Torture

Five Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia

2011-08-17

Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Ren Suying and Ms. Yang Guizhi were sentenced to prison terms recently, while Mr. Yu Shulin, Ms. Ren Suxiang and Ms. Yang Guihua were given labour camp terms. A few days ago, Ms. Ren was sentenced to five years in prison and taken to the First Women's Prison of Inner Mongolia for further persecution. Ms. Yang Guizhi was the principal of Wujia High School in Yuanbaoshan District. She maintained her faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and was subsequently removed from her position, and then forced to work as a school gate guard. Finally, she was removed from her guard position for practising Falun Gong.

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Disabled Wang Xiaolian Imprisoned for Over Nine Months

2011-08-17

Disabled Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaolian and her daughter Ms. Wang Pei were taken to the Anping County Public Security Bureau Detention Centre on the afternoon of October 15th, 2010. Ms. Wang Pei returned home after she had paid a fine. On June 15th, Anping County Court held a secret court proceeding during which they sentenced Ms. Wang Xiaolian, without attendance of her family or her attorney. A month has passed and her whereabouts remain unknown.

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Tianjin Factory Owner Mr. Li Xiwang Died as a Result of Persecution

2011-08-16

Mr. Li Xiwang was a factory owner. He and his wife Chen Liyan were arrested on December 21st, 2010. After being held in the Hexi Detention Centre for more than six months, Mr. Li was transferred to the Gangbei Prison (the name has been changed to the Binhai Prison). On July 29th, two police officers came to Mr. Li's relatives' home and declared that Mr. Li “had died of sudden illness after an emergency treatment failed to save him” in the early morning hours that same day. Mr. Li's wife Ms. Chen Liyan was subjected to a one-year forced labour term, and is being held in the Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin.

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Disabled Practitioner Mr. Wang Anping Recounts the Persecution He Has Suffered Over the Past Twelve Years

2011-08-16

After the nationwide persecution began on July 20th, 1999, I was arrested numerous times because I insisted on having my belief. My home was also ransacked many times. I was sent to a brainwashing facility, put into a forced labour camp three times, and fired from work. In Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp guards poured cold water on me in the winter. I had to sit motionless on a small plastic stool to do forced labour. If I moved a little, I would be beaten with a stick, leather belt, or electric baton. We started at 7:00 a.m. and finished at 6:00 p.m. We would be beaten whenever we slowed down a little.

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Ms. Wang Jixiu, a School Teacher from Mengyin County, Shandong Province, Repeatedly Arrested and Tortured

2011-08-16

On July 20th, two Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Wang Jixiu and Mr. Zhang Mingxia, were arrested for practising Falun Gong. The police ransacked Ms. Wang's home, confiscated her personal collection of Falun Gong books, and took away her car. Ms. Wang was arrested in 2001 and sent to the forced brainwashing facility. A group of guards forced her left hand to the ground to make her squat on a pile of ashes, while they punched and kicked her in attempts to make her tell them whose home she had been hiding in. She was forced to squat on top of a pile of ashes in the middle of the winter throughout the night.

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Mr. Fu Chengyou Has Been Homeless for Nine Years, His Family Members Harassed by Police

2011-08-16

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fu Chengyou, from Bayuquan District, Yingkou, Liaoning Province, has been homeless for nine years in order to avoid further persecution. On June 28th, police from the Liaoning Domestic Security Division harassed Mr. Fu's son at his house and demanded he tell them his father's whereabouts. After Mr. Fu's family refused to tell them anything, the police began to monitor his family's daily activities.

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610 Office Officials Interfere with the Judicial Process as Mr. Huang Liqiao Sues Tianjin Pipe Corporation

2011-08-15

Officers from the Dahutong Police Station in Hongqiao District and the security department of Tianjin Pipe Corporation forcibly removed Mr. Huang from his workplace and took him to the Hongqiao District Police Department on April 20th, 2008. He was sentenced to two years in the Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp without any legal proceedings taking place. Mr. Huang filed a lawsuit against Tianjin Pipe Corporation at the Dongli Court. Although the court accepted the case on June 21st, 2010, they kept delaying the proceedings. As soon as Falun Gong was mentioned during the hearing, Judge Sun Zhaomin became visibly nervous and said, “This case is too sensitive. I cannot take responsibility for the decision. I need to keep my job.” Then Sun repeatedly demanded that Mr. Huang delete the words "Falun Gong" from his statement and threatened not to open the court session if he did not do so.

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Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 610 Office Operates above the Law

2011-08-15

One day in 2006, police broke into my house and ransacked it. They told my wife, “You have to come with us.” She asked, “Where are we going?” They replied, “To the police station.” They then forced us to go with them. I was taken to the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). One police officer asked, “Have you participated in any gatherings?” I said no. Then they sent me to a detention centre. After I was held for more than twenty days, the 610 Office agent told me, “You are being sent to a forced labour camp.” I asked, “Why? What evidence do you have that convicts me? On what legal basis do you send me there?” He would not answer my question directly but just sternly said, “Even if you do not say anything, we will still sentence you.”

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Ms. Song Guixiang from Qingdao Arrested Again

2011-08-15

On June 24th, 66-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song went to the Jiaozhou City Police Department to request a visit to see her Falun Gong practitioner daughter, who had been sentenced to seven years in Jinan City Women's Prison, and to demand the release of her husband, who also pracises Falun Gong and was arrested on March 23rd. However, they refused to respond to her requests and she was pushed out of the building. Ms. Song started to shout, “Falun Gong is good,” in the yard of the police department. Police beat her and then dragged her into a police car. She was taken to Sanlihe Police Station.

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The Persecution of Ms. Luan Guirong and Her Family

2011-08-15

After practising Falun Gong, Ms. Luan Guirong recovered from severe arthritis. After the persecution began in 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained and subsequently dismissed from her job. Her husband was an employee at Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp. Because he delivered daily necessities and clothing to practitioners, he was persecuted, and subsequently passed away in 2001.

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After Five Years of Imprisonment, Practitioner Shao Chengluo, a Doctor of Chinese Medicine from Shandong, Is Critically Ill

2011-08-14

Mr. Shao Chengluo has been a doctor of Chinese medicine for over 20 years. He is a very skilled doctor, is kind-hearted, and is highly respected by local villagers and patients. Nonetheless this good person was sentenced to a seven-year prison term by the Chengyang Court because he practises Falun Gong. He has been imprisoned since July 21st, 2006 in the Shandong Province Prison, and has been tortured relentlessly. As of March 2011, Mr. Shao Chengluo was emaciated, his body functions had declined, and he was critically ill. His family was refused visits for nearly three years.

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Ms. Zhang Yueqin Being Tortured at Hebei Province Women's Prison

2011-08-14

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yueqin is being tortured in Hebei Province Women's Prison, after having been detained there for three years. Some of the torture includes having needles inserted into her body, being deprived of sleep for days, and being forced to walk on scalding hot plates. In addition, guard Wu Hongxia, an instructor from cell No. 6, instigated others to slap Ms. Zhang's face until their wrists were in pain. Currently, Ms. Zhang hardly talks to anyone close to her.

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Teacher Monitored by Authorities and Salary Suspended for the Past Three Years

2011-08-14

Ms. He Yanhua had been working as a chemistry teacher at Shanhe Middle School, in Maogang District, Maoming City, Guangdong Province, for more than ten years. Because she practises Falun Gong, she was detained in a forced labour camp and brainwashing centre multiple times, and tortured. She refused to sign a guarantee statement to stop practising Falun Gong, and has been deprived of her salary for over three years. She has had to survive on her own savings in addition to working as a tutor.

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Exemplary Teachers Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party

2011-08-14

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Min is an English teacher in Liaozhong County Liujianfang School. Ms. Chen works very hard. When she was awarded the prestigious High Grade Teacher honour she offered it to her colleagues. Ms. Chen was such a good teacher and person, yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sentenced her to a three-year prison term because she explained the facts about Falun Gong. Shenyang Police Bureau sent officers to the school to investigate her. The headmaster clearly told them, "Ms. Chen Min is the best teacher in our school. She treats her students with great care and responsibility. Everyone knows she is one of the best!"

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An Account of 17 Torture Deaths in the Qingdao Area, Shandong Province

2011-08-13

At least 39 torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in the Qingdao Area alone have been verified since the persecution started, covering the period between 1999-2010. In addition, more than 1,000 practitioners were sentenced to forced labor camps or prisons; and at least 60 practitioners were injected with drugs known to damage the central nervous system, shocked with electric needles, or were force-fed at mental hospitals. Many more people faced torture, brainwashing sessions, intimidation, and monetary extortion at various brainwashing and detention facilities.

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