Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Mr. Long Guande Sustained Severe Internal Organ Damage from Beatings During His Arrest--Now in Sihui City Prison with Medical Treatment Denied

    On September 23rd, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Long Guande was arrested. He was savagely beaten by the arresting officers and critically injured. Since his arrest, prison authorities have refused to give him access to medical treatment. On May 20th, 2009, Tianhe District Court in Guangzhou City sentenced him to a term of seven years. On August 18th, he was transferred to Sihui City Prison. Since Mr. Long's arrest and imprisonment, his family members have on many occasions asked the prison authorities to allow them to visit him. They have been turned away each time.
  • Ms. Chen Chujun Dies While in Custody at a Mental Hospital

    Ms. Chen Chujun was arrested before the Beijing Olympics, detained, and taken to a forced labour camp. It was recently discovered that she died in March 2009 at the Huaihua City Fourth People's Hospital, a mental hospital. In Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, according to witnesses, the staff injected glucose, along with a nerve-damaging drug called Thorazine, into Ms. Chen. After being injected with this drug, a person will gradually suffer memory loss and sleep all the time. The punitive measures resulted in serious afflictions for Ms. Chen, such as severe brain and cognitive dysfunction.
  • Beijing Regime Ringleaders Reward Police Crimes

    Beijing's Communist Party Committee and the Municipal Government have rewarded police officers who participated in persecuting Falun Gong. On top of huge expenditures to build forced labour camps and prisons, the ringleaders have provided all-expense-paid tours, and subsidies for housing, as well as pay rises, to reward police officers employed in labour camps and prisons. The material rewards are considered enticements to continue committing crimes against Falun Gong. Many police officers and government employees, lured by the regime's monetary rewards and urgings, have contributed to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners against their conscience, although they know that Falun Gong practitioners are good people
  • Older Couple Died in 2006 Under Stress of Persecution

    An older couple in Jilin Province, Ms. Sun Yuxiang and her husband Mr. Qu Changxing, were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they practised Falun Gong. They each passed away under difficult circumstances brought about by the persecution. Ms. Sun was sent to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a two-year term. Guards tortured her with sleep deprivation for 72 hours. Mr. Qu died from a heart attack in 2005 brought about from living in harsh conditions. Ms. Sun could not bear the sudden death of her husband, she became sick and died in February 2006, without any family around her.
  • Mr. Ai Lihua and His Family Brutally Beaten and Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Mr. Ai Lihua, his wife Ms. Gu Junqing, and daughter Ms. Ai Xuelian, were arrested on July 30th, 2009. At the police station, the police began roughly taping Mr. Ai's ankles together, then used his belt to tie his hands behind his back. After that, they taped his arms close to his body then brutally beat Mr. Ai, while they tied him to the "tiger bench". While Ms. Ai was being interrogated, she was slapped on the face over ten times then dragged by her hair and slammed into a wall. An Chunfa slapped her face an additional ten-plus times then kicked her and hit her with a water bottle. Later, Mr. Ai Lihua was sentenced to 15 months of forced labour, and Ms. Ai was sentenced to one year of forced labour.
  • Qu Mingzhu Sentenced to One Year of Forced Labour, Her Family Broken Up

    On July 3rd, 2008, police raided the workplace of Ms. Qu Mingzhu, found Falun Gong materials and arrested her. During her detention at the labour camp, Ms. Qu and other practitioners were forced to do hard labour every day for 12 to 13 hours. One time the work involved hand selecting toothpicks. If the workload was not finished at the end of the day, captain Huo Shuping ordered everyone to bring their work back to their cells and continue to work on it until midnight. During Ms. Qu's detention her husband could not stand the pressure from various authorities and left home with their child to live in another city.
  • "Stop the Persecution and Restore My Freedom of Belief"--The Account of a Senior Practitioner

    On April 30th, 2001, when I went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong, the Beijing police arrested me. After a body search, they held me in Dongcheng Detention Centre for 15 days. Those in charge used violence to force me to wear the prison uniform. One of them hit my neck with a high voltage baton so hard that I dropped to the floor instantly. In a Beijing police station, police tortured me. Two men lifted my arms upward until my shoulder joints were almost dislocated. One used a barbed stick to hit my back, buttocks, legs, and feet. He also kicked my lower back. He swore at me while he tortured me, saying "It's no big deal if you guys die--you'll die for nothing."
  • Blind Senior Woman Brainwashed, Tortured, and Forced to Scrub Floors in a Forced Labour Camp

    On March 16th, 2005, Ms. Wang Chunhua was arrested for distributing information about Falun Gong. In the labour camp, prison guards Yan Yan, Wang, and others tried to force her to give up Falun Gong. Because she did not co-operate, she was tortured, deprived of sleep, and prohibited from going to the toilet. She was forced to sit straight on a low bench all day long, which caused pain in her legs. After nearly 20 days of this abuse, the guards asked her why she practised Falun Gong. She replied, "I practise Falun Gong because I want to be a good person. I am in very good health and don't need medication." The guards refused to listen to her and continued to abuse her.
  • Hou Shaohua Dies in Fall from Building During Arrest; Family Seeks Answers from Police

    Falun Gong practitioner Hou Shaohua died as a result of falling from an apartment building on September 15th, 2009, during an attempted police arrest. The family is very angry, and they insist on finding out the cause of Hou's death. They have refused to allow the police to cremate the body. The local police have tried to cover up the event, saying that Hou Shaohua gambled and that that is why they were trying to arrest Hou. The people who knew Hou Shaohua in the Sixtieth Factory of Dongfeng Company all commented, "Everyone knows that Hou Shaohua never gambled!"
  • Ms. Liu Yuhua Severely Beaten Over 50 Times in Detention

    Since 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yuhua has been imprisoned in a brainwashing centre for a total of two years, and was beaten on at least 50 occasions. Previously, in September 2001, police broke into Liu Yuhua's house. They arrested her and confiscated her possessions and home. After she was taken to the security bureau, Ha Fulong slapped her. After his hands started to hurt, he used books and even shoes to strike her. Liu Yuhua's mouth was full of blood. Ha Fulong then used a rope to whip her face. Then Wang Shiwu used electric batons to shock her all over her body. After being tortured for over 4 hours, she was imprisoned in the detention centre of Qianan City for over a year.
  • Relentless Persecution of Ms. Ma Yan by Li Jianbin, Head of the 610 Office in Changyi, Shandong Province

    On September 4th, 2009 when Ms. Ma Yan was not at home, Li Jianbin, Head of the 610 Office, combed through her house and took 1,800 yuan, the only money she had to support herself and pay her bills. In September 2007, Ms. Ma was arrested by Li Jianbin and his cohorts when she was at home. They hit her in the face, used a towel to muffle her mouth, and handcuffed her behind her back. In this robbery alone, the police took money and property belonging to Ms. Ma worth about 100,000 yuan in total. Ma Yan was then held in Changyi Detention Centre for eleven days. She was tortured until she could not eat or drink, and threw up blood. Although she had already been brutally treated, Li Jianbin sent her to Shandong Province Zibo No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp for further torture.
  • Mr. Gao Cai from Jingyuan County, Liaoning Province, Persecuted Since 2005

    Because Mr. Gao Cai, 58, practised the Falun Gong exercises in a park, he was arrested many times and subjected to two years of forced labour in Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp in Fushun City. In March 2005, he was arrested again and sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Jingyuan County Court. He suffered from all kinds of tortures while in prison, such as being brutally beaten, forced to sit on a small bench for long hours, deprived of sleep, brainwashing, and forced to do slave labour.
  • Ms. Bai Xueshuang Disabled from Nerve-Damaging Drug Injections Eight Years Ago and Still Being Persecuted

    During the past several years of persecution, Ms. Bai Xueshuang's family has had over 60,000 yuan extorted from them. Her physical and mental suffering cannot be measured. In 2001, an animal syringe was used to inject her with unknown nerve-damaging drugs. She subsequently lost her eyesight, and her muscles atrophied. She became disabled and has still not recovered. In June 2009, the police took Ms. Bai away in a police car. She was left in the middle of nowhere several miles away from home even though she had difficulty walking. She had to walk all the way home by herself. It took her nearly six hours.
  • Mr. Wang Naishen from Tianjin City Died in 2002 at a Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Naishen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000, and was arrested by police. He was later sent to a Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. In 2002, after being tortured mentally and physically, including long-term sleep deprivation, Mr. Wang was on the verge of a mental collapse. According to an informed source, one day Mr. Wang suddenly ran out of the Tianjin Port Police Department with people yelling and chasing after him. He ran to a crane at the port and climbed up while police officers stood below shouting threats. It is probable that Mr. Wang lost his balance and fell from the crane to his death due to his weakened physical condition and severe emotional distress.
  • Practitioner in Duolun County, Inner Mongolia Arrested by National Security Bureau

    On September 8th, 2009, the National Security Police arrested practitioner Mr. Cao Feng while he was working in Shanghai and took him back to Duolun County. He is now imprisoned in the Duolun County Jail. In past years, he and his family were continuously persecuted by the police. In 2003, a warden shocked him with electric batons. His neck and face swelled up with large blisters. He was subsequently extorted out of 4,500 yuan before his release.