To avoid letting the jailed Falun Gong practitioner meet up with the visitors, guards forced them to clean vegetables outside the building. Those who refused to cooperate were tortured. A guard claimed, "We have a quota for torturing Falun Gong practitioners to death."
One day before July 20, 2009, the tenth anniversary of the persecution of Falun Gong, the police launched a mass arrest of practitioners.
Farmer Gong is arrested again after several previous imprisonments.
Mr. Jiang Heping was arrested in May 2009 and recently released to a hospital. He is now unable to care for himself.
Two elderly women remain in detention.
Mr. Gu Yunpeng was arrested again in February 2009. He was tortured at Daowai District Detention Center and sentenced to five years in Xinjian Prison.
Mr. He Zhi died while in custody in April 2009. His wife was threatened, and she does not dare to live at home or speak about her husband's death.
Criminal inmates are recruited, taught torture techniques, and given rewards such as reduced sentences for persecuting practitioners.
When the court session was over, the police hit her head with the electrical baton, and thrust the baton into her mouth, because she called out, "Falun Dafa is good." Those waiting outside were also arrested by the police.
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