Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Ms. Luo Liping Denied Medical Treatment in Chatou Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou City

    On January 21st, 2010, police in Guangzhou City arrested Ms. Luo Liping. Later, she was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. By then, Ms. Luo had been detained at the Chatou Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou City for almost six months. It was reported that Ms. Luo and the Falun Gong practitioners at the labour camp were forced to do "homework." The camp guards gave them many kinds of strange questions. Any practitioner who could not give a satisfactory answer would be punished. Practitioners were forced to sit on stools from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
  • Jilin Province Women's Prison Tortures Practitioners with Death Bed

    Jilin Province Women's Prison, also known as Heizuizi Women's Prison of Changchun City, is currently detaining over 260 Falun Gong practitioners, most of whom were sentenced by the authorities within Jilin Province. To try to force practitioners to give up their belief in Falun Gong, the guards subject them to brainwashing and force them to stand or sit in the same posture for extended periods of time. When these methods do not produce any results, guards tie practitioners to a "death bed". They suspend the victim in the air so that she does not touch the bed. In this position, she has to eat, urinate and defecate on the bed. This inhuman torture method is extremely agonizing.
  • Ms. Wu Xiulan from Longhua County, Hebei Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Xiulan, 76, was arrested on her way to Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province in October 2009 and held in an undisclosed location. Her family was contacted by the authorities at the end of December 2009 and told to pick her up at the Longhua County Detention Centre. Ms. Wu showed symptoms of severe illness and suffered from a distended abdomen. She died on February 5th, 2010.
  • Ms. Yu Xiaoyan, Wife of Human Rights Attorney Wang Yonghang, Taken to Brainwashing Centre

    Ms. Yu Xiaoyan is an associate professor at the Zhongshan Medical Institute in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. In early July, she was arrested at work by police. She was taken to the Luotaishanzhuang Brainwashing Centre in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Ms. Yu, a Falun Gong practitioner, is the wife of Mr. Wang Yonghang, an attorney who has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defending Falun Gong practitioners.
  • The Gross Abuse I Suffered in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province

    I was detained in Masanjia Labour Camp in September 2007. I was subjected to various kinds of brutal mistreatments. As a result of the torture, my left hand is still numb, and there is still swelling at the base of my fingers. At the beginning of my incarceration, the guards assigned me to work daily with items involving the use of white glue (polyvinyl acetate, or PAVc). PAVc is a toxic substance and can lead to allergy, asthma, or other respiratory problems. Not long after, my blood pressure shot up to 160/100. I had blood in my sputum, had difficulty breathing, and developed other allergic reactions.
  • Ms. Wang Hui Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Ms. Wang Hui, 40, a teacher from the Juren Comprehensive School, was recently sentenced to two and a half years of forced labour, and is now in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. When Ms. Wang was out distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution on July 6th, 2009, she was arrested again. Ms. Wang was previously sentenced to one and a half years in October 2001, and was held in the same labour camp.
  • Mr. Hou Yanshuang in Critical Condition After Years of Persecution at Shenyang No. 1 Prison

    Mr. Hou Yanshuang has been detained and persecuted for nine years. As a result of being severely tortured in Shenyang No. 1 Prison, he suffers from bone spurs on his vertebrae and high blood pressure, and has had a heart attack and a stroke. He cannot take care of himself. Doctors said that Mr. Hou must be cared for at a hospital, but officials from the prison will not allow it. Mr. Hou's family members wanted to take him home for treatment, but officials from the prison also denied that request. He is currently being detained in the Sixth Ward of the prison.
  • Town Doctor in Huaying City, Sichuan Province Physically Assaulted and Tortured Numerous Times

    Mr. Tang Guoping, about 47 years old, was a doctor. Because he would not give up his practice of Falun Gong, on numerous occasions he was persecuted by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), police, and town government officials. His family has had more than ten thousand yuan extorted from them. Mr. Tang was sent to forced labour twice for a total of four and a half years. He was tortured in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City. Guards frequently used electric batons to shock him, beat him with batons, tied him up, made him stand or squat for extended periods, deprived him of sleep, did not allow him to use the toilet, and more such abuse.
  • Heizuizi Labour Camp in Jilin Province Uses Physical and Psychological Abuse on Those Who Refuse to Renounce Falun Gong

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Weixiu has been refusing to do forced labour so she has been shocked with electric batons several times by Wang Limei, the police division head. Once Wang Limei poked the electric baton against Ms. Wang Weixiu's breast, and shocked her for an extended time. Another time, Wang Limei told Ms. Wang Weixiu to carry the bed for her, but Ms. Wang Weixiu refused. Thus, Wang Limei poured a basin of water over Ms. Wang Weixiu's head, and started shocking her with an electric baton. After a few electric shocks, she stopped and told Ms. Wang Weixiu to carry the bed again, Ms. Wang Weixiu again refused. She then started a second round of electric shocks on Ms. Wang Weixiu.
  • University Lecturer Guo Xiaojun from Shanghai Persecuted

    Mr. Guo Xiaojun, a former lecturer at the Computer Science Department in Shanghai Jiaotong University, was arrested on January 8th, 2010 by police. The officers also ransacked his home and car and repeatedly threatened Mr. Guo's wife. Mr. Guo's wife initially hired an attorney from Beijing for legal assistance. However, officials from the Beijing Judicial Bureau pressured him to drop the case under orders from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Shanghai. Mr. Guo's wife then hired another attorney from Beijing, but he also left after being threatened by the Beijing Judicial Bureau.
  • Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Forces Lawyers Defending Shanghai Jiaotong University Professor to Withdraw from the Case

    A lawyer for Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Xiaojun was notified on June 25th, 2010 by Shanghai Baoshan Court that Mr. Guo would be tried on July 6th. Mr. Guo was a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University in the computer science department before he was arrested and tortured for practising Falun Gong. His family asked three lawyers to appeal for him, but all three lawyers withdrew due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mr. Guo is now on his fourth lawyer.
  • His Wife Dead and His Daughter Mentally Disordered, Mr. Yang Fujin Dies as a Result of the Persecution of Falun Gong

    Mr. Yang Fujin was a Falun Gong practitioner. His wife, Ms. Yin Fengqin, also a practitioner, died as a result of the persecution on January 29th, 2010. Officials from the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and police department still continued to pressure and intimidate him and he could find nowhere to seek justice. His practitioner daughter, Ms. Yang Lijuan, was persecuted until she developed a mental disorder and could not take care of her two young sons. Having no other alternative, he handed his grandsons to one of his relatives for adoption. Grief stricken, he died recently at the age of 62.
  • Mr. Wang Haihui Brutally Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for Eight Months

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Haihui is being held in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, in a special unit established in September 2008 to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. It was confirmed by a reliable insider that the camp guards have been torturing Mr. Wang by hanging him up by his handcuffs, putting him in a straightjacket, tying him to a bed frame, and other torture, for eight months, ever since October 18th, 2009. Many parts of his body have become swollen, infected, or bruised. His life is in danger.
  • Judges and Police in Wuhan City Retaliate Against Four Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners for Filing an Appeal

    Ms. Song Wenxiu and her daughter Li Shihong are both Falun Gong practitioners. Earlier this year, police arrested Ms. Song and confiscated the keys to her home. Without any search or arrest warrants, the police ransacked her home and arrested her daughter. police took 1,200 yuan during the raid. Her family went to the police station numerous times to report the missing cash, but the police refused to record and investigate their case. Jiangan District Court tried Ms. Li Shihong on April 7th, 2010. The case against her was composed of fabricated evidence.
  • Dentist Ms. Wang Xiaoming Arrested for a Third Time

    Eyewitnesses saw Dr. Wang Xiaoming being arrested outside of her dental clinic at around 10 a.m. on July 6th, 2010, by agents from Wuhan City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). Dr. Wang is now detained in Hubei Province Legal Education School (a brainwashing centre). Dr. Wang's husband was employed at the Wuhan City TV Station but could not be promoted because his wife practised Falun Gong. He was later demoted to another job. Their marriage ended because of the huge pressure levied against it under the persecution.