Torture
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The Persecution Suffered by Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Huang Juxiu
2010-09-21
Ms. Huang Juxiu is a 58-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Yueyang City, Hunan Province. She was employed by the Public Transportation Corporation of Yueyang City. Ms. Huang has been persecuted many times for practising Falun Gong; she was arrested seven times and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. Her employer stopped her wages for nine years. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Zhixian Sentenced to Four Years
2010-09-21Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Zhixian was put on trial at the Tiedong District Court on May 7th, 2010. Her lawyer defended her and entered a "not guilty" plea. The chief judge interrupted the lawyer many times during his defence. However, the lawyer firmly continued with his defence, and asked the court to release Ms. Wang unconditionally. However, she was sentenced to four years of imprisonment by a court which is controlled by the Anshan 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). -
The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp
2010-09-20The first step in the "transformation" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] process in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp was to have practitioners read books slandering Falun Gong. Then the guards would assign more personal monitors, apply more pressure, and pick on practitioners for small things. The personal monitors frequently abused practitioners, both verbally and physically. They beat them, claiming that they were "correcting their movements." The guards also beat practitioners without hesitation. They also reduced the practitioners' sleep time. They were forced to get up at 5 a.m. or sometimes 4 a.m. They were to do "military training" throughout the entire day: squats, push-ups, high leg lifts, and so on without any break. -
Mr. Zhu Youquan Arrested and His Mentally Handicapped Wife Brutally Beaten
2010-09-20Mr. Zhu Youquan is a practitioner from Chaoyang District, Beijing. On the morning of August 20th, local police officers and officials from the residential committee broke into his home and arrested him. His mentally handicapped wife was taken to the police station and viciously beaten. The bruises on her body remained clearly visible two weeks after the beating. The police brutality is outrageous given that she is over 50 years old and mentally handicapped. -
Ms. Liang Bo Suffers Costal Cartilage Fracture from Beatings by Police
2010-09-20Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Bo, a teacher at the School of Literature, Journalism, and Communication of the Minzu University of China, was arrested on May 21st for practising Falun Gong. After her arrest, officer Dong Yongping viciously beat her, cursed at her, deprived her of sleep, forced her to put on the inmate uniform, and forcibly cut her hair. Dong, who weighs around 170 pounds, also sat on her and pushed his left leg on her chest, fracturing her costal cartilage and inducing internal bleeding. Ms. Liang was subsequently transferred to the Haidian District Detention Centre, where she continued to be subjected to extensive beatings and other tortur -
Mr. Liu Jian Sentenced to Seven Years by Wenjiang District Court
2010-09-20A court hearing was held at Wenjiang District Court in Chengdu City for practitioner Mr. Liu Jian on July 15th. During the hearing Wang Yajun, a lawyer from Beijing, presented the case for his defence. Over seventy people attended the hearing, including staff at the court, officers from the police department, local government officials, as well as legal professionals and Mr. Liu's family members. The hearing ended just over an hour later. In a second court hearing on August 6th, Mr. Liu was sentenced to seven years. Mr. Liu appealed against the court's decision and demanded an acquittal, as the authorities handling the case has confiscated a large amount of money from Mr. Liu and Ms. Liu Qi, his elder sister. -
Methods of Torture Used in Zhejiang Province's No. 2 Prison
2010-09-19Zhejiang Province No. 2 Prison has been called a "model" unit by some in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), presumably for its performance in persecuting Falun Gong. Every day, as a form of torture, practitioners are forced to sit or stand completely still in a designated posture while being strictly monitored by prisoners. If a prisoner thinks a practitioner has moved, even the smallest amount, the prisoner reduces the practitioner's allotted time to sleep by 30 minutes or an hour. If he or she moves twice, the sleeping time will be reduced twice, and so on. The prisoners often reduce practitioners' sleeping time regardless. -
Prison Rejects Ms. Jiang Yanling Due to Her Deteriorated Health Resulting from Torture
2010-09-19Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jiang Yanling was arrested by officers from the Domestic Security Division of Yi County Public Security Bureau, Liaoning Province, on December 22nd, 2009. She has been held at the Jinzhou City Detention Centre for over eight months. When her family visited her on July 27th, 2010, she said her hands and feet had no feeling in them due to torture she had been subjected to since her arrest. Officers from Jinzhou Detention Centre have sent Ms. Jiang to Liaoning Women's Prison twice, but she was not accepted on both occasions due to her severe health condition, which was a direct result of the torture. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Fan Shunmei and Ms. Chen Yelin from Hunan Province Arrested
2010-09-19On July 19th, 2010, Ms. Fan Shunmei was arrested while explaining the truth about Falun Gong to people in Qiancheng Town. Ms. Fan Shunmei gave a DVD to a man who happened to be a plainclothes police officer. As soon as he saw the disc, he shouted, "Falun Gong!" He and five other plainclothes police officers then grabbed Ms. Fan's hands and arrested her. The Hongjiang City 610 Office sentenced Ms. Fan Shunmei to one year of forced labour. Because Ms. Fan's family paid a lot of money to the police, the officers allowed her to go back home. In mid-August, her family brought her back home. Her family is now keeping a very close watch on her at home. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Lin Xue'e from Fujian Province Detained at Forced Labour Camp
2010-09-19Police officers ransacked practitioner Ms. Lin Xue'e's house in Xianyou County, Putian City, Fujian Province in August 2009. On the evening of September 18th, she was arrested and sent to a forced labour camp. Her family requested to visit her but were denied. On October 11th, the police went to the school Ms. Lin's daughter attended to harass her, and attempted to cajole the child into making false testimony. It has been one year since Ms. Lin was arrested, and her family has still not heard from her. -
Falun Gong Practitioners in Kunming Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked
2010-09-18Ms. Wu Yun is a Falun Gong practitioner in her thirties, and a resident of Kunming, Yunnan Province. On August 27th, Ms. Wu was arrested at home, and her home was ransacked. Over 20 police officers and plainclothes police participated in the arrest, including six or seven armed police carrying rifles and pistols. The ransacking lasted over five hours, and the police took many photos and videos throughout. Ms. Wu is currently detained at the Wuhua District Detention Centre. -
610 Office of Dandong City Political and Judiciary Committee Responsible for Arresting Falun Gong Practitioners and Sending Them to Brainwashing Centres
2010-09-18Officials from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 610 Office in Dandong City, instructed police in different counties and districts to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. The police subsequently harassed practitioners and their relatives, and ordered practitioners to write a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong while threatening to arrest and send them to brainwashing centres. Arresting Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives, extorting money from them, and ransacking their homes has become a popular way of making money among Dandong 610 Office personnel. Many officials in Dandong obtained their political capital and higher positions this way. Thus, they persecute practitioners unscrupulously. -
School Teacher from Hunan Province Twice Sentenced to Forced Labour
2010-09-18Ms. Zhou Xiaohong has been dismissed from her job, her home has been ransacked seven times, and she has been arrested four times since the persecution began in July 1999. All of this happened because she persists in her belief in Falun Gong. Her arrests in March 2005 and August 2008 resulted in sentences of 12 months and 15 months, respectively. She was detained at the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, where she was brutally tortured. Inmates tortured her. They forced her to stand still while they slapped her face, punched, and kicked her. They poured cold water on the floor, then pushed her to the ground and beat her. They also stood on her hands and feet, and poked her arms and hands with sharp instruments. -
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Poisons the Minds of Middle and Primary School Students with Anti-Falun Gong Propaganda in Textbooks
2010-09-18After the New Year, various publishing companies in China released new editions of textbooks for middle and primary schools, including Morality and Society, Ideological Cultivation, Ideology and Politics, and Politics and Life, in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) slanders Falun Gong. Take for example Morality and Society, which is published by the People's Education Press for the Sixth Grade in Guangdong Province. The entire sixth and seventh pages of Volume One are filled with articles and pictures that slander Falun Gong. Actually, the previous edition had a smaller amount of similar content. -
Mr. Yu Xuelun, a Teacher from Macheng City, Remains in Custody after Years of Persecution
2010-09-17Mr. Yu Xuelun was a highly regarded teacher at Nanhu Middle School in Macheng, Hubei Province. In August 2007, he was arrested and taken to Fanjiatai Prison in the Shayang area. His three-year prison term ended on August 1st, 2010. However, under the direction of the Hubei Province 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), police coerced leaders of Nanhu Middle School to pay for the extra expenses and escort Mr. Yu to the Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre for 50 days. By May 2010, 167 practitioners were confirmed to have died in Hubei Province from persecution. The Shayang Forced Labour Camp System is one of the most vicious and terrifying facilities across China.
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