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• Ms. Sun Chongzhen and Mr. Chen Guiyun Arrested Again by 610 Office Agents in Junan County, Shandong Province

  2007-10-25
  Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Sun Chongzhen and Mr. Chen Guiyun were arrested by agents of the 610 Office and local police on October 8th, 2007. Mr. Chen was taken to a detention centre and his wife was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. In 2003 Ms. Sun Chongzhen was detained at a detention centre. During this period, she was tortured by being hung from the ceiling by her wrists and being put in solitary confinement. During this period, her mother-in-law and her brother passed away, and she was not allowed to see them for a last visit.
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• The Persecution Suffered by Mr. Qi Qingyuan and His Wife Ms. Liu Fengbo in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province

  2007-10-25
  Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Qi Qingyuan and Ms. Liu Fengbo, a couple, were arrested on June 13th, 2006, by National Security officials and they were sentenced to five and three years respectively. Ms. Liu Fengbo is currently in Liaoning Province Women's Prison. She has become very thin. The guards often instigate criminal inmates to beat and swear at her, attempting to mentally crush her. This prison is a hell in the human world. Practitioners are constantly violently forced to do very intensive labour making clothing, and every day they can only sleep for very short periods of time. When practitioner's families visit, two guards sit beside each practitioner, watching their every move.
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• Mr. Zheng Zhicheng Arrested Again, His Mother and Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2007-10-25
  Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zheng Zhicheng is a resident of Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. He has remained a steadfast practitioner despite being sentenced to forced labour twice. Each time, he was sentenced to three years, for a total of six years. During Mr. Zheng's imprisonment, his father died of grief. His wife was also sentenced to 15 months of forced labour and recently his mother was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour.
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• Yang Manzhi Subjected to "Death Bed" Torture in Benxi Forced Labour Camp

  2007-10-24
  As part of the coercive brainwashing, camp wardens have repeatedly forced practitioners to listen to, watch, read, and write materials that criticise Falun Dafa. Camp wardens hired collaborators [former practitioners who assist in brainwashing] to persecute firm practitioners. Those in charge deprive practitioners of sleep, force them to perform hard labour, and torture them in various ways. The steadfast practitioners were put into solitary confinement or tied to a "death bed." The death bed involves strait-lacing the victim's limbs and trunk with thin nylon cords to a bed frame for a long time. The cords can obstruct breathing and cut into the flesh. Practitioners on hunger strike are force fed.
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• I Was Imprisoned Four Times and Incarcerated for Seven Years

  2007-10-24
  On October 25th, 2001, I went to Tiananmen Square again and unfurled a banner that read, "Falun Dafa Is a Righteous Practice" on one side and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Is the Universal Law" on the other side. I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. I was beaten and was forced to perform labour during the day and I was forbidden to sit down while I worked. The work they made me do was packaging chopsticks, which I had never done before. I was ordered to put 8,500 pairs of chopsticks into paper holders each day, package them together, and get them into cartons. On the third night I was still not allowed to sleep.
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• Ms. Diao Xiuzhu's Family is Broken and Her Mother Dies Due to Persecution by Pengzhou City Officials

  2007-10-24
  Practitioner Ms. Diao Xiuzhu is from Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province. Her family has been destroyed and her mother has died as a direct result of the persecution by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials from Pengzhou City. Ms. Diao was put in a mental hospital for more than 290 days. She protested by going on a hunger strike and was brutally force-fed. As part of this torture they left the rubber tube in her nose for as long as a week. When the tube was removed it was all black. Thereafter they used a mouth opener to do the force feeding. It was also very painful. Then four or five people held her down. Use of the mouth opener ruined her teeth and mouth and there was always blood.
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• The Brutal Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners at Shanghai No. 3 Forced Labour Camp

  2007-10-24
  Xiang Jianzhong, famous for his cruelty, was the head of a team at the Shanghai No.3 Forced Labour Camp. He, along with guards Gao Jinlin and Chen Jiangong, continuously enforced the mental and physical torture of imprisoned practitioners. If a practitioner did not "transform" according to a guard's expectations, the guard would harass and torture the person for long periods of time. The practitioners would be forced to face the wall and stand still. They were not allowed to sleep, were beaten with electric batons, and locked in small cells. Practitioner Wang Wei, associate professor of the Fudan University Business School in Shanghai, was forced to stand still for long periods of time and locked in a small cell. When he was released after being held for 20 days, he was "skin and bones" due to the brutal torture.
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• Asking the World to Help Discover the Cause for Ms. Wang Yuhuan's Death

  2007-10-23
  On September 24th, 2007, Ms. Wang Yuhuan passed away in the Changchun City Forced Labour Camp Central Hospital. She was detained more than ten times by police. She suffered the torture method of "Tiger Bench" for three days and two nights. Her face was shocked and charred from being beaten with electric batons. Her eyeballs were burnt with cigarettes, and ears punctured with bamboo toothpicks.
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• Eight Practitioners in Qian'an City, Hebei Province, Recently Taken into Custody

  2007-10-23
  On October 11th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaoyuan, was taken away by the police and her home ransacked. Ms. Liu's whereabouts is currently unknown. On October 12th, Mr. Yuan Chunlin, was taken away by the police and had his home ransacked. The police seized his computer, printer, and TV antenna. Other practitioners were also arrested, had money extorted from them and tortured in a detention centre. They had all committed no crime. They only follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.
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• Police in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province Break Into Practitioners' Homes and Take Them Into Custody

  2007-10-23
  At about 4:30 a.m. on September 28th, 2007, the 610 Office and police departments in all counties and districts of Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province acted in unison to harass and arrest more than ten practitioners all over the city. The officers even dispatched cranes to break into the homes of practitioners through their windows. They made videotapes of practitioners against the practitioners' will. Ms. Wu Yuexia was sentenced to labour camp and others are still detained in the Shuangyashan City Detention Centre. It is reported that these arrests were planned by the 610 offices and police departments in all counties and districts of Shuangyashan City in a covert meeting which was held in Youyi County on September 27th.
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• Persecution Causes Wang Zhongli from Xinmin City, Liaoning Province to Suffer a Mental Collapse

  2007-10-23
  Mr. Wang Zhongli went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and inform people about the true nature of Falun Gong. He was arrested and sent to Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp, where he was detained and tortured for two years. During his detention, the police did not allow him to sleep, did not give him enough food, and tortured him for two months in order to try to force him to give up his belief. His employer also threatened to fire him if he did not give up his belief. Under this tremendous suffering, he went against his conscience and said he would give up believing in Falun Gong. After Mr. Wang was released, his employer fired him. And his wife divorced him due to not being able to handle the pressure. He was anguished about giving up the belief that had once given him a new life. Finally, Mr. Wang suffered a mental collapse.
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• Dafa Practitioner Mr. Cao Hongyan Tortured to Death in Jilin Prison

  2007-10-22
  Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cao Hongyan was sentenced to eight years imprisonment. On October 9th, 2007, he was tortured to death in Jilin Prison. Mr. Cao was sent to hospital on October 8th, 2007 after he lost consciousness from being tortured in Jilin Prison. When his family rushed to the hospital, they saw that Mr. Cao was intubated and being given oxygen. Mr. Cao was not moving. His left eye was closed, his right eye was half closed, and his mouth was open. After he passed away Mr. Cao's family members changed his clothes, and the corners of his mouth bled. There was a large patch of black bruises at the top of one of his thighs and a round mark on the right side of his chest. When Mr. Cao's family asked about the cause of his death, the police said it was a brain haemorrhage. However, the doctor said they did not confirm the diagnosis and did not even perform cerebral tests.
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• Mr. Lin Shanchun Dies as Result of Persecution in Chongqing City

  2007-10-22
  65-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lin Shanchun was repeatedly abused by police officer Wu Hongquan (male) from the Jingkou Station. Wu arrested Mr. Lin in 2005, causing him to be sent to a forced labour camp, where he was severely injured in both mind and body. His old illnesses recurred, and he could not take care of himself. The Camp Administration refused to spend the money to have him visit doctors, and then, fearing being held responsible, notified Wu Hongquan to pick him up. Lin Shanchun died on September 27th, 2007.
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• Cancer Survivor Ms. Luo Junlan Persecuted for Eight Years in Suining City, Sichuan Province

  2007-10-22
  I am Luo Junlan and I'm 54 years old. My family and I have been mercilessly persecuted for the last eight years because I practise Falun Gong. One day in April 2001, school director Huang Liyun ordered my 12-year-old son Luo Wen to his office. Once there, he slapped him on the face and said, "Your mother is a Falun Gong practitioner." Another teacher concurred saying, "The fact that his mother is practising Falun Gong implicates him." From then on my son was forced to leave school and he lost his chance for an education. Later, my son, not yet thirteen years old, left home and went to Yunnan Province to learn how to repair vehicles.
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• Crimes Committed by Agents of the Wuwei City 610 Office in Gansu Province and Others

  2007-10-22
  Under orders from the city administration and from the 610 Office, beginning on July 20th, 1999, the police began to harass the Falun Gong practitioners in their district by reporting on, registering, threatening, and monitoring them. All of the practitioners had to hand in their Falun Gong books, and any Falun Gong exercise tapes, and they had to submit guarantee statements [to abandon the Falun Gong practice and not travel to Beijing for appeals]. If they refused, they would be searched and fined and have their belongings confiscated. Practitioners were also required to report to officials every morning and evening. Within several days they would be told to show up for written reports.
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