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  • Persecutors at the Laishui County Communist Party School, Hebei Province Continue Detaining Falun Gong Practitioners

    The persecutors from the Laishui County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Hebei Province have again detained and attempted to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners at the County Party School. The staff in the brainwashing centre came from the Laishui Judicial Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Education Bureau, and Local Tax Bureau. They were on duty day and night. They forced practitioners to watch videos slandering Falun Gong. They also arrested members of the practitioners' families, forcing them to “help” the persecutors “transform” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] the practitioners. Ms. Song Xiangrui was arrested and her husband and sister-in-law were arrested and taken to the brainwashing centre.
  • Eight Falun Gong Practitioners from Shandong Province Are Jailed

    Agents from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), the Public Security Bureau and the Police Department of Qixia City, Shandong Province arrested twenty Falun Gong practitioners on August 30th. The practitioners' home were ransacked, and they were robbed. Currently, eight of them are still in a brainwashing centres, detention centres, and a forced labour camp. On August 30th, Falun Gong practitioner Lin Guojun was arrested. On the second day, he was transferred secretly to a new brainwashing centre in Zhaoyuan City, where he endured serious persecution.
  • Practitioner Wang Gang from Harbin Taken to Yichun City Brainwashing Centre

    Practitioner Mr. Wang Gang was arrested on August 30th, and taken to Yichun City Brainwashing Centre. Later, the local court sentenced Mr. Wang to three years in prison. Prior to the 2008 Olympic Games, the post office authorities detained Mr. Wang for many days and assigned personnel to monitor him.
  • The Persecution Suffered by Wang Yujie, a Young Woman from Hubei Province, before Her Death

    On the morning of September 3rd, 2011, Ms. Wang Yujie from Wuhan City, who was only 24 years old, passed away as a result of brutal torture. On April 2nd, 2010, Ms. Wang, who was then 23 years old, was secretly sentenced to one year of forced labour and detained in Hewan Forced Labour Camp in Wuhan City. In the labour camp, team head Hu Fang ordered drug offenders to torture Ms. Wang. She was forced to squat for six days and nights. She was monitored by drug offenders who deprived her of sleep. Because she remained steadfast in her belief, Hu Fang ordered drug offender Cao Wenli to break her left leg and hit her in the head. After that, Cao Wenli and another convict, Zhou Yan, handcuffed her, shocked her with an electric baton, beat her for 40 minutes, and pulled out a huge clump of her hair.
  • Ms. Tian Guiting from Daqing Arrested and Persecuted Six Times

    After starting the practice of Falun Gong, Ms. Tian Guiting became healthy and kind. In order to help more people benefit, she told everyone about the goodness of Falun Gong. On June 17th, 2011, she was arrested by officers from the Longfeng Police Department and detained for two weeks. She was arrested again on September 5rd, which was her sixth arrest since 1999.
  • The Local Authorities in Junshan District, Yuyang City, Hunan Province Continue to Arrest Practitioners

    610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) officials in Yueyang City, the Domestic Security Division, police stations, the judicial administration offices and the Community Office have been working together to arrest and persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Caisanghu Town Police Station officers arrested Ms. Zhu Chunxiu, 62, while she was at a party on August 7th. She was taken to Junshan Detention Centre, where she was held for five days. Her family members did not know what had happened to her, and only found out about her whereabouts after making numerous inquiries to the local authorities.
  • Mudanjiang Railroad Employee Mr. Zheng Jingjiang Taken to the Yichun Brainwashing Centre

    On September 6th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Jingjiang was taken to the Yichun Brainwashing Centre by leaders from his work unit, and police. Another employee, Mr. Zhan Xingchao, who also practises Falun Gong, was arrested on the same day. The Yichun Brainwashing Centre was set up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. It is a secret prison specially used to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners in an attempt to force them to renounce their belief. Many Falun Gong practitioners from Yichun have been severely persecuted both physically and mentally in the brainwashing centre. Their basic freedom and human rights are taken away and as part of the brainwashing, practitioners are forced to watch videos and read literature that slander Falun Gong.
  • Senior Nurse Arrested Again after Being Tortured in Labour Camp Twice

    Former nurse Ms. Wang Lu's home was ransacked soon after she went to Fuyang City to celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (September 12th) with her father. She went to the Linquan County People’s Hospital on September 14th, preparing for the admittance procedures and to look after her older brother who suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. However, the police followed and arrested her. She is currently being detained and persecuted in Bengbu City.
  • Mr. Men Bingcheng and His Family Persecuted in Dongguang County, Hebei Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Men Bingcheng often helps others. Fellow villagers called him “Number One Good Samaritan.” But since the persecution of Falun Gong, he and his family have suffered tremendously. After the persecution started, the couple went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Their names ended up on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials' “blacklist,” so they were constantly harassed.
  • 54 Facts That Reveal How the "Self-Immolation" on Tiananmen Square Was Actually Staged for Propaganda Purposes - Part 6

    In BBC and Chinese official reports, on April 3rd, 2002, the Chinese government arranged 12 Chinese and international media to interview Wang Jindong and others. BBC's report "Arranged Interview" stated, "The Chinese government had always refused any International media to interview on the self-immolation event, yet all of a sudden, foreign reporters were arranged to interview the self-immolation survivors." BBC's special reporter also said that the Chinese government's intention of this arranged interview was obviously an effort to prove the legitimacy of the government's persecution towards Falun Gong.
  • Village Doctor Ms. Liu Yanmei Arrested Again after Having Been Subjected to Torture Numerous Times

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yanmei was arrested on September 8th. Her whereabouts are unknown. Previously, Ms. Liu was arrested for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on May 23rd, 2006, and sentenced to three years of forced labour on May 30th, 2006. She was taken to the Shandong Province No.1 Women's Forced Labour Camp and severely tortured. For example, she was forced to stay up all night until the early morning. This regime lasted until she was released in June 2009. The guards tied her to an iron chair and taped her mouth shut for nine days. Her legs and feet swelled terribly. During the first two days her legs and feet hurt, then they became completely numb.
  • Twenty-Eight Practitioners Incarcerated in the Nan'an District Brainwashing Centre in Chongqing

    Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents in Chongqing organized and instructed government agencies in districts and counties under its jurisdiction to hold brainwashing sessions, in an attempt to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. From June 2011 to August 5th, the Nan'an District CCP agents held a brainwashing session at the Nandi Resort. They arrested 28 practitioners and forced them to participate in it.
  • Ms. Kui Fenglan in Critical Condition after Torture in Hebei Province Women's Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Kui Fenglan, 57, was arrested in August 2007 and sentenced to five years in prison by the Communist regime. She was sent to Hebei Province Women's Prison in 2008, where she was repeatedly abused as she refused to renounce Falun Gong. She is now in critical condition. In 2008, guards ordered the inmates to tie up Ms. Kui's arms and legs for long periods of time just because she persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises.
  • Ms. Zhang Jin from Tangshan City Subjected to Forced Labour

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Jin was arrested on August 11th for no reason and detained for two weeks. She was arrested again on September 20th by police and subjected to a one-year forced labour term. She is currently in the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp Brainwashing Centre. In 2008, Ms. Zhang was sent to the Shijiazhuang Women's Forced Labour Camp. The guards verbally abused her daily. She held a hunger strike three times to resist the persecution, but was force-fed.
  • 54 Facts That Reveal How the "Self-Immolation" on Tiananmen Square Was Actually Staged for Propaganda Purposes - Part 5

    Li Yuqiang is a senior reporter for CCTV's news show Focal Point. Since the persecution began in 1999 she has been responsible for producing programmes defaming Falun Gong, including several interview programmes. In early 2002, as Li was interviewing people at the Tuanhe Labour Camp about the self-immolation, one Falun Gong prisoner, Zhao Ming, raised the matter of the Sprite bottle. Li responded to the quirk candidly, saying, “We shot that scene after the fact. If it looks suspicious we’ll stop showing it.” She then tried to argue that the scene was arranged in an attempt to prove to the audience that Falun Gong practitioners conducted the self-immolation.