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After Being Arrested Eight Times, Ms. Chen Shuqin Dies in Changchun Women's Prison
2011-12-07
During the past 12 years of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) suppression of Falun Gong, Ms. Chen Shuqin had been telling people about her own experiences to affirm the goodness of Falun Gong. She was arrested eight times, served a one-year term in a forced labour camp, and was sentenced to five years in prison. During her time in detention, she was subjected to severe physical and mental abuse, she became emaciated, and her back was hunched over to a 90 degree angle. She died in Changchun Women's Prison in February 2011. Her head was swollen when she died. The prison paid 50,000 yuan to her family to settle her death quietly. -
Schoolteacher Ms. Yang Fang from Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province Detained for Nearly Six Months
2011-12-07Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Fang, 45, has been detained for nearly six months. Ms. Yang was followed and arrested by police when she posted Falun Gong materials on the evening of June 21st, 2011. A gang of police officers ransacked her home the following morning and took away Falun Gong materials, a printer, cash, bank deposit books and her other personal belongings. Police took Ms. Yang to the Ganyu County Detention Centre. Before this, Ms. Yang was taken into custody in 2005 and sentenced to four years in prison because she remained steadfast in her spiritual belief, Falun Gong. -
Retired Government Employee Facing Another Unjust Sentence for Practising Falun Gong
2011-12-07Mr. Wang Shengli, almost 80 years old, is a former Propaganda Department Head in Fuyang City, Anhui Province. He has been detained for nearly one year and is facing an unjust sentence. He was once sentenced to four years in 2004. After Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started to persecute practitioners in 1999, Mr. Wang was subjected to numerous mistreatments. In 2002, police took Mr. Wang to Fuyang City Detention Centre and kept him there. His two daughters, Ms. Wang Gehong and Ms. Wang Gehua, were also arrested and later kept at the Fuyang City Detention Centre. -
Recent Persecution of Jiamusi City Practitioner Ms. Chen Fengmin
2011-12-07Jiamusi City practitioner Ms. Chen Fengmin was arrested at home on October 18th. With her family's help, Ms. Chen was released from the brainwashing centre 17 days later. Since being detained, she has become very weak and is often in a befuddled mental state. Apparently, she had been mentally abused in the brainwashing centre. -
Four Chief Nurses at Huaian City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jiangsu Persecuted Relentlessly Over Many Years
2011-12-06Four chief nurses at the Huaian City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Jiangsu, Ms. He Cuiping, Ms. Zhou Ling, Ms. Hu Yunqin and Ms. Li Jiuping, have been persecuted mentally, physically and financially by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the past 12 years for their perseverance in practising Falun Gong. They have been arrested, detained, tortured, forced to go through brainwashing and had various amounts wrongly withheld from their pay checks. Their families and friends were also harmed. -
Former Kindergarten Teacher Ms. Jia Guirong Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
2011-12-06Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia Guirong from Baicheng City, Jilin Province was arrested by officers from Baicheng City and Qinhuangdao City on September 1st, 2011 at her rented residence in Qinhuangdao City. Two months later, Baicheng City Court officials sentenced Ms. Jia to four years in prison. Ms. Jia has been persecuted many times for having remained steadfast in her spiritual belief, Falun Gong. -
Bakery Owner, Known for Her Kindness, Persecuted for Practising Falun Gong
2011-12-06Ms. Wang Shuzhen was sentenced to a forced labour camp for three years because she practised Falun Gong. In 2011, she was arrested again by the Pingxin Town Police Station and sent to Harbin No. 2 Detention Centre. She did not pass the physical examination and was sent home, but she is still being harassed frequently. -
Villagers Co-sign a Letter Demanding the Release of Mr. Zhang Guoxiang
2011-12-06Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Guoxiang was arrested on June 29th, 2011 by police. Villagers from his hometown accompanied his mother to travel the long distance to Jinzhou. They presented a letter to the officials at the Jinzhou Domestic Security Division, to demand Mr. Zhang's release. The letter was co-signed by villagers and was stamped with their village seal. They also demanded the return of 6,000 yuan which the police had confiscated. However, the officials ignored their request. Mr. Zhang is currently being held in Fushun Brainwashing Centre. -
Changping District Police in Beijing Arrest 16 Practitioners in Last Three Months
2011-12-05Over the past three months, police have arrested at least 16 practitioners from the Tiantongyuan community on four subsequent arrests. The officers who participated in the arrests did not wear police uniforms or park their police cars nearby. They threatened the arrested practitioners with forced labour sentences. The police have refused to let the practitioners meet with either their families or their attorneys. They have threatened to revoke the licence of any attorney who accepts a practitioner's case. They have also declared that all arrested practitioners will be punished with forced labour sentences. -
Ms. Wang Ruihua Arrested and Police Attempted to Sexually Assault Her, Her Family Files Complaint
2011-12-05Ms. Wang Ruihua was arrested by police on February 26th, 2011. She was sent to a forced labour camp. In the Shengli Police Station, policeman Wang Conghe hit and kicked Ms. Wang. He also beat her with a stick and did not stop until the stick was broken. Afterwards, Wang Conghe tried to take off Ms. Wang's trousers with the intent to sexually assault her. Ms. Wang fought back and Wang Conghe stopped. Two other policemen stood by and witnessed the entire episode and a police official watched through a door gap but he did not stop Wang Conghe. Ms. Wang's family then filed a complaint against the Shengli Police Station. -
Horticulturalist Held in Forced Labour Camp Facing Trial
2011-12-05On November 9th, Mr. Wang Weidong, who was being held in the Handan Forced Labour Camp, was transferred to the Tangshan City No. 2 Detention Centre by police. The police arrested him on a trumped-up charge and attempted to send him to prison. The Chinese Communist Party started to suppress Falun Gong in 1999. Mr. Wang and his wife, Ms. Li, were detained because of their belief. They were later monitored for an extended period of time. More than 100,000 yuan was taken from their salaries. -
Head of 610 Office Li Qingshan Has Persecuted Three Falun Gong Practitioners to the Point of Mental Breakdown
2011-12-05Li Qingshan is the head of the Lincheng County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Hebei Province. Li Qingshan has arrested at least 40 Falun Gong practitioners and has personally tortured practitioners. Three young practitioners have suffered mental breakdowns and ongoing mental impairment under persecution by Li Qingshan. In the spring of 2003, Ms. Zhang was arrested while she was distributing flyers about the persecution of Falun Gong and sent to the Xingtai Brainwashing Centre. She was deprived of sleep and threatened by the brainwashing staff day after day. In the end, Ms. Zhang could not take the tremendous pressure, and she renounced her belief in Falun Gong. -
Falun Gong Practitioners from Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province Arrested
2011-12-04Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Alian, in her 30s, was arrested at work on November 2nd, and taken to the Jinchengwan Brainwashing Centre. Prior to her arrest, 73-year-old Ms. Ge Xiuying was arrested and tortured during interrogation. Ms. Ge Xiuying's daughter, Ms. Dai Lijuan, was arrested twice and held in a mental hospital, where she was injected with unknown drugs. She was arrested again in 2003, and severely beaten by the police to the point of being in critical condition. She was paralysed due to the severe abuse, and died on March 28th, 2011. -
Zhaoyuan City Policemen Arrest Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhong Zhaofen to Meet Forced Labour Quota
2011-12-04On November 8th, three officers from the Zhaoyuan City Domestic Security Division broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhong Zhaofen's home and took her to the Lingnan Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Zhong's family went to the brainwashing centre to request her release. Officer Song Shaochang said, “We were given a quota of four forced labour sentences from our superiors. Zhong is just in time to be one of them.” Song extorted 4,000 yuan from Ms. Zhong's family, but Ms. Zhong has not been released. -
Mr. Zheng Fengxiang from Jilin Province Physically Abused and Tortured in Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province
2011-12-04Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Fengxiang was arrested on July 3rd, 2007 by officers from the Changjiang Road Police Station. He was sentenced to four and a half years of imprisonment in November 2008. During his imprisonment at Gongzhuling Prison, Mr. Zheng was subjected to various methods of torture. In early 2010, he was seriously mistreated and contracted tuberculosis. As a result, at one point he was in critical condition and was taken to the prison clinic.
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