Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • A Female Entrepreneur and Her Three Family Members Were Arrested

    Ms. Wang Haihong, 43, a people's representative of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and an entrepreneur, was arrested. In the months leading up to the Asian Games, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) escalated the persecution in the name of increasing security. On the evening of August 21st, 2010, Ms. Wang's three apartments at Guangzhou and one company were ransacked by policemen from the Domestic Security Division of the Tainhe Police Department branch office at Guangzhou. Her younger sister Ms. Wang Haiying was arrested and her home in Luoyang was ransacked by Luoyang 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). Ms. Wang's youngest brother was sent to a forced labour camp for a one-year-and-nine-month term.
  • Ms. Feng Angui from Qijiang County, Chongqing City, Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

    When Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Feng Angui went shopping on May 10th, 2010 police arrested her. Later, other police officers ransacked her house. While doing so, they arrested her husband, Mr. Li Zongyue, and took him to the Qijiang County Detention Centre. He was later released. The Qijiang County Court secretly tried Ms. Feng in August 2010 without informing her family. On December 13th, during another court proceeding, she was sentenced to three years in prison.
  • Police from Huachuan County, Heilongjiang Province, Frame Innocent Woman

    On December 13th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Liu Fengping and her daughter, Ms. Wang Dan. The two had gone to visit their relatives in Hengtoushan Town. The police tried to have Ms. Wang sentenced to a jail term. They fabricated evidence and forced her colleagues to perjure themselves in their testimonies. Ms. Wang Dan has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because of her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. While she was in high school, her mother was detained twice and the police constantly went to her school to harass her. The mental pressure and financial problems created by her mother’s detention forced Wang Dan to discontinue her high school education so that she could support herself.
  • An Excellent Tangshan Steel Company Employee Arrested

    On November 24th, 2010, Mr. Tang Tieyong was arrested by police and taken to the Second Detention Centre solely because he had viewed the Clearwisdom website (a Falun Gong website). His home was also ransacked. In 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong for the third time. Police identified him while he was on the train and detained him in Tangshan Brainwashing Centre. Mr. Tang was not released until authorities had extorted 6000 yuan from his family.
  • Several Employees of Chengdu Computer City Detained for Eighteen Months

    Seven 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

    Li 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.
  • Five Practitioners Detained in Wuhan City Women's Labour Camp

    Five 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

    Yin 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)

    In 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

    I 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

    Ms. 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

    On 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

    Falun 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.
  • Witnessing Torture at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning Province. I was taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province by the Dalian Domestic Security Division on September 20th, 2007. In that place, I witnessed the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Regardless of the time, day or night, I could hear practitioners' pitiful screams as they were being tortured. Guards used any imaginable torture methods and brainwashed practitioners viciously in an effort to have practitioners renounce their belief.
  • Lawyers Enter Not-Guilty Plea for Ms. Yang Jian from Tianjin

    Wuqing District court officials held a hearing for Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Jian on October 30th, 2010. Beijing lawyers Mr. Jin Guanghong and Mr. Xie Yanyi entered a not-guilty plea on her behalf. They pointed out that practising Falun Gong is not illegal in China, therefore Ms. Yang had committed no crime. The four-hour defence impressed those who observed the procedures.