Torture

• Older Practitioner Mr. Zhu Wenhua Dies in Tianjin Prison

  2010-08-10
  Mr. Zhu Wenhua was arrested in May 2003, and placed in custody at the Dayingmen Police Station, in the Hexi District. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in a secret trial at the Nankai District Court in March 2004, and was detained in Tianjin City Prison ever since. Mr. Zhu was inhumanly tortured: one leg was beaten until broken. He was disabled by the police because he refused to give up his faith in Falun Gong. The prison administration notified Mr. Zhu's family that he died on July 19th, 2010, due to a heart attack.
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• Mr. Miao Xinglong Endures Ten Days of Brutal Torture at the Suihua Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-10
  Mr. Miao Xinglong was arrested by the police from the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and police station on July 19th, 2002. In August 2002, Mr. Miao was sent to Fuyu Forced Labour Camp in Qiqihar. In April 2003, without notifying his family, Mr. Miao was transferred to the Suihua Forced Labour Camp, where he endured brutal torture. Guards forced him to watch fabricated video about Falun Gong. Fan Xiaodong then asked Mr. Miao for his thoughts about the video. Mr. Miao replied that the videos were all fabricated to frame Falun Gong's founder and damage Falun Gong. Fan Xiaodong started to madly beat Mr. Miao all over his body. Fan stopped when Mr. Miao's teeth fell out and there was blood dripping from his nose.
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• Ms. Wang Xiuzhi, 74, from Harbin City Loses Eyesight While Detained

  2010-08-10
  Ms. Wang Xiuzhi, 74, was imprisoned for 18 months for distributing Falun Gong fliers beginning in May 2007. The administration of the Harbin Women's Prison ordered her family to pay 900 yuan, citing a physical exam towards her medical release on December 19th, 2007. The family did not pay and Ms. Wang was imprisoned at the Harbin Women's Prison. Before her release in December 2008, she had completely lost her eyesight.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Detained and Fined by Policemen from Lanshan County, Hunan Province

  2010-08-10
  On July 11th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioners Zhou Baisheng, Zhou Yongying and Li Xiyu were seized by local policemen while distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution to people in a village. They were taken to the Lanshan County Public Security Bureau that night and detained for fifteen days. The next day, when their family members requested to see the practitioners at the detention centre, the police demanded that they pay a fee. Every time the family members visited, they were either forced to pay meal fees or fines. Zhou Baisheng was taken to the Xinkaipu Labour Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province where he was sentenced to a year of "re-education" through labour. Li Xiyu was sentenced to a year of "re-education" through labour at the Baimalong Women's Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City.
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• Ms. Tian Huiying Persecuted in Guangdong Women's Forced Labour Camp Before Her Death

  2010-08-09
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tian Huiying was arrested on February 15th, 2004. The persecution that she suffered in the Guangdong Province Shanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp left her emaciated and led to her death on July 6th, 2005. The labour camp authorities claimed that she died in a car accident, compensated her family 30,000 yuan (about USD$4429), and cremated her body to close the case, washing their hands free of any allegations. One witness at the labour camp recounts: "I saw Ms. Tian walk up to a guard and say something. The guard spat at her, and two drug offenders started beating her in front of everybody. The practitioners and other inmates were shocked and shouted at the thugs to protest the violence in broad daylight. That was the last time I saw Ms. Tian."
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• Persecution Suffered by Ms. Jiao Ling and Her Eleven-Year-Old Daughter Since 1999

  2010-08-09
  Yan Xintong, an 11-year-old girl from Huadian City, Jilin Province, cried incessantly whenever she thought about her mother. Ms. Jiao Ling, Xintong's mother, has been detained many times because of her belief in Falun Gong. During these past eleven years, Xintong has endured much suffering. Ms. Jiao was arrested on April 23rd, 2010. At 11 p.m., Xintong was unaware of what had happened to her mother and waited alone in the dark for her. She was only eleven years old, but every day after school she went to the police station to demand that Yu Xiaoqiang release her mother. Yu Xiaoqiang later had her taken to an orphanage.
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• English Teacher Banned from Going Abroad for Believing in Falun Gong

  2010-08-09
  Ms. He Meirong, an English teacher at Zhaoshi Senior High School in Tianmen City, Hubei Province, has been sentenced to forced labour three times and detained at brainwashing centres twice since the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong, simply because she persisted in her belief in Falun Gong. When Ms. He was detained at the Shayang Forced Labour Camp for the first time, she was tortured, both physically and mentally. This year, Ms. He Meirong went to the authorities and applied to travel abroad. However, after the staff went through the records in the computer system she was refused a passport.
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• The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-09
  Right now all the practitioners who refuse to participate in singing Communist Party songs at Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp or who will not repeat the camp oath are detained in the exercise room and forced to sit on a bench. They are forced to sit upright without moving, are forbidden to rest, and can only go back to their cells at night. These practitioners are between 45 and 69 years old. Ms. Wang Xiuying has been spitting up blood because of the constant torture. The abuse at the forced labour camp continues today.
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• Ms. Zhu Guilian, 62, from Changde City, Hunan Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2010-08-08
  Ms. Zhu Guilian from Changde City, Hunan Province was held at a detention centre for one year before being released in February 2010, due to a critical medical condition. Police took Ms. Zhu from the detention centre to a mental hospital. Ms. Zhu told others that she was injected with a drug while she was held in the Changde City Mental Hospital. She constantly spat up blood and regularly had bloody stools. Her weight decreased from 130 pounds to 77 pounds after eight months of imprisonment. Previously, she had been arrested and jailed on many occasions for her belief in Falun Gong. Ms. Zhu died on May 5th.
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• "House of Love" in Xiaguan District, Nanjing City Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners

  2010-08-08
  The so-called "House of Love" in the Xiaguan District of Nanjing City is actually a facility which runs brainwashing sessions in an attempt to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Police and Communist Party officials use every means imaginable to arrest practitioners. Some officers break into practitioners' homes and arrest them, while others go to their place of employment and deceive practitioners into attending a brainwashing session. Some even apprehend practitioners right off the street, catching them completely off-guard, and drag them into their police vehicles. Under the officer's directives, several take turns in brainwashing practitioners, threatening and attempting to manipulate them into giving up their practice.
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• Three Practitioners from Huanggang City, Hubei Province Arrested

  2010-08-08
  Ms. Tong Jinxian, Mr. Xiao Jinhua, and Ms. Zheng Caixia from Huanggang City, Hubei Province were arrested by police on July 19th. The police also ransacked Ms. Tong's home, confiscating a computer, a printer, and other personal property. Ms. Tong has been subjected to detention numerous times prior to this arrest. The police also extorted money from her. The three practitioners are detained in the Huanggang City No. 2 Detention Centre. Their families were forced to pay living expenses for them when they went to visit them at the detention centre.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Sent to Brainwashing Centre in Jilin Province

  2010-08-08
  On June 29th, police went to Huanxi Town Central School under the guise of making an inspection. The officers put Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li, who was a teacher at the school, into a van and took her to a brainwashing centre without telling the school headmaster. They said the reason for her arrest was that she had not written a statement renouncing or giving up her practice of Falun Gong. At the brainwashing centre practitioners were closely monitored at all times. The officers announced that the practitioners would be sent to a labour camp or mental hospital if they did not give up their practice of Falun Gong.
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• Female Engineer from Tianjin Experiences Hallucinations After Being Injected with Unknown Drugs

  2010-08-07
  Ms. Gu Xueshuang, 39, is an engineer from Tianjin. Due to her firm belief in Falun Gong, she was arrested on February 25th, 2010 by police. Just twelve days after her arrest, she was tortured to the point of not being able to speak or eat. She developed delirium and hallucinations after being injected with an unknown drug. Ms. Gu accused the guards of forcing her to take poisonous drugs. The guards took out some pills of different colours and said, "How can this be poisonous?" An eyewitness personally heard the doctor telling the guards, "It is very dangerous to take this drug, and it requires around the clock observation with monitors."
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• Ms. Hong Youfeng from Funing County, Jiangsu Province Sentenced

  2010-08-07
  On January 17th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hong Youfeng was reported to authorities and arrested by police because she was talking to people about the truth behind the persecution of Falun Gong and gave a Falun Gong DVD to a passerby. They locked up Ms. Hong at a hotel. She was deprived of sleep for four days, and continuously interrogated and forced into giving a so-called confession. She was then sent to Funing Detention Centre for a term of over four months. The Funing Court and legal legislators tried Ms. Hong in court on May 19th without any legal evidence. She was sentenced to three years and six months in prison on July 2nd. Her attorney entered an innocent plea for her and asked the court to release her.
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• Mr. Ma Dengjiang in Hebei Province Endures Torture and Forced Labour Camp Term

  2010-08-07
  On June 12th, 2010, Mr. Ma Dengjiang was arrested by police. Mr. Ma's Falun Gong books and tape recordings were also confiscated. That very same night, he was transferred directly to Qiaotou Military Police Team, and police officers tortured him by tying him to a "tiger bench". They also shackled his hands and feet. Over the next four nights and three days, he was not given water or food, and his feet became swollen.
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