Exposing the Persecution

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• Five-year-old Girl Tricked into Helping Police Persecute Her Parents in Chengdu, Sichuan Province

  2009-03-20
  The Longquanyi District Police Department had been looking for an excuse to arrest and persecute Mr. Li Changli. In December 2008, Mr. Li and his wife, Ms. Liu Lifen, were arrested and were sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour was detained in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp and Ms. Liu was held in the Shimaping Women's Forced Labour Camp. On January 13th, 2009 police went to Mr. Li's home and asked his 5-year-old daughter a lot of personal, probing questions. The police later used the child's fingerprint "evidence" and her "testimonial" to sentence Mr. Li and his wife to forced labour without going to trial.
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• The Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Chinese Geological Academy Persecutes Retired Researcher for Seven Years

  2009-03-19
  The Water and Environmental Division of the Chinese Geological Academy has been harassing and threatening retired researcher Ms. Liu Xiaoying and her family members for seven years. In April 2002, the local police accused her of going on the web to view banned sites and went to her home to arrest her. She was not at home at the time, but she has been forced to stay away from her home since then. Subsequently, Communist Party officials stopped her pension since May 2002 and declared that they would confiscate her house, stop all benefits, and withhold her husband's pension if she did not come back. They also went to her house to threaten her daughter, trying to get her to reveal the whereabouts of Ms. Liu. .
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• Ms. Wei Shaomin, Ms. Liu Shiqin, and Other Practitioners Brutally Persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2009-03-19
  During the recent Beijing Olympic Games, Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province transferred in more than ten policemen from other places. About 40 steadfast female practitioners were locked up together. The officers made them sit on small plastic, backless stools from morning to evening every day. They were ordered to recite 30 labour camp regulations and sing "school songs." If anyone did not recite or sing, she would be dragged outside to be tortured by being stretched or shocked with electric batons. In August 2008, practitioner Ms. Li Yurong did not recite as ordered. Officer Liu Yong shocked her with a baton in front of the others. Ms. Li cried out from the pain and fell down to the ground.
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• Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Xinyi Police Station and Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City

  2009-03-19
  On August 1st, 2007, I went to Xinyi Police Station in Harbin City to give a letter to director Zhao Chengyin and police officer Wang Wei. The letter advised them to stop committing crimes against Falun Gong and attempted to awaken their conscience. Abruptly, seven to eight officers rushed in and arrested me. They pressed me down on the ground and handcuffed me behind my back, causing excruciating pain. They dragged me to a detention centre and later a forced labour camp where I was often beaten. They used every possible means to persecute me.
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• 34-Year-Old Ms. Yang Miao from Shijiazhuang City Tortured

  2009-03-19
  Ms. Yang Miao, 34, was taken to a forced labour camp by the Changan Police Department in July 2008 for one and a half years of forced labour. She is presently imprisoned at the Hebei Provincial First Labour Camp in Tangshan City. She has been tortured to the point of near death, and she suffers from a high blood pressure level of 220. The labour camp does not want to keep her and has told her family members to bail her out for medical treatment.
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• Mr. Deng Jiangang Sentenced to Prison after Eight Years of Persecution and Torture

  2009-03-18
  Mr. Deng Jiangang has been brutally persecuted many times because of his belief in Falun Gong. He is currently detained in Wumaping Prison in Leshan City. His wife, Ms. Jiang Xiantao, also a practitioner, is in a forced labour camp. Their young daughter had to leave school and stay at home, living a very difficult life. In a detention centre a poilce officer Xiao wanted to torture Mr. Deng to death. He tortured Mr. Deng using "Carrying a sword on the back" for more than two hours. The handcuffs bore into Mr. Deng's flesh, and they only released his wrists after many minutes. He was punched in the head and body. They stepped on his feet so hard that his toes turned black and purple. He was also tortured brutally in a forced labour camp and guards shocked him with electric batons in the head, body, legs, and feet.
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• Persecution Incidents in Jilin Prison in July 2008

  2009-03-18
  Jilin Prison is one of the notorious places where Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted. Liu Chengjun, Yang Guang, and other practitioners were persecuted to death there. In the strict prison section, the detainees are forced to sit on a narrow stool, from 5 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., causing great pain to the buttocks. Because Liu Yuhe could not sit straight, a policeman shocked his head with electric batons while prisoners held his neck.
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• Two Practitioners, from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Hebei Province, Died As a Result of Persecution

  2009-03-18
  Ms. Xie Cha followed the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in all aspects of her daily life. She was considerate of others in all respects. Since the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Xie has been persistent in her belief. Therefore, she was treated as a key persecution target by the CCP. She was harassed, threatened, monitored and detained by Party agents. Before the Olympic Games, the town government dispatched its staff members to harass Xie Cha repeatedly, and tried to force her to write an statement to give up Falun Gong. Under huge pressure, she was utterly exhausted both physically and mentally. Her health worsened rapidly. Ms. Xie passed away on January 24th, 2009, only in her forties.
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• Luan Guizhi from Jiamusi City Describes Her Experience of Being Arrested

  2009-03-18
  On December 23rd, 2008, I went to Falun Gong practitioner Yuan Yuqin's home. At around 3 p.m., someone knocked on the door. Yuqin opened the door and five or six policemen came in. Some of them started to ransack the room. Yuqin stopped them. A policeman asked my name and where I lived. I did not answer. They arrested us and took us to a police station. They sent us to a hospital for an examination. Two policemen, two policewomen, and the doctor dragged me to the bed in the examination room. In order to take off my trousers, they pulled my down jacket upward, so that my face was covered by the jacket. I was almost choked. They took us back to the police station later. Yuan Yuqin and I sat on a backless stool for a whole night.
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• The Persecution of Practitioners in Wangpo Township, Pingshan County, Hebei Province

  2009-03-17
  Mr. Gu Qinggen and Ms. Gao Yunting, his wife, were arrested by police after visiting relatives in March 2002. Police station chief Huo Sanshuan asked them who they had visited. Ms. Gao said, "Does a person have no freedom to visit relatives? I am not going to tell you." Huo Sanshuan, upset she dared to talk back, slapped her face violently. Ms. Gao said, "I am not going to tell you, even if you beat me." When Huo Sanshuan asked Mr. Gu, he also refused to answer. Huo Sanshuan threw Gu Qinggen to the ground, ordering, "Kneel, if you do not want to tell me." Later Ms. Gao was sent to a brainwashing centre and Mr. Gu Qinggen was detained in Wangpo Police Station even though he had not yet begun Falun Gong practice at that time.
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• Mr. Tian Haicheng and Ms. Cui Yajing from Haicheng City, Liaoning Province, Arrested

  2009-03-17
  On February 24th, 2009, officers from the Niuzhuang Town Police Station in Haicheng City, Liaoning Province, took Mr. Tian Baocheng and Ms. Cui Yajing away from their homes. The excuse was that they had attended a gathering held by a Falun Gong practitioner. Mr. Tian Baocheng's younger brother, Mr. Tian Baodong, has been detained in forced labour camps twice because he practises Falun Gong. As a result of torture, he cannot walk or take care of himself. Previously, Ms. Cui Yajing had been sentenced to three years in prison because she distributed flyers about Falun Gong.
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• Ms. Zheng Huixiang Homeless for Eight Years, Police Repeatedly Arrest Her Family Members and Ransack Her House

  2009-03-17
  On March 4th, 2009, police went to the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Huixiang and searched her house. In 2001 Ms. Zheng left her home to avoid persecution and was forced to move from place to place. It has been eight years since she became homeless. Police then took her husband Cai Peijun and her son Cai Yiming to the Xiguan Police Station. In the afternoon of March 5th, Cai Peijun was released but Cai Yiming was sent to a detention centre and was severely mistreated there.
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• Persecution Records from Forced Labour Camps, Detention Centres, Prisons, Police Stations and 610 Offices (Feb. 22nd, 2009)

  2009-03-17
  Using the pretext of "safety concerns" for the 24th Winter Sports Games, Heilongjiang Province Police Bureau agents began a new wave of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Many were arrested. Just in Jiamusi City alone, more than ten practitioners were arrested within 10 days. On February 12th, Ms. Wang Guizhen was taken away from her home but was permitted to return. She was in a coma in a forced labour camp last October. Less than three months later she was arrested again. Officials from the Jiaxi Police Station came to her door, pretending to return money they had extorted from her before. As soon as she opened the door, they arrested her. It is said that her pituitary tumour symptoms returned, and she has been in hospital.
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• Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group Submits Report to UN: "Beijing 2008 Olympics Persecution 10,194 Case Records"

  2009-03-16
  On March 5th, 2009, the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group (www.falunhr.org) submitted "The Beijing 2008 Olympics Persecution 10,194 Case Records" to the United Nations and each country's government. This list recorded those who became victims during the Beijing Olympics season, strong evidence exposing how the Chinese Communist regime escalated its human rights violations under the cover of "Olympic security." People know that one of the promises the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made to the West was to improve its human rights in return for hosting the Olympics. Nonetheless the CCP turned around and used the Olympics as an excuse to intensify its bloody suppression.
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• Lawyers' Right to Defend Clients Denied by Huanggu District Court in Shenyang City

  2009-03-16
  On February 6th, 2009, Huanggu District Court in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province commenced a trial for six Falun Gong practitioners. The court obstructed entry to the courtroom by the ten defence lawyers by requesting a "security check." The lawyers refused to cooperate and left the courthouse. The trial went on without the lawyers and adjourned after only two hours. Wang Yajun from Beijing, one of the ten lawyers, explained the interference they encountered. "When we arrived at the courthouse, deputy court administrator Zhang and the presiding judge summoned us to the conference room, reiterating certain requirements. They told us higher echelons had directed that the accusations against any Falun Gong cases cannot be changed. We replied that we would do what was right according to the law."
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