Torture

• Family Files Lawsuit for Ms. Su Dan's Torture in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2011-07-03
  When Ms. Su Dan was home on February 20th, the neighbourhood administrator deceived her into opening the door by saying that she needed to check her residential permit. Three police officers stormed in and arrested her. Ms. Su told her lawyer that the guards at the Shunyu District Detention Centre had brutally beaten and severely injured her. Ms. Su was sentenced to forced labour and taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was forced to sit up straight on a small chair 18 hours per day, with both hands in her lap and without moving. If she moved, three prisoners assigned to watch her would beat her. Ms. Su's husband complained to the Beijing Forced Labour Bureau about Ms. Sun being tortured. The labour camp authorities asserted that no torture or beatings of any kind took place.
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• Ms. Liu Yufang Seriously Ill after Being Tortured at Chaoyang City Detention Centre; Her Children Attacked

  2011-07-03
  Detainees in Chaoyang City Detention Centre in Liaoning Province are tortured for long periods of time. They are not given enough food to eat and are forced to perform slave labour. Those who fail to finish the work demanded of them are reprimanded and beaten. Fifty-four-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yufang was arrested by police who broke into her home on October 12th, 2010. Currently, Ms. Liu has been detained in Chaoyang Detention Centre for more than eight months. She is forced to carry out slave labour for long periods of time and was not given enough food to eat. If she did not finish the jobs given to her, she would be reprimanded and beaten. When Ms. Liu's children went to see the head of the detention centre to ask for their mother's release, the head pushed them out of the room, grabbed the brother by the collar and bashed his head against the wall. went
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• Mr. Zhang Zenggui, from Changyi City, Shandong Province, Passes Away After Years of Persecution

  2011-07-02
  Mr. Zhang Zenggui was persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime for his belief in Falun Gong for over 11 years, until his death. The police broke into Mr. Zhang's home in April 2010, and arrested him. They also confiscated his personal belongings and cash. The police subsequently extorted 3,000 yuan from his eldest son for his release. Upon returning home, Mr. Zhang was no longer able to bear the pressure of the persecution. He could not eat much, became very weak, and subsequently became bedridden. On April 13th, 2011, Mr. Zhang passed away at the age of 67.
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• 77-Year-old Engineer Mr. Li Peigao of Kunming City Sentenced to a Three-year Prison Term

  2011-07-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Peigao, 77, was seized by the police before the 2008 Olympics in China. On April 2nd, 2009, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He had been incarcerated in the fifth prison ward of the Yunan Province No. 1 Prison. He was released in January 2011 before the Chinese New Year.
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• Police Officers from Ruichang City, Jiangxi Province Arrest and Beat Practitioners and Their Family Members

  2011-07-02
  When Falun Gong practitioners Mr. He Shengxiang, Ms. Zhu Haixia, and Ms. Shi Liping were posting information about Falun Gong in Ruichang City on the evening of June 12th, Police arrested and beat them. The next day, practitioner Mr. Huang Xianfa went to the police station to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong to the officers, but they would not listen to him. Instead they detained him, dragged him upstairs, and ruthlessly beat him.
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• Wang Yu, a Teen from Beijing, Arrested Again

  2011-07-02
  Young Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Yu, 17, was arrested by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in December of last year and taken to a brainwashing centre for 13 days, because he was talking about Falun Gong to his teacher and fellow students. After returning from the brainwashing centre he was monitored and harassed by the 610 Office, which demanded that the school expel him. He became homeless. On June 5th, Wang Yu was arrested again and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
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• Forced Labour and Brutal Mistreatment in Shandong Province No.1 Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2011-07-01
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yuzhen was put in solitary confinement because she refused to renounce her belief. She was also forced to stand or sit still on a small stool for long periods of time, and was sometimes forced to work long hours. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Guangxia was tied to a "death bed" because she refused to renounce her belief. Her hands and feet were badly injured. She developed so many blisters that she had difficulty walking. Her prison term was also extended.
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• Mr. Xu Xiangzhi and Mr. Zhao Yunlong from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2011-07-01
  Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Xu Xiangzhi and Mr. Zhao Yunlong were arrested and sentenced to forced labour by police. Both of them were previously arrested in April 2007. They were sent to Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp for two years of forced labour. In the labour camp, closely monitored, inhumanely tortured for over three months, and forced to do slave labour. When Mr. Xu was released 17 months later, his hair had turned white and he had become thin and scrawny. He looked as if he had aged 20 years.
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• Ms. Wang Hongxia and Two Other Practitioners Arrested in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

  2011-07-01
  Ms. Wang Hongxia and two other Falun Gong practitioners were arrested on June 9th at their home. The authorities lied to the public about the reason behind their arrest, and took a large number of their personal belongings. The three practitioners' whereabouts are still unknown. Since the onset of the persecution in 1999, Ms. Wang has been subjected to two forced labour terms. She was forced to sit in the cross-legged position for 17 hours, and tortured on a "tiger bench" for more than twenty days. Her family was also implicated, and under severe harassment and pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, her husband divorced her.
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• Ms. Liu Furong and Her Son Held in Jiujiang City Detention Centre

  2011-07-01
  Sixty-five-year-old practitioner Ms. Liu Furong went with her husband and relatives to the Domestic Security Division of the Lushan Police Department, Jiujiang City, on June 13th, to request the release of her son, Mr. Wu Tengpeng. However, police arrested Ms. Liu and later took her to the detention centre. Ms. Liu and her son had gone to the Hehualong Community and put up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on May 7th. After someone reported them to the police, four officers came and arrested her son, tying up his arms and legs.
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• A Young Couple's Journey: Zhou Xiangyang's Fiancee Appeals Seven Years for His Release

  2011-06-30
  I submitted my love story to Zhiyin magazine for publication. Initially the magazine was interested in my story, but then quickly changed their mind after they learned why my fiance was being persecuted. I met with my fiance Zhou Xiangyang only three times before he was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment. Over that time I have waited and appealed for him for seven years amidst much pressure from both society and our families. Soon I too was arrested and sentenced to a forced labour camp for fifteen months for appealing for my husband. My fiance was tortured in many heinous ways over a period of four months. His feet were shackled to a metal ring, his hands were cuffed to shackles on the concrete floor, and he was shocked with electric batons continually for days.
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• Shijiazhuang Practitioner Mr. Geng Xiangfeng Arrested By Beijing Police

  2011-06-30
  Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Geng Xiangfeng was arrested on May 26th, 2011 by police. The police confiscated Mr. Geng’s computer, a CD and several Falun Gong books in his house. They never informed Mr. Geng’s family about his arrest. Mr. Geng’s relatives in Beijing were unable to reach him by phone. They did not know that he had been missing for several days. His relatives looked for him in different places and finally found out that he has been held in Daxing Detention Centre.
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• Ms. Chen Fengxian, Disabled, Abused in Beijing Prison for Women

  2011-06-30
  During June and July of 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Fengxian was imprisoned in Ward No. 8 of the Beijing Prison for Women. Ms. Chen believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and refused to be “transformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] and would not acknowledge herself as a criminal. Zhang Haina, head of Ward No. 8, instructed prison guards and prisoners to abuse Ms. Chen.
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• Ms. Liu Ruanping from Henan Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

  2011-06-30
  Despite the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Liu Ruanping persevered in her belief and kept talking to people about facts of the persecution. At the beginning of June 2006, agents from the Boai 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) ransacked her home. Ms. Liu was not present at the time. However, Li Yinghao, Sun Lujun and other police officers kept returning to her home to find her. Ms. Liu had little choice but to leave home to avoid being arrested. however she was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to seven years in Xinxiang Women’s Prison.
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• Mr. Chen Xiangrui's Organs Suspected to be Stolen after Being Beaten to Death

  2011-06-29
  On March 11th , 2003, police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Xiangrui's home and took him to Hengyang Police Department Domestic Security Division. The police interrogated and brutally tortured him over the night. Mr. Chen died from torture the next day. The police decided to do an autopsy to indicate that the police were not responsible for his death. Autopsies are usually performed by two or three coroners. However on the evening of March 12th , the police asked nine coroners to conduct Mr. Chen's autopsy and examination. Even though there weren't any mortal wounds on the body, the coroners claimed that not a single organ was good after the autopsy. Were they all damaged from the torture? Or were they stolen?
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