Memorial for Falun Gong practitioners murdered under DAFA persecution by Chinese Communist Party CCP

/* IN MEMORY: Zhang Tao 07.31.2002 */

Zhang Tao 07.31.2002

ZHANG Tao, male, 53 years old, lived in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG was tortured to death on July 31, 2002 in Changlinzi Labor Camp, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.

Between July 22, 1999 and March 2002, ZHANG was illegally arrested and detained six times because he peacefully sought an end to the persecution against Falun Dafa. During this time, he was beaten intensely and made to do hard labor and undergo brainwashing. During his detention in the Harbin Police Station during November 2001, ZHANG was extorted 3,400 Yuan as well as tortured on a metal chair for 12 days straight, until his buttocks became raw and his legs and feet were swollen. He was later sentenced to three years of forced labor camp.

In March 2002, ZHANG was transferred to the Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin. Due to the prolonged persecution, ZHANG displayed abnormal physical symptoms - he was unable to walk and sleep, and suffered unbearable pain in his internal organs. In late July, ZHANG went on a hunger strike to protest. Prison guards locked him in a small confinement cell where he was hung by handcuffs and force-fed.

Before July 31, ZHANG Died of torture. On examination, ZHANG’s neck was heavily bruised and swollen, and one of his shoulders was obviously fractured and disfigured.

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IN MEMORY website report stories of Falun Gong practitioners murdered under persecution by chinese communist party ( CCP).

According to incomplete statistics, within the past five years beginning on July 20, 1999, more than 3160 practitioners have been verified as being tortured to death in over 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. However, according to the government's official internal statistics, the actual number of practitioners who died after being arrested had reached 1,600 by the end of 2001. In addition, there are at least 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally sentenced to prison. Over 100,000 practitioners have been sentenced to forced labor camps. Thousands of practitioners have been forcefully sent to psychiatric hospitals to be tortured with injections that are damaging to the central nervous system. Large groups of Falun Gong practitioners have been forcefully sent to local brainwashing classes, where they have been subjected to both physical and mental torture. Many more practitioners have been severely beaten and had large sums of money extorted from them by so-called "law-enforcement officials." When large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners are beaten to death, injured, and their families are broken up, when they have to leave home and go from place to place because of the persecution, millions of Falun Gong practitioners' families, relatives, good friends and colleagues are also implicated and brainwashed to varying degrees. Listed below are the names of the Falun Gong practitioners who have died from torture, and a brief description of their cases. Hopefully, these dreadful experiences and agonizing scenes will arouse consciences and stir hearts all over the world.

Articles posted here comes from "Atrocities in China" book. This book is freely downloadable here. Also more murders records are available here. The 2005 Falun Gong Report, "Stories of conscience", can be downloaded for free here.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Practiced in over 50 countries world-wide, Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture. With government estimates of as many as 100 million practicing Falun Gong, China's Communist leader Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practice in July 1999 (report). Since that time, Jiang Zemin's regime has intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice while imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it. The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 2829 deaths (reports / sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. In October 2001, however, Government officials inside China reported that the actual death toll was well over 1,600. Expert sources now estimate that figure to be much higher. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with more than 100,000 being sentenced to forced labor camps, typically without trial.

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