Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by CCP Members at Huanan Institute of Technology
2007-03-01On February 1st, 2001, the Department of Education sent a notice requiring all schools to initiate signature campaigns that targeted Falun Gong. The "million signatures" movement was first spread through the national education system; it was used to influence hundreds of millions of adolescent students. Some students would not sign any petition that was against Falun Gong, so the teachers tried to coerce the students into signing their names under threat of expulsion. Meanwhile, posters, banners, and propaganda attacking Falun Gong and its founder were posted everywhere on school campuses. Chen Zhili also had defamatory content added to high school and elementary school textbooks and various post-secondary school entrance exams. -
The Severe Persecution of Practitioner Mr. Zhou Jiangang at Qinduankou Prison, Hubei Province
2007-03-01When the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Zhou Jiangang explained the facts about Falun Dafa to people. For this, the authorities arrested and persecuted him many times, and he was finally sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. On April 25th, 2006, Zhou Jiangang, while handcuffed and shackled, was forced to stand facing a wall. Staff then ordered prisoners to strike Zhou Jiangang from behind with heavy objects. This caused compound fractures on his sixth and seventh vertebra. He lay on the ground unconscious. Zhou Jiangang has been persecuted to near death, and his feet were even tied to prevent him from moving. -
Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yu Wei from Weifang City, Shangdong Province, Repeatedly Persecuted over the Past Seven Years
2007-03-01On January 4th, 2007, 610 Office officials and police broke into Dafa practitioner Yu Wei's house under the pretence that Wei was a temporary resident. Mr. Wei's Dafa books, CDs, audio tapes, and other materials were confiscated. He was arrested on his way home from work and taken to a detention centre. Since the Communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, authorities have twice ransacked Wei's house. Authorities confiscated his Dafa materials, a recorder and two laptop computers worth over five thousand yuan, and extorted 8,400 yuan. -
12-Year-Old Li Mingqian Longs for His Father on Chinese New Year's Eve
2007-03-01Li Mingqian is a twelve-year-old boy attending fifth grade. On Chinese New Year's Eve, at his family's reunion, he told his mother, "I miss my father. Can he have some dumplings?" On October 8th, 2006, several police officers suddenly stormed into the home of Ms. Wang and arrested Mr. Li Hongwei. Mr. Li was brutally beaten by several police officers, causing his body to be covered in wounds. He was sentenced to one year of forced labour. In the visiting room of the Shenxin Forced Labour Camp, Li Mingqian saw his father, whom he has missed so much. Young Mingqian cried for a long time. -
Hunan Province Women's Prison Gives Heavy Prison Terms and Obstructs Family Visits
2007-03-01Changsha Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Lei Yangfan and his wife Ms. Zhou Pinjun have suffered persecution on several occasions for practising Falun Gong. In August 2002, Ms. Zhou was arrested for distributing CDs exposing the persecution and then sentenced to seven years in prison. At this time, she is still imprisoned at the Hunan Province Women's Prison. Suffering from the prison's high-pressure environment, and the constant harassment by the prison guards, Ms. Zhou has gone through the "transformation," and been pressured to file for divorce. -
610 Office in Chengdu, Sichuan Province Continues Zhao Benyong's Detainment after Completing His Five-Year Jail Term
2007-02-28Mr. Zhao Benyong is a young teacher who taught at the Longquan Aerospace Technical College in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Because he is a Falun Gong practitioner he was discharged from the school and sentenced to five years in prison. On January 31st, 2007, Mr. Zhao was to be released after he completed his prison term. But on the morning of February 1st, Chengdu Longquanyi 610 Office agents took him away and continued his detainment. His whereabouts are unknown. -
Six Practitioners in Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang Province Were Arrested - Over 400 of Their Relatives Are Appealing for Them
2007-02-28On the morning of January 23rd, 2007, Mr. Dong Liantai, 43, and Mr. Tian Hua, 40, went to visit their relatives who were detained in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City. They arrived there too early as the labour camp hadn't opened yet, so they sat on the edge of the farm field next to the labour camp. The labour camp guards in the watchtower saw them and arrested them. When the two practitioners questioned why they were arrested, the guards said they didn't need to provide a reason. The two practitioners were sent to Xinnong Town Police Station. On the same day, the police also arrested four practitioners at the bus stop in Xinnong Town. Currently, the six practitioners are still detained at Harbin Detention Centre. 441 of their relatives are appealing for them. -
Practitioner Ms. Yang Chunling's Arm Broken a Second Time from a Beating in Women's Prison of Liaoning Province
2007-02-28On December 9th, 2006, practitioner Ms. Yang Chunling was sent to the Women's Prison of Liaoning Province. Due to her firm belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and her kindhearted effort to persuade the Ward Head to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) she was brutally beaten by three women prisoners. The beating fractured her arm again. She said that her arm was broken before when she was imprisoned in Dalian City. A doctor had removed the steel plate in her arm a few days before she was transferred to the prison. This time the doctor said the fracture was very serious as it had occurred at the same location where her arm had broken before from a beating in the detention centre. Her arm might be crippled. -
610 Office in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province Persecutes Ms. Mo Xiaomei
2007-02-28Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Mo Xiaomei from Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province, was arrested by police and 610 Office staff at her own shop on the afternoon on December 24th, 2006. She has been detained and tortured in the Zengcheng City Detention Centre. The detention centre's staff have refused to let her to see her family. They have threatened her, saying that they would give forged documents to the Procuratorate so that she would be sentenced. They have refused to show Ms. Mo's family her "detention card," the bare minimum requirement for holding her, even though they have asked for it several times. Without the documentation for her arrest, Mo Xiaomei's family cannot hire a lawyer. -
Please Rescue My Elderly Mother
2007-02-28In July 2006, my mother went back to my father's hometown at Tan'gezhuang Township, Laiyang City in the Yantai District of Shandong Province to visit our relatives, but she was arrested by the Laiyang 610 Office. She has been detained in Laiyang Detention Centre for over half a year. On November 10th, 2006, our mother was put on trial and we saw that she was wearing handcuffs in court. Torture and abuse had turned her into another person. Her face was pale, her hair was thin, her feet were shaking, and she could barely stand. She was almost deaf. Our mother was charged with helping a middle-school teacher, Zhao Hui, in Tan'gezhuang Township, buy a computer and a printer in Qingdao City. After we enquired from many different sources, we learned that after my mum was arrested, the head of the Laiyang 610 Office, Wei Haibo, beat, tortured, and interrogated her. -
Why My Daughter and Son-in-Law Cannot Return Home for New Years
2007-02-27Chinese New Year season has arrived. Every home is having a big family reunion, but I, an eighty year-old man, long to see my daughter and son-in-law at home. I do not know why, but policemen have constantly come to harass them since November 26th, 2006, and they tried to arrest them many times. On one occasion, the Political Security Office Head of the Fusong County Police Department ransacked our home with 7-8 policemen. My daughter and son-in-law were forced to leave home to avoid being arrested, and they still have not dared to return. My son-in-law is a retired employee. His retirement salary has stopped coming yet our entire family relies on his salary to survive. -
How Ms. Wang Yanxiu Was Persecuted by Accomplices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Before Her Death in Weifang City, Shandong Province
2007-02-2753-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yanxiu went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa four times, for which she was detained twice in the Kuiwen District Detention Centre, was sentenced to forced labour for three years, and suffered many kinds of tortures such as electric baton shocks, being hung by handcuffs, and more. After she went home, her husband and son were extremely afraid of the CCP persecution and feared that she would be arrested once more by the CCP authorities. They vigorously opposed her contact with the outside world and other Falun Gong practitioners and controlled her personal freedom. Ms. Wang Yanxiu's health condition became worse and worse. She died on January 25th, 2007. -
Crimes Committed by Vicious Guard Ma Jishan at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2007-02-27Ma Jishan and Liu Yong led some of the guards who had arrived at the No. 2 Masanjia Women’s Forced Labour Camp on February 23rd, 2006, to brainwash the practitioners held in Divisions 1 and 2. They used torture methods, including the Big Hang-Up, the Death Bed, solitary confinement, force-feeding with concentrated salt water, and unknown drugs. They would pry the practitioners' mouths open with a mechanical device, savagely beat the practitioners, shock them with electric batons, deprive them of sleep, and strip the women practitioners naked and throw them outside in the freezing cold. Many practitioners were injured and disabled as a result of torture. -
Practitioner Ms. Yan Suqin from Huangchuan County, Henan Province Sentenced
2007-02-27Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yan Suqin was subjected to persecution many times because she persisted in her belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. On January 24th, 2007, the Huangchuan County Court suddenly announced that she was sentenced to four years in prison without giving her a trial or notifying her family members. -
Sent to a Brainwashing Centre the Day He Was Released from Prison, Zhao Benyong Held a Hunger Strike in Protest
2007-02-27Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Benyong was imprisoned for five years and persecuted. On the day of his release from prison, 610 Office personnel took him to a brainwashing centre in Chengdu City. Zhao Benyong's family members went to the relevant authorities to ask for his release, but to no avail. In the process, his mother and younger brother were detained at Bazhong Police Department of Sichuan Province.