Torture
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Cui Junchen's Family in Wucheng County, Shandong Province Persecuted For Ten Years
2009-08-19
On July 20th, 2009, more than 20 police officers intruded into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Junchen's home and arrested him and his daughter. In the last ten years Mr. Cui's home was ransacked seven times. Between the family members, there were 13 arrests and imprisonments. Mr. Cui was sent to forced labour for two years. He lost several hundred thousands of yuan in his business of forestry. His mother died because of the persecution. His wife was sent to 18 months of forced labour. Tens of thousands of yuan was extorted from the family. -
Sixteen-year-old Miss Sun Xinjuan Detained in Tancheng County, Shandong Province
2009-08-19In late July 2009, police arrested sixteen-year-old Miss Sun Xinjuan because she distributed materials about Falun Gong. She is currently detained at Linyi City Brainwashing Centre. During the summer exam, Miss Sun took some leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong from her mother to leave at school for her teachers and fellow students to take. She hoped that they could learn the truth and not be misled by the Chinese Communist Party's fabricated lies and propaganda. An administrator found the materials. The school authorities took her to the police station. Her parents were also arrested and sent to a detention centre. -
Ms. Dang Huiying, 53, Persecuted at Three Different Forced Labour Camps
2009-08-18Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dang Huiying had been successively held at the Baoding Forced Labour Camp, the Shijiazhuang Women's Forced Labour Camp and the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp, and persecuted for six years just for speaking out for justice for Falun Gong to the government. She said about her experience: "In Shijiazhuang Women's Forced Labour Camp, I was forced to be "transformed". The guards force fed me with chilli mixed with essential balm, alkali and salt, which hurt so much that I couldn't help yelling. I once saw the guards pry open the teeth of Ms. Zhang Rongjie. She refused to open her mouth, so the guards pulled four of her front teeth out with pliers. Blood filled her mouth; her screams spread throughout the whole women's labour camp." -
Three Women from Wei County, Hebei Province Beaten and Tortured by the Police
2009-08-18
On July 15th, 2009, a horrible scene was staged in the Xiheying Town Police Station of Wei County, Hebei Province. The victims were three women who practise Falun Gong. One of them was with her 2-year-old daughter. Four to five policemen, uttering abusive words, cruelly beat them, slapped them in the face, shocked them with electric batons and choked them with cigarette smoke. When a group of police became too tired to continue the beating, another group of police would step in to continue the abuse. -
Mr. Zheng Fangjun Dies from the Persecution He Endured While in a Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-18Mr. Zheng Fangjun served two sentences in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp. Throughout his confinement, he persisted in his beliefs and refused to write a repentance statement, or letter denouncing Falun Gong. As a result, he was held in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp for an additional term. After his release in 2005, he was taken to the Guananju Police Station. The officials intended to transfer Mr Zheng to a brainwashing centre for further persecution, but Mr. Zheng escaped by jumping into a river at night, and forced to leave home in order to avoid further persecution. During this period, he could not eat properly and developed asthma as a result of the persecution. He died on July 21st, 2009, at only 44 years of age. -
Ms. Zhang Yancun Beaten and Sexually Abused at Hebei Women's Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-18Ms. Zhang Yancun is a Falun Gong practitioner. On September 19th, 2008, Liu Ziwei forced Ms. Zhang to have her hair cut. When she resisted, Liu Ziwei, along with other guards took off Ms. Zhang clothes and shocked her with electric batons for 40 minutes until her face turned pale and her body was trembling. Hiding their criminal deeds, Liu Ziwei and her associates confined her in a separate cell and handcuffed her to the radiator, forcing her to sit in the same position for 48 hours. She had to eat and relieve herself in that small cell. Liu Ziwei instructed drug addicts to strip all of Zhang Yanchun's clothes off to beat and sexually abuse her. They not only tore the hair out of her head, but also tore out her pubic hair. -
Ms. Guo Chuanshu, 62, Dies in Custody at Chongqing Women's Prison
2009-08-17Ms. Guo Chuanshu, 62 and retired, was transferred to the Chongqing City Women's Prison on November 14th, 2008, and died there on August 9th, 2009. She was arrested 6 times, twice sent to a forced labour camp, and twice sentenced to prison. She was once paralysed due to the torture she suffered in the Chongqing City Women's Prison. -
At Least 25 Practitioners Employed at the Daqing City Oil Field Tortured to Death by the Communist Regime
2009-08-17
Because he refused to give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance at the Daqing Forced Labour Camp, Mr. Wang Bin, 47, was brutally tortured on September 27th, 2000. He sustained a ruptured carotid artery, ruptured blood vessels, and fractures. His tonsils and lymph nodes were ruptured as well. The backs of his hands showed infected cigarette burns. Cigarette butts were inserted into his nose and burned him. He was completely bruised. After he was beaten to death, his organs were removed. -
Mr. Gao Ke Tortured in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-17Mr. Gao Ke is a teacher in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. However, during the past ten years, he has been arrested by the police eight times for talking to people about the truth behind the persecution of Falun Gong, his home was ransacked seven times, he was sentenced to forced labour four times and fined on numerous occasions, and his wages were withheld and reduced, causing him a financial loss of several tens of thousands of yuan. Most recently he was the object of inhuman abuse in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. To avoid further arrests and persecution, Mr. Gao has fled home and is now forced to be homeless. -
The Persecution of Ms. Zhang Yingji, an Ethnic Korean Practitioner from Yanbian
2009-08-17Ms. Zhang Yingji has often been harassed by police since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999 and she was once sentenced to a year of forced labour in 2007. In the labour camp, the guard assigned several people to monitor her, try to brainwash her, and verbally abuse and threaten her. At the beginning, she was not allowed to sleep. Later they forced her to work in the workshop but told her to guarantee that she wouldn't promote Falun Gong in the workshop. When she refused to write the guarantee statement, they forced her to sign a statement someone else had written. -
Taiwanese Falun Gong Practitioner Forcibly Taken Away While Visiting Relatives in China
2009-08-16Because she practises Falun Gong, Ms. Shao Yuhua, a permanent resident of Taiwan, was forcibly taken away by agents from the Chinese Communist Party National Security Bureau on the morning of July 31st, 2009. She had travelled to China to visit relatives in Nanyang, Henan Province. Her whereabouts remain unknown. According to Ms. Xiao, who lives in the same city, agents from the National Security Bureau first deceived Ms. Shao with a phone call and coerced her into leaving her sister's home. They then forcibly took her away and searched her sister's home, confiscating her money, passport and luggage. They then took away Shao Yuhua's sister Shao Yuxiu as well. -
The Chinese Communist Party Has Committed Many Serious Crimes in Ten Years of Persecuting Falun Gong
2009-08-16The total number of reported cases of persecution collected by the Minghui Data Centre were 48,085 (from June 1st, 2002 to July 15th, 2009). As of July 15th, 2009, a total of 3,294 Falun Gong practitioners are confirmed to have died as a direct result of the persecution. These death cases are spread out over 31 provinces and autonomous regions in China. Of these deaths, 53.46 per cent or 1,716 of the victims were women, and 43.05 per cent or 1,418 of the victims were men. In 115 death cases or 3.49 per cent the gender of the victim is unknown. On average, 27 practitioners have died each month. -
Ms. Li Yuhuauhua Dies Five Days After Her Release from Yangmahe Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-16Ms. Li Yuhua went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in December 2000, and was arrested and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour in the Nanmusi Labour Camp. She was tortured by being forced to stand for long periods of times, and not allowed to use the toilet. She was sentenced to another two years of forced labour in July 2003. In March 2006 she was arrested again and sent to the Yangmahe Labour Camp for three years of forced labour. Ms. Li endured numerous tortures, and was on the verge of death. The camp administration feared she would die in custody and notified her family to pick her up on June 16th, 2009. Only five days after Ms. Li returned home, she died on June 21st. -
More and More Righteous Voices Being Heard in the Courts
2009-08-16On July 8th, 2009, the Shuangliu County Court in Chengdu held a trial for Falun Gong practitioner Deng Xiaoming. Xie Yanyi and Li Fuchun, lawyers from Beijing, entered a "not guilty" plea for Mr. Deng. During the trial Xie Yanyi advised all those involved in persecuting Falun Gong in the judicial system to stop immediately. Lawyer Xie Yanyi completed his plea after being interrupted twenty times by Judge Yu Rong. Xie accused the judicial department of committing five crimes by illegally bringing Deng Xiaoming to trial, including perjury, abuse of authority, perverting the course of justice by prosecution, perverting the course of justice by trial, and subversion of the state's authority. In the end, the public prosecutor sentenced Deng Xiaoming to six and a half years imprisonment on no legal grounds and without reasonable cause. -
Ms. Song Bing, 37, Dies as Result of Brutal Torture
2009-08-15Ms. Song Bing, 37, was cruelly tortured in a detention centre in 2003 because she refused to give up Falun Gong. Police poured mustard oil into her nose during interrogation. The mustard oil got into her windpipe, which made her lungs feel an explosion of pain. The officers took turns pouring more bottles of mustard oil into her mouth and nose, choking her many times until she nearly passed out. Ms. Song was sentenced to 14 years in prison because police made up a statement that they found 30,000 pieces of Falun Gong literature at her home. Ms. Song Bing developed tuberculosis in prison nd she died on July 30th, 2009.
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