Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting

• Ms. Liu Xiaomei of Shandong Province is Cruelly Persecuted

  2007-12-12
  Ms. Liu Xiaomei, 49, a peasant from Shandong Province, has been arrested, tortured and her home ransacked by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers many times since July 20th, 1999, for her belief in Falun Dafa and the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Her husband was also sentenced to nine years in prison because he exposed the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa. During the past eight years of persecution, the CCP officials have extorted 14,000 yuan from her, calling it "fines."
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• Police Officers in Heilongjiang Province Again Arrest Mr. Yang Libing and His Wife, Ms. Chen Guiqiu

  2007-12-12
  On the afternoon of November 8th, 2007, Mr. Yang Libing, a practitioner from Yicun City, was arrested by Jinshan Police Station officials and detained. Mr. Yang escaped and become destitute and homeless. His wife, Ms. Chen Guiqiu, was arrested on the street and is now held in Jinshantun Detention Centre. The couple's son, who needs to go to college, and the boy's grandmother now have no means of support. Since the persecution began in July 1999, Ms. Chen has been taken into custody six times and detained for over 300 days. In July 2000, Mr. Yang was jailed in Yichun Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. Over ten thousand yuan was extorted from the family by the local police before the two were released.
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• Mother and Son Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2007-12-12
  Ms. Xu Hui and her son, Mr. Cai Chao, both Falun Gong practitioners, were arrested in Beijing after they attempted to call attention to the persecution of Falun Gong by displaying a banner on July 20th, 2007, the eighth anniversary of the start of the persecution. They are now being brutally maltreated at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Since her arrival at the camp, Ms. Xu, 57, has been staging a hunger strike and has refused to do any forced labour. Therefore, the guards force-feed her every day. Since she has high blood pressure, the guards are including blood pressure drugs in the force-feedings. Mr. Cai is forced to work in the Xinshou Branch, where he is able to sleep only three or four hours a night. One finger on his right hand is now covered with dead skin, and another finger on his left hand has abscessed.
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• Incidents of Torture in Qidong County Detention Centre and Changsha City Women's Prison

  2007-12-11
  On March 27th, 2004, Qidong County Police officials arrested me as I distributed informational materials that explained the truth about Falun Gong and exposed the persecution. They incarcerated me in Shaoyang County Detention Centre. After I started a hunger strike to protest the detention, the police force-fed me and injured my throat in the process. Six days later they transferred me to Qidong County Detention Centre. While there, they hung me by one arm on a window frame for half a day, with my feet not even touching the floor. In addition, they tortured me with the "tiger bench" for six consecutive days. I was later sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for my belief in Falun Gong and served my term at Changsha City Women's Prison.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yi Xianmei Still Suffering Hardship Following Release from Three Years of Forced Labour

  2007-12-11
  Ms. Yi Xianmei returned home on April 20th, 2007 after serving three years of forced labour. She has suffered severe physical abuse and mental pressure due to persecution. Even now, her limbs are often in pain, itch and feel numb. When she has heartburn she vomits frequently and cannot seem to stop. Her entire family continues to struggle to make a living. Ms. Yi Xianmei was persecuted for eight years. The local police and 610 Office agents demanded a large amount of extortion money from her. She had no income for two years and four months because her employers refused to pay her. In 1999, Ms. Yi was also detained because she practises Falun Gong and forced to have an abortion.
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• Ms. Xing Junhua, Ms. Gao Chunlian and Other Practitioners Arrested

  2007-12-11
  After their arrests on October 12th, 2007, practitioners Ms. Xing Junhua, Ms. Gao Chunlian, Mr. Dong Hanjie and other practitioners were detained in the Zhuozhou City Police Department Criminal Police Section. They were each forced to sit on an "iron chair" for five days and six nights. Later they were transferred to the Zhuozhou City Detention Centre. At the time of this published article, they will have been detained for thirty eight days. Ms. Gao was tortured so severely that she was unable to stand. Her hands and feet were cold all the time and she needed other people to assist her when she used the toilet. She was barely recognisable and was on the verge of death. Mr. Dong showed the symptoms of high blood pressure and renal failure, and his legs were swollen.
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• Elderly Mr. Li Jiuzhi in Dehui City, Jilin Province Dies as a Result of Years of Police Harassment and Abuse

  2007-12-11
  Mr. Li Jiuzhi was a 77-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. Since the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, five of the six members of his family had been arrested. His third granddaughter is currently in custody. In the past three years, Mr. Li lived a lonely life. He was gravely concerned about his loved ones who had to leave town to avoid arrest or who were wrongfully imprisoned. He had been tormented by worry, loneliness, and thoughts of his children and grandchildren. Local police officers constantly came to his home late at night to harass him, demanding cash and information on the whereabouts of his family members. Mr. Li had been under extreme pressure and suffered from a great amount psychological pain. On October 31st, 2007, Mr. Li Jiuzhi died.
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• Sixty Falun Gong Practitioners Being Tortured at Deyang Prison in Sichuan Province

  2007-12-10
  Currently, Communist regime agents still detain more than 60 practitioners in Deyang Prison. At times, over 100 practitioners have been detained there. Eighty-year-old Mr. Yang Shouming is the oldest. Younger practitioners detained there include college students and graduate students. They were sentenced up to 10 years in jail for practising Falun Gong. The police officers were told to use every means to "reform" the practitioners. During the day, all practitioners were forced to work alongside criminal inmates. During breaks, however, these inmates were allowed to rest, but practitioners were forced to stand with their heads bent down and some were punched and kicked. As a result of torture, Wu Shihai lost several teeth, was mentally traumatised, and became partially paralysed and permanently disabled.
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• Yang Peizhan from Hubei Province and Fang Xinzhi from Hebei Province Died Due to Persecution

  2007-12-10
  Mr. Yang Peizhan, 73, recovered from multiple diseases as a result of practising Falun Gong. Because of his informing people about the persecution of Falun Gong and dispelling the state propaganda attacking the practice, Mr. Yang was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2003 and was detained at Shayang Prison Camp in Hubei Province. He was severely persecuted there, and as a result he often had blood in his urine and developed oedema all over his body. In order to avoid responsibility for Ms. Yang's death, the Communist Party agents allowed him to be released on bail for medical treatment in December 2006. However, the persecution had caused too much damage to his health, and Yang Peizhan died on July 15th, 2007.
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• Married Couple from Linqu County, Shandong Province, Arrested Again and Their Factory Property Confiscated

  2007-12-10
  Mr. Xue Qingguo and his wife, Ms. Xu Guifeng, started to practise Falun Gong in 1997. Mr. Xue's temper became much better and Ms. Xu Guifeng's health improved and her breast cancer was cured without any medicine. Since July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted Falun Gong, and Mr. Xue Qingguo's family was broken up. In 2001, Mr. Xue was sentenced to three years of forced labour and suffered all kinds of torture in Changle Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Xu Guifeng was also seized by the head of the 610 Office, taken to the brainwashing centre, and was tormented for many days. In November 2007, the couple was arrested again. The police took away all their factory property and detained them at the Longgang Police Station.
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• Guangzhou City Police Confiscate Ms. Zhou Lianzhang's Belongings Worth Ten Thousand Yuan

  2007-12-10
  On October 31st, 2007, several officials and police broke down the door and handcuffed 74-year-old Ms. Zhou Lianzhang. They ransacked boxes and chests, wilfully causing damage to things and making a mess. According to incomplete figures, they confiscated Ms. Zhou's treasured Falun Gong books, more than two thousand yuan cash, and some gold jewellery. These items were worth ten thousand yuan, and the invaders did not issue a list of items they took away. When her relatives reported the stolen property to the police and asked for the items' return, the police station clerk denied what had happened and berated the relatives, calling them liars.
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• Persecution of Practitioners in Guan County, Shandong Province - Three Practitioners Dead

  2007-12-09
  Mr. Ren Zijing was sentenced to one-and-a-half years forced labour in October 2005. In the labour camp, he suffered brainwashing and torture. He was deprived of sleep, forced to sit on a small stool for long periods, scolded, beaten and forced to endure long-term force-feeding. The tube used for force-feeding was left in his stomach for days and disintegrated in his stomach, which caused him to suffer a lot and vomit. Because of the long-term persecution in the labour camp, he became a skeleton and was dying. He was then sent back home.
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• Xu Guangdao Died as a Result of Torture - His Younger Brother Is Now Brutally Tortured

  2007-12-09
  In 2001, Mr. Xu Guangdao went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and he was arrested and held in a detention centre. Because he went on a hunger strike for the right to practise the Falun Gong exercises, he was beaten many times and tortured with electric needles. Prisoners carried him back to the cell following the beating. He died that evening in February 2001. Recently, his brother has also suffered brutal treatment in police custody.
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• Police from Panshan City, Liaoning Province Deliberately Shoot a Falun Gong Practitioner

  2007-12-09
  On the evening on November 13th, 2007, three police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioners Wang Jieming and Zhang Dalin, who were driving by in their car. Wang Jieming was handcuffed with his arms behind his back. The police beat him to the ground and made him lie on his stomach. One policeman then shot him in the buttocks. The bullet went out the other side. The police sent him to hospital without notifying his family. Wang Jieming is forced to wear handcuffs when he sleeps and is guarded by a number of police officers on shifts. No one is permitted to visit him.
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• Practitioner Gao Guofen Hung Up in the Air for Ten Days

  2007-12-09
  On September 29th, 2007, Gao Guofen, a practitioner imprisoned at the Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, was hung up in a metal cage for ten days simply for saying, "Falun Dafa is good" during a labour camp meeting. She also said, "Please stop the persecution." She was brutally beaten by a group of guards, hung up in a metal cage (see illustration) and forbidden to sleep for ten days. Her toilet use was restricted, the food she received was scarce. The persecution made Gao Guofen unable to stand. Her legs and hands were swollen, hands trembling.
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