Torture

Ms. Liu Guifu Sent to Forced Labour Camp Twice and Now in Exile Overseas

2008-02-02

Former Beijing resident Ms. Liu Guifu was sent to forced labour camps twice for her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." With the help of many kind people and international pressure, she was released on August 31st, 2007, and is now overseas. When Ms. Liu Guifu was detained in the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, the guards forced her to take unidentified drugs, did not allow her to sleep, made her sit in one position for more than 20 hours at a time, forced her to stand for long periods of time, and beat and mentally tortured her. Her daughter in the U.S. tried every way she could to rescue her mother, and many Americans helped her. On August 16th, 2005, after numerous requests, her family was finally allowed to see her. They could not even recognise her. Her weight had dropped from more than 70 kg to less than 50 kg. Her hair was totally white, her face full of wrinkles, and her movements were very slow.

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Chongqing Women's Labour Camp Trains Prisoners to Violently Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

2008-02-02

In the first half of 2007, the Chongqing Women's Labour Camp trained "personal monitors" (drug addicts assigned to persecute Falun Gong practitioners) in techniques for choking practitioners and striking practitioners' heads with their fists. The camp authorities even tested the criminal inmates on this training. When all else is quiet at night, one can always hear noise from the beatings in the labour camp. Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Fengxia (about 30 years old) could not speak for a couple of months after being beaten. Her facial expression was very stiff and awkward. Although she can talk now, her speech is very slow and slurred.

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Older Practitioner Ms. Ni Shuzhi Dies after Long Imprisonment

2008-02-01

Ms. Ni Shuzhi, 60, began cultivating Falun Gong in 1998. In May 2002, Ms. Ni was arrested from her home and sentenced to five years in prison. She was detained in the hospital ward because of a physical condition, but she was still tortured in all sorts of ways. At the end of 2006, she had a nosebleed and asked for some cotton balls from the prison nurse. The cotton ball she was given had a very strong odour. Soon afterward, she could not talk and developed a terrible cough and diarrhoea. After she was released in May 2007, the doctors diagnosed her with cirrhosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, heart failure, pharyngitis, and inadequate blood flow to the brain and the heart. She died on January 19th, 2008.

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Persecution-Related Deaths of 150 Falun Gong Practitioners Verified in 2007

2008-02-01

The deaths of 150 Falun Gong practitioners as a result of persecution were verified through non-governmental channels in 2007, and 123 of those deaths took place in 2007. Among them, women practitioners and practitioners over the age of 50 each accounted for 53.3 per cent of the cases. During the eight-and-a-half years of persecution between July 20th, 1999, and December 31st, by the Chinese Communist regime, a total of 3,121 Falun Gong practitioners' deaths have been verified.

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71-Year-Old Ms. Yu Zhiying Dies after 28 Days in Detention in Chongqing City

2008-02-01

Ms. Yu Zhiying was a 71 Falun Dafa practitioner. At around 9:00 p.m. on October 12th, 2007, domestic security agent Liang Shibing (male), policewoman Deng Hongying, and more than eight Internet police rushed into Ms. Yu Zhiying's home. They ransacked her place, taking Falun Dafa books, a computer, a printer, a copy machine, and other items. They then arrested Ms. Yu, and took her to the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for a one-year forced labour term. After less than a month in detention, Ms. Yu's entire body appeared swollen, and she was very weak, with diarrhoea and vomiting. Fearing they would be held responsible if she died, the detention centre administration hurriedly took her home on November 9th, 2008.

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The Persecution in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

2008-02-01

Under orders from Warden Wang Kai, inmates tortured practitioners in their cells: they beat practitioners with a wooden bed board and hit their faces with slippers. Liu Jingzhou's face got swollen and disfigured from this treatment. Zhang Fa, a 60-year-old practitioner, had an attack of high blood pressure as a result of the torture. Gu Qingsong's leg was broken. One practitioner was beaten until he fell to the floor, but the inmates wouldn't stop abusing him, saying that he was faking. Gong Wenyi was forced to sit on an Iron Chair for 14 days while he was on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

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Acheng City Police Department Refuses to Compensate Family for Wrongful Death of Mr. Huang Fujun

2008-01-31

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Fujun was arrested by police on July 24th, 2007. During the subsequent detention at Acheng First Detention Centre, he was violently force-fed while on a protest hunger strike. Later, Mr. Huang became unconscious as a result of the continued forced-feedings. In early November 2007, the detention centre rushed him to the hospital for resuscitation. During the hospitalisation, the guards still handcuffed and shackled him to the hospital bed. On November 3rd, 2007, Mr. Huang was dying and he was still unconscious. Seeing that he was about to die, the guards let his family take him back home. Three days following his release, Mr. Huang Fujun passed away at home.

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Ms. Zhao Rongcai Persecuted in Jurong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province

2008-01-31

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Rongcai, 40 years old, was arrested on May 25th, 2006 for practising Falun Gong. The police sent her to a brainwashing centre in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, Zibo City, Shandong Province. Ms. Zhao went on a hunger strike and broke the DVD used in the brainwashing. During the hunger strike of over one month she was harshly and cruelly force-fed. The torture changed her from an originally very healthy Dafa practitioner into a person very close to death. In early August of 2006, the police again secretly transferred Ms. Zhao, who was then in a coma, to Jurong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province. On the document sentencing Ms. Zhao to two years of forced labour, there was no stated reason for the sentence, nor was Ms. Zhao's signature on the document. She is said to be very weak and emaciated.

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Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp Unjustly Detains Over 150 Falun Gong Practitioners

2008-01-31

The Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp is still holding over 150 female Falun Gong practitioners. It's been reported that Falun Gong practitioner Liu Qiaozhen has been on a hunger strike for over three months and is now critically ill. Practitioner Qiu Liying attended a trial hearing for practitioner Li Qiumin on September 26th, 2007. Qiu Liying was taken to the Hebei Province Brainwashing Centre the next work day, transferred to a labour camp after ten days, sentenced to one year of forced labour, and she is currently detained in Brigade No. 1 of the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp.

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The Persecution of Mr. Yang Guomin's Family in Wuhan City

2008-01-31

On the evening of June 22nd, 2007, the police arrested four family members of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Guomin. Mr. Yang was detained at Etouwan Brainwashing Centre in Wuhan City for more than two months, and then sentenced to a forced labour camp for one year. Later they arrested an additional family member. Mr. Yang's elderly mother, who did not practise Falun Gong, committed suicide due to sadness and despair.

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Ms. Sun Jinghua Dies from Persecution in Changchun City, Jilin Province

2008-01-30

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Jinghua, who was in her forties, lived in Changchun City, Jilin Province. For the past eight years of persecution, she was forced to live a homeless life to avoid being arrested or had to move often to avoid persecution. As a result of torture in detention, and her difficult life due to the ongoing persecution, Ms. Sun became emaciated, with localised swelling and bleeding. She died on January 5th, 2008.

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Mother and Daughters Repeatedly Imprisoned During the Past Eight Years

2008-01-30

A family of four in Chaling County, Hunan Province has experienced brutal persecution since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution of Falun Gong in July of 1999. The husband has passed away and the wife and two surviving daughters have been repeatedly imprisoned over the past eight years. A happy family was devastated just because they wanted to live according to the standards of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance".

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Ms. Liu Jin Taken Away by Shanghai Police, Young Daughter Left Home Alone

2008-01-30

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Jin was taken away by the Fengxian District, Shanghai City police, known for its evil ways. This is the second time she has been persecuted since she was sent to prison for four years. Now she's detained in the Fengxian District Detention Centre. Fengxian Police Station and Haiwan Police Substation participated in this action together. They sent two police cars to abduct Liu Jin, and ransacked her home so that it looked like a robbery took place, stealing 20,000 yuan. They also took other private property like a laptop, printer--including IDs, a bank card etc. They even took the battery from her family car.

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Crimes Against Older Falun Dafa Practitioners in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

2008-01-30

For many years, the No. 4 Team of Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province has been the place where older Falun Dafa practitioners are persecuted. I am in my 60s. Around March 20th, 2006, I was ordered to take a blood test. I was thinking then that I was not a sick person since I'm a practitioner. I knew I didn't need that blood test. Besides, a blood test does not require that big an amount of blood. I thought, isn't this another disguised way to persecute us? Also, when we were first arrested and sent to the forced labour camp, we already had a thorough physical examination and blood work. I told them, "I'm very healthy and I don't need that test." Six policemen pushed me to the ground. They stepped on me. Some twisted my arms. Some stepped on my back, and I couldn't breath because of this. They striped my clothes off of my arm and took my blood by force.

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Ms. Li Wenxia Dies Due to Persecution in Tianjin City

2008-01-29

Ms. Li Wenxia, 47, did the Falun Gong exercises with fellow practitioners at home, but they were arrested and detained in Tanggu District Detention Centre for nine months. During this nine months of detention, Ms. Li was subjected to numerous tortures. She was forced into slave labour every day, and made to eat very dirty non-nutritious food that caused many of the inmates to have diarrhoea. Because she was a Falun Dafa practitioner, she was not allowed to sleep on a bed, but instead made to sleep on the wet cement floor. Cold water was constantly poured on her, and she slept in about an inch of water. She was also constantly cursed and beaten for not renouncing Falun Dafa. Ms. Li became severely injured mentally, and physically weak, unable to take care of herself. She died in December 2006.

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