Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

• Six Falun Gong Practitioners from Faku County, Shenyang City Arrested

  2011-05-18
  Police ransacked several practitioners' homes in Yemaotai Town on April 22nd. They confiscated several computers and materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Six practitioners were arrested and held in custody. Ms. Chen Shuyan and Ms. Chen Shufang were able to escape that day. The police then arrested three family members and threatened to detain them unless they told them the two practitioners' whereabouts, and at the same time, the police listed online the two practitioners as wanted. Ms. Chen Shuyuan and Ms. Chen Shufang were arrested the next day.
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• Ms. Deng Guiqiu from Tianjin Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

  2011-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Guiqiu from Tianjin was arrested on September 19th, 2010, when she was distributing materials detailing the persecution of Falun Gong and taken to the Hexi Detention Centre. On March 17th, the Hexi Court secretly sentenced her to three years in prison. Detention centre and court officials prohibited her from appealing. Previously in 2002, Ms. Deng was arrested at home and imprisoned at the Banqiao Women's Labour Camp for one year and forced to do hard labour.
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• Renqiu City Court in Hebei Province Repeatedly Postponed Trial of Ms. Li Aihua

  2011-05-18
  Ms. Li Aihua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Renqiu City, has been detained for more than four months. Ms. Li's case was opened at a session at Renqiu City Court on the morning of April 21st. Many of her family members, relatives and friends were not allowed to attend. In addition, before this date, the court had repeatedly changed the trial time.
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• Lawyer Zhu Yubiao Will Be Tried in Guangzhou

  2011-05-16
  The Tenth Court of the Haizhu District in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, tried lawyer Zhu Yubian on the morning of May 4th. Mr. Zhu has been detained for eight months. He engaged two defence attorneys, one of whom was forced to quit, while the other was detained and released recently. He was the first defence attorney to openly defend Falun Gong practitioners' innocence. He pleaded innocent in court for three practitioners from 2005 to 2006.
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• Mr. Guo Fengzhan from Lingyuan, Liaoning Province, Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

  2011-05-15
  Mr. Guo Fengzhan, in his sixties, was arrested on September 28th, 2010. The Lingyuan Court sentenced him to four years in prison. He has filed an appeal. On February 8th, 2011, Mr. Guo’s daughter-in-law went to the court and talked to judge Qiao Jianmin. Qiao told her that they were still investigating. Mr. Guo’s daughter-in-law said many good things about him. Qiao said, “It is useless no matter how many good things you say about Mr. Guo. It is hard to handle as long as the case involves Falun Gong. For other crimes such as robbery, and murder, we can make some exceptions. However, there is no exception regarding a Falun Gong case. It's a political case.”
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• Mr. He Binggang Framed by Police and Indicted in Shanghai

  2011-05-14
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. He Binggang was arrested by officials from the Changning District Domestic Security Team's 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) on April 15th, 2010. The police claimed they had received a phone call a phone call from a witness saying that Mr. He's company had a computer that had been obtained illegally. They searched the company and found a box of Falun Gong books and a Falun Gong DVD, which had been planted by another plainclothes policeman and arrested Mr. He. The Changning District Procuratorate has indicted him.
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• Ms. Huang Shifen Arrested and Missing in Shifang City, Sichuan Province

  2011-05-13
  Ms. Huang Shifen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shifang City, Sichuan Province, was arrested and detained for 15 days. On April 2nd, several members of Ms. Huang's family went to visit her, but the guards did not allow them to see her. On April 12th, she was taken from the detention centre. Ms. Huang's current whereabouts is unknown.
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• Three Practitioners from Longkou City, Shandong Province Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2011-05-13
  On March 20th, practitioners Ms. Chen Yan, Ms. Qu Jianqin and Ms. Liu Changyuan were arrested by police from Shiliang Township Police Station. They were detained at Zhangjiagou Detention Centre for more than 20 days. They were all sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. April 13th is the police chief's reception day. Ms. Chen's family went to him and gave him a letter of appeal. When Chief Shao Aimin saw it was about Falun Gong, he threw it on the desk and said angrily, "Put it over there."
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Song Guixiang and Three Others in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province Facing Sentencing and Forced Labour

  2011-05-09
  Officers from the Jiaozhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the police department in Shandong Province intend to sentence Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Song Guixiang, Ms. Li Yuzhen, Ms. Song Guilan, and Mr. Song Yongzhan on April 23rd. Ms. Song Guixiang and Ms. Song Guilan are both sixty-seven years old. They were outstanding teachers in Qingdao and dedicated their lives to education. They developed heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases. After they started practising Falun Gong, all their diseases disappeared. They both regained new lives. All the practitioners were arrested because they used peaceful methods to expose the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Three Practitioners from Guangshan County, Henan Province Sentenced to Imprisonment

  2011-05-08
  Early in 2011, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Zezhi to four years of imprisonment, without a trial. Practitioner Ms. Li Fang'e, 74 years old, was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment, with a conditional probation period of 5 years prior to the sentence being carried out. Practitioner Mr. He Yuanlang was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment. On March 9th Ms. Liu was sent to the Women's Prison of Henan Province in Xinxiang City, and Mr. He was sent to the Xinmi Prison in Zhengzhou City.
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• Why Would Anyone Want to “Reform” Such a Great Student?

  2011-05-06
  Student Falun Gong practitioner Yi Song was arrested by police and the security section of Changzhou University on March 22nd. Every day, at least four police officers monitor him around the clock. Moreover, the leaders, teachers, and students of Changzhou University have been told to talk to Yi Song to try to persuade him to give up practising Falun Gong. Yi Song's mother pleaded with the head of the local 610 Office, Ji Liming, to allow her to see her son. She said, “You are also a father, so you can understand how I long to see my son. If I can have just one glimpse of him, my mind will be at ease. Please!” Ji Liming said, “No way! I am a representative of the Chinese Communist Party. I am not talking to you as a father. Forget it!”
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• Changzhou University Graduate Student Arrested, His Mother Requests His Release

  2011-05-02
  “I am Yi Song’s mother. My son is a Changzhou University graduate student. Because he firmly practises Falun Gong, officers from the Changzhou 610 Office arrested him on March 22nd, 2011 in order to isolate and brainwash him. My relatives and I went to Changzhou a few days ago although we are poor and live in a faraway city. We had hoped to see my son. However, 610 Office director Ji Liming did not listen to my appeal at all but kept publicly cursing me. Just because I am a Falun Gong practitioner, he regarded me as a person who would “harm the safety of teachers and students in Changzhou University” and took video of us. They demanded that we present our identification cards to him and then followed us, which severely infringed upon our human rights."
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Hao Arrested Six Times and Sentenced to Forced Labour Twice

  2011-04-30
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Hao lives in Wuhan City. During the 12-year persecution of Falun Gong, he was incarcerated six times and sentenced to forced labour twice -- once in 2002, and the other time in 2005. In Hewan Labour Camp Mr. Wang suffered from various kinds of torture. He was forced to stand for a long time, locked up in a small confinement cell, subjected to brainwashing, and forced to do hard labour. He was forced to stand up for three, seven and nine consecutive days without sleeping. As a result he began having delusions, high fever, and blood in his urine. He could not pass stool, his legs were swollen, and his feet were infected and leaked yellow fluid.
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• Several Practitioners in Jiansanjiang District of Heilongjiang Province Sent to Brainwashing Centre

  2011-04-30
  Several Falun Gong practitioners in Jiansanjiang Farm Administration Sub-Bureau of Heilongjiang Province are being detained at the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Bao Guizhi, 58, was arrested and sent to the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre on March 20th. On that morning, police waited for Ms. Bao outside of the apartment building where she lived. When they saw her coming down the stairs, they attempted to take her to the police car, but failed when Ms. Bao resisted them. At around 1:00 p.m., Ms. Bao was captured by seven or eight policemen at the supermarket. She was then sent to the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre.
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• After Being Imprisoned for Seven Years, Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Furong from Changsha City Arrested Again

  2011-04-29
  On February 24th, 2011, practitioner Ms. Zhang Furong was arrested by police while she was posting informational materials about Falun Gong. A few hours later she was released, but, before they let her go, the police took her ID card, three bank cards, and 1,900 yuan in cash without giving her a receipt. Ms. Zhang was once sentenced to over a year of forced labour and later was sentenced to seven years in prison and detained in the Hunan Province Women’s Prison because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was detained in prison for almost nine years.
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