Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• Mr. Li Shimin Suffers a Torture-Induced Nervous Breakdown

  2008-03-27
  Mr. Li Shimin, in his 30s, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, Police in Beijing arrested and beat him. At a detention centre a doctor injected him with unknown substances. The local police ransacked his home and arrested his wife, leaving his two young children home alone. Officers extorted 2,300 yuan from his father before releasing his wife. Li Shimin was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and was taken to the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp where he was brutally tortured. He was locked in solitary confinement, had to endure the Tiger Bench and was subjected torture with electric shock batons, savage beatings, the "Big Hang-up" and sleep deprivation as well as injections with unknown substances. He was released after 16 months of detention but then suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of unspeakable and long-term cruelties.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Chong Cunjie from Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2008-03-26
  Mr. Chong Cunjie, 63 years old, was an employee of the Hebei Province Forced Labour Camp. In 1999, the Hengshui City Legal Bureau arrested him for practising Falun Gong. All of the Labour Camp employees pleaded that Mr. Chong be released, but he was sentenced to two years in prison. On February 13th, 2002, he escaped arrest by climbing down a pipe from the fourth floor of his home building. However, he was arrested on March 16th, 2002. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and released on March 16th, 2007. Mr. Chong was fired from his job. He had an 89-year-old mother and young grandson to care for. Mr. Chong's health was severely damaged from being imprisoned for seven years. He died of a heart attack in hospital on February 5th, 2008.
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• Practitioner Zhang Chun from Wuhan City Dies in Custody

  2008-03-26
  Practitioner Zhang Chun (gender unknown) lived in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Zhang Chun was arrested while posting up information about the persecution on the night of March 14th, 2008. Several days later, the Wuhan City Seventh Hospital staff suddenly notified the family that the practitioner died of a "stroke," and insisted on immediately cremating the body.
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• Mr. Zhou Qingyu Died in Detention

  2008-03-26
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Qingyu, 67, was a retired worker from Dajiang Factory in Chongqing City. He was arrested in early 2007, and sentenced to forced labour. He had been detained at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City. During a training session in July 2007, prisoner Li Liang hit Mr. Zhou in the head with his palm, which caused head pain. Mr. Zhou suffered from a stroke on the night of December 29th, 2007, and died.
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• Practitioner Fu Guichun Is Disabled after Forced Abortion, Imprisonment and Torture

  2008-03-26
  In May 2002, because she is a Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Fu Guichun was arrested by police and 610 Office officials. They detained her at the Wuyiling Forestry Detention Centre. At that time, even though she was several months pregnant, she was severely tortured by police, who tried to force her to denounce Falun Gong. Chinese Communist officials performed a forced abortion on Ms. Fu using despicable means, and she was sentenced on the basis of fabricated crimes to an eight-year prison term in Heilongjiang Women's Prison. Because of severe persecution, Ms. Fu Guichun developed a serious case of diabetes, rendering her unable to care for herself. Nevertheless, the prison is still detaining her and subjecting her to ongoing persecution.
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• Ms. Jia Yan Dies in Police Custody in Heilongjiang Province

  2008-03-25
  Ms. Jia Yan lived in Mulan County, Heilongjiang Province. On December 6th, 2007, Ms. Jia Yan was arrested along with three other practitioners by police. The four practitioners were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in a village at the time of their arrest. They were detained in Tieli City Detention Centre (under the Forestry Police Department). Ms. Jia' family received a call three months later that Ms. Jia Yan had died.
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• Wang Guiming Tortured to Death, His Wife, Threatened after Appealing on His Behalf, Is Afraid to Go Home

  2008-03-25
  Mr. Wang Guiming was arrested by police and sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City on February 27th, 2008. On February 29th, at the age of 38, he died as a result of torture in the labour camp. His wife, Han Fengxia, appealed on behalf of her husband. As a result Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities from the police station and the street and community administration offices have threatened her many times. Right now she is too frightened to go home.
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• Ms. Zhou Huimin Dies in Police Custody in Sichuan Province

  2008-03-25
  In September 2007, police arrested Ms. Zhou Huimin and ransacked her home. She was then taken to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. Later she was detained at the Chengdu City Detention Centre. On February 1st, 2008, the Domestic Security Division of Wuhou District Police Department issued an "arrest warrant" for Ms. Zhou, although she had already been in custody for five months. She went on hunger strike to protest the persecution. On February 5th, guards took her to hospital. On March 10th, a friend of Ms. Zhou heard a Domestic Security Agent say that Ms. Zhou was dying. State Security agents in Sichuan Province Police Department ordered that she not be released. The police replied, "Let her die where she is." Ms. Zhou died at 5:30 a.m. on March 13th, 2008.
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• Mr. Zhang Zhijun Tortured to Death in Xi'an City Prison, Shaanxi Province

  2008-03-25
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhijun had been arrested and incarcerated because he practised Falun Gong. On February 23rd, 2008, his family received a call that Mr. Zhang had died, and they rushed to the Xi'an City Prison in Shaanxi Province. The prison administration refused to let the family see Mr. Zhang's body. Finally, under the family's persistent demands, they were allowed to see Zhang Zhijun's body. His face was so bloated that it was very difficult to look at. There were obvious purple and blue rope marks on his neck. His family demanded legal representation, but lawyers present said that the higher officials had already ordered legal counsel. No one dared to accept this case. The police cremated the body on February 24th, 2008.
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• Practitioners from Beijing Tortured in the Inner Mongolia Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-03-24
  Some practitioners were tortured so severely that their menstruation would not stop. Guard Wu Jing (female) incited the criminals to poke a bundle of rough chopsticks into the mouth of practitioner Ms. Yu Haiyan. Ms. Yu's face and mouth were badly bruised, covered with blood, and appeared to be purple. Her swollen lips curled upwards. The guards continued to lock her in the storage room, hang her up in the air by handcuffs, and order the drug-addicts to pummel her. She was put down and then hung up again, causing her to faint many times. This kind of torture would be carried out once every few days and has become a routine.
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• Older Practitioner Mr. Xiao Feng and His Wife Unjustly Arrested

  2008-03-24
  On January 21st, 2008 at around 6:00 a.m., seventy-year-old retired senior engineer Xiao Feng, a practitioner who lived in a village inside Shenzhen City, was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in his area when two local police and public security agents caught him. They tried to force him to lead the way to other practitioners' homes in order to confiscate a large number of fliers. He refused, so they arrested Xiao Feng's wife, Qian Huarui (60 years old) in their home, and took both of them to the village police station. On the same night at around 8:00 p.m., the two were transferred to a detention centre and have been locked up there since.
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• Several Practitioners Arrested Recently in Baoding, Hebei Province

  2008-03-24
  Ms. Liu Lifang, female, 44 years old, works at the China Bank near Chaoyang Road. On the evening of March 11th, 2008, she went home after work. Four or five policemen from the National Security Team searched her home and took her away. The police confiscated her Falun Gong books and other personal property. Presumably she is detained by the National Security Team, although there is no real way of finding out. Her thirteen year-old daughter was left alone at home with no one to take care of her.
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• Mr. Zhai Mouchen from Zibo City, Shandong Province, Is Being Subjected to Relentless, Long-Term Persecution

  2008-03-24
  On January 28th, 2008, Mr. Zhai Mouchen, a Falun Gong practitioner, was taken into custody from his workplace by officers of the State Security Division. Afterwards, his home was searched without a warrant. Later, he was taken to the Zibo City Detention Centre and brutally tortured. Mr. Zhai was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to the notorious Shandong Province Forced Labour Camp. In 2000, Mr. Zhai was sentenced to three years of forced labour. In Zibo Forced Labour Camp, his legs developed a deep ulceration due to electric shock injuries that didn't heal for a long time.
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• Five Older Falun Gong Practitioners from Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Heilongjiang and Henan Provinces Died Due to Persecution

  2008-03-23
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cheng Fagui, who was around 53 years old, was arrested on December 11th, 2006 and sent to a forced labour camp for one year. She endured innumerable sufferings from the brutal torture. She was also force-fed with unknown drugs. Ms. Cheng was finally released on November 12th, 2007, but she died soon after in 2008. Ms. Wang Yulan was around 58 years of age. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang was harassed, threatened, arrested, confined and forced to attend a brainwashing session. She was brutally persecuted and placed under surveillance by the local authorities. Wang Yulan was devastated by the brutal torture and persecution. Because of the pressure, she developed headaches, vomiting, dizziness and heart problems. She left the world on January 10th, 2008.
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• Practitioner Ms. Zhou Huimin Tortured To Brink of Death

  2008-03-23
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Huimin was arrested on the evening of September 26th, 2007. On February 1st, 2008, police took her to the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province. Ms. Zhou Huimin has been on hunger strike to protest her arrest and the persecution of Falun Gong. She was taken to Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City on February 5th, and she is reportedly now in a coma. She cannot speak and her life is in danger. Local Party authorities have told her family to prepare for her death.
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