Torture
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More Details on the Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Xinglei from Shandong Province
2007-08-10On September 6th, 2001, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xinglei was tortured to death by officers of the Yanggu County Police Station in Liaocheng City. Before his body temperature completely dropped, he was sent to the People's Hospital of Yanggu County for an autopsy. Officials at Yanggu County Police Station lied to his family, saying that Wang Xinglei died from a hunger strike. His family was not allowed to touch his body. His body was immediately cremated. -
More Information on Jilin Province Practitioner Mr. Sha Naiyi's Death in Police Custody
2007-08-10At around 10:00 a.m. on July 13th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Sha Naiyi was arrested and taken from his workplace to the Liangjazi Town Police Station by two policemen who didn't provide any legal documents. Mr. Sha worked at the Honggang Oil Extraction Factory at Jilin Oilfield. Later that day, the police sent Sha to the National Security Team at the Da'an City Public Security Bureau. At about 2:00 p.m on July 14th, 2007, Sha died while in police custody. -
Living Conditions of the Nearly Three Hundred Practitioners Still Detained in the Shandong Province Women's Prison
2007-08-09At the northeastern corner of the intersection of Gongyenan Street and Huaxin Street in the Licheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, there are a group of white buildings behind a high wall covered with barbed wire on top. Along the wall there are watchtowers, one after another, a short distance apart with fully armed police on patrol. The Shandong Province Women's Prison is where nearly three hundred Falun Gong practitioners are currently being detained. -
Exposing the Persecution in Temporary Female Unit at the Mudanjiang Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province
2007-08-09The temporary female unit of Mudanjiang Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province is located at the west side of Sidao Village and is surrounded by high walls with electric barbwires on top. Beginning in June 2000, female Falun Gong practitioners were detained on the third level of the north building. The forced labour camp specifically purchased 20 "iron chairs", wide tape, shackles and other apparatuses for use to torture practitioners. Ms. Sheng Jin'e was detained in the Sidao Forced Labour Camp. After enduring three and a half years of torture and two months of being on a hunger strike, the forced labour camp sent her home in May of 2005. Ms. Sheng died on November 5th, 2006 at the age of 45. -
Shulan City Police in Jilin Province Extort Money from Mr. Zhang Xingju and His Neighbour
2007-08-09Under the Chinese Communist Party's policy of bankrupting Falun Dafa practitioners financially, the police officers in China have turned arresting practitioners into a moneymaking operation. Not long ago, police officers in Shulan City, Liaoning Province arrested practitioner Mr. Zhang Xingju and his neighbour, an old lady who upholds justice, and fined them a total of 900 yuan after failing to extort 5,000 yuan from Mr. Zhang. -
Persecution Methods Used by Labour Camps in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
2007-08-09All Dafa practitioners who are sent to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre, no matter what time they arrive, will be sent for inspection, have their hair cut, and immediately be summoned for interrogation until late at night. On the second day, practitioners would be awakened very early and labour camp personnel would talk to them, trying to use both hard and soft-handed approaches. The soft-handed approaches would be to use sentiments to confuse practitioners. If it failed, they would start bombarding practitioners with persuasion, indoctrination, and scoldings. -
Practitioners Sentenced to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province - Visiting Rights Denied
2007-08-08On July 17th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen's relatives went to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp to visit Ms. Dai, her daughter, and Ms. Dai's brother. They asked the authorities to release the three Falun Gong practitioners unconditionally. But the guards refused to allow them to meet the detained practitioners with the excuse that they didn't bring all the required documents. They were told that they have to bring their personal identification, Permanent Resident Booklet, and a document signed by their local police. They were also told that only non-practitioner relatives would be allowed to meet with their detained relatives. -
Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province Imprisons and Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
2007-08-08Since early June of 2007, the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province has imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs. The practitioners were closely watched during mealtimes. Some were forced to hand copy ten sheets of writings required by policewoman Jia Meili, or they locked in confinement 24 hours a day and not allowed to even receive food. They were also not allowed to sleep until midnight or 2 a.m. -
College Junior Zhang Kai Sentenced to Three-Year Prison Term
2007-08-08In late April 2007, police arrested 21-year-old student, Mr. Zhang Kai, a Falun Dafa practitioner, and sentenced him to three years in prison simply because of an article on the Internet. We are unaware of any law that defines Internet articles that students are not permitted to publish. Police had earlier arrested Mr. Zhang's mother and sent her to a forced labour camp after a plainclothes agent reported her for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The details of her persecution soon appeared on the Internet. The police found a computer while they were at Mr. Zhang's home. Because the computer belonged to Mr. Zhang, they went to the University of International Trade in Qingdao City and arrested him. -
Ms. Wang Zanmei from Henan Province, Disabled, in Her 60s, Has Suffered from Severe Persecution
2007-08-08On July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to widely persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Because Ms. Wang Zanmei, who is disabled and 60 years old, would not give up cultivating Falun Gong, she was harassed many times by the local police and arrested. Ms. Wang was sentenced to do forced labour for a year and a half. Ms. Wang was tortured badly inside the forced labour camp. She had several heart attacks and almost lost her life. Her weight dropped by 20 lbs. She was held there for eight months before they gave her a copy of a sheet about her arrest, which was full of falsified information. -
Mr. Li Enying Died as a Result of Police Brutality in Hebei Province
2007-08-07Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Enying from Hebei Province died as a result of police brutality, at age fifty-three. Mr. Li was sentenced to forced labour in the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp on January 25th, 2007. He was subjected a multitude of tortures in the camp, including being forced to sit on a small stool for a long time, and being closely monitored by prisoners and severely beaten. -
Ms. Huang Shuyuan Suffered Persecution in the Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
2007-08-07Practitioner Ms. Huang Shuyuan, 59, was forcibly arrested, taken to Chengdu Detention Centre, and then to Qingyang District People's Hospital after she went on a hunger strike to protest her unjust detention. Every day, the hospital staff forced four or five different kinds of intravenous drip into Ms. Huang. If she resisted, the guard would cuff both of her hands to the headboard and raise the head of the bed so that when she slid down, the handcuffs would cut painfully into her wrists. At the same time, they administered intravenous drips into her leg. The handcuffs became tighter and tighter from the pulling of her body weight. The numbness in Ms. Huang's fingers and arms lasted for months, and she had trouble picking up items. Due to the poor hygienic conditions at the prison hospital, Ms. Huang's lower body developed thick scabs. -
Exposing the Zhongba Women's Forced Labour Camp's Cruel "Transformation" Methods in Guizhou Province
2007-08-07I am a practitioner from Guizhou Province. During the eight years of persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) I have been arrested and detained many times. When I was in the Zhongba Women's Forced Labour Camp, I was beaten to the point of being being severely injured and was black and blue all over my body. The perpetrators exploited my under-aged son to "transform" me. My son attempted suicide three times under such agony. -
Practitioner Chen Xiaodong From Anhui Province Arrested Again Two Years After Serving a Five-Year Prison Term
2007-08-07On June 12th, 2007, Hong Yang (male), a Fuyang City public security officer, arrested practitioner Mr. Chen Xiaodong, from Fuyang City, Anhui Province. Mr. Chen is detained in the Taihe County Detention Centre. "To undergo more severe persecution," sources said, "his case has been turned over to Taihe Prosecutor's Office." In 2000, Mr. Chen was sentenced to five years of imprisonment because of his steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. It has been only two years since he served his five-year prison term. His mother and grandmother could not endure the blow of his imprisonment, and they passed away one after the other. -
A Family of Five Brutally Persecuted for Their Belief in the Principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance"
2007-08-06Ms. Yang Jusheng's family consists of five members that have been persecuted for believing in the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Ms. Yang suffered a mental breakdown due to the torture inflicted on her during her detention. In November 2006, she passed away due to the long-term mental and physical torture that she endured while in a labour camp. Her daughter and her son both suffered from schizophrenia due to severe persecution. A once happy family is now torn apart.