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  • The Vicious Wardens Who Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners at Beijing Women's Prison

    Beijing Women's Prison is one of the notorious places where Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted. Zhou Ying, female, has been the Beijing Women's Prison deputy head in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since 2010. She was also one of the key officials who led the persecution against practitioners from 2002 to 2008. Zhou constantly pressured other prison officials and instigated them to mistreat practitioners. She also punished those practitioners who exposed the officials committing the torture in the prison.
  • Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuhui from Beijing Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Zhao Shuhui, in her 60s from Beijing, died on May 2nd as a result of physical abuse and mental torment under the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. While being held for two years in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, she developed symptoms of cerebral thrombosis and diabetes as a result of physical abuse and mistreatment. She was unable to take care of herself. With her family's strong requests, the labour camp officials released her on medical parole. After being released from the forced labour camp, local police officers often harassed her at home. They forcibly took her away from her home prior to the Olympics in 2008, and took her to a brainwashing facility. Due to the repeated arrests and harassment by the authorities, Ms. Zhao's mental and physical health continued to worsen.
  • Ms. Deng Xiuyan Incarcerated for Over Four Months, Her Relatives Detained for Seeking Her Release

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Xiuyan was arrested on January 5th, 2011 and has been detained in the detention centre of Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Her family and friends went to the Yangguanlin police station on May 20th and requested her release. However, they were not successful and even worse, one of them, Mr. Zhang Lijun, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on the spot by police. That afternoon, Ms. Deng’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law took some food to the police station for Mr. Zhang Lijun. Yet all of them were arrested.
  • Hebei Province Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping Arrested

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia Liyuan and Ms. Zhang Guiping were arrested by the police on May 28th. The details are under investigation. Ms. Jia Liyuan, 49, had been arrested by the Qianan Domestic Security Division Police several times before. Once, in 2008, the police used electric batons to shock her neck, hands, arms, chest and back, then poured boiling water on her face and used other cruel methods to torture her.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Guo Xiaojun Missing 11 Years

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Xiaojun from Chongqing has been missing since the afternoon of December 15th, 2000. Over the past 11 years, his family has not known his whereabouts. On October 1st, 2000, Mr. Guo was arrested by police from the Xietaizi Police Station in Chongqing, and was detained for seven days. Mr. Guo went back to work after he was released but disappeared again a few days later. After Mr. Guo's release, his face and feet were all swollen.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Zhao Xianghai Detained in the Xiangtan Psychiatric Hospital for Four Years

    After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Zhao Xianghai went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong in 2000. He was arrested at the Jinshui Bridge in front of Tiananmen Square, and then was held at the Xiangtan Detention Centre. He was arrested several times for practising Falun Gong thereafter. In 2007 the police took Mr. Zhao to the Fifth People's Hospital in Xiangtan (also called the psychiatric hospital). He has been detained there for nearly four years. During his detention in the psychiatric hospital, he strongly protested the brutal persecution imposed on him. A hospital doctor injected him with unknown drugs, then used an electric baton to shock him, causing severe injuries and making him even weaker than before.
  • Shanghai Engineer Sentenced Again, Prison Denies Family Visits

    Mr. Zhang Qin, 54, was arrested for the sixth time for practising Falun Gong in June 2009, and sentenced to five years in prison by a Xuhui Court in March 2010. This action represents the second unjust sentence he has received. He was taken secretly to Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai. The prison has not allowed Mr. Zhang's parents to visit him since last November. Previously, in detention guards mercilessly beat Mr. Zhang. He was forced to stand facing a wall continuously for six days and nights at the Xuhui District Detention Centre.
  • Neighbours and Friends Outraged When a Salon Owner Is Sentenced to Forced Labour

    Wang Weichuang, the owner of Quanmei Salon located in Songhuajing in the Huanggu District of Shenyang City, was arrested on April 21st, by the Lingdong Police Station of Huanggu District Public Security Subdivision. The deputy director of the station, Liu Haitao, trumped up charges against Mr. Wang and had him sentenced to forced labour for one year and three months just because Mr. Wang is a Falun Gong practitioner. Lingdong Police Station committed this crime in the pursuit of benefits and bonuses. During the arrest, there were many bystanders, and his neighbours and friends were outraged by what they saw.
  • Elderly Practitioner Li Yuzhen’s Family Hires a Lawyer, 610 Office Retaliates with Threat of Heavy Sentence

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Yuzhen, 68, was arrested in March 2011, then the local public security office, procuratorial office, and the courts conspired to send Mr. Li to prison. Mr. Li’s family hired a lawyer to defend him, but the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) created obstacles in every possible way for the family and the lawyer. The head of the 610 Office even threatened, “Li will get a heavy sentence if the family hires a lawyer to defend him.”
  • Mr. Huang Wei from Huazhou City, Guangdong Province Dies as a Result of Torture

    Mr. Huang Wei refused to renounce Falun Gong, and so he was repeatedly arrested and detained, and sentenced to forced labour three times. In Sanshui Forced Labour Camp he was brutally persecuted. He went on hunger strike to protest the beatings. Guards shocked Mr. Huang electric batons and force-fed him. On April 17th, when Mr. Huang was released from the labour camp, he was emaciated and had a mental disorder. He passed away 12 days later at the age of 44.
  • Crimes Committed by Chinese Communist Party Officials in Hubei Province “Legal Education Centre”

    The following are some of the torture methods used in Hubei Province “Legal Education Centre”, a brainwashing centre: standing for long times, handcuffing and hanging up, shocking with electric batons, hitting against the wall, violent beatings, and more. Police officers or a gang of thugs violently beat practitioners there every day. The most commonly used tactics are: grabbing a practitioner's hair while slapping him or her in the face; hitting them on the head; hitting the person against the wall and choking him or her; kicking the feet, treading on the feet; slapping the person's mouth with a broom; and beatings with various implements.
  • Tortures that Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Sheng Lianying Was Subjected to at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sheng Lianying, 56, was detained numerous times since the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. She was detained twice at the Masanjia Labour Camp. She was tortured in many ways including force-feeding with suffocation, forcibly given nerve-damaging drugs, Death Bed, “Big hang-up”, force-feeding with hot pepper or mustard powder, force-feeding dirty water, mouth stuffed with faeces, shocking with electric batons and more. As a result of the torture, she is physically weak with atrophied legs and deformed teeth.
  • Recent Incidents in the Brainwashing Centres of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province

    Since May 26th, officials from the communist regime have arrested a number of Falun Gong practitioners in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, including the cities of Yanji, Helong, Dunhua, Tumen and Wangqing County. Many practitioners were taken to brainwashing centres and tortured. Ms. Jin Lianhua, who was tortured to the brink of death, returned home for treatment and rehabilitation upon her family’s urgent request. On January 29th, 2010, officials broke into Ms. Yin Fengqin’s home and planned to take her in for brainwashing. While resisting arrest, Ms. Yin fell from her balcony on the fifth floor and died.
  • Ms. Liu Honghua from Zhucheng City in Shandong Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Liu went to appeal to the higher authorities in Weifang City and Beijing. As a result, her wages were reduced and she was often detained in her workplace. In March 2009, police broke into Ms. Liu's home. They pushed Ms. Liu's son, Mr. Zhang Xinming, to the ground and brutally kicked and punched him in front of Ms. Liu's other two children. Ms. Liu and her son were then taken away. Ms. Liu was tortured in the Taojialing Dongjiao School brainwashing centre, and was released several days later. She suffered tremendously since the incident, and died on June 2nd, 2011.
  • The First Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Attempts to Extend Dr. Zhai Jinping's Prison Sentence and Other Cases of Covert Term Extension

    Forty-three-year old Falun Gong practitioner Zhai Jinping was sentenced to three years' forced labour and taken to Shandong First Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jinan on July 23rd, 2008. During the detention, she refused to give up her spiritual practice. While doing the sitting meditation on her bed, guards kicked her hard, knocking her off the bed. She went on hunger strikes several times to protest the persecution and was locked in a solitary cell many times. She was previously sentenced to three years of forced labour in the same labour camp on October 25th, 2000.