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

• Crimes Committed in the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp

  2008-10-11
  The Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province is one of many sites that have been used to barbarically torture practitioners, both mentally and physically. They have used lies and other despicable means to force the practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. Many practitioners were injured or crippled, suffered mental breakdown, or even died as a result of the brutal persecution there over the last nine years. Mr. Liu Cheng suffered from the corporal punishment; in addition to the beatings, he was forced to sit on a small stool for a long period of time. Sometimes the guards would hang him up and others forced him to stand still in many different postures.
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• Police Arrest and Persecute 17 Falun Gong Practitioners in Laixi City

  2008-10-10
  On July 31st, 2008, the police in Laixi City, Shandong Province, arrested 17 Falun Gong practitioners. They were having a study and discussion session at a practitioner's home. Laixi 610 Office Chief Wang Jianzhi rented the third floor of the Qingdao Defence Education Centre to set up a brainwashing centre, where six practitioners will be imprisoned. This is the Laixi 610 Office private jail, set up in attempt to persecute and force practitioners to give up their belief. In order to maintain this location, the 610 Office extorted from each practitioner's family members 3,000 yuan and forced them to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong before they would release the practitioners.
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• Mr. Yan Zhijun and Several Other Practitioners from Tonghe County, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested and Money Extorted from Them

  2008-10-10
  Personnel from the Tonghe County 610 Office and Police Department arrested and persecuted several Falun Gong practitioners right before the Olympics. While the practitioners were held in the detention centre, they were mentally and physically tortured. On July 29th, 2008, police broke into practitioner Mr. Yan Zhijun's home. The police made a big mess of the house and Mr. Yan Zhijun was seriously beaten. Furthermore, they tried to force him to reveal information about other practitioners. When he refused, they tied a plastic bag over his head three times and beat him cruelly.
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• Practitioners from Huaying City, Guang'an, Sichuan Province, Are Persecuted

  2008-10-10
  On February 10th, 2004, Yuechi County officials arrested Ms. Zhou Dingying. The police interrogated her using torture and forced a false confession from her. After being beaten, she was imprisoned in Yuechi Lockup. They also wanted to arrest her husband, Mr. Qu, so he was compelled to be destitute and homeless. Ms. Zhou was sentenced to forced labour for two years and taken to Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp in the Zizhong County, Sichuan Province. She was tortured inhumanly for two years.
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• Baoji Sanitation Schoolteacher in Shanxi Province Arrested Again by 610 Office Personnel

  2008-10-10
  Because Ms. Wang Guaiyan firmly practised Falun Gong, on July 21st, 2008, she was arrested by Chinese Communist Party personnel from the school and from the Baiji Municipal 610 Office. Now she is imprisoned in the Fenghuo Hotel. Since July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang has been arrested and imprisoned many times. In 2001, she was arrested by local 610 Office personnel, sent to Shanxi Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp for three years, and tortured. She has been held in Baoji Municipal Lockup and other places three times.
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• Crimes Committed by Communist Party Officers in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province

  2008-10-09
  On December 9th, 2006, I went to a hospital to see a Falun Gong practitioner who was at the point of death due to persecution by Chinese Communist Party officials. A doctor from the detention centre did not allow me to visit the practitioner and called the police. I was arrested. I was arrested only because I went to a hospital to visit a Falun Gong practitioner that had been tortured and because of my faith in acting as a good person. I was sentenced to one year of forced labour and had money and property taken from me. We are practitioners that cultivate according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, but we are brutally persecuted.
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• Zhang Yuexian of the Li County 610 Office Arrested Practitioners and Extorted Money from Them, Their Families, and Their Employers

  2008-10-09
  On March 26th, 2008, Zhang Yuexian and over 50 policemen arrested six practitioners who were studying a Falun Gong book together, including three seniors in their 60s or 70s. He extorted over 20,000 yuan from their families. The police found a small bag with a pay card inside during the arrests. Zhang Yuexian threatened family members and extorted 5,000 yuan from them. He designated people to go to the home of one practitioner to try to force her to write a guarantee statement to denounce Falun Gong. Zhang Yuexian never gave a receipt when he extorted money. It is said that Zhang Yuexian once had to pay a lot of money to buy a director's position in the 610 Office and now he wants to take the money back from practitioners.
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• Wuhou District Court in Chengdu City Holds Trial of Nine Falun Gong Practitioners and Two of Their Relatives

  2008-10-08
  On September 27th, 2008, Wuhou District Court in Chengdu City convened a session against nine practitioners. The initial notice to lawyers indicated a public session. However, the court did not allow any of the practitioners' relatives to attend the hearing. The excuse was that they did not have hearing certificates, but the court did not issue hearing certificates in advance at all, and in any case did not notify the relatives. Between August and September 2007, more than 30 Chengdu practitioners were arrested from their homes and offices. Almost all of them were brutally tortured. On March 13th, 2008, Ms. Zhou Huimin was tortured to death at the Qingyang District People's Hospital, which is the hospital used by the Chengdu City Detention Centre.
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• Daughter Died Due to Persecution, Mother Sentenced to Forced Labour Again

  2008-10-07
  On August 21st, 2008, several police officers from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province arrested fifty-eight-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuling, ransacked her home and seized money and other important items. Ms. Chen Xiuling was later sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. She is now imprisoned at the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp. This is Ms. Chen's third time in a forced labour camp. In recent years, even when she is not in a forced labour camp, members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) frequently harass her. Ms. Chen has been harassed ever since the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong began. Back in 1999, Miss Chen Ying, Ms. Chen's daughter, became the first victim to die from the persecution in Jiamusi City.
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• Ms. Lu Meiya of Kaifeng City, Henan Province Sentenced to Forced Labour on Trumped Up Charges

  2008-10-07
  Ms. Lu Maiya, 65, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Kaifeng City, Henan Province. At noon on August 7th, 2008, on her way home, she was arrested and searched by police who were staked out on the first floor of her apartment building. The police confiscated some Falun Gong materials from her and detained her in Sanlibao Police Station. Ms. Lu's husband, Mr. Zhong Wenbin, went to the police station the following day and requested her release. He was informed that she had been transferred to a detention centre, and that she would be able to go home in two or three days. She was actually detained for 15 days, and then on August 21st, police transferred Ms. Lu to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City to serve a sentence of one year and nine months.
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• The Relentless Torment I Suffered at the Brainwashing Centre in Beijing's Haidian District

  2008-10-06
  The brainwashing centre usually used two steps to persecute practitioners. The first step was to brainwash the practitioner and the second step was to coerce the practitioner into exposing other practitioners. If the practitioners refused to be "transformed" [give up Falun Gong], the police would then interrogate them. During the first step, the collaborators who had practised Falun Gong before tried to brainwash me and "transform" me. Since they had been practitioners they knew how practitioners talked and thought. They also deliberately misinterpreted and defamed Falun Gong when they felt it necessary. They helped the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to slander Falun Gong and used their experience and evil theories to "transform" the practitioners--just for this very limited salary.
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• Professor Xu Yin from Tsinghua University Tells His Story as a Victim of the Chinese Regime's Persecution of Falun Gong

  2008-10-06
  On March 13th, 2006, I didn't lock the metal security door of my home. That morning, about 20 policemen broke into my home and ransacked it. They failed to show any warrant or legal document, but they searched my home and arrested my wife and me. They told me that it's illegal to have Falun Gong books at home. But Falun Gong books were legally published by China Broadcast Television Publishing Company before the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999 and were among the top 10 best selling books in China. For having Falun Gong books at home, I was given a two-year jail sentence. I spent 16 months in Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing, Beijing. During those 16 months, I was incarcerated in an isolation room for eight months where I was forced to sit still on a small stool facing the wall for 18-19 hours a day.
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• Exposing the Crimes at Taojianling Brainwashing Centre in Hanyang, Wuhan City, Hubei Province

  2008-10-06
  When we were sent to this evil place, the cells were very damp. There was no electricity. We were deprived of sleep and were forced to stand for long periods of time. We ate mildewed rice and rotten cabbage with sand in it. Later, due to the publicity from protesting practitioners, they improved the quality of food a little bit. Each practitioner was confined in a single cell. Sleeping, eating, and relieving themselves all took place in the same cell. Practitioners were never let out. We were not allowed to talk to one another.
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• Elderly Ms. Liu Bilian from Hunan Province Has Been Arrested Eight Times

  2008-10-06
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Bilian, a native of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, is 68 years old. She started to practise Falun Gong in 1998. However, during the ten years that she has been a practitioner, she has been arrested eight times and has suffered brutal torture. On March 5th, 2008, 7 policemen came to Ms. Liu's residence took Falun Gong books and personal belongings and locked her up at the police station. Ms. Liu was interrogated for four days and nights, and was then detained at the Yunxi Detention Centre for 87 days. She staged a hunger strike to protest. The guards took her to hospital but continued to torture Ms. Liu.
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• Police Arrest and Terrorize Seven Older Women, Extort Large Sums of Money

  2008-10-05
  On May 12th, 2008, police surrounded the home of Huangjia Village practitioner Ms. Li Yongxin. Using the excuse of "ensuring security for the Olympics," the police dispersed the villagers who gathered after hearing the news, broke into the home, ransacked it, and arrested Ms. Li Yongxin and six other older women practitioners. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents told the family members of each practitioner that they might be freed after two weeks and then proceeded to extort money from them. On May 19th, Ms. Li Yongxin and Ms. Zhao Cuizhi were taken to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City.
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