Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Older Practitioner Mr. Xu Linshan from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, Has Died as a Result of Persecution
2008-03-04In October 2002, Mr. Xu Linshan, 57, was sentenced to five years in prison. Guards tortured him by stabbing him with needles, force-feeding him highly concentrated salt water, locking him in strictly monitored cell, etc. By 2004, his femur was broken, making him bedridden. He developed swelling in his whole body, cirrhosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, kidney failure, purulent meningitis, etc. He was as thin as a skeleton, jaundiced, blurry minded, and suffered loss of memory. He was dying when he was "bailed out for medical treatment." Mr. Xu was picked up by his family on December 31st, 2005. He was totally paralyzed yet the local police and neighbourhood administration still harassed him many times. He died on February 11th, 2008. -
Mr. Zhang Shunjie from Weizhou Town, Wei County, Hebei Province, Died as a Result of Severe Persecution
2008-03-04Mr. Zhang Shunjie was 41 years old. Because he refused to give up the practice of Falun Gong, he was cruelly beaten many times by the agents of the 610 Office, police and Wei County Detention Centre. The backs of his hands severely swelled up from the beatings. The palms of his hands and his body had been burned by the stove hook and cigarette butts. His skin was burned and black where he had been shocked with electric batons. Mr. Zhang suffered from many serious diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage, heart disease, and pneumonia, and for several years he frequently felt dizzy, experienced chest pain, spat up blood and had asthma. Over time these symptoms became more severe. On December 15th, 2007, Mr. Zhang Shunjie died an unjust death due to the persecution. -
Cruel Incidents of Persecution I was Subjected to at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2008-03-04In September 2001, Yi County police arrested and imprisoned me at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for two years and four months. I experienced all kinds of excruciating persecution there. In attempts to force me to abandon my Falun Gong practice, they subjected me to many types of abuse. For example, my hands were cuffed behind my back to the radiator water pipe. I could only sit on a very small chair, with my legs protruding. My arms became black and blue, and my legs could hardly support me, and experienced penetrating pain. Later, they removed the small chair and made me sit on the concrete floor. I experienced many other kinds of torture as well. -
More Than a Dozen Shanghai Practitioners Arrested at Home While Watching the Chinese New Year Splendour on NTDTV
2008-03-03At around 9:00 a.m. on February 22nd, 2008, more than one dozen practitioners were arrested while watching the New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Splendour in Mr. Ma Guobiao's home. Police ransacked the home and detained Mr. Ma and his parents at the Jiading District Detention Centre. The remaining practitioners are being detained at their home district detention centres. The NTDTV Chinese New Year Splendour is performed by the Divine Performing Arts Company to promote five thousand years of genuine traditional Chinese culture. The arrest of Mr. Ma's family and other practitioners is an example of how Chinese people do not have the right to watch this show in the privacy of their own homes. -
Wuhan Police Forcibly Barge Into "Winter Study Camp" and Detain Teachers, Parents and Children
2008-03-03On February 11th, 2008, a group of parents, children and teachers were holding a "winter study camp" activity at the Chailin Hotel in the Yujiatou Community, Wuchang District of Wuhan City. The focus of their activity was to study the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and how to apply the principles in daily life in order to be a good person. In the afternoon, more than 10 police officers from the first Division of the Wuhan Police Department led by the Division Chief Lu, barged into the Chailin Hotel and detained teachers Ms. Chen Man, Ms. Xiong Yingzhi, a dozen or so children and some of the parents. The police videotaped the children and the parents. A dozen or so children were isolated from their parents and the police shouted at the children whose parents were not present. -
Beijing Police Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners "So That the Olympic Games Can Proceed Smoothly"
2008-03-03The Olympic Games will be held in Beijing this year. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has already started to arrest Falun Gong practitioners en masse in the various districts and townships of Beijing. They claim that this is necessary for the Olympic Games to proceed smoothly. Ms. Li Yuejin was laid off at work several years ago because she practises Falun Gong. On February 19th, 2008, about a dozen police officers surrounded her home. The police forcibly entered Ms. Li Yuejin's home and searched it several times, but they did not find the "evidence" they wanted. After they took away Ms. Li Yuejin and her computer, the police informed her family that the computer contained information about Falun Gong. However, Ms. Li's family knows she does not know how to use the computer. Ms. Li Yuejin is detained but her whereabouts are unknown. -
How Officials at Hubei Province Brainwashing Centre Mentally Torment Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-03-03Officials at the Hubei "Legal and Law Education" Centre--the Brainwashing Centre at Yangxun Lake--persecute Falun Gong practitioners by mental torment to try to force them to abandon the practice of Falun Gong. They have set up an overall system that involves detaining practitioners in a sealed prison environment and using three groups of people--called "accompanying educators," "helping educators" and police--to mentally torment them and persecute them. -
Mr. Liu Zenglin, in His Seventies, of Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Torture
2008-03-02Mr. Liu Zenglin, who was over 70 years old, was arrested in June 2004 when he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Police tried to force him to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong, but Mr. Liu refused to do so. Consequently, he was brutally tortured until he displayed symptoms of a stroke. He then spent two years of brutal persecution in a labour camp, where Mr. Liu became extremely weak and emaciated. When Mr. Liu returned home, he was very weak, could not eat, and coughed terribly every day. After being tortured both mentally and physically, Mr. Liu died an unjust death on February 9th, 2008. -
Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison Cruelly Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners
2008-03-02Practitioner Ms. He Lihua was having her period and when she went to use the toilet, the personal cangues did not untie the rope that tied her hands behind her back. Blood stained her trousers and as a result the cangues swore at her and slapped her face. Some time later this practitioner suffered a mental collapse and was taken to the sick ward. Now the guards have taken her to the "Intensive Assault Division" in an attempt to force her to renounce Falun Gong. Guo Xiaohua tied practitioner Ms. Zhu Fuju's hands behind her back and hung her up. As a result of the intense brutality, her left arm was disabled. She could no longer could raise her arm and there was a red scar on her right wrist. -
Couple from Henan Province Persecuted--Eleven Year-Old Son Left to Handle the Burden
2008-03-02Mr. Li Qinjun and his wife Ms. Zhang Xiaorong went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result they were detained by police and beaten severely. This repeatedly happened. In 2007 Mr. Li Qinjun was arrested again and detained in Sanlizhuang Detention Centre. Later, Mr. Ms. Zhang was arrested by police without a valid reason and detained in the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp. During her detention, Ms. Zhang was tortured until she became mentally disordered. Their eleven-year-old son, Li Longkun, had to do the housework and take care of his five-year-old sister, Li Jingyu. -
Practitioners Held in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Want Their Persecutors Brought to Justice
2008-03-02On February 15th, 2008, when practitioner Mr. Zhao Jian, detained in the Third Ward of First Branch of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, shouted out, "Falun Gong is good" and "Stop persecution of Falun Gong", in the cafeteria, the camp guards ordered inmate Hong Fei to severely beat him. Afterwards, all of the practitioners in the Third Ward refused to do any labour to protest the brutality. Practitioners Chen Yan and Wang Jufeng began hunger strikes and demanded that their persecutors be brought to justice. Practitioners in the First Ward and the Second Ward have since joined the hunger strikes. -
Practitioner Mr. Bai Yingjie of Harbin City Died from Persecution
2008-03-01Mr. Bai Yingjie was persecuted so extensively that he became critically ill in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. After he was released at the end of 2004, officers of the local police station and staff members from the residential district office harassed and threatened him in his home. Under the long-term persecution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), he passed away on August 30th, 2007. -
Eight Years of Persecution Endured by Dr. Jiafeng Zeng
2008-03-01Police once again arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Dr. Zeng Jiafeng from Shanghai on February 10th, 2008. This is his sixth arrest since the Chinese Communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. Previously he was in forced labour camps suffering a variety of inhumane treatments including long-term sitting on a hard bench and being forbidden to move, corporal punishment, military drills, brainwashing, forced labour, verbal insults, and other abuses. -
My Experiences in Prison and Being Tortured
2008-03-01On July, 7th, 2007, I went to another practitioner's house. I was arrested by a policeman who was there to arrest the other practitioner. We were taken to the Hanbei Police Station. I did not tell the policeman my name. The policeman hit my face when he lost his temper. When night fell, I was not allowed to sleep again and once more I was forced to stand. I still did not cooperate with them, so they beat me some more. Later a group of policemen surrounded me and started to beat me. I later suffered a heart attack and was in a very serious state. The police from the Xinshi District Department then agreed to release me. Originally I had 7,750 yuan in my handbag. When they grabbed my bag to count the cash there was suddenly only 5,550 yuan, 2,000 yuan less. -
Persecution Suffered by Two Practitioners in Yi County, Liaoning Province
2008-03-01Ms. Gan Zhixi is 64-years-old. In 1999 Ms. Gan went to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested and detained for five and a half months in a detention centre. In 2000, after appealing again, she was sentenced to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for three years and in 2005 she was again sent to the labour camp.