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

• The Brutal Persecution of Ms. Zhao Jiayu in Chongqing City

  2008-10-28
  Ms. Zhao Jiayu was sentenced to two years of forced labour and was incarcerated from July 19th, 2000, to August 14th, 2002, simply because she wouldn't give up the practice of Falun Gong. On November 4th, 2002, not long after she was released, Chinese Communist Party member Zuo Jin and a dozen others from the local township government and the Jingkou Police Station took Zhao Jiayu to the Geleshan Brainwashing Centre. She was detained and tortured regularly in the centre for one and a half years and was not released until June 2004. On February 25th, 2005, Ms. Zhao was again arrested by Zuo Jin and sentenced to two years forced labour without due process.
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• Mr. Zheng Baohua Beaten and Tortured to the Brink of Death

  2008-10-27
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Baohua was arrested by police officers on September 10th, 2008. They then used torture to interrogate him. To protest, he went on a hunger strike and was brutally force-fed. He was finally released when he was on the brink of death. He recounted, "During the time I was on the hunger strike, I was force-fed with salt water every two or three days. While I was in the hospital, a guard told the doctors, 'All you have to do is to keep him alive for another three days. There will be no consequences as long as he does not die in the detention centre.'"
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• A Village Party Secretary in Hengshui City Persecutes Ms. Li Huanyun

  2008-10-27
  Li Jianru, male, is the Party secretary of Lidezhuang Village in Hengshui City, Hebei Province. During the Beijing Olympics, officials and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Township government ordered him to monitor Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Huanyun. Instead, Li Jianru directed others from CCP-related departments to arrest her. Two days before they arrested Ms. Li, Li Jianru brought in others to investigate how to get into her home and also examined her satellite dish on top of her house. The day they arrested her, the police parked their car near the village and then walked to her home to arrest her. She is now detained in a detention centre in Wuqiang County. They have sent her case to the local CCP Procuratorate and Court, and she is facing further persecution
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• Mr. Liu Xiyong Persecuted Repeatedly in Dalian City

  2008-10-26
  Since the Chinese Communist Party started its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Liu Xiyong went to his city government to tell them about the wonderfulness of Falun Gong and the benefits he gained from practising. He was persecuted three times by Shihe police officers and the Shihe Town government. In 2002, he was sentenced to two years and imprisoned at Dalian Forced Labour Camp. During that time, he suffered through torture, being locked up in a small cell, and forced to sleep in a "Dead Person's Bed" for over 40 days. The torture caused him to lose the ability to take care of himself. In July 2008, he was arrested and taken to Sanli Detention Centre. Two months later, the centre still refused to let his family members visit him.
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• Policewoman Tortures Practitioners at Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City

  2008-10-26
  Yan Hongli is a squadron leader in Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City. Since 1999 she has been torturing Falun Gong practitioners detained there. She spared no effort and was awarded for her fierceness and cruelty; her "excellence" in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. She was very cruel and well known for beating practitioners' faces. She didn't even try to hide it. In October 2004, practitioner Liu Sujun managed to walk free from the forced labour camp. When she was caught and sent back to the forced labour camp that night, Yan Hongli and other police shocked her with electronic batons and locked her in a secret cell near the Education Department in the forced labour camp.
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• Practitioner's Wife Arrested

  2008-10-26
  Mr. Wu Buo is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changtu County, Liaoning Province. On October 1st, 2008, policemen from the Changtu County National Security Brigade and Daxing Township Police Station broke into his home at around 8 p.m. Wu Buo was not at home, so the police took his wife, Zou Dangmei, who is not a Falun Gong practitioner, to the police station, with no apparent reason and without going through any legal procedures. Zou Dongmei was detained at the police station until the next day. This was the second time she was arrested this year.
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• Mr. Sun Pinghua's Account of His Persecution at the Hands of Police from Yueyang City Domestic Security Division in Hunan Province

  2008-10-25
  Mr. Sun Pinghua is 36 years old. He is a machinery repair worker at the Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. He was arrested in March 2008 by the Domestic Security Division and was injured when the police tortured him trying to force a confession. The doctors said that he had no feeling from his left elbow joint to the fingers due to external forces pulling on the arm. If his arm didn't recover within six months, then the arm may need to be amputated. The police took him to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City on August 12th, 2008.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Forced to Perform Slave Labour in Beijing Women's Prison

  2008-10-25
  In the Daxing Women's Prison in Beijing over the past few years, prison police have utilized all forms of brutal, inhumane methods to "transform" [brainwash] Falun Gong practitioners. They have coerced practitioners into performing harsh slave labour to reap higher profits from their products. In the section dedicated to persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, the authorities have forced practitioners to knit clothing and make bags, pencil cases, table cloths, flip-flops and socks. Many times practitioners' hands bled from the labour or they suffered from deteriorating eyesight. Practitioners have also been forced to manufacture products using toxic glue to seal boxes, and many practitioners developed dizziness very soon after doing such work.
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• The Gansu Province First Forced Labour Camp Still Ruthlessly Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-10-24
  In January 2008, practitioner Mr. Gu Zeyuan was grossly abused. Guard Li Wenhui beat him ruthlessly, then placed him in confinement for seven days with his limbs stretched in the shape of an "X" and tied between two beds. He developed severe illness symptoms and was first hospitalized and then transferred to the Dashaping Labour Camp Hospital. In June 2008, practitioner Mr. Kang Shangwen refused to be "reformed" [brainwashed]. Division head Han Ximing used the electrical baton to shock Mr. Kang's face, lips, cheeks, and neck while reviling him for nearly 20 minutes.
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• The Persecution of Ms. Wan Yonghong and Other Practitioners Employed at Qian'an City Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

  2008-10-24
  Li Zhengzeng was the director of the Qian'an Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Since three practitioners worked at the bank, at his first all staff meeting, he threatened that he would not tolerate any of his employees practising Falun Gong. In October of 2007 over forty practitioners were persecuted in Qian'an City, the three practitioners working at the bank were among them. On October 9th, 2008, police officers went to Ms. Wan Yonghong's workplace, one of its bank deposit branches. They arrested her, then ransacked her home and confiscated some of her personal belongings. At the police station, police brutally tortured Ms. Wan. They shocked her with electric batons for more than two hours.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Songfang Sentenced to Four Years in Prison in Guangdong Province

  2008-10-24
  On February 21st, 2008, Ms. Li Songfang was arrested by the local police. After searching her home and harassing her family members, the police confiscated some Falun Gong materials and over 200 yuan in cash. In June 2008, the police secretly interrogated Ms. Li, and without going to trial, sentenced her to four years in the Guangzhou Women's Prison. When her family received news of her imprisonment, they were devastated. Her husband was grief-stricken and found it very difficult to concentrate on his day-to-day life. Once he absent mindedly walked outside his home and stumbled to the ground, unable to get up.
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• Mr. Yang Jianzhong, 70 Years Old, Persecuted in Wenjiang, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

  2008-10-23
  Seventy-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Yang Jianzhong was formerly a senior cost engineer at Factory 7111 of the Aeronautics Department in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Nevertheless, being controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, Factory 7111 issued an order in March 2008 to forcibly take Yang Jianzhong to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre and make him renounce his faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Under tremendous pressure Yang Jianzhong left his home at the beginning of April and lived a homeless life. Yang Jianzhong secretly returned home on July 6th. On July 7th, Factory 7111 personnel forcibly took Yang Jianzhong away.
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• Ms. Gu Li and Ms. Qiu Shuping Secretly Sentenced in Dalian City

  2008-10-23
  On March 20th, 2008, the police arrested Ms. Gu Li and Ms. Qiu Shuping when they were telling people about the persecution of Falun Gong at a local village. Police officers ransacked the two practitioners' homes and confiscated their personal belongings. The police tried to deceive them during the interrogation. After being detained for over six months, Ms. Gu was secretly sentenced to three years and Ms. Qiu to four years in prison. Both have appealed their cases.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Xu Dongyu and Huang Xungui Arrested by Police

  2008-10-22
  On the evening of September 28th, 2008, practitioners Xu Dongyu and Huang Xungui were reported to the police as they handed out leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Yikou, Xingzi County. They were arrested, and currently are still detained at the Xingzi County Detention Centre. On October 6th, family members went to the Xingzi County Police Department to ask for the release of the practitioners. The police department's door was locked from the inside and no one was allowed to enter, so the family then went to the Xingzi County Detention Centre. The police from the detention centre first yelled at them. But they continued to ask, so they were finally allowed to visit the two practitioners, however neither was released.
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• Primary School Teacher Ms. Chang Ping Tortured at Mental Hospital Four Times

  2008-10-21
  After Ms. Chang Ping began to practise Falun Gong she was cured of her illnesses within a week. Then, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials sent her to a mental hospital four times because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. She is now at the Jiamusi Mental Hospital. At the first mental hospital she recalled, "Several people held me down and injected me with a drug. I lost consciousness almost immediately. When I regained consciousness, they forced me to take some drugs and kept me on an IV that also held some kind of medication. I was kept drowsy and muddle-headed for a long time. One day, I looked into a mirror. My eyes stared blankly out of my face, my hair was messy and the corners of my mouth had bloodstains from the force-feedings. I burst into tears. They had tortured me beyond recognition."
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