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  • Practitioners Yang Depeng and His Wife Are Sentenced to Forced Labour - Their Young Son Is in a Very Difficult Situation

    Yang Zhenyu (his nickname is Yuyu) was born in November 2001. He was a very lovely and active boy, but now he has become very silent. A child who is not yet three years old has changed so drastically, because his parents were sentenced to forced labour for practising Falun Gong.
  • With Both Parents Illegally Detained, Fourteen-year-old Zhang Lu Is Adopted by Her Aunt

    Zhang Lu, 14, is the daughter of practitioners Zhang Lingjiang and Yu Jingxia from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. At present, Yu Jingxia is detained at the second detention centre. She was sentenced to 10 years in labour camp at her first trial and she is appealing to the Supreme Court of Hebei Province. Her husband Zhang Lingjiang was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He is now detained at the Hebei Province's first prison in Baoding. With no one left at home to take care of the young girl, Zhang Lu's aunt adopted her.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Yukun from Chongqing City Tortured to Death in 2001

    It has been learned that Dafa practitioner Ms Li Yukun, a worker of Chongqing City Grinding Machine Factory, was tortured to death at the end of December 2000 when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa for the second time. Another practitioner went to Beijing together with Li Yukun. As soon as their train arrived in Beijing, they were arrested and taken to different places. Several days after she came back to Chongqing, on January 5. 2001, she heard from Li Yukun's family that Li had died and that they had come back from Beijing with a box containing her ashes.
  • Atrocious Behaviour of Police at the Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province

    Zhang Bolin is the team leader of the National Security Team of the Panzhihua City Public Security Bureau. He beat up most of the Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested. He used very ruthless tactics. Many practitioners that he beat up went into shock. He tortured a female practitioner, Luo Junling many times. In November 2002, Zhang Bolin took Luo Junling at night many times to a torture location that they had been secretly set up.
  • More Details about the Persecution Death of Henan Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Chen Lijun

    Forty-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Lijun was from Henan Province. She was sent to Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp twice without any legal grounds. The headwomen of the labour camp subjected Ms. Chen to all kinds of tortures, including "Tying the Ropes". They would also strike her violently all over her body including her chest, stomach and private parts. The policewomen also ordered drug addicts to seal her mouth with used menstrual pads or put excrement on her mouth. As result of the persecution, Ms. Chen died at 4:00 p.m. on September 29, 2004.
  • Latest News of Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Huazhen's Surviving Children Feng Jun and Feng Hao

    On April 18, 2001, the police brutally beat Falun Gong practitioner Wang Huazhen until she was at the brink of death. Then they dragged her to the front of the city government building, poured gasoline on her and burned her to death. Listed below are the current circumstances of Wang Huazhen's children Feng Jun and Feng Hao.
  • Orphan Wang Tianxing Taken in by Aunt after Mother and Uncle Tortured to Death

    Orphaned two-year-old Wang Tianxing is being cared for by his aunt Feng Xiaomei. Due to the long-term persecution of his parents he has no "legal status" and no registered permanent address. He is presently staying with his aunt. His father, Wang Xiaofeng, was forced to leave home to avoid persecution in June 2001. His mother, Feng Xiaomin, was tortured to death on June 1, 2004.
  • Seventy-Year-Old Woman Mistaken as Falun Gong Practitioner, Beaten to Death

    70-year-old Ms Wang Lianying had taken up Falun Gong before July 20, 1999 for health reasons. However, she stopped practising after the persecution of Falun Gong began. On September 18, 2004, she was arrested while sleeping, taken to the police station, and beaten to death on the same day. Upon hearing the news, Wang's family was furious. On the morning of September 19, as a protest, they strung a banner across the street that read, "Give Back Our 70-Year-Old Mother." With hundreds of spectators and bystanders, the traffic was in complete chaos. Later, they hung a banner across the hospital saying, "Knowing the law yet breaking the law, the police treat human lives like straw."
  • Practitioner Zhang Jiuhui of Heilongjiang Province Demonstrates the Torture Methods She Suffered (Photos)

    Ms. Zhang Jiuhui, 26, is a resident of Heilongjiang Province. On February 20, 2000, she was practising the Falun Gong exercises outdoors when she was arrested. At that time, she was 21 years old. She related the story about how three young policewomen tortured her. "This kind of persecution caused me to feel both painful and itchy at that time. Later my skin turned black and blue, and for more than two weeks I could not turn over in bed. This was not merely a persecution of my body, it was also an insult to my dignity."
  • The Indecent Behaviour of Policeman Ma Zengyou From the Qianmen Police Station in Beijing (Illustrations)

    “Early in December 2000 I went to Tiananmen Square and shouted my heartfelt wishes to end the persecution. I was badly beaten up and then taken to the Tiananmen Square Police Station. That year I was 23 years old. The head of the police station, Ma Zengyou, humiliated me and indecently assaulted me.”
  • Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Sun Yubo Is Orphaned After Her Parents are Killed As a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Sun Jihong was 40 years old and worked in the Huanan Forestry Company's Xianfeng site in Heilongjiang Province. In 1994, he learned to practise Falun Dafa. On September 25th of the same year, he was again illegally arrested and detained in Beijing at the Yuquanying area in Fengtai District. Four days later, on September 29th, he was subjected to a round of excruciating torture and died. On October 2, his body was cremated.
  • Letter from WOIPFG to All Levels of Chinese Officials Regarding Jiang's Stepping Down: Stop the Persecution and Bring the Murderers to Justice

    In China, the persecution of 100 million innocent Falun Gong practitioners has lasted for more than five years. Now that Jiang has stepped down, this national catastrophe should be immediately stopped. The persecution of Falun Gong has caused the deaths of more than 1000 innocent people from beatings and torture, has utilized vast resources and affected almost all of the people in China. All the murderers who initiated and participated in the persecution should also be punished.
  • Husband Tortured to Death, Wife Develops Mental Disorder as Result of Persecution

    According to reports, Falun Gong practitioner Mr Li Xianwen, who lived in Sichuan Province, was tortured to death while detained in a brainwashing centre in Chengdu City. Li Xianwen's mother still does not know about her son's death. Li Xianwen's wife Yu Guiying is also a practitioner, who has suffered brutal persecution in a labour camp. As a result, she has developed a mental disorder. The labour camp has released her and sent her home.
  • Continuous Persecution in Jilin Prison leads to Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr Cui Weidong

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Weidong wrote a solemn declaration in Jilin Prison stating that all the guarantees to stop practising Falun Gong he made under the persecution were done so against his will and therefore null and void. After nearly four months of persecution, the prison authorities allowed him to be released on bail for medical treatment, but with the condition that he write a guarantee to give up Falun Gong. Cui Weidong rejected this demand. The prison hospital sent Mr. Cui back to a prison cell in August 2004. In less than a month, his condition worsened and he died on September 10.
  • Anhui Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jiang Lingsheng Dies from Torture-Induced Disease

    Anhui Province Dafa practitioner Mr Jiang Lingsheng was healed of leukemia through the practice of Falun Dafa. In December 1999, Mr. Jiang Lingsheng went to Beijing to appeal and to share with the government his firsthand experience of Falun Gong practice and the tremendous benefits it had brought him. However the authorities would not listen to his story and instead arrested and detained him. In May 2001 he was arrested in Tongling City for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and was sentenced to three years of forced labour in Anhui Province and was not allowed to practise Falun Dafa. His old illness recurred and he died on August 3, 2001.