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(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Wenyu was 53 years old and worked at Tianshui City's Railroad Hospital. She began practicing Falun Gong in October 1998. In late December 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal oh behalf of Falun Dafa. Beijing police detained her for 15 days and fined her 4,000 Yuan. In December 2000, she went to Tiananmen Square and shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" She was sent back to Tianshui City and sentenced to two years of forced labor without any trial, to be served at the Anning District Labor Camp in Lanzhou City. Ms. Liu Wenyu refused to cooperate with the labor camp personnel as she was not a criminal. She was force-fed as a form of torture, which caused her stomach to bleed profusely. Aside from this abuse, she was subjected to all manner of additional brutal torture. After her release, the authorities from the Beidao District constantly harassed her. She passed away in February 2004.
The following is an article Liu Wenyu had written to expose the persecution against her. She begins:
"I am 52 years old and retired. I worked for Tianshui City's Railroad Hospital in Gansu Province.
Before I obtained the Fa, [universal law and principle] I suffered from numerous illnesses. My vertebrae were protruding and deformed; I experienced irregular heartbeat, had a stomach disease, epilepsy, and cervical problems. I also contracted a venereal disease through poorly sterilized medical equipment that were used on me during a major operation. I took copious amounts of medicine, but those relieved my conditions only temporarily. I suffered in pain. My husband has five sisters and a mother who has been widowed for more than forty years. My illnesses put a great financial strain on my family. I was a straightforward person and often said what was on my mind. I often didn't realize that I had hurt other people with my words.
In October 1998, I fortunately learned Falun Dafa. As I repeatedly read the book Zhuan Falun [main teachings of Falun Dafa] and practiced the Falun Dafa exercises at a nearby practice site, all of my illnesses disappeared. Even the conflicts I had with other people that I couldn't let go of faded away. I was truly illness-free and worry-free. Human language cannot describe the exalted feeling I had! It was beyond description. Through Fa study and from the Dafa exercises I had new understandings of the principle of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, and I was able to see my own shortcomings and correct them and was able to be a more tolerant and broadminded person. Falun Dafa changed me and rectified all of my degenerated notions and thoughts.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang's political group began their campaign of persecution targeting Falun Dafa. I was shocked and confused at first; then I calmed down and realized it was every Chinese citizen's constitutional right to appeal to the government. I was practicing a righteous belief and conducting myself according to Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. I didn't go after money or recognition, and I only wanted to be a good person. What was wrong with that? After much thinking, I decided to validate the Fa by telling the public about the positive changes that took place in me.
I went to Beijing to appeal for the first time in late December 1999, going with several other practitioners. We were all arrested and held at an underground hotel in Tianshui City's Liaison Office in Beijing. Later, Feng Jitang from the Political and Security Division of the Beidao Police Department in Tianshui City took us to the Beidao Administration Detention Center. The authorities demanded a fine of 4,000 Yuan be paid to them which was really just extortion.
In December 2000, I went to Tiananmen Square alone and told everyone I met that "Falun Dafa is good!", "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa." I was arrested and held at the Haidian District Detention Center in Beijing for nine days. I was picked up by people from my former work unit and detained again at the Beidao District Administration Detention Center in Tianshui City for 30 days.
On January 20, 2001, I was picked up by the authorities and forced into a brainwashing program that was held at the Qiaonan Drug Rehabilitation Center. I began a hunger strike along with other practitioners to protest our detention and persecution against us and was released on January 28. On March 17, 2001, I was seized from my home by the authorities and sent to a detention center, where later I was subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labor on March 19, 2001, without benefit of any legal procedure.
From the first day of my detention at the labor camp I started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. I don't think there is anything wrong with practicing Truth--Compassion-Tolerance. I didn't violate the law and so I felt that I should not be held in a labor camp. The guards at Group Two of the female division of the No. 2 Labor Camp in Gansu Province force-fed us savagely many times. I remember that they once force-fed me for 15 days straight!
Every time the guards force-fed us, they ordered inmates to assist them. The first time, over a dozen inmates carried me into a room and tied my hands and feet onto a chair and the head of a clinic inserted a tube into my nose. I never cooperated with him. Sometimes I bit the tube until it broke, and he fished around with the tube and jerked it. He tried to insert it many times but I never let him put it in. Once, the guards tied me to a metal bed in a clinic. The bed is around one meter wide and two meters long (6 feet by 3 feet). The bed frame consists of metal strips around 10 cm in length and about 10 cm apart (3 x 3 inches). They tied me to the bed with a sheet and carried the bed to an activity room with me on it. They ordered inmates to sit on my knees and stomach, and a guard named Gao inserted a tube into my nose and pulled it out. He did it repeatedly until blood gushed from my mouth and nose for a long time. I was very weak after holding a long-term hunger strike and also from torture. Later, they force-fed me again and used a shoe brush to pry my mouth open and put food into my mouth that way. My gums often were left bleeding from their abuse.
In July 2001, the perpetrators suddenly reduced food rations for Dafa practitioners. Some practitioners received only 1/3 of what they would normally receive. The slave labor we were forced to perform at the time was digging dirt, and manually pulling fully-loaded carts. I held a hunger strike to protest the violation of our human rights and demanded our food portions be restored to previous levels. The division head didn't respond and I continued to hold a hunger strike. One day I was called to the Division Head's office and saw two female police officers and one male police officer. One of them was named Wu Hongxia from the Political and Security Division from the Beidao District Police Department. The guards left after they turned us over to the police. The male police officer asked me about a Dafa practitioner in Beijing and about a computer, and I said I don't know that practitioner. The male police officer jabbed me with the leg of a wooden chair and Wu Hongxia slapped my face. They kept beating me until I lost consciousness. I vaguely recall someone pouring water on me. The interrogation lasted the major part of the day and ended without the police obtaining the information they were looking for. The police officers became furious and said they would come for me daily. They also tried to force me to sign a document they had written, and I refused. After I returned to my cell I realized I should not allow them to torture me, and I should resist this with righteous thoughts. I told the division head that I would no longer meet with anyone who wanted to interrogate me. That resulted in the end of their interrogations.
On several other occasions, the guards publicly defamed Dafa and Master and I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good;" "restore Master's reputation." Because of that they sent me to a solitary confinement cell, handcuffed me, forced me to stand for long periods of time and didn't allow me to sleep for a long time. They made me stand for more than 20 days and 20 nights. My legs were extremely swollen and I couldn't lift them or bend my knees.
Once, someone publicly defamed Master at a meeting and I shouted, "restore Master's reputation." The guards hung me up with my hands cuffed behind my back [With both hands cuffed behind the back, both feet off or only toes touching the ground, one is hung onto the basketball support or house beam with the handcuff. Both hands and arms will soon lose sensory perception. In addition, both hands will go numb from lack of blood circulation]. Drops of sweat rolled from my forehead and I felt excruciating pain in my shoulders, hands and feet. I said to Master in my heart, "No matter what happens, I will never give in to the evil." Suddenly, I heard someone calling for me. A person called the guards and they put me down because he saw my eyes were closed and my head lowered, and he was afraid I was dying. They never used this torture on me again. I knew in my heart that Master was protecting me, and I burst into tears. All pains disappeared. This time I had truly given up my attachment to life and death, and because of Master's protection, the evil could not find an excuse to persecute me. The perpetrators cuffed me for twenty days, followed by two days of sleep deprivation. I miraculously survived. Sometimes when they tried to force-feed me I thought, "Falun help me! Don't let them feed me." They could not get any food into my mouth. The guards thought it strange but couldn't do anything, so they gave up.
Right now, Fa-rectification has reached the last phase of the last stage, and I feel the great historic responsibility on my shoulders. I can only do well in The Three Things Master asks of us -- study the Fa, explain the facts about the persecution and send our righteous thoughts - and try my best to expose the evil in my local area, offer people salvation and take solid steps on the path of Fa rectification.
Liu Wenyu
A Dafa practitioner in Tianshui City, Gansu Province."
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Haiyan from Heishan County, Liaoning Province, was illegally sentenced to two years forced labor just because she exercised her constitutional right to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in Beijing. She suffered from brutal torture during the detention in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. On March 21, 2003, when her family brought her back home, she was already mentally traumatized and could not look after herself. There were clear scars on her head, hands and other parts of her body. She died unjustly on January 18, 2004.
Ms. Zhang Haiyan was 34 years old and lived in Wangjia Zirantun of Xiyou Village, Hujia Town, Heishan County. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996 and benefited both physically and mentally.
In July 2001, Zhang Haiyan went to Beijing to appeal but was arrested by the Beijing police. The Hujia Town Police Station and the officials from her local village brought her back to her village. She was beaten by Police chief Zhang Dong, and he even extorted money from her family. Seeing that her family did not have much money, Wang Yubao, the party secretary of the village, brought several people to her farm in an attempt to harvest their Chinese sorghum crop and confiscate it for themselves. The family firmly resisted but Zhang Haiyan was taken away and then sent to the Heishan Detention Center. After more than two months, Zhang Haiyan was illegally sentenced to forced labor for two years, and was then transferred to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp where she received further persecution.
According to inside sources, while Zhang Haiyan was detained she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong and staged a hunger strike to protest her illegal detention. Because of this, she was cuffed and hung up [1], tied with ropes, and brutally beaten. The police forced her to give up her belief, and the brutal tortures of over two years had seriously damaged her both physically and traumatized her psychologically. On March 21, 2003, when she was brought back home by her family, she was already mentally traumatized and could not look after herself. There were clear scars on her head, hands and other parts of her body. She died unjustly on January 18, 2004.
[1] Cuffed and hung up: With both hands cuffed, both feet off or only toes touching the ground, one is hung onto the basketball support or the beam of the house with the handcuff. The hands and arms will soon become paresthetic and numb.
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Li Shuhua, 32 years old, of Peiying Street, Yushi City, Jilin Province was murdered by the police on October 6, 2003. When her family asked for the cause of her death, the police said that she died while on a hunger strike. But recently, after watching a Falun Dafa truth-clarification VCD and realizing the cover-up of the staged Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square and learning of false charges against Falun Gong, a public security official who knew Ms. Li's case revealed why she was tortured to death.
After arresting her, the authorities detained Ms. Li Shuhua in jail. As she refused to answer any questions during the interrogation, the police tortured her. They covered her head with plastic bags and then stabbed her fingertips, arms, back and chest with big needles; her cries could be heard by the other detainees and the jail personnel. This was not an isolated incident. The jail police ferociously claimed, "I will force you to give out your Falun Gong contacts and materials sources!" After sealing her lips they struck her eyes so hard that the force dislodged one of her eyeballs out of the socket. Ms. Li passed out with terrible heart-rending cries of agony. Then the jail police asked for instructions from their superior officer, and the conclusion was that a dead person would be silent. That public security official commented that if Ms. Li had not been blinded, there would have been no reason to murder her.
At first the police thought they would send Ms. Li's body for cremation without notifying her family. However, after sending the body to a hospital to soak in some type of embalming fluid for a few days, plus some make-up and freezing, the needle marks were fading while only one eye seemed to be relatively shriveled and one half of her face was greenish pale. Without close examination her dead body looked somewhat normal. When her family asked about the needle marks, the doctor lied claiming they were due to the failed rescue efforts. However, there were two spots of skin peeling on her face, her fingernails had turned purplish green, and her abdomen was full of bloody fluid. Towels could not stop the flow of the bloody fluid that kept leaking from her body. No wonder some saw soaked sanitary napkins under her lower body. When questioned about the bloody fluid, the legal medical doctor lied saying it was due to her menstruation. How could a dead person menstruate? How could menstrual blood stay in the abdomen? All these were shameless lies!
The telephone numbers of those responsible:
Public Security Group: 86-431-3630358
Zhang Deqing (National Security Brigade Chief):
86-431-3650116, 86-13630547970 (mobile)
Zhou Xianguo (National Security Brigade Deputy Chief):
86-431-3633042, 86-13630530976 (mobile)
Liu Guilan: 86-431-3660089, 86-13630547782 (mobile)
Shi Hailin: 86-431-3628540 or 86-431-3638540, 86-13844150532 (mobile)
Sun Tiejun: 86-431-3636238, 86-13180876268 (mobile)
Qi Li: 86-431-3624881, 86-13844956168 (mobile)
Chen Lihui: 86-431-3643559
Chai Wenge: 86-431-3638154, 86-13089427353 (mobile)
Han Yueyan: 86-431-3615012, 86-13504491096 (mobile)
He Lijuan: 86-431-3621165, 86-13943153899 (mobile)
Liu Yanzheng: 86-431-3644889, 86-13944953838 (mobile)
Li Chunhe: 86-431-3642293, 86-13944849448 (mobile)
Zuo Liang: 86-431-3631089, 86-13504791490 (mobile)
Guo Shiqing (now retired): 86-431-3637526
(Clearwisdom.net)
Mr. Wang Hengyou, 47, was an employee of the Dayan Mining Company Power Plant in Ewenke Banner, Hulunbeier City, Inner Mongolia. He was well known in his company for his outstanding performance at work. After he took up the practice of Falun Gong, he set even stricter requirements for himself, and did an even better job at work. Moreover, his moral character became nobler. Once he found a gold ring laying in the road. Even though his family was very poor, he never thought of keeping the ring. In order to find the person who lost the ring, he put an ad in the newspaper at his own expense. However, such a good person was tortured to death on April 4, 2004 for his belief in Falun Gong.
On April 19, 2002, Wang Hengyou was arrested and sent to the Dayanbeihe Detention Center. Two policemen Dong Jie and Yu He from the national security brigade of the Haiyan Police Branch Office interrogated him. They asked him whether or not he had gone to Beijing to appeal since he wasn't at home for the past several days. Wang did not cooperate with them, so the police began to beat him savagely. They grabbed broom handles to strike his head until they broke. Then they grabbed Wang's hair and slammed his head repeatedly against a concrete wall. As a result, bunches of his hair fell out. Because of the intense pain, Wang also became unconscious. The two policemen did not stop though. They began kicking his lower body with their leather boots. Wang couldn't catch his breath and sweat rolled down his face. Finally he passed out again. His genitals became very swollen from being repeatedly kicked. Seeing that he was severely injured, the two policemen began to get a bit afraid. They searched Wang's body and found some money which they used to buy a hot water bottle. They put it on his genitals, hoping to reduce the swelling.
On September 2, 2002, Wang was transferred to the Tumuji Labor Camp in Xing'anmeng, Inner Mongolia, where he was again brutally tortured. The police did not allow him to sleep. Due to the constant torture, he became extremely weak. He often felt his pain in his head and stomach. He also had difficulty catching his breath. Not long after, he became bedridden and was on the verge of death. Not wanting to take responsibility, the labor camp authorities planned to release him on medical parole. However, they needed his local police chief to sign the documents. Wei Honggui, police chief of the Haiyan Police Branch Office refused to sign the documents. Thus the labor camp had to keep detaining Wang Hengyou. On November 5, 2003, after a lengthy negotiation between the labor camp and Haiyan Police Branch Office, the documents for medical parole were finally completed. Wang's family was able to pick him up and take him home. At that time, he was emaciated and near death. Even after he returned home, the local police still kept coming to his home to harass him. With untreated internal injuries, he passed away on April 4, 2004.
Names of the people responsible for the crimes committed against him:
Wei Honggui: 86-470-8643807, 86-13015111413
Yu He and Dong Jie: 86-470-8643472, 86-470-8642662
Dayan Mine Company Power Plant "610 Office" staff:
Liu Wanhui: 86-470-8643771
Feng Lin: 86-470-8642238
Wang Xianghai: 86-470-8642662
(Clearwisdom.net)
On February 19, 2004, 40-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Peng Chunrong (born on February 22, 1970) was abducted by police from the Duzhou Town Police Station of Changshou District, Chongqing City. She was then taken to a 610 brainwashing center, where she was tortured so brutally that she was near death. The staff at the brainwashing center did not want to take responsibility for their crime against her, so they sent Peng Chunrong back to the Duzhou Town Government. The government authorities informed the party secretary of Peng's resident village to come and pick her up, but before releasing her, these same authorities demanded several thousand yuan to be paid to them first. Since the village and her family did not have that much money, the town government officials refused to release her. Peng died due to persecution between 2AM-4AM on April 11, 2004.
Learning of her death, her family members and the local residents, numbering several thousands gathered in front of the town government to demand an explanation. However, in response to this, the town government arrested all the practitioners in the town.
Before she died, Ms. Peng lived in Laojunwan of No. 9 Group in Sanping Town Baofeng Village, Changshou County, Chongqing City (now becomes Laojunwan of No. 9 Group in Duzhou Town of Baofeng Village, Changshou District of Chongqing City)
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The Town Party Secretary is Huang
Zhengqiao.
The Town Head is Tang Shenming.
The Vice Town Head is Cheng Yi.
Duzhou Town Police Station's number
is 86-23-40420281
Tang Shenming is the vice town head
(Clearwisdom.net) The Shatan Police Hospital is located south of Shatan, Beijing. The Inmate Section of the hospital is deep underground and holds the inmate patients from detention centers in Beijing. The administrative staff members in the section treat the inmate patients worse than they would treat animals. The patients are shackled to beds all day long and often tortured by unethical medical personnel who call it, "medical treatment."
Shackling patients to beds all day
Once inmate patients are admitted to the hospital, they are shackled to a bed with an over 5 kg metal chain, one end attached to the bed, the other to the patient's foot. The length of the chain is just enough for patients to stand beside the bed to relieve themselves but not long enough to be able to walk one step away from the bed. The patients are only released for 5 minutes in the morning and once in the afternoon for washing. All other times, they are chained to their beds. At night between 7 and 9, the staff can also handcuff one arm of a patient to the bed until the morning.
The Hospital ward like a "coffin" with live people inside
Except for three meals each day, there is no other food or water provided. There is no entertainment such as TV or music. Every day, patients are confined to beds, sleeping all the time except during medical visits and meals. Patients don't know whether it is daytime or nighttime. Two 40-watt light bulbs are always on in the 10-square-meter room and the room is electronically monitored and videotaped 24 hours a day. The room is like a "coffin" with live people inside.
The situation is even worse for female patients. Male nurses or police are put in charge of female patients. Even when female patients take showers, the door must be wide open with male police watching them from outside. Female patients have to hide in the corner to take showers in order to avoid being viewed by their monitors. Patients must obey any hospital rules or operations.
"It's nothing if you die"
Falun Gong practitioners are treated even more viciously by the hospital staff. For any practitioner that refuses medical treatment, the hospital will shackle their hands and feet to the beds, rendering them unable to move. Some practitioners were handcuffed so long that both hands became disabled for a long time even after being released. The hospital administrative staff torture practitioners without restraint. If practitioners show a little bit of disagreement or resistance, the staff will shackle practitioners for as long as they want. They often say to practitioners, "It is nothing if you die." If a patient dies in this hospital, it is regarded as a normal occurrence and no one will be charged or investigated regarding the cause of death.
Torturing people for amusement
The medical staff in this hospital consider it normal to destroy lives. Police were once overheard talking among themselves about a case where they kept a patient who went on a hunger strike (it is unknown whether he was a practitioner or not) into a morgue drawer that is used to hold the dead in the morgue. Every day, except during times when the staff force fed that individual, he was forced to lay in the drawer like a corpse. A month later, he went insane, and this became a topic of amusement among the police.
Unnecessary "treatment"
When the medical staff "treat" practitioners, they intentionally make practitioners suffer as much as possible. When inserting the nasal feeding tube, they intentionally insert it forcefully or probe it around everywhere to increase the pain. When giving infusions, they jab the needle repeatedly to probe everywhere and they choose surgery to treat patients who could be treated with conventional methods, without any concern about the patient's condition and the future consequences, and without any regard for medical ethics. Some practitioners have been on hunger strike for several months. If they resume eating in the morning, they will be sent back to labor camps in the afternoon. There is no concern among the medical staff that those on long term hunger strike need time to recover. Some are sent back with feeding tubes still inserted or suffering from multiple diseases.
A Dafa practitioner had been on hunger strike for more than 6 months and was too weak to take care of himself. After he resumed eating, his request to eat a little more besides the three meals a day was cruelly rejected. The medical staff even handcuffed him behind his back to torture him. Because his health was so poor that he had urinary incontinence, they inserted a catheter to increase his suffering.
A 27-year-old graduate student from Qinghua University, Zhang Lianjun, has been on a hunger strike for eight months. He has been tortured to the verge of death.
It is a fact that hospital staff is persecuting people using the excuse of giving them "medical treatment".
Some medical staff members still have some human conscience but most, especially those of the administrative staff, do not have any humanity left at all. They escalate the persecution of Dafa practitioners and even take sadistic pleasure in the torture and pain they inflict on others.
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 7, 2000, Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhuo, who was employed by the Agriculture Bureau, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, was abducted and taken to the Zhanggongqiao Police Station by persons from Leshan City's Zhongqu Police Department. The next evening, his family was told that he died at about 7:00 a.m. in the custodial room at the Zhanggongqiao Police Station.
Mr. Zhang Zhuo was born in 1969. He graduated from the China Agricultural University in Beijing in July 1991, and was assigned civil servant work in the Agriculture Bureau in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. The leadership at his workplace wanted to promote him, since Zhang Zhuo worked diligently and responsibly, and because he was honest and guileless, but they could not promote him because he refused to give up Falun Gong practice.
Zhang Zhuo was a voluntary assistant at the Falun Gong practice site at Leshan City's Zhongqu Science & Technology Building. Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Dafa began, he had frequently been abducted and forced to attend brainwashing sessions, but he never gave up Falun Gong practice. At about 5:30 p.m. on June 7, 2002, while he was chatting with a fellow practitioner on the lawn of the square at the intersection of Jiazhou Avenue and Nanan Road of Zhongqu, Leshan City, persons from Zhongqu's Police Department illegally abducted him. They took him to the Zhanggongqiao Police Station and interrogated him. At about 7:00 p.m. his home was searched. After 9:00 p.m. the following day, his family was told that he died at about 7:00 a.m. in the custodial room at the Zhanggongqiao Police Station.
As disclosed by people who know the inside story, at about 8:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m. on June 7, family members visited Zhang Zhuo and everything appeared more or less normal. But after Zhang Zhuo died, Leshan City police tried all kinds of means to block the information, and strictly monitored the family members.
On the day of Zhang Zhuo's death, the police did not allow the family to view his body, and wanted to cremate him immediately. The police failed to do so due to the family's strong opposition. Three or four days later the family members saw the body. As told by a witness, the body had been cosmetically made up, but the family members were still able to see a few bloodstains on the nose and ears, while the bloodstains between the teeth were immediately noticeable. There was a dark red blood mark on the back of one hand providing evidence of a violent attack. The police claimed that Zhao Zhuo hung himself at about 7:00 a.m., and said they found him at 7:20 a.m. The location was less than 1.5 meters (4-1/2 feet) above the floor, and was only one meter (3 feet) away from the guards, making it impossible for the police to justify their claim that Zhao Zhuo hung himself.
At the time of Zhang Zhuo's death, his child was only six years old, and his elderly mother was nearly 70 years old, and was thousands of miles away. As she is weak and ill, the relatives were afraid that she would not be able to endure the pain of losing her son, so no one has dared to tell her yet of Zhang Zhuo's death.
Reference link: Dafa Practitioner Zhang Zhuo from Leshan City, Sichuan Province, Tortured to Death at the Zhanggongqiao Second Police Station in Leshan (Photo)
(Clearwisdom.net) Following the torture death of Dafa practitioner Zhao Fengnian in Zhengding County, another practitioner, Zhao Liuchun, died as a result of torture he suffered in the hands of perpetrators from Zhengding County's "610 Office."
Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Liuchun was in his 50s and lived in Zhuhe Village, Futun Town, Zhengding County. Even after July 20, 1999, he persisted in Dafa practice and the local officials therefore singled him out as one of the main targets for persecution. In the past several years he was sent to a detention center at least three times. The officials additionally forced him into a brainwashing program and fined him. His home was also ransacked. Around October 2003, he was arrested by officials from the Political and Security Division of the local police department and was sentenced to three years of forced labor without benefit of a trial. Zhao Liuchun was extremely weak from the long-term torture. His blood pressure was found to be 240 mmHg at the labor camp and the camp authorities refused to accept him due to his poor physical condition. The labor camp doctor asked the police officers, "How can you send him here when he's almost dead?" The perpetrators then sent Zhao Liuchun home.
Over the next few months, perpetrators from Zhengding County's "610 Office" and collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray after torture and brainwashing] constantly harassed Zhao Liuchun at his home, so he couldn't get any rest. Around 3:00 p.m. on February 26, 2004, collaborators Cao Zhuo and Gu Yuehong again went to Zhao Liuchun's home under orders from Hu Jun, head of the "610 Office." Cao Zhuo and Guo Yuehong tried to force Zhao Liuchun to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa. Zhao Liuchun's condition exacerbated and the two collaborators left. With help from neighbors, Zhao Liuchun was sent to the county hospital. Around 4:00 p.m., the doctor did a CT scan and said, "He's dead. All the blood vessels in his brain have burst." At 10:00 .pm. Zhao Liuchun passed away.
The residents of Zhuhe Village are angry with collaborators Cao Zhuo and Gu Yuehong for persecuting Zhao Liuchun. None of the perpetrators who persecuted Zhao Liuchun will escape just punishment.
The persecution against Dafa practitioners in Zhengding County is very severe. Two local practitioners have been tortured to death. Many practitioners were sentenced to heavy prison terms, forced labor and detention; they were fined, tortured and paraded through the streets wearing defamatory signs just like during the cultural revolution. Dafa practitioner Shang Kunfeng, the former deputy head of Zhengding County's Standing Committee was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison.
We call upon Dafa practitioners around the world to help stop the persecution in Zhengding County.
Work units responsible and phone numbers: (area code is 311)
Zhengding County Party Committee office: 8022202 or 8021199
Zhengding County government office: 8022012 or 8022013
Zhengding County Police Department: 8022062
Zhengding County Political and Judiciary Committee: 8022289
Perpetrators and phone numbers:
Niu Zhengui: secretary for Zhengding County's Party Committee, 8022072
Jia Yuying: head of Zhengding County, 8021741
Ma Yongjiang: Zhengding County Police Department chief, 8021274 (office) 5051833
(home)
Hu Jun: Zhengding County Police Department assistant chief and head of Zhengding
County's Police
Department "610 Office;" 8022276 (office) 8023755 (home)
He Guifen: wife of Hu Jun; works at Zhengding County's Credit Union, 8022121
Wang Jing: wife of Sun Xinfang, head of Zhengding County's "610
Office." She works at Zhengding County's No. 6 Middle School, 8022506
Cao Zhuo: collaborator; works at Zhengding County's Statistics Bureau, 8022843
(office) 8028064 (home)
Qu Xingzhong: wife of Cao Zhuo, works at Zhengding County's Land Tax Bureau,
8020530
Gu Yuehong: collaborator, resident of Nanhua Village, Zhengding County
Zip code for Zhengding County: 050800
(Clearwisdom.net)
In 2002, the Huanan Bureau of Forestry "610 Office" (1) authorities forced me into the Wanjia Labor Camp. The personnel at the Wanjia Labor Camp refused to take me in and I was returned to my hometown. Soon after, the "610 Office" authorities tried again to send me to the Jiamusi Labor Camp, yet I was again rejected by the labor camp after I failed a physical examination. Upon returning, I went on a hunger strike for a long time to protest the persecution against me until I was sent to hospital. In the hospital, the staff handcuffed and shackled me and I was tied to a board with six ropes. They taped my mouth shut and administered an IV while I was still tied to the bed. The authorities levied a large fine and pressured my husband to divorce me or be subjected to persecution as well. In addition, my child was removed from my home because I practice Falun Gong.
Later the "610 Office" authorities deceived me by saying, "It is only 4 months before you will be released. You won't be sent to the labor camp again. Why don't you eat something? This way you will have better health and your family will feel better upon seeing you on your return." I believed them and started eating. I regained my health rapidly and could walk again. I did not know they were lying to me. After I regained my health the authorities transferred me to the Jiamusi Labor Camp by bribing someone there to take me.
On October 28, 2002, I was escorted to the Jiamusi Labor Camp by Han Shuhua, head of the Huanan Bureau of Forestry; and guard Cui Yanwu. Cui bragged to me en route that they bribed someone in order to get me accepted at Jiamusi.
I explained the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa to everyone I came into contact with after arriving at the Jiamusi Labor Camp. Later, I lost my memory and became numb due to the mental trauma of prolonged detention (on top of an earlier detention), as well as being subjected to psychological and physical torture. I learned that I had been detained on the 2nd floor, the 1st floor, and the East Hallway. Even though my father, son and relatives at Jiamusi all visited me, I had no recollection of their visits.
I heard from fellow practitioners that while I was disoriented, I pointed to a guard and said, "You are the senior officer here. I am innocent and I did not commit any crimes. You should release me and send me home." When others tried to feed me, I would always ask them to taste it first afraid the food was laced with poison. I even told other practitioners, "Let's go home together." I rolled off the bed after I said it. The inmates then took me to the bed with rails on the other side. That bed was used to torture practitioners by a torture the guards called "back cuff over the shoulder" and is excruciatingly painful.
"Back cuffing over the shoulder" is a form of torture. The Guard would pull one arm over my shoulder, and my other arm from the lower back through the rail, and then the guard would cuff both hands together forcefully. I ended up sitting on the cold concrete floor and the guard would pull both hands very tight.
I passed out and did not remember how long before I regained consciousness after I was force-fed with a solution that contained a high quantity of salt. I could see that the back of my hand was taped with gauze, an indication that I received some kind of IV injection. I felt nauseous and rubbed my abdomen hard, vomiting out more than half a pot of the salt compound they force-fed me.
Later, fellow practitioners gave me plenty of water to drink. I was already like a walking skeleton and I could not cross my legs. It was very painful because the bones of one leg would be pressed against the bones of the other leg. After I started taking in food, I could walk with others helping me. However, I was subjected to a new round of forced brainwashing.
I often could hear screams of pain when others were tortured with the "Back cuff over the shoulder." I could see their painful facial expressions afterwards, especially when they could not stand the torture anymore and signed the "Five Repentant Statements." (2) I could see their sorrowful expressions and the tears in their eyes. I had seen the witnessed the "Back cuff over the shoulder" torture against fellow practitioner Li Ping. Her eyes were blood red, her face swollen, and she was sweating from the extreme pain. Huang Xiaolei, a 21 year old student from the University of Heilongjiang, was tortured in the same way. She lost all feeling in her arms and legs due to nerve damage. She could no longer walk or raise her arms. There was another practitioner Chong who was tortured until she could no longer move her arms. Another small practitioner was tortured until she became mentally disoriented from being traumatized by the torture.
During the period of time when I lost my memory and senses after prolonged detention and torture, the guards continued to torture me with increasing brutality. The Huanan "610 office" authorities refused to release me since I could not be forced to renounce my belief. Instead, they tried to increase my sentence. Since I was partially disabled and others had to help me to walk, the police could not receive any bonus if I was released in this condition and still had not renounced my belief. That was the reason they tortured me even harder; to try to achieve their goal and obtain their reward.
Once, I could not sit steadily on a chair after two other inmates helped me to go to the cafeteria. I fell onto the concrete floor. The guard did not allow others to help me to get up. Only after everyone finished eating did they allow some inmates to pull me up. Under the order of the guards, several inmates even dragged me along a road paved with gravel with the dust trailing behind me.
I lost my shoes and coat near the factory's gate. No one showed any concern. I lay on the concrete ground with cold wind blowing. My sweater was blown open and my stomach exposed showing the scabies infection that I contracted in the poor Labor Camp conditions. It was really cold.
Facing possible reprisal by beating and cursing, practitioner Li Xiurong ignored her own safety and helped me to get back to the factory with tears rolling down her face. The factory was a place where they forced practitioners to perform slave labor. Because I could not even sit straight, other practitioners found a cardboard box and made a makeshift bed. They took off their coats and used them as blankets for me. Because the labor camp was very damp and the conditions were extremely harsh, my body was covered with scabies and there was not much uninfected skin left. It felt like my bones were rubbing against bones. I had to endure minute by minute of suffering from pain and itching from the scabies.
Each day others had to help me walk. Once the guard supervisor ordered me to walk by myself. I fell to the cold ground as soon as I tried to take the first step. Fellow practitioners tried to help me to get up, but the guards shouted at them, "No one is allowed to help her. Let her crawl back if she cannot walk!" I thought to myself, I would never crawl even if I were frozen or starved to death.
One day, around 6 am in the morning at the end of February, the guard ordered several inmates to forcefully drag me to the foot of a wall. I could not sit upright; so several fellow practitioners helped me until everyone else was done with the morning exercise drills. Later on, from time to time the guards would order others to drag me near the wall. I could not stand without leaning against the wall even if someone was holding me. My teeth chattered in the freezing wind. After the morning exercise drill, a guard would lecture everyone, and then everyone would go to work at the factory. At 7:05 am breakfast was served at the cafeteria. This was followed by more morning work, lunch, and then afternoon work. Even after dinner there was work to be done. We were allowed to go back only after 8pm. Yet, our day was not over. We were then forced to sit on small stools and watch films defaming Falun Dafa. Sometimes we would not get to rest until well past 11 pm. I never sat there and watched their films, and that was why they kept torturing me day and night.
While I had a lapse in my memory, my relatives who lived in Jiamusi City tried hard to find connections to get me released. I never allowed my family to spend money on my behalf. I told them Dafa practitioners did not do anything wrong or against the law. I would not renounce my belief. It was no use regardless how much money they paid to officials. My relatives went to ask the police, "If we cannot pay you, would you provide medical treatment?" They replied, "No money, no treatment. If she dies then her body would be immediately cremated without notification of kin." The labor camp tortured me severely, yet they asked my relatives to provide money to get treatment for me.
The Dalian Forced Labor Camp, built in 2000, is specifically used for isolating and persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. It is also a testimony of how the Dalian Municipal Government, the "610 office" (1), as well as Hao Baokun from the Justice Bureau of Dalian and Hao Wenshuai from the Dalian Labor Camp have all been following Jiang Zemin to persecute Falun Gong (Falun Dafa).
Between March and June 2001, within a period of only four months, Falun Dafa practitioners Yu Lixin and Wang Qiuxia were tortured to death there.
The front gate of the forced labor camp was guarded by the most vicious guards, who brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. The guards were Han Yanmin Wan Yalin, Yuan Lingyue, and Tan Liping, chosen by the leader of the women's team.
The work places for the detained Falun Gong practitioners in the Second, Third, and Fourth Sub-teams were located in the east hall off the front gate. Hao Wenshuai, Han Yanmin, and Wan Yalin deceived the public on TV by using curtains to hide their crimes against humanity inside the labor camp. While practitioners were performing slave labor in the morning, the curtains were not allowed to be opened. Only the leaders could decide the time that the curtains could be opened.
Dafa practitioners at the labor camp have been forced work there since 2001. They had to perform manual labor such as silk-screening, tying bunches of flowers together, stringing beads, etc. Starting in 2002, the practitioners' work included packaging cotton swabs, sewing buttons on clothing, packaging coffee stirrers, picking beans, tying kelp into knots, tearing seaweed, and wrapping chopsticks for the "Sifang Wood Company."
The individual tasks were assigned to different divisions. One basket of kelp weighed about 90 pounds. Often detainees couldn't finish the assigned task, which resulted in prolonged working hours. Once, inmate Sun Bo (who was also known for kicking and beating practitioners and shackling them in painful positions), whose division had finished a certain task, went to ask the leader whether they could go upstairs for a break. However, the leader Liu Yuchan said, "Do you really think that you'll be allowed to take a break! Can it be possible?!"
To tear seaweed requires a person to stand continuously and work from the early morning to the evening, usually until after 9:30 p.m. Each worker had to finish an average of 45-67 pounds of seaweed per day. Dafa practitioners Li Yurong and Wang Lijun were both singled out for additional mistreatment by having their work hours increased.
In 2003, the main task at the labor camp was picking beans. Various types of beans needed to be sorted and prepared for export to different countries. The beans with a diameter of 7-9 millimeters had a higher defective ratio than those with different diameters. The acceptable ratio for defective beans is 15-19%, but in actuality the rate reached 24-25%. Each person was only able to finish little more than one bag (each bag weighed 110 pounds), although the quota was two and half to three bags per person per day. There were many kinds of beans, which were exported to Europe, the Middle East, and Cuba. Each single type of bean was stored in quantities of as much as 1,800 tons. They were sometimes brought in to the labor camp at a rate of 600 tons per day, which needed to be transported in three big containers and a big truck.
The police persecuted practitioners by forcing them to undertake intensive labor. If the task couldn't be finished on time, they forced all the teams, sub-teams and divisions to consider this failure seriously, calling them together to place blame. They also decreased the time allowed for sleeping, eating and breaks. Under this intense pressure, almost all types of beans were finished on time.
The small types of beans (2-6 mm in diameter) such as soybeans or mung beans were usually exported to Korea. Each bag weighed 78 or 56 pounds, and each person was assigned to fill 4-6 bags per day. The smaller soybeans were only slightly bigger than sesame seeds, but had to be carefully sorted from the ones that were worm-eaten, speckled, of abnormal color etc. The guards understood that the quota was high and hard to finish, but they still put pressure on the sub-teams. In the meantime they made use of the criminal inmates' psychology by offering them reduced sentences in exchange for putting increased pressure on Falun Gong practitioners. Physical abuse was common at the work place. Dafa practitioners felt suffocated by the pressures of their work quotas, coming close to mental and physical collapse each day.
Due to the monetary value placed on the import and export of goods, the sub-teams were not allowed to stop working and they had to take turn unloading the trucks. The incoming sacks weighed 55, 110, 143, or almost 200 lbs. Lunchtime was often delayed until late in the afternoon. By May and June 2002, many people were exhausted from loading so many big sacks. Dafa practitioner Li Guihong was even spitting out blood due to exhaustion.
Quality control was strict and if a batch of beans failed the tests, the beans would be pour out and the work would have to be repeated. Whoever was responsible for substandard work would be abused and beaten by the team leader Mi Hong (a drug addict, in charge of the Second Sub-team).
If one person had to repeat the work, it would implicate others as well; the whole group of three to four people would also be forced to do the work over. In the course of this labor, the workers' faces had to be constantly inclined forward, close to the beans, which caused the legs to feel numb. If someone had poor eyesight, she was not only abused by the group leader but also blamed by the other inmates. That kind of mental torture was as painful as being forced to stand inside a small cell (2) or to be subjected to other forms of torture.
Yuan Lingyue once set the work hours so that everybody had to get up at 4:20 a.m., start work at 4:40 a.m., and go upstairs to eat at 6:00 a.m. This regulation lasted for a long time but was later changed to 6:20 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. for the meals. Inmates were required to check each other for any forbidden items while standing in line for food. They focused on checking Dafa practitioners. Dafa practitioners who were suspected of hiding something would be searched to make sure that they were not keeping Teacher's writings. The whole process of body searches, eating, and clearing away the bowls was not allowed to last more than 20 minutes. Sometimes people just managed to obtain their bowl when the work bell went off again.
During the first half of 2003, drug addict Li Jing became the group leader of the Second Sub-team. She extended the work hours until 11:00 p.m., and punished Falun Dafa practitioners by calling a meeting where nearly 60 Dafa practitioners were assembled for stricter supervision. At the meeting she verbally attacked Dafa practitioners, and anyone who expressed disagreement was physically attacked by the criminal inmates. Each division consisted of five rooms, and each room contained 2-3 criminals who were trained and experienced and had abused Dafa practitioners in the small cell before.
Drug addict Li Jing hysterically shouted curses to make the practitioners suffer more. When picking beans, she indicated that only the beans on top should be sorted correctly, but not those on the bottom, so as to reduce the workload. She wanted to rely on cheating to pass the quality check. The more brutally she treated Dafa practitioners, the more rewards she got from the team leader, causing her to become even more unscrupulous about mistreating Dafa practitioners. Eventually, Li Jing was released ahead of schedule.
Any unfinished work had to be completed after the regular work hours ended and evening roll call had been called, and usually lasted until 9:00-10:00 p.m. or even until midnight. Sleep was not permitted if the work wasn't done. Rushing through the task was used as an excuse to force extra work, including packing toothpicks, chopsticks, cotton swabs, etc.
All the work was done on the floor of the dormitory, with the supplies lying about on the floor, which was completely unsanitary. The criminal inmates commented that now that they knew how they were packaged, they would never again use disposable chopsticks.
At one time, about 60 people were assigned the extra job of stringing beads. The rule was that only after finishing all the work would the division be allowed to go to sleep. Some divisions had to work until after midnight and others until 2:30 a.m. to finish their quota. The extra work was assigned according to the number of detainees in each division. It was hard to finish. When the workers were picking beans during the daytime and a load of chopsticks arrived, they had to drop everything to first carry the raw materials for the chopsticks upstairs. The finished products were then moved downstairs. The younger workers carried the materials on their shoulders and the older people needed to team up in order to be able to carry them. Falun Gong practitioners lived on the fourth and fifth floors, and they had to go up and down the steps with heavy loads of materials many times during the day. All the while, criminal inmates were watching the different floors, and the team leaders watched the hall or strolled up and down. If someone occasionally winked, talked, or made a gesture to another and was found out, she would be seized and punished immediately.
Even though carrying all these materials took extra time, the detainees still had to finish picking beans. The team and group leaders simply increased the total workload.
The main issues when evaluating the various work groups were overall aspect of the work site, work quality, ratio of defective beans, and timeliness of task completion. The team leader devised many incentives, for example, setting up the "advanced honor award" among the sub-teams and setting up the "mobile red banner award" among the dormitories. Rewards included increased visiting hours, more phone calls, or picking out the easier beans. The criminal inmates tried to outperform themselves and became ever more unscrupulous in complaining about Dafa practitioners. The labor camp's management was always trying to harm people.
There were many prohibitions at the work sites:
If any of the labor camp regulations were violated, or if quotas or other criteria were not met, a detainee would be punished by having to wrap chopsticks, sometimes until 1 a.m. If no extra work was available, the punishment might be being forced to stand until midnight or 1:00 a.m. Other methods of punishment included denying permission to meet with family members or being denied any snacks for a whole month. Prisoners might be forced to carry a certain amount of beans upstairs, sort them at night, and take them downstairs again in the morning. For answering questions defiantly, prisoners were punished by being placed in a small cell.
The leader of the Second Sub-team, Yang Shengsheng was very vicious. Zhao Yang, Liu Yuchan, Wang Shiqing, Duan Huixian, Xu Lili, Cao Zhi, and Huang Juan were known as being particularly brutal police officers. All of them invented cruel ways to control and utilize other people to torture Dafa practitioners.
Yang Shengsheng never openly beat people, but she inflicted pain by pinching practitioners while dragging them by the arms. It was well known that she was vicious. One time she was dragging Dafa practitioner Liu Yaqin by her collar from the bedroom to the gate of lobby. Liu Yaqin suffered a heart attack and could not move, but Yang Shengsheng still wouldn't let her go, accusing her of feigning illness. She also punished Dafa practitioners by not allowing them to go to sleep and denying them use of the bathroom for the whole night.
Unless they had special permission from the team leader, even if a detainee was in poor health she had to finish her work quota.
The enslavement and brutal torture of Falun Dafa practitioners spotlight the viciousness of the guards at the forced labor camps. As Falun Dafa practitioners, we should refuse any of the commands or instructions issued by these people, and we should stop their vicious behavior using our Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts according to Teacher's new article, "Stop the Evil Acts with Righteous Thoughts." We also need to find ways to prevent the public from committing crimes against Dafa practitioners, instead of feeling helpless and simply accepting this persecution.
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(2) "Locking up in a small cell": The detainee is locked up in a very small cell individually. The guards handcuff practitioners in a fixed position, in which the practitioners can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. During the night rats are running around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.
(Clearwisdom.net) Dalian City Jinzhou District Detention Centre created a torture device known as a "leather board" to beat prisoners. Many Dafa practitioners have suffered from this torture instrument.
The "leather board" consists of a wide rubber belt with a handle, as well as several rows of large, shiny metal studs. See image below.
Practitioners who were illegally arrested and detained here suffered from cruel beatings and torture by policemen including Ju Wenyang. The skin on practitioners' faces and many parts of their bodies was lacerated from being beaten with the "leather board." Even several years later, the deep scars left can still be clearly seen.
(Clearwisom.net) Ms.Yang Ruizhen was a teacher in the kindergarten affiliated with the Youjiang Medical College (YMC). Because she would not give up her belief in Falun Gong, she had been detained for several months and then sent to forced labor for two years. Her daughter Ms. Liang Xiaoping, also a Falun Gong practitioner, had been sent to forced labor for two years and her term has been extended; both are acts against China's Constitution.
Ms. Huang Caiying is a retired staff member from the YMC library. Because she practices Falun Gong, her home has been ransacked and she was sent to forced labor for one and a half years. Her daughter Ms. Li Can was arrested for accessing the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. The police officer yelled at her, " I can sentence you, even without evidence!" In the end, Ms. Li was sentenced to two years of forced labor.
Ms. Wei Peiqi is a retired professor. She has been detained in a drug rehabilitation center for 15 days.
Ms. Lan Airong was an inspector at the Basic Department of YMC and was sent to forced labor for three years. She has been suffering persecution in that prison. Her husband died of an illness during her detention and left a daughter in the first year of senior high school at home unattended.
Ms. Wang Zhen was a staff person in the library. Her home has been ransacked and she was sent to two years of forced labor. After she was released from the labor camp, YMC took away her previous job. They re-assigned her to the position of janitor in the Health Section and only pay her a minimum salary.
Li Xiurong was a nurse in the Health Section. Her home had been ransacked. She has been interrogated, extorted and then penalized with salary cutbacks by YMC for one year.
Qiu Ni was a library employee. Her home has been ransacked. She has been interrogated many times and then penalized with salary cutbacks by YMC for one year.
There are also other practitioners who have mentally suffered to various degrees. They have been deprived from practicing their belief and their human rights have been violated. We hope that all people of conscience will voice their concern about it!
Responsible individuals at YMC in Guangxi Autonomous Region: (dial country code and area code, 86-776 before each following number)
Huang Ruiya, President, 2848801 (office); 2827501 (home)
Cui Jian, Party Secretary, 2843882 (office)
Huang Tianrong, General Affairs Office director, 2821226 (home)
Huang Zhengyong, Library director, 2842698 (home)
Chen Buer, Human Resources Office director, 2820056 (home)
Zhou Zhaoxiong, General Affairs Office assistant director, 2833886 (home)
(Clearwisdom.net, May 5, 2004) On April 25, 2004, the 5th anniversary of the peaceful 4-25 appeal at Zhongnanhai, practitioners of Nordrhein- Westfalen in Northwest Germany, came to Cologne to commemorate this historic moment and to let more people know about the persecution of Falun Dafa in China.
Cologne is one of the major tourist resorts in Germany and visitors arrive her from the morning until evening each day. Visitors come from all over the world to visit Cologne Church, especially those from Mainland China. Practitioners have mounted a display site in front of the Church, which has become a window of opportunity for people from different nations and helps them to learn more about Falun Dafa and the truth of the persecution.
Practitioners erected several banners reading, in both Chinese and German, 'Stop persecuting Falun Gong', 'Jiang Zemin is being sued', 'Bring Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang and Liu Jing to Justice', and, 'Stop the torture and killing of Falun Gong in China'. Leaflets and other materials were displayed on the exhibition boards and the tables gave detailed information about Jiang political group's use of different methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. A TV was also placed at the site to show the video of the staged "Tiananmen self-immolation" and other films. Five practitioners wore jackets with Chinese characters to reading, 'Falun Dafa is Good' and demonstrated the exercises in front of the banners, which attracted a lot of people and made them stop and watch with interest. Apart from Chinese, English and German literature, practitioners also prepared materials in other languages in order to let people from different parts of the world know about Dafa and understand the truth.
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Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200405/19392.html
(Clearwisdom.net) On the fifth anniversary of the "April 25th Appeal" event, Falun Gong practitioners in Toronto, Canada held a series of activities themed ""Revealing the Truth Behind April 25th, Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice." The local Chinese media reported on the activities. The practitioners held a candle light vigil in front of the Chinese consulate in Toronto on April 24, and on April 25 they had a car parade and other activities.
The Chinese media pays attention to the "April 25th Appeal" activities
Around 10:00 a.m. on April 25, New Age Chinese TV interviewed Falun Gong practitioners despite the rain and took photographs of the parade.
The parade started around 2:00 p.m. the more than 60 decorated vehicles making up the bulk of the group. The motorcade first drove around the downtown area and Chinese communities for more than one hour. Banners reading "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice;" "Stop the Persecution;" "End the Lies" and "Falun Dafa is Good" hung from the sides of the vehicles. Yellow flags and colorful balloons floated above the cars and made the motorcade stand out under the gray sky.
After 3:00 p.m., the motorcade went to Scarborough, Richmond Hill, Moncton, Mississagau and other cities. These small, densely populated cities include lots of Chinese residents. Most of the ancestors of these Chinese residents in those areas had moved to Canada from Hong Kong. These people usually don't have the opportunity to run into a Falun Gong practitioner or read information about Falun Dafa. The people, many of them friendly, read the banners. Some waved at the practitioners.
Afterwards, New Age Chinese TV aired a positive report on the parade, which stated the cause of "April 25th Appeal" and the progress of lawsuits against Jiang Zemin. The reporter faithfully quoted Falun Gong practitioners' words and also showed photos of large banners attached to the cars. Radio Free Asia also participated in the two-day activity and filed positive reports.
Statement from an "April 25th Appeal" witness
Ms. Wang was a witness of the "April 25 Appeal," and she also participated in the candle vigil and the parade. Ms. Wang told a Minghui reporter what she saw during the "April 25th Appeal."
She said on April 25, 1999, premier Zhu Rongji represented the government and gave Falun Gong practitioners a satisfactory response. The practitioners left peacefully and didn't leave a single piece of garbage and even picked up cigarette butts the police had left. During the appeal, Falun Gong practitioners displayed a high degree of self-discipline and were always considerate of other people.
Never in her wildest dreams did she expect the Jiang's group to twist around Falun Gong practitioners' good intentions falsely claiming, "the group attacked Zhongnanhai." Jiang's political group later used the appeal as an excuse to persecute Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang saw premier Zhu Rongji and heard his response. She believes the persecution of Falun Gong is the sole intention of Jiang and his accomplices, while the majority of Chinese government officials oppose this persecution and they know Falun Gong benefits the society and the people.
According to statistics, at least 958 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death during the last five years. Jiang's group used and is using the government machinery to attack Falun Gong. They staged the "Self-immolation" in Tiananmen Square to incite hatred against Falun Gong. Jiang's group's actions have caused immeasurable loss to the Chinese society and tremendous harm to the Chinese people. If the persecution is not ended as soon as possible, it will affect the future of the Chinese people.
Ms. Wang also mentioned that various Falun Gong practitioners have filed lawsuits against Jiang Zemin in several countries including Canada, Germany, and Belgium, and they have accused the main perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and torture. Ms. Wang said the persecution should stop immediately and the world should bring Jiang Zemin to justice.
Ms. Wang continued that, since the weather was not at its best in Toronto at the fifth anniversary of the "April 25th Appeal," it caused inconveniences for the parade and other activities and was also the reason for postponement of the mock trial. Falun Gong practitioners in Toronto will nevertheless continue to expose Jiang group's crimes and try these people in the court of morality and in the court of people's hearts. The historic appeal that took place five years ago, along with Falun Gong practitioners' great compassion and tolerance will be forever remembered in the history as well as in people's hearts.
(Clearwisdom.net, May 5, 2004)
On May 2nd, German Dafa practitioners handed over both German and Chinese translations of an open letter to the Chinese Embassy in Germany, and asked them to pass on it to Wen Jiabao who is visiting there. A German desk clerk received this letter. In the meantime, the letter was read aloud at the appeal activities held in the afternoon.
 Falun Gong practitioners deliver the open letter to Chinese Embassy in Germany |
 Falun Gong practitioners held activities to call on end of the persecution |
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Below is the open letter to Premier Wen Jiabao
Dear Respectful Mr Wen Jiabao:
Falun Gong, a cultivation method first introduced to the public in 1992, provides close links between German Falun Gong practitioners and the Chinese people. Falun Gong has been blossoming in many countries and was also introduced to our country. For many years, this practice has brought inner and external peace to many of us. We treasure it as a precious gift, a gift that develops widely and strongly in a free, democratic and stable society.
During your visit, we would like to present you with a gift from the Chinese people. This is what a German policeman said: "The demonstration by Falun Gong is like a peaceful island in a chaotic world."
If you are willing, we will show you these peaceful and solemn islands during the few days you will be staying as a guest of the German State. We will meditate in public in Munich and Berlin, and express the wish from the bottom of our hearts to the media and the general public for an end the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
We would like to take this opportunity to deliver a message to you: here in Germany it is a common thing for people with different opinions and different beliefs to respect each other.
We will also exhibit the following banners to you:
·Welcome Wen Jiabao
·Falun Dafa is Great
·Bring Jiang to Justice
·End the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
Last November, over forty Falun Gong practitioners sued the prime culprits of the persecution against Falun Gong in German courts for their crimes against humanity and genocide. At present a case is being considered by the German Federal prosecutor and relevant departments.
As long as the people involved in the case still hold power in China and try to stop the case, we think we have a duty to re-establish common rules and justice using the principle of freedom in other countries.
We deliver this gift to you with our upright and kind hearts, and wish you and the Chinese people a bright future. We hope you will receive this gift and carry it back to China.
German Falun Gong Practitioners
Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200405/19426.html and http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200405/19397.html
(Clearwisdom.net) In order to celebrate the 12th anniversary of Falun Dafa's introduction to the public, Young practitioners attending the Minghui School dressed up and had their photos taken to let the world know that there are so many young Dafa practitioners in Taiwan.
Minghui School's Red Cap Drum Group gave a performance, and the sound of the drums attracted many passersby.
On April 25, older practitioners talked about the April 25 Appeal in class, telling young Dafa practitioners about what happened that day in China and explaining its meaning.
Finally, young practitioners pressed their hands in front of their chests to respectfully wish Master a happy birthday in advance of May 13.
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a practitioner from Huludao City. In mid-June of 2000, I was arrested together with two other practitioners and sent to the Qitun Detention Center where we were put in Prison Room #2. It was a small room, filled already with 19 practitioners, and with the addition of three more of us it became even more crowded. (Later on, they detained over thirty people in that room, leaving not enough room to even sleep.)
We would wake at midnight to practice the exercises. Cao Fengqiu sat in front of me. She is from Dafutun Village of Guangtun Town. Our energy field was peaceful and we did not have the notion of being in a dangerous situation even though at any time we could be beaten by the prison guards.
However, an abrupt knock on the door broke the serenity. Someone was knocking on all the doors where practitioners were detained. Our door was opened and a prison guard with the surname of Yuan burst into the room with a thick baton in his hand, and started to beat us. It was mid-summer and we were only wearing a thin layer of clothes. One practitioner by the surname of Liu who sat in front of me only wore a vest. Yuan forcefully struck her on the back with the baton and instantly welts appeared on her back. He repeatedly struck her seven times on the same spot and as a result her back turned black and blue. Even under this kind of treatment, the practitioners still sat in peace and continued the exercises. Finally the police handcuffed us.
The vicious thug struck Cao Fengqiu five times. Although beaten up, we still remained unmoved and continued the exercises. He was furious and targeted another practitioner who sat on the side. He grabbed her hair and dragged her forcefully to the ground. She was unable to move. He then dragged Cao Fengqiu in the same way. While he was trying to get another three practitioners, Cao Fengqiu managed to sit up. He was shocked by this and came back to drag her to the ground again. However Cao Fengqiu once again sat up. This was repeated for four or five times. Finally when he forced her down to the ground, he stepped on her head before she could do anything so that she was unable to move. After one or two minutes, he raised his foot, thinking she must have been defeated. However, he turned back and found that Cao Fengqiu had once again sat up. He then once again forced her down to the ground and stepped on her. The director of the detention center and another prison guard witnessed all this. Finally, the three of them left and we resumed our practice.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Policemen Say, "Dafa is good. You should stay home and practice it well."
Dazhi (pseudonym), from Jilin Province, had liver cancer before he began practicing Falun Dafa. The first day after he started listening to Teacher's lectures, his condition began to improve. Several days later, he was fully recovered. From that day on, Dazhi diligently practiced Dafa.
Dazhi makes living driving a pedi-cab. He uses every opportunity to clarify the truth to people. One day, while he was studying the Fa [universal law and principle], several policemen from the "610 Office" (1) suddenly broke in to his home and shouted, "What are you doing?" Dazhi peacefully said, "I'm reading and assimilating Dafa. You guys wait for a while." After he finished reading, Dazhi then put the book aside and started clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa to the policemen.
He described his own great physical changes, the current spread of Dafa worldwide, and the beautiful life Dafa brings to people. An hour later, the policemen who had learned the truth of Dafa got up and said goodbye to him, "Dafa is good. You should stay home and practice it well."
An Elderly Person Pushes the Window Opened and Shouts, "Falun Dafa is Good!"
In recent times, more and more people in China have become jobless and have a hard time making a living. However, Dazhi has never had any trouble working with people who are in the same occupation as he. One day, an elderly man bought a large bag of rice. When other pedi-cab drivers saw this, they all came forward and tried to pull the elderly person to their pedi-cabs. Facing the scene, the elderly man had no idea what to do. Then, Dazhi came over and carried the bag of rice to his pedi-cad and said to the elderly man, "Why don't you come with me. I'll take you home." The man looked at him and sat in his pedi-cab without saying a word.
Dazhi then took the elderly man to the building where he lived and asked, "Which floor do you live on?" The man said, "The fifth floor." Dazhi then shouldered the bag of rice and started walking upstairs. The man followed him closely. After carrying the bag to the elderly man's home, Dazhi was dripping with sweat from the work. After he put the bag down, the elderly man said to him in a cold manner, "The only reason you work so hard is for the money. Just tell me how much you want." Dazhi said with a smile, "I don't want anything. All I want to do is tell you that the world needs Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Falun Dafa is good." The elderly man was shocked. Before he realized it, Dazhi had already gone downstairs.
Dazhi did not get too far from the building when the man pushed the window open and shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" The passersby all stopped and watched.
Passengers Who Learn About the Truth Shout With Him, "Falun Dafa is Good!"
One day, Dazhi met two people who needed to go to a destination that was pretty far away. However, they had only two Yuan (2) left. Nobody was willing to take them. Dazhi came to them and said, "It's OK if you don't have the money. I'll take you." On the way, Dazhi told them that he was a Falun Dafa practitioner and started clarifying the truth to them. He started from the Tiananmen self-immolation incident, and also told them of the spread of Dafa worldwide. He told them that all Dafa practitioners are good people, and that they must remember that Falun Dafa is good. After learning the truth, the two passengers were touched and shouted right away, "Falun Dafa is good!"
On the way back, Dazhi thought that since even non-practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," as a practitioner, he should validate Dafa with dignity at all times. So while he was transporting passengers, he shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" along the streets. The passengers joined him as well.
Dazhi is still happily driving his pedi-cab, clarifying the truth of Dafa, and not giving up on anyone with a predestinated relationship.
(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.
(2) Yuan: Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan.
(Clearwisdom.net) When I received the news that fellow practitioner Zhang Haiyan had died from the persecution she received because she practices Falun Gong, I felt extremely sad. I recalled the days when we were together. Her smiling face appeared in front of my eyes, as if it were yesterday.
In mid September 2001, I was sent to the detention center just for telling people that "I practice Falun Gong." Haiyan was arrested for going to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa. That was how we met. She was 31-years old at the time. She had big eyes and a very fair complexion. In the brief couple of weeks we were together, I came to know her as a wholesome and innocent woman, untainted by established human notions, and with a relaxed disposition and simplicity of outlook free from worries that beset most people. She was seriously injured as the police shocked her with electric batons and beat her with wooden clubs. Her hips turned black and blue, all covered with bruises. But I did not see any expression of pain on her face. She was so strong.
Haiyan grew up in the countryside. She had never traveled very far from home, not to mention going to Beijing. Setting out with only her sincere belief in Dafa she went to Beijing to validate Dafa alone. When she arrived in Beijing she was not able to find Tiananmen Square. She came across an ancient style building (she did not know that she was quite close to Tiananmen Square) and sat down to meditate. In no time a policeman came and took her to Tiananmen Square. The police asked her: "Do you dare to take a picture with this banner?" As he spoke, he took out from his pocket a yellow banner with red characters - "Falun Dafa is Good" (he must have confiscated it from some arrested practitioners). Haiyan replied, "Why not, I am a Falun Gong practitioner, of course I would dare to take a picture like that." The police then snapped a photo with Haiyan holding up the banner with the words, "Falun Dafa is Good." The policeman then took her to the detention center.
The Heishan Public Security Bureau and Hujia Police Station sent policemen over and took Haiyan and the picture of her with the banner back to the Heishan Public Security Bureau. At the Public Security Bureau Haiyan was again brutally beaten and tortured by the Heishan police. They asked her who gave the banner to her or if she made it herself. Haiyan told them that it was the police in Beijing who gave the banner to her and took the picture. The police at the National Security team said, "That was fabricated evidence to entrap you." Later Haiyan was illegally sentenced forced labor at the Masanjia Forced Labor camp where she was persecuted even more brutally.
Regrettably, Haiyan has thus left us. She has departed forever. This is another bloody debt that the Jiang's regime has incurred.
(Clearwisdom.net) In July 1994, I was very fortunate to attend Master's Fa lectures in Guangzhou. That period of time was very precious and extremely unforgettable.
As Teacher wrote, "Righteous Fa spreading, Ten thousand demons blocking." ("New Life," Hongyin) This was already apparent from the constant changing of the location of during the Guangzhou lecture. At the beginning, the location was set for the auditorium of the Guangzhou General Labor Union. However, on the first day of the class, the location was changed to another place. For the second day's class, the location was again changed, and the lecture was held at the Army Auditorium on Lingyuanxi Road. Later on when I recalled this, I deeply felt the difficulties Master encountered while introducing Falun Dafa.
When Master gave Fa [universal principle] lectures, he always arrived at the class ahead of time. When I attended the class, since there were a lot of people in the audience, I got an upstairs seat. One day I arrived at the auditorium ahead of time. Since it was not time for the class yet, I went out and stood on the second floor of the entrance hall and looked outside. At this moment I saw a scene that I would not forget all my life: Master walked in by himself, wearing a neat and simple short-sleeved shirt. At that moment I was pleasantly surprised. Thinking, "Master is here!" I stood there staring blankly, and even forgot to go downstairs to greet Master.
The scene of Master walking in by himself struck my heart greatly. Why? My interest in qigong had begun in 1984 or 1985, and I had been getting more and more interested in it. I had always hoped to find a master with high gong potency [a type of energy resulting from high level cultivation practice] and high morality but had not been able to. From the late 80s to early 90s, qigong [pronounced "chee-gong' a system of traditional Chinese cultivation practice] reached its peak in China, and lots of qigong masters and people with supernormal abilities appeared all around China. I was in college then and I wrote to some of them but never received a reply. I went to search for them during my winter and summer vacations but did not achieve anything. In 1988, a qigong association was set up in my college. The association invited some local qigong masters to give qigong performances. Those people always rode a car to and from the college, and ordinary students could not even get close to them. The time when I met Master, he was already a renowned qigong master nationally; however, he did not ride in a car, nor did he have escorts. Master just walked steadily into the auditorium to give his lectures, naturally and amiably, his extraordinary bearing manifested in his gentleness.
I think all practitioners who have seen Master in person are moved by Master's every word and deed. A sentence, a smile, or a wave of hand of his, all manifest a great Enlightened Being's grand compassion and selflessness. All of these will be imprinted in every being's memory, forever and will be held as most precious.
(Clearwisdom.net) In my cultivation I always held the view that my Xinxing [mind nature, moral character] improves relatively faster than others. When facing conflicts in personal cultivation I could always laugh it off. I also thought that I have a faster and deeper understanding of the Fa.
After 1999, I felt my cultivation state had become better and better. I was full of compassion. Whoever met me would remark, "You are so kind." Fellow practitioners also said: "You've cultivated really well." I also felt more "smug" as time went on. Although I told people to pay more attention to studying the Fa [universal principle], I felt that I myself had cultivated so well, I had already melted into the Fa, so it was all right for me to study less. In fact, I had already deviated from the Fa at that point. At the time, I felt I was quite good, and my sense of "self" was also very obvious. I did not realize that everything was bestowed upon us by the Fa.
In 2001, I ran into more and more conflicts. I even felt that it was strange. Why were there so many difficulties? I regarded them as interference that should be rejected, rather than looking within to see if I, myself, was the problem. Later on I just followed my feelings when running into problems. One most obvious example is that for a long time I did not know what I was reading when studying the Fa. I did not even feel that there was something wrong with such strong interference. I still believed that my cultivation state was quite good.
In September 2001, the persecution against Falun Dafa affected me. I still did not realize that my problem was in my attitude toward "Fa study" and my fundamental understanding of the Fa. I took the wrong path while facing persecution. After paying the price and thinking it over, I finally recognized the root cause of my problem. When Master talked about "the choice" and about the importance of studying the Fa in his lecture, "Touring North America to Teach the Fa," I was deeply touched by all the things that Master has given us. What could there be that was special about oneself? The slightest thought in this direction would be taken advantage of by the evil. The lessons I learned are profound. In front of the boundless Fa and Master, we are so insignificant. Everything we have was given to us by Master and the Fa.
(Clearwisdom) Teacher said when teaching the Fa (1) at the 2003 Atlanta Conference,
"I think when you study the Fa you should just study the Fa, and no one should interfere. That's because if you don't cultivate yourself well, you won't have mighty virtue in anything you do."
I believe that interference occurs among practitioners because of several causes; one is that overseas practitioners have too much to do, and another is insufficient Fa study.
I began practicing Falun Dafa in the summer of 1995. By July 20, 1999, I had followed Teacher's suggestion to memorize Zhuan Falun, Zhuan Falun Vol. II, Hongyin, Essentials for Further Advancement, half of Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa, and many chapters in other books. After July 20, I further memorized many of Teacher's Fa-rectification articles such as "Touring North America to Teach the Fa." No matter how long or how difficult Teacher's articles are, I memorize them with no hesitation as soon as I get them.
I recall the time around July 20, 1999, when the persecution began. The authorities dragged me from my workplace and sent me to a brainwashing class, all because I was able to recite Zhuan Falun [main teachings of Falun Dafa]. Each of the abducted practitioners was confined to a single cell. We were not allowed to talk, sing, step out of the cell, and neither were we allowed to see our family members or even change our clothes. I was confined to the cell around the clock, without seeing any sunlight for almost 6 months. I was pushed to the limit and almost mentally collapsed. It was during this time that thought karma and other attachments stirred me up the most. The beatings and verbal abuse day in and day out, plus the suffering of not having one's freedom, made me feel one day that I was going insane. I began to recite the Fa and told myself, "Calm down." I told the filth trying to take over my mind (at that time I only knew it as thought karma): "I am comprised of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Every cell of mine is Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance and I will never become insane." I kept repeating, "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance" in my mind. This way I passed the most difficult day and the days to follow. I told my fellow practitioners later, "My life truly consists of the Fa. I cannot depart from the Fa for a single second."
Practitioners in China can all appreciate the importance of studying the Fa. In the evil environment, one cannot succeed without memorizing the Fa. Practitioners used to write the Fa on walls or any scrap of paper while they were subjected to brainwashing, in jails, or labor camps. Some practitioners who were not incarcerated wrote Teacher's articles on a cloth or tissue paper and would then sew it to the clothes that they sent into the labor camp. Eventually the labor camp authorities discovered these methods and would soak the clothes in water that family members sent in, or would tear up all the cotton batting in quilted jackets that people sent in. So people say that memorizing the Fa is the safest way.
When I studied the Fa, I felt that my surroundings would become very quiet as soon as I calmed down. I believe that it was my mind that was quiet and the interference outside could not affect me. Didn't Shakyamuni say when Qieye tried to hurt him with a fire dragon: "My mind is clear and peaceful and I will not be hurt by outside harm." When my mind was unsettled, tired, or being bothered by thought karma, I would remember Teacher's words, "You should study it with a peaceful mind" ("A Heavy Blow" from Essentials For Further Advancement), and then I would be able to calm myself down. When my mind began to drift away, I always thought of Teacher's words: "Each word of 'Buddha Amitabha' appears before his eyes." (Zhuan Falun).
I would recite the newly memorized Fa. On my way to work, I would recite the Fa once. When I went to bed, I would recite the Fa once that I memorized during the day. I would recite the Fa while I was walking, riding a car or a bicycle, doing chores around the house, or during breaks. If I made a mistake or forgot it, I would check the book. As time went on, basically all factors that interfered with my Fa study disappeared. Now, although telling the facts about Falun Gong to people and sending forth righteous thoughts takes up a lot of time, I can still study the Fa as I did in the past. My family members do not practice Falun Dafa and will interfere with me sometimes when I am sending forth righteous thoughts or explaining the facts about Falun Gong to people, but by and large they do not bother me when I study the Fa. I feel it is good that some practitioners suggested that we study the Fa after we have finished all work that needs to be done. But I feel that if one wants to be able to study the Fa without being interfered with, one needs to follow what Teacher said: "Study it with a peaceful mind."
Why do I concentrate my effort on memorizing the Fa in my Fa-study? I remember that Teacher said in the early days that one's thoughts can drift away even when his eyes are watching the object (not a direct quote). My mind drifts away often when I read, so I memorize the Fa and do not need to read it as often. Teacher has also asked practitioners to memorize the Fa on many occasions, including in Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa. In my experience of memorizing the Fa over these years, I have found that spending time memorizing the Fa does not slow down my Fa study at all.
(1) Fa: Law and principles; the teachings of Falun Dafa.
(clearwisdom.net)
Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/5/3/47663.html
(continued)
4. Breaking Through My Notion of Being Atheist
I had not begun to practice Falun Gong, yet I knew instinctively that it was a high-level qigong practice. Later, I understood that my holding back really was due to my deep-rooted atheist's point of view. It was such an interesting difference when I look back on it now. On one hand, I genuinely accepted the Taoist idea that believes in the existence of higher beings. On the other hand, I grew up in an environment that advocates an atheist's viewpoint. Furthermore, after studying physics for many years, my subconscious was affected by the atheist thoughts. I ridiculed those who believed in Gods and thought they were foolish. I debated regularly with many believers while I was writing my doctoral thesis. Dealing with the question of whether there are higher beings, my mind was mainly guided by science. My quest for Taoist Schools, qigong, and supernormal abilities were all based on science. So, after all I was still a persistent science oriented atheist.
However, something happened to me, which changed everything.
In reading Taoist books, I learned that a Taoist master searches for his disciples, instead of disciples searching for the master. Since I knew of no way to find a good master and there was no hope that a master would ever find me, I felt deeply saddened. Busy daily life and schedules gradually replaced this sad feeling. However, my understanding of qigong reinforced my belief that qigong is good for the health. So, I usually meditated for 15 -- 30 minutes in my living room before I went to sleep.
One night during my meditation in June 1999, I felt suddenly that there were countless eyes gazing at me and they were getting closer and closer. I was deeply frightened. This situation lasted for several days. One night, I could not stand the frightening feeling any longer and I suddenly screamed mentally for Mr. Li Hongzhi. I asked for his help, and I had no idea why. In the middle of my scream for help, a huge current of energy erupted from the top of my head and my scalp felt a momentary sharp pain. Meanwhile, I heard a sound behind me as if someone was turning on the light. All my fear vanished immediately, a warm feeling enveloped me. I felt very relaxed and comfortable. All this happened at the same time when I was screaming for Teacher Li.
I sensed that the light was on even though my eyes were closed. After about 20 to 30 seconds, I thought of checking whether the light really was on. I opened my eyes, and sure enough, the light was on. Since my family had gone to bed already, there was no doubt in my mind that a miracle had just happened: An invisible energy had turned the light on at the moment when I heard the sound. Theories of modern physics can't explain what had happened to me. After reflecting deeply upon this, I came to the conclusion that there really existed the supernatural dimension and God. The thick and hard shell from being an atheist within me had finally broken open. I was deeply shocked and yet quite pleased.
From that moment on, my entire being knew that I wanted to practice Falun Gong.
Because of my years of pursuing knowledge through science, the Tao School, qigong, and supernormal abilities, I had no mental block at all when I started to practice Falun Gong. My original conclusion about Falun Gong was validated immediately. It was a high-level cultivation method. For example, I still remember vividly, when I first practiced the second set of exercises (Falun Standing Stance), the phenomena of the "Great Heavenly Circuit" was formed within me, and there was a strong energy current going through my right hand's lung meridian (one of the twelve meridians). People who are familiar with qigong practice know that qigong practice requires a hundred days to build a foundation and a thousand days to form Gong. For the "Great Heavenly Circuit" to be formed in a traditional practice takes one thousand days, or several years. So, after my first practice, I experienced what Zhuan Falun has talked about, that the starting point of Falun Gong is very high.
During the period around July 20, 1999, when I began to practice Falun Gong, I felt a strong energy surging throughout my body. I was extremely energetic and seldom got tired or sleepy. One time while helping friends to move, I didn't feel tired, even though my entire body was soaking wet from sweating. Soon after I started practicing, my stomach returned to normal. The hay fever I had after I came to the U.S. quickly disappeared too. Gradually, I experienced other phenomena mentioned in Zhuan Falun. For example, after just a few months of cultivation, I experienced the historical secret of secrets known among those who practice cultivation as the -- "The Placement of the Mysterious Pass." I was in awe by the profound intricacy of Falun Gong.
From my personal experience I recognized that in order to truly understand "cultivation", one has to cultivate oneself inside. It is extremely difficult to conceive "cultivation" merely by reading books or pondering about it.
5. Understanding Supernormal Abilities
As mentioned above, I had read much of the research done about supernormal abilities during my graduate studies. I kept an open mind and a scientific approach in dealing with more controversial topics. After several years of practicing Falun Gong, besides getting healthy and enjoying tremendous mental and physical changes, I reached a deeper understanding about nature, the universe, time-space, and life. I have also gained a deeper understanding of supernormal abilities.
During my years of practicing Falun Gong, I have experienced many phenomena, which belong to the "supernatural" or were classified as "unusual abilities." Over the last few years, many Falun Gong practitioners have experienced various unusual phenomena, which cannot be explained by modern science.
I believe that the biggest obstacle for many people (especially those with a scientific background) to really accurately comprehend Falun Gong has to do with supernormal abilities. From the academic research point of view, there are two main controversial factors regarding supernormal abilities: one is that modern science cannot explain these phenomena, and two is the question of repeatability.
With respect to the first factor there is really no problem. Viewing from history, modern science has progressively developed over time. Thus, it cannot explain every phenomenon at once, and scientific theories were based on a large amount of experimental data. Thus current scientific theories cannot predict future developments in science. If it could, then science would need no further development and could stay at current level. Take physics for example. The phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity cannot be explained based on existing theories. Similarly, the theory of low temperature superconductivity cannot predict the phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity. Thus, when the contemporary scientific theories cannot explain a certain phenomenon, it is not sufficient to deny the phenomenon. We can only say that science needs further development. Take a simple example: contemporary science cannot explain the nature of life. We cannot say that life does not exist simply because science can't explain it, because we know that life will continue on generation after generation.
To those who are really concerned about explaining the science of the human body and supernormal abilities, repeatability becomes the crux of debate.
The problem with repeatability exists in many fields. It's not unique in the science of the human body (or supernormal abilities). Astronomy is another example. We are unable to carry out repetitive experiments to collect experimental data on the gigantic celestial body and planets. To overcome this difficulty, scientists collect data based on long-term observation and then use the data to do analyses. That is to say that they collect a large amount of data and analyze it as a substitute for repetitive experimentation.
Medical research has encountered a similar problem. For example, when a pharmaceutical company carries out research, development, and tests to determine the effectiveness of a new drug, it is very difficult to produce re-recurring reactions from each patient. To determine the effectiveness of a new drug, researchers divide persons to be tested into several independent control groups. They then carry out long-term observation, data collection and statistical analyses for each control group. Based on the data of each control group, they then use statistical analyses for the whole group to determine the effectiveness of a new drug: Is this effective? What is the degree of effectiveness? The researchers use large amount of data and apply the method of meta-statistics (2) to overcome the difficulty of doing repetitive experiments.
It's not hard to see that the use of the meta-statistics method to determine the effectiveness of a drug may not be effective at all, or not effective for a particular patient, or even not effective for a particular control group of patients. In some sense, the use of meta-statistics is for analyzing the effectiveness for a large group of patients, but it cannot determine the effectiveness of the drug for any one particular patient.
In general, the repeatability of research dealing with the science of life is poor. Drug research as discussed above is one example. Supernormal abilities, which are closely related to life, are no exception. Supernormal abilities have many factors involved, and are often not repeatable in experimentation. To overcome the difficulty of repeatability, the meta-statistics method can be applied to the research of supernormal abilities. From a scientific point of view, even if one case can be substantiated regarding supernormal abilities, it is not enough to "prove" one's theory.
Dr. Dean Radin (3) of the United States applied the following method to study supernormal abilities for the US government. He worked with several well-known research organizations to observe and research supernormal abilities. He and his co-workers have gathered together a vast number of observations (including data from controlled group studies) for a period of over 100 years. Applying the meta-statistics method to the vast number of cases, they came up with a convincing conclusion: supernormal abilities exist. This subject is beyond the scope of this paper. Also, due to limited space, we will not go into further details. The results of their systematic study have already been published. Interested readers can reference their publications. (3)
The reason for these examples is to explain that the question of repeatability in dealing with supernormal abilities can be resolved with a certain methodology and effectively applied in scientific research communities. Once we recognize this point, people will discover that supernormal abilities are not that mysterious and that it's not difficult to do research to confirm their existence.
Science is constantly evolving. When a new phenomenon first appears, debate is a normal part of the process. In dealing with phenomena such as supernormal abilities, we should treat them with a scientific spirit and attitude. The essence of contemporary science is experimental in nature. Its foundation is built on experimentation, and shouldn't be interfered in by political influence.
As to a theoretical explanation for supernormal abilities, we purport that it is in essence a conceptual problem. Once we break through the current narrow and rigid mentality, we will find that understanding supernormal abilities is easy.
6. Altering the Conventional Mind-Set and Exploring the Intricacies of Life and the Universe
From the history of scientific development, we learned that significant discoveries of science always came through drastic changes in the prevailing mind-sets, such as: theories of Quantum Physics or Relativity. Contemporary science is on the eve of immense change. The conventional concept of time and space needs to change; exploring the existence of other space-time dimensions will be a crucial factor for this new revolution of science. I won't discuss this subject since it is outside the scope of this article.
I noticed that people with a background like me usually have a limited understanding of qigong. The notions we have developed also obstruct our ability to recognize Falun Gong properly. This was especially true after Jiang Zemin began persecuting Falun Gong. Many people with rigid mentalities could not accept the outcomes of scientific research in recent years (such as the recognition of other dimensions by physics). They use science as a facade, and apply a narrow viewpoint, out-dated knowledge and subjective imagination to deceive themselves and others. They are the political hitters for Jiang's regime in the scientific arena. They are not only causing tremendous damage to Falun Gong but also causing great mental disturbance and obstructing many who search for the truth of life and the universe.
Because of the April 25 appeal (1) I started to understand Falun Gong, and finally stepped on the path of cultivation. My experience of the past few years has allowed me to realize that Falun Gong is a scientific path that allows one to investigate the intricacy of the human body, life and the universe. I have immensely benefited from taking this path.
Notes:
(1) To understand the "4.25 Event," please read the following web links:
On the Fifth Anniversary of the "April 25 Appeal" -- Remembering April 25, 1999 (Part 1): http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/4/26/47425.html
On the Fifth Anniversary of the "April 25 Appeal" -- Remembering April 25, 1999 (Part 2): http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/23/72944.html
On the Fifth Anniversary of the "April 25 Appeal" -- Remembering April 25, 1999 (Part 3): http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/24/72945.html
(2) Meta-Statistics: Also called meta-analysis (the analysis of analyses). It is a group synthesis method; it is generally being used in the fields of sociology and medicine, etc.
(3) Dean Radin, Ph.D., The conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (1997), San Francisco: Harper Edge.
(Clearwisdom.net)
I was a seventy-four year old retired party leader at Jinzhou city. During one of my routine physical examinations, I was diagnosed with chronic lymphatic leukemia. Even after a long stay in the hospital to cure the disease, the treatments were not effective. My doctor told me, "Regarding this kind of illness, there is no one yet in the whole world who has been cured by medicine."
People said that a bone marrow transplant could cure this disease. However, there is no guarantee that one will be cured; and its expense is very high. We did not have the money to have that kind of operation. My family members had looked for many private remedies, but they all failed.
When I was running out of options in 1995, a friend of mine introduced me to the practice of Falun Dafa. When reading the book of Zhuan Falun [main teachings of Falun Dafa] for first time, I knew that it was not an ordinary book. It taught people to cultivate Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, to emphasize their moral character, and to become a good person. Thereafter I studied the Falun Dafa teachings and practiced the exercises everyday. In my life, I had never apologized for my mistakes, but after practicing Dafa I looked inside every time I was faced with conflicts. Because of the improvement of my xinxing [moral character], my physical body changed greatly. The symptoms of illness had disappeared and my body was very relaxed; and spiritually I was very happy.
No matter who it was who knew my situation, they said, "You are still alive!" I replied, "this is because that I have practiced Falun Gong. It is my teacher who saved my life from the brink of death. Now I have already lived another ten years, and it is Dafa that cured my chronic lymphatic leukemia." Our whole family could not find the words to express "how good Falun Dafa is!" My son is a doctor and he said: "Father! In our hospital, there were fourteen leukemia patients, but you are the only survivor. Falun Dafa has really demonstrated a miracle, and it is really a supernormal human science. In the near future, I will learn the exercises from you."
While there were more than one hundred million people practicing Falun Gong, Jiang's regime had fabricated incidents to demonize Falun Gong and to deceive people who did not know the facts about Falun Dafa. Presently Falun Dafa has spread to more than sixty countries, has produced a very positive effect and contribution to all society. All kind people please cherish Falun Dafa because it will equally cherish you.
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Liaoning Province] [Liaoning Province] Personnel from the Provincial Education System Require Students to State their Position Towards Falun Dafa
Liaoning Province's Education System is implementing the following persecution policies against Falun Dafa practitioners
2. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioner Wang Shengbiao is Tortured at Shijiazhaung City's Forced Labor Camp
It's now known Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Shengbiao has become disabled in his right leg as a result of being subjected to torture in Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp.
According to a March 19, 2004, report, practitioner Wang Shengbiao who had been secretly arrested at the beginning of August 2003 was covertly sentenced to three years of forced labor by the end of January 2004. He is currently held at the No. 2 Division, Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp, where he has been subjected to cruel torture. Right now, Wang Shengbiao's right leg has lost all sensation and he can't walk. He is extremely weak, but the police still do not permit his family members to visit him. From the first day Wang Shengbiao was put into this camp, he was deprived of sleep and was forbidden to close his eyes for five days. Whenever he closed them, his captors beat him! As he continued to refuse to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa, the police forced him into half-squatting position, with his legs forming a 45 degree-angle for over 20 hours at a time. Seeing that he still refused to sign his name on the so-called "Four Statements (1)," the team leader ordered criminal inmates to cruelly beat him.
Relevant personnel:
The No. 2 Division, Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp
Address: Zhaolingpu Village North, Northern Suburb, postal code: 050061.
Switch board: 86-311-7776345 and 7777689.
Zhao Zhiqian, division head: 7776345 ext. 628 and 663;
Shi Jianzhong, instructor of the No. 2 Division;
Bian Shuqiang, leader of the No.2 Team: 86-13603113288 (Cell).
3. [Cangzhou City, Hebei Province] Dongguang County's "610 Office" Authorities Have Recently Arrested Dafa Practitioners
Since January 1, 2004, during the Spring Festival and after the two people's conference in Beijing, a new round of persecution was plotted against Falun Gong practitioners during Dongguang County's political & judiciary meetings. Guo Zhiliang, secretary of the Provincial Political & Judiciary Committee delivered further instructions from higher authorities and boasted he would, "fight Falun Gong to the end!" Under the leadership of Xu Xiaoming, former head of Cangzhou City's "610 Office" (2) the secretary of the County Committee, and head of county Liu Zhuzhu, and under instruction of police department head Wu Zhiping, the county authorities have mass arrested Dafa practitioners.
It's already known that seven Dafa practitioners' houses have been ransacked already, including those of Sun Wenheng, Ma Shuqing, Dai Yuchi, Ma Zhixin and Li Jincang's. Three practitioners were forced to leave home and live in exile to avoid further persecution by the police. Ma Shuqing and Li Jincang, Li Jincang's wife Ms. Zhang Junrong and daughter Ms. Li Bing were also arrested. Policeman Gong Jingwen, chief of the Political & Judiciary Section and his men arrested most of these practitioners. There are over a dozen policemen in each police team. These policemen do not show their I.D and they wear plain clothes to disguise their identity. They ransacked the homes of practitioners once they gained entry and climb over the wall if there is nobody at home. Sometimes they broke the locks and even broke into these homes in the middle of the night when the surrounding neighbors were least likely to see their actions.
Personnel involved in these crimes:
(Country code: 86, area code: 317)
Xu Xiaoming (former head of
Cangzhou City's "610 Office"), now secretary of Dongguang County's County
Committee;
Liu Zhuzhu, head of Dongguang County;
Office of the Provincial Political & Judiciary Committee: 7721559;
Guo Zhiliang, head of Dongguang County's Political & Judiciary Committee. His
wife used to practice Falun Dafa prior to July 20, 1999, and he himself had
previously read the book Zhuan Falun [main teachings of Falun Gong]: 7692693
(Home);
Switchboard for Dongguang County's Police Department: 7721364 and 7721772, can
switch to different supervisors' offices;
Wu Zhiping, head of Dongguang County's Police Department: 7693385 and 7726650.
4. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Liu Dajun
On April 15, 2004, officers from Wuchang District's Police Department arrested Dafa practitioner Liu Dajun from his workplace in Wuhan City's Cement Machine Factory. They also ransacked Liu Dajun's office and house.
It's said that after the Yaojialing Dafa materials production site in the Wuchang District was destroyed, police in that district have been looking for the whereabouts of the practitioners who worked at the site. Since Liu Dajun rented the place, the police used various threats against the landlord, ordering him to either hand over the tenant or go to jail. The landlord was forced to tell them Liu Dajun's whereabouts, and Liu Dajun was thus arrested.
5. [Jinchang City, Gansu Province] Dafa Practitioners Held at Jinchang City's Detention Center are Collectively Staging a Hunger Strike to Protest the Persecution Against Them
6. [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] The Shibalihe Female Labor Camp
Still Holds 171 Practitioners
On March 25, 2004, my co-worker and I went to Zhengzhou City's Shibalihe Female Labor Camp and eye-witnessed the viciousness of the police in the camp.
A policewoman in her 30s, police ID number 4143075, body searched every practitioner's family member who was coming to visit detain practitioners in an abusive manner. She even didn't let a baby go untouched. After the body search, she ordered the visitors to sign a statement defaming Dafa and its founder. Anyone who refused to sign the statement would not be permitted to visit their family member. According to a reliable source, the Shibalihe Female Labor Camp still illegally holds 171 practitioners. The labor camp authorities force practitioners to work overtime, making wigs in order to make a huge profits for the labor camp directors.
7. [Jimo City, Shandong Province] Arrest of Practitioners He Shurong and Yu Cuiting
During the night of April 11, 2004, a resident from Xiniu Village reported practitioners Ms. He Shurong from Cuijia'an Village, Lingshan Town, Jimo City, Shandong Province and a new practitioner, Ms.Yu Cuiting from Dongshanpo Village, while they were clarifying the truth to him/her in Xiniu Village/Huashan Town, Jimo City. Afterwards, this villager and others grabbed them and that same night sent them to Huashan Town's Police Precinct hoping to receive a reward for their efforts.
The next day, personnel from Huashan Town's Police Precinct and Lingshan Town's Police Precinct as well as the city's "610 Office" searched the two practitioners' homes. Since nobody was at He Shurong's home, police didn't carry out their search. We have heard that the practitioners were sent to Qingdao City's Dashan Female Detention Center the day after their arrest.
Jimo City Police
Department:
Chief office: 86-532-8512062
Executive office: 86-532-8512062, 8552666
"610 Office," Jimo City's Police Department:
Secretary, Jimo City's Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-532-8552216
8. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] Illegal Arrest of Practitioners Ding Jimei and Guo Zhengpei to the Xinhe Police Precinct for the Hanchuan City Police Department
In February 2004, Hu Yaoqing and Zhou Zhifa, two accomplices of Hanchuan City's Xinhe Police Precinct found Dafa truth clarification signs along the road during their night patrol. Then they drove a car searching along the road. They caught practitioner Mr. Ding Jimei who was riding a bike and falsely claimed they had seen Ding and another practitioner, Guo Zhengpei, putting up these signs. The police threatened to arrest Guo Zhengpei. Ding was held in the Second Detention Center for fifteen days and then transferred to the First Detention Center. The next day, the Xinhe Police Precinct chief led a gang of police during the daytime and arrested Guo Zhengpei at work. The security guards from the Hanchuan branch of Fujian Dali Foodstuffs Factory assisted in the arrest. The Xinhe Police Precinct has reported the two practitioners to a higher-up police department, and had attempted to send them to a forced labor camp. Now a one-year forced labor sentence has been issued without a trial, but the labor camp refused to take them because they did not pass the physical exam.
For reporting these practitioners, several people received awards of 2,000 Yuan (3). One of them, Zhou Zhifa, received 1,000 Yuan. The other five people received 200 Yuan each. Because the "loot" was divided unevenly, they quarreled with each other. So, Yu Xianzhou is against releasing the two practitioners.
(Country code: 86,
area code: 712, it is not necessary to dial the area code before a
cellular phone number)
Yu Xianzhou, Xinhe Police Precinct chief: 8288825, 13707299923(cell)
Zhou Zhifa: 13871674767(cell)
Hu Yaoqing: 13972072988(cell), 8281676
Dong Wenjin: 8294567 (this person in particular likes to tear down Dafa truth
clarification stickers)
Wang Yishuang (deputy chief of Xinhe Town's Police Department in charge of Falun
Gong issue): 8283209, 13177271360(cell)
Yan Jialin, Xinhe Town's "610 Office" head: 13971979687 (cell)
9. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] Illegal Holding of Practitioner Zou Wenxiang at the Makou Police Precinct
In March 2004, officers from Makou Town's Police Precinct arrested practitioner Zou Wenxiang living in the Stone Road of Makou Town, Hanchuan City. At 8:00 a.m. on the morning of March 1, 2004, Lu Jianqiao, a security guard from the 3509 Factory, along with Zhang, the Makou Police Precinct chief in Makou Town, Hanchuan City, broke into Zou's rented dormitory in the 3509 Factory and forcibly handcuffed him without showing any legal document. Facing the police's violence and their stepping on Dafa books, Zou Wenxiang stated, "You are committing a crime!" Police arrested Zou and have held him in the city's Second Detention Center unti now.
That same morning, violators from the Makou Police Precinct broke into the homes of three practitioners from the 3509 Factory and have confiscated dozens of Dafa books and other Dafa materials. The following are details about this particular practitioner:
Practitioner Mr. Zou Wenxiang was a Huangshi City factory employee. He went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa in 2000, and to explain the facts of the persecution to the public. Police from Huangshi City brutally tied his hands with #8 thin metal wire which cut into his flesh. There are still two scars on his wrists. The police collaborated with the factory leaders to revoke Mr. Zou's employment contract depriving him of his right to work.
Zou Wenxiang then went back to his hometown, Makou Town, and made a living driving a tricycle taxi. During this period he was arrested twice. Once he was sent to Hubei Province's Shayang Forced Labor Camp for one year; the other time he was unlawfully held and persecuted in Hanchuan City's First Detention Center. Personnel from the "610 Office" and the Political and Security Section extorted thousands of yuan from his family. He was nearly tortured to death. After his release, Zou Wenxiang soon regained his health after studying the Falun Dafa principles and practicing the exercises, which demonstrated Dafa's effectiveness in providing good health to those who practice. Zou Wenxiang was arrested again and has been unlawfully held till now.
10. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Arrest of Practitioner Liu Zunbao
At 1:00 a.m. on April 5, 2004, officers from Ruichang City's Pencheng Police Precinct arrested practitioner Mr. Liu Zunbao from Mumaliujia, Luoguling Village, Yongquan Township, Jiangxi Province while he was distributing Dafa truth-clarifying materials. Liu did not cooperate with the police after his arrest but instead explained the facts of the persecution to them . On April 6, his younger brother went to visit him and said the police put Liu Zhun in shackles and sent him to the Bamaoshan Forced Labor Camp.
Practitioner Mr. Li Yilong, who was arrested the next day was able to get free using his righteous thoughts and is now living in exile to avoid further persecution.
Related Phone Number:
Ke Ruihai, Pencheng Police Precinct chief: 86-792-4232809, 86-13970256048(Cell)
Zhou Zuolin, "610 Office" chief: 86-13507923408(Cell)
11. [Yanji City, Jilin Province] News from Yanji
12. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Arrest of Practitioner Gao Mingxia and Her Husband
During the morning of April 13, 2004, practitioner Ms. Gao Mingxia, a woman in her 40s, and her husband from the Licang District in Qingdao City were arrested at home by local "610 Office" personnel. Their home was ransacked and their whereabouts are currently unknown. Their teenage daughter and nearly 70 year old mother were left at home without care.
13. [Chongqing] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Tang Jiatao and Incarceration at the Beipei Detention Center for Posting Dafa Truth-clarifying Information
Dafa practitioner Ms. Tang Jiatao, 40 years old, is an employee at the Jiangbei Mechanical Factory in Shuitu Town, Beipei District, Chongqing. On April 7, 2004, when she went to the Liuyin post office to post truth-clarifying materials, she was reported and then was arrested at the post office. The same afternoon her house was searched. She is currently being held at the Beipei Detention Center.
14. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Kang Hongxia and Her Young Daughter by Dongyuan Police Precinct Enforcers
On April 15, 2004, law-violating officers from Shijiazhuang City's Dongyuan Police Precinct broke into Dafa practitioner Kang Hongxia's home and forcibly took her away. They even took away her young daughter who is only four or five years old. Two elderly Dafa practitioners who were visiting Kang Hongxia were also arrested at the same time. Kang Hongxia has been sent to an undisclosed detention center in Shijiazhuang City. The exact detention center location is under investigation.
15. [Heilongjiang Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Shan Yuzi from the Fangzheng Woods Bureau for Explaining the Truth of Falun Gong
On March 6, 2004 when Dafa practitioner Ms. Shan Yuzi, an employee of the Fangzheng Woods Bureau in Heilongjiang Province, distributed Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in the middle of the night, something happened. Policeman Shang Longfei who was a member of so-called "special case group"[a group specifically established to persecute Falun Gong practitioners] arrested her. Shang Longfei, Zhang Xueshan and Gao Fei have interrogated her under torture many times. She is currently in poor condition and covered with bruises.
On April 9, 2004 when Dafa practitioners Deng Chaobo and Fan Zhiming were posting Dafa truth-clarifying information at the Gaoleng Post Office, policemen Shang Longfei, Zhang Xueshan and Li Tingqi arrested them. These lawless policemen pushed the two Dafa practitioners to the ground and then savagely beat and kicked them. A witness said, "They beat the Falun Gong practitioners so relentlessly that their faces were swollen. The policemen are really inhumane."
During the night of April 15, 2004, when Dafa practitioner Liang Fulian and Zhang Qifang were distributing materials that exposed the crimes of vicious policeman Shang Longfei, "610 Office" officials from the Fangzheng Woods Bureau arrested them.
The five practitioners mentioned above are currently being held at a detention center affiliated with the Fangzheng Woods Area Police Department.
Related phone numbers: (the country code is 86, area code is 451, it is not necessary to dial the area code before the cell phone number)
Detention Center: 57193905
Hou Xumin, Fanglin Police Department chief: 57193512(Office), 57182688(Home)
Li Tingjun, Fanglin Police Department deputy chief: 5793507(Office),
57199091(Home)
Cai Shanwu, the commissar: 57193042, 57194051
The Special Case Group in the Fangzheng Woods Bureau charged by Shang Longfei:
Shang Longfei, Special Case Group head: 13059018610 (Cell), 57190498 (Home)
Zhang Xueshan, team member: 13115506611(Cell)
Li Tingqi, 13194515855(Cell)
Ma Kun, 82212357
Yan Bincheng, 55052913
16. [Jinchang City, Gansu Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Zhu Lanxiu
On April 9, 2004, personnel from the Jinchuan Company's Public Security Section including Dai Baoji, Zhang Shuwei and Dai Changjun, in collusion with officers from the Yongchang Police Precinct went to arrest Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Lanxiu. These officers threatened Zhu Lanxiu's husband to hand over Zhu Lanxiu; otherwise they would arrest him. They lied, saying that, "they just wanted to see Zhu Lanxiu and speak a few words with her." It was said that Zhu Lanxiu has been sent to Jinchang City's Drug Rehabilitation Center.
Phone number of one person responsible for committing crimes by persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners:
Dai Baoji: 86-935-8811323, 3692172
1. Four statements: Practitioners are coerced through brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their belief. The four statements consist of a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, a letter of repentance for having practiced Dafa in the first place, a letter of disclose/criticism, and a letter of determination to not practice Falun Gong.
2. 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.
3. 500 Yuan is the average monthly income of a worker in urban areas of China.
(Clearwisdom.net)
[Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhou Ronghua Injected with Nerve-damaging Drugs at Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp
Ms. Zhou Ronghua, former general nurse of the Chinese Medicine Hospital in Dongguang County, was illegally sentenced by the Politics & Security Section of Dongguang County to three years of forced labor in 2000 for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She is being held at Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp. During her confinement, she has been subjected to all kinds of torture means because she insisted on continuing to practice Falun Dafa. When she became extremely weak due to the torture, she mumbled with difficulty five Chinese words, "To be together with Dafa!" However, when the inhumane police guards of Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp realized that they could not change her belief by any forceful means, they injected her three times with nerve-damaging drugs. Consequently, she is suffering the after effects of the drug which caused her to become mentally disoriented.
Relevant Phone Numbers:
The Chinese Medicine Hospital in Dongguang County, 86-317-7721120
Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp: 86-311-7754007 Ext.324
[Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Over Twenty Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested Within a Week
Up to March 20, 2004, Dongchang Public Security Branch in Tonghua City had unlawfully arrested over twenty Falun Dafa practitioners within a week. The practitioners being held are Ms. Cheng Li from the Legal & Judicial Bureau, Ms. Du Meifeng, a retired worker, Ms. Liu Xiaochun, Ms. Yan Xiaojun, Mr. Wang Gang, and Mr. Xu Tao. Gai Zhiwen and his wife (both in their 70's), Song Bingxiu and Liu Jianhua have been secretly arrested by local police as well.
On April 8, Qu Xiaofei was abducted at home for the second time. Currently, staff from the National Security Team are still at Qu Xiaofei's home in an attempt to arrest his/her spouse, Qu Dan.
[Cheng'an County, Hebei Province] Wang Shujun Detained Again
Wang Shujun, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Cheng'an County of Hebei Province, had been abducted by Xincheng District Police Substation during the Chinese New Year. He was held at Cheng'an Detention Center for about a month. Later, his family members had 2000 Yuan [average monthly income of an ordinary worker in China is around 500 Yuan] extorted from them by Lian Rihong, County Director of the Politics & Security Department to trade for his rescue. When the money was collected, no receipt was given at all.
At around 10:00 a.m. on April 1, 2004, about five policemen from the Politics & Security Department and Xincheng District Police Substation broke into practitioner Wang Shujun's home again at Wangpengliu Village. They tried to force Wang to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement"(1). When Wang Shujun refused to do so, they arrested him again. On the same day, Wang Shujun was taken to Handan No.1 Detention Center.
Phone number of Lian Rihong, Director of the Politics & Security Department of Cheng'an County, 86-13803291509 (cell)
[Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Ma Rongqing Arrested
Ma Rongqing, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hulin City of Heilongjiang Province was abducted while putting up truth-clarifying banners at Huashu Village at about 9:00 p.m. on April 3.
[Beijing City] Practitioner Han Yuzhen Arrested
Ms. Han Yuzhen, 52 years old, is a teacher from Shuangqiao Primary School in Chaoyang District. On April 9, 2004, police from local police substation and Guanzhuang "610 Office" of Chaoyang District arrested her at home and held her in the brainwashing program implemented by the "610 Office". Ms. Liang Yulan, a 64-year-old cadre from the 701 Transistor Radio Plant, was recently abducted as well.
Relevant phone numbers:
Guanzhuang Neighborhood Committee of Chaoyang District, 86-10-65794158
Chen Jie from Guanzhuang "610 Office", 86-10-65713490
[Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Qingdao Falun Dafa Practitioners Suffer Persecution
Mr. Zanghongtu, 33 years old, and Mr. Wang Tao, 24 years old, were both arrested for explaining the truth of Falun Dafa in 2002. They were illegally sentenced to four years in prison. After two years of being held in prison, they were transferred to Weibei Prison for intensified persecution on April 15.
Mr. Qian Dongcai, 48 years old, was abducted for clarifying the truth in September 2003. Currently, he is being held in Dashan Detention Center in Qingdao City.
[Longjing City, Jilin Province] The Persecution of Zhang Jingshou and His Family
Mr. Zhang Jingshou, 61 years old, is a resident of Longjing City. There are nine people in his family and seven of them practice Falun Gong. In the end of 1999, Zhang Jingshou, his wife Liang Xiuzhen, and his son-in-law Cao Fuchen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. They were taken back to Longjing City. As a result, Zhang Jingshou was held for half a month. Cao Fuchen was dismissed from his work unit, Longjing National Tax Bureau, and sentenced to one year of forced labor. Liang Xiuzhen was sentenced to one year of forced labor as well. Later, she was forced to pay for medical expenses to treat her high blood pressure, which was caused by the persecution. After paying the money, she was released. Zhang Jingshou's youngest son, Liang Sheng was sentenced to one year of forced labor for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 1999. He was released in 2000.
In March 2001, police broke into the home of Zhang Xin, Zhang Jingshou's eldest son. They made an unlawful search at Zhang Xin's home and found several Dafa books. They detained Zhang Jingshou again and subjected him to brutal torture instruments. Using the books as evidence, they unjustly sentenced Zhang Jingshou to two years of forced labor. Afterward his term expired, the police made up another pretext to arrest Liang Sheng again. After being brutally tortured, they sentenced Liang Sheng to three years of forced labor. Both Zhang Jingshou (father) and Liang Sheng (youngest son) are being held in Jiutai Forced Labor Camp of Jilin Province.
In mid March, Zhang Jingshou completed the terms illegally imposed on him. However, the forced labor camp extended his terms by 59 days making more pretext. During the past two years of being held, Zhang Jingshou suffered tremendously. Presently, Zhang's blood pressure is abnormal ranging between 220 and 130.
Phone number of the forced labor camp, 86-431-2551058
[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Gao Shunqin and Junior Chen Detained
in Brainwashing Class
On March 26, Gao Shunqin and Junior Chen from Shuiguo Lake of Wuchang District were arrested by authorities from the Wuhan Public Security Branch, Wuchang Public Security Branch, local and district "610 Office". Currently, they are being held at Yangyuan Brainwashing Class in Yujiatou of Wuchang District.
[Hebei Province] Practitioner Li Shuxia Tortured in Detention Center
Ms. Li Shuxia is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province. In 2001, she was arrested for posting truth-clarifying signs in other areas. During the 20 days of her confinement in a local detention center, she went on a hunger strike for 16 days. Then, she was transferred to the detention center in her hometown where she was inhumanely treated while put in shackles. Afterwards, she was sent to "Legal Education Base" in Zhuozhou City where she was subjected to intense torture and brainwashing to force her to renounce Falun Dafa. Policemen Zhu Jianhua, Lian Chunjie, Du Yonglu beat and handcuffed her hands behind her back onto a big post. They slapped her face and beat her with rubber clubs from 7:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m. the next day. Li Shuxia's home was searched and her personal belongings were confiscated. Her business was closed and sealed off. The police extorted over 30,000 Yuan extorted from her family. Her husband became ill and stayed in the hospital as a result of the severe persecution. Her child could not peacefully focus on her studies because of the trauma her family suffers.
[Sichuan Province] Two Falun Dafa Practitioners from Urban Construction Institute of Sichuan University Sentenced to Prison
Two Falun Dafa practitioners from the Urban Construction Institute of Sichuan University were sentenced to imprisonment. They are the main organizers of reporting to the United Nations about the persecution of Falun Dafa.
Liu Tao was sentenced to four years in prison, and has been dismissed from his/her working unit.
Xu Haiyan was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. Currently, she continues to work at the Institute.
Relevant phone number:
Kang Zhihua, Party Secretary of Urban Construction Institute of Sichuan University, 86-28-8540375
[Diaobingshan City, Liaoning Province] Yingbinglu Police Persecute Qiu Jishun and Family
Falun Dafa practitioner Qiu Jishun, his wife and daughter were sleeping at home on the evening of October 8, 2002 when Zhang Fucai, Head of Diaobingshan National Security Team and other police broke into Qiu Jishun's home, arresting him, his wife and his 10-year-old daughter.
Relevant phone numbers:
Liu Jiaduo, former director of Diaobingshan Public Security Bureau and current Assistant Director of Tieling Public Security Bureau, 86-13941068373 (cell)
Zhang Fucai, Head of the National Security Team, 86-13900908466 (cell)
[Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Feng Hua Detained for Twenty Days
Feng Hua, 32 years old, started practicing Falun Gong several months ago. She was reported by a passenger on a train for reading a Dafa book while traveling on a business trip. She was detained at the Lanzhou Railway Police Substation. Then, she was transferred to the Politics & Security Section of Zhangdian District Public Security Bureau in Zibo City of Shandong Province. It has been twenty days since her confinement. When her family members went to inquire after her, the police did not allow them to see her. They demanded 10,000 Yuan for her release. Otherwise, they said she would be sentenced to forced labor. Feng Hua has been dismissed from her work unit.
Relevant phone numbers:
Zibo, "610 Office", 86-533-2189622, 86-533-2189621
The Politics & Security Section of Zhangdian District Public Security Bureau, 86-533-2189113
[Songyuan City, Jilin Province] Songyuan Public Security Officers Arrest Many Falun Dafa Practitioners
On April 6, 2004, Mr. Zhu Hongyu and Ms. Jin Xiufang from Hongguang Farm of Qianguo County were arrested by officers from the Songyuan Public Security Bureau and Qianguo County Public Security Bureau, Guanqu District Public Security Bureau and Hongguang Police Substation. Currently, they are being held at Qianguo Detention Center.
On April 17, three Falun Gong practitioners who live on the fifth floor of the building opposite to Jiangshan Market in Songyuan District were arrested. They are Liu Hongyao, his wife, and Ms. Duan Liang'e. A male practitioner who went to their building about 4:00 p.m. that day has been missing since then.
(1) "Guarantee Statement" are written statements promising not to practice Falun Gong, stating regret over practicing in the past, declaring separation from Falun Gong, and denouncing Falun Gong.
(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)
Officers from the police station and government officials have come to my home many times to disturb my family members who practice Falun Gong. They intimidated and threatened them to sign a "Guarantee Letter" and other such things. I signed for them, which I should not have done. Now I know that Falun Dafa is good and I regret that I have signed the things that I should not have. Now I declare solemnly, all things that I have written and signed before have become invalid! In the future I will for sure resist evildoers and make up for my mistakes.
Declarer: Wu Yanbin
March 17, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/13/72235.html)
Solemn Declaration
My daughter and wife practice Falun Gong. After July 20, 1999 I was fooled by Jiang Zemin and deceived by his lies. I wrote a "Guarantee Letter" for my wife and daughter. Later on I frequently read truth-clarifying information and I realized clearly that Falun Dafa is truly good! Therefore, I now declare solemnly that the "Guarantee Letter" I wrote for my wife and the "Guarantee Letter" I have asked another person to write for my daughter have become invalid. I will use all opportunities to tell people that Falun Dafa is good and make up for the blemish I have put on Dafa.
Declarer: Zhang Shengting
April 3, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/15/72351.html)
Solemn Declaration
Our school held an art exhibition that slandered Dafa. Our teacher ordered us to sign, signifying we oppose Dafa. We signed after being coerced. Now we declare solemnly that all our signatures have become invalid! In the future we will take the opportunity to clarify the truth and make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarers: Ji Kaiyi, Su Lingjie, Su Lingwei, Su Lingyi
April 10, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/14/72283.html)
Solemn Declaration
I am not a Dafa practitioner, but my mother is. Officers from a local police station took my mother away around the New Year. I was afraid that my mother would be persecuted the same way as the other practitioners, so I told the authorities information about several fellow practitioners who practiced with my mother. After my mother was fined she was released. The police officers did not harm my mother's fellow practitioners, which made me feel a little bit better. I support my mother's cultivation, and I have previously done things that are good for Dafa. The fact that I told the police at the station about my mother's fellow practitioners has troubled me much. I know from deep inside that I have done something very wrong. I will never do it again. Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. I declare again that all my previous words and conduct not good for Dafa have become invalid. I will remember in my heart "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and "Falun Dafa is good." I will take every opportunity to clarify the truth and make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarer: Liu Jia
April 9, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/14/72283.html)
Solemn Declaration
I am not a Dafa practitioner, but both my mother and sister are. Last year, police officers had taken my sister away and sent her to a labor camp. I went to visit my sister. My sister could not stand all the torture in the labor camp and was brainwashed. She asked me to put away all my mother's Dafa books. Once I got home, I did what my sister told me. But I didn't find any books. Now I have realized that Dafa is the righteous Fa. I hereby declare that all my previous thoughts, words and conduct that are not good for Dafa have become invalid. In the future I will put Dafa and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" in my heart. I will take every opportunity to clarify the truth and make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarer: Liu Hongli
April 9, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/14/72283.html)
Declaration
I didn't know much truth about Dafa before and signed papers that slandered Dafa. Now I declare all these signatures have become invalid. I will take every opportunity to clarify the truth and make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarer: Guan Liandi
March 28, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/14/72283.html)
Solemn Declaration
I am a family member of a Dafa disciple. Under the circumstances of not knowing the truth and being led by my emotions, I signed my spouse's police record at the police station. Now I declare the signature has become invalid. I will take every opportunity to tell others that Falun Dafa is good to make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarer: Wang Xinyun
March 30, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/15/72351.html)
Solemn Declaration
My elementary school had held a signature drive to oppose Dafa. I, an elementary school student then, was forced to sign this document the school had coerced us to do, without knowing the truth. I have since learned that Dafa has suffered persecution. I come on the Internet to declare that my previous signature has become invalid. I will take every opportunity to tell people that Falun Dafa is good, and in the future try to make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Declarer: Liu Chuang
March 30, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/17/72511.html)
Solemn Declaration
Since 1999, to avoid the persecution that my family members who practice Falun Gong may suffer, I signed papers prepared by others, whose contents violated the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Now I have realized that as a human being I should have a righteous heart and not do anything that is against my conscience. For this reason I declare that all my previous words that are against "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" have become invalid. I will take every opportunity to let others know that Falun Dafa is good, and in the future try to make up for the damage that has been done to Dafa.
Relative of Declarer: Ding Shuhong
April 28, 2004
(From http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/18/72607.html)