After donating 500 yuan to Sichuan earthquake relief efforts, Mr. Yin Zemin was illegally arrested by the police, because the local CCP authorities declared that Falun Gong practitioners did not have money, therefore, someone with the resources must be a "Falun Gong coordinator." On July 1, Mr. Yin Zemin was taken to Baoding Forced Labor Camp.
On July 20, eleven Falun Gong practitioners from Sanjiazi and Tianshenghao villages in Lingyuan City, Liaoning province were arrested for distributing truth telling fliers. They were tortured in the police station and then sent to a detention center.
Mr. Chen Yunchuan, 70, is a practitioner from Canfangying Village, Beixindian Township, Huailai County, Hebei Province. All six members of his family are practitioners, and four of them have died as a result of the persecution. Recently, Mr. Chen was arrested again at his home.
Between June and mid-July 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Wanquan County arrested 19 Falun Gong practitioners. The police confiscated personal items and Falun Gong books from practitioners' homes.
A summary of recent arrests of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and specifically Beijing, along with several cases resulting in the death of the practitioner.
Another arbitrary arrest of a practitioner without regarded for family circumstances.
Mr. Yue Zhongsheng, an associate professor at the Civil Aviation University of China, has suffered brutal torture many times for practicing Falun Gong. Because co-workers suspected him of having distributed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party on the campus, they reported him to the police and he was arrested and sentenced to forced labor. He was tortured at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin City. Eight of his ribs were broken after brutal beatings. Moreover, his superiors at the University fired him.
Mr. Tan died in February, 2008, two days after being released from serving four years of a five year prison term.
This 61 year old was detained for talking about the persecution of Falun Gong in a public park. Her family observed obvious signs of torture and drug overdose, before she was sent to a mental hospital.
This extensive article features transcripts of telephone conversations with Chinese doctors by WOIPFG agents who ask about the availability of 'fresh' organs especially from healthy Falun Gong practitioners. The answers are quite revealing.
In Shandong province, home to the 2008 Olympics sailing competition, two Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death before the Games. Mr. Zhong Zhenfu from Pingdu city died July 20, and Ms. Liu Xiumei of Zhucheng city died July 27, less than two weeks before the opening ceremony, according to reports received by the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Mr. Zhang Xingwu, a 67-year-old retired physics professor at Jinan Normal University, and his wife, Ms. Pinjie Liu were arrested from their home on July 16, 2008.
Before the Olympics Games stated, CCP authorities in Daqing City instructed to sentence Falun Gong practitioners with the maximum term allowable.
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