Torture

Mr. Zhang Qingshu Sentenced to Forced Labour a Third Time

2010-07-19

Mr. Zhang Qingshu, 45, was arrested many times for practising Falun Gong. In 2000, Mr. Zhang was arrested and then taken to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp of Hebei Province for two years. He was released on April 27th, 2002. In 2003, police detained him in the Tangshan City Hehuakeng Forced Labour camp for three years. On February 3rd, 2009, Mr. Zhang was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. He was arrested and sent to the Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. He has been detained there since.

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Ms. Cao Zhimin from Changsha City Taken to a Brainwashing Centre

2010-07-19

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cao Zhimin was stopped by at least five unidentified men while she accompanied her daughter Yuanyuan to kindergarten on July 5th, 2010. The men dragged her and her daughter into a white, unmarked car and drove them away. Ms. Cao shouted to passers-by for help and her daughter cried. The men were later identified as officers from the Changsha City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Furong District 610 Office. They took Ms. Cao and her daughter to the Laodaohe Brainwashing Centre in Changsha City. Their family has been forbidden to visit them.

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Elderly Couple Sentenced to Over Ten Years in Prison in Anqiu City, Shandong Province for Their Beliefs

2010-07-18

Mr. Ding Yuezhao and his wife, Zhang Yuying, along with three other practitioners were sentenced to heavy prison terms by Anqiu City Court, for continuing to practise Falun Gong. Mr. Ding Yuezhao was sentenced to 12 years, Ms. Zhang Yuying to 13 years, Mr. Sun Zongxu to ten years, Mr. Tang Peiwu to nine years, and Ms. Lin Shuzhen to seven years. They were arrested in December 2009 by Anqiu City police, almost tortured to death, and put on trial three times by the Anqiu City Court.

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Practitioner Bai Sanyuan Given Four to Seven Year Prison Sentence

2010-07-18

Police officers broke into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Bai Sanyuan's home on May 16th, 2010. As a result, he went to hide in his barn. Three hours later, the police shot tear gas canisters into the barn, which immobilised him and made him dizzy. They then forced him into a police car and took him to the Jingyuan County Detention Centre. Mr. Chen was tied down on the "tiger bench" for five days. He went on a hunger strike for 19 consecutive days to protest the detention. As a result, he became emaciated, his lips turned purple, and his legs cramped. He was then taken to Jingyuan County Hospital for an intravenous injection. The Court sentenced Mr. Chen to a prison term of four to seven years.

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Huaying City 610 Office Employs Secret Agents to Follow and Monitor Falun Gong Practitioners

2010-07-18

An older man, named Zhou, along with his wife, sells fruit and drinks near the Huaying City People's Hospital. Driven by the desire for profit, they work together with their son and daughter to monitor and follow Falun Gong practitioners for the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). As part of the persecution of Falun Gong, agents from the Guang'an 610 Office broadcast propaganda defaming Falun Gong practitioners. The authorities use taxpayers' money to hire poor people, street cleaners, jobless people, vendors, and neighbours of the practitioners to become secret agents, and have them participate in the persecution of Falun Gong.

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Mr. Jiang Xiuyu Subjected to Forced Labour in Jiutai City, Jilin Province

2010-07-18

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Xiuyu was arrested by the local police on May 11th, 2010, and taken on the same day to Majiagangzi Detention Centre in Jiutai City. On May 26th, he was taken to Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp, to serve a two-year forced labour term. During the fifteen days he was held at the detention centre, his family requested visitation multiple times, but were refused by the detention centre police. On June 7th, his family went to visit him in the camp, but were denied entry by the camp police. They said it was because he had not renounced Falun Gong and was still detained in the "Strict Discipline Team."

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Ms. Liu Guimin Died as a Result of Force-feeding in 2001 at the Daxing Forced Labour Camp in Beijing

2010-07-17

Ms. Liu Guimin from Miyun County, Beijing, went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution in early 2001. She was force-fed highly concentrated salt water in the Daxing Women's Forced Labour Camp. The salt water got into her lungs, which resulted in serious bronchial tube and lung infections. She died on January 7th, 2001. Her two children were only 13 years old and 3 years old. The local 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] in charge of the persecution prevented her family from revealing her death as well as the cause to the outside. That is why there was no report of her case at the time.

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Mum, When Can You Come Home?

2010-07-17

Ms. Ma Chunli was almost paralyzed, but after starting to practise Falun Gong, she could not only stand up again, she could also do light housework. She and her son Zhao Xin lived together. They often relied on their relatives for support. On March 17th, 2001, Ms. Ma was arrested by police and sent to a forced labour camp for two years. Her son accompanied by other Falun Gong practitioners went to the police station to ask for the release of Ms. Ma; however,they were detained and beaten. It is believed that Ms. Ma is again paralyzed due to abuse suffered in the forced labour camp and she can no longer take care of herself.

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Du Yuhong Critically Ill After Torture in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-17

On January 3rd, 2010, Ms. Du Yuhong was arrested by defence patrol personnel and police officers for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Her home was ransacked, her Falun Gong books and materials, and personal belongings were confiscated. She was taken to the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in January. She was locked in a storage room for three days in the beginning of April, when she refused to recite the prison rules and sign the inspection book. Zhang Lei and two other chief guards handcuffed Ms. Du to two beds, then forcibly pulled them apart. Her hand was injured from the torture, and she lost control of her bowels. Her hands were badly swollen, and Zhang Lei threatened her not to tell anyone about the incident.

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Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp Guards Brutally Torture Ms. Gao Suying

2010-07-17

Ms. Gao Suying has been detained at the Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp for over two years. She has suffered brutal torture, monitoring, and verbal abuse at the labour camp. Her term has been extended twice for a total duration of six months, and she has also been denied her legal rights to mail letters and make phone calls to her son. Her current appeal letter to the Procuratorate is being held by guard Chen Huiru.

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Ms. Liu Shuling, 55, Dies in Harbin Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-16

On July 3rd, 2010, Ms. Liu Shuling died in the Harbin Women's Drug Rehabilitation Centre and Forced Labour Camp. Her family rushed to the camp, driving overnight to get there. Her body had been placed in a funeral home. They questioned Director Yang and several guards: "How come she was fine at home, but died in your custody? You must explain the cause." The camp administration answered with hesitation, "She died suddenly due to coronary artery heart disease, and passed out in the toilet." Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted at the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre and Forced Labour Camp. The means of persecution are cruel and intense, including being subjected to brainwashing attempts to force them to renounce Falun Gong.

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60-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhu Guilian Dies after Torture in Detention

2010-07-16

After July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zhu Guilian, 60, refused to give up her faith and was arrested and imprisoned many times. On April 2009, Ms. Zhu was once again arrested and held in the Dingcheng District Detention Centre in Changde City. On February 2010, Ms. Zhu was tortured to near death, and the guard called her family to take her home. She died on May 5th, 2010. Before her death, Ms. Zhu once described being injected with a certain lethal drug when she was locked up in a mental hospital in Changde City. She said that the drug caused her to vomit and discharge blood.

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Older Practitioner Qin Shifang Died as a Result of Persecution

2010-07-16

Practitioner Qin Shifang's health improved after she began practising Falun Gong. Before the 2008 Olympics in China, authorities from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested and persecuted her because she told people the facts about Falun Gong. Ms. Qin was sentenced to a year in prison, where she was given only cornmeal for her meals and forced to stand all day long. The police ordered some inmates who were drug addicts to beat and torture her. Her blood pressure went sky high. With her husband blaming her and her sons pressuring her, she could not resist and signed a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong against her will. After she was released, she regretted it greatly and cried all day long. Ms. Qin passed away on April 20th, 2010.

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The Communist Regime Turns a Kind Woman into a Ruthless Labour Camp Guard

2010-07-16

Li Jirong, as I knew, was a gentle and shy girl when she was young. She spoke little and was kind to everyone. How could she become an "evil guard?" I could not believe it. How could the communist regime turn a kind woman into a brutal, evildoing guard? The crimes attributed to her include: depriving Falun Gong practitioners of sleep, physical attacks, brutal beatings, electric shocks, tie-ups, and sexual assault of women practitioners. Li Jirong, a former teacher, was once a kind woman. Later on she followed her father and moved to Beijing. Because her father worked for the Beijing Municipal Administration of Forced Labour, she had the opportunity to become a police officer. As a division head, she was cruel in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

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Mr. Fan Qingjun Severely Tortured in Jidong Prison

2010-07-15

Mr. Fan Qingjun was arrested and held in the Xushui County Detention Centre in September 2002, because he believed in Falun Gong. In October 2003, Mr. Fan was sentenced to seven years in prison and sent to Jidong Prison, Tangshan City. Seven years of continuous persecution has caused his health to deteriorate. To resist the persecution, Mr. Fan went on a hunger strike. As a result, the guards ordered inmates to force-feed Mr. Fan. A thick tube was inserted down his mouth. Mr. Fan was strapped to a chair with his arms stretched out and his legs tied. They used an instrument to pry open his mouth, and as Mr. Fan had not been eating food for a long time, they had difficulty inserting the tube. So they pried harder on his teeth, which loosened several of them and the broken bits of teeth fell on to the floor.

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