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Elderly Woman Arrested on Her Way to the Grocery Store
2009-08-07
Ms. Shi Lanfang, in her 70s, was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre on on April 23rd, where she was held for 42 days. This is Ms. Shi's own account of what happened: "I was about to go grocery shopping when I saw five or six police officers in front of my house. One female officer called out to me and said that she wanted me to accompany her to the community centre to 'have a talk.' I told her that I did not have time. At that point, the police officers dragged me into the car and took me to a place called the 'Law and Order Centre' in Xinjin to try to brainwash me." -
Police Arrest Ms. Ning Li to Make Way for Communist Leader's Arrival in Liaoning Province
2009-08-07On July 6th, 2009, police broke into practitioner Ms. Ning Li's home in Xiongyue Town. They then took her to the Bayuquan Domestic Security Division. Afterwards, someone revealed that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping was scheduled to visit the region to do inspections on the morning of July 7th, 2009. Everywhere he went, the security was heightened. Practitioners living near the streets where Xi went by were arrested. Guotun Village, Xiongyue Town, where Ms. Ning lived, was one of the inspection sites. -
For the Past Decade, the Residential Committees in China Have Actively Carried Out the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Persecution Policies at the Grassroots Level
2009-08-06Practitioner Ms. Wu Jingqing was arrested at the end of October 2002. To implicate her, police planted some Falun Gong CDs in her home while ransacking it. Gongdatang Community Party Secretary Liu Kegui of Guangming Street Residential Committee signed the search list. Ms. Wu was detained in a hotel and a detention centre for about seven months. Due to torture, she passed blood in her stool and urine. The detention centre guard said openly, "If you are dying, we will send you to the hospital, but we will have nothing to do with your death--even if you die five minutes after you are dropped off." Extremely thin, Ms. Wu Jingqing left the detention centre in May 2003, with dignity. It took her several months to recover through studying the Falun Gong teachings and practising the exercises. -
Mr. Fu Ziming Died as a Result of Persecution
2009-08-06Mr. Fu Ziming was a 34-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Jianli County, Hubei Province. While travelling in the scenic district of Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province on April 17th, 2009, he posted the message, "Falun Gong is good" in several places. Wuyi Mountain Police Department/Scenic District Police Station agents arrested him. Jianli County 610 Office deputy director Jiang Changhong arrived on April 20th, 2009 to take Fu Ziming back to Hubei Province on a train. Mr. Fu died before his return to Jianli County. -
Woman in Her 60s Cruelly Tortured in a Forced Labour Camp in Mudanjiang City Because She Refused to Give Up Her Belief
2009-08-06Ms. Liu Guixiang, 63, would not give up the practice of Falun Gong and went to Beijing to seek justice for Falun Gong. As a result, she was arrested and sentenced to forced labour many times by Chinese Communist Party officials. She suffered indescribable tortures. The guards in the forced labour camp force-fed her, and ruthlessly twisted the tube in her oesophagus and stomach with malicious intent. Her retirement pension was also withdrawn for two years. -
Persecution Forces a Seven Year Old to Live Without His Mum in Qingdao City, Shandong Province
2009-08-06Tomorrow is Xiaoshun's seventh birthday. His mum has been in Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City for over a year now. For fear that Xiaoshun might get upset or feel sad without his Mother there, his dad intentionally did not celebrate his sixth birthday. One day last June, Xiaoshun did not see his mum when he got home from school and found that the house was a mess. Later, his dad told him that his mum had been arrested. At night, he always dreamed of mum, and awoke in tears. But he never told dad about it because he did not want him to feel sad. -
The Torture I Suffered in Harbin Women's Prison
2009-08-05My name is Ms. Gao Guizhen. I'm a Falun Gong practitioner from Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. In 2003, I was sentenced to a four-year prison term for being firm in my belief in Falun Gong. I was imprisoned on September 16th in Harbin Women's Prison. Practitioners were inhumanly tortured in the prison. The prison authorities tortured practitioners with the most cruel methods, methods not even used on condemned criminals. We were hung up with our hands cuffed behind our back and with both feet off the ground from the top of a bunk-bed. Once a practitioner lost consciousness from the excruciating pain, the guards poured unknown drugs down her throat. She was hung up again the minute she was revived. -
A Thirteen-year-old Girl's Wish
2009-08-05Ma Fan, a thirteen-year-old girl from Liaoning Province, has a simple wish: to be united with her mother. However, in July 2009, this wish was once again denied. On the afternoon of July 13th, 2009, Ma Fan's mother, Ms. Zhang Lirong, was arrested on the charge of "spreading propaganda about Falun Gong" by officers from the Tiexi Police Department's Gongren Village Police Station in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Ma Fan has a kind and loving mother. However she has spent very little time with her. Because her mother believes in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and strives to be a good person, she has been arrested three times and spent five years in a labour camp. -
Don't Be Scared and Don't Compromise, Ms. Xu
2009-08-05Ms. Xu Hui, 47, is a geography teacher at the Dalinzi Town High School. Because of her belief in Falun Gong and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, every year her school threatened her to renounce Falun Gong. She was forced to live at the school and her salary was withheld, in an effort to pressure her into renouncing her belief. In 2006, her school forced her to work as a guard instead of as a teacher. Ms. Xu was arrested on April 24th, 2008. She was then sent to the Fuyu County Detention Centre and sentenced to eighteen months of forced labour because she refused to renounce her belief. -
Retired Teacher Ms. Xu Hanming from Shanghai Arrested for the Fourth Time
2009-08-05On July 17th, 2009, 66-year-old Ms. Xu Hanming was arrested at home by police from the Changning District 610 Office and the Changning Police Department. The police confiscated a large number of personal belongings from her. Since Ms. Xu Hanming began practising Falun Gong, she has been very focused and responsible at work. She has volunteered to help students from poor families many times. This kind, exemplary teacher has been detained and persecuted three times only because she would not give up her belief in Falun Gong. She has been detained in brainwashing facilities twice, and sentenced to a labour camp for a year. -
"Mum, I Miss You So Much!"
2009-08-04Mum, How are you doing? I haven't seen in you so long. I miss you so much! I am writing this letter but I am not sure whether you will be allowed to read it. I sincerely hope a kind guard will let you read this letter. The morning of July 20th, 1999, about twenty plain clothes policemen intruded into our home. You and Dad were arrested. Our home was turned upside down. I was the only one left, frightened and crying. No one took care of me for the next fifty days. I was not even ten years old then. I had to wander around. One of my legs became infected and oozed pus. Finally, you came back, but we no longer had a normal life as before. -
Beijing Police Tortured Ms. Sun Min to Death and Falsified the Circumstances of Her Death
2009-08-04Falun Gong practitioners Wu Yang and his wife, Sun Min, from Inner Mongolia, were arrested in Beijing by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police. Wu Yang was arrested while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs exposing the persecution in Beijing. Sun Min was arrested after her husband and she died during a brutal interrogation in police custody. The police tampered with her post mortem examination report, claiming that she fell from her apartment window. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Du Shiliang Dies as a Result of Persecution in Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province
2009-08-04Mr. Du Shiliang, a 50-year-old practitioner died as a result of persecution in Jianshanzi Prison, Heilongjiang Province on January 20th, 2006. Before his death, his family visited him on January 13th, and he appeared to be in normal physical condition. After his death, when his family asked to take his body, the chief of the Prison Guard Section said, "Du Shiliang is still serving his sentence. He has to continue to serve his sentence, even if he is dead, so you can't take his body." Later, his body was cremated by police. -
Zhou Yongkang Uses Upcoming Shanghai World Expo as Another Political Tool to Persecute the Chinese People
2009-08-04The 2010 World Expo is to be held in Shanghai. Zhou Yongkang, former Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China and head of the Central Political and Legislative Committee, and a major persecutor of Falun Gong, arrived at the Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau on June 20th, 2009. At the beginning of 2009, Jiang Zemin, the chief criminal who orchestrated and maintains the persecution of Falun Gong, returned to Shanghai where he issued the slogan, "Successful Olympics, Splendid World Expo." He also instigated another crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners under the pretext of "ensuring the safety of the World Expo." -
Practitioner Zhu Hongbin Dies Six Months After Being Injected With an Unknown Drug in Daqing Prison
2009-08-03Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhu Hongbin died on June 18th, 2009, after being brutally tortured during his detainment in the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City. Mr. Hong was injected with an unknown drug which caused him to lose consciousness. When he regained consciousness, he experienced severe memory loss, including the loss of short term memory. The guards deprived him of food, sleep, and use of the toilet. Five days later, they forced a feeding tube in through Mr. Zhu's nose, down his throat and into his stomach and forced a bowl of milk powder down into Zhu's lungs.
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