Exposing the Persecution

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• Father and Son Arrested after Police Besiege their Home for Four Days in Anqui City, Shandong Province

  2007-12-30
  On November 2nd, 2007, a dozen officers from Anqiu City "Anti-Cult" Division Armed Force Bureau, went to Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Jingping's home to arrest him. Mr. Xu and his son were at home but refused to open the door. For rour days the police continually pounded on the door until they finally broke it and arrested them. Mr. Xu's family went to the office of the Armed Force Bureau and demanded their release. The officers claimed that they had not arrested them, even denied ever seeing them.
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• Dongcheng District Police Hospital Officials in Beijing Torture a Practitioner in Her 70's

  2007-12-29
  I am an elderly Falun Gong practitioner in my 70s . When I distributed leaflets exposing the persecution in Beijing in October 2000, patrol officers arrested me. I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour and held in the Dongcheng District No.1 Detention Centre, where I developed high blood pressure, as high as 220. I also developed arrhythmia and high blood sugar of 13.8, and I was close to death. They brutally handcuffed me to a bed, with my hands and feet fixed to the four corners of the bed. The police took me to the Dongcheng Police Hospital. I did not get treatment there, but was tortured instead.
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• Acheng District Court in Harbin City Holds a Secret Trial for Mr. Huang Tiebo

  2007-12-29
  Mr. Huang Fujun and Mr. Huang Tiebo, both practitioners from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, were arrested on July 24th, 2007, and detained at the Acheng City No.1 Detention Centre. Mr. Huang Fujun was tortured to death on November 6th, 2007. Personnel from the Acheng District Police, from the Procuratorate, the court, and from the 610 Office were afraid of their crimes being exposed. They convened a secret trial for Huang Tiebo on November 15th that was originally scheduled for November 27th. Personnel from the court informed the lawyer, but they forbade him from informing the practitioner's family. He notified the practitioner's family after the trial.
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• Older Ms. Liu Shurong from Qiqihar City Tortured by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Police with "Five Horses Splitting the Body"

  2007-12-29
  57-year-old Ms. Liu Shurong was arrested at home by police. They tortured her using "hands cuffed from behind," sitting on the iron chair, "slapping her face," and "burning with cigarettes." Most cruelly, she was tortured with a method called "Five Horses Splitting the Body." In this torture method, the persecutors stretch a practitioner's arms and tie them to each side of the top bunk bed. Then the practitioner's legs are split apart and her feet tied to the legs of the bed (over 6 feet apart). A sheet is then tied around the practitioner's waist and pulled to and fixed at another bed across the room.
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• Cases of Persecution in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province

  2007-12-29
  Nine practitioners have been detained in the First Custodial Station in Lingyuan City, for nearly four months. The police did not allow their families to visit nor to send clothes. Some of the practitioners have been severely beaten, tortured, and deprived of sleep. Inside the ward, practitioners could only buy light jackets that do not provide much insulation from the cold. The guards have beat, tied up, and abused the practitioners and subjected them to hunger and the cold at will.
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• Ms. Xu Hui From Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Arrested; Family Members Prohibited from Visiting Her

  2007-12-28
  Ms. Xu Hui, a practitioner from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, was arrested on July 20th, 2007, after displaying a banner on Tiananmen Square. that read "The Chinese Communists Are Harvesting Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners." She is currently imprisoned in the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. Her son, Cai Chao, was also arrested. Over the ensuring four and a half months, Ms. Xu's husband has gone to Beijing three times and Masanjia twice, but he has not been able to meet her. Her family is very worried about her.
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• Mr. Feng Zhigang Imprisoned in the Tianhe District Detention Centre in Guangzhou

  2007-12-28
  On September 23rd, 2007, Mr. Feng Zhigang, a practitioner was arrested and is currently being held at the Tianhe Detention Centre. Mr. Feng's family is extremely worried, especially since authorities have provided no word on his condition and have continually denied their visitation requests. Mr. Feng is still suffering from internal injuries he sustained when he was persecuted on previous occasions. His family informed the relevant offices in Guangzhou of his condition and made numerous requests that he be released on bail for medical reasons. Their requests have all been denied.
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• The Persecution of Mr. Guo Shunqiang in Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp

  2007-12-28
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Shunqiang from Haidian District, Beijing was arrested at home by police on April 20th, 2006. He was then sent to Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp. In order to "transform" him, the labour camp police lock Mr. Guo Shunqiang in a single cell where he is allowed to sleep only 3 to 4 hours every night. The inmates, incited by the guards, verbally abuse him and beat him every day. They force him to sit on a small stool specially designed for a child, which is only six inches tall. They tie his legs and feet together, resulting in his upper and lower legs being forced to bend to less than 90 degrees. His hands are forced to be held on his knees and his back is forced to remain straight. He is then forced to stay in this motionless posture for long periods of time and is forbidden to move any part of his body. If he moves, the inmates will beat him and verbally abuse him.
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• Practitioner Ms. Han Shufen sent to Brainwashing Centre in Chengde Three Times

  2007-12-28
  In September 2001, Dafa practitioner Ms. Han Shufen was taken to a brainwashing centre against her will. In November 2001, Han Shufen went to Beijing to speak up for Dafa. She was arrested in Tiananmen Square. Han Shufen then went on hunger strike to protest. She was arrested again and sent to Chengde brainwashing centre. There she was beaten and force fed. As a result Han Shufen continued to spit blood for more than twenty days, and her hands and feet became dark blue. During the night she escaped from a window. In June 2003, Han Shufen was kidnapped for the third time by the State Security Division. They sent Han Shufen to Hebei Province's Gaoyang Labour Camp.
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• Weifang Communist Agents Detain and Brutally Torture Li Tianmin and All Five Members of His Family

  2007-12-27
  Li Tianmin and his family live in Weifang City, Shandong Province. They are all Falun Gong practitioners. On October 11th, 2007, all five of Mr. Li's family members and relatives were once again arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government officials. At present, Mr. Li Tianmin is being detained in the Weifang Detention Centre; his wife, Ms. Lou Hongmei, has been sentenced to two years of forced labour and is in the notorious Wang Village Forced Labour Camp; and his mother-in-law was detained in the 610 Office in Weifang awaiting brainwashing sessions. While detained, she was tortured, and her former illnesses relapsed and she was sent home. Li Tianmin's brother-in-law was also sentenced to two years of forced labour and detained in Zhangqiu Forced Labour Camp. His sister-in-law was also detained in a detention centre but has been released.
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• Facts of the Persecution inside Zuanqian Company at Shengli Oilfield

  2007-12-27
  The employees who are practitioners have been lied to and threatened, their homes ransacked, and have been incarcerated in sub-zero temperatures, subjected to face slapping, attacks with electric stun batons, and deprivation of food and sleep. They have also been punched and kicked, force-fed with hard liquor, imprisoned for extended periods of time, forced to stand for long hours, chained to water pipes for long hours, financially extorted, etc. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staff members have threatened to fire Falun Gong practitioners if they should refuse to renounce Falun Gong.
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• Several Practitioners on Hunger Strike to Protest the Persecution in the Second Prison of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

  2007-12-27
  Mr. Zhang Peng was sentenced to seven years in prison by Liaoyang City Court for making leaflets exposing the persecution. Guards of Shenyang City Second Prison conducted a body search on Mr. Zhang looking for Falun Gong materials. To protest the persecution, Mr. Zhang started a hunger strike on November 28th, 2007. Mr. Li Shujun also went on a hunger strike the same day. Another practitioner, Mr. Meng Hua of Fushun City, detained in a different ward, went on hunger strike to protest the persecution, too.
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• Police from Mencun Town Police Station in Pingdu City, Shandong Province, Harassed and Arrested Many Falun Gong Practitioners

  2007-12-27
  In the autumn of 2005, Ms. Feng Yuping was arrested at a market and taken to the Pingdu City 610 Office for brainwashing. Without any criminal evidence, she was admitted to the Zibo City Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province for one and a half years. Ms. Feng Yuping's mind has become dazed due to the torture. Also in 2005, police from Mencun Town Police Station and the staff from the Pingdu City 610 Office arrested Ms. Guo Huisheng. She was tortured at the Pingdu City 610 Office for two months. Her family had several thousand yuan extorted from them in exchange for her release.
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• A Practitioner in Her 70s Arrested Six Times in Six Years for Exposing the Persecution

  2007-12-26
  I'm 75 years old and live in Daying County, Sichuan Province. I began to practise Falun Gong in June 1998. Many illnesses that I used to have disappeared without a trace. Since July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been relentless in persecuting Falun Gong. I've been distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong for the past eight years. Almost every year they have come to ransack my house and arrest me. Duringone arrest a policeman shouted at me: "How dare you go against the CCP! We will beat you to death."
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• Mr. Sun Hongkai Sent to Labour Camp After Completing a Four-Year Prison Term

  2007-12-26
  Mr. Sun Hongkai, a practitioner in his 30s, was sentenced to four years in prison for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. He was released at the end of 2006. At the beginning of 2007, he went to Beijing to support himself by doing odd jobs. The police suspected that he had come to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa, so they arrested him and sent him to a labour camp for a two-and-a-half year term.
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