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• Practitioner Ms. Li Yanping Tried for the Second Time at the Laiyuan Court in Hebei Province

  2007-04-08
  At 9:10 a.m. on March 15th, 2007, the local court in Laiyuan tried Dafa practitioner Li Yanping. The prosecutor accused Ms. Li of committing a crime "against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government" because police had found copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in her home. The prosecutor refused to admit her statement into evidence, which is that the police obtained their evidence by use of violence. When Li Yanping proclaimed her innocence, saying she was merely practising her faith but the court officials stopped her. She also stated during the trial that her health had deteriorated due to the persecution and that she could barely eat. The judge stopped her again.
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• Practitioner Ms. Sun Shuqin Recounts the Persecution She Experienced at Her Workplace, in a Mental Hospital and a Brainwashing Centre - Part 2

  2007-04-07
  Lead guar, Shi Fengyou, asked me, “Why did you go on a hunger strike?” I told him, “We cultivators also have our human rights protected by the constitution. I demand unconditional release. Is there something wrong with using a hunger strike to protest the violation of my human rights?” He said, “Forget about it. No one has been released from the forced labour camp using a hunger strike. We have many methods to deal with hunger strikes.” They forced a feeding tube into my stomach. The tube they used was a thick and hard plastic tube. They force-fed me corn paste. Once the corn paste entered my stomach, I suddenly felt cold, and a tightening in my chest, then my heart started beating crazily and my body became very hot. I could barely breathe. I felt as if I was suffocating to death. Obviously, they had added something to the corn paste that caused these symptoms.
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• A Call for Conscience: Appalling Stories of Persecution

  2007-04-07
  There was a Falun Dafa practitioner Zhou from Liaoning Province who was detained in Chifeng Detention Centre. One night during the detention period, the police took her to an unknown place. The room was filled with torture devices and the police used these devices on her all night long. The next day when she was taken back, all who saw her were shocked and dumbfounded. Her skin was cracked and her flesh was gaping. Her buttocks had been shocked with electric batons and it looked burnt and charred. She could not sit or lie down on her back and could only lie on her stomach. Her hair had been pulled so hard that she was left with only tufts of hair on her head.
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• Practitioners Tortured with "Stretch Torture Chamber" at Weiningying Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

  2007-04-07
  Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, about 1,000 Falun Dafa practitioners have been detained in Weiningying Forced Labour Camp. From 2005 to 2006, a special building was built to persecute practitioners, and thousands upon thousands of yuan went towards persecuting Falun Gong. Now about 18 to 19 practitioners are detained there and are monitored every day. The guards refuse to allow family members to meet with the steadfast practitioners. Heavy labour and starvation, plus torture, make it feel as though one day is one year. There is a small solitary cell called the "Stretch Torture Chamber," used to torture practitioners who have not been "transformed." One practitioner was stretched for over 100 days, and his face was swollen very large. When released, he was close to death and so was sent away.
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province

  2007-04-07
  Dafa practitioner Mr. Lu Chunbin, is in his forties. He has been arrested and detained in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp twice and the second time, he was fired from his job. During the long period that he has been detained, Mr. Lu firmly resisted the persecution. He uses all kinds of opportunities to inform the criminal prisoners who monitor him about the true nature of Falun Gong, teaches them the principles of proper conduct, and answers their questions about different aspects of life. The criminal prisoners have come to truly respect and admire Lu Chunbin. He has been tied up, hung up with his arms behind his back, and brutally beaten. However, none of the methods and tactics used have worked against him. Thus, he was put in isolation and was detained there alone for a long time.
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• Exposing the Hebei Province 610 Office's Strong-Arm Tactics As Seen Through the Suffering of Mr. Cao Jiwei and Family

  2007-04-06
  On February 21st, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Cao Jiwei and Li Zhenfang, who were already destitute and homeless because of the persecution, were arrested by police and taken to Loucun Township Police Station. Police beat them, searched their belongings, confiscated Dafa materials along with personal belongings and 5,800 yuan. Wang Jinshi, the vice director of the police station, dragged Mr. Cao by his hair and slapped his face hard, kicked his chest, tied a rope around his neck and stepped hard on his hands.
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• Supplementary Information about the Tortured-to-Death Li Guang, Presenter of Laizhou City TV Station in Shandong Province

  2007-04-06
  The former Shandong Province Laizhou City TV Station programme presenter, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Guang, was steadfast in his belief in Falun Dafa. On December 3rd, 2004, he was tortured to death by guards in the Weibei Prison. They brutally beat Mr. Li Guang by whipping him a hundred times with sticks. In winter, he was stripped of all his clothes, and they poured numerous kettles of boiling water from the utility room and numerous buckets of icy water from the freezing pond over his head. Mr. Li Guang died after five days of torture.
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• Mr. Guan Zhenyou Persecuted for Seven Years and Remains Unlawfully Detained in the Fifth Prison of Chengde City, Hebei Province

  2007-04-06
  Mr. Guan Zhenyou, 40, was arrested at the Chengde Train Station by police. He was sent to the Chengde Detention Centre and interrogated. He was mistreated with all kind of tortures. Later, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The guards burned Mr. Guan Zhenyou's nostril with a cigarette butt, thrust a toothbrush with ethanol into his mouth, and cuffed him to a sofa and dragged him back and forth. Kicking and beating are the most common torture methods. He was deprived of sleep for six days. He was hung up and beaten. He was tortured so badly that his legs were swollen and he lost consciousness. Even so, the head of the 610 Office still roared, "In their case, we must torture them even harder!"
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• Yang Xiuwen, Li Bo, and Chen Liguo from Baishan City, Jilin Province Sentenced to Prison After Being Tortured in Detention Centre

  2007-04-06
  On April 17th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioners Yang Xiuwen, Li Bo and Chen Liguo were arrested by police officers. Witnesses saw the police officers ransacking Mr. Yang's home. They also saw blood on the back of Mr. Yang's head and on his back, and noted that his hair was very messy. When he was first taken to the detention centre, his face was bruised from being beaten. While he was detained at Baishan City Detention Centre, Mr. Yang went on a hunger strike for over 20 days. Police officers incited criminal inmates to force-feed him, and tied him to a death bed. His right arm was dislocated as a result of the torture, which caused his muscles to atrophy.
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• Heilongjiang Women's Prison Manipulates Inmates to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2007-04-06
  Authorities of the Heilongjiang Women's Prison have set up a so-called transformation base. The guards manipulate inmates to forcibly “transform” Falun Gong practitioners. Eight or nine inmates besiege one practitioner and coerce her to “transform” by using all kinds of techniques such as deprivation of rest and sleep, shouting insults, corporal punishment, mental mistreatment, and various other abuses. Inmates take turns sleeping, while practitioners are not allowed to close their eyes for days at a time. Inmates even put unknown medicine in practitioners' food.
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• Practitioner Mr. Wang Qibo Persecuted to Death in Jilin Prison - His Body Cremated Without Consent

  2007-04-05
  Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Wang Qibo was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment in 2002, and was then detained in Jilin Prison. There, he was cruelly tortured by all means and was even detained and tortured in an isolated cell for a long period of time. His mind and body were devastated. At around midnight on March 28th, 2007, the prison authorities sent Mr. Wang to the Second Central Hospital of Jilin City. At around 9:50 a.m. on March 29th, 2007, Mr. Wang passed away at the age of 47. In order to cover up their crimes, the prison authorities cremated his body that morning without his family's consent.
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• Mr. Jin Chengshan with Paraplegia and His Wife Severely Persecuted in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, Nearly Fifty Relatives File Appeal

  2007-04-05
  Practitioners Mr. Jin Chengshan and Ms. Jiao Xiaohua are a married couple. They and two other practitioners were arrested by the Hulan District police on December 22nd, 2006. Later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Hulan District Procuratorate Department and Court sentenced them. Mr. Jin Chengshan has severe paraplegia, and his health further deteriorated after the arrest because of the persecution he was subjected to. Nearly 50 relatives of Mr. Jin and Ms. Jiao have recently filed a lawsuit seeking justice against those who persecuted this couple.
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• Practitioner Ms. Sun Shuqin Recounts the Persecution She Experienced at Her Workplace, in a Mental Hospital and a Brainwashing Centre - Part 1

  2007-04-05
  I went to the Beijing Appeal Office in October 1999 to inform people about the true nature of Falun Gong. I was stopped and asked if I was a Falun Gong practitioner and where I was from. I answered honestly so I was arrested. My mother received a phone call from my bank, asking me to write a statement promising to no longer practise Falun Gong. I refused to do so. At that time, there were many cases of arrests and layoffs of Falun Gong practitioners. Someone suggested getting a mental illness statement for me to save my job. The doctor at the hospital declared that I had “paranoid schizophrenia,” basing his findings on the fact that I would rather give up my job than promise not to practise Falun Gong. I went on a hunger strike to protest. The doctors inserted a feeding tube into my stomach to force-feed me with food and medicine.
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• A Former Criminal Changes His Ways After Practising Dafa, But Is Imprisoned Again for Being a Good Person

  2007-04-05
  37-year-old Chen Guangwu gave up pickpocketing after he began practising Falun Gong. In November 2001, Mr. Chen was arrested by police and inhumanely tortured. Policemen forcibly smashed his head against a wall. They also stomped on is face with their shoes, forced his legs apart, cuffed his hands behind his back and over his shoulder, and slapped his face. He was then sentenced to one year of forced labour because he persisted in being a good person. In 2004 Mr. Chen was arrested again while posting leaflets exposing the persecution and sentenced to three years in prison.
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• Laishui County in Hebei Province Police Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners Cao Jiwei and Li Zhenfang

  2007-04-05
  On January 4th, 2007, families were gathered together in celebration of the New Year, but Falun Dafa practitioners Cao Jiwei and Li Zhenfang, who were homeless due to persecution by the Laishui County 610 Office, were stopped and searched on the road. The officers beat them to the ground, took their Dafa materials and personal property worth about 3,000 yuan, along with 5,800 yuan in cash. At the police station police shocked Cao Jiwei with electric batons. Blue flames flashed as the strong electrical current burned his body again and again. Cao Jiwei had burns, bruises and other wounds all over his body. His eyes were black and blue, and so swollen he could barely open them. Li Zhenfang was persecuted to the brink of death and was rendered unconscious.
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