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Mr. Li Zhigang's Right to Appeal Denied by 610 Office and Harbin City Court
2009-12-12
On November 12th, 2009, the Harbin City Nangang District Court sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhigang to five years in prison. His family hired attorneys to represent him in court. However, the Nangang District Court and Detention Centre hindered the judicial process by rejecting the lawyers' requests to meet with Mr. Li. As a result, the lawyers have yet to obtain Mr. Li's signature, which is needed to appeal. -
Daughter Arrested, and a Mother Overcome with Grief Passes Away
2009-12-12The mother of Ms. Gao Huijie, a Falun Gong practitioner, passed away on October 22nd, 2009. She was 74. Ms. Gao was arrested on August 21st, 2005, and incarcerated in Liaoning Province Women' Prison. When she was brutally beaten and injured by thugs in the prison, and while she was in the hospital for surgery, she asked to see her mother, but her mother was never notified. Her mother never got the chance to see her daughter again before her death. -
Mr. Sun Hongchang Crippled as a Result of Torture, Wife Beaten to Death, Father Dies of a Broken Heart
2009-12-11
Mr. Sun Hongchang was forced to leave his home in 2000 to avoid being arrested. After his wife was tortured to death in 2003, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police tried over and over to arrest Mr. Sun Hongchang. In 2006 he was detained in police custody and police used electric batons to shock Mr. Sun's genitals. They also used both hands to force one of Mr. Sun's legs above his head, a torture method called "splitting the hip." Mr. Sun became disabled as a result. -
Shijiazhuang City Intermediate Court Sentenced Mr. Song Aichang
2009-12-11On June 22nd, 2007, Mr. Song Aichang was arrested at home by local police and has been held in a detention centre ever since. On September 22nd, 2008, after Mr. Song had been detained for over nine months, during the first trial, Qiaoxi District Court sentenced him to three years in prison. Mr. Song deemed it an unfair trial and an unfair sentence. He appealed to Shijiazhuang City Intermediate Court, and two fair-minded attorneys represented him in court. However, Shijiazhuang City Intermediate Court upheld the original three-year sentence, although it did not legally have jurisdiction in the case. -
Ms. Liang Yu from Dalian City Tortured and Sent to Forced Labour Camp
2009-12-11Ms. Liang Yu was arrested and detained at the Dalian Detention Centre for further persecution. The brutal torture scarred her body all over. Soon after, she was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a labour camp, and in mid-August transferred to the Masanjia Labour Camp in Shenyang City. Ms. Liang's parents are both in their seventies and eighties. Over the past three months, they have travelled a long way to see their daughter, only to be rejected by the prison police. The reason given them was that Ms. Liang Yu "refused to transform." [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. -
Three Falun Gong Practitioners Are in Custody in the Sujiatun Detention Centre, Shenyang City
2009-12-11On October 28th, 2009, Shenyang City practitioners Zhang Zhengang, Jin Xianzhong, and Hong Ruisheng were arrested by police while they were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Xinli Village. Now they are still being held in the Sujiatun Detention Centre. As we already know, the so-called "evidence" has already been turned in to the Institute of Legal Systems in Shenyang, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to force them to "reform through labour" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] at a labour camp. -
Mr. Sui Jingjiang Dies as a Result of Injections of Unknown Drugs Given in Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp
2009-12-10In May 2001, the police took Mr. Sui to the Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp. Section Chief Hao Wei ordered him to get an injection for high blood pressure. Mr. Sui said that he felt fine and there was no need for an injection, but Hao insisted. Mr. Sui discovered there was no label on the "medicine" bottle, so he asked the medical worker why not and what kind of drug she was giving him. After the injections he felt miserable, almost like he was paralysed. His limbs turned purple and they did not work properly. In 2006 he was sent again to the labour camp and given another poisonous injection. This caused Mr. Sui to totally collapse. Mr. Sui died on November 26th, 2009. -
Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Defending Falun Gong Practitioners
2009-12-10According to eyewitness accounts, on November 27th, 2009, Mr. Wang Yonghang, a 36-year-old lawyer from Dalian in Liaoning province, was put on trial at the Dalian Shahekou District Court and immediately sentenced to seven years in prison for defending Falun Gong practitioners and "damaging the implementation of the law." In July 2008, Mr. Wang published a detailed online article analysing the illegality of Article 300 - the provision most often used to imprison Falun Gong practitioners. He argued that Article 300 does not meet minimum international legal standards of clarity and specificity. As a result, the law firm terminated its employment contract with Mr. Wang, and the authorities revoked his licence to practise law. -
Brainwashing Centres - the Most Cruel of China's "Black Jails"
2009-12-10On April 29th, 2009, Mr. Xie Deqing, a retired engineer, was arrested outside of the Gapxin District Court and detained at Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. He was tortured so severely that within a month he became emaciated, was urinary incontinent, could barely swallow water, and developed heart disease. On the evening of May 27th, Mr. Xie passed away just four days after returning home. In order to destroy the evidence of abuse in custody, on May 29th, a large number of officers crashed Mr. Xie's funeral ceremony. They beat his eldest son Xie Weidong and injured him. Then they took away Mr. Xie's body and had it cremated. -
Four Practitioners from Zhaoyuan City Heavily Sentenced Without a Trial
2009-12-10Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Shuchun, Ms. Wang Haohong, Mr. Li Yongjie and Mr. Peng Yuekuan from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, were arrested and then heavily sentenced by the Zhaoyuan Municipal Court. As of November 9th, 2009, they have been held for five and a half months. Ms. Zhang Shuchun was sentenced to seven and a half years, Ms. Wang Haohong seven years, and Mr. Li Yongjie five years, while the sentence of Mr. Peng Yuekuan is unknown. The relatives of the practitioners were very angry and asked the court, "How can you make such sentences without an open court?" Wang Haitao, the vice presiding judge, answered, "There is no need for an open court." -
Elderly Ms. Wang Lianzhi Dies as a Result of Abuse in the Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison
2009-12-09Ms. Wang Lianzhi was arrested in 2008 for practising Falun Gong and sent to prison. Ms. Wang was released on medical parole on January 7th, 2009, and she was almost in a vegetative state by then. All of her teeth were loose or falling out, she had terrible headaches, and she could not sleep. She was rushed to the Kunming City First People's Hospital on November 16th, 2009, and she never woke up from unconsciousness. Her family took her home on November 25th since there was no hope of recovery, and she died on November 27th. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Deng Kuiying Died One Year Ago in Custody after Being in a Vegetative State
2009-12-09At the beginning of June 2007, 62-year-old Ms. Deng Kuiying was arrested for the second time when passing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in a store, and was sentenced to two years of forced labour in the Beijing Forced Labour Camp. She was deprived of her visitation rights for more than one month, until she was tortured to a vegetative state. When her family finally saw her, she was unconscious and had a very weak heartbeat. After suffering one year in the hospital, Ms. Deng died on September 6th, 2008. -
Ms. Wang Huilan Dies from Forced-feeding, Police Attempt to Conceal the Crime
2009-12-09Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Huilan, 53 years old, from Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, was arrested on September 1st, 2009 by the Domestic Security Division. On September 7th, she died from brutal forced-feeding at Zhuozhou Detention Centre. Her family and relatives were shocked and saddened by the unexpected news. A dozen of them went to the Zhuozhou City Police Department to seek justice. They demanded that officer Yang Yugang make amends for Ms. Wang's death. The Zhuozhou City Police Department attempted to spend 360,000 yuan to keep Ms. Wang's family and relatives from appealing to the authorities in Beijing and to keep the news of Ms. Wang's death from spreading, so as to eliminate any evidence of their crime. -
Three Practitioners from Weifang City Die in Custody in October 2009
2009-12-09We have learned shocking news from Weifang City, Shandong Province, where three Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death while in custody in October 2009. Their names are Ms. Li Xiuzhen, Ms. Wang Li, and Mr. Tian Jinzhi. Mr. Tian Jinzhi, 60, went out on October 1st, 2009 as he normally did, but he never returned home and his whereabouts were unknown. On October 11th, 2009, his family was suddenly notified by the Kuiwen District Police Department that Mr. Tian died around October 10th, 2009 while in custody. Mr. Tian's family were horrified to find that his body had been cut open and his organs seemed to have been disturbed. They are strongly doubting the cause of his death, as the police told them they cut open his body to find out the cause of death. -
Gynaecologist-obstetrician Arrested and Tortured for Refusing to Give Up Falun Gong
2009-12-08Ms. Li Jinghua used to be a gynaecologist-obstetrician at Kedong County Hospital in Heilongjiang Province. Police arrested Ms. Li three times for practising Falun Gong. The first two times they held her in the Kedong County Detention Centre. The third time she was taken to the Kedong County Public Safety Bureau 610 Office. Chief of the Bureau actively tortured her. Ms. Li was put on the "Iron Chair" in different positions for seven days straight. As a result, she vomited, her body swelled up, her back bled, and her leg muscles were strained.
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