Torture, Death Cases, Organ Harvesting
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Wu Zuqiang and His Son Wu Xianjin from Gaozhou, Guangdong Province Have Been Detained
2011-02-11
Police arrested Wu Zuqiang and his son Wu Xianjin (both practitioners) on the afternoon of October 25th, 2010. The police ransacked the practitioners' home and stole their personal property. They detained them at the Hexizhongdi “Law Education School,” where they were forced to attend brainwashing sessions. Relatives of Mr. Wu and his son went to Gaozhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and Gaozhou Police Station to request the unconditional release of the father and son and the return of their confiscated property, but the 610 Office and the police station just made excuses. Gaozhou Police Station did not even allow the relatives to enter the station. -
Thirty-nine-year-old Pharmacist Hu Dali Died as a Result of Torture and Abuse at Dujun City Fourth Prison, Guizhou Province
2011-02-10Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hu Dali was a pharmacist with the Xiuwen County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. While other pharmacists enjoyed fat kickbacks from drug vendors, he always turned down such opportunities. Even though many of his colleagues stole medicines for their family members and friends, he insisted on seeing prescriptions before dispensing any drugs. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to openly persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, the police first incarcerated Hu Dali in a forced labour camp from November 1999 to May 2002 and then sentenced him to ten years in prison in August 2003. He was tortured and abused in detention, and died in prison on January 19th, 2011, at the age of 39. -
Middle School Teacher Suffers Solitary Confinement and Electric Shock in Shiling Prison, Siping City
2011-02-10On December 5th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Xu Hongjun was sentenced to four and a half years in prison by the Tonghua County Court. Currently he is imprisoned in Shiling Prison, Siping City. Because Mr. Xu refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was beaten by police with a military electric baton. At the end of October 2010, Mr. Xu was twice subjected to solitary confinement in a small cell. His family and friends are very worried about his current situation. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Zhou Yuren Exposes Atrocities at Liaoyang's Huazi Prison
2011-02-10Practitioner Mr. Zhou Yuren was arrested in May 2003, for exposing the death by torture of his younger sister Zhou Yuling. Mr. Zhou was sentenced to six years imprisonment, where he experienced and witnessed the persecution of practitioners in Liaoyang's Huazi Prison. Mr. Zhou exposed the atrocities after he was released from prison. 59 Falun Gong practitioners were being held at the Huazi Prison when he was there, and six died due to torture. -
Han Weixin Persecuted for Seven Years
2011-02-10Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Han Weixin suffered persecution at the hands of the police several times. In 2002, Han Weixin and other practitioners showed people a DVD exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. They were stopped by the police. Five of the six practitioners were arrested and beaten. One of them was beaten so severely that his head was punctured from being beaten with a stick. Mr. Han was taken to the Xushui County Police Station, where officers interrogated and tortured him. They tied him to a bench, beat him with batons and shocked him with electric batons. They targeted his back and ankles, and used so much force that one of the batons actually broke on impact. That night, they also instigated criminal detainees to deprive Mr. Han of sleep. In October 2002. Mr. Han was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for exposing the persecution and sent to the Baoding No.1 Prison. -
An Overview of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Brainwashing Operations in 2010
2011-02-09According to incomplete statistics compiled by the Minghui website [Chinese version of the Falun Gong website Clearwisdom.net], over the past ten years the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has apportioned an enormous amount of money to local governments around the country to set up brainwashing facilities to “reform” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] Falun Gong practitioners. Tens of thousands of practitioners are still held in brainwashing centres. The year 2010 alone saw 2,038 practitioners arrested in 28 provinces, direct-controlled municipalities and autonomous regions. More than half of those arrested were sent to brainwashing centres. -
Older Ms. Du Yanrong’s Spine Fractured Due to Persecution in Gansu Women’s Forced Labour Camp
2011-02-09Practitioner Ms. Du Yanrong, 58, was arrested by police when she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong and distributing Falun Gong informational materials in June 2010. Ms. Du was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to Gansu Women’s Forced Labour Camp. In October, after exhaustive efforts, Ms. Du’s family members were allowed to visit her in the forced labour camp. They found that she had become thin and totally out of shape. Her hair was grey, she could not stand well, she trembled constantly, and was mentally confused. On January 18th, 2011, the forced labour camp authorities called her family members and asked them to come see her. When they arrived, Ms. Du was in bed with a fractured spine. -
Ms. Liu Sulan from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province Arrested and Facing Sentencing
2011-02-09On September 29th, 2010, Ms. Liu Sulan and Ms. Wang Min told a taxi driver about the goodness of Falun Gong and about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of it. They were reported and arrested by police and taken to Shenyang Detention Centre. Previously, Ms. Wang was sentenced to five years in prison in early 2002 and put into Dabei Prison in Shenyang. She was forced to do manual labour making clothes at the prison. She had to work for more than twelve hours each day, and sometimes until the next morning. When she refused to recite the prison regulations, the guards surrounded her with several inmates who recited the prison regulations to her. One time, she was caught reading a Falun Gong article. The guards shocked her with electric batons for a whole morning. -
A Mother in her Eighties Travelled Hundreds of Miles to See Her Son in Detention, But Was Denied Visitation
2011-02-09Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jingzhou was arrested on December 14th, 2010, and held in a detention centre. When his mother, Ms. Zhou Zulan, who is in her 80s, heard that her son had been arrested, she and several other relatives left their home on January 20th, to find him. They travelled on many buses, enduring bitter cold and snow, to get to the police station to enquire about her son. The police were very abusive towards them. Ms. Zhou and her relatives then travelled another 20 miles to the Dongxihu District Correctional Centre, the front office guard refused them entry, claiming he was off duty. -
Ms. Gao Jie from Liaoning Province in Critical Condition Due to Persecution
2011-02-08Ms. Gao Jie, a 42-year-old doctor from Dadianzi Town, Tieling County, Liaoning Province, is unconscious and in critical condition as a result of suffering long-term persecution for her belief in Falun Gong. She is undergoing emergency treatment in the Tieling City Hospital. Ms. Gao was reported to the police as she explained the facts about Falun Gong on November 13th, 2007. Officers from the Tieling City Domestic Security Division arrested her at the clinic where she worked. The police ransacked her residence and confiscated a computer and Falun Gong books and materials. Her husband, Mr. Dong Qinyu, also a practitioner, was arrested as well, and the couple was held in a detention centre. -
Mr. Man Shouzheng Became Ill and Died after Suffering Torture in Wangcun Forced Labour Camp
2011-02-08Mr. Man Shouzheng, 63, from Weifang City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp for practising Falun Gong. When he was released in March 2010, he could no longer talk because he had developed late-stage tongue cancer. He previously weighed 176 pounds, but after being severely persecuted in the labour camp he weighed less than 110 pounds. After nine months of torture and pain, Mr. Man passed away on December 3rd, 2010. -
Nationally-Acclaimed Engineer Framed and Detained in a Brainwashing Centre
2011-02-08Mr. Yang Jianzhong and his wife, Ms. Bai Qunfang, are practitioners in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. They have been persecuted again and again by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime for practising Falun Gong. Ms. Bai was forcibly taken to a Xinjin brainwashing centre on September 15th, 2010. Mr. Yang was arrested and detained in Xinjin Brainwashing Centre for 49 days. Mr. Yang was released on November 30th. For over a month after he was released, he was drowsy all day and suffered serious memory loss. -
Ms. He Zhiwei Severely Persecuted in Guangzhou Brainwashing Centre
2011-02-08Ms. He Zhiwei was arrested by agents from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) on the morning of April 9th, 2009. She was initially held at the Sanshui Brainwashing Centre and the Zhanjiang Brainwashing Centre but was transferred to the Guangzhou Brainwashing Centre in October 2009. She was tortured in both the Zhanjiang and Guangzhou brainwashing centres in authorities' attempts to force her to renounce Falun Gong. Ms. He was released on December 23rd, 2010. -
Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Huhehaote Women's Forced Labour Camp
2011-02-07Huhehaote Women's Forced Labour Camp began imprisoning and torturing Falun Gong practitioners in September 1999. The camp guards use several torture techniques on practitioners, including brainwashing, physical punishment, sleep deprivation, hanging up by handcuffs, force-feeding, and electric shock. The guards force practitioners to do slave labour from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. Some practitioners have been tortured until they lost their sanity; some died. In the summer of 2001, guard Zhang Siqin ordered inmate Zhang Lijuan to force-feed Ms. Qing Kejing from Baotou. The camp prisoners heard Ms. Qin scream every day at 1:00 p.m. She died in early 2003. -
Ms. Li Xiaoxia Sentenced to Forced Labour Twice, Her Family Torn Apart
2011-02-07Ms. Li Xiaoxia has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because she refuses to renounce her practice of Falun Gong. In October 2000, she was sentenced to three years of forced labour. In September 2006, she was again sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp. In her own words: "In the camp, I was forced to perform laborious work and tortured mentally and physically. I was cursed at, mocked, not allowed to use the toilet, and forced to sit on a chair for a long time. After three years, I was released."
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