Exposing the Persecution
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Mr. Yang Xuegui Secretly Sent to Brainwashing Centre After Eight-year Prison Term Expired
2009-10-08
For eight long years, in the dark prison of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Xuegui suffered tremendously. He was tortured with beatings, being locked in solitary confinement and tied up on the "death bed" for long periods of time. He was tortured so severely that he had scabies all over his body and became so emaciated and he couldn't walk by himself. However, he never gave in. Now, his prison term has expired, and he should have been released. However, the prison administration took him away secretly, planning to continue the abuse at a brainwashing centre . -
Elderly Mr. Wang Deliang Dies as Result of Persecution
2009-10-08After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang Delian told people about the benefits of Falun Gong, and he exposed the facts about the persecution. Police frequently harassed and threatened him. In 2001, police stepped on his head, beat, spit-on, shocked him with a electric baton. Mr. Wang endured 386 days of inhumane torture while in detention, and was sentenced to three years in prison. In August 2008, police arrested Mr. Wang Deliang and detained him for more than two months. The guards were very vicious. Often the food provided was found to contain mouse faeces, and he often starved. Mr. Wang became sick with stomach cancer, and died. -
Older Practitioner Gao Guofeng's Term Extended by Qianjin Labour Camp in Harbin City
2009-10-08Gao Guofeng, in her fifties, was beaten so much that there were bruises all over her face. Then she was put into solitary confinement. She was brutally tortured and hung up for 13 days. She was emaciated and went on a hunger strike to protest her treatment. She was then force-fed by Huo Shuping and other guards. When a labour camp doctor was force feeding her, she vomited blood and passed out. She almost died. Originally, her term was scheduled to end on September 10th, 2009, but was extended for seven months. -
Ms. Jiang Ruihong, 68, Dies as Result of the Persecution
2009-10-07After Ms. Jiang Ruihong attended Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong's second lecture series in Dalian City in July 1994, the more than a dozen diseases that she had disappeared, among them high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney infection, and arthritis. She did not take any medication for the 15 years after she started cultivation. She changed from a sick woman to an optimistic, healthy person; however, during the persecution, she was arrested three times. She died as a result of the persecution on September 16th, 2009. -
United Nations Refugee Zhang Xinyi Was Arrested Again by Changsha City 610 Office
2009-10-07On September 8th, 2009, Ms. Zhang Xinyi, a Falun Gong practitioner and a retired teacher from Changsha City, and her friend, He Minna, went to the Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to try to persuade the school administrators and others to release a school employee, Tang Min, a Falun Gong practitioner. Tang Min is being detained at the No. 2 People's Hospital in Hunan Province. Ms. Zhang Xinyi and He Minna were seized by the school security section and reported to Hanpu Police Station. In the afternoon, the two practitioners were taken to the Changsha City Rule of Law Education Training Centre (a brainwashing centre) in Changsha City. This is the fourth time Ms. Zhang has been arrested. -
Zhuhai City 610 Office Monitors Retired Teacher Ms. Li Yuqin
2009-10-07Retired teacher Ms. Li Yuqin, a practitioner from Zhuhai City, was not concerned that she was being monitored by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel when she decided to visit her home town at the end of August. Later her family members including her daughter were harassed many times. On September 15th, the principal and director of her school broke into Li Yuqin's home, as they had several times before at the behest of CCP personnel from the Zhuhai 610 Office and Zhuhai Education Bureau. As nobody was home, they called Ms. Li's daughter and ordered her to tell her mother to call the principal. They also demanded to know the address of Ms. Li's home town, which the daughter revealed. At present, her daughter is under CCP monitoring and her telephones are tapped. Li Yuqin's safety is a serious concern. -
Linghai City Court Tried Practitioner Jin Bowen
2009-10-07On September 10th, 2009, the Linghai City Court of Liaoning Province tried practitioner Jin Bowen. Mr. Jin's family had hired two lawyers to defend him. In attendance were Mr. Jin's family, his work unit superiors, his co-workers, his lawyers, the judge, and other legal professionals. It was said that the legal professionals were there to hear how the lawyers defended a Falun Gong practitioner. In court, the Linghai City procuratorate claimed that Mr. Jin "utilized a cult organization to sabotage law enforcement." The two defence lawyers spoke firmly in favour of Mr. Jin's innocence. Many times the presiding judge and assistants did not have a reply and simply pounded on the table in great anger. -
Fifteen Practitioners Arrested in Jiamusi City
2009-10-06On September 19th, 2009, 15 practitioners in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province were studying Falun Gong and sharing experiences at a practitioner's home in Jianan District. As soon as they sat down, someone knocked on the door and yelled: "It is flooded upstairs. I need to check in here." Since the owner did not suspect anything, he opened the door, and six or seven police officers rushed in. The officers searched everyone and their belongings. They seized Falun Gong articles as well as other materials. The police ransacked the house, and seized a computer and some other property. They then dragged all of the practitioners into a police vehicle and took them to the police station for interrogation. -
Mr. Tian Hongguang's Life in Danger from Repeated Persecution
2009-10-06On August 28th, 2009, police broke into and ransacked Mr. Tian Hongguang's home. They took Mr. Tian's computer and took Mr. Tian to a detention centre. Mr. Tian was brutally beaten by a criminal facing the death penalty who stayed in same cell with Mr. Tian. The criminal kicked Mr. Tian hard in the head which caused Mr. Tian's head to swell, and bruised him around his eyes. Mr. Tian felt dizzy and nauseous. His pulse reached 130 and he was unable to eat. Each day he only drank a little liquid food to keep himself going. His family members went to the detention centre several times to visit him but they were refused by the guards. All that was known of Mr. Tian was that he had been sentenced to a year and six months of forced labour. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Yanyan Arrested Again
2009-10-06Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yanyan was arrested again and sent to the Siping City Brainwashing Centre by police on September 16th. One month before her latest arrest, Wang Yanyan and her mother had been arrested for having talked to people about the persecution of Falun Gong and having distributed DVDs about Falun Gong. The two women were detained at the county detention centre for 15 days and sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City soon after. Wang Yanyan's mother was punished with one year of imprisonment. -
Schoolteacher Ms. Hu Meizhi Arrested in Jiayu County, Hubei Province
2009-10-06Ms. Hu Meizhi, a schoolteacher at the Paizhouwan Central School in Jiayu County, Hubei Province, was arrested on September 9th, 2009. The school leaders led the local police to arrest her. Chen Zhe (school principal of the Paizhouwan Central School as well as the Lantian Secondary School) and Yin Zuozhong (vice principal) read the newsletter "Words from the Heart in Jiayu County" and discovered that their bad deeds were exposed there. In order to take revenge on Falun Gong practitioners, Chen Zhe and Yin Zuozhong requested personnel from the County 610 office to arrest teacher Ms. Hu Meizhi and send her to a brainwashing centre. -
Psychiatric Torture in China
2009-10-05In April 2006, officials from the Chibi City Police Department, Hubei Province arrested Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, and sent her to the Psychiatric Department of the Pufang Hospital. At the hospital, Ms. Liu was brutally beaten, injected with toxic drugs, fed with mentally debilitating drugs, and shocked with high-voltage electric batons. For 24 hours, they continuously injected her with the mental drug. She lost consciousness for two consecutive days and her whole body became dark and swollen. After she woke up, she temporarily lost the ability to speak. She died on the afternoon of October 26th, 2008. -
Two Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution
2009-10-05
Ms. Li Fengmei, 60, benefited from the Falun Gong practice both mentally and physically. In 2005, she was arrested while she was talking to people about Falun Gong and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour. In 2007, police arrested her again and detained her in the Tanggu District Detention Centre. Ms. Li Fengmei passed away on August 30th, 2009. -
The Persecution of Ms. Huang Liling and Her Family
2009-10-05Ms. Huang Liling, 34, began to practise Falun Gong in 1996 while she was a student at the Guangdong Province Environmental Protection School. After graduation, she became a staff member of the school's Academic Affairs Office. She and her family have been persecuted for the past several years. Ms. Huang was once detained at the Tianhe District Brainwashing Centre. She was also forced to leave home and become homeless. Ms. Huang's husband, Mr. Tan Weichang, was secretly sentenced to a three-year term and is being held in Sihui Prison. Ms. Huang's mother, aunt, sister, and cousin have all endured persecution. -
Ms. Zhao Juanjuan, a Retired Cadre, Arrested for the Tenth Time
2009-10-05On September 12th, 2009, Ms. Zhao Juanjuan, 70, was arrested by 610 Office police in Doumen County as she was handing out materials that explained the facts about Falun Gong at Niwan Market in Jingan Town, Juhai City. She was detained in the Second Hotel in Jingan Town. This is her tenth arrest. She has been monitored, arrested, detained, and sentenced to a labour camp over ten times.
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