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Five Practitioners in Chongqing City Recently Sent to Forced Labour Camp
2009-07-04Practitioner Ms. Tan Yinxiang was arrested at noon on March 16th, 2009. That night a group of three or four police ransacked Ms. Tan's home. Her daughter tried every possible way to find out where Ms. Tan was taken, but by the end of March, she still had no clue. Ms. Tan is currently jailed at the Shabao Women's Forced Labour Camp and has been sentenced for two years forced labour. Four other practitioners in the area were also arrested and sent to forced labour. -
Three Falun Gong Practitioners Secretly Sentenced in Heilongjiang Province
2009-07-04On June 18th, 2009, the Jinshantun Court of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province secretly opened a session and gave long sentences to three Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Zhang Peixun, Mr. Zhang Yongsheng and Mr. Li Congfu were given prison sentences of nine, eleven, and eight years, respectively. It was clear that the judge intended to convict the three practitioners with a charge of interfering with the implementation of law. When the practitioners' lawyers asked which law the practitioners interfered the implementation of, the judge could not respond. The three practitioners have submitted an appeal of the unjust sentences. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xixian Arrested and Robbed by the Police, then Forced to Leave Home to Avoid Further Persecution
2009-07-04Ms. Zhu Xixian, over 50 years old, is a practitioner from Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. Since last year, she has been arrested and detained by the police twice, and had large amounts of money extorted from her. Each time she was persecuted to the brink of death. Ms. Zhu was able to flee to freedom, but now she is forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution. -
Mr. Guo Xingguo Dies One Month after Being Released from Prison in Heilongjiang Province
2009-07-03Mr. Guo Xingguo, around 40 years old, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after attempting to go to Beijing to appeal against the persecution in 2002. In 2003, he was released because he was dying as a result of torture. But in 2004 he was imprisoned again. He became ill again and died on June 3rd, 2009. -
Ms. Fang Min Tortured to the Verge of Death at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2009-07-03Forty-something-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fang Min was severely persecuted at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp and her life was in danger. She had symptoms of cancer, her four limbs were swollen and she was not able to speak. The forced labour camp issued a notice for her to be released on bail for medical treatment on June 8th, 2009. The local police station came to take her back on June 9th and she was sent home the same day. -
Chongqing City Politics and Law Committee Secretary Wan Fenghua Forces Mr. Jiang Xiqing's Family to Forfeit Legal Proceedings
2009-07-03In January 2009, guards in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City beat practitioner Mr. Jiang Xiqing until he was unconscious. While he was still alive, the guards cremated him. In the afternoon on May 13th, lawyers Mr. Zhang Kai, and Mr. Li Chunfu from Beijing were in the victim's home providing legal assistance and investigating the case when they were detained, beaten, and interrogated for over five hours. There were over twenty police officers at the scene. To force Mr. Jiang's family to abandon legal proceedings, Jiangjin District Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politics and Law Committee Secretary Wan Fenghua increased the threats and persecution against Mr. Jiang's family. -
Ms. Guan Hua Severely Tortured by Wanjia Forced Labour Camp Guards
2009-07-03On February 1st, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guan Hua was sentenced to one year and six months of "re-education" through forced labour in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. The guards attempted to force the practitioners to take a so-called test. The guards decided that Ms. Guan failed her "examination," so they forced her to stand on a stool, then pulled both hands behind her back. A guard tied her hands with one end of a rope, then passed the another end through a heating pipe above a window, while two other guards pulled forcefully on the rope. Ms. Guan then hung helplessly in the air. In order to cover up their torture activities, guard Jiang Tao used adhesive tape to cover Ms. Guan's mouth. -
Mr. Liang Yuncheng Tortured to Near Blindness; Family Members Are Not Allowed to Visit
2009-07-02Mr. Liang Yuncheng, 42, a resident from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province, was arrested for practising Falun Gong. He was detained for more than three months and tortured to near blindness. Recently, the director of the Fengcheng Detention Centre called Mr. Liang's brother and told him that Mr. Liang needed a defence lawyer for his upcoming trial. When Mr. Liang's brother went to the detention centre to find out more about the case, the guards would not let him in the building. -
Shijiazhuang Prison Refuses to Release Mr. Li Feng, in Critical Condition
2009-07-02Mr. Li Feng is imprisoned at the Fourth Prison of Shijiazhuang City. He is in critical condition, but the prison administration refuses to release him to get medical help. Mr. Li developed many severe illnesses as a result of persecution after he was imprisoned in 2002. In 2005, he was in a coma for 14 hours after he was forced to work under 113 degree Fahrenheit conditions in a tube factory. By June 2nd, 2009, Mr. Li had high blood pressure. He also suffers from uncontrollable vomiting. Mr. Li is in critical condition yet the prison refuses to release him. -
Mr. Xu Dawei Cruelly Tortured in Prison Before He Died at Age 34
2009-07-02Mr. Xu Dawei, 34, was from Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Mr. Xu was persecuted for eight years by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in four prisons. Mr. Xu was tortured in a number of ways: violent brainwashing, being forced to wear handcuffs and shackles for extensive periods of time, brutal beatings, being hung up, force-feeding, being beaten with a rubber hose, being pierced with a steel needle more than 10 cm long, and electric baton shocks. Just 13 days after returning home, on February 16th, 2009, Mr. Xu died. -
Villager in Donggang City, Liaoning Province, Arrested and Persecuted until Critically Ill
2009-07-02On September 25th, 2008, when Ms. Zhao Guiqin was doing housework at home, police arrested and detained her at the Donggang Detention Centre. On December 12th, 2008, Ms. Zhao was secretly sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment by the public security and procuratorate authorities and the people's court. At present, Ms. Zhao can no longer walk due to the brutal torture, but the Donggang Procuratorial Judicial and Public Security Committee refuses to release her. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Nailun from Mengyin County, Shandong Province Suffers Years of Persecution
2009-07-01Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, the County 610 Office agents detained Mr. Liu Nailun, 40, in brainwashing centres twice, four months in all. He eventually served three years in a forced labour camp, followed by a four-year prison sentence. His wife was forced to divorce him. Liu Nailun did not give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance during his four-year prison term and returned home with his head held high. He lost all of his possessions. He has found a menial job and lives a hard life. -
Practitioners Viciously Beaten and Tortured in Laizhou City Domestic Security Division in Shandong Province
2009-07-01On August 8th, 2008, Laizhou City police scaled the wall of the place where I was staying and arrested me and took me to Dianzi Brainwashing Centre. During the 12-day detention in the brainwashing centre, there were eight days when I was hung up [by handcuffed wrists] and deprived of sleep. Because my arms were cuffed for so long, I couldn't move them at all after I was finally let down. My legs and feet were swollen to the point that I couldn't wear my shoes. My hands had no feeling and I couldn't straighten my fingers. Now that seven months have passed, I still have numbness in my hands, and my ears sometimes ring. My left arm still hurts and I can't move it very quickly. -
Ms. Yuan Shuzhe Tortured at Twelfth Police Station in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
2009-07-01On February 19th, 2005, police arrested Ms. Yuan Shuzhe in front of the Shijilianhua Market. At he police station, Ms. Yuan's hands were handcuffed behind her back. They stepped on her to make her squat. Then the short torturer squatted before her, and while holding her chin, asked, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" She would not answer. They repeatedly struck her head with full water bottles for a time until the short torturer asked again, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" Still, she did not answer. All three of the torturers beat her head. The two tall torturers stretched her arms upward as far as they could, inserted a needle into the tip of her right middle finger until it was about halfway in, then he turned the needle and pulled it out. -
Ms. Sun Min Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances While Her Husband Is Arrested
2009-07-01Mr. Wu Yang and his wife Ms. Sun Min went to Beijing to avoid being harassed and persecuted by their local Chinese Communist Party officials. On April 22nd, Mr. Wu Yang was distributing Falun Gong DVDs and was arrested. On April 28th, police sent Ms. Sun Min's family a "Death Notice" which stated: "On April 23rd, Sun Min was found dead as a result of falling from a height." However, Ms. Sun's family found marks of torture on her body, head, shoulder, neck, wrists and hands.