Torture
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Elderly Ms. Li Xiaowen Dies After Being Tortured in Brainwashing Centre in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
2008-06-20Ms. Li Xiaowen, 67, lived in Sichuan Province. In November 2007, she was arrested and taken to Chengdu City Legal Education Centre, a Brainwashing Centre located in Xinjin County. She was tortured to the point of being in critical condition, and was released in March 2008. She had been having heavy bleeding ever since. Ms. Li Xiaowen had been arrested many times, and endured torture numerous times. At the beginning of May 2008, she passed out due to the bleeding, and was taken to Sichuan Province Medical University Affiliated Hospital for recovery. She died at the beginning of June 2008. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Luo Jiabin Tortured and in Critical Condition
2008-06-20Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Luo Jiabin has been on hunger strike to protest his persecution since he was arrested in Chenzhou City by Communist Party officers on May 11th, 2008. He was secretly taken to the Shaodong County Detention Centre and is now being tortured there. He has been on hunger strike for 28 days and is in critical condition. His family members are very worried and are calling on people of conscience in and outside of China to help rescue him. -
Three Female Practitioners from Yingcheng City, Hubei Province, Arrested
2008-06-20On June 4th, 2008, Ms. Wang Changping, a practitioner, went to the Gepu Police Station to request the release of two female practitioners. Police officers forced her into a police car. She was detained at Dongmafang Police Station for more than two hours. During this time, the police prohibited her family from seeing her and also beat them. On June 5th, 2008, Ms. Gao Wenxia, Ms. Li Yuling, and another female practitioner visited Dongmafang Police Station to ask for the release of Ms. Wang. As a result, the three were forced into a police car and taken to the No. 2 Detention Centre in Yingcheng City. -
64-Year-Old Mr. Liu Yanheng Dies as Result of Being Tortured at Benxi City Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2008-06-19On September 8th, 2007, police in Benxi City took Mr. Liu Yanheng, 64, into custody. He was subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labour. There are many means of torture means used in Benxi City Forced Labour Camp, including the stretching bed, locking in a small cell, and other brutal methods. Many detained practitioners have been tortured until they develop heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke Due to being subjected to brutal treatment while in detention, he died ten days after his release from Benxi City Forced Labour Camp on June 7th, 2008. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Cruelly Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2008-06-19For distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people, practitioner Ms. Zhong Shujuan has been sentenced to forced labour three times and detained once. She is now being inhumanly tortured and persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. She is in great anguish every day not being able to see her daughter, and her mother is close to 80 years old and isn't able to take care of herself. She has been shocked with electric batons, beaten with rubber clubs, subjected to corporal punishments, and stripped of her clothes so that others could write words defaming Falun Gong on her body. -
Ms. Xu Xiu of Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province Tortured in a Brainwashing Centre
2008-06-19On May 8th, 2008, Ms. Xu Xiu was arrested at her home by police. Four days later, we heard that she was taken to a brainwashing centre inside the Shaanxi Province Workers Sanatorium and was tortured there. In the brainwashing centre, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members coerce practitioners to watch videos and read materials which slander Falun Gong, and coerce practitioners to write statements of "transformation." They torture steadfast practitioners using psychological means, by isolating them in small cells, depriving them of sleep by non-stop interrogation, exposing them to bright lights, and poisoning their food to make them lose concentration and become dizzy. -
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Official Zheng Xianfang from Huaiyang, Henan Province Heavily Involved in Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-06-19Since late April 2008, more than ten Falun Gong practitioners in Huaiyang, Henan Province have been arrested and their belongings confiscated by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. Many practitioners and their family members have been brutally beaten and tortured by the CCP police. The Huaiyang 610 Office director, Zheng Xianfang, directed and led police to arrest Falun Gong practitioners and confiscate their belongings, personally tortured Falun Gong practitioners, sent Falun Gong practitioners and their family members to forced labour camps, and sentenced and extorted money from Falun Gong practitioners and their family members. -
Mr. Cui Guangyong from Wangqing County, Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Persecution
2008-06-18Mr. Cui Guangyong, 38, was an accountant. In 2003, police officers arrested Cui Guangyong. They tortured him for 10 days. The policemen could not find any evidence to persecute him, so they had to release him. In 2007 police arrested him again. During 14 days, in the cold and wet training centre, Cui Guangyong's physical health became worse and worse due to the physical and mental torture he was subjected to. He passed away on the night of May 29th, 2008. -
After Five Years of Imprisonment, Airline Pilot Shen Wenjie is Forced into Homelessness to Avoid Further Persecution
2008-06-18Mr. Shen Wenjie and his wife-to-be Ms. Dong Cui began practising Falun Gong in 1996. In late 2001, they were both arrested and sentenced to five years in prison by the Shunyi District Court. On the eighth day after Ms. Dong was transferred to the Daxing District Women's Prison, she was brutally tortured to death. For five years, Mr. Shen was subjected to all kinds of mental and physical tortures. When he left the prison in December 2006, he looked for her, and we can only imagine how sad he was upon learning that his wife-to-be had been murdered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -
The Bestial Behaviour of Policewomen at the Kuangshan Police Station in Jinan City
2008-06-18Male police officers at the Kuangshan Police Station in the Huaiyin District, Jinan City, have followed Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] orders since the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong. They and others have savagely tortured Falun Gong practitioners. Station chief Zhang Jizhong has been involved in dozens of persecution incidents. Policewomen at this station often electrically shock male Falun Gong practitioners' genitalia. A policewoman slapped practitioner Zhang Shihang and shocked him with an electric baton. Mr. Zhang became incontinent from the shock. She continued to shock him on his private parts -
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Agents in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province Arrest Practitioners in the Name of the Olympic Games
2008-06-18In the name of securing stability for the upcoming Olympic Games, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province have been monitoring and registering all Falun Gong practitioners in the area. Under the pretext of checking their resident ID cards, the county government and police station are going from house to house, interrogating and examining county residents. Their goal is to monitor Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, religious groups, and petitioners. Meanwhile, police officers of the Zhuolu County 610 Office have repeatedly harassed practitioners who are supposedly "key characters" and tried to force them to sign documents promising that they will give up their beliefs. -
Elderly Widow Arrested by Police from Honggang District in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, Despite Severe Injuries from a Fall
2008-06-17On the morning of April 7th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yanxiang, 71, jumped from the window of her third floor apartment to avoid being arrested. Ms. Wang's neighbours found her and took her to Longnan Hospital in Daqing City. She suffered several broken ribs, a broken leg, and internal injuries that resulted in fluid in her pleural cavity. Her daughter Liu Shufen is unable to care for her because Ms. Liu was sentenced to eleven years in prison and is currently in Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison. -
Ms. Hui Zenghua and Her Family Brutally Persecuted for Over Eight Years by Government Agents in Mengyin County, Shandong Province
2008-06-17On February 11th, 2000, Ms. Hui Zenghua, 54, and her three children went to Beijing. The family was arrested while they were doing the Falun Gong exercises on Tiananmen Square. Police beat them, kicked them, and dragged them into a vehicle. Ms. Hui's family was forced to wear derogatory signs, and paraded around town in a vehicle in handcuffs. Ms. Gong Shuhua, Ms. Hui's daughter, was taken to a brainwashing centre. Ms. Gong was forced to kneel on a cement path. The agents and thugs punched her, kicked her, and beat her hands with branches whenever she moved. To make her give up her belief, four or five persons beat her every night. -
Ms. Li Feng Tortured at Xifeng Detention Centre in Qingyang City, Gansu Province
2008-06-17On April, 3rd, 2008, when Ms. Li Feng and Ms. Qi Huirong were arrested by police at home. Over ten people went into their home. Police officers also went to Ms. Li Feng's home town and forced her husband to sign paperwork. They claimed that Ms. Li was arrested when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. They have detained Ms. Li at the Xifeng District Detention Centre. Having been tortured for a long period, Ms. Li Feng is covered with scars all over her body. Police officers beat Ms. Li's mouth which became swollen. Her teeth hurt and fell out, and she could not eat. Police officers also lie about Ms. Li going on a hunger strike. They declared that, "It is not a big deal to beat Falun Gong practitioners to death. Our superiors will not punish us; instead, they encourage us with bonuses." -
The Persecution of Ms. Wang Lanting and Ms. Su Mingxia from Chengguan Town, Pingshan County, Hebei Province
2008-06-17Because Ms. Wang Lanting, 65, put up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in 2001, she was reported by people who didn't know the truth and detained in the county detention centre again. She was handcuffed and put into leg irons. She went on a hunger strike, and the restraints were removed. A month later, she was taken to a brainwashing centre, where she was handcuffed to a very large tree for three days and nights. Later, this elderly woman was tortured for more than four hours by young inmates in the detention centre.