Torture

The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jilin Province Women's Prison

2013-06-11

Ms. Sun Xiuxia, 50, from Changchun City was persecuted to death on April 30th, 2012. She was transferred from the prison to the China-Japan Friendship Hospital for emergency treatment that same day. When her family members were changing her clothes, they found Ms. Sun's lower body very stiff and her lower abdomen stuffed with toilet paper and towels. Fluid was oozing out of her navel and legs.

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At Least 28 Teachers and Students Persecuted at Beijing Women's Prison

2013-06-10

Teaching is a profession that has always been honoured respected in traditional Chinese culture. However, since 2000, at least 25 teachers and 3 students have been detained at the Beijing Women's Prison. Among them are university professors and teachers of all ages and specialisation. Their crime? Steadfast belief in Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual practice based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. All were subjected to brainwashing and slave labour, as well as inhumane torture, throughout their terms.

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The Story of the Persecution of Mr. Jia Guanglin

2013-06-05

Mr. Jia Guanglin is a Falun Gong practitioner who has been imprisoned at the Yuanbaoshan Detention Centre since January 13th, 2013. After 3 months of persecution instigated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he is in extremely poor health. Mr. Jia was not only tortured, body and mind, but in addition Mr. Jia's son was blackmailed. The authorities told his son, “Your father asked that you bring money to pay some fines for him.” When they heard that he didn’t have any money, they then told Mr. Jia's son that they wouldn’t let his father go even if he did bring the money.

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2,000 People Demand Release of Persecuted Practitioner Ms. Dai Meixia

2013-06-05

Following an initial signature drive of 300, 1,861 local villagers from Huangmei County signed their names and attached their fingerprints to a petition demanding the release of Ms. Dai Meixia, who was given a five year sentence by the Huangmei County Court in Hubei Province. She is appealing the sentence at the Huanggang City Middle Court. Two lawyers from Beijing and Guangzhou are defending her.

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Ms. Zhu Weiying Lost Her Ability to Walk as a Result of Being Drugged and Tortured

2013-06-05

Ms. Zhu Weiying's son went to the Suzhou City No. 3 Women's Prison to visit her in April 2013, and found that his mother's condition was very bad as a result of torture. She was unable to raise her head, see clearly, or walk. The prison warden said, "She has long met all the criteria to be released on medical parole, but we won't release her because she still refuses to renounce Falun Gong." During the past 14 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never stopped persecuting her. She has been subjected to repeated detentions at brainwashing centres, mental hospitals, forced labour camps, detention centres. and prisons, where she was subjected to various forms of torture and given drugs usually given to psychiatric patients.

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Imprisoned Teacher Tells His Wife: “Every Time We Meet Could Be Our Last Farewell”

2013-06-04

Mr. Bian Lichao was a highly regarded teacher at Kailuan 10th Middle School in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. He was sentenced to 12 years in 2012 for practising Falun Gong and detained in Shijiazhuang Prison. After three months, he was pale and emaciated, his cheeks sunken, and his eyes deep-set. He also had symptoms of high-blood pressure and a heart attack. On the afternoon of April 22nd, 2013, when his wife visited him in prison, the first thing he said to her was, “Xiuzhen, every time we meet could be our farewell.”

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Court Secretly Sentences Nurse to Eight Years; Distraught Family Members Have Appealed

2013-06-04

In January, family members of Song Yingjie, 43, learned that she had been arrested by the police nine months earlier, and last September, a court secretly sentenced her to eight years of imprisonment. Her family members became angry and hired a lawyer to appeal the case. In the meantime, Ms. Song went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

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Detention and Imprisonment Suffered by Mr. Xu Xudong from Hubei Province

2013-06-04

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Xudong was arrested on February 26th, 2013 and detained in Hubei Province Law Enforcement Education Centre (aka Banqiao Brainwashing Centre). Upon arrival at the brainwashing centre, guards injected Mr. Xu with an unknown substance. He was later assaulted by several people. In an attempt to get him to renounce his belief, guards forced Mr. Xu to watch videos slandering Falun Gong every day from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Police also verbally abused his elderly father and teenager daughter in front of him.

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Previously Beaten and Locked in Iron Cage, Ms. Zhang Li Arrested Again

2013-06-04

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Li, from Mudanjiang City, was arrested by police on May 13th, 2013. She is currently incarcerated at the Mudanjiang No. 2 Detention Centre. This is the fourth time she has been arrested and detained for her faith. Ms. Zhang has been subjected to relentless persecution since 1999, when the communist regime launched a brutal campaign to eradicate Falun Gong. She was detained in a forced labour camp twice and later sent to the Heilongjiang Prison, where she was brutally tortured and locked in an iron cage.

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Ms. Wu Yueju Beaten, 61, Shocked, and Sexually Assaulted

2013-06-04

Ms. Wu Yueju, a 61-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on April 25th for making informational materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was taken to a forced labour camp. Since the start of the persecution in 1999, Ms. Wu has been arrested seven times and sent to forced labour camps three times, where she spent a total of eight years. Prison guards and inmates handcuffed her to a "tiger bench", shocked her with electric batons, poured cold water on her in winter and tied her to a "death bed". They also inserted a toothbrush into her private part and burned her breasts with hot water. Ms. Wu narrowly escaped death each time she was tortured.

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Ms. Zhang Weidi Describes the Torture She Received in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

2013-06-01

In October 2008, in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, all of the practitioners, without exception, were beaten and shocked with electric batons. Ms. Qi Zhenhong was beaten, shocked with electric batons, and hung up for many days and nights. She became mentally disoriented. Ms. Zhang Yinglin was beaten and shocked with electric batons. One of her arms along with her hand became paralysed from the beatings.

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Excellent Teacher Tells of Being Tortured During Nine Years of Imprisonment

2013-06-01

Ms. Lu Jinyu, 49, was an excellent teacher. She was arrested for distributing Falun Gong materials and sentenced to nine years in prison. During her nine years of imprisonment she was tortured physically and mentally, including being kicked, punched, stepped on, slapped, having her mouth stuffed, being hung up, beaten with spiked batons, confined in steel cages, handcuffed, shackled, tied up, forced to sit on a "tiger bench", deprived of sleep, force-fed, injected with unknown drugs, solitary confinement, and being shocked with electric batons.

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Beijing Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested, Mr. Deng Huaiying Dies in a Detention Centre

2013-06-01

Many Falun Gong practitioners from Beijing have recently been arrested. Mr. Deng was reported to the police on April 27th, 2013, for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Haidian District of Beijing. He was detained in the Haidian Detention Centre until he passed away on May 15th. His family is currently seeking the cause of his death through the local police.

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Elderly Mr. Ou Jinchu Beaten in Yangjiang Prison, Then Sent Home to Die

2013-05-31

Seventy-year-old Mr. Ou Jinchu couldn't move his hands, feet, or even his body when he was released after four years of imprisonment in Yangjiang Prison. He was emaciated, incontinent, bedridden, and couldn't stop shaking. He said that his condition was due to brutal beatings he had received at the prison. Mr. Ou passed away on March 29th, 2013.

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Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Chen Kaiyu Tried in Court

2013-05-28

Ms. Chen Kaiyu is a Falun Gong practitioner in her 50s from Huaihua City, Hunan. After having been detained for six months, she was put on trial at the Hecheng District Court on April 11th, 2013. Her lawyer made a plea of innocence and asked for her acquittal. The process of the trial was heavily watched by police and 610 Office personnel (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), as well as surveillance cameras. Ms. Chen was arrested by officers from the Hutian Police Station, a branch of the Hecheng Police Station on October 20th, 2012 and then detained at the Huaihua Detention Centre.

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