Torture

• After Being Arrested Over Thirty Times for Practising Falun Gong Exercises Publicly, Ms. Zhu Xiyu Is Persecuted Again

  2011-06-25
  Ms. Zhu Xiyu is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. She has persisted in publicly practising Falun Gong exercises in the morning at Jindalai Square for many years, and she has been persecuted by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) over and over again. Ms. Zhu has been arrested about 30 times for publicly practising the exercises at Jindalai Square during the past 12 years, since the communist regime started its persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. Ms. Zhu received a written indictment on May 25th from the Yanji City Procuratorate.
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• Ms. Zhan Guilin from Taibus, Inner Mongolia Persecuted

  2011-06-25
  After the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong, officials from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Domestic Security Division, police station and the neighbourhood community often monitored and harassed Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhan Guilin and her family. They had to leave their home in order to avoid being persecuted. When Zhang Jianguo, from the Qiwei 610 Office, found out where they were staying, he went to Ms. Zhan's son's workplace to force the company's leaders to put pressure on him. The company head told Ms. Zhan's son that he would be promoted if he was able to stop his mother from practising Falun Gong; otherwise, he would be demoted.
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• Mr. Han Yu in Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province Arrested

  2011-06-25
  On June 13th, a dozen of so police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Han Yu after forcing their way into his home. The officers dragged Mr. Han out of bed, handcuffed him, and took him away without letting him put on a jacket or shoes. His wife and daughter tried to reason with the officers. The officers pushed them around and threatened to arrest the daughter. The police took Mr. Han to the Liaozhong County Police Department then to the Liaozhong County Detention Centre. They went to the detention centre to ask for his release. The guards at the gate refused to admit them.
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• Shanxi Taigu County Police Refuse to Release Critically Ill Practitioner Ms. Cheng Quanying on Bail for Medical Treatment

  2011-06-25
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cheng Quanying is imprisoned in Shanxi Women's Prison and she is critically ill. According to regulations, Ms. Cheng qualifies for release on bail for medical treatment, but the Taigu County Police Department refuses to sign the document. Ms. Cheng Quanying's daughter is appealing to people to rescue her mother. Ms. Cheng Quanying was arrested by the local police in 2007 and was later sentenced to six years in prison. She became critically ill as a result of torture in Shanxi Women's Prison and was released on bail for medical treatment in 2009. However, she was taken back to prison in August 2010.
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• Ms. Du Juan Persecuted to Late-Stage Cancer, Beijing Women's Prison Still Refuses to Release Her

  2011-06-24
  Beijing Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Juan has been so severely persecuted in the Beijing Women's Prison that she is now on the brink of death. She is suffering with untreated late-stage cancer. Her relatives have asked for her to be bailed out for medical treatment several times, but the prison officials have refused to do so.
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• Mr. Chen Xin Has Been Denied Visitation Rights for Over Two Years

  2011-06-24
  Mr. Chen Xin, 42, was repeatedly harassed when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. He was arrested for appealing in front of the city government building on July 22nd, 1999. Officers handcuffed him to a heating pipe in the police station and did not give him any food or water for a whole day. Mr. Chen was sentenced to 13 years in prison on September 28th, 2002. He was first held in Wafangdian Prison then in the Jinzhou Prison. Practitioners in the prison have been forced to do hard labour since March 2011, and anyone who refuses undergoes more severe persecution and brainwashing. It has been said that Mr. Chen is being persecuted severely there, and his family is deeply concerned about him.
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• Three Years after Mr. Li Zhiqing's Death, Those Responsible Remain Unpunished

  2011-06-24
  Those who knew Li Zhiqing say that he had a very kind heart, always volunteered to help others, and never asked for anything in return. Yet he was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police, and by the next morning, he had been tortured to death. To this day, those responsible have not been held accountable. During the past three years, Mr. Li's family made several inquiries about this. The police department not only refused to compensate them for his death, but even threatened that they would arrest the whole family if they continued to report this to the upper levels of government.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Wang Qinglan, a Farmer in Jilin Province, Persecuted for the Past Twelve Years

  2011-06-24
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Qinglan, 62, has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the past twelve years. Ms. Wang Qinglan has suffered torture several times. Her family has suffered financially and psychologically. In total, they have been extorted out of more than ten thousand yuan. Her children constantly worry about her.
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• Mudanjiang Prison Guards Brutally Torture Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yu Zonghai

  2011-06-23
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zonghai was sentenced to a 15-year prison term in 2001, to be served at Mudanjiang Prison. Mr. Yu was tortured and is suffering severe physical injuries. Despite his severe injuries, the guards forced him to do hard labour, and beat him when he refused to comply with their orders. At the end of August 2006, Mr. Yu's left eye was injured and the tear duct broke. The prison hospital was not equipped to treat him, and told him to seek treatment in another hospital. Prison guards demanded money from his family for treatment in an outside hospital. Mr. Yu's wife and younger sister are detained at Harbin City Women's Prison for practising Falun Gong.
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• Jiaozhou City Prosecutor Kept Lawyers from Seeing Their Clients

  2011-06-23
  On March 23rd, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Li Yuzhen, Mr. Song Yongzhan, and Ms. Song Guilan, all from Jiaozhou City, and Mr. Yong Zongquan from Wendeng City were arrested and detained. Mr. Li and Mr. Song's families hired lawyers Li and Dong to defend them, but the prosecutor's office gave the lawyers a tough time when they tried to interview their clients.
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• Ms. Cui Ling, a Teacher from Yunnan Province Sentenced to Imprisonment

  2011-06-23
  Recently, officers from criminal court of Honghe Intermediate Court sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cui Ling to three years in prison. Ms. Cui commissioned her family to appeal and Yunnan Provincial High Court filed the case for the second time on May 16th. Police arrested Ms. Cui on July 3rd, 2010, when she visited a practitioner in hospital. Police ransacked her home and removed Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Cui was detained in Kaiyuan City Detention Centre.
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• Persecution Suffered by Ms. Cui Zhanyun from Yushu City, Jilin Province

  2011-06-23
  Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, my home has been repeatedly ransacked. I have been detained several times and sent to forced labour camps twice. I went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in October 2001. I was arrested at my hotel by police. At the police station I was handcuffed, hit in the face, forced to kneel down and was beaten until I fell unconscious. My nostrils were also burned with cigarette butts. When I was taken back to my hometown, I was detained for 15 days and forced to pay 3500 yuan. I was then sentenced to one year in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, but after being held there for 16 days, I was sent back to Yushu and held in a detention centre instead.
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• Mr. Sun Jiefeng and Three Other Falun Gong Practitioners Put on Trial in Shenzhen

  2011-06-22
  Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Sun Jiefeng, Ms. Liu Ziyun (Mr. Sun's wife), Ms. Huang Wanxian, and Xiao Deng were put on trial the morning of May 27th. Mr. Sun and Ms. Liu have a one-year old child. On April 22nd, Mr. Sun and Xiao Deng were arrested at work. The practitioners' homes were ransacked the day they were arrested, and many of their personal belongings were taken away. The company where Mr. Sun and Xiao Deng worked was forced to close, and the owner of the company was arrested as well. The owner was detained for several days and was only released when it was confirmed that he was not a Falun Gong practitioner.
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• Jinan Centre District Court Violates Rules for Public Trial

  2011-06-22
  On November 16th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yujin was taken from her home by Centre District Police Department officers. On May 6th, 2011, she was sentenced at the Centre District Court. At that time, the court staff, appointed lawyer, and local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) officials prevented Ms. Liu’s husband and daughter from entering the courtroom. Her family alleged that the police and court acted, however, the Procuratorate office refused to accept their case, claiming that they were following an “internal document” guideline.
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• Practitioners Ms. Chen Gongqiu and Ms. Geng Yuzhi Forced into Brainwashing Centre in Heilongjiang Province

  2011-06-22
  Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Chen Gongqiu, Ms. Geng Yuzhi and other practitioners in Hailin City, Heilongjiang province were arrested on May 26th and taken to the Tilinghe brainwashing centre of Mudanjiang City for persecution by police. All the arrested Falun Gong practitioners in the brainwashing centre were forced into detention, without any legal proceedings. Those police dressed in civilian clothes that were involved in the arrest did not show their identity when arresting practitioners, and used cruel means to trick them.
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