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In Taihe County, Anhui Province. Falun Gong practitioners were illegally arrested and tortured at the detention center. The torture methods included being subjected to freezing temperatures for extended periods of time, being handcuffed, shackled and repeatedly poked with needles.
On February 25, 2008, twelve Falun Gong practitioners from Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province were illegally arrested. Some of them have been holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution. However, regardless of the situation, the police arrested a family member while she tried to visit her sister in jail.
Ms. Xia's family was not allowed to visit her from the time she was arrested on February 21, 2007, until she died in March 2008.
Ms. Xia's family was not allowed to visit her from the time she was arrested on February 21, 2007, until she died in March 2008.
In 2007, Zhang Yuxia's husband Guo Shenghuan, formerly a lecturer in the Mathematical Information Department at Shanghai Normal University, was sentenced to four years in prison.
For seven years Mr. Zhang has refused to renounce the practice of Falun Gong, despite punishments such as torture and solitary confinement. In February 2008, Mr. Zhang was put in solitary confinement again.
Wang Guiming died after less than three days in Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in February 2008. His family's insistence on an investigation resulted in their arrests.
42 year old Yu Zhou died just 11 days after his arrest on January 26, 2008. His wife, artist Xu Na, is in detention. Recently his parents have disappeared from their home. Apparently the authorities wish to prevent investigation of this crime.
Two practitioners are arrested and detained for exposing the ongoing illegal arrests and detentions of practitioners.
Ms. Gao Ke became disabled after suffering ten days' tortures in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, because he asked the camp head to quit the Chinese Communist Party.
An account of personal experience written by a Falun Gong practitioner who was imprisoned in the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province.
In March 2008, Westlake District Courts in Nanchang City held a kangaroo court trial against seven Falun Gong practitioners after they had been jailed for one year. The court staffs admitted that the sentence had been made by the upper level prior to the trial.
Clearwisdom.net and its Chinese-language sister-website (minghui.ca) provide first-hand reports about the horrors of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Dozens of reports are received every day from the victims of torture, the wrongfully imprisoned, and families crippled by the senseless hardship and grief for their loved ones imposed by the persecution. In contrast, the websites also report positive news and events from the more than 80 countries around the world where Falun Gong is practiced, and serve as an online forum for practitioners to share stories of the good things Falun Gong has brought to their lives. For more information, please contact editor@clearwisdom.net.
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