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• Mr. Lu Chunshan Suffers Ten Years of Persecution for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-05-02
  On January 27th, 2005, Mr. Lu Chunshan was secretly sentenced to three years of forced labour and sent to the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp again. At the labour camp, he again suffered various forms of torture, including solitary confinement, the tiger bench, forced labour, brainwashing, and other methods. On March 22nd, 2008, Mr. Lu came home after three years and 70 days of detention. Although he was not yet 40 years old at the time, all of his hair had become grey and he had lost four teeth. Right after his release, the authorities started to monitor him again. The officials from local Domestic Security Division, local police station, and his former workplace all came to his home to harass him a total of seven times.
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• Ms. Luo Meiting, a Disabled Farmer, Repeatedly Arrested and Beaten for Adhering to the Principles of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance

  2010-05-02
  Ms. Luo Meiting, 48, started practising Falun Gong in 1997, and soon noticed a significant improvement in her mind and body. However, when the persecution started in 1999, despite being disabled, the police repeatedly arrested her and she has been detained in the police station, detention centre, brainwashing centre, and forced labour camp, all because of her belief in the principles of truthfulness-benevolence-forbearance.
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• Two Sisters from Tangshan City Secretly Sentenced

  2010-05-02
  Ms. Wang Xiuwen and Ms. Wang Xiuqin, who had been arrested six months ago by police while they were distributing information about the persecution of Falun Gong in a market were secretly sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment. Officers from the Xiaoji Township Police Station ransacked their home on January 21st and abducted their sister, Ms. Wang Xiuli. They threatened Wang Xiuli to prevent her from hiring a lawyer or requesting the release of her sisters.
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• Changsha City Court Sentences Ms. Song Fangming to Three Years in Prison without Evidence

  2010-05-02
  On September 28th, 2009, police broke into Ms. Song Fangming's mother's home. They arrested Falun Gong practitioner Song Fangming, her mother Zou Guihua, who is blind, and their maid. They also confiscated two cars on their property. The maid was released on the same day. Zou Guihua was not released until fifteen days later. Ms. Song, however, was prosecuted by the Tianxin District Procuratorate for crimes she didn't commit and sent to a detention centre in Changsha City.
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• Tyranny in Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-05-01
  Ms. Tang Suzhen is over 60 years old. When she was incarcerated in Chongqing Women's Forced Labour camp in 2005 she was locked up in a confined space, forced to squat for long periods of time, and stand in "military postures" for extended periods of time. Guards Hu Xiaoyan and Chen Yanyan instigated drug addicts Luo Deying, Zhao Qin and others to beat her, curse at her, tell her lies, force her to stand in the hot sun, physically punish her, add unknown drugs to her food, and only allow her to sleep for two to three hours a day. After two months of such torture she had become emaciated, her feet were so swollen that they wouldn't fit in her shoes, and she couldn't concentrate. During this time she was not permitted to see her family.
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• The Fuzhou City 610 Office's Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners During the Past Two Years

  2010-05-01
  Mr. Zheng Shizhen was arrested by police on January 10th, 2008, while handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He was detained at the Second Detention Centre in Fuzhou City. Later he was released. On March 27th, 2008, 70-year-old Ms. Zhao Fengrong was arrested by the Huada Police near Tongpan Elementary School. The police then raided her home and took away her computer, printer, CDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and other personal belongings. Zhao Fengrong was sentenced to three years in prison and she is currently imprisoned at the Fuzhou City Women's Prison.
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• The Persecution of a Retired Military Officer

  2010-05-01
  In 2002, Mr. Feng Xupeng, a retired military officer from Shanghai, was arrested and imprisoned for giving out DVDs that exposed the persecution of Falun Gong. Due to the brutal tortures he suffered, he can't do any physical work, gets easily tired, and his legs shake. His wife left him after being subjected to tremendous pressure by the authorities. Mr. Feng currently doesn't have a place to stay and is in financial difficulty. He recounts his persecution: "I was imprisoned for two years and six months in Shanghai City Third Forced Labour Camp. I had to do slave labour from dawn to dusk--making lawn lamps and wrapping stationary appliances for companies overseas. I was frequently beaten and kicked by many inmates."
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• Luzhou City, Sichuan Province: Ms. Wu Houyu in Forced Labour Camp for the Third Time

  2010-05-01
  Because Ms. Wu told people about Falun Gong in March and she carried four cards that were printed with, "Falun Gong is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." These became the grounds for her one-year forced labour term. In previous labour camp detentions Ms. Wu suffered brutal torture. Torture and abuse included long-term solitary confinement; brutal beatings; sleep deprivation; and being forced to stand facing a wall for many consecutive days and nights.
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• An Open Letter to 610 Offices, Chinese Police, Procurators and Legal Systems

  2010-04-30
  My name is Mei Xuan, and I am an Erhu player (traditional Chinese musical instrument) in the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company. I am writing this open letter as the wife of a detained Falun Gong practitioner. On February 18th, 2010, I was waiting for my husband, Jiang Feng, at Newark Airport, New York. After all the passengers had left, I still didn't see him. I had been longing for this reunion for a long time, ever since he obtained a visa to visit the U.S. But suddenly, he had disappeared, which made me so sad. I found out that State Security agents arrested him before he could board the airplane. He is now detained in the Luyang District Brainwashing Centre in Hefei City, Anhui Province. I cannot express the pain in my heart upon learning of this.
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• Lawyers for Qitaihe City Practitioners Defend Their Innocence During Trial

  2010-04-30
  A dozen police officers arrested six practitioners on September 22nd, 2009. Among them, Li Fengbo suffered late stage lung cancer as a result of the persecution and was released. On April 1st-2nd, 2010, the Qitaihe City Xinxing District Court tried the practitioners. Two attorneys defended two of the practitioners. When Qitaihe City authorities learned that the practitioners' families had hired attorneys to defend them in court, they immediately reported it to the Beijing Law Enforcement Bureau, which in turn pressured the law firms, attempting to force them not to defend the practitioners' innocence, but instead to plead only for reduced punishment. The authorities also harassed the attorneys with threatening telephone calls.
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• Persecution of Two Residents in Jincheng Town, Shuangchng City, Heilongjiang Province

  2010-04-30
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Hongliang is being detained at Jilin City No. 2 Prison. Another practitioner, Ms. Zhang Xiutian, died on January 13th, 2007. Ms. Zhang, 62 years old at the time of her death, previously had diabetes. After practising Falun Gong she quickly recovered from the illness. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the nationwide persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. Later Ms. Zhang left home to avoid further persecution. Over the next few years, officials attempted several times to arrest her but failed. The stress caused her previous illnesses to return, and she died as a result.
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• Beijing Police Harass Ms. Piao Lihua's Family in Shijingshan District

  2010-04-30
  Police broke into Ms. Piao Lihua's home to harass her family on April 14th, 2010. Ms. Piao's neighbours said that Ms. Piao has been unable to live a peaceful life for the past 13 years. She has been subjected to arrests, detention, and a forced labour term. She was also placed under surveillance, her phone was tapped, and the police once arrested her in the middle of the night. She was dragged down the stairs from the sixth floor feet first, and her clothes were almost completely stripped off in the process.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuzhi Died after Seven Years in Zhejiang Province Women's Prison

  2010-04-29
  In November 2001, Ms. Wang Yuzhi, 64, was arrested for talking to people about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution. She was sentenced to to eight years in Zhejiang Province Women Prison. Ms. Wang was forced take unknown drugs. In addition, she was compelled to labour for more than ten hours per day. Ms. Wang used to be very healthy, but after seven years in prison, she had become emaciated. On February 2009, the prison administration told her family pick her up, to distance themselves from responsibility for her poor condition. When she returned home, she could not eat. She did not respond to medical treatment. Her whole body soon became swollen and her health continued to deteriorate. Ms. Wang died on February 20th, 2010.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Bai Lizhu from Daqing Still Detained in Harbin Women's Drug-Rehabilitation Centre

  2010-04-29
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Bai Lizhu, 57, was arrested by the police at the end of 2009. Later, she was detained in Harbin Women's Drug-Rehabilitation Centre (a forced labour camp). Right before the New Year, her family went to the forced labour camp three times and finally got to see her. She came out with somebody holding her up by the arms. Ms. Bai said that she suffered from a stomach disorder. She is still detained in the drug rehabilitation centre.
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• Torture in Dalian City Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-29
  A practitioner who was tortured in Dalian City Forced Labour Camp recounts his ordeal: "In 2004, the leader ordered the person in charge of me to pull my arms apart and handcuff me between two metal beds. I was also forced to sit on a small stool and deprived of sleep. Two inmates were assigned to monitor me around the clock to try to make me renounce Falun Gong. At that time, except for my face, my entire body was covered with scabies, which itched beyond description. Bloody pus seeped out of the infected areas, but I was not allowed to wash. I had a splitting headache and quivered from the pain I felt everywhere. I often was in tears because of the pain--I simply couldn't help crying. They refused to release me."
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