Torture

• My Experiences in Linxiang City Detention Centre

  2009-05-13
  When I was explaining the truth about Falun Gong to the people in my aunt's town I was reported by somebody and was arrested on August 11th, 2008 by police officers. The police said "How dare you promote Falun Gong here. We will send you to the hospital for the mentally ill and kill you by injecting you with poisonous drugs!" Then they demanded to know about the Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution I had with me. In the detention centre an officer slapped my face and then punched me in the jaw with all his might. They also trampled all over my chest. After they beat me for several rounds, my chin was swollen and I lost my hearing in my left ear.
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• 67-Year-Old Mr. Zhang Xingwu from Jinan City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

  2009-05-13
  67-year-old Professor Zhang Xingwu's family was notified that Mr. Zhang was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. On March 31st, Shizhong District Court in Jinan City tried Mr. Zhang Xingwu. They not only prevented Professor Zhang Xingwu's defence lawyer from attending the proceedings, but also keep his family from being present in the courtroom. In addition, 70 armed, anti-riot police and nearly 200 other officers were deployed around the courthouse. One of Mr. Zhang's relatives, Ms. Liu Lijie, was detained for fifteen days and later sentenced to 21 months' forced labour just because she wanted to attend the session.
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• Six Practitioners Arrested in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province

  2009-05-13
  Six Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, on April 21st, 2009. More than 20 police suddenly surrounded Ms. Liao Xiaohong's vendor booth and took Ms. Liao Xiaohong, Mr. Shi Jiaoyu, and a visiting male practitioner away under duress. They snatched Mr. Shi's bag and found the key to his apartment, took the bag with them, and opened the door. The police took away everything, including a computer, and Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. They also looted 74,000 yuan in cash and a bank deposit book worth over 20,000 yuan.
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• Update on Practitioner Mr. Liu Yujian

  2009-05-12
  On April 9th, 2009, Beijing practitioner Mr. Liu Yujian was released from Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province and sent to his original residence in Xinjiang. Because he was tortured in the labour camp, Liu Yujian was extremely weak and all his bodily functions were near failure. On the train, he was unable to take in any food or water and had to depend on an intravenous injection to keep him going all the way to his destination. Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp turned an originally healthy man into a person near death.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province Die from Persecution

  2009-05-12
  On February 6th, 2003 police arrested Mr. Liu Leiwan because he practised Falun Gong. A court sentenced him to six years in prison. During his detention in Nanchang Prison he was tortured in many ways and had to work many hours, resulting in blood in his urine every day. He became very weak. On February 6th, 2008, his family was told to take him home. He died two months later. After his death, the 610 Office threatened his family, so they would not allow Falun Gong practitioners to pay their final respects at his home.
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• Instructor from the Communication University of China: The Persecution Many Practitioners and I Suffered at the Shanxi Women's Labour Camp and a Few Other Facilities

  2009-05-12
  I was taken to the Beijing Dispatch Division on October 18th, 2007. The head guard ordered five drug addicts and prostitutes to attack me and try to coerce me to write the guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. I refused. They forced me to squat. More than ten officials tried to brainwash me. They wouldn't let me stand up and wouldn't let me use the toilet. I went on a hunger strike to protest the abuse, and the head guard force-fed me water and food. The police instructed the five criminals to write vicious and slanderous words against Falun Gong on a piece of paper. Against my will they pressed my fingerprints on the paper, claiming I had written it, and then taped it to my body.
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• Mr. Chen Naiye, 63, from Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2009-05-12
  Mr. Chen Naiye was again seized by police on March 19th, 2002, when he was distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He was taken to the Shanwei Detention Centre and subjected to brutal tortures. His chest became very swollen after numerous beatings. On July 19th, 2002 he was taken to the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. Because he refused to be "reformed," the camp guards tortured him savagely, and he lost consciousness. The guards stuffed him into a freezer and prepared to cremate him. He regained consciousness and shouted aloud for help. When his family finally took him home on October 12th, 2002, he was barely alive. Thereafter police frequently went to his home to harass him. Chen Naiye died on March 4th, 2009, at the age of 63.
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• Practitioners Savagely Persecuted in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2009-05-11
  Practitioners Ms. Yang Shujun, Ms. Lang Ming, and Ms. Li Muyan were savagely persecuted in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison. Guards deprived Ms. Yang of sleep for extended periods of time, made her stand for hours on end, and forced her to watch videos defaming Falun Gong. Her hair has since turned grey, and she is currently clinging to life. Guards also deprived Ms. Lang of sleep for seven days. Ms. Li has lost feeling in her legs due to the prolonged periods of forced standing and sitting. She has also suffered memory loss because of the sleep deprivation and psychological torture.
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• After a Year of Detention, Practitioners Li Yun and Zhang Ling Transferred to Hubei Women's Prison

  2009-05-11
  Ms. Li Yun and Ms. Zhang Ling were arrested on April 8th, 2008 by police. They were transferred to Hubei Women's Prison after a year in detention. Recent information indicated that Ms. Zhang Ling had been tortured, and her hair had turned white. Her entire body is swollen, and she is unable to stand on her own; she appears to be near death. Prison director Zhang Hongyu forced Ms. Li to sign a document stating that she would stop practising Falun Gong. He ordered prison guards to tie her to a "Dead Man's Bed".
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• Songyuan City Intermediate Court Sentences Innocent People

  2009-05-11
  In the beginning of 2009, the Qianguo County Court in Songyuan City, Jilin Province secretly tried practitioner Mr. Xu Peng. The court also issued heavy sentences of 8 to 12 years in prison to six practitioners. The practitioners appealed to the Songyuan City Intermediate Court. The relatives of the six practitioners hired more than ten defence lawyers. But the court did not notify the lawyers of the second trial date; only two lawyers made it to Songyuan overnight. During the trial, practitioner Shao Changpu told the judge that the police force-fed him four bottles of mustard oil, and he wanted to charge the police for what they did. However, the judge upheld the previous sentences and wrapped up the trial hastily.
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• Many Practitioners Sentenced in Xiantao City, Hubei Province

  2009-05-11
  Since the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2007, CCP secretary Zhou Qi and Mayor Liu Xinchi of Xiantao City, Hubei Province, have been actively arresting Falun Gong practitioners. Under their command, the police arrested fifteen practitioners. Eight of the practitioners were sentenced to three to four years. Many of the practitioners are in critical condition as a result of torture. Ms. Chen Muying, in her 50s, was taken to the Wuhan City Brainwashing Centre on September 25th, 2007, then imprisoned at the Xiantao City Detention Centre for a year. She was sentenced to four years in prison at the end of 2008. She is now imprisoned at the Hubei Province Women's Prison.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Brutalized and Injected with Unknown Drugs at Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2009-05-10
  In January 2004, several police officers broke into my home and took all my Falun Gong books and more than 10,000 yuan that I had saved for my son's wedding. Due to the extreme brutality of the police one of the bones under my right knee was broken, causing me to suffer extreme pain. In August 2004, I was sentenced to prison and was sent to Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. I suffered indescribable tortures there. Practitioners beaten every single day and not allowed to have a good sleep at night. Again in April 2007 i was arrested and taken to the prison. They often put unknown drugs into my food. I was also forced to watch TV programmes that slandered Falun Gong.
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• Hebei Province Elementary Schoolteacher Ms. Zhao Minghua and Her Husband Arrested and Tortured

  2009-05-10
  Elementary schoolteacher Ms. Zhao Minghua and her husband, Mr. Li Yankui both Falun Gong practitioners, were arrested and tortured in October 2007 by Qianan Domestic Security police. On December 21st, 2007, the couple was again arrested and tried by the court. While they were held in the detention centre, they were both tortured by means of electric shock, long periods of sun exposure, and excessive physical activity. The police deceived and abused them and forced confessions from them.
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• The Elderly Ms. Shen Is Forcibly Taken Away

  2009-05-10
  On April 14th, when seventy-something Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Jin'e was visiting her relatives, four plain clothes police broke in and forcibly searched the house. Ms. Shen asked them to show their legal documents. One of them quickly flashed some papers saying, "You broke the law. You will be sentenced and thrown into prison. Now you may find your lawyer!" Police forcibly dragged Ms. Shen out of the door. They dragged her to the side of a car which carried no police licence plate. They took Ms. Shen to the police station. Ms. Shen asked loudly, "What law did I break?" One officer said, "We have no choice. Our boss asked us to do this."
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• Falun Gong Practitioners in Huairou District, Beijing, Harassed and Arrested on the Eve of April 25th incident

  2009-05-10
  On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the "April 25th" incident, the Chinese Communist Party agents again harassed and forcibly arrested Falun Gong practitioners. On April 23rd, 2009, many practitioners in Huairou District, Beijing were harassed. The campaign of searching and arresting was launched by the Public Security Bureau's 610 Office, local police stations and the Town's Street Integrated Management Office together. No legal procedures were followed and it was conducted by only plain-clothes police.
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