Torture

Police in Baoshan District, Shanghai Arrest and Gag Innocent People with Plastic Bags

2009-06-23

On April 25th, 2009, several police broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qian Yuhua's home, held her to the ground and handcuffed her. Her daughter-in-law held on to her mother-in-law to prevent her from being taken away. The police grabbed her barbarically, then handcuffed and arrested her daughter-in-law. The police were afraid that the neighbours might be alarmed if the two women protested the arrest loudly, so they covered their mouths with plastic bags, making it difficult for them to breathe. Ms. Qian Yuhua was taken to the Baoshan District Detention Centre.

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Two Female Farmers in Shandong Province Wrongfully Sent to Forced Labour Camp

2009-06-23

On January 2nd, 2009, Ms. Jiang Xiumei and Ms. Cui Xiuhua, two farmers from Laixi City, Shandong Province, were arrested and sentenced to a forced labour camp for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Because Jiang Xiumei is nearly seventy, the labour camp refused to take her. Cui Xiuhua however, is being tortured in the labour camp. After Ms. Cui Xiuhua was arrested, the police would not allow her family to visit, nor did they tell them her whereabouts. They even extorted over two hundred yuan from her family.

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Mr. Shi Xiaochun, Practitioner from Heilongjiang Province, Sentenced to Forced Labour Five Times

2009-06-23

On April 10th, 2008, officers from the Qianjin Police Station in Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province broke into 48-year-old Mr. Shi Xiaochun's home. They ransacked his home and arrested him. On May 21st, 2008, his family received notice of his sentence of forced labour. He was sent to the Suihua Forced Labour Camp on the same day. Mr. Shi has suffered through many periods of detention and various torture methods since the persecution of Falun Gong began. This has left his family in turmoil as well.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Changyuan Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

2009-06-23

While distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, Mr. Chen Changyuan was seized by police in July 2008. On April 29th 2009, Mr. Chen was sentenced to three years in prison by the Chengdu Gaoxin District Court in Sichuan Province. Only three family members were allowed in the courtroom. During the trial, the judge frequently interrupted the defence lawyer and his client's statements. Furthermore, Mr. Chen's wife was not allowed to speak. The situation was so unjust that she decided to leave the courtroom. After Mr. Chen was sentenced to three years of imprisonment, he indicated that he would appeal the ruling.

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Family of a Nine-Year-Old Girl Is Torn Apart

2009-06-22

Haihui, a 9-year-old girl, used to have a happy family, but this family has been torn apart as a result of the persecution of Falun Gong. Both of Haihui's parents practise Falun Gong. On August 16th, 2008, five policemen took away her father Guo Jian. In September, police came again and took away her mother. As a result, Haihui has to stay with her elderly grandma, and they are both barely getting by with great difficulty.

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Three Children Left to Fend for Themselves with Mother Detained and Father Driven Mad

2009-06-22

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wei Lianhua was arrested by the police in 2008 while she was making leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Baodi District. She is currently being detained in the Tianjin Women Prison. Wei Lianhua's husband has met with great difficulties since his wife suffered this persecution. Due to the pressure of making a living for himself and his three children, he had to ask the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials to return the 8,000 yuan they had borrowed from him and had not repaid for several years. However, the local officials refused, claiming they did not have the funds. suffering a nervous breakdown, with his wife in jail and unable to support his family. The three children have to now fend for themselves.

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Falun Gong Practitioners Tried by Jinshantun Court in Yichun City

2009-06-22

On December 1st, 2008, three practitioners were arrested by police for possessing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Police also ransacked their homes and interrogated them, attempting to extort confessions. During the interrogation, Mr. Zhang Peixun lost consciousness twice due to brutal beatings. Their families hired six lawyers to defend these innocent practitioners. After six months of detention, the three practitioners were brought to trial at Jinshantun Court. Bystanders outside the court remarked, "Even a murder trial is not as heavily guarded as this!" The dossier presented by the prosecution was unknown to the defence lawyers, who protested, "This is against the law."

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The Persecution of Ms. Lei Xinlian Over the Past Ten Years

2009-06-22

Ms. Lei Xinlian, 58, went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practise Falun Gong in 2000. Since she has suffered repeated persecution by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents. In July 2001, Ms. Lei was taken by police officers to the Zizhong Nanmusi Women's Prison in Sichuan for a two-year prison term. There, she was forced to kneel down for a long time, deprived of sleep, had her face slapped and was beaten. Since July 20th, 1999 and up to now, Ms. Lei's home has been ransacked frequently for two years and she was detained for a total of five years. She was homeless for about four and a half years. Her husband was detained for two months, and was homeless for nine years.

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The Persecution and Untimely Death of Older Mr. Wang Hongrong in Hefei City, Anhui Province

2009-06-21

59-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Hongrong was sentenced to jail for eight years in 2005 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was tortured by prison guards in Suzhou Prison and became paralysed. The police released him when he was in critical condition and the hospital diagnosed him with bone cancer. Two months later, on June 22nd, 2007, he passed away at home.

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Mr. Pan Yujun Once Again Suffering from Cruel Torture

2009-06-21

On May 20th, 2009, six practitioners, including Mr. Pan Yujun were sentenced and sent to Jinan Prison. Since Mr. Pan Yujun was arrested again, he has been cruelly tortured. He weighs barely over 100 pounds, is extremely weak and unable to stand up, is incontinent, has no energy to talk aloud, and lives every day in a great amount of pain. He has been on a hunger strike for more than seven months. The guards conduct force-feeding on him once a week which causes him to almost pass out each time. The detention centre and the court are withholding information about his condition from his family

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Unimaginable Cruelty at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

2009-06-21

Mr. Luo Chungui, a 55-year-old practitioner, shouted, "Falun Gong is good" while he was being tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. The guards used electric batons on his mouth. Within half an hour his mouth was swollen and all his teeth were loosened. That was not enough. The guards continued to shock his face and neck for over two hours. Mr. Luo still refused to be "reformed." The guards then forced him to stand with both hands handcuffed to the metal headboard of an upper bunk bed for three days. He could only rely on infusion because he could not eat anything. Three days later he could barely manage to consume porridge. His mouth was swollen for a month. Even now the colour of his face, mouth and neck is still black.

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Ms. Guo Juxiang from Shandong Province Died from Long Term Torture

2009-06-21

Ms. Guo Juxiang was reported for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and police arrested her in September 2001. Zhang Shaobo and some other policemen kicked her in the lower back to the point where she could no longer stand up. A team leader at the detention centre shocked her with four or five electric batons until she lost consciousness. She was arrested again in 2001 and taken to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. Three months later, the forced labour camp instructed her family to pay a fee and take her back home. Ms. Guo could no longer take care of herself because of the ordeals that she'd gone through. Ms. Guo passed away on January 26th, 2009.

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Elderly Mr. Huang Huaxian Dies after Suffering Police Abuse; Family Harassed

2009-06-20

After the persecution started in 1999, 70-year-old Huang Huaxian told people about the beauty of Falun Gong and about the lies and propaganda spread by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to justify the persecution. The CCP never stopped harassing him. They ransacked his home many times, extorted money from him, threatened him, arrested him and sent him to a brainwashing centre and to a detention house on two occasions. On June 22nd, 2008, police deceitfully got Mr. Huang to go to a CCP village meeting to "Expose and Criticize Huang Huaxian". At the meeting, Mr. Huang was publicly criticized, humiliated and verbally attacked. He felt severe anguish, and his blood pressure sky rocketed. Three days later Mr. Huang passed away.

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Mr. Du's Two Sons-in-law Died of Persecution, One Daughter Imprisoned

2009-06-20

On May 23rd, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Ming died at Daqing Prison. Mr. Li's father-in-law is Du Yude. Du Yude's other son-in-law, Mr. Yu Huaicai died from persecution at Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in 2007. Mr. Du's daughter Du Xiuzhi, Li Ming's wife, is currently incarcerated at Harbin Women's Prison. Mr. Yu Huaicai went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. As a result, he was brutally force-fed by the guards. He had been a healthy man, 1.91 metres tall and weighed over 261 lbs. At the time of his death, he only weighted about 100 lbs.

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Sisters Ms. Zhang Hongying, Ms. Zhang Jiashuang and Ms. Lu Tao Persecuted in Miyi County, Sichuan Province

2009-06-20

From November 2nd, 2006 to May 2009, Ms. Lu Tao, Ms. Zhang Hongying and her sister, Ms. Zhang Jiashuang, have been detained for 2 years and 7 months, including 10 months in the Miyi County Detention Centre for practising Falun Gong. At present, they are detained in the Chengdu City Women's Prison. When they were arrested in 2006 the three practitioners were tied up together and hung up from the window bars with their feet in the air for three days. During that time, the police pulled their hair and slammed their heads against the wall. They contnued to suffer brutal torture in detention.

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