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Destitution
2009/02/14
Disappearance
The year saw continued reports of Falun Gong disappearances. Since 2006, the editors of Minghui.org, a Chinese-language website run by overseas Falun Gong practitioners with an extensive network of sources inside China, have maintained a database of practitioners reported missing by friends and relatives. Of these, many were disappeared following arrest and detention, and others disappeared after being forced to go underground to flee persecution. Since Minghui began work on the database, they have compiled some 1,300 cases.
2009/02/11
Fueled by Olympics, Falun Gong Persecution Escalated Sharply in 2008
The Communist Party’s campaign against Falun Gong escalated sharply in 2008 as China’s rulers took advantage of the Olympic games to catalyze and justify the large-scale arrest, imprisonment, and monitoring of Chinese citizens known to adhere to the spiritual practice, the Falun Dafa Information Center said in an annual report published on Tuesday.
2008/06/15
Destitution
Alongside the most brutal forms of violence, such as torture and organ harvesting, a quiet, systemic form of violence being perpetrated against the Falun Gong on a large scale is destitution and internal displacement.
2002/11/28
Women Tortured and Sexually Assaulted in Beijing’s Chaoyang Detention Center
Mei Zhao woke up soaking wet in the freezing wind, shivering from the buckets of icy cold-water police guards were pouring over her head to revive her.
2002/11/06
Jiang Zemin’s Legacy Claims More Lives: Thirteen Falun Gong Practitioners Reported Dead After Abuse Under Jiang’s Regime
According to a CNN article published yesterday on the legacy of Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin, at the very top of a list of "blots on the record" are human and religious rights violations. The abuse of Falun Gong is mentioned specifically as Jiang’s most egregious offence.
2002/10/10
63-Year-old Woman Left to Die on the Street by Chinese Police
Witnesses say that a local egg seller found Ms. Guo Xiumei kneeling on the pavement on the Southwest Road of Huaiyang County Xiguan Health Bureau in the early morning hours of September 23rd. Doubled over from pain, her face black and blue with one eye punctured, she clutched her stomach. The egg seller called for the police.