Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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The Despicable Conduct of the Police in Kouqian Town, Yongji County, Jilin Province
2008-06-06As the 2008 Beijing Olympics approach, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is intensifying its persecution of peaceful Falun Gong practitioners. The Party claims this is necessary to ensure "a successful Olympics." Party officials such as the director of the 610 Office of Yongji County closely follow orders from the Central Committee of the CCP. In the beginning of March 2008, they arrested two teachers from Beidahu Town Primary School, Ms. Wang Jing and Xu Qing. They deceived Ms. Wang Jing by telling her that they would pay her salary while she was detained in a forced labour camp and then arrested her. She has been detained for more than two months, and family visits are not allowed. -
Recent Crimes Committed by Kunshan 610 Office and Domestic Security Division Agents
2008-06-06When Mr. Zhu Xingfu, 58, and other practitioners raised a banner at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to announce their disagreement of the persecution of Falun Gong with the regime sometime between July 20th, 1999 and 2001, a group of police officers violently beat them before sending them to a detention centre in a Beijing suburb. The police there greeted them with punches, kicks and slaps in the face. Mr. Zhu's face and mouth were bloody and bruised. The police continued to beat him the next day. A policeman kicked him so hard that he fell to the ground. The policeman stomped on his body and continued kicking him. Mr. Zhu could not even stand up. They stripped him of his clothes and continued to beat him. His knees were injured so badly that he could not move his legs. -
Practitioner Violently Beaten to Death in Jiangsu Province
2008-06-05A male Falun Gong practitioner was arrested in May 2006 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Shibei Town, Jiangsu Province. The police took him into custody at the Shibei Town Station, and then detained him in the Kunshan City Detention Centre. The detention centre transferred a group of prisoners from the Xinjiang prisons so that they could be employed to violently "punish" the people arrested. This practitioner was soon beaten to death by the encouraged prisoners. -
What I Know about Mr. Gu Qun, Who Died in a Detention Centre on April 8th
2008-06-05To stand up for Falun Gong during the persecution, Mr. Gu Qun took the train to Beijing to appeal in February 2000. He was arrested, escorted back to Dalian, and then detained at the drug rehabilitation centre. After his appeal in Beijing, Mr. Gu was arrested six times, detained, sentenced to forced labour, and severely persecuted. On March 16th, 2008, Mr. Gu Qun was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. Police officers arrested him. The next day he was taken to Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City and was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. Before he was escorted to the forced labour camp, in the morning on April 8th, Mr. Gu died in Yaojia Detention Centre. Only 23 days had passed between the time of his arrest and his death as a result of torture. -
Crimes Committed by Hulan Prison's Training Team
2008-06-05For newly arriving practitioners, the Training Team first uses threats and inducements. After that, they force the practitioner to stand for 16 to 17 hours at a time, and sometimes for 24 hours in a row. They also subject practitioners to a torture where the practitioner is first pushed down to the ground, face down. They then pull his arms up behind his back and then force them forward. At the same time, they pull his legs apart. Some practitioners' arms were dislocated, and they fainted from the pain. Another method of torture is solitary confinement. The solitary compartment has rings attached to the floor, and the guards fix the practitioners' hands and feet in the rings, immobilizing him on the ground. -
Zhang Sulan and Her Son from Linghe District, Jinzhou City Sent to a Forced Labour Camp
2008-06-05Ms. Zhang Sulan and her son are Falun Gong practitioners who live in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. In the past few years, they have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and have been unable to live in their own house. They remained homeless for as long as seven years. On the afternoon of April 12th, 2008, they were arrested by police from the Liuhua Police Station in Linghe District, Jinzhou City, and were locked up in the Jinzhou City 2nd Detention Centre. Currently, they are both detained in forced labour camps. -
Zhou Yongkang Secretly Ordered the Arrests of 50 Practitioners in Shenyang City
2008-06-04Around May 24th-26th, many practitioners went missing in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Among these, twenty-four were arrested in one night in Dongling District. Another practitioner was also missing and her paralysed mother has been left at home without anyone to care for her. An internal source revealed that when Party Political and Judiciary Committee Chief Zhou Yongkang arrived in Shenyang City, he secretly ordered the arrests of 50 practitioners. Now we have confirmed at least 30 that were arrested, with many more suffering brutal treatment, and many families living in terror. Mr. Miao Qisheng, has been tortured to death by police officers in Shenyang City. His wife Zu Liming was also arrested on May 24th, 2008. Their son Miao Yumeng (nicknamed Mengmeng), once again lives alone. -
Please Help Falun Gong Practitioner Li Feng, Who Is Being Persecuted at the No. 4 Prison of Shijiazhuang City
2008-06-04Because he was involved in broadcasting a TV programme about the persecution of Falun Gong, practitioner Mr. Li Feng was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment at the No. 4 Prison of Shijiazhuang City. Torture in the prison damaged his health, as Li Feng developed heart disease and high blood pressure in late 2005. His family requested that the prison allow Li Feng to go home and receive treatment, but their request was rejected. They were told that Li Feng had not been "transformed" yet. -
Atrocities against Falun Gong Practitioners at Liaoning Province Women's Prison
2008-06-04Practitioner Liu Guifen was in her 50s when agents from the Benxi City Court sentenced her to eight years in prison in 2002. She was brutally tortured with many inhuman methods, including the "Tiger Bench". Practitioner Wang Chunxiang is in her 50s. The Dandong City Court sentenced her to eight years in prison in 2007. She has since been held at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. A prison guard ordered inmates to whack Wang Chunxiang in the head with the soles of hard boots and kick her in the genitals because she persisted in her belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. -
Mr. Zhou Xiangyang and Mr. Li Yuanyong Brutally Mistreated in Gangbei Prison, Tianjin City
2008-06-04Zhou Xiangyang, 32, was sentenced to nine years in prison and taken to Gangbei Prison in Tianjin City. In 2005, prison guards confined Mr. Zhou in a solitary cell simply because he protested the brainwashing he was forced to endure. Mr. Li Yuanyong was determined not to wear the prison uniform [Note: because practitioners have committed no crime and should not be incarcerated, they sometimes protest the persecution by refusing to wear the prison uniform, recite the prison regulations, or do forced labour]. The eight inmates who monitored Mr. Li beat him. -
Painter Ms. Xu Na Imprisoned in the Seventh Section of the Beijing Police Department
2008-06-03Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Na, 40 is a well-known painter. Her husband Mr. Yu Zhou, a famous Chinese folk singer, was tortured to death by police during the Chinese New Year. Ms. Xu Na is currently being imprisoned in Beijing. Her trial has been put on hold because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is afraid of international attention to her and her husband. Ms. Xu has overcome many difficulties to appeal for justice in the case of her husband's death while she is still in prison. -
Ms. Song Yulian and Ms. Gao Guofeng Tortured in Heilongjiang Province
2008-06-03Ms. Song Yulian is currently detained at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. Guards tortured Ms. Song with the "big hang up" and shocked her with electric batons, but were unable to force her to write the three statements to renounce Falun Gong or succumb to the brainwashing. Another Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Gao Guofeng, is also detained in the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp. Her tail bone is fractured due to brutal beatings by the guards, and she suffers from starvation. -
Practitioners Unjustly Tried by Suizhong County Court, Liaoning Province
2008-06-03On May 12th and 13th, 2008, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents from Suizhong County in Huludao City of Liaoning Province manipulated court staff to carry out an illegal trial against nine Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Zhou Yingchun and Ms.Yang Zhaoying were tried while they were confined to their beds at Suizhong County Hospital with IVs and on oxygen. During the process of the so-called trial, Ms. Yang had a heart attack, her hands and legs were shaking non-stop and doctors and nurses in the hospital had to resuscitate her. When this happened, court staff Guan Shulin and people from the procuratorate read the bureaucratic documents very fast and then just a few minutes later, they quickly left. -
Mr. Song Bangfu and Other Practitioners in Guizhou Province Brutally Tortured
2008-06-03On May 8th, 2008, practitioner Mr. Song Bangfu was arrested at another practitioner's home. He was beaten by seven or eight police officers. The police then dragged him away. The onlookers said his face was a mess from the beating. His whole body was covered with injuries. His belt was used to tie his hands behind his back. Besides his belt, the police also used some ropes and handcuffs to tie his hands. The handcuffs were so tight that they cut into his flesh and his wrists were bleeding, and his trousers were pulled down. The police dragged him and beat him at the same time. Mr. Song Bangfu has still not been released. Police continue to interrogate him around the clock. -
Jiujiang City "610 Office" Agents in Jiangxi Province Arrest Many Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-06-02Officials from the Jiujiang Domestic Security Department, the Politics and Law Committee, and the 610 Office recently commenced another round of persecution and suppression of Falun Gong under the pretext of "Olympic Safety" and "Harmonious Society." Besides sending citizens "public letters" via mobile phone text message to emphasize the "urgency" of this campaign, they hired more than one thousand local security men--mostly jobless and retired people--to monitor, harass and arrest practitioners, in complete violation of the Chinese constitution.