Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office
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Update: Mr. Wu Yang Sentenced To Seven Years in Prison
2011-07-16
Mr. Wu Yang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. He was arrested while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs in Beijing on April 22nd, 2009. Beijing police arrested his wife, Ms. Sun Ming, the same day and tortured her to death, then claimed that she died from jumping off a building. A court held trials of Mr. Wu on February 14th, 2010 and April 9th, 2010, and sentenced him to seven years in prison. The authorities withheld Mr. Wu's whereabouts from his family until May 2011. Mr. Wu is imprisoned at the Inner Mongolia 2nd Men's Prison. -
Mr. Liu Yong from Nanchang Sentenced to Seven Years in Ganjiang Prison
2011-07-16On June 9th, 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yong was arrested at home, then imprisoned at the Beidou Building in Xinjian County. Approximately eight officials took turns interrogating him, depriving him of sleep for five days and nights. They tortured him brutally, including striking his face with shoes, severe beatings to his nose and legs, and rubbing mint oil into his eyes. His vision was completely impaired and has only now recovered. On April 25th, 2011, the Qingshanhu District Court tried Mr. Liu and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment. -
Over 40 Practitioners Arrested by Dalian City Police Recently
2011-07-15Falun Gong practitioner Lao Gu was watched and followed for a long time by agents from the Guangming Police Station in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Agents also monitored practitioners who interacted with Lao Gu. Together with officials from the Dalian City Domestic Security Division and Ganjingzi District Police Station, they went to the home of a practitioner surnamed Shen and arrested 30 practitioners on the afternoon of June 25th. Then on the morning of June 29th, they arrested more than a dozen practitioners in Jinzhou District. -
Trial in the Hongshan District Court, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
2011-07-15On the morning of May 31st, the area surrounding the Hongshan District Court in Wuhan City was densely populated with plainclothes and uniformed police officers. Passersby were interrogated. It turned out that four Falun Gong practitioners were being tried in court that day. The four practitioners on trial were Mr. Peng Liang, Mr. Zhang Jingzhou, Mr. Liu Shehong, and Mr. Ouyang Haiwen. On May 27th, Peng Liang's sister engaged a lawyer to defend Peng Liang in court, but she was suddenly seized and taken away by police. -
Atrocities at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin
2011-07-14In 2001, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ma Bingjuan was detained at Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin. She both witnessed and experienced the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) shockingly brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Ma Bingyuan stated that at that time, 800 detained Falun Gong practitioners had scabies on their bodies as a result of the persecution conditions. Prison doctors would take off practitioners' clothes and use a dull knife to scrap the scabies sores. That tragic condition and the pain from it is hard to describe using words. -
Imprisoned for Seven Years in the Past, Yang Chanrong Now Sentenced to Six Years
2011-07-14Mr. Yang Chanrong was imprisoned for seven years before his release in 2007. On May 26th, 2010, several police officers broke into Mr. Yangs home. They took his computer, leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, Falun Gong books, and many other personal belongings. After arresting him, they took him to a brainwashing centre, where those in charge try to force people to give up their belief. They later transferred him to the Xilin Detention Centre, where he is still being detained. On June 23rd, 2011, Chinese Communist Party officials brought Mr. Yang to trial. Mr. Yang's attorney was driven out of the courtroom, since he was going to enter a “Not Guilty” plea in Mr. Yang's defence. The court refused to allow Mr. Yang to defend himself sentenced him to six years of imprisonment. -
Several Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Shenzhen; Mr. Liu Xiaoguang Still Missing
2011-07-14On June 21st, five Falun Gong practitioners from Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, were arrested by the Shenzhen 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). Mr. Liu Xiaoguang is still missing. These arrests were apparently planned some time ago. The authorities monitored the practitioners by listening in on their phone conversations and following them closely. In carrying out the operation, the police disturbed the practitioners' neighbours and had no regard for how their actions impacted their daily lives. Many residents complained that the 610 Office was evil and dreadful. -
First-Hand Account of Persecution Suffered by a Practitioner from Chengdu City
2011-07-13I have been arrested many times since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999. When I went to Beijing to appeal with a few practitioners in October 1999, I was arrested and detained for over three months. The police confiscated 3,700 yuan, which was all I had on me, and forced my family to pay over 8,000 yuan for officers from the local Domestic Security Division to go to Beijing to collect me. I have been held in the Jintang County Detention Centre five times, the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre twice, and sentenced to the Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp for one year. -
Exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Moving of a Brainwashing Centre in Pi County, Sichuan Province
2011-07-13The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Pi County in Sichuan Province have taken part in severely persecuting Falun Gong practitioners since July 20th, 1999. Originally, a brainwashing centre was established at the county detention centre where practitioners were routinely and severely persecuted. Sometimes up to ninety practitioners were detained in the facility. The CCP secretly had to relocate their brainwashing centre to an abandoned school in Bolin Village, Deyuan Town in 2008, in order to avoid national and international attention. -
Government Worker Ms. Zhou Ailin Arrested Nine Times for Practising Falun Gong
2011-07-12Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Ailin is currently being held in the Hubei Province “Law Education” Centre (a brainwashing facility). She was beaten by a guard, whose last name is Jiang, so badly that her face became disfigured. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Zhou Ailin was arrested and sent to brainwashing centres on seven occasions, and detained twice. She was dismissed from her government job. -
143 Practitioners from Tangshan City Arrested and Persecuted in Ten Months
2011-07-12Between August 2010 and June 2011, approximately 70 agents from the Tangshan City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Political and Judiciary Committee, Domestic Security Bureau, and Police Department arrested 143 Falun Gong practitioners and sent them to detention centres and/or forced labour camps. The officers also ransacked all of the practitioners' homes. Many other practitioners in the region have been put under surveillance and harassed by the authorities. -
Yushu City 610 Office Agents and Domestic Security Division Officers in Jilin Province Persecute Practitioners to Earn 100,000-Yuan Bonus
2011-07-11Yushu City 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and Domestic Security Division officers have persecuted Falun Gong practitioners since June to receive a huge bonus of 100,000 yuan. These agents colluded with officers from neighbourhood committees and some individual township governments to harass and arrest practitioners. Yushu City Domestic Security Division officers arrested practitioner Mr. Liu Fengbao on June 20th, and held him in the Yushu City Detention Centre. Mr. Liu is on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. -
The Persecution Suffered by Retired Teacher Ms. Tian Sufang Before She Died
2011-07-10Ms. Tian Sufang, a seventy-four-year old retired teacher, lived in Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia. She started practising Falun Gong in 1996 and after several months of practice, the illnesses she previously sought treatment for and that doctors could not cure, disappeared. After Falun Gong was suppressed by the Chinese Communist regime in July 1999, Ms. Tian was arrested and tortured countless times. Finally she was sentenced to five years in prison. She passed away on March 15th, 2011. -
Thirty Falun Gong Practitioners Recently Arrested in Dalian City
2011-07-10Thirty Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police at Mr. Shen’s home in Dalian City on June 25th, 2011. The police rushed into the house without showing any legal documents, and they were not wearing police uniforms. After taking pictures and videos, they forcibly dragged practitioners into the police vehicles. Some practitioners shouted “Falun Gong is good” to protest the unjust arrest. The police shoved two practitioners surnamed Shi and Feng down to the ground and stomped on their heads. Due to the abuse, Shi’s eyes were blackened and Feng’s chin was badly bruised. Practitioners were sent to detention centres. -
Ms. Cai Daofeng Repeatedly Detained and Beaten
2011-07-09Ms. Cai Daofeng has been repeatedly detained, beaten, and suffered other forms of torture because she refuses to give up practising Falun Gong. She was detained in Zizhong City Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2000. She recounts: "A guard, shocked my face, nose, and mouth with electric batons until my nose and mouth bled. The guard instigated two criminals to beat me every day and used all sorts of torture on me. They tied me up with a rope and burned my forehead, face, and jaw with cigarettes. I had scars all over me."
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