Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• The Persecution of a Young Woman Doctor

  2008-09-16
  Dr. Wang Yuchuan, is a surgeon in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. In 1998, she began practising Falun Gong and followed the standard of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. Dr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for the practice and told authorities, "Falun Gong is good. I wish the government would let us practise it." For uttering these words, she lost her personal freedom for three years and eight months. On August 7th, 2008, the day before the Beijing Olympic Games started, she was once again arrested and taken to a detention centre.
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• Ms. Wang Haiqing Arrested and Brutally Tortured Mentally and Physically

  2008-09-15
  Ms. Wang Haiqing, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in May 2008. She was force-fed and tortured both physically and mentally for three months. She was in critical condition. Policeman Dong Linfang held Ms. Wang down and said, "I don't believe that I cannot handle you." Wang Haiqing's was seriously injured, and she lost control of her bowels and bladder. It was unbearably painful.
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• Ms. Li Fengzhen of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, Loses Her Memory As a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-15
  Ms. Li Fengzhen, a Falun Gong practitioner in her 50s, is from Hebei Province. She was arrested by officers from the Tanghai Public Security Bureau, on June 10th, 2008, and taken to Ankang Hospital in Tangshan City on June 25th. In just over 50 days, a formerly kind and healthy person was severely affected mentally. She became emaciated, was unable to stand or walk, and couldn't take care of herself. Ms. Li Fengzhen has now lost her memory. When she was detained in Tanghai County and Tangshan City, she was severely beaten, resulting in a serious brain damage. She was also injected with an unknown, nerve-damaging drug in Tangshan Ankang Hospital.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials in Baishan City Harass Falun Gong Practitioners in the Name of "Protecting the Olympic Games"

  2008-09-15
  Recently, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Baishan City, Jilin Province persecuted many Falun Gong practitioners in the name of "protecting the Olympic Games." They harassed and arrested Falun Gong practitioners, claiming that it was "to protect the Olympic Games." They ransacked practitioners' homes, and even took away computers that practitioners' children used for studying. Some elderly people were also taken to the police stations and subjected to persecution.
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• My Nine Years of Persecution

  2008-09-15
  After July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began to brutally persecute Falun Gong. They fabricated slanderous news and broadcast it on TV and radio in order to deceive people. Because I am very determined in my belief, I was arrested and detained many times. Police from the Gaozhou Domestic Security Division, 610 Office and local police station interrogated and severely beat me. They harassed me in my home and at my work unit. They used thug-like means to try to force me to give up Falun Gong.
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• Practitioners Ba Xinmin and Others Suffer Persecution in Nanyang City, Henan Province

  2008-09-14
  Mr. Ba Xinmin, 60 years old, was sentenced to two years in jail simply because he refused to renounce his beliefs. He suffered torture in Nanyang City Detention Centre. Every day he had to work for more than 10 hours, but was fed rubbish that even pigs and dogs would not eat. Two years later when he was released, his weight had dropped from 70 kg to about 45 kg due to malnutrition. On August 5th, 2008, police arrested Ba, his wife, their neighbour, and relatives who were visiting at the time. They hid Ba in a "hotel" and interrogated him in private. They brutally tortured Ba because they thought he coordinated Falun Gong activities in the area.
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• Hexing Brainwashing Centre in Deyang City, Sichuan Province Exposed

  2008-09-14
  The "Advocating Scientific Education School" in Deyang City, Sichuan Province is actually a deceptive name for a brainwashing centre established by the 610 Office in Deyang City, also known as the Hexing Brainwashing Centre . It is a three-story building, with wired, steel-netted windows, resembling a cage. The arrested practitioners are jailed in this building. In recent years, the Hexing Brainwashing Centre has been identified as a site for the detainment and persecution of large numbers of practitioners from Deyang City, Guanghan City, Shifang City, and other surrounding areas; some practitioners have been tortured to death in this prison.
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• Ms. Wang Yuhui and Mr. Li Zhihong Arrested in Changsha City During the Olympics

  2008-09-14
  On August 18th, 2008, six police officers broke into Ms. Wang Yuhui's house and arrested her. While ransacking her house, they confiscated her computer and some personal items. Why was this teacher arrested? The only reason for her arrest was that she is a Falun Gong practitioner. After she was arrested, without a hearing or trial, she was sent to the Legislative Educational Training Centre in the city. This centre was organized by the 610 Office for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. More specifically, the centre is for brainwashing the practitioners into giving up their practice. In this brainwashing centre, she is kept in a room and watched 24 hours a day.
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• The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Delong

  2008-09-14
  After the persecution began, 48-year-old Zhang Delong was arrested numerous times. In 2004 he was sent to forced labour camps where he was forced to do slave labour. Mr. Zhang was forced to labour long hours every day packing toothpicks. He was required to pack 25 boxes each day, each box contained 10,000 toothpicks. Detainees were not allowed to sleep if they could not finish their assigned quota. The workplace was very dark, and they had to turn the light on even during the day. Mr. Zhang was exhausted and his vision was blurred. Most of the practitioners had to work until dawn and get up to continue working after just two hours of sleep
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• Over-70-Year-Old Practitioner Dies as a Result of Relentless Persecution

  2008-09-13
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuelan, in her 70s, was a retired doctor. On June 13th, 2001, the police arrested her in her house, took her money and possessions worth 20,000 yuan, and had her sentenced to three years of forced labour. On June 14th, 2001, they took her to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Zhang suffered three years of torture at the camp. On July 9th, 2008, several officers tried to arrest her at her home. Ms. Zhang had just broken her leg. Officers saw that her injury was very serious, so they had to leave her at home but assigned local police to watch her 24 hours per day. Her son and daughter-in-law were also home. They kept any other practitioners from visiting her. Ms. Zhang had no personal freedom at all and later on could not eat and became very thin. She died around August 15th, 2008, during the Olympics.
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• Businessman Chen Xibu Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2008-09-13
  Since July 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong, 56-year-old Mr. Chen Xibu's family has endured all sorts of brutal mistreatment, such as having their homes ransacked numerous times, being arrested, and being extorted out of their money and possessions. Mr. Chen was detained multiple times. The police sentenced Mr. Chen to eight years in prison in 2003. He was tortured and locked in a small cell. His health declined. In 2007, they force-fed unknown substances in him. They had to stop the force-feeding when Mr. Chen vomited large amounts of blood. He was so weak and exhausted that he died on August 31st, 2008.
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• Witnessing the Mistreatment of Falun Gong Practitioners, a Non-practitioner Asks "Where Is the Justice in China?"

  2008-09-13
  On August 4th, 2008, I went to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Liaoning Province, to visit the sister of a good friend, Ms. Liu Guijin, who is detained there because she is a Falun Gong practitioner. On the bus I met a nine-year-old boy on his way to visit his mum, who is detained because she is also a Falun Gong practitioner. Every month, on visiting day, the little boy comes all the way from Dalian City to visit his mother in prison. The aunt told me that the boy's father suffered a nervous breakdown and passed away after the mother had been arrested, and the boy has been living at a relative's home since his father's death. Since all of his relatives are poor, he has now been forced to move from one relative's to another for an entire year, staying only a few days at a time.
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• Ms. Wu Suqiong and Her Fifteen-year-old Daughter Arrested, Beaten and Forced to Undergo Brainwashing

  2008-09-13
  On July 22nd, 2008, eight plain-clothes policeman broke into the house where Ms. Wu Suqiong, her daughter and Ms. Zhao Fengying and forcibly took them away. While trying to stop them, Ms Zhao Fengying, who is in her sixties, was knocked down to the ground by policeman Cui Yuling. After another round of violent beating, Ms. Zhao and Ms. Wu's daughter were taken away. Bystanders witnessed the brutality of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policemen. The next day, the police took the three of them to the notorious Jinan Detention Centre. For refusing to cooperate with the persecution, Wu Suqiong suffered tremendous tortures and insults. She was beaten by guards, who instigated all the inmates (there are fifteen to sixteen of them in one cell) to attack her at the same time, beating and kicking her.
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• World Record Breaking Handicapped Athlete Suffers Brutal Persecution

  2008-09-12
  A champion handicapped athlete, a world record holder, has been tortured and otherwise persecuted for many years in China--persecuted for his belief in Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang Qingyuan had been taken into custody numerous times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. He was brutally tortured and in the end, forced to leave town. At the end of May 2008, just before the Olympic torch relay took place in Wuhan City, officials were looking for Mr. Zhang Qingyuan. They threatened his family, trying to find out where he was. They even searched the homes of his relatives, and certain family members were followed and placed under surveillance. On August 2nd, 2008, less than a week before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Mr. Zhang's younger sister, Ms. Zhang Zhen, a practitioner, was arrested
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• Persecution in the Shunyi District near Beijing Conducted by Officials Claiming to Be "Safeguarding the Olympics"

  2008-09-12
  The Shunyi District is north-east of Beijing and was to host the rowing and long-distance swimming competitions at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park for the 2008 Olympics. The police from the Shunyi National Security Bureau and the Domestic Security Division had compiled the documents of local Falun Gong practitioners into a special file, which included their names, ages, family members, acquaintances, and contact details. Practitioners then had to write a guarantee statement promising that they would give up practising Falun Gong, and they would not go out during the Olympics.
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