Torture

• Older Practitioner Ms. Lv Huiwen Beaten in Qianjin Women's Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City

  2008-03-22
  Ms. Lv Huiwen, 57 years old, was transferred from Wanjia Forced Labour Camp to Qianjin Women's Forced Labour Camp, in May 2007, where she was forced to do hard labour from 7:30 a.m. until 8 p.m., seven days a week for a long time.. She was beaten, hung up while handcuffed, and personally insulted by the camp guards. As a result, she suffered heart disease, blurry vision, and became very weak. Just before her daughter came to visit her, Division Head Chen Lihua had threatened Lv Huiwen, saying, "Tomorrow, if you tell your daughter what happened here, we will use all the regulations at hand to punish you later." In order to avoid any further persecution, Lv Huiwen chose not to say anything to her daughter.
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• Zhongshan District Secretly Tries Ms. Ding Zhenfang in a Closed Court

  2008-03-22
  On August 16th, 2007, Ms. Ding Zhengfang from Dalian City, Liaoning Province was taken into custody at her mother's home by police officers. Ms. Ding has since been detained at the Yaojia Detention Centre. About two weeks ago, the Zhongshan District Court secretly tried her in a closed court. During her detention, she was put into handcuffs and shackles, which were nailed to a bed. To protest the persecution, she held a hunger strike. Consequently, she was brutally beaten and force-fed by the guards. Because of the beatings, her health severely deteriorated.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Designated as "Enemies" and "First Targets" for Persecution in Advance of Olympics

  2008-03-21
  Harbin City Police Department officials in Heilongjiang Province held a meeting in mid-March in which they conveyed instructions from upper-level regime entities. Police department officials have emphasized the listing of practitioners as "enemies" prior to the Olympic Games and declared them as the "first targets" for persecution. Officials from the police department headquarters have organized neighbourhood committees and local police stations to establish plain clothes teams to search for and arrest the so-called main targets. Real crimes such as drug-peddling and prostitution are being ignored in order to persecute Falun Gong. The authorities have also lied and stated that foreign countries have provided funding for Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Daqing City Police Department Officials Plot to Arrest One Hundred Falun Gong Practitioners To Fulfil Pre-Olympics Quota

  2008-03-21
  According to a reliable source, Heilongjiang Province Public Security Bureau officials have assigned local regions' administrative offices quotas regarding the number of Falun Gong practitioners each region must arrest. The local regions are required to fulfil their quotas before the Olympic Games. Targeted individuals include those whose names have been mentioned on the Internet before or who are "currently active." Daqing City was initially assigned a quota of 200 hundred Falun Gong practitioners to arrest. Daqing City leaders argued, "This is too many. Many good people will have to be arrested to reach the quota."
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• The Persecution of Two Sisters from Suizhou City, Hubei Province

  2008-03-21
  There are two sisters, aged 63 and 57, from Suizhou City, Hubei Province. Both of them are Falun Gong practitioners. During the past nine years of persecution, the two sisters have been fined, imprisoned, beaten, and force-fed in detention many times. They were frequently forced to move and robbed by the police, and their home was frequently ransacked. The people who witnessed and knew of their persecution were chilled: Why is it so difficult for someone to be a good person? Why is someone who retains her belief tortured like this?
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• Great Amount of Money Extorted from Falun Gong Practitioners in Liaoning Province

  2008-03-21
  On August 1st, 2007, police from the Lingyuan City Department, arrested 42 Falun Dafa practitioners in Beilu Towship, Lingyuan City. Ms. Hu Yanrong died during the process of being arrested. Ms. Li Cuizhi was tortured so badly she developed a mental disorder. Nine of these practitioners were sentenced. Five practitioners were taken to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Among these practitioners, a great amount of money was extorted from twenty four of them and their families.
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• As the Olympics Approach, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Issues Secret Order to Intensify the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2008-03-20
  Mr. Zhang Zhijun, a practitioner from Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, died under mysterious circumstances in Xi'an Prison in Shanxi Province, on February 23rd, 2008. Authorities notified his wife by telephone, but when she arrived at the prison, officials tried to block her from seeing Mr. Zhang's body. Only when she threatened to kill herself on the spot if they didn't obey her demands, was she allowed to see the body. Mr. Zhang's face was swollen. Strangulation marks were visible around his blackened neck. Mr. Zhang's wife demanded an autopsy and went to a law office, but the lawyers told her: "The government has told us [not to accept Falun Gong related cases]. We don't dare to take your case." Prison authorities cremated Mr. Zhang's body the next day.
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• Mr. Sun Guanzhou Dies after only Seven Days in Custody in Henan Province

  2008-03-20
  Mr. Sun Guanzhou, 62 and a Falun Gong practitioner, lived in Yuzhou City, Henan Province. On March 3rd, 2008, three domestic security agents and three other agents ransacked his home, claiming they were checking for computer viruses. They instead arrested him and took him to the city detention centre. Only seven days later he was dead. On March 9th Mr. Sun's wife received a phone call to go to the hospital. When she arrived, she saw Mr. Sun's cold body. She was distraught! Agents tried to keep her from the body and tried to force her to sign the papers to have his body cremated.
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• Mr. Yu Zhou Tortured to Death, His Wife Detained

  2008-03-20
  Mr. Yu Zhou and his wife, Xu Na, both practitioners, lived in Beijing. On January 26th, 2008, police blocked their vehicle on their way home, arrested them, and took them directly to the Tongzhou District Detention Centre. Eleven days later, on February 6th, their family received notice to come quickly to visit Mr. Yu in the Qinghe Emergency Centre. When his family got there, Mr. Yu was already dead, and his body was covered with a white sheet. A breathing machine mask was still on his face, but his legs were ice cold. The doctor told his family that he died from diabetes after being on a hunger strike. But his family said he had been very healthy and didn't have diabetes. The police requested a quick cremation of his body, but his family refused and asked to have an autopsy done. Their request was denied.
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• Ms. Gu Jianmin Dies after Thirteen Days in Custody in Shanghai

  2008-03-20
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gu Jianmin, 53, lived in Shanghai. She was sent to a forced labour camp for one year in June 2006 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. On March 1st, 2008, she was again arrested by police officers and they tortured her until she died on March 13th, 2008. On March 13th, 2008, an agent of the Pudong New District 610 Office called Ms. Gu's husband, saying that she was not well, and that he should come and process a medical parole. When he found Ms. Gu in the Gastric lavage room, her eyes were protruding, pupils enlarged, and she was bleeding from the mouth, but no one was taking care of her. Her husband knelt down in front of the doctors and begged them to save his wife. The doctor conducted a rather quick attempt at a rescue, then he declared that she was dead.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Xu Huibi Dies after Being Tortured and Overworked in a Chongqing City Prison

  2008-03-19
  63-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Huibi, was arrested by police at home. Because she did not give them any information or renounce Falun Gong, they detained her in a detention centre and was tortured with brutal force-feeding. The police sentenced her to four years in prison and took her to the Chongqing City Yongchuan Women's Prison. In prison, Xu Huibi was assigned to forced labour in the plant that has toxic gases. It was difficult to breathe, and she was forced to finish a certain amount of work each day. Ms. Xu was brutally tortured until she was very weak, and her feet were in extreme pain, causing her to be unable to walk. On August 31st, 2007, the prison administration finally ordered her family to come and pick her up. She died on March 7th, 2008.
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• Ten Deaths from Torture Confirmed in February 2008

  2008-03-19
  Yi Fuquan suffered many prison terms, detainments and tortures after the start of the persecution of Falun Gong and was sentenced to one year of forced labour because he went to Beijing to appeal. On August 19th, 2001, he was arrested at the bus station because police found Falun Gong books and flyers in his possession. He was sentenced to six years in prison. Guards saw that he would not renounce Falun Gong, so they had prisoners put 35 pound ankle shackles on him and forced him to stand out under the burning sun and beat him brutally. It was not until Mr. Yi was in critical condition that the prison agreed to release him on August 8th, 2007. He suffered in pain for another six months, dying on February 13th, 2008, at the age of 45.
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• Beijing Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Bai Shaohua Hospitalised for Emergency Treatment

  2008-03-19
  On February 20th, 2008, at approximately 3:00 p.m., Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Bai Shaohua and Mr. Yang Hui were driving from the urban district of Beijing to Huairou District and were stopped by police for inspection. They were subsequently arrested. On March 4th, 2008, according to someone with inside information, Mr. Bai Shaohua, who was imprisoned at the Huairou District Detention Centre in Beijing, was escorted to a hospital emergency. He has also been imprisoned and brutalised numerous times, including being electrically shocked.
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• Mr. Huang Liqiao Brutally Tortured in Several Forced Labour Camps in Tianjin

  2008-03-19
  Mr. Huang firmly believes in Falun Gong and refused to be "transformed". [brainwashed] Unfortunately he became a prime target for persecution at the Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp. The guards tried to force him to learn the prison regulations by heart and take a test, but he refused. Guards brutally beat him. When they were exhausted, they used an electric baton to shock him on his head and chest. His body twitched from the high voltage shocks and he slammed onto the concrete floor. Numerous burn marks appeared on his head and chest. The guards forced him to watch videos that slandered Falun Gong, and instigated other inmates to beat him.
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• The Persecution of Practitioner Ma Guobiao and His Family in Shanghai

  2008-03-18
  In December 2002, when Ma Guobiao was at work, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents came to arrest him and detained him in Changning District Detention Centre. Later on, they sentenced him to two years of forced labour. In the labour camp, practitioners were imprisoned in a specific group and tortured. Ma Guobiao was shocked with electric batons on his private parts, and tortured with the "Shanghai Style Tiger Bench" (the practitioner is pushed against a wall and several people stretch his legs apart to 180 degrees, while several others beat him and hit him). He was also deprived of sleep.
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