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

• Falun Gong Practitioners Beaten and Tortured in the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province

  2009-07-18
  In March 2009 the Heizuizi Labour Camp refused to release a Falun Gong practitioner from the 4th Squadron, although her term had officially ended. Instead, they arbitrarily extended her term and beat her. In protest, other Falun Gong practitioners at the camp refused to perform forced labour, put on the prisoner uniform and name card or to answer roll call. In retaliation, many of those steadfast practitioners were tortured on the so-called "death bed". Ms. Jin Yingshi was then taken to the prison guards' office where many prison guards shouted at her, beat her, and tried to force her to put on the prison uniform, but she refused. After six continuous days of torture she became bedridden and became unable to go to meals on her own.
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• Two Sisters Imprisoned; Their Elderly Father Dies of a Broken Heart

  2009-07-17
  Ms. Chen Yuxiang and Ms. Chen Yufen, sisters and Falun Gong practitioners from Laixi City, Qingdao, Shandong Province, were arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel and sentenced to five and three years of imprisonment, respectively. Their father was over 80 years old and in poor health. When he heard that his beloved daughters were jailed by the CCP simply because they believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and tried to be good, he could not bear the mental pressure and the heavy blow. His condition deteriorated and he passed away in the evening on May 19th, 2009.
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• Practitioners Harassed at the Qingpu District Domestic Security Section in Huai'an City, Jiangshu Province

  2009-07-17
  The Qingpu District Domestic Security Section in Huai'an City, Jiangshu Province, has harassed more than ten practitioners in the last two months. Ms. Sha Suyun, 74, was arrested on May 25th, 2009, by police and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The officers searched her home and interrogated her at the Zhakou Police Station and later at the Qingpu Police Department. Officer Ma Erhua forced her to sign a notice stating that she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and that she would serve her sentence outside the labour camp.
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• Countryside Teacher Zhu Puzhao in Exile to Avoid Further Persecution

  2009-07-17
  While Mr. Zhu Puzhao was putting up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in November 2005 some people reported him and he was arrested. Police sent him to the Hunan Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp to serve one year and three months of hard labour. Zhu Puzhao was subjected to a multitude of tortures. He suffered brutal forced-feeding. During the forced-feeding, the camp doctor used a device to keep his mouth wide open, then used a pair of pliers to pull his tongue. Porridge mixed with unknown yellow-coloured substances was then forced into his mouth from a funnel connected to a rubber tube. The porridge ran into his lungs as he breathed. It has been a year and a half since Zhu Puzhao decided to leave home and become homeless.
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• The Naked Truth about Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-17
  Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp has received many awards and commendations from upper-level authorities in the past, won due to falsifications and deceit by camp personnel. In the pursuit of justice and to keep their evil conduct from spilling over into other camps, I'm making public the true situation. Prisoners are forced to get up at 5:45 or 6:10 a.m. These times change every five days. We work until around 10:00 p.m. or even later. When we have a deadline, it is not uncommon that we work until midnight or sometimes until the morning. Everyone is stressed out. Prisoners often beat and curse people. A drug addict beat me. My head was swollen, but the officer on duty simply laughed and walked away.
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• The Torture I Experienced in Shanxi Province First Prison

  2009-07-16
  One night I did the Falun Gong exercises and was reported. Two guards came. One of them shocked me behind my neck with an electric baton, causing me excruciating pain. After the sizzling sound, I smelled a strong burning smell. I was also cuffed to the bed and deprived of sleep at nights by the inmates assigned to watch me. When forced to stand against a wall and I was not paying attention, and the police officers violently hit my head against the wall. They did not care that I might get injured. I was told they had killed practitioners this way.
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• Mr. Wang Xinchun Arrested and Tortured, His Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour and His Daughter Forced to Quit School

  2009-07-16
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xinchun is from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. In the No. 2 Detention Centre of Jixi City, the guards tortured him, attempting to force him to make a "confession." As a result of the abuse, his face swelled up, his mouth bled, one could see the white of his skull, and he fell unconscious. Presently, he is receiving emergency treatment in a hospital. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang has suffered severe persecution while in custody four times.
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• Lou District Court Officials in Yueyang City Hold Secret Court Session for Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Xue Li

  2009-07-16
  Lou District Court officials in Yueyang City, Hunan Province held a secret court session the morning of June 30th, 2009 to try Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xue Li, without notifying any of her family members. All those who attended the hearing were personnel from the Public Security, the Procuratorate and the Court, except for Ms. Xue Li. Ms. Xue's sister-in-law got to know about the trial when she went to visit Ms. Xue in the detention centre. She then went to the court, but by the time she got there, the court had adjourned, and she had no chance to defend Ms. Xue's innocence.
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• Mr. Ma Chuncheng Arrested, Denied Family Visits

  2009-07-16
  On March 25th, 2009, police arrested Mr. Ma Chuncheng, in his thirties. His family learned that he had been detained at a detention centre. Mr. Ma's parents and his sister worried that he would be brutally tortured, and they went to the police station to request his release. They were told that they would be notified in three to twenty days.Only on April 30th, the deputy chief of the Fangzheng County State Security Division called his family to notify them that Mr. Ma had been formally arrested. They went to the Fangzheng County Police Department every day, but the police refused to release him or allow his family to see him.
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• Practitioner from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province Suffers Dislocated Cervical Vertebrae Due to Brutal Mistreatment

  2009-07-15
  Ms. He Zhiwei, a 46-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities and forced to enter a brainwashing centre. At the Zhanjiang Brainwashing Centre, she was persecuted and abused so severely that one of her cervical vertebrae was dislocated. When her family demanded her release for medical treatment, the brainwashing centre staff said that they would have to negotiate with the 610 Office. They are still waiting for a reply.
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• Mr. Fang Tianming of Wuxue City, Hubei Province Currently Detained

  2009-07-15
  In April 2009, Xu Zhengping, head of the 610 Office in Wuxue City, Hubei Province, and others took Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fang Tianming to the Wuhan City Brainwashing Centre, where he was persecuted. Because Mr. Fang is a teacher, the authorities pressured Wuxue City Normal School to pay for the cost of his detention, demanding over 300,000 yuan. Mr. Fang is still in the Wuxue City First Detention Centre. The police employed a known torture method, handcuffing his hands and legs to an steel pipe. Two armed police then beat him while he was handcuffed. Due to the abuse, Mr. Fang has become dull and unresponsive. It is suspected that he has been given unknown drugs.
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• Two Women in Their Sixties Die as a Result of Ongoing Persecution

  2009-07-15
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Aihua, in her sixties, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong around July 20th, 1999 and was arrested and detained and several times later as well. In 2000, Ms. Zhen was detained for 105 days in the brainwashing centre. Yang Yulin ordered her family to beat her, causing her to pass out. She was released after her family had 1,600 yuan extorted from them. In 2001 police slapped her, punched her, and extorted money from her family. Her family could not bear the frequent arrests and harassment, and applied a great deal of pressure to Ms. Zheng to try to force her to give up Falun Gong. With constant pressure from her family and the ongoing persecution, Ms. Zheng's old disease recurred, and she died around 2006.
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• Feng Derong Missing for Several Years After Becoming Mentally Unstable As a Result of Persecution

  2009-07-15
  In 2002, Mr. Feng Derong was spotted by police as he practised the Falun Gong exercises outdoors. The police detained him in the Dongan County Detention Centre. Later, police broke into Mr. Feng's home a second time and found some Falun Gong materials. They sent Mr. Feng to Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term. Mr. Feng eventually became mentally unstable due to the abuse he suffered in the labour camp. But the camp not only denied treatment, but also did not inform his family. Instead, they tied him to a bed for over ten days. In November 2003, the camp ordered his family to come pick up Mr. Feng, who was severely mentally disoriented. On September 6th, 2004, Mr. Feng went missing. To date, his whereabouts are unknown.
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• Mr. Li Hui and His Wife Detained, Their Children Threatened for Requesting the Couple's Release

  2009-07-14
  On April 16th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Li Hui and his wife Wang Hua were arrested by police. Police Li Hui and Yao Xiaohua tortured them into making a "confession," and then transferred them to the Gongzhuling Court. However the court officer Yue Lin returned the case to the police department due to insufficient evidence. One week later on June 16th, the police still had not released the couple and plotted to fabricate evidence to further persecute them. On June 13th, the children of Li Hui and Wang Hua went to the Taojiatun Police Station to request their parents' release. They were cursed at and threatened by the policemen there. The police even found a local legal consultant named Shi to videotape them to use as "evidence" that the couple's children were "interfering with the government."
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Lin Lisha Dies as a Result of Abuse in Custody in Sichuan Province

  2009-07-14
  Ms. Lin Lisha, 51, lived in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. On January 22nd, 2001, the police persecuted Ms. Lin and 50 other fellow practitioners by tying them up, hanging a board on their necks, sentencing each of them from one to three years of forced labour, and broadcasting this whole process on TV for several days. Ms. Lin was arrested and imprisoned on two other occasions. In 2005 police had her sentenced to five years in prison. By the end of June 2009, Ms. Lin had been abused so much that she was thin to the point of deformity. The Prison Administration returned her to her family to avoid taking responsibility for her condition, but she died only a few days after being released.
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