Exposing the Persecution

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• Ms. Cui Yinxia Arrested Again

  2010-04-13
  Ms. Cui Yinxia, a schoolteacher in Renqiu City, Hebei Province, was arrested and subsequently detained on March 31st, 2010, for her belief in Falun Gong. She was held in a detention centre in August 2008, and Renqiu Court officials sentenced her to five years of imprisonment. She went on a hunger strike that lasted more than 70 days. Detention centre officials told her family to take her home only when she was on the brink of death.
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• Prison Guard Reveals Death Quotas in Chinese Prisons

  2010-04-12
  Wafangdian Prison guards said, "Every year the prison sets a quota on the number of allowed deaths, which means we are not accountable as long as the number of prisoners that die is within the quota." Falun Gong practitioner Lu Guozan's ribs were cracked by the inmates' brutal beatings, but the injuries were left untreated. Liu Fangxu was tortured until he fell unconscious. Yang Guoqian, whose toes had been broken by a prison guard, was bloodied all over his body because he tried to get to the toilet without being escorted by a guard. Practitioner Yang Guoqian was detained in the "Strict Control Room" for at least two months to conceal his serious condition.
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• Ou Weizhi and Zou Jixiu Tried in Nongken Court in Mudanjiang

  2010-04-12
  Ms. Ou Weizhi and Ms. Zou Jixiu were arrested and put on trial on March 22nd, 2010, because they practise Falun Gong. Friends of Ms. Ou Weizhi found her an attorney in Beijing, and Ms. Zou Jixiu's family found her one too. Personnel from the procuratorial department lied in court. The judges tried to hinder the attorneys from speaking with the excuse that the government had already determined the nature of Falun Gong, but the attorneys protested.
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• Elderly Mr. Qi Fengming Severely Abused in Daqing Prison, Heilongjiang Province

  2010-04-12
  The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province manipulated the judicial system and sentenced Mr. Qi Fengming, 69 years old, to five years in prison in 2008 for distributing Falun Gong materials. He was transferred to the Daqing Prison for continued persecution on January 6th, 2009. On several occasions, the prison guards forced him to stand outside on freezing winter days when the temperature was about -30 degrees Celcius. They arbitrarily beat him on several occasions also burned his clothes.
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• 56-Year-Old Li Chuanlan of Yushu, Jilin, Describes Her Torture Experience

  2010-04-12
  Fellow Falun Gong practitioner Liu Shuyan and I went to distribute Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution on April 29th, 2009. On our way home we were arrested by police. We were detained in Yushu Detention Centre. I started a hunger strike on June 5th to protest my detention. I became very weak after ten days and they took me to the hospital and injected me with an unknown drug. My abdomen then became very bloated, and my mouth severely cracked and blistered. I heard continuous ringing in my ears and I couldn't see. They also deceived our families by telling them that they would let us go if they got their signatures. Once they got the signatures however, we were again put into detention.
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• After Seven Years of Imprisonment, Ms. Chen Shulan Taken to a Brainwashing Centre

  2010-04-11
  Ms. Chen Shulan was arrested by officers from the Changping District Police Department on September 16th, 2002, and was sentenced to seven and a half years. She was held at the Beijing Women's Prison until her release on March 17th, 2010, when she was picked up again and taken to the Changping District Brainwashing Centre.
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• Ms. Tang Xuzhen, a Retired Associate Professor from Luzhou Medical Institute, Secretly Sentenced

  2010-04-11
  73-year-old Ms. Tang Xuzhen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Sichuan Province who is a retired associate professor from the Luzhou Medical Institute, was sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment after being detained for eight months at Naxi Detention Centre in Luzhou City. She was sent to Jianyang Prison on February 8th, 2010.
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• Seven Years in Prison: The Persecution of Mr. Luo Yingping from Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

  2010-04-11
  The son of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Luo Yingping called a taxi on his way to pick up his father who was supposed to be released from Wangling Prison, several hundred kilometres away on March 10th, 2010. However, the prison officials refused to release Mr. Luo. They claimed that they could not let Mr. Luo go until the local 610 Office officials came. The son hadn't seen his father for seven years. When he saw his balding father behind the bars, his eyes were full of tears. When the taxi driver heard that the father was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment merely because he was a Falun Gong practitioner, he was shocked and said, "This communist party is so brutal," and he wiped tears from his eyes.
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• Practitioner Wang Yongbin from Shanghai City Detained; Previously Sentenced to Forced Labour Twice

  2010-04-11
  Mr. Wang Yongbin, 53 years old, is a farmer from Situan Village, Fengxian District in Shanghai City. He started practising Falun Gong in 1998. On the morning of March 24th, officials from the Shanghai City Fengxian District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and policemen from Pingan Police Department broke into his home and ransacked it. They arrested Wang Yongbin and detained him at Fengxian District Detention Centre. After the persecution against Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, Wang Yongbin was arrested by police in 2000. He was sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp and endured inhumane torture. He was finally released in 2002.
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• 56-Year-Old Ms. Hu Suhua Dies in Custody in the Hohhot City Police Department

  2010-04-10
  Ms. Hu Suhua used to have many sicknesses, which made her miserable. All of her diseases were cured after she started practising Falun Gong. After the persecution began in 1999, she was arrested multiple times and sent to forced labour camps twice. Her husband divorced her under huge pressure. She had to leave her hometown to live in Hohhot City in order to avoid being arrested. Before her death, she was followed by the police, and her rental home was ransacked. She died in custody in the Hohhot City Police Department around March 4th, 2010.
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• Lawyer Defends Mr. Chen Jizhong and His Sister, Ms. Chen Jihuan

  2010-04-10
  Mr. Chen Jizhong, 69, and his younger sister, Ms. Chen Jihuan, 56, both live in Heilongjiang Province. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Mr. Chen was arrested five times and sentenced to five years of imprisonment in Lianjiangkou Prison in Jiamusi City. On November 29th, 2009, Mr. Chen and his sister were arrested again. They were still detained in the Yilan County Detention Centre. On March 24th, 2010, Mr. Chen and Ms. Chen were brought to trial in the Yilan County Court. An attorney defended them despite much interference. The prosecutor had nothing to argue with.
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• In Memory of Practitioner Liu Xuguo

  2010-04-10
  Mr. Liu Xuguo worked at an electrical repair shop for the Yishan Chemical Industry Company in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province. Ten years ago, he was tortured to death. I was saddened by the loss of a good practitioner. Liu Xuguo was sentenced to three years in the Jining City Forced Labour Camp. Liu Xuguo and other practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreatment they were experiencing. Liu Xuguo was force-fed. As a result, he ended up with fluid in his lungs from injuries caused during insertion of the feeding tube. On February 4th, his family was notified that Liu Xuguo was in critical condition. On February 10th, he passed away. He was only 29 years old.
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• Ms. Tong Yaqin Taken to a Detention Centre for Requesting the Release of Another Practitioner in Heilongjiang Province

  2010-04-10
  On March 17th, 2010, police broke into the home of practitioner Ms. Ma Chunli without a search warrant. They confiscated a computer, Falun Gong books, and informational material about Falun Gong. They took Ms. Ma to Jiadong Police Station. On March 18th, Ms. Tong Yaqin, also a Falun Gong practitioner, along with Ms. Ma's kindhearted neighbour and another sympathetic lady, visited Jiadong Police Station to request the release of Ma Chunli. Ms. Tong argued reasonably but infuriated the police chief, Feng Kaidong. As a result, he detained Ms. Tong and took her to Jiamusi Detention Centre.
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• Ms. Zhou Zhiying Dies in Custody in Jiangsu Province

  2010-04-09
  Ms. Zhou Zhiying was a recipient of the "Excellent Teacher Award" in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. She was nonetheless arrested and sentenced to forced labour because she practised Falun Gong and followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She was arrested in 2002 for the second time, then sentenced to four years of imprisonment. Ms. Zhou was arrested and imprisoned in the brainwashing centre again on September 30th, 2009. When she returned home on February 1st, 2010, her family found that she had suffered a massive mental collapse, and her body was covered with bruises and puncture marks from needles. The Jiangyin City 610 Office took Ms. Zhou to the Jiangyin City Qingshan Mental Hospital, where she remained until she died in late March.
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• Three Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners from Fuzhi Village, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, Have Died as a Result of Persecution

  2010-04-09
  Ms. Gao Xiulan started to practise Falun Gong in 1996. Prior to that she used to suffer from numerous illnesses, including a bacterial infection of the trachea and emphysema. At the end of 2000, officers from a police station in Lequn Township arrested her because she practised Falun Gong and held her in Shuangcheng City No. 1 Detention Centre. Ms. Gao was later detained in a village factory for a month, where she was subjected to brainwashing to try to force her to renounce her belief. As a result of the incarceration and other forms of torture, Ms. Gao eventually passed away in April 2006, at the age of 66.
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