On July 4th, 2009 at around noon, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Feng Gang, his wife Ms. Wang Juan, and twelve others were arrested at the home of practitioner Ms. Shi Guixiang. They were detained at the Dalian Detention Centre. Police officer Li Hongqiao interrogated Mr. Feng repeatedly during his detention. On August 10th, Mr. Feng was in a life-threatening condition. According to the hospital examination, Mr. Feng's gallbladder was swollen to the size of two fists. He could not eat or drink in case the gallbladder might explode. On August 12th, Mr. Feng's family members learned that he was home, so they went to visit him the next day. When they knocked on the door nobody answered. Mr. Feng had disappeared again. On September 16th, Mr. Feng's family reported him missing to the Fuguo Street Police Station. Officers told them Mr. Feng had died on August 14th.

Because Ms. Li Yufen refuses to give up her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," she has been persecuted by the members of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and police in Zuoqi. As a result of the persecution, her family has been torn apart. On April 6th, 2006, police waited at the door of Li Yufen's home and arrested her. Without giving any reason, they took her directly to the detention centre. They trumped up some charges and sentenced her to two years in a labour camp. In the labour camp, Li Yufen was detained in isolation with many drug dealer inmates, and inmates watched her around the clock. They took turns bombarding her with lies that attacked Falun Gong. They forced her to watch videos denouncing Falun Gong and used every means to try to force her to give up her belief. They also forced her to do hard labour for more than ten hours a day.

On September 17th, 2009, police charged into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Songli to arrest her. Her son Gao Yang leaped up to protest and protect his mother. However, Domestic Security police officer Chen Xiaodong beat him to the ground, and policeman Liang Shibin forced his knee into Gao Yang's face. He then stomped on his face, wearing shoes, while continually cursing at him. I was among the crowd that witnessed the event and it broke my heart to see a young man of 20 being beaten to the ground like that. Gao Yang was forcefully taken away.

Many Falun Gong practitioners are being detained in Division 4 of Shijiazhuang Labour Camp, Hebei Province. In order to force practitioners give up their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the guards there brutally torture and humiliate practitioners. As a consequence, some practitioners are force-fed, and they vomit blood. Five practitioners were deprived of access to the toilet and were not allowed to interact with other people. They had to urinate and defecate in the small, dark and damp cell. Police guards did not allow them to wash or change their clothing. Every day they were handcuffed and forced to sit on small stools.

On September 2nd, 2007, policen arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Liying. Later she was sentenced to two years of forced labour and now she is still detained in Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp. In the labour camp, as she refused to be "transformed", she suffered physical punishments numerous times. Once she shouted "Falun Gong is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good", and the guards took turns attacking her. She was not allowed to sleep for three consecutive days and not allowed to use the toilet for thirteen hours. Once the guards ordered her to stand for eight consecutive days and the guards forced her to labour in the glove workshop for 15 hours a day.

On March 31st, 2009, Chang Zhanglin, a 610 Office policeman, arrested eleven Falun Gong practitioners at Hongqi Square in Linzhou City, Henan Province. For years, Chang Zhanglin has persecuted local practitioners. He is notorious for making unjust arrests. In July 2000, Chang Zhanglin arrested practitioners Zhang Tianshun and Wang Jianbin; Zhang Tainshun was imprisoned for 50 days and Wang Jianbin for 40 days. During the opening of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Sixteenth National Party Congress, both practitioners were arrested again, and taken to a 610 Office brainwashing unit in Linxhou City.

On September 9th, 2009, Ms. Bu Rumei, 37 years old, and her mother, Ms. Bo Xiuying, 67 years old were arrested by police officers while they were talking to people about Falun Gong in the streets of Furong Village. Currently, she is being detained at Wujin Detention Centre. Ms. Bu Rumei went on a hunger-strike since day one, to protest the unjust persecution. The prison guards have been force feeding her for more than ten days already. Her health appears to be in a very critical condition due to these force feedings.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying was arrested at her mother-in-law's home on September 8th, 2009, by police. Ms. Zhang's parents-in-law questioned the police: "Why do you arrest her and ransack our homes for no reason? Do you have any legal evidence for doing this?" Officer Yang Ying replied, "We are arresting her for the purpose of interrogation--evidence will be produced later. Our responsibility is only to arrest her." Ms. Zhang is being held in the Changning District Detention Centre in Shanghai. This is the fourth arrest for Ms. Zhang. Because she practises Falun Gong, she was sentenced to forced labour for two and a half years in 2001. Not long after she was released from the labour camp, she was sent to a brainwashing centre and then sentenced to forced labour for one year in 2005.

Mr. Zhang Hongzhang was once Head of Education Bureau Workers' Union as well as Head of the Education Bureau Finance Department. Because of pressure from higher government agencies, the Education Bureau removed these titles from him because he practised Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang was arrested by police on April 30th. As a result he suffered many illnesses. On May 9th, he passed out due to high blood pressure during an interrogation and the police sent him to hospital. Many friends and co workers went to the hospital to visit him. However, the police were afraid that his situation would be exposed and thus forcibly took him away although he was severely ill. Mr. Zhang Hongzhang is now detained at Wuyishan Detention Centre.

In order to force Falun Gong practitioners into giving up their practice, guards at the Shandong Province First Women's Labour Camp and Men's Labour Camp use very cruel torture methods. The guards hang female practitioners in the form of a cross by their handcuffs, with their feet barely touching the floor. The practitioners are given very little food each day, just enough to barely sustain them from dying. The guards at the men's labour camp tie practitioners' private parts with ropes. This blocks the urine flow, causing the entire body to swell. It is extremely painful.

One torture method being used by the Chinese Communist Party to persecute practitioners is called the "wooden clamp." The clamp is about 50 to 80 cm (20-31 inches) long, 30 to 50 cm (12-20 inches) wide, and 10 to 15 cm (4-6 inches) thick and weighs about 20 to 60 kilograms (44-132 lb.). There are two holes in the middle of the clamp for the feet. The victim wearing the clamp has a difficult time moving around and has to crawl into bed, and usually has to sit or lie down, since standing can cause the feet to hurt and be injured. Without help, a person wearing the clamp can't even go to eat or to the toilet. When getting out of bed and going to the toilet, the clamp not only presses on the feet and heels, causing extreme pain, but the edge of it gets caught by the bed, preventing the person from getting back into bed. After wearing the clamp for a month, one practitioner lost all the hair on his feet, developed many rashes in that area, and lost 18 pounds.

"Hit them!" was the order given by a camp leader of the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. Several people brutally beat Ms. Fang Zhihua. Then they wrote insulting phrases, such as "labour camp inmate" with black pen all over her face. In November 2008, Ms. Fang Zhihua and other practitioners were forced to stand for 24 hours for refusing to do slave-type labour, such as packaging chopsticks. The camp used electric batons to force these practitioners to work. Ms. Fang was forced to stand in the hall for three days and nights without sleep. She lost consciousness due to exhaustion.

Mr. Gao Cai, 58 years old, was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labour at the Wujiabao Forced Labour Camp in Fushun City, because he practised the Falun Gong exercises in a park. In March 2005, Mr. Gao was arrested again and sentenced to four years in prison by the Jingyuan County Court. While in prison Mr. Gao was subjected to abuse and torture, including being brutally beaten, forced to sit on a small bench for long hours, deprived of sleep, subjected to brainwashing, and forced to do hard labour. After Mr. Gao was released in 2008, he did not receive any of his retirement pension from the Jingyuan Town Government.

Over 20 Falun Gong practitioners are detained in the men's section of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Jalaid Qi, Xinganmeng, Inner Mongolia. After it became known that the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp didn't allow practitioners to make phone calls home and forced them to work extra hours at night to weave carpets, and practitioners resistance of the persecution were exposed, the labour camp eased up a little, although they still did not allow practitioners to make phone calls home. They even checked the luggage of those inmates who were released in case any practitioners' letters were taken out.

Ms. Liu Yanmei, 47, has been persecuted repeatedly and horrifically over the years since the start of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. In 2006, Ms. Liu was sentenced to three years of forced labour in Shandong Province No.1 Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was subjected to brainwashing and tortures such as "exhaust the eagle" and being tied on the "Dead Person's Bed" to force her to give up her belief in Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance.

On September 23rd, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Long Guande was arrested. He was savagely beaten by the arresting officers and critically injured. Since his arrest, prison authorities have refused to give him access to medical treatment. On May 20th, 2009, Tianhe District Court in Guangzhou City sentenced him to a term of seven years. On August 18th, he was transferred to Sihui City Prison. Since Mr. Long's arrest and imprisonment, his family members have on many occasions asked the prison authorities to allow them to visit him. They have been turned away each time.

Ms. Chen Chujun was arrested before the Beijing Olympics, detained, and taken to a forced labour camp. It was recently discovered that she died in March 2009 at the Huaihua City Fourth People's Hospital, a mental hospital. In Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, according to witnesses, the staff injected glucose, along with a nerve-damaging drug called Thorazine, into Ms. Chen. After being injected with this drug, a person will gradually suffer memory loss and sleep all the time. The punitive measures resulted in serious afflictions for Ms. Chen, such as severe brain and cognitive dysfunction.

Beijing's Communist Party Committee and the Municipal Government have rewarded police officers who participated in persecuting Falun Gong. On top of huge expenditures to build forced labour camps and prisons, the ringleaders have provided all-expense-paid tours, and subsidies for housing, as well as pay rises, to reward police officers employed in labour camps and prisons. The material rewards are considered enticements to continue committing crimes against Falun Gong. Many police officers and government employees, lured by the regime's monetary rewards and urgings, have contributed to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners against their conscience, although they know that Falun Gong practitioners are good people

An older couple in Jilin Province, Ms. Sun Yuxiang and her husband Mr. Qu Changxing, were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they practised Falun Gong. They each passed away under difficult circumstances brought about by the persecution. Ms. Sun was sent to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a two-year term. Guards tortured her with sleep deprivation for 72 hours. Mr. Qu died from a heart attack in 2005 brought about from living in harsh conditions. Ms. Sun could not bear the sudden death of her husband, she became sick and died in February 2006, without any family around her.

Mr. Ai Lihua, his wife Ms. Gu Junqing, and daughter Ms. Ai Xuelian, were arrested on July 30th, 2009. At the police station, the police began roughly taping Mr. Ai's ankles together, then used his belt to tie his hands behind his back. After that, they taped his arms close to his body then brutally beat Mr. Ai, while they tied him to the "tiger bench". While Ms. Ai was being interrogated, she was slapped on the face over ten times then dragged by her hair and slammed into a wall. An Chunfa slapped her face an additional ten-plus times then kicked her and hit her with a water bottle. Later, Mr. Ai Lihua was sentenced to 15 months of forced labour, and Ms. Ai was sentenced to one year of forced labour.

On July 3rd, 2008, police raided the workplace of Ms. Qu Mingzhu, found Falun Gong materials and arrested her. During her detention at the labour camp, Ms. Qu and other practitioners were forced to do hard labour every day for 12 to 13 hours. One time the work involved hand selecting toothpicks. If the workload was not finished at the end of the day, captain Huo Shuping ordered everyone to bring their work back to their cells and continue to work on it until midnight. During Ms. Qu's detention her husband could not stand the pressure from various authorities and left home with their child to live in another city.

On April 30th, 2001, when I went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong, the Beijing police arrested me. After a body search, they held me in Dongcheng Detention Centre for 15 days. Those in charge used violence to force me to wear the prison uniform. One of them hit my neck with a high voltage baton so hard that I dropped to the floor instantly. In a Beijing police station, police tortured me. Two men lifted my arms upward until my shoulder joints were almost dislocated. One used a barbed stick to hit my back, buttocks, legs, and feet. He also kicked my lower back. He swore at me while he tortured me, saying "It's no big deal if you guys die--you'll die for nothing."

On March 16th, 2005, Ms. Wang Chunhua was arrested for distributing information about Falun Gong. In the labour camp, prison guards Yan Yan, Wang, and others tried to force her to give up Falun Gong. Because she did not co-operate, she was tortured, deprived of sleep, and prohibited from going to the toilet. She was forced to sit straight on a low bench all day long, which caused pain in her legs. After nearly 20 days of this abuse, the guards asked her why she practised Falun Gong. She replied, "I practise Falun Gong because I want to be a good person. I am in very good health and don't need medication." The guards refused to listen to her and continued to abuse her.

Falun Gong practitioner Hou Shaohua died as a result of falling from an apartment building on September 15th, 2009, during an attempted police arrest. The family is very angry, and they insist on finding out the cause of Hou's death. They have refused to allow the police to cremate the body. The local police have tried to cover up the event, saying that Hou Shaohua gambled and that that is why they were trying to arrest Hou. The people who knew Hou Shaohua in the Sixtieth Factory of Dongfeng Company all commented, "Everyone knows that Hou Shaohua never gambled!"

Since 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yuhua has been imprisoned in a brainwashing centre for a total of two years, and was beaten on at least 50 occasions. Previously, in September 2001, police broke into Liu Yuhua's house. They arrested her and confiscated her possessions and home. After she was taken to the security bureau, Ha Fulong slapped her. After his hands started to hurt, he used books and even shoes to strike her. Liu Yuhua's mouth was full of blood. Ha Fulong then used a rope to whip her face. Then Wang Shiwu used electric batons to shock her all over her body. After being tortured for over 4 hours, she was imprisoned in the detention centre of Qianan City for over a year.

On September 4th, 2009 when Ms. Ma Yan was not at home, Li Jianbin, Head of the 610 Office, combed through her house and took 1,800 yuan, the only money she had to support herself and pay her bills. In September 2007, Ms. Ma was arrested by Li Jianbin and his cohorts when she was at home. They hit her in the face, used a towel to muffle her mouth, and handcuffed her behind her back. In this robbery alone, the police took money and property belonging to Ms. Ma worth about 100,000 yuan in total. Ma Yan was then held in Changyi Detention Centre for eleven days. She was tortured until she could not eat or drink, and threw up blood. Although she had already been brutally treated, Li Jianbin sent her to Shandong Province Zibo No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp for further torture.

Because Mr. Gao Cai, 58, practised the Falun Gong exercises in a park, he was arrested many times and subjected to two years of forced labour in Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp in Fushun City. In March 2005, he was arrested again and sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Jingyuan County Court. He suffered from all kinds of tortures while in prison, such as being brutally beaten, forced to sit on a small bench for long hours, deprived of sleep, brainwashing, and forced to do slave labour.

During the past several years of persecution, Ms. Bai Xueshuang's family has had over 60,000 yuan extorted from them. Her physical and mental suffering cannot be measured. In 2001, an animal syringe was used to inject her with unknown nerve-damaging drugs. She subsequently lost her eyesight, and her muscles atrophied. She became disabled and has still not recovered. In June 2009, the police took Ms. Bai away in a police car. She was left in the middle of nowhere several miles away from home even though she had difficulty walking. She had to walk all the way home by herself. It took her nearly six hours.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Naishen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000, and was arrested by police. He was later sent to a Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. In 2002, after being tortured mentally and physically, including long-term sleep deprivation, Mr. Wang was on the verge of a mental collapse. According to an informed source, one day Mr. Wang suddenly ran out of the Tianjin Port Police Department with people yelling and chasing after him. He ran to a crane at the port and climbed up while police officers stood below shouting threats. It is probable that Mr. Wang lost his balance and fell from the crane to his death due to his weakened physical condition and severe emotional distress.

On September 8th, 2009, the National Security Police arrested practitioner Mr. Cao Feng while he was working in Shanghai and took him back to Duolun County. He is now imprisoned in the Duolun County Jail. In past years, he and his family were continuously persecuted by the police. In 2003, a warden shocked him with electric batons. His neck and face swelled up with large blisters. He was subsequently extorted out of 4,500 yuan before his release.

After July 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong, practitioner Ms. Miao Qing had been detained in a forced labour camp for three years and 19 days. She was dismissed from work, her home was ransacked, she was harassed numerous times, and her family members suffered serious mental trauma. At the Qinghai Province's Women's Forced Labour Camp, she was forced to endure extremely hard labour. Guards shocked her with electric batons and slapped her face.

My mother's name is Hu Qili. She is 48 years old. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on November 21st, 1999, and was fired by the hospital director and Communist Party Secretary two days later. During the last ten years, my mother has been detained three times and sent to a labour camp twice. She is again facing sentencing. I cannot fully describe my mother's suffering. The type of physical and mental torture can only be understood by those who have personally experienced it.

Ms. Wei Xiuying was severely tortured while in police custody, and as a result, had to be carried into the local courthouse when she was to stand trial in July 2009. The presiding judge ended the trial in a rush when they realised that Ms. Wei could not stand nor speak as a result of being tortured. The judge later sentenced her to seven years in prison. Ms. Wang now requires around-the-clock oxygen support just to stay alive. The family is expected to file an appeal with the Jinzhou City Middle Court.

Mr. Lin Zehua is imprisoned for his faith in Falun Gong. He has suffered abuse and lost the ability to walk. Mr. Lin was transferred from the Qitaihe Prison to Jiamusi City Prison on July 10th, 2008. As soon as he arrived, the guards began to try to coerce Mr. Lin to write the Three Statements. Mr. Lin refused. The guards placed Mr. Lin under strict monitoring - no phone calls to family members nor family visits. Then after September 7th, 2008, they no longer allowed him to buy daily consumables.

On the evening of September 7th, 2009, the Cangzhou City and Huanghua City Police Departments in Hebei Province arrested eight Falun Gong practitioners. On September 7th, more than a dozen police officers broke into the home of Ms. Pu Shuhui, 62. They ransacked the home, and confiscated all of Ms. Pu's Falun Gong books and materials, as well as a personal computer. The police also threatened Ms. Pu's children. Eventually Ms. Pu was released on bail awaiting trial.

In February 2000, Mr. Zou was arrested in Beijing for appealing for the right to practise Falun Gong. Police took him to the Shuangcheng City Detention Centre. Guards tied him on a Tiger Bench for seven days and nights. They shocked him with electric batons and kicked him in the head with their heavy shoes. The heels of their shoes broke off they kicked him so hard. They tied up his genitals and pounded bamboo spikes into his fingertips. In 2001, Mr. Zou and over 30 practitioners gathered in Handian Town for an experience sharing. The police arrested them. Four years later, the family and friends of Mr. Zou finally discovered where he was. He had been sentenced to nine years in Daqing City Prison.

In October 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intensified the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Anqiu City in the Weifang area of Shandong Province. More than 50 police and officials are directly involved in persecuting practitioners. They have arrested, jailed, sentenced, harassed, monitored, and stalked local practitioners. They've ransacked practitioners' homes and extorted money from their families. Since 2007, more than 80 Falun Gong practitioners in Anqiu City have been sentenced to forced labour camps.

My mother, Ms. Chen Zhenping, was sent to the Zhengzhou City Detention Centre. The practitioners there were forced to do 15 hours of forced labour daily, and they were forbidden from talking or using the toilet during that period. They usually held one position for more than ten hours, and were forced to make 2,000 to 3,000 lighters per capita every day. Many people's hands peeled layer by layer, which brought them burning pain at night. Some criminal offenders couldn't tolerate the hard labour, and committed suicide. Although my mother was already in her later fifties, she had to finish 3,000 lighters every day, the same quota as the younger detainees. Moreover, she suffered abuse and was severely beaten at any whim there.

I was not even in my 50's and yet I had to retire and stay at home due to illness. In March 1995, my husband started the practice with me. We both experienced tremendous improvements in health and fitness. In December 2000, police deceived me to leave my house. They dragged me into a car and took me to the Shizui Brainwashing Centre to be incarcerated for more than two months. During my incarceration, my husband was under extreme mental pressure and he cried every day. He used to be very healthy but suddenly his health deteriorated. When I was arrested again my husband had a stroke. On September 30th, 2004, my husband passed away due to shock and fear.

On July 9th, 2008, before the Olympics in Beijing, 30-40 police officers broke the windows to Ms. Wang Hongxia's home, entered and arrested her and her husband. On August 8th, 2008, Ms. Wang was taken to the Shandong Province Second Women's Forced Labour Camp. Within six months, the torture she endured in the camp caused Ms. Wang to develop tumours of various sizes in her armpit and on her breasts. On January 15th, 2009, her family took her to the Weifang City People's Hospital to have an examination, and it was found that along with the left side of her body, the tumours had also appeared on her right side. Ms. Wang Hongxia suffered for eight more months and died on September 15th.

During the past ten years, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have brutally tortured Ms. Zhang Lianfen because of her firm belief in Falun Gong. They arrested her four times, tortured her, beat her brutally and extorted 83,000 yuan from her family. Her husband had to borrow the money to pay the CCP officials. In 2001, Ms. Zhang was taken to a secluded, tiny cell in police custody. Three guards beat her brutally. They pulled her hair, slapped her face and kicked her violently. From time to time Ms. Zhang fell to the ground. They pulled her up and continued beating her. When they were tired, they handcuffed her to the arm of the sofa. After a while, they started another round of violent beatings. Ms. Zhang fell to the ground, but the police held her hair, stepped on her neck and tortured her until far into the night.

On August 12th, 2008, Mr. Liu Zhongquan and his wife Ms. Liu Zhenxian went to visit Mr. Wang Jinglun. As they were reading the Falun Gong book Zhuan Falun at Mr. Wang's home, they were arrested by police. That night, Mr. Wang's home was ransacked. Mr. Liu was detained and held in the First Detention Centre of Bin County. Ms. Liu Zhenxian was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and is being held in the Qianjin Labour Camp of Harbin City. Their son, now in secondary school, has been left home alone to fend for himself. On December 1st, 2008, the Bin County Court brought Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Liu Zhongquan to trial. Despite the defence, judges sentenced Mr. Liu to four years of imprisonment.

Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wu Yueju, 57, has been placed in detention centres and forced labour camps many times, and inhumanly tortured. In Dalian Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Wu was tortured with electric shocks, and she was beaten with a police club and locked up in the intensive discipline unit and a small cell. She was also tortured on the Dead Bed, tied to four boards, and left to freeze by open windows. They also poured cold water all over her in the winter, sexually abused her, hung her up, and so on. She was detained for over three years, and released on December 3rd, 2003.

In July 2000, I was 22. I was arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and put in a detention centre for going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. You can hardly imagine how evil the environment is unless you are in it and experience it yourself. What you heard every day were the guards beating and cursing the inmates, the sound of the electronic batons, and the cry of pain from the victims. A male practitioner insisted on doing the exercises and was shocked with electric batons, beaten by inmates, burned with cigarettes, and his fingernails were stabbed with needles. I was also tortured with a torture device called the "iron chair. When I was released I could not walk.

Ms. Zhang Shufen was sentenced to imprisonment in 2002 for refusing to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. She was taken to Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison and suffered five years and eight months of torture. In prison, police incited the criminals to brutally torture Ms. Zhang. In July 2004, thirty of us were hung up. Three hours passed, but we were still hung up. I passed out due to the pain. When I became conscious, I was still hanging. Another time my hands were handcuffed together in this painful position called "carrying a sword on the back." Inmates were incited to kick and punch me.

Mr. Chen Baihe was sentenced to a four-year jail term in January 2007 in Jidong Prison. Mr. Chen now is now blind in one eye and has very high blood pressure. His family members believe that he should see a doctor independent from the prison medical system but they have been refused by the Jidong Prison. Seeking help for Mr. Chen, a family member called the prison department heads He Lizhi and Xu Zhiqiu and requested that he be allowed to see a doctor outside the prison. They replied they would need to verify his health status to see if he is qualified to see outside doctors. Two days later they said that Chen was not qualified and that they should not make this kind of request in the future.

In June, 2008, at around 3 a.m., 56-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiuyun was distributing informational materials about the persecution of Falun Gong and was arrested by policemen from the Xiaodian District Police Station. During her detention, policemen incited a group of derelicts to attempt to rape her. She struggled to defend herself and shouted loudly, attracting the attention of nearby people. This caused her assailants to back off. Ms. Zhao reported this attempted rape to the Xiaodian District Police Station. Ms. Zhao's elder brother also complained about the detestable treatment she had received when he visited her in detention.

I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour in 2008, and imprisoned at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labour Camp. The labour camp was overcrowded. The younger ones had to sleep on the floor. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) imprisoned many people in the labour camp in order to make money through free labour. The labour camp had many orders to fulfil. Some were for toys, some were for mobile phone cases. Inmates had to work more than ten hours a day, seven days a week. Some inmates' wrists and fingers were injured by the repetitive labour. Some had friction burns on their hands, some had swollen legs. Inmates had to ask for permission before using the toilet.

Ms. Song Yanjin was sentenced to three years in prison for her belief in Falun Gong. She was imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison on April 8th, 2009. This is her second imprisonment due to her belief. When she was arrested in May 2008 she was detained in the Longjiang County Forth Detention Centre. Police interrogated her with violence. They slapped her face so hard that her teeth loosened, her mouth and face were swollen and she could not eat for some time. Forty days later, on June 18th, officers handcuffed and shackled Ms. Song dumped her in the boot of a police car, and took them to the Dafangli Police Station in Harbin City.

Currently, at least three practitioners have been detained in the Chejiaji Brainwashing Centre, and are undergoing brainwashing and physical torture. Practitioners being held include Ms. Wang Youming, who is nearly 70 years old, and Ms. Song Wenxiu, a retired teacher and elder practitioner. After Wang Youming was subjected to the brainwashing torture, the brainwashing centre still refused to release her, and forced her to divulge the names and home addresses of other practitioners. Ms. Song Wenxiu, nearly 70, was force-fed, and as a result, lost some teeth.