Torture

• Ms. Yan Chunling Serving Nine-Year Prison Sentence for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-08-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yan Chunling was sentenced to nine years in prison by Chinese Communist Party officials. Seven years later, prison officials have forbidden her family from seeing her for the past two years because she refuses to wear the prison uniform. In addition, they have locked her up long term in a small cell. Because of the horrible conditions and being kept long-term in the small cell, Ms. Yan now suffers from pain all over her body, in addition to high blood pressure, myocarditis, and frequent vomiting. Ms. Yan has suffered seven years of abuse and mistreatment in the prison simply for upholding her belief.
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• The Relentless Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Jihai in Jilin City

  2010-08-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Jihai had stayed away from home since 2006 to avoid arrest. Village officials approached Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Jihai’s wife on July 19th, 2010. They said they wanted Mr. Chen to come back and attend a three-day “study session” and claimed that afterwards they would not bother him anymore. She was deceived and, after finding Mr. Chen, said to him, “You can go home now. The village head said you will be all right.” As soon as Mr. Chen returned home, his wife called the village head, who reported this to the police. After noticing this unusual situation, Mr. Chen immediately left. On July 20th police forced his wife to help them look everywhere for her husband. As a result, Mr. Chen was forced to stay away from home.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners' Children Grow Up Amidst Suffering in China

  2010-08-02
  Mr. Wei Xingzhi died as a result of torture. While he was in a labour camp, the local authorities arrested his wife and sent her to the Yang'ai Forced Labour Camp for a three-year term. Their two young daughters were left behind to fend for themselves. Their water supply was cut off because the children had no money for a new water pipe. They had to depend on water collected from the eaves for their daily needs. The younger daughter came home from school and cried with her sister because classmates had bullied her. Their father came home tortured beyond recognition. The two sisters could only stand by and watch helplessly as their father died in pain.
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• Before and after the Beijing Olympics, Over a Hundred Falun Gong Practitioners Were Transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2010-08-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Lianying was brainwashed and tortured with the "hanging bed" torture. She was not able to walk normally for a month. She was beaten many times with electric batons on the inner parts of her thighs and on her abdomen. Her prison term was extended by four months because she said, "Falun Gong is good." Ms. Zhang was chained to the frame of her bed because she refused to wear prison clothes.
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• Fuzhou Court Prevents Ms. Zhang's Family from Hiring a Lawyer from Beijing

  2010-08-02
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Liyu was arrested by police from the Baiyun Village Police Station on April 5th, 2010 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. She is currently detained in the Yongtai County Detention Centre, and is about to be put on trial. The court in Yongtain County has used various tactics to stop her family members from hiring a defence counsel from Beijing. The judge said, "We have a regulation here that no one is allowed to hire lawyers from elsewhere; you can only hire a local lawyer."
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• Approximately 20 Falun Gong Practitioners Still Imprisoned at the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre in Guizhou Province

  2010-08-02
  The 610 Office at the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre uses three people to monitor each Falun Gong practitioner. The monitors live in the same cell as the practitioner and keep an eye on him or her around the clock. They have the practitioner view or listen to video/audio materials that slander Falun Gong all day long and force the practitioner to write statements to renounce Falun Gong. In some instances, the guards even have male monitors live with young female practitioners for long periods of time. The monitors also lace the practitioners' drinking water with drugs that damage the central nervous system. Moreover, they brutally force-feed practitioners who are on hunger strike and often threaten to rape female practitioners.
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• Mr. Kao Fuquan from Zhaoyuan City Tortured in a Brainwashing Centre, His Family Not Allowed to Visit Him

  2010-08-01
  On May 8th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Kao Fuquan was arrested by police. They tortured Mr. Kao for five days. Mr. Kao was jailed on the second floor of the brainwashing centre and was severely tortured for five days and nights. His screams could be heard throughout the building. The brainwashing centre refused to disclose any recent information about him. Mr. Kao Fuquan's family has never been allowed to visit him. It is suspected that Mr. Kao has been seriously injured as a result of torture and that the brainwashing centre is trying to keep his family members from finding out about it.
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• Four Practitioners Arrested by the 610 Office of Laiyang in Shandong Province for Helping Ms. Liu Zhimei Recover from Mental Collapse Due to Persecution

  2010-08-01
  On April 16th, 2010, police arrested Ms. Liu Zhimei, a former student at Tsinghua University who suffered a mental collapse as a result of persecution during her imprisonment. They also arrested the four practitioners, including Ms. Gao Chunhong, who were taking care of Ms. Liu. Additionally, Ms. Gao's house was ransacked, and many private belongings were taken away.
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• Kindhearted Ms. Sun Arrested

  2010-08-01
  On March 17th, 2010, Ms. Ma was arrested by police and sentenced to two years at the Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Ma was tortured and became paralysed again and could not take care of herself. On June 22nd, Ms. Sun went to the Jiadong Police Station to ask for information regarding Ms. Ma. As a result, Ms. Sun was detained and beaten. Police officer Zheng Qingcheng grabbed her hair and slammed her head against the wall. Ms. Sun has been imprisoned in the Jiamusi City Detention Centre since then. Her family is not allowed to see her.
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• Ms. Li Shihong Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

  2010-08-01
  After being detained for more than a year, Ms. Li Shihong was sentenced to four years in prison on April 7th, 2010, by the Jiangan Court. She was not allowed to defend herself during the court proceedings. Her lawyer filed an appeal to a higher court and is awaiting a new hearing, as there was no incriminating evidence or legal basis for the original sentence. When Ms. Li's mother Song Wenxiu and Wu Bilin, Huang Jing, and Sun Jingping went to Jiangan Court to appeal for justice on April 30th, all of them were arrested.
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• 70-Year-Old Ms. Gu Xingfeng Persecuted for the Past Eleven Years for Her Belief in Falun Gong

  2010-07-31
  Seventy-year-old Gu Xingfeng became healthy after practising Falun Gong. However, for the past 11 years she has been persecuted for her belief. The local Communist regime officials continuously harassed her using various means including imprisonment, brainwashing, house raids, etc. At one time, she was even forced to leave home and stay in various places to avoid arrest.
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• Police Officer Dismissed from His Position and Sent to a Brainwashing Centre for Learning Falun Gong

  2010-07-31
  Mr. Li Jianguo used to be a policeman at the Ningxiang County Police Station. While following orders to persecute Falun Gong, he met many kindhearted practitioners and came to see the greatness of Falun Gong. He then learned the practice at the end of 2007. In 2009, based on false accusations trumped up by the police, Mr. Li was arrested by the Ningxiang County Domestic Security Division, and taken to the Laodaohe Brainwashing Centre. On July 7th, 2010, Mr. Li Jianguo was arrested again and taken to the Laodaohe Brainwashing Centre.
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• Police Arrest Ms. Guo Ruixiang, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Zezhou Town, Shanxi Province

  2010-07-31
  On July 3rd, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Ruixiao distributed some Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in Dongxia Village, Liushukou town. She was incriminated and then arrested by the police. At 10 p.m. on the same day, seven policemen of the Zezhou National Security Bureau and Nancui police searched her home and took away her computers and other personal property. Now Ms. Guo is detained in the Zezhou County Detention Centre. They searched her home for over two hours from 10 p.m. to midnight and turned her home upside down to get "proof." The police took away her essays on practising Falun Gong to use as evidence. The team leader of the National Security Bureau took away her computer.
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• Trial Ends Hastily after Ms. Jia Guiqin Exposes Facts of Persecution

  2010-07-31
  On July 14th, officials from Shuangta District Court in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, tried Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Jia Guiqin and her husband, Li Hua, in the city intermediate court. During the trial, Ms. Jia exposed the persecution by the Communist regime, refuted the charges made up by the judges and the prosecutor, and shouted, "Falun Gong is righteous!" The trial was hastily ended. The couple were taken from their home by police on May 24th. The police took away their personal belongings, including a computer, Falun Gong books, and all their savings of over 70,000 yuan in cash as well as other items.
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• Eyewitness Account of the Beginning of the Persecution on July 20th, 1999

  2010-07-30
  Some people who are unaware of the facts about Falun Gong have been misled by the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They think that too many followers dared to voice their opinion to the top leadership, which upset the CCP and resulted in their suppression. I would like to recall some personal encounters at practice sites and outside the city and provincial government buildings before and after July 20th, 1999. We will see that the suppression of Falun Gong had long been in the planning. As early as 1996, the CCP started investigating Falun Gong openly and covertly, and it tried hard to find fault with Falun Gong. Failing to find anything, it tried to arrange certain events to make it look like Falun Gong practitioners were causing trouble, so as to mislead the population.
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