Torture

• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Shi Xiaochun in Heilongjiang Province Sentenced to Forced Labour Five Times

  2011-04-08
  Mr. Shi Xiaochun in Jidong County, Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, has been repeatedly persecuted since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999. He was put in forced labour camps five times. In police custody Mr. Shi refused to to give names of other practitioners during interrogation. Policeman Qi slapped Mr. Shi in the face and later started kicking his head after his hand got tired. Police tied Mr. Shi’s hands behind his back and forced him to sit on the floor so that they could kick him easily. They rested when they got tired, and then resumed the abuse after a while. Qi said, “I am using this beating as exercise, so that I don’t have to jog every day.”
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• Mr. Zhou Xiangyang Arrested Again after Six Years of Imprisonment

  2011-04-07
  Mr. Zhou Xiangyang was sentenced to nine years in prison on May 31st, 2003. He was tortured until he was in critical condition in Gangbei Prison in Tianjin. As a result, he was released early on July 28th, 2009. On March 5th, 2011, police arrested Mr. Zhou at home. Mr. Zhou was taken to Gangbei Prison. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Mr. Zhou has been detained and tortured in various facilities in Tianjin: the Railway Detention Centre, Qingpowa Forced Labour Camp, Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp, Yushan Forced Labour Camp, Hexi Detention Centre, Liyuantou Prison, and Gangbei Prison. He was shocked with high-voltage electric batons, deprived of sleep for 30 consecutive days, locked in solitary confinement, tied up, beaten, and force-fed.
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• Mr. Yu Yungang's Body Cremated After He Was Tortured to Death in Jiamusi City Prison

  2011-04-07
  On March 17th, 2011, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Yungang's body was cremated after he was tortured to death in Jiamusi Prison on March 5th. The prison only let Mr. Yu's immediate family members attend his memorial service. Since the deaths of Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Qin Yueming, Mr. Yu Yungang and Mr. Liu Chuanjiang were exposed, the Jiamusi Prison, the National Security Team, the police, and the Community Management have been monitoring Mr. Yu's family. The home phones of Mr. Yu's brothers and sister have been tapped. Plainclothes officers monitor the residential buildings where they live around the clock. They are followed wherever they go.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Song Xu Tortured While Serving an 11-Year Prison Sentence

  2011-04-07
  Mr. Song Xu was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison. While imprisoned in Zhengzhou Municipal Prison, he has been beaten and brutally tortured. On October 13th, 2008, Mr. Song Xu was taken by officer Wang Shuwei to the basement of the prison and tortured for saying “Falun Gong is good” and refusing to be “transformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. He was brutally beaten as part of the torture. His intestine ruptured during the beating, and he was taken to Xinmi Hospital. The prison does not allow outside communication, so it isn't clear whether Mr. Song was able to recover, or if he is even still alive.
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• The Persecution of Middle School Teacher Ms. Liu Yanjun and Her Family from Donggang City, Liaoning Province

  2011-04-07
  Ms. Liu Yanjun was a teacher at Donggang No. 3 Middle School in Liaoning Province. She started practising Falun Gong in May 1997, and her whole family benefited. However, after the Communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, her life was destroyed, and her practitioner husband died as a result of persecution. She was fired from her teaching job and sentenced to prison, where she suffered gross abuse and almost lost her life. No one was left to take care of her child and parents at home.
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• Facts Surrounding Torture Suffered by Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yu Yungang Before His Death

  2011-04-06
  In 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Yungang of Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was sentenced to a six-year prison term. Mr. Yu was tortured while he was detained. He was hung up in the air by his handcuffs and brutally beaten. Witness said that his head was still wrapped in bandages several days later when he was interrogated by police. Mr. Yu was force-fed on February 25th and February 27th. He was force-fed twice on February 28th, and went into a coma that evening. He fell into a coma due to brutal torture at the Jiamusi Prison and passed away on March 5th. He died at the age of 48.
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• Tortured to Disability, Ms. Yang Guixia Is Still Subjected to Persecution

  2011-04-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Guixiang experienced severe torture resulting in disabilities at the Harbin Rehabilitation Centre in 2002. she was forced to write statements renouncing her belief. Within a year in the centre, she developed multiple syndromes and disabilities caused by torture, including numb muscles, cramps, scabies, facial paralysis, poor eyesight, deformed legs resulting in her loss of walking ability, swallowing difficulty, and incontinence. She was recently arrested again for distributing Falun Gong materials on March 2nd. She has been detained at the No. 1 Detention Centre in Daqing for 20 days.
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• Luohe City Court in Henan Province Intimidates Defence Lawyer and Secretly Sentences Practitioner

  2011-04-06
  On May 19th, 2010, practitioner Mr. Zhao Xiang was arrested by police and was detained at the Xiping Detention Centre. When Mr. Zhao was taken to the detention centre, the guards tortured him for ten days and nights. He was handcuffed, his feet were shackled, and he was tied to a cross made of metal poles. In the ten months since, guards have not let his family visit him even once. In October the Luohe Court, notified Mr. Zhao's family that the trial date would be October 15th. Accordingly, his family hired a lawyer to defend Mr. Zhao. However, right before the trial date, the lawyer said that he could not defend Mr. Zhao, saying that the court would not allow a non-guilty appeal for Falun Gong practitioners. His family members had no choice but to cancel their contract with the lawyer.
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• Seventeen Falun Gong Practitioners from Deyang City Tricked and Arrested by 610 Office Personnel in Sichuan Province

  2011-04-06
  The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) of Deyang City ordered the cancellation of the March 7th Luojiang County Court trial for four Falun Gong practitioners. Many Falun Gong practitioners did not know this, and went to the court as visitors to attend the trial. Seventeen of them were arrested. The arrested practitioners were taken to Guanghan City Detention Centre that night. Meanwhile, the police ransacked their homes.
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• The Persecution of Government Employees

  2011-04-05
  In July 1999, Jiang Zemin, the then official head of the CCP, declared that Falun Gong would be eliminated in three months. That did not happen, and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners continues. Thousands of practitioners have been put into forced labour camps and prisons. The CCP now does everything it can to hide what it does to practitioners. Over 150 conscientious government employees have been arrested and sentenced to forced labour and prison. At least 11 of them have died as a result of the persecution.
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• Ms. Liu Wanqiu Injected with Unknown Drug at Gongjiawan Forced Labour Camp of Lanzhou City

  2011-04-05
  On November 5th, 2010, Ms. Liu Wanqiu was arrested for the third time by Xigu District Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and taken to the Gongjiawan Forced Labour Camp. In August 2011, she had become emaciated, frail and was tied up with rope. Then, they transferred her to the Lanzhou City Electric Machinery Factory Hospital and drew blood before taking her back to the camp. There, she was tied down on a bed and injected with an unknown drug. After the injection, she felt intolerable visceral pain and vomited. Her face turned pale and she could neither sit nor stand without great pain. She has been released and is at home.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Jia Shuxiang and Four Others Tried in Hebei Province

  2011-04-05
  On December 10th, 2010, when Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhang Yalin, Ms. Jia Shuxiang, Ms. Liu Xiuyun, Ms. Zheng Derong and Ms. Li Xiufeng appealed against the persecution of Falun Gong in Yuhuzhai Township, Qianxi County, they were reported to the police by villagers who were brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) lies and arrested by police. On December 15th, except for Ms. Li Xiufeng, the other four practitioners were transferred to the Qianxi Detention Centre. Ms. Li Xiufeng was sent back home because of high blood pressure. Her family members were extorted out of three thousand yuan. In March 2011, the Qianxi County Procuratorate tried all five practitioners.
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• Mr. Ni Zhenxuan, Owner of Shijiazhuang Sofa Factory, Sent to Forced Labour Camp

  2011-04-05
  On March 4th, 2011, five Falun Gong practitioners from the same village went to Mr. Ni Zhenxuan's home to help take care of his mother. The practitioners and his mother studied the Falun Gong teachings together. Suddenly, several policemen rushed into Mr. Ni's home and dragged the five practitioners into police vehicles and drove away. The police also tried to arrest Mr. Ni's wife, but were not successful. on March 13th, Mr. Ni's family received a forced labour notification from police which required their signature. None of them signed the document. The police threatened his family: “It is illegal to have an assembly and read scriptures.” Currently, Mr. Ni's whereabouts are unknown.
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• Four of Nine Detained Falun Gong Practitioners From Lidi City, Hunan Province Secretly Sent to Wangling Prison

  2011-04-04
  On March 12th, 2010, nine practitioners were put on a trial in Lixing District Court in Lidi City. All of the practitioners denied the charges against them and stated their innocence. Lawyers from Beijing representing them requested their immediate release. However, on August 3rd, 2010, the practitioners were sentenced to jail. By law, the judgement should have been handed down within one-and-a-half months after the trial. Instead, it was given more than four months later. The practitioners were sentenced to up to ten years in jail.
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• Mr. Liu Chuanjiang Dies as a Direct Result of Being Tortured in Jiamusi Prison

  2011-04-04
  Between February 26th and March 5th, 2011, both Mr. Qin Yuming and Mr. Yu Yungang were tortured to death. On the morning of March 8th. Mr. Liu Chuanjiang, who was 55 years old, was tortured to death by officers in Jiamusi Prison. All three were Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Liu was severely persecuted in Jiamusi Prison. They shocked him with four electric batons all at the same time and didn't stop until the four batons ran out of power. They cruelly tortured him and broke his arm.
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