Arbitrary Imprisonment and Slavery

Police in Beijing suburb abduct over 16 residents for practicing Falun Gong

Since June 2011, police officers in Changping, a northwest suburb of Beijing, have abducted at least 16 local residents because they were discovered to practice Falun Gong. According to sources inside China, officers from the Changping District Police Department and the Dongxiaokou Police Station carried out four rounds of detention at the Tiantongyuan community, taking 16 people into custody. Among those abducted is 31-year-old Feng Qingdong, an employer with the media company Thompson Reuters (details below). In an apparent attempt to avoid an outcry from neighbors should they realize what was happening, the participating officers did not wear police uniforms or park their police cars nearby.

Sichuan judge sends seven Falun Gong practitioners to prison after mockery of a trial

On August 26, 2011, a group trial of seven Falun Gong practitioners was held at the Wuhou District Court in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. At its end, all seven were sent to prison camps for terms ranging from two to seven years. The following details, relayed from individuals inside China close to the case, portray a mockery of justice and series of manipulations highlighting the Communist Party's systematic disregard for Chinese law in its campaign against Falun Gong.

Hunan woman sentenced to seven years in prison for reading Falun Gong literature at friend’s home

A court in Hunan province recently ordered that 61-year-old former bank employee Ms. Xiang Huaixiang be sent to a prison camp for seven years because she practices Falun Gong. Ms. Xiang was abducted by security agents on July 19, 2010, while gathering in private with eleven other elderly practitioners to read Falun Gong teachings and share their spiritual understandings.

Northeast China Prison Under Lockdown After Deaths Exposed Online

A prison camp in Northeast China has been put under lockdown after three Falun Gong detainees died there within two weeks and evidence of the sudden deaths was posted online. In an effort to prevent additional details from being leaked, guards and prisoners alike are having their phones monitored and the victims' families are being tailed by security agents. Torture and abuse intensified at Jiamusi Prison in Heilongjiang province in February after personnel received orders in early 2011 to increase the "transformation rate" among Falun Gong practitioners held at the camp—part of a nationwide three-year Communist Party campaign to reinvigorate such efforts. As a result, three middle-aged male practitioners died between February 26 and March 8, 2011.

Ten Things to Know about China as Hu Jintao Arrives in the United States

On the eve of Chinese leader Hu Jintao’s arrival in the United States for a state visit, the Falun Dafa Information Center urges the media, human rights groups, the American public, and especially, U.S. officials meeting with the delegation, to keep the following ten facts about China at the forefront of their minds.

Internal Communist Party Documents Disclose New Campaign to Forcibly "Transform" Millions of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

A series of internal Communist Party documents, some of them posted online, reveal the details of a new three-year, multi-billion dollar campaign targeting Falun Gong practitioners across China. The campaign’s stated goal is to “transform” 75 percent of all known practitioners, who number in the tens of millions despite eleven years of brutal suppression. Specifically, the campaign calls upon security forces to go into “villages and households” to “educate and conquer” Falun Gong practitioners.

Chen Zhenping: A Mother Imprisoned, Tortured

Chen Zhenping, the mother of Finnish resident Zhaoyu Jin, was abducted from her home in Henan province in July 2008. Within a month, she was sent, after a secret trial, to a prison camp for eight years. Amnesty International (AI) considers Chen a prisoner of conscience and has taken up her case. In April 2010, AI reported that Chen had been badly tortured, subjected to regular beatings and forcibly injected with drugs.

After Eight Years of Torture, Falun Gong Practitioner Dies under Mysterious Circumstances

Photos Smuggled from China Show Bloated Falun Gong Practitioner Shortly Before Death

A retired steel worker from Hebei province died on September 6, 2010, just over six months after being released from a prison camp where he had been tortured and forced to do hard labor for practicing Falun Gong, the Falun Dafa Information Center recently learned.

Urgent Appeal: After Suffering Years of Torture, "Upstanding" Man on the Verge of Death in Chinese Prison Camp

A 55-year-old man is near death after suffering years of torture at the hands of Chinese police, according to multiple reports from China.