Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

• Numerous Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Beijing, Their Homes Ransacked

  2008-02-20
  On December 25th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cai Changhe from the Shengli Residential Quarters in the Shunyi District of Beijing was arrested. On January 25th, 2008, police officers were spread all over the streets of Beijing. They stopped the incoming and outgoing cars and requested all passengers get out and show them their IDs. Their aggressive behaviour caused panic in Beijing. With the 2008 Olympics coming, the Chinese Communist Party still persecutes and arrests Falun Dafa practitioners on a large scale, which really causes social turbulence. Their ugly atrocities violate the spirit of harmony, friendship and unity, which the Olympics promotes.
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• Mr. Wang Hongshu Taken Into Custody And Beaten Savagely by Officers of Diaobingshan City

  2008-02-17
  Mr. Wang Hongshu is a 50-year-old practitioner. At about 5 a.m. on January 17th, 2008, when he was on his way to his sister's home he was intercepted by a car without any licence plate. There were two people in the car. They did not show any ID and were not in police uniform. After they discovered that Mr. Wang was a Falun Gong practitioner, they dragged him against his will and tried to force him into the car. Mr. Wang tried to inform them about the true nature of Falun Gong. They said, "Do not talk with us about this. We must seize you." Mr. Wang refused to cooperate with them, so they beat him savagely. As a result, one of Mr. Wang's front teeth was knocked out, and another became loose, his face became blue and purple and his left eye filled with an abnormally large amount of blood.
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• Mr. Zhou Jingchen Unjustly Detained, Imprisoned, and Sentenced Ten Times in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province

  2008-02-16
  Mr. Zhou Jingchen has been detained seven times, and was twice sent to forced labour camps, becuase he continued to practise Falun Gong. Mr. Zhou was tortured by police officers, including beating him for five days in a row, cuffing his hands behind his back, hanging him upside down, and dousing him with freezing cold water and then directing fans toward him. He was so brutally beaten that his skin turned black and purple and his body was swollen. He was forced into a straight jacket, and locked up in a small cell. His hands were tied with ropes so tightly that they went numb. In another term of detention, he was handcuffed to a bed for ten days, bound with straps to a bed for three months, and force fed for 500 days.
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• Ms. Wang Ping, Mr. Luo Guozhu, Mr. Rao Xuming and Mr. Chu Guanyuan of Yingcheng, Hubei Province Still in Custody

  2008-02-15
  Ms. Wang Ping, in her 40s, is a customer service representative for the railway scale at the Shuanghuan Company. Persecutors nabbed her at work the morning of June 13th, 2001. Chen Jing, Qiu Xianbo and another person from the Xinji Police Station tried to force her to make a confession that night. They beat her the whole night with wire clothes hangers and electric batons. Her head was swollen from the beatings; one of her arms sustained a four-inch-long cut that bled; other injuries on her body also bled. The next day the police took Ms. Wang Ping to the Yinching City First Detention Centre.
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• Middle School Student in Guangzhou City Seeks Her Parents' Release from Unjust Imprisonment

  2008-02-14
  My name is Li Linghui. I'm 12 years old and a middle school student. I used to have a happy and peaceful family life. My father and mother persisted in practising Falun Gong after the persecution began, not wanting to give up their faith in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. Because of this, the police showed up one day and smashed the main house gate, and arrested my father and mother on December 25th, 2007. I saw my father had been pushed down to the ground by two policemen, and both of his hands were tied behind his back. Then, with a loud "bang", the door of my room was smashed and two policemen rushed in. They grabbed my mother by her shoulders and dragged her out of the living room. I witnessed this persecution with my own eyes.
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• Mr. Zhou Jingchun from Laishui County, Hebei Province Arrested Again before the Chinese New Year

  2008-02-14
  On the afternoon of January 30th, 2008, the police arrested 61-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Jingchun. Mr. Zhou has suffered repeated persecution at the hands of the police because he persists in practising Falun Gong. In September 2004, Mr. Zhou was forcibly arrested by police. They brutally tortured Mr. Zhou and beat him in turn until he fell to the ground and could not stand up.
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• Li Donghong, a Freelance Writer, Was Arrested Again and Is Being Severely Persecuted

  2008-02-13
  Practitioner Li Donghong was monitored by two drug addict inmates. They took turns sleeping on the cement bed and took turns torturing Mr. Li. He had to stand for 24 hours and was not allowed to go to sleep or sit down for a break. The inmates would beat him if he closed his eyes as he stood. The guards in the labour camp boasted that they had more than a hundred vicious methods they could use to persecute and torture practitioners, such as severe beatings, forcing practitioners to eat faeces and spit, and burning their eyes with high power light bulbs. In the severe cold of winter they would force practitioners to stand outside without wearing any clothes. During the hot summer days, they forced practitioners to run in winter coats.
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• Schoolteacher Mr. Wu Renhui Arrested for the Third Time in Guizhou Province

  2008-02-11
  Mr. Wu Renhui, 40, is a teacher. On January 16th, 2008, Mr. Wu was arrested for the third time, leaving his mother, wife, and child at home. The authorities demanded that he give up cultivation and provide other practitioners' names and information. After Mr. Wu refused, they sentenced him to two years of forced labour and took him to the Guizhou Province Zhongba Forced Labour Camp. His mother and wife are both unemployed.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Unjustly Arrested, Harassed

  2008-02-11
  73-year-old Ms. Chen Ling was unable to live a peaceful life. Persons from the residential committee often interrogated her, "Did you go out today? Did you go to his or her home?" Residential committee Party secretary Ji asked her, "Is Falun Gong good, or is the Chinese Communist Party good?" Ms. Chen Ling was held in a detention centre five years ago, owing to her practising Falun Gong. They handcuffed her, forced her to be photographed and provide her fingerprints. The mental torment she suffered was enormous. Her teeth all fell out and her hair turned white. Four generations in her family were affected. Her husband was frightened so badly that he could not eat anything. Her four-year-old old grandson got sick from fear of the police. Her neighbours said indignantly, "Such a nice lady was arrested and her home raided, just because of practising Falun Gong!"
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• Ms. Li Xiumin Forced to Await Trial in Custody, Despite Serious Medical Condition

  2008-02-10
  Ms. Li Xiumin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province was arrested and has been detained by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities for eight months. She is now suffering from a tumour in her uterus. Li Xiumin was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by judge Ding Hong from Xinhua District Court, with the 610 Office controlling the court behind the scenes. Li Xiumin appealed to the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Court. The judge of the No.2 Criminal Court, Wang Yingchen, has been refusing the request for Li Xiumin to obtain a guarantor, forcing her to await trial while in custody, despite the fact that her life is in danger with each passing day.
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• Already Tortured To The Point Of Critical Injury, Ms. Lin Daihong From Baishan City Is Arrested Once Again

  2008-02-10
  On January 15th, 2008, the chief of police and head of the 610 Office in Baishan City, Jilin Province, instructed eight policemen to drive two police vehicles to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Daihong's home, and break into her home to arrest her for the second time. Ms. Lin had previously already been tortured to the point of critical condition in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp and had not yet recovered. She was taken directly to the labour camp again.
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• Middle School Teacher Zhang Minghui from Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province, Recently Arrested, His Wife and Baby Forced into Homelessness

  2008-02-08
  On January 25th, policemen from the National Security Bureau of the Jidong County Police Department, Heilongjiang Province, burst into the home of 36-year-old Mr. Zhang Minghui. Disregarding the safety of the older people and a baby, who was just a couple of months old, they grabbed personal property and took Mr. Zhang away to the police station. Mr. Zhang's wife saw her husband being humiliated and beaten by the police and tried to help him, but the police officers stopped her.
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• Ms. Liu Jin Taken Away by Shanghai Police, Young Daughter Left Home Alone

  2008-01-30
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Jin was taken away by the Fengxian District, Shanghai City police, known for its evil ways. This is the second time she has been persecuted since she was sent to prison for four years. Now she's detained in the Fengxian District Detention Centre. Fengxian Police Station and Haiwan Police Substation participated in this action together. They sent two police cars to abduct Liu Jin, and ransacked her home so that it looked like a robbery took place, stealing 20,000 yuan. They also took other private property like a laptop, printer--including IDs, a bank card etc. They even took the battery from her family car.
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• Elderly Couple from Tangshan City, Hebei Province Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned

  2008-01-28
  Plainclothes policemen from Tangshan City broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Zongsu and Li Guocai and ransacked it. They arrested the elderly couple and their non-practitioner son and confiscated their computer and printer. Ms. Zhang Zongsu did not cooperate with the persecutors' orders to strip off her clothes. The police used various means to torture her. They violently beat her, did not allow her to sleep, handcuffed her, forced her to wear shackles and force-fed her. As a result of the torture, there were two big holes on her lower legs from the shackles. When they force-fed her, they knocked out her two incisors. She was unable to take care of herself for half a month.
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• Ms. Li Yumei and Ms. Zhang Yufeng Held in Luquan Prison, Hebei Province

  2008-01-27
  Ms. Li Yumei has been arrested twice and detained three times because she believes in Falun Dafa. On June 28th, 2007, Ms. Li was arrested and brutally beaten by National Security Division officials. When her daughter, Ms. Zhao Yunfei, tried to stop the men from beating her mother, she was also arrested and detained for 15 days. Agents from the Wanquan County Political and Judiciary Committees, the police, and the procuratorate and court officials all colluded to sentence Ms. Li Yumei to six years in prison. On December 27th, 2007, she was taken to the Luquan Women's Prison in Shijiazhuang City.
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