Other News, Exposing the Persecution

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  • Ms. Wang Lihui and Her Family Members Harassed, Arrested and Fined by Authorities

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Lihui has been severely persecuted over the past few years. Her phone is regularly monitored by the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and Public Security Bureau, and officers often come to her home to harass her family. Several times Ms. Wang's husband was harassed at work. Unable to stand it any longer, the family has been living separately for ten years.
  • Ms. Yang Fengju is Being Persecuted in the Hebei Province Female Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Fengju is being held in the Hebei Province Female Labour Camp and is suffering brutal persecution. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began it's persecution of Falun Gong, Yang Fengju went to Beijing to appeal and police officers beat her and fractured her arm. Under the pressure, her family forced her to write a document to sever all relationship with her relatives. In order not to be harassed by police, her family took her to the No. 6 Psychiatric Hospital. The physician did not do any exams or inquire about any history. They instead tricked her into being admitted to the hospital, injected her with an unknown drug, as well as force-fed her.
  • Ms. Yao Aihua, Ms. Jiang Yumin and Ms. Zheng Qiying Sent to Brainwashing Facility, Then to Forced Labour Camp

    Ms. Yao Aihua and Ms. Jiang Yumin from Jining City were given two years of imprisonment on August 2nd, 2010, and then were transferred to and persecuted in the Shandong Province Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Zheng Qiying was arrested on July 27th; her current whereabouts are unknown. Ms. Yao Aihua is in her 50s. She was arrested on July 20th, 2010 by police. At that time, she was taking care of her five-month old granddaughter at her daughter's home. Over ten policemen in plain clothes broke in and forcibly arrested Ms. Yao in front of her daughter and granddaughter.
  • Li Wenbo from Yunnan Province Detained in Prison for Over a Year - Family Visits Denied

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Wenbo was arrested and detained by the National Security Team of the County Police Department on May 11th, 2009, and sentenced on October 12th, 2009. His family has subsequently gone repeatedly to the detention centre and prison to look for him, but their requests to visit Mr. Li have been refused. Li Wenbo was often beaten in the labour camp. After being tortured for a long period of time, Li Wenbo's eyesight was affected and he lost six teeth. He also had a 20 cm. (8 inch) scar on his left leg.
  • Persecution of Ms. Zhang Yanmei in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia

    In 1999, Ms. Ms. Zhang Yanmei, 43, went to Beijing to speak out for Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained at the Tiananmen Square Police Station for over four hours. She was then transferred to Tongliao City's liaison office in Beijing, where she was detained for over twenty hours. Police subsequently handcuffed her, along with several other Falun Gong practitioners, and took them to Hexi Detention Centre of Tongliao City, where they were detained for over a month. Shao Jun confiscated over 800 yuan from Ms. Zhang without any legal procedures or documentation.
  • Shen Hongyan Persecuted in Wuhan Women's Prison

    Ms. Shen Hongyan is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan City. Agents from the police department in Wuchang District arrested Ms. Shen on June 22nd, 2010, and took her to the First Women's Prison in Wuhan City. The prison officials refused to accept her due to her poor health and high blood pressure. However, officials from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) ordered the police to continually detain Ms. Shen, who fainted many times during detention because of her weak body. Ms. Shen was sentenced to four years in prison on December 5th, 2007, and is currently being held in Division 1 of the Wuhan Women's Prison.
  • Mr. Bai Heguo Beaten to Death in Nanguanling Prison, Dalian City

    Mr. Bai Heguo, 45, from Liaoning Province was tortured to death around January 5th, 2008 in Nanguanling Prison in Dalian City. Prison guard Zhang Shuyi instigated criminal Zhou to beat Mr. Bai to death. Mr. Bai's family saw his body covered with numerous injuries and wounds, and his remains were hastily cremated. We have learned that guard Zhang Shuyi instigated criminal Zhou to cruelly beat Mr. Bai in an office, and handcuffed Mr. Bai to a heating pipe after the severe abuse. The beating was so severe that Mr. Bai could barely open his eyes. Mr. Bai had been arrested in June 2002 for practising Falun Gong. Court officials had sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
  • The Personal Statement of Ms. Li Jiangping from Shahe City, Hebei Province Regarding the Persecution She Is Enduring

    On December 15th, 2009, police broke into my home, ransacked through my house and took away the precious Falun Gong book Zhuan Falun. They demanded that I go to the police department with them, saying that they just needed to ask several questions. Thinking that I practised Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance with openness and dignity, I went with them. After arriving at the police department, Jia Jianchao asked several questions and then hurried to show me some so-called materials, telling me, "Take a look. It doesn't matter whether you sign on it or not, I will send you to prison anyway. When they tried to force me into the car, I held onto the door frame, refusing to get in the car. However, Jia Jianchao forcibly pushed me through the car door, using his fists to push me into the car.
  • Domestic Security Division Staff Use Deceitful Tricks to Frame and Arrest Manager at Shanghai Yuwen Technology

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. He Binggang was arrested by 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) from the Changning District Domestic Security Division on April 15th, 2010, using a deceitful trap. He is now facing a show-trial. This is the second time He Binggang, 35, has been arrested. In 2000, Mr. He was arrested and detained when he was a graduate student at Fudan University. In 2001, he was sentenced to a six-year prison term, and was detained in the Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison.
  • Disabled As a Result of Repeated Beatings and Torture: Personal Account of the Horrific Persecution Endured by Ms. Chen Zhenbo

    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 "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] me, the officers at the labour camp used inhuman physical and mental tortures. Guards cuffed each of my hands to metal bars to the side of the window. They covered my head with a pillowcase and roughly pulled me forward. About five minutes later, I had acute pain in my neck, which was hard to endure. I was let down after seven days and my hands had lost sensation. I was carried home disabled on July 2nd, 2010.
  • Older Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Duan Shaoming Dies After Five Years of Mistreatment in a Mental Hospital

    Deceived by the propaganda against Falun Gong, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Duan Shaoming's son had his own father admitted into the psychiatric unit of Chongqing City Steel Plant Hospital in 2005. He had been held there since then. Duan Shaoming was locked in a room with over ten mental patients. He had difficulty breathing due to the noxious, foul smell in the room. The doctors in the mental hospital prohibited him from leaving the ward under false charges that he was seriously ill. Some local Falun Gong practitioners tried to reason with Mr. Duan's son, but he refused to get his father out. Mr. Duan died on August 4th, 2010.
  • Heavy-Handed Retaliation Follows the Exposure of 610 Office Plan to Defame Falun Gong at Shanghai World Expo

    The World Expo opened in Shanghai on May 1st, bringing crowds of people and a huge inflow of information. The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) exploited the Expo as an opportunity to further defame Falun Gong. The 610 Office internally circulated a "classified" seven-page document entitled "Preaching Guidelines." The existence of this report, which is in effect a blueprint for the propaganda blitz to be used against Falun Gong during the World Expo, was made public on the Minghui website Minghui website [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] in late April.
  • Yueyang Municipal Detention Centre Responsible for the Death of Hu Heping

    August 7th, 2010 was the second anniversary of the death of Falun Gong practitioner Hu Heping. He died at age 54 from lesions in his internal organs after three months of detention at the Yueyang Municipal Detention Centre in Hunan Province. The Detention Centre did not want to take responsibility for his death, and asked his family to take him home just before he passed away. Detainees at the Yueyang Detention Centre in 2008 were forced to do manual labour such as making lanterns. Many raw plastic materials used in the manual labour were toxic. When Mr. Hu was tortured nearly to death, his family was still forced to pay for the time he spent in the detention centre.
  • Two Deaths in 2002: Mr. Qiu Wei Tortured to Death in the Jiangxi Province Second Forced Labour Camp; Mr. Zhang Jun Dies After Two Years of Mistreatment

    Mr. Zhang Jun, in his 30s, was arrested at the beginning of 2000, sent to do forced labour and locked in Yongqiao Forced Labour Camp located in Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province. The Warden Huang was very cruel towards Falun Gong practitioners, and instructed prisoners to brutally beat Mr .Zhang Jun and Mr. Wu Waiping from Yingtan City. Later Mr. Zhang Jun was transferred to the Gao'an Labour Camp where he was tortured until suffering a blurry mind and talking to himself. He was released at the latter half of 2002, after his term was extended. He never gave in to the brainwashing, but died soon after being released.
  • Please Help Rescue My Wife Whose Life Is in Danger

    Just because my wife, Ms. Li Xiuqin, followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecuted her many times. They detained her, sentenced her to forced labour and extorted money from us. In 2005, my wife was tortured and became emaciated. She went into shock twice at the detention centre and her life was in danger. Despite repeated requests, the police bureau officials refused to to anything for her. They claimed that she was all right and took her to a labour camp instead. The guards at the labour camp refused to take her because of her physical condition.