Torture

The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province

2008-03-18

On October 12th, 2007, 42-year-old Ms. Gao Chunlian was arrested once again and is still being detained. Her life is already at risk since she became mentally disordered from torture. In April 2001, police arrested Ms. Gao. They held her in the Shijingshan Detention Centre in Beijing for 25 days. She was forced to sit on a stool the whole day. If her posture was not straight, the guards would beat her. Later on, she was transferred to Zhuozhou Detention Centre. Ms. Gao started a protest hunger strike. Chief Wang ordered prison doctor Zhang Yugang to force-feed Ms. Gao. Zhang Yugang inserted a thick rubber tube into Ms. Gao's nose and down to her stomach. When the tube was removed, large amounts of blood followed. The detained criminals who were watching were so upset by this that they cried. She suffered inhuman beating as well. She is now barely recognisable and is close to death.

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More Details Concerning the Persecution of Ms. Xu Hui of Sichuan Province

2008-03-18

Ms. Xu Hui, 44, has been persecuted for the last eight years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In February 2000, Ms. Xu and a few other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Ms. Xu was arrested and later sent to Chongqing City Women's Forced Labour Camp in Maojiashan for a year. In 2001, Ms. Xu finished her forced labour sentence and went home. The manager of the Security Department of Songzao Mine, Gong Xe, told her to write a letter pledging to not practise Falun Gong, and threatened that if she did not comply, they would either fire her husband from his job or tell him to divorce her.

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The Persecution Suffered by Ms. Wang Xiangling from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia

2008-03-18

In March 2000, police went to Ms. Wang Xiangling's home and told her to sign a guarantee statement that she would not practise Falun Gong. Ms. Wang refused. As a result she was taken to a police station, fined, detained for 15 days, and forced to sign a "statement" that abused and slandered Falun Gong. In December 2000, Ms. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution. She was compelled to become homeless in order to avoid being arrested from home. The authorities issued a warrant for her arrest. They went to her home, her daughter's school, and her relatives to harass them many times. Her daughter suffered both physically and mentally. They also conspired with the secretary from her husband's company to pressure him to turn in his wife. Under such formidable pressure, her husband was compelled to divorce Ms. Wang.

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61-Year-Old Ms. Chen Wen'ai Dies as Result of Persecution in Sichuan Province

2008-03-17

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Wen'ai, 61, was arrested multiple times because she kept her faith in Falun Gong, and she was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after she was arrested on May 25th, 2005. Ms. Chen was detained in the Sichuan Province Women's Prison located in Jianyang City. The Prison Administration released her at the end of July 2007 because she was dying from the brutal mistreatment. Ms. Chen never recovered and died on February 24th, 2008.

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The Persecution Ms. Zong Xiuxia Suffered before She Died

2008-03-17

On the morning of February 22nd, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zong Xiuxia, a resident of Weifang City, Shandong Province, was reported while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong near the Jialejia Supermarket in Kuiwen District. At around 11:00 a.m., Ms. Zong Xiuxia was taken to Guangwen Police Station and interrogated. That night, her family was notified to come down to the police station to identify and claim her body. It was noted that her time of the death was around 3:00 p.m. Her family was asked to acquiesce to their claim that Ms. Zong committed suicide.

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Detained Practitioners on Hunger Strike in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province to Protest Persecution; Several Are in Critical Condition

2008-03-17

On February 25th, 2008, twelve practitioners were arrested in Chaoyang City. Among them was Mr. Chen Baofeng, who was tortured to death on the eighth day of his detention. To protest the persecution, the remaining practitioners have been on hunger strike, and many of their lives are now in danger. Ms. Jing Fei and Ms. Li Yingxuan suffer from swelling in all parts of their bodies and are in critical condition.

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Ms. Hu Aiqin Has Been Sentenced to Eight Years in Xinjiang

2008-03-17

Ms. Hu Aiqin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hami City in Xinjiang had been held in custody by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for a year. Around the end of 2007, she was sentenced to another eight years. After this sentence, the CCP finally allowed family members to visit her by appointment. When her mother went to visit her, an elderly lady with white hair came out. She thought to herself, "I never knew they locked elderly ladies in here." At a closer glance, she realized that the elderly lady was her daughter. In one year's time, her daughter's black hair had turned white. Ms. Hu's mother became stricken with grief.

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Ms. Zou Jiqin Dies as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

2008-03-16

Ms. Zou Jiqin, 45, was detained by police several times for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. In 2002, she went on a hunger strike to protest the detention, only to be tortured by being force-fed while tied on the floor with her four limbs stretched apart. She almost died from this treatment. Five times she was tortured with the "Big Back Cuff," an excruciating torture. She was also subjected to many other tortures, including being forced to sit on a wire spool (a very rough surface), not allowed to use the toilet, subjected to long-term sleep deprivation, forced to do hard labour, and subjected to freezing temperatures. Ms. Zou was in extremely poor health when she was finally released. On February 29th, 2008, Ms. Zou died at the age of 46.

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Chen Zihui Tortured at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City

2008-03-16

In 2002 Mr. Chen was sent to the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp and taken to division five, which is the most notoriously cruel division in the labour camp. The division leader Zhao Shuang is outrageous and vengeful. Under his leadership, guards tortured practitioners in just about every way imaginable. In order to "transform" [brainwash] practitioners, they forced them to squat from 5 am to midnight. Besides that, they also tortured practitioners with the "big hang up", electric shocks, pricking them with darts, allowing mice to bite them, pinching and rubbing their private parts, and push-break. The "push-break" is a where they push someone to the ground. A guard rides on top of the practitioner's body, with feet or knees against the practitioner's lower back, while at the same time pulling the practitioner's arms up and back. Some practitioners' arms were broken from this torture.

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Kuang Shitai's Story: Still Persecuted After His Wife Dies and Daughter Forced into Homelessness

2008-03-16

In February 2008, while Mr. Kuang Shitai, a Falun Gong practitioner was home alone, several officers from the local police station suddenly came and surrounded his home. They ordered him to turn in his daughter, Ms. Kuang Wenying. Over the past several years, Ms. Kuang Wenying has been detained and sent to forced labour camps. For the past few years, to avoid being arrested and persecuted again, she has led a vagrant life. She did not dare to go home to visit her father at all. His wife, Ms. Guo Sulan, suffered poor health due to persecution. She could not go home either and had to remain homeless. After one year of painful suffering, she passed away in November 2003.

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Beijing Police Ransack the Jinkui Decorative Painting Company

2008-03-16

The Beijing Public Security Bureau has persecuted over one hundred Falun Gong practitioners since January 2008. They have searched practitioners' homes, persecuted their family members, and ransacked companies and factories run by practitioners. Manager Chen of Jinkui Decorative Painting Company is an extremely sincere and kind person, and he has hired many practitioners. After practitioners were arrested, their family members went to Dongcheng Detention Centre many times requesting to visit, but they were turned away without being given a reason.

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Multiple Arrests of Falun Gong Practitioners in Liaoning Province Appear Linked to Olympic Games Preparation

2008-03-15

At 6 a.m. on February 25th, 2008, fifteen Falun Gong practitioners from Suizhong County, Liaoning Province were arrested at nearly the same time by the local police. The arrest of Falun Gong practitioners in Huludao, Jinzhou, Chaoyang and other cities in Liaoning Province also happened near the same time. they were all detained in detention centres. Some detained Falun Gong practitioners are going on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

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Families Broken Apart by the Persecution in China Ask, "When Will Our Loved Ones Come Home?"

2008-03-15

Ms. Wang Qi, a 30-year-old health care professional, was arrested by the District Public Security Bureau while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was detained in Hexi Detention Centre and later was sent to the forced labour camp in Huhhaote City for two years. She has a five-year-old son who had never been without his mother before. Now, in the absence of his mother, imagine how he feels! His mother also misses him very much.

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Police Cruelly Interrogate Ms. Huang Zhiping in Guangan City, Sichuan Province

2008-03-15

Ms. Huang Zhiping, 39 years old, was sent to a forced labour camp three times for practising Falun Gong. In 2004 she was cruelly tortured and interrogated by policemen from Chengnan Sub-bureau in Guangan City. In order to force her to renounce her belief policeman Wang Hongwei handcuffed Ms. Huang until the cuffs cut into her flesh and hit the left side of her face with strong blows. He continued the torture, hitting Ms. Huang's lower jaw with very strong blows. Her tongue and teeth were bleeding. Wearing his heavy leather shoes, he stomped on Ms. Huang's toes with all his strength.

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Falun Gong Practitioners in Dehui City, Jilin Province Arrested to "Prepare" for the Olympic Games

2008-03-15

On March 6th, 2008, police officers from Dehui City Police Department, together with people from the Changchun City Police Department, arrested two practitioners in Dehui City. The police went to the Chalukou Town No. Eight Middle School. These persecutors arrested Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Chen Xuedong and Geng Jisheng, both of whom are teachers at the school. From there, the police went to Chen Xuedong's house and ransacked it. They confiscated a computer, a printer, a colour inkjet printer and some other personal belongings. They also beat Chen in his own home. According to a source, Chen Xuedong was sent to Changchun City for further persecution.

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