Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Ms. Wu Aihua Persecuted in Tianjin

    Ms. Wu Aihua was arrested on July 23rd, 2009. She was held at the Zhaojiadi Detention Centre for over five months. The Chinese Communist regime agents manipulated the court to secretly try her twice, and eventually sentenced her to three years in prison on a three-year probation. Ms. Wu returned home on January 28th, 2010.
  • After Just Being Released from a Forced Labour Camp, Authorities Hold Ms. Huang Zhenglan Against Her Will in a Mental Hospital

    Ms. Huang Zhenglan, a 46-year-old practitioner, was held in a mental hospital by 610 Office agents right after she was released from a forced labour camp. In 2005, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour and tortured for upholding her belief in Falun Gong. 610 Office agents forced her husband to divorce her. In 2007, police sent her to a brainwashing centre and then held her in the Yanjia Mental Hospital. They subjected her to unknown drugs. In February 2009, Ms. Huang was arrested for distributing Falun Gong fliers and was imprisoned in the Chongqing Chabao Women's Forced Labour Camp.
  • Practitioners Are Injected and Force-Fed Mind Altering Drugs Against Their Will in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp Training Unit

    Practitioners held in the Training Unit of the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp have all remained steadfast in their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and refuse to be "reformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. To our knowledge, the camp guards force-feed every practitioner held here with unknown drugs that affect their central nervous systems. The symptoms are: sluggishness, drowsiness, a confused state of mind, and feeling depressed. Some practitioners refuse to take the drugs, but the guards order those who monitor them to force-feed them the drugs. The guards also put the drugs in the practitioners' food or dissolve them into their drinking water, so the practitioners ingest the drugs without knowing it. As a result, they are unable to speak or think normally.
  • Account of Torture Suffered by Ms. Xia Jinyu from Qinghuangdao City of Hebei Province

    Ms. Xia Jinyu is a fifty-seven year-old practitioner. Ms. Xia was held in detention for forty days after taking care of a Falun Gong practitioner on July 26th, 2001. She recounts her experience in detention: "An officer struck me, saying that what he did was good for me. I questioned them as to how that could possibly be good for me. Even though I was under arrest, I wouldn't have allowed others to suffer such torture. Then, that officer stood up and hit me again. The left side of my face was bleeding; the right side was stained with blood. After midnight, they took me to a room infested with mosquitoes and handcuffed me to a metal stool."
  • Ms. Li Yunfang from Wuhan City Persecuted Relentlessly

    In November, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. I was arrested and detained in the Erzhigou Detention Centre for 15 days and forced to perform labour for more than 14 hours daily. In December, 2001, I went to Beijing again with other practitioners. We hoped to petition and deliver letters for the right to practise Falun Gong to the Beijing Petition Office. Police took me to the Dongxihu Detention Centre for another 30 days and tortured me. Then they took me to a brainwashing centre. Three people that had renounced Falun Gong beat me and threw me on the ground. My back was injured and was sore for two weeks. They also burned my fingers with a cigarette butt.
  • Disabled Practitioner Ms. Gao Qiying Dies in Custody

    On June 12th, 2008, a few dozen officers stormed into practitioner Ms. Gao Qiying's home, took her computer and printer and detained her in the Nanbai Town Detention Centre, where she was tortured until she was in critical condition and hospitalised. The doctor had her tied up on a bed and was giving her intravenous injections. She was sentenced to prison from October to November 2008, and then transferred to the Yangai prison. Her family visited her at the end of January 2010 and she did not look ill, but Ms. Gao told them the prison administration forced her to take unknown drugs, which caused her to lose feeling in her feet. On February 11th, Ms. Gao was taken to the Guiyang City Police Hospital and died on February 12th.
  • Three Older Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Xu Baiyi died at the age of 55, on January 29th, 2010. He was tortured in the Jilin Province Prison since 2002. Two years ago he became paralysed from the abuse. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, Mr. Xu went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. He was subsequently arrested many times and he eventually lost his business and his family. When Mr. Xu was imprisoned in 2000 at the Huanxiling Forced Labour Camp in Jilin City, Jilin Province, he was injected with unknown drugs. As a result, his teeth were damaged and he had difficulty eating.
  • Chinese Communist Party Panics Over a Few Words of Gratitude in Doctoral Thesis

    Mr. Yu Yaou is a doctoral candidate at the Southern China Botanical Garden of the Guangzhou Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is about to graduate. In his doctoral thesis, he wrote a few words to express his gratitude towards Falun Gong, "First, I would like to thank Falun Gong. Without the support that I got from this righteous belief, I wouldn't have been able to finish my thesis." Because of these few words, he recently met with much difficulty in his graduation process. He was originally supposed to defend his thesis on February 4th, 2010, but the date was cancelled. Mr. Yu was asked to remove the words mentioning Falun Gong from his thesis. He was not allowed to explain the facts of Falun Gong with his own experience during the defence. Meanwhile, Chinese Communist Party officials threatened several times that they would dismiss or arrest him.
  • Two Practitioners from Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province Missing

    Yandu County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents arrested Ms. Sun Xiufeng, before March 3rd, 2000, and took her into custody at a detention centre for over 20 days before releasing her. On the morning of April 3rd, 2000 she was working in the field, but went missing around noon. No further information about her has been received so far. She was 39 years old that year.
  • Practitioner Guan Suming and Others Detained in Beijing

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guan Suming was arrested in Beijing by the police five months ago. After being moved around many times, she is currently detained at the 501 Detention Centre, Beijing. Her family has not been allowed to visit her. Ms. Zhang Ruifeng, about 60 years old, lived in Shandong Province. On October 1st, 2009, while visiting her son in Beijing, she was arrested by police and sentenced to two years of forced labour at the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp, where she is being subjected to brutal persecution.
  • A Child's Cry for Help: "Please Save My Mum!"

    On December 22nd, 2009, at 6:50 in the morning, I opened the door to go to school. A group of people rushed in, and without saying anything, they began to madly take all our Falun Gong materials. They took away many Falun Gong books, two computers (one of which was my dad's work computer), a printer, a cassette recorder, and some CDs and cassettes. After they made a huge mess in my home, they arrested my entire family and took us to Dadong Police Station. Later, they took my mum to Baifang Detention Centre in Dandong City, where she is to this day, still being tortured.
  • Ms. Li Yanchun Sentenced to Ten Years In Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Yanchun was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Lianshan District Court in Huludao on November 18th, 2008. Ms. Li's family hired attorney Zhai Yihe to defend her, and Mr. Zhai entered a plea of not guilty. In a highly irregular move, the judge sentenced Ms. Li while the court was in recess. Ms. Li appealed to the Huludao Intermediate Court but the judge, under pressure from the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), upheld the original sentence. This was not the first time that Ms. Li has been persecuted for her belief in Falun Gong.
  • Ms. Li Lanying, Sentenced to Four Years of Imprisonment, Now in Heijongjiang Province Women's Prison

    Ms. Li Lanying, a 54-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, is from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. After she was sentenced to four years in prison, she appealed twice without success and is currently detained at Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. Her husband, Gao Guang'en, who had been arrested many times and was sent to a labour camp for practising Falun Gong, passed away in January 2006.
  • Former Tsinghua University Student Ms. Liu Zhimei Sustains Nervous Breakdown From Injections of Unnecessary and Harmful Drugs

    Ms. Liu Zhimei was admitted to the Chemical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University in 1997 and was expelled in March 2001 for practising Falun Gong. She was subsequently arrested in Beijing and sentenced to 12 years of incarceration and tortured at the Shandong Province Women's Prison. Right before she left the prison in November 2008, prison officials injected her with a harmful cocktail of narcotics and anti-psychotic drugs. The effect of the drugs began to show on the third day after her returning home. She suffered a sudden nervous breakdown, and the symptoms became worse and worse. She started talking nonsense and had involuntary body movements, along with memory loss. Though this happened more than a year ago, her condition has not improved.
  • Woman Describes Being Beaten and Abused for Practising Falun Gong

    My name is Pei Fei and I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin City, Jilin Province. On April 29th, 2009, my mother, also a practitioner, and I went to the Sixth Team in Yongqing to distribute Falun Gong materials. We were reported to the authorities by a young woman and were arrested by several government officials dressed in black, some of whom were police officers. Our materials were confiscated, and I was savagely beaten. They also attempted to send me to Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City.