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• Lieutenant-Commander Wang Youjiang Suffers Ten Years of Imprisonment for His Belief

  2010-04-25
  Falun Gong practitioner and career Army officer Mr. Wang Youjiang was secretly sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in 2001. He has been severely abused at Dashaping Prison in Lanzhou City, and now walks with a cane. Despite the fact that he has been tortured severely over these past ten years of persecution, Mr. Wang has never given up his belief. Warden Xiao Bin said to Mr. Wang, "It has been ten years, and we don't treat you that bad. Now that your term is about to end, it would be better if you wrote the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong." Mr. Wang absolutely refused. Xiao Bin became furious, and threatened Mr. Wang, "If you do not write them, you will be directly taken to the brainwashing centre."
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• Elderly Woman Faces Another Trial After Serving a Three-Year Prison Sentence

  2010-04-25
  Ms. He Suzhen, 70, was taken into police custody more than two months ago. She suffers from serious high blood pressure. She just returned home after serving a three-year prison sentence. Officials are planning to bring Ms. He to trial once again. Ms. He's 74-year-old husband has been to the local police department every day to demand his wife's release, but to no avail. He wholeheartedly respects his wife's belief, because he witnessed how she recovered completely from being almost blind because she practises Falun Gong. He also saw that, during the 14 years since his wife started the practice she has not needed any medicine, which means that she has saved a large sum of money for her employer, their family, and the country.
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• Shandong Province Women's Prison Using Unknown Drugs to Torture Practitioners

  2010-04-25
  To pressure Falun Gong practitioners into abandoning their belief, Shandong Province Women's Prison not only uses lies and torture to persecute them but also administers unknown drugs against their will. The use of drugs to persecute practitioners results in serious consequences. Practitioners feel sleepy, foggy headed, and petrified and suffer hypomnesia as well as all kinds of illnesses, including gastrectasia and indigestion. In addition, the drugs cause practitioners to lose consciousness, eyesight and even their sanity. Moreover, practitioners' arms and legs become numb and severely swollen from the drugs.
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• While Living a Homeless Life to Avoid Persecution for Four Years, Ms. Chen Qing Experienced Mental Trauma

  2010-04-25
  Ms. Chen Qing, a former teacher, was on a police most-wanted list for four years because of her belief in Falun Gong. During this time she experienced mental trauma. The Tongnan County Education Committee administration fired her without reason after she recovered. In late 2007, her family quietly brought her home and noticed that she was suffering from mental trauma. She was afraid to go outside and wrote, "Save me! Hurry!" and "A car is downstairs" on the walls. She was afraid of noises and she thought the people around her, including her family, were spies.
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• The Tragic Death of Feng Gang

  2010-04-24
  After suffering severe torture at the hands of the police in Yaojia Detention Centre, Dalian Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Feng Gang passed away on August 14th, 2009. His family was not informed about his death until a month later. Feng Gang had begun a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The prison guards handcuffed his arms behind his back and conducted force-feedings daily. In early August, Feng Gang's oesophagus was ruptured by the force-feeding tube and became infected. The prison doctors ignored basic medical ethics and continued torturing him with the forced feedings. They even left the tube in Feng Gang's stomach for up to 48 hours at a time.
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• A Decade of Persecution for Ms. He Zhiwei

  2010-04-24
  Ms. He Zhiwei was arrested by 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents on the morning of April 9th, 2009, and has been held at a brainwashing facility for the past year. During this time she was transferred to Sanshui Brainwashing Centre, Zhanjiang Brainwashing Centre, and Guangzhou Brainwashing Centre. While at Zhanjiang Brainwashing Centre, a group of officials physically assaulted her until her neck was dislocated. Officials from Guangzhou Brainwashing Centre recently told her family that they would "punish her," and refused to let them see her.
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners from Xi'an Aircraft Industry Company

  2010-04-24
  Mr. Zhou Biao, 40, was an engineer at Xi Fei. He graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was sentenced to nine years in jail in 2007 because he produced Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He is now detained at Weinan Prison in Shaanxi Province. Mr. Zhang Xinyuan was in his fifties. He worked in the Flight Test Institute. He was detained twice and sent to a brainwashing centre twice, the second time being in 2003. After three months of persecution there, he managed to escape. He died in 2007 after leaving home to avoid police harassment.
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• In Memory of Ms. Jia Shuhua

  2010-04-24
  It saddened me when I learned that 55-year-old Ms. Jia Shuhua had passed away on March 25th, 2010. In 2002, Ms. Jia refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong and was sentenced to two years of forced labour. Due to maltreatment in the Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp, she developed stomach problems and was released. She remained weak after returning home, but officials threatened to take her back if she continued to believe in Falun Gong. She was arrested in 2006 and in 2008, managed to escape police arrest. After years of relentless persecution, Ms. Jia's condition continued to deteriorate. She soon passed away.
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• High School Teacher Mr. Wei Xingzhi Passes Away after Enduring Years of Persecution

  2010-04-23
  Mr. Wei Xingzhi was a chemistry teacher at the Ziyun County No. 2 High School. Because Mr. Wei refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was subjected to multiple arrests and maltreatment by officials from the Ziyun County Police Department, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province. While incarcerated, he was forced to do hard labour and was subjected to severe beatings, which caused him to suffer from nausea, dizziness, headache, chest pain, and he was coughing up blood. Mr. Wei died on December 3rd, 2009, at the age of 48.
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• A Practitioner Recounts Psychiatric Abuse and Physical Torture at a Mental Hospital, Labour Camp and Prison

  2010-04-23
  I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after July 20th, 1999 (when the persecution began), and I was arrested and held at the Harbin City No. 2 Detention Centre. Because I refused to write a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong I was taken to the Puning Hospital where I was forced to take psychotropic medication. I had to swallow three pills each time, and I became incontinent and fell asleep afterwards for two days and one night. I was arrested again after I went to Beijing for the second time and held at the Wanjia Labour Camp for one year. I held several hunger strikes in protest and was force-fed and given two injections of chlorpromazine. I was savagely beaten when I refused the drugs.
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• Ms. Jiang Shixiang of Jinchang City, Gansu Province Tortured

  2010-04-23
  On October 31st, 2007, Ms. Jiang Shixiang and two other Falun Gong practitioners were abducted by the police. Ms. Jiang was taken to the Detox Centre in Jinchang City for interrogation. On November 5th, guards cornered Ms. Jiang, and punched and kicked her until she was screaming in pain. But that was not enough. Two inmates then dragged her to the office and continued to beat her with leather strips and wooden sticks until she passed out on the cold cement floor. By the time they moved her back to the cell, she had sustained injuries to her lumbar disc, the little finger of her right hand was broken and her arms were black and blue, and swollen.
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• Escalation of the Persecution of Practitioners in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-23
  Female Falun Gong practitioners held in Masanjia were pressured to write repentance statements giving up Falun Gong. Some of the guards wrote the statements themselves and then tried to force the practitioners to copy them and read them in front of other practitioners. They would count this as a real repentance statement written by the practitioners themselves. The women who refused to do that were tortured. One from Beijing was tortured so severely that she could no longer straighten up and had to remain so far bent over that she was almost touching the ground. Ms. Li Jinqiu was forced to keep her legs fully stretched out on either side for a very long time. She ended up crippled.
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• Mr. Yang Zhanjiu Arrested and His Wife Beaten to Death in Yushu City, Jilin Province

  2010-04-22
  On March 5th, 2010, Mr. Yang Zhanjiu and his father-in-law were arrested and then interrogated by the Yushu City's domestic security division. On the same day, the police, who waited inside Mr. Yang's home, also arrested two other practitioners who went to visit him. Mr. Yang's wife, Ms. Li Shuhua, was brutally tortured to death in a detention centre seven years ago. Those responsible are still at large.
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• After His Wife Is Arrested, An Elderly Man Dies In Grief

  2010-04-22
  On January 6th, 2010, Mr. Yang Yaoshan's wife was arrested for trying to stop the police from detaining a group of Falun Gong practitioners. The police then broke into Mr. Yang's home, searched it and confiscated personal property. Traumatised from the sudden shock of these events, Mr. Yang suffered a stroke on January 9th. Despite efforts to save his life, Mr. Yang passed away on February 28th, 2010 aged 78 years old. In 2000, Mr. Yang was sentenced to one year of forced labour in the Jilin City Detention Centre. During his imprisonment, he suffered severe abuse, causing his health to deteriorate and his old symptoms of heart disease to recur.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to the Point of Mental Collapse in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-22
  Ms. Wang Shuxia and I were in the same cell at Diaobing Detention Centre in 1999. She was a kind and beautiful young lady. After she was taken to Masanjia, she was mentally disoriented upon returning home. Officials from the Diaobing Police Station were well aware that she was mentally traumatised, but they still sentenced her again to Masanjia for two years. Within two days after arriving at Masanjia, she was tortured to death. Ms. Su Juzhen was mentally traumatised. I saw the scars on her body and heard her screaming as she was being beaten with electric batons. She could no longer recognise anyone. Masanjia caused her death as well.
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