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  • Mother and Daughter Repeatedly Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Because of Their Belief in Falun Gong

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Cai Jinrong and her daughter, Liang Yinling have during the past 11 years of ruthless persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), been repeatedly arrested and harassed. Their home was ransacked, they were put in brainwashing facilities, and were detained in forced labour camps where they were subjected to mental and physical tortures. Ms. Cai, who is 61 years old, was once tied up on a tiger bench for 16 days. They have now been forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Reproduced the "Tiananmen Self-Immolation" Video to Brainwash Practitioners

    In July and August, the CCP 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, set up brainwashing centres in Luzhou's Nasi District and Gulan County. They repackaged old propaganda materials--whose flaws have already been exposed--to try and force arrested Falun Gong practitioners to "study" them. As one example, they have used the incident of "Fu Yibin killing his wife." When Fu Yibin appeared on television, he was confused, contradicted himself, and kept shaking. It was later revealed that he was not a practitioner and was mentally ill. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used him to make Falun Gong practitioners look bad, but he was discovered to be a fraud.
  • Kindergarten Teacher Ms. Wei Xingzhi Detained in Wuhan Women's Prison

    Ms. Wei Xingzhi was arrested on September 23rd, 2009, when agents from the Wuhan City Police Department, Wuhan 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), and the Shuiguohu Police Station pried open the door to her home and ransacked it. Ms. Wei was taken to the Wuhan City No. 1 Detention Centre. She was transferred to Wuhan Women's Prison in August 2010. Her elderly mother, who is in her 80's and requires assistance, has been left uncared for at home. Because she refused to give up practising Falun Gong, Ms. Wei's workplace terminated her employment and withheld her salary for eight years. Ms. Wei has also been subjected to forced labour and brainwashing at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party for her belief in Falun Gong.
  • Mr. Liu Yuanbo and Ms. Yu Lancun from Chenxi County, Hunan Province Arrested

    Chenxi County 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) arrested Mr. Liu Yuanbo on November 3rd, and took him to the Huaihua City Brainwashing Centre. Mr. Liu Yuanbo, 36, is a welding mechanic. He has practised Falun Gong for more than ten years. Since the onset of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, he has been arrested and subjected to beatings many times.
  • Ms. Tan Kaiqing from Guangzhou Arrested

    Ms Tan Kaiqing was arrested on November 5th, 2010. Her family was told she had been taken to the Xihuajie Police Station, but an officer told them she had been sent to the Henan District Police Department. According to her family, Ms. Tan has practised Falun Gong for more than ten years. She works in a bank in Guangdong Province and is publicly regarded as a good worker and an honest person. On November 5th, while looking at different online sites at home, she was arrested and taken away. Her whereabouts are still unknown.
  • Doctor Pang Near Death after Imprisonment

    In the Wulidun Area of the Hanyang District in Wuhan, Hubei Province, many people remember Ms. Pang Lijuan as a good medical doctor and a nice person. However, when Dr. Pang had to be carried home after three years of incarceration, she had been reduced to nothing but skin and bones. Ms. Pang is still in tremendous pain every day. She has stabbing, burning pains in her back. She is so stiff that she cannot bend over. Three years of imprisonment in Wuhan Women's Prison damaged her health significantly. She suspects that the prison guards poisoned her. Several guards tried to talk her into renouncing her belief in Falun Gong. Frustrated by their inability to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] her, the guards soon began to torture her.
  • Leukaemia Survivor Arrested Three Times within a Year

    Ms. Sun Guiling recovered from leukaemia since practising Falun Gong. From November 2009 to October 2010, she was arrested three times for her belief in Falun Gong. On May 10th, 2010, officer Wang Wenxiang of the Dalianwan Police Station saw people reading Falun Gong printouts. Assuming that they got them from Ms. Sun, he went to her home and arrested her. He seized her Falun Gong books, materials, and her two mobile phones. They took her to the Fushun Brainwashing Centre in the afternoon without informing her family. Ms. Sun went on a hunger strike. At the same time, her family kept seeking her whereabouts and appealing for her release. They finally located her, and she was released on October 27th.
  • The Persecution of Three Female Practitioners in Xintian County, Hunan Province

    Ms. Chen Juxiu, Ms. Lai Tumei, and Ms. Gu Jiuju were arrested on the morning of October 17th, 2010, as they distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Tangshi Town, Guiyang County. They were taken to the Liufeng Police Station and then transferred to the Guiyang Detention Centre that same afternoon. Between October 17th and 30th, the Liufeng Police Station head led officers in interrogating the three practitioners in the detention centre. Ms. Chen was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour, and Ms. Lai and Ms. Gu were each given a one-year sentence.
  • 70-Year-Old Woman Sentenced to Prison and Denied Visits from Her Attorney

    On June 4th, 2010, police arrested Ms. Shi Jinhua, who is seventy years old, because she mailed several letters talking about Falun Gong. Her family asked an attorney to visit her and arrange her release. When the attorney went to make inquires about Ms. Shi's situation, he was told that she had been sentenced to four years in prison by the Minhang Court. Since July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted Falun Gong. Ms. Shi Jinhua used her personal experiences to explain the truth of Falun Gong. In the past 11 years, she has been arrested and detained fourteen times. She has been beaten and tortured. Her home has been ransacked many times, and her property confiscated.
  • Ms. Qi Yuzhen, 60, from Jilin City Died as a Result of Frequent and Continuous Persecution

    Elderly practitioner Ms. Qi Yuzhen from Jilin City was subjected to gross abuse and mistreatment during the past eleven years of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Ms. Qi died as a result of the persecution on April 8th, 2010. Ms. Qi was arrested five times, and was held in more than a dozen facilities. Ms. Qi was subjected to nearly 600 days of severe abuse and torture during her detention, bringing her to the verge of death. She held seven hunger strikes in the labour camp. She was brutally force-fed, breaking all of her teeth in the process. She experienced near-death many times during the force-feeding.
  • Airplane Engineer Unable to Work and Support Family After ID Cards Confiscated

    Liu Yongsheng, an airplane engineer from Chengdu Airplane Construction, was forced into homelessness in 2007 after his department engaged in massive arrests of Falun Gong practitioners. His apartment was searched, and all of his identification cards were confiscated. They are still being held at Jiangxijie Police Station in Chengdu. Because of all this, he has not been able to maintain employment, bringing considerable pressure to his family.
  • Ms. Feng Suxia Detained

    More than a dozen officers from the Renqiu Police Department, the Chu'an Police Department, and the Chu'an Police Station climbed over a wall by using a ladder and broke into Ms. Feng Suxia's home at around 11:00 p.m. on August 25th, 2010. Wearing only underwear, Ms. Feng was taken to the Chu'an Police Department and then transferred to the Renqiu Detention Centre, where she is currently detained and on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
  • The Sufferings of Ms. Fan Jinrong and Ms. Yin Wenlan from Kaiyuan City

    Ms. Fan Jinrong is a Falun Gong practitioner from Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province. She was arrested in 2003 and was brutally tortured during her interrogation. She was sentenced to three years in Dabei Prison. Ms. Yin Wenlan was arrested in 2004 and was sentenced to nine years in Jianyucheng Women's Prison. They were both brutally tortured before being sent to prison. As part of the torture, the guards in Kaiyuan Detention Centre forced them to ingest various unknown drugs.
  • Practitioner Yang Lixia Persecuted for Eight Years--Her Husband Tortured to Death

    Ms. Yang Lixia is a practitioner in A'cheng City, Heilongjiang Province. Because she practises Falun Gong, she has been repeatedly arrested, beaten, and sentenced to forced labour camps by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers. Since September 1999, she has been imprisoned for approximately eight years and has suffered numerous rounds of torture. Her husband Zhang Bingxiang was tortured to death due to his belief in Falun Gong.
  • Police from Kaijiang County, Sichuan Province, Brutally Torture Ms. Wan Zhengping

    I was arrested on the morning of August 23rd, 2010, because I told people in Lingyan Township, Kaijian County, why Falun Gong practitioners were being persecuted. Police took me to Yongxing Police Station, where I was brutally tortured by director Hu Hao from the National Security Division and Chen Wei, deputy chief of the police station. Hu Hao yelled at and hit me when I refused to answer his questions. He grabbed my hair with his left hand and hit me in the face with his right. Afterwards, he kept punching me in the chest while swearing. He later tied me to an iron chair and held up an electric baton to try to scare me. Everyone there left then, because they didn't want to watch him assault me, an elderly woman, further.