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Hubei Province: The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Wuhan City
2003-12-07Recently, Jiang Zemin visited Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Thereafter, a new round of persecution against Dafa practitioners in the Xinzhou area of Wuhan City was initiated....The thugs then searched Mr. Guo's home and really made a mess. In this emergency situation, Mr. Guo's wife ran out of the house and shouted loudly for help. When people in the neighbourhood came, they found that eight men were trying to leave in a hurry. Mrs Zhang realised that something was wrong, rushed into the room and saw that Mr. Guo was lying on the floor and there was blood all over his body, face and the floor. The neighbours carried him to a bed, but when they couldn't stop his bleeding, the family rushed Mr. Guo to the emergency room of the People's Hospital of Xinzhou District. But his injuries were too severe and he was pronounced dead at 8:00 pm on October 31, 2003. -
College Lecturer Zhou Genzheng Tortured for His Beliefs
2003-12-07Mr. Zhou's wife, Zhang Jianling, was forced to participate in attempts to brainwash him. She was under tight surveillance every time she went to look after her husband. Facing intense harassment, Zhang Jianling was humiliated and she had to resign from her workplace. In order not to involve his wife, Zhou suggested a divorce. His wife is in extreme despair because the previously happy family is being broken up by the persecution. Throughout these last few years, her physical and mental endurance have been tested beyond limit. -
Yang Chunbao's Leg Amputated as a Result of Repeated Torture in the Handan Forced Labour Camp
2003-12-06Hebei TV station showed a programme defaming Yang Chunbao. Part of the programme said, "Yang Chunbao caused trouble intentionally in the labour camp. He did not use the washroom. Instead, he relieved himself on the bed, making the bedding dirty." There were several enlarged shots of him. According to several informed prisoners, Yang Chunbao was tortured to the point of being unable to walk. He had to relieve himself on the bed since he could not walk to the washroom and nobody was taking care of him. -
Entire Family Abducted and Persecuted for Practising Dafa - Fifty Four Year Old Ms. Guo Sulan Passed Away
2003-12-06Her husband was unjustly sentenced to two years of forced labour, and she was sentenced to one year of forced labour. Because her physical health was poor, due to torture, the labour camp did not accept her. She was released only after she was taken back to Tongnan County and after being almost persecuted to death by malicious police officers. After one year of suffering through this painful situation, she passed away at about one o'clock on the afternoon of November 3, 2003. What is more tragic is that Guo Sulan's husband is still jailed in the labour camp and could not go home to see her for the last time. Her daughter was forced by the authorities to leave during the funeral preparation. -
Taiwanese Resident Doing Business In China Forced to Sign a Guarantee Letter Because of a Sitting Meditation Photo in an Advertisement
2003-12-06However, because of this picture, several employees of the company were sent to the Public Security Bureau and were detained for a long time. In the end, under pressure from the Public Security Bureau, they were forced to sign a letter guaranteeing that they have nothing to do with Falun Gong before they could be released. There are no Falun Gong practitioners in the company. However, even this law abiding company was not able to escape from this type of harassment. These types of actions on the part of the Public Security Bureau in China, which violate people's human rights, have chilled the hearts of the Taiwanese doing business in China. -
Inhuman Deeds in Guangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp
2003-12-06The prison police would arrange a special "watcher" for every practitioner. The watcher was allowed to beat or verbally abuse the practitioner at will. An older practitioner, Ms. Lin Yunying, suffered verbal abuse every day from the watcher, who would follow her everywhere, even to the toilet. When the watcher went to the toilet, the practitioner had to be around. Sometimes, when the practitioner took a little longer time in the toilet, the watcher might scold or even drag her out before she could finish. -
More Facts About the Death of Shanxi Province Practitioner Li Qingzhou
2003-12-05After he was released from the labour camp, he suffered a lot of brutal persecution by the local police. In July 2002, he was violently removed from his child's home and taken to Tieyiju Detention Centre. He was then sentenced to a two-year term in a forced labour camp. When he was sent to the labour camp, he was found to have high blood pressure during a health checkup. As a result, the camp refused to accept him. He asked to be released on bail so that he could obtain medical treatment, but his application for release was declined by detention centre authorities. -
Dafa Practitioner Endures Painful Torture in Linxi City
2003-12-05Since September, Qian Fajun has been on hunger strike to protest the unjust treatment he has received. After he had been on hunger strike for a month, the police began force-feeding him. When they finished force-feeding him, they left the tube inside his body to cause him even more discomfort. As a result of Mr. Qian's continued resistance to the persecution, several of his front teeth have been knocked out by the police and collaborators. The collaborators used screwdrivers and pliers to force open his mouth, causing his mouth to bleed. -
Dafa Practitioners Speak Out for Justice in Wuhan City Court
2003-12-05Although the four practitioners had suffered severe mental and physical torture and lost their freedom, they took the opportunity of the trial to expose the deeds of the authorities in a dignified manner, to speak out for justice, and to validate the goodness of Falun Dafa...Yu Ganghai presented the fact that Dafa practitioners are good people everywhere to expose the crimes of Jiang Zemin's regime, who confuse right and wrong and try to ruin people's conscience. He also told the judge that it is not a crime for us practitioners to clarify the truth to people. -
Three Months After Being Given 10 Year Prison Sentence Yanji City Detention Centre Tortures Ms. Song Yonghua to Death
2003-12-04During the detention, her health deteriorated. She suffered from acute heart diseases and other illness symptoms. She became incapacitated and was unable to take care of herself. During the spring of 2003, she was transferred to a Detention Centre. While there she was sentenced, between June and July of 2003, to ten years in jail. She died on October 30, 2003 at the Helong Detention Centre. Her relatives tried to have her released for medical treatment, but did not succeed. -
Writer from the Hebei Province Writers' Guild Secretly Sentenced to Ten Years Imprisonment
2003-12-04On September 29 and October 3,Dongli and Ninganlu police kidnapped another two people. The number of illegal arrests reached eight. At around the same time, the Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau mobilized almost its entire security force to search the whole city, investigating and arresting the so-called "Important Persons." All known Falun Gong practitioners and their friends and families were being followed, their phones and mobile phones tapped and recorded. Mr. Zhao Lishan's son, Zhao Liang, was detained for no reason for four days. Shijiazhuang City was in a shroud of terror. -
The Barbaric Slavery and Treatment of Dafa Practitioners at the Xinbing County Jail
2003-12-04Because the practitioners protested the illegal detention and the police's brutality by going on a hunger strike, the jail personnel subjected them to barbaric force-feeding. As they suffered, other policemen would wickedly encircle the practitioners and laugh at their misery. Upon returning to the cell after being force-fed, Mr. Jin Zhe threw up a lot of blood. Seeing this, the non-practitioner prisoners were disgusted and condemned the depraved acts of the police. -
Unspeakably Ruthless Torture in Changlinzi Labour Camp
2003-12-04After learning all kinds of torture methods from other provinces and the notorious Wanjia Labour Camp in Harbin, the police brutally tortured practitioners in order to try to force them to give up their belief...One policeman told me, "Several days ago, Jiang Zemin sent someone here to check the transformation rate. I know that three instructors in the fourth division will get promoted and a bonus." In Changlinzi Labour Camp, one can get a 200, 300 or 500 Yuan bonus if he transforms one practitioner. -
Humiliation and Force-Feeding Human Excrement
2003-12-03In order to force practitioners to give up their belief in Dafa, the staff members there first attempt to be falsely nice to them. If practitioners still refuse to give up cultivation, they then force practitioners' work units to stop their salaries, and coerce the practitioners' family members to exert pressure on practitioners. Now they have cut off all contact with the outside and are not allowing family visits or phone calls. Every day they force practitioners to read materials slandering Dafa and Teacher. According to a practitioner who escaped the brainwashing centre, the staff members there force fed human excrement to determined practitioners. They also strip practitioners naked and force them to run laps in the courtyard. -
A Personal Account of Being Brutally Force-Fed
2003-12-03Without waiting until we swallowed the salt water, Xu Changbao would again force-feed us with another bowl of extremely salty water causing us to cough and vomit. I used my tongue to block out the salt water and vomited it out. He became very angry seeing me vomit and continued forcing me to drink the salt water and shouted, "force-feed them to death and let's see if they want to eat or not!" My neck, cotton jacket, and the clothes I was wearing became all wet, causing me to become extremely cold. Due to not eating for several days, my stomach felt very uncomfortable as if it was burning from the salt water. We had to suffer this kind of force-feeding every day.