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• Deputy of Jiamusi City Prison Rewards Guards Who Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2007-09-22
  Liu Changyu, the Deputy of Jiamusi City Prison in Heilongjiang Province, is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners there. In order to get a high "transformation" rate, he announced during a prison guard meeting that guards would get an award of 1,000 yuan for "transforming" a practitioner. He awarded 1,000 yuan to guard Xia Yandong in the meeting. To earn the so-called award, prison guards have brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
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• 3074 Deaths Confirmed During the Past Eight Years of Persecution

  2007-09-21
  Ms. Jiang Pai, 30, single, died on June 28th, 2007 at the age of 30 as a result of torture during detention by the agents from Daqing City Police Department, the National Security Department and Procuratorate. She died with 5-kilogramme shackles still on her ankles. Her elderly mother was filled with grief. She cried, "They lied to me, so I encouraged my child to go back to work, but now she is dead. How can I go on living?"
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• Mr. Li Xiaoyuan of Shenyang and Four Family Members Died As A Result of Persecution

  2007-09-21
  Four years ago, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Xiaoyuan, 46, was tortured to death in Guanshan Forced Labour Camp of Liaoning Province. He spent the last four years of his life in detention and brainwashing centres, where he was subjected to torture. He was beaten by the team leader and prisoners for a day and night for refusing to wear the prison uniform. During his detention, four of his family members passed away as a result of the persecution.
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• Two Female Senior Citizens Arrested in Xintai City, Shandong Province - One Brutally Tortured, the Other's Whereabouts Still Unknown

  2007-09-21
  The Public Security Bureau in Xintai City arrested practitioner Ms. Ying Peikun, in her 60s, again on September 1st. She had been detained in a forced labour camp for two years until released at the beginning of this year. ey forbade her from speaking. If she spoke, they would pull her hair and pinch her mouth and cheek. Her upper teeth were pulled out, leaving her with only four teeth. They sealed her mouth and bound her arms, hands, and legs with tape. They pulled out several clumps of her hair. The day after her arrest, another practitioner from the same village, Zhu Minglin, also in her 60s, was arrested as well.
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• The Story of 64 Practitioners from Kunming That Appealed for Justice for Falun Gong in 2000

  2007-09-21
  On April 4th, 2000, 64 practitioners went to the Appeals Office of the Yunnan Province Communist Party Committee to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Several practitioners represented the group to talk to the staff in the appeals office. They peacefully described the wonders of Dafa and asked to have Teacher's [Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa] name cleared, for the persecution of Falun Gong to stop, to be able to practise legally, and to have all the detained practitioners released. Half-an-hour later, several police cars arrived, as well as two buses and one mid-sized van. They were taken to their local police stations. Two days later, those who were steadfast in their belief were sent to different detention centres in Kumin City and were detained for half-a-month or one month. Later, over ten practitioners were sentenced to forced labour.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Liu Gaixian from Shaanxi Province Died as a Result of Torture

  2007-09-20
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Gaixian, about 55 years old, was arrested in 2001 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the truth about Falun Dafa. She was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and served her term in Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was tortured both mentally and physically there, forced to do 17-18 hours of labour per day, deprived of her right to sleep, and forced to stand facing a wall during the night. Ms. Liu Gaixian was locked up in Shaanxi Province Women's Prison for 16 months as of August 7th, 2006. She endured all kinds of torture, to the point where she could not take care of herself. On October 22nd, 2006, only 75 days after she returned home, she died from the severe injuries she sustained in the prison.
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• Persecution of Practitioners in Fanjiatai Prison, Shayang City, Hubei Province

  2007-09-20
  In the cells, the perpetrators force practitioners to sit in front of their beds. They cannot talk with other practitioners, and during closed periods, they cannot make phone calls to or visit with their families. They are especially prohibited from seeing family members who are also practitioners. Even packages sent by the practitioners' families are returned with all kinds of excuses. The guards prohibit them from having a mosquito net in the hot summer when the cells are full of mosquitoes. Worst of all, if practitioners sit on their bed or bench and close their eyes to take a break at noontime, the guards order the criminal inmates to turn on the television and adjust the volume to maximum, make loud noises with stringed instruments, madly knock on the benches, etc. The noise fills the whole cell, keeping practitioners from resting, disturbing them mentally and hurting them physically.
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• National Security Team in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, Arrests Falun Gong Practitioners - Mr. Han Naijun's Life is in Peril

  2007-09-20
  Four Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Zhang Yanmei, Mr. Han Naijun, Mr. Yan Jialiang and Ms. Wang Qi from Tongliao City were recently arrested. Police released Yan Jialiang after they extorted 50,000 yuan from his family. Zhang Yanmei was released the same day; however, her husband Han Naijun is still being detained. Han Naijun has been on a 14-day hunger strike to protest the persecution at the Hexi Detention Centre. His life is in peril; however, detention centre personnel did not inform his family.
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• Ms. Ye Sijing in Her 60s from Changsha City, Hunan Province Sent to Forced Labour Camp

  2007-09-20
  Practitioner Ms. Ye Sijing lives in Changsha City, Hunan Province. On August 2nd, 2007, Ms. Ye was sentenced to three years and sent to the Baima Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City of Hunan Province. She is locked in the 7th Brigade, which is designated as a unit for torturing Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Ye has been so brutally tortured that she has lost her eyesight in just 30 days.
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• Details of a Recent Brainwashing Session at Jishu Town Reservoir, Shulan City, Jilin Province

  2007-09-19
  Shulan City Politics and Law Committee officials, along with agents from the 610 Office and police department, held a brainwashing session at the Jishu Town Reservoir, for the purpose of forcing Falun Gong practitioners into giving up their beliefs. They used various methods including bullying and terrifying, lies, slander, intimidation and deception. One person was initially in charge of each practitioner. Later there were two, three and more assigned to one practitioner. Sometimes more than a dozen perpetrators attempted to "reform" one practitioner using the above-mentioned abusive methods.
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• Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Anhui and Shandong Provinces Died from the Persecution

  2007-09-19
  On May 11th, 2005, Ms. Liu was arrested by police because she had hung a Dafa banner exposing the persecution. Some of her property was confiscated and she was detained for two weeks. Then, Ms. Liu was taken to Zibo 2nd Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong, without any legal process. She was tortured by camp guards, which resulted in her vomiting blood three times. After she was released on April 17th, 2006, she continued vomiting blood. The hospital diagnosis was lung and colon cancer. Ms. Liu passed away on September 12th, 2007.
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• Mr. Sun Xianming Brutally Tortured in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province

  2007-09-19
  On November 15th, 2001, at about 4:00 a.m., Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Sun Xianming, 56, wrote a message exposing the persecution at the over-pass of the Second Department Store. For his act, he was arrested and officers sentenced him to a two-year term of forced labour. During his unjust incarceration in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, Mr. Sun suffered brutality at the hands of guard Zhu Shenglin, who broke Mr. Sun's arms and hung him from a bunk bed while shocking him with several electric batons simultaneously. Sun Xianming suffered severe burns to his chest. Not only did he not receive medical treatment for his broken arms and severe chest burns, he was forced to pick corn stalks in the cornfield all day, which caused severe swelling in his arms. His pain continued into the evening because he was forced to sit on a small backless stool until midnight.
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• High School Teacher Mr. Zhou Qing from Jingshan County, Hubei Province, Almost Blind As a Result of Torture

  2007-09-19
  "I am Zhou Qing's wife. Zhou Qing and I were monitored separately by specific county leaders, and we were imprisoned many times. While we were imprisoned, our child was placed in the care of his grandparents. This happened when our boy was only one-year-old and continued until he was two years old. In detention, the prison warden ordered inmates to take turns jumping on Zhou Qing's chest from a high location and the inmates kicked him all over. Due to repeated tortures of this type, in conjunction with a long prison term, inadequate nutrition, and lack of food, Zhou Qing became practically blind, and he now cannot see anything clearly."
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• Practitioner Mr. Ma Qinghai Severely Tortured at Chifeng Prison, Inner Mongolia

  2007-09-18
  Mr. Ma Qinghai was sentenced to nine years in prison because he told people about the persecution against Falun Dafa. Mr. Ma has been tortured since he was sent to Chifeng Prison on January 12th, 2006. The day Mr. Ma entered the Chifeng Prison, he refused to wear prison clothes, since he had not committed any crime. A guard beat him until he lost consciousness and then ordered three prisoners to continue beating him. When Mr. Ma woke up, his face was bruised and disfigured. He went on a hunger strike in protest and asked to be released immediately. Five days later, the guard tied him to a bed and inserted a tube into his nose and throat and force-fed him.
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• Police Mistreat Practitioners Ms. Liang Xiuqin and Her Son, and Ms. Duan Guiping and Her Daughter from Hebei Province

  2007-09-18
  At around 10:00 p.m. on August 10th, 2007, police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lian Xiuqin and her son Li Qiulin (college student, not a practitioner) and confiscated Li Qiulin's motorcycle. Police accused them of putting up Falun Dafa posters. At 4:00 a.m. the next day, six or seven police officers forced their way into practitioner Ms. Duan Guiping's home by climbing over the wall around her house, awakening her husband Li Dong and her daughter Li Anli, who were sleeping soundly. When Ms. Duan Guiping's husband, Li Dong, asked the police, "What are you doing here so late at night?" A police officer threatened him and said "Don't move as this is a criminal offence case." At that time, Ms. Duan had only her night clothes on. The policemen did not allow her to get dressed and dragged her out.
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