Torture

Beaten to a Vegetative State, Ms. Ma Liqin Died in 2013

2015-01-12

Ms. Ma Liqin, arrested for practising Falun Gong, was beaten to a vegetative state while in detention in March 2002. After her husband divorced her, Ms. Ma's family took care of her for the last 11 years of her life. Because of international pressure, the Qitaihe Police Department declared an "investigative conclusion" on March 20th, 2003, which claimed that "there was no proof that Ma Liqin's cerebral haemorrhage was caused by a police beating." It was recently learned that Ms. Ma passed away on January 25th, 2013, at the age of 59.

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Recount of Mr. Huang Wei's Death 12 Days After His Release from Labour Camp

2015-01-10

Mr. Huang Wei, 44, died on April 29th, 2011. His death occurred 12 days after his release from a labour camp in Guangdong Province. Before this, he was arrested and detained many times because he practised Falun Gong. He was sentenced three times to a forced labour camp. Mr. Huang was skin and bones and suffered from a mental collapse after his release.

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Ninety-One Falun Gong Practitioners Died in 2014 as Result of Persecution

2015-01-10

The year 2014 saw 123 newly confirmed cases of Falun Gong practitioner deaths that resulted because of the Chinese Communist regime's persecution campaign. Among these cases, 91 deaths occurred in 2014, 17 in 2013, and 15 prior to 2013. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuxian was arrested by police on August 7th, 2014 and was dead the next day. When Ms. Zhang's husband saw her body, she had dark bruises and wounds all over her chest, abdomen, and legs. There was a footprint on her back, which appeared to be the result of a heavy kick. Ms. Zhang died at the age of 53.

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Imprisoned for Ten Years, Mr. Xu Huijian Dies at Age 41

2015-01-10

Mr. Xu Huijian was released in April 2011, after being imprisoned for ten years. He was skin and bones at the time. Mr. Xu had contracted a severe case of tuberculosis in prison due to rounds of hard labour and poor nutrition. He coughed all the time, and often churned up blood. After a severe episode of coughing up blood, Mr. Xu passed away on December 24th, 2014. He was only 41 years old.

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Ms. Bai Wanzheng, 63, Dies After Long-term Persecution

2015-01-10

Ms. Bai Wanzhen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changji, Xinjiang Province, died on December 4th, 2014, at the age of 63. Previously, the communist regime listed her as one of its most wanted targets. Her parents and two sisters died prior to her death because of the persecution. She was the last one among her siblings to die after years of mistreatment.

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Elderly Ms. Liang Bingxian Dies from Being Persecuted

2015-01-03

Ms. Liang Bingxian, 73, passed away on October 30th, 2014, after suffering from the unprecedented persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She had been arrested in April 2013, for talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong, harassed and her son and daughter-in-law were sentenced to long prison terms just for practising Falun Gong.

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Mr. Zhang Youwei Died in 2011 Shortly After Release from Labour Camp

2015-01-03

Mr. Zhang Youwei, 47, from Beijing, passed away on December 1st, 2011, at home, shortly after being released on medical parole from Tiantanghe Forced Labour Camp, where he was near death and his body was swollen and disfigured. Mr. Zhang had been sentenced to two years of forced labour and held at the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp from 2001 to 2003, where he was tortured, incarcerated in a small cell, and shocked with electric batons.

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After Ten Years of Forced Exile, College Professor Dies at Age 49

2015-01-03

Ms. Shao Jingmei, Associate Professor of English at Taizhou Teacher's College, passed away on April 29th, 2014, at the age of forty-nine. Before her death, she was forced to lead a vagrant lifestyle in order to escape the harassment and persecution of the Chinese government for her faith in the spiritual practice Falun Gong.

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Poisoning Suspected in Death of Mr. Yue Liangzhen

2015-01-03

It is believed that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yue Liangzhen was poisoned in a brainwashing centre with drugs that damage the central nervous system. After being released from the brainwashing centre, he suffered from amnesia, had problems with coordination, and became incontinent. He passed away on December 16th, 2014, at the age of 68.

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A Father's Cry: Can Our Daughter Come Out of Prison Alive?

2015-01-03

Simply for practising Falun Gong, Ms. He Lianchun was sentenced to 10 years in 2009 and is now serving time at Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison. Because she insisted on her constitutional right to believe in Falun Gong, she has been subjected to abuse since the day of her prison admission. With five years remaining on her term, her 73-year-old father Mr. He Chengyun is quite worried, wondering if his daughter will come out of prison alive.

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Ms. Liu Fengyun Passes Away after Repeated Persecution

2015-01-03

Like many Falun Gong practitioners in China, Ms. Liu Fengyun's family has been subjected to intense persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the past 15 years. Ms. Liu was detained a number of times, and sentenced to three years in prison. Her husband, Mr. Bai Ruisong, had also been sentenced to forced labour a number of times, and was subjected to many tortures at Jiutai Forced Labour Camp and the local detention centre. Unable to take any more, Ms. Liu passed away on December 6th, 2014, at the age of 60.

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With Mother Dead and Father in Prison, a Daughter Seeks Justice

2014-12-23

Falun Gong practitioner Ma Jiang was tried and sentenced to three years in prison by the Dadong District Court on December 4th, 2014. During the trial, the prosecutor presented interrogation transcripts and a “confession” by Mr. Ma that were forged by the police. The charge was “using a cult organization to sabotage the enforcement of law.” Mr. Ma plans an appeal of the verdict and sentence. His wife, Ms. Wu Shuyan, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was persecuted to death a year ago.

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Brutal Force-Feeding in Liaoning Women's Prison

2014-12-23

Ms. Liu was transferred to Liaoning Women's Prison on October 11th, 2001. She was held down on the bed by guards and inmates to prevent her from doing the Falun Gong exercises. Ms. Liu went on a hunger strike in protest. She was taken to the prison hospital and tied in a spread-eagle position to the special bed for force-feeding. A strap was fastened across her chest so that she could not move. Several officers immobilized her head, and the head of the prison hospital, Wang Nina, in her 50s, inserted a meter-long plastic tube 5 mm in diameter into her nostril, down her throat, and into her stomach. She then connected a thick syringe to the tubing and forced corn porridge into Ms. Liu's stomach. She was force-fed once or twice a day, 3000 ml of corn porridge each time. It was excruciatingly painful. Ms. Liu was tortured this way for eight days, until she agreed to eat.

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Belated News: Urumqi Environmental Engineer Dies after Years of Persecution

2014-12-23

It was learned recently that a senior environmental engineer in Urumqi, Mr. Gu Youquan, passed away in July 2013, after being persecuted for years for practising Falun Gong. He died at the age of 73. Mr. Gu was seized from his home on January 13th, 2007, and taken to a detention centre. The authorities handed him a three-year sentence with four-year suspension for “inciting subversion of state power” 11 months later.

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Sister Repeatedly Arrested, Brother Tortured to Death

2014-12-23

Ms. Ma Jumei, who is in her fifties, was arrested on December 9th, 2014, at the nursing home she has managed since her release from detention in 2011. Ms. Ma has been repeatedly arrested and detained in the past because she is a Falun Gong practitioner. Ms. Ma's younger brother, Mr. Ma Jujun, was tortured to death in the Urumqi City Mental Hospital in 2004. Ms. Ma was being held at the Xinjiang Women's Prison at the time, and was not allowed to attend her brother's funeral.

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