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Five Dafa Practitioners in Hubei, Hebei, and Jiangsu Provinces Passed Away as a Result of the Persecution
2005-12-13Mr. Ma Jianshe, 53 years old, used to have diabetes. After he practised Falun Gong, the disease vanished. After the persecution began he went to Beijing to appeal, but he was arrested, pummelled by the police, detained for more than 40 days, and illegally fined 2,600 yuan. Police went to Mr. Ma's home many times to search the place and harass him and took him to a brainwashing session. They threatened, "If we find even a little Falun Gong material, we will go after you until you have lost everything." He suffered a relapse of his old disease and left the world on June 13th, 2005. -
Five Senior Citizens Died from Persecution
2005-12-13Ms. Liu Baolan, 67 years old, was a retired teacher. To tell the facts to the government, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice. She was detained and sent to the notorious Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Although she was over age for a labour camp, the government agents gave her a one-year sentence anyway. For years after that, the agents harassed her at her home. She was thrown into a stupor, became paralysed, and developed oedema all over. Liu Baolan passed away on November 8th, 2005. -
97-year-old Man Dies Without a Chance to See His Unjustly Imprisoned Son and Granddaughter
2005-12-13In November 2005, the 97-year old father of Falun Gong practitioner Tian Fujin was severely ill and bedridden. He was expecting his son and granddaughter to come home and see him, but both were in prison. The Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp, however, refused to release them. On November 18th, 2005, Tian Fujin's father died. Tian Fujin and his daughter did not see him before he passed away. Mr. Tian Fujin's family has been torn apart for the last six years, six of his family members were subjected to persecution and sentenced to forced labour camps and prisons. -
Mr. Li Yequan Has Been on a Hunger Strike for Fifty-six Days and Is Near Death (Photo)
2005-12-12Mr. Li Yequan is a 38-year-old practitioner. He is now being brutally abused at the Daqing Detention Centre. He has been on a hunger strike for 56 days to protest the illegal treatment. Every day, for 24 hours, he is handcuffed, shackled, and force-fed. A guard forced a litre of hard liquor down his throat and spat on him. They also poured cold water on Li Yequan. Due to being force-fed three times a day, Mr. Li's oesophagus has been badly injured. He shows symptoms of pneumonia and mental disorientation and his body temperature has dropped. He is extremely weak, has slipped into a coma many times and is now dying. -
A Mother from Yanji City Was Persecuted for Being a Good Person, Her 11-Year-Old Daughter Suffers a Mental Collapse
2005-12-12Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jin Minghua has been sentenced to forced labour camp twice for her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and for her steadfast insistence on being a good person. Jin Minghua's 11-year-old daughter suddenly lost her mother's love and the warmth of her family. She had to live at home all by herself. She suffered a mental collapse and was sent to a mental hospital. The family was originally told that the hospitalisation would be free of charge. In March 2005, after being released from the forced labour camp, Ms. Jin Minghua went to visit her daughter in the hospital. Her daughter's medical bill was more than 20,000 yuan. -
The Heinous Acts of Officer Zhao Shuang of the Changlinzi Labour Camp
2005-12-12Zhao Shuang is head of Division No. 5 at the Changlinzi Labour Camp in Harbin City. He is extremely cruel when persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. He follows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and frequently said, "Killing a Falun Gong practitioner is just a matter of filling out a form saying it was a normal death. The labour camp has a large enough death quota." Zhao Shuang often told practitioners, "Torturing you is entertainment for me! Don't tell me about humanity! I do not have any humanity! If you make me upset, I might torture you to death." -
The Shocking Results from Searching "Unknown Drug" on the Internet -- Part 2
2005-12-12In Xuzhou Mental Hospital practitioners were tied to beds, given injections and force-fed unknown drugs. Medical staff members injected large dosages of unknown drugs. Immediately after the injections, we would lose consciousness. After some time, we regained consciousness, and then the medical staff would untie the ropes (used to restrain us). When the drugs took effect, it felt very painful, as if our internal organs were being torn apart. We would roll on the floor screaming with pain. After we regained consciousness, we would question the medical staff, "Why did you inject us and feed these drugs to us when we are not sick??" They answered shamefully, "It is not up to us. The people at the top instructed us to do so. -
Zhao Hongli in Critical Condition, But Panjin Prison Refuses to Release Him
2005-12-11Recently the family of Dafa practitioner Zhao Hongli received a phone call from Panjin Prison authorities. They were requested to visit Zhao Hongli, who had already been on hunger strike for more than forty days. When Mr. Zhao's family arrived at the prison, Zhao Hongli had already been taken back to the prison from the hospital. When the family saw Zhao Hongli, he was lying on a bed with his face up, and he could not move. His hands and legs were cuffed, he was given IVs and plastic tubes were stuck in his nose. The prison was forcibly giving him IVs and feeding him. Zhao Hongli was emaciated and had difficulty talking. They never mentioned releasing him. -
Ms. Meng Lijun is at the Brink of Death at Jinan Detention Centre - Authorities Forbid Family Visits
2005-12-11Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Meng Lijun was unjustly arrested. This, her ninth arrest, occurred on September 27th, 2005. She has been incarcerated at the Jinan City Detention Centre for two months. She is now on the brink of death after holding a long hunger strike. Her husband goes to the detention centre almost weekly and asks to see his wife. The authorities not only deny his requests, but also threaten him. The police stated, "We won't release her, even if she dies from the hunger strike." -
Tianjin Chadian Prison Inhumanly Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners
2005-12-11As a matter of fact, every practitioner who arrived at the prison would be watched by several inmates. Everything he said and did would be strictly controlled. The perpetrators would talk to him during the day and force him to study and write his "confessions" in the evening. They also deprived practitioners of sleep. Until the practitioner renounced Falun Gong, he would not be allowed to sleep for more than five hours a day. These steadfast practitioners were physically and mentally injured as a result of such maltreatment. -
My Experience in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2005-12-11In the summer of 2002, I was reported to the police for telling the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda and exposing the persecution. The local security office sentenced me to three years of forced labour and then sent me to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. During the three years I was tortured at the Masanjia Labour Camp, my husband also suffered tremendously at home. During the three years of detention in Masanjia I suffered every day under intense labour and was only served stale and mouldy food. -
Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province Tortures Practitioners, Causing One Death and Severe Injury to Others
2005-12-10In the prison systems of Heilongjiang Province, practitioners are detained mostly in eight prisons. Among those prisons, Hulan Prison and Harbin Prison carry out the most ferocious brainwashing and persecution. They employ all sorts of physical torture and abuse. The "Intensive Section" in Harbin Prison, the First Section and the Ninth Section have all persecuted practitioners to death. The practitioners detained in the Harbin Prisons have now been transferred to other prisons in the province. -
Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Hebei Provinces Tortured to Death
2005-12-10Ms. Chen Jianhua, about fifty-one years old, appealed in Beijing for justice for Falun Dafa in 1999. The authorities extorted more than ten thousand yuan from her. She was imprisoned at a detention centre, and handcuffed to a chair. She was deprived of sleep and force-fed. Ms. Chen was brutally tortured and she was only released when she was on the verge of death. Later six police officers arrested Ms. Chen in 2005, took her to a brainwashing centre and tortured her. She was finally released because of her poor health. Ms. Chen passed away on March 20th, 2005. -
Three Practitioners from Liaoning and Heilongjiang Provinces Died Under the Persecution
2005-12-10Ms. Lu Cuihua was about 68 years old. She lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. After she started cultivating Falun Dafa in 1996, her cerebral hemorrhage was cured. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was detained twice and harassed many times. A group of police officers stormed into her house and searched her home illegally. They arrested her and took her to the police station. She was tortured until she was unable to walk. She was released only after a hospital diagnosis. Under the long period of persecution, she became very nervous and was afraid of meeting people. She was found dead in her house on October 17th, 2005. -
The Hebei Province Brainwashing Centre Continues to Inflict Harm
2005-12-10Practitioner Ms. Wang Ruo'e was taken from her home and brought to the brainwashing centre on September 6th, 2005. Although she is elderly and already in her seventies, the authorities did not allow her to get a proper amount of sleep and forced her to write the "three statements". Against her will, she signed them, when she could no longer bear the physical torture. The next day she became very depressed about what she had done and tore up the document, declaring that she refused to be brainwashed. Ms. Wang Ruo'e has still not been released.