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

• Shandong Province Women's Forced Labour Camp Brutally Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-12-29
  If a practitioner refuses to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he is not allowed to use the toilet, brush his teeth, wash, sleep, or even talk. Ms. Li Xiumei is currently imprisoned at this Shandong forced labour camp. One day the guards shackled Ms. Li's arms to a prison cell window for seven days and nights, with her feet barely touching the ground. Suddenly the shackles became loose and sprung open. Ms. Li immediately collapsed on the floor from pain, hunger, and exhaustion. When the guards saw her lying there, they rushed over and started beating her. Fearing that their actions would be leaked to the outside during the Olympic Games, they secretly transferred her to another forced labour camp on September 20th, 2008.
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• Ms. Yin Qiuyang and Ms. Yin Lanying from Hunan Province Sentenced to Three Years' Imprisonment

  2008-12-28
  Ms. Yin Qiuyang and Ms. Yin Lanying from Huaihua City, Hunan Province were sentenced by the Hecheng District to three years' imprisonment. It is the third time that Ms. Yin Qiuyang has been arrested and persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. Ms. Yin Lanying has been detained at least five times.
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• A Mother's Lament

  2008-12-28
  My son, a Falun Gong Practitioner, has been thrown into jail, and whether he is dead or alive is unknown. I feel anxious every day and I frequently have nightmares. I am already in my seventies. My son has been imprisoned three times. On this last awful day, the whole family was working in the fields. I witnessed with my own eyes how a gang of policemen pounced on my son and handcuffed him while forcing him into a police car. At the same time two men held me back as I struggled, and kept me from resisting their unlawful arrest of my son. I fell to the ground as my heart was broken. I could only watch helplessly as the police car drove away with my child!
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• Beijing Lawyers Ask Heilongjiang Provincial Intermediate Court to Acquit Practitioners

  2008-12-27
  Recently, two lawyers were invited to see the judge of the Heilongjiang Province Nongken Intermediate Court. They requested an open court session for the second trial of five Falun Gong practitioners. On November 13th, 2008, the two lawyers had a meeting with two officials from the intermediate court, who pressured them not to represent Falun Gong practitioners. The lawyers refused. Afterwards, the court officials suggested that the Falun Gong practitioners be sentenced to forced labour camp terms without an open court trial. Under the Chinese Communist Party's rule, judges don't have the right to impartially judge a case.
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• Ms. Yang Shuyu Arrested in Dalian City

  2008-12-27
  On November 20th, 2008, Ms. Yang Shuyu was reported to the police while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong and that Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance near the Yaojia Detention Centre. She was arrested and brutally beaten by officers from the Nanguanling Station and is being detained at the Yaojia Detention Centre.
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• Disabled Person in Hebei Province Severely Persecuted for Aiding Practitioners

  2008-12-26
  On May 7th, 2008, disabled Mr. Niu Jiming took Ms. Chen Liguan, and Ms. Jin Shuxia to Biguyou Village by tricycle. Ms. Chen and Ms. Jin went to do their business, while Niu waited by the roadside for their return. A villager found that Ms. Jin was distributing Falun Gong materials and summoned the police. The police took all three to the police station. Later, Mr. Niu and the practitioner, Ms. Jin, were sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Niu's offence was "obstructing justice through an organization" on account of the DVD and fliers belonging to Ms. Jin and Ms. Chen that were found on Niu's tricycle on May 7th.
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• Many Practitioners in Shangqiu, Henan Province, Have Been Sentenced

  2008-12-25
  On April 6th, 2008, Mr. Ba Wei and Ms. He Yinghua from Shangqiu, Henan Province, were arrested by police from the national security team in the Mudan District, Heze, Shandong Province, when they were trying to rescue other practitioners from Dan County, Shandong Province. This was believed to have been a premeditated arrest, since family members of the arrested practitioners were persecuted and then cooperated with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents. That night, Ms. He escaped. Mr. Ba, Mr. Lao Zhou, and other practitioners were sent to the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province on May 5th. Mr. Ba was sentenced to a forced labour camp for two years.
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• A Practitioner Recounts the Torture of "Desensitization" at Beijing Women's Prison

  2008-12-24
  On March 11th, 2004, I was taken to the Beijing Women's Prison. Since I refused to give up my belief, I suffered the most brutal tortures, both mentally and physically. Mentally, they forced me to watch video programmes and read books that slandered Falun Gong. They wanted me to write "confessions." Physically, they tortured me with sleep deprivation, forcing me to stand still all night in military postures. They would punch and kick me whenever they were not happy with me. Sometimes I was only allowed to use the toilet once a day. Verbal abuse, humiliation, kicks and punches, and slaps in the face were common practice. They attempted to use force to press me into giving up my belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance.
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• Many Practitioners Arrested Recently in Zhucheng City, Shandong Province

  2008-12-23
  Around the first of November in 2008, the Zhucheng City party secretary, Zou Qingzhong, received a phone call from a Falun Gong practitioner who was telling him the facts about Falun Gong and that Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. He became very upset and ordered the police in his jurisdiction to severely persecute Falun Gong practitioners through 2008. Many practitioners have since been arrested and subjected to brainwashing.
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• Ms. Wang Hongyan's Personal Account of Being Tortured in the Shulan City Detention Centre and Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp

  2008-12-22
  Ms. Wang Hongyan, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on March 3rd, 2007, and her home was ransacked by police. She suffered inhumane persecution at the Shulan City Nanshan Detention Centre, and was later sent to Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp where she was ruthlessly tortured again. In the detention centre police ruthlessly beat Ms. Wang. Then a policeman poured a whole bottle of hot pepper liquid into a tube and said they were going to insert it into her nose. He splashed the liquid into Ms. Wang's eyes, and she couldn't open them.
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• Police Arrest Dozens of Practitioners' Relatives and Friends during Trial in Mudanjiang City

  2008-12-21
  On November 28th, 2008, the Heilongjiang Provincial Mudanjiang Municipal Xi'an District Court held a trial against four Falun Gong practitioners. Relatives and friends of these four practitioners came to the court, their IDs were inspected, and only the practitioners' close family members were allowed to enter. Some of the people who were not allowed to watch the trial went to negotiate with the court staff, but they were threatened by court personnel using very coarse language. The police started to arrest the relatives and friends who were peacefully waiting to hear the result of the trial without explanation.
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• I Long for Freedom

  2008-12-20
  When my two older sisters and I were arrested and sent to a detention centre, harshly punished, beaten, and forced to do hard labour, our father's hair turned grey overnight. When one of my older sisters, who was persecuted to the verge of death, was again arrested, our mother cried and shouted bitterly. She attempted to lie under the wheels of a car to stop her daughter's persecution. In a detention centre I was forced to do hard labour every day, and if I didn't finish my work on time, the guards deprived me of sleep. Only a small amount of hard rice noodles, which were cooked without any oil, was provided, and I saw insects floating in the muddy vegetable soup.
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• Authorities of Dayangshu Town in Hulunbuir Prefecture Launched Another Round of Arrests in November

  2008-12-19
  At about 3 p.m. on November 19th, 2008, authorities from Dayangshu Town dispatched 9 police cars and nearly 30 police officers to carry out a premeditated plan to search the homes of nine practitioners and arrest them. Police officers were heavily armed. The police searched their homes and arrested the practitioners. Elderly and disabled family members were upset and frightened by the incident.
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• Mo'erdaoga Forest Police Department Persecutes Practitioners in Inner Mongolia

  2008-12-17
  Practitioner Ms. Wang Shuwen, 62, has been harassed many times by police officers. On May 30th, 2002, eight or nine officers from the Mo'erdaoga Forest Police Department arrested Ms. Wang, searched her home, and confiscated many Falun Gong books. Ms. Wang was detained for two months. While she was in detention, officers went to her home, and harassed and threatened her family. In May 2008, approximately six officers searched Ms. Wang's home. In August, Mo'erdaoga Police Station officers harassed Ms. Wang at home. In September, once again officers from the Mo'erdaoga Police Station harassed her.
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• Ms. Wang Fengjuan from Jilin Province Detained in the Kunming City Forced Labour Camp

  2008-12-15
  Because of harassment from the local police, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Fengjun was forced to leave home and go to work in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, in June 2008. She was arrested just ten days after arriving in Yunnan Province, and sentenced to three years of forced labour. She is now in the Kunming City Forced Labour Camp. In the morning, Ms. Wang is forced to write statements renouncing her belief; in the afternoon, she has to do hard labour.
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