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• Mr. Zhao Zemin of Henan Province Disabled from Torture in Xuchang Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Zemin was arrested by 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents and Domestic Security Division officials on May 22nd, 2008. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour and taken to the Xuchang City Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Zhao was tortured at the labour camp and is now disabled. It was not until December 28th, 2009, given demands by his family, that Mr. Zhao was released.
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• Becoming Healthy after Cultivating Falun Gong Taken as Evidence to Justify a Forced Labour Camp Sentence

  2010-04-03
  Ms. Diao Kaiyun, in her sixties, once had many problems. After she began practising Falun Gong, all of them disappeared. However, once the persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Diao was arrested, detained many times and sentenced to a forced labour camp. The police even took the fact that she became healthy by practising Falun Gong as evidence to justify the sentence. She was detained in Nanmusi Prison. Those in charge beat her frequently and deprived her of food. Sometimes they took Diao Kaiyun, who was just wearing thin clothes, outside and doused her with cold water. They also frequently woke her up in the middle of the night and tortured her all night. Continuous torture gradually caused her health to deteriorate and her health problems all returned, including psoriasis, anaemia, heart disease, and stomatitis. She was tortured to the verge of death.
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• Mr. Han Zhong Blinded by Cruel Police Beatings While Secretly Locked Up for Six Years of Imprisonment

  2010-04-02
  Mr. Han Zhong from Tongling City, Anhui Province was subjected to detention from May to June last year. It is said that at the end of last year, the police secretly locked him up for six years of imprisonment without following due legal process. Before that, Mr. Han had many times suffered persecution and was even beaten so severely by police officers from the Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province that he lost his eyesight, becoming permanently blind. His parents and other family members have also suffered long-term harassment. When Mr. Han Zhong was persecuted in the Nanhu Forced Labour Camp during the summer of 2001, he suffered harsh torture. It is said that the police hung him from the bars on the windows around the clock for over two weeks.
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• Practitioner Cong Rixu Jailed for Four Months, His Lawyer Arrested and Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

  2010-04-02
  On June 16th, 2009, the Kanjingzi Regional Court of Dalian City held a trial for Cong Rixu. With the aid of Mr. Cong's defence lawyers the court did not announce a judgment. Communist Party officials arrested lawyer Mr. Wang Yonghang after the trial and Mr. Cong was later sentenced to three years in prison even though neither his family nor his lawyers were informed. Mr. Cong said of his treatment by police, "On March 2nd, 2009, four policemen took me out of the cell for interrogation. They tried to photograph me and take my fingerprints, but I refused to co-operate. A team leader kicked my back, struck me several times, slammed my head against the wall four to five times, and kicked me until I fell down."
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• Two Daughters Arrested Again after Calling for Justice for their Late Father, Mr. Jiang Xiqing

  2010-04-02
  On March 2nd, 2010, two daughters of late Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Jiang Xiqing, were arrested again because they went to the the agents of the Chongqing 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and called for justice to be served for the death of their father. They had filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Chongqing First Middle Court. When the family demanded the sisters' release the secretary of the district Political and Judiciary Committee, said, "They will be free if they write a statement promising they will not hire an attorney; otherwise, they will be 'educated' for more than ten days."
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• Xuhui District Court Officials in Shanghai Attempting to Sentence Practitioners Mr. Zhang Qin, Ms. Li Yaohua and Others

  2010-04-02
  Five Falun Gong practitioners were arrested on June 4th, 2009, by police. On October 14th, Xu Zhenhui from the Xuhui District Procuratorate filed trumped up charges against these five practitioners. It was recently learned that the Xuhui District Court set a court date for March 18th, 2010 to try these practitioners. One of the arrested practitioners, Mr. Zhang Qin, 54, has been arrested six times since the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th,1999, and he was jailed at Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison for four years.
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• Details Surrounding the Death and Torture of Mr. Jiang Bingzhi at Suihua Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-01
  Fifty-nine-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Bingzhi was sent to the Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in October 2008, where he was savagely tortured and left at the brink of death in August 2009. Labour camp officials then notified his family to come see him at the Beian Hospital, the first visit since his arrest. His family saw bruises on his legs. Mr. Jiang died a few days later on August 26th, 2009.
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• Ms. Xu Shihua from Nong'an County, Jilin Province Dies Due to Persecution

  2010-04-01
  Ms. Xu Shihua is a practitioner from Jilin Province, who after the persecution of Falun Gong started, endured long-term detention, as well as constant harassment and pressure. In 2002, Ms. Xu was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. The police nonetheless ransacked her home in her absence. The police went to her son's home and handcuffed him to a heating pipe while interrogating him about his mother's whereabouts. They also went to the homes of Ms. Xu's parents, sisters and brothers, searching for her. When Ms. Xu was homeless, she didn't have enough warm clothes in the winter or enough money to live on. Her health deteriorated. After suffering severely both mentally and physically, she passed away on January 18th, 2010, at the age of 58.
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• Tangshan City Steel Mill Technician Ms. Shao Liyan Suffers Mental Collapse Due to Psychiatric Abuse at Ankang Hospital

  2010-04-01
  Ms. Shao Liyan went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in 2000. She was later incarcerated at the Ankang [Mental] Hospital, where she was subjected to psychiatric torture and abuse which resulted in her suffering a mental collapse. She has not recovered. According to another practitioner who was also held at the Ankang Hospital, practitioners' limbs twitched and became numb following forced injections or drugs forcibly administered by mouth, and their minds became sluggish. They encountered overall weakness and restlessness, and were unable to sit down or sleep with ease. Some even fell unconscious.
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• More Than 400 Falun Gong Practitioners Are Being Held in Shandong Province Women's Prison

  2010-04-01
  Miss Liu Zhimei, who was #1 in academic achievement in Shandong Province, was given a waiver for the high school college entrance exam, and was then accepted by Tsinghua University, was dismissed by the university in March 2001 for practising Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison in Beijing. Subsequently she was taken to the Shandong Province Women's Prison and tortured, which affected her mentally. Before being released in November 2008, she was injected with unknown drugs. On her third day at home, she suddenly suffered a mental collapse and has not yet recovered.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yin Fengqin Dies During Arrest at Home

  2010-03-31
  On January 29th, 2010, Chang Zheng, a member of the Jilin Province 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) led police officers to 63-year-old Ms. Yin Fengqin's home to arrest her. After the officers forced their way into her home, Ms. Yin suddenly plunged from the fifth floor balcony, shattering her skull, fracturing her arms and legs, and forcing her ribs through her skin. Although she was taken to Yanbian Hospital, she had already died.
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• Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Still Brutally Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

  2010-03-31
  "My name is Wang Jinfeng and I am 46 years old. On March 5th, 2008, for the second time I was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. First they used brainwashing so that I would agree with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lies and be voluntarily 'transformed' [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. On March 20th, I was sent to the sweatshops where clothing is made. They force practitioners to do hard labour. Each one suffered unbearably both mentally and physically. The workshop was filled with a horrific atmosphere. Ma Guimei, a drug addict and criminal inmate, helped the guards. She beat up and verbally abused other inmates at will."
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• Mr. Huang Guang Arrested Again and Unable to Reunite with Family During the Lantern Festival

  2010-03-31
  It was the Lantern Festival on February 28th, 2010 and families were having a happy reunion and enjoying the New Year together. But on this day, Falun Gong practitioner Huang Guang, 46, was on his way home when he met someone and told him about the persecution of Falun Gong. Soon he was arrested by police. Mr. Huang was arrested and imprisoned numerous times for practising Falun Gong. Mr. Huang went to Beijing twice to tell people about Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained.
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• Severe Persecution Causes Ms. Huang Juan to Develop Mental Disorder

  2010-03-31
  Ms. Huang Juan is 21 years old and lives in Shengli Oil Field, Dongying City, Shandong Province. As a result of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong, she has developed severe mental disorders and has often run away from home. On March 1st, 2010, police found Ms. Huang about 3 kilometres away from home. After the officers questioned her, they searched her backpack and found Falun Gong books. Then, they arrested her and took her to the Dongying City's State Security Division. Previously, Ms. Huang was sent to the Jinan Detention Centre's Wangcun brainwashing sessions, subjected to persecution and forced to quit school.
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• The Two-Year Persecution of Ms. Bai Xia in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City

  2010-03-30
  I was arrested by police when I was distributing information about Falun Gong in Bayan County. I was detained in the detention centre until November 2004 and then taken to the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp to serve a two-year term. In Wanjia Forced Labour Camp we were forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong. In the afternoon, we were forced to perform hard labour, and in the evening, we were forced to discuss the video we watched in the morning. Once, after I said that Falun Gong is not a cult and that all my mother's illnesses disappeared after practising Falun Gong, they put me in a small, dark room. Three guards (two women and one man, team leader Yao, who is in his 40s) beat me brutally and then hung me up. Yao shocked me with an electric baton around my neck. It was so painful that I screamed. Later my face became swollen, with many big blisters.
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