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• Mr. Shi Geng Persecuted at Zhangshi Brainwashing Centre in Shenyang City

  2010-10-26
  Five police officers broke into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shi Geng's home on September 26th. They ransacked his home and confiscated Falun Gong books, and other personal property. Later, the same day, six police officers broke into Mr. Shi's home again and arrested him. He was sent to the Zhangshi Brainwashing Centre in Shenyang City, where he was brutally persecuted. Mr. Shi was previously arrested in May 2007, and subsequently framed in court and sentenced to a three-year prison term. He was brutally persecuted while in detention.
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• Elementary School Teacher Ms. Hu Lianhua Dies in Detention, Just One Month after Being Arrested

  2010-10-25
  Elementary school teacher Ms. Hu Lianhua refused to give up practising Falun Gong and was arrested and tortured many times by government agencies. Ms. Hu died in detention on October 2nd, just a month after she was arrested again. Hu Lianhua went to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in Beijing in 2000 and was fired by the Department of Education in Yanshan after she returned home. Ms. Hu was arrested four times in the following nine years. In August 2008, Ms. Hu was arrested while she was giving out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Ms. Hu was not released until she was in critical condition as a result of torture.
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• Ms. Li Xiuqin in Critical Condition After Being Persecuted

  2010-10-25
  Ms. Li Xiuqin from Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested by police on July 1st, 2010, when she was on her way to Jixiang Township. They took her to the Tangyuan Detention Centre, where she has been held for the past three months. Ms. Li was brutally force-fed at the detention centre, and nearly died due to the torture she received. She has been repeatedly sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. As a result of the torture she received, Ms. Li remained bedridden for a long period of time and could not take care of herself. She has lost a lot of weight.
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• The Personal Account of the Abuse and Torture Ms. Lu Quilin From Heilongjiang Province Was Subjected To

  2010-10-25
  Since 1999 when the communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong, I have been continually subjected to mistreatment many times. When I was detained in Hongxinglong Detention Centre police officers came to the detention centre to interrogate me. I refused to co-operate with them and tore up the interrogation form. Both of them grabbed me and beat me frenziedly. They grabbed me by my hair and slammed my head against the wall. They viciously kicked me with their leather shoes and slapped my face with their hands.
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• Accounts of Harrowing Persecution at Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, Guangdong Province

  2010-10-25
  Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, incomplete statistics have so far revealed that more than 1,000 practitioners have been persecuted in the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. When Guard Lan Yuanhang saw Mr. Pan Zhihao practising the Falun Gong exercises from a video monitor on April 6th, 2010, he ordered inmates to drag Mr. Pan downstairs to the duty office and beat him. Su Jiashi burned his ears with a cigarette lighter. Due to the severe persecution, Mr. Pan became mentally unstable. Practitioners Mr. Chen Lixiong and Mr. Mai Mufa went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution when guards tried to force them to write guarantee statements to renounce practising Falun Gong. Guards then force-fed both of them.
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• Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp Virulently Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

  2010-10-24
  Falun Gong practitioners have suffered persecution at the Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp's Third Division for a long time. They have been physically abused by having to stand for long periods of time, not being allowed to rest, being beaten, or being subjected to other abuse. They were also limited in the amount of drinking water they could consume or forbidden to drink water at all. Ms. Xie Lihua was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. The inmates who monitored Ms. Xie grossly abused her. Sometimes several of them would lift her up and throw her to the floor. They would beat and scold her constantly. Ms. Xie's term was extended for refusing to give up her belief.
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• Husband Sentenced to 10 Years of Imprisonment, Wife Arrested

  2010-10-24
  Ms. Liao Yongge and Mr. Chen Yuhong, husband and wife, began to practise Falun Gong in 1998. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials had sentenced Mr. Chen to 10 years of imprisonment in 2000 and to date he has not been released. Agents from the 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] arrested Ms. Liao when she was shopping for groceries on the morning of May 26th, 2010. The agents also ransacked her home. Ms. Liao was first held in a brainwashing centre, and within one month was transferred to the Xilin Detention Centre in Changzhou City and has been imprisoned there since.
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• Teacher Ms. Liu Xia Persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2010-10-24
  Ms. Liu Xia is a good teacher, and her students and their parents like her very much. She has been persecuted for 11 years for practising Falun Gong. Now she is being held in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. When the division heads realized that their wrongdoing had been regularly exposed on the Minghui/Clearwisdom Falun Gong websites, they were infuriated. On August 3rd, they ordered Ms. Liu to come to their office. They punched and kicked her; hit her with their shoes; pinched her face, temples, and ears; and pulled her hair. They beat her so savagely that she was unconscious for five days. Her face was black and blue, and afterward her vision was impaired and her reactions were slow. They also extended her term by 50 days without going through any legal procedures.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Sifeng Taken to Brainwashing Centre Again

  2010-10-24
  Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Zhang Sifeng has been arrested by the 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] and National Security Team of Hanyang District, Wuhan City multiple times. He has been detained in forced labour camps twice for one-year terms. He was also detained in Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre many times. On September 6th, 2010, Mr. Zhang Sifeng was again arrested by police. He was detained in Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre. His wife gave him 3,000 yuan for the medical treatment of his mother-in-law, but the money was taken by the police and government officials.
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• My Two Years and Seven Months in Harbin Qianjin Forced Labour Camp

  2010-10-23
  Ms. Gao Guofeng, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, was detained in the Harbin Qianjin Forced Labour Camp for two years because she wore a shirt that had three words--Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance--printed on it. While being detained, she was cruelly persecuted. Her life has been in danger twice. She recounts: "I was beaten black and blue all over my face by guards. I was tortured by being hung-up. They handcuffed me and hung me up, both of my arms stretched to the limit. I was not allowed to move or close my eyes. My arms felt sore and the handcuffs dug into my flesh. I fainted several times."
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• Mr. Fan Qingjun Files Lawsuit Against Jidong Prison Guard He Xiaoqiang

  2010-10-23
  Mr. Fan Qingjun was sentenced to seven years in prison in October 2003. He has been held at the No. 1 Division in Jidong Prison, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Seven years of continuous persecution has caused his health to deteriorate. Prior to his imprisonment, he was in excellent health. Recently, Mr. Fan has filed a lawsuit against He Xiaoqiang, a prison guard at Jidong Prison. Mr. Fa says: "He Xiaoqiang instigated other inmates to beat, physically penalise, and abuse me on numerous occasions, which purposefully damaged my health."
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• Mr. Wang Zechen, a Retired Prosecutor with the Beijing Procuratorate, Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

  2010-10-23
  Mr. Wang Zechen, 69, was a prosecutor at a subdivision of the Beijing Procuratorate. In 2009, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong. He is being detained at Qianjin Prison in Beijing. Mr. Wang was very healthy before his arrest. After many months of imprisonment, however, he became weak and his hair turned grey. During his imprisonment, he has been sent to a hospital for about 45 days as a result of ill-treatment in prison. After he was sentenced, his former employer stopped paying him his pension.
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• Dalian City Court Officials Persecute Elderly Practitioner Ms. Sun Jingwen

  2010-10-23
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sun Jingwen, 64, from Dalian City was arrested in mid-December 2009 as she visited a friend at her home. Ganjingzi District Court officials sentenced her to a four-year prison term in early August 2010. Ms. Sun appealed, but the Dalian City Intermediate Court upheld the original sentence in late September. She has been held in the Yaojia Detention Centre since her arrest.
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• Euphemistically Referred to as the "House of Love" by Corrupt Authorities, Nanjing Brainwashing Centre Continues to Cause Much Harm

  2010-10-22
  The "House of Love" (a private brainwashing centre) is still doing its utmost to poison people against Falun Gong. With false compassion, this centre controls a group of so-called volunteers and collaborators, who are being used to brainwash and persecute Falun Gong practitioners. So-called "experts," such as Tang Guofang, the education head of the Jiangsu Province Forced Labour Bureau, and Lu Yangchun from Nanjing Culture Bureau have brainwashed the collaborators, who are former practitioners "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] into "consultants" at the "House of Love." Their job is to implement the "brainwashing experience" and force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce practising Falun Gong.
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• A Medical Doctor Praised by His Fellow Villagers Is Tortured by the Authorities

  2010-10-22
  Mr. Zhou Wensheng, 32 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner and medical doctor. On July 12th, 2009, police arrested Mr. Zhou. Over 700 of his fellow villagers, including the village leaders, signed a petition and took it to the local authorities, demanding his release. However, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials sentenced him to three years in prison. During Dr. Zhou's detention at the Zhaodong City Detention Centre, the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) instigated prison bully Zheng Yongbo to torture him. Zheng poked his fingers in Zhou's eyes and hit him in the face until it was covered with blood. When he arrived at the detention centre, Mr. Zhou weighed over 155 pounds; now he weighs less than 120.
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