Torture

• Additional Information on Ms. Wang Wenduan and Ms. Sun Shouqi's Deaths Due to Torture in Dingzhou City, Hebei Province

  2009-07-05
  Ms. Wang Wenduan, 53, was arrested, detained, tortured and forced to do hard labour because she refused to give up Falun Gong. In a detention centre guards tried to force her to give up her belief. They shocked her with electric batons and beat her with rubber batons. They spread her arms and legs, cuffed them on an iron bed, and then they beat the soles of her feet with wooden batons with nails, smashing her feet. Because of the trauma she passed away in July 2004.
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• Mr. Yang Xiuming, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Hunan Province, Detained in Prison in Guizhou Province for Five Years

  2009-07-04
  Mr. Yang Xiuming, a Falun Gong practitioner and officer in the Xinhuang County Civil Affairs Bureau, was reported to the police for distributing information about Falun Gong. He was arrested by police. Mr. Yang is currently being held in the Yuping County Detention Centre. He has been sentenced to a term of seven years imprisonment. Prior to his sentencing, he had been detained and persecuted in Dujun City Prison where he was not allowed any visits by his family members
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• Five Practitioners in Chongqing City Recently Sent to Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-04
  Practitioner Ms. Tan Yinxiang was arrested at noon on March 16th, 2009. That night a group of three or four police ransacked Ms. Tan's home. Her daughter tried every possible way to find out where Ms. Tan was taken, but by the end of March, she still had no clue. Ms. Tan is currently jailed at the Shabao Women's Forced Labour Camp and has been sentenced for two years forced labour. Four other practitioners in the area were also arrested and sent to forced labour.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners Secretly Sentenced in Heilongjiang Province

  2009-07-04
  On June 18th, 2009, the Jinshantun Court of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province secretly opened a session and gave long sentences to three Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Zhang Peixun, Mr. Zhang Yongsheng and Mr. Li Congfu were given prison sentences of nine, eleven, and eight years, respectively. It was clear that the judge intended to convict the three practitioners with a charge of interfering with the implementation of law. When the practitioners' lawyers asked which law the practitioners interfered the implementation of, the judge could not respond. The three practitioners have submitted an appeal of the unjust sentences.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xixian Arrested and Robbed by the Police, then Forced to Leave Home to Avoid Further Persecution

  2009-07-04
  Ms. Zhu Xixian, over 50 years old, is a practitioner from Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. Since last year, she has been arrested and detained by the police twice, and had large amounts of money extorted from her. Each time she was persecuted to the brink of death. Ms. Zhu was able to flee to freedom, but now she is forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution.
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• Mr. Guo Xingguo Dies One Month after Being Released from Prison in Heilongjiang Province

  2009-07-03
  Mr. Guo Xingguo, around 40 years old, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after attempting to go to Beijing to appeal against the persecution in 2002. In 2003, he was released because he was dying as a result of torture. But in 2004 he was imprisoned again. He became ill again and died on June 3rd, 2009.
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• Ms. Fang Min Tortured to the Verge of Death at Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-03
  Forty-something-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fang Min was severely persecuted at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp and her life was in danger. She had symptoms of cancer, her four limbs were swollen and she was not able to speak. The forced labour camp issued a notice for her to be released on bail for medical treatment on June 8th, 2009. The local police station came to take her back on June 9th and she was sent home the same day.
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• Chongqing City Politics and Law Committee Secretary Wan Fenghua Forces Mr. Jiang Xiqing's Family to Forfeit Legal Proceedings

  2009-07-03
  In January 2009, guards in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City beat practitioner Mr. Jiang Xiqing until he was unconscious. While he was still alive, the guards cremated him. In the afternoon on May 13th, lawyers Mr. Zhang Kai, and Mr. Li Chunfu from Beijing were in the victim's home providing legal assistance and investigating the case when they were detained, beaten, and interrogated for over five hours. There were over twenty police officers at the scene. To force Mr. Jiang's family to abandon legal proceedings, Jiangjin District Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politics and Law Committee Secretary Wan Fenghua increased the threats and persecution against Mr. Jiang's family.
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• Ms. Guan Hua Severely Tortured by Wanjia Forced Labour Camp Guards

  2009-07-03
  On February 1st, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guan Hua was sentenced to one year and six months of "re-education" through forced labour in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. The guards attempted to force the practitioners to take a so-called test. The guards decided that Ms. Guan failed her "examination," so they forced her to stand on a stool, then pulled both hands behind her back. A guard tied her hands with one end of a rope, then passed the another end through a heating pipe above a window, while two other guards pulled forcefully on the rope. Ms. Guan then hung helplessly in the air. In order to cover up their torture activities, guard Jiang Tao used adhesive tape to cover Ms. Guan's mouth.
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• Mr. Liang Yuncheng Tortured to Near Blindness; Family Members Are Not Allowed to Visit

  2009-07-02
  Mr. Liang Yuncheng, 42, a resident from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province, was arrested for practising Falun Gong. He was detained for more than three months and tortured to near blindness. Recently, the director of the Fengcheng Detention Centre called Mr. Liang's brother and told him that Mr. Liang needed a defence lawyer for his upcoming trial. When Mr. Liang's brother went to the detention centre to find out more about the case, the guards would not let him in the building.
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• Shijiazhuang Prison Refuses to Release Mr. Li Feng, in Critical Condition

  2009-07-02
  Mr. Li Feng is imprisoned at the Fourth Prison of Shijiazhuang City. He is in critical condition, but the prison administration refuses to release him to get medical help. Mr. Li developed many severe illnesses as a result of persecution after he was imprisoned in 2002. In 2005, he was in a coma for 14 hours after he was forced to work under 113 degree Fahrenheit conditions in a tube factory. By June 2nd, 2009, Mr. Li had high blood pressure. He also suffers from uncontrollable vomiting. Mr. Li is in critical condition yet the prison refuses to release him.
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• Mr. Xu Dawei Cruelly Tortured in Prison Before He Died at Age 34

  2009-07-02
  Mr. Xu Dawei, 34, was from Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Mr. Xu was persecuted for eight years by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in four prisons. Mr. Xu was tortured in a number of ways: violent brainwashing, being forced to wear handcuffs and shackles for extensive periods of time, brutal beatings, being hung up, force-feeding, being beaten with a rubber hose, being pierced with a steel needle more than 10 cm long, and electric baton shocks. Just 13 days after returning home, on February 16th, 2009, Mr. Xu died.
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• Villager in Donggang City, Liaoning Province, Arrested and Persecuted until Critically Ill

  2009-07-02
  On September 25th, 2008, when Ms. Zhao Guiqin was doing housework at home, police arrested and detained her at the Donggang Detention Centre. On December 12th, 2008, Ms. Zhao was secretly sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment by the public security and procuratorate authorities and the people's court. At present, Ms. Zhao can no longer walk due to the brutal torture, but the Donggang Procuratorial Judicial and Public Security Committee refuses to release her.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Nailun from Mengyin County, Shandong Province Suffers Years of Persecution

  2009-07-01
  Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, the County 610 Office agents detained Mr. Liu Nailun, 40, in brainwashing centres twice, four months in all. He eventually served three years in a forced labour camp, followed by a four-year prison sentence. His wife was forced to divorce him. Liu Nailun did not give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance during his four-year prison term and returned home with his head held high. He lost all of his possessions. He has found a menial job and lives a hard life.
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• Practitioners Viciously Beaten and Tortured in Laizhou City Domestic Security Division in Shandong Province

  2009-07-01
  On August 8th, 2008, Laizhou City police scaled the wall of the place where I was staying and arrested me and took me to Dianzi Brainwashing Centre. During the 12-day detention in the brainwashing centre, there were eight days when I was hung up [by handcuffed wrists] and deprived of sleep. Because my arms were cuffed for so long, I couldn't move them at all after I was finally let down. My legs and feet were swollen to the point that I couldn't wear my shoes. My hands had no feeling and I couldn't straighten my fingers. Now that seven months have passed, I still have numbness in my hands, and my ears sometimes ring. My left arm still hurts and I can't move it very quickly.
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