Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Elder Sister Tortured to Death and Younger Sister Facing Sentence
2008-09-23
On March 13th, 2008, Ms. Gu Jianmin died as a result of the persecution. In June 2006, she was arrested and sentenced to one year of forced labour. Within a few months of being released from detention, she was arrested again and later died as a result of the persecution. Her younger sister, Ms. Gu Jihong was arrested in July 2008 and is facing a sentence. This is the third time that she has been arrested. In June 2000, she was sentenced to three years in prison. In June 2005, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour but was not released on time. The sisters suffered persecution during the past nine years because they practised Falun Gong. -
Ms. Feng Zuoru Passed Away in Tianjin
2008-09-23Ms. Feng Zuoru, a Falun Gong practitioner, was held in a labour camp for three years. She was tortured and suffered a severe relapse of diabetes while in custody. Chinese Communist Party officials arrested her in 2001 when she distributed Falun Gong materials. They sentenced her to three years of forced labour without trial. She persisted in her belief at the Banqiao Labour Camp in Tianjin, and the authorities sent her to the Strictly Controlled Division, where they physically and verbally assaulted her. The abuse was around-the-clock and went on until she suffered a relapse of diabetes. The authorities ignored her condition and instead starved her. In addition, they forced her to do heavy manual labour in a toxic environment. She passed away on August 8th, 2008. -
22-year-old Ms. Gao Xi Suffers a Mental Breakdown After a Month of Torture in Labour Camp
2008-09-23On September 30th, 2007, Ms. Gao Xi was arrested by police while distributing Falun Gong informational materials and imprisoned in Sanshui Women's Labour Camp. She was an intelligent and attractive 22-year-old woman. After a month of torture, she had reached the point of mental breakdown, her body was weak, and she was no longer able to speak. In 2008, during the Chinese New Year season, drug addicts assigned to monitor Ms. Gao forced her to take a cold bath for up to two hours, and they cut off her hair. Sometimes she was forced to stand continuously day and night, her face was covered with fingernail scratches, and the back of her head was swollen, bruised and was bandaged. The drug addicts frequently abused and berated her. In April 2008, she was released because she showed symptoms of schizophrenia. -
Older Practitioner Mr. Qian Shiguang Dies after Years of Torture
2008-09-22
Mr. Qian Shiguang, 65, was sentenced to forced labour camps on several occasions. In Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing inmates there tortured him inhumanly and beat him until his lower back was fractured. In Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre he was tortured by being cuffed behind his back, which caused him to suffer from the prolapse of his rectum and incontinence. Mr. Qian died on September 8th, 2008. -
Please Help Me Save My Mum
2008-09-22My dad, Mr. Zhang Xingwu, who is over 60 years old, and my mum, Ms. Liu Pinjie, have both been detained for more than a month. There is nobody at home to pick up the phone. I don't know how long I will have to wait before I can hear their voices again. I feel a great sense of hollowness. I try to not think about that phone call or happy memories. But, I am not able to stop thinking about my mother's voice from our last phone call before she was arrested. She had said only one sentence, but I will never forget it. -
A Teacher from Jilin City Arrested and Tortured
2008-09-22Ms. Li Liwen is a 50-year-old primary schoolteacher from Jilin Province. She helped the most undisciplined kids in the school to become straight "A" students with the principles Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance that she learned from Falun Gong. Yet this good teacher was arrested by police officers just before the opening of the Olympic Games. After being tortured for 42 days, she could barely walk and can no longer take care of herself. -
Zhang Lianhe from Kaifeng City Arrested--Happy Family Torn Apart
2008-09-22On July 21st, 2008, at about 8:00 p.m., practitioner Zhang Lianhe was on his way back to his home town Kaifeng from Zhengzhou City after getting off duty. He called his family and told them that he was on a city bus and would be home soon. But at about 9:00 p.m., his family got a text message from him, which stated, "The company asked me to go back to Zhengzhou, my mobile phone battery is going to run out, and I will contact you later." However, Zhang Lianhe had actually been arrested. Zhang Lianhe has been in custody for more than a month without his family hearing any information about him. -
Torture Methods Used to Force Practitioners to Renounce Falun Gong at the Shandong Province Number Two Women's Forced Labour Camp
2008-09-21Practitioners have to endure daily long hours of slave labour, in addition to brainwashing. They worked from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., sometimes till midnight. Aside from going to the toilet, taking half an hour to eat lunch, or doing stand up work, everyone sits on a small bench the entire day. Guards forbid them to talk or to walk freely. Many practitioners who have been detained here, too numerous to mention, have died as a result of torture, suffered a mental collapse, were injured, disabled or came down with various illnesses in recent years. -
After Five Years of Abuse at a Mental Hospital, Ms. Liang Shufen Sent to Labour Camp and Tortured to the Verge of Death
2008-09-21Ms. Liang Shufen, 44 years old, has suffered years of abuse because she practises Falun Gong. In 2000, she was sent to a mental hospital. Ms. Liang was there for five years and almost died in the hospital. The doctor injected unknown drugs into Ms. Xiang's body. She had mental disorders, severe injuries from failed suicide attempts, third degree crippling and depression (Note: Severe abuse drove Ms. Liang to try to commit suicide, although Falun Gong teaches against any form of killing, including suicide). In May 2007 Ms. Liang was arrested again and sentenced to a one-and-a-half-year labour camp sentence. She was brutally tortured. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Liu Hailan of Fujin City, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested at Gunpoint
2008-09-21While Ms. Liu Hailan and five other practitioners were distributing information exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in a town on the evening of August 21st, 2008, they were chased by a police patrol car. Three of the six practitioners managed to escape. When the police intercepted the remaining practitioners, three officers jumped out of the patrol car and drew their guns. The practitioners were immediately arrested, put in the patrol car, and driven to the Erlongshan Town Police Station. Ms. Liu, who is almost 60 years old, is being held in the Fujin City Detention Centre. -
Mr. Cui Dejun's Whereabouts Unknown and His Relatives Arrested
2008-09-21On May 12th, 2008, Mr. Cui Dejun, who was held in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. After 23 days, he became unconscious and then became incontinent for two days. The labour camp did nothing to treat him. It is said that Mr. Cui successfully escaped from Masanjia Labour Camp on August 11th, 2008. However, Mr. Cui's whereabouts and physical condition are currently unknown. On August 14th, 2008, his sister-in-law was arrested at gunpoint by the police. On August 15th, Mr. Cui's fourth brother and his wife were also arrested at gunpoint by the police at the store they own. -
78-year-old Mr. Cao Changlin Mysteriously Beaten to Death in Wuhan City, Hubei Province
2008-09-20On August 8th, 2008, Mr. Cao Changlin, 78 years old, was discovered missing after he left his home at 9:30 p.m., one hour after the Olympics began. His family looked for him everywhere, but could not find him. Three days later, the neighbourhood administration notified his family that he had been taken by ambulance to hospital. Eyewitnesses said that when Mr. Cao entered the hospital there were three holes in his head along with many wounds. His ear was bleeding, and he could not see anything. His left shoulder bone was fractured, and his back was covered with bruises. This healthy and kind gentleman was beaten to the verge of death and passed away seven days later on August 15th. -
Healthy Elderly Lady Injected with Toxic Medication and Beaten Brutally
2008-09-20Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, was brutally beaten many times after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. In April 2006, she distributed fliers with information about Falun Gong and was arrested by police informants and treated as as a patient with a mental disorder. At the Psychiatric Department, Ms. Liu Xiaolian was brutally beaten, injected with toxic medication, fed toxic medication pills, shocked with high-voltage electric batons, and insulted by male, mentally ill patients. Soon after she was taken to the hospital, she was tortured until she could no longer speak. -
Ms. Xin Shuhua Tortured and Force-fed Poison at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2008-09-20In March 2008, practitioner Xin Shuhua was detained at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. The guards used all kinds of methods to torture her in attempt to make her give up Falun Gong. Xin Shuhua had been once before been detained at Masanjia for three years. She was imprisoned for explaining the facts about Falun Gong to the public. Because she did not give up her belief, refused to work and went on hunger strike, the guards beat her with electric batons. Then they hung her up, bound her on to a "dead person's bed", and locked her in a dark cell, where she had to squat. The guards used an iron support to hold her mouth open and poured in poison, making her jaw disjointed four times. They injected poison into her and forced her to sit on a "tiger bench". -
Wei Haiming and His Wife Zhao Zonghua Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in Secret Trial
2008-09-20In July 2008, officials at the Datong County Court in Xining City, Qinghai Province sentenced Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wei Haiming and his wife Ms. Zhao Zonghua to five years in prison without a public trial. They are now incarcerated at the Menyuan Prison in Qinghai Province. Datong Court officials were afraid of letting the public know of the trial. The court did not inform their families, nor the defence lawyers the families had hired before the trial. The lawyers told the families afterwards, "Datong Court officials did not follow official legal procedures." Wei Haiming and Zhao Zonghua's families asked why they were not informed of the trial ahead of time. The court officials replied sarcastically, "Why did we need to?"
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