Exposing the Persecution

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• 53-Year-Old Ms. Zhang Ziqin's Family Suffers Persecution in Luzhou City and Cannot Return Home

  2009-09-12
  Ms. Zhang Ziqin, 53, and her husband Mr. Luo Zhenggui live in Pule Village in Sichuan Province. Because they firmly believe in Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), their whole family has been repeatedly persecuted for the past 10 years. This couple has been sentenced and sent to Guangyuan Prison and Jianyang Prison. After they were released, they could not live a normal life and suffered the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution several times. In order to avoid persecution, they were forced to leave home.
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• Trial of Mr. Li Yonghong, Mr. Yu Bin and Ms. Xu Li Pushed Ahead by Two Days in Chengdu City

  2009-09-12
  On September 2nd, 2009, the Qingyang District Court in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province held a trial against Mr. Li Yonghong, Mr. Yu Bin, and Ms. Xu Li. Mr. Li and Mr. Yu pleaded innocence. They exposed the mistreatment they had suffered since they were arrested in August of last year, such as extortion of a "confession," beating (two teeth of Mr. Li were knocked out), sleep deprivation for six days and nights and more. The court, however, sentenced the three practitioners to between two and three and one half years in prison. The trial was originally scheduled for September 4th, but was pushed forward by two days to avoid public attention.
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• Ms. Li Juhua's Life in Danger from Persecution, Family Not Permitted to Visit

  2009-09-11
  On August 19th, 2009, more than a dozen police officers broke into Ms. Li Juhua's home, searched it and arrested her. The family went to the Wuhan City No. 1 Detention Centre, the Women's Detention Centre, the Women's Prison as well as several brainwashing centres in Wuhan City in an attempt to find Ms. Li, but with no success. Ms. Li was being held at the Erdaopeng Brainwashing Centre. On September 2nd, Ms. Li's family received the news that, "Li Juhua is 'sick' in the centre". Ms. Li's daughter went to the brainwashing centre and was not allowed to visit her mother.
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• Ms. Wang Lili Disabled by Torture

  2009-09-11
  Due to her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, Ms. Wang Lili was persecuted and abused by the Communist authorities many times over the past ten years. Ms. Wang has been detained at the Jilin Women's Forced Labour Camp twice. She was also detained at several different detention centres and at the Jingyuetan secret torture facility. The police have severely beat her and used electric batons to torture her. She was also subjected to torture methods called "big hang-up" and "stretching torture" among others. During the tortures, her rib was fractured, and as a result of the abuse, she developed a kidney haemorrhage and protrusion of the lumbar inter-vertebral discs. Wang Lili was nearly disabled, but the authorities still refused to release her.
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• Wei Jia Misses His Mum

  2009-09-11
  Lin Weijia is six years old. In April of 2009, his mother, Yin Qi, his maternal grandmother and his maternal grandfather were arrested by police in Zhuhai City because they practised Falun Gong and followed the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They have been kept in custody at Doumen No. 2 Detention Centre. Weijia used to be a very happy child. When he would come home from kindergarten he would happily follow his mother around. When Wei Jia lost his mother it was devastating to him! He misses his mother so much, but instead of crying, Wei Jia just sits there quietly for a long time, motionless. Sometimes he asks, "Will my mother come back to see me when I die?"
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• Mr. Yang Jinmiao and His Daughter Unjustly Sentenced--Another Daughter Detained

  2009-09-11
  Mr. Yang Jinmiao, 70, was reported by the Yangjing Neighbourhood Night Patrol Team when he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on June 4th, 2008. He was arrested and taken to the Yangjing Police Station. Mr. Yang's daughter, Ms. Yang Hairong, who happened to be home, was also arrested. Ms. Yang was sent to the brainwashing centre, where she was held until the Olympic Games were over. She was tortured her with sleep deprivation for five consecutive nights. On February 11th, 2009, the Pudong New Area Court held a public hearing of Mr. Yang and Ms. Yang's cases and sentenced them to a three-and-half-year term, despite their defence lawyers' pleas of not guilty of any crime.
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• Ms. Yang Xiaojing Seriously Ill, Husband Cao Dong Still in Prison

  2009-09-10
  Hoping to rescue his wife Ms. Yang Xiaojing, on May 21st, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Dong met with European Parliament Vice President Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott in Beijing. Mr. Cao informed Mr. McMillan-Scott of the brutal persecution suffered by himself and his wife. Two hours after the meeting, Chinese Communist regime security agents arrested Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao was sentenced to five years of imprisonment on February 8th, 2007. In August 2006 his wife, Ms. Yang was released after being abused at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. In July 2008 she was found to have lymphoma. She has sought help in making her voice known to the public, but Communist regime agents have been threatening her.
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• Jiang Xiqing Persecuted to Death in Xishanping Forced Labour Camp, His Daughter Arrested for Appealing for Him

  2009-09-10
  Mr. Jiang Xiqing was persecuted to death in Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear. Seven hours after being notified of his death, his family found his body still warm in the freezer. Labour camp officials did not give any reasonable explanation for his death and had his body cremated without his family's consent. His daughter, Jiang Hong, sought justice through legal means. Officials in the Politics and Law Committee and the 610 Office did not want to be exposed further, so they orchestrated the arrest of Ms. Jiang.
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• Four Practitioners in Sichuan Province Died as a Result of Persecution

  2009-09-10
  Mr. Peng Guangrong, 61, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after the persecution started in 1999 and was arrested by police and detained. He was taken to a Brainwashing Centre. He was mistreated in the centre, and the local officials withheld his disability-retirement fund. He was detained until his health had deteriorated badly and he had lost a lot of weight. He was released only after his family demanded his release. After his return, Wang Qiujun constantly sent people to his house to harass him. Mr. Peng died in October, 2003.
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• Elderly Ms. Dong Fuyun from Changde City, Hunan Province, Still Missing after Four Years

  2009-09-10
  Ms. Dong Fuyun, who is in her seventies was arrested in 2002 and taken to the Yuyuan Hotel Brainwashing Centre in Changde City. In 2005, she was arrested again while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was held at a brainwashing centre and was brutally tortured. On December 4th, 2005, shortly after she was released from the brainwashing centre for the second time, she mysteriously disappeared early that morning. The neighbours noticed that her door had been left ajar and that everything inside was turned upside down, yet she was nowhere to be found. Although her son and daughter have spent the last four years looking for their mother, they haven't been any closer to finding her.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuhua Dies under Persecution

  2009-09-09
  Ms. Zhang Yuhua, 63, had been detained four times, and she lost sight in her left eye while detained in 2003 as a result of the guards beating her. Her feet and legs were covered with bruises as a result of being kicked by guards, and these injuries caused a degenerative condition to develop in her knees. Ms. Zhang wrote many appeal letters to the Suining City Government, the Police Department and the Sichuan Province Police Department. The answer that she finally received was "the guards never beat prisoners." She eventually died on August 13th, 2009, deeply grieved.
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• Mr. Jiang Bingzhi Tortured to Vegetative State with Suffocation before His Death in Suihua Forced Labour Camp, Heilongjiang Province

  2009-09-09
  Mr. Jiang Bingzhi was persecuted to death in the Suihua Forced Labour Camp because of his refusal to give up Falun Gong. One day, a prison guard opened the door of Mr. Jiang's confinement cell and threw two handbags into the cell. His personal monitors covered Mr. Jiang's head with the bags, strangled him with a rope and started to beat him cruelly. Due to the suffocation and the cruel beating, Mr. Jiang went into a vegetative state during the torture. The labour camp kept Mr. Jiang in the labour camp for several days before he was sent to the Bei'an City Hospital. Mr. Jiang died in the hospital on August 26th, 2009, and his body was cremated.
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• My Life Hung by a Thread While Police Beat Me and Used Dangerous Methods to Revive Me

  2009-09-09
  On October 31st, 2001, I opened a banner on Tiananmen Square that read "Falun Gong is good". I was arrested and transferred to Miyun Detention Centre. One policeman slapped me very hard for a long time (the marks on my face did not fade for ten days). He stripped my clothes until I was in my underwear and began savagely beating me, I was quickly beaten to the ground and passed out. Policemen stepped on my fingers, and took turns pressing on my eye sockets. My life was hanging by a thread. The jail cell mates told me that I looked dead to them. They used a pungent gas to wake me up and took me back to the jail cell. By that time, it was 4 a.m.
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• Brutal Beating Fractures Lawyer Wang Yonghang's Foot

  2009-09-09
  Between 20 and 30 police officers arrested lawyer Wang Yonghang at his home in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, on July 4th, 2009, and subsequently beat him until the bones in his right foot were fractured. Mr. Wang had defended Falun Gong practitioner Cong Rixu in court. The lawyer's family is demanding his immediate release, but the authorities claim this case involves "state secrets" and refuse to allow Mr. Wang and his family to meet.
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• Ten Years of Persecution in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province

  2009-09-08
  A former United Nations Special Rapporteurs on Torture, Sir Nigel Rodley specifically mentioned the following practitioners: "Kuang Bencui, from Jiaozhou city, Shandong Province, reportedly went to Beijing. Officials arrested her on her way to Tiananmen Square. She was sent to the Jiaozhou Liaison Office in Beijing and then to the Jiaozhou city mental hospital. While there, she was reportedly forced to take medicine and injections. When she refused, two men allegedly seized her arms, pinched her nose and drove a chopstick between her teeth, to force-feed her with unknown substances. She was reportedly force-fed three times a day, the dosage being increased from one tablet at a time to six tablets at a time."
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