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

• The Main Persecutors in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province React After Being Exposed

  2008-07-04
  In March 2008, Sun Tangbin, director of the Economic Security Division at the Taoshan Police Branch in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, was publicly exposed as being a major person responsible for the persecution and arrest of many Falun Gong practitioners. Director of the 610 Office Bi Shuqing threatened, "Do not expose me once I have released you, or I will arrest you again!" One practitioner was threatened as follows, "If your child exposes me, I will arrest you again!" The child had called Bi Shuqing because his mother was arrested, and said that if Bi did not release her, he would expose Bi's crimes on the Internet.
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• Persecution of Older Practitioner Ms. Li Chaoying from Suning County, Hebei Province

  2008-07-04
  Ms. Li Chaoying, 65, went to Beijing to appeal in 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong but was taken back by the local government officials and held for two weeks. The officials deprived her of sleep during that time and tried to force her many times to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Li appealed in Beijing again in 2001. She was taken back and held at the County Detention Centre where she was tortured. She was handcuffed, stretched on the "Death Bed", and frequently beaten.
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• A Family in Xiahuai Town, Pingshan County, Hebei Province, Subjected to Ruthless Persecution

  2008-07-03
  Ms. Qi Suqin, 35, went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in December 2000 and was arrested and sent to a detention centre. Guards locked a dozen people in a small room that had only one large metal board bed. At night, if the guards discovered practitioners doing the Falun Gong exercises, they would order people to bring several basins of cold water to throw on the practitioners. Water ran all over the bed. The guards then turned on a fan to freeze the practitioners. In the winter, the radiator in the room was cold.
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• Changchun Police Station Sets up Background Check Office to Screen for Olympics Ticket holders

  2008-07-03
  The Changchun Police Station has established a background check office in order to protect the Beijing Olympics. The office's activities include ID examination, review of relationships and backgrounds of coaches, athletes, volunteers, officers and individuals who plan to attend the Olympic games. One of their focal points is to identify Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives. State Security Brigade officers provide a list of practitioners and their social connections, and then monitor the people they've identified. If any of these people are Falun Gong practitioners or their relatives, they are disqualified from attending the Olympic games.
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• Mr. Liu Haibin of Tianjin Arrested Again by 610 Office Personnel

  2008-07-03
  On May 26th, 2008, Mr. Liu Haibin was arrested by police officers and is being held in the Dongli District Detention Centre. According to inside information, ever since his arrest on May 26th, he has been on a hunger strike in protest. He has spoken only three sentences: "Falun Gong is good. 'Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance' is good. I am innocent." Back in October of 2000, Mr. Liu was sentenced to four years in prison for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. While in prison, he suffered various forms of torture for not giving up his belief.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Laishui County, Hebei Province

  2008-07-03
  After the Sichuan earthquake, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) County Council and the local government, 610 Office, Public Security Bureau, National Security Team, and all levels of village and town Party committees created a special squad dedicated to arresting and harassing Falun Gong practitioners under the pretext of "protecting the Olympics." They used a list of practitioners from 1999. Moreover, the local television station was used to manipulate local citizens into monitoring and reporting practitioners, and promised, at least in name, a reward of 5,000 yuan for each report.
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• Mr. Yang Weihua Dies in Harbin City as Result of Being Tortured in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

  2008-07-02
  Mr. Yang Weihua, 35, was arrested and detained three times in the past nine years. On June 27th, 2003, Mr. Yang and ten other practitioners entered Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. Guard Zhao Shuang (male) led a group of assistants to shock all the practitioners with electric batons for three hours. Guards tortured practitioners by almost suffocating them with plastic bags, shocking them with electric batons, brutally beating them, locking them in a "Small Cell". After being released, Mr. Yang's health worsened and he was in critical condition several times. He died on June 5th, 2008.
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• Additional Information on the Arrests of Ms. Dong Xuexia and Mr. Liu Fenglin by Officers from the Zhaoyuan Ranch Police Department in Daqing City

  2008-07-02
  In September 2007, Ms. Dong Xuexia was arrested by the Nongken Police and taken to the Heping Ranch Detention Centre. During her 50 days of imprisonment, she was brutally tortured, severely beaten, and subjected to electric shocks. She was physically and mentally tormented to such a great extent that all of her hair fell out. The police did not let her leave until she was mentally traumatized. On June 5th, 2008, several officers from the Ranch Police Station again arrested Ms. Dong before she had completely regained her sanity. She is now detained in Heping Ranch Detention Centre.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Qin Sichao Arrested in Linjiang City, Jilin Province

  2008-07-02
  Mr. Qin Sichao, 53, suffers from heart disease. Believing a Falun Gong amulet could cure his illness, Mr. Qin hung one in his car. Someone informed the police of this and on May 21st, 2008, Mr. Qin was tricked into going to the Linjiang building, where he was arrested and taken to Linjiang Detention Centre. On June 5th, 2008, Qin Sichao was sentenced to one year of forced labour. Mr. Qin's wife has not received any information regarding her husband.
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• Investigation Lead: The People's Hospital in Linyi City Conducts Many Kidney Transplants and Covers Up Its Sources for Organs

  2008-07-02
  The horrifying discovery of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and the immediate cremation of their bodies to destroy the evidence was first reported on March 4th, 2006. The Falun Gong Association and the Minghui and Clearwisdom websites started the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG). CIPFG is collecting evidence from people who have come forward with information and is calling on people who know the truth to further reveal the details of the crimes concerning illegal organ harvesting in China. We call on all people of conscience to help expose the facts of this vicious persecution of Falun Gong practitioners inside secret concentration camps, forced labour camps, prisons, and hospitals in China.
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• Practitioner Ms. Li Qingqing Dies from the Torture She Received in Fujian Women's Prison

  2008-07-01
  On December 30th, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Qingqing was taken back to her family in Fu'an City six months prior to the end of her five-year prison sentence. At that time, she was in very poor health. She was unable to walk or lift her left arm. Once, in Fujian Province Women prison Ms. Li was taken to a pitch-dark room where she was hung with her arms handcuffed and only her toes touching the ground for six days straight and another twenty-four days with her arms stretched horizontally. During these many days of horrible torture, she went on a hunger strike against the persecution for ten days. Seeing that she looked near-death, the Fujian Women's Prison sent her home to avoid taking any responsibility. She died six months later.
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• Nanjing Practitioner Zhang Xuefeng and His Family Have Been Persecuted for Seven Years

  2008-07-01
  Mr. Zhang Xuefeng was arrested in February, 2001. He was then sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment. Mr. Zhang has now been imprisoned for seven years, during which time his family has been persecuted in other ways as well. These past seven years have been a time of great stress for Mr. Zhang's 14-year-old soon. During the SARS epidemic in 2003, his grandfather was taken away to a brainwashing centre while both his parents were in prison. Only nine years old at the time, he had to get to school by himself. Because of the long-term persecution of the whole family, the boy is easily scared by the ring of a phone or a knock on the door.
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• A Former "Model Worker" in Qiqihar City Repeatedly Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the Past Nine Years

  2008-07-01
  Over the past nine years, I have been detained, arrested, harassed, and sent to a forced labour camp. In August 2000, in Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp I was taken to a solitary cell. On the floor was a layer of wooden boards with an iron ring. There was nothing else in the cell. They had me sit on the wooden boards and handcuffed my hands behind my back and to the iron ring. I could not stretch my back or legs. I was forced to curl up and could not move a bit. When they closed the door, I could not see any sunlight. I could hardly breath. They would keep me from going to sleep for 24 hours around the clock. I was not allowed to wash my face or brush my teeth. Someone would give me two small meals a day and I was always hungry.
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• Shouguang Police in Shandong Province Use Rubber Stick to Torture Practitioner Zhang Zhouyu

  2008-07-01
  On May 23rd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhouyu was arrested and taken to the local police station by approximately 20 police officers. During this time, he was handcuffed, deprived of sleep and beaten to try to force a "confession" from him. On May 25th, the police began to beat Mr. Zhang again. They forced him to sit on the ground with his legs and arms held out straight in front of him. If he could not hold his arms up at an even level, the officers would beat his arms, hands and feet with a rubber stick. After two hours of constant beatings, Mr. Zhang could not sit still.
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• Tsinghua University Ph.D. Student Describes Forced Labour Experience at the Zhuhai Detention Centre

  2008-06-30
  I spent two years at the Zhuhai Detention Centre. During my detention, I produced all kinds of plastic flowers. Some had an electronic device for playing music. In addition, I made colourful lamp strings, and pearl strings, for desk lamps and other uses. All products were exported. As a matter of fact, the prison benefits more from producing items for export, therefore the quotas were continually increased. After I came to the United States, I saw many of these plastic flowers and colourful lamp strings with the label "Made in China" in supermarkets.
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