Xie Yan
Open Forum
Facts of the Persecution
Clarifying the Truth in Geneva
Voices of Justice
News and Activities Around the World
People Awaken to the Truth
Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences
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[Clearwisdom Editor's note: This report was submitted to the 60th United Nations Human Rights Commission in April, 2004. For the full report, please see http://www.upholdjustice.org/English.2/AtrocitiesInChina1.pdf]
Compiled By
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
April 2004
Preface
We have compiled this collection of cases of victims who died from torture for their belief to commemorate them and to appeal to the people of the world.
We particularly appeal to the international communities and request investigation of this systematic, ongoing, egregious violation of human rights committed by the Government of the People's Republic of China against Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual practice that includes exercise and meditation. Its principles are based on the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice began in China in 1992 and quickly spread throughout China and then beyond. By the end of 1998, by the Chinese government's own estimate, there were 70 - 100 million people in China who had taken up the practice, outnumbering Communist Party member. Despite the fact that it was good for the people and for the stability of the country, former President JIANG Zemin launched in July 1999 an unprecedented persecution of Faun Gong out of fears of losing control.
Today the persecution of Falun Gong still continues in China. As of the end of March 2004, 918 Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed to die from persecution. More than 100,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been detained and imprisoned. Those who openly express and practice their belief are met with torture, arbitrary arrests and detention. Forced Labor camps, mental hospitals, state-owned media and the law have been misused as tools of severe human rights violations. Forced labor and selling organs of executed prisoners are still common.
These violations have been extensively documented in numerous reports of the United Nations and international human rights organizations. Such reports include those issued by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Questions of Torture, by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, just to name a few.
The cases documented in this collection are violations of some deeply held and universally acknowledged human rights that include the right to not be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and deprived of life; the right to not be subjected to torture and genocide; the right to hold and exercise views and beliefs freely and without interference; the right to liberty and security of the person; and the right to associate with others and to practice religious and spiritual beliefs without restriction.
These rights are enshrined in a number of widely ratified international treaties. Among the specific human rights treaty standards violated by the Chinese Government are the Convention Against Torture, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Genocide Convention, and the United Nations Charter. Many of these same standards are embodied in customary international law and in jus cogens, as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The exercise by the victims of these internationally recognized human rights, enshrined in both treaty and customary international law, and universally recognized as part of the law of nations, has been seriously and maliciously abridged by the policies and actions of the Chinese Government under JIANG Zemin and his cohorts acting under color of law and in their official and quasi-official capacities, clearly outside the scope of their lawful and legitimate authority.
This submission represents tireless and heroic efforts by numerous individuals and human rights organizations during the past four years. The details of violations contained herein, particularly the circumstances of deaths, are based primarily on accounts of eyewitnesses who are victims themselves, relatives and friends of victims, neighbors, co-workers, journalists, and Chinese Government officials including policemen who wanted to put an end to the persecution. Our sources in China have taken tremendous risks in collecting and passing to us information to be included in this submission.
We are ready to provide detailed information to assist investigations by international organizations, information that includes names, telephone numbers, addresses and other information identifying and locating the perpetrators.
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong is a U.S.-based non-profit organization with the mission to bring human rights violators to justice. It is focused on investigating and publishing human rights violations against Falun Gong. www.upholdjustice.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. FACTS OF PERSECUTION
II. DETAILED CASES OF TORTURE RELATED DEATHS
BEIJING
1. ZHAO Xin
2. WU Yao
3. GUANG Lin
4. WANG Chan
5. GONG Baohua
6. MEI Yulan
7. LI YulingHEBEI PROVINCE
8. FAN Yaxiong
9. SUN Yanqing
10. YANG Yufang
11. JIANG Shuhua
12. WANG Ailing
13. ZHU Yourong
14. CHEN Aizhong
15. CHEN Hongping
16. GAO Shiping
17. SUN Yumei
18. ZHANG Zhigen
19. SONG Cuiling
20. YANG Yufang
21. DING Yan
22. ZHAO Fengnian
23. LIU Shusong
24. LIU Rongxiu
25. TAO Hongsheng
26. DING Gangzi
27. ZUO Zhigang
28. LI ZhishuiHEILONGJIANG PROVINCE
29. WANG Shufang
30. HE Huajiang
31. LIU Tongling
32. WANG Shuqin
33. ZHENG Wenqin
34. SHANG Guangshen
35. HE Caibin
36. LIU Jinling
37. MENG Xianzhi
38. REN Pengwu
39. WEI Shujiang
40. YU Guanyun
41. ZHOU Jingsen
42. DENG Xiangyun
43. ZHANG Zhenfu
44. YUAN Hezhen
45. ZHANG Xuewen
46. YANG Hailing
47. GUO Meisong
48. ZHAO Chunying
49. LIU Guiying
50. LIU Yan
51. ZHANG Xiaochun
52. WANG Baoxian
53. ZHANG Changming
54. ZHANG Tao
55. WU Lingxia
56. ZHANG Yanchao
57. YANG Wenhua
58. ZHANG Min
59. LIU Xiaoling
60. LI Baoshui
61. ZHANG Tieyan
62. CUI Xiaojuan
63. WANG Bin
64. YE Xiufeng
65. CHEN Qiulan
66. ZHANG Weixin
67. LI Xiaorong
68. LU Xiuyun
69. NIU Huaiyi
70. YU Yongquan
71. WANG Kemin
72. LI Xiufen
73. HUA Haiyu
74. LU Bingshen
75. ZUO GuoqingGUANGDONG PROVINCE
76. HONG Haoyuan
77. CHEN Chengyong
78. GAO Xianmin
79. HAO Runjuan
80. LUO Zhixiang
81. LAI Zhijun
82. LI Xiaojing
83. YANG Xueqin
84. ZHENG Huabing
85. RAO Zhuoyuan
86. Unknown Practitioner
87. HUANG Weijun
88. WU Jingfang
89. LI Liang
90. YANG Cheng
91. CHEN DuoJILIN PROVINCE
92. WANG Tiesong
93. ZHANG Yulan
94. DING Yunde
95. ZHANG Quanfu
96. ZHANG Qifa
97. ZHI Guixiang
98. WANG Xiuyun
99. CUI Zhengshu
100. DENG Shiying
101. FU Chunsheng
102. GUO Yaling
103. LI Zaiji
104. LIU Mingke
105. LU Shuqiu
106. WANG Lixin
107. WANG Xiufen
108. XIAO Jinsong
109. YU Lixin
110. ZHAO Jin
111. YANG Guijun
112. YANG Guiqin
113. SUN Shiwen
114. ZHOU Wenjie
115. SUN Youfa
116. LIU Yucai
117. CHEN Yongzhe
118. CHU Congrui
119. KONG Fanrong
120. TONG Zhentian
121. WANG Guoping
122. SUN Shizhong
123. HAN Yuzhu
124. LI Shuhua
125. YUE Kai
126. YU Qiushi
127. LIU Chengjun
128. LIU Haibo
129. HOU Mingkai
130. LI Rong
131. LIU Yi
132. SHEN Jianli
133. LI Shuqin
134. Unknown Practitioner
135. HAN Chunyuan
136. WANG Kefei
137. YIN Shuyun
138. SONG Changguang
139. ZHANG Zhenqiu
140. BAI Xiaojun
141. JI Jingchang
142. LIU Lei
143. Mrs. TIAN
144. LI Jing
145. ZHANG Yuanming
146. YANG Guiqin
147. HOU Xiuping
148. WANG Yan
149. XU Xijun
150. JIN Junjie
151. HOU Lijun
152. ZOU Benhui
153. ZHANG Wenya
154. YANG YanLIAONING PROVINCE
155. LI Ying
157. WANG Xiuxia
158. LI Yanhua
159. HUANG Ke
160. WEI Zaixin
161. LI Xiumei
162. LI Zhongmin
163. ZHENG Wei
164. ZOU Wenzhi
165. KOU Xiaoping
166. YUAN Zhongyu
167. SUN Xueyan
168. YU Xiuling
169. ZENG Xianmei
170. ZOU Guirong
171. FANG Lihong
172. SUN Yuhua
173. ZHANG Li
174. QIU Zhiyan
175. LI HongweiSHANDONG PROVINCE
176. ZHAO Jinhua
177. CHEN Zixiu
178. XIAO Peifeng
179. LI Shande
180. LIU Xuguo
181. LIU Yufeng
182. WANG Lixuan
183. MENG Hao
184. ZOU Songtao
185. WANG Yongdong
186. XU Zengliang
187. XIA Shucai
188. JIANG Liying
189. WANG Lanxiang
190. LI Mei
191. SU Gang
192. MA Yanfang
193. ZHANG Dezhen
194. LIU Shufen
195. XUAN Chengxi
196. ZHANG Zhenzhong
197. WANG Huaiying
198. CHEN Guibin
199. WANG Peisheng
200. YANG Guizhen
201. MENG Qingxi
202. ZHANG Zhiyou
203. WANG Yixin
204. LI Huixi
205. LOU Aiqing
206. XU Bing
207. LIU Shuchun
208. SUN Shaomei
209. WANG Aijuan
210. LI Yinping
211. LI Xianglan
212. WANG Xiujuan
213. SHANG Qingling
214. REN Tingling
215. CONG Yu'e
216. WANG Jinlong
217. WU Haiyou
218. GUO Ping
219. WU Jingxia
220. ZHENG Fangying
221. LIU Chun
222. QI Fengqin
III. LIST OF 918 VICTIMS WHO DIED FROM TORTURE AS OF MARCH 2004
ANHUI PROVINCE (13)
BEIJING (24)
CHONGQING (27)
FUJIAN PROVINCE (7)
GANSU PROVINCE (22)
GUANGDONG PROVINCE (25)
GUANGXI AUTONOMOUS REGION (2)
GUIZHOU PROVINCE (8)
HAINAN AUTONOMOUS REGION (1)
HEBEI PROVINCE (92)
HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE (147)
HENAN PROVINCE (29)
HUBEI PROVINCE (39)
HUNAN PROVINCE (19)
INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION (9)
JIANGSU PROVINCE (7)
JIANGXI PROVINCE (13)
JILIN PROVINCE (118)
LIAONING PROVINCE (100)
NINGXIA AUTONOMOUS REGION (1)
QINGHAI PROVINCE (4)
SHAANXI PROVINCE (6)
SHANDONG PROVINCE (103)
SHANGHAI (6)
SHANXI PROVINCE (17)
SICHUAN PROVINCE (92)
YUNNAN PROVINCE (1)
ZHEJIANG PROVINCE (2)
[Clearwisdom Editor's note: This report was submitted to the 60th United Nations Human Rights Commission in April, 2004. For the full report, please see http://www.upholdjustice.org/English.2/AtrocitiesInChina2.pdf]
Jointly Compiled By
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong
Fa Wang Hui Hui -- Database system dedicated to collecting information on the persecution of Falun Gong
Web Site: http://www.fawanghuihui.org
April 2004
We have compiled this list of victims who were persecuted for their belief to appeal to the people of the world.
We particularly appeal to the international communities and request investigation of this systematic, ongoing, egregious violation of human rights committed by the Government of the People's Republic of China against Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual practice that includes exercise and meditation. Its principles are based on the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice began in China in 1992 and quickly spread throughout China and then beyond. By the end of 1998, by the Chinese government's own estimate, there were 70-100 million people in China who had taken up the practice, outnumbering Party members. Despite the fact that it was good for the people and for the stability of the country, former President Jiang Zemin launched an unprecedented persecution of Faun Gong, in July 1999, out of fears of losing control.
Today the persecution of Falun Gong still continues in China. As of the end of March 2004, 918 Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed to die from persecution. More than 100,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been detained and imprisoned. Those who openly express and practice their belief are met with tortures, arbitrary arrests and detentions. Forced Labor camps, mental hospitals, state-owned media and the law have been misused as tools of severe human rights violations. Forced labor and selling organs of executed prisoners are still common.
These violations have been extensively documented in numerous reports of the United Nations and international human rights organizations. Such reports include those issued by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Questions of Torture, by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, just to name a few.
The cases documented in this collection are violations of some deeply held and universally acknowledged human rights that include the right to not be arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned and deprived of life; the right to not be subjected to torture and genocide; the right to hold and exercise views and beliefs freely and without interference; the right to liberty and security of the person; and the right to associate with others and to practice religious and spiritual beliefs without restriction.
These rights are enshrined in a number of widely ratified international treaties. Among the specific human rights treaty standards violated by the Chinese Government are the Convention Against Torture, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Genocide Convention, and the United Nations Charter. Many of these same standards are embodied in customary international law and in jus cogens, as articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The exercise by the victims of these internationally recognized human rights, enshrined in both treaty and customary international law, and universally recognized as part of the law of nations, has been seriously and maliciously abridged by the policies and actions of the Chinese Government under Jiang Zemin and his cohorts acting under cover of law and in their official and quasi-official capacities, clearly outside the scope of their lawful and legitimate authority.
This submission represents tireless and heroic efforts by numerous individuals and human rights organizations during the past four years. The information contained herein are based primarily on accounts of eyewitnesses who are victims, relatives and friends of victims, neighbors, co-workers, journalists, and Chinese Government officials including policemen who wanted to put an end to the persecution. Our sources in China have taken tremendous risks in collecting and passing to us information to be included in this submission.
We are ready to provide detailed information to assist investigations by international organizations, information that includes names, telephone numbers, addresses and other information identifying and locating the perpetrators.
World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) is a U.S.-based non-profit organization with the mission to bring human rights violators to justice. It is focused on investigating and publishing human rights violations against Falun Gong.
Fa Wang Hui Hui (FWHH) is a database system dedicated to collecting information on the persecution of Falun Gong. FWHH publishes various reports on the persecution of Falun Gong together with other human rights organizations and by itself.
In this report, information regarding victims is listed in the order of Name, Gender, Age, and Unique ID in the FWHH system.
Table of Contents
(Clearwisdom.net)
According to Radio Free Asia reporter Zijin, Ian Johnson, a Wall Street Journal reporter in the USA who won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Falun Gong practitioner Chen Zixiu's brutal beating death, recently published a new book named "Wild Grass." [Visit http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=357 and http://www.ncuscr.org/Public_Education/ianjohnson.htm for more info]
The book tells the story of how three ordinary Chinese citizens stepped forward at the grassroots level to defend their basic human rights. On March 29, the New York Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Overseas Press Club cosponsored an evening program and book signing reception for Ian Johnson.
The author's book examines the cases of three Chinese citizens, including one from coastal China, one from Beijing, and another from Northwest China. It reflects the real situation of modern grassroots movements in different areas. The book's title, "Wild Grass" acknowledges these individuals' will to survive and thrive with little care or support.
One of the stories tells of a self-educated lawyer who helps peasants file a lawsuit against illegal taxation, and ends up being imprisoned. Although the peasants lost the lawsuit, government officials no longer dared to abuse and take advantage of them as boldly as before. Although Johnson demonstrates many shortcomings of the legal system, he also showed measured optimism, indicating that many people have now begun using legal means to expose corruption in the government. The second story is about a Qinghua University architect who tries to save Beijing's dwindling heritage from the bulldozer. The third story covers Falun Gong practitioner Chen Zixiu's daughter's appeals for her mother's unjustified death, and how she was subsequently sentenced to three years of forced labor.
Ian Johnson says, "If you ask the Chinese if they are interested in politics, they generally say no, but they are very concerned with corruption. They wish for common rights and freedoms, and are unhappy with government officials controlling their property and beliefs. People are gradually realizing that they need to step forward and use legal means to protect their rights."
A member of the audience asked Mr. Johnson what prompted him to report on the Falun Gong issue. He said that Falun Gong is an important issue regarding China's future. The editor also realized that the persecution deaths were not just one or two isolated instances, and that this phenomenon truly reflects the gap between China and the rest of the world.
A reporter asked him whether, as a Westerner, he encountered any obstacles or dangers in reporting on the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. He admitted that indeed there was risk involved. Local Chinese policemen keep a close watch on where a foreign reporter goes, and they know where he/she stays.. The worst case for him was to be expelled from the country, but his main concern was for those he has interviewed.
An audience asked his opinion on China's progress. He replied that China's economics is making progress, yet there's no sign of political reform at this point. The Communist Party remains above the law.
Ian Johnson is currently the Berlin Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal. He lived in China for seven years and served as the Beijing correspondent and Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal.
(April 1, a broadcast by Radio Free Asia summarized by Epochtimes)
(Clearwisdom.net) According to reliable sources, an undergraduate student of Harbin Industrial University whose name and age are unknown, was tortured to death on the morning of April 5, 2004. This student practitioner was illegally sentenced and put in Brigade Two of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. Because he refused to write statements denouncing Falun Gong, he was put in the confinement cell. The police ordered four criminals to torture him. They did not give him any food to eat, nor did they allow him to put any clothes on. In order to cover up their crimes, the police carried his corpse to the prison hospital pretending they were giving him emergency treatment. His body was covered with wounds and there was no trace of food in his stomach.
After his death, the prison has tightly blocked the news. Details about his death being investigated.
2004-4-9
(Clearwisdom.net)
Case 1, Xinjiang Engineering Institute (now part of Xinjiang University) Lecturer, Ms. Li Xianghong, is Abused in a Mental Hospital
Xinjiang Engineering Institute lecturer, Ms. Li Xianghong, went to Beijing to appeal after July 20, 1999, and was abducted and taken to the Fourth Peoples' Hospital (a Mental Hospital) located in Wulumuqi City, by authorities from the Xinjiang "610 Office"(1) to receive mandatory "mental treatment." She was forced to receive various drugs without her consent and underwent psychological abuse for persisting in her belief in Falun Dafa. She was confined within a group of patients who had diagnosed mental illness. Due to the abuse she received, she could not speak normally, and was frequently abused and insulted by some male mental patients. Her situation, totally ignored by the hospital staff, was later witnessed by visiting Falun Dafa practitioners in August and September of 1999. Later, the hospital learned that the visitors were also Falun Dafa practitioners and refused their request for a second visit, out of fear of exposing their criminal treatment of Ms. Li.
Ms. Li Xianghong is now illegally sentenced to an 11-year prison term (or a 12-year term as indicated by another source) and is currently detained in Xinjiang Women's Prison (Xinjiang No. 2 Prison).
Case 2, Dafa Practitioner Liu Anhong, of Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Group Company Is Mentally Abused
Mr. Liu Anhong is a worker of the Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel Group Company. Due to his hunger strike against forced labor and illegal detention and because of his continued practice of Falun Gong, he was chained onto a bed for over four months at the Xinjiang Changjie Forced Labor Camp. He was force-fed daily and beaten by prison guards Gu Jianhai, Ning Tao and Tian Hu. The other prisoners were punished for Mr. Liu's protest and had their merit scores reduced and prison terms extended to incite their hatred against Mr. Liu, so, they also beat him.
After Mr. Liu's release from the Changjie Forced Labor Camp in 2002, he was forced into the Wulumuqi No. 4 Peoples' Hospital (Mental Hospital) by authorities with the Xinjiang Autonomous Government "610 Office" and Bayi Iron & Steel Group Company's "610 Office." He was forcibly injected with drugs and forced to take pills that damaged his nervous system. After over three months of treatment, Liu Anhong's nervous system was severely damaged, resulting in lack of facial expression and slow brain activity. In August 2003, Liu Anhong was illegally sentenced again to a labor camp for telling the public the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa and is now held in Xinjiang's Changjie Forced Labor Camp.
Some doctors at the Wulumuqi No. 4 Hospital unconditionally followed the orders from the Wulumuqi Police Department authorities and persecuted Dafa practitioners through drug injections and psychological torture. Their conduct was totally unethical, immoral and is in violation of law and common professional medical ethical standards. Up till this day, there are many mental hospitals that directly participate in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners at the order of Jiang's political group. Here we strongly appeal to international human rights organizations to pay attention to this ongoing persecution toward Falun Dafa practitioners in China. We, Falun Dafa practitioners in Xinjiang and all kind people invite the World Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatric Congress, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong and other international organizations to come to Xinjiang and investigate the above mentioned and other persecution cases of Falun Dafa practitioners.
Mailing address of Wulumuqi No. 4 Peoples' Hospital:
Jianquan Street, Wulumuqi City, Xinjiang Province, Postal code: 830002
Former president: Song Ying, left the post in 2003, currently is president of Wulumuqi Women and Children Health Institute and Vice Party Chief. Phone: 86-991-8554660, 86-991-8554656 (work)
Currentl president: Xu Xiangdong, 86-991-2655080
Party chief: Yang Zaixue, 86-991-8839981
(1) "610 Office": a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.
2004-3-31
(Clearwisdom.net) On February 23, 2004, police in Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, conducted a massive search and arrested practitioners, ransacking their homes illegally. Up till now, about 130 practitioners have been abducted. They are detained in the Yuechi Detention Center and Huan City Brainwashing Center of Guang'an Region. Many practitioners have been forced to leave home to escape further persecution.
It was said that as the hundredth birthday of the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is approaching (in August), Jiang and other high-ranking officials would come to Guang'an. During this recent period of time, the persons in Chongqing City and Guang'an City attempted to work together to arrest several Dafa practitioners, but practitioners broke through their attempts with righteous thoughts. We are exposing the facts of their persecution below:
Guang'an Huaying City Armed Forces Hostel, "Brainwashing Center for Law Education Base": Chen Luguo, Yu Kaofu, Zhou Dingcheng;
Zeng Zhongbin, Party Secretary of Chongqing Hechuan City, Xianglong Town, Baita Village (he keeps providing information to the authority)
"610 Office" Chief, Tang Zhenghua (Chongqing Hechuan City, Xianglong Town Police Station)
Propaganda Department of Guang'an Municipal Party Committee, Overseas
Propaganda Department of Guang'an Municipal Party Committee: 86-826-2336627,
86-826-2333823
Intermediate Court of Guang'an City, address: Jinan Avenue, Guang'an City, Sichuan
Province, phone: 86-826-2333255
People's Court in Guang'an City, address: Hou Street, Guang'an City, Sichuan
Province, phone: 86-826-2222810
People's Procuratorate of Guang'an City, address: Jianan Road, Guang'an City,
Sichuan Province, phone: 86-826-2333734
People's Procuratorate of Guang'an City, address: Bei Street, Guang'an City,
Sichuan Province, phone: 86-826-2222206
April 1, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
On the morning of March 11, 2004, about 200 Falun Dafa practitioners from Huanggang City in Hubei Province, attended the funeral of Zheng Zhong, a Dafa practitioner who died as a result of persecution. Dafa practitioners were clarifying the truth of the persecution while under great pressure. On the afternoon of March 12, many departments, headed by the city's National Security Bureau started to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners, seizing approximately seven practitioners in three days.
Three undercover agents from the National Security Bureau, Wu Sanmin, Li Xiangyin, and Yang Ping directed the arrests. In three days, they led a group of police officers to arrest approximately seven Falun Dafa practitioners while they were working. The following are the practitioners known to have been arrested: Zhang Daohe, Wang Feng, Sun Wei, and Mrs. Lu. With the exceptions of Wang Feng (about 30 years old), and Sun Wei (twenty years old), all others were elderly practitioners. These police officers did not show any identification; they broke in and ransacked the homes of practitioners, went through things at will, and seized all of the practitioners' Falun Dafa books. According to sources, the practitioners were sent to a brainwashing center in Hubei Province.
In order to avoid persecution, some Dafa practitioners had to leave their homes to avoid further persecution. The police monitored Dafa practitioners' homes day and night in order to arrest any who left the premises.
By attending the funeral, Dafa practitioners did not break any laws, nor did they disturb the social order. Each person just held one white flower and calmly walked down the street. They called out from their hearts to the people: "Stop the persecution" and "Falun Dafa is good." We hope that kind-hearted people will join us and suppress the evil actions of the National Security and Public Security Bureau, and stop the attempts of Jiang's followers to override the constitution of China in their persecution of Falun Dafa.
At the same time, we hope local practitioners are not deceived by surface appearances which are controlled by evil in other dimensions. We need to seize this opportunity even more to clarify the truth to the general public and expose the evil, while at the same time eliminating all of the evil in other dimensions with righteous thoughts.
People Responsible for Persecution from the National Security Bureau:
Wu Sanmin, Li Xiangyin, Wang Xiaomei, and Yang Ping
People Responsible for Persecution from the Police Department:
Li Guozhang: 86-135-97598389
Yang Jianhua: 86-139-71702707 (Legal Section Chief)
Zhu Qinghong: 86-713-8814058 (Home), 86-13871999279 (Cell)
Huang Zhixiang: 86-713-8811690 (H), 86-13971705059 (Cell)
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Li Baichun, a 37-year-old resident of Ganan County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor at the Jiutai Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp for appealing in Beijing on February 15, 2001. In that period of time, he steadfastly maintained his belief in Teacher and the Dafa and firmly resisted the persecution.
The police at the labor camp beat Mr. Li, struck him with electric batons, and tied him to the "dead person's bed" (1) for more than one month. He was terribly tortured by the police and had scabs covering his body. During the 31 months of relentless torture and abuse, Mr. Li Baichun never wavered in his belief in Teacher and Dafa. Under Teacher's protection, he got out of the labor camp in June 2003.
Seeing his declining physical condition and not wanting Mr. Li to die inside the forced labor camp, the police pushed him out of the gates and left him with only 9 yuan. He got on a bus to his hometown of Songyuan City. Upon getting off the bus, he was in such bad shape that he was coughing up blood. Mr. Li took a taxi home to his 12-year-old daughter, who at first did not even recognize him. Li Baichun then asked his daughter for money to pay the taxi driver. As the young girl was paying, the taxi driver was in tears upon seeing his plight.
At 9 PM on September 22, 2003, Shuizi Police Chief Jiang Wencai led several policemen to break into Mr. Li Baichun's home. They arrested him and sent him back to the Jiutai Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp. They also detained him in the so-called "Tight Instruction Class" in the Education Brigade for continuous brainwashing.
Shuizi Police Station, Ganan County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province:
Telephone 86-438-882-8677
Shuizi Police Station Director, Jiang Wencai: Telephone 86-438-822-1186 (Home)
(1): The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment would last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This type of cruel torture causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Partial account of persecution by authorities of the: Shenzhen City Futian District "610 Office," Futian District Police Bureau, Futian District Detention Center, and Futian District Court. (Abbreviated as District "610 Office," District Police Bureau, District Detention Center, and District People's Court)
Sentencing Falun Dafa Practitioners to Forced Labor Camps and Prisons
1. In 2000, Futian District Dafa Assistance Center volunteer assistant, Mr. Li Jianhui, and his wife Dai Ying, were sentenced to four years and three years respectively by the District People's Court. Just because Li held the title of Volunteer Assistant, this couple was accused of the crime of "organizing the disturbance of social order" before being thrown into jail.
2. Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Wang Renjing, and a practitioner with the surname Zhang, were sentenced to three and a half years and four years imprisonment respectively by the District People's Court because they published an appeal, from a Falun Dafa practitioner who was detained at the District Detention Center,
on the Internet .
3. In November 2000, four young and promising Falun Dafa practitioners, Mr. Zhou Lei, Mr. Liu Zhenming, Mr. Chao Hao, and Mr. Li Fulin, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven to fifteen years by authorities from the District "610 Office," the District Police Bureau, and the District People's Court. They were sentenced because they spread truth clarification materials from the top of a tall building near Gaojiao Center in Shenzhen City in order to break through the media blockade and let the people of Shenzhen City know the truth about the persecution.
4. After being arrested in 2000, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zheng Yuyan, was transferred to Guangdong Province Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp, Sanshui Forced Labor Camp, and Shenzhen City Women's Forced Labor Camp to be persecuted. She was not released until May 2003 when her term was overdue. In January 2004, she was seized by authorities from the District Police Station and the District "610 Office." It was said that the Futian District Judicial System authorities attempted to sentence her this time. The number of Futian District Falun Dafa practitioners being sent to forced labor camps for persecution is high. The exact number is not known.
Persecution through the means of cruel punishments
Futian District Forced Labor Camp is well known for its evil reputation, and it has committed numerous criminal deeds. All Falun Dafa practitioners who were detained there received inhuman treatment. The most commonly used torture methods are:
1. Harassment, and violation of practitioners' rights of freedom of speech at will;
2. Using criminals to brutally beat, curse, and humiliate practitioners;
3. Practitioners who steadfastly practiced the Falun Dafa exercises and studied the Falun Dafa teachings had their hands and feet tied up with ropes, their mouths covered with tape, or with rags from the bathroom, dirty socks, or dirty underwear;
4. Shackling steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners with handcuffs and foot shackles, putting them into the guard room for detention, depriving them of sleep for several days, and not giving them clothes to wear in wintertime;
5. Cruelly force-feeding Falun Dafa practitioners who were on hunger strike to resist the persecution
When they first started the force-feeding, police instigated male prisoners with a strong build and who were very cruel to force feed the practitioners. Five or six prisoners together would to the force-feeding on one Falun Dafa practitioner. They shoved the practitioner to the ground, then forcefully pressed him down to make sure that he could not move. Then they put a tube into the practitioner's mouth all the way down to his stomach, pinched his nose, and started force-feeding. These criminals had no medical training in performing force-feeding. The use of this dangerous method often made practitioners choke and even caused their lives to be in danger.
Later, two jail doctors started conducting force-feeding. One was male and the other was female, each about 50 years old. They often held up the nasal feeding tube, and threatened practitioners saying: "This nasal feeding tube was used before on patients with AIDS and patients with hepatitis. I don't care if you contract an infectious disease."
One time, in order to threaten a group of Falun Dafa practitioners who were on a hunger strike, the male doctor shoved the first practitioner to the ground and pressed him down. He put the nasal feeding tube into his stomach, then put the bamboo pipe into his throat. This caused this practitioner to suffer great pain, and he felt like throwing up. Then, they poured milk saturated with salt into the bamboo pipe. The practitioner couldn't breath either from his mouth or his nose. He almost choked to death. On the same day, his stomach started bleeding. According to the jail doctor, he gave the practitioner an injection to stop the bleeding; however, the practitioner still had blood in his urine, so the injection didn't work.
Humiliation:
At the end of 2000, when Jiang arrived in Shenzhen City, police in the Futian District Detention Center broke into every cell where Falun Dafa practitioners were detained. Female jail guards with the surnames Zhang, and Li and the warden forcefully took off female practitioners' clothes, leaving some wearing only one piece of underwear. They forced the practitioners to wear jail uniforms. For those practitioners who did not cooperate with them, the guards grabbed their hair and slammed their heads against the hard bed frame. Their means were very cruel. Under the instruction of some male policemen and the person in charge of the forced labor camp, the guards rushed into the cells all at once and started beating up prisoners whose appearance did not satisfy them. Two female practitioners were dragged out of the cell and punished by being forced to stand in freezing temperatures and made to stand under a spotlight.
Evil people's Board:
Wang Xiang: Male, former Futian District Police Bureau Politics and Security Section Manager. He was promoted to be the manager at the City Police bureau due to receiving credits from persecuting Falun Dafa. The majority of Futian District Falun Dafa practitioners received sentences, were sentenced to forced labor camps, or detained through his efforts. Once, he said to a Falun Dafa practitioner stupidly: "Even if I reincarnated into a rock after I die (because of karmic retribution for persecuting Falun Dafa), I will still transform you."
Futian District "610 Office": Chu Wenbo (manager)
Telephone: 86-755-84461598
86-755-84461599
Mobile phone: 86-13902939916
Shenzhen City Nanshan District "610 Office":
Wang Li (Manager) office phone number: 86-755-26563676
Mobile phone: 86-13802223388
Originally posted on March 24, 2004
April 15, 2004
Thank you all for coming. This is the third time I have spoken in this forum. I see there is a bigger audience every year, and I see the speaker list gets longer with more victims. The Chinese government claims that now is the best period of China's human rights and I am wondering why we are seeing more and more victims?
The speakers before me have spoken amply for the victims of the Chinese government's extensive and severe human rights violations; for a change, I want to speak on some issues regarding the perpetrators, the accomplices, the pawns used by the Chinese government to abuse others. I do not endorse their actions, but I do have sympathy for their humanity.
Before I go on, I want to show a short segment of a documentary film.
The whole film is 19 minutes long, but I am sure you will understand the point from the first 5 minutes.
The staging of the self-immolation in Tiananmen Square is a prime example of one fundamental tool of the Chinese regime's policy which is, the incitement of hatred. I often want to ask those who torture Falun Gong practitioners, and I have written to ordinary Chinese who hate Falun Gong. I want to ask them, Has any Falun Gong practitioner harmed you personally? Do you even know the victims? What made you hate them so much? Most of the time I don't get an answer, but occasionally I was told that they were misinformed.
Deceived by the hate propaganda, encouraged by promises of impunity, and enticed by financial rewards, policemen carry on their torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners completely devoid of humanity. Some openly claimed, "We are reincarnated little devils from hell, and we'll beat you into hell as well."
There is no question that they are criminals, but I wonder, what if they were brought up in a different country? I was educated in China to the college level. Besides learning numbers, scientific codes and equations that have no human sentiment, everything else I was taught in my school were steeped with hatred. Only after I came to the free world, I learned from independent sources that the hatred teachings were based on lies and fabrications. I realized this kind of education in effect only produces robotic mentalities with hatred. These indoctrinated people are very easy to use by the totalitarian regime. But what good will that be for humanity?
Now I also want to speak of a third unwitting victim of the Chinese government's aggression against humanity. It is an open secret that many in this institution are afraid of China. China's tactic is actually very unsophisticated: "if you criticize my human rights record, I will not do business with you." This creates a fear, a fear of being left out from some financial gain, a fear that has silenced many.
Now, this fear is nowhere near the terror the Chinese people live under. However, in its essence, this is the other fundamental tool of the Chinese regime's policy. With this tool, the Chinese government has achieved a feat no oppressors had ever accomplished before -- extracting acquiescence in the world towards its repeated human rights abuses. Maybe that is what the Chinese government is speaking about when it claimes it has the best time of human rights, the best time for it to abuse.
The third victim of the Chinese government's abuse, therefore, is international standards, universal principles, and the entire international community. This institution is a prime example. It was this institution, led by its first high commissioner, which spearheaded the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Chinese government, from 1989, is the most responsible for the low regard of this institution now.
Hatred and terror, those are the only two real tools of the Chinese totalitarian dictatorship. As a Chinese, someone grew up in that system, I cannot think of more.
Two days ago, in a forum Dr. Charles Graves of Interfaith International raised a question, "Why does the Chinese government suppress all religions and beliefs?" I answered, "More than beliefs and religions, the Chinese government suppresses anything that allows people to develop courage and love."
Looking at the speakers here, the victims here, the real NGOs here, they speak of courage and love. I dare to say that all positive, kind and good movements teachings lift people up with courage and love, and all that is evil controls people with hatred and fear, just the opposite. How is possible that the evil does not persecute human goodness?
Take Falun Gong as an example. Falun Gong is apolitical, it only teaches people to practice the principle of "Truth-Benevolence-Forbearance." A genuine internal cultivation following the principle will inevitably lead to personal integrity, courage, and universal love. This book, which documents the Chinese government's violence against women and children Falun Gong practitioners, is a product of courage and love of Falun Gong practitioners, who risked their lives to inform the world what is really going on in China. Someone said to me that we have taken a confrontational approach. I disagree completely. Our approach is completely peaceful. Ours is an approach of courage and love.
In conclusion, I say that the Chinese people's quest of freedom, including the quest of freedom of belief and religion, is a quest of courage and love, and at the same time resists hatred and fear. Their quest is not just for themselves, not even just for all Chinese, but for all humanity.
I don't know how many voting members are here. I hope more people can pass the message to them. Tomorrow, an important vote will happen in this institution. With my heart-felt sincerity, I call upon the world, vote with your conscience, vote for your own humanity.
Thank you for your understanding
Xie Yan |
(Clearwisdom.net, April 14, 2004) Australian Falun Gong practitioner Phillip Law published an open letter to the public on April 8. In the letter, he called for help rescuing his fiancée, Shirley Sie, who has been falsely arrested and held by authorities following the persecution policies of Jiang Zemin in China. On April 9, while the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission 2004 was being held in Geneva, Phillip Law traveled to Geneva to appeal to delegations from different countries to help rescue his fiancée and other victims of persecution. Below is his open letter to the public:
An Open Letter to the Public
An Urgent Appeal for Human Rights and Conscience: Rescue my fiancée
In February 2002, I was threatened with 15 years of imprisonment and with execution after being arrested while on the from the streets of Beijing, by authorities following the persecution policies of Jiang Zemin, the former president of China. The reason for my unlawful arrest was only that I practice Falun Gong. Once in custody, I was not allowed to have any communication with the Australian Embassy in Beijing even though I had an Australian passport. The authorties told me, "What we say and what we do are the laws, and there is no need for a court trial before carrying out execution or imprisonment."
The confirmed death cases of Falun Gong practitioners have quickly approached 930, as the result of gross violations of human rights by Jiang's group. What is shocking is that an 8- month-old baby was also killed because his mother refused to give up practicing Falun Dafa.
On February 23 this year, my fiancée, Shirley Sie was taken from her home by authorities from the "610 Office", an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems. On the same day, seven others were also seized in a similar way, including an Australian citizen's sister, Tang Yiwen, who is in danger of losing her life while in custody. Shirley Sie had been previously imprisoned and tortured for over two years between October 2000 and January 2003, for refusing to give up Falun Dafa.
Since her arrest approximately 45 days ago, I have not heard anything about Shirley, and no communication is allowed to reach her. I do not how her current condition nor whether she is still alive. At present, she is still probably being held in a place that is officially called, the "Tianhe Law School of Guangzhou City," but is in reality a brainwashing center.
Over the years, authorities who follow the persecution policies of Jiang Zemin have tricked and deceived many of us into believing that its gross human rights abuses would improve. However, the authorities continue to commit well-documented human rights violations against Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, Catholics, and other ethnic minorities. They have manipulated the world into witnessing its killing, but without openly condemning their crimes.
The Chinese regime has labeled their human rights violations as "an internal matter", and has succeeded, so far, in limiting the discussion of human rights issues to "bilateral talks" among a few politicians, because it does not believe that human rights rests with each person and is a universal matter. If it is to continue this way, then human rights will become the privilege of a few politicians who make foreign affairs policy. In this case, there will never be true human rights for everyone. The acts of using political, diplomatic and economic coercion and/or enticement to continue violating and covering up human rights abuses, and Jiang's political group's killing deserve open, international condemnation.
The 60th session of the 2004 United Nations Human Rights Commission, is currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland. May I appeal to you to urge our delegation to vote in support of a resolution that condemns Jiang's political group's continuous killing, torture and other violations of human rights. May I also appeal to you to urgently help rescue my fiancée. Her Chinese name is Sie Yen, and you may wish to ask the Foreign Affairs Department to communicate with their Chinese counterparts, to obtain her release and ensure her safety.
I am going to Geneva this Friday to appeal to delegations from different countries to help rescue my fiancée and other victims of this vicious persecution. Your help is very much appreciated by the parents of my fiancée, my family, friends and all kind-hearted people.
Sincerely Yours
Phillip Law
(Clearwisdom.net) At 10am on April 9, 2004, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter gave a speech on a variety of subjects at a Town Meeting in the Student Faculty Center at Temple University. About one hundred people attended. In the question and answer session, Senator Specter said that we must do our best to pressure the Chinese government to respect human rights
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter gives a speech at a Town Meeting in Temple University.
An audience member asked him, "The United Nations Commission on Human Rights will put to a vote a motion by the United States that criticizes China's human rights violations. What is your opinion about human rights in China?"
Senator said, "I have a shocking story about China's human rights. A few years ago, a librarian in Pennsylvania was imprisoned for seven months in China. I initiated a motion to condemn what the Chinese government had done and requested a response from the Ambassador of China. I went to the Chinese Embassy one morning, without knowing that the librarian would be released on the same day. The Chinese Ambassador gave me a lesson before the librarian was released. He said, 'Mr. Senator, we don't like to see you interfere with China's internal affairs.' I said, "You threw a Pennsylvanian in prison without any formal legal proceeding or lawyer's involvement."
Senator Specter emphasized that there was no doubt that what the Chinese government is doing by persecuting and discriminating against certain religions and beliefs is problematic. As early as 1997, the American government has moved to apply sanctions on countries that infringe upon and discriminate against people's spiritual beliefs.
An audience member passed a letter to the Senator, asking for his attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. More than nine hundred people have died in this persecution. Her friend's sister, Qiu Yanyan, had been illegally detained for practicing Falun Gong. Senator Specter said, "This question concerns her friend who was sent to a forced labor camp for two years and a half for no reason. It is a pity that things like this always happen in China. We have been strongly condemning it and will continue our efforts on a larger scale to influence the Chinese government's behavior."
When Senator Specter headed out, another Falun Gong practitioner talked to him about the motion on China's human rights at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting and hoped he would try to call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the motion. The Senator asked his legal assistant, Mr. William Reynolds to help with it. Mr. Reynolds said he would contact the State Department about it.
(Clearwisdom.net, April 16, 2004) During the past few years, at activities organised by Berlin practitioners for introducing Falun Dafa and clarifying the truth to the public, practitioners always focused on a few regular places. Not so long ago, we heard that the Chinese Prime Minister would visit Germany. After sharing understandings between Berlin practitioners, we felt that we should form a righteous field and try our best to let the whole society - people at every level and from every corner - know that Falun Gong is good and how Falun Gong is being persecuted by Jiang Zemin in China. Beginning last week, Berlin Dafa practitioners have started to clarify the truth to people in different districts.
On Wednesday, April 7, the first activity was held in front of a big Bazaar, which was also near an underground station. People going home from work passed by and were happy to talk for a few minutes. They left satisfied after learning the facts of Falun Dafa. Because people coming out of the underground station were all arriving at the same time, sometimes practitioners could not manage to give out the materials to every passenger. An elderly man who did not get a newspaper from practitioners stopped to watch us to practice the exercises. When the crowd dispersed, a practitioner walked up to him and gave him a newspaper, he said: "I was just wondering why you did not give me a newspaper just now!"
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Last Saturday, during the Easter holiday, a lot of tourists gathered in Berlin. Berlin practitioners once again organised a truth clarification activity near the memorial church. Practitioners held a banner "Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners: Jiang Commits the Crime of Genocide, We will Bring Jiang to Justice." The banner was really eye-catching.
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Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200404/19055.html
(Clearwisdom.net, April 16, 2004) April 15, is "Canada Law Day." Falun Gong practitioners held a symbolic trial of Jiang Zemin at the Ottawa Human Rights Monument, which is located at Ottawa's City Hall area.
"Bring Jiang to Justice"
The symbolic trial attracted the attention of Ottawa citizens
(Clearwisdom.net, April 16, 2004) As evening fell on the night of April 14, which was approximately the time for the UN Commission on Human Rights to vote on the human rights situation of different nations, more than 60 Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay area came to the Chinese Consulate to expose Jiang Zemin's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and call on all circles to jointly end the persecution and killing of innocent Falun Gong practitioners.
Falun Gong practitioners said that they would continue their efforts to expose Jiang's crimes until persecution against Falun Gong is ended.
In the cold wind, some practitioners displayed several banners which read "Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong," "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice," "End the Killing," "Falun Gong Practitioners only Want Freedom of Practice and Belief," "United Nations Act on China's Human Rights Violations," while the rest of the practitioners demonstrated Falun Gong exercises for passersby.
A practitioner named, Adam, is a media director of a San Francisco advertising company. He said that the purpose of this appeal is to let people know about Falun Gong and to support the U.S. resolution on China's human rights violations.
Adam said: "Jiang's political gang fears that their human rights atrocities will be brought up publicly by the UN. Over the past years, therefore, this group has used all means, for example, using trade deals to buy votes from some poor small nations to support its eno-action' motion, to prevent the UN from passing a resolution condemning its human rights."
Dr. Zou Wei is a postdoctoral fellow in University of California at Berkeley. He said that Jiang's political group's human rights violations escalated during the annual meeting of the UN Commission of Human Rights (UNCHR). According to reports published on Clearwisdom.net, nearly 20 Falun Gong practitioners have died of persecution since this March.
Dr. Zou said, "Jiang's political group has sent sham NGOs and a delegation of dozens of officials to Geneva to spread lies among representatives of the UNCHR member nations. While so many Falun Gong practitioners are being so brutally persecuted, these Chinese officials declared that it was the eBest Period' of China's human rights."
Dr. Zou pointed out that overseas Falun Gong practitioners had been peacefully and rationally explaining the facts of Falun Gong and exposing the brutal persecution to people around the world and to the governments of all nations thus attracting attention from the international community. He said: "In the U.S. State Department's annual human rights report published on February 25, 2004, it was concluded that China's human rights had deteriorated in 2003 as the government continued to repress Falun Gong spiritual movement: Several thousand Falun Gong practitioners were being detained in prisons, labor camps, mental hospitals and special brainwashing centers, and several hundred Falun Gong practitioners had died from torture or abuse while in police custody."
It was reported that the fabricated "NGOs" sent to the UN by the Chinese government are directly controlled by the Chinese government. For example, Wang Yusheng has gone to Geneva to attend the UN human rights meetings many times. He is the director of an apparent "NGO" in China. However, his official post in the Chinese regime was recently exposed and this has caused a sensation in Geneva as it is impossible for a member of a government to be part of a non-governmental organization.
According to an investigation by an international organization, the "China Anti-Cult Association" chaired by Wang Yusheng was created on November 13, 2000. This apparent "NGO" was actually created for the purpose of legitimizing and assisting Jiang's political group in their efforts to persecute Falun Gong using the resources in the science and technology fields. Wang personally went to Shandong's 1st Women Labor Camp to participate in persecuting Falun Gong. Wang advocates the use of sleep deprivation to torture Falun Gong practitioners.
Brad is a college student and he lives north of San Francisco. He drove more than one and a half hours to participate in this appeal. He said: "We will not stop our appeal and public-exposure of Jiang's crimes as long as the persecution of Falun Gong has not ended."
(Clearwisdom.net, April 14, 2004) On March 31 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from France and Geneva were invited to a nursing school in southern France to introduce the practice.
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Practitioners started by introducing Falun Gong's guiding principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance to the class, and explained that by evaluating one's own behavior and thinking with these principles, and by practicing the five sets of exercises, one would be able to assimilate to the fundamental characteristic of the universe.
Practitioners also informed the class about the illegal and brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China.
Afterwards, they taught the class how to practice the five sets of exercises. After the seminar, Falun Gong practitioners also answered questions and told them where the nearest practice sites were located. Now, students from this nursing school will be joining the local practitioners in the city of Grenoble.
Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200404/19002.html
(Clearwisdom.net) During the last four years, practitioners have continuously told people about Falun Dafa, and as a result, more and more people have come to know the beauty of Falun Dafa and about the persecution in China. People have documented the worldwide spread of Dafa and the situations in local areas from different angles.
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Recently, the theology department of Aarhus University in Denmark supervised the publication of a new book entitled, "A Survey of Multi-Religions and Belief Organizations at Aarhus University." The publishing launch was held on the 26th March 2004 at the Theology Department of Aarhus University. The mayor of Aarhus attended the launch and gave a congratulatory speech.
On the front cover of the book, Falun Gong practitioners can be seen wearing traditional Chinese clothes to demonstrate the exercises. The book details the background of Falun Gong, its introduction to the public and the phenomenon of its spread around the world. It also said that people could benefit both physically and mentally by practicing Falun Gong. The effect can be achieved by practicing the five sets of exercises and reading Mr. Hongzhi Li's books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun. Falun Gong requires practitioners to follow the principles of the universe: Zhen, Shan, Ren [Truth, Benevolence and Forbearance] and to cultivate their inner self.
The book also reminds readers that Falun Gong is open to all kinds of people and teaching is free. People can download Mr. Li Hongzhi's books from the website without charge. It also provides the addresses of the various Dafa websites and the contact people in local areas.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200404/19004.html
(Clearwisdom.net) I recently got to know a man who used to be a police officer working for the "610 Office" [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems]. He shared with me his experience of protecting Falun Gong practitioners shortly after the persecution began in July 1999.
His mother used to suffer from various illnesses and only weighed about 80 pounds. However, after she took up the practice of Falun Gong, she recovered and also gained some weight. Therefore, he knew clearly Falun Gong was good from his mother's experience.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, he was dispatched to the "610 Office" to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Following his conscience, he tried his best to protect practitioners. Once, he and another policeman were supposed to ransack a practitioner's home. When he walked up to the water tank in the practitioner's home, he put his hands in the water and then he touched a bag of stuff wrapped with plastic bags. He knew that the bag contained Falun Gong books. So he pretended he did not find anything in the water tank. At that time another policeman came up and said, "How about we discharge the water and see what's in the tank?" He replied immediately, "Don't you know how much it costs to purchase one ton of water? Let's not do it." Thus he managed to protect the practitioner and his Falun Gong books. This practitioner was very grateful for the officer's righteous behavior.
Another time he learned that the police planned to ransack the home of one of his relatives who practiced Falun Gong. So he took his wife (she did not practice Falun Gong, but also knew Falun Gong was good) and went to the relative's home before the police arrived. He hid his relative's Falun Gong books around his waist. This was during the summer. Wearing a short-sleeved shirt, he looked very bulky. Right after he walked out of his relative's home, he was followed by a plainclothes police officer. But he went around and managed to lose him.
Now, he has quit his job as a policeman because he knows that persecuting Falun Gong practitioners is the same as committing a crime.
2004-3-25
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently my thought karma was very relentless but I have not paid much attention to it. Many times I found excuses to pardon myself. An incident that happened recently made me realize how evil the bad thoughts could be, and I should have paid attention and faced them properly.
One night around 11 pm, I thought about lying down for a while before sending forth righteous thoughts. When I just lay down, the unclean desires and thoughts of the human mind popped up, and I didn't stop them right away with a righteous mind. I continued to think about them, and when I'd just finished thinking, I saw a big patch of high-density small bright spots; about the size of a pen tip. It was so bright that I could not open my eyes but I saw them very clearly.
Once these bright spots appeared, I heard the cry of men, women and children. I knew that some accident may have happened, but when I listened carefully, I discovered that the cry was not from outside, but came from every individual cell inside my body. I immediately understood that the dirty thoughts and desires that I just had were very malicious and that the demons had found the loophole to torment sentient beings and myself.
I immediately sent forth righteous thought to eliminate them, but I could neither open my mouth, which seemed to be not my own, nor move my body. I knew that the demons were trying to control me. At once I asked Master to help me. I said, "Master, I was wrong, and in the future I will not think of those destructive things anymore. I realize now that they were malicious." Although I could not move my mouth, I silently recited the formula "The Fa rectifies the Cosmos, the Evil is completely eliminated." I tried my best to speak, but only after I'd recited it about 5 to 6 times did my mouth slowly begin to work again. All the little bright spots suddenly disappeared, but a small piece of bright light the size of coin still shone at the top right corner of my line of sight. I immediately recited Master's Fa rectification formula, and when I'd finished reciting, a small round object which looked like a small Falun circled around it, and it disappeared.
I then understood that the demons took advantage of my weakness because I had overindulged in unclean thoughts and desires. Even though I could not see the pain of the sentient beings in my corresponding universe, I could tell by their woeful cries that they had suffered greatly, and some had even lost their lives.
When I understood all this, I felt much pain and regret. The sentient beings had suffered because I did not get rid of my attachment. As a cultivator, in order to save sentient beings, every thought and desire has to be pure and should gradually become even more and more pure.
This is what I have enlightened to. Fellow practitioners, please point out mistakes.
2004-4-1
1) True Cultivation
When I first started cultivation, a practitioner sincerely told me that Teacher has especially emphasized "true cultivation." Later I gradually realized the preciousness of the words "true cultivation." It's not easy to "truly cultivate". Actually sometimes it is extremely difficult. This kind of difficulty is not something that can be endured by an average person. Therefore it is destined that some people will quit cultivation sooner or later, as it is impossible for everyone to truly cultivate. When talking about the issue of killing, Teacher says,
"I am teaching the Fa to practitioners instead of casually telling everyday people how to live. With regard to how one should deal with specific issues, you should make a judgment according to Dafa. You should do things however you see fit. Everyday people will do whatever they want to, and that is their business; it is not possible for everyone to truly practice cultivation. As a practitioner, however, one should follow a higher standard, so I am hereby putting forward the requirements for practitioners."(Zhuan Falun, March 2000 translation)
In my opinion, "truly cultivating" means following a higher standard. It is an extremely difficult and very serious issue, so it is important for cultivators to be persistent and consistent in cultivation. Teacher has taught the Fa [law, principles] to the students. However, only true cultivators enlighten when they constantly improve themselves.
I once roughly counted and I was surprised to find out that the word "true" or "truly" appeared more than thirty times in Lecture One of Zhuan Falun. How much does our benevolent Teacher wants us to pay attention to this word? I ask my fellow practitioners to study the Falun Dafa teachings when you have a clear and calm mind, so as to truly understand the principles . Then we will be able to rationally understand the requirements for cultivators of Falun Dafa. We will then understand what we should do and what we should not do as cultivators, and be strict with our every single thought. In fact, a true cultivator believes that "there are spiritual beings three feet above one's head." Even when no person is watching him, he restrains his thoughts and his behavior by the standard of the Falun Dafa principles, and strictly searches inside himself to correct his thoughts and upgrade his character. We must walk the path of cultivation one step at a time until the end. There is no shortcut.
Modesty, honesty and kindness are honorable moral characteristics of human beings. They are also basic qualities that cultivators possess. Cultivators should constantly improve their thoughts. Even the ordinary people who value morality will gladly listen to others pointing out their shortcomings, treat people with kindness and humbly accept criticism. If we cultivators still avoid taking responsibility when we come across a problem, refuse to search inside ourselves, and are not able to look inside and admit our mistakes, then we really should reconsider if we are truly cultivating. We should not lose the Fa easily just because we have obtained it easily. We cannot conduct ourselves our own way and slack off any more. Let's treasure this opportunity, which does not come along in thousands of years, make the best use of our time to truly cultivate, and fulfill our grand vows that we made before history!
2) Persistent Exercises
I have been cultivating for a few years, but I have been quite lazy about practicing the exercises. When I was attached to my narrow-minded thinking that the exercises were just a supplementary means of cultivation, I even found good reasons and excuses to justify my laziness. One day I read an experience-sharing article. In the article, the practitioner wrote that, cultivators needed to study the Fa and practice the exercises just like we needed food and water. I suddenly realized that I had done so poorly. Actually, the Fa has taught us everything, but my strong notions had hindered me. Teacher has told us,
"Falun Dafa is also a cultivation practice of mind and body, and it requires exercises. On the one hand, the exercises are used to strengthen supernormal abilities. What is "strengthening?" It is the reinforcement of your supernormal abilities by your powerful gong potency, thus making them progressively stronger. On the other hand, many living beings need to be developed in your body. In high-level cultivation practice, the Tao School requires the birth of the Immortal Infant (yuanying), while the Buddha School requires the Vajra's indestructible body. Furthermore, many supernatural abilities must be developed. These things need to be developed through the physical exercises, and they are what our exercises cultivate. A complete cultivation practice of mind and body requires both cultivation and practice." (Zhuan Falun)
I had obtained such a good cultivation way, but I had not been persistent in practicing the exercises. I was being irresponsible to myself.
I decided to practice the exercises. I rearranged my daily schedule and made use of every little piece of time to exercise. I took a short nap when I felt extremely sleepy at night. Whenever I was awake, I seized the time to study the Fa and practice the exercises. I continued to do so for a year, and I experienced obvious changes in myself. My face became radiant with health, and my body became strong and energetic. I used to feel distracted in my mind and had never achieved a tranquil mind before. Now I truly experienced the calmness and happiness with a clear and clean mind. I also have much better results when I study Fa.
I learned from this experience that we can truly understand the Fa only if we let go of our conventional thinking. We keep going in our own ignorance if we don't let go of our attachments. I also realized the importance of experience sharing among practitioners. Sometimes, we may be stuck on a certain principle for years, and suddenly be enlightened by a remark from a fellow practitioner. Many of the things shared are lessons from practitioners from their own experiences. We will benefit from them and avoid unnecessary losses.
3) A Reflection after Reading an Experience Sharing Article
I recently read two articles entitled "Golden Buddha" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/11/2/41918.html) and "Not Fully Cooked Iron Eggplant" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/9/28/40767.html). I thought deeply afterwards. I realized that if a cultivator does not set a righteous goal, he would not be able to achieve it, regardless of who he was. The leading characters in both stories thought they were cultivating, but I didn't think they were truly cultivating. They didn't give up their selfishness, so they were not steadfastly cultivating, nor were they compassionate. In addition, their pursuit of Consummation was a strong attachment in and of itself. It is wrong for cultivators to cultivate with attachments.
Cultivation means ignoring superficial formalities and only looking at one's heart. It stresses the heart instead of formalities, and absolutely can't be turned into a formality. You should not think that Buddhas will take care of you and give you Righteous Attainment just because you have studied Fa, practiced the exercises and done something. Actually Buddhas have not asked you to worship them. The hardships you have suffered are to repay your own karmic debts. Buddhas just silently help you and protect you unconditionally. The only thing that Buddhas look for is the goodness in your heart. A practitioner's cultivation realm comes from the gradual upward growth through diligent, solid cultivation. Consummation does not come from worshiping or pursuing; instead, it comes from cultivation. I would like to remind everyone that we should do things with a pure mentality. We save beings with such benevolent compassion from our hearts that we give unconditionally. Please remember, "pursue nothing and gain naturally".
The butcher in "Golden Buddha" once took lives. The thieves in "Not Fully Cooked Iron Eggplant" had done many bad things. These were all ordinary people's behaviors when they didn't distinguish between wrong and right. However they thoroughly rectified their wrongdoings and abandoned wickedness for goodness once they heard the Buddha Fa and began cultivation. Teacher says, "one's Buddha-nature is Shan (compassion), and it manifests itself as compassion, thinking of others before acting, and the ability to endure suffering." ("Buddha-Nature and Demon-Nature" in "Falun Dafa Essentials for Further Advancement") The butcher and the thieves could give without complaint even when they were in extremely difficult situations. This manifested the realm of true cultivators. The benevolent compassion of Buddhas is immeasurable. Buddhas disregard our past wrongs, and we will achieve Consummation as long as we reach the standard. Just like what some people have said, "Those who strive to keep their lives, end up losing their lives, and those who sacrifice their lives to save others, end up obtaining eternal life."
March 27, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) In cooperation with the "610 Office" (1), my company's leaders tried to force me to give up Falun Gong in 2003, and I was forced to leave home to escape further persecution. When overseas and domestic practitioners became aware of my situation, they started calling the leaders of my company to clarify the facts of Falun Gong, and local practitioners also sent truth-clarification materials to them. Overseas and domestic practitioners worked together. What these practitioners have done has not only tremendously shocked and frightened the persecutors, but has also given me more opportunities to let my colleagues learn the truth about Falun Gong. Later, the leaders of my company sincerely asked me to come back to work, so I did. After returning to work, I heard stories about the overseas and local practitioners truth-clarifying efforts, and I was deeply touched in my heart. Although I never knew those practitioners, and we are far apart, our hearts are connected. Just like Teacher said, "The next person's things are your things, and your things are his things." ( Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference). Practitioners really fulfill Teacher's instructions.
I am proud of being a Falun Gong practitioner and proud of having many practitioners who always think of others first. Thank you, Teacher, and I thank every practitioner.
I also found attachments deep within myself throughout the event and decided to eliminate them. Never give the evil a second chance to penetrate the gaps. Meanwhile, our local practitioners should catch up with the efforts to clarify the truth of the persecution of Falun Dafa. By doing so, we can become indestructible.
(1) "610 Office": an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
(Clearwisdom.net) My daughter is a middle school student. She admires those young practitioners that live overseas so much, for they have such a good cultivation environment. She feels they are so lucky because they can go to Minghui Schools.
Previously, we had a local Falun Gong practice site for young practitioners. At that time I was the assistant for the site. The younger practitioners liked to take turns reading Teacher's Zhuan Falun and Essentials For Further Advancement, and to share with each other how they improve their character in the classroom and at home. They also liked to share their understandings about supernormal phenomena and legends. They tried very hard to do the exercises correctly--some of them would break out in a sweat trying to keep the proper position for the sitting meditation exercise.
After the persecution began in 1999, I went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong three times. I was detained and sentenced to the forced labor camp four times for practicing the Falun Gong exercises publicly and distributing truth-clarifying materials. During that time my daughter showed her perseverance, support, and steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. She was always cheerful and considerate around me, but she was seen crying after I left. By the time I left the detention center with strong righteous thoughts, three years had passed. I learned how she felt about the persecution by reading her journals and poems she wrote while she was attending elementary school.
Once, her teacher and assistant principal slandered Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners during class. My daughter wrote in her journal: "I tried my best to stop the tears from pouring down my face and turned my head so no one would see. I wanted to speak out loudly that my mom isn't like what they said!" At that time she was still very young and didn't know how to tell others the facts about Falun Dafa. When I came back from the detention center, I found that my husband had left our home. My daughter still hopes that we will reconcile some day and doesn't want us to divorce. During that particular period, I focused on the three things Teacher asked us to do and on my daughter's school studies. As clarifying the truth locally became more demanding on our time, my daughter's righteous thoughts became stronger and stronger. She used every suitable opportunity to expose the staged self-immolations on Tiananmen Square and told her classmates about what Falun Gong was truly like. She also invited her friends to come to our home and watch the truth-clarifying VCD's. Her friends also took literature to school to read by themselves and even read them aloud to others. My daughter often happily told me the names of the people that had understood the truth about Falun Gong from her that day.
Once her political science teacher asked her to help with printing some review materials for a test. I reminded her to look for any questions slandering Falun Dafa. She breezily responded: "Don't worry, it'll be fine." But when she saw the materials, she noticed that there really was a defamatory question, so she removed it from the review materials. When she returned the printed materials to her teacher, she told her teacher that defaming Falun Dafa was wrong. Falun Dafa teaches people to be good, and practitioners don't' kill others or themselves like the state-run media says. After that, the students no longer had to memorize that question, and the teacher never used that question again.
Later, my daughter dreamed about validating Falun Dafa every day. She said, "Mom, the policemen are chasing me in my dreams. I grab a stack of truth-clarifying flyers and hold them with my left arm. As I am running from the police, I pass the flyers to the people I meet on the way. I tell them, 'Hurry up! Take it. This is very precious. Please read it. My school is forcing the students who held an experience-sharing conference to leave the school. I'm one of them. I have no regrets. I decided to study by myself at home.'" This may have been a test for her in her dream.
Once, the teacher of her political science class talked about Falun Dafa and then asked the students a question. Many students, who had seen the government videos that slandered Falun Dafa, raised their hands and prepared to answer the question according to what they had seen in the videos. Although my daughter is a very shy girl, she raised her hand, and the teacher called on her to answer the question. She started exposing the staged self-immolation on Tiananmen Square and described the persecution that Falun Dafa practitioners were suffering. One student had a truth-clarifying flyer with her and helped my daughter to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. Another student, who is the child of a teacher, also spoke up in support. As my daughter finished talking, the teacher said, "You answered very well." After the class, many students gathered around her to hear more about Falun Dafa.
Recently, our local practitioners compiled some videos and flyers for the students and teachers. This morning, my daughter slept very late and described her dream when she woke up, "Mom, I had another dream. There were a lot of beautiful flower petals raining from the sky in front of our school. The flower petals turned into flyers whenever they touched a student or teacher. The flowers that touched the ground turned into very beautiful flowers, a kind that I have never seen before." We smiled at each other and I said to her, "Spring is coming."
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Yang Xueqin was a volunteer assistant for an exercise site at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. He was calm in temperament, very humble and treated people with kindness. Yang Xueqin spent his spare time organizing group practice of the Falun Dafa exercises, organizing group study of Falun Dafa books and sharing experiences with other practitioners. He also spent a lot of time helping new practitioners like myself, who had lots of questions to be answered. He worked very hard and set a good example, which earned him the respect of other practitioners.
Yang Xueqin paid a lot of attention to his Fa-study and practice. He said, "To do the work of an assistant well, one must strive to become an example in cultivating character. I cannot just do Dafa work and ignore Fa-study and genuine character improvement." During experience sharing, he often said that many human ways of thinking were selfish. When in confusion, he always recalled a relevant teaching of Master's. He would stick to this righteous way no matter how much the old ways of thinking interfered. This touched me deeply. His perseverance in keeping with the Fa appeared as a very solid foundation to me and served as a reminder. I remembered his actions when Dafa was slandered and when he himself suffered persecution. While studying the Fa solidly and striving to improve himself, Yang Xueqin also cared about fellow practitioners' cultivation and lives. For instance, he often contacted me, asking about my situation and pointing out weak areas in my character development that needed to be improved. He shared with me his understanding of Fa principles, helping to resolve many puzzles in my mind. This enabled me to quickly improve my understanding of the Fa. He frequently reminded me to study Dafa and be more diligent. His encouragement for someone who was just starting the practice was a big boost.
Yang Xueqin always strove to improve his character at work or at other times when he was not studying or practicing. He worked very hard for his company, and his fellow employees respected and liked him. In addition to doing his own work well, he also helped with physical work like transporting cargo. The leaders of the company also felt that he was a great person to work with. He did not talk much about himself to others, but whenever he saw someone, he would talk about Dafa, hoping that others could also benefit from it. Whenever he had time, he read Dafa books in the break room. The leaders of the company knew that Dafa was good, partly from his actions.
Jiang's regime began to arrest Dafa practitioners across the nation on July 20, 1999. Yang Xueqin and other practitioners from Jiaotong University went to the government of Shanghai to appeal on July 21. There were more than 1000 Dafa practitioners from all walks of life gathered at the People's Square in Shanghai. The people from the government asked Falun Gong practitioners to select several representatives to go in and talk with the authorities. Yang Xueqin and several other practitioners from Jiaotong University volunteered to go into the government building. The representatives spoke up, hoping that the city government could pass on their request to release all Dafa practitioners arrested on July 20 to the central government.
In the process, however, he attracted the attention of the 6.10 office. [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.] The police took him away under the pretense of checking his ID just a few minutes after the meeting was over. Since the 6.10 office people noticed that Yang Xueqin was a volunteer assistant and had a strong influence among Dafa practitioners, they intensified the persecution against him. People in his company were also mislead by the false propaganda that was all over the airwaves. In addition, the 6.10 office put pressure on his company. Yang Xueqin sincerely clarified the truth of Dafa and exposed the lies on television to the company leaders when they asked Yang Xueqin to write a guarantee statement renouncing Dafa. The company threatened to fire him under pressure from the 6.10 office.
Despite being pressured after appealing the first time, he still went to Beijing to appeal to the government at the end of July. He thought that he should stand up for justice since Dafa practitioners were being unjustly persecuted. He thought that as more people appealed, the government would listen to the public's opinion. He risked his life to stand up against injustice. This is the compassion of a person with great character who wished to help other people.
The company sent people to pick up Yang Xueqin after the police took him back from his appeal in Beijing. Because of his good performance at work, the company did not fire him. But the company sent one of his colleagues and his family sent his sister's son to accompany him to and from work, saying that they were protecting him. In fact, they were watching what he did.
The 6.10 office tried every effort to persecute Yang Xueqin because he continued to practice Falun Dafa. They sent him to a mental hospital and detained him there for two months. He was forced to take unknown drugs. After he left the mental hospital, the police department sent young policemen to live with him in order to monitor him. He did not feel resentful at all. Instead, he read Dafa books and practiced the exercises in front of them. When he heard that many fellow practitioners were hesitating under the pressure, he managed to escape being followed and met with fellow practitioners. He encouraged them to step forward and told them news about Dafa around the world as found on the Minghui website. Under heavy tribulation, Yang Xueqin walked his path as a Dafa disciple righteously.
One day, I heard that he had been killed. The police from Fangshan in Beijing arrested and persecuted him and others traveling with him. Yang Xueqin and the others jumped from a window in order to escape their unlawful arrest. They were sent to a hospital in Fangshan. The doctors said that he was out of danger. Yang Xueqin called his family in Shanghai, but his family members were not allowed to see him. The policemen told his family members that only they were entitled to take care of him.
He was out of danger and in the process of recovering after the hospital in Fangshan gave him medical treatment. He could talk to people normally. However, he died mysteriously the next morning, after more than ten policemen had come to the hospital and interrogated him throughout the entire night on February 24.
When Yang Xueqin was arrested on February 18, he was busy with preparations for collecting signatures from the public to submit to the Two Conferences that would be held in March. On the night of February 17, he called fellow practitioners in Shanghai from Beijing to discuss how to download and print the forms for collecting signatures. He was suddenly arrested and unable to appeal to the representatives of the People's Congress and the Political Consultation Conference. After Yang Xueqin died, the head of Fangshan police station in Beijing who was responsible for arresting and interrogating Yang was removed from his post.
In addition, the policemen from Xuhui district in Shanghai originally planned to claim that Yang Xueqin "committed suicide" so as to cover their crimes and to slander Dafa. However, they stopped after they discovered through investigating Yang's death that all of his neighbors praised him and that he donated money to Project Hope. (A charitable program to bring literacy to remote villages in China)
Yang Xueqin and his fiancée originally planned to get married at the end of the year. But they chose for him to go to Beijing to safeguard Dafa when Dafa practitioners were suffering from persecution in China. His fiancée was waiting for him to come back to Shanghai to have the wedding. Little did she know that when they parted, that would be the last time she would see him alive.
Shared at 2004 New York Falun Dafa Conference
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Greetings Master! Greetings fellow practitioners!
My name is Anders and I come from Sweden. Being a Dafa disciple who began practicing Falun Dafa almost 9 years ago, I went through the calm period of self-cultivation and promoting Dafa before the persecution, and defending Dafa by clarifying the truth to the people, media, and the government around the world after the persecution. Now we practitioners are using all our different skills in ordinary society, given to us by the Fa, to validate the Fa and to stop the persecution. I would like to share some of my cultivation experience about using music as one way to do Fa rectification.
Music has always been an important part of my life. I have been writing songs and playing and singing since I was young, but after I obtained Dafa it became less important. I often wondered, however, why Master had given me these creative skills. When the persecution started I used my computer skills and writing skills in different ways. But during this time there was always a question in the back of my mind: How could I use music in the Fa rectification? When I understood the meaning and the significance to use music as one of the ways to do Fa rectification, as well as to establish righteous music for future people, I started to compose music about the persecution. I wanted to make it as upright as possible so I had to cultivate my way of singing and my way of writing and arranging music. I took one step at the time, and overcame many challenges, that wouldn't have been possible without having the Fa to guide me.
In the beginning of 2003, I formed a music group with some Swedish practitioners who have some music skills. We called ourselves Yellow Express. Our goal was to reach ordinary people and the music community with our music. We recorded two songs on a CD and performed in many places. The response was quite positive. We appeared in a local radio station, and a member of our group appeared in a big radio station in South Africa, so in this way we reached many, many people. This project gave us the chance to clarify the truth to people we otherwise never would have met, and the message came via our music, which could reach people in a different way. The message was quite clear: "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong"!
The music project was of course also cultivation for me. During Fa rectification I usually avoided tasks where I had to stand in the front. I was the kind of person who was content with working quietly, and I never liked to be in the center of attention. Before cultivation it was very difficult for me to sing for other people, and I never performed my own songs in public. During my cultivation I gradually overcame many of the attachments that hindered me in this regard, especially after I started this music project. In Yellow Express, I was the singer and the songwriter and could not hide behind anyone else. It was of course arranged to help me let go more, and there was no way for me to escape from my attachments. Before every performance I went through a lot of interference. Old concepts and bad thoughts wanted to stop me. Afterwards I usually criticized myself and put myself down. It has been a process of letting go of myself and my ego more and more, and I learned to think I did this for others. Sometimes it was hard, but after all I knew the reason why I did this -- it was to save people. So I had to "Walk on!"
Now we can see how many organizations are working together with us to sue Jiang. In this way we can have more people indirectly support Dafa. It's the same with music by practitioners. If a person hears and likes music performed by Dafa disciples, he will have a chance to obtain Fa in the future. This is all thanks to Masters great compassion. With this in mind the European Choir was formed at the Fa conference in Berlin in November 2003. We would sing the song "Coming For You", which is not only a great song, but also has a positive message to the Chinese people. I thought this was a very good idea and the arrangement of the song was marvelous, but I had some human notions that it would be difficult to sing with so many inexperienced singers. On the other hand I knew that for Dafa disciples nothing is impossible. I felt that we would be able touch people's hearts with our choir.
We met first time for rehearsal in a small town called Rüdesheim in southern Germany right after New Year 2004. We, about a hundred practitioners from all over Europe, stayed in a youth hostel up on a mountain with a wonderful view over the valley. We did the exercises, studied Fa together, sent righteous thoughts -- and we sang. During these days of practice the choir gradually matured. We all had to let go of ourselves, and to cooperate well to sound good and harmonize together. Some practitioners used their professional skills in helping us improve our voices in different ways, and the choir was led by a practitioner who is a professional choir leader. I personally found it very developing from a musical perspective, and also from a cultivator's point of view. Sometimes when we sang I was overwhelmed and even moved to tears by the beauty of the music and the meaning of the lyrics. I really felt the power of Dafa, so at some moments in the middle of the song I was so moved that I could not even sing.
I liked this idea with the choir also of another reason. To sing in the choir would mean that I comfortably could be one in the crowd, and feel pretty safe on stage. I had heard that there would be a couple of solo singers, who would sing in German, French and maybe Italian. One evening in Rüdesheim all those who were "candidates" for the solo parts would sing for the choir coordinators. I was of course on my way out of the hall to do something else, since I could not sing in any of those proposed languages. But one of the coordinators, surprisingly to me, asked me to stay. I thought to myself, "OK, it's time again to face another challenge."
I was aware that our first performance would probably be in the Chinese New Year Gala in New York in front of 2500 people, and that the gala would be broadcast to Chinese people all over the world. It was decided that I would sing one of the solos -- in Swedish! Many thoughts came up; some fear, some hesitation, and bad notions, but they were not strong enough. I knew that this was a great honor and this was doing something for others, and I knew that I had Teacher with me. During these days of rehearsal my voice changed. Many practitioners told me that they had never heard my voice like that. They felt it had opened up and was much purer and stronger than before.
The choir traveled to New York in the middle of January to perform in the Chinese New Year Gala. The time for rehearsal and preparation was limited so we had a tight schedule during our stay. I found it important to always be upright, to mind every detail, always be in time, and to be effective and concentrated every moment. To succeed in all these matters, and keep this Xinxing [moral character, mind nature] standard with such a big group of people, we needed to send righteous thoughts and study the Fa a lot, and so we did.
Before our performance we sent forth righteous thoughts behind the stage. I was focused and a little bit tense. We had 84 practitioners in the choir. We had traveled from thirteen different European countries all the way to New York. We were supposed to go quickly to our positions on the stage without making any noise, while the curtain still was down. We could hear how the gala hosts were introducing us and the curtain went up slowly. This was the moment we had been preparing for the last weeks, days and hours -- our first performance with the European Choir Coming For You. We saw that the whole concert hall was full of people, full of sentient beings waiting to hear our song. We looked at our conductor. He was smiling. At a given command we started to sing.
Normally when being on stage I am most often lost in thoughts, and I can't enter into the music as much as I want. But this time was not like anything else I have ever experienced on stage. With so many righteous voices singing with a Dafa disciple's pure heart and compassion, the energy was so powerful. When we sang the line "Falun Dafa Hao", the audience clapped their hands. I felt that moment we were singing for the whole universe! I became a little bit too emotional so my voice was trembling.
Time for my solo. The audience would not understand the lyrics in Swedish, but I wanted to give them my compassion. I tried my best to let go of myself. I felt pretty calm, but after my solo, I must say, I felt a kind of relief. After the solos in Swedish, German and Italian we sang the last two verses in Chinese. When the audience realized that, they gave us a spontaneous applause. I felt warm inside. It must have been remarkable for a Chinese audience to hear a western choir singing in Chinese, and the content of the song obviously moved their hearts.
Music has the effect of reaching the inner parts of a being. Music, if performed well, can give the listener a moment of peacefulness, harmony and beauty. I will continue to use music to validate the Fa. I will continue to write songs, and sing them for those who want to listen. I will continue to sing in the Choir. Our heartfelt voices will reach all the way to China and the precious Chinese people. When we are in the Fa, Dafa's voice will come out, and if we can let go of ourselves and melt into Dafa, Dafa's power and message will come through and effect people in the art, music and culture, because Dafa encompasses everything.
Thank You Master. Thank you all for listening.
(Clearwisdom.net) Editors' Note: Through Dafa disciples' continuing efforts in clarifying the truth of the persecution to the public, more and more people have woken up and realized that they have compromised their integrity and have even helped to persecute Falun Gong. More and more people who face the risk of being persecuted have chosen to stand up to show their deep regret over their actions. They should be commended for this. We present here just a select few of their solemn statements.
Solemn Statement
In 2002, threatened by the authorities, I signed my name on a list that was used to defame Falun Dafa. I hereby solemnly declare that my signature against Dafa is null and void. I will speak out the truth to the public to compensate for the damage I have caused.
Xing Yeyan (a non-practitioner)
March 8, 2004/4/1
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/15/69976.html
Statement
I have written the "letter of guarantee"(1) twice for my wife who is a Falun Dafa practitioner under pressure from the government. This was completely against my will. In fact, since she started practicing Falun Dafa, all my family members have benefited from Falun Dafa a lot. I hereby solemnly declare that what I wrote and said against Dafa in the past is null and void. I will keep in mind forever that Falun Dafa is good. I will try my best to compensate for the damage I have caused through clarifying the truth to people.
Wan Qianli, husband of a practitioner
March 4, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/16/70075.html
Solemn Statement
Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is the righteous law of the universe. This is my understanding without any doubt no matter how badly the propaganda has attempted to disparage Falun Gong. But in January 2001, following orders from the higher authorities, my school required each student and teacher to participate in the nationwide "Million Signature Collection Campaign" against Falun Gong. My teacher was watching me, and out of my fear of my teacher, I signed my name on a long piece of cloth against my will. Although I have not practiced Falun Gong, I feel that I did a wrong deed against my conscience and the universal principle. I hereby solemnly declare that my signature against Dafa is null and void. I will speak out the truth to the public to compensate for the damage I have caused.
Wang Yue
March 16, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/17/70216.html
Statement
Since July 20, 1999, as Jiang's regime brutally persecuted Falun Gong, both my wife and my mother were sent to a forced labor camp. Deceived by the hate propaganda from Jiang's regime, I have committed wrong deeds against Falun Gong, which had helped this brutal persecution. I destroyed Falun Gong books and also slandered Falun Gong. This behavior is intolerable according to the principle of the universe. I hereby apologize to Falun Gong and its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi! As an awakened person, I hope I can compensate for the damage to Falun Gong's reputation that I have caused. Again, I apologize to Falun Gong!
Yao Baoqi
February 12, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/19/70329.html
Solemn Statement
My wife has been detained in our city's detention center and police station twice because of practicing Falun Dafa. Each time when I went to pick her up, I was forced to write a "letter of guarantee." I was told that if I refused to do so, they would not let my wife go. Under such pressure, I have written a "letter of guarantee" to the city's Public Security Bureau, the detention center and the police station. I hereby solemnly declare that all my letters of guarantee are null and void. I will clarify the truth to people to compensate for the loss and damage to Dafa that I have caused. Everyone has the responsibility to defend Dafa and oppose the vicious persecution. I hope that Dafa will be spread to the whole world. Please keep in mind that Falun Dafa is good. I am looking forward to the day that the persecution of Dafa will be stopped.
Zou Guojun
February 19, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/19/70329.html
Statement
Before the Chinese Spring Festival, in order to let my mother get released from prison, I made "guarantees" in front of a few people. I have realized that my behavior has actually cooperated with the vicious perpetrators. I was wrong. I hereby solemnly declare that my "guarantees" against Dafa are null and void. I will speak out the truth to the public to compensate for the damage I have caused.
Xiao Linzhu
March 13, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/19/70329.html
Solemn Statement
As Jiang's regime brutally persecutes Falun Gong, my wife was requested to go to the township government office to take the so-called "reform education." She was also forced to write a "letter of guarantee" stating she would give up the practice of Falun Gong. In order to get her free, I wrote a "letter of guarantee" for her. I hereby solemnly declare that this "letter of guarantee" is null and void. I will clarify the truth to the public to compensate for the damage I have caused.
Gao Hai
February 25, 2004
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/3/20/70434.html
(1): A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Heilongjiang Province] To Avoid an International Investigation, the Mudan City Hospital for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Illness Transfers Falun Gong Practitioners to Other Detention Facilities
Recently, to avoid the "World Association of Psychiatrists planned visit to China to investigate the mental persecution of Falun Gong practitioners", the "Mudan City Hospital for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Illness" transferred Falun Gong practitioners to the Mudan City Number Two Detention Center for detention and further persecution.
Telephones at the Mudan City Hospital for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Illness
Office of the Director: 86-453-6481842
General Office: 86-453-6481763
Micro Equipment Laboratory: 86-453-6298979
2. [Tieling City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Cui Zhenhuan Suffered Mental Collapse After Being Persecuted at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Cui Zhenhuan, is a 58 year old resident of the Agriculture Science Institute, Tieling City, Liaoning Province. On July 11, 2000, because she was steadfast in her practice of Falun Dafa, the Hongqi Police Station, Branch Office of the Public Security Department at Yinzhou District, Tieling City, arrested and detained her at the Lieling City Detention Center. Not long after that, she was transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp at Shenyang City, Liaoning Province for two years of unlawful detention. At the Masanjia concentration camp, she was subjected to brainwashing until she was released on November 17, 2002 when her sentence was completed. After her release Ms. Cui Zhenhuan suffered a mental collapse and became disoriented. Her family of four is all Falun Dafa practitioners and all of them have been persecuted. Her son was twice unlawfully detained at the Tieling City Forced Labor Camp, her husband and daughter were forced to leave home to avoid persecution. She is left with no one to care for her day-to-day needs. She now lives in a dilapidated house without windows or doors. She lives a random life with her relatives keeping an eye on her. Her relatives are experiencing intense pressure and harassment. Her mother who is more than eighty years old has been physically and mentally exhausted for a long time.
3. [Huludao, Liaoning Province] Recently, Many Dafa Practitioners Have Been Arrested and Detained, Materials Site Destroyed.
On March 31 and April 1, Dafa practitioners Mu Qin, Wang Zhou, Fan Dezhen, Ms. Yang Hong, the mother, and her daughter were arrested and detained. A Dafa materials site was destroyed and the Dafa practitioners were arrested and detained.
4. [Jianyang County, Sichuan Province] Dafa Practitioner, Mr. Zhu Zize Sentenced to Five Years Detention
The Jinniu Branch Police Station arrested Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhu Zize from Tonghe Village, Jianyang County, Sichuan Province at the home of friend at Jinxi Gardens, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on September 29, 2002. He suffered all kinds of cruel torture, was not allowed to sleep for ten days and nights, and was not fed. Ten days later he was sent to the Chengdu Detention Center. He was detained for an extensive period and in December, 2003, he was sentenced to five years detention at the Chengdu City Detention Center transshipment site.
Together with him is his friend and Dafa practitioner from Chengdu City, Gao who was sentenced in February 2004.
5. [Hebei Province] Baoding Forced Labor Camp Persecutes Dafa Practitioners
The female Dafa practitioners detained at the Baoding Forced Labor Camp are forced to work for more than ten hours each day, starting at 5 a.m. they are forced to work till 11 or 12 o'clock at night, very often even till two AM. They are given food no ordinary person would swallow. When their relatives visit them, the police stipulate that no food is allowed to be brought in. They give the food at the camp fine-sounding names like "special cheaply priced" (actually it is over-priced). On every visit, the relatives are forced to purchase a publication, which in fact is not read by anyone elsewhere, otherwise the visit is not approved. Each publication costs 4 yuan (1). When the camps are under inspection, all the publications were removed and false materials are substituted.
The Police at Baoding Forced Labor Camp persecute Dafa practitioners. The practitioners are handcuffed and tied up with ropes. The intermediate leader, Zhang Haili, the junior leader, Zhu Manli told a person by the name of Li Yanli to savagely beat up Dafa practitioners, which she did, until they were all covered in cuts and bruises. They would not even let off those who were in their seventies and eighties. The pitiful screams and cries of the female Dafa practitioners are heard all over the forced labor camp.
6. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Dafa Practitioners Ms. Shan Juanfeng and Ms. Sun Shuqin Sentenced
On March 29, 2004, Jilin City Dafa practitioners Ms. Shan Juanfeng and Ms. Sun Shuqin were each sentenced to four years detention. Both have filed their appeals.
7. [Jiaonan City, Shandong Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Shi Taizhen Sentenced to Forced Labor Camp for Distributing Materials Explaining the Facts of the Persecution
When Jiaonan Dafa practitioner Ms. Shi Taizhen distributed truth clarification materials at the first police precinct at Shangcheng, Jiaonan City on March 8, 2004, she was arrested by the precinct police officer and detained at Jiaonan City Detention Center. The police from the Public Security Department wanted to send her to a forced labor camp. They initially tried to extort her family members of 1,000 yuan, and then later demanded 500 yuan, but family members rejected both demands. On March 23, 2004, she was sent to a forced labor camp by the Jiaonan City "610 Office" (2) and the Public Security Department for one year of detention.
8. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Mr. Wu Zhiqiang Sent from the Hewan Forced Labor Camp to be Imprisoned at the Hanyang District Detention Center
Wuhan City Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Zhiqiang was putting up truth clarification materials on February 3, 2003, when he was arrested after somebody lodged a report. He was sent to the Hanyang District Detention Center. After six months, he was transferred to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp where he was sentenced to one year and three months of detention. When he was two months short of completing his sentence, the Hanyang District Procuratorate rejected the original detention warrant, and again sent Mr. Wu Zhiqiang from the Forced Labor Camp back to the Hanyang District Detention Center for detention.
9. [Tonhua City, Jilin Province] Numerous Dafa Practitioners are Arrested
On the week of March 29, 2004, the Dongchang Public Security Branch Office, Tonghua City, arrested many Dafa practitioners: Ms. Chen Li from the Law Administration Department, retired worker Ms. Dou Meifeng, National Trade staff Ms. Liu Xiaochun. Ms. Yan Xiaojun, Mr. Wang Gang (alias), an elderly person (name not known), an elderly lady (name not known), and Xu Tao. Mr. Gai Wenzhi from the Iron Factory and his wife (about seventy years old), and Song Bingxxiu were secretly arrested and detained by local police.
The Director of the Dongchang Public Security Department, Tonghua City, Wang Yufan personally led and instructed his subordinates to interrogate and extort confessions from Dafa practitioners with cruel and ruthless methods, including punching, kicking, and using electric batons on them.
10. [Dawa County, Liaoning Province] Mr. Zheng Xiaoping from Panjin City Arrested and Detained
Dafa practitioner Mr. Zheng Xiaoping, about fifty years of age, from Xinkai, Dawa County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province, was distributing truth clarification materials at Baqiangzi when he was arrested and detained by the Baqiangzi police. Two other practitioners who accompanied him escaped. At present, Mr. Zheng Xiaoping is being detained at the Panshan County Detention Center. Recently, the Baqiangzi Police Station Director Zhang Wenbao interrogated Mr. Zheng, at length, mainly to find out the names of the other two practitioners and the source of the materials. Mr. Zheng Xiaoping refused to cooperate. Zhang Wenbao started to beat him up and Mr. Zheng sustained a black eye...
Telephone Numbers of Persons Responsible for the Persecution
Baqiangzi Police Station Director, Zhang Wenbao: 86-427-5849145(Home)，86-427-5841110(Office)
Baqiangzi Police Station Political Instructor, Xu Yuetian: 86-427-5842999(Home)，86-427-5843555(Office)
Address: Baqiangzi Police Station, Panshan County, Liaoning Province. Postcode: 124000
11. [Puning, Guangdong Province] Another Three Dafa Practitioners Arrested and Detained
At about 12 midnight on March 17, 2004, three Dafa practitioners in Puning, Guangdong Province, Mr. Peng Huisheng, Mr. Zhen Zeqiang and Ms. Chen Zena were arrested by the Puning Public Security Department and detained at the Puning Detention Center.
Puning City Public Security Department: 86-663-2252678
Puning City Public Security Department Police Station: 86-663-2247652
12. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Guimei Unlawfully Sent to Forced Labor Camp
At about half-past seven on the morning of February 22, 2004, the Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of Chouzhuang Village, Yang Guangfeng, and the Director of the Police Station, Dong Dehuai each drove a vehicle and under no proper formalities, arrested Ms Liu Guimei and sent her to the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp. It was on March 2, when they finally notified her family of the judgment of her being sent to the forced labor camp. (the date of judgment being on March 2.)
Dafa practitioner Mr. Sun Haiping of the Liaozhuan Brigade, Chouzhuang Village, Langfang City, was arrested and taken away on February 2, 2004. At that time, the Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, Chouzhuang Village, Yang Guangfeng, made the cadre go in advance to find out if he was at home, then went to arrest and take him away. At present Mr. Sun Hailing is being detained at the Langfang Level Two Brainwashing Class.
13. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Shuhua Arrested and Taken Away
On March 19, 2004, Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shuhua was arrested and taken away by the Police from the Hedong Police Station, Shengfang Township, Ba County, Langfang City. Her present whereabouts are not known. Her husband is unable to care and provide for himself. On top of that, there are three school-aged children in the family. Their livelihood depended on Ms. Wang's hardware business. In the past few years, she had been persecuted many times, which has plunged the entire family into severe hardship.
(1) yuan: Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan.
(2) "610 Office": a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.
(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Forty-three-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Fengwu, from No. 8 Neighborhood, Xinggong Street, Chaoyang Town, Huinan County, Jilin Province, was abducted by the local police on January 17, 2002, and sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was sent to the Weizigou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. His term was up on March 16, 2004, but the labor camp still would not release him. Later, his family managed to have him released.
Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Huang Yulan was a worker in the Maoming City Petroleum Company in Guangdong Province. She was arrested on the evening of September 25, 2001, and later was tortured for one month in a brainwashing program held in a place that the authorities called the, "Legal Education School." Another Falun Dafa practitioner who worked in the same company, Mr. Liang Shu, was also arrested on the same night by the Maoming City "610 Office" (1). He was abducted and taken to the Maoming City Detention Center. Because he never gave up his practice of Falun Dafa, he was sent to the same brainwashing program in the "Legal Education School," and was tortured to death shortly thereafter.
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Fengrong was a teacher in the Changyi No.2 Elementary School in Jilin City, Jilin Province. She was abducted and taken to the brainwashing program held in the Huapi Factory in 2001. The authorities came to arrest her soon after she was released from the brainwashing program. Ms. Liu was forced to leave home in order to avoid being wrongfully arrested. On June 6, 2002, Ms. Liu was taken away again from a house she had rented, and was detained in the Jilin City Detention Center. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison on March 3, 2003, and is now imprisoned in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. Because she practiced the Falun Gong exercises, Ms. Liu was tortured by being tied to "dead man's bed" (2) for 21 days.
On March 8, 2004, during the period of the two congresses in China, the Xianghe County "610 Office" and the Hebei Province Police Station monitored a large number of people and prevented them from going to appeal for Falun Dafa. They came to Falun Dafa practitioners Zhang Shun and (his wife) Yan Fengxia's home. The couple refused to open the door. The police brought a locksmith the next day, broke open the door, and arrested the couple.
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qi Xia was an employee of the Weihui City Folk Art Museum in Henan Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in October 1999. She was arrested, and held for two and a half months. Ms. Qi was sentenced to six years in prison, and later, the sentence was later reduced to four years. She was jailed in the Henan Province No. 5 Women's Prison, where she was forced to perform hard labor 18 hours a day for 10 months. Ms. Qi's whole body shook from exhaustion, and her fingers became deformed and were in extreme pain. The wicked people in the prison secretly put drugs in her food. These drugs made Ms. Qi dizzy and absentminded, and they made her unable to bend down, made her nauseous, and caused her stomach to bloat. Ms. Qi was released because of her bad physical condition. However, she was able to recover quickly because she continuously practiced the Falun Dafa exercises.
I am a Falun Dafa practitioner named Ms. Zhang Xinrui. I am a resident of Heishan County, Liaoning Province. Ever since Jiang and his regime started persecuting Falun Dafa, the local police and the town and neighborhood administration often came to my house or called to harass me. On many occasions, the police stormed into my house without reason. They ransacked my home, abducted me, and extorted money from me. They dared to charge that while inside my own home, I was disrupting social order.
My name is Ms. Liu Xiufei and I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I am from the same town as Ms. Zhang Xinrui, and I am 44 years old. I had more than 20 severe ailments before practicing Falun Dafa. It was Master and Falun Dafa who saved me from death, and gave me a second life. After July 20, 1999, the neighborhood administration, the local police and the town government constantly came to harass me in my home. They arrested me several times and extorted money from me.
On April 1, 2004, it was revealed on Minghui.net (3) that Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Deng Lingmin was on hunger strike in a detention center run by the Xintian County Police Station, and her life was in danger. We have since learned that officials from the municipal and provincial level came to Xintian County, and that Ms. Deng was sent home on April 2, 2004. However, there are still several police officers at her home who closely monitor her.
Notes:
(1) The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
(2) "dead man's bed": a practitioner's four limbs are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he or she allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment can last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This type of cruel torture causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically.
(3) Minghui.net: Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net. This article has not yet been translated into English.
