Torture
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Chao Zhiming Disabled and His Wife Persecuted to Death
2007-05-31
Practitioner Chao Zhiming and his wife, Zhu Xiuying, were persecuted cruelly over the past few years for practising Falun Gong. Now Chao Zhiming is disabled, and his wife has died due to the persecution. The Chaos' personal belongings taken away by the police and the medical costs for their physical ailments caused by the persecution added up to about 120,000 yuan for the past several years. At present, Chao Zhiming is paralysed and can hardly take care of himself, and has lost some of his ability to speak. -
The Chinese Communist Party Is Hiding Its Second Verdict Against Cao Dong from the Public
2007-05-31In May 2006, Dafa practitioner Cao Dong met with the European Parliament's Vice President, Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott. As a result, he was arrested. Mr. Cao was charged with "colluding with overseas anti-CCP forces" and "accepting an illegal interview." On February 8th, 2007, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. After the sentence, Mr. Cao's defence lawyer made a statement that "the trial decision does not conform to the facts" according to new evidence he collected. In order to cover up their crime of depriving Chinese citizens of their basic human rights, the judicial system operated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ignored the voice of justice and malevolently insisted on convening a second trial in private. -
Mr. Wang Jitao from Chengde City, Hebei Province Dies within Three Months from Brutal Torture in Three Detention Centres
2007-05-31Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Jitao was 54 years old. Because he practised Falun Gong, officers from the Chengde City 610 Office, the National Security Division, the Political and Legal Committee, and the local police department cruelly tortured him. After he arrived in the Chengde City Detention Centre, the guards were extremely cruel. They beat Wang Jitao so badly that he vomited blood. His head became swollen, four of his teeth fell out, and his ribs were broken. He died on April 30th, 2007. -
Crimes Committed by Li Laotie, Former Head of the Chinese Communist Party in Laishui County, Hebei Province
2007-05-31Li Laotie was the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Laishui County in 2000. During Li's tenure, five practitioners in Laishui County were persecuted to death. Seven practitioners were issued severe sentences of fifteen, thirteen, eleven, ten, nine, or five years of imprisonment and they are still in prison. More than ten practitioners were detained in forced labour camps. Almost forty practitioners were imprisoned for as long as one year. Numerous practitioners lost their jobs, their salaries were discontinued, they were fined, their homes were searched and their property was confiscated, they were brutally beaten, their families were broken up, and they had to leave their homes. -
Police in Changchun, Jilin Province Rampantly Arrest Practitioners and Search Their Homes
2007-05-30Since March 2007, many practitioners in Changchun have been arrested, persecuted, and had their homes searched by the police and Public Security Bureau agents in their local districts. It seems that every two or three days several practitioners are arrested. Dozens of practitioners have recently been taken into custody. The police go to a practitioner's home and then deceive him or her into opening the door for them. If that ploy is not successful, they use a locksmith to break into the home, the police search it, and confiscate any Falun Dafa materials and related items and arrest the practitioner. -
The Suffering of a Mother
2007-05-30I have searched hard for the proper words but I don't seem to be able to find any that accurately describe the feelings of a mother for her children. Her son Zheng Zhicheng was sentenced to three years in 1999 because he practises Falun Dafa. At the end of 2002, he was sentenced to three more years. Her son-in-law Wei Danquan was forced to retire from the army after the persecution began. His home was frequently ransacked, and he was monitored and detained many times. In 2003, he was sent to a forced labour camp. Seeing their son and son-in-law mistreated so terribly, her husband could not bear the trauma and passed away. Can you imagine what she must be feeling? -
Police Use Drug Addicts to Torture Practitioners in Changsha City's Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province
2007-05-30On July 23rd, 2007, practitioner Li Wei was forced to stand on bricks that had been heated in a furnace in the scorching hot summer. He was also constantly bombarded with propaganda and otherwise mentally tortured, causing him to suffer a mental collapse and jump out of a building. Liu Heqing was savagely beaten for a long time. He was frequently woken up, pulled from his cell and beaten. On one occasion over ten officers on duty pulled him out to the hall and beat him for several hours. The beating caused him to suffer a mental collapse. The police gave bonus rewards to those who had beaten him. -
Cases of Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Persecuted in Tieli City, Heilongjiang Province
2007-05-30The 610 Office arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Hongtu and sent him to a detention centre, where he suffered brutal torture. On June 1st, 2006, he was transferred to Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province, where he continuously suffered persecution. Practitioners were forced to stand for long periods of time as physical punishment. Perpetrators used plastic tubes to whip the head, back and legs of the practitioners. They also threatened, "You'll be beaten every day if you don't yield." Practitioner Sun Yuemin was forced to wear a torture instrument called "big branch stick" that weights 44 lbs, is 50 centimetres long and 2 inches wide, and has steel rings on both sides. Police beat him shouting at him: "We'll beat you to death if you don't talk..." -
Calling for Help -- Rescue My Sister, Falun Gong Practitioner Zhou Meihua
2007-05-29My sister Zhou Meihua lives in Dalian, Liaoning Province in mainland China. In March 2007, she was arrested because she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was imprisoned in a forced labour camp and has been tortured, including being beaten by police. Within just a month of imprisonment, Meihua looked like a different person. She was very thin and weak. Her hair was cut short and she was in camp uniform. Her face was bathed in tears. Her hands were red and swollen and some of the skin had peeled off. My mother suspected it was as a result of torture. When she asked what had happened, the guard answered that my sister is "too stubborn." -
A Young Chinese Practitioner's Essay: Mother's Love
2007-05-29My mother is a Falun Gong practitioner. When I was one-and-a-half years old, mother was forcefully taken to a detention centre or prison time and time again, and I had to live with my father and grandmother. Mother conducted a hunger strike, refusing food and water for ten days. The labour camp guards inserted a tube through mother's nostrils to force feed her; the guards filled highly-concentrated salt water into my mother's stomach, and the salt water burst from mother's nasal cavity and oral cavity. Mother's stomach was so swollen that she tossed on the bed due to the pain, without closing her eyes all night long. Fearing responsibility for my mother's death, the labour camp agreed to release her. When my near-death mother saw me, she opened her cracked mouth and smiled. -
Weiningying Forced Labour Camp in Benxi City, Liaoning Province Routinely Tortures Practitioners on "Death Bed"
2007-05-29The methods that Liu Shaoshi, director of the Weiningying Forced Labour Camp in Benxi, Liaoning Province, uses to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners are extremely sinister and ruthless. He instigates police officers to forcefully "transform" Falun Dafa practitioners. The cruelty of the methods that they use on practitioners is escalating. The method they use routinely is called the "Death Bed torture". Several Falun Dafa practitioners were tortured this way and some have become disabled afterwards. -
Practitioners Lin Baocai from Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province and Jiang Liguo from Shuangcheng City Died of Persecution
2007-05-29Mr. Lin Baocai, 68-year-old, was arrested when he was informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong. When Mr. Lin could not come up with the money (500 yuan) required for his release, the police transferred him to the county detention centre and tortured him. On September 29th when Mr. Lin was released, his family found that he had become mentally unbalanced. Soon afterwards, Mr. Lin ran away and never returned. Although his family reported him missing, the police never responded. About forty days later, a shepherd found Mr. Lin's body on Mount Shiliuliannan. Neighbours all said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) murdered Mr. Lin. -
Practitioners Ms. Sun Yan and Ms. Wang Minli Brutally Tortured and Injected with Drugs
2007-05-29Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Yan, 42, was arrested at her home on March 15th, 2007. She is currently being held in Jilin City Detention Centre. After arresting her, the police took Ms. Sun to the Jilin City Police Dog Training Centre, where they tortured her in an attempt to coerce a "confession." The police officers beat her with electric batons to the point that she was unable to control her bowels. When she protested the torture, the officers shackled her legs, dragged her away, and had her injected with drugs. After they brought her back, Ms. Sun was unable to move or speak. -
Mr. Hu Chang'an Died as a Result of the Persecution He Suffered in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province
2007-05-28Mr. Hu Chang'an was a Dafa practitioner in his 50s, who had been a teacher. In 2005, he was arrested and detained in the No. 5 Division of the Changlinzi Labour Camp in Harbin. On December 27th, 2006, after mental and physical torture, including inhuman slave labour, Mr. Hu had become emaciated and was released on bail for a limited period of medical treatment. After suffering for two months, he passed away on February 26th, 2007 -
Mrs. Cao Aihua from Xinjiang Autonomous Region Murdered Six Months Ago -- Local Authorities Issue a Resolution to Cremate Her Body and Destroy the Evidence
2007-05-28On November 13th, 2006, Dafa practitioner Cao Aihua was tortured to death at the Wujiaqu Women's Forced Labour Camp after she was detained there for ten days. When cleaning his wife's body after her death, Mrs. Cao's husband found a large bruise around her waist. He believes that his wife died of internal injuries from severe beatings. During the past half a year, Cao's family has appealed to the police and justice departments, the jail administration bureau, the people's congress and the appeal office in Xinjiang. They demanded that the murderers be brought to justice. The women's forced labour camp wanted to settle the case privately, but Cao's family refused their offer. On May 16th, 2007, the authorities issued a resolution proclaiming that they would cremate Cao Aihua's body if Cao's family did not so themselves within two weeks. Cao's family felt very grieved and indignant.
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