Torture

• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Shuxiu Sent to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-22
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Shuxiu was deceived by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent Guo Xiuyan and went to Guo's home on June 3rd, 2010. Li Shuxiu was then immediately arrested by police. A few days later, she was transferred to the Domestic Security Division of the Zhucheng Public Security Bureau and detained for a month. The Zhucheng 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) sent her to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Zibo, Shandong Province on July 5th, although her life was at great risk due to her state of health.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Wang Guanrong Tortured in Harbin City Women's Prison

  2010-08-21
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Guanrong, in her fifties, is serving a twelve-year term in Harbin City Women's Prison. She was tortured until she lost sensation in both of her legs. She also lost the sight in her right eye and could only see a bit of light through her left eye. Previosly detained in Jixian County Detention Centre gurads cruelly tortured Ms. Wang for more than 50 hours, punching her, kicking her, pulling her hair, twisting her ears, and subjecting her to the "Flying an airplane" torture. Her whole body was covered with bruises. The guards did not allow her to drink, eat, or sleep.
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• Retired Teacher from Yilan County Sent to Forced Labour Camp Three Times

  2010-08-21
  Ms. Ning Shuxian was detained twice at the Wanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in Harbin, and once at Qianjin Women's Forced Labour Camp because she did not give up her Falun Gong practice. Ms. Ning was brutally persecuted for the past ten years. In the labour camp guards tried to force practitioners to write the "guarantee statements" to renounce practising Falun Gong. Ms. Ning refused, so the guards forced her to maintain a squatting position from 5 a.m. to midnight. Ms. Ning suffered from bone necrosis, so she had great difficulty in the squatting position. A guard also tortured Ms. Ning, having her hung by her hands for over thirty minutes. The pain she suffered was tremendous.
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• Ms. Gong Xianghui from Changsha City Arrested and Beaten by Police

  2010-08-21
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gong Xianghui, 36, from Changsha City was approached by two male police officers while walking down the street on August 1st, 2010. They dragged Ms. Gong into their police vehicle and drove her to the police station, where she was brutally beaten by officers. Her face, eyes, thighs, and other parts of the body were covered with bruises. She was sent to the Third Detention Centre in Changsha City on the same day and has not been released to date.
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• Crimes Committed Against Falun Gong Practitioners by the No. 1 Prison in Yunnan Province

  2010-08-21
  On June 5th, 2010, a guard locked Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Bao in the strict-control cell once again for failing to greet him with "Good morning, sir." Mr. Bao was placed in shackles and two pairs of handcuffs and cuffed in a spread-eagle position to the metal rails for 2 days. This torture continued day and night for more than 3 months. In total, Mr. Bao was shackled and handcuffed for over 6 months. Afterward, the prison guards forced him to undergo intense brainwashing sessions, where he was continuously monitored by 3 inmates, who forced him to read articles that slandered Falun Gong for at least 10 hours a day. The brainwashing lasted for more than a year.
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• Ms. Zhao Yan from Beijing Mistreated in Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-20
  Ms. Zhao Yan, in her 30s, has been subjected to mistreatment in the Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, for refusing to give up her faith in Falun Gong. She was arrested by police while distributing materials to expose the persecution of Falun Gong in January 2008, and subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labour. Ms. Zhao has been subjected to solitary confinement in a small cell for refusing to give up her faith. The guards also taped and gagged her mouth when she shouted "Falun Gong is good." For a period of time, she was given very little food.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials in Wafangdian City Threaten Practitioners and Their Families, Including Children

  2010-08-20
  Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staff members in Laohutun Town, Liaoning Province have recently been putting pressure on village officials to harass Falun Gong practitioners. The local officials are pressuring practitioners to write or sign statements to proclaim that they will stop practising Falun Gong. The officials threaten practitioners with arrest or brainwashing if they don't sign. They even threaten the practitioners' family members' jobs and their schoolchildren.
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• Personal Account of Persecution by the Late Mr. Liu Quanguo from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

  2010-08-20
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Quanguo was arrested without a warrant, detained, sentenced to forced labour, tortured, and injected with unknown drugs. The head guard publicly said to him: "You'll die after you are released." And after Liu Quanguo was released, he did pass away on February 16th, 2008 at the age of 45. Before his death he recounted: "In Shuangcheng Detention Centre, the guard interrogated me again and again, trying to find out who organised our Falun Gong group. I was forced to stand for 24 hrs, and made to pick up a toilet bucket weighing 50 kilograms. The guard ordered prisoners to beat and kick me, I had black eyes and a bleeding nose and mouth."
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• The Persecution Suffered by a Married Couple in Jiangsu Province

  2010-08-20
  From July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using inhumane ways to deprive Falun Gong practitioners of their freedom of belief, forbidding them to practise Falun Gong. Over the course of the persecution, Mr. Wang and Ms. Lu have had the authorities knocking on their door constantly to harass them and search their home. They have been forcibly taken to brainwashing centres, have been arrested, suffered interrogation and torture, and have seen send to forced labour camps.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Du Juying Unjustly Admitted to a Mental Hospital Again

  2010-08-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Juying has been persecuted repeatedly because of her beliefs. Even two of her sons participated in her persecution under pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). CCP officials threatened her sons with the loss of their jobs and instigated them to mistreat their mother. Ms. Du's son Qu Zhipeng forced her to be admitted into the Yichang City Dongshan Mental Hospital again in June 2010.
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• Falun Gong Married Couple Sentenced to Prison

  2010-08-19
  Ms. Lu Guijuan, fifty-seven-year-old this year, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Zhucheng City, Shandong Province. Before practising Falun Gong, she was physically weak and had severe hypertension. Her husband, Lin Shuhua, had severe heart disease and could not do heavy labour. But after the couple practised Falun Gong, they recovered from their illnesses and became healthy. During the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, they were also persecuted, and on April 9th, 2010, they were sentenced to imprisonment. Ms. Lu Guijuan was sentenced to six and a half years, while her husband was sentenced to three and a half years.
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• Mr. Niu Ruiyi and Ms. Mao Xiulan from Tianshui City, Gansu Province Secretly Sentenced

  2010-08-19
  In January two Falun Gong practitioners were arrested and taken from their home by the police. The police confiscated their computers, printers, Falun Gong books, and many other personal belongings. Both Mr. Niu and Ms. Mao were detained in the Gangu County Detention Centre since their arrest. In May, Mr. Niu and Ms. Mao were put through a show trial and sentenced by the Tianshui City Gangu County Court in Gansu Province. Throughout the whole trial up until the final verdict, there was not a principal prosecutor present nor was their case open to the public. The defendants' family members were never notified of their trial. Their families never received any kind of legal documents or any other kind of notice explaining what happened to them.
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• Police in Jilin Province Detain a Disabled Practitioner

  2010-08-19
  On July 11th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, who is disabled, was reported to the police as she distributed Falun Gong DVDs in Yidan Town. Police arrested Ms. Du and detained her in the Yitong County Detention Centre. The whereabouts of her developmentally delayed child is unknown. Ms Du has been harassed, threatened, and arrested by the police frequently because of her spiritual belief and practice.
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• Mr. Liu Peng Abused at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai

  2010-08-18
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Peng was recently tortured at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai. Family visits were forbidden for a while. When the family eventually met with Mr. Liu, they discovered that he had been injured and they noted injuries on the back of his hands and on his neck. Mr. Liu is so weak that he was in a wheelchair when he was brought out to meet the family. Mr. Liu's family is very worried about him.
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• A Wife's Sorrow - Husband Guo Haixiang from Xingtai City, Hebei Province is Arrested

  2010-08-18
  On July 27th, 2010, seven policemen broke into practitioner Guo Haixiang's home in Huining Village, Xingtai County. They took Guo away after ransacking his house. Guo's wife was not able to eat, drink, or sleep for days after his sudden arrest. She has been crying and feeling the pain while thinking about their life together. Before practising Falun Gong Guo used to drink until he was intoxicated, then yell and hit his wife. Since practising Falun Gong he became a good person and lived harmoniously and happily with his wife. So what kind of crime has Guo Haixiang committed? Will he be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] in jail, and if so, into what kind of person?
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