Exposing the Persecution

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• Her Husband in Prison for Six Years, Ms. Liu Hong Arrested and Her Whereabouts Unknown

  2009-04-04
  Liu Hong is a Falun Gong practitioner and the owner of a restaurant in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. As she was going to work on February 24th, 2009, she was arrested by police. About seven officers from Wuhan City Police Department were involved as well. The police took her key and ransacked her home. Ms. Liu was take away by the police. Currently, her whereabouts are unknown and her family members have not heard any information about her condition or whereabouts for more than 23 days. Her husband, Shi Lei, is also a Falun Gong practitioner. He was sentenced to eleven years in jail. He is now in Fanjiatai Prison in the Shayang District and has been for more than six years.
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• The Torture I Suffered in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2009-04-03
  In November 2005, I was taken to Wanjia Forced Labour Camp for the second time by the police in Harbin City. I had already experienced different forms of torture there before. I was hung up and shocked by guards. They shocked me with two electric batons. After that they put me on the iron chair again. I was barefoot and was wearing only thin clothes, but guard Yao Fuchang opened the window in order to expose me to freezing temperatures. On the fourth day, before I had recovered from the torture with electric batons, guard Sun Qing pushed my head down and slipped an electric baton inside my clothes from the side of my neck, then shocked me all over.
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• Cruelties Committed in Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City, Hubei Province

  2009-04-03
  Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City, Hubei Province, has actively participated in torturing Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners have died because of the torture. Some of them have become physically disabled or mentally disordered. Practitioners are forced to stand on hot bricks, so hot that a cigarette could be lit on them. They have also been forced to drink their own urine. The heinous crimes committed by the CCP in Fanjiatai Prison are too numerous to count.
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• Inmates Rewarded for Torturing Practitioners at the Deyang City Prison in Sichuan Province

  2009-04-03
  Since March 2007, Liu Yuanhang, the director of the Deyang City Prison in Sichuan Province, has been rewarding inmates who torture Falun Gong practitioners by reducing their prison terms from three to six months. In 2007, over 50 inmates received such rewards. Among the approximately 3,000 inmates at the prison, guards have assigned over one hundred of them to monitor and collect information on steadfast practitioners. These inmates have a 50% better chance of having their sentences reduced than regular inmates.
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• Ms. Kang Aimin Arrested by the Jiamusi Police

  2009-04-03
  On March 9th, 2009, police from the Heilongjiang Province Public Security Bureau and the Jianshe Police Station broke into the home of Ms. Kang Aimin's son and forcibly took Ms. Kang away. Under the direct order of the Heilongjiang Province Public Security Bureau, the Jiamusi Police Department arrested more than 20 practitioners with the excuse of searching for those who set up speakers to broadcast the facts about Falun Gong. They also listed the names of Ms. Kang Aimin and five other practitioners that were wanted. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Kang has been repeatedly harassed, arrested, detained, tortured, and financially persecuted by the local police.
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• Mr. Li Yukun of Zhucheng City Died As a Result of Persecution

  2009-04-02
  For eight years, Mr Li Yukun suffered inhuman persecution at the hands of officers from the Zhucheng City Police Department and the Xiangzhou Town Police Station. In 2008 Li Yukun went to Qingdao City to visit his uncle. In the railway station police officers checked his ID card and then arrested him. The officers called the local police station and Mr. Li was taken to a nearby school. The officers asked him if he was still practising Falun Gong. Mr Li refused to answer as they wished, so the officers flew into a rage and intensified the persecution against him. As a result, he was devastated both mentally and physically. On August 14th, 2008, he developed heart problems, and on August 16th, he passed away.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Xie Wutang Suffered Inhumane Torture in Wuling Prison in Hunan Province

  2009-04-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xie Wutang, 69, was recently released from the Wuling Prison in Changde City, Hunan Province. While incarcerated, he developed several illnesses, including tuberculosis, a dislocated lumbar vertebra, high blood pressure, vertebral and cerebral arteriosclerosis, severe oedema, muscle spasms, and chest pains. He was so ill that he could not walk without the aid of a crutch and felt sick most of the time with a frequent urge to vomit. In addition, Mr. Xie's lower teeth had been knocked out by officers from the Yongzhou City Police Department in 2000. Since that time, Mr. Xie has had great difficulty in chewing his food properly.
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• Mr. Lu Yonghe Arrested in July, 2008 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, His Whereabouts Still Unknown

  2009-04-02
  Mr. Lu Yonghe was sentenced to two years of forced labour in the Nanning City Forced Labour Camp in 2001. Because he would not give up his faith in Falun Gong, he was singled out and severely tortured by camp guards. After Mr. Lu was released, he was forced to leave home and become homeless in order to avoid further persecution and possible arrest. In 2008, he decided to go back to his home town to help fellow practitioners prepare leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. In July 2008, he was arrested again along with several other local practitioners. His whereabouts and the state of his health remain unknown.
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• Exposing the Persecution in the Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-04-02
  On December 29th, 2004, I was arrested and detained by police due to reports made by people who did not know the truth of the persecution. I was transferred to the Shanghai City Women's Forced Labour Camp for eighteen months. I was forced to watch DVDs full of lies, as a means to brainwash me and force me to quit Falun Gong. Since I did not submit to their demands, I was forced to stay in a small cell, sit for extended periods on a small stool, and to write self-criticism essays. I was forced to do physical labour, which I resisted. The brigade captain grabbed my collar and dragged me to her office, where she kept slapping my face left and right, and kicking my whole body.
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• A Fellow Practitioner Recounts How Ms. Wang Fengqin from Yantai City, Shandong Province, Died as a Result of Persecution Six Years Ago

  2009-04-01
  I am a Falun Gong practitioner in Yantai City. Here I want to tell how policeman Gao Xiu and several collaborators [former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners] caused the death of Ms. Wang Fengqin by force-feeding six years ago, in 2003. They even planned to kill me at that time to cover up the facts.
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• Having Lost His Feet Six Years Ago, Wang Xinchun Is Arrested and Tortured Again

  2009-04-01
  Wang Xinchun is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province. He lost both feet in 2002 as a result of gross abuse at the Fenggou Police Station. Agents from the Fenggou Police Station arrested and violently tortured him again in December 2008. They surrounded Wang, knocked him down, and stomped on his head, feet, legs, arms and chest. They twisted his arms to the back and handcuffed him. Policeman Tao Xuwei punched and kicked Wang, while stuffing and pouring snow, cold water and beer on his chest and back. Then Tao ground his feet into the wounds on Wang's legs. He also used a wood plank to beat Wang's head, face, shoulder and back. Worse yet, Tao burned Wang's face with fire.
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• The Persecution of Two Older Female Falun Gong Practitioners from Anxin County, Hebei Province

  2009-04-01
  Ms. Jin Guifang, 67 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000. The police arrested her and she was held at the county detention centre. The police and prisoners beat this elderly woman. They searched her house and sent her to a labour camp for a year. She was put on public trial alongside criminals at the No.1 middle school playground. She was forced to stand on a truck, wear a big sign that said, "evil cult Falun Gong member."
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• Cangxian Procuratorate Puts Five Practitioners on Trial

  2009-04-01
  In early March 2009, the Cangxian Procuratorate in Hebei Province put practitioners Mr. Pu Jinfeng, Ms. Zhao Junfeng, Mr. Zhang Kanzhong, Mr. Li Bin'an and Mr. Liu Rujun on trial. It was learned that there was an organization specifically set up for persecuting Falun Gong within the Cangzhou City Intermediate Court. It was stipulated that the County Court must report all cases to the city's Intermediate Court within three days. All the appeals lodged by the practitioners, who had been sentenced by the lower court, were all rejected by the city's Intermediate Court.
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• Mr. Chang Guiyou Died in Custody in 2005

  2009-03-31
  In June 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Chang Guiyou was taken to the Tongzhou District Detention Centre. Then he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. In late November 2004, he was taken to the Qianjing Prison in Tianjin City. In March 2005, while detained in Beijing City Women's Prison, His wife was notified that her husband was critically ill. Both his nose and mouth were bleeding, and his head was wrapped with gauze. Later, she was notified that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage, at the age of 55.
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• Mr. Mo Anqi Persecuted in Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp

  2009-03-31
  On January 20th, 2009, a so-called "celebration party" was held at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province. Inmates performed a small drama which slandered Falun Gong. Everyone, including guards and some higher officials, was forced to attend. In the middle of the show, Mr. Mo Anqi, a Falun Gong practitioner, stood up and shouted: "Falun Gong is good! Stop the persecution!" Everyone was shocked. Then a dozen more practitioners shouted: "Falun Gong is good!" Qin Jing jumped up and ran towards Mr. Mo and beat him. Ordered by Qin, prisoners joined in and beat practitioners to the ground who had also shouted and dragged them outside.
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