Torture
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Mr. Ba Shuqun, Badly Injured from Torture, Unjustly Tried and Detained at Jinan Detention Centre
2008-04-02
It has been confirmed that Mr. Ba Shuqun, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Jinan City, Shandong Province, was unable to walk as a result of being tortured, yet he was taken to a courthouse in Tianqiao District, Jinan City on January 29th, 2008, for a secret trial and sentencing. According to a witness, several people dragged Mr. Ba Shuqun out of a car. His trial was scheduled to be on the second floor. However, it was difficult for several police officers to carry him up the stairs. Consequently, the hearing was then changed to another very small room on the first floor. When Mr. Ba was being interrogated, someone had to support him because he was unable to stand up and he was on crutches. He looked pale and wan. -
Practitioners Tortured in "Strict Discipline" Area of Tilanqiao Prison, Shanghai
2008-04-02Authorities in Tilanqiao Prison do their utmost to ensure that news of what goes on inside its "strict discipline" area doesn't leak to the outside world. Guards are free to do whatever they wish. "Strict discipline" cells are only 3.3 square metres in size, even smaller than confinement cells, and practitioners are imprisoned there for long periods of time. Every day, they sit on the uneven "tiger bench". If their posture is slightly off, the "safeguard inmates" beat and kick them. If they disobey them, they will have their hands cuffed behind their backs and tied to the ground with stubby shackles (the shackle is less than 20 centimetres long). There's no legal rule for the duration of handcuffing, so the prison guards can handcuff the prisoners for as long as they want. Some practitioners were even handcuffed for nearly a year. -
Forced Labour Situation at the No. 2 Labour Camp in Shandong Province
2008-04-02The labour camps are used by the police to detain suspects and torture them without following any legal procedures, as there is no evidence against approximately two thirds of those who are detained in labour camps that they committed a crime or even disobeyed the law. When the police torture them but cannot find any criminal evidence, they send these people to forced labour camps to avoid trials and to cover up for their misconduct in enforcing the law. They also do this to make a profit by "selling the labour" of these detainees. In addition, they can make deals with the suspects for personal gains. For example, a criminal suspect given a forced labour sentence of three years could have it reduced to one year after some deals are made. -
Additional Information on the Death of Mr. Zhou Qingyu in the Chongqing City Detention Centre
2008-04-01Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Qingyu, 67, was arrested in early 2007 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. He was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and detained at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City. Prisoner Li Liang hit Mr. Zhou in the neck, which caused a painful injury. He had to bow his head all the time, even while labouring and doing military training on the field. He was forced to clean everyday and often teased by prisoners because of his neck injury. Mr. Zhou suffered from a stroke on the night of December 29th, 2007. Mr. Zhou Qingyu died that night. -
50-Year-Old Paraplegic Practitioner Jin Chengshang is Persecuted, Robbed and Sent to Prison
2008-04-01In 1996 I was involved in a traffic accident and became paraplegic. My bedsore healed miraculously soon after I started the practice of Falun Gong. On March 10th, 2005, more than 20 policemen broke into my home. Four young strong policemen cruelly cuffed me and forced me onto a chair; they almost killed me. They also held my wife down in the toilet and cuffed her. They took away personal property worth more than 50,000 yuan. I was taken to Harbin City No.4 Detention Centre. Because there was no nursing personnel to help me, the bedsores on my hips, buttocks and back all festered with running fluid, blood and oozing pus; it smelled terrible. I was sentenced to five years in prison. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Severely Persecuted by Communist Party Members in Taihe County, Anhui Province
2008-04-01Recently, information was obtained about the severe persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners by the "610 Office" and police in Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province. Practitioners were arrested and tortured at the detention centre. The torture methods included being subjected to freezing temperatures for extended periods of time, being handcuffed and shackled, and being repeatedly poked with needles. Some practitioners were tortured by police twisting their arms and some were forced to jump down flights of stairs while shackled. Many of these practitioners were sentenced to forced labour. Eight practitioners were arrested. Some have been detained for almost a year. -
Family Member of Detained Practitioners Arrested
2008-04-01On February 25th, 2008, twelve Falun Gong practitioners from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province were arrested. Some of the practitioners have been holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Mr. Chen Baofeng was persecuted to death in only eight days. Recently, practitioners holding the hunger strike have displayed ailing symptoms to different degrees and their situation has become desperate. Their family members are extremely concerned and worried about their condition. On March 19th, 2008, Ms. Jing's sister went to the Police Department to request the release of her practitioner sister. Ms. Jing's sister was taken into custody. She has been detained in the Shijiahetao Detention Centre. -
The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners inside Jinzhou Prison
2008-03-31Jinzhou Prison officials have walked in the bloody footprints of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by promising the guards 1,000 yuan each for "reforming" one Falun Gong practitioner. Some guards have thus resorted to all kinds of brutalities in an attempt to make the practitioners give up their belief. They also instructed certain inmates to assist in the abuse by using sentence reduction as bait. Practitioners Cui Zhilin and Xin Minduo died as a result of barbaric torture. The gross abuses at Jinzhou Prison can be divided into four categories: deprivation of basic rights; physical torture; hard labour, and fabrications. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Brutally Tortured by Guards in Guangyuan Prison of Sichuan Province
2008-03-31Guards at Guangyuan Prison of Sichuan Province continue to torture Falun Gong practitioners cruelly. They are especially cruel towards practitioners who refuse to renounce their belief. During the sessions of forced "reform" of practitioners guards beat several practitioners many times. They even beat Wei Yi who was 60 years old. Guard Zhan was involved twice in the beating and torture of practitioner Zeng Yuxian. He boiled water and poured the hot water over Zeng's head. He also burned Zeng Yuxian's face with a cigarette lighter. The burn marks can still be seen on his face. -
The Criminal Behaviour of Those in Charge at Wangcun Forced Labour Camp
2008-03-31Just before the 2006 Chinese New Year practitioner Xu Ruliang wrote a disclaimer to declare that his statement obtained by forced-brainwashing was null and void. Guards hung Mr. Xu up by handcuffs for 13 days during the Chinese New Year. In October 2006, Mr. Xu once again voided his statement that had been obtained by force. Zheng Wanxin, Sun Fengjun, and other guards tortured him for a whole day with electric shock batons. His feet and back were covered with red and black scars. It was so painful that he couldn't take a shower for a month. -
Six Practitioners from Jiangxi Province Detained for Half a Year
2008-03-31From October 8th, 2007, to November 14th, 2007, six practitioners, Mr. Wang Xing, Mr. Ai Guoxiang, Ms. Huang Lanqin, Ms. Peng Ying, Mr. Huang Hongqiang, and Ms. Cao Weihong, were arrested by police officers of the State Security Division. Some of them have become critically ill. The six practitioners' residencies were all searched, and their property was confiscated. They were transferred to Nanchang City or Longfu Mountain to be interrogated. The thugs afflicted brutal tortures on them, with an attempt to compel them to acknowledge their so-called "counter-revolutionary" crime. -
Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaodong from Gansu Province Beaten to Death in 2003
2008-03-30
On October 24th, 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaodong, 32, was beaten to death by guards at the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre. At 5:00 p.m. that day, they informed his family. When his family members arrived at the detention centre, they found that the guards had tampered with evidence at the scene in order to conceal their crime. Mr. Zhang's parents, in their 70s, grieved deeply over the loss of their son. After Mr. Zhang's tragic death, his family brought a lawsuit against the detention centre through the Lanzhou District Attorney's Office. But the centre responded with defiance and brazenly harassed Mr. Zhang's family. -
Family Hires Lawyer to Investigate the Torture Leading to their Loved One's Death - Prison Officials Lie and Coerce Inmates to Help Hide the Truth
2008-03-30Two years after Mr. Yang Xiaojie died as a direct result of the torture meted out to him in a Chinese prison, his family hired a lawyer to seek justice. When the lawyer went to the Hebei Province Fourth Prison to investigate, Yue Yuhai, the chief of the Prison Political Section, gave false and misleading statements. He lied. He refused to admit to that Mr. Yang was tortured, and covered up the fact that Mr. Yang was ill and that his family was not allowed to visit him for over one year. Yue Yuhai forced inmates Fan Jiangshan and others who had monitored Mr. Yang to lie to the lawyer, telling him that Mr. Yang had been very well treated in prison. -
Two 68 Year-Old Women Imprisoned for Three Years in Yueyang City, Hunan Province
2008-03-30Sixty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioners Liu Bilian and Cai Fengjiao are residents of Yueyang City, Hunan Province. In March 2004, they were both arrested and detained in the Huarong Detention Centre for four months. They were both sentenced to Changsha City Women's Prison. For three years--more than one thousand days and nights--Ms. Liu was imprisoned just because she told people the facts about Falun Gong. Upon her release, she was 71 years old. An old lady was imprisoned in the Changsha City Women's Prison and subjected to all kinds of torture simply because she is a Falun Gong practitioner. Think about it. Why do practitioners endure immense suffering? They do so because they hope that people will learn the truth that Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance is good so that they will all have a bright future. -
Ms. Ding Fengge Tortured in Puyang City, Henan Province, No Further Details Available
2008-03-30On December 18th, 2007, Ms. Ding Fengge was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong and detained at the Beihuan Detention Centre. In order to receive a reward, the police tortured her to obtain information about the source of the leaflets. She was tortured with an electric baton and her fingers were pinched with a pair of pliers. She had steadfast faith in Falun Gong and did not say anything. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour.
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