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Ninety-Year-Old Mother Blind from Grief

2013-08-23

Mr. Zhang Xinzi was sentenced to a seven-year prison sentence three years ago, for being a Falun Gong practitioner. His over 90-year-old mother cries every day, as she misses her son. She has since gone blind during her grief and stress. Her family has not told her that her son was given a seven-year sentence, and worries that she will not be able to handle the news. The elderly woman sits in front of the entrance to their home every day waiting for her son to come home.

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Zhang Wei Severely Abused during Unjust 10-year Prison Sentence

2013-08-23

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Wei was arrested in October 2005 and later sentenced to 10 years in prison for tapping into a local cable TV network to explain the facts about Falun Gong to the public and expose the persecution [ Ed. Note: Due to the Chinese regime's persecution of Falun Gong, including a relentless campaign of defamation, and because all normal avenues of communication are closed to them, Falun Gong practitioners in China have had to resort to creative means to expose the persecution and get the truth out to the public ]. During the time that he was detained in prison Mr. Zhang was brutally tortured by the guards and he is extremely weak.

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Two Sisters, One Choice

2013-08-23

Ms. Zhang Tianxiao immigrated to Toronto, Canada from China in 1998. While spending time with her three-month-old daughter in March 2001, she was shocked and heartbroken to learn that her brother-in-law, Mr. Zou Songtao, had been tortured to death the prior November. Mr. Zou was only 28 years old when he died, and his daughter Rongrong was only 11 months old. The sudden tragedy made Ms. Zhang find out more about Falun Gong and what made practitioners so steadfast in their faith. She found that Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Soon, Ms. Zhang also became a Falun Gong practitioner.

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Elderly Ms. Peng Yinxiang from Wuhan City Tortured at Banqiao Brainwashing Centre

2013-08-23

Ms. Peng Yinxiang, a practitioner from Hongshan District, was almost 70 years old when she was arrested on May 20th, 2013, and jailed at the Hubei Province Banqiao Brainwashing Centre over two months ago. It was reported that she has been very severely persecuted. The police have exhausted a variety of base means to interrogate her.

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Products Made by Slave Labour in Jiamusi Prison, Heilongjiang Province

2013-08-23

Jiamusi Prison in Heilongjiang Province is one of many prisons in China where prisoners are exploited as cheap labour to sort and package different kinds of products. Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned there are no exception from this type of exploitation. The prison received a shipment of popsicle sticks, toothpicks and disposable chopsticks in late 2012. The prisoners were then forced to sort and package them.

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Dr. Li Yanjun Arrested and Taken to Xinjin Brainwashing Centre - Police Lied to His Family

2013-08-23

Dr. Li Yanjun, an associate professor at the Southwest Petroleum University, was arrested on June 26th, 2013, and taken to the Luzhou Detention Centre, because he practised Falun Gong. His family was notified by officials from the Luzhou Domestic Security Division on July 25th, a month after his arrest, that he had been released under surveillance. However, he was instead taken to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre for further persecution.

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Mr. Meng Qingfu Dies After Years of Persecution

2013-08-14

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Meng Qingfu, a former government official, was arrested, severely tortured, and sentenced. Due to the persecution he was subjected to at the Jidong Prison, his vision declined to the point where he couldn't see things clearly and he walked with much difficulty, not being able to straighten his back. After being released from prison, he was only paid the bare minimum pension each month. Mr. Meng eventually passed away on March 22nd, 2013, at age 57.

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Two Years of Forced Labour in a Living Hell: My Suffering in Jilin Province Heizuizhi Forced Labour Camp

2013-08-13

Xu Xiuhui, 64, suffered unimaginable torture in Hezuizhi Forced Labour Camp due to practising Falun Gong. She recounts: "On the second day after I entered the labour camp, and for the next three days, guard Wui Dan ordered the inmates to bring me to the classroom in the morning. They shocked me with an electric baton throughout the morning, sometimes with three electric batons together. As I lay on the ground semi-conscious, Li Lianying shocked the centres of the bottoms of my feet. They shocked me until my entire body shook and quivered and I wasn't able to stand up. Afterwards I lay on the cold concrete floor for several hours in the cold winter."

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Ms. He Lizhong Tortured in Liaoning Province Women's Prison

2013-08-13

Ms. He Lizhong was sentenced to nine years in prison for practising Falun Gong. She was taken to the Liaoning Province Women's Prison on January 9th, 2007 and was severely persecuted in an attempt to get her to renounce her belief. Guards incited inmates to deprive Ms. He of sleep, forced her to sit on a small stool for 19 hours a day, and beat her every day. Ms. He's body was covered with bruises, her teeth were loosened, and she eventually lost 19 teeth.

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Mr. Yang Zhenlu Dies After Being Tortured in Jidong Prison

2013-08-13

The Chinese communist regime arrested large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to keep them from revealing the gruesome details of the persecution to foreign visitors, including Mr. Yang Zhenlu and his wife. Mr. Yang was sentenced to six years in prison and he was severely tortured in Jidong Prison. On March 1st, 2013, when he was on the verge of death, he was granted medical bail. This common practice is routinely used by the prisons to avoid criminal investigation into inmate deaths resulting from prison abuse. Mr. Yang passed away on June 7th, at the age of 57, from the mistreatment he endured in the prison.

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Mr. Li Baishun and His Teenage Daughter Killed in Police Custody in Jinzhou City, His Wife and Sons Unjustly Imprisoned

2013-08-13

Mr. Li Baishun, in his 50s, was handing out materials to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong, when he was arrested by police in November 2011. He was taken to the Zhengda Police Station where officers demanded he tell them the source of the materials. They used torture to try to extort a confession, and Mr. Li was tortured to death that night. The relevant departments of Jinzhou City secretly hid this information. Jinzhou City police subsequently sentenced Mr. Li's wife and two sons to lengthy imprisonment. After which, the mother and brothers learned that Mr. Li's 13-year-old adopted daughter had also died in the custody of the Jinzhou City police.

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The Devastating Torture Endured by Ms. Chen Yulian for More than 3 Years

2013-08-13

In May 2011, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Yulian was distributing Shen Yun DVDs [Shen Yun performance, a world-class traditional Chinese cultural show] at a market in Nanchang City, she was arrested and sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp. In the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp, she suffered inhumane torture for three and a half years. When labour camp guard Ding Xiaoqing saw Ms. Chen Yulian sitting on a bed meditating, she took a full cup of boiling water and poured it around Ms. Chen's mid-section causing great pain.

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Detained and Tortured for Eleven Months, Ms. Yang Benhui Can Barely Move

2013-08-13

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Benhui was arrested and detained in a Chongqing detention centre in August 2012. Yang Benhui was brutally tortured during the detention period. Her two front teeth had been smashed out and her left hand could not lift anything. Also, she thought she was having a heart-attack and could barely move. Not wanting to be held responsible for her death, the detention centre sent Ms. Yang to the hospital on July 19th, 2013.

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Ms. Cui Hai Beaten and Badly Injured in Detention

2013-08-13

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cui Hai was arrested in October 2012 for practising Falun Gong. She has been held in a brainwashing centre, detention centre and a hospital and subjected to brutal interrogations and beatings by the guards many times. She was force-fed, injected with unknown drugs, beaten, doused with cold water in winter, deprived of sleep, and forced to inhale cigarette smoke directly into her nose. Over the past 14 years, Ms. Cui Hai has been repeatedly arrested, detained, and sentenced because she refused to renounce Falun Gong.

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Computer Science Professor Prosecuted for Pro Bono Work

2013-08-13

Mr. Su Kun, a Falun Gong practitioner and professor at the Yunnan Vocational & Technical College of the National Defence Industry, was tried by the Kunming City Intermediate Court on July 2nd, 2013, for providing pro bono work, which included installing computer software for others. His defence attorney refuted that the evidence presented indicated no crime had been committed, and he showed that Professor Su was simply a good person who was volunteering his time. Previously, Professor Su was arrested in 2004 for giving his students DVDs which contained important facts about Falun Gong. He served more than three and a half years in a forced labour camp.

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