Exposing the Persecution
Torture | Kidnapping | Brainwashing | Illegal Detention and Imprisonment | Extortion | Persecution Throughout Society | Inside the Labour Camps | Individual Accounts | 6-10 Office | Death Cases | Organ Harvesting
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Ms. Zhao Qiumei Tortured in Labour Camp--Husband Wang Jianguo Persecuted to Death
2009-10-30Ms. Zhao Qiumei was detained and sentenced to a forced labour camp twice. She recounts her experience in the labour camp: "Five of (the guards) beat me using handcuffs, two high-voltage electric batons, and three leather belts. They cuffed my hands behind my back and tied my feet using the belts. Wang Limei and Xiao Aiqiu slapped me with their hands and bamboo chips, shocked the sensitive places on my body including my neck, wrist and eyes." Her husband Wang Jianguo was persecuted to death in the detention centre in Jilin City on April 10th, 2006. His body is still kept in the funeral home. -
Mr. Dai Guohe's Family Persecuted for Over Ten Years
2009-10-30Mr. Dai Guohe is 44 years old. Over the past 10 years, Dai Guohe has been sent to forced labour camps three times. His father has been sent to a forced labour camp once. He has been arrested twelve times. The accumulated amount of time he has spent in detention is more than 1600 days or over five years. His home has been ransacked five times, and the police extorted 5,000 yuan from him. At this time, his daughter is being held in detention. -
Mr. Fu Yu's Life Is in Great Danger Due to Brutal Torture in the Jiamusi City Prison
2009-10-30When Mr. Fu Yu used a small loudspeaker to inform the public about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, he was arrested and taken to a detention centre on February 8th, 2009. The police brutally tortured him in order to coerce a "confession." On July 7th, the court held a trial in the detention centre and sentenced Mr. Fu to five years of imprisonment. He was transferred to the Jiamusi City Prison on August 20th. His 70-year-old mother has sought his release through various channels, but to no avail. -
Ms. Liang Yuzhen Sentenced to Four and a Half Years in Prison
2009-10-30Ms. Liang Yuzhen was arrested by police from the Yayo Police Station on February 25th, 2009, as she was handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution to people in the countryside. The police obstructed her lawyers from seeing her, and she was subsequently sentenced to four and half years in prison. She is still being held in the Heshan Detention Centre. -
Large Numbers of Falun Gong Practitioners Targeted for Persecution and Arrest in 2009, Says Congressional-Executive Commission on China (Excerpt)
2009-10-29In its 2009 Annual Report released last week, the U.S. Government's Congressional-Executive Commission on China thoroughly documents the continued and intensified targeting of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese security apparatus over the past year. The section on Falun Gong cites, in particular, the involvement of top Chinese Communist Party officials in directing a "strike hard" campaign against Falun Gong, as well as the robust activity of the extralegal 6-10 Office in carrying out such directives. -
Ms. Li Xiuzhen Dies in Custody after Being Tortured
2009-10-29Ms. Li Xiuzhen was arrested 19 times for practising Falun Gong, sent to forced labour, imprisoned for 7 years, and brutally force-fed 616 times. She endured more than a dozen tortures, but she still refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. The guards used electric batons to shock her. Ms. Li went on hunger strikes to protest the cruel beatings which occurred 5 or 6 times every day. The guards inserted a thick rubber tube into her nose to force-feed her. By the end of 2002, she was released when she was close to dying. In June 2009, police arrested her again. Ms. Li was held in a brainwashing session especially set up for her, where she endured cruel torture. Ms. Li died in October. -
Liang Shaolin Taken to Brainwashing Centre After Five-Year Detention
2009-10-29Ms. Liang Shaolin, 58, has suffered repeated persecution because she practises Falun Gong. On September 24th, 2009, 17 policemen from the Maoxi Police Department broke into her house by breaking down her double doors with an electric saw. She was then taken to the Maoming City Brainwashing Centre. Prior to this event, Liang Shaolin was severely tortured in the Shanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province. In 1999, she was sentenced to a forced labour camp for two years because she went to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in Beijing. Because Ms. Liang refused to give up her practice of Falun Gong, she was not released until March 2005. -
Ms. Wang Xiaoying Tortured and Sentenced to Forced Labour in Xinjiang
2009-10-29Ms. Wang Xiaoying, 31, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shihezi City, Xinjiang Province, was beaten, tortured, and taken to Wujiaqu Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changji City. Ms. Wang has been beaten by the guards in the labour camp. She has protested this abuse by means of a hunger strike. Her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter cries every day for her mother. Ms. Wang is now appealing her case. -
Exposing the True Nature of the Shengjian 83rd Factory in Shandong Province
2009-10-29The Shengjian 83rd Factory in Shandong Province, also known as the Shandong No.1 Forced Labour Camp, is located in Zibo City, Shandong Province. Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners are being detained as forced labourers. At one time the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp detained more than 800 male practitioners and over 1,000 female practitioners. -
Mr. Feng Zhen from Wuhai City Arrested Eight Times and Imprisoned for Seven Years
2009-10-28Since the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Feng Zhen has been arrested eight times and imprisoned for seven years due to his refusal to renounce Falun Gong. In December 2002, the Wuchang District Court sentenced him to 7 years in prison. He was then sent to the Quanqingkou Prison and then the Fanjiatai Prison in Hubei Province. On October 28th, 2008, Mr. Feng's prison term was up. He got his release certificate the day before. His family came to the prison gate at 5 a.m. on the day of his release. However, the prison officials refused to release him and told his family that he had left. After his family left, the officials from the 610 Office arranged to transport him to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre. He was subjected to brainwashing for a month. -
Wu Zhengping Detained in Guangzhou Chatou Forced Labour Camp for Two Years
2009-10-28Ms. Wu Zhengping has been arrested and detained four times since the persecution began in July 1999. Her happy family was destroyed by the persecution. Wu Zhengping now lives in a very difficult situation with no financial resources. Because of the endless persecution, her husband refuses to help. In detention in the Guangzhou Armed Police Hospital, Wu Zhengping became emaciated. She weighed less than 90 pounds, and her body was extremely weak. Even in this condition, police dragged Wu Zhengping to a prison cell and bound her feet and arms to the bed, force-feeding her in front of many people in the same cell. They did not remove the feeding tube which had been inserted through her nose into her stomach until the next afternoon. -
Mr. Zhang Xu from Yitong County, Jilin Province, Has Suffered Five Years of Detention and Persecution
2009-10-28Mr. Zhang Xu is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yitong County, Jilin Province. In March 2002, he was arrested and tortured. In November 2002 he was sentenced to five years and sent to Jilin City Second Prison. When he was arrested police tortured Mr. Zhang in the police station. Police hit him with metal objects, leaving injuries on his wrists, lower back, and ankles. They also stabbed his fingers with needles and covered his head with plastic bags. They didn't give him any water to drink or allow him to sleep. One man put a copy of a Falun Gong book on his chest while another man banged the book with a hammer. -
Ms. Huang Guifen from Rongcheng, Shandong Province Persecuted
2009-10-28Ms. Huang Guifen was arrested in May 2007. Later she was sent to Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp and tortured brutally there. Ms. Huang was deprived of sleep. She was not allowed to brush her teeth or to shower. They forced her to sit on a little bench for a long time. The guards also instigated Wang Meixia, who helps the police to persecute practitioners, to watch Ms. Huang. Wang Meixia did not allow Ms. Huang to speak. She even watched Ms. Huang when she used the toilet. In the meantime, the perpetrators kept playing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) recordings and videos that slander Falun Gong. Guards forced Ms. Huang to work every day for 13 hours. -
Justice System in Shuangyashan City Co-operates with the 610 Office to Persecute Ms. Hu Qili
2009-10-27Ms. Hu Qili was fired from her job for practising Falun Gong. For the same reason, she was detained and imprisoned in forced labour camps many times. On September 25th, 2009, the Jianshan District Court in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, held a trial for Ms. Hu. From her arrest to the trial, the justice system violated the law on numerous occasions. During her most recent arrest, police officers deceived her into opening her door by pretending to be fee collectors. Once inside her home, they searched it without a warrant and seized private property and cash. According to an insider, in early August, the Shuangyashan City 610 Office held a justice system meeting. They ordered the Jianshan Court to find Ms. Hu guilty and have the trial finished by September 15th, 2009. -
Ms. Sha Yulian Repeatedly Arrested and Tortured by 610 Office Agents
2009-10-27Ms. Sha Yulian is retired from Baoji City Light Machinery Factory. She is sixty-one years old. She began practising Falun Gong in September of 1996. Since Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Sha Yulian has been persecuted numerous times by the 610 Office because she refused to give up her belief. She was arrested and held four times and sentenced to a labour camp twice.