Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• Ms. Zhang Xuemei Sent to Harbin Forced Labour Camp

  2010-07-12
  Ms. Zhang Xuemei's residence was broken into by the police and her computer and other personal belongings worth more than 10,000 yuan were taken away on April 23rd, 2010. Additionally Ms. Zhang was arrested and detained in Jinshantun Detention Centre for more than 10 days. She was later sentenced to two-years of forced labour, and is currently detained in Harbin Forced Labour Camp.
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• Jiang Feng Imprisoned at Baofeng Forced Labour Camp in Xuancheng, Anhui Province

  2010-07-11
  Mr. Jiang Feng is currently imprisoned in Baofeng Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Jiang was arrested by Shanghai Police on February 18th, 2010, when he was about to board a plane at the Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. He had planned to join his wife in the US. He was immediately sent to a brainwashing centre in Hefei City, Anhui Province to be persecuted. The Chinese government had denied arresting Jiang Feng, but after urging by international organizations which uphold justice, the Chinese ambassador at the European Parliament wrote a response to the president of the European Parliament Human Rights Committee in May. The letter stated that Jiang Feng had been sentenced to18 months of forced labour in March 2010.
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• Eighty-Year-Old Mother Risks Her Life to Rescue Son

  2010-07-11
  Mr. Yang Kaijun, a 50-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Qian'an City, Hebei Province, was arrested on June 24th, 2010. His home was ransacked by police without showing any proper paperwork. His mother, already in her eighties, held onto the police van trying to stop her son's arrest. The police dragged the old lady along the ground for a long distance. Mr. Yang is now detained at Qian'an Detention Centre.
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• Daqing City Police Arrest Ms. Jin Lixia and Her Husband, Then Extort Money from Their Teen-Age Son

  2010-07-11
  Mr. Liu Zehe and his wife, Ms. Jin Lixia, from Daqing were arrested for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on June 18th, 2010. Ms. Jin experienced heart problems and was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Wolitun Police Department officers took this opportunity to force Ms. Jin's under-age son to borrow money and sign a document. They threatened they would send Ms. Jin to a forced labour camp if no money was handed in. Mr. Liu was taken to the Daqing City No.3 Detention Centre the afternoon of June 18,th.
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• Police Officer Li Liping from Wuqiao County, Hebei Province, Persecutes Liu Zhigang and Family

  2010-07-11
  Li Liping, deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee of the Quqiao County Police Department in Hebei Province, is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Since 2001, he has persecuted most of the practitioners living in Wuqiao County. In early June 2010, he started looking for practitioner Liu Zhigang, who had been forced to be homeless for over ten years. After Mr. Liu became homeless in June 2001, his wife, Ms. Gao Lihua, was placed under house arrest and surveillance, and was violently threatened to cooperate with the authorities, against her will, to find and arrest her husband. She had no choice but to abandon her home with her husband. Through years of living a homeless life, in constant danger of being arrested, Ms. Gao died at the age of 43, in March 2004.
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• An Account of Persecution Experienced by a Disabled Person, Ms. Yan Ying from Lingwu City Ningxia Province

  2010-07-10
  Ms. Yan Ying, 47, is from Lingwu City, Ningxia Province. When she was a year old, she contracted poliomyelitis, which left her seriously disabled, and she later suffered from many diseases. She was so tormented by her ill health that she felt she would rather die. After she started to practise Falun Gong, however, she benefited tremendously, physically and mentally. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, she has been harassed, detained, and held in forced labour camps.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Li Zhuhan Arrested by Wuhan City Police

  2010-07-10
  Ms. Li Zhuhan, a 60-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on June 24th, 2010 by 10 police officers. These people took two vans and took leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, Falun Gong DVDs, and other personal belongings from her home. When they arrested Ms. Li Zhuhan, her husband Huang asked, "Do you have an arrest warrant? How can you arrest people at will?" They stopped him and said he was interfering with their fulfilling their duties. The police then pushed him aside, forced Ms. Li Zhuhan into the car, and drove to Etouwan Brainwashing Centre.
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• In Order to Rescue Lu Tong, Mother and Wife Have Waited for One Year Outside the Police Station

  2010-07-10
  Mr. Lu Tong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is detained under a four-year prison sentence. His mother is in her seventies and his wife has an eye disability. Over the past year, Mr. Lu's mother and wife have repeatedly appealed to the Caixiang Police Station in Jinchang District, asking to visit Mr. Lu and to have him released at once. Their request consistently denied, the women have appealed at the Caixiang Police Station more than 100 times.
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• Chinese Citizens Harassed for Advocating Justice for Falun Gong

  2010-07-10
  Residents of a small town in Liaoning Province were harassed for signing an appeal letter calling for justice for Xu Dawei, a Falun Gong practitioner who was tortured in custody and died 13 days after his release from prison on June 16th, 2009, due to the injuries he sustained while in custody. On April 7th, 2010, the Communist Party Secretary of the village and two policemen went to Xu's younger brother, Xu Youwei's home. They asked Xu Youwei to the Secretary's home for a “casual talk”; the talk was premeditated, however, with three members of China’s political and security apparatus already waiting for his arrival. Some villagers familiar with the case said that the “casual talk” turned into an interrogation. The officials were aggressive and abrupt. They asked Xu Youwei questions such as: “Who brought the signature form?” “Who was the leader?” “Why did you get others' signatures?”
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• Zhang Chunfang Repeatedly Persecuted, Her Husband Died as a Result of the Persecution

  2010-07-09
  Ms. Zhang Chunfang, 56, was arrested at her home by officers from the Shuangta District Police Station on June 12th, 2010. The officers also confiscated some of her private belongings. Ms. Zhang was sent to the Zhuozhou City Detention Centre and then sentenced to one year of forced labour. Her family members have not been allowed to visit her. Since the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, they have been repeatedly arrested, sentenced to forced labour, held in detention centres and tortured by the authorities. Ms. Zhang's husband, Li Heng, suffered brutal torture in a forced labour camp. He was released in the beginning of 2002 but remained bedridden until his death in May 2005 at the age of 51.
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• Ms. Li Xiuhong's Appeal to Expose the Brutal Persecution in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City

  2010-07-09
  I have been detained in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp since June 3rd, 2008, and have been subjected to various forms of brutal torture. When I was seen doing the Falun Gong exercises I was forced to stop. I was kicked by guard Wei Dan, and hit around the head by guard Ye Ying, while being dragged to the guards' office. In the office the two guards used six electric batons to shock me. As one electric baton broke, they charged the remaining batons to ensure they always had one to shock me with. Sometimes they used two batons together. Ye Ying also kicked me in the stomach, lower abdomen and thighs.
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• Prominent Teacher Persecuted in Mental Health Centre

  2010-07-09
  My name is Hu Keling and I am 46 years old. I was a teacher at the Laixi Experience Middle School in Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Because I practised Falun Gong, after being arrested in 2002, I was detained in the Mental Health Centre of the Laixi Second Hospital. I was injected with harmful drugs and almost became psychotic. I started a hunger strike in protest, and I was force-fed. The persecutors tied my hands and feet to the bed and held my body down using a strip of cloth across my chest. They inserted a tube down my nose into my stomach. To further torture me, nurses intentionally moved the tube around in my stomach. It was very painful. My knuckles on both hands are still enlarged and deformed today.
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• Mr. Chen Dingguo from Shiyan City, Hubei Province, Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

  2010-07-09
  In the two months leading up to special Chinese Communist Party meetings on October 1st, 2009, police in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, launched a round of mass persecution of local Falun Gong practitioners. Some of the practitioners were made to pay huge fines while others were arrested. Mr. Chen Dingguo was sentenced to six years' incarceration and is now in Shayang Prison.
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• Elderly Mr. Xie Wutang Persecuted in Wuling Prison and Released Only After Being in Critical Condition

  2010-07-08
  Mr. Xie Wutang is a Falun Gong practitioner in his 70s living in Changsha City of Hunan Province. He was detained and tortured in Wuling Prison. During this time Mr. Xie was unable to practise the Falun Gong exercises, and his health deteriorated considerably. Despite this, prison officials did not release Mr. Xie until he was in critical condition. Once he was released, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The cancer spread throughout his body and doctors said it was too late for surgery. He remains in critical condition.
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• Ms. He Xianzhen Seriously Ill After Arrest

  2010-07-08
  Ms. He Xianzhen became seriously ill while held at the Xichang City Detention Centre. She was then sent to Xichang City Hospital. According to sources from inside China, the Domestic Security Division demanded that her family pay the medical expenses before releasing her on bail. In the past, Ms. He Xianzhen had suffered a variety of illnesses that all disappeared after she started practising Falun Gong. In order to let others know about the goodness of Falun Gong, she often spoke to people and distributed information about Falun Gong and the persecution. For this, on September 23rd, 2009, she was arrested and sent to the Xichang City Detention Centre.
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