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• A Dental Clinic Administrator in Wuhan Arrested and Taken to a Brainwashing Centre

  2010-08-04
  Wuchang Boya Western Medicine Dental Clinic was seized and demolished by China Ship Research and Design Centre (No. 701 Institution), causing huge economic losses. All the medical equipment and medications inside the building were buried, resulting in an economic loss of over 200,000 yuan. Ms. Wang Xiaoming, the clinic administrator, filed a lawsuit against the No. 701 Institution. However, Shouyilu Police Station and the 701 Institution worked together to apprehend her and have her admitted to a brainwashing centre just because Ms. Wang practises Falun Gong.
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• Practitioners Mr. Luo Changyong and Ms. Chen Chihui Sentenced in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

  2010-08-04
  On July 15th, 2010, the Longquanqi District Court in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province sentenced Mr. Luo Changyong to five years in prison, and Ms. Chen Chihui to three-and-a-half-years in prison. Police arrested the two practitioners while they were travelling through Huangtu Town on September 20th, 2009. The practitioners were tortured during their subsequent detention. Mr. Luo told the court that the photos used by the prosecutors were obtained through torture interrogation. Officers first tried to make the practitioners admit to making the Falun Gong banners and stickers in Huangtu Town. After they denied this, the officers deprived them of any sleep for five days.
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• Large Numbers of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jiaozhou City Have Been Sentenced and Sent to Forced Labour Camps or Mental Hospitals

  2010-08-04
  Ms. Zhang Ling, in her 20s, went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution in October 2000. The police brought her back and detained her for 14 days. They extorted 4,000 yuan from her family to have her released on bail, but then covertly held her at Jiaozhou Detention Centre. Fifteen days later, Jiaozhou Construction Bureau officials sent Ms. Zhang to the Jiaozhou Mental Hospital without notifying her family. Fuan Police Station officials arrested Mr. Xu Yanzhong in 2004 and incarcerated him in the Nantan Detention Centre. Two days later he was forcibly sent to a mental hospital and injected with nerve-damaging drugs four times a month while regular mental patients were injected once a month.
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• Practitioner Hu Biao Refutes the Absurd Charges Levelled Against Him

  2010-08-03
  Mr. Hu Biao, 64, is from Guizhou Province. Police arrested him on March 30th, 2009. Gulin County Court officials tried him on November 19th that year. Mr. Hu is currently imprisoned at the Gulin County Detention Centre. Mr. Hu states, "During my trial, my two lawyers and I requested that the public prosecutor present any legal evidence he could find to substantiate his allegation that Falun Gong is a cult. He couldn’t produce anything. The truth is that no Chinese law has ever prohibited the cultivation of Falun Gong, or ever named Falun Gong a cult. Our practice of Falun Gong is in full compliance with the law. The crime the court charged me with is simply a fabrication, and is itself a form of persecution."
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• How an Engineer Lost His Eyesight

  2010-08-03
  Mr. Kong Dewen was an engineer in Hefei City, Anhui Province. He started practising Falun Gong in 1996, and his illnesses disappeared without any medication in less than a month. He strove to be a good person following Falun Gong's teachings. In turn, his family relationships became more harmonious and his co-workers considered him trustworthy. Mr. Kong was later persecuted by the Chinese communist government for his beliefs. He was poisoned while in jail, resulting in blindness.
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• Ms. Yan Chunling Serving Nine-Year Prison Sentence for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-08-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yan Chunling was sentenced to nine years in prison by Chinese Communist Party officials. Seven years later, prison officials have forbidden her family from seeing her for the past two years because she refuses to wear the prison uniform. In addition, they have locked her up long term in a small cell. Because of the horrible conditions and being kept long-term in the small cell, Ms. Yan now suffers from pain all over her body, in addition to high blood pressure, myocarditis, and frequent vomiting. Ms. Yan has suffered seven years of abuse and mistreatment in the prison simply for upholding her belief.
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• The Relentless Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Jihai in Jilin City

  2010-08-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Jihai had stayed away from home since 2006 to avoid arrest. Village officials approached Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Jihai’s wife on July 19th, 2010. They said they wanted Mr. Chen to come back and attend a three-day “study session” and claimed that afterwards they would not bother him anymore. She was deceived and, after finding Mr. Chen, said to him, “You can go home now. The village head said you will be all right.” As soon as Mr. Chen returned home, his wife called the village head, who reported this to the police. After noticing this unusual situation, Mr. Chen immediately left. On July 20th police forced his wife to help them look everywhere for her husband. As a result, Mr. Chen was forced to stay away from home.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners' Children Grow Up Amidst Suffering in China

  2010-08-02
  Mr. Wei Xingzhi died as a result of torture. While he was in a labour camp, the local authorities arrested his wife and sent her to the Yang'ai Forced Labour Camp for a three-year term. Their two young daughters were left behind to fend for themselves. Their water supply was cut off because the children had no money for a new water pipe. They had to depend on water collected from the eaves for their daily needs. The younger daughter came home from school and cried with her sister because classmates had bullied her. Their father came home tortured beyond recognition. The two sisters could only stand by and watch helplessly as their father died in pain.
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• Before and after the Beijing Olympics, Over a Hundred Falun Gong Practitioners Were Transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Lianying was brainwashed and tortured with the "hanging bed" torture. She was not able to walk normally for a month. She was beaten many times with electric batons on the inner parts of her thighs and on her abdomen. Her prison term was extended by four months because she said, "Falun Gong is good." Ms. Zhang was chained to the frame of her bed because she refused to wear prison clothes.
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• Fuzhou Court Prevents Ms. Zhang's Family from Hiring a Lawyer from Beijing

  2010-08-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Liyu was arrested by police from the Baiyun Village Police Station on April 5th, 2010 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. She is currently detained in the Yongtai County Detention Centre, and is about to be put on trial. The court in Yongtain County has used various tactics to stop her family members from hiring a defence counsel from Beijing. The judge said, "We have a regulation here that no one is allowed to hire lawyers from elsewhere; you can only hire a local lawyer."
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• Approximately 20 Falun Gong Practitioners Still Imprisoned at the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre in Guizhou Province

  2010-08-02
  The 610 Office at the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre uses three people to monitor each Falun Gong practitioner. The monitors live in the same cell as the practitioner and keep an eye on him or her around the clock. They have the practitioner view or listen to video/audio materials that slander Falun Gong all day long and force the practitioner to write statements to renounce Falun Gong. In some instances, the guards even have male monitors live with young female practitioners for long periods of time. The monitors also lace the practitioners' drinking water with drugs that damage the central nervous system. Moreover, they brutally force-feed practitioners who are on hunger strike and often threaten to rape female practitioners.
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• Mr. Kao Fuquan from Zhaoyuan City Tortured in a Brainwashing Centre, His Family Not Allowed to Visit Him

  2010-08-01
  On May 8th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Kao Fuquan was arrested by police. They tortured Mr. Kao for five days. Mr. Kao was jailed on the second floor of the brainwashing centre and was severely tortured for five days and nights. His screams could be heard throughout the building. The brainwashing centre refused to disclose any recent information about him. Mr. Kao Fuquan's family has never been allowed to visit him. It is suspected that Mr. Kao has been seriously injured as a result of torture and that the brainwashing centre is trying to keep his family members from finding out about it.
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• Four Practitioners Arrested by the 610 Office of Laiyang in Shandong Province for Helping Ms. Liu Zhimei Recover from Mental Collapse Due to Persecution

  2010-08-01
  On April 16th, 2010, police arrested Ms. Liu Zhimei, a former student at Tsinghua University who suffered a mental collapse as a result of persecution during her imprisonment. They also arrested the four practitioners, including Ms. Gao Chunhong, who were taking care of Ms. Liu. Additionally, Ms. Gao's house was ransacked, and many private belongings were taken away.
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• Kindhearted Ms. Sun Arrested

  2010-08-01
  On March 17th, 2010, Ms. Ma was arrested by police and sentenced to two years at the Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Ma was tortured and became paralysed again and could not take care of herself. On June 22nd, Ms. Sun went to the Jiadong Police Station to ask for information regarding Ms. Ma. As a result, Ms. Sun was detained and beaten. Police officer Zheng Qingcheng grabbed her hair and slammed her head against the wall. Ms. Sun has been imprisoned in the Jiamusi City Detention Centre since then. Her family is not allowed to see her.
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• Ms. Li Shihong Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

  2010-08-01
  After being detained for more than a year, Ms. Li Shihong was sentenced to four years in prison on April 7th, 2010, by the Jiangan Court. She was not allowed to defend herself during the court proceedings. Her lawyer filed an appeal to a higher court and is awaiting a new hearing, as there was no incriminating evidence or legal basis for the original sentence. When Ms. Li's mother Song Wenxiu and Wu Bilin, Huang Jing, and Sun Jingping went to Jiangan Court to appeal for justice on April 30th, all of them were arrested.
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