Torture

• Ms. Wei Jianxin's Whereabouts Unknown After Being Taken Into Custody

  2007-10-13
  On September 2nd, 2007, Ms. Wei Jianxin had just returned home from shopping when director of the State Security Division took her into custody. The police officers then broke into her home and searched it. They confiscated an MP3 player and 600 yuan in cash, and demanded that Ms. Liu pay them 2,000 yuan. Ms. Liu made a living as a street vendor and her financial situation was very challenging. Ms. Wei was sent to a forced labour camp, where she resisted the persecution. Fearing her influence, the guards threatened to transfer her to another location. Currently, Ms. Wei's whereabouts are unknown.
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• Benxi City Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province - A Den of Villainous Monsters

  2007-10-13
  The torture that the camp officials commonly administer to Falun Gong practitioners is called the "stretching bed." The "stretching bed" involves putting two single beds together and handcuffing or tying a practitioner's hands on the four corners of the two beds. (They had previously used handcuffs for this, but after the handcuffs severely cut practitioner Wang Xuefei's hands and traumatised him, the guards began using ropes to prevent this visible injury from happening.) After they tie a practitioner, they move the two beds in opposite directions. For steadfast practitioners they add some bricks between the two beds. Each brick added causes severe pain and injury. This torture method is very similar to the ancient torture method called "five horses splitting a body," also called "split by carts."
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• Mr. Xiao Zhixiang, 67, on the Brink of Death in Chishan Prison, Hunan Province

  2007-10-12
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiao Zhixiang, 67, is now in Jinshi Prison in Changde City, Hunan Province, and has been tortured to the brink of death. He has spent the past six years in either a detention centre or prison. He has been tortured by being hung by his handcuffs, abusively shouted at, beaten, and made to do hard labour. Any refusal to do forced labour would result in being hung up by his handcuffs or detained in a small cell.
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• Ms. Zhang Huimin Suffers Mental Collapse Due to Persecution at Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp

  2007-10-12
  Zhang Huimin benefited greatly from Falun Dafa. When she saw that many people hated Dafa because they were deceived by the lies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), she was very upset. She wanted to explain the facts about Falun Dafa to everybody. On September 4th, she went to Guolikou Village with her child to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and Tian Xiaorong from the National Security Team in Anxin Public Security Bureau arrested her. She was sent to Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp. It is said that she was persecuted until she suffered a mental collapse while under the high pressure of forced brainwashing.
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• Persecution Cases in Laishui County, Hebei Province

  2007-10-12
  Ms. Cao Qingmei is over 70 years old. In 2000, Cao Qingmei and three other fellow practitioners went to the Laishui County government to speak out for justice for Falun Gong. Armed police officers arrested them. They were taken to the courtyard of the county police department and were cuffed from the back to concrete poles for more than three hours. They were sent to the county's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) school and had to endure forced brainwashing sessions for two weeks. During that time, the police and locally hired thugs brutally tortured Cao Qingmei and other practitioners. They whipped the practitioners with wet ropes made of hemp or with whips made of electric wires, and also beat them with the handles of mops. The practitioners had to kneel on the mop handles, on concrete blocks with sharp corners, or on the ground for long hours.
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• Fanjiatai Prison Guards Torture Shi Lei and Refuse His Parents' Visitation Rights

  2007-10-12
  Mr. Shi Lei, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hubei Province has been tortured by the 610 Office for years. Mr. Shi was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, and sent to Wuhan City Qinduankou Prison where he was tortured. Under the command of police officers, prisoners took turns torturing Shi Lei. He was not allowed to associate with practitioners or relatives unless he succumbed to the police officers' orders. The packages sent by Mr. Shi's family were returned. Under prison orders, Shi was only allowed one hundred yuan a month for daily commodities. Prisoners were also ordered to turn the TV to the maximum volume in order to deprive Shi Lei of sleep.
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• Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Jianzhong Tortured to Death in Forced Labour Camp

  2007-10-11
  On February 13th, 2007, Mr. Chen Jianzhong was dying in the Changsha City Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province and weighed only 80 pounds when taken home by his family. To force him to give up his belief, he had suffered physical assault, sleep deprivation, electric baton shocking, and more than three months of solitary confinement in the labour camp . In August, his health deteriorated further. He passed away on September 14th, 2007, after struggling for survival for about one month.
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• Grandparents Die After Repeated Torture, Father Arrested Time and Again, Son Left at Home all Alone -- Practitioners' Family Tragedy in Hebei Province

  2007-10-11
  When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Yan Haidong and his parents went to Beijing to exercise their constitutional right to appeal to the State Appeals Office. As soon as they arrived at Tiananmen Square, the police arrested them by force. They were beaten up by hired thugs with clubs, belts and boots. In addition, they were forced to work as slaves during the day. They were also subjected to beatings and torture with bamboo sticks, clubs, belts, and whips made of telephone wire. The thugs even burned them with lit cigarettes and also forced them to watch video propaganda against Falun Gong. BothYan's father and mother passed away after constantly facing harassments, imprisonment and threats from officials.
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• Ms. Geng Jianhua and Mr. Lu Jingquan from Shanghai Arrested and Their Whereabouts Unknown

  2007-10-11
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Geng Jianhua of Shanghai, in her 50's, planned to leave for Shandong Province on September 26th to visit her mother of over 80 years old. When Ms. Geng's husband, Mr. Lu Jingquan, was about to send her off, policemen from Weifang Police Station of Pudong District broke into their home and abducted the couple. No one knows their whereabouts since then. Previously, they had both been sent to a forced labour camp for two years and Ms. Geng lost consciousness after being hung up by her cuffed hands for 17 hours.
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• Hidden Brutalities in Gongzhuling Prison, Jilin Province

  2007-10-11
  Falun Gong practitioner Yang Huiyong protested against various inhumane treatments and slave labour in Gongzhuling Prison. Consequently, he was locked up in a small cell by former head of Detention Division He Qingguo, who also detained him on a "death bed", and instructed other police to shock him with nine electric batons at the same time. Yang Huiyong lost consciousness from the electric shocks.
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• Ms. Chen Xue Persecuted by Officials at the College of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University

  2007-10-10
  Ms. Chen Xue, a Falun Gong practitioner, was a faculty member of Fujian University of Technology and was also studying for an on-the-job master's degree at Central South University in Changsha City, Hunan Province. She is presently preparing to orally defend her master's thesis. In early September, Fujian University of Technology faxed a "punishment decision document" regarding Ms. Chen Xue to the College of Information Science and Engineering at Central South University. In late September Ms. Chen received a formal notice from Central South University, informing her that they would not accept her degree application for the oral defence segment. In November 2006, Ms. Chen Xue told her students during breaktime about the tide of millions of people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For this, someone reported her, and she was transferred from her teaching position to administrative work.
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• Practitioners Ms. Tan Xiuying and Ms. Zhang Haiqin from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province Fell Victim to Trickery and Were Arrested by Communist Regime Spies

  2007-10-10
  According to insiders, when Ms. Tan Xiuying went out to to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, a man in his forties approached her and began to communicate with her. He tricked her into believing he was interested in learn about Falun Gong and the persecution and arranged to meet her at a later time. On August 17th, 2007, Ms. Tan and another practitioner Ms. Zhang Haiqin were arrested. They are now being held in the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Tan Xiuying was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. The length of Ms. Zhang Haiqin's forced labour term is unknown.
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• Police Swindle More Than 50,000 Yuan from Practitioner Hao Yijing's Husband

  2007-10-10
  On May 14th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hao Yijing went to visit her parents-in-law with her husband. During this period, because she read Falun Gong books, did the exercises, and tried to dispel communist party propaganda about Falun Gong to her family members, she was reported to police by her father-in-law. She was promptly arrested by the police from the local station. At the Yucai Road Police Station she was tortured in order to gain a confession. Her house was then ransacked and she was extorted out of 6,018 Yuan. In order to encourage her family to pay the fee, the police released Ms. Hao. Later, on May 30th, Ms. Hao was again arrested and detained at the Xifeng District Detention Centre. She was again mercilessly tortured. Police continued to extort money from Ms. Hao's family - a total of 55,618 Yuan (3,600 pounds sterling).
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• 610 Officer Beats Up Mr. Lin Tong, 76, in Guangdong Province

  2007-10-10
  Both Mr. Lin Tong, 76, and his wife, Ms. Li Lanying, are in poor health. They depended entirely on their daughter, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Lin Yanmei, who financially supported her family. In 2004, police arrested Ms. Lin and took her to the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. On September 13th, 2007, Mr. Lin went to the Dianbai County 610 Office and asked Director Xiao Xiong to sign an application for families with financial difficulties. This request angered Xiao, who stormed out of the office. Later another official beat up Mr. Lin and knocked him to the floor. Fortunately, another staff member arrived in time to stop the violence before it got any worse.
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• Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhu Fuju Disabled from Torture at Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2007-10-09
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhu Fuju was sent to labour camps twice, and sentenced to three years of imprisonment once. Ms Zhu is currently detained at the 9th Division of Heilongjiang Women's Prison located at Harbin. In order to forcefully "transform" her, personnel from the prison put her on the "Big Hang Up" to torture her (with both of her hands cuffed on a double decker bed and only her toes touching the ground), while criminal inmates were ordered to monitor her. She was locked in a room so no one could see her. It is reported that both of Ms Zhu's hands have become disabled, but she is still being hung up.
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