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

• Practitioners Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia

  2008-06-23
  In April 2008, the Tongliao City Police Department, Ke District Police Department, Domestic Security Division, several police stations, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel from neighbourhood administrations made a coordinated effort to conduct a so-called "secret check-up" on local practitioners. They phoned or visited them, using the excuses of address verification, low income assistance registration, or providing job opportunities. On May 30th, they began wide-spread arrests. Police arrived with five locksmiths at the home of a female practitioner surnamed Zhang, broke in after picking the lock, and arrested this practitioner.
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• Children of Practitioners Arrested by Police in Dongkou County, Hunan Province

  2008-06-22
  Practitioner Ms. Xiao Hongyan was arrested on May 13th, 2008, and is currently being held in Dongkou County Detention Centre. Practitioner Ms. Liu Qiju was arrested on July 28th, 2007, and is now imprisoned at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp. On June 2nd, 2008, Xiang Xuan, director of a legal institute went to the home of Ms. Xiao's relatives. They charged Ms. Xiao's son Xiang Zhiyuan and Ms. Liu's son Xiang Shuocheng with going on-line at an Internet cafe to demand the release of their mothers. The police wanted to arrest the two boys, but local village officials said both were still teenagers. However, that night, Domestic Security Division officers still arrested Xiang Zhiyuan. Xiang Shuocheng managed to escape.
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• Chinese Communist Party Members in Qinan County, Shandong Province Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  2008-06-22
  Using the upcoming Olympic Games as an excuse, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in Shuanghou Town on a large scale. So far, the police have arrested four practitioners. The four practitioners are currently held at the Qinan County Detention Centre, and have been subjected to interrogation and mistreatment. Two practitioners left home to avoid persecution, many have been harassed and interrogated, and homes were searched.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Officials Arrest and Fine Falun Gong Practitioners in Mengyin County, Shandong Province

  2008-06-21
  It is well-known that Mengyin County of Shandong Province is one of China's most poverty-stricken areas. Police from the local 610 Office and police stations use every chance possible to harass, torture and fine Falun Gong practitioners. Usually, they arrest practitioners and ransack their homes. They steal anything of value, including chickens, rabbits, dogs and trees. They take practitioners to brainwashing centres, police stations or detention centres. They take advantage of the sentimentality of practitioners' family members who do not want to see their loved ones suffer, and force them to pay excessive fines. Some practitioners become impoverished due to the greediness of those evil people, and their children have to quit school and work to help pay the debts.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Hongjiang City, Hunan Province Arrested

  2008-06-21
  On May 28th, police officers from Hongjiang City broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Biyun's home. They ransacked the home, arrested Ms. Wang, and then detained her at Baihunao Detention Centre. At 7:00 p.m., police officers broke into Ms. Yang Jinlan's home, and arrested Ms. Yang, who is in her seventies, then also detained her at the Baihunao Detention Centre. On May 30th, each was extorted of 800 yuan before they were released.
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• Multiple Falun Gong Practitioners from Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province Arrested

  2008-06-21
  Police arrested Ms. Chen Guifang as she was distributing material exposing the persecution on December 26th, 2007. She was sentenced to a three-year prison term. Ms. Chen Guifang has a dependent mother in her eighties who is now left to fend for herself. Ms. Lu Guizhen was arrested by a police officer as she was distributing Falun Gong-related materials on January 12th, 2008. She was sentenced to a one-year prison term and became ill due to mistreatment in detention. Her mental health is very poor. Despite frequent inquiries and requests for release by her family, the prison authorities have refused to release her.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Jinbo from Yanji City is Cruelly Tortured

  2008-06-20
  During nine years of persecution of Falun Gong in China, Zhang Jinbo has been cruelly tortured, and unable to marry or to live a normal life. Due to an extended forced labour term, her mental and physical health drastically declined. Her body incurred great harm from torture, and many diseases surfaced. Her residency registration was withheld, and would only be restored if she gave up her belief. It was forbidden for her to go abroad to work. She had to live a poverty-ridden existence in exile.
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• Three Female Practitioners from Yingcheng City, Hubei Province, Arrested

  2008-06-20
  On June 4th, 2008, Ms. Wang Changping, a practitioner, went to the Gepu Police Station to request the release of two female practitioners. Police officers forced her into a police car. She was detained at Dongmafang Police Station for more than two hours. During this time, the police prohibited her family from seeing her and also beat them. On June 5th, 2008, Ms. Gao Wenxia, Ms. Li Yuling, and another female practitioner visited Dongmafang Police Station to ask for the release of Ms. Wang. As a result, the three were forced into a police car and taken to the No. 2 Detention Centre in Yingcheng City.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Cruelly Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-06-19
  For distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people, practitioner Ms. Zhong Shujuan has been sentenced to forced labour three times and detained once. She is now being inhumanly tortured and persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. She is in great anguish every day not being able to see her daughter, and her mother is close to 80 years old and isn't able to take care of herself. She has been shocked with electric batons, beaten with rubber clubs, subjected to corporal punishments, and stripped of her clothes so that others could write words defaming Falun Gong on her body.
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• Ms. Xu Xiu of Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province Tortured in a Brainwashing Centre

  2008-06-19
  On May 8th, 2008, Ms. Xu Xiu was arrested at her home by police. Four days later, we heard that she was taken to a brainwashing centre inside the Shaanxi Province Workers Sanatorium and was tortured there. In the brainwashing centre, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members coerce practitioners to watch videos and read materials which slander Falun Gong, and coerce practitioners to write statements of "transformation." They torture steadfast practitioners using psychological means, by isolating them in small cells, depriving them of sleep by non-stop interrogation, exposing them to bright lights, and poisoning their food to make them lose concentration and become dizzy.
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• Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Agents in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province Arrest Practitioners in the Name of the Olympic Games

  2008-06-18
  In the name of securing stability for the upcoming Olympic Games, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents in Zhuolu County, Hebei Province have been monitoring and registering all Falun Gong practitioners in the area. Under the pretext of checking their resident ID cards, the county government and police station are going from house to house, interrogating and examining county residents. Their goal is to monitor Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, religious groups, and petitioners. Meanwhile, police officers of the Zhuolu County 610 Office have repeatedly harassed practitioners who are supposedly "key characters" and tried to force them to sign documents promising that they will give up their beliefs.
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• Elderly Widow Arrested by Police from Honggang District in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, Despite Severe Injuries from a Fall

  2008-06-17
  On the morning of April 7th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yanxiang, 71, jumped from the window of her third floor apartment to avoid being arrested. Ms. Wang's neighbours found her and took her to Longnan Hospital in Daqing City. She suffered several broken ribs, a broken leg, and internal injuries that resulted in fluid in her pleural cavity. Her daughter Liu Shufen is unable to care for her because Ms. Liu was sentenced to eleven years in prison and is currently in Heilongjiang Provincial Women's Prison.
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• Judge in China Imprisoned Because He Started to Practise Falun Gong

  2008-06-16
  Judge Li Dejun was a chief judge of the Hongqi Court under the Ganjingzi District Court in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. After listening to several cases brought against Falun Gong practitioners, he himself became a steadfast Falun Gong practitioner. In June 2006, he was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel. In February 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison. He is currently being held in the Dalian Railroad Detention Centre.
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• Practitioners Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

  2008-06-16
  Numerous practitioners have been arrested and their homes ransacked in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Practitioners Ms. Fan Xiaoli, Ms. Guo Shulan, and Ms. Yang Fenglan are currently detained at the Hexi Detention Centre. In April 2008, the Tongliao City Police Department, Ke District Police Department, Domestic Security Division, several police stations, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel from neighbourhood administrations made a coordinated effort to conduct a so-called "secret check-up" on local practitioners. They phoned or visited them, using the excuses of address verification, low income assistance registration, or providing job opportunities. On May 30th, they began wide-spread arrests.
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• Elderly Zhang Zongsu and Her Husband, Li Guocai, Arrested and Held for Thirteen Months in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

  2008-06-16
  Two elderly Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Zhang Zongsu and her husband, Mr. Li Guocai, were arrested by plain-clothes police on April 26th, 2007. Six months later, on October 20th, 2007, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to seven years in prison and Mr. Li Guocai to four years in prison. Until recently, they were detained at the Tangshan City First Detention Centre. In the beginning of January 2008, practitioners held in the detention centre began a group protest. Ms. Zhang was beaten and cursed. She was made to wear 22-pound handcuffs and shackles. On January 8th, 2008, her hands trembling uncontrollably, Ms. Zhang fainted. Afterwards, she could not take care of her own personal hygiene, she could not feed herself, and she could not clean her own clothes for two weeks.
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