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

• "The Risen Lotus Flower" Wu Junyang

  2009-08-02
  The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong for ten years. I recently recalled a fellow practitioner, Wu Junyang, who died five years ago. On July 20th, 1999 the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal four times and was detained at the detention centre twice. In 2004 when he was arrested police detained him in Benxi Detention Centre and tortured him. Each day the thugs beat him to force him to give them information about a site producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and his fellow practitioners. He divulged nothing. Wu Junyang was tortured to skin and bones, his body was full of scars and he became blind.
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• Ms. Zhang Sufang Died in 2000 after Being Tortured at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-08-01
  Ms. Zhang Sufang was released in 2000 from the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp because she was in grave condition after suffering long term mistreatment and repeated beatings. Guards repeatedly ordered prisoners to beat her. Those prisoners used stools to batter her head and their elbows to strike her back. They kicked whatever part of her was closest to them. An imprisoned practitioner counted nineteen wounds on just one of her legs. Ms. Zhang died only a week after being released.
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• Imprisoned and Tortured for Eight Years in Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison, Mr. Jiang Yong Goes Missing Once Again

  2009-08-01
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong is 38 years old. In 2001, he was sentenced to eight years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was detained in the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai for eight years and subjected to various types of torture. Only a few months passed since Mr. Jiang Yong had returned home and then he went missing again on June 13th, 2009. There is still no sign of him at the time of this report. This incident is related to the widespread arrests by the Shanghai authorities in advance of the World Expo. We ask that human rights organizations around the world pay close attention to this matter.
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• Years of Torture Nearly Killed Me

  2009-08-01
  During the past ten years I was incarcerated on and off for nearly eight of those years, and I lost my job and my family. I was arrested six times, sent to forced labour camps three times, sent to a psychiatric hospital twice and to a brainwashing centre once. I was subjected to dozens of different physical tortures. As a result of the long-term abuse and mistreatment under the persecution, I suffered tremendously. Even now I have whole-body oedema. I also have severe insomnia and can't sleep for days. I have had a stroke, memory loss, been in a vegetative state, and lost the function of my four limbs. My legs are paralysed. I also lost bladder and bowel control and was near death four times.
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• Ms. Wang Yong, Middle School Teacher in Kunming City, in Critical Condition after Falling from Fifth Floor during Police Arrest

  2009-08-01
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yong is a teacher in the Panlong District First Middle School in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. On June 24th, 2009, while fleeing from unjust arrest, Ms. Wang fell from the fifth floor, which left her in critical condition. She suffered three broken ribs, broken sternum, and a fracture in her right arm. Her left side was heavily bruised. She was unable to move and speaking took tremendous effort. Her family was not informed until the day after. Officers threatened her family not to disclose her situation; otherwise, her husband's job, her family's safety and her child's college enrolment would be at stake.
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• Older Mr. Fan Yichang Dies in Da'an City Detention Centre in Jilin Province

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Fan Yichang, 69, suffered a stroke in the past, but all of his ailments disappeared after he started to practise Falun Gong. He was a kind and honest person, and even officer Chen Yamin, who mistreated him, had to say that Mr. Fan was a good person. In April 2009, police arrested Mr. Fan. He was sentenced to prison during his detention in the Da'an City Detention Centre. Before being sent to prison, he died on July 22nd, 2009, and his body was cremated against the family's will.
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• Autopsy Shows Mr. Lu Zhen Suffered Severe Physical Trauma Prior to Death

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Lu Zhen, 33, died in the Shandong Province First Prison on June 22nd, 2009. His neck, hips, stomach, and legs were covered with bruises, and there were whip marks on his body. His family did not believe the prison administration when they told them that he died of sudden heart failure and that it was a natural death. They requested an autopsy on the morning of June 30th, and the results showed that he had suffered severe physical trauma prior to his death. It is highly likely that a beating was the cause of death.
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• Two Elderly Practitioners Die in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region As a Result of the Persecution

  2009-07-31
  Mr. Ma Chunwang, 82, lived in Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. He was arrested many times after the persecution began in 1999. On September 6th, 2008, he was arrested along with fellow practitioners Mr. Cao Hongqi and Mr. Zou Kewen, and about a dozen practitioners then later bailed him out. On May 6th, 2009, the Middle Court of Urumqi City held trials for Mr. Cao Hongqi, Mr. Zou Kewen, Mr. Zhu Kui, and Mr. Ma Chunwang. Mr. Ma returned home after the trials. On July 12th, 2009, Mr. Ma was found dead by his neighbour in his home. His Falun Gong books, personal ID, and MP3 player had been taken away from his home.
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• Ruthless Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-31
  The first thing a new arrival in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp encounters is several "reform" strategies. These include having to read documents or watch DVDs that slander Falun Gong, writing statements to give up the Falun Gong practice and defame it, standing for a long time, being handcuffed and hung up, being deprived of sleep and water and food, being deprived of toilet use, and being forced to take drugs. Ms. Lu Xiumin was forced to sit on a small stool for two days and nights, but she refused to "reform." A guard shouted at inmates, "If she [Ms. Lu] does not 'reform' today, beat her today! If she does not 'reform' tomorrow, beat her tomorrow! Beat her till she 'reforms.'"
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• Four Years Later, Ms. Cui Wenxia Still Struggling to Recover from Nightmarish Experience in Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-30
  Ms. Cui Wenxia, a chemistry teacher, was arrested in May 2005 and tortured at a local detention centre. She was later sentenced to the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp and tortured there, too. As a result of torture Ms. Cui had heart, liver, and other organ failures. Going through the experience of being detained at the police department, detention centre, forced labour camp, and witnessing all kinds of torture and abuse, left very deep, emotional scars. Whenever she hears someone talk in a loud voice, she trembles in fear. To date, four years later, she has not yet fully recovered from being brutally persecuted.
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• Teacher in Her 50s Arrested Again after Years of Humiliation and Torture

  2009-07-30
  Ms. Li Xiuzhen is in her 50s. Persistent in her belief in Falun Gong, refusing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demands to renounce her faith, she has been arrested nineteen times. She has been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment, cruelly force-fed over 600 times, and tortured and humiliated with a dozen of different torture devices, including sleep deprivation and being beaten. On June 13th, 2009, Ms. Li Xiuzhen was once again arrested by police.
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• Terms of Imprisonment for Falun Gong Practitioners Arbitrarily Extended at the Hebei Women's Labour Camp

  2009-07-30
  Terms of imprisonment imposed on numerous Falun Gong practitioners held at the Hebei Province Women's Labour Camp have recently expired, but the authorities refused to release the practitioners and refused to provide an explanation. Guards had told practitioners to fill out and sign release forms but did not disclose the date of release. Practitioners Wei Guoxuan and Chen Junsu are being held beyond their terms, which expired on July 2nd and July 3rd, 2009, respectively. Wei Guoxuan's family visited the labour camp twice and demanded her release, but the guards were ambiguous and denied that her sentence had expired.
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• Bo Xilai: A Villain in the Persecution of Falun Gong Since 1999

  2009-07-30
  Bo Xilai, secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, is also former deputy secretary of the Liaoning Province Party Committee and former governor of Liaoning, former secretary of the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and former mayor of Dalian. Since July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started to persecute Falun Gong, Bo Xilai has directly controlled and directed the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Dalian City as well as Liaoning Province. Practitioners in this area have been persecuted brutally and inhumanly, and more intensely than in many other areas of China.
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• A Happy Family is Persecuted; Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Tortures Husband to Death, Wife Imprisoned

  2009-07-29
  In 2001, Mr. Wang Hongbin was arrested by police and was later sentenced to three years of forced labour. He was forced to watch as guards tortured his fellow practitioners. In order to "transform" Mr. Wang as quickly as possible, the guards tortured him with sleep deprivation, hung him up by handcuffs, and used matches to severely burn his hands, nearly burning off his fingernails. At the end of 2003, Mr. Wang was finally released back home. However, due to the brutal torture he was subjected to in the labour camp, he passed away at the early age of 39. On May 16th, 2009, Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Feng Xiaomei, was sentenced to one and a half years at the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp.
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• Mr. Pan Benyu from Qiqihar Tortured to the Verge of Death

  2009-07-29
  Mr. Pan Benyu has been savagely tortured in Tailai Prison. As a result, he suffers from a heart condition and liver ascites, and has been vomiting blood. He has swelling in his brain and other areas of his body. In addition, he has many blood scabs in his nose and has great difficulty eating, sleeping, and breathing. His health is extremely poor and he is at risk of dying. The prison guards threatened Mr. Pan that if he did not renounce Falun Gong, the prison would not allow him to leave on medical bail. On May 22nd, 2009, not wanting to take responsibility for his death, the prison and the 610 Office notified Mr. Pan's family to take him home.
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