Torture

56-Year-Old Ms. Yang Qin of Chongqing Arrested for the Fifth Time

2010-04-08

On February 3rd, 2010, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Qin was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong at the food market, she was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The officials told her family members that she would be detained for fifteen days, however after Ms. Yang had a full physical examination, she was sent to the Women's Forced Labour Camp for further persecution. Ms. Yang went on a long-term hunger strike to protest the persecution, and was eventually sent to a hospital once her life was in danger. Ms. Yang has now been arrested five times.

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Ms. Li Qing Sentenced to Six Years of Imprisonment

2010-04-08

Ms. Li Qing was previously an employee of the Department of Supplies and Sales in the county government before she was dismissed from her job for refusing to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. On August 20th, 2009, Li Qing and three other female practitioners were arrested by police. They were detained at the county detention centre. The four practitioners were tortured during their detention period. They were forced to stand still for long periods of time, and deprived of sleep. A torture method called the "tiger bench" was used on them, too. Eventually, three of the practitioners were released while only Li Qing remained in custody. Her family members were not permitted to visit her. On January 12th, 2010, Li Qing was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and sent to the Shandong Women's Prison.

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Persecution of a Ph.D. Student by Chinese Communist Party's "Unjust Rules"

2010-04-07

Yu Yaou, a Ph.D. student from the South China Botanical Garden and Chinese Academy of Sciences, mentioned Falun Gong in the acknowledgment section of his PhD thesis. Soon after, Mr. Yu's PhD thesis defence, which was set to be held on February 4th, 2010, was cancelled. His graduation has also been cancelled until he removes the acknowledgement to Falun Gong in his thesis. The various persecutory methods used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] and personnel from the South China Botanical Garden and Chinese Academy of Sciences to threaten and harass him have been exposed on the Clearwisdom website.

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Ms. Li Fengxiu and Mr. Wan Guohua from Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province, Held in Custody

2010-04-07

Ms. Li Fengxiu and Mr. Wan Guohua from Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province, were arrested on the evening of January 9th, 2010. They are now in custody at the Linchuan Police Department. To help more people to learn the facts about Falun Gong, the two went together to Dongguan Town in the Linchuan District to distribute Falun Gong materials on the evening of January 9th, 2010. Dongguan Police Station patrol officers arrested and detained them at the Shangdundu Detention Centre in Fuzhou City. The Linchuan Police Department officials transferred their case to the Procuratorate, but prosecutors rejected the case and returned it to the police department. The police department officials refuse to release them.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yuan Guoqing from Xinhua County, Hunan Province, Again Sentenced to Forced Labour

2010-04-07

Mr. Yuan Guoqing, an employee of Xinhua County Meishan Technology Co. Ltd, Haili, Hunan Province, has been arrested and sentenced to forced labour again. On March 16th, 2010, two strangers approached Mr. Yuan at work. At around 3:00 p.m., police officers from Xinhua County Domestic Security Division forced their way into the plant area and arrested him. They ransacked his storage area at work and forcibly put him into a car without letting him put on his jacket. They took him straight to Fenglin Detention Centre.

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Four Practitioners in Kaijiang County, Sichuan Province Sentenced

2010-04-07

The appeal by four Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Wu Licui, 55; Ms. Liu Mingying, 59; Mr. Li Bending, 65; and Ms. Wang Langying, 59, in Kaijiang County, Sichuan Province was rejected by the Dazhou City Intermediate Court on January 14th, 2010. The court upheld the verdict to incarcerate the four practitioners in the Jianyang Prison, which was delivered on September 21st, 2009. Mr. Li Bending and his wife Ms. Liu Mingying were at home when police arrested them on July 22nd, 2008. Ms. Wu Licui was not at home on July 31st, 2008 when officers from the Kaijiang County National Security Bureau and the 610 Office visited and ransacked her home. On August 17th, the police wiretapped and tracked her phone and eventually arrested her when she was out of town visiting a relative. On August 28th, the police officially announced the arrest of Ms. Wu.

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Ms. Zhang Weihua Dies as Result of Persecution in Sichuan Province

2010-04-06

Ms. Zhang Weihua used to suffer from asthma, but her health greatly improved after she began practising Falun Gong in 1996. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after the persecution began in July 1999. She was arrested multiple times, detained, and sent to a forced labour camp and brainwashing centre, which damaged her health. She died on January 29th, 2010, at the young age of 32.

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Guards Committing Crimes At the Henan Province No. 3 Forced Labour Camp

2010-04-06

Examples of cruel torture in Henan Provincial No. 3 Forced Labour Camp: (1) Bring one individual practitioner to a secret place where the guards order several drug addicts to insert a brush into a person's rectum, then rotate and move the brush up and own, which will cause bleeding and blood accumulation inside the practitioner; they also use bamboo strips and other tools to slap the practitioner on his knuckles, wrists, knees and ankles, and other areas. (2) The guards tie the practitioners with ropes and then keep tightening the ropes. They force the practitioners to stand for long times, forbid them to use toilets, deprive them of sleep, and force them to do slave labour for thirteen to fourteen hours each day. Many practitioners' buttock areas were festering, and their hands frost-bitten.

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Mr. Liu Wen of Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province Sent to Forced Labour Camp Again

2010-04-06

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Wen from Dongyangfang Village, Baichigan Township, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province has been persecuted by the communist regime continuously during the past ten years. He had been incarcerated from October 1999 to 2006 and then from 2006 to 2008. He has been homeless and wandering around to avoid persecution. During this period he was arrested three times. In September 2009, he was arrested again and in December 2009, he was sent to a forced labour camp and was subsequently transferred to Xidaying Forced Labour Camp in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province.

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Ms. Yang Guifang Persecuted in Pujiang County, Sichuan Province

2010-04-06

Ms. Yang Guifang began the practice of Falun Gong in 1998. Falun Gong, which is also known as Falun Dafa, gave her the joy of attaining a healthy body and mind. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a persecution against all Falun Gong practitioners in China. Ms Yang suffered incarceration and torture for her faith many times and her family had tens of thousands of yuan1 extorted from them by the CCP.

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60-Year-Old Ms. Shi Yingchun Persecuted to Death at Liaoning Province Women's Prison

2010-04-05

On March 18th, 2010, Ms. Shi Yingchun was persecuted to death at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. Just for practising Falun Gong, she had been repeatedly arrested and detained. She had been sentenced to forced labour twice and detained in a labour camp for a total of five years. On August 30th, 2008, she was arrested again and sentenced to seven years in prison. She was detained at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison until her death.

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Four Practitioners Arrested and Detained in Changchun City's Third Detention Centre

2010-04-05

On March 5th, 2010, police arrested Falun Gong practitioners who worked at the Jinjiang Printing Company. The practitioners worked hard and were trusted by their superiors and colleagues. One of those arrested, Ms. Jun, went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000. As a result, the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) personnel imprisoned her in Heizuizi Prison for five years. There, she was beaten, forced-fed, tied down on a death bed, hung up by her wrists, forced to be in painful positions for long periods of time, and shocked with electric batons.

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Ms. Sun Fenglan of Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province Repeatedly Persecuted

2010-04-05

Ms. Sun Fenglan has been persecuted four times by the Communist regime because she practises Falun Gong. She was persecuted for the second time when she went to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities for help. Before she had a chance to appeal she was arrested by officials from the local government's liaison office in Beijing. They imprisoned her for five days, took the cash she had on her, and then sent her to the county detention centre. She was held in the detention centre for 45 days, fined 5,000 yuan, and made to pay 300 additional yuan for food. She was released after she went on a hunger strike for eight days. During her imprisonment, Ms. Sun was forced to stand and/or run for long hours outdoors during the winter time.

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Zheng Baohua Suffers at the Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan

2010-04-05

Ms. Zheng Baohua was taken to the Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in July, 2008. At the labour camp she was beaten, made to stand for long periods of time, not allowed to use the toilet, not allowed to sleep, and brutally force-fed. Because she appeared to have tuberculosis and was close to dying she was released on November 15th, 2009. However, in 2010 agents began checking on her health with the idea that should she recover from her illness they would take her back to the camp.

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Ms. Zhang Fengzhen Paralyzed as a Result of Beatings Suffered at Liaoning Women's Prison--Dies after Five Years

2010-04-04

Ms. Zhang Fengzhen died in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, on March 9th, 2010. For five years, she was paralyzed and suffered pain as a result of vicious beatings she was subjected to while held at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, for refusing to renounce her belief in Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. Ms. Zhang was arrested in 2001 for distributing Falun Gong-related materials. The Heping District Court in Shenyang City sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. In March 2003, she was taken to the Liaoning Province Women's Prison (then known as Dabei Prison). Prison guards ordered inmates to beat her nonstop for six hours. As a result, her liver was ruptured. She was extremely weak when she was released in 2005. Shortly after her release, she became entirely paralyzed, and later lost the ability to speak.

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