Exposing the Persecution

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• Two Practitioners Die from Illnesses after Being Detained and Abused in Fushun City and Xinjiang

  2008-05-31
  Mr. Lu Tingxiao was 66 years old. He started practising Falun Gong in 1997. In October of 1999, Mr. Lu went to Beijing to appeal for a stop to the persecution of Falun Gong. After he came back, his workplace sent him to a brainwashing centre and he was fined before he was released. Mr. Lu was detained several times afterwards and his home was ransacked many times. In May of 2007, while Mr. Lu was in Hainan Province, he was sent to another brainwashing centre. During detention, he showed symptoms of severe illness. Mr. Lu passed away on March 31st, 2008.
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• Two Older Practitioners Ms. Zeng Suqiong and Ms. Wang Yufeng Die as a Result of Persecution

  2008-05-31
  Ms. Zeng Suqiong, 50, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Leshan City, Sichuan Province. She was arrested many times for persisting in Falun Gong practice. For a long while, she led a destitute and homeless life. When she was arrested again in 2002, she was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp and detained in the Longquan Women's Prison in Sichuan Province, or Chuanxi Women's Prison. Her husband divorced her and took away their son and all of their property. After she was released in 2006, she was homeless, and had to live in an elderly residential home. She was the only female in the home. Even so, she was monitored and harassed by local police officers. She passed away in June 2007.
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• Additional Information about Mr. Gu Qun's Death at the Hands of the Police in Liaoning Province

  2008-05-31
  Mr. Gu Qun was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He was arrested five times and later sent to a forced labour camp. While Mr. Gu was distributing Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution on March 16th, 2008, he was arrested by police and taken to the Yaojia Detention Centre the next day. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was violently force-fed, which permanently damaged his health. He died within 23 days after being arrested for the fifth time.
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• Additional Information on Mr. Bai Heguo, Beaten to Death in Liaoning Province

  2008-05-30
  On December 19th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Bai Heguo was transferred from Huazi Prison to Nanguanling Prison. Because he refused to do forced labour, guard Zhang Shuyi ordered prisoner Zhou to beat Mr. Bai in an office and then handcuffed him to the heating pipe. Mr. Bai's head was beaten beyond recognition, and his eyes were only a slit due to the swelling. When the guards found that he was dying, they took him to the hospital for emergency care, but he had died by the time he made it to the hospital.
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• Elderly Practitioner Dies as a Result of Persecution at Renshou County Brainwashing Centre in Sichuan Province

  2008-05-30
  According to witnesses, at 9 a.m. on July 9th, 2006, Ye Changdong, the head of Wenlin Town Police Station, put on plain-clothes and went with 20 others to force a female practitioner in her 70s to the emergency room on the third floor of Renshou County Hospital. The elderly practitioner sat on the edge of the bed for a little while and seemed to be in a lot of pain. The police told her to lie down. With one hand on her abdomen, she lay down on her side. A while later, Yang Changdong noticed that the woman was dying, so he got a doctor to do artificial respiration. It was only about three or four hours from the time she was taken into Emergency until her death. During that time, no one examined her. The doctor said that there was no record made of her visit.
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• Practitioners Tortured in Chengdu City Legal Education Centre, Elderly Ms. Deng Shufen Dies

  2008-05-30
  Ms. Deng Shufen, in her 70s, was arrested and detained eight times after the persecution started. On October 1st, 2007, she went to speak out for justice for Falun Gong to the town government. In the middle of that night officers arrested Ms. Deng and took her to the Chengdu City Legal Education Centre (a brainwashing centre) for 40 days. She was released after she could not eat as a result of the mental and physical torture. She was as thin as a skeleton, and her eyes remained wide open for two months. She died on May 5th, 2008.
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• Mr. Jin Yongnan from Tumen City, Jilin Province, Dies As a Result of Torture

  2008-05-30
  Mr. Jin Yongnan, a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally mistreated in forced labour camps for years. In 2004 police arrested him again at home and confiscated Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution. The police tried to make him reveal the source of his materials by torturing him. From that afternoon on, the police beat him six days and six nights in a row, deprived him of sleep, and put a steel hat on his head so that two people could take turns beating it with a wooden bat. The bat snapped, his head bled and swelled, and every part of his body was damaged. In Jiutai Forced Labour Camp and suffered even more cruel torture, including the "stretching bed" and "swinging." Due to suffering from long-term torture Mr. Jin passed away on May 3rd, 2008.
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• Mr. Jiang Chengjiu and His Wife Li Fengqin Died as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province in 2004

  2008-05-29
  Ms. Li died as a result of the persecution in 2004, and her husband Mr. Jiang died in 2006 as a result of the persecution. Mr. Jiang Chengjiu was sent to Suihua City Forced Labour Camp for a two-year term. He was released in 2003. On September 3rd, 2004, police again sentenced him to three years of forced labour. His wife died about two weeks later. Mr. Jiang refused to succumb to the brainwashing. Guards cruelly tortured him, causing him to go deaf in on ear, and his legs and buttocks were covered with bruises. He died on November 15th, 2006.
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• Crimes Committed at "Sunshine Work Station" in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province

  2008-05-29
  The 610 Office in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, pursues the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) regime's directives to persecute Falun Gong. They use all kinds of excuses to arrest and detain practitioners. They employ people who have already been brainwashed to brainwash others. They entice them with a certain amount of profit to attempt to "transform" practitioners who have been detained. Those who went astray and were brainwashed have themselves been confined in forced labour camps and many even tortured. They know exactly how it feels to be tortured. After they went astray, they copied the methods used against them and employed them at brainwashing centres, strengthening the persecution.
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• Older Mr. Teng Zhiduo Dies as a Result of Persecution in Hebei Province

  2008-05-29
  Mr. Teng Zhiduo, 62, became very healthy after he began practising Falun Gong in 1998. However, since the persecution started in July 1999, the police arrested and detained him many times. The most severe case occurred in autumn 2004 when police officers arrested Mr. Teng while he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. They detained him for two months and subjected him to numerous tortures. On March 24th, 2008, Mr. Teng Zhiduo fell. His family took him to the hospital, but he quietly passed away, never having recovered from the tortures he experienced for refusing to give up his belief in Falun Gong.
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• Older Mr. Tang Cibao Died from Effects of Persecution in Hunan Province

  2008-05-29
  In May 2006, agents of the Yongzhou City Domestic Security Division ransacked Mr. Tang Cibao's home and took his computer, printer, TV, and cash. He was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. In January 2007, someone reported that Mr. Tang had returned to his home. Officer Feng Defu arrested him on February 2nd, 2007, and took him to Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp to serve a two year term. Mr. Tang lost 70 pounds due to the brutal mistreatment. He had no energy to talk, and developed serious liver disease. The Camp Administration ordered his family to pick him up in October 2007, and he died on May 13th, 2008.
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• More Than a Dozen Practitioners Arrested in Benxi City, Liaoning Province

  2008-05-28
  On April 23rd, 2008, police officers from the Benxi City Police Department in Liaoning Province arrested local practitioners during a well-coordinated operation. Some officers said that the operation and the list of practitioners were from the Liaoning Provincial government. A dozen officers from Jinshan Police Station knocked on the door of practitioner Mr. Zi Lidong, who is in his 30s, and pretended to be plumbers. Mr. Zi's family told them to wait until the following day. The officers started to pound on the door until they broke it. Mr. Zi jumped from the third floor to escape. Unfortunately he injured his chest, hip, and leg, and was sent to the hospital for an operation.
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• The Brutal Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Hu Rulian from Leshan City, Sichuan Province

  2008-05-28
  Ms. Hu Runlian, 52, started practising Falun Gong in July 1997, and gradually her many illnesses disappeared. When the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution, Hu Runlian went to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. However, she was arrested and detained, and her home and belongings were confiscated. She was dismissed by her company, and after being detained at a forced labour camp she was sentenced to prison. Every day the guards forced Ms. Hu to watch a video and read a book that slandered Falun Gong. She was forced to stand facing the wall for long periods of time and the drug addicts and collaborators, who were former practitioners who had renounced Falun Gong, read the book slandering Falun Gong to her.
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• Mr. Wang Zengwu Arrested in Siping City, Jilin Province

  2008-05-28
  At about 9:00 pm, on April 23rd, 2008, police officers along with agents from the National Security, 10 individuals turned off the power switch located in the hallway outside Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Zengwu's apartment. He opened his door to see if he could fix the problem by turning the power switch on. They took advantage of the open door to enter, ransacked his home, and took his computer. Mr. Wang Zengwu was arrested and detained for 15 days. Now he is detained in the Shuangliao City Detention Centre. He was sentenced to prison in 2002 and was fired from his job, only because he practised Falun Gong.
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• Ms. Xu Shuqin Sentenced to Four and a Half Years by the Zunhua City Court, Hebei Province

  2008-05-28
  On April 17th, 2008, six Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Xu Shuqin, were unjustly tried by the Zunhua City Court in Hebei Province. The court appointed one lawyer for each practitioner for a mock defence. On April 24th, 2008, after the court session, the Zunhua City Court sentenced the six practitioners, including Ms. Xu, who was sentenced to four and a half years. She has already appealed to the Tangshan City Intermediate People's Court. She was previously detained, tortured and suffered brainwashing. Her family was ordered to take her home and pay five thousand yuan.
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