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

• Shijiazhuang Senior Engineer Mr. Song Aichang Appeals His Unjust Sentence

  2008-11-23
  Mr. Song Aichang, 48, is a senior engineer with the Thirteenth Institute of the China Electronic Technology Group in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. At noon on June 22nd, 2007, he was arrested near his home. He has so far been detained for one year and four months, which exceeds the maximum time he can legally be held by 10.5 months. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities in Shijiazhuang have tried him for a third time. Because the evidence against him was seriously inadequate, he was supposed to have been released. However, the court sentenced him to three years' imprisonment. Mr. Song has appealed.
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• The Persecution of Ms. Yu Liqiu and Her Husband, Mr. Dong Yufeng from Jilin Province

  2008-11-22
  On September 12th, 2008, Ms. Yu Liqiu and Mr. Dong Yufeng went to Xiaosiping Township to distribute Falun Gong materials. They were arrested and incarcerated in the Dongfeng County Detention Centre. On September 19th, Liaoyuan City 610 Office personnel went to Mr. Dong and Ms. Yu's residence and confiscated their child's computer. After their arrest on September 12th, the two practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards physically assaulted them and threatened to force-feed them with hot pepper juice and salt liquid. The guards still do not allow any family visits. Their current situations are unknown. Their family received a notice saying that their cases have been transferred to the courts.
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• Recent Updates on Practitioners Detained in the Shenzhen City Detention Centre

  2008-11-22
  At about 6 a.m. on January 21st, 2008, Ms. Qian Huarui, 65, was arrested while doing the Falun Gong exercises at home. She has been held in the detention centre ever since and is now in poor health. She has high blood pressure, and her hair has turned grey. Mr. Xiao Feng, Ms. Qian Huarui's husband, is about 70 years old. He is a senior engineer. He has been detained at the detention centre and his current situation is unknown. Yantian Police Station is directly involved in persecuting him.
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• Third Arrest for Mr. Zhai Wenbin--Sentenced to Forced Labour in Handan City

  2008-11-22
  In 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that it would beef up security during the Olympic Games. Actually, increasing security was simply an excuse for intensifying the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Zhai Wenbin, a practitioner, was arrested for the third time and is being tortured in Handan Forced Labour Camp. His family didn't receive any information about him for over two months, and they are not allowed to visit him.
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• I Am a Chinese Citizen That's Been Deprived of My Rights

  2008-11-20
  Ever since 1999, when Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started persecuting Falun Gong, my family has not had a single normal day. The joyous life was no more. It is a fact that I have benefited both physically and mentally from cultivating, and that my family lived in harmony and all of my illnesses were cured. I didn't understand why they wouldn't let us practise. As a Chinese citizen I went to petition. My rights as a citizen permit this, and I told everyone who was there of the physical and mental benefits of practising Falun Gong. On September 18th, 1999, I went to the Office of Appeals in Beijing to petition, but I was taken away by the police before I even reached the office. The next day I was sent back home to a local detention centre. Later I was sentenced to forced labour.
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• Ms. Qiao Huarong Tried by the Chinese Communist Party-Controlled Court in Jizhou City, Hebei Province

  2008-11-20
  Practitioner Ms. Qiao Huarong, was tried in a court controlled by the Chinese Communist Party in Jizhou City, Hebei Province on November 4th, 2008. At 8:30 a.m., security was tightened in the Jizhous Court, as if protection was needed from a formidable enemy. The guards at the entrance checked everyone carefully, and everyone entering the courthouse had to produce an identification card. Outside the courtroom itself, apart from having to show personal identification, anyone entering had to produce a summons and submit to a body search. The lawyer retained by Ms. Qiao's family to defend her was initially not allowed to enter the courtroom. It was not until the trial was just about to start that the lawyer was finally allowed to enter, due to the family's adamant demands.
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• The Brutal Torture I Suffered at Shenyang Women's Prison

  2008-11-19
  I was arrested on November 9th, 2003 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. In April 2004, I was sentenced and sent to Shenyang Women's Prison in Liaoning Province. I was assigned to Group 3, Ward 1, infamous for its brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners, with a high success rate in "transforming" [forcibly renouncing Falun Gong] the practitioners. Police officer Li Zhe directed convicted murderers to torture me around the clock. They tied me up and beat me, stripped me naked and poured cold water on me. They also put drugs in my meals. During the time they were drugging me, I was having mental breakdowns and suffered from depression, with frequent panic attacks. To this day I still do not know what drugs they used on me.
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• A Kind-Hearted Falun Gong Practitioner is Arrested in Shenyang City--Her Whereabouts Unknown

  2008-11-18
  47-year-old Ms. Wang Shuxian is a very kind person and she has a happy family of three. On September 23rd, 2008, Ms. Wang was arrested by police officers in Shenyang City when she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong. In the Nanta Police Station, Ms. Wang was brutally beaten by the guards. The police then transferred her to the Shenyang City Detention Centre. It has been over a month since Ms. Wang's family has heard any information about her.
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• Shanghai Police Set Up Barriers and Checkpoints Outside Courthouse during Trials of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-11-18
  On October 21st, 2008, Shanghai Xuhui District Court held trials for Mr. Liu Peng, Ms. Zhang Xumei, and Ms. Zheng Yan. Mr. Liu's lawyer defended him. This is the first time the lawyer defended Falun Gong practitioners in the Shanghai area. The Shanghai authorities were afraid of people protesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, so they dispatched police to set up barriers and checkpoints outside the courthouse. There were more than 30 uniformed police officers in the vicinity of the courtroom. In addition, a lot of plain clothes officers walked around keeping an eye on pedestrians and vehicles. There were even plain clothes officers sitting inside tea houses at the corner. One insider said, "There are more than 80 police officers in the area, patrolling on foot and in vehicles."
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• Ms. Li Fengyun and Her Husband Arrested and Savagely Beaten by Police in Jilin Province

  2008-11-18
  Police arrested Ms. Li Fengyun and her husband, Mr. Shen Quanhui when a farmer reported them for distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution near Toudao Town. Back at the station, Ms. Li and her husband were put in separate rooms where they were monitored and interrogated. When the officers asked Ms. Li her name and address, she did not tell them. As a result, they savagely beat her, then handcuffed her behind her back, pulled her hair, slapped her face, and beat and kicked her. They also forced her to stand still for hours, not allowing her to fall asleep. Officer Zhang ruthlessly kicked Ms. Li in the stomach, causing her to collapse on the ground, unable to get up. She also heard piercing screams and sounds of vomiting coming from a nearby room where her husband was detained.
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• Practitioners Suffer Continual Abuse and Torture at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province

  2008-11-17
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Pingrui, 21, was arrested along with her mother in May 2008. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured beyond her physical and emotional endurance. Because Ms. Wang did the Falun Gong meditation guards hung her up on a bunk bed with her feet not touching the floor and was then beaten. She was beaten frequently. She periodically suffered blackouts due to this torture.
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• Ms. Liu Zhenxia Tortured at Labour Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province

  2008-11-17
  Ms. Liu Zhenxia, a Falun Gong practitioner, was held at the Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was not allowed to sleep and was forced to stand for long periods of time consecutively. Because she refused to cooperate with the guards, Ms. Liu Zhenxia was forced to stay in the toilet. She was not allowed to have warm clothes, even during the cold winter. Guards ordered prisoners to pour cold water on the floor and forced her to sit on the wet floor wearing only light weight clothing. They swore at her and beat her until her face was swollen. She suffered inhumane torture constantly and became emaciated as a result of the abuse. Standing constantly for 24 hours without sleeping, being hung up on iron window frames and being tied to a bed using a special straight jacket are all very common ways to torture Falun Gong practitioners.
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• On the Eve of the Olympics, an Unbreakable Will

  2008-11-16
  In an image that so rarely escapes from China, Zhang Lianying is telling her story of horror. In Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp Zhang was slapped, kicked, beaten, strangled, abused, deprived of sleep, had her private parts attacked. She was beaten or strangled into a coma 14 times. She says all parts of her body were violated and injured. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong she recounted: “They tied up my hands and feet, lifted my feet and tied them to a chair, and used a rope from strips of bed-sheets to tie my neck to the back of the chair—so tight that I could not move."
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• Viciousness at Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp During the Olympic Games

  2008-11-16
  There were relatively fewer beatings in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp prior to the Olympic Games. But as soon as the Olympics started on August 9th, 2008, the situation began intensifying and practitioners were severely persecuted, the worst point being around August 20th. Practitioners were physically abused, beaten, cursed at, and humiliated--all of which are prohibited according to policy. In order to force determined practitioners to wear the uniforms, they ripped the clothes from female practitioners, cut apart their underwear with scissors, and chained them to a wooden board bed. These practitioners were then beaten, electrically-shocked, tied up, and tortured by other means.
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• The Persecution of Married Couple Mr. Liu Ruping and Ms. Zhang Chenglan

  2008-11-16
  Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Liu Ruping and his wife Zhang Chenglan were arrested on the afternoon of August 12th, 2008. Going downstairs Liu Ruping shouted, "The police are arresting me!" One officer immediately attacked his face with pepper spray, making him cry, cough uncontrollably and making his nose run. The agents took Ms. Zhang Chenglan to Jinan City Detention Centre and then she was sentenced to 18 months forced labour. Mr. Liu was released from Jinan Detention Centre on September 28th.
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