Torture
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The Persecution Suffered by Retired Teacher Ms. Tian Sufang Before She Died
2011-07-10
Ms. Tian Sufang, a seventy-four-year old retired teacher, lived in Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia. She started practising Falun Gong in 1996 and after several months of practice, the illnesses she previously sought treatment for and that doctors could not cure, disappeared. After Falun Gong was suppressed by the Chinese Communist regime in July 1999, Ms. Tian was arrested and tortured countless times. Finally she was sentenced to five years in prison. She passed away on March 15th, 2011. -
Thirty Falun Gong Practitioners Recently Arrested in Dalian City
2011-07-10Thirty Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police at Mr. Shen’s home in Dalian City on June 25th, 2011. The police rushed into the house without showing any legal documents, and they were not wearing police uniforms. After taking pictures and videos, they forcibly dragged practitioners into the police vehicles. Some practitioners shouted “Falun Gong is good” to protest the unjust arrest. The police shoved two practitioners surnamed Shi and Feng down to the ground and stomped on their heads. Due to the abuse, Shi’s eyes were blackened and Feng’s chin was badly bruised. Practitioners were sent to detention centres. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Li Wenjuan Subjected to Intense Persecution and Suffers a Bone Fracture
2011-07-10Agents from Putuo District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Shanghai arrested 63-year-old practitioner Ms. Liu Wenjuan in 2009. They sentenced her to a four-year prison term and detained her in Shanghai Women’s Prison. She was put in the intensified unit from February to June 2011. As a result she became extremely weak and fell while taking a shower, fracturing her thigh bone. -
Elderly Mr. Hu Shangxue Tortured in Jiuquan Prison
2011-07-10Mr. Hu Shangxue, 72, was detained four times between 2000 and 2002. During his fourth detention, he was sentenced to a 12-year term by the Yongchang County Court. In Jiuquan Prison officials adopted a policy of forced “transformation” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. They burned practitioners with cigarettes, beat them, burned them with pokers, kept them in solitary confinement, and tied them up and then stuffed a hare into the crotch of their trousers. They also used the torture method “splitting the body” (or the "beng torture") as well as forced sitting on a small stool for hours at a time (this torture is known as “stewing the eagle”). Mr. Hu eventually left Jiuquan Prison on May 26th, 2010. However, he is still being persecuted financially. -
Children Seeking Help Online Regarding Mother's Trial
2011-07-09Ms. Wang Fuling has been detained in the Haidian Detention Centre since being arrested on June 25th, 2010. Representing herself, she pleaded “not guilty” in the Haidian Court on March 21st, 2011. The judge claimed that my mother put seven self-adhesive notes on light poles in a neighbourhood in Beijing on June 25th, 2010. Each note was two centimetres long and five millimetres wide. The notes read, “Falun Gong is good. Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance is good.” Because her defence lawyer was prohibited from making a not guilty plea on her behalf, she pleaded “not guilty” for herself. -
Ms. Cai Daofeng Repeatedly Detained and Beaten
2011-07-09Ms. Cai Daofeng has been repeatedly detained, beaten, and suffered other forms of torture because she refuses to give up practising Falun Gong. She was detained in Zizhong City Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2000. She recounts: "A guard, shocked my face, nose, and mouth with electric batons until my nose and mouth bled. The guard instigated two criminals to beat me every day and used all sorts of torture on me. They tied me up with a rope and burned my forehead, face, and jaw with cigarettes. I had scars all over me." -
How Did Li Xianwen Die?
2011-07-09Mr. Li Xianwen and his wife, Ms. Yu Guiying were arrested in Chengdu on May 29th or 30th, 2001. Sadly, Mr. Li, 54, died sometime between then and May 31st, 2001. What happened in those two days, and what caused Mr. Li's death? The answers to these questions remain unknown. When the family saw his body they noticed an obvious bruise on Mr. Li's neck but no other noticeable wounds when they were dressing his body. The wife and son thus suspected that Mr. Li had been strangled, although the police claimed Mr. Li died by jumping from a building. -
Inside Story of the Nanchong City Brainwashing Centre of Sichuan Province
2011-07-09The “Nanchong Law Education Centre” is a secret brainwashing facility that targets Falun Gong practitioners. The "assistants" brainwash and deceive practitioners into giving up their belief; force practitioners to write so-called guarantee statements to give up the practice; force practitioners to hand copy articles and books that slander Falun Gong, and to watch slanderous video programmes; punish practitioners if they refuse to be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] by depriving them of sleep, forcing them to sit on the floor without moving, torture and weakening the practitioners' will, or threatening them with forced labour. -
Husband Imprisoned, Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour
2011-07-08Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Hongxia was arrested by agents from the Qinghe District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Qinghe Domestic Security Division in Huaian City, Jiangsu Province, on May 12th. After being detained for a month, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to the Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp on June 12th. Her husband, also a practitioner, has been imprisoned since 2009. -
An Upstanding Person Faces an Unjust Trial
2011-07-08Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Zhichen received a phone call on March 4th, 2011, from the director of the Wangqi Town Police Station, requesting to meet him at Mr. Liu's home. Although no family members were at home and the door was locked, Mr. Liu found the police sitting inside his home when he came back. Obviously the police broke the lock to forcibly gain entry, but they denied it. Upon ransacking Mr. Liu's home, the police found printing equipment. They took away Mr. Liu's personal belongings and Falun Gong DVDs. Mr. Liu has since been detained at the Jilin Detention Centre. Mr. Liu is well known in his village for helping his fellow villagers for years. Mr. Liu faced a trial on June 25th. -
Li Xiwang Detained for More Than Six Months
2011-07-08Mr. Li Xiwang, a Falun Gong practitioner, has been detained in the Hexi District Detention Centre for more than 6 months due to his steadfast belief in Falun Gong. In his absence, his business has been forced to shut down and his employees lost their jobs. His family also lost their source of income and is experiencing financial hardship. Neither his teenage son nor his elderly mother have anyone to take care of them. -
The Vicious Wardens Who Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners at Beijing Women's Prison
2011-07-08Beijing Women's Prison is one of the notorious places where Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted. Zhou Ying, female, has been the Beijing Women's Prison deputy head in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since 2010. She was also one of the key officials who led the persecution against practitioners from 2002 to 2008. Zhou constantly pressured other prison officials and instigated them to mistreat practitioners. She also punished those practitioners who exposed the officials committing the torture in the prison. -
Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuhui from Beijing Died as a Result of Persecution
2011-07-07Ms. Zhao Shuhui, in her 60s from Beijing, died on May 2nd as a result of physical abuse and mental torment under the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. While being held for two years in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, she developed symptoms of cerebral thrombosis and diabetes as a result of physical abuse and mistreatment. She was unable to take care of herself. With her family's strong requests, the labour camp officials released her on medical parole. After being released from the forced labour camp, local police officers often harassed her at home. They forcibly took her away from her home prior to the Olympics in 2008, and took her to a brainwashing facility. Due to the repeated arrests and harassment by the authorities, Ms. Zhao's mental and physical health continued to worsen. -
Ms. Deng Xiuyan Incarcerated for Over Four Months, Her Relatives Detained for Seeking Her Release
2011-07-07Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Xiuyan was arrested on January 5th, 2011 and has been detained in the detention centre of Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Her family and friends went to the Yangguanlin police station on May 20th and requested her release. However, they were not successful and even worse, one of them, Mr. Zhang Lijun, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on the spot by police. That afternoon, Ms. Deng’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law took some food to the police station for Mr. Zhang Lijun. Yet all of them were arrested. -
Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping Arrested
2011-07-07Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping were arrested by the police on May 28th. The details are under investigation. Ms. Jia Liyuan, 49, had been arrested by the Qianan Domestic Security Division Police several times before. Once, in 2008, the police used electric batons to shock her neck, hands, arms, chest and back, then poured boiling water on her face and used other cruel methods to torture her.
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