Torture

• Ms. Zhang Xiulan of Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province in Critical Condition

  2008-07-28
  Ms. Zhang Xiulan was arrested by police on February 25th, 2008. Her whereabouts were unknown to her family until her husband got an unexpected call in late June from the Domestic Security Section of the Taihe District Police Department saying, "Zhang Xiulan is in critical condition." The family was shocked. On or around June 28th, Ms. Zhang's mother, accompanied by a relative, went to the Domestic Security Section and asked permission to visit Ms. Zhang. Dai replied, "The Zhang Xiulan case has been handed over to the court. It is out of my control. No one, not even the director of the department, may allow any visitors."
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• Linghe District Court Officials in Jinzhou City Sentence Three Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-07-28
  On July 7th, 2008, Linghe District Court officials held a trial and sentenced three Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioner Xiang Ying was sentenced to twelve years, and Miao Jianguo and Yin Zhiyou were each given four-year terms. All three practitioners pleaded innocent and will appeal the sentences. The court officials tried to obstruct Mr. Miao Jianguo's lawyer from entering the courtroom when he arrived to defend his client. In the end, he was unable to provide defence. Court officials forbade him from bringing his laptop computer into the courtroom. Prior to this incident, the same officials had brought unlawful suits twice in matters pertaining to Falun Gong. When an lawyer attempted to defend Falun Gong in those trials, judge Zhou Jun repeatedly prevented the lawyer from presenting a legal argument and interrupted the lawyer's defence attempts.
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• Ms. Yu Xiuhua from Shandong Province, Ms. Chen Lianfeng from Beijing, and Others That Have Died as a Result of the Persecution

  2008-07-27
  After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, the officials at 64-year-old Ms. Chen Lianfeng's workplace forced her to go to brainwashing centres several times. Her family was under great stress. At the beginning of June 2008, Ms. Chen showed severe symptoms of illness and was not able to eat for several days. A week before she passed away, officials from her workplace went to her home to "educate" her and warned her to not cause trouble during the Olympics. This caused her even greater stress and she became weaker. After being persecuted for nine years, Ms. Chen passed away on June 26th, 2008.
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• Chinese Communist Party Agents Harass and Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners in Shijiazhuang City

  2008-07-27
  On July 4th, the Chinese Communist city government operatives in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, harassed and arrested many local Falun Gong practitioners. Around 7 a.m. on July 4th, Mr. Huang Wei, a practitioner, went downstairs from his home to do some work. He was arrested by a plain-clothes policeman stationed outside the residential building. Later, seven officers from the Changan District Police Department and Hedong Police Station ransacked Mr. Wei's home, searched his child's school bag, and found a booklet entitled "Announcement by the China Interim Government." Mr. Huang had broken no laws, and they did not find any evidence of a crime, but they nonetheless arrested his wife.
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• Jin Youfeng, a Teacher at Mudanjiang Normal College, Is Tortured in Mudanjiang Prison

  2008-07-27
  Jin Youfeng was formerly a physical education teacher at the Mudanjiang Normal College in Heilongjiang Province. In September 1999, he was fired because of his belief in Falun Gong. Later he was sentenced to three years of forced labour. In the labour camp, he was badly beaten by Zhang Junrong, a division head of the Admission Section of the camp. On October 22nd, 2003, he was arrested again. In March 2004, he was sent to Mudanjiang Prison, where he was badly tortured. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison. On May 26th, 2006, Jin was locked to iron bars by Luan Yu, a prison guard. In prison, Jin developed lung disease, and his hearing was damaged. He didn't get adequate medical treatment in the prison.
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• Approximately Ten Practitioners from Tongliao City Remain in Custody

  2008-07-27
  On May 30th, 2008, the Security Office in Knorchin District, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia directed the State Security Division and police departments to arrest, fine, interrogate, detain, and search the homes of Falun Gong practitioners. Approximately ten practitioners from Tongliao City remain in custody at the Hexi Detention Centre. On numerous occasions, many practitioners have been arrested and sentenced to forced labour or prison simply for their belief in Falun Gong. Ms. Fan Xiaoli was twice sentenced to forced labour. While in the Hexi Detention Centre and the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp, she was beaten, shocked with electric batons, suspended in mid-air, and placed in shackles.
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• Documenting the Persecution of Ms. Jiang Lanying from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province

  2008-07-26
  Ms. Jiang Lanying appealed for justice for Falun Gong in November 1999. Police took her to the Nanchang Third Detention Centre. The police incited criminals to beat her mercilessly and kick her head against a wall. Her entire body was blue and purple after this abuse. The perpetrators poured urine on her in the chilly winter. Guard Liu Xiuying even boasted, "Pouring excrement on her is fine!" Guard Meng handcuffed and shackled Ms. Jiang Lanying together with eight other practitioners. Then he shackled one hand of each practitioner, compelling all eight to remain bent over the whole time. In this position they could not walk or sleep or take care of themselves. The pain they experienced is beyond imagination.
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• Ms. He Xianggu in Critical Condition in a Mental Hospital

  2008-07-26
  On May 10th, 2008, Ms. He Xianggu was arrested and tortured by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs for the fourth time. She is now in critical condition. At present, she is being detained in the Hunan Province Brain Hospital and her family is strictly prohibited from seeing her. Since the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. He has been detained in the same hospital twice. While there she was injected with an unknown drug that made her feel nauseous and uneasy and her entire body stiff and weak.
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• As the Olympic Torch Relay Reaches Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Many Falun Gong Practitioners Are Subjected to Persecution

  2008-07-26
  Using the 2008 Beijing Olympics as an excuse to escalate the persecution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has arrested more than one thousand and eight hundred practitioners. In some cases, after they made the arrest, they sentenced the practitioners to prison without a trial. The practitioners are required to serve their prison sentence until the Olympics are over. The Olympic Torch arrived in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on June 28th, 2008. Meanwhile, local CCP officials kept surveillance on, harassed, followed and arrested practitioners. During this period of time, police either went directly to practitioners' homes or their workplaces, and some used the local Neighbourhood Administration as informants. A few police officers forced their way into practitioners' homes to seize their belongings.
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• Mr. Bai Shaohua Very Weak from Torture at Baimiao Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province

  2008-07-26
  On February 20th, 2008, the police arrested Mr. Bai Shaohua on the pretext of an Olympic Game "security check". The Beijing authorities transferred him to Baimiao Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, where he was confined for 14 months. Someone in the know claimed that two months was added due to his missing time from the last detention when they had to release him for hospital treatment. Mr. Bai is very weak from torture, and two people need to hold his arms in order for him to walk.
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• Domestic Security Division Agents Harass Pregnant Woman in Hebei Province

  2008-07-25
  At around 9:00 p.m. on July 3rd, 2008, a woman shouted from the window of her home in the Jinma Neighbourhood of Yuhua District in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province: "My name is Mi Xiaozheng, and I am seven months pregnant! A group of police officers want to ransack my home, saying it's for the 'safety of the Olympics.' They detained me more than one year in 2006, deprived me of sleep for nearly ten days, beat and cursed me, and forced me to write a guarantee statement to give up my belief in Falun Gong. They harassed me in 2007, threatened my family, and caused me extreme mental pressure, which resulted in a miscarriage. They are now here again. Folks, please come take a look!"
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• Two Middle School Teachers Arrested and Beaten in Dongfeng County, Jilin Province

  2008-07-25
  On June 28th, 2008, when two Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Ha Jingbo and Ms. Jiang Ruoling were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in Dayang Town, they were arrested by police officers. After the practitioners were brought to the police department, the officers took "confessions" by force. The two practitioners remained silent while the director of the Dayang Town Police Department, Du Yongri (male), cursed them and hit them in the face out of frustration. When Du Yongri noticed that the door was not closed, he became worried that someone might see what he was doing. He simply shut the door, and continued to punch and kick Ms. Ha and Ms. Jiang. Later, he also opened the window trying to get the practitioners to jump from the second floor and commit suicide.
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• Many Practitioners Recently Arrested in Yingcheng City, Hubei Province

  2008-07-25
  On July 2nd, 2008 several practitioners from Dongmafang Township, Yingcheng City, Hubei Province were arrested. A dozen or so practitioners' homes were ransacked and there was no news whatsoever about one specific practitioner. Mr. Xiong Jiwei was "summoned" out of the hospital where he was working. When his family went to the hospital to look for him the following day, he was not there, though his mobile phone and other personal items were still at the hospital. Later it was confirmed that he was taken away by the police.
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• Crippled by Police Torture: Mr. Sun Pinghua of Yueyang City, Hunan Province

  2008-07-25
  On March 18th, 2008, Mr. Sun Pinghua was arrested by officers from the Domestic Security Division of Yueyanglou District Police Department and the Jineshan Police Station. The officers tortured and interrogated Mr. Sun. As a result, he is now crippled. Mr. Sun lost all feeling of one of his arms. He does not feel any pain even when his arm is stabbed with needles. His arm just hangs limp. On June 24th, doctors in the Yueyang City No. 1 Hospital diagnosed Mr. Sun's injury as a forced-pulling injury. They said that they would have to amputate Mr. Sun's arm if it would not recover within six months. So far, the police has not allowed Mr. Sun to have any visits from his family.
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• China Denies Having Organ Transplantation Statistics Between 2000 and 2005

  2008-07-24
  In a 2008 United Nations report, Asma Jahangir Jahangir, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, demanded that China explain the dramatic increase in organs used for transplantation from 2000 to 2005, and the mismatch between the high number of transplants and the relatively few known donor sources. The Chinese government responded that they have no statistics on the number of transplants between 2000 and 2005.
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