Torture
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Wuhan Police Forcibly Barge Into "Winter Study Camp" and Detain Teachers, Parents and Children
2008-03-03
On February 11th, 2008, a group of parents, children and teachers were holding a "winter study camp" activity at the Chailin Hotel in the Yujiatou Community, Wuchang District of Wuhan City. The focus of their activity was to study the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and how to apply the principles in daily life in order to be a good person. In the afternoon, more than 10 police officers from the first Division of the Wuhan Police Department led by the Division Chief Lu, barged into the Chailin Hotel and detained teachers Ms. Chen Man, Ms. Xiong Yingzhi, a dozen or so children and some of the parents. The police videotaped the children and the parents. A dozen or so children were isolated from their parents and the police shouted at the children whose parents were not present. -
Beijing Police Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners "So That the Olympic Games Can Proceed Smoothly"
2008-03-03The Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has already started to arrest Falun Gong practitioners en masse in the various districts and townships of Beijing. They claim that this is necessary for the Olympic Games to proceed smoothly. Ms. Li Yuejin was laid off at work several years ago because she practises Falun Gong. On February 19th, 2008, about a dozen police officers surrounded her home. The police forcibly entered Ms. Li Yuejin's home and searched it several times, but they did not find the "evidence" they wanted. After they took away Ms. Li Yuejin and her computer, the police informed her family that the computer contained information about Falun Gong. However, Ms. Li's family knows she does not know how to use the computer. Ms. Li Yuejin is detained but her whereabouts are unknown. -
How Officials at Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre Mentally Torment Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-03-03Officials at the Hubei "Legal and Law Education" Centre--the Brainwashing Centre at Yangxun Lake--persecute Falun Gong practitioners by mental torment to try to force them to abandon the practice of Falun Gong. They have set up an overall system that involves detaining practitioners in a sealed prison environment and using three groups of people--called "accompanying educators," "helping educators" and police--to mentally torment them and persecute them. -
Mr. Liu Zenglin, in His Seventies, of Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Torture
2008-03-02Mr. Liu Zenglin, who was over 70 years old, was arrested in June 2004 when he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Police tried to force him to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong, but Mr. Liu refused to do so. Consequently, he was brutally tortured until he displayed symptoms of a stroke. He then spent two years of brutal persecution in a labour camp, where Mr. Liu became extremely weak and emaciated. When Mr. Liu returned home, he was very weak, could not eat, and coughed terribly every day. After being tortured both mentally and physically, Mr. Liu died an unjust death on February 9th, 2008. -
Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison Cruelly Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-03-02Practitioner Ms. He Lihua was having her period and when she went to use the toilet, the personal cangues did not untie the rope that tied her hands behind her back. Blood stained her trousers and as a result the cangues swore at her and slapped her face. Some time later this practitioner suffered a mental collapse and was taken to the sick ward. Now the guards have taken her to the "Intensive Assault Division" in an attempt to force her to renounce Falun Gong. Guo Xiaohua tied practitioner Ms. Zhu Fuju's hands behind her back and hung her up. As a result of the intense brutality, her left arm was disabled. She could no longer could raise her arm and there was a red scar on her right wrist. -
Couple from Henan Province Persecuted--Eleven Year-Old Son Left to Handle the Burden
2008-03-02Mr. Li Qinjun and his wife Ms. Zhang Xiaorong went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result they were detained by police and beaten severely. This repeatedly happened. In 2007 Mr. Li Qinjun was arrested again and detained in Sanlizhuang Detention Centre. Later, Mr. Ms. Zhang was arrested by police without a valid reason and detained in the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp. During her detention, Ms. Zhang was tortured until she became mentally disordered. Their eleven-year-old son, Li Longkun, had to do the housework and take care of his five-year-old sister, Li Jingyu. -
Practitioners Held in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Want Their Persecutors Brought to Justice
2008-03-02On February 15th, 2008, when practitioner Mr. Zhao Jian, detained in the Third Ward of First Branch of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, shouted out, "Falun Gong is good" and "Stop persecution of Falun Gong", in the cafeteria, the camp guards ordered inmate Hong Fei to severely beat him. Afterwards, all of the practitioners in the Third Ward refused to do any labour to protest the brutality. Practitioners Chen Yan and Wang Jufeng began hunger strikes and demanded that their persecutors be brought to justice. Practitioners in the First Ward and the Second Ward have since joined the hunger strikes. -
Practitioner Mr. Bai Yingjie of Harbin City Died from Persecution
2008-03-01
Mr. Bai Yingjie was persecuted so extensively that he became critically ill in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. After he was released at the end of 2004, officers of the local police station and staff members from the residential district office harassed and threatened him in his home. Under the long-term persecution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he passed away on August 30th, 2007. -
Eight Years of Persecution Endured by Dr. Jiafeng Zeng
2008-03-01Police once again arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Dr. Zeng Jiafeng from Shanghai on February 10th, 2008. This is his sixth arrest since the Chinese Communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. Previously he was in forced labour camps suffering a variety of inhumane treatments including long-term sitting on a hard bench and being forbidden to move, corporal punishment, military drills, brainwashing, forced labour, verbal insults, and other abuses. -
My Experiences in Prison and Being Tortured
2008-03-01On July, 7th, 2007, I went to another practitioner's house. I was arrested by a policeman who was there to arrest the other practitioner. We were taken to the Hanbei Police Station. I did not tell the policeman my name. The policeman hit my face when he lost his temper. When night fell, I was not allowed to sleep again and once more I was forced to stand. I still did not cooperate with them, so they beat me some more. Later a group of policemen surrounded me and started to beat me. I later suffered a heart attack and was in a very serious state. The police from the Xinshi District Department then agreed to release me. Originally I had 7,750 yuan in my handbag. When they grabbed my bag to count the cash there was suddenly only 5,550 yuan, 2,000 yuan less. -
Persecution Suffered by Two Practitioners in Yi County, Liaoning Province
2008-03-01Ms. Gan Zhixi is 64-years-old. In 1999 Ms. Gan went to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested and detained for five and a half months in a detention centre. In 2000, after appealing again, she was sentenced to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for three years and in 2005 she was again sent to the labour camp. -
Brainwashing and Abuse at the Qiqihar Forced Labour Camp
2008-02-29From September 2001 to March 2003, I was detained in the forced labour camp in Qiqihar, Helongjiang Province. I encountered brutal brainwashing and was forced to do hard labour in a poisonous environment. In order to earn money in a low, base manner, the guards in the labour camp forced us into a one-story building nearby to pour pesticide into containers. The toxicity of some of the pesticides is very bad. After a whole day's work, some criminals had bloody noses, swollen eyes and faces, and chapped skin. People should have gas masks to pour pesticides, but we only had regular respirators. After a day's work, the toxic pesticide chemicals were all over our clothes, inside and out. We don't have hot water, let alone bathing facilities. Before meals, over 100 people had to wash their hands using water from the same basin and it was impossible to wash off all of the pesticide. -
Police Officer Li Changming Brutalises Ms. Wang Xiufang during Her Unjust Arrest
2008-02-29Li Changming, head of the Linghe District Police Department "Emergency Response" Patrol Division in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province persecuted Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiufang. Police arrested four practitioners on January 29th, 2003. Wang Xiufang resisted the arrest, and four police officers grabbed her arms and legs. Li Changming grabbed her hair and dragged her from the third floor to the ground floor. When they arrived at the police department, Li Changming dragged her from the front gate into a room. When they drove her to the detention centre, he again grabbed her hair and dragged her in and out of the car. The detention centre doctor and guard Qiu saw blood and large bruises on her head. -
Du Huiqiong and Luo Yuzhang From Xinjin County, Sichuan Province Arrested for Explaining the Facts about the Persecution
2008-02-29Ms. Du Huiqiong and Mr. Luo Yuzhang from Xinjin County went to Jinhua Township to explain the facts about Falun Gong and expose the persecution on the afternoon of January 16th, 2008. Four men on two motorcycles blocked them. They called for a car and took the practitioners to the Jinhua Town Police Station. They released Du Huiqiong around midnight, but they have held Luo Yuzhang up until now. Both practitioners' homes were ransacked the night they were held at the Puxing Police Station. The officials took Dafa books and materials, VCDs and MP3 players. -
Mr. Yang Guoquan from Xifeng County, Liaoning Province, Sentenced to Three Years of Imprisonment
2008-02-29In 2000, Mr. Yang Guoquan was sentenced to three years of forced labour for appealing in Beijing for the right to practise Falun Gong. In October 2007, Cheng Zishan (male) and Chen Biao (male), officers of the Xifeng County 610 Office, struck him on the mouth with electric batons. Also, they went to Juxiang Village and Toudaogou Village many times to deceive villagers and make them commit perjury. On December 25th, 2007, Mr. Yang was sentenced to three years in prison by the Xifeng County Court. Around January 25th, 2008, he was taken to Shenyang Prison and subjected to persecution.
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