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

  • Ms. Yuan Jieling and Ms. Liu Huirong from Gaozhou City, Guangdong Province Arrested

    On August 4th, 2008, Ms. Yuan Jieling and Ms. Liu Huirong, both from Gaozhou City in Guangdong Province, went to Xieji Town to explain the facts about Falun Gong, but were arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel, and then imprisoned at the Gaozhou Municipal Detention Centre. Ms. Liu's home was ransacked and her personal belongings were confiscated on the same day she was arrested.
  • Ms. Wang Haiqing Arrested and Brutally Tortured Mentally and Physically

    Ms. Wang Haiqing, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in May 2008. She was force-fed and tortured both physically and mentally for three months. She was in critical condition. Policeman Dong Linfang held Ms. Wang down and said, "I don't believe that I cannot handle you." Wang Haiqing's was seriously injured, and she lost control of her bowels and bladder. It was unbearably painful.
  • My Nine Years of Persecution

    After July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began to brutally persecute Falun Gong. They fabricated slanderous news and broadcast it on TV and radio in order to deceive people. Because I am very determined in my belief, I was arrested and detained many times. Police from the Gaozhou Domestic Security Division, 610 Office and local police station interrogated and severely beat me. They harassed me in my home and at my work unit. They used thug-like means to try to force me to give up Falun Gong.
  • Practitioners Ba Xinmin and Others Suffer Persecution in Nanyang City, Henan Province

    Mr. Ba Xinmin, 60 years old, was sentenced to two years in jail simply because he refused to renounce his beliefs. He suffered torture in Nanyang City Detention Centre. Every day he had to work for more than 10 hours, but was fed rubbish that even pigs and dogs would not eat. Two years later when he was released, his weight had dropped from 70 kg to about 45 kg due to malnutrition. On August 5th, 2008, police arrested Ba, his wife, their neighbour, and relatives who were visiting at the time. They hid Ba in a "hotel" and interrogated him in private. They brutally tortured Ba because they thought he coordinated Falun Gong activities in the area.
  • Hexing Brainwashing Centre in Deyang City, Sichuan Province Exposed

    The "Advocating Scientific Education School" in Deyang City, Sichuan Province is actually a deceptive name for a brainwashing centre established by the 610 Office in Deyang City, also known as the Hexing Brainwashing Centre . It is a three-story building, with wired, steel-netted windows, resembling a cage. The arrested practitioners are jailed in this building. In recent years, the Hexing Brainwashing Centre has been identified as a site for the detainment and persecution of large numbers of practitioners from Deyang City, Guanghan City, Shifang City, and other surrounding areas; some practitioners have been tortured to death in this prison.
  • Ms. Wang Yuhui and Mr. Li Zhihong Arrested in Changsha City During the Olympics

    On August 18th, 2008, six police officers broke into Ms. Wang Yuhui's house and arrested her. While ransacking her house, they confiscated her computer and some personal items. Why was this teacher arrested? The only reason for her arrest was that she is a Falun Gong practitioner. After she was arrested, without a hearing or trial, she was sent to the Legislative Educational Training Centre in the city. This centre was organized by the 610 Office for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. More specifically, the centre is for brainwashing the practitioners into giving up their practice. In this brainwashing centre, she is kept in a room and watched 24 hours a day.
  • Persecution in the Shunyi District near Beijing Conducted by Officials Claiming to Be "Safeguarding the Olympics"

    The Shunyi District is north-east of Beijing and was to host the rowing and long-distance swimming competitions at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park for the 2008 Olympics. The police from the Shunyi National Security Bureau and the Domestic Security Division had compiled the documents of local Falun Gong practitioners into a special file, which included their names, ages, family members, acquaintances, and contact details. Practitioners then had to write a guarantee statement promising that they would give up practising Falun Gong, and they would not go out during the Olympics.
  • Mr. Qiu Baohe from Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, Secretly Sentenced to Five Years of Imprisonment

    As of July 29th, 2008, Mr. Qiu Baohe, a Falun Gong practitioner, has been detained for over four months in Jiaohe Detention Centre. He has been secretly sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the Jiaohe City Court. A guard surnamed Li refused to allow Mr. Qiu's family to visit him in the detention centre. Li also threatened them, saying that practitioners weren't allowed to hire lawyers. The court issued a verdict on July 21st but did not notify Mr. Qiu or his family. Court officials did threaten Mr. Qiu, saying, "Your sentence will be longer if the case is appealed."
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Xu Peng from Songyuan City Subjected To Torture, Secret Trial

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Peng from Songyuan City, Jilin Province was arrested on April 22nd, 2008. He is being held at the Shanyou Detention Centre. Guard Ma Hongzhe tortured him using a procedure called the "Big Hang-up," which rendered him unable to walk. Mr. Xu has been arrested three times. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel extorted a confession from him and framed him for committing a crime, labelling him as an "anti-CCP ringleader." Now they intend to hold a secret trial to sentence him.
  • Liu Ruping and His Wife from Jinan City Arrested Again

    Mr. Liu Ruping, a Falun Gong practitioner, was a lawyer. On August 12th, 2008, just as Mr. Liu's wife, Ms. Zhang, was leaving home, officials from the 610 Office and the police station in Changqing arrested her. They took her house key and entered her home without the permission of her husband (Liu Ruping) and son, who were home at the time. The police ransacked the home. So that Mr. Liu wouldn't shout, the officers sprayed pepper water on his face, keeping him from talking or opening his eyes. Liu Ruping was taken to a Jinan brainwashing centre in the Liuchangshan District. Ms. Zhang was put in the Jinan detention centre.
  • Germany: A Falun Gong Practitioner Gives an Account of the Horrors of Masanjia Labour Camp in China

    “As far back as two years ago, I signed my name here, demanding the CCP to stop persecuting Falun Gong, but the situation has not changed in the least.” Watching the Berlin Students in front of the Bolandeng Fortress and seeing scenes of the Chinese Falun Gong practitioners suffering cruel torture and live organ harvesting, a passer by expressed her suspicion and discouragement. A Chinese person suddenly said to her, “No, the situation is changing; it is just difficult to see immediately from abroad, please follow me.”
  • Ms. Chen Wenbei Sent to Forced Labour Camp Prior to the Olympics

    Beijing resident Ms. Chen Wenbei was arrested by police officers on the evening of May 17th, 2008, at her home. She was sentenced to forced labour and taken to Inner Mongolia prior to the Olympics. On August 9th, 2008, she turned 42 years old in Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia. When she was taken away, seminars that she was to attend with personnel from different hospitals and that were planned in advance using sophisticated techniques had to be cancelled. Her husband is unable to make a living and lives at home with their 16-year-old child on borrowed money.
  • Cases of Persecution in Guangdong Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Wang Xiaoyuan, 50, is a practitioner from Zhuhai City. She had been in very good health, but when she was released after 19 months in the forced labour camp, she needed to be carried out by three people. It was reported that the guards tortured her brutally, including beating her and forcing her to stand in a fixed position for long periods of time, which led to her being unable to walk or take care of herself. However, the camp authorities still did not release her on medical parole. Instead, two criminals were designated to monitor her.
  • Shenzhou City Authorities Search Practitioners' Homes

    On July 18th, 2008, officers from the Dafengying Township Police Station searched several practitioners' homes in Shenzhou City, Hebei Province. At each home, the agents checked the rooftop for the presence of a satellite dish. Then they ransacked every room, looking for Falun Gong books or materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. If they found anything, they extorted money from the practitioner (fines of between 7,000 to 10,000 yuan). Practitioners unable to pay the fines were arrested. When the agents could not find any materials, they questioned practitioners as to whether they still practised Falun Gong.
  • 610 Office Personnel from the Zhifu District in Yantai City Harass and Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Name of the Olympics

    Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used the Olympics to prolong its final days by painting a picture of a "peaceful and magnificent era" to deceive the world. But its main purpose is to drag the world's people down and to bury them along with it. Three months before the Games began, nine Falun Gong practitioners were detained in the Zhufu District in Yantai City. It is impossible to estimate the number of practitioners that have since been harassed, monitored, forced to leave home, and become destitute.