Torture

• Police in Dingzhou City, Hebei Province Beat Ms. Jia Minying to the Brink of Death, Then Extort Ten Thousand Yuan from Her Family

  2008-01-21
  At the end of August 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms.Jia Minying went to Huideying Village and distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested after being reported. She was imprisoned in the Dingzhou City Detention Centre where she was cruelly mistreated. Policemen took turns violently beating her, trying to force her to reveal where she got her leaflets from. They said while beating her, "Ok, refuse to tell? Nobody would know if we peeled off your skin and took out your tendons!" The police beat her for one hour. Jia Minying often felt sharp pains in her head, and she also had pain all over her body and could not take in any food afterward. Later she was beaten to the brink of death. the police released Jia Minying after extorting over ten thousand yuan from her family.
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• Sichuan University Professor Mr. Li Ming Twice Sent to Forced Labour Camp and Tortured

  2008-01-21
  Mr. Li Ming, 35, graduated from the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in 1995. After graduating he taught at Chengdu Senior Business College until June 1999. He was once honoured as an excellent and dedicated teacher, and his students loved him. Due to his strong belief in Falun Dafa, and consistently speaking out for justice about the persecution to people, he was twice sent to a forced labour camp and brutally tortured. In Xinhua Forced Labour Camp he was forced to labour for more than ten hours per day in a brick factory. He realised that he should not passively submit to the persecution. He and other fellow practitioners held a strike together in the brick factory and they began to do Falun Gong exercises. The guards beat the practitioners with electric batons.
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• Crimes Committed by Police and 610 Office Personnel in Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia

  2008-01-21
  Wang Qinghai, male, is commander of the Domestic Security Division of Manzhouli City Police Department. He practised Falun Gong prior to July 20th, 1999, when the persecution started, and he knows deeply how much benefit Falun Dafa brings to one's health. He said to a Dafa practitioner, "I feel like a young man." However, after July 20th, he did all he could to persecute Dafa practitioners. He organised and took part in sentencing 18 practitioners to forced labour and was involved in over 50 arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners. He was also responsible for the deaths of two female Dafa practitioners, Meng Guiying and Wang Shuying. He caused one practitioner to becoming mentally disturbed and four practitioners to becoming disabled to varying degrees.
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• The Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the No. 855 Farm Detention Centre in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province

  2008-01-21
  Ms. Gong Hongyan, 47, was an elementary school teacher. On April 12th, 2004, the secretary of the school ordered Gong Hongyan to mop the floors. Her textbooks and lesson plans were forcibly taken away. In the afternoon, 610 Office agent Li Jinzhou, and education director Zeng Xiaoguang went to the primary school to notify her that she was being transfered to logistical work. This transfer was done without any paperwork or proper procedures. Without any documentation, they revoked her teaching certification. They also took away her employee benefits as a teacher, such as summer and winter holidays.
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• Mr. Che Hongfei's Life in Danger but Dalian Prison Authorities Refuse to Release Him

  2008-01-20
  Practitioner Che Hongfei, 37, is an English teacher. He was sentenced to seven years in prison because somebody reported him for practising Falun Gong. His parents, parents-in-law and wife went to Dalian City Prison four times to request his release after they learned that Mr. Che had been tortured to the point that his life was danger. The administrators made various excuses to protect themselves and avoided direct answers.
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• Corrupt Mishan City Police Send Two Practitioners to Labour Camps After Extorting Money from Family

  2008-01-20
  On July 28th, 2007, police from the Dangbi Township Police Station arrested practitioners Mr. Zhang Chuanfu, 21, and Mr. Xue Yanrong, 33. Police officers not only extorted 5,000 yuan from the practitioners' families but also sent the practitioners to a forced labour camp. On October 17th, Mr. Zhang Chuanfu's father came to the police station and asked for permission to see his son. Han said, "They are gone." Zhang's father, "Why? Where did you send them? What law did he violate?" Han said, "He distributed Falun Gong flyers, and that was against the law. I have no idea where they were sent."
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• Who Really Caused the Death of Mr. Wang Zhanshan?

  2008-01-20
  In February 2006, police arrested practitioner Ms. Liu Li. Liu Li went on a hunger strike as a non-violent means of protesting the detention, but she ended up facing the brutal torture of force-feeding as a punishment for her protest. Her non-practitioner husband, Wang Zhanshan, and the rest of the family spent more than 20,000 yuan as bribe money to get Liu Li out but she remained in detention. In 2006, Liu Li was sentenced to three years in Changchun Women's Prison. Mr. Wang suffered from a severe hereditary disease and now did not have his wife to look after him. Due to the tremendous depression of losing his wife, Wang Zhanshan hung himself. Who really killed Wang Zhanshan?
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• Practitioners Chen Chunling and Pu Fanwei Beaten and Seriously Injured in Daqing Prison, Heilongjiang Province

  2008-01-20
  On December 25th, 2007, during an inspection of the prison by prison warden Wang Yongxian with his staff and a riot squad, political director Li Weilong beat and seriously injured Chen Chunling. The next day, Li beat practitioner Pu Fanwei because he refused to wear the prison uniform, causing him to lose consciousness. He then beat Zhai Zhibing for not wearing his uniform. He also burned Zhai and Pu's clothes and socks.
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• Three Women Badly Beaten by Government Security Staff

  2008-01-19
  In December 2007, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Gong Ping, Ms. Cao Xiuxia, and Ms. Guo Fengxia went to a village to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and were brutally beaten, had money extorted from them, and were detained by local security staff and police officers. Security Officer Li San ran up to them, grabbed Ms. Cao Xiuxia by her hair, and slammed her head against a utility pole. He then gave her a head butt and continued to hit her head against the utility pole. He pounded her chest with his fist and kicked and stomped on her with his feet. He also kicked Ms. Guo Fengxia, who then fell on the curb, and her lips started to bleed. Her mouth was filled with sand. Her nose and face were black and blue and badly swollen.
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• Stool Holding-a Form of Torture Used in Jinzhou City Prison, Liaoning Province

  2008-01-19
  Stool holding: A stool, about two feet high, is placed upside down in the centre of a slab. There are two metal rings, one on either side of the stool. The guards have the inmates force the practitioners to sit with their legs gripping the stool and their feet shackled. Their arms are placed around the stool, through the two rings, and then handcuffed. The metal rings are about one foot above the bottom of the stool so that they cannot raise their arms or straighten their backs. They have to squat down and bend over.
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• Detained and Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment: Ms. Zhang Songmei from Beijing

  2008-01-19
  In April 2000, Ms. Zhang Songmei was sentenced to three years of forced labour for displaying a Falun Gong banner in Tiananmen Square. She was then detained in Xin'an Women's Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. During the forced labour term, she was shocked with electric batons, beaten, deprived of sleep, and locked up in a solitary cell in the "intensive training" section. Guards brainwashed her and forced her to give up her belief in Falun Gong while she was not mentally stable due to the terrible conditions.
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• Ms. Yang Chunlan and Ms. Wang Yuying from Huaihua City, Hunan Province, in Critical Condition after Being Tortured in Huitong County Detention Centre

  2008-01-19
  On September 15th, 2007, 11 practitioners went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution in Baozijiao Town and were arrested by police. After the practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest their unjust arrest, they were viciously beaten. The guards intentionally ignored Ms. Yang Chunlan's high blood pressure and heart attack symptoms. Only after she collapsed did they send her to the hospital. Although she was in critical condition, the detention centre's administration denied both her release and her family's visitation requests.
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• Mr. Yu Guoxi Dies as a Result of Torture at the Benxi City Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

  2008-01-18
  Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yu Guoxi was arrested by police from the County Department in March 2005 while at home, detained for one month, and sentenced to three years of forced labour. He suffered two years and three months of terrible conditions and torture in the Weiningying Forced Labour Camp located in Benxi City. He was released in July 2007 because he was severely ill. He never recovered after returning home, and died in December 2007 at the age of 56.
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• Mr. Qi Zhengui Dies after Being Sentenced to Forced Labour Twice

  2008-01-18
  Mr. Qi Zhengui, 69, was sentenced to two years of forced labour on a charge of "carrying Falun Gong materials in 2000." In June 2005, police arrested him again went he went to the Hengshui City 610 Office with 80-year-old Ms. Kang Yanxiang to enquire after her son's whereabouts. Mr. Qi was sentenced to three years of forced labour again and taken to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. This brutal mistreatment caused his physical condition to worsen, and he died on September 5th, 2007.
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• Ms. Guo Fenglan in Critical Condition Due to Persecution at Harbin Women's Prison

  2008-01-18
  Ms. Guo Fenglan, 64, lives in Shuangcheng City. Due to more than three years of persecution while imprisoned at Harbin City Women's Prison, her body has become extremely weak and emaciated. Medical examiners stated that she has a brain blood vessel blockage, hypertension and high blood pressure, with a upper index of 200 and a lower index of 180. Despite her condition, prison administrators have still not released her. Recently Ms. Guo has suffered a relapse of oedema, causing her belly to become overstretched. She cannot eat and her stools are dry. If she is not released in time, it is very possible that her struggles to have a bowel movement could cause her death. Despite this, the warden and instructor of Harbin Women's Prison still force Ms. Guo Fenglan to sit as usual in a fixed posture for extended periods of time every day.
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