Torture

• Mr. Xu Huijian Contracted Tuberculosis While Imprisoned--His Parents Not Allowed to Visit

  2009-03-29
  In 2001, Mr. Xu Huijian from Jilin Province was secretly sentenced to ten years in prison. He spent the first part of his sentence at the Jilin Province Prison and the Changchun City Tiebei Prison. He was later transferred to the notorious Gongzhuling Prison. Because Mr. Xu refused to give up his faith in Falun Gong, he was brutally tortured by the prison guards and became very emaciated. One year ago he contracted tuberculosis. In order to the news of his illness from leaking out, the guards tried to prevent his parents from visiting him. But eventually his parents found out. The guards told Mr. Xu that if he did not give up practising Falun Gong, he would not be released even when his ten-year term expired.
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• Disabled Practitioner Cheng Jinjing's Physical Condition Deteriorating Rapidly at Detention Centre

  2009-03-29
  On January 9th, 2009, a group of police officers arrested disabled Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Jinjing, who is in his sixties. He was taken to the Zhoukou Detention Centre, where he was persecuted. Mr. Cheng recently had a relapse in his condition, and he is suffering severe pain in his legs. He has been unable to get up off the floor, and faces the risk of becoming paralysed. The situation is urgent. Gao Feng, team leader of the Domestic Security Division in the Shanan Police Department of Zhoukou City, refused to release Mr. Cheng. During the nine years of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Chen has been arrested three times because he exposed the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Ms. Jiao Shuzhen, 61, on a Hunger Strike Protesting Persecution in Hebei Women's Prison

  2009-03-29
  61-year-old Ms. Jiao Shuzhen was arrested from her home and secretly sentenced to four years in prison in December 2008. She was taken to the Hebei Women's Prison on January 4th, 2009. In late February, she began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Her current situation is unclear. The authorities refuse to release her, citing her insistence on her belief in Falun Gong. The only person now at Ms. Jiao's home is her nearly 70-year-old husband, who has been suffering from cancer. He is virtually unable to walk and needs her to take care of him.
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• On International Women's Day We Remember Practitioners Who Died Due to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Persecution

  2009-03-28
  Ms. Bai Lixia was diagnosed with breast cancer and couldn't take care of herself even after surgery. However, she recovered her health after she started practising Falun Gong. Ms. Bai twice went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution, and as a result, she was imprisoned in the Harbin Forced Labour Camp in December 1999. The guards forced her to sleep on the cold floor during the winter, stand in the snow for long periods of time, and stand against the heating pipes. She was also locked in a toilet, hung up in the air, and violently beaten. On February 28th, 2002, Ms. Bai died because of the torture. She was 47 years old.
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• Ms. He Yan Suffers a Heart Attack after Brutal Beating in the Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labour Camp, Hebei Province

  2009-03-28
  On March 4th, 2009 a family member of Ms. He Yan went to the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp to visit her. After asking about the welfare of Ms. He, it was discovered that Ms. He Yan had been brutally beaten by guard Lu Haicun on January 10th, 2009. Ms. He was suffering from symptoms of a heart attack. Two months after the abuse, she still felt some chest pain and was numb in the left shoulder. Once the family learned about the beating by Lu Haicun, they went to report the incident to Wang Jianzhong, the director of the labour camp administration office. Wang Jianzhong's showed no sympathy, did not file an investigation report and denied that the abuse ever took place. He exclaimed to Ms. He's family, "If you want to sue me, go ahead!"
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• Ms. Cui Yuezhi and Mr. Wang Hongchao from Guan County Sentenced to Eight Years Imprisonment

  2009-03-28
  On July 26th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Cui Yuezhi and Mr. Wang Hongchao were arrested. On February 18th, 2009, Mr. Wang was brought to trial in the Guan County Court. Mr. Wang's family members had hired a lawyer and asked the lawyer to plead 'not-guilty.' Using current Chinese laws, the lawyer was able to prove that Mr. Wang was innocent. The defence had no response and had to wrap up the trial in a hurry. On March 4th, 2009, the court, with complete disregard for the law, sentenced both Mr. Wang and Ms. Cui to eight years of imprisonment.
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• Ms. Lin Lihua Taken to Court after Seven Months in Detention

  2009-03-28
  The Chinese Communist officials in the Chaoyang District forced the court to hold an open hearing on Ms. Lin Lihua. On February 19th, 2009, the Wenyuhe Court in the Chaoyang District in Beijing conducted a hearing on Ms. Lin Lihua. However, her family was not allowed to enter the courtroom and were told that all seating was taken. In fact, there were plenty of empty seats. Five police officers were in attendance. Before the hearing, Lin Lihua had been detained for over seven months.
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• The Persecution of Sun Hongchang and His Wife and Son

  2009-03-27
  In June 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Mrs. Wang Junxia, the wife of Mr. Sun Hongchang was arrested by the Fushun police and tortured to death because she would not give up practising Falun Gong and cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. At that time, their son, Sun Feng, was just 12 years old. He got sick and died on August 25th, 2005. Mr. Sun Hongchang was tortured to disability by the Fushun City Police Department and the Qingyuan County Police Department. Currently, he is being detained in the Qingyuan County Detention Centre.
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• More Than 100 Male Falun Gong Practitioners Held and Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2009-03-27
  Guards tortured practitioners and forced them to write statements to denounce Falun Gong. Those who refused to write the statements were tortured at night. The perpetrators threatened them, saying, "You will be killed if you do not write the statements. We have a death quota." The victims are tortured non-stop without being allowed to sleep. Practitioner Mr. Li Hailong suffered so much that he could not walk and could not get himself to the dining room without two persons to support him. Two months later, he remains in this condition. Mr. Cui Dejun was crippled from torture, but the guards insisted that he was pretending and grabbed his hair and slammed his head against a wall. Later, he was subjected to the death bed torture.
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• Practitioners Tortured in the Second Women's Section of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province; Many Injured

  2009-03-27
  In the Second Women's Section of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Falun Gong practitioners are being mistreated in a new way, by being forced to take a so-called "100 per cent exam." For this exam they are ordered to acknowledge the mistreatment they have been subjected to, including mental humiliation. Because the practitioners have refused to endorse the mistreatment, the guards beat and torture them. On October 7th and 8th, 2008, guards tortured practitioners Ms. Wang Chunying, Ms. Qi Zhenhong, Ms. Zhong Shujian, and Ms. Zhang Qilin from 6 to 72 hours. As a result, Ms. Qi suffered a mental disorder, Ms. Wang could not straighten her hands, Ms. Zhang's arms were broken and she became crippled, and Ms. Zhong was subjected to the "stretching torture" for 48 hours.
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• Ms. Liang Yuzhen and Ms. Liang Jinyou Tortured in Heshan City, Guangdong Province

  2009-03-27
  On February 25th, 2009, Ms. Liang Yuzhen went to the countryside to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested. That same evening, police officers handcuffed Ms. Liang's hands behind her back, dragged her all the way to her home, and then thoroughly ransacked it. When the officers were about to leave, Ms. Liang's 89-year-old grandmother, who was home at the time, held onto Ms. Liang's arm and wouldn't let go. She pleaded with the officers, saying, "I need her to take care of me! Please let her stay!" The officers simply loosened the grandmother's hands and took Ms. Liang away.
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• Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners Detained in Shiliping Forced Labour Camp in Zhejiang Province - Compilation of Information Dating Back to 1999

  2009-03-26
  To achieve its goal of "reforming1" all detained practitioners, Zhejiang Provincial Forced Labour Bureau personnel worked together with the labour camp to develop a series of tactics to physically and mentally harm practitioners. For instance, they forced practitioners to sit in a chair with their limbs tied to it and wouldn't let them sleep or use the toilet. At the same time, they turned on a speaker to its highest volume and broadcast their propaganda information. If a practitioner dozed off he would be burned with a cigarette and force-fed hot chilli pepper juice. They also forced practitioners to write statements giving up their cultivation and kept whoever refused to write them tied to the chair for a long time.
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• Hebei Province Practitioner Mr. Wu Zhaobin Suffers Mental Collapse as a Result of Torture

  2009-03-26
  Mr. Wu Zhaobin is a practitioner from Cang County, Hebei Province. He has been suffering from mental illness since his torture in the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp. He was arrested before the Beijing Olympics, and he is still in prison. The police have ignored the Wu family's requests for a psychological evaluation and denied their visitation requests. They have refused to inform the family of Mr. Wu's whereabouts. In August 1999, Mr. Wu was detained for a month after appealing in Beijing for the right to practise Falun Gong. In September, after appealing in Beijing s second time, Mr. Wu was detained for two additional months and then imprisoned for over a year. In the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp, Mr. Wu was subjected to electric shocks and torture. As a result of endless brainwashing and torture, Mr. Wu developed a mental illness and was released.
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• Ms. Zhao Qiuying Arrested by Four Policemen

  2009-03-26
  On February 29th, 2009, 58-year-old Ms. Zhao Qiuying from Beijing was taken away from her own clothing booth by four policemen from the Dongsheng Police Station in the Haidian District. When the police arrived at the booth, they surrounded it, intending to take her away. Ms. Zhao did not cooperate with them, but they started a search and found two brochures that explained the facts about Falun Gong. Afterwards, they dragged her into a police vehicle. At around 4 p.m., the police vehicle arrived at Ms. Zhao's home. The police searched her home and took away a Falun Gong book, two brochures, and five or six CD's. That night, Ms. Zhao's family learned that she had been taken to the Qinghe Detention Centre.
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• Details of My Persecution by Harbin National Protection Team Leader Chen Yuhao

  2009-03-26
  In October 2000, in order to speak the truth about Falun Gong, I went to Beijing to appeal. At the Beijing Qianmen Police Station, I was brutally beaten, leaving my entire body green and purple with bruises. After five days of torture, I was taken to my hometown by police and imprisoned in the Acheng District Second Detention Centre for twenty-five days. At around 7:00 p.m. January 24th, 2008, I went to a friend's to lend her my hair dryer. As soon as I entered her home, I was attacked by four or five policemen who were lying in wait. I was pulled and dragged into a police car, and taken to the Yuquan Town Public Security Bureau. The police took away my hair dryer and said, "This is a criminal device. We can't give it back to you." I was detained in the Acheng Second Detention Centre for eight days and inhumanely tortured.
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