Torture
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Ninety-Three Year Old Practitioner and Her Two Daughters Persecuted in Changsha City
2010-01-19
Ms. Xiao is 93 and in good health, since she has been practising Falun Gong. However, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, her family has suffered unjust persecution. Her daughter, Tang Yingxia, 62, was sentenced to three years in prison because she went to watch a Falun Gong DVD at a friend's house. She is now in Hunan Provincial Women's Prison, and is barred from being visited by her family members. -
Yinmahe Labour Camp in Jilin Province Subjects Practitioners to Brutal Torture and Hard Labour
2010-01-19
While Mr. Yang Xingli was in the labour camp he was assigned to the "isolation division" where Falun Gong practitioners were closely monitored and brutally tortured. In order to force him to write the "four statements" promising to give up his Falun Gong practice, the guards first made him sit on a small bench for extended periods of time. At night, detainees assigned to monitor him showered him with fists and kicks. Seeing that he was not moved, they used sewing needles to prick his whole body, leaving needle pricks everywhere. The guards also beat Mr. Yang savagely on numerous occasions, three times being the worst. -
Female Practitioner from Beijing Taken to Hubei Province to Serve One-Year Forced Labour Term
2010-01-19Practitioner Ms. Lu Fulian was arrested and sentenced to forced labour. On July 9th, 2008, she was sent to the Hubei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured until she became emaciated and was on the verge of death. Inside the forced labour camp, Falun Gong practitioners are forbidden from speaking or other forms of contact with other practitioners. If practitioners don't co-operate or don't give up practising Falun Gong, the inmates lock them up in dark rooms, beat them, strip off their clothes, hang them up, squeeze and grab their private parts, curse Falun Gong, write slanderous words on their bodies, and coerce them to write guarantee statements promising to give up their practice of Falun Gong. -
Mr. Hao Yin Sent to Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin
2010-01-19After many difficulties and setbacks, with the help of kind-hearted people, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hao Yin's three daughters have finally found out where he is. He was sentenced to two years and three months of forced labour and sent to Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin. The girls have travelled to the labour camp unsuccessfully three times trying to see their father. The girls' mother, Ms. Gao Yane, had been sentenced to three years in prison for speaking with people about Falun Gong and the persecution. She has lost the sight in one eye and hearing in one ear as a result of abuse. -
Pilot Sun Li Sentenced to Seven Years--Wife Forced to Divorce Him
2010-01-18In May 2009, Mr. Sun Li was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Nanqu Court in Qingdao City. On June 25th, he was sent to the Jinan Prison. Because he did not give up Falun Gong practice, he has been persecuted numerous times during the past ten years by officials at his workplace, the State Security Bureau, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), the police, and more. His wife, a flight attendant, could not bear the intense pressure and had to divorce him. -
Former Deputy Director of Chamber of Commerce Twice Held in Forced Labour Camp
2010-01-18Ms. Li Shujie, 60, was locked in Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2006. She was monitored by four inmates around the clock and was not able to have contact with other practitioners. Guards and other personnel who had renounced Falun Gong continually attempted to brainwash her. When Ms. Li refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards started to scold, yell and scorn her. She was not allowed to shower and was forced to stand for a long period of time as punishment. She was forced to sleep on the cold floor, and her chest hurt so much that she couldn't turn over. She became very weak from her hunger strike, physical illnesses, and being tortured. -
Mr. Gu Huaibing from Chengdu Was Persecuted by Wang Pengfei
2010-01-18Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Gu Huaibing was arrested by police while he was working on July 21st, 2009. On August 5th and 6th, the director of the Domestic Security Division refused to allow Mr. Gu's lawyer to meet with Gu. His two lawyers went to complain about the director to the Chengdu Procuratorate. Mr. Gu told his lawyer he was being severely persecuted. Mr. Gu was tied to a metal window. The "investigating officer" poured water on him and jabbed him with a stick to keep him awake. The second day, Mr. Gu was tied to the window again and punched in the chest. He was told that the beating was "compliments of" the national dictatorship department. -
Ms. Yan Chunling Sentenced to Prison For Nine Years--Inhumanly Tortured In Prison
2010-01-18In 2003, Yan Chunling was arrested when she visited a Falun Gong practitioner at her home. In the detention centre, Yan Chunling was forcibly cuffed at the hands and feet for more than forty days, and later sentenced to prison for nine years. On April 29th, 2004, she was sent to Heilongjiang Women's Prison. In the prison, she was subjected to a variety of tortures for long periods of time. These inhuman tortures included solitary confinement for a very long time, being handcuffed with her hands behind her back for 96 days, denied use of the toilet and showers, and many other tortures. In April 2008, the prison stopped allowing Yan Chunling's family to visit her. Her condition now is unknown. -
An Elderly Mother's Appeal
2010-01-17I am a mother in my 70s. In September 2009, my son, Lu Zhiyong, came to visit me but was arrested on his way home. I have been worried about his well being ever since. Recently I heard that he will be tried in Heishui County Court. In 2001 police arrested Zhiyong for going to Beijing to make an appeal for Falun Gong. They sent him to the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp for an 18-month sentence. Zhiyong was tortured in many different ways in the forced labour camp. He was forced to stand still from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. The next day, he was beaten in the chest so brutally that he was unable to talk or even move without a great deal of pain. He was tied up with very thin ropes eight times within ten days; he was shocked with one to four electric batons at a time; and he was beaten with a club covered with nails. -
Ms. Wang Lihua Imprisoned for Seven Years and Paralysed as a Result of Abuse
2010-01-17In November 2002, the Jianshan Court in Shuangyashan City sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Lihua to seven years in prison. Her term was then extended by three years because she called aloud "Falun Gong is good!" Since then, she has been persecuted and abused for more than seven years and is now unable to take care of herself. On December 18th, 2009, the daughter of Ms. Wang Lihua, was notified by the police to pick up her mother at the Heilongjiang Women's Prison because she was seriously ill. Ms. Wang was paralysed due to tuberculosis of the spine. -
Former Deputy Head of County Appeals Bureau and Family Are Persecuted
2010-01-17Ms. Liu Jinying was arrested in August 2000 and sentenced to 5 years because of her belief in Falun Gong. In prison she was tortured by various means, including forced administration of toxic drugs. The persecution methods included monitoring by inmates, solitary confinement, electric shock, her ankles being tied up tightly with nylon ropes, deprivation of sleep and use of toilet, being beaten and kicked, forced intake of toxic drugs, mental torment, and brutal force-feeding. -
Chen Zhizhong of Dezhou City, Shandong Province Sentenced to Forced Labour Again
2010-01-17In late October 2009, Mr. Chen Zhizhong from Dezhou City, Shandong Province was sentenced to forced labour again for practising Falun Gong. His family questioned policeman Zhang Xikun, "Why didn't you notify the family when you took him away?" Zhang replied, "There is no reason. I had to do it. Back in 2001, we sentenced him to three years of forced labour. This time we are not as tough and will sentence him to only one year." -
Elderly Lady, Previous Handicapped due to Abuse, Again Arrested and Tortured
2010-01-16On September 15th, 2009, the Heishan County Domestic Security Division dispatched the entire team to arrest Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jiang Hailan. They spent nearly three hours ransacking the home. Ms. Jiang started a hunger strike to protest the detention, but the guards ignored her. They sent her to the Jinzhou First Detention Centre. On the 11th day of her hunger strike, four guards at the detention centre pressed her down and inserted a thick tube through her nostrils to force-feed her. It was very painful for her. Ms. Jiang had been persecuted since November 2002 and had become handicapped as a result. -
Ph.D. Student Develops Mental Disorder after Serving Two Terms in Forced Labour Camp
2010-01-16Mr. Huang Hongqi, a quiet student in a Ph.D. programme, was twice sent to a forced labour camp, where he suffered five years of brutal mistreatment that caused him to have a mental breakdown. In December, 1999 police sentenced him to two and a half years of forced labour. He was held in the Dalian Correction Centre. The Dalian Institute of Technology stripped him of his Ph.D. candidacy. Mr. Huang refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong and was beaten, shocked, and subjected to the "tiger bench" torture. He suffered additional consequences because of the torture he endured in the camp--he lost hearing when his eardrum was ruptured and his nose was damaged during brutal force-feeding. -
Wuzhong District Court in Suzhou City Sentences Ms. Shi Jianping
2010-01-16Despite defence attorney Zhang Chuanli's convincing arguments, Wuzhong District Court officials in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province handed Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shi Jianping a four-year prison sentence on December 16th, 2009. Mr. Shen Jiandong was finally able to see his wife Ms. Shi Jianping, whom he hadn't seen for more than eight months. Her hair had turned grey, and her now thin face had a yellowish complexion.
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