In the past decade, human rights violations in China have been an issue of concern for the United States Department of State, which has documented these violations extensively in its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as well as its International Religious Freedom reports. These reports have included the use of torture by the police to extract confessions, the use of Re-education through Labor (RTL) to detain individuals for a period of up to four years, without formal charges or trial, and the arbitrary and unlawful detention of lawyers, journalists, Tibetans, and Falun Gong adherents. There is additional documentation from other sources, including not only Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, but also recent reports by David Matas (Human Rights Attorney and China Expert) and David Kilgour (retired Member of Parliament, Canada), which provide convincing proof of the extermination of thousands of Falun Gong adherents through the harvesting of their vital organs.

All attempts to ameliorate the situation through China’s legal system have been futile, as it is part of the Chinese Communist Party (hereinafter "CCP") machinery and is an instrument of CCP political and financial control. As such the courts prosecutors and police are subject to the dictatorship of the CCP and its Political-Legal Committee, which consists of the heads of the public security organ, the state security organ, the procuratorate, the court, and the judicial administrative organ for civil affairs on the same level. The CCP’s control of law enforcement officials has facilitated, among other things, the application of torture by police and prison security personnel to extract false confessions, the reliance on sham trials to justify lengthy prison terms, and the use of several interpretative regulations on the application of the criminal law to Falun Gong adherents issued by the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procurator, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice and local authorities which incorporate conflicting rules that allow for an arbitrary application of the law.

This report provides an account of the crimes committed by the CCP regime through the personal accounts of the survivors. By combining a short legal analysis with excerpts from personal accounts of the survivors, it illustrates that the statistics, tables and plain facts represent men, women, and children who were tortured, killed and in other ways persecuted. But more importantly it (1) exposes the way law enforcement officials and operatives support the persecution of "disfavored groups;" and (2) illustrates the actual impact this has had on the personal lives of members of the disfavored group of Falun Gong practitioners in China.