Torture

• Practitioner Ms. Zhu Jinzhong from Shunyi District, Beijing Arrested and Persecuted

  2011-06-03
  On April 26th, several police and officials broke into the home of practitioner Zhu Jinzhong. They ransacked her home and arrested her. Ms. Zhu was taken to the Tongzhou District Detention Station. In March 2008 (prior to the Beijing Olympics), she was arrested by police and her home was ransacked. She was taken to the Daxing Womens' Labour Camp for two years of forced labour “re-education.” Ms. Zhu refused to give up her Falun Gong practice, so she was taken to the Tumuji Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia to undergo brutal persecution. She was subjected to various torture methods there, including: Hung up, "death bed", electric shock, violent force-feedings, overexposure to the sun, handcuffed, beaten with rubber batons, kicked in sensitive body parts and deprived of the use of the toilet.
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• A Family Under Persecution: Three Brothers from Shandong Province Arrested Again

  2011-06-03
  On May 13th, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Guo Jiahong, Mr. Guo Jiafu and Mr. Guo Jiasheng, three brothers were taken away from home by officers from the Domestic Security Team. The youngest of the three brothers, Mr. Guo Jiasheng had been previously arrested and detained on October 28th, 2002. Not knowing his son's whereabouts, father Mr. Guo Huiming died from grief and stress on February 11th, 2003. Mr. Guo Jiasheng was later sentenced to ten years in prison in August 2003. His mother Ms. Cui Zhimin could not bear the severe mental anguish and died on December 14th, 2004. The other two brothers were sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in 2007.
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• Music Teacher Injected with Unknown Drugs Lost His Memory for Seven Years

  2011-06-02
  Mr. Fu Yao, a music teacher at Nongfeng Middle School in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, was persecuted several times by the communist regime for practising Falun Gong. The police rounded him up using firearms in 2002. He was arrested again in 2004, taken to a mental hospital, and injected with unknown drugs. He was treated as a psychotic patient and locked in a dark room with an iron gate and a window. Much of his memory was lost for seven years. His wife was sentenced to prison.
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• More Than One Hundred Workers Step Forward to Protect a Falun Gong Practitioner

  2011-06-02
  On May 12th, when over ten police officers went to a factory to arrest Falun Gong practitioner Tian Shihong, more than a hundred workers stood up to them. Then, the entire group went over to stop the police, saying, “He’s just doing his job here. Why are you arresting him?!” The police could not say anything to justify their actions. Some of the workers demanded, “You’ve put handcuffs on him. Where is your arrest warrant?” They said, “You are just like bandits, doing evil in broad daylight!” They also insisted that the police take off the handcuffs. The police had to leave empty handed.
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• Pan Lingyun of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

  2011-06-02
  Practitioner Ms. Pan Lingyun, in her thirties, from Zunyi City in Guizhou Province, was sentenced to three years in prison on March 18th. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel have sent her to a labour camp and a brainwashing centre. Police arrested Ms. Pan Lingyun on November 1st, 2010 on her way home from work. They took her house keys from her bag, barged into her house and confiscated informational materials about Falun Gong and a computer, and then arrested her. They recorded that she had more than 10,000 Falun Gong related items. They took her mother, Ms. Zhao Zhenshu, into custody at the same time. Both mother and daughter were detained in the “learning class,” where they were made to undergo brainwashing and were further persecuted in Banshanshuiku, Zunyi City.
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• Yang Guizhi, Formerly a School Principal, Has Been Persecuted Several Times for Her Belief in Falun Gong

  2011-06-02
  Ms. Yang Guizhi is about 53 years old. She used to be the principal of a middle school. She was a great teacher and a great role model. She was repeatedly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because she refused to give up her belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. About six or seven years ago, Ms. Yang was arrested and imprisoned in the detention centre. On April 18th 2011, she was arrested again and imprisoned at the Wudan Detention Centre. She started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She was inhumanely force-fed, and her condition is now critical.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Song Huilan Facing Amputation; Detention Centre Officials Dodge Responsibility

  2011-06-01
  Police again arrested Ms. Song Huilan on December 13th, 2010. While in Tangyuan Detention Centre she was badly beaten by police and injected with an unknown drug. After the injection she was in agony, repeatedly rolled over on the floor, and was unable to speak. After two months of detention, she had trouble remembering things; her legs and feet turned black; and one of her lower legs has gangrene and the bones are exposed. She faces the possibility of amputation.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yuan Yongwen Passes Away After Being Tortured to Critical Condition

  2011-06-01
  On April 21st, 2010, practitioner Ms. Yuan Yongwen was released after she became paralysed and fell unconscious because of torture she suffered in Yangma Prison in Jianyang City. She passed away on May 7th. Staff at Jianyang Yangma Prison and Chengdu Police Hospital carry full responsibility for her death. In March 2008, while she was talking to people about Falun Gong, Yuan Yongwen was reported to the police by someone who had been deceived by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. On March 26th, 2008, the police arrested her. Shortly after, she was sentenced to a three-year prison term and taken to the Jianyang Yangma Prison.
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• The Horrifying Facts Surrounding Mr. Li Zaiji’s Death

  2011-06-01
  Li Zaiji was the first Falun Gong practitioner in Jilin City, Jilin Province, to be tortured to death. He was sent to Huanxiling Forced Labour Camp in October 1999 and died on July 8th, 2000. The coroner had all his organs removed before hastily getting the camp guards to have his body cremated. Li Zaiji suffered tremendously at the hands of the labour camp guards and detainees. He once told his wife that the labour camp was not a place for human beings. When Mr. Li’s wife went to the Death Investigation Centre, she noticed his body had undergone cosmetic repair and looked beautified.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Heizuizi Labour Camp in Changchun City

  2011-06-01
  Practitioner Ms. Bai Yun, 61, was taken to the labour camp on February 25th, 2011. Liu Ying and four other guards tortured her on February 28th. They beat her, swore at her, slapped her in the face, kicked her in the abdomen, and electrically shocked her naked body. As a result, Ms. Bai had severe pain in her abdomen and her back was severely injured. She also had a lump on her forehead the size of an egg. After Ms. Bai screamed in pain, guards sealed her mouth with tape and tied her onto the so-called "death bed". She was put on the death bed again on March 9th, and her limbs were stretched out. Because of this torture, Ms. Bai had severe pain in her abdomen and back and could not stand up straight.
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• An Account of the Persecution Suffered by Ms. Zhang Lianying and Her Family, Now in the U.S., and Her Letter to Mr. Scott-McMillan and the European Parliament

  2011-05-31
  The Communist Party arrested about 10,000 practitioners before the 2008 Olympics Games. More than 20 people died in custody during that time. My husband was sent to the Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Division on May 13th, 2008, where 12 police officers shocked him with ten electric batons. After he lost consciousness they doused him with cold water and resumed the brutality when he came to. I was taken to taken to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. My mouth was repeatedly cut with the edge of a large spoon; there was blood all over the tile floor. A guard then abraded my bleeding mouth with a coarse rope and clawed my face numerous times. They also force-fed me drugs.
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• The Persecution Suffered by Retired Worker Ms. Kang Miqiao Before Her Death

  2011-05-31
  Practitioner Ms. Kang Miqiao was over 60 years old. After she started practising Falun Gong, she benefited both mentally and physically. During the persecution of Falun Gong in the past decade by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Ms. Kang Miqiao suffered arrests, extortion, and repeated imprisonment. Due to the persecution, she became paralysed and couldn't take care of herself. Ms. Kang died on May 2nd, 2011.
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• Ms. Dong Shulan, 62, from Jilin City Persecuted Multiple Times and Forced to Leave Home

  2011-05-31
  I have been detained in forced labour camps by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) three times for practising Falun Gong, for over five years in all. In 2006, I was tortured on a "tiger bench" at the police station. Then police handcuffed me and hung me up by my left hand, leaving my feet barely touching the floor. I don't know how much time passed when they came back to get fingerprints from my right hand, and then they hung me up by my right hand and took fingerprints from my left hand. After that they left me hanging by my handcuffs for a long time, then switched to the tiger bench again.
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• Over Ten Practitioners Suffer Harsh Persecution in Lanzhou Prison

  2011-05-31
  Practitioner Mr. Cui Yonglin was sentenced to eight years in Lanzhou Prison for practising Falun Gong by the Baiyin Court. On July 29th, 2010, he was subjected to harsh persecution. The guards handcuffed his hands and feet, severely beat him with electric batons. In addition, the guards hung him up in the air and didn’t allow him to sleep for long periods of time. Practitioner Mr. Sun Zhaohai was sentenced to 19 years in prison for practising Falun Gong. He has been locked up in small cells or dungeons many times.
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• Zhang Zhiming from Huaihua City, Hunan Province Dies Suddenly

  2011-05-30
  On April 24th, 2011, Mr. Zhang Zhiming suddenly passed away in his home. In September 2010, he had been arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre. At the centre, he was forced to take unidentified drugs. According to a witness, at the time of his death the left side of his face and left ear were swollen, and his neck had turned a purple colour. Officers from the Public Security Department did not investigate either the scene or his background. They just told his relatives to bring the corpse back to his old home in a farming village and bury him right away.
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