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The Persecution of Two Falun Dafa Practitioners in Shashi District, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province
2007-06-25Wang Qiong, a teacher, was also imprisoned several times for practising Falun Gong. She was sentenced to forced labour twice and sent to a brainwashing centre three times. In 2001 she was tortured for four whole days and nights. Li Zhigang, an officer from Section One at the Shashi District Police Department, along with others committed the crimes against Ms. Wang. She was forced to stand still continuously and was forbidden to sit. They abused her with electric batons and later imprisoned her in the Shashi Detention Centre for 14 months. The torture and abuse caused this formerly healthy woman to develop heart disease. The school is currently deducting more than 7,000 yuan from Ms. Wang's salary. Ms. Wang Qiong has not yet been reinstated in her original position as a teacher. -
Facts of the Persecution of Ms. Peng Shuhua from Xinjin County in Sichuan Province
2007-06-25Ms. Peng Shuhua is 66 years old. She went to Beijing in mid-December of 2000 to appeal for Falun Dafa. Police arrested her at a Beijing train station and took her to the Chengdu Beijing office. She was searched and 900 yuan in cash was taken from her. The third day she was escorted back to Xinjin County of Sichuan Province. The local police extorted 10,000 yuan from her family. One month later, police arrested Peng Shuhua and put her in the Detention Centre. She went on a hunger strike against the persecution, but the prison guards force-fed her. She was detained there for 8 months before she was released. -
Ms. Jiang Hong Released from Unlawful Detention in Heilongjiang Province Only When Her Life Was in Danger
2007-06-25On April 29th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Jiang Hong was visiting her neighbour when police arrested her. Her family went to the police department to request her release, but her father (in his 70s) was chased out by Zhou Tiegang. After being detained for 35 days, Ms. Jiang Hong became dangerously emaciated. She had to be placed under intensive care constantly, and she was dying because she could not eat for ten days. -
Falun Gong Practitioners in Inner Mongolia Subjected to Intense Persecution (Part 2)
2007-06-24Li Yumei was sentenced to two years in Tumuji Forced Labour Camp. She was beaten many times, shocked with electric batons, force fed, hung up by her handcuffed wrists for a long time, exposed to cold conditions, and forced to do slave labour. Later, in a detention centred, guards handcuffed her wrists to a pipe on the ceiling and she could barely touch the ground with her toes and hung her like that for seven hours straight every day for eight days. They also shocked her with electric batons. Her whole body weight fell on her wrists and she suffered excruciating pain. -
Many Practitioners Arrested and Taken to Brainwashing Centre in Huaihua City, Hunan Province
2007-06-24Recently the Chinese Communist Party has assigned quotas for practitioners to be brainwashed to each employer in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. As a result, many Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre by local agents. Ms. Dai Dingcui, 60 years old and a retired employee of Huitong County Water Supply Co. in Huaihua City, was tricked into getting on a bus. She was directly taken to the Huaihua Brainwashing Centre at around 8:00 a.m. on May 17th. -
Accounts of Persecution at Sanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province
2007-06-24The camp guards put all the practitioners under strict control together and called in collaborators to torture them. They called it the "Demons' Intensive Training Group" and corporal punishment continued endlessly against the practitioners. They physically tortured practitioners all day long, yelling things like, "I will make you die!" They forced the practitioners to recite poems in the evenings. It was an excuse to keep the practitioners from going to bed. Some would have to recite the poems until early morning. -
Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp Authorities Refuse to Release 60-year-old Mr. Meng Qinglin
2007-06-24After the interception of Changchun television station's broadcast with footage exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in March 2002, the 610 Offices from top to bottom were in a frenzy and arrested Dafa practitioners as they combed through the city. Because Meng Qinglin refused to denigrate Dafa he was forced to sit on a tiger bench for 12 hours at the Changchun sub-bureau, and was detained for more than a year. After he was released from prison, his little granddaughter was already born and several months old. His family members could not even recognise him. He was emaciated, pale, and could hardly walk because of numbness in both legs. He needed a magnifying glass to read. This caused his family members a great deal of stress and anxiety. -
Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime's Recent Abuse and Killings of Falun Gong Practitioners - Part 2
2007-06-23The guards ordered inmates to tighten a rope around Zhang Lianying's neck and punch her head when she has nearly suffocated, all in an attempt to make her give up Falun Gong, although Falun Gong had given her a new life. They tightened the rope further while whacking her head until Zhang Lianying suffered a widespread intra-cranial hemorrhage and fell into a coma. She was taken to hospital for emergency treatment and was in critical condition for more than ten days. -
Ms. Lin Bingju from Guangzhou City Suffered a Torture-Induced Mental Breakdown at Chatou Forced Labour Camp
2007-06-23Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Lin Bingju is being held at Chatou Forced Labour Camp, because she distributed leaflets exposing the persecution. She suffered physical and mental torture so severe that she had a mental breakdown. The camp guards induced drug addict inmates to beat her head and abdominal area. They forced her to read literature that slandered Dafa everyday and forbade her to sleep until after midnight. -
Falun Gong Practitioners in Inner Mongolia Subjected to Intense Persecution (Part 1)
2007-06-23In the eight years of persecution, four practitioners died, including Zhang Fenglan, one practitioner was sentenced unlawfully, 15 practitioners were taken to a forced labour camp, 29 practitioners were detained, eight practitioners were taken to the Chifeng Brainwashing Centre, and more than 30 practitioners were arrested and interrogated. Many practitioners were fined, threatened, their houses searched, and their cash and personal property were confiscated. -
The Persecution of Practitioners in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
2007-06-23Ms. Zhou Leju is in her 70s. Her husband was an intellectual and was persecuted to death during the cultural revolution. Ms. Zhou started to practise Falun Dafa in 1998, her illnesses disappeared and she became healthy again. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong, she became fearful because it reminded her of the persecution her husband suffered before his death. As a result, she stopped practising. Soon after, her diseases recurred. She realised the benefits she had received from practising Falun Dafa and so started practising again. Police closely followed and monitored her. They searched her home many times and prohibited her from living with her daughter. Now she has had to leave home and wander about to avoid further persecution. Police officer Chen Lin said, "Killing or arson is okay, but practising Falun Gong is not." -
Ms. Ke Gui'e from Wuxue City, Hubei Province Forced into Brainwashing
2007-06-23On March 13th, 2007, a village official reported Ms. Ke Gui'e after she was explaining to him about the true nature of Falun Gong. Police extorted 1,2000 yuan from her. At the beginning of May 2007, Ms. Ke was taken to a brainwashing centre against her will. After one month, she still firmly kept her belief in Falun Dafa, and she refused to accept the brainwashing. Authorities would not let her return home. -
Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime's Recent Abuse and Killings of Falun Gong Practitioners (Photos)
2007-06-22"Huang Lisha, a woman in her thirties from Emei, Sichuan Province was transferred there from a detention centre because she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and refused to renounce her belief. Her bed was next to mine. She was given an unknown drug, non-stop, via an IV infusion until she vomited and defecated blood. The day after I was taken to the hospital I heard her screaming in pain all night long. She passed away on the morning of October 17th, 2002. Her body was removed for cremation minutes after her passing." -
Crimes Perpetrated Against Falun Gong Practitioners at the Brainwashing Centre in Langfang City, Hebei Province
2007-06-22During the past several years, practitioners who were sent there by force had their personal freedoms taken away. The brainwashing centre flooded them with twisted ideology and humiliated them. Other persecution methods included long periods of forced standing and sleep deprivation. Those who persisted in practising Falun Gong were treated more harshly and threatened with being sent to forced labour camps. The practitioners were beaten and verbally abused, and guards flicked the practitioners' eyeballs to keep them from sleeping. They also used toxic oral and intravenous drugs that damaged the nervous system. When practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution, they were force-fed with a tube inserted into their stomachs. The prison personnel also put drugs into the food and drinking water when they carried out this brutal torture. -
Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Yongchuan Prison, Chongqing City
2007-06-22The authorities of Yongchuan Prison have been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners for several years using brutal methods. Dafa practitioner Tan Xueli was sent to Yongchuan Prison and persecuted to death in six days. Torture methods used included beatings, sleep deprivation, starvation, forcible brainwashing, forced written "thought reports" daily, and abuse and monitoring by other inmates. They designated criminals to monitor Falun Gong practitioners, promising them a reduction in their sentences in return. Every year Falun Gong practitioners are forced to give blood. Now persecution and forcible brainwashing are still going on in Yongchuan Prison.