Torture

• Mr. Zhao Baozhuang, a Practitioner from Changge City, Henan Province, Arrested Again

  2007-09-05
  Mr. Zhao Baozhuang, a Falun Dafa practitioner and businessman was arrested the morning of August 21st, 2007, at his shop by police from the 610 Office in Yima City. Mr. Zhao had been under surveillance by police of the 610 Office for quite some time. His printer, notebook computer, and leaflets exposing the persecution were all confiscated. At present, the location of his detention is unknown. Since 2001 Zhao Baozhuang has experienced repeated arrests, detention and persecution because he refuses to renounce Falun Dafa.
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• The Persecution of Ms. Ma Qingxia and Her Family in Xiong County, Hebei Province

  2007-09-05
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ma Qingxia has been relentlessly persecuted. She has been arrested, detained in a detention centre and forced labour camp, and forced to leave her home. Her family members, who are non-practitioners, have also suffered severe persecution. Her husband has been arrested twice for refusing to turn in other practitioners. He was detained in a forced labour camp for three years. Ms. Ma's mother-in-law passed away from the grief of missing her son and daughter-in-law. Ms. Ma's son was almost handicapped due to his parents being unable to take care of him. Even still, Ms. Ma's family is being frequently harassed and persecuted by the local police.
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• Chao Zhiming of Lingwu City, Ningxia Autonomous Region, Died under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Persecution

  2007-09-05
  For more than eight years Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chao Zhiming had suffered brutal persecution at the hands of the Chinese communist regime. He suffered paralysis on one side of his body and experienced speech difficulties because of years of persecution. With the return of his former illnesses, he died of a stroke on August 22nd, 2007. His wife, Zhu Xiuying, died on January 25th, 2006, also as a result of persecution
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• Practitioner Ma Yufeng from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Tortured to Death

  2007-09-04
  Ms. Ma Yufeng refused to give up her cultivation, so she was arrested, detained, and persecuted by the officials from the local government and police station. In October 1999, police grabbed her hair, kicked, punched, and beat her with a rubber baton. Then she was taken to another room and beaten with an electric baton. The officers asked Ms. Zhao whether she would continue to practise. After she said "Yes," they beat her violently until she passed out three times and her entire buttocks turned black. Ms. Zhao died on October 7th.
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• Daqing City Practitioner Mr. Ni Wenkui's Life Is in Danger After Three-Year Sentence

  2007-09-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ni Wenkui is from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. In the past eight years, he has been arrested and detained multiple times. He was sentenced to three years in prison and suffered inhuman treatment in Hongweixin Prison in Daqing City. After he was released, the local policemen constantly harassed him. His health never recovered and he become weaker and weaker. Now, his life is in great danger.
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• Ms. Yang Liu and Her Family are Persecuted in Henan Province - Her Disabled Brother is Imprisoned Four Times

  2007-09-04
  On May 8th, 2001, Ms. Yang Liu distributed Falun Gong materials in a village. Police officer Li Xizhi arrested Yang Liu and interrogated her. Because she is small and her arms are short, it was hard to handcuff her behind her back to the pillar, so Li Xizhi yanked her arms and then cuffed them. The handcuffs cut into the flesh of her wrists. It was extremely painful. Then Li Xizhi started slapping her face. Li Xizhi ordered two police officers to brutally beat Yang Liu's buttocks. She was beaten so hard that she completely lost control of her bowels.
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• Unconventional Methods of Torture Used on Falun Dafa Practitioners in Binjiang Prison, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

  2007-09-04
  Binjiang Prison uses unconventional methods to torture practitioners. The guards in this prison do not beat or reprimand practitioners, but determined practitioners are confined to a small room. If they refuse to accept "transformation," they will be cut off from all contact with the outside world and will not be allowed to contact anyone but the police guards that are "helping to educate" them. The guards use their deceptive and corrupt notions to wear down the will of the determined practitioners and make them give up their righteous belief so they will accept "transformation." This method of isolating practitioners from the outside world for long periods of time results in their developing a distorted reliance on the guards.
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• Sent to Prison Once and to Labour Camps Four Times, Older Ms. Mao Kaiming is Persecuted to Death

  2007-09-03
  Ms. Mao Kaiming, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xichang City, Sichuan Province, passed away on August 20th, 2007 at the age of 56. Mao Kaiming was held once in prison and four more times in forced labour camps. Party officials were monitoring and persecuting her even during her last moments on Earth. Ms Mao explained the wonders of Falun Gong to fellow villagers and told them about the wicked schemes of the Communist Party after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999. She was continuously persecuted for the past eight years through arrests, detention, torture and home ransacking.
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• Practitioners Brutally Beaten and Left Without Clothes Under the Burning Summer Sun at Daqing City Prison

  2007-09-03
  On August 23rd, 2007, the guards in the Daqing City Prison in Heilongjiang Province badly mistreated detained Falun Dafa practitioners. Guards from the entire prison rounded up all non-practitioner inmates and assembled them on the marching ground. They then brutally beat the Falun Dafa practitioners left behind in the cells before dragging them to the marching ground. With more than one thousand prisoners assembled, five or six guards beat a male practitioner with a rubber baton and shocked him with electric batons. They stripped him, burned his clothes, and beat him until he could not move. He was left without any clothes on under the burning sun for hours
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Sun Shuxiang from Changchun City Tortured to Near Death Many Times

  2007-09-03
  In May 2002, police arrested Ms. Sun Shuxiang. Agents from the No. 1 Division of Changchun Police Department later interrogated her. She suffered brutal torture during the interrogation. She was tied up on the "tiger bench". With high voltage electric batons, the guards shocked her all over her body repeatedly, including the finger tips, hands and arms, head, eyes, inner mouth, breasts, ribs, private parts and the tips of the toes. They especially shocked sensitive areas such as the breasts, ribs and private parts. Her whole body was covered with blisters. She was still unconscious the next day and was at the edge of the death. Later the police had to send her back home.
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• Facts about the Persecution of Ms. Zhang Shoufeng in Zhejiang Province Women's Prison Over the Course of Almost Three Years

  2007-09-03
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Shoufeng has been persecuted in Zhejiang Province Women's Prison for close to three years. Ms. Zhang was arrested in Wenzhou and persecuted for three months. In the middle of November 2003, she was sentenced to serve a five-year prison term. During these proceedings, no one was allowed to visit her, and even her husband was only able to see her once at the hearing.
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• The Persecution and Torture of Practitioner Zhang Yanrong

  2007-09-02
  Mr. Zhang Yanrong, a farmer, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and severely tortured while he was detained in the Lanzhou Prison, Wuwei Prison, and Jiuquan Prison. When he was on the brink of death, he was released to receive medical care at home. He finally died on August 15th, 2007 at age 48. His wife Wang Zefang was sentenced to eight years in prison and is currently tortured in the Lanzhou Women's Prison.
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• Mr. Shi Baoliang Learned Falun Gong in Weibei Prison and Has Been Tortured by the Authorities Ever Since

  2007-09-02
  Director Liu Lixue ordered the torture of Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shi Baoliang from January to June of 2006 at Weibei Prison in Shandong Province. Because he was caught with copies of Teacher Li's [Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa] articles, the guards put Mr. Shi in solitary confinement and shocked him with high voltage electric batons for a long time. Mr. Shi Baoliang did not say anything when he was let out of solitary confinement. As a result of the torture, most of his skin was purple and black.
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• Mr. Yin Fuliang from Hunan Province Arrested Again - His Seventy Year-Old Mother Gravely Worried

  2007-09-02
  Police from the Public Security Bureau in Changshang County, Hunan Province, arrested Dafa practitioner Mr. Yin Fuliang, who was living a homeless life to avoid further persecution, on July 10th, 2007. He has been detained at the Custodial Station in Changshang County since then. Yin was sent to forced labour camp twice and became homeless in 2006. Yin's seventy-year-old mother, Luo Qiuhua, was so worried that she couldn't eat or sleep.
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• Three Practitioners in Henan Province Sentenced to Prison

  2007-09-02
  On June 28th, 2007, Mr. Hu Xinzheng, a 55-year-old Falun Gong practitioner was sentenced to prison for five years. Mr. Li Jie was sentenced to seven years, and Mr. Liu Qingchen was sentenced to three years. Chuanhui District of Huaiyang City, and Xiangcheng City opened court sessions for the three practitioners and sentenced them to prison at the same time. This is one of the criminal means used by the Political and Judiciary Committee and the Zhoukou City 610 Office to follow higher authorities' orders and escalate the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The three courts opened court sessions the same day, notified their families just several hours before the court sessions, and deprived practitioners of an appeal term.
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