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Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wei Quan from Tianjin City Was Secretly Sentenced and Imprisoned
2007-07-17Mr. Wei Quan was sentenced to three and a half years and has been imprisoned in Liyuantou First Prison in Tianjin City, for over six months. His wife,Qin Guifang, went to every place she could think of, looking for him, but the authorities just ignored her. On May 16th, 2007, the First Prison sent a letter to her, verifying her identity as a family member. After replying,she waited for further information about her husband, but to no avail. On June 18th, Mr. Wei's wife went to the First Prison to ask to see him, but her request was denied. In the prison, four prisoners monitored him and were directed to "reform" him by force. Liu, the No. 8 Division head, said, "We're now 'reforming' Wei Quan." He also told Ms. Qin, "Next time you come, you will have to participate in 'reforming' him; otherwise we will cancel your visit." -
Jiamusi City Police in Heilongjiang Province Torture Ms. Cui Shengyun to the Brink of Death
2007-07-16Instigated by Jiamusi City Political and Legal Committee (Heilongjiang Province), Jiamusi City National Security officers arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cui Shengyun on May 19th, 2007 and brutally tortured her. Her head was severely beaten. No visible cuts or bruises were apparent on her body because she was forced to wear a thick black plastic helmet each time she was beaten. Ms. Cui could hear the voices of both men and women while she was being beaten. The women were particularly cruel. -
Why Does the "610 Office" Fear 76-Year-Old Ms. Zhang Ping?
2007-07-16Ms. Zhang Ping, 76, suddenly went missing on June 1st, 2007. Her family members and friends tried various ways to enquire of her whereabouts. They eventually discovered that agents from the Rizhao City 610 Office had arrested and locked her up at a detention centre. This is the eighth arrest for Ms. Zhang. Why does the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) "610 Office" fear an elderly woman? -
Mr. Jiang Hongfu is Persecuted in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province
2007-07-16In May 2002, Meng Qingqi, the head of the Department of Political Security in Mishan Police Station, arrested 52-year-old Mr. Jiang and detained him in the detention centre because he practised Falun Gong. Because Mr. Jiang was considered by his co-workers and neighbours to be a good person, they went to talk to the relevant departments and tried to have him released. Meng Qingqi has been extorting practitioners throughout the eight-year persecution and did not want to treat Mr. Jiang differently. On August 29th, Mr. Jiang was sent to Jixi Forced Labour Camp for one year, where he was tortured by wardens. They tied the practitioners with ropes and beat them with electronic batons. Mr. Jiang's toenails fell off from the beatings, and he lost feeling in his legs and became crippled. -
Lawless Personnel from the National Security Division and "610 Office" in Luohe, Henan Province Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners
2007-07-16On May 23rd, Ms. Yan Xueli came home from buying food. A few 610 Office personnel who were waiting in ambush for her took her by surprise and followed her into the house. After barging in, they locked the doors and without producing a search permit, they ransacked the residence of Ms. Yan. The lawless agents disregarded the cries of Ms. Yan's ten-year-old child and ignored Ms. Yan's efforts to explain the facts about Falun Dafa to them. They forcefully dragged Ms. Yan to their car. Ms. Yan Xueli was divorced and was bringing up a ten-year-old child on her own. The two of them made ends meet with the vegetables that Ms. Yan sells. Xueli said, "Now that you are arresting me, what will my child live on, and who will take care of him?" -
Chen Yiming from the 610 Office in Changsha County, Hunan Province Deceives and Persecutes Practitioners and Their Families
2007-07-15Since he took on his position in 2002, Chen Yiming, Director of the 610 Office in Changsha County, Hunan Province has closely followed the Jiang Zemin's regime policy to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners and has done many shameless things. On June 14th, 2006, Chen Yiming suspected that Mr. Li Xuangang was explaining the facts about Falun Dafa to people and arrested him. Chen threatened his family by saying, "Li must be "transformed" and give up Dafa, otherwise he will be sentenced from five to seven years in prison. That is what the 610 Office will do to him." He ordered Mr. Li's family members to cooperate with him and report other practitioners to him. But Chen sent Mr. Li to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Chashang shortly afterwards. -
Wang Xiaohong and Yang Zhengming from Cangxi County, Sichuan Province Secretly Tried
2007-07-15On January 8th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners Wang Xiaohong and Yang Zhengming went to Cangxi County to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong and dispel the state propaganda attacking the practice. They were arrested by the police who had been tracking them and were sent to the police station. On May 22nd, the Cangxi County Court held a secret trial. The Court sentenced Wang Xiaohong to three and a half years in prison and Yang Zhengming to five and a half years. Wang and Yang were threatened, deceived, harassed, and handcuffed. The police also kicked and beat the two practitioners with electric batons. Yang's whole body was purple, and blood showed up in his urine. The police also detained them in a cell and then searched their houses. They confiscated expensive equipment. The police also forbid them from seeing their families for five months. -
Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners from the Dashiba Region of Jiangbei District, Chongqing City
2007-07-15Mr. Yuan Qingsheng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999. Since then he was detained many times and sentenced to two years of forced labour. He was locked in solitary confinement and a water dungeon with dead snakes and poisonous bugs at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. He was beaten frequently and a poisonous sting caused a growth at the back his ear. It grew back after it was cut off. The forced labour camp released him on medical leave in 2002, because the officials were afraid he would die at the camp. He was monitored frequently at home by the residential committee. Mr. Yuan lost his income and his wife was laid off (later changed to retirement) due to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) implication policy. -
Practitioner Ms. Mu Chunhong from Huadian City, Jilin Province Suffers Loss of Memory After Four Months of Mistreatment
2007-07-15On February 12th, 2007, police arrested Ms. Mu Chunhong, a Falun Dafa practitioner. Ms. Mu was sent to Jilin City Detention Centre, here she was tortured. She went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. The police brutally force-fed her with cornstarch broth, telling others that it was pork bone stock and milk. They also force-fed her a concentrated salt solution. Ms. Mu held hunger strikes three different times, with each time lasting over a month. Once during the first six days of her hunger strike, the tube used for the force-feeding was left in continuously. She had difficulty breathing and it was very painful. The police also force-fed Ms. Mu with unknown drugs, which caused her to have headaches in the afternoon, and her consciousness and memory became unclear. -
A Dark Den of Persecution--The Lanzhou Women's Prison in Gansu Province
2007-07-14Since 2002, Falun Gong practitioners have suffered relentless persecution at the Lanzhou Women's Prison. The tortures include: slave labour, confinement, hanging, sitting on small stools, shocks with electric batons, freezing, and other abuses. Falun Gong practitioners are forced to do work from 5 o'clock every morning until midnight; some have to work until 4 o'clock or even 5 o'clock the next morning. Every practitioner is assigned a work quota that they could never finish. They are fined and beaten when they do not finish the assigned work. -
Ms. Lei Xiying Remains Firm and Refuses to Yield to Persecution in the Hunan Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-07-14Ms. Lei Xiying was arrested for upholding her beliefs. She was detained in the Hunan Women's Forced Labour Camp and suffered from torture and persecution. However, she remained firm. Ms. Lei Xiying did everything she could to resist the persecution and inform people in the labour camp about the true nature of Falun Gong. One day, she bit her fingers and wrote on the wall with her blood, "Falun Gong is good! Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance is good!" Guards stuffed Ms. Lei's mouth with smelly socks, tightly tied her hands and feet to a metal frame and left her suspended in the air, without any food or drink for three days and nights. Her back was severely injured during this torture. When the guards released her from the frame they put steel shackles and handcuffs on her weighing 33 pounds and forced her to walk with them. Ms. Lei's feet were rubbed raw and bled. -
Non-Practitioner: Stop the Persecution So My Family Member Can Return Home
2007-07-14Since the Chinese Communist regime's head Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, my family has lived in misery. Every day has felt like a year to us and we haven't been able to reunite. However, what we have suffered is only one example of the suffering endured by millions of families in China. It is only the tip of the iceberg of the crimes that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed against Falun Gong practitioners. -
Zhang Wenliang Sentenced to Forced Labour by Qingdao City Police in Shandong Province
2007-07-14Mr. Zhang Wenliang was arrested on May 10th, 2007, at his sister's home while he was installing a satellite TV antenna. He was detained in the Qingdao City Second Detention Centre and has been sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Zibo City. After July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, Zhang Wenliang appealed to all levels of government authorities on behalf of Falun Gong and to help rescue fellow practitioners in prison. He was arrested in 2000. After he was released on bail and awaiting trial, he and his wife, Zhao Hui, left home to avoid further persecution. During their days of homelessness, Zhang Wenliang was arrested and sent to a detention centre on five occasions. -
Nearly Twenty Practitioners Arrested by Agents from the Macheng City 610 Office (Hubei Province)
2007-07-13From the evening of June 22nd, 2007, to the early morning of June 23rd, 2007, nearly 100 people from the state security office and police stations headed by the Macheng City 610 Office in Hubei Province, broke into practitioners' houses all over the city. The police ransacked homes, confiscating property and arresting practitioners after climbing over walls and breaking down doors. According to police reports, 19 practitioners were arrested. Additionally, three practitioners refused to cooperate and avoided arrest. Mr. Bai Zijian's wife did not cooperate with the police and was beaten unconscious several times. The beatings only stopped after the neighbours had been awakened and came over to condemn the police. -
Hundreds of Wuhan Police Arrest Five Dafa Practitioners at Midnight
2007-07-13Around 1:00 a.m. on June 24th, 2007, the Wuhan Police Department and the Xinzhou Branch of Hubei Province dispatched hundreds of policemen and arrested at least five Falun Gong practitioners. Dafa practitioner Liu Cuilian was on the verge of death after she was violently arrested. The police saw that she was on the verge of death and left her in a hospital. In order to make up the number of arrested practitioners, they instead took away a girl with the surname of Li who was spending the night at Ms. Liu's home. The police also confiscated expensive eqipment and Dafa books from practitioners' homes.