Torture

• Sichuan Police Steal Elderly Woman's Life's Savings, Accuse Her of Intravenous Drug Use as Justification for Their Crime

  2010-06-11
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tan Chun, 66, supports her whole family by doing odd jobs. Her husband died long ago. Her 6-year-old grandson, her 92-year-old mother, and her congenitally blind son all rely her to take care of them. Ms. Tan's daughter wired money to her in October 2009, to help with living expenses for her grandson and her blind son. Local officials got wind of this and ransacked Ms. Tan's home, claiming she was an intravenous drug user and that the money was "illegal" and from a "Falun Gong organisation". They held her blind son in custody overnight, and took her to a detention centre where she was held for one month.
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• After Eight Years of Unjust Imprisonment, Mr. Pang You Is Again Wrongly Sentenced to a Further Four Years in Prison

  2010-06-11
  Mr. Pang You was sentenced to four years in prison by the Beijing Chaoyang District Court. This is the second time Mr. Pang has been sentenced. The convicting evidence included 75 Falun Gong DVDs, 70 flyers, and 167 one-yuan bills with positive messages about Falun Gong written on them. Mr. Pang had been recently released from Beijing Qianjin Prison after serving an eight-year term. He was arrested again in August 2009. His wife, Ms. Guo, was also tortured for over a month in the Beijing Chaoyang District Detention Centre and is now being monitored at home.
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• Decorated Police Officer Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Practising Falun Gong

  2010-06-11
  On April 28th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lu Zhiyong, once named the "Best Police Officer" of Heishui County, Sichuan Province, was sentenced to four years in prison after being detained for more than two months. The Heishui County Court announced the sentence without the presence of a lawyer and without any evidence, or legal basis. On September 19th, 2009, Lu Zhiyong visited his mother. On his way home, he was arrested by policemen who had been following him. Lu Zhiyong was so seriously beaten that he passed out. He regained consciousness after two days.
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• Ms. Lin Jianhua Dies after Forced Drug Administration in Detention

  2010-06-11
  Ms. Lin Jianhua went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong twice. The police arrested her on March 7th, 2000, while she was on her way to a fellow practitioner's home. They detained her 45 days, finally taking her to the Hewan Forced Labour Camp with a one-year term. Ms. Lin was arrested the second time on December 4th, 2003 while she was talking to people about Falun Gong. Police took her to the Hewan Forced Labour Camp for another one-year term. Ms. Lin was inhumanly tortured in the labour camp. The guards put harmful drugs in her food, which severely damaged her health. After being released, the drug caused Ms. Lin to manifest symptoms similar to diabetes. She never fully recovered her health, and under the long-term surveillance and harassment, Ms. Lin died.
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• 610 Office in Xichang City, Sichuan Province Blocks the Public from Attending Trial of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2010-06-10
  The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Xichang City, Sichuan Province ordered the Xichang City Court to try four Falun Gong practitioners on May 13th, 2010. A few days before the May 13th trial, the 610 Office notified top officials at work sites and communities where practitioners are known to live and work to prevent people from going to the proceedings. The entrances into the court were monitored. Officials from various workplaces and communities were posted at the door, responsible for preventing people that they knew from their areas from entering.
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• Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Province Prison Results in Death, Disability, and Mental Disorder

  2010-06-10
  Guards and incarcerated criminals employ all kinds of brutal means to torture practitioners in Shandong Province Prison. A group of criminals beat Mr. Qian Dongcai to death in 2006 under instigation from the prison guards. Prison head Li Wei, however, falsely claimed that Mr. Qian jumped to his death. Mr. Wang Xinbo was transferred to a police hospital in 2006 to treat injuries resulted from torture, and no one heard anything about him for months. It was later learned that he died as a result of these injuries. Mr. Lu Zhen once an excellent college student, was confined in a small cell in mid-May 2009 and given only one small steamed bun daily. He died on June 21st, 2009.
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• Police Torture Practitioner Liang Zhenxing by Force-Feeding Him Ten Times Per Day

  2010-06-10
  Practitioner Mr. Liang Zhenxing was arrested on February 27th, 2002, and was subsequently sentenced to nineteen years in prison. On May 1st, 2010, after suffering extremely brutal and prolonged torture, he passed away. In 2006, in order to protest the persecution, Mr. Liang went on a hunger strike. The prison police subsequently force-fed him ten times per day using thick tubes inserted through his nose into his stomach. On one occasion, during a violent force-feeding, they severely injured his trachea. The torture was so devastating that at one point, Mr. Liang Zhenxing could stand it no longer and threw himself into the sharp corner of a window sill covered with ceramic tiles. He had to be rushed to the hospital for brain trauma.
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• Persecution Suffered by Ms. Zhang Zongxiu, a Farmer from Fuping County, Hebei Province

  2010-06-10
  Ms. Zhang Zongxiu, a Falun Gong practitioner, has been detained three times and sent to a brainwashing centre once. She has been harassed and threatened on numerous occasions. Her family has been extorted out of over 7,000 yuan. In Fuping Detention Centre police issued orders to force feed Ms. Zhang Zongxiu. Prison doctor Li Xinpo instructed several inmates to pin Ms. Zhang down, and then brutally inserted a tube through her nose and into her stomach for forced feeding. It is not clear what was being fed to Ms. Zhang Zongxiu. After every forced feeding, Zhang would lie there motionlessly.
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• Zhu Yu'an Imprisoned and Her Son Expelled from University for His Mother's Belief in Falun Gong

  2010-06-09
  Ms. Zhu Yu'an, 49 years old, is from Huaihua City, Hunan Province. Her health improved due to practising Falun Gong. She has been talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong since it started in 1999. Because of this, she has been persecuted by the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the police. She was sent twice to a forced labour camp, and her son was expelled from the university due to her belief in Falun Gong.
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• Mr. Lei Yangfan on Hunger Strike in Brainwashing Centre

  2010-06-09
  After Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lei Yangfan was arrested on May 8th, 2010, he started a protest hunger strike in the Changsha City Laoheyue Brainwashing Centre. During his hunger strike, police tried to force Mr. Lei to undergo infusions, but he refused to co-operate with them. They later force-fed him, but Mr. Lei threw up all the food, so they finally had to stop. Mr. Lei's family wasn't allowed to visit him at first, but in order to persuade him to give up the hunger strike, they allowed Mr. Lei's father to visit him.
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• Disabled Practitioner: Cultivating Falun Gong is Just Like a Spring Coming to the Withered Tree

  2010-06-09
  Hulan Prison officers and police broke into disabled Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jin Chengshan's home on May 5th, 2010. They disregarded his disability and arrested him, intending to detain him at Hulan Prison again. Their reason was that the disabled man "disturbed society's security, and the police station did not supervise and control him." They put him into a car and drove away.
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• Oppression by Li Gongming and Guards at Shandong Province Second Forced Labour Camp

  2010-06-09
  From February 23rd to March 3rd, 2010, political instructor Li Gongming at the Shandong Provincial 2nd Forced Labour Camp demanded that practitioner Mr. Wang Yuping renounce Falun Gong. He handcuffed Mr. Wang for nine consecutive days from 7 a.m. until midnight. In addition, Mr. Wang was handcuffed to the bed at night, and forbidden to go to the toilet. On February 28th, guard Zhang Ruimin began using brainwashing tactics on Mr. Wang Shiyou; he forced him to watch slanderous TV programmes. Mr. Wang refused to watch, so Zhang dragged him out of the cell by his ear, punched him in the chin and chest, shocked him, beat his face, kicked his legs and continued to kick him after he fell to the ground.
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• Ms. Wang Xuemei, 46, Dies in Custody

  2010-06-08
  Police arrested Ms. Wang Xuemei on November 6th, 2009. More than 30 practitioners have been arrested here since November 2009. Practitioners were violently beaten in a detention centre, and only given two steamed buns and two bowls of broth with a few dirty vegetable leaves in it per day. Many practitioners developed health problems. Two court trials were held on March 9th and 10th, 2010, where 18 practitioners were sentenced to prison terms varying between 1 and 7 years. Ms. Wang appeared very ill, and requested medical parole. Her family only saw her briefly in court, and were denied any visitation rights or contact with her prior to the trial. The next time Ms. Wang's family saw her was when they went to see her body in the detention centre after she died on May 21st, 2010.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhu Jianpeng from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Died after Repeated Imprisonments over 11 Years

  2010-06-08
  In July 2008, Mr. Zhu Jianpeng was arrested and taken to a detention centre because he distributed materials containing facts about Falun Gong. After being subjected to brutal beatings, Mr. Zhu showed symptoms of tuberculosis The guards transferred him to the No. 3 Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou, where he was extensively tortured. In hospital he was injected with unknown drugs instead of getting medical treatment. Mr. Zhu died on April 9th, 2010.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Liang Ying from Chicheng County, Hebei Province, Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2010-06-08
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Ying passed away on May 14th, 2010, after enduring over 10 years of persecution. Ms. Liang was subsequently arrested and detained three additional times between 2006 and 2010. Her health continued to worsen due to the mental and physical torture endured throughout the persecution. The illnesses she acquired while imprisoned, including heart disease, asthma, and recurrence of kidney disease, became more severe, and she died from a heart attack on May 14th.
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