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• Ms. Li Baolian Injected with Poisonous Drugs and Still in a Forced Labour Camp

  2010-09-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Baolian was sentenced to two years of forced labour in 2009 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong to the public. She is still imprisoned at the Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. Her father, who is over 80 years old, has been left at home alone with no one to take care of him and leads a very difficult life. Before this sentence, Li Baolian had been arrested and detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police many times and suffered from brutal persecution. She had even been detained at a boarding house in September 2003 and was injected against her will with unknown drugs, which affected her mentally for a while.
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• Section Chief Level Cadre from Liaoning Province Was Tortured in Inner Mongolia Labour Camp

  2010-09-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Jinghe was sentenced to one year in a labour camp on September 9th, 2008, and was incarcerated at the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp, Inner Mongolia, where he suffered beatings, brainwashing, and electric shocks. During the last decade of persecution, Mr. Liu Jinghe was persecuted physically, mentally, and financially. He was arrested and held numerous times from as early as 2001.
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• Ms. Lin Shuqing's Home Ransacked by Police from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province

  2010-09-03
  A policeman came to Ms. Lin Shuqing's home claiming to be there to check her residence card at around 9:00 a.m. on April 23rd, 2010. Ms. Lin responded that her residence card was at her daughter's home and didn't open the door. The policeman didn't leave, however, and instead ordered Ms. Lin's neighbour to trick Ms. Lin into opening the door. Upon hearing the familiar voice of her neighbour, Ms. Lin opened her door and the policeman immediately rushed into her home. More police came and searched her home. They confiscated her desktop computer, laptop, other electrical items and 10,000 yuan in cash without documenting what they took. None of Ms. Lin's belongings or money have been returned.
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• English Teacher from Hunan Province Dies as a Result of the Persecution

  2010-09-02
  In January 2001, police arrested 60-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Liying and took her to the Yueyang City Detention Centre for three months. Following her release, Ms. Chen's health became unstable. She was constantly monitored and harassed. As a result, her health worsened due to the pressure. One time, she fainted on the street and was unable to walk home until after she regained consciousness. Her body swelled, and she bled constantly. She passed away at the end of September 2005.
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• Mr. Li Jianhou, Former Committee Member of the Nanchong People's Political Consultative Conference, Was Tortured to Death in Deyang Prison in 2003

  2010-09-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Jianhou, around 67 years old, started practising Falun Gong in November 1996. Since he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in July 2000, he had been arrested and imprisoned four times. His home was also ransacked three times. His pension was withheld for nearly 22 months and was never returned. He suffered detention for nearly 380 days. Mr. Li was tortured to death on March 27th, 2003, after being detained at the Deyang Prision for two months and 22 days.
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• The Jilin City 610 Office Sends Falun Gong Practitioners to a Forced Brainwashing Centre

  2010-09-02
  Falun Gong practitioners were recently arrested and detained in a brainwashing centre in Jilin City. The guards attempted to brainwash the practitioners with the goal of forcing them to renounce their belief in Falun Gong. The guards threatened practitioners that they would be sent to a labour camp or a mental hospital unless they gave up their belief in Falun Gong. Two inmates were assigned in the room to monitor each practitioner. The prison inmates worked two shifts a day, with two in each shift.
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• Boiling Water Poured Over Practitioners in Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province

  2010-09-02
  The guards at Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province use a number of cruel torture methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. I witnessed some of these methods being used during 2008 and 2009. Guards ordered inmates to brutally beat Mr Kong Xianyong. Zhu Kanglin boiled many kettles and kept pouring boiling water over Mr. Kong's head, in an attempt to get him to renounce his belief. Mr. Kong did not succumb to their demands. Mr. Wu Zhenghai was forced to bend down and remain still, with the weight of his body resting on the backs of his legs, for 20 hours a day, and was forced to do this for the next 20 days. He was beaten by the inmates when he moved, and he fainted many times.
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• Ms. He Daozhen Dies from Persecution in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province

  2010-09-01
  Ms. He Daozhen, 58, was twice sentenced to forced labour for practising Falun Gong after 2002. As soon as she arrived at Jiangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2007, Ms. He was held in solitary confinement. Two inmates were ordered to beat and curse her every day. They also tortured her through so-called military drills. Ms. He left the labour camp in 2008, after one year of forced labour, The raw wounds on her skin that continuously oozed pus and blood never healed. She died on April 24th, 2010.
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• Tangshan Police Arrest Three Falun Gong Practitioners in the Middle of the Night

  2010-09-01
  On August 11th, 2010, police pried open the metal window covers of 57-year-old Liu Baoqin house to gain entry, and then ransacked her home. They took Ms. Liu Baoqin, her husband and her daughter to Changningdao Detention Centre in Tangshan City. Liu Baoqin's family have been persecuted many times since the persecution began in 1999, for practising Falun Gong. In order to avoid being arrested, Ms. Liu left her home and became destitute. She was detained for more than a year at the Second Detention Centre in Tangshan. While being detained, Ms. Liu exposed the violent acts committed by the guards, so she was shackled with a chain weighing more than 60 pounds for ninety days. She still suffers from numbness and pain in her legs.
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• Beijing Lawyer Ms. Song Mingying Forced to Sit on a Tiny Stool Until Her Legs Became Swollen

  2010-09-01
  Ms. Song Mingying, a lawyer with the Zhongying Law firm in Beijing, was sentenced to forced labour following police arrest. She is serving her term at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp and was tortured for refusing to renounce practising Falun Gong by being forced to sit on a tiny stool for a very long time, making her legs swell up. The stool has a rough seat about 10 in by 10 in and is about 1.5 ft high, without a back. The victim has to sit straight and keep her legs together. Because the stool lacks arms and a backrest, to sit in that position for a long time is torture.
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• Eleven Falun Gong Practitioners Sent to Brainwashing Centre in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province

  2010-09-01
  Eleven Falun Gong practitioners from Jianyang City, Sichuan Province have been arrested since June 29th, 2010. Wu Bangrong was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, while others were arrested directly from home. Some are being detained at the Erehu Brainwashing Centre, while others are missing. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials said that this time Falun Gong practitioners must be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. If they won't give up their practice, or won't sign the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, their sentences will be quite severe.
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• Mr. Xu Yunyan's Leg Fractured and Teeth Broken during Seven Years in Prison

  2010-08-31
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Yunyan has been suffering from persecution for ten years just because he keeps his faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and tries to be a better person. After nine months of detention in Anren County Detention Centre, Mr. Xu was sentenced to seven years in prison. Mr. Xu was first locked in Jin City Prison, then transferred to Wangling Prison. Guard Yan Fan often instructed prisoners to beat Mr. Xu. Guards tried to force Mr. Xu to write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, to which he absolutely refused. The three prisoners assigned to him took turns punching him, knocking four of his teeth out.
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• Ms. Ma Jun Being Held in a Small, Dark Cell in Lanzhou City Women's Prison

  2010-08-31
  Lanzhou City Women's Prison started incarcerating Falun Gong practitioners in 2002. The first practitioner who was subjected to persecution in this prison was Ms. Ma Jun from Lanzhou City. She was sentenced to three years in prison at the time, but later she was given another sentence of ten years imprisonment. As of today, she is still being held in a small, dark, and damp cell in the prison.
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• Mr. Sun Zheng Suffers from Tuberculosis at Gongzhulin Prison

  2010-08-31
  Mr. Sun Zheng was sentenced to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong. While incarcerated at Gongzhulin Prison, he was diagnosed with severe tuberculosis and was sent to the prison hospital on April 15th, 2010. On April 23rd, when Mr. Sun's family visited him, he was helped by two people. His face was pale, he was skinny, and he could hardly speak. It's been over three months, but his condition has not improved. Moreover, the tuberculosis has flared up and his life is in danger. The prison and 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) keep pointing fingers at each other and Mr. Sun still has not been released.
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• Guards at Beijing Women's Labour Camp Kick Practitioner in the Ribs

  2010-08-31
  At the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, in order to torture Falun Gong practitioners, the guards wear leather soled shoes to kick practitioners in the ribs. They do this because the injuries cannot be seen on the surface. However, internal organs can be seriously damaged from it. Female guard Guo Lina used this method to torture practitioners. In one instance, a practitioner in the labour camp refused to write a guarantee statement to stop practising Falun Gong. Guo Lina pushed the practitioner to the ground. Guo then repeatedly kicked the practitioner on the left side of her body. The practitioner was in so much pain that she curled into a ball, unable to breathe.
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