Torture

• Ms. Tu Xiaomin Recounts the Persecution She Endured in Huhehaote Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-09-25
  Huhehaote Women's Labour Camp bought 40 detainees from the Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Division on January 24th, 2008, to be used as slave labour. Ms. Tu was one of them. Here is her account of her experience: "Guard Lu Junqing again asked me what I thought of Falun Gong. I told her I would never change my mind regarding Falun Gong and that she should give up trying to "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me. Lu Junqing put drug addict Xia Congling to watch over me. Xia had brutally beaten many practitioners. Xia grabbed my hair and starting hitting and kicking me. She also put me in a headlock and nearly choked me and knocked me down. My glasses were twisted, and my face and hands bled."
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• Qingdao Judge: "I Gave You a Three-year Sentence Because You Hired a Lawyer"

  2010-09-24
  On May 3rd, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shang Dexing was arrested by police because his seven-year-old grandson gave someone a Falun Gong CD. He was sent to Qingdao No. 2 Detention Centre. He was tried in Laoshan Court on August 5th. Judge Yu Yong didn't give a verdict inside the courtroom. Yu Yong went to the detention centre to announce his verdict and told Mr. Shang, "I told you not to hire a lawyer but you insisted on hiring one. I planned to pronounce you not guilty. Now I am giving you a three-year sentence because you hired a lawyer." Mr. Shang asked him, "I'm not guilty. Why do you still sentence me?" Yu Yong answered, "I gave you a three-year sentence just because you hired a lawyer."
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• Ms. Yuan Pingjun's Family Seeking Justice for Her Death

  2010-09-24
  Ms. Yuan Pingjun died less than10 days after being arrested and detained at a brainwashing centre on August 2nd, 2010. The police lied, saying she died from jumping from the building, and did not allow her family to view her body except for a quick look or set up a ceremony for mourning. They tried to buy silence from her family with 100,000 yuan. Her family hired a lawyer to seek justice for her tragic death.
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• Twenty-three Falun Gong Practitioners from Quyang County, Hebei Province Arrested, About Half Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2010-09-24
  Police from Quyang County, Hebei Province arrested 23 local Falun Gong practitioners and ransacked their homes on August 15th-16th, and more than ten of them were sentenced to forced labour. All of the male practitioners were held in the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Gaoyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, while the female practitioners were held in the Women's Forced Labour Camp of Hebei Province in Shijiazhuang City.
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• Shanghai Police Attempt to Send Ms. Zhu Feilan to a Labour Camp, But Are Forced to Release Her for Medical Treatment

  2010-09-24
  Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Zhu Feilan is 48 years old, was arrested by the police in Nanhui District, and was detained for three months. She was force-fed by a leader called Zhu of the National Security Team, a prison physician and police officers. Later, parts of her body went numb, her body became swollen and she lacked strength. During that period, the authorities tried twice to send her to a Forced Labour Camp, however, they failed. Finally, on August 17th, Ms. Zhu Feilan was released on medical parole.
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• Dr. Cui Wei Tortured and Sentenced to Forced Labour in Fushun, Liaoning Province

  2010-09-23
  On August 19th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cui Wei and ransacked her home and confiscated expensive electronic items. They took Ms. Cui to the Fushun Detention Centre. Ms. Cui Wei was violently beaten because she refused to give her fingerprints. Ms. Cui began a hunger strike on August 26th to protest her detention. By September 3rd, Ms. Cui had been force-fed three times at the hospital. Without any judicial process Ms. Cui was sentenced to three years of forced labour.
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• Ms. Hu Yunhuai from Xichang City, Sichuan Province in Deteriorating Health after Persecution

  2010-09-23
  On May 7th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hu Yunhuai. On May 27th, she was arrested again by the Xichang Procuratorate. Now she is detained at the Tuohuang Detention Centre in Xichang. Police officers forcibly removed the dentures from her mouth. Without her dentures, it became very difficult for her to eat any food. She has been subjected to brutal persecution and as a result has become seriously ill.
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• Attorney Ms. Gu Hong from Pingdingshan City, Henan Province Arrested

  2010-09-23
  Ms. Gu Hong, in her mid-40s, is a senior lawyer and Falun Gong practitioner. On July 23rd, police officers from the Xinhua District 610 Office and local Domestic Security Division arrested Ms. Gu Hong at her workplace. They confiscated her computer, Falun Gong books and some of her personal property. On August 20th, the Xinhua District Procuratorate announced the arrest warrant for Ms. Gu and is processing a lawsuit against her.
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• Ms. Wang Wuxiu Detained at Hunan Province Women's Prison; Her Son Forbidden to Visit Her

  2010-09-23
  Ms. Wang Wuxiu, was was arrested on April 18th, 2009 for practising Falun Gong and detained in Hunan Province Women's Prison. The court officials covertly sentenced Ms. Wang to three years in prison. Ms. Wang's son arrived at the prison on September 14th, 2010, to visit his mother. However, the prison guards forbade him to visit her and drove him out of the prison. They told him that his mother had not written the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, so he could not see her.
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• Kind Lady, in Her Sixties, Sentenced to Prison for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-09-22
  On April 24th, 2010, police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia's home. They arrested her and her husband, Mr. Li Hua, and took them to Wujiawa Detention Centre. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chaoyang Political and Legal Committee, and Shuangta District Court jointly conspired to sentence Ms. Jia to 13 years in prison and Mr. Li to three years in prison with five years suspension. Mr. Jia appealed but the court called Ms. Jia's family members to threaten them. It also prohibited Ms. Jia from seeing an attorney even if she hired one. It wouldn't schedule a trial for the appeal and had already decided to uphold the original verdict.
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• Mr. Liu Yunchao Close to Death in Fanjiatai Prison

  2010-09-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yunchao has been tortured and is near death in Fanjiatai Prison, Shayang, Hubei Province. 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) told Mr. Liu's family that they would not release him even if he died in prison. Upon learning that Liu Yunchao was in a critical condition, family members went to Fanjiatai Prison on August 8th. Wardens had a meeting with the family in which the wardens deceptively made the family sign papers consenting to pay all Mr. Liu's hospital and medical fees and to allow the whole process to be videotaped.
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• Mr. Wang Zhongbao from Heilongjiang Province Savagely Tortured in Police Custody

  2010-09-22
  On September 30th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Zhongbao was arrested. The police savagely beat him. They handcuffed him behind his back and forced him to kneel on the ground. While four or five people held him down, another police officer punched his head, neck, and chest using his fists, knees, and elbows. Mr. Wang was transferred to Jiangsu Province and subjected to one and a half years of forced labour. During that time he was so brutally tortured that he nearly became paralysed.
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• Ms. Guo Lingna Sentenced to Another Three Years in Prison for Talking in Public About Falun Gong

  2010-09-22
  Ms. Guo Lingna, 49, has been persecuted on several occasions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for persisting in practising Falun Gong. In 2007, Ms. Guo was arrested by police and sent to the Yunnan Province Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a two-year term. While she was in the forced labour camp, Ms. Guo's company terminated her work contract. Ms. Guo's husband was forced to divorce her, when he came under the threat of being fired by his company. Ms. Guo was arrested again in December 2009, for giving a person a Falun Gong DVD. The court sentenced her to three years in prison. Ms. Guo Lingna is very weak as a result of holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
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• Tortured for Seven Years: Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yinying from Beijing

  2010-09-21
  Ms. Zhang Yinying, 52, started practising Falun Gong in February 1998. She has been detained in a forced labour camp three times for her firm belief in the practice. Ms. Zhang was tortured in Daxing Women's Forced Labour Camp in Beijing and Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. As a result of the torture, she lost almost all of her teeth. In her own words she recounts: "Guards locked me in a small room with six detainees who were ordered to beat me. Some hit me, while others stomped on my stomach. One of them used a water bottle to hit my legs. I got two black eyes after the beating that night."
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• Mr. Jin Chengshan in Critical Condition at Hulan Prison

  2010-09-21
  Mr. Jin Chengshan is in critical condition at Hulan Prison. He is paralyzed from the chest down. The muscles in his back and hips are seriously injured and he can only lie on his front. Since the beginning of August 2010, the pressure ulcers on his body have started to bleed. Permission was granted for him to be released from the prison for medical treatment, but prison officials still made various excuses to prevent him from leaving.
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