Torture
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Lu Rongfang Recounts How She Has Been Relentlessly Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party Since 1999
2010-06-08"The Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the middle of the night on July 20th, 1999, and has continued the persecution for the past ten years. During that time my home has been searched and property confiscated many times. I have been unjustly arrested, detained, interrogated, brainwashed, and sentenced many times. The Communist Party has persecuted me relentlessly. Even now, after being released from jail, they are still persecuting me." -
Elderly Mr. Zhang Zhiquan Dies after Six Years of Imprisonment
2010-06-07Seventy-six-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhiquan was arrested at his home by police in March 2001, then sentenced to prison for seven years. Mr. Zhang was detained in Hebei Province Fourth Prison. Prison guards ordered two prisoners to torture him. They did not allow him to do any thing freely, they beat and cursed at him, spat on his face, banged on his metal bed to deafen him with the noise, deprived him of sleep, physically tortured him and continually threatened him. They tried to force Mr. Zhang to give up Falun Gong, but when he refused, they viciously slapped him. He was released on medical parole in March 2007. Mr. Zhang could not recover either mentally or physically. He died on May 1st, 2010. -
Mr. Wang Bin Dies as a Result of Persecution in Hebi City, Henan Province
2010-06-07Police officers broke into Mr. Wang Bin's home at around noon on May 20th, 2010, ransacked his home and arrested him and confiscated many personal items. Mr. Wang fell from the fourth floor on May 20th while in police custody. The fall left him unconscious, with serious injuries to the head, lungs, kidney, ribs, and legs. He passed away on May 21st. The police officers also interrogated all of Mr. Wang's family members and other individuals that went to his house or the mortuary to pay their respects. This was Mr. Wang's fourth arrest since the start of the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese communist regime in 1999. -
Ms. Shang Shiying and Other Practitioners Tortured at Fengnan Police Department and the Fengnan Detention Centre
2010-06-07Ms. Shang Shiying, Ms. Shan Huanrong, and Ms. Li Chunxiang were arrested by police in January 2010. In the Fengnan District Police Department, they were interrogated, tied to iron chairs, and handcuffed. Their feet were put in heavy shackles. Zhang Baocai, chief of the Fengnan Detention Centre, and other guards brutally beat these three innocent women. Two weeks later, Ms. Shang's had scars on her wrists because the handcuffs were so heavy and tight that her skin had been torn and rubbed off. The heavy shackles around her ankles had rubbed her socks threadbare. -
Blessed by Falun Gong, Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
2010-06-07After July 20th, 1999, the communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. I saw information of my mum's arrest. I learned from the Internet that agents violently broke into my home, confiscated the Falun Gong book, Zhuan Falun. My 90-year-old grandma was so scared, she got sick. They wanted to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] my mum, and would not let her come home. Only my sister was home. They tried to force her to tell them where I was, but my sister does not know my whereabouts. I know that they are looking for me everywhere. -
Ms. Liu Renling Persecuted in Shandong Women's Prison
2010-06-06Falun Gong practitioner Liu Renling was sentenced to nine years in Shandong Women's Prison on April 23rd, 2007. She has been beaten and tortured while imprisoned. As a result of the ill treatment in prison, her physical condition deteriorated, her blood pressure severely increased, and she lost several front teeth. Her family's request for her release due to poor physical health has been denied. -
Zhang Xingcai from Yanbian, Jilin Province Arrested and Detained
2010-06-0661-year-old Mr. Zhang Xingcai was arrested by officers from the National Security Team on January 16th, 2010, while visiting the home of Falun Gong practitioner Yin Fengqin, who later died under highly suspicious circumstances during an attempted arrest. Zhang was sent to a brainwashing centre the same day, and later sentenced to forced labour at the Jiutai Forced Labour Camp. When the labour camp refused him for not passing the physical exam, he was sent to the Changchun Public Security Hospital in Jilin Province, where he has gone on a hunger strike and is being severely persecuted. Mr. Zhang has been arrested several times since the start of the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party on July 20th, 1999. -
Two Peasant Women Are Still Being Persecuted in the Brainwashing Centre in Zhengding County, Hebei Province
2010-06-06On the morning of April 16th, 2010, directed by Zhengding 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Hebei Province, officials from the Xin'an County government, police station, and Qiji village broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Tong Jianying and Ms. Cao Guihua and arrested them. The practitioners were taken to Hebei Province Brainwashing Centre and detained for over a month. Right now is the season for growing peanuts and corn. Ms. Tong Jianying and Ms. Cao Guihua are farmers from Qiji Village. Their family needs them to work the farm. -
Ms. Song Fenzhen Sent to Forced Labour Camp Ten Days after Being Arrested
2010-06-06On May 3rd, 2010, Ms. Song Fenzhen, from Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, was arrested while shopping. Afterwards, her family received a notification saying she would be detained for fifteen days and released on May 18th. On May 15th, Ms. Song's family received a shocking message saying she had been sent to a forced labour camp for a one-year term. However, her family had no knowledge regarding when she was sent away or why she was sent to a forced labour camp. Ms. Song Fenzhen had previously gone to Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Her son was young at the time and her husband divorced her because he could not bear such huge persecutory pressure from the authorities. -
More Information on Mr. Wang Dianren, Who Died from Torture in Siping Prison, Jilin Province
2010-06-05Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Dianren, fifty years old at the time of his death, was a bricklayer at the Tonghua City Construction Company. Mr. Wang was arrested by Tonghua City police officers and brutally tortured with beatings and electric shocks. He was also exposed to freezing temperatures which left him with frostbite, and scalding temperatures which burned his body. He was sentenced to three and a half years at Siping Prison (in Siping City) in 2005 and died from torture after only six days. At least four practitioners have been persecuted to death and dozens of practitioners have been subjected to various kinds of torture in Siping Prison over the past few years. -
Father Persecuted to Death, Son Imprisoned
2010-06-05Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Wensheng was detained at the Changle Forced Labour Camp for three years, because he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong in October 2000. Although Mr. Li was released in 2004, he could not stay in his home due to brutal harassment from the police. Mr. Li was again arrested by police last May and held at the Zhucheng Detention Centre for almost one year. He was secretly sentenced last month, then taken to Jinan Prison and subjected to further persecution. Mr. Li's father, Mr. Li Hai, also practised Falun Gong and died as a result of persecution in 2002. -
Falun Gong Practitioners' Righteous Demeanour in Court Touches People's Hearts
2010-06-05Ms. Zhang Meilan, Ms. Peng Sufen, and Ms. Liu Rong put up three banners on the bridge of an intersection reading, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is Good!" "Falun Gong is Great!" and "The World Needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance!" Their righteous action put fear in the hearts of the Communist Party officials. In the face of Communist Party members who brutally persecute and defame Falun Gong, these three ladies stood up bravely in court on May 24th, 2010, in defence of their faith. They calmly answered questions and cross examined their accusers with their own questions that flowed like water. -
610 Office Document Exposed as Police Arrest Ms. Chen Hongli for the Sixth Time
2010-06-05On May 3rd, 2010 about a dozen police officers suddenly barged into Ms. Chen Hongli's home. They arrested her and confiscated her belongings, including her computer. This was the sixth time that Ms. Chen has been arrested since the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999. In late April, after Clearwisdom.net uncovered a 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] document instigating an attack on Falun Gong practitioners citing the Shanghai World Expo as an excuse, the documents disseminated in some districts were urgently recalled overnight. -
The Relentless Abuse that Led to the Death of Mr. He Xuezhao
2010-06-04Mr. He Xuezhao died as a result of torture on January 13th, 2006. He had suffered from six years of imprisonment, mistreatment, and torture. He was subjected to numerous arrests and deprivation of freedom in police custody. In Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp he was severely tortured. The guards used different methods to torture him including the "stretching bed" method and putting him in a helmet, straitjacket and handcuffs. In Binzhou City Detention Centre guards whipped him and forcefully stomped on his stomach. When he became unconscious, the guards poured cold water on him to wake him up and then continued torturing him. -
Mr. Xu Zhiming, 67, Dies as Result of Poisonous Drug Administration While in Detention
2010-06-04Mr. Xu Zhiming did many good deeds for local people after he began cultivating Falun Gong, so people called him "big nice man." Because he firmly held to his faith, local police arrested him five times, which resulted in his detainment at Weiningying and Beitai Forced Labour Camps in Benxi City. He was subjected to brainwashing multiple times during detention via inhuman methods of torture. Mr. Xu died on May 19th, 2010, after long-term persecution.