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• Shenyang City Practitioner Ms. Zhang Weidi Detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2009-01-13
  Ms. Zhang Weidi is a practitioner from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On July 4th, 2008, she was arrested in Fushun City and taken to a forced labour camp for two years. Ms. Zhang is currently being detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, one of the most brutal forced labour camps in China. At this time, the labour camp officials are refusing to allow her family to visit her. The whole time that Ms. Zhang has been detained, her mother, who is already over 80 years old, has been left on her own.
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• Practitioners Resolutely Resist the Persecution in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp

  2009-01-12
  The guards at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp committed huge crimes against practitioners, and the methods they used were extremely cruel. They carried out atrocities of unparalleled savagery. Ms. Zhu Huizhen and Yang Shuping were blinded as a result of inhuman torture. When Ms. Zhu's son went to visit his mother and found she was blind he choked up with tears. The guards claimed that Ms. Zhu was pretending to be blind, but a hospital examination confirmed that she was blind. Ms. Zhang Min, Ms. Wang Xumei were locked up in a small room, where they were subjected to inhuman torture beyond the imagination of people.
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• Ms. Luo Guangquan Died in 2005 after Six Years of Persecution in Songzi City, Hubei Province

  2009-01-12
  Ms. Luo Guangquan was a Falun Gong practitioner from Songzi City, Hubei Province. She endured brutal abuse for six years. Due to this extended period of threats, harassment, and torture, Ms. Luo Guangquan's health deteriorated, leading to her eventual death in August 2005. Prior to her death, the local 610 Office officials had persecuted her relentlessly. Ms. Luo's daughter, Hu Jiqin, is also a practitioner and has faced inhumane treatment for a long time. Currently, Ms. Hu is currently detained in the First Detention Centre of Songzi City.
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• Mr. Liu Yongwang Serving Eight-Year Sentence--Family Denied Proper Visitation

  2009-01-12
  Mr. Liu Yongwang, from Beijing, has been detained at the Jidong Prison in Hebei Province. To protest his unjust imprisonment he started a hunger strike which lasted almost two years. During that period he was brutally force-fed and passed out from the pain on numerous occasions. Several times he was on the brink of death. In addition, the prison warden secretly held all mail coming into the prison for Mr. Liu and would not permit him to properly visit with his family. It was only under the care of his family and good friends that Mr. Liu started eating regularly in April 2008.
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• Practitioner Ms. Lin Guizhi Denied Medical Parole

  2009-01-12
  46-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Guizhi, from Chaoyang City in Liaoning Province, has been imprisoned in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison and subjected to abuse for more than five years. Her situation recently became very serious, and she has been lapsing into a coma several times a day. Community Security Affairs Division head Li Guangwen at the Chaoyang City Police Department Guanming Branch has denied her medical parole.
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• Five-year-old Xiaoyu's Sincerest Wish

  2009-01-11
  Xiaoyu just started going to kindergarten this year. One day when she was playing with her kindergarten friends someone mentioned what he wished for and then the others told what they wished for, too. When asked what she wished for, Xiaoyu replied sadly, "I wish there were no police. Then my dad could come back home and live with us, and my mum and grandma will not cry anymore." Xiaoyu was born in a family that practises Falun Gong. Before she was born, her parents were arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and taken to the Laishui Town Government Building. The police brutally beat her parents to try to force them to give up cultivating Falun Gong. Right after Xiaoyu's birth, her father was arrested again. He was sentenced to three years of forced labour.
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• The Zunhua City Police and Justice Department Refuse to Release Mr. Zhao Jingjun Despite Lack of Evidence

  2009-01-11
  "Mr. Zhao Jingjun has been detained for more than five months, and he will now be tried in court." As this news was spread all over Qihu Village, some of the villagers became very angry and said, "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does nothing good. It just arrests good people. After Mr. Zhao, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on July 6th, 2008, the Zunhua City Police Department in Hebei Province fabricated evidence and requested an arrest warrant. The Zunhua City Court put Zhao Jingjun on trial on November 25th. Because of insufficient evidence, the Court rejected the case and sent it to the Procuratorate for further investigation. Mr. Zhao's family has already asked for help from a lawyer.
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• Mr. Shen Lianghua, Imprisoned Several Times Since 1999, Sent Once Again to a Forced Labour Camp

  2009-01-11
  Since 1999, when the Chinese communist party began persecuting Falun Gong, Mr. Shen Lianghua, a practitioner, has been imprisoned several times because he refused to renounce his belief. On February 25th, 2008, about eight police officers broke into Mr. Shen's house and took him to the Guang County Detention Centre. They did not notify Mr. Shen's family members. Without any legal procedures, they took Mr. Shen Lianghua directly to a forced labour camp in Guanzhuang Town, Wangcun. In November 2008, Mr. Shen Lianghua's family members went to visit him in Guanzhuang Town Forced Labour Camp but were refused entry by the guards.
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• Practitioner Mr. Liu Fujiang Suffers Abuse in Beijing Qianjin Prison

  2009-01-11
  Practitioner Mr. Liu Fujiang was arrested in 2003, and was sentenced to six years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mr. Liu Fujiang refused to give up Falun Gong, and was put into a small cell. He was not allowed to contact anyone else except for the criminal inmates who agreed to monitor him and torture him. Mr. Liu Fujiang was beaten and kicked by those inmates, and had to sit on a bench for over twenty hours every day. If he moved, the inmates would insult him, beat him, and they didn't let him sleep. Mr. Liu once went on a hunger strike to protest the brutal treatment.
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• Violence Cannot Conquer Conscience: Dr. Xu Xiuxin Is Held in Dashan Detention Centre, Qingdao City

  2009-01-10
  Since July 20th, 1999, Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Wu Xiuxin, about 50 years old, has been persecuted repeatedly. In 2000, she was sent to the Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a three-year sentence. She witnessed many Falun Gong practitioners being tortured. For example, Ms. Zhang Yanyuan was handcuffed and hung up with her tiptoes barely touching the ground for many days because she insisted on practising Falun Gong. As a result, the handcuffs cut into her wrists and blood dripped down her arms. Later on, Ms. Zhang was brutally force-fed many times because she went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. Dr. Wu Xiuxin is now in the Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City.
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• Unreasonable Judgement Handed Down in Northern Shenyang City in 2008

  2009-01-10
  Around the time of the Olympics, the Chinese Communist regime used "social stability" as an excuse to arrest four Falun Gong practitioners from Shenbei New District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On December 1st-9th, 2008, Shenbei District Court sentenced four practitioners to very heavy penalties. Ms. Wang Shumei was the first practitioner to be tried. Ms. Wang insisted that by following the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance, she did not do anything wrong, and she asked to be released immediately. This made Sun Yonggang, the 610 Office head, very angry. He yelled, "I will have you sentenced to ten years!" That's all it took--one sentence spoken by Sun Yonggang for Ms. Wang Shumei to be sentenced to ten years.
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• Mr. Xie Chuhua from Denghai City, Guangdong Province, Died as a Result of Three Years of Torture

  2009-01-10
  On June 9th, 2004, police broke into 50-year-old Mr. Xie Chuhua's home, ransacked it, confiscated his belongings, and arrested him. Mr. Xie Chuhua was sentenced to forced labour and was held in the Meizhou Jail for three years. He was severely tortured, which caused internal breeding. He was then sent home by police officers after suffering so much that he could no longer function. Not only did he suffer physically from the tortures but he also experienced extreme fear and horrors, which couldn't be described in words. Mr. Xie Chuhua died in June 2008, after he was subjected to a long period of mental and physical torture.
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• Retired Schoolteacher from Liaoning Province Severely Tortured Before He Died

  2009-01-10
  Mr. Zhang Shimin was a 74-year-old Falun Gong practitioner. When he worked, he was an outstanding schoolteacher. Mr. Zhang started practising Falun Gong in 1996 and became very healthy and enthusiastic in helping others. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the suppression of Falun Gong on July 20ht, 1999, Mr. Zhang was sentenced to a forced labour camp in 2001 for one and a half years, because he persevered in practising Falun Gong and telling people the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. In the labour camp he was subjected to severe psychological and physical abuse. He died on October 20th, 2008.
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• The Persecution of Practitioners in Shandong Province Men's Prison

  2009-01-09
  The Shandong Province Men's Prison, also known as the Shandong Province No. 1 Prison, is located in Jinan City. It is notorious for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The guards in the No. 11 Ward use all types of torture techniques such as brainwashing, hypocrisy, cajoling, force-feeding, sleep deprivation, sitting on a board, solitary confinement, shocking with an electric baton, mental torment, criticism, denunciation, and humiliation to compel practitioners to do things against their will and renounce Falun Gong.
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• Husband Given Prison Sentence; Wife Sent to Brainwashing Centre

  2009-01-09
  Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Zonglin was formerly the superintendent of the Mingyuan Architecture Design Institute, a part of the Chengdu City government. On August 2nd, 2007, he was arrested at home by police. Jiang's family never received any legal documentation and only heard much later that he was subjected to brainwashing. He was not allowed to sleep for sixty straight hours. On December 8th, 2008, which is the petition reception day for the Sichuan Province government, Jiang's wife went to the government office to appeal for her husband. However she was arrested.
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