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  • Cases of Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners from Huaiyang County, Henan Province - Part 2

    Ms. Liu Jinfang spoke out for justice and explained the facts about Falun Dafa to people and she was arrested by the police in October 2001. On April 17th, 2003, she was sentenced to 15 years in prison and deprived of her rights for five years. After being arrested, she went through many tortures: Having her feet burned by a cigarette, having bamboo sticks pressed under the tips of her fingernails, being hung up with her hands cuffed behind her back, being fed unknown medicine, being carried in the air and then slammed to the ground, and being beaten with a bamboo board or leather belt. In November the guards wrapped heavy gauge wire alongside the belt and whipped every practitioner 100 times. Practitioners' hair, pieces of their clothes, and blood were flying in the air, and several inmates watching the beatings cried.
  • Police Ransack Ms. He Caiyun's Home and Force Her to Jump from the Third Story Balcony

    On January 19th, 2007, over a dozen police broke into Ms. He's home. They pushed Ms. He onto the third floor balcony and threatened to send her to Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp again if she did not jump off the balcony. In desperation, Ms. He jumped. She sustained four broken ribs, two broken femurs, and a shattered pelvis. She had a tracheotomy and couldn't speak. The police stole over 3,000 yuan in cash and claimed that Ms. He tried to commit suicide.
  • The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners at Hongzehu Prison in Jiangsu Province

    In 2004, the prison issued a false report claiming that 100% the Falun Gong practitioners held there had been "transformed", and that none of them had gone back to practising. To prevent the report from being discovered as a lie by the public, the prison transferred over a dozen practitioners to other prison wards. In 2002, Dafa practitioner Tang Xuebin refused to be "transformed," refused to wear a prison uniform and to call out "report" before entering the prison offices. The prison guards forced him to run on the field. When Tang Xuebin would not comply, the prison guards made some inmates drag him and run. Very soon after that, Mr. Tang's trousers were ripped and his legs started to bleed.
  • Elderly Practitioner Ms. Zhang Wenrong Is Once Again Detained in Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin

    On June 10th, 2006, 62-year-old Ms. Zhang Wenrong was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was sentenced to one year and three months of forced labour and detained in the Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp where she was compelled to perform over ten hours of hard labour every day, picking beans, pasting boxes, and making clothes, etc. She was frequently made to work for the entire night without sleep. When she was not working, she was forced to sit on a tiny stool for the whole day and was forced to read articles that slandered Falun Dafa.
  • Mr. Lu Tongli, a Level-one Judge, and His Wife Died Due to Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

    Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Lu Tongli, a level-one executive judge and his wife persisted in Dafa practice. The Chinese Communist regime had persecuted them for a long time. In January 2001, the head of the Fangzheng Forest Bureau attempted to coerce Mr. Lu to attack Falun Gong and its founder on Fanglin Public Television. Mr. Lu refused, and the Communist Party removed him from his position as head of the executive court. Lu Tongli died in September 2006 and his wife in November 2006. Lu Tongli died in September 2006 and his wife in November 2006.
  • Mr. Ma Xiao from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province Died As a Result of Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ma Xiao, 59 years old, was a peasant. After the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, police arrested him several times. Mr. Ma was arrested again on June 30th, 2005. They arrested him and sentenced him to three years of forced labour in Dayingzi Labour Camp, where he was tortured until he vomited blood and was in critical condition. The labour camp authorities were afraid of being held responsible, so they sent him home in February 2006. Ma Xiao never recovered and died on February 18th, 2007.
  • Jidong Prison in Hebei Province Denies Visits by Mr. Wei Haiwu's Wife and Subjects Her to Brutal Mistreatment

    The Xinshi District Court sentenced Mr. Wei Haiwu to four years in prison. He is currently in Jidong Prison in Tangshan City and has been hunger striking to resist the persecution. In an attempt to brainwash him into renouncing Falun Gong, prison guards subjected him to sleep deprivation, forcing him to stand for long periods of time and slapping him on the face. He has suffered both mentally and physically. For the past six months, his wife has requested to visit him, but the guards denied her each time because she too practises Falun Gong.
  • 610 Office Police Again Arrest Ms. Wang Shupei from Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province

    At the beginning of 2004, authorities arrested Ms. Wang when she went to a brainwashing centre to ask for the release of practitioners in captivity. The “610 Office” in Zhaoyuan sentenced her to a six-year term of imprisonment. They put her in the Women’s Prison of Shandong Province and severely tortured her both physically and mentally. Two years later, Wang Shupei developed a malignant tumour in her uterus and her life was in danger. She was then allowed to be hospitalised outside the prison in early July 2006. Recently she was arrested again.
  • A Winter Story -- Recalling the Brutality at Longshan Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang, Liaoning Province

    In December 2003, my wife was arrested and taken to Shenyang City's Longshan Forced Labour Camp for believing in Falun Gong. In freezing wind, with the crunching sound of snow, I went to visit her in the labour camp. The wind was blowing and the labour camp was in dead silence. I was allowed to see my wife because it was near New Year's day. I sat across from her in the dining hall with over a dozen police surrounding us. She was very bony with a face swollen due to the torture. I asked about the tortures and my heart broke. Where is the wrong in believing in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance? Where is the wrong in being a good person? At that time I saw practitioner Gao Rongrong from a distance. She was later was tortured to death. She was also very bony.
  • Mr. Zhao Wenpeng Died from Persecution at Guiyang City, Guizhou Province Police Hospital; Elderly Practitioner Ms. Yin Deqin Still Under Persecution

    Mr. Zhao Wenpeng was arrested by police in August 2006. They threatened Zhao, telling him to not practise Falun Gong anymore. In the detention centre, Zhao Wenpeng suffered all kinds of brutal torture. In just a few months, he developed oedema all over his body. Torture also left a big wound on the side of Mr. Zhao's left thigh, which continually oozed pus. Zhao Wenpeng was transferred to the Guiyang City Police Hospital for what was called "treatment" by the authorities. The so-called "treatments" of injections and drugs only made Zhao Wenpeng's health deteriorate more rapidly. Even under such severe conditions, the officials still sentenced Zhao Wenpeng to forced labour camp for two or three years without a trial. On March 7th, 2007, Mr. Zhao Wenpeng died in the police hospital as a result of the brutal persecution he suffered.
  • Two Hundred Relatives Plan to Sue Police after Practitioner Fu Zhenmin is Arrested in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

    When driving his own car on February 8th, Mr. Fu Zhenmin was reported to police by villagers and arrested . On February 25th, with no trial or evidence, Tong and Sun sentenced Fu Zhenmin to one year of forced-labour in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp on the grounds of "spreading Falun Gong material", which he did not. Fu Zhenmin's relatives are very concerned about his safety and protest his unjust imprisonment. They plan to sue police officers for knowingly violating the law.
  • Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhiyong Suffers Brutal Torture in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province

    Mr. Lu Zhiyong has been arrested and detained many times in the past seven years. Presently, he is still being held in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City. He is skin and bones. He is 1.78 metres tall, but due to the gross abuse his weight has fallen to less than 50 kg. According to an insider, the camp officials often use rubber sticks covered with long sharp nails to beat “stubborn” practitioners for more than 40 minutes at a time. There is not a single square inch of skin left intact on the practitioner after such a beating. They often refuse to give the practitioners food, purposely starving them. They also put unknown substances in practitioners’ food, which made Lu Zhiyong become severely bloated.
  • Authorities in Yongchang County, Gansu Province Intensify Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners

    In early 2007, the police in Yongchang County, Gansu Province, held a special conference to organise a county-wide persecution of Falun Gong. They arranged for all the local businesses within their jurisdiction to establish a working group under the county secretary of the Chinese Communist Party to direct the persecution. They ordered every village to produce and publicise anti-Falun Gong posters at their own expense. In addition, the police had the villages assign night-duty to special officers who would be responsible for arresting practitioners who distributed leaflets exposing the persecution. County Governor Meng Youzhu stated that if they did not eliminate the “problem” of Falun Gong, no one would receive a promotion.
  • Practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaoguang Suffers Brutal Persecution at the Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province

    In March 2003, Mr. Yang Xiaoguang was sent to the Mudanjiang Prison. In October 2004, Yang Xiaoguang proclaimed that he was going to publicly practise the exercises, and was subsequently imprisoned in a small isolation cell. In the cell, Yang suffered inhumane torture. Every time policeman Song finished his shift and his beer, he would brutally beat Yang. One night he gave Yang three beatings in succession. Yang was beaten so badly that his face became deformed and he was temporarily blinded.
  • Exposing the Persecution Carried Out by Jixian County Police in Heilongjiang Province

    Only four days after I began Dafa cultivation in 2001, I informed a young local policeman about the true nature of Falun Gong in front of a police station. I was arrested and detained at the police station. Policemen there ordered me to point out Dafa practitioners from a group of people, but I did not cooperate with them. As a result, the police grabbed my hair and slammed my head into a wall. Later I was again detained. They tortured me by having me sit on a wooden stool for a long time without changing positions or sleeping. Otherwise, I would be beaten. My buttocks hurt and became numb from the prolonged sitting.