Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• Authorities of Dayangshu Town in Hulunbuir Prefecture Launched Another Round of Arrests in November

  2008-12-19
  At about 3 p.m. on November 19th, 2008, authorities from Dayangshu Town dispatched 9 police cars and nearly 30 police officers to carry out a premeditated plan to search the homes of nine practitioners and arrest them. Police officers were heavily armed. The police searched their homes and arrested the practitioners. Elderly and disabled family members were upset and frightened by the incident.
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• Two Elderly Practitioners Ms. Zhang Guiyun from Heilongjiang Province and Mr. Li Hongxi from Hebei Province Die under Persecution

  2008-12-18
  On May 7th, 2008, Xushui County Domestic Security agents intruded into 67-year-old Mr. Li Hongxi's home. They ransacked his place and took his possessions worth 1000 yuan. He was arrested later at his workplace. The police detained Mr. Li for 11 days in the Xushui County Detention Centre. They harmed him both physically and mentally when they tried to take him to the Baoding City Forced Labour Camp. He appeared absent minded after that. He had symptoms of a bloated stomach and fluid accumulation around the liver. He never recovered and died on November 25th, 2008.
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• Ms. Zhang Yukun Severely Tortured and Driven into Homelessness by the Persecution

  2008-12-18
  Since July 20th, 1999, 49-year-old Ms. Zhang Yukun has suffered from persistent persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Her husband was coerced by CCP officials into divorcing her. She was detained, force-fed and tortured in various ways and imprisoned in a forced labour camp. She remains homeless in order to escape severe persecution. In 2004, police broke into Zhang Yukun's home and took her to a brainwashing centre. They had Ms. Zhang's arms stretched out and handcuffed between two beds. Then tortured her mercilessly both physically and mentally. An officer cursed her and viciously hit her with a plastic pipe that was two inches in diameter until late in the night.
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• Mr. Wang Song from Jurong, Jiangsu Province is Critically Ill at the Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp

  2008-12-18
  Mr. Wang Song was taken away on May 20th, 2008 by Chinese Communist Party authorities. He has been detained in the Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp in Dafeng, Jiangsu Province for six months, and has been tortured to the point of paralysis. He can no longer walk normally. On November 3rd, 2008, doctors at the People's Hospital of Yancheng City examined him using NMR and other tests, and found he had high blood pressure, a slow heartbeat and problems with his nervous system. However, they could not give a proper diagnosis, and called it a "strange illness." Camp officials refuse to release him.
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• Practitioner Mr. Tan Weichang Persecuted in Sihui City Prison in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

  2008-12-18
  Mr. Tan Weichang, 37, Falun Gong practitioner, was jailed in Sihui Prison on November 6th, 2008. Prior to that, he had already been imprisoned for more than a year, and during that period judiciary authorities reviewed his case twice. When he was arrested by police in September 2007 they ransacked his home and stole belongings amounting to about 10,000 yuan. On November 8th, 2008, they made an official decision to sentence him to three years of imprisonment without any public court session.
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• Diaobingshan City Police Severely Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Hu Ying - Additional Information

  2008-12-17
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Hu Ying currently detained at the Diaobingshan City Detention Centre. She is currently very weak. The prison doctor has brutally tortured Ms. Hu Ying in an attempt to force her to end her protest hunger strike. While in detention, Ms. Hu Ying suffered from kidney failure, and had difficulty urinating. The guards did not care and did nothing to help her. She was in such agony that in her pain, she struck her head on the wall and screamed out so loudly that everybody in the centre heard her.
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• Facilities in Guizhou Province Designed to Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-12-17
  Many practitioners are incarcerated in The Zunyi City No. 2 Detention Centre in Guizhou Province. On the surface this detention centre looks "serene and peaceful with birds and flowers." Inside, however, many practitioners are being inhumanely abused with many vicious methods of torture. I witnessed practitioners being stripped and body searched, put in handcuffs and shackles, and their clothes cut up. The abusers splashed cold water on them and secretly took their pictures. Practitioners were monitored around the clock, interrogated, force-fed, and forcefully injected with unknown drugs that damage the nervous system. The guards used criminal inmates to beat practitioners and verbally abuse them.
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• Mo'erdaoga Forest Police Department Persecutes Practitioners in Inner Mongolia

  2008-12-17
  Practitioner Ms. Wang Shuwen, 62, has been harassed many times by police officers. On May 30th, 2002, eight or nine officers from the Mo'erdaoga Forest Police Department arrested Ms. Wang, searched her home, and confiscated many Falun Gong books. Ms. Wang was detained for two months. While she was in detention, officers went to her home, and harassed and threatened her family. In May 2008, approximately six officers searched Ms. Wang's home. In August, Mo'erdaoga Police Station officers harassed Ms. Wang at home. In September, once again officers from the Mo'erdaoga Police Station harassed her.
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• Ms. Xu Wenxiu from Yuzhong District, Chongqing City Persecuted During the Beijing Olympic Games

  2008-12-17
  On July 26th, 2008, police went to the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Wenxiu and demanded that she not go out during the Beijing Olympic Games. On the morning of August 1st, Ms. Xu was arrested simply because she went out to buy stamps. The police also searched her home. On August 4th, police took Ms. Xu to the "Training Centre" in Nanan District for brainwashing. She was held until October 6th. Due to persecution in the brainwashing centre, Ms. Xu Wenxiu's legs became painfully swollen, and her hands and feet can no longer perform basic movements. The police station and neighbourhood committee also dispatched people to engage in long-term surveillance of Ms. Xu's home.
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• Ms. Liu Xiaolian's Death a Premeditated Act of Murder by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

  2008-12-16
  This article describes how Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaolian's death was a premeditated act of murder, rather than a "death-as-a-result-of-torture" incident. While she was imprisoned, Ms. Liu suffered numerous hardships, including being subjected to a brutal torture method called, "Five Horses Splitting a Body." She was also beaten with metal shackles, injected with poison, force-fed poisonous pills, shocked with high-voltage electric batons and needles, and humiliated by male prisoners. Ms. Liu died on October 26th, 2008, at the age of 68.
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• Mr. Jin Wenhua from Luquan City Subjected to Forced Labour

  2008-12-16
  In July 1999, the Chinese Communist regime started the persecution of Falun Gong. In order to let more people understand the truth about Falun Gong, Mr. Jin Wenhua, 39, went to the Luquan City Party Committee Office to appeal. The female deputy county head, Song Juyun, and ten other officers met with them. Due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s high pressure policy, nobody dared to treat them justly. Officers from the Dahe Township Police Station arrested Jin Wenhua. After they were released, the police harassed and detained Mr. Jin many times. On July 14th, 2008, police arrested Mr. Jin again. Mr. Jin Wenhua is now in the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp.
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• Ms. Song Chang Forced to Have an Abortion

  2008-12-16
  Ms. Song Chang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hubei Province, worked in Guangdong Province with her husband. On July 17th, 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel in Guangdong and police from Hubei arrested her. Ms. Song was sent back to Shashi and forced to have an abortion. She is detained at the Shashi Detention Centre and is very weak. In the detention centre, all she was given to eat was water and several pieces of vegetable. In addition to being weak after the abortion, Ms. Song also developed a fever. Even in such a difficult situation, the authorities did not release her or even allow her family members to visit her.
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• Practitioners Tortured Long-term in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2008-12-16
  The Training Ward of Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison has been moved to the Ninth Ward to detain new prisoners. This ward has been designated to force brainwashing on Falun Gong practitioners since August 2005. The first step in brainwashing newly arrived practitioners is performed by two collaborators. Those who give in to the brainwashing are converted to Buddhism. Those who refuse to accept the brainwashing are passed on to three prisoners. These three prisoners then torture the practitioners by forcing them to stand for long periods of time, sleep deprivation, handcuffing, and hanging them up by their wrists with rope.
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• Mr. Gu Wenqi Suffers a Mental Collapse After Eight Years of Persecution

  2008-12-15
  Mr. Gu Wenqi, 42, is from Liaoning Province. Because he refused to stop practising Falun Gong, he was subjected to brainwashing, detention, imprisonment, and forced labour. He was also confined to a psychiatric hospital, without his family members knowing, even though there was nothing physically or mentally wrong with him. During Mr. Gu's trial, the court did not allow him to have an lawyer present nor did they publicly announce or record his sentence. So, without any legal procedure whatsoever, Mr. Gu was imprisoned for 8 years, simply for practising Falun Gong. On August 20th, 2008, when Mr. Gu was finally released, he was unable to recognize his family members or his close friends, and still thought that he was back at Jinzhou Prison.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Pass Away in Anhui, Liaoning, and Hebei Provinces as a Result of Persecution

  2008-12-15
  Mr. Zhang Liangming, about 47 years old, lived in Anhui Province. Since July 20th, 1999, he was frequently harassed and detained several times by local police. In 2000, Zhang Liangming was sent to a forced labour camp by the local police because he want to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was then sent to Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province. The clinic in the forced labour camp gave him unknown injections and he suffered a mental breakdown. His family later bailed him out for medical treatment. He never recovered and passed away on June 12th, 2008.
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