Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office
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Six Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested While Distributing Poems
2011-02-22
Six Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police on January 2nd, while distributing couplets (a certain type of poem often displayed on the outer doors of homes in China at the time of the New Year) in the Dumuhe Forest area. The couplets had wording praising Falun Gong. The practitioners were taken to the police station, searched and stripped down to their underwear. They were held at the detention centre of the Dongfanghong Forestry Public Security Bureau. Shi Chunbao, the deputy chief of State Security Brigade of the Forestry Public Security Bureau, beat Ms. Wu Yunlian's head and face brutally with a plastic bottle filled with water while cursing at her. -
Mr. Fu Tianxiang and Other Falun Gong Practitioners Still Held in Detention in Geermu City, Qinghai Province
2011-02-22Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Fu Tianxiang, Ms. He Jingyu, and Ms. Zuo Aifeng were arrested on separate occasions in 2009 because they distributed information about Falun Gong. They have been held in the Geermu Detention Centre the entire time. During the detention, local court officials tried them several times, and the police denied their families' visitation rights until the 2010 Chinese New Year when their families were finally allowed to visit them once. -
The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Yunfei from Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province
2011-02-21In 2000, because of practising Falun Gong, Mr. Wang Yunfei was sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp. In 2001, he was sentenced to five years in prison. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police officers and agents from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) brutally persecuted him both mentally and physically. His family members and relatives have also been subject to harassment and mental torture. -
Wang Quanliang of Tonghua City, Jilin Province Arrested - Wife Calls for Release
2011-02-20On October 22nd, 2010, my husband Wang Quanliang, who practises Falun Gong, was doing some construction work at home, when a dozen police officers barged into my backyard without showing any identification, or explaining their intrusion. They started beating my husband, and he shouted for help. One policeman said, "Find something to cover his mouth so the neighbours don't hear him.” I was cooking in the kitchen, and when I heard his cries, I rushed out. The moment I reached the door, four police threw me onto the sofa. One of them said that if I tried to get up again, they would beat me. My husband was carried away by four or five men to a car. He was taken to the Guangming Police Station, where his was stripped naked, tied onto a cold metal chair, and locked up for an entire night. -
Mr. Hong Baojia of Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province Endures Years of Persecution
2011-02-20On June 27th, 2003, I was taken to the fifth team of the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. The leader was named Zhao Shuang. He said he had 28 methods by which he tortured Falun Gong practitioners. I was beaten and shocked with an electric baton, handcuffed to an iron chair and had water poured over my head, and then shocked again with an electric baton. My arms were pulled back and lifted up to move my joints. I also suffered sexual torture. All of this persecution was due only to my cultivation in Falun Gong. -
Ms. Jia Xinghua's Account of Persecution in Qianjin Forced Labour Camp
2011-02-20Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Jia Xinghua was arrested and sent to Qianjin Forced Labour Camp in Harbin for more than two years. She recounts: "In early 2008, Zhang Bo, head of the No. 1 Division, increased the work quota for each inmate. As the work couldn't be finished in the workshop by 9:00 p.m., we had to take it back to the cell to continue, which exhausted all of us. When we returned to our cells from the workshop on the evening of April 29th, 2008, I could hardly breathe. I opened the window, which was beside my bed, and tried to let in some air. Zhang Bo saw it, and ordered me to close the window, even when I told her that I had difficulty breathing. She viciously said, “Go ahead and suffocate. If you die, I don’t care.” " -
Attorney Calls for Justice for Mr. Ruan Fanghua
2011-02-19Mr. Ruan Fanghua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changsha City, Hunan Province was tried by the Yuelu District Court on January 24th, 2011. Mr. Jin Guanghong, an attorney from Beijing, represented him and entered a plea of not guilty. The attorney pointed out that there was no evidence against Mr. Ruan and the charge had no legal basis. The attorney called upon the judge to follow his conscience and release Mr. Ruan as a free, innocent man. Mr. Ruan was arrested on August 2nd, 2010 and subjected to both physical and mental torture in custody. -
Mr. Tang Haian of Wuhan City Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
2011-02-19Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tang Haian of Wuhan, Hubei Province was sentenced on January 10th. The Wuchang District Court notified his family just one hour before his trial. There was no defence lawyer or audience present at the court. The court was adjourned after several questions were asked of Mr. Tang. On January 13th, the court notified the family that Mr. Tang had been sentenced to five years in prison, and they could visit him before 9:00 a.m. on January 24th. The court told them that before they could visit Mr. Tang, they must get a visitor's permit document from the court at 8:00 a.m. of the same morning. Mr. Tang's wife was shocked by the news. -
The Persecution of Ms. Zheng Yafeng from Changling County, Jilin Province
2011-02-19Ms. Zheng Yafeng, 37, is a middle school teacher.. She has been sentenced to labour camps three times in the last ten years because she practises Falun Gong. In July 2002, Ms. Zheng Yafeng was sentenced to one year in a labour camp because she posted banners exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. From 2001 to 2002, her school withheld her salary, totaling twenty thousand yuan. On November 8th, 2010, Ms. Zheng was arrested and taken to the Songyuan brainwashing centre. -
Song Huilan, a Farmer from Heilongjiang Province, Arrested and Persecuted Again
2011-02-18Police locked up Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song Huilan in Huachuan County Detention Centre on December 13th, 2010. She protested by going on a hunger strike, and she eventually became very weak. Guards tied her to a bed and stretched her limbs out in different directions. She was immobilized, and then force-fed. Every day they inserted a thick tube down her throat twice. Each time they poured food down her throat three times. The pain in her stomach was unbearable, and she spat up blood and lost two teeth. Once while savagely force-feeding her, they punched her in the head. -
Practitioner from Yunnan Province Recounts Persecution
2011-02-18Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xue Huili was detained in a forced labour camp by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lost her job. She recounts: "At the camp, guards forced me to write statements to renounce practising Falun Gong and demanded that I give up practising Falun Gong. They also told me that I needed to write to the agency where I worked, to let them know that I had given up the practice, and that I wanted to keep my job. I did not give into their demands. I spoke to the leader of my agency about keeping my job, but to no avail. My husband couldn't cope with the pressure, so he divorced me." -
The Persecution Suffered by Wuhan Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Wei
2011-02-17Zhang Wei is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuhan City. Since the Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, Mr. Zhang has been repeatedly detained and interrogated. His home was ransacked, he was detained at a brainwashing centre, and he was even sentenced to forced labour. -
Two Family Members Persecuted to Death, Mr. Peng Liang Once Again Arrested
2011-02-16On January 27th, the Public Security Bureau arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Peng Liang and sent him to the detention centre. During the more than 11 years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), two of Mr. Peng's five family members have been persecuted to death, and his father was recently persecuted while at a brainwashing centre, until he became mentally unstable. Mr. Peng's sister, Ms. Peng Yan had also been jailed for three years for practising Falun Gong. -
Further Information about the Staged Tiananmen Square Self-immolation Incident
2011-02-15Ten years ago in January 2001, I was wanted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because I practise Falun Gong. In order to avoid the persecution I left my hometown and went to Beijing. Several of my relatives and friends were officials in the CCP’s Political and Judiciary Committee and public security system. Therefore, my family often received inside information from them. During our phone conversation that day, my family anxiously and repeatedly warned me, “Do not go to Tiananmen Square on Chinese New Year's Day. A relative who works as an official in the public security system said that Falun Gong practitioners would ‘set themselves on fire’ and that the government knows about the plan in advance and would wait in Tiananmen Square." -
Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Liu Hui Viciously Beaten by Hulan Prison Guards
2011-02-14There are forty to fifty Falun Gong practitioners detained in Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province. They have suffered varying degrees of persecution. On November 25th, 2010, practitioner Liu Hui from Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province was viciously beaten by prison detective section head Li You and other policemen and was confined to a small cell for one month. He recounts: "Ever since I was detained here, especially during the last one and a half years, I have witnessed Falun Gong practitioners being beaten and tortured by prison guards and inmates."
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