Painting: One of the CCP’s torture methods—“injecting toxic drugs.” Artist: Chen Xiaoping. The CCP has confined large numbers of physically and mentally healthy Falun Gong practitioners in psychiatric hospitals and carried out drug persecution against them. (Dajiyuan photo archive)
[People News] Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Airong from Changyi City, Weifang, Shandong Province, was kidnapped by police on June 25, 2022, and returned home the same day. She photographed multiple bruises on her body and sent the photos to Minghui.org. A few days later, police kidnapped her again and made her drink a bowl of salty-tasting water. Ten days later she returned home, her physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and she passed away on October 19, 2024.
According to a report by Dajiyuan reporter Li Jiesi, based on information from Minghui.org, at around 5 a.m. on June 25, 2022, four police officers from the Yinma Police Station in Changyi City broke into Zhang Airong’s home to ransack it, seizing Falun Gong books and other personal belongings. The lead officer was extremely rude, would not allow her to change clothes, and abducted her to the Yinma Police Station.
Food that Zhang Airong’s family brought to her in the morning was withheld. She remained hungry until her family brought food again at noon, at which point she was finally able to eat. The police station intended to detain her, but failed to do so due to her physical condition. At 5 p.m. she was sent home, with no explanation given for her abduction.
Three days after returning home, she was still groggy and had obvious bruises on her body, so she took photos and sent them to Minghui.org to expose the police’s abduction and persecution of her.
A few days later, she was kidnapped again and taken to a row of buildings in front of the Changyi Detention Center. A state security police officer brought her a bowl of unknown liquid and told her to drink “salt water” to replenish her strength. Without thinking much about it, she drank it and noticed a salty taste. The state security officer then tried to make her drink another bowl, which she refused.
After being detained for 10 days, she was released and returned home. Her physical condition suddenly worsened—she vomited after eating, lost 40 jin (about 20 kilograms) within two months, and became extremely weak. Police station personnel went to her home several times to ask whether she felt any abnormalities in her body. The last time, they were driven away by her family.
By the end of 2022, her body was extremely weak, and she developed dizziness and numbness in both legs. One leg then became severely swollen. She passed away on December 19, 2024.
Her death is suspected to be directly related to that bowl of water, as prior to this she was able to eat and sleep normally and was in fairly good health.
Previously, Minghui.org has reported many cases of Falun Gong practitioners being poisoned with drugs by the CCP. This case inevitably raises questions about what exactly the “salt water” given to Zhang Airong by state security really was.
At around 6 a.m. on April 17, 2009, Wei Xiuying, Zhao Hong, and Zhao Bing, a mother and two daughters who were Falun Gong practitioners from Jincheng, Linghai, Liaoning Province, were kidnapped by police. At dinner, police gave each of them a bowl of noodles. Wei Xiuying ate half and noticed a strange taste, so she stopped. Zhao Hong did not eat any, while Zhao Bing ate a full bowl. A few days later, Wei Xiuying lost the ability to speak, a condition that lasted for more than a year. Zhao Bing became mentally confused, unable to recognize people, and incapable of taking care of herself.
Since July 1999, the CCP has persecuted Falun Gong, and in the early stages of the persecution it ordered the use of drug persecution against practitioners, as evidenced by the information below.
An article titled “Two Bloodstained Shirts and a Secret Document,” published on Minghui.org on November 20, 2010, revealed a “secret document” dated November 24, 2001, which stated that with regard to Falun Gong practitioners, “it is also necessary to adopt methods of drug treatment.”
In the so-called Internal Reference Materials for Countering x Cults, distributed one copy to each member of the “610 Office,” the section on “methods for implementing transformation” of Falun Gong practitioners states: “When necessary, drug intervention may be used, adopting medical and clinical experimental approaches to achieve the objective of scientific transformation.”
During more than twenty years of the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Minghui.org has exposed a large number of cases involving drug persecution. The methods employed by the CCP are diverse: pills, powders, toxic injections, poisonous liquids, toxic gases, and mixing poisons into the food and drink given to practitioners.
Drug persecution has caused enormous physical and psychological harm to Falun Gong practitioners, including extreme weakness, emaciation, memory loss, dementia, insanity, paralysis, organ failure, destruction of the central nervous system, ulceration of body parts, amputations, and even loss of life.
Recently, Minghui.org reported on 28 cases of Falun Gong practitioners in Sichuan Province being poisoned with drugs. This represents only the tip of the iceberg of the CCP’s use of drug persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Several cases are listed below.
Li Jiabin, in his fifties, lived in Ganzicun, Peng Town, Shuangliu County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. On June 14, 2004, he was kidnapped and taken to the Zhengxing Town brainwashing center in Shuangliu County, and two months later was transferred to the Shuangliu County Detention Center. After four months of persecution, he was again confined in the First Hospital of Shuangliu County, where his hands and feet were shackled to the hospital bed and he was injected daily with unknown drugs. Half a month later, he became mentally disoriented, his whole body swollen, his skin bleeding and oozing pus, and on February 9, 2005, he was released on “medical parole.”
On May 16 of the same year, just over three months after returning home, he died unjustly. Before his death, he said: “I was persecuted to death by the Communist Party.”
Liu Guangdi, in his sixties, was a senior engineer who had won provincial science and technology invention awards many times and held national patents. In April 2008, he was kidnapped for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials and was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing. During this time, he was persecuted and developed pleurisy, pleural effusion, and other illnesses. Only after strong demands from his family did the labor camp send him to a hospital.
While in the hospital, he quietly practiced the exercises and his condition improved. After he was reported by those monitoring him, the labor camp instructed the hospital to force-feed him large amounts of unknown drugs, causing his condition to deteriorate rapidly. When his labor term ended and he returned home, he was already critically ill, and he died unjustly on September 25, 2010.
Fang Hui, female, aged 55, was a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages at Sichuan University. She had once cycled along the Qinghai–Tibet Highway to Lhasa, was named one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Young Adventurers,” and was a key member of Sichuan University’s mountaineering team. In February 2002, she was kidnapped and taken to the Chengdu First Detention Center, then in March sent to a brainwashing center, and released in August after a hunger strike.
On November 5 of the same year, she was kidnapped again and detained, later transferred to the Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City, where she was subjected to drug persecution that left her disabled and nearly deprived her of speech. In December 2003, she was illegally sentenced to three years in prison, to be served outside prison. When she was sent home, her entire body was swollen, her skin stiff, her head in severe pain, and she had difficulty walking. After seeking medical treatment, doctors told her family that her central nervous system had been damaged. In March 2019, after being bedridden for many years, Fang Hui died unjustly. △
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