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• Three Practitioners from Huanggang City, Hubei Province Arrested

  2010-08-08
  Ms. Tong Jinxian, Mr. Xiao Jinhua, and Ms. Zheng Caixia from Huanggang City, Hubei Province were arrested by police on July 19th. The police also ransacked Ms. Tong's home, confiscating a computer, a printer, and other personal property. Ms. Tong has been subjected to detention numerous times prior to this arrest. The police also extorted money from her. The three practitioners are detained in the Huanggang City No. 2 Detention Centre. Their families were forced to pay living expenses for them when they went to visit them at the detention centre.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Sent to Brainwashing Centre in Jilin Province

  2010-08-08
  On June 29th, police went to Huanxi Town Central School under the guise of making an inspection. The officers put Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li, who was a teacher at the school, into a van and took her to a brainwashing centre without telling the school headmaster. They said the reason for her arrest was that she had not written a statement renouncing or giving up her practice of Falun Gong. At the brainwashing centre practitioners were closely monitored at all times. The officers announced that the practitioners would be sent to a labour camp or mental hospital if they did not give up their practice of Falun Gong.
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• Female Engineer from Tianjin Experiences Hallucinations After Being Injected with Unknown Drugs

  2010-08-07
  Ms. Gu Xueshuang, 39, is an engineer from Tianjin. Due to her firm belief in Falun Gong, she was arrested on February 25th, 2010 by police. Just twelve days after her arrest, she was tortured to the point of not being able to speak or eat. She developed delirium and hallucinations after being injected with an unknown drug. Ms. Gu accused the guards of forcing her to take poisonous drugs. The guards took out some pills of different colours and said, "How can this be poisonous?" An eyewitness personally heard the doctor telling the guards, "It is very dangerous to take this drug, and it requires around the clock observation with monitors."
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• Ms. Hong Youfeng from Funing County, Jiangsu Province Sentenced

  2010-08-07
  On January 17th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hong Youfeng was reported to authorities and arrested by police because she was talking to people about the truth behind the persecution of Falun Gong and gave a Falun Gong DVD to a passerby. They locked up Ms. Hong at a hotel. She was deprived of sleep for four days, and continuously interrogated and forced into giving a so-called confession. She was then sent to Funing Detention Centre for a term of over four months. The Funing Court and legal legislators tried Ms. Hong in court on May 19th without any legal evidence. She was sentenced to three years and six months in prison on July 2nd. Her attorney entered an innocent plea for her and asked the court to release her.
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• Mr. Ma Dengjiang in Hebei Province Endures Torture and Forced Labour Camp Term

  2010-08-07
  On June 12th, 2010, Mr. Ma Dengjiang was arrested by police. Mr. Ma's Falun Gong books and tape recordings were also confiscated. That very same night, he was transferred directly to Qiaotou Military Police Team, and police officers tortured him by tying him to a "tiger bench". They also shackled his hands and feet. Over the next four nights and three days, he was not given water or food, and his feet became swollen.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Fu Guiqin's First-hand Account of the Long-term Persecution She Has Suffered

  2010-08-07
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fu Guiqin, 59, has suffered repeated persecution spanning over a decade, including multiple arrests, detentions, forced labour, brainwashing, and torture. In her own words he recounts the torture at Wanjia Forced Labour Camp: "All of the Falun Gong practitioners were on a hunger strike to protest the detention. On the sixth day, the guards gathered all the practitioners into a queue and tried to stop our hunger protest by force-feeding us. Criminal inmates and guards pinned each of us down to a chair, and forcibly fed us with corn paste from a small plastic basin. Sometimes they also inserted a rubber tube into our noses and down to our stomachs to force-feed us. The food came out of my nose and blood came out of my mouth. They tortured me like this every day for about a month."
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• Practitioner in His Sixties from Weifang, Shandong Province on the Verge of Death Due to Persecution in Labour Camp

  2010-08-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Man Shouzheng, 63, from Weifang, Shandong Province, was sentenced to a one-year term in a forced labour camp for practising Falun Gong. When he was released in March 2010, he could no longer talk, as he had developed late-stage tongue cancer. He previously weighed 176 pounds. After being severely persecuted in the labour camp he now weighs less than 110 pounds. In April 2009, Mr. Man was arrested by police. He was detained in a Zhucheng brainwashing centre and he was brutally beaten by Mao Yulong. He was forced to lie on his back, while another person stomped on his body and his head.
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• Practitioner Zhang Jiuliang Near Death in Hubei Province Shayang Prison

  2010-08-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jiuliang is being persecuted in the Shayang City Fanjiatai Prison. He is so emaciated that his body looks deformed. He is 1.8 metres tall (5ft-11in), but weights only around 110 pounds. He was forced by the persecutors to swallow over ten unknown drugs, and he is now on the verge of the death. The police continue to cruelly taunt him and have said, "You still want to get out of here? No doubt you will die here!"
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• Mr. Zhang Jinsheng Arrested in Hebei Province

  2010-08-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jinsheng was arrested at his home on July 21st, 2010, and taken to the Heshui City Brainwashing Centre. Both of his daughters were out of town working and didn't know he had been arrested and locked up at the brainwashing centre. Mr. Zhang's wife Fang Xinzhi, who was also a practitioner, died on November 21st, 2007, while Mr. Zhang was detained at a forced labour camp. She had served three years in a forced labour camp, but was arrested again on May 12th, 2006. Officers from the Zhengkou Town Police Station twisted her wrist so severely that the bones fractured.
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• Court Hearings Delayed to Prevent Beijing Defence Lawyers from Attending

  2010-08-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Liyu was arrested when she returned to her hometown and was seen talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang was taken to Yongtai County Detention Centre, and was to await a court hearing at the Yongtai County Court in Fuzhou City. When officials from the court found out that Ms. Zhang's family had hired a lawyer from Beijing, Yan Xingnuan, chief judge of Yongtai County Court, and another court official forcibly told Ms. Zhang's family to replace the Beijing lawyer with a local lawyer.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Chen Xiufen Died Seven Years Ago after Being Tortured

  2010-08-05
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Xiufen, 61, was arrested in 2000 and subjected to the thumbcuff torture technique during her one-month detention at the Kunshan Detention Centre. To intensify her suffering, the police pushed her tightly against some metal poles, stretched her arms around the poles and then put a thumbcuff on her thumbs. Ms. Chen was arrested again in July 2002. Four officers dragged her along the ground from her home down some stairs, and she was detained in the brainwashing centre. She was detained for one month. The repeated mental and physical tortures severely damaged her health. Ms. Chen died on June 23rd, 2003, in hospital.
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• Instructor at Shanghai Jiaotong University Sentenced to Four Year Prison Term

  2010-08-05
  On July 6th, 2010, the Shanghai Baoshan Court sentenced Mr. Guo Xiaojun, a Falun Gong practitioner and former instructor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, to four years in prison. Prior to the sentencing, Mr. Guo had been detained for over six months. This is his second imprisonment, as he was imprisoned for five years in the infamous Tilanqiao Prison beginning in August 2000. Before the trial, presiding judge Xu Minfang forbade the defence lawyer to defend Falun Gong practitioners. The Beijing lawyer informed the court that prosecuting practitioners as criminals was a waste of state resources. In court, Mr. Guo Xiaojun claimed his innocence. He also exposed the brutal interrogation he suffered at the hands of the Shanghai Baoshan Police Bureau and Baoshan Detention Centre.
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• Ms. Ding Zhenfang Subjected to Severe Abuse, Dabei Women's Prison Authorities Deny Her Family Visitation

  2010-08-05
  Ms. Ding Zhenfang from Dalian City, Liaoning Province has been subjected to severe abuse at Dabei Women's Prison in Shenyang City. She is currently in critical condition. Her husband and other family members went to visit her on July 22nd. When they arrived, the prison officials refused to allow them to visit her. The reason given was, "Ding Zhenfang is in poor health, and not in suitable condition for visitation." Ms. Ding has been subjected to persecution four times since the persecution started on July 20th, 1999. She has been detained in prison for seven years, but she has never given up her belief in Falun Gong.
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• Upright Defence of Falun Gong Practitioners Upsets Judges During a Show Trial in Changde City Court

  2010-08-05
  Wuling District Court (located in Changde City, Hunan Province) held show trial on June 11th, 2010, against several Falun Gong practitioners. When the defence attorney declared that the practitioners were innocent, the judges appeared very nervous. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Haijun said in court, "By practising the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, I am being a conscientious member of society who abides by the law. I am also striving to be a kinder person with a higher moral standard. How can this be unlawful? How can this be a crime?" The judges were visibly stunned and in a panic.
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• Schoolteacher Ms. Du Qingxiu Tortured and Abused in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-04
  Ms. Du Qingxiu is a Falun Gong practitioner and teacher at the Lingyuan City Middle School No. 2, in Liaoning Province. In 2007, she was detained at the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp for one year and three months. Guards punched Ms. Du in the lower abdomen. And the torture they also used was somewhat like the "separating the body with five horses," with her arms stretched out. Ms. Du was tortured like this for about five to six hours. Her arms were injured and very painful. Her injuries did not heal for a long time.
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