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• Ms. Ji Liping from Tongliao Has Been Persecuted for Eleven Years

  2010-06-20
  Ms. Ji Liping, 56, has been constantly monitored, arrested, robbed in her home, and harassed by the police over the past eleven years. This is simply because she is a Falun Gong practitioner and wants to be a good person and conduct herself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In the Hexi Detention Centre Ms. Ji was handcuffed to a railing. Because she hadn't eaten anything or slept for two days, she fell into a stupor. Then the police hung her up from the railing and the handcuffs dug into her flesh. She was in such a great pain that she came to.
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• Mr. Lu Zhen from the Gaolan County Power Authority in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, Relentlessly Persecuted

  2010-06-20
  In 2005, Mr. Lu Zhen was sentenced by the Gaolan County Police Department to two years of forced labour for speaking out on behalf of Falun Gong. He was detained in the First Detention Station in Lanzhou City. At that time he had not yet recovered from his broken femur, but he was still forced to work for 17-18 hours per day. He had to peel lily roots, collect wool, collect watermelon seeds, and sew linen bags and blankets. After he was released, Lu Zhen was fired from his job. In July 2009, Mr. Lu was again sentenced to one year and three months of forced labour.
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• Mr. Che Guangming from Jinhua City in Zhejiang Province Arrested

  2010-06-20
  Mr. Che Guangming, 33, has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because he practises Falun Gong. He was detained in prison in Jiangsu Province for more than three years beginning in 2001. He was harassed by the Hangzhou City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in late April. As a result, he left home and lived elsewhere to avoid arrest. However, police tracked Mr. Che down and arrested him again on June 2nd, 2010.
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• After Falun Gong Practice Restores Her Health, an Outstanding Teacher is Sentenced for Disseminating Falun Gong

  2010-06-19
  After beginning the Falun Gong practice many of Ms. Fan Shuyun's chronic illnesses disappeared without treatment. As soon as the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, she was detained, her house was searched, and money was extorted from her family many times. She was arrested while visiting her son in Shanghai for posting Falun Gong information on August 20th, 2009, and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. Ms. Fan has appealed her case. She is now being held in the Pudong District Detention Centre, awaiting a second court hearing.
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• Elderly Practitioner Sentenced to Five-year Jail Term

  2010-06-19
  Seventy-year-old Ms. Li Yunhai was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre around April 23rd, 2010, and then tried behind closed doors. She received a five-year prison sentence from the Penglai Court on April 28th. She suffered from high blood pressure and was sent to hospital for treatment that evening. While hospitalised, she was placed under the surveillance of police officers as well as teachers from her former workplace. She was handcuffed and shackled during her hospital stay.
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• China University of Political Science and Law Graduate Mr. Sun Zhen Imprisoned for Eight Years and Now in Dire Situation

  2010-06-19
  Because he persisted in practising Falun Gong, Mr. Sun Zhen lost his job and was forced into homelessness. While enduring eight years of imprisonment at Gongzhuling Prison, Mr. Sun was tortured and suffered a great deal. Mr. Sun's prison term was supposed to end on May 1st, 2010. However, Gongzhuling Prison officials have refused to release him and added three months to his term. Mr. Sun is suffering from tuberculosis and severe malnutrition, and his mental acuity has deteriorated.
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• Ms. Zhang Shuying Tortured with Electric Batons at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province

  2010-06-19
  When Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuying visited her aunt on March 2nd, 2010, she was arrested by police. Afterwards the police ransacked Ms. Zhang Shuying's home and took away two personal computers, and eleven hundred yuan in cash. Ms. Zhang was handcuffed to a radiator at the police station. Police officers there slapped her face, pulled her hair very hard, and poured water on her neck. They even wiped her mouth with mustard oil. Ms. Zhang was subsequently sent for one and a half years of detention at a forced labour camp and was sent to Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp.
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• Yu You Tortured and Forced to Do Hard Labour in Jiamusi Prison

  2010-06-18
  Mr. Yu You was arrested on May 30th 2008 by police. On the very first afternoon, he was subjected to a violent beating at Hongxinglong Detention Centre. A plastic bucket was put over his head and the police beat his head so hard that some of his teeth were knocked out. He was not allowed to sleep during the night. Later on he was sentenced by Hongxinglong Court to six years. In April 2009, Yu You was transferred to Jiamusi Prison, where he was mentally and physically tortured in an effort to make him renounce his faith in Falun Gong.
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• Gross Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners at Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

  2010-06-18
  Many practitioners have been disabled as a result of the persecution carried out by officials at the Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province. Practitioner Mr. Gao Yongjun was arrested by police and taken to Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in May 2008. He was subjected to forced labour making car seat cushions starting in October 2008, and was repeatedly beaten for what officials deemed to be slow work. He was also forced to sit still on a small bench from 4:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. Inmates slapped Mr. Gao in the face and kicked him. In June 2009, Mr. Gao became permanently paralysed from the waist down from the abuse suffered at the labour camp.
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• Ms. Sun Lifeng Held in Detention Past Her Term, Her Life in Danger

  2010-06-18
  Shortly after the persecution of Falun Gong began, on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Sun Lifeng was sentenced to three years of forced labour. On the way to the labour camp, she somehow managed to escape. However, she was arrested again on May 27th, 2005 and held in Oroqen Autonomous Prefecture Detention Centre. In April 2008, Ms. Sun was arrested again and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. Because she refused to sign statements to renounce her belief her term was extended and she is still detained. Ms. Sun is very weak and now has hepatitis B, but police still will not release her, nor will they allow her family to visit her. Ms. Sun's life is in real danger.
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• Multiple Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested by Officials in Huainan City, Anhui Province

  2010-06-18
  During April and May of 2010, various officials and the Huainan City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), using "security for the World Expo" as an excuse, arrested several Falun Gong practitioners, scheduled hasty court "trials" and imprisoned them. Officials also obstructed the practitioners' lawyers from defending them.
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• Ms. Liu Li Recounts the Torture She Experienced at Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-06-17
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Li was tortured for one-and-a-half years while imprisoned in the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp between June 30th, 2008 and October 19th, 2009. Some of the more severe instances of persecution are as follows: She was tortured with hanging for nine full days. Prison guards ripped off her shirt and used an electric baton to shock her nipples. A guard struck Ms. Liu in the head with an electric baton, which caused severe bleeding. Ms. Liu was in critical condition by the time she was released in January 2010. Although she survived, her face was badly scarred from the torture.
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• Ms. Zheng Xiuzhi Suffers Devastating Brainwashing at the Kaiping Detention Centre, Tangshan City

  2010-06-17
  Ms. Zheng Xiuzhi's work-related injury qualified her as being level-eight disabled, but she recovered soon after beginning Falun Gong practice and had a brand new life. With the onset of the Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zheng suffered from the regime's cruelties, such as forcible brainwashing at the Kaiping Detention Centre in Tangshan City. She had a mental breakdown and almost died. The evildoers who mentally tormented and physically tortured her manipulated her into slandering Falun Gong when her mind was impaired.
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• Seven Falun Gong Practitioners Brought to Trial For the Second Time

  2010-06-17
  At 9 a.m. on June 1st, 2010 seven Falun Gong practitioners were brought to trial for a second time in the Bayuquan District, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province. The chief judge told the practitioners' relatives that the court had informed their defence lawyers to appear in court three days before the trial, but they failed to do so. The relatives did not receive any information about the trial until May 31st. When they called the lawyers, immediately they were told that they had never received any messages from the court or the procuratorate. They wanted to appear in court to defend the practitioners, but it was already too late because they lived in another city, far away from Yingkou City. The first trial took place on March 23rd, 2010.
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• Secret Trial Held for Four Falun Gong Practitioners in Huadian City, Jilin Province

  2010-06-17
  On May 25th-26th, 2010, a secret two-day trial of four Falun Gong practitioners was held in a Huadian City Court. A lawyer defending Falun Gong practitioners was insulted by a policeman during the process. The family members who came to court to inquire about the proceedings were also arrested by police and their homes were ransacked. Falun Gong practitioner Ma Yunfeng was released one year ago after she was extorted out of ten thousand yuan by police. However the court also forced her to come to trial, and after being falsely accused, the police arrested her again. Now she is detained at the Huadian City Detention Centre.
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