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Clearwisdom Weekly Persecution News - September 1 ~ September 7, 2008

September 17, 2008 |  

Sep. 1

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ding Xuesen was arrested on June 23, 2008. On July 28, 2008, he was transferred to Suihua Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province for a one year prison term.

Sep. 2

The Center District Court of Jining City, Shandong Province unjustly sentenced three Falun Gong practitioners to prison. Mr. Zhou Ning was sentenced to five years, and Ms. Yue Lihua and Mr. Li Ruifeng to three years each. The court neither announced the sentences nor informed the families.

From last December to August 2008, at least 48 Falun Gong practitioners in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, were arrested by the CCP regime under the guise of "protecting" the Olympic games.

Sep. 3

A description by a former inmate of torture methods used at the Shandong Labor Camp from around 2001 to the present, with brief stories of some of the people who have been affected.

Sep. 4

After Cheng Siying gave some materials about the persecution of Falun Gong to her elementary school teacher, the teacher reported her to the police. She was immeditely arrested and placed in a small cage. Her parents were arrested and have disappered and she has been expelled from school.

An elderly retired teacher is arrested by 10 policemen who ransack her apartment.

Sep. 5

After a documented history of being imprisoned and tortured in the past, Mr Zheng was arrested again in 2006 and held without visitors including his family. In August 2008 his family was called to the prison hospital where they saw Mr Zheng's dead body. Mr Zheng was 45. His family members were kept 'off limits' to public contact until after his body was cremated.

Satillite photos bring to life the number, size, and appearance of detention facilities in Beijing area.

Sep. 6

After 28 days of brainwashing in the year 2000, Ms. Liang Xiulan gave up the practice Falun Gong. By 2005 she had resumed the practice and Communist authorities resumed her persecution. In 2008 she was arrested and not released until near death.

A list of arrested Falun Gong practitioners, many given long sentences, from just one Chinese city..


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