Torture

• Officials from Wanjia Forced Labour Camp of Harbin City Continue to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-05-21
  Qianjin Forced Labour Camp detains over forty Falun Gong practitioners, who were transferred from Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. They are forced to work for over fourteen hours every day. In the summer, they make ice cream sticks and toothpicks, load and unload trucks, plant trees, work on farms, etc. Many practitioners are suffering from their former illnesses, which have recurred under the persecution. Despite this, Zhang Bo and Zhang Aihui force them to continue working or their terms are extended.
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• Police from Furong District, Changsha City Arrest Falun Gong Practitioner Lai Jinming and Plan to Sentence Her to Forced Labour

  2008-05-21
  Ms. Lai Jinming, 49, was reported to the police by a gate guard when she distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the apartment building of the Hunan Province Art Institute. Later, she was arrested by police and was detained at the Changsha City Detention Centre. Since no visits are allowed, her current situation and how badly she has suffered from torture is still unknown.
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• Ms. Huang Jinrong Suffered Mental Collapse Due to Persecution

  2008-05-20
  Ms. Huang Jinrong, 45, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiujiang City. Since the persecution began in 1999, she has been detained many times and sentenced to a forced labour camp twice for practising Falun Gong. In the Jiujiang City Detention Centre, she suffered severe mistreatment. She was handcuffed to an iron bed for more than four months, deprived of sleep for a long time, and forced to stand for a long time. She was severely devastated both mentally and physically. Later, she was forced to take unknown medicine and suffered a mental collapse. In January 2008, Ms. Huang was arrested again. She was not released until she became extremely weak due to the mistreatment.
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• Bearing Witness to the Cruelties Committed at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-05-20
  First I wish to tell you about the heavy forced labour practitioners have to perform. Every day, practitioners have to work for 17 hours. The labour is generally making handicrafts, with most of the products being artificial flowers. Between August and September, we were forced to cut garlic or peel ginger for more than 10 hours a day. Many practitioners' skin broke open and festered. We made the flowers in our cells, which included spray painting. Most of the sprays are toxic, which affected our breathing. Those doing such work also had headaches, vomited and were fatigued.
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• Seventeen Students from Harbin Arrested

  2008-05-20
  At about 11 a.m. on March 20th, 2008, a group of plainclothes police officers suddenly rushed into a school in Nangang District in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. The police took away 17 students who were attending class, and confiscated two computers. The students' parents are Falun Gong practitioners who are being detained and persecuted. Some students' parents were persecuted to death. Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution, these children were forced to drop out of school.
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• Mr. Xie Yunhuan Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison after Returning to China and Recently Severely Beaten in Prison

  2008-05-20
  Mr. Xie Yunhuan was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to ten years in prison for appealing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. In Hadagang Prison, Mr. Xie was forced to do dangerous hard labour underground in the coal mine everyday. He was whipped or beaten with a club by the guards if he did not work fast enough. Recently in Mudanjiang City Prison he was beaten badly for speaking out for justice for Falun Gong.
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• Large Number of Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Guangzhou City on April 15th, 2008

  2008-05-19
  At 7:30 a.m., a group of persecutors from the Political and Legal Committee in the Yuexiu District, personnel from the 610 Office and the local police department went to practitioner Cai Yuzhen's home. They confiscated a computer, printer, an MP3 player and other personal belongings. The 75-year-old Cai Yuzhen immediately experienced symptoms of high blood pressure and was hospitalized for four days. Her children were forced to write a "guarantee statement" to give up Falun Gong and provide copies of their identification cards. They then had to send their mother to the home of a daughter who lives in another city. This was only one of the persecution events that were due to the "Olympic Torch" coming to Guangzhou.
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• Artist Mr. Zhou Ning in Critical Condition Due to Persecution

  2008-05-19
  Mr. Zhou Ning, 38, has suffered persecution again and again for persisting in his belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He was arrested several times, dismissed by his workplace, his residence was confiscated, and he was forced to become destitute and homeless. On September 12th, 2007, he was again arrested in Jining City. On October 18th, 2007, his arrest was approved by authorities. Later he was detained in the Jining City Detention Centre, where he suffered brutal abuse. Mr. Zhou held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. As a result, he was force-fed by the guards in the detention centre. He was severely wounded both mentally and physically. It was learned that he was taken to the hospital for an injury to his lumbar vertebra, and he is in critical condition.
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• Beijing Practitioners Mr. Yu Ping and His Wife Arrested

  2008-05-19
  Mr. Yu Ping and his wife were arrested by seven police officers on April 19th. Because he went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on June 20th, 2000, Mr. Yu's PhD was withheld and not granted. Mr. Yu received a full scholarship from Ohio State University in the US, but he lost his opportunity to study there because he was sentenced to four years in prison and held in the notorious Seventh Division of the Beijing Police Department and Beijing Qianjin Prison because he dared to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Yu Ping's wife, Ms. Zhao Yumin, was also sentenced. She was held in Beijing Women's Prison. Both of them suffered all kinds of torture.
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• The Suffering of Ms. Pan Haifeng from Huanggang City, Hubei Province

  2008-05-19
  Ms. Pan Haifeng, 36, has suffered from brutal torture during the past eight years. She has been beaten with wooden sticks, boxed and kicked by a group of people, which caused her to have severe inner injuries. She has been cuffed with both hands behind her back for 15 days, and the scars caused by the handcuffs can still be seen. She has been cuffed with four limbs on the death bed and injected with unknown drugs. Because of being cuffed so tight, many nerves on her limbs were damaged, and are almost non-functional. She was subjected to freezing temperatures below 10 0C (about -10 0F), which caused large areas of her skin to be frostbitten. She has had her feet and hands cuffed together, making it impossible for her to walk straight.
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• Persecution in Henan Province: Father Repeatedly Arrested, 14 Year-Old Son Dies

  2008-05-18
  Zhang Xiaoruan is a Falun Gong practitioner. Because he believed in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and wanted to be a good person, he was persecuted during the past nine years. His family was devastated. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Zhang Xiaoruan was dismissed by his work unit and lost his job because he insisted on practising Falun Gong. Zhang Xiaoruan's son, Zhang Wenbin, was dismissed from Xiaoyuan Village School because he did not give up his practice of Falun Gong. In the village, he was often abused, and laughed at by other people. He passed away on December 28th, 2000, at the age of 14.
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• Several Practitioners Harshly Sentenced by Nanguan District Court in Changchun City

  2008-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Gao Weixi, Mr. Shi Guoliang, Ms. Wang Fuxia and Ms. Yang Defang from Changchun City, Jilin Province were tried and harshly sentenced on April 29th, 2008. This was after they had been held in detention for nearly a year. Among them, Ms. Wang Fuxia and Mr. Shi Guoliang, were sentenced to nine-year prison terms. Mr. Gao Weixi and Ms. Yang Defang were sentenced to seven-year prison terms. Eyewitnesses said that the Nanguan District Court tried another group of Falun Gong practitioners, after they sentenced these four practitioners.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Song Wenhua and Li Lixin from Tiangjin City Sentenced to Prison

  2008-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Song Wenhua and Ms. Li Lixin of Tianjin City were arrested on January 25th, 2008, and were detained at the Beichen Detention Centre in Tianjin City. On February 4th, they were given arrest documents. On the morning of April 25th, they were sentenced by the Beichen Court in Tianjin City, charged with the crime of installing a satellite dish to watch programmes from a sympathetic to Falun Gong TV network, New Tang Dynasty Television. The judge only allowed two family members to attend. All other relatives and friends were not allowed to enter the court. The court also appointed lawyers.
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• Two Cases of Forced Labour and Extortion in Shenzhou City, Hebei Province

  2008-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Bai Ruixian, 48, distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people at the train station. Police arrested her and tried to force her to make a so-called "confession" to get Ms. Bai to tell them the source of the leaflets. When she refused some of the police officers beat her about the face and shocked the rest of her body using electric batons. She was also forced to sit on an "iron chair". At night, police officers put a mask on her head and put her in a car. After driving a long distance, they pulled her out off the car and pulled the mask off. They placed her in front of a pit and threatened her, "Even if we bury you alive today, no one will ever know."
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• Mr. Lu Renqing Dies after Being Transferred to Three Different Prisons

  2008-05-17
  Mr. Lu Renqing, 39, could not understand why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, so he decided to go to Beijing to appeal for this good practice that had benefited him both spiritually and physically. He was arrested in Beijing before he was able to get to the Office of Appeals. After that he was arrested several times and in December 2002, sent to Huazi Prison. On the September 27th, 2004, under orders from the guards, three prisoners stuffed his mouth, and then beat him until all three of the prisoners were exhausted. He was injured all over his body and had two broken ribs. The long term mental and physical tortures that Mr. Lu had endured damaged his health beyond recovery. Mr. Lu Renqing died on April 19th, 2008.
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