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• "Model Worker" Arrested Many Times for Practising Falun Gong

  2009-11-12
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gu Xuemin is almost 70 years old. Because she was a responsible, hard worker; she was honoured as a model worker every year for several decades. She has a big pile of award certificates. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, she remained steadfast in her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and she has been constantly harassed by the Chinese Communist regime. There have been many times that she was followed, arrested, held in a detention centre, and sentenced to jail. Her husband was frightened many times and became very ill as the result. He is now comatose.
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• Ms. Cao Junfeng of Weifang City in Shandong Province Has Been Sentenced to a Nine-Year Term

  2009-11-12
  On October 18th, 2009, the court of Hanting District in Weifang City, Shandong Province, tried 54-year- old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cao Junfeng. She was sentenced to a nine-year term just for following Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. As there is a 10-day appeal period, Ms. Cao Junfeng was detained in the Weifang City Detention Centre until October 28th, 2009. Ms. Cao has been imprisoned for one year and three months, since July 9th, 2008. The guards at the detention centre cruelly tortured her and her health deteriorated within one month after her arrest. She vomited often and there was blood in her stool. Ms. Cao's family members were prevented from visiting her.
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• Mr. Wei Guanghua Is on the Verge of Death after Six Years of Imprisonment

  2009-11-11
  Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wei Guanghua and sentenced him to nine years imprisonment. Mr. Wei has been persecuted for over six years in prison and his life is in danger. He is nearly 6 foot tall, and weighs less than 90 lbs. He started a hunger strike to protest his persecution and it has lasted for fifteen months up to now. He suffers brutal force feeding five to six time each day during the hunger strike.
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• Jiang Fuxiang's Husband Dies, Family Torn Apart

  2009-11-11
  Ms. Jiang Fuxiang, 60, began practising Falun Gong in 1995. Since then, her diseases were cured, and her mental health improved. However, in the last ten years, because of the persecution against Falun Gong, her home was raided twice, she was detained and arrested three times, sent to a labour camp three times, and detained for a total of four years. Her son was implicated. Her husband died from the anger and sorrow.
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• Unconscious and Near Death, Mr. Lu Yunlai is Released from Baimiao Forced Labour Camp

  2009-11-11
  In September 2008, police raided Mr. Lu Yunlai's home and arrested him. He was imprisoned in the Matou Detention Centre. After one year of forced labour he was transferred to the Baimiao Forced Labour Camp in November for further persecution. In June 2009, Mr. Lu Yunlai had become emaciated from torture. He was released for medical treatment after being diagnosed with late stage cancer. As of now, Mr. Lu Yunlai is unconscious and unable to take care of himself. He is incontinent and near death.
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• Practitioner Mr. Luo Guolong, 60, from Shenyang City Arrested and Persecuted for the Fourth Time

  2009-11-11
  Mr. Luo Guolong, a practitioner around 60 years old, was arrested by police on October 20th. Currently he is jailed at Shenbei Xinqu Detention Centre and is being persecuted there. This is the fourth time that Mr. Luo Guolong has been arrested and persecuted. In 2007, Mr. Luo Guolong went to a village and spoke to people about the persecution. He was arrested and the police violently beat him repeatedly using electric batons. When they saw that the electric batons could not "transform" Mr. Luo, they instead used a pair of handcuffs, that weighed over 33 pounds, to handcuff him. Eventually, Mr. Luo was sentenced to one and a half years in Shenxin Forced Labour Camp, where he was forced to do hard labour every day.
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• Police Officers from Fuyang City, Anhui Province Break into Practitioner's Home, Use Pepper Spray on Kids

  2009-11-10
  Police wanted to enter to Ms. Hou Yanqun's home at around 10:00 p.m. on August 26th, 2009. Ms. Hou however, rejected their request nut the policemen did not listen to her and kept kicking her door. Hou Yanqun's 16-year-old daughter heard the sound of the police kicking the door, and opened the door. The police immediately sprayed something in her face. The girl screamed with pain, "My eyes hurt. What did you spray on my face?" At this moment, Hou Yangqun's 8-year-old son woke up and came out. The officers sprayed the same thing in his face. He was in so much pain, he covered his face with both hands, jumped up and down, and screamed, "Mum, Mum, my eyes hurt!" A police officer admitted, "This is pepper spray!"
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• Ms. Wang Wanrong Upholds Her Belief Despite Relentless Pressure, Brainwashing and Torture

  2009-11-10
  Ms. Wang Wanrong, 55, went to Beijing in 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong. She and her family were then targeted for persecution by personnel from the 610 Office at the Oil Well Drilling Company in Nanyang City. Ms. Wang's husband was forced to divorce her. She was later sent to a brainwashing centre, to the Nanzhao Detention Centre, and to the Xinxiang Women's Prison. In prison, the persecutors often cursed and beat Ms. Wang. They rotated four groups of people to try to "reform" [brainwash] her in fifty days. In the end, they found it was impossible to make her denounce Falun Gong. She was then sent to do hard labour in a clothing workshop in the Second Prison District.
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• Mr. Song Guanghua Brutally Tortured

  2009-11-10
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Song Guanghua refused to give up his belief. As a result, he has been subjected to sleep deprivation, shocking with electrical batons on his eyes and mouth, as well as other tortures. He was later subjected to three years of forced labour and suffered various tortures at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. At the labour camp, Mr. Song was put in handcuffs and shackles. The scars caused by the handcuffing can still be seen today.
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• Mr. Yang Qing, 57, Dies as Result of Persecution in Liaoning Province

  2009-11-10
  In May 2001, police arrested Mr. Yang Qing, 57, when he was passing out Falun Gong informational fliers. They detained him for six months in the Lingyuan City Detention Centre. In November 2001 they took him to the Chaoyang City Forced Labour Camp. He was released in June 2002. Just 70 days later, police arrested him again and he was sentenced to two years of forced labour a few days later and again taken to the Chaoyang City Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Yang was released in June 2004. In July 2009, he was not feeling good and was diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer. He died on October 10th, 2009.
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• Ms. Chen Jianghong Dies as a Result of Repeated Injections of Unknown Drugs

  2009-11-09
  In October 2003, six months after she was released, police arrested Ms. Chen Jianghong a third time and sentenced her to another year of forced labour in the same labour camp. This time she was inhumanly tortured by "Punching the nail wall." This torture involves a wall full of sharp ended nails. Prisoners pulled Ms. Chen to a standing position with her body bent at a 90-degree angle and her head pointed towards the nail-studded wall. She was not allowed to move. If she did, the prisoners would pull her head and push it against the wall full of nails. Her head bled so badly that her eyes and head were swollen for a long time. Ms. Chen was forcibly injected with unknown drugs in each of the forced labour camps and eventually caused her death.
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• A Just Defence Moved the Court, But a Practitioner Is Still Sentenced

  2009-11-09
  Longquanyi District Court tried Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Changli on October 13th, 2009. Mr. Li's defence attorney, Mr. Du Peng, from Luotai Attorneys' Office in Luoyang City, Henan Province, provided a sound defence for his client's innocence. However, without any legal basis, the court still sentenced Mr. Li Changli to eight years of forced labour, following an internally pre-set term. President Yang Dejun of the Longquanyi District Court was the main judge.
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• District Court Judge Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province

  2009-11-09
  On July 7th, 2009, presiding judge, Zhao Yubin, participated in persecuting practitioners, including Mr. Yu Yungang, Mr. Fu Yu, Ms. Liu Xiufang, and Mr. Wu Zhigang. The Xiangyang District Court lied to the public that the trial would be open to the public, while they instead set up the temporary court at the Jiamusi City Detention Centre, in a rural area outside the city. On the morning before trial, Mr. Fu Yu's mother, relatives and friends went to the court and asked for the time of the trial but their request for this information was denied by Zhao Yubin, who said, "The trial time is not determined yet. Family members do not have the right to ask." Later, the families tried various channels and learned that the court had sentenced Mr. Fu Yu to five years in prison.
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• Ms. Zhang Ying Brutally Tortured

  2009-11-09
  Ms. Zhang Ying, 39 years old, is a resident of Shanghai. On September 8th, 2009, she was arrested by police while she was at her mother-in-law's home. When Ms. Zhang's father and mother-in-law asked why they arrested people and ransacked their homes without any legal documents, the police replied, "We arrest people first, then come up with the evidence later." At the police station she was hung up with her hands handcuffed behind her back and was then tortured by the officers. She passed out many times from the pain.
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• Mr. Qu Mingjun Severely Tortured and Seriously Ill but Held for Extended Term in Benxi Labour Camp, Liaoning Province

  2009-11-08
  After having been held in Benxi City Labour Camp, Liaoning Province for three years, Mr. Qu Mingjun, a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning Province, was supposed to be released in September 2009. On October 4th, Mr. Qu's wife went to the labour camp to take him home, but they refused to release him, saying that he would be held for another 45 days because he had not given up his practice of Falun Gong. They also did not allow her to visit her husband. Mr. Qu is in his fifties and due to the cruel torture he endured in the forced labour camp for three years, his health condition deteriorated. He has suffered from many serious diseases, including pneumonia, pleuritis, and heart disease, and has become emaciated.
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