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

• Ten Year Old Locked In Iron Cage for Giving Falun Gong Brochure

  2008-11-15
  A 10-year old girl, Cheng Siyang, in southern China’s Sichuan province was slapped by police and shut in an iron cage for giving her teacher a Falun Gong brochure. Police later ransacked her home. Both of her parents were arrested on August 7th. According to a classmate, Siyang had told her about the benefits of Falun Gong, and how it taught people to be kind. She had also told her friend that it was wrong for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to persecute Falun Gong. Siyang returned to school on August 11th, with bruises all over her body.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Face Show Trial in China

  2008-11-14
  On October 30th, the case of two Falun Gong practitioners Liu Jinglu and Sun Lixiang was brought before a court in the city of Jixi in Heilongjiang Province. The couple is married and has a 6-year-old son. They were arrested on June 2nd in Taiping County while handing out fliers that detailed the persecution of Falun Gong. Most Falun Gong practitioners arrested in China are denied due process, sent to labour camps without trial. When a case does go through the judicial process, it is mostly for show. In many cases Falun Gong adherents are not allowed legal representation; in cases where they may be allowed representation, they often have trouble finding an lawyer. Lawyers in China have been disbarred, threatened, and even tortured for trying to defend Falun Gong practitioners. As a result many of them are unwilling to be involved in these cases.
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• Innocent Women from Hebei Province Sentenced

  2008-11-13
  On October 30th, 2008, Li County Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee members, 610 Office personnel, and Baoding City Court in Hebei Province put Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Cui Xiaoxian, Ms. Cui Shumei, and Ms. Feng Wenzhen on trial. They did not allow the defendants to speak to their lawyers or allow the lawyers to defend the practitioners. CCP personnel sentenced Ms. Feng to six years, Ms. Cui Xiaoxian to three years, and Ms. Cui Shumei to three years. Their families are preparing to appeal.
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• Ms. Kuang Xiaochun Detained in Several Brainwashing Centres

  2008-11-13
  On the evening of September 27th, 2007, the Shengdengshi Police in Chenghua District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province gathered more than a dozen officers and broke into Ms. Kuang Xiaochun's home in the employee dormitories of Wuyuan Powder Metallurgy Co. Ltd. in Shengdengsi. They detained Ms. Kuang and took her to the Shengdengsi Police Station because she is a Falun Gong practitioner. The police then ransacked her home and confiscated a dozen Falun Gong books, her mobile phone and other personal items.
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• Eight Falun Gong Practitioners from Jiaohe City Imprisoned

  2008-11-13
  Eight Falun Gong practitioners from Jiaohe City were given prison sentences after being detained without legal procedures for over half a year by the local police and the State Security group. On September 24th and October 12th, 2008, the practitioners were sent to Gongzhuling Prison in Siping City and Heizuizi Women's Prison in Changchun City. The Heizuizi Prison forced or pressured inmates to "watch over" Falun Gong practitioners, and not allow them to walk or talk freely. When Zhang Min met her family members, three or four prisoners were "watching over" her, telling her not to say too much and urging her to finish the meeting sooner rather than later. After only a few days in the prison, Zhang Min became skinny and weak. Her family suspected that she had been deprived of sleep.
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• Over Seventy Falun Gong Practitioners Detained in Brainwashing Centre at the Zhangjiakou City Forced Labour Camp During the Beijing Olympic Games

  2008-11-12
  During the Beijing Olympic Games, officials from the National Security Ministry and the Hebei Provincial 610 Office came to Zhangjiakou City in person to check on how the persecution of Falun Gong was going. Brainwashing centres were set up in Zhangjiakou City Forced Labour Camp. They arrested more than seventy Falun Gong practitioners from eleven districts and counties throughout the city. They sent the practitioners to the brainwashing centres and persecuted them for over two months. Those that resisted the brainwashing were beaten.
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• Ms. Xu Yan and Her Husband Tortured by Police from Huailai County, Hebei Province

  2008-11-12
  On July 9th, 2008, police ransacked the home of Mr. Ni Jinxing, his wife Ms. Xu Yan and arrested them. At the police station, Mr. Ni saw his wife locked into a cage and sitting on the ground. It was cold and he took off his coat and tried to hand it to his wife, but the police prevented him from doing so. They took him to a cell and started to interrogate him, but to no avail. After quite a long time, they got tired and shackled his hands to a metal chair, known as the "tiger bench". Ms. Xu was sentenced to one year of forced labour.
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• Ms. Cong Peijing from Dalian City, Liaoning Province Has Difficulty Walking after Suffering Police Abuse

  2008-11-11
  Ms. Cong Peijing was arrested by police on October 14th, 2008. During the arrest, her spine was re-injured. She is now imprisoned in the Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City. She has been arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 6 or 7 times and suffered brutal persecution. A part of her spine was fractured and dislocated in 2001. In order to escape from the CCP, she jumped from a high window of a police station in Jinzhou District, injuring her spine. Afterwards, she was tortured numerous times by the CCP. As a result, her spine was never able to fully recover. In August 2006, she was arrested by officers from the Wanli Police Station. She went on a hunger strike to protest against persecution at the Yaojia Detention Centre and was subjected to force-feeding. She was tortured to the verge of death.
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• Ms. Yang Shufen Sentenced to Eight Years Imprisonment in Xishui County, Hubei Province

  2008-11-10
  After Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Yang Shufen, 44 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for justice and was arrested by the Beijing police. After that she endured repeated arrests by police. In April 2007, police arrested her in Wuhan City. After she was imprisoned for over a year at the Xishui Detention Centre, she was sentenced to an additional eight years on a fabricated charge. Her appeal was turned down. In the beginning of September 2008, she was taken to the Wuhan Women's Prison. Since then, her family has not received any messages or information about her current situation and are deeply concerned about her safety.
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• Please Help Rescue My Mother, Detained for the Fifth Time for Practising Falun Gong

  2008-11-09
  My 65-year-old mother's name is Fu Shaozhen. She was arrested on December 25th, 2007 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The Wuhan 610 Office deceived my family by saying that they would release my mother immediately after the Olympic Games was over. The Olympic Games has finished, but my mother has not been released. She is still imprisoned and being tortured.
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• Nearly Seventy-year-old Mr. Gao Guangchong Sent to Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province

  2008-11-09
  After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, elderly Mr. Gao Guangchong was arrested eleven times. He was imprisoned in forced labour camps on numerous occasions, suffering inhumane torture each time. His home was often ransacked and twice he was forced into homelessness to avoid being arrested. On October 14th, 2007, over thirty police officers forcibly entered Mr. Gao's home and arrested him. On March 28th, 2008, the Huili County CCP Procuratorate and Court put Mr. Gao on trial. As a result of the torture he suffered while being detained, Mr. Gao's whole body was severely swollen from oedema, making it very difficult for him to stand. In September 2008 Mr. Gao's family members were finally informed that he had been sentenced to three years in a Forced Labour Camp and was taken there on October 16th, 2008.
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• Ms. He Xueping Arrested Again After Recent Release from Labour Camp

  2008-11-09
  Ms. He Xueping, a practitioner from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, has been suffering from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution for a long time. She had just been released from Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp on June 30th, 2008, when she was arrested again on September 2nd. Informants stated that Ms. He Xueping's current arrest was made in retaliation for her report on the persecution in the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp.
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• Masanjia Labour Camp Guards Torture Practitioners to Get Them to Sign a Labour Evaluation Sheet

  2008-11-08
  On October 6th, 2008, guards at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang tried to force Falun Gong practitioners confined in the First Division to sign a Labour Evaluation Sheet. When practitioners refused to sign, they were severely tortured. They were no longer able to walk upright afterwards. The guards pushed practitioners' heads under a bed and handcuffed them. Ms. Wang Chunying and Ms. Wang Haiying were handcuffed like that for three days and nights. Another practitioner was handcuffed for five days. She is now absent-minded and doesn't remember anything.
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• Officials from Shanghai Xuhui Court Mistreat Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-11-08
  On October 21st, 2008, the Shanghai Xuhui Court held a hearing for practitioners Mr. Liu Peng, Ms. Zheng Yan and Ms. Zhang Xumei. There were over seventy police officers and plain-clothes police officers in the courtroom and security was tight. Some of the people who planned to watch the hearing were threatened. Ms. Zhang Yuxia has been a friend of Mr. Liu Peng and Ms. Zhang Xumei for many years. The authorities found her to be "suspicious" and detained her. Ms. Zhang Yuxia had planned to watch the hearing, however, officials from the court called the officials from the school where she is employed and demanded that they stop her from watching the hearing. They also threatened that she would be arrested and held temporarily if she did come to watch.
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• Policemen in Tangshan City Imprison a Family of Four

  2008-11-07
  On July 10th, 2008, Ms. Zhang Yueqin, her husband He Yixing, their daughter He Yan and son-in-law Sun Fengli were all arrested by police in Tangshan. The police broke into Ms. Zhang's residence, breaking their windows and doors. They searched her residence, took many valuable personal belongings and more than 600,000 Yuan cash. They were all locked up in the First Detention Centre in Tangshan. A team of people from the Hebei Provincial 610 Office came to the detention centre to brainwash all four of them. In July, Ms. Zhang was the first of the four who was subjected to the torture method "Death Bed". On August 13th, the authorities at the Detention Centre refused to allow the lawyer to see Zhang Yueqin and He Yixing. Their excuse was that they had orders from higher authorities.
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