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• Ms. Li Shihong from Wuhan City Imprisoned

  2010-09-26
  Ms. Li Shihong was sentenced to four years in prison, and sent to the Baofenglu Women's Prison on September 7th. Ms. Li Shihong was arrested on March 31st, 2009 for practising Falun Gong and held in the Wuhan City No.1 Detention Centre for one and a half years. A lawyer entered a not-guilty plea for Ms. Li. Neither the procurator nor the judge responded to the lawyer's defence and inquiries.
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• Ms. Li Yushu Brutally Tortured in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2010-09-25
  Ms. Li Yushu was sentenced to a 12-year prison term in Heilongjiang Women's Prison in May 2002 for practising Falun Gong. She was held in a small cell once and in an isolation cell six times. She ended up emaciated. Ms. Li recounted the torture she suffered during her imprisonment: "Guards force-fed me. On December 10th, Li Mingying pinched my nose and Wu Xiangfeng and Liu fengzhen sat on top of me, forced my mouth open, and poured liquid food down my throat. I resisted with all my strength and vomited. Generally, force-feeding went on for one to two hours, twice a day. After each episode I was exhausted, had blood all over my face, and sustained injuries to my mouth."
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• Mr. Deng Qixing Tortured in Sichuan Province Forced Labour Camp

  2010-09-25
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Deng Qixing was arrested on June 9th, 2008. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, he was then sentenced to two years of forced labour. In the labour camp, guards ordered criminal inmates to monitor and torture Falun Gong practitioners in any way they pleased. In their attempt to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] practitioners, guards forced Mr. Deng and other practitioners to read books and watch videos that slandered Falun Gong and its founder. The guards also beat Mr. Deng with electric batons and deprived him of sleep. In addition, they forced him to squat for extended periods of time, to stand straight without moving while facing a wall for many hours, and to run for lengthy periods of time.
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• College Instructor Ms. Liu Ronghua Isolated and Tortured in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-09-25
  Ms. Liu Ronghua is a 45-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and a lecturer at Dalian Fisheries School. She has been detained in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp for over a year. Because she is an associate professor, Su Jing, the then leader of a division of Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp paid more attention to Ms. Liu and subjected her to torture. She hung her up for 21 days, causing Ms. Liu to be disabled in her left hand and not to be able to do hard labour any more. She suffered from scabies and was beaten black and blue. Because she refused to renounce her faith, she is being kept in isolation and tortured.
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• Ms. Tu Xiaomin Recounts the Persecution She Endured in Huhehaote Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-09-25
  Huhehaote Women's Labour Camp bought 40 detainees from the Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Division on January 24th, 2008, to be used as slave labour. Ms. Tu was one of them. Here is her account of her experience: "Guard Lu Junqing again asked me what I thought of Falun Gong. I told her I would never change my mind regarding Falun Gong and that she should give up trying to "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me. Lu Junqing put drug addict Xia Congling to watch over me. Xia had brutally beaten many practitioners. Xia grabbed my hair and starting hitting and kicking me. She also put me in a headlock and nearly choked me and knocked me down. My glasses were twisted, and my face and hands bled."
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• Qingdao Judge: "I Gave You a Three-year Sentence Because You Hired a Lawyer"

  2010-09-24
  On May 3rd, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shang Dexing was arrested by police because his seven-year-old grandson gave someone a Falun Gong CD. He was sent to Qingdao No. 2 Detention Centre. He was tried in Laoshan Court on August 5th. Judge Yu Yong didn't give a verdict inside the courtroom. Yu Yong went to the detention centre to announce his verdict and told Mr. Shang, "I told you not to hire a lawyer but you insisted on hiring one. I planned to pronounce you not guilty. Now I am giving you a three-year sentence because you hired a lawyer." Mr. Shang asked him, "I'm not guilty. Why do you still sentence me?" Yu Yong answered, "I gave you a three-year sentence just because you hired a lawyer."
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• Ms. Yuan Pingjun's Family Seeking Justice for Her Death

  2010-09-24
  Ms. Yuan Pingjun died less than10 days after being arrested and detained at a brainwashing centre on August 2nd, 2010. The police lied, saying she died from jumping from the building, and did not allow her family to view her body except for a quick look or set up a ceremony for mourning. They tried to buy silence from her family with 100,000 yuan. Her family hired a lawyer to seek justice for her tragic death.
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• Twenty-three Falun Gong Practitioners from Quyang County, Hebei Province Arrested, About Half Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2010-09-24
  Police from Quyang County, Hebei Province arrested 23 local Falun Gong practitioners and ransacked their homes on August 15th-16th, and more than ten of them were sentenced to forced labour. All of the male practitioners were held in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Gaoyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, while the female practitioners were held in the Women's Forced Labour Camp of Hebei Province in Shijiazhuang City.
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• Shanghai Police Attempt to Send Ms. Zhu Feilan to a Labour Camp, But Are Forced to Release Her for Medical Treatment

  2010-09-24
  Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Zhu Feilan is 48 years old, was arrested by the police in Nanhui District, and was detained for three months. She was force-fed by a leader called Zhu of the National Security Team, a prison physician and police officers. Later, parts of her body went numb, her body became swollen and she lacked strength. During that period, the authorities tried twice to send her to a Forced Labour Camp, however, they failed. Finally, on August 17th, Ms. Zhu Feilan was released on medical parole.
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• Dr. Cui Wei Tortured and Sentenced to Forced Labour in Fushun, Liaoning Province

  2010-09-23
  On August 19th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cui Wei and ransacked her home and confiscated expensive electronic items. They took Ms. Cui to the Fushun Detention Centre. Ms. Cui Wei was violently beaten because she refused to give her fingerprints. Ms. Cui began a hunger strike on August 26th to protest her detention. By September 3rd, Ms. Cui had been force-fed three times at the hospital. Without any judicial process Ms. Cui was sentenced to three years of forced labour.
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• Ms. Hu Yunhuai from Xichang City, Sichuan Province in Deteriorating Health after Persecution

  2010-09-23
  On May 7th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hu Yunhuai. On May 27th, she was arrested again by the Xichang Procuratorate. Now she is detained at the Tuohuang Detention Centre in Xichang. Police officers forcibly removed the dentures from her mouth. Without her dentures, it became very difficult for her to eat any food. She has been subjected to brutal persecution and as a result has become seriously ill.
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• Attorney Ms. Gu Hong from Pingdingshan City, Henan Province Arrested

  2010-09-23
  Ms. Gu Hong, in her mid-40s, is a senior lawyer and Falun Gong practitioner. On July 23rd, police officers from the Xinhua District 610 Office and local Domestic Security Division arrested Ms. Gu Hong at her workplace. They confiscated her computer, Falun Gong books and some of her personal property. On August 20th, the Xinhua District Procuratorate announced the arrest warrant for Ms. Gu and is processing a lawsuit against her.
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• Ms. Wang Wuxiu Detained at Hunan Province Women's Prison; Her Son Forbidden to Visit Her

  2010-09-23
  Ms. Wang Wuxiu, was was arrested on April 18th, 2009 for practising Falun Gong and detained in Hunan Province Women's Prison. The court officials covertly sentenced Ms. Wang to three years in prison. Ms. Wang's son arrived at the prison on September 14th, 2010, to visit his mother. However, the prison guards forbade him to visit her and drove him out of the prison. They told him that his mother had not written the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, so he could not see her.
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• Kind Lady, in Her Sixties, Sentenced to Prison for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-09-22
  On April 24th, 2010, police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia's home. They arrested her and her husband, Mr. Li Hua, and took them to Wujiawa Detention Centre. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chaoyang Political and Legal Committee, and Shuangta District Court jointly conspired to sentence Ms. Jia to 13 years in prison and Mr. Li to three years in prison with five years suspension. Mr. Jia appealed but the court called Ms. Jia's family members to threaten them. It also prohibited Ms. Jia from seeing an attorney even if she hired one. It wouldn't schedule a trial for the appeal and had already decided to uphold the original verdict.
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• Mr. Liu Yunchao Close to Death in Fanjiatai Prison

  2010-09-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yunchao has been tortured and is near death in Fanjiatai Prison, Shayang, Hubei Province. 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) told Mr. Liu's family that they would not release him even if he died in prison. Upon learning that Liu Yunchao was in a critical condition, family members went to Fanjiatai Prison on August 8th. Wardens had a meeting with the family in which the wardens deceptively made the family sign papers consenting to pay all Mr. Liu's hospital and medical fees and to allow the whole process to be videotaped.
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