Torture

• Mr. Yu Yong Dies as a Result of Persecution in Hunan Province

  2009-10-10
  Mr. Yu Yong was arrested in 2005 for handing out informational materials on Falun Gong. On August 3rd, 2008, 610 Office agents detained Mr. Yu Yong in Changsha County Detention Centre, using the excuse of "Olympic safety." After that, Mr. Yu felt sick and depressed. He died during his sleep on the night of February 15th, 2009, at home. His face, ears, and feet were purple, causing his family to suspect that one of the unknown drugs he was injected with had killed him. But they dared not take any action to investigate.
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• Judge Sentences Schoolteacher to Four-Year Prison Term While She Lay Unconscious in Court Due to Torture

  2009-10-10
  On September 18th, 2009, a court in Linghe District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, convened a hearing for Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Lige. From information provided by an eye-witness, Ms. Wang, who was tortured to the point of being in critical condition, was carried into the courtroom. She fainted as soon as she sat down. Chief judge Zhou Jun hastily read the court verdict: four years in prison. Ms Wang was unconscious throughout the entire proceedings. The court didn't notify Ms. Wang' attorney, which was a clear violation of legal procedures, depriving her of her lawful rights and interests.
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• The Persecution of Mr. Gu Mingcong and His Family

  2009-10-10
  Mr. Gu is handicapped and walks with canes. When he learned Falun Gong in 1997, he tried to live according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and his health has improved tremendously. He makes a living by repairing mobile phones. He was arrested in July 2008 for explaining the facts about Falun Gong and was sentenced to a four-year term on January 12th, 2009. His father died from the stress he endured worrying about his son. Mr. Gu's mother has been left with the responsibility of two young grandsons, a 10-year-old and a 3-year-old, three acres of farmland and a debt of 20,000 yuan.
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• Ms. Hong Zhenyan from Wafangdian City Held for Five Months

  2009-10-10
  Ms. Hong Zhenyan was arrested five months ago when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. During the arrest the police brutally beat Ms. Hong with rubber clubs. She was injured all over. She is still being held in a detention centre. Her family has gone there many times asking for her but has been refused. Another practitioner, Ms. Cong was beaten so badly during the arrest that she was in critical condition.
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• Deputy Division Head of the Jiamusi Railroad Bureau Persecuted and Disabled--His Wife Also Arrested

  2009-10-09
  On September 19th, 2009, the home of Mr. Ma Xuejun was invaded by a large number of police. Multiple police vehicles surrounded his home. Prior to the invasion, his wife, Ms. Chuang Jing, and 14 other practitioners were arrested by officers. Ms. Chuang Jing and nine other practitioners are being detained in the Jiamusi City Detention Centre, and Mr. Ma's residence is still being monitored. Since the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Ma has been subjected to arrests, detention, and forced labour. He has also been dismissed from his job, cut off from sources of income, and sentenced to a 12-year prison term, as well as a series of brutal tortures. In December 2002, he was so severely tortured that he became disabled.
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• Persecution I Witnessed and Experienced at Detention Centres and Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2009-10-09
  On May 10th, 2002, more than ten officers broke into my home and arrested me. At the detention centre five thugs held me to the ground and tied my hands and arms behind my back using a rope, and then pulled them upwards toward my neck. Kang Kai held the rope and pulled it up for about seven minutes before letting it go, and then pulled it up again for about ten minutes. The police said, "You are not so good. Ms. Zhu Chengxin (a practitioner) endured the pulling ten times. Generally the hands become numb and partially paralysed after being pulled three times." I was later sentenced to a five and a half year prison term. My mother died from sorrow and fright twenty days after I was arrested.
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• Mr. Du Zhenjun from Liaoning Province Forced to Leave Home Due to Arrest Threat

  2009-10-09
  Mr. Du Zhenjun was released from jail on August 7th, 2009, and within a month, he was forced to leave his home. At the time, he had just completed the one-year labour camp sentence that had been forced on him in 2008. Police officers are now trying to track him down, and are monitoring the phones of his family members. This is the second time he has had to flee his home. He has been arrested, extorted and sentenced to a forced labour camp at the hands of the Chinese Communist regime, simply because he holds a firm belief in the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
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• Ms. Zhao Jinxiang Brutally Persecuted in Harbin City

  2009-10-09
  On January 23rd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Jinxiang was arrested by police for talking to people and distributing materials about Falun Gong. On February 28th, Ms. Zhao was sent to the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. Guards ordered Ms. Zhao to write the "three statements" to renounce Falun Gong. She refused to press her fingerprint on the three statements, which the police had prepared beforehand. They then tied a tablecloth around Ms. Zhao's neck until she could not breathe and tied her hands behind her back, and hung her upside down. Being hung up for so long, Ms. Zhao suffered great pain. She eventually fainted. Then they put her fingerprint on the three statements document.
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• The Plight of Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Chicheng County, Hebei Province Being Tortured at Jidong Prison in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

  2009-10-08
  Falun Gong practitioners Liu Yang, Wang Sheng, Zhao Bingheng and Wang Yuhai are incarcerated at the Jidong Prison. Liu Yang was arrested in 2002 while making and distributing Falun Gong materials with other practitioners and was sent to Jidong Prison for a 8-year term. Mr. Wang Sheng, 62, was given a three-year sentence in May 2009. Mr. Wang Yuhai was given three years in prison in November 2008. The brutal torture has turned his hair white, and his vision and hearing have deteriorated. He was forced to do hard labour even though he is almost sixty years old.
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• Mr. Yang Xuegui Secretly Sent to Brainwashing Centre After Eight-year Prison Term Expired

  2009-10-08
  For eight long years, in the dark prison of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Xuegui suffered tremendously. He was tortured with beatings, being locked in solitary confinement and tied up on the "death bed" for long periods of time. He was tortured so severely that he had scabies all over his body and became so emaciated and he couldn't walk by himself. However, he never gave in. Now, his prison term has expired, and he should have been released. However, the prison administration took him away secretly, planning to continue the abuse at a brainwashing centre .
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• Elderly Mr. Wang Deliang Dies as Result of Persecution

  2009-10-08
  After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang Delian told people about the benefits of Falun Gong, and he exposed the facts about the persecution. Police frequently harassed and threatened him. In 2001, police stepped on his head, beat, spit-on, shocked him with a electric baton. Mr. Wang endured 386 days of inhumane torture while in detention, and was sentenced to three years in prison. In August 2008, police arrested Mr. Wang Deliang and detained him for more than two months. The guards were very vicious. Often the food provided was found to contain mouse faeces, and he often starved. Mr. Wang became sick with stomach cancer, and died.
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• Older Practitioner Gao Guofeng's Term Extended by Qianjin Labour Camp in Harbin City

  2009-10-08
  Gao Guofeng, in her fifties, was beaten so much that there were bruises all over her face. Then she was put into solitary confinement. She was brutally tortured and hung up for 13 days. She was emaciated and went on a hunger strike to protest her treatment. She was then force-fed by Huo Shuping and other guards. When a labour camp doctor was force feeding her, she vomited blood and passed out. She almost died. Originally, her term was scheduled to end on September 10th, 2009, but was extended for seven months.
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• Ms. Jiang Ruihong, 68, Dies as Result of the Persecution

  2009-10-07
  After Ms. Jiang Ruihong attended Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong's second lecture series in Dalian City in July 1994, the more than a dozen diseases that she had disappeared, among them high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney infection, and arthritis. She did not take any medication for the 15 years after she started cultivation. She changed from a sick woman to an optimistic, healthy person; however, during the persecution, she was arrested three times. She died as a result of the persecution on September 16th, 2009.
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• United Nations Refugee Zhang Xinyi Was Arrested Again by Changsha City 610 Office

  2009-10-07
  On September 8th, 2009, Ms. Zhang Xinyi, a Falun Gong practitioner and a retired teacher from Changsha City, and her friend, He Minna, went to the Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to try to persuade the school administrators and others to release a school employee, Tang Min, a Falun Gong practitioner. Tang Min is being detained at the No. 2 People's Hospital in Hunan Province. Ms. Zhang Xinyi and He Minna were seized by the school security section and reported to Hanpu Police Station. In the afternoon, the two practitioners were taken to the Changsha City Rule of Law Education Training Centre (a brainwashing centre) in Changsha City. This is the fourth time Ms. Zhang has been arrested.
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• Zhuhai City 610 Office Monitors Retired Teacher Ms. Li Yuqin

  2009-10-07
  Retired teacher Ms. Li Yuqin, a practitioner from Zhuhai City, was not concerned that she was being monitored by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel when she decided to visit her home town at the end of August. Later her family members including her daughter were harassed many times. On September 15th, the principal and director of her school broke into Li Yuqin's home, as they had several times before at the behest of CCP personnel from the Zhuhai 610 Office and Zhuhai Education Bureau. As nobody was home, they called Ms. Li's daughter and ordered her to tell her mother to call the principal. They also demanded to know the address of Ms. Li's home town, which the daughter revealed. At present, her daughter is under CCP monitoring and her telephones are tapped. Li Yuqin's safety is a serious concern.
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