According to sources, Ming was told that in return for a confession his passport would be returned to him but he refused. After a period of detention in a police station Ming was transferred to the male labour camp in Daxing County, Beijing. It is reported that Ming and the other practitioners in the camp have suffered severe mental and physical torture, including sleep deprivation, beatings and electric shocks. He has reportedly been forced to write a denunciation of Falun Gong. Zhao Ming and Falun Dafa will be the focus for some of our activities in the campaign Take a Step to Stamp Out Torture.
Practitioners do five sets of gentle exercises and meditation.
Amnesty International believes that Falun Gong practitioners as well as members of similar qi gong movements and some Christian groups, are being persecuted for the expression of their peacefully held beliefs.