Torture Methods
It’s hard to imagine that tens of millions of people are singled out for destruction because they believe in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. And if there is anything more disturbing than this, it is the lengths to which Chinese authorities have gone to eradicate that belief.
Evidence has surfaced of over 100 torture methods being employed against Falun Gong practitioners in China’s labour camps, detention centers, and mental hospitals. The goal is to eradicate Falun Gong, either by coercing its practitioners to renounce their belief, or by physically destroying them if they refuse. The tactics range from long-term sleep deprivation, being surrounded with loudspeakers demonizing their practice 24 hours a day, to being force-fed with human feces, or shocked and even raped with electric batons.
In the five years since the persecution of Falun Gong began in China, the Chinese government has denied any responsibility, any wrongdoing whatsoever, in the abuses of Falun Gong practitioners at the hands of the authorities. Instead, official orders are passed down that if any Falun Gong practitioner dies in police custody, the body should be cremated immediately, and documented as death by “natural causes” or “suicide.” The Chinese authorities maintain that Falun Gong practitioners are being treated well, and that there is no persecution taking place.
Despite an extensive cover-up and information blockade, Falun Gong practitioners have, at great risk to themselves, provided detailed eyewitness accounts of torture, extortion, rape, and murder to the outside world.
In these pages, you will find stories of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and eyewitness accounts from inside labour camps. You can read the stories of the courageous men, women, and children who have risked – and sometimes lost – their lives to defend what they know to be right and just.