Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Ms. Liu Jinlian, 71, Sent to Forced Labour Camp Twice
2009-08-23Ms. Liu Jinlian, 71 years old, was sent to Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in 2001 for one year.because she was caught handing out Falun Gong materials in public. In the camp, she got progressively weaker. She had scabies all over her body. Eight years later, her body still has scars from the scabies. She was forced to watch TV programmes that slandered Falun Gong. Then the practitioners who had turned against Falun Gong tried to force her to write a Guarantee Statement to renounce Falun Gong. She refused. The guards then made her sit on a tiny bench for a long time, which caused her buttocks to develop raw sores. The authorities also made her sort toothpicks every day from dawn to dusk. In 2003 she was imprisoned in the camp again for one year of forced labour. She was brutally beaten there. -
Three Family Members Arrested and Detained; Four-Year-Old Deprived of Her Mother
2009-08-23Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Yin Xunzhen, Ms. Xu Shujie and Ms. Yin Qi were arrested in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province and were arrested for four months. They have still not been released. The police have now submitted these cases to the courts for further persecution. Lin Weijia, Yin Qi's four-year old daughter, misses her mother every day since she was arrested. Every time she sees her mother's picture or the two Chinese characters meaning "Mother," her eyes fill with tears. She even asked, "Will Mum come home after I die?" It has been reported that Ms. Yin Qi has been suffering a torture called "Driving the Train" in the detention centre. This torture involves binding both legs and arms together for ten days continuously. -
Mr. Gong Yuping from Shandong Province Sent to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-23On June 1st, 2009, six policemen broke into 55-year-old Mr. Gong Yuping's home without warning while he was taking care of his grandson. They arrested him and several days later sentenced him to one year of forced labour. He is now in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Gong's family went to the Jiangshan Police Station to ask for his release, but officers drove them away. Nine days after Mr. Gong was detained, he was sentenced to one year of forced labour. -
Four Practitioners Tried in Lanzhou City
2009-08-23On August 3rd, 2009, the Political and Judiciary Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), brought four Falun Gong practitioners to the Chengguan District Court for a trial. These practitioners have been held in the No. 1 Detention Centre in Lanzhou since August 2008. They were tried once before in the same court, on December 29th, 2008. Five months later they were sentenced, but their sentences were not made public. Recently, the court wanted to re-try them, saying it was because "the facts were not clear and the evidence was insufficient." -
Mr. Tian Fengwei in Critical Condition After Abuse at a Detention Centre
2009-08-22On April 29th, 2009, police and officials ransacked Mr. Tian Fengwei's house, arrested him and sent him to the Fengcheng Detention Centre. In the detention centre, Mr. Tian was forced to do heavy cleaning, wash dishes and wash bed sheets. He was forced to have his thumb print taken by six people. He was physically abused for two weeks, during which time he began to suffer from several ailments, including very high blood pressure. Due to Mr. Tian's precarious health condition he was released in May. However, Mr. Tian was arrested again in July. On their way to the police station Mr. Tian Fengwei's condition worsened and the police had to call an ambulance to take him to hospital. -
Many Practitioners in Panjin City, Liaoning Province Arrested, Harassed and Homes Ransacked
2009-08-22On July 21st, 2009, Huang Haiou and Chen Dongjiu, the Deputy Head of the Xinglongtai District Police Department's Domestic Security Division in Panjin City, Liaoning Province, organized about ten officials to break into Ms. Zhai Xiuhua's house and arrested her. The police subsequently ransacked her house and stole many personal belongings including computers and videos. Ms. Zhai Xiuhua is currently held at the Panjin City Detention Centre. In addition, many practitioners in the area have been arrested and harassed. -
Eleven Practitioners Currently Detained in Qian'an City Detention Centre, Hebei Province
2009-08-22Eleven Falun Gong practitioners are now being detained in Qian'an City Detention Centre, Hebei Province. The five women practitioners are protesting the persecution by means of a hunger strike. The doctors at Qian'an City People's Hospital have force fed them. Six practitioners were arrested in May 2008 and have been detained for more than one year. On July 20th, 2009, the court convened for a third time to judge these five practitioners. During the session, Mr. Li Yankui asked to speak about the torture he had experienced while imprisoned. He offered to verify his reports of torture by exposing the scars on his body, but his lawyer said a witness had to appear in court to corroborate his story. -
Thirteen-Year-Old Student in Shandong Province Harassed by Police
2009-08-22On July 2nd, 2009, under the order of the "610 office" , Shen Tao, section leader of the Laixi City Police Station, ordered two police officers to go to the No. 4 Middle School in Laixi City. These two, accompanied by the dean of the 7th grade, went to the classroom and asked a teen-age girl, Niuniu, to step out of the room. The police officers then interrogated and harassed the young student for over thirty minutes. Niuniu is the daughter of Ms. Zhu Lixin, a Falun Gong practitioner who was sent to the No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jinan City for one year and nine months of forced labour before the Beijing Olympics last year. Because Niuniu wrote a letter entitled "I Want My Good Mum to Come Home" and expressed her thoughts and feelings of missing her mum she was interrogated and harassed by police. -
Tumuji Forced Labour Camp Celebrates 50th Anniversary by Torturing Falun Gong Practitioners
2009-08-21The authorities at the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp celebrated the camp's fiftieth anniversary on June 29th, 2009. They invited many personnel from other units to visit. During the celebration, the guards from this labour camp brutally tortured Falun Gong practitioners. Female guard Zhou Guoling held a meeting in advance to order practitioners to wear prison uniforms and then clean vegetables. In doing so, the guards were to avoid letting the practitioner detainees meet up with the visitors. In order to protest the persecution, for a period of time the Falun Gong practitioners had not worn prison uniforms, and they had refused to participate or cooperate with anything. The guards forcefully stripped the practitioners and even removed their underpants and bras, forcing them to wear only the prison uniform. -
Ms. Yuan Shuzhe Barbarically Persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2009-08-21On March 31st, 2005, policemen took Ms. Yuan Shuzhe, a Falun Gong practitioner who had been detained in the Shenyang City Detention City for forty days, to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. The police pushed Ms. Yuan to the ground. She shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" and "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong!" He stuffed a dirty sock into her mouth and stomped on her head. In Masanjia, because Ms. Yuan Shuzhe refused to do hard labour, a policewoman called her into her office and struck her face and kicked her head. -
Practitioners Arrested for Helping an Elderly Heart Patient
2009-08-2174-year-old Mr. Fan experienced heart failure and was taken to the intensive care unit in hospital. They told Mr. Fan's family that his condition was both critical and incurable. He chose to return home. Some of Mr. Fan's friends who were Falun Gong practitioners went to see him. They had experienced Falun Gong's extraordinary power to make people healthy and fit, so they suggested that Mr. Fan read the Falun Gong book, Zhuan Falun. He agreed. Mr. Fan experienced a complete recovery without any medical treatment. On July 21st ten police officers burst into Mr. Fan's home and arrested the four practitioners. The police have still offered no justification for the arrests. -
Ms. Wang Jianhua from Langfang City, Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Persecution
2009-08-21Wang Jianhua was often harassed and threatened at home by police on days the Communist Party designated as a sensitive date. It brought about tremendous pressure and harm to Ms. Wang and her family, and severely disrupted their normal family life. Under this kind of harassment and serious emotional stress, Ms. Wang's health, which was severely weakened during her detention in a forced labour camp, took an unexpected turn for the worse in June 2009. She went into a coma and the hospital was unable to help her. She died in the hospital on June 27th, 2009 at the age of 50. -
Mr. Yu Yang Imprisoned in Shenyang Detention Centre
2009-08-20On July 14th, 2009, the Shenyang City National Security Team arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Yang with the help of a special agent from the Tiexi National Security Team. Mr. Yu was imprisoned in the Zhangshi Brainwashing Centre in the afternoon and was transferred to Shenyang Detention Centre on July 29th. It was later discovered that he went on a hunger strike to oppose the persecution and is now very weak. After Yu Yang was arrested, his family had no information about his condition for over 10 days. His company was also very anxious about him, because the work he has been responsible for is at a standstill. -
Ms. Tian Fengwei in Coma After Repeated Arrests and Torture
2009-08-20Three months ago, officers from the Lanqi Town Police Station in Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province broke into Ms. Tian Fengwei's home and sent her to a brainwashing centre. After fifteen days of detention, she was severely tortured, causing her systolic blood pressure to reach over 200, she developed several health problems and was released. Two months later, before she had fully recovered, the police came to arrest her again. Due to a struggle during the arrest, she had an aneurysm and is now in a coma. -
Three Sisters from the Putuo District of Shanghai Arrested and Forced to Undergo Brainwashing
2009-08-20Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Guo Yueqin, Ms. Guo Yuefen and Ms. Guo Yuefang are sisters, all over 60 years old. On May 25th, 2009, policemen went to elder sister Ms.Guo Yueqin's home, ransacked it, and arrested her two young sisters, Ms. Guo Yuefen and Ms. Guo Yuefang. The sisters were then taken to the police station. Currently, Ms. Guo Yuefen is still imprisoned. Ms. Guo Yuefang was released on bail, but later she was taken to a brainwashing centre operated by the local residential committee. Prior to her arrest, Ms. Guo Yuefang invited an attorney from Beijing to represent her sister Ms. Guo Yuefen. This now cannot happen because Ms. Guo Yuefeng is being subjected to brainwashing.