Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• Outstanding Police Officer Xu Langzhou from Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province Dies in Prison Under Suspicious Circumstances

  2012-04-19
  Mr. Xu Langzhou, a police officer from Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, began to practise Falun Gong in 1994. After he began practising, each year he was recognised by being given the Outstanding Police Officer award by his department. The Panzhihua City TV station even did a feature story on him. However, after the persecution of Falun Gong began by the communist regime, Mr. Xu was sentenced to two years of forced labour. He was later sentenced to eight years of imprisonment and tortured in many prisons. After suffering years of severe persecution while in detention, Mr. Xu died on March 18th, 2012 in a prison hospital. He was 39. Further details of his death are still under investigation.
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• Kindergarten Teacher Ms. Zuo Xiuyun in Critical Condition After Retaliation for Her Efforts to Seek Justice

  2012-04-19
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zuo Fusheng was arrested and detained by the police. His sister, Ms. Zuo Xiuyun, and his mother, sued Lin Feng and Yan Mingkun from the National Security Brigade, as well as Cao Yongkang and Liu Ying, section chiefs of the Cangshan Procuratorate, due to Mr. Zuo's extended detention. The Chinese Communist authorities not only didn't prosecute these corrupt officials from the public security organs who have violated the law, but instead arrested innocent people like Ms. Zuo Xiuyun. In February 2012, Mr. Zuo was tried in court. His sister, after being detained for more than three months, is now in critical condition. When their elderly mother heard the news, she stopped eating any food for three days and her face was covered with tears.
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• Newspaper Report Claims Pilot Organ Donation Programme in Major Chinese City Receives Exactly Zero Organ Donations in First Year - So Where Do the Organs for China's Huge Organ Transplant Business Come From?

  2012-04-18
  According to a February 25th, 2011 Yangzi Evening News article, Nanjing City Organ Donation Pilot Programme held a press conference saying that there have been exactly zero organ donations for the whole year since Nanjing became one of the ten organ donation pilot cities last March. In fact, over the past twenty years, there have been only three organ donations reported in Nanjing, a city of millions of people. Organ transplantation is a huge business in China today, but just who exactly is donating the organs if they're not coming into organ donation programmes like the one in Nanjing? A retired military doctor revealed on April 30th, 2006 the official flowchart of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and pointed out that the military is directly involved in the organ trade.
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• Doctor Ge Huaiqiang Suffers Four Years of Torture, Not Allowed to Return to Work

  2012-04-18
  Dr. Ge Huaiqiang, 48, was a medical doctor at Cangzhou City Second Hospital. Dr. Ge was detained in 2003 for practising Falun Gong and suffered four years of abuse and torture. Dr. Ge went on hunger strikes many times to protest the detention. To punish him for protesting he was force-fed. After force-feeding, detainees punched his abdomen and lower back. They also also burned his toes with burning threads and kicked at his handcuffs with their feet, injuring his wrists. He has been unable to regain his employment at the hospital for nearly 5 years, as management hasn't let him return since his release from prison.
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• Mr. Li Hongzhou from Shenzhen City Detained for One Year, Has Yet to See His Newborn Child

  2012-04-17
  The Shenzhen Futian District Court held a third trial for Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Hongzhou on March 22nd, 2012. Mr. Li was arrested and detained for almost one year and has yet to see his newborn child. This case was rejected three times for lack of evidence. The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) created false evidence and brought the case files back to the Procuratorate for the fourth time at the end of August 2011, and the first trial was held on November 3rd of that year. The second trial was held on February 23rd of this year, and the third one was held on March 22nd. A lawyer involved in the case has stated that this has already violated the law because the person must be released after two case rejections.
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• Jinzhou Policeman Threatens: “I Will Beat You to Death If You Do Not Answer My Questions Today!”

  2012-04-17
  Elderly Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Chen Yaxia and Ms. Wang Shufen from Jinzhou were reported to the police for explaining the facts about Falun Gong to people in Bajiazi Village on December 25th, 2011. Three policemen arrested the two practitioners and took them to the police station. Jin Hui and another policeman brutally beat the two practitioners. Jin Hui hit Ms. Chen's face and chest and then hit Ms. Wang's back and shoulder. As he was beating Ms. Chen, Jin Hui shouted: “I will beat you to death if you do not answer my questions today!”
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• Shandong 610 Office Interrogators Use All Means “Short of Live Organ Harvesting”

  2012-04-16
  On February 16th, 2012, Two women practitioners from Laiyang City, Shandong Province were arrested by the Weihai City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). Agents looted their belongings and interrogated them using torture. Female 610 Office agent Huang Furong threatened, “We will handle you with all means short of live organ harvesting.” Her words indicate that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) harvesting of live organs from Falun Gong practitioners is not a secret within the 610 Office system.
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• Ms. Yu Mei of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province Arrested; Her Daughter Now Home Alone

  2012-04-16
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Mei was arrested at her home by officers from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) on March 9th. Her teenage daughter is now home alone with no help. Ms. Yu is very weak and her daughter is worried about her health. Officers from the local police station and sub-district office claimed that they do not care if people take drugs, sell drugs, murder, or steal; they only care if someone practises Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encourages the police to arrest Falun Gong practitioners; if an officer arrests three Falun Gong practitioners, he will be rewarded 5,000 yuan.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Qu Chengye Dies as a Result of Abuse in Jinzhou Prison

  2012-04-15
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qu Chengye died at the age of 58 in Jinzhou Prison on March 20th, 2012. In February 2008, the Jinzhou City Police Department organised a large scale arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. More than 30 police officers climbed a wall and broke into Mr. Qu Chengye's home. They arrested Mr. Qu and ransacked his home. Mr. Qu was taken to Jinzhou No. 1 Detention Centre. The Taihe District Court in Jinzhou sentenced Mr. Qu to six years in prison. Mr. Qu suffered from a stroke. Mr. Qu's family made several requests to have him released on medical parole, but the prison authorities ignored their requests.
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• Mr. Yin Zijing Sent to Forced Labour Camp for the Third Time

  2012-04-15
  After he began practising Falun Gong, Mr. Yin Zijing benefited both physically and mentally; however, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong, he has been repeatedly arrested and detained. At the end of February 2012, he was taken to the Shandong Province Forced Labour Camp. This is the third time that he has been detained in a forced labour camp.
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• 610 Office Pressures Family of Elementary School Teacher Ms. Li Xiaoyu Prior to the End of Her 10-year Prison Term

  2012-04-14
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Xiaoyu was imprisoned in the West Sichuan Women's Prison of Longquanyi District, Chengdu. Her ten-year prison term is to end on April 9th, 2012, but Jiang Dongtao of the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), has recently demanded that Ms. Li's mother persuade her to sign a guarantee statement renouncing Falun Gong. The Chengdu 610 Office has sent several practitioners to a brainwashing centre after they were released from prison, and Ms. Li's family fears this will happen to Ms. Li. Ms. Li was brutally tortured in detention because she refused to renounce her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Traumatised by the abuse, she suffered a mental collapse.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner's Elderly Parents Arrested For Trying to Rescue Their Son

  2012-04-14
  Zhou Xiangyang's parents, wearing clothes covered in writing requesting release of their son, arrived at the prison gate on their tractor at 8:30 in the morning. The elderly couple was telling passersby about their concern for their son's situation. A number of guards came out of the prison, three holding long batons, and began circling the old couple. They videotaped them, and drove the couple's relatives and friends away. That afternoon, the guards took them to Changli Brainwashing Centre. Zhou Xiangyang was arrested in May 2003, and eventually sentenced to nine years in Tianjin Gangbei Prison, where he was badly tortured, beaten black and blue at night and not allowed to sleep for 30 consecutive days.
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• Mr. Zhang Jialin Injected with Psychotropic Drugs after Broadcasting the Truth about Falun Gong on TV

  2012-04-13
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jialin participated in broadcasting the truth about Falun Gong in a 2002 live broadcast to the Chinese public. As a result, he was sentenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to 12 years in prison. While in prison he was injected with psychotropic drugs. After being released, life was very difficult for him. After Mr. Zhang returned home, he no longer had his former job. He found it difficult to get another due to the persecution that he and his entire family still endure.
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• Architectural Engineer Mr. Lu Qiqi Brutally Persecuted at Beijiang Prison in Guangdong Province

  2012-04-13
  In Beijiang Prison of Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, prison officials have deprived practitioners of sleep in order to force them to renounce Falun Gong. From September 13th-28th, 2011, Mr. Lu Qiqi was allowed to sleep a total of only four hours. He became very weak and his mind became unclear. Much of his hair turned white. Mr. Lu was forced to go through high-pressure brainwashing sessions for more than a year, including months of intensive “study.” Starting in January 2011, he was physically tortured. He was deprived of sleep and forced to sit on a small stool for long periods of time. He was told that he would not be released until he renounced Falun Gong.
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• Background on Testimony from Police Officer Who Witnessed Organ Harvesting

  2012-04-12
  On December 12th, 2009, the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) published testimony of an eyewitness to organ harvesting from a living Falun Gong practitioner. The witness at the time worked in the public security system of Liaoning Province in northeastern China. On April 9th, 2002, he was on duty as an armed guard in the operating room of the General Hospital of the Shenyang Military Region, and he witnessed the entire process of two military surgeons harvesting organs from a living female Falun Gong practitioner. This testimony is a new development in exposing live organ harvesting.
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