Torture

• Judge in China Imprisoned Because He Started to Practise Falun Gong

  2008-06-16
  Judge Li Dejun was a chief judge of the Hongqi Court under the Ganjingzi District Court in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. After listening to several cases brought against Falun Gong practitioners, he himself became a steadfast Falun Gong practitioner. In June 2006, he was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel. In February 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison. He is currently being held in the Dalian Railroad Detention Centre.
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• Practitioners Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

  2008-06-16
  Numerous practitioners have been arrested and their homes ransacked in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Practitioners Ms. Fan Xiaoli, Ms. Guo Shulan, and Ms. Yang Fenglan are currently detained at the Hexi Detention Centre. In April 2008, the Tongliao City Police Department, Ke District Police Department, Domestic Security Division, several police stations, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel from neighbourhood administrations made a coordinated effort to conduct a so-called "secret check-up" on local practitioners. They phoned or visited them, using the excuses of address verification, low income assistance registration, or providing job opportunities. On May 30th, they began wide-spread arrests.
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• The Persecution of Ms. Li Qiuhong from Jiuzhai Village, Mengyin County, Shandong Province

  2008-06-16
  My name is Li Qiuhong. I am 37 years old. On the morning of April 7th, 2008, my husband, Xu Zhidong was arrested. I was also cruelly tortured by police officers from Mengyin and Yinan County. I was released after being detained for a month and had 3,000 yuan extorted from me. My husband is now being detained in a forced labour camp. Our life has been seriously disrupted since my husband has been held in a forced labour camp. My eight-year-old son misses his father, and since we believe in Falun Gong, my husband and I have been suffering from this persecution.
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• Elderly Zhang Zongsu and Her Husband, Li Guocai, Arrested and Held for Thirteen Months in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

  2008-06-16
  Two elderly Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Zhang Zongsu and her husband, Mr. Li Guocai, were arrested by plain-clothes police on April 26th, 2007. Six months later, on October 20th, 2007, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to seven years in prison and Mr. Li Guocai to four years in prison. Until recently, they were detained at the Tangshan City First Detention Centre. In the beginning of January 2008, practitioners held in the detention centre began a group protest. Ms. Zhang was beaten and cursed. She was made to wear 22-pound handcuffs and shackles. On January 8th, 2008, her hands trembling uncontrollably, Ms. Zhang fainted. Afterwards, she could not take care of her own personal hygiene, she could not feed herself, and she could not clean her own clothes for two weeks.
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• Mr. Wang Guiming's Remains Cremated

  2008-06-15
  On April 28th, 2008, after the remains of practitioner Mr. Wang Guiming were cremated, the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp dispatched prison guards to bring the ashes to Tonghua City, where Mr. Wang's family resides. Their aim was to take Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Han Fengxia, into custody and hand her over to the local 610 Office. To avoid being arrested, Ms. Han did not attend her husband's ash spreading ceremony.
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• Chongqing Practitioner Ms. Wang Yan Persecuted

  2008-06-15
  Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers found out that Ms. Wang Yan, 33, had delivered Falun Gong articles to fellow practitioners, so she was arrested and interrogated and later sent to a brainwashing centre. In December 2000, Ms. Wang Yan was sentenced to four years because she and other practitioners made and hung banners exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. In October 2001, a guard tortured her for a week by handcuffing her with one leg between her arms. She appealed for justice to the court, but the CCP officers refused her appeal. In 2004 Ms. Wang was dismissed from her job. She later left home to avoid further persecution.
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• 610 Office in Huaian City, Jiangsu Province Arrests Another Nurse for Practising Falun Gong

  2008-06-15
  On May 23rd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Ling was arrested and detained at the Huaian City Detention Centre. According to sources, Zhou Ling has already been sentenced to one-year of forced labour. Before Ms. Zhou's arrest, Falun Gong practitioner Hu Yunqin, another nurse in-charge at the Huaian City Chinese Traditional Medical Hospital, was arrested on April 15th from her work place. Hu Yunqin was brutally tortured, both physically and mentally, and she still suffers from extreme pain, even after being released. Her left eye was beaten badly, causing bleeding and vision blurring.
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• Ms. Yu Zhiying from Ningpo City Arrested and Facing Sentencing

  2008-06-15
  On May 18th, 2008, Ms. Yu Zhiying, a Falun Gong practitioner, was reported to the authorities as she distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong at a food market. She was then once again arrested by the Zhenhai police and imprisoned. She will likely face sentencing. Meanwhile, her daughter in junior high school and her husband who had previously been poisoned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are now facing harassment and confiscation of the family's property. Previously, her husband had submitted Falun Gong books and leaflets to the court, which provided so-called "evidence" for Ms. Yu to Moganshan Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years.
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• Practitioners who Consoled Earthquake Victims are Mercilessly Beaten, Robbed and Arrested by Police Officers in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

  2008-06-14
  Practitioner Ms. He Meixian and her family have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance since 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began. Ms. He's family members have been beaten to death by police, her home has been decimated, and her life made extremely difficult due to the persecution. Prior to the large earthquake in Sichuan Province, there was an earthquake in Pan County, Guizhou Province, in early May 2008. This earthquake damaged Ms. He Meixians house. After this news got out, practitioners in Guiyang City went to visit her at her temporary home. They were all arrested by police.
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• Ms. Xu Na, Wife of a Musician Killed By the CCP, Transferred to Another Detention Centre in Beijing

  2008-06-14
  In early May 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Na was transferred to Chongwen District Detention Centre in Beijing. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials filed her case through the Procuratorate, and are ready to put her on trial. Xu's family has hired a lawyer to defend her. We have learned that the police did not find any evidence for their show-trial in Ms. Xu's home, nor did they find any in her vehicle. Under normal circumstances, she should be released. The CCP was worried that she would protest her husband's death by torture, so they transferred her and arranged to put her on trial.
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• Practitioners Hu Ruirong and Lei Yunqun, Husband and Wife from Hengyang City, Hunan Province, Repeatedly Arrested

  2008-06-14
  Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wu Ruirong and Ms. Lei Yingqun, husband and wife, were arrested by the police at 11:30 a.m. on May 24th, 2008 as they were working in a bridal studio in Hengyang City. The police ransacked their residence and used the pretext of "having found six pieces of evidence" as reason to hold them. On March 13th, 2002, Hengyang City Police Department agents detained Wu Ruirong for an unnamed crime and later incarcerated him at the Kaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha for two years. The family has suffered greatly due to the persecution.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Personnel in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province Arrest and Torture Ten Practitioners

  2008-06-14
  On April 11th, practitioner Mr. Zhang Hejun had already been detained and persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for a year. He was arrested again and was taken back to Zhuzhou City. The party members hung him by his wrists and poured pepper juice on him. Mr. Zhang is now deaf in his right ear, his right hand is numb, and his right foot is fractured. The police officers also threatened to beat him to the point of mental collapse.
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• The People Responsible for the Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Gu Qun, from Dalian City, Liaoning Province

  2008-06-13
  While distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, practitioner Mr. Gu Qun was arrested on March 16th, 2008 by police. The next day he was moved to Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City. Mr Gu started a hunger strike in protest and suffered brutal force-feeding by the police. His body was severely damaged. On April 8th, the police sent Mr. Gu to the Third People's Hospital. In fact what they sent was his dead body, hoping to shift their responsibility onto the hospital.
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• Exposing the Crimes Committed in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-06-13
  From May 9th, the Masanjia Labour Camp engaged in the so-called "Double-hundred Strike Hard Order," which will last until October. The guards planned to intensify the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners during this period of time. Practitioners have to finish their hard-labour assignments on schedule, otherwise, they will be beaten, or their prison terms will be extended. Li Mingyu instigated someone surnamed Chen to beat up practitioners who didn't finish their assignments. She also threatened, "Those who don't finish their task on time will taste my electric baton." The head of the team often helped the guards do the beating. In order to coerce detainees to make money for them, the guards in Masanjia would do anything to persecute them.
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• Details of the Persecution of Older Practitioner Ms. Qiu Xiu'e from Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province

  2008-06-13
  Ms. Qiu Xiu'e is a 56-year-old Falun Gong practitioner. She has been arrested and detained several times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. On February 3rd, 2004, Ms. Qiu was sentenced to a three-year jail term. She appealed and went on a hunger strike to protest this unjust sentence. As a result, both her hands and feet were handcuffed, and she was tied on a bed so that she could not move and later lost control of her bladder. On February 24th, she was tortured in Zhejiang Women's Prison. She was not allowed to sleep if she did not write the guarantee statement declaring that she gave up Falun Gong. She was personally monitored and forcibly brainwashed. Until May of 2008, officials withheld part of her pension for the time of her detention.
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