Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Elderly Ms. Zhang Juxiu from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province Persecuted for Nine Years
2008-11-19
During the past 9 years Ms. Zhang Juxiu, nearly 80, has been arrested 7 or 8 times and was subjected to all kinds of cruel torture. In the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre she was confined to a small dark cell, hung up by her handcuffed hands. After more than 10 days of this torture, Ms. Zhang became unable to walk, suffered from incontinence and lost consciousness many times. Besides the salary suspension and extortion of money from Mrs. Zhang's employer, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) directly extorted more than 8,000 yuan from her family. It is not difficult to imagine how stressful life has been for a family with handicapped members who are already leading a very hard life. -
Mr. Dong Fengshan Dies After Six Days in Siping Prison, Jilin Province
2008-11-18On October 13th, 2008, police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dong Fengshan at his home. Mr. Dong Fengshan was detained in Shanyou Detention Centre and secretly sentenced to nine years in prison. The whole process was done without notifying his family. On October 23rd, 2008, he was taken to the Jilin Province Prison. On October 29th, 2008, Mr. Dong's wife received a call from Siping Prison telling her that said Mr. Dong was dying of an illness. However, when they rushed to the prison, the administration told them that he had already died. Mr. Dong's family were very puzzled, because they had seen him on October 22nd, 2008 in the Songyuan City Detention Centre, one day before he was taken to the Siping Prison, and he was fine and not ill; he ate and slept well, and he was in good spirits and health. -
A Kind-Hearted Falun Gong Practitioner is Arrested in Shenyang City--Her Whereabouts Unknown
2008-11-18
47-year-old Ms. Wang Shuxian is a very kind person and she has a happy family of three. On September 23rd, 2008, Ms. Wang was arrested by police officers in Shenyang City when she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong. In the Nanta Police Station, Ms. Wang was brutally beaten by the guards. The police then transferred her to the Shenyang City Detention Centre. It has been over a month since Ms. Wang's family has heard any information about her. -
Shanghai Police Set Up Barriers and Checkpoints Outside Courthouse during Trials of Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-11-18On October 21st, 2008, Shanghai Xuhui District Court held trials for Mr. Liu Peng, Ms. Zhang Xumei, and Ms. Zheng Yan. Mr. Liu's lawyer defended him. This is the first time the lawyer defended Falun Gong practitioners in the Shanghai area. The Shanghai authorities were afraid of people protesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, so they dispatched police to set up barriers and checkpoints outside the courthouse. There were more than 30 uniformed police officers in the vicinity of the courtroom. In addition, a lot of plain clothes officers walked around keeping an eye on pedestrians and vehicles. There were even plain clothes officers sitting inside tea houses at the corner. One insider said, "There are more than 80 police officers in the area, patrolling on foot and in vehicles." -
Ms. Li Fengyun and Her Husband Arrested and Savagely Beaten by Police in Jilin Province
2008-11-18Police arrested Ms. Li Fengyun and her husband, Mr. Shen Quanhui when a farmer reported them for distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution near Toudao Town. Back at the station, Ms. Li and her husband were put in separate rooms where they were monitored and interrogated. When the officers asked Ms. Li her name and address, she did not tell them. As a result, they savagely beat her, then handcuffed her behind her back, pulled her hair, slapped her face, and beat and kicked her. They also forced her to stand still for hours, not allowing her to fall asleep. Officer Zhang ruthlessly kicked Ms. Li in the stomach, causing her to collapse on the ground, unable to get up. She also heard piercing screams and sounds of vomiting coming from a nearby room where her husband was detained. -
Practitioners Suffer Continual Abuse and Torture at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province
2008-11-17Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Pingrui, 21, was arrested along with her mother in May 2008. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured beyond her physical and emotional endurance. Because Ms. Wang did the Falun Gong meditation guards hung her up on a bunk bed with her feet not touching the floor and was then beaten. She was beaten frequently. She periodically suffered blackouts due to this torture. -
Ms. Liu Zhenxia Tortured at Labour Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province
2008-11-17Ms. Liu Zhenxia, a Falun Gong practitioner, was held at the Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was not allowed to sleep and was forced to stand for long periods of time consecutively. Because she refused to cooperate with the guards, Ms. Liu Zhenxia was forced to stay in the toilet. She was not allowed to have warm clothes, even during the cold winter. Guards ordered prisoners to pour cold water on the floor and forced her to sit on the wet floor wearing only light weight clothing. They swore at her and beat her until her face was swollen. She suffered inhumane torture constantly and became emaciated as a result of the abuse. Standing constantly for 24 hours without sleeping, being hung up on iron window frames and being tied to a bed using a special straight jacket are all very common ways to torture Falun Gong practitioners. -
Administration of Hunan Provincial Hospital for Women and Children Involved in Persecuting Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-11-17Ms. Zhang Xiaomei, over 40 years old, was sent to Hunan Provincial Mental Health Hospital in 2000 because she practises Falun Gong. She was injected with harmful drugs that caused her to suffer from a constant runny nose and salivation. She was imprisoned in the mental hospital for one month before she was released. Soon after, she was forcibly sent to the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou and tortured. -
Jin Pang's Olympic Pain
2008-11-17One month before the Olympic Games, on July 9th, Jin Pang said more than a dozen police officers and officials from China's extra-judicial '610 Office' broke into her parent's home, arrested them and confiscated valuables. They are now being held in Weifang City Detention Centre. In 2001, Jin’s mother, Cao Junping, was arrested along with eight other Falun Gong practitioners. They were detained in a cold cement cell that was less than nine square metres and beaten by mobs they say were led by the town’s Party leader. The goal was to force them to renounce their practice. -
On the Eve of the Olympics, an Unbreakable Will
2008-11-16
In an image that so rarely escapes from China, Zhang Lianying is telling her story of horror. In Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp Zhang was slapped, kicked, beaten, strangled, abused, deprived of sleep, had her private parts attacked. She was beaten or strangled into a coma 14 times. She says all parts of her body were violated and injured. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong she recounted: “They tied up my hands and feet, lifted my feet and tied them to a chair, and used a rope from strips of bed-sheets to tie my neck to the back of the chair—so tight that I could not move." -
Viciousness at Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp During the Olympic Games
2008-11-16There were relatively fewer beatings in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp prior to the Olympic Games. But as soon as the Olympics started on August 9th, 2008, the situation began intensifying and practitioners were severely persecuted, the worst point being around August 20th. Practitioners were physically abused, beaten, cursed at, and humiliated--all of which are prohibited according to policy. In order to force determined practitioners to wear the uniforms, they ripped the clothes from female practitioners, cut apart their underwear with scissors, and chained them to a wooden board bed. These practitioners were then beaten, electrically-shocked, tied up, and tortured by other means. -
The Persecution of Married Couple Mr. Liu Ruping and Ms. Zhang Chenglan
2008-11-16Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Liu Ruping and his wife Zhang Chenglan were arrested on the afternoon of August 12th, 2008. Going downstairs Liu Ruping shouted, "The police are arresting me!" One officer immediately attacked his face with pepper spray, making him cry, cough uncontrollably and making his nose run. The agents took Ms. Zhang Chenglan to Jinan City Detention Centre and then she was sentenced to 18 months forced labour. Mr. Liu was released from Jinan Detention Centre on September 28th. -
Ms. Zhou Yanyi, Mr. Fan Shuilin, and Ms. Lan Ming from Luotian County, Hubei Province, Persecuted
2008-11-16After she started practising Falun Gong, all Ms. Zhou Yanyi's diseases went away. However, because she believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, she was arrested three times and sentenced to forced labour. In addition, more than 10,000 yuan was extorted from her by the authorities during the span of her arrests. Ms. Zhou's hypertension returned while she was in a detention centre and because of this she was refused admission to Wuhan Forced Labour Camp. To make her do forced labour, police officers He, Ye, and Zhou force-fed her drugs by prying her mouth open with an instrument, breaking several of her teeth in the process. -
Ms. Han Ming Died in 2003 Due to Poisonous Injection in Guizhou Province--Additional Information
2008-11-15
Ms. Han Ming was detained twice for persisting in Falun Gong cultivation, and on February 28th, 2001, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour. While detained in the Guizhou Province Women's Forced Labour Camp, she was injected with an unknown drug, which caused her entire body to suffer muscle atrophy. She died on March 20th, 2003, at the young age of 30. -
Ten Year Old Locked In Iron Cage for Giving Falun Gong Brochure
2008-11-15A 10-year old girl, Cheng Siyang, in southern China’s Sichuan province was slapped by police and shut in an iron cage for giving her teacher a Falun Gong brochure. Police later ransacked her home. Both of her parents were arrested on August 7th. According to a classmate, Siyang had told her about the benefits of Falun Gong, and how it taught people to be kind. She had also told her friend that it was wrong for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to persecute Falun Gong. Siyang returned to school on August 11th, with bruises all over her body.
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