Publications, Press Releases

• Two More Falun Gong Practitioners Killed in Custody, Shandong Death Toll Climbs to 51

  2001-10-04
  More Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in Shandong Province than any other province in China. Ian Johnson of The Wall Street Journal has described Shandong as a province of "killing fields" in the persecution of Falun Gong.
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• Police Throw Falun Gong Woman to Her Death From Fourth-Story Window to Cover Up Evidence of Torture

  2001-10-01
  To cover up their crime, officers Huang and Sun threw her, still alive, out of the 4th floor window and Yu Xiuling died from the impact. The body of Ms. Yu was hastily sent for cremation at midnight of the same evening.Officers Huang and Sun threatened Feng [Ms Yu's husband], saying, "If you want to file a lawsuit, feel free to do that in any place. We have orders from the top that no measure is too excessive when dealing with Falun Gong." The Chaoyang police then reported Ms. Yu's death as a "suicide."
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• Amidst National Day Preparations, Reports Surface of Two More Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death

  2001-09-28
  Yuan Zhongyu, of Anshan City, Liaoning Province, died in the basement of the Anshan Public Security Bureau from injuries sustained during police torture, on or around August 16. In a separate case, Gu Yalou, 31, died in the City Public Security Bureau of Beihan Town, Renqiu City, in Hebei Province.
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• Another Falun Gong Practitioner Dead in Custody, Death Toll Soars in Hebei Province

  2001-09-28
  It has been learned that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Aizhong, age 33, of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, died on September 20, 2001, following just seven days in custody at the Tangshan Labour Camp. It is believed that Chen was subjected to torture while at the camp, and most likely died of violent force-feeding. This past June two other Falun Gong practitioners were killed in the Tangshan Labour Camp, both by torture. And in the past year at least four other practitioners from Hebei (An Xiukun, Yang Guibao, Wang Ailing, and Liu Dongxue) have died in custody while on hunger strikes from force-feeding and torture by police.
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• VOLKSBLATT: (German newspaper) International Association for Human Rights Says China is Number One in Human Rights Abuses, Torture, and Executions

  2001-09-26
  During a press conference in Wuerzburg, the Chinese woman artist, Cui-Ying Zhang, described the gruesome conditions prevalent in Chinese detention centres. Her personal experience report sounds like a horror story. For eight months she was incarcerated, tortured and beaten. To increase her abuse, she was the only woman assigned to a men's section of the prison. For seven months she was prohibited from walking about. She also had been shackled with heavy iron chains so severely that in some areas her skin began to rot.
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• Falun Gong Woman Tortured to Death by Beijing Police

  2001-09-24
  Ms. Li Xifang's death brings the number of documented deaths to 282, with government sources inside China disclosing that the actual number exceeds 1,000.
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• Terrorist Attacks and PRC National Day: New Excuses for Massive Roundup of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2001-09-24
  Sources say that Beijing has become emboldened about making arrests on such a large scale because it believes that Western countries and international media are currently too preoccupied with the terrorist attacks in the U.S. to notice this human rights abuse.
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• Five More Falun Gong Practitioners Dead as Reign of Terror Continues in China

  2001-09-21
  The deaths are the latest manifestation of heightened measures by communist authorities to "eradicate" Falun Gong in upcoming months. One mid-level government official in China recently interviewed by CNN.com revealed that "The leadership is obsessed with the Falun Gong and have put its eradication as a top priority this year."
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• AFP: Six Falungong followers die in police custody in China

  2001-09-20
  Tens of thousands of Falungong practitioners have been sent to "re-education through labor" centres since the Chinese government banned the group [...] in July 1999. The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which has been independently verifying the reports, has said it has been able to confirm 156 deaths of Falungong adherents so far.
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• MAIN ECHO: (German newspaper) Falun Gong Practitioners in China in Danger of Losing their Lives

  2001-09-16
  "Some victims were arrested solely on the grounds that they possessed Falun Gong materials or because they passed on information about the persecution"
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• GÖTEBORGS POSTEN NEWSPAPER (extract): Hunger-Strike in Protest of the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2001-09-13
  Swedish newspaper report on the hunger strike by practitioners in Sweden
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• DUNDEE COURIER (UK): Family's desperate plea for support

  2001-09-13
  UK media report on the plight of a Chinese family of practitioners in Scotland and their attempts to raise awareness of the situation in China.
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• DAUPHINEL LIBERE ( France): The Falun Gong Family of Chi Jian Returns to France

  2001-09-13
  French media report on the return of a Chinese family, resident in France, who were detained in China for being Falun Gong practitioners.
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• Prima Sonntag: (German newspaper)Chinese Woman Artist Displays her Work: Zhang Cui-Ying suffered torture in prison

  2001-09-12
  
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• AFP: Falun Gong Members Return to France After Release by China

  2001-09-11
  
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