Torture
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The Persecution of Female Practitioners in the Re-education Deployment Department of Beijing
2008-12-07
The Eleventh Division of the Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Centre was created specifically for detaining and persecuting female Falun Gong practitioners. The "transformation" process is in fact a destruction of human conscience. Their goal is to force practitioners to go against their wills and sign the so-called three statements, promising to give up the practice and betraying their conscience. These people use great pressure to persecute practitioners. Practitioners are forced to watch videos or read books designed to defame Falun Gong. After they finish, they have to write their "understandings" of Falun Gong. Their "understandings" must meet the requirements set by the captain. At the end of the two-month session, practitioners are forced to make speeches which are over ten pages long to "expose and criticize" Falun Gong. -
Mr. Zhang Litian Beaten to Death in Jinzhou City Prison, Liaoning Province
2008-12-06
According to eyewitnesses, Mr. Zhang Litian was beaten multiple times by prisoners in the Jinzhou City Prison. On November 16th, 2008, he went on hunger strike to protest the brutal beatings. The next day, on November 17th, Warden Zhang Baozhi encouraged four prisoners to cruelly beat Mr. Zhang Litian to death. He died after being detained for one month. Many prisoners witnessed this incident. -
Mr. Yu Zhou's Wife Ms. Xu Na Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
2008-12-06Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zhou was tortured to death on Chinese New Year's Eve, February 6th, 2008. His wife, Ms. Xu Na is still under severe persecution. On November 25th, 2008, the Chongwen District Court in Beijing sentenced Ms. Xu Na to three years in prison. The whole process took only a few minutes because the results had already been decided, and they were only going through the motions in court. Ms. Xu requested to appeal to a higher court. -
Mr. Sun Hongchang Disabled as a Result of Torture in Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province
2008-12-06On March 28th, 2006, Mr. Sun Hongchang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by police officers. He was blindfolded and beaten by police at the Qingyuan Town Station. He was also tortured by being "Hung up by All Four Limbs Behind the Back" and enduring "Bamboo Stick Penetrates the Fingers" and other brutal methods. For three days and nights, residents close to the police station could hear Mr. Sun's cries. Since then, he has not been able to take care of himself. One of his legs was injured so badly during a beating he can no longer use it. The muscles have atrophied and he has no feeling in it. It has also become swollen. -
Children Request Release of Mother from Prison after Their Father and Grandmother Pass Away
2008-12-06
Ms. Xu Youqin, a Falun Gong practitioner, was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. Her husband Mr. Zang Dianlong died as a result of persecution. Her mother-in-law found it hard taking care of Ms Xu's two children and under such huge mental and physical pressure, the mother-in-law passed away in mid-September 2008. Left alone with no one to care for them, the two children requested the authorities of the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison to release their mother. -
Weining Forced Labour Camp in Benxi City, Liaoning Province Uses the "Stretching Bed" to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-12-05Weining Forced Labour Camp uses "stretching beds" to force practitioners into giving up their beliefs. First, the guards take off the practitioner's clothes, and then they tie their limbs onto a specially-designed double bed using strips of cloth, with the legs split to the extreme, and both arms stretched out on either side. In this way, the whole body is immobilized, with only the head and neck being able to move a little. The practitioners are also not allowed to get up to relieve themselves. All urination and defecation occur on the bed. The practitioners are bound onto this bed around the clock for more than a month at a time, causing severe damage to their tendons and muscles. The unbearable pain sometimes brings about mental collapse. -
Beijing Police Transfer Practitioners to Forced Labour Camps Outside the Capital
2008-12-05Prior to the Olympic Games, every prison in Beijing was completely full. As a result, the police transferred practitioners to forced labour camps in distant provinces. Due to the fact that Mr. Li Laifang and fellow practitioners from Dingxing County, Hebei Province persisted in practising Falun Gong, they were arrested by police in Tong County, Beijing, and taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. Each time Mr. Li's father went to the camp to visit his son, the guards would turn him away. -
Mr. Cao Junyi in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province Loses Memory After Harmful Injection
2008-12-05Yan Yong is the team leader of the National Security Team in Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and He Hui is the director of the 610 Office. Yan and He led over a dozen policemen from the Puji Town Police Station to arrest Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Cao Junyi (in his seventies) and Ms. Yan Renyan (in her sixties) from the Yilao Village, Puji Town on May 14th, 2008, and ransack their homes. Police injected Mr. Cao Junyi with unidentified drugs, causing him to lose his memory. -
610 Office in Suizhou City Continues to Harass and Extort Money from Ms. Qiu Lilan
2008-12-05On November 4th, 2008, manager Wu, who is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners at the Mother and Childcare Hospital went to talk to practitioner Ms. Qiu Lilan, a retired doctor from the same hospital. Ms. Qiu explained to him that due to the long term persecution that she suffered at the hands of the local 610 Office, her health had slowly deteriorated, forcing her to undergo surgery in September 2008. As a result, she was living at her relative's home so she could get the personal care she needed. When the local "610 Office" found about this, they went to Ms. Qiu's hospital work unit and extorted several thousand yuan from them. They also took away Ms. Qiu's November retirement pension of more than 1000 yuan, leaving her with only 300 yuan to live on. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Li Zhengling Dies in Custody
2008-12-04On December 28th, 2004, 7 policemen broke into Mr. Li Zhengling's home, and he was taken to the Gulin Detention Centre. The police also ransacked his home many times. On February 4th, 2005, he was arrested again, and sentenced to five years of imprisonment. At that time, Mr. Li's eyesight was very poor, so his family members asked that he be allowed to stay home, but their request was refused. Li Zhengling was sent to Deyang Prison, where he became blind due to continuous mistreatment. On June 21st, 2008, Mr. Li's family members received notice that he was critically ill. They were told that Li Zhengling's blood pressure had been just over 60 when he was brought to the hospital on June 11th and that he had died at 5:30 a.m. that day, June 24th. -
Young Mother Detained at the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp, Now Reduced to Skin and Bones
2008-12-04Ms. Gong Xuejun, aged 30, has an infant son who is just over one year old. The 610 Office in Lechang City ransacked her house and arrested her on August 19th, 2008. Ms. Gong Xuejun was taken to the Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp. When her relatives saw Ms. Gong they could hardly recognize her. Because Gong Xuejun had been tortured, her weight had dropped from 49kg to 30kg (approximately 108 lbs to 66 lbs) within one month. She was nothing but skin and bones. Her eyes were sunken and her hair had been cut short and was in disarray. Upon seeing her shocking condition, Ms. Gong's relatives were in tears. -
Mr. Xue Chaoyang and His Wife from Xiao County, Anhui Province, Held in Longshanzi Detention Centre
2008-12-04Mr. Xue Chaoyang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xiao County, Anhui Province, was detained at the Longshanzi Detention Centre in Xiao County. His family now has have no source of income and their life is very difficult. The authorities refused to allow his parents to see him. When Mr. Xue's mother missed him so much that she went to the Xiao County Police Department to inquire about him, Officer Li Wangang pounded on the table to frighten her and drove her off. -
Mr. Liang Bosheng Dies as Result of Persecution in Jilin Province
2008-12-04Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liang Bosheng was sentenced to forced labour in 1999, and he served a two-year term in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. He suffered numerous hardships including being deprived of sleep, starved, and forced to sit on a bed-board all day until his legs were numb. He was given a two-year term again in 2002. Mr. Liang refused to write the statements renouncing Falun Gong, so the guards instructed the prisoners to strip him, push him into the toilet, open the windows, and hose him with freezing cold water. Mr. Liang was dying by the time he was released on medical parole on October 30th, 2003. He became disabled due to the persecution. Mr. Liang died on March 19th, 2006, at age 49. -
Daughter Sentenced, Mother Suffers Brutal Persecution for Making Appeal
2008-12-03Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qiu Yuxia was recently sentenced to three years in prison by the Jiamusi Middle Court, and she is now imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. Ms. Qiu was arrested by the Jiamusi 610 Office and the Jiamusi City National Security Team on July 2nd, 2008, while she was hiring a lawyer to make an appeal for her imprisoned daughter Ms. Ma Duo, who is also a practitioner. Ms. Qiu Yuxia is being tortured during her incarceration. Ms. Qiu was also imprisoned in the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp for three years. She was hung above the ground with her hands cuffed behind her back. As a result of this torture, she lost feeling in her hands and was almost permanently disabled. -
Practitioner from Shanghai Losing His Sight After Seven Years of Persecution in Prison
2008-12-03Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Lan Bin, 41, was arrested in 2001 by police and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. He has been jailed at the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai for over seven years. It was learned recently that he is in very poor health. Doctors have diagnosed that his eyesight problems are incurable. His ocular bleeding cannot be stopped and is worsening. Doctors said, "His eyes are in very bad shape, and he will definitely lose his sight." The root cause is his high blood pressure, which causes pressure in the blood vessels, triggering them to break, which will lead to loss of sight. All of Mr. Lan's health problems are the result of his being persecuted.
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