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

• The Elderly Ms. Shen Is Forcibly Taken Away

  2009-05-10
  On April 14th, when seventy-something Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Jin'e was visiting her relatives, four plain clothes police broke in and forcibly searched the house. Ms. Shen asked them to show their legal documents. One of them quickly flashed some papers saying, "You broke the law. You will be sentenced and thrown into prison. Now you may find your lawyer!" Police forcibly dragged Ms. Shen out of the door. They dragged her to the side of a car which carried no police licence plate. They took Ms. Shen to the police station. Ms. Shen asked loudly, "What law did I break?" One officer said, "We have no choice. Our boss asked us to do this."
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• Falun Gong Practitioners in Huairou District, Beijing, Harassed and Arrested on the Eve of April 25th incident

  2009-05-10
  On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the "April 25th" incident, the Chinese Communist Party agents again harassed and forcibly arrested Falun Gong practitioners. On April 23rd, 2009, many practitioners in Huairou District, Beijing were harassed. The campaign of searching and arresting was launched by the Public Security Bureau's 610 Office, local police stations and the Town's Street Integrated Management Office together. No legal procedures were followed and it was conducted by only plain-clothes police.
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• Exposing the Evil in the No.2 Women's Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province

  2009-05-09
  I was sent to the No.2 Women's Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province twice and was persecuted there. I have witnessed and personally experienced how the policemen "transform" and torture Falun Gong practitioners. The labour camp is full of lies, cheating and evil. They first separate Falun Gong practitioners, prevent them from contacting anybody, and send two former practitioners to monitor them, whose purpose it is to attempt to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. If the practitioners refuse to be "transformed," they prevent them from sleeping, and make them stand facing the wall for physical punishment. I was tortured in that manner, was not allowed to sit for 24 hours a day.
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• Practitioners Tortured in Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province, Many Injured

  2009-05-09
  Currently, more than 70 practitioners are being detained at Suihua Forced Labour Camp. All practitioners imprisoned in the forced labour camp are first subjected to at least three months of brutal persecution. Regular inmates are manipulated into brutally torturing, beating, and insulting the practitioners. Practitioners are not allowed to sleep for a long time and have to endure military training and physical punishment. Usually, one guard and two inmates watched and tortured one practitioner at a time. They ordered the practitioners to recite the forced labour camp rules and write the three statements to renounce Falun Gong.
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• Police from Wafangdian Police Station in Dalian City Arrest Practitioner Ni Cuixia and Beat Her Daughter

  2009-05-09
  On April 8th, 2009, Ms. Ni Cuixia was arrested by police when she told the facts of Falun Gong to the public. Ms. Ni's daughter went to the police station and asked to see Liu Jun, the person responsible for her mother's arrest, to request a visit with her mother. But Liu refused to see the daughter. On April 15th, Ms. Ni's daughter went to Liu's house. Liu's wife told her that she had the wrong address. Then about twenty police officers rushed out with bats, long knives and batons. They beat her badly.
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• The Persecution of Mr. Yang Guoshu and His Family in Shulan City

  2009-05-09
  On March 31st, 2009, Mr. Yang Guoshu and his family were arrested by more than ten police officers. The family are all Falun Gong practitioners, including Mr. Yang's wife, his eldest son and second son. On that day, four of his relatives who were visiting were also arrested. One of them was released after being extorted out of 500 yuan. Officers from the Shulan City Huan Cheng Police Station and Beicheng Police Station ransacked Mr. Yang's home, and took away six computers and more than six thousand "yuan" in cash.
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• Ms. Yang Shujun Suffers Cruel Abuse after Being Sentenced to Twelve Years in Prison

  2009-05-08
  In November 2004, Ms. Yang Shujun along with other Falun Gong practitioners put up over a hundred posters in many public places. The posters had "Falun Gong Is Good" or "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance Is Good" on them. Police arrested over twenty practitioners including Ms. Yang. Many practitioners were tortured, and some were tortured to death. Ms. Yang was tortured for seven days. The police burned her with cigarette butts, covered her head with plastic bags to nearly suffocate her, hung her by handcuffs, beat her, and injected her with drugs. She was sentenced to twelve years in prison. In June 2006, she was taken to the Harbin Women's Prison where she was repeatedly beaten and cut by other inmates.
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• Persecution at Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp Aims to "Transform" Practitioners

  2009-05-08
  Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp forces those who have given up Falun Gong to communicate with practitioners who were recently "transformed." The practitioners endure brainwashing as well as physical abuse in order to weaken their faith. If practitioners didn't "transform," the guards instructed inmates to physically abuse them by forcing them to stand for periods as long as 16 hours, causing practitioners to suffer from high blood pressure. Many practitioners were "transformed" under these conditions with an unwilling heart.
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• Three Practitioners Recently Tried in Xuchang City, Henan Province

  2009-05-06
  In April 2009, the Weidu District Court in Xucheng City sentenced Ms. Chang Qing and Mr. Wang Haisong to three years in prison, while Ms. Shen Yuehong received a three and a half year sentence. Ms. Shen and Ms. Chang are being held at the Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province. During Ms. Shen's detention, she was severely tortured to the point that she became emaciated and developed fluid build-up in her thoracic cavity. When her condition worsened, guards dragged her to the local hospital by a shackle that was attached to her foot. She later developed symptoms of tuberculosis and is now very weak.
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• Former Intelligence Officer of China's Ministry of State Security Reveals the Inside Story of the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2009-05-05
  On the tenth anniversary of the "April 25th" peaceful appeal, Mr. Fengzhi Li, former intelligence officer of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), who recently publicly announced his withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using his real name, was invited to attend a public hearing held in the European Parliament on April 25th, 2009. The topic of the hearing was religious freedom in China and the ten-year persecution of Falun Gong. He pointed out that the CCP has never stopped its persecution of religious groups, particularly Falun Gong.
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• Exposing the Mistreatment of Practitioners Detained at the Heilongjiang Women's Prison

  2009-05-04
  In April 2003 I was arrested and incarcerated in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison where I was held for four and a half years. In mid-August 2003, I was made to either stand or squat for several days in a row because I refused to do hard labour. In late December 2003, more than 30 practitioners protested the persecution. Afterwards, the guards tortured us for several days. The first day they dragged us outside to suffer in the freezing cold. We were forbidden to wear hats and had to roll up our sleeves to bare our arms. The guards also cut our hair really short, so our ears were exposed. We were not given any water to drink and we had to eat our lunch outside. At night the guards took us in and had us sit on tiny benches, without sleeping. Whoever was spotted dozing off would be hit with sticks.
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• Six Practitioners Unconstitutionally Prosecuted By Hejiang County Procuratorate in Sichuan Province

  2009-05-03
  On September 10th, 2008, six Falun Gong practitioners went to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Hejiang County, which led to their arrest. After six months' detention, agents from the Hejiang County Procuratorate prosecuted them. Mr. Wei Fengming, 55 years old, was arrested at his home in 2004 and detained for two years. He was cruelly tortured in Mianyang Prison in Sichuan. His wife, Ms. Luo Shuizhen, 54, was held for eight months at Luzhou Detention Centre. She suffered severe mental and physical mistreatment. She was subjected to forced labour three times between 2001 and 2007 and suffered inhumane abuse at Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan for those six years.
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• Zhongyuan District Court in Zhengzhou City Puts Ten Practitioners on Trial

  2009-05-03
  On March 26th, 2009, Zhongyuan District Court in Zhengzhou City convened a session to try ten practitioners, including. The proceedings were a travesty of justice. Facing the lawyer's questions, members of the court were left speechless. Although the trial was supposedly public, only a few practitioners' family members were allowed to sit in the visitors' seats. The ten practitioners were brought to court in handcuffs and shackles. During the trial, Mr. Liu Wei claimed several times that his so-called "confession" was extorted by torture: he had been suspended on his back, his arms and legs stretched out and his wrists and ankles affixed to three places. He was hung like that for four to five hours. His arms and feet were visibly covered with many scars and injuries.
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• Female Teacher from Xintai City, Shandong Province Arrested and Mistreated by Police

  2009-05-02
  Ms. An Yan is a teacher. On July 19th, 2008, she was arrested by the chief of the National Security Group and the headmaster of her school. She was sent to the second group of the criminal police team. Her 8-year-old son, Li Duchen, was arrested with her. The frightened boy caught a fever and was hospitalized for over ten days. Police interrogated Ms. An Yan about the whereabouts of her husband, Mr. Li Yunzhao. Ordered by Ma Yan, the officers pulled her hair, repeatedly slapped her face , pushed her to the ground and stepped on her chest. After many rounds of beatings, Ms. An Yan fell into a coma and dropped to the ground. The perpetrators then poured cold water on her face until she become conscious.
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• Supplemental Information Regarding Ms. He Zhiwei's Arrest in Zhuhai City

  2009-05-01
  Ms. He Zhiwei, 46, was arrested in her home by personnel from the 610 Office who broke in and carried her out of her house on April 9th, 2009. They took her to the Sanshui Brainwashing Centre in Guangdong Province. Ms. He's elderly and sick mother, who is an invalid and cannot care for herself, is now on her own. The 610 Office confiscated personal belongings and didn't provide any receipts. Later, they called and told her mother that the reason for Ms. He's arrest was because she had distributed Falun Gong information materials. In actuality, Ms. He had never left her home that morning.
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