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• Police Arrest More than Thirty Practitioners in Dalian City Before the World Economic Forum

  2007-08-23
  On August 14th, 2007, the police simultaneously arrested around 36 Falun Dafa practitioners. Among them, nearly twenty were arrested in one practitioner's house. The Xincheng Accounting Firm in Dalian City was ransacked and ordered to cease operations. Many practitioners working there were arrested. Their homes have been broken into and ransacked one by one.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Ma Zhitang from Jianli County, Hubei Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2007-08-22
  60-year-old Dafa practitioner Mr. Ma Zhitang was arrested at his home on four different occasions by local police officers. Mr. Ma was forced to write the "three statements" to give up practising Falun Dafa and had been fined more than 6,600 yuan without being given receipts. On July 22nd, 2007, as a result of such trauma and persecution, Mr. Zhitang passed away due to the recurrence of previous illnesses. His wife, his 83 year old mother, and a middle-school-aged child are living at his home and are without any source of income.
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• Practitioner Mr. Wang Gang Loses His Right Leg Due to Persecution at Baoding Prison in Hebei Province

  2007-08-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Gang's family was finally able to meet Mr. Wang around 9:00 a.m. on August 6th, 2007, at the Fourth Division of the Jidong Prison in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Mr. Wang became disabled as a result of the persecution. Information about Wang Gang's disability has been blocked for two years, and the family did not know of it until they saw him. Upon seeing her husband's disability, Wang Gang's wife cried sadly. Wang Gang's right leg was amputated at the high-thigh level. According to the Jidong Prison guards, a physical exam at the time of his transfer between prisons revealed inflammation of an artery in his left leg. The officials withheld this information from him.
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• Mother in Her 80s Seeks Arrested Daughter's Whereabouts Without Success

  2007-08-22
  In June 2006, Ms. Gao Xiumin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Nantangjia Village, Rushankou Town in Rushan City, Shandong Province, was arrested by the police when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the truth about Falun Dafa in Xia Village, Rushan City. In August 2006, she was transferred from Rushan City to Zibo City, Shandong Province. The exact location is unknown. She and her 87-year-old mother depend on each other for survival. Her arrest has greatly affected her mother, who was almost stricken with an illness. The elderly woman, who had never left her hometown before, began to fervently seek her daughter. Yet her daughter's detention location is unknown.
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• Ms. Zhu Guilin Persecuted in Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, Hunan Province

  2007-08-22
  On October 8th, 2004, Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhu Guilin, 43, was arrested for practising Falun Gong by police. Ms. Zhu was sentenced to two and a half years in Baimalong Forced Labour Camp. Every day, inmates tried to force Ms. Zhang to "transform." In January 2005, she was forced to stand continually for five or six days. She was not allowed to sleep, close her eyes, or move. Her legs were swollen so badly that her trousers no longer fit. Ms. Zhu began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The warden stomped on Ms. Zhu with high heels. An Inmate kicked Ms. Zhu in the head. Every day she was force-fed. She was tortured to the brink of death.
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• Practitioners Tortured in Suining County Detention Centre

  2007-08-21
  The Suining County Detention Centre has been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for eight years. Practitioners, who follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, are treated even worse than criminals who have committed all sorts of atrocities. They are monitored and controlled by prisoners and forced to do drills and labour. Guards handcuffed the practitioners' hands, pounded shackles onto their feet, passed the handcuffs through the shackles, and linked the left shackles and right shackles with chain less than 50 cm. (20 inches) long. This way, practitioners cannot stand up and walk normally.
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• Additional Details about Ms. Yang Mingfen's Persecution and Death in Maoming City, Guangdong Province

  2007-08-21
  The Clearharmony website reported on December 1st, 2004, that Ms. Yang Mingfen from Maoming City, Guangdong Province, was persecuted to death. Around May 2002, the Maoming City 610 Office arrested Yang Mingfen and sent her to the brainwashing centre. While she was in the brainwashing centre for over a year, Yang Mingfen was tortured inhumanly. Yang Mingfen was stomped and beaten multiple times by the guards. After suffering a long period of persecution and torture, Yang Mingfen's health deteriorated drastically and she became dangerously emaciated. Later, she had an extremely hard time swallowing food. The authorities released her in March 2004 after realising she was on the verge of death. She died six months later on the morning of October 26th, 2004.
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• 60-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Jin Chunxian from Dongning County, Heilongjiang Province Passes Away Due to Persecution

  2007-08-21
  Practitioner Ms. Jin Chunxian, 60, had been subjected to inhumane torture in Qiqihar Forced Labour Camp. She was hung up for four days by her hands cuffed behind her back. As she persisted in practising the exercises, she was brutally beaten by criminals many times. They each grabbed one of her limbs. Her clothes were torn away, and they even tore the skin on her abdomen in the process. They then shocked her with electric batons. She was arrested again in September 2005 and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment without proper legal proceedings. On July 31st, 2007, she passed away.
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• Police Arrest Fourteen Practitioners during the Last Three Months in Yi County, Hebei Province

  2007-08-21
  The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has been more rampant during the last three months in Yi County. Police have harassed and threatened practitioners in their homes. Tanghu Town was especially targeted. They went to the homes of every practitioner to harass, threaten and arrest them. In the last three months fourteen practitioners' homes have been ransacked. This caused a great deal of mental anguish for the families of the practitioners.
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• Ms. Li Yunxia from Yi County, Hebei Province Is Extremely Weak from Nearly Three Years of Torture at Baoding Forced Labour Camp

  2007-08-20
  Ms. Li Yunxia has been detained and tortured in the Baoding Forced Labour Camp for nearly 3 years. Recently the camp authorities launched a "conquer-the-toughest" campaign and carried out inhuman torture on the steadfast practitioners, among whom Li Yunxia was one of the most severely tortured. On October 26th, 2004, police broke into practitioner Li Yunxia's home and arrested her and charged her with distributing Falun Gong materials at the Yi County temple fair. She was beaten by the police from the national security team. Her face and body were covered with black and purple bruises. She steadily refused to be "transformed" and give up her practice of Falun Gong. One time she asked to use the toilet, and the guards refused to remove the hand cuffs and shocked her with an electric baton instead.
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• Relentless Torture Leads to the Death of Practitioner Ms. Pan Zhenghui from Hubei Province

  2007-08-20
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Pan Zhenghui was 61 years old. Many times, she was detained, her family's home ransacked, and she was interrogated, body-searched, watched, followed, sent to brainwashing centres, and so on. The CCP's implication policy also made Ms. Pan's family members suffer. Many times, her grown children were laid-off from work so as to persecute Ms. Pan. After suffering relentless torture due to the orders of the vicious Chinese Communist Party (CCP) she died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage on July 6th, 2007 at 3 p.m.
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• Ms. Wang Qiaoying Suffers Mental Collapse After Being Force-fed Unknown Drugs

  2007-08-20
  Practitioner Ms. Wan Qiaoying was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in 2006. During her detention at Kunming No. 2 Women's Prison, she was force-fed unknown drugs and injected with various substances, and was also tortured. In May of this year, Ms. Wan was released on bail for medical treatment. However, by this time she had suffered a mental breakdown, her had body was very stiff and she was unable to speak.
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• Recent Brutal Treatment of Practitioners in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2007-08-20
  Masanjia Forced Labour Camp carried out the cruellest forms of persecution on Falun Gong practitioners from March 31st, 2005 to November 15th, 2006. Guards kicked Xie Dewen and Sun Shuxiang's faces and eyes. Xie Dewen's face was beaten until it was black and blue, and Sun Shuxiang was nearly blind in her right eye. They hung up Xin Shuhua and shocked her with electric batons. The practitioners were forced to eat mildewed corn buns and pickles covered with mouse excrement. The perpetrators did not allow them to drink water. The practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest these atrocities. As a result, they took the practitioners out one by one from the cell, pinned down them on the ground, and stepped on their arms to force-feed them.
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• Ms. Dang Huiying Disabled from Persecution at the Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp in Baoding City

  2007-08-19
  Ms. Dang Huiying is in her fifties. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted her many times during the past eight years. The authorities sentenced her to three years of forced labour in 2004, to be served at the Baoding City Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. Her prison term expired in May 2007, but the forced labour camp officials declared that Dang Huiying had not cooperated with them [because she refused to renounce Falun Gong] and thus extended her term for three more months and refused to release her. Now she has become disabled from torture and walks with a limp.
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• Ailing Mother-in-law of Practitioner Ms. Zhao Hong Pleads for Her Release from a Brainwashing Centre and Is Physically Pushed Out by the Guards

  2007-08-19
  On July 12th, 2007, Ms. Zhao Hong and fellow practitioner Xiong Anhua were arrested by Wuhan city State Security police. Xiong Anhua was released and is back at home, but Zhao Hong is still being held in the Erdaopeng brainwashing centre. Her mother-in-law, just out of hospital and badly in need of someone to care for her, went to seek Zhao Hong's release from the brainwashing centre on July 20th, despite her frail condition. However, the guard did not allow her to see Ms. Zhao. The guard even shouted at her to get out, and threatened to call the police to haul her away if she didn't leave. This 80-year-old woman in tears was physically pushed out by the guard, and she has been sick in bed since she returned home.
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