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  • Practitioner's Mother Not Allowed to Visit Her Daughter in Heizuizi Women's Prison in Changchun City

    Song Yanqun, an English teacher, was arrested by police on November 27th, 2003 because of her belief in Falun Dafa and sentenced to twelve years in prison. She was tied on a tiger bench, her ears and eyes pricked with a thin nail, and fed with mustard oil. On May 23rd, 2006, Song Yanqun's parents went to visit her in Heizuizi Women's Prison, but the guards would not allow Song Yanqun's mother to meet her. Cao Hong, why she was not allowed to meet with her daughter. Cao said, "Because you practise Falun Gong."
  • Practitioners Persecuted in the Sixteenth Section of the Mudanjiang City Prison

    During Mr. Pan Xingfu’s imprisonment, the police forced him to do heavy labour, which devastated him both physically and mentally. In late 2003, he suffered from oedema in his legs and became too weak to walk. However, the prison guards did not provide him with any treatment. It was not until May 2005 that Mr. Pan was sent to a prison hospital, where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and hydropsy inside his chest and abdomen. The director would not allow the medical parole unless Mr. Pan wrote a guarantee statement promising he would give up Falun Gong. However, Mr. Pan refused to write it. Mr. Pan was released from prison during July 2004 without receiving treatment for the tuberculosis and hydropsy. As a result of his long term persecution, Mr. Pan died in January 2005.
  • Zuo Zhigang's Murderer Still at Large - Parents Refuse to Let His Body Be Cremated

    Five years ago, Falun Gong practitioner Zuo Zhigang from Shijiazhuang City was taken away by police the day before his wedding and tortured to death overnight. His body was covered in wounds. His parents strongly demanded that his body be stored so they could seek justice. Recently, the Funeral Administration Division of Shijiazhuang City issued a public announcement urging the family to cremate the body within sixty days.
  • Exposing the People in Fushun City Who Persecuted Practitioner Mr. Han Zhe

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Han Zhe originally worked at the Casting Pipe Workshop, of the Fushun Special Steel Limited Company. He has been persecuted so severely that he is now mentally traumatised. In 2001 Mr. Han, then only 23 years old, spoke to people about the facts of Falun Dafa in his company and distributed fliers exposing the persecution. He was reported to the company public security office, arrested and taken to Fushun City Reformatory where several criminals took wooden boards and fiercely beat Mr. Han’s body and head. They then lifted him up and threw him to the ground. Sun Jiwen, the section chief of the administration section, used an electric baton to shock Mr. Han.
  • The Persecution of Elderly Practitioner Zhang Dequan of Jilin Province

    71-year-old Mr. Zhang Dequan was persecuted because he remained steadfast in his belief in Falun Gong. The authorities arrested him and ransacked his home many times. Zhang was also sentenced to forced labour. Zhang and his family have been persecuted for years by their local police officers and street committee members. On the evening of February 9th, 2002, local police ransacked his home. During the same night, Zhang and his wife were sentenced to fifteen days of detention. The police sent Zhang to prison, and two months later he was sent to Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp for two years. While he was at a labour camp, local police and street committee members regularly went to his home to intimidate his family. They also prohibited Zhang’s children from going to college, rendering them unable to graduate.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured at Hebei Province Female Prison

    In August of 2002, Bai Yuzhi was abducted from her home and detained in the Second Detention Centre of Shijiazhuang City. In the detention centre, she went on a hunger strike to protest her arrest and suffered severe deterioration of her health. On April 10th, 2003, she started to vomit blood and was force-fed by the police. Her nose was broken and she nearly lost her eyesight. She could not walk by herself and had to be carried by the person that was force-feeding her. On May 19th, 2003, Bai Yuzhi was detained in Hebei Province Female Prison.
  • Ms. Qiu Xi'e Tortured to Death

    Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Qiu Xi'e, in her 70s, lived in Miluo City, Hunan Province. She was taken to the Yueyang City Hubin Brainwashing Centre in June 2006 by personnel from the 610 Office and tortured for more than 20 days. Ms. Qiu died around 3:00 p.m. on the afternoon of July 8th, 2006. The 610 officers were frightened that their abuse of Ms. Qiu would be made public, so they promised to pay her family a hundred thousand yuan. Qiu Xi'e's children are preparing for her funeral, which is scheduled for July 13th, 2006.
  • The Suffering of Ms. Gu Xingzhi before Being Persecuted to Death in Sichuan Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gu Xingzhi was arrested while posting Falun Gong's leaflets exposing the persecution in April 2002 and was sent to Miyi County Detention Centre where she died after a month of forced feeding on November 7th, 2002. On previous occasions was handcuffed and beaten with strips of bamboo because she did the Falun Gong exercises.
  • Police Brutally Beat and Disable Middle School Teacher Mr. Jiang Yuejun

    The local police inhumanely persecute Jiang Yuejun and his wife because they practise Falun Gong. Jiang Yuejun is a middle school teacher in Shulan City. The police arrested Mr Jiang on June 20th, 2006, and brutally beat him. This caused a disability in one of his legs and he couldn't walk. He is still being detained at the moment.
  • Crimes Committed by The 610 Office and Brainwashing Centre in Sichuan Province

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Xia, 34, was in a forced labour camp for one year. The 610 Office arrested her again and took her to the Pi County Brainwashing Centre, where she was drugged and became mentally disoriented. Two criminals raped her many times. Zhu was mentally traumatised even further.
  • Zhuzhou City Forced Labour Committee and Baimalong Forced Labour Camp Detain Practitioner Ms. Yu Yingzhu

    After the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yu Yingzhu by Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City of Hunan Province was exposed to the public, the forced labour camp forcibly forbade Yu's family from visiting her. The labour camp police often scream at practitioners: "I am not going to let you die. I will make your life a living hell." If one's family is detained in such a living hell, it is not hard to imagine the pain experienced by the practitioner's family members.
  • Additional Details about Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiujuan from Shandong Province, Who Was Beaten to Death by Zhao Shijuan and Others in 2001

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiujuan was a farmer from Masong Village in Shandong Province. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong three times and was arrested and transferred back to Changle County each time by the police. She was detained on criminal charges twice and was detained by the county government several times. On January 21st, 2001, Ms. Wang was beaten to death by the Masong Township secretary of politics, Zhao Shijun.
  • The Brutal Persecution at Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province

    When a practitioner enters a forced labour camp, personnel who received a higher education are assigned to mislead them. This might include forcing them to watch movies with a lot of Falun Dafa slandering material. The goal is always to "transform" the practitioner in a short time. If practitioners are not "transformed," the forced labour personnel resort to physical abuse, like using a shoe to slap him/her, brutal beatings, the use of wooden planks to smash practitioners’ hands and fingers on a stool, forcing him/her to stand against the wall while others repeatedly kick his/her head, chest/breasts, legs and private parts. If the practitioner still refuses to be "transformed," then toilet use is restricted. He/she would not be allowed to go to the toilet for long periods of time. Practitioners would be forced to urinate in their clothing and suffer in agony.
  • Qingdao Judge Liu Lin Sentences Practitioner Couple Min Huirong and Sun Hong to Prison (Photo)

    On June 7th, 2006, Judge Liu Lin, in Licang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, sentenced Falun Dafa practitioners Min Huirong and Sun Hong, husband and wife, to five years in prison. The sentence was groundless even under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unlawful codes, and was based on fabrications. The 610 Office and the police department in Qingdao City tortured the couple physically and psychologically continuously for four months to try to force them to "confess." Their family members hired local lawyers to help them, but the 610 Office directed the police not to let the lawyers meet with them. The justice department in Qingdao City also pressured the lawyers to stop helping the couple.
  • Three Disappearances in Beijing and Liaoning Province

    Zhang Zuobin, 56, was a practitioner from Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He disappeared in March 2002 and has been missing for over four years. When Mr. Zhang's family enquired about him at his workplace, they learned that three women and a man had come to see him at around 10:00 a.m. on the day of his disappearance and asked him to go with them. No one has seen or heard from him since. His family remains extremely worried about him.