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• Mr. Sun Xiaojun in Critical Condition after Abuse at Zhejiang Province No. 4 Prison

  2009-08-14
  Mr. Sun Xiaojun is a 32-year-old Falun Gong practitioner who resides in Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province. On numerous occasions, he was detained, sent to forced labour camps and sentenced to imprisonment. He most recently suffered severe persecution, including torture, at Zhejiang Province No. 4 Prison in Linping City. He is now in critical condition and cannot take care of himself. He used to be a healthy young man weighing about 65 kg (140 1bs.), but he had been persecuted to such a state that he is emaciated and weighs only about 35 kg (80 lbs).
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• Ms. Ha Jingbo, a Secondary School Teacher, Has Been Detained Beyond Her Term

  2009-08-14
  Ms. Ha Jingbo was a teacher at the No. 4 Secondary School of Dongfeng County in Jilin Province. Because she practised Falun Gong, she was incarcerated at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City. July 2nd, 2009 was the date that Ha Jingbo was to be released after fulfilling the one-year term and an additionally imposed 5 days, but the labour camp refused to release her. The Politics and Law Committee of Dongfeng County and the 610 Office only informed Ha Jingbo's school and did not inform her family members. When the family went to get Ha Jingbo, the personnel from the Labour Camp claimed that Ha Jingbo was "too stubborn" and refused to be "transformed."
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• Ms. Wu Shunzhen from Nanjing City Arrested and Tortured Again

  2009-08-14
  On July 23rd, 2009, Ms. Wu Shunzhen was arrested by police while she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Xinjiekou. The second morning she was sent to the Nanjing Detention Centre. It is said that Wu Shunzhen, who is 55 years old, had already been followed by the police for three days. While upholding her right to practise Falun Gong, Ms. Wu Shunzhen has been persecuted continuously by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. She was once detained in the Nanjing Brain Hospital, the Qinglongshan Mental Hospital, the Nanjing Detention Centre, the Jurong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province as well as the Nanjing Women's Prison.
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• Mr. Li Shaotie Tortured in Two Forced Labour Camps

  2009-08-14
  Mr. Li Shaotie, 56 years old and a Falun Gong practitioner has been arrested several times because he didn't give up practising Falun Gong. Three of his four immediate family members were imprisoned. Mr. Li Shaotie recounts: "While I was detained in the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp, police officers and detainees beat and cursed me frequently. Officials in the labour camp used several torture methods and one of them was called the "iron chair." Once, I was tortured this way for three consecutive weeks. When they released my arms and legs, I couldn't even walk. In the labour camp, practitioners were constantly subjected to all kinds of torture, such as electric batons, the iron chair and the "dead person's bed.""
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• A Summary of My Torture Experiences at the Dalian City Forced Labour Camp and Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-08-13
  Because I practise Falun Gong, the police arrested me in 2000. I was eventually given two years of forced labour. Dalian City Forced Labour Camp guards repeatedly tortured me to give up Falun Gong. I was forced to bend down in painful positions and tortured to the point where my whole body was covered with scabies. I had bloody urine and developed a fever. Doctors at the hospital said I would die soon so the labour camp released me. Later I was sent back to the labour camp. Because I refused to recite the labour camp rules they locked me up in a small metal cage. The guards pulled my hands as far away from my body as physically possible and handcuffed each of my hands to the metal cage. Because of the intense physical pain I lost control of my excretory functions.
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• Health Renewed after Practising Falun Gong But Persecuted for Not Giving Up the Practice

  2009-08-13
  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) birth control policy wrecked Ms. Fu Ying's health. After practising Falun Gong, her illness disappeared. When the CCP started the persecution, she was forced into a miserable situation. Police ransacked Ms. Fu's home and confiscated all of her Falun Gong books. She was sent to a brainwashing facility. Her mother was bedridden when the police broke into her home. She was very frightened and her illness became worse. She passed away shortly afterwards. In 2005 Ms. Fu was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. Practising Falun Gong helped Ms. Fu to become pain free and renew her life, but the CCP has repeatedly persecuted her during the past few years.
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• Elderly Man on the Verge of Death After Being Sentenced in Huili County, Sichuan Province

  2009-08-13
  After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Gao Guangchong was placed in leg irons and handcuffs, and was subjected to force-feeding. He was arrested eleven times, sent to labour camp, and forced to leave home to avoid further persecution twice. His home was ransacked numerous times, as well. Currently Mr. Gao's entire body is swollen from torture in Wumaping Prison, and he has been hospitalized in critical condition. His children went to the prison, saw the condition he was in, and requested that the prison release him. They have yet to hear from the prison.
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• Retired Professor from Chengdu City Jailed for Talking to People about Falun Gong Outside a Courthouse

  2009-08-13
  Ms. Tang Yuan, a 67-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, is a retired associate professor from the Central Culture Management Cadre College. On April 29th, she was talking to people about Falun Gong outside the courthouse where Falun Gong practitioner Chen Changyuan was being tried. She was later arrested near Fangcao Street Police Substation. Her home was searched, as well. Tang Yuan is still jailed at the Chengdu City Detention Centre.
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• Mr. Xu Bin's Seven Years of Incarceration and Torture

  2009-08-12
  Prior to the Communist regime's initiation of the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, 40-year-old Mr. Xu Bin worked at the Dukou Steel & Iron Factory in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. Over the next several years, Mr. Xu suffered severely under the persecution. He eventually left Wumaping Prison in Muchuan County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province in 2009, after enduring constant brainwashing and savage torture. However, another practitioner Liu Tianhou died as a result of torture at the Wumaping Prison.
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• Mr. Zhang Xingye Brutally Beaten by Daqing City Prison Personnel in Heilongjiang Province

  2009-08-12
  Mr. Zhang Xingye, a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally tortured by the guards in Daqing City Prison recently. Guards used sticks to beat Mr. Zhang, which resulted in wounds all over his body. Handcuffs were put on his hands and fetters on his feet. He was left outside in the scorching sun for a long time, which caused Mr. Zhang to suffer heat stroke, and he had difficulty breathing. Mr. Zhang's father, who is 70, went to the Daqing City Prison to visit his son many times, but was turned away every time.
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• Mr. Zhou Xiangyang on Hunger Strike for Over a Year

  2009-08-12
  It has been over one year since Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Xiangyang started a hunger strike at the Gangbei Prison. In May 2009, because he was in critical condition, his family requested that he be released on bail for medical treatment. The prison officials agreed, however the prison stipulated that the family transfer Mr. Zhou's registered permanent address from Tianjin City to an address that was under the 610 Office's jurisdiction. Mr. Zhou's family refused to cooperate. Mr. Zhou weighs only 50 pounds.
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• Ms. Tang Min from Hunan Medical University Held In Mental Hospital

  2009-08-12
  In May 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tang Min, from Hunan Medical University, was put into a mental hospital by her employer because she refused to give up her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Ms. Tang was injected with nerve-damaging drugs at the hospital, and she has yet to regain her freedom. After each injection, her body becomes cold, resulting in shivering and uneasiness. According to knowledgeable people, this type of drug damages the central nervous system, leading to slower reactions and other harmful effects.
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• Mr. Yang Guiquan's Family Seeks Justice for His Death to No Avail, a Hundred Policemen Are Dispatched to the Funeral

  2009-08-11
  On July 19th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Yang Guiquan's body was cremated. There were approximately a hundred policemen present. When Mr. Yang's friends went to the home to request to see Mr. Yang's body one last time, the security guards replied, "You can take a look at anyone else, but not Yang Guiquan." When Mr. Yang Guiquan, 45, was imprisoned at the Xindi Detention Centre in Fuxin City, he was tortured and died on July 5th, 2009. Major wounds appeared on his back as well as on the back of his skull. Signs of electric shocks were also observed on his legs. Mr. Yang's friends had tried to hire a lawyer to investigate the crimes committed by the authorities. However, none of the local lawyers dared to work on Mr. Yang's case. They were told, "Liaoning's People's Courts has recently released a document prohibiting lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioners."
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• A Large Family Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party

  2009-08-11
  A large family in Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Mr. Wang Junru (father), Ms. Zhang Qingrong (mother), Mr. Wang Liang (son), Ms. Zhao Guoyun (daughter-in-law), Ms. Wang Jing (daughter), Mr. Zhao Xiaoming (son-in-law), and two children, Wang Xueting (female) and Zhao Hu (male) were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they were Falun Gong practitioners. When the persecution started, one of the children was less than six years and the other only several months old.
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• Elderly Lady Experiences Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Police Brutality

  2009-08-11
  On August 20th, 2008, I went to distribute flyers about Falun Gong near Jilin Prison. I met a guard from the "joint defence." The guard was about 60 years old. I explained the facts about Falun Gong to him. Instead of listening, he beat me. As a result, my face was injured and turned black. There was a big bump under my left eye and my mouth bled. Three policemen held my arms while the other grabbed my hair. They dragged me and threw me against a wall from a distance of five metres. I heard a "thud," and the back of my head hit the wall firmly, making me dizzy. They threw me against the wall repeatedly, four or five times. I was so dizzy that I could not stand up. They ripped out clumps of my hair.
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