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Falun Gong Practitioner Gao Dong Relates the Brutal Persecution He Has Experienced
2009-07-21
In May 2008, prior to the Beijing Olympics, I lost my job, family, and home simply for practising Falun Gong. Detention and torture had rendered me disabled. I decided to go to Beijing to appeal and seek justice for Falun Gong and myself. Over the past ten years, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, I have been incarcerated for close to eight of those years. While locked up, I was subjected to numerous torture methods. The worst of the torture methods was called the death bed. It is a double bed. They tie you up on it, with arms and legs stretched out and with an air cushion under your buttocks to make your arms and legs stretched even harder. At night in the summer, they let mosquitoes bite you. At least three times I almost lost my life. -
Harbin Police Torture and Fabricate Evidence against Mr. Li Zhigang
2009-07-21Li Zhigang from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province was arrested on February 28th 2009. He suffered severe torture, causing him to have a high fever, which later caused him to develop tuberculosis. The Nangang District Police Department has refused to release him as of now. They even referred the case to a higher department, and attempted to sentence him in court. On April 14th, the Nangang Procurator withdrew Li Zhigang's case on the basis of insufficient evidence. However, the Nangang District Police Department still continue to submit fabricated evidence, attempting to sentence Li Zhigang. The case has now been sent to the Nangang Court. -
Cruel Torture Methods in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2009-07-21There are eight regular wards in the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp and one training ward, and in total they hold more than eight hundred people, 80 per cent of whom are Falun Gong practitioners. Among these practitioners, more than 70 per cent are senior practitioners aged 50-70 years old. They are forced daily to do slave labour for nearly 10 hours, and this time does not include the weed-pulling they do before breakfast or after dinner. Prisoners are used as torturers; they are given special privileges to beat or curse practitioners at will, steal practitioners' belongings, and force practitioners to watch slanderous DVDs or read slanderous materials. -
Ms. Jiang Fengying from Nanchang City Tortured
2009-07-21Ms. Jiang Fengying has been victimized several times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. In Jiangxi Provincial Woman's Forced Labour Camp prisoners beat and scolded Ms. Jiang and forced her to do slave labour. She protested with a hunger strike. But the police beat her with a rope and refused to release her even after her sentence was complete. On July 17th, 2002, police officers in the Donghu Branch of Nanchang City Public Security Bureau chained and tortured Ms. Jiang, when she was on her 6th day of a hunger strike. The policemen tore her hair, beat her mouth and her body, stomped on her big toe with the heel of a shoe, hit her head against a steel pillar, and beat her legs using iron bars. -
Gang Torture Method Used at Zhanjiang City Brainwashing Centre
2009-07-20Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Zhiwei was brutally tortured by the guards at the Zhanjiang City Brainwashing Centre leaving her with a protruding disc, severe headaches, and dizziness. The guards use people as instruments of torture. The gang torture method works as follows: A practitioner is taken to a room where they are surrounded by a group of people who force the practitioner to stand up. Some people strike the practitioner's head while others attack the practitioner's body. When hitting the practitioner's head, some guards push the practitioner with an open palm, others punch with their fists. At the same time they constantly curse and bully the practitioner with vicious words. -
Mr. Wang Chengtao Dangerously Emaciated and Mentally Disoriented from Torture in Prison
2009-07-20Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang Chengtao has been relentlessly harassed, tortured, monitored, fined, and detained. In April of 2003, homeless and trying to avoid further persecution, Mr. Wang was taken by the police. He was later sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. He is currently being tortured in Shenyang City's Second Prison. As a result, he is now skin and bones and mentally disoriented Mr. Wang's father was in perfect health until he learned about his son's prison sentence. His father passed away on February 17th, 2009. The father and son did not have a chance to see each other one last time. -
Police Arrest and Brutally Torture Ms. Yang Wenjie and Ransack Her Home
2009-07-20On June 1st, 2009, Ms. Yang Wenjie was about to leave her home and had just walked down the stairs when she was arrested by over twenty police from the Zhaoyuan Police Department. As soon as they saw Ms. Yang, they surrounded her, beat and kicked her to the ground, grabbed her arms, stole her house key, and handcuffed her hands behind her back before dragging her into a car. They ransacked her home and confiscated Ms. Yang's friend's computer, printer and various Falun Gong books. -
The Persecution of Practitioners Employed by Kunming Steel Company, Yunnan Province
2009-07-20Ms. Guan Hongfen, in her forties, was reported while she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a certain village in An'ning City in early 2009. Luckily, she escaped. In March she was arrested by 610 Office personnel and national security police in the An'ning City Police Department, sentenced to two years of forced labour, and taken to the Dabanqiao (also known as the "ten-thousand-people pit"). Another practitioner, who had gone along with Ms. Guan to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong was also arrested. Her situation is not clear. -
Former Elementary School Principal Dies after Severe Persecution
2009-07-19Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tan Deyi lived in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. At a forced labour camp, Mr. Tan was forced to make toothpicks. If he could not complete the daily work quota, he was not allowed to eat or sleep and had to work overtime. Mr. Tan resisted, so the guards tortured him by piercing his fingertips with sharp bamboo sticks, hanging him up, and other methods. As a result of gross abuse he suffered from recurring abdominal pain and was unable to do heavy work. Mr. Tan He died at home on June 25th, 2009, at the age of 59. -
Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Miyi County, Sichuan Province, Disabled Due to Persecution in Prison
2009-07-19Mr. Zhu Mingchun, a physician, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Because he escaped on the way to the prison and later was arrested again, his prison term was lengthened by one and a half years by the judge and judicial officers at the Miyi County Court on April 6th, 2004. His total prison term is nine and a half years. He is now in Wumaping Prison, Muchuan County. He has also became disabled due to persecution in prison. -
Changchun City Intermediate Court Obstructs Human Rights Lawyers from Defending Falun Gong Practitioners
2009-07-19On March 27th, 2009, the Nong'an County Court in Jilin Province held a "public sentencing" of seven Falun Gong practitioners without notifying any family members. After that day, other practitioners and their families hired fourteen human rights lawyers to defend them at the second trial. The Changchun City Intermediate Court continues to obstruct the involvement of the lawyers in this case. After overcoming various obstacles, the fourteen lawyers delivered the lawyers' letter to the intermediate court. The court was afraid after seeing this large team of lawyers that were defending the practitioners, so they never responded regarding the date of the second trial. The date of the second trial is still in limbo. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in the Yang-ai Prison, Guizhou Province
2009-07-19The prison guards forbade the family members of the practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong in Yang-ai Prison to see them, thus cutting off their financial sources. They forced the practitioners to say "The Communist Party is good" before they could eat. To avoid doing that, many practitioners went on hunger strike or simply gave up their meals. A practitioner asked the prison guard Huang Chun: "Why don't you release them for medical treatment when they are in such poor physical condition?" Huang said: "They have not yet been transformed into giving up Falun Gong, so they cannot be released for medical treatment." -
Practitioner Zhang Hongwei Is Critically Ill after Eight Years in Jilin Prison
2009-07-18On January 20th, 2001, Mr. Zhang Hongwei was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment by the Fangshan District Court in Beijing after he was found preparing materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang has been subjected to brutal torture for eight years. Because he refused to give up his belief, he was forcibly put on a "stretching bed" -- this is where the guards fix a practitioner's limbs to a specially made bed on which there are four rings and the practitioner's hands and feet are fixed in the rings. The guards then apply force to the rings so that the practitioner's body is pulled up, away from the bed as their limbs are stretched. Mr. Zhang is now critically ill, but Jilin Prison authorities won't allow him to be released on bail for medical treatment, and his family has not been not allowed to visit him. -
Mourning the Loss of Practitioner Zhang Dezhen
2009-07-18
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Dezhen, 38 years old, was persecuted to death a few years ago by the Mengyin County 610 Office in Shandong Province. On January 31st, 2003, doctors injected toxic drugs into Zhang Dezhen, which soon caused her death. Zhang Dezhen's family and friends strongly requested the Mengyin County Judicial Department to punish the murderers according to the law. But several years have passed, and they still haven't had any response. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Peng Xiaomei from Hunan Province Forced into Brainwashing Centre
2009-07-18On June 9th, 2009, Ms. Peng Xiaomei, 56, a Falun Gong practitioner retired from China Construction Bank in Hunan Province, was arrested by the Liuzhengjie Public Security Bureau in Changsha City. Without any legal representation or judicial protocol, Ms. Peng was taken to the Changsha City Rule of Law Education Training Centre (a brainwashing centre) in Laodaohe Town, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Over the last decade Ms. Peng has endured much harassment and numerous arrests at the hands of the local authorities.
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