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 Mr. Li Zengfeng of Guan County, Shandong Province Dies Shortly After Release from Brainwashing Centre

  2008-08-11
  On March 7th, 2008, police and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials arrested practitioner Mr. Li Zengfeng and his wife Ms. Xu Qiaoyun and sent them to the Guan County Detention Centre. Mr. Li Zengfeng was sentenced to forced labour and transferred to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp on April 11th, 2008. The officials at the labour camp refused to accept Mr. Li because he had high blood pressure and a heart disorder. His overall health was in poor condition and police sent Mr. Li to the Liaocheng brainwashing centre. Soon after his release from the brainwashing centre, Mr. Li became critically ill and died at the age of 44 years old. On July 13th, 2008, his body was cremated.
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• Ms. Han Fenglan Dies after Suffering Mental Collapse as Result of Persecution

  2008-08-10
  Ms. Han Fenglan, in her 50s, lived in Heilongjiang Province. Because she refused to give up her faith in Falun Gong, at the end of 2006, she was arrested twice by police officers from the town station and the county department. She was threatened and tortured in the Fuyu County Police Department, which caused her to suffer a mental collapse. After her release, she lived in terror, constantly telling others that officers were following her, and hid under a blanket in terror. She was found dead at her home on July 18th, 2008, apparently from a self-inflicted hanging.
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• Jilin Province Authorities Intensified the Persecution Before the Arrival of the Olympic Torch Relay

  2008-08-10
  Before the Olympics Torch Relay reached Jilin Province on July 15th, 2008, the authorities intensified the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They arrested many practitioners and did not spare anyone, not even practitioners in their 70s. At 11 p.m. on July 13th, 2008, Jilin City Police Department in Jilin Province sent out at least four police cars and a van to forcefully take away Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners arrested included Mr. Li Zhanxin in his 70s, his wife Feng Fengyun (age 71) as well as their son Mr. Li Wenjun (age 42). It was reported that Mr. Li Wenjun is currently being incarcerated at the No. 3 Detention Centre of Jilin City. The older couple Li Zhanxin and Feng Fengyun are being detained in a brainwashing class.
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• Xingtai Police Set to Sentence Adolescent Girls Wang Hui and Wang Tong

  2008-08-10
  On June 17th, 2008, in the name of Olympics security, police officials broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Feng Chao. Ms. Feng was not home at the time so she escaped the raid. Nonetheless five of Ms. Feng's family members were arrested, including her mother who is in her seventies, her brother who had came to visit their mother, her husband, and their twin daughters. There were also visitors to the house that day and they were arrested as well. All five family members are now in detention and being persecuted. Xingtai Police Bureau has submitted the case to the Provincial Office for sentencing. The family is charged with producing Falun Gong materials for distribution. The twin girls are just 17 years old. They are suffering from both mental and physical trauma and drastic weight loss.
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• Account of Persecution in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison

  2008-08-10
  Ms. Li Ling was arrested twice for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling the Jinzhou City Political and Legal Committee Party Secretary the facts about Falun Gong and that Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. She was sentenced to four years in prison. One day after work, she cried out, "Falun Gong is good!" They confined her to an isolated cell, and the prison guards ordered prisoner Zhang Chun'e to guard her. Zhang was in her 20's, and she was very cruel. She often tied Ms. Li to the bed, taped her mouth shut, slapped her face with a shoe or sat on her stomach. Ms. Li eventually died due to the torture.
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• What Have the Beijing Olympic Games Brought the People in China?

  2008-08-09
  The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are coming. The Olympic Games are supposed to be a good thing, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has turned China upside down on account of it and brought the Chinese people nothing but fear and disaster. On July 25th, 2008, police in Wanquan County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province arrested Falun Gong practitioners county-wide. Police broke into the homes of practitioners after midnight and arrested them. It has been confirmed that at least 16 practitioners in Wanquan County were arrested on July 25th alone. To prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing, the local authorities ordered employers of practitioners and the local governments to confiscate their IDs by force or lies and have arranged for many people to spy on practitioners, violating their human rights.
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• The Chinese Communist Party's Desperate Attempts to Avoid Losing Face while Hosting the Olympics

  2008-08-09
  According to a reliable source, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently transferred criminal justice students in colleges nationally to Beijing in succession as "servers" and turned taxi drivers in Beijing into armed police. The party claims this is necessary to ensure the safety of the Olympic Games. On the one hand, it exposes how the CCP wants to destroy more people as they kidnap the students and force the taxi drivers into being armed police in the public security system, risking their lives. On the other hand, it exposes the desperate state that the CCP is in, fearing every living thing is their enemy.
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• Police Arrest Practitioners "Because of the Olympics" in Songyuan City, Fuyu County, Jilin Province

  2008-08-09
  Since May 21st, 2008, the police departments of Jilin Province and Songyuan City have been secretly arresting Falun Gong practitioners in Songyuan City and its subordinate district under the pretext of Olympics "security." Many practitioners in Fuyu County have been arrested. On July 11th, Songyuan City and Fuyu County police executed another round of arrests and harassment involving practitioners in Fuyu County.
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• The Xingtai Police and 610 Office Routinely Impose Heavy Fines on Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-08-09
  For nine years, heavy fines have been routinely used by the police and 610 Office agents in Xingtai, Hebei Province as just one of the means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Wu Shuqi, the head of this local National Security Brigade office, pointed at his luxury car and boasted in public, "This vehicle was obtained by soliciting money". He had hired people to spy on Falun Gong practitioners. He often tracks practitioners and brings a camera with him when searching the homes of practitioners who are prosperous. Whenever he finds Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, he extorts heavy fines. In 2007 alone, he extorted heavy fines from over ten practitioners.
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• Ms. Yang Jinying, in Her Fifties, from Baoding City Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2008-08-08
  Ms. Yang Jinying, a Falun Gong practitioner from Baoding City, Hebei Province, was arrested and persecuted many times for practising Falun Gong. On August 7th, 2005, she was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police for tapping into a local television network to broadcast the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was brutally tortured physically and mentally. Later she escaped from the hospital after breaking out of handcuffs, and became destitute and homeless. Her health did not recover and she died on June 21st, 2008.
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• Older Mr. Zhang Lizhu Dies as a Result of Persecution in Henan Province

  2008-08-08
  Mr. Zhang Lizhu, 67, lived in a village in Henan Province. In March 2007, police arrested him and detained him in a detention centre. He was transferred to the Xinmi Prison at the end of 2007 and tortured until his life was in danger. On March 2nd, 2008, his family picked him up, but the Xinmi Prison Administration took him back into custody again after a month. He was later taken home due to his critical condition. He died on July 11th, 2008.
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• Ms. Chi Chunxia Disabled as a Result of the Persecution, Her Husband Sentenced to Forced Labour Once Again

  2008-08-08
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chi Chunxia was arrested in January 2002. While being detained in the Political and Security Section of the city police department, she fell from a building and became disabled. Half of her body was numb, and six of her toes had to be amputated. Domestic Security Division officers arrested her husband on July 28th, 2007, for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. He was imprisoned in Suihua City Forced Labour Camp where he had to work more than 10 hours a day.
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• Ms. Gao Qiying and Her Younger Brother Mr. Gao Guoyuan from Zunyi City, Guizhou Province Imprisoned and Tortured

  2008-08-08
  Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Gao Qiying, who is disabled, and her younger brother Mr. Gao Guoyuan are currently imprisoned separately at the Nanbai Detention Centre in Zunyi City and the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province respectively. Mr. Gao Guoyuan had a mental breakdown from the persecution he suffered at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp. He was tortured by the guards to the point that he was covered with cuts and bruises and his brain was injured, his reactions became slow and he acted like a different person. Because of the imprisonment of Ms. Gao Qiying and Mr. Gao Guoyuan, their two families have lost all sources of income.
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• Mr. Zhong Zhenfu Dies from Cruel Beating in Detention

  2008-08-07
  On May 4th, 2008, Pingdu City 610 Office stormed into houses that were being rented by Falun Gong practitioners as sites producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. They arrested Mr. Zhong Zhenfu. The police forced interrogated him. When he refused to reveal any information the officers poured boiling water over his neck and body. At Pingdu City Detention Centre guards put shackles on Mr. Zhong Zhenfu and whipped him about the head with metal wires. His life was in danger after this abuse. He was then detained in a metal cage, and the guards ordered the criminal inmates to torture him and beat him. The guards sent Zhong Zhenfu to the hospital. The doctor told them that Mr. Zhong's injuries were very serious. He died on July 20th, 2008.
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• Middle School Teacher Han Qingkun, in His Fifties, Dies from Torture in Forced Labour Camp

  2008-08-07
  Mr. Han Qingkun was a teacher in Shandong Province. In 2006, he was doing the Falun Gong exercises in a motel when he was arrested by police and later sentenced to two years of forced labour, which he served in the Xuchang City Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province. During his first two months of detention, he was inhumanly tortured, causing him to develop cirrhosis of the liver. The camp administration didn't notify his family, nor did they allow him to be bailed out on medical parole. They released him when he was dying, on February 17th, 2007. His family could hardly recognize him. His hair and moustache were grey, his abdomen was bloated, and his buttocks flesh had an infected wound. His clothes were all in pieces. He had a high fever and remained unconscious. He died at home, one month after his release, on March 30th, 2007, at the age of fifty-two.
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