Torture

• Shijiazhuang City Court Plans Second Trial for Liu Lina; Her Whole Family Has Been Persecuted

  2008-09-19
  Shijiazhuang City Court officials in Hebei Province plan to hold another trial for Ms. Liu Lina next week. The exact date is unknown. On February 15th, 610 Office agents arrested her at home. They also arrested her husband and her brother and took away her computer and printer. The policemen fabricated evidence and a confession and forced her family members to sign the documents before releasing them. Twelve days later, using the falsified confession as proof, they officially arrested Ms. Liu. Currently, she is detained at the Shijiazhuang City No.1 Detention Centre.
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• Paralysed from Torture, Ms. Xiao Yunying Arrested Again

  2008-09-18
  Ms. Xiao Yunying, 58 years old, started practising Falun Gong in 1997. After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Xiao Yunying was detained numerous times in a brainwashing centre, but she firmly refused to write the three statements denouncing her belief. During her detention, both her legs became paralysed due to being tortured, and she has needed special care ever since. During the Olympic Torch Relay in Anyang City, Henan Province, Ms. Xiao Yunying was subjected to more persecution, and was sent to the Xinxiang Women's Prison on July 23rd, 2008.
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• Li Wenhe's Family Members Persecuted in Mancheng County, Hebei Province

  2008-09-18
  On the evening of August 7th, 2008, Li Zhenxing, the eldest son of Mr. Li Wenhe, and Ma Liuquan were arrested by Chinese Communist Party officials when they were distributing Falun Gong materials about the persecution in a village. The two were beaten in the Xiantai Rural Police Station. In the materials describing the local persecution, Yang Ping, deputy leader of the Rural, was described as talking about when Li Wenhe's home was ransacked. Yang Ping got very angry. On August 8th, Li Wenhe's home was ransacked by police. Mr. Li Wenhe, his wife Zhou Wenfang, and a younger son, Li Zhenning, were arrested.
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• Police Shut Down Pharmacy Run by a Practitioner - Customers Outraged

  2008-09-18
  On August 1st, 2008, Liu Fa, a Communist Party official entered the Tongxintang Pharmacy in Weixian City. He wanted to confiscate Dr. Gong's identity card. This is a card needed to do bank transactions, make purchases in shopping centres and conduct many business-related activities. Hence, Dr. Gong refused. As a result, Liu Fa called for police officers and had the pharmacy surrounded. Many of Dr. Gong's patients were scared and left the pharmacy. Police confiscated all the medicine and equipment in the pharmacy. They also arrested several employees and ransacked some of their homes. Dr. Gong Zhe, and his staff have been sent to the Zhangjiakou brainwashing centre. One customer said, "Closing the pharmacy has brought harm to many families. This act is truly sinful."
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• Elderly Ms. Tang Liwen Brought to Trial by Inner Mongolia Court

  2008-09-18
  Ms. Tang Liwen, 68, has been detained for more than eight months and was brought to trial by the Inner Mongolia Tonglia Court. During her detention she was taken to the hospital against her will to be force-fed and was injected with unknown drugs. Her family members have travelled to and from many departments asking for her release. Her husband, 78 years old, is under surveillance and monitored by police officers. People from the local community management committee and the police station have taken turns going into his home to harass him, which has made it very difficult for him to live a normal life.
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• Ms. Zhang Yuzhen's Arms and Hands Disabled from Torture

  2008-09-17
  Ms. Zhang Yuzhen, 41, is a practitioner from Jiangxi Province. On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong and Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and explain the facts about the practice to central government officials. On November 10th, 2000, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to six years in prison in Beijing. The prison guards made many attempts to force Ms. Yuzhen to renounce Falun Gong. They beat her, confined her to solitary confinement, burned her with cigarettes, tied her up and forced her to endure exposure to the hot summer sun, depriving her of sleep, baths, and family visits. They handcuffed and shackled her and hung her up by the handcuffs. Torture caused severe swelling of her arms and disabled her arms and hands so severely that she was unable to take care of herself.
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• Married Couple Ms. Li Mingyan and Mr. Meng Xianwu's Experiences of Being Persecuted

  2008-09-17
  On the morning of June 17th, 2008, Mr. Meng Xianwu, an internal medicine doctor at a factory hospital, was arrested by officers from the Xijie Police Station in Huludao City, Liaoning Province. At noon, three policemen knocked at Ms. Li Mingyan's door, (Li is Meng's wife), and claimed that they were there to collect the electricity fee. Li Mingyan refused to open the door. The officers threatened, "If you don't open the door, we'll break into your house through the windows. Once we are in, we are going to beat you to death."
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• Practitioners from Jiamusi City Sent to Forced Labour Camps

  2008-09-17
  On the morning of July 30th, 2008, practitioners Ms. Wang Guizhen, Ms. Fan Shujuan and Ms. Sun Hongwei, were arrested by police from the Jiaxi Police Station because they had told many people about the persecution of Falun Gong. The police also ransacked their homes. Later, their family members went to the police station and asked for the release of these practitioners. The police refused to release them and they used the excuse that the arrests were necessary for the "security of the Olympic Games."
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• Ms. Yuan Jieling and Ms. Liu Huirong from Gaozhou City, Guangdong Province Arrested

  2008-09-17
  On August 4th, 2008, Ms. Yuan Jieling and Ms. Liu Huirong, both from Gaozhou City in Guangdong Province, went to Xieji Town to explain the facts about Falun Gong, but were arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel, and then imprisoned at the Gaozhou Municipal Detention Centre. Ms. Liu's home was ransacked and her personal belongings were confiscated on the same day she was arrested.
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• Mr. Li Wenzhi Missing After Release From Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province

  2008-09-16
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Wenzhi, 40, was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour in April 2008 and taken to the Yinmahe Labour Camp in Jiutai City. In late August, Mr. Li's parents received an unexpected phone call from the Dongguang Police Station. The elderly couple was puzzled when police asked them whether Mr. Li had returned home. He said that Mr. Li had been released on August 18th. Mr. Li' parents, brother, sister, and other relatives are seeking information about his possible whereabouts, as he remains missing. It is unknown why Mr. Li was released on August 18th or why the police who arrested him were called ten days later.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Tian Fang and Her Family of Six Have Been Persecuted Since 1999 and Separated for the Past Nine Years

  2008-09-16
  Ms. Tian Fang and her family of six from Tongliao City in Inner Mongolia have not been united in the past nine years due to the persecution of Falun Gong, which began in 1999. The six practitioners have accumulated a combined total of nearly 30 years of detention or prison time over the past nine years. The once wealthy family has experienced separation, the bankruptcy of their business, and becoming penniless under the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution. In September 2004, Tain Fang was sentenced to for four years in prison. The guards and prisoners subjected her to brutal torture that included making her stand naked in the wintertime, burning her face with cigarettes, electric shocks, brushing her face with a toilet brush, slapping her in the face, punching and kicking her, and putting her in heavy shackles. Sometimes the prison guards would make six or seven prisoners beat her.
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• Mr. Zhou Ning and Ms. Yue Lihua Sentenced in Jining City, Shandong Province; Zhou Ning Letter of Appeal

  2008-09-16
  On July 24th, 2008, Shizhong District Court judges in Jining City, Shandong Province, sentenced Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhou Ning and Ms. Yue Lihua without notifying their lawyers. Mr. Zhou was sentenced to five years in prison, and Ms. Yue to three. Prior to sentencing, Zhou Ning's lawyer called the judge several times to inquire about the progress in the case. But the court officials either didn't answer the phone or said the judge was out if they did.
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• The Persecution of a Young Woman Doctor

  2008-09-16
  Dr. Wang Yuchuan, is a surgeon in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. In 1998, she began practising Falun Gong and followed the standard of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. Dr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for the practice and told authorities, "Falun Gong is good. I wish the government would let us practise it." For uttering these words, she lost her personal freedom for three years and eight months. On August 7th, 2008, the day before the Beijing Olympic Games started, she was once again arrested and taken to a detention centre.
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• Ms. Wang Haiqing Arrested and Brutally Tortured Mentally and Physically

  2008-09-15
  Ms. Wang Haiqing, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in May 2008. She was force-fed and tortured both physically and mentally for three months. She was in critical condition. Policeman Dong Linfang held Ms. Wang down and said, "I don't believe that I cannot handle you." Wang Haiqing's was seriously injured, and she lost control of her bowels and bladder. It was unbearably painful.
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• Ms. Li Fengzhen of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Loses Her Memory As a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-15
  Ms. Li Fengzhen, a Falun Gong practitioner in her 50s, is from Hebei Province. She was arrested by officers from the Tanghai Public Security Bureau, on June 10th, 2008, and taken to Ankang Hospital in Tangshan City on June 25th. In just over 50 days, a formerly kind and healthy person was severely affected mentally. She became emaciated, was unable to stand or walk, and couldn't take care of herself. Ms. Li Fengzhen has now lost her memory. When she was detained in Tanghai County and Tangshan City, she was severely beaten, resulting in a serious brain damage. She was also injected with an unknown, nerve-damaging drug in Tangshan Ankang Hospital.
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