Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Inhuman Insult and Torture

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yongwang was imprisoned and tortured during his detention at Jidong Prison in Hebei Province in 2001. Lawyers went to the prison at the request of Mr. Liu and his family. The lawyers asked to visit their client, in accordance with the law. At first, prison authorities attempted to obstruct the meeting. After their repeated delay tactics failed, they received approval from their superiors to allow the lawyers to meet with Mr. Liu. Before the meeting, Mr. Liu was able to avoid a body search, and in so doing was able to hand his complaint letter, detailing the persecution he has suffered, to the lawyers.
  • Five Practitioners from Fengcheng in Liaoning Province Persecuted

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiao, 54, was previously arrested by police on September 11th, 2004, when he was seen talking to local residents about Falun Gong. He was taken to Benxi Forced Labour Camp, where he was tortured on a Stretch Bed (photo shows ee-enactment of a practitioner tortured on a Stretch Bed). Mr. Jiao was released on medical grounds after two years of forced labour. He is in very poor health now and struggling to survive.
  • Mr. Lei Jingxiong and Ms. Wu Shengying Severely Persecuted in Duyun Prison of Guizhou Province

    Two Falun Gong practitioners are currently detained in the Duyun Prison of Guizhou Province. Mr. Lei Jingxiong was arrested by the Duyun 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and then subjected to eight years of imprisonment, and Ms. Wu Shengying was given a six-year prison term. While detained in the Duyun Prison, Mr. Lei was beaten so severely that he went into a coma. Ms. Wu was forcibly put under induced labour for her eight-month-old foetus. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and lost consciousness a few times. She is currently very weak.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Force-fed With Drugs at Huaihua Brainwashing Centre

    Police arrested Mr. Zhang Zhimin and took him to the Huaihua Brainwashing Centre in September. Mr. Zhang Zhimin was forced to watch videos that defame Falun Gong. Because he refused to give up the practice, he was tortured and he subsequently developed high blood pressure. He was also force-fed unknown psychotropic drugs. Zhang Zhimin became weak all over, began sweating, and felt drowsy. One of the guards said that the drug was for treating high blood pressure. Eventually Mr. Zhang was released.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Wenjuan from Jinzhou City Persecuted for Ten Years

    Ms. Wang Wenjuan started to practise Falun Gong in 1999. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong three times and was arrested each time. She was brutally tortured and brainwashed while being detained in the mental hospital. She was also sentenced to forced labour. She recounts: "I was "painfully tortured in the mental hospital. If I refused to eat, Doctor Lin and Li Qiang used the electric needle to shock me. I was tortured in the mental hospital for over two months."
  • The Torture Endured by Older Practitioner Ms. Wan Xiuying in Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

    Ms. Wan Xiuying, 64 years old, is from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia. In the past eleven years of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Wan has been detained nine times. In 2007, Ms. Wan was sentenced to three years of forced labour. Prison guards threatened Ms. Wan, saying "If you refuse to be 'transformed,' [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] you will never get out of here." They then forced her to watch videos slandering Falun Gong. Later, a guard punched her on the left side of her chest. The torture made Ms. Wan suffer from cramps, choking, and palpitations.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Lin Qiongfang Recounts Ten Years of Suffering Persecution

    I have been detained several times and imprisoned twice because of my belief. Another practitioner and I went out to put up Falun Gong information exposing the persecution in public in February 2003. We were picked up by several officers and taken to the local police office. When we got there, an officer took one damp towel and put it through the gap of my handcuff. He twisted the towel around several turns, twisting my arms along with it. He then threw me to the ground and the handcuff cut into my skin. The police kept interrogating me for seven days and took me to a local prison. I was sentenced to six years in prison several days later.
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Gives Large Cash Rewards to Local Officers to Arrest Practitioners in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province

    Between July and September 2010, 14 Falun Gong practitioners from Jianyang City, Sichuan Province were sent to Erehu Brainwashing Class of Ziyang City where they were mistreated and pressured to renounce their belief in Falun Gong. At the beginning of September 2010, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members of Jianyang City gave the order to their assistant organisations to begin an intensive persecution on all Falun Gong practitioners in the region. The cash reward for sending each Falun Gong practitioner to Erehu Brainwashing Class is 48,000 yuan from the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. In order to obtain the cash rewards, the CCP members of Jianyang City began a ruthless campaign of arresting all Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Ms. Liu Hefang Confined and Persecuted in Hefei Mental Hospital

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Hefang was recently arrested by police and is now being detained in Hefei Mental Hospital. She recounts her previous experience of persecution in 2007: "I was on my way to visit a friend and strangers arrested me. They took me to a brainwashing centre. There they played DVDs discrediting Falun Gong every day and tried to force me to write statements to renounce my faith in Falun Gong. I refused. I was sent to a forced labour camp for a year. Guards forced me to do slave labour in the prison workshop more than ten hours each day. I went on a hunger strike. Criminal inmates tied my hands and feet and force-fed me. They pried out one of my incisor teeth."
  • The Chinese Communist Party Makes Excuses for Persecute Falun Gong

    I have a friend who was a government official at the level of assistant department head. He practised Falun Gong, but few people knew it. Later, someone filed false charges against him. When the police ransacked his home, they confiscated his Falun Gong books, and arrested him. However, the police claimed to his family that he had been arrested for corruption. It was obvious that the police ransacked his home because he was a Falun Gong practitioner, so why did they say that it was because he was involved in corruption? When his family talked with some informants, the reason became clear: It was because he was a high-ranking official, and if he were arrested for practising Falun Gong, it would have caused quite a commotion. Therefore, they covered it up by falsifying a crime.
  • Mr. Wang Yaowen, 50, from Shanxi Province Brutally Tortured

    Mr. Wang Yaowen has been imprisoned and brutally tortured many times since the persecution started in 1999. In 2000, Mr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and held in the Dingxiang Detention Centre. Guards stripped the clothes off practitioners on a cold morning in March, and poured buckets of cold water over them. They then beat the practitioners with pipes and batons. The guards ordered inmates to punch Mr. Wang in the throat, making him unable to eat or talk for a week. They also broke some of his teeth. He was later transferred to Xindian Forced Labour Camp. In May 2004, Mr. Wang published an open letter exposing the crimes committed by officers from the local police. He was arrested and held in a detention centre for more than a year, beaten, hung up by handcuffs, and brutally force-fed.
  • Mr. Zhang Qin, 54, Sentenced Again

    Mr. Zhang Qin was a key engineer at Shengde Plastic Ltd. in Shanghai. He was head of the Quality Control Section and a general engineer. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Zhang has been arrested many times. He was detained in Tilanqiao Prison for four years. On June 5th, 2009, police seized Zhang Qin. It was the sixth time he had been arrested. According to a reliable source, Mr. Zhang is being held in Tilanqiao Prison.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Yang Chanrong Arrested Again After Being Imprisoned for Seven Years; His Wife Was Persecuted to Death

    Falun Gong practitioner Yang Chanrong was secretly arrested on May 26th, 2010, by the Changzhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). He was first detained at a brainwashing centre and was then transferred to the Xilin Detention Centre in Changzhou City, where he has been detained ever since. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong. Yang Chanrong and his family have suffered from arrest, detention, brainwashing, sentencing, forced labour, torture and other forms of persecution. On January 9th, 2001, Zhou Fenglin, Yang Chanrong's wife, was persecuted to death due to force-feeding at the Xilin Detention Centre.
  • Ms. Song Meiying's Sudden Death Suspected to Be the Result of Violent Beatings

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song Meiying, 52, suddenly died on August 26th, 2010. Bodily injuries on her remains indicated that she had likely been beaten to death. Ms. Song left home on that day on an electric motorcycle to go shopping, as was her daily routine. She spoke with people about the persecution of Falun Gong as she was shopping. When her son returned home he called her mobile phone, but instead of hearing his mother's voice, he heard a male voice who claimed to be a policeman. He told Ms. Song's son that his mother had an accident and was in a coma. Ms. Song died at 9:30 p.m. that same day. Ms. Song's relatives requested to take a final look at her remains. They were shocked upon seeing that Ms. Song's face was completely deformed.
  • My Mother Is Upholding Justice and Conscience

    I suddenly received a phone call from my family, telling me that on July 19th, my mum was arrested by police for practising Falun Gong. My mother is now being held in Jiamusi Detention Centre, and my relatives and I have decided to hire a lawyer to defend her. I went to Changqing Police Station to talk with the director and the person in charge, but they screamed at me, saying, "Your mother violated the law because she distributed Falun Gong flyers." Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] Communist regime began persecuting Falun Gong practitioners on July 20th, 1999. My mother went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Gong, hoping that the government would hear the voices of the people and stop the persecution.