Torture

Mr. Wenxian Cheng Detained in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp; Family Not Allowed to Visit

2009-09-18

In October 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cheng Wenxian was arrested while he was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Xuzhou City. He is being detained in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Zibo City. This is the second time that Mr. Cheng had been detained in a forced labour camp. Previously he was in Dashan Forced Labour Camp in Qingdao City for three years. His family wanted to visit him and take him some clothes when they learned of his arrest, but they were not allowed to see him.

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Veteran Soldier Arrested for Trying to Rescue His Mother Dies in Police Custody

2009-09-18

Ms. Ren Zhaoxia was arrested by the local 610 Office and the National Security Brigade. She was sent to Yibin City Detention Centre. This was the fourth time she had been taken away by the authorities for her belief in Falun Gong. Previously, she had been imprisoned for a year in a forced labour camp. Her son, Mr. Chen Xiangru, went to the detention centre to request his mother's release. The Chinese Communist Party officials then tried to arrest him. As a result, he was forced to quit his job and rent a room in Nanxi. On July 20th, 2009, Mr. Chen Xiangru was arrested and detained in the Nanxi Detention Centre. On August 8th, 2009, he died under unknown circumstances. Further details of his death are being investigated.

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Ms. Li Fengzhen Disabled as a Result of Persecution

2009-09-17

In June of 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Fengzhen was arrested by Li Fuguo and Wang Min from the National Security Team of the Public Security Bureau in Tanghai County, Hebei Province. She was then sent to Tangshan Ankang Hospital where she received forced injections of unknown medicine. After Ms. Li was disabled by the persecution, she was sent back to her family. In only two months, the once healthy and rational Li Fengzhen basically lost her memory. She became mentally unstable and extremely skinny. She could not see clearly, nor could she stand upright and walk.

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Judge from Longjiang County, Heilongjiang Province Warns: Appealing (Unjust) Sentence Means Extended Prison Term

2009-09-17

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Jinghe was arrested on May 8th, 2008 by police from Longjiang County. On June 11th, 2009 he was sentenced to three years in prison. The judge at the Longjiang County Court threatened him, "Don't appeal your case. If you do, your case will be handed back for re-trial and you will receive an extension to your prison term." Nonetheless, seeking justice, Mr. Yu's younger brother filed an appeal with the Intermediate Court of Qiqihar City on August 4th, 2008. Due to unclear facts and inadequate evidence in Mr. Yu's case, the court called off the original judgement and ordered a re-trial at the court where Mr. Yu was originally convicted.

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Mr. Yin Sirong from Chengdu City Secretly Sentenced to Forced Labor Camp

2009-09-17

Mr. Yin Sirong, a practitioner from Chengdu city was arrested by police officers from Wanzhou District Public Security Bureau, on July 31st, 2009, while he was at the home of another practitioner in Chongqing city. He has been on hunger strike ever since. At the time when the police submitted an application to send Mr. Yin to a forced labour camp, they also refused his lawyer's request to meet with him, stating that they were still awaiting confirmation that the person arrested was in fact Mr. Yin Sirong. On September 3rd, 2009, Mr. Yin was sentenced to the notorious Xishanping Forced Labour Camp.

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Senior Sisters Beaten by Police Officers in Pi County, Sichuan Province

2009-09-17

Ms. Zhang Yuanru and Ms. Zhang Yuanzhen are sisters from Chengdu City in Sichuan Province. At 10:00 p.m., on August 31st, 2009, they were arrested by officers from the Hongguang Town Police Station and brutally beaten. Both practitioners were kicked with heavy leather shoes, whipped with leather straps, beaten with electric batons, and savagely pinched. In less than 24 hours, their entire bodies were covered in bruises and turned black and blue.

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Practitioner Zhang Puhe of Heilongjiang Province Tortured to the Verge Of Death

2009-09-16

Mr. Zhang Puhe was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Chinese Communist regime, and is currently detained and being tortured at Lianjiangkou Prison in Jiamusi City. His life is in imminent danger. Guards ordered him to recite the prison rules. When Mr. Zhang refused, the guards used thirty-thousand volt electric batons to shock him all over his body. They also forbid him from speaking. When Mr. Zhang still refused to recite the prison rules, the guards instigated inmates to beat his face, which swelled and had blue and purple bruises. Mr. Zhang is extremely weak and is on the verge of death.

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Chinese Communist Party Still Actively Attempting to Poison the Children

2009-09-16

Written in a textbook entitled "Thoughts and Moral Character," for 2009 Grade 6 students and published by Zhejiang Education Publishing House, there are sections defaming Falun Gong. It not only slanders Falun Gong, but space is left in the textbook to encourage the students to write their own words that attack Falun Gong. It not only threatens that people distributing the leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong will be jailed, but also urges the children to report anyone they see handing out the materials. The main theme is that "studying Zhuan Falun (the main text of Falun Gong) is against the law." This text book requests that schools hold photo exhibitions, discussion meetings, and force students to defame Falun Gong.

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The Persecution of Mr. Li Zhibiao, a Former Cerebellar Degeneration Patient

2009-09-16

In 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Li Zhibiao, a person who had finally been able to live a normal life after being disabled all his life, became the target of the persecution, too. He was arrested four times and brutally mistreated. As a result, he started to frequently fall into a state of sudden unconsciousness. Although he managed to escape from detention the ordeal took its toll on Mr. Li's physical and mental health. He was significantly affected by the terror he experienced during his escape. The police have gone to Mr. Li's workplace to harass him many times since 2006.

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Ms. Zhu Baojuan Sent to Shenyang City Women's Prison While on Verge of Death

2009-09-16

In July 2008, Ms. Zhu Baojuan was arrested and then sentenced to five years in prison, for her belief in Falun Gong. While imprisoned at the Jinzhou City Second Detention Centre, two large tumours developed in her uterus and she also had a relapse of severe heart disease, which had been cured through practising Falun Gong. She lost consciousness three times due to torture, and she was not able to walk. On September 3rd, Ms. Zhu's husband and three other family members came to visit her. She was not able to walk. When they asked her what happened, she said, "When the police took me to the Jinzhou City Second Detention Centre, the cell's door was only half open. I was not able to get in. The police kicked me three times with full strength. I have not been able to walk since then."

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Jiang Xiqing Persecuted to Death in Xishanping Forced Labour Camp, His Daughter Arrested for Appealing for Him

2009-09-15

After Mr. Jiang Xiqing from Jiangjin, Chongqing City, was persecuted to death in Xishanping Forced Labour Camp, his daughter, Jiang Hong, sought justice through legal means. Officials in the Politics and Law Committee and the 610 Office in Jiangjin did not want to be exposed further, so they orchestrated the arrest of Ms. Jiang. The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear. Seven hours after being notified of his death, his family found his body still warm in the freezer. Labour camp officials did not give any reasonable explanation for his death and had his body cremated without his family's consent.

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Xu Xianping is Arrested Again

2009-09-15

Ms. Xu Xianping, 43, has been a Falun Gong practitioner since 1996. In April 2002, Xu Xianping was arrested and her home was searched. Later, she was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. In the Harbin Women's Prison, Xu Xianping was tortured with solitary confinement, hung up, beaten, and forced to sit on a cold cement floor for eleven days. In spite of the serious scurvy caused by the torture, she was not released until 2006. On August 7th, 2009, she was reported to the police for having talked with people about the persecution of Falun Gong and arrested. Xu Xianping is currently being detained at the No. 2 Detention Centre of Hegang City.

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Older Practitoner Ms. Shi Xiuyan from Tangshan City Sent to Forced Labour Camp

2009-09-15

oOn July 6th, 2009, Shi Xiuyan was posting messages regarding the persecution of Falun Gong near a bank in the west part of Fengrun city, when she was suddenly abducted by policemen. Li Chunyuan, vice director of the Fengrun Public Security Bureau led six or seven policemen and ransacked her home. They confiscated her printer, computer, Falun Gong books and other personal belongings. She was detained at the Fengrun Detention Centre and subsequently given a two-year sentence in a forced labour camp. On August 4th, 2009, she was secretly taken to the Tangshan Kaiping Labour Camp.

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Ms. Shi Yingxia, Principal of Dianshi Computer School in Wuhan City, Sentenced to Four Years of Imprisonment

2009-09-15

On September 12th, 2008, more than 30 plainclothes police officers arrived in eight police cars at the Dianshi Computer School in Wuhan City. They damaged huge amounts of property and took away many computers and other valuable items. All the employees of the Dianshi Computer School were arrested and their residences were also ransacked. A few hours before, the police had stormed into the residence of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shi Yingxia, the principal and legal representative of the computer school, and taken her away. Ms. Shi was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. She is now in the Wuhan City Women's Prison.

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Ms. Wang Huilan Dies from Brutal Force-feeding Six Days After Arrest

2009-09-14

53-year-old Ms. Wang Huilan was arrested on September 1st, 2009 by Zhuozhou City Domestic Security agents. On September 7th, her family went to visit her, but they were not allowed to see her. That afternoon, the guards brutally force-fed her, causing her death. Details of Ms. Wang Huilan's death following her recent arrest are still under investigation.

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