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  • Relentless Persecution Causes Countless Tragedies All Over China

    Practitioner Ms. Wen Yingxin, 34 years old, was an accountant. She was posting Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution, when police officers arrested her. She died nine days later, on August 16th, 2006, covered in bruises. Ms. Wen left behind a seven-year-old son. Her husband had already divorced her because of tremendous pressure. Her parents, both in their 60s, were devastated by her death. Her mother is now bedridden.
  • 51-Year-Old Mr. Zhang Guibiao From Changchun City Persecuted to Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Guibiao, 51, went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. Later in 2004, Mr. Zhang was arrested while producing leaflets exposing the persecution. They put a face mask over his head and took him to an unknown place. They tortured him by cuffing his hands behind his back, forcing him to sit on a tiger bench, and exposing him to freezing conditions. He was later sent to Tiebei Detention Centre in Changchun City, where he was detained for 18 months. Mr. Jiang Yong was tortured to death in July 2004 inside the Detention Centre.
  • Ms. Wang Liqun from Heilongjiang Tortured to Death

    On September 29th, 2006, Shuangcheng City State Security agents in Heilongjiang Province arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Sang Guizhen, Mr. Jia Junjie, Ms. Wang Liqun, and Ms. Wan Meijia (Ms. Wang Liqun's daughter) from Shuangcheng City. They also arrested practitioner Ms. Li Lan from Yilan County. On the evening of September 30th, 2006, Ms. Wang Liqun was tortured to death in the Second Detention Centre of Shuangcheng City during interrogation.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Cao Huashan from Shaanxi Province Persecuted to Death

    Dafa practitioner couple Mr. Cao Huashan and Mrs. Li Shulian were teachers in Yan'an Middle School. They were persecuted numerous times and were forced to leave their home. In July 2006, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials arrested the couple, leaving their nineteen-year-old son home alone. The couple was once again sentenced to a forced labour camp. Mr. Cao was held in Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp in Shannxi Province and passed away from being persecuted sometime around August or September 2006.
  • Torture Causes Mental Collapse of Dr. Li Huiyun, 42, Associate Professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology

    Dr. Li Huiyun was an associate professor at Hebei Technology University. She was severely persecuted because of her practice of Falun Gong at a brainwashing centre. She was deprived of sleep for several days, burnt with a cigarette, struck on the head, and verbally abused. She eventually suffered a mental collapse. On August 10th, 2004, Dr. Li was sent to a mental hospital. After one and a half months, she was then transferred to Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp for two years. Due to the intense pressure at the labour camp, she was sent to a mental hospital again in October, 2005.
  • Mr. Li Jianbo and His Wife Liu Xiuyun Imprisoned – Their Eight-Year-Old Daughter Is Heartbroken

    For refusing to renounce Falun Dafa, practitioners Mr. Li Jianbo and his wife Liu Xiuyun have been sentenced to prison for eight and four years, respectively. Mr. Li Jianbo was beaten until his head bled, and he still has a long scar on his head today. He was allowed to see his family only once before going to prison. Ms. Liu Xiuyun was fined 10,000 yuan. Their eight-year-old daughter cries every day, wishing to see her parents. She lives with her grandparents, who are both almost 70 years old, and do not have the ability to take good care of her.
  • The Arrest of a 65-Year-Old Practitioner from Shandong Province

    On September 18th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Jianguo’s home was ransacked. Following this incident, he and his middle son were both detained at Shilihe Detention Centre. Police officers from the township police station participated in ransacking Zhang Jianguo’s home. Since the Jiang Zemin regime started persecuting Falun Gong, Jiang Jianguo’s family has been harassed continuously. He is the backbone of his family and the main breadwinner, as his wife is unable to work. Yet she is now alone.
  • Dalian City Police Arrest Practitioner Zhang Guoyu Again; His Family Can Find No Refuge from the Persecution

    Xuanxuan, the 7-year-old son of Zhang Guoyu, misses his father very much. He wrote on a piece of paper: "There is nothing wrong with believing in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Give my father Zhang Guoyu back to me." On September 12th, 2006, police broke into Dafa practitioner Zhang Guoyu's workplace, arrested and detained him at a detention centre. Zhang Guoyu is now on a hunger strike to protest the unjust detention.
  • 57-Year-Old Woman is Left Paralysed from Torture in a Chongching City Mental Hospital

    Dafa practitioner Wei Hua was arrested and forced to stay in a mental hospital by the local Chinese Communist Party secretary Yu Fulin and others, under the pretext that she had a mental disorder. In the hospital, Ms. Wei was tortured until the left side of her body was paralysed. She is now emaciated, has difficulty speaking, and is incontinent. She is in great pain and her health condition is precarious.
  • Leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant Relentlessly Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

    The Huaneng Electric Power Plant in Dezhou, Shandong Province is one of the main thermal-electricity power plants of Huaneng International. It is also one of the most vicious and severe places in persecuting Falun Gong. Huaneng International is a centralised enterprise directly reporting to the State Council and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, the leadership at the Huaneng Electric Power Plant declared that they would actively cooperate with the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Prison Authorities: "We Won't Release Him Even If He Dies Here" -- Mr. Xin Minduo Died at 33

    The prison authorities threatened his family, "We won't release him even if he dies. It doesn't matter, even if you appeal at the State Department!" Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xin Minduo, age 33, was tortured to death at the Nanshan Prison in Jinzhou City on the evening of September 1st, 2006. He was brutally persecuted during the past seven years of the persecution. He died with his eyes wide open. His family could not close them, no matter how hard they tried.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Cheng Disabled from Torture at the Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

    Guards attempted to make Mr. Liu give up Falun Dafa. They made him sit on a bed, and handcuffed him separately to each side of the bed's headboard. The officers then incited criminals to beat him. They beat his chest with their fists and used the bottoms of their shoes to hit his head and face. They further used a mop handle to poke his chest, knees and ankles and kicked his back. While this was happening, the guards electrically shocked Mr. Liu's face and neck. Following that abuse, the evildoers handcuffed him to a heating pipe in such a way that he could neither stand nor squat, and they continued to beat and shock him.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested by Police from Jilin Province

    Police arrested practitioner Ms. Yang Zhonghong. Ms. Yang spoke about the facts of Falun Dafa to a family member of police officer Liang, and she was reported to the police. During the arrest, Tang Longping tried to coax Ms. Yang's four-year-old daughter into naming all the people that had met with her mother. The child was so frightened that she was trembling. The neighbours protested strongly against the abusive behaviour of these police. People say the police these days are worse than gangsters.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Du Xiuhua Persecuted in Weifang City, Shandong Province

    58-year-old Ms. Du Xiuhua was arrested on September 6th, 2006, while speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. Ms. Du is currently detained at the Detention Centre in Weifang City. The police went to her daughter's home and asked her to sign a document promising to stop practising Falun Dafa. Her daughter went to the detention centre and asked the officials there, "What are the reasons and legal basis of my mother's arrest?" She pointed out that it was an illegal detention and demanded the immediate release of her mother. However, detention centre police summarily refused her request.
  • The Dark Secrets of Xuchang's No. 3 Prison: Practitioners Pass Out With Agonising Screams

    For those steadfast practitioners, the guards shock them with multiple electric batons for hours each day, or use rubber batons to beat their legs. Many practitioners' legs were crippled with wounds all over. The guards also force practitioners to do slave labour for eighteen hours a day. For the ones who have steadfastly refused to write the three statements, in a grotesque display of crude barbarity, the police had five or six inmates hold one practitioner on the ground and stripped off his clothes. They then tied his private part with a nylon string, and had two people pull hard on the string. The practitioner passed out after letting out a heart-wrenching scream.