Exposing the Persecution

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• Lawyers Representing Falun Gong Practitioners in Liaoning Province Say China's Judiciary Violates the Law

  2008-09-06
  From August 4th to 8th, 2008, the Taihe District Court in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province put four practitioners on trial in a decision that stood outside the boundaries of any legality and did not follow Chinese court proceedings. Lawyer Li and Jiang remonstrated that all evidence against the practitioners was trumped up. They also put in evidence that the trial violated China's laws. Lastly, they charged that the officers tortured the practitioners during interrogation.
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• Crimes Committed by the Education System of Mancheng County in Baoding City, Hebei Province

  2008-09-06
  As the Olympic Games approached, officials with the Education System of Mancheng County in Baoding City, Hebei Province, deceived many teachers about an increased wage and seized their identity cards. Their goal was to prevent the teachers from leaving town arbitrarily. From July 1999 to 2002, the county educators required all the teachers and students to repeatedly write negative essays and slogans criticizing Falun Gong. All the teachers and students were told to signs their name on a "Guarantee Statement" not to participate in any Falun Gong activities. Some of the teachers in the education department that had learned about the practice before the persecution started were forced to write "I won't practise Falun Gong" on the Guarantee Statement.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officers Seal Off Village After Mr. Cui Zhanxiang's Case Is Disclosed on the Internet

  2008-09-05
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Zhanxiang, a resident of Liangtun Village, Botou City in Hebei Province, was arrested in May 2006. After he was forced to make a payment to the police, he was released. In June 2008, Mr. Cui was arrested again. Over a hundred residents of Liangtun Village then co-signed a letter asking the Botou City Court for his release. Police officers from the Botou City Department found out and threatened all of the co-signers of the letter, Mr. Cui's relatives, and their employers. Currently every entrance to the village is being blocked by people assigned by Xixindian Township officials. Everyone entering or leaving the village is investigated, in an attempt to keep information about the case from getting out. Currently Mr. Cui Zhanxiang is still being detained at the Botou City Detention Centre. Every day he is forced to perform physical labour and is physically abused.
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• "Falun Gong Doctor" Ms. Lu Yuying Arrested

  2008-09-05
  On August 8th, 2008, Ms. Lu Yuying was in her home when ten officers from the Chengguan Police Department forced their way in and arrested her. They also confiscated her son's school computer. Ms. Lu ran a clinic to treat burn victims and saw patients with different degrees of scalds and burns every day. She would comfort the patient as she worked and sometimes played music similar to the sounds of nature to soothe the patient. The patients called her "Falun Gong Doctor" because she had an affable manner and always thought of their plight. This good person was detained numerous times for practising Falun Gong. Her family still does not know her whereabouts and they are very worried.
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• Ms. Zhang Shuchun and Her Family from Xinzhuang Town, Zhaoyuan City, Repeatedly Persecuted

  2008-09-05
  Ms. Zhang Shuchun, 44, has been repeatedly persecuted by local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and police in recent years, simply because she upholds her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and strives to be a good person. Over the years she has been repeatedly detained and shuttled back and forth between detention centres and public security bureaus. Her home has been searched and her property confiscated several times. She was forced to wander about homeless due to the persecution. On January 8th, 2008, over 20 police broke into Ms. Zhang's home and forced her husband to disclose his wife's whereabouts.
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• Jining City Court Unjustly Sentences Three Practitioners

  2008-09-05
  Mr. Li Ruifeng, 44, used to suffer from second degree hearing loss. After practising Falun Gong, he made marked improvements. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution in 1999, he appealed many times. He tried to use his own experience to tell others that Falun Gong is good and a righteous way. He was arrested many times, was sentenced to three years of forced labour, and suffered from torture such as the "back cuff," severe beatings, and being kept outside in winter. Mr. Li Ruifeng has been held in the Jining City Detention Centre for 11 months and has been sentenced to a 3-year jail term.
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• Mr. Yu Zhenhua of Wucheng County, Shandong Province, Died as a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zhenhua, about 60 years of age, was a resident of Mazhuang Village, Wucheng County, Shandong Province. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong, local CCP personnel turned Mr. Yu's life upside down. The Wucheng County Police arrested him, attempted to brainwash him, extorted a large amount of money from him, and sentenced him to forced labour. During the brainwashing and other persecution, Mr. Yu suffered a relapse of his previous illnesses and died in the spring of 2008.
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• Court Denies Medical Treatment to Jinzhou Practitioners Maimed by Torture

  2008-09-04
  Between August 4th and 7th, 2008, four practitioners were in court to request medical treatment for the injuries that they sustained while in police custody. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court in the Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, denied medical treatment to Ms. Liu Fengmei and Mr. Huang Cheng. A vertebra in Ms. Liu Fengmai's lower spine was shattered six years ago after she fell from the third floor at Majiashan Forced Labour Camp as a result of torture. A metal implant was installed to reinforce her spine. When the guards in the Jinzhou Detention Centre beat her, the metal was bent out of shape. Ms. Liu now suffers from intense pain and has difficulty walking.
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• Employees of Tangshan Sanyou Group Company, Ltd. Persecuted at Manufacturing Plant

  2008-09-04
  During the Olympics and its Torch Relay, Falun Gong practitioners were tortured at their workplace, the Tangshan Sanyou Group Company, Ltd. The plant director organized the security department, the sub companies and other workshops to have meetings, and the Falun Gong practitioners were pressured from all levels of the plant. All plant directors are required to sign the guarantee statements to denounce Falun Gong. They monitored the practitioners to prevent them from appealing in public or participating in activities related to Falun Gong.
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• Ms. Zhou Haitao Suffers a Mental Collapse from Torture After Her Husband Was Killed in the Persecution

  2008-09-04
  Mr. Chen Guibin was severely beaten by four security guards of Yinhe Cotton Works. He passed away on February 7th, 2001. Police continued to persecute his wife, Ms. Zhou Haitao, after her husband was killed. Police sent Ms. Zhou to Shangdong Province Forced Labour Camp, where she endured brainwashing for five months. She was a capable person, yet the persecution led her to suffer a mental collapse, making her unable to take care of her young child.
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• Ms. Dai Xiaoling Dies from Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-09-03
  On August 11th, 2008, police officers went to "visit" and threaten practitioners door-to-door. When they arrived at Ms. Dai Xiaoling's building, the police asked, "Why won't you let us in? Do you have anything you are scared to let us see?" An eyewitness said four officers were in her home at around 6:40 p.m. They had found Falun Gong books and DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and questioned Ms. Dai viciously. At around 7:20 p.m. Ms. Dai was seen plummeting from her balcony on the third floor, and landing on a steel manhole cover. She was severely injured. There was a big crowd of people surrounding her. Later, someone saw her foot dangling from the police vehicle. A witness said her last words were: "They forced me. I had no way out. I want to see my husband."
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• Ms. Yang Jingfen Dies After Police Break into Her Home

  2008-09-03
  On the morning of August 18th, 2008, a group of police officers stormed in Ms. Yang Jingfen's home located at the Liaohe Petroleum Field in Liaoning Province. After about two hours, Ms. Yang fell from the sixth floor. The group of police officers made sure she was dead, then left together. Another group of police came, claimed that Ms. Yang committed suicide, and demanded that her family immediately cremate her body. When the police broke into her home, she was alone. The police wouldn't let her family in. In the two hours before her death, what exactly did they police do to her? Whether Ms. Yang committed suicide or not, the group of officers should be investigated and take responsibility.
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• Wen Jingsong from Fengcheng City Tortured Before His Death

  2008-09-03
  Mr. Wen Jingsong was sentenced to a four-year jail term in 2005. He was jailed at Dabei Prison in Shenyang City and Xihu Prison in Benxi City, where he was tortured. In 2006, he was released on medical bail. Wen Jingsong was in constant fear and pain, and passed away on July 31st, 2008 at age 38. In April 2005, his family members asked the police to release him after he was arrested. As a result, his father and wife were detained and sent to forced labour camps.
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• Police Harassment Leads to the Death of an Elderly Practitioner

  2008-09-03
  Ms. Ge Yulan, 77, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Shandong Province. In June 2008, six to seven police officers made a repeat visit to Ms. Ge's home and attempted to arrest her oldest daughter Ms. Zhao Yuhong, who had suffered numerous severe tortures for years because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. Despite Ms. Zhao's absence, the officers ransacked Ms. Ge's home without showing any official documents. They took away Falun Gong books. Afterwards, the authorities stopped Ms. Ge's monthly army pension of two hundred yuan, thereby cutting off her living allowance. With so much worry, she developed a serious illness and died on August 3rd, 2008.
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• 65-Year-Old Mr. Wang Chongjun Tortured to Death in Beijing

  2008-09-02
  Mr. Wang Chongjun, 65, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing. On June 20th, 2008, Mr. Wang's family received notices sent from Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp, saying Mr. Wang Chongjun had been sentenced to two years of forced labour. Guards in the camp injected Mr. Wang with an unknown drug that caused him to become emaciated. The camp authorities saw that he was dying and quickly released him. He skin had turned yellow from the drug. His family picked him up and took him to the hospital for an operation. Mr. Wang died on the afternoon of August 23rd, 2008. His wife was transferred to the Shanxi Province Forced Labour Camp right before the Olympics. She still does not know of her husband's death.
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