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

• Bearing Witness to the Cruelties Committed at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

  2008-05-20
  First I wish to tell you about the heavy forced labour practitioners have to perform. Every day, practitioners have to work for 17 hours. The labour is generally making handicrafts, with most of the products being artificial flowers. Between August and September, we were forced to cut garlic or peel ginger for more than 10 hours a day. Many practitioners' skin broke open and festered. We made the flowers in our cells, which included spray painting. Most of the sprays are toxic, which affected our breathing. Those doing such work also had headaches, vomited and were fatigued.
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• Seventeen Students from Harbin Arrested

  2008-05-20
  At about 11 a.m. on March 20th, 2008, a group of plainclothes police officers suddenly rushed into a school in Nangang District in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. The police took away 17 students who were attending class, and confiscated two computers. The students' parents are Falun Gong practitioners who are being detained and persecuted. Some students' parents were persecuted to death. Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution, these children were forced to drop out of school.
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• Mr. Xie Yunhuan Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison after Returning to China and Recently Severely Beaten in Prison

  2008-05-20
  Mr. Xie Yunhuan was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to ten years in prison for appealing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. In Hadagang Prison, Mr. Xie was forced to do dangerous hard labour underground in the coal mine everyday. He was whipped or beaten with a club by the guards if he did not work fast enough. Recently in Mudanjiang City Prison he was beaten badly for speaking out for justice for Falun Gong.
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• Large Number of Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Guangzhou City on April 15th, 2008

  2008-05-19
  At 7:30 a.m., a group of persecutors from the Political and Legal Committee in the Yuexiu District, personnel from the 610 Office and the local police department went to practitioner Cai Yuzhen's home. They confiscated a computer, printer, an MP3 player and other personal belongings. The 75-year-old Cai Yuzhen immediately experienced symptoms of high blood pressure and was hospitalized for four days. Her children were forced to write a "guarantee statement" to give up Falun Gong and provide copies of their identification cards. They then had to send their mother to the home of a daughter who lives in another city. This was only one of the persecution events that were due to the "Olympic Torch" coming to Guangzhou.
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• Beijing Practitioners Mr. Yu Ping and His Wife Arrested

  2008-05-19
  Mr. Yu Ping and his wife were arrested by seven police officers on April 19th. Because he went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on June 20th, 2000, Mr. Yu's PhD was withheld and not granted. Mr. Yu received a full scholarship from Ohio State University in the US, but he lost his opportunity to study there because he was sentenced to four years in prison and held in the notorious Seventh Division of the Beijing Police Department and Beijing Qianjin Prison because he dared to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Yu Ping's wife, Ms. Zhao Yumin, was also sentenced. She was held in Beijing Women's Prison. Both of them suffered all kinds of torture.
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• Several Practitioners Harshly Sentenced by Nanguan District Court in Changchun City

  2008-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Gao Weixi, Mr. Shi Guoliang, Ms. Wang Fuxia and Ms. Yang Defang from Changchun City, Jilin Province were tried and harshly sentenced on April 29th, 2008. This was after they had been held in detention for nearly a year. Among them, Ms. Wang Fuxia and Mr. Shi Guoliang, were sentenced to nine-year prison terms. Mr. Gao Weixi and Ms. Yang Defang were sentenced to seven-year prison terms. Eyewitnesses said that the Nanguan District Court tried another group of Falun Gong practitioners, after they sentenced these four practitioners.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Song Wenhua and Li Lixin from Tiangjin City Sentenced to Prison

  2008-05-18
  Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Song Wenhua and Ms. Li Lixin of Tianjin City were arrested on January 25th, 2008, and were detained at the Beichen Detention Centre in Tianjin City. On February 4th, they were given arrest documents. On the morning of April 25th, they were sentenced by the Beichen Court in Tianjin City, charged with the crime of installing a satellite dish to watch programmes from a sympathetic to Falun Gong TV network, New Tang Dynasty Television. The judge only allowed two family members to attend. All other relatives and friends were not allowed to enter the court. The court also appointed lawyers.
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• Recent Large-scale Arrests of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jilin Province

  2008-05-17
  Using "Security for the Olympics" as an excuse, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Jilin Province have been arresting large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners since April 23rd, 2008. According to inside information, an order was given that if anyone went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested, the mayor of the city where the person comes from would be removed from office. On April 23rd, 2008, police arrested practitioner Li Shigang when he was picking up his child from school. At 6:00 p.m., the police broke into Li's brother-in-law's house (where Li and his family temporarily lived) with a blank search warrant. When questioned on the legitimacy of the warrant, the police filled out the warrant at the scene and continued the search. Li Shigang's whereabouts are currently unknown.
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• Ms. Mou Xiaoqin and Mr. Wu Yucheng from Gulin County, Sichuan Province Subjected to Persecution

  2008-05-16
  Ms. Mou, 51, was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre. At the brainwashing centre, they forced Ms. Mou to submit her "living expenses." Afterwards more than ten police officers rushed into Ms. Mou's home demanding the money for her living expenses. The police then confiscated her family's television and tape recorder, among other things. In September 2004, Ms. Mou's family was also attacked, and Ms. Mou was imprisoned for a month. In 2006, Ms. Mou was taken away by the police again and imprisoned for allegedly "attacking the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."
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• Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital Nurse He Xianggu Arrested for the Eighth Time After Being Persecuted at Mental Hospitals Twice and Labour Camps Three Times

  2008-05-15
  On the night of April 23rd, 2008, police officers in Changsha City arrested practitioner Ms. He Xianggu at her home. After they arrested her, they ransacked her home. Her personal belongings, including her computer, were taken away. On April 24th, after being held in custody for 24 hours, she was transferred to the Changsha City Detention Centre. This is the eighth time Ms. He Xiangguu has been arrested and jailed since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party. Ms. He was detained twice at mental hospitals, and sent to labour camps three times.
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• A 76-Year-Old Practitioner Sentenced to Eight Years and Forced to Do Hard Labour

  2008-05-13
  Mr. Yin Yucai is 76 years old. He started to practise Falun Gong after retirement and became very healthy, both physically and psychologically. After the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 1999, Mr. Yin was detained many times. He was put in a forced labour camp for three years. In 2005, he was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment and is currently in Yuzhang Prison in Jiangxi Province. Due to prolonged persecution, his health has deteriorated. Lately, he is suffering from severe oedema.
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• Using the Olympics as an Excuse, Officials Arrest Two 70-Year-Old Ladies in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province

  2008-05-13
  With the excuse of "preparing for the Olympics," two Falun Gong practitioners in their 70s were taken to a brainwashing centre in March 2008 by police officers in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. Ms. Liu Jing, 75, was a doctor at Xidian University Hospital before retirement. On her way home on the afternoon of March 17th, 2008, she was arrested and taken to the Xi'an City Chang'an District Brainwashing Centre, where she was tortured.
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• Father Died in the Midst of Persecution--Son Also Arrested

  2008-05-12
  26-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Wang Lihui has been held for nearly twenty days. The National Security Team of the Nangang District Police Department denied his family their right to visit him. His 60-year-old mother is so worried, that her heart attacks frequently recur, and she suffers from extremely painful headaches. Over the past several years, she has witnessed her husband Mr. Wang Shixue being arrested and tortured to near death several times. He died recently, and now her son has also been arrested. She is very worried about her son.
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• Crimes Committed by 610 Office Personnel in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province

  2008-05-12
  Mr. Hong Haoyuan was a university graduate in his 20s. Early in 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested by the 610 Office of the Chaozhou City Police Department and was sentenced to two years at Sanshui Forced Labour Camp. While there, he was inhumanely tortured and persecuted for practising Falun Gong. Before his arrest he was a handsome and strong young fellow, but by the time of his release, he was just a bag of bones and could barely walk or breathe. Relatives and neighbours could hardly recognize him. He was extremely weak and passed away in the early hours of January 5th, 2003.
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• The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2008-05-12
  Ms. Liu Qiaozhen held a hunger strike to protest the persecution after she first arrived at the forced labour camp. She is currently unconscious due to her extended hunger strike. Nevertheless, the labour camp refuses to release her and still continues to torture her by brutally force-feeding her through a feeding tube. People over 60 years old previously were not made to serve forced labour terms. Yet there are at least five practitioners in the labour camp who are over 60 years old. Having to do forced hard labour on a long term basis has taken a toll on many older practitioners. What's even worse is that because three older practitioners were not eligible to serve the forced labour term because of their severe illnesses, in order to meet the quota for labour camp inmates, Chinese Communist Party personnel arrested the older practitioners' daughters and put the daughters in the labour camp in place of their mothers.
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