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Ms. Li Nianchun, a Retired Manager, Persecuted in Yueyang City, Hunan Province
2010-10-11
Ms. Li Nianchun, who is 70, is a retired manager of Junshan District Export and Trade Company in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. When the persecution of Falun Gong began, she was the victim of many forms of persecution. Most recently she served seven years in the Hunan Province Women's Prison. Guard Xue Fang handcuffed her and locked her up in a solitary confinement cell. She wasn't released until after eight days of being on hunger strike. To this day there are still visible marks on her hands. Afterward, Xue Fang kept her in a strictly controlled team for more than two months. While at the prison, Ms. Li was also made to do hard labour with a workload 3-4 times that of non-practitioner detainees. -
Mr. Li Wenbo Being Tortured at Yunnan Province First Prison
2010-10-10On May 11th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Wenbo was arrested and detained by the County 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong]. Mr. Li was secretly sentenced by Kunming City Court on October 12th. His family was not informed of the court date and the length of the sentence. Mr. Li was sent to the Yunnan Province First Prison. On his first day there, Mr. Li refused to wear the prison uniform, as he felt that his belief in the values of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance was not a crime and that the sentencing was unlawful. As a result, over thirty guards surrounded Mr. Li and attacked him. The guards used four sets of handcuffs to affix Mr. Li to metal bars with his arms and legs stretched out to form an "X." He was tied up around the clock, except during meal time and to use the toilet, for the next several months. -
63-Year-Old Mr. Wang Shilin Detained and Tortured Five Times
2010-10-10Mr. Wang Shilin, 63, lives in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He started practising Falun Gong in 1996. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mr. Wang has been arrested five times and suffered brutal torture. He said, "I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution at Jiamusi Detention Centre in Heilongjiang Province. As a result, I was chained to the ground with all four of my limbs stretched for 15 days. Even now, I don't dare to think about the pain I suffered. It was horrible!" -
Ms. Li Junxia Persecuted Until She Died
2010-10-10Ms. Li Junxia was a victim of the persecution of Falun Gong. She had been repeatedly harassed, and developed a mental disorder after the agents of the 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] detained her in a mental hospital at the end of 2006. What happened to Ms. Li in the mental hospital is unknown. Her family noticed that she had a mental disorder after she was released. She died after falling from a building in 2009. -
Ms. He Xiufang, 58, from Gansu Province Arrested Again and Subjected to Physical and Mental Torture
2010-10-10On September 11th, Falun Gong practitioners He Xiufang was arrested by police. She is currently detained in the Longxi County Detention Centre. During the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ten-year persecution of Falun Gong, He Xiufang has been arrested, detained in a forced labour camp, imprisoned and forced into brainwashing sessions. She has suffered endless physical and mental torture. In Gansu Province Women's Prison He Xiufang had to get up at 5:00 a.m., and couldn't go to bed until 1:00 a.m. or later. Every day she was forced to work like a slave with extended hours, doing embroidery, cutting threads, and sealing medicine boxes. -
Ms. Wang Yueqin's Sentence at Hebei Province Women's Forced Labor Camp Extended
2010-10-09Officers from Dongli Police Station in Shijiazhuang City arrested Ms. Wang on March 10th, 2009. She was given a one-and-a-half-year sentence in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shijiazhuang. Practitioners at the camp have to begin work at 5:00 a.m. and work for 17 hours a day. Inmates strictly monitor practitioners while they work, and often beat and swear at them. Ms. Wang was forced to pick cotton seeds and then clean the building, including the toilets. At the end of her sentence in September 2010, officials refused to release Ms. Wang because she had not renounced her belief in Falun Gong. Her family members were told that she would be released sometime in October, but if her current position did not change she would be arrested again. -
Update: Ms. Du Liming in Critical Condition After Trial
2010-10-09Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming is from Yitong County, Jilin Province. When local court officials tried her in court on September 10th, 2010, an ambulance was waiting outside the court building. Her family learned that Ms. Du was sent to the Yitong County Chinese Medicine Hospital for emergency treatment a few days later, and that she is in critical condition. Ms. Du was arrested on July 11th as she distributed Falun Gong DVDs on the street. -
147 Practitioners Currently Incarcerated at Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp
2010-10-09Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Caiyun, 59, on October 21st, 2008 and took her to the Nangou Detention Centre, where she held a week-long hunger strike to protest the detention. She was sent to the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp on October 29th. The next day she was taken to a dark room where the guards slapped her face and shocked her with an electric baton, because her voice was too soft during roll call. She was subjected to another beating in November for refusing to recite the prison rules. Ms. Wang was subjected to a severe "body-stretching" torture method between November 30th and December 3rd, 2009. -
Ms. Zhang Rongqiu Became Mentally Unstable after Police Administered Her with Unknown Drugs
2010-10-09Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Rongqiu, 59, was released from Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp on May 12th. Her hair had turned almost completely white and she was very weak. She was also mentally unstable as a result of being forced to take unknown drugs in the Jinan City Armed Police Hospital. -
Forcing a Son To Denounce His Own Parents, Chengdu City 610 Office Uses Methods Not Seen Since the Cultural Revolution
2010-10-08Huang Xu was pressured by Chengdu City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) to persecute his own parents in order to keep his job. His parents, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying are a kind, peace-loving couple who both practise Falun Gong. Despite the Communist regime's posing as a modern country, the tragedy of children harming and denouncing their own parents that took place during the Cultural Revolution is sadly once again taking place in today's China. On August 13th, due to their son's direct involvement, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying were arrested on their way to a food market by police. The officials sent the couple to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. -
Ms. Xin Enhao Arrested for a Third Time after being Tortured in a Labour Camp
2010-10-08In 2001, Xin Enhao went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. Because of this, she was put into the labour camp for 18 months. However, when she had finished serving her sentence, her time was arbitrarily extended. In total, she was in the labour camp for 27 months. In 2006, she was detained again. During the two detentions, she suffered brutal torture. The police and drug addict inmates beat her all over, and poked needles into her legs and arms. They dragged her head and punched it against the bed frame. On September 5th, 2010, she was arrested for a third time by the Datong Police Bureau, and is being held in the Chenzhuang Detention Centre in Datong City. -
610 Office in Yitong County, Jilin Province Prevents Ms. Du Liming's Attorneys from Providing a Defence
2010-10-08In order to prevent two lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, the Yitong County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) instructed police officers to hold the defence attorneys in their hotel rooms and confiscate their mobile phones. On the hearing date of September 10th, three plainclothes police officers took the two lawyers to Changchun City, bought train tickets for them, and forced them to go back to Beijing. -
After Torture and Interrogation in a Detention Centre, Ms. Yin Jinmei Sent To Forced Labour
2010-10-08Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yin Jinmei, a Falun Gong practitioner was kidnapped by the police on February 16th, 2009. She was tortured in a metal chair. Her hands swelled to the size of her calf and her legs were completely covered with bruises. On March 24th, 2009, she was again picked up and sent to the Nanchang Women's Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. -
Yitong County 610 Office Personnel in Jilin Province Prevent Lawyers from Defending Handicapped Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Du Liming
2010-10-07The Jilin Yitong County Court and 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) have prevented lawyers from defending handicapped Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, whom police officer Wang Yingchao and others from the Domestic Security Team of Yitong Police Department had taken into custody. It happened while she was distributing Falun Gong CDs. She is now in the Yitong Detention Centre. -
Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp Uses Prisoners to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
2010-10-07Six prisoners called "collaborators" monitor and torture practitioners around the clock. They force practitioners to stand like soldiers, with both hands tightly touching the trousers, the body straight, and heels touching each other. Practitioners can only look forward and they are not allowed to talk or move any part of their body. If practitioners even look in another direction once, they are denigrated by the collaborators. These collaborators continuously slander Falun Gong. Some practitioners pass out during this torture. Collaborators forced practitioners to read books that slandered Falun Gong. The practitioners who refused to read the books were not allowed to use the toilet. With excrement in their trousers, they were not allowed to change clothes.
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