Torture

• Falun Gong Practitioner Wu Yueju Tortured in Brainwashing Centre

  2009-09-22
  Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wu Yueju, 57, has been placed in detention centres and forced labour camps many times, and inhumanly tortured. In Dalian Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Wu was tortured with electric shocks, and she was beaten with a police club and locked up in the intensive discipline unit and a small cell. She was also tortured on the Dead Bed, tied to four boards, and left to freeze by open windows. They also poured cold water all over her in the winter, sexually abused her, hung her up, and so on. She was detained for over three years, and released on December 3rd, 2003.
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• Recalling the Unimaginable Abuse I Survived Along with Fellow Practitioners in a Detention Centre

  2009-09-21
  In July 2000, I was 22. I was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and put in a detention centre for going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. You can hardly imagine how evil the environment is unless you are in it and experience it yourself. What you heard every day were the guards beating and cursing the inmates, the sound of the electronic batons, and the cry of pain from the victims. A male practitioner insisted on doing the exercises and was shocked with electric batons, beaten by inmates, burned with cigarettes, and his fingernails were stabbed with needles. I was also tortured with a torture device called the "iron chair. When I was released I could not walk.
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• 57-Year-Old Ms. Zhang Shufen's Account of the Mistreatment She Endured in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2009-09-21
  Ms. Zhang Shufen was sentenced to imprisonment in 2002 for refusing to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. She was taken to Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison and suffered five years and eight months of torture. In prison, police incited the criminals to brutally torture Ms. Zhang. In July 2004, thirty of us were hung up. Three hours passed, but we were still hung up. I passed out due to the pain. When I became conscious, I was still hanging. Another time my hands were handcuffed together in this painful position called "carrying a sword on the back." Inmates were incited to kick and punch me.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Chen Baihe in Serious Condition in Prison, Authorities Prohibit Outside Medical Treatment

  2009-09-21
  Mr. Chen Baihe was sentenced to a four-year jail term in January 2007 in Jidong Prison. Mr. Chen now is now blind in one eye and has very high blood pressure. His family members believe that he should see a doctor independent from the prison medical system but they have been refused by the Jidong Prison. Seeking help for Mr. Chen, a family member called the prison department heads He Lizhi and Xu Zhiqiu and requested that he be allowed to see a doctor outside the prison. They replied they would need to verify his health status to see if he is qualified to see outside doctors. Two days later they said that Chen was not qualified and that they should not make this kind of request in the future.
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• Older Female Falun Gong Practitioner Sexually Assaulted in Police Custody in Taiyuan City

  2009-09-21
  In June, 2008, at around 3 a.m., 56-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiuyun was distributing informational materials about the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested by policemen from the Xiaodian District Police Station. During her detention, policemen incited a group of derelicts to attempt to rape her. She struggled to defend herself and shouted loudly, attracting the attention of nearby people. This caused her assailants to back off. Ms. Zhao reported this attempted rape to the Xiaodian District Police Station. Ms. Zhao's elder brother also complained about the detestable treatment she had received when he visited her in detention.
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• My Experience at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-09-20
  I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in 2008, and imprisoned at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp. The labour camp was overcrowded. The younger ones had to sleep on the floor. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imprisoned many people in the labour camp in order to make money through free labour. The labour camp had many orders to fulfil. Some were for toys, some were for mobile phone cases. Inmates had to work more than ten hours a day, seven days a week. Some inmates' wrists and fingers were injured by the repetitive labour. Some had friction burns on their hands, some had swollen legs. Inmates had to ask for permission before using the toilet.
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• Ms. Song Yanjin from Heilongjiang Province Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, Previously in a Forced Labour Camp for Two Years

  2009-09-20
  Ms. Song Yanjin was sentenced to three years in prison for her belief in Falun Gong. She was imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison on April 8th, 2009. This is her second imprisonment due to her belief. When she was arrested in May 2008 she was detained in the Longjiang County Forth Detention Centre. Police interrogated her with violence. They slapped her face so hard that her teeth loosened, her mouth and face were swollen and she could not eat for some time. Forty days later, on June 18th, officers handcuffed and shackled Ms. Song dumped her in the boot of a police car, and took them to the Dafangli Police Station in Harbin City.
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• Elderly practitioners in Guangzhou City Held at the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre for Persecution

  2009-09-20
  Currently, at least three practitioners have been detained in the Chejiaji Brainwashing Centre, and are undergoing brainwashing and physical torture. Practitioners being held include Ms. Wang Youming, who is nearly 70 years old, and Ms. Song Wenxiu, a retired teacher and elder practitioner. After Wang Youming was subjected to the brainwashing torture, the brainwashing centre still refused to release her, and forced her to divulge the names and home addresses of other practitioners. Ms. Song Wenxiu, nearly 70, was force-fed, and as a result, lost some teeth.
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• Shandong Province Men's Second Forced Labour Camp Uses Unknown Drugs to Harm Practitioners

  2009-09-20
  During 2008 and 2009, approximately 300 male Falun Gong practitioners were detained in the Shandong Province Men's Second Forced Labour Camp. The camp guards instructed other inmates to mix unknown drugs into food that was fed to practitioners. The unknown drugs caused symptoms that included headache, dizziness, body numbness, and nosebleed, along with swelling of the face, feet and legs. The prison guards' motives were to destroy the will and spirit of the practitioners and force them to renounce Falun Gong.
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• Mr. Sun Changjun Dying in Jilin Prison

  2009-09-19
  Mr. Sun Changjun is one of the eight Falun Gong practitioners that took part in tapping into the Changchun City cable TV network in March 2002 to broadcast videos exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Of those eight practitioners, only two are still alive. Mr. Sun is currently confined to the Aged and Crippled Ward in the Jilin City Prison. The long-term brutal mistreatment has left him with a severe case of tuberculosis, and he is as thin as a skeleton and dying.
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• Mr. Li Zhigang Tortured During Interrogation and Detained for Over Six Months

  2009-09-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Li Zhigang from Harbin was arrested, together with seven other friends, by the police at his home. He was severely tortured and is now showing symptoms of serious tuberculosis. His genitals are badly infected from the torture and he is being given unknown drugs. The Nangang District Court once notified Mr. Li's family members and his lawyers in Beijing that Li Zhigang would be brought to trial on June 22nd, 2009. However, after the lawyers travelled thousands of miles to get to the court in Harbin, they were told by case officer Song Chengzhang that the authorities (the 610 Office and the Political and Judiciary Committee) had given a last-minute notice saying this was a special case, and the trial was cancelled that day. Mr. Li Zhigang is still detained at the Nangang District Detention Centre.
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• City Pays Fifty Vicious Thugs 300,000 Yuan to Torture Six Practitioners for a Month

  2009-09-19
  Between September 6th and October 4th, 2005, six practitioners were detained at the Petrochemical Sanatorium, which is located at Wenquan in Xianning City, Hubei Province. The funds provided for carrying out this persecution was over 300,000 yuan during one month's time. This money came directly from the city financial department. Over fifty people were involved in this persecution.
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• Report on the Persecution of Mr. Cui Xinghui

  2009-09-19
  Mr. Cui Xinghui is a Falun Gong practitioner from Pingshan County in Hebei Province. He is a typical villager, but because he followed the principles of Falun Gong--Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance--trying to be a good person and telling people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, he was arrested, had funds extorted from him, was detained in brainwashing centres, was sentenced to forced labour, and was tortured. In the end, he was forced to leave home and live elsewhere.
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• Retired Professor Ms. Zeng Lingwen of Changchun Subjected to Long-term Abuse

  2009-09-18
  Ms. Zeng Lingwen, 74, is a highly respected retired professor of physics and a Falun Gong practitioner. Because she practises Falun Gong she was arrested repeatedly and taken to detention centres and forced labour camps. She was recently taken to a police station for additional questioning following a police search of her home. Ms. Zeng has returned home, but the police keep monitoring her. The gross abuse and mistreatment at a forced labour camp is designed to push practitioners to their limit of endurance, physically and mentally, to break practitioners' will and force them to compromise their belief. Practitioners suffered from various tortures including high voltage baton shocks, the death bed, forced feeding, solitary confinement, violent beatings, hanging up, being forced to hold painful postures for long periods of time.
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• Ms. Wang Huiling, 60, Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2009-09-18
  Ms. Wang Huiling went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000, and was arrested. Ms. Wang was detained in the Harbin City Second Detention Centre. Ms. Wang was tortured at the detention centre, where they forcibly stripped off her clothes, and made her do repetitive sitting squats continuously, and then forced her to sit on the floor in a fixed position where she was not allowed to move. Several days later her family was notified that she had suffered a stroke, and was being sent to the hospital. When her family rushed there, Ms. Wang was unconscious. Over the past nine years Ms. Wang never fully recovered. Despite her condition, the police kept harassing her at home and threatened her and her entire family. Ms. Wang died under this tense environment.
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