Torture
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What I Know about Mr. Gu Qun, Who Died in a Detention Centre on April 8th
2008-06-05
To stand up for Falun Gong during the persecution, Mr. Gu Qun took the train to Beijing to appeal in February 2000. He was arrested, escorted back to Dalian, and then detained at the drug rehabilitation centre. After his appeal in Beijing, Mr. Gu was arrested six times, detained, sentenced to forced labour, and severely persecuted. On March 16th, 2008, Mr. Gu Qun was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. Police officers arrested him. The next day he was taken to Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City and was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. Before he was escorted to the forced labour camp, in the morning on April 8th, Mr. Gu died in Yaojia Detention Centre. Only 23 days had passed between the time of his arrest and his death as a result of torture. -
Crimes Committed by Hulan Prison's Training Team
2008-06-05For newly arriving practitioners, the Training Team first uses threats and inducements. After that, they force the practitioner to stand for 16 to 17 hours at a time, and sometimes for 24 hours in a row. They also subject practitioners to a torture where the practitioner is first pushed down to the ground, face down. They then pull his arms up behind his back and then force them forward. At the same time, they pull his legs apart. Some practitioners' arms were dislocated, and they fainted from the pain. Another method of torture is solitary confinement. The solitary compartment has rings attached to the floor, and the guards fix the practitioners' hands and feet in the rings, immobilizing him on the ground. -
Zhang Sulan and Her Son from Linghe District, Jinzhou City Sent to a Forced Labour Camp
2008-06-05Ms. Zhang Sulan and her son are Falun Gong practitioners who live in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. In the past few years, they have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and have been unable to live in their own house. They remained homeless for as long as seven years. On the afternoon of April 12th, 2008, they were arrested by police from the Liuhua Police Station in Linghe District, Jinzhou City, and were locked up in the Jinzhou City 2nd Detention Centre. Currently, they are both detained in forced labour camps. -
Zhou Yongkang Secretly Ordered the Arrests of 50 Practitioners in Shenyang City
2008-06-04Around May 24th-26th, many practitioners went missing in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Among these, twenty-four were arrested in one night in Dongling District. Another practitioner was also missing and her paralysed mother has been left at home without anyone to care for her. An internal source revealed that when Party Political and Judiciary Committee Chief Zhou Yongkang arrived in Shenyang City, he secretly ordered the arrests of 50 practitioners. Now we have confirmed at least 30 that were arrested, with many more suffering brutal treatment, and many families living in terror. Mr. Miao Qisheng, has been tortured to death by police officers in Shenyang City. His wife Zu Liming was also arrested on May 24th, 2008. Their son Miao Yumeng (nicknamed Mengmeng), once again lives alone. -
Please Help Falun Gong Practitioner Li Feng, Who Is Being Persecuted at the No. 4 Prison of Shijiazhuang City
2008-06-04Because he was involved in broadcasting a TV programme about the persecution of Falun Gong, practitioner Mr. Li Feng was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment at the No. 4 Prison of Shijiazhuang City. Torture in the prison damaged his health, as Li Feng developed heart disease and high blood pressure in late 2005. His family requested that the prison allow Li Feng to go home and receive treatment, but their request was rejected. They were told that Li Feng had not been "transformed" yet. -
Atrocities against Falun Gong Practitioners at Liaoning Province Women's Prison
2008-06-04Practitioner Liu Guifen was in her 50s when agents from the Benxi City Court sentenced her to eight years in prison in 2002. She was brutally tortured with many inhuman methods, including the "Tiger Bench". Practitioner Wang Chunxiang is in her 50s. The Dandong City Court sentenced her to eight years in prison in 2007. She has since been held at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. A prison guard ordered inmates to whack Wang Chunxiang in the head with the soles of hard boots and kick her in the genitals because she persisted in her belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. -
Mr. Zhou Xiangyang and Mr. Li Yuanyong Brutally Mistreated in Gangbei Prison, Tianjin City
2008-06-04Zhou Xiangyang, 32, was sentenced to nine years in prison and taken to Gangbei Prison in Tianjin City. In 2005, prison guards confined Mr. Zhou in a solitary cell simply because he protested the brainwashing he was forced to endure. Mr. Li Yuanyong was determined not to wear the prison uniform [Note: because practitioners have committed no crime and should not be incarcerated, they sometimes protest the persecution by refusing to wear the prison uniform, recite the prison regulations, or do forced labour]. The eight inmates who monitored Mr. Li beat him. -
Painter Ms. Xu Na Imprisoned in the Seventh Section of the Beijing Police Department
2008-06-03
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Na, 40 is a well-known painter. Her husband Mr. Yu Zhou, a famous Chinese folk singer, was tortured to death by police during the Chinese New Year. Ms. Xu Na is currently being imprisoned in Beijing. Her trial has been put on hold because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is afraid of international attention to her and her husband. Ms. Xu has overcome many difficulties to appeal for justice in the case of her husband's death while she is still in prison. -
Ms. Song Yulian and Ms. Gao Guofeng Tortured in Heilongjiang Province
2008-06-03Ms. Song Yulian is currently detained at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. Guards tortured Ms. Song with the "big hang up" and shocked her with electric batons, but were unable to force her to write the three statements to renounce Falun Gong or succumb to the brainwashing. Another Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Gao Guofeng, is also detained in the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. Her tail bone is fractured due to brutal beatings by the guards, and she suffers from starvation. -
Practitioners Unjustly Tried by Suizhong County Court, Liaoning Province
2008-06-03On May 12th and 13th, 2008, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents from Suizhong County in Huludao City of Liaoning Province manipulated court staff to carry out an illegal trial against nine Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Zhou Yingchun and Ms.Yang Zhaoying were tried while they were confined to their beds at Suizhong County Hospital with IVs and on oxygen. During the process of the so-called trial, Ms. Yang had a heart attack, her hands and legs were shaking non-stop and doctors and nurses in the hospital had to resuscitate her. When this happened, court staff Guan Shulin and people from the procuratorate read the bureaucratic documents very fast and then just a few minutes later, they quickly left. -
Mr. Song Bangfu and Other Practitioners in Guizhou Province Brutally Tortured
2008-06-03On May 8th, 2008, practitioner Mr. Song Bangfu was arrested at another practitioner's home. He was beaten by seven or eight police officers. The police then dragged him away. The onlookers said his face was a mess from the beating. His whole body was covered with injuries. His belt was used to tie his hands behind his back. Besides his belt, the police also used some ropes and handcuffs to tie his hands. The handcuffs were so tight that they cut into his flesh and his wrists were bleeding, and his trousers were pulled down. The police dragged him and beat him at the same time. Mr. Song Bangfu has still not been released. Police continue to interrogate him around the clock. -
Jiujiang City "610 Office" Agents in Jiangxi Province Arrest Many Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-06-02Officials from the Jiujiang Domestic Security Department, the Politics and Law Committee, and the 610 Office recently commenced another round of persecution and suppression of Falun Gong under the pretext of "Olympic Safety" and "Harmonious Society." Besides sending citizens "public letters" via mobile phone text message to emphasize the "urgency" of this campaign, they hired more than one thousand local security men--mostly jobless and retired people--to monitor, harass and arrest practitioners, in complete violation of the Chinese constitution. -
Liu Xia's Confinement in a Forced Labour Camp Extended "Because of the Olympics"
2008-06-02Ms. Liu Xia, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinyang in Henan Province. Her three-year prison term at a forced labour camp was scheduled to end in April 2008. However, authorities at Xinxiang Women's Forced Labour Camp refused to release Ms. Liu Xia, citing the Olympic Games as an excuse. Ms. Liu's family has been told she will be released when the Olympic Games end. Are the "Olympic Games" a reason to extend a prison term? Do other countries do this when they hold Olympic Games? We wish everyone to understand what the CCP is doing for the Olympic Games. -
The Long-Term Persecution of Ms. Zhang Shujie from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia
2008-06-02On November 5th, 2005, police broke into and ransacked Ms. Zhang Shujie's home. She was sent to a detention centre along with other practitioners. It was in the cold of winter. To torture the practitioners, the police ordered criminal inmates to strip the practitioners and pour cold water on them. Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike to protest the abusive treatment. The police took her into a hospital and force-fed her for five days. On December 5th, 2005, Ms. Zhang was taken to Tumuji Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Zhang was forced to work over eleven and a half hours every day and had to finish her work quota. Given the intense hard labour and mental pressure, Ms. Zhang showed symptoms of a lung infection and had difficulty breathing. On January 25th, 2008, Ms. Zhang was released. -
Mr. Sun Xi Tortured and Disabled at Tiebei Prison in Changchun City, Jilin Province
2008-06-02I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. The police arrested me in October 2000 and took me to Tiebei Prison in Changchun. I was tortured there beginning in the spring of 2002. On January 10th, 2003, a group of six male criminal inmates was ordered to torture me. First, they drew a circle on the floor and made me stand in the middle. If I moved, they would beat me. Then, although it was wintertime, they made me stand outside in the cold for an entire day and night. On the second night, they beat me again without let up for an hour and a half. They broke one of my ribs in the process, but they still did not stop. An inmate hit me brutally all over with a bricklayer's hammer wrapped in rubber. They hit me so much that I almost died. Because of this torture, the muscles in my feet have atrophied, and it is extremely difficult for me to walk. I still have not recovered; I am almost paralysed.
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