Torture

• The Chinese Regime Attempts to Coerce Innocent Citizens Into Recanting their Beliefs

  2010-08-14
  During July Qu Changbo, the director of village security, tried to force Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Hongyan to write a guarantee statement promising to stop practising Falun Gong. Two days later, other officials broke into Ms. Zhang's home and once again tried to force her to sign the statement. They said, "If you don't sign, we'll make your husband's work supervisor fire him, and he'll be re-hired only after you have signed the guarantee statement. We'll also tell the students at your child's school to swear at and abuse your children, so they will be too embarrassed to go to school."
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• Ms. Chang Shuxia, 52, Imprisoned Three Times at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province

  2010-08-14
  Ms. Chang Shuxia, 52, has been imprisoned three times because she practises Falun Gong. She recounts her experience in a labour camp: "Guards pushed me to the ground and handcuffed my hands behind my back, with one hand pulled over my shoulder to meet the other hand twisted up from the back. A tall and sturdy man then stomped on the handcuffs with his leather shoes. They also shocked me with three electric batons simultaneously. The handcuffs cut deep into my flesh, and I was bleeding badly. My hands became very swollen. Even after I returned home the scars were still visible on my hands. I couldn't do any physical work for more than a year."
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• Model Worker Ms. He Guihong Persecuted by Domestic Security Division of Xianning City in Hubei Province

  2010-08-14
  On July 1st, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Guihong was arrested by Xianning City 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] personnel and police officers from the Xianning City Domestic Security Division when she was working at the "1+8" retail chain store in the Xian'an District. On July 2nd, Jiayu County 610 Office personnel and Domestic Security Division personnel sent her to the Banqiao Village Brainwashing Centre of Wuhan City. She was proclaimed a "model worker" for the whole city and county many times.
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• Computer Engineer Persecuted to Death in Guizhou Province

  2010-08-13
  Falun Gong practitioner Liu Bo had liver disease for over twenty years, but completely recovered after becoming a Falun Gong practitioner. In 2002, Liu Bo was arrested and taken to the police station where he was beaten by several officers. His legs were shackled, then spread wide onto a metal door for over ten hours. He was taken to the local detention centre the next morning, where he was beaten and terrorised. Mr. Liu was persecuted for three years in the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp. Because of the long duration and severity of the persecution, his mental and physical condition had seriously deteriorated, and Liu Bo passed away on April 14th, 2010.
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• Ms. Chen Zhilian and Her Daughter Repeatedly Imprisoned and Tortured

  2010-08-13
  Ms. Chen Zhilian and her daughter have been repeatedly arrested, detained and viciously beaten since July 1999, because they practise Falun Gong. In 2003, Ms. Chen was sentenced to six years imprisonment by officials from Renshou County Court, and her daughter was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Guards in Renshou County Detention Centre pinched Ms. Chen's daughter, made her stand facing the wall, forbade her from sleeping, forced her to take medication, hit her with clubs, pulled her hair, and threw her against the wall. She was also tied to a "death bed" for four days.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Cai Huilian Persecuted for Many Years

  2010-08-13
  Through practising Falun Gong, Ms. Cai Huilian recovered from recurrent inflammation that had bothered her since childhood. However, she has been subjected to severe persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to her belief in Falun Gong over the past 11 years. She has been repeatedly arrested, detained and tortured. Her home was ransacked many times, and her Falun Gong books and farmland were confiscated.
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• Eyewitness: Shanxi Province Women's Prison a Processing Facility for Counterfeit Drugs

  2010-08-13
  In 2007, the Shanxi Province Women's Prison was rated as a "Civilised Prison," but based on what I saw there, I think it would be more appropriate to call it a "processing site for counterfeit drugs." I was detained in the prison's processing facility. The workshop facility processes almost everything, from food and clothing, to items used on a daily basis. Two rooms on the second floor were used to package many different kinds of fake drugs. The majority of the drugs processed were used to treat heart disease and high blood pressure.
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• "Small Stool" Torture Method Used on Practitioners in Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison

  2010-08-12
  Guards in Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison force Falun Gong practitioners to sit on a small wooden stool that is one square foot in size from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. This is a cruel torture that even healthy young prisoners cannot endure, let alone 60- to 70-year-old women. If a practitioner refuses to give up her faith, she is forced to sit like this for a long time, even until her term ended. Sometimes, the buttocks fester, and some practitioners' trousers rot, their blood pressure rises, and their limbs or even their whole body swells due to this torture.
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• Crimes Committed in Ward 8 of Liaoning Province Women's Prison

  2010-08-12
  Guards in Ward 8 urge criminals to abuse and torture practitioners, mainly in the wash room, toilet, and reading room. The torture methods for the most part involve severe beatings, pouring cold water on practitioners' bodies, hanging practitioners up and beating them, stomping on them on the ground, tying the practitioners up and forcing them under a bed in a painful, folded over position, sleep deprivation, and even gagging the practitioners with underwear. The tortures don't stop until the practitioners write a "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] statement.
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• Mudanjiang City Prison Guards Torture High School Teacher Mr. Gong Chengge and Extort Money from His Family

  2010-08-12
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gong Chengge is a former maths teacher. In 2008, he was sentenced to three and a half years years in prison and sent to Mudanjiang Prison. Mr. Gong was tortured with electric batons. Mr. Gong was forced to perform slave labour in prison. He had to stick eyelashes onto toy dolls. Due to his very severe short sightedness, he could not do many dolls in one day and only a few were acceptable. Ward head Xie Xiaofeng and team leader He Guanghai used convicts to extort funds from Mr Gong. When that failed, they ordered prisoners Sun Jinghua and Li Yunye to viciously beat him. Mr Gong's teeth fell out as a result of the beatings. Guards threatened his family members that if they did not give them bribes, the guards would increase Mr. Gong's workload. Consequently, Mr. Gong's parents gave Xie Xiaofeng 1000 yuan.
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• Elderly Practitioner Ms. Jing Ziying from Xi'an City Arrested; Her Whereabouts Unknown

  2010-08-12
  Ms. Jing Ziying, 79, is from Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Jing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000. CCP agents refused to listen to her, but instead sentenced her to one year of forced labour. While in a forced labour camp Ms. Jing refused to be "reformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. The guards subjected her to sleep deprivation and tried to force her to read books slandering Falun Gong. The guards also forced her to do hard labour. Ms. Jing was arrested again on July 22nd, 2010 by police and her current whereabouts are unknown.
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• Practising Falun Gong Cured Li Yanrong, Her Condition Is Now Critical Due to the Persecution

  2010-08-11
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Yanrong was arrested on July 1st, 2010, by police. She was brutally beaten in Jixiang Township Police Station. Ms. Li is now in Tangyuan Detention Centre. She is very thin and unable to eat, and her condition could become critical at anytime. A family member went to the police department and demanded her release, but deputy political commissar Zhou Jinzhe not only refused to release Ms. Li, he also wanted to detain her family member. Prior to practising Falun Gong, Ms. Li had severe tuberculosis. In 1998, she started to practise Falun Gong. Shortly after, her tuberculosis disappeared. After regaining her health, Ms. Li became a better person at home and her living situation improved as well.
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• Practitioner Jin Lihong Injected with Unknown Drug in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2010-08-11
  Ms. Jin Lihong was injected with an unknown drug in February or March 2006 when she was imprisoned in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. It caused her to suffer enormously, both mentally and physically. She recounts: "One day when I was standing in front of a window and looking at a pot of flowers, my tongue stuck out involuntarily. Things later got worse. My tongue became thick and purple and stuck out all the time. Later, when I was working on some of the prison's accounts, I realised that I was unable to do the maths. My brain didn't function well."
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Xie Jinda, Xue Yuxia, and Zheng Guolin Arrested

  2010-08-11
  On July 7th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioners Xie Jinda, Xue Yuxia, and Zheng Guolin from Harbin City distributed Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution to people in Hongjuntuner village. The practitioners' family members immediately hurried to Yongyuan Town upon hearing the news of their arrests. However, the police refused to let them into the police station. The police began pushing, shoving and threatening Zheng Guolin, who is over seventy years old. The family members, after having waited outside the door of the police station for over four hours, became very worried and tried to peek through the window. The policemen inside immediately began to take pictures of them.
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• Ms. Zhang Huayun and Her Mother from Chengdu City Lodge a Complaint in Court for Interrogation by Torture

  2010-08-11
  Recently, Ms. Zhang Huayun, a Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu City, and her mother were tried in court. They denied the charges against them and stated that the police interrogated them by torture. Their two lawyers entered innocent pleas on their behalf. The lawyer said that according to the regulation on handling criminal cases precluding illegal evidence, the interrogation statements constitute illegal evidence and the court must call for an investigation. However, the judge ignored this request. Ms. Zhang is still being detained in the Chengdu City Detention Centre.
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