Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Ms. Deng Xinyue and Others Arrested and Beaten by Police from the National Security Team of Hetang Police Department, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province
2007-11-05While Ms. Deng Xinyue, 48, was shopping with other practitioners they were arrested when they began telling people in a shop about the goodness of Falun Dafa and explained that practitioners are innocent people being wrongfully persecuted. Head of the National Security Team He (first name unknown) interrogated Ms. Deng Xinyue. Officer He pulled her hair, violently shook her, and used all of his strength to beat her head and face. Then another big, strong police officer continued beating her until all her teeth were loose, and she had difficulty walking and breathing. Her hands were cuffed so tightly behind her that the cuffs caused lacerations across her wrists and hands. She nearly lost her life from the abuse. -
Mental Hospital in Chongqing Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioner
2007-11-05For the month of October, Huang Zhenglan, a woman in her 40s, from rural China was imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital in Chongging City because of her belief in Falun Gong. She is now receiving forced injections of unknown drugs twice a day. If she refused the drugs, they would coil a rope around her entire body not only making it difficult to move but almost impossible to breathe. The database for Rescuing Falun Gong practitioners shows that Huang was healthy before she was kidnapped. However, during her imprisonment in the labour camp in 2005, she had symptoms of some mental disorder. -
Ms. Liu Xiaoqin from Hunan Province Repeatedly Loses Consciousness While Forced to Stand on Bamboo Sticks and Being Beaten While Hung Up
2007-11-05Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaoqin was arrested on September 30th, 2007 by the police from Longshan County and agents from the Huayuan County 610 Office. Her house was ransacked and she was taken to Longshan County Police Station where she was tortured brutally. She was hung in the air while handcuffed. She was beaten with a leather whip and later forced to walk on sharp thin bamboo sticks that were stapled to the floor. The pain was excruciating and she lost consciousness a few times. -
Mr. Gong Maocheng from Mengyin, Shandong Province Brutally Tortured and Persecuted Financially
2007-11-04In September 2006, police arrested Mr. Gong Maocheng because he continued to practise Falun Gong. He was detained in a detention centre where the police brutally tortured him. The police covered his head with a black plastic bag and then beat him, which caused his mouth and nose to bleed. They did not stop until he fainted. His hands were handcuffed from the back and then he was hung on a heating pipe. He was only able to touch the ground with his toes. He was hung this way for 24 days. The police forced him to sit on a "tiger bench" and slapped his face. When the police became tired of slapping, they beat him with their shoes. Since 2000, Mr. Gong Maocheng has been extorted for nearly 124,500 yuan. -
Former Dongfeng Automobile Company Official Ms. Zhang Shoufeng Persecuted for Eight Years
2007-11-04Former secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Dongfeng Automobile Company, Ms. Zhang Shoufeng, was an honest official. For the past eight years, she has been subjected to persecution, detention, and forced brainwashing for her belief in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." In mid-November 2003, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to five years in prison. She is still in prison. Those practitioners that were not "transformed", such as Ms. Zhang, were locked in a separate room. A team consisting of 6 to 10 trained criminals was set up to persecute practitioners. Practitioners were not allowed to fall asleep or go to the toilet. They forced practitioners to sit all day long in an upright posture. It is very difficult for people to maintain that position for 24 hours a day. Ms. Zhang was tortured like this for more than three months, and her blood pressure reached 200. -
Husband and Wife Practitioners Han Xianji and Ren Guirong Suffer Persecution in Nanchong City, Sichuan Province
2007-11-04In August 2007, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in the local government in Shendian Township started a new round of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They broadcast it to the entire town and encouraged the villagers to report Falun Gong practitioners. Local government officials declared that whoever reported a practitioner would get a 200 yuan reward; whoever turned in a Falun Gong poster would get a 100 yuan reward; and whoever found out about a Falun Gong gathering would get a reward of up to 1,000 yuan. On August 9th, practitioners Ren Guirong and Han Xianji exposed the persecution of Falun Gong and explained the importance of quitting the CCP to Tang Shenghua. Tang Shenghua, however, lured by the temptation of rewards, reported the couple to authorities. As a result, Tang received the 200 yuan reward. -
Persecution at the No. 7 Division of Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-04Practitioner Li Baolin, who is in his sixties, was assaulted in the guards' toilet because he refused to report his presence at night in September of 2007. He was handcuffed to a bed for over a month. Later, he was sent to the fifth section and forced to sit on the bench everyday. In February of 2007, Wu Kejian was physically abused for several months because he refused to do forced labour. Later, he was sent to the fifth section to sit on the bench everyday. In September of 2007, practitioner Guo Wenxue was handcuffed by Li Gongmin to a bed in the captain's toilet from around 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning. -
Recent Facts about Chinese Communist Party Officials in Laishui County, Hebei Province Persecuting Practitioners
2007-11-03Before the government's 17th Party Congress, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Laishui County distributed secret documents and required the township and town governments to secretly monitor practitioners, and increase the intensity of their attacks on Falun Gong. As a result, the township and town governments began harassing practitioners. All practitioners in the villages were affected. They were arrested and fined, their homes were ransacked, their satellite TV dishes confiscated, and their Falun Dafa books taken away. -
610 Officials from Jimo, Shandong Province Designate Personnel from the Education Council to Persecute Teachers Who Practise Falun Dafa
2007-11-03Since the beginning of the new term, according to orders from the 610 Office, personnel from the Education Council in Jimo, Shandong Province, again "examined" Dafa practitioners in the education systems in each town and office. The teachers were ordered to write a statement declaring that they had given up Falun Gong and were told that they could teach only after they gave up Falun Gong. If they refused, they would only be allowed to do administrative work. During the 17th Party Congress, in order to prevent all forms of appeals to higher authorities, every sub-system in every local government has had to strictly control and prevent people from seeking legal channels to appeal. According to the 610 Office in Jimo City, between 2 and 3 p.m., every office in each town is ordered report on Falun Gong practitioners in their area and send special people to watch over them. -
Dalian City Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials Deceive the Public by Reporting a Local Citizens' Appeal as Falun Gong Practitioners "Disturbing Social Stability"
2007-11-03On September 4th, 2007, one day prior to the Davos Conference, government departments, community leaders, and police received an "urgent notification." It said, "On September 2nd, over 300 Falun Gong practitioners went to the airport and surrounded the second most powerful person in the country. It caused a great stir in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee. The result is that people are required to closely watch Falun Gong practitioners from September 6th to September 12th, when the conference ends. Police and officials began harassing practitioners and their families. They ordered the families to guarantee that their practitioner family members would not go out during the Davos Conference. They also arrested practitioners who were deemed as key personnel. -
Exposing the Villains in the Brainwashing Centre in Fushun City, Liaoning Province
2007-11-03Luotaishanzhuang Brainwashing Centre was founded in 2003. It is located in the suburban area of the Dongzhou District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Its purpose is to detain and forcefully "transform" Falun Gong practitioners. It is publicly labelled the "Liaoning Provincial Love and Care Centre" or "Fushun City's Love and Care School." According to the staff who worked there, since its founding, the centre has detained over 500 practitioners from Shenyang, Dalian, Fushun, Panjin, Tieling, and Huludao cities in Liaoning Province. For every practitioner detained, the CCP appropriates 2,000 yuan. The centre uses collaborators, or former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture and now assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners, to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. -
Tanghai County Police in Hebei Province Beat a Practitioner's Relative Unconscious
2007-11-02On September 25th, 2007, a grievously sad incident occurred at the No. 7 Farm's Police Station in Tanghai County, Hebei Province. It has made people very indignant. Police Department Deputy Head Zhang Shun and the No. 7 Station Police Chief Ji Xiangguang cruelly beat a young woman, Ding Guihua, until she lost consciousness while a dozen police officers watched. Someone called emergency when he saw what was going on. Rescue police came and left without intervening. Ding Guiihua was later sent to Tanghai Hospital for treatment and was hospitalised for a week. -
Elderly Woman Dies of Fright after Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials Threaten to Arrest Her Daughter Again
2007-11-02Ms. Peng Shiqiong, a Falun Gong practitioner in Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, has been sentenced to forced labour three times in eight years, and has been incarcerated for over six years. Even so, several days after she was released on October 7th, the authorities attempted to arrest her again. Ms. Peng said, "My mother needs me to take care of her. We can talk here. I'll never believe you again. You deceived me in 2002 with the same excuse, but locked me up. If you have something to say, let's talk here." They responded that they needed further instructions from their supervisors. They continued to harass Ms. Peng that same night and tried to send her to the brainwashing centre. Ms. Peng's mother, who has lived with anxiety and worries about the safety of her daughter over the past a few years, couldn't take it anymore. She passed away early the next morning after this incident. -
Ms. Zhang Ying from Shanghai Is Under 24-Hour Surveillance
2007-11-02Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying was released from a forced labour camp in September 2006. She is weak and slowly recovering at home. However, ever since September 28, 2006, people on six motorcycles have taken turns monitoring and following her 24 hours a day, seven days a week. While she noticed that she was being followed, she drove directly to a local police station and asked if they were following her. The police officials denied this, but in the meantime asked her family to report her daily activities. She and her family are constantly bothered, and her elderly parents are in a panic all the time, so they cannot lead a normal life. -
Mr. Wang Xiaobin from Shaanxi Province Died as a Result of the Persecution at Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-02Mr. Wang Xiaobin, 40 years old, was a farmer and Falun Gong practitioner in Shaanxi Province. He was imprisoned twice in Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp. When he was released in November 2005, he discovered that his mother had passed away. He became mentally disordered and died in April 2007. Since 2004, the labour camp has put every newly-imprisoned practitioner into a solitary cell without a window. Three drug addict inmates monitor one practitioner in one cell. None of the four is allowed to communicate with others outside. The small cell, the darkest place in the camp, is locked 24 hours a day. The four eat, sleep, and use a toilet in this very smelly, small cell. Practitioners are only permitted three hours of sleep a day and the rest of the time have to sit on a small stool reading books that slander Falun Gong.