Torture

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Fang Yu, an Engineer, in Critical Condition

2013-09-24

Ms. Fang Yu was sentenced to a six and a half year prison term for practising Falun Gong. She was arrested on July 2nd, 2013, and is being tortured. She is unable to eat or drink due to the abuse. She has become emaciated and is in critical condition. Despite her deteriorating health, she was sentenced to a six and a half year prison term. She has appealed to the Tongling City Intermediate Court.

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Children Persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

2013-09-24

Young Wang Xin had two older sisters. The younger sister died from shock when the police broke into their home, while the older one was forced to leave school and stay at a forced labour camp for two years. Wang Xin was sent to a detention facility, and he wailed and cried every day, telling the adults, “I just want to go home!” Wang Xin is the Wang family's only son. His parents owned a small shop, and both practise Falun Gong. After the persecution began, the parents were arrested, and the family lost their source of income.

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Ms. Ren Ping Repeatedly Tortured, Raped and Sexually Abused Over the Course of a Decade

2013-09-18

Ms. Ren Ping, a Falun Gong practitioner from Langfang City, Hebei Province, has been arrested at least 8 times during the 14-year-long persecution. She's been detained in detention centres, brainwashing centres, forced labour camps and the basement of Beijing Police Hospital. Ms. Ren Ping has suffered cruel and inhuman persecution at the hands of evildoers---including torture, rape and sexual abuse. Several times she's nearly died.

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Witnessing Prison Guards Persecute Practitioners to Insanity

2013-09-17

I was shocked to learn on the Minghui website about a talented Qinghua University student named Ms. Liu Zhimei. She was persecuted to insanity in a prison under the Chinese communist regime. I witnessed other practitioners being persecuted while I was imprisoned over the last few years. One was 60-year-old Ms. Chen Xiaoyue. Due to the intense persecution, Ms. Chen was “reformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] by the communist regime and gave up her faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The police then forced her to help reform other practitioners and torture them if they refused to cooperate. Ms. Chen was later diagnosed with "manic psychosis."

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Ms. Yang Fenglan, 69, from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Died Due to Persecution

2013-09-17

Ms. Yang Fenglan was arrested four times for her belief in Falun Gong. She was sentenced to three years in prison in 2009. Ms. Yang became severely ill during her imprisonment in the Hohhot Women's Prison in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She was eventually released for medical attention, but passed away on June 19th, 2013 after two years of unsuccessful medical treatment.

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Mr. Fang Zhengping Dies in Prison in Xichang, Sichuan, after His Seventh Arrest

2013-09-17

Mr. Fang Zhengping was a Falun Gong practitioner in Xichang, Sichuan Province. He was arrested for telling others about the persecution of Falun Gong in Yunnan Province, on October 14th, 2007. The Suijiang County Court sentenced him to seven years in prison. He died at the age of 57 after being tortured in the Yunnan Province No. 1 Prison. Before he died in prison, Mr. Fang had been jailed for 106 out of the 165 months since July 1999. Ms. Cheng, his wife, was sentenced to ten years in prison on September 14th, 2010, and is imprisoned in the Yangmahe Women's Prison in Jianyang, Sichuan Province.

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A Nurse from Jiangxi Province Subjected to Psychiatric Persecution for 10 Years

2013-09-17

Ms. Jiang Xiaoying, a nurse at the Jiujiang City No. 5 Hospital in Jiangxi Province, refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong and the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She has been subjected to inhuman psychiatric persecution over the last 10 years. The medical staff injected drugs that damaged her central nervous system and force-feed her. It was rumoured that she was tied when injected unknown drugs and the mental patients were ordered to attack her. We call upon people worldwide to demand her release.

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Practitioner in Her Sixties Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

2013-09-17

Sixty four year-old Falun Gong practitioner Wang Shulan was taken to the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp on May 25th, 2012 to serve a one-year sentence. Prison staff attempted to force her to give up her beliefs by torturing her with brainwashing sessions and other cruel methods. Ms. Wang was taken to Zhang Lili's office on June 27th after she refused to slander Falun Gong, where she was struck in the face and shocked with an electric baton.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Liu Qingmei Dies after Years of Torture

2013-09-17

Ms. Liu Qingmei, 54, from Shandong Province passed away on September 3rd, 2013, in the Anqiu City Hospital. Her death was a direct result of the persecution she had been subjected to at Shandong Women's Prison, where she was stripped naked and severely tortured repeatedly since 2008. She became mentally disordered at one point. She couldn't walk and suffered from high blood pressure and kidney disease.

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Recording of Bo Xilai's Voice Confirms Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Brutality Against Falun Gong

2013-09-17

Bo Xilai has recently been sentenced for certain crimes, but his involvement in organ harvesting atrocities from Falun Gong practitioners has not been publicly discussed or prosecuted. However, a voice recording implicating his involvement in live organ harvesting was recently obtained. In the recording, which was made several years ago, Bo states that Jiang Zemin gave the order to initiate the process of live organ harvesting.

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The Torture and Abuse Endured by Falun Gong Practitioner Sun Lijun

2013-09-10

Ms. Sun Lijun went to Tiananmen Square to peacefully protest the persecution. She recounts her experience: "Several fellow practitioners and I were sent to a police station in Beijing. Because I refused to tell them my address, three policemen stripped off my clothes, leaving me in only my underwear. They hung me up by my hands. Four officer shocked me with electric batons at the same time. They shocked my head, teeth, nipples, private area, hands, and legs. Since I would not give in, they dragged me to the yard and hung me from a pole, with my feet not touching the ground. They hung me outside for a long time in the cold. Then they took me back to the room and hung me up again. They tortured me nonstop."

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Five Outstanding Teachers in Daqing Persecuted to Death by the Chinese Communist Party

2013-09-10

As of April 28th, 2013, among the 67 Falun Gong practitioners from Daqing persecuted to death, five were outstanding teachers. They died because they remained steadfast in their belief and conducted themselves according to Falun Gong's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. One teacher, Mr. Bai Shuang, was in his 50s. After the persecution started on July 20th, 1999, he was repeatedly arrested and his home was ransacked. He was detained and tortured. Mr. Bai was taken to the Daqing Forced Labour Camp, where he died as a result of abuse.

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Mr. Jiang Wenshang Unjustly Sentenced for Promoting Shen Yun Performing Arts

2013-09-10

Beautiful fairy maidens dancing so elegantly against the wondrous settings of the Fairy Lake; the legendary monkey king with penetrating eyesight catching monsters and devils on a pilgrimage to the west seeking Buddhist scriptures; the loyal and patriotic general Yue Fei battling his enemies in an ancient war-torn battle field—these are a few scenes from Shen Yun Performing Arts, which revives 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture through breathtaking dance and music. Yet for promoting such a remarkable performance to the Chinese people, Mr. Jiang Wenshang from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province was unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison. He is currently incarcerated in Jiamusi Prison.

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Thousands of Chinese Sign Petitions to Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Hua Lianyou

2013-09-10

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hua Lianyou has held a hunger strike for more than a year to protest his sentence of seven years in prison. As of a month ago, 807 people had signed petitions to call for his immediate release, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ignored their pleas for justice. In the past month, another 2008 people have signed the petition. There are now 2,815 signatures, and the number is growing. During the petition drive, many people expressed their admiration for Falun Gong practitioners and their dislike of the CCP. A 27-year-old man said: “This country is sick. Practising Falun Gong is good. Why do they arrest these people? I will sign petitions to help Falun Gong practitioners."

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Ms. Hu Yanmin Recounts How Police in Liaoning Province Have Persecuted Her

2013-09-10

Ms. Hu Yanmin is a 55-year-old factory owner from Yingkou City, Liaoning Province. She never hesitates to help those in need and is well regarded by her family, friends, and employees. Like millions of others in China, Ms. Hu has been persecuted for her belief in Falun Gong. She recounts: "I was tending to my elderly mother in my second-floor apartment, located in my factory building, when police pried open a window and jumped inside on September 28th, 2012. They turned my home upside down and confiscated my computer, printer, more than 1,000 yuan in cash, and my Falun Gong books. Despite my mother's pleas, they took me away. The police drove me to the local detention centre. Because my blood pressure was dangerously high they released me but the police demanded 30,000 yuan from my family. They did not give them any receipt."

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