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

• Practitioner Cheng Zipeng's Whole Family Persecuted in Anlu City, Hubei Province

  2008-08-22
  Communist Party officials sent 46-year-old practitioner Cheng Zipeng to Sanyang Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years in 2001. This labour camp is a living hell. It is the place where drug addicts, criminals, and guards abuse innocent detainees. Team leader Li forced Cheng Zipeng to stand facing a wall for eight hours. He had to stand on one leg in a snowy field. In the morning he had to squat in the military position. In the afternoon he had to sit on a small stool. He was forbidden to speak and use the toilet; forced to do physical labour; and dragged into the toilet by drug addicts who beat and kicked him. This gross abuse caused him to lose consciousness, and thus he was released on medical bail.
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• Zhang Zongquan Persecuted and His Home Ransacked in Fengrun, Tangshan

  2008-08-22
  On July 10th, 2008, police broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zongyuan. Without showing any ID, they ransacked his home, confiscating a motorcycle. Zhang Zongquan is unable to return home, as further persecution would be the almost certain result. In 1999, Zhang Zongquan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but was arrested. Police handcuffed his hands onto the edge of the bed, forced him to kneel down, and kicked him fiercely. In the 610 Office policemen beat practitioners' legs with lengths of wood, even attacking their faces. In the Fengrun Detention Centre policemen tortured practitioners with 'Deadly Strings.' 'Deadly Strings,' is to tie the hands behind the back, tie the whole body, and then hang it up. Generally, people become permanently handicapped within fifteen minutes from this torture.
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• Ms. Wang Jinfeng Suffers Cruel Torture and Abuse at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-08-21
  Practitioner Ms. Wang Jinfeng was arrested and incarcerated at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province on March 5th, 2008. This time she was sentenced to two years of forced labour. On her fifth day she refused to be "reformed". Team leaders handcuffed her and hung her up. They handcuffed Ms. Wang to a metal torture device and stretched her arms. They gagged her and tied her legs to benches and then pulled the benches apart. Wang Jinfeng was in a great pain. Her cries echoed through the building. She could not move her arms, and the handcuffs injured her wrists, cutting into the flesh and exposing the bones.
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• Police Relentlessly Persecute Ms. Liu Jinying, Former Deputy Chief of the Laishui County Appeals Office in Hebei Province, and Her Family

  2008-08-21
  Since the beginning of 2008, the Communist personnel have used the excuse of "cleaning up" for the Olympics Games to further persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Liu Jinying's home was once again ransacked. She was harassed by the police who also confiscated a Falun Gong book. At this time Liu Jinying's husband, Mr. Zhang Dongsheng, is being incarcerated at Shijiazhuang's No. 4 Prison in Hebei Province. Before this, Liu Jinying has been arrested on numerous occasions. She was humiliated and in 2000 she was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment. She has been cruelly tortured at Taixing Prison of Hebei Province, and the No. 2 Women's Prison in Shijiazhuang.
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• Chinese Communist Party in Baoding City Forces Local Businesses to Monitor Their Falun Gong Employees

  2008-08-21
  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Baoding City is forcing the local businesses to participate in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP is using the "stability of the Olympics" as an excuse for this newest wave of persecution. The photo below is a signed agreement between the Baoding Power Company and the CCP. The agreement states that the Baoding Power Company will monitor their employees who practise Falun Gong. The agreement also states that employees must monitor and report their relatives who practise Falun Gong. If they fail to spy on their own families around the clock, seven days a week, they will be fired.
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• Formal Complaints Filed From Practitioners at the Sichuan Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-08-21
  On March 10th, 2008, I was arrested by police. Police woman Gou Yongqiong was violent to wards me, and began slapping me on both sides of my face. She also kicked both of my legs with the boots that she was wearing. She insulted me at the same time, "You , I just want to beat you up." I demanded her name, in the name of justice. Her eyes were filled with anger and she yelled at me, "You listen to this carefully. My name is Gou Yongqiong. You ." Then she left the room, possibly due to being tired from beating and swearing at me. After a while, I heard Li Xia crying loudly, "They are assaulting me. The police are assaulting me. They are beating me to death. You are police for the people. How can you take the people's money and in return beat us up?"
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• Crimes Committed by the Yongji County Police Department, Jilin Province, in the Lead up to the Olympic Games

  2008-08-20
  The Yongji County Political and Judiciary Committee, the 610 Office, the local police department, the State Security Division, and police officers from the Chengnan, Chengbei, and Chengxi police departments, all took part in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The police arrested Mr. Zhu Yeguang, Ms. Sun Xiaomei, and Ms. Zhang Fengrong. Mr. Zhu and Ms. Sun were detained for fifteen days. After police extorted 10,000 and 20,000 yuan from them, respectively, they were released. Ms. Zhang's family is very poor; they barely have enough to eat. Yet, State Security Division chief, Wang Shuxiang, told them: "If you have money, we'll release Ms. Li, otherwise we'll send her to a forced labour camp."
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• Some Authorities in Liaoning Province Use the Means of Not Registering Residency to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-08-20
  The Xiangdong Chemical Factory in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province was shut down in 2006. The factory leaders decided to relocate their workers. A portion of the workers were relocated to the Bayuquan Development Zone in Yingkou City. Up until March of this year there were over 3,000 families whose residencies were registered in the new location. However, a portion of Falun Gong practitioners were unable to get their residency registered. This means that their basic rights and benefits as residents of that area were totally taken away from them. In China, without valid registered residency, you cannot apply for a residence identity card. Without the registered residency and identity card, you cannot go to school or apply for jobs.
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• Retired Senior Engineer from Handan Steel Company Arrested Again

  2008-08-20
  Retired senior engineer Qin Zhongke, 65, and his wife were arrested on July 15th, 2008 by police officers. Mr. Qin Zhongke is being detained in the No. 1 Detention Centre in Handan City. His wife has been released. previously, Mr. Qin Zhongke was detained in Handan Labour Camp. From July 2nd to 23rd, 2002, Mr. Qin was deprived of sleep, was forced to stand for long periods of time under the baking sun, and was forced to stand day and night. His legs and feet became extremely swollen, he could not walk and he became very weak. In order to stop the brutal persecution, he began a hunger strike. He was force-fed several times, and his family had to pay the bill. The guards shouted: "Even if you pretend to be 'transformed,' you still have to write the 'repentance statement' before you can go to sleep."
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• Drugs Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners in Fujian Prison

  2008-08-20
  For a long time, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel in the Fujian Prison have persecuted Falun Gong practitioners by forcibly administering or injecting toxic drugs that damage the central nervous system. According to a female fellow practitioner who was detained in the Fujiang Prison for two years, practitioners were asked what kind of illnesses they had before. When they got the answer, they then added some drugs to the practitioners' food to strengthen their physical persecution. If practitioners took these types of drugs for too long, they would feel that their previous illnesses had returned. If practitioners refused to take the medicine, the staff force-fed them.
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• High School Student Held Hostage by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province

  2008-08-19
  It has been reported that Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Haohong from Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province escaped from the brainwashing centre where she had been held captive for more than nine months. Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials were alarmed and in return took Wang Haohong's son, who is studying in high school, as a hostage. Family members are worried about the safety of the child.
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Name of the Olympics

  2008-08-19
  As the Beijing Olympics approached and when the Olympic torch was about to reach Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) escalated its persecution of practitioners in that area. Over the past week, Anping County Police Bureau, the 610 Office, and officials from a number of townships and village harassed, monitored and arrested practitioners, or put them under house arrest. As an excuse for arresting practitioners, they made up false accusations. They claimed that "Falun Gong plans to have a big event, or Falun Gong wants to create social disturbances." Five practitioners from Anping County were arrested, thirteen practitioners' homes were ransacked, two practitioners were forced to become homeless and at least thirty practitioners were harassed.
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• Ms. Gao Shuyu Arrested and Taken to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-08-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Shuyu, 54, has been "sued" by the Chinese communist authorities in the Nanguan District Court on the main charge of "surrounding and attacking the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp" and browsing the Minghui website (The Chinese version of Clearwisdom). Ms. Gao Shuyu had been to the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp to visit practitioner Zhu Shuyun who had been detained since May 9th, 2007. In mid-March 2008, the camp authorities invited Ms. Gao and Ms. Zhu's younger sister for a visit. During the visitation, the camp authorities secretly videotaped the practitioners. Afterwards, Ms. Gao's home and her activities were under police surveillance until she was arrested on April 22nd.
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• Harbin Police Officers Shoot at Practitioners During a Recent Arrest

  2008-08-19
  Between 1:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. on July 29th, 2008, Li Hongde, director of Jiaojie Township Police Station, A'cheng District, Harbin City and several police officers tried to arrest Falun Gong practitioners who were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Gunshots were fired by the police during the arrest. Practitioners Zhu Yumei and Wang Kun were taken into custody. Both practitioners are currently detained at the A'cheng No. 2 Detention Centre. It was rumoured that the officials from the local "610 office" and the Domestic Security Division are trying to make a big deal out of this case.
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• Many Practitioners Detained Recently in Fuyu County, Heilongjiang Province

  2008-08-18
  On July 10th, 2008, police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Song Xinhua's home and took her to the Friendship Police Station. They locked her onto heating pipes and several policemen took turns beating her. On July 12th, police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Qing's house, took her to the Friendship Police Station, stole her computer, printer, CD burner, binding equipment and also took the 500 yuan in her pocket. Later, police beat her and detained her in the detention centre.
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