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• Mr. Zheng Shoujun Tortured to Death in Liaoning Province

  2008-09-07
  Mr. Zheng Shoujun, 45, started practising Falun Gong in 1998, and he kept his faith after the persecution began in 1999. At the end of 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution, but was arrested and sentenced to three years of forced labour. In order to force to him give up his faith, the guards at the Zhangshi Labour Camp in Shenyang City tortured him over a long period of time. In a photograph here he is seen demonstrating one of the cruel methods of torture called "Chicken with a twisted neck."
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• Cruelly Tortured to Near Death at the "Judicial Enforcement Training Centre" in Beijing

  2008-09-07
  The "Judicial Enforcement Training Centre" at Tiantanghe in Daxing District of Beijing claims to enforce courts judgements, but this is far from the truth. On December 5th, 2001, I was arrested without a warrant and taken to the Beijing Judicial Enforcement Training Centre. I was imprisoned for fifteen months, cruelly tortured and had to undergo forced brainwashing. Several times I was near death from the torture. Before I was taken to the centre, the police beat me with rubber batons in a secret interrogation room at the Beijing Police Bureau.
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• Cases of Persecution in Guangdong Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-09-07
  Ms. Wang Xiaoyuan, 50, is a practitioner from Zhuhai City. She had been in very good health, but when she was released after 19 months in the forced labour camp, she needed to be carried out by three people. It was reported that the guards tortured her brutally, including beating her and forcing her to stand in a fixed position for long periods of time, which led to her being unable to walk or take care of herself. However, the camp authorities still did not release her on medical parole. Instead, two criminals were designated to monitor her.
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• Shenzhou City Authorities Search Practitioners' Homes

  2008-09-07
  On July 18th, 2008, officers from the Dafengying Township Police Station searched several practitioners' homes in Shenzhou City, Hebei Province. At each home, the agents checked the rooftop for the presence of a satellite dish. Then they ransacked every room, looking for Falun Gong books or materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. If they found anything, they extorted money from the practitioner (fines of between 7,000 to 10,000 yuan). Practitioners unable to pay the fines were arrested. When the agents could not find any materials, they questioned practitioners as to whether they still practised Falun Gong.
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• Ten-year-old Girl Brutally Beaten and Locked in an Iron Cage by Police

  2008-09-06
  On August 7th, 2008, ten-year-old Cheng Siying gave some materials about the persecution of Falun Gong to her teacher, Cheng Zhongtao, who immediately called the National Security Brigade and reported her. Then, Gou Yongqiong, commander of the National Security Brigade, and two other police officers came to Mengdingshan Town Elementary School immediately and arrested Cheng Siying. Cheng Siying's classmates witnessed Gou Yongqiong violently slap her face. She was shackled and handcuffed then locked in a small iron cage. Gou yelled curses at her non-stop. In the end, Gou gave every student in the school money to encourage them to turn in Falun Gong practitioners. However, some students did not take the money.
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• 610 Office Personnel from the Zhifu District in Yantai City Harass and Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Name of the Olympics

  2008-09-06
  Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used the Olympics to prolong its final days by painting a picture of a "peaceful and magnificent era" to deceive the world. But its main purpose is to drag the world's people down and to bury them along with it. Three months before the Games began, nine Falun Gong practitioners were detained in the Zhufu District in Yantai City. It is impossible to estimate the number of practitioners that have since been harassed, monitored, forced to leave home, and become destitute.
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• Lawyers Representing Falun Gong Practitioners in Liaoning Province Say China's Judiciary Violates the Law

  2008-09-06
  From August 4th to 8th, 2008, the Taihe District Court in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province put four practitioners on trial in a decision that stood outside the boundaries of any legality and did not follow Chinese court proceedings. Lawyer Li and Jiang remonstrated that all evidence against the practitioners was trumped up. They also put in evidence that the trial violated China's laws. Lastly, they charged that the officers tortured the practitioners during interrogation.
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• Crimes Committed by the Education System of Mancheng County in Baoding City, Hebei Province

  2008-09-06
  As the Olympic Games approached, officials with the Education System of Mancheng County in Baoding City, Hebei Province, deceived many teachers about an increased wage and seized their identity cards. Their goal was to prevent the teachers from leaving town arbitrarily. From July 1999 to 2002, the county educators required all the teachers and students to repeatedly write negative essays and slogans criticizing Falun Gong. All the teachers and students were told to signs their name on a "Guarantee Statement" not to participate in any Falun Gong activities. Some of the teachers in the education department that had learned about the practice before the persecution started were forced to write "I won't practise Falun Gong" on the Guarantee Statement.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officers Seal Off Village After Mr. Cui Zhanxiang's Case Is Disclosed on the Internet

  2008-09-05
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Zhanxiang, a resident of Liangtun Village, Botou City in Hebei Province, was arrested in May 2006. After he was forced to make a payment to the police, he was released. In June 2008, Mr. Cui was arrested again. Over a hundred residents of Liangtun Village then co-signed a letter asking the Botou City Court for his release. Police officers from the Botou City Department found out and threatened all of the co-signers of the letter, Mr. Cui's relatives, and their employers. Currently every entrance to the village is being blocked by people assigned by Xixindian Township officials. Everyone entering or leaving the village is investigated, in an attempt to keep information about the case from getting out. Currently Mr. Cui Zhanxiang is still being detained at the Botou City Detention Centre. Every day he is forced to perform physical labour and is physically abused.
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• "Falun Gong Doctor" Ms. Lu Yuying Arrested

  2008-09-05
  On August 8th, 2008, Ms. Lu Yuying was in her home when ten officers from the Chengguan Police Department forced their way in and arrested her. They also confiscated her son's school computer. Ms. Lu ran a clinic to treat burn victims and saw patients with different degrees of scalds and burns every day. She would comfort the patient as she worked and sometimes played music similar to the sounds of nature to soothe the patient. The patients called her "Falun Gong Doctor" because she had an affable manner and always thought of their plight. This good person was detained numerous times for practising Falun Gong. Her family still does not know her whereabouts and they are very worried.
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• Ms. Zhang Shuchun and Her Family from Xinzhuang Town, Zhaoyuan City, Repeatedly Persecuted

  2008-09-05
  Ms. Zhang Shuchun, 44, has been repeatedly persecuted by local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and police in recent years, simply because she upholds her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and strives to be a good person. Over the years she has been repeatedly detained and shuttled back and forth between detention centres and public security bureaus. Her home has been searched and her property confiscated several times. She was forced to wander about homeless due to the persecution. On January 8th, 2008, over 20 police broke into Ms. Zhang's home and forced her husband to disclose his wife's whereabouts.
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• Jining City Court Unjustly Sentences Three Practitioners

  2008-09-05
  Mr. Li Ruifeng, 44, used to suffer from second degree hearing loss. After practising Falun Gong, he made marked improvements. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution in 1999, he appealed many times. He tried to use his own experience to tell others that Falun Gong is good and a righteous way. He was arrested many times, was sentenced to three years of forced labour, and suffered from torture such as the "back cuff," severe beatings, and being kept outside in winter. Mr. Li Ruifeng has been held in the Jining City Detention Centre for 11 months and has been sentenced to a 3-year jail term.
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• Mr. Yu Zhenhua of Wucheng County, Shandong Province, Died as a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zhenhua, about 60 years of age, was a resident of Mazhuang Village, Wucheng County, Shandong Province. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong, local CCP personnel turned Mr. Yu's life upside down. The Wucheng County Police arrested him, attempted to brainwash him, extorted a large amount of money from him, and sentenced him to forced labour. During the brainwashing and other persecution, Mr. Yu suffered a relapse of his previous illnesses and died in the spring of 2008.
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• Court Denies Medical Treatment to Jinzhou Practitioners Maimed by Torture

  2008-09-04
  Between August 4th and 7th, 2008, four practitioners were in court to request medical treatment for the injuries that they sustained while in police custody. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court in the Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, denied medical treatment to Ms. Liu Fengmei and Mr. Huang Cheng. A vertebra in Ms. Liu Fengmai's lower spine was shattered six years ago after she fell from the third floor at Majiashan Forced Labour Camp as a result of torture. A metal implant was installed to reinforce her spine. When the guards in the Jinzhou Detention Centre beat her, the metal was bent out of shape. Ms. Liu now suffers from intense pain and has difficulty walking.
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• Employees of Tangshan Sanyou Group Company, Ltd. Persecuted at Manufacturing Plant

  2008-09-04
  During the Olympics and its Torch Relay, Falun Gong practitioners were tortured at their workplace, the Tangshan Sanyou Group Company, Ltd. The plant director organized the security department, the sub companies and other workshops to have meetings, and the Falun Gong practitioners were pressured from all levels of the plant. All plant directors are required to sign the guarantee statements to denounce Falun Gong. They monitored the practitioners to prevent them from appealing in public or participating in activities related to Falun Gong.
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