Torture

• Two Practitioners Sentenced to Long Terms in Gansu Province Women's Prison

  2010-04-04
  Ms. Zhang Zhenmin, 47 years old, is a Lanzhou Meat Packing Plant employee. Ms. Zhang Ping, about 40, was formerly employed at the Gansu Trust Investment Corporation, Bond Division. After starting to practise Falun Gong, they held themselves to the standard of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to be better people. Because they would not give up their beliefs, they were mistreated and tortured by communist regime agents. Ms. Zhang Zhenmin was sentenced to eight years and and Ms. Zhang Ping to five years, and they are now in Gansu Province Women's Prison. Their captors force them to do hard labour, brutally beat them, shock them with electric batons, and torture them with other devices.
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• Ms. Chen Shuyuan Arrested and Detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang

  2010-04-04
  On March 10th, 2010, police officers broke into Ms. Chen Shuyuan's home and arrested her. Mr. Dong Xiufa, Ms. Chen's husband, was at home at that time. He wanted to hold the police officers back, but Chen Chao stopped him. The officers carried Ms. Chen into their car and took her to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang. Ms. Chen was sentenced to three years of forced labour. Because she was in poor physical health, she didn't pass the physical and was sent home.
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• Nine Practitioners Tried in Loudi Court in Hunan Province

  2010-04-04
  Louxing District Court in Loudi City, Hunan Province, tried nine Falun Gong practitioners on March 12th, 2010. They were arrested in July 2009. In court, as soon as a practitioner mentioned the physical benefits he or she gained from practising Falun Gong, Zhou Min rudely cut in. The defence attorneys pointed out that the prosecutors didn't provide any witness testimony, material evidence, time, or location, and that the statements of charges to the Court and lawyers were different. Lan Zhixue pointed out that there were many loopholes in the charges as stated, and that the "evidence" noted in the statement was not presented in court. The trial ended at 3:30 p.m. without any verdict being announced. Nevertheless, Cao Gongxun, Liu Xinping, and He Jinlin were subsequently sent to the Loudi City No. 1 Detention Centre.
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• Defence Lawyer Calls for Ms. Song Fangming's Immediate Release After Trial by Changsha Court

  2010-04-03
  The District Court of Tianxin in Changsha City tried Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song Fangming on March 5th, 2010. She pleaded "not guilty" through her defence lawyer, pointing to the fact that law enforcement officials from the National Security Brigade and Pozi Street Police Station ignored the law when they charged Ms. Song. The lawyer also pointed out that practising Falun Gong was not a violation of any law and Ms. Song should be released immediately.
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• Toyota Tsusho Employee Arrested in Beijing

  2010-04-03
  on March 16th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yanmei, an employee of Toyota Tsusho Corporation's Changchun Office, left Changchun to attend a training session at the company's headquarters in Beijing. She arrived in Beijing around noon and checked into the Huadu Hotel, where the company had made a reservation for her. Before she had a chance to report to the Beijing office, police officers broke into her room, searched her luggage, and tried to take her away. Ms. Wang refused to co-operate and tried to reason with the police, who would not allow her to leave her room. At approximately 3:00 p.m., Ms. Wang was taken to a local police station.
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• Mr. Zhao Zemin of Henan Province Disabled from Torture in Xuchang Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-03
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Zemin was arrested by 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents and Domestic Security Division officials on May 22nd, 2008. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour and taken to the Xuchang City Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Zhao was tortured at the labour camp and is now disabled. It was not until December 28th, 2009, given demands by his family, that Mr. Zhao was released.
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• Becoming Healthy after Cultivating Falun Gong Taken as Evidence to Justify a Forced Labour Camp Sentence

  2010-04-03
  Ms. Diao Kaiyun, in her sixties, once had many problems. After she began practising Falun Gong, all of them disappeared. However, once the persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Diao was arrested, detained many times and sentenced to a forced labour camp. The police even took the fact that she became healthy by practising Falun Gong as evidence to justify the sentence. She was detained in Nanmusi Prison. Those in charge beat her frequently and deprived her of food. Sometimes they took Diao Kaiyun, who was just wearing thin clothes, outside and doused her with cold water. They also frequently woke her up in the middle of the night and tortured her all night. Continuous torture gradually caused her health to deteriorate and her health problems all returned, including psoriasis, anaemia, heart disease, and stomatitis. She was tortured to the verge of death.
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• Mr. Han Zhong Blinded by Cruel Police Beatings While Secretly Locked Up for Six Years of Imprisonment

  2010-04-02
  Mr. Han Zhong from Tongling City, Anhui Province was subjected to detention from May to June last year. It is said that at the end of last year, the police secretly locked him up for six years of imprisonment without following due legal process. Before that, Mr. Han had many times suffered persecution and was even beaten so severely by police officers from the Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province that he lost his eyesight, becoming permanently blind. His parents and other family members have also suffered long-term harassment. When Mr. Han Zhong was persecuted in the Nanhu Forced Labour Camp during the summer of 2001, he suffered harsh torture. It is said that the police hung him from the bars on the windows around the clock for over two weeks.
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• Practitioner Cong Rixu Jailed for Four Months, His Lawyer Arrested and Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

  2010-04-02
  On June 16th, 2009, the Kanjingzi Regional Court of Dalian City held a trial for Cong Rixu. With the aid of Mr. Cong's defence lawyers the court did not announce a judgment. Communist Party officials arrested lawyer Mr. Wang Yonghang after the trial and Mr. Cong was later sentenced to three years in prison even though neither his family nor his lawyers were informed. Mr. Cong said of his treatment by police, "On March 2nd, 2009, four policemen took me out of the cell for interrogation. They tried to photograph me and take my fingerprints, but I refused to co-operate. A team leader kicked my back, struck me several times, slammed my head against the wall four to five times, and kicked me until I fell down."
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• Two Daughters Arrested Again after Calling for Justice for their Late Father, Mr. Jiang Xiqing

  2010-04-02
  On March 2nd, 2010, two daughters of late Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Jiang Xiqing, were arrested again because they went to the the agents of the Chongqing 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and called for justice to be served for the death of their father. They had filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Chongqing First Middle Court. When the family demanded the sisters' release the secretary of the district Political and Judiciary Committee, said, "They will be free if they write a statement promising they will not hire an attorney; otherwise, they will be 'educated' for more than ten days."
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• Xuhui District Court Officials in Shanghai Attempting to Sentence Practitioners Mr. Zhang Qin, Ms. Li Yaohua and Others

  2010-04-02
  Five Falun Gong practitioners were arrested on June 4th, 2009, by police. On October 14th, Xu Zhenhui from the Xuhui District Procuratorate filed trumped up charges against these five practitioners. It was recently learned that the Xuhui District Court set a court date for March 18th, 2010 to try these practitioners. One of the arrested practitioners, Mr. Zhang Qin, 54, has been arrested six times since the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th,1999, and he was jailed at Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison for four years.
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• Details Surrounding the Death and Torture of Mr. Jiang Bingzhi at Suihua Forced Labour Camp

  2010-04-01
  Fifty-nine-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Bingzhi was sent to the Suihua City Forced Labour Camp in October 2008, where he was savagely tortured and left at the brink of death in August 2009. Labour camp officials then notified his family to come see him at the Beian Hospital, the first visit since his arrest. His family saw bruises on his legs. Mr. Jiang died a few days later on August 26th, 2009.
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• Ms. Xu Shihua from Nong'an County, Jilin Province Dies Due to Persecution

  2010-04-01
  Ms. Xu Shihua is a practitioner from Jilin Province, who after the persecution of Falun Gong started, endured long-term detention, as well as constant harassment and pressure. In 2002, Ms. Xu was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. The police nonetheless ransacked her home in her absence. The police went to her son's home and handcuffed him to a heating pipe while interrogating him about his mother's whereabouts. They also went to the homes of Ms. Xu's parents, sisters and brothers, searching for her. When Ms. Xu was homeless, she didn't have enough warm clothes in the winter or enough money to live on. Her health deteriorated. After suffering severely both mentally and physically, she passed away on January 18th, 2010, at the age of 58.
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• Tangshan City Steel Mill Technician Ms. Shao Liyan Suffers Mental Collapse Due to Psychiatric Abuse at Ankang Hospital

  2010-04-01
  Ms. Shao Liyan went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in 2000. She was later incarcerated at the Ankang [Mental] Hospital, where she was subjected to psychiatric torture and abuse which resulted in her suffering a mental collapse. She has not recovered. According to another practitioner who was also held at the Ankang Hospital, practitioners' limbs twitched and became numb following forced injections or drugs forcibly administered by mouth, and their minds became sluggish. They encountered overall weakness and restlessness, and were unable to sit down or sleep with ease. Some even fell unconscious.
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• More Than 400 Falun Gong Practitioners Are Being Held in Shandong Province Women's Prison

  2010-04-01
  Miss Liu Zhimei, who was #1 in academic achievement in Shandong Province, was given a waiver for the high school college entrance exam, and was then accepted by Tsinghua University, was dismissed by the university in March 2001 for practising Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison in Beijing. Subsequently she was taken to the Shandong Province Women's Prison and tortured, which affected her mentally. Before being released in November 2008, she was injected with unknown drugs. On her third day at home, she suddenly suffered a mental collapse and has not yet recovered.
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