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• Sanhe City Detention Centre Transfers Many Practitioners to Prison

  2007-09-18
  On July 18th, 2007, authorities at the Sanhe City Detention Centre transferred seven practitioners to Jidong Prison in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Mr. Zhou Chuanzhong cannot walk by himself due to the mistreatment to which he has been subjected. Supported by three people, he walked out to see his family. He could not speak and was in a confused state. His head and face were so swollen that it was almost impossible to recognise him. He was wearing a card on his chest that said "Strictly control." His family requested his release for medical treatment, but it was denied.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Yantai, Beijing, and Baoding City Died as a Result of Persecution

  2007-09-18
  52-year-old Ms. He Wenzhi went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong three times. As a result, she was detained in a detention centre. Because the Communist officials often harassed and threatened her and her family, Ms. He decided to go into exile to avoid further persecution. When she returned home she was arrested again and sentenced to two years of forced labour. Wangcun Forced Labour Camp guards brainwashed Ms. He Wenzhi and subjected her to sleep deprivation. Ms. He endured physical deprivations and mental torment and eventually developed leukaemia. She had no strength and her face was pale. She returned home in the spring of 2006. She died on December 29th, 2006, after having endured the illness-induced pain for six months.
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• More Information Regarding Zheng Handong from Hubei Province Who Was Persecuted to Death

  2007-09-17
  Falun Dafa practitioner Zheng Handong was persecuted to death in Shayangfanjiatai Prison on August 8th, 2007; he was only 44 years old. Zheng Handong was arrested in Nanchang City in 2002. He developed hypertension and heart disease after the brutal treatment. In May 2007, Mr. Zheng was hospitalised in the prison hospital in critical condition. On August 7th his family members visited him and he was able to carry on a conversation with them. They were on their way home on August 8th when the prison called them to say that Zheng Handong had died. The death certificate stated that the cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage, but family members have doubts. If it were a cerebral hemorrhage, first, how could he have awakened clear-headed from a coma? Second, there were no neurological manifestations such as distortion of the mouth, eye, etc.
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• Gross Abuse of Older Practitioner Ms. Xu Jinying at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

  2007-09-17
  On April 7th, 2007, police arrested and ransacked the house of 58-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Jinying. She was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Xu Jinying went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards force-fed her cruelly each day. She sustained severe stomach injuries from long-term insertion of the feeding tube. In order to prevent her from pulling out the tube, the guards trussed her upper body and head with a rope, thus keeping the tube in place all the day, which caused her nonstop suffering. She was emaciated.
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• Yi Xiangyang Tortured in Shandong Province Prison and His Arm and Leg Broken

  2007-09-17
  In October 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yi Xiangyang was arrested by the police. The police ordered criminal inmates to beat him with an iron bar and force him to eat urine and faeces. After suffering brutal torture for almost eight days, he appealed to the local Procuratorate, but they gave him no answer. In May 2005, Mr. Yi was sentenced and detained in Shandong Province Prison. In the prison, former practitioners, who had given up cultivation under the pressure of brainwashing and torture, took turns beating and verbally abusing Mr. Yi while trying to brainwash him. After seven days of abuse, Mr. Yi sustained a broken rib.
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• Savage Acts in Daqing Prison: Practitioners' Clothes Are Torn and Burned, Their Heads Shaved, They Are Put in Solitary Confinement

  2007-09-17
  Guards and inmates at Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province are cruelly persecuting practitioners who are detained there. The abuse includes having their clothes torn and burned, their heads shaved, being beaten, and being put in solitary confinement. Family members are also not allowed to visit them. At the beginning of August, a rule was made that practitioners were not allowed out in the fresh air. During the summer, even though it was over 30 degrees Celsius, the practitioners were crammed in a cell no more than several dozen metres square with more than 100 criminal inmates. Criminal inmates are placed beside every practitioner to monitor his activities.
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• Mr. Sui Yanzhang Tortured beyond Recognition at Changliu Detention Centre in Jilin Province

  2007-09-16
  For material gain, Changliu Detention Centre officials made their inmates do forced labour to earn revenue by making toothpicks for export. Everyone is forced to get up at 5.30 a..m. and begin work at 6:00 a.m. If they are unable to finish their quotas, they have to continue working until midnight. As the working hours were long and the quality of the food was poor, the inmates were under-nourished and exhausted, making it difficult for them to finish their quotas. The warden incited the criminals to beat Mr. Sui Yanzhang. Those who could not finish their quotas also beat him out of frustration. Mr. Sui has now become skeleton-like from the torture. His wife Xu Yingjie could not recognise her own husband during his trial.
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• Several Practitioners Arrested by Police from Xingyang City, Henan Province

  2007-09-16
  Recently, the 610 Office and Public Security Bureau of Xingyang City, Henan Province, has been actively arresting Dafa practitioners from around the region. On the morning of August 15th, five police officers from the Wangcun Police Station went to Rongzai Village, Gaocun Township. They took practitioner Mu Jun into custody. Leaflets exposing the persecution were also confiscated. On the afternoon of July 1st, 69-year-old practitioner Ms. Li Xiuzhi was arrested by police from the Xingyang National Protection Team while she was putting up posters exposing the persecution at the Xingyang Train Station. She was taken to Sunzai Detention Centre in Guangwu.
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• Incidents of Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Changde Region of Hunan Province

  2007-09-16
  Ms. Wu distributed leaflets exposing the persecution on September 9th, 2006 and was arrested by police. Ms. Wu was sent to Changsha Women's Prison on December 5th, 2006. She was physically abused daily and deprived of sleep. Her legs have swelled from prolonged standing. The guards even refused to let her go to the toilet and she was handcuffed behind her back. The criminal inmates, under orders from the guards, have carried out all the torture. Ms. Wu was tortured until she looks skeleton-like and weighs only 40 kg (88 lbs). She is extremely weak, but the local police have refused to allow her release and continue to detain her for further abuse. Her health and safety are serious concerns.
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• Mr. Wang Huai from Hebei Province Has Been Imprisoned for Seven Years

  2007-09-16
  In the winter of 2001, Mr. Wang Huai was arrested by police, who had used wiretapping and tracking methods. The police handcuffed him and then brutally trampled on his handcuffs, causing serious bleeding and extreme swelling of his arms. They then wrapped his head in a bed sheet and dragged him downstairs to take him to Hongqilou Police Station. Mr. Wang Huai was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment at the Baoding City Prison in 1999. Because Mr. Wang Huai has persisted in his cultivation of Falun Dafa, he has suffered brutal torture for several years.
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• Inmates Torture Practitioners in Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2007-09-15
  Practitioners who arrive at the labour camp are detained in the First Division and held among the regular inmates. The camp guards require that each practitioner memorise the labour camp rules within a certain time. Those who can not or do not recite the rules are not allowed to sleep between midnight and 2:00 a.m. Instead, they are forced to stand for those two hours and do the regular forced labour work the next day. Every day, they have to start work right after breakfast and work from 7:00 a.m. to noon. Then they are forced to stand until 2:00 p.m. Afterwards, they have to resume work again until 10:00 p.m. and sometimes until midnight.
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• Shenyang Prison Guards' Brutality against Falun Gong Practitioners

  2007-09-15
  In December 2002, at the former Shenyang No. 3 Prison, a criminal nicknamed "Big Mute" was told by guards to attack Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lan by pouring cold water onto his head. After the cold-water torture, Mr. Lan collapsed to the floor. He later developed severe diarrhoea. Fearing that their criminal act would be exposed, the guards sent Mr. Lan to the Prison Hospital. Due to continued torture, Mr. Lan subsequently died in the hospital. The guards claimed that they spent over 10,000 yuan on hospital bills, trying to save Mr. Lan's life.
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• Ms. Zhao Qunlan and Her Family Members Subjected to Continuous Persecution for Years

  2007-09-15
  During the past eight years, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Qunlan from Yueyang City, Hunan Province has suffered cruel persecution repeatedly. Practitioners held in the Strictly Controlled Division were subjected to forceful brainwashing in a dark room that never allowed practitioners to see sunshine. Their bedding went mouldy, and they all acquired scabies. The scabies caused unbearable itching and bad smells that also made it difficult for them to sleep. Some practitioners' scabies did not heal for years, and the skin festered. Ms. Zhao Qunlan's scabies did not heal for two years after being released. Because of the drug that damaged her central nervous system, Ms. Zhao could not even remember her family members' names.
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• National Security Bureau Agents Arrest Yang Xuejun, from Dengzhou City, Henan Province

  2007-09-15
  On August 10th, 2007, police suddenly broke into the home of Falun Dafa practitioner Tian Xiaoshu, arresting her 31-year-old daughter, Yang Xuejun, also a Dafa practitioner. Tian Xiaoshu's son, Yang Yongdong, tried to explain the truth to them about Falun Dafa, but they refused to listen, and said, "I do not fear retribution, and I will kill you and destroy your family." The police tried to arrest Yang Yongdong, but he escaped and became homeless. He is still unable to return home.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Shi Jinqin from Sichuan Province Died as a Result of Persecution

  2007-09-14
  On September 3rd, 2003, Ms. Shi Jinqin was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong at a market when she was arrested by police. She was detained in the Mianyang City Detention Centre again, and her home was ransacked. The Fucheng District Court sentenced her to three years in prison. Ms. Shi Jinqin was released on November 23rd, 2006. Three days before she was released, she suddenly felt very weak and could not walk or talk. She became paralysed within ten days. She died on March 31st, 2007 as a result of the persecution she suffered for being a Falun Gong practitioner. She was only 57 years old.
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