Torture

• Ophthalmologist Li Lijuan from Qiqihar City Imprisoned

  2011-03-24
  O n May 11th, 2010, when Ms. Li Lijuan, 46, was distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution to people near Qiqihar City Third Middle School, she was reported to the authorities. Ms. Li was sentenced to three years in prison in January 2011. Ms. Li had been living with her mother. After her arrest, her mother's health deteriorated badly and Ms. Li's mother passed away in October.
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• Ms. Zhu Ying, National Model Worker, Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2011-03-23
  Ms. Zhu Ying, 53, was awarded the title “National Model Worker,” and officiated at the Xinxiang City Workers’ Union in Henan Province. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and underwent surgery in 2004. After Ms. Zhu began practising Falun Gong in 2005, she soon became very healthy. That was until she was taken into custody in 2010. Police took Ms. Zhu to a detention centre on September 27th, 2010. She was later sentenced to eight years in prison and transferred to Xinxiang Women’s Prison. She died on November 30th.
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• Former Court Deputy President Severely Tortured and Still Put in Prison Despite Serious Illness

  2011-03-23
  Because attorney Mr. Wang Zhansuo practises Falun Gong and strives to be a good person, he and his family were arrested by the police on March 4th, 2010, and detained in Huangdao Detention Centre. On October 26th, he was secretly tried and sentenced to four years in prison. Mr. Wang was detained at the Huangdao Detention Centre for ten months after being arrested. The detention centre took him to Jinan Prison in mid-January 2011, however during a health exam at the prison, Mr. Huang was found to have a tumour in his liver. On February 22nd, the detention centre sent Mr. Huang to Jinan Prison despite his illnesses. The prison then put him in a brainwashing session, with the purpose of forcing him to give up his beliefs.
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• Doctor Chen Lian from Guanghan City, Sichuan Province Repeatedly Imprisoned and Tortured

  2011-03-23
  Mr. Chen Lian, 50, is a doctor from Fuli Hospital in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. He is highly skilled and regarded as a good doctor. However he has been sent to a brainwashing centre and a forced labour camp, and has been tortured and beaten in prison. He lost his job after he was released from prison in 2010. His salary has been withheld since 2001.
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• Hebei Province Brainwashing Centre Injects Falun Gong Practitioners With Unknown Drugs

  2011-03-23
  Police arrested Mr. Hua Fengxiang at his home in May 2007. The police did not tell his family where he was being taken. After arriving at the police station, Mr. Hua was transferred to the Hebei Province Brainwashing Centre. Mr. Hua kept shouting “Falun Gong is good!” Yuan Shuqian said to him, “You will no longer shout after I give you an injection.” Yuan Shuqin ordered other personnel to stuff Mr. Hua' mouth with a towel and forcibly inject him with an unknown drug. Gradually, Mr. Hua's health deteriorated. He moved slowly and had difficulty walking. His spine became distorted and his neck became stiff.
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• Persecution of Dr. Wang Anlin from Beijing Normal University Hospital

  2011-03-22
  Dr. Wang Anlin was arrested seven times for refusing to stop practising Falun Gong. She was savagely beaten, and then sentenced to five years in prison in 2005. She was taken to Beijing Women's Prison. She recounts: "Forced labour was one of the main torture methods that prison officials use on practitioners. With no consideration for the aged, weak, ill, or disabled, all inmates were forced to do hard labour, and held to a daily quota. The authorities forced practitioners to take exams that determined whether they had been truly “transformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]"
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• Ms. Niu Huimin Beaten Unconscious and Sent to Hebei Women's Labour Camp

  2011-03-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Niu Huimin was at home on June 10th, 2010 when the police broke into her home. She was taken by force to Luxi Police Station and detained. On the morning of June 12th, Ms. Niu was transferred to the Dingxing Public Security Bureau. She was beaten by Tian Xinhong of the Domestic Security Team and two police officers. They kicked her legs and lower back, and punched her in the head They took turns hitting and cursing at her until she passed out.
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• Abuse Suffered by Ms. Liu Lijie from Jinan City

  2011-03-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Lijie was arrested by the police in March 2009, when she was just about to drive to a court hearing for her brother-in-law, Zhang Xingwu. She was sentenced to a term of nine months in a forced labour camp. While there, she was subjected to beatings, torture, solitary confinement, forced labour, and other forms of mistreatment.
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• Practitioner Ms. Hu Yanli Mistreated in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2011-03-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hu Yanli was arrested on August 1st, 2007, in Beilu County along with more than 40 other practitioners, including her elder sister, Ms. Hu Yanrong. In the course of that persecution, her elder sister, Ms. Hu Yanrong lost her life. Ms. Hu Yanli had been detained in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp for one year, where she was subjected to cruel mistreatment.
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• Ms. Li Youyun Passes Away After Years of Persecution

  2011-03-21
  As a result of severe persecution in the brainwashing centre, Ms. Li Youyun suffered hypertension and other illnesses. Even after being released and allowed to go back home, she was often harassed by the district 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). On February 20th, 2011, Ms. Li passed away at the age of 65.
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• Ms. Wang Sulan's Life in Danger, Her Family Calls for Public Awareness

  2011-03-21
  Ms. Wang Sulan was arrested in Beijing in 2009. In March 2003, the Xuanwu District Court in Beijing sentenced her to nine years in prison. She is currently incarcerated in Shijiazhuang Women's Prison. She is in critical condition after having been tortured for not giving up Falun Gong. The prison authorities extorted 16,000 yuan from Ms. Wang's family with the excuse that she needed the money for surgery to remove her uterus. Ms. Wang's family was upset because she used to be healthy--why would she suddenly have such serious illnesses after being imprisoned? The family believed that the prison authorities were torturing Ms. Wang and were using different excuses to extort money from them.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Lin Chunzi Arrested Again in Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province

  2011-03-21
  Ms. Lin Chunzi, of Korean ethnicity, lives in Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province. Soon after she began practising Falun Gong, her diseases disappeared. Since the persecution started in 1999, however, she has been arrested and held in detention centres several times. In 2004, she was arrested and held in Harbin Women's Prison until September 2007. On February 28th, 2011, she and Liu Xueqin were arrested by the Mudanjiang Railway Police Department when the two were handing out materials explaining the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution.
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• Mr. Zhang Kuiwu Savagely Beaten by Deputy Warden Li Weilong and Others in Daqing Prison

  2011-03-21
  On February 21st, Li Weilong, deputy warden of Daqing Prison, and other guards savagely beat Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Kuiwu, currently detained in the prison. During an inspection, Li Weilong saw that Mr. Zhang wasn't in prison uniform and ordered him to change into the uniform. Mr. Zhang did not cooperate, so Li Weilong ordered several inmates to drag him out of the cell and beat him with wooden sticks, striking his head, arms, and legs. Zhu Wenwu used a police baton to beat him. Others kicked his chest with their boots, injuring his chest and making it difficult for him to breathe the next day.
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• Mr. Li Jiabin Died in 2005 Due to Physical Abuse and Forced Drug Administration in Detention

  2011-03-20
  After the persecution started in 1999, Mr. Li Jiabin went to Beijing to call for justice for Falun Gong. However, because he spoke out for Falun Gong, he was arrested and detained eight times. In May 2004, police ransacked Mr. Li's home and confiscated his Falun Gong books. The guards forced him to watch brainwashing videos daily and ordered other prisoners to torture him. The detention centre doctor injected Mr. Li with unidentified drugs every day. Due to these drugs, Mr. Li's entire body developed painful lesions that seeped blood and fluids, causing his clothes to stick to his skin. He could not sleep or eat due to the extreme pain. Unfortunately, Mr. Li could not recover from the abuse he suffered in detention, and he died on May 16th, 2005.
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• Ms. Song Guiyun, in Her Seventies, Subjected to Continuous Persecution and Sentenced to Three Plus Years of Imprisonment

  2011-03-20
  The Fumeng County Court recently sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song Guiyun, who is in her 70s, to prison. Song Guiyun was arrested on December 11th, 2010 as she spoke with people about Falun Gong and exposed the persecution. Ms. Song has been arrested many times since the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. She was subjected to detention many times, and has been held in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and the Fuxin County Detention Centre. She was detained in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison for three years.
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