Torture

• The Persecution of Practitioners Employed by Kunming Steel Company, Yunnan Province

  2009-07-20
  Ms. Guan Hongfen, in her forties, was reported while she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a certain village in An'ning City in early 2009. Luckily, she escaped. In March she was arrested by 610 Office personnel and national security police in the An'ning City Police Department, sentenced to two years of forced labour, and taken to the Dabanqiao (also known as the "ten-thousand-people pit"). Another practitioner, who had gone along with Ms. Guan to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong was also arrested. Her situation is not clear.
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• Former Elementary School Principal Dies after Severe Persecution

  2009-07-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tan Deyi lived in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. At a forced labour camp, Mr. Tan was forced to make toothpicks. If he could not complete the daily work quota, he was not allowed to eat or sleep and had to work overtime. Mr. Tan resisted, so the guards tortured him by piercing his fingertips with sharp bamboo sticks, hanging him up, and other methods. As a result of gross abuse he suffered from recurring abdominal pain and was unable to do heavy work. Mr. Tan He died at home on June 25th, 2009, at the age of 59.
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• Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Miyi County, Sichuan Province, Disabled Due to Persecution in Prison

  2009-07-19
  Mr. Zhu Mingchun, a physician, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Because he escaped on the way to the prison and later was arrested again, his prison term was lengthened by one and a half years by the judge and judicial officers at the Miyi County Court on April 6th, 2004. His total prison term is nine and a half years. He is now in Wumaping Prison, Muchuan County. He has also became disabled due to persecution in prison.
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• Changchun City Intermediate Court Obstructs Human Rights Lawyers from Defending Falun Gong Practitioners

  2009-07-19
  On March 27th, 2009, the Nong'an County Court in Jilin Province held a "public sentencing" of seven Falun Gong practitioners without notifying any family members. After that day, other practitioners and their families hired fourteen human rights lawyers to defend them at the second trial. The Changchun City Intermediate Court continues to obstruct the involvement of the lawyers in this case. After overcoming various obstacles, the fourteen lawyers delivered the lawyers' letter to the intermediate court. The court was afraid after seeing this large team of lawyers that were defending the practitioners, so they never responded regarding the date of the second trial. The date of the second trial is still in limbo.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in the Yang-ai Prison, Guizhou Province

  2009-07-19
  The prison guards forbade the family members of the practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong in Yang-ai Prison to see them, thus cutting off their financial sources. They forced the practitioners to say "The Communist Party is good" before they could eat. To avoid doing that, many practitioners went on hunger strike or simply gave up their meals. A practitioner asked the prison guard Huang Chun: "Why don't you release them for medical treatment when they are in such poor physical condition?" Huang said: "They have not yet been transformed into giving up Falun Gong, so they cannot be released for medical treatment."
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• Practitioner Zhang Hongwei Is Critically Ill after Eight Years in Jilin Prison

  2009-07-18
  On January 20th, 2001, Mr. Zhang Hongwei was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment by the Fangshan District Court in Beijing after he was found preparing materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang has been subjected to brutal torture for eight years. Because he refused to give up his belief, he was forcibly put on a "stretching bed" -- this is where the guards fix a practitioner's limbs to a specially made bed on which there are four rings and the practitioner's hands and feet are fixed in the rings. The guards then apply force to the rings so that the practitioner's body is pulled up, away from the bed as their limbs are stretched. Mr. Zhang is now critically ill, but Jilin Prison authorities won't allow him to be released on bail for medical treatment, and his family has not been not allowed to visit him.
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• Mourning the Loss of Practitioner Zhang Dezhen

  2009-07-18
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Dezhen, 38 years old, was persecuted to death a few years ago by the Mengyin County 610 Office in Shandong Province. On January 31st, 2003, doctors injected toxic drugs into Zhang Dezhen, which soon caused her death. Zhang Dezhen's family and friends strongly requested the Mengyin County Judicial Department to punish the murderers according to the law. But several years have passed, and they still haven't had any response.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Peng Xiaomei from Hunan Province Forced into Brainwashing Centre

  2009-07-18
  On June 9th, 2009, Ms. Peng Xiaomei, 56, a Falun Gong practitioner retired from China Construction Bank in Hunan Province, was arrested by the Liuzhengjie Public Security Bureau in Changsha City. Without any legal representation or judicial protocol, Ms. Peng was taken to the Changsha City Rule of Law Education Training Centre (a brainwashing centre) in Laodaohe Town, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Over the last decade Ms. Peng has endured much harassment and numerous arrests at the hands of the local authorities.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Beaten and Tortured in the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province

  2009-07-18
  In March 2009 the Heizuizi Labour Camp refused to release a Falun Gong practitioner from the 4th Squadron, although her term had officially ended. Instead, they arbitrarily extended her term and beat her. In protest, other Falun Gong practitioners at the camp refused to perform forced labour, put on the prisoner uniform and name card or to answer roll call. In retaliation, many of those steadfast practitioners were tortured on the so-called "death bed". Ms. Jin Yingshi was then taken to the prison guards' office where many prison guards shouted at her, beat her, and tried to force her to put on the prison uniform, but she refused. After six continuous days of torture she became bedridden and became unable to go to meals on her own.
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• Two Sisters Imprisoned; Their Elderly Father Dies of a Broken Heart

  2009-07-17
  Ms. Chen Yuxiang and Ms. Chen Yufen, sisters and Falun Gong practitioners from Laixi City, Qingdao, Shandong Province, were arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel and sentenced to five and three years of imprisonment, respectively. Their father was over 80 years old and in poor health. When he heard that his beloved daughters were jailed by the CCP simply because they believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and tried to be good, he could not bear the mental pressure and the heavy blow. His condition deteriorated and he passed away in the evening on May 19th, 2009.
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• Practitioners Harassed at the Qingpu District Domestic Security Section in Huai'an City, Jiangshu Province

  2009-07-17
  The Qingpu District Domestic Security Section in Huai'an City, Jiangshu Province, has harassed more than ten practitioners in the last two months. Ms. Sha Suyun, 74, was arrested on May 25th, 2009, by police and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The officers searched her home and interrogated her at the Zhakou Police Station and later at the Qingpu Police Department. Officer Ma Erhua forced her to sign a notice stating that she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and that she would serve her sentence outside the labour camp.
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• Countryside Teacher Zhu Puzhao in Exile to Avoid Further Persecution

  2009-07-17
  While Mr. Zhu Puzhao was putting up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in November 2005 some people reported him and he was arrested. Police sent him to the Hunan Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp to serve one year and three months of hard labour. Zhu Puzhao was subjected to a multitude of tortures. He suffered brutal forced-feeding. During the forced-feeding, the camp doctor used a device to keep his mouth wide open, then used a pair of pliers to pull his tongue. Porridge mixed with unknown yellow-coloured substances was then forced into his mouth from a funnel connected to a rubber tube. The porridge ran into his lungs as he breathed. It has been a year and a half since Zhu Puzhao decided to leave home and become homeless.
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• The Naked Truth about Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-17
  Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp has received many awards and commendations from upper-level authorities in the past, won due to falsifications and deceit by camp personnel. In the pursuit of justice and to keep their evil conduct from spilling over into other camps, I'm making public the true situation. Prisoners are forced to get up at 5:45 or 6:10 a.m. These times change every five days. We work until around 10:00 p.m. or even later. When we have a deadline, it is not uncommon that we work until midnight or sometimes until the morning. Everyone is stressed out. Prisoners often beat and curse people. A drug addict beat me. My head was swollen, but the officer on duty simply laughed and walked away.
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• The Torture I Experienced in Shanxi Province First Prison

  2009-07-16
  One night I did the Falun Gong exercises and was reported. Two guards came. One of them shocked me behind my neck with an electric baton, causing me excruciating pain. After the sizzling sound, I smelled a strong burning smell. I was also cuffed to the bed and deprived of sleep at nights by the inmates assigned to watch me. When forced to stand against a wall and I was not paying attention, and the police officers violently hit my head against the wall. They did not care that I might get injured. I was told they had killed practitioners this way.
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• Mr. Wang Xinchun Arrested and Tortured, His Wife Sentenced to Forced Labour and His Daughter Forced to Quit School

  2009-07-16
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xinchun is from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. In the No. 2 Detention Centre of Jixi City, the guards tortured him, attempting to force him to make a "confession." As a result of the abuse, his face swelled up, his mouth bled, one could see the white of his skull, and he fell unconscious. Presently, he is receiving emergency treatment in a hospital. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang has suffered severe persecution while in custody four times.
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