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• Head of 610 Office Li Qingshan Has Persecuted Three Falun Gong Practitioners to the Point of Mental Breakdown

  2011-12-05
  Li Qingshan is the head of the Lincheng County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Hebei Province. Li Qingshan has arrested at least 40 Falun Gong practitioners and has personally tortured practitioners. Three young practitioners have suffered mental breakdowns and ongoing mental impairment under persecution by Li Qingshan. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Zhang was arrested while she was distributing flyers about the persecution of Falun Gong and sent to the Xingtai Brainwashing Centre. She was deprived of sleep and threatened by the brainwashing staff day after day. In the end, Ms. Zhang could not take the tremendous pressure, and she renounced her belief in Falun Gong.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners from Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province Arrested

  2011-12-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Alian, in her 30s, was arrested at work on November 2nd, and taken to the Jinchengwan Brainwashing Centre. Prior to her arrest, 73-year-old Ms. Ge Xiuying was arrested and tortured during interrogation. Ms. Ge Xiuying's daughter, Ms. Dai Lijuan, was arrested twice and held in a mental hospital, where she was injected with unknown drugs. She was arrested again in 2003, and severely beaten by the police to the point of being in critical condition. She was paralysed due to the severe abuse, and died on March 28th, 2011.
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• Zhaoyuan City Policemen Arrest Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhong Zhaofen to Meet Forced Labour Quota

  2011-12-04
  On November 8th, three officers from the Zhaoyuan City Domestic Security Division broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhong Zhaofen's home and took her to the Lingnan Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Zhong's family went to the brainwashing centre to request her release. Officer Song Shaochang said, “We were given a quota of four forced labour sentences from our superiors. Zhong is just in time to be one of them.” Song extorted 4,000 yuan from Ms. Zhong's family, but Ms. Zhong has not been released.
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• Mr. Zheng Fengxiang from Jilin Province Physically Abused and Tortured in Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province

  2011-12-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Fengxiang was arrested on July 3rd, 2007 by officers from the Changjiang Road Police Station. He was sentenced to four and a half years of imprisonment in November 2008. During his imprisonment at Gongzhuling Prison, Mr. Zheng was subjected to various methods of torture. In early 2010, he was seriously mistreated and contracted tuberculosis. As a result, at one point he was in critical condition and was taken to the prison clinic.
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• 200 Practitioners Still Being Held in Shandong Province Second Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2011-12-04
  The Shandong Province Second Women's Forced Labour Camp is located in Wangcun Town in the Zichuan District, Zibo City. More than 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been incarcerated there over the past 12 years. As of October 2011, there are 400 inmates, half of them Falun Gong practitioners. Guards instruct former practitioners to slander Falun Gong in front of practitioners as a way to “transform” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] them. They force practitioners to watch videos and read books that slander Falun Gong. They badmouth practitioners' righteous behaviour absolutely, and word by word, sentence by sentence slander Falun Gong's teaching.
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• Excellent Employee at Thomson Reuters Limited Detained for Practising Falun Gong

  2011-12-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Feng Qingdong was arrested at his residence on October 23rd, by police. He has been held for over a month. His supervisors want him to go back to work and his mother wants him to return home. Mr. Feng started practising Falun Gong because he suffered from prolonged headaches. Shortly after he started the practice, his headaches disappeared. He is nice to others and works hard. He is very well liked in his company. Nonetheless, because he practises Falun Gong he was arrested and taken to the Changping Detention Centre.
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• Former Xinjiang University Instructor Held in Prison for Seven Years

  2011-12-03
  Ms. Wei Shuyan and Ms. Li Xianghong are being detained and brutally persecuted in the Xinjiang Women's Prison. Ms. Li Xianghong, about 50, has been detained in the Xinjiang Women's Prison for about seven years because she refuses to give up her belief in Falun Gong. Ms. Wei Shuyan is about 40 years old. She has been detained in the Xinjiang Women's Prison for about six years. In April 2010, her term was extended for three years because she has refused to give up her belief.
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• Mr. Song Guobin Arrested While Visiting a Friend

  2011-12-03
  On the evening of October 7th, Mr. Song Guobin went to visit his friend, who was also a practitioner. When Mr. Song arrived at his friend's home, police officers were there, ransacking the place. The officers arrested Mr. Song, as well as his friend. Around 11:00 p.m. that night, the officers took Mr. Song's house key and went to his home. They ransacked his home as well and confiscated a computer, cash, and other personal belongings. On October 18th or 19th, Mr. Song's family was notified that they needed to send a change of clothes to Mr. Song, who was being held at the Baoding Detention Centre.
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• Jianshui County Police Attempted to Send a Retired Physician to Prison

  2011-12-03
  Ms. Li Yaping, in her 60s, is a retired physician from the Jianshui County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Jianshui County police recently attempted to send her to prison. Ms. Li's family kept them from taking her away. However, the officers haven't given up and are still trying to arrest her. In November 2009, Ms. Li was arrested by police while she was speaking with people about Falun Gong. The officers ransacked her home and confiscated a computer, printer, Falun Gong books, and other personal belongings. On May 17th, 2010, Ms. Li was sentenced to four years in prison and taken to the Yunnan Province No. 2 Women's Prison.
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• Harbin and Shuangcheng Police Arrest Dozens of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2011-12-02
  On November 13th, the Shuangcheng Domestic Security Division of Heilongjiang Province colluded with Harbin Police Department to arrest a large group of Falun Gong practitioners. It was reported that the arrested practitioners were detained in the Shuangcheng Detention Centre and Harbin Second Detention Centre. Seven male practitioners and 13 female practitioners are currently being detained in the Shuangcheng Detention Centre. The homes of three practitioners were ransacked. Mr. Luo's home was ransacked first and his teenage son was also taken away. It is winter in northeast China. Mr. Luo's son was wearing only underclothes when he was taken away.
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• Mr. Wang Baohong's Personal Account of Torture at Handan Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province

  2011-12-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Baohong was sentenced to forced labour in 2007 and was subjected to brutal torture and brainwashing at the Handan Forced Labour Camp. Here is Mr. Wang's personal account of the torture he experienced, "The guards gave criminal inmates the authority to watch over practitioners. and they could beat, verbally abuse, or punish the practitioners at random. The method they used in attempting to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong was to talk to practitioners in turn and pretend to show concern for them in order to collect information about them. They even “studied” Falun Gong literature with the practitioners. If a practitioner didn't agree with their distorted “understanding” of the Falun Gong teachings, they began to punish and torture them."
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• Sixteen-Year-Old Middle School Female Student Imprisoned Again

  2011-12-02
  In 2000, Zhang Xiaoling rode her bicycle to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested. Zhang Xiaoling was detained at the Meihua Drug Rehabilitation Centre for 25 days. She was brutally beaten police. Both of her legs turned black and blue and were badly swollen. Eleven years later, Zhang Xiaoling was sentenced to two years of forced labour for practising Falun Gong at the Chatou Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou City, which is notorious for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Attempt to Arrest Ms. Zhao Mei Fails

  2011-12-02
  Because of her belief in Falun Gong, Ms. Zhao was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police four times. On May 22nd, 2009, the court sentenced Ms. Zhao to one year in a forced labour camp. The police tried to send her to the labour camp many times, but the camp refused to accept her because of her physical condition. She has three steel bars in her legs and has difficulty in walking. Finally, her family brought her home. On May 18th, 2011, police arrested Ms. Zhao. She was detained in the Songzi Detention Centre for more than one month. On November 8th, police tried but failed to take away Ms. Zhao.
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• Ms. Chen Fengmin from Jiamusi Seized from Home, Whereabouts Unknown

  2011-12-01
  Around 7:00 a.m. on October 18th, four unidentified people knocked on Ms. Chen Fengmin's door and said that they had come to collect for the water bill. When she opened the door, they seized her and forced her into a van. Then they quickly drove away with Ms. Chen crying out for help. Her current whereabouts remains unknown. Ms. Chen's son and mother-in-law went to see the staff of the residential committee. A staff member said, “I cannot tell you where she is because it will affect her 'transformation [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]'”
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• Fujian Public Security Departments Hinder Attorney Trying to Represent Mr. Zuo Fusheng

  2011-12-01
  The Fujian 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Politics and Law Committee, the police department and Procuratorate in the Cangshan District put Mr. Zuo Fusheng on trial in February 2011. The Cangshan Court has recently made things difficult for Mr. Zuo's attorney and prevented him from reading the case documents or visiting his client. Mr. Zuo was taken away by police on January 19th, 2011. The police secretly issued an arrest warrant on February 25th and did not inform Mr. Zuo's family. After their attorney found out, he filed a complaint with the Cangshan Procuratorate and requested that he supervise and correct the violation committed by the police. However, the Cangshan Procuratorate has yet to deal with it.
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