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• Eight Women Practitioners Arrested in Nanchang City

  2009-08-03
  On April 30th, 2009, eight female practitioners from Nanchang city, Jiangxi province were studying Falun Gong teachings at 60-year-old Ms. Leung Meihua's home when more than 10 police officers arrested them. Ms. Leung Meihua and Ms. Jiang Lanying are still detained at a detention centre. Ms. Leung Meihua was only allowed to sleep for less than three hours and forced to stand for over 10 hours a day because she refused to give up her practice.
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• More Than Ten Practitioners Arrested in Loudi City, Hunan Province

  2009-08-03
  On July 15th, 2009, the police in Loudi City, Hunan Province raided more than ten practitioners' homes, arrested practitioners and some of their family members, and seized computers, printers, TVs, DVDs, and other items. After being forced to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong the family members and new practitioners were released. Other practitioners are still being detained. Mr. Jiang Mogui and Ms. Deng are in their seventies. They have been repeatedly harassed by police officers and agents from the 610 Office for advocating for Falun Gong in public places.
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• Mr. Deng Xiaoming, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Huayang City, Sentenced to Six and Half Years in Prison

  2009-08-03
  On July 8th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Deng Xiaoming, a teacher in Huayang Teacher Training School, was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment by Shuangliu Court. The court tried to prevent Mr. Deng's defence lawyers, Xie Yanyi and Li Chunfu, from defending him in court. After an hour-long argument, the two lawyers finally were permitted to attend the trial as Mr. Deng's representatives. The judge interrupted the defence attorneys several times in an attempt to halt their accusations. In the end, the court sentenced Mr. Deng to six and half years in prison, even though the prosecution was unable to provide any legal basis or advance any further arguments.
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• Additional Details of Mr. Yang Guiquan's Death While in Custody in Fuxin City

  2009-08-02
  Fuxin City Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Guiquan was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a Fuxin City shopping mall when he was arrested on June 20th, 2009. He was detained in the Xindi Detention Centre. During his detention, Mr. Yang held a hunger strike to protest the persecution, but the guards brutally force-fed him. He died on July 5th, 2009. His back and head had bruises, and there were scars on his legs. Mr. Yang's inner thighs showed scars from electric shocks.
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• Ms. Li Shihong's Family Persecuted for Ten Years

  2009-08-02
  Lu Hai, a 13-year-old boy, had to live with his grandmother, Song Wenxiu, after his father, Lu Qiqi, and his mother, Li Shihong, were arrested last year because they practise Falun Gong. Then, on June 12th, 2009, when Jiang'an District Court held a trial for three Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Song Wenxiu wanted to be present. When she neared the courthouse, she was arrested by police. She was later detained in the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre. Poor little Lu Hai now has to live all by himself. He has lost his dear grandmother, who looked after him. In Lu Hai's memory, there were few times when his whole family was ever together over the past ten years. His father, his mother, and even his grandmother were often arrested. There are many incurable wounds to his fragile heart.
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• Six Women Falun Gong Practitioners from Jining City Were Sentenced to Prison

  2009-08-02
  Recently, six women Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced in Jining City, Shandong Province. Among them, Ms. Li Fengyun, 69 years old, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and is now being detained in Yuhuatai Prison in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Ms. Xu Binhai, in her 60s, was sentenced to three years and is now in Yuhuatai Prison
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• "The Risen Lotus Flower" Wu Junyang

  2009-08-02
  The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong for ten years. I recently recalled a fellow practitioner, Wu Junyang, who died five years ago. On July 20th, 1999 the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal four times and was detained at the detention centre twice. In 2004 when he was arrested police detained him in Benxi Detention Centre and tortured him. Each day the thugs beat him to force him to give them information about a site producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and his fellow practitioners. He divulged nothing. Wu Junyang was tortured to skin and bones, his body was full of scars and he became blind.
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• Ms. Zhang Sufang Died in 2000 after Being Tortured at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-08-01
  Ms. Zhang Sufang was released in 2000 from the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp because she was in grave condition after suffering long term mistreatment and repeated beatings. Guards repeatedly ordered prisoners to beat her. Those prisoners used stools to batter her head and their elbows to strike her back. They kicked whatever part of her was closest to them. An imprisoned practitioner counted nineteen wounds on just one of her legs. Ms. Zhang died only a week after being released.
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• Imprisoned and Tortured for Eight Years in Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison, Mr. Jiang Yong Goes Missing Once Again

  2009-08-01
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong is 38 years old. In 2001, he was sentenced to eight years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was detained in the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai for eight years and subjected to various types of torture. Only a few months passed since Mr. Jiang Yong had returned home and then he went missing again on June 13th, 2009. There is still no sign of him at the time of this report. This incident is related to the widespread arrests by the Shanghai authorities in advance of the World Expo. We ask that human rights organizations around the world pay close attention to this matter.
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• Years of Torture Nearly Killed Me

  2009-08-01
  During the past ten years I was incarcerated on and off for nearly eight of those years, and I lost my job and my family. I was arrested six times, sent to forced labour camps three times, sent to a psychiatric hospital twice and to a brainwashing centre once. I was subjected to dozens of different physical tortures. As a result of the long-term abuse and mistreatment under the persecution, I suffered tremendously. Even now I have whole-body oedema. I also have severe insomnia and can't sleep for days. I have had a stroke, memory loss, been in a vegetative state, and lost the function of my four limbs. My legs are paralysed. I also lost bladder and bowel control and was near death four times.
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• Ms. Wang Yong, Middle School Teacher in Kunming City, in Critical Condition after Falling from Fifth Floor during Police Arrest

  2009-08-01
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yong is a teacher in the Panlong District First Middle School in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. On June 24th, 2009, while fleeing from unjust arrest, Ms. Wang fell from the fifth floor, which left her in critical condition. She suffered three broken ribs, broken sternum, and a fracture in her right arm. Her left side was heavily bruised. She was unable to move and speaking took tremendous effort. Her family was not informed until the day after. Officers threatened her family not to disclose her situation; otherwise, her husband's job, her family's safety and her child's college enrolment would be at stake.
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• Older Mr. Fan Yichang Dies in Da'an City Detention Centre in Jilin Province

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Fan Yichang, 69, suffered a stroke in the past, but all of his ailments disappeared after he started to practise Falun Gong. He was a kind and honest person, and even officer Chen Yamin, who mistreated him, had to say that Mr. Fan was a good person. In April 2009, police arrested Mr. Fan. He was sentenced to prison during his detention in the Da'an City Detention Centre. Before being sent to prison, he died on July 22nd, 2009, and his body was cremated against the family's will.
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• Autopsy Shows Mr. Lu Zhen Suffered Severe Physical Trauma Prior to Death

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Lu Zhen, 33, died in the Shandong Province First Prison on June 22nd, 2009. His neck, hips, stomach, and legs were covered with bruises, and there were whip marks on his body. His family did not believe the prison administration when they told them that he died of sudden heart failure and that it was a natural death. They requested an autopsy on the morning of June 30th, and the results showed that he had suffered severe physical trauma prior to his death. It is highly likely that a beating was the cause of death.
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• Two Elderly Practitioners Die in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region As a Result of the Persecution

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Ma Chunwang, 82, lived in Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. He was arrested many times after the persecution began in 1999. On September 6th, 2008, he was arrested along with fellow practitioners Mr. Cao Hongqi and Mr. Zou Kewen, and about a dozen practitioners then later bailed him out. On May 6th, 2009, the Middle Court of Urumqi City held trials for Mr. Cao Hongqi, Mr. Zou Kewen, Mr. Zhu Kui, and Mr. Ma Chunwang. Mr. Ma returned home after the trials. On July 12th, 2009, Mr. Ma was found dead by his neighbour in his home. His Falun Gong books, personal ID, and MP3 player had been taken away from his home.
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• Ruthless Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-31
  The first thing a new arrival in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp encounters is several "reform" strategies. These include having to read documents or watch DVDs that slander Falun Gong, writing statements to give up the Falun Gong practice and defame it, standing for a long time, being handcuffed and hung up, being deprived of sleep and water and food, being deprived of toilet use, and being forced to take drugs. Ms. Lu Xiumin was forced to sit on a small stool for two days and nights, but she refused to "reform." A guard shouted at inmates, "If she [Ms. Lu] does not 'reform' today, beat her today! If she does not 'reform' tomorrow, beat her tomorrow! Beat her till she 'reforms.'"
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