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  • Older Practitioner Mr. Chen Baihe in Serious Condition in Prison, Authorities Prohibit Outside Medical Treatment

    Mr. Chen Baihe was sentenced to a four-year jail term in January 2007 in Jidong Prison. Mr. Chen now is now blind in one eye and has very high blood pressure. His family members believe that he should see a doctor independent from the prison medical system but they have been refused by the Jidong Prison. Seeking help for Mr. Chen, a family member called the prison department heads He Lizhi and Xu Zhiqiu and requested that he be allowed to see a doctor outside the prison. They replied they would need to verify his health status to see if he is qualified to see outside doctors. Two days later they said that Chen was not qualified and that they should not make this kind of request in the future.
  • Older Female Falun Gong Practitioner Sexually Assaulted in Police Custody in Taiyuan City

    In June, 2008, at around 3 a.m., 56-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiuyun was distributing informational materials about the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested by policemen from the Xiaodian District Police Station. During her detention, policemen incited a group of derelicts to attempt to rape her. She struggled to defend herself and shouted loudly, attracting the attention of nearby people. This caused her assailants to back off. Ms. Zhao reported this attempted rape to the Xiaodian District Police Station. Ms. Zhao's elder brother also complained about the detestable treatment she had received when he visited her in detention.
  • My Experience at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp

    I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in 2008, and imprisoned at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp. The labour camp was overcrowded. The younger ones had to sleep on the floor. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imprisoned many people in the labour camp in order to make money through free labour. The labour camp had many orders to fulfil. Some were for toys, some were for mobile phone cases. Inmates had to work more than ten hours a day, seven days a week. Some inmates' wrists and fingers were injured by the repetitive labour. Some had friction burns on their hands, some had swollen legs. Inmates had to ask for permission before using the toilet.
  • Ms. Song Yanjin from Heilongjiang Province Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, Previously in a Forced Labour Camp for Two Years

    Ms. Song Yanjin was sentenced to three years in prison for her belief in Falun Gong. She was imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison on April 8th, 2009. This is her second imprisonment due to her belief. When she was arrested in May 2008 she was detained in the Longjiang County Forth Detention Centre. Police interrogated her with violence. They slapped her face so hard that her teeth loosened, her mouth and face were swollen and she could not eat for some time. Forty days later, on June 18th, officers handcuffed and shackled Ms. Song dumped her in the boot of a police car, and took them to the Dafangli Police Station in Harbin City.
  • Elderly practitioners in Guangzhou City Held at the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre for Persecution

    Currently, at least three practitioners have been detained in the Chejiaji Brainwashing Centre, and are undergoing brainwashing and physical torture. Practitioners being held include Ms. Wang Youming, who is nearly 70 years old, and Ms. Song Wenxiu, a retired teacher and elder practitioner. After Wang Youming was subjected to the brainwashing torture, the brainwashing centre still refused to release her, and forced her to divulge the names and home addresses of other practitioners. Ms. Song Wenxiu, nearly 70, was force-fed, and as a result, lost some teeth.
  • Shandong Province Men's Second Forced Labour Camp Uses Unknown Drugs to Harm Practitioners

    During 2008 and 2009, approximately 300 male Falun Gong practitioners were detained in the Shandong Province Men's Second Forced Labour Camp. The camp guards instructed other inmates to mix unknown drugs into food that was fed to practitioners. The unknown drugs caused symptoms that included headache, dizziness, body numbness, and nosebleed, along with swelling of the face, feet and legs. The prison guards' motives were to destroy the will and spirit of the practitioners and force them to renounce Falun Gong.
  • Mr. Sun Changjun Dying in Jilin Prison

    Mr. Sun Changjun is one of the eight Falun Gong practitioners that took part in tapping into the Changchun City cable TV network in March 2002 to broadcast videos exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Of those eight practitioners, only two are still alive. Mr. Sun is currently confined to the Aged and Crippled Ward in the Jilin City Prison. The long-term brutal mistreatment has left him with a severe case of tuberculosis, and he is as thin as a skeleton and dying.
  • Mr. Li Zhigang Tortured During Interrogation and Detained for Over Six Months

    Falun Gong practitioner Li Zhigang from Harbin was arrested, together with seven other friends, by the police at his home. He was severely tortured and is now showing symptoms of serious tuberculosis. His genitals are badly infected from the torture and he is being given unknown drugs. The Nangang District Court once notified Mr. Li's family members and his lawyers in Beijing that Li Zhigang would be brought to trial on June 22nd, 2009. However, after the lawyers travelled thousands of miles to get to the court in Harbin, they were told by case officer Song Chengzhang that the authorities (the 610 Office and the Political and Judiciary Committee) had given a last-minute notice saying this was a special case, and the trial was cancelled that day. Mr. Li Zhigang is still detained at the Nangang District Detention Centre.
  • City Pays Fifty Vicious Thugs 300,000 Yuan to Torture Six Practitioners for a Month

    Between September 6th and October 4th, 2005, six practitioners were detained at the Petrochemical Sanatorium, which is located at Wenquan in Xianning City, Hubei Province. The funds provided for carrying out this persecution was over 300,000 yuan during one month's time. This money came directly from the city financial department. Over fifty people were involved in this persecution.
  • Report on the Persecution of Mr. Cui Xinghui

    Mr. Cui Xinghui is a Falun Gong practitioner from Pingshan County in Hebei Province. He is a typical villager, but because he followed the principles of Falun Gong--Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance--trying to be a good person and telling people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, he was arrested, had funds extorted from him, was detained in brainwashing centres, was sentenced to forced labour, and was tortured. In the end, he was forced to leave home and live elsewhere.
  • Retired Professor Ms. Zeng Lingwen of Changchun Subjected to Long-term Abuse

    Ms. Zeng Lingwen, 74, is a highly respected retired professor of physics and a Falun Gong practitioner. Because she practises Falun Gong she was arrested repeatedly and taken to detention centres and forced labour camps. She was recently taken to a police station for additional questioning following a police search of her home. Ms. Zeng has returned home, but the police keep monitoring her. The gross abuse and mistreatment at a forced labour camp is designed to push practitioners to their limit of endurance, physically and mentally, to break practitioners' will and force them to compromise their belief. Practitioners suffered from various tortures including high voltage baton shocks, the death bed, forced feeding, solitary confinement, violent beatings, hanging up, being forced to hold painful postures for long periods of time.
  • Ms. Wang Huiling, 60, Dies as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Wang Huiling went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000, and was arrested. Ms. Wang was detained in the Harbin City Second Detention Centre. Ms. Wang was tortured at the detention centre, where they forcibly stripped off her clothes, and made her do repetitive sitting squats continuously, and then forced her to sit on the floor in a fixed position where she was not allowed to move. Several days later her family was notified that she had suffered a stroke, and was being sent to the hospital. When her family rushed there, Ms. Wang was unconscious. Over the past nine years Ms. Wang never fully recovered. Despite her condition, the police kept harassing her at home and threatened her and her entire family. Ms. Wang died under this tense environment.
  • Mr. Wenxian Cheng Detained in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp; Family Not Allowed to Visit

    In October 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cheng Wenxian was arrested while he was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Xuzhou City. He is being detained in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Zibo City. This is the second time that Mr. Cheng had been detained in a forced labour camp. Previously he was in Dashan Forced Labour Camp in Qingdao City for three years. His family wanted to visit him and take him some clothes when they learned of his arrest, but they were not allowed to see him.
  • Veteran Soldier Arrested for Trying to Rescue His Mother Dies in Police Custody

    Ms. Ren Zhaoxia was arrested by the local 610 Office and the National Security Brigade. She was sent to Yibin City Detention Centre. This was the fourth time she had been taken away by the authorities for her belief in Falun Gong. Previously, she had been imprisoned for a year in a forced labour camp. Her son, Mr. Chen Xiangru, went to the detention centre to request his mother's release. The Chinese Communist Party officials then tried to arrest him. As a result, he was forced to quit his job and rent a room in Nanxi. On July 20th, 2009, Mr. Chen Xiangru was arrested and detained in the Nanxi Detention Centre. On August 8th, 2009, he died under unknown circumstances. Further details of his death are being investigated.
  • Ms. Li Fengzhen Disabled as a Result of Persecution

    In June of 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Fengzhen was arrested by Li Fuguo and Wang Min from the National Security Team of the Public Security Bureau in Tanghai County, Hebei Province. She was then sent to Tangshan Ankang Hospital where she received forced injections of unknown medicine. After Ms. Li was disabled by the persecution, she was sent back to her family. In only two months, the once healthy and rational Li Fengzhen basically lost her memory. She became mentally unstable and extremely skinny. She could not see clearly, nor could she stand upright and walk.