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Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Chunxiang from Ningde City in Fujian Province Persecuted to Death
2011-01-16
On September 22nd, 2009, Ms. Li Chunxiang was arrested at her home and brutally beaten by police. Ms. Li was forced to perform manual labour during her imprisonment in Ningde City Detention Centre. A guard named struck Ms. Li in the head with such force that she sustained a concussion and was paralysed as a result. She lay in bed and was unable to move at all. On November 20th, Ms. Li was carried out of the detention centre on a stretcher, paralysed. At home, police threatened her on the phone by saying that she would be imprisoned in the forced labour camp if she practised Falun Gong again. Ms. Li’s condition deteriorated sharply due to the stress. On November 22nd, 2010, she died in Jiaxing Armed Police Hospital in Shanghai. -
Several Employees of Chengdu Computer City Detained for Eighteen Months
2011-01-16Seven Falun Gong practitioners, employed at the company Chengdu Computer City, were arrested by police in July 2009 and are still detained. Their case has been pushed back and forth between the court and police at least twice because of insufficient evidence. Attorneys of the practitioners said the process severely violates the law. The litigants have been detained for an unreasonable length of time according to the criminal law article 74 and article 75. Thus, Wuhou District Court should release the seven litigants. -
Chinese Communist Party Personnel from Qinglong County, Hebei Province, Order the Arrests of Practitioners
2011-01-16Li Xuemin, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary of Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Qingdao City, Hebei Province, ordered the government offices of different levels to arrest more than ten practitioners and force them to undergo brainwashing. Police went to Mr. Chen Youtian's home and ransacked it on December 13th. They confiscated many of Mr. Chen's personal belongings, including a computer, a printer, a mobile phone, DVD discs, and a personal bank book that totalled over sixty thousand yuan. They also arrested his wife, Ms. Guo Kunlan. Mr. Chen was not home at the time and has now been forced into homelessness to avoid further persecution. -
The Persecution of Ms. Hou Guimin, from Shanhaiguan Shipyard in Hebei Province, Prior to Her Death
2011-01-15Ms. Hou Guimin had practised Falun Gong since 1997, and everyone in the company knew that she was a good person. The general manager once said, “If everyone practised Falun Gong, it would be easy for me to run this company!” On July 25th, 2001, police besieged her home and began battering down the door. Suddenly and unexpectedly faced with such a terrifying situation, she felt that she had no other choice but to try and escape through the window. Unfortunately, she fell from the building and lost her life. She was only 44 years old. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Lin Wenwei in Critical Condition After Being Tortured
2011-01-15In early November 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lin Wenwei was tortured at Fuqing Prison until he was in critical condition. Guards took him to Fuzhou Hospital and notified his family only after his condition failed to improve. Mr. Lin's sister and her husband went to Fuzhou Hospital and found that his entire body was black and blue. They asked the hospital officials for his release, so that they could take him back to Xiamen City for treatment. Mr. Lin was then brought to the Haichang Number 2 Hospital in Xiamen by ambulance. After a few days of treatment, Mr. Lin regained consciousness, but he couldn't think or speak clearly, nor could he remember the details of his ordeal at Fuqing Prison. His internal organs were damaged and he showed symptoms of brain atrophy. -
Family Loses Contact with Imprisoned Mr. Cao Dong
2011-01-15Mr. Cao Dong has been detained at Tianshui Prison in Gansu Province. His family has not heard from him by phone or through mail since August 2010. They mailed him money to pay for daily necessities at the prison in August, September, and October of 2010, but have not been able to confirm that he received it. They called the prison in November and were told by Liu, the section chief in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, that Mr. Cao “is doing well and will be released soon.” No details about Mr. Cao's current condition were provided. In his effort to rescue his imprisoned wife, Ms. Yang Xiaojing, Mr. Cao met with the vice president of the European Parliament, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, on May 21st, 2006. Police arrested him while he was on his way home after the meeting. -
The Criminal Acts of Tan Xinfeng, Deputy Secretary of the Huaxilou Administrative Office
2011-01-15Tan Xinfeng is currently the Deputy Secretary of the Huaxilou Administrative Office in the Qiaocheng District, Haozhou City, Anhui Province. Tan had a reputation for being a local bully, so he was recruited to be a hired thug for the Huaxilou Administrative Office. Tan began his career by actively participating in the persecution of Falun Gong. Tan participated in the following and harassing of Falun Gong practitioners. He also assisted in arresting practitioners from their homes and putting them in brainwashing centres and forced labour camps. Tan arrested one practitioner and put her in prison, knowing that the practitioner's husband was in a long-term comatose state and that she had a child who was still in school, which left the woman's family in a dire situation. -
Eleven Years of Persecution Leaves a Family of Five with Two Dead and Two Imprisoned
2011-01-14Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Peng Liang and Mr. Zhang Jingzhou were arrested in the early morning hours of December 13th. Mr. Peng Liang had a family of five who were all Falun Gong practitioners. During the eleven-year-long persecution, all five members of the family have been subjected to arrests, home ransacking, detention, brainwashing, and forced labour terms. Two of them have died as a result of the persecution, and one has suffered a mental breakdown. -
Five Practitioners Detained in Wuhan City Women's Labour Camp
2011-01-14Five practitioners are currently detained in Division 5 and Division 6 of the Wuhan City Women's Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Wang Yujie, 23, was arrested by police in March 2010. She was sentenced to one year of forced labour. Ms. Wang was brutally tortured and was forced to remain standing for long periods of time. She was only allowed to sleep between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. -
Persecution Carried Out by Guard Yin Guijuan at Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia
2011-01-14Yin Guijuan, guard at the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp, frequently beats Falun Gong practitioners with electric batons, handcuffs them and hangs them up for long periods of time. She has instigated drug-addict inmates to beat practitioners. She has openly and directly told drug addicts and prostitute inmates that their sentences can be reduced if they beat practitioners. The harder they beat them, the more their sentences can be reduced. -
Hebei Forced Labour Camp Threatens to Extend Terms to Force Practitioners to Watch Chinese Central TV (CCTV)
2011-01-14In June 2010, Wang Weiwei, division head at Hebei Women's Forced Labour Camp, instructed inmates to sexually abuse Falun Gong practitioner Hu Miaomiao. The sexual abuse inflicted on Ms. Hu caused tremendous suffering, both physically and psychologically. In October 2010, Hebei Women's Forced Labour Camp commenced a new wave of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Those practitioners who remained steadfast in their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance were not allowed to see their family members or make phone calls, and were forced to watch Chinese Central TV (CCTV) news reports every night. -
Please Rescue My Wife and Daughter
2011-01-13I am all alone at home, a place that used to be warm and full of laughter. My dear wife and daughter, are you still OK? On December 13th, my wife and daughter visited relatives. I lost contact with them at noon. A couple days later I got the heartbreaking news that they had been arrested by police and imprisoned at the Huachuan County Detention Centre. Family members, friends, and I went to the Huachuan County Police Department on December 16th. Officers refused to answer our questions and refused to let us visit. I am thinking about my family and worrying about them every second. I feel great pain and sorrow whenever I think about their suffering in the detention centre. -
Ms. Song Guilan Crippled as a Result of Persecution, Her Family Harassed
2011-01-13Ms. Song Guilan, a Falun Gong practitioner from the countryside of Heilongjiang Province, has become crippled as a result of persecution. She recounts: "During an interrogation, they (guards) grabbed my hair and rammed my head into a wall. I was dizzy and my head was buzzing. There were big lumps on my head and I lost consciousness. They notified my family to come get me and take me to the hospital when they realised that I was near death. At the time, I had no feeling in my legs. I was paralysed and unable to walk." After her release, Ms. Song was forced to become homeless to avoid harassment and threats from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. Her family was also harassed and threatened. -
Nine Falun Gong Practitioners from Mancheng, Hebei Province Arrested in One Day
2011-01-13On August 16th, 2010, the Mancheng County 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), police station, and the Domestic Security Bureau ransacked nine Falun Gong practitioners’ houses and arrested them. While practitioner Ms. Zhao Zhiyun was taking care of her nephew’s child on August 16th, several policemen broke into her house, saying that they wanted to ask her something at the police station. She said she had to watch the baby and they could ask her in her house instead of the police station. Those policemen tried to take her by force, and she lost consciousness in the process. They then began to ransack her house with no legal documents. -
Practitioner Huang Futang in Zibo, Shandong Province Files Charges Against Policemen
2011-01-13Falun Gong practitioner Huang Futang was arrested in June, 2009 by local police, and was then tortured until he gave a forced confession. Huang Futang was then sentenced to a forced labour camp for over one and a half years, and was sent to Shandong Forced Labour Camp in Zhangqiu on July 4th, 2009. This is the second time that Mr. Huang was sent to a forced labour camp. He was once detained in Qiugu Forced Labour Camp in Boshan for three and a half years. He has filed a lawsuit against the forced labour camp.
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