Torture

Ms. Teng Xiuling in Serious Condition, Lost Ability to Speak in Police Custody

2014-01-01

Ms. Teng Xiuling, a Falun Gong practitioner in Donggang, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on September 16th, 2013. When her family visited her in Shenyang City Women's Prison in November, they found that Ms. Teng had lost the ability to speak. With shaking hands, she reached through the iron bars and wrote on her brother's hand, “I've been driven almost crazy!”

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Fired Nine Years Ago for Practising Falun Gong, a Middle School Teacher Seeks to Have Her Job Reinstated

2013-12-27

Ms. Zhao Xianchang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Lianshan Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province. Shortly after her arrest in 2004, Guanghan City Education Bureau dismissed her from her job at Guangshan Third Middle School. Ms. Zhao has been requesting reinstatement since her release from the labour camp in 2007, yet the education bureau has turned a blind eye. Without a steady income, she is leading a very hard life by working odd jobs.

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Detained for Exposing Torture in Forced Labour Camps, Ms. Lu Xueqin Denied Medical Care

2013-12-27

Ms. Lu Xueqin was arrested on May 2nd, 2013, for taking photographs that depicted various means of torture used on Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese prisons and forced labour camps. She has been detained ever since. Ms. Lu's health has drastically deteriorated while in detention. Her lawyer submitted a request to get her released on medical parole, but the Qingdao City Police Department has turned it down.

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Case Specifics Point to Reason of Death: Organ Harvesting

2013-12-22

The global condemnation of forced organ harvesting in China is on the rise, yet the magnitude of this heinous state-sanctioned crime is still to be fully exposed. For the Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China, more and more specifics point to a likely reason for some death cases—organ harvesting. Mr. Peng Min's case is one such example. One day after being injected with unknown drugs, Mr. Peng died at a hospital on April 6th, 2001. Prior to that, the hospital had performed an unauthorised surgery on him, after he became paralysed due to torture. The surgery left him with a large hole in his lower back, which was never treated.

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Bank Fires Ms. Li Li for Practising Falun Gong

2013-12-20

The president of the Kangping County Agricultural Bank in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, used the order sent down from the president of the the provincial office of the bank to force all the Staff Representative Assembly members to support the decision to fire Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Li. Shenyang City Agricultural Bank did the same thing. The fact that the Agricultural Banks of the province, the city, and the county went to so much effort in the firing of Ms. Li is strong evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy to "ruin Falun Gong practitioners financially" is still in effect.

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Senior Practitioner Ms. Liang Yunying Tortured 38 Times on Tiger Bench

2013-12-20

Because she could not remain silent while Falun Gong was being slandered, Ms. Liang Yunying appealed for justice. She has been arrested nine times in the past 14 years, and placed in detention centres and jails. Her home was ransacked nine times. Ms. Liang was forced to sit on the tiger bench 38 times. She was kept in shackles and handcuffs – treatment reserved for death row inmates, three times. In total she was shackled for 37 days. While she was detained, she was routinely beaten by the guards and inmates.

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Ms. Xiu Jinqiu Persecuted to Death

2013-12-19

Ms. Xiu Jinqiu handed a Falun Gong pamphlet to a female officer in the Linjiang Community, Dandong City, on September 5th, 2013. This officer reported her, and Ms. Xiu was arrested and tortured. She was released and left her home to avoid being arrested again. She, her husband, and their daughter were arrested on September 9. Her health deteriorated after that. She lost consciousness on November 16th and passed away on November 28th at the age of 52.

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Practitioner Recalls Drug Torture and Other Traumas in Shandong Province Women's Prison

2013-12-19

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Meng Lijun was released from the Shandong Province Women's Prison on July 11th, 2013, after being held there for nine years. During her nine-year prison term, Ms. Meng was brutally tortured with forced drug administration, along with other tortures. She had lost a great deal of memory by the time she was released. Her emotions went up and down and she was mentally unstable. After her release, Ms. Meng had to rely on her family to take care of her day to day needs.

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Ms. He Chengyu from Sichuan Province Dies as a Result of Abuse and Torture in Detention

2013-12-19

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Chengyu, a 54-year-old farm labourer, was arrested on May 6th, 2012, and was sentenced to five years in prison. She was persecuted severely while held at the Dazhou City Detention Centre and the Yangmahe Prison in Jianyang City. She died in November 2013 as a result of torture.

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Ms. Hao Qiujin Describes Torture at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

2013-12-14

Large-scale arrests of Falun Gong practitioners were conducted in Dalian City on July 6th, 2012. Ms. Hao Qiujin was one of the practitioners arrested and was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. She recounts: "Donggang was a place in Masanjia where practitioners were tortured in various ways using “stretching” torture, electric shocks, injections with unknown drugs, confinement, force-feeding, freezing, hanging, and beatings, etc. After being taken to Donggang, my hands were cuffed to a heating pipe. The handcuffs were so tight that they cut into my wrists, and my hands quickly turned purple. I had to squat down from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m."

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Accountant Arrested, In-Laws Appeal for His Release, Father-in-Law Dies from Grief and Anger

2013-12-14

Mr. Chen Fu was arrested on July 19th, 2013, because he practises Falun Gong and had talked with people about Falun Gong and the persecution. This had a tremendous impact on his family, as they rely solely on his income. His elderly in-laws appealed for his release to no avail. His father-in-law died one month later from grief and anger.

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Violence and Terror behind the Beautiful Facade at Gongzhuling Prison

2013-12-14

Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province, China, looks like an office building complex with beautiful gardens. Once through the door of the visiting room, however, the guards are irrational and violent, almost as if they are possessed by demons. Behind its beautiful facade, the prison is a dark and terrifying hell on earth. In the so-called “recovery division,” a prisoner over 60 years old asked the guard if he could get a bed away from the window. In response, a young guard beat him brutally.

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Ms. Jian Chengrong, in Her 70s, Arrested and Tortured

2013-12-14

On September 9th, 2013, police broke into 74-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jian Chengrong's home. They claimed that Ms. Jian's home was the headquarters for local Falun Gong practitioners, and sent about 20 officers to ransack the elderly woman's home. They took away all of her Falun Gong books, as well as Ms. Jian's computer, printer, mobile phones, and about three thousand yuan in cash. Around 9 p.m., the police brutally interrogated Mrs. Jian. They hit her lower abdomen violently until it bled. Later they slapped her face and beat her.

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Sham “Public Trial” Held in Nong'an County Court, Jilin Province

2013-12-10

A Nong'an County Court in Jilin Province held an illegal hearing on the afternoon of October 11th, 2013, without notifying the defence lawyers and family members of eight Falun Gong practitioners. All of the eight practitioners pleaded not guilty. Mr. Liu and Ms. Zhang accused the Domestic Security Division of extorting their confession by torture and stated that evidence that was obtained by torture was invalid.

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Two Female Practitioners Imprisoned and Persecuted in Jilin Women's Prison

2013-12-10

Practitioner Ms. Yu Cuilan has been held in Jilin Women’s Prison for seven years and persecuted. She was tortured on the “stretching bed” and is now disabled. Even in her condition, she is still being dragged to the toilet and beaten. Practitioner Ms. Liu Xia has been held in Jilin Women’s Prison for five years. She was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. She was forced to sit on a small wooden stool for a long period of time in front of an open window while wearing thin clothes in winter. She was once tortured this way for over two months.

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