(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Su Cangxin, 55, lived in Dafeng Village, Weibo Township, Xinji City, Hebei Province. She began cultivating Falun Dafa at the end of 1997, actively spreading the practice in several dozen nearby villages and establishing a group Fa-study and exercise site in her home. Many people in the village benefited from the practice, especially her husband: all of his diseases disappeared.
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(Clearwisdom.net) On May 12, 2008, at noon, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Shurong announced on the Yongchuan Prison drill ground that the "four statements" (similar to the three statements) he had been forced to write were written against his will and were no longer valid. Mr. Liu is a retired teacher from Dazu County, Chongqing City. He is over 60 years old. He cried out, "Falun Dafa is good, "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good, Happy Birthday, Teacher!" and other statements. The guards tortured him and forced him to attend brainwashing sessions. They made him maintain a sitting position until May 19, 2008. Mr. Liu went on a hunger strike to resist this treatment. He was taken to the prison hospital, where the torture continued.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Shang Yongfa is a farmer in Sangyuan Village, Fengzhou Town, Feng County, Shanxi Province. On January 11, 2009, his family went to Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp to visit him. They noticed a big swollen bloody lump on the back of his head. There were wounds on his forehead, and the back of his right hand was frostbitten. When a family member asked him what happened, Shang Yongfa merely cried and did not reply.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Jiang Xiqing, 66, is a retired employee of the Jiangjin City Property Tax Department under the jurisdiction of the Chongqing Municipality. He lived in Room 301 in the Jizi Building of the Jiangjin City Property Tax Department. On May 13, 2008, the day after the major earthquake in Sichuan Province, Mr. Jiang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was taken from his home by Communist Party officials. His wife Ms. Luo Zehui also went missing on the same day in Youxi Township, Jiangjin City. After repeated inquiries, their family found out that Ms. Luo was also taken into custody and had been placed under arrest on the approval of the Jiangjin District Procuratorate. The family went to a detention center several times and learned that Mr. Jiang had been sentenced to one year of forced labor, but there was no word about his wife, Ms. Luo. On December 2, 2008, the family visited the detention center again and learned that Ms. Luo had been sentenced to eight years in prison. They have not received the sentencing document, nor have they seen Ms. Luo.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Today's News from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 22 cities or counties in 14 provinces. In this report, 25 practitioners were subjected to mistreatment during their detention and at least 18 practitioners were illegally arrested.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Guards in the Sixth Ward of Wangling Prison in You County, Hunan Province, used torture in attempts to "transform" imprisoned practitioners. The following are details about practitioners Mr. Yuan Rong and Mr. Chen Kaiming.On September 27, 2008, at around 10:00 a.m., Mr. Yuan Rong, to protest how he was being abused, refused to squat (forced squatting for extended periods is a common torture). Zhou Weihe, political instructor from the Sixth Ward, fiercely kicked Mr. Yuan in the legs and the abdomen while others watched. Afterward, Zhou ordered four guards to hold Mr. Yuan down on the ground and handcuff him to a tree. An hour later they released him and then handcuffed him in an office.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, practitioner Mr. Lai Xiaoyun and his family have had to endure constant torment by CCP agents. The police continually harass the family in many ways, and even took Mr. Lai's computer from his home.Mr. Lai's mother had cancer and there was no treatment that could help her, so doctors gave her one year to live. In 1997, she began studying Falun Gong. Not long after, she made a full recovery. Nevertheless, CCP officers forced her to write a guarantee statement, promising not to practice Falun Gong. They told her that if she refused to sign the statement her pension would be withheld, etc. She was so frightened that she quit practicing and the cancer returned. Ultimately, she passed away as a result of the persecution in 2001.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Li Wenbo, 43, lived in Gucheng Village, Kunyang Town, Jinning County, in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. In February 2005, he was detained for promoting Falun Gong and exposing the persecution. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor and taken to theYunnan Province Second Forced Labor Camp on February 6, 2005. He suffered severely from the abuse inflicted upon him by the guards and inmates. As a result, he lost his eyesight, six of his front teeth were knocked out, and his left leg had at nine-inch-long scar.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Jin Youfeng was a physical education teacher. He worked in the Phys. Ed. Department of Mudanjiang City Normal College in Heilongjiang Province. After he went to appeal for Falun Dafa in September 1999, he was fired and then sentenced to three years of forced labor, which he served in the Mudanjiang City Forced Labor Camp. His wife, Ms. Jiang Chunmei, is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. She is a lecturer in the Foreign Language Department of the same college. She was arrested and detained many times. On October 22, 2003, they were both arrested, despite the fact that she was still breastfeeding. Mr. Jin's 75-year-old mother and their two children, one 10 years old and the younger less than 15 months, were left on their own. On the evening of November 26, 2003, the couple was taken to be detained in the Mudanjiang City Second Detention Center. The children were picked up by their relatives.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Today's News from China includes persecution incidents that took place in 21 cities or counties in 11 provinces. In this report, 42 practitioners were subjected to brutal mistreatment during detention, and at least 10 practitioners were illegally arrested.
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