Torture

A Teacher's Illnesses Disappeared after Practising Falun Gong; the Police Arrest Her Again

2007-08-29

When Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fu Jinhua went to Dezhou City on August 14th, 2007 to handle some business, she was arrested by police. She is now being detained at the Dezhou City Detention Centre. This has traumatised her husband, and her formerly happy family is in deep sorrow. Her daughters went to the police department to look for their mother and were verbally abused. One policeman also threatened that if the children's relatives were Falun Gong practitioners they would arrest them as well.

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A Teacher Is Dying in Chongqing City Prison

2007-08-28

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Guanglin is detained in the Chongqing City Second Prison. On August 10th, 2007, his family visited him, but Mr. Wang walked out very slowly with the help of two guards. He is was as thin as a skeleton, deformed, almost paralysed, and could not take care of himself. He hasn't had a normal bowel movement for many days, and he is near death.

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Mr. Wang Yongjun from Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

2007-08-28

Practitioner Mr. Wang Yongjun lived in Sonjianghe Town, Fusong County, Jilin Province. He became very weak after being mistreated multiple times by malicious Communist Party members and harassed by police from the Donglin Station in Songjianghe Town. He died on July 2nd, 2007. In 2001 he was arrested and tortured by police. They cuffed his hands behind his back with a bottle in between (to cause more pain) and shocked him with electric batons.

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Police Arrest Mother, Mistreat Young Son

2007-08-28

At 5:00 p.m. on July 19th, 2007, three police officers from the Worker's Village Police Station in Dalian City, broke into practitioner Ms. Sheng Lianying's house and took her away. The police also arrested practitioner Sun Qiaohua. Ms. Sheng Lianying's husband is deceased, and she lives with her young son. Her son is now left home alone and without anyone to care for him. On the night of her arrest, young Chao Chao went to the police station looking for his mother. On July 20th, 2007, Chao Chao went to Jinhai Garden Residential Committee to file a complaint. He said, "My mother is a good person who obeys the law. Why did you arrest her? I have no means to support myself." Residential Committee Party secretary Sun Jie refused to take responsibility. Other officials said, "You are here looking for trouble, not to solve problems. Go home quickly!"

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62-Year-Old Shepherd Seized by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Thugs

2007-08-28

On July 22nd, 2007, 20 officials, and police arrived in four police cars, planning to arrest 62-year-old practitioner Ms. Li Yinhua. At that time, Ms. Li was grazing sheep at the river wall close to her home. When the officers saw her, they immediately forced her into the car. Ms. Li's husband, 68-year-old Mr. Yang Heng, witnessed these gangsters rush to his home without notice. When he stepped forward to try and stop them, several young officers forced him to the ground. After this violent attack, Mr. Yang required medical attention for several days. During the entire process, the thugs did not show any identification, provide any explanation, or give any receipts for property taken. Her family has gone there to ask for her release, but the guards' attitude was extremely unreasonable, and the family was not allowed to see Ms. Li.

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The Persecution Suffered by Twelve Falun Gong Practitioners at the Maoming Petroleum Chemical Corporation in Guangdong Province

2007-08-27

Since the persecution started on July 20th, 1999, the 610 Office heads in the Maoming Petroleum Chemical Corporation have participated in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They monitor practitioners and tap their phone lines. They order practitioners to constantly report their whereabouts during holidays. They harass their families. Without any legal procedures or documents, they frequently ransack practitioners' residences and take away their personal belongings. They arrest practitioners and imprison them in brainwashing centres, detention centres, forced labour camps, and prisons. They fire practitioners from their jobs or withhold their salaries and retirement pensions. Some practitioners have lost their families or become destitute as a result of this persecution.

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Please Help Rescue My Older Sister Cui Shengyu

2007-08-27

My sister was persecuted simply for her belief in Falun Gong. My whole family was terrified, and has been traumatised by the atrocity ever since. My sister did not give up the practice, and she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested there and sent back home. Soon afterwards, she was laid off and put into the detention centre in Jiamusi City for six months. After six months, my sister suffered a great deal and she was on her last breath when she was released. When she got out of the detention centre, she was unrecognisable, and her weight had dropped nearly in half. They arrested her again during the period when she was breastfeeding her daughter. They rampantly beat and tortured her, and she was forced to live a homeless life to avoid being continually persecuted.

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Gansu Province No. 3 Prison in Tianshui City Rewards Guards for Violently "Transforming" Practitioners

2007-08-27

The Gansu Province No. 3 Prison in Tianshui City awards guards 10,000 yuan for violently "transforming" each practitioner. Attempting to subdue steadfast practitioners, the No. 3 Prison detains them in solitary confinement, prohibits anyone from accessing them, forces them to "transform" through torture, and manipulates murderers and other prisoners to devastate them both mentally and physically.

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Practitioners Arrested by the 610 Office in Beijing's Haidian District

2007-08-27

Since March 2007, many practitioners in various parts of China have been arrested by the 610 Office. Beijing is no exception. In the Haidian District, the 610 Office captured several practitioners. In Haidian Detention Centre, every cell holds five to six practitioners and has a capacity for 30 or more. All of the captured practitioners are over the age of 60 and most of them are first time detainees.

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Persecution Suffered by Practitioners in Henan Security Office, Yanji City

2007-08-26

In 2007, staff from the Henan Street Committee Office and Henan Security Office once again started harassing practitioners. One senior practitioner was forcibly taken to the security office. The police tried to force this practitioner to stomp on the photo of the founder of Falun Gong. When this practitioner refused to do so, they confiscated the practitioner's registration record.

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Guang'an District Court in Sichuan Province Sentences Falun Gong Practitioners

2007-08-26

Police from Guang'an City used various methods to monitor Falun Gong practitioners. On November 2nd, 2006, Yu Yi, the Political and Legal Committee secretary of Guang'an City, led more than twenty police officers to surround Mr. Xiang Lin's apartment. The police confiscated four laptops, a few printers and CD burners, and over one hundred thousand yuan worth of personal items including over ten thousand yuan in cash and bank deposit slips. The perpetrators then divided the computers and cash among themselves. They tried to force the practitioners to tell them the passwords to their bank accounts, but failed.

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Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp Officials in Shandong Province Harms Practitioners in Order to Fulfil "Reform" Quotas

2007-08-26

In order to reach their reform quotas, the camp's guards have adopted all kinds of abuses against the practitioners. The methods most commonly used include: 1) Sleep deprivation; 2) The use of several collaborators to indoctrinate the steadfast practitioners with fallacies and propaganda; 3) Long-term forced standing, making practitioners' legs and feet swell; 4) Prohibition of toilet use, compelling practitioners to relieve themselves into their clothing; 5) "Strict Control" team punishment, confining practitioners in small cells; 6) Handcuffing and beating practitioners and forbidding them to do the Falun Gong exercises; 7) Hanging practitioners up with only their toes touching the ground; and 8) Trying to force practitioners to sign or leave their fingerprint on the three statements.

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Practitioner Ms. Yu Lili Detained in Weifang City, Shandong Province

2007-08-26

On July 24th, 2007, police and agents from the Weicheng Public Security Bureau arrested practitioner Ms. Yu Lili. She is now held in the Weifang City Detention Centre.Yu Lili, now in her fifties, started practising Falun Gong in 1997. She often tells people how she has benefited from practising Falun Gong. Just for this, she has been arrested and persecuted many times. During July and August of 2003, she was detained in a brainwashing centre in Weifang City where she was physically and mentally tortured.

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Body of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Hu Yanrong Forcibly Cremated

2007-08-25

Falun Dafa practitioner Hu Yanrong was arrested on August 1st, 2007 and persecuted to death on August 5th. Government organisations colluded with each other. They monitored and threatened Hu's family and had her body forcibly cremated on August 12th. Ms. Hu's funeral was hastily carried out under the surveillance of the higher government departments. Ms. Hu's husband cried miserably during the funeral.

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Who Murdered Ms. He Yingqing from Hunan Province?

2007-08-25

Ms. He Yingqing, a 41-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was tortured to death after eight years of persecution. So tragic was her death that many people are heartbroken and have shed countless tears. Her workplace--Hunan Biology Electrical Professional Academy announced that it was Falun Gong that murdered Ms. He. This is no doubt a result of the eight years of persecution and propaganda against Falun Gong, and also of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) poisoning of Chinese people's values for decades. They murdered Ms. He and then cheated her colleagues and friends from knowing the truth.

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