Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

The "Stretching Torture" Used on Practitioners at the Weining Forced Labour Camp in Benxi City, Liaoning Province

2009-06-17

The "stretching torture" or the "stretching bed" was implemented by placing a Falun Gong practitioner in the middle of two beds with the arms and legs handcuffed to the four outer corners of the beds. After a period of time, the two beds are forced apart and bricks are squeezed into the space between the beds. Every time a brick is squeezed in, extreme harm to the body results.

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Police Arrest 60 Year-old Disabled Practitioner Ms. Zhen Zhixian from Qian'an City, Hebei Province

2009-06-16

On May 11th, 2009, police arrested 60-year-old practitioner Ms. Zhen Zhixian. In late 2008, the police had arrested Ms. Zhen. At the brainwashing centre, policeman Ha Fulong slapped Ms. Zhen on the face and tortured her in many other ways. The brutal treatment caused Ms. Zhen's health to deteriorate. Seven days later, Ms. Zhen appeared to be paralysed. The police feared being held responsible for their actions, and so told Ms. Zhen's family to hand over 10,000 yuan and pick her up. When the family came, they found Ms. Zhen paralysed. When she was arrested again this year, her health had not fully recovered.

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Falun Gong Practitioners on Hunger Strike in Fushun City

2009-06-16

Since April 17th of this year, more than a dozen practitioners in Fushun City, Liaoning Province have been arrested. It is believed that they are being held at the Fushun City Detention Centre. Many of them have gone on a hunger strike to counter the persecution. Further details are unknown at this time as police have not allowed any information about them to be released and have denied family visits. Police officers covered the practitioners' entire heads with black cloth bags when they arrested them.

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Mr. Huang Weizhong Suffers Brutal Forced-Feedings in Jiamusi Detention Centre

2009-06-16

Mr. Huang Weizhong is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. On February 12th, 2009, several police arrested him from his home and brutally beat him after the arrest. His eyes were covered with bruises. He almost lost eyesight in one of his eyes. He suffered injury to his internal organs, and he has been in pain since he has been detained in the Jiamusi Detention Centre. His family members have not been allowed to visit him. They recently learned that Huang Weizhong has been on a hunger strike since April 23rd, 2009, and he has been suffering brutal forced-feedings four times a day.

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Laiyang City Government Officials Brutally Torture Dr. Ma Qingchun

2009-06-16

On April 14th, 2008, Dr. Ma Qingchun was arrested and sentenced to forced labour in June 2008. At the brainwashing centre, Dr. Ma was brutally tortured. On the day of his arrest, Yu Yuejin grabbed his hair and punched him in the face, head and chest. At night, he was handcuffed to a table and was not allowed to sit but had to squat. He was not allowed to sleep. When he was caught falling asleep, he was beaten. The next day, Dr. Ma was still not allowed to sleep. After 24 hours of detention, he requested to be released, but in return, one official punched him and kneed him really hard repeatedly in his lower abdomen. After the torture, Dr. Ma suffered extreme pain and had difficulty turning over on the bed.

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Mr. Zhang Hui Died in April as Result of Torture at Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province

2009-06-15

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Hui, 30, died as a result of brutal torture he suffered at Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province. When the doctor tried to perform surgery on Zhang Hui in April 2009, he saw that Zhang Hui's stomach was black, which did not allow for surgery. Zhang Hui later passed away in the hospital. The prison spared no effort in covering up information related to Zhang Hui's death. Zhang Hui was savagely abused for a long time at the prison and his organs sustained serious injuries. The officials denied his request for medical parole and only notified his aunt to come to the prison for a visit when it was already too late for medical treatment.

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Mr. Qian Shiguang Tortured to Death in Brainwashing Centre

2009-06-15

After Mr. Qian Shiguang was arrested and taken to the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre in May 2005, he was sentenced to forced labour. Guards often hung him up by his arms and beat him. This caused severe injuries, including damage to his back and spine, to the point where he walked bent over at a 90-degree angle all the time. By the end of August 2008, Mr. Qian's condition had worsened significantly under the long-term mistreatment. His personal "watcher" Jia Honglin reported that he had not eaten anything in ten days, but the guards ignored it. Mr. Qian was very pale and thin as a skeleton, and he was clearly dying. He died on September 9th, 2008.

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Ms. Xu Deqin Arrested; Her Husband Dies from Stress

2009-06-15

On March 28th, 2003, police stormed into Ms. Xu Deqin's home to arrest her in Weifang City, Shandong Province. They ransacked the place and took many valuable items. Ms. Xu's husband was extremely stressed by such a violent incident, causing him to suffer heart failure. The police released Ms. Xu after extorting 5,000 yuan from her family. Unfortunately, her husband never recovered, and died on May 11th, 2003.

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Recent Unjust Court Sentences in Hanzhong

2009-06-15

On May 13th, 2009, the Hantai District Court sentenced four Falun Gong practitioners to prison without informing their lawyers or families. Yang Hua was sentenced to nine years in prison. Wu Yali and Ye Hao were each sentenced to five years in prison, and Li Qingmeng was sentenced to four years in prison. The practitioners wished to appeal, but presiding judge Yan Xu made the verdict confidential. He said, "If you want to look at the verdict, ask the guards at Hantai Detention Centre. I cannot give the verdict to you." Mr. Lian, vice president of the court, also said, "You are Falun Gong practitioners. We were informed by our supervisions that we cannot give the verdict to you directly."

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The Persecution and Death of a Good Man, Mr. Lu Yuping

2009-06-14

Mr. Lu Yuping, 50, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Daxinganling, Heilongjiang Province. Because of his belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2002. In March 2005, a few inmates, instigated by the guards, brutally tortured him in order to force him to do hard labour. On April 7th, 2007, Mr. Lu developed sudden symptoms of diarrhoea. He couldn't eat anything and became emaciated. He was transferred to the Tailai Hospital for treatment, and x-rays showed that he had developed "double pulmonary tuberculosis and an infection." On May 30th, 2009, he died in Tailai Prison.

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Elderly Xie Deqing Died as Result of Torture at the "Chengdu Legal Education Centre"

2009-06-14

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xie Deqing, 69, attended the trial of a practitioner on April 29th, and was arrested and taken to the "Chengdu Legal Education Centre". Mr. Xie changed from a robustly healthy, fit person into an emaciated, incontinent human being, unable to eat. Officials laced his food and water with toxic substances and he went into a coma. He died on May 27th, 2009.

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Long-term, Bloody Persecution Reduces a Seven-member Family to Two

2009-06-14

Chen Yunchuan was the victim of a fatal car accident on January 11th, 2009. Seven members of Mr. Chen's family practised Falun Gong. Mr. Chen and his wife had four children. Chen's family has suffered brutal persecution over the past ten years and lost several of its members. Sons Chen Aizhong, Chen Aili and daughter Chen Hongping died as a result of torture. Mother Wang died while in exile.

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Ms. Tang Xingrong from Sichuan Province Sentenced to Five Years in Jail

2009-06-14

Ms. Tang Xingrong, 39, has been sentenced to a five-year imprisonment by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel from the local police station, the Procuratorate, and the court. She was arrested and taken to the Longquanyi Women's Prison in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province on March 1st, 2009. In the detention centre police from Panzhihua National Security Division handcuffed her, hung her up and then beat her. The evildoers also burned her face with cigarettes. On January 18th or 19th, 2009, prison guards tortured Ms. Tang with the tiger bench method and "dead person's bed," because she refused to wear the prison uniform.

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List of Falun Gong Practitioners from Jinzhou City Who Have Died from the Persecution

2009-06-13

Time frame: 101 months -- July 1999 to December 2008. Number of practitioners who have died from being persecuted: 44. Jinzhou City of Liaoning Province and surrounding areas include: Guta District, Linghe District, Taihe District, Economic Development Area, Linghai City (Jin County), Yi County, Beijing City, Heishan County. Number of practitioners persecuted to death by area: Guta District (4), Linghe District (5), Taihe District (5), Economic Development Area (1), Linghai City (Jin County) (2), Yi County (7), Beijing City (3), Heishan County (10), unknown (8).

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Countless Crimes Witnessed and Experienced During Ten Years in Yuzhang Prison, Jiangxi Province

2009-06-13

The prison officials would reward "collaborators" and criminals with reduced terms. Collaborators or former practitioners who now assisted in brainwashing and torturing practitioners not only used foul words to verbally abuse and insult the practitioners who refused to "reform" but also contributed sinister ideas on how to torture the practitioners. In the evening, the criminals who monitored the practitioners would torture practitioners by hanging them up, beating and kicking them, pinching them on the neck, beating them with wooden clubs or metal rods, forcing them to kneel for a long time, or depriving them of sleep for a long time.

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