This is only the most recent of a series of arrests and detentions of this couple.
Since 1999, torture at psychiatric hospitals has been a well-documented feature of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief.
Accounts of forced labor and of torture oftern using regular criminal inmates as enforcers.
A review of the U.N. Commission against Torture's most recent report on China's human rights situation.
After his recent arrest, Mr. Tian suffered a beating and other mistreatment that has left him in critical condition.
On September 8, 2009, Ms Zhang Xinyi was arrested the fourth time, because she was trying to persuade authorities to release a Falun Gong practitioner who was detained in a mental hospital. She her husband had obtained United Nations refugee status in Cambodian. But CCP let the Cambodian government arrest and repatriate them. She had been sentenced to three years in prison in 2006.
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