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

• Mr. Xue Jingye from Heilongjiang Province and Mr. Xin Chao from Shaanxi Province Persecuted to Death

  2009-01-04
  After July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party, under Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] orders, started the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Xue Jingye, 38, was given one year of forced labour in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp simply because he continued to practise Falun Gong. He suffered a great deal physically and mentally in the camp. Around the time of the Olympic games this year, the local police repeatedly visited his home. The continued harassment caused Mr. Xue a great deal of stress and he passed away on December 6th, 2008.
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• Middle School Teacher Ms. Zhao Yuhuan, Brutally Persecuted During the Past Four Years, Arrested Again

  2009-01-03
  Teacher Ms. Zhao Yuhuan, who is in her 40s, was arrested in November because she distributed Falun Gong materials. She is currently being held in a detention centre in Beijing, but the exact facility is unknown. Ms. Zhao was previously detained for four years. In May 2002, while detained in Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp, she was subjected to different kinds of torture since she refused to give up Falun Gong. Handcuffed to the rail of an upper bunk bed, she was deprived of sleep for over 50 hours, and subsequently forced to sit on the floor every day with her arms straight at each side and handcuffed to the rail of the lower bunk bed. This lasted for more than three weeks.
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• Disabled Wife Appeals for Her Husband's Rescue

  2009-01-03
  In 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested my husband again, allegedly for the sake of the Olympic Games. On July 13th, 2008, police broke into my home. They covered my husband's head with a black plastic bag and forced him into a police car. They searched my home and seized expensive items. They also destroyed my electric fan. My husband has been detained in the Shuangfengsi Detention Centre for more than five months, and we are not allowed to visit him. Recently, we learned that he will be brought to trial at Shuangqiao District Court on December 15th, 2008. I call for the immediate release of my husband.
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• Calling for Immediate Release of Mr. Yu Chao and His Wife Ms. Zhu Tong

  2009-01-03
  Since the persecution started in July 1999, my sister-in-law Ms. Zhu has been arrested for calling for justice for Falun Gong by unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square. In August 2002, a few months after she was released, she was arrested again with my brother by six police officers, for speaking out on the Internet against the persecution of Falun Gong. My brother was beaten when he tried to resist being arrested. They were sentenced to nine and eleven years of imprisonment respectively. Their son, Huhu, has been deprived of his parents' care.
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• Ms. Deng Xiaomei from Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, Sentenced

  2009-01-03
  Ms. Deng Xiaomei, a Falun Gong practitioner and a kindergarten teacher was arrested by police at home on November 11th, 2008. She has been sentenced to forced labour for two years. Ms. Deng who is 30 years of age, has been detained twice before. In 2000, she was detained for over three weeks just because she participated in a Falun Gong group exercises. In 2002, she was sentenced to forced labour for two years.
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• Mr. Kang Hong Suffers a Mental Collapse at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp

  2009-01-02
  Mr. Kang Hong, 38, is from Chongqing City, Sichuan Province and has spent seven of the past nine years since the persecution of Falun Gong started in prison, due to his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Mr. Kang suffered a mental collapse in November 2008 while being brutally tortured at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. Because of the guards' torture Mr. Kang, he is now in critical condition. On November 30th, a fellow practitioner passed by Mr. Kang's cell and noticed that he looked extremely weak. In addition, Mr. Kang's face and lips were red and swollen and his body was covered in bruises.
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• Ms. Wu Chuanying from Linli County, Hunan Province Sentenced to Eight Years in Jail

  2009-01-02
  Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Wu Chuanying has been arrested and detained six times for practising Falun Gong. From November 2004 to November 2005, Ms. Wu Chuanying was arrested four times. She was brainwashed and sentenced to three years in jail for not giving up her belief. She went on a hunger strike to protest. In April 2006, she was subjected to forced intravenous drug injection in a hospital, though she managed to walk out free. In 2008, the police detained her in the Changsha Women's Prison again.
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• Wreaths and Banners Condemn Jinzhou Prison for Killing Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Litian

  2009-01-02
  Mr. Zhang Litian was a 36-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. After Mr. Zhang was detained in Jinzhou Prison for over a month, Cheng Jun, the head of Division 20, and Zhang Baozhi, the assistant head of Division 20, instigated four inmates to beat Zhang Litian to death on November 17th, 2008. Recently, some goodhearted people hung wreaths and banners near Jinzhou Prison to commemorate Mr. Zhang and publicize the fact that he was tortured to death. We hope conscience and justice will prevail, and the persecution will end.
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• Seven Practitioners Held in the Shenyang City Detention Centre

  2009-01-02
  The top officials of the detention centreboften instigated the criminal inmates to torture practitioners. The torture methods included beatings, forced-feedings of concentrated salt water, forcing practitioners to sit on the tiger bench, injecting them with drugs, and extorting money from them. In August 2006, practitioner Ms. Wen Yingxin, 34, was tortured to death after nine days in the detention centre
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• Many Practitioners Arrested and Fined Recently by Police in Weifang City, Shandong Province

  2009-01-01
  On October 29th, 2008, police officers barged into the residence of Ms. Li Shuqin. They took her Falun Gong books and other items. They took Ms. Li to the Yuhe Police Station and incarcerated her. They tried to extort at least twenty thousand yuan from her family. The family did not cooperate, so the police did a blood test on Li Shuqin against her will in the afternoon. They took her to Yuhe Hospital to check her blood pressure and her heart rate. When they were checking her, she had a heart attack. When she was lying on the bed, her whole body was shaking and bouncing around on the bed. Despite her being in this condition, the police still took her to the Weifang City Detention Centre.
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• Shayang Forced Labour Camp Authorities Abuse Practitioners with Isolation

  2009-01-01
  Under the intense abuse, practitioners in Shayang Forced Labour Camp were forcefully instilled with the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) fallacies and absurdities, made to watch video tapes with slanderous content towards Falun Gong, talk with the guards in charge of brainwashing and collaborators, copy articles containing CCP propaganda at night, deprived of sleep, and forced to squat on one leg for a long time. Also, they were prohibited from seeing their family members, mailing letters and making phone calls. They had to ask for permission even when they needed to use the toilet. They were monitored by the controlling inmates all day long.
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• Ms. Wang Zhongqiong and Ms. Chen Ru from Deyang City, Sichuan Province Sentenced to Prison

  2009-01-01
  On December 8th, 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court sentenced Falun Gong practitioners 69-year-old Ms. Wang Zhongqiong and 47-year-old Ms. Chen Ru to four years and three years in prison respectively. During the trial, the judge did not allow either their relatives to defend them or the assignment of a defender. The trial was conducted in a hurried and careless manner. Many policemen from the National Security Groups of Deyang City and Shifang City showed up in the courtroom. After the trial, an unidentified person was video-recording all the people walking out of the court.
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• Recent Situations of Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province

  2009-01-01
  Mr. Qu Dehong is in his forties. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, Qu Dehong took part in a press conference attended by Western journalists in October 1999. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested and sentenced to three years and six months in jail, and was detained in the Harbin City Third Prison. In 2004, Qu Dehong was reported to police when he was distributing materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. He was arrested and severely tortured many times by police and force-fed large quantities of drugs that damage the central nervous system. He was sentenced to six years in jail. He is currently detained in Jiamusi Prison.
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• Ms. Zhang Xiuqin Dies One Month after Being Arrested

  2008-12-31
  On November 13th, 2008, someone reported Ms. Zhang Xiuqin, around 48 years old, while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Police arrested her and detained her in the Xining City Detention Centre. According to guards, on December 7th, Ms. Zhang suddenly passed out. The centre doctor tried to resuscitate her in vain, then took her to hospital. The hospital forbade anyone from getting close to Ms. Zhang, including her husband. She died on December 13th, only one month after she was arrested. It has not been discovered how the officers and guards mistreated her in custody, but based on the fact that she fell into a coma during detention, all responsible parties will not escape justice.
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• The Terror of Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City During the Olympic Games

  2008-12-31
  During the Olympic Games, there was a atmosphere of terror in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials held a variety of conferences, enforcing rules and regulations to restrict people's freedom. The Seventh Division specialized in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Lei Kejin was the captain of the division for many years before he was transferred to a different division. Lei had been actively participating in the violent "transformation" of Falun Gong practitioners since the persecution began. His hands were stained with the blood of Falun Gong practitioners. Because of his active involvement in the persecution of Falun Gong, Lei became the torch bearer for the Olympic Games.
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