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URGENT ACTION
more falun gong at risk of torture in china
Four Falun
Gong practitioners are being held in Jiamusi
Detention Centre in China
after being arbitrarily detained on 10 September. They are at risk of torture
and ill-treatment.
Shortly after 7.00 pm on 10
September – at the same time that nine other Falun Gong practitioners were
being detained in another home in Jiamusi City,
Heilongjiang province, China
– plain-clothed police officers broke into Ren Shuxian’s home and detained a
group of Falun Gong practitioners meeting there. Ren Shuxian, Wang Yingxia,
Zhang Limin and his wife Qiu Yujie, and Liu Hongli and her eight-year-old daughter were taken to the Jianshe Police Station. Qiu Yujie was taken out of
the house on a stretcher.
At 1.00 am on 11
September, Liu Hongli’s daughter was released and collected by her father. While
at the police station Liu Hongli developed symptoms of a serious heart
condition and was sent to hospital. After a check-up she was returned to the
police station. However, her condition worsened and she was sent back to the
hospital. After being sent back and forth from the police station to the
hospital twice more, Liu Hongli was finally sent home in the evening of 11
September.
On 11 September, the remaining
four in custody were transferred to the Jiamusi Detention Centre. Two of them have
reportedly begun hunger striking. Most of those detained previously spent time in
prison or re-education through labour camps on account of their beliefs. Wang Yingxia
previously spent three years in prison.
When family members
enquired about the detainees on 10 September, the police refused to provide any
information and told the family to inquire with the city’s Public Security
Bureau. Neither detention nor arrest warrants were presented by the police.
According to sources on the ground, officers from several public security
offices were present during the detentions, including the local police and
Public Security and National Security Bureau officials.
Please write immediately in Chinese or your
own language:
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Calling on the Chinese authorities to release all
those being held in custody (naming them), as they are detained solely on the
basis of exercising their freedom of belief;
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Ensuring that all those detained are not tortured or
otherwise ill-treated while they are in custody.
PLEASE SEND
APPEALS BEFORE 30 OCTOBER 2012 TO:
Gonganju juzhang
Jiang Zhifang
Baoweilu 100 hao, Jiamusishi.
Heilongjiangsheng
People’s Republic of China 154000
Tel: +86 454 8298114 (Chinese only)
Salutation: Dear Chief of the
Public Security Bureau
Zhengfawei shuji
Liu Chen
Chang’anlu, Xiduan 2666 hao
Jiamusishi, Heilongjiangsheng
People’s Republic of China 154000
Tel: +86 454 8224598 (Chinese only)
Salutation: Dear Party
Secretary
And copies to:
Governor
Wang Xiangui
202 Zhongshanlu 202, Harbin
Heilongjiangsheng
People’s Republic of China
Tel: +86 451 82622351, +86 451 82625015 (Chinese only)
Email: webmaster@hlj.gov.cn
Salutation: Dear Governor
Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your
country. Please insert local diplomatic addresses below:
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above
date.
URGENT
ACTION
more falun gong at risk of torture in china
ADditional Information
Falun Gong is a spiritual movement, which
gained a large number of supporters in China
during the 1990s. After the movement staged a peaceful gathering in Tiananmen Square in July 1999, the government outlawed
the group and launched a long-term campaign of persecution. Individuals are
imprisoned for their spiritual beliefs and for exercising their rights to
freedom of expression by distributing materials about the group. They are
sentenced to long prison terms, held in psychiatric hospitals, re-education
through labour facilities (a form of administrative detention imposed without
charge, trial or judicial review), and held in specialized detention centres,
where the mission is to “transform” Falun Gong practitioners by forcing them via
coercion into renouncing their spiritual beliefs, often through the use of
torture and ill-treatment.
Torture and other ill-treatment is common in
all forms of detention, despite China’s
ratification of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 1988. Amnesty International has documented
numerous deaths in custody believed to have been caused by torture and other
ill-treatment, and torture and ill-treatment leading to permanent disability,
including of of Falun Gong practitioners.
Name: Ren Shuxian (f), Wang
Yingxia (f), Zhang Limin (m), Qiu Yujie (f), Liu Hongli (f)
Gender m/f: Both
UA: 269/12 Index: ASA 17/035/2012 Issue Date: 18 September
2012
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