Torture

High School Teacher Mr. Wei Xingzhi Passes Away after Enduring Years of Persecution

2010-04-23

Mr. Wei Xingzhi was a chemistry teacher at the Ziyun County No. 2 High School. Because Mr. Wei refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was subjected to multiple arrests and maltreatment by officials from the Ziyun County Police Department, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province. While incarcerated, he was forced to do hard labour and was subjected to severe beatings, which caused him to suffer from nausea, dizziness, headache, chest pain, and he was coughing up blood. Mr. Wei died on December 3rd, 2009, at the age of 48.

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A Practitioner Recounts Psychiatric Abuse and Physical Torture at a Mental Hospital, Labour Camp and Prison

2010-04-23

I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after July 20th, 1999 (when the persecution began), and I was arrested and held at the Harbin City No. 2 Detention Centre. Because I refused to write a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong I was taken to the Puning Hospital where I was forced to take psychotropic medication. I had to swallow three pills each time, and I became incontinent and fell asleep afterwards for two days and one night. I was arrested again after I went to Beijing for the second time and held at the Wanjia Labour Camp for one year. I held several hunger strikes in protest and was force-fed and given two injections of chlorpromazine. I was savagely beaten when I refused the drugs.

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Ms. Jiang Shixiang of Jinchang City, Gansu Province Tortured

2010-04-23

On October 31st, 2007, Ms. Jiang Shixiang and two other Falun Gong practitioners were abducted by the police. Ms. Jiang was taken to the Detox Centre in Jinchang City for interrogation. On November 5th, guards cornered Ms. Jiang, and punched and kicked her until she was screaming in pain. But that was not enough. Two inmates then dragged her to the office and continued to beat her with leather strips and wooden sticks until she passed out on the cold cement floor. By the time they moved her back to the cell, she had sustained injuries to her lumbar disc, the little finger of her right hand was broken and her arms were black and blue, and swollen.

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Escalation of the Persecution of Practitioners in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

2010-04-23

Female Falun Gong practitioners held in Masanjia were pressured to write repentance statements giving up Falun Gong. Some of the guards wrote the statements themselves and then tried to force the practitioners to copy them and read them in front of other practitioners. They would count this as a real repentance statement written by the practitioners themselves. The women who refused to do that were tortured. One from Beijing was tortured so severely that she could no longer straighten up and had to remain so far bent over that she was almost touching the ground. Ms. Li Jinqiu was forced to keep her legs fully stretched out on either side for a very long time. She ended up crippled.

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After His Wife Is Arrested, An Elderly Man Dies In Grief

2010-04-22

On January 6th, 2010, Mr. Yang Yaoshan's wife was arrested for trying to stop the police from detaining a group of Falun Gong practitioners. The police then broke into Mr. Yang's home, searched it and confiscated personal property. Traumatised from the sudden shock of these events, Mr. Yang suffered a stroke on January 9th. Despite efforts to save his life, Mr. Yang passed away on February 28th, 2010 aged 78 years old. In 2000, Mr. Yang was sentenced to one year of forced labour in the Jilin City Detention Centre. During his imprisonment, he suffered severe abuse, causing his health to deteriorate and his old symptoms of heart disease to recur.

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Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to the Point of Mental Collapse in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

2010-04-22

Ms. Wang Shuxia and I were in the same cell at Diaobing Detention Centre in 1999. She was a kind and beautiful young lady. After she was taken to Masanjia, she was mentally disoriented upon returning home. Officials from the Diaobing Police Station were well aware that she was mentally traumatised, but they still sentenced her again to Masanjia for two years. Within two days after arriving at Masanjia, she was tortured to death. Ms. Su Juzhen was mentally traumatised. I saw the scars on her body and heard her screaming as she was being beaten with electric batons. She could no longer recognise anyone. Masanjia caused her death as well.

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A Little Girl Misses Her Father Who Is in a Forced Labour Camp

2010-04-22

During a 20 minute visit, a father was separated from his wife and daughter by a glass wall. The communication line was cut before the child even got a chance to speak. After the visit, the little girl kept crying and asking her mother, "Why did daddy cut his hair so short? Why didn't he speak to me? Mum, could you make the glass go away?" Now she often cries out during nightmares, "Take the glass away! I want to talk to my daddy!" The child is Wang Xiaoqing and her father is Wang Fangpu. Mr. Wang, a Falun Gong practitioner who was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labour for practising Falun Gong and is now imprisoned in in the Chaoyang City Forced Labour Camp. He is forced to work nine hours a day making fireworks.

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Older Sister Persecuted to the Point of Mental Disorder--Younger Sister Arrested

2010-04-21

Ms. Li Chunlan, a Falun Gong practitioner in Tieling City, Liaoning Province, has been arrested and sent to a forced labour camp three times. She was persecuted to the point of a mental disorder at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and has not been able to take care of herself since. Ms. Li Chunhong, her younger sister, was recently arrested and sent to Masanjia.

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Ms. Zhu Qiuling Sentenced to Prison; Mr. Chen Yinru Awaiting Trial

2010-04-21

Officials from Wuzhong District Court sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhu Qiuling to five years in prison in the afternoon on April 2nd, 2010. Two defence attorneys and their bags were searched before they could enter the courtroom. They were not allowed to touch upon certain issues, which were pre-determined by the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Yinru is currently being held at Suzhou City No.1 Detention Centre, awaiting trial in the Huqiu District Court.

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Ms. Kan Jixiang Suffers Mental Collapse at Linyi City Brainwashing Centre

2010-04-21

Ms. Kan Jixiang, a 48-year old Falun Gong practitioner, lives in Jinqianguan Village in Shandong Province. Police arrested her at the Linyi bus station in January 2010 and took her to a brainwashing centre under directions from the Linyi City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). Ms. Kan's husband went to visit her on March 2nd, 2010. She recognised him, but no one else. Her husband asked to bring her home, but Linyi City 610 Office agents denied his request. Previously, in 2002 police arrested Ms. Kan and subjected her to one year of forced labour. She was deprived of sleep at the labour camp and brainwashed with slander and lies day and night. She could not stand still because of the mental torment.

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The Persecution of a Television Anchor and His Wife

2010-04-21

Mr. Li Zhenjun and his wife were arrested, and sent to prison(s) and labour camp(s) since 1999. They were subjected to brutal beatings and forms of torture. In 1999 Mr. Li was fired at work for practising Falun Gong. In 2002 the police arrested Ms. Wang and took her to the Pingquan County Detention Centre. They savagely beat her during interrogation, interrogated her several times and brutally beat her each time. Police whipped her with a metal ruler and rammed her head against a wall until she bled from the nose and mouth, and her eardrums were shattered. She now has very poor hearing. She held a hunger strike, and the guards force-fed her five times.

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Ms. Hao Bianyun Dies as a Result of Forced Injections

2010-04-20

Ms. Hao Bianyun used to be a healthy and capable housewife and farmer. She became mentally disturbed and required full time care after she was held at the Xingtai Brainwashing Centre and injected with unidentified drugs six years ago. During her arrest several men dragged Ms. Hao from the house, covered her mouth, punched and kicked her, and threw her into the van. Her five-year-old daughter, crying and following her mother, was also thrown into the van. After a lengthy struggle in poor health, she finally died at the age of 43 on March 25th, 2010.

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Mr. Lei Jingxiong, Who Was Almost Cremated Alive, Is Arrested Again

2010-04-20

On June 28th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Lei Jingxiong was arrested by a policeman at the airport when he was on his way to a new job. Later, he was sent to the Xishui County Detention Centre. In 2010, Mr. Lei's family received a notice from Douyun Prison indicating that Mr. Lei had been sentenced to 8 years in prison. During the past ten years of persecution, Mr. Lei Jingxiong has been constantly harassed and tortured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2004, police had seemingly beaten Mr. Lei to death. As his body was about to be cremated in a funeral home, an officer discovered he was still alive and stopped the cremation. Mr. Lei was taken to a hospital, where he was again beaten. All the beatings caused his face to become disfigured.

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Ms. Teng Weiqiang Has Been Imprisoned for Eight Years for Hanging Up a Banner

2010-04-20

Mr. Teng Weiqiang, 33, was arrested for displaying a Falun Gong banner in February 2002 and then sentenced to ten years in prison. During his detention at the Baishan City Police Department, officers hung him up and covered his head with several plastic bags to choke him. He is currently imprisoned in Gongzhuling Prison. As a result of many years of torture, he looks like skin and bones. Guards repeatedly denied requests from his family to visit him and it has been four years since his mother has seen him.

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I Suffered Brutal Torture in Hulan City Prison

2010-04-20

After the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 20th, 1999, like thousands of practitioners, I distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, telling people about the beauty of Falun Gong and exposing the persecution. I also suffered from brutal persecution. On August 23rd, 2002, police arrested me. I was sentenced to four years in prison. Since I refused to renounce Falun Gong, guards ordered inmates to brutally torture me. Once, the inmates tied up my arms and legs and beat me. My ribs were broken, the muscles on my thigh were torn and the soles of my feet were all black. I was not even able to climb onto my bed. Another time, they burned my nose with lighters and beat my face; my face was distorted afterward. I was compelled to do forced labour, deprived of sleep and made to stand continuously for over eight hours.

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