Torture
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Three Practitioners from Liaoning Province, Hubei Province, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Died as a Result of Persecution
2007-07-30
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Guo Yuzhi went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in 2000. She was arrested in Tiananmen Square and brutally beaten by police. The thugs tied rope around her breasts and pulled very hard, causing her breasts to be severely damaged. After 15 days of torture, she was taken back to Yichang City and detained in the Yichang City First Detention Centre for 15 days. The detention centre authorities saw that she was dying, so they released her. At that point her breasts had become badly infected. Ms. Guo suffered for several months before passing away. -
Ms. Cao Lijiao Sentenced to Forced Labour and Mr. Luo Xiangjiang's Term Extended in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province
2007-07-30Kan Guilian (in her fifties) and Li Tiejun (in her sixties) were arrested by police on April 26th, 2007 while they were informing people about the persecution of Falun Gong, dispelling the state propaganda attacking the practice and urging them to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Li Tiejun has now returned home. Cao Lijiao has since been sentenced to forced labour by agents from the city's 610 Office. At present, Cao Lijiao is imprisoned at the Baimalong Women's Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City. -
The Deaths of 20 Falun Gong Practitioners Confirmed in June 2007 (Photo)
2007-07-29Ms. Wang Yaqing was a 46-year-old hairdresser who lived in Miyun County, Beijing. She started to practise Falun Gong in the Spring of 1999 and was kindhearted and honest. She was so skillful that people often waited in line for her services. She was given unknown drugs during two months of detention, which caused the deterioration of her eyesight and memory, retardation, asthma, and oedema [swelling] throughout her body. She was no longer able to care for herself. Wang Yaqing passed away on May 27th, 2007, after enduring seven months of excruciating pain. -
Ms. Tang Xingyun from Shenyang Dies from Electric Shock Torture --Police Use Threats to Silence Her Family
2007-07-29
Tang Xingyun, a Dafa practitioner from Shenyang City, was distributing Dafa leaflets exposing the persecution on March 10th, 2007. That evening a person reported her and she was arrested by Shashan police. At the police station, ten policemen shocked her with eight electric batons and Ms. Tang died on the spot. She was 65 years old. On March 13th, during the funeral ceremony, police said to her family:"If you tell people the truth, the whole family will be detained!" -
Ms. Wang Puhua from Chaoyang District Beijing Passed Away as a Result of Persecution
2007-07-29Dafa practitioner Wang Puhua died as a result of persecution on June 13th, 2007. Police went to harass Wang Puhua on a monthly basis before she passed away. She was close to sixty years old. In February 2006, she had been sentenced to two years in a labour camp and sent to the Beijing Reform-through-Labour Dispatch Department, where she was forced every day to watch programmes that slandered Falun Dafa, even though she had vision problems. She was also tortured with the "Sitting Board" for over 10 hours a day. In October 2006 the police arrested her for the second time. Her health condition declined quickly. She again developed pain throughout her body and began to cough up blood. After Wang Puhua returned home, she could not take care of herself anymore. -
Mr. Sha Naiyu Tortured to Death: Additional Information
2007-07-29The police found Falun Dafa materials in Mr. Sha Naiyu's home and brutally tortured him. At around 6 p.m. on July 14th, 2007, Mr. Sha Naiyu was found dead on the ground outside the police department building. Doctors discovered that his internal organs were smashed, and there was a large amount of blood inside his stomach. He was dead. The police claimed that Mr. Sha jumped from the third floor while being interrogated, but the local people did not believe that. They instead believe it was not possible for him to die from falling from that height, and that the police may have thrown his body out the window to create a false scene. The police said themselves several days earlier when harassing Falun Dafa practitioners at home, "Our upper level bosses said we need kill a batch of practitioners before the Olympics." -
After Being Detained for Three Years in Fujian Province Women's Forced Labour Camp, Quan Saizhu Is Still Being Persecuted by the 610 Office
2007-07-29Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Quan Saizhu was arrested by officers from the Fujian Province 610 Office, the police department and the provincial prison system. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour. After her release on April 20th, 2007, she was frequently threatened and harassed by police officers and could not return home. The Women's Forced Labour Camp guards deprived her of sleep, forced her to stand for a long period of time, verbally abused her and brutally beat her. She was also forced to do hard labour daily for over 10 hours. -
Five Falun Gong Practitioners in Jilin City Face Prison Sentences after Being Cruelly Tortured
2007-07-28Five Falun Gong practitioners in Jilin City, Jilin Province who were arrested in mid February 2007 were forced to appear at a court session on July 10th, 2007. The police cruelly tortured all five practitioners in attempt to extort confessions from them. They were force-fed with spicy mustard oil, their legs were compressed with spiral steel bars, and police sexually assaulted a female practitioner with a wooden stick. Some practitioners have been tortured until they lost consciousness, but when they came to, they were tortured again. -
Give My Dad Back to Me - Diary of Mr. Meng Fanquan's Son
2007-07-28Diary: April 20th, 2006: Dad was arrested again. This was the fifth time Dad has been arrested. That evening, I was home alone. Seven or eight policemen rushed into my home. They took away my computer, which I use for school work, and my MP3 player. My home was searched and turned upside down. I am so scared. I'm worried about my dad, because I heard there was an uncle that practises Falun Gong in the detention centre. One day he had diarrhoea, but the police refused to let him go to the toilet and told him to force it back. He was tortured very badly. I was shocked by this. I can't imagine what kind of torture Dad will have to go through this time. -
Ms. Li Yunjiu and Ms. Shi Qunyang from Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province Sentenced to Prison
2007-07-28Pengzhou City Police Department in Sichuan Province used the made up accusation of "disturbing social order" to detain Falun Gong practitioners Li Yunjiu and Shi Qunyang at the Pengzhou City Detention Centre. We have recently heard that Li Yunjiu had been sentenced by secret trial to five years of imprisonment, and Shi Qunyang was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Lin Gang went personally to Ms. Shi's residence after she was sentenced to prison and threatened her husband, saying, "If you don't divorce your wife, you will not get your pay." -
Ms. Li Xiaoyan Has Kidney Failure Due to Torture in Shandong Forced Labour Camp
2007-07-28Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiaoyan is being detained in the first ward of the Shandong Province First Women's Labour Camp. Her arms, legs, and face are now swollen due to torture in the labour camp. The doctors say that she now has kidney failure. On June 22nd, she was taken to the prison clinic for a check-up. Tests revealed that her heart was malfunctioning, her kidneys were not functioning, and the protein level in her urine was dangerously high. On January 11th, 2007, she was sentenced to one and one half years of imprisonment and was sent to the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp. Her 70-year-old mother went to the labour camp several times to see her daughter, but she was turned away each time. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Liaohe Oil Field in Liaoning Province
2007-07-27Mr. Xin Minduo, 33, was a technician at the Liaohe Oil Field, and was the backbone of the operational technology department. Because of his belief in Falun Gong, he was sentenced by the Liaohe Public Security Bureau to 3 years of forced labour in Panjin Forced Labour Camp. On August 3rd, 2005, Mr. Xin was arrested by police officers from Panjin Public Security Sub-bureau. Xinglongtai District Court in Panjin City sentenced him to 13 years in prison, and locked him up in Nanshan Prison in Jinzhou. On the night of September 1st, 2006, Mr. Xin died as a result of torture. His body was cremated by Nanshan Prison authorities on the morning of September 3rd. -
Falun Dafa Practitioners Ms. Zhang Zongsu and Mr. Li Guocai from Tangshang, Hebei Province Taken into Custody for Over Two Months
2007-07-27Practitioners Ms. Zhang Zongsu and Mr. Li Guocai, an elderly couple were arrested by police officers on April 26th, 2007. They were detained at the Tangshan City First Detention Centre. Ms. Zhang Zongsu had symptoms of heart disease when she entered the detention centre. She went on a hunger strike without water for nearly a month. Afterwards, she was force-fed twice a day. Since the couple was arrested, their family has not been permitted to visit them. On July 7th,Mr. Li Guocai, 62, was arrested again by an agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Tangshan City. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Lian Tao from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, Severely Persecuted
2007-07-27Wumahe District Police arrested 62-year-old Mr. Lian on September 23rd, 2005, from his home. His home was searched and his possessions confiscated. His computer was taken away. After being held at the Wumahe Detention Centre for about a month, Mr. Lian was sentenced to three years of forced labour. He was transferred to Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province on October 26th, 2005. After the 2006 Chinese New Year, Mr. Lian requested to see the camp head due to the guard on duty arbitrarily beating people and demanding overtime work, such as selecting toothpicks, for up to 14 hours at a time. Policeman Liu Wei and six other guards beat Mr. Lian so brutally that he could no longer see clearly and he was covered in black and blue bruises. -
Liu Zhimin Has Difficulty Walking After Punitive Forced-Feeding in Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province
2007-07-27Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Zhimin from Harbin City has been detained in the Hulan Prison because he refused to be "transformed." He is being subjected to forced feeding. His family have been refused visits. Chen Weiqiang, a division leader in the 610 Office, said, "Whoever refuses to accept forced transformation, refuses to write the "four statements," refuses to do hard labour, or refuses to obey the authorities cannot be visited." His family members said, "We have visiting rights. How could you deny us our rights?" Chen said, "There is a document to that effect from the national government."
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