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Harbin City Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Jin Guanghua Tortured Severely Then Sent to Hospital to Die
2004-02-06Yesterday, a male police officer at Tongxiang Street Police Station (86-451-82681181) said Ms. Jin Guanghua died of myocarditis [a kind of heart problem] and whole body-system failure. The officer also said, "she died in the hospital after only one night of emergency treatment." The police refused to reveal whether Jin Guanghua was detained before her death or who sent her to the hospital. "I cannot tell you that," the police officer said. -
Dafa Practitioners from Tsinghua University Face Hasty Trial Without Proper Legal Representation
2004-02-06In October 1999, he was sent home for six weeks for being steadfast in his belief of Falun Gong. He was instructed that he "could not return to university if he were not willing to abandon his way of thinking."...At least one person was tortured to death, at least eighteen were sent to forced labour camps, many students and teaching staff were suspended, forced to leave school, detained and brainwashed, and many others were forced to leave home to avoid illegal arrest and further persecution. -
Violence in Minxi Prison: Dafa Practitioner Hung by Thumbs and Given Unknown Drugs
2004-02-06I am a Falun Gong practitioner. Because I exposed crimes committed by Jiang Zemin's regime in their persecution of Falun Gong, I was sentenced to 18 months in jail and incarcerated at the Minxi Prison in Longyan, suffering many abuses that no kind-hearted person would think was bearable. At that prison, the authorities subjected me to torture which they called the "Three-All" treatment. I was also forced to perform hard labour at the prison's Plastic Factory -
The Crimes Committed by Police in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp
2004-02-06Therefore, practitioners not only have no personal freedom or freedom of speech, but they have also been deprived of the right to think like a normal person. The mental trauma suffered by the almost 100 unlawfully detained Dafa practitioners is enormous. After being released in April 2001, due to mental depression and physical injuries he received while in detention, practitioner Mr. Song Tingfang passed away due to the injustice suffered, at the age of only 47. -
Practitioner Ms. Xu Shuxiang Dies As A Result of Torture in Police Custody - Tied to a Tiger-Bench for 48 Hours
2004-02-05This lady was subjected to inhuman torture and degradation solely because she upheld "Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance". After she was tortured to a state where her life was in danger, she was sent home. However, she had to endure two more months of agony until she finall passed away. Yet another waste of a good person. -
Police Chief Wu Hong Beats Practitioner Chen Yaping, Leaving Her Blind in One Eye
2004-02-05After a while, Wu Hong, head of Lingfeng Street Police Station of Shuangta Police Department said to others on the scene, "Look, my hands have swollen up. I cannot beat her any anymore. I need to take a break."...While choking her, he said, "I'll choke you to death!" The beating lasted more than an hour before he stopped. He told policeman Shao Zhimin, "Handcuff her to the bed and do not let her sleep!" -
Poisoning The Minds Of Young Children
2004-02-05Even the children are not spared. On pages 25 and 26 of the new elementary textbook entitled Moral Character, a slanderous article covering the so-called "Tiananmen self-immolation case" and attacking Falun Gong's founder appears. This textbook, which is used in many schools, is published by the People's Education Publisher, printed in Guizhou province, and issued by Xinhua Bookstore in Guizhou Province. The article poisons the minds of many teachers and thousands of pure and kind-hearted children. -
Hellish Treatment of Falun Gong Practitioners in Hebei Province
2004-02-05Zhang was firm in her belief, so she was sent to a so-called "strict discipline class," specifically set up to monitor Falun Gong practitioners....The prison doctor even used a knife to poke her mouth while saying, "Don't you dare to go on hunger strike! I'll teach you a lesson." She was left with half-inch long wounds on her tongue, and two patches of the flesh on her cheeks were dug away by the knife. -
The Cruel Treatment Ms. Fan Wenfang Suffered before Being Carried into the Courtroom on a Stretcher
2004-02-04In September 2002, Ms. Fan Wenfang was unlawfully sent to Funan Detention Centre, and while she was there, the guards tortured her with force-feedings, leaving her in an emaciated and pitiful condition. She suffered low blood glucose level and electrolyte disorder at the same time. She was not sent home until she was on the verge of death. Yet she was subjected to more relentless brutal treatment only one day after being sent home. -
Female Practitioners Are Sadistically Tortured In the Dalian Detention Centre
2004-02-04Li Yumei and I had been deprived of sleep for nine days straight. Later we were only allowed to sleep for two or three hours a day. One time I asked the prisoner assigned to watch me: "Do you have parents, brothers and sisters? How do you feel when you see that they brutally torture practitioners?" She said: "Everyone is selfish. Although we know that practitioners are good people, we still have to do what they order us to do. Otherwise they will extend our term." -
Falun Gong Practitioners Endure Endless, Intensive Forced Labour at Langfang City Detention Centre
2004-02-04Whoever is sent to Langfang City Detention Centre learns that the forced labour there is extremely intensive and unendurable. There are always countless beans waiting to be picked and chopsticks waiting to be wrapped up. The person in charge assigns daily jobs to every detainee. Detainees who are unable to finish their assignments, are punished by either not being allowed to sleep or by being given evening duty. They are forced to work more than 10 hours every day. -
Chongqing City Police Chief Illegally Detains and Extorts Money from Over a Hundred Falun Gong Practitioners
2004-02-04Zhang and his accomplices continuously extort substantial amounts of money from practitioners. Zhang pries out the financial status of arrested practitioners, and threatens to send them to labour camps. In his original words: "I can send a person to hell (meaning 'sending to a labour camp') or to heaven (meaning 'not sending to a labour camp.')" By doing this, Zhang and his accomplices have illegally extorted over 350,000 Yuan from practitioners and families via bonds, fines, confiscations, etc. In a county like Tongnan that is known for its poverty, Zhang uses persecuting Falun Gong to help obtain promotions and make a fortune out of it. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Gao Shiping Dies After Tremendous Physical and Mental Torture
2004-02-03Ms. Gao Shiping, aged 58, was a resident of the surrounding area of Zhangjiakou City. In April 2001, while Ms. Gao was farming in the field, she was arrested by local police and sent to the Gaoyang Labour Camp for forced brainwashing. When she returned home in the spring of 2003, her health had seriously deteriorated from the physical and mental torture she had endured in the labour camp. She died on December 19, 2003. -
Witnessing the Horrors of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp: "If You Refuse to Submit, You Will Be Cremated" -
2004-02-03"Seeing that she refused to submit, they tied her to the back of a van and pulled her along to a broken down shed, where she was made to stand and not allowed to sleep unless she gave up her practice. They tied her arms to the back and hung her up, with her toes barely touching the ground. Adding to her agony, they shocked her with an electric baton. Ma collapsed four times, and she suffered from cardiac problems from the damage done by the high voltage electric baton. For six months afterwards, she was unable to lift up her arms." -
Policewoman in Dalian Labour Camp Subjects Female Dafa Practitioners to Horrendous Torture
2004-02-03Policewoman Yuan Lingyue is the captain of Team Three in the Women's Division of Dalian City Labour Camp, in Liaoning Province. Team Three is specifically used for detaining and torturing female Falun Gong practitioners. Yuan is thirty-three years old and lives in the Lubo Residential Area of the Shahekou District in Dalian City. She is known to be vicious and deceitful. Yuan was so cruel that the guards were even terrified of her. They would say behind her back, "She's just too vicious."