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Masanjia Forced Labor Camp escalated the persecution. Guards tortured Falun Gong practitioners with electric batons, placed them on the "Stretching Bed," forced them to stand in the hot sun for long periods of time, slapped their faces, and beat them.
Ms. Cao Junfeng was arrested on July 9. The police searched her home again after her daughter requested to visit her in jail.
A special instrument of torture is made of steel bars and metal plumbs. When a victim is shackled to the instrument, his or her arms are stretched out like a cross. The person's hands are shackled separately and the legs are shackled together. Once affixed, the victim is tortured and force-fed, sometimes for as long as a few consecutive days and nights.
On the morning of August 8, about 50 policemen surrounded Ma Kaihua's house. They violently beat Mr. Ma Kaihua. Mr. Ma lost conciousness from the beating and was diagnosed with hematoma and head bone fracture.
The Huhhot Women's Narcotic Rehabilitation Center is used as cover to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. This article notes some of the methods used by guards and drug addict inmates to brainwash practitioners.
Mr. Liu suffers police abuse and his family can get no official investigation or explanation of his case.
Ms. Gao has been detained for about a year and is in critical condition from gross abuse. Her family was called with news she was critically ill, then told she was recovering. When the family was allowed to see her, she spoke of being tortured and showed obvious signs of torture. After this she was refused release for medical treatment and her family was not allowed to see her again.
After being arrested on July 9, 2008, Ms. Kong Xi has suffered over two months of torture and is on the verge of death. Several of her family members have also been detained.
Since her arrest on May 1, 2008, Ms. Wang Haiqing's condition has deteriorated, and she is in critical condition, but the police still refuse to release her.
Professor Xu Yin of Tsinghua University in Beijing makes a statement in which he explains why he practices Falun Gong and his plight of being incarcerated for two years for practicing Falun Gong. Professor Xu Yin also announces in the statement his intention to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its two affiliated student leagues.
Because of practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Chen Xiuling is imprisoned at Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp to serve one year and half year term. It is her third time in a forced labor camp. Her daughter Miss Chen Ying was the first victim to die from the persecution in Jiamusi City in 1999.
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.