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

• Ms. Song Chang Forced to Have an Abortion

  2008-12-16
  Ms. Song Chang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hubei Province, worked in Guangdong Province with her husband. On July 17th, 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel in Guangdong and police from Hubei arrested her. Ms. Song was sent back to Shashi and forced to have an abortion. She is detained at the Shashi Detention Centre and is very weak. In the detention centre, all she was given to eat was water and several pieces of vegetable. In addition to being weak after the abortion, Ms. Song also developed a fever. Even in such a difficult situation, the authorities did not release her or even allow her family members to visit her.
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• Practitioners Tortured Long-term in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2008-12-16
  The Training Ward of Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison has been moved to the Ninth Ward to detain new prisoners. This ward has been designated to force brainwashing on Falun Gong practitioners since August 2005. The first step in brainwashing newly arrived practitioners is performed by two collaborators. Those who give in to the brainwashing are converted to Buddhism. Those who refuse to accept the brainwashing are passed on to three prisoners. These three prisoners then torture the practitioners by forcing them to stand for long periods of time, sleep deprivation, handcuffing, and hanging them up by their wrists with rope.
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• Mr. Gu Wenqi Suffers a Mental Collapse After Eight Years of Persecution

  2008-12-15
  Mr. Gu Wenqi, 42, is from Liaoning Province. Because he refused to stop practising Falun Gong, he was subjected to brainwashing, detention, imprisonment, and forced labour. He was also confined to a psychiatric hospital, without his family members knowing, even though there was nothing physically or mentally wrong with him. During Mr. Gu's trial, the court did not allow him to have an lawyer present nor did they publicly announce or record his sentence. So, without any legal procedure whatsoever, Mr. Gu was imprisoned for 8 years, simply for practising Falun Gong. On August 20th, 2008, when Mr. Gu was finally released, he was unable to recognize his family members or his close friends, and still thought that he was back at Jinzhou Prison.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Pass Away in Anhui, Liaoning, and Hebei Provinces as a Result of Persecution

  2008-12-15
  Mr. Zhang Liangming, about 47 years old, lived in Anhui Province. Since July 20th, 1999, he was frequently harassed and detained several times by local police. In 2000, Zhang Liangming was sent to a forced labour camp by the local police because he want to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was then sent to Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province. The clinic in the forced labour camp gave him unknown injections and he suffered a mental breakdown. His family later bailed him out for medical treatment. He never recovered and passed away on June 12th, 2008.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Zhang Lanping and Yu Meixiu from Hefei City Persecuted in Forced Labour Camp

  2008-12-15
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Lanping, 57, was arrested by agents from the 610 Office because she exposed the persecution of Falun Gong to people in May 2008. She was imprisoned in Hefei Forced Labour Camp, and 15 days later transferred to the Anhui Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp. She is now on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Additionally, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Meixiu was arrested by local police before the Beijing Olympic Games, and was sent to the Anhui Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp. The police tortured her with "restraint clothes" so severely that she became humpbacked and cannot straighten her back.
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• Ms. Wang Fengjuan from Jilin Province Detained in the Kunming City Forced Labour Camp

  2008-12-15
  Because of harassment from the local police, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Fengjun was forced to leave home and go to work in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, in June 2008. She was arrested just ten days after arriving in Yunnan Province, and sentenced to three years of forced labour. She is now in the Kunming City Forced Labour Camp. In the morning, Ms. Wang is forced to write statements renouncing her belief; in the afternoon, she has to do hard labour.
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• 300 Practitioners Arrested, 30 Detained in a Forced Labour Camp, 2000 Yuan Extorted from Each

  2008-12-14
  Sun Jinbo and Wang Fucai, directors of the 610 Office, have given orders to ransack and arrest Falun Gong practitioners. Their slogan was, "Arrest 300 practitioners, detain 30 in a forced labour camp, and extort 2,000 yuan from each one." Simultaneously, they told the public by TV propaganda to report practitioners to the police, and they could receive 200 to 1,000 yuan for reporting each practitioner. During the Olympic Games, nearly 100 practitioners were arrested, 13 were put in forced labour camps, and over 30 were detained in a brainwashing centre.
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• Ms. Huo Shuxiang Dies Due to Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-12-14
  On June 27th, 2007, police arrested Ms. Huo Shuxiang when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. She was detained for fifteen days and extorted of 1000 yuan. After she was released, her family strictly monitored her, as they were fearful that Ms. Huo would be arrested again. Her family didn't let her study the Falun Gong teachings or do the exercises. Under the heavy pressure from her employer and family, she became ill. She died on November 23rd, 2008, at age 48. Her child is still young.
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• Retired Schoolteacher Ms. Chen Guiqin Dies From Torture--Nine Family Members Persecuted

  2008-12-14
  58-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Guiqin was arrested and sentenced to two years at the Harbin Drug Rehab Re-education Centre in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province. The police interrogated Ms Chen through the night and the next day. Female officer Wen Xiaohui then attacked her and threw her to the ground. She pulled her up by her hair, and forced her to stand facing the wall with her head bowed and body bent for a long time. Due to torture, her health deteriorated, and she died on January, 6th, 2004, after being released. Nine family members, including her four children and her husband, were also subjected to severe torture and harassment.
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• Friends and Family Arrested While Practitioners on Trial in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-12-14
  On November 28th, 2008, four practitioners were tried in Xi'an District Court in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. The use of cruel torture was revealed to the court. One of the ways Mr. Li Yongsheng was tortured by domestic security officer Peng Fuming was "Tying the ropes". Mr. Li was also brutally beaten. The Court did not allow spectators to sit in the courtroom for this public trial, and guards chased away all the families who were waiting outside the court. Officers from Domestic Security ordered several dozen police officers to arrest the families and fellow practitioners of the defendants. At least 37 people that were outside the courtroom have gone missing. Some have been taken to a detention centre.
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• Please Help Free My Mother, Ms. Ma Lingxian

  2008-12-13
  The Chinese Communist Party began its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. As a result, my mother, Ms. Ma Lingxian, was subpoenaed twice, fined three times, her salary reduced, her promotions were cancelled twice, detained three times, and her home was ransacked seven times. She was sent to the Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp and was harassed numerous times by officials. All this took its toll on both my mother's psyche and our family's finances. On July 19th, 2008, my mother attended her first class reunion in 30 years in Xichang City. She was arrested again after only two days. The reason was that during the Olympics, the local government had to keep "sensitive" individuals under surveillance to prevent any public appeals.
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• Practitioner Mr. Guan Ziping from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province Imprisoned for 7 Years

  2008-12-13
  On November 7th, 2000, Mr. Guan Ziping was arrested by police officers when he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. He was imprisoned for 7 years, from 2000 to 2007. He was once hung in the air by a pair of handcuffs and tortured for over ten days. Guards used electric batons to electrocute Mr. Guan in the head, neck and other parts of his body. In order to get him to do hard labour and to attend various prison activities, the guards forced him to sit on a stool for several days without letting him sleep, shone a several-thousand-watt light bulb in his eyes, and poured cold water on his head.
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• Ms. Wang Haitian is Arrested in Luanda County, Hebei Province

  2008-12-13
  On November 23rd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Haitian and another practitioner went to Madamiao Village to distribute Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. They were reported to the village committee and police. Approximately four or five police officers arrested the two practitioners. Ms. Wang and another practitioner were taken to an office of the County Domestic Security Division. Police asked Yin Yulan, the deputy director of the county 610 Office, to come to torture them. The police claim that on November 23rd, 2008, they took Ms. Wang to another place, but no information or details were available.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Personnel from Fuping County, Baoding City, Persecute Three Older Practitioners Prior to the Olympics

  2008-12-13
  On July 11th, 2008, 57-year-old Elementary School teacher Yang Shengli and retired teacher Sun Mingrong 58, a couple, were getting ready to go to their son's wedding. In the evening, over 20 policemen together with some people from the Datai County government stormed into their home, confiscated their property and arrested them. Sun Mingrong was imprisoned in a forced labour camp for three months and was injected with unknown drugs. After the injection Sun could not recall what happened afterwards. Arriving at the forced labour camp Sun regained consciousness but was not able to walk. Yang Shengli was imprisoned in a detention centre for two weeks and was then sent to the County Hospital under house arrest. On September 1st, Yang was released but is still being monitored.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Zhao Guoji Dies After Being Detained in Majiaping Prison, Sichuan Province

  2008-12-12
  On March 17th, 2007, police arrested Mr. Ma Guoji, 63, and took him to the district detention centre. During the time Mr. Zhao was being interrogated, doctors at the hospital diagnosed him with a bone tumour and hypertension. He should have been released for hospitalization, but the Bazhou District Court still sentenced him to five years in prison. As a result of the detention and brutal mistreatment, Mr. Zhao Guoji could no longer walk, was emaciated, and could not take care of himself. In order to shirk responsibility, prison administration officials took him home on March 20th, 2008. He died on October 18th, 2008.
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