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"The Special Rapporteur continues to be alarmed by deaths in custody in China. Reports describe harrowing scenes in which detainees, many of whom are followers of the Falun Gong movement, die as a result of severe ill-treatment, neglect or medical attention. The cruelty and brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur wishes to reiterate her call to the Government of China, voiced in so many letters of allegations and urgent appeals, to take immediate steps to protect the lives and integrity of its detainees in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977."
-- UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (UN index E/CN.4/2004/7)
Collected Reports
Four years of reports (2000-2003), collected in one document, from the following UN sources:
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Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary executions
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Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences
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Special Rapporteur on Torture
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Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders
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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
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Report E/CN.4/2002/77 (paragraphs 8-10, 16-18, 25-28, and 42) and addendum E/CN.4/2002/77/Add.1 (Opinions 30/2000, 35/2000, 36/2000, 7/2001, and 8/2001)
(ii) In early November 1999, Mr. Zhang undertook a business trip to the People's Republic of China with his wife. He was arrested in Kainping City and detained on the ground that he was practising Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual practice with millions of followers in the People's Republic of China and throughout the world. Falun Gong, as [a group], was banned by the Chinese authorities in July 1999.
(iii) The source notes that many Falun Gong practitioners have been detained since July 1999 and sent for re-education through labour without trial, because they refuse to denounce their belief. Other followers have been sentenced to prison terms.
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
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Report E/CN.4/2002/79 (paragraphs 13, 14, and 84-90)
During the period under review, 12 new cases of disappearance were transmitted by the Working Group to the Government of China; 10 of these reportedly occurred in 2001 and were sent under the urgent action procedure.
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Of the newly reported cases, 11 cases concern Falun Gong practitioners who were allegedly arrested or abducted by the police, security services or local administrative officials in various parts of the country, in 2000 and 2001. One other case, which reportedly occurred in August 2000, concerns an autistic boy who is alleged to have disappeared after having been questioned by Hong Kong immigration officers.
Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
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Report E/CN.4/2004/7 (paragraphs 37 and 76)
The Special Rapporteur continues to be alarmed by deaths in custody in China. Reports describe harrowing scenes in which detainees, many of whom are followers of the Falun Gong movement, die as a result of severe ill-treatment, neglect or medical attention. The cruelty and brutality of these alleged acts of torture defy description. In this connection, the Special Rapporteur wishes to reiterate her call to the Government of China, voiced in so many letters of allegations and urgent appeals, to take immediate steps to protect the lives and integrity of its detainees in accordance with the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners approved by the Economic and Social Council by its resolutions 663 C (XXIV) of 31 July 1957 and 2076 (LXII) of 13 May 1977.
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Report E/CN.4/2002/74 (paragraphs 13, 15, 16, 33, 34, 45, 46, 55, 101, and 116) and addendum E/CN.4/2002/74/Add.2 (paragraphs 33-45)
... the Special Rapporteur wishes to express her particular alarm over reports from China describing a large number of cases in which detainees, many of whom were followers of the Falun Gong movement, had died as a result of severe ill-treatment, neglect or lack of medical attention. She takes particular note of allegations that 15 female prisoners, all reportedly members of the Falun Gong movement, died as a result of torture in June 2001 in Wanjia Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province.
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
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Report E/CN.4/2002/75/Add.2 (paragraphs 136-147)
On 25 October 2001, jointly with the Special Rapporteur on torture, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal regarding the arrest of Huang Guodong, a 51-year-old resident of Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang province, and his son in February 2001 on the charge of having printed and distributed Falun Gong flyers. They were taken to the Nanshan police station of Tielinghe in Mudanjiang city, where the police are said to have tied them up and to have beaten them violently for a whole day and night. Huang Guodong was subsequently transferred to Mudanjiang detention centre, where he was subjected to periodic torture by three police officers, whose names are known to the Special Rapporteurs. As a result of the torture, Huang Guodong became incontinent and has not been able to take in any food since 10 October 2001.
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
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Report A/57/274 (paragraphs 21, 22, 27, and 28)
Since 1999, 361 members of Falun Gong are said to have died in detention, 80 of them as a result of torture between October 2001 and January 2002, including: Li Began, Wu Jingxia, Li Jingdong, Liu Chunshu, Zhan Wei, Cui Dezhe, Tong Guji, Chen Biyu and Chai Yong. It is alleged that approximately 100,000 practitioners of Falun Gong have been detained and more than 20,000 have been sent to forced labour camps without any trial.
Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders
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Report E/CN.4/2002/106 (annex paragraphs 52, 55, 56, 59-62)
Mr. Chu O-ming, a Falun Gong practitioner based in Hong Kong, was reportedly arrested on 7 September 2000 in connection with the complaint he filed, on 29 August 2000, with the Supreme Procuratorate of China, against Jiang Zemin, the President, Zeng Qinghong, Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Personnel, and Luo Gan, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council, for alleged persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. To date, Mr. Chu's family has still not obtained any information about his whereabouts.
Special Rapporteur on Torture
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Report addendum E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.1 (paragraphs 247-330)
Wang Hongsheng, Ms. Sui and 17 other Falun Gong practitioners from Taitou township, Shandong Province, were reportedly arrested as they were allegedly travelling to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners in July 2000. During their detention, they were reportedly beaten with clubs by 20 people led by the local secretaries of the Communist Party Committee, forced to lie on a scalding cement surface and exposed to the sun six hours a day and confined in a garage with no airflow and very high temperatures. They were allegedly deprived of food and water for three consecutive days. Wang Hongsheng, who was reportedly suspected of being the organizer of the demonstrations, was allegedly tied to a tree with iron cables. His head was allegedly covered with a plastic bag and he was reportedly beaten with wooden sticks and leather whips by some 10 people. His chest and stomach were allegedly burnt with cigarettes. He reportedly lost consciousness.
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Report E/CN.4/2002/76 (paragraphs 6 and 10) and addendum E/CN.4/2002/76/Add.1 (paragraphs 287-369)
The individual cases transmitted to the Chinese government concerned Falun Gong and practitioners, alone or in groups, who were taken by law enforcement officials to mental hospitals where they were reportedly detained for periods varying from a few days to several months, without receiving a psychiatric examination before being detained, noting that they were also said to have been forced to take drugs. In a number of cases, the individuals named died in custody, or died shortly after being released from custody, as a result of torture and ill-treatment.
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