Torture

Suzhou City 610 Office Confidential Document Exposes a Large Number of Communist Regime Agents Active in the Persecution of Falun Gong

2011-01-08

The 610 Office is an illegal organisation established by the Chinese communist regime specifically to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Shen Huiming, a vicious agent from the Political Office of the Taicang City Procuratorate in Jiangsu Province, was awarded by Suzhou City 610 Office as a city-level brainwashing specialist. This news has already been published on the Taicang City Procuratorate website. Another item on that website was a confidential document from the Suzhou City 610 Office, which names 29 agents who were actively involved in the persecution of Falun Gong. Marked as “confidential” the document is numbered Suzhou City 610 Office-2010-No. 46, and was issued on May 25th, 2010.

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Torture and Abuse Endured by Ms. Yu Quan Before She Died

2011-01-07

60-year-old practitioner Yu Quan from Jilin passed away after being abused and tortured by police. She was still handcuffed to her bed as she died. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong. Ms. Yu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 2004. While there, she was arrested and sent to a detention centre. Because of the punishment received there, her entire body was in unbearable pain, and she had contracted tuberculosis. To protect her employer and family Ms. Yu refused to give her name and address during her ordeal, and she was tortured severely for that refusal. She was injected with unknown drugs, which resulted in permanent damage to her vision.

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A Family of Three in Fujin City, Heilongjiang Province Is Taken Away

2011-01-07

Five undercover police officers drove to the house of Mr. Yuan Yulong on December 21st. As soon as they walked into the house, they started interrogating him: “Is Falun Gong good or bad? Do you still want to practise it or not? Where are your son and daughter-in-law?” They placed Mr. Yuan's Falun Gong books on the table and started recording them with a video camera. Another five officers came to ransack Mr. Yuan's house. The officers confiscated his notebook computer, an inkjet printer, three MP3 players, two mobile phones, some Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and Falun Gong books. They then arrested him and he is currently being held at the Fujin Detention Centre.

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What I Know of Beijing Deputy Mayor Ji Lin's Crimes

2011-01-07

On December 13th, Beijing's deputy mayor Ji Lin arrived at Taoyuan Airport in Taiwan. Ji is active in the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Two hours after landing in Taiwan, Falun Gong practitioners notified him in person that a criminal lawsuit had been filed against him. From 1999 to 2004, during the time when Ji Lin was the County Committee General Secretary at Miyun County and the Political Affairs and Regulations Committee General Secretary of Beijing, Miyun County became the area in Beijing that persecuted Falun Gong practitioners most severely. While he was the County Committee General Secretary at Miyun, Ji personally planned and conducted arrests and torture of Falun Gong practitioners. He was also involved in the examination and approval of each practitioner's sentencing.

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Deng Xiuyi of Weifang City, Shandong Province, Held in Changle Detention Centre

2011-01-07

Mr. Deng Xiuyi and a female practitioner went to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people in Jiatao Village of Qiaoguan County on December 17th. They were arrested by officers from the Qiaoguan Police Station. After they were taken to the police station, Mr. Deng was handcuffed to an iron chair and tortured for a day and a half. He was then transferred to the Changle Detention Centre, where he is currently being persecuted.

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Ms. Zhang Yaqin from Daqing City Dies after Severe Persecution in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

2011-01-06

After Ms. Zhang Yaqin from Daqing City was arrested, she was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. She was tortured in Heilongjiang Women's Prison until her health severely deteriorated. In May 2010, she was released. In the past six months, she was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment many times. On November 26th, she died at the age of 64 in Daqing People's Hospital, as a result of the persecution.

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Family Concerned for Attorney Wang Yonghang's Welfare in Prison

2011-01-06

On the evening of October 11th, several inmates were incited by prison guards to viciously beat Mr. Wang Yonghang, a lawyer from Dalian City who stands for justice. The following morning, Mr. Wang was beaten again. He was then placed in solitary confinement in a Small Cell for further mental and physical torture. After numerous requests, his family eventually saw him at the prison on November 19th. However, they grew even more concerned as the prison authorities refused to admit that Mr. Wang had been beaten. The prison authorities' denial cast a shadow on Mr. Wang's family members, who worry about the unrestrained abuse he has to endure.

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Mr. Liu Guangzhi Wrongfully Imprisoned, Family Not Allowed to Visit

2011-01-06

In July 2007, when Mr. Liu Guangzhi took pictures for another Falun Gong practitioner in court, national security personnel from the Longtan District in Jilin City arrested and tortured him. Longtan Court, under orders from the Jilin City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), sentenced Mr. Liu to six years in Gongzhuling Prison. Mr. Liu has been imprisoned since then. Both the prison and the 610 Office are trying to conceal information about Mr. Liu, and the prison refuses to let anyone visit him. No one has seen Mr Liu since he was arrested in July 2007.

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Ms. Liu Meili from Wuhan City Arrested and Robbed by the Police

2011-01-06

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Meili from Wuhan City, Hubei Province was arrested on November 4th, 2010. The police stole her retirement salary of 3000 yuan. They handcuffed Ms. Liu to a chair. When her family came to ask for her release, the officers lied and promised that they would detain her for only 15 days. After her family left, they shoved Ms. Liu into a police car and transferred her to the Wuhan City First Detention Centre.

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The “Humane Management” at Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin

2011-01-05

Falun Gong practitioners detained at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp were transferred to the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in the winter of 2007. Wang Yaluo, warden at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp, lied when he told everyone, “The Qianjin Forced Labour Camp uses a humane management system.” At the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp, practitioners were forced to do hard labour for 13-14 hours a day (from 6:00 a.m. to 7/8:00 p.m.) with only 10 minutes for lunch. If practitioners couldn't finish their work during those hours, they had to take the work back to their cell and continue working.

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Two Elderly Women Practitioners from Zhongyuan Oil Field Arrested

2011-01-05

Two elderly practitioners, Ms. Jin Runhua and Ms. Han Yongshu, left home together on December 22nd. By dinner time that day they still had not returned to their homes. Their families were so worried about them that they made many phone calls to try to find them. Not until around 9:00 p.m. that night when Zhongyuan Oil Field Security Section officers came to Ms. Jin's home to ransack it did Ms. Jin's family learn that their loved one had been arrested and detained. Those participating in the home ransacking included officers from the Liutun Police Station and from the Puyang County Police Department.

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Brief Overview of the Recent Persecution of Practitioners in Ningde City, Fujian Province

2011-01-05

Ms. Huang Cuijing was in a detention centre for two weeks and then subjected to two years of forced labour in 2000. She was held for eight months in a detention centre beginning September 15th, 2004, before she was released on bail. Mr. Chen Cijin, 65 years old, was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. Ms. Chen Shaidan, 70, was subjected to forced labour twice, totalling two years.

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Ms. Zhao Fengxia from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, Relentlessly Persecuted

2011-01-05

Ms. Zhao Fengxia, 57, was arrested when she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. She was detained at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp and told that if she did not give up Falun Gong, her children would not be allowed to go to college. After the guards realised they couldn’t break Ms. Zhao’s will, they started torturing her. They forced her to sit on a bench from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day. They ordered her to ask permission before walking anywhere and said that, while she was walking, she had to lower her head. Ms. Zhao wouldn't follow their demands and was beaten until she was unconscious.

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Ms. Yang Jie Tortured Brutally for Ten Years (Part 2)

2011-01-04

Upon my arrival at the Ningxia Women's Forced Labour Camp, I went on a hunger strike to protest my detention. Hu Linxia, the division's deputy head, called in Liu Haiyan and Zhang Hongyan, two drug offenders, and ordered them to hold me down on the bed and insert a rubber tube thicker than a chopstick through my nose into my stomach. During the barbaric force-feeding, Hu Linxia and the inmates constantly insulted me with dirty words. The force-feeding was carried out twice a day. The drug offenders were most cruel.

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Daughter Detained, Mother Dies from Grief

2011-01-04

A funeral was held for an elderly woman in Qingshui, north of Shenyang, in the winter cold. Villagers who knew her all said that she was such an innocent person and that if her daughter hadn't been arrested, she wouldn't have passed away. Residents of Qingshui all knew that Ms. Liu had a good daughter, Liu Sulan. However, because Liu Sulan practised Falun Gong she was arrested on September 29th. On December 14th, upon hearing that Liu Sulan was to be sentenced, her mother passed away without seeing her daughter. Liu Sulan did not know of her mother's death.

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