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  • How Ms. Wang Yanxiu Was Persecuted by Accomplices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Before Her Death in Weifang City, Shandong Province

    53-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yanxiu went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa four times, for which she was detained twice in the Kuiwen District Detention Centre, was sentenced to forced labour for three years, and suffered many kinds of tortures such as electric baton shocks, being hung by handcuffs, and more. After she went home, her husband and son were extremely afraid of the CCP persecution and feared that she would be arrested once more by the CCP authorities. They vigorously opposed her contact with the outside world and other Falun Gong practitioners and controlled her personal freedom. Ms. Wang Yanxiu's health condition became worse and worse. She died on January 25th, 2007.
  • Crimes Committed by Vicious Guard Ma Jishan at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Ma Jishan and Liu Yong led some of the guards who had arrived at the No. 2 Masanjia Women’s Forced Labour Camp on February 23rd, 2006, to brainwash the practitioners held in Divisions 1 and 2. They used torture methods, including the Big Hang-Up, the Death Bed, solitary confinement, force-feeding with concentrated salt water, and unknown drugs. They would pry the practitioners' mouths open with a mechanical device, savagely beat the practitioners, shock them with electric batons, deprive them of sleep, and strip the women practitioners naked and throw them outside in the freezing cold. Many practitioners were injured and disabled as a result of torture.
  • Practitioner Ms. Yan Suqin from Huangchuan County, Henan Province Sentenced

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yan Suqin was subjected to persecution many times because she persisted in her belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. On January 24th, 2007, the Huangchuan County Court suddenly announced that she was sentenced to four years in prison without giving her a trial or notifying her family members.
  • Sent to a Brainwashing Centre the Day He Was Released from Prison, Zhao Benyong Held a Hunger Strike in Protest

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Benyong was imprisoned for five years and persecuted. On the day of his release from prison, 610 Office personnel took him to a brainwashing centre in Chengdu City. Zhao Benyong's family members went to the relevant authorities to ask for his release, but to no avail. In the process, his mother and younger brother were detained at Bazhong Police Department of Sichuan Province.
  • First Hand Experience of Cruel Brainwashing at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp (Part 8)

    One day, guard Jiao said to me disappointedly, "Zhang Yijie, all that we are allowed or forbidden to do, we've made you suffer them." I then responded. "But, do you know the outcome of your actions?" She looked at me diffidently and with eyes widely open. I said calmly: "Let me tell you, all the things you did to me could only make me stronger and my mind firmer." Jiao had nothing to say to me anymore. Jiao knew that her evil deeds had done everything but kill me. But she also knew in her heart that even if she had taken my life, she still couldn't destroy my belief.
  • Practitioner Ms. Zheng Miaojun, 76, Sentenced to Three and a Half Years in Puning City, Guangdong Province

    It has recently been reported that Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zheng Miaojun and Ms. Huang Tingluan, who had been detained in Puning Detention Centre of Guangdong Province, were taken to a prison by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel for further persecution. Ms. Zheng, 76 years old, was sentenced to a three-and-a-half-year term of imprisonment and Ms. Huang, 63 years old, was sentenced to three years.
  • Mr. Chen Tianjie Detained at the Hangzhou City Fourth Prison, Zhejiang Province

    In July 2002, Mr. Chen was arrested when he was preparing leaflets exposing the persecution. Agents from the police, the security department, the 610 Office, and the Neighbourhood Administration ransacked his house for hours. All the Dafa books, Falun Dafa leaflets and a fax machine were taken away. Later, without any public trial or notifying his relatives, Mr. Chen Tianjie was sentenced to 11 years in prison based on the number of confiscated leaflets. His parents and his wife only received the sentencing statement, and no legal procedures were followed. At that time, his child was only 100 days old. Mr. Chen is still writing his appeal statement.
  • Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuhong by the Huadian Company in Beijing

    Dafa practitioner Wang Yuhong, an employee of Huadian Company in Beijing, has been persecuted many times by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ms. Wang has been detained twice, jailed once; and incarcerated and abused in brainwashing centres twice. CCP officers have gone to her children's school to harass her children, forced her to leave her home, had her fired from her job, and threatened her whole family.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongfei from Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province in Danger of Losing their Lives

    Practitioners Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongmei from Qiqihar City in Heilongjiang Province have been on hunger strike without water for 33 days in an effort to regain their freedom. In the afternoon on February 13th, 2007, police officers put handcuffs and foot shackles on them and took them to the municipal hospital. Since that day, they have been in critical condition. On January 13th, when Ms. Shen, Ms. Xu visited a practitioner's home, police officers broke into the residence, arrested them and took them to the police station. Police officer Yi Zhanhui dragged Ms. Xu from the 4th to the ground floor, then applied different torture methods and did not stop until she lost consciousness. Yi Zhanhui poured cold water on her face to wake her up and then continued with the torture. Then, they locked her into an iron cage.
  • Persecution Cases of Falun Dafa Practitioners from Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province

    In March 2007, police arrested Ms. Huang Jinrong on the street and took her to the detention centre. During the period when she was detained, the 610 Office forced her to write the guarantee statement. On July 28th, she was again arrested and taken to to the Majialong Forced Labour Camp, a hell in the human world, where Ms. Huang Jinrong once again suffered from extreme torture. She was spiritually brainwashed and physically treated like a slave. The drug addict prisoners beat her and used a towel to gag her which caused her temples to make a cracking sound. The towel was full of blood. As a result of mental pressure and physical torture, she was persecuted to the state of mental aberration. Even under such circumstances, the prison guards did not release her. Instead, they still detained her for an extended term.
  • Ms. Li Fengzhen from Liaoning Province Arrested Ten Times in Seven Years; She's Still Being Persecuted and Her Eyesight is Failing

    During my seven years of persecution I was abducted ten times, I was taken to forced labour camps twice and to a detention centre once. My home was ransacked twice without any legal procedure. In 2002 I was arrested again. After I got out of the car the police threw me to the ground. The deputy chief beat, punched and kicked me. The pain in my head was unbearable and I lost consciousness and fell the the ground. After I woke up the deputy chief said, "Li Fengzhen, to tell you the truth, if you don't transform they'll beat you to death here. The deaths of Falun Gong practitioners from beatings are nothing, and we call them suicides."
  • Eyewitness to the Vicious Incidents at Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Wangcun Forced Labour Camp officials punish the steadfast Falun Gong practitioners by forcing them to sit on benches all day long while at the same time collaborators attempt to "reform" them. If the practitioners refuse to be reformed, they would be forbidden to sleep. Because I could not tolerate sleep deprivation I gave in and allowed them to "reform" me. This camp has a basement where the prison guards locked up those practitioners who were not "reformed." I opened a cell door and saw a practitioner hanging on a wall. Her head was wrapped up except for her eyes. I was terrified.
  • Verification in January 2007 of Ten More Practitioners That Have Died from Persecution in China

    Guangxi Falun Dafa practitioner Ms.Lin Tiemei died as a result of torture on December 8th, 2005. She was only 33 years old. Lin Tiemei was subjected to inhumane torture at the labour camp. With her hands and feet tied tightly, her arms and legs were stretched out as wide as possible on a bed and she was forced to relieve herself on the bed. The prison guards also incited criminal inmates to beat Ms. Lin. They forced cleaning rags and stinky socks into her mouth, used rubberised fabric to seal her mouth, put a helmet on her head, handcuffed her, and took her to the so-called "dragon palace." This treatment and these conditions caused the skin around her mouth to become rotten.
  • Mr. Bai Jinqi Dies after Six Months of Abuse in Benxi City Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Bai Jinqi, 55, used to be very healthy, but he was tortured to a skeleton-like state in less than six months inside a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) labour camp and died upholding his beliefs. On August 3rd, 2006, Mr. Bai was taken to Benxi City Forced Labour Camp, where he was forced to write the "Three Statements", watch brainwashing videos, write "thought reports," and do hard labour. After one heavy labour session, Mr. Bai felt pain in the right side of his chest, and he could not get up. The labour camp forced him to pay to see the doctors. The doctors found that he had late-stage lung cancer. On December 9th, 2006, when Mr. Bai's family picked him up, he was as thin as a skeleton. He died on February 7th, 2007.
  • Practitioner Ms. Wang Jinfan from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, Persecuted Since 1999

    Ms. Wang Jinfan, 53, has been persecuted repeatedly by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since July 20th, 1999. On April 19th, 2002, she was arrested again. Two policemen beat her so badly that she was covered all over with cuts and bruises and was close to being paralysed. Both her sides and breasts had so many bruises that it was very hard for her to breathe. Her feet turned black due to the beating. She also had internal bleeding in her neck. The beating also caused her vision to become blurry. The police continued torturing her with even more brutal means. They shocked her with electric batons until she was close to death. When she was taken to the emergency room of the police hospital, Director Yan of the police department called the hospital and said, "A Falun Gong practitioner dying is not a big deal. You don't have to worry, I will take responsibility."