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. Cui Dejun's Whereabouts Unknown and His Relatives Arrested

  2008-09-21
  On May 12th, 2008, Mr. Cui Dejun, who was held in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. After 23 days, he became unconscious and then became incontinent for two days. The labour camp did nothing to treat him. It is said that Mr. Cui successfully escaped from Masanjia Labour Camp on August 11th, 2008. However, Mr. Cui's whereabouts and physical condition are currently unknown. On August 14th, 2008, his sister-in-law was arrested at gunpoint by the police. On August 15th, Mr. Cui's fourth brother and his wife were also arrested at gunpoint by the police at the store they own.
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• 78-year-old Mr. Cao Changlin Mysteriously Beaten to Death in Wuhan City, Hubei Province

  2008-09-20
  On August 8th, 2008, Mr. Cao Changlin, 78 years old, was discovered missing after he left his home at 9:30 p.m., one hour after the Olympics began. His family looked for him everywhere, but could not find him. Three days later, the neighbourhood administration notified his family that he had been taken by ambulance to hospital. Eyewitnesses said that when Mr. Cao entered the hospital there were three holes in his head along with many wounds. His ear was bleeding, and he could not see anything. His left shoulder bone was fractured, and his back was covered with bruises. This healthy and kind gentleman was beaten to the verge of death and passed away seven days later on August 15th.
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• Healthy Elderly Lady Injected with Toxic Medication and Beaten Brutally

  2008-09-20
  Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, was brutally beaten many times after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. In April 2006, she distributed fliers with information about Falun Gong and was arrested by police informants and treated as as a patient with a mental disorder. At the Psychiatric Department, Ms. Liu Xiaolian was brutally beaten, injected with toxic medication, fed toxic medication pills, shocked with high-voltage electric batons, and insulted by male, mentally ill patients. Soon after she was taken to the hospital, she was tortured until she could no longer speak.
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• Ms. Xin Shuhua Tortured and Force-fed Poison at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-09-20
  In March 2008, practitioner Xin Shuhua was detained at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. The guards used all kinds of methods to torture her in attempt to make her give up Falun Gong. Xin Shuhua had been once before been detained at Masanjia for three years. She was imprisoned for explaining the facts about Falun Gong to the public. Because she did not give up her belief, refused to work and went on hunger strike, the guards beat her with electric batons. Then they hung her up, bound her on to a "dead person's bed", and locked her in a dark cell, where she had to squat. The guards used an iron support to hold her mouth open and poured in poison, making her jaw disjointed four times. They injected poison into her and forced her to sit on a "tiger bench".
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• Wei Haiming and His Wife Zhao Zonghua Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Secret Trial

  2008-09-20
  In July 2008, officials at the Datong County Court in Xining City, Qinghai Province sentenced Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wei Haiming and his wife Ms. Zhao Zonghua to five years in prison without a public trial. They are now incarcerated at the Menyuan Prison in Qinghai Province. Datong Court officials were afraid of letting the public know of the trial. The court did not inform their families, nor the defence lawyers the families had hired before the trial. The lawyers told the families afterwards, "Datong Court officials did not follow official legal procedures." Wei Haiming and Zhao Zonghua's families asked why they were not informed of the trial ahead of time. The court officials replied sarcastically, "Why did we need to?"
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• Ms. Chen Huijun, Brutally Beaten by Police Officers, Is in Critical Condition

  2008-09-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Huijun was brutally beaten by police officers after being arrested for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong and is in critical condition. On August 4th, 2008, after overcoming numerous difficulties, her family picked up Ms. Chen and brought her back home. Her condition remains unstable and the doctor said that her life is in danger. During this process, the agencies involved required the family to sign a statement releasing them from any responsibility for Ms. Chen's condition. In order to rescue Ms. Chen, the family unwillingly agreed to their requirement.
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• Cangzhou City Resident Mr. Li Zhifa Suffers Mental Breakdown As a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-19
  Mr. Li Zhifa, 61, is a resident of Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, and a man of good reputation. Because he follows the principles of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance, he was persecuted. He suffered a mental breakdown as a result of seven years imprisonment. On July 27th, 2001, Mr. Li Zhifa was arrested. During Mr. Li's two-week detention, the police handcuffed his hands and legs to an iron chair, deprived him of sleep, and took turns interrogating him. They beat him, and shocked him using electric batons. They poured water on him first, then shocked his body, his handcuffs, and his private parts. They hit his head with a mallet daily.
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• Ms. Zhang Yunxian from Shaanxi Province Still Imprisoned after Serving Seven Year Sentence

  2008-09-19
  Ms. Zhang Yunxian, 60, lived in Xian City, Shaanxi Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on December 25th, 1999. The police arrested her at Tiananmen Square on January 1st, 2000 and imprisoned her for seven years. They first held her in a forced labour camp for one year and then incarcerated her at Shaanxi Province Women's Prison for five years. The guards ordered inmates to verbally and physically attack her, and they forced her to wear shackles weighing 53 lbs. Once, Zhang Yunxian had her hands cuffed behind her back for 16 days. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and the guards force-fed her food laced with toxic drugs.
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• Shijiazhuang City Court Plans Second Trial for Liu Lina; Her Whole Family Has Been Persecuted

  2008-09-19
  Shijiazhuang City Court officials in Hebei Province plan to hold another trial for Ms. Liu Lina next week. The exact date is unknown. On February 15th, 610 Office agents arrested her at home. They also arrested her husband and her brother and took away her computer and printer. The policemen fabricated evidence and a confession and forced her family members to sign the documents before releasing them. Twelve days later, using the falsified confession as proof, they officially arrested Ms. Liu. Currently, she is detained at the Shijiazhuang City No.1 Detention Centre.
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• Paralysed from Torture, Ms. Xiao Yunying Arrested Again

  2008-09-18
  Ms. Xiao Yunying, 58 years old, started practising Falun Gong in 1997. After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Xiao Yunying was detained numerous times in a brainwashing centre, but she firmly refused to write the three statements denouncing her belief. During her detention, both her legs became paralysed due to being tortured, and she has needed special care ever since. During the Olympic Torch Relay in Anyang City, Henan Province, Ms. Xiao Yunying was subjected to more persecution, and was sent to the Xinxiang Women's Prison on July 23rd, 2008.
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• Li Wenhe's Family Members Persecuted in Mancheng County, Hebei Province

  2008-09-18
  On the evening of August 7th, 2008, Li Zhenxing, the eldest son of Mr. Li Wenhe, and Ma Liuquan were arrested by Chinese Communist Party officials when they were distributing Falun Gong materials about the persecution in a village. The two were beaten in the Xiantai Rural Police Station. In the materials describing the local persecution, Yang Ping, deputy leader of the Rural, was described as talking about when Li Wenhe's home was ransacked. Yang Ping got very angry. On August 8th, Li Wenhe's home was ransacked by police. Mr. Li Wenhe, his wife Zhou Wenfang, and a younger son, Li Zhenning, were arrested.
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• Police Shut Down Pharmacy Run by a Practitioner - Customers Outraged

  2008-09-18
  On August 1st, 2008, Liu Fa, a Communist Party official entered the Tongxintang Pharmacy in Weixian City. He wanted to confiscate Dr. Gong's identity card. This is a card needed to do bank transactions, make purchases in shopping centres and conduct many business-related activities. Hence, Dr. Gong refused. As a result, Liu Fa called for police officers and had the pharmacy surrounded. Many of Dr. Gong's patients were scared and left the pharmacy. Police confiscated all the medicine and equipment in the pharmacy. They also arrested several employees and ransacked some of their homes. Dr. Gong Zhe, and his staff have been sent to the Zhangjiakou brainwashing centre. One customer said, "Closing the pharmacy has brought harm to many families. This act is truly sinful."
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• Elderly Ms. Tang Liwen Brought to Trial by Inner Mongolia Court

  2008-09-18
  Ms. Tang Liwen, 68, has been detained for more than eight months and was brought to trial by the Inner Mongolia Tonglia Court. During her detention she was taken to the hospital against her will to be force-fed and was injected with unknown drugs. Her family members have travelled to and from many departments asking for her release. Her husband, 78 years old, is under surveillance and monitored by police officers. People from the local community management committee and the police station have taken turns going into his home to harass him, which has made it very difficult for him to live a normal life.
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• Ms. Zhang Yuzhen's Arms and Hands Disabled from Torture

  2008-09-17
  Ms. Zhang Yuzhen, 41, is a practitioner from Jiangxi Province. On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong and Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and explain the facts about the practice to central government officials. On November 10th, 2000, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to six years in prison in Beijing. The prison guards made many attempts to force Ms. Yuzhen to renounce Falun Gong. They beat her, confined her to solitary confinement, burned her with cigarettes, tied her up and forced her to endure exposure to the hot summer sun, depriving her of sleep, baths, and family visits. They handcuffed and shackled her and hung her up by the handcuffs. Torture caused severe swelling of her arms and disabled her arms and hands so severely that she was unable to take care of herself.
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• Married Couple Ms. Li Mingyan and Mr. Meng Xianwu's Experiences of Being Persecuted

  2008-09-17
  On the morning of June 17th, 2008, Mr. Meng Xianwu, an internal medicine doctor at a factory hospital, was arrested by officers from the Xijie Police Station in Huludao City, Liaoning Province. At noon, three policemen knocked at Ms. Li Mingyan's door, (Li is Meng's wife), and claimed that they were there to collect the electricity fee. Li Mingyan refused to open the door. The officers threatened, "If you don't open the door, we'll break into your house through the windows. Once we are in, we are going to beat you to death."
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