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Staying Steadfast Through Years of Persecution in China
2010-07-13
Sun Xuemei, 46-year-old, used to be a schoolteacher in China's Jilin province. But she had to flee her country after Chinese police arrested and tortured her—not for committing a crime, but for refusing to give up her spiritual beliefs. Ms Sun practises Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that includes meditation and moral teachings. Like millions of other practitioners in China, Sun says she benefitted from Falun Gong. Sun Xuemei said, "After I practised Falun Gong, within three months, all of my illnesses disappeared. I was very excited at the time, and thought that Falun Gong was simply amazing." -
Elderly Ms. Miao Sufang Died after Years of Persecution
2010-07-12Seventy-three-year-old Ms. Miao Sufang died between March and April 2010. She lived in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. As a Falun Gong practitioner, she endured brainwashing, forced labour, and torture. The police beat her and forced her to stand in the snow with only her undergarments on when she was arrested for appealing for the right to practise Falun Gong in Beijing in January 2001. She was subsequently subjected to a year of forced labour and imprisoned at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was arrested a second time for telling people about Falun Gong, and detained at the Pi County Prison. -
Ms. Li Xiuhong Tortured in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp
2010-07-12Communist regime officials in the Tonghua area of Jilin Province made the Olympic Games their excuse to arrest a large number of Falun Gong practitioners on April 22nd, 2008. Ms. Li Xiuhong was arrested and held in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City and was subjected to brutal and inhuman torture. Ms. Li practised the Falun Gong exercises on the morning of June 4th, 2008. Wei Dan and a few others shocked her with five electric batons. She was also bound to a death bed with her hands and feet tied until the last day of March 2009. The bed was made with overlapping metal bars. Ms. Li was not even untied so that she could eat. When her term was over, the labour camp authorities extended her sentence by four more months. -
A Rural Practitioner Persecuted Inhumanly in Liaoning Prison
2010-07-12Ms. Xuexian Zhang was best known for her kindheartedness among her fellow villagers of Ezuo County, Liaoning Province. On June 9th, 2008, Ms. Zhang and her husband Mr. Yuan Xueli distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people and were arrested by police. Ms. Zhang has become emaciated due to torture at Shenyang Prison. She was sentenced to a four-year prison term. Her husband, Mr. Yuan Xueli was beaten brutally with electric batons, and the officers extorted 3,000 yuan before they released him. -
Ms. Zhang Xuemei Sent to Harbin Forced Labour Camp
2010-07-12Ms. Zhang Xuemei's residence was broken into by the police and her computer and other personal belongings worth more than 10,000 yuan were taken away on April 23rd, 2010. Additionally Ms. Zhang was arrested and detained in Jinshantun Detention Centre for more than 10 days. She was later sentenced to two-years of forced labour, and is currently detained in Harbin Forced Labour Camp. -
Jiang Feng Imprisoned at Baofeng Forced Labour Camp in Xuancheng, Anhui Province
2010-07-11Mr. Jiang Feng is currently imprisoned in Baofeng Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Jiang was arrested by Shanghai Police on February 18th, 2010, when he was about to board a plane at the Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. He had planned to join his wife in the US. He was immediately sent to a brainwashing centre in Hefei City, Anhui Province to be persecuted. The Chinese government had denied arresting Jiang Feng, but after urging by international organizations which uphold justice, the Chinese ambassador at the European Parliament wrote a response to the president of the European Parliament Human Rights Committee in May. The letter stated that Jiang Feng had been sentenced to18 months of forced labour in March 2010. -
Eighty-Year-Old Mother Risks Her Life to Rescue Son
2010-07-11Mr. Yang Kaijun, a 50-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Qian'an City, Hebei Province, was arrested on June 24th, 2010. His home was ransacked by police without showing any proper paperwork. His mother, already in her eighties, held onto the police van trying to stop her son's arrest. The police dragged the old lady along the ground for a long distance. Mr. Yang is now detained at Qian'an Detention Centre. -
Daqing City Police Arrest Ms. Jin Lixia and Her Husband, Then Extort Money from Their Teen-Age Son
2010-07-11Mr. Liu Zehe and his wife, Ms. Jin Lixia, from Daqing were arrested for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on June 18th, 2010. Ms. Jin experienced heart problems and was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Wolitun Police Department officers took this opportunity to force Ms. Jin's under-age son to borrow money and sign a document. They threatened they would send Ms. Jin to a forced labour camp if no money was handed in. Mr. Liu was taken to the Daqing City No.3 Detention Centre the afternoon of June 18,th. -
Police Officer Li Liping from Wuqiao County, Hebei Province, Persecutes Liu Zhigang and Family
2010-07-11Li Liping, deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee of the Quqiao County Police Department in Hebei Province, is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Since 2001, he has persecuted most of the practitioners living in Wuqiao County. In early June 2010, he started looking for practitioner Liu Zhigang, who had been forced to be homeless for over ten years. After Mr. Liu became homeless in June 2001, his wife, Ms. Gao Lihua, was placed under house arrest and surveillance, and was violently threatened to cooperate with the authorities, against her will, to find and arrest her husband. She had no choice but to abandon her home with her husband. Through years of living a homeless life, in constant danger of being arrested, Ms. Gao died at the age of 43, in March 2004. -
An Account of Persecution Experienced by a Disabled Person, Ms. Yan Ying from Lingwu City Ningxia Province
2010-07-10Ms. Yan Ying, 47, is from Lingwu City, Ningxia Province. When she was a year old, she contracted poliomyelitis, which left her seriously disabled, and she later suffered from many diseases. She was so tormented by her ill health that she felt she would rather die. After she started to practise Falun Gong, however, she benefited tremendously, physically and mentally. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, she has been harassed, detained, and held in forced labour camps. -
Older Practitioner Ms. Li Zhuhan Arrested by Wuhan City Police
2010-07-10Ms. Li Zhuhan, a 60-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested on June 24th, 2010 by 10 police officers. These people took two vans and took leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, Falun Gong DVDs, and other personal belongings from her home. When they arrested Ms. Li Zhuhan, her husband Huang asked, "Do you have an arrest warrant? How can you arrest people at will?" They stopped him and said he was interfering with their fulfilling their duties. The police then pushed him aside, forced Ms. Li Zhuhan into the car, and drove to Etouwan Brainwashing Centre. -
In Order to Rescue Lu Tong, Mother and Wife Have Waited for One Year Outside the Police Station
2010-07-10Mr. Lu Tong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is detained under a four-year prison sentence. His mother is in her seventies and his wife has an eye disability. Over the past year, Mr. Lu's mother and wife have repeatedly appealed to the Caixiang Police Station in Jinchang District, asking to visit Mr. Lu and to have him released at once. Their request consistently denied, the women have appealed at the Caixiang Police Station more than 100 times. -
Chinese Citizens Harassed for Advocating Justice for Falun Gong
2010-07-10Residents of a small town in Liaoning Province were harassed for signing an appeal letter calling for justice for Xu Dawei, a Falun Gong practitioner who was tortured in custody and died 13 days after his release from prison on June 16th, 2009, due to the injuries he sustained while in custody. On April 7th, 2010, the Communist Party Secretary of the village and two policemen went to Xu's younger brother, Xu Youwei's home. They asked Xu Youwei to the Secretary's home for a “casual talk”; the talk was premeditated, however, with three members of China’s political and security apparatus already waiting for his arrival. Some villagers familiar with the case said that the “casual talk” turned into an interrogation. The officials were aggressive and abrupt. They asked Xu Youwei questions such as: “Who brought the signature form?” “Who was the leader?” “Why did you get others' signatures?” -
Zhang Chunfang Repeatedly Persecuted, Her Husband Died as a Result of the Persecution
2010-07-09Ms. Zhang Chunfang, 56, was arrested at her home by officers from the Shuangta District Police Station on June 12th, 2010. The officers also confiscated some of her private belongings. Ms. Zhang was sent to the Zhuozhou City Detention Centre and then sentenced to one year of forced labour. Her family members have not been allowed to visit her. Since the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, they have been repeatedly arrested, sentenced to forced labour, held in detention centres and tortured by the authorities. Ms. Zhang's husband, Li Heng, suffered brutal torture in a forced labour camp. He was released in the beginning of 2002 but remained bedridden until his death in May 2005 at the age of 51. -
Ms. Li Xiuhong's Appeal to Expose the Brutal Persecution in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City
2010-07-09I have been detained in Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp since June 3rd, 2008, and have been subjected to various forms of brutal torture. When I was seen doing the Falun Gong exercises I was forced to stop. I was kicked by guard Wei Dan, and hit around the head by guard Ye Ying, while being dragged to the guards' office. In the office the two guards used six electric batons to shock me. As one electric baton broke, they charged the remaining batons to ensure they always had one to shock me with. Sometimes they used two batons together. Ye Ying also kicked me in the stomach, lower abdomen and thighs.
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