Exposing the Persecution

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• Ms. Wu Meiyan Dies After Nine Years of Brutal Treatment in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-09-02
  On August 19th, 2008, Ms. Wu Meiyan died after nine years of severe persecution. When she was jailed in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison guards kicked practitioners in their faces, all over their bodies, and stomped on their feet while wearing high heels. Ms. Wu's 76-year-old mother is still detained for practising Falun Gong, and her husband, also a practitioner, has been locked up in Jiamusi City Prison for nearly seven years.
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• Older Practitioners Ms. Yang Jizhi and Ms. Jin Chunqing Died as a Result of Persecution in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

  2008-09-02
  Ms. Yang Jizhi, 65, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was subsequently detained in the Shuangcheng City Detention Centre, where guards forced her to kneel down while they whipped her. She was detained for a total of 11 months, and released in August 2000. Ever since then she was forced to live away from home to avoid being arrested. In 2005, she was arrested and detained in Daqing City. Her daughter Ms. Zhang Tieyan, also a practitioner, was tortured to death. The death of her daughter severely affected Ms. Yang's mental and physical health. She became very thin, and died far away from home on June 12th, 2006.
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• Practitioner from Harbin City Dies as a Result of the Persecution

  2008-09-02
  Mr. Liu Hongtao, 39, went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000. After then he was persecuted severely. On February 22nd, 2003, Mr. Liu was arrested and detained in the Harbin City Second Detention Centre. He was tortured in all sorts of ways during his interrogation and injected with unknown substances. He was soon sentenced to three years in prison. When he was taken to Xinjian Prison, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in both lungs, and prison officials refused to admit him. Mr. Liu never got better. His family tried to have him treated, but detention centre officials delayed treatment repeatedly. He was on February 21st, 2006, when his term ended. Because his treatment was severely delayed, Mr. Liu's condition did not improve after returning home, and he died on August 17th, 2008.
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• Mr. Cai Pengshun Passes Away After He and His Family Suffer Years of Relentless Persecution in Menghai County, Yunnan Province

  2008-09-01
  After suffering many years of persecution, Mr. Cai Pengshun, a 74-year-old practitioner from Menghai County, passed away in his home on March 5th, 2008. On February 12th, 2006, three groups of police officers were dispatched to harass Mr. Cai Pengshun and his family. They ransacked Mr. Cai Pengshun's home and took all the Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. A few days later, police used intimidation and coercion to put pressure on Mr. Cai and his wife while he was ill in bed, which made his condition worsen. Mr. Cai's wife Zhu Cai'e was imprisoned in a labour camp for two years.
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• Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Xingguo, His Wife and Daughter Detained and Persecuted

  2008-09-01
  Husband and wife Zhang Xingguo and Zhang Shuqing are Falun Gong practitioners. For many years now, they have been forced into homelessness in order to avoid persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After the CCP began its persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Zhang has been targeted by the police many times because he tells people about his positive experiences with the practice. Once when he was detained, he went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. As a result, the guards pulled his hair, slammed his head against the wall and then brutally force-fed him. Mr. Zhang's mouth bled profusely and he lost a lot of hair. Ms. Zhang Shuqing was arrested for distributing fliers about Falun Gong and the persecution and imprisoned for two years at the Shuanghe "Re-education" Camp.
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• Ms. Zhang Lianying Taken to an Unknown Location to Avoid Potential Investigation by International Reporters

  2008-09-01
  Ms. Zhang Lianying is a Falun Gong practitioner who resides in Chaoyang District, Beijing. In July 2008, she was secretly taken to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Other practitioners were taken there with her. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents were afraid that international reporters would try to investigate who was being incarcerated during the Olympics, so they transferred these Falun Gong practitioners to an unknown location. Due to the Olympics, on April 20th, 2008, Ms. Zhang Lianying and her husband, Mr. Niu Jinping, were arrested at the door of their home.
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• Persecution of Practitioners in Shiyan City, Hubei Province in July and August of 2008

  2008-09-01
  In July and August of 2008, officers from the Shiyan City Police Department in Hubei Province persecuted practitioners and ransacked their homes, using "maintaining security for the Olympics" as an excuse. Around June 19th, 2008, practitioner Ms. Liu Haiyan, a teacher, was arrested and detained because she allegedly distributed and posted Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and was caught on a security camera. The police tried to force her to renounce Falun Gong by saying that the bonuses of all the teachers in her school would be cut if she refused.
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• Older Man from Heilongjiang Province Dies Following Beating in Police Custody

  2008-08-31
  On August 15th, 2007, Clearwisdom.net published a report on Shan Zhenchang, a older man in his sixties, who was severely beaten by city policeman Du Zhanyi, and was in critical condition. The authorities didn't want to bear the responsibility for his impending death, so they released him. The examining doctor found injuries to Mr. Shan's head, dangerously high blood pressure at levels over 200, injuries to his chest and blurred vision. In June 2008, Mr. Shan died as a result of the severe beating.
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• Exposing the Evil Deeds at Xinjin Brainwashing Centre, Sichuan Province

  2008-08-31
  Drugs are mixed with drinking water and food, and sometimes even injected into fruit. After eating these foods, the practitioners have reactions after thirty minutes, and suffer symptoms such as headaches, swollen eyes, fatigue, sleepiness (some people still felt tired and lacked energy after sleeping over ten hours), difficulty breathing, symptoms of angina pectoris, irritability and anguish. This was the reason why some Falun Gong practitioners who were healthy before seemed to have serious illnesses after being detained here for some time.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Cruelly Tortured in Tianjin City Prison

  2008-08-31
  Guard Yang Bowen (male) beat practitioner Mr. Wei Guanghua until he was no longer able to walk because of a hip injury. Yang Bo (male) is a section leader who has boasted about being a key person in the torture of practitioners. He has tortured Mr. Cai Lirong and locked him in a small cell for a long time until Mr. Cai became mentally confused. In order to brainwash practitioners, guards also make use of a boom box turned on high volume that plays fabricated stories slandering Falun Gong. They also sometimes punish practitioners by forcing them to stand upright for long periods of time until their feet are swollen. The cursing and beating of practitioners has become routine.
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• 600,000 Yuan in Cash Taken After Family of Five Detained

  2008-08-31
  According to inside sources, nearly 5000 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested and persecuted in Liaoning Province in July this year. In Tangshan City, Hebei Province, a family of five Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Zhang Yueqing, husband Mr. He Yixing, their two daughters and one son-in-law, were recently arrested. Their homes were ransacked and their property and cash totalling over 600,000 yuan were confiscated. A happy and harmonious family was torn apart due to the persecution.
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• Mr. Tan Zhiyang, Thirty-Six Years Old, Dies with Knife-Scar on Lower Back

  2008-08-30
  Mr. Tan Zhiyang was detained nine times after the persecution started in July 1999 and had to leave his job. On May 14th, 2004, the police arrested Mr. Tan and sentenced him to five years in prison. He was tortured until he was injured all over his body, his lower back showing an incision-like wound, and he almost died. On February 17th, 2008, the Prison Administration notified Mr. Tan's family to pick him up. Only two days later, on February 19th, 2008, he died at the young age of 36. His family visited him one month before his death. He told them his lower back felt very uncomfortable, and he had many injuries.
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• Ms. Su Changlan Died as a Result of Persecution

  2008-08-30
  On September 12th, 2007, police arrested Ms. Su Changlan, 51, along with 20 other practitioners. Soon after, the Jining City Zhong District Police Department sentenced Ms. Su to three years of forced labour, and they planned to take her to the Jinan Women's Forced Labour Camp. Due to brutal mistreatment, Ms. Su became suddenly ill with hepatitis, and she was rejected by the labour camp. Despite Ms. Su's severe condition, police officers still came to her home to harass her, which caused huge mental pressure. She became worse and worse, and after being hospitalized for a month, she still had not recovered. She died in March 2008.
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• Mr. Zhao Peijie Became Mentally Ill and Passed Away Due to Persecution

  2008-08-30
  Mr. Zhao Peijie was from Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. He was detained in a mental hospital by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for two years and became mentally ill as a result. Moreover, he was forced to take some medicine which destroyed his central nervous system. Afterwards, he wandered around for several years. On June 28th, 2008, when his younger sister was getting married, he passed away in the wilderness at the age of 32.
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• Shandong Province: Police Arrest Peasant Woman, No Release Before the End of Olympic Games

  2008-08-30
  In recent days, a group of police officers from the Chaocheng Police Station in Shen County, Shandong Province have arrested many Falun Gong practitioners from Wang Village of Chaocheng Town. Practitioner Qing Yun from that village has been sent to the Shen County Detention Centre. The police claimed that she would not be released until the Olympic Games are over. Previously Ms. Song Qiuping had been sentenced to three years of forced labour.
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