Torture

• Mr. Jiao Lingyun from Heilongjiang Province Persecuted to Death in Detention, Officials Cover Up Their Crimes

  2011-08-13
  On June 10th, Mr. Jiao Lingyun, 49, was arrested by over ten police officers. He was held at the Jixian County Detention Centre. On July 8th, Mr. Jiao's father received a phone call from the Jixian County Public Security Bureau, informing him of his son's death. Mr. Jiao's family had not received any information about Mr. Jiao after his arrest until this phone call. Mr. Jiao's family rushed to the hospital. Darkly coloured bruises were evident on his head, neck and legs. The skin around his mouth had deep pinch marks, his lips were injured and his clothes were wet. On July 10th, according to staff from the funeral home, officers guarded Mr. Jiao's body 24 hours a day. They did not allow the funeral home staff or Mr. Jiao's family to see his whole body.
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• Mr. Wen Zhiming from Liaoning Province Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison Without Due Process

  2011-08-13
  Mr. Wen Zhiming is a Falun Gong practitioner from Suizhong County, Liaoning Province. He was secretly sentenced to seven years in prison by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court on July 12th. On April 26th, 2011, officers from the Suizhong County Police Department arrested Mr. Wen from his home and sent him to the Suizhong County Detention Centre. Mr. Wen's home was ransacked and his computer, printer, Falun Gong books and some personal belongings were confiscated.
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• Crimes Committed at the Zhaoyuan City "Law Training Centre" in Shandong Province

  2011-08-13
  The "Law Training Centre" in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province is a brainwashing centre used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners who have served terms in forced labour camps or prisons are brought to the brainwashing centre before being released, so that the authorities can extort money from their family members. On the 2nd floor, there is a torture chamber, which has an iron chair. When they torture a Falun Gong practitioner, they tie him/her to the chair and shock him with electric batons, beat him with wooden sticks and clubs, whip him with a “rope” made with several wires twisted together, or hang him up in the air.
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• Over a Hundred Practitioners in Tangshan City Detained in May and June

  2011-08-12
  In May and June 2011, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested and detained Falun Gong practitioners from all over the country, including Tangshan City. The persecution was planned and carried out according to orders from “above”. There was a quota that the CCP authorities had to reach and a list of names on their blacklist. Officers from the Domestic Security Division and the local police stations arrested practitioners either at work or at home. Furthermore, their homes were ransacked and their personal property stolen. In two months, more than 120 practitioners have been detained—over 80 of them are imprisoned in detention centres, with 16 in Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan alone.
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• Five Practitioners from Zunhua, Hebei Province Held in Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp

  2011-08-12
  On May 10th, more than fifty practitioners gathered together in Falun Gong practitioner Dang Xiaofen's home to read Falun Gong books together. They were arrested by police. After being extorted for large amounts of money, several practitioners have been released. Five Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp. They were sentenced to one to two years of forced labour.
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• Engineer Hu Chunqing Remains Steadfast in His Belief Despite Torture

  2011-08-12
  Falun Gong practitioner Hu Chunqing is a civil engineer who designs and builds roads and bridges. During the 12-year persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Mr. Hu was sentenced to a forced labour camp for a term of two years and he never gave up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In the forced labour camp, he was brutally tortured. The officers deprived Mr. Hu of sleep for a period of nine days and nights by forcing him to stand outside in the freezing winter cold. They poured cold water over him and then shocked him with electric batons. They pushed his head into the toilet and force fed him urine.
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• Mr. Liu Jingze Arrested, His Family Harassed and Evicted from Their Home

  2011-08-12
  The Shenzhen City police arrested Mr. Liu Jingze and several other Falun Gong practitioners on June 21st. Around July 20th, several Communist regime agents went to Mr. Liu Jingze's home in two military cars to harass his family. They questioned his wife, demanding to know if she and Mr. Liu's older brother practised Falun Gong. They searched every room in the house, and checked his wife's mobile phone to see who she had recently contacted. The police ordered the landlord to evict Mr. Liu's wife and his two daughters.
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• Former Second Prize Winner of the National Youth Erhu Music Competition Sentenced to Over Eight Years in Prison

  2011-08-11
  On June 24th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jin Yuan was sentenced at Zhuhai City Xiangzhou District Court to eight and a half years in prison. Previously, in November 2010, police ransacked his home and arrested him. The agents searched his home until the afternoon, and confiscated his personal chequebook, among other things. Mr. Jin was then detained in the Zhuhai Number Two Detention Centre before being sentenced.
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• Ms. Tang Tianmin on the Verge of Death After a Recent Brainwashing Session

  2011-08-11
  Naxi District Sanitary Ceramics Factory Guest House in Luzhou City is a secret prison set up by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). They arrest Falun Gong practitioners and hold them there to conduct brainwashing sessions while using torture and violence in an attempt to force the practitioners to give up their belief. Police arrested Ms. Tang Tianmin from her home on July 12th, and took her to this brainwashing facility. When Ms. Tang resisted the arrest, the perpetrators beat her. Her arms swelled up from being twisted. Ms. Tang held a hunger strike to protest the 610 Office agents' criminal act. Eight days later, Ms. Tang was carried back home in critical condition.
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• 68-Year-Old Chongqing Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine Imprisoned for Seven Years

  2011-08-11
  Ms. Du Wanrong from Chongqing is a retired doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Because of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, she was forced to become exiled twice to avoid persecution, and was imprisoned for seven years. After her release from prison, Ms. Du approached the incumbent hospital director Wang Peiwen and requested normal payment of her retirement pension. However, Wang replied, “Falun Gong practitioners are to be suspended without pay.”
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• Yu Qingtao's Story: Prodigal Son Changes After Learning Falun Gong in Prison, Then Persecuted by the Communist Regime

  2011-08-11
  Mr. Yu Qingtao was sentenced to ten years (July 2002 to July 2012) in prison in July 2002, for robbery. Currently he is jailed in the Jiamusi Prison. In 2002, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners was especially brutal and rampant. There were several hundred Falun Gong practitioners detained in the detention centre. He witnessed with his own eyes the brutal persecution these practitioners suffered. His jail cell held several Falun Gong practitioners as well. However, their kind words and actions deeply touched his heart. He felt that Falun Gong was great and immediately decided to learn more. Since Yu Qingtao openly declared his respect for Falun Gong, a guard beat Yu up very hard. Mr. Yu was injured all over his body.
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• Mr. Jiao Lingyun Killed and Ms. Luan Xiuyuan and Ms. Dai Lixia Both in Critical Condition

  2011-08-10
  On June 10th, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Jiao Lingyun, Ms. Dai Lixia, and Ms. Luan Xiuyuan were arrested by a group of police. At the time of the arrest the practitioners were working in the Jianxin Middle School of Jixian County, when the police broke in without any warrant. Mr. Jiao was later detained in the Jixian County Detention Centre, while Ms. Dai Lixia and Ms. Luan Xiuyuan were held in the Jiamisi City Detention Centre. Mr. Jiao was killed on July 8th during his detention, only 29 days after he was arrested. According to some eyewitnesses who saw his body in the hospital, he was as thin as a skeleton and had bruises on his head and an obvious black scar on the left side of his neck. Due to the mistreatment during their detention, Ms. Luan and Ms. Dai are in critical condition.
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• Injected with Unknown Drugs, Ms. Zhu Yifang Lost the Ability to Walk

  2011-08-10
  Ms. Zhu Yifang, 47 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner. She has been arrested and detained many times since the persecution of Falun Gong began. In prison she was hung up for seven days and nights. Another torture method she was subjected to is being pulled from five directions. She was also injected with unknown drugs, until she lost consciousness. Even now, Ms. Zhu Yifang still cannot walk after the injections. She has to hold onto a wheelchair or use a walking stick. Two tumours grew on her back and her right leg, and were unbearably painful.
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• Ms. Cai Yuechan and Ms. Cai Yuchang Sentenced

  2011-08-10
  Practitioners Ms. Cai Yuechan and Ms. Cai Yuchang were reported to the police on December 4th, 2010, when they were seen handing out DVDs of Shen Yun Performing Arts. They were arrested and detained at the Shantou Tuopu Detention Centre. Longhu District Court sentenced both practitioners to 18 months in prison on July 7th. They have appealed to the Shandong Intermediate Court.
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• Mr. Liu Renge from Jilin Province Died as a Result of Persecution--Police Try to Cover up the Facts

  2011-08-10
  Officers from the Tonghua County Domestic Security Division arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Renge on June 28th, as he was going to Ying'ebu Town to deliver Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He was taken to the county's detention centre the same day and died in police custody three weeks later, on July 22nd. During his detention, the police refused to allow his family to visit him. When the family asked police if Mr. Liu was physically abused or mistreated during police interrogation, the police officer just said that Mr. Liu had undergone some kind of corporal punishment.
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