinling and Chi Yunling, four Falun Gong
practitioners from Zhaoyuan County in Shandong Province, were reportedly detained in
November 1999 for disclosing details of the death as a result of ill-treatment of Zhao Jinhua (f).
In December 1999, Li Lanying and Chen Shihuan were reportedly sentenced to three years'
"re-education through labour" in a labour camp in Zibo County, Shandong Province. Liu Jinling
and Chi Yunling were reportedly still in custody in January 2000.
357. By letter dated 11 September 2001, the Special Rapporteur reminded the Government of
a number of cases transmitted in 1998 regarding which no reply had been received.
Urgent appeals
* 358. On 7 February 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of
Tang Xi Tao (f), arrested on 6 July 2000. She had allegedly been charged with disrupting public
order in relation with her participation in Falun Gong exercises and sentenced to two years'
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imprisonment after an allegedly unfair trial. According to medical reports, she has serious health
problems, such as renal calculus and cardiac troubles. She is reportedly being detained at
Cha Tou Penitentiary, Canton, Guangdong Province, where she has allegedly been subjected to
ill-treatment, including being handcuffed and isolated for several days, forced to sleep on the
ground with other detainees, verbally threatened, intimidated and obliged to perform forced
labour..
359. By letter dated 17 May 2001, the Government responded that she had repeatedly engaged
in attacks on government organs, severely disrupting public order. In June 2000, she was
assigned by the Guangzhou Re-education through Labour Committee to two years' re-education
(from June 2000 to June 2002) in the Chatou re-education facility in Guanzhou. In view of her
age, she has been repeatedly taken for physical check-ups and timely medical attention. The
Government indicated that accounts of her suffering ill-treatment during re-education were
purely fictitious.
360. On 22 February 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of
Rebiya Kadeer (f) and Kahriman Abdukirim, her secretary, detained at Prison No. 2, in
Baijiahu, Urumqui, and at Umriqui Prison No. 3, respectively. Both were believed to be in a
poor state of health due to the alleged bad conditions of their detention, including inadequate
food. Rebiya Kadeer was transferred from Liudaowan to Prison No. 2 after her appeal against
her eight-year sentence was rejected by the Xinjiang High People's Court on 28 November 2000.
Kahriman Abdukirim is said to have been removed from the Wulabai Re-education through
Labour School in Urumqi to Umriqui Prison No. 3 on 27 May 2000 and he is reportedly
currently serving a three-year term of "re-education through labour" for his association with
Rebiya Kadeer.
361. By letters dated .15 January and 12 June 2001, the Government affirmed that Rebiya
Kadeer's right to proper treatment and physical and mental health were respected and that her
physical condition was normal. On 10 March 2001, the Urumqi Intermediate People's Court had
established that Rebiya Kadeer had, inter alia, long been collaborating with overseas elements
engaging in ethnically divisive activities and had sent intelligence reports abroad endangering
State security. The Court hence sentenced her to eight years' imprisonment for the criminal
supply of State intelligence for parties abroad. Her appeal was rejected by the Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region Higher People's Court. The Government indicated that Rabiya Kadeer was
now serving her sentence at the Xinjiang Autonomous Region No.1 prison, where she was in
good health with a steady morale. The Government also stated that Kahriman Abdukirim and
Rebiya Kadeer's son had been assigned by the Urumqi Municipal Re-education through Labour
Committee to 18 months and two years' re-education through labour respectively for disturbing
public order, and for having repeatedly supplied separatist elements abroad with material
designed to fan ethnic hatred and imperil State security. The Government indicated that their
punishment was entirely due to their own conduct. Both are serving their term at the Urumqi
facility. Both are in good health and have received family visits. The Government specified that
re-education through labour was remedially oriented. It did not seek to attribute criminal
responsibility to petty offenders or to treat them as criminals. Its aim is to educate and reform
them, to help them through persuasion and to turn them by means of education, labour and
instruction in productive skills into disciplined, law-abiding, moral, useful human resources with
some culture and technical abilities.
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362. On 7 May 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special
Rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression and the Chairman-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Gao Zhan, a research fellow at the
American University in Washington D.C., who has been detained incommunicado since she was
arrested by officers of the Beijing State Security Bureau at Beijing Airport on 11 February 2001.
She was believed to have been charged on 2 April 2001 with accepting "missions from overseas
intelligence agencies" and taking "funds for spying activities in mainland China". She is said to
be suffering from heart disease. Her place of detention was unknown.
363. By letter dated 2 August 2001, the Government responded that she had joined a
Taiwanese spy organization in 1993 and entered China several times to engage in espionage.
She had incited the defection of an official responsible for affairs concerning Taiwan, who stole
a large quantity of confidential documents, which she sent to a Taiwanese espionage unit,
endangering the security of China. Gao and her husband were interrogated and candidly
confessed to their spying activities. On 24 July 2001, Gao Zhan was sentenced to 10 years in
prison by the First Intermediate People's Court, but was released on parole on medical grounds.
Her husband, who was an accomplice, supported the police investigation, as a result of which the
Procuratorate decided on 8 March 2001 to allow him to leave for the United States with his son.
During the examination of the case, their son Andrew was placed in a kindergarten in Beijing
with their consent.
364. On 21 June 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special
Representative on human rights defenders on behalf of Zhang Shanguang, a labour activist who
is facing a 10 -year sentence at the Hunan No. 1 prison, an electrical machinery factory in
Yuanjiang City, central Hunan Province. He was reportedly beaten by prison guards and put in
solitary confinement after he allegedly circulated a petition, dated 15 March 2001, demanding an
end to torture and long working. hours. Other prisoners who signed the petition were reportedly
also beaten. The above-mentioned petition was smuggled out of the prison in April 2001 and
describes the conditions of detention in the penitentiary centre, as well as the corporal
punishments to which prisoners who are unable to do the work required or who complain are
allegedly subjected. Zhang Shanguang has reportedly contracted tuberculosis in the past and is
currently suffering from a lung illness. He is allegedly denied medical treatment. He is said to
be forced to do heavy work in shackles, and to be beaten when he tries to stop working.
* 365. On 3 July 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Han Yuejuan,
the widow of a United Nations observer and previous director of the Theory Office of the
Propaganda Department of Dongshan district in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. After
her husband's death in January 1993, she is said to have started to practise Falun Dafa. After
several arrests, she was reportedly placed in a "reform through labour programme" under the
surveillance of the Political and Public Security Departments. On 22 December 2000, her work
unit was said to have been ordered to send her to a "transformation class" at a great distance
from Guangzhou City, which the unit refused. Han Yuejuan reportedly escaped the surveillance
and went to appeal in Beijing, where the police are said to have arrested her, to have bound her
hands behind her back and to have beaten her severely. In June 2001, the police reportedly
re -arrested Han Yuejuan at Yifangyuan in Xilang of Fangcun in Guangzhou and detained her in
Tianpingjia Detention Centre in Dongshan district in Guangzhou.
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* 366. On 25 October 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special
Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of Huang Guodong, a resident of
Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang province, and his son, who had reportedly been arrested by two
police officers at their home in February 2001 on the charge of having printed and distributed
Falun Gong flyers. They were reportedly taken to the Nanshan police station of Tielinghe in
Mudanjiang City, where the police are said to have tied them up and to have beaten them
violently for a whole day and night. Huang Guodong was reportedly subsequently transferred
to Mudanjiang Detention Centre, where he was said to be held in handcuffs and shackles. As a
result of the treatment he was subjected to during the previous eight months, Huang Guodong
is believed to have become incontinent and not to have been able to take in any food
since 10 October 2001.
* 367. On 30 October 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special
Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of Zhang Maoxing and his eldest
daughter Zhang Juan, who had reportedly been arrested in Beijing while protesting in favour of
Falun Gong and taken to the Jiujiang County Detention Centre in the Jiangxi Province, where
Zhang Maoxing allegedly suffered severe beating and was tortured to death on 25 January 2001.
The police reportedly did not allow Zhang's wife to see her husband for the last time, simply
because she is also a Falun Gong practitioner. To this date, Zhang Maoxing's daughter, Zhang
Juan, has reportedly been detained in the Jiujiang Detention Centre, under the control of the
Deputy Director of the Jiujiang Public Security Bureau, who is believed to be directly
responsible for Zhang Maoxing's death. It was reported that she was near death after having
endured brutal torture at the detention centre.
Follow-up to previously transmitted cases
368. By letter dated 9 January 2001, the Government responded to an urgent appeal sent in
May 2000 by the Special Rapporteur on behalf of Li Dexian (see E/CN.4/2001/66, para. 303).
The latter had for many years spread Christian propaganda and on many occasions organized
illegal meetings. Under the effects of his venomous pronouncements, some people had
abandoned their jobs and students their studies, which had a deleterious effect on the social
climate and had seriously disrupted people's usual production activities and life and their normal
religious activities. The local authorities had repeatedly endeavoured to re-educate him, but he
had refused to repent. In November 1999 and April 2000, the authorities twice sentenced him to
a punishment of 15 days' detention for disturbing public order. No shackles were used against
him. He was now at home and no coercive measures were used against him.
369. By letter dated 21 November 2000, the Government responded to an urgent appeal
sent in July 2000 by the Special Rapporteur on behalf of Zhuo Xiaojun (see E/CN.4/2001/66,
para. 306). On 26 December 1989, he had quarrelled with his neighbours over the erection of a
wall, during which he picked up a knife stabbing them in the chest and abdomen and another
man in the thigh. He was arrested on 30 December 1989 at the Jiangbin mansion in
Fuzhou, Fujian Province and handed over to the armed police unit at the public security
bureau in Changle. It was ascertained that no confession was extracted under torture.
On 7 September 1990, he was found guilty of deliberate homicide and sentenced to death by the
Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court. In January 1992, the Fujian Higher People's Court ruled
that findings of fact of the lower court were not clear, set the decision aside and sent the case
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back for reconsideration. In the same year, the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court sent the case
back to the procuratorial authorities for further investigation. In August 1993, the Court began
renewed hearings. In January 2000, the Fuzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court found
him guilty of deliberate homicide, and rejected his argument that there was no third party witness
to the act. The Government indicated that his appeal was currently before the Fujian Higher
People's Court. He is detained in normal custody and in good health. Allegations of his being
shackled and suffering from several illnesses are not true.
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-eighth session
Item 11 (a) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:
TORTURE AND DETENTION
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, Theo van Boven,
submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 2002/38
Addendum
Summary of information, including individual cases, transmitted to
Governments and replies received*
* The present document is being circulated in the languages of submission only as it
greatly exceeds the page limitations currently imposed by the relevant General
Assembly resolutions.
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China
290. By letter dated 2 September 2002, the Special Rapporteur advised the
Government that he had received information on the following individual cases.
291. Li Wangyang, a veteran labour activist in Shaoyang, Hunan province, was
reportedly sentenced on 20 September 2001 to ten years' imprisonment on charges of
"incitement to subvert State power", after he allegedly went on hunger strike,
demanding compensation for ill-treatment to which he had allegedly been subjected in
the past. It was believed that he was seriously ill with heart problems and goitre.
292. Xu Jian, a lawyer from Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, was reportedly arrested
in December 1999 and sentenced to four years' imprisonment by Baotou City
Intermediate People's Court on 18 July 2000 for "incitement to overthrow State
power". He was allegedly held in Area Two of Chifeng Prison, Inner Mongolia, and
that he was believed to suffer from hepatitis. His condition was said to have
deteriorated to a critical level.
293. By the same letter, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he
had continued to receive information on the following individual cases of Falun Gong
practitioners.
* 294. Helene Petit, a French woman, was reportedly assaulted by police officers on
20 November 2001 in Tienanmen Square, Beijing, where she was alleged to have
gathered with other foreigners to peacefully protest the alleged persecution of Falun
Gong practitioners. Reportedly, she was grabbed by the arms by two police officers
and taken away in a police van. It was reported that she was forcibly put into the van
and that her legs hit the door many times as a result of which she allegedly sustained
bruises on her legs. In the police van a police officer reportedly squeezed her neck
against the hedge of the seat and cut it with the strap of her handbag, strangling her
and preventing her from moving. At the police station she was reportedly pushed
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down the stairs and a policeman is thought to have tried to force his hands into her
genitals.
* 295. He Zhihong (f) was reportedly arrested on 3 July 2001 by the Sa District
Police, Daqing City, and taken to the Fuqiang Police Station, Daqing City, where she
was allegedly beaten and kicked by police officers. As a result, she reportedly
sustained bruises on her face and arms. On 4 July 2001 she was reportedly transferred
to the Daqing Detention Centre, where it was alleged that she was chained to an iron
chair and prevented from sleeping for six consecutive days by officers from Daqing
Police Station and the Sa District Police Station. As she reportedly went on hunger
strike to protest this treatment, she was allegedly force-fed. Despite her poor
condition, she was reportedly sent to perform forced labour in the Harbin City Drug
Rehabilitation Centre, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. In October 2001 she
reportedly went again on hunger strike and was allegedly forced- fed.
* 296. Tang Zengye (f) was reportedly arrested on 3 July 2001 for practising Falun
Gong and transferred to Daqing Detention Centre, where she was alleged to have been
beaten and kicked. She was reported to have been handcuffed and hung up for one
day and later handcuffed to an iron chair for four consecutive days. It was also
reported that she went on hunger strike to protest this treatment and that she was
eventually force-fed. On 10 July 2001 a doctor allegedly inserted a force-feeding tube
into her nose approximately 20 times and on 12 July 2001 she was reportedly force-
fed and dragged on the floor. An unknown substance was reportedly injected into her
by force and as a result she is believed to have become extremely weak. instead of
being transferred to a hospital, she was reportedly sent to the provincial drug
rehabilitation centre in Harbin City.
* 297. Chen Yutao was reportedly taken to Huanxiling Labour Camp on 25
September 2001, after having been detained for nine months in both the Detention
Centres No. 3 and No. 1 in Jilin City and sentenced to two years of forced labour.
Reportedly, upon his arrival at the labour camp, he was beaten with electric batons for
three hours by guards led by a policeman. Other inmates are believed to have been
instigated to beat him and to deprive him of food.
* 298. Wang Zhaohui, a Falun Gong practitioner, was reportedly arrested, detained
and beaten on 8 August 2001 at the Chuanying Branch of the Jilin City Police Bureau
and sent to Yongji County Detention Centre two days later. It was reported that he
was beaten again in the Detention Centre and that he went on hunger strike to protest
both the detention and the treatment to which he was subjected. On 24 August 2001
he was reportedly sentenced to three years of forced labour and sent to Huanxiling
Labour Camp, where he was allegedly handcuffed and beaten by the guards. A
policeman was said to have stepped on his shoulder for a long time. As a result, he
was allegedly unable to lift his arms for a fortnight. He was reported to have been kept
in Unit No. 3 where the other inmates were allegedly instigated by the guards to
attack him.
* 299. Chen Aizhong, a Falun Gong practitioner, was reportedly sentenced to three
years of forced labour on 12 September 2001 and sent to Tanghsan No. 1 Labour
Camp in Hebei Province, where he reportedly died on 20 September 2001. It was
alleged that when her sister saw her body in the mortuary, she observed bruises all
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over the corpse. Their younger brother Chan Aili, a Falun Gong practitioner as well,
was reportedly detained in Tangshan City Jidong Prison. On 8 January 2002 he was
said to have been seen by somebody who indicated that his weight had considerably
gone down and that he showed several signs of dementia.
* 300. Ming Zhao, a Falun Gong practitioner studying in Ireland, was reportedly
arrested on 1 May 2000 in Beijing and sent to Turn He Labour Camp, Beijing. He was
believed to have been kept in custody for 22 months without having been charged. It
was reported that in the labour camp he went on a hunger strike but was violently
force- fed. During his first month of detention at the labour camp, he was reportedly
beaten, in particular on the head, and kicked on the legs while he was tied to a chair.
He was believed to have been deprived of sleep and to have been forced to remain in
uncomfortable postures known as the "military squatting" and the "driving plane"
(sticking the back and arms to the wall with the face towards the ground). Two weeks
before being released, he was allegedly tightly tied on a wood bed board by five
policemen and subjected to electric shocks. He was reportedly released on 12 March
2002.
* 301. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are reportedly detained in Wanjia
Labour Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. They are allegedly forced to work
long hours, violently force-fed when on hunger strike to protest against their detention
or the conditions of their detention, or not given enough food, injected with
debilitating drugs and subjected to sleep deprivation or forced to sleep on wet weed
mats or on the ground. Despite the fact that winter temperatures are said to range
between -10° C and -20° C at night, detainees were reported to wear thin clothing and
guards allegedly left tie doors and windows open. It was reported that virtually all the
practitioners have scabies all over their bodies and some have developed cankers.
They were said to be often held in solitary confinement in approximately two square
metres cells for long periods, during which they were allegedly beaten and not
allowed to have visits, to talk, to take baths or to wash their clothes. The Special
Rapporteur had also received information according to which some detainees had
been tied to an iron chair for extended periods, raped, subjected to electric shocks and
beaten.
302. In particular, the Special Rapporteur had received information on the
following individual cases.
* 303. Zhang Yulan (f) was reportedly sent to the Wanjia Labour Camp in October
1999, where she was alleged to have died on 15 June 2001. Her family was reportedly
not allowed to see her corpse until 23 June 2001. It was reported that her body
sustained deep rope marks on her neck.
* 304. Li Xiuqin (f), detained at Wanjia Labour Camp since 26 December 1999,
started a hunger strike on 2 April 2001 to protest the treatment to which she was
allegedly subjected in the camp. She was believed to have been force-fed 16 times
during her 25 days of strike and to have been given rotten milk. It was reported that
she was grabbed by the hair, slapped and kicked on several occasions by the chief of
the Wanjia Labour Camp Hospital. Reportedly, on 18 June 2001 she was isolated into
a small cell where her hands were cuffed behind her back and pulled up until her toes
were off the ground by a guard. While in this posture, she was allegedly beaten. She
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was reported to have died after about 40 consecutive hours of hanging. Her body was
believed to have been cremated by the police before notifying her relatives of her
death. The family was allegedly sent an urn containing her ashes.
* 305. Shao Ying (f) was reportedly sent to Wanjia Labour Camp in 2000. On 3
April 2001 she allegedly went on hunger strike to protest her detention, which she
claimed to be illegal, and the treatment to which she was believed to have been
subjected while in custody. It was reported that she was beaten, in particular on the
head and chest, and kicked by the Chief of the Wanjia Labour Camp Hospital.
Another doctor reportedly inserted a tube into her stomach and then pulled it out four
consecutive times. She is believed to have died on 20 June 2001 after a guard
allegedly hung her in the air for approximately 40 hours.
* 306. He Miao (f) and Deng Weiguo were reportedly arrested in July 2001 by
officers from Harbin City Police Department. Deng Weiguo reportedly died after
having been thrown out of a window from the 12th floor of the Police Department
building. He Miao was allegedly transferred to Wanjia Labour Camp where she was
believed to have gone on hunger strike to protest her detention. She was allegedly
beaten by guards and subsequently taken into solitary confinement. She was believed
to have been force-fed with tubes by a doctor helped by some guards on 29 October
2001. She was reportedly grabbed by the hair, and repeatedly punched, slapped and
kicked. She was said to have been force- fed and beaten again on 1 November 2001. It
was alleged that on the 30th day of her hunger strike, on 20 November 2001, she was
dragged into a guard's office, handcuffed to a heater pipe, punched, kicked and
slapped by a guard and another detainee.
* 307. Gao Shuyan (f), a detainee at Wanjia Labour Camp, was reportedly put in
solitary confinement on 2 April 2001 and beaten by a guard. As a result, the following
day she allegedly went on huger strike in protest. On 6 April 2001 she was reportedly
force- fed. It was reported that on 16 April 2001 she was sent to the camp hospital
where she was allegedly forcibly given an injection.
* 308. Guo Minxsia (f) had reportedly gone on hunger strike several times to protest
her detention, which she claimed was illegal. It was reported that she was beaten by
the guards and other prisoners. On 24 October 2001 she was allegedly slapped twice
by the chief of the Wanjia Labour Camp Hospital. She was reported to have been
forcibly given an injection and taken into solitary confinement. On 7 November 2001
doctors from the camp allegedly pulled out her hair. She was believed to have been
force- fed for over 50 days and to have vomited blood on the fortieth day. On 6
December 2001 she was sent again to the Wanjia Labour Camp Hospital along with
four other Falun Gong practitioners on hunger strike, Hao Xiuzhi, Ding Yanhong,
He Miao, and Shang Yuxia. It was reported that they were all force-fed, hit and
kicked by the medical staff.
* 309. Guo Hongyu (f) was reportedly confined to an iron chair on 4 May 2001.
Several guards, the Chief of the Wanjia Labour Camp Hospital, and the leader of team
No.12 were reported to have forced a tube into her nose. As a result, her nasal cavity
and oesophagus were damaged and she started bleeding. She was then reportedly kept
restrained to an iron chair.
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* 310. Tan Guizhen (f) was reportedly sent to a small cell and tied to an iron chair
on 1 May 2001. She was reported to have gone on hunger strike to protest the
treatment to which she was subjected. On 4 May 2001 she was reportedly force-fed by
a guard who allegedly pulled up and down the force- feeding tube allegedly with a
view to hurting her.
* 311. Hao Xiuzhi (f) reportedly went on hunger strike in October 2001 to protest
her detention, which she claimed was illegal. She was alleged to have been force- fed
and forcibly injected on her ninth day of strike. She was believed to have been
grabbed by the hair, pinched and beaten by the guards and nurses.
* 312. Shang Yuqiu (f) reportedly went on hunger strike on 20 October 2001 to
protest her detention, which she claimed was illegal. On 20 November 2001 she was
reportedly grabbed by the hair and her head was hit against a wall by a doctor after
she refused to be force-fed. She was believed to have been beaten by two male
doctors until her face was bleeding.
* 313. Wu Jiyang (f) reportedly went on hunger strike on 24 January 2001 to protest
her detention and the treatment to which she was subjected. As a result, she was
reported to have been tied to the top of a cell door and hung by her wrists. It was
alleged that she had difficulty breathing and that she fainted. On her sixth day of
hunger strike, she was reportedly force- fed and tied to an iron chair.
* 314. Liu, Li Pan, Liu Fengzhen, Xie Jinxian, Yang Huiling, Song Yusu, Wu
Shulian, Cao Liandi, Wu Xinru and X Shurong, and approximately 60 other female
detainees were reportedly taken to male units on 24 May 2001 by order of the director
of the labour camp. The women were allegedly hung up, beaten, subjected to electric
shocks, forced to stand 24 hours a day or to remain in uncomfortable postures for
extended periods, deprived of sleep and not allowed to take showers or change
clothes. Several women were believed to have been raped by inmates and guards.
Reportedly, Song Yusu was put into a water tank; Wu Shulian was drenched and
subjected to electric shocks; Cao Liandi was hung up until she lost consciousness; Xie
Jinxian, Wu Xinru and X Shurong were hung up, beaten with batons and subjected to
electric shocks; Yang Huiling was hung up and her arm was dislocated; and Liu
Fengzhen and Xie Jinxian were sent back to the female units where they were tied up
and hung for five to six days, and beaten by the head of the female unit No.12.
* 315. Liu Dongyun (f) was reportedly grabbed by the hair by a chief, pushed to the
ground, beaten and kicked on 24 January 2001. It was alleged that she was
subsequently grabbed by the hair and dragged into a solitary cell. She reportedly went
on hunger strike for 30 days to protest this treatment. She was reportedly released on
10 May 2001.
* 316. Lei Chuanqing (f) was reportedly beaten by male police guards allegedly for
refusing to stop practising Falun Gong. She was believed to have sustained bruises all
over her body and to have had difficulty moving for one month. On 18 June 2001 she
was reportedly beaten approximately 40 times by two section chiefs and forced to take
off her pants in front of them.
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* 317. Wang Guihua (f) was reportedly sentenced to one year of forced labour in
Wanjia Labour Camp on 21 January 2001, after she allegedly went to Beijing in
December 2001 to appeal to the Government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. It is reported that in Wanjia Labour Camp she was beaten after she
allegedly practiced Falun Gong with other detainees.
* 318. Li Lan (f) was reportedly isolated in a cell for over seven months and tied to
an iron chair. She allegedly went on hunger strike to protest. On 16 November 2001,
two guards reportedly sealed her mouth with tape and beat her. Lu Shiping (f),
another detainee, was reportedly subjected to the same treatment. On the following
day, Li Tan was allegedly slapped in the face and gagged with dirty socks.
* 319. Ding Yanhong (f) was reportedly beaten by two guards on 2 November 2001
because she had allegedly been talking with her cellmate. It was reported that on the
following day she was beaten again by two other guards. She was believed to have
been beaten again with a broom on 6 November 2001.
* 320. Pan Xuanhua (f) was reportedly beaten by six policemen on 26 April 2000
and forced to sit on an iron chair for three days. She allegedly went on hunger strike
for 17 days to protest this treatment and was forced to sit again on an iron chair for
seven days and later taken to a solitary cell for approximately 45 days. On 10 August
2000 she was sent again, along with other Falun Gong practitioners, Zhang Hong, Li
Yanhong, Zuo Xiuyun and Wang Fang, to an isolation cell where she was kept for
five months. While in solitary confinement she was reportedly handcuffed and forced
to listen to loudly played recordings that allegedly slandered Falun Gong. On 24
January 2001 she was reportedly knocked to the ground, grabbed by the hair and arms
and taken again to an isolation cell where she was allegedly beaten and kicked.
Subsequently she was reportedly forced to sit on an iron chair. The guard reportedly
beat her with his fists and with electric batons.
* 321. Sam Guo was reportedly arrested in March 2000, and sent to the Feng Tia
Detention Centre. He was reportedly interrogated and beaten by the police. It was
reported that he was forced into a cell containing 25 prisoners. It was believed that he
was punched in the chest and kicked by other inmates, who then stripped him naked
and proceeded to slowly pour icy water on him starting from the head down. It is said
that the water was so cold that his head turned numb.
* 322. Many Falun Gong practionioners are reportedly detained in Shijiazhuang
Labour Camp, Hebei Province, where it was alleged that in 2001 the Labour Camp
authorities resorted to violence against them, including subjecting detainees to
beatings with clubs, electric batons and ropes, hanging them handcuffed on iron pipes
for extended periods during which only the tips of their toes could touch the ground,
inserting needles into their fingers, smashing their fingers with hammers, depriving
them of sleep, forcing them to stay in uncomfortable postures for long periods and
brainwashing them. Such assaults are reported to have been intensified in the second
fortnight of June 2001. Several Falun Gong practitioners, including Tao Hongsheng,
Liu Xiurong, Liu Shusong, Zhao Fengnian and Ding Gangzi, reportedly died as a
result of such treatment.
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* 323. A number of Falun Gong practitioners were also reported to be detained in
Masanjia Labour Camp, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. They were reportedly
forced to work 15 hours a day, forced to stay in uncomfortable postures for extended
periods (for instance, practitioners are said to be kept in a head -down bending posture
or forced to stand against a wall, to squat in a 30cm by 30cm area, or to stand with the
knees bent and the arms held parallel to the ground), beaten, subjected to electrical
shocks, kept in 8 by 3 feet isolation cells handcuffed to the door for one to two weeks,
and deprived of sleep. Some prisoners were believed to have been hung, with their
arms and legs spread for up to four hours.
324. In particular, the Special Rapporteur transmitted information on the following
individual cases.
* 325. Jiang Yuqing (f) was reportedly taken to a separate room on 2 August 2000
and beaten until she allegedly vomited blood. It was reported that afterwards she
could not eat and that she could barely walk. She was believed to have sustained cuts
and bruises all over her body, to have suffered from pain in her internal organs and to
have passed blood in her stool for over one month. She was also alleged to have lost
consciousness.
* 326. Yu Suzhen (f) was reportedly assaulted along with seven other Falun Gong
practitioners of Cell No. 2 on 7 August 2000. It was reported that her hair was pulled
and that she was slapped in the face. On 13 September 2000 she was reportedly
subjected to electric shocks.
* 327. Qi Zhenrong (f) had allegedly been stripped naked and hit with electric
batons several times. It is alleged that as a result she sustained blisters and bumps. In
September 2001 she reportedly took part in a hunger strike staged by 130 Falun Gong
practitioners, who were protesting their detention. She allegedly fasted for more than
40 days and was eventually transferred to Masanjia Labour Camp Hospital.
328. By the same letter dated 2 September 2002, the Special Rapporteur advised
the Government that he had received follow-up information concerning Geshe
Sonam Phuntsok on behalf of whom the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on
9 November 1999 (E/CN.4/2000/9, para. 236) to which the Government replied on 16
May 2000 (E/CN.4/2001/66, para. 310), indicating that inquiries revealed that there
were no such lamas as Geshe Sonam Phuntsok in Karze county. According to the new
information received, he was reported to have been sentenced in 2001.
* 329. By letter dated 10 October 2002, the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the
Special Representative on human rights defenders, advised the Government that he
had received information according to which Li Qun, who allegedly wrote a letter on
13 March 2000 to the Office of Appeal of Nanjing City government calling on the
Government to respect the rights of Falun Gong practitioners allegedly being confined
and forcibly given harmful drugs in the Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital, was reportedly
taken herself to the psychiatric hospital, where she was allegedly force- fed and forced
to take psychotropic drugs, with apparent damage to her brain.
330. By letter dated 17 October 2002, the Special Rapporteur reminded the
Government of a number of cases sent in 1998, 1999 and 2001 regarding which no
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reply had been received. By letter dated 11 November 2002, the Government
informed the Special Rapporteur that an investigation into the cases included in the
letter was under way. The Government indicated that a response will be provided in
the future.
Urgent appeals
* 331. On 24 January 2002, the Speical Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Special Rapporteurs on violence against women, and on the right to freedom of
opinion and expression and the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Connie Chipkar, a Canadian Falun Gong
practitioner, who had reportedly been arrested in Tienanmen Square, Beijing, on 23
January 2002. It is alleged that she wore a sash that read "Falun Gong" and "SOS" and
began to practise Falun Gong.
* 332. On 5 February 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief on behalf Wei Yanjiang, a
60 -year-old woman from Huludao City, Liaoning Province, who was reportedly
arrested on 22 December 2001 in Beijing. She was believed to have been detained at
the Shunyi County Police Station, Beijing, where she was handcuffed and forced to
stand outdoors in the cold winter weather, wearing only a shirt. To protest against her
arrest, she is believed to have gone on hunger strike. On the eighteenth day of her
hunger strike, she was reported to have been sent to Masanjia Labor Camp, where in
March 2001, three Falun Gong practioners were allegedly beaten to death.
* 333. By letter dated 24 May 2002, the Government responded that Wei Yanjiang
had twice been taken into administrative detention for disrupting public order and has
spent a year in re-education through labour. Following her release, she showed no
willingness to reform and continued to take part in activities that disrupted social
order. On 8 January 2002, the Huludao City law enforcement authorities assigned her
to three years' re-education through labour. The re-education facility treated her
sympathetically. She was found to be suffering from a heart disease and was given
prompt treatment. She was not ill-treated.
334. On 6 February 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Special Rapporteurn on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Xu
Fuming, Hu Yong, Gong Bangkun, Gong Shengliang and Li Tongjin (also known
as "Immanuel"), who were reportedly sentenced to death on 29 Decmeber 2001 in
Hubei Province in connection with their membership of an unofficial Christina
organization, the Hunan (South China) Church. Fears had been expressed that their
confessions may have been extracted under duress. They also intervened on behalf of
three women, Zhang Hongjuan, Li Tongjin and Yang Tongni, who had reportedly
been detained on separate occasions between August and October 2001, and were said
to have been tortured during interrogation in an apparent attempt to make them
confess to having had a sexual relationship with Gong Shengliang., who was
reportedly sentenced to death on charges including rape. Police officers at the Public
Security Bureau detention centre in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, reportedly
shackled Zhang Hongjuan's and Li Tongjin's hands and feet, ripped open their shirt
and beat them on the chest with an electric baton. Yang Tongni was reportedly kicked
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and beaten, tied up with a rope, whipped with a leather belt, had her hands cuffed
behind her back and had books wedged between the handcuffs and her back by police
officers at Jingmen Police School and Jingmen No.1 Detention Centre. Yong Tongni
and Li Tongjin were reported to be serving three-year terms at Sha yang Labour Camp
in Hubei Province. The whereabouts of Zhang Hongjuan were not known.
* 335. On 8 February 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of
Chen Yunchuan, who was serving a two-year sentence in Datangwan Prison of
Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. His wife, Wang Lianying, was said to be missing
since January 2001, their daughter, Chen Hongni, was said to be detained without
warrant in Gaoyang Labor Camp in Baoding City, Hebei Province, and their son,
Chen Aizhong, was said to have been sentenced to three years of forced labor in the
Tangshan No. 1 Labor Camp in Hebei Province. On 20 September 2001, eight days
after having been sentenced, the latter was allegedly tortured to death. His body was
said to have been covered with wounds and bruises. Furthermore, another son, Chen
Aili, was reportedly detained in the Tangshan City Jidong Prison where he was
believed to be suffering from serious depression and diagnosed as having a low
immune function due to depression. It is alleged that he was forced to take drugs
through force-feeding. They are all said to have been detained for practising Falun
Gong.
* 336. By letter dated 3 September 2002, the Government informed the Special
Rapporteur that the handing down of criminal sentences and labour re-education
sentences on them was conducted in accordance with the law and did not entail the
infringement of any human rights. Concerning Chen Yunchuan, the Government
indicated that he was sentenced on 9 January 2001 to a term of two years'
imprisonment for using threats of violence to obstruct public officials in the
performance of their duties. He was serving his sentence in the north district prison in
Shijiazhuang. While in prison he manifested good behaviour and his state of mind
was stable. Concerning Wang Lianying (Wang Lianrong), the Government reported
that that she was detained by the Hebei public security authorities for disrpting public
order. She was released in early 2001 and her whereabouts were not known at the
time of writing. Concerning Chen Aili, the Government noted that on 9 January 2001
he was sentenced to two.years' imprisonment for using threats of violence to obstruct
public officials in the performance of their duties and was first sent to Zhuoln county
jail in Hebei Province. The Government indicated that while in prison he committed
self -mutilations and went on hunger strike in protest against his sentence. In August
2001 he was transferred to Jidong Prison in Hebei, where he continued his hunger
strike. He showed symptoms of severe mental depression and other psychological
disorders and was consequently transferred to hospital for treatment. He eventually
ended his hunger strike. According to the Government, his health, condition improved
after December 2001. Concerning Chen Aizhong, the Government noted that on 17
November 2000 he was sentenced to three years' re-education through labour for
seriously disrupting public order and was sent to Tangshan City labour re-education
facility on 12 September 2001. Before being admitted to the facility, he went on
hunger strike and his health condition was poor. At the facility, he was provided with
supplementary nutrition by intravenous and nasal feeding. He was transferred to
Tangshan City people's hospital on 19 September 2001 after he started coughing and
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vomiting. The Government confirmed that he died the day after as a result of the
collapse of his respiratory and circulatory systems and acute renal failure. Concerning
Chen Hongni (Chen Hongping), the Government informed the Special Rapporteur
that on 17 November 2000 she was sentenced to three years' re-education through
labour. The Gove rnment assured the Special Rapporteur that the labour re-education
facility fully respected her human rights and that at no time was she subjected to
corporal punishment or ill-treatment.
337. On 9 April 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of
four workers' representatives, namely Yao Fuxin, Xiao Yunliang, Pang Qingxiang
and Wang Zhaoming, who had been charged with "illegal assembly and
demonstration" for their part in organizing protests in Liaoyang City, Lianing
Province. It was reported that up to 30,000 workers in north-eastern China have been
demonstrating since 11 March against lay-offs, alleged management corruption and
insufficient severance pay. Yao Fuxin was reportedly detained on 17 March and has
since been hospitalized for "heart problems" which may have been caused by his
detention. Yao Fuxin was reportedly detained incommunicado until 31 March. At the
time of writing, he was reportedly not allowed to receive visits, and the real state of
his health was not known.
* 338. On 11 April 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of
Liang Zhenxing, Liu CHengjun, Zhou Runjun (f), Lei Ming, Zhao Jian, Yun
Qinglin and Li Yanmei (f), who have reportedly been detained during a security
crackdown in Changchun City and accused of having tapped, on 5 March 2002, into
the signal of eight major television stations, in order to broadcast footage exposing the
Chinese Government's alleged persecution campaign against Falun Gong
practitioners. Local police officials are said to have indicated that 15 other people
have been arrested in connection with the same broadcast. An official of the
Changchun Re-education through Labour Bureau has reportedly indicated that
between 100 and 200 people have been detained since the broadcast and would
probably be sent to a a labour camp.
* 339. By letter dated 28 June 2002, the Government responded that Liang
Zhenxing, Liu Chengjun, Zhou Runjun, Lei Ming Zhao Jian, Yun Qingbin, Chen
Yanmei and other diehard adherents of Falun Gong had severed the local cable
television transmission lines and had inserted Falun Gong audio and visual materials,
seriously endangering public security. The supects were subsequently arrested for
breach of articles 124 and 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code, inter alia, for sabotage
and using a heretical sect to disrupt the application of State law. The case is currently
being heard. The allegation that between 100 and 200 people have been arrested in
connection with this case and that they are likely to receive sentences in labour camps
have no basis in fact. The Government stated further that Falun Gong was an evil cult.
In order to protect human rights, it had banned the organization. In relation to the
overwhelming majority of ordinary practitioners, the Government primarily adopts
the method of persuasive education to help them break free from the sect. Torture is
strictly prohibited in China.
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340. On 28 May 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression on behalf of
Yao Fuxin, Xiao Yunliang, Pang Qingxiang, all workers' representatives, as well as
Wang Zhaoming, on behalf of whom the Special Rapporteurs intervened on 11 April
2002. They were reportedly still held in detention. Yao Fuxin was believed to be
seriously ill, possibly due to ill-treatment. The right side of his body appears to be
numb. His family had allegedly appealed for his release to receive medical treatment,
but to no avail. Following their detention, demonstrations calling for their release and
an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of funds from the Liaoyang City
Ferroalloy factory, where Yao Fuxin was employed, have reportedly taken place. On
15 May 2002, demonstrators, including Gu Baoshu as well as a retired woman and
her son, were allegedly beaten by plain -clothes policemen. The whereabouts of
another activist, Wang Dawei, remained unknown since mid-April, when reportedly
he was travelling to Beijing from Liaoning Province to file a petition to the central
authorities against the current situation at the Ferroalloy factory.
341. By the same urgent appeal, the Special Rapporteurs intervened on behalf of
Gu Baoshu, an activist involved in demonstrations, who was allegedly severely
beaten by the police on 16 April 2002. He was released after several hours of
interrogation. He was reportedly covered in bruises, suffering from severe chest pains
and had blood clots in his eyes. He was reportedly threatened and harassed by the
police, following his demands for those responsible for his beatings to be investigated
and his medical costs to be paid for by the Public Security Bureau.
342. On 24 June 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of
Won, a North Korean asylum -seeker, who had reportedly sought refuge in the South
Korean Consulate in Beijing on 13 June 2002. He was violently removed by police
officers from the South Korean Consulate on that day. It was believed that South
Korean diplomats, who attempted to protect him, were injured as a result. His son was
believed to have also entered the South Korean Consulate during these events, and to
be currently seeking asylum in South Korea, along with 17 other North Koreans
currently inside the Consulate. It was feared that Won may forcibly be returned to
North Korea, where he would be at risk of torture upon his return.
343. By letter dated 28 November 2002, the Government informed the Special
Rapporteur that an inquiry has confirmed that he had already left China for another
country. It did not have any information about the other individuals mentioned in the
Special Rapporteur's communication.
* 344. On 9 July 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of
Wang Aihua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yubei District, Chongqing City,
Sichuan Province. She was reportedly arrested on 6 March 2002 and taken to Lianglu
Police Station where she was allegedly subjected to threats and other forms of ill-
treatment. As a result, she could hardly lift her arm. On the same day, she was sent to
Yubei Detention Centre where she was subjected to further acts of ill-treatment. Her
whole body was allegedly swollen. On the following day, she was allegedly subjected
to further ill-treatment.
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* 345. By letter dated 4 October 2002, the Government informed the Special
Rapporteur that she had been taken into custody on 12 May 2000 for causing public
disturbance and sentenced on 20 June 2000 to a one year's re-education through
labour. On 6 March 2002, she was detained for disseminating propaganda materials
and for disrupting public order in Chongqing and placed in detention as she showed
resistance by refusing to eat and by banging her head against a wall. The police
custody centre took the necessary measures to prevent her from further self-inflicted
injuries. The Government assured the Special Rapporteur that she was not subjected
to verbal abuse or torture.
346. On 22 July 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Li
Wangyang, a former labour activist, who was denied medical treatment while being
detained in Chishan Prison in Yanjiang City, Hunan Province. He was said to be
suffering from heart disease, hyperthyroidism, neck and lower back pain and to be
going blind. He was reportedly sentenced in September 2001 to ten years'
imprisonment on charges of "incitement to subvert State power", after campaigning
for compensation for the ill-treatment he had received in prison while serving a
previous term of imprisonment for his involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy
movement. He was twice released on medical grounds. He allegedly spent many
periods in solitary confinement and suffered several beatings from prison guards
while imprisoned for the first time. Following his release, he went on a 22 -day- long
hunger strike in February 2001 to demand compensation for the ill-treatment he
received in prison and for costs of medical treatment of his illnesses, but to no avail.
Furthermore, his sister, Li Wanglin, was allegedly sent to a labour camp for three
years in July 2001 for publicly supporting her brother in his appeal for compensation
for the abuses he had allegedly suffered in prison.
347. On 26 July 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on behalf of
Ryu Mi-hwa (f), Han Sol-hee (f), Roh Myung-ok (f), Jeong Eun-mi (f), aged 10,
Jeong Eun-chul, aged 8, Kim Chu1-nam, Kim Ji -sung, Nam Chun -mi (f) and her
new-born baby and four other Korean nationals whose names are unknown, who were
allegedly detained in in Manzhouli Prison in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
of China and were believed to be at risk of imminent forcible return to the Democratic
People's Republic of North Korea, where, it was feared, they could face serious
human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, torture or death in custody.
They were reportedly arrested on 31 December 2001 in Hulunbeier City, Inner
Mongolia, while being led through north-east China towards the neighbouring State of
Mongolia by a South Korean pastor, Chun Ki -won, and his assistant, Jin Qilong, an
ethnic Korean Chinese national, who were also reportedly arrested, charged with
"helping other people to illegally cross the national border", tried by the Hulunbeier
Municipal People's Court in Inner Mongolia and sentenced to payment of fines.
348. On 16 September 2002, the Special Raporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Special
Representative on human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on the
independence of judges and lawyers on behalf of Dr. Wan Yanhai, the founder and
coordinator of the AIZHI (AIDS) Action Project, a non- governmental organization
that provides information on HIV/AIDS and promotes the protection of human rights
in the context of HIV//AIDS. He was allegedly detained by State security authorities
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on 24 August 2002, and held without being allowed to contact his family or friends.
His detention was believed to be related to his alleged dissemination of information he
had obtained from an AIDS research report on concerns about the collection of blood
in Henan Province.,
349. By letter dated 28 November 2002, the Government informed the Special
Rapporteur that he had been detained by members of the Beijing State Security
Bureau on suspicion of unlawfully transmitting State secrets abroad. Reportedly, the
detainee requested in writing that his family should not be notified of his detention
and voluntarily renounced his right to legal counsel. The Government further
indicated that, in view of his positive attitude in acknowledging his guilt, he was
granted a discharge on 20 September 2002. The Government gave assurances that he
was not subjected to ill-treatment while in detention and that, at the time of writing,
Wan Yanhai's health was entirely satisfactory.
* 350. On 2 December 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf
of Luo Rong (also known as Yoko Kaneko), a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner with
permanent residence in Japan, and her sister, Luo Zhen Luo Rong had reportedly
been arrested as she was handing out Falun Gong leaflets on 24 May 2002 during a
visit to Beijing and transferred to a labour camp. She was reportedly seriously ill and
was hospitalized for high blood pressure. She was believed to have bruises around her
wrists and to have lost weight. Luo Zhen had reportedly been arrested on 5 November
2002 by the Public Security Bureau in Mudanjiang City, Heilogjiang Province,
following her involvement in publicizing her sister's case. She was allegedly held in
incommunicado detention and her family was not informed of her whereabouts.
351. On 11 December 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with
the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of
Yang Jianli, a Chinese citizen permanently residing in the United States of America,
who has been active in the movement to promote democratization in China. He had
reportedly been arrested on 26 April 2002 in Kunming, for reportedly entering China
with false or incomplete identity documents. Since then, he had been held in
incommunicado detention. Authorities informally acknowledged his detention after
two months, when the Linyi City Public Security Bureau in Shandong Province
informed Yang' s brother by telephone of his detention.
Follow-up to previously transmitted communications
* 352. By letter dated 14 December 2001, the Government responded to an urgent
appeal sent in July 2001 by the Special Rapporteur on behalf of Han Yuejuan (ibid.,
para. 365). On 21 July, Ms. Han and others plotted and mobilized nearly 1,000 Falun
Gong practitioners to besiege the seat of the Guangdong provincial government. On 5
July 2001, she was arrested under a writ issued by the Guangzhou Municipal People's
Prosecutor on a charge of mobilizing and using a sect to break the law. A competent
public security organ is conducting a judicial investigation into the case. Ms. Han's
mental and physical health is duly protected and she is not being subjected to torture.
* 353. By letter dated 31 January 2002, the Government responded to an urgent
appeal sent in October 2001 by the Special Rapporteur on behalf of Zhang Maoxing
and his eldest daughter, Zhang Juan (ibid., para. 367). The two were detained
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together on suspicion of obstructing law enforcement through the organization of a
cult (Falun Gong), and held at the Jiujiang Public Security Bureau's detention centre.
After being admitted, Zhang Maoxing began to fast and all attempts to rescue his life,
including intravenous infusions, failed. He was in no way tortured. His daughter was
sentenced in March 2001 to two years ofre-education through labour, but was
released on parole in August 2001 and is now living at home.
* 354. By letter dated 19 February 2002, the Government responded to an urgent
appeal sent in October 2001 by the Special Rapporteur on behalf of Huang Guodong
(ibid., para. 366). He was arrested on 9 February 2001, on tips from other citizens
when he was carrying out illegal Falun Gong activities. He confessed to all his
offences. On 1 October 2001, he began to fast at Mudanjiang No. 1 detention centre.
He refused to take food or medical treatment and even went so far as to remove
intravenous needles. On 29 October 2001 he was sent to Northern Hospital in
Mudanjiang City for medical tests. All results were normal, but he has a urethra
infection for which he is being treated. Allegations of torture and starvation are
unfounded.
355. By letter dated 19 February 2002, the Government responded to a letter sent
by the Special Rapporteur jointly with the Special Rapporteur on violence against
women on 30 September 2001 (ibid., paras. 351 to 353).
356. Concerning the detention of 42 young women (ibid., para.352), the
Government replied that the director of Fengjia Township Police Station and the
deputy director had summoned and illegally detained 12 local women and two non -
local women engaged in prostitution during an extensive campaign to combat
prostitution and protect the legal rights of women from June 1997 to June 1998. They
were subsequently sentenced to six months' imprisonment suspended for one year,
and to one year suspended for two years by the People's Court of Xinhua County,
later reduced to six months each, suspended for one year.
357. Concerning the detention of a young woman by the head of the Public
Security Bureau Communication Department of Xinmi City, Henan Province (ibid.,
para.353), the Government responded that all cases involving prostitution handled by
the Public Security Bureau of Xinmi City in May 1999 were properly dealt with. The
accusation of illegal detention and torture of a young woman is unfounded and false.
The Government observes its legal obligations under the Constitution and the
Women's Rights and Interests Protection Act and strives to strengthen its legislation
on women's rights. Efforts have been made to prevent and combat prostitution, as
well as to ensure women's rights to personal safety and property.
358. By letter dated 4 October 2002, the Government responded to a joint urgent
appeal sent by the Special Rapporteur with the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on human rights defenders on 21 June 2001 on behalf of Zhang
Shanguang (E/CN.4/2002/76/Add.1, para. 367). The Government informed the
Special Rapporteur that he was convicted of illegally providing intelligence
information and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment with 5 years' deprivation of his
political rights in December 1998. Upon admission into Hunan No.1 Prison, he had
been recovering from tuberculosis. Appropriate to his physical condition, he was
assigned the job of sweeping floors by the prison authorities. In an attempt to obtain
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permission to receive medical treatment on parole, he refused to carry out any work.
The prison authorities are encouraging him to mend his ways. He has not been denied
medical treatment and has not been made to work long hours. The Government firmly
opposes the practice of mistreatment and torture of criminals through manual labour.
Observations
359. The Special Rapporteur notes with concern that no response has been
provided to a number of cases brought to the attention of the Government since 1998
but he acknowledges the letter dated 11 November'2002 by which the Government
expressed its intention to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur in providing
responses to these cases. He hopes that the pending invitation since February 1999 to
the Special Rapporteur to visit the country will come to fruition in the near future.
Cambodia
* 242. On 22 August 2002, the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the Special
Representative on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, sent an urgent appeal on
behalf of at least eight Falun Gong practitioners living in Cambodia, including Wang
Minchun, aged 58, and her husband, Jiang Linzhong, aged 61, both Chinese
nationals living in Phnom Penh under the protection of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, who were believed to be at risk of deportation to China.
It is reported that the above-mentioned persons used to practice Falun Gong with
Zhang Xinyi and her husband Li Guojun, on behalf of whom the Special Rapporteur
on the question of torture transmitted an urgent appeal to the Chinese authorities on
15 August 2002.
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107. It has been brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur that the death penalty
continues to be used extensively in China. More people are executed every year in China than in
the rest of the countries of the world taken together. Over 60 crimes are punishable by death,
including a large number of non-violent offences. Many death sentences are imposed following
trial proceedings which do not meet international standards.
108. The Special Rapporteur also received reports regarding the situation in the Xinjiang
Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China, which is the only region in the country
where political prisoners are known to have been executed in recent years. The Special
Rapporteur has been informed of 210 death sentences and 190 executions carried out in this
province since January 1997. Most of the persons convicted were Uighurs sentenced to death for
subversive or terrorist activities in trials alleged to be unfair.
Urgent appeals
109. The Special Rapporteur transmitted seven urgent appeals and two allegations to the
Government of China.
110. On 2 December 1998 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal concerning
Ma Yulan who was sentenced to death for alleged organization of prostitution in Beijing. It was
further reported that this was the first case in Beijing in which a person was sentenced to death
for having organized prostitution. The Special Rapporteur pointed out that under internationally
accepted standards, the organization of prostitution could not be considered to constitute "a most
serious crime" for which the death penalty would apply.
111. On 19 January and 14 June the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal
concerning a group of young Uighurs who were sentenced to death at the end of October 1998 in
Gulja (Yining) by the Ili Prefecture Intermediate People's Court, for having allegedly organized
a counter-revolutionary group. Some of the defendants were reportedly arrested in
February 1997 and had been held in incommunicado detention since their arrest. The Special
Rapporteur was informed that Abdulsalam Shamseden (Abudushalamu Xiamuxiding), a
29 -year-old textile worker from Gulja, Abdusalam Abdurahman (Abudushalamu
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It has been reported that by the time he was dragged into a police van by security personnel, he
was unable to walk. He was reportedly taken to a police hospital in Lhasa where he remained
until his death in the first week of October.
* 118. Jinhua Zhao was reportedly arrested by police in Zhaoyuan city on 27 September 1999
and allegedly died in the morning of 7 October, after having suffered repeated beatings. On
8 October, the legal medical expert of Zhaoyuan city reportedly carried out an autopsy on
Jinhua Zhao. The same day, the legal medical expert of Yantan city also examined the body and
reportedly concluded that she had died as a result of beatings with elastic objects on numerous
places on her body.
Communications received
119. By letter dated 24 February the Government referred to the communication transmitted
by the Special Rapporteur on 2 December 1998, stating that it had conducted inquiries
concerning the following persons.
120. According to the information submitted by the Government between August 1996 and
September 1997, Ma Yulan controlled some 10 prostitutes and repeatedly engaged in prostitution
at the restaurant and baths she managed. The court determined that she had repeatedly disturbed
public order by organizing prostitution for profit. Ma Yulan had been sentenced to death as her
conduct was in violation of the Penal Code. The Government further stated that Ma Yulan had
appealed her sentence to the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court, where the case was under
consideration at the time of the communication.
Observations
121. The Special Rapporteur is deeply concerned by information received during the period
under review describing a pattern of gross violations of human rights, including extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. According to
reports received, the main victims of these violations are members of the Uighur community, the
largest ethnic group among the predominantly Muslim local population in the region. The
Special Rapporteur also wishes to express her deep concern over the extensive and increasing
use of the death penalty in China.
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28. The Special Rapporteur was moved by the report of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights on her mission to the occupied territories in which she
stated that "the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is bleak. The civilian population
feels besieged by a stronger power prepared to use its superior force against demonstrations and
stone -throwing by adolescents. During the course of the visit the violence escalated with more
shooting - including so-called drive-by shootings - on the Palestinian side and use of rockets and
heavy machine-gun fire on the Israeli side (E/CN.4/2001/114, para. 19)".
29. The Special Rapporteur is deeply concerned at the abuse of force by the both the
Indonesian police and army while performing law enforcement duties in various locations
including Irian Jaya and Aceh. During the period under review, the Special Rapporteur appealed
to the Government of Indonesia, expressing her concern over the escalating violence in those
areas and urging the authorities to ensure that government forces carry out their duties in strict
compliance with international human rights standards.
C. Deaths in custody
30. The Special Rapporteur transmitted allegations of the death in custody of 38 persons to
the Governments of the following countries: Bangladesh (1), China (8), Congo (1), Cuba (1),
India (2), Israel (1), Kenya (1), Mexico (1), Myanmar (1), Namibia (1), Nepal (1), Pakistan (2),
Peru (1), Spain (1), Sri Lanka (2), Tunisia (2), Turkey (1) and Uzbekistan (1). The
Special Rapporteur also transmitted one allegation to the Palestinian Authority. One urgent
appeal was sent to the Government of Bolivia.
* 31. In this context, the Special Rapporteur wishes to express her particular concern over
reports from China describing a large number of cases in which detainees, many of whom were
followers of the Falun Gong movement, had died as a result of severe ill-treatment, neglect or
lack of medical attention.
D. Death threats
32. The Special Rapporteur transmitted urgent appeals aimed at preventing loss of life after
having received reports of situations where the lives and physical integrity of persons were
feared to be in danger. In this context urgent appeals were sent to the Governments of the
following countries: Argentina (2), Brazil (5), Colombia (25), Guatemala (4), Honduras (2),
India (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (4), Myanmar (1), Nicaragua (1), Pakistan (1),
Peru (4), Sri Lanka (1) and Venezuela (2).
33. These urgent appeals concerned at least 53 identified persons and groups such as the
peasants in Colombia, human rights activists in Brazil, witnesses in Guatemala and Nicaragua,
journalists in Honduras and Mexico and human rights groups.
E. Expulsion, refoulement or return of persons to a country or place where their
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46. The Special Rapporteur transmitted four urgent appeals concerning four individuals who
were reportedly facing imminent execution.
Urgent appeals
47. On 10 March 2000 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of
China concerning the case of Hu Changqing, former vice -governor of Jiangxi province.
Mr. Hu Changqing had reportedly been sentenced to death on 15 February 2000 by the
Nanchang Intermediate People's Court for various crimes of corruption.. The Supreme People's
Court upheld the sentence and Hu Changqing was reportedly executed.
48. On 20 June 2000 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal concerning the case of
Fang Yong, who was sentenced to death for corruption by the Ningbo City Intermediate People's
Court in Zhejiang province on 8 June 2000. Mr. Fang Yong, who worked as an accountant with
the China Bank of Communications, was alleged to have embezzled public funds from the bank
reportedly using forged documents. The Special Rapporteur appealed to the Government to
refrain from executing Mr. Fang Yong.
49. On 12 July 2000 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal jointly with the Special
Rapporteur on torture concerning the case of Zhuo Xiaojun who was sentenced to death after
being convicted of "intentional killings" by Fuzhou City Intermediate People's Court. It had
been alleged that his trial and pre-trial detention did not meet basic international fair trial
standards. Fears had been expressed that he had been tortured under interrogation and might be
at risk of more torture or other forms of ill-treatment.
50. On 10 August 2000 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government
concerning the case of Cheng Kejie, a 66 -year-old senior member of Parliament of the People's
Republic of China, who was sentenced to death on 31 July 2000 by the Beijing No. 1
Intermediate People's Court. It had been reported that Mr. Cheng Kejie had been sentenced to
death for various crimes of corruption. In March 2000, he was removed from his National
People's Congress post and subsequently expelled from the Communist Party.
Communications sent
51. The Special Rapporteur transmitted eight communications of violations of the right to life
to the Government of China on behalf of the following persons.
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* 52. On 21 April 2000, Li Hiu-Xi was reportedly taken to the police station in Hou town,
where he was allegedly subjected to severe beatings by the police. The police reportedly
informed the family of his death only after having cremated his body in the morning
of 22 April 2000. The police allegedly threatened his family not to tell anyone about it.
* 53. On 29 September 1999, Zhao Jinhua was working in the fields when she was arrested by
the police. She was reportedly taken to a police station where she was severely beaten and
subjected to electric shocks. It was alleged that she died in police custody as a result of this
treatment on 7 October 1999. An official autopsy report allegedly stated that her body displayed
multiple wounds to the head and other parts of her body, probably sustained as a result of
beatings with a blunt object.
* 54. Chen Zixiu reportedly died while in police custody on 20 February 2000. It was reported
that she was captured by the person responsible for regulating Falun Gong in her area, and taken
to the Beigua police station. The following day she was reportedly transferred to the "Falun
Gong Re-education Centre"- Chengguan Street branch, where she was allegedly subjected to
severe beatings by State officials for several days. It is alleged that Chen Zixiu died in custody
as a result of this ill-treatment.
* 55. Li Zaiji had reportedly been sentenced to one year of forced labour because of his
Falun Gong activities. On 7 July 2000, the police in Jilin city reportedly told his family to go to
the local hospital to take care of him. When they arrived at the hospital, Li Zaiji was allegedly
already dead. It is reported that his body displayed multiple wounds, suggesting that he had been
severely ill-treated. His body was reportedly cremated by the police on 14 July 2000.
* 56. Wang Xingtian allegedly died on 25 March 2000. It was reported that
on 21 February 2000, the Dayang village authorities detained Wang Xingtian
and 11 other persons in order to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal against the
treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. After 33 days in detention they were reportedly taken to
Beiquanli jail. While in detention the 12 persons were allegedly ordered to write a statement
denouncing Falun Gong. Wang Xingtian reportedly refused to sign this document.
On 25 March 2000, the village authorities in Beiquanly allegedly brought in a group of men who
beat Wang Xingtian using electric batons and police truncheons. It is reported that he died of his
wounds on 25 March 2000 at around 5.00 p.m.
* 57. It was reported that on 21 April 2000, Li Huixiwas on his way from his home town to
Beijing when he was stopped by the police and escorted to the police station in Hou town. It is
alleged that he was severely beaten while in custody. On 22 April 2000, the police reportedly
informed his family of his death after having cremated his body. The police allegedly warned
the family not to tell anyone about the death.
* 58. It was reported that on 2 March 2000, Zhang Zhenggang was taken into custody at the
Huaian police station. On 25 March 2000 he was allegedly subjected to severe beatings, which
reportedly resulted in injuries to his skull and brain. According to the information received, he
was later sent to the hospital in Huaian city for emergency treatment, where he fell into a coma.
Zhang Zhenggang reportedly died at Huaian hospital on 30 March 2000.
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* 59. It was reported that in September 1999, Zhou Zhichang was arrested and taken to the
detention centre in Shuangcheng city. On 6 May 2000, after several days on hunger strike, he
was reportedly taken to Shuangcheng hospital where he died the same afternoon. It is reported
that his body displayed injuries suggesting that he had been subjected to ill-treatment while in
custody.
Communications received
60. The Government of China transmitted replies to the Special Rapporteur on 21 November
and 1 December 2000. The replies have been submitted for translation.
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Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
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C. Deaths in custody
33. The Special Rapporteur transmitted allegations of the death in custody of 150 persons
to the Governments of the following countries: Albania (1), Azerbaijan (1), China (17),
Colombia (2), Ecuador (1), Egypt (2), Georgia (1), Guinea (1), Honduras (4), India (14),
Indonesia (3), Kenya (2), Kyrgyzstan (2), Liberia (1), Myanmar (8), Pakistan (6), Nicaragua (1),
Peru (1), Portugal (3), Russian Federation (50), Rwanda (3), Slovakia (1), Sri Lanka (1),
Sudan (2), Turkey (14), United Arab Emirates (1), Uzbekistan (7). One allegation was sent to
the Palestinian Authority. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur sent urgent appeals to the
Governments of China and Uzbekistan. In both cases, there were fears that the detainees in
question could die owing to lack of adequate medical attention.
* 34. In this context, the Special Rapporteur wishes to express her particular alarm over reports
from China describing a large number of cases in which detainees, many of whom were
followers of the Falun Gong movement, had died as a result of severe ill-treatment, neglect or
lack of medical attention. She takes particular note of allegations that 15 female prisoners, all
reportedly members of the Falun Gong movement, died as a result of torture in June 2001 in
Wanjia Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
35. The Special Rapporteur also continues to receive reports from Uzbekistan of cases in
which people have died in custody after having been arrested by the police. In many instances,
the dead body of the detainee was allegedly delivered to the family without explanation. In some
cases the families were reportedly made to bury the body without an autopsy having been carried
out, and threatened not to talk about what had happened. The Special Rapporteur further takes
note of a large number of cases reported from India, where the police had allegedly beaten or
shot detainees to death while in custody. Cases of death in detention were also related to the
Special Rapporteur during her mission to Turkey. For a more detailed discussion of this issue,
reference is made to addendum 1 to the present report.
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Urgent appeals
33. On 22 October 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of
five ethnic Uighurs, including two men named as Mr. Abdulmejid and Mr. Abdulahmad,
who were reportedly sentenced to death on 15 October 2001 in the city of Gulja (Yining),
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. According to the information received, they were
sentenced to death for political crimes of "anti state separatism" at a public trial in Gulja
city.
34. On 1 October 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of
six people, including Lu Jijing and Lu Changhe, who were reportedly found guilty by the
Intermediate People's Court in Taizhou city, Zhejaing province, of operating a gang
engaged in the production and sale of fake coins. Whereas Lu Jijing and four others were
reportedly sentenced to death, Lu Changhe received a two year suspension of execution.
35. On 10 August 2001 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of
Mr. Li Li who was reportedly sentenced to death for tax fraud and evasion on 25 April
2001. His wife, Chen Lijuan, reportedly received a sentence of death with a two-year
reprieve for the same offence. According to the information received, Mr. Li had confessed
to all the offences and had given full details of the role of government officials in the
crimes, including senior staff in the tax department. His lawyers reportedly argued that Mr.
Li's substantial co-operation with police investigations should be taken into consideration
as mitigating factor. Furthermore it was said that Mr. Li was made to take full
responsibility for crimes which were equally the work of government officials.
36. On 1 May 2001 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal concerning the
cases of Li Guang, Mu Jiangqiao and Zhang Yusong, who were allegedly sentenced to
death on 25 April 2001 by an intermediate People's Court in Lijiang region, Yunnan
province. According to the information received, Li Guang and Mu Jiangqiao were accused
of robbing a US diplomat on 13 August 2000 in Lijang and of being part of a gang, which
allegedly committed 10 armed robberies in Lijiang over a three month period in 2000.
Zhang Yusong was reportedly accused of robbing 400 Yuan and $ 30 from two tourists on
19 July 2000 in Lijiang.
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37. On 24 April 2001 transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of Zhuo Xiaojun, who was
reportedly sentenced to death for "intentional killing" by Fuzhou Cit Intermediate People's
Court. Urgent appeals concerning this case had already been transmitted by the Special
Rapporteur, jointly with the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 12 July 2000 and on 14
December 2000. According to the information received, the trial and pre-trial detention in
Zhuo Xiaojun's case did not meet basic international fair trial standards. The Fujian
Province Higher People's Court reportedly upheld the sentence and concerns were
expressed that Zhuo Xiaojun was facing imminent execution if the Supreme People's Court
also rejected his appeal.
38. On 29 December 2000 the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal on behalf of
Wang Youcai, who reportedly had been imprisoned since 1998 at Zejihang No. 1 Prison.
According to the information received, Wang Youcai had contracted tuberculosis and was
not receiving any treatment or proper examination.
Communication sent
39. The Special Rapporteur transmitted allegations of violation of the right to life of the
following individuals:
* 40. According to the information received, fifteen female prisoners , including Ms. Zhang
Yulan, Ms. Shao Yin, Ms. Xuiqin Li and Ms. Zhao Yayun, died in Wanjia Labor Camp as
a result of torture and severe ill-treatment around 20 June 2001.
* 41. It was alleged that on 19 February 2001, Ms. Yanhua Li, aged over 60, was arrested
and taken to the police station in Dongjiang for interrogation. She was reportedly severely
beaten until she died by police officers using clubs.
* 42. According to the information received, on 24 November 2000, Ms. Zhou Fenglin, aged
32, was arrested in her home town of Qingtan, and sent to Qingtan jail. Allegedly, she was
severely tortured by police officers while she was in detention. After a brief release she was
reportedly rearrested on 27 December 2000 and sent to Xilin Detention Centre. It was
alleged that on the night of 8 January 2001, she was tortured under interrogation and
declared dead the following morning.
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54. On 9 January 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal reliting to Hong
Kong residents Zhuang Chucheng and Huang Yancheng, who were reportedly
sentenced to death on 25 December 2001 by the Shenzhen City Intermediate People's
Court, Guangdong Province (neighbouring Hong Kong), for their alleged involvement in
the manufacture and trafficking of the illegal drug "ice". According to the information
received, they were tried with eight other unnamed defendants, four of whom also came
from Hong Kong. Of the eight, six also received death sentences, two were reportedly
sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve and another four to life imprisonment. It is not
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known whether the defendants have appealed their sentences. Zhuang Chucheng is
reported to be the alleged ringleader of the gang which reportedly manufactured, in
mainland China, at least 22 tonnes of liquid ice and three tonnes of solid ice which they had
allegedly sold in mainland China as well as overseas. It has been brought to the Special
Rapporteur's attention that these cases are causing controversy in Hong Kong, which does
not have the death penalty.
* 55. On 8 February 2002, the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the Chairman-Rapporteur of
the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture, sent an joint
urgent appeal to the Government of China concerning members of a family of Falun Gong
practitioners who have reportedly been subjected to harassment, arbitrary detention and torture
since 22 July 1999, on the grounds of their practice of Falun Gong and their appeal to the
Government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong members. Chen Yunchuan, the 63 -year-old
father, was reportedly serving a two-year sentence in Datangwan prison in Zhangjiakou city,
Hebei Province; his 60 -year-old wife Wang Lianying was said to have been missing since
January 2001, and their 31 -year-old daughter Chen Hongni was said to be detained without
warrant in Gaoyang Labour Camp in Baoding city, Hebei Province. The 34 -year-old son Chen
Aizhong was reportedly sentenced on 12 September 2001 to three years of forced labour in the
Tangshan No. 1 Labour Camp in Hebei Province. Eight days later, on the afternoon of 20
September 2001, he was said to have been tortured to death in the labour camp. His body was
said to have been covered with wounds and bruises. Chen Aili, a 34 -year-old son, was
reportedly detained in Jidong prison, Tangshan city. On 26 December 2001, a police officer of
the Changping police station reportedly took the section chief and team chief from Jidong prison
to the home of Chen Shulan, his 35 -year-old sister. The section chief is said to have told her that
Chen Aili was in bad health and needed to go to the hospital for treatment. They reportedly
requested her to sign a bond. When she asked when they would release him, they allegedly
answered that they were still processing the paperwork. When she asked whether she could visit
him, the section chief reportedly told her to wait until the following spring. She is said to have
refused to sign the bond. On 8 January 2002, Chen Shulan went directly to Jidong prison, where
another chief reportedly told her that Chen Aili had withdrawn into himself since 1 October 2001
and that his overall health had deteriorated. In view of the reported death as a result of torture of
Chen Aizhong, and the alleged force-feeding of drugs to Chen Aili, fears were expressed that
Chen Aili might be at risk of further torture or other forms of ill-treatment and at risk to his life.
Fears were also expressed that the other members of the family might be at risk of torture or
other forms of ill-treatment, in particular Wang Lianying, in view of the incommunicado nature of
her detention in an unknown location and the fact that prolonged incommunicado detention can in
itself constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
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* 62. According to the information received, on 26 January 2002, Zhan Wei died in custody at
the Yingcheng City Number One Detention Centre, allegedly as a result of torture. According to
the information received, on 20 January 2002 Wu Jingxia was allegedly tortured to death in
police custody. She had reportedly been arrested on 6 January 2002 for having distributed flyers
exposing alleged human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China. According to the
information received, in August 2001, Kelsang Gyatso was arrested with groups of other
Tibetan monks as they were trying to enter India via Nepal at the Chushui Bridge. It is reported
that Kelsang Gyatso, a Tibetan monk, died in the Lhasa Detention Centre in December 2001 as
a result of beatings and lack of medical attention. According to the information received, on 5
February 2001, Ngawang Lochoa died in the Lhasa Army Hospital as a result of continuous ill-
treatment and deprivation of medical attention. Ngawang Lochoa, a Tibetan nun, had been
imprisoned since 1993 for having taken part in a peaceful demonstration. According to the
information received, in April 2000, Sonam Richen, a Tibetan farmer, died in Drapchi prison
allegedly as a result of ill-treatment and torture. He had reportedly been in prison since 1992 for
shouting pro -independence slogans. According to the information received, in August 2000,
Tsering Wangdrag died in Krazde prison allegedly as a result of torture and ill-treatment.
According to the information received, on 22 August 2001, Gao Mei died as a result of torture
in Yishui Detention Centre. She had allegedly been arrested for pratising Falung Gong.
According to the information received, on 21 September 2001, Wang Yongdong, a Falun Gong
practitioner, died after having been thrown out of the window of his home by police officers. It is
alleged that his body displayed marks consistent with reports that he had been severely beaten
before being pushed from the window. According to the information received, on 14 September
2001, Yu Xiuling, a Falun Gong practitioner, died after having been thrown out of the window
on the fourth floor by police officers. It is alleged that she had been severely beaten under
interrogation.
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* 15. By letter dated 19 January 2001 the Special Rapporteur communicated her grave
concerns in regard to information received concerning the alleged use of violence against women
in China and in particular the ill-treatment of female Falun Gong practitioners. According to
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information received the Chinese authorities have been conducting a major crackdown on the
Falun Gong, Falun Dafa and other Qi Gong groups. The vast majority of Falun Gong
practitioners are women. A ban was imposed on the Falun Gong on 22 July 1999 as
"constituting a threat to social and political stability". Practitioners are said to be put under
pressure to renounce their beliefs. Thousands are said to have been detained by police; many of
them are said to have been sent to labour camps for "re-education" through labour, or detained in
psychiatric hospitals and administered drugs against their will. Many of them are said to have
suffered torture or ill-treatment. The methods of torture used against women practitioners have
included: stripping them naked; severe beatings with fists or a variety of instruments, such as
wooden batons, on shinbones, thighs, shoulders and other parts of the body; kicking; the use of
electric shock batons, inter alia to the genitals, armpits, soles of the feet and the mouth; the use of
handcuffs, shackles or ropes to tie prisoners in ways which cause intense pain; suspension by the
arms or feet, often combined with exposure to extreme cold or heat; the use of cigarette lighters
to burn their bodies; the insertion of sticks or needles under the nails or having fingernails pulled
out by pliers; the insertion of pepper, chilli powder or other substances into the mouth, nose or
genital organs; the use of injections which cause victims to become mentally unbalanced or to
lose the ability to speak coherently. It is further alleged that many women practitioners have
died following torture or medical neglect in detention. It is also reported that many women
practitioners have died by falling out of windows whilst trying to escape.
* 16. In that connection, the Special Rapporteur has received information on the individual
cases summarized below:
(a) In October 2000 prison guards in the Masanjia prison in Shenyang, Liaoning
province, allegedly stripped 18 female Falun Dafa practitioners and put them into cells
containing male convicted criminals. It is reported that Luo Gan, a high-ranking Communist
Party official, was aware of the incident. The 18 women are said to remain in prison;
(b) It is reported that since October 1999, more than 1,500 Falun Dafa practitioners
have been detained in the Masanjia labour education camp in Liaoning province. Practitioners
are reportedly forced to denounce Falun Dafa. People who refuse to do so are allegedly
subjected to physical abuse, shocked with electric batons, detained in solitary confinement and
assigned intensive labour. The electric batons are used to shock the breasts and genitals of the
female practitioners. The camp officials also allegedly force practitioners to drink dirty water
from an abandoned well; practitioners reportedly all showed symptoms of poisoning after they
drank the water;
(c) According to information received more than 50 female Falun Dafa practitioners
were detained in Qiaozhuang detention centre, Tongzhou district, a suburb of Beijing, in
July 2000. It is reported that after police had failed to force the practitioners to renounce their
beliefs, using tortures and insults, most of practitioners were sent to labour camps and some were
sent to psychiatric hospitals. In particular, the Special Rapporteur has received information
concerning the following individual cases:
(i)
Huang Xiuling, aged 59, from Fuma village, Majugiao town, Tongzhou
district, Beijing, was reportedly sent to Qiaozhuang detention centre in the
afternoon of 30 June 2000, and was detained in cell 9. She refused to
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recite the prison regulations and continued to practice the exercises. She
was allegedly beaten, handcuffed and shackled. Her jailers reportedly
used electric shock batons on her body and stomped on her feet. They
held her breasts and pinched the tips of her nipples, arid kicked her
genitals. Huang went on a hunger strike to protest. According to
information received, on the afternoon of 2 July 2000, she was sent to
cell 7. The police allegedly force-fed her through her nose with a tube.
Police wanted her to pay 10 yuan for the single -use of the disposable tube.
As she didn't have any money, the police left the tube in her body so that
they could use it again. In the evening, the pain became unbearable and
she pulled the tube out. The next day, when she was force-fed again, the
police handcuffed her from behind. After the force-feeding, the police
allegedly left the tube in her body, one end in her stomach and the other
end in her nose and pasted on her face so that she could not pull it out.
That evening, Huang Xiuling reportedly developed a high fever. She was
given medicine, but her fever didn't drop and she started vomiting. It is
alleged that when the police realized that Huang Xiuling's life was in
danger, they hastily sentenced her to one year of forced labour. Later that
evening, they sent Huang Xiuling home and asked the village committee
to watch her. After she returned home she recovered. On 13 July 2000,
the police took Huang Xiuling away again and sent her to the fourth team
of Beijing Tiantanghe female labour camp for forced labour. It is reported
that Huang Xiuling went on hunger strike. She was allegedly tortured by
the guards, injuring her neck;
(ii) Liu Xuebin, aged 54, from Chengguan town, Tongzhou district of
Beijing, was reportedly arrested on 4 September 1999 while she practised
Falun Gong exercises at the Tongzhou Club. She was detained for three
months without any legal procedure. Liu Xuebin reportedly experienced
several kinds of torture in the detention centre. The guards stripped off all
her clothes and used a wet towel with salt on it to thrash her, continuing to
add salt to the wet towel as they beat her. The towel left rows of small
bleeding sores all over her body. The salt stuck to the sores and made
them very painful. On the second day, bloody pus oozed out of her
wounds and her clothes stuck to her body. As Liu Xuebin refused to
answer questions during a police interrogation, she was labelled mentally
ill, upon which she was sent to a mental hospital. Liu Xuebin was kept
with the most seriously ill patients. She was forced to take pills and
receive injections. She was released after three months. On
25 April 2000, Liu Xuebin appealed for the right to practise Falun Gong
again. As a result, she was sent back to the mental hospital. Her family
and friends do not know anything about her current situation;
(iii) Li Yaping, aged 26,was reportedly detained in Qiaozhuang detention
centre, because she would not denounce Falun Dafa. Her hands were
handcuffed behind her back and her feet were shackled. Jailers allegedly
stuck an electric shock baton in her mouth until it bled. She was subjected
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to different kinds of torture. Later she was sent to the fourth team of
Beijing Tiantanghe female labour camp, reportedly without a trial.
(iv) Hu Shufang, aged 38, from Tongzhou district of Beijing, appealed to the
Government on behalf of Falun Gong on 25 June 2000. She was detained
in the west room in Qiaozhuang detention centre. She was allegedly
beaten almost every day and shocked with electric batons, which left
wounds all over her body. She was handcuffed and shackled. One month
later Hu Shufang was sent to a labour camp without a trial;
(v) The police reportedly also took Hu Shuwen, sister of Hu Shufang, away
from her home. She is currently detained in Tuanhe labour camp, Daxing
county, Beijing;
(vi)
On 6 October 2000, Falun Gong practitioner Yan Juying from Yanjiao,
Sanhe city, Hebei province, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal on behalf
of Falun Gong. She was arrested and sent back to Yanjiao police station.
It is reported that before she got out of the car, the police captain,
Yang Xizhong, started to kick her, beat her, pull her hair, slap her face and
kick her private parts. Then he lifted her up and violently threw her to the
ground. He allegedly beat her on the buttocks several hundred times with
a wooden rod, whipped her numerous times, subjected her to electric
shocks all over her body, used a slipper to slap her face, put an electric
baton in her mouth, spat on her face and stomped on her heels. He
allegedly threatened to splash her body with boiling water. When
Yan Juying refused an order to take off her clothes, Yang Xizhong
allegedly threatened to find some workers to rape her. He then sexually
molested her. After some time Yang Xizhong recorded the interrogation
and beat Yan Juying again. That night, Yan Juying was sent to the town
government hall to attend the "transformation class";
(vii) Tang Xi Tao, aged 64, from Guangzhou, Canton, was arrested on
6 July 2000 and was transferred to the Cha Tou detention centre for
women (also called Xiao Dao) in Canton, province of Gangdong. Tang Xi
Tao was sentenced to two years' re-education through labour. It is
reported that she has been subjected to torture and ill-treatment. She is
allegedly placed in solitary confinement for days at a time, verbally
threatened, her hands have been bound to prevent her from practising
Falun Gong exercises, she is not allowed access to medical treatment for
her illness and is subjected to forced labour as part of the re-education
programme. Furthermore, as a result of the judgement her pension has
reportedly been stopped and her apartment and personal belongings
confiscated;
(viii) Xie Guiying, aged 32, from Huinan, Anhui province. According to
information received, at 20.00 hours on 17 October 2000 Xie Guiying's
home was ransacked by police from Chaoyang district police station,
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Huainan, who allegedly beat her up before taking her to the police station.
In the early morning of the next day, she was sent to the People's Hospital
of Huainan because of serious injuries. She died at approximately
10.00 hours on the morning of 18 October 2000. At 16.00 hours the same
day the police sent her body to the Datong Funeral Home. According to
reports, in an apparent effort to cover up the details of the case, it was later
reported by the Chaoyang district police station that she had committed
suicide by jumping off a building;
(ix) Wang Youju„ aged 64, from Dalian, Liaoning province. On 22 July 2000
Wang Youju was reportedly taken away from her home by police from the
Gongji police station of Dalin and was sent to Wafangdian detention
centre in Dalian. She was allegedly forced to work long hours every day
and was frequently denied food and sleep if she could not finish her quota.
On 31 July 2000 Wang Youju and a few other Falun Gong practitioners
were released. She was very weak and required assistance to walk, her
chest hurt and she could not even stand. She was given emergency
treatment in the office of the detention centre, but reportedly died that
night;
(x) Hao Yafen from Sanhe, Hebei province. Liu Yalu and Qi Xiaoquan from
Yanjiao police department allegedly beat and kicked Hao Yafen who had
gone to Beijing to appeal peacefully for the right to practise Falun Dafa.
She grew dizzy from the beating and lost her vision. After she fainted,
they reportedly used an electric baton to shock her. She was hit with a
shoe and kicked in the knees. On 13 July 2000 she was fired from the
Communist Party committee of Sanhe power plant. She was also asked to
pay a fine of 5,000 yuan renminbi by the police. In order for her to be
allowed to return home her family gave Zan Qingcai, head of Yanjiao
Police Department, 2,000 yuan renminbi. It is reported that Liu Yalu also
extorted 1,000 yuan renminbi from them. He said it was to pay Beijing
officials. Hao Yafen's work unit deducted her wages and bonus;
(xi) Xu Wenjun was reportedly arrested in November 1999. She was
detained at three different locations. At the First Detention Centre of
Nanchang, she started a hunger strike to protect her Falun Gong books.
She was reportedly beaten by the guards and her hands and feet were
shackled together. As a result she could not take care of herself, nor could
she walk or sleep. Later, Xu Wenjun was transferred to the Second
Detention Centre where she started a second hunger strike because her
detention period was eight months longer than that stipulated by law. Her
family finally bailed her out after 10 days. Xu Wenjum was arrested again
less than one month later. She was reportedly sentenced to three years'
imprisonment on 1 September 2000;
(xii) Huang Ligiong was reportedly arrested after going to Beijing to appeal
for Falung Gong on 25 October 1999. She was detained in the Third
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Detention Centre of Nanchang, Jiangxi, for 24 days. According to reports
she has been detained three times in one year. Finally she was sentenced
to three years of forced labour;
(xiii) Chen Ying, aged 18, from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang province, went to
Beijing to appeal to the central Government at the beginning of August
and was arrested. According to information received, during the journey
back to Heilongjiang, the police allegedly threatened and tortured her.
She was reported to have jumped off the train and killed. The family were
informed on 25 October 1999;
(xiv) On 27 September 1999 Zhao Jinhua, aged 42, from Zhaoyuan city in
Shandong province, was reportedly arrested by the Zhangxing county
police, together with four other Falun Gong practitioners, Wang Fenglan
from Yujia village in Shiduitou, Ma Yufeng from Xiaojiajia and Zhan
Keyun and Wang Haohong from Heya village. All five were detained in
the same room of the local police station. They were reportedly tortured
by the policemen for refusing to denounce Falun Gong. They were
deprived of sleep. On the night of 1 October 1999, policemen reportedly
came in and began to beat the prisoners with fists and with rubber clubs.
They allegedly struck Wang Fenglan with the club, wrapped her up with a
telephone cord from an old-style rotary telephone and sent current through
the line until she lost consciousness. They allegedly hit Zhao Jinhua with
a rubber club, then dragged her to the office and shocked her with the
telephone. As she was being tortured, they repeatedly asked her if she
would stop practising Falun Gong. Zhao Jinhua fainted and she was taken
to a local hospital for emergency treatment, after which she was taken
back to the police station. It is reported that Zhao Jinhua felt pressure in
her chest and the right side of her body felt numb. She felt a great deal of
pain all over her body. There was blood in her urine, pain in both of her
legs, and she was unable to eat. Her body was black and blue from the
waist down. The police reportedly did not take any further action to help
her. At 16.00 hours on 7 October 1999, Zhao Jinhua fainted again. The
police took her to the emergency room at the local hospital; but she
stopped breathing while medical personnel were doing an
electrocardiogram. According to information received, the autopsy report
showed that there were multiple wounds on her body and subcutaneous
bleeding. The report concluded that she had died from being beaten with
a blunt object. According to information received, the perpetrators were
not punished. Instead, the authorities reportedly investigated those
practitioners who had disclosed the death of Ms. Zhao to the public. On
20 November 1999, practitioners Li Nanying and Chen Shihuan were
sentenced to three years of forced labour education allegedly for revealing
the truth of Ms. Zhao's death to the public;
(xv) Dong Buyun, aged 36, from Lanshan district, Linyi city, Shandong
province. Dong Buyun went to Beijing to appeal on 20 July 1999. She
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was reportedly arrested in Beijing and escorted back by the police of
Lanshan district on 20 September 1999. She was placed in the custody of
the school where she worked, and detained in an office on the second
floor. She was told to denounce Falun Gong but she refused. On the
second day, her family was informed that she had jumped out of the
window and had been killed. Her body was cremated before noon;
(xvi) Chen Zixiu, aged 59, from Beiguan Xujia Xiaozhuang, Weicheng district,
Weifang city, Shandong province, She was picked up at Weifang railway
station on the way to Beijing to make an appeal to the authorities. She
was taken to Chenguan subdistrict office in Weicheng city and detained
there for "re-education". Chen Zixiu allegedly died in custody at
Chenguan subdistrict office and her body was transferred to the municipal
hospital at 9.00 hours on 21 February 2000. At 19.30 hours, the public
security summoned her family to Jinhai Hotel in Weifang city and
confined them there. The family was allowed to see the body on
22 February. According to reports Chen Zixiu's mouth was stained with
blood, her teeth were battered and broken, her abdomen distended. Her
lower body bore massive bruises, and her legs were also swollen;
(xvii) The mother of Fu Xiaojuan, aged 56, from Gaoan, Jiangxi province,
went to Beijing on a tourist trip on 14 September, 1999 and was arrested at
her hotel in Xida (or Xidan) Street. She was detained 'in the Liaison
Office of Yichun, Jiangxi province, in Beijing. It is reported that in order
to avoid prosecution she tried to escape through the window at 3.00 hours
on 16 September 1999, fell and was killed;
(xviii) Yu Xiangme, aged 35, from Changshou county of Chongqing, Sichuan
province, went to Beijing to appeal, was arrested in early November 1999
and detained at the Chongqing Liaison Office in Beijing. She tried to
escape through the window, fell and was killed;
(xix) Li Guihua, aged 47, from Jiangbei, Jiangbei district of Chongqing,
Sichuan province. She went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested in late
October 1999. She reportedly died while in detention in Chongqing
Liaison Office in Beijing. The police department informed her husband
and he went to Beijing to identify her and then her body was cremated. It
is reported that the police threatened her husband not to reveal any
information about her death;
(xx) Gong Baohua, aged 35, from Liudian village, Pinggu county, Beijing,
went to Beijing on 17 June 2000 to appeal for Falun Gong and was
reportedly intercepted by police at Dongzhimen bus station, along with
seven other Falun Gong practitioners . After they were taken back to the
local police station, six of them were allegedly brutally beaten by police.
Among them, Ms. Gong suffered the most. Medical examination in
Yukou clinic afterwards showed that the bridge of her nose was broken.
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The police sent Ms. Gong and other practitioners to the county detention
centre. To defend their rights, Ms. Gong and other practitioners went on a
hunger strike. On 25 June 2000 at around 20.00 hours the guards
allegedly force-fed Gong through her nose, despite the fact that it was
broken. According to reports, after returning to the cell, her face was pale,
her chest felt numb and she suspected that the guards might have inserted
the feeding tube incorrectly during the force-feeding. About 10 minutes
later, she lost consciousness. Her inmates are said to have called the
guards, but nobody answered. After some time Gong regained
consciousness. Guards finally came and took Gong for emergency
treatment. She was sent back to detention on the morning of 26 June 2000,
where her condition continued to deteriorate. On the morning of
27 June 2000, other inmates urged the guards to take Ms. Gong for
another medical examination. At around 10.00 hours, the detention centre
clinicians agreed to send her to the hospital. At around 21.00 hours that
evening, Gong Baohua was pronounced dead in the hospital;
(xxi) Zhang Yuzhen, aged 46, of Hegang city, Heilongjiang province. At the
beginning of February, the local police reportedly detained Ms. Zhang in
Lulinshan detention centre in Hegang city, in order to prevent her from
going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In April, she was transferred
to the first detention centre of Hegang city. Ms. Zheng went on hunger
strike for five days and she was beaten many times while in custody. She
was released at the beginning of May, allegedly because she was very ill
because of the long-term mistreatment in the detention centres. She
reportedly had to stay in bed after she was released, and died on
20 June 2000;
(xxii) Sun Shuqin, aged 58, from Hegang city, Heilongjiang province. In
January 2000, Ms. Sun and another practitioner went to the Beijing Public
Security Ministry to appeal for Falun Gong. On 24 January 2000, she was
reportedly sent to the Hegang detention centre. On 14 February, she was
transferred to the Yingbei county jail. She went on a hunger strike for
four days in April. She reportedly died in custody in the Yingbei county
jail on 27 April 2000;
(xxiii) An Xiukun, aged 49, from Hengshui city. An Xiukun was reportedly
removed from her post and was fined 2,800 yuan renminbi for practising
Falun Gong. According to information received, An Xiukun went to the
Beijing Public Security Ministry to appeal on 21 May 2000. She was
escorted back and detained in the Education Committee Guest House. On
24 May, An Xiukun was given 15 days of administrative detention.
An Xiukun refused to sign the paperwork for her detention, and declared
that she would reserve her right to appeal. She was sent to the Lubei
Administrative Detention Centre. On 25 May, the second day of her
detention, An Xiukun was cuffed with a special type of handcuff
nicknamed "bull's nose", for refusing to copy the rules of the detention
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centre. An Xiukun started a hunger strike. On 6 June, An Xiukun lost
consciousness. At 22.00 hours, An Xiukun was sent to the county hospital
where she died at 7.30 hours on 11 June 2000,
(xxiv) Miu Qun, from Qu county, Dazhou city, Sichuan province. Miu Qun
went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in January 2000. She was
reportedly taken back by local police and detained in the local detention
centre. While in custody, she went on a hunger strike to defend her right
to practise Falun Gong. The police force-fed her through the nose via a
plastic tube. During the process of force-feeding, the police allegedly
inserted the tube into her lung by mistake. She died shortly afterwards in
custody;
(xxv) Yin Shuyun, aged 46, from Changchun city, Jilin province. During the
annual session of National People's Congress, Ms. Yin went to Beijing to
petition the Government to stop persecution of Falun Gong. She
reportedly died in detention at the Heizuizi labour camp due to
ill-treatment;
(xxvi) Yao Baorong, aged 52, from Aiming district, Lanzhou city, Gansu
province. Ms. Yao was arrested on 17 May 2000 at home. It is reported
that she died in custody in the afternoon of 19 May 2000. The cause of
her death was unclear. It was said that she died after falling from the fifth
floor of the local police station. It is reported that the police cremated her
body secretly at 2.50 hours on 23 May 2000. To block the news, the
police allegedly arrested 20 practitioners;
(xxvii) Mei Yulan, aged 44, from Chaoyang district, Beijing. On 13 May 2000,
Ms. Mei was arrested while practising Falun Gong exercises outside her
house. She went on a hunger strike to defend her rights. On
17 May 2000, three days into her hunger strike, she was allegedly
force-fed by another inmate who had no medical skills. After she got back
to her cell, she said she had a headache and she started to vomit blood.
The guard, whose surname was Sun, allegedly refused to send her for
emergency treatment. She died in custody on 23 May 2000. Five
practitioners who knew the circumstances of her death were reportedly
sent to the detention centre on 26 May;
(xxviii) Wang Xiuying, aged 45, from Harbin city, Heilongjiang province. On
13 May 2000, Ms. Wang was arrested as she was practising Falun Gong
exercises in Tiananmen Square. She was reportedly detained in the
Jiaomen detention centre of Chongwen district. According to information
received, after three days of hunger strike, four men pushed her to the
ground and force-fed her through the nose. She was force-fed with
high-density salt water five times within nine days. On 22 May 2000, she
lost consciousness and died in custody at 19.00 hours that day;
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(xxix) Sun Xiuqing, in her 50s, from Hegang city, Heilongjiang province.
Ms. Sun was reportedly detained in the Luobei detention centre before the
Chinese New Year (4 February 2000). She died suddenly at the end of
April 2000 in custody. The police allegedly cremated her body
immediately without informing her family;
(xxx) Li Yanhua; aged 45, from Nanchang city, Jiangxi province. Ms. Li had
gone to Beijing twice in October 1999 attempting to petition the regime to
stop its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. She was reportedly
detained for 10 days and later, she was detained again for more than one
month. After that, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour on
7 January 2000, without a trial, and was detained in the Women's Drug
Treatment Centre (also called labour camp) of Nanchang city. Li Yanhua
and other detained practitioners started a hunger strike. Later, the camp
guards tied them up and took them to hospital. According to information
received; the medical examination showed that Li Yanhua was in serious
condition. Her internal organs were atrophied and damaged. The labour
camp informed her family to come and pick her up. Li Yanhua died at
around 18.00 hours on 13 April, within two hours of arriving home;
(xxxi) Zhang Shuqi, aged 52, from Xicheng district, Beijing. On
26 December 1999, Ms. Zhang was reportedly arrested when attempting
to attend the trial of four Falun Gong members at the Intermediate
People's Court of Beijing. She was sent to Chang-qiao police station.
The next day, she was transferred to the detention centre of the Xi-cheng
police department. On the afternoon of 14 January 2000, the police
station suddenly informed her family members,to come arid pick her up.
After returning home, Ms. Zhang fainted, vomited and lost consciousness.
She was immediately sent to the Beijing University Hospital for
emergency treatment. However, she could not recover and died at
21.50 hours on 15 Jarivary;
(xxxii) Zhu Shaolan, aged 50, from Jinzhou, Liaoning province. On
28 September many practitioners in Jinzhou, collected signatures for a
letter appealing for their freedom to practise Falun Gong. It is reported
that as a result, many were arrested. To voice their concerns over the
injustice, more than 40 practitioners started fasting on 29 September.
Ms. Zhu was one of them. She became very weak two days later and
started vomiting on the fourth day. The Raoyang local police sent her to
the hospital on 5 October, and she died in the hospital in the morning of
7 October 1999;
(xxxiii) Au Xiangmei, aged 35, from Changshou county of Chongqing, Sichuan
province. She was arrested in Beijing in November 1999 and was
detained afterwards in the Chongqing Liaison Office in Beijing. It is
reported that while trying to escape through a window, she fell and died;
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(xxxiv) Xia Wei, aged 43, from Guanyingiao, Jiangbei district of Chongqing,
Sichuan province. She went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested in early
November 1999 and was detained afterwards in the Chongqing Liaison
Office in Beijing. She reportedly tried to escape through the window, but
fell and died. Police allegedly told her husband not to reveal any
information about the case.
* 17. According to information received; on 6 May 2000; 12 practitioners were sent to the
Mental Hospital of Jiaozhou (also called Jiaozhou Psychological Recovery Centre), located at
Yangzhou Road, Jiaozhou, Shandong province, for having gone to Beijing to appeal or
continuing to practise Falun Gong: On 6 October 2000 a few were released but the majority are
still reportedly being detained in the hopital. According t� report, they would only be released
if they pledged that they would not appeal for Falun Gong, would not practise Falun Gong any
more, and pay a fine of several thousand yuan. Reports have been received of various forms of
ill-treatment including being forced to take medicines and receive injections, after which the
practitioners would feel weak. They were also reportedly given electric shock treatment. In
particular, the Special Rapporteur has received information concerning the following individual
cases:
(a) Zhou Caixia. It is reported that after being on hunger strike for four days in the
detention centre of Jiaozhou, she was taken to the mental hospital on 4 June 2000. She was
allegedly forced to endure shots, medicines and other treatment designed for treating mental
patients;
(b) Kuang Bencui. On 14 February, Ms. Kuang went to Beijing to appeal for.
Falun Dafa. According to information received, she was arrested and sent to the Jiaozhou
Liaison Office in Beijing and detained for one night. The next morning, her work unit in
Qingdao took her to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city. Ms. Kuang was reportedly detained in
the mental hospital for two months and had been treated like a mental patient. She was allegedly
forced to take medicine and have injections. She was force-fed three times a day, with the
dosage increased from one tablet a time to six tablets a time. After two months, her family
members bailed her out;
(c) Tan Guihua. According to information received, on 12 September 1999,
Ms. Tan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. On her return officers,from her work unit
and the Politics and Law Commission broke into her home and took her to the mental hospital of
Jiaozhou. As Ms. Tan refused to take an injection, a nurse and eight mental patients held her ,
down and gave her the injection. She was reportedly asked daily whether she would continue to
practise Falun Gong. When she replied in the affirmative the doctor gave her electric shock
treatment. For a two-month period she was reportedly force-fed with medicines and given
injections three times a day. It is alleged that the doctors also experimented on her with a new
imported drug which had various side effects. Inter alia, she stopped menstruating and suffered
memory loss.
* 18. It is reported that at the beginning of December 1999, under a variety of fabricated
charges, policemen from the Chengguan police station in Fangshan district of Beijing arrested
52 Falun Gong practitioners, the majority of whom were women, including:
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Liu Wen (sex unkown), Wang Shuzhen (female), Chen Shumei (female),
Yang Xuehua (unknown), Yang Xiuru (female), Liu Shengzhi (unknown),
Xu Shufen (female), Wang Yingyuan (female), Zhang Yuzhen (female),
Zhang Shihong (female), Cao Xiufen (female), Ren Shufen (female), Bai Xiulian
(unknown), Jiang Xianglian (female), Su Fengxia (female), Yang Fenglian (female),
Liu Yuxiang (female), Zhao Guomin (unknown), Jiang Shufen (female), Li Wanfeng
(unknown), Shi Zhiguo (male), Hu Yajing (female), Song Zhenlan (female),
Cui Hongxia (female), Liu Shuying (female), Yu Huanfeng (female), Li Xiujuan
(female), Fan Xiuzhen (female), Zhang Cuihua (female), Li Huixin (unknown),
Xu Hemin (male), Su Xiurong (female), Chen Shuling (female), Niu Shuzhen
(female), Jiang Jingfang (female), Liu Chunhua (female), Liu Fengxia (female),
Wang Xiuhui (female), He Guizhen (female), Yang Shufang (female), Liu Zhixia
(female), Li Ruilian (female), Li Huiyun (unknown), Cui Xiuzhen (female),
Liu Shuxin (female).
* 19. It is reported that the police station sent all of them to the Zhoukoudian Psychiatric
Hospital, Fangshan district, Beijing, without any legal or medical procedures, allegedly in order
to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal during the period of the return of Macau to
Chinese rule. They reportedly demanded every practitioner to pay between 800 and 1,000 yuan
renminbi. It was said that it was up to the chief police officer in the police station when these
practitioners were to be released. All 52 practitioners were reportedly released on 21-22 January
after their family members paid the money.
Observations
20. The Special Rapporteur recognizes that there has been insufficient time for the
Government to respond to her letter of 19 January 2001.
* 21. The Special Rapporteur notes that the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, by
letter dated 10 August 2000, transmitted individual cases of torture of female Falun Gong
practitioners to the Government.
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-ninth session
Item 12 (a) of the provisional agenda
INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN
AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE:
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, submitted in accordance with
Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/52
Addendum
Communications to and from Governments*
* The executive summary of this report and the confidential information form (see appendix) are
being circulated in all official languages. The report itself is contained in the annex to the
executive summary and is being circulated in the languages of submission only.
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26. On 24 January 2002; the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Special
Rapporteurs on the question of torture, and on freedom of opinion and expression and to the
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on arbitrary detention, on behalf of
Connie Chipkar, a Canadian Falun Gong practitioner, who had reportedly been arrested on
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on 23 January 2002.
* 27. On 22 July 2002 the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the.
Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of female
Falun Gong practitioners whose lives were reported to be, in danger. In particular, the Special
Rapporteur received information ori the following individual cases.
28. Zheng Donghui, aged 30 of Changchun City; Jilin Province, is reportedly held at the
Heizuizi Labour Camp in Changchun City. According to information received, she has been
beaten, tortured with shocks from electric batons, and hung by her wrists in order to force her to
give up Falun Gong. As a result of receiving shock treatment for an extended period.of time, she
allegedly suffers from heart problems and infections. Her health and life are reported to be in
danger.
* 29. . Li Shujie,resident of Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, was reportedly arrested in
early November 2001 after police broke into her home, and took her to the Anshunlu Police
Station. According to reports, a group of police took turns beating her, then covered her head
with a plastic bag, and, while suffocating her, pierced her face with needles until she fell
unconscious. It is reported that Li Shujie's bones were broken, and her face.and body were
covered with bruises. Ms. Li was then reportedly taken to the Qiqihar First Detention Center,
Qiqihar City, Heilogjiang Province: According to information received, a few days later Ms. Li
was taken into a room for interrogation where she was again severely beaten. As a result, her
internal organs were allegedly injured, and she was reportedly unable to eat and move for
five days. The directors of the detention centre, reportedly rejected Ms. Li's request to be
released for medical treatment and it is alleged that one month later she was suddenly moved to
an unknown location.
* 30. Liu Runling, aged 38, resident of Hebei Province, was reportedly arrested
on 28 September 2001 and detained at the No. 1 Detention Centre, where she remains. In
January 2002, guards allegedly ordered several inmates to torture Ms. Liu because she refused to
renounce Falun Gong. According to reports, they took her to a bathroom, where she was
stripped naked and beaten. They reportedly inserted hair and used tissues into her vagina, and
pierced her with needles for 40 minutes. It is reported that this left her covered with wounds and
needle holes, and both her breasts allegedly turned black.
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* 31. Wei Tianchen, aged 45, resident of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, was reportedly
arrested and sentenced to two years forced labour after going to Beijing in May 2000 to
appeal to the Government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was reportedly released in
November 2000 due to weakness, but was arrested again in July 2001 and sentenced to
four years in the No. 1 Detention Centre, where she allegedly remains. During her detention, it
is reported that she has often been stripped and beaten for refusing to give up Falun Gong. In
January 2002, a police officer reportedly put shackles on Ms. Wei and ordered an inmate to pour
icy water over her. It is also alleged that she was forced to sleep on the icy ground for one
month.
* 32. Yang Jingxhi, aged 37; Lu Guifang, 50, and Zhao Yuhua, 41, residents of Weiping
Township, Liaoning Province, allegedly went to Beijing to appeal to the Government to stop
prosecuting Falun Gong and were reportedly arrested in Tiananmen Square on 25 April 2002.
At the Tiananmen Square police station, they were allegedly stripped down to their underwear
and tortured. It is reported that the policemen handcuffed their hands to their backs and inserted
pieces of chalk or chopsticks between their fingers. The fingers were reportedly squeezed until
the chalk or chopsticks were broken. It is also alleged that the police poured hot water on
Ms. Yang, causing her to lose consciousness and her body to become swollen. It is reported that,
on the same day, Ms. Yang, M. Lu and Ms. Zhao were sent t6 Masanjia Labour Camp, but were
refused because they had become too weak. In May 2002, they were allegedly arrested and
resent to Masanjia Labour Camp.
* 33. According to report's, Wang Guizhen, aged 52, resident of Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang
Province, went to Beijing in December 2000 to appeal to the Government to stop persecuting
Falun Gong. Three policemen reportedly shocked her with electric batons while in detention at
the Huairou County Jail in Beijing. She allegedly went on a hunger strike to protest the
detention, but reportedly almost died when,a feeding tube was inserted into her trachea. It is
reported that after being released a week later she was again arrested and detained at the
Changchun Heizuizi Labour Camp. According to information received, she frequently received
shocks with an electric baton and was also allegedly beaten on numerous occasions. In addition
numerous cuts were allegedly found on her face and neck, and her treatment is reported to have
caused her to vomit, cough up blood and be unable to eat. She was reportedly sent to a mental
hospital, but her current whereabouts are said to be unknown.
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women,
its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy,
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International, regional and national developments in the area of violence against women
1994-2003*
* The present document is being circulated in the language of submission only as it greatly exceeds the page
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952. China ratified the Convention on 4 November 1980, but maintains a reservation to article
29.
Legislation
953. Article 27 of the Constitution states that women enjoy equal rights with men in all respects
and that the State protects marriage, the family and the mother and child, family violence against
women is reported to be quite widespread.
954. Even though China has no national law specifically targeting domestic violence,
amendments to the Marriage Law, passed in April 2001, provide some protection against spousal
abuse. In addition, 13 provinces and provincial cities have passed their own legislation
addressing domestic abuse. For example, the Domestic Violence Ordinance of 1997 provides
protection in situations of domestic violence for the residents of Hong Kong.
955. The Law on Population and Family Planning 2002 makes China's `One -Child' Policy an
official law. Even though it provides for the improve ment of reproductive health education and
prohibits mistreatment of, and discrimination against women who give birth to female children,
it severely restricts women's enjoyment of reproductive rights.
956. In 1996 and 1997 China revised its Criminal Procedure Law and Criminal Law with the
aim of strengthening laws against forced prostitution and the abduction of women and children.
The new legislation contains provisions that protect women from acts of violence in their every
day lives as well as from violence administered while in police custody.396
Policies and programmes
957. In 1996 China began to execute the third five-year plan for the publicity and education of
the legal system.397 The plan includes education of laws regarding women, as well as the
creation of an inspection team to periodically inspect the enforcement of the Law on the
Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women.
958. In July 1995 the Programme for the Development of Chinese Women was formulated with
the participation of the State Council Working Committee on Women and Children and other
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ministries and commissions. Local governments also formulated plans for the development of
women during 1996 and 1997, and corresponding bodies were set up in the provinces,
prefectures and counties. In 1998/9 four regional conferences were held to monitor and analyse
the progress made. As part of the media component, the television programme "Half the Sky"
deals with many topics including reproductive health, violence against women, sexual
harassment, and women's image in the mass media. Also in 1995, the Government launched "a
child-bearing insurance scheme for employed women that included a collective social fund to
bear the expenses of childbearing.
Issues of concern
959. Despite the abovementioned protective measures, violence against women remains a
serious problem. According to a July 2000 survey by the All China Women's Federation
(ACWF), violence occurs in 30 per cent of Chinese families, with 80 per cent of cases involving
spousal abuse. Domestic violence is present in all socioeconomic levels, and is reportedly more
frequent in rural areas. Although awareness of this problem seems to be growing, there are
reportedly no shelters for victims of domestic violence.
960. Despite central Government legislation that formally prohibits the use of force to compel
persons to submit to abortion or sterilization, the intense pressure to meet Government imposed .
family planning targets sometimes leads family -planning officials to force women to undergo
abortions and sterilization. In addition, Genetic testing, banned since January 1995, has become a
lucrative underground business in the country and has also led to pressure to abort female
foetuses.
961. Women in Tibet continue to undergo hardship and are also subjected to gender -specific
crimes, including reproductive rights violations such as forced sterilization, forced abortion,
coercive birth control policies and the monitoring of menstrual cycles. There have been many
reports of Tibetan women prisoners facing brutality and torture in custody. 398
* 962. It has also been reported that China has intensified repression of the Falun Gong.
According to reports, there are numerous cases of Falung Gong practitioners facing harassment
and torture in various areas of the country. They face extortion, prolonged detention, physical
and psychological abuse and imprisonment. Some have died in prisons under unacceptable
circumstances.399
963. According to statistics compiled by the World Bank, Harvard University, and the World
Health Organization, over half of the world's female suicides occur in China. About 500 Chinese
women commit suicide a day, at a rate that the World Bank estimates to be five times the global
average. The low economic and social status of women is thought to be largely to blame.
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50. On 31 August 2001 the Special Representative transmitted an allegation jointly with the
Special Rapporteur on torture on the following cases.
51. Wang Wanxing, a human rights activist, was reportedly forcibly removed from his
home by public security officers and taken to Ankang Psychiatric Hospital in Beijing
on 23 November 1999. This followed Mr. Wanxing's request to the authorities to hold a press
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conference to discuss his confinement. He was allegedly first detained in Ankang Public
Security Hospital on 3 June 1992 after trying to unfurl a banner in Tiananmen Square
commemorating the events of 4 June 1989. On 19 August 1999, Wang Wanxing was reportedly
released for a three-month trial period.
* 52. Li Lanying, Chen Shihuan, Liu Jinling and Chi Yunling four Falun Gong practitioners
from Zhaoyuan county in Shandong province, were reportedly detained in November 1999 for
disclosing details of the death due to torture of Zhao Jinhua in October 1999. In December 1999,
Li Lanying and Chen Shihuan were reportedly assigned to three years' "re-education through
labour", to be served in a labour camp in Zibo county, Shandong province.
53. On 26 September 2001 the Special Representative transmitted an allegation jointly with
the Special Rapporteur on torture regarding the following cases.
54. Mr. Lobsang Tenzin and Mr. Tenpa Wangdrak were reportedly caught,
on 31 March 1991, while in Drapchi Prison, attempting to hand over a letter to the then
United States Ambassador, James Lilley, who was visiting Drapchi Prison. According to the
information received, the letter contained in detail treatment meted out to political prisoners
and a list of prisoners who had reportedly been tortured. Mr. Lobsang Tenzin and
Mr. Tenpa Wangdrak were reportedly beaten by officers of the Public Security Bureau (PSB),
and moved to dark isolation cells.
* 55. Mrs. Li Yang was reportedly arrested on 15 March 2000 and sent for one month to
Chaoyang District Detention Centre for appealing for the rights of Falun Gong practitioners at
the Government Central Appeal Office in Beijing. She was reportedly held in very bad
conditions.
* 56. Ms. Zhang Xuelingwas reportedly sentenced on 24 April 2000 to three years'
imprisonment in the Wangcun Labour Camp in Shandong province for collaborating with the
enemy. According to the information received, her arrest was connected with the appeal
Ms. Zhang filed to seek justice for her mother, Ms. Chen Zixiu, who had allegedly been beaten
to death on 21 February 2000, while in detention, and ask for a forensic report. It has been
further reported that, on 20 April 2000, Ms. Zhang gave details of her mother's death and of her
quest for justice to the Asian Wall Street Journal.
57. On 27 September 2001 the Special Representative transmitted an allegation to the
Government of China regarding the following cases.
58. Jamphel Jangchup, Ngawang Phulchung, Ngawang Woeser and Ngawang Gyaltsen,
Drepung monk members of the "Organization of Ten" were reportedly arrested by officers of the
Public Security Bureau (PSB), on 16 April 1989, for forming a "counter-revolutionary
organization, producing reactionary literature, which attacked the Chinese Government and
slandered the People's Democratic dictatorship". In fact, the group reportedly published a
Tibetan translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and had also given information
about the human rights abuses reportedly perpetrated by the authorities. According to the
information received, Mr. Jangchup and Mr. Phulchung were sentenced to 19 years'
imprisonment and Mr. Woeser and Mr. Gyaltsen were sentenced to 17 years.
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* 59. Mr. Chu 0 -ming, a Falun Gong practitioner based,in Hong Kong, was reportedly arrested
on 7 September 2000 in connection with the complaint he filed, on 29 August 2000, with the
Supreme Procuratorate of China, against Jiang Zemin, the President, Zeng Qinghong,,Minister of
the Ministry of Human Resources and Personnel, and Luo Gan, Secretary of the Political and
Legal, Committee of the State Council, for alleged persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. To
date, Mr. Chu's family has still not obtained any information about his whereabouts.
* 60., Ms. Teng Chunyan, a medical doctor and Falun Gong practitioner, was reportedly
charged with "prying into State intelligence for overseas organizations" and sentenced to three
years in jail by Beijing Intermediate People's Court, on 23 November 2000. According to the
information received, on 7 Februaiy 2000, Ms., Teng led foreign journalists to a village in the
Fangshan district of Beijing, where they reportedly, interviewed Falun Gong practitioners
detained in a mental hospital. In March 2000, Ms. Teng returned to Fangshan and provided a
digital camera for a man to take pictures of the detained Falun Gong members to document their
detention and hunger strike. She later reportedly forwarded the pictures to foreign news
organizations by e-mail.
61. On 8 and 12 March 2001, the local police reportedly arrested He Kechang,
Ran Chongxin, Jiang Qingshan and Wen Dingchun, four farmers, who' were planning to go to
Beijing in early March 2001 to present a petition to the Government complaining that local
officials had embezzled funds intended to pay for resettling them. According to the information
received, the four farmers are among thousands of people whose homes will be flooded by the
Three Gorges Dam, a giant reservoir that is reportedly planned to be operational in the centre of
Gaoyang in 2003. All four of them were reportedly, held in the Yunyang county police Detention
Centre, charged with disturbing the social order, leaking State secrets and maintaining illicit
relations with a foreign country.
Observations
62. The Special Representative regrets that at the time of the finalization of this report the
Government had not transmitted any reply to her communications.
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80. On 16 September 2002, the Special Representative transmitted an urgent
appeal together with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture regarding Dr. Wan
Yanhai, the founder and coordinator of the AIZHI (AIDS) Action Project. Dr. Wan
Yanhai was reportedly taken into detention to a secret place by State security
authorities on 24 August 2002. According to the information received, Dr. Wan
Yanhai's detention may be related to his activities in favour of human rights and to
the alleged publication on the Internet of information on the spread of HIV/AIDS
through unsanitary practices in the collection of blood in Henan province. Prior to his
disappearance and reported detention by State authorities, Dr. Wan Yanhai was
allegedly under surveillance by plainclothes police. The AIZHI Action Project was
reportedly forced to move out of its offices when its partner institute was allegedly
obliged by authorities to stop cooperating with the group. According to the
information received, Dr. Wan Yanhai was not given the possibility of contacting his
family and friends or to be represented by legal counsel of his choice.
81. On 9 October 2002, the Special Representative transmitted a communication
regarding the following cases.
82. Li Wangyang, an advocate for many years of labour rights in China, has
reportedly been arrested and imprisoned in the past because of his human rights work.
During his imprisonment he is reported to have developed medical problems.
Following his release Li Wangyang is reported to have petitioned the Government to
cover his medical costs and to have publicized his predicament among human rights
groups. It is allegedly for this reason that on 29 September 2001, he is reported to
have been sentenced to a further 10 years of imprisonment by the People's
Intermediate Court of Shaoyang. Officially, he was reportedly convicted of incitement
to subvert State power.
83. Zhang Shanguang, an advocate of workers' rights, was reportedly arrested on
28 August 1998 and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on 27 December 1998,
allegedly after having given interviews to foreign organizations in which he
reportedly related information about a kidnapping case in Xupu County. This
information was allegedly described by authorities as "intelligence" information, even
though it was reportedly widely known among inhabitants of the area. Zhang
Shanguang is reportedly continuing to serve his sentence in the Hunan No.1 prison. In
March 2001, he is reported to have signed a petition, along with other inmates,
alleging serious human rights violations inside the prison. He was allegedly beaten as
a result.
84. On 30 November 1998, Qin Yongmin, an activist and author, was allegedly
accused of "incitement to subvert State power" after founding the China Human
Rights Observer and for his role in establishing the China Democracy Party. It is
alleged that he was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment after his trial on 17
December 1998.
* 85. On 24 May 2002, Yoko Kaneko was reportedly arrested after having
distributed material allegedly disclosing human rights violations committed against
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Falung Gong practitioners in Tiananmen Square. It is reported that Yoko Kaneko was
taken to the Haidian District Public Security Branch and has been detained since then.
* 86. Shan Lihua was reportedly arrested and detained twice by the police during
trips to Beijing to appeal to the Government to stop violating. the human rights- of
Falung Gong practitioners. On 10 February 2000, she was reportedly arrested by
police officers from the Weishui Town Police Station while she was doing Falung
Gong exercises. In October 2002, she was reportedly sentenced to three years of
imprisonment for having written letters about the human rights conditions of Falung
Gong practitioners.
87. In September 1999, Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent advocate of, women's -rights
and the rights of the Uighur ethnic group, was reportedly charged with "providing
secret information to foreigners" after being arrested in August 1999 as she entered a
hotel to discuss human rights with United States congressional staff visiting China. It
is alleged that, in March 2000, Rebiya Kadeer was sentenced to eight years of
imprisonment. In August 2002, grave concerns were expressed about her health.
88. In November 1999, Jiang Qisheng, an adovate of the rights of 4 June
Tiananmen victims, was reportedly sentenced to four years' imprisonment and one
year's deprivation of political rights for "incitement to subvert State power." On 15
April 1999, Jiang Qisheng reportedly circulated an open letter calling on the Chinese
people to mark the tenth anniversary of the June massacre with peaceful acts, such as
lighting candles inside houses. Further, on 17 May 1999, Jiang Qisheng reportedly
issued a personal appeal on behalf of Cao Jiahe, the Dongfang magazine editor who
was allegedly detained and tortured for collecting signatures to mark the 4 June
anniversary.
89. Li Hai, a human rights activist, was reportedly jailed in 1995 for having made
public a list of individuals sentenced to prison terms for their participation in the 1989
demonstrations in Beijing. Li Hai was allegedly convicted of "prying into and
gathering the following information about people sentenced . for criminal activities in
1989: name, age, family situation, crime, ngth of sentence, location of
imprisonment, treatment while imprisoned." It is all `ged that, according to the court's
verdict, this information constituted "high-level State secrets". Li Hai's appeal was
reportedly rejected by the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court on 13 March 1997. Li
Hai's detention was judged to be arbitrary by the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention.
90. Ding Zilin (f), an activist whose son was reportedly executed in Tiananmen
Square on 4 June 1989, has reportedly been under strict surveillance and has been
detained on several occasions. Since 1989, Ding Zilin has been documenting the list
of those wounded and killed during the Tiananmen Square events and distributing
financial aid to victims' families. It is reported that in 2000, the group of so called
"Tiananmen Mothers" to which Ding Zilin belongs issued a petition demanding the
right to mourn peacefully in public, the right to accept humanitarian aid, the end to the
persecution of the victims of the events of 4 June 1989 and a full public accounting of
the events which took place on that date. It is reported that Ding Zilin's bank account
has been frozen to prevent her from receiving funds to assist families of victims
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* 91. On 10 October 2002, the Special Representative together with the Special
Rapporteur on the question of torture, transmitted a communication regarding Li
Qun. On 13 March 2000, Li Qun is alleged to have written a letter to the Office of
Appeal of Nanjing City government calling on the Government to respect the rights of
Falun Gong practitioners allegedly being confined and forcibly given harmful drugs in
the Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital. According to the information received, in reaction to
her letter, Li Qun was herself taken to the psychiatric hospital, where she was
allegedly force=fed psychotropic drugs, with apparent damage to her brain. It is
alleged that Li Qun's relatives have been refused access to her.
Communication received
92. By letter dated 28 November 2002, the Government informed the Special
Representative that Dr. Wan Yanhai was detained by members of the Beijing State
Security Bureau on suspicion of unlawfully transmitting State secrets abroad. The
Government clarified that the detainee had requested in writing that his family should
not be notified of his detention and voluntarily renounced his rights to legal counsel.
The Government further indicated that given the fact that he had acknowledged his
guilt, he was granted a discharge on 20 September 2002. The Government assured the
Special Representative that Dr. Wan Yanhai had not been subjected to ill-treatment
while in detention and that he was currently in good health.
Observations
93. The Special Representative thanks the Government for its reply. However, she
remains concerned that the actions for which Dr. Wan Yanhai was accused are among
those protected by the Declaration on human rights defenders. She is concerned,
further, at the Government's information indicating that he did not wish his family to
be notified of his detention and that he renounced his right to legal counsel. The
Special Representative regrets that, at the time of completion of the present report she
had not yet received responses to her other communications. She notes, however, that
an additional reponse was received from the Government prior to publication of this
report but that insufficient time was available for the Chinese text • original to be
translated and for the response to be incorporated here.
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136. On 7 May 2001, the Special Rapporteur, jointly with the Chairman-Rapporteur of the
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on torture, sent an urgent
appeal concerning the prolonged detention of Gao Zhan, a research fellow at the American
University in Washington D.C. She had been held in incommunicado detention since her
arrest by officers of the Beijing State Security Bureau at Beijing airport on 11 February 2001.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Minister issued a statement on 28 March 2001 that she had
been charged with accepting "missions from overseas intelligence agencies" and taking "funds
for spying activities in mainland China". She was formally charged on 2 April 2001 with
accepting money from a foreign intelligence agency and of participating in espionage activities
in China. It was reported that the State Security Ministry had repeatedly denied Gao Zhan's
lawyer's requests for meetings. Concerns were expressed for her health as Gao Zhan suffers
from heart disease and other medical problems. Her place of detention was unknown.
Gao Zhan, a United States resident, might have been arrested in connection to her research which
focused primarily on women's issues, on Chinese family and on China's relations with Taiwan.
Gao Zhan's husband, Xue Donghua, and their son, Andrew Xue, were also arrested
on 11 February 2001 at Beijing airport and kept in incommunicado detention for 26 days.
Xue Donghua, also a United States resident, and Andrew Xue, a United States citizen, were
released and reunited on 8 March 2001 and immediately returned to the United States.
137. On 17 May 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal concerning a series
of alleged arrests and detentions targeting individuals who write on the Internet. Yang Zili,
creator of an Internet web site www lib.126.com, was arrested on 13 March 2001 as he was
leaving his home in Beijing. His place of detention was unknown and he had not been formally
charged. It was believed that his arrest was linked to articles he had published on Internet which
denounced repression against Falun Gong followers and the economic problems of Chinese
peasants. His wife, Lu Kun, was also arrested on 13 March 2001 and, after being interrogated by
the police regarding the activities of her husband, she was released after 48 hours. Moreover, the
Special Rapporter referred to the detention of Lu Xinhua for "subversion" on the basis of the law
on the content of information published on the Internet, and of Wang Jinbo, a member of the
China Democracy Party, arrested by police on 9 May 2001 in Junan, Shandong province, and
accused of having published on the Internet a text libelling the local police. Furthermore,
Wang Sen, also a member of the China Democracy Party, was detained in Dachuan, Sichuan
province, where he was arrested on 30 April 2001. He was accused of having denounced on the
Internet local trafficking in medicines. In addition, the Special Rapporteur indicated that
Guo Qinghai was sentenced by a court in Cangzhou on 26 April 2001 to four years in jail for
subversion by virtue of the law on the content of news published on the Internet.
138. On 15 August 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal concerning a
directive issued publicly on 8 August by the Chinese State Press and Publications Administration
according to which publications could be summarily closed down for reporting on any one of the
seven proscribed topics, including criticism of government policies or reporting that "harms the
national interest". This directive was the latest move in a crackdown on the mainland Chinese
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press that began intensifying in January. Since then, several publications have been shut down
and a number of reporters and editors have been dismissed or demoted. Furthermore, hundreds
of journalists have been brought to Beijing to meet with propaganda officials in order to "study
publicity directions".
139. On 3 September 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal -concerning the
sending of Liu Haofeng, a free-lance writer and journalist, to a labour camp where he could
stay for up to three years without formal charges or trial. Liu Haofeng was secretly arrested in
March 2001 in Shangai. Liu Haofeng was accused by the Shangai Re-education through Labour
Committee of "endangering national security" for having published under various pen names on
the Internet a policy paper and anessay on the dissident China Democratic Party as well as on
the current situation of China's peasants. Liu Haofeng was also accused of trying to form an
illegal organization, the "China Democracy Party Joint Headquarters, Second Front".
* 140. On 25 October 2001, jointly with the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Special
Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal regarding the arrest of Huang Guodong, a 51 -year-old resident
of Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang province, and his son in February 2001 on the charge of having
printed and distributed Falun Gong flyers. They were taken to the Nanshan police station of
Tielinghe in Mudanjiang city, where the police are said to have tied them up and to have beaten
them violently for a whole day and night: Huang Guodong was subsequently transferred to
Mudanjiang detention centre, where he was subjected to periodic torture by three police officers,
whose names are known to the Special Rapporteurs. As a result of the torture, Huang Guodong
became incontinent and has not been able to take in any food since 10 October 2001.
* 141. On 30 October 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal, jointly with
the Special Rapporteur on torture, concerning the following allegations. On 25 December 2000,
Zhang Maoxing and his eldest daughter, Zhang Juan, went to Beijing to appeal to the
Government to stop the persecution of the Falun Gong. They were arrested together there and
escorted back to the Jiujiang county detention centre in Jiangxi province. Zhang Maoxing had
suffered severe beating in the detention centre and was tortured to death on 25 January 2001.
Even after Mr. Zhang's death, the police did not lessen its persecution against his family.
Indeed, the police did not allow Mr. Zhang's wife to see her husband for the last' time. Likewise,
Zhang Maoxing's brother and his 10 -year-old son were allowed to see his body, but only very
briefly before it was hastily cremated. They saw that the body had dark bruises all over, and was
still shackled to an iron bed when it was carried away from the hospital for cremation.
142. On 1 November 2001, the Special Rapporteur transmitted a communication regarding the
sentencing on 11 September 2001 of Zhu Ruixiang, a former Chinese television editor who used
a Hong Kong -based Internet site to e-mail political articles to his friends, to three years'
imprisonment on charges of subversion. In the same communication, the Special Rapporteur
referred to the detention of Lu Xinhua, arrested in mid-March 2001 in Wuhan, Hubei province.
This arrest could be linked to articles written by Mr. Lu about rural unrest and official corruption
which appeared on various overseas Internet news sites. On 20 April 2001, Mr. Lu was charged
with subversion, a charge frequently used against journalists who write about politically sensitive
subjects.
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* 107. On 24 January 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent jointly with the Special Rapporteurs on
torture and on violence against women and the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention, an urgent appeal concerning Connie Chipkar, a 61 -year-old Canadian
Falun Gong practitioner, who was reportedly arrested on Tiananmen Square on 23 January 2002
because she wore a sash that read "Falun Gong" and "SOS" and had begun to practise Falun
Gong exercises. According to the information received, she was immediately arrested by a
uniformed police officer and some police officers in civilian clothes, put into a police van and
driven away in an unknown location.
108. On 25 February 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal jointly with the
Special Rapporteur on torture concerning Xu Zerong, a research associate professor at the
Southeast Asia Institute of the Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, who was reportedly arrested
on 24 June 2000 and charged on 25 July 2000 in connection with "the illegal publication of books
and periodicals since 1993", for which he was reportedly sentenced in January 2002 by a
Shenzhen Court to 13 years in prison (three years for "economic crimes" and 10 years on charges
of "leaking state secrets" in connection with his alleged use of classified documents conceming
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Chinese military operations during the 1950-53 Korean war). Mr. Zerong was reportedly
detained incommunicado for the 18 months leading up to his trial and his place of detention at the
time the urgent appeal was sent was allegedly unknown. It was reported that Mr. Zerong
appealed his sentence.
109. On 9 April 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal jointly with the Special
Rapporteur on torture concerning information they received about the arrest of four workers'
representatives, Yao Fuxin, Xiao Yunliang, Pang Qingxiang, and Wang Zhaoming, who were
reportedly charged with "illegal assembly and demonstration" for their part in organizing protests in
Liaoyang City, Lianing province, during which up to 30,000 workers demonstrated in March
against layoffs, alleged management corruption and insufficient severance pay. The Special
Rapporteurs indicate in their communication that Yao Fuxin, who was detained incommunicado
from 17 to 31 March — when he was allowed to call his family but not to receive visits, might have
developed a heart condition due to ill-treatment during his detention and had to be taken to
hospital for treatment.
* 110. On 11 April 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal jointly with the Special
Rapporteur on torture on the case of approximately 20 Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun
City, Jilin Province, including Mr. Liang Zhenxing, Mr. Liu Chengjun, Ms. Zhou Runjun,
Mr. Lei Ming, Mr. Zhao Jian, Mr. Yun Qinglin and Ms. Li Yanmei, who have reportedly
been detained during a security crackdown in Changchun City and charged with having tapped
into the signal of eight major television stations, on 5 March 2002, in order to broadcast footage
ekposing the Chinese Government's alleged persecution campaign against Falun Gong
practitioners. Reports also seem to indicate that local police officials have said that 15 other
people have been arrested in connection with the same broadcast, without giving details about
their names or whereabouts and that an official from the Changchun Re-education Through
Labour Bureau has indicated that between 100 and 200 people have been detained since the
broadcast and would probably be sent to a labour camp for between one to three years.
111. On 28 May 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent another urgent appeal jointly with the
Special Rapporteur on torture concerning workers' representatives Yao Fuxin, Xiao Yunliang,
Pang Qingxiang and Wang Zhaoming, who were reportedly still held in detention, although
according to the information received, Yao Fuxin is believed to be seriously ill possibly due to ill-
treatment. On 11 April 2002, his wife was reportedly allowed to visit him, for the first time since
his arrest, at the Tieling City Detention centre, in northeastern China and she reported that he may
have suffered several minor strokes since his detention, although he had no prior history of
cardiovascular disease, and that he may not have received appropriate medical care. The
communication also referred to Gu Baoshu, an activist involved in demonstrations, who was
reportedly forcibly taken from his home on 16 April, severely beaten by the police and released
after several hours of interrogation. He allegedly was threatened and harassed by the police
following his demands for those responsible for his beatings to be investigated and his medical
costs to be paid for by the Public Security Bureau. On 15 May 2002, Wang Dawei's
whereabouts remained unknown as he has reportedly not been seen since mid-April after he
travelled to Beijing from Liaoning Province to file a petition to the central authorities against the
current situation at the Ferroalloy factory.
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* 112. On 26 July 2002, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication concerning the alleged
blocking by the Government on 1 July of the uncrypted signal transmitting BBC World through the
Sinosat 1 satellite, following a report on BBC World about Falun Gong broadcast on 30 June and
1 July 2002. A spokesman for China's international television corporation allegedly told Agence
France Presse on 5 July that some programmes of the BBC infringed rules on the transmission of
foreign programmes in China.
113. The Special Rapporteur also referred to Mr. Jiang , a Chinese -born Canadian citizen
and a freelance reporter, who was reportedly arrested on 3 June 2002 in Daqing, Heilongjiang
province, by the authorities, while he was filming a documentary about labour unrest in Daqing for
the United States broadcaster PBS, and deported from China on 5 June, as he was accused of
making illegal video recordings.
114. In the same communication, the Special Rapporteur referred to the case of Lee Sang -
min, a South Korean journalist, who was reportedly assaulted and beaten by the police on 13
June 2002 in Beijing, while reporting on an incident in which Chinese security personnel forcibly
removed a North Korean asylum -seeker who had successfully entered the South Korea consulate
in Beijing.
* 115. He also brought to the attention of the authorities the case of Yoko Kaneko, of her
husband, a Japanese citizen, and of two other Japanese Falun Gong practitioners, who had
reportedly travelled to Beijing on 23 May 2002 to peacefully appeal for the end of the regime's
three-year campaign against Falun Gong practitioners. They were arrested by plainclothes police
officers while they were walking to Tiananmen Square in the afternoon of 24 May, distributing
Falun Gong materials that disclosed the situation of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It is alleged
that they were taken to the Haidian District Public Security Branch, and Ms. Kaneko was
detained and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour.
* 116. In the same communication, the Special Rapporteur referred to the case of Sun Guilan
and 50 other Falun Gong practitioners , who were reportedly having a Falun Gong experience -
sharing conference in Caijiapo, Qishan County, Shanxi province at the end of September 2001,
when the police broke into the meeting place and reportedly arrested Ms. Sun and sent him to the
Baoji City Detention Centre, where she allegedly started a hunger strike to protest. It is reported
that she was force-fed by the military doctors of Baoji City No. 60 Hospital and suffocated to
death because of the tube being inserted into her trachea.
* 117. He also brought to the attention of the Government the case of Chen Yuqing, who was
reportedly detained on 1 October 2000 in the City No.1 Detention Centre by the Congtai District
public security bureau, after he went to Beijing to appeal to the higher authorities for an end to the
persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Chen Yuqing was reportedly mistreated during his detention and
he died on 18 October 2000.
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on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
2000
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COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-sixth session
Item 11 (d) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF:
INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY, ADMINISTRATION
OF JUSTICE, IMPUNITY
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and
lawyers, Mr. Param Cumaraswamy, submitted in accordance with
Commission resolution 1999/31
CONTENTS
Paragraphs Page
Executive summary 5
Introduction 1 - 2 6
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I. TERMS OF REFERENCE 3 - 6 6
II. METHODS OF WORK 7 8
III. ACTIVITIES OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR 8 - 26 8
A. Consultations 8 - 10 8
B. Missions/visits 11 - 15 9
C. Communications with governmental authorities 16 - 20 9
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China
Communications to the Government
101. On 14 December 1998, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication to the Government
of China concerning allegations he received concerning Mr. Li Bifeng, who was reportedly
sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by the Mianyang People's Court in Sichuan on a charge
of fraud following his reports on the grievance of laid -off workers to foreign organizations and
his criticism of the Communist Party in a letter to it. It is reported that the trial of Li Bifeng
lasted only one day. No witnesses appeared to testify against or on behalf of the defendant and
the only piece of evidence was an IOU slip that supposedly linked Li Bifeng to an embezzlement
scheme. Further, it is alleged that prior to the trial, Li Bifeng's lawyer had been threatened by
the police and warned that the case was complicated and that he should not offer a strong
defence on his client's behalf.
102. On 31 May 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication concerning
developments arising from the two decisions of the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) handed down on 29 January 1999. These decisions,
inter alia, enabled children of Chinese nationality who were born outside Hong Kong, one of
whose parents is a HKSAR permanent resident to qualify as a HKSAR permanent resident; such
qualification was not related to the status of the parents at the time of birth or whether the child
was born within or outside marriage. The Special Rapporteur was further informed that attempts
were made to oust the execution of these decisions, including a request to the National People's
Congress to interpret the Basic Law.
* 103. On 22 November 1999, the Special Rapporteur sent a communication concerning
information he had received relating to the situation of the practitioners of Falun Gong
According to the information received, following the Government's ban upon the spiritual
practice on 22 July 1999, the Beijing Bureau of Justice issued on 29 July a notice setting out a
procedure for reporting all requests for consultations and legal representation relating to
Falun Gong. The notice required all legal units, including all attorneys' offices and Bureaux of
Justice in all counties and districts, to immediately report, tally and record all requests for
consultations and legal representation relating to Falun Gong. The notice stipulated that no
contract for legal representation was to be signed without prior approval from the Office of Legal
Administration.
* 104. Furthermore, it has been alleged that Falun Gong followers have been sentenced without
trial or notification to their relatives, including Li Zhiling, Tian Xiuhua, Sui Dali, Chang Yu,
Zhang Jiezi and Zhou Ximeng , who have been sentenced to between one and three years in a
labour camp. It is further reported that several Falun Gong followers will be facing proceedings.
Communication from the Government
105. On 24 June 1999, the Government sent a letter in reply to the Special Rapporteur's letter
of 14 December 1998 concerning the case of Mr. Li Bifeng. The Government informed the
Special Rapporteur that Li Bifeng had been arrested for economic crimes in April 1998. The
Mianyang People's Court held a public hearing during which the results of the investigation in
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2002-2003
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General Assembly
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English
Original: English/French
Fifty-seventh session
Item 111 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Human rights questions: human rights questions including
alternative approaches for improving the effective
enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
,...Elimination of all forms .of religious intolerance
Note by the -Secretary-General**
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the members of the
General Assembly the interim report prepared by Abdelfattah Amor, Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, in
accordance with General Assembly resolution 56/157 of 19 December 2001.
Interim report prepared by Abdelfattah Amor, Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on
freedom of religion or belief
Summary
The Special Rapporteur is submitting the present report to the General
Assembly pursuant to resolution 56/157 of 19 December 2001.
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur deals in section I with the
communication sent to States since the publication of the most recent report to the
Commission on Human Rights and with the replies received. He also includes the
late replies of States to communication sent before the publication of the most recent
report. The Special Rapporteur then devotes section II to in situ visits and follow-up.
In section III, he describes developments with respect to follow-up of the
International Consultative Conference, held in Madrid in November 2001.
* A/57/150.
** The present report was finalized in Geneva and sent to the General Assembly Servicing Branch
before the deadline of 2 July 2002. Express transmission to Headquarters is the cause of the delay.
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15. The Special Rapporteur also expressed his
concern at the process for the re -registration of
religious groups.
16. By letter dated 26 April 2002, Azerbaijan
responded, inter alia:
"The Sumgait community of Baptist
Christians has not provided the additional
documents required for its official registration
since its incomplete filing on 27 December 2001.
"Rauf Gurbanov, Anna` Gurbanova and
Taissia Kuznetsova, who are members of this
community, nevertheless pursued their religious
activities. Arrested on 2 February 2002 while`
distributing Christian publications to the
population, they were charged with the unlawful
exercise of a religious activity and then released.
The confiscated publications were returned, no
complaint or claim was filed' against the police
and the medical examination they underwent
showed no sign of their being ill-treated. As to
Rauf Akifogly Gurbanov, the investigation
revealed nothing to corroborate the statements
alleging that he had been insulted and had
suffered physical violence. 'During the
questioning, Rauf Gurbanov and the other
members of the community said that they had not
been subjected to any unlawful act or harassment *
when exercising their religious activity."
Bangladesh
17. On 19 April 2002, the Special Rapporteur
informed the Government of Bangladesh that he had *
received reports alleging that, since the elections in
October 2001, religious minorities, especially the
Hindus, had been the victims of repeated attacks. These
attacks, said to have been carried out by members of
the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami,
have reportedly caused the deaths of dozens of people.
More than 100 Hindu girls are said to have been
abducted and/or raped, including Putul Rani Das, Alo
Rani Das and Mrs. Tramoni -According to the reported
information, hundreds of families were expelled from
their land and found refuge in India, and numerous
attacks have been made against Hindu temples,
including in Sirajdikhan, Dewangonj, Akkhaura,
Betagi, Fattulah and Sirajganj.
18. The following persons are said to have been
killed: Gopal Krishna Muhuri; Sunil Das Sandhu;
Habibur Rahman Kazi;' Khorshed; Suvash; Abdul
Mannan; Abdul Kashem; Sha Alam; Ansar; Mahir;
Lokman; Shariatullah; Hemayet Uddiri;:- Mokbul
Ahmed; Azim; Mozahar; Shafiullah; Habibur Rahman;
Monir Hossain; Farid; Zakir Hossain; Rabiul Islam;
Moslemuddin; Hossain Ali Shuman; Monzer Ali Kalu;
Nur Mohammad Mallik; Enayet Sikder; Abdul Alim;
Masud; Bahar; Babu; Tajul Islam; Faruk Ahmed; Ramij
Salam; Mohammad Yasin; Kalu; Abdul Malek; Liton
Ahmed; Abdul Kalam; Shaheen; Noresh Chandra Das;
Luftor„Nessae; Mohammad Yusuf; Nurunnabi;,Mukter
Hossain.
19. The casualties are said to include: Anil Gomes;
Gagon Rojario;' Shibnath Kirtania; Banalatha Kirtania;
Charulatha -Kirtania; 'Nipun Kirthania; Nikhil
Kirthania; Sandhya Rani; Santosh; Dr. Subodh;'Sanjib;
Binod Das; Atul Majumder; Dalim; Usha Rani; Ranjit;
Gopal Chakraaborty;.Shibu Dsash Mohanta.
20. It is further alleged that in the majority of cases
no steps were taken to protect the citizens and the
victims were threatened with reprisals if they filed a
complaint. The police is said to have been informed of
the incidents and to have taken no action to find the
guilty parties and bring them to justice.
China
21. The Special Rapporteur sent two communications
to the Government of China with respect to the action
taken against the members of Falun Gong and the
sentences received by members of the Protestant South
China Church.
22. Since 1999, 361 members of Falun Gong are said
to have died in detention, 80 of them as a result of
torture between October 2001 and January 2002,
including: Li Began, Wu Jingxia, Li Jingdong, Liu
Chunshu, Zhan Wei, Cui Dezhe, Tong Guji, Chen Biyu
and Chai Yong. It is alleged that approximately
100,000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been
detained and more than 20,000 have been sent to forced
labour camps without any trial. Persons recently
imprisoned are said to include: Xiong Wei, Teng
Chunyan and Zhang Kunlun.
23. On 29 December 2001, five members of the
South China Church, Gong Shengliang, Li Ying, Xu
Fuming, Hu Yong and Gong Bangkun, were reportedly
given death sentences by the Intermediate People's
Court in Jingmen city for "using an evil sect to harm
the implementation of the law". During the same trial,
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General Assembly
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English
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Fifty-eighth session
Item 119 (b) of the provisional agenda*
Human rights questions: human rights questions including
alternative approaches for improving the effective
enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the members of the
General Assembly the interim report prepared by Abdelfattah Amor, Special
Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, in
accordance with General Assembly resolution 57/208 of 18 December 2002.
* A/58/150.
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Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and the Orthodox Church had launched a
campaign in Burgas to prevent the construction of a house of worship of Jehovah's
Witnesses. Posters calling on people to oppose "parasitic sects" had allegedly been
displayed in the city.
28. The Special Rapporteur wishes to point out that the registration procedures
would be 'considered legitimate and consonant with international laws concerning
religious freedom only if they were specified ,by law, objective, reasonable and
transparent, and therefore did not have the aim or the result of creating
discrimination, and that any refusal of registration must be well-founded and be
subject to judicial review.
China
* 29. The Special Rapporteur addressed a communication to the Chinese
Government on 11 April 2003 concerning inter alia action taken against Falun Gong
members. Between June 2002 and February 2003, a number of Falun Gong members
had allegedly been arrested and sometimes tortured, or died while in detention or
shortly after their release. This is said to involve, in particular: Zhang Zhuo; Xiao
Peng; Li Xiaojing; Zhang Xiaochun; Wang Jinling; Wang Haoyun; Wu Mingfang;
Lingxia Wu; Xiao Chengrui; Chen Jianling; Song Huaping; Xiangyun Deng;
Xiaoyun Fu; Wei Chaozong; Chen Xunan; Pu Shigao; Bai Xiuhua; Wang Baoxian;
Liu Jiming; Xun Ruilin; Dong Jinlan; Deming Shen; Hongmin Li; Mi Zhongsheng;
Jiang; Jingyi Wang; Sun Jihong; Gaidi Zhu; Liao Zhaoqi; Xinzhi Gu; Liguo Jiang;
Ouyang Wei; Fengfang Yang; Yunping Bi; Zhixiang Luo; Zaixin Wei; Xiuqin Xing;
Laihe Wei; Guiqin Yang; Zhenhai Wang; Baochen Huang; Lianping Ye; Ms. Hou;
Fengwei Wang; Lin Guan; Hongye Hu; Yurong Zhou; Xingguo Song; Jianhua Liang;
Shufang Wang; Huajiang He; Cuizhen Zhang; Liu Qunying; Guanyun Yu; Jinshan
Liu; Fengxia Xiong; Zhang Quanfu; Wang Fengqin; Liu Shufen; Zhang Dezhen;
Guiying Meng; Yu Tianyong; Zhang Zhen; Lan Hu; Peng Fangjian; Liu Jie; Zhao
Xianzhong; Li Hongwei; and Ding Feng.
* 30. The Special Rapporteur also cited reports, concerning other Falun Gong
members, of the arrest of Charles Li a United States citizen, and his three-year
prison sentence for attempting to interfere with radio and television programmes; of
the kidnapping of Nancy Chen, an Australian citizen, by Chinese national security
agents; of the sentencing of Yuhui Zhang to 10 years in prison for having written
and published articles on the situation of Falun Gong members in China; and of the
sentencing of 16 persons for having demonstrated in front of the Chinese
Government liaison office in Hong Kong.
31. Concerning the situation of Tibetans, the Special Rapporteur informed the
Chinese Government of information about the arrest of five Tibetans, on 17 October
2002, in the city of Ganzi: Shamba; Tsangpo; Namgyal; Kayo Dogha; Tsering
Dorjee; and Jampal.
32. Moreover, Tibetan officials from Lhasa were said to have been threatened with
losing their pensions and/or employment if they visited the sacred site of Mount
Kailash during the Buddhist festival of Sagadawa.
33. The Special Rapporteur also reverted to the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
(see paras. 19 and 20 of E/CN.4/2003/66), a professor of Tibetan religion who, in
December 2002, was reportedly sentenced to death for involvement in a series of
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explosions and fomenting of separatism. His aide, Lobsang Dhonhup, was also
reportedly sentenced to death.
34. Finally, the Special Rapporteur drew the attention of the Chinese Government
to a draft "anti -subversion" law submitted by the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region of the People's Republic of China, whose vague and broad definition of
terms such as "subversive activities"; "treason" and "sedition" are allegedly likely to
undermine freedom of religion and belief.
35. In a second communication of 12 June 2003, the Special Rapporteur
transmitted information on the arrest of three monks, Tamding, Palzin and Shongdu,
and a layman, Ngodup, of the Serthar Buddhist Institute on 27 May 2003. They were
reportedly arrested in connection with their alleged involvement in an incident on 25
December 2002 related to the reconstruction of housing destroyed the previous year
by the authorities, during which there were reports of casualties and destruction of
police vehicles (see para. 21 of E/CN.4/2003/66).
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Torture Methods Used by Chinese Police*
Reprinted from The Falun Gong Report 2003, published by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, March 2003.
Torture Methods Used by Chinese Police
1. Forced to stand for a long time
A victim is forced to stand still, facing a wall, all day long. This punishment is
often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use of the
toilet. This abuse usually lasts several days. If victims can-
not hold still they will be severely beaten.
This torture has a number of variations, including:
1.1 Back Against the Wall: A victim is forced to stand or
kneel down with the back against the wall, head dropped
forward, and both hands pulled up from behind.
L2 Standing In the "Army Corps" Posture: A victim is
forced to stand under the scorching sun. The feet are plant-
ed on the fiery ground, sometimes without shoes or socks.
Besides the agony of standing for a long time, the victim suffers sunburn.
1.3 Exhausting an Eagle: A victim is forced to stand on a tall stool. When vic-
tims fall from exhaustion, the police will viciously beat them and force them
back on to the stool.
1.4 Body -Folding A victim is forced to stand with both legs straight and close
together, and bend the head down as far as it will go toward the feet, in front
of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, and the head is upside down,
forcing the body into a contorted posture.
2. Forced to Sit for a Long Time
A victim is forced to sit still for a long time, often for many days. This punish-
ment is often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use
of the toilet. This torture can result in poor blood circulation to the lower limbs,
necrosis in the buttocks, and nerve damage from the waist down.
There are several variations of this torture; including:
2.1 Iron Chair Sitting: A victim is shackled to a chair
made of iron wires for more than a week. The wires hurt the
victim's buttocks.
2.2 Board Sitting: A victim is forced to sit on rough wood- '"" '"*".«"'
en boards.
2.3 Triangle Board Sitting: Sitting on an
iron board with sharp peaks and grooves.
This often causes the victim's hips to bleed
and fester.
3. Forced to Squat for a Long Time
A victim is forced to squat still for a long time, often for many days. This pun-
ishment is often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the
use of the toilet. This torture can result in poor blood circulation to the lower
limbs, muscle spasms, and nerve damage.
There are several variations of this torture, including:
3.1 Riding a Horse: A victim is forced to squat down with the legs apart and
both arms raised forward parallel to the ground.
3.2 Squatting on a Square: A victim is forced to squat in a square floor brick
measuring 30 by 30 cm [approximately 1 ft. by 1 ft.] for a long time. The head
must be raised and the feet cannot cross the demarcated line.
3.3 Squatting in a Comer. A victim is forced to a corner of a room using tables
or boards, leaving only a small space, and forced to squat down.
3.4 Squatting with Heels up: A victim is forced to squat over nails sticking
out of the ground under one's heels, and must keep the heels raised to avoid
the nails.
4. Riding an Airplane
This was an infamous torture in China during the Cultural Revolution. A victim's
head is bent down and hands are pulled up and stretched outwards to both
sides of the body (like the wings of an airplane). The victim is forced to stay still
in this position for a long time. This punishment is often combined with the
deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use of the toilet.
4.1 Backing up an Airplane: This
is a variation of "riding an airplane".
A victim must bend over while hold-
ing the legs straight. Then, with the
feet close together, the arms are lift-
ed as high as possible, with the
hands touching the wall.
5. Forced to Run for a Long Time
A victim is forced to run non-stop for over ten hours, or else suffer a harsh beat-
ing.
6. Forced to Stand Outside on a Winter Night; Forced to Stand in
Snow or on Ice with Bare Feet
A victim is forced to stay outside in the biting cold overnight, or stand in snow
or on ice. Countless Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this torture, includ-
ing women and the elderly. Some are even stripped naked.
7. Forced to Stay in Closed Chamber in the Heat of Summer
A victim is locked in a closed room with no window in the summer heat. Many
Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this torture. Sometimes the police even
pour hot water on the floor to make the chamber "steamier".
8. Deprivation of Sleep, Food, Water; Deprivation of Use of Toilet,
Sanitary Napkins, Shower, Change of Clothes; Prohibition of Eye
Contact and Talk; Bombarded with Deafening High -Pitch Sounds,
Shined with Intense Light
Police have exploited any and every basic physiological need or sense to tor-
ture Falun Gong practitioners. Anyone not obeying will be viciously beaten.
9. Pouring Boiling Water or Icy Water over Head
This usually is the first punishment one receives in jail.
Many Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this "routine"
torture.
10. Handcuffs and Shackles
To Chinese police forces, handcuffs
and shackles are not merely devices
of mobility restraint, but also torture
equipment. Many handcuffs and
shackles that cannot be seen in other
parts of the world are used by
Chinese police: those that are very
tight and cut into wrists and ankles,
those that are self -tightening, those
that have spikes, and so on. Following are several variations of tortures with
handcuffs and shackles.
10.1 Handcuffed Behind the Back
A victim handcuffed in this way cannot
use the bathroom, eat or sleep.
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10.2 Carrying a Sword over the Back:: A victim's
hands are tied behind his back with one hand over the
shoulder and the other hand against the lower back.
The police then apply a great deal of force to pull the
two hands toward one another and handcuff the two
hands together. Usually, this torture causes victims to
faint in just 20 minutes. However, police handcuff prac-
titioners this way for as long as four hours.
10.3 Hell Cuff: This is a device intended for mur-
derers or death row inmates. The pliers -shaped
clasps dig into a victim's wrists and ankles. A vic-
tim wearing a "hell cuff" cannot stand, squat,
move, or sleep.
10.4 The Foot Shackle Combined with Handcuffs:
One of a victim's hands is handcuffed to the other
hand between the legs. The shackle weighs over
20 pounds. The victim cannot go to sleep, walk,
stand, use the bathroom, or eat a meal. They have
to walk in a half -squatting and bowing position.
Police often torture practitioners this way for
weeks.
10.5 Running in Chains: Several victims are hand-
cuffed and shackled together and forced to run
non-stop.
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11. Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement, widely condemned around the world, is among the cru-
elest tortures. In China, police have used tortures beyond usual solitary con-
finement against Falun Gong practitioners. Following are only a few of the
examples:
11.1 Locked in Small Cell: A small cell is a room of less than three square
meters. It has no window, no bed, no water, and no toilet. A victim is locked in
a small cell for months, having to eat, sleep, and excrete in the same small
area. Since the height of the room is less than 1.5 meters, one cannot stand
straight. To exacerbate the agony, the guards often hand-
cuff the victim in the small cell door so the victim cannot
sleep for many days.
11.2 Locked in Iron Cage: The height of the cage is short-
er than a victim's height. The width and length are calcu-
lated so that the person can neither stand straight nor lie
down. The victim is often handcuffed to the rail and can-
not sleep. Many Falun Gong practitioners have been
locked up this way for as long as 120 days. They are men-
tally and physically tortured.
11.3 Tied to a Death Board: This variation of solitary confinement was origi-
nally conceived for and used on death row criminals. The victim is tied to an
iron or wooden board for weeks with four limbs stretched out and locked, and
cannot move at all. The victim is tied down at all times, having to be fed by
someone else, but sleeping and excreting are all done on the board, for this
reason the victim is often stripped
naked. The victim suffers not only
from solitary confinement, but also
the excruciating pain of feeling their
whole body atrophying. Many practi-
tioners have lost their lives from this
torture.
11.4 Leaning Against a Big Board: This is a variation of the "death board" tor-
ture. The victim is forced to lie down on a bed made of a wooden board with-
out any padding for many days at a time with feet and hands fixed to the bed.
11.5 Water Dungeon: This is a deadly solitary con-
finement. A victim is stripped naked, locked in an
iron cage with spikes on all sides, and lowered into
a pit of filthy water until the water reaches the vic-
tim's neck. The victim cannot lean to any side
because of the spikes, and cannot squat down
because the water. Many practitioners have suf-
fered this torture and some have died.
12. Cuffed and Hung up
Hung up by handcuffs, in its most simple form,
causes excruciating pain. Chinese police have
added many cruel variations to this torture.
Most Falun Gong practitioners jailed have suf-
fered this in one form or another. The following
are just a few examples:
12.1 Tying up the horse: A victim is hand-
cuffed and shackled, and the arms are pulled
up behind the back, with the head down, and
then tied up with a rope that also loops around
the neck. Then the police pull the end of the rope to tighten it around the prac-
titioner as much as possible. This torture can cause death.
12.2 Hanging a Cage: A victim's hands are twisted behind his back and hand-
cuffed. The police then pull the hands over the head and hang him up in the
air until the feet are off the ground.
12.3 Big Hang: A victim is hung upside-down by the feet. This is a deadly tor-
ture, and some Falun Gong practitioners have died from this.
12.4 Hung up from Behind: With both hands tied or cuffed behind the back,
the victim is hung up by the arms or the handcuffs, with both feet off of the
ground, or just touching the ground. Both hands and arms will soon lose feel-
ing and will go numb from lack of blood circulation. Countless Falun Gong prac-
titioners have suffered this brutal torture. Some have even been hung up for
several days.
13. Tying the Ropes
A thin rope is used to tightly encircle the neck
and the rope is wrapped around the victim's
arms. Then the police use all the force they can
muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes
tighter and tighter around the body of the prac-
titioner, cutting into the flesh and making it
more and more difficult for him to breathe. The
pain is so intense that the victim sometimes
loses control of the bladder. In many cases the
rope was tightened to the point of breaking a practitioner's arm. Sometimes
the practitioner is hung from a high place with the rope as well. Sometimes
there are spikes on the rope. When the rope is tightly fastened, it cuts into the
flesh, which is extremely painful. This torture is known to cause death if used
twice in a row; however, some practitioners have suffered this up to 10 times
in a row.
14. Tiger Bench
A victim is tied on a narrow wooden or iron bench by the thighs and knees, with
hands tied behind the back. Increasing number of boards or bricks inserted
under his feet creates excruciating pain.
The police often use this device to immobilize
Falun Gong practitioners to force-feed them.
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Torture Methods Used by Chinese Police
15. Live Hemp Torture
Hemp is a perennial plant. Its stems and leaves are covered with fine hairs and
sharp, poisonous thorns. After contact with hemp, the skin immediately
becomes inflamed, extremely itchy, and painful. This torture was used against
underground Chinese Communist Party members during China's civil war in
the 1940's, and was banned after the Chinese Communists assumed power
in 1949. But police now use fresh hemp stalks to slap Falun Gong practition-
ers' faces, or strip practitioners naked and throw them onto a pile of hemp.
16. Electric Baton Shock
This is by far the most common torture used by the police against Falun Gong
practitioners. Practitioners have been shocked with as many as a dozen
batons at a time, with voltages as high as 30,000 volts, often for several hours.
Countless practitioners have suffered flesh burns, some having ears, hands, or
feet charred from the electric shocks.
The police have shocked practitioners' eyes, nipples, and penises. The police
have also forced these batons into practitioners' mouths or vaginas to shock
them.
Many Falun Gong practitioners have died from electric baton shocks.
17. Beating Buttocks
Literally, this torture is called "passing the board". A victim is forced to the
ground and beaten viciously with a board, club, or baton, dozens or hundreds
of times. This often causes the buttocks to become black and blue.
18. Force -Feeding
This is another torture commonly used by police against practitioners, and it is
the number one cause of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. Almost every
Falun Gong practitioner who has gone on a hunger strike in detention has suf-
fered from force-feeding. Many practitioners not even on hunger strikes have
also been tortured using this method.
The purpose of police force-feeding is never to nourish, but rather to punish
practitioners and to cause so much pain that they will renounce Falun Gong
practice. To that end, the police have used many different means to cause
excruciating pain and injury, including:
18.1 Inserting and Withdrawing the Feeding Tubes Repeatedly: The police
usually use a tube inserted through a practitioner's nose to force-feed. Often,
even when the tube is already inserted, the police pull it out again and re-insert
it. This can be repeated many times. Many practitioners have died from the
tube piercing through their lungs.
18.2 Leaving the Feeding Tubes in Stomach: This is another way to cause
pain. Practitioners tortured this way are usually handcuffed.
18.3 Knocking off Teeth to Force -Feed: To force practitioners to open their
mouths, the police resort to the most barbaric violence, knocking out practi-
tioners' teeth, tearing apart practitioners' lips, or even poking holes in practi-
tioners' cheeks.
18.4 Force -Feeding Saturated Salt -Water: This causes intense pain in the gut.
Many practitioners have died from this because of the resulting dehydration.
18.5 Force -Feeding Vinegar/Liquor. Several Falun Gong practitioners have
died from this.
18.6 Force -Feeding Hot Pepper Oil/Mustard O11/Boiling Water: These cause
burns and intense pain in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
18.7 Force -Feeding Urine/Feces
19. Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails
The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioners
through the tip of the fingernails. In
the process of the hammering, the
fingernail will get torn off completely.
The police first hammer the bamboo
stick into one finger. If the practition-
er still refuses to yield, the police will
hammer bamboo sticks into succes-
sive fingers until they mutilate all 10
fingers.
20. Burning
The police have used cigars and cigarette lighters to burn fingers, toes, faces,
nipples, vaginas, and other parts of practitioners' bodies. While burning them,
the police say, "I will stop when you give up Falun Gong."
21. Hot and Spicy Chicken Legs
A victim is forced to lie on the ground. The inmates then take turns jumping
high up in the air and then landing on the upper legs of the practitioner with
one foot.
22. Bed Pressing
A victim is handcuffed and shackled and forced to sit down on the ground. A
bed is then placed over his head and several people get on the bed pressing
down and jumping on the bed. This often causes the victim to lose control of
the bladder and bowels.
23. Dog Bites
Police have let loose dogs to attack Falun
Gong practitioners in a number of deten-
tion centers and labor camps.
24. Suffocation
The police pull a plastic bag over the
head of a practitioner. While the practi-
tioner is suffocating and gagging, the
police will ask, "Will you give up Falun
Gong?"
Sometimes the police use thick paper
soaked in water to cover the faces of
practitioners to suffocate them.
25. Forcing Head into Bucket of Urine
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Torture Methods Used by Chinese Police
26. Sexual Torture
In addition to the tortures that the police use on both male and female Falun
Gong practitioners, the police use many female -specific tortures against Falun
Gong practitioners. These include:
Rape / gang rape
Forced abortion
Pinching / pinching off or biting off of nipples
Needling nipples
Electric baton shock of nipples and vaginas
Bottle / baton rape
Stuffing dirty socks into vagina / anus
Burning the vagina with a cigar
Inserting and rotating brushes inside the vagina
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tioners. Our main activities include the collection and
compilation of cases of human rights violations against
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to the United Nations, governments around the world, and
international human rights organizations.
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persecution of Falun Gong in order to raise public aware-
ness. Our publications include The Falun Gong Report 2002,
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United Nations Reports on
China's Persecution of Falun Gong
•
Collected in this book are excerpts from annual reports of the ,
United Nations Human Rights Commission's Special Rapporteurs, document
ing cases of human rights violations committed by the PRC government.
against Falun Gong practitioners. The PRC government is a member of the:1
UN Human Rights Commission and a permanent member of the UN Security
Council with veto power. However, it cannot veto the findings of the ,,,
Special Rapporteurs.
These findings are just the tip of the iceberg of the ongoing slaugh'
ter. Many Special Rapporteurs and their assistants have indicated that the
vast number of cases is simply beyond their capacity to process.
We hope, however, that this small collection will serve adequately as
independent and authoritative evidence for those who still wishfully
believe that the PRC government is moving towards rule of law and that,
Falun Gong practitioners are "all treated according to the law."
We further hope that this small collection is enough to stir the con-
science of the international community - including the United Nations
Human Rights Commission, which appointed those Special Rapporteurs '
to come to the aid of the victims.
These reports are also a tribute to the suffering Falun Gong praeti-'
tioners, without whose courage and peaceful conviction these crimes could
not have been exposed.
The Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
October 2003
PAimsaaits ars
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The campaign of persecution [against Falun
Gong] has been... car died out by government
official, ndolice at all levels, and has per-
meate. . 611' segment of society and
every .leve or government in the People's Re-
public of China.
United States. Congress
(Resolution' No. 188
Unanimously Passed 420-0)
Jiaanngis;horrific form of genocide is a ter-
ror_ that -does not just destroy lives, but
r- " *.-,n
[aims. to] .=destroy faithY.. It, is a terror
�mu t be.broug to�ju justice.
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Geo igen= enrl{B.eauthier
Renowned' 11mn7�R
uaights Attorney who
uccesfull, ` secute1d Pinochetiand
Rwandlan lGenocide Perpetrators/
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At least 43 psychiatric hospitals all over China are being
used to detain and torture [Falun Gong] practitioners...
We know some of the drugs the hospitals force on sane
individuals in an attempt to destroy their will and spirit...
we know of the widespread use of psychotropic drugs by ..
ordinary police in jails, brainwashing centers, and labor
camps.
1
Abraham L. Halpern, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, New York
Medical College; Former President of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
.,
ON THE COVER
Australian citizen, Jane Dai with
daughter Fadu. Jane's husband was
tortured to death by Chinese police
because he practices Falun Gong.
After months of effort and with
the help of Australian Government
officials, Jane was able to secure
her husband's ashes. Championed
by some of the world's leading
human rights attorneys, Jane and
others are now taking their case to
the world's court rooms.
Compassion is a journal providing
news and information about Falun
Dafa (also known as Falun Gong)
around the world. It is produced
entirely through the efforts of vol-
unteers and paid for by donations
to the Falun Dafa InfoCenter.
Editorial Committee
Peter Jauhal, England
Levi Browde, U.S.
John Nania, U.S.
Jillian Ye, Canada
Sophie Xiao, Hong Kong
Caroline Lam, Australia
Publisher
Compassion is published
and distributed by:
Falun Dafa Information Center
331 West 57th Street, #409
New York, NY 10019 USA
Toll Free: 888-842-4797
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ISBN: 1-931035-01-6
Falun Dafa InfoCenter (FDI) is
a non-profit organization based
in New York City dedicated to
providing news and information
about Falun Dafa around the
world. All officers, board members
and staff are strictly volunteers, of-
fering their free time and skills to
help provide accurate information
about Falun Dafa.
Contents
12 LAWSUITS AROUND THE WORLD
Lawsuits in more than a dozen countries
take aim at persecution of Falun Gong.
22 IMMUNITY, GENOCIDE, AND THE
RULE OF LAW
An interview with Dr. Terri Marsh.
28 JIANG'S PERSONAL CAMPAIGN
A closer look at how and why Jiang
sought to "eradicate Falun Gong."
30 A GESTAPO AGAINST FALUN
GONG
The anatomy of China's illicit agency
for persecuting Falun Gong.
36 WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS?
Behind the media black -out in China
and diplomatic interference abroad.
40 WHAT IS FALUN GONG?
An introduction and history of Falun
Gong, an ancient spiritual practice.
44 CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE AND THE
EDUCATION OF CHINA
One of the largest grassroots campaigns
of civil disobedience the world has ever
known.
48 AN AMERICAN DETAINED IN
CHINA
The story of Dr. Charles Lee from
Menlo Park, California.
50 FROM RAGS TO RICHES TO
TORTURE
A businesswoman from northeast China
recounts her horrific ordeal.
52 RECENT NEWS AND EVENTS
A look at Falun Gong -related events
around the world.
.y
14
Rw-
14
Under Jiang's personal direction, officials�con_ducting the
,fticampaign of persecution against Falun Gong have commit-
ted substantial violations oftthe Coni' ntions against Gen `tide'
and against Torture: The death toll`is exceedingly high. Brutdl
r lorture is state -authorized and commonplace. In this lawsuit against
Jiang we see humanity's continuing effort to rise above our
capacity for atrocity and to order our lines according to higher
principles. ,=
Dr. Terri Marsh
mead attorney in class-action lwsuit charging
Jiang Zemin and his Gestapo -like agency with
genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.
I
AI y person who commits an act which constitutes a crime
under international.Ilaw is responsible theijefore.... III. The
fact that a person who_ committed an,act which constitutes'
a crime under international law acted as'
Head of
State or responsible Government official does riot relieve
him fro' responsibility under international law.
,
The NurembergT ibunals
,.
Charter and Judgment,(Principles & II) of the
Nuremberg Charter adopted shortly after World War
II, addressing the issue of immunity with respect to
heads of state who ha ie ,viohated international laws.
1
From the Editors
For the last several years in China, participants
in one of the largest grassroots campaigns of civil
disobedience the world has ever known have quietly
educated fellow citizens about the genocide unfold-
ing in their own backyards.
At great risk to themselves, Falun Gong practi-
tioners in China have also continued to provide the
outside world with another first: Daily, eyewitness
reports from inside China's forced labor camp sys-
tem, prisons, and detention centers. These reports
also illustrate how Jiang Zemin has tied the Falun
Gong issue into virtually every aspect of society,
from job applications to college examinations, from
promotions in the military to elementary school
"anti -Falun Gong sessions." Throughout society,
all must "show the correct attitude" towards Falun
Gong before securing a job, getting a promotion, or
advancing in school.
Such information provides an in-depth look at
how the persecution of Falun Gong affects the
Chinese people, the Chinese nation, and the inter-
national community. Although Jiang has allocated
significant resources to control the flow of such
information, particularly outside China (in 2002,
Reporters Without Borders ranked China second
to last — edged out only by North Korea for the
bottom spot — on its press freedom index), these
reports give accounts of what is actually happening
to Falun Gong practitioners.
Utilizing emails, websites, faxes, payphones, and
other means, individuals throughout China have
courageously reported on a wide range of stories.
They've collected facts on large-scale police actions,
on secret government orders, on police who have
tortured and killed, and even on local authorities in
some regions who have come to understand Falun
Gong and no longer carry out persecution orders.
The Falun Dafa InfoCenter (FDI) endeavors to
compile, cross-check, and publish these reports.
They are provided to government officials, interna -
tional media, human rights organizations, and the
general public. We accomplish this through email
alerts, weekly newsletters, press briefings, and print
publications such as this one. Reports from FDI then
feed into the international media and human rights
bodies, who are frequently able to verify the factual
details independently.
FDI's operations are carried out entirely by volun-
teers. FDI's publications are available at cost to indi-
viduals who feel the need to expose the well -hidden
truth of the persecution in China. These individuals
contribute their time and their resources to make it
possible. It is likely that whoever handed you this
edition of Compassion paid for it him or herself.
The editorial team, also consisting entirely of
volunteers, includes professionals, students, business
owners, and scientists. The work is done in a collab-
orative manner spanning multiple countries, with a
close watch on adhering to the main goal: to expose,
as accurately as possible, the persecution of Falun
Gong and those responsible for it.
In this edition of Compassion you will learn about
the international efforts to bring Jiang Zemin and
his cohorts to justice in courts of law around the
world (see p. 14). We provide details and insights
into the inner workings of Jiang's regime, how he has
commandeered the government apparatus to carry
out genocide against Falun Gong (see p. 26), and
how he has largely managed to hide the true extent
of the atrocities not only from the outside world, but
even from his own people (see p. 34).
Many in China have undertaken great risks to
provide this information to the world. We hope that
we have organized and presented this information
in a way that does justice to their courageous ef-
forts. We also encourage you, our readers, to send us
your suggestions or questions. Please contact us at
contact@faluninfo.net, or see the mailing address on
the previous page.
– Editor Team, Compassion
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Killed in China for Their Beliefs
Women dressed in white - traditional Chinese funeral colors - carry
photos of those who have been tortured to death in China. The
procession has become a familiar sight in many of the world's cities,
as Falun Gong practitioners around the world make known the
killings of fellow practitioners in China. For their commitment to a
practice that has brought them better health and peace of mind, and
for their faith in the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance,
Falun Gong practitioners in China are regularly killed by Chinese
thorities. Among the dead are teenagers and the elderly, mothers
d grandmothers, schoolteachers, farmers and judges.
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Torture and Brainwashing
Chinese police relentlessly employ both physical and mental
torture to "brainwash" Falun Gong practitioners into renouncing
their beliefs. Often surrounded by television or audio programs
demonizing their faith, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten,
shocked with cattle prods (often in sensitive areas, such as the
genitals, anus and mouth), force-fed human feces and subjected
to other forms of torture in order to "transform" them into
renouncing Falun Gong. Police are often given quotas for the
number of practitioners to "transform," and free reign to employ
any means necessary to do so.
Ms. Lingxia
Wu with her
son in 1997
With festering scars on her body and
severe edema in her abdomen (left), Ms.
Lingxia Wu was near -death after almost
a year of severe torture in a Heilongjiang
Province detention center. Fearing she
would die in custody, detention center
officials released Ms. Wu. She died three
weeks later from her injuries. She was
37 years old.
At a police station in western Beijing, Ouyang was stripped and
L interrogated for five hours. "If I responded incorrectly, that is if 1
— didn't say, 'Yes,' they shocked me with the electric truncheon,"
he said.
Then, he was transferred to a labor camp in Beijing's western
suburbs. There, the guards ordered him to stand facing a wall. If he
moved, they shocked him. If he fell down from fatigue, they shocked
him.
Each morning, he had five minutes to eat and relieve himself. "If
I didn't make it, I went in my pants," he said. "And they shocked me
for that, too."
By the sixth day, Ouyang said, he couldn't see straight from star-
ing at plaster three inches from his face. His knees buckled, prompt-
ing more shocks and beatings. He gave in to the guards' demands.
For the next three days, Ouyang denounced [Falun Gong's]
teachings, shouting into the wall. Officers continued to shock him
about the body and he soiled himself regularly. Finally, on the 10th
day, Ouyang's repudiation of the group was deemed sufficiently
sincere.
He was taken before a group of Falun Gong inmates and rejected
the group one more time as a video camera rolled. Ouyang left jail
and entered the brainwashing classes. Twenty days later after debat-
ing Falun Gong for 16 hours a day, he "graduated."
"The pressure on me was and is incredible," he said. "In the
past two years, I have seen the worst of what man can do. We
really are the worst animals on Earth."
Washington Post
Beijing Bureau; August 5, 2001
September, 2003:
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BELGIUM sit
February, 2002:
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lawsuits around the World
As of Jan. 2004, 16 lawsuits have been filed around the world !hanging former Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin and a few senior officials with genocide, torturefand crimes against humanity for their roles
in the persecution of Falun Gong in China. a�
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November, 2003:
TAIWAN
As daily reports from China indicate, torture, killings and other
grave .human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners re-
main ain rampant. Falun Gong practitioners aroundthe world have now
taken their cases to the world's courtrooms, seeking justice and an end
to the �e.not: ide in China.
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BY JOHN NANIA
Genocide is perhaps the gravest of legal terms. It is a word most
often associated with the gas chambers of World War II, machete -
bearing militia in Rwanda or mass graves in the former Yugoslavia.
As encoded in international law, how-
ever, genocide encompasses a broader
range of crimes than the overt physical
carnage these images convey, and neces-
sarily so, for genocide has many faces.
On December 11, 1946, the Gen-
eral Assembly of the United Nations
adopted with unanimity Resolution 96
(i) in which it offered its definition of
genocide: "Genocide is the negation of
the right to existence of entire human
groups, as is homicide the negation of
the right to life of individual human
beings..."
As 16 lawsuits now filed around the
world argue, the more than four-year
campaign to "eradicate Falun Gong"
in China launched by former Chinese
leader Jiang Zemin falls squarely within
the definition of genocide, torture and
other crimes against humanity.
Jiang Zemin's Campaign against
Falun Gong
Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese
exercise and meditation — or self -cultiva-
tion — practice, which Chinese authori-
ties embraced and supported during the
early to mid -1990's. In April 1999, Chi-
nese government officials told the Asso-
ciated Press and the New York Times that
"at least 70 million" people were practic-
ing Falun Gong in China.
In July 1999, Jiang launched a violent
campaign against Falun Gong charac-
terized by the United States Congress
as a persecution "carried out by govern-
ment officials and police at all levels,
[that] has permeated every segment of
society and every level of government"
and is implemented through "organized
brainwashing, torture, and murder."
(HCR 218)
By the end of 2003, details of 852
deaths have been verified by the Falun
Dafa InfoCenter (FDI). Hundreds of
thousands have been detained, with
more than 100,000 sentenced to forced
labor camps, typically without trial, ac-
cording to the Center. There are over
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30,000 documented cases of persecu-
tion, which are believed to be a small
number of the total.
Jiang Sued for Torture
The torture of Falun Gong practition-
ers in China is both wide -spread and
state -sanctioned, with orders coming
directly from Jiang.
According to a Wall Street Journal
article from 2001 called "A Deadly Ex-
ercise" (part of a Pulitzer -prize winning
series by Ian Johnson), orders passed
down to Chinese police throughout
the country were that "no means is too
excessive" to force Falun Gong prac-
titioners to abandon their beliefs. In a
Washington Post article published later
that year, the Chinese Communist Party
is said to have "sanctioned the systematic
use of violence against the [Falun Gong],
established a network of brainwashing
classes and embarked on a painstaking
effort to weed out followers neighbor-
hood by neighborhood and workplace
by workplace." In February 2002, an
Amnesty International spokesperson
added: "Falun Gong practitioners are
now systematically subject to torture in
prisons and re-education camps."
According to thousands of testimonies
from victims, this "systematic use of vio-
lence" has unleashed a barrage of torture
methods on Falun Gong practitioners.
The electric baton, or cattle prod as it
is known in the West, appears to be the
most common torture method. Practitio-
ners are often tied down as police shock
their bodies with electric batons that
issue a 25,000 volt charge. Frequently
the torturers target sensitive areas of the
body such as the head, inside the mouth,
the neck, genitals and anus. In many la-
bor camps, the victims are first stripped
naked and sometimes doused in water to
intensify the electrical currents when the
electric shock torture is administered.
There have been hundreds of cases
reported of practitioners being in-
jected with psychotropic drugs or other
"medications" that damage the nervous
system, often rendering the person inco-
herent and plummeting them into hor-
rific states of physical pain and mental
anguish. This form of torture often
results in permanent nerve damage or
irreversible psychological damage. Many
have died from such "medications."
Other torture techniques include
force-feeding practitioners with human
feces, driving bamboo sticks through
their hands and under their fingernails,
stripping them naked and exposing them
to freezing temperatures for prolonged
periods of time and incarcerating them
in "water dungeons" where they are sub-
merged in filthy water — sometimes from
local sewage drains — in pitch-black sur-
roundings for days at a time.
Female Falun Gong practitioners have
suffered sexual abuse and rape, includ-
ing gang rape, as well as the "hip split-
ting" torture: a technique where women
are tied hanging from the ceiling spread-
eagle, while the torturer violently shoves
mops or toilet brushes into the vagina.
The torture often causes extensive bleed-
ing and infections. Sometimes hot pep-
per sauce is placed on the brushes result-
ing in severe burning in the vagina.
Hundreds of testimonies from tor-
ture victims inside China quote police
and prison guards saying that their or -
Members of U.S. Congress Urge U.S. Court to Proceed
with Lawsuit against Former Chinese Communist Leader
Members of the United States Congress
filed an Amicus brief with a U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Illinois on June 11, 2003,
urging the court to proceed with a law-
suit that charges former Chinese Com-
munist leader, Jiang Zemin, with geno-
cide, crimes against humanity and other
offenses. Congressman Tom Lantos, the
ranking Democrat Party member on the
House Foreign Relations Committee,
authored the brief, which 38 of his col-
leagues endorsed.
"As members of the U.S. Congress...
we have a significant and abiding inter-
est in this lawsuit," the brief begins.
Among the "interests" Congress has
in the court action against Jiang are is-
sues of human rights, which "have long
been considered a key aspect of U.S.
foreign policy." The brief lists a number
of Congressional laws — some of which
are cited in this lawsuit — as vehicles to
"protect citizens around the world from
human rights abuses and violations."
"Mr. Jiang did not come to power
through any sort of popular electoral
process," states the brief. "To the con-
trary, Mr. Jiang rose to power for his
hard-line approach to crushing the de-
mocracy movement of 1989. Through-
out his rule...reputable sources such as
Amnesty International, Human Rights
Watch and the State Department's own
Country Report on Human Rights have
documented severe and systematic hu-
man rights abuses by Jiang's government
against his own people."
The brief continued, "This lawsuit
was filed not to embarrass China, but
to persuade the defendants to end their
persecution of Falun Gong ... it is highly
consistent with the goals set forth in
[U.S. Department of State's] annual
review of human rights."
Up Close: A Few Plaintiffs
While many plaintiffs remain nameless, a few Falun Gong prac-
titioners living overseas have risked pressure and threats against
their families in China to step forward and present their cases.
Ms. Wang Yuzhi
Wang Yuzhi was detained in the Wanjia Labor Camp and
tortured to the brink of death for refusing to give up her
beliefs. "1 chose my conscience because I knew that when
people renounce good, wholesome beliefs under pressure
from a dictatorship, something much greater than us dies."
[For Wang Yuzhi's full story, go to p. 50.]
Mr. Gang Chen
Gang Chen survived eighteen months
of severe torture in the notorious
Tuanhe Labor Camp. The torture could
easily have killed him, but he considers
himself lucky, with efforts in the U.S. on
his behalf eventually helping gain his
release. He now uses his own case to
help rally others to appeal for individual
practitioners detained in the Labor
Camps. "Because the guards knew they
were being watched, what they did to
me was not as bad as what they did to
some others."
ders to use any means necessary to force
Falun Gong practitioners to renounce
their beliefs come straight from the top:
Jiang Zemin.
Jiang Sued for Genocide
As defined by the United Nations
Convention Against Genocide, "geno-
cide includes, but is not limited to, the
following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such: Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm
to members of the group; Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part..."
The campaign Jiang has waged
against Falun Gong in China fits multi-
ple aspects of this genocide definition.
First, there is the rapidly mounting
death toll. While the verified death toll
of Falun Gong practitioners in China
reached 852 by the end of 2003, the true
death toll is believed to be well into the
thousands. The cases of verified deaths
that are known have been uncovered by
the persistent investigation of individu-
als in China at great risk to themselves.
The treatment of Falun Gong practi-
tioners within labor camps and deten-
tion centers has never been subject to in-
ternational scrutiny, and all information
remains tightly blocked by the Chinese
state. Following on the heels of Jiang's
orders that no measure is too excessive
to force Falun Gong practitioners to
give up their beliefs, numerous informed
sources inside China say Jiang's 6-10 Of-
fice has also instructed labor camps and
detention centers to record all deaths in
custody as suicides and cremate the bod-
ies immediately.
In Jiang's attempt to eliminate Falun
Gong in China, clearly torturing Falun
Gong practitioners to death remains a
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Jane and Fadu Dai
Jane and Fadu Dai have seen their family
shattered. Jane's husband Chengyong Chen
was tortured to death in Guanzhou, China.
Chengyong's sister was called to identify
the remains. When she did so, she herself
was arrested for her practice of Falun Gong,
and sentenced to a forced labor camp.
Chengyong's father, doubly bereft, died of
grief shortly thereafter. Jane, who luckily had
obtained Australian citizenship, was able to
keep herself and Fadu safe. Jane now tells
others their story, speaking up for all those in
China who cannot speak for themselves.
Mr. Zhao Ming
A graduate student in Computer Science at
Trinity College, Dublin, Zhao Ming returned
to China during Christmas break, 1999.
Arrested for his practice of Falun Gong,
Zhao Ming was imprisoned for 22 months.
He survived numerous forced feedings,
prolonged periods of sleep deprivation,
severe beatings from inmates, and sessions
of being shocked with cattle prods by
several guards simultaneously. Two close
friends of his have died in labor camps.
wide -spread means to that end when
individuals refuse to renounce their
beliefs.
Second, the infliction of "serious...
mental harm" and the imposition of
"conditions of life calculated to bring
about [the group's] physical destruction"
are both part of a horrific "transforma-
tion" process. A systematic and compre-
hensive effort is made to "transform"
every single practitioner in China, and
in doing so to eliminate the group Falun
Gong entirely.
Throughout the tumultuous reign of
the Communist Party in China, com-
plex, diverse and often violent methods
of persecution were developed and re-
fined. These methods aimed to isolate
completely a segment of society and
extinguish it by "transforming" indi-
viduals' hearts and minds to the point
where they are so broken, their spirits so
raped, that they become but shadows of
who they once were; reduced to an al-
most mindless state of obedience to the
Party line.
Since 1999, Jiang Zemin has com-
mandeered the knowledge and methods
for "transforming" people that the Chi-
nese Communist Party has amassed over
five decades, and unleashed them upon
Falun Gong with a terrifying force. In
addition to the more than 300 forced
labor camps throughout China where
Falun Gong practitioners are being
held, brainwashing centers have been
instituted through state-run companies,
government offices and police stations
throughout China. In the camps and
centers, Falun Gong practitioners are
engulfed in a barrage of psychological
attacks on their beliefs. On top of the
psychological attacks comes continuous
physical torture. Thus, day in and day
out, detained Falun Gong practitioners
live in a world that vilifies their most
fundamental beliefs, while putting them
through a regiment of unbearable tor-
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Up Close: A Few Lawsuits
By the end of 2003, 16 lawsuits were filed in different countries
around the world against Jiang Zemin and a few senior officials.
China has become a prison for these defendants as they face more
lawsuits and legal actions when traveling abroad.
Madrid, Spain
Filed on October 15, 2003 against Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan on
behalf of fifteen plaintiffs from United States, Argentina, Belgium
and Spain. The complaint is based on Spain's Organic Law, which
grants Spanish courts universal jurisdiction to process complaints
for severe crimes such as genocide, even though the crimes were
not committed in Spain.
Berlin, Germany
Filed on November 21, 2003 on
behalf of 40 plaintiffs at the Federal
Court in Karlsruhe charging Jiang
Zemin and other high-ranking
Chinese officials responsible for the
persecution with genocide, torture,
and crimes against humanity.
Falun Gong's attorney, Wolfgang
Kaleck, first gained notoriety for
representing German victims of
former Argentine President, Jorge
Videla, who was charged with the
torture and killing of thousands
during his rule in the late 1970's
and early 1980's.
ture aimed at breaking down the will ut-
terly and completely. For those forcefully
detained in mental institutions, psycho-
tropic drugs, electric shock torture and
nerve damaging drugs are often added
to the transformation arsenal.
The stated goal of this transformation
process is two -fold: 1) To force Falun
Gong practitioners to denounce their
own faith and 2) enlist the practition-
ers to publicly denounce Falun Gong
and help authorities "transform" others.
Through this process of transformation,
many are killed amid the violent meth-
ods used, many others are driven crazy
or mentally collapse, while those who
give in to the transformation live out
their lives as agents of the persecution
themselves. As one brainwashing center
guard in Hebei Provincial Center regu-
larly tells practitioners detained there:
"It is when I see you beat and curse
people that I will count you as totally
transformed."
Thus, all people in China who are
identified as Falun Gong practitioners
(or even those believed to be "support-
ers") are targets of a "transformation"
process that — if they do not die or are not
driven crazy amid the terrifying violence
and degradation — aims to strip them of
their conscience, their faith and their
human spirit: everything that makes
them a Falun Gong practitioner, and
indeed, a human being. Thus, through
a combined process of brainwashing,
torture and killings, Jiang Zemin has
sought to negate — or in his own words
"eradicate" — the very existence of Falun
Gong practitioners in China.
Early Legal Victories for Falun
Gong
From 2001 to mid -2002, a number
of civil lawsuits were filed in the U.S.
against high-level Chinese officials
known to be involved in the persecution
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Compassion • 2004
Chicago, U.S.A.
Filed on October 18, 2002 in the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, suing Jiang
Zemin and the 6-10 Office for genocide, torture and
the denial to right -to -life, as well as a conspiracy to
commit violations of civil rights against Falun Gong within the jurisdiction of the U.S. The complaint was served
to Jiang's security detail while hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners held a silent appeal for justice nearby.
Taipei, Taiwan
Filed on November 17, 2003 in Taiwan's High Court,
charging Jiang Zemin, Luo Gang, and Li Lanqing
with genocide. This suit is the first use of Taiwan's
law for the prevention and punishment of the
crime of genocide, adopted in 1953 as a domestic
version of the 1948 United Nations Genocide
Convention. 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners and
supporters rallied in downtown Taipei the next
day to show support for the lawsuit.
of Falun Gong.
In July 2001, the Head of Public Secu-
rity for Hubei Province, Mr. Zhao Zhi-
fei, was charged with wrongful death,
torture, crimes against humanity, and
other gross violations of international
human rights law against Falun Gong
practitioners in his home province of
Hubei.
After Defendant Zhao Zhifei went
back to China, a massive hunt for the
plaintiff, Mr. Peng Liang, and other
Falun Gong practitioners in Hubei
Province began. Peng Liang was arrested
on August 30, 2001 and was last seen in
custody of police in Wuhan, the Capital
of the Hubei Province. He has not been
heard from or seen since.
On February 7, 2002, the Center for
Justice and Accountability along with
attorneys Paul Hoffman and Dr. Terri
Marsh filed a civil action in U.S. Dis-
trict Court of the Northern District of
California, against Liu Qi, Mayor of
Beijing on behalf of six plaintiffs who
are citizens of the People's Republic of
China, United States, Sweden, Aus-
tralia, Germany, Canada, and France.
The next day, Morty Sklar, Executive
Director for Human Rights USA filed a
lawsuit on behalf of individual plaintiffs
and a designated class of injured par-
ties, in the same U.S. Court against Xia
Deren, Deputy Provincial Governor of
Liao Ning Province, China for torture
and genocide.
These first three lawsuits proved to
be early victories for Falun Gong. Judge
Cote of the District Court of the South-
ern District of New York ruled against
defendant Zhao Zhefei and issued a de-
fault judgment against him in November
of 2001. The magistrate judge presiding
over the cases of Liu Qi and Xia Deren
issued a report recommending a default
judgment against both defendants.
[continued on page 60]
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The legal actions against those who persecute Falun Gong in China have
garnered the interest of human rights attorneys from around the world.
Here are a few who are working on legal actions to bring Jiang to justice...
Georges -Henri Beauthier, Esq.
France/Be gium
Mr. Georges -Henri Beauthier is prob-
ably best known for his role in bringing
charges against former Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet. He also brought the
first successful case under Belgium's hu-
man rights laws against two individuals
for their roles in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Mr. Beauthier
is chief counsel in a Belgian lawsuit charging former Chinese
leader Jiang Zemin and two of his senior aides with genocide,
torture and crimes against humanity. He is also co -counsel for
a criminal lawsuit filed in France against former Chinese Vice -
Premier, Li Lanqing, on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners.
Morton Sklar, Esq.
Morton Sklar is Executive Director of
the World Organization for Human
Rights USA, an organization that
represents victims of grave human rights abuse and monitors
U.S. compliance with the Torture and Race Conventions.
Mr. Sklar has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty
International USA, taught human rights law at Catholic Uni-
versity of America Law School, and participated in a year-long
UN fact-finding mission to Burma to investigate forced labor
there. Mr. Sklar's organization filed related lawsuits against
the Deputy Governor of Liaoning Province, Xia Deren, and
the former Mayor of Beijing, Liu Qi.
David Matas, Esq.
David Matas is Co -Chair and Senior
Legal Advisor for the International
Coalition against Torture. In January
2004, he joined efforts to prosecute
Jiang Zemin using Canadian Law and
to bar persecutors of Falun Gong from
entering Canada. Mr. Matas has represented the Government
of Canada in a number of delegations, such as the United Na-
tions Conference on an International Criminal Court in 1998.
He has lectured on law at both McGill University and the Uni-
veristy of Manitoba and acted as Director of Canada's Rights
& Democracy organization from 1997 to 2003.
Wolfgang Kaleck, Esq.
Germany
Mr. Wolfgang Kaleck is a German
lawyer based in Berlin. He first
gained notoriety for representing
— German German victims of former Argentine
President Jorge Videla who was charged with the torture and
killing of thousands during his rule in the late 1970's and
early 1980's. A Nuremberg Federal Court has recently issued
an arrest warrant for Videla in connection with the lawsuit.
On behalf of Falun Gong practitioners, Mr Kaleck filed a
lawsuit with the German Supreme Court against Jiang Zemin
and other Chinese leaders on charges of genocide and crimes
against humanity.
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Compassion • 2004
Geoffrey Robertson, QC
A,usf al /England'"
Mr. Geoffrey Robertson is Chief Jus-
tice of the UN War Crimes Commis-
sion, President of the Special Court for
Sierra Leone, and one of the Queen's
Counsels. Mr. Robertson has argued
human rights cases in Commonwealth courts, the Privy Coun-
cil and the European Court in Strasbourg. He has conducted
a number of missions on behalf of Amnesty International to
South Africa and Vietnam. Mr. Robertson is assisting an ef-
fort to bring the case of traditional Chinese artist and Falun
Gong practitioner, Ms. Zhang Cuiying — an Australian citizen
— before the UN and the International Court of Justice.
William Aceves, Esq.
nited States
Ignetes
Professor Aceves is a Professor of Law
and Director of the International
Legal Studies Program at California
Western School of Law. He frequently
works with Amnesty International, the
Center for Justice & Accountability,
and the Center for Constitutional Rights on international law
cases and human rights litigation. He has represented Human
Rights Watch, Human Rights Advocates, the International
Human Rights Law Group, and others as amicus curiae coun-
sel in cases before the federal courts. Professor Aceves is work-
ing with other attorneys on the class-action lawsuit against
Jiang Zemin and the "6-10 Office."
Jaykumar Menon, Esq.
UnitedaStates
Mr. Jaykumar Menon, a former staff
attorney at the Center for Constitu-
tional Rights, studied law and interna-
tional political economy at Columbia
University, receiving his J.D. and a
master's in international affairs. Mr.
Menon was an attorney in the landmark civil lawsuit against
Li Peng — the former Premier of China who was sued for the
massacre of Chinese students during the Tiananmen Square
killings of 1989. Mr. Menon is working with other attorneys
on the class-action lawsuit against Jiang Zemin and the "6-10
Office."
ordan Paust, Esq.
United States
Professor Jordan Paust is a University of
Houston Law Foundation Professor of
Law and Director of the International
Law Institute. He has written several
books and over 130 articles addressing
a wide array of international legal issues. He is often asked to
provide expert advice to various media and organizations on
international legal matters and has served on the President's
Committee and Executive Council of the American Society
of International Law and is currently Co -Chair of the ASIL's
International Criminal Law Interest Group. Professor Paust
is working with other attorneys on the class-action lawsuit
against Jiang Zemin and the "6-10 Office."
Carlos Iglesias Jimenez, Esq.
Carlos Iglesias Jimenez is a lawyer
from Spain. During the 1980s and
1990s, Mr. Iglesias held advisory
posts for a number of Ministries in the
Spanish Government. Mr. Iglesias has
dedicated the last several years to pros-
ecuting individuals for violations of human rights taking place
in Mainland China against Falun Gong practitioners. On Oc-
tober 15th 2003 filed a criminal lawsuit against Jiang Zemin
and the Vice -director of the 6/10 office Luo Gan, accusing
them of heading and organizing genocide and for the illegal
persecution of Falun Gong inside and outside of China.
Theresa Chu, Esq.
Taiwan
Ms. Theresa Chu, a member of the
New York Bar, is Taiwan's spokes-
person for the Attorney Group for
Bring Jiang to Justice and Taiwan's
representative of Global Coalition Against Article 23 Legisla-
tion. She has been invited to be a member in a task force for
Taiwan's Admission to the International Criminal Court. She
has worked as a Legal Specialist in the Treaties and Legal Af-
fairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan.
Ms. Chu is now working with other attorneys on Taiwan's first
ever genocide lawsuit --the case against Jiang Zemin, Li Lanq-
ing and Luo Gan --the heads of "6-10 Office."
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Immunity, Genocide, and the
Rule of law
An Interview with Dr. Terri Marsh
The lawsuits surrounding the persecution
of Falun Gong practitioners in China first
gained international attention with the filing of
a class-action lawsuit against former Chinese
leader Jiang Zemin during Jiang's visit to the
U.S. in October, 2002. Since that time, the suit
has garnered the interest of the international
legal community, rallying some of the world's
most renowned human rights lawyers around
its cause. The suit has also rekindled debate
concerning international human rights
litigation, diplomatic influence over court
rooms, immunity for former heads -of -state and
other issues. In the following interview, Dr. Terri
Marsh, who is the lead attorney on the U.S. class-action suit, and also a practitioner of Falun
Gong, answers some of the key questions that have been raised by this landmark case.
Dr.
Terri
Marsh
addresses the media about the
lawsuit against China's former leader, Jiang Zemin.
Q Why does the lawsuit target
Jiang Zemin?
Jiang personally ordered the persecu-
tion of Falun Gong, and did so without
the support of the Premier or of the
Politburo Standing Committee [the
committee of high ranking Communist
Party members who effectively run the
country], many of whom were sup-
portive of Falun Gong before it became
illegal to admit such support publicly.
Letters and speeches by Jiang himself
explicitly ordered the persecution of
Falun Gong. We also have personal
testimonies from hundreds of individu-
als in China, including some high-level
Chinese officials, that tell exactly how
and why Jiang did this.
Of course, Jiang has gone to great
lengths to blur the line between his
personal will and the policies of the
Chinese Government. To this day, many
believe the "Falun Gong issue" to be a
struggle between the Chinese Govern-
ment and Falun Gong. This perception
is no accident. It is the result of carefully
calculated steps taken by Jiang to use the
government for his own purposes, and to
deceive others as to what he is doing.
Q. How about other Chinese
officials?
We have made clear from the begin-
ning that these lawsuits are not targeting
the Chinese Government nor Chinese
Government officials overall. Many
Chinese officials who travel abroad are
not served with lawsuits filed by Falun
Gong practitioners — we only sue those
whom we know are responsible for the
international crimes related to the per-
secution.
Q How has Jiang and/or the
Chinese government responded to
the lawsuit?
Outside of the courtroom, the Chi-
nese government on behalf of Jiang has
threatened nothing less than an interna-
tional crisis between the United States
and China should this case be permitted
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to go forward, pretending not to under-
stand the integrity of the judicial process
nor the separation of powers in this
country. I am told there have been nearly
daily phone calls and letters to the U.S.
Department of State by PRC officials,
pushing to have this case dismissed. In
fact, Jiang has made this lawsuit a prior-
ity in U.S-China relations, attempting
to coerce our country into violating one
of our fundamental principles, the sepa-
ration of powers.
Inside the courtroom — actually, the
Chinese government has yet to appear
inside a U.S. courtroom to respond to
this or any other lawsuit. The U.S. Jus-
tice Department has appeared in court
at the behest of the U.S. State Depart-
ment and argued on Jiang's behalf that
he is immune to the charges we have pre-
sented. U.S. District Court Judge Ken-
nelly, however, correctly ruled that the
U.S. government could not be a party to
this lawsuit against Jiang.
In fact, there is no head -of -state im-
munity for former heads of state with
respect to the crimes of torture and
genocide. Article IV of the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide, which, by the
way, both China and the United States
have ratified, states "Persons commit-
ting genocide or other acts enumerated
in article III shall be punished, whether
they are constitutionally responsible rul-
ers, public officials, or private individu-
als."
Precedent also precludes immunity
nized a necessary exception to any form
of immunity when international law has
been violated, stating: "The principle of
international law, which under certain
circumstances protects the representa-
tives of a state, cannot be applied to acts
which are condemned as criminal by
international law. The authors of these
acts cannot shelter themselves behind
their official po-
sition," and one
"cannot claim im-
munity while act-
ing in pursuance
of the authority
of the State if the
State in authoriz-
ing action moves
outside its com-
petence under in-
ternational law."
states that "genocide includes, but is not
limited to, the following acts committed
with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial or reli-
gious group, as such: Killing members
of the group; Causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring
"Jiang has gone to great lengths to blur
the line between his personal will and the
policiesoftheChineseGovernment...these
lawsuits are not targeting the Chinese
Government nor Chinese Government
officials overall."
(Opinion and
Judgment, I.M.T.
at Nuremberg (1946), reprinted in 41
AM. J. INTL L. 172, 221 (1947) ) As the
Nuremberg Opinion affirms, acts taken
in violation of international law are be-
yond the lawful authority of any state,
are ultra vires, and cannot be covered by
immunity.
Speaking more generally, I think the
argument on behalf of immunity should
be very troubling to us all. The princi-
ples of Nuremburg uphold a fundamen-
tal moral principle: no one should be
permitted to commit acts of torture and
genocide, no matter what their position.
The principles of Nuremburg assert that
no man is above the
law. The argument
on behalf of immu-
nity for someone like
Jiang stands opposed
to these principles.
"We have all seen images of holocaust
victims, half-starved skeletons gazing at
us from behind barbed wire fences... The
images of the victims of the persecution
of Falun Gong are no less horrifying."
for former (and sitting) heads of state
as well as other public officials. For
instance, the Nuremburg Court recog-
Q What crimes
has Jiang
committed?
Jiang has vio-
lated the Convention
against Genocide and the Convention
against Torture, among others.
The Convention Against Genocide
about its physical destruction in whole
or in part."
Under Jiang's personal direction,
officials conducting the campaign of
persecution against Falun Gong have
committed substantial violations of
the Conventions against Genocide
and against Torture. The death toll
is exceedingly high. Brutal torture is
state -authorized and commonplace,
including subjecting practitioners to
severe beatings, electric shocks, water
dungeons and sleep deprivation; brand-
ing and burning them; horrific forms
of sodomy; and other forms of torture.
There are over 30,000 documented cases
of persecution. Furthermore, Jiang's re-
gime has sent large numbers of perfectly
healthy practitioners to mental hospitals,
injecting them with mind -altering drugs
and causing severe and often irreversible
psychological damage.
Q. How is this legal effort being
funded?
The costs of the case are being ab-
sorbed by individuals who believe in
it. No funds whatsoever come from
any government or commercial sector...
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f Falun Gong?
n July 20, 1999, approximately 8% of the entire population
in China became "illegal" persons by virtue of their beliefs.
Thousands are believed dead, hundreds of thousands rendered
homeless, tortured or thrown into forced -labor camps. Chinese police
have standing orders to use any means necessary to "transform" Falun
Gong practitioners as Jiang aims to - in his own words - "eradicate
Falun Gong."
The 6-10 Office
Named for the day it was created, June 10, 1999, Jiang established the 6-10 Office for a single purpose: to "eradicate"
Falun Gong. The 6-10 Office leaders report directly to Jiang and have power over all levels of the government, particu-
larly the Public Security Bureau, the Judiciary and the local police.
ARBITRARY IMPRISONMENT
Once identified as a Falun Gong practitioner, Chinese citizens are subject to
immediate detention, and are often imprisoned in forced -labor camps for
up to three years typically without trial. Sentences are frequently extended
without cause if the practitioner has not renounced Falun Gong.
: r e•
TORTURE AND KILLINGS
In detention centers, forced labor camps and brainwashing cen-
ters throughout China, Falun Gong practitioners are subject to
severe beatings and torture as police strive to "transform" them.
Police say their orders are "no method is too extreme" to force
Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs, and those who
are killed amidst the torture "should be reported as suicides."
REWARDS AND QUOTAS
Police and labor camp authorities are often given quotas
for the number of practitioners they must "transform,"
while having free reign in the methods they use to do so.
Those who make quotas get bonuses or promotions.
FAMILIES AND HOUSING
Practitioners and their families stand to lose apartments and
homes, pitting husband against wife as the 6-10 Office often pres-
sures family members of Falun Gong practitioners to force their
kin to abandon the practice. Many practitioners wander China
homeless, having been forced from their homes to avoid persecu-
tion or in an attempt to protect their families from persecution.
EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION
In a Communist nation where the government can exercise significant control
over employment and education, employees and students are often forced
to "show a correct attitude" towards Falun Gong or face losing their jobs or
pensions or being expelled from school. Promotions and college examina-
tions are linked to the Falun Gong issue. Even elementary school students
are indoctrinated — everyone must condemn Falun Gong before advancing
in society.
MENTAL HOSPITALS
At least 1,000 sane and healthy Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in mental hospitals, where psy-
chiatrists and psychiatric nurses torture them with psychotropic drugs and electric shock treatment, as well
as other means. The World Psychiatric Association voted in August, 2002 to investigate, but China repeatedly
denied them access to any mental facilities.
a a Rcl?sorta,Ienos CarnpagJ
One Man's Decision to "Eradicate" the Traditional
Chinese Belief of 100 Million People
il The Communist Party must vanquish Falun Gong... How
could it be possible that the Marxist theory we endorse and
the materialism and atheism that we believe in can't
vanquish what Falun Gong propagates? If it were true,
wouldn't we become laughing stocks?
3
Jiang Zemin
Excerpt from an April 25, 1999
letter to senior Communist Party officials
BY DR. MICHAEL PEARSON-SMITH
0 ver the last four years, China watchers have proposed a variety
of socio-political reasons for why the Chinese regime moved to
crush Falun Gong — a benign exercise and meditation practice with
ancient Chinese roots. The answer, however, has proved to be simpler
and far more disturbing than most initially guessed.
When the nationwide persecution
campaign against Falun Gong began in
China in July 1999, many believed the
campaign to be another mass movement
orchestrated and backed by the Commu-
nist Party leadership as a whole.
Over the last four years, however,
facts have emerged to cast light on the
maneuvers of then -Communist Party
head Jiang Zemin. An abundance of
evidence has emerged showing Jiang not
only formulated the policy of eradicating
Falun Gong himself, but also overrode
the will of the Premier and the rest of the
Politburo Standing Committee — who
initially disagreed with Jiang's stance on
Falun Gong — to enact the campaign.
Additionally, since 1999 Jiang has been
the driving force behind the campaign
and its rising intensity.
Falun Gong Flourishes in China
From its introduction to the public
in May 1992 to the beginning of the
persecution in July 1999, the number
of practitioners grew into the tens of
millions. In 1999, Chinese Government
officials told the Associated Press and the
New York Times their estimate was "at
least 70 million." (AP: "Growing group
poses a dilemma for China," 4/26/1999;
NYT: "In Beijing: A Roar of Silent Pro-
testors," 4/27/1999)
Many attributed the rapid growth of
Falun Gong to its effectiveness in im-
proving the physical health of millions
of Chinese citizens, while also uplifting
mental and spiritual well-being. By early
1999, one could see Falun Gong practi-
tioners everywhere among the morning
exercisers in all the major cities of China.
In a strictly controlled society such as
China it would have been impossible for
such a large mass organization and social
phenomenon to exist, let alone thrive for
seven years, without consent and sup-
port from all levels of government.
At the time, not only were the masses
learning Falun Gong, but also all seven
of the Politburo Standing Committee
members had read Zhuan Falun, the
main text Falun Gong. Many of their
relatives and friends were also practic-
ing Falun Gong. Many high-ranking
officials in the Communist Party, gov-
ernment and military had taken up the
practice themselves after attending Mr.
Li Hongzhi's lectures personally or hear-
ing about it by word-of-mouth.
The Offensive Against Falun
Gong Begins
In the latter half of 1996 Falun Gong
practitioners first began to report inci-
dents of harassment by police. Luo Gan
was already a high-ranking official. As
the Chair of the Communist Party's
Political Legal Committee, Luo was in
charge of the Public Security Bureau,
the national intelligence agencies, and
the judiciary. But Luo Gan saw in Falun
Gong an opportunity for further politi-
cal gain and put in motion a plan to put
Falun Gong and the government at odds
with each other.
As part of this plan, Luo, looking for
a pretext to ban the practice, ordered
the police in China to conduct a secret
investigation of Falun Gong across the
country. In July 1998, through the Chi-
nese Ministry of Public Security Bureau
#1 (a.k.a. Political Security Bureau), Luo
Gan issued Public Authority [1998] #555
"Notification about conducting investi-
gation of Falun Gong." This document
first labeled Falun Gong a "cult," then
asked the police departments across the
country to systematically plant agents to
investigate and collect "evidence."
The investigation by the police, how-
ever, found no evidence of crimes related
to Falun Gong.
At the end of the summer a letter was
written in response to Luo's police in-
vestigation by 135 very highly respected
members of society, including famous
professors, actors, and high level gov-
ernment officials. The chief author of
the letter was a famous law professor at
Beijing University. In it he explained
that the basis of Luo Gan's investigation
of Falun Gong in July, the above-men-
tioned "notification" from the Chinese
Ministry of Public Security Bureau #1,
violated the Chinese Constitution and
was against the law.
Premier Zhu Rongji quickly re-
sponded, saying that the Public Security
Bureau should not harass Falun Gong
practitioners, but should concentrate on
security issues. Zhu's response also men-
tioned that Falun Gong had helped to
save large amounts of medical costs for
the country.
The response from Premier Zhu, how-
ever, was intercepted by Luo, and never
forwarded to Falun Gong practitioners.
It was not until April 25, 1999, that Pre-
mier Zhu learned his response had been
withheld by someone. It was also not
until that time that Falun Gong practi-
tioners first learned there had been such
a positive response from Premier Zhu.
Following the police investigation in
July, a few retired Communist Party
members of the National People's Con-
gress led by Qiao Shi, who had been in
his own time been a very high-ranking
official, conducted their own investiga-
tion of Falun Gong. They received a
great deal of feedback from the popula-
tion, and concluded that Falun Gong
brought much benefit to China with
no negative impact. They ended their
report by saying "Winning the hearts
of the people you gain the world. Los-
ing the hearts of the people, you lose
everything." The report was submitted
in October to the Permanent Standing
Committee (the group of seven Com-
munist Party members who run the
country), which Jiang Zemin headed.
Insiders at Zhongnanhai (the govern-
ment compound in Beijing) reported
that Jiang was very displeased with this
report, and wrote a note to Luo Gang
expressing his displeasure, a note that
excited Luo's desire to advance himself
by opposing Falun Gong.
[continued on page 62]
il Jiang Zemin individually made this decision ... [he] went
against many other people in his own politburo who did
not want to do this to the Falun Gong, some of whom
even practiced the Falun Gong or had relatives who prac-
ticed the Falun Gong. So we need to hold him accountable.
Ambassador Mark Palmer
Former U.S. Ambassador and 26 -year veteran of the U.S.
State Department explaining the role of China's former
leader, Jiang Zemin, in the genocide against Falun Gong.
The "6-10 Office
A Gestapo against Falun Gong
Jiang Zemin's regime has created notorious government
'610' offices throughout the People's Republic of
China with the special task of overseeing
the persecution of Falun Gong members through
organized brainwashing, torture, and murder [...]
3
United States Congress
Resolution No. 188 Unanimously Passed 420-0
I,
BY STEPHEN GREGORY
ike Hitler's Gestapo, the 6-10 Office is an extra -constitutional body
of unquestioned power whose business is terror. Created by former
leader Jiang Zemin, the 6-10 Office has operated virtually unrestricted
for over four years.
The 6-10 Office aims to identify and
isolate every single Falun Gong prac-
titioner, and then bring to bear upon
them the full weight of the state and
society.
The 6-10 Office's singular capacity
for terror depends, first of all, on the
way it penetrates every aspect of Chinese
society, from the top to the bottom. The
CCP Central Committee 6-10 Office
has ministerial rank. Every province,
city, county, and township has its own 6-
10 Office. Each university, government
organization, and state-run corporation
has its own 6-10 Office as well.
At every level of administration, the
6-10 Offices have higher authority than
normal government agencies. In particu-
lar, they have authority over the Chinese
public security organizations, judicial
system, and the media. The 6-10 Of-
fices' mandated responsibilities are to
direct and coordinate "the struggle with
Falun Gong." These loosely defined
responsibilities give the officials of the
6-10 Offices virtual free rein, so long as
they can justify what they do as being
against Falun Gong.
The 6-10 Offices were given their per-
vasive place in China's government and
society, and their unchecked powers,
for the sake of fulfilling this mandate of
Jiang Zemin: to "eradicate Falun Gong"
by "defaming their reputations, bank-
rupting them financially, destroying
them physically."
The 6-10 Offices carry out this
mandate with propaganda, and with a
system of social control meant to compel
all Chinese to join in this campaign. In
particular, it aims to compel the security
forces to do so with no restraint what-
soever.
The following sections of this article
will sketch out the various facets of the
6-10 Office that, when taken together,
map out a schematic of the comprehen-
sive terror machinery.
Defaming Their Reputations
The 6-10 Office's strategy in its use
of propaganda is borrowed from that
of fighting a guerrilla war. If the 6-10
Office can succeed in "defaming the
reputations" of Falun Gong, then it
can count on the people of China giv-
ing practitioners no support and no
safe harbor. The 6-10 Office seeks to
psychologically isolate the practitioners
of Falun Gong, while turning the entire
population of China into willing infor-
mants and collaborators in the effort to
"eradicate" this peaceful practice.
To do this, the 6-10 Office has con-
cocted numerous stories meant to dem-
onstrate that the practice of Falun Gong
leads to psychosis, homicide, suicide,
and alcohol and drug abuse. The now -
debunked "self -immolations" on Ti-
ananmen Square is the most famous of
these. These stories are then used to jus-
tify the claims that Falun Gong is "anti -
science," "anti -society," "anti -humanity,"
"anti-government," and "anti -Party."
Falun Gong is meant to be viewed
as something both contemptible and
threatening. In particular, the propa-
ganda tries to turn the great pride the
Chinese people have in their homeland
into a source of hatred, by presenting
Falun Gong as a "tool of anti -Chinese
forces." But the depiction of Falun Gong
attempts to touch even deeper instinc-
tual sources of aversion. A recent com-
mentary by Xinhua (BBC Monitoring
Service, 9/24/03) refers to practitioners
as being "chased by all, like rats running
across the street." The imagery of ver-
min removes all psychological barriers
— one can do anything to a rat. (For
further discussion of the propaganda,
see "Why Didn't I Know?", p. 36.)
The Implication System — Society
a Weapon of Persecution
In Imperial China the "implication"
or "responsibility" system was a means
of collective responsibility. The family
or village was responsible for the indi-
vidual's actions and would be punished
if the individual stepped out of line, and
so had a role in assuring the proper be-
havior of all members.
The Communist Party has long found
this Imperial relic useful, and one that
fits very neatly Marxist-Leninist and
Maoist teachings. The 6-10 Office has
refined and extended the implication
system.
One acts responsibly by "showing
the right attitude." If the government
has condemned Falun Gong, then all
must condemn Falun Gong. The local
6-10 Offices organize "study sessions" in
work units and schools in which every-
one is required to denounce Falun Gong
in mandatory signature campaigns that
extend down even to elementary schools.
Even tourists report being stopped by po-
lice and prompted to curse Falun Gong
or spit on a picture of Li Hongzhi.
The 6-10 Office wants everyone in
China to express symbolically that they
have joined the persecution. The orches-
trated mass actions help complete the
lessons imparted by the propaganda. If
"everyone" is chasing the practitioners
down the street, then surely the practi-
tioners deserve to be chased.
If a practitioner is caught putting up
posters or handing out leaflets, all parts
of society may be required by the local
6-10 Office to punish such an act of
conscience: the practitioner may lose
housing, job, pension, and places in
school.
But the punishment often does not
end with the practitioner. The family
also stands to lose housing, jobs, pen-
sions, and place in school. For this
reason, millions of practitioners wander
China homeless today, trying to protect
their families from punishment.
In addition to the punishments visited
on the family, the neighbors may be
fined, the workplace may be fined, and
the school may be penalized.
The 6-10 Office uses these punish-
ments to attempt to deprive the prac-
titioner the means of life, and even the
warmth of simple human contact. Beset
by non-stop attacks in all the media, iso-
lated from friends and family, without
jobs or shelter, the 6-10 Office expects
the practitioners to choose to abandon
Falun Gong.
For those practitioners who remain
steadfast, the 6-10 Office and the im-
plication system have more forceful
methods.
The Implication System and the
Police
The 6-10 Office holds all members of
society responsible for any Falun Gong
activity, but it especially holds the secu-
rity forces responsible. One way it ac-
complishes this is through quotas.
When the persecution first began in
1999, the first response of many practi-
tioners was to go to Tiananmen Square
to appeal. The response of the 6-10 Of-
fice was to hold the local government
of the practitioner's home responsible
for any appeals. If the government met
its quota in stamping out appeals, the
police, the party officials and the gov-
ernment officials would be rewarded. If
not, they would be fined, demoted, or
even fired. This carrot -and -stick ap-
proach is applied across the board.
For instance, in February 2002 in
the town of Kaian in Nongan County,
a journalist took a photo of many Falun
Gong banners that were hanging in pub-
lic. He then wrote an article attacking
Falun Gong, which was published with
his photo. The Chief of Police of Kaian
was immediately fired, and all of the
personnel in the police stations in Non-
gan Country were changed.
Mingkai Hou was considered by the
6-10 Office in Changchun to be a lead-
ing figure in the March 5, 2002 broad-
cast by Falun Gong practitioners over
the state-run cable TV, but somehow
had escaped the police. So, a bonus of
50,000 yuan (equal to 8 years' salary for
the typical urban worker in China) and
a promotion were offered for his capture,
which then happened that August 21
(police hurriedly cremated his body two
days later).
And the 6-10 Office has another form
of reward, one that has the advantage of
costing the government nothing: it en-
courages police at all levels to steal from
practitioners and their families. Huge
"fines" are extracted, with no receipt
given for the cash lifted. Police walk into
homes and simply take anything of val-
ue. If the practitioners are farmers, they
lose crops, equipment, even seed. In vil-
lages throughout China, the local police
chiefs often have new houses, with shiny
new cars parked out front.
Transformation and Brainwashing
The Washington Post (August 5, 2001)
reported that early in 2001 the 6-10 Of-
fice had begun the task of identifying
every single practitioner of Falun Gong
and brainwashing them. The 6-10 Of-
fices had created "brainwashing centers"
throughout China.
Now, the 6-10 Office had a new set
of quotas — every township, city, county,
and province had to meet quotas for
"transforming" their practitioners. This
is what the brainwashing centers were
for: they were judged the most cost-ef-
fective way to transform steadfast prac-
titioners.
The formal sign of transformation
occurs when the practitioner agrees to
write the "three statements" demanded
by the 610 Office: a letter of repentance,
a guarantee never again to practice Falun
Gong, and a list of names and addresses
of all family members, friends and ac-
quaintances who are practitioners.
Wang Zhizhong suffered brainwash-
ing in the Hebei Provincial Center,
succumbing in the hope of sparing from
abuse his nineteen year-old daughter, a
promising classical pianist who is also a
practitioner of Falun Gong. Practitioners
who submit and agree to "transforma-
tion" describe this as the most painful
experience in their lives. The guards
know this, and know that merely writ-
ing the three statements is not enough.
Wang Zhinzhong reports that a guard
at the Hebei Center tells practitioners:
"It is when I see you beat and curse
people that I will count you as totally
transformed."
In fact, forcing practitioners to engage
in the "transformation" of their fellow
practitioners is part of the regular rou-
tine. Transformation has finally been
accomplished when the practitioner
replaces truth, compassion, and toler-
ance with lies, brutality, and selfishness,
when the practitioner is implicated in
the persecution itself.
For those who steadfastly resist brain-
washing, the 6-10 Office has still other
methods.
"No Measures Are Too Extreme"
"You talk about evil? I am evil." So
Director Zhang of the Dalian Re -Edu-
cation Camp told practitioners in late
summer 2003 who were about to receive
the "hip -splitting torture": practitio-
ners were hung up spread-eagled from
the ceiling, and sticks with hot pepper
oil were forced into their vaginas. When
these practitioners still did not recant
Falun Gong, boiling water was poured
on them.
The 6-10 Office has created tens of
thousands of Zhangs throughout Chi-
na, individuals who routinely torture.
Among them are those who, no doubt
like Zhang, enjoy the torturing.
Ian Johnson, in a Pulitzer -Prize win-
ning series of articles for the Wall Street
Journal on the death of Chen Zixiu in
Weifang City, explained how the impli-
cation system has within it a logic that
promotes brutality (Wall Street Journal, 12/27/00). If
a practitioner travels from Weifang City to Beijing to
appeal, as Chen Zixiu did, the local officials stand to
be fined or worse. But if the local officials beat her to
death, there is no problem. The implication system
only seeks to reach the goal — no appeals in Beijing
— and puts no limitations on the means for reaching
that goal.
The 6-10 Office has made this logic explicit. "No
measures are too extreme" to use on Falun Gong prac-
titioners states a top-secret directive. The 6-10 Office
makes sure of this directive by training police in more
effective methods of torture. Force-feeding had been
banned from the Chinese penal system as too danger-
ous and brutal. The 6-10 Office brought it back to use
on practitioners, and many have died from it in the last
four years.
Early in the persecution, when the Hebei province
brainwashing center showed how to use on practi-
tioners the techniques of sleep deprivation and abuse
originally perfected for shattering the minds of spies,
the 6-10 Office gave them an award, and brought lo-
cal officials from around China to Hebei to study the
technique.
In the summer of 2003, when the Gaoyang Labor
forced -labor camp made an innovation in the torture
of force-feeding by using human excrement, the 6-10
Office gave them an award, and brought others in from
around China to learn this inhumane procedure.
Policemen in jails will beat and kick practitioners for
hours; using an electric club with a charge of 25,000
volts that burns and blisters the skin and damages the
nervous system, guards will torture until the batteries
die out; women face all forms of sexual abuse, includ-
ing rape, gang rape, and forced, late -term abortions; in
mental hospitals, doctors and nurses administer huge
doses of psychotropic drugs and electric shock, with
catastrophic results; pokers heated in stoves are used
to burn down to the muscle; acupuncture needles are
stuck in the most sensitive points and hooked up to
high voltage generators; needles are jammed under
nails; practitioners are hung by straitjackets, with the
result sometimes of slowly snapping their necks as they
hang.
Those police who are hesitant to do these terrible
things lose their jobs.
Death is not the object of this regime of torture, but
it is also no cause for regret. The 6-10 Office has a
policy for that as well: "Cremate the body immediately,
and count the death as suicide." According to the 6-10
Office, there has never been a single case of the abuse
of a Falun Gong practitioner.
[continued on page 65]
Fabricated News: Rat Poison at
Xinhua News Agency
Since the 6-10 Office was
formed in 1999, it has used the
state-controlled media in China
to fabricate stories about Falun
Gong aiming to bend public
opinion against the practice. On
a number of occasions, however,
investigation has revealed the
fraudulent nature of these stories.
This past July 2, Xinhua pub-
lished a sensational story "16
Beggars Poisoned: the Suspect
is a Falun Gong Member." Evi-
dence revealing the fabricated
nature of this story, however,
had been published earlier that
same day by the local newspaper
in Zhenjiang, Cangan county;
the site of the story.
Seven hours before the Xin-
hua article was published, the
Metropolitan Express (Du Shi
Kuai Bao) reported the case
had not vet been solved. The
Xinhua report, however, said
the case had been solved "last
night" (i.e., July 1). According
to Xinhua the alleged murderer
was one Chen Fuzhao, said to
be a practitioner. The Metro-
politan News did not mention
Falun Gong at all.
The Xinhua account lacked
details about the crimes, but
said that the case was closed
and that the murderer was a
Falun Gong practitioner. The
Metropolitan Express article
had many details about the still -
open case, including the news
that Chen Fuzhao was arrested
on May 24, and that there had
nonetheless been seven similar
deaths since his arrest.
The World Organization
to Investigate the Persecution
of Falun Gong (WOIPFG)
contacted individuals in Zhen-
jiang to investigate the story.
A member of the Department
of Propaganda for Cangnan
County told WOIPFG with
great certainty" that this cast
had not been solved, and that in
fact more than 500 policemen
were still investigating the case.
Furthermore, a member o
the Radio and T.V. broadcastin
bureau for Cangnan County
confirmed that there had been
no reports of this crime bein,,
solved, and no mention of Falun
Gong in connection with it.
An official of the Cangnan
County government, when asked
about Chen Fuzhao, said that he
was known to be psychotic.
Once Xinhua has set a "direc-
tion" for the way a story should
be reported, state-run media
throughout China toe the line.
Thus, following the Xinhua ac-
count of these alleged murders,
newspapers throughout the
country carried the fabricated
story. International wire services
outside China then picked up
the fabricated story, distributin
it around the world.
In response to these stories,
the Falun Dafa InfoCentea
published the facts about the
Xinhua account in August.
Nevertheless, on December
31, Xinhua returned to this
story, announcing that= Falun
Gong practitioner" Chen Fu-
zhao was to be executed, and
wire services once more picked
up the sensational story.
The "beggar murder story..
is a typical example of how
Xinhua, in the guise of a news
agency, has repeatedly fabri-
cated and spread stories meant
to incite hatred and distrust
of Falun Gong in China and
around the world.
Anatomy of Jiang's Coverup
Dn China
Media Blockade
State -Run Media
Media in China is controlled by the government, and
used largely as a means to control what people in
China read, see and hear about the world around
them. Journalists are required to study Communist
Party edicts and tout them in their "news" stories. Ji-
ang has commandeered the state-run media in China
to saturate the Chinese people with defamatory and
often fabricated stories about Falun Gong.
Propaganda War
Since 1999 Jiang has wielded state-run media to at-
tack Falun Gong. Chinese TV, radio, and print media
outlets have unleashed a non-stop barrage, defaming
Falun Gong, its practitioners, and its founder. Sub-
jected to this repetitious campaign, Chinese citizens
often find it difficult to know the facts of the perse-
cution carried out in their own homeland.
The Internet
Access to most outside news sources, including
Falun Gong websites, is blocked from within China.
As of last year, according to CNN's Willy Lam,
China employs some 100,000 Internet police to
monitor access to restricted sites. Cyber cafes are
required to install alarms that notify police when-
ever a customer attempts to access information
about Falun Gong.
Cover -Up Orders to Police,
Government Officials
"Report All Deaths as Suicides"
The 6-10 Office issued police secret orders that
any death of a Falun Gong practitioner should
be recorded as a suicide. Amnesty International
reported that, of the first 120 documented cases
of Falun Gong practitioners' death in custody, 17
"jumped" to their deaths while being transported
to interrogation, and 15 died from "falling" while in
detention.
"Cremate Bodies Immediately"
The 6-10 Office also gave secret orders that police
are required to cremate the bodies of Falun Gong
practitioners immediately following their deaths in
custody, thereby destroying evidence of torture.
Autopsies are either secret or not performed, and
in most cases the victim's family is not allowed to
view the body before cremation.
"Shoot on Sight"
In early 2002, a reliable source inside China re-
vealed that Liu Jing, a leader of the national 6-10 Of-
fice convened a meeting where he angrily criticized
Jilin Province's inability to stamp out Falun Gong,
and passed down the order: "shoot on sight." The
Falun Dafa Information Center has documented
cases of practitioners being shot solely for distrib-
uting information.
Overseas
Pressure on Embassies and Consulates
Consular officials and agents with known ties to Chinese consulates have held
meetings with local community leaders and business owners outside of China, urg-
ing them to join the campaign to stamp out Falun Gong outside of China. In one
case, Falun Gong practitioners sued a local businessman for inciting assault against
them during a peaceful appeal in New York City's Chinatown.
Leveraging Business Ties
Chinese Embassies and Consulates have used the promise of continued business
to force compliance with their attempt to suppress Falun Gong. For instance, Se-
attle, San Francisco, and Baltimore all do a significant amount of business carrying
cargo from China through their ports. All three cities withdrew proclamations
honoring Falun Gong, after protests from the Chinese government.
International Media
In late 2002, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked China second worst only
to North Korea in its press freedom index. International media working in China
are tightly restricted with respect to coverage of Falun Gong. Reporters stationed
there tell stories of being followed, assaulted, and arrested by agents of the govern-
ment, often having their film, tape, and materials confiscated. Some are stripped
of their residence permits or fired under pressure from officials, forcing them to
leave the country.
Diplomatic Pressure
Under orders from Jiang Zemin, Chinese embassy officials have contacted gov-
ernment officials around the world, attempting to justify and garner support for
the persecution of Falun Gong. This has ranged from former leader Jiang handing
former US President Clinton a 150 -page book denouncing Falun Gong, to Chinese
agents visiting Randy Voepel, Mayor of Santee, California, and urging him to retract
a proclamation he issued in favor of Falun Gong (he refused).
'Why Didn't I Know This?'
A media black -out in China, diplomatic interference
abroad, and a global propaganda war keeps the true
situation of Falun Gong in China largely unknown
to the mainstream....
BY MATHEW KUTOLOWSKI
y didn't I know this?" It's the single question I am asked
most often. And most likely you will ask yourself it too, if you
haven't already, as you read the surrounding features and encounter,
most likely for the first time, the brutality,the scope, and the horror
of the persecution unfolding in China right now.
It's a question that's been asked else-
where—when General Patton's troops
liberated the Buchenwald concentration
camp in Germany, when the outside
world finally learned the grim realities
of Kolyma and Stalin's gulag archi-
pelago. And we asked this question col-
lectively, with all due indignation, when
the SARS cover-up in China was finally
exposed. Each time we hoped, or even
maybe assured ourselves, it would be the
last.
It's a question we should all be ask-
ing more. To a great degree the horrors
in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet
Union were made possible by those in
the outside world not asking, or not
knowing. These systematic campaigns
of inhumanity were kept alive by gov-
ernments systematically hiding them
from view.
Today in Jiang's China, we have a gov-
ernment attempting to hide its atrocities
from the world at large and from its own
people.
Asking "why didn't I know this?",
then, cuts to the heart of so much that
is terrible about the calamity that has
befallen China. And if there should be
a hint of frustration, even disbelief, un-
derlying the question, it is justified. The
answer to that question is the shocking
story of how the world's largest authori-
tarian regime has vigorously sought to
cover up a genocidal campaign it will-
ingly engineered, and one whose web
of complicity is stunningly vast. We,
insofar as we have been fooled by the
obfuscation, are also its victims.
To make such a claim in the 21st
century, the age of globalism and mass
communication, a time when the suf-
fering and plight of people thousands
of miles away is made immediate and
tangible through televised images or
digitized voices, delivered right into our
own homes—in such a day and age—is
not easy. How could we not know, you
might ask, about such a violent, drawn-
out, massive campaign that aims at noth-
ing less than to "eradicate" 100 million
people for their dedication to a popular
meditation and exercise practice?
Herein lies what is perhaps most in-
sidious about the persecution of Falun
Gong: its cover-up.
At the Scene of the Crime:
Complicity
It begins at ground zero. A body is
crippled from torture or beaten blue.
The offenders—police, guards, prison
wardens, and the like—know their crime
and act decisively. Should the victim be
dead the corpse is typically rushed off
for cremation; in such cases the cause
of death is labeled "suicide," in keeping
with formal orders from the extra -judi-
cial 6-10 government body to "cremate
bodies immediately" and "count Falun
Gong deaths as suicides."
In at least one case the victim was still
alive when cremated, while in another
the corpse was thrown off the roof of a
building so as to create "evidence" of a
suicide.
Family are not allowed to see the
corpse save for in the rarest of circum-
stances, autopsies are almost unequivo-
cally denied, and witnesses or those re-
sponsible must—under threat—toe the
official line, attributing deaths to suicide
or, as was done in earlier months of the
persecution, "natural causes." According
to Amnesty International, of the first
120 known Falun Gong practitioner
deaths in custody, official reports from
China claim that a full 17 "jumped" to
their deaths while being transported to
interrogation, with another 15 "falling"
(such as by "slipping") to their deaths
while in detention. ("Torture – A Grow-
ing Scourge in China," Amnesty Inter-
national, 12/02/01)
For those that survive their captivity
to tell, there is little recourse, legal or
otherwise, at their disposal. Practitio-
ners of Falun Gong have been stripped
of their legal rights and are not allowed
to sue their captors, much less hire an
attorney to defend themselves when in-
carcerated. Moreover, the very evidence
of injustice they carry with them in their
bodies—the scars, the torn out nails, the
welts, and even missing limbs—is, in the
most unlikely of twists, declared a "state
secret" and as such "illegal" to disclose.
Should such evidence be made known
to foreign persons or rights groups,
the "crime" ("leaking state secrets") is
punishable with execution. A number
of individuals have disappeared after
exposing such torture to foreign media,
with many being feared dead. For a po-
liceman or official aware of the torture,
to disclose it would be almost to ensure
the loss of his job, financial punishment,
and imprisonment, if not death. What
information we do have, then, has come
to us at the greatest of personal risk.
To date not one policeman or guard
has been reprimanded in a court of
law for torturing, beating, starving, or
murdering the adherents of Falun Gong;
some 852 deaths in custody have been
documented by human rights groups
at the end of 2003. A number of those
responsible, however, are known to have
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been promoted or given bonuses for
their "effective" transformation of Falun
Gong practitioners; for their willingness
to use any means necessary to force Fa-
lun Gong practitioners to abandon their
beliefs.
On not a single incident has Chinese
officialdom admitted to, or even ac-
knowledged the possibility of, wrongdo-
ing by any of its police, jailers, or other
employees—even when found at fault
by the U.N. Committee Against Tor-
ture and condemned by human rights
organizations. ("Torture — A Growing
Scourge in China": "Reports continue of
deaths of detained practitioners follow-
ing torture and extreme ill-treatment...
in all cases where the victims were Falun
Gong practitioners, the government has
denied any wrongdoing, even in the face
of multiple eye witness testimonials.")
Willing Henchmen: State Media
Apparatuses
In the PRC, media is tightly con-
trolled if not run by the communist
state, complete with an official Ministry
of Propaganda to oversee media affairs.
Stories must espouse the Communist
Party's dictates, and Falun Gong is al-
lowed no voice.
But those in China hear plenty about
Falun Gong. In just the first month of
the persecution alone, one single paper,
The People's Daily, ran a staggering 347
articles denouncing Falun Gong. That's
over 10 articles a day.
Similarly, hundreds of newspapers,
magazines, journals, radio stations and
television stations have been used to dis-
credit and demonize Falun Gong. Early
in the persecution it was not uncommon
for television stations to run propaganda
marathons, with special features attack-
ing Falun Gong (e.g., for being "anti-
human -civilization," as it was claimed)
being run sometimes—quite literally—
days on end, 24 -hours a day.
All materials produced by Falun
Gong practitioners or by Li Hongzhi are
banned—be they books, videos or audio
tapes, articles, posters, t -shirts, or even
meditation mats. In a number of cities
Chinese authorities have even held public
book burning rallies. A mere seven days
into the persecution Chinese authori-
ties boasted of having confiscated over
2 million "illegal" Falun Gong books.
(The People's Daily, July 30, 1999)
To question the regime's agenda or tac-
tics has been tantamount to political or
social suicide. Much like in the cultural
revolution the skeptic might be branded,
as many have in the past four years, a
"Falun Gong sympathizer" or even, by
extension, an "enemy of the state" and
face much more than ostracization: a
student might be expelled from school,
an official stripped of his post, a worker
fired, a neighbor jailed.
Overseas Chinese language me-
dia have for the most part departed
little from official rhetoric, being either
owned by PRC -run companies or, in the
case of smaller entities, fearing reprisal.
(For a startling look at the situation of
overseas Chinese media, see "The Busi-
ness of Misinformation: How China's
Government is Attempting to Control
Chinese Media in the U.S." China Brief,
http://www.jamestown.org )
Many overseas media have admitted
to direct pressure from the Chinese gov-
ernment. Several Chinese papers have
been sued for libel for their propaganda
pieces, taken verbatim from China's
state press.
The Chinese Communist Party's
relentless barrage of propaganda has
sought to create a climate of hostility
toward Falun Gong, either by deluding
people as to what Falun Gong is, or by
making clear to everyone that on the Fa-
lun Gong issue, there was no choice but
to "show the right attitude." (for how
Falun Gong have managed to counter
this propaganda, see "Civil Disobedi-
ence and the Education of China" on
THE GLOBAL REACH...
During the 1999 APEC
meeting in New Zealand,
then -Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin met with U.S. Presi-
dent Bill Clinton. Accord-
ing to the Associated Press,
Jiang handed Clinton a
book assembled by Chinese
propagandists that vilified
Falun Gong. No -doubt Ji-
ang asked the U.S. President
to toe the line.
Similar materials de-
monizing Falun Gong are
regularly delivered to gov-
ernments and media around
the world in an attempt
to paint Falun Gong as
"dangerous" or a menace to
society, claims that human
rights organizations such as
Amnesty International and
Human Rights Watch call,
"Unproven," "Bogus" and
part of a "Massive Propa-
ganda Campaign."
On March 9, 2001, the
Washington Post reported
that President Bush's Na-
tional Security Advisor
came under fire from vis-
iting Chinese diplomats:
"former Ambassadors Zhu
Chizhen, Li Daoyu and
Zhang Wentu, were ex-
pected to hold discussions
with Miss Rice on a variety
of U.S.-China topics: arms
sales to Taiwan, China's
human rights record and
U.S. missile defense plans.
Instead, one of the diplo-
mats pulled out a prepared
speech and harangued Miss
Rice for some 20 minutes
about the Chinese religious
group Falun Gong." Miss
Rice ended the meeting.
Members of the U.S.
Congress often receive pro-
paganda attacking Falun
Gong from Chinese offi-
cials, but the letter in De-
cember 2001 was exception-
al. Part of a package from
former Chinese Ambassador
to the United States Li Zha-
oxing, it frankly stated that
U.S. officials were expected
to suppress Falun Gong,
or invite troubles in U.S.-
China relations.
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page 44 of this issue.")
Harassed, Threatened, Beaten
Down: Foreign Media
Reporting the news in China is dif-
ficult business to begin with. For five
consecutive years, Jiang Zemin was
ranked one of the Ten Worst Enemies of
the Press by The Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ: http://www.cpj.org).
In October 2002, among 139 countries,
China was ranked second to last, behind
only North Korea, for press freedom
by Reporters Without Borders (http:
//www.rsforg).
Reporting on the persecution of Falun
Gong, however, has been especially costly
for foreign media. According to Reporters
Without Borders, in the short span of just
two years some 20 AFP reporters were ar-
rested in China for trying to investigate
and cover Falun Gong. Scores of other
journalists and cameramen have met
with similar ends, often being harassed,
interrogated and threatened, arrested,
and even—as in the case of Spanish radio
journalist Teresa Bergada—physically as-
saulted. Many reporters are stripped of
their residence permits, forcing them to
leave China. (For a gripping first hand
account, see "The Dark Side of China,"
by the BBC's Rupert Wingfield -Hayes,
published on 3/16/02).
Film, equipment, and press cards
are often seized on the spot, with what
footage does remain in the end be-
ing blocked from transmission and
broadcasting overseas by the Chinese
government's Central Television—the
only station permitted to send pictures
abroad by satellite.
For the individual, to cover Falun
Gong is to put one's professional work
on the line; for the media company, it is
to put its enterprise in jeopardy. Foreign
media companies wishing to report on
Falun Gong face economic pressure and
the imminent threat of major business
losses; for instance, most such compa-
nies compete to sell footage to the Chi-
nese government's media apparatus.
Two days after the publication of
the April 10, 2002 Time, which had an
article on Falun Gong demonstrations
in Hong Kong, Time was withdrawn
from sale in China, and told at that time
there were no plans for allowing its sale
in China again. The magazine was al-
lowed in May to resume sales in China.
Some media companies have already
declined to cover Falun Gong -related
stories for fear of exclusion from the
2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Should foreign journalists seek to cov-
er Falun Gong along "legal" channels
in China, what awaits them is nothing
short of a farce. "Normal" and "regular"
channels consist of staged interviews
with supposed Falun Gong practitioners
who have "reformed" or "repented"—
each eager to recite scripted denuncia-
tions—and carefully prepared tours of
notorious labor camps.
The labor camp tours are especially
worth noting. The show tours take place
at a time determined by the Chinese
authorities, at a camp picked by the
Chinese authorities, include interviews
with detainees chosen by the Chinese
authorities, and only allow access to a
small scope of the camp, delineated, of
course, by the Chinese authorities
At the most recent tour, which took
place in April, 2001 at the notorious
Masanjia labor camp, foreign report-
ers found to their amusement that
the inmates wore matching, brand-
new, designer sport suits embroidered
with—curiously—each detainee's name
in English. Fresh paint coated the walls,
deer grazed happily on freshly manicured
lawns, inmates praised the kind staff and
good meals. The whole charade should
have been eerily reminiscent of the 1944
Nazi show tours of the Terezin concen-
tration camp in the Czech Republic.
It was such farces that prompted the
U.N: s torture inspector, Sir Nigel Rod -
ley, to decline to visit China year after
year; Beijing continually refused to let
Rodley meet privately with prisoners or
tour police stations and prisons unan-
nounced—normal conditions for a visit
by someone of his position. ("Rights
Group: China Blocking Visit Of UN
Inspector On Torture" Associated Press,
11/9/01)
Towards a More Transparent
Tomorrow?
Much hope has been put in the In-
ternet, and not without reason. Indeed,
the vast majority of what is known about
the persecution has been communicated
surreptitiously over email, while a num-
ber of Websites such as Minghui.net
(Clearwisdom.net in English) provide
detailed accounts daily.
Chinese authorities, however, con-
tinue to make a fierce battlefield of
cyberspace. As of last year CNN's Willy
Lam reported that China employs some
100,000 internet police. Such "police"
are entrusted with the ignoble task of
monitoring and restricting Web usage
across the country. All sites related to
Falun Gong are blocked, as are all for-
eign media reporting on the topic.
While there have been rays of hope
over the years—The Wall Street Journal's
Pulitzer -winning series on Falun Gong
by Ian Johnson the most notable one—
these have been more the exception.
There is still an enormous distance to go,
and if early indicators mean anything a
2008 Beijing Olympics is little occasion
for optimism. Jiang has extended the
misinformation campaign overseas, and
with bravado.
In the cover-up, the massive propa-
ganda campaigns, the intimidation of
foreign media, the blocking and moni-
toring of the internet, and the exporting
of the lies overseas, there is a message:
those responsible know they are doing
something wrong, and they are afraid
others will find out.
Once the world sees clearly what is
happening in China, will this horror
be allowed to continue? Thousands in
China are risking their lives so that oth-
ers, like us, can know the truth. Let us
be worthy of their courage.
Matthew Kutolowski has been researching
the persecution since July of 1999 when he
studied in Beijing at Tsinghua University.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore
College, Matthew now resides in Taiwan.
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BY NOAH PARKER
The art of qigong, which is sometimes referred to as "Chinese yoga,"
is the practice of mind and body refinement often done through
slow-moving exercises and meditation.
Throughout China's history and,
indeed, throughout the world, numer-
ous schools of qigong have been handed
down, each with its own characteristics
and emphasis. Archaeological findings
trace qigong to as far back as 3,000 or
more years ago. Through the centu-
ries, some schools of qigong have taken
the form of religion, some have been
passed down privately in monasteries or
temples, and some have taken the form
of popular exercises.
Falun Gong – which is also referred
to as Falun Dafa – is an ancient and
advanced form of qigong. Falun Gong
consists of gentle exercises combined
with a meditation component. Aside
from its popularity (100 million people
in 60 countries), what is usually said to
distinguish Falun Gong is its emphasis
on the practice of refining one's moral
character in accordance with three prin-
ciples—Truthfulness, Compassion, and
Tolerance. These three principles form
the backbone of Falun Gong's philoso-
phy and practitioners of the discipline
aspire to live by them in their daily lives,
striving to achieve, over time, a state of
kindness, selflessness and inner balance.
The principles of Falun Gong are
captured in the two main books writ-
ten by Mr. Li Hongzhi: Falun Gong
(Law Wheel Qigong) and Zhuan Falun
(Turning the Law Wheel).
Falun Gong is a systematic, introduc-
tory book that discusses qigong, intro-
duces the principles of the practice, and
provides illustrations and explanation
of the exercises. Falun Gong is often
recommended for beginners and those
without a background in qigong.
Organized in the form of nine lec-
tures, Zhuan Falun is the most com-
prehensive and essential work of Falun
Gong. Thorough study of Zhuan Falun
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is considered necessary for genuine practice of Falun
Gong. Both books and instructional videos are available
free on the Internet.
Falun Gong is correctly identified as a spiritual prac-
tice. It does not have any religious forms — there are no
temples, rituals, clergy, or initiation. Practitioners of
Falun Gong practice according to their own lives and
schedules, at home or with a group, as much as they like
or as little. There is no membership, and no fees col-
lected.
All practice sites teach the exercises free of charge
and are organized by volunteers. Practitioners of Falun
Gong are found in all walks of life: Doctors, lawyers,
housewives, parents, students, scientists, police officers
— a broad cross-section of modern life that ranges from
young to old.
A Brief History
The discipline of Falun Gong was first made public
in May of 1992 in China by Mr. Li Hongzhi, who ad-
herents regard as the practice's founder or teacher; Falun
Gong was previously taught only in private to a single
student and passed down in a lineage manner.
Months later, Mr. Li traveled with several students to
Beijing to participate in the Oriental Health Expo where
Falun Gong earned several awards, prompting organiz-
ers to invite Mr. Li to give several impromptu lectures on
the principles of the practice.
From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Li lectured on invitation in
almost every major Chinese city, giving 54 lecture series
in all. The number of attendees ranged as high as four
thousand. All instruction at that time was overseen by
the Chinese Government's top qigong organization, the
China Qigong Scientific Research Society. Since the ex-
ercises of Falun Gong were relatively simple and easy to
learn, those who had learned could easily show others.
Soon, people began establishing volunteer practice sites
in parks and public recreation areas throughout China.
Furthermore, news reports and word of mouth acclaimed
Falun Gong's health benefits and positive impact. Thus,
within a few years, hundreds of thousands had taken up
the practice.
During the early -to -mid 90's, Falun Gong was also
widely embraced by the Chinese Government. Mr. Li
was invited to speak at many government venues, such as
the Hero's Foundation in the government's Public Secu-
rity Department. Mr. Li and Falun Gong also received
numerous awards from state-sponsored venues, such as
the "Star Qigong" award given to Mr. Li at the 1993
Oriental Health Expo in Beijing.
Although Mr. Li had stopped giving public lectures
at the end of 1994, Falun Gong's popularity in China
continued to soar. By 1996 Falun Gong had established
Mr. Li Hongzhi lectures in the city of Wuhan during
a Falun Dafa Seminar - one of 54 lecture series Mr. Li
gave in nearly 20 cities throughout China.
Widely supported by the Chinese Government in the
early 1990's, Mr. Li lectures for the Hero Foundation in
the government's Public Security Department.
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which time practice sites like this one were in every
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In the early 1990's, Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun Dafa
earned numerous awards and recognitions from
government bodies.
By 1998, Falun Gong had spread, largely through word
of mouth, to 70-100 million people in China. Volunteer
practice sites were in every city.
A Falun Gong conference in Geneva in 1998. Beginning
in 1996, Mr. Li traveled to the U.S., Canada, Sweden and
other countries to teach the practice.
itself as the fastest growing spiritual practice in China,
and perhaps, the world. With Mr. Li's third book, Zhuan
Falun, landing on Beijing's bestseller list, millions were
said to be practicing by then as the practice continued to
be passed on by word-of-mouth, and free of charge with
volunteer practice sites being established throughout the
country.
Beginning in 1996, Mr. Li also began to teach the
practice abroad, traveling to Sweden first, and later
France, Germany, Australia, and the United States
among other nations. As it did inside China, the practice
began to grow outside China through word-of-mouth
and volunteer practice sites.
By the end of 1998, a Chinese Government survey
concluded there were between 70 and 100 million
people practicing Falun Gong in China — more than 8%
of the entire population. All seven members of China's
Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee — the
small circle of leaders who effectively run the country
— had read the Falun Gong books, and some had fam-
ily members who were practicing. In many areas, Falun
Gong had become a household name, synonymous with
good health and principled living.
The Practice Grows Internationally
Outside China, the practice continued to grow. In
1998, Falun Gong experience sharing conferences were
held in different cities throughout the world, from Syd-
ney to Frankfurt, from New York to Singapore. Mr.
Li's book Zhuan Falun was translated into English, and
made available for free over the Internet. Over the next
several years, Falun Gong books were translated into
over 32 languages.
By 1999, volunteer practice sites existed in more than
40 countries around the world as listed on Falun Gong's
website: www.falundafa.org. Furthermore, the persecu-
tion campaign in China that began in 1999, had an un-
witting side -affect around the world: From 1999 to the
present, many people outside China expressing interest
in the practice said they first heard about it from news
about the persecution. "I first heard about [Falun Gong]
on 60 minutes when Mike Wallace was interviewing
Jiang Zemin," says Dr. Damon Noto, an orthopedics
doctor working in Boston. "When Jiang Zemin began to
explain why he was persecuting such a peaceful group he
became very defensive ... it was so obvious to me that he
was hiding something, so I decided to look into it."
Today there are volunteer Falun Gong practice sites in
over 60 different countries, including, Canada, Indone-
sia, South Africa, Brazil, Germany and Russia, to name
a few.
Since Falun Gong is not an organization, and has no
membership roster, it is difficult to gauge accurately the
number of practitioners in each country. Judging from
the rising attendance at local and international experi-
ence sharing conferences around the world, however,
it is clear that the practice continues to grow, with at-
tendance at some conferences growing three -fold in the
last four years. These conferences are coordinated by
volunteers, are free of charge and open to the public.
They provide a forum for practitioners to share their
experiences in the practice, and to learn from each other.
Held in major cities around the world where Falun Gong
is practiced, their attendance ranges from a few hundred
to over 6,000.
Worldwide Appeals for Justice
When the persecution campaign against Falun Gong
was launched in 1999, the practice was thrust into head-
line news around the world. The event impacted Falun
Gong practitioners everywhere as many began volunteer-
ing time and resources to appeal to relevant international
bodies for help to end the crisis.
In most large cities around the world (and many small
ones), Falun Gong practitioners have held peaceful pub-
lic appeals or processions memorializing those killed in
China (see p. 8) — all aimed to help raise awareness about
the persecution. They have also maintained peaceful ap-
peals outside Chinese Embassies and Consulates around
the world (see p. 56). In some cities, such as Vancouver,
Canada, local practitioners have maintained a presence
outside the Chinese consulate for more than two years,
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Across North America, government leaders have be-
stowed Falun Gong and Mr. Li with several hundred
proclamations and recognitions for improving health,
providing moral guidance, and for peacefully resisting
the persecution in China.
Mr. Li Hongzhi has been nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize for the past four years in a row, for his stance
of peaceful resistance, and the millions in China who have
upheld that teaching in the face of horrific violence.
Throughout the past four years, Falun Gong practitio-
ners in China continue an unprecedented, nation-wide
campaign that has been strictly non-violent and non-
political. They retain a single objective: to restore the
basic human rights of Falun Gong practitioners to freely
practice their beliefs.
Noah Parker is a software engineer who studied Buddhism
and Taoism for 20 years. He began practicing Falun Gong
in 1999.
Morning practice in Chicago. By 1999, volunteer
Falun Gong practice sites were found in more than 40
countries around the world.
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is widely popular in Taiwan where the President and
other government leaders publically support it.
Group practice in New York City's Central Park. Despite
a violent persecution in China, the practice continues
to grow around the world.
11. Senior Chinese official, Luo
Gan, seeks political gain by
orchestrating anti -Falun Gong
publicity and harrasment.
The Premier orders that
Falun Gong be left alone, but
his orders are witheld. The
following year, Jiang Zemin, attempts to destroy
Falun Gong because it is so popular and respected.
•
Falun Gong volunteers
throughout China are taken
from their homes in the
middle of the night. Tens of
thousands are detained over
the next few days. On July
22, Jiang Zemin illegally bans
Falun Gong. Within weeks, the first death in custody
is reported by Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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July 20, 1999
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April 1999 July -August 1999
•
After dozens of practitioners
are detained and some beaten
in a nearby city, over 10,000
practitioners appeal in Beijing.
The gathering was peaceful
and orderly. In the evening,
everyone went home after the
Premier met with Falun Gong representatives and
ordered the release of those being detained.
In the days following July 20,
tens of thousands of Falun
Gong practitioners travel to
Beijing to engage in non-
violent appeal against the
recent "ban" issued by Jiang
Zemin. After being released
from custody, most Falun Gong practitioners go back
to peacefully appeal and are repeatedly arrested.
To date, tens of thousands
of Falun Gong practitioners
are arbitrarily arrested and
sent to forced labor camps
without trial; lawyers are
ordered by the Bureau of
Justice not to represent Falun
Gong practitioners; millions of Falun Gong books are
confiscated and burned in public book burnings.
A healthy Army Lieutenant
General is incarcerated in a
mental hospital and tortured
with drug injections. Hundreds
more are undergoing
similar torture in state-run
mental facilities. Falun Gong
practitioners are being held in every one of the
nation's 300 forced -labor camps.
Fall/Winter 1999
Fall 2000
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villages, with almost every house getting a set, and put'up • . Perhapsome,westefn. reporters_have concentrated their r
posters on trees, telephone poles,, and walls. They returned gaze too much onahe_actiyity in Tiananmen -Square. In 1 ?
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y , late the next afternoon, .having walked over 100 -Miles. _No . — he Weeks following the:beginning of..the'persecution,�ir%,`4
journalist was thereto witness their fear. t . ' , r -1.. ' ;1999; hundreds of'p'ractitibnerswere drrestedtevery dayin-- r r
`Some.western media have 'been .reporting that' the Chi- t''the >square,` while.conducting•peaceful_appeals inevitably
nese government has virtually succeeded in snuffing-out.—cut shoot by*squads;opofir5.,1 Lii : •t, r ti./.b".....'
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all dissent by Falun Gong in`China. These reports in fact These. demonstrations made a deeptimpression for,good
parrot,ounintentionally�for sure, the claims in Chinesegov , reason Mass, public, non_violent,.civil d obe'd nce in 4:(4.-
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er'nment propaganda iBut'a recent commentary by,Xinhua,� " "'the People s,'l puiil c, o"f,China has<only�,happenedronce 1�
�w >.. the Chinese"CCommuniit Party%'s mouthpiece, gives the lie'A before. That the ublic,a eals continued`for a ear,ttl en
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1`. to these vera�claims,,andiforces all tottake a closer look at �two`� ears,,and'then longer was unheard orf. r r F f( `
;R,q` ? what the practitioners in China are doing: t _ • f j - i Ti.he first impulse by practitioners m l'999.was simply,`to
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tel the government that�amistakeihadbeen made! And -
2 fully seethe.protracted; a d�uous.and complicated�nature of ' — so..-they4w nt to{jTiananmen Square, toryt eLL State'Appeals' . =,
Cthis struggle [against Falun Gong],• Protracted `'arduous, Offices, toilocal-officials. They ,trusted_in the rightness ,
andicomplicated" a e.not--how: one describes =the attempt to f * sof their cause, but they learned there was no ;one in the, —
deal,with dissent that has alreadybeen snuffed,out. What government free to hear their story. Eve_ryoune in China;
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October 1999
Summer 2000
Falun Gong practitioners
organize a secret press
conference with Western
media in Beijing. Their stories
make the front page of the
New York Times the next day.
The reporters and practitioners
alike were later detained. Among them, at least one
practitioner is tortured to death.
Falun Gong practitioners
publicly appeal almost every
day in Tiananmen Square;
more than 1,200 are arrested in
one -week's time. Facing daily
attacks in the state-run media,
practitioners in dozens of cities
throughout China begin printing and distributing
flyers exposing the human rights violations.
5 individuals set themselves on
fire in Tiananmen Square. Chinese
authorities flood the state-run media
with grisly photos of the event,
claiming the self -immolators were
Falun Gong practitioners. Days later, a Washington
Post article reveals that at least two of the self -
immolators were not practitioners. Further evidence
later demonstrates the incident was staged.
■
On the evening of May 14
in Beijing, a female Falun
Gong practitioner is beaten
and raped on the street by a
policeman. In June, police in
Xingtai Public Security Bureau
gang -rape many female Falun
Gong practitioners. The total number of deaths
verified by FDI increases 400% in less than one year.
January 2001
May -July 2001
not just the practitioners, was under compulsion toshow the Practitioners did not stop going to Tiananmen Square -Be-
. "correct attitude" toward Falun Gong or face persecution cause they had been defeated. Rather, they began a campaign
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extraordinary, audacious, and unprecedented: patiently and'
•'` ~Meariwhile fthe go'verriment lauf ched a non-stop propagan- ' kindly,.to explain, without. any., access to conventional media,'
_.. r da-campaign.that demonized Falun Gong,Nrnciting the people to everyone in China what -Falun Gongs is and why...the perse-
-- Jt against�rt.tPractitioners discovere`dethat even iridiv duals, N ho cutioni,:\5. rong. ...1 -z_--,,,._ f r
had knownithem their entire lives now suddenly had•questions + ` ti `F .. , -It-
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gabout Falun Gong; questions about them; questions -the seeds _ • • t,� �'a *§ § g'r :4 f'
of which wereplanted by the anti -Falun Gong pg ro a anda: • C' 1`-'
13( Even publ cp demiorist ations4 n•Tia atnmen tSq u re tha n Cons der.the events ofi Oc`tober 12,12000 It -was ust•another,
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,_ t} witness tlieµappeals fothc selves; form Chinese, they,. RC 1 m r sage. Y� ff. - fit '^ ,• / '
7 : never happened- �� i s ' At 7am, the regulars.of Fragrant •Hill,Park, Temple of Heav', 14,-.
;NW'. ` /0
ti .-.�' *�r� i i :t y 1 7% �r1 f �e Q i .- .u4 ! 0. R J �.. 4�
—„,„ OThus, practitioners ,had..to find other ways to educate-tlie.. en Park, andlYuyuantan Park heardia new,vo_ ice.,, ;,� f i
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people and the overnmentrand' do so -des itea systematic and,- • '� Kind' hearted*Beijing people,we are Falun Dafa4pracu-
comprehensive effort to brainwash and -brutalize tl�ie-pracritio- trovers; sounded eighteen different�loudspeakers,across;the
Hers, desprte!relentless propaganda,'and>despite' a blockade'on city. Thee 2.5 watt.loudspeakers,echoed in the skies ve the;
1 ' . i Iii . . a t g , mil•,� J �" cy
rt all information+From o� tsrd Chiria. {,,,` n • (ijJ capital`for two hours,--� �''' 1%it
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November 2001
March 2002
36 Western Falun Gong
practitioners appeal in
Tiananmen Square and
are immediately arrested.
Released days later, many
report physical abuse
in custody. Falun Gong
practitioners continue peaceful appeals in front of
Chinese Embassies and Consulates around the world.
Falun Gong practitioners tap
into state-run cable T.V. signals
and broadcast programs
exposing human rights abuses
and Jiang's attempts to
cover them up. Hundreds of
thousands in China witness, for
the first time, reports about the systematic campaign
to "eradicate" Falun Gong.
Authorities detain Dr. Charles
Lee, an American citizen, accuse
him of intending to expose
human rights violations over
China's state-run media, and
sentence him to prison. Lee
endures beatings, forced -
feedings, daily brainwashing sessions, and other
abuse as the authorities try to "transform" him.
After being tortured, 56 -year-
old Ms. Zhao Chunying wrote
about her ordeal and posted
it on the Internet. Local police
discovered what Ms. Zhao
revealed, and arrested her
on April 15, 2003. Less than a
month later, Ms. Zhao is dead. Photographs taken by
her family show her death was horrifyingly brutal.
January 2003
►
May 2003
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Citizen`s stopped and listened while policemen.fraritically ,,.uioners are being unjussly.persecuted: '• ----�-,—�
searched for the carefully hidden.louds loudspeakers., ', . 4 �_ as n r • �' c "�
y p '- - What was done in a 4 g e rnght in -Ma Y 2001�tliroughout
At noon, the broadcasts -resonated in PurpleeBamboo Pafk—northeasterrce ina has been done continuously in a piecemeal
and the Beijing zoo. The final loudspeaker was mounted at a fashion throughout the.,entirre nation.' -The truthful,words_ori.,! .
detention center'where praetifioners„were being'tortu"red..'E..,, the: banner`s, fliers and CDs have been made illegal�in China. �'' '
,:. �Y• r, with limrted,resourcestand�risking their lives whenever^--
- they walk or the, street; practitionersin`China have ,delivered.
§§
._-s`uch"illegal" facts tothousehol'dveverywhere,in big,cities4arid� ; /
•
On the morning of May 13, 2001, -residents of towns across tiny villages,-sl`owly countering the effects of their_egime's lies. • fir'
northeastern China wokeAup to find their streets filled
. over 500 colorful banners7•ifed characters painted on,a yellow', " ., § § § � frC 4,6 �G-: T. r.
tfabricchanging„from a,tree spelled out the word's: "pwalunTDafa!+_ "= }} „ 1c; t'
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The previous night, practitioners had left4their houses and • The three year' campaign has` beenespecrallybitter e this ,f'- -
uretl t laced little letters, fliers; and G1 .1 "on thousands of ci•t , the hometown of `Faluri.Gong s ounderi +'
q y`'p ” y g , , "_' Mr. Li,H'ongzhi.
'a doorste tThe•little Falun Dafa ay'�gifts bore information While,many offthe city s people carryon with their lives, rac . •
F , t reibh eghbors could hea ' -nowhe e;,el'se within C�hf na bor- t2,trtioners are sti1L�dyingyin(Cliangchun's jails nd labor camps. .
derst:IrWid Fallan Gong rs practiced freely around it thhe{world.:.
that theiso-called "self immolatio 'is a.hoax, and-th` t practi-Jtl
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► I f 1 t} t SID' 'I '1 1I
October 2002 2003
Jiang Zemin visits the United
States and is served with
a class-action civil lawsuit,
charging him and the "6-10
Office" with torture, genocide,
and crimes against humanity.
Jiang denies the existence
of the lawsuit in China, and pressures the U.S. State
Department to dismiss the case.
Falun Gong practitioners in
China operate thousands
of home-based centers for
printing flyers and posters
exposing human rights abuses,
and distribute these in cities
and villages throughout China.
Some villages report waking up to see Falun Gong
flyers in every mailbox and posted in walkways.
An American
Imprisoned in
China for
His Courage and
vow, Beliefs
30 -year-old Ms. Ycong-ching Foo
prepares for a candle -light vigil
appeal to call for the release of her
fiance, U.S. citizen, Dr. Charles Lee.
!?'. BY NINE ROSENBERG I J
r. Charles Leehas been beaten, interrogated for days, deprived of
. sleep, put through a show trial, dragged to "reeducation classes,"
tied to'`an iron bed, and had a hard:wplast c tube -shoved up his nos;
Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo has, for the past nine
months, been tirelessly attending press events,
avisiting government offices; arid -collecting -sig-:
.r"r natures trying to bring her fiance back.
Lee is enduring a Chinese prison's all-out
efforts to break his conviction.
Foo has been to Capitol Hill. She has been 1
to Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Chicago,,+
and points in between. She has her Congress-
woman's and the State Department's ph'o e
numbers memorized:_She:is:.hoping so iieone
can do something to help her fiance and the
people of China.
Worlds apart, they share courage, endur-
ance, and hope.
Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen fromiMenlo
Park, California, traveled to China to expose
the human rights violations committed against
Falun Gong practitioners. However, Lee never
made it into China on his own. He was arrested on January 22,
2003 as soon as he got off the airplane at the Guangzhou Airport
Dr. Charles Lee, detained in
China since Jan. 2003
in southern China.
Foo, 30, is a University of California Davis
graduate who entered the software industry in
the Silicon Valley. She met Lee, agraduate of—
University of -Illinois who conducted research
at Harvard, at a social gathering at Stanford
University.
Foo says that. Lee went to China to defend
the lives of others. "Charles had a very com-
fortable life, a good life, here in America. But
he loves his fellow Chinese people so much,
and he sees then suffer ander. this persecu-
tion," she's"ays.
A pun Gong practitioner and member of
Amnesty International Group 466, Lee had
intended to assist in broadcasting evidence of
the persecution of Falun Gong by overriding
the signal of a state-controlled TV broadcast.
Falun Gong practitioners in China have used
this method since February 2002 to try to break through China's
pervasive information blockade. Foo explains that the information
'blockade is a key weapon inwthe-hands..of=.believes-L-ee-went-to-ChinaIknowing that
Jiang's regime — it has hidden the bloody whatever punishment he receives if caught -
persecution from the world outside China, will be less than what a Chinese citizen
and even from China's own people. would have to suffer.
In a 96 -page letter Lee wrote while in Perhaps that i.szthe case. Yet, in the 96 -
jail, he explains that overriding China's page letter.'that Lee wrote while handcuffed
cable broadcast signals is justified _and--in"i u's ody and managed to get to the U.'S"."'
consulate only after enduring an eight-day
hunger strike, Lee reveals that he, too, has
been abused all along.
so all of the people in China are affected," According to the letter, he was beaten
says Lee's fiancee. She says by exposing the upon arrest at the Guangzhou Airport, was
cover-up of the persecution, Lee; sought. tominterrogated and deprived of sleep for three
spare innocent people f om' being tortured days and nights, and was handcuffed and
to death. He also sought to give a chance to
reconsider theirractions to those who, mis-
led•by ilie propaganda, take part in perse-
cuting their fellow countrymen. Perhaps if
they knew the truth they would no longer
commit these terrible crimes.
Lee must have:known, the risks in-
volved in-rs'is efforts. At least five Chinese
Falun Gong practitioners who success -
..illy broadcasted evidence of the perse-
_* ' cution in China have been tortured to
death, while others have been sentenced
to long periods in jail and have been sub-
ject to life-threatening torture.
"A•lot.of practitioners have been tortured
to death, brainwashed, physically and men-
tally tortured," says Foo. Yet, she -says she th
necessary given the state of emergency -this
persecution•has created'in China.
"The whole persecution is based on lies,
nied all allegations of torture of Falun Gong
practitioners, and has maintained that Lee
was arrested simply based on ` criminal
charges of what he "intended to do."
Foo believes, however, that "the real
reason they persecute him is because of his
belief in:FalunGong_It,really_has.nothing
to do with their charges."
She says that the Chinese security au-
thorities have tried to brainwash Lee from
the very beginning. What they really want
is to "transform" him and force him to re-
nounce and slander the practice, she says.
Meanwhile, the pressure on Lee only
tied in agonizing positions four-long-periods—builds.—The:U:S-€onsulate-in-Shanghai
of time. Between March 27 and April 2
he was handcuffed consecutively for 130
hours. In February, he was tied to the iron
"death bed" for nine hours, with his four
limbs painfully stretched out
reported in November that the brainwash-
ing sessions now go on daily, and are more
intense.
Foo has not been allowed to speak with
her fiance since his arrest. She says she
Most dangerous have been the several would like to tell him to hold on. "We are
forced feedings that Lee has been subjected going to get him out. We are working very
to. Many practitioners have died�fromahisr hard,-not,only_inthe U.S., but worldwide,
form of torture. Those who have suffered to get his release. I want him to -hang -on"!
it say it is excruciatingly painful. On one there; I really need him to hang on there."
occasion the feeding tube inserted into
Charles nose was left there for 39 straight
hours, simply to increase his suffering.
The U.S. consular officials in Shanghai
Nate Rosenberg is an Israeli and American
citizen. Nate served as his university's Am-
nesty International coordinator and is cur -
have repeatedly protested the abuses, and rently researching Chinese concepts of rights
the_Chinese government has repeatedly de- in_the,20th. century. + —"
Unveiling Human Rights Abuses and Bang's Systematic Cover -
ng on State-run TV Airwaves in China
NEW YORK (FDI) -- Ac-
cording to a September 18
report by the BBC, 15 prac-
titioners of Falun Gong were
put on trial in the north-
eastern city of Changchun,
China. Their crime? Tap-
ping into cable TV signals to
broadcast programs exposing
human rights violations
committed by Jiang Zemin's
regime.
The broadcasts also in-
cluded programs showing
the practice and support of
Falun Gong in over 50 coun-
tries around the world.
For over three years, the
Chinese state-run media has
been saturated with pro-
grams and campaigns that
distort the teachings of Falun
Gong. This propaganda also
accuses Falun Gong practi-
tioners of horrendous crimes
(without any third -party
verification) and denies any
existence of Jiang's persecut-
ing of practitioners -- all
in an effort to align public
opinion with Jiang's cam-
paign against Falun Gong.
In the state- run media,
Falun Gong, like other sup-
pressed groups, has had no
voice... until now.
By broadcasting programs
that expose what is really
happening in China, prac-
titioners of Falun Gong are
exercising their right to free-
dom of speech, using peace-
ful means that harm no one.
Throughout history, those
who peacefully defy injus-
tice and the persecution of
the human spirit have been
called heroes. Today in
China such people are being
labeled as "criminals." With
the show -trial of these 15
practitioners of Falun Gong,
Jiang is lashing out, yet
again, at those who seek to
bring transparency to Jiang's
persecution.
The broadcasting of
programs by Falun Gong
practitioners over cable TV
networks is standing up
for the right to freedom of
conscience, expression, and
association. It exposes the
true picture of human rights
in China and gives a voice
to the millions of Chinese
citizens who have none. It is
truly serving the people.
I have been tortured to the brink of death simply because
I'm a Falun Gong practitioner and would not renounce
my beliefs amidst the pressure and violence. Yet, my story
is not uncommon. In fact, I am but one of millions with
such a story to tell...
BY WANG YUZHI
My family came from the city of Harbin. I was 15 when the Great
Cultural Revolution swept through China. My father was jailed
for being an "anti -revolutionist" Maoist jargon for anyone with an
education, owning lands or holding traditional values.
My mother was left to take care of
eight children, with no source of in-
come. Fortunately, two of my brothers
were able to earn enough money wash-
ing cloth by the banks of the Songhua
River to keep the family fed. My mother
was too depressed and sick to cook, so I
took over the cooking for the family.
I used to take meals to my father in
prison, and can still remember seeing
him behind bars—dark and gaunt, but
always passionate and positive. In spite
of the extreme difficulties in my life, I
was always encouraged by my father's
attitude.
In 1976 the "Gang of Four" was re-
moved from power and life began to
change. My father was released from
prison, and my two older boys were
admitted to university, along with my
younger sister. I was left to provide for
the rest of the family, including my sick
parents. I got a job making towel tassels,
and was so efficient at my work that I
could earn 200-300 Yuan a month.
This was enough money to provide food
for the whole family, and tuition for my
younger brothers and sister.
My Life Improves
In 1979, life slowly started to change
for me. I was working in an electronics
company, and the company decided to
send me to university. After I graduated,
I went back to the factory to work as an
engineer. In 1989 the company went
bankrupt and so my husband (whom
I'd met at university) and I started up
our own business importing office sup-
plies. The business went so well that the
company profits continually doubled.
My hardships were finally over—I had a
house, a car, a great business and a happy
marriage.
I also had a beautiful son.
By this time, my family was doing
well financially. My father had started
his own factory and went on to become
one of China's first millionaires. Two
of my brothers left China—one went
to Philadelphia, and the other to the
Middle East. My mother moved to the
United Arab Emirates with my two
younger sisters. All my brothers and sis-
ters had prosperous businesses.
Financially, life was good.
My life underwent another incred-
ible change in 1998 when one of my
customers handed me a copy of Falun
Gong—the introductory text of Falun
Gong. When I first took the book, I
had no idea how dramatically it would
change my life.
I began practicing Falun Gong and
started to notice huge changes in my life.
For years I had suffered from a debilitat-
ing illness that would occasionally cause
me to suddenly lose control in my legs,
and make walking impossible. I had
visited countless doctors, both Chinese
and western, but none of them could
pinpoint the cause of the illness. Three
months after starting Falun Gong, my
illness totally disappeared.
I began diligently studying the Fa-
lun Gong books, and did the Falun
Gong exercises with friends at a local
park. In the process of practicing Falun
Gong I felt cleansed of many negative
thoughts and emotions that I had col-
lected throughout my life. I felt my body
and soul gradually become healthy and
harmonious like never before. My tiring
life became happier and I was finally at
peace. I felt so lucky to be able to learn a
Chinese exercise and meditation practice
that originated in the ancient traditions
of my country. In Chinese history every
dynasty was built on and governed by
virtue and morality. The main focus in
life was to think of others first and al-
ways look inside to see where you could
do better. The main goal in life was to
strengthen the spirit, to enlighten to
truth and return the body and mind to
the original true essence. The profound
principles in Falun Gong empowered
me to make purer choices in my life
and helped me to bring the principles
of Truth Compassion and Tolerance
into my family. I feel I have truly found
the meaning of my life and the answers
to life's mysteries by practicing Falun
Gong. For me, it brought together all of
the pieces of the puzzle.
Crackdown on Falun Gong
Falun Gong spread rapidly in China,
and by 1999 statistics from China's Phys-
ical Education Bureau showed that there
were over 70 million people practicing
Falun Gong. Jiang Zemin, the leader of
the Communist Party at that time, was
threatened by both the sheer numbers of
people and their allegiance to something
other than Communist Party ideology.
On July 20, 1999 he ordered a brutal
crackdown on Falun Gong. Overnight,
those 70 million people, including my-
self, became the "enemy of the people"
and "followers of an evil religion."
My life was about to take another dra-
matic turn—full of incredible hardships
that I could never have imagined.
As the crackdown on Falun Gong
continued, the media was saturated with
lies and propaganda. In order to jus-
tify the persecution, all kinds of bloody
crimes (immolation, suicide, homicide)
were used to frame up Falun Gong prac-
titioners. The sensational propaganda
demonizing Falun Gong permeated
the entire country. It was like reliving
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with their government leaders and communities to stop it. From Canada
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to expose the human rights abuses and bring Jiang to justice...
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Germany, and the United Kingdom, more than 1,000 practitioners and supporters
of -Falun Gong from 20 nations around the world gathered in Geneva during the 59tIi
annual United Nations 1-lunman Rights Commission. Falun Gong practitioners held
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around the world gathered in Washington DC to take part in a four-day event in
rhe nation's capital. In addition to an all -day concert near the Capitol Building and
a procession through the streets of downtown Washington DC, practitioners held a
conference at the DAR Constitution Hall. In a rally on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senators,
Congresspersons and prominent non-governmental organizations joined a chorus
of voices, condemning the Chinese regime's four-year persecution of Falun Gong.
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the persecution.
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Former Chinese Leader
and Senior Officials
Charged...
[continued from page 19]
A Wave of Lawsuits around the
World
The lawsuits filed on behalf of Fa-
lun Gong practitioners, however, first
gained international media attention in
October 2002, when individual plain-
tiffs filed a class action lawsuit in a U.S.
District Court in Chicago against Jiang
and the "6-10 Office" (aka Falun Gong
Control Office). At the time, Jiang was
visiting the U.S. just prior to step-
ping down as Chair of Chinese
Communist Party.
Like previous
cases, specific
causes of action pleaded in the
complaint included torture, geno-
cide, and denial of the right to life.
Also cited in the complaint, how-
ever, was conspiracy to commit
violations of civil rights against
Falun Gong within the jurisdic-
tion of the U.S. Since 1999, Chi-
nese officials in the U.S. — usually
associated with the Embassy or
consulates — have engaged in a coordi-
nated attack on Falun Gong practitio-
ners in the U.S. and official documents
secured by Freedom House suggested
the attacks were part of Jiang's larger
campaign against the practice.
Two days after the lawsuit was served
in Chicago, China's foreign ministry
tried to deny the lawsuit even existed,
but was forced into a retreat when
pressed by Associated Press reporters in
Beijing. Meanwhile, Jiang's supporters
began mounting a campaign to pressure
the U.S. State Department in an effort
to block the court process.
In September 2003, the District
Court judge dismissed the case on ju-
risdictional grounds, indicating Jiang
enjoys immunity and cannot be tried
for genocide and torture in U.S. Courts.
"The decision contradicts case law in
the U.S.," says Falun Gong attorney,
Dr. Marsh, "and ignores international
treaty law and customary international
law that stipulates heads -of -state and
former heads -of -state may not enjoy im-
munity with respect to crimes against
humanity."
The case is currently on appeal with
the 7thh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Significantly, however, the Chicago
lawsuit put the persecution of Falun
Gong on the map of the international
legal community. Since the filing of the
6-10 Office and oversees the persecu-
tion. " Luo played a pivotal role in
turning the government apparatus
against Falun Gong in the late 1990's,
and has been Jiang's most virulent
supporter of the persecution.
4) Li Lanqing, Former Director of the
"Leadership Team to Deal with the
Falun Gong Problem" and former
Vice -Premier of China.
Following the Chicago suit, in De-
cember 2002, William Bourdon and
Georges -Henri Beauthier, two human
rights lawyers renowned for their pros-
ecution of Chilean dictator Augusto Pi-
nochet, filed a suit for crimes of torture
at the Court of Nice, France against Li
Lanqing. The Chinese Vice -Premier
was then on an unofficial visit in
France. The plaintiffs were four
Chicago suit, human rights attorneys
have been using genocide, torture and
other relevant international and na-
tional laws to file 13 more lawsuits in 11
countries around the world on behalf of
Falun Gong practitioners.
Defendants in these lawsuits are one
or more of the following:
1) Jiang Zemin, former Chinese leader
widely known to be the architect and
driving force behind the persecution
of Falun Gong.
2) The "6-10 Office," a gestapo -like
agency established by Jiang specifi-
cally to "eradicate Falun Gong."
3) Luo Gan, now Director of the "Lead-
ership Team to Deal with the Falun
Gong Problem," which created the
Falun Gong practitioners, includ-
ing two French women.
The complaint was based on
the UN Convention against
Torture, which France signed in
1984 and which allows it to arrest.,- '
and prosecute any person guilty
of torture. It is the first time in
Europe that a Chinese leader has
faced such a complaint.
In July 2002, the case was ac-
cepted by the criminal court in
Paris, a magistrate was assigned
and legal proceedings began against the
former Vice -Premier.
Over the next year, 10 lawsuits were
filed in Belgium, Iceland, Finland,
Spain, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan,
and other countries against Jiang and
other senior Chinese leaders for their
roles in the persecution of Falun Gong.
Tribunals and the International
Criminal Court
Lawyers in the U.S. and European
cases have indicated they are also pre-
paring a petition to the International
Criminal Court (ICC) and are inves-
tigating the establishment of an ad-hoc
60 Compassion • 2004
tribunal.
Letters were also submitted to the
United Nations Human Rights Com-
mission requesting assistance with legal
initiatives against Jiang.
With China sitting on the security
council of the U.N., many feel a U.N.-
backed initiative for redress is unlikely.
Dr. Marsh, the lead attorney in the U.S.
lawsuit against Jiang disagrees, saying a
U.N. option is not so far-fetched given
Jiang's rapidly deteriorating hold on
power in China.
"In May, the Washington Post was the
first media outlet to expose the fact that
Jiang's faction in the Chinese Govern-
ment backed the cover up of SARS,"
says Dr. Marsh. "In that article, a China
expert was quoted as saying that the
`growing disdain and hatred for Jiang is
stunning' and that `Jiang is being chas-
tised as a narcissistic freak obsessed with
his own alleged charm."'
Dr. Marsh continued, "This is exactly
in-line with the stories I hear coming out
of China...Jiang has committed so many
crimes against the people of China, that
many in China are weary of him. When
we first filed this lawsuit, some were
concerned that it might appear to go
against the Chinese Government and
offend the Chinese people, but what
I'm hearing is the exact opposite...it
is bringing hope to people throughout
China that Jiang might be brought to
justice for his crimes. For the Chinese
people, this lawsuit and related legal ini-
tiatives around the world are really about
hope for justice."
John Nania is a communications consul-
tant and freelance writer living in Min-
neapolis, Minnesota.
Immunity, Genocide
and the Rule of Law...
[continued from page 23]
it's all just people who know about the
persecution and want the case to go for-
ward. The costs, however, are very low
thanks to a lot of pro-bono work on the
part of many attorneys.
Q Are other legal channels being
pursued, such as the ICC, the UN,
tribunals, etc.?
Yes, there are
five attorneys who
practice Falun
Gong involved in
these lawsuits. Two
others have submit-
ted lawsuits against
Jiang Zemin, The-
resa Chu of Taiwan,
and Carlos Iglesias
of Spain. The five
of us have visited the ICC and shared
with them the severity of the persecu-
tion. We also discussed the possibility of
filing a petition to the ICC and we are
investigating the establishment of an ad-
hoc tribunal and/or some other already
established channel for redress. Jiang's
crimes against practitioners of Falun
Gong are of the most serious order and
highest magnitude. Until he pays for his
crimes in a court of law, we will continue
to sue him in civil, criminal and inter-
national courts around the globe. That
is my personal promise to Jiang and
those who help him in his ill-conceived
campaign.
The moral and legal issues raised by
this case are of paramount importance
to the future of human rights litigation
here in the United States. How we re-
solve these issues will affect our proud
tradition of defending the universal
principles necessary for justice and free-
dom, as well as determine the place of
the United States in the world. We will
present a strong case to the Seventh Cir-
cuit panel of Judges. The law is on our
side. We can only hope that they will
accept the challenge of history and do
the right thing.
"The principles of truthfulness, compas-
sion and tolerance are constitutive of
our very humanity. No persecution could
succeed against those principles without
extinguishing who we are. By suing Jiang
we are affirming what is best in all of us."
Q The case you filed in Chicago
was dismissed at the District level
and is now on appeal. Do you
think the outcome of the appeal
will be different?
The Judge's ruling is of course not
what we had hoped for or anticipated.
However, this case is far from over. In-
deed it is just beginning.
Q. What are Falun Gong
practitioners hoping to
accomplish with these lawsuits?
The lawsuits help educate people
around the globe about the religious
persecution of Falun Gong in China.
These lawsuits also tell those who are
responsible for the persecution that
they cannot commit genocide and tor-
ture with impunity, and in doing so we
believe they will help contribute to the
end of the persecution of Falun Gong
in China and abroad. Indeed, we have
heard encouraging stories of officials in
China who are now beginning to walk
away from involvement with the perse-
cution because their previous notions of
impunity has been shattered by the real-
ity of lawsuits filed against them around
the world.
We have all seen images of holocaust
victims, half-starved skeletons gazing
at us from behind barbed wire fences.
Those images moved the world in the
wake of World War II to vow "never
again."
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The images of the victims of the per-
secution of Falun Gong are no less hor-
rifying. I have two photographs. In the
first is a professor smiling happily and
picking flowers in her garden and then
in the second just months later she has
been tortured to death ... these photos
still bring tears to my eyes when I look
at them. A mother is forced to observe
police officers hang her eight month
old son upside down and torture him
to death before her very eyes. Women
are raped, forced to abort their babies,
hung from ceilings, tortured with de-
vices that ravage the human body to
the point where they are driven insane
or "transformed" into dark shadows of
their former selves. The very old, the
very young — no one is immune from the
daily torture and brutal killings.
In this lawsuit we see humanity's con-
tinuing effort to rise above our capacity
for atrocity and to order our lives accord-
ing to higher principles.
I believe this desire to live accord-
ing to higher principles is ineradicable
in humanity. History will show that
the persecution of Falun Gong was not
only a persecution of one hundred mil-
lion individuals in China, it was also a
persecution of the universal, moral prin-
ciples of Falun Gong. The principles of
truthfulness, compassion and tolerance
are constitutive of our very humanity.
No persecution could succeed against
those principles without extinguishing
who we are.
By suing Jiang we are affirming what
is best in all of us.
Bang's Personal
Campaign...
[continued from page 29]
April 25th: Jiang Zemin's Excuse
to Declare War
The acts of harassment against Fa-
lun Gong came to a head in the city of
Tianjin, not far from Beijing. Luo Gan's
brother-in-law, a man with a Ph.D. in
physics named He Zuoxiu, who has
regularly written propaganda articles
for the Communist Party, had written a
magazine article attacking Falun Gong.
That article included a previously dis-
credited story about an individual said
to have committed suicide due to prac-
ticing Falun Gong (in fact that young
man had neither practiced Falun Gong
nor committed suicide). When the
magazine refused to retract the article,
practitioners held a peaceful appeal out-
side its office.
Police arrested and beat them. When
local practitioners appealed to the police
in Tianjin for the release of those ar-
rested, they were told all appeals on this
issue must go to Beijing. In all previous
incidents in which practitioners had
been harassed, this had never been said
before. The stakes had risen.
In Mainland China, Appeal Bureaus
are set up by the government to receive
grievances from the people. All levels
of the Party and administrative depart-
ments have Appeal Offices. For ex-
ample, the Appeal Bureau for the State
Council is located about two to three
hundred meters down Fuyou Street from
Zhongnanhai, the central government's
compound in Beijing.
On the morning of April 25, 1999,
over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners
— following the instructions they were
given by officials in Tianjin — came to
the Appeal Bureau for the State Council
from different areas. They had heard of
the situation through word of mouth,
and came to appeal of their own indi-
vidual will, hoping to appeal directly to
the officials in the central government.
Police were waiting for them in force.
Rather than directing them away from
the sensitive government compound
of Zhongnanhai toward the Appeals
Office, police did the opposite. They
refused to let practitioners approach the
Appeals Office, and instead directed
them opposite Zhongnanhai until the
group wound entirely around the com-
plex in neat, orderly rows.
On that day, then -Premier Zhu
Rongji came out of the Zhongnanhai
government compound and talked to
the Falun Gong practitioners. According
to witnesses, Premier Zhu asked why the
practitioners had come, saying "Didn't I
already issue comments on your prac-
tice?" The Falun Gong practitioners
responded that they never received Zhu's
correspondence. They proceeded to ex-
plain that police in Tianjin had beaten
and illegally arrested over 30 Falun
Gong practitioners. "We were told this
could not be resolved locally, and that
we should appeal to the central govern-
ment," the practitioners told Premier
Zhu.
After listening to the report of the
situation, Zhu issued an order to release
the arrested practitioners that same day.
After confirming that the practitioners
in Tianjin would be released, the 10,000
then quietly dispersed.
Not knowing practitioners were
instructed to go to Beijing and then
arranged around Zhongnanhai by the
police awaiting them, many observers
understood the appearance of practi-
tioners there to be a direct challenge to
the Communist Party's authority, and,
when the persecution began, assumed
the events of April 25th to be the cause.
Jiang Overrides Government
Leaders and Orders Persecution
Eyewitnesses report that when the
news of the Falun Gong appeal was
brought to Jiang during the day, he re-
sponded with a vehemence that shocked
all present, "Crush Falun Gong! Crush
it! Crush it completely!"
That evening, Jiang wrote a letter to
the other members of the Permanent
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Standing Committee and other top
Party officials, calling for an emergency
meeting regarding this incident. "The
Communist Party must vanquish Falun
Gong," Jiang stated in the letter. "How
could it be possible that the Marxist
theory we endorse and the materialism
and atheism that we believe in can't van-
quish what Falun Gong propagates? If it
were true, wouldn't we become laughing
stocks?"
During the meeting, Jiang openly
reprimanded Zhu calling him "Muddle-
headed! Muddle-headed!" He repudi-
ated the Premier's decision that was in
the process of being implemented, and
forced the Party to accept his personal
goal to "eradicate" Falun Gong.
At the end of the meeting, Zhu
Rongji, who had been accused under
Mao of being a "rightist," stopped and
shook hands with every staff member
present, saying his goodbyes. He is not
known to have uttered a word about Fa-
lun Gong since.
Acting on Jiang's instructions the
General Office of the CCP Central
Committee and the State Council then
issued a circular to the Party Commit-
tees of all provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities. This demanded that
all departments ascertain whether any
of their personnel were Falun Gong
practitioners and whether they had been
to Zhongnanhai on April 25th. Jiang
also ensured that the General Political
Department of the People's Liberation
Army issue a directive demanding that
all military personnel, including sup-
port workers and even retirees, cease
participation in Falun Gong exercises.
The order stated: "The people's armed
forces must never allow any qigong orga-
nizations of a religious nature; and must
firmly and decisively dismiss those ser-
vicemen and dependents who are Falun
Gong exercisers. Whoever disobeys this
shall be strictly disciplined."
Yet, Jiang still faced considerable op-
position within the Communist Party.
His policy was viewed by most of the
top Party members as irrational, un-
necessary, and one that violated China's
own Constitution. Jiang, however, was
the head of the Com-
munist Party, the
government, and the
military. Thus, in the
face of Jiang's intimi-
dation, over the next
few months all high-
ranking officials of
the Chinese govern-
ment gradually grew
silent on the Falun
Gong issue.
Between April 25
and July 20, 1999,
Jiang and Luo began
to make use of all
meetings and public
occasions to force
everyone to express their
attitudes and
pledge their allegiance. Chinese govern-
ment sources say the situation during
this time was also very chaotic as Jiang's
followers attempted to find incriminat-
ing details that they could use to justify
the persecution and silence any objec-
tions.
The State Appeals offices still held
policies that announced a "freedom to
practice" qigong, and "no ban on spiri-
tual practices." These announcements
were on the walls of the Appeals offices
directly alongside the new policies post-
ed by Jiang, making the discord about
Falun Gong at the highest levels of the
Party visible for all to see.
At a Politburo meeting on June 7 Jiang
announced the decision to form a leader-
ship team "to deal with the Falun Gong
problem." The Director of that team
would be former vice -premier Li Lanq-
ing, and his assistant directors would be
Luo Gan and the Propaganda Minister
Ding Guangen.
On June 10, the Central Commit-
tee obediently formed the "Leadership
Team to Deal with the Falun Gong
Problem," headed by Li, with Luo and
Ding as assistants. This team in turn
formed an office they called the "6-10
Office," named after the date of its insti-
tution. The 6-10 Office would carry out
the policies of Jiang and his "Leadership
Team" in eradicating Falun Gong. (see
"The 6-10 Office," page 30)
In the early
20, 1999, Falun Gong practice site vol-
unteers around the country were pulled
from their beds and detained by police.
On the same day, Jiang ordered the Cen-
tral Civil Affairs Department, which is
responsible for the registration of groups
and organizations, to issue a notice ban-
ning Falun Gong.
An estimated 35,000 practitioners
were detained over the next several
weeks. Within a few months, the first
reports of severe abuse, torture and
killings began to emerge from inside
China.
morning hours of July
Four Years of Jiang -sponsored
Terror
According to sources in China and
thousands of testimonies from vic-
tims over the last four years, Jiang
implemented the persecution through
a three -pronged directive to all levels
of government: Destroy [Falun Gong]
practitioners physically; destroy their
reputations; destroy them financially.
Numerous edicts handed down by
Jiang, which the security and propa-
ganda machines had no choice but to
obey, were illegal and unconstitutional.
In July 1999, Jiang, through the Bu-
reau of Civil Affairs (an Administrative
branch), declared Falun Gong to be an
"illegal organization." According to Ar-
ticles 2, 80, and 81 of the Constitution
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of the People's Republic of China, only
the National People's Congress has the
ability to declare an organization illegal.
The President does not possess such
power. Yet, this executive order initiated
the persecution campaign.
In October 1999, the National
People's Congress passed a series of
laws basically targeting Falun Gong.
Regarding these laws, a November 2,
1999, article from the Washington Post
stated: "When [China's Communist
leaders] found themselves without the
laws they need to rigorously persecute
a peaceful meditation society, the Party
simply ordered up some new laws. Now
these will be applied – retroactively."
These laws were dictated by Jiang, using
the National People's Congress merely as
a rubber stamp. Doing so oversteps the
authority granted to the President by the
Chinese constitution. Applying these
laws retroactively to prosecute Falun
Gong practitioners and sentence them
to prison terms was likewise an illegal
action.
Although many provinces were quick
to enact Jiang's policy on Falun Gong,
some southern provinces, such as Guan-
dong, were not pursuing the persecution
with the vigor Jiang demanded. Thus, in
February 2000, Jiang went on a tour of
those southern provinces to spur them
on and ensure that they toed the line. In
particular, he criticized Guandong for
not "doing its best in the persecution of
Falun Gong," and for being "too soft" on
Falun Gong. He also asked Guandong
Province Governor, Li Changchun, to
make a statement at the conference of
the Political Bureau to "express regret"
with respect to his lack of efforts in this
area.
Under pressure from Jiang, Guandong
Province as well as other southern prov-
inces eventually began to incarcerate
Falun Gong practitioners and send them
to labor camps en masse. Among the first
from Guandong to be sent to a labor
camp was a university classmate of Hu
Jintao, the vice-president of China (and
the man who would succeed Jiang as
President and Chair of the Communist
Party). Hu had been very passive in car-
rying out Jiang's campaign against Falun
Gong. In forcing Hu to accept this, Ji-
ang sent a powerful double message: no
one may be granted exception from the
persecution, and none of China's leader-
ship may try to avoid the responsibility
for enforcing it.
By the end of 2003, details of 852
deaths have been verified by the Falun
Dafa InfoCenter (FDI), with informed
sources putting the true death toll well
in the thousands. Hundreds of thou-
sands have been detained, with more
than 100,000 being sentenced to forced
labor camps, typically without trial, ac-
cording to the InfoCenter.
Jiang's Motives
CNN's China expert Willy Wo -Lap
Lam has reported that the persecution of
Falun Gong was in fact an attempt by Ji-
ang to secure his own power. Lam quoted
a Party insider on February 6, 2001 as
saying "by unleashing a Mao -style move-
ment, Jiang is forcing senior cadres to
pledge allegiance to his line. This will
boost Jiang's authority — and may give
him enough momentum to enable him to
dictate events at the pivotal 16th Com-
munist Party Congress next year."
Others who have been investigating
the human rights abuses against Falun
Gong in China, however, put forth a
more mundane cause: Jealousy. Consider
events in the spring of 1998. The Yang-
tze River was flooding. Jiang visited the
city of Wuhan on an inspection tour of
the endangered areas. According to eye-
witnesses, a particular group working on
the dikes caught his eye. They worked
very well together and with great en-
thusiasm. Their section of the dike had
stayed ahead of the flood. Jiang was very
pleased. He asked who these workers
were. When told they were local Falun
Gong practitioners who had volunteered
for this duty, he flew into a rage, turned
on his heel, and stalked off.
"Jiang was jealous of Falun Gong's
wide -spread popularity among the peo-
ple," says Dr. Shiyu Zhou, a Falun Dafa
InfoCenter (FDI) spokesman. "Falun
Gong had captured the nation's attention
and seemed to truly bring about changes
in the communities. After so many years
of turmoil, people in China were return-
ing to a more traditional Chinese way of
life, working together, thinking of others
before themselves and putting an empha-
sis on kindness. It may sound petty at
first, but the admiration people held for
Falun Gong made him furious. That's the
main reason he did this."
Dr. Michael Pearson -Smith lives in Mel-
bourne, Australia, and works in educa-
tional publishing and sales.
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The 6-10 Office...
[continued from page 33]
The 6-10 Office Tries to Hide by
Changing Its Name
The 6-10 Office has come under in-
creasing international pressure as knowl-
edge of its existence has been reported
in the international press and details of
its mission have gradually been unveiled.
The shady office was fingered in news
articles by the Wall Street Journal and
the Washington Post as well as statements
from concerned government leaders
around the world.
Additionally, in 2002 and 2003 the
6-10 Office or its leadership was named
in nine lawsuits filed around the world,
alleging genocide, torture, and crimes
against humanity.
In response, in October 2003 provin-
cial governments in China announced
that the 6-10 Office had been "dis-
banded." Its name was removed from
most Chinese official web sites. An of-
ficial document from CCP Rongchang
County Committee, however, revealed
the true situation: the Communist
Party has done what it has often done
in the past, changing the facade of an
agency or policy that violates domestic
and international laws, while in reality
maintaining the status quo with little or
no change. The 6-10 Office has simply
changed its name. "The name of '6-10
Office' is not allowed to be used. In pub-
lic activities, the use of 'the County 6-10
Office' is absolutely forbidden," states
the Rongchang County letter.
Since the 6-10 Office went under-
ground in 2003, daily reports of extor-
tion, loss of job or housing, beatings,
torture and killings of Falun Gong prac-
titioners have continued uninterrupted.
The mission of the 6-10 Office lives on.
Stephen Gregory is a doctoral candidate
in the Committee on Social Thought,
and an administrator, at the University
of Chicago.
Civil Disobedience...
[continued from page 47]
Families huddle around their TV sets
on the evening of Tuesday, March 5,
2002. At 8 pm the state-run broadcast is
suddenly interrupted.
There is a brief blackout. Then, unex-
pectedly, images appear of Falun Gong
practitioners in large groups practicing
in parks around the world, footage of
the persecution, a slow-motion analysis
proving that the so-called self -immola-
tion is a hoax...
Families in approximately 300,000
homes watched the 50 minute broadcast,
and the airing is the talk of the town for
days.
Enraged, Jiang Zemin orders Falun
Gong practitioners shot on sight. Over-
night, Changchun is turned into a police
state.
Policemen raid the city's houses as
5,000 practitioners are arrested in three
days. Witnesses see bodies being thrown
out of high-rise windows. Others hear
screaming from beyond prison walls. At
least six people who helped carry out the
broadcasts have been tortured to death,
others have been sentenced to long jail
periods.
Nonetheless, over a dozen such broad-
casts that have since taken place in major
cities throughout China, including Bei-
jing and Shanghai, have been reported.
'We don't know how much you know
about your husband, and we don't know
how much you are aware of his actions,'
reads a letter sent to Ms. Zhao, the wife
of the Chaoyang County Detention
Center's deputy director.
"We don't know, as a woman and a
wife, how you feel about his actions.
We also don't know 'how much you
know about Falun Gong. However, we
do know that people should live with
kindness."
The letter is also sent to the deputy
director's high-school son, 'to the work-
ers in his work unit and his wife's work
unit, and to his neighbors.
"He put Dafa practitioners in chains,
poured cold water on them, and shocked
them with electric batons," the letter
reveals. "He has personally beaten every
practitioner who has been detained in
the county detention center."
Soon after this letter is sent, news sur-
faces that all of the Falun Gong practi-
tioners detained at the county detention
center were released.
One of the deputy's former classmates
tells practitioners the deputy said he
would never participate in this persecu-
tion again.
Across the country, Falun Gong prac-
titioners are now directly seeking out the
perpetrators. They tell them to stop tor-
turing people since the world has an an-
cient moral principle: good is rewarded
with good and evil with evil.
When the persecution began, the
practitioners could easily have stayed
at home to do their exercises, patiently
waiting for perhaps a decade or more
for this latest spasm of violence by the
Communist Party against the Chinese
people to end. Certainly, this is what
Jiang Zemin expected.
But the practitioners chose civil
disobedience, not as a tactic, but as a
natural expression of the principles of
Falun Gong, of truthfulness -compas-
sion -tolerance.
The practitioners use non-violence,
because according to their beliefs, they
cannot harm others. They seek to edu-
cate, because in telling others the truth,
practitioners allow the people of China
to choose what is good. They risk their
all, because the meaning of life is found
in living according to what is best in
each of us. With their words and their
actions, the practitioners of Falun Gong
simply appeal to the Chinese people not
to do harm, but to consult the truth
available to each inside them.
And so, in the teeth of Jiang Zemin's
frenzied efforts to deny their right to ap-
peal, tens of millions of practitioners of
Falun Gong have continued to exercise
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it, appealing to the hearts and souls
of the Chinese people everyday. They
do so by putting posters up on village
walls, by hanging banners from build-
ings or bridges, by slipping fliers under
apartment doors or passing them out on
crowded city buses, by mailing VCDs to
government officials, by sending e-mail
messages, by faxing busy offices, by
calling officials on the phone, by text
messaging, by broadcasting TV signals,
by whatever peaceful and non-violent
means they can find to reach others.
Most importantly, the practitioners
of China calmly tell others their stories,
one on one, explaining that Falun Gong
is good, and the persecution must end.
And each time they change a heart, the
persecution does end...one person at a
time.
Levi Browde is a project management
consultant in New York City who has re-
searched and written dozens of articles on
the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Practitioners throughout China use many means
to appeal for justice. This banner reads "Return
the Innocence Back to Falun Dafa"
From Rags to Riches...
[continued from page 51]
the Great Cultural Revolution—only
worse.
Arrested Three Times
The sudden persecution of Falun
Gong stunned me and all my friends,
and so I went to the local Appeals Of-
fice—following the legal rights guar-
anteed by the Chinese Constitution to
register appeals with the government.
But I quickly found out that these
rights no longer applied to Falun Gong
practitioners. Ironically, the Appeals
Office became the detention center,
where all practitioners who went to
appeal against the vicious persecution
were arrested instead. I was arrested
three times. The first time was in Janu-
ary 2000 in Beijing—I was ordered to
sign a pledge promising not to return
to Beijing to organize support for Falun
Gong. I refused to sign it, so the guards
ordered other inmates to beat me. The
second arrest was in July 2000, for pho-
tocopying Falun Gong flyers. The po-
lice officers beat me repeatedly, trying
to find out whom the flyers were for.
In spite of the vicious slander against
Falun Gong, I stood firmly by my
beliefs and decided to help reveal the
facts of the persecution to people who
had been deceived by the government's
propaganda.
In October 2000 I and a few other
practitioners prepared over 100,000
leaflets explaining the truth about
Falun Gong. With the help of other
practitioners, we distributed the leaflets
throughout the entire Province. People
who had previously believed the propa-
ganda suddenly understood the facts of
the persecution. -Revealing the facts was
what the authorities feared most, par-
ticularly Luo Gan (the highest leader in
the central government in charge of the
6-10 Office—a Gestapo -like entity of
the government in charge of persecuting
Falun Gong). I was placed on the "most
wanted list," and my name and photo
were posted everywhere with a reward
of 50,000 Yuan offered for information
leading to my arrest.
On July 16, 2001 I went to the bank
to withdraw my money and was arrested
for the third time. The police confis-
cated US $50,000 from my savings and
froze my bank accounts. Memories of
my father's time in prison came back
to me like a bad dream. Here I was, 46
years old, being jailed for my beliefs, just
as he had been.
Wanjia Forced Labor Camp
In November 2001, I was transferred
from the Second Detention Center
to the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp of
Harbin—infamous for its brutality
towards Falun Gong practitioners. All
practitioners detained in the detention
center or the forced Labor camp had
to endure brainwashing. Every day, we
had to sit in one position and watch
anti -Falun Gong propaganda on TV or
listen to the guards for over 8 hours. No
one was allowed to move. Sometimes,
a brainwashing session would last for
days and we weren't allowed to sleep the
entire time. Often, we were not even al-
lowed to use the toilet. In addition to
the intense brainwashing and sleep
deprivation, Falun Gong practitioners
were routinely beaten or whipped, tied
with ropes and hanged from the ceil-
ing, given electric shocks, forced to sit
naked on iron chairs, or raped by male
criminals
Most Falun Gong practitioners re-
fused to give up their beliefs. Some of
them, including me, went on hunger
strikes to protest our unlawful arrests
and the inhumane torture and persecu-
tion.
Brutal Force -Feedings
I vividly remember my first hunger
strike at the Harbin City Detention
Center. In order to force feed me, the
doctors at the Harbin City Detention
Center used a metal clamp to pry open
my teeth and then pushed a thick rubber
tube down to my stomach. My mouth
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was filled with blood and my body was
covered in bruises after every force-feed-
ing. Several people were there to beat
and subdue me for these force -feedings.
They would pour two big bowls of cold
water mixed with corn flour into me,
saying that it was for "stretching the
stomach." When I screamed, the police
were afraid of others hearing me. They
ordered inmates to gag and beat me even
more.
The force-feeding at the Wanjia
Forced Labor Camp was even more
violent and cruel. The doctors there
used force-feeding as a torture method
and didn't care whether practitioners
survived it or not.
Before force-feeding me for the first
time, I saw them grab a female Falun
Gong practitioner named Shang by the
hair and knock her head against the wall
and floor. When she was finally uncon-
scious, they forced the tube into her nose
to force-feed her. There was no steril-
ization—they simply brushed the tube
around in a basin then forced it through
her nose and down into her stomach.
Then they injected ground corn grain
mixed with cold water.
After they'd finished with her, the
two prison doctors turned around and
looked at me. They stood there with
their forceps and tools in their hands
and said, "You see that? You're next."
After that, I was subjected to this kind
of force-feeding every day in jail.
They would beat us to the point where
we were almost unconscious before ty-
ing our arms and legs down and forcing
the tubes through our noses and down
into our stomachs. We were tied up to
prevent us from pulling the tubes out
because of the excruciating pain.
On one occasion I witnessed a female
practitioner named Minxia Guo being
force-fed. The nurses grabbed Minxia's
hair and pinched her face and body.
She was black and blue everywhere. Her
whole body began to twitch. When I
condemned the guards and doctors for
what they were doing, they turned on
me and beat me up as well.
One day I heard the desperate cry
of a man in the woman's ward. It was
the husband of a
Falun Gong prac-
titioner named
Yanhong Ding.
He had begged to
be able to visit her,
and when he fi-
nally was allowed
to come in, they
force-fed her right
in front of him.
This man cried
terribly while his
wife struggled in
pain.
I always knew
that if I would
simply write a letter denouncing Fa-
lun Gong, denouncing its teachings
and promise to never practice again, I
would be released immediately. But if
it is wrong to believe in "Truthfulness -
Compassion Tolerance,"'what hope does
humanity have? This persecution was
forcing people to choose between their
lives and their conscience. I knew that
I was being forced to make that choice,
and I chose my conscience because I
knew that when good men and women
renounce good, wholesome beliefs under
pressure from a dictatorship, something
much greater than us dies.
Artist rendering of force-feeding torture. The artist, Amy Lee, herself
was subject to this torture while detained in Beijing.
Torture at the Labor Camp
Hospital
Due to the filthy conditions in the La-
bor camp, many practitioners developed
purulent scabies. They had pus cysts and
blood all over their skin. The worst ones
were as big as a peach. During the day
the sores were continually discharging
pus and mucus. During the night they
became so itchy that it was impossible to
fall asleep.
Every practitioner that developed
scabies would be sent to the hospital
run by the forced Labor camp—but
it wasn't for medical treatment. When
practitioners arrived at the hospital,
they were dragged into a small closed
room, and forced onto the ground. The
doctors would violently remove their
clothes, and use sharp steel knives or
metal spoons to scratch the pus cysts.
They would scrape the spoons back and
forth through the flesh and blood, while
the practitioner on the ground would be
screaming in pain. When they finished
with the digging, they would force the
practitioner to stand against the wall so
that they could clean the blood from
their bodies. The water from the faucets
was not normal tap water; it was filthy,
freezing cold and full of rust.
I remember a new prison doctor who
came—a university graduate. Whenever
he treated a practitioner, he would fol-
low the correct medical procedure to
prick open and wash each of the vesicles.
When the chief of the Wanjia Hospital
saw what he was doing, he pushed the
doctor aside, picked up a steel spoon and
started using the spoon to dig into the
pus cysts.
This kind of murderous "medical
treatment" would be repeated every few
days along with daily beatings and force-
feeding through the nose.
Any Practitioner Tortured to Death
will be Counted as a Suicide
After enduring such torture, many
practitioners ended up on the verge of
death. I know of at least 8 Falun Gong
practitioners who have been tortured to
death in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp
since the persecution began. The guards
told all the practitioners that if they were
beaten to death, it would be counted
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as a suicide and their bodies would be
cremated immediately—before inform-
ing the families, so there would be no
evidence of any torture.
Although I lived in this extreme hor-
ror every day, I was determined to sur-
vive without compromising my beliefs.
A Struggle to Let the Outside
World Know About the
Persecution
My husband and children cried and
begged the guards to be allowed to visit
me on many occasions, but to no avail.
Family members of Falun Gong practi-
tioners were not allowed any visitation
rights.
On one occasion during my hunger
strike, I was lying in bed in the Labor
Camp Hospital. Through the window
by the side of the street, I could see my
relatives standing at the door, begging
the guards to be allowed in.
On another occasion, my two younger
sisters came from overseas to visit me.
They stood at the door, crying and beg-
ging to be let in, and they refused to
leave. Suddenly it started raining. They
covered their faces with their raincoats
and went straight past the security
guard, and quickly ran inside the hospi-
tal. By then I had been on hunger strike
for over 50 days.
When I saw them I somehow found
the strength to get out of bed. I got out-
side the door and grabbed the guardrail
in the corridor with all my strength. I
stared at my two younger sisters. When
my sisters saw how emaciated I was, they
began crying loudly in the corridor. I
was crying too. I told them, "You need
to contact international organizations
and let the world know what is happen-
ing to me!"
In March, 2002, I started writing
letters on tissue paper within the Labor
Camp to the Harbin Justice Bureau, the
Harbin Public Security Department and
to the Province's Public Security Min-
istry. The letters I wrote were each five
feet long. On several occasions they were
almost taken away by the warden.
The day after I finished the letters
some people from the Justice Bureau
came to inspect the Labor camp. When
they came to my ward I personally
handed the letters to them.
Finally Released
After nine months
in prison, my health
had deteriorated so
much that I couldn't
even stand up. My
eyes and nose were
festering with blood
and pus from the
force feedings and
my eyesight was
almost gone. My
hunger strike lasted
more than 100 days.
Towards the end
of it, my nose was
so swollen that the
doctors could no
longer force a tube
into it. I was on the
verge of death, and
the doctors knew it.
They called my rela-
tives and gave them
the responsibility of
nursing me back to
health.
When I was final-
ly released in May
2002, I had been in
jail for nine months.
Nine months that
seemed like an eternity...I felt as though
I had just emerged from hell.
After my release, I immediately began
practicing the Falun Gong exercises
again. My body and eyes quickly re-
covered. When the police realized I was
healthy once again, they wanted to send
me back to the Labor camp.
In June 2002, to avoid further perse-
cution, I went to visit my family in the
United Arab Emirates. On the way, I
used every opportunity to tell the Chi-
nese people at the airports the truth
about the persecution. Eventually, some-
one from the Chinese Embassy saw me
and persuaded the local police to arrest
me, telling them that I was a dangerous
criminal. The Chinese Embassy asked
the United Arab Emirates to deport me
back to China. Miraculously, through
After around-the-clock efforts by Falun Gong practitioners
in Canada, Wang Yuzhi avoids being sent back to China
and arrives in Canada.
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around-the-clock efforts by Canadian
Falun Gong practitioners and the Ca-
nadian Government, I was given spe-
cial permission to move to Vancouver,
Canada in November 2002, to be with
my son.
The rescue efforts of the Canadians
probably saved my life.
What I have been through in the past
three years is a nightmare. Although the
nightmare is over for me, there are still
hundreds of thousands of bloody night-
mares like mine on-going in China. I
hope that by publishing my story, I can
help end these nightmares as well.
I attribute my ability to survive the
horrific torture to the principles of Fa-
lun Gong: "Truthfulness -Compassion -
Tolerance" exist deep in my heart, far
beyond the reach of any electric baton,
far beyond the reach of a prison guard's
fist. Lies and slanderous propaganda
dissolve when faced with the truth.
Brutality and torture is no match for
compassion. Violence and hatred cannot
penetrate tolerance.
For nine months, they tried to make
me believe these principles are not true.
They failed.
I feel real freedom is not obtained ex-
ternally, but internally within the realm
of "Truthfulness -Compassion -Tolerance."
Even when faced with extreme torture
and persecution, true Falun Gong prac-
titioners can withstand the unimagi-
nable—even to the end of their life—in
order to defend a common good greater
than ourselves: the universal principles
of "Truthfulness -Compassion -Tolerance."
Yuzhi Wang is currently living with her
son in Vancouver with a Ministers Permit
for Canada. She spends her time letting
people know about the persecution of
Falun Gong in China.
Law and the Legal Profession on Trial in China
Qingyun Hu, former Judge of the
Jiangxi Province Supreme Court, was
diagnosed with leukemia in 1997.
Medical treatment did not help,
and in February, 1998, doctors gave
him only three days to live. He then
learned Falun Gong and began to
practice. Miraculously, he recovered.
In July of 1999, after the persecution
of Falun Gong had begun, he wrote
letters to state leaders telling how
his health had been restored after
he began practicing Falun Gong. For
this innocent act he was arrested and
sentenced to seven years in prison. He
died in prison on March 22, 2001.
On November 15, 2000 Jinchun
Huang, a civil court judge of the Be-
hai Intermediate Court in China was
picked up at his home. The 34 year-old
judge was then detained at the Long
Qianshan mental hospital, where he
was tortured with the forced injec-
tion of tranquilizers, simply because
he refused to give up the practice of
Falun Gong. In similar cases, such tor-
ture has resulted in severe, irreversible
brain damage. According to recent re-
ports from China, the whereabouts of
Jinchun Huang are no longer known
- he has "disappeared."
What happened to Judges Hu and
Huang - arrest and detention without
trial, followed by abuse and torture
- may happen to any of China's legal
professionals who fail to give up their
practice of Falun Gong. Their fates are
emblematic, not only of conscience in
the legal profession in Jiang's China,
but of the law itself.
As a condition for membership in
the World Trade Organization, the
People's Republic of China promised
to develop an independent legal
system. But the dictator Jiang Zemin
has in his persecution of Falun Gong
taken the country sharply in the op-
posite direction.
This persecution goes against guar-
antees in the Chinese Constitution of
the freedom of belief. Moreover, no
law has been passed that makes the
practice of Falun Gong illegal. Due
process does not exist. Typically, prac-
titioners of Falun Gong are arrested
and sentenced without any formal
legal procedures at all. When trials
do occur, they are usually closed, and
lawyers are explicitly forbidden from
defending practitioners. Police and
other security personnel are rewarded
for torturing and stealing from practi-
tioners, with the result that the entire
law enforcement system now breeds
brutality and corruption.
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Against Women and Children
The Falun Gong Report
2003
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The Falun Gong Report
March 2003
Compiled by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
Preface
This year's Falun Gong Report is dedicated to the tens of millions of women and children who continue to
suffer under the brutal persecution against Falun Gong carried out by the government of the People's Republic
of China
Since July 20, 1999, these innocent people have endured heinous crimes committed by the Chinese police.
Among the more than 2,500 Falun Gong practitioners who have been tortured to death, the women, like the men,
have been killed by beating, burning, suffocation, force-feeding, and injections of nerve -damaging drugs. Women
have also been raped, gang raped, and shocked with electric batons on their nipples, inside their vaginas and
mouths, and on their faces. Babies as young as eight months and even the unborn have been murdered. Children
have been driven into homelessness, expelled from school, and orphaned.
There can be no defense for such blatant violations; even the PRC government has to resort to categorical
denial. What the PRC government counts on is effecting indifference in the international community through
deceit and coercion.
The persecution of Falun Gong violates all thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as
well as China's own constitution, and has caused the greatest human rights disaster in the world today. Some, how)
ever, have discounted this, wishfully believing that China is moving towards rule of law; some even subscribe to
the PRC government's propaganda that Falun Gong is illegal in China and Falun Gong practitioners are "all treat
ed according to the law" To propagate such lies is not only an unwitting betrayal of the Declaration, but also'
mockery of the rule of law. Imagine a rule of law in which the punishment of murderers or rapists was to torture
them into renouncing murder and rape. That is how twisted the PRC government's "rule of law" is: guilty until
you renounce Falun Gong. This is no rule of law, but state terrorism against conscience.
The PRC government has also used economic interest to coerce international opinion. Under the PRC's me I -
ace, some have reversed their initial outcry against the violations, some have rescinded their moral support toward
the victims, and some have even imposed self -censorship, choosing to remain silent to the killings. The financial
gain may seem rewarding, but one may unsuspectingly fall victim to persecution of a different kind. We all like to
think we know what is right, and we all like to think we stand up for justice. However, when the PRC governmerrit
coerces us to act against our principles, isn't it in effect persecuting our conscience?
The steadfast endurance of Falun Gong practitioners, therefore, is not just
for their personal beliefs, but also for the purity of human conscience.
For almost four years, Falun Gong practitioners in China have been risk-
ing everything to send out information revealing the extensive and severe
human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. Due to space
limitations, we can only include a very small fraction of this information in our
report. We hope, however, that it will be enough to stir the conscience of the
international community to come to the aid of the victims.
Cover Photo:
A young girl holds a candle at a candlelight vigil in memory of practitioners killed in the crackdown on Falun Gong.
Since July 1999, when Chinese Chairman Jiang Zemin ordered "No measures are too excessive in exterminating Falun
Gong", reports of egregious human rights violations in police custody have continually emerged from China..
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Preface to the Falun Gong Report 2002
An Appeal to All Good People of the World
In March 2000, before the 56th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, we compiled a
report on the extensive and severe human rights violations against millions of Falun Gong practitioners by the
government of the People's Republic of China, hoping that the world would take notice and help to stop the bru-
tal persecution. We have since updated the report for each and every subsequent session of the Human Rights
Commission and its Sub -Commission.
What you are now reading is the fifth edition of the report — and the violent persecution has gone on for
almost three years, with minimal international intervention.
Although there are voices calling on the PRC government to stop the persecution, they have been far too
sporadic and are no match to the acquiescence the PRC government has received in the accession to the WTO,
the awarding of the 2008 Olympics, and the avoidance of human rights discussions in the name of the anti-ter-
rorist coalition.
With these rewards and licenses, the PRC government feels encouraged to inflict its reign of terror and
darkness. At the time of our first report two years ago, 39 Falun Gong practitioners had died of torture in police
custody. The number now exceeds 1,600.
The use of terror and extermination to quell a resistance is not a recent invention; however, the system-
atic use of it to goad people into "actively" acting against their conscience is the trademark of communist tyran-
ny, and the PRC regime has reached new depths in the extent and efficiency of its terrorism. Consistently through-
out its 50 years of rule and persecution, the PRC dictators have openly announced to the nation that only 5% of
the people are targeted, and that the other 95% are safe. This brings out the very worst of human nature --cling-
ing to the 95% side at any cost, even at the expense of friends and relatives, and closing their eyes to the rights of
the 5%. That 5%, of course, has been rotated so often that the whole nation has been repressed into submission.
This is exactly the intended effect of the PRC state terrorism: people acting against their conscience and looking
away from state evildoing. The unfortunate part of this crime against conscience is that it is self-perpetuating: the
more it goes on, the more people are hardened in act against their conscience.
This crime against conscience underlies the essence of the PRC government's persecution of Falun
Gong. Falun Gong is apolitical. Falun Gong practitioners only aspire to become the most peace -loving people they
can be through internal cultivation of personal integrity, courage, and universal love. This is what evildoers fear.
More than two years of persecution of Falun Gong in China, the extreme torture of hundreds of thou-
sands of Falun Gong practitioners, the killing of thousands of practitioners by the police, and the contrasting
peaceful insistence on their right to conscience by the courageous Falun Gong practitioners epitomizes human evil
against goodness in its most pure form.
Edmund Burke once said: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
In the hope that the world will intervene, we submit this report to you, the good people of the world.
The sole objective of the PRC government's persecution is to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce
their own conscience; in such, being evil is the real and only reason for its attack on conscience, no more, no less.
Some have rationalized that the government's persecution as a reaction to feeling threatened. We urge you to
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refrain from giving justification or excuse to the Chinese regime's brutality. The only proper action in the face of
a severe human rights violation is to act to put an immediate end to it.
The coercive methods used by the Chinese government against Falun Gong practitioners are of the most
heinous kind. Chinese president Jiang Zemin has heartlessly instructed his security police, "No measure is too
excessive against Falun Gong." We call out to all media and reporters: do not portray the PRC government's vio-
lent persecution and Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful petition as a contest of two equals, for there is a vast dif-
ference between the oppressors and the victims.
We call out to the good people of the world: the suffering and sacrifice of Falun Gong practitioners is
not just for themselves, but also for conscience and the benefit of humanity. From the pillorying of Jesus Christ's
disciples to Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel to Martin Luther King's marches to Nelson Mandela's transcend-
ing decades of incarceration, humanity has been given many examples of how the seemingly weak and vanquished
become alive and huge in the history book by virtue of their humility and steely conviction in conscience. Their
sufferings and peaceful initiatives ultimately become our most treasured heritage. This, in turn, has made the world
a better place to live for all of us.
History does repeat itself, and the world once again finds itself watching a peaceful group, this time Falun
Gong practitioners, enduring an evil power and continuing the journey to conscience.
We can choose to act, we can choose to watch, or we can choose to not choose. However, observing such
a trial of good people, deep in our hearts we ultimately are making a choice.
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Introduction
1. Murder and Execution
2. Sexual Violation
3. Torture
4. Psychiatric Torment
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6. Persecution Against Children
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INTRODUCTION
The Falun Gong Reports detail human rights violations committed by the government of the People's Republic of
China against practitioners of Falun Gong. In the following chapters, we seek to bring to you the severity of the more
than three years of violent persecution of Falun Gong. A brief introduction is given here to provide significant back-
ground information.
Falun Gong, a Practice That Has Benefited 100 Million People in Over 50 Countries
Falun Gong is an ancient form of qigong. Qigong, translated as cultivation -exercise, is the generic term for the
practice of mind and body refinement through special mental and physical exercises. Throughout the history of China
and some other parts of the world, numerous schools of qigong have existed, each with its own characteristics and
emphasis. Some schools have taken the form of religion, some are passed down from one master to only a few disci-
ples, and some have taken the form of popular exercises. Taichi and some branches of Yoga are examples of popular
exercises, while Buddhism and Taoism may be considered religious forms of qigong, with the former emphasizing mind
cultivation and meditation and the latter paying particular attention to body refinement through unique exercises.
Falun Gong distinguishes itself from other qigong practices by emphasizing both mind cultivation and body
refinement. Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, teaches his disciples that to achieve total health one must first
be a good person of supremely moral character. Following the Falun Gong principle of "Truthfulness -Benevolence -
Forbearance,' practitioners of Falun Gong devote themselves to the cultivation of their inner selves and the improve-
ment of their mental and moral quality. This, combined with five sets of gentle exercises of proven efficacy in health
improvement, has enabled practitioners to achieve purposeful living, morality, total health, and true happiness. As a'
testament to its superior benefits, Falun Gong had become a global phenomenon of over 100 million practitioners
across more than 40 countries by 1999, just seven years after its introduction to the public.
The Chinese Government's Increasing Hostility towards Falun Gong
The benefits of Falun Gong practice to the citizens and the society was originally recognized and commended
by various levels of the
Chinese government. In fact,
the positive regard from they
authorities had facilitated the
spread of Falun Gong in the
early 1990's. The state -coni
trolled media - including
national and local newspa1
pers, TV, and radio stations -
frequently covered activities
and benefits of Falun Gong
practice.
A morning practice site in Beijing before the persecution
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The increasing popu-
larity of Falun Gong, however,
proved to be too much fif a I
few officials within the
Chinese government. From
clandestine undermining(?in
early 1994, to the orchestrLt-
ed smear campaign and tithe
banning of Falun Gong books I
in 1996, to police harassment
in 1997, certain power blocs i
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within the Chinese government gradually escalated their underhanded persecution to overt assault. On April 23, 1999,
in broad daylight, armed police forces in Tianjin City violently assaulted hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners and
arbitrarily detained 45 of them.
The "April 25th Peaceful Petition"by Falun Gong Practitioners
Two days later, on April 25, 1999, over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered quietly in Beijing outside
the State Council Appeals Office, located within the Chinese leadership compound, to petition for the release of prac-
titioners who were detained in Tianjin and the lifting of the ban on Falun Gong books. The gathering was peaceful,
orderly, and lawful. After Premier Zhu Rongji met with a few of the gathered practitioners and ordered the release of
those detained in Tianjin, the practitioners quietly dispersed. Because of this gathering Falun Gong began to receive
international attention.
Jiang Zemin Ordered All-out Persecution
Chairman Jiang Zemin, however, resented the peaceful solution. Apparently seeking a resounding conquest to
augment his personal authority, on July 20, 1999, without due process, Jiang ordered the persecution against Falun
Gong to commence, despite the fact that many within the government were already either practitioners themselves or
held favorable views towards Falun Gong. Later, in October, Jiang ordered the Chinese national legislature to pass a law
to allow a tougher crackdown. The Washington Post noted in an article on November 2, 1999 that "When [China's
Communist leaders] found themselves without the laws they needed to vigorously persecute a peaceful meditation soci-
ety, the Party simply ordered up some new laws. Now these will be applied - retroactively, of course... By these stan-
dards, Stalin was a scrupulous observer of civil rights."
Since July 20, 1999, over 100,000 practitioners, including
pregnant women, the elderly, and young children, have been sent to
labor camps without trial; thousands have been illegally jailed, with the
longest term being 18 years; and millions of innocent residents have
been arrested and detained, almost all under inhumane conditions.
Shockingly, thousands of practitioners have been detained and severely
tortured with nerve -damaging drugs in mental hospitals. Thousands of
people have died in custody, while countless others are still unaccount-
ed for. Meanwhile, Jiang created a nationwide system of "610 Offices",
with absolute authority over the judiciary and all levels of the
Communist Party, expressly to eradicate Falun Gong. The scope and
severity of the atrocities are difficult to fathom.
A Staged Immolation and the Deception of World Opinion
Jiang's regime has also launched a far-reaching campaign of
misinformation about Falun Gong to justify its persecution and to
escape world condemnation. State-run media have flooded the printing
presses and airwaves with fabrications about Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun
Gong. As with all lies, the propagandists failed miserably in the details.
For example, the Chinese government made up claims that the practice
of Falun Gong caused 1,400 people to die or to become insane. This
number, even if assumed to be true, divided by 70 million practitioners,
would be many magnitudes below the national average. In another
example, the Chinese government claimed that Mr. Li Hongzhi had fal-
sified his date of birth, and even turned up a "hospital record" to prove
his mother was treated with oxytocin in 1952 before his birth.
Oxytocin, however, was not to be identified until 1953.
In early 2001, desperate to turn the tide, the Chinese govern-
ment attempted an outrageous stunt: a staged immolation of five people
in Tiananmen Square. The state-run media then blamed it on Falun
Gong. This staged -immolation, however, has been analyzedt by neutral
reporters and by careful observers of the same videotape that was pub -
Three plain -cloth police gang up on and assault a
female Falun Gong practitioner in Tiananmen Square
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lished by the Chinese government:
" An investigative story published by the Washington Post revealed that Ms. Liu Chunling, one of the "immolators;' had never
practiced Falun Gong;
" Police were mysteriously patrolling Tiananmen Square with dozens of pieces of firefighting equipment that day;
" Liu Siying, the 12 -year-old girl, was purported to have had a tracheotomy, but spoke and sang clearly, a medical impossibility;
" Ms. Hao Huijun, another immolator, was reported to have graduated from a Henan Music College in 1974, a year in the
Cultural Revolution when no students were graduated;
" Mr. Wang Jindong was shown to have been badly burned; however, the plastic 7 -UP bottle that he had "used to dowse gasoline"
remained miraculously intact.
(For an analysis of the CCTV footage of the staged immolations, please visit: http://www.faluninfo.net/tiananmen/immola-'
tion.asp)
The Power of Non -Violence
Facing extreme injustice and violence, the power of faith and nonviolence shines brightly. Since the persecution
began, millions of Falun Gong practitioners, some from foreign countries, have gone to Beijing to tell the government,'
"Falun Gong is good!" Millions remain true to their faith in Falun Gong's principle of "Truthfulness -Benevolences
Forbearance" when facing abuse, torture, and death. Falun Gong practitioners have always remained completely peace
ful. They remain peaceful during police beatings; they remain peaceful when inmates who are coerced by the police
torture them. Their great tolerance, compassion, and righteousness have even inspired many torturers to become Falun
Gong practitioners.
The Peaceful Petition of Falun Gong Practitioners and the Chinese People's Quest for Rights and
Dignity
It is important to point out that the Chinese government's persecution of Falun Gong is no deviation from its
50 years of continuous persecution of intellectuals, labor activists, dissidents, Christians, Buddhists, and other noncom
formists. Various studies by Western scholars have indicated that eighty million ore more lives have perished becaus:
of the non-stop persecution under the Chinese communist rule. These persecutions are all born of the same purpose:
the destruction of human nature.
The persecution of Falun Gong is still going on in China. However, the peaceful and persistent insistence on
their basic rights by Falun Gong practitioners is already transcending the historic plight of Chinese human rights. Their
request cannot be simpler: the right to do the Falun Gong exercises and to be good people following the principle: of
"Truthfulness -Benevolence -Forbearance." Their approach is peaceful, apolitical, and noble. Their suffering is helping
more and more people wake up to the Chinese government's heinous crimes against humanity.
Many Falun Gong practitioners have risked everything to publicize the violations they or fellow practitioners
have suffered. Their reports must not be taken lightly, lest the values of hope, courage, and the most fundamental
human rights be forsaken. In presenting these documents, we now ask you to speak for those who have no voice, tondo
all within your power to challenge the injustice and cruelty. I
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Murder and Execution
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Photo overleaf:
Young practitioners join a peaceful demonstration in memory of practitioners tortured to death in China.
In Chinese culture, white is a color of mourning.
This photo was taken in front of the United Nations building in Geneva on March 20, 2002, during the 58th session of the UN Commission on
Human Rights.
(AP photo)
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Murder and Execution
Beaten to Death for Belief in Falun Gong
Chen Zixiu, 1.11 female, 59, a villager of Xujia Small Village,
Beiguan Street, Weicheng District, Weifang City, Shandong
Province.
Ms. Chen Zixiu
On February 4, 2000, Ms. Chen Zixiu
went to Beijing to appeal to the govern-
ment to stop persecuting Falun Gong and
was arrested just for peacefully demon-
strating. On February 17, she was escort-
ed back to the Falun Gong Detention and
Transformation Center of Chengguan
Street in Weifang City, Shandong
Province. Ms. Chen was badly beaten and
tortured at the Center. Her screams of
anguish could be heard all night through-
out the building. Officials from the
Chengguan Street Committee beat her calves, feet, and lower
back with plastic truncheons and shocked her head and neck
with a cattle prod, according to witnesses. According to her cell -
mates, they shouted at Ms. Chen repeatedly to renounce Falun
Gong. Each time, Ms. Chen refused firmly.
On February 20, the officials again demanded that she
renounce her faith. Barely conscious after repeated jolts from
a cattle prod, Ms. Chen stubbornly shook her head. Enraged,
they ordered Ms. Chen to run barefoot in the snow. Two days of
torture had left her legs bruised and her short black hair mat-
ted with pus and blood, said cell mates and other prisoners
who witnessed the incident. She crawled outside, vomited, and
collapsed. She never regained consciousness and died on Feb.
21. The local party secretary told Ms. Zhang Xueling, Ms.
Chen's 32 -year-old daughter, and Zhang's brother that Ms.
Chen had died of a heart attack, but the officials wouldn't allow
them to see her body at first. Only on the second day were they
allowed to go to the hospital to see Ms. Chen's body. In a bag
tossed in the corner of the room, Ms. Zhang spotted her moth-
er's torn and bloodied clothes, the underwear badly soiled. The
evidence of brutal torture was clear; her calves were black. Six-
inch welts streaked along her back. Her teeth were broken. Her
ear was swollen and blue. Ms. Zhang and her brother tried fil-
ing a lawsuit, but no lawyer would accept the case. After she
disclosed the truth of her mother's death to western media,
Ms. Zhang was herself arrested and jailed, and her husband
was not allowed to visit her.
A Young Mother Died from Torture
Wu Jingxia, female, 29, resident of Gejia Village, Fangzi
District, Weifang City, Shandong Province.
Ms. Wu lingxia
On January 6, 2002, the police arrested Ms. Wu Jingxia
because she distributed Falun Gong flyers. Ms. Wu was sent to
a brainwashing class on January 18, and tortured to death
around 5:00 p.m. on January 19. A death notice was sent to
her family one day later. Many police officers monitored her
family members and relatives who came to pay their last
respects. Ms. Wu Jingxia's family members and relatives wit-
nessed the cuts and bruises that were visible all over her body.
They also noticed four or five deep depressions in her chest,
which were caused by electric batons. Ms. Wu's lower back and
thighs were beaten so severely that dark bruises covered
them, and one of her thighbones was fractured. With her face
covered in blood, it was difficult to recognize her. Ms. Wu left a
15 -month-old baby behind.
After Ms. Wu's death, offi-
cials from the Fenghuang Street
Administrative Office and Fangzi
District Police Department
placed her mother, her husband,
and all of her other relatives
under house arrest, and illegally
set surveillance systems to mon-
itor them around the clock.
Furthermore, the authorities
prohibited anyone from visiting
them. Nearby villages were also
warned not to talk about Ms.
Wu's death.
Ms. Wu and her son
1. The Wall Street Journal: May 8, 2000, Ian Johnson, "China Tells U.N. It Did No Wrong in Death of Falun Gong Member".
2. The Wall Street Journal: April 20, 2000, Ian Johnson, Staff Reporter, "Practicing Falun Gong Was a Right, Ms. Chen Said, up to Her Last Day"
3. Asia Wall Street Journal: April 23, 2000, Matt Forney, "China Detains Daughter Of Dead Falun Gong Follower"
4. The Wall Street Journal: April 26, 2000, "Falun Dafa Heroes"
5. The Boston Globe: May 22, 2000, Jeff Jacoby, Globe Staff, "Nothing Normal About China"
6. Jewish World Review: May 15, 2000, Nat Hentoff, "The China that tourists don't see"
7. China Reform Monitor No. 301, April 25, 2000, Al Santoli, Editor, "Jiang's Anti -Western Campaign vs. Intellectuals Detailed Torture -Death of 58 Year -Old Falun Gong Member
Described".
8. Human Rights in China: "Torture in China -UN Committee highlights gap between law and practice."
9. The Washington Post: April 26, 2002, "China's Rules"
10. Mobile Register: April 26, 2002, "China's government still brutalizes its own people."
11. Amnesty International Annual Report 2001.
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Murder and Execution
Two Mothers Tortured to Death within Three Days
at the Kuiwen District Detention Center
1. Lou Aiqing, 12-2° female, 34, employee of the Bureau for
Rural Business and Enterprise of Weifang City, Shandong
Province.
2. Xu Bing, 12-2° female, 33, employee of the Residential
Registration Office of the Public Security Bureau of Kuiwen
District, Weifang City, Shandong Province. She lived in the
west building of the Residential Hall for city employees on
Shengli Street.
Ms. Lou Aiqing
Ms. Lou and Ms. Xu had been
detained several times and dismissed
from work for practicing Falun Gong. At
approximately 7:00 p.m. on December
20, 2000, they were arrested while
posting self-adhesive Falun Gong
posters in Qingdao City. The police tor-
tured them to find out the source of the
materials. Later, the two were escorted
from Qingdao City back to Weifang City
and detained in the Kuiwen District
Detention Center.
At approximately 5:00 p.m. on December 25, the deten-
tion center informed Ms. Lou's family that she had died 36
hours earlier from a heart attack. When called to identify the
body, Ms. Lou's family noticed that there were several layers of
make-up on her face and that her body was covered with
wounds and bruises. Although her family took pictures of her
body, the police confiscated the film and forced Ms. Lou's fam-
ily to agree to cremate the body
immediately. Ms. Lou left an 11 -
year -old daughter behind.
Ms. Xu Bing
Within days, Ms. Xu was
also tortured to death at the
Kuiwen District Detention
Center. As with Ms. Lou's family,
the police forced Ms. Xu's family
to agree to cremate the body as
soon as possible; she was cre-
mated on Dec. 28, 2000. Ms. Xu
left an 8 -year-old son behind.
Guo Ping Died from Force -Feeding
Guo Ping, female, 27, resident of Huangjiazhuang Village,
Weizhou Road, Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Shandong
Province.
Ms. Guo Ping
On December 29, 2001, several policemen from the
Ershilipu Police Station of Kuiwen District broke into Ms. Guo
Ping's home and arrested her and her husband, Mr. Liu.
Peidong. The police confiscated all of their belongings and
jailed them at the Kuiwen Detention Center of Weifang City. MsJ
Guo went on a hunger strike to protest her abduction and ille
gal detention; consequently, she was force-fed by incompetent
guards, which resulted in her suffering from a ruptured stom!
ach and severe internal bleeding.
I
On May 15, 2002, when she had been tortured to the
point of being near death, she was sent to the internal medi-
cine department of the No. 2 People's Hospital of Weifang City
for emergency rescue. She was handcuffed even during the
emergency rescue proceedings while several policemen guard-
ed the room. With blood coming from her mouth, her eyes star
ing blankly, and with her hands, feet, and face swollen, she
eventually lost consciousness. She passed away at 9:00 p.m!
on the evening of May 17, 2002. There were 8 to 9 plainclothes
policemen inside the hospital gate at 10 p.m. that night, and
the courtyard was filled with police cars. Ms. Guo's husbar;d
witnessed his wife's swollen hands and feet. After he was sent
back to the detention center, he also started a hunger strike to
protest the police's inhumane, brutal torture.
12. World Journal: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Beaten to Death in Shandong Province and Sichuan Province"
13. Guardian Unlimited: January 3, 2001, "Four more Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Custody in China"
14. Voice of America: January 2, 2001, "More Falun Gong Followers Die in Detention"
15. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Custody in China"
16. Washington Post: January 2, 2001, "China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members"
17. BBC: January 2, 2001, "Falun Gong members die after beating"
18. Central News Agency: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death"
19. Radio Free Asia: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Shandong Province and Sichuan Province"
20. Reuters: January 2, 2001, "China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members"
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Murder and Execution
A Young Mother Died from Year -Long Torture
Tortured to Death and Cremated
without Family Consent
Wu Lingxia, female, 37, resident of Shuangyashan City, Zhi Guixiang, female, 31, resident of Daling Town, Gongzhuling
Heilongjiang Province. City, Jilin Province.
Ms. Wu Lingxia and her son
Ms. Wu Lingxia went to Beijing twice to appeal for an end
to the persecution of Falun Gong. That gave the local police of
Changchun City, Jilin Province the official excuse to arrest her
and extort money from her family. Although they kept Ms. Wu
in custody, the police often went to her home to harass her
family. Unable to withstand the policemen's constant hound-
ing, Ms. Wu's husband divorced her. When Ms. Wu was finally
released, she returned to her hometown of Shuangyashan City.
However, when the local Shuangyashan City police were
informed of her return, they began to harass her. They repeat-
edly detained, interrogated, and extorted money from her
because of her refusal to give up practicing Falun Gong.
In May 2001, some police arrested Ms. Wu while she was
visiting a fellow practitioner. They sent her to the
Shuangyashan Detention Center. On July 2, 2001 she was
transferred to the Xigemu Labor Center in Jiamusi City, where
she was severely tortured for long periods of time. When her
condition worsened,
she was given no
medical attention. As
a result, she contract-
ed hepatocirrhosis
and ascites. She was
sent home dying in
July 2002; that year of
torture had physically
destroyed her.
Wu Lingxia after her release from the
Shuangyashen Detention Center
When Ms. Wu
passed away on July
27, 2002, festering
scars covered her
body, and there was
severe edema in her
abdomen. She left
behind a teenage son
and aged parents.
Ms. Zhi Guixiang
On the morning of July 19, 2002, police arrested Ms. Zhi
Guixiang while she was taking a walk. At the Zhengyang Police
Station the police tortured her, trying to force her to disclose
information about other Falun Gong practitioners. On July 20,
some people who were visiting the police station noticed that
she was in poor physical condition and hardly had the strength
to talk. She told them that she had suffered internal injuries
from being beaten. On July 25, Ms. Zhi's condition had deteri-
orated until she was on the verge of death. That afternoon, Zhu
Zhishan, the policeman who handled Ms. Zhi's case, went to
her parents' home in Daling Town of Gongzhuling City, and told
them about Ms. Zhi's arrest, but did not mention her condition.
Ms. Zhi's mother requested to see her daughter. Zhu Zhishan
replied, "That is not going to happen. You are not allowed to
see her."
On July 27, Ms. Zhi died from the brutal torture. Later, Zhu
Zhishan claimed that she died due to being on a hunger strike
at the China and Japan Fellowship Hospital. When Ms. Zhi's
family went to the hospital, however, no one could find her
medical records. On July 31, without the knowledge or consent
of her family, Zhu Zhishan had Ms. Zhi's body secretly cremat-
ed at the Shuangfeng Crematory, and Zhu signed the crema-
tion certificate as a trustee. Ms. Zhi's family was not made
aware of any of these circumstances at that time. On August
13th and 14th, Ms. Zhi's parents went to see Zhu Zhishan
twice and demanded information about their daughter's
whereabouts. Zhu blatantly lied and claimed, "Ms. Zhi ran
away."
On August 15, Ms. Zhi's family discovered Zhu Zhishan's
signature on the cremation certificate form at the Shuangfeng
Crematory and he finally admitted to the facts, but he said, "Go
ahead and sue me whenever you want. I'm not afraid! The gov-
ernment made me do this."
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Murder and Execution
Dead after Three Years of Physical and
Psychological Torture
Zou Guirong, female, 36, a worker at Xinbin County's Public
Highway System in Fushun City, Liaoning Province.
Ms. Zou Guirong
Because Ms. Zou Guirong went to Beijing in 1999 to
appeal to the central government to stop persecuting Falun
Gong, she was sentenced to one and a half years of forced
labor at Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp in Fushun City. Guard
Jiang Yongfeng beat her. She was later transferred to Masanjia
Forced Labor Camp, where she suffered more torture and
abuse. After that, she was sent to Zhangshi Forced Labor
Camp, where Deputy Director Chen, together with other
guards, tortured her around the clock. They took turns beating
Ms. Zou and didn't allow her to sleep for several days and
nights.
Later, Ms. Zou was transferred to Shenxin Forced Labor
Camp, where she protested her illegal detention with a hunger
strike. By this time her original sentence had long expired. In
May 2001, Ms. Zou was sent to Shenyang City's Dabei
Underground Prison Hospital, where she was again brutally tor-
tured. On August 10, 2001, when Ms. Zou was on the verge of
death, her family was allowed to take her home. However, Song
Junlin, the Political and Legal Committee Secretary of Xinbin
County, instigated the local police to break into Ms. Zou's home
and take her away by force. She was then secretly transferred
to Fushun City's Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp again. Led by
Police Division Chief Wu Wei, the guards used many kinds of
brutal physical and psychological torture in an attempt to break
Ms. Zou so that she would renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Zou even-
tually succumbed to the continuous torture. She died in early
April of 2002.
Que Fazhi Died from Torture
Que Fazhi, female, 49, resident of Shuitang Village, Panlian
Town, Miyi County in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province.
On June 1, 2002, Ms.
Que Fazhi went to Beijing to
appeal to the government to
stop persecuting Falun
Gong. The Beijing police
arrested her on June 3. The
police took Ms. Que to a
basement and tortured her
savagely for the next twelve
days. Only when she was on
the verge of
death did the
police send
her back to
the Miyi
County Police
Department.
By the
time she was
sent back to
Ms. Que Fazhi before her death.
Ms. Que's swollen leg and arm due to torture
the local police department, in the middle of June, she had lost
the ability to take care of herself. When she was sent back
home on June 28, her whole body was swollen, she had diff-
culty breathing, and she could not sleep. She remained in
extreme pain until she passed away on October 30, 2002.
Tortured to Death by Punitive Force -Feeding
Liu Guimin 21, female, 35, resident of Dougezhuang Villagb,
Jugezhuang Town, Miyun County, Beijing
On December 31, 2000, Ms. Liu Guimin went to
Tiananmen Square to appeal to the Chinese government to
stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained
at the Haidian Detention Center, Beijing.
She went on a hunger strike to protest her detention. The
police brutally force-fed her, inflicting severe trauma, which
resulted in internal bleeding. Because of her critical condition,
police feared that she would die at the detention center, so on
January 5, 2001, they took her back home. In an attempito
save her, her family brought her to the hospital. However,Ithe
rescue effort was unsuccessful, and on January 7, 2000, she
passed away. Right before she died, she vomited a great
amount of blood, which had accumulated in her lungs due to
the extreme damage caused by the punitive force-feeding at
the detention center.
21. AFP: January 11, 2000, "Chinese Police Blamed for Deaths of Three Falun Gong Women"
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Murder and Execution
Beaten to Death: the First Published Death Case
Zhao Jinhua, 22-28 female, 42, a farmer from Zhaojia Village,
Zhangxing Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.
On September 29, 1999, Ms. Zhao Jinhua was arrested
while working in her fields, because the police had found out
that she was a Falun Gong practitioner. The police officers
detained and tortured her.
On October 1, 1999, a group of policemen, led by Assistant
Chief Sun Shixun from the Zhangxing Town Police Station,
Zhaoyuan City, burst into the cell Ms. Zhao shared with other
practitioners, beat them with their fists and rubber clubs,
kicked them, and shocked them with electric batons. During
the torture, Ms. Zhao lost consciousness three times, but they
revived her so they could continue the beating. Finally she col-
lapsed. She was taken to the hospital, given some injections,
and then returned to the detention center.
Ms. Zhao had blood in her urine and her whole body was
in constant pain. Her body was covered with bruises from the
neck down. She had difficulty breathing and could not eat. The
whole right side of her body was numb, and she could not walk.
On October 7, she collapsed again, and died shortly after she
was sent to the emergency room.
An autopsy, carried out on October 8 by medical experts
from Zhaoyuan City and Yantai City in Shandong Province,
found that Ms. Zhao had wounds and bruises on many parts of
her body. The autopsy report indicated that her death had
been caused by beatings with blunt instruments. The police
had her body cremated before her family members could
retrieve it from the detention center.
Mortally Injured with Force -Feeding Tube
Mei Yulan, 23-24 female, 44, resident of Chaoyang District,
Beijing.
On May 13, 2000, Ms. Mei Yulan was arrested and arbi-
trarily detained in Nutong Cell #607, Chaoyang District
Detention Center, Beijing, merely because she did the Falun
Gong exercises in front of her home. Ms. Mei, along with sever-
al other detained Falun Gong practitioners, started a hunger
strike in order to obtain their unconditional release and the
right to practice Falun Gong. To torture them, the guards of the
Chaoyang District Detention Center started force-feeding these
practitioners with over -saturated salt water and soymilk.
Instead of having an experienced person perform the force -
feedings, the guards ordered the criminals in custody to do it,
which resulted in severe internal damage to the practitioners.
On the morning of May 17, 2000, the guards once again
dragged Ms. Mei out of her cell and force-fed her. Her scream-
ing could be heard in the surrounding cells. On the night of May
18, 2000, she developed a severe headache and began to suf-
focate. Gradually her hands and feet became cold and her eyes
stopped moving. Later, Ms. Mei was taken to the emergency
room of the Civil Aviation Hospital.
On May 22, 2000, two practitioners went to visit Ms. Mei
in the hospital and found her eyes were covered with white
tape. They called her name three times but there was no
response. Her chest heaved up and down with the assistance
of a machine. When the visitors inquired about Ms. Mei's situ-
ation, the doctor only said that Ms. Mei was a "special" patient
and all information was to remain confidential by order of the
authorities.
At 4:10 p.m., on May 23, 2000, Ms. Mei passed away in
the hospital as a direct result of the force-feeding.
22. AP: December 29, 1999, "China Sends Falun Gong Members to Labor Camps"
23. AP: May 03, 2000, "China Ignoring Jail Torture"
24. AFP: April 20, 2000, "Three more Falun Gong followers die in police custody
25. AFP: April 25, 2000, "Another Falun Gong Member Beaten to Death"
26. M2 Presswire: May 5, 2000, China -- "Torture in China under the spotlight at the UN"
27. Amnesty International, Public document, Al Index: ASA 17/54/99,October 22, 1999: "People's Republic of China reports of torture and ill treatment of followers of Falun
Gong"
28. "Violence against Women in China's Crackdown on Falun Gong Practitioners", presented by Freedom House in 56th Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
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Murder and Execution
Two Practitioners Killed Via Lethal Drugs at
Maojiashan Female Forced Labor Camp
Zhou Chengyu, female, 55, was the manager of the Yuzhou
University Library in Chongqing City, Sichuan Province.
Ms. Zhou Chengyu
Near the end of November 2000,
Ms. Zhou Chengyu was arrested in the
Chongqing Train Station on her way to
Beijing to appeal to the central govern-
ment to stop the persecution of Falun
Gong. She was sent directly to the
Chongqing Shapingba Public Security
Sub -Bureau and forced to attend an
anti -Falun Gong brainwashing class.
On February 9, 2001, because
Ms. Zhou refused to write a statement
renouncing Falun Gong, she was sen-
tenced to two years of forced labor and
sent to the Maojiashan Women's Labor Camp in the Jiangbei
District of Chongqing City. There, she was deprived of sleep
from August 24 to 28, 2001, and was forcibly injected with
unknown drugs. At around 1:00 a.m. on September 29, the
labor camp notified Ms. Zhou's family that she had been sent
to the hospital for emergency treatment.
When her family arrived at the hospital, they saw her vom-
iting blood and gradually losing consciousness. At 6:20 a.m.
on September 29, 2001, Ms. Zhou died in the hospital. The
labor camp officials did not provide an autopsy report or any
explanation of Ms. Zhou's sudden and untimely death.
Wang Jiqin, female, 29, resident of Chongqing City, was
arrested by the Chongqing City Police because she refused to
renounce Falun Gong. On July 29, 2000, she was unlawfully
taken to the Chongqing City
Maojiashan Female Forced Labor
Camp and sentenced to two years of
hard labor. There, she was subjected to
the cruelest mental and physical tor-
tures. As a result, her health deteriorat-
ed daily, her weight dropped, and she
could no longer look after herself. In
the name of treating her "illnesses,"
the camp police ordered 7 or 8
inmates who were drug addicts to
force-feed her with an unknown drug,
which caused her to lapse into a coma.
Ms. Wang Jiqin
Seeing that Ms. Wang was near death, the labor camp
sent her home in order to avoid responsibility. After returning
home, Ms. Wang remained in critical condition, spitting up
blood and passing blood in her stool. Her limbs became
extremely weak. She also had difficulty breathing, coughed,
vomited, and had diarrhea. She felt sharp pains in her
abdomen due to ascites (accumulation of serous fluid in the
abdomen), and she could not sleep at night. On September
23, 2002, Ms. Wang died.
Died from Injuries to Internal Organs
Zheng Fangying, 29 female, 54, resident of Beiwei Village,
Weifang City, Shandong Province.
Ms. Zheng Fangying
On December 2, 2001, Ms. Zheng Fangying traveled tb
Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, and was
arrested in Tiananmen Square. In the Square, the police
knocked Ms. Zheng down and beat her severely. They took heti
to a police station, where they repeatedly beat and shocked
her with a high-voltage electric baton. The cruel torture resul}-:
ed in severe injuries to her internal organs. Later, she was
locked in a small, solitary cell. Ms. Zheng then went on hunger
r
strike for eighteen days to protest the torture. The police beat
Ms. Zheng so frequently that she could not walk or relieve hen
self when she was conscious. She was in critical condition due
to such abuse.
Aware that they had mortally injured Ms. Zheng, the police
put her onto a train to Jinan City to avoid the responsibility of
having her die at the police station. After arriving at the Jinan
Railway Station, Ms. Zheng painstakingly got out the train, but
was too weak to move on. A kind-hearted young man helped
her to her home.
Upon her arrival at home, Ms. Zheng's family members
found that two of her teeth that had been knocked out we're
still hanging in her mouth by her gum flesh. Her whole
abdomen area was dark brown, and there were bruises all over
her body. When they tried to help her onto a bed, they could
even hear the sound of broken pieces of her internal organs
moving against each other. Three days after her return, Ms.
Zheng died with her eyes and mouth open.
29. PRIMA NEWS AGENCY: January 21, 2002, "Believers killed in China"
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Murder and Execution
Died after Six Months of Suffering with Broken Neck A High School Teacher Tortured to Death
Zhao Xin, 30-37 female, 32, resident of Beijing, teacher at the
Beijing University of Business and Industry.
On June 19, 2001, Ms. Zhao Xin practiced Falun Gong
excercises in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing.
She was arrested by the park police
merely for practicing the exercises. She
was sent to the Zizhuyuan Police Station
in Beijing and then taken by police
escort to the Qinghe Detention Center of
the Haidian Police Department in
Beijing.
Ms. Zhao Xin
In the detention center, the officers,
led by Officer Bai Gang, severely beat
and tortured her because she refused to
renounce her practice of Falun Gong.
They kicked her body and punched her face violently, inflicting
injuries to her head and left eye and causing her to suffer great
pain. Ms. Zhao went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreat-
ment. However, the officers caused her further anguish and
physical trauma by force-feeding her, and beating her with a
heavy object. The brutal beating resulted in the fracture of
three of her neck vertebrae.
Zhao Xin was hospitalized
She was rushed to the
Haidian Hospital in critical
condition, still in shackles
and handcuffs. The police
made the hospital perform
surgery on her without
informing her family. After
the surgery, she was para-
lyzed from the neck down.
After having caused such a
massively crippling injury,
the Haidian Police
Department released Ms.
Zhao to her family. Despite
the efforts to save Ms. Zhao,
she died from injuries sus-
tained while in custody. She
struggled with extreme pain
and suffering for six months before passing away on December
12, 2001.
Sun Hongyan, 30 female, teacher of the Second High School in
Liaozhong County, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
Ms. Sun Hongyan
In July 1999, Ms. Sun Hongyan went to appeal to the cen-
tral government to stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
Consequently, she was removed from her teaching position by
the school authorities.
On August 1, 2000, Ms. Sun Hongyan was sent to the
Longshan Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
While she was in detention, Ba Qijin, the principal of her
school, led some school employees to ransack Ms. Sun's
home. They confiscated Falun Gong materials, along with
3,000 Yuan. In addition, labor camp authorities fined her
13,000 Yuan. Ms. Sun went on a hunger strike twice to protest
the maltreatment. In response, labor camp guards beat and
force-fed her. Since Ms. Sun refused to denounce Falun Gong,
in November 2000, she was placed in solitary confinement.
In February 2001, the authorities sent her to the No. 463
Hospital in Shenyang City. In late February 2001, Ms. Sun was
transferred to Shenyang Dabei Jail Hospital, where she was
locked in the basement and frequently beaten. She was also
injected with unknown drugs. As a result of this torture, she
could not sit up by herself and lost control of her bowels. Two
weeks later, she was released, at which time she was covered
with open wounds and barely conscious. She died in April
2001.
30. AP: April 13, 2001, "Falun Gong Says More Followers Die"
31. BBC News: December 13, 2000, "Falun Gong member dies after beating"
32. Dallas News: "[group] member's death mourned in China"
33. AFP: December 12, 2000, "Falungong woman dies six months after Chinese police beating"
34. San Jose Mercury News: December 21,2000, LA. CHUNG, Staff Columnist, "Falun Gong devotees stay visible with vigil at Chinese consulate"
35. AP: December 13, 2000, Christopher Bodeen, "Hundreds attend funeral of banned Chinese [group] member"
36. Boston Globe: December 17, 2000, David Abel, Globe Staff, "Falun Gong members rally in Boston"
37. The Metro: Jason Loftus, "Fears Unfounded About Falun Gong"
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Murder and Execution
Li Jiju Beaten to Death During Interrogation
Li Jiju, 38 female, 37, resident of Xifan Village, Macheng City,
Hubei Province.
Ms. Li Jiju
At noon on May 15, 2002,
Macheng City police broke into Ms. Li
Jiju's home by climbing over a wall.
When Ms. Li protested the unlawful
break-in, over ten policemen brutally
beat her, breaking one of her ribs. The
policemen then dragged Ms. Li to the
Macheng No. 2 Detention Center,
where they continued their beating.
At the Macheng No.2 Detention
Center, Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to
protest her illegal detention. On May 20,
the Macheng City Disciplinary Committee Secretary, Li
Shengguo, the Macheng Police Department Section 1 Chief,
Yang Gandun, and Yan Wenshan secretly took Ms. Li to the
Longchi Police Station to interrogate her. During the interroga-
tion, the police beat her until she stopped breathing. Ms. Li's
eyes were wide open when she died. There were bruises all
over her body, many of her bones were fractured, and signs of
strangulation were visible on her neck.
To deceive the public, the Macheng City authorities
claimed that Ms. Li had committed suicide by jumping out of a
building. Moreover, they sent policemen to intimidate Ms. Li's
relatives and friends, threatening them with arrest if they
asked questions or spoke out. At the same time, many Falun
Gong practitioners' homes in Macheng City were under surveil-
lance and they were warned not to get in touch with each other.
On the day that Ms. Li's body was placed in the crematory,
the police department drove all of the crematory staff mem-
bers out of the building, replacing them with dozens of police-
men who were stationed there to guard Ms. Li's body. The
police would not allow Ms. Li's family members or friends to get
near the crematory. Someone tried to take pictures of the body,
but was then viciously beaten, and the film was destroyed.
The following day, the police department dispatched sever-
al hundred policemen to the crematory. Over two hundred
policemen, including plainclothes officers, were positioned
along the way leading from Ms. Li's home to the crematory.
Later, Ms. Li's family members and relatives were put under
house arrest; they were not allowed to talk to anyone. The
police said they would appoint a medical examiner to investi-
gate the cause of Ms. Li's death. However, none of the medical
examiners from Macheng City or Ms. Li's residential area wrote
a report about Ms. Li's death after they examined the body. In
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the end, the police department cremated Ms. Li's body. They
gave Ms. Li's family members 32,000 Yuan to buy their silence
about the truth of her death.
Tortured to Death while in Police Custody
Liu Zhi, female, 61 years old, resident of Jinzhou City, Liaoning
Province, address: Building 67-73, Jintie Street, Linghe District,
Jinzhou City.
Ms. Liu Zhi
After Falun Gong was banned on July 20, 1999, Ms. Liu Zhi
went to Beijing three times to appeal to the government to stop
persecuting Falun Gong. Simply because of these peaceful
appeals, in May 2000, she was sentenced to one year of forced
labor at the Masanjia Labor Camp. She was released the day
before New Year's Eve, 2001.
However, in May 2002, five policemen from the Jinzhou
City Police Department arrested her. They beat and interrogatl
ed her for an entire day. They released her only after extorting
2,000 Yuan from her husband. On the morning of August 201
2002, policeman Li Changmin and five others from the Jintie
Police Station broke into Ms. Liu's home and arrested her, not
even allowing her to put on her shoes and coat.
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On August 25, 2002, Jinzhou City "610 Office" Director L u
and personnel from the Local Residential Committee notified
Ms. Liu's family that she had died in police custody. The police
refused to allow Ms. Liu's family members to do any sort of
investigation. Deputy police department Chief Zhang Yinggen
ordered Ms. Liu's cremation without obtaining her family mem-
bers' signature or consent. Ms. Liu's ashes were not even
returned to her family.
Murder and Execution
Force -Fed, Injected With Harmful Drug,
Then Tortured to Death
Zhang Dezhen, female, 38, single, a teacher at Mengyin
County No. 6 Middle School, a resident of Xiezhuang Village,
Jiuzhai Township, Mengyin County, Shandong Province.
Ms. Zhang Dezhen
Ms. Zhang Dezhen had been arrested several times for
going to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of
Falun Gong. In January 2000, Mengyin County Police detained
her for more than two months. During the detention, she was
severely beaten, and was forced to sit in the snow while she
was menstruating. Starting at the end of December 2000, Ms.
Zhang was detained for over four months, first in a brainwash-
ing class and then at the Mengyin County Detention Center.
In April 2001, she was illegally sentenced to four years of
forced labor at Jinan Female Forced Labor Camp. Thirteen days
later, having failed a physical examination, she was sent back
home. After she returned home, the principal of the Mengyin
County No. 6 Middle School continued to harass her. Ten days
later, Ms. Zhang left home; she became destitute and home-
less in order to avoid illegal arrest and torture.
In October 2001, Ms. Zhang was illegally arrested by secu-
rity guards in Xintaixie Village Mine. She was then detained in
a brainwashing class in Mengyin County for over three months,
where she was frequently beaten and tortured severely and not
permitted to bathe or meet with her relatives. Her sister tried
to visit her there once, and the "610 Office" then detained her
as well for over one month.
Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strikes three times to protest
her illegal detention, and the guards ordered that she be force-
fed by the Mengyin County Traditional Medicine Hospital. The
feeding tube punched through her throat, causing her condi-
tion to weaken and endangering her life. Afraid that Ms. Zhang
could die, the "610 Office" asked her family to take her home.
After Ms. Zhang recovered she left home again, attempting
to escape imminent re -arrest by the local "610 Office." On
September 19, 2002 the Mengyin County "610 Office" and
Mengyin County Police arrested her again. She was sent to the
"610 Office" brainwashing center, and then to the Mengyin
Detention Center. During this detention, Ms. Zhang again went
on hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention. She was
force-fed many times at the Mengyin County Traditional
Medicine Hospital. On January 31, 2003, Ms. Zhang was inject-
ed with a drug that makes one feel hot and dry. Taking small
doses of this drug makes one feel hungry and thirsty, while
large doses of the drug cause heart failure and difficulty in
breathing. Ms. Zhang eventually passed away.
On the same day, Ms. Zhang's family members were
instructed to meet with "610 Office" representatives. Her
brother, Mr. Zhang Dewen, and her nephew were taken direct-
ly to the funeral home. At this time, rigor mortis had already set
in, indicating that she had died some time before. Ms. Zhang's
body was very emaciated and curled up, with wounds on top of
wounds all over her body. The Mengyin County "610 Office"
attempted to force Mr. Zhang to sign a slip releasing the body
for cremation, but he refused. As a result, Mr. Zhang was beat-
en brutally. He yielded and tearfully signed the slip.
After Ms. Zhang's death, no court-appointed doctor per-
formed an autopsy and no family member was allowed to
attend the cremation. To cover up their act of murder, the
police spread lies that Ms. Zhang had died of a heart attack.
Hung up for Half a Month, Causing
Paralysis and Death
Xing Xiuqin, female, 61, teacher, resident of Beima Village,
Songlindian Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province.
Ms. Xing Xiuqin had been a teacher for over 30 years.
Because she would not give up practicing Falun Gong, she was
constantly monitored and had no freedom for three years. Her
pension was stopped, and she was fined and detained many
times.
At around 8:00 p.m. on September 15, 2002, Ms. Xing was
forcibly taken from her home and sent to Songlindian Police
Station for brainwashing. Because she refused to give up her
belief in Falun Gong, she was handcuffed to a tree for three
days and nights. Afterwards, she was hung with her feet off the
ground for half a month, and as a result, she became paralyzed
in her lower body. While in detention, she was denied family
visitation. At about 4:00 p.m. on November 16, 2002, the
police asked her family members to pick her up and take her
home. When they arrived, she was already cold all over her
body. She died at around 4:00 a.m. the next morning. When
her family members went to the town government to find out
the reason for her death, the officials refused to meet with
them.
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Murder and Execution
Ribs Broken, Force -Fed, and Killed
Liao Zhaoqi, female, 57, former Party Secretary at the Institute
of Women and Children's Health of Qionglai City, Sichuan
Province.
After July 20, 1999, the police and higher authorities
harassed Ms. Liao Zhaoqi almost daily, placing her under sur-
veillance and trying to force her to write a letter renouncing
Falun Gong. In June 2000, she went to the appeals office of
the State Department to appeal and to clarify the facts about
Falun Gong. She also went to Tiananmen Square. As a result,
she was illegally detained for over 40 days and expelled from
the Communist Party. Late in 2000, to prevent her from clari-
fying the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, the
authorities attempted to arrest her, stopped her pay, and dis-
missed her from her job. She had to leave her home and go
from place to place in order to avoid illegal arrest and torture.
At about 5 a.m. on September 25, 2002, the police from
the Dayi Police Department broke into the home of Ms. Chen
Guiying (female, over 60 years old) on Xiaoxi Street of Jinyuan
Town and forcibly arrested Ms. Chen Guiying, Ms. Liao Zhaoqi,
Ms. Dong Yuying, and two male practitioners (both in their
20s), who were doing the Falun Gong exercises. They confis-
cated all of the Falun Gong books, pictures, VCDs, 3,500 Yuan
of personal savings, and other personal belongings of Ms.
Chen Guiying.
The police then tried to force Ms. Liao Zhaoqi to tell them
the source of the Falun Gong materials. Ms. Liao started a
hunger strike to protest her illegal arrest. As a result, the police
force-fed her. They pried her teeth open, causing necrosis
inside her mouth during the forced -feeding. To leave no obvi-
ous marks of injury, the police beat her brutally on the chest,
which resulted in broken ribs and other internal injuries. The
police also forcibly injected her with harmful drugs. Ms. Liao's
body and mind suffered tremendously. According to the police,
on the eveninglof October 3, 2002, she started to exhibit a
state of shock. She died in the emergency room after rescue
attempts failed. Police then tried to conceal the murder and
the details of her death.
When Ms. Liao's family members hurried to the Dayi
County Police Department and requested to see Ms. Liao's
body, the chief of Section 1 told them that she was already out
of the hospital and had been sent to a crematory a long time
ago. The director of the Dayi Police Department, the
Procurator, the chief of Section 1, and the medical examiner,
Sun Dahong of the Chengdu Police Department, meticulously
covered up the murder. They unreasonably requested that her
family members not take pictures of her body and not hold a
memorial service. If the family did not comply with this
request, they would not be allowed to see her body.
After much effort, her family members were finally allowed
to see her frozen body in the funeral parlor. Her face was pur-
plish blue, her eyeballs were protruding from her face, there
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were clear handcuff marks on both of her hands, the inner sur-
face of her right hand was mangled, there were clear bruise
marks on her cheek close to her right ear, and some other
places had purplish -blue needle -pierced holes. Medical exam-
iner Sun Dahong did a surface check of the body while other
people took pictures and made written records.
When her family members saw the blood marks around
her mouth and requested a re-examination, the medical exam-
iner found many excuses to turn down the request, attempting
to end the process without a careful re-examination. Because
of the persistent request of her family members, the medical
examiner cut open her chest and found that many of her ribs
were broken. Sun, the medical examiner, tried very hard to
cover it up. In particular, Sun lied about the 5th to 7th right
ribs, which were clearly broken. He depicted the problem as
"ossification." Her family members requested a written report
on the medical examination. Not only their request refused,
but Ms. Liao's son was also forced to sign on a document waiv-
ing further medical examination so that they could avoid any
responsibility.
Force -Fed Mustard Oil and Suffocated to Death
Li Hongmin, female, 60, resident of Mudanjiang City,
Heilongjiang Province.
Ms. Li Hongmin
.j
On the morning of September 16, 2002, Ms. Li was arrest
ed while she was distributing Falun Gong materials. She was
detained at the Mudanjiang City Police Bureau and tortured to
death the following day. On September 18, Ms. Li's family aril
workplace were informed of her death. Her body was cremat-
ed on September 19.
'I
According to people who knew the details of Ms. Li's
death, Ms. Li was force-fed a bottle of mustard oil. Right after
the force-feeding, her head was covered with plastic bags that
were tightly closed around her neck, causing Ms. Li to suffo-
cate to death. In order to hide their responsibility, the police
threw her corpse off of a building, and then claimed that slie
had committed suicide. Afterwards, the police department
threatened her family, asked them not to reveal the news&
her death, but rather to claim that Ms. Li went on a trip to visit
relatives, and that she was not dead.
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Murder and Execution
Suffocated while Trapped in an Overcrowded Cell
Zhang Tieyan, 3941 female, 29, resident of Daqing City,
Heilongjiang Province, worked at a Heilongjiang petroleum oil
factory (Daqing City's Lama Dianhua Factory).
Ms. Zhang Tieyan
Because Ms. Zhang Tieyan refused
to renounce Falun Gong, on April 19,
2000, her work unit placed her under
house arrest for 3 days. On April 21,
2000, she was sent to the Ranghu
Street Detention Center for 15 days. On
May 5, she was taken to the Saertu
District Detention Center. While
detained, all she was given to eat was
sorghum with salt water, so she became
very weak. In the sweltering heat of
summer, she was locked in a window-
less room that was just over 10 square meters in size, along
with 14 to 15 other people. The lack of fresh air caused her to
have breathing difficulties.
Every day in the detention center, detainees got dizzy, felt
nauseated, got confused, and lost strength in their limbs,
because of the lack of oxygen. Sometimes they fainted and
had to be carried away. At 5:30 a.m. on August 11, 2000, Ms.
Zhang was heard screaming in pain. She was suffocating.
While her limbs convulsed, her face turned green and her eyes
turned pale. Within moments she had no pulse. The guards
sent her to the Xincun People's Hospital. The cardiograph
showed a straight line; she had died. Then the police ordered
the hospital to give a false diagnosis of heart failure.
Tortured to Death at the Fushun City
Detention Center
Liang Suyun, female, 37, resident of Fushun City, Liaoning
Province.
Ms. Liang Suyun was detained in the No. 1 Detention
Center in Fushun City because she had gone to Beijing to
appeal for an end to the
persecution of Falun Gong.
She suffered vicious tor-
ture while in detention. On
March 17, 2002, with
wounds all over her body,
and still wearing handcuffs,
Ms. Liang was sent to the
Petroleum Hospital for
emergency resuscitation.
she died in the hospital.
Ms. Liang's photo ID
English Teacher Died of Inhuman Torture
Zhou Wenjie, female, 40, was an English teacher at Dongfeng
County's No. 2 Middle School in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province.
On October 11, 1999, Ms
Zhou Wenjie was sentenced to a
one-year term in Heizuizi Women's
Forced Labor Camp in Changchun
City, Jilin Province. She was sen-
tenced because she had gone to
Beijing to appeal to the govern-
ment to stop persecuting Falun
Gong. Because she refused to
give up her practice of Falun
Gong, the labor camp extended
her term for another year. Ms.
Zhou went on a hunger strike to
protest her maltreatment and was
punished with punitive force-feed-
ing, which is widely used in labor
camps as a means of torturing Falun Gong practitioners.
Ms. Zhou Wenjie
The force-feeding was so violent that several of her teeth
were broken. The camp police handcuffed her arms behind
her back and locked her in an isolation cell. The cell was filthy
and smelly and had rats running around in it. Later, she was
thrown into a freezer used to store dead bodies. The police
handcuffed her and hung her up. Then, she was tightly bound
to a metal board for over ten days. She was forced to eat and
urinate on this board. In September 2001, she was uncondi-
tionally released.
On December 17, 2001, she was arrested for distributing
Falun Gong information materials and detained at the
Dongfeng County Public Security Bureau. The county police
tried to send her to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp for
a term of three years, but the camp refused to accept her
because she had been physically devastated by the torture.
On May 20, 2002, Changchun Railway Police Station person-
nel kidnapped her when she was telling others the facts about
Falun Gong and the persecution. Ms. Zhou was tortured to
death on May 26, 2002 while in police custody.
Ms. Zhou's body was kept frozen in the Third Hospital of
Bai Qiuen Medical University. Her neck, armpits, arms and
some other places showed obvious signs of rope marks.
Moreover, one chief official from the No. 1 Section of the city
police department admitted to being responsible for Ms.
Zhou's death.
39. AFP: September 6, 2000, "Three More Chinese Falun Gong Members Die in Police Custody, BEIJING"
40. Reuters: September 6, 2000, "Falun followers die in China detention, Hong Kong"
41. AP: September 6, 2000, "3 Falun Gong Members Died, Beijing, September 6, 2000"
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Murder and Execution
Beaten to Death at Tuanhe Labor Camp
Sun Shaomei, 4243 female, 43, employee of the Supply and
Marketing Cooperative, resident of Goushang Village, Linglong
Town, Zhaoyuan County, Shandong Province.
Ms. Sun Shaomei
In 1999, Ms. Sun Shaomei went
to Beijing many times to appeal to
the government to end the persecu-
tion of Falun Gong practitioners.
Each time she was arrested, beaten,
and fined. For nearly eight months,
starting on February 14, 2000, the
Linglong Branch of the Zhaoyuan
Police Station in Zhaoyuan County,
Shandong Province arbitrarily
detained her to prevent her from
going to Beijing to appeal.
After her release, Ms. Sun went
to Beijing to appeal, and was arrest-
ed again. On November 28, 2000, she was transferred to
Tuanhe Labor Camp in Daxing County of Beijing. She was
severely beaten in the camp. On December 2, 2000, she was
sent to Tuanhe State Farm Hospital for emergency treatment.
At 11:45 a.m. on December 12, 2000, Ms. Sun died as a result
of the beatings she had received in the labor camp.
A Senior Murdered by Police from Jinzhou City
Cao Shufang, female, 61, lived on the 5th floor of Building 44,
Linghe District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. She was an
employee of the Jinzhou City Cotton and Linen Company.
At 4:00 p.m. on August 4, 2002, Wang Dianyu, Chief of the
Kangning Police Station Office in Linghe District, Jinzhou City,
Liaoning Province, and police officer Wang Hong stormed into
Ms. Cao Shufang's home. Locking her husband in the bed-
room, the police tried to abduct Ms. Cao and threw her head-
first off of the fifth floor balcony. The police spent a long time
confiscating Falun Gong materials, so it was quite some time
before they finally came downstairs.
Eyewitnesses reported that Ms. Cao was still alive after
landing, but that she died because the rescue effort was so
slow. Although people called for an ambulance, it took a long
time to arrive. Someone took a photo of her body, but the
Linghe District Political and Judiciary Committee confiscated
the camera and film. By 9:30 p.m., 32 police vehicles, more
than 100 policemen, and journalists from the Jinzhou TV sta-
tion, Jinzhou Daily, and the Jinzhou Evening News had all gath-
ered on the scene, trying to falsify a report defaming Falun
Gong. The residents and neighbors resisted their attempt to
fabricate lies against Falun Gong. The Director of the Linghe
Police Station publicly stated to the crowd, "You go ahead and
sue us. You won't get anywhere!" After being left there
overnight, Ms. Cao's body was finally sent to the funeral home
at 4:50 a.m. the next day.
An Engineer Died from Torture and Punitive
Force -Feeding by Beijing Police
Tian Baozhen, female, 40, an engineer of the Hubei Textile
Design Institute at Yuejiazui in Wuchang District of Wuhan City,
Hubei Province.
In mid-November 2000, Ms.
Tian Baozhen went to appeal to
the government to end its persecu-
tion of Falun Gong practitioners.
On the morning of November 20,
2000, she was arrested and taken
to the Tiananmen Police
Substation in Beijing, where she
was beaten severely. That after-
noon, Ms. Tian was transferred to
the Xuanwu Detention Center in
Beijing, where she went on a
hunger strike to protest her mal-
treatment and demand her imme-
diate release.
B
I'
Ms. Tian Baozhen
On the third day of her hunger strike, the staff of the deten-
tion center started to punitively force-feed her. When Ms. Tian
refused the force-feeding, she was beaten and slapped in thFo
face. One person grabbed her by the hair and held her arms
behind her back while two other people stepped on both of hir;
legs. Another person forced a tube into her stomach. Ms. Tian
suffered terribly from this inhumane treatment and her health
deteriorated rapidly. I
Later, Ms. Tian was transferred to the Henan Police
Station. At the sight of her extreme physical weakness, the
Henan police released her. In her weakened condition, Ms.
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Tian managed to board a train headed for Hubei Province.
When she arrived at the Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan City,
she was too feeble to move on. Her husband finally came and •
took her home.
CI
After arriving at home, Ms. Tian coughed continuously and
suffered from severe pains in her chest. On December 11,
2000, Ms. Tian died as a result of the physical abuse received
while in detention in Beijing. At the time of her death, the dark
bruises on her arms from the policemen's beatings were 461
clearly visible.
42. AFP, Feb. 7, 2001, "Seven More Falun Gong Followers Die in Chinese Custody"
43. PRIMA NEWS AGENCY, February 7, 2001, "New victims of religious repression in China"
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II
Murder and Execution
Lost All Teeth, Dropped Half of Her Weight, and Died Starved and Tortured to Death in Mengyin County
Zhou Yurong, female, 40, a doctor in the 45th Corps of the 3rd
Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Group,
Tacheng City in Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
On March 15, 2002, Ms. Zhou Yurong was arrested and
detained in the detention center of the Tacheng City Police
Department because she had gone to Beijing in December
2001 to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
Ms. Zhou began a hunger strike as soon as she was arrested.
The detention center force-fed her and also tortured her in var-
ious other ways. She was monitored 24 hours a day. Nearly
nine months into her hunger strike, Ms. Zhou, who had
weighed 150 pounds before her arrest, was reduced to skin
and bones, weighing only 67 pounds. She lost control of her
bowels and bladder, and all her teeth fell out.
By late November Ms. Zhou was near death, but instead of
releasing her for the emergency hospitalization she needed,
the detention center scheduled a trial date of December 2,
2002. The authorities did not inform Ms. Zhou's husband of
the trial until November 28, and the police even ordered him to
carry her to the courtroom to be tried. At about 10:00 a.m. on
December 4, 2002, Ms. Zhou received the verdict and she was
sentenced to three years in prison and four years on probation.
She passed away at around 1:00 p.m. that same day.
Tortured to Death at Zhoushuizi Labor Camp
Wang Qiuxia, female, 48, resident of Dalian City, Liaoning
Province.
Ms. Wang Qiuxia
Ms. Wang Qiuxia was illegally
arrested on October 1, 2000 while trav-
eling to Beijing, and sent to the Dalian
Drug Rehabilitation Center in Dalian
City. She was then sent to the Yaojia
Detention Center and later to the
Zhoushuizi Labor Camp. During her
detention in Zhoushuizi Labor Camp,
Ms. Wang endured a series of tortures
and beatings, staunchly refusing to sign
a pledge to renounce Falun Gong.
Finally, on June 9, 2001, Ms. Wang was
heavily beaten and tortured until semi-
conscious. At that moment she apparently signed the renunci-
ation pledge. Waking up the next morning, she told Camp staff
she would retract the pledge, upon which they started beating
her mercilessly until she was hovering on the brink of death.
Ms. Wang was immediately sent to the hospital but died on the
way there. The family was finally informed at 9:00 p.m. They
saw that Ms. Wang's head was swollen and had become mis-
shapen. In addition, both of her legs were swollen, and her
entire body had turned dark purple from the injuries.
Liu Shufen, female, 39 years old, resident of Tangzi Village,
Andi Town, Yinan County, Shandong Province.
Ms. Liu Shufen
On September 16, 2002, the Mengyin County Police
Station and the Mengyin County "610 Office" [an agency
specifically created to eradicate Falun Gong, with absolute
power over each level of administration in the Party and all
other political and judiciary systems] arrested Ms. Liu Shufen
for practicing Falun Gong. She was detained and brutally tor-
tured in the Mengyin Detention Center. On January 29, 2003,
after enduring four months of torture, Ms. Liu passed away.
On January 31, Ms. Liu's family members were asked to
come to a meeting. They had a meal with Lei Yancheng, Vice -
Director of the Mengyin County "610 Office," and were then
sent to a funeral home. There, they viewed Ms. Liu's body,
which was curled up, covered with wounds, and reduced to
skin and bones. The representative from the "610 Office" tried
to threaten Ms. Liu's family into signing a paper releasing the
body for cremation. However, they insisted on an inquiry, so the
court doctors conducted an autopsy. The results showed that
her brain was filled with blood. Ms. Liu had been slender, but
her blood pressure had always been normal, and she had
become especially healthy after starting to practice Falun
Gong. Her hematoma of the brain and the wounds on her body
were caused by beatings. The Mengyin County "610 Office"
immediately cremated her body in order to cover up the mur-
der.
Afterwards, the Mengyin County "610 Office" gave Ms.
Liu's family 4,000 Yuan. The Vice -Director of the Mengyin
County "610 Office," Lei Yancheng, said to them, "You had bet-
ter take the 4,000 Yuan, because if you don't, you will get noth-
ing. No matter where you go to sue us, it will be in vain!"
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Murder and Execution
Su Qionghua Kicked off Sixth Floor and Killed by Police
Su Qionghua,44-48 female, 32, resident of Suining City, Sichuan
Province.
On the morning of December 18, 2000, over a dozen
policemen from the National Security Squad and Chuanshan
Police Sub -Station of Suining City came to search Ms. Su
Qionghua's home and confiscate her property. Ms. Su would
not open the door, and instead tried to reason with them. The
police surrounded her house, yelling and shouting, "After we
capture her, we'll kill her!"
MS. Su Qionghua
Later, at around 6 p.m. on
December 20, 2000, two policemen
used ropes to gain access to her
sixth floor apartment from the roof.
At this time, Ms. Su was leaning out
the window explaining the truth
about Falun Gong to around three to
four hundred spectators outside on
the ground. When the policeman low-
ered himself down from the roof, he
fiercely kicked her. She grabbed the
policeman's foot with both hands,
but the policeman straightened his
foot quickly and Ms. Su fell from the
sixth floor. The crowd shouted, "The
police have killed her! The police persecuted someone to
death!"
After Ms. Su fell, the police took no measures to save her.
Instead, they tried to hide the truth of what happened. While
she was still breathing, they lifted her onto a net (used to catch
people who jump in order to commit suicide) and took a photo-
graph, hoping to make it look like they had tried to save her
from committing suicide. Ms. Su stopped breathing at around
6:30 p.m. on December 20, 2000.
Another policeman, named Huang, abused Ms. Su's 12 -
year -old daughter, searching her body and seizing the key to
her apartment. After opening the door with the key, the police
cut the cable TV cord and hung it from the ceiling, placed a
blanket over the window, and moved a mattress next to the
window, thereby making the room appear to be the scene of a
suicide. After falsifying this evidence, they took photographs
and video footage in order to deceive the public.
Beaten for Nine Hours and Killed by Asphyxiation
Li Shuyuan, female, 51, resident of Dahuangdi Village, Taijitun
Town, Lianshan District of Huludao City, Liaoning Province.
On October 17, 1999, the Huludao City Police Station
arrested Ms. Li Shuyuan and sent her to a detention center
because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. During
her month-long detention, once guard, Yuan, beat her with a
baton and a "wolf's tooth stick". As a result, she was bruised all
over and had difficultly time to move her body around.
On July 7, 2000, the policemen from the Taijitun Town
Police Station arrested Ms. Li again and took her to an anti -
Falun Gong brainwashing class, where she was detained for 28
days. During her detention, she and twelve other practitioners
were packed together in a 15 -square -meter room. It was stuffy(
and damp in the hot summer. They were forced to sit and sleeps
on the cement floor day and night. They were beaten or
exposed under the scorching sun for more than twelve days. I
On June 11, 2001, the policemen from the Huangtukari
Township Police Station beat Ms. Li because she had distribl
uted the Falun Gong flyers. She was sent to the Nanpiao
District Police Station, where division chief Shi and team chief
Wang beat her from 2:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. Her face was
swollen and deformed and her mouth broken and bleeding.`
She felt excruciating pain in her chest when breathing. Her leg
was beaten black and blue. Yellow secretions ran down froni
r
the bruised part of her leg for over a week; it was still painful
even one month after the beating. Afterwards, she was trans
ferred to the Nanpiao District Detention Center and then to the
Huludao City Detention Center. On August 27, 2001, she was
released.
On September 20, 2001, Ms. Li was sentenced to three
years of forced and detained at the Nanpiao District Detention
Center. On the sixth night of her detention, Ms. Li was tortured I
until she lapsed into a coma. After her family brought her home 1
from emergency treatment at the Nanpiao District Hospital, the
Nanpiao District policemen went to her home several times
wanting to arrest her, so she was forced to leave home and live
in exile.
On the night of July 6, 2002, Ms. Li and two fellow practi
tioners went out. She did not return. On the next day, her life-
less body was found in Jinlizi Village. She had been forced to
the ground with her hands behind her back. Her face was coh-
ered with dirt. There was evidence of her being held there,
kicking and struggling for her life. Her head was swollen and
had a bump on it, and there were other wounds on her body.
According to the autopsy, she died of asphyxiation.
44. BBC, January 2, 2001, "Falun Gong members "die after beating"
45. Washington Post, January 2, 2001, "China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members."
46. VOA, January 2, 2001, "More Falun Gong followers die in detention."
47. Radio Free Asia, January 2, 2001, "Four more Falun Gong practitioners from Shandong and Sichuan die of abnormal cause."
48. World Daily, January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death in Shandong and Sichuan Province."
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Photo Overleaf: Masanjia Labor Camp
Artist's rendering of women being thrown into male jail cells at Masanjia Labor Camp.
In the summer of 2001, guards at the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp stripped 18 women naked and threw them into the cells of violent male criminals, where they were gang -raped.
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Sexual Violations
Stripped Naked and Shocked on Her Genitals
until Dead
Li Yinping„ female, 37, an employee of Weifang Animal
Husbandry Bureau, Weifang City, Shandong Province.
Ms. Li Yinping
practitioners without
Detention Center.
On June 4, 2001, Ms. Li Yinping
was merely visiting a fellow practition-
er's home in Majia Village of
Shouguang City, Weifang region.
Police from the Shouguang Police
Station came to arrest Ms. Li and all
other practitioners who were there.
They were all detained at the Sunji
Police station, although no legitimate
criminal charges were brought against
them. They were forced to stand out-
side to be burned under the hot sun.
Ms. Li was also interrogated and beat-
en. Afterwards, the police interned the
any legal procedure in the Shouguang
On the afternoon of June 6, 2001, Ms. Li, along with the
other detained Falun Gong practitioners, requested uncondi-
tional release. The policemen dragged Ms. Li into the hallway
and beat her with a rubber baton. After drinking alcohol, five to
six policemen began another round of torture. They slapped
her face, twisted one of her arms behind her back, grabbed her
hair and pulled her head back, hit her all over her body with
rubber batons, and shocked her with electric batons. The
policemen stripped Ms. Li of all of her clothing to inflict more
pain by beating her unprotected skin. After beating Ms. Li, the
policemen chained her to an "Iron Chair". After taking a break,
later on in the evening, the director of the detention center,
Team Leader Wang, and other guards took turns shocking her
genitals with electric batons. Her whole body was shaking, and
had turned dark purple and black. She suffered severe pain,
and lost consciousness several times. Each time, the guards
revived her with cold water, so that they could shock her again.
One of the officers threatened to rape and kill her. They contin-
ued to shock her with the batons even after she began spitting
up blood. This torture lasted for several hours. Ms. Li was left
chained to the iron chair, and she kept vomiting all night.
By early the next morning, June 7, 2001, Ms. Li had lost
consciousness and no pulse could be detected. However, the
policemen still would not take her to the hospital. At last, they
accepted that she was near death, so the plainclothes police-
men took her to the People's Hospital at Shouguang City,
where she died that same day.
Vagina. and Anus Stuffed with Socks at
a Detention Center in Beijing
Pan Dongmei, female, 20, resident of Dianbai City, Guangdong
Province.
On April 3, 2001, Ms. Pan was arrested and sent to the
Chaoyang District Detention Center in Beijing because she
went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the perse-
cution of Falun Gong. During her detention, from April 5 to April
8, she was tied to a wooden rack in Room #612, where she
was force-fed through her nose. One policeman took off Ms.
Pan's socks and stuffed one into her vagina and the other one
into her anus. The policeman also directed prisoners to seal
Ms. Pan's mouth with tape. Ms. Pan was tortured so terribly
that she lost consciousness.
From April 8 to April 10, Ms. Pan was interrogated day and
night. As she was not allowed to sleep or rest, she suffered
from extreme fatigue. On April 11, at midday, policeman Kang
Jianjun stripped a male practitioner's pants off and dragged
him into Ms. Pan's presence. He tried to force her to look at the
male practitioner's private parts. Since Ms. Pan refused to
look, Kang threatened to take off her clothes as well. Then
Kang burned Ms. Pan and the male practitioner's faces with a
lighter until they were black and covered with blisters. In spite
of the severe pain it caused them, Kang used a piece of filthy
cardboard to wipe the soot from their faces.
Sexually Abused and Dog -Bitten at Shanxi
Female Labor Camp
Most of the arrested female Falun Gong practitioners in
Shanxi Province were detained at the Shanxi Female Labor
Camp. The camp guards often tortured and sexually abused
them. To force the practitioners give up their belief, the camp
guards bound four toothbrushes, inserted them into a practi-
tioner's vagina, and twisted the brushes harshly. They often
instigated the criminal inmates to beat the practitioners. The
camp guards put Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi's pictures
on practitioners' beds and other places that practitioners had
to pass every day, so the practitioners were not able to consci-
entiously sleep on their beds or move about freely. They even
freed the dogs from their leashes and let the dogs run loose to
bite practitioners. The head of the brainwashing center of
Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province learned the torture process when
he visited Shanxi Female Labor Camp. After he went back, he
also used dogs to torture Falun Gong practitioners at his cen-
ter. As the result, several more practitioners were bitten and
terrorized.
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Sexual Violations
Bloody Violence and Sexual Assault by Weifang Police
On February 26, 2002, twelve Falun Gong practitioners
from Weifang City, Shandong Province went to Beijing to appeal
to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. They were
arrested and brutally beaten. Later they were sent back to the
local police station, where they were handcuffed and locked up
in a dark garage for five days and nights before being interro-
gated.
People's Republic of China
HAINAN
Weifang City, Shandong Province
Wang Xiuyu, female, about 35 years old, resident of Wang
Zhuang Village, Weifang City.
Li Li, Communist Party Committee Assistant Secretary of
the county, interrogated Ms. Wang Xiuyu. He shouted at Ms.
Wang, fiercely pushed her onto the floor, stomped on her body,
and violently kicked her neck and face. Then Li ordered the
police and their accomplices to take turns beating her. They
ruthlessly kicked Ms. Wang back and forth between them like
a soccer ball. When they became tired, they brought out elec-
tric batons to shock her neck, back, and even put the electric
baton into her mouth to shock her tongue. A few hours later, Li
ordered three of his young accomplices to beat Ms. Wang with
a big wooden club, one meter long and as thick as a forearm.
On the afternoon of the same day, Li and another ruffian forced
Ms. Wang to sit on the floor, spread her legs, and then insert-
ed the electric baton into her mouth to shock her. He even
shoved the electric baton down her back and into her under-
wear to shock her. Then Li ordered one thug to force a chair
over Ms. Wang's head, then two of them pressed hard on top
of the chair, forcing it down on her and immobilizing her. In
front of the others, Li shocked Ms. Wang's inner thighs and
groin with an electric baton. Then he poured water over her
chest and pushed the electric baton into her underwear to
shock her, brutally inserting the electric baton into her vagina.
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Zhang Suzhen, female, 42, resident of Lijiazhuang Village of
Weifang City.
Wang Quanfeng, the Chief Captain of the National Security
Military Unit of Fang Ziqu Public Security Bureau, and some
others stripped off Ms. Zhang's pants and then hit her lower
back and buttocks extremely hard with a wooden club. They
beat her so viciously that the club broke. Ms. Zhang was
injured all over, her entire body was swollen, and they only
stopped when she became unconscious. The lower part of Ms.
Zhang's body was totally black and bruised; the flesh and
blood were stuck to her underwear, and she had great difficul-
ty taking off her clothing. She could not even walk by herself.
Fang Yixiang, female, 48, resident of Houdeng Village, Weifang
City.
Ms. Fang Yixiang refused to renounce Falun Gong, so Yu
Jinxiang, the Secretary of the County Armed Forces, and Wang
Quanfeng brutally stomped on Ms. Fang's body. They shocked
her with electric batons and beat her with a wooden club from
head to toe. Policemen then beat her on the knees and shins.
Yu Jinxiang struck Ms. Fang's head so hard with a wooden rod
that blood gushed down her face. They then pressed a chair
onto Ms. Fang's legs, handcuffed both of her hands to the back
of the chair, and shocked her body all over with electric batons.
They shamelessly and brutally shocked her genitals. During the
entire torture, they did not give her anything to eat for four days'
and nights and did not allow her to sleep. Ms. Fang was for-.
tured until she was injured and bruised all over her body. There
was not a place on her body that was unscathed. Her face was
extremely swollen.
Wang Fengping, female, 46, resident of Wang Zhuang village,
Weifang City.
In order to force Ms. Wang Fengping to give up her practice
of Falun Gong, policeman Bi Xiaochen slapped her face repeati
edly, punched and kicked her, and shocked her with an electric
baton. During the night, Li Li used a square wooden board td
strike her toes and thumbs and shocked her entire body with
an electric baton. Policeman Ju Youxiang cruelly stuck the eleo-
tric baton into her mouth to shock her tongue and kicked her
lower back and legs with all his strength.
Wang Huixia, female, 36, resident of Fumayingercun Village,
Weifang City.
While Ms. Wang Huixia was being interrogated, the ruff I
ans took turns stomping on her legs and knees, hitting herA
thighs with a wooden board, and shocking her mouth with an
electric baton because she would not obey their orders.
One day after the interrogation, practitioners Ms. Wang
Xiuyu, Ms. Zhang Suzhen, Ms. Fang Yixiang, Ms. Wang
Sexual Violations
Fengping, and Ms. Wang Huixia were sent to the Fangzi
Detention Center of Weifang City. However, Li Li still went to the
detention center to keep torturing them. Ms. Wang Fengping
was forced to stand on a stool for two hours with her back bent
at a 90 -degree angle and her arms stretched out horizontally.
In addition, they kept hitting Ms. Wang's fingers, shins, and
knees. All of her limbs were badly swollen due to the heavy
blows. When she could not stand any more, they forced her to
lie on a stool with her head suspended in midair and four limbs
touching the ground. They shamelessly hit her breasts and
shocked her body with electric batons. Due to the repeated
electric shocks and beating, many places of her body were
swollen and bruised. In addition, while Ms. Wang was detained,
police kidnapped and tortured her daughter, holding her
hostage until finally extorting 2,000 Yuan from her family in
exchange for the release of her daughter.
Zhang Shirong, female, 60, resident of Deng Village, Weifang
City.
At the police station, Ms. Zhang Shirong kept suffering
from the policemen's brutal torture. Policeman Yu Jinxiang
forced her to lie down on the ground and raise her four limbs
vertically. Then he put a teacup on the sole of her foot. When
her foot trembled from fatigue, the teacup dropped and broke
into pieces. Then Yu stuffed the sharp pieces into Ms. Zhang's
clothes and forced her to lie on her back. As a result, her back
was cut and bled profusely. For a whole night, she was tortured
and continuously pressured to write a "guarantee statement"
renouncing Falun Gong. She was not released until she paid a
fine of 3,000 Yuan.
Wang Xiaojuan, female, 20, resident of Yuanshang Village,
Weifang City.
Some policemen locked Ms. Wang Xiaojuan into a room
and forced her to kneel on the floor. They beat, kicked, and
shocked her all over with electric batons. One policeman vio-
lently kicked her lower back while policeman Liu Xianxun
shocked her mouth with an electric baton. On another night,
ten people used the technique of wrapping a telephone wire
around her fingers and shocking her. They tortured and humil-
iated her in various ways, such as forcing her to stand on her
head, to squat and walk with a stance called "horse steps",
and to stand motionless on a stool for a long period of time.
They even threw a lit cigarette into her mouth.
Sexually Abused at No. 1 Detention Center, Shijiazhuang City
1. Liu Runling, female, 38, an employee of the Yuji Cosmetics
Store, resident of Hebei Province.
2. Wei Tianchen, female, 45, an employee of the Hebei
Provincial Decoration Corp., resident of Shijiazhuang City,
Hebei Province.
People's Republic of China
No. 1 Detention Center
Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
On September 28, 2001, Ms. Liu Runling was arrested and
detained at the No.1 Detention Center. In January 2002,
because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, guards ordered
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several inmates to torture Ms. Liu. They dragged Ms. Liu into a
bathroom, stripped her naked, and beat her up. Then they
pinched the most sensitive parts of her body, inserted dirty
stuff such as hair and used sanitary napkins into her vagina,
and pierced her with needles for 40 minutes. By then, Ms. Liu
was on the brink of collapse. This torture left her whole body
covered with wounds; both her breasts had turned black and
needle holes could be found all over her body. Ms. Liu is still
being detained in the No.1 Detention Center.
In May 2000, Ms. Wei Tianchen went to Beijing to appeal
to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong and was
arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labor. In
November 2000, she was released when she became
extremely weak. In July 2001, Ms. Wei was arrested again and
sentenced to four years in the No.1 Detention Center. During
her detention, she was often stripped naked and beaten for
refusing to give up Falun Gong. One day in January 2002, offi-
cer Yan put shackles on Ms. Wei and ordered an inmate to pour
lots of icy water on her body. She was forced to sleep on the icy
ground for one month. Ms. Wei is still being detained in the
No.1 Detention Center.
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Sexual Violations
Stripped Naked, Beaten Unconscious, and
Punitive Force -Feeding
A Survivor of Haidian Detention Center
On the morning of December 1, 2000, I went to
Tiananmen Square to appeal to the government to stop perse-
cuting Falun Gong practitioners. I was arrested and sent to the
Beijing Haidian Detention Center the following day.
When I arrived, after 8 p.m., the police stripped me naked
to search for Falun Gong materials and take away my money.
At that time, I was menstruating and the blood dripped on the
floor. Upon seeing this, a policewoman slapped my face so
hard that it made me dizzy. Later, when I was interrogated, one
policeman used an electric baton to shock my head and face
with great force.
When a policewoman sent me to a cell, she instigated the
criminal inmates to torture me. At first, the female inmates
forced me to stand barefoot on the cement floor in the
December cold. Then, five to six inmates punched and kicked
me, aiming at my chest and temple. After they were tired of
beating me, they forced me into positions like "riding an air-
plane" and "gecko climbing the wall." When I refused to com-
ply, they rushed over and beat me until I lost consciousness.
While I was half-conscious, one of the female criminals pulled
me up by my hair. She slapped my face, head, and hands with
her plastic slippers. I started bleeding, and my hair fell all over
the floor. Then she grabbed my hair and slammed my head
against the wall until I lost consciousness again. After they
rested, they kicked me to wake me up. Then, a strong deaf
inmate started to beat me up. Later they brought three buckets
of cold water, stripped me naked, and dragged me into the
shower. They used a mug to dump water on my chest and
head. The deaf inmate fanned cold air on me with a towel. I
was shivering from the cold and my menstrual fluid dripped all
over the place. Then, that big deaf inmate came to beat me up
again. She punched my temple and knocked me down into a
puddle. I passed out right there. I don't know how much time
passed before they woke me up again for more torture. I found
black and blue bruises all over my body. This kind of torture
lasted the whole night.
The next day, I went on a hunger strike to protest the tor-
ture and illegal detention. The inmates stripped off my jacket
and dragged me to a cold and windy place. They pushed me to
the ground and punched and kicked me. They also used a toi-
let brush to force open my mouth to force-feed me. They
pinched my nose, choked me, and pressed my stomach in
order to force my mouth open. I was suffocated and almost lost
consciousness. They still could not force anything down my
throat. Then the police came. They shackled me to an iron bed
and started to force-feed me. They used newspapers to cover
my eyes and stuck a very long rubber tube through my nose
and down into my stomach. All the while they cursed me. If any-
thing squirted on them, they punched me. One of the male
police used his hand to crush my knee with great pressure. I
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felt as if my bones would break into pieces, and I was in so
much pain that I was soon drenched in tears and sweat. I was
force-fed in this brutal manner nine times during my detention
period.
Stripped Naked and Fondled by Police
Jiang Zilan, female, 39, a factory worker from Daqing City,
Heilongjiang Province.
People's Republic of China NAIN"il
Dongfeng Detention Center
Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
In early May 2000, I was arrested because I visited a Falun
Gong practitioner's home. I was detained for 15 days at
Dongfeng Detention Center, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.
On May 11, along with other practitioners, I started a hunger)
strike to protest the illegal detention. On May 12, when I was
sitting on my bed, two male police guards came to my cell, and
told me that the director of the detention center wanted to talk
to me. The guards grabbed my arms and dragged me to their
office. However, the director was nowhere to be seen. Only a
female guard, Cui, and two other male guards were there. They
pushed me to the ground, and the male guards held my arms
and feet to the ground. The female guard pulled my sweater
over my head, unbuttoned my shirt, and stripped off all of my
clothes except my underwear. Then she pulled down my under`
wear with one hand and stroked my private parts with the other
hand. I was shocked, and I cried out from instinct, "Help!
Help!!!" I yelled at the female guard, "Are you still a woman?
Are you still a human being? Don't you have any sense of
shame?" But the shameless female guard said, "What are you
crying for? I kept your underwear on." Later I was dragged baciki
to my cell without any clothes on my upper body. This inhuman
abuse almost caused me to have a mental breakdown.
I tried to completely forget this incident. It is very painful to
recall it, because I was so shocked that it removed my courage
to face life, but I know that I have to reveal this abuse to the
world, to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong.
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Sexual Violations
Nipples Charred, Face Burned and Distorted, and Thighs Bloodied
In March 2002, police from the First Branch of the
Changchun City Police Bureau arrested me on suspicion that I
was involved in broadcasting on cable TV, a program that
exposed the Chinese government's brutal persecution of Falun
Gong.1 They took me to Jingyue Hotel in Jingyue Mountain area.
The Police Bureau occupied the entire first floor of the hotel,
and every room on that floor had been turned into a torture
chamber. All the windows and doors were covered by thick fab-
ric to block out light and sounds, and the rooms were filled with
torture devices: batons, ropes, plastic bags, tiger benches,
electric baton chargers, etc. It was a horrifying, hellish place.
As soon as the vicious police took me into a room, they
handcuffed my hands and roped my feet to a tiger bench. They
stripped off my clothing and started to interrogate me. When
they could not get me to "confess," they started to shock me
with electric batons.
One policeman used two short batons to shock both sides
of my neck, and another took a long baton and placed it on my
breasts to shock me. The blue sparks and exploding sound
filled the room immediately. As if this was not enough, they
used another short baton to shock the back of my neck. The
power of four batons shook my head around violently. The
police then shocked my face. As my mouth was uncontrollably
opened, they stuck a baton into my mouth to shock me. After a
while, they placed two batons under my arms, and one police-
man even placed a baton over my eyes.
As they could not get me to yield to them, the police start-
ed to shock my lower body. One used a kind of baton that had
two sharp electrodes to pierce into the inside of my thigh. As he
continued to pierce and shock, my inner thigh became covered
in blood. The other policeman used a baton to shock my private
parts. Using these gruesome methods, they shocked me all
night long. My nipples were completely charred in the end, and
the smell of burnt flesh filled the room.
The next day, the police continued to torture me. They
poured electricity -conducting liquid over me and shocked me
with batons. The shocks caused my whole body to cramp, and
the agony was indescribable. They then took me down from the
"tiger bench" and tied my hands and feet together from
behind, forcing me to bend over backwards to form an "0"
shape. They then hung me high, and dropped me down to
crash to the ground. As they tortured me again and again, they
shouted, "The pain is going to escalate!"
After torturing me for four days, the police still could not
force me to yield to them. They then threatened that they would
bury me alive. They finally sent me to a cell in a detention cen-
ter. Dozens of inmates cried upon seeing my horrible shape.
My whole face was full of blood-filled blisters, my ears were
swollen to very long and thick pieces, and the insides of my lips
protruded outwards. When the police stripped off my clothes,
most inmates were frightened and closed their eyes, turning
their heads in disgust from my tortured appearance.
Many practitioners there have suffered severe torture2.
One was named Wang Lili. Her legs were so swollen from being
beaten that she was unable to squat to urinate. She had to be
sent to the emergency room in a hospital, where a doctor found
that one of her kidneys had been destroyed from the beating.
Another practitioner, in her fifties, was also shocked badly. The
police also suffocated her with a plastic bag. Another practi-
tioner was also suffocated with a plastic bag. Only when she
was suffocated to the point of losing control of her bladder did
the police remove the plastic bag from her head.
I have not suffered as much as some other practitioners.
Every night, we could hear cries from those being tortured,
cries that could rip through one's heart. I could only imagine
what they were going through; but really, I couldn't!
1. BBC: March 7, 2002, "Falun Gong breaks onto China's airwaves"
2. AP: March 8, 2002, Joe McDonald, Associated Press Writer, "China Detains 7 [Falun Gong Practitioners] during a Protest"
3. Reuters: March 7, 2002, Jeremy Page, "Falun Gong [broadcasts on] China City's TV Airwaves"
4. IGFM Press Release: March 7, 2002, "Cable Television Program Supportive of Falun Gong on China's TV Results in Orders from Jiang Zemin, "Kill them without Mercy"
5. Freelance joumalist: March 7, 2002, Zhen Vanxiong, "Changchun City Residents Exclaim: So the Self -Immolation Was All a Fake!"
6. DN (Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish Newspaper): March 7, 2002, "Falun Gong [Broadcasts] Videos on TV"
7. Washington Post: March 12, 2002, John Pomfret, "Fight Over Banned Chinese [Group] Moves to U.S."
8. Guardian: March 11, 2002, John Gittings, "Australians Held After Falun Gong Demonstration"
9. SCMP: March 7, 2002, Vivien Pik -Kwan Chan, "No More [Truth Telling], Broadcast Chiefs Told"
10. Reuters: March 14, 2002, "Hong Kong police detain Swiss Falun Gong members"
11. Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER): March 15, 2002, "Hotel Security Check For Banned Spiritual Group"
12. De Standard: March 16, 2002, "Falun Gong "captures" TV -station in Chinese city"
13. Amnesty International: March 21, 2002, "Calls for Urgent Action in Changchun, China As Murder Count Rises"
14. AFP: March 25, 2002, "Falungong claims 5,000 members detained in northeast China sweep"
15. Time: March 25, 2002, Matthew Fomey, "Falun Gong Finds Free Cable"
16. World Journal: April 1, 2002, "Falun Gong Calls for Support for Changchun Practitioners"
17. Radio Australia: April 3, 2002, "18 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested for Television Broadcast"
18. Radio Free Asia (RFA): April 2, 2002, "Discussion Organized by Europe's Chinese Press on the Recent Intensified Persecution of Falun Gong in China"
19. BBC: April 18, 2002, "Covers Chinese Media Report on Falun Gong TV Takeover"
20. AP: May 9, 2002, MARTIN FACKLER, Associated Press Writer, "Falun Gong Activists Broadcast Video"
21. Reuters: May 10, 2002, Tamura Vidaillet, "Falun Gong [uses] TV broadcasts to spread message (photo)"
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Sexual Violations:Chaoyang Detention Center
Inhuman Torture and Sexual Assault by the Police of the Chaoyang Detention Center in Beijing
A Survivor of Chaoyang Detention Center
I am a Falun Gong practitioner who firmly believes in
Truthfulness -Benevolence -Forbearance. Like all other Falun
Gong practitioners in Mainland China, I have been suffering
under the Chinese government's constant persecution for over
three years.
For over three years, I have been forced to remain home-
less to avoid illegal arrest. My husband, who is not a practition-
er, was unlawfully detained for 15 days by the police, who tried
to force him to reveal my whereabouts. My child went to the
police station to reason with them, and in retaliation the
authorities ordered the school to suspend my child. The school
authorities took my child back to school and reprimanded him.
My child had to live on the street for those fifteen days to avoid
further harassment and persecution.
To expose the Chinese government's brutality, I participat-
ed in producing truth clarification materials about Falun Gong
and telling the true facts regarding the persecution of Falun
Gong to the public. For this, I was twice detained in the
Chaoyang Detention Center in Beijing. The first detention last-
ed over four months, and the second lasted over three months.
During these periods of illegal imprisonment I suffered from
constant beatings and torture by police thugs. Below is an
account of the torture and harassment against Falun Gong
practitioners that took place in the Chaoyang Detention Center.
I hope that kindhearted people will come to learn what is hap-
pening there.
Late in December 2000, the police discovered our site for
producing Falun Gong truth clarification materials. All five of us
there were brutally beaten and taken to the Chaoyang
Detention Center. After we were thrown in jail, the head of the
inmates in the cell again viciously beat us. After the beatings,
we were forced to stand naked against the wall as a punish-
ment. I asked the head of inmates why she beat us for no rea-
son. She replied, "The detention center guards ordered us to
do it. Each Falun Gong practitioner was to be beaten upon
arrival. You are no exception. [Chairman] Jiang gave the order
from high
above."
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Chaoyang Detention Center, Beijing
The guards then forced us to stand outside in the cold win-'
ter weather for more than 12 hours. As if that was not cruel)
enough, the guards also beat me savagely. When I fell uncon-I
scious, they poured buckets of icy water on me to revive me:
and continue the "interrogation". They poked my breasts hard
with electric batons and shocked them.
There were over 30 Falun Gong practitioners in my cell.
There were Falun Gong practitioners in every cell of the deten-
tion center. They were from all over the country and they were
arrested for coming to Beijing to appeal to the government td
stop the persecution.
Falun Gong practitioners were interrogated and tortured
every day. Falun Gong practitioners frequently die under these
harsh conditions. It's just that these cases are not made pub:
lic. The authorities used all means to keep these deaths from
being known by the public. Every day, there are practitioners
sentenced to prison terms, sent to forced labor camps, and tor-
tured in the most heinous ways. The police have used all sorts,
of torture devices and methods, including inserting electric
batons in vaginas of female practitioners to shock them,
shocking their nipples with batons, burning pubic hairs and pri-
vate parts with cigarette lighters, inserting dirty socks into the
vagina and rectum, etc. All Falun Gong practitioners who
refused to give up their faith were subjected to horrific tortures.
One Falun Gong practitioner, Mei Yulan, female, went on
hunger strike to protest the torture and was force-fed by police!
She died in cell 607 of the Chaoyang Detention Center from the
brutal force-feeding.
Practitioner Li Zhen's eyes turned black and the entire
right side of her face turned dark purple as a result of the beat
ings. A lady over 60 years old from Henan Province passed out
many times in an interrogation and torture session. A lady over
70 years old from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province lost control
of her bladder after the torture. The police also stuffed dirty
socks into vaginas and rectums of female practitioners Tan
Yingchun, from Xining City, Qinghai Province, and Pan
Dongmei, from Dianbai region in Guangdong Province.
Policeman Du Shijun boasted, "If you're so resourceful,
why don't you go ahead and report the abuses and brutalities
to the world? You go ahead! The Communist Party runs the dic-
tatorship and I just take orders!"
The heart-rending cries from practitioners during the tor-
ture often echo in my ears. The brutal scenes often appear) jn
front of my eyes. Those practitioners risked their lives for sim-
ply speaking out a few words of truth to the public. I hope all
kindhearted fellow countrymen will stand up against the brutal
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Sexual Violations:Tumuji Women's Labor Camp
Severe Torture at Tumuji Women's Labor Camp
Tumuji Women's Labor Camp is located in Inner Mongolia
Province and detained hundreds of female Falun Gong practi-
tioners. At the whim of the guards, all practitioners were
repeatedly abused and beaten. In more extreme situations of
abuse, the guards stripped off practitioners' clothing and
shocked them with high-voltage electric batons for hours. Due
to violent abuse, many practitioners have been seriously
injured and crippled, some so seriously that they were left
unable to care for themselves. Many practitioners have had
severe internal organ damage, some of whom are close to los-
ing their lives.
Because of practicing Falun Gong exercises, Ms. Yang
Chunxiang, Ms. Li Yumei, and Ms. Lu Hongwei were kicked in
their private parts, chests, and breasts by Yin Guijuan, the
chief of Team One. He even inserted an electric baton into their
mouths to shock them. Five female guards surrounded and
beat these three practitioners. They stepped on their bodies,
and shouted loudly, "What fun! What fun!"
In the fall of 2001, Ms. Wang Yin and Ms. Zhang Liyuan
were shocked and beaten for several hours by the Vice -Chief of
the team. Ms. Wang was beaten until she lapsed into a coma.
Her head was swollen and bruised. She could not recover even
four months after the beating.
For failing to fold her quilt in time, female guard Su Hong
slapped Ms. Jia Haiying's face continuously 24 times. This
caused Ms. Jia's teeth to be loosened and her facial skin to
crack severely. She finally fainted and fell to the ground.
Female guard Wang Guirong kicked Ms. Ji Yunzhi until she
fell to the ground because she said, "Falun Gong is good."
Several of her ribs were broken from the beating. Then two
male guards dragged Ms. Ji to the office and shocked her for
two hours using a high-voltage electric baton. As a result of this
torture, Ms. Ji has become incontinent and her legs are para-
lyzed.
Since Ms. Fan Xiaoli refused to sing the prisoners' song,
the director of Team Two, Luo Jinyun, shocked her until she
started having convulsions. She could not move after the tor-
ture. Ms. Peng Huiyi was also beaten for the same reason. The
guards punched her so hard that some of her teeth fell out.
Ms. Wang Chunyan could not walk after she was shocked
with an electric baton. Female guards Na Renhua, Liu Xiuhua,
and Yang Jie still cursed her and yelled, "If you cannot walk,
then crawl!"
Once a group of practitioners were shocked with electric
batons because they practiced Falun Gong exercises. The
guards surrounded and beat the practitioners. They kicked and
punched them, ripped off their clothes, and hit their necks with
electric batons. As a result of this abuse, Ms. Fu's face was
swelled and full of red marks, and became disfigured. Ms.
Zhao's and Ms. Zhang Xiuxia's legs were pinched until the skin
became blotchy and discolored. Two large clumps of Ms. Li
Yumei's hair were pulled out. Four strong guards grabbed Ms.
Wang Xiujie and threw her to the ground. Ms. Wang Chunyan
was shocked with an electric baton until her legs were para-
lyzed.
Because Ms. Liang refused to renounce Falun Gong, a
guard tortured her by hanging a heavy bucket of water from her
neck and slapping her.
Ms. Lu Xiumei was shocked with an electric baton and
beaten for reciting a Falun Gong book. The guards pinched her
breasts, hips, and private parts. She was hurt so badly that she
could not walk after the torture.
Ms. Liu Huirong, Ms. Guo Junxiu, Ms. Liu Chunyan, Ms. Li
Chunxia, Ms. Liu Zhun, and Ms. Liu Xiaoxin were hung up in the
air and forbidden to sleep. In addition, the guards stripped off
Ms. Liu Chunyan's pants to humiliate her.
Ms. Wang Yin could not bear the torture and attempted to
escape, but was caught, brought back, and severely beaten.
The severity of the beating caused her to lose her hearing
because of bleeding in her brain.
Sexual Assault and Malicious Torture at Beijing
Women's Labor Camp
I am detained in Beijing's Female Forced Labor Camp. I am
here because I believe in and practice Falun Gong. I was ille-
gally arrested at my home, and have repeatedly been subject-
ed to inhuman torture. I was often deprived of food. For long
periods of time, I was not allowed to sleep or to use the bath-
room. The guards often ordered the criminal inmates to beat
me up. In order to muffle my cries, the guards stuffed dirty
underwear, stained with menstrual blood from other females,
into my mouth. I was beaten until my body was completely cov-
ered with bruises. Another very determined practitioner had a
toothbrush rammed into her vagina and was sexually assault-
ed because she would not give up her belief in Falun Gong.
There was a practitioner who was sent here from the detention
center. Her lower back was severely twisted. Her head had
been twisted about 150 degrees, and almost faced her back.
When I first saw her, I thought she was in her 70s. She told me
that, in the detention center, she had received excruciating tor-
ture because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. The guards
then twisted her lower back, handcuffed her hands and feet
together while she was in that twisted position, and kept her
like that for over ten days. They wouldn't let her go to sleep for
nine consecutive days and nights, forced her to stand still with-
out moving, didn't give her any meals, and even forbade her to
use the toilet. Not until we had that discussion did I learn that
she was actually only in her 40s. A person in her 40s had,
through torture, been made to look like someone in her 70s,
simply because she held fast to her belief in Truthfulness -
Compassion -Forbearance.
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Sexual Violations: Judong Women's Labor Camp
Needling of Nipples, Pulling of Pubic Hair, Baton Rape, and Shock at Judong Women's Labor Camp
In 2001, under orders to intensify the persecution of Falun
Gong practitioners, and to achieve a higher so-called "transfor-
mation rate," authorities of the Judong Women's Labor Camp
in Jiangsu Province started to carry out inhuman torture on
more than 400 Falun Gong practitioners in the No. 3 and 4
subdivisions. Director Xu Xinzhen and Captain Zhou Ruihua of
the 4`" subdivision applied electric shocks and imposed a
"standing -and -no -sleeping" torture on practitioners. They also
chose tall and strong criminal inmates to "cluster" (stay in the
same room) with the practitioners. Guards Zhou Ruihua, Hong
Ying, Huo Yan, and others openly used brutal force, throwing
practitioners around, slapping their faces, punching and kick-
ing them, pulling their hair, and also using many other humili-
ating torture methods.
People's Republic of China HAINAN
Judong Women's Labor Camp, Jiangsu Province
Qin Yanqiu, female, resident of Jiangsu Province.
Miao Qi, a director of the female sub -unit, and guard Jiang
Dongmei of the fifth team forced Ms. Qin Yanqiu to squat and
stand for eighteen days and nights. She was not allowed to
sleep, sit, talk, or go to the toilet. They stopped torturing her
only when she suffered from incontinence, looked extremely
pale and weak, and her life was in danger.
The police also ordered other inmates to join their torture
of Falun Gong practitioners. They stripped off practitioners'
clothes and held them on the ground, with one person sitting
on the upper body and another person sitting on the lower
body. They humiliated and assaulted the practitioners by
viciously pinching and piercing their nipples with needles. They
used a square stool to pound on their abdomens, they kicked
their lower bodies, hit their private parts with their knees,
pulled their pubic hair, and stuffed paper into their vaginas.
They also pinched practitioners in the lower abdominal area
and their inner thighs.
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1. Du Xiuju, female, 42, single, a former teacher of the
Technical School in Lianyun Harbor, Jiangsu Province.
2. Huang Hongping, female, 35, a 1989 graduate from
Department of Chemistry, Hehai University, Jiangsu
Province.
Practitioner Ms. Du Xiuju suffered from vaginal bleeding
for over one month after being tortured. The practitioner who
suffered the most was Ms. Huang Hongping. Xie and other
vicious policemen kicked her head and face, pulled her hair,
slammed her head against the wall, and shocked her. The tor-
ture made her lose control of her bladder and bowels. They
even cursed and yelled at her during the beating, saying, "We
will beat you to death just like we would beat a dog to death,
and the authorities will never investigate our actions." Ms.
Huang's abdominal area, the inner side of her thighs, and her
entire lower body turned black and blue. Even after lying in bed
for more than one month, she couldn't walk normally, having to
rely on two persons to support her.
Yu Shuxia, female, resident of Jiangsu Province.
Six prisoners who had been prostitutes took turns beating
Ms. Yu Shuxia for three days to force her to renounce her prac-
tice of Falun Gong. Her eye sockets were blackened from the
beating, her face and whole body were swollen, and bruises
covered her entire body. These prostitutes took advantage of
the guards' support. They pinched the tendons of her thighs
and pulled her pubic hair. She called for help many times, but)
no one came to intervene; she nearly lost her life. In order tot
conceal her grievous injuries, the labor camp authorities
locked her in a storage room for over 20 days until the swelling
had eased up.
Song Weijuan, female, resident of Jiangsu Province.
On March 16, 2002, Ms. Song Weijuan was handcuffed
with her hands behind her back and pinned down to the
ground by seven or eight male and female guards led by Zhao
Yulan and Zheng Qihui. They shocked her with electric batons,
while interrogating her. They shocked her mouth if she refused
to talk. To prevent her from screaming due to the pain, the
guards stuffed dirty rags into her mouth.
Liu Xiue, female, 59, resident of Jiangsu Province.
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Ms. Liu Xiue was tortured by being forced to stand still,
without sleep, on and off for more than twenty days and nights,
simply because she refused to copy a note slandering Falun
Gong. The police took off all her clothes and forced her to
stand naked in the yard to humiliate her. For refusing to copy
the slandering note, almost all the practitioners were forced`tro
stand still and were deprived of sleep. Over a dozen practition-
ers in the No. 11 team were forced to stand for eleven days and"
Sexual Violations
nights. Their feet and legs became red and swollen, and they
were mentally exhausted. It was the middle of summer, and
each practitioner's body was covered with mosquito bites. 62 -
year -old Ms. Wu Qunying suddenly fainted and fell on her face.
On the second day, her eye socketsturnedblue and her eyes
turned red. Only on the eleventh night did the guards cease
this inhuman torture.
Kong Qingmei, female, resident of Jiangsu Province.
Since Ms. Kong Qingmei refused to copy a note slandering
Falun Gong, guard Zhang Yan instigated a vicious prisoner,
Ding Lilin, who had been convicted of prostitution, to injure her
hip and legs. Thereafter Ms. Kong had to rely on other people's
support to walk.
Chen Yujie, female, 54, resident of Jiangsu Province.
Guards Zhao Yulan and Zhou Ying often locked Ms. Chen
Yujie in a confinement room for no reason, forcing her to stand
still and not sleep. Her legs and feet became so swollen that
she was unable to put on her shoes. Her physical condition
deteriorated quickly. She vomited whenever she ate food.
Guards Zhao and Zhou ordered four prisoners to forcibily pour
medicine into her nose, eyes, ears, and mouth, which caused
her ears to get infected, causing her to lose her hearing. She
became very skinny, her weight dropping from 160 pounds to
98 pounds. She became paralyzed and is no longer able to
take care of herself.
Wang Lanfeng, female, resident of Jiangsu Province.
Guard Xiao Jiantao, called "the #1 Killer," kicked Ms. Wang
Lanfeng so hard that the bone and flesh on her calf separated.
She had been locked up in the confinement room more than
ten times and was tortured by being forced to stand without
sleeping. The guards even shocked her with four electric
batons at the same time.
In 2002, the guards of Judong Women's Labor Camp
became more vicious. They used four or five people to attack
and brainwash one practitioner. They started from 5 a.m. and
continued until 3 a.m. the next day. They tried to brainwash
practitioners one after another and deprived them of sleep.
The brainwashing lasted for at least 40-50 days and some-
times for more than 80 or 90 days.
Changchun Police Took Practitioners into
Wilderness for Torture and Rape
By A Falun Gong Practitioner once Detained by Changchun Police
As their barbaric tortures of Falun Gong have been
exposed more and more to the public, the police in Changchun
city have been taking practitioners out of detention centers
and labor camps far into the wilderness to torture them. In the
middle of the night the police dragged detained practitioners
out of their cells, covered their.eyes so they would not know
where they were taken, and tortured them mercilessly. Under
the cover of dark night, some police have sexually violated
female practitioners. The policemen even boasted to each
other, such as "The forest in Jingyue Mountain is a wonderful
place to have fun. You can hear all kinds of screams from Falun
Gong [practitioners]." Some practitioners who were taken out
did not return, and no one knows what happened to them.
One place where the police conduct their crimes regularly
is in the mountains. The police tied up some of the practition-
ers, grabbed them by their heads and feet, and threw them
against a tree. While torturing the practitioners they said, "We
will bury you here if we end up beating you to death. Nobody
would know!" One practitioner was dragged to a nearby moun-
tain in the middle of the night and severely beaten. The police
said, "Give up Falun Gong, or we will throw you into the moun-
tain stream!"
Some police used electric batons to shock female practi-
tioners' breasts, forcibly shocking the sensitive nipple area.
The police even shocked practitioners in their vaginas.
Practitioners who were menstruating were not spared and
were shocked to bleed profusely, so their pants were soaked in
blood. The police often drank alcohol before and during their
torture session. While drunk, some police attempted to rape
female practitioners. One heartless policeman said, "The base-
ment is the perfect place to straighten out Falun Gong practi-
tioners, it's no big deal to kill one or two!"
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Sexual Violations
Beijing Police Officer Beats and Rapes a Female
Falun Gong Practitioner in Public
After 9:00 pm on May 14, 2001, I was alone and pasting
up Falun Gong flyers along the street from Dabeiyao to the
Yong'anli city canal, Beijing.
A plainclothes policeman who was on patrol duty stopped
me. He was in his 30's, about 1.65 meters tall and quite
strong. He claimed he was a policeman, briefly flashed his
work ID, and wanted to take me to the police station. He
viciously groped around my lower body using the excuse of con-
ducting a body search. I struggled to get free and ran down the
street. He chased after me on his bicycle and beat me fiercely
with a rubber baton for over an hour, bringing me to the verge
of death. There were about a dozen passersby who came to
watch during that time. He then shouted, "She is a Falun Gong
practitioner. If I beat her to death, it will count as nothing." No
passerby dared to stop, and hastily left. Two of my front teeth
fell out and I had many wounds on my head. My whole body
turned black and blue from the bruises and became swollen. I
felt extreme pain from the inside of my body. The policeman
then hit me fiercely with his baton on my right ear and temple
and as a result I lost consciousness. Then he dragged me
under the bridge and raped me. After that, he forced his rubber
baton into my vagina using his full strength, and then sat on
me. When I regained consciousness I stated that I would sue
him at the police station, he then fearfully ran away on his bicy-
cle.
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Photo overleaf: Water Dungeon
This is a deadly solitary confinement. A victim is stripped naked, locked in an iron cage with spikes on all sides, and lowered into a pit of filthy
water until the water reaches the victim's neck. The victim cannot lean to any side because of the spikes, and cannot squat down because the
water. Many practitioners have suffered this torture and some have died.
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Torture
Paralyzed from Severe Torture
Li Huiqi, female, 35, former employee of the Shijiazhuang Paint
Factory, Hebei Province.
On December 2, 2001, Ms. Li Huiqi was abducted by offi-
cials from the Weiming Street Police Station in Shijiazhuang
City, then detained in the Shijiazhuang City No. 1 Detention
Center for two months. On February 2, 2002, she was sen-
tenced to one year of forced labor in the Shijiazhuang Labor
Camp, "retroactive to the day she was arrested."
To force Ms. Li to give up her faith in Falun Gong, the
guards in the labor camp tortured her severely. Ms. Li was in
critical condition a number of times as a result of this severe
torture. Her family requested to see her repeatedly, but their
requests were all rejected. On April 8, 2002, Ms. Li's condition
deteriorated so much that the labor camp had to send her to
the People's Hospital of Hebei Province for emergency care.
Only at this point was her family allowed to see her. Ms. Li was
later transferred to the Third Hospital of Hebei Province for
treatment, but her injuries were so severe that the doctors
could not heal her paralysis. She also suffered from lung and
urinary system injuries, all resulting from the severe torture.
Her whole body twitched constantly, and she often lost con-
sciousness. The doctors had to use a respirator to maintain her
breath.
On December 3, 2002, Zhao Jinlong, the director of
Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, and policeman Zhou Yilin demand-
ed that the hospital halt its intensive care for Ms. Li. The
excuse was that Ms. Li's one-year sentence was over! She was
thus forcibly moved out of hospital.
Ms. Li Huiqi is paralyzed and relies on a
respirator to breathe
Ms. Li Huiqi's legs are deformed and
she could not stand up
Beaten to Blindness
Sun Changli, female, 44, resident of Hongmiaozi Village in
Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.
Ms. Sun Changli was detained in the Wujiabao Labor
Camp. To force her to give up practicing Falun Gong, the guards
there repeatedly tortured her. One night in late December
2001, several guards dragged Ms. Sun out of her cell and
began another torture session. They forced her to maintain a
squatting position for a long time, and then forced her to bend
forward with her two arms stretched out sideways, the so-
called "flying an airplane" torture. The police beat her savage-
ly whenever she could not hold this agonizing position. This tor-
ture lasted for four hours. Eventually, the police beat Ms. Sun
to the point that she completely lost her eyesight. However, she
was still tortured in the days that followed. Moreover, they
threatened to beat her to death if she dared to tell people how
she was beaten to blindness.
Eye Popped out from Beating
Zhang Binghui, female, 51, resident of Changchun City, Jilin
Province. On February 10, 2002, Ms. Zhang Binghui was
detained at the Changchun City's Kaixuan Hospital because
she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. The doctors
and nurses at the hospital viciously beat Ms. Zhang with an
electric baton and other instruments, causing one of her eyes
to fall out. She was transferred to the Changchun City Center
Hospital, but her eye could not be saved.
Loss of Eyesight Due to Severe Torture
Liu Xiaolian, female, 61, resident of Chibi Town, Chibi City,
Hubei Province.
In December of 2000, Ms. Liu Xiaolian was detained in a
labor camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province because she
went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. She was
denied drinking water for nine days and beaten by police. Later,
she was escorted to a detention center in her hometown. She
was detained at the detention center for 20 months and suf-
fered various forms of torture. She was never allowed a family
visit or a full night's sleep. She was once forced to kneel on the
ground for twelve hours. On a number of occasions, officer Ye
Jun beat Ms. Liu so viciously that she lost consciousness. As a
result of the severe torture, Ms. Liu could not walk, sit, eat,
move, or get up, and she lost vision in both eyes. However, the
police continued to detain and torture her. Once, Ye Jun
punched and kicked Ms. Liu in her lower abdomen so hard that
her internal organs were severely damaged and she had to be
sent to the hospital for treatment. In the hospital, despite her
injuries and blindness, she was forcibly injected with a poison-
ous substance that caused her to vomit blood and pass blood
in her stool. She was released only after she went on a hunger
strike. However, as soon as her eyesight got better, she was
detained again.
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Torture
Hung Up with Arms Handcuffed and Tortured for
over 100 days
Qiu Cuixiang, female, 50, resident of Chongqing City, Sichuan
Province.
In 2001, while detained at the Chongqing City Women's
Labor Camp, Ms. Qiu Cuixiang was hung up with her arms
handcuffed behind her back for more than 100 days. While
hung in this position, she was tortured in a variety of ways: her
eyes were poked with pins when she dozed off slightly; her face
was completely covered with yellow adhesive tape, including
her nose and mouth, causing her to pass out from suffocation;
and she was beaten until she was bruised all over. Early one
morning, a guard cut all her hair, leaving just a small spot on
the top of her head to insult her. They then wrote remarks slan-
dering Falun Gong all over her body. Right before the New Year
of 2002, the labor camp officials extended Ms. Qiu's detention
term by ten months because she still refused to renounce
Falun Gong.
Policeman Burned Face with Cigarette
Zhao Fengying, female, resident of Caojiatugou Village,
Hongshagou Town, Weifang City, Shandong Province; her
hometown was Dongnan Village, Hongshagou Town.
On March 6, 2000, Ms. Zhao Fengying took a train from
Weifang City to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop per-
secuting Falun Gong. At 3 p.m. on March 8, local police abduct-
ed her from a Beijing hotel. Around 8:30 p.m., police officer
Song Shuling started beating and kicking her violently. At about
11 p.m., Song grasped Ms. Zhao's hair and used his cigarette
to burn her face about
30 times. Ms. Zhao
was sent back to
Weifang City, arriving
at about 6 a.m. on
March 10, 2000.
The photos of Ms. Zhao were talzen at the
Hongshagou Police Station of Weifang City:
at around 8 a.m. on March 10, 2000
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Forced to Stand in the Snow for Three Days
and Deprived of Sleep for Seven
Mu Xiangjie, female, resident of Hongqiao District, Tianjin City.
Ms. Mu Xiangjie was detained at the Tianjin City Women's
Labor Camp. Because she refused to give up practicing Falun
Gong. In January 2000, Ms. Mu was forced to stand outside in
the snow for three days and nights. She suffered such severe
frostbite that her hands and feet swelled and festered, leaving
her unable to walk for a month. However, the guards still used
a pair of small handcuffs on her. They handcuffed her so tight
ly that the handcuffs cut into her flesh and caused her wrists
to bleed. The guards also placed her in solitary confinement
and strapped her arms to a steel bar in the window so she
could not sleep for seven days. They shocked Ms. Mu in her
mouth with an electric baton and beat her arms with electric
batons. After she was released from solitary confinement, Ms'.
Mu could not move her legs and there were blood blisters covi
ering her arms.
Although Ms. Mu was severely weakened by the torture,
the guards still forced her to do hard labor for long hours, get-
ting up at 5 a.m. and having to work until 1 or 2 a.m.
Forced to Walk on Knees
Huang Cengxiu, female, 68, resident of Chibi City, Hubei
Since July 20, 1999, Ms. Huang Cengxiu has been arrest-
ed four times and detained for a total of almost two years. She
was interrogated many times. Once, she was forced to kneel
down and walk on her knees. On another occasion, Officer Ye
Jun slapped her face so severely that her entire face turned
black and blue and her lips bled. Later, her left hand was hand-
cuffed to the top of a window frame and she was forced to
kneel down, suspended. During her fourth detention period at
the Jiyu Police Station, while she was sitting cross-legged, ode
policeman pulled her left leg free and stomped on her right
ankle with his boot heel. Later, a number of guards kicked h'er
repeatedly. Her right leg remained swollen for weeks.
Province.
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Torture
Face Disfigured from Beating
Zang Yuxia, female, resident of Daqing City, Heilongjiang
Province.
The large bruise covered Ms. Zang Yuxia's face and ear
One day in April 2002, several policemen broke into and
ransacked Ms. Zang Yuxia's home without a warrant. Failing to
find what they wanted, they forced Ms. Zang and her child, who
is not a Falun Gong practitioner, into the police car. While in
police custody, Ms. Zang was tortured severely. The torture left
her face deformed, and her body was traumatized. She devel-
oped a high temperature of over 40°C that lasted a very long
time and made her comatose.
Fingers Squeezed Between Chopsticks,
Body Doused With Hot Water
1. Yang Jingxin, female, 37, resident of Weiping Township,
Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province.
2. Lu Guifang, female, 50, resident of Weiping Township,
Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province.
3. Zhao Yuhua, female, 41, resident of Weiping Township,
Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province.
On April 24, 2002, Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Yang
Jingxin, Ms. Lu Guifang, and Ms. Zhao Yuhua went to Beijing to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. At 5
a.m. on April 25, they were arrested and detained at the
Tiananmen Square Police Station.
At the Tiananmen Square Police Station, the police
stripped Ms. Yang, Ms. Lu, and Ms. Zhao down to their under-
wear and handcuffed their hands behind their backs. The
police inserted chalk and chopsticks between their fingers and
squeezed very hard. Their fingers were squeezed until the
chalk was crushed and the chopsticks broken. This torture
caused their fingers to turn dark blue and become severely
swollen. The police also poured boiling hot water over Ms.
Yang. Her entire body swelled up, and she lost consciousness
twice during the five hours of torture.
Later, Ms. Yang, Ms. Lu and Ms. Zhao were sent to the
notorious Masanjia Labor Camp.
Internal Organs Damaged and Bones Broken
from Torture
Li Shujie, female, resident of Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province
In early November of 2001, police broke into Ms. Li
Shujie's home and took her to the Anshunlu Police Station. A
group of policemen led by Liu Dayi took turns beating her. They
tied her down to a "tiger bench" and beat her savagely, caus-
ing her to bleed badly. When Ms. Li lost her control of bladder,
officer Liu soaked up Ms Li's blood and urine from the floor
and wiped it on her face, using filthy words to insult her. They
also covered her head with a plastic bag to suffocate her and
repeatedly poked her face with needles. Only when she lost
consciousness did they remove the plastic bag. However, as
soon as she regained consciousness, they continued the tor-
ture. As a result of the torture, several of Ms. Li's bones were
broken, and her face and body were covered with bruises. The
police then imprisoned her in the Qiqihar First Detention
Center.
A few days later, officer Liu took Ms. Li into a room for inter-
rogation and beat her up once again. The severe beating
injured her internal organs, causing severe bleeding. Despite
her critical condition, the directors of the detention center, Mr.
Feng and Mr. Yang, refused to send her for medical treatment.
Instead, Mr. Yang ordered a staff member to inject her with an
unknown substance. A month later, the police took Ms. Li away
from the detention center.
Shocked on Sensitive Body Parts and Vomited
a Liter of Blood
Wang Shouhui, female, resident of Changchun City, Jilin
Province.
Because of her belief in Falun Gong, she had been repeat-
edly arrested and tortured by local police. In mid-April 2002,
Ms. Wang was arrested once again. She was sent to the
Changchun Police Station. The policemen blindfolded her and
took her to a torture room on the hill near Jingyuetan, where
they tortured her on the "tiger bench" for two days. They
shocked her with electric batons on her breasts and genitals.
They beat her face, head, and breasts until she vomited up
nearly a liter of blood. The left side of her face was fractured,
and she lost the vision in her left eye due to the beating. The
police then sent Ms. Wang to the Shuangyang Detention
Center, where her lungs became infected because of the tor-
ture. She went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. The
police released her only when her condition became so critical
that they feared she might die in custody.
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Torture
Force -Fed Two Bottles of Hot Mustard Oil
Lin Lixin, female, in her 40s, resident of Mudanjiang City,
Heilongjiang Province.
On January 16, 2002, policemen from the Mudanjiang City
Police Station arrested Ms. Lin Lixin and secretly sentenced
her to a six-year jail term in the Mudanjiang City Detention
Center. On April 2002, Ms. Lin went on hunger strike to protest
the maltreatment she suffered in the detention center. The
guards first attempted to force-feed her through a tube insert-
ed into her mouth. When that failed, they forcibly inserted a
tube through her nose, and left the tube in her nose for a long
period of time for force-feeding. They even force-fed Ms. Lin two
bottles of hot mustard oil. This caused severe injury to Ms.
Lin's stomach, and she vomited a lot of blood. On July 12,
2002, Ms. Lin had to be sent to a hospital for resuscitation.
However, on August 23, 2002, she was taken back to the
detention center. Ms. Lin was terribly emaciated. Her legs were
thinner than ordinary people's arms, and she could not open
her eyes, speak, or move. Nevertheless, the police still kept
heavy foot shackles on her.
Shocked and Beaten during a Hunger Strike
Zhang Shuxia, female, resident of Qinghe District, Tieling City,
Liaoning Province.
Because Ms. Zhang Shuxia refused to renounce her belief
in Falun Gong, on August 1, 2002, she was arrested and taken
to the Qinghe Police Station at Tieling City. The police hand-
cuffed Ms. Zhang and hung her up by her hands and her left
foot. She was left hanging in this agonizing position for over
five hours. Meanwhile, the police used electric batons to shock
her, and they kicked her hard with leather boots. The torture
left black and blue marks all over her body.
On August 5, 2002, Wang Yi and several other policemen
interrogated Ms. Zhang again. At that point, she was on a
hunger strike and had been without food and water for five
days. Her body was so weak that it was difficult for her to
stand, yet the policemen shocked Ms. Zhang's hands, armpits,
ears, head, and other sensitive parts of her body with electric
batons. The torture lasted from 2:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Her
whole body was trembling. Her pained cries could be heard
throughout the corridor. Not wanting her screams to be heard,
Wang Yi gagged Ms. Zhang's mouth with a towel. After the elec-
tric shocks, her ears and armpits were swollen, and she devel-
oped large blisters. During the whole interrogation and torture
session, she was not allowed to use bathroom, and was forced
to defecate in her pants.
Ms. Zhang was later released, but was forced to become
homeless to avoid further persecution.
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Severe Injury of Esophagus from Force -Feeding
On April 19, 2002, policemen from the Liulinqiao Police
Station abducted Ms. Zhang Jie, a resident of Handan City,
Hebei Province, and took her to the No. 1 Detention Center of
Handan. When Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike to protest
her detention, the guards force-fed her by inserting a tube into
her mouth, badly injuring her esophagus in the process. This
caused a large amount of blood to gush out from her mouth.
On another occasion, police guard Wu Xia tormented Ms.
Zhang for a period of 24 hours by tying her arms so tightly
behind her back that the insides of her arms touched each
other. As a result, the nerves in Ms. Zhang's thumbs were dam-
aged, and she lost all sensation in her thumbs. Later, the
police guards placed a 60 -pound shackle on Ms. Zhang's feet
and chained her hands to the shackle. She was left in this ago-
nizing position for seven days and seven nights, during which
time she was not allowed to eat, use the restroom, or sleep. As
a result, her entire body became swollen and she had to be
sent for emergency treatment. The police have blocked any fur-
ther information about Ms. Zhang.
Teeth Chipped from Force -Feeding
Gao Shuyun, female, resident of Tiefa City, Liaoning Province.
On February 12, 2002, policemen broke into Ms. Gao
Shuyun's home and confiscated her personal property. Ms.
Gao was then sentenced to three years of forced labor in the
Tieling Labor Camp. During her detention, Ms. Gao went on a
hunger strike for 41 days. On the sixth day of her hunger strike,
the doctor in the labor camp stabbed the arches of her feet
with needles. In order to force-feed her, officer Tian ordered
several inmates to sit on her, while others tried to open her
teeth with a toothbrush and a steel spoon, causing four of her
front teeth to chip. She was in critical condition after repeated
force-feeding, and was diagnosed with intestinal adhesions,
hypertension, and an abnormal electrocardiogram. The labor
camp released her for fear that she would die in custody. After
her release, policeman Wang Biao of the Tiefa City Police
Station extorted 1,000 Yuan from her family.
Torture
Two Elderly Women Beaten by a Gang of
Government Officials
1. Zhang Yuhua, female, 55, resident of Daqinjia Town,
Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.
2. Wang Lianfang, female, 58, resident of Daqinjia Town,
Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.
On November 9, 1999, Ms. Zhang Yuhua and Ms. Wang
Lianfang were arrested while on their way to Beijing to appeal
to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Police
escorted them to the Daqinjia Town Government bureau, and a
gang of dozens of staff came out to assault these two elderly
women and rob them of their money. Four young men held
each old woman down, while dozens of people took turns beat-
ing and kicking them. The two old women passed out many
times during their one -day and two -night ordeal of torture.
Then they were sent to the Zhaoyuan City Police Bureau and
detained for 15 days.
Elderly ladies bruised by
beatings
Pushed off from the 4th Floor
Liu Tao, female, 28, resident of Tangu district, Shijiazhuang
City, Hebei Province.
In October 2000, the police arrested Ms. Liu Tao for telling
people about Falun Gong. She was sentenced to three years of
forced labor at Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, Hebei Province. The
camp guards used various means to force her to renounce
Falun Gong, including handcuffing her, placing her in solitary
confinement, forcing her to stand, and depriving her of sleep
for an extensive amount of time.
On May 11, 2001, at approximately 7:00 a.m., the guards
once more tortured Ms. Liu, and forced her to jump from the
fourth floor of a building. The impact caused ten broken bones,
four of which were compound fractures. The camp officials did
not send Mr. Liu to the hospital or give her any treatment until
11:00 a.m., by which time Ms. Liu had lost consciousness as a
result of bleeding.
Ms. Liu was sent back to the labor camp only 26 days after
surgery, still encased in a body cast, even though she had steel
pins in various parts of her body. The police denied her family's
repeated requests to bail her out for independent hospitaliza-
tion. In January 2002, the police transferred Ms. Liu to the
Hebei Law Enforcement Education Center for further persecu-
tion.
Beaten with an Electric Baton and Wooden Stick
Zhong Bo, female, 42, resident of Anda City, Heilongjiang
Province, an employee of the Anda Chemistry Factory.
At 9:00 a.m. on May 31, 2002, Liu Yingshan, an officer
from the "610 Office" of Anda City, led six policemen to Ms.
Zhong Bo's home. They confiscated her family's property and
forcibly searched her, groping her body. They then took Ms.
Zhong to the Anda City Politics and Administration Department.
The vice -director of the Anda City Police Department, Wang
Jun, ordered several policemen to strap Ms. Zhong to a chair
and beat her. Liu Yingshan shocked Ms. Zhong's back with an
electric baton, and Wang Jun fiercely beat Ms. Zhong's head
and body with a wooden stick until she passed out.
Later at the hospital, an examination showed that two of
Ms. Zhong's right ribs were broken; there were inch -long
wounds at the corners of her eyes and ears; her teeth were bro-
ken; her whole face was black and swollen; and her body was
covered with severe bruises. Ms. Zhong has not yet completely
recovered. She has no memory of what happened and she can-
not take care of herself. However, the police still do not leave
her alone. She is under constant surveillance.
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Torture: Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp
Electric Shock, Woolen Shoes, Small Cell, and Forced Labor in the Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp
Zheng Donghui, female, 30, former accountant at the
Changchun Optical and Mechanical Instrument Factory,
Changchun City, Jilin Province.
People's Republic of China
ININAN
Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp
Changchun City, Jilin Province
Ms. Zheng Donghui has been held at the Heizuizi Women's
Labor Camp in Changchun City. To force her to give up Falun
Gong, the guards at the labor camp have continuously tortured
her in many ways. She was once locked in solitary confinement
in a small cell for over two weeks. The cell was dark and damp,
and had no window, water, or toilet. Ms. Zheng had to defecate
and urinate inside the same small cell. She was also not
allowed to wash herself. When she was released from the cell,
the stench in the cell was unbearable.
In the summer of 2001, the guards forced her to wear felt
shoes, which caused her to have fungal infections throughout
the summer.
To protest the cruel treatment, Ms. Zheng went on a
hunger strike for three months. Labor camp guard Liu Lianying
not only force-fed her, but also shocked Ms. Zheng every day on
her neck and face for three months. As a result, her neck and
face became black and blue, and at one point a large, fester-
ing wound on the back of her neck became infected. She suf-
fered severe pain as a result of this wound. Because the con-
tinuous electric shocks, Ms. Zheng developed severe heart
problems, but was not allowed to medical treatment. Her
health declined rapidly, and her life is in grave danger.
As of June 2002, Ms. Zheng is still being detained at the
Changchun City Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp.
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Lu Shuqiu, female, 46, resident of Jilin City, Jilin Province.
In October 2000, Ms. Lu decided to go to Beijing to appeal
to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was
arrested and escorted back to Jilin City. On November 24,1
2000, she was sent to the Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp in'
Changchun City, Jilin Province, where she was imprisoned and
tortured for eight months.
At the labor camp, Ms. Lu was forced to take on an excesl
sive workload every day. She was forced to work from 4:00 a.m.
to 11:00 p.m. She had no break during the day, not even to go
to the restroom.
In addition to forced hard labor, the guards tortured Ms. Lu
constantly to force her to renounce Falun Gong. As a result, she1
lost so much weight that she became little more than skin and
bones. However, the torture escalated. In April 2001, the
guards shocked her with several electric batons simultaneous
ly. To protest the cruel treatment, Ms. Lu started a hunger
strike in May 2001. Guards handcuffed Ms. Lu to an iron
board, electrical shocked her, and force-fed her three times a
day with rotten vegetable soup. Ms. Lu's health was complete
ly destroyed from so much torture. The electric shocks caused
damage to her heart muscle, and the force-feeding injured helr
stomach. She eventually developed vagina hemorrhaging and
was on the verge of death.
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The labor camp sent Ms. Lu home at the end of July 2001
to avoid responsibility for her death in custody. Ms. Lu was abfle
to recover. However, in February of 2002, she was arrested
again, and was tortured to death in Jilin City's liaison office tin
Beijing.
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Torture: Yongchuan Women's Prison
Force -Fed, Lost Teeth, and Lost Half of her Weight
Gong Zhihui, female, 37, resident of Miyi County, Panzhihua
City, Sichuan Province.
In August 2001, police from Binggu
Police Station of Miyi County arrested
Ms. Gong Zhihui while she was visiting
fellow Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao
Nongying's home. She was detained at
the political security section of the Miyi
Police Bureau. Policeman Zhou Ling
and others shackled Ms. Gong, forced
her to maintain a half -squatting posi-
tion for two days and nights, and beat
Ms. Gong Zhihui before her during the whole "interrogation".
being tortured Later, Ms. Gong was transferred to Miyi
Detention Center. During her detention,
director Wu and the guards continuously tortured Ms. Gong. In
February 2002, Ms. Gong was released because she had
become extremely weakened by their torture.
Shortly after her release, the authorities of Panlian
Township of Sichuan Province arrested Ms. Gong again while
she was talking to others about the persecution of Falun Gong.
She was taken to the local police station, where Xiang Jinfa,
the head of the political security section, hung Ms. Gong up by
her handcuffs for one hour and prohibited her from the use of
the restroom. Then she was taken to the interrogation room,
where she was shackled throughout the night in a painful posi-
tion, in which she could neither
stand straight nor squat. By the
next morning, Ms. Gong was too
weak and in too much pain to
stand up. The police officers noti-
fied her family to pick her up.
Not long after her second
release, Ms. Gong went to Beijing
to appeal on behalf of Falun
Gong. She was arrested and jailed
at the Dongcheng District
Detention Center in Beijing. The
police grabbed Ms. Gong by her
hair, swung her head, and banged
it against the wall. Much of her
hair was pulled out. When Ms.
Gong went on a hunger strike to
protest the inhuman treatment,
police instigated other inmates to
kick and punch her. They also
force-fed her while pinching her
tendons and plugging her nose.
As a result, Ms. Gong was unable
to walk and two of her teeth were
knocked out.
Ms. Gong's hair has been
torn out after the torture
Ms. Gong's teeth knocked 4
out while being force-fed
Ten days later, she was sent back to Neijiang Detention
Center of Sichuang Province and detained there for 37 days.
While in custody, her condition deteriorated, and she vomited
blood and suffered heart ischemia. Ms. Gong was losing her
eyesight and was on the verge of death. To avoid the responsi-
bility having her die in their custody, the officials of the deten-
tion center released Ms. Gong. At that point, Ms. Gong's body
weight had dropped from over 110 lbs to only 55 lbs.
All Four Limbs Shackled and Force -Fed for Over
Three Months
Liu Mingwei, female, employee of the Jilin City Water Company,
resident of Jilin City, Jilin Province.
Because Ms. Liu Mingwei went to
Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in
August 1999, she was fired from her
workplace. Then, at the end of
September 1999, she was sen-
tenced to one year in a labor camp.
After her release from the labor
camp, on November 22, 2000 Ms.
Liu was arrested again and sen-
tenced to three years in the
Changchun City Women's Prison, Jilin
Province. Upon arriving there, the
guards tried to force her to give up
Falun Gong, and so Ms. Liu began a hunger strike that lasted
for nine months. She was released on October 6, 2002, but
was under 24-hour surveillance at home by local policemen.
Ms. Liu Mingwei
On October 22, 2002, she was arrested once again
because she had bought a ticket to Beijing and it was pre-
sumed she would make another appeal. She was once again
detained at the Changchun Women's Prison. During her deten-
tion, one inmate, Yin, was ordered to curse at her and beat her
every day. Once this inmate put a mop cloth into her mouth and
rubbed very hard, creating many blood blisters in her mouth.
After Ms. Liu went on a hunger strike to protest the torture,
guards force-fed her salt and raw corn gruel through a thick
tube every day. They left the tube inside her stomach for a long
time and shackled her limbs all the time so that she couldn't
move an inch. This abuse lasted for over three months. The tor-
ture made Ms. Liu extremely emaciated and weak.
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Torture: Huadian Police Station
A Personal Experience of Torture at
the Huadian Police Station
By Ban Huijuan
My name is Ban Huijuan and I am a Falun Gong practition-
er. On June 3, 2002, I was kidnapped by the local police, who
took me to the Political and Security Team of the Police
Department of Huadian City, Jilin Province. I was brutally tor-
tured there.
At around midnight on June 3, Police Chief Wang held a
meeting with those who had been taking turns beating me, and
threatened me afterward, "Ban Huijuan, be stubborn, I want to
see you stubborn." He then nodded to those vicious police-
men. By 3 a.m., seeing that I still refused to provide them with
the information they asked for, three policemen bound me onto
a bed and forcefully stretched out my limbs. The blood flow to
my limbs was stopped as a result and I suffered a great deal of
pain. Seeing that I remained silent, they shouted as a threat,
"We are going to call in two rapists, feed them aphrodisiacs,
and then have them rape you!" Then they used different
objects to stab at my body and sensitive areas. I shouted out.
It took them by surprise, so they stopped their activities and
switched to a different tactic. They soaked napkins with water
and put them on my face one by one to suffocate me. After five
layers of napkins, I started to lose consciousness, and I don't
know how long it was before they removed the napkins to keep
me from suffocating to death. They repeated this suffocation
routine several times, but I still didn't say a word. They then
blew cigarette smoke into a plastic bag and placed it over my
face. This choked me terribly.
They went from one form of torture to another until 9 a.m.
the next morning. The deputy team leader named Jin came in
and said, "We have found your husband, Xu Guijun, your print-
er for printing Falun Gong materials, and everything else. Now
I want to see if you confess." Three policemen came in and sav-
agely beat me. I was soaked with sweat and lost conscious-
ness. They poured cold water on my face and put a dirty sock
into my mouth, saying, "Don't let her shout out."
I was sent to another detention center in the evening on
June 4 and was locked in a "small cell" with two other Falun
Gong practitioners. A small cell is a very small room with no
window, no bathroom, and no beds. We were imprisoned in the
room for over three months, and by that time, due to the damp-
ness and unsanitary conditions, we all got scabies. The condi-
tions were so bad that eventually our cell was filled with knee-
deep putrid water. The guards were forced to move us to anoth-
er small cell, but the conditions also quickly deteriorated there.
It was nearing the end of autumn and we soon faced the cold,
but the guards refused to give us anything to cover ourselves
with at night.
To protest the inhuman treatment, I went on a hunger
strike. On October 17, the guard used a 38 -pound shackle on
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me and forcibly bound me with the shackle to a "death -bed," a
torture device normally used on death row criminals. Only on
the eighth day of my hunger strike did the guards release me
from the death -bed, fearing I would die. The shackle was left
on my feet until the evening of November 4. I wore it for a total
of 20 days. On November 4, the heavy shackle was briefly
removed, as the city authority intended to put on a show trial
of Falun Gong practitioners on November 5. My feet were terri-
bly swollen from wearing the shackles for so long.
Tang Yiwen Nearly Beaten to Death
Tang Yiwen, female, 35, resident of Guangzhou City,
On May 13, 2000, Ms. Tang Yiwen was arrested when she
appealed for Falun Gong
at Tiananmen Square in
Beijing. While being held in
custody, she was beaten
by the Beijing policemen.
She was released because
she was on the verge of
dying from the severe
beating (the photos were
taken on May 19, 2000).
Guangdong
Province.
On August 29, 2000,
Guangzhou policemen
took Ms. Tang from her
home. She was sentenced
to two years of forced labor
and was detained at the
Chatou Women's Labor
Camp in Guangzhou City,
Guangdong Province.
During her detention, she
was monitored by the
inmates and was often
deprived of sleep during
the night. Because she has
refused to give up Falun
Gong, she is still being
detained in the labor camp
even though her sentence
was over long ago.
Injures all over Ms. Tang's body after
she was released from the Chatou
Women's Labor Camp
Torture: Wanjia Labor Camp
Punitive Force -Feeding, Solitary Confinement, Scabies, and Rape at the Wanjia Labor Camp
Since the Chinese government started its brutal persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, thousands of Falun Gong prac-
titioners have suffered horrific torture in Wanjia Labor Camp simply because they would not give up their belief in Falun Gong.
The torture of female Falun Gong practitioners is particularly egregious in Wanjia Labor Camp.
The living and sanitary conditions in Wanjia Labor Camp are beyond
unbearable. Falun Gong practitioners have been forced to sleep on wet floors,
not allowed to wash, and not allowed to change clothes. Many practitioners
have been subjected to solitary confinement in the "small cell", which is 1.3 by
2.2 meters, and only 1.5 meters high. The small cells are cold and damp, and
those who are confined in a small cell are forced to sleep, eat, urinate, and
defecate in the same cell for extended time periods, some over ten months.
More than 98% of the practitioners at Wanjia Labor Camp have scabies that
causes extreme itching and ulcerations all over their bodies. Instead of giving
medical treatment, the labor camp guards and doctors use knives or metal
spoons to scratch the pus -filled cysts as a form of torture. They scrape the
spoons back and forth through the flesh and blood while the practitioner
scream in pain on the ground. After the digging, they "clean" the blood from the
practitioner's bodies using filthy, freezing cold, rusty water. Some practitioners
have suffered from scabies for years. Their bodies were swollen and covered
with pus and blood from injuries caused by other tortures as well.
Torture in Wanjia Labor Camp is rampant and heinous. Anything that can
cause physical and mental agonies has been employed by the camp guards to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. The
only limit of the torturer is their wicked imagination. In addition, female practitioners are often sexually abused, and some have
been raped or gang raped.
People's Republic of China
Wanjia Labor Camp
Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Due to the severe torture, at least ten practitioners have died in this labor camp.
Punitive Force -Feeding and Beatings
Guo Mingxia, female, 47, resident of Chengzhi Village,
Chaoyang Township, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
Shuangcheng City police arrested Ms. Guo at her home
because she is a Falun Gong practitioner. She was sent to the
Shuangcheng City Detention Center, and then transferred to
the Wanjia Labor Camp. During her detention at the Wanjia
Labor Camp, the guards and the inmates often tortured Ms.
Guo. She went on hunger strikes many times to protest the ille-
gal detention and inhuman treatment. One day in early 2001,
when Ms. Guo refused to be force-fed, Song Shaohui, the direc-
tor of Wanjia Labor Camp hospital, beat her so badly that her
nose turned black and blue and her face was swollen beyond
recognition. After the beating, she was forcefully injected with
an unknown drug and then dragged into a solitary compart-
ment. Due to the severe beating, Ms. Guo lost consciousness,
the back of her head became numb, and she had difficulty
moving her hands and feet.
On October 24, 2001, Ms. Guo was sent to the Camp hos-
pital, where she was force-fed for over 50 days. Song Shaohui
and the doctors slapped her face, pulled her hair out, and beat
her severely during the force -feedings. After the 40th day of
forced feeding, Ms. Guo vomited blood for over ten days
because her stomach had been badly injured by the feeding
tube. However, the camp doctors continued to force-feed her.
Her weight dropped from 70 kg (160 lbs) to just over 30 kg (70
lbs). After the force-feeding Ms. Guo was extremely weak and
her whole body would shake.
Gang -Raped and Brutalized in the Male
Criminal .Units
At the end of May 2001, to protest the arbitrary extension
of forced labor terms, several female practitioners in Team 12
began a a hunger strike. On May 24, Shi, the director of the
labor camp, instructed the guards to put all the female practi-
tioners of Team 12 into the male inmate buildings. Over 60
female practitioners, including Ms. Liu, Ms. Li Lan, Ms. Liu
Fengzhen, Ms. Xie Jinxian, Ms. Yang Huiling, Ms. Song Yusu,
Ms. Wu Shulian, Ms. Cao Liandi, and Ms. Wu Xinru, were sent
to male criminal units. In the male criminal units, male guards
and male prisoners watched them 24 hours a day. Under the
instructions of the labor camp official, Lu Zhenshan, the
guards hung up practitioners, beat them, inflicted electric
shocks, handcuffed them with hands behind their backs to the
front of beds, made them stand day and night, deprived them
of sleep, and did not allow them to wash or change their
clothes. They also enlisted male inmates to beat practitioners.
Many practitioners lost consciousness during these beatings
and sustained severe injuries. Some practitioners were made
to stay in a squatting position for 36 hours and their legs
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Torture: Wanjia Labor Camp
became swollen and numb. Some practitioners were forced to
continuously sit on small stools for as long as 21 days. As a
result, their skin cracked and bled.
Among the other horrors, two female practitioners were
gang -raped by three camp guards; Ms. Song Yusu was repeat-
edly dunked into a water tank; Ms. Wu Shulian was drenched
and then shocked with electric batons until her body was black
and blue; Ms. Cao Liandi was hung up until she lost conscious-
ness; Ms. Xie Jinxian, Ms. Wu Xinru, Ms. Shurong, and others
were hung up and beaten until they were black and blue from
electric shocks and police batons; Ms. Yang Huiling and others
were hung up every ten minutes and one of the practitioner's
arms became dislocated; the guards dragged one practitioner
by her hair across the floor, leaving her injured and bleeding
from the sand scraping her skin.
Beaten During a Heart Attack
Zhao Xiru, female, resident of Jilin Province.
On January 14, 2002, Ms. Zhao Xiru was taken to the
Wanjia Labor Camp hospital after she lost consciousness. The
examination and an electrocardiograph revealed she had heart
disease and she was classified as a high-risk patient. However,
instead of giving her medical treatment, the guards sent her
back to the labor camp. On January 17, 2002, at around 8
p.m., Ms. Zhao suffered a heart attack. Guards Wang Junping
and Hu Bo came in to her cell and started beating her. Another
guard, Han Yushan, also joined in the beating using a broom
and a mop. Han pulled Ms. Zhao's hair and beat her while she
was unable to move on the bed. The torture didn't stop until
the guards became tired. As a result of the beating, Ms. Zhao
had purple bruises all over her body and clumps of her hair was
pulled out.
Solitary Confinement
Lin Yongmei, female, 33, resident of Heilongjiang Province.
On the morningofJune 26, 2001, Ms. Lin went to question
guard Wu Jinying about the deaths of three fellow practitioners.
Wu became angry and threw Ms. Lin into a solitary compart-
ment. The solitary compartment was less than 3 square
meters in area and 1.5 meters high with no window, water, or
toilet. It was dark and damp. Ms. Lin could not stand up. She
had to defecate and urinate inside the compartment and she
was not allowed to wash. Because of the filthy conditions, she
developed pustules and blisters on her body.
On July 4, 2001 Ms. Lin and four other practitioners start-
ed a hunger strike to protest the inhumane treatment. She
demanded to see camp officials and wrote an appeal letter.
However, the labor camp officials escalated the persecution of
these women by taking away their normal break time. In August
2001, because Ms. Lin practiced the Falun Gong exercises
while in a solitary compartment, female guard Wang
Zhonghua, dragged her out and shoved her forward, making
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her stumble against a chair and fall on her back.
Twelve other practitioners were also put into the solitary
compartments on the same day as Ms. Lin. Some of them lost
consciousness at times, some lost their memories and had dif-
ficulty breathing, and some were unable to walk. Ms. Lin and
the other practitioners were confined in the solitary compart-
ments for at least four months.
Communist Brainwashing and Punitive Force -Feeding
WangYuzhi, female, 47, was a businesswoman living in Harbin
City, Heilongjiang Province. She is now living in Vancouver,
Canada.
On July 16, 2001, Ms.
Wang was arrested for the
third time because she is a
Falun Gong practitioner. The
police confiscated US
$50,000 from her and froze
her bank accounts. In
November 2001, she was
transferred from the Second
Detention Center to the
Wanjia Labor Camp. Every day
during her detention at
Wanjia, Ms. Wang and other
Falun Gong practitioners were
forced to sit in one position
and watch anti -Falun Gong
propaganda on TV or listen to
the guards for over eight
hours. No one was allowed to
Ms. Wang Yuzhi and her son
move. Sometimes, a brainwashing session would last for days
and they weren't allowed to sleep the entire time. Often, they
were not even allowed to use the toilet. In addition, they were
routinely beaten or whipped, tied with ropes and hung from the
ceiling, given electric shocks, forced to sit naked on iron chairs!
or raped by male criminals.
To protest the inhuman treatment, Ms. Wang started a
hunger strike, after which she was repeatedly force-fed. The
guards and camp hospital doctors beat her to the point where
she was almost unconscious, and then they tied her arms and
legs before forcing a tube through her nostril. They force-feMd
ground corn grain mixed with cold water through the tube. Ms!
Wang was in excruciating pain during these "feedings."
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In May 2002, after nine months of detention, Ms. Wang
health had deteriorated to the point where she couldn't even
stand up. Her eyes and nose were festering with blood and pus
from the force -feedings and her eyesight was almost gone. Her
nostrils were so swollen that the doctors could no longer force
a tube into them. Realizing she was on the verge of death, the
camp called her relatives and told them to take her home.
Torture: Gaoyang Labor Camp
A Personal Experience of Torture at the Gaoyang Labor Camp
I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Hebei Province. In
November 2000, because I had gone to Beijing to appeal for
the right to practice Falun Gong, the local police came to my
house and arrested me. I was detained in a local detention
center for a month. On New Year's day of 2001, I and five other
Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced to two years of forced
labor and sent to Gaoyang Labor Camp of Baoding City, Hebei
Province.
To protest against the illegal detention and inhuman treat-
ment, we went on a hunger strike. A month later, we were sent
to the Gaoyang Labor Camp. Our health condition had deterio-
rated greatly and everyone showed signs of high blood pres-
sure or heart disease. Among us, there was one practitioner
whose entire body was swollen. She had blood in her urine and
was on the verge of death. Ma Fuwei, the executive deputy
head of the local Qiaodong police station, ordered us sent to
the labor camp in spite of our poor condition.
As soon as we were in the labor camp, the especially atro-
cious treatment began. All of our personal items were ran-
sacked. Then we were forced to write a guarantee renouncing
Falun Gong, or to face torture by the camp guards around the
clock.
A practitioner named Yang from Chengde City, Hebei
Province was beaten by four camp guards and shocked with
electric batons for a whole day and night, because she refused
to renounce Falun Gong. She was injured all over her body and
the whole camp could hear her moaning from agony. She could
not stand up and could not relieve herself even eight days after
the torture.
Another practitioner from Baoding City, Hebei Province
also did not write the guarantee letter. The guards used the
electric batons to shock her head, face and whole body. Her
head and face were swollen beyond the point of recognition.
Her whole body was covered with blisters, red and purple in
color. The dark scars have not disappeared even to this day.
Another practitioner, named Xiao Li, was also beaten by
the guards three times on the head and face. She was knocked
to the ground, grabbed by the hair, and pushed against the wall
very hard. Afterwards she was shocked with electric batons on
the breasts and genital area for a long time without pause. She
lost consciousness many times. She cannot get out of bed, her
period is out of phase, and her lower abdomen aches badly
and bleeds continuously. Another practitioner was beaten so
severely that she almost bit her tongue off due to the unbear-
able pain while being beaten.
In April and May, under orders from the "610 Office," the
labor camp officials escalated the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. They gathered all practitioners and held brain-
washing classes. All camp guards were not allowed to take
leave and instead required to exert all their energy on brain-
washing Falun Gong practitioners. The vicious guards locked
all practitioners in the same room and applied punishment
such as beating, threatening, shocking, hanging, sleep depriva-
tion, etc. Apart from eating and going to the restroom, we were
all ordered to stand in the same position between 10 and 20
hours a day, listening to propaganda slandering Falun Gong
and our teacher.
People's Republic of China
HaNAN a
Gaoyang Labor Camp
Baoding City, Hebei Province
As a result of this inhuman torture, many practitioners
developed high blood pressure and lost consciousness. Then
the guards would come to beat and shock us with electric
batons. An elderly practitioner was beaten six times in a single
day. To achieve their goal to have practitioners renounce Falun
Gong, they even kept us from sleeping a single minute for many
days. A practitioner with the surname Sun was tied up with
ropes and hung outside with her toes not touching the ground
for nine hours.
One of the practitioners in the Gaoyang Labor Camp was
tortured to the verge of death. The camp officials sent for her
family to take her out, fearing she might die in the camp and
they would be responsible for her death. According to her, the
Gaoyang Labor Camp authorities took orders directly from Luo
Gan, one of the highest officials in the Chinese government in
charge of persecuting Falun Gong. He had stayed in the labor
camp and planned the torture and persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. He also ordered other labor camps to learn from
Gaoyang Labor Camp in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
In a single day, 30 practitioners in Langfang City, Hebei
Province were arrested by police under his order.
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Torture: Nanmusi Labor Camp
Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp
Tao Juhua, female, in her 30s, resident of Sichuan Province.
At the beginning of 2001, Ms. Tao Juhua was sentenced to
one year of forced labor at the Nanmusi Female Labor Camp,
Zizhong County, Sichuan Province. While there, she suffered
from endless mental and physical punishment. The guards
there instigated other inmates to torture Falun Gong practition-
ers and force them to do hard labor. The torturers employed
vicious beating, electric baton shocks, and boot camp -style
drills to force the practitioners to give up practicing Falun
Gong. In the hot Sichuan summer, the practitioners were
forced to stand still under the scorching sun every day. They
were not allowed to shower for weeks on end.
The torture could not change Ms. Tao's belief in Falun
Gong. Every day when the guards called the roll, Ms. Tao
answered, "A Falun Gong practitioner is here." At this the
guards would all get angry and come up to attack her. One
time when Ms. Tao and several other practitioners demanded
their right to practice the exercises, the leader of the 7th team,
Zhang Xiaofang, became angry and brought electric batons to
shock them. She shocked many practitioners without restraint.
During the same night, Zhang also instructed a policeman to
lock Ms. Tao in the office and brutally beat her. The policeman
did not stop beating her until she was almost dead.
Once the policeman from the No. 8 team locked her up in
a small cell. They handcuffed her for three whole days, with
both hands lashed to the iron door and nothing but her two
toes touching the ground. In the heat, the policemen used a
thick cotton quilt to cover her up until she could not breathe
and lost consciousness. Only then did the policemen unlock
her handcuffs, fearing that she might die. In January 2002,
Ms. Tao was still detained for forced labor in the Production
Team. It was said that her sentence was prolonged for anoth-
er year.
Miao Sufang, female, 65, resident of Chengdu City, Sichuan
Province.
In January 2001, Ms. Miao Sufang went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested and tortured by
policemen in Beijing and then escorted back to Chengdu City.
She was sentenced to one year of forced labor in the fifth
group of Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in February
2001. As soon as Ms. Miao arrived, the guards instigated drug
addicts to torture her and force her to stand still facing a wall
from morning until after midnight. This standing punishment
caused Ms. Miao's feet and knees to swell badly. She could
not even wear shoes, and her legs frequently trembled, so
walking was difficult for her.
After four months' torture in the fifth group, Ms. Miao was
transferred to the ninth group, and then to the seventh group
in August. In the seventh group, she was detained in a second -
floor room and forced to sit still in a military posture all day
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long every day for five months. The long-term physical and
mental abuse eventually made Ms. Miao very weak, and her
blood pressure became very high. Afraid of her death and the
possible responsibilities, the labor camp allowed her to leave
the camp, but only under house surveillance. She was tortured
for a total of 11 months.
Lin Lisha, female, 43, resident of Jiaochangba, Leshan City,
Sichuan Province.
People's Republic of China
HAINAN 0
Nanmusi Female Labor Camp, Zizhong County,
Sichuan Province
In February 2001, Ms. Lin Lisha was sentenced to three
years of forced labor in the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp. Ir
the fifth group, she was forced to stand pressed against a wall
with both hands raised up high over her head for extended
hours. She was also forced to remain in a half -squatting pos
tion for a long time. Staying in these agonizing postures
caused her legs to swell. The blood vessels in her legs became
a purple color and were in a necrotic state. Besides the physi-
cal punishment, she also suffered mental torment.
Practitioners were not permitted to speak or even glance atv
each other. All they could hear all day long was slander against!
Falun Gong. After a few months of mental and physical torture
in the fifth group, Ms. Lin was transferred to the ninth group
where she and others were forced to do military drills under
the hot sun. She refused to perform the drills and was hand -
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cuffed in a bathroom. One day, when Ms. Lin refused to listen
to the slander of Falun Gong, a police officer dragged hell
downstairs and forced her to sit with legs double-crossed!
Then the police directed inmates to walk on her legs and feet
and to sit on her legs. Her pained cries could be heard on tie
second floor.
Wu Houyu, female, in her 30s, resident of Luzhou City, Sichuan
In March 2001, Ms. Wu Houyu was sent to the Nanmusi
Women's Labor Camp. Labor camp guard Zhou Junhui forced
her to stand from dawn to midnight every day for more than
Province.
Torture: Huludao City
one month, causing both her legs to swell horribly, and her
upper body to atrophy. Even with clothes on, both shoulder
bones protruded terribly. Her appearance was so appalling that
even some guards couldn't bear to look at her.
Locked in Solitary Confinement for Eight Months
Zhu Junxiu, female, 47, former employee of the Chengdu City
Qingyang District Taxation Bureau, resident of Chengdu City,
Sichuan Province.
On October 14, 2000, at around 7 p.m., plainclothes
policemen from the Xiaojia Village Police Station arrested Ms.
Zhu Junxiu for distributing Falun Gong materials. The police-
men ransacked her house and confiscated a computer, a print-
er, CD player, fax machine, and some other personal property.
Ms. Zhu was first detained at the Xiaojia Village Police
Station. She was interrogated for eight hours that night, then
locked in a dark, tiny, and cold cell for two days. On Oct. 16,
2000, she was transferred to the Chongzhou City Detention
Center. There, policemen Chen and Zhao Bing interrogated her.
During the interrogation they beat her face and temples, and
dragged her by her hair causing her to lose consciousness
twice. Four days later, she was transferred to the Huaiyuan
Police Station, where she was detained in a small (around 2
square meters) dark room for forty days. The floor of the room
was covered in urine and feces, there were no windows, and
she was not allowed to wash or use the restroom.
After forty days, Ms. Zhu was sentenced to one year of
forced labor in the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp. She was
locked up in solitary confinement for eight months. Every day
the guards took her out to shock her face and mouth with elec-
tric batons and force her to remain in agonizing positions for
long hours. The guards also incited other criminals to beat her.
Because of the torture, Ms. Zhu's legs became so swollen that
she couldn't wear her shoes.
Huludao City, Liaoning Province
My Experience of Torture in a Brainwashing Center
at Huludao City
On March 27, 2000, for appealing in Tiananmen Square
for the right to practice Falun Gong, I was detained in the
Huludao City (Liaoning Province) Liaison Office in Beijing.
Policeman Wu, over 50, sexually assaulted me by cuffing me to
a bed and rubbing my breast. On March 29, 2000, I was
escorted back to the Huludao Detention Center. Because I did
Falun Gong exercises in the cell, I was forced to sit outside in
the freezing night, trembling under the cover of just a thin layer
of cloth.
I was released later, but the police never left me alone. On
June 28, 2000, while I was talking with a classmate in a salon,
the police came and abducted me to a local government build-
ing. They humiliated me and other Falun Gong practitioners by
parading us through the streets. We were forced to walk over
eight miles, with their trucks driving behind us broadcasting
slogans that slandered Falun Gong and us. Later, we were
detained in an anti -Falun Gong brainwashing center. For doing
Falun Gong exercises, I was beaten, kicked, and forced to kneel
down in the hallway for over five hours. They forced me to run
for 20 miles every day without giving me any water. Other phys-
ical punishment included army drills under the scorching sun
for prolonged periods of time with restricted food and no water.
They forced me to kneel down on sand. The sand particles cut
into my flesh and caused my knees to bleed. The Vice -Head of
security hit my mouth with a full bottle of water, making my
mouth bleed and lips swell. I was unable to open my mouth or
take any food for three days. They forced me to watch their
video attacking Falun Gong. I received a heavy kick in my back
when I accidentally closed my eyes.
On July 15, 2000, the Vice -Head of security ordered me to
stand on a board over filthy water in a ditch full of rotten
garbage. He put a brick block on my head, and another one on
my foot, which I had to lift up above the board. He said that he
wanted to see me fall down into the ditch and said, "I hate
Falun Gong. I don't care about murders or arsonists, only Falun
Gong!" I was forced to stand like this for over five hours almost
every day. One night, while other practitioners were forced to
run on the sports grounds, the Vice -Head of security slapped
my face more than twenty times because I refused to give up
practicing Falun Gong. This sudden and forceful beating made
me feel dizzy and temporarily lose my hearing. The corners of
my eyes became black and blue and my face quickly swelled
up. Then, he dragged me into a room, took out a rubber -coat-
ed steel baton, and forcefully hit my buttocks. While he rested,
he forced me to do push-ups. Later, he forced me to remain in
the up position and then fiercely hit my buttocks again. He took
another rest, bullied me, and repeatedly beat me. Finally, I was
exhausted and collapsed on the ground. After the torture, my
back was black and blue and I was unable to sit. I am current-
ly at home but under constant threat from local government
and police because I refuse to give up practicing Falun Gong.
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Torture: Panjin Labor Camp
Panjin Labor Camp
People's Republic of China
Panjin Labor Camp
Panjin City, Liaoning Province
Su Ying, female, resident of Liaoning Province.
In January 2001, Ms. Su went to Beijing to peacefully
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She
was arrested and sent to four different prisons, where she was
repeatedly tortured. On one occasion the female prisoners
were ordered to strip her down to her underwear in the freez-
ing yard and pour cold water on her while punching her in the
face. In March 2001, Ms. Su was transferred to the Third
Detention Center in Panjin City, Liaoning Province.
In April 2001, she was sent to the Panjin Labor Camp in
Panjin City. On May 25, 2001, Ms. Su was dragged to the sec-
ond floor of the reception building. There she was forced to
stand "horse step" for a long time every day. She was also
forced to put her hands on her head, lower her head, and bend
over fully. Sometimes she was forced to perform "golden
pheasant stands alone." They didn't allow her to sleep at all or
only let her sleep for two hours a night. She was only allowed
to use the restroom three times per day, while squatting down
and moving around on her feet.
On May 29, 2001, in the middle of the night, under the
orders of Section Head Yi Xiuyan and Vice -Section Head Liu
Jing, policewomen Cai Li, Wang Yan, and Yan Lina took Ms. Su
to a pitch-dark room, where four policewomen stripped her
down to her underpants, although she was having her menstru-
al period. They beat and kicked Ms. Su, and pounded her head,
face, ear, cervical vertebrae, breasts, back, waist, legs, and
other vital parts. Then they shocked her over thirty times with
an electric baton, leaving her covered with cuts and bruises.
Her lower back and buttocks were especially swollen and were
the color of eggplant. After that, they forced her to lie on her
stomach while beating her with wooden sticks. Each police-
woman took a turn to beat her three times with a wooden stick.
Then they pinched her on her neck, armpits, lower abdomen,
and the inside of her thighs until she bled. Then they beat her
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again. Ms. Su was tortured until she lost consciousness, after
which she was sent to the First People's Hospital in Panjin City.
The hospital's examination of Ms. Su revealed that there
were severe injuries to the inside of her thighs and buttocks;
her skin was damaged beyond recognition. Her buttocks were
black and blue and badly swollen. Without notifying Ms. Su's
family, she was committed for seven hours of emergency treat;
ment due to her temperature of 103°F and infected wounds
During the surgery, 500cc of extravagated blood were removed
from her buttocks. After being hospitalized for half a month!
Ms. Su was sent back to the labor camp. To hide the extent of
her torture, the police locked her in a cell with another female
practitioner and played loud disco music all day long to cover
the sound of any cries from the torture.
In July 2001, Yi Xiuyan forced Ms. Su to stand still every
day from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next night, even though she had
not yet fully recovered. Ms. Su was forced to stand in the,
"horse step" position every day until the end of September
After she finished the long hours of standing she was sent
back to the jail cell and wasn't allowed to speak.
In the beginning of November 2001, Yi Xiuyan locked Su
Ying in a small cell in order to observe her closely. On
November 17, Yi Xiuyan placed another three Falun Gong prac.
titioners in the same small cell with Ms. Su. As they wee
denied use of a toilet, they were forced to defecate and urinate
in the small cell, the same cell in which they ate. The guards
covered the window on the door with newspaper to restrict
their freedom even further. On November 20, Ms. Su was
locked in a different small room with the other three practition-
ers. The window was covered with newspaper, and the electric
lights were left on 24 hours per day. Four people shared two
beds with no sanitary facilities. During the 48 days of confir;e-
ment in the small room, they were forced to get up at 4:30 a.m.
and were not allowed to go to sleep until after midnight. ITo
cover up the extent of the torture, the guards told Ms. Su notto
tell her family about her torture. However, Ms. Su did tell her
family about the torture she suffered and showed them the
scars on her buttocks. The guard on duty, Liu Jing, then threat-
ened to beat her to death in front of her family members.
On the morning of January 8, 2002, Yi Xiuyan and Cai Li
placed Ms. Su in confinement for seven days, during which she
was handcuffed behind her back to a heating pipe, bent over
and squatting down. Because she began vomiting on the
fourth day, the police released her hands.
On March 18, 2002, Ms. Su was transferred to the
Masanjia Labor Camp, where she suffered more agony. I
Torture: Yongchuan Women's Prison
Deprivation of Sleep, Shower, and Toilet at
Yongchuan Women's Prison
Zhou Qunying, female, 27, resident of Hechuan County,
Chongqing City.
On December 28, 2001, the police brought Ms. Zhou
Qunying to the Yongchuan Women's Prison in Sichuan
Province. The police watched her 24 hours a day, restricted her
movements, and deprived her of sleep for many days and
nights. They would not allow her to talk with anyone, and often
handcuffed and shocked her with electric batons. As a result,
she had purple bruises all over her body. The police ordered
inmates to beat her, verbally abuse her, and stuff dirty socks in
her mouth. Once she fell asleep, inmates would punch her
awake. The police frequently locked her in a solitary cell. Even
when she had a break from work, they called her every 15 min-
utes, so that she could not have any rest.
During June and July 2002, she was not allowed to show-
er for over 20 days. Once she was deprived of sleep for ten
days and nights, and forced to remain standing the whole time.
After a few days of standing, her feet became so swollen that
she could barely stand any longer. During that time, she was
not allowed to use the toilet or eat food. She could only urinate
in the clothing that she wore. If she took a nap, the police had
cold water poured on her face and stuffed used cotton swabs
in her mouth. After the ten days and ten nights of torture, her
body was shaking and both feet were badly swollen. Later, she
was not allowed to move or use the toilet again. Once, a group
of inmates physically abused her by choking her and applying
pressure to her collarbones. As a result, she had difficulty
breathing, and she felt extreme pain around her collarbones.
Yang Xiaoli, female, 39, teacher of the Southwest Normal
University, resident of the Wulong District, Chongqing City.
Ms. Yang Xiaoli was forced to clean the toilets daily. The
police often forced her to squat for long periods of time without
moving. They deprived her of sleep for two days and two nights
while she was detained at the Yongchuan Women's Prison. The
police often made a group of inmates punch and kick her. They
threatened and cursed her. Once she was held in solitary con-
finement for days. Sometimes, she was tied with both of her
thumbs onto an iron bed for many hours. As the results of all
of the torture, her body was beaten black and blue, her entire
body was swollen, and she suffered pain in her legs and feet.
She had difficulty walking because of the long periods of time
she was forced to remain squatting.
In Beijing, the police beat Ms. Xiong Yuzhen, female, 49,
resident of Sichuan Province, so badly that her lungs were seri-
ously injured. She was sentenced and detained in the
Yongchuan Women's Prison without any medical treatment for
her lung injury. Her daughter was expelled from her school, and
her paralyzed husband now has no caretaker.
Persecution by "610 Office" of Hanzhong City,
Shanxi Province
1. Wu Yali, female, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
2. Zheng Cuiping, female, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
3. Liang Fengying, female, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
4. Wang Xinlian, female, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
5. Yang Xiulian, female, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
Under instructions from the "610 Office" of Hanzhong City,
policemen in the Hanzhong detention center ruthlessly perse-
cuted Falun Gong practitioners. They took turns interrogating
and cursing at practitioners. They even appointed drug addicts,
drug smugglers, prostitutes, and thieves as "cell heads" to tor-
ture practitioners at will. The criminal "cell heads" ripped out
practitioners' hair, slapped and beat their faces, kicked their
feet, chest, and abdomen, and stomped on their bodies with
leather shoes while the practitioners lay injured on the ground.
All the ruthless actions were taken to force practitioners to
renounce Falun Gong.
After Ms. Wu Yali was beaten until her ribs broke, she
could not get out of bed for a month. Ms. Zheng Cuiping was
beaten until her sternum was broken; she could barely move
for over a month. Ms. Liang Fengying was beaten until her
whole body was black and blue and her face was swollen. Ms.
Liang was brutally beaten and put in shackles.
The local "610 Office" has been extorting money from
practitioners and their families to finance their brainwashing
classes. They extorted 30,000 Yuan from Ms. Chen Chtunzhu's
daughter, 40,000 Yuan from the husband of Ms. Wu Yali, and
18,000 Yuan from the son-in-law of Ms. Yang Xiulian. Ms. Wu
Yali was illegally dismissed from her jobs and had no way to
make a living.
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Torture: Shibalihe Women's Labor Camp
"Tying the Ropes" at the Shibalihe Women's Labor Camp
Hundreds of female Falun Gong practitioners are detained
at Shibalihe Women's Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan
Province. One torture technique, called "Tying the Ropes," is
used regularly by the camp. Using one thin rope, the police first
encircle the practitioner's neck, and then tie the practitioner's
hands behind her back with it. Then they use all the force they
can muster to tighten the rope. As the rope constricts around
the practitioner's body, it makes it more and more difficult for
her to breathe. The guards at the camp often made the pain so
intense that the practitioners lost control of their bladders.
Sometimes, the rope was pulled so tight that the practitioner's
arm broke. Often, female practitioners were stripped of their
jackets and sweaters and tortured with "Tying the Ropes."
From 63 -year-old elders to a 17 -year-old teenage girl, no one
was spared. In addition to being tied up, practitioners were
forced to maintain a half -squatting position with wooden sticks
and bricks placed under their knees. They had to bend at the
waist and lower their heads. While they were still in the "Tying
the Ropes" position, guards often shocked them with electric
batons and burned them with cigarettes.
Another form of torture is called "Military -Style Training."
The practitioners are forced to participate in boot camp -style
training every morning, even when they have just been
released from torture and still have difficulties lifting their
arms. Any sign of disobedience during these drills results in
additional beatings, regardless of age.
People's Republic of China
IwNM, Q
Shibalihe Women's Labor Camp
Zhengzhou City,Henan Province
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'°Ting the Ropes" and Denied Use of Sanitary Napkins
Ding Xiangqin, female, resident of Henan Province.
Director Wu Hongru and several guards tied Ms. Ding
Xiangqin's hands behind her back, slipped a wooden stick
through the hollow, then hung her up. While she was hanging
in this painful position, they kicked her, beat her, and burned
her with cigarettes. The guards tortured her for 24 hours,
resulting in purple bruises all over her body; her arms were
numb, and her body could not move. During her detention,
inmates even monitored her bathroom visits, and she was not
allowed to use sanitary napkins when she was menstruating.
In March 2002, Jia Meili, chief of the No. 3 Division,'
forcibly took Han Fulan to the labor camp's new office building,
tied her up with ropes, and beat her. Ms. Han was tortured for
three days and nights by police officers. During the torture, to
prevent her from screaming, they used a rope to tie her mouth
shut. As a result, her mouth was terribly swollen. Her shoulders
were an unrecognizable mess of blood and flesh because the
ropes cut deeply into her flesh. Her clothing was completely
torn off during the beating. Ms Han lost consciousness many
times during the three days of torture. She even had blood in
her urine. For several months after the torture, the wounds on:
her body did not close over, and her body could not touch wateii
because of these injuries. There are still two very deep scar's
left on her shoulders.
Torture Causing Kidney Necrosis
Cui Qiuju, female, 36, resident of Wen County, Henan Province.
During Ms. Cui Qiuju's detention in the Shibalihe Women'sI�
Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, inmates beat
Ms. Cui until she spat blood. She was beaten because she hald
gone on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. In early
December 2001, the labor camp, fearing responsibility if stile
were to die, sent her back to Wen County. Three months lar,
after she had recovered, they arrested her again. Ms. Cui aga`n
went on a hunger strike. On the third day, she was brought to
the office building of the labor camp, where she was tortubed
again. The guards used the "Tying the Ropes" technique to tor-
ture her, as well as electric shocks and rubber batons. She was
tortured for three days and nights and incurred severe injuries.
She had purple bruises all over her body; her internal organs
were injured; her arms were numb and could not move. Once
she was not allowed to sleep for four days. As a result, she is
suffering from kidney necrosis. Almost all of her internal organs
have sustained some degree of injury.
Torture: Masanjia Labor Camp
Masanjia. Labor Camp
Thousands of female Falun Gong practitioners are being
detained and tortured at the infamous Masanjia Labor Camp
in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The new four -floor jail
building, built last November, is already inadequate to hold all
the practitioners, even at the density of 40 or more people per
room and four per double-jointed single bed.
PeopWs Republic of Chins
HAWN a
Masanjia Labor Camp, Shenyang City,
Liaoning Province
Everything the Masanjia Labor Camp authorities and
guards do is for one evil purpose: to make life as miserable as
possible for Falun Gong practitioners so as to force them to
renounce Falun Gong. The guards openly shout to practition-
ers: "Hell is here. It is not up to you, we will transform you."
Forcing practitioners to do hard labor for 15-16 hours
every day is a common method of torture. Practitioners in the
No. 1 Brigade are forced to make paper and fabric flowers and
other decorations, most of which are for export. Making these
products for extended hours over several consecutive days
caused many practitioners' fingers to bleed, swell, and ache.
When practitioners failed to hold the paper strips tight to the
wires due to injured fingers, the guards would punish them by
depriving them of sleep and doubling their quotas. After their
release, some practitioners could not flex their thumbs proper-
ly for eight or nine months. The practitioners also knit flowers
and sewed colored beads onto sweaters. If they made a mis-
take they were not allowed to sleep until they corrected it. Their
eyes and necks quickly became sore, and after a long day's
work their shoulders and lower backs were also too painful to
move. In the summer it was so hot that they could hardly
breathe, and their bodies were full of rashes and covered in
sweat. The police also deliberately assigned extra work to pun-
ish those who were firm in practicing Falun Gong.
The guards also use various kinds of cruel torture to force
practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. In one guard's own
words, "We have countless methods to handle you." Indeed,
the extent of evilness is only limited by the imagination of their
wicked minds.
In the solitary confinement cells, practitioners are severe-
ly beaten, shocked with electric batons, and locked up for
months on end for not renouncing Falun Gong. The tortures
include forcing practitioners to remain in agonizing postures
for days, forcing them to run non-stop for many hours, hand-
cuffing and shackling them with very tight devices that cut into
flesh and stop blood circulation, hanging them up by hands
handcuffed behind the back, etc.
Two particularly horrible forms of torture are solitary con-
finements in a "small cell" and on a "death board." A "small
cell" is a room smaller than two square meters, with no win-
dow, no bed, no water, and no toilet. Practitioners are often
locked in a small cell for months, having to eat, sleep, and
release in the same small area. Since the height of the room is
less than 1.5 meters, one cannot stand straight. To exacerbate
the agony, the guards often handcuff practitioners to small
cells doors so they cannot sleep for many days.
The solitary confinement on a "death board" was original-
ly used on death row criminals. The victim is tied to an iron or
wooden board for weeks with four limbs stretched out. The vic-
tim is never untied, having to be fed by someone else, but
sleeping and releasing are all done on the board.
The prolonged mental and physical torture and terrible liv-
ing conditions cause practitioners to suffer serious medical
complications, including diabetes, hypertension, heart dis-
ease, cerebral thrombosis, infectious skin diseases, hepatitis
B, and nerve damage.
Practitioners who refuse to work or wear the criminal des-
ignation are fed corn bread and drink water. There is no salt in
their diet, so they have become extremely ill. Part of the main
building is full of practitioners who are on a hunger strike to
protest maltreatment. They are force-fed with one bowl of corn
congee every two days, for which the labor camp charges them
80 Yuan (approximately US$10) per bowl. Another technique is
called "sandwiching". Two people watch on one practitioner to
isolate her and prevent her from talking to others.
Physical Restraints
Xia Ning, female, over 50, resident of Xingcheng, Huludao
City, Liaoning Province. Ms. Xia Ning had been cuffed to a bed
for over eight months because she tried to practice the Falun
Gong exercises. Her arms and legs were numb and would not
move. Her wrists were swollen. Once she was handcuffed to a
bed but kept standing for four nights. When she double-
crossed her legs to practice the Falun Gong sitting meditation,
her legs were tied up for many hours until the pain drove her
out of her mind.
Torture: Masanjia Labor Camp
Stuffing Dirty Towels in the Mouths
Because Ms. Wang Yan and Ms. Song Caihong recited
Falun Gong books, police stuffed dirty towels in their mouths
and beat them repeatedly. Their bodies were completely black
and blue. Police also forced practitioners to step on a photo-
graph of the founder of Falun Gong. Practitioners are also
ordered to put bowls of water on their heads. If the bowls fall,
they are beaten. The practitioners are tortured day and night,
non-stop.
Restroom Access Denied During Period
Practitioners worked from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. every
day, except for mealtimes, brief bathroom breaks, and a one-
hour noon break. Oftentimes the noon break was cancelled to
make time for extra work. The practitioners were not allowed to
talk while they worked. Ms. Wang Junying requested several
times in vain to go to the restroom because of her period.
Guard Xie Ping refused. Ms. Wang bled through her pants and
cried from being unable to change her pad.
Beaten with Shoes and Screwdriver
On July 31, 2001, the director of the No. 2 Female Brigade,
Huang Haiyan, incited Yang Jianhong, a criminal inmate, to
beat Ms. Li Yanjun. Yang grabbed her by the hair and beat her
until her own hands hurt. She then used the heel of her shoe
and a screwdriver to continue beating Ms. Li for five hours. Ms.
Li's entire body was covered with wounds and her skin was
black and blue. She had blood in her stool the following day.
Pinching Thighs and Slapping Face with
Rubber -Soled Shoes
One evening in November 2001, the police took Ms. Zhang
Yongli to a restroom and took turns slapping her in the face
and head with rubber -soled shoes. Some of them slammed her
head against the wall. Ms. Zhang was tortured through the
night. The bruises badly deformed her face and her head
swelled to nearly twice its normal size. Once six criminals
stripped off Ms. Zhang's pants, pinched her on her thighs, and
sat on her neck for a whole morning. The pinched area (about
15 x 11 square centimeters) was festering the next day. The
pain was excruciating.
Beaten for a Whole Night
During her detention at the Masanjia Labor Camp, Ms.
Yang Chunfang suffered repeated beatings. Early in 2001, she
was beaten for a whole night and could not walk. She could not
move on her own. A year later she had not fully recovered. The
police did not allow her family to come to visit her.
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Squatting for a Long Period of Time,
Shocking with Electric Baton
Officer Qiu Ping punished Ms. Lin Ping with "half squats"
(squatting with legs apart and both arms raised forward paral-
lel to the ground), causing the loss of feeling in one of her toes.
Qiu also shocked her for three hours with an electric baton,
burning her skin.
Water, Sleep, and Restroom Deprivation
In July 2000, a group including team director Zhang
Xiurong, inmate Yang Jianhong, and others tortured Ms. Ge
Chunling for more than 20 days. She was not allowed to drink,'
go to the restroom, or sleep, and had to assume the "half
squat" position for 24 hours. She became very thin, and her
arms and legs went numb. In May 2001, Ms. Ge was put into
the "Strictly Managed Brigade", where she was not allowed to
use the restroom for so long that she developed edema and
her heart rate slowed to 48 beats per minute. She was still
forced to do heavy labor. �
Choking and Stabbing with Needles
Once several guards took Ms. Li Xiupin to a private room
and hit her all over. One guard choked her while another rode
on her back, others hit her head and face, and still other
stabbed her with two-inch stainless steel needles. They poked
her torso, foot arches, and palms randomly. She was tortured
to the verge of death. Afterward, Ms. Li was bedridden for sev
eral days. Her body was black and blue, her face deformed
and her skin broken and bleeding.
Stomach Bleeding after Forced -Feeding
Early in 2002, when Ms. Qi Zhenrong had been badly tori
tured, she went on a hunger strike for 87 days before being
released. One month later, she was returned to Masanjia Labor
Camp because she had gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun
Gong. As of April 2002, Ms. Qi had been on a hunger strike for
more than one month and force-fed many times. Her stomach
was injured and bleeding from the force-feeding tube, and she
was extremely weak.
Female Practitioners' Sentences Extended for
Refusing to Renounce Falun Gong
Police at Masanjia Labor Camp tried to extend practition-
ers' sentences. In May 2002, the sentences of Ms. Li Liming,
Ms. Sun Jinjun, Ms. Song Guixiang, and Ms. Hu Ying were
referred to the Liaoning Province Police Department for exten-
sion.
Torture: Masanjia Labor Camp
Tortured to Paralysis
In September 2001, Ms. Zhang Chunmei was sent to the
Masanjia Labor Camp, and since then her hands have been
cuffed together except when she ate, washed her face, or used
the toilet. Her wrists were swollen, and the skin broken and
bleeding.
The warden encouraged Fu Wei, a man from Shenyang
City, Liaoning Province, to force a female practitioner from
Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province to sit in the corner on the show-
er room floor. She was forced to spread her legs into a painful
position. Fu then sat on her shoulders. He forced her to sup-
port his body weight. He beat her when she could not endure
any longer. Fu broke bones in her neck. She has been para-
lyzed for a long time and must be carried from place to place.
Wang Haiying Sued the Labor Camp for the Torture
In January 2001, for being Falun Gong practitioners, Ms.
Wang Haiying, 31, and her husband, Mr. Li Qinhua, residents of
Shahe District of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, were abducted
to the Dalian Labor Camp, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Ms.
Wang is suing, at the District Court level, the Dalian Labor
Camp officials for their violations of Chinese constitutional law
over the past one and half years.
During her detention at Dalian Labor Camp, Ms. Wang was
once handcuffed and beaten by eight police simultaneously.
She was beaten, slapped, and electrically shocked in her
mouth, leaving her face swollen and covered in black and blue
marks. She sued the police involved and the labor camp team
leaders, Yong, Gao, Sun, and Sui, and Wang Jun senior and
Wang Jun junior, for physical and mental health compensation.
During her detention in the Masanjia Labor Camp, Ms.
Wang wrote to her husband, who was detained in the Dalian
Labor Camp. Her letters were confiscated and Ms. Wang sued
his labor camp team leader for violations of people's privacy
rights.
Lin Yan Punched an Iron Stick into Her Chest
Lin Yan, female, 30, resident of Shenyang City, Liaoning
Province. In October 1999, Ms. Lin Yan was sentenced to three
years of forced labor. She had been tortured so badly that on
July 1, 2000 she jammed an iron stick into the left side of her
chest to get hospitalized. After leaving the hospital on July 24,
she was forced to do hard labor at Masanjia. Ms. Lin had chest
pains and difficulty breathing, and became bedridden. The
labor camp refused to send her to hospital for further diagno-
sis.
Stripped and Hit with Electronic Batons
Ms. Qi Zhenrong, female, 41, resident of Huanren County,
Benxi City, Liaoning Province. Ms. Qi has been detained at the
Masanjia Labor Camp since October 29, 1999 because she
refused to give up her right to practice Falun Gong. She was
sentenced to a three-year term of forced labor. In the camp,
Ms. Qi was stripped and hit with electronic batons repeatedly
in one day. She was beaten so badly that she began to roll
around on the ground and whimper. She was covered with blis-
ters and bumps from the beating.
In September 2001, Ms. Qi took part in a group hunger
strike of 130 Falun Gong practitioners protesting extended
sentences. She fasted for more than 40 days and her life was
in great danger. Ms. Qi was then sent to the Masanjia Labor
Camp Hospital, where she was under the surveillance of the
camp police and continued to be tortured.
Even near death, Ms. Qi again asked the Masanjia police
to release her and the other detained Falun Gong practitioners
and to restore their basic rights. The police ignored her and
told her family in the hospital that the only way they would
release her was if she died. The police even forced them to pay
5,000 Yuan in "hospital fees".
Ii finghua Suffers a Mental Breakdown Due to Torture
Li Jinghua, female, 34, resident of Lizhangzi Village, Zhaoduba
Township, Longcheng District, Chaoyang City, Liaoning
Province.
On October 30, 1999, Ms. Li Jinghua was sentenced to
one year of forced labor and sent to the Masanjia Labor Camp
because she refused to give up Falun Gong. During her deten-
tion at the labor camp, she was often beaten. In January 2000,
Ms. Li was transferred to the First Women's Team of the labor
camp and forced to make clothing. If she did not finish the
required quota, the guards would beat her. Ms. Li was under
extreme mental pressure. She worked from 6:30 a.m. to 10
p.m.. Sometimes she had to work until 3 a.m. the next day to
finish the quotas. Once she was
forced to work continuously with
no rest for 36 hours straight, with-
out meals.
In the middle of June 2000,
the labor camp authorities ordered
the practitioners in the First
Women's Team to undergo brain-
washing. More than twenty practi-
tioners were forced to sit bunched
up next to each other on benches,
in hot and muggy weather, from
6:30 a.m. to 12 a.m., while the Li Jinghua suffering mental
guards took them out individually !breakdown at the Masanjial
for brainwashing. Guards beat and Labor Camp
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Torture: Masanjia Labor Camp
shocked them with electric batons. Ms. Li was engulfed by the snow down my back and drive a car in front of me in order to
screams of the victims and the sound of electric batons hitting blow cold air at me. Exposed in the frigid air, my whole body
flesh. became numb.
Starting on July 6, 2000, Ms. Li was brainwashed every
day until midnight. After more than 20 days of torture and
brainwashing, Ms. Li was physically injured and mentally worn
down. On August 2, 2000, since she still refused to renounce
Falun Gong, policeman Zhang Yan locked her up in a small cell
that was less than 1.5 m in height. Ms. Li was forced to remain
still in a bent over position for 72 hours while deprived of sleep
and food. If she moved even a little, she was beaten.
Afterwards, Ms. Li was locked in the small cell for many
more days. There was no table, bed, or toilet in the small cell,
and Ms. Li had to eat, sleep, and relieve herself in the same
small cell. As it was the middle of summer, she suffered from
the suffocating heat, mosquito bites, and unbearable stench in
the cell. Still, the guards shocked her hands, feet, chest, and
neck with high-voltage electric batons. The shocks caused her
to begin twitching and burned her flesh black. Camp guard
Zhang Yan also tortured her by forcing her to hold the "flying
airplane" position for over two hours, until she lost conscious-
ness. After she woke up, she was forced to hold the "flying air-
plane" position for four days and four nights. Ms. Li suffered
greatly from the mental pressure of continuous torture; she
became extremely weak, and little more than skin and bones.
Then Ms. Li was sent back to do hard labor for extended
periods at a time. She was often beaten. She developed a ter-
rible complexion and fell into a depression. Since she was not
released after the one-year term ended, she began a hunger
strike and refused to do the forced labor. Thereafter, she was
shocked with electric batons every day. After several days' tor-
ture, she stared blankly and talked to nobody. She became
incontinent. She was sent to the Shenyang Mental Hospital in
Shenyang City. In May 2001, Ms. Li was taken home, and still
has not recovered.
My Suffering in a Beijing Police Station
I am a resident of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.
On the morning of January 29, 2001, I was arrested on
Tiananmen Square in Beijing because I practice Falun Gong. I
was taken to the Tiananmen Police Station and locked up in an
iron cage where more than 10 practitioners were being held. At
about 8 p.m., I was taken to the Beishicao County Police
Station, where I was interrogated by policeman Liu.
After being interrogated, I was taken out to the yard where
Liu took off my coat and sweater, forced me to wrap my arms
around a tree, and tightly cuffed my hands. He rolled up my
sleeves to expose my arms. Another policeman held my clothes
under my throat, so that I could only move my head backwards.
This made my neck became spastic. They proceeded to stuff
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When they finally released me from the tree, they pulled
me into a room and immediately placed my hands on extreme-
ly hot heating pipes. The palms of my hands were burned.
Then, they stripped me down to my cotton undergarments,
cuffed my hands and right foot to the heating pipes, and forced
me to stand on my left foot. Suddenly, Liu violently pulled on
my left leg and I was completely hanging in the air. It seemed
that my hands were broken, and my whole body soon became
numb. Even now, both of my hands are still numb.
After a while, he pulled
me up and threw my head
against the wall. He then pro-
ceeded to shock the sensi-
tive parts of my thighs, navel,
neck, etc. with an electric
baton. He continued to shock
me until I lost control of my
urine. Because I was having
my menstrual period at the
time, menstrual blood also
rushed out. Consequently,
urine and menstrual blood
were everywhere on the
ground. He continued to tor-
ture me until after 6 a.m. the next day. Then, I was cuffed to the
heating pipes with three pairs of handcuffs and not permitted
to sleep. After 9 a.m., policeman Zheng interrogated me until
noon. Immediately following the interrogation, he brought out
three willow twigs: one thick, one thin, and one with an egg -
sized knot on one end. He proceeded to cuff me to the heating
pipes, draw back the curtain, and close the door. He began to
whip my legs; especially my thighs, with the three twigs one
after another. To prevent me from shouting, he used chop-
sticks to brace my mouth.
Legs were covered with bruises
Even after the willow twigs were broken, he continued to
beat me until I lost consciousness. He also burned my hands
on the heating pipes. After I regained consciousness, I was
interrogated again in the afternoon. After 5 p.m., I was taken to
the yard where, once again, they wrapped my arms around a
tree and tightly cuffed my hands. The ground was snowy and in
the freezing temperature of -8 or -9 °C (17 °F), Zheng continued
to whip me with a twig until I lost control of my urine. My legs
were as black as charcoal and badly swollen. Even now the
bruises and swelling on my legs are still quite clear. I still have
difficulty walking and my legs frequently become numb.
After the police escorted me back to Chengdu City, they
extorted 8,000 Yuan from my family. I was under surveillance
at home.
At present, I have to wander about on the street, and can
not go back home.
Torture: Shuangcheng City
Barbaric Beating and Force -Feeding in Shuangcheng City
Punitive Force -Feeding
Guo Mingxia, female, 45, Chengzhi Village, Chaoyang Town,
Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
Police from Shuangcheng City took Ms. Guo Mingxia from
her home, saying that they wanted to talk to her, and would
bring her back in a short while. Instead, they escorted Ms. Guo
directly to the Shuangcheng detention center, where she and
other Falun Gong practitioners began a hunger strike to
protest their illegal detention. The leader of the detention cen-
ter, Cui, ordered the inmates and guard Han to beat them even
though they had not eaten for four days. The guards grabbed
the practitioners' hair, slammed their heads against the wall,
and forced them to sit on the cement floor.
Later, Ms. Guo was sent to the Wanjia Labor Camp. She
went on hunger strikes more than 10 times during her deten-
tion there. Song Shaohui, an administrator at the labor camp
clinic, beat her so badly that her nose became black and blue
and her face swelled up. After the beating she was forcibly
given an injection and dragged into solitary confinement. In
the cell, she lost consciousness, the back of her head became
numb, and she had difficulty moving her body.
On October 24, 2001, Ms. Guo was sent to the labor
camp's clinic, where administrator Song struck her face and a
group of male doctors forcibly gave her an injection. She was
beaten and force-fed every day for over 50 days. On about the
40th day she began vomiting blood, which continued for over
10 days. However, the camp doctors continued to force-feed
her. Her weight dropped from 70 kg to just over 30 kg. One
time, her extremely weakened body was shaking all over and a
female guard, Yu Fangli, pointed to her and spat, "Die, die
quickly. You deserve it!"
By December 6, 2001, Ms. Guo and four other Falun Gong
practitioners in the labor camp had been on a hunger strike for
over 50 days to demand their release. They were force-fed
again. Police, prison doctors, and guards hit and kicked them.
They held the practitioners' heads to the ground, yanking their
hair back while kicking them directly in the face. Practitioners'
faces became disfigured and blood gushed out of their
mouths. Ms. Guo and others lost consciousness and were
force-fed again when they regained consciousness.
Fainted from Choking, Arm Twisted Until Broken
I am a female resident of Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang
Province.
Around 11 p.m. on February 9, 2001, Police Officer Zhao
Yujun of the local police station, along with more than ten
policemen and staff members of the "610" Office, broke into
my home. They searched my house, back yard, and my body
trying to find Falun Gong materials. When they could not find
any by around midnight, they confiscated my brand-new VCR,
two radios, and my tapes and CDs. Then, detention center offi-
cers Jin Wanzhi and Zhang Guofu ordered four policemen to
take me away. My head hit the wall as the four policemen
dragged me out of my home, and I fell down on the bed. They
continued dragging me on the floor, causing my head to strike
the door. I nearly fainted from the impact. Then, they wrapped
two comforters around me. One policeman clutched my neck
until I couldn't breathe, and another twisted my arms until my
right arm actually broke.
My husband, son, and daughter tried to protect me from
being taken away. When my son placed me on the bed, I was
on the verge of death. Fearing I would die in front of them, all
of the policemen left my home. I finally regained conscious-
ness after 3 a.m., but felt dizzy and had difficulty breathing. My
neck was black and blue and I could not move my right arm.
Throughout the day, I felt faint. My daughter-in-law was so
scared that she moved back to her parents' home. My son was
so frightened that he wandered the streets rather than remain
at home, and my daughter feared that policemen would take
me away to die. The stress made my husband unable to eat.
The authorities threatened to jail me when I recovered.
People's Republic of China
wuww Q
Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province
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Torture: Shenyang Detention Center
The Thirty-four Falun Gong Practitioners I Came to Know in the Shenyang Detention Center
I used to be an ordinary person with no spiritual beliefs. On
April 22, 2001, I was sentenced to eight months in jail for ille-
gally holding someone in custody, and I was detained in the
Shenyang Detention Center.
While in the Shenyang Detention center, I met Falun Gong
practitioners for the first time in my life. They were: Ms. Wang
Yaping, Ms. Wu Yuhua, Ms. Wang Juan, and one other. They
were all very kind. Under the unbearable conditions, the prac-
titioners truly remained "Truthful -Compassionate -Tolerant,"
and they left me with a deep and lasting impression. A week
later, most of them were transferred to Longshan Labor Camp,
and only Wang Juan remained.
On May 7, another practitioner, Ms. Bai Xiujuan, was put in
our cell. When the head of our cell forcibly stripped off her
clothes, we saw bruises and cuts all over her body. That night I
talked to her and learned that she had suffered four days of
torture before she came to Shenyang. Six policemen, all at
once, shocked her with electric batons. They removed her
clothes, tied her up, and savagely beat her. They shocked her
breasts and vagina with the high voltage -batons and insulted
her with shameless and dirty words. I could see that every part
of her body was injured by the beatings. I was shocked by what
I heard and what I saw. I felt sad for those policemen, but I felt
sadder for our country. Meanwhile, I admired the strong-willed
Falun Gong practitioners. They gave up everything they had for
their belief in Falun Gong. For speaking out about the persecu-
tion, they courageously risked their lives. I saw the nobility of
Falun Gong in Ms. Bai. I believed everything she said. Ms. Bai
was the fifth Falun Gong practitioner that I had met while in the
detention center.
On May 27, three more practitioners arrived: Ms. Yin
Liping, Ms. Zou Guirong, and Ms. Zhou Yanbo. They had been
on a hunger strike for ten days already. I learned that because
they refused to give up Falun Gong, they had been incarcerat-
ed and tortured in six different detention centers and labor
camps, including the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp and
Zhangshi Labor Camp. The guards in labor camps even locked
them up with male criminals and let those male criminals
abuse and rape them. The courage and dedication of these
practitioners to their faith really touched some of the common
prisoners there, and I began to help take care of them.
On June 4, an older woman, Ms. Ma, was sent in. She was
also a practitioner. I noticed that all practitioners treated each
other like a family, all very sincere and considerate. A few days
later, all four of them were taken away. By June 14, Ms. Yin and
Ms. Zou were sent back, with wounds all over their bodies. I
saw once more the heinous crimes that the police committed
against Falun Gong practitioners.
A few days later, Ms. Zhao Shuhuan, Ms. Li Jiazhen, Ms.
Wang Jie, and Ms. Lu Guoqin were put in our cell, and Ms. Zhou
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Yanbo was also sent back. There were a total of seven practi-
tioners there. On June 22, the guard gathered us common pris-
oners together, ordered us to monitor and prohibit the practi-
tioners from doing the Falun Gong exercises, and to inform the
guards if anyone did them. I sought out Ms. Yin and asked her
why they insisted on doing the exercises. Ms. Yin told me, "I
have suffered numerous beatings and torture. The police did
not give me any treatment for my wounds, nor even a single
tablet of medicine. It was the Falun Gong exercises that helped
me recover time after time. Tell me, can I not do the exercises,
can I not be a Falun Gong practitioner?" I saw the wondrous-
ness of Falun Gong from their resilient bodies and spirits.
Falun Gong indeed is supernormal. I therefore remained acqui-
escent when they did their exercises.
Other prisoners however, were not as cooperative. They
attacked practitioners to get them to stop doing their exercis-
es. Ms. Zou was hit so hard over the head that she lapsed into
a coma. The guards who responded did not punish the attack-
ers. Ironically, they locked the practitioners up in solitary con-
finement.
Because of her head injury, Ms. Zou was in serious condi-
tion and lapsed in and out of consciousness. To escape their
responsibilities, the guards tried to trick Ms. Zou into writing, "I
died from practicing Falun Gong." When Ms. Zou refused, four
policemen beat her viciously. At this point, all seven practition-
ers protested together with a hunger strike. They did not eat
any food, nor did they drink water.
Their protest went on for 21 days. The guards began to
force-feed them. All seven resisted. They resisted the persecu-
tion with their lives. From the practitioners actions I saw the
power and righteousness of Falun Gong. I now hold Falun Gong
disciples and their teacher in a most respectful place in my
heart. In the end, on August 10, they prevailed. The guards had
to release them from the detention center. They persevered
through the most arduous of circumstances. They truly
attained the freedom that ought to belong to them.
On August 24 seven other practitioners were sent in,
including Ms. Zhou Yumei, Ms. Su Yu, Ms. Huang Xin, Ms. Li
Yuan, and others. They all came with severe injuries from the
inhuman police torture. The guards again ordered us common
prisoners to further abuse the practitioners. However, the prac-i
titioners always treated our viciousness with compassion, told
us the higher principles of being noble people, and dispelled
much of our life-long confusion about the purpose of living.'
They were the second group of practitioners that I met in jail
Like the previous group, they went on a hunger strike and were
released three weeks later.
The third group of practitioners that I met included Ms1
Ren Shuojie, Ms. Wu Yanping, and Ms. Ma Lianxiao. They were
sent in on November 14, with wounds all over their bodies. At
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that time, they had been on a hunger strike for eight days
already. Their hunger strike was joined by practitioners Ms. Jin
Qian, Ms. Zhang Yaping, etc. They were all released on
December 3.
From these three groups of Falun Gong practitioners, I
gradually came to see the truth and power of Falun Gong, and
I began to practice Falun Gong myself.
On December 23, 2001, another practitioner, Ms. Liu
Xiangdang came. I was together with her for eight days. In
those eight days, she told me many things that I did not under-
stand about Falun Gong, and many higher principles that I had
never known. I felt so lucky.
At that point, I had been in jail for seven months. In those
seven months, I had known and interacted with 31 Falun Gong
practitioners. From these courageous people I understood so
many things I needed to know. I felt my incarceration was a
blessing in disguise, the greatest blessing one could ever get,
because I learned the truth and had the fortune to become a
Falun Gong practitioner.
Afterwards, I met three more practitioners: Ms. Wen Jun,
Ms. Wang Xibin, and Ms. Xu Min. They were transferred from
another detention center where they had been detained and
tortured for over a year. However, their hearts had not been
moved even a little bit. Those are the 34 Falun Gong practition-
ers that I met while in Shenyang Detention center. Through
them, I learned the ultimate truth of the universe; through
them, I began to practice Falun Gong. Through the practice, I
experienced the physical and mental benefits of Falun Gong.
Nothing will be able to take away my belief in Falun Gong, a
belief gained through personal experience and enlightenment.
Dentist Disabled from Severe Torture
Gu Changqin, female, 46, dentist, resident of Nanpiao District,
Huludao City, Liaoning Province.
In October 1999, Ms. Gu Changqin was arrested for
appealing in Beijing and was escorted back to her hometown,
Huludao City, in handcuffs. At Gangyaoling Detention Center,
she was shackled to a "death board". Three days later, she was
transferred to the Masanjia Labor Camp, where she was given
a three-year term without any legal procedures. In the labor
camp, Ms. Gu was frequently tortured. She suffered forced
standing, forced squatting, body -folding, forced sitting, and
other forced postures for long periods of time. She was also
deprived of sleep for many days. In mid-November 1999,
inmate Li Fenglian, following the guards' instructions, cruelly
tortured practitioners. She brutally beat each of the practition-
ers in Room 4, Squad 1. She punched and kicked their heads,
faces, necks, and chests. On many occasions, Ms. Gu was
beaten until she vomited blood.
constant physical torture including the following: forced
standing for long periods of time, body folding (standing with
two legs straight and knees together in a toe touching posi-
tion), being forced to remain alert while facing a wall for many
hours, denial of sleep, hard labor, verbal abuse and beating.
Besides the physical abuse, Ms. Gu was under constant
mental torment. The guards instructed two inmates to watch
her 24 hours a day; even when sleeping, she was sandwiched
between two inmates. She was not allowed speak to anyone, or
else she would be suspected conspiring to make trouble and
punished. She was not allowed to close her eyes during the
day, or she would be suspected of doing meditation. She could
only go to the bathroom twice a day and was watched and
humiliated.
The mental and physical torment and the 16 hours per day
of forced labor severely damaged Ms. Gu's health. In October
2000, Ms. Gu experienced difficulty in eating, breathing, and
speaking. A medical "expert" was brought to the labor camp to
examine her. The doctor briefly touched the back of Gu's neck
and said, "She is okay. You can do whatever you want to do
with her." What he meant was forced -feeding. Even though Ms.
Gu was not involved in any hunger strike but had trouble swal-
lowing food, she was accused of pretending and was force-fed
anyway, causing her extreme pain. Meanwhile, the guards and
inmates who originally forbade Ms. Gu to talk to anyone now
forced her to speak, which she had difficulty doing. As a result
of the cruelty, her health condition deteriorated rapidly. One
side of her face became swollen. Also, she developed such
pain that she could not sleep on her back. On November 1,
2001, Ms. Gu was sent home.
On November 7, 2000, Hao Shushan, Chief of Nanpiao
Division, Gangyaoling Police Station, brought 4-5 policemen
with him to Ms. Gu's house, kicked open the front door, ran-
sacked her home, and took away all her Falun Gong books,
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Torture
compact discs, and a cassette recorder. Then they wrote false
reports accusing her of organizing Falun Gong activities. As a
result, Ms. Gu was sent back to the Masanjia Forced Labor
Camp, where she was sexually abused and brutally beaten by
Zhang Jun, a vicious policeman from the Third Squad. She was
so battered by the attack that her eyes were swollen and she
vomited. She could not speak anymore, although Hao insisted
that she could. She was sent to the hospital and diagnosed
with cancer; the medical record of the diagnosis was kept in
Masanjia Hospital. Dong Bin (female, the head of the Third
Squad) sent her home on May 30, 2001.
Ms. Gu cannot practice dentistry anymore because she
has lost her ability to speak. Her livelihood is in jeopardy and
she relies on the financial assistance of other people. Her 80 -
year -old mother is suffering from a serious heart ailment as a
result of the ordeal the family has gone through. In addition,
Ms. Gu is a single parent. Her 16 -year-old daughter has had to
drop out of school because of the family's hardship. Ms. Gu is
still closely monitored by the Police Station.
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Hung Up in "Carrying a Sword over the Back"
Position and Beaten
Kou Xiaoping, female, 40, was a government employee who
worked in a bank, resident of Lishan District, Anshan City,
Liaoning Province.
Ms. Kou Xiaoping went to Beijing to appeal for the right to
practice Falun Gong several times after July 20, 1999. The
police arrested her and escorted her back to Anshan City,
where she was illegally detained at the No. 3 Detention Center
for 15 days. The police handcuffed her with one arm over the
shoulder linked to the other arm behind her back and hung her
in this position for a whole day. Meanwhile, she was beaten
until she was black and blue all over. After being released, she
had her salary suspended and was forced to undergo brain-
washing. Because Ms. Kou refused to give up practicing Falun
Dafa, she was illegally sentenced in November 2000 to two
years of forced labor.
In the labor camp, to force her to renounce Falun Gong,
she was not allowed to sleep for a whole month. In February
2002, Ms. Kou joined other practitioners on a group hunger
strike to protest the persecution. After four days, police force-
fed them as a form of torture. Many practitioners had strong
reactions from these force-feeding torture sessions. Ms. Kou
felt discomfort all over her body, her mouth was extremely dry,
her nails and face turned pale, and she felt pain in her internal
organs. Ms. Kou was eventually sent to a hospital for emer-
gency treatment. Two days later, on February 22, 2002, she
passed away. Soon after Ms. Kou was persecuted to death, her
sister, Ms. Kou Xiaokun, was tortured to death in Masanjia
Forced Labor Camp.
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Photo overleaf: Punitive Force_Feeding
A drawing of a force-feeding session in a Chinese prison by Amy Lee, a Falun Gong practitioner now living in the USA, who was subjected to
force-feeding torture while detained in China.
Recalling her experience, Ms. Lee said: "They dragged me by my hair and slammed my head against the ground. Then they violently kicked
my head and chest. I lost consciousness. When I came to, I had a headache and realized my clothing had been stripped from my body. To
protest this treatment, I began a hunger strike. Five days later, I was force-fed. They forced a thick and hard plastic tube into my stomach
through my nose. It was excruciatingly painful, especially to my nose and throat. Force-feeding by violently stuffing tubes through the nose and
down the throat is a common practice in Chinese detention centers. Very often, it's not food that's forced through the tube, but a highly concen-
trated salt -water solution that is extremely painful when ingested. Even more appalling is that human feces and urine are sometimes 'fed' to
the hunger -striking practitioners. The procedure is usually carried out by untrained guards or sometimes even criminal inmates."
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Psychiatric Torment
Repeated Detentions and Torture in Mental Hospital
Wu Xiaohua, 1-2 female, 47, an associate professor at the
Environmental Art Department of the Anhui Civil Construction
Engineering College, Hefei City, Anhui Province.
Professor Wu Xiaohua
In early 2000, the local
authorities sent Prof. Wu
Xiaohua to the Anhui Women's
Labor Camp because she had
appealed to the government to
stop persecuting Falun Gong.
In the labor camp, the guards
instigated inmates to beat and
abuse her. They slapped her
face with the sole of a shoe,
wrapped her face and head
with tape, and stuffed rags
that were used for cleaning
bathrooms and soaked in
urine into her mouth. They
even filled her mouth with sanitary napkins soaked with men-
strual blood. They also locked her up in a small solitary confine-
ment cell in the hot summer.
When such torture failed to force Prof. Wu to renounce
Falun Gong, the labor camp sent her to the Hefei City No. 4
People's Hospital (a mental hospital) in late July 2000. In the
mental hospital, Prof. Wu was handcuffed to a bed with her
arms and legs stretched out day and night. She was forcibly
given injections, force-fed drugs, and shocked with electric
needles. This torture put her in a daze and made her feel fidg-
ety. She often lapsed into a stupor. One day, they handcuffed
her hands behind her back and locked her in a warehouse
from that afternoon until the following morning to expose her
to mosquitoes. Because she was handcuffed, she could not
fend off the mosquitoes. The next morning she was covered
with blood from mosquito bites. She was detained and tortured
in the mental hospital for 50 days before she was transferred
back to the labor camp.
On October 23, 2001, Prof. Wu was once again sent to the
mental hospital. In the hospital, the nurses forced her onto a
bed, grabbed her by her hair, and stripped off her clothes. The
doctors cursed at her while cutting her underwear off with a
pair of scissors. Then they tied her to the bed with her arms
and legs stretched out and shocked her with electric needles
and an electric baton all over her body. The pain was beyond
description. They then force-fed her and injected her with
nerve -damaging drugs. These drugs caused her to feel muddle-
headed and sick. During her detention at the mental hospital
she went on three hunger strikes, the longest one lasting 21
days. The hospital authorities threatened to electrically shock
her until she passed out if she would not renounce Falun Gong.
Because of the injections and drugs she remains in a lethargic
state and has a feeling of numbness. She feels uneasy no mat-
ter how she sits, stands or sleeps. She has a constant
headache, vomits, and suffers from menstrual irregularity. She
also suffers from memory loss, and her eyesight is intermittent-
ly out of focus, rendering her unable to see people or things
clearly at close range. Her hearing has also been terribly dam-
aged. Due to her weakened condition she sometimes passes
out three to four times in a single day. Because of the torture,
her blood sugar value often reaches 22-28, her blood pressure
is very high, and her heart is not in a healthy condition.
In October 2002, guards from the Anhui Women's Labor
Camp secretly took Prof. Wu from the hospital. No one knows
her current whereabouts.
Chen Biyu Died from Psychiatric Torture
Chen Biyu, female, 51, employed at the China Industrial
Commercial Bank's Taijiang Branch, Fuzhou City, Fujian
Province.
In November 1999, Ms. Chen Biyu was arrested in Beijing
for appealing to the central government to stop persecuting
Falun Gong. She was escorted back to Fuzhou City and
detained in the Shuitou Detention Center. To force her to
renounce Falun Gong, the police first sent her to the Fuzhou
Neurological and Mental Illness Prevention Center in Fuzhou
City in December 1999, and later to the Fuzhou Mental
Hospital Treatment Center in Fuzhou City. She was force-fed
with psychiatric drugs in these institutions.
Ms. Chen managed to escape from the mental hospital,
but was arrested again and sent back to the Fuzhou
Neurological and Mental Illness Prevention Center on January
7, 2000. The chief physician of the Second Unit, Dr. Lin
Yaoping, tortured her with electric needles and injected her
with nerve -damaging drugs. The severe torture caused her to
become incontinent and lose her memory. She was then trans-
ferred to another hospital, but was released because she was
unable to pay the hospital expenses. When she returned to her
job at the bank, she was fired, and then sent to the Fuzhou
Mental Hospital.
After Ms. Chen was released, she was once again arrested
by the police on September 26, 2001, and suffered more psy-
chiatric torture. Ms. Chen died in custody in October 2001.
1. AP: August 27, 2002, "Falun Gong Practitioners Call For Support to End Mental Hospital Abuse Used to Persecute Healthy Falun Gong Practitioners in China"
2. The Japan Times: September 5, 2002, "Psychiatric Abuse In China"
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Psychiatric Torment
Help Rescue My Mother, Han Jizhen, Who was Cruelly Persecuted In Nanjing Mental Hospital
By Jason Wang 3-4
My mother's name is Han Jizhen. She is a Falun Gong
practitioner. Like millions of other Falun Gong practitioners, my
mother has suffered severely because of the Chinese govern-
ment's persecution. This is her story.
My mother began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. Within a
few months, a chronic gynecological disease that had plagued
her for 28 years disappeared, and so did many other illnesses.
For the first time in many years, my mother was completely
healthy by practicing Falun Gong. My mother became known as
a very kindhearted person in her work unit and throughout her
neighborhood.
From right: Jason's mother, Han lizhen, his father, brother, and sis-
ter-in-law. The photo was taken during his brother's
wedding Ceremony.
On July 20, 1999, out of resentment towards the popular-
ity of Falun Gong, China's president, Jiang Zemin, launched a
nationwide persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. As
one who had benefited greatly from practicing Falun Gong, my
mother felt it was her responsibility to explain to the Chinese
government their misconception about Falun Gong, so she
went to Beijing on December 23, 1999 to appeal for the resti-
tution of Falun Gong's reputation. On her way, a policeman
stopped her and asked, "Do you practice Falun Gong?" My
mother answered, "Yes." The policeman immediately pushed
my mother into a police van. In the van, the policeman slapped
my mother repeatedly, until he got tired. Then he grabbed a
bag and hit her many times with that.
Later, my mother was escorted back to her hometown of
Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Without any legal documenta-
tion or medical diagnosis, the police detained her against her
will in the Nanjing Mental Hospital (currently renamed as the
Nanjing Brain Hospital). Initially, the hospital refused to admit
my mother because the doctor could see that she was a per-
fectly healthy person. The police placed a lot of pressure on the
doctor and eventually forced the hospital to admit her. The doc1
tor told the members of our family, "She is not here because
she has a psychiatric problem. It is because she does not want
to give up her belief in Falun Gong!"
I was shocked and anxious when I heard my mother wa I I
being detained in a mental hospital because of her belief it
Falun Gong. I immediately flew back to China and visited my
mother in the Nanjing Mental Hospital. I asked my mother how
the hospital was treating her, a healthy person. My mother told
me, "I am forcibly injected with unknown drugs combined with
some oral medicine. If I refuse to take their drugs, they use
ropes to tie me up and force the injections into me. The drugs
make my body so painful. I cannot calm down regardless d>r
whether I am sitting, standing, or lying down. I feel listless and
dizzy. My head just stops thinking, I am easily irritated, and
cannot calm down." My heart was pained when I looked at he"r!
My mother's every motion was extremely slow, whether while
talking or while making tiny physical movements. When she
spoke, it sounded as if her tongue was swollen and could nog
move easily. She could not speak fluently and her thoughts
were cluttered and random. After all those days in the hospital,
my mother, a previously healthy person, looked like a real men-
tal patient.
We suddenly heard a nurse yelling something outside I f
the door. My mother said to me nervously, "They are going to
give me drugs again!" Soon a young nurse came in with a cup
of water and some drugs in her hands. She said while feeding
my mother the drugs, "Do you still want to practice Falun
Gong? Give it up now!" I was standing on the side and silently
watching what was happening. Watching my mother suffering
right in front of my eyes is far beyond what I can describe It
was agonizing for me. The painful scene stabbed my heart and
ripped it into pieces.
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Later I met with the doctor and said, "I am Han Jizhen s
son. I came back from America because I wanted to know
about my mother's situation." The doctor said, "Your mother
can be discharged from the hospital at any time as long as I he
police allow it." When I asked them about the drugs they we're
administering to my mother, she said, "We have no choice. The
police want her to be here, and we have to use drugs on her.
Otherwise, if she goes to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing
again, we would bear the responsibility."
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3. Houston Chronicle, by EDWARD HEGSTROM, Nov 19, 2001, "China takes Falun Gong fight overseas - Local followers say consulates cracking down"
4. The Dallas Morning News , by ESTHER WU, Oct 3, 2002, "UT student hopes rally helps father"
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After repeated requests from our family, the hospital
released my mother several days before the Chinese New Year.
To our dismay, the police came to our home the next day and
threatened my mother, asking her to write a statement promis-
ing not to appeal for Falun Gong again in Beijing, or else she
would be put back into the hospital. Under the pressure, my
mother gave in. We thought that the police would not harass us
any more, and we could have a peaceful New Year's Festival.
But the police came to our home again the next day. They said
to my mother, "You only wrote a statement promising not to
appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing. That is not enough. You must
write a statement promising never to practice Falun Gong
again, or we will put you back into the mental hospital." My
mother told them, "How can I make such a statement?
Practicing Falun Gong has solved all of my health problems.
How can I stop practicing such wonderful exercises?" The
police said brazenly, "It seems that you still have a psychiatric
problem, and were not cured at all in the hospital. You must
still need further treatment in the hospital." Without any legal
process, the police took my mother away and put her into the
hospital again for an additional two months.
My father's health is not good. He had cancer at the time,
and needed my mother to take care of him at home. Since the
police took my mother away, she could not take care of him,
and instead he had to send meals to her every day. My family
was in a crisis.
At the end of 2000, I had the documents ready for my par-
ents to visit me in America. Right before they were to board the
flight, my parents were stopped by customs at the Shanghai
airport because they found my mother's name on the blacklist
in their computers.
Right now, the police and other government officials are
still watching my mother. She cannot leave her hometown with-
out permission from the authorities. I appeal to the internation-
al community to help free my mother so that our family can be
reunited.
Fan Lihong Died from Psychiatric Torture 5
Fan Lihong,5 female, 29, a resident of Xining City, Qinghai
Province
Ms. Fan Lihong was arrested in the autumn of 2000 and
sentenced to one year of forced labor in the Qinghai Women's
Forced Labor Camp. Because she refused to renounce Falun
Gong, the labor camp sent Ms. Fan to a mental hospital for psy-
chiatric torture. At the mental hospital, the doctors and police-
men force-fed Ms. Fan with psychiatric drugs. She was
detained several times in the mental hospital because she
would not renounce her belief. The drugs severely damaged
her nervous system, and she often fell into a lethargic, trance-
like state. Because of her critical condition, the hospital
released her, fearing that she would die in custody. Ms. Fan
never recovered from the severe nerve damage, and in
December 2001, she was found dead in the Qinghai People's
Park.
Tortured at Fangcun Mental Hospital
Dong Yuhua, female, age 31, resident of Baiyun District,
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
On July 20, 1999, Ms. Dong Yuhua was arrested because
she went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop ban-
ning Falun Gong. During her detention, Ms. Dong was forced to
drink water laced with an unknown drug. This caused her to
feel very sick and dizzy. The drug also caused her lips to crack.
From that time until October 2001, she was arrested six times
and was detained at 15 different locations, including 43 days
at the Fangcun Mental Hospital of Guangzhou.
At the end of August 2001, the police from Guangzhou City
coerced Ms. Dong's family to send her to the Fangcun Mental
Hospital in Guangzhou City. At the hospital, Ms. Dong was
locked in an iron cage. Whenever she tried to practice the
Falun Gong exercises, the male staff and doctors in the hospi-
tal beat her viciously until she fell to the floor. They tied her to
a bed with handcuffs and shackles, each time for a period of
1-3 days. She was not allowed to go to the restroom and had
to defecate and urinate in the bed. At the same time, she was
forcibly injected with large doses of drugs, which caused her to
become disoriented and dizzy to have a rigid facial expression
and a splitting headache; she was also constantly tired and felt
sleepy all day. As the doctors continued to increase the
dosage, Ms. Dong suffered temporary memory loss, not even
being able to remember who she was. The drugs caused Ms.
Dong to wake up every morning with a large area of her pillow
drenched in her saliva, and from then she would roll up and
withdraw into a corner. Nevertheless, the hospital staff contin-
ued to increase the drug dosage and to charge her family more
and more money.
Ms. Dong was tortured in the hospital until October 9,
2001, when her family finally withdrew her from the hospital.
5. Washington Post Foreign Service, August 26, 2002, Philip P. Pan, "The Silent Treatment From Beijing, Mental Hospitals Allegedly Used to Quiet Dissidents, Falun
Gong"
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Psychiatric Torment
How I was Tortured with Drugs in a
Mental Hospital
By female practitioner Wang Huifan
My name is Wang Huifan. I am a retired worker.
During the 2000 Spring Festival, because I practice Falun
Gong, plainclothes policemen arrested me and threw me into a
drug rehabilitation center to be brainwashed. After I went on a
hunger strike for two days, they force-fed me. One day, several
people from my workplace took me to an army hospital. They
dragged me to the mental illness section on the third floor and
forcefully changed me into a patient's clothes. I shouted loud-
ly, "I don't have any illness!" The nurse forcibily injected me
with an unknown drug, and shortly afterwards I lost conscious-
ness. When I regained my consciousness, I found my mouth
very stiff, and I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to. I could-
n't speak clearly even if I wanted to. I was force-fed with more
medicine. I spent the whole day unconscious. My legs were
weak and I was unable to walk. My hands wouldn't do what I
wanted them to, and I felt very dizzy all day long. They force-fed
me twice a day with some other medicine. As a result, I could
only lie in bed all day, either unconscious or hallucinating.
After one week, I was transferred to a bigger room. I was
force-fed medicine twice a day. My arms and legs felt weak all
day long. I felt dizzy and nauseated. Every day the director on
duty would come and check on me. Because I did not give up
the practice of Falun Gong, the director increased my dosage
from three tablets to five tablets. Finally my dosage was a
handful of tablets, three times the amount everyone else was
taking. At the same time, every Friday I was asked to go to the
pharmacy room by myself to take two big tablets of yellow med-
icine, and I had to open my mouth for them to check. Since the
dosage of medicine was continuously increased, I felt more
and more disoriented and nauseated.
The mental persecution was no less severe than the phys-
ical torture. Since I was forced to take large dosages of medi-
cine for long periods of time, my entire body became bloated.
My face was swollen like a bubble. My complexion was also
very bad. Everyone who saw me said I was in bad shape. I
could not read Falun Gong books or do the exercises in this
place, and was forced to live among the truly mentally ill
patients. After they finally released me from the hospital, I had
been tortured so severely that both of my eyes were red,
swollen, and very puffy. I had difficulty opening my eyes. My
ears festered inside and out. My neck also filled with yellow
fluid.
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Suffered a Mental Collapse after
Three Years of Torture
Zhu Hang, female, in her 40's, an associate professor at the
Dalian Polytechnic University in Dalian City, Liaoning Province.
Prof. Zhu Hang was arrested in September 1999 and
detained in the Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City, Liaoning
Province for three years. During her detention, she was beaten,
handcuffed, shackled, and deprived of sleep for extended peri-
ods of time. Once, her hands and feet were handcuffed togeth
er in such a way that she could neither stand nor sit. She was
forced to squat all the time. She went on a hunger strike to
protest the torture. The inmates were then ordered to pry open
her mouth with a spoon, injuring her mouth in the process.
Since she was not allowed to use the restroom, she had to urii
nate in her underwear and on the ground. Then they forced her
to lick the urine off the ground. She was also force-fed through
her nose. She was tortured until she lost consciousness. She
was sent to the Dalian Second People's Hospital for emergency
treatment on September 17, 1999.
II
After Ms. Zhu returned from the hospital, the detention
center guards took turns torturing her. They pricked her face
forehead, and eyebrows with toothpicks and needles whenevi
er she closed her eyes. Sometimes they took turns slapping her
face. Dark purple -colored bruises appeared all over her face!
As she was wearing shackles all the time, her ankles swelled
up and festered with open sores. She developed a high fevv.
as a result of being tortured for such a long period. Instead of
giving Ms. Zhu medical treatment, the authorities sent Ms. Zhou
to the Dalian Psychiatric Hospital in Dalian City, Liaoning
Province, where she was forced to take narcotics that numb
the nervous system. If she refused to take them, the so-called
doctors would tie up her arms and legs and give her injections
against her will.
Brain Damage Resulted from Injection of a
Harmful Drug
Zhao Xuexia, female, resident of Xingtai City, Hebei Province
++'
Ms. Zhao Xuexia was detained in the No. 2 Women's
Group of the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp for practicing Falun
Gong. In the labor camp, she was tortured severely. In orde[ito
make her renounce Falun Gong, the guards injected her with
nerve damaging drugs that damaged her brain. She went into
a coma. While she was in this state, the head of No.! 2
Women's Group held her hand and signed her name to a state-
ment renouncing Falun Gong. In April 2002 Ms. Zhao's family
members took her home and looked for treatment, but she
was diagnosed with serious brain damage and pronounced
very unlikely to wake up from the coma.
Psychiatric Torment
Ding Jianhua Mistreated at the Nanjing
Psychiatric Hospital
Ding Jianhua,6 female, 47, a first -rank police supervisor and
head of the Department of Health Care of the Jiangsu Province
Police Station, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province.
On October 3, 1999, Ms. Ding Jianhua was sent to the
Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital : to receive forced treatment
because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. The abusive
"treatment" harmed her physically. Afterwards, she had slowed
responses and blurred eyesight. Ms. Ding was detained in the
27th Bed of the Sixth District in the Nanjing Psychiatric
Hospital. Three other Falun Gong practitioners were also
detained and mistreated there.
Given Forced. Injections Until Comatose at Hefei City
Mental Hospital
1. Guo Qiong, 30, female, bank cashier, Anhui Province.
2. Wang Caiyun, over 40, female, a worker of the Hefei Beer
factory, Hefei City, Anhui Province.
Because Ms. Guo Qiong practices Falun Gong, her compa-
ny threatened to fire her. Under pressure from the authorities,
her family reluctantly sent her to the No. 4 People's Hospital in
Hefei (a mental hospital). As soon as the doctors in the hospi-
tal learned that she was a Falun Gong practitioner, they did not
ask any other questions and forced her to stay in the hospital
for treatment. She was treated as a mental patient even
though she was healthy. She was forcibly given injections and
electric shocks. After being injected and shocked, she fell to
the ground and lost consciousness. She was forced to take the
drugs three times a day. After swallowing the pills, she had
stomach pains and she would vomit until she started bleeding.
She also felt very tired and listless.
Threatened with the loss of every family member's job and
heavy fines, Ms. Wang Caiyun's family reluctantly let her be
taken to the mental hospital. The diagnosis showed that she
was normal, but the hospital staff still forced her to be hospi-
talized. They tortured her with electric shocks and injections
when she refused to take their drugs. After being injected, she
lay on the ground and lost consciousness. Ms. Wang was
forced to stay at the hospital for more than 30 days.
A Pregnant Mother Given Psychiatric Drug
Injections at a Mental Hospital in Jiangsu Province
Zhang Wuying, female, an instructor at the Changzhou City
Normal Institute of Technology, Changzhou City, Jiangsu
Province.
Ms. Zhang Wuying and her husband were forced to leave
their teaching positions at the Changzhou City Normal Institute
of Technology because they appealed to the authorities to stop
persecuting Falun Gong. Moreover, the police from the Cuizhu
Police Station, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province repeatedly
detained Ms. Zhang. Even though she was pregnant, the police
forced her to stand for the entire night.
At the beginning of April 2000, Ms. Zhang and her hus-
band went to Beijing to appeal to the central government for
justice. At that time, Ms. Zhang was more than four months
pregnant. Twenty or more plainclothes policemen took turns
beating her in front of the State Appeals Office in Beijing.
Afterwards, Ms. Zhang and her husband were escorted back to
their school. School officials then sent them to the People's
Liberation Army No. 102 Mental Hospital, where they were
incarcerated with mental patients. Although Ms. Zhang was
five months into her pregnancy, the nurses at the hospital tied
her to a bed, injected her with psychiatric drugs, and force-fed
her other drugs.
In August 2000, Ms. Zhang gave birth to her son. Her
school assigned two colleagues to monitor her during her three
days in hospital. After she checked out of the hospital, the local
authorities did not allow anyone to visit her.
In October 2000, Ms. Zhang and her husband wanted to
visit their parents in Shandong Province, but the authorities
held their baby as a hostage and prevented them from leaving.
In late January 2001, when the couple was finally allowed to
visit their parents in Shandong Province, local police from that
area were instructed to follow and harass them. On February
28, 2001, when the couple returned to Changzhou City, eight
policemen in two police vehicles from the local police station at
the Cijiao Train Station intercepted them. The police dragged
them into a police vehicle, tearing both the baby's and Ms.
Zhang's clothing. The baby was so frightened that he had diar-
rhea and cried throughout the night.
In May 2001, police from Changzhou City arrested Ms.
Zhang's husband and sentenced him to two years of forced
labor. The school's security guard, Li Honggen, kept Ms. Zhang
and her child under surveillance 24 hours a day, even when
she went to buy food. They interrogated anyone who communi-
cated or interacted with her. The police also threatened to send
Ms. Zhang to a labor camp once her baby reached one year
old.
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6. Nando Media, Beijing, April 5, 2000, "China commits Falun Gong instructor, force-feeds her drugs"
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Jiang Jing Repeatedly Tortured and Drugged in the
Zhonghan Mental Hospital
Jiang Jing, female, resident of Chengyang Town in Qingdao City,
Shandong Province
In March 2000, Ms. Jiang Jing was detained because she
appealed to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong.
She was locked up and tortured in a small basement for over
six months. There was no bathroom in the basement, and she
was forced to urinate and defecate in the same room. She was
also not allowed to wash. There was no bed, and she was given
nothing to cover herself with at night. To protest the violation of
her human rights, Ms. Jiang went on hunger strike three times,
each time for more than twenty days.
In September 2000, Ms. Jiang escaped from the base-
ment, but was detained again in October 2000. She was put
back in the same basement to suffer the same conditions as
before.
In November 2000, because she refused to renounce
Falun Gong, she was sent to the Zhonghan Mental Hospital in
Qingdao City, Shandong Province. The hospital staff forcibly
injected her with a drug. A few minutes after the injection, Ms.
Jiang felt ill. Her heart beat very rapidly and she felt panicked.
Her vision first became blurred and then went totally dark. Her
mouth and tongue felt dry. When Ms. Jiang asked the medical
staff what kind of drug it was, they lied, saying that it was a
sedative to help her sleep. A medical expert revealed the truth:
this drug is banned by the government. It was only used on rab-
bits in lab experiments. When used in high doses, it kills rab-
bits instantly.
During the next few days, Ms. Jiang couldn't eat or drink
and she became too weak to walk. She was repeatedly asked
to renounce Falun Gong. When she refused, more injections
were forced into her. While administering the injections, a doc-
tor also threatened to torture her with electric needle shocks.
After a month, Ms. Jiang escaped from the mental hospital. In
July 2001, Ms. Jiang was detained again. She went on a
hunger strike for half a month, and was force-fed many times.
Then she escaped again.
In August 2001, Ms. Jiang was detained once more and
severely tortured. On August 26, 2001, she attempted to
escape, but fell from a fourth -story window. She was severely
hurt with several broken bones. However, she was still tied to a
wooden bed and beaten by Zhang Zhongkai, the director of the
Chengyang Town Synthetic Management Office. She was not
sent to a hospital until September 14, 2001. Her current situ-
ation is unknown.
My Painful Experience of Psychiatric Torture 79
In early August 1999, under the Chinese government's
propaganda and pressure, my father, uncle, another relative
forced me into a mental hospital, although I am not mentally ill.
Under the authorities' order, they and several patients forcibly
carried me into a cell. A doctor interviewed me to determine
whether my mental health was normal. I correctly and clearly
answered all of his questions, but the doctor still claimed that
I had a slight mental problem.
Because I protested the illegal and immoral treatment the
hospital had used on me, I was tied up on a bed for most of the
last nine days of my detention. I was forced to eat and urinate
on the bed. The doctors force-fed me with drugs and used
intravenous injections on me. The inhuman treatment once
made me faint in the restroom. Once they shocked me with ari
electric baton, knocking me unconscious. It took me a long
time to recover my memory and recall what happened before!
The torture in the mental hospital was so painful that I cannot
endure the memories. The physical and mental torture is
beyond anything I can describe.
In the summer of 2001, under pressure from the local
"610 Office," my father complied with their demands and
forcibly sent me to the anti -Falun Gong brainwashing center.
Transformation Center: People's Liberation Army No.
215 Mental Hospital
Under pressure from the authorities at the local "610
Office," the People's Liberation Army's No. 215 Mental
Hospital imprisoned more than ten Falun Gong practitioners in
a brainwashing class. Policemen, doctors, and nurses perse
cute the practitioners who refuse to give up their practice. The
hospital authorities admit that it is illegal to imprison these
people, but will not do anything because it was a decision
made by the government.
This brainwashing class is located on the third floor of this
hospital. The staff of the brainwashing class welded iron bars
to the doors and windows and over 20 policewomen guard the
area.
It has been reported that this hospital had previously
secretly detained over 20 Falun Gong practitioners who were
on hunger strikes at other detention centers or labor camps.
7. Dagbladet (Norwegian Daily Newspaper Website): August 26, 2002, "The Opposition In [China's] Mental Hospitals"
8. Radio Free Asia: Jiang Nan, August 24, 2002, "Tens of Thousands Dissidents Detained in Mental Hospitals"
9. AFP: August 26, 2002, Jonathan Annells, "World psychiatrists consider call to inspect Chinese hospitals
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Psychiatric Torment
Vicious Scenes in the Masanjia Labor Camp
A Survivor's Testimony
I am a female Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning
Province. In October 1999, I was sent to the Second Brigade of
the Second Women's Division of the Masanjia Labor Camp for
one year of "re-education through labor." I had to do very heavy
manual work (sewing cotton -padded clothing for the army).
During the winter, the weather was very cold but I was never
given enough nourishment or sleep. One evening, a female
practitioner started screaming and yelling in the corridor.
People said she had a mental disorder, but of course she had
been a normal, healthy woman when she first arrived. When I
went to the restroom I saw her in the corridor tied up with rope
and lying on the ice-cold cement floor shivering in the early win-
ter air. This healthy woman had been abused until she suffered
a mental breakdown.
I was forced to attend brainwashing sessions where I was
physically attacked and beaten with electric batons. The labor
camp staff took turns torturing me. Because I refused to
renounce Falun Gong, the Brigade Leader constantly repri-
manded me, forbade others to talk to me, but just had them
watch me. At that time, I really felt that every single day
seemed like a year. I was forced to stand for long periods of
time in a position called "riding the horse" [a position where
the person has to squat down with legs wide apart as in riding
a horse. The position quickly exhausts a person when held for
long periods of time]; my clothes quickly became soaked with
sweat and whenever I fell down I had to get up and continue
holding the position or be beaten. When other people were tak-
ing a break, the officers forced me to "study" communist theo-
ry. The Brigade Leader also threatened to send me to a small
solitary confinement. After one year of my term, the labor camp
arbitrarily extended it for another three months.
Another practitioner I knew, Ms. Su Juzhen, had been tor-
tured with severe electric shocks and other forms of corporal
punishment. One day I saw that she could not smile or speak.
Her face had no expression at all, her eyes were glassy and did-
n't move, and her pupils were large and fixed. When I greeted
or even touched her she didn't respond. It seemed that she did
not know me. Her whole body was very feeble and traces of
blood were visible on her face. I saw black and red marks on
the backs of her hands, which were the scars from electric
shocks. I knew Ms. Su was a mentally healthy person; so the
Brigade Leader must have forced her to take some kind of
drug. I recalled that it had been early in the morning, and I had
still been in bed when I heard her blood -curdling screams. I
wonder how long she had been deprived of sleep by the corpo-
ral punishment and torture. She walked with a strange gait.
Apparently her legs had been damaged in some way. I later
learned that the beatings and long-term forced squatting had
caused her serious injuries.
When my extended sentence was over, the labor camp
declared that my term would be extended indefinitely because
I still had not given up my belief! I would either be kept in the
labor camp for further observation or transferred to Dabei
Prison of Northwest China. One day in January 2001, the
Brigade Leader wanted to talk with me. When I went down-
stairs I was put into a car with three other practitioners. The
four of us were taken to the psychiatric ward of a hospital. I was
maliciously "diagnosed" with schizophrenia and forced to pay
489 Yuan for the drugs. I repeatedly explained to the doctor
that I had no illness and refused to buy or take any medication;
but it was to no avail. We were denied all of our rights; other
Falun Gong practitioners were falsely diagnosed as having
depression or manic depression.
Back at the labor camp, the criminal prisoners tried to
force me to take medication. When I tried reasoning with them,
they said they were simply carrying out orders from the Brigade
Leader. When I refused, two prisoners would force me onto my
back. Then one of them pinched my nose with his fingers and
the other poured the medicine down my throat. Sometimes,
when I spit out the medication, it would land in my hair and on
my clothes. Every time they finished pouring the medicine
down my throat, they would force me to stay in bed for half an
hour. This occurred twice daily, morning and evening. They said
that they would continue to do this until I had some "good
sense." During the time I was forced to take the drug I lost the
desire to eat and was easily startled; at the call of my name my
heart would race. I always felt very tired, unsteady, and could
not concentrate. In the fourth month of my extended term, I
was informed that my parents had come to take me for med-
ical treatment.
Later on I learned that among those fellow women practi-
tioners detained with me, the staunchest ones were sent to
Dabei Prison. Some were confined in special torture cells; oth-
ers had their terms extended. The male practitioners were
transferred to other labor camps. Mr. Zou Guirong, after being
transferred from place to place, was tortured to death at a
prison in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Mr. Jiang Wei suffered
a mental collapse from the extreme adversity and torture.
Forced to Take Mind -Altering Drugs
Shortly before July 20, 2000, in order to prevent me from
going to Beijing to appeal to the central government to stop
persecuting Falun Gong, the police in my hometown locked me
up in a local psychiatric hospital. The chief of the local police
station sent me there himself. In the hospital, I was forced to
take drugs, orally and by injection, that damage the central
nervous system. One day a female doctor, two male doctors,
and some of the patients tied me to a bed and injected the
drugs. Immediately after the forced injection I could not think
clearly any more. I lost my balance when I tried to walk, my
hands shook, I began to drool, and I could not control my
tongue when I tried to talk. I was tortured like that for a month
and charged 4,000 Yuan in "hospital treatment fees."
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Psychiatric Torment
Practitioners Frequently Tortured to Death at Baiyun Mental Rehabilit '°13
Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center was established as a
charitable organization under the supervision of Guangzhou
City. Under the direction and coordination of the Guangzhou
Security Department, however, Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation
Center has become a place for torturing Falun Gong practition-
ers.
On May 4, 2001, Zhang Dazi, a hospital doctor, told some
practitioners, "We kill people like we kill ants in this hospital.
We have a mortuary here and nobody has ever investigated
who ends up there. I issue the death certificates, and nobody
ever finds out the real cause of death."
On May 2, 2001, more than ten female practitioners were
transferred from Shahe Detention Center to Baiyun Mental
Rehabilitation Center. They were brutally beaten by a group of
male drug addicts, as ordered by Zhang Dazi. The drug addicts
divided themselves into groups, with three men using thick iron
batons to beat each female practitioner. The practitioners were
beaten until they lost consciousness. As a result of these vio-
lent beatings, these practitioners were covered with open
wounds and bruises of bluish and purple color. A 60 -year-old
female practitioner and a 20 -year-old female practitioner lay on
the ground unconscious, their faces swollen with bruises.
On May 13, 2001, Zhang Dazi instructed eight to nine
male drug addicts to break into the female section of the hos-
pital and drag out a female practitioner who refused to
renounce Falun Gong. When a few practitioners tried to stop
them, the men then turned their attention to these female
practitioners. Some used planks to hit them, some kicked and
punched them, and some threw them to the floor and choked
them. They stopped only when these practitioners were beaten
so severely that they had all lost consciousness. Then, these
criminals took the practitioner they had initially targeted else-
where, where she was violently beaten until she lost conscious-
ness.
Every day, screaming was heard coming from the male
cells. It was not unusual for five or six dead bodies to be car-
ried out of the cells each day. Someone said a male practition-
er doing the exercises was beaten to death and his body later
carried out of his cell. The hospital did not disclose any infor-
mation and secretly disposed of the bodies in the mortuary.
Nobody knows how many practitioners have been tortured to
death in this living hell.
Zhang Dazi proudly presented the hospital "accomplish-
ments" to the Guangzhou "610 Office" and was "recognized"
and "supported" by the Office. This has turned Baiyun Mental
Rehabilitation Center into a designated site for torturing practi-
tioners and a site for teaching these tactics to other mental
hospitals. On May 9, 2001, Zhang Dazi instructed his people tol
demand that practitioners "write a thank -you letter to express
your appreciation to the hospital for curing your illnesses
Either you write the letter or you risk another serious beating."
Practitioners who were on hunger strikes to protest their
detention had been suffering from the vicious torture on a daily
basis. On May 14, 2001, all the practitioners started another
hunger strike and asked for their unconditional release. Zhang
Dazi was somewhat frightened, but the Executive Director of
the hospital decided to continue to detain and torture practi-
tioners. All information relating to their maltreatment was covI
ered up.
Under the guise of a "government organization," the hos-
pital officially set up an area where taking drugs was "legal."'
Under the pretext of rehabilitation, drug addicts "legally" dealt
with "doctors" in buying and selling drugs. At the same time,
the "doctors" recruited male drug addicts to torture practitionf
ers. Practitioners in the hospital lost all their belongings and
money to these drug addicts. i
A 60 -year-old practitioner was arrested for distributing
Falun Gong information. In October 2001, she was initial
1
detained in the Chatou Detention Center, and then transferred
to Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center. She escaped after 97
days of imprisonment. She said that the Center was a filthy
place where many patients had sores and skin ulcers all over
their bodies. She was kept in the same cell with several drug
addicts. Although the hospital made it known to people that
they would be released if they paid the asked price, Falun Gong
practitioners were exceptions to this. 1i
It is difficult to estimate how many people have been trans -I
ferred to this hospital, as the number of people involved hast
been quite enormous. Anyone released by the hospital had to
I
Some of the practitioners were released by the hospital
but transferred to brainwashing classes or to forced labor
camps by the Security Department. Some of these practition-
ers started hunger strikes and in several cases their weight
dropped from as much as 60 kg (approximately 130 pounds)
to around 20 kg (approximately 50 pounds). They looked life
skeletons and were quite close to death. Sometimes tile
Security Department instructed the families of these practi-.
tioners to come pick them up, while extorting money from them
for their release. Only a very few practitioners have ben
released and so have had the opportunity to expose the crimes
that took place inside the hospital.
pay 600 Yuan.
10. Reuters: August 26, 2002, Stuart Grudgings, "Psychiatry mission to visit China, no censure yet"
11. UPI: August 26, 2002, Bruce Sylvester, "World psych group wants China abuse eyed"
12. Sydney Morning Herald: August 28, 2002, "Psychiatrists Put China On The Couch"
13. Houston Chronicle: September 9, 2002, "China's Dissidents - Must Open Mental Wards For Honest Examinations"
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Psychiatric Torment
Tortured in the Yichun City Mental Hospital
Shi Yinghua, female, a highly ranked teacher in Jinshantun,
Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province.
Ms. Shi Yinghua has been tortured because she practices
Falun Gong. Officers from the local "610 Office" and the police
station ordered Gao Fu, her husband, to torture her. Gao Fu
often cursed at and beat Ms. Shi. He grabbed her by the hair
and knocked her head against the wall. He brutally hit her fore-
head with a pair of pliers. He even tried to force her to hang
herself. Later, policemen arrested her and sent her to a deten-
tion center, where they brutally tortured her.
They tied Ms. Shi's arms onto a cross and used a metal rod
to keep her mouth pried open. Then they sent her to the Yichun
City Mental Hospital and continued to torture her there. After
she was released from the mental hospital she was not
allowed to teach. Later, she was arrested at the Shanhaiguan
Railway Station because she was on her way to Beijing to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. On
the way back to the detention center, the handcuffs cut her
wrists to the bone and her hands were bleeding. Afterwards,
the local police authorities again sent her to the mental hospi-
tal for further torture.
Forced Injections at Qiqihar City No. 3 Mental Hospital
Qu Jinfeng, female, 26, a resident of Fuyu County, Heilongjiang
Province.
On November 30, 1999, Ms. Qu Jinfeng went to Beijing to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She
was arrested in Beijing on December 2, 1999 and escorted
back to the Fuyu County Police Station. Policeman Liang
Shichao slapped Ms. Qu, leaving marks on her face. The police
tied Ms. Qu to a "Tiger Bench" and beat her with an electronic
baton. 26 days later Ms. Qu was released and sent back home.
On February 9, 2001, Policemen Yang Hongge and Wang
Zewei broke into Ms. Qu's home and brought her to the Fuyu
County Detention Center, where Liu Jianchun slapped her in
the face and beat her face with an electric baton. On March 8,
2000, they sent Ms. Qu to the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp
of Qiqihar City, where she was beaten very severely. During the
56 days of her detention, they kept her handcuffed around the
clock except when she used the restroom and had meals. The
guards also instigated a criminal, Li Xiaoyang, to seal her
mouth with tape, slap her face, and trample on her feet.
Because Ms. Qu went on a hunger strike to protest the torture,
guards forced her to stand for a long time, bashed her head
against a wall, hung her up (usually from a rafter or a tree), and
stuffed towels in her mouth. She was also force-fed and forced
to receive intravenous drips. Later Ms. Qu was sent to the
Qiqihar City No. 3 Mental Hospital, where she received forced
injections that made her lose consciousness. Fifteen days later
Ms. Qu was sent home. On January 21, 2001, because Ms. Qu
still refused to renounce Falun Gong, the Fuyu County Police
Station again sent her to the Fuyu Detention Center. There,
they shackled Ms. Qu and beat her with clubs. Ms. Qu went on
a hunger strike to protest the continued torture and was force-
fed; the officers inserted the feeding tube into her trachea,
almost suffocating her.
A Nursing Mother Tortured into Mental Illness
Gu Peng, female, 27, a kindergarten teacher at the Baoding
City Cigarette Factory, resident of Baoding City, Hebei Province.
In January 2001, Ms. Gu Peng, a nursing mother, was
arrested, along with her husband and their six-month old baby,
for going to the central government to appeal for an end to the
persecution of Falun Gong. After they were escorted back from
Beijing to Baoding City, her husband was detained at the
Baoding Detention Center and Ms. Gu was sent to a mental
hospital. Every day she was forced to take drugs and injections.
This previously healthy mother was tortured with drugs until
her mind was completely debilitated. Now, Ms. Gu unceasingly
paces the floor in a drug-induced stupor. Her baby is deprived
of vital nutrition and maternal care because of her mother's
psychiatric torture in the mental hospital.
Tortured at the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Hospital
Chen Yujie, female, employee of the Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China Laixi Branch, Laixi City, Shandong Province.
In July 2000, Ms. Chen Yujie was arrested because she
went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecut-
ing Falun Gong. The local police sent her, along with six other
Falun Gong practitioners, to the Yantai Psychiatric Recovery
Hospital.
Upon their arrival, the hospital director, Li Tao, told Ms.
Chen, "We specialize in treating Falun Gong practitioners."
Without going through any diagnosis, the nurses forcibly gave
Ms. Chen injections, and asked if she would continue practic-
ing Falun Gong. They continued to increase the dose as long as
she refused to give up her faith. Under the influence of the
drugs, Ms. Chen was unable to focus, her attention span was
significantly shortened, and her arms and legs also became
weak and numb. Ms. Chen was tortured there for 45 days.
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Psychiatric Torment
Three Female Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in
Jiaozhou City Mental Hospital 1415
1. Tan Guihua, female, 42, a worker at the Third Leather
Shoe Factory in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province
2. Qiu Yuaner, female, 33, an employee of an oil company in
Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province
3. Kuang Bencui, female, 48, an employee at the Third
Leather Shoe Factory, Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province
On September 12, 1999, Mr. Song and several others from
the Third Leather Shoe Factory in Jiaozhou City forcibly took
Ms. Tan Guihua to a hospital because she had gone Beijing to
appeal to the central government to stop persecuting Falun
Gong. When she asked, "I am healthy, why do you take me
here?", Mr. Song answered, "You went to Beijing, and that is
your mental illness." A nurse at the hospital then had eight
men hold down Ms. Tan and injected a large dose of drugs into
her. In only a few seconds, she felt nauseated and sick, her
heart started to beat very quickly, and she eventually fainted.
Over the next few days, a female doctor repeatedly asked her if
she would continue to practice Falun Gong. Because Ms. Tan
always answered yes, the doctor shocked her with electric nee-
dles, injected her with a nerve -damaging drug, and cursed, "I
will see to it that you will say 'no' one day."
This torture went on for two months, but was not able to
force Ms. Tan to renounce Falun Gong. The doctor then inject-
ed Ms. Tan with an even stronger drug, and cursed, "Aren't you
good at biting the bullet? I want to see if you continue to prac-
tice Falun Gong." After the injection, Ms. Tan stopped menstru-
ating. She was unable to control her eyes, and her actions and
reaction time became very slow. A few days later, they added
another drug to her injections. As a result, she started to shake
violently and could not even hold a bowl. She was tortured like
this for 20 days. When her family finally picked her up, she was
disoriented and could not see things clearly. She had lost her
memory and her whole body had become bloated.
In February 2000, because Ms. Qiu Yuaner went to Beijing
to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong,
she was tortured in the same mental hospital for two months.
On February 14, 2000, Ms. Kuang Bencui went to Beijing
to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong.
She was arrested and escorted to a mental hospital. Although
she was healthy, during her two months of detention in the
mental hospital, Ms. Kuang was treated like a mental patient.
She was forced to take drugs and receive injections. Usually
two men grabbed her arms while one pinched her nose; then
they drove a chopstick between her teeth and force-fed her
drugs. Ms. Kuang was force-fed drugs three times a day, with
the dosage increasing from one to six tablets at a time. She
was detained in the mental hospital for two months before
being released to her family.
14. Amnesty International, CHINA: The crackdown on Falun Gong and other so-called "heretical organizations'
http://www.amnesty.ca/library/asal71100-6.htm
15. 2000 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom: China
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human rights/irf/irf rpt/irf china.html
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Violence Against
Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
Violence against Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
My Experience of Seventh -Month Forced Abortion
Both my husband and I are Falun Gong practitioners.
Because we went to Beijing to appeal to the government to
stop persecuting Falun Gong, the Beijing police arrested us
and sent us to the Beijing Police Station. After we were escort-
ed back to our hometown my husband was immediately sent to
a detention center. The detention center dared not keep me
there because I was seven months pregnant. Detaining a preg-
nant woman is against the law. They threatened to force me to
have an abortion, so they could send me to a detention center,
if I refused to give up Falun Gong.
I refused to renounce Falun Gong. I thought, "This is such
a great practice. Why should I quit doing it?" I was taken to a
hospital against my will. In the hospital, several people forcibly
held me down and performed an abortion procedure on me
without even informing my family. When my family got to the
hospital, it was too late, and the forced abortion had taken
effect. After receiving the injection to abort my seven month
pregnancy, my unborn baby struggled in my womb for over forty
hours before giving up its life.
While giving birth to a dead baby, I suffered tremendous
pain and lingered in and out of consciousness. My mother
cried while holding me tightly. I don't remember how many
times I passed out. It was always my mother who pulled me
back into consciousness by crying out loudly to me. I don't
know how much time passed before my dead child emerged
from my womb. Looking at my dead son, my heart was broken.
My parents cried loudly. We loved the dead baby too much to
allow the hospital to throw his body away.
During the several days I was forced to stay in the hospital,
I missed my dead child. At the same time, I missed my hus-
band, who was detained in the detention center, and he had no
chance to see his baby son.
Seven days later, policemen wanted to send me to a deten-
tion center. They claimed, "according to orders from higher up,
no matter what is done to Falun Gong practitioners it is not off
limits." Because of my parents' determined intervention, the
police didn't get their way. Instead, they sent me home under
24-hour surveillance. I was not allowed to leave home and
completely lost my personal freedom. One month later, my par-
ents were fined 2,000 Yuan. My husband wasn't released until
after two months of detention.
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Forced Abortion at Full Term
Zhang Hanyun, female, 33, resident of Hanzhong City, Shanxi
Province.
In March of 2000, because Ms. Zhang Hanyun practices
Falun Gong, she was forced to attend the anti -Falun Gong
brainwashing class held by the Hanzhong City "610 Office",
even though she was pregnant and expecting her new baby
soon. To avoid the persecution, Ms. Zhang hid with a relative's
family. Her father owned a contraction company. Under instruc-
tions from the Hanzhong City "610 Office" staff members, the
Beiguan Administrative Office closed down the construction
sites of Ms. Zhang's father and brother in an attempt to force
them to hand over Ms. Zhang. They also handcuffed Ms.
Zhang's husband to the Jialing River Bridge to humiliate him.
In the end, Ms. Zhang was arrested and sent to the anti -
Falun Gong brainwashing class. When the staff of the
Hanzhong City "610 Office" realized Ms. Zhang would soon be
giving birth to a baby, in order to detain her at the anti -Falun
Gong brainwashing class, they took her to a hospital. Ms.
Zhang was subjected to forced late -term abortion by dilation
and extraction. The horrifying process is hard to imagine.
Forced Abortion After Fourth Month of Pregnancy
Jiao Fangyu, female, employee of Laiwu Shandong Steel
Factory, resident of Laiwu City, Shandong Province.
Because Ms. Jiao Fangyu distributed Falun Gong flyers,
she was arrested by the Panzhuang Police Station on April 8,
2001. She was detained at the Criminal Investigation Brigade
of the Laiwu Shandong Steel Factory. In June 2001, Ms. Jiao
was four months pregnant. In order to keep her in custody they
forced her to have an abortion. On October 8, 2001, the Laiwu
Shandong Steel Factory sentenced Ms. Jiao to forced labor and
sent her to the Wangcun Detention Center.
Forced Abortion to Keep in Detention
Lu Yunzheng, female, 31, resident of Fengcheng City, Jiangxi
Province.
In January 2000, Ms. Lu Yunzheng was detained for
appealing to the government in Beijing to stop the persecution
of Falun Gong. She was later escorted back to Fengcheng City.
Because she was pregnant, the Chief of the Fengcheng Police
Station forced her to have an abortion in order to keep her in
the detention center for a longer term.
Violence against Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
A Pregnant Mother Jailed for Eighty -One Days
LiangSuxian, female, resident of Leiyang City, Hunan Province.
In late December 2000, Ms. Liang Suxian was lured to the
Leiyang City Police Station for questioning, but was arrested
upon arrival. During her detention, Ms. Liang was found to be
two months pregnant. The police nevertheless jailed her for 81
days because she had gone to Beijing in April 2000 to appeal
to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Before
releasing her, they also forced her to sign a document declar-
ing that she would give up the practice of Falun Gong
Detained While Pregnant and Forced into
Homelessness
Yang Zhifang, female, 28, a teacher at the Anatomy and
Physiology Department of the Weifang City Husbandry and
Veterinarian School, Weifang City, Shandong Province.
In October 1999, Ms. Yang Zhifang went to Beijing to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She
was arrested and escorted back to the Weifang City Husbandry
and Veterinarian School, and detained for nearly 60 days,
although she was three months pregnant. The School fired her
but assigned employees to take turns watching her. Because
she refused to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong, on
September 5, 2001, the school authorities attempted to send
Ms. Yang to be brainwashed. To avoid further persecution and
possible forced abortion, Ms. Yang escaped and did not return
to her home. Her husband, Mr. Hua Yuliang, also a Falun Gong
practitioner, was sentenced to three years of forced labor at
the Changle Detention Center. Currently, Ms. Yang is living on
the streets.
Detained while Pregnant
Li Yanchun, female, 29, resident of Tiefa City, Liaoning
Province.
In September 2001, the police from the Tianshan Street
Police Station arrested Ms. Li Yanchun because she was dis-
tributing Falun Gong flyers in Inner Mongolia. She was
detained at the Tianshan Street Detention Center in
Arlukeerquinqi. Ms. Li refused to reveal the source of the flyers,
and went on a hunger strike to protest her illegal detention. Ms.
Li was pregnant but the police denied this fact even though
they had taken her to the hospital twice for pregnancy tests.
They refused to let her see the examination results. They told
her husband, however, when he came to visit in January 2002,
that she was four months pregnant, but they still would not
release her. They also tried to feed Ms. Li some unknown med-
icine, but she refused.
Torture and Hard Labor During Pregnancy
Li Dan, female, resident of Linhe City, Inner Mongolia.
On February 19, 2000, Ms. Li Dan was arrested because
she went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop perse-
cuting Falun Gong. She was then sent back to Linhe City and
detained at Linhe City Police Station. While in the Linhe City
Police Station, three policemen took turns beating her for an
entire night. Policeman Yang slapped her face over a dozen
times. On February 20, 2000, Ms. Li was shackled and sent to
the Huhehaote City Women's Labor Camp. She was detained in
this camp until July 30, 2000.
During her detention, she was forced to do heavy labor. On
July 10, an examination revealed that she had been pregnant
for a few months. She was still forced to unload 30 tons of coal
per day with eight other Falun Gong practitioners. Also, she
was forced to load and unload bull dung and till the soil. When
there was no heavy work, she was forced to wrap more than
10,000 pairs of chopsticks each day. Every morning, Ms. Li
was handcuffed to the stair rail and forced to squat for a long
time. One day, Captain Liu of the No. 3 Team of the labor camp
shocked her with an electric baton. Later, Deputy Captain
Chang Hong ordered guards to hang her by handcuffs without
letting her feet touch the ground. Her arms became black, cold,
and numb after two hours of hanging, and she was hung this
way for the entire day.
On July 30, 2000, she was released to go home with her
hands still cuffed. The Linhe City Police Station ordered the
clinic to force Ms. Li to abort her baby during her eighth month
of pregnancy, but the forced abortion did not succeed. Shortly
after she gave birth, the police ordered her to write a statement
to renounce Faun Gong, or she would be fined 30,000 Yuan or
taken from her house. Even three months after her release she
was still harassed and five or six policemen kept her under sur-
veillance 24 hours a day. To avoid another illegal arrest, Ms. Li
left home and became homeless.
Detained More Than 40 Days during Pregnancy
Liu Yaqing, female, 26, university student, resident of Quyang
County, Hebei Province.
In October 2000, the local authorities ordered the Quyang
Police Station to arrest all of the Falun Gong practitioners in
Quyang County. On October 7, Ms. Liu Yaqing was arrested and
detained at the Quyang County Detention Center. She was
pregnant at the time, but the Quyang Police Station refused to
release her, and fined her family 10,000 Yuan. She was
detained for more than 40 days.
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Violence against Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
Six Months Pregnant Mother Vomited Blood
after Detention
Cui, female, resident of Huichun City, Jilin Province.
At around 5 a.m. on September 7, 2001, four policemen
from the Huichun Police Station broke into Ms. Cui's home and
searched it. They arrested Ms. Cui and her husband because
they are both Falun Gong practitioners. At the time, Ms. Cui
was already six months pregnant. Ms. Cui and her husband
were sent to the Huichun Police Station, where they were inter-
rogated for several hours. Ms. Cui went on a hunger strike to
protest the detention. During the hunger strike, Ms. Cui and
her unborn baby suffered significant physical trauma. She was
released after five days of detention. After she was released,
she began to vomit blood. Ms. Cui's husband escaped on the
way to the detention center, and his whereabouts are
unknown.
Detained Although Six Months Pregnant
Na Yafang, female, resident of Lequn Town, Shuangcheng City,
Heilongjiang Province.
Since Ms. Na Yafang went to Beijing to appeal to the gov-
ernment to stop persecuting Falun Gong, she was detained in
the Shuangcheng City Detention Center for more than half a
month and fined 3,000 Yuan. After her release, she was forced
to sell her land. In January 2001, because she refused to
renounce Falun Gong, she was detained again in the office of
Lequn Village although she was six months pregnant.
Pregnant Mother Tortured
Zhou Jing, female, resident of Beijing.
Since Ms. Zhou Jing was a Falun Gong practitioner, sever-
al plainclothes policemen from the Beijing Police Station broke
into her home and tried to arrest her. Ms. Zhou refused to go
with them. Despite her pregnancy, a strong policeman hand-
cuffed her arms behind her back, pushed her down on the
ground, and dragged her out of the room. The police tore her
clothing, leaving her body uncovered. Her eyes, knees, and legs
were injured while she was dragged on the cement floor.
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Forced to Become Homeless during Pregnancy
Yu Ping's wife, female, resident of Beijing.
On October 18, 2000, the Beijing police arrested Mr. Yu
Ping and his wife because they are Falun Gong practitioners.
Their house was searched and property confiscated. Yu Ping's
wife escaped and became homeless to avoid illegal arrest. She
was several months pregnant at the time. She is still on the
wanted list after her escape. Yu Ping was detained at the
Chaoyang District Shanjianfang Detention Center. He went on
a hunger strike to protest the detention.
Threatened with Forced Abortion
Ou Yang, female, resident of Guilin City, Guangxi Province.
On July 13, 2000, police from the Qixing Police Station
arrested Ms. Ou Yang, although she was pregnant, because
she was practicing the Falun Gong exercises. They sent her toi
the Guilin Second Detention Center. She went on a hunger
strike to protest the detention. Because of her hunger strike,
she was fined 10,000 Yuan. Furthermore, the police threat-
ened her with forced abortion if she refused to renounce Falun.
Gong.
Three Months Pregnant Mother Beaten
Sun Guijie, female, 33, resident of Changfeng Village,
Duimiancheng Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
In March 2000, because of her practice of Falun Gong, the'
local government officials and police woke Ms. Sun Guijie from
her sleep at home and arrested her. They detained her in a
warehouse for one month. In April 2000, because she went to
Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun
Gong, she was arrested again and detained at the
Shuangcheng City Detention Center for 20 days. Liu
Chengjiang, the Secretary of the Party Committee of
Changfeng Village, required Sun's husband, Mr. Xiao Yalin, to
pay a fine of 2,600 Yuan to secure her release. Her husband
had to sell their land because he didn't have the money.
On the sixth day after her release, she went to Beijing;
again to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falunl
Gong, and was detained at the Baigumiao Detention Center in
Beijing. A policewoman beat her with an electric baton. She
was unable to sit down because of the torture. After she was
escorted back to Shuangcheng City, she was detained at the
Shuangcheng City Detention Center for two months. After pay-
ing a fine of 4,000 Yuan, she was released. After January 1i,,
2001, she was detained for more than one month in the
Changfeng Village office because she refused to renounce
Falun Gong. At that time, she was more than three months
pregnant. During her detention, Liu Xingwang beat her.
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I Violence against Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
A Nursing Mother Jailed and Assaulted
Liang Peiying, female, resident of Shiyan City, Hubei Province.
One afternoon in the middle of October 2000, when Ms.
Liang Peiying was breast-feeding her seven -month-old daugh-
ter at home, two policemen from the Sanyan Police Station,
Shiyan City arrested her. Even though it is illegal to detain a
woman who has a child less than one year old, they took her to
the police station and beat her severely. When her husband
went to see Ms. Liang, the policemen handcuffed him and
hung him from the window frame by his handcuffs, although he
is not a Falun Gong practitioner. They brutally beat him as well.
They then cuffed Ms. Liang's hands behind her back and
made her sit on the floor all night. Her seven -month-old son
was deprived of her breast milk and cried so hard that he
became hoarse and nearly lost his voice. Later Ms. Liang was
released.
On December 14, 2000, Gao Donghui, the Sanyan Police
Station chief, and policeman Cai Xiaojun broke into Ms. Liang's
home and arrested her again. In the police station, they hand-
cuffed her behind her back, with one arm over her shoulder
and the other behind her waist. The torture is called the
"Carrying the Sword on the Back." With her hands still in this
distorted position, they pushed Ms. Liang onto the ground, fac-
ing up. Policeman Cui Ke, while wearing leather boots,
stomped on her body from her head to her toes. Ms. Liang
instantly lost control of her bladder and bowels from this
assault. They then hung her up on the window frame by the
handcuffs.
On December 15, Ms. Liang was sent to Shiyan No. 1
Detention Center. Ten days later, when policeman Cai went to
interrogate her, he closed the door of the interrogation room
and brutally beat her again. To cover up the arrest of a woman
with a child under one year old, the Sanyan Police Station
authorities changed the document date, stating when they
sent Ms. Liang to the detention center, from December 15,
2000, to February 17, 2001, which was one day after her
daughter's first birthday. To support this fabrication, Ms. Liang
was transferred from the detention center to an out -processing
station on January 15, 2001 and transferred back again on
February 17, 2001.
Detained during Pregnancy and Homeless
while Nursing
Yu Libo, female, 29, resident of Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang
Province.
Since Ms. Yu Libo went to Beijing to appeal to the govern-
ment to stop persecuting Falun Gong, she was jailed at the
Zhaodong City Detention Center in January 2000. She was five
months pregnant at the time. She was released after two
months, but only after her family paid a fine of 1,000 Yuan.
After her release, she was harassed and kept under surveil-
lance by the local police station and the local government. She
was warned that she could be arrested again at any time. In
May 2000, she was warned that she would be arrested after
her nursing period. To avoid illegal arrest, she fled home and
wandered the streets.
A Nursing Mother was Punitively Force -Fed
Peng Li, female, 25, a teacher at Dayi Shaqu Town Central
Primary School, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, resident of
Longxing Village, Dayi Caichang, Chengdu City, Sichuan
Province.
On January 1, 2001, Ms. Peng Li was arrested and taken
to a detention center, although her daughter was only seven
months old and was still being breastfed. Since then, Ms. Peng
has been detained and tortured in the Shuangliu Detention
Center, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. She was handcuffed
and shackled for five days, which made her unable to eat,
wash her face, or even sleep at night. Ms. Peng went on a
hunger strike to protest her inhumane treatment. In order to
force-feed her, ten policemen pressed her limbs to the ground
and tried to insert a large wooden stick into her mouth. As a
result, her mouth began to bleed profusely. The next day, police
took Ms. Peng to a local hospital to have a large tube inserted
into her stomach to force-feed her. She was in extreme pain
and she was unable to talk or move.
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Violence against Pregnant and Nursing Mothers
Li Yanjie and Her Baby Forced to Became Homeless
Li Yanjie, female, 25, resident of Dahe Town, Yilan County,
Heilongjiang Province.
In February 2000, because Ms. Li is a Falun Gong practi-
tioner, the police from the Yilan County Police Station went to
her home, searched it, and threatened to push her down the
stairs from the third floor. They took Ms. Li to the Dahe Town
Police Station and tried to send her to a detention center.
Because Ms. Li was pregnant, they had to release her. After
one week, eight policemen from the Dahe Town Police Station
went to Ms. Li's home, handcuffed her, and threatened to force
her to have an abortion so that they could then send her to the
detention center. They detained Ms. Li for more than sixteen
hours. After her release, eight policemen kept her under sur-
veillance 24 hours a day for more than a month. In early August
2000, when her baby was only nineteen days old, more than
twenty policemen from the Dahe Town Police Station searched
her home and took her husband away. During the altercation,
the police twice used an electric shock baton on her mother-in-
law. On December 26, 2000, Ms. Li took her baby with her to
Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of
Falun Gong. She was arrested in Tiananmen Square. She and
her baby were detained in the Fengtai Police Station in Beijing
for three days. After her release, Ms. Li and her baby were
forced to wander the streets to avoid further illegal arrests.
After six months, she took her baby back to her hometown to
visit her family. The police threatened her with another deten-
tion. Ms. Li was forced to take her baby with her to wander the
streets, becoming homeless once again.
Nursing Mother Detained for Over One Month
Zhao Hongbo, female, 26, an employee of the 208 Team, No.
2 Mine, No. 1 Oil Explorations Factory, Daqing City,
Heilongjiang Province, resident at 4-4-1-501 Jingxia Dengfeng
Village, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.
On December 19, 2000, Ms. Zhao Hongbo, went to Beijing
to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun
Gong. The police from the Tiananmen Qianmen Police Station
in Beijing arrested her and transferred her to the Miyun County
Police Station in Beijing. They detained her for four days. Then
they escorted her back to the Sa District Police Station in
Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, where they incarcerated her
for one month. Ms Zhao was then transferred to another deten-
tion center and detained for 15 days. All this time, while she
was incarcerated, she was nursing her baby. On February 21,
2001, the Party Secretary of the No. 2 Mine, No. 1 Oil
Explorations Factory, Zhang Jixian, fined Ms. Zhao 15,000
Yuan (the average monthly income for an urban worker in
China is 500 Yuan), confiscated four months' salary, totaling
about 2,800 Yuan, and withheld her salary several times, total-
ing an additional 3,000 Yuan. On August 22, 2002, the local
police arrested Ms. Zhao again for giving her colleagues VCDs
that contained Falun Gong information.
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Forced to Become Homeless with Newborn Baby
Mr. Zhou Yongnian's wife, resident of Tongzhou District,
Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province.
On February 19, 2000, Mr. Zhou Yongnian and his wife
were arrested and detained for a month because they prac-
ticed the Falun Gong exercises outdoors. At that time, Mrs.
Zhou was two months pregnant. After they were released, the
police continued to threaten them relentlessly. On October 1,
2000, the Tongzhou District Police Station arrested Mr. Zhou I
Yongnian after he and his wife appealed to the government to
stop persecuting Falun Gong. On April 6, 2001, the Tongzhou
District Court sentenced him to a nine-year term. On December
8, 2000, during a search of Mr. Zhou's home, the Tongzhou
District Police Station illegally took possession of all his valu-
ables, including cash. Since then, their home has been
searched and ransacked three times. The Tongzhou Police
Station put Mrs. Zhou and her 28 -day-old baby under constant
surveillance. She was not allowed to answer phone calls and
was followed if she went out. Because of this relentless perse-!
cution, she fled from her home with her newborn baby even
though she had no money. Her and her baby's whereabouts
are unknown.
Nursing Mother Taken to Brainwashing Class
Hou Huiru, female, 28, a teacher of the Xinhua Elementary
School, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.
Since Ms. Hou Huiru practices Falun Gong, Zhao Wenting,!
the principal of the Xinhua Elementary School, suspended MO
Hou from teaching classes. Zhao also withheld money from Ms!
Hou's salary and detained her at the school. After releasing
her, Zhao then hired two security guards to monitor Ms. Ho`
day and night. Later, Zhao Wenting, together with officers from
the "610 Office", forcibly took Ms. Hou and her husband to an
anti -Falun Gong brainwashing class, leaving their nine-month
old baby, who was still in need of breast-feeding, unattended.
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Persecution Against Children
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Photo overleaf:
Jane Dai of Australia with her daughter, Fadu, at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva 2002. Ms. Dai's husband, Chenyong
Chen, was tortured to death by Chinese police; Ms. Dai learned of his death while browsing a Falun Dafa web site.
Assistance from media and the Australian government eventually brought Mr. Chen's ashes to Australia.
Little Fadu often asks for her father -- but how does one explain the nature of evil to a child who has barely learned to speak?
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Persecution against Children
Have I Lost Mom Too? Two -Year -Old Child was Deprived of Parents' Care
Zou Rongfa was born in November 1999. At that time, her
father, Zou Songtao, was held in a detention center because he
had gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Mr. Zou was not
released until the end of December 1999. He had been in and
out of jail many times because he was a Falun Gong practition-
er.
Rongfa is waiting for her
Mom to come bath.
batons, and killed him
The director of the Taixi Police
Station, Gong Guoquan, once hand-
cuffed Mr. Zou to an iron chair. The
director beat him with the sole of his
shoe, causing his head to bleed and
swell to twice its size, beyond the point
of recognition. He was unconscious
for more than 20 minutes.
In July of 2000, Mr. Zou was sent
to the Qingdao City Labor Camp. He
was later transferred to the Wangcun
Labor Camp in Zibo City at the end of
September 2000. On the morning of
November 3, 2000, policemen Zheng
Wanxin, Shao Zhenghua, and others
took Mr. Zou into an interrogation
room, shocked him with electric
within two hours. Rongfa lost her father.
After the death of Mr. Zoul, the police kept harassing and
closely watching Rongfa's mother, Zhang Yunhe. In February
2002, the police arrested Ms. Zhang Yunhe and detained her
at the Dashan Detention Center, Qingdao City. The police
refused to release any information about her to her family. Zou
Rongfa thus was separated from her mother.
Rongfa's father, Zou Songtao,
who was tortured to death, and
mother, Zhang Yunhe, who is cur-
rently detained
Rongfa had to stay with
her grandmother, who was
over 60 years old. However,
her grandmother became ill
and died in August 2001 from
the pain of losing her son-in-
law and being separated from
her daughter.
Rongfa has lost her
father, her mother, and her
grandmother, the three peo-
ple she loved the most.
Whenever she misses her
family, she steps up on a little
stool, and reaches up and
kisses her Daddy's box of
ashes.
1. AR November 8, 2000, "A Falun Gong Member Died"
1.
2.
3.
Hu Ming, 2, male, Beijing City
Hu Qianfeng, male, 30, Hu Ming's father, employee of the
Capital Steel Factory of Beijing, Beijing
Ma Li, female, Hu Ming's mother, employee of the Special
Steel Division of Beijing's Capital Steel Factory, Beijing
Little Hu Ming turned two on June 30, 2002. However, he
was without his parents on this special day. His father, Hu
Qianfeng, was detained at Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor
Camp and his mother, Ma Li, was being held at Beijing's Xinan
Forced Labor Camp for Women.
Hu Ming has rarely seen his father. Two weeks before he
was born, a group of policemen broke into his parents' home.
They took his mother for interrogation from 11 p.m. to 1 p.m.
the next day. Despite her late -term pregnancy, Ms. Ma was
forced to sit on a small round stool with no back support. She
was not given any food or water and was not allowed to sleep.
The police also arrested Mr. Hu, shocked him all over his body
with an electric baton, and then sentenced him to one year in
a forced labor camp.
Ms. Ma was released only because she was so close to giv-
ing birth to her baby. She was without her husband at her side.
She did not even know where her husband was. Worried about
her husband and feeling helpless to raise a child all by herself,
Ms. Ma spent many days in tears.
The authorities still would not leave little Hu Ming and his
mother alone. One day, the authorities arrested Ms. Ma and
her toddler and took them to a brainwashing center. In June
2001, when Hu Ming was almost a year old, his father was
released. Under horrifying torture and against his will, Mr. Hu
consented to the police's demand to give up practicing Falun
Gong. However, fearing that his consent was gained only
through coercion and not a genuine renouncement against
Falun Gong, the officials in the "610 Office" forced Mr. Hu and
his wife to continue attending the brainwashing class. The cou-
ple weren't even allowed to be home with Hu Ming on his first
birthday. Hu Ming has been left in the custody of his grandpar-
ents. After his parents were released from the brainwashing
class, they had to leave their home to avoid further persecu-
tion.
In September 2001, a security guard arrested Ms. Ma
while she handed out Falun Gong flyers. She was sentenced
without trial to one year in a forced labor camp. Hu Ming's
father was arrested again in November 2001 and was sent to
a forced labor camp, where he has been cruelly tortured with
electric batons and deprived of sleep for extended periods of
time. The persecution of Falun Gong has ripped apart this oth-
erwise very happy family. How many countless others are suf-
fering?
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Persecution against Children
Four -Year -Old Child Without Parents' Care
1. Huhu, male, 4, Beijing
2. Yu Chao, male, Huhu's father, male, 30, network engineer,
Beijing
3. Chu Tong, female, Huhu's mother, 32, lecturer in the
Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University, Beijing
On April 25, 2000, Huhu's father, Mr. Yu Chao, went to
Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. Because of this,
he was detained for one month and was then sentenced to one
year of forced labor. Later he was allowed to serve the sen-
tence outside the labor camp.
Huhu - a four-year-old boy
On October 27, 1999, when
Huhu's mother, Ms. Chu Tong,
went to Tiananmen Square to
appeal for Falun Gong, she was
brutally beaten by the police.
Then she was arrested and
detained in the No. 7 Section of
the Beijing City Police
Department. She was sentenced
to one and a half years in prison
without any legal procedure.
After her release, she wrote an
article exposing the persecution
she had received in prison and
published her "solemn declara-
tion" expressing her intention to
continue cultivating Falun Gong. She and her husband, Mr. Yu,
were forced to leave their home with their son Huhu to avoid
further persecution.
The police kept tracking them and even closely watched
the apartment of Huhu's grandparents. The options that the
small family had were limited. Soon, the police captured
Huhu's parents. Huhu has been separated from his parents
and is cared for by a friend.
14 -Year -Old Girl Shocked with Electric Baton
for Four Hours
Han Tianzi, female, 15, resident of Liaoning Province
At the end of July 2000, Tianzi was sent to the Longshan
Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province,
because she had gone to Beijing to appeal to the government
to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Officer Tang Li and officer
Damu of the labor camp forced her to squat down in the office
for a long time and threatened to shock her with electric
batons if she refused to give up Falun Gong. The authorities
also threatened to send her to reform school. Because Tianzi
was steadfast in her belief in Falun Gong, they shocked her
with an electric baton for almost four hours. Other practitioners
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in the camp could hear her cries of pain. The policeman also'
told her he would come back the next day and continue the forl
ture. When her term of detention was finally over, Tianzi's body
was marred with wounds from the torture.
Family Broken Apart, 14 -Year -Old Child
Left Home Alone
1. Qu Yao, male, 14, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province
2.
3.
Qu Yongjiu, male, father of Qu Yao, salesman at Xinfeng
Corporation, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province
Yao Mei, female, mother of Qu Yao, Liaoyang City, Liaoning
Province
At approximately 6 a.m. on July 4, 2002, Mr. Qu Yongjiu left
his house to buy breakfast for his son Qu Yao, but the police
from the Liaoyang County Public Security Bureau forcefully
arrested him. Five policemen then broke into Mr. Qu's house.)
Qu Yao, Mr. Qu's 14 -year-old son, was the only one at home.
The police ransacked the house and arrested Qu Yao. The
police did not release the teenager until several hours later. He,
suffered severe mental stress from the incident.
The police arrested Qu Yao's father to get informatiol
about his wife, Ms. Yao Mei, who had left home to escape
police persecution. Currently, only Qu Yao is left at home, and
he has no one to take care of him. He does not know how to
cook and often goes hungry. At the time of his father's arrest
he was preparing for his final exams. There was much stress
from school. What he needed most was his parents' care and
support. Yet, he even had difficulty finding food to eat. His
mother could not come home because she would be arrested
if the police saw her.
The police from the Political Security Department n
Liaoyang County Public Security Bureau sent Mr. Qu to the
Shoushan Detention Center. He was ruthlessly beaten there
and, without any legal reason, sentenced to labor reeducation
for two and a half years.
1I II
Persecution against Children
16 -Year -Old Driven to Homelessness by State Brainwashing
I am a 16 -year-old high school student and I have prac-
ticed Falun Gong for more than six years. Falun Gong has ben-
efited me in so many ways. It has taught me true responsibili-
ty, to always be considerate of others, and to conduct myself by
the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" in
my daily life.
On April 25, 1999, my mother and I participated in the
peaceful petition to the Chinese government for Falun Gong.
Since then, our lives have been turned upside down. The per-
sonnel from my local residence office and the police station
have harassed me many times at my school and at home. But
I did not give up practicing Falun Gong since I had done noth-
ing wrong. However, I feel pain from the forced break-up of my
family. My parents have been detained illegally many times. My
mother was forced to leave home to avoid the persecution. I
miss her very much, but I cannot see her.
Once when the police detained my mother, they also came
to my school, took me to the principal's office, and surrounded
me in an intimidating manner. At the beginning, they told me
that I could see my parents as long as I agreed to persuade my
parents to renounce Falun Gong. When I rejected this, they
started to scold and threaten me. They shouted at me one
after another. This happened many times, and once I was so
scared that I cried. Fortunately, many teachers at my school
encouraged and helped me during these difficult times.
On April 30, 2001, they came to my school again and took
me to the local residence committee office. There they handed
me a phone. My mother was on the other end. I sensed that my
mother had agreed to give up practicing Falun Gong. Eager to
find out what happened to her, I agreed to go with the police to
see my mother, who had been detained at a brainwashing
detention center in Hulufa in the Fangshan District. On the way,
I heard from a policeman that this place had once held more
than 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners.
I did see my mother, and asked her what happened and
why she gave up her belief. She did not answer me. I felt sad
for her, but quickly found that I myself had been deceived and
abducted by the police, who then tried to force me to write a
statement renouncing Falun Gong. They took me to a room and
threatened to keep me in the room until I complied. To threat-
en me, they also pointed to a man who was being forced to run
nonstop as torture.
I felt both angry and strange. I was angry because there
could be no reason for them to take away my personal free-
dom. I did not violate any law! I felt strange wondering why that
man was running nonstop, why my mother would give up her
belief.
That evening, just before going to sleep, when I saw the
awful black and blue bruises on my mother's back, shoulders,
and arms, I simply burst into tears. These bruises were clearly
marks of torture. I suddenly understood how my mother was
forced to give in. In the brainwashing center, the torturers took
turns brainwashing and threatening her and did not allow her
to sleep for several days. They tortured her by various means,
including making her stand facing the wall, kicking her, punch-
ing her, and forcing her to run around the courtyard for six
hours, just like that man I saw running. They even threatened
to have a dog bite her. My mom was finally coerced to act
against her conscience.
I was shocked by the bloody and cruel facts. During the
days that followed, the police took turns to bombard and
threaten me. I could not even think clearly. I was forced to write
notes to "repent" and to renounce Falun Gong.
Once we were released from the brainwashing center, my
mother came to her senses and resumed her practice of Falun
Gong. To avoid further torture, she fled from our home. She
would rather lead a vagrant's life than to live against her con-
science. The evil officials then came after my father and me.
On one evening in September 2002, several women from my
local residence office and policemen from the local police sta-
tion took my father and me to the Hulufa brainwashing center
again. There, the police forced me to give my fingerprints and
forced me to write 8 pages of lies about Falun Gong. I did it
against my will. I just wanted the nightmare to end.
The suffering didn't stop there. Every day thereafter I was
forced go to the brainwashing center. These people also forced
me to provide information to them so they could track down my
mother. I resisted, but the pressure was so great. I was on the
brink of mental collapse. In those awful days, I often wondered:
if they did not want me to be truthful to my conscience, then
what kind of person did they want me to become?
I was released in early October, 2002. I felt humiliated in
my heart that I had betrayed my conscience. I wanted to per-
sist in my belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance."
To avoid being sent back to the brainwashing center, I have
now left my home and the school that I liked so much. I've
been forced into homelessness, just like my mom.
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Persecution against Children
The Persecution of A 14 -Year -Old and Her Family
1. Li Guozhen, female, 83 resident of Nanchang City, Jiangxi
Province
2. Wang Guihe, male, 52, resident of Nanchang City, Jiangxi
Province
3. Zhong Yu, female, 37, resident of Nanchang City, Jiangxi
Province
4. Wang Yuli, female, 14, resident of Nanchang City, Jiangxi
Province
On September 16, 1999, at approximately 9 p.m., the
police went into Mr. Wang Guihe's home and arrested Mr.
Wang; his wife, Ms. Zhong Yu; his 83 -year-old mother, Li
Guozhen; and his fourteen -year-old daughter, Wang Yuli. They
were arrested because they practiced Falun Gong. Yuli and her
grandmother were released the next day. When they returned
home, they found that not only had all the Falun Gong books
and materials been confiscated, but also all the money they
kept in the house had been taken. Yuli's mother was kept in
police custody for more than 20 days.
Her father, Wang Guihen, was detained in the Nanchang
Forced Labor camp.
Due to pressure from the government, his company fired
him on the second day of his arrest. He was sentenced to one
year in a forced labor camp. When on December 25, 1999, Yuli
and her family were allowed to see her father, they were
shocked at how frail he looked because of the brutal torture
and up to 18 hours a day of hard labor every day.
In February 2000, her mother was arrested again for mak-
ing two phone calls to her overseas relatives (who are also
Falun Gong practitioners). Yuli and her 83 -year-old grandmoth-
er were left at home again with no money. Her mother was
released after more than two months of torture. Her father, Mr.
Wang, was not released until July 2000.
On December 16, 2000, Yuli, her mother, grandmother,
and father went to Beijing to tell the truth about Falun Gong to
the government. They were arrested on December 19 in
Tiananmen Square. They were beaten very badly while being
detained.
Ms. Yuli was returned to her home in Nanchang City. She
had to live alone because the rest of her family was being held
in custody. Her grandmother was released on January 10,
2001. Later, Yuli and her grandmother were arrested again and
sent to Nanchang No. 27 North Road Detention Center. They
were to be kept there for three months. The police said that
they would not be released until a fine of 40,000 Yuan was
paid. Yuli's mother and father have been sentenced to a forced
labor camp and the police will not tell the family where they are
being detained.
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Mother Detained, Three Children Left Unattended
Dong Peilan, and her three daughters aged 8, 10, and 13
Both Ms. Dong Peilan and her husband, Zhao Lanzhou,
are Falun Gong practitioners. In January 2000, Ms. Dong
Peilan was arrested because she appealed to the government
in Beijing for Falun Gong. She was then detained in the No 1J
Labor Camp in Gansu Province for one year. After her release
on August 25, 2002, she was again arrested while in a local
store. Her husband had been forced to leave home over a year
ago to avoid arrest and torture and has been missing ever
since. Now, their three little girls have been left alone with no
one to take care of them.
The three children went to Tianshui Police Station three
days in a row, crying for the release of their mother. The police
refused to free her. The oldest daughter, who was 13, could not
bear this tragic situation and ran away from home. She has
been missing ever since. The other two daughters, 8 and 10
years old, are having a hard time living by themselves.
High School Student Forced to Leave Home
I am a 17 -year-old high school student. In June 2001,
before an important examination at school, my teachers and
the school authorities called me into their offices several times
to tell me not to give the true answer to the Falun Gong ques-
tions in the examination. However I did not want to lie, so I
wrote down the truth about Falun Gong for the questions on
the examination. The city education administrator, Yao, and
school teacher, Zheng, twice threatened me for this and want-
ed to send me to a forced labor camp.
When theycame to my house, I managed to escape and
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thus avoid being captured and tortured. The authorities and
the policemen of Sanjie Town threatened my parents. They told
my parents that if they did not turn me in, they would arrest my
parents and confiscate our land. The authorities, Dong Xiquan
and Wang Jiubing, also beat my parents. On September 3,
2001, to prevent further torture, my parents left home. We are
all wandering on the streets. I have not been able to attend
school since we became homeless.
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IIII Persecution against Children
An -Eight -Year -Old Girl Died from Mistreatment
Gao Jingyu, female, 8 years old, granddaughter of Mr. Gao, 59 -
year -old man living in Jiuxian Village, Changping County,
Beijing.
Gao Jingyu
Mr. Gao had three major operations in his life because of
poor health, but his illnesses were never cured. In June 1999,
Mr. Gao started to practice Falun Gong. Since then, both his
physical and mental health have been greatly improved. On
March 5, 2000, because Mr. Gao refused to give up practicing
Falun Gong, the village officials sent him to the nearby
Gaoyakou Military Training Center and forced him to be brain-
washed.
During Mr. Gao's detention in the military training center,
he learned that his granddaughter, Gao Jingyu, had been hos-
pitalized with leukemia. Mr. Gao was released from the training
center so he could be with his granddaughter. After staying in
the hospital for thirteen days, doctors sent her home with
some medicine. A month later, she was hospitalized again
because her situation worsened. After being admitted to the
hospital for the second time, her situation continually became
worse. Finally her doctors said that they would not be able to
cure her illness. Jingyu was sent back home again. Everybody
in Mr. Gao's family was saddened by this.
Because of this desperate situation, Mr. Gao said to his
family "Let Jingyu practice Falun Gong with me. Falun Gong has
cured so many illnesses in my body. I think Falun Gong can
save her." From that day on, Mr. Gao started teaching his
granddaughter the Falun Gong exercises. Miracles happened
soon. Jingyu, who had been so weak and unable to stand,
started to recover and even walk. Soon, she wanted a bike, and
could ride a fair distance. The whole family was very happy to
see the changes in the little girl. Following her recovery, her
grandmother, father, and mother started practicing Falun Gong
one after another. Gao Jingyu's father would carry her on his
back, and they did the exercises together in a public place. A
few days later, she was able to walk from home to the practice
site by herself. Everybody in the village witnessed her incredi-
ble recovery.
On July 20, 2000, Mr. Gao and other practitioners in the
village went to do the exercises as usual. When they reached
the practice site, they saw that the village and town officials,
the head of the town's military department, and the town's
police officers were waiting there with three cars.
The police officers rudely ordered all the practitioners to
form a line and forced Jingyu's father to run while carrying her
on his back. After he ran to the gas station which is about 400
meters away from the practice site, the officers forced Mr. Gao,
his granddaughter, and the other practitioners to get into the
car, but made Jingyu's father run in front of the car while the
officers were driving. Jingyu was so scared watching her father
run. She asked her grandfather "Why do the police make father
run in front of the car? What will happen if the car hits my
father?" Her father had to keep running all the way until he
reached the town's police station, three kilometers away. Yet
he still could not rest.
The officers forced him to jump up and down in front of his
daughter and they even hit him. The police then detained all
the practitioners, including little Jingyu. She weakly lay down
on the concrete slab, anxious, scared, and confused. She was
released and taken back home by her mother after being kept
in the cell for more than six hours. Mr. Gao and ten other prac-
titioners were later sent to Gaoyakou Training Center, and were
closely watched. On July 23, they were released.
On the morning of July 24, 2000, Mr. Gao locked the gate
to their yard, and did the exercises with four other family mem-
bers. A little while later the village official and police officers
came and arrested all five of them, including Jingyu. She was
released an hour later. The others were detained in the police
station for more than 30 hours. After coming back from the
police station, Jingyu's situation quickly became worse. She
began to vomit blood. On August 18, 2000, Jingyu closed her
innocent and confused eyes for the last time and left this
world.
An eight-year-old child, diagnosed with an incurable dis-
ease by the hospital, had gained a little hope by practicing
Falun Gong, but finally lost her life after the inhuman treatment
received from the heartless police who had lost their con-
science and blindly followed the government irrational
demands.
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Persecution against Children
An Outstanding Student Stripped of Education,
Left Homeless
Yin Xiaotian, male, 15, a middle school student, resident of
Changchun City, Jilin Province
Since July 20, 1999, because Xiaotian went to Beijing
twice with his parents to appeal for the right to practice Falun
Gong, the Anmin Elementary School in Changchun City
stripped him of his right to participate in the activities for honor
students. He was punished with open criticism in front of the
entire school. They also wrote on Xiaotian's record "Went to
appeal in Beijing twice and will not give up Falun Gong even
after much coaching. As such, he has caused a lot of damage
to the school."
In the summer of 2001, Xiaotian was accepted at the
Chaoyang No.1 Middle School in the Chaoyang District,
Changchun City due to his outstanding scores. When the prin-
cipal of the No.1 Middle School got his record from the Anmin
elementary school, he found out that Xiaotian was a Falun
Gong practitioner. Therefore, he was forced to renounce Falun
Gong, or not be allowed to attend the school. Since Xiaotian
refused to give up Falun Gong, he was sent to the No. 69
Middle School, the lowest ranking middle school in Changchun
City.
On the first day of school, Xiaotian was forced to renounce
Falun Gong, or else not be allowed to attend class. He was also
threatened with being sent to the police station if he refused to
give up Falun Gong. Therefore, Xiaotian was stripped of his
right to attend any school and obtain an education because he
refused to renounce Falun Gong.
Starting in July 1999, Xiaotian's father, Yin Xueqing, was
detained at the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City
for a year because he went to appeal for the right to practice
Falun Gong. His mother, Chen Yanmei, was detained at the
Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp in Changchun City for one year,
and then her term was extended for more than half a year with-
out reason. During that year, Xiaotian did not have anybody to
take care of him, and he had to live in other people's homes.
After being released, his father was again sentenced to two
years of forced labor because he practices Falun Gong.
While Xiaotian's father detained at the Chaoyanggou
Labor Camp, and his mother became homeless to avoid fur-
ther persecution. Xiaotian again became a child with no one to
take care of him.
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A Teenager was Force -Fed with Harmful Drug
Li Mingwei, a male middle school student at the Experimental
Middle School, Anqiu City, Shandong Province
One morning in early March, 2001, while Mingwei was still
sleeping, eight city officials and policemen broke into his home
and arrested him and his mother, leaving his 12 -year-old sister
home alone. They were detained in Anqiu City. The Anqiu city
official, Song Baojie, had emptied two houses there for the pur-
pose of detaining and brainwashing Falun Gong practitioners
Li Mingwei started a hunger strike to protest the illegal
detention. Five days later he was sent back to school, where he
was detained in a small room. Under orders from the Anqiu city
official Wei, and as punishment, the school sent him to the
Anqiu City People's Hospital for force-feeding. They injected
him with an unknown drug that made his whole body numb.
They tried to insert a tube into his nose and down to his stom-
ach, but failed because the tube was too thick. They then used
some equipment to force open his mouth so they could insert
it into his stomach. His mouth bled profusely due to this tor-
ture.
The school officials tried to force Li Mingwei to write a
statement saying he was not going to appeal to the govern
ment to stop persecuting Falun Gong. If he refused, they told
him they would lock him up and not allow him to go back to
class. A teacher closely watched him during the day while two
students watched him at night. He was forced to watch materia
als defaming and lying about Falun Gong.
In July 2001, Li Mingwei went to Beijing again to appeal to
the government to stop the persecution. He was arrested and
sent back to school, where he was detained for the whole sum:-
mer.
ummer. Li Mingwei started another hunger strike and was aga'n
released.
One day, he was called from his class to the school office.
Several teachers surrounded him and attacked him verbal y.
One of the school directors, Jiang Dongpo, slapped him on his
face more than ten times.
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To avoid further persecution, he had to leave home and
wander about.
Persecution against Children
A Teenager was Sent to a Brainwashing Class
1. Li Zhongwen, male, 17, Jingxing County, Shijiazhuang City,
Hebei Province
2. Bai Yuzhi, Li Zhongwen's Mother, 40, worked in the
Jingxing County Industry and Business Council,
3. Li Dongliang, Li Zhongwen's Father.
On July 20, 1999, when Li Zhongwen was 14 years old,
his mother, Bai Yuzhi, was illegally arrested and sentenced to
three years of forced labor for practicing Falun Gong. In 2000,
his father, Li Dongliang, was also illegally sentenced to three
years of forced labor for practicing Falun Gong. Li Zhongwen,
also a Falun Gong practitioner, has had to live by himself ever
since. The police have ransacked Zhongwen's home several
times. He has not seen his parents in over two years. Once
when Zhongwen went to visit his father, the guards demanded
that he first write a letter renouncing Falun Gong. Zhongwen
left with tears in his eyes.
In May 2002, Zhongwen was arrested by the Jingxing
police and put into a brainwashing class. In the brainwashing
class, much physical and mental abuse was exerted to force
Zhongwen to give up his belief in Falun Gong. He was also
expelled from school.
Child Left Unattended While Mother Suffers
Fang Siyi, female, 28, hairdresser, Jilin City, Jilin Province.
After July 20, 1999, Ms. Fang Siyi was arrested and detained
several times because she went to appeal for Falun Gong. Her
husband, who had had a good relationship with her in the past,
divorced her due to the pressure and the propaganda spread
by the government. He also refused to pay child support for
their few -months -old child and even helped the police to arrest
Ms. Fang.
In May and June of 2001, Ms. Fang was detained in the
No. 3 Detention Center, Jilin City. In order to regain her free-
dom, she started a hunger strike. In fear that her death might
cause them problems, the policemen released her. However,
she was rearrested before she had a chance to fully recover
from the previous torture. To avoid the persecution, she was
forced to jump from a second -floor window. Although she broke
her left foot, she managed to escape the arrest. Ms. Fang was
arrested again in mid-September 2002. The police ransacked
her house and took away 810 Yuan in cash, and other valu-
ables. She was detained in No. 3 Detention Center in Jilin City.
Under the order of Jilin City's "610 Office" and Jilin Police
Department, she was soon transferred to Jilin Women's Forced
Labor Camp in Changchun City, where she was almost tortured
to death. This is also one labor camp where quite a few practi-
tioners have been tortured to death.
Ms. Fang's three-year-old son is not able to see her, her
friends and relatives took turns caring for him.
A 12-Year-Old's Predicament
Yuan Yuan, male, 12, China
Yuan Yuan's mother was given custody of him when she
divorced her husband a few years ago. In 1998, Yuan Yuan and
his mother began to practice Falun Gong. They benefited both
mentally and physically.
In April 2000, Yuan Yuan's mother was illegally detained
for practicing Falun Gong. As a punishment, the court changed
Yuan Yuan's custody to his father. Yuan Yuan's mother was
later released, but was rearrested in 2001. After her release,
Yuan Yuan requested that his custody be returned to his moth-
er. His father always used violence to control him and often
vented his anger at Yuan Yuan. One time he injured Yuan-
Yuan's head, and the boy could not lay his head on a pillow for
more than 10 days. His grades in school also declined.
In October 2001, Yuan Yuan filed a petition to the court to
return custody to his mother. According to the law, if a child is
over ten years of age, the court should consider the child's
wish. Yuan Yuan had the right to choose to be with his mother.
Yet the court used the fact that his mother practices Falun
Gong as an excuse and ruled that custody should be given to
the father. This 12 -year-old boy's appeal to be with his mother
was rejected.
Mother and 15 -Year -Old Son Tortured
Ms. Sui Cun, age 44, is a resident of Heijinhe Township,
Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province. On the night of
January 14, 2001, eight people from the local police station
and the "610 Office" broke into Ms. Sui's home and took her
to the police station. At the police station, policemen Zhou
Tiegang and Deng Jian beat Ms. Sui to force her to give up
practicing Falun Gong. Policeman Ren Changjun also used an
electric baton to shock her head and body. When the police-
men were exhausted from beating Ms. Sui, they brought in two
thugs from detention center to torture her.
The police threatened to beat Ms. Sui's two sons and to
send her whole family to jail. Later, they detained her elder
son for 24 hours and slapped the fifteen -year-old boy in the
face over thirty times, causing his face to swell horribly.
Ms. Sui was held in custody for 5 days and 4 nights. Every
night policemen beat and tortured her. At the end of each
beating, they handcuffed her to the heating pipes in a stand-
ing position, so she could not sleep. The police also hand-
cuffed her to a door handle, forced her to open the door each
time they went through, and spat on her face each time they
went through. In April 2001, Ms. Sui was sentenced to one-
year of forced labor in the Jiamusi Labor Camp.
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Persecution against Children
Statement from Chen Ying's Mother
On August 19, 1999, CCTV broadcast a report about Chen
Ying, a first-year student at Shuren High School in Jiamusi City,
Heilongjiang Province. The report stated that Chen Ying, after
attempting suicide a few times, had died from jumping off a
train. This report did not tell the true story.
Chen Ying and Her Mother
Chen Ying had practiced Falun Gong since May 1996. She
was healthy both physically and mentally. She was an intelli-
gent student with an excellent character and was always will-
ing to help others. At school, she was vice-president of her
class and active in extracurricular activities. She was an honor
student for her excellence in academics, sports, and morality,
and had received many awards. Her teachers and classmates
also spoke highly of her. At home, she was a good helper to her
mother and her neighbors were quite fond of her.
On July 22, 1999, CCTV announced the ban on Falun
Gong. That evening, Chen Ying went to Beijing to appeal for the
right to practicing Falun Gong. On July 29, a relative found her
at Tiananmen Square in Beijing and took her back to Jiamusi
City by train. When the train stopped at Qinhuangdao City,
Chen Ying left when the relatives went to a store. The relative
contacted Qinhuangdao Railway Station for help, but they were
unable to find her. Chen Ying was later arrested in Beijing and
put on a train with a train crew officer assigned to watch her.
During a two-hour break at a station, Chen Ying escaped while
left unattended. On August 2, Chen Ying was arrested in Beijing
again and sent to Jiamusi City's Liaison Office in Beijing; how-
ever, she managed to escape the next day.
On August 4, Chen Ying's father, her school principal, and
a school security officer arrived in Beijing to take her home.
They searched for her for a week but could not find her. A per-
son in charge of the Liaison Office promised to inform Chen
Ying's family members and the school principal as soon as she
was found. On August 15, Chen Ying was again arrested in
Beijing, but no one notified either the school or her family
members. On August 16, Chen Ying was escorted back towards
Jiamusi City. On the way to Jiamusi City, at around 2:34 p.m.,
Chen Ying went to the washroom and jumped off the train from
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the washroom window. The train ran about another 10 kmi
before it fully stopped. The head of the train crew and Officer(
Li rushed to find Chen Ying and sent her to the Fengrun
Hospital
in Fengrun City. I
At about 5:00 p.m. on August 16, one police officer took
me from my workplace to a police station. I was told that I
would not be allowed to see my daughter if I still practiced
Falun Gong. Because I wanted to see my daughter, I lied and
told them that I no longer practiced Falun Gong. They did not
tell me that my daughter was already dead. When we arrived at
the Fengrun Hotel in Fengrun City after 9:00 p.m. on August 17,
Officer Li told us that they had discontinued her oxygen supply
on the evening of August 16 when she could not be revived.
They had then sent her body to the Fengrun Crematory fo`r
freezing.
On August 18, in order to see my daughter's body, I was
forced to lie again, on a TV interview conducted by the Tianjin
TV station on behalf of CCTV, by saying that I had completely
stopped practicing Falun Gong. Then, on the same day, I was
accompanied by police officers and taken to the crematorium
to see my daughter's body. However, I was not allowed to see
the cremation, and was forced to leave Fengrun City after 2:00
p.m..
Now, I must tell the truth. What I said to the police and
media reporters were all lies, including the story that was pub
fish
ed in the "Sanjiang Evening Newspaper".
On March 29, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun
Gong as my daughter had done before. I was arrested on the
train from Shenyang City to Beijing and sent to a detention cen
ter. On April 3, 2000, I was escorted back to Jiamusi City by
staff from both my workplace and the police station. I was
detained at a detention center for 47 days.
16 -Year -Old Girl Tortured in the Police Station
I am 16 years old, and was expelled from school because
I am a Falun Gong practitioner. The local police station gave
orders to watch my family closely, day and night.
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In the evening on September 9, 2001, my younger brother
and I went out to post some Falun Gong leaflets. After that, we
spent the night at a friend's house. Early the next morning,
when I got home, I found that the director of the police station
was interrogating my mother, trying to find out where I was.
Later they arrested me, and took me to a room on the second
floor of the local police station.
I was forced me to sit on a small stool. There were two iron
rings on the floor, one meter apart. I felt strange. I just tried to
stand up and leave the room. However the policeman pushed
me back to the stool. Half an hour later, a policeman came` in
to interrogate me. He ordered me to lift my head. When' I
refused, he pulled my hair. He shouted, "You and your brother
posted some leaflets, is that right?"
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Persecution against Children
I said, "It has nothing to do with my brother. I did it by
myself."
He asked, "Where did you get the leaflets?"
I did not answer him. When he didn't get an answer, he got
very angry. He slapped my face. I fell to the ground, and tears
started rolling down my cheeks. He pulled my hair and kept on
asking.
He said, "Someone reported that you posted more than 10
leaflets. If you tell me who gave the leaflets to you, I will release
you." I told myself that I would never betray other Falun Gong
practitioners.
He slapped me many times, and left. Soon, another tall
policeman came in with some shackles. He pushed me to the
two iron rings on the floor and shackled my right hand to one
of them. He sat down in front of me and kicked my chin and
head with his leather shoes. He kept asking questions. Then he
stood up and slammed my head into the wall. He left without
getting any answer from me.
Next, two policemen came in, one with an electric baton,
and the other with pen and paper. They shackled my left hand
to the other ring so that I could not move at all. They shocked
me, and repeatedly slapped me, as they kept questioning me.
To prevent others from hearing my screams, they locked the
door. They shocked my hand, head, and even my neck. The
shock was so intense that I lost control of my bladder. I was
menstruating at the time. Both urine and blood streamed down
from my pants. The shackles cut deep into the flesh of my
hands. I started crying from the pain.
At last they asked me to stand up. I was too weak to stand.
My head felt dizzy, my body kept shaking, and I could not even
open my eyes.
I told them, "Before, when I watched TV, I learned that
shackles and electric batons are only for bad people. I am just
16 year old and haven't done anything wrong. Yet you use them
on me like I'm a common criminal."
"You spread leaflets," one policeman said.
I told them, "I just tried to tell people the facts about 277
Falun Gong practitioners being tortured to death. I didn't com-
mit any crime." They were speechless.
In the evening, I was taken to a detention center.
Wang Lixuan and Her Eight -Month -Old Son
Tortured to Death in Tuanhe Labor Camp
1. Wang Lixuan, 2-5 female, 27, resident of Nangou Village,
Qixiasikou Town, Yantai City, Shandong Province
2. Meng Hao, son of Wang Lixuan, 8 months old.
On October 21, 2000, Ms. Wang Lixuan and her Eight-
month -old son, Meng Hao, were arrested by the officials from
the local Shandong government's liaison office and detained
at Tuanhe Labor Camp in Beijing. They had been on their way
to Beijing to appeal to the central government to end the per-
secution of Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang Lixuan and her son,
Meng Hao
On November 7, 2000, Ms. Wang and her son were tor-
tured to death at Tuanhe Labor Camp, Beijing. When her fami-
ly received the death notice and arrived in Beijing, they found
the frozen corpses of Ms. Wang and her son. According to the
coroner's exam, her neck and knucklebones were broken, her
skull was sunken and there was a needle stuck in her body.
There were two deep bruises on her son's ankles. Moreover,
there were two black and blue spots on his head and blood in
his nose. The bruises may have been caused when the guards
of the labor camp shackled little Meng Hao's ankles and hung
him upside down.
Family members of Ms. Wang have also been persecuted.
Her sister, Ms. Wang Lihui, was sent to a labor camp merely
because she practiced Falun Gong at Yantai University. Her
brother was also sent to a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong
at Jinan Industrial College.
2. WoonsocketCall.com [RI]: June 30, 2001, Joseph Fitzgerald, Staff Writer, "Students stage protest march to nation's capital"
3. Geocities, July 22, 2001, "Falun Gong Practitioners Light a candle for freedom in Malta"
4. Foster's Online, Jennifer L. Saunders, "Falun Gong holds walk in Portsmouth to expose mass killings in China"
5. Reuters, April 18, 2001, Sue Pleming, "Falun Gong members urge world to condemn China"
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Persecution against Children
Teenage Boy Shocked with Electric Baton and
Severely Beaten
Men Ying and Men Long are sister and brother. They are
teenaged Falun Gong practitioners from Shuangcheng City,
Heilongjiang Province.
On November 16, 2000, they went to Tiananmen Square
to appeal to the central government to stop persecuting Falun
Gong. Several police officers grabbed their banner, reading
"Falun Gong Is Good," and beat them.
The police officers dispersed the crowd that had gathered.
Using extreme force, they dragged the practitioners to a police
van and took them to the Tiananmen police station. At that
time, 30 practitioners were detained there. At midnight, the
practitioners were transferred to the Anshun police station.
Men Long was sent alone to a secret place. Several police offi-
cers took turns beating this teenage boy severely. They
stripped off his clothes and forced him to stand on the cement
floor, which was covered with cold water. They poured cold
water down his body, exposed him to a cold wind, and beat him
with a leather belt all over his body.
After beating him, the officers prepared another basin of
cold water. They forced Men Long to put his hands in the water,
and then put an electric baton in the water to shock him. When
he took his hands out of the water, the officers handcuffed his
hands behind his back and beat him viciously. The police offi-
cers even said, "If you still do not give up practicing Falun Gong,
we will beat your penis until it is useless."
Then these police officers forced an electric baton into
Men Long's mouth and shocked him, rendering him unable to
speak for several days. Later, they transferred him to the
Tongzhou Detention Center of Beijing. There, the police officers
instigated two prisoners to beat his face with shoes; they
stopped only when they were exhausted. When the police offi-
cers took Men Long out of the detention center, a policeman
stomped on his chest very hard. Finally, they handed him to
police officers from Shuangcheng City. He had been beaten so
severely that he could not walk and had to be carried by oth-
ers.
In just two days, the police had turned a healthy young boy
into an unrecognizable one who could not even walk on his
own.
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Elementary School Student and Her Father Became
Displaced Persons
Xuan Xuemei, female, 5th grade student, class 4 at Xinqi
Primary School in Boli County of Heilongjiang Province
Xuemei and her mother are Falun Gong practitioners. After' I
repeated arrests, Xuemei's mother fled from her home to avoid
further persecution. On March 5, 2001, the authorities of Boli
County, Heilongjiang Province forced every teacher and stu-
dent in the Xinqi Primary School to sign documents slandering
Falun
Gong.
To avoid signing the documents, Xuemei asked to leave.
But two days later, the County again sent people to make
videos of every teacher and student signing the anti -Falun
Gong statements. Xuemei again asked to leave. Xuemei's
mother is wanted by police. They exerted pressure on the
school to force Xuemei to sign the statements and aid them in
tracking down her mother.
Teacher Yi Bo was assigned to coerce Xuemei into
denouncing Falun Gong. She threatened the little girl for three
hours. After returing to class, Xuemei was called to the princi-
pal's office again. There were three or four police officers wait-
ing for her. They asked her questions like "Is Falun Gong good?,'
and "Is Li Hongzhi good?" They also asked her about her moth-
er's whereabouts.
Xuemei was finally allowed back to class, but the teacher
again tried to pressure her to stop practicing Falun Gong. The
teacher told her the only way she could attend school was to
give up her practice. Eventually Xuemei had to leave school.
Because of these kinds of threats, Xuemei's father decid
ed to leave home with her, and they are now homeless.
Girls Forced to Listen while Mother was Tortured
Two teenage girls, one 13 -years -old and one 11, from
Xushui County, Hubei Province, were arrested along with their
mother for participating in a group Falun Gong exercise section
at the County Square. The policemen beat their mother from
head to toe in order to find out who the organizers were for trite
group Falun Gong exercises. Some of them pulled her hair, oth
ers twisted her arms and still others punched her in the eyes.
Her eyes became blurred and then she went blind. Blood
gushed out of her mouth nonstop. While their mother wes
being severely beaten, the girls were also interrogated by the
police in the next room. These two girls were also forced to lis-
ten to how their mother was being tortured - all the kicking,
shouting and belligerence. I
Photo overleaf: Ms. Lu Shuqiu with her daughter.
For appealing to the authorities not to persecute Falun Gong, Ms. Lu was imprisoned and tortured for eight months in Heizuizi Women's Labor
Camp. Frequent force -feedings and electric shocln destroyed her health and damaged her stomach and heart muscle.
The labor camp released Ms. Lu to avoid responsibility for her death. She managed to recover, but was then rearrested and tortured to death
in Jilin City's liaison office in Beijing.
(For the full story, please go to page 36)
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Forced Divorce and Coerced Family Violence
Husband Sent Wife to Mental Hospital for
Psychiatric Torture
Lu Hongfeng, 1 female, 37, vice-principal of the No. 1
Elementary School, Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous
Region.
Ms. Lu Hongfeng
In March 2000, the Education
Bureau of Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui
Autonomous Region suspended Ms. Lu
because she signed an appeal letter to
the government opposing the persecu-
tion of Falun Gong. As a result, she was
dismissed from her position as vice-prin-
cipal.
Ms. Lu's husband, Qin Yuhuan
(Secretary General of the Communist
Party Committee of No. 1 Construction
Company in Lingwu City), took part in per-
secuting her. On May 6, 2000, he beat
her and kicked her out of their home. On June 7, 2000, Qin
Yuhuan, Dong Yun, head of the Hospitalization Department of
the Lingwu City Mental Hospital, and Nurse Tao Zhijun abduct-
ed Ms. Lu and took her to the Lingwu City Mental Hospital. In
the hospital, Ms. Lu was tied to a bed and forcibly injected and
force-fed with large amounts of nerve -damaging chemicals.
One doctor later revealed that one of the drugs was imported
from Germany, and a single tablet was enough to cause an
average person to lose consciousness for three days; however,
Ms. Lu was forced -fed 24 tablets every day. Ms. Lu was tor-
tured in the mental hospital for over 50 days, and by the time
she was sent home in July 2000, her central nervous system
had already been severely damaged. However, her husband
continued to beat her and feed her large doses of nerve -dam-
aging drugs. On September 6, 2000, she eventually died from
the mental and psychological abuses.
To cover up his crime of murder, Qin blamed Ms. Lu's
death on Falun Gong. The local government spread the fabri-
cated story about Ms. Lu's death through newspapers and on
TV, instead of reporting the true situation.
Heavy Fines Broke Ms. Wang's Family, and She Died
from Persecution
Wang Xiuyun, female, 47, resident of Huadian City, Jilin
Province
Since July 20, 1999, Ms. Wang
Xiuyun had been arrested and detained
many times for going to Beijing to appeal
to the government for an end of the per-
secution of Falun Gong. The police had
extorted over 30,000 Yuan from Ms.
Wang's family. Ms. Wang's husband
could not endure the persecution and
divorced her. To avoid further arrests
and persecution, Ms. Wang had been liv-
ing on the streets.
On June 3, 2002, Ms. Wang and
eight other Falun Gong practitioners
were kidnapped and incarcerated at the Political Security
Division of the Huadian City Police Department. The police
beat Ms. Wang savagely, hung her up, shocked her with elec-
tric batons, forced her to sit still on an iron stool for long peri-
ods of time, and suffocated her by pulling a plastic bag over her
head.
Ms. Wang Xiuyun
On October 9, 2002, the Huadian City Court staged a
secret trial for Ms. Wang and sentenced her to 12 years in
prison. Ms. Wang filed an appeal to challenge the sentencing
and went on a hunger strike for 49 days, but the police contin-
ued torturing her. As a result, she developed pulmonary edema
and pleural effusion. For three months, she had difficulty
breathing and had to sit upright all day and night because of
the orthopnea. She was hospitalized at the end of November
2002.
After three days in the hospital, Ms. Wang's condition
remained critical. However, the police forcibly took her back to
the detention center against the doctor's warning. On
December 7, 2002, Ms. Wang had to be returned to the hospi-
tal because of her worsening condition. Four days later, despite
her critical condition, and despite the pending appeal, the
police took her from the hospital and sent her to the Heizuizi
Prison in Changchun City, Jilin Province. She died ten days
later.
1. Radio Free Asia: "Three More Falun Gong Practitioners Died Abnormally"
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Forced Divorce and Coerced Family Violence
Forcibly Divorced and Tortured in Jail Hospital
Sun Yuncheng, female, an employee of a satellite -tracking cen-
ter, Xi'an Province.
In December 2000, Ms. Sun Yuncheng was illegally sen-
tenced to one and a half years in jail for going to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. Her husband, a military officer with the
rank of divisional commander, was forced to quit his job
because Ms. Sun practiced Falun Gong. Ms. Sun was further
threatened that if she did not give up her Falun Gong practice,
both she and her husband would lose their jobs. When Ms. Sun
refused to denounce Falun Gong, they were both dismissed
from their jobs. Under the intense pressure, her husband was
coerced to. Ms. Sun lost her family, her job, her apartment, and
became a homeless person. On September 12, 2002, police
from the Beilin Police Station illegally arrested Ms. Sun and
confiscated 41,700 Yuan. They interrogated her for two days
and nights with her hands cuffed behind her back, with one
hand pulled over her shoulder and the other one pulled up
from the waist. The handcuffs broke the skin and cut into her
flesh. Later, her arms were hung up over her head and she was
forced to squat down for over ten hours. At the same time,
police used sticks to twist her arms.
To protest and resist the persecution, Ms. Sun went on a
hunger strike, and was sent to the Jail Hospital in Ankang City,
where she continued the hunger strike. Police doctors tortured
her in various ways and injected her with unknown drugs. Each
time before she was injected, she would be bound to a bed for
about ten hours, causing her hands to bruise. She was left to
sleep on a bare bed with no quilts or sheets. She was not
allowed to use the toilet, and had to urinate in her pants.
During her hunger strike, she frequently vomited yellow fluids,
and her urine was a red color. Some nights, she could not go to
sleep. Even in such a situation, she was force-fed; the prison
police would forcibly insert the tube into her mouth.
Sometimes the tube was inserted into her windpipe. Almost
every time, her nose or mouth would bleed because of the tube
insertion. Once, after the police failed to insert the tube into
her mouth after more than ten tries, the angry head nurse, Liu
Qi, forcefully struck Ms. Sun's mouth. In the end, the police
could not break her will, and released her. She is currently
homeless.
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Father Forced to Send Daughter to
a Mental Hospital
Cheng Weihong, female, resident of Yanshan District, Jinan
City, Shandong Province. i
In April 2000, Ms. Cheng Weihong went to Beijing to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Sl e
was arrested and sent to the Shandong Provincial Menta
Hospital by the police from Heping Road Police Station in Lixia
District. In the mental hospital, she was forced to take drugs
and given injections that caused muscle spasms in her neck
and severe loss of her mental faculties. After Ms. Cheng way
released from the hospital, the police ordered her parents to
monitor her. The local
police also monitored her parents'
house every day. Later, the local authorities ordered her father
to send Ms. Cheng to the mental hospital again, or else lose
their house and suffer arrest and jailing of other family mer l-
bers. Ms. Lu's father pleaded to the Secretary of the District
Political and Legal Committee. However, nobody cared about
his appeal because persecuting Falun Gong was the national
policy. Under the pressure, Ms. Lu's father sent his daughter
back to the mental hospital against her will.
The Tribulations of Disabled Bo Minghua and Her Family�i
Bo Minghua, female, over 50, resident of Huainan City, Anhui
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Ms. Bo Minghua is a Falun Gong practitioner who has been
blind since birth and cannot care for herself. On August 21,
2000, merely for her practice of Falun Gong, the police intert'o-
gated her at the Huainan City Panji District Police Station for
three days and nights, without allowing her to sleep. Then they
sent her to the Hefei City Women's Labor Camp. The labor
camp did not accept her because of her blindness.
Province. She is blind.
At around midnight on August 21, 2001, Wang Huaijing
and Xu Hong from the Politics and Security Section of the
Huainan City Panji District Police Station, Huainan City, An,fiui
Province again ransacked Ms. Bo's home, this time sending
her husband for brainwashing in Huainan City. Ms. Bo and tier
daughter were separately detained at the Huainan City Panji
District Police Station. On the third day, Ms. Bo was senttor
brainwashing because she refused to give up Falun Gong. She
was forced to write a so-called "transformation statement." `she
second day after her release she immediately wrote a solemn
declaration that the "transformation statement" was invalid.
This both exposed and shocked the police. They tried to arrest
her again, so she had to leave home. Ms. Bo is now living1on
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Forced Divorce and Coerced Family Violence
Under Intense Pressure, Ms. Zhang's Husband
Divorced Her
Zhang Yufen, female, an instructor at the Changchun
Technology and Engineering University in Jilin Province
Ms. Zhang Yufen was an excellent young instructor at the
Changchun Technology and Engineering University. However,
she was persecuted simply because she refused to stop prac-
ticing Falun Gong. In 2001, Ms. Zhang scored the second-high-
est grade on the admissions exam and was accepted to a PhD
program at the university. However, the director of the Office of
Graduate Studies removed Ms. Zhang's name from the PhD
program because Ms. Zhang was a Falun Gong practitioner.
At the end of April 2002, the university's Party Secretary,
Wang Guozhong, cut off Ms. Zhang's salary. The university
authorities also forced Ms. Zhang's husband to send her to a
brainwashing center. They deceived Ms. Zhang's husband,
telling him that everything would be fine in the brainwashing
center, and that all of Ms. Zhang's withheld salary would be
returned to the couple. Under pressure, Ms. Zhang's husband
cooperated with the university authorities, enabling them to
kidnap Ms. Zhang and force her to attend the Xinglongshan
brainwashing center in Changchun City.
While Ms. Zhang was detained in the brainwashing center,
the authorities further forced her husband to divorce her. In the
brainwashing center, Ms. Zhang was persecuted in various
ways. She was locked in a solitary confinement room and
forced to read government propaganda materials slandering
Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang tried to escape from the brainwashing
class, but fell from the fourth story of a building. She broke her
neck during the fall, and her present condition is extremely
serious.
Forced to Divorce and Tortured in a Psychiatric
Hospital
Hu Keling, female, a teacher at the Shiyan Middle School of
Laixi City, Shandong Province.
On December 28, 2001, Ms. Hu Keling was arrested sim-
ply because she visited the home of another Falun Gong prac-
titioner. Ms. Hu's husband, Gao Ruibo, was a Communist Party
leader in Diabu Town. Because he was under pressure and
wanted to protect his position, Gao divorced Ms. Hu. The
Municipal Court cooperated with the Laixi city authority to
expedite the process and "legalize" the divorce on the second
day. The court not only gave all of their property to Gao, but
also ordered Ms. Hu to pay 400 Yuan per month in child sup-
port for their daughter.
Because he cooperated with the authorities, Gao was pro-
moted, and became a Communist Party leader in Laixi City.
Gao proudly intensified his persecution of his ex-wife. He beat
Ms. Hu many times, causing her head and body to become very
bruised. Her legs and feet were swollen. When Ms. Hu prac-
ticed the Falun Gong exercises, he would urinate on her. Gao
even tried to forcibly send Ms. Hu to a mental hospital, but Ms.
Hu managed to escape. While Ms. Hu was forced to become
homeless, Gao deceived their daughter, causing her to develop
hostility toward her mother.
When Ms. Hu was forced to flee from her home, Gao coop-
erated with the Laixi City "610 Office" to have Ms. Hu arrested.
Eventually, Gao's information led to Ms. Hu's second arrest in
late September 2002. Gao then signed documents to send Ms.
Hu to the Laixi City Mental Hospital, although he was Ms. Hu's
ex-husband and had no legal right to do so.
Ms. Hu suffered vicious psychiatric torture in the mental
hospital. She was tied to a bed, beaten, shocked, forcibly
injected, and fed nerve -damaging drugs. According to a wit-
ness, Ms. Hu's entire body is swollen, and her life is in immi-
nent danger.
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Forced Divorce and Coerced Family Violence
Wang Xingui Forced to Leave Home
Wang Xingui, female, farmer from Hejiadian, Shandan Village,
Wushan County, Gansu Province.
Ms. Wang Xingui, her husband, Mr. Huang Yuanyi, and
their two children are all Falun Gong practitioners. Since the
July 1999 banning of Falun Gong in China, they have been
arrested, detained, beaten, and fined many times. Their home
has also been ransacked frequently and they have become
destitute. On November 23, 2000, to avoid being detained, the
couple was forced to leave home and live on the streets. On
December 22, 2000, they went to Beijing to appeal to the gov-
ernment to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Mr. Huang's mother
and two of his children also went to Beijing to appeal in early
January 2001. Mr. Huang, his mother, and the children were
arrested and escorted back to Wushan County. Police released
only the 10 -year-old daughter. Mr. Huang, his mother, and the
18 -year-old son are still being detained. Mr. Huang's 66 -year-
old father could not bear the persecution of his family and
committed suicide; the family was not permitted to hold a
funeral for him.
In Beijing, Ms. Wang was detained at the Xuanwu District
Detention Center, where she was forced to sleep on the
cement floor without any covers. She refused to give her name
and address and was beaten by three prison guards. In protest,
Ms. Wang began a hunger strike. Fearing that she would die
from the hunger strike and the cold, the police dragged her out
of the detention center and left her on a street in Beijing on the
evening of the 19th day of her hunger strike. She was on the
verge of death. She cannot return to her home because she
would most likely be arrested again, and so she must live in
exile in other provinces.
Ms. Wang's grandmother -in-law, who is over 80 years old,
lives alone with no one to take care of her. Ms. Wang's 15 -year-
old son is having a very difficult time working on the farm to
support two families, and Ms. Wang's 10 -year-old daughter is
in foster care.
Forcibly Divorced and Dead from Torture
in a Labor Camp
Hou Youfang, female, 48, a physics teacher at Xipo Village
Middle School of Jinchang City, Gansu Province.
Ms. Hou Youfang went to Beijing to appeal for an end to
the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result, she was dismissed
from the school and fined more than 9,000 Yuan (the average
monthly income of an urban worker is 500 Yuan). Her family
could not afford such a large sum of money. Under the pres-
sure, her husband divorced her, thereby keeping his job
secure. In August 2001, Ms. Hou was sent to Ping'antai Labor
Camp in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province because she practiced
Falun Gong. On November 29, 2002, Ms. Hou was tortured to
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death at the labor camp. Her ribs and pelvis were severely frac-
tured, her internal organs were badly injured, and her body had
hemorrhaged internally. Shortly after her death, the police sent
her body to be cremated.
Yu Ruiying and Her Husband Became Homeless to
Avoid Further Persecution
1. Yu Ruiying, female, 47, resident of Haiyang City,Shandong
Province
2. Qi Xuekuai, male, Yu Ruiying's
Haiyang City, Shandong Province
husband, resident of
On July 21, 1999 Ms. Yu Ruiying went to Beijing to appeal
to the central government to stop persecuting Falun Gong pray+
titioners. Ms. Yu was arrested and escorted back to Haiyang
City, and detained at an anti -Falun Gong Brainwashing Class'.
After her release, she wrote a letter to the local political depart
ment explaining how she had benefited from practicing Falurr
Gong. Once again Ms. Yu was sent to the brainwashing class.
On February 4, 2000, Ms. Yu was held in custody just for hav-
ing stepped outside of her house. The next day, she practiced
Falun Gong exercises outdoors and was detained for fifteen
days.
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Through her husband's workplace the police tried to pres-
sure Ms. Yu to renounce Falun Gong. They told her husband Mr.
Qi Xuekuai that he had three options: he would have to prevent
her from appealing or practicing Falun Gong or they would su-
pend his salary, he would have to pay for someone to keep sur-
veillance on her, or they would send her to the mental hospital
and he would have to pay for the drugs used on his wife.
Her husband chose the first option. Therefore, he had to
report to the work place everyday about his wife. Mr. Qi was
unable to work for a month due to the mental pressure. Yet tie
police of the Haiyang City Police Station kept on threatens+g
him. Finally Mr. Qi could not bear the pressure any more and
left, leaving Ms. Yu and their daughter at home.
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On July 20, 2000, Ms. Yu went to visit her mother. The
police from the Haiyang Police Station with camera in hand
came to arrest her, fortunately, she had already left for iter
younger sister's house. Then, the police headed her sistp's
house immediately, but Ms. Yu managed to escape, however,
she could not return home anymore. The police constantly
threaten Ms. Yu's daughter, a high school student. This
younger girl's performance at school is adversely affected by
the aggravating situation. I
Torture Methods
Torture Methods
1. Forced to stand for a long time
A victim is forced to stand still, facing a wall, all day long. This punishment is
often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use of the
toilet. This abuse usually lasts several days. If victims can-
not hold still they will be severely beaten.
This torture has a number of variations, including:
1.1 Back Against the Wall: A victim is forced to stand or
kneel down with the back against the wall, head dropped
forward, and both hands pulled up from behind.
1.2 Standing in the "Army Corps" Posture: A victim is _
forced to stand under the scorching sun. The feet are plant-
ed on the fiery ground, sometimes without shoes or socks.
Besides the agony of standing for a long time, the victim suffers sunburn.
1.3 Exhausting an Eagle: A victim is forced to stand on a tall stool. When vic-
tims fall from exhaustion, the police will viciously beat them and force them
back on to the stool.
1.4 Body -Folding: A victim is forced to stand with both legs straight and close
together, and bend the head down as far as it will go toward the feet, in front
of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, and the head is upside down,
forcing the body into a contorted posture.
2. Forced to Sit for a Long Time
A victim is forced to sit still for a long time, often for many days. This punish-
ment is often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use
of the toilet. This torture can result in poor blood circulation to the lower limbs,
necrosis in the buttocks, and nerve damage from the waist down.
There are several variations of this torture, including:
2.1 Iron Chair Sitting: A victim is shackled to a chair
made of iron wires for more than a week. The wires hurt the
victim's buttocks.
2.2 Board Sitting: A victim is forced to sit on rough wood- '"""'"'""'"'"4
en boards.
2.3 Triangle Board Sitting: Sitting on an
iron board with sharp peaks and grooves.
This often causes the victim's hips to bleed
and fester.
3. Forced to Squat for a Long Time
A victim is forced to squat still for a long time, often for many days. This pun-
ishment is often combined with the deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the
use of the toilet. This torture can result in poor blood circulation to the lower
limbs, muscle spasms, and nerve damage.
There are several variations of this torture, including:
3.1 Riding a Horse: A victim is forced to squat down with the legs apart and
both arms raised forward parallel to the ground.
3.2 Squatting on a Square: A victim is forced to squat in a square floor brick
measuring 30 by 30 cm [approximately 1 ft. by 1 ft.] for a long time. The head
must be raised and the feet cannot cross the demarcated line.
3.3 Squatting in a Corner: A victim is forced to a corner of a room using tables
or boards, leaving only a small space, and forced to squat down.
3.4 Squatting with Heels up: A victim is forced to squat over nails sticking
out of the ground under one's heels, and must keep the heels raised to avoid
the nails.
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This was an infamous torture in China during the Cultural Revolution. A victim'sf
head is bent down and hands are pulled up and stretched outwards to both'
sides of the body (like the wings of an airplane). The victim is forced to stay still
in this position for a long time. This punishment is often combined with the
deprivation of food, water, sleep, and the use of the toilet.
4. Riding an Airplane
4.1 Backing up an Airplane: This
is a variation of "riding an airplane".
A victim must bend over while hold-
ing the legs straight. Then, with the
feet close together, the arms are lift-
ed as high as possible, with the
hands touching the wall.
5. Forced to Run for a Long Time
A victim is forced to run non-stop for over ten hours, or else suffer a harsh beat -
6. Forced to Stand Outside on a Winter Night; Forced to Stand it
Snow or on Ice with Bare Feet
ing.
A victim is forced to stay outside in the biting cold overnight, or stand in snow
or on ice. Countless Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this torture, include
ing women and the elderly. Some are even stripped naked.
7. Forced to Stay in Closed Chamber in the Heat of Summer
A victim is locked in a closed room with no window in the summer heat. Many
Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this torture. Sometimes the police even
pour hot water on the floor to make the chamber "steamier".
8. Deprivation of Sleep, Food, Water; Deprivation of Use of Toile,
Sanitary Napkins, Shower, Change of Clothes; Prohibition of Eye
Contact and Talk; Bombarded with Deafening High -Pitch Sounds,
Shined with Intense Light
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Police have exploited any and every basic physiological need or sense to or-
ture Falun Gong practitioners. Anyone not obeying will be viciously beaten.
9. Pouring Boiling Water or Icy Water over Head
This usually is the first punishment one receives in jail.
Many Falun Gong practitioners have suffered this "routine"
torture.
10. Handcuffs and Shackles
To Chinese police forces, handcuffs
and shackles are not merely devices
of mobility restraint, but also torture
equipment. Many handcuffs and
shackles that cannot be seen in other
parts of the world are used by
Chinese police: those that are very
tight and cut into wrists and ankles,
those that are self -tightening, those
that have spikes, and so on. Following are several variations of tortures
handcuffs and shackles.
10.1 Handcuffed Behind the Back:
A victim handcuffed in this way cannot
use the bathroom, eat or sleep.
Torture Methods
10.2 Carrying a Sword over the Back:: A victim's
hands are tied behind his back with one hand over the
shoulder and the other hand against the lower back.
The police then apply a great deal of force to pull the
two hands toward one another and handcuff the two
hands together. Usually, this torture causes victims to
faint in just 20 minutes. However, police handcuff prac-
titioners this way for as long as four hours.
10.3 Hell Cuff: This is a device intended for mur-
derers or death row inmates. The pliers -shaped -----
clasps dig into a victim's wrists and ankles. A vic-
tim wearing a "hell cuff" cannot stand, squat,
move, or sleep.
10.4 The Foot Shackle Combined with Handcuffs:
One of a victim's hands is handcuffed to the other
hand between the legs. The shackle weighs over
20 pounds. The victim cannot go to sleep, walk,
stand, use the bathroom, or eat a meal. They have
to walk in a half -squatting and bowing position.
Police often torture practitioners this way for
weeks.
10.5 Running in Chains: Several victims are hand-
cuffed and shackled together and forced to run
non-stop.
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11. Solitary Confinement
Solitary confinement, widely condemned around the world, is among the cru-
elest tortures. In China, police have used tortures beyond usual solitary con-
finement against Falun Gong practitioners. Following are only a few of the
examples:
11.1 Locked in Small Cell: A small cell is a room of less than three square
meters. It has no window, no bed, no water, and no toilet. A victim is locked in
a small cell for months, having to eat, sleep, and excrete in the same small
area. Since the height of the room is less than 1.5 meters, one cannot stand
straight. To exacerbate the agony, the guards often hand-
cuff the victim in the small cell door so the victim cannot
sleep for many days.
11.2 Locked in Iron Cage: The height of the cage is short-
er than a victim's height. The width and length are calcu-
lated so that the person can neither stand straight nor lie
down. The victim is often handcuffed to the rail and can-
not sleep. Many Falun Gong practitioners have been
locked up this way for as long as 120 days. They are men-
tally and physically tortured.
11.3 Tied to a Death Board: This variation of solitary confinement was origi-
nally conceived for and used on death row criminals. The victim is tied to an
iron or wooden board for weeks with four limbs stretched out and locked, and
cannot move at all. The victim is tied down at all times, having to be fed by
someone else, but sleeping and excreting are all done on the board, for this
reason the victim is often stripped
naked. The victim suffers not only
from solitary confinement, but also
the excruciating pain of feeling their
whole body atrophying. Many practi-
tioners have lost their lives from this
torture.
11.4 Leaning Against a Big Board: This is a variation of the "death board" tor-
ture. The victim is forced to lie down on a bed made of a wooden board with-
out any padding for many days at a time with feet and hands fixed to the bed.
11.5 Water Dungeon: This is a deadly solitary con-
finement. A victim is stripped naked, locked in an
iron cage with spikes on all sides, and lowered into
a pit of filthy water until the water reaches the vic-
tim's neck. The victim cannot lean to any side
because of the spikes, and cannot squat down
because the water. Many practitioners have suf-
fered this torture and some have died.
12. Cuffed and Hung up
Hung up'by handcuffs, in its most simple form,
causes excruciating pain. Chinese police have
added many cruel variations to this torture.
Most Falun Gong practitioners jailed have suf-
fered this in one form or another. The following
are just a few examples:
12.1 Tying up the horse: A victim is hand-
cuffed and shackled, and the arms are pulled
up behind the back, with the head down, and
then tied up with a rope that also loops around
the neck. Then the police pull the end of the rope to tighten it around the prac-
titioner as much as possible. This torture can cause death.
12.2 Hanging a Cage: A victim's hands are twisted behind his back and hand-
cuffed. The police then pull the hands over the head and hang him up in the
air until the feet are off the ground.
12.3 Big Hang: A victim is hung upside-down by the feet. This is a deadly tor-
ture, and some Falun Gong practitioners have died from this.
12.4 Hung up from Behind: With both hands tied or cuffed behind the back,
the victim is hung up by the arms or the handcuffs, with both feet off of the
ground, or just touching the ground. Both hands and arms will soon lose feel-
ing and will go numb from lack of blood circulation. Countless Falun Gong prac-
titioners have suffered this brutal torture. Some have even been hung up for
several days.
13. Tying the Ropes
A thin rope is used to tightly encircle the neck
and the rope is wrapped around the victim's
arms. Then the police use all the force they can
muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes
tighter and tighter around the body of the prac-
titioner, cutting into the flesh and making it
more and more difficult for him to breathe. The
pain is so intense that the victim sometimes
loses control of the bladder. In many cases the
rope was tightened to the point of breaking a practitioner's arm. Sometimes
the practitioner is hung from a high place with the rope as well. Sometimes
there are spikes on the rope. When the rope is tightly fastened, it cuts into the
flesh, which is extremely painful. This torture is known to cause death if used
twice in a row; however, some practitioners have suffered this up to 10 times
in a row.
14. Tiger Bench
A victim is tied on a narrow wooden or iron bench by the thighs and knees, with
hands tied behind the back. Increasing number of boards or bricks inserted
under his feet creates excruciating pain.
The police often use this device to immobilize
Falun Gong practitioners to force-feed them.
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15. Live Hemp Torture
Hemp is a perennial plant. Its stems and leaves are covered with fine hairs and
sharp, poisonous thorns. After contact with hemp, the skin immediately
becomes inflamed, extremely itchy, and painful. This torture was used against
underground Chinese Communist Party members during China's civil war in
the 1940's, and was banned after the Chinese Communists assumed power
in 1949. But police now use fresh hemp stalks to slap Falun Gong practition-
ers' faces, or strip practitioners naked and throw them onto a pile of hemp.
16. Electric Baton Shock
This is by far the most common torture used by the police against Falun Gong
practitioners. Practitioners have been shocked with as many as a dozen
batons at a time, with voltages as high as 30,000 volts, often for several hours.
Countless practitioners have suffered flesh burns, some having ears, hands, or
feet charred from the electric shocks.
The police have shocked practitioners' eyes, nipples, and penises. The police
have also forced these batons into practitioners' mouths or vaginas to shock
them.
Many Falun Gong practitioners have died from electric baton shocks.
17. Beating Buttocks
Literally, this torture is called "passing the board". A victim is forced to the
ground and beaten viciously with a board, club, or baton, dozens or hundreds
of times. This often causes the buttocks to become black and blue.
18. Force -Feeding
This is another torture commonly used by police against practitioners, and it is
the number one cause of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. Almost every
Falun Gong practitioner who has gone on a hunger strike in detention has suf-
fered from force-feeding. Many practitioners not even on hunger strikes have
also been tortured using this method.
The purpose of police force-feeding is never to nourish, but rather to punish
practitioners and to cause so much pain that they will renounce Falun Gong
practice. To that end, the police have used many different means to cause
excruciating pain and injury, including:
18.1 Inserting and Withdrawing the Feeding Tubes Repeatedly: The police
usually use a tube inserted through a practitioner's nose to force-feed. Often,
even when the tube is already inserted, the police pull it out again and re-insert
it. This can be repeated many times. Many practitioners have died from the
tube piercing through their lungs.
18.2 Leaving the Feeding Tubes in Stomach: This is another way to cause
pain. Practitioners tortured this way are usually handcuffed.
18.3 Knocking off Teeth to Force -Feed: To force practitioners to open their
mouths, the police resort to the most barbaric violence, knocking out practi-
tioners' teeth, tearing apart practitioners' lips, or even poking holes in practi-
tioners' cheeks.
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18.4 Force -Feeding Saturated Salt -Water: This causes intense pain in the gut.
Many practitioners have died from this because of the resulting dehydration.
18.5 Force -Feeding Vinegar/Liquor: Several Falun Gong practitioners have
died from this.
18.6 Force -Feeding Hot Pepper Oil/Mustard Oil/Boiling Water: These cause
burns and intense pain in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
18.7 Force -Feeding Urine/Feces
19. Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails
The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioners
through the tip of the fingernails. In
the process of the hammering, the
fingernail will get torn off completely.
The police first hammer the bamboo
stick into one finger. If the practition-
er still refuses to yield, the police will
hammer bamboo sticks into succes-
sive fingers until they mutilate all 10
fingers.
20. Burning
The police have used cigars and cigarette lighters to burn fingers, toes, faces,
nipples, vaginas, and other parts of practitioners' bodies. While burning them,
the police say, "I will stop when you give up Falun Gong."
21. Hot and Spicy Chicken Legs
A victim is forced to lie on the ground. The inmates then take turns jumping
high up in the air and then landing on the upper legs of the practitioner with
one foot.
22. Bed Pressing
A victim is handcuffed and shackled and forced to sit down on the ground.; A
bed is then placed over his head and several people get on the bed pressing
down and jumping on the bed. This often causes the victim to lose control of
the bladder and bowels.
23. Dog Bites
Police have let loose dogs to attack Falun
Gong practitioners in a number of deten-
tion centers and labor camps.
24. Suffocation
The police pull a plastic bag over the
head of a practitioner. While the practi-
tioner is suffocating and gagging, the
police will ask, "Will you give up Falun
Gong?"
Sometimes the police use thick paper
soaked in water to cover the faces of
practitioners to suffocate them.
25. Forcing Head into Bucket of Urine
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26. Sexual Torture
In addition to the tortures that the police use on both male and female Falun
Gong practitioners, the police use many female -specific tortures against Falun
Gong practitioners. These include:
Rape / gang rape
Forced abortion
Pinching / pinching off or biting off of nipples
Needling nipples
Electric baton shock of nipples and vaginas
Bottle / baton rape
Stuffing dirty socks into vagina / anus
Burning the vagina with a cigar
Inserting and rotating brushes inside the vagina
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A practitioner displays a banner in support of Falun Gong as a plainclothes
policeman approaches to arrest her on Tiananmen Square in Beijing