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Women of Conscience
A Report on the Persecution of Female Practitioners
of Falun Gong in the People’s Republic of China

An Introduction to this Report The Falun Dafa Information Center has compiled this special report to clarify and document the brutal and systematic violence against women that has been carried out in the People's Republic of China during the nearly two-year crackdown against Falun Gong. Rape, torture, sexual abuse, illegal detention, forced labor, incarceration in psychiatric hospitals and even murder of female practitioners have occurred regularly in police facilities and labor "re-education" camps throughout China. Many of these cases have been well documented by news agencies and human rights organizations, such as the Wall Street Journal and Amnesty International. Because the sheer magnitude of these abuses against women would require several volumes to document, we have compiled only a small number of cases representing the specific types of torture and brutality being unleashed upon female practitioners by Chinese government officials. Therefore, this report does not seek to document every known case, but rather provide clear and comprehensive evidence of the types of cases that are widespread in China today. Our primary source of information for this document is from reports sent to us by eyewitnesses and victims inside China, and secondarily from news media and human rights organizations. In particular, Amnesty International has recently released a comprehensive report on torture in China, which has served as a valuable source of information on violence against women in the crackdown against Falun Gong in China See Amnesty International Index: ASA 17/004/2001. -- Falun Dafa Information Center July, 2001 View PDF version of this report		Contents of this Report
		Introduction
		An Open Letter from Female Falun Gong Practitioners in China Newsweek: The Dangerous Pilgrimage
		Violence Against Women
		Examples of Typical Torture Methods Typical Cases of Abuse and Violence Against Women Photos of Women Who Were Beaten and Tortured Rape and Sexual Abuse By Police and Government Officials Mental Hospitals Used to Detain and Torture Women
		Women and Their Families Torn Apart
		Government Enforced Divorce Government Enforced Abortion The Persecution Also Targets Mothers Teenage Students Abused and Tortured Persecution of Overseas Practitioners
		List of Deaths
		Women Who Have Died for their Belief in Falun Gong
"The day before Chen Zixiu died, her captors again demanded that she renounce her faith in Falun Dafa. Barely conscious after repeated jolts from a cattle prod, the 58-year-old stubbornly shook her head. Enraged, the local officials ordered Ms. Chen to run barefoot in the snow. Two days of torture had left her legs bruised and her short black hair matted with pus and blood... She crawled outside, vomited and collapsed. She never regained consciousness, and died on Feb. 21." -- Ian Johnson, Pulitzer-prize winning article for The Wall Street Journal "I told him: "Don't do this to Falun Gong practitioners. We live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance"...I felt no hatred. I just kept asking him to be good." -- a female Falun Gong practitioner telling how she was beaten and raped by a Beijing police officer. "Falun Gong... is, in my judgement, the single greatest spiritual movement in Asia today. There is nothing that begins to compare with it in courage and importance." -- Mark Palmer, Vice-Chairman of the Board for Freedom House and former U.S. Ambassador