Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Older Ms. Chai Shuzhen Arrested Again for Telling People about the Persecution of Falun Gong
2008-08-24
On July 21st, 2008 Chai Shuzhen, in her 60s, was arrested again for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and sent to the Tangshan Forced Labour Camp on the 26th for a two-year term. In a previous detention a guard found her practising Falun Gong. The head of the detention centre had her handcuffed to a chair and ordered two guards to insert a tube into her through her nose to force feed her with an unknown drug. Liu said, "The reason you do the Falun Gong exercises is because you want to heal yourself. So we are going to give you medicine." After this torture, her stomach hurt and she could not eat more than half of a bowl of rice at each meal. -
An Impoverished Farmer Arrested after Making a Donation to the Sichuan Earthquake Crisis
2008-08-24Mr. Yin Zemin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hebei Province. When he learned of the recent 7.9-magnitude earthquake, he consulted with his family, then donated 500 yuan (which was a portion of the money the family saved for his father's medical care) to the devastated area relief efforts. However, Yin Zemin's kindness was rewarded instead with a search and seizure. On June 6th, 2008, Mr. Yin was arrested by officers from the Yongyang Town police station. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers declared that practitioners do not have money, therefore, someone with the resources to donate 500 yuan must be a "Falun Gong coordinator." On July 1st, he was taken to the Baoding Forced Labour Camp. -
Eleven Falun Gong Practitioners in Lingyuan City Arrested
2008-08-24On July 19th, eleven Falun Gong practitioners went to Taohuachi village in Liaoning province, to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Armed police officers arrested them and took them to the Pingfangzi police station. After they arrived at the police station, one of Falun Gong practitioners, Yun Guolin, was shot twice by police as he tried to escape. He was then handcuffed and beaten with electric batons, rubber clubs, fists, and foot kicks. The police also tortured the other ten practitioners with the electric batons and rubber clubs. All the while, police verbally belittled the Falun Gong practitioners. They were not allowed to eat, drink, or use the toilet. -
Elderly Women Visiting a Neighbour Arrested for "Unlawful Assembly" in Beijing
2008-08-23A group of a dozen police officers and officials went to the home of Ms. Zhang, an elderly Falun Gong practitioner in Chaoyang District, Beijing, on July 29th. They verbally abused her and ransacked her home. Three other practitioners, Ms. Zhai Shutian, 61; Ms. Han Ming, 62; and Ms. Zhou Liyan, 55, were visiting Ms. Zhang at the time. The police arrested them on grounds of "unlawful assembly." The three women are Ms. Zhang's friends and neighbours who are also residents of Chaoyang District. How could a few elderly women visiting a friend be construed as "unlawful assembly"? Were they really committing a crime? -
Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners Subjected to Cruel Torture in Yueyang City, Hunan Province
2008-08-23Practitioner Ms. Wang Ping was sent to the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City and held there for two years, while being subjected to various tortures. Guards forced her to stand for three days and nights continuously and then they handcuffed her for 24 hours. They subjected her to brainwashing and handcuffing if she didn't cooperate. Wang Ping experienced eight kinds of cuffing: back cuff, "five horses splitting a body" cuff, hanging up in the air while being cuffed, squatting while cuffed and others. Sometimes they forced her to sit on a small stool with ridges on the seat for an entire day. -
Unjust Trials for Several Falun Gong Practitioners at the Jiamusi Court
2008-08-23
Police arrested 26-year-old Ma Duo and sentenced her to three years in prison on May 23 , 2008. Her family got the notice on June 6th. Ma Duo and her family sent an appeal to a higher court and retained a Beijing lawyer to defend her. When her relative went to the Jiamusi Intermediate Court to go through normal trial procedure, more than ten officers from the Domestic Security division arrested four of her family members and his relatives in the presence of the lawyer. It is said the purpose of the arrest was to trace the person who hired the lawyer from Beijing. -
Investigation Lead: A Zhengzhou Hospital in Henan Province Found a Liver and Kidney for Transplant in Three Weeks
2008-08-23The horrifying discovery of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and the immediate cremation of their bodies to destroy evidence was first reported on March 4th, 2006. The Falun Dafa Association and Minghui website (the Chinese version of Clearwisdom) founded the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG) on April 4th, 2006. CIPFG is collecting evidence of the crime of organ harvesting. The following are several investigation leads obtained recently. We hope that people will continue to help us expose how Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted in re-education labour camps (also called forced labour camps), prisons, and hospitals in China, and help stop the persecution. -
Liu Xiumei Tortured to Death - Her Family Members Will Take Legal Action
2008-08-22Falun Gong practitioner Liu Xiumei was taken away from her home on July 10th, 2008 by police from the Developing Zone Police Station. On July 27th, her family members learned that Liu Xiumei had died as a result of being severely tortured. During her detention, Liu Xiumei's husband Wang Qinglu and their son went to the police station numerous times to inquire about her situation. Later, an official promised them that he would release Liu Xiumei on July 21st, but it never happened. Liu Xiumei's husband has now engaged a lawyer to take legal action over her death, and the lawyer needs the diagnosis report as evidence. But the police station and the hospital are shifting the responsibility to each other, and both refuse to provide the report. -
Nine Years of Persecution for Zhao Ting and Her Family in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province
2008-08-22In September 2002, police once again arrested my husband and sent him to Gongjiawan brainwashing centre. During that time the director of the facility brutally persecuted my husband. They handcuffed him for about one week. They forced my husband to tell them about my whereabouts. I was hoemless to avoid persecution. They released him after persecuting him for over 15 months. During that time, my 11-year old son lived alone and barely had enough food to eat. He spent every night in fear. -
Practitioner Cheng Zipeng's Whole Family Persecuted in Anlu City, Hubei Province
2008-08-22Communist Party officials sent 46-year-old practitioner Cheng Zipeng to Sanyang Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years in 2001. This labour camp is a living hell. It is the place where drug addicts, criminals, and guards abuse innocent detainees. Team leader Li forced Cheng Zipeng to stand facing a wall for eight hours. He had to stand on one leg in a snowy field. In the morning he had to squat in the military position. In the afternoon he had to sit on a small stool. He was forbidden to speak and use the toilet; forced to do physical labour; and dragged into the toilet by drug addicts who beat and kicked him. This gross abuse caused him to lose consciousness, and thus he was released on medical bail. -
Zhang Zongquan Persecuted and His Home Ransacked in Fengrun, Tangshan
2008-08-22On July 10th, 2008, police broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zongyuan. Without showing any ID, they ransacked his home, confiscating a motorcycle. Zhang Zongquan is unable to return home, as further persecution would be the almost certain result. In 1999, Zhang Zongquan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but was arrested. Police handcuffed his hands onto the edge of the bed, forced him to kneel down, and kicked him fiercely. In the 610 Office policemen beat practitioners' legs with lengths of wood, even attacking their faces. In the Fengrun Detention Centre policemen tortured practitioners with 'Deadly Strings.' 'Deadly Strings,' is to tie the hands behind the back, tie the whole body, and then hang it up. Generally, people become permanently handicapped within fifteen minutes from this torture. -
Ms. Wang Jinfeng Suffers Cruel Torture and Abuse at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2008-08-21Practitioner Ms. Wang Jinfeng was arrested and incarcerated at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province on March 5th, 2008. This time she was sentenced to two years of forced labour. On her fifth day she refused to be "reformed". Team leaders handcuffed her and hung her up. They handcuffed Ms. Wang to a metal torture device and stretched her arms. They gagged her and tied her legs to benches and then pulled the benches apart. Wang Jinfeng was in a great pain. Her cries echoed through the building. She could not move her arms, and the handcuffs injured her wrists, cutting into the flesh and exposing the bones. -
Police Relentlessly Persecute Ms. Liu Jinying, Former Deputy Chief of the Laishui County Appeals Office in Hebei Province, and Her Family
2008-08-21Since the beginning of 2008, the Communist personnel have used the excuse of "cleaning up" for the Olympics Games to further persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Liu Jinying's home was once again ransacked. She was harassed by the police who also confiscated a Falun Gong book. At this time Liu Jinying's husband, Mr. Zhang Dongsheng, is being incarcerated at Shijiazhuang's No. 4 Prison in Hebei Province. Before this, Liu Jinying has been arrested on numerous occasions. She was humiliated and in 2000 she was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment. She has been cruelly tortured at Taixing Prison of Hebei Province, and the No. 2 Women's Prison in Shijiazhuang. -
Chinese Communist Party in Baoding City Forces Local Businesses to Monitor Their Falun Gong Employees
2008-08-21The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Baoding City is forcing the local businesses to participate in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP is using the "stability of the Olympics" as an excuse for this newest wave of persecution. The photo below is a signed agreement between the Baoding Power Company and the CCP. The agreement states that the Baoding Power Company will monitor their employees who practise Falun Gong. The agreement also states that employees must monitor and report their relatives who practise Falun Gong. If they fail to spy on their own families around the clock, seven days a week, they will be fired. -
Formal Complaints Filed From Practitioners at the Sichuan Women's Forced Labour Camp
2008-08-21On March 10th, 2008, I was arrested by police. Police woman Gou Yongqiong was violent to wards me, and began slapping me on both sides of my face. She also kicked both of my legs with the boots that she was wearing. She insulted me at the same time, "You , I just want to beat you up." I demanded her name, in the name of justice. Her eyes were filled with anger and she yelled at me, "You listen to this carefully. My name is Gou Yongqiong. You ." Then she left the room, possibly due to being tired from beating and swearing at me. After a while, I heard Li Xia crying loudly, "They are assaulting me. The police are assaulting me. They are beating me to death. You are police for the people. How can you take the people's money and in return beat us up?"
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