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  • Wangcun Forced Labour Camp Again Refuses to Release Mr. Liu Ruping, An Attorney in Shandong Province

    On December 14th, 2005, Liu Ruping was sentenced to a forced labour camp for one year and three months. He was detained in the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, where Falun Dafa practitioners are brutally persecuted. Mr. Liu refused to cooperate with the forced labour camp in the brainwashing class, and is steadfast in his belief. For this reason, he was brutally tortured. His term was extended for two months, until May 16th, 2007. When his term expired again, his family was notified that his release date was changed to May 25th. The labour camp refused to give any reason for the change.
  • Exposing the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners at Zhengzhou Prison in Henan Province

    Practitioner Ren Lidong was sent to solitary confinement, was deprived of sleep, was forced to perform the "three positions," and told to be "well-behaved." Otherwise, three to five perpetrators would begin seriously beating him. Under such inhumane abuse and torture, Ren Lidong almost lost his vision within one month. Dafa practitioner Lu Yuankun refused to be "transformed." He was tortured with electric batons and beaten with a thick club. His face and body were covered with bruises and were deformed. He lost twenty-four teeth and the rest of his teeth were loose. He could not eat regular meals anymore, and could only eat soup.
  • My Experience of Being Stalked Long-Term by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Police

    After I was released from prison, police tightly watched me, stalked me, monitored my telephone conversations, installed video cameras in my neighbourhood, and even requested my neighbours to report on me, even including my mother's neighbours. I saw notices on the wall of the police department saying: "Detaining a practitioner gets a large bonus, sentencing a practitioner to a forced labour camp gets a large bonus, sentencing a practitioner to a prison gets a large bonus." I heard that while I was sentenced in prison, the director of the police department received thousands of yuan as a bonus.
  • 610 Office Agents Abduct, Threaten and Extort Money from a Falun Gong Practitioner Just Released from a 5-Year Prison Term in Hebei Province

    Agents from the 610 Office and local government extorted 5,000 yuan from a Falung Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Meiying when she was released from prison. They told Ms. Zheng Meiying that she would not be allowed to go home. They took her to the Huanglong Mountain Resort to detain her. Ms. Zheng's parents had just met with their daughter after 5 years of separation, and they were told that their daughter was not allowed to go home. Those officers then went to a restaurant and shamelessly squandered the extorted money.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Ou Xueyuan Passed Away as a Result of Persecuted in Changlinzi Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ou Xueyuan, approximately 60 years of age, was a resident in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. He was arrested twice and sent to a labour camp, for informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong. He was inhumanely tortured in the notorious Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. Long term persecution severely damaged his health and spirit. When he came out of the labour camp the second time at the end of 2005, he was in extremely poor physical condition. His body was covered with wounds and he was extremely weak. The torture had severely damaged his internal organs. He died on October 17th, 2006.
  • Mudanjiang City Prison Guards Force-feed Practitioner Heart Medicine to Allow for Prolonged Electric-shock Torture

    Guards in the No. 8 Ward at the Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province, use brutal and inhumane methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The torture methods include handcuffing practitioners' wrists behind their backs; shocking with electric batons and beating with plastic tubes; gang beating one practitioner at a time; solitary confinement; handcuffing and shackling and then tying a practitioner up to a metal ring fixed in the ground for a long time. The guards keep inventing new torture methods. Fearing that electric baton shocking would precipitate a heart attack and Wang Mingzhu might die, the guards force-fed him heart medication pills so they could torture him at will.
  • Another Young Falun Gong Practitioner Tortured to Death in Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province

    On April 1st, 2006, the Chinese Communist Party's Mid-Level Court in Yichun City sentenced Mr. Zhou Shuhai to five-and-a-half years in prison. In June 2006, Zhou Shuhai was detained at Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province, where the "Intensive Training Team" inhumanly tortured him in an attempt to force him to renounce Falun Gong. When he was sent to the hospital emergency resuscitation on May 31st, 2007, he was already dead. He was skin and bones when he died. The hospital could not resuscitate him. Mr. Zhou died at the young age of 35.
  • Recent Situation of Ms. Wang Bo and Her Parents

    Ms. Wang Bo and her mother Liu Shuqin went on hunger strike without water on May 10th, 2007 after receiving their sentencing. The Shijiazhuang City police were afraid their physical conditions would worsen, resulting in the prison rejecting them, so they were hurriedly taken to the Hebei Province Women's Prison on May 15th, 2007. Wang Bo's father, Wang Xinzhong, is still detained in the Zhao County (under Shijiazhuang City) Detention Centre, and he will be taken to the Hebei Province Fourth Prison on June 15th, 2007. Wang Xinzhong's blood pressure has been as high as 200/120, and he also suffers from coronary heart disease. Most of Wang Bo's family members' lives are in danger right now.
  • 610 Office Arrests Hong Kong Resident, Who Was Visiting Father in Shenzhen City and Now Faces Trial

    Mr. Chen Jinshu, 50, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hong Kong. On April 16th, 2007, several state security officers arrested Mr. Chen Jinshu in Shenzhen. According to a number of different sources, Mr. Chen is now imprisoned in Baoan Detention Centre. According to a reliable source, the police interrogated Mr. Chen in the detention centre to find out if he had contacted practitioners in Shenzhen. The arrest of Mr. Chen Jinshu was a blow to his family. Chen's father repeatedly passed out after he heard the news. To this day, Chen's family does not know which justice or law enforcement department is responsible for Chen's arrest.
  • Practitioners Suffer Persecution in the No. 2 Women's Prison in Yunnan Province

    Every practitioner is required to write the so-called Three Statements". Otherwise, one is not allowed to purchase even basic necessities such as toilet paper etc. Practitioners are given five minutes to use the toilet just three times a day. For the rest of the time, they are detained in prison cells. Practitioners are forced to sit on a small stool from morning till evening and are not allowed to stretch their arms or legs. This torture can cause practitioners' bottoms to fester. Guards also often make practitioners stand straight for long hours. They are not allowed to speak or move during these long durations of standing. Some are detained in solitary compartments. All day long they are subject to verbal abuse and brainwashing.
  • Practitioner Mr. Meng Fanquan Suffers Torture-Induced Mental Disorder

    Practitioner Mr. Meng Fanquan from Tangshan City is being subjected to torture at Jidong Prison and has become mentally disordered. Mr. Meng was sentenced to seven years in prison in September 2006. The guards brutally tortured him both physically and mentally. They shocked him with electric batons. The guards and inmates beat him repeatedly, monitored him around the clock, and forbade him to speak with anyone; they bombarded him with Party rhetoric and played slanderous DVDs. He went on a hunger strike at the end of March 2007 and was taken back to the Strictly Controlled Division, where he was force-fed in a ruthless manner.
  • Ms. Zhong Shujuan from Dalian, Liaoning Province Sentenced to Forced Labour Camp for the Third Time

    On April 13th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mrs. Zhong Shujuan, 52, was arrested while informing people about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. This is the third time that Zong Shujuan was sentenced to forced labour. In April 2002, guards incited prisoners to torture Ms. Zhong. They locked Ms. Zhong up in a small cell, severely beat her and then hung her up from an iron bar. They stuffed a towel into her mouth and separated her legs far apart and tied them in that position. Then cruelly sexually tortured her. Ms. Zhong was beaten until she fainted.
  • Senior Engineer Qian Shiguang Persecuted at Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre, Gansu Province

    Mr. Qian Shiguang is 63 years old. Over the last eight years he has been repeatedly persecuted because he has continued to practise Falun Dafa. In 2002 in Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp the guards instigated criminal prisoners to torture Mr. Qian. They used toilet plungers and flyswatters to slap Mr. Qian's face; they pushed his head into the toilet and demanded that he drink the dirty water; they pulled out his whiskers and eyebrows; they brutally beat him and then threw him into the urinal. Sometimes at night criminal prisoners took him outside, took off all his clothes, poured cold water on him, and then buried him in the snow.
  • Feng Renjun Brutally Tortured in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

    On May 12th, 2006, Mr. Feng Renjun was arrested by police officers from the North Renmin Road Police Station while he was informing local residents about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. He was later detained at the Pi County Detention Centre. However, Mr. Feng does not consider himself a criminal since he did not do anything wrong, therefore he refused to respond during roll-call. He told the guards at the detention centre: "I am just being a good person, which is not breaking the law." The guards then beat him savagely. He went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. Three days later, he was put in handcuffs and shackles and taken to Qingyang Hospital, where the brutal tortures continued.
  • Exposing the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Fujian Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Pu Liping, around 50, is one of the practitioners detained in the labour camp. She started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The police used a "mouth opening tool" on her, which was made of stainless steel and looked like a meat mincer. They inserted the head of this device into Pu's mouth and turned it to open her mouth. Then they attached a tube with a funnel to the tool. During force-feeding, they intentionally shook the tool with force to aggravate Pu Liping's pain. Sometimes when being force-fed, Pu Liping bled so much from her mouth that she would lose consciousness on the spot.