Rewarded for Torture: The Rise of Bo Xilai in China

Bo Xilai is now notorious as the Chinese regime head in Chongqing, one of China’s five National Central Cities. Here The Epoch Times chronicles Bo Xilai’s rise in the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party.

Falun Gong practitioners meditate as they enter the fourth day of a hunger strike in front of the Chinese Embassy, on Aug. 20, 2001, in Washington. The hunger strike was in support of 130 Falun Gong practitioners who were on hunger strike in Masanjia Labor Camp, protesting their unjust detention and brutal treatment inside the labor camp. Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images

The beatings police gave Falun Gong practitioners on July 20, 1999 on the streets of Dalian City were brutal, according to a report on Clearwisdom, a Falun Gong website.

Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners had gathered to appeal for the release of practitioners arrested the night before—the official beginning, in Dalian, of the nationwide campaign to “eradicate” Falun Gong, launched by the then-head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Jiang Zemin.

The practitioners had formed themselves into four lines on the sidewalk near the city government buildings, held hands, and peacefully asked for the release of their fellow believers.