Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • China Central Television (CCTV) Channel 10 Unwittingly Exposes Details about Live Organ Harvesting Situation

    China's Central Television's (CCTV) aired an actual organ transplant segment in a TV programme entitled, "Life and Death Reversal" on May 26th and 27th, 2006. It was decided that Beijing patient Song Yongle would go to Dalian City to undergo heart transplant surgery in February 2005. The suspicious point is that that Xinhua Hospital affiliated with Dalian University had in February quickly set the transplant surgery date for March 5th. The programme mentioned that the time elapsed from the moment of the donor's brain death to the removal of the heart and lung was no more than six minutes. The donor's organ removal surgery started at 7:00 a.m. and finished at 7:55 a.m. on March 5th, which means the donor must have been alive during the period of 55 minutes.
  • Practitioner Ms. Zhang Jinling From Shenzhou City Tortured Repeatedly

    In April, 2006, eight police officers of the Shenzhou City Security Bureau in Hebei Province, broke into practitioner Ms. Zhang Jinling's house and attempted to arrest her. Her husband was driven beyond the limits of tolerance and angrily expelled them. Over recent years, Ms. Zhang has suffered repeated persecution from the local security bureau, forced labour camp, and brainwashing centre. She was once cruelly treated with the torture of "burying alive."
  • Ms. Huang Yanli Persecuted to Death in the Nanjing Women's Prison, Ms. Xue Shuyu and Others in Critical Condition

    Huang Yanli, less than forty years old, was detained in the No. 5 prison area. Her erythema, which was cured through the practice of Falun Gong, relapsed in the prison. However, the prison authorities did not take her to see a doctor or release her on medical parole, but continued to lock her up until she was near death. Ms. Huang passed away several days after being released from prison.
  • Ms Zhang Fuxiang Almost Tortured to Death at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Zhang Fuxiang was imprisoned in the Forced Labour Camp for more than three years and suffered brutal torture. The guard are given incentives such as promotions and pay rises to reach a higher "transformation rate", and are punished when they don't meet their goals. The guards thus tortured practitioners cruelly, trying to force them to "transform." Using the excuse that Ms. Fuxiang had some stomach problems, guards force-fed her with some 'medicine' three times a day with soup made from vegetables that had gone bad. They also forced her to put on earphones and played recordings that kept insulting Falun Dafa with loud noises of smashing metal and forcing her to squat. Guards also kicked and beat her.
  • Supplementary Information on the Death of Mr. Pan Hongdong from Heilongjiang Province

    On November 4th, 2001, Dafa practitioner Mr. Pan Hongdong was arrested by officers. In detention he was tortured on a Tiger Bench and his genitals were shocked with electric batons. Pan Hongdong went on a hunger strike for 3 days. He was then sent to the detention centre and detained unconstitutionally. At the end of 2002, Pan was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As a result of the torture, he died on May 15th, 2005.
  • Wanjia Labour Camp Continues to Refuse to Release Liu Shuzhen Even After She Has Been Severely Tortured and Injured

    In October 2004, Ms. Liu Shuzhen, a 50-year-old Dafa practitioner, was reported to the authorities while explaining the true situation of Falun Dafa to people and was arrested. She was sentenced to three years of re-education through labour. Because she refused to denounce Falun Dafa her back and legs were shocked were electric batons. Many parts of her body turned purple with wounds and she was slapped in the face. Liu Shuzhen was tied up on a bed with her hands bound behind her back and left in a squatting position for seven days and seven nights. She became disabled as a result. A year has passed, and even today she still cannot walk properly and sways when she walks.
  • Wuhan Falun Dafa Practitioner Chen Jinchun Missing For Several Years, Possibly Murdered

    Because Chen Jinchun firmly practised Dafa, the Wuhan police department issued a warrant for her arrest. In order to avoid immediate arrest, she did not return home. One day police came to Chen Jinchun's mother's home and told her that Chen Jinchun had been caught at a supermarket and she jumped from a high place, suffering broken bones. She had been taken to a hospital. Chen's mother searched every big hospital in Wuhan looking for her daughter, but wherever she went, she was told there was no person named Chen Jinchun there.
  • More on Kidnapping of Cao Dong after His Meeting with European Parliament Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott

    On May 21st, Cao Dong met with Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament, who was in China to investigate first hand the human rights situation there. Cao Dong disappeared shortly after the meeting. He was arrested by the authorities and his whereabouts remain unknown. On May 26th, 2006, six people from the National Security Bureau opened the door of Mr. Cao Dong's home with a master key and arrested practitioner Gao Fengqiang who was staying there and ransacked the property
  • Mr. Shao Mingzhu Dies Due to Torture at Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shao Mingzhu was sent to one year of forced labour in 2002 because he handed out leaflets exposing the persecution. In 2004, he was sentenced to another two years of forced labour and a one month extension. During this term, he was so brutally tortured that he became very emaciated, and he could not take care of his daily needs. Finally, his lungs became severely infected, and his family picked him up in mid March 2006. He went to hospital but died two months later on May 30th, 2006.
  • Imprisoned Falun Dafa Practitioner Liang Zhenxing, who was Involved in TV Truth-broadcasting, Is in Critical Condition from Persecution

    It was just learned that practitioner Liang Zhenxing is in critical condition from persecution in the Siping Prison, Jilin Province. Liang Zhenxing has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison after he participated in broadcasting a programme on TV in 2002 to expose the persecution.
  • Two Practitioners from Hubei and Heilongjiang Provinces Die From Persecution

    Ms. Liu Kexi, in her 50s started practising Falun Dafa in 1998. Her son, Deng Yong also practises Falun Dafa. In May 2004, agents from the National Security Brigade stormed into Deng Yong's home, arrested him, and searched for Falun Dafa materials. Shortly after, they also searched the home of his mother. Then the National Security Brigade agents put Deng Yong on trial. The court sentenced him to three to four years of imprisonment. When she heard her son sentenced at the courthouse, Ms. Liu Kexi fainted and died three days later.
  • Open Letter: Please Help Rescue My Wife Wang Xiaoyan

    On May 27th, officers from the Chunhai Police Department arrested my wife as she left home for work. Officers had been waiting outside the building. They broke into my wife's residence and took a computer, two printers, Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution my wife had made. She was sent to Yaojia Detention Centre.
  • Shenyang City Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wu Liantie Has Died Under Suspicious Circumstances in the Panjin City Prison

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Liantie was sentenced to an eleven year prison term. Since he persisted in explaining the true situation of Falun Dafa, he was fatally tortured at the Panjin City Prison in Liaoning Province in May 2006. On May 24th, 2006, the Panjin City Prison told Mr. Wu's family members to come to the prison. When they arrived, they found that the body of Wu Liantie had already been placed in the freezer of the Panjin City funeral service centre. The cause and time of his death was unknown. The person who saw Wu Liantie said that Wu had been sent to hospital for rescue. However, upon investigation, the hospital said that Wu Liantie had already died before arriving at the hospital.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Missing After Meeting With VP of European Parliament

    One of the two Falun Dafa practitioners, Mr. Cao Dong, 36, who met with Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, on May 21st, 2006 in Beijing, is missing. It is believed he has been arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. Although Cao Dong has been married for many years, the couple has been together for only a few weeks because of the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP.
  • Calling for Urgent Rescue of Eight Dafa Practitioners in Changde City, Hunan Province Unjustly Sentenced to Prison

    On December 20th, 2005, 29 Dafa practitioners were arrested in Changde City and a site producing leaflets exposing the persecution was destroyed. Officers from the Wuling District Police Department in Changde City arrested the practitioners and held them at several detention centres. The persecutors tried to obtain more "evidence" through interrogation. On April 21st, 2006, the Wuling District Procuratorate in Changde City issued a citation statement. In this statement the officials falsely accused Dafa practitioners, who follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, of being "members of a criminal gang."