Torture

Former President of Nanyang Construction Group Arrested While Purchasing An Airline Ticket

2009-08-30

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Xinguang, who is in his fifties, was the former president of Nanyang Construction Group. Mr. Li was on a business trip to Beijing on the morning of June 23rd, 2009, and when he used his personal identification card to purchase an airline ticket, the airline identified him as a Falun Gong practitioner, and he was then detained. On June 26th, he was sent back to a local police station by the Wolong Police Station in Nanyang. His home was ransacked by the police, and he is now being detained at Nanyang First Detention Centre

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Ms. Lv Guiru from Lanzhou City Forced to become Homeless Two Years Ago

2009-08-30

On October 27th, 2007 police officers from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province broke into 66-year-old Ms. Lv Guiru's home and attempted to force her to write a guarantee letter to give up Falun Gong by threatening to put her into a jail and to implicate her relatives. However, Ms. Lv refused them. Afterwards, Ms. Lv was forced to leave home. Since then, for almost two years officials from the Donggangxilu Police Station have continually sent workers from the Tianshui Road Community and some people to monitor her home and bang on her door.

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High School Student Ms. Cao Rui Expelled for Practising Falun Gong

2009-08-30

Ms. Cao Rui was a high school student. School officials dismissed her in December 2007 for refusing to sign her name on an anti-Falun Gong campaign document. With help from her relatives and friends, she eventually graduated from another school. In November 2000 Cao Rui and her mum went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested. Schoolteachers and police worked together to "reform" her, forcing her to listen to slanderous propaganda. They also made her write a promise to give up Falun Gong; otherwise, they would intimidate and threaten her to write a letter to her mum in a labour camp, asking her to stop practising Falun Gong.

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Mr. Tian Haitao Brutally Mistreated and in Critical Condition in Jiamusi Detention Centre

2009-08-29

Mr. Tian Haitao, 46, was arrested by police officers that were monitoring him when he visited the home of a fellow practitioner on February 12th, 2009. The police confiscated all his personal belongings and over 1,500 yuan in cash. One of the officers hit him several times during the arrest. He was then taken to Jiamusi Detention Centre in the evening. Mr. Tian went on a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment. The guard ordered 8 to 9 prisoners to force him down, pry his mouth open, and insert a tube to force feed him salty liquid food. He was also injected with unknown drugs. Later his whole body would hurt.

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Police Use Tear Gas and Axe to Break Into Mr. Zhang Yu's Home in Manchuri City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

2009-08-29

On August 8th, 2009, several dozen police officers smashed a window and threw tear gas into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Yu's home, with no regard for the fact that Mr. Zhang's elderly, sick parents and his teenage daughter were inside. Military police then went into Mr. Zhang's home through the broken window. Because the police had broken the lock on Mr. Zhang's door, it could not be opened, so the police used a firefighter's ax to break down the door and took the family of five away. Mr. Zhang's family was arrested because he and his wife practise Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Mr. Zhang and his wife were detained in the Manchuri City Detention Centre.

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610 Office Agents Subject Mr. Feng Lianhua to Long Term Persecution

2009-08-29

During the past ten years, Mr. Feng Lianhua has repeatedly suffered persecution at the hands of the Jianxi District 610 Office because he persists in practising Falun Gong. Mr. Feng was arrested, brainwashed, harassed, and had money extorted from him many times. His wife could not endure the long-term harassment and intimidation. She died in March 2003. In Luoyang Detention Centre Mr. Feng was forced to perform hard labour from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. the following day during his month-long detention. In 2002 and 2007, everyone at his company got a merit raise except Mr. Feng. From July 1999 to the present, every year he was entitled to receive a bonus for Teacher's Day, an end of the year bonus, and labour compensation. But he never received a penny of these bonuses.

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Zhao Guihong from Guiyang City Still Detained in Lannigou Brainwashing Centre

2009-08-29

Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Guihong and sent her to the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre. It happened as she informed people about the persecution of Falun Gong and dispelled the state propaganda attacking the practice at her own store on July 9th, 2009. She has still not been released. Ms. Zhao's family knows about the cruelty of the Chinese Communist Party. They have suffered from enormous mental pressure. Ms. Zhao's father has been sick and hospitalized, and other family members have also been impacted to varying degrees.

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Mr. Peng Guangrong, 61, Dies as a Result of Persecution

2009-08-28

Because Mr. Peng Guangrong never gave up his faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, he was arrested and detained either in a detention centre or drug rehabilitation centre from 1999 to 2003 three times. He was forced to sort through pig hair as a part of his punishment. The guards assaulted him with spiked clubs, shocked him with electric batons, and handcuffed and shackled him. The guards also ordered the prisoners to strike him repeatedly in the chest and spine. Mr. Peng passed away in November, 2003, as a result of the persecution that he had suffered.

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Mr. Wang Shiming and His Family Members Arrested Again

2009-08-28

On July 17th, 2009 Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Shiming, his elder sister Ms. Wang Min, and their mother were arrested by police from the Tianjin Street Police Station of Zhongshan District. Mr. Wang and Ms. Wang are being held in the Dalian Detention Centre. Their mother was released two days later since their 90-year-old grandmother was left at home alone without anyone to take care of her. This is the seventh time Mr. Wang has been arrested, and the fourth time that Ms. Wang has been arrested.

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Ms. He Yana Detained at the Tianjin City Drug Rehabilitation Centre, Causing Her Daughter to Miss School

2009-08-28

On March 9th, 2009, practitioner Ms. He Yana was arrested by the police when she was reported by an informant while visiting friends in the Hexi district. Afterwards, she was jailed in the Tianjin City Drug Rehabilitation Centre and is still being held there. Her family did not have money to pay the "fine." As a result, the police would not register her daughter as a resident, which in turn made her unable to go to school. In the past five months, Ms. He and her family have suffered a great deal. Her mother suffered from throat cancer, and was unable to speak after the operation. She became inconsolable whenever she thought of her daughter who was being persecuted.

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Persecution of Mr. Li Jianqiao and Ms. Li Xiaoyun from Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province

2009-08-28

Mr. Li Jianqian and Ms. Li Xiaoyun are husband and wife in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province. Mr. Li was a public servant, and Ms. Li was a school teacher. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, Mr. Li was sentenced to seven years in prison, and Ms. Li was forced to leave home and go from place to place. The last time they saw their son was four years ago, when he was three years old. Ms. Li said in a statement: "In the past several years, my family's phone and mobile phones have been tapped and they are constantly being monitored. My family members and my supervisors at work were in trouble because of me. They have suffered tremendous economic loss and mental pressure"

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Mr. Pang Shikun Dies in Custody

2009-08-27

Mr. Pang previously traded grain, and mixed sand in with his grain to increase his profits. He was thus sentenced to more than a dozen years of imprisonment. During his term in Gongzhuling Prison, he learned Falun Gong and enlightened to how a person should live and became determined to become a good person. However, guards inhumanly tortured him in order to force him give up the practice. He was transferred to the Siping Prison, locked in a small cell with no sunlight or bedding, for 13 months. He had endured unthinkable torture. On June 11th, 2009, guards called his family, said he was dying, and was being bailed out on medical parole. On June 13th, Mr. Pang died in the prison hospital.

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Mr. Guo Zhengpei Tortured to Death

2009-08-27

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Zhengpei was subjected to torture on many occasions after the persecution began in July 1999. Mr. Guo was sentenced to three-years in prison and was fired from his public position. There, guards forced him to move bricks from a hot brick kiln without protection. His hands were burned and covered with blood blisters. A guard once took Mr. Guo to an empty room and then ordered five or six prisoners to beat him. In 2004, Mr. Guo was sentenced to one-year of forced labour. Guards deprived him of sleep, beat him, kicked him as soon as he closed his eyes, and forced him to stand motionless under the hot sun for many hours. He finally died on April 25th, 2009.

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Ms. Xu Yuzhi, 56, Dies from Persecution

2009-08-27

Ms. Xu began cultivating Falun Gong in 2003, and her severe heart disease was gone soon after. Because she persisted in distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, the police arrested her in September 2006 from her home and sent her to forced labour for one year. Her heart disease recurred during detention, and Ms. Xu died on the early morning of July 25th, 2009.

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Judiciary Officials of a Dandong Court Stop a Lawyer's Defence

2009-08-27

On July 28th, 2009, the Yuanbao District Court of Dandong City, Liaoning Province convened a session to try Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiangju. Presiding Judge Wang and criminal court Presiding Judge Ma Shuhe repeatedly told the defence lawyer not to actively defend Ms. Wang Xiangju and not to enter an innocent plea. They threatened a harsher sentence if the lawyer did not comply. Ma Shuhe, the criminal court presiding judge of Yuanbao District Court of Dandong City said, "We will interrupt if the lawyer tries to defend his client. After three such instances, the lawyer will be expelled from the courtroom."

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