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• Ms. Wang Wuxiu from Shaoyang City on Hunger Strike to Protest Persecution

  2010-03-08
  On April 18th, 2009, police arrested, Ms. Wang Wuxiu and confiscated her belongings. They also arrested husband and wife Mr. Gong Deyuan and Ms. Yan Shuzhou. Ms. Wang was then taken to Xin County Detention Centre in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. Later, she was transferred to the Second Detention Centre of Shaoyang City. There, the authorities instigated the head inmate to savagely beat and torture her. Ms. Wang's husband protested the beatings and demanded her immediate release. However, the authorities at the detention centre ignored him and denied any wrongdoing. She is still being held in the Second Detention Centre and recently went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
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• The Relentless Persecution of a Falun Gong Practitioner Couple in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

  2010-03-08
  Mr. Feng Xinyan and his wife of Shijiazhuang City have been arrested, detained, tortured, had money extorted from them, and been harassed by the Chinese Communist Party because they practise Falun Gong. On February 13th, 2000, when Mr. Feng was again in Beijing to appeal for the rights of Falun Gong, he was arrested and detained in the Tiananmen Square Police Station. On February 14th he was escorted back to Pingshan County. Officials forced Mr. Feng down on his knees, hit him in the face with a broom, and hit his head and back with a bat. The brutal beating lasted more than an hour. He was then taken to the detention centre. A month later, Mr. Feng was released only after his family paid 2,000 yuan to Feng Qingfang, the security chief.
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• Changchun Practitioner Ma Haiyan and Her Parents Persecuted for Ten Years

  2010-03-07
  After July 20th, 1999, I went with my parents to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities for the right to practise Falun Gong. However, police officers detained us in Tongxian Detention Centre for over ten days and tortured us. We were beaten and forced to squat down with our legs apart, bend our heads down with our arms up against a wall, or stand for a long period of time. Furthermore, we were fed food that had sand and insects in it, and forced to take showers in an open area while the guards hit our backs with wet towels. My father was also beaten by several people. After we were taken back to Changchun, they immediately sent us to Balibao Detention Centre.
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• Zhang Haiyan Detained at Women's Forced Labour Camp in Huhehaote

  2010-03-07
  On September 28th, 2009, four other officers including Wang Junjiu broke into the home of Ms. Zhang Haiyan. They dragged her, still in her pyjamas, into a police car and took her to Jinzhou City Detention Centre. On September 30th, Ms. Zhang was forcibly taken to the detention centre in Kailu County of Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia. After two months, she was sentenced to one year at the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Huhehaote City.
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• 62-Year-Old Mr. Sun Zongxu, Former Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Committee Member, Arrested

  2010-03-07
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Zongxu is a former Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) committee member from Hantin District, Weifang City. He was arrested by police in December 2009. The police tried to extort a confession using torture for several consecutive days, resulting in broken bones in Mr. Sun's lower body. He has been formally charged and detained at An'qiu Detention Centre. He was tied to "dead man's bed," on which his limbs were tied in four directions. After he was taken down from the "dead man's bed," he was handcuffed and put in shackles for thirty days. Mr. Sun was tortured like this day and night, until he could no longer stand up or take care of himself.
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• Pu Yonghe, Son of Deceased Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Cui Zhengshu, Lives with Father and Grandmother in Jilin

  2010-03-07
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cui Zhengshu was persecuted to death eight years ago. She was twice sentenced and sent to forced labour camps. The second time, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials encouraged inmates to deprive her of sleep, so that she was only able to sleep about 22 hours over the course of 33 days. She became so weak that she was unable to take care of herself. When she was about to die, the officials let her out of the camp on April 18th, 2003. She passed away on August 12th, 2003. Since his mother's death, Pu Yonghe has lived with his father and grandmother.
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• Intense Persecution Paralysed Ms. Dai Lijuan in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province

  2010-03-06
  47-year-old Ms. Dai Lijuan was arrested and taken to Wuxi City Mental Hospital, where she was forcibly injected with poisonous drugs in November 2001 and March 2002. In 2003, the police brutally persecuted her to the brink of death, leaving her incapacitated. She has since had to rely on her mother, a woman in her seventies, to take care of her since she is completely paralysed, and has barely uttered more than a few words in many years.
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• Mr. Liu Deyu from Jingmen City, Hubei Province Sentenced to Four Years of Imprisonment

  2010-03-06
  On February 3rd, 53-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Deyu was sentenced to four years of imprisonment at Dongbao District Court, Jingmen City, Hubei Province. Not until the next day was his wife notified by the court. In addition, she was only given until February 8th to appeal. Such a brazen violation of the law could only be for the purpose of stopping her from appealing to a higher court. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Liu was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. He was forced to undergo brainwashing and subjected to all kinds of humiliation and torture
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• Persecution Suffered by 59-Year-Old Ms. Wang Li

  2010-03-06
  Because I have persisted in practising Falun Gong I have been detained three times for a total of six months, sent to forced labour for two years, and forced to pay 3,800 Yuan since 1999. During my detention my husband divorced me. In June 20th, 2000 I was arrested by police and held in a detention centre. I held a hunger to protest. They began force-feeding me. Five criminals and the centre's deputy head handcuffed me onto a chair. One pulled my hair up against the chair, two held my arms, and one held my nose so that I could barely breathe and had to open my mouth. Another criminal inserted an empty water bottle into my mouth with the bottom cut off, and then poured water containing much salt into my mouth. I almost suffocated.
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• Thoughts on New Year's Day about Fellow Practitioners Detained in Prison

  2010-03-06
  Ms. Ren appealed on three different occasions in Beijing. However, she was detained. She was in a forced labour camp for a year in 2001, and was beaten as well as abused arbitrarily by the police. Once, for refusing to write articles slandering Falun Gong, she was beaten severely for more than 20 days. As a result of this torture, she could not turn over in bed. She developed a constant ringing in her ears and also became incontinent of urine and faeces. The prison guards also hung her up suspended in mid air by handcuffs many times for between 20 minutes and one hour. They only put her down when she was on the verge of death. They kept torturing her to make her try to give up her practice. On August 10th, 2007, Ms. Ren was once again arrested and is still being held in prison against her will.
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• Factory Manager Ms. Luo Junling Died as a Result of Torture

  2010-03-05
  After Ms. Luo Junling was arrested for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, she was subjected to all kinds of torture, including being hung up by her handcuffed wrists, as well as beatings, and sleep deprivation. When Luo Junling was released on November 4th, 2003, she was unable to speak and extremely emaciated and weak. She was also mentally traumatised, and her whole body was bloody and covered with wounds. She died on January 2nd, 2004.
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• Family Members Speak Out in Support of Mr. Liu Yuhe, Who Is Being Tortured in Jilin Prison

  2010-03-05
  Mr. Liu Yuhe is a Falun Gong practitioner who is currently detained at the Jilin Prison. His family has repeatedly requested punishment for the people at the prison who beat him, but have never received a reply from prison officials. The captors force-fed Mr. Liu Yuhe ruthlessly when he went on a persecution protest hunger strike. Liu Yuhe couldn't even take care of himself at one point due to the torture. He was incontinent and on the brink of death. The guards had to take him to the prison hospital for emergency rescue. When his family hired a lawyer to sue the prison, the guards threatened and intimidated the lawyer into dropping the case.
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• Jinchang City Court Holds Closed Trial for Ms. Wang Yumei and Ms. Li Xia

  2010-03-05
  On January 20th, 2010, the Jinchuan District Court in Jinchang City, Gansu Province held a closed-door trial for Ms. Wang Yumei, Ms. Li Xia, and Mr. Shi Ruzhen. No family members or practitioners were allowed in the court. No verdict was announced after the day-long trial. A rumour circulated that the court would sentence the practitioners for distributing Falun Gong DVDs and the Jinchang City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) was behind the scenes manipulating the trial.
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• Persecution of Ms. Zhong Dongmei in Hebei Province

  2010-03-05
  I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on July 20th, 1999, the day the persecution began. The police arrested me and took me to the Tiananmen Police Station, where many other practitioners were also held. I saw police officers violently beating practitioners. They attacked primarily the practitioners' chests, backs and abdomens. Soon officers took me back to my hometown. A deputy police chief interrogated me. Before I entered his office, a group of people approached me, and hit and kicked me. They whacked my head, eyes, ears and face until I lost consciousness. They sent me to the Dingxing County Custody Centre. This was my first detention. I was forced to pay them more than 380 yuan.
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• Brutal Persecution at the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-03-04
  There is an intensive management district inside the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. Most of the Falun Gong practitioners are held there. The prison authorities divided a large room into 8 square meter rooms with one door and one small window. It usually held three people, one practitioner and two other inmates who were monitoring the practitioner at all times. The practitioner is not allowed to go to the toilet outside. Everything was forced to be done in the room and the room's air was terrible, particularly in the summer time. One could hardly breathe due to lack of fresh air and the clothes would stick to the body because of the sweat. Practitioners were also subjected to slave labour.
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