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  • Three Falun Gong Practitioners Brutally Arrested in Dalian City and Sent to Forced Labour

    On December 2nd, 2008, police forcibly took away married couple Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Yan Shoulin and Ms. Yang Chunmei, from their workplace. Several eyewitnesses said, "We saw a few plain clothes policemen surround and brutally beat Yan Shoulin. The first one stepped on Yan's head while another one stepped on his legs. The third one kicked Yan's body brutally." Yan's ribs were broken. A couple of them carried Yan Shoulin to the car. Yang Chunmei was dragged into the car, and her clothes were torn in the struggle. Two days later the same police arrested Ms. Miao Yuhuan (also a Falun Gong practitioner) for no valid reason.
  • Practitioner In Her Sixties Persecuted at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison

    In 2001, I was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. The following year I was sentenced to a three-year prison term and incarcerated in Liaoning Province Women's Prison. The prison enforced starting work at six in the morning, stopping at ten in the evening, and going to sleep at eleven. Prisoners were frequently forced to work overtime to create more income for the prison. I was allowed only three to four hours of sleep each night. Every week the prison provided only two meals of fine flour and rice in limited quantities. The rest of the meals were all coarse bread.
  • Older Ms. Su Cangxin Dies after Enduring Nine Years of Persecution

    After July 20th, 1999, when the persecution started, Ms. Su Cangxin's family of five became a target for persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. In both July 1999 and July 2000, her husband was detained for more than three weeks in the Township Police Station. Around May 26th, 2001, the persecution was the most severe, and Ms. Su's husband was arrested by police. They took him to the city courthouse and beat him for five days. They hit his legs with a wooden stick, shocked him with an electric baton, used a rubber hammer to hit his back and a wooden stick to apply pressure to his thighs, and injected him with unknown drugs. After nine years of repeatedly being harassed, threatened, and detained, Ms. Su could not bear it any longer. She became weaker and weaker and died on January 4th, 2009.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Shi Guiming Sentenced to Three Years in Prison--Her Grandson Left Alone

    60-year-old Ms. Shi Guiming is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wenling in Zhejiang Province. After being detained for six months, she was sentenced to a three-year prison term by the Wenling Intermediate Court in December 2008, and is currently detained at the Hongzhou Women's Prison. The young grandson that she was raising is left alone, spending his days in fear.
  • The Persecution of Ms. Sun Jinjun, a Teacher at the Anshan City No. 15 Middle School

    Ms. Sun Jinjun was employed as an art teacher. She's been severely persecuted for many years, including being detained in two forced labour camps. Now she barely makes enough money to cover even her most basic needs. Guards brutally beat and shocked Ms. Sun with electric batons. When Ms. Sun Jinjun's older sister, Ms. Sun Yuhua, did not give up practising Falun Gong, she was taken to Dabei Prison in 2003. The prison guards brutally tortured her and eventually beat her to death. Ms. Sun Yuhua was only 37 when she died.
  • Ms. Zhang Chunhe Continues to Be Persecuted in the Armed Police Hospital, Guangdong Province

    On July 23rd, 2008, Ms. Zhang Chunhe was arrested and taken to the brainwashing centre in Guangzhou City by agents from the 610 Office and police. She was then taken to the Armed Police Hospital in Guangzhou and has been held and persecuted there ever since. When she was held in the hospital, the district court twice attempted to try her but had to give up because Ms. Zhang was critically ill and could not even speak. Up until now, they have refused to release her, and will not offer any explanation to her family members. According to informed people, the conditions in the Armed Police Hospital, be they the food, the living conditions or the medical treatments, are even worse than in the prison
  • Murder Suspected in Older Practitioner's Sudden Death in Chongqing Forced Labour Camp

    On May 13th, 2008, the day after the major earthquake in Sichuan Province, Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Jiang Xiqing, 66, was taken from his home by Communist Party officials. On December 2nd, 2008, his family learned that Ms. Luo had been sentenced to eight years in prison. On July 30th, 2008, Mr. Jiang Xiqing was taken to the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. On January 27th, 2009, Mr. Jiang's family went to visit him at the Camp. He seemed to be in good health at that time. However, within less than 24 hours, on January 28th, labour camp officials called his family to notify them that Mr. Jiang had died. Mr. Jiang Xiqing's death was a complete surprise and very suspicious. The police wanted to cremate his body to cover up the murder evidence.
  • Honest Farmer in Shanxi Province Arrested, Sentenced to Forced Labour and Tortured

    On January 11th, 2009, practitioner Shang Yongfa's family went to Zaozihe Forced Labour Camp to visit him. They noticed a big swollen bloody lump on the back of his head. There were wounds on his forehead, and the back of his right hand was frostbitten. When a family member asked him what happened, Shang Yongfa merely cried and did not reply. Mr. Shang Yongfa, 52 years old, is an honest, benevolent, and helpful man. He was arrested for no legitimate reason and his family is worried about his safety.
  • Higher-Ups Order Experiments on Practitioner at Yongchuan Prison Hospital, Chongqing City

    On May 12th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Shurong announced his determination to practise Falun Gong. The guards tortured him and forced him to attend brainwashing sessions. They made him maintain a sitting position until May 19th, 2008. Mr. Liu went on a hunger strike to resist this treatment. Prison officials decided to do an experiment using Mr. Liu to see how much he could endure. They used shackles and handcuffs to restrain Mr. Liu on a hospital bed. They inserted a feeding tube through his nose into his stomach and force-fed him toxic food and fluids. Every day they administered 2000 mL of fluid, a total of four bottles a day. Every minute, 150 to 180 drops were injected, sometimes close to 200 per minute. One female guard said, "Inject faster. If he dies, then that's it."
  • Ms. Zhao Guiqin Paralysed from Torture and Sentenced to Three and a Half Years in Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Guiqin was arrested in September and during her detention was tortured to the point that her legs were paralysed. On October 27th, Ms. Zhao's seventy-year-old mother received a phone call telling her that Ms. Zhao was dying and her legs had been paralysed. Her mother was extremely sad and worried because her daughter had been almost persecuted to death several times before. On December 12th, the court secretly sentenced Ms. Zhao to three and a half years in Donggang Prison.
  • Mr. Zhang Litian Dies from Prison Beating--Liaoning Procuratorate and Appeals Office Refuse to Receive His Family Members

    Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, Mr. Zhang Litian was harassed and persecuted many times. In April 2008, he was arrested by police and imprisoned in the First Detention Centre. He was sentenced to a five year prison term in August 2008, then he was persecuted in the Jinzhou Prison in October. On November 17th, Mr. Zhang died after being brutally beaten by prison guards. His family members went to Liaoning Province Procuratorate of Shengyang City on December 23rd, 2008 to call for justice but were refused.
  • Mr. Wang Ren Dies after Prolonged Persecution

    In June 2005, police arrested 53-year-old Mr. Wang Ren and sentenced him to three years in the Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp. The guards used many cruel torture methods to try to force Mr. Wang to renounce his beliefs. He was also forced to perform slave labour for eleven hours a day. Under such brutal mental and physical stress, Mr. Wang fell gravely ill. In order to shirk their responsibilities, the Wuchang City 610 Office took him home on February 1st, 2007. By the end of November 2008, he was bedridden. He died on December 11th, 2008.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Liu Fanqin Imprisoned Six Years for Exposing Policeman Who Raped a Female Student

    Ms. Liu Fanqin is 60 years old. She exposed the vicious police officer who raped Ms. Wei Xingyan, a Chongqing University female graduate student. Ms. Liu was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police in June 2003. Afterward, the CCP's public security and judicial systems brutally tortured her during their interrogations. She was physically disabled and could no longer care for herself. Later, she was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in Chongqing City. The severe persecution suffered by Ms. Liu Fanqin in prison caused her serious health problems.
  • Practitioners Maltreated in Huaihua City Mental Hospital, Hunan Province

    The clinical staff at the Huaihua No. 4 People's Hospital put practitioners into an isolated room and force-feed them with medicine. Some hold the practitioners' hands and feet and squeeze their nostrils shut while others force-feed medicine into their mouths. Personnel tie practitioners to the "iron bed" with bandages and leave them there for several hours. One practitioner who was tied to a bed lost consciousness and was almost disabled. The hospital staff also inject practitioners with yellow-coloured liquid medicine. Practitioners who have been injected suffer many symptoms, including drooling, sluggish movement, difficulty moving their hands and feet, and blurred vision. Practitioners held a hunger strike to protest the torture, but were force-fed with salt water.
  • The Brutal Persecution of Practitioners in Tuopu Detention Centre, Shantou City, Guangdong Province

    Seven practitioners are imprisoned in Tuopu Detention Centre. They have been beaten, are forced to work around the clock, and are allowed only two to three hours sleep a night. Mr. Xu Shuiliang was arrested by officers from the Jinsha Police Station in October 2007. He was hung up and beaten for a long time. His knees were beaten with sticks, and he was deprived of sleep for a week. Ms. Xu Wanlan, 41, was arrested by police in October 2007. She is jailed in Tuopu Detention Centre. Almost every day she has been forced to sit on the ground and do handwork. She is allowed to sleep, at most, three or four hours a day.