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

• After Ms. Gao Rongrong's Death, Her Family Members Continue to Suffer Persecution

  2008-10-13
  After Ms. Gao Rongrong was tortured to death on June 16th, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong's family went to government departments to ask for an investigation into Rongrong's death; however, they did not receive any response. Ms. Gao Rongrong 's father became seriously ill because he could not endure the stress of all that had happened. Police prevented Gao Rongrong's mother from travelling because of the Beijing Olympic Games.
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• A Family of Cultivators Endures the Persecution

  2008-10-13
  On September 19th, 2008, while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong at the Hongqi Mine, Wang Peijin, 57, was abducted by the police. That night, Wang Yuanfu from the Jidong Mine Protection Section, He Wenming and Han Hengchang from the Jidong National Protection Team, forced Wang Peijin's son to take them to his father's residence. They took Mr. Wang's keys which they found on him to ransack the place. The Wang family had been suffering under the persecution and was left in a situation more dire than before.
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• Graduate Student at Zhejiang University Persecuted for Her Belief in Falun Gong

  2008-10-13
  One day in May, I was shopping and started a conversation with a security guard about Falun Gong and the persecution. They reported me and I was detained at Cuiyuan Police Station. Policeman Deng Jiming interrogated me the whole evening without giving me any food, and the questioning didn't finish until midnight. The chief of the state security brigade searched the school lab and took away the computer I bought last March. He also confiscated my notes with phrases exposing the persecution of Falun Gong written on them. After midnight, police took me to Hangzhou Detention Facility. Following 38 gruelling days in detention, I was released on bail.
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• Mr. Xu Zhi Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Possessing Falun Gong Brochures

  2008-10-12
  Mr. Xu Zhi is a Falun Gong practitioner from Baiquan County, Heilongjiang Province. In 2000, because he firmly believed in Falun Gong and did not give up his faith, he was sent to a forced labour camp for one year by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2007, because Mr. Xu was carrying brochures that explained the truth about Falun Gong, the CCP sentenced him to seven years in prison.
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• Ms. Li Jianying from Gaozhou City, Guangdong Province, Imprisoned Again

  2008-10-12
  On June 24th, 2008, officers from the Gaozhou 610 Office, the National Security Team, the police station and the residents committee arrested Ms. Li Jianying. They deceived her husband into signing a the statement for "re-education through labour" for two years. On the afternoon of June 25th, Ms. Li was forcefully sent to the Second Sub-team of the Third Team in the First District of Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, Guangdong Province. This is the second time Ms. Li has been imprisoned. Previously, she was sentenced to four years and imprisoned in Shaoguan Women's Prison and Guangdong Women's Prison.
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• Mr. Wu Ruirong in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, Sentenced to Forced Labour Again

  2008-10-12
  On May 24th, 2008, over ten police officers rushed into Mr. Wu Ruirong's and his wife, Ms. Lei Yingqun's workplace and arrested them, using the pretext of security for the Olympics Games. At the same time another two practitioners were arrested. They were imprisoned in Hengyang Municipal Second Detention Centre. On around June 28th, 2008, Mr. Wu was sentenced to forced labour for one and half years and taken to Changsha Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp again. They had both previously been imprisoned and persecuted for appealing for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Wangqing County Police in Jilin Province Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-10-12
  On July 10th, 2008, Chinese Communist Party agents and Wangqing County police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioners under the pretence of "ensuring a safe Olympic Games." On July 24th, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Wangqing County police implemented another widespread arrest and held a brainwashing session. Many of the practitioners arrested this time were the same ones arrested on and before July 10th. On July 24th, at 6:00 p.m., police officers scaled the exterior wall of a practitioner's home and jumped into the courtyard to make arrests.
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• Ms. Liu Lijun's Experience of Being Tortured by Police in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-10-11
  On February 28th, 2006, Ms. Liu Lijun, a Falun Gong practitioner, went to erase the red scrawls scribbled over Falun Gong posters exposing the persecution on the wall of an alley. Someone reported her to the police. At the police station, seven police officers took turns interrogating Ms. Liu. Police stomped downwards with full force on the handcuffs, which caused Ms. Liu extreme pain. They also kicked and punched Ms. Liu. The soles of her feet were black and blue for over a month. They also force-fed Ms. Liu with hot mustard oil, holding her head and pouring the oil into her nose. The mustard oil made it difficult for Ms. Liu to breathe and caused her eyes to water.
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• Husband Arrested 10 Times; Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour Four Times

  2008-10-11
  Over the last nine years, Zhang Dianguo was arrested and detained ten times, was sentenced to forced labor once, and was blackmailed out of nearly 60,000 yuan. His wife Guo Guixiang was arrested and detained six times, and sentenced to forced labour four times. Recently, the couple have just returned home from the labour camps, but, in the name of "protecting the Olympic Games," police arrested the couple once again. One of them is again in a forced labour camp, and the other escaped but is unable to return home without being arrested yet again.
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• Crimes Committed in the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp

  2008-10-11
  The Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province is one of many sites that have been used to barbarically torture practitioners, both mentally and physically. They have used lies and other despicable means to force the practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. Many practitioners were injured or crippled, suffered mental breakdown, or even died as a result of the brutal persecution there over the last nine years. Mr. Liu Cheng suffered from the corporal punishment; in addition to the beatings, he was forced to sit on a small stool for a long period of time. Sometimes the guards would hang him up and others forced him to stand still in many different postures.
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• Crimes Committed in Jilin Province Prior to the Olympic Games

  2008-10-11
  In Songyuan City, practitioner Ms. Liu Shumei was recently sentenced to an additional one-and-a-half years of forced labour--immediately after she finished serving a two-year prison term. In Yanji City, Ms. Zhang Shuxian was taken to a forced labour camp on July 21st, 2008, and put in solitary confinement. To protest her imprisonment, Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike. Three days later, female guards Liu Shuxia and Liu Lianying tied her up to a torture device called the death bed and force-fed her.
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• Police Arrest and Persecute 17 Falun Gong Practitioners in Laixi City

  2008-10-10
  On July 31st, 2008, the police in Laixi City, Shandong Province, arrested 17 Falun Gong practitioners. They were having a study and discussion session at a practitioner's home. Laixi 610 Office Chief Wang Jianzhi rented the third floor of the Qingdao Defence Education Centre to set up a brainwashing centre, where six practitioners will be imprisoned. This is the Laixi 610 Office private jail, set up in attempt to persecute and force practitioners to give up their belief. In order to maintain this location, the 610 Office extorted from each practitioner's family members 3,000 yuan and forced them to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong before they would release the practitioners.
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• Mr. Yan Zhijun and Several Other Practitioners from Tonghe County, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested and Money Extorted from Them

  2008-10-10
  Personnel from the Tonghe County 610 Office and Police Department arrested and persecuted several Falun Gong practitioners right before the Olympics. While the practitioners were held in the detention centre, they were mentally and physically tortured. On July 29th, 2008, police broke into practitioner Mr. Yan Zhijun's home. The police made a big mess of the house and Mr. Yan Zhijun was seriously beaten. Furthermore, they tried to force him to reveal information about other practitioners. When he refused, they tied a plastic bag over his head three times and beat him cruelly.
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• Practitioners from Huaying City, Guang'an, Sichuan Province, Are Persecuted

  2008-10-10
  On February 10th, 2004, Yuechi County officials arrested Ms. Zhou Dingying. The police interrogated her using torture and forced a false confession from her. After being beaten, she was imprisoned in Yuechi Lockup. They also wanted to arrest her husband, Mr. Qu, so he was compelled to be destitute and homeless. Ms. Zhou was sentenced to forced labour for two years and taken to Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp in the Zizhong County, Sichuan Province. She was tortured inhumanly for two years.
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• Baoji Sanitation Schoolteacher in Shanxi Province Arrested Again by 610 Office Personnel

  2008-10-10
  Because Ms. Wang Guaiyan firmly practised Falun Gong, on July 21st, 2008, she was arrested by Chinese Communist Party personnel from the school and from the Baiji Municipal 610 Office. Now she is imprisoned in the Fenghuo Hotel. Since July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang has been arrested and imprisoned many times. In 2001, she was arrested by local 610 Office personnel, sent to Shanxi Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp for three years, and tortured. She has been held in Baoji Municipal Lockup and other places three times.
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