Torture

Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Yuehong from Beijing Persecuted in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-15

Falun Gong practitioner Liu Yuehong was arrested in April 2008. She was sent to Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province for a two-year term in July, 2008. In the forced labour camp, they attempted to force Ms. Liu to "transform" (give up her beliefs) and brutally tortured her,including being forced to stand for a long period of time, kneeling, remaining handcuffed in a painful position for extended periods of time, and being denied drink, food, and toilet use. They taped her legs to force her to sit with her legs double-crossed. The police tried to force Ms. Liu to write statements to renounce practising Falun Gong.

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Ms. Wang Cailian of Qingdao City Missing After Her Arrest

2010-07-15

Ms. Wang Cailian is missing after she was arrested at the end of May for distributing Falun Gong fliers. Police took her to the Hongdao Town Police Station, where they beat her. Officer Xiao slapped her face a dozen times. After this beating, she felt dizzy. She was unable to move her right side and almost lost consciousness. Her family has been asking the Hongdao Town Police Station for her release. Police have claimed that she has already been released, but her family has not seen her.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Liu Zhi from Shenyang City Sentenced

2010-07-15

After Ms. Liu Zhi was sentenced to four years imprisonment, she began to appeal. A few days later, her family entrusted two lawyers to visit Ms. Liu at the detention centre, but they could not locate her. Those in charge at the detention centre claimed that she had been taken to the women's prison, but staff at the prison said she was not there. The family learned from Zaohua Detention Centre personnel that her original verdict was upheld in Shenyang Intermediate Court and that this decision was made without notifying any of her family members. After the detention centre received the verdict, they took her to the women's prison.

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Mr. Xiao Zunyi from Dayi County, Sichuan Persecuted for a Long Term

2010-07-14

I am a Falun Gong practitioner in Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan. Over the past ten years, I have been fined my home has been ransacked, and I've been arrested and tortured because of my belief in Falun Gong. Police ransacked my apartment again before the Olympics in August 2008. They didn't find any materials yet they took me to Xinchang Police Station. I saw there were three fellow practitioners who had already been locked up to a tree. Policemen tortured us for a confession and asked me about where I kept Falun Gong materials, but I didn't tell them. They got nothing from me in the end.

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Five Falun Gong Practitioners Missing in Shanxi Province

2010-07-14

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ren Yong was arrested in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, when he was telling people the facts about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution on June 24th. Ms. Cui Yuping and other practitioners were later arrested when they visited the police station to ask about Mr. Ren's arrest. Five Falun Gong practitioners have been missing since then.

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Court Hides Verdict in Secret Trial of a Veteran Officer

2010-07-14

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Pang Liang, around 37 year-old, was sentenced to three years in prison in Henan Province, and on May 5th, was sent to the Xinmi Prison in Zhengzhou. The Court did not disclose the verdict to the Pang family, or the names of the persons involved in the trial. Mr. Pang was an officer in the Jiyuan Detachment. He was expelled from service because of his belief in Falun Gong and was arrested numerous times by agents from the Kaifeng City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). He was brutally tortured during three years in the Xuchang Forced Labour Camp.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Li Xiaodi Arrested

2010-07-14

Li Xiaodi, a Falun Gong practitioner from Tangshan City, was arrested by Communist Party members at her workplace, and by agents from the local Public Security Bureau while she was at work on June 23rd, 2010. They grabbed Ms. Li, carried her by force into a car, and took her to the division bureau. Ms. Li was transferred to Changningdao Detention Centre. The next day four men from the Kaifa District Public Security Bureau broke into Ms. Li's home. They took her personal computer, and materials that explained the truth about Falun Gong. Ms. Li is still in police custody.

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Ms. Ma Chunli Paralysed as a Result of Persecution, Four Practitioners Attempting to Rescue Her Were Detained

2010-07-13

Ms. Ma Chunli's health was very poor in the past, and she was barely able to walk until she practised Falun Gong. After she began her practice, not only could she stand up, she gained employment to support her son and herself. She was arrested on March 17th, 2010, by officers from Jiadong Police Station and will have to spend two years in a forced labour camp. Ms. Ma is completely paralysed now and is not able to take care of herself. Her fellow practitioners took her young son with them to appeal for her release. They were held against their will and brutally beaten.

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Ms. Han Yuqin Severely Abused in Jilin Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-13

Police broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner 34-year-old Ms. Han Yuqin, and arrested her at the end of 2009 and held her in the Jilin Province No.1 Women's Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Han, who was originally healthy and broad-minded, now suffers from all kinds of health problems such as with her heart, arthritis, and severe insomnia, resulting from physical torture and mental torments in the past six months. She is still in the camp. To try to "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] her guards forced her to stand or sit for a long time.

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Sentenced to 13 Years, Mr. Li Yanwen Is Being Tortured in Hulan Prison

2010-07-13

Mr. Li Yanwei from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2002. He is currently being tortured in Hulan Prison. On June 11th, Mr. Li's family visited him in Hulan Prison. He was brought to them by someone supporting him by his arm. Mr. Li was emaciated and weak. He could not walk steadily and his eyes were dull. His family barely recognised him.

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Staying Steadfast Through Years of Persecution in China

2010-07-13

Sun Xuemei, 46-year-old, used to be a schoolteacher in China's Jilin province. But she had to flee her country after Chinese police arrested and tortured her—not for committing a crime, but for refusing to give up her spiritual beliefs. Ms Sun practises Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that includes meditation and moral teachings. Like millions of other practitioners in China, Sun says she benefitted from Falun Gong. Sun Xuemei said, "After I practised Falun Gong, within three months, all of my illnesses disappeared. I was very excited at the time, and thought that Falun Gong was simply amazing."

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Elderly Ms. Miao Sufang Died after Years of Persecution

2010-07-12

Seventy-three-year-old Ms. Miao Sufang died between March and April 2010. She lived in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. As a Falun Gong practitioner, she endured brainwashing, forced labour, and torture. The police beat her and forced her to stand in the snow with only her undergarments on when she was arrested for appealing for the right to practise Falun Gong in Beijing in January 2001. She was subsequently subjected to a year of forced labour and imprisoned at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was arrested a second time for telling people about Falun Gong, and detained at the Pi County Prison.

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Ms. Li Xiuhong Tortured in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-12

Communist regime officials in the Tonghua area of Jilin Province made the Olympic Games their excuse to arrest a large number of Falun Gong practitioners on April 22nd, 2008. Ms. Li Xiuhong was arrested and held in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City and was subjected to brutal and inhuman torture. Ms. Li practised the Falun Gong exercises on the morning of June 4th, 2008. Wei Dan and a few others shocked her with five electric batons. She was also bound to a death bed with her hands and feet tied until the last day of March 2009. The bed was made with overlapping metal bars. Ms. Li was not even untied so that she could eat. When her term was over, the labour camp authorities extended her sentence by four more months.

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A Rural Practitioner Persecuted Inhumanly in Liaoning Prison

2010-07-12

Ms. Xuexian Zhang was best known for her kindheartedness among her fellow villagers of Ezuo County, Liaoning Province. On June 9th, 2008, Ms. Zhang and her husband Mr. Yuan Xueli distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people and were arrested by police. Ms. Zhang has become emaciated due to torture at Shenyang Prison. She was sentenced to a four-year prison term. Her husband, Mr. Yuan Xueli was beaten brutally with electric batons, and the officers extorted 3,000 yuan before they released him.

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Ms. Zhang Xuemei Sent to Harbin Forced Labour Camp

2010-07-12

Ms. Zhang Xuemei's residence was broken into by the police and her computer and other personal belongings worth more than 10,000 yuan were taken away on April 23rd, 2010. Additionally Ms. Zhang was arrested and detained in Jinshantun Detention Centre for more than 10 days. She was later sentenced to two-years of forced labour, and is currently detained in Harbin Forced Labour Camp.

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