Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

• Ms. Xie Hong from Hefei City Is Arrested Again

  2011-09-02
  Ms. Xie Hong is a Falun Gong practitioner who lives in Hefei City, Anhui Province. On June 24th, 2011, the police broke into her home, searched it, and arrested her. Her current whereabouts are unknown. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, she has been arrested and detained several times. Ms. Xie was arrested in March 2008. A bag full of leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong was found in her possession. She was first detained for 15 days and was then sent to a brainwashing session. She was later sentenced to one year of forced labour.
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• Three Female Falun Gong Practitioners in Baoding City Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2011-08-31
  On August 9th, three Falun Gong practitioners in Baoding City of Hebei Province were sentenced to forced labour and were taken to Hebei Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shijiazhuang City. On July 27th police arrested Ms. Wang while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to passersby on the street. Around 8:30 pm four officers broke into Ms. Wang's home and took her cash and some of her personal belongings. Ms. Wang was detained at the police station overnight. During the process of interrogation, Zhang Dianhai, the deputy head of that police station, slapped her face twice.
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• Mr. Zheng Lijun from Wangqing County, Jilin Province Sentenced to Ten Years of Prison

  2011-08-28
  Mr. Zheng Lijun was arrested in early March 2011, then interrogated and tortured. He was recently sentenced to a ten-year prison term. Mr. Zheng has been subjected to frequent threats and intimidation over the last 12 years for remaining steadfast in his belief. He often lived away from home to avoid persecution. He was arrested at a practitioner's home.
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• Dalian City Police Arrested and Robbed Over 30 Falun Gong Practitioners

  2011-08-28
  Officials and police in Dalian City of Liaoning Province, arrested more than 30 Falun Gong practitioners in Jinzhou New District and ransacked practitioners’ homes on June 29th. Many practitioners’ houses were stripped bare. Practitioner Mr. Wang Riqing was robbed of approximately forty to fifty thousand yuan in cash and a deposit book containing over one hundred thousand yuan. One of the masterminds behind the arrest was Bi Kefeng from the Jinzhou Domestic Security Division. Starting in 2000 he persecuted many practitioners. In 2000, a practitioner was arrested while distributing materials that detailed the facts about Falun Gong and sent to the police station. Bi tortured the practitioner for more than five hours, causing the practitioner’s face to be deformed.
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• Sisters Zhang Xiaoling and Zhang Yueqi from Guangdong Province Arrested, Family Calls for Help

  2011-08-26
  Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Xiaoling and Ms. Zhang Yueqi were arrested by police from Huangpu District Police Station on August 3rd. When their other sister Zhang Liling went to the police station to demand their release, she was detained overnight. The two sisters are currently detained in the Huangpu District Detention Centre. Ms. Zhang Yueqi is only 16 years old and a student. The family is very worried about them.
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• Mr. Ouyang Haiwen Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Practising Falun Gong

  2011-08-24
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ouyang Haiwen, 56, once travelled to Beijing to speak out for Falun Gong, only to end up being beaten by Chinese police and suffering from intracranial bleeding. He was later sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp for sharing important facts about Falun Gong. He once suffered from the brutal torture of being force fed for several months because he had protested being thrown into a forced brainwashing facility for practising Falun Gong. He was at the brink of death several times because he went on hunger strikes as a non-violent means to protest his unconstitutional incarceration. Not long ago, while he was connected to IV fluids and an oxgen tank, a group of medical staff took him to court for a sham trial because he had practised Falun Gong; yet he appeared in court, dignified.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner's Teenage Daughter Taken Hostage by Tianjin State Security Bureau

  2011-08-24
  On July 20th, 2011, Li Yang, the teenage daughter of Ms. Yang Chunxiang, a Falun Gong practitioner in Tianjin, was arrested by officers of the Tianjin State Security Bureau. It was rumoured that Li Yang might be released in exchange for Ms. Yang Chunxiang. Ms. Yang Chunxiang and her daughter went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on May 12th. When someone reported the pair's activities to the police, Ms. Yang and her daughter were arrested by police.
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• Practitioners Severely Injured After Being Chased By Police in Jixiang County, Shandong Province

  2011-08-24
  Ms. Song Furong, 66, Ms. Liu Dali, in her forties, Ms. Liu Jing, 48, and another practitioner were reported to the police when they were seen distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Jintun County, Shandong Province. Four police cars were driving in the wrong direction on State Highway on July 16th, causing panic and chaos, to try and catch practitioners riding motorcycles. One of the motorcycles crashed and the rider fell, breaking several bones and leaving her unconscious. The second motorcycle stopped to help, and the two ladies on it were arrested and sent to Jixiang Police Station.
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• Police Shoot at Peaceful Falun Gong Practitioner During Arrest

  2011-08-24
  On May 23rd, 2011, police discharged their weapons while arresting a Falun Gong practitioner as he was working in a field. Mr. Sun Yi was arrested by local police while doing farm work. Although officers shot at Mr. Sun, he was fortunately not injured. Mr. Sun is currently being held in the Mianyang Detention Centre. Previously, Mr. Sun was sent to to a forced labour camp for 18 months.
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• After Being Sent to Forced Labour Twice Before, Mr. Zhang Jingzhou Now Sentenced to Five-and-a-Half Years

  2011-08-22
  Mr. Zhang Jingzhou has already been sentenced to forced labour camps twice before. During mid June 2011, he was again sentenced to five and a half years of imprisonment by a Hongshan District Court in Wuhan City. During the 12 years since the Communist regime launched its brutal suppression of Falun Gong and since Zhang refused to give up the practice, he was seized and detained and his house ransacked countless times. Mr. Zhang was sentenced to a total of three and a half years of forced labour twice and subjected to brainwashing. His wife divorced him because she was unable to bear the persecution.
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• Fujin City Teacher Ms. Liu Guizhen's Personal Account of Being Persecuted Again

  2011-08-22
  Ms. Liu Guizhen, a maths teacher from Fujin City No. 4 Middle School, Heilongjiang Province, was forced to stop teaching in 2006 because she held firm to her belief in Falun Gong. In 2007, she was sentenced to forced labour and tortured in Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp. After being released, the school would not take her back. Recently the school principal, Wu Hongbo, and the deputy principal, Wang Ze, cooperated with the local 610 Office staff (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) to arrest her.
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• Four Practitioners from Dianbai County, Guangdong Province Taken to Brainwashing Centre

  2011-08-21
  Over a dozen officers from the Shuidong Police Station and Guancaotian Police Station, arrested Ms. Mai Weilian, Ms. Pan Guihui, Ms. Hong Meifang and Mr. Liu Shaozai and took them to the Shuidong Police Station on August 6th. The police broke into Ms. Mai Weilian's home at 9:00 p.m. on August 6th. They ransacked the place without showing a warrant and confiscated Falun Gong books, cash, and Ms. Hong Meifang's bank deposit book. The four practitioners were taken to the Maoming Brainwashing Centre the following day.
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• Puyang City Police in Henan Province Arrest Eight Falun Gong Practitioners in July

  2011-08-21
  Eight Falun Gong practitioners residing in Puyang City of Henan Province were taken away by the police in July 2011. On July 8th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Caowei was arrested. He was incarcerated in Nanyue County Detention Centre. His family attempted to visit him on July 11th, but were denied. When practitioners Ms. Shao Ziying and Mr. Zhang Wenbin were putting up banners at Nanyue County to expose the crimes of the county police against Mr. Wang Caowei, they themselves were arrested.
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• Jiaohe City Officers Detain Nine Practitioners in Four Days

  2011-08-21
  Seven practitioners were taken to brainwashing centres and two were taken to forced labour camps within four days, from August 1st-4th, in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province. Mr. Wu Dexiu and Mr. Wang Aiguo were taken to a forced labour camp to serve a one and a half year term on August 4th. They were arrested on July 20th, and interrogated by the Jiaohe Criminal Police Team officers under physical duress. Mr. Wu was arrested six times in the past. He was harassed often and had to leave his home. This is the third time he was sent to a forced labour camp.
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• Mr. Wang Zhige, Blinded in His Left Eye Due to Torture, Arrested Again

  2011-08-20
  Mr. Wang Zhige was arrested at his home on July 28th. At the time, Mr. Wang was sleeping after working the night shift. The police ransacked his home and confiscated a computer, mobile phone, Falun Gong books, and other personal belongings. Mr. Wang is currently being held in the Yilan County Detention Centre. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. Mr. Wang has been detained and mistreated during the past twelve years. In 2005, he was tortured and force-fed by the Fangzheng County police, which resulted in blindness in his left eye. He later served three years in prison and was tortured in many different ways.
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