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FDI: Northeast China Prison Under Lockdown After Deaths Exposed Online

28 Mar 2011

New York—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.

Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Lu Shunmin from Xuchang County, Henan Province Has Been Detained for Eight Years

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lu Shunmin from Xuchang County, Henan Province was arrested by police in May 2002 and detained at the Xuchang County Detention Center for a year. During the detention, he was forced to wear shackles weighing forty-eight kilograms (106 lb). He was later illegally sentenced to an eight-year term and detained in Xinmi Prison in Henan Province. While he was detained in the sixth prison district, guards burned his right middle finger with a cigarette lighter, and beat and tortured him.

Jilin CCP Members Arrest and Steal from Citizens During the “Two Conferences” Period

(Clearwisdom.net) Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in Jilin escalated their persecution of Falun Gong practitioners during the “Two Conferences” (The National People's Congress Conference and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference). The increased persecution targeted practitioners following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Authorities set out to deliberately create an atmosphere of terror. CCP members from the street committees, police stations, and other offices in Jilin broke into practitioners’ homes. They harassed, threatened, and arrested practitioners, then ransacked their homes.