Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Mr. Yang Jianju, Ms. Shen Yuehong and 10-Month-Old Baby Arrested in Xuchang City, Henan Province for Practising Falun Gong

    On January 21st, 2007, practitioners Mr. Yang Jianjun and his wife, Ms. Shen Yuehong were arrested by police in Xuchang City. The police snatched Ms Shen's 10-month-old baby from her arms. Ms. Shen and her baby were sent to a brainwashing centre. Now they are homeless. In the past few years, Mr. Yang and Ms. Shen's parents and other relatives have also been persecuted and their homes searched. This has led to the deaths of three older members of their family.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongmei from Heilongjiang Province Die From Persecution -- Their Bodies Hastily Cremated Under Police Watch

    Police unlawfully arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Xu Hongmei and Ms. Shen Zili (pictured), and brutally tortured them for five days. Xu Hongmei was hung by her handcuffs, and also hung with her handcuffs behind her back. Shen Zili was wrapped and immobilised in a chair with tape. The police hit her head against a wall until she lost consciousness. As a result, they lapsed into a deep coma and passed away on February 27th, 2007. Their bodies were hastily cremated.
  • Older Hong Kong Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zeng Aihua Sentenced to Three-year Prison Term - Her Relatives Also Persecuted

    58-year-old Ms Zeng Aihua is a steadfast Dafa practitioner. During her nine months of detention, she refused to wear a prison uniform, never wrote a guarantee statement promising to give up the practice of Falun Gong, never signed any interrogation records, and never provided any information of other Dafa practitioners to the authorities. Because of this she was subjected to torture. Severely short-sighted, her glasses were taken away when she was first sent to the detention centre. She was forced to labour for long periods of time and her eyesight deteriorated significantly. On February 12th, 2007, the Pudong New District Court in Shanghai sentenced Ms. Zeng Aihua to a 3-year prison term.
  • Practitioner Mr. Chen Binli Subjected to Brutal Torture in Panjin Prison, Liaoning Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Binli from Liaoning Province was detained in Panjin Prison for over two and a half years, because he distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Dafa. Many times he was tortured on a "tiger bench" for 70 hours and shocked with five electric batons at the same time. He was also brutally force-fed, after he went on a hunger strike to protest the unjust persecution. The torture he suffered was completely inhumane.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Bo and Family Refuse to Accept Unjust Sentence - Appeal Stalled

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Bo was charged with "using x cult to sabotage the administration of law" and sentenced to five years in prison on February 2nd, 2007. Her father Wang Xinzhong and mother Liu Shuqin were sentenced to four years in prison with the same charge. Wang Bo and her parents refused to accept the unjust verdict. They appealed with the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Court before February 10th, yet they are still waiting for the court to file the case.
  • Dehui City Police Use Violence, Threats and Imprisonment to Destroy the Happiness Brought by Dafa to Practitioner Mr. Zhang Chunqi and His Family

    Since Zhang Chunqi went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa he has been seriously persecuted. Recently, he has been in a detention centre for more than two months and has suffered brutal persecution. Moreover, his parents and all of his relatives have also been suffering greatly. His mother cries every day and has been unable to sleep at night. His children also lost their laughter and happiness. His wife and other relatives worry about him every day. Zhang Chunqi's father's health has also suffered due to continuously grieving over his son's situation.
  • Practitioner Ms. Yu Cuilan Is Held in Heizuizi Women's Prison, and Her Life Is in Danger

    On May 19th, 2006, officers of the National Security Brigade of Changchun City arrested Ms. Yu. They tortured her in an attempt to extract information. Due to the torture, Ms. Yu became disabled and suffered heart failure. Again, on December 23rd, police officers sent practitioner Ms. Yu Cuilan, who was very thin and almost paralysed from torture, to Heizuizi Women's Prison in Jilin Province.
  • Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners by Licheng District 610 Office Agents in Jinan City, Shandong Province

    The officials from the Licheng District 610 Office in Jinan City pay people to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The 610 Office highly publicised a scheme that says one would receive a reward of between 1,000 and 2,000 yuan for reporting a practitioner. In the past few years, many villagers brainwashed by Communist Party propaganda have reported practitioners. These practitioners' homes were ransacked and their property confiscated. They were extorted out of money in the name of fines and were sent to brainwashing centres, where they were forced to pay a high "brainwashing fee." Some practitioners were sent to prisons and forced labour camps.
  • I Was Brutally Tortured Inside Jiuquan Jail in Gansu Province

    Whenever they got a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong, the jail would give 75 points to the criminal prisoners, which would decrease their serving time by 25 days. Tempted by the apparent benefit, all the criminal prisoners would take turns to brutally beat us. Practitioners were pulled inside pigpens behind the jail, where a brutal beating was constantly in progress around the clock. I was tortured inhumanly for four days. Some of them choked me while others covered my mouth. My neck was so badly swollen I couldn't breathe for a long time. I was beaten so extensively that I was covered with bruises and cuts. All of my teeth were loose, and I couldn't eat anything. I did not get to drink a single drop of water, nor was I able to sleep for one minute.
  • Police Arrest People and Ransack Homes; A Mother Loses Her Daughter Again

    Practitioner Wang Liqiu's mother Su, 74 years old, used to have a happy family. Her oldest daughter Wang Liqiu and her youngest daughter practised Falun Dafa and benefited the whole family. After the persecution started in 1999, the two daughters went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but they were arrested and sent to forced labour camps. The youngest daughter was released when they persecuted her to the brink of death, and Ms. Wang Liqiu was also reduced to skin and bones when they released her. In the past eight years, Ms. Su's family has never been whole.
  • The Evil Behind the "Civilisation" at the Guangdong Women's Prison

    At the prison they encourage criminal inmates to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They have adopted the following methods of persecution and torture: deceit, threats, brainwashing, starvation, forcing practitioners to stand, sit or squat motionless for long periods of time, monitoring practitioners twenty-four hours a day, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, denying or limiting toilet usage, not allowing practitioners to buy daily necessities including sanitary napkins, not allowing practitioners to shower, and forcing practitioners to give up their beliefs until they are "transformed."
  • Crimes Committed in the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Jilin Prison

    There were "stretching beds" in Jilin Prison, also called the "fixed beds." These "stretching beds" were used to torture practitioners by holding the person on the floor and fastening his limbs with four metal cuffs so that the convicts could kick, step on, burn with boiled water and prick the practitioner with pins. The cruellest torture was to put the practitioner on his back and fasten him down. Then they shoved quilts, water bottles and boards under his back. They called it "adding pressure." The torture was to elevate the person, stretching the limbs tightly. The flesh of the wrists and foot joints were torn up slowly, and the bones were exposed.
  • Wang Yuncai, a Physical Education Teacher from Tianjin City, Has Been Persecuted Nine Times for His Belief

    Mr. Wang Yuncai, a physical education teacher from Tianjin City, was persecuted nine times for his belief in Falun Dafa. He went through ordeals of torture. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution but was sent to the mental hospital, where he was tied to a bed and force-fed and given an IV drip. In the past seven years, he has lost his job and his family. He was traumatised and his physical body was greatly damaged as well.
  • Mr. Li Jizhong of Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province Persecuted

    On December 27th, 2006, Mr. Li Jizhong, 28, was arrested by police and taken to a detention centre. On January 4th, 2007, Mr. Li was released because he protested the persecution by going on a hunger strike for eight days without water and he was in serious condition. On February 5th Mr. Li went to the city's 610 Office to ask for the return of his personal property, which the officials had taken after ransacking his home; instead he was arrested on the spot and taken to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. His wife is living in difficultly with their four-year-old daughter.
  • Ms. Luo Xirong from Wuhan, Hubei Province Arrested Again

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Luo Xirong, in her 50s, live was arrested while exposing the truth of the persecution and telling people the facts of Falun Dafa in Wuhan City on February 4th, 2007. She was taken to the Wujiashan Women's Detention Centre on the afternoon of the same day. On the afternoon of the next day, the Huangpi District 610 Office Head ransacked her home. In the seven and a half years of persecution, Ms. Luo has cumulatively been detained for more than 600 days, which has caused both her family and herself deep pain, both mentally and physically.