Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Li County, Hunan Province

    On November 9th, police arrested several Falun Gong practitioners. They are currently being detained in Li County Detention Centre. Police in the county and city started arresting Falun Gong practitioners in the morning during rush hour and continued their efforts through the night. Ms. Zeng was arrested as she was walking her child to kindergarten. Her house was also ransacked. According to sources, the raid was initiated by police from the National Security Brigade. Arrests took place in the streets, workplaces, and homes. After police finished ransacking practitioners' houses, everything was in shambles, and they had taken away their personal belongings.
  • Mr. Lin Zhiliang and Wife Ji Shuying from Dalian Sentenced

    Mr. Lin Zhiliang and his wife Ms. Ji Shuying were arrested in July 2009, by police. Both husband and wife were detained at the Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian for nearly a year, and sentenced to prison - Mr. Lin for five years and Ms. Ji for three years. After receiving the sentence, Mr. Lin filed an appeal, but it was rejected by the Intermediate Court.
  • Police from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province Arrest Wang Baoyu

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Baoyu was arrested by two police officers on November 16th. She is currently being held in Jinshantun District. Her dormitory room was also ransacked. Ms. Wang's husband, Mr. Qin Yueming, was sentenced to prison in 2002. He is currently being detained in Jiamusi Prison. Ms. Wang was forced to work outside of her hometown, and her two daughters are now homeless.
  • Ms. Wang Sulan is Tortured to the Brink of Death

    Because of torture by the local police and prison wardens at Hebei Provincial Women's Prison, Wang Sulan is suffering from multiple diseases and has been sent for emergency treatment several times since she was imprisoned. Wang Sulan was secretly sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in 2009 because of her belief in Falun Gong. The wardens forced her to call home asking for money to be sent to the prison. Her mother-in-law received the phone call and was really troubled by her suffering. Her husband felt there was no other choice but to send the prison 16,000 yuan as required by the wardens.
  • Ms. Liang Shaolin from Maoming City, Guangdong Province Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison

    Ms. Liang Shaolin was sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp in 1999 because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Because she remained firm in her belief in Falun Gong, her term was extended to five and a half years. She was brutally tortured and also fired from her job. On September 24th, 2009, 17 police used an electric saw to cut her double layer door open, broke into Ms. Liang's home and took her away. Her personal property was ransacked. She was sentenced to nine years in prison on May 2010. Her whereabouts are unknown. She is most likely in the Guangdong Women's Prison.
  • Liaoning Province Women's Prison Denies Yang Chunling's Family Visitation

    Ms. Yang Chunling is detained at Liaoning Province Women's Prison for practising Falun Gong. On October 26th, her 72-year-old father, who was very weak, decided to visit her. Upon his arrival, the authorities would not let him visit her because she refused to wear the name card "Criminal" on her chest. The prison authorities also didn't allow her father to send her money. He repeatedly begged the prison officers, and finally, they agreed to send the money to a captain on her team. He was so worried about her that he spent the night in Shenyang City. The following day, he went back to the prison and tried to see her again. In December 2006, Ms. Yang Chunling was arrested and taken to prison for practising Falun Gong.
  • Ms. Jiang Yunqiu from Huaihua City, Hunan Province Persecuted at a Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jiang Yunqiu lives in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. Local 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) arrested her on October 13th, 2010 and detained her in a brainwashing facility. Twenty days after her detention began, officer Li Weidong kept returning twice a day and threatening Ms. Jiang with sentencing her to a prison term if she refused to sign a document to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. She refused, and was given food laced with unknown drugs. Soon after, she started trembling all over, became nauseated and kept vomiting. When Ms. Jiang was released on November 12th, she was in a confused mental state, and has not yet been able to recover.
  • How I Escaped Death at Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp

    I was arrested on December 25th, 2008 after being reported to the authorities while handing out fliers about Falun Gong. I was held at the Shandong Province No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. In attempts to "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me, labour camp officials used mental and physical torture on me. The torture made me disabled, and I was carried home on July 2nd, 2010.
  • Elderly Ms. Wu Yingzi Dies as a Result of Persecution in Jilin Province

    Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Wu Yingzi has been to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong three times. She was arrested and detained at Tiananmen Square Detention Centre, where she was brutally tortured all three times. She was arrested again over the years and in August 2009. At Wangqing Brainwashing centre, Wu Yingzi was persecuted so severely that she developed a serious heart condition and her blood pressure shot up. At the time, police told her to go home and said that they would arrest her again after she recovered. The elderly woman was forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution. Ms. Wu passed away on July 17th, 2010.
  • Chinese Communist Regime's Malicious Infringement of Female Falun Gong Practitioners' Rights

    Falun Gong practitioner Gao Rongrong was taken to the Longshan Forced Labour Camp in July 2003. Deputy leader of the labour camp's second division Tao Yubao and team leader Jiang Zhaohua shocked Ms. Gao with electric batons for more than six consecutive hours starting on May 7th, 2004. Her face was disfigured with blisters, with the burned skin, pus, and blood being stuck together. Her face became so swollen that her eyes could not open, and even her best friends couldn't recognise her. A photo of Ms. Gao's disfigurement released 10 days after the torture sent shocks throughout the world. Later Ms. Gao was brutally tortured to death.
  • Jiamusi City Court Tries Falun Gong Practitioners, Lawyer Enters Not Guilty Plea

    On October 18th, the rural court in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, tried Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Wang Lixing and Ms. Li Xiurong. The two practitioners testified in court about why they practised Falun Gong and why they would not give up their faith. Two lawyers defended their not guilty pleas. The practitioners were arrested when they were distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Ms. Wang and Ms. Li have been held in the detention centre since their arrests.
  • Zhu Yifang, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Sichuan Province, Is Hung up with Handcuffs and Injected with Unknown Drugs

    After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Zhu Yifang was detained several times. She was once hung up with handcuffs for seven days and nights and tortured with "Five Horses Splitting the Body." She was force-fed and injected with unknown drugs. Ms. Zhu says: "Due to long-term brutal persecution, I was severely damaged both physically and mentally. Even now my health is still very bad. I cannot straighten up my back because of pain. My body is swollen, I cannot walk, and I cannot take care of myself on a daily basis. I have lost the ability to work or to live a normal life."
  • Chongqing Police Department Officers Arrest Over a Dozen Falun Gong Practitioners

    Chongqing Police Department officers arrested more than a dozen practitioners and ransacked their homes on the morning of November 16th. As soon as Mr. Zhang Shengquan stepped outside of his home on November 16th, before he could even lock the door, more than a dozen plainclothes police officers attacked him, forcibly dragged him back inside his home and beat him. They ransacked the house and took Mr. Zhang and his wife to the police station. Mr. Zhang's wife was released on November 17th, but Mr. Zhang was detained in the Liziba Detention Centre. Mr. Zhang's family is under surveillance.
  • Steadfast in Falun Gong, Ms. Ma Jun Still Detained in Prison After Ten Years

    In 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ma Jun was sentenced to ten years in prison. She was detained in Gansu Province Women's Prison, where she still remains. Since July 20th, 1999, Ms. Ma has been arrested and detained many times. She has spent nearly all of the past ten-plus years in prison, detention centres, and brainwashing centres, where she has been tortured. In April 2008, Ms. Ma refused to wear a prison identity badge. Leader of the Ward, An Li, ordered criminal Li Xiaohong to beat Ms. Ma, and taught her how to beat her without leaving bruises. Ms. Ma was beaten until she vomited blood. Afterward she could not straighten her back for months.
  • Ms. Shi Rongxian, Ms. Duan Shuyan, and Ms. Dong Qinglan Arrested in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province

    The police from Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province arrested three practitioners on November 3rd when they were talking to villagers about Falun Gong. The police ransacked their homes. They are being held in the county detention centre. The officers threatened them and their families that they would be sent to a forced labour camp if they did not write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong.