Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Ms. Cong Peijing from Dalian City, Liaoning Province Has Difficulty Walking after Suffering Police Abuse
2008-11-11Ms. Cong Peijing was arrested by police on October 14th, 2008. During the arrest, her spine was re-injured. She is now imprisoned in the Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City. She has been arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 6 or 7 times and suffered brutal persecution. A part of her spine was fractured and dislocated in 2001. In order to escape from the CCP, she jumped from a high window of a police station in Jinzhou District, injuring her spine. Afterwards, she was tortured numerous times by the CCP. As a result, her spine was never able to fully recover. In August 2006, she was arrested by officers from the Wanli Police Station. She went on a hunger strike to protest against persecution at the Yaojia Detention Centre and was subjected to force-feeding. She was tortured to the verge of death. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Yan Again Sent to Forced Labour Camp in Beijing
2008-11-11Ms. Li Yan was arrested for the second time prior to the Olympic Games, and sentenced to two and a half years in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. Li Yan was first sentenced to forced labour in 2005. Because she refused to "transform," [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] she was forced to sit on a bench for over twenty hours every day and deprived of sleep. Li Yan was tortured to the point of mental collapse. -
Ms. Gao Zhenfen Died as a Result of Persecution in Dalian City, Liaoning Province
2008-11-11Ms. Gao Zhenfen was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. On June 5th, 2006, four police officers arrested Ms. Gao on Anyang Street. She was rushed to the March Eighth Square Hospital when she suffered a stroke while in custody. Her friends and family picked her up after she partially recovered. However, she suffered another stroke and died on March 15th, 2007. Details are under investigation. -
Mr. Shi Changlin Dies from Persecution in Liaoning Province
2008-11-10Mr. Shi Changlin was persecuted many times for practising Falun Gong. After being detained in the Yi County Detention Centre for three months, Mr. Shi was sentenced to two years of forced labour and taken to the Wangtun Labour Camp in Jinzhou City. While he was detained doing forced labour, Mr. Shi refused to give up his faith, and he was tortured cruelly. The guards tied him with ropes and forced him to sit on wooden boards for a long time. He vomited and passed out due to the mental and physical abuse. In the summer of 2008, there was a large-scale arresting spree during the pre-Olympics season that included Yi County. This terror caused Mr. Shi Changlin extreme pain and tension. His weak body could not bear such huge mental pressure any longer and he died on July 15th, 2008. -
Practitioner Mr. Jia Zhijun from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, Tortured
2008-11-10In July 2002, Mr. Jia Zhijun, a 41-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested. At Fenggou Police Station, police coerced a confession from Mr. Jia through torture. They forced him to semi-squat and raise both hands like "riding a motorcycle" for painfully long periods. Policemen tied up Mr. Jia with rope and then exerted all their strength to step on his hands after they were handcuffed. Generally, the wrist will be broken if it is stepped on in such a way. The police tied both his hands behind his back, hung him up by his hands and beat him. It is said that if such torture lasts one to two minutes, it will be very painful and hard to endure. Mr. Jia still cannot turn or raise his right arm. -
Ms. Yang Shufen Sentenced to Eight Years Imprisonment in Xishui County, Hubei Province
2008-11-10After Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Yang Shufen, 44 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for justice and was arrested by the Beijing police. After that she endured repeated arrests by police. In April 2007, police arrested her in Wuhan City. After she was imprisoned for over a year at the Xishui Detention Centre, she was sentenced to an additional eight years on a fabricated charge. Her appeal was turned down. In the beginning of September 2008, she was taken to the Wuhan Women's Prison. Since then, her family has not received any messages or information about her current situation and are deeply concerned about her safety. -
60-Year-Old Practitioner Tortured at Hohhot Forced Labour Camp
2008-11-10On July 4th, 2005, I was reported to the police while I distributed Falun Gong fliers in a remote mountainous area. Police arrested me and detained me at the Ningcheng County Detention Centre. Officer Lu Zhihe handcuffed me to an iron chair, slapped me, hit my head with a metal clip. On December 13th, 2005, I was sentenced to three years of forced labour. The camp tried to coerce me to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong], but I refused. I was nearly sixty years old. I was forced to shoulder goods up and down stairs between different floors. I passed out from exhaustion. One day, I fell down the stairs because I became faint due to my high blood pressure. My leg was injured and I was unable to stand up. -
Please Help Rescue My Mother, Detained for the Fifth Time for Practising Falun Gong
2008-11-09My 65-year-old mother's name is Fu Shaozhen. She was arrested on December 25th, 2007 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The Wuhan 610 Office deceived my family by saying that they would release my mother immediately after the Olympic Games was over. The Olympic Games has finished, but my mother has not been released. She is still imprisoned and being tortured. -
China Central Television Broadcasts a Fabricated Programme about a Falun Gong Practitioner in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2008-11-09CCTV's (China Central Television's) "Sky Net" TV programme showed a prison guard patiently and kindly helping to "transform" a so-called "Falun Gong practitioner." After seeing this, everyone was startled, because that so-called Falun Gong practitioner was, in fact, not a practitioner at all, but a criminal inmate. What actually takes place there is that, if you aren't "transformed" (that is, if you don't succumb to the pressure and renounce your belief in Falun Gong), you aren't allowed to sleep and you're insulted, beaten, and scolded, among other forms of torture. CCTV and Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp colluded to create a false news story to deceive the Chinese public. -
Nearly Seventy-year-old Mr. Gao Guangchong Sent to Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province
2008-11-09After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, elderly Mr. Gao Guangchong was arrested eleven times. He was imprisoned in forced labour camps on numerous occasions, suffering inhumane torture each time. His home was often ransacked and twice he was forced into homelessness to avoid being arrested. On October 14th, 2007, over thirty police officers forcibly entered Mr. Gao's home and arrested him. On March 28th, 2008, the Huili County CCP Procuratorate and Court put Mr. Gao on trial. As a result of the torture he suffered while being detained, Mr. Gao's whole body was severely swollen from oedema, making it very difficult for him to stand. In September 2008 Mr. Gao's family members were finally informed that he had been sentenced to three years in a Forced Labour Camp and was taken there on October 16th, 2008. -
Ms. He Xueping Arrested Again After Recent Release from Labour Camp
2008-11-09Ms. He Xueping, a practitioner from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, has been suffering from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution for a long time. She had just been released from Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp on June 30th, 2008, when she was arrested again on September 2nd. Informants stated that Ms. He Xueping's current arrest was made in retaliation for her report on the persecution in the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. -
Masanjia Labour Camp Guards Torture Practitioners to Get Them to Sign a Labour Evaluation Sheet
2008-11-08On October 6th, 2008, guards at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang tried to force Falun Gong practitioners confined in the First Division to sign a Labour Evaluation Sheet. When practitioners refused to sign, they were severely tortured. They were no longer able to walk upright afterwards. The guards pushed practitioners' heads under a bed and handcuffed them. Ms. Wang Chunying and Ms. Wang Haiying were handcuffed like that for three days and nights. Another practitioner was handcuffed for five days. She is now absent-minded and doesn't remember anything. -
Recent News on the Persecution of Practitioners Held at Hebei Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp
2008-11-08Over 400 Falun Gong practitioners are currently detained at the Hebei Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp. Most were sent to the camp prior to the Olympic Games. Because Ms. Lu Suhua did the Falun Gong exercises, she was handcuffed to a radiator and a window frame by guards led by Liu Ziwei and an inmate named Liu Juan. Her arms were stretched to the maximum between the radiator and the window frame. Guard Liu Ziwei said, "We must not let her get comfortable. We should leave her unable to stand or squat down." When Ms. Lu Suhua shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" the guards stuffed a cloth in her mouth and sealed it with tape. Then Liu Ziwei and Liu Juan kicked her face, causing her vision to blur for the next six days. -
Ms. Cui Xiaoxian, Ms. Cui Shumei, and Ms. Feng Wenzhen from Li County, Hebei Province, Are Imprisoned
2008-11-08On October 30th, 2008, personnel from the Li County Court in Hebei Province sentenced practitioners Ms. Cui Xiaoxian, Ms. Cui Shumei, and Ms. Feng Wenzhen for the third time. The previous two times these three ladies, who are in their 50s, were also tried in the Li County Court but were not be convicted because their defence lawyer showed how police officer Wang Junchang had manufactured the evidence. The judge was supposed to release these three practitioners immediately, without any charges, but they have remained imprisoned for over a year now. -
Officials from Shanghai Xuhui Court Mistreat Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-11-08On October 21st, 2008, the Shanghai Xuhui Court held a hearing for practitioners Mr. Liu Peng, Ms. Zheng Yan and Ms. Zhang Xumei. There were over seventy police officers and plain-clothes police officers in the courtroom and security was tight. Some of the people who planned to watch the hearing were threatened. Ms. Zhang Yuxia has been a friend of Mr. Liu Peng and Ms. Zhang Xumei for many years. The authorities found her to be "suspicious" and detained her. Ms. Zhang Yuxia had planned to watch the hearing, however, officials from the court called the officials from the school where she is employed and demanded that they stop her from watching the hearing. They also threatened that she would be arrested and held temporarily if she did come to watch.