Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Harbin Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Lihua Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
2011-04-23
Mrs. Zhang Lihua is a Falun Gong practitioner from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. On March 24th, she was sentenced to a six-year prison term. Zhang Lihua is currently appealing to the upper-level court, indicating that citizens' freedoms of religion and belief are protected by the Constitution. She maintains her innocence and believes she was charged only because she believes in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She is requesting an unconditional release. She is also requesting compensation according to the State Compensation Law so that her legitimate rights and interests will be reinstated. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Xuemei Persecuted by Officials from Dandong City Women and Children's Hospital
2011-04-23Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xuemei was a nurse. After Falun Gong was suppressed by the Communist regime in 1999, the head of the hospital fired Ms. Wang Xuemei and stopped paying her basic wages. As a result, Ms. Wang and her daughter have been placed under severe financial hardship. In 2000, Ms. Wang was detained in a mental institution with the most severely disabled mental patients. Zhao Chunlin, a doctor, shouted at Ms. Wang, “I discussed your situation with Party official Fan Li. We will give you medication today.” She immediately questioned him, “I am not ill, I am a normal person, what right do you have to administer medication?” -
Ms. Wang Fang Persecuted to Death After Surviving Brutal Persecution in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp
2011-04-22Ms. Wang Fang survived the brutal persecution which she was subjected to on June 20th, 2001, at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She was released from the labour camp after two years of detention, arrested again, and held in the Mudanjiang City Detention Centre. On June 14th, 2002, she as transferred to the Hailin City Detention Centre. On September 8th, 2002, she was sent to the Harbin City Women's Prison where she suffered severe torture and became emaciated. Two months after being released from prison she passed away at the age of 46, on September 24th, 2004. -
Wuhan City Police Pull Out 76-year-old Lady's Hair
2011-04-22Ms. Liu Zhulan, 76, is from Wuhan City. At the end of March she went to the forced labour camp to pick up her daughter, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Weifang, and bring her home. Ms. Liu was brutally beaten by Hanjiadun Police Station officers, who pulled out a lot of her hair. Ms. Yang Weifang was sentenced to one year in a detention centre for practising Falun Gong. -
Teacher Ms. Gao Shuying from Heilongjiang Province Has Repeatedly Suffered Persecution
2011-04-22Gao Shuying is an English teacher at the No. 3 Middle School of Tahe County. During the past ten years, because of practising Falun Gong and following the principle of Truth- Compassion- Forbearance, she has been arrested by local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staff members. Several times, she was detained at the Tahe Detention Centre, Beian Mental Hospital, Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp of Qiqihar city and suffered torture and brutal persecution. She was force-fed, forced to work, beaten up, kept in a cold environment, and suffered other abuses. Because of her situation, her mother and children also suffered countless difficulties during the past ten years. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Pan Xujun Brutally Persecuted in Hongzehu Prison in Jiangsu Province
2011-04-22Falun Gong practitioner Pan Xujun was an English teacher at the Junior High School in Pei County. He was arrested in September 2002 and sentenced to nine years of imprisonment by the Pei County Court. He suffered brutal persecution at Hongzehu Prison in Jiangsu Province. He was deprived of sleep, police used a syringe to inject water into his nostrils and eyes, many of his bodily functions were damaged and he became severely disabled. His cervical vertebra and lumbar were deformed and he was extremely weak. Mr. Pan was released in November 2010. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Chen Shiming from Meishan City, Sichuan Province, Died as a Result of Torture
2011-04-21Practitioner Mr. Chen Shiming from Meishan City, Sichuan Province, died on April 10th, 2011 as a result of torture. He had repeatedly been arrested and tortured before he passed away. In July 2010, Mr. Chen was arrested and sent to a forced brainwashing centre where he was injected with unknown drugs that caused memory loss and left him dependent on others to care for him. -
Lu Guiqin Driven Insane by Persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2011-04-21Practitioner Ms. Lu Guiqin was arrested and taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City on December 28th, 2010. Her family was notified on March 17th, nearly three months after her arrest, that Ms. Lu had become insane and was unable to recognise people. The guards extorted 3,000 yuan from the family before they let them take her home. She has still yet to recover. Ms. Lu Guiqin and Ms. Liu Guiping were arrested by police while they were explaining the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong on the afternoon of December 18th, 2010. -
Former Industrial and Commercial Bank Employee Persecuted Repeatedly
2011-04-21Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Xiongbin was arrested and detained soon after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong. He was sentenced on two separate occasions to three years of forced labour, and additionally, three years of imprisonment. Mr. Cao was beaten and tortured during his imprisonment. He was physically weakened, often resulting in life-threatening conditions. He continues to suffer from pain in his chest, and sometimes experiences nightmares. -
Husband and Wife Arrested Repeatedly and Subjected to Persecution
2011-04-21Falun Gong practitioner husband and wife An Fengbo and Han Shuang were arrested by police on March 16th. They are currently detained in Jilin City Detention Centre. Since 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began, An Fengbo has been arrested and detained several times, and he has been sent to forced labour camp twice. In the labour camp he was severely persecuted for refusing to give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He suffered intense physical punishments including beatings, wearing handcuffs and shackles, his limbs tied together, tied to a metal chair, and punitive force-feeding. He has been severely tortured physically and mentally. -
Guards in Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp Instigated Criminals to Viciously Assault Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Song Shufu
2011-04-20Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Song Shufu was sentenced to three years of forced labour in May 2008. While incarcerated in Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp he was brutally beaten by other prisoners. Mr. Song, in his 40s, had only two teeth when he was released. He recounts: "Because I refused to write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, the guards ordered a prisoner to beat me. He used a table tennis paddle to slap my face. A guard woke up all the prisoners who were sleeping and ordered six or seven of them to take turns beating me. Later they stripped me and used my shirt to tie me to the pole between the upper and lower bunks and continued beating me." -
Looking Back Ten Years -- Eyewitness Account of the Notorious "319 Incident" – Several Days of Particularly Brutal Persecution in Dalian Forced Labour Camp
2011-04-20Ten years ago, on March 19th, 2001, the officials and guards at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp initiated a brutal mass persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who were detained there. It was called the “319 Incident” by local practitioners. I was one of them. "Body Folding" is a torture that is often used by the guards to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioner’s upper body and legs are forced to form a 90-degree angle; his legs are kept straight and his head points downward. His arms are raised high from behind his back to the maximum extent. Staying in this posture even a very short time leads to profuse sweating. The guards then brought out the electric batons to shock us. My hands were shocked numerous times. -
Disabled Man Hu Shihan and His Wife Ruthlessly Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
2011-04-20Mr. Hu Shihan suffered polio as a child resulting in disabled lower legs. He and his wife, Cai Xifeng, began practising Falun Gong in 1998. Since the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, they suffered various persecution at the hands of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs, such as being exposed to freezing weather; subjected to brutal beating, torture, and armed siege; brainwashing; and pressure to break up their marriage. They are still under surveillance and the local police and resident committee staff constantly harass and threaten them. In 2001, while Mr. Hu Shihan suffered in the detention centre, his wife also suffered brutal persecution both mentally and physically. While in the detention centre, she was hung by her hands from a steel door frame with heavy metal chains. She was forced to stand for over 24 hours and her feet were severely swollen. -
Outstanding Technician, Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Jianping Arrested; Hangzhou City 610 Office Agents Prevent Lawyers' Involvement
2011-04-20Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jianping is the deputy general manager of the Production Technology Department in the Southern Cement Company, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. He was arrested along with his colleague, Mr. Wei Xiang, on November 28th, 2010, by police The two practitioners have been held in custody for four months. During this time, 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) have forbidden their family members from visiting them, have created difficulties for and threatened relatives, and have not allowed lawyers to meet with the two men, claiming that the case is "secret-related." -
Forty-Three Year-Old Engineer from Chengdu City Dies After Repeated Detention and Torture
2011-04-19From 2005 to 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Yunhong was held in the Chengdu City Xinjin Brainwashing Centre, Chengdu City Detention Centre and Wumaping Prison. As a result of the mistreatment he endured in Wumaping Prison, he suffered from symptoms of ascites and cirrhosis and was in critical condition five times. He suffered brutal torture during detention and was on the verge of death a few times. He was released when term expired in the beginning of 2009, but the doctor told his family that he would not likely live much longer. On March 8th, 2011, Mr. Jiang passed away at the age of 43.
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