Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Hainan Local Police Station in Hailin City Brutally Persecuted Ms. Ning Yan in 2005

    On the evening of March 4th, 2005, practitioner Ms. Ning Yan in her 50s, was arrested in NanLagu, Hailin City, by local police. Because Ms. Ning refused to give her name and address, the Hainan police chief beat her without restraint and handcuffed her to an iron chair for a whole night [Note: Because of the Chinese Communist Party's system of implicating and harassing Dafa practitioners' family members, friends and work associates, practitioners often refuse to give their name and address when they are arrested]. The next day, a police officer came to work and beat her again. Seeing that Ms. Ning was determined and would not yield, he used a glass bottle to pound Ms. Ning's head until only the neck of the bottle was left in the police officer's hand.
  • Police Brutally Torture Ms. Gai Xiulong in Shandong Province

    On December 19th, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Gai Xiulong saw local officials defacing a Falun Gong poster exposing the persecution in front of her house. Ms. Gai went over to persuade them not to do it. They then called the police and six or seven officers took Ms. Gai into custody. Police chief Cui Jianming used an electric baton to shock Ms. Gai in the face, legs, neck and other sensitive areas for nearly ten minutes. During that time, police officer Sun Libin punched Ms. Gai in the head four times. Ms. Gai was handcuffed for more than five hours before the police took them off.
  • Already Tortured To The Point Of Critical Injury, Ms. Lin Daihong From Baishan City Is Arrested Once Again

    On January 15th, 2008, the chief of police and head of the 610 Office in Baishan City, Jilin Province, instructed eight policemen to drive two police vehicles to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Daihong's home, and break into her home to arrest her for the second time. Ms. Lin had previously already been tortured to the point of critical condition in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp and had not yet recovered. She was taken directly to the labour camp again.
  • Years of Persecution and Suffering in the Lives of Ms. Song Guixiang and Her Family of Practitioners from Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province

    In July 1999, my mother couldn't stand Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime's slander of Falun Gong and we decided to go to Beijing to appeal. We arrived in Beijing on July 22nd, 1999, and went to the Appeals Office. The officers didn't allow us to go in. We went to Tiananmen Square on December 16th. My mother sat down and shouted "Falun Dafa is Good!" An officer kicked her fiercely. Her leg was broken and she couldn't stand up. The officers arrested us and sent us back to Jiaozhou City. After they took us back, I was locked in my workplace, my husband was locked up in a nursing home. My son was locked up in a psychiatric hospital, and my two daughters were locked up in the Fu'an Police Station. My mother was left alone at home with a broken leg and no one to take care of her. In 2001 I was arrested again. Traumatised, my mother's mental situation worsened. She cried and cried, wanting me to be released. She died in May 2002.
  • Prison Doctor Gao Rizheng Injects Unknown Drugs into Practitioner Li Fengmei

    Prison doctor Gao Rizheng of the Bayuquan District Detention Centre in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province ruthlessly tortures Falun Dafa practitioners with injections of harmful drugs. Gao Rizheng tortured Ms. Li Fengmei from 2003 to 2004. The guards brutally beat her many times, resulting in injuries to her head and left eardrum. She also suffered from internal bleeding and tuberculosis during her detention. The guards also force-fed Ms. Li Fengmei through her nose twice. The second time, they inserted the tube forcefully, resulting in internal injuries. The tube was covered with blood when it was pulled out. Soon after that, she suffered from frequent, acute stomachaches.
  • Accounts of Ongoing Persecution at the Wangcun Second Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Hongzhi, around 40 years old, is detained in the Third Division of the labour camp. Instructor Wang Yonghong ordered people to monitor her and torment her by forcing her to stand for long periods of time. She was not allowed to sleep during this time. By January 14th, 2008, Ms. Liang had stood for 20 days. Her legs were so swollen that the skin peeled. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Xiuhua was arrested and sent to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in 2005. During the past two years, Ms. Yu has been severely persecuted. The guards strictly monitored her. She was not allowed to take a shower, change clothes or get enough to eat for long periods of time.
  • Some Details about the Torture of Practitioners in Tumuji Forced Labour Camp

    Lu Zhiguo, a Falun Gong practitioner in his 50s, is from Chifeng City. Around July 2006, he was detained on the fourth floor of the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp. In the summer, Lu Zhiguo was forced to wear heavy clothes. The door and windows were tightly closed with the electric heater turned on. The volume of the speakers was set to the maximum. Lu Zhiguo was tortured this way for more than a week. Zhang Ting, is a fifty-five-year old Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng. He was once cuffed and chained to a bed for nine days. Zhang Ting was released only when his blood pressure became seriously high.
  • Middle School Teacher Zhang Minghui from Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province, Recently Arrested, His Wife and Baby Forced into Homelessness

    On January 25th, policemen from the National Security Bureau of the Jidong County Police Department, Heilongjiang Province, burst into the home of 36-year-old Mr. Zhang Minghui. Disregarding the safety of the older people and a baby, who was just a couple of months old, they grabbed personal property and took Mr. Zhang away to the police station. Mr. Zhang's wife saw her husband being humiliated and beaten by the police and tried to help him, but the police officers stopped her.
  • Ms. Mu Chunmei Has Been Detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for Nearly Two Years

    According to sources, Ms. Mu Chunmei was tortured during a hunger strike protesting the persecution. The guards and the labour camp doctors injured her teeth by prying her mouth open. For the more than 50 days she was on the hunger strike, the guards continued this brutal torture, trying to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. When her family came to visit her, they were usually not allowed to see her. When they sometimes actually got to see her, they were only allowed to visit for a few minutes.
  • Exposing the Persecution of Older Ms. Zhang Yulan at Tianjin Women's Prison in Hebei Province

    Ms. Zhang Yulan, in her 50s, was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in March 2002. Later she was imprisoned and tortured in Nankaiqu Detention Centre and then sent to Tianjin City Xiqing Detention Centre. She was sentenced to eight years by the Xiqing Court and she has since been imprisoned in the fourth ward of Tianjin Women's Prison. In the prison, the guards brutally tortured her. Due to long term persecution, Ms. Zhang's illnesses have recurred. Her health is now poor and she cannot not take care of herself.
  • I Was Disabled by Torture at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    In September, 2001, I was taken into custody by police officers and sent to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for two years. During that period, I was never allowed to sleep on a bed. While in the labour camp, I requested to practise the exercises. As a result, Wang Naimin, the director of the No. 1 Division, strapped me to a chair for about 10 days. Later, I was tied to some hooks that kept my arms outstretched for two months. At the end of 2002, the so-called "helping and education team" came to the labour camp and schemed to "transform" steadfast practitioners. In reality, they were there to cruelly torture practitioners. This time, my hands were hung up with my feet dangling below me. I was hung up for five days, then locked onto the heating pump in the hallway for about a month.
  • Ms. Ma Liqin Beaten into a Vegetative State While in Detention

    47-year-old Ms. Ma Liqin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. She was beaten into a vegetative state at the Beishan No.2 Detention Centre in Qitaihe City in March 2002 by policeman Yin Zhongliang. Yin kicked her with leather shoes and knocked her head against the wall. Ma lost consciousness immediately. The police thought she was faking it and kept punching her in the face. At present she is still in a vegetative state. She eats only when fed, is incontinent, and her family needs to take care of her around the clock. Her pension is being used to pay her medical bills.
  • Ms. Song Zhezi Suffers Mental Collapse from Torture in Prison, Her Daughter and Son-in-Law Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

    Ms. Song Zhezi, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2004. Her shop became bankrupt and her money in the bank was frozen. Ms. Song suffered a mental breakdown due to brainwashing and torture from the detention of more than three years in Hunan Province Women's Prison. Her daughter, Ms.Yuan Donglan, who is 30 years old, was forced to become destitute and homeless. Her husband, Mr. Liu Xiangling (also a practitioner) was surrounded and attacked by three plainclothes policemen in a hospital in Changsha City and was taken away.
  • Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia Brutally Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Practitioners are forced to perform hard labour in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp. For example, in the heat of the summer, they have to cut reed grass for four to five hours a day in the heavily polluted water canal. Educational section workers attempt to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, and write the so-called Guarantee Statement to renounce Falun Gong, "Regret Statement," etc. Practitioners who refuse are transferred to other teams to be humiliated and beaten. Even 70-year-old practitioners are brutally beaten.
  • Mr. Guo Baoshan from Yibin County, Sichuan Province Arrested Again for Seeking Justice for Falun Gong

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Baoshan was arrested in November 2007 for telling people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong and bringing a verbal complaint against former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime head Jiang Zemin, [instigator of the persecution]. Mr. Guo is now detained at the Baixi Detention Centre in Yibin County.