Torture

• Ms. Yuan Shuzhe Tortured at Twelfth Police Station in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

  2009-07-01
  On February 19th, 2005, police arrested Ms. Yuan Shuzhe in front of the Shijilianhua Market. At he police station, Ms. Yuan's hands were handcuffed behind her back. They stepped on her to make her squat. Then the short torturer squatted before her, and while holding her chin, asked, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" She would not answer. They repeatedly struck her head with full water bottles for a time until the short torturer asked again, "Are you Yuan Shuzhe?" Still, she did not answer. All three of the torturers beat her head. The two tall torturers stretched her arms upward as far as they could, inserted a needle into the tip of her right middle finger until it was about halfway in, then he turned the needle and pulled it out.
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• Ms. Sun Min Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances While Her Husband Is Arrested

  2009-07-01
  Mr. Wu Yang and his wife Ms. Sun Min went to Beijing to avoid being harassed and persecuted by their local Chinese Communist Party officials. On April 22nd, Mr. Wu Yang was distributing Falun Gong DVDs and was arrested. On April 28th, police sent Ms. Sun Min's family a "Death Notice" which stated: "On April 23rd, Sun Min was found dead as a result of falling from a height." However, Ms. Sun's family found marks of torture on her body, head, shoulder, neck, wrists and hands.
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• 65-Year-old Woman Persecuted Numerous Times and Now Unable to Return Home

  2009-06-30
  Ms. Xiang Maohua, 65, is a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Sichuan Province. During the past ten years, the police pursued and later arrested and detained her five times. She recounts: "The fourth time I was arrested, police slapped me in the face and grabbed my hair and knocked my head against a wall. They also forced me to stand for long periods of time. For twelve days in a row, they subjected me to various tortures, non-stop. My blood pressure suddenly shot up to 180 over 220 and I spat out blood... I was in grave danger."
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• Xiong Wende of Yingcheng City, Hubei Province, Homeless as a Result of the Persecution

  2009-06-30
  Mr. Xiong Wende was persecuted many times while in prison and in a mental hospital over the past few years. In October 2007, police arrested Xiong Wende. They took him to the Tangxunhu Brainwashing Centre in Wuhan City. Because Mr. Xiong refused to sell out his fellow practitioners, a director named Gong got very angry, grabbed Mr. Xiong's collar, and pulled him off his chair. He slapped him with both hands. In July 2008, police picked the lock on Xiong Wende's home. For about two hours they searched all over, confiscating many of his private belongings. Mr. Xiong was then arrested by the Public Security Bureau. He escaped after two days and is still unable to go home.
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• A Practitioner from Holland: "Beijing National Security Police Unjustly Interrogated Me"

  2009-06-30
  I work for a famous Dutch travel agency as a tour leader and have guided tourists in China for 18 years. In the second half of April 2009, while leading a tour group in China, I was arrested and interrogated by officers with Beijing's National Security force. On May 11th, after I took a tourist group to the airport, I went back to my hotel. At about 3 p.m., someone knocked on my door. It was hotel security. They told me that the police wanted to ask me some questions. I tried to close the door immediately, but they pushed their way in and arrested me.
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• More Information on Mr. Xie Deqing's Death in Chengdu City

  2009-06-30
  Mr. Xie Deqing was a healthy and energetic person. After twenty days of detention in the Xinjin Brainwashing Facility at the Chengdu Law Study Centre, how did he become only skin and bones? He became incontinent and was not able to eat or drink. He also had serious symptoms of angina pectoris and was unconscious much of the time. What happened at the brainwashing facility? What kind of persecution had Mr. Xie been subjected to? Before Mr. Xie passed away on May 29th, he told his family with great difficulty, "At the Xinjin Brainwashing Facility when I was taken to a hospital for a physical examination, I was injected with unknown drugs. I was barely able to eat or drink anything for the next ten days."
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• Mr. Zhu Hongbing Dies after Seven Years in Prison

  2009-06-29
  Mr. Zhu Hongbing was sentenced to seven years in the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City at the end of 2001. He refused to be brainwashed or wear the prisoner uniform, and was tortured brutally as a result. Mr. Zhu's term was to end by December 2008, but the prison administration refused to release him. Mr. Zhu went on a hunger strike until his life was endangered. Four people carried him out of the prison on December 29th, 2008. His family picked him up and took him to the hospital. His lungs had shrunk to the size of eggs. Mr. Zhu survived for six months in extreme pain and died on June 18th, 2009.
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• Mr. Liu Hongxiang Dies as Result of Persecution

  2009-06-29
  Mr. Liu Hongxiang, 34, was sentenced to three years of forced labour in 2000. The police sentenced Mr. Liu to another three years of forced labour in July 2004. In April 2009, his family took him to Shandong Province Tuberculosis Hospital and spent a large amount of money, but in vain. His liver and stomach were both ruined by the strong medication. He died early in the morning on June 20th, 2009.
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• 71-Year-Old Ms. Li Shuxian Dies as a Result of Persecution in Liaoning Province

  2009-06-29
  Ms. Li Shuxian, 71, was arrested, brutally beaten, and shocked with an electric baton in 2002 for practising Falun Gong. In 2005, Ms. Li was sentenced to four years in prison. Ms. Li underwent many types of torture, including brainwashing, physical mistreatment, being locked in the small cell. She developed a tumour and the prison released her in May 2007. The Administration of the Dabei Prison checked up on her twice to make sure she was, in fact, too sick to return to prison. She died on May 9th, 2009.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Zhiyun in Shanghai May Have Been Murdered with Poison

  2009-06-29
  Ms. Zhang Zhiyun, a sixty-six year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Shanghai, was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for over ten years and her house was monitored around the clock. In April 2009, Zhang Zhiyun went to the Public Security Bureau in Hongkou District to apply for a passport. Shortly after drinking water in the Public Security Bureau she felt sick all over her body and started to vomit blood heavily. After she had vomited blood for a week, her family took her to Central Hospital in the Hongkou District. On May 14th, 2009, Zhang Zhiyun suddenly passed away. Some doctors said privately that it was unusual and suspicious that she died so quickly.
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• I Witnessed the Shocking Condition of Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Jinzhong's Body Five Years Ago

  2009-06-28
  Five years ago, Falun Gong practitioner Wang Jinzhong from Shenyang was tortured to death and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police sent his body to the hospital "to save him," but did so only after his death in an attempt to cover up their guilt. An eyewitness named Zhen witnessed the miserable shape of Wang Jinzhong's body and has verified that Wang Jinzhong was sent to the hospital only after he had been tortured to death by the policemen.
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• Additional Information on the Sentencing of Xie Shuhuan and Xia Xingmin in Hebei Province

  2009-06-28
  Mr. Xia Xingmin was arrested and detained by the "Falun Gong Task Force". During his detention, Mr. Xia was handcuffed, shackled, and pushed to the ground. They put a bench on his waist, using its four legs to hold him down, and a very large person sat on top of it. Four people shocked him all over with electric batons. They took turns in two-hour shifts, and shocked him for a whole night and worked him over. The next day, they locked him onto an iron chair (used specifically for torturing practitioners) for three consecutive days and nights. Every day they used a one-inch-diameter, two-foot-long baton to beat him on the back and thighs several times. His whole body was bruised during the 54-day detention. Later he was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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• Thirteen Practitioners Arrested and Detained by Police from Anhua County, Hunan Province

  2009-06-28
  On June 6th, 2009, about a dozen police officers from the police station in Anhua County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province intruded into Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiao Jianqing's house after they shut off the electricity. They arrested 20 practitioners who were having an experience-sharing conference. Since July 20th, 1999, Chen Yongsheng, the 610 Office director in Anhua County has relentlessly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Starting in 2001, Chen launched massive arrests of Falun Gong practitioners and ransacked their houses, taking away all their valuables. His subordinate beat practitioner Zhou Fuliang to death, yet such a perpetrator has gone unpunished.
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• Details of the Death Due to Persecution of Ms. Su Yanhua from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province

  2009-06-28
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Su Yanhua was arrested several times and detained for her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. While incarcerated at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp, she refused to give up Falun Gong. The guards savagely beat her, force-fed her, tortured her with the "Death Bed" and the "Big Hang-up", and shocked her with high-voltage electric batons. They forced her to sit on stools with spikes on them, which caused severe and irreversible injuries. She died on May 4th, 2009 as a result.
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• The Persecution of 80-Year-Old Ms. Deng Meizhen

  2009-06-27
  I went to appeal for Falun Gong's human rights in Beijing, to tell the authorities my personal experience of benefiting from Falun Gong. But I was arrested and detained. Later I went to Beijing to appeal again. I was detained at the Dianbai County No. 2 Detention Centre. I was handcuffed to a window frame, deprived of sleep for five consecutive days and nights. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and they brutally force-fed me. One time, the deputy head of the detention centre pushed me and I fell down hard. He violently kicked me several times in the abdomen. Other personnel and practitioners quickly pulled me out, fearing I might die from his brutality. Another time, Deputy Head Liang pushed me and made me hit a cement bed.
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