Torture

• Mr. Zhou Xiangyang in Critical Condition--His Mother Calls for Justice

  2011-05-11
  On April 12th, an elderly woman stood outside of Gangbei Prison wearing a vest with the words, “My son is in critical condition - Gangbei Prison will not let his parents visit him - My son is a good person.” Many bystanders were sympathetic and some condemned the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) harsh treatment of her son. This happened after Mr. Zhou Xiangyang's mother requested to visit him and was rejected.
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• Award Winning Teacher from Suining City Imprisoned for Five Years, Now Homeless to Avoid Further Persecution

  2011-05-11
  Guo Chunfang was previously a teacher and won an award for “Best Teacher” several times in a row. Her students and their parents loved her teaching ability. Guo Chunfang is steadfast in her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and plans to continue practising Falun Gong in spite of the persecution. For the five years of January 15th, 2007 to February 19th, 2011, Guo Chunfang was imprisoned at the Longquanyi Women's Prison in Chengdu. On March 8th, she was released. When she returned home, police surrounded and harassed her, trying to take her to a brainwashing facility. With help from her relatives, she managed to get away from the police officers, but now she can't go home for fear of further persecution.
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• Mr. Liang Yuncheng, a Former Judge from Liaoning Province, Was Brutally Persecuted

  2011-05-11
  Mr. Liang Yuncheng was reported to the police in 2006 when he was seen talking to people about Falun Gong in Kuandian County. He was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labour. Guards ordered inmates to severely beat him. Mr. Liang went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Inmates restrained Mr. Liang on a bed with his arms and legs tied to the four corners of the bed. Guard Meng Lixin shouted at him while slapping his face. The camp doctor first gave him an IV and then force-fed him. Later guards tortured Mr. Liang using a method called “Stretched and Hung up,” where he was tied a bed with his body stretched out and he was left suspended in the air.
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• Persecution Suffered by Ms. Niu Yan from Huanren County, Liaoning Province

  2011-05-11
  Ms. Niu Yan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on January 29th, 2000. She was arrested at Tiananmen Square and detained. In 2002, the Xinbin Court sentenced Ms. Niu to seven years in prison for practising Falun Gong. In March 2003, she was sent to the Liaoning Women’s Prison. Ms. Niu was forced into slave labour. She worked from 6:00 a.m to midnight. On one occasion, the guards found that Ms. Niu had a handwritten copy of some of Falun Gong articles, so they shocked her mouth, face, and neck with electric batons for more than ten minutes. Ms. Niu was then forced to continue working in the workshop.
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• The Persecution of Practitioners in the No. 10 Ward of Liaoning Province Women's Prison

  2011-05-10
  The inmates and practitioners in the No. 3 Team at Liaoning Province Women's Prison were forced to make clothes. They were divided into two groups, one to prepare the fabric, the other to operate the sewing machines. Everyone was assigned an unreasonable workload. For example, the one operating the sewing machine had to work 620 minutes per day. If she was unable to, she was verbally abused and punished, such as being shocked with an electric baton, kicked, or slapped. Every day the inmates in the No.10 Ward started to line up at 6:40 a.m. for the workshop. They would finish, at the earliest, at 7:00 pm. They sometimes worked overtime, until 9:00 p.m. Everyone was so exhausted when they returned to their cells that some had difficulty climbing the stairs. Some were not allowed to eat dinner or go to the toilet if they didn't finish the daily quota.
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• Mr. He Binggang Sentenced to Prison Despite Being Paralyzed from Torture during Interrogation

  2011-05-10
  On April 18th, 2011, Mr. He Binggang went on trial at the Shanghai Changning District Court and was sentenced to five years in prison despite his paralysis. On April 15th, 2010, police arrested Mr. He. A policeman hit Mr. He's neck with his elbow, kicked his lower back and punched him. He was in continuous pain. By March 2011, Mr. He was unable to walk and became incontinent. On March 14th, he was sent to the hospital and diagnosed with a grade 4-7 cervical disc herniation with spinal cord oedema. On April 18th, when Mr. He was carried into the court room, he could not stop vomiting. Mr. He's lawyer proved his innocence and the lack of evidence for any crime. However, the judge declared him guilty after a four hour trial.
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• Family from Yichun, Heilongjiang Province Suffers Brutal Persecution

  2011-05-10
  After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, officials targeted Qin Yueming's family. First, Mr. Qin was given a three-year forced labour camp sentence. Not long after his release, he was sentenced to an additional ten years. On February 26th, 2011, he was persecuted to death in Jiamusi Prison. His wife, Wang Xiuqing, was detained five times; three of which resulted in forced labour camp sentences, and one of which led to being taken to a brainwashing centre.
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• Practitioner Chen Heng Beaten and Tortured in Fujian Province, Still Detained

  2011-05-10
  On July 20th, 1999, Mr. Chen Heng went to Beijing to appeal to the government for Falun Gong. In 2000, he was arrested and sentenced to forced labour at the Rujiang Compulsory Treatment Reformatory in Fujian Province. Because he had not renounced Falun Gong he was beaten by police and also suffered from electric shock torture, being forced to stand for a long time, not being allowed to sleep, being hung up by both hands, being detained in a small solitary room, and other forms of torture. In 2008, Mr. Chen was arrested again. In November 2010, Mr. Chen was transferred from Fuzhou Prison to a juvenile forced labour camp and brainwashing centre. He is still detained there now.
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• Personal Account of Psychiatric Abuse at Urumqi Women’s Forced Labour Camp

  2011-05-09
  63-year-old Ms. Zhou Yuelan used to be healthy from practising Falun Gong. Police and the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) arrested her on September 6th, 2008 and held her in a forced labour camp for 18 months, during which she was subjected to psychiatric abuse. She recounts: "One time someone sprayed my left hand with a liquid. I immediately felt as if there were bugs crawling on my skin, and my hand started to feel numb. When I went to the toilet, I had to use the stall and tap they designated for me and smelled an overpowering odour coming from the toilet. Sometimes I rinsed my mouth with water from the tap, and there was a strange taste. Over time, I started to feel disoriented."
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• Forced Drug Injection and Other Torture at the Yunnan No. 2 Women’s Prison

  2011-05-09
  Ms. Wang Chunlan was arrested in June 2006 and sentenced to three years in prison. She was taken to Yunnan Province No. 2 Women's Prison where she was injected with drugs that caused memory loss. Afterwards she spiked a persistent fever, was agitated and experienced hallucinations. She returned home in 2009 but has not yet recovered. The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) continued to monitor her and tapped phone calls made by her and her family. Officials from the street party committee and the community often harassed her family.
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• Over 40 Falun Gong Practitioners Still Detained at Hohhot City Women's Prison

  2011-05-09
  Ms. Yuan Shumei was the first Falun Gong practitioner to be detained and persecuted in the Hohhot City Women's Prison in Inner Mongolia back in 2001. Since then, Chinese Communist Party officials have continued to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in the prison. Ms. Yuan Shumei was subjected to physical abuse and mistreatment from prison officials and criminal detainees. She died as a result of the persecution in prison.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Song Guixiang and Three Others in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province Facing Sentencing and Forced Labour

  2011-05-09
  Officers from the Jiaozhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the police department in Shandong Province intend to sentence Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Song Guixiang, Ms. Li Yuzhen, Ms. Song Guilan, and Mr. Song Yongzhan on April 23rd. Ms. Song Guixiang and Ms. Song Guilan are both sixty-seven years old. They were outstanding teachers in Qingdao and dedicated their lives to education. They developed heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. After they started practising Falun Gong, all their diseases disappeared. They both regained new lives. All the practitioners were arrested because they used peaceful methods to expose the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Nanfang Abused with Many Torture Methods—Part 1

  2011-05-08
  Mr. Wang Nanfang is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for believing in the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. As a result, gruesome scars cover his body. In 2008 he was arrested and taken to Qingyuan Township Police Station. Police tied his four limbs and head tightly to an iron chair. While Mr. Wang was in pain, Hou Shaowei and Sun Yeming tried to get information about other practitioners from him. He didn't cooperate with them. Then they shocked him with electric batons. They also tortured Mr. Wang by force-feeding him alcohol, making him inhale cigarette smoke, and poking his ribs with a toothbrush.
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• Three Practitioners from Guangshan County, Henan Province Sentenced to Imprisonment

  2011-05-08
  Early in 2011, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Zezhi to four years of imprisonment, without a trial. Practitioner Ms. Li Fang'e, 74 years old, was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment, with a conditional probation period of 5 years prior to the sentence being carried out. Practitioner Mr. He Yuanlang was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment. On March 9th Ms. Liu was sent to the Women's Prison of Henan Province in Xinxiang City, and Mr. He was sent to the Xinmi Prison in Zhengzhou City.
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• Prison Refuses to Issue Compensation--Widow of Mr. Wang Gang Seeks Review of Provincial Authority

  2011-05-08
  Falun Gong practitioner Wang Gang of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, was persecuted to death while in prison. His wife, Ren Guifang, presented a "Claim for State Compensation (Criminal Compensation) Application" to Jidong Prison in Tangshan and Baoding Prison in Hebei on December 15th, 2010, requesting compensation for her husband’s death. Two months later, neither of the prisons had processed the application. The assaults, abuse, and other harmful acts he was subjected to while in custody injured Wang Gang and resulted in his leg being amputated. After surgery, Mr. Wang did not receive adequate medical treatment at either of the two prisons for a long time.
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