Torture

• Hundreds of Practitioners Arrested This Year in Beijing

  2008-08-27
  Based on incomplete statistics due to China's information blockade, 586 Beijing practitioners have been arrested from January to July 2008. There were 83 arrests in January, 87 in February, 57 in March, 112 in April, 144 in May, 48 in June, and 55 in July. Ms. Kang, 72, lived in Yuzhongxili community, Beijing. On May 20th, 2008, she was arrested by police officers while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She died on May 29th, 2008, after having a stroke while in police custody. Ms. Kang had practised Falun Gong for 15 years and was in good health.
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• Authorities Round Up Practitioners in Laizhou City, Many Arrested

  2008-08-27
  After 10 o'clock at night of July 29th, ten government officials and police broke into Mr. Li Yufu's home in Guanqian Village, and forced him down on the ground, choked him, twisted his arms and handcuffed him. Ms. Li's wife tried to reason with the police and was restrained. She shouted more than ten times, "Don't take my husband." The policemen replied ferociously, "If it were not for your little kid, we would take you as well." Mr. Li Yufu did not have any outerwear or shoes when he was taken away.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Wei Danqun of Shanhaiguan Sent To Prison in Critical Condition

  2008-08-27
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wei Danquan was arrested, put on trial twice and finally sentenced to four years of imprisonment. Even though Wei Danquan has appealed this sentence, he was sent to Jidong Prison in Tangshan City. Wei Danquan is an ex-army officer stationed at the Shanhaiguan Airport. He was suspended from his duties for practising Falun Gong. He has been persecuted many times. He was arrested, detained, tortured with torture devices and sentenced to imprisonment. He has been monitored, and his house was ransacked and property confiscated. The constant persecution throughout the years caused his health to deteriorate.
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• Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Beijiang Prison in Guangdong

  2008-08-26
  Practitioner Huang Yongzhong wrote some good words about Falun Gong in his "thought reports in prison." Guards forced him to stand in the hot summer sun for a long time. The temperature reached over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the courtyard. Huang Yongzhong collapsed, and was subsequently beaten by a group of inmates. After they finished beating him and saw that he didn't wake up, they dragged him to the toilet and poured cold water on him. They dragged him outside to expose him to the sun again. Huang's buttocks were burned very badly and festered. After five days, when he was nearly dead, the prison officials sent Huang to the hospital. Huang was allowed to go home, but it was too late. He vomited blood continuously and died ten days later.
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• Chinese Communist Party Officials in Wanquan County, Hebei Province Aggressively Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-08-26
  Government officials in Wanquan County, Hebei Province have implicated Falun Gong practitioners in the name of "Olympic security." Each town, township and village is monitoring practitioners within their area. Officials have also broken into the homes of practitioners and individuals who had read Falun Gong books before the persecution began in 1999. The government officials forced them to sign their names, took their fingerprints and confiscated their identification cards. These agents threatened to hold a brainwashing session for those practitioners who didn't cooperate with them.
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• Additional Information on Mr. Zhang Wenya's Death as a Result of Persecution

  2008-08-26
  Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Wenya died as a result of persecution by the police from the Xian City Police Department in Shanxi Province on April 22nd, 2001. Mr. Zhang's family took his cremated remains back to Changchun City on June 24th, 2001. Police informed Mr. Zhang's family of his death two months after his actual death. When his family arrived at Xian City, they observed that his body was dark and without clothes. A police officer deceived his family by claiming that Mr. Zhang had jumped off a building and killed himself. The police played a videotape of it for his family.
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• Weifang City Practitioner Cao Junping and Her Husband Detained

  2008-08-26
  On July 29th, 2008, Ms. Cao Junping and her husband were arrested and sent to a detention centre. Previously, in January 2000, Ms. Cao and eight other practitioners were doing the Falun Gong exercises at the city square. For that, they were arrested by the police and detained in a 9-square-foot cell. There they were beaten by a group of thugs led by the Weifang City mayor. The thugs asked "Do you still want to practise Falun Gong?" Ms. Cao firmly answered, "Yes!" As a result, she was beaten with spiked wooden clubs, shocked with electric batons, and dragged on the floor by her hair. Ms. Cao's entire body was in pain. One of her front teeth also fell out. The authorities made her husband pay 2000 yuan before they released her.
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• 70-year-old Mr. Chen Yunchuan Detained Again After Losing Four Family Members in the Persecution

  2008-08-25
  Mr. Chen Yunchuan, 70, is a practitioner from Hebei Province. All six members of his family are practitioners, and four of them have died as a result of the persecution. Recently, Mr. Chen was arrested again at his home. The oldest son, Mr. Chen Aizhong, was sentenced to three years of forced labour and died at the Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City on September 20th, 2001. The youngest daughter, Ms. Chen Hongping, was sentenced to forced labour after both of her legs were broken during a beating. She died at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp on March 5th, 2003. The youngest son, Mr. Chen Aili, was tortured to the verge of death at the Jidong Prison in Tangshan City. He passed away on November 5th, 2004.
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• Account of Persecution Suffered by Qiqihar City Falun Gong Practitioner Over Nine-Year Period

  2008-08-25
  I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. Because I have remained faithful to my belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance since 1999, I have been sentenced twice to forced labour and locked up at the Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp in Qiqihar City. In addition, I was incarcerated for almost four years in the Harbin City Women's Prison, where I was made to do hard labour and subjected to various ruthless tortures. Among other things, I was hung up in the air and swung from side to side, and I was stripped naked and beaten.
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• High School Teacher Ms. Liu Yurong Arrested and Put On Trial

  2008-08-25
  Ms. Liu Yurong is a practitioner from Linghai City, Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. On May 29th, 2008 she and her sister were arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police for practising Falun Gong. They were held captive for a month until they were put on trial on July 28th. The court in Linghai City is controlled entirely by Communist Party members. Ms. Liu Yurong denied all of the court's accusations against her. One lawyer asked her whether she wanted to hire a lawyer. To that question Ms. Liu Yurong answered, "If you can enter a plea of 'innocent' for me, I will hire you. If you cannot, there is no need to even talk about it." In the end the trial concluded without any result.
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• Recent Arrests of at Least Twenty Practitioners in Tangshan City

  2008-08-25
  On July 6th the home of practitioner Zhao Jinjun was ransacked and he was arrested. This was the fourth time Mr. Zhao was arrested by police. During this latest arrest, the police not only kicked Mr. Zhao's 3-year-old son but they also called the young child a "b*****d." The police sprayed mace into the eyes of Mr. Zhao's 10-year-old son, Yang Yang, and Mr. Zhao's mother who is in her 60's. Yang Yang could not open his eyes after being sprayed and rushed to the sink to wash his eyes with water. Even after doing so, his eyes remained red and painful for the entire afternoon.
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• Despite Lack of Evidence, Four Falun Gong Practitioners Put on Trial in Zunhua City

  2008-08-24
  On July 25th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Qiang, 36 , who is a resident in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, was arrested by Zunhua City Domestic Security Division. He was taken to the Zunhua Detention Centre to be incarcerated and subsequently transferred to the Procuratorate. After being held for 8 days, without any evidence of having committed a crime, the Zunhua Procuratorate held a secret trial on four Falun Gong practitioners, including Li Qiang and Zhao Jingjun.
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• Older Ms. Chai Shuzhen Arrested Again for Telling People about the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2008-08-24
  On July 21st, 2008 Chai Shuzhen, in her 60s, was arrested again for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and sent to the Tangshan Forced Labour Camp on the 26th for a two-year term. In a previous detention a guard found her practising Falun Gong. The head of the detention centre had her handcuffed to a chair and ordered two guards to insert a tube into her through her nose to force feed her with an unknown drug. Liu said, "The reason you do the Falun Gong exercises is because you want to heal yourself. So we are going to give you medicine." After this torture, her stomach hurt and she could not eat more than half of a bowl of rice at each meal.
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• An Impoverished Farmer Arrested after Making a Donation to the Sichuan Earthquake Crisis

  2008-08-24
  Mr. Yin Zemin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hebei Province. When he learned of the recent 7.9-magnitude earthquake, he consulted with his family, then donated 500 yuan (which was a portion of the money the family saved for his father's medical care) to the devastated area relief efforts. However, Yin Zemin's kindness was rewarded instead with a search and seizure. On June 6th, 2008, Mr. Yin was arrested by officers from the Yongyang Town police station. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers declared that practitioners do not have money, therefore, someone with the resources to donate 500 yuan must be a "Falun Gong coordinator." On July 1st, he was taken to the Baoding Forced Labour Camp.
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• Eleven Falun Gong Practitioners in Lingyuan City Arrested

  2008-08-24
  On July 19th, eleven Falun Gong practitioners went to Taohuachi village in Liaoning province, to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Armed police officers arrested them and took them to the Pingfangzi police station. After they arrived at the police station, one of Falun Gong practitioners, Yun Guolin, was shot twice by police as he tried to escape. He was then handcuffed and beaten with electric batons, rubber clubs, fists, and foot kicks. The police also tortured the other ten practitioners with the electric batons and rubber clubs. All the while, police verbally belittled the Falun Gong practitioners. They were not allowed to eat, drink, or use the toilet.
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