Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • Ms. Zhao Baoli Is Innocent but the Court Refuses to Release Her Fearing Reprisal from 610 Office

    Shuangqiao District Procuratorate in Chengde City, Hebei Province pressed charges against Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Baoli for producing Falun Gong DVDs and information materials. The court tried her three times, but failed to convict her. However, intimidated by the Chengde City 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), the court is afraid to release her.
  • Ms. Qiu Yuxia Shackled to Ground Rings and Tortured During Incarceration

    Ms. Qiu Yuxia was arrested on July 2nd, 2008 and incarcerated for three years. During the incarceration, she was forced to do hard labour, was shackled to ground rings and handcuffed to a bed for two weeks. She recounts: "Deputy director Yu led several guards and shackled me to ground rings with all four limbs stretched out. They then forcibly gave me injections and force fed me with drugs, despite my resistance. My blood pressure was getting higher and I was in a critical condition." Ms. Qiu was released on July 1st, 2011.
  • Two Sisters Sentenced to Chatou Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Xiaoling and Ms. Zhang Yueqi were arrested by police on August 3rd, 2011. The older sister, Zhang Xiaoling, was sentenced to two years in Chatou Forced Labour Camp and the younger sister, Zhang Yueqi, was sentenced to one year in the same camp. Zhang Yueqi is only 16 years old. Their mother has not been allowed to visit them.
  • Jing County Teacher Mr. Liu Jinqiang and his Wife Arrested--Their Home Ransacked by Police

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Jinqiang drove a three-wheeled motorcycle with his wife, Ms. Wang Jing, and their friend, Ms. Zhao Jinrui, into Dezhou City to go shopping on September 20th. When they were on their way home after shopping, they were followed and stopped by four police vehicles. Many plainclothes police officers got out of the four vehicles and forcibly took Mr. Liu Jinqiang, Ms. Wang Jing, and Ms. Zhao Jinrui to their vehicles. A villager who witnessed the incident said, “Mr. Liu Jinqiang ran a few steps but he was caught and then handcuffed by the police. The police also pulled Ms. Wang Jing by the head and dragged her into a vehicle.” Ms. Wang is detained in the Dezhou Detention Centre. The police also confiscated what they had just purchased in Dezhou City, which cost over ten thousand yuan.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yu Zhenjie, 54, from Inner Mongolia Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Zhenjie was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) numerous times. As a result, she died on September 7th. Ms. Yu refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was arrested and sentenced twice and spent a total of seven years in the Zhalantun Detention Centre and Hohhot Woman's Prison. In prison she was brutally tortured until she was in critical condition and diagnosed with cervical cancer and Hepatitis C. In order to free themselves from responsibility, the prison authorities released her to seek medical care. After she was released, the police from National Security Team from Zhalantun still harassed her at home, and her condition worsened. She passed away in great mental and physical agony.
  • Court Fails to Inform the Family of Mr. Li Huosheng of His Trial

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Huosheng, 53 was arrested on April 20th, 2011. More than 30 people broke into Mr. Li's home, searched it everywhere and took a computer, a printer, and all his Falun Gong books. Mr. Li was covertly tried on September 27th. Court officials didn't inform his family, so they could not attend the court proceedings.
  • Beijing's Haidian Court Sentences Ms. Wang Fuling Without Notifying Her Family

    On June 25th, 2010, while practitioner Ms. Wang Fuling was posting signs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Shuguang residential area in Haidian district, she was spotted by Hu Xuejun, a policeman from the Shuguang Police Station. Hu called the security of the residential district. Together they arrested Ms. Wang and took her to the Wanshousi Police Station. Later, Ms. Wang was detained in the Haidian Detention Centre. One month later, she was transferred to the Beijing Detention Centre. The next month, she was transferred back to the Haidian Detention Centre. During this period of time, her family was never allowed to visit her.
  • Fuzhou Domestic Security Division Agents Arrest Many Falun Gong Practitioners

    On September 16th, 2009, police officers arrested retired teachers Falun Gong practitioners Fan Kejuan and Wang Xiuqin, who were in their seventies, and ransacked their homes. They not only took Fan Kejuan's computer and printer, but also her husbands computer which he used to conduct scientific research. They were held in Fuzhou No. 2 Detention Centre, and Fan Kejuan was sentenced to three years and held in Fujian Women's Prison. Wang Xiuqin was held for one year before sentencing her to three years in prison with five years' of probation. After she returned home in September 2010, she was frequently harassed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs.
  • Firsthand Account: Ms. Li Qiongying, in Her Sixties, Sentenced after Refusing to Bear False Witness Against Another Practitioner

    When Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Qiongying was arrested, police asked Ms. Li to acknowledge getting Falun Gong fliers from a deceased practitioner's home. They said, “Cooperate with this, and we will immediately take you home in a police car.” I clearly told them, “My conscience won't allow it. I'd rather die.” Zeng punched me in the face, and I fell to the ground. She was subsequently tortured by the director of the First Division of Xianyou County Police Department, Zeng Jinxiong, and sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
  • Former Deputy Secretary of Laishui County, Hebei Province Arrested Again

    Several police officers knocked on the door of Falun Gong practitioner Liu Jinying's home at 9:00 p.m. on October 8th, pretending that they were there to inspect the water meter. They questioned Liu Jinying about where she had been, while making a record of what she said, and then took her away. Her whereabouts are currently unknown. Liu Jinying was previously sentenced to serve a five year jail term by a Laishui County Court because she practised Falun Gong. She refused to write a guarantee statement renouncing the practice, and she was brutally tortured in prison to the point of mental disorder.
  • Ms. Liu Wei Sentenced to Prison for Talking to People about Falun Gong

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Wei was arrested by police on September 17th, and sentenced to four years and six months in prison. She is currently detained at the Changchun Women's Prison. At around midnight on July 24th, 2009, Ms. Liu was arrested the first time for talking to some people in Ji'an to raise their awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution. The Toudaogou Police arrested her and sent her to the Ji'an Detention Centre, where Ms. Liu was tortured to the point that she contracted a serious blood disease. She was later released due to her illness.
  • School teacher and Former Principal Ms. Yang Guizhi Tried in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia

    Ms. Yang Guizhi is an award-winning teacher in Inner Mongolia. On September 22nd, 2011, she was put on trial and framed by the Yuanbaoshan District Court. On May 12th, 2011, four Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Yang Guizhi went to the police station requesting the unconditional release of fellow practitioner Ms. Ren Suying. Policeman Liu Caijun not only turned a deaf ear to the practitioners’ request and kind persuasion, but also detained them.
  • Ms. Guo Yunlan Framed by Public Security Agents in Donggang City, Liaoning Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Yunlan was handed a written notice from Danggang City Court on September 20th, informing her that she would be tried after October 1st. The Donggang Domestic Security Division, Changshan Town Police Station, and Donggang Procuratorate plotted together to charge her. Ms. Guo was forced to sign and put her fingerprint on a blank sheet of paper; the paper was used to forge evidence against her. In September 2010, police searched Ms. Guo's home and found Falun Gong books and materials and arrested her. Ms. Guo suffered a massive hemorrhaege last November due to the abuse she suffered while she was detained in Dandong Detention Centre. She was allowed to be bailed out and await trial at home.
  • Ms. Jia Yanfeng, Mr. Zheng Jingjiang and Mr. Zhan Xingchao Arrested in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province

    Mr. Zheng Jingjiang was arrested and detained in Sidao Forced Labour Camp in Mudanjiang at the end of 2002. Guard Wang Xuewen instructed inmates to crush his fingers with a pair of pliers. He was also beaten and his ribs were fractured. Despite his condition, guards still forced him to do hard labour. After Mr. Zheng was released from the labour camp, officers from the railway police went to harass him at his home and at his wife's workplace many times. Police arrested him again and took him to Yichun Brainwashing Centre on September 6th.
  • Ms. Zhao Jinrui from Qingyun, Shandong Province, Detained in Dezhou Detention Centre

    On September 20th, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Jinrui accompanied her friend Liu Jinqiang and his wife to Dezhou City to go shopping. On the way home they were stopped by four vehicles from the Domestic Security Division of Decheng District Police Department in Dezhou City that had been following them. A group of plainclothes police forced Ms. Zhao, Mr. Liu, and Ms. Wang to get into their car and detained them in the Dezhou Detention Centre.