Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

Sun Qinghe Arrested While Visiting a Disabled Practitioner

2009-04-25

In early February 2009, the Jiamusi City Public Security Bureau and Police Department, under the direction of the Heilongjiang Provincial Police Department, started a new wave of persecution against Falun Gong under the pretence of ensuring security for the Winter Games. Since February 8th, 2009, more than twenty Falun Gong practitioners and their relatives have been arrested. On February Sun Qinghe went to visit disabled Falun Gong practitioner Liu Xiaobin and planned to stay there to take care of him. Police waiting outside Liu Xiaobin's home arrested Mr. Sun and ransacked his home. They sent Mr. Sun to the Jiamusi City Detention Centre.

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Five Practitioners Arrested and Charged with Illegal Assembly

2009-04-25

On the morning of March 18th, 2009, Ms. Tang walked to Suxianling Mountain. On the way, she met four Falun Gong practitioners. They were tired and took a rest in a small pavilion near the mountain. A police patrol soon passed the pavilion. The officers approached and charged the group with illegal assembly. The police refused to hear any explanation and forcibly took them to the Suxian District Police Station. The same day three police officers drove a police vehicle to Ms. Tang's home. Without a search warrant, they took Falun Gong books, cash and personal belongings.

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Wang Yongqiang Brutally Tortured in Police Custody

2009-04-25

Police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yongqiang on August 1st, 2008. They ransacked his home, taking away valuables and a large amount of cash. At the police station the police tortured Wang for 3 days. They did not give him food or drink, enclosed his head in a plastic bag, put burning mosquito repellent under his nose for a long time, and smeared pepper into his mouth, nose and genitals. They also tied him up and hung him up for one hour. After they put him down, Wang Yongqiang was in excruciating pain and could barely move. The police would sadistically kick his sides periodically.

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Ms. Zhang Zhiqin Detained and Beaten Mercilessly

2009-04-24

Ms. Zhang Zhiqin, 47, is a Falun Gong practitioner in Liaoning Province. On March 31st, 2009, police found her in the Changan Community and beat Ms. Zhang horribly, kicking her head, body, and legs. Ms. Zhang covered her head with her hands and cried out, "Falun Gong is good!" Many bystanders witnessed the beating. The officer reported her and had her arrested. Ms. Zhang was sent to the Shenyang City Detention Centre on April 2nd.

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Cruel Acts of Abuse at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp

2009-04-24

The police arrested 32-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Wei on September 3rd, 2008. They took Zheng to Qiaotun Police Station, and officials Xu Laisheng and Feng Lijian were assigned to persecute Zheng Wei. After ransacking Mr. Zheng's home, the police sent him to the No. 1 Detention Centre of Tangshan City, and sentenced him to two years of forced labour on September 26th, 2008. He has been held at Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp for more than eight months. Mr. Zheng's wife was seven months pregnant at the time of his arrest, and the infant is now six months old, never having seen her father. His family is very worried about him.

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Dr. Xue Chaohui from Fujian Province Still Being Detained after Three Years of Persecution in a Forced Labour Camp

2009-04-24

Ms. Xue Chaohui, a physician in the Quanzhou City People's Hospital, Fujian Province, was sentenced, for a third time, to forced labour in December 2005, because of her steadfast belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Her sentence was over in December 2008, but she is still being held and persecuted, with all sorts of excuses, in the Fujian Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp. During the past year her foot became infected and festered until it was so painful that she could not sleep. For the past few years, she has been held in solitary confinement.

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Tianjin Police Detain and Persecute Ms. He Yana by Fabricating False Drug Charges against Her

2009-04-24

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Yana was visiting her friends and distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in the Hexi District on March 9th, 2009, when she was arrested by local authorities. She was reported by someone who was deceived and didn't know the true facts about Falun Gong. At Machang Police Station Ms. He was severely beaten, causing internal injuries, and she still has blood in her urine to this day. The police tried to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong but she refused. Police locked Ms. He up in the Rehabilitation Centre of Tianjin Ankang Hospital and then brought false charges against her, saying that she was taking addictive drugs.

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Falun Gong Practitioners and Defence Lawyer Arrested in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

2009-04-23

In late February 2009, eight Falun Gong practitioners and members of their families were arrested by police in Harbin City. Three of the practitioners are still being detained. The police have refused to release them or to permit relatives or friends to visit them. Mr. Wei Liangyue, a lawyer and the husband of practitioner Ms. Du Yongjing, was also arrested. Mr. Wei had provided legal representation for Falun Gong practitioners, for which he had been threatened by agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Ms. Zhao Chunjie from Gongzhuling City Arrested, Her Daughter, a Student, Is Having to Defend Her Innocence

2009-04-23

On February 12th, 2008, Mr. Lu Yaowu and his wife, Ms. Zhao Chunjie, Falun Gong practitioners, were arrested by police. Even though Mr. Liu was soon released, officers were still trying to press charges against him. As a result, he was forced to leave home and live elsewhere. Ms. Zhao Chunjie, who was cruelly tortured, was recently brought to trial. Her daughter, Lu Yiming, went everywhere to try to find a lawyer to defend her mother. Because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pressures lawyers not to take Falun Gong cases, Ms. Lu couldn't find anyone brave enough to defend her. So she, a student, had to defend her mother herself.

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Persecution in the Hubei Women's Forced Labour Camp

2009-04-23

The Hubei Women's Forced Labour Camp forces practitioners to write "three letters"(letter of breaking from Falun Gong; letter of ceasing practising Falun Gong; and letter of exposing Falun Gong). Policemen use video, newspapers and books that slander Falun Gong to brainwash practitioners. They often use drug addicts to abuse and beat practitioners. This labour camp is extremely strict to Beijing practitioners. Policemen stripped off the clothes of a Beijing practitioner in Team Two, dragged her through several rooms and threw her into an isolated room, forbidding anyone from seeing her. From that room often came sharp cries for help.

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Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in Dagang District, Tianjin City

2009-04-23

In 2008, before the Olympic Games began, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents intensified the persecution of practitioners, claiming that it was in the best interest of the Olympics. The 610 Office in Dagang District arrested more than a dozen practitioners without a warrant, including Ms. Dou Guirong. They were released after several days. The detention shocked Ms. Dou mentally and physically. She developed health problems, which worsened quickly. She passed away on March 2nd, 2009. The death of Ms. Dou presents a great hardship to her family, especially to her elderly mother. Her mother exposed the persecution to people and was arrested on March 20th, 2009.

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Mr. Liang Yuncheng from Fengcheng City Is Being Brutally Tortured

2009-04-22

Mr. Liang Yuncheng was arrested on March 7th, 2009. He is being brutally tortured at the Erlongshan Prison. Officials and guards are trying to brainwash him and threatening him with further imprisonment. Previously Mr. Liang was arrested when distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in 2006 and imprisoned until 2008. When he got home, he learned that his parents had died. Mr. Liang went back to work, but his salary was cut dramatically. Mr. Liang's wife knew her husband to be a very good man. However, placed under tremendous pressure, she divorced him in April 2008.

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Ms. Li Guijun Sent to Labour Camp; Currently Very Ill

2009-04-22

Ms. Li Guijun is a Falun Gong practitioner in Shandong Province. She was sent to labour camp in mid-October 2008. She now has oedema all over her body as a result of gross abuse and mistreatment at the labour camp. Her hyperthyroidism has also recurred, and she is in pain every day. This is the second time she has been sent to a labour camp. Ms. Li was also previously sent to labour camp for a three-year term for going to Beijing to appeal in 2000. She was sent to the Wangcun Women's Labour Camp

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Ms. Song Chang Forced to Have an Abortion

2009-04-22

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controlled court of Shashi District, Jinzhou City, Hubei Province held a trial on the morning of March 18th, 2009, for 29 year old Ms. Song Chang. On the morning of July 17th, 2008, Ms. Song had followed her husband to work in Guangdong Province and was arrested by police from Hubei Province. She was taken back to Shashi District, forced to have an abortion and detained in the Shashi Detention Centre.

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Practitioners Beaten and Shocked with Electric Batons at the Shaanxi Province Women Forced Labour Camp

2009-04-22

Practitioners held at the Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp are regularly tortured and forced to carry out extremely large workloads for long periods of time. The guards verbally abuse them and lock them up in small cells, where they are brutally tortured. The guards also steal practitioners' personal property with impunity. On January 31st, 2006, while Ms. Li Jinfeng was held at the No. 2 Section of the forced labour camp, team leader Lan Yuan directed seven drug addict inmates to beat her into unconsciousness. They then poured cold water on her to wake her up.

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