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28 February Photo: China Modern Torture Methods (3)- Sexual AbuseWell-known Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng wrote in his third open letter to Chinese
The forms of sexual torture include rape, molestation, shocking genitals with electric batons, raping Falun Gong practitioners with foreign objects (including toilet brushes and batons), shoving hot peppers into vaginas, pinching genitals or nipples even to the point of tearing them off, kicking genitals, piercing nipples with hot irons, stripping practitioners naked and beating them, forcefully administering drugs that cause menstruation to cease, and more. The victims of such sexual abuse include young, unmarried women and seniors. Cases 1. Young woman suffers mental breakdown following untold torture and rape (in 2004) NEW YORK (FDI) – Thirty-two-year-old Ms. Zhu Xia cries, laughs, and often bangs on doors and windows madly. She soils her clothing uncontrollably, and has frequent hallucinations, tossing and turning restlessly amidst unseen enemies. (Photo above: Ms. Zhu Xia, before and after sent to Brainwashing Center ) At night Zhu often throws her arms around her head defensively, screaming “Are you going to rape me?” She has removed her blankets to sleep in the cotton fibers of her mattress and often curses “those terrible men,” muttering she “can’t take it anymore.” This is not the young woman her family members described as “healthy and vibrant” before the police took her away because she practices Falun Gong. Like hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of others in China, Zhu was detained by Chinese authorities and sent to brainwashing classes in order to force her to renounce Falun Gong. She was held at the Pi County Brainwashing Center in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province. On April 2, 2004, Pi Country authorities released Zhu. According to her family, Zhu’s mental and physical well-being had been devastated, and she had suffered a complete mental breakdown. Zhu is no longer able to take care of herself, and is under the care of her mother. The exact details of what Zhu went through in the Pi Country
Brainwashing Center are unknown, although family members say her mental
state and behavior leave little doubt she suffered untold torture and
was repeatedly raped. At the Dalian forced labor camp, numerous reports say women detainees have been hung spread-eagle from the ceiling as sticks and pepper oil are shoved into their vaginas – a torture technique known as “hip-splitting.” The men are stripped naked and shocked with electric batons shortly after being doused with water to intensify the electric currents. ( Full report of this torture case) 2. Genitals shocked with electric batons for several hours (in 2001)
(Photo left: Ms. Li Yinping) On the afternoon of June 6, 2001, Ms. Li, along with the other detained Falun Gong practitioners, requested unconditional release. The policemen dragged Ms. Li into the hallway and beat her with a rubber baton. After drinking alcohol, five to six policemen began another round of torture. They slapped her face, twisted one of her arms behind her back, grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, hit her all over her body with rubber batons, and shocked her with electric batons. The policemen stripped Ms. Li of all of her clothing to inflict more pain by beating her unprotected skin. After beating her, the policemen chained her to an “iron chair.” After taking a break, later on in the evening, the director of the detention center, Team Leader Wang, and other guards took turns shocking her genitals with electric batons. Her whole body was shaking, and had turned dark purple and black. She suffered severe pain, and lost consciousness several times. Each time, the guards revived her by pouring cold water on her so they could shock her again. One of the officers threatened to rape and kill her. They continued to shock her with the batons even after she began spitting up blood. This torture lasted for several hours. Ms. Li was left chained to the iron chair, and she kept vomiting all night. By early the next morning, June 7, 2001, Ms. Li had lost consciousness and her pulse was faint. She died later that day……. ( more details from Faluninfo.net) 3. A female practitioner raped by a police officer on the street ( in 2001) On the evening of May 14, 2001, a female Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing was beaten and raped on the street by a patrolling plainclothes police officer. The right-hand side photo was taken 9 days later after the incident. “Finally, I was beaten to the ground and was not able to get up. Two of my front teeth were knocked out; several places on my head were hurt; my body was swollen and turned purple; my bones felt like they were falling apart. He then hit my right ear and temple hard with a stick and I lost consciousness. At this moment he pulled me under a bridge, tore my pants apart, and raped me. After that, he inserted a plastic baton forcefully into my vagina, and rode on my body. When I regained my strength and was able to shout, I shouted with all the strength I had: ‘Help! Catch this hooligan!’ The man seemed to have no fear. Finally, he got on his bicycle and rode away in a hurry, leaving me behind.” 4. Authorities order criminal inmates to strip, beat, and sexually abuse Ms. Liu Runling ( in 2002) “Liu Runling, aged 38, resident of Hebei Province, was reportedly arrested on 28 September 2001 and detained at the No. 1 Detention Centre, where she remains. “In January 2002, guards allegedly ordered several inmates to torture Ms. Liu because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. According to reports, they took her to a bathroom, where she was stripped naked and beaten. They reportedly inserted hair and used tissues into her vagina, and pierced her with needles for 40 minutes. It is reported that this left her covered with wounds and needle holes, and both her breasts allegedly turned black.” – Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; UN document number E/CN.4/2003/75/Add.2 5. Chinese Police Raped Female University graduate student while the other inmates watched ( in 2003) NEW YORK (FDI) – On May 13th, 2003, policeman from the Chongqing City Detention Center stripped and raped a female graduate student as other prison inmates looked on, according to sources from Chongqing University in China. Ms. Wei Xingyan, a 28-year old Chongqing University graduate student, was arrested on May 11th along with a group of other students and teachers for hanging banners and balloons commemorating May 13th, the official anniversary of the introduction of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong). According to witnesses, on the evening of May 13th, several policemen took Wei to a cell in Baihelin Detention Center of Shapingba District. There, witnesses say the police officers forced two female inmates to strip her, and one of the uniformed policemen pushed her to the ground and raped her as the other inmates watched……. ( more details of this case) 6. Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners Raped by Chinese Police after Shocked by Electric Baton (in 2005) “Around 2:00 p.m., a policeman named He Xuejian took Ms. Liu to a room with two beds in it. A very tanned policeman in his early 30’s with the nickname Dajun was laying on one of the beds. There was another policeman in his 40’s surnamed Wang in the room. (photo: Ms. Liu Jizhi suffered from brutal beating and rape. Her hips and thighs are severely bruised.) “He Xuejian savagely beat Ms.Liu as soon as they entered the room. Next he pressed her against a bed and started groping her breasts. Then he lifted her shirt up and shocked her breasts with an electric baton. While watching the sparks from the stun baton, He Xuejian repeatedly commented, “This is fun! This is fun!” “The policeman surnamed Wang watched and said fiercely, “Beat her up! Beat her up good!” Then he left the room. “Despite Ms. Liu’s protest and struggle, He Xuejian stripped off her shirt and sat on her stomach. Then he began to poke at her genitals with his finger. Then he switched to another position in order to remove her pants. “During the struggle, Ms. Liu pleaded, “I am thinking for your own good—don’t do this to me! You are a policeman! You must not commit such a crime! This is totally wrong! You are a young man! I am an old woman. Please spare me.” He Xuejian ignored her plea and violently raped her. During the rape, He Xuejian repeatedly slapped her face and choked her.” Pollution turns Chinese river system redPollution turned part of a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200,000 people. Some communities along tributaries of the Han River — a branch of the Yangtze — in Hubei province were using emergency water supplies, while at least 60,000 people were relying on bottled water and limited underground sources. Residents in some towns were getting water from fire trucks, the Hubei provincial government said on its Web site. Five schools were closed in Xingou township, while others could not provide food to students, the Xinhua report said without elaborating. The pollution was discovered Sunday when water plant workers from Jianli County found that the Dongjing River, a tributary of the Han, had turned red and foamy, the Hubei Web site said. Water plants along the river suspended intake and cut tap water to as many as 120,000 people, according to reports on the site. Xinhua said 200,000 people were without water. Tests showed the polluted waters contained elevated levels of ammonia, nitrogen, and permanganate, a chemical used in metal cleaning, tanning and bleaching, Xinhua said. The pollution apparently flowed down from the Han River, the Hubei government said without elaborating on its source. Water from nearby Lake Chang was being diverted to dilute the pollution. Most of China's canals, rivers and lakes are severely tainted by industrial, agricultural and household pollution. Chinese leaders say the country faces a critical water shortage, partly due to chronic pollution and chemical accidents. In one of China's worst cases of river pollution, potentially cancer-causing chemicals, including benzene, spilled into the Songhua River in November 2005. The northeastern city of Harbin was forced to sever water supplies to 3.8 million people for five days. The accident also strained relations with Russia, into which the poisoned waters flowed. A paper mill dumped waste water directly into the Han in September 2006, forcing authorities to cut water supplies for a week in some areas, the Xinhua and government reports said. They did not say how many people were affected. 25 February 6th Annual Nanshan Open Snowboarding Finals, 2008
2008 Snowboarding Finals at the Nanshan Open at the Nokia Nanshan Mellow Park here in Beijing, where I ended up deathly ill for a week after coming down with a hellish stomach bug; certainly a finals I shan't forget in a long time. Jakob Wilhelmson of Sweden took first place at the Red Bull , earning himself 700 Ranking Points. Top Ten Results for 6th Red Bull Nanshan Open: 21 February Clinton after 10 straight losses 20 February China International Photography Arts Expo Golden Award Winner Was Faked In November 2007, the 12th annual China International Photographic Arts Exposition was held. Ye Weitang's <The Pitiless Fire> won a golden award in the Social Lives and Customs section. Beijing Times Photography Supervisor Luo Yonghong raised these doubts: In the photo titled <The Pitiless Fire>, there were several spots in which digital alterations clearly occurred. A1 and A2 were clearly the same house entrance. B1 and B2 were the same fire. The pig in C in the man's left hand is far too white. The woman in D is carrying a bucket of water away from the fire instead of towards it. The incident came from real life, but the manipulation of this photograph was particularly crude. Now it transpires that the Association that awarded the winning photos was ready to rescind the award but then it realized that with so many other altered photographs winning awards, it would be a disaster to rescind all those awards. Thus, the awards stayed. It would appear the Chinese need to train higher quality judges. http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200802b.brief.htm 19 February Taiwan's presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou stabbed by unidentified female the extent of his injuries are unknown at this time ...  Sex scene gets past Chinese censors he film censors must have fallen asleep on the job to have
let this public act of sexual intercourse slip through in the movie Call To
Assembly.  18 February Same Gun Dealer Sold to 2 Campus Killers
Eric Thompson, owner of The Gun Source, a Green Bay-based Internet gun
store, that his web site, which
sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter in April 1007, also sold
handgun accessories to the man who killed five at Northern Illinois
University on Thursday. It's out of control there.
The poetry of Roger Clemens In his testimony and depositions, the Rocket has hurled a poetic
masterpiece, with a repertoire that ranges from free-form verse to
haiku. The poems that follow are the pitcher's exact words, excerpted
from transcripts of Wednesday's testimony (PDF) and the deposition (PDF) the pitcher gave to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform earlier this month. "Saving the House" It was a sports court. —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Offensive Haiku" —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Ghost Andy" He looked at me, —Feb. 13, 2008, hearing "Stop Sign" In Boston, I know I was on prednisone. —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Somebody's Tried To Break My Spirit in This Room" Somebody's tried to break my spirit in this room. —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Glute" I have strained my glute —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Me" I have never smoked a cigarette. —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition "Headaches" Kids come to my house and work out. —Feb. 5, 2008, deposition http://www.slate.com/id/2184571/nav/tap3/ 16 February After four deaths alreadyChina Didn't Check Drug Supplier, Files ShowA Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has been linked to four deaths in the United States is not certified by China’s drug regulators to make pharmaceutical products, according to records and interviews.Because the plant, Changzhou SPL, has no drug certification, China’s drug agency did not inspect it. The United States FDA said this week that it had not inspected the plant either — a violation of its own policy — before allowing the company to become a major supplier of the blood thinner, heparin, to Baxter International in the United States. Baxter announced Monday that it was suspending sales of its multidose vials of heparin after 4 patients died and 350 suffered complications. Why the heparin caused these problems — and whether the active ingredient in the drug, derived from pig intestines, was responsible — has not been determined.The plant in Changzhou, west of Shanghai, appears to fall into the type of regulatory void that American and Chinese health officials are trying to close — in which chemical companies export pharmaceutical ingredients without a Chinese drug license. China provides a growing proportion of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used in drugs sold in the United States. And Chinese drug regulators have said that all producers of those ingredients are required to obtain certification by the State Food and Drug Administration. However, some of the active ingredients that China exports are made by chemical companies, which do not fall under the Chinese drug agency’s jurisdiction.In December, American and Chinese regulators signed an agreement under which China promised to begin registering at least some of the thousands of chemical companies that sell drug ingredients. Some of these companies are the source of counterfeit or diluted drugs, including those used to treat malaria.Discussions that led to the accord began after an unlicensed chemical plant in China made a tainted drug ingredient that poisoned more than 170 people in Panama, killing at least 115.A spokesman for China’s State Food and Drug Administration, Shen Chen, admitted Friday that “as far as we know, it is not a drug manufacturer — it is a producer of chemical ingredients.”Eric S. Langer, managing partner of BioPlan Associates, which prepares and publishes reports on the biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, said he found it hard to believe that a company exporting the heparin ingredient would not be licensed by Chinese drug regulators. “Being able to produce a pharmaceutical or a biologic in the U.S. or anywhere without having regulatory oversight really doesn’t happen,” Mr. Langer said, adding, “I find it surprising from a regulatory perspective, and I find it surprising from a business perspective.”This is just the beginning, activist warns, as China tries to limit damageProtests over Beijing 2008 'will grow'With less than six months to go, this celebration of Chinese resurgence is threatening to degenerate into an opportunity for us all to land some blows on the communist leadership. The stadium architect, Ai Weiwei, refuses to attend the opening ceremony because of the "disgusting" political conditions in the one-party state. The VIP list will not include Prince Charles, a friend of the Dalai Lama, who told the Free Tibet movement that he will be absent. And now, in the biggest blow yet, Steven Spielberg has resigned as artistic consultant, saying his conscience will not let him choreograph an event for a country that has done little to use its influence to ease the slaughter in Darfur. The Chinese leadership is scrambling to limit the damage and prevent the Spielberg boycott from escalating into a wider movement. A top Communist party official, Xi Jinping, has been parachuted in to lead preparations, it emerged yesterday. Of primary concern will be the steady drip of bad news stories suddenly contaminating the Olympic run-in. The opening of the "water cube" Olympic pool in late January was overshadowed by reports that construction worker deaths have been covered up for more than a year. A week later, police arrested a high-profile dissident, Hu Jia, prompting accusations by human rights groups that the government is silencing critics before the games. The negative PR went international when Spielberg walked off the set and a group of Nobel peace prize laureates, politicians, celebrities and former Olympians sent an open letter to the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, calling on China to act against the atrocities in Darfur. The fascist regime in China as always appears unsure how to respond to the sudden challenge. Next week, a court will hear charges of subversion against Yang Chunlin, who petitioned against land seizures with the slogan: "We don't want the Olympics, we want human rights." That the biggest press battering has come over foreign policy is unexpected. "China's foreign ministry is confused," said Nicolas Becquelin of Human Rights Watch. "They have been getting rave reviews from western diplomats and the United Nations for their role in Sudan, Burma and North Korea. But now in terms of public opinion, this is becoming a disaster. It is a wake-up call to them in terms of the risks that the games pose to China's global image. I think this is just the beginning in terms of expression of concern about human rights." Many who voted for China to host in 2008 did so in the belief that their support would help hasten reform. The IOC's leaders may be idealistic but they are not naive, and they are well aware of the sensitivities that will be stirred by China's games. They are also conscious of the platform that the games provides for campaign groups. Many in the Olympic movement are nervously awaiting the first confrontation between protesters and police played out in front of the world's media. More than 20,000 journalists have been accredited for the games, double the number of athletes, and their unfettered comments on everything from the quality of the sport to the state of the trains will be a huge shock to the Chinese culture of control. Qiao Mu, the director of international communication studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said the government could no longer ignore foreign opinion. "China needs big events like the Olympics to prove itself as a powerful nation," he said. "In Mao's days, the government did not need to care about the foreign media because they were easily able to ban information easily and live in the fantasy they created for themselves. But now that we live in an age of globalised information, the government must pay more attention to outside opinion." In the next six months, he says, China will have to live with a lot more negative coverage. Let's hope so. 15 February Putin's obsession with snotAt a marathon press conference yesterday, Putin twice referred to snot:
Newspaper reports about his alleged fortune were just rubbish, said Putin, "excavated from someone's nose and then spread on those bits of paper". He later added that "Heads of state have no right to whinge, or drool for any reason... If they are going to slobber and blow snot and say things are bad, bad, then that's how it will be." Check it outAccording to popbitch, here's the perfect soothing music for Valentine's Day. Once a boy soprano, Fredo Viola is now working on a collaboration with Massive Attack.
Britain considering Beijing 'smog-masks' Officials in the United States, Australia and Canada have indicated that their athletes will not be using masks during competition, but BOA chief executive Simon Clegg refused to rule out a move that would be extremely embarrassing for China. "This is a competitive issue," Clegg told The Times newspaper. "We are in the business of trying to win medals and beat our competitors. We are all hopeful that the Chinese authorities will have addressed this issue by August so the athletes are not put in a position where the measures we have put in place have to be deployed. But we are in the business of providing our athletes with competitive advantage. We need to put in place whatever strategies are appropriate to ensure that we give our athletes the best chance of delivering." Britain's former Commonwealth 1500 metres gold medallist Michael East said he was uncertain about the potential benefits of 'smog-masks'. "I doubt whether it would be advantageous and I think I would feel uncomfortable wearing one," he said. "I am sure you may get local runners using them and I suppose if the physiologists say they are advantageous, I might consider it. "But for the moment, I have to say my answer is 'no'." Beijing's mayor, Guo Jinlong, admitted last month that the sprawling, traffic-choked city faced a massive task in trying to bring pollution down to bearable levels in time for the Games. The International Olympic Committee has warned that endurance events such as the marathon could be postponed or cancelled to protect competitors if air-quality standards are not met. 14 February Papers reveal Mao's view of women
The papers include transcripts of talks between Mao and the then US National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger covering a range of issues from the Soviet threat and Taiwan. But during the talks, the Chinese leader made a surprising offer to send what he described as an excess of 10 million Chinese women to the US. The discussions between Mao and Mr Kissinger in February 1973 took place at a villa in Beijing. The Chinese leader smoked cigars and the two men talked and joked into the early hours of the morning. Apology to interpreter The papers show that Mao's comments about Chinese women were a recurring theme. He lamented the dismal state of trade between the two countries but remarked that China had an excess of women. He suggested sending tens of thousands to the US, but later in the conversation increased his offer to 10 million. The remark provoked laughter and was clearly meant as a joke, but Mao went on to complain that Chinese women were giving birth to too many children. If they were sent to the US he said, they would flood the country with disaster. When discussing the possibility of a Soviet invasion of China, Mao complained that too many Chinese women didn't know how to fight. A Chinese official warned that his comments would incur public anger if they
were released. Mao later apologised to a female interpreter and he and Mr Kissinger agreed
to remove his comments about women from the records. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7243500.stm 13 February British Olympian hits out at China amid gagging row Richard Vaughan, a quarter-finalist in badminton at both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and currently ranked 30th in the world, has said that it was "very difficult to keep a polite silence about a conflict that continues to cost so many lives." His comments came just days after the BOA backed down over its shocking plan to appeasement to prevent the country's competitors from commenting on "politically sensitive issues" surrounding the Games in Beijing this summer. The BOA apparently feels it is more important to have an enjoyable, stress-free time for three weeks in Beijing than dwell ion the fact that more
than 200,000 people have died from war, famine and disease, and upwards
of two million have fled their homes in Darfur since ethic minority
rebels began fighting against Sudan's Arab-dominated regime in 2003, thanks in part to Sudan's biggest foreign trade partner, China, which has also invested more
than 400 million dollars in Darfur alone. "While many nations have tried to isolate Sudan by breaking economic ties, China has significantly backed the government of Sudan with trade particularly in oil," Vaughan said in the statement released by campaigning group Crisis Action. "It has major influence in Sudan and could help to end the suffering of millions of people affected by the conflict in the Darfur region ... In the spirit of the Games, I would ask China as all nations to help Darfur, so that athletes can compete safe in the knowledge that everything is being done to stop the conflict." Crisis Action said a letter would be delivered to Chinese embassies around the world calling for action on the crisis in Darfur that has been signed by Vaughan, along with seven Nobel Peace prize winners and several other politicians and celebrities. Spielberg pulls out of OlympicsMove marks public relations blow to China
What was shameful to begin with was the fact that Spielberg, knowing
the nature of China's regime, volunteered to act as the 'artistic
director' for the If he were to continue legitimising the Chinese Communist Party is
nothing less than a crime against humanity. At least he waited until
this last moment to stop substantially contributing to the greatest
crime against humanity since the holocaust. He released the following statement today: From the BBC, blocked in the country awarded this year's Olympic Games:
Spielberg boycotts Olympic role
In a statement, he accused China of not doing enough to pressure its ally Sudan to end the "continuing human suffering" in the troubled western Darfur region. At least 200,000 people have been killed and two million forced from their homes in the five-year conflict. Human Rights Watch welcomed Spielberg's move, and said it should prompt other corporate sponsors to press for reform. In a statement, Mr Spielberg said: "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual. "At this point, my time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies, but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur." He added: "Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more." 'Repression rising' Sudan, with its vast oil reserves, sells some two-thirds of its oil to Beijing. In turn, Beijing sells weapons to the Sudanese government and has defended Khartoum in the UN Security Council. As a result, China has been criticised for its links with a government ostracised by many for its role in the ongoing crisis in Darfur. Human Rights Watch said corporate sponsors, governments and National Olympic Committees should urge Beijing to improve human rights conditions. Minky Worden said: "Repression in China is on the rise, and Olympic sponsors, governments, or world leaders - especially those planning to attend the Games - can't pretend otherwise. "These influential players should be prepared to show the steps they are taking to address the worsening rights climate in China, or they risk being tarnished by a human rights debacle." 'Tremendous potential' Earlier on Tuesday, as part of a "Global Day of Action" focusing on Darfur, an open letter signed by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and former Olympians was sent to China's president. "We are all aware of the tremendous potential for China to help bring an end to the conflict in Darfur," said the letter, delivered to the Chinese mission to the United Nations by actress Mia Farrow and former Olympic swimmers Shannon Shakespeare and Nikki Dryden. Farrow, who had pressed Spielberg to end his involvement, said his decision sent out the right signal to the Chinese Government. She said: "I'm delighted by his decision and it's a desperate time for Darfur so this is a shred of good news in a very bleak week. "Through his participation with the games it was clear that he was giving his moral cover to Beijing at a time when they're underwriting genocide in Darfur. So I hoped that he would discontinue his participation with the games." |
Chairman Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao
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