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Officials at the Saertu Police Department in Daqing City Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Li Hui and Ms. Du Shuxia
2007-10-18Officials from the Saertu District Police Department in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, arrested Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Hui and Ms. Du Shuxia on September 22nd, 2007. They handcuffed the women behind their backs and sent them to the No. 1 Detention Centre in Daqing City at 8:00 p.m. In the days that followed they tortured and interrogated them and videotaped the entire process. They bound Li Hui to a metal chair for several days. They constantly pressured her and tried to extort a "confession." They planned to fabricate charges against the practitioners and forbade family visits. They lied to the families in an attempt to extort money by saying the practitioners had committed crimes. -
Practitioner Wei Rongdi from Benxi City Suffers Ill Health After Detention
2007-10-18On April 26th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wei Rongdi was arrested in a shop she worked in, by police. The police told her that she needed to go the police station for some minor issue. However, when she arrived at the police station, she was immediately handcuffed and interrogated. The police asked her if she practised Falun Gong. Ms. Wei Ringdi replied "Yes." She was taken to Dabailou Detention Centre. Twenty days later, she became ill and developed a large bump in her lower abdomen. On June 18th, 2007, Ms. Wei Rongdi could not eat and started to have difficulty breathing. She lost control of her bladder and bowels. She also suffered insomnia. Now she is on medical parole. She has no source of income and lives by doing odd jobs at the shop. -
Four Practitioners From Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Are Secretly and Sentenced
2007-10-17On May 29th, 2007, under great pressure from the Autonomous Region's governing body and the 610 Office, the court in Xixia District, Yinchuan City was forced to open a hearing on four practitioners and sentenced them to heavy terms ranging from 3 years to 7 years because they practise Falun Gong. The four practitioners appealed the sentence. Yet, on July 11th, 2007, Yinchuan City Middle Court again secretly pronounced heavy sentence on the four practitioners. -
The Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Zhang Shengrong Over the Past Eight Years
2007-10-17Practitioner Zhang Shengrong, in her 60s, from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, has been arrested and persecuted numerous times by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials since July 20th, 1999, for her belief in Falun Dafa. In February 2007, Ms. Zhang went to the police station to look for her son who had been arrested, but police forced her out. They were so rough with her that she lost control of her bladder, she was bruised and stiff, and felt pain in her chest and abdomen. -
Kan Jikui and His Wife Feng Zimei Brutally Persecuted for Their Belief in Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance
2007-10-17After the persecution began, Mr. Kan and his wife, Mrs. Feng, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested. Police repeatedly slapped the couple in the face with books and pulled their hair to knock their heads against the car bumper. The persecutors flogged Mr. Kan and Ms. Feng and poured lots of water over them. The couple was sent to the Mengyin Detention Centre. In the detention centre, the wardens forced Mr. Kan and Ms. Feng to make 1,500 matchboxes every day. If they did not finish them all, the wardens forced them to work during the night. They were forced to sleep with over ten other people in a cell that was designed to fit only six. -
The Mistreatment I was Subjected to at the Anhui Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-10-17The Anhui Women's Labour Camp forcibly brainwashes practitioners. The guards tried to force me to watch videos that slandered Falun Dafa, and when I resisted, the collaborators [former practitioners who assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners] took me to the video area and tied me to a chair. The head of the labour camp also deprived me of sleep for long periods of time, waking me at 5:00 a.m. and not allowing me to go to bed until after midnight. He sent two inmates to watch me, did not allow me to talk to anyone. I later lost the sight in my right eye as a result of the physical abuse, and my blood pressure rose to 160/130. When the doctors examined me, they said that I was also about to lose the sight in my left eye. To this day, my health continues to suffer as a result of the persecution. -
Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuhuan Tortured to Death Following Massive May 9 Arrest in Changchun
2007-10-16Ms. Wang Yuhuan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun City, Jilin Province was arrested along with many other fellow practitioners on May 9th, 2007. The police informed her family of her death on October 9th. Wang Yuhuan was a kind woman in her 60s who did not have much education. She was arrested a dozen times by the Changchun police over the past eight years. She was once tortured on the "Tiger Bench" for three days and two nights, until her anklebones were exposed from the constant grinding of the shackles and the tendons in her arms were torn through repeated beatings. The police shocked her face with electric batons, burned her eyes with cigarettes, and stabbed her ears with bamboo sticks, causing injuries all over her body. -
Ms. Wang Yangfang Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party for Eight Years
2007-10-16Because 65-year-old Ms. Wang Yangfang has refused to renounce Falun Gong she has been mercilessly persecuted for eight years. In 2002 she was arrested, her house was ransacked and she was sent to the police station. When Ms. Wang did not go willingly, her hands were handcuffed behind her back and a large policeman pulled on the cuffs to lift her up, almost breaking Ms. Wang's wrists and causing excruciating pain. In the evening she was handcuffed to a chair that was next to a sewage ditch. Her feet could not touch the ground and she was not allowed to sleep. -
Ms. Yin Peikun Sentenced a Second Time to Forced Labour Camp--Leaving Mentally Disabled Family Members Without Care
2007-10-16Ms. Yin Peikun is a sixty year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. In late 2004, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the truth about Falun Dafa, and she was released in early 2007. On September 1st, 2007, she was arrested again. Recently, she was sentenced to another two years of forced labour. She is imprisoned at the Jinan City Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province. -
Guard from Jiamusi City Prison, Heilongjiang Province Claims It Is Quite Normal for Two People to be Beaten to Death
2007-10-16On September 26th, 2007, Li Xiangguo (male) and Chen Xiqiang (male), who are both guards at the Jiamusi City Prison, tied the arms of Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shan Zhiping into an excruciatingly painful position because he refused to report for forced labour. Mr. Shan was suspended by the arms until his feet no longer touched the floor. Two other Falun Dafa practitioners tried to persuade the guards not to do so. However, Li Xiangguo would not listen, and instead asked one of the deputy supervisors of a group of guards, Quan Wei (male), to punch and kick Mr. Gong and Mr. Wang until they were writhing on the ground in pain. -
62-year-old Ms. Li Fangling from Longquanyi District in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Arrested by the 610 Office
2007-10-15In May 2004, several policemen dragged 62-year-old Ms. Li Fangling, downstairs and pushed her into a car. She was then taken to the infamous Chengdu City, Xinjin Brainwashing Centre and imprisoned there for about two months. Personnel of the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre have tortured many practitioners. They drove a beautiful lady, Zhuxia insane and caused a 45 year old female practitioner to die. At the brainwashing centre, several assistants stayed with Ms. Li Fangling and monitored her around the clock. They beat and abused her constantly. She was forced to write the "three statements" to renounce Falun Gong. Otherwise, she would have been imprisoned there indefinitely. -
The Ongoing Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Chengdu City
2007-10-15The so-called "Legal Education Programme" is, in fact, a living hell. Several practitioners became disabled from abuse there, have mentally collapsed, or died. Some were beaten to death. Some who went on a hunger strike were force-fed and died as a result of brutal force-feeding. Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xia was raped in the brainwashing centre and suffered a mental collapse. Liu Ying was injected with unknown substances. Presently, these two practitioners are mentally traumatised and they are unable to take care of themselves. -
My Experience Being Tortured at Longmen Police Station, Longjing City, Jilin Province
2007-10-15In early January 2007, two Falun Dafa practitioners and I went to the villages of Longjing City to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution and were stalked and reported on by an old man, the village guard. We were arrested and taken to the Longmen Police Station in Longjing City where I was beaten severely and tortured with "hanging up in the air," "iron chair", "pouring freezing cold water over people," for 10 hours by Vice Director Zheng and other policemen. The police also stomped on my stomach which caused me to empty my bladder immediately. -
High School Student Has No Place to Return to After School After Police Ransack and Occupy Her Family Home
2007-10-15Dafa practitioner Li Jun has been persecuted and imprisoned for four years. His house was completely searched, and valuables were taken away, leaving his parents-in-law with no home to return to. In 2003, Mr. Li and his wife were persecuted, and they became homeless to avoid arrest. Mr. Li was sentenced to 11 years in prison. His parents, in their seventies, were left home to take care of his young daughter and they went back to their own home. On the night of July 23rd, 2007, officials ransacked Mr. Li's home when no one was there, and took away all their valuable belongings. When Mr. Li's daughter's came home from her grandparents to get some money and clothes, she found that her home had been ransacked. 30,000 yuan that her grandparents had saved for her living expenses and tuition, was stolen. -
The Many Instances of Torture Inflicted Upon High School Teacher Guo Quantai of Wangdu County, Baoding City, Hebei Province
2007-10-14High school teacher and Falun Dafa practitioner Guo Quantai has suffered countless instances of mental, physical and economic torture at the hands of the local Communist Party staff and police. He was almost close to death, and he was deprived of his salary for seven and a half years. The facts about the persecution of Guo Quantai are iron-clad proof of the Chinese Communist Party's genocidal policy of "ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically " in its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.