Exposing the Persecution

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• Mr. Liu Yong Has Been Detained and Persecuted at a Mental Hospital For Nine Years

  2010-04-09
  A mentally and physically healthy person has been detained at the Baoding Mental Hospital (No. 6 People's Hospital of Hebei Province) for nine years. Falun Gong practitioner Liu Yong is still being forced to take drugs every day, and doctors still monitor him on the medication that he is forced to take. Mr. Liu Yong had gone to Beijing four times to appeal for Falun Gong since July 20th, 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong. He was detained in September 1999 and was later sent to a forced labour camp.
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• Mr. Mei Chuanjun Taken to Brainwashing Centre from Computer Science Institute, Hubei University of Technology

  2010-04-09
  On March 15th, 2010, several officers led by Huang Shuiqing and Hu Jun of the Hubei University of Technology's Security Division broke into Mr. Mei Chuanjun's office in the university's Computer Science Institute. They forcibly took Mr. Mei, who had received an award of Young Teacher of Excellence, to the former Tangxunhu Brainwashing Centre (also known as the Banqiao Legal Education Centre) in Hubei Province. They did so without cause and without following any legal procedure. In September 2006, officials of the university's Communist Party had taken Mr. Mei to the brainwashing centre for practising Falun Gong. He was subjected to brainwashing attempts there for over forty days.
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• Mr. Xiao Hongmo Dies in Custody in Sichuan Province

  2010-04-08
  Mr. Xiao Hongmo went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in early 2001, and was arrested and sentenced to five years of imprisonment. Mr. Xiao was secretly sentenced to another five years in prison at the Deyang City Prison in 2008. On July 25th, 2009, he was injected with an unknown drug, which caused him to become unconscious and incontinent. He was taken to Deyang City People's Hospital for emergency treatment. Prison administrators lied to his family, saying that he developed a tumour in his brain. His mother and a friend went to visit him, but they were chased out and forbidden from visiting him. He was taken to the Sichuan Province General Police Hospital in Chengdu City on July 27th, 2009, and died there in mid-March 2010.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in Gejiu City, Yunnan Province

  2010-04-08
  Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, officials in Gejiu City have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Nearly 100 practitioners have been sent to brainwashing centres, and up to 40 practitioners have been arrested and sentenced to forced labour or imprisonment. Three of them, including Ms. Zhang Xiuying and Ms. Yang Sufen, died as a result of the persecution, and two were permanently disabled. One of the practitioners at the Yunnan No. 2 Women's Prison was given injections that damaged her central nervous system. Several others had to leave home to avoid being persecuted further.
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• 56-Year-Old Ms. Yang Qin of Chongqing Arrested for the Fifth Time

  2010-04-08
  On February 3rd, 2010, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Qin was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong at the food market, she was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The officials told her family members that she would be detained for fifteen days, however after Ms. Yang had a full physical examination, she was sent to the Women's Forced Labour Camp for further persecution. Ms. Yang went on a long-term hunger strike to protest the persecution, and was eventually sent to a hospital once her life was in danger. Ms. Yang has now been arrested five times.
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• Ms. Li Qing Sentenced to Six Years of Imprisonment

  2010-04-08
  Ms. Li Qing was previously an employee of the Department of Supplies and Sales in the county government before she was dismissed from her job for refusing to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. On August 20th, 2009, Li Qing and three other female practitioners were arrested by police. They were detained at the county detention centre. The four practitioners were tortured during their detention period. They were forced to stand still for long periods of time, and deprived of sleep. A torture method called the "tiger bench" was used on them, too. Eventually, three of the practitioners were released while only Li Qing remained in custody. Her family members were not permitted to visit her. On January 12th, 2010, Li Qing was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and sent to the Shandong Women's Prison.
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• Persecution of a Ph.D. Student by Chinese Communist Party's "Unjust Rules"

  2010-04-07
  Yu Yaou, a Ph.D. student from the South China Botanical Garden and Chinese Academy of Sciences, mentioned Falun Gong in the acknowledgment section of his PhD thesis. Soon after, Mr. Yu's PhD thesis defence, which was set to be held on February 4th, 2010, was cancelled. His graduation has also been cancelled until he removes the acknowledgement to Falun Gong in his thesis. The various persecutory methods used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] and personnel from the South China Botanical Garden and Chinese Academy of Sciences to threaten and harass him have been exposed on the Clearwisdom website.
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• Ms. Li Fengxiu and Mr. Wan Guohua from Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province, Held in Custody

  2010-04-07
  Ms. Li Fengxiu and Mr. Wan Guohua from Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province, were arrested on the evening of January 9th, 2010. They are now in custody at the Linchuan Police Department. To help more people to learn the facts about Falun Gong, the two went together to Dongguan Town in the Linchuan District to distribute Falun Gong materials on the evening of January 9th, 2010. Dongguan Police Station patrol officers arrested and detained them at the Shangdundu Detention Centre in Fuzhou City. The Linchuan Police Department officials transferred their case to the Procuratorate, but prosecutors rejected the case and returned it to the police department. The police department officials refuse to release them.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yuan Guoqing from Xinhua County, Hunan Province, Again Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2010-04-07
  Mr. Yuan Guoqing, an employee of Xinhua County Meishan Technology Co. Ltd, Haili, Hunan Province, has been arrested and sentenced to forced labour again. On March 16th, 2010, two strangers approached Mr. Yuan at work. At around 3:00 p.m., police officers from Xinhua County Domestic Security Division forced their way into the plant area and arrested him. They ransacked his storage area at work and forcibly put him into a car without letting him put on his jacket. They took him straight to Fenglin Detention Centre.
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• Four Practitioners in Kaijiang County, Sichuan Province Sentenced

  2010-04-07
  The appeal by four Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Wu Licui, 55; Ms. Liu Mingying, 59; Mr. Li Bending, 65; and Ms. Wang Langying, 59, in Kaijiang County, Sichuan Province was rejected by the Dazhou City Intermediate Court on January 14th, 2010. The court upheld the verdict to incarcerate the four practitioners in the Jianyang Prison, which was delivered on September 21st, 2009. Mr. Li Bending and his wife Ms. Liu Mingying were at home when police arrested them on July 22nd, 2008. Ms. Wu Licui was not at home on July 31st, 2008 when officers from the Kaijiang County National Security Bureau and the 610 Office visited and ransacked her home. On August 17th, the police wiretapped and tracked her phone and eventually arrested her when she was out of town visiting a relative. On August 28th, the police officially announced the arrest of Ms. Wu.
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• Ms. Zhang Weihua Dies as Result of Persecution in Sichuan Province

  2010-04-06
  Ms. Zhang Weihua used to suffer from asthma, but her health greatly improved after she began practising Falun Gong in 1996. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after the persecution began in July 1999. She was arrested multiple times, detained, and sent to a forced labour camp and brainwashing centre, which damaged her health. She died on January 29th, 2010, at the young age of 32.
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• Guards Committing Crimes At the Henan Province No. 3 Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-06
  Examples of cruel torture in Henan Provincial No. 3 Forced Labour Camp: (1) Bring one individual practitioner to a secret place where the guards order several drug addicts to insert a brush into a person's rectum, then rotate and move the brush up and own, which will cause bleeding and blood accumulation inside the practitioner; they also use bamboo strips and other tools to slap the practitioner on his knuckles, wrists, knees and ankles, and other areas. (2) The guards tie the practitioners with ropes and then keep tightening the ropes. They force the practitioners to stand for long times, forbid them to use toilets, deprive them of sleep, and force them to do slave labour for thirteen to fourteen hours each day. Many practitioners' buttock areas were festering, and their hands frost-bitten.
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• Mr. Liu Wen of Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province Sent to Forced Labour Camp Again

  2010-04-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Wen from Dongyangfang Village, Baichigan Township, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province has been persecuted by the communist regime continuously during the past ten years. He had been incarcerated from October 1999 to 2006 and then from 2006 to 2008. He has been homeless and wandering around to avoid persecution. During this period he was arrested three times. In September 2009, he was arrested again and in December 2009, he was sent to a forced labour camp and was subsequently transferred to Xidaying Forced Labour Camp in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province.
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• Ms. Yang Guifang Persecuted in Pujiang County, Sichuan Province

  2010-04-06
  Ms. Yang Guifang began the practice of Falun Gong in 1998. Falun Gong, which is also known as Falun Dafa, gave her the joy of attaining a healthy body and mind. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a persecution against all Falun Gong practitioners in China. Ms Yang suffered incarceration and torture for her faith many times and her family had tens of thousands of yuan1 extorted from them by the CCP.
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• 60-Year-Old Ms. Shi Yingchun Persecuted to Death at Liaoning Province Women's Prison

  2010-04-05
  On March 18th, 2010, Ms. Shi Yingchun was persecuted to death at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. Just for practising Falun Gong, she had been repeatedly arrested and detained. She had been sentenced to forced labour twice and detained in a labour camp for a total of five years. On August 30th, 2008, she was arrested again and sentenced to seven years in prison. She was detained at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison until her death.
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