Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

  • Ms. Xu Xiaohua Arrested for Refusing to Be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Agent

    In order to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Xu Xiaohua often called people on her mobile phone. She was reported to the authorities, and her mobile phone was tapped and monitored by the police for some time. They broke into her home on September 16th, 2010, and confiscated her computer and other personal belongings. The police told Ms. Xu that they wanted her to work for them as a spy and inform on other practitioners in the local area. When Ms. Xu told them that she didn't know the local practitioners, the police said that they would teach her how to be a spy and that someone would introduce her to the local practitioners. In September Ms. Xu was arrested. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
  • Teacher Zhu, Everyone is Looking Forward to Your Return Home

    I remembered my chemistry teacher, Ms. Zhu Huimin, whom I had studied with at the Wuhan First Business Vocational School. I went to visit her and she looked very excited and told me that she was practising Falun Gong. Ms. Zhu simply said that after she started practising Falun Gong, her headaches, insomnia and all other diseases disappeared. I was worried about Ms. Zhu at that time because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was doing so many bad things, including defamation, disinformation, and attacks against Falun Gong. Ms. Zhu was handing out flyers in a shopping centre and the police had sent her to Hewan Labour Camp for a year of forced labour.
  • Seventy-two-year-old Mr. Zheng Decai Sentenced to Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Decai, 72, was arrested on the second day of the Chinese New Year 2010. Mr. Zheng had planned to put up a poster exposing the persecution of Falun Gong outside. Police arrested him on his way. Then in July 2010, he was secretly sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Mr. Zheng and his son, Mr. Zheng Yongyi, were tortured by Dalian police in 2000 for appealing in Beijing for the right to practise Falun Gong. He was beaten so badly that he lost his hearing. His son suffered a mental breakdown as a result of the torture.
  • Ms. Wang Jie from Shenyang Arrested Again Following a Seven-Year Imprisonment

    Ms. Wang Jie, 48, from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to prison in 2002 for exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was detained for seven years in the Liaoning Women's Prison, where she was subjected to severe abuse and torture. Ms. Wang was released in October 2009, but in less than a year, she was once again arrested at home on the morning of September 26th, 2010. She is currently in the Shenyang City Detention Centre.
  • Ms. Pei Yi from Tianjin Arrested and Detained for the Third Time

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Pei Yi was arrested on September 19th, 2010 by officers from the Sports Centre Police Station, Nankai Police Department. She was held in the Nankai Police Department's Detention Centre that same night. Officers from the detention centre ransacked her home on September 24th. This is the third time that Ms. Pei has been arrested and detained since the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.
  • Update: Ms. Du Liming in Critical Condition After Trial

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming is from Yitong County, Jilin Province. When local court officials tried her in court on September 10th, 2010, an ambulance was waiting outside the court building. Her family learned that Ms. Du was sent to the Yitong County Chinese Medicine Hospital for emergency treatment a few days later, and that she is in critical condition. Ms. Du was arrested on July 11th as she distributed Falun Gong DVDs on the street.
  • Forcing a Son To Denounce His Own Parents, Chengdu City 610 Office Uses Methods Not Seen Since the Cultural Revolution

    Huang Xu was pressured by Chengdu City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) to persecute his own parents in order to keep his job. His parents, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying are a kind, peace-loving couple who both practise Falun Gong. Despite the Communist regime's posing as a modern country, the tragedy of children harming and denouncing their own parents that took place during the Cultural Revolution is sadly once again taking place in today's China. On August 13th, due to their son's direct involvement, Mr. Huang Shilin and Ms. Yang Ying were arrested on their way to a food market by police. The officials sent the couple to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre.
  • Yitong County 610 Office Personnel in Jilin Province Prevent Lawyers from Defending Handicapped Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Du Liming

    The Jilin Yitong County Court and 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) have prevented lawyers from defending handicapped Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Liming, whom police officer Wang Yingchao and others from the Domestic Security Team of Yitong Police Department had taken into custody. It happened while she was distributing Falun Gong CDs. She is now in the Yitong Detention Centre.
  • Ms. Liang Bo Framed by Haidian District Court, Judge Abuses His Power

    The Haidian District Court, Beijing conducted a hearing on September 8th, for the case of Ms. Liang Bo. During this so-called public hearing, a colleague of Ms. Liang's husband witnessed the entire procedure. Under Judge You Tao, there were numerous aspects which did not comply with the law. The lawyer strongly requested to question the defendant, Liang Bo, repeatedly so that the court could clarify the case, but his requests were denied by Judge You Tao. The major evidence of the prosecutor were CDs, books, and posters that were confiscated from Liang Bo and her home. None of the evidence was presented at the hearing. Liang Bo stated that much of the evidence was fabricated and not true. Her handbag is not big enough to hold 50 CDs and 20 books.
  • Recent Activities of the 610 Office in the Chuanhui District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province

    The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Zhoukou City, Henan Province, has always used underhanded methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, and since late August 2010, it has begun another round of persecution. On August 31st, about seven police officers suddenly broke into the home of Ms. Li Changying, 66 years old and Sun Zhanping, 70 years old. They ransacked the home and took Falun Gong books and materials, a desktop computer, a laptop, a digital camera and both of their salary cheques. Police sent both of them to Zhoukou Detention Centre.
  • Hebei 610 Office Directs the Persecution at the Laishui County Party School in Baoding City

    Four people from the Hebei 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Baoding City 610 Office went to the Laishui County Party School [Party schools are used to train officials for the Chinese Communist Party] on September 15th, demanding that the intensity of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners be increased and that each county bring more practitioners to the Party school. Falun Gong practitioners from Laishui County and Yongyang County were arrested yesterday afternoon. Two people from the Baoding 610 Office are now staying in the Party school to carry out forced brainwashing.
  • Twenty-Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Laishui County, Hebei Province Have Been Taken to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Brainwashing Sessions

    Recently, in Laishui County, Hebei Province, brainwashing sessions were set up by the Chinese Communist regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners from various areas of Laishui. According to sources, twenty-four practitioners have been taken into custody and forced to attend the Laishui brainwashing sessions. Among these cases, the persecution of practitioners in Wangchun, Shiting Town and Louchun Village has been particularly severe. Falun Gong practitioner Xing Xiumin tried to explain the truth about Falun Gong to the staff who were overseeing practitioners. As a result, she was beaten by Zhang Jiuhong until she could not walk. She has since returned home.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners from Shuangluan District, Chengde County, Hebei Province Recently Detained

    The 610 Office authorities (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Chengde County arrested Falun Gong practitioners from eight counties and three districts, and forced them into a brainwashing centre. Police went to Falun Gong practitioner Dong Duoli's home several times. When they could not find her, they demanded Ms. Dong's husband to persuade her to give up her belief, and to sign statements to renounce practising Falun Gong.
  • Jiamusi Practitioner Ms. Wang Shuying Arrested

    After the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners began in 1999, forty-seven-year-old Ms. Wang Shuying was repeatedly arrested for her beliefs, and lost her government job. In September 2010, police arrested her again. She is currently detained at the Jiamusi Detention Centre. In 2003, she was arrested after being reported by her neighbour for practising Falun Gong exercises at home. She was subjected to three years of forced labour, but was spared because she was in serious condition from persecution.
  • Older Practitioner Mr. Niu Ruiyi Secretly Sentenced to Six Years in Prison by Gangu County Court in Gansu Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Niu Ruiyi, 65, was arrested on January 21st, 2010. He was sentenced to six years in prison. In late May and early June of this year, some detainees who had been recently released from the Gangu County Detention Centre said that Mr. Niu had been sentenced. However, neither the police, the Procurator, nor the court gave Mr. Niu's family members a notice of trial, or any legal document. Because of this, Mr. Niu's family could not serve as or hire legal representatives to defend him in court. The lawyer who was assigned to Mr. Niu by the court was not allowed to meet with him or write letters to Mr. Niu's family members. After the trial, the family was still not notified promptly. Mr. Niu has become very thin from the abuse and some of his body has become deformed.