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Prison Guards and Inmates Torture Dafa Practitioners Held in Siping Prison in Jilin Province
2008-01-08
The "Education Ward" (the 9th ward) of Siping Prison of Jilin Province specifically jails and persecutes Dafa practitioners. The ward leader Yin Xiangdong and deputy head Geng Mingcai have forced detained practitioners to go through various brainwashing sessions. They assigned criminals to serve as monitors to watch practitioners all the time. They would follow practitioners wherever they went, be it working, eating, using the toilet, or meeting with their visiting families. They were by the practitioners' side even during sleep. In order to curry favour with prison guards, some monitors used all kinds of torture on the practitioners. Huang Weilin, a practitioner in his 50's, was beaten so badly that he spat up blood -
Police Continue to Torture Practitioners in Qidong County, Hunan Province
2008-01-07Police officers continue to torture practitioners without any remorse in Qidong County, Hunan Province. They arrest whoever catches their fancy and ransack practitioners' homes. Since the end of May 2007, two practitioners who were forced to leave their homes have gone missing, six practitioners' possessions were confiscated and 15 practitioners were arrested and brutally tortured. Practitioner Ms. Lei Fangmei was arrested on June 26th. She was tortured around the clock for an entire week in attempts to force her to renounce Falun Gong. She was also hung on the window sill and suffered beatings. Her feet were covered with bloody wounds. Her family got her released after trying many different methods and after they paid large bribes for her release. -
Mr. Xu Zhiming Disabled after Being Held at the Benxi City Detention Centre in Liaoning Province
2008-01-07Six or seven officers from the local police station broke into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Zhiming's home. Xu Zhiming and his family were sleeping. Without showing any documentation, the policemen ransacked the home and then took Xu to the Niuxintai Police Station. They then took him to the Benxi City Detention Centre on the afternoon of April 13th. Returning home 15 days later, Xu Zhiming's family found Xu to be delirious. When he walked, he would stumble and he was even unsteady while seated. Xu was tortured at the detention centre until he was unable to take care of his daily needs. He has become a different person. At hospital he was diagnosed with drug poisoning, indicating that the guards at the detention centre used drugs to persecute Xu Zhiming. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Lu Xiuli Imprisoned and Persecuted at a Mental Hospital
2008-01-07After July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began forcing Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief. The CCP imprisoned perfectly healthy and mentally stable practitioners in mental hospitals and drug rehabilitation centres. Most of the practitioners were injected and force-fed drugs and chemicals that damaged their nervous systems. Some of damage has resulted in blindness, deafness, palsy, amnesia, mental disorders, injury to the digestive system and death. Ms. Lu Xiuli, a 59-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was arrested when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in November 2007. She was sent to a mental hospital in Shanghai to undergo persecution and brainwashing. -
Five Practitioners from Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia Unlawfully Sentenced to Forced Labour
2008-01-07From August 30th to September 6th, 2007, police officers arrested nine Falun Gong practitioners from Yakeshi City. Practitioner Min Daqing, a 26-year-old employee of the Yitie Electricity Department, was arrested at his workplace. The police confiscated the computer he was using at his workplace. The leaders at his workplace tried to stop the police from taking the computer, but the police forcibly took it away. After this incident, people at his workplace all said that this group of policemen were criminals. Later on, the police broke into Min Daqing's home to confiscate his private computer and Dafa books. Before leaving, they also took 1,300 yuan of his family's money. He has been sentenced to forced labour. -
More Practitioners Die from Persecution in Hebei and Heilongjiang Provinces and Tianjin City
2008-01-06Practitioner Ms. Kang Shurong lived in Tianjin City. She went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, and was taken back by police and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour on December 25th, 2000. In the Tianjin City Women's Forced Labour Camp a drug-addict inmate was ordered to force Ms. Kang to stand for a prolonged period of time when her blood pressure was very high. She was tortured until she was close to death, then bailed out for medical treatment. Police constantly harassed her after she returned home. She died around August 2002, at about 47 years of age. -
Practitioner Xie Wutang is Persecuted and in Critical Condition - Prison Refuses to Release Him
2008-01-06The December 16th, 2007, release of Dafa practitioner Tan Xiangyu came thanks to the efforts of individuals around the world who possess a vision of justice. Tan Xiangyu endured nearly six months of intense persecution in Hunan Province Women's Prison. She suffers from tuberculosis. Her husband Xie Wutang, who is sixty-seven-years old, is still being held in prison and has developed tuberculosis symptoms. -
How the National Security Division of the Daqing Police Department Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-01-06Usually, the National Security Team will not make an immediate arrest after they have identified a practitioner. They will follow the person for a while and then arrest him. They do not need any evidence to made an arrest. When arresting practitioners, they usually do not drive police cars. Rather, they drive private cars or cars with a private company licence plate. They dress in plainclothes and work in groups of four to five. They do not announce their names and will not give their names even if you ask. Even when they arrest elderly practitioners, they go in a group. They normally leave in the morning between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m., since practitioners are usually home at this time. If the practitioner has a job, they go to his workplace. They search the practitioner for the key to his home and then take him to his home to ransack it. -
Court in Jinzhou City Holds Trial of Practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaomin
2008-01-06"My name is Wang Xiaoping, Mr. Wang Xiaomin's wife. I am here today to defend my husband. At around 12 midnight on August 20th, policemen Liu Xu, Ma Hongtao, and Ge Bo from Xiaolingzi Police Station and Taihe Police Sub-department climbed over from my neighbour' fence and burst into our house by forcing open a window. My son woke up from the noise. The three policemen seized my husband without giving an explanation. My son shouted, "Don't take my father away!" However, the policemen even threatened my son with guns. That night many villagers came. They asked, "Do you have an arrest warrant?" Liu Xu replied, "No, we are going to release him after taking down some notes." Both parties refused to budge until early in the morning when forty more policemen came and took my husband away by force." -
Ms. Yu Fengchun Dies as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province
2008-01-05During the past eight years of persecution, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Fengchun was arrested five times and detained and harassed multiple times. On August 31st, 2007, officers from the Chang'an Station stormed into Ms. Yu's home, ransacked her place, took her personal belongings, and threatened her. During her detention, her old sickness recurred, and she died on December 27th, 2007, at the age of 43. -
70-Year-Old Mr. Guo Changyou Dies as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province
2008-01-05
Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Guo Changyou, 70, lived in Harbin City. He was known as a very kind person that loved to help others, and was loved by all of his friends and family. In 2001, Mr. Guo was sent to a forced labour camp for a two year-term, where he contracted severe tuberculosis. His wife was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2002, and she is detained in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. Mr. Guo was extremely worried when he heard about his wife being tortured in the prison. His illness worsened and he died on December 2nd, 2007. -
The Deaths of Four Practitioners in Wuxue City, Hubei Province, Due to Persecution
2008-01-05People who knew Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Feng Yingxiu, Mr. Zhao Zhidan, Mr. Guo Maoquan, and Rev. Mei Zhongquan in Wuxue City, Hubei Province, thought they died due to illnesses. But our investigations indicate that they died as a result of the persecution launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1999. Mr. Guo Maoquan was in his 50s. He had been healthy before and after he began practising Falun Gong in 1997. However, in late 2000, he was taken away by police and put into sack and beaten. Later he was taken to Wuhan City's Shizishan Forced Labour Camp, where he was beaten and kicked in the chest by criminal inmates, which injured his lungs. After being released, his wounds ulcerated and led to his death. -
Falun Gong Practitioners in Zhangjiakou Municipal Detention Centre Hold Hunger Strikes to Protest the Persecution
2008-01-05On November 28th, 2007, the Chicheng County Court in Hebei Province held a so-called "public trial" at Qiaodong Court in Zhangjiakou City. Seven Falun Gong practitioners were brought in for a court hearing. Afterwards, Ms. Wang Yuzhen, Ms. Chen Haiyan, Ms. Lin Cuilian and ten practitioners from another area imprisoned at the Shisanli Detention Centre in Zhangjiakou City started a hunger strike to resist the Chinese Communist Party's imprisonment and persecution. Three practitioners became so ill that they were taken to hospital. The current status of the practitioners is not clear. -
Recently Released Practitioner Recounts Mental and Physical Torture in Yunnan Province No. 2 Women's Prison
2008-01-04I am a Falun Gong practitioner. In 2005, 610 Office agents forcefully took me to prison and I was released three months ago. In prison, collaborators or former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture, detained practitioners in their cells and made them sit on a very low, hard stool. We were not allowed to move and were restricted to three toilet visits per day. So from the time we got up at 6:40 a.m., until 11:00 p.m., we sat for nearly 16 hours every day. After a while I developed bedsores on my buttocks. They hurt me so much it was as if I was being stabbed with needles. Once a collaborator slapped me and cursed me because I leaned over a little bit. I was not allowed to move my eyes around at all; I could only stare at what was in front of me. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp
2008-01-04Mr. Cao Yuguo was sentenced to four and a half years in jail for practising Falun Gong. After being released, he worked as a taxi driver. Eventually he was reported for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. In 2006 he was sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp. Mr. Cao upheld his belief and refused to be "transformed." He was not swayed by sleep deprivation inflicted by the deputy group leader, Wang Xinjiang. In fact, he tried to explain the truth about Falun Gong to Wang. Wang was infuriated and punched Mr. Cao in the face about five or six times.
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