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

• Elderly Ms. Liu Bilian from Hunan Province Has Been Arrested Eight Times

  2008-10-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Bilian, a native of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, is 68 years old. She started to practise Falun Gong in 1998. However, during the ten years that she has been a practitioner, she has been arrested eight times and has suffered brutal torture. On March 5th, 2008, 7 policemen came to Ms. Liu's residence took Falun Gong books and personal belongings and locked her up at the police station. Ms. Liu was interrogated for four days and nights, and was then detained at the Yunxi Detention Centre for 87 days. She staged a hunger strike to protest. The guards took her to hospital but continued to torture Ms. Liu.
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• I Missed Celebrating the Moon Festival with Ms. Sun Zhifen, a Member of My Family

  2008-10-05
  Looking up at the full moon during the Moon Festival, I thought of Chinese families around the world enjoying this traditional holiday. It made me sad, because there is someone I would have dearly loved to celebrate the Moon Festival with. It is a woman who has been imprisoned and tortured for persevering in her faith. Ms. Sun Zhifen went to Beijing to exercise her constitutional right to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced to an 11-year prison term. She was imprisoned in Shuangcheng No.2 Detention Centre, Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, and Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison, where she suffered cruel beatings and force-feeding. All she was trying to do was be a better person. Now she has become seriously ill.
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• Ms. Wang Haiqing from Shandong Province Is in Critical Condition As a Result of Being Tortured in Detention

  2008-10-05
  After long-term incarceration and torture, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Haiqing from Anqiu City in Shandong Province is in critical condition. While in detention, Ms. Wang was forced to sit in a steel chair for five days, and she was tortured by being force-fed for more than three months after she started a hunger strike. She was severely traumatized. Since her arrest on May 1st, 2008, Ms. Wang Haiqing's condition has deteriorated, and she is in critical condition, but the police still refuse to release her.
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• Police Arrest and Terrorize Seven Older Women, Extort Large Sums of Money

  2008-10-05
  On May 12th, 2008, police surrounded the home of Huangjia Village practitioner Ms. Li Yongxin. Using the excuse of "ensuring security for the Olympics," the police dispersed the villagers who gathered after hearing the news, broke into the home, ransacked it, and arrested Ms. Li Yongxin and six other older women practitioners. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents told the family members of each practitioner that they might be freed after two weeks and then proceeded to extort money from them. On May 19th, Ms. Li Yongxin and Ms. Zhao Cuizhi were taken to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City.
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• Mr. Wang Xiaoguang from Songyuan City Tortured and Sentenced to 10 Years of Imprisonment

  2008-10-05
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaoguang was arrested in August 2007. Mr. Wang was sentenced to 10 years and is currently in Jilin Prison. Previously in a detention centre police handcuffed his hands and feet and tortured Wang Xiaoguang by feeding him a mixture of hot pepper juice, mustard oil, and water mixed with pepper powder. They force-fed him four water bottles of this concoction and then covered his head with a plastic bag. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water on him to revive him. They also inserted a lit cigarette into each of his nostrils. Mr. Wang's lungs felt like they had exploded, and he fainted in agony.
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• Crimes Committed Inside the Huhhot Women's Narcotic Rehabilitation Centre

  2008-10-04
  Every practitioner is detained in one room, monitored by a drug addict inmate. One or several former practitioners who were "transformed" and had renounced Falun Gong would attempt to change the Falun Gong practitioner's mind. Police uses threats, criticisms, sarcastic greetings, and "chatting" to attempt to force practitioners to "transform". Former practitioners who were "transformed" and had renounced Falun Gong are in charge of slave labour production, which reduces their jail term. They choose the person who works most quickly as a standard to measure others. Practitioners who cannot finish the work are forced to work longer. Even the sixty or seventy year olds are not excluded from punishment. The intense workload has given them blisters and boils on their hands.
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• Exposing Police Crimes in the Persecution of Falun Gong in Jiaohe

  2008-10-04
  On October 26th, 2004, police officers from Yong'an Police Station, broke into practitioner Ms. Ren Hongxia's house and took her to the police station. They kicked her legs violently in the process. That night, they sent her to Jiaohe Detention Centre. On afternoon of October 28th, policemen took Ms. Ren back to Yong'an Police Station. They tied her to a chair and tied her hands behind her back. One policeman held her neck, one blocked her mouth with a towel, and another policeman force-fed a mixture made up of hot pepper stems, which are many times more spicy than the hot pepper itself, through her nose. She was in excruciating pain, and her clothes were soaked with sweat.
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• Ms. Gao Guofeng in Critical Condition from Abuse, Authorities Deny Family's Requests to Take Her to a Hospital

  2008-10-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Guofeng in Heilongjiang Province was tortured at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City. She was beaten black and blue, and also experienced symptoms of dizziness, high systolic blood pressure of 180, loss of consciousness and weakness. She also became unable to speak in clear sentences. The guards' severe beatings of her head affected her central nervous system. She felt numbness in her legs and was able to walk only with assistance. The relatives went to the camp and prepared to take Ms. Gao to a hospital for treatment, but the camp officials denied their request saying Ms. Gao could receive better care at the camp clinic.
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• Young Woman Tortured to the Verge of Death at Weifang City Detention Centre

  2008-10-04
  Ms. Kong Xi, approximately 30 years old, is a practitioner from Weifang City, Shandong Province. After she was arrested on July 9th, 2008, she was detained at the Weifang City Detention Centre. She held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Once, the detention centre officials tied her to a cross constructed with metal poles for seven consecutive days and nights with her arms fixed by long rubber bands and feet shackled together, causing excruciating pain. After over two months of torture, Ms. Kong Xi is on the verge of death.
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• 55-Year-Old Ms. Liu Yanyun Dies as a Result of the Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-10-03
  Ms. Liu Yanyun, 55, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and was repeatedly persecuted by the police. The police tortured Ms. Liu by various means, including a torture called"Riding an Airplane", being forced to stand for long periods of time, and sleep deprivation. Another time Ms. Zhang was sentenced to three years of forced labour and she became very weak. Ms. Liu's physical condition worsened and she died on September 13th, 2008.
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• 60-Year-Old Mr. Li Yukun Dies as a Result of Persecution in Shandong Province

  2008-10-03
  During the past nine years, Mr. Li Yukun, 60, endured unimaginably cruel torture. He was detained several times because he appealed against the persecution of Falun Gong. A police officer told Mr. Li, "I want to beat you to death," whilst brutally beating him. He kicked out Mr. Li's front teeth with one kick, then hit his head with a stool, shattering the stool in the process. Mr. Li refused to renounce Falun Gong. At home he was constantly harassed by police. It was difficult for him to bear this intensive persecution, and he died on September 17th, 2008.
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• Ms. Cao Xiuxia Dies as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-10-03
  Ms. Cao Xiuxia died as a result of persecution on August 31st, 2008 when she was 47 years old. Whilst detained in a detention centre she had been shocked with electric batons, handcuffed to a heater, forced to sit outside on the ground in the freezing winter, and denied water and food. Ms. Cao was also sent to a forced labour camp for three years. She did slave labour and was often shocked with electric batons.
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• Disabled Man Sentenced to Three Years in Prison Has Been On Hunger Strike for Two Months

  2008-10-03
  On September 12th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Li Ruifeng, who is deaf and lives in Jining City, Shandong Province, was arrested by policemen while at home. They ransacked his bedroom and took away personal belongings and a computer. On the same day, another twenty Falun Gong practitioners from Shizhong District, Jining City were arrested. On the morning of July 14th, 2008, Li Ruifeng was secretly tried by the Shizhong District Court with no prior notice, and without informing his family. On July 24th, he was sentenced to three years in prison. From July 20th, Li Ruifeng has been on a hunger strike, in order to protest the long-term detention.
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• Practitioners Shackled to a Cross and Tortured at Weifang City Detention Centre, Shandong Province

  2008-10-02
  Ms. Kong Qian is being held at the Weifang City Detention Centre. To protest her arrest and detainment, Ms. Kong went on several hunger strikes. The guards dragged her to be force-fed and she was given intravenous infusions. She was restrained on a metal cross and IV-ed. After several days had passed, she couldn't move due to the torture. Her spine and lower back were injured from being pressed against the metal bars, causing extreme pain. She can no longer walk or take care of herself. The longest period that she was on the cross was seven days and nights. Before being detained, she was attractive and healthy, but now she is skin and bones, and she is in critical condition.
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• 55-Year-Old Ms. Yang Dongzhi Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2008-10-02
  Ms. Yang Dongzhi, 55, went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong after the persecution started in July 1999. She was held in a detention centre for six months and to Majialong Forced Labour Camp. The drug criminals and guards abused and harassed her every day in attempts to force her into giving up her faith. On September 12th, 2001, guards hung her up with her arms crossed, which caused her to faint until she was on the verge of death. But the guards didn't care. Ms. Yang was repeatedly persecuted. In 2008 the chief of Saicheng Lake Police Station and a gang of officers arrested six practitioners. They were sent to forced labour camps in Nanchang and Jiujiang cities. Sadly, Ms. Yang Dongzhi passed away.
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