Torture
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Former Teacher from Police Management College in Guangzhou Arrested
2008-06-09
It was reported that on April 15th, 2008, the police arrested over 20 Falun Gong practitioners in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, and searched their homes. Ms. Zhao Ping is a former award-wining teacher from Police Management College in Guangzhou City. On April 15th, Guangzhou police officers arrested her and took her to Tianhe Detention Centre. When the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, Ms. Zhao was fired. Since losing her job, she has been detained several times and forced to attend brainwashing sessions. She has been sentenced to a forced labour camp for 3 years. Seeing his kind daughter suffering from persecution caused her father great pain. He passed away with sadness for the persecution of his daughter weighing heavily on his heart. -
Recent Cases of Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by 610 Office in Shanwei City, Guangdong Province
2008-06-09Ms. Zhang Tieliu, in her 60's, lived in Shanwei City. After practising Falun Gong, she became healthy both physically and mentally. One day in April 2008, personnel from the Shanwei City 610 Office broke into Ms. Zhang's home. They ransacked her house without showing any legal documents and took away her Falun Gong book and an MP3 player. They sent Ms. Zhang to Sanshui Brainwashing Centre in Guangdong Province. -
Older Ms. Xu Jiarong Tortured to Death in a Guizhou Province Prison
2008-06-08Ms. Xu Jiarong, 61, was a Falun Gong practitioner. In July 2001, officers from the Xixiu District Police Department suddenly ransacked her home, arrested and detained her in the Heishitou Detention Centre for more than two years. Then they sentenced her to seven years in prison. She was tortured in the Yang'ai Prison until she could not take care of herself. Her family requested her release many times, and she was finally released at the end of April 2008. She died shortly after that on May 13th, 2008. -
Blind, Elderly Man Arrested and Tortured by Police Officers from the National Security Team in Huaiyang County, Henan Province
2008-06-08On May 18th, 2008, a group of police officers climbed over a wall and broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Xinheng, who is over 60 years old and blind. They didn't showed any warrants and ransacked Mr. Yu's home and confiscated valuables. Mr. Yu and his wife were taken to the county police department, where police officers physically abused and interrogated them. Mr. Yu refused to say anything. A young police officer said, "This guy does not obey us and refuses to cooperate with us. Watch how I slap him in the face." Mr. Yu said to him, "I am 63 years old and blind. You also have parents. How would you feel if somebody hits your father even though he breaks no laws and just wants to be a kind person?" -
Zhucheng City Police Arrested More than Twenty Falun Gong Practitioners in April and May 2008
2008-06-08We have collected information about the unjust arrests of more than 20 Falun Gong practitioners by police officers in Zhucheng City in April and May 2008. The information is incomplete, and in reality, many more practitioners were harassed. It has been reported that Zhang Xingye (male), director of the Zhucheng City Police Department, went to the Weifang Area for a meeting before this recent round of persecution started. He was rebuked because he had arrested fewer Falun Gong practitioners than the police in Shouguang City and other cities. After Zhang returned, he ordered all police stations under his command to escalate the persecution. Under the excuse of the upcoming Olympic Games, the Zhucheng City police have created an atmosphere of terror, harassing and terrorizing innocent people. -
Elderly Mr. Yang Xiyao from Yanshan County, Hebei Province Detained in Prison
2008-06-08In 2000, 68-year-old Mr. Yang was arrested while he was appealing for the end to the persecution. He was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in Baoding Prison, Hebei Province. Mr. Yang was tortured so severely by the National Security Team at the Yanshan County Police Department and at Baoding Prison that he began to experience heart palpitations and vomit blood and he developed high blood pressure. Only when he was close to death in January 2006 was he released on bail for medical treatment. After Mr. Yang returned home, he again began to practise Falun Gong. As a result, he became healthy again very quickly. On April 21st, 2008, police arrested Mr. Yang again and sent him back to Baoding Prison. -
Mr. Cui Guangyong Dies From Persecution in Wangqing County, Jilin Province
2008-06-07Mr. Cui Guangyong, 38, was a Falun Gong practitioner. However, after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, he was not allowed to practise Falun Gong because of pressure applied by the local police departments. Some of the village officials frequently went to Mr. Cui's home to harass him, both physically and psychologically. He was forced to leave his job and was sentenced to forced labour twice. Those same officials extorted thousands of yuan from his family. In October of 2007 he was again sentenced to forced labour. After he was released, he died on May 29th, 2008, as a result of this persecution. -
Ms. Zhang Mengxia Sentenced to Five Years of Imprisonment After Suffering Multiple Arrests, Brainwashing and Torture
2008-06-07Because Ms. Zhang Mengxia refused to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong in May 2002, officials at her workplace escorted her to a brainwashing centre to "reform" her. She suffered many other detainments and torture. On October 1st, 2007, Ms. Zhang, accompanied by other practitioners went to a popular tourist site in Zunhua City to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. Local police officers arrested her and detained her in Zunhua Detention Centre, where she is still being held. She has been brutally force-fed, causing her hands and face to be covered with blood. It was too miserable to look at. On April 17th, 2008, six other practitioners together with Ms. Zhang were sentenced at the Zunhua Municipal Court. She was sentenced to a five-year term. -
Please Help Rescue My Daughter, Ma Duo--A Letter of Appeal to People of Goodwill
2008-06-07My daughter, Ma Duo, has been held in Jiamusi Detention Centre in Heilongjiang Province for more than five months for practising Falun Gong. She might be sentenced now. I miss my daughter and worry about her. My daughter was about to leave for work on February 13th, 2007, when a group of police officers barged into our home. They ransacked our home, confiscating my computer and other personal belongings. Three police officers dragged me to their car and took me to the suburban Changhong Police Station. Then they went to Ma Duo's place of employment to abduct her. She was taken to Changhong Police Station. She has since been held in Jiamusi Detention Centre. I was released from detention because of my poor health. -
Practitioner Ms. Ye Huizhu Persecuted in the Tianhe District, Guangzhou City
2008-06-07On April 15th, 2008, officials broke into Ms. Ye Huizhu's home. Once inside they looked around carefully in the three rooms. Not finding anything, they went back to the living room and told Ms. Ye's son that his mother was doing work exposing the persecution outside and that someone had discovered her. They demanded to know where she was. When Ms. Ye Huizhu heard about this incident, she worried about further persecution and didn't dare go home. Over the past nine years, Ms. Ye Huizhu, who is over 60, and her family have endured harassment and other forms of persecution. Her family has had to endure a great deal of pressure. Her personal safety is now threatened. She has since been arrested, detained, brainwashed, and harassed six times. -
Police in Shouguang City, Shandong Province, Arrest and Sentence Falun Gong Practitioners to Forced Labour Camps Without Any Constraint
2008-06-06On May 1st, practitioner Guo Guangjun was reported when distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, arrested by police officers and forced into making confessions by means of torture. The following day, Li Xiue was also arrested by officers of Yangkou Police Department. Her home was ransacked, and her computers and other personal belongings were confiscated. Policemen beat up Li Xiue, extorted confessions from her through torture, and did not allow her to sleep for four or five days. -
Xu Shutang from Jianli County, Hubei Province Persecuted in Brainwashing Centre
2008-06-06On May 13th, 2008, practitioner 68-year-old Mr. Xu Shutang was arrested by seven police officers from the Bianhe Town Police Station of Jianli County, while he was on the way to work. In the afternoon, he was transferred to the notorious Tangxunhu Brainwashing Centre in Wuhan City, Hubei Province for further persecution. Previously, in September 2003, Xu Shutang was arrested by police officers from the 610 Office and jailed. Mr. Xu was not allowed to sleep. The guards and inmates took turns brainwashing him by defaming and and falsely accusing Falun Gong, forcing him to watch video programmes defaming Falun Gong, and forcing him to write reports denouncing Falun Gong after watching the videos. -
The Despicable Conduct of the Police in Kouqian Town, Yongji County, Jilin Province
2008-06-06As the 2008 Beijing Olympics approach, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is intensifying its persecution of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. The Party claims this is necessary to ensure "a successful Olympics." Party officials such as the director of the 610 Office of Yongji County closely follow orders from the Central Committee of the CCP. In the beginning of March 2008, they arrested two teachers from Beidahu Town Primary School, Ms. Wang Jing and Xu Qing. They deceived Ms. Wang Jing by telling her that they would pay her salary while she was detained in a forced labour camp and then arrested her. She has been detained for more than two months, and family visits are not allowed. -
Recent Crimes Committed by Kunshan 610 Office and Domestic Security Division Agents
2008-06-06When Mr. Zhu Xingfu, 58, and other practitioners raised a banner at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to announce their disagreement of the persecution of Falun Gong with the regime sometime between July 20th, 1999 and 2001, a group of police officers violently beat them before sending them to a detention centre in a Beijing suburb. The police there greeted them with punches, kicks and slaps in the face. Mr. Zhu's face and mouth were bloody and bruised. The police continued to beat him the next day. A policeman kicked him so hard that he fell to the ground. The policeman stomped on his body and continued kicking him. Mr. Zhu could not even stand up. They stripped him of his clothes and continued to beat him. His knees were injured so badly that he could not move his legs. -
Practitioner Violently Beaten to Death in Jiangsu Province
2008-06-05A male Falun Gong practitioner was arrested in May 2006 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Shibei Town, Jiangsu Province. The police took him into custody at the Shibei Town Station, and then detained him in the Kunshan City Detention Centre. The detention centre transferred a group of prisoners from the Xinjiang prisons so that they could be employed to violently "punish" the people arrested. This practitioner was soon beaten to death by the encouraged prisoners.
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