Torture
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The Persecution of Mr. Zhang Yumin's Family in Guangdong Province
2008-10-08
In 2000 Mr. Zhang Yumin and his wife were both detained and persecuted for practising Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang was sentenced to three years in the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. As a result, his family business was shut down and sold way below market value. Not only was Mr. Zhang forced to do hard labour at the camp, he was also subjected to around-the-clock compulsory brainwashing, causing him to become seriously ill. After his release was finding it increasingly difficult to take care of himself and his wife had also been imprisoned. Due to the mental and physical stress Mr. Zhang was under, his condition rapidly deteriorated and he died on February 5th, 2007, leaving his wife to care for the three children he left behind. -
Please Help Me Rescue My Daughter, Who is Near Death from Persecution
2008-10-07More than ten agents from the Weifang City "610 Office" and Police Department in Shandong Province arrested my daughter Kong Qian on July 9th, 2008. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treated my daughter as a "key target" and interrogated her under cruel torture. The police tied her to a metal cross made with steel bars and tubing for seven days. Her hands were stretched and tied tightly with leather straps; her feet were cuffed together; her whole body was placed on two 1.5 cm-diameter steel bars, with 10 cm in between. She could only move her head a bit. Her arms, legs and back and her whole body were in extreme pain. She hovered between life and death in unimaginable agony. -
Daughter Died Due to Persecution, Mother Sentenced to Forced Labour Again
2008-10-07On August 21st, 2008, several police officers from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province arrested fifty-eight-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuling, ransacked her home and seized money and other important items. Ms. Chen Xiuling was later sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. She is now imprisoned at the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp. This is Ms. Chen's third time in a forced labour camp. In recent years, even when she is not in a forced labour camp, members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) frequently harass her. Ms. Chen has been harassed ever since the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong began. Back in 1999, Miss Chen Ying, Ms. Chen's daughter, became the first victim to die from the persecution in Jiamusi City. -
Mother Arrested, Daughter Unable Find Justice
2008-10-07On September 19th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Changyu was arrested by police because she talked about Falun Gong to someone at the Red Flag Mine. That night Ms. Guo was held at the Jidong County Detention Centre. Ms. Guo's daughter went to the Jidong County Police Department to ask for her mother's release. She said to the police, "My mum has been healthy ever since she started practising Falun Gong. She cares about others. It is not wrong to be a good person. Mum didn't commit any crimes." Another woman whose husband had been sentenced to seven years in prison simply because he practised Falun Gong also tried to appeal to the police for justice. A police officer started shoving the woman around. -
Ms. Lu Meiya of Kaifeng City, Henan Province Sentenced to Forced Labour on Trumped Up Charges
2008-10-07Ms. Lu Maiya, 65, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Kaifeng City, Henan Province. At noon on August 7th, 2008, on her way home, she was arrested and searched by police who were staked out on the first floor of her apartment building. The police confiscated some Falun Gong materials from her and detained her in Sanlibao Police Station. Ms. Lu's husband, Mr. Zhong Wenbin, went to the police station the following day and requested her release. He was informed that she had been transferred to a detention centre, and that she would be able to go home in two or three days. She was actually detained for 15 days, and then on August 21st, police transferred Ms. Lu to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City to serve a sentence of one year and nine months. -
The Relentless Torment I Suffered at the Brainwashing Centre in Beijing's Haidian District
2008-10-06The brainwashing centre usually used two steps to persecute practitioners. The first step was to brainwash the practitioner and the second step was to coerce the practitioner into exposing other practitioners. If the practitioners refused to be "transformed" [give up Falun Gong], the police would then interrogate them. During the first step, the collaborators who had practised Falun Gong before tried to brainwash me and "transform" me. Since they had been practitioners they knew how practitioners talked and thought. They also deliberately misinterpreted and defamed Falun Gong when they felt it necessary. They helped the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to slander Falun Gong and used their experience and evil theories to "transform" the practitioners--just for this very limited salary. -
Professor Xu Yin from Tsinghua University Tells His Story as a Victim of the Chinese Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong
2008-10-06On March 13th, 2006, I didn't lock the metal security door of my home. That morning, about 20 policemen broke into my home and ransacked it. They failed to show any warrant or legal document, but they searched my home and arrested my wife and me. They told me that it's illegal to have Falun Gong books at home. But Falun Gong books were legally published by China Broadcast Television Publishing Company before the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999 and were among the top 10 best selling books in China. For having Falun Gong books at home, I was given a two-year jail sentence. I spent 16 months in Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing, Beijing. During those 16 months, I was incarcerated in an isolation room for eight months where I was forced to sit still on a small stool facing the wall for 18-19 hours a day. -
Exposing the Crimes at Taojianling Brainwashing Centre in Hanyang, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
2008-10-06When we were sent to this evil place, the cells were very damp. There was no electricity. We were deprived of sleep and were forced to stand for long periods of time. We ate mildewed rice and rotten cabbage with sand in it. Later, due to the publicity from protesting practitioners, they improved the quality of food a little bit. Each practitioner was confined in a single cell. Sleeping, eating, and relieving themselves all took place in the same cell. Practitioners were never let out. We were not allowed to talk to one another. -
Elderly Ms. Liu Bilian from Hunan Province Has Been Arrested Eight Times
2008-10-06Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Bilian, a native of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, is 68 years old. She started to practise Falun Gong in 1998. However, during the ten years that she has been a practitioner, she has been arrested eight times and has suffered brutal torture. On March 5th, 2008, 7 policemen came to Ms. Liu's residence took Falun Gong books and personal belongings and locked her up at the police station. Ms. Liu was interrogated for four days and nights, and was then detained at the Yunxi Detention Centre for 87 days. She staged a hunger strike to protest. The guards took her to hospital but continued to torture Ms. Liu. -
I Missed Celebrating the Moon Festival with Ms. Sun Zhifen, a Member of My Family
2008-10-05Looking up at the full moon during the Moon Festival, I thought of Chinese families around the world enjoying this traditional holiday. It made me sad, because there is someone I would have dearly loved to celebrate the Moon Festival with. It is a woman who has been imprisoned and tortured for persevering in her faith. Ms. Sun Zhifen went to Beijing to exercise her constitutional right to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced to an 11-year prison term. She was imprisoned in Shuangcheng No.2 Detention Centre, Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, and Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison, where she suffered cruel beatings and force-feeding. All she was trying to do was be a better person. Now she has become seriously ill. -
Ms. Wang Haiqing from Shandong Province Is in Critical Condition As a Result of Being Tortured in Detention
2008-10-05After long-term incarceration and torture, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Haiqing from Anqiu City in Shandong Province is in critical condition. While in detention, Ms. Wang was forced to sit in a steel chair for five days, and she was tortured by being force-fed for more than three months after she started a hunger strike. She was severely traumatized. Since her arrest on May 1st, 2008, Ms. Wang Haiqing's condition has deteriorated, and she is in critical condition, but the police still refuse to release her. -
Mr. Wang Xiaoguang from Songyuan City Tortured and Sentenced to 10 Years of Imprisonment
2008-10-05Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaoguang was arrested in August 2007. Mr. Wang was sentenced to 10 years and is currently in Jilin Prison. Previously in a detention centre police handcuffed his hands and feet and tortured Wang Xiaoguang by feeding him a mixture of hot pepper juice, mustard oil, and water mixed with pepper powder. They force-fed him four water bottles of this concoction and then covered his head with a plastic bag. When he lost consciousness, they poured cold water on him to revive him. They also inserted a lit cigarette into each of his nostrils. Mr. Wang's lungs felt like they had exploded, and he fainted in agony. -
Crimes Committed Inside the Huhhot Women's Narcotic Rehabilitation Centre
2008-10-04Every practitioner is detained in one room, monitored by a drug addict inmate. One or several former practitioners who were "transformed" and had renounced Falun Gong would attempt to change the Falun Gong practitioner's mind. Police uses threats, criticisms, sarcastic greetings, and "chatting" to attempt to force practitioners to "transform". Former practitioners who were "transformed" and had renounced Falun Gong are in charge of slave labour production, which reduces their jail term. They choose the person who works most quickly as a standard to measure others. Practitioners who cannot finish the work are forced to work longer. Even the sixty or seventy year olds are not excluded from punishment. The intense workload has given them blisters and boils on their hands. -
Exposing Police Crimes in the Persecution of Falun Gong in Jiaohe
2008-10-04On October 26th, 2004, police officers from Yong'an Police Station, broke into practitioner Ms. Ren Hongxia's house and took her to the police station. They kicked her legs violently in the process. That night, they sent her to Jiaohe Detention Centre. On afternoon of October 28th, policemen took Ms. Ren back to Yong'an Police Station. They tied her to a chair and tied her hands behind her back. One policeman held her neck, one blocked her mouth with a towel, and another policeman force-fed a mixture made up of hot pepper stems, which are many times more spicy than the hot pepper itself, through her nose. She was in excruciating pain, and her clothes were soaked with sweat. -
Ms. Gao Guofeng in Critical Condition from Abuse, Authorities Deny Family's Requests to Take Her to a Hospital
2008-10-04Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Guofeng in Heilongjiang Province was tortured at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City. She was beaten black and blue, and also experienced symptoms of dizziness, high systolic blood pressure of 180, loss of consciousness and weakness. She also became unable to speak in clear sentences. The guards' severe beatings of her head affected her central nervous system. She felt numbness in her legs and was able to walk only with assistance. The relatives went to the camp and prepared to take Ms. Gao to a hospital for treatment, but the camp officials denied their request saying Ms. Gao could receive better care at the camp clinic.
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