Exposing the Persecution

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• The Zunhua City Police and Justice Department Refuse to Release Mr. Zhao Jingjun Despite Lack of Evidence

  2009-01-11
  "Mr. Zhao Jingjun has been detained for more than five months, and he will now be tried in court." As this news was spread all over Qihu Village, some of the villagers became very angry and said, "The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does nothing good. It just arrests good people. After Mr. Zhao, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on July 6th, 2008, the Zunhua City Police Department in Hebei Province fabricated evidence and requested an arrest warrant. The Zunhua City Court put Zhao Jingjun on trial on November 25th. Because of insufficient evidence, the Court rejected the case and sent it to the Procuratorate for further investigation. Mr. Zhao's family has already asked for help from a lawyer.
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• Mr. Shen Lianghua, Imprisoned Several Times Since 1999, Sent Once Again to a Forced Labour Camp

  2009-01-11
  Since 1999, when the Chinese communist party began persecuting Falun Gong, Mr. Shen Lianghua, a practitioner, has been imprisoned several times because he refused to renounce his belief. On February 25th, 2008, about eight police officers broke into Mr. Shen's house and took him to the Guang County Detention Centre. They did not notify Mr. Shen's family members. Without any legal procedures, they took Mr. Shen Lianghua directly to a forced labour camp in Guanzhuang Town, Wangcun. In November 2008, Mr. Shen Lianghua's family members went to visit him in Guanzhuang Town Forced Labour Camp but were refused entry by the guards.
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• Practitioner Mr. Liu Fujiang Suffers Abuse in Beijing Qianjin Prison

  2009-01-11
  Practitioner Mr. Liu Fujiang was arrested in 2003, and was sentenced to six years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mr. Liu Fujiang refused to give up Falun Gong, and was put into a small cell. He was not allowed to contact anyone else except for the criminal inmates who agreed to monitor him and torture him. Mr. Liu Fujiang was beaten and kicked by those inmates, and had to sit on a bench for over twenty hours every day. If he moved, the inmates would insult him, beat him, and they didn't let him sleep. Mr. Liu once went on a hunger strike to protest the brutal treatment.
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• Violence Cannot Conquer Conscience: Dr. Xu Xiuxin Is Held in Dashan Detention Centre, Qingdao City

  2009-01-10
  Since July 20th, 1999, Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Wu Xiuxin, about 50 years old, has been persecuted repeatedly. In 2000, she was sent to the Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a three-year sentence. She witnessed many Falun Gong practitioners being tortured. For example, Ms. Zhang Yanyuan was handcuffed and hung up with her tiptoes barely touching the ground for many days because she insisted on practising Falun Gong. As a result, the handcuffs cut into her wrists and blood dripped down her arms. Later on, Ms. Zhang was brutally force-fed many times because she went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. Dr. Wu Xiuxin is now in the Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City.
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• Unreasonable Judgement Handed Down in Northern Shenyang City in 2008

  2009-01-10
  Around the time of the Olympics, the Chinese Communist regime used "social stability" as an excuse to arrest four Falun Gong practitioners from Shenbei New District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On December 1st-9th, 2008, Shenbei District Court sentenced four practitioners to very heavy penalties. Ms. Wang Shumei was the first practitioner to be tried. Ms. Wang insisted that by following the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance, she did not do anything wrong, and she asked to be released immediately. This made Sun Yonggang, the 610 Office head, very angry. He yelled, "I will have you sentenced to ten years!" That's all it took--one sentence spoken by Sun Yonggang for Ms. Wang Shumei to be sentenced to ten years.
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• Mr. Xie Chuhua from Denghai City, Guangdong Province, Died as a Result of Three Years of Torture

  2009-01-10
  On June 9th, 2004, police broke into 50-year-old Mr. Xie Chuhua's home, ransacked it, confiscated his belongings, and arrested him. Mr. Xie Chuhua was sentenced to forced labour and was held in the Meizhou Jail for three years. He was severely tortured, which caused internal breeding. He was then sent home by police officers after suffering so much that he could no longer function. Not only did he suffer physically from the tortures but he also experienced extreme fear and horrors, which couldn't be described in words. Mr. Xie Chuhua died in June 2008, after he was subjected to a long period of mental and physical torture.
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• Retired Schoolteacher from Liaoning Province Severely Tortured Before He Died

  2009-01-10
  Mr. Zhang Shimin was a 74-year-old Falun Gong practitioner. When he worked, he was an outstanding schoolteacher. Mr. Zhang started practising Falun Gong in 1996 and became very healthy and enthusiastic in helping others. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the suppression of Falun Gong on July 20ht, 1999, Mr. Zhang was sentenced to a forced labour camp in 2001 for one and a half years, because he persevered in practising Falun Gong and telling people the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. In the labour camp he was subjected to severe psychological and physical abuse. He died on October 20th, 2008.
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• The Persecution of Practitioners in Shandong Province Men's Prison

  2009-01-09
  The Shandong Province Men's Prison, also known as the Shandong Province No. 1 Prison, is located in Jinan City. It is notorious for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The guards in the No. 11 Ward use all types of torture techniques such as brainwashing, hypocrisy, cajoling, force-feeding, sleep deprivation, sitting on a board, solitary confinement, shocking with an electric baton, mental torment, criticism, denunciation, and humiliation to compel practitioners to do things against their will and renounce Falun Gong.
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• Husband Given Prison Sentence; Wife Sent to Brainwashing Centre

  2009-01-09
  Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Zonglin was formerly the superintendent of the Mingyuan Architecture Design Institute, a part of the Chengdu City government. On August 2nd, 2007, he was arrested at home by police. Jiang's family never received any legal documentation and only heard much later that he was subjected to brainwashing. He was not allowed to sleep for sixty straight hours. On December 8th, 2008, which is the petition reception day for the Sichuan Province government, Jiang's wife went to the government office to appeal for her husband. However she was arrested.
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• Funing County Court Blocked Road for a Trial, Arousing Public Resentment

  2009-01-09
  On December 23rd, 2008, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) county court conducted an unjust trial of Guo Daoyou, a Falun Gong practitioner in Funing County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. Because the court officials didn't dare hold an open trial, about thirty police officers from the Public Security Bureau, Procuratorate, and the people's court blocked the street on both sides, and stationed police guards from about 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Passersby weren't allowed to walk by. The roadblock aroused people's resentment. Some local people said that a regular trial would not have been blocked like this. They didn't know why the area was blocked this time.
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• Seven Practitioners Receive Four to Eight-Year Prison Terms in Xingtai City, Hebei Province

  2009-01-09
  Mr. Yin Shunfeng, in his 70s, was given a three year sentence. Mr. Yin, now retired, used to be an official in an auto repair factory. He lives at the Xingtai City Business Bureau Residence Building. He was sentenced to three years of forced labour for lawfully appealing for Falun Gong back in January 2000. Ms. Qian Wanyun, in her 40s, was given an eight-year sentence. She was sentenced to one year of forced labour for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution back in January 2001.
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• The Brutal and Torturous Ordeals That Ms. Miu Cui Has Endured

  2009-01-08
  Ms. Miu Cui, a Falun Gong practitioner in her 50s, was tortured many times because of her firm belief in Falun Gong. In May 2007, a guard and several prisoners in the Hunan Women's Prison, used a rope to tie Ms. Miu's wrists behind her back and then hung her up in the air. They tried to force her to sign a statement to say she would renounce her belief in Falun Gong. In excruciating pain, she lost control of her bowels and started to bleed from her private part. She was tortured repeatedly until 4 a.m. the following day. When a doctor examined her, he discovered that she was in the last stages of uterine cancer and he told her she probably had a maximum of three months to live.
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• The Yunnan No. 2 Women's Prison Is Torturing Falun Gong Practitioners

  2009-01-08
  Many practitioners were forced to sit on a small stool for 15 straight hours with no movement allowed. Many practitioners' buttocks became ulcerated and festered. If practitioners refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards then handcuffed their hands to the iron window frame or made them stand in the same position for long periods of time. Practitioner Zhou Bolian was forced to stand for three days and nights until he fainted and fell to the floor. Fang Shimei was put in confinement for one year, but still she insisted on doing the Falun Gong exercises. The guards then put some drugs in her food and she became mentally disoriented and slow.
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• Accounts of Forced-feeding at Jiutai Forced Labour Camp and Jilin City Detention Centre

  2009-01-08
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Wenjun held a hunger strike to protest his persection and was tied to an iron chair commonly known as a tiger bench. Mr. Li was then fed through a rigid naso-gastric tube with a concoction of corn flour gruel mixed with salt and unknown drugs. He was force-fed once or twice per day, depending on the decisions made by the Section Chief, Yu, the prison doctor, or the prison manager, Lei. Mr. Li Wenjun experienced great pain and once told his mother, "My body is in a overwhelming amount of pain!"
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• Mr. Zhen Zhanbo and Mr. Chen Xinye Tried by Court in Shenyang City

  2009-01-08
  On December 22nd, 2008, the Huanggu District Court in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province tried Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhao Zhanbo and Mr. Chen Xinye. Both of them looked very thin at the trial. Mr. Zhao Zhanbo and Mr. Chen Xinye stated during the trial that the city's police tortured them during interrogation. The court lied to the relatives of other accused defendants by saying that too many Falun Gong practitioners had showed up and taken up all of the space, so they only allowed one member of the accused's family to attend. This deception caused people to be resentful of Falun Gong practitioners. This is an example of how the authorities incite public hatred toward Falun Gong.
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