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• Twenty Practitioners Arrested by the "610 Office" in Shiyan City

  2003-12-18
  In late August 2003, following large-scale efforts by practitioners to expose the persecution, the authorities established a 'Law Education Base' (brainwashing centre) to be headed by the deputy secretary of the City Political and Judiciary Committee and the "610 Office" director, Lu Jinchang. They had the City Criminal Police Branch leader and the assistant director of the "610 Office," Zhu Bangyi, lead policemen to convert hotels and motels into bases for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Police arrested dozens of practitioners, sent them to a labour camp, detained, or forced them to go to a brainwashing centre.
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• Guangxi: Dafa Practitioners Mr. Xuan Deqiong and Mr. Wang Rencheng Tortured to Death by Police

  2003-12-17
  Since July 20, 1999, police in Qinbei District, Qinzhou City, Guangxi Chuang Municipality Autonomous Region have been brutally persecuting Dafa practitioners. They tortured two practitioners to death in March and June of 2001 respectively. Afterwards they tightly blocked the information and details of the deaths were not known until recently. Mr. Wang Rencheng was a 35-year-old practitioner who lived in Dazhi Town, Qinbei District. In 2000, he was illegally detained in the Qinzhou No.2 Detention Centre by the Qinbei District Police Department after he distributed Dafa truth-clarifying flyers. In June 2001, he was shocked to death with electric batons during interrogation. However, the government claimed that he died because of his contact with high-voltage electricity.
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• Anhui Province: Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Jun Dies as a Result of Abuse and Torment in in Hefei City

  2003-12-17
  The court started to pass verdict without any due legal procedures, which enraged the accused's relatives and friends sitting in the public gallery. Li Jun and his fellow practitioners started to sing the song "Falun Dafa is Good" and their voices could be heard in and around the court, which made the evildoers fearful and deeply moved kind-hearted people. In view of this circumstance, the judges wanted to send them away as soon as possible, but Li Jun and his fellow practitioners refused to cooperate with their illegal conduct. The police resorted to violence, but the people present condemned their conduct. The police used violence to cover up their inner fear, threatening to beat anyone who dared to criticize them.
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• Jilin Province: Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Li Murdered by Torture

  2003-12-17
  On July 4, 2001, she was arrested yet again in Fangshan District. She insisted that she was innocent and held a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. In late 2001, she was unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison and was incarcerated at Fangshan Prison. On February 1, 2002, she was tortured to death at Beijing Police Hospital, because she believed in Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance.
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• Hunan Province: Fifty-One Year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured to Death by Police

  2003-12-17
  In 2001, Chen Changfa was accused of wrongdoing, when he was clarifying the truth to people. In August 2001, he was forced to become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home. Nevertheless, he continued appealing for Dafa. Soon thereafter, he was arrested by police in Hunan, and brutally tortured to death. In May, 2002, police from Hunan Province acting on information contained in his personal I.D. card, took a photo of his dead, tortured body to his local police station and informed them that he had died.
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• Jilin Province: At Least Ten Falun Gong Practitioners Are Tortured to Death at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

  2003-12-17
  Starting from the end of 2001, Wang Yunkun, Secretary of the Jilin Province Party Committee, and Lin Yanzhi, Vice Secretary of the Jilin Province Party Committee started devising and directing a large-scale persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp. In March 2003, Wang Yunkun required them to "Achieve a 95% conversion rate [percentage of practitioners forced to give up their belief] by any means and any cost, and send the remaining 5% to prison." To achieve the so called "conversion rate," all policemen and some criminals of the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp cruelly beat practitioners using 10,000-volt electric batons, truncheons, police ropes, hoe handles, handcuffs, V-belts, axes, etc. Usually a dozen of them beat one practitioner. The effects are so brutal that blood can be seen all over the walls.
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• Hebei Province: A Woman in Her Sixties Is Force-Fed Human Excrement Three Times

  2003-12-16
  The Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp founded the Women's Brigade in November 2000. Although it hasn't been in existence very long, its high rate of forcing practitioners to give up their practice of Falun Dafa is well known throughout the country. Frequently, there were authorities from labour camps in surrounding areas that came to learn their techniques for breaking down Falun Gong practitioners and forcing them to renounce their belief. Many steadfast practitioners were transferred here from other forced labour camps in Shijiazhuang City, Tangshan City, and Baoding City in order to intensify the persecution against them.
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• Jilin Province: Mayor of Shulan City: "We Won't Release Him Even If He Is Dead"

  2003-12-16
  Disregarding his life-threatening condition, the City Director and City Manager ordered the police department to take Zhu to a forced labour camp. The labour camp refused to take Zhu because they were unwilling to shoulder responsibility for Zhu's life-threatening condition. Even after five failed attempts, the police department still refused to release him. Presently Zhu is still detained in the City Detention Centre. The mayor of Shulan city, Zhang Zhimin, announced to his subordinates: "We won't release him even if he is dead."
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• Heilongjiang Province: Corrupt Police Frame and Arrest a Woman then Send Her Son to a Nursing Home

  2003-12-16
  On October 28, 2003, Ju Qingsong, together with another policeman name Fu, broke into the house of practitioner Li Xiuqin when she was not there. Li's neighbour witnessed the break-in. They did not find anything in her home, so they planted a bag of materials in her room. When Li came back home, the police arrested her. A policeman went into her room and took out the bag of Dafa flyers. The police told people that she was arrested when she was distributing flyers outside. The police then sent her 11-year-old child to the local nursing home. The child did not want to go there and cried nonstop. The local Director of the Residential Committee also shed tears. However, the policemen, who were only interested in making money by catching Falun Gong practitioners, and had no sympathy at all.
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• Hebei Province: Handan City Court Sentences Five Dafa Practitioners to Heavy Prison Terms

  2003-12-16
  On July 3, 2003, the Hanshan District Court held a secret trial for these practitioners. Shi Qiaoling was sentenced to 13 years in prison, Liu Jun to 11 years, Li Mingtao to 11 years, Tong Cunshu to 5 years and Li Xiangling to 3 years. These practitioners filed an appeal to the intermediate court of Handan City. Recently the intermediate court delivered a verdict to keep the original sentence. On November 13, 2003, without informing the family members, the police sent Li Mingtao and Liu Jun to the Fourth Prison located in the north suburb of Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province.
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• Charles Li Suffered Intensified Brainwashing Just Prior to the Meeting of Wen and Bush

  2003-12-15
  One specialist on China pointed out that forcing someone to give up their faith is the same as asking them to give up their conscience and their human dignity. Brainwashing is an inhuman mental torture, causing the victim worse pain and long-term effects than physical torture. Brainwashing is unacceptable to western democratic governments, legal systems and society. The specialist also noted that the Chinese Communist Party is very focused on spiritual control. The persecution of Falun Dafa by Jiang has reinforced this dark side of Chinese society. In fact, cruel torture is routinely used to effect spiritual control, and it has been used to force Falun Dafa practitioners give up their faith and their freedom to practise the exercises.
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• Hebei Province: Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Chouren Confirmed to Have Died from Torture Two Years Ago

  2003-12-15
  Li's parents had passed away long ago, and his younger sister had married and moved out. He, along with his mentally retarded brother, lived a very poor life. Since his family could not afford to pay the so-called fines the police asked for, Li was jailed for the longest time among the arrested practitioners. In the end, the police released him after extorting 1500 Yuan from his sister. In about 10 days or so after he returned home, Li passed away. He died at the age of 40.
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• Hunan Province: Baimalong Labour Camp Inject Nerve Damaging Drugs Into Captive Women

  2003-12-15
  In Baimalong Labour Camp, you can be tortured in a multitude of ways if you are determined to practise Falun Dafa. After six days, Chen was sent to the medical office for injections. After half a month, the director ordered two officers to watch her in the medical office. According to witnesses, the staff injected glucose, along with a nerve-damaging drug called "Winter Sleep," into Chen's bloodstream. After being injected with this drug, a person will gradually suffer memory loss and will want to sleep all the time. The medical staff injected Chen with small quantities of this drug each day, causing her to slowly become sick, as if she were suffering from a chronic disease. Doctor Lu from the Baimalong medical office is primarily responsible for the harm done to Ms. Chen's health.
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• Heilongjiang Province: Phone Numbers Related to the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wang Jiguo

  2003-12-15
  In August 2000, due to severe persecution, Wang Jiguo was on the verge of death in the labour camp. He was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, liver cirrhosis ascites, and comprehensive liver and kidney syndrome. The labour camp had to agree to let him out on bail to be hospitalized for treatment. In December 2000, only three months after Wang Jiguo was released from the hospital, the authorities from Mudanjiang City Teachers' College ignored the fact that he was still urinating blood and had almost lost all sight in both eyes, and sent him back to the labour camp. Later, Wang Jiguo was sentenced and held in Mudanjiang City Prison. There he was again abused to the verge of death. When he was sent to the hospital again, it was too late to save his life, and he passed away in September 2003.
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• Police Illegally Open Citizens' Letters Seeking "Evidence" For Their Conviction

  2003-12-15
  How did the city government get my personal letters? Did the city government intercept them? Or did someone report them? The people involved in such a dirty thing dare not to frankly reveal it to the public. However, they convict people only by the letters they write and without any legal basis. How can they talk about human rights? How can it be treated as an illegal activity to express one's thoughts and beliefs in writing to relatives? As citizens, how can we live under these conditions? I therefore call upon the international justice and human rights organizations, as well as all people with a sense of conscience, to come together to stop this persecution and defend justice throughout the world.
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