Torture
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Ms. He Xiufang, 58, from Gansu Province Arrested Again and Subjected to Physical and Mental Torture
2010-10-10
On September 11th, Falun Gong practitioners He Xiufang was arrested by police. She is currently detained in the Longxi County Detention Centre. During the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ten-year persecution of Falun Gong, He Xiufang has been arrested, detained in a forced labour camp, imprisoned and forced into brainwashing sessions. She has suffered endless physical and mental torture. In Gansu Province Women's Prison He Xiufang had to get up at 5:00 a.m., and couldn't go to bed until 1:00 a.m. or later. Every day she was forced to work like a slave with extended hours, doing embroidery, cutting threads, and sealing medicine boxes. -
Ms. Wang Yueqin's Sentence at Hebei Province Women's Forced Labor Camp Extended
2010-10-09Officers from Dongli Police Station in Shijiazhuang City arrested Ms. Wang on March 10th, 2009. She was given a one-and-a-half-year sentence in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shijiazhuang. Practitioners at the camp have to begin work at 5:00 a.m. and work for 17 hours a day. Inmates strictly monitor practitioners while they work, and often beat and swear at them. Ms. Wang was forced to pick cotton seeds and then clean the building, including the toilets. At the end of her sentence in September 2010, officials refused to release Ms. Wang because she had not renounced her belief in Falun Gong. Her family members were told that she would be released sometime in October, but if her current position did not change she would be arrested again. -
Update: Ms. Du Liming in Critical Condition After Trial
2010-10-09Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming is from Yitong County, Jilin Province. When local court officials tried her in court on September 10th, 2010, an ambulance was waiting outside the court building. Her family learned that Ms. Du was sent to the Yitong County Chinese Medicine Hospital for emergency treatment a few days later, and that she is in critical condition. Ms. Du was arrested on July 11th as she distributed Falun Gong DVDs on the street. -
147 Practitioners Currently Incarcerated at Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp
2010-10-09Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Caiyun, 59, on October 21st, 2008 and took her to the Nangou Detention Centre, where she held a week-long hunger strike to protest the detention. She was sent to the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp on October 29th. The next day she was taken to a dark room where the guards slapped her face and shocked her with an electric baton, because her voice was too soft during roll call. She was subjected to another beating in November for refusing to recite the prison rules. Ms. Wang was subjected to a severe "body-stretching" torture method between November 30th and December 3rd, 2009. -
Ms. Zhang Rongqiu Became Mentally Unstable after Police Administered Her with Unknown Drugs
2010-10-09Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Rongqiu, 59, was released from Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp on May 12th. Her hair had turned almost completely white and she was very weak. She was also mentally unstable as a result of being forced to take unknown drugs in the Jinan City Armed Police Hospital. -
Forcing a Son To Denounce His Own Parents, Chengdu City 610 Office Uses Methods Not Seen Since the Cultural Revolution
2010-10-08Huang Xu was pressured by Chengdu City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) to persecute his own parents in order to keep his job. His parents, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying are a kind, peace-loving couple who both practise Falun Gong. Despite the Communist regime's posing as a modern country, the tragedy of children harming and denouncing their own parents that took place during the Cultural Revolution is sadly once again taking place in today's China. On August 13th, due to their son's direct involvement, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying were arrested on their way to a food market by police. The officials sent the couple to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. -
Ms. Xin Enhao Arrested for a Third Time after being Tortured in a Labour Camp
2010-10-08In 2001, Xin Enhao went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. Because of this, she was put into the labour camp for 18 months. However, when she had finished serving her sentence, her time was arbitrarily extended. In total, she was in the labour camp for 27 months. In 2006, she was detained again. During the two detentions, she suffered brutal torture. The police and drug addict inmates beat her all over, and poked needles into her legs and arms. They dragged her head and punched it against the bed frame. On September 5th, 2010, she was arrested for a third time by the Datong Police Bureau, and is being held in the Chenzhuang Detention Centre in Datong City. -
610 Office in Yitong County, Jilin Province Prevents Ms. Du Liming's Attorneys from Providing a Defence
2010-10-08In order to prevent two lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, the Yitong County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) instructed police officers to hold the defence attorneys in their hotel rooms and confiscate their mobile phones. On the hearing date of September 10th, three plainclothes police officers took the two lawyers to Changchun City, bought train tickets for them, and forced them to go back to Beijing. -
After Torture and Interrogation in a Detention Centre, Ms. Yin Jinmei Sent To Forced Labour
2010-10-08Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yin Jinmei, a Falun Gong practitioner was kidnapped by the police on February 16th, 2009. She was tortured in a metal chair. Her hands swelled to the size of her calf and her legs were completely covered with bruises. On March 24th, 2009, she was again picked up and sent to the Nanchang Women's Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. -
Yitong County 610 Office Personnel in Jilin Province Prevent Lawyers from Defending Handicapped Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Du Liming
2010-10-07The Jilin Yitong County Court and 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) have prevented lawyers from defending handicapped Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, whom police officer Wang Yingchao and others from the Domestic Security Team of Yitong Police Department had taken into custody. It happened while she was distributing Falun Gong CDs. She is now in the Yitong Detention Centre. -
Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp Uses Prisoners to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners
2010-10-07Six prisoners called "collaborators" monitor and torture practitioners around the clock. They force practitioners to stand like soldiers, with both hands tightly touching the trousers, the body straight, and heels touching each other. Practitioners can only look forward and they are not allowed to talk or move any part of their body. If practitioners even look in another direction once, they are denigrated by the collaborators. These collaborators continuously slander Falun Gong. Some practitioners pass out during this torture. Collaborators forced practitioners to read books that slandered Falun Gong. The practitioners who refused to read the books were not allowed to use the toilet. With excrement in their trousers, they were not allowed to change clothes. -
Ms. Liang Bo Framed by Haidian District Court, Judge Abuses His Power
2010-10-07The Haidian District Court, Beijing conducted a hearing on September 8th, for the case of Ms. Liang Bo. During this so-called public hearing, a colleague of Ms. Liang's husband witnessed the entire procedure. Under Judge You Tao, there were numerous aspects which did not comply with the law. The lawyer strongly requested to question the defendant, Liang Bo, repeatedly so that the court could clarify the case, but his requests were denied by Judge You Tao. The major evidence of the prosecutor were CDs, books, and posters that were confiscated from Liang Bo and her home. None of the evidence was presented at the hearing. Liang Bo stated that much of the evidence was fabricated and not true. Her handbag is not big enough to hold 50 CDs and 20 books. -
Ms. Wei Minghua Dies from Persecution, Her Husband Serves Long Prison Sentence for Practising Falun Gong
2010-10-07Ms. Wei Minghua, was a senior teacher at the Qingyuan County No. 1 Middle School in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Since the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners began in 1999, she and her husband, Mr. Li Wensong, were arrested many times, and her wages and pension were cut off. She died at the age of 56 on July 3rd, 2010. Her husband was imprisoned for more than seven years, and lost his government job. -
Policewomen in Jiangxi Province Prison Torture Practitioners Severely
2010-10-06Ms. Zhang Sujun was taken to the hotel of the Jiangxi Foreign Affairs Office in 2006 because she practised Falun Gong. There Ms. Zhang was handcuffed to the window with her hands behind her back. One policewoman placed the leg of her chair on Ms. Zhang's toe and then sat on the chair, breaking Ms. Zhang's toenail. They then took Ms. Zhang to the Women's Prison of Jiangxi Province. Ms. Zhang was forced to stand still for long periods at a time during 2007 to 2008. In March of 2008, Ms. Zhang was tortured to death. However, the police lied and said that she died of fluid accumulation around the liver. -
Mr. Ma Zhiwu Recounts Eight Years of Suffering
2010-10-06The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. Because of my belief, I was detained and imprisoned in Yinchuan Detention Centre, Ningxia Forced Labour Camp, and Wuzhong Prison for eight years. I experienced the most inhuman torture imaginable during those days. I couldn't understand why good people would be detained in a place that should only be for criminals. In August 2000, I started a hunger strike to protest the persecution and demand my freedom. They poured some milk down me through a tube in my nose after the doctor gave me anaesthesia. In order to make me suffer, they inserted the tube into my nose and kept inserting and pulling it out. Some pulled my arms, some pushed my legs down, some held my head. It was so painful that I wanted to die.
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