Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

• Mr. Ma Chuncheng Arrested, Denied Family Visits

  2009-07-16
  On March 25th, 2009, police arrested Mr. Ma Chuncheng, in his thirties. His family learned that he had been detained at a detention centre. Mr. Ma's parents and his sister worried that he would be brutally tortured, and they went to the police station to request his release. They were told that they would be notified in three to twenty days.Only on April 30th, the deputy chief of the Fangzheng County State Security Division called his family to notify them that Mr. Ma had been formally arrested. They went to the Fangzheng County Police Department every day, but the police refused to release him or allow his family to see him.
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• Mr. Li Hui and His Wife Detained, Their Children Threatened for Requesting the Couple's Release

  2009-07-14
  On April 16th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Li Hui and his wife Wang Hua were arrested by police. Police Li Hui and Yao Xiaohua tortured them into making a "confession," and then transferred them to the Gongzhuling Court. However the court officer Yue Lin returned the case to the police department due to insufficient evidence. One week later on June 16th, the police still had not released the couple and plotted to fabricate evidence to further persecute them. On June 13th, the children of Li Hui and Wang Hua went to the Taojiatun Police Station to request their parents' release. They were cursed at and threatened by the policemen there. The police even found a local legal consultant named Shi to videotape them to use as "evidence" that the couple's children were "interfering with the government."
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• Two Practitioners Arrested by Yudong Public Security Bureau Officials, Ba'nan District, Chongqing City

  2009-07-13
  Ms. Liu Tianling, over 50 years old, disappeared while travelling to her home town in Yudong on June 4th. On the morning of June 8th, a policewoman from the Yudong Detention Centre called Ms. Liu's family, verified Ms. Liu's phone number, and asked about Ms. Liu's travel plans to her home town. After confirming each question, she asked Ms. Liu's family to send her clothes to the detention centre. She also asked the family if they knew the identity of a disabled lady who accompanied Ms. Liu. On June 10th, Ms. Liu's home was ransacked by police from the State Security Bureau of Yudong.
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• The Persecution in Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp, Zizhong County, Sichuan Province

  2009-07-12
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Nengmin has been isolated and handcuffed to a bed for six months. Some of the drug addicts take turns watching her at all times and she is beaten every day. Ms. Zhang has reportedly suffered an ear injury as a result of their beatings. A prisoner has written abusive and humiliating slogans on Ms. Zhang's belly, breasts, and lower body. Ms. Zhang is developing a mental disorder, and is suffering from incontinence.
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• The Persecution of a Falun Gong Practitioner in Dalian City

  2009-07-12
  After Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian City was forced to leave his job which he had held for several decades. After 1999 he was severely tortured at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. In 2008 officers from Zhanqing Police Station and the Jinzhou District Police Department arrested him at his home and he was sentenced to one year of forced labour. During his lengthy detentions, his family led a difficult life and suffered severe financial hardship.
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• The Persecution that My Father Has Suffered

  2009-07-11
  On July 16th, 2008, before the Beijing Olympic Games, my father Zhang Xingwu was sent to a detention centre, and in the next nearly twelve months, no family member has been allowed to visit him. On March 31st, 2009, my father was put on trial. My mother and family members engaged a lawyer and after much difficulty were given a date for a public trial. On that morning, my mother and other relatives, who were setting off to go to the courthouse, were put under house arrest and were not allowed to attend the court session, and even the lawyer was not allowed to enter the courthouse.
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• Ms. Yang Yucui Arrested and Taken to Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin

  2009-07-09
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Yucui was arrested on May 13th, 2009 and taken to Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin. After the onset the persecution on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Yang explained the facts about the persecution at her workplace and went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. For this, her employer suspended her salary as punishment. She was later imprisoned for five years for practising Falun Gong, during which time her husband divorced her, due to social pressure.
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• Severe Sentences for Practitioners from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province

  2009-07-09
  Nine Falun Gong practitioners from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province have been detained, and four of them are imprisoned outside of Fengcheng City. On December 25th, 2007, Mr. Zhang Qinggui was sentenced to six years of imprisonment at Benxi Prison by the Donggang Court. On February 20th, 2006, a Fengcheng City Court judge sentenced Ms. Ma Yuxin to five years of jail. On July 3rd, 2006, Fengcheng police arrested Ms. Liu Yingmei. A Fengcheng Court judge sentenced her to three and a half years. Ms. Liu is now detained at Shenyang Women's Prison.
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• Mr. Luan Ning from the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Was Again Sentenced to Prison

  2009-07-08
  Mr. Luan Ning was recently sentenced to four years in prison in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Prefecture. Mr. Luan is currently appealing to a higher court. While Mr. Luan was standing trial at the Xixia District Court on February 24th, 2009, personnel from the Ningxia Region Political the Judiciary Committee and the 610 Office were guarding the courthouse as if they were expecting an attack from a formidable enemy! The mental and emotional anguish that Mr. Luan's mother endured during her son's long term imprisonment proved to be too much for the elderly lady and she passed away on February 27th, 2009. The prison authorities would not even permit Mr. Luan to attend his own mother's funeral.
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• Four Practitioners from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province Have Been Taken into Custody

  2009-07-07
  On May 13th, 2009, four practitioners from the Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City were arrested at Liu Yongli's home. They are Yan Xiulian, Feng Yanli, Liu Yongli and Wang Minghai. Afterwards, their homes were all ransacked. However, the perpetrators were so afraid that they did not present any documents, nor did they identify where they were coming from when they were doing these wrong deeds. These practitioners' relatives don't know their whereabouts.
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• Li Guochen Taken to Brainwashing Centre the Day of His Release from Labour Camp

  2009-07-06
  Practitioner Li Guochen was arrested by the local police in March 2008. The police beat and tortured him during the entire night, leaving bruises all over his body and face, and breaking one of his teeth. He was then put in the forced labour camp for 1½ years. On the day of his release, Mr. Li was taken to the Xinglongshan Brainwashing Centre by the police and the local 610 Office personnel on June 8th, 2009.
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• Savage Interrogation by National Security Police

  2009-07-05
  In July 2007 I was arrested by police officers from the local National Security team and taken to a site used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. There, I was savagely tortured and interrogated. I was tortured for three days. The police handcuffed me to a metal chair and then beat my head. They handcuffed my hands behind my back with one hand over my shoulder and put six beer bottles between my back and hands. My arms quickly became numb due to lack of circulation. The police opened the handcuffs for a few minutes and then closed them again. I was later taken to a detention centre for a month, and was subsequently imprisoned in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province.
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• Five Practitioners in Chongqing City Recently Sent to Forced Labour Camp

  2009-07-04
  Practitioner Ms. Tan Yinxiang was arrested at noon on March 16th, 2009. That night a group of three or four police ransacked Ms. Tan's home. Her daughter tried every possible way to find out where Ms. Tan was taken, but by the end of March, she still had no clue. Ms. Tan is currently jailed at the Shabao Women's Forced Labour Camp and has been sentenced for two years forced labour. Four other practitioners in the area were also arrested and sent to forced labour.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners Secretly Sentenced in Heilongjiang Province

  2009-07-04
  On June 18th, 2009, the Jinshantun Court of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province secretly opened a session and gave long sentences to three Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Zhang Peixun, Mr. Zhang Yongsheng and Mr. Li Congfu were given prison sentences of nine, eleven, and eight years, respectively. It was clear that the judge intended to convict the three practitioners with a charge of interfering with the implementation of law. When the practitioners' lawyers asked which law the practitioners interfered the implementation of, the judge could not respond. The three practitioners have submitted an appeal of the unjust sentences.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xixian Arrested and Robbed by the Police, then Forced to Leave Home to Avoid Further Persecution

  2009-07-04
  Ms. Zhu Xixian, over 50 years old, is a practitioner from Pingjiang County, Hunan Province. Since last year, she has been arrested and detained by the police twice, and had large amounts of money extorted from her. Each time she was persecuted to the brink of death. Ms. Zhu was able to flee to freedom, but now she is forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution.
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