Torture

Sufferings of a Teacher Couple Who Devoted Themselves to Education

2010-05-27

Two students reported Mr. Xiao Sixian and his wife to the police as Falun Gong practitioners. On July 12th, 2008, when the couple was informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong in Erlang Township, the local police arrested them. Their motorcycle, valued at more than 5,000 yuan, was confiscated. They were held at the Xishui Detention Centre. Five days later, the pregnant Ms. Wu was allowed to go home under house arrest. Many people from the county government, the police department, and the town government stayed at her home to watch her closely. She was forced to abort her eight-month-old foetus and was sentenced to six years in prison. Now Mr. Xiao is sentenced to six and a half years in prison and is being held in Dujun Prison, Guizhou Province.

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Mr. Yu Shaoqi from Hunan Province Arrested at Hangzhou Train Station

2010-05-27

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Shaoq was detained at least eight times for practising Falun Gong. In November 2005, he was sentenced to a forced labour camp. He was once confined in a mental hospital for about three months and in a brainwashing centre for about two months. He was hung up, beaten, smothered, force fed, injected with poisons, and humiliated sexually. His ears were beaten until broken, his nose and mouth bled, and his internal organs were injured. Because of the ransacking, threatens, extortion, and many arrests, Mr. Yu's wife divorced him. In May 2010, he was searched by police at a train station. They found several Falun Gong brochures on him and arrested him.

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Wei Danquan is on the Verge of Death in Jidong Prison After Years of Torture and Mistreatment

2010-05-27

Falun Gong practitioner Wei Danquan from Shanghaiguan was sent to the Jidong Prison, Tangshan City on July 24th, 2008. Due to long term persecution, he suffers from severe tuberculosis, he is spitting blood, and has heart disease and pleurisy. The situation is getting worse, he is on the verge of death. His family has asked for medical parole. The prison keeps delaying, and refuses to answer the request.

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Children Tortured, Mother Held in a Brainwashing Centre, Father Passes Away from Stress and Grief

2010-05-27

In the 11 years of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, practitioner Ms. Cai Yuchang and her family have endured harassment and threats from police station staff, 610 Office officials (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), and the residents' committee. Her two sons and one daughter who practice Falun Gong were taken to forced labour camps or psychiatric hospitals, and she herself was detained several times in a brainwashing centre. Ms. Cai's husband, a non-practitioner, could not withstand the endless threats and attacks and finally passed away due to the stress and grief. The whole family was torn to pieces by the CCP.

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Elderly Ms. Liu Jinlian and Her Family Repeatedly Harassed

2010-05-26

Ms. Liu Jinlian, 72, and her family members were repeatedly threatened by the local police and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in April 2010. Police harassed Ms. Liu and her family in the name of security for the World Expo in Shanghai. They told Ms. Liu's daughter to come to the station to write a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong for her mother. They threatened to lock Ms. Liu in a brainwashing centre if she fails to promise to never appeal for Falun Gong or talk to people about Falun Gong. Ms. Liu's daughter refused to do so. Ms. Liu was arrested four times since 1999 for not giving up her belief in Falun Gong. She was also sentenced to forced labour twice. Scars left from torture that she endured in the labour camp are still clearly visible today.

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Teacher Forced to Work as a Janitor, Salary Suspended

2010-05-26

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Yanhua from Maoming City, Guangdong Province taught chemistry for more than 10 years at Shanhe High School in Yangjiao Town, Maogang District. She was an outstanding teacher who was admired by her students and praised by her colleagues and the school administration. However, because she practises Falun Gong, she is now allowed to work only as a janitor, and the school has not paid her salary for months. After the Chinese regime began to persecute Falun Gong, she travelled to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong at the end of 2000. However, she was detained and sent to a forced labour camp for 18 months.

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Xi'an City Brainwashing Centre Detains Elderly Practitioners

2010-05-26

At the time of this article, seven practitioners are being detained in Xi'an City Brainwashing Centre. Two of them are nearly 80 years old. Ms. Wang Qiuxian is 77 years old. On March 2nd, 2010, five officials broke into her home and took her to the brainwashing centre. Ms. Liu Jing is 79 years old. On the morning of March 26th, seven officials broke into her home and dragged her down the stairs from the fourth floor to the ground floor. They covered her head with a black bag and pushed her into a police car. Then, they took her to the brainwashing centre for further abuse.

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My Experience in the Qinghe Detention Centre

2010-05-26

Although I was released from the Beijing Qinghe Detention Centre about two years ago, I can't shake the memory of my experience there. The living conditions at Qinghe Detention Centre are the worst. The cell held between twenty-seven and thirty-two people and only twenty could lie down to rest at any one time. The latrine pit was covered with a piece of cardboard to increase the sleeping space. Those not sleeping had to stand for two hours at a time. This meant that sleeping was arranged by shifts, with four shifts a night for everyone. We were short of food and what we received was watered down vegetables which we called "cabbage swimming."

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Ms. Shi Rongxian Arrested Seven Times, Her Husband Persecuted to Death, and Her Daughter Homeless

2010-05-25

Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, police have frequently persecuted Ms. Shi Rongxian and her husband and daughter. She recounts: "On October 23rd, 1999, my husband, my daughter, and I went to Beijing to legally appeal for Falun Gong, but police officers arrested us. In the detention centre, guards forced me onto a chair and took turns whipping my hips with a leather belt. Huo Cai slapped my face, beat my head, and hit my head against the wall. They asked me, "Who let you go to Beijing?" When I didn't reply, they tortured me and beat me until it was dark. My hips were beaten black and blue. My husband was tortured Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp with "Five Horses Splitting a Body" in 2001. After my husband was released he was extremely skinny and never recovered. On March 26th, 2006, he passed away."

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Crimes Witnessed at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-05-25

I was first detained at the Nanmusi Women's Labour Camp from 2000 to 2002. Many practitioners were also detained there at the time. Some practitioners who were deceived by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agreed to give up practising Falun Gong. Practitioners who remained steadfast in their belief were subject to all kinds of torture.

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Methods of Torture Used in Yunnan No. 2 Women's Prison

2010-05-25

Practitioners taken to the prison are first subjected to brainwashing in an attempt to try to force them to renounce their spiritual beliefs. If practitioners do not give up their faith, they suffer prolonged torture, including injections that damage the central nervous system, solitary confinement in small spaces, the death bed torture, electric shock, severe beatings, and being deprived of water. They are not allowed to have any contact with others or communicate with the outside world. This brutal physical and mental torture resulted in the deaths of some practitioners. Several became physically disabled, and several were driven to mental breakdowns.

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The Persecution of Qi Lizhen at Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

2010-05-25

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qi Lizhen is a very kind lady, yet she was fired from her job after being sentenced to a forced labour camp because she practised Falun Gong. After Ms. Qi appealed for justice for Falun Gong outside the Beijing Appeals Office, she was arrested and sentenced to a one-year term at Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp. Because she also lost her job, Ms. Qi had no source of income. Her husband was forced to divorce her. In 2004, she was sentenced to a three-year forced labour term.

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Practitioners Tortured with Electric Shocks at Tiefeng Police Division and Tailai Prison

2010-05-24

I was arrested on March 29th, 2006. Police drove me to the Tiefeng District Police Department in Qiqihar City, where they bound me to a metal chair and tortured me for about 40 minutes. They forced my hands through two holes at the back of the chair and handcuffed me. My body was stretched forward with my feet on the ground, which forced the majority of my body off the chair. I was essentially suspended in the air. They tortured me like this three times. The next day they hung me onto a wall by my hands. Then the police connected electrical wires to my thumbs and genitals. These wires were connected to a high-voltage generator. They repeatedly sent electric shocks through me. I couldn't withstand the suffering. It was so painful that I would have rather died. They then handcuffed me to a chair and connected electric wires from my fingers to the generator, in order to shock me again.

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Practitioner Chen Jihai Arrested for Helping a Neighbour Cure Her Eye Disease

2010-05-24

On the morning of April 27th, 2010, Practitioner Chen Jihai, was arrested at his home by the local police because personnel from the local 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] learned from the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) that Ma Fengqin, was cured of her eye disease by practising Falun Gong. The police approached Ma Fengqin and asked her whether the reported story was true, and if so, who taught her Falun Gong. Ma Fengqin confirmed the report and told them the true story.

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Elderly Mr. Peng Chuhao from Hunan Province Mistreated in Prison

2010-05-24

Police officers arrested 74-year-old Mr. Peng Chuhao in late January 2010. The police took him to the Jin City Detention Centre in Changde, Hunan Province. Two months later, Mr. Peng was taken to the Wuling Prison in Changde. Mr. Peng strongly protested the persecution and refused to write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong. Because he persisted in practising the Falun Gong exercises in prison, he was brutally force-fed. He became very weak and often had to urinate more than ten times each night. His teeth fell out and he was not given enough food. The officials took Mr. Peng to the hospital when his life was endangered. As soon as he recovered a little, they took him back to the prison.

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