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Facts of the Persecution
1. Jilin Women's Prison refused to release a practitioner for cancer treatment
Ms. Cong Guixian of Jilin Province was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, without legal procedure, for practicing Falun Dafa. In 2001, Ms. Cong was arrested and detained in Jilin Woman's Prison, where she suffered long periods of physical and mental torture. During the day, the prison's reeducation unit put her through brainwashing sessions and kept her awake all night by constantly talking to her. As a result of this pressure and the long hours of sleep deprivation, Ms. Cong was totally worn down. On December 2, 2004, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which required urgent treatment. Her family requested her release so that she could get immediate medical treatment, but the prison refused to sign her out.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93570.html
2. Continual Torture at Heilongjiang Women's Prison
Ms. An Ling, of Xinmin Village, Xinxing Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested for practicing Falun Dafa. Early in the morning on November 5, 2001, Ms. An was dragged away from her home, severely beaten, and then sent to the Shuangcheng Detention Center, where she was secretly imprisoned for nine months. Later she was sent to Heilongjiang Women's Prison, where her abuse continued. She was forced to sit for hours on benches, shocked with electric batons, had needles stabbed into her fingers, and was force-fed. In July 2003, under the instructions of the guard, two inmates put tape over Ms. An's mouth and the mouths of several other Falun Dafa practitioners, tied them up with their arms behind their back, gave them a severe beating and then left them on the cold ground overnight. The following day they were made to run around in a courtyard and beaten with half-filled plastic bottles or shocked with electric batons as they ran past the guards. That night the practitioners were not allowed to sleep. In March 2004, criminal inmates stripped off the practitioners' clothes. With their arms twisted behind their backs, they were tied up for four hours. Many times when they were force-fed, the feeding tubes punctured their nostrils and even their stomachs.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93552.html
3. Abuse at Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp
In January 2002, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Fei Jinrong, age 55, a former employee of the Valuation Office in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested for the second time. Ms. Fei was sentenced to three years of forced labor reeducation at Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp, where she was put through severe mental and physical torture and ended up losing the ability to take care of herself. Ms. Fei was due for release in December 2004, but the camp extended her sentence for a further four months. On December 23, 2004, Ms. Fei and Ma Rujun, another practitioner from the camp, were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs for over two weeks for "disobedience." On the night of January 7, 2005, Ms. Fei was severely beaten for tearing down a poster of slanderous slogans against Falun Gong. The 55-year-old woman was handcuffed and then left on the cold ground for the rest of the night. At present, she is in a very poor physical condition and, her frail body is showing signs of abnormal blood pressure and heart problems. Her memory is also fading badly, and she often loses consciousness.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93553.html
4. Persecution of practitioners at Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province
In December 2002, Practitioner Wang Guiling was beaten for refusing to follow the unreasonable demands of the labor camp authorities. Practitioner Zhang Xuan tried to help and was also beaten. Camp instructor Li Songtao, deputy team leaders Zhang Chunfeng and Yang Tinglun, and the chief team leader Bai Jinlong have used some of the cruelest methods imaginable when torturing practitioners. Often the victim is forced to sit in a cross-legged posture, with the legs tightly bound with a white sheet for many hours. In January 2004, for refusing to sign a certificate renouncing the practice of Falun Dafa, Zhang Xudong was beaten every day for several days. The camp officers often directed other prisoners to carry out the beatings as well. Under the guard's instruction, an inmate named Guo Youmin, who was serving a sentence for robbery, punched Mr. Guo Jinshan nine times on the throat, after which Mr.Guo was unable to close his jaw. The one who suffered the most was Liu Wansheng. After having his legs tied up in an awkward position for hours, Mr. Liu was totally disabled afterwards. His family demanded to have him released, but the camp authorities sent him to Masanjia Labor Camp for further punishment instead. Another practitioner, Cao Zhongyang, suffered a mental collapse as a result of the abuse.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93537.html
5. Persecution of practitioners at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp
To punish the newly admitted practitioners who refused to cooperate with the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp management, a team specifically created to work on Falun Gong practitioners puts them under the supervision of a group of prisoners serving time for drug-related crimes. The practitioner is required to get permission from them for all daily activities, including eating, sleeping, and even using the restroom. Anyone who disobeys a command is punished, usually with a series of beatings or being forced to stand for long periods on one leg. The offender is deprived of the use of the bathroom and toilet facilities. In some unpleasant cases, she is force-fed with salt water. All hospital and medical expenses from injuries inflicted by the camp personnel are charged to the practitioner's account. An average of 17 hours of labor daily is normal. There are no rest days. Less than five hours of sleep are allowed each night. It is not unusual that a practitioner's term is extended even when she is due for release.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93573.html
6. Ms. Wei Guohua persecuted to death
On July 23, 1999, officers from the Baiguolin Police Station arrested Ms. Wei Guohua, a teacher from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. After ransacking and confiscating property from her home, the police took her away and locked her up. The next day, Ms. Wei was transferred and detained at the Branch Police Station at Jinniu, Xianjiacun, where Zhou, a 50-year-old officer, interrogated her. After her release, Ms. Wei returned to school, but she was still constantly harassed and was forced to attend brainwashing classes. In addition, her school did not support her, subjecting her to further stress. In May 2001, Ms. Wei fell sick and in September she was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Ms. Wei Guohua died in Chengdu Hospital on November 7, 2001. Before she died, Ms. Wei indicated that she would not give up her belief in Falun Dafa.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93540.html
7. Persecution of Beijing practitioner Ms. Du Juan
Ms. Du Juan, a 50-year-old practitioner from Beijing, was sentenced to one year of forced labor education in 2001 for distributing materials exposing the facts of the persecution. In March 2004, she was arrested again in the Haidian District of Beijing and sent to the Haidian Detention Center. She refused to give in and protested by staging a hunger strike. The detention center put Ms. Du through all sorts of punishments, and she was on the verge of dying before they finally released her. News has just come through that her case will be put on trial at the local Haidian Court.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93536.html
8. Li Dongmei arrested while picking up her child from school
At about 5 p.m. on January 5, 2005, officers from the Shilidian Police Station in the Anning District of Lanzhou City arrested practitioner Ms. Li Dongmei of the CCP School in Gansu Province, while she was picking up her child from school. Ms. Li was immediately sent to the brainwashing class held at Gongjiawan. In 2001, she had been sent to brainwashing classes several times despite her hunger strike protests and efforts in clarifying the truth. This time, she was later sent to the Yuzhong Forced Labor Camp. PractitionerYu Guiping has been missing since her Beijing appeal. Over the last five years, eight practitioners from the CCP School have been imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93538.html
9. Zhang Weiqin died as a result of persecution
Ms. Zhang Weiqin, 69 years old, was a CCP secretary with the Experimental Kindergarten in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province. She took up Falun Dafa in 1996 and went to Beijing to appeal twice in November 2000. Ms. Zhang was later reported for distributing Dafa materials and was detained twice. In both instances, she was tortured to the verge of death. After her release, Zhang Weiqin was still being harassed, which caused her severe physical and mental damage. In May 2004, she accidentally fell into water and died.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93574.html
10. The persecution of Mr. Zhang Shanming and his family from Zhucheng City, Shandong Province
Practitioner Mr. Zhang Shanming, age 56, a farmer, and his wife Wang Zhaoshuang both benefited from practicing Falun Dafa. In early February 2002, police officers arrested Zhang Shanming and Wang Zhaoshuang for appealing in Beijing against the injustice done to Falun Dafa. They were detained without following any legal procedures at the Weifang Office. The next day they were secretly transferred to the police station, where Officer Cao applied an electric baton to Mr. Zhang's face, neck and mouth. They also beat Zhang Shanming and his wife with rubber batons and detained them for a month. In the summer of 2000, the couple was deceived into going to the Executive Village Office, where they were held for eight days. On December 8, 2000, they went with their daughter-in-law and seven-month-old grandson to appeal again in Beijing, and they were all arrested. After four days of a hunger strike protest, they were released. Criminal charges were brought against Mr. Zhang, who was then detained for over a month. In the summer of 2001 Zhang Shanming and his son were detained for five days in Qingdao. On March 3, 2003, police officers came to his house. They ransacked his home, confiscated his property, and illegally detained Mr. Zhang for a month, during which time he was tortured severely.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93551.html
11. Persecution of practitioners in Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province
During the last five years of relentless persecution, the Taihe County Police Department and the 610 Office of Fuyang City have conducted brainwashing classes for over a thousand practitioners, hundreds of whom had been detained and dozens sent to forced labor camps. On the evening of December 28, 2004, practitioner Mr. Wang Qinli was arrested by Changchunzhuang police and sent to the Taihe County Detention Center. After a series of tortures, he was handcuffed and left in the detention center, exposed to the chill of winter. Recently, Mr. Wang was sent to the Fuyang City Detention Center. On June 19, 2004, practitioner Ji Bangxia was arrested for distributing materials exposing the facts of the persecution and was sentenced to one year of forced labor. His son has been forced to live away from home to avoid arrest.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/15/93532.html
12. Ms. Chen Facui Sent to Shayang Forced Labor Camp, Hubei Province
On April 18, 2004, 41-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Facui, a nurse from Yiling District Hospital in Yichang City, Hubei Province, was illegally arrested at home and later sentenced to one year of forced labor education. She is now serving her sentence at the Shayang Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province. Ms. Chen is a widow. She has a two-year-old son and two elderly parents-in-laws, who are unable to take care of themselves. Ms. Chen's mother-in-law is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. During a brainwashing class, Gong Binghua and Hu Qinghua from the 610 Office beat her brutally, and she is now disabled, having to rely completely on others for her basis needs.
Category: Accounts of Persecution
