Lili Ma (L) describes the consequences to her family and friends from CCP harassment tactics. Ma, her husband, and daughter all received repeated pre-recorded calls defaming Falun Gong.
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(Clearwisdom.net) I am a grade school teacher. After I began my cultivation in Falun Gong (Falun Dafa), I worked even harder and cared even more about my students. Through my speech and conduct, the students felt the righteousness of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" that Falun Dafa teaches.
In March and April 2004, the evil forces distributed a bunch of cartoon booklets to all the schools, attacking Dafa as a [slanderous term omitted]. Some schools that did not know the facts organized the students to have speech contests. The students had no way of telling what was true and what was false and were badly harmed by the lies. I began to explain the facts about Falun Gong to the school officials to prevent them from distributing these materials. I also went out in all kinds of weather to distribute Dafa fliers on weekends. One day at the end of May, I was arrested by police and locked up in the county jail.
When the students learned the news they were all shocked and very concerned that their teacher was going to be persecuted again. The whole class cried, all wanting to do something. A student called his home and asked his father who worked in Guangzhou City to ask his relatives for help. His father was very sympathetic and immediately called some of his relatives working at the county courthouse jail. One student suggested that they write a petition letter and then solicited signatures from pupils as well as their parents. All the students worked together to save their teacher. A student wrote in his letter to me, "My mind wanders away quite often during class. I think of you constantly, and whenever I do, my tears fall. Several of us sang at the podium on Children's Day and could not help crying." During those days, people came to my house every afternoon to inquire about my situation. Some wrote letters to me and were crying at the same time. The substitute teacher found that no matter what nice words she said to the students, she was not able to keep the class going. Not intimidated by their young ages, the students decided to get together at 9 a.m. on Saturday and go to the jail with their petition letter.
It was an unforgettable meeting. I was called out to meet some visitors at around 10 a.m. that morning and was surprised when I saw the students' faces on the TV monitor. They began to cry as soon as they saw me. I could not control my tears either when I saw their crying faces. We were only allowed to communicate in writing. Seeing me in my prison uniform with an unshaven face and having lost weight, the student who was writing cried harder and had to let another student take over. They expressed their condolences one after another. Each of them stuck his head in front of the camera trying to see their teacher longer. Their actions showed their pure and kind hearts. I wrote, "Bye" when the meeting time was up. But they did not want to go. A while later the guards let me go back and see them one more time. When I walked from my cell toward them, I could hear their cries and weeping. They all pushed against the iron gate from outside the jail and stared at the cell area. They waved their hands and cried and shouted at the first sight of me, and cried even louder as I walked closer. Being only little kids, all they knew is that their teacher is kind. They did not know what else to do other than cry. Their crying caused the warden to also start shedding tears and the police officers to lower their heads. Passers-by stopped to find out what was going on. The children's crying was heard all over the jail. They stuck their hands through the gate, attempting to pull me out, but could not reach me. My tears kept falling, and I could not utter a word. Suddenly a thought came to me and I said, "People need 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.'" The warden turned back to wipe away his tears. A policeman said thoughtfully, "Falun Dafa, with its 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance' is truly good. If everyone followed 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,' there would be no criminal offences anymore." People were moved by his words. The time that the students and I met was too short. I waved "Goodbye" to them in order to stop their sadness. They said, "Please take care of yourself. Come back soon. We are waiting for you to teach us." I turned my head and saw that they were all staring at my back and did not want to let me go. Back in the cell, everyone was moved when they read the big pile of letters the students had written to me. Everyone especially liked "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."
I returned to the school after about 10 days. The students were like triumphant warriors seeing their long-departed family, smiling and laughing happily. Groups of students would surround me at recess. The semester was almost over and they were about to graduate. They planned a party to welcome me back. Individuals chipped in money and they bought watermelons, pumpkin seeds and drinks. They prepared programs and invited the other teachers and school officials. The children made all the arrangements themselves. They let the teachers and school officials sit down first and then poured the drinks and served the watermelon. Then they sat down themselves. They asked the school officials and me to give short speeches, followed by their dancing and singing programs. Everyone enjoyed the party. The teachers all said that they had never been treated so nicely before.
It was truly unforgettable. The sight of my students and their cries, tears, and outstretched arms will remain in my mind forever. This experience of going from sorrow to joy is a manifestation of Dafa to those who are being saved.
February 12, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Xie Yangxiang. I am 36 years old and a teacher at the Huaihua School of Medicine in Hunan Province, China. At around 7:30 p.m. on the evening of January 1, 2002, I was driving my motorcycle home after work when a taxi approached me from the opposite direction. Dazzled by the headlights of the oncoming car, I could not see anything in front of me. Just as the taxi was passing me, I suddenly saw an older man walking directly in front of my motorcycle. He was only two or three meters away and there was no time for me to stop. In a desperate flash of thought, I forced myself to fall down together with my motorcycle, to avoid direct hitting the old man. But the result was not as satisfactory as I had hoped. I fell down but the rear wheel of my motorcycle still hit the man and made him fall to the ground.
In spite of my own injury and pain, I helped the man up and saw that he appeared to be in great pain. I asked him if he was injured anywhere. He said with much difficulty, "I feel numb in the left side of my body and have no strength to walk. Please take me home and I will be O.K. after resting for a few days." I told him that I was willing to take him to the hospital for an examination and treatment. With a determined attitude, the old man said, "Whenever any problem comes up, one should look for reasons inside himself and not blame others. I don't need to go to a hospital. Don't worry about it, and I will never cause you trouble. It will be enough for you to take me home." I insisted on taking him to the hospital for an examination, and I also promised I would take him home according to his requirement. I found a car to take him to a hospital for an X-ray and a CT scan. The result of the examination revealed that his seventh rib on the left was broken, and his left femur was broken at its neck. The doctor suggested that he be hospitalized.
While accompanying him to the examination, I learned that he was 69 years old, a retired cadre, and that his name was Yang Longqin. He had practiced Falun Gong for more than six years.
According to his requirement, I took him home and mentally prepared myself for being cursed at by his family members, and to make compensation for all his losses. Unexpectedly, when we got to his home, his family members not only didn't beat or curse me but also didn't ask for any compensation. They even treated me politely. I was surprised that there are still such high level, kind, and nice people in today's society.
Later, Mr. Yang respectfully said to me, "You injured me today but I don't blame you at all. Maybe, it happened according to a predestined relationship and it is being resolved this way in this lifetime."
However, one thing puzzled me very much. When my wife heard about the accident and went to the hospital with our daughter to see the older man, my 4-year-old daughter no sooner saw me than she said, "Papa, I thought you had died but you haven't!" My wife told me that my daughter had been saying this kind of thing since she got up that morning, which gave my wife no peace of mind. And here came the accident in the evening. It was the luckiest thing among all the misfortunes that the person I hit was respectable Yang. It must be Falun Dafa that kindly resolved my predestined disaster, making me have the accident without tribulation.
With such serious injuries, the respectable Mr. Yang insisted on not being hospitalized, which caused me to worry about him. Every couple of days, I went to visit him and expected that some miracle would happen to him. I hoped Dafa would guard him and help him recover soon. A week later, when I went to visit him I found that he was obviously in good spirits and he could take care of himself. This made me very happy. On January 15, I saw that he was able to walk more than 10 li (a Chinese unit for measuring distance equal to half a kilometer.) and get around to take part in activities, which made me extremely joyful and happy.
After visiting Mr. Yang several times, I learned that he firmly believes in the principles of Dafa. From beginning to end, he and his family members refused to take money from me, not even a single penny, which made me feel both thankful and conscience-stricken.
An older man with serious injury had recovered in only two weeks, which was a miracle recovery, and it showed the special and miraculous effects of Falun Gong on curing diseases and keeping fit. At the same time, it showed people the beautiful morality of Dafa practitioners, who gained it from practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."
This is a fact that I, as an ordinary person, witnessed personally. To
express my thankfulness I can say, "Falun Dafa is good!" and
"Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance is good!" Note: Before he
began practicing Falun Dafa, Mr. Yang suffered for twenty five years from a kind
of chronic skin disease, with itching all over, making one day seem like a year
to him. The extreme itching forced him to break open his skin by scratching and
put salt on it to stop the itching. After practicing Dafa, that chronic disease
completely disappeared. To guard his own "right to be healthy" and his
firm belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," he dropped
his communist party membership. He was illegally detained in order to prevent
him from going to Beijing to appeal. He was also abducted and taken to a
brainwashing class. His family members and the leader of his work unit were
forced to promise that they would prevent him from "clarifying the
truth" to others.
Feb 23, 2005
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Lili Ma (L) describes the consequences to her family and friends from CCP harassment tactics. Ma, her husband, and daughter all received repeated pre-recorded calls defaming Falun Gong. |
NEW YORK - Are repeated recorded phone messages filled with lies and hate speech a terrorist tactic?
Tuesday at the New York Press Club, Falun Gong practitioners made the case that the wave of hundreds of calls are a tactic of what they called "the biggest terrorist group in the world"- the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Beginning Feb. 6, repeated calls were made to hundreds of people in more than 20 countries in well-coordinated fashion. Friends who were together heard their mobile phones ring simultaneously and, when they picked up, they heard identical pre-recorded messages in Chinese or English.
Speakers described unlisted numbers in the U.S. being bombarded with calls, a feeling of invasion of privacy, disruption of business activities, and fear for the safety of relatives who received calls in China. No group besides the CCP has the ability or the motive to track down and call so many people so systematically on such a topic, they said.
The pre-recorded messages were all against the practice of Falun Gong.
"My husband and daughter received calls, which disturbed us greatly," said Lili Ma, a New York businesswoman forced to move from China after Falun Gong began to be persecuted in 1999. Her friends in China were invited in to have a "conversation" with Chinese national security during the time that the calls were being made.
Spokespersons later confirmed that a similar wave of calls began again on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in at least Canada, France, Germany, and the U.S.
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At the New York Press Club, Gail Rachlin of the Falun Dafa InfoCenter describes the CCP persecution of Falun Gong and how an Associated Press article was used in harassing phone calls. |
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Hope Amidst Terror
On the huge CCP campaign against Falun Gong, Rachlin said, "We have documented over 35,000 cases of severe abuse and torture ... thousands are dead. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, languish in labor camps and detention centers throughout China."
"For the over 100 million people in China today who practice Falun Gong, they are forced to choose between their deeply held spiritual beliefs, or the state's system of brainwashing and torture."
Lili Ma, whose expired passport wouldn't be renewed by Chinese authorities, and who would be arrested if she tried to return to China, sounded a note of hope and determination.
"Intimidation and terror cannot move our belief a bit. On the contrary, they will only make us try harder," Ma said.
Many recipients of the terrorizing phone calls reported them to local police and intelligence agencies, such as the FBI. The U.S. House of Representatives took note of CCP activities against Falun Gong practitioners on U.S. soil in its 2004 concurrent resolution 304, which calls for reporting and investigation of such activities.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-2-23/26624.html
(Clearwisdom.net) At the end of February 2005, Zhuan Falun's second Hebrew translation was printed and made available to readers in Israel.
Cover of the Hebrew edition of Zhuan Falun
February 28, 2005
A SYDNEY woman allegedly imprisoned and tortured for eight months in China will be a test case for the Australian court system, the president of a Falun Gong group said today.
Bankstown artist Zhang Cuiying, 42, today launched civil action in the New South Wales Supreme Court against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin and his 610 Office or Chinese Falun Gong control office alleging they were responsible for her torture at a Chinese detention centre.
Ms Zhang said she was arrested in March 2000 for speaking out against Mr Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and spent eight months in prison before the Australian Government intervened to have her freed.
According to documents filed with the court, Ms Zhang claims she was punched, slapped and kicked by Chinese police on one occasion, and hit with a hard object on another, causing her face to bleed.
On March 6, 2000, Ms Zhang alleged she was driven to the Shang Meilin Detention Centre in Shenzhen, where she "suffered inhuman treatment and torment" during two periods of detention.
Ms Zhang alleged that prison guards on one occasion during her detention stripped off her clothes in front of a closed circuit camera.
Ms Zhang appeared briefly in the Supreme Court today with the matter stood over to a date yet to be set.
Falun Dafa Association president John Deller said Ms Zhang's civil case was the first of its type in Australia and was an important step towards convicting the former head of the Chinese Communist Party.
"It's a real test for everyone involved," Mr Deller said.
"It's a test for the legal system, it's a test for Falun Gong practitioners who support this righteous action, it's a test for the Australian Government, it's a test for the Australian people.
"We realise it's rare, I don't think there has been such a prominent human rights abuser or prominent leader of a foreign power being sued in Australia before, but it's an extraordinary situation that is happening to Falun Gong practitioners ... we just have to work through the legal processes.
"(Jiang Zemin) is not a current head of state so he shouldn't have immunity on that basis."
The Australian case was one of 46 lawsuits filed against Mr Jiang in 26 countries, Mr Deller said said.
NSW Greens Senator Ian Cohen said he congratulated Ms Zhang's actions.
"I commend your efforts in the court ... I commend your patience and tolerance," he said.
"Torture, humiliation and domination by a rigid state should be something that should be left behind as we did in the last century."
Source http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12398557%255E1702,00.html
Monday February 28, 2005
The United States, in its annual human rights report, accused China of muting dissent, suppressing religious rights and restricting freedom of speech.
Chinese mourner (AFP/File)
"The Government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses," said the 2004 report, which also said Beijing's cooperation and progress on human rights last year was "disappointing."
The report said there were cases of extrajudicial killings, torture and mistreatment of prisoners.
"The lack of due process was particularly egregious in death penalty cases, and the accused was often denied a meaningful appeal. Executions often took place on the day of conviction or on the denial of an appeal," it said.
As many as 600 people were serving sentences for the now-repealed crime of counterrevolution and "many of these persons were imprisoned for the nonviolent expression of their political views."
"The Government maintained tight restrictions on freedom of speech and of the press, and a wave of detentions late in the year signaled a new campaign targeting prominent writers and political commentators," the report said.
Beijing also barred commemorations of the bloody military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters and in April and June detained many people who planned to mark the event, the report said.
In the western Xinjiang region, Beijing "used the international war on terror as a pretext for cracking down harshly on suspected Uighur separatists expressing peaceful political dissent and on independent Muslim religious leaders."
"The human rights situation in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and in some Tibetan regions outside the TAR also remained poor," the report said.
The Chinese government has also continued its crackdown against the Falun Gong spiritual movement, it said.
"Several hundred Falun Gong adherents reportedly have died in detention due to torture, abuse, and neglect since the crackdown on Falun Gong began in 1999." (1)
Women have also suffered under the communist regime, the report said.
"Violence against women, including imposition of a coercive birth limitation policy that resulted in instances of forced abortion and forced sterilization, continued to be a problem, as did prostitution."
(1) To date, 1379 Falun Gong practitioners are verified to have died in the persecution, but the real number is believed to be far higher.
Source http://us-politics.news.designerz.com/us-rebukes-chinas-human-rights-record.html?d20050228
22 February 2005
caption: Falun Gong members re-enact Chinese torture methods used on their practitioners during a protest in Sydney, 22 February 2005. The meditation group claim that Chinese police relentlessly employ both physical and mental torture to brainwash Falun Dafa followers into renouncing their beliefs.
Source http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050228/photos_wl_afp/050228190011_znwfugfp_photo0
(Clearwidom.net) Although it is already mid-February, west Switzerland is still snow-covered with a bitter wind. On February 19th, some of the German-speaking practitioners braved the severe cold and held anti-torture exhibitions in both Murten and Schwyz. People were astonished as they read the poster boards and learned about the torture methods used on Falun Gong practitioners in China in cruel attempts to force them to give up their beliefs. They expressed their indignation at the persecution of 100 million practitioners, instigated by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and carried out by the Communist Party. They also expressed their enormous sympathy for Falun Gong practitioners who have lost their families, jobs, homes and even lives in a campaign of genocide that has lasted almost six years. Swiss people came and asked for Falun Gong leaflets; they listened to the practitioners talk about the persecution and signed a petition calling for an end to these horrific human rights abuses.
Anti-torture exhibit draws many people's attention. They come to learn more about Falun Gong.
The following are some stories that happened at the exhibition:
"Open her shackles!"
A lady approached our stall. When she saw someone dressed as a Chinese policeman and simulating an act of torture on a Falun Gong practitioner she was furious and said, "Stop your evil conduct!" Another gentleman saw a practitioner being tied up on a tiger bench and said, "Please open her shackles and release the rope!" Practitioners have found that simulating the torture methods is an extremely effective way of letting people know more about the violations of human rights against Falun Gong practitioners.
A carpet seller understands the truth
There was a carpet shop not far from our stall. The proprietor was moved when he saw how Falun Gong practitioners use their spare time and money to produce leaflets and brave the snow, handing them out free of charge. The practitioners told him that Falun Gong is good and the persecution is wrong. He expressed his agreement and asked practitioners to write Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance in Chinese calligraphy for him, which he happily took back to his store. Afterwards, he invited practitioners to warm up in his store and have a hot drink.
Murten government official comes to express support
The local governor who authorized the anti-torture exhibition came to our stall at the end of the activity. She said, "You've done very well! You have justified the significance of this exhibition and shown Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance to our inhabitants by your conduct and good behavior. I am extremely happy and I thank you a lot! I've already seen a lot of our locals sign the petition to support you and am certain you will succeed."
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200502/25140.html
(Clearwisdom.net) On January 27, 2005, German Falun Gong practitioners from the city of Cham and a local representative from the International Society for Human Rights held a seminar entitled, "The Current Situation of Human Rights Violations in China," at Robert Schumann High School. Local newspapers reported on this event, including an article in the Chamer Zeitung, entitled "Lies cannot withstand exposure" and another in the Bayerwald-Echo entitled, "Experiencing Injustice."
The reports mentioned that Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are the cultivation principles of Falun Gong, which is also called Falun Dafa. They quoted a remark made by Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Min Teng-Schwaegerl during the seminar in the ethics class at Robert Schumann High School. She said, "Falun Gong originates from China. It can lead people to achieve harmony within themselves and with the environment. However, the cultivation principles are not in accordance with the nature and ruling methods of the Chinese Communist Party. That is why Falun Gong suffers systematic discrimination and persecution by the Communist regime in China, and this is why Falun Gong practitioners are tortured or even killed."
Mr. Roland Hein is a senior teacher at Robert Schumann High School. He wanted to demonstrate cases of human rights infringements in his Ethics class, so he invited Falun Gong practitioners and the International Society for Human Rights to give accounts of persecution under China's Communist system. Min Teng-Schwaegerl was originally from Shanghai and she came to Germany two and a half a years ago. She heard about and experienced Falun Gong after she completed her German language course in a university. Driven by the contrasts between the Communist Party's propaganda about Falun Gong and the peacefulness of the practice she had experienced, she was determined to take part in public activities to raise awareness. "Lies cannot withstand exposure," Min stated firmly. "People have to understand the actual situation in China, because what is happening there will impact the future of the whole world."
Mr. Roemer described China as "the most infamous country for torture," not only because China suppresses Falun Gong ruthlessly, but also because it persecutes other religious groups. According to one estimate, the total number of religious believers, including Christians, Buddhists and Muslims, in China ranges from 60 to 90 million.
After giving an overview about the human rights situation in China, Min Teng-Schwaegerl began to talk about Falun Gong's situation. She explained that Falun Gong is a practice of self-improvement; practitioners can achieve spiritual inner peace, as well as harmonious coexistence with the outside environment. Min Teng-Schwaegerl said that there are 70 to 100 million people practicing Falun Gong in China.
"It is very sad that the media has been astoundingly indifferent to this issue, in which millions of people have become victims," stated Min Teng-Schwaegerl.
When asked if young people in Germany could do anything against this persecution, Ms. Teng-Schwaegerl answered, "Yes," and Mr. Roemer commented, "They can collect petition signatures and ask the German Government to pay attention to these human rights violations."
http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200502/25093.html
(Clearwisdom.net)
Dear Kind Readers and Fellow Countrymen,
On December 28, 2004, I read a report entitled "Falun Gong Concocted 30 Tortures, Fabricated Lies and Invented Fake Photos to Vilify the Government by Accusing It of Persecuting Dafa Practitioners" on the news page of the Chinese Business View. Reading this report, I felt a surge of emotion, as memories of both my own torture and those suffered by other Falun Gong practitioners I have known leapt into my mind. In order to help my fellow countrymen and other kind readers make clear distinctions between right and wrong, and to safeguard your legal right to know the truth, I couldn't help but take up my pen to write a brief account of my own experiences with words found deep in my heart.
I am a Dafa practitioner from Xian. Please forgive me for not revealing my name due to the current illegal persecution of Falun Gong by the current regime of the Chinese Communist Party. I began practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and benefited a great deal, both physically and mentally, from the exercises and from cultivating the principles of Falun Dafa, "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." My xinxing and moral standards have risen and illnesses that lingered for years have now disappeared. In 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal in an effort to let both the leaders of the Central Government and other citizens know the truth and the benefits from practicing Falun Dafa. For this, I was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced labor. I appealed several times, stating innocence, but my appeals were all rejected. I learned that once the Central Government established its position on Falun Gong, making appeals based on true experiences was no longer allowed.
During the two years I spent at the detention center and the forced labor camp, I suffered from inhuman torture administered by both the prison guards and the drug addicts who worked for them. My torture included beatings (punching, kicking, pulling hair and slapping the face), being denied sleep for four consecutive days and nights while wearing handcuffs and shackles (this was repeated countless times) and being cuffed and hung up outside for the public to view, for as long as four consecutive days and nights in biting cold weather out in the rain or in the snow. Someone sent a cotton-padded jacket to me, but the prison guards ordered it returned, and instead forced me to wear the "restraint jacket" made by the forced labor camp. My hands were cuffed from behind and I was forced to stand, facing a wall, for several days and nights without sleep. I was beaten by drug addicts who tied my hands to a bed frame and beat me with police batons. Once I was on the verge of death after being beaten with an "8.1" (August 1 is Chinese Army Day, hence the name) Police Baton. I was black and blue from the waist all the way down my legs. When I raised the issue of this violation to the prison guards at the forced labor camp (according to Criminal Law: "Detainees have the right to be free from corporal punishment, maltreatment and insult."), female guard Yang Xiaojuan, and others, replied that, "A document issued by the Central Government allows us to use this method to punish Falun Gong practitioners!"
When some other Dafa practitioners and I went on a hunger strike to protest our inhuman treatment, we were force-fed. When other practitioners and I submitted a joint letter to the forced labor camp officials asking them to stop using illegal torture methods to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners, they put us in isolation for several months. The various tortures that the Falun Gong practitioners around me suffered are too numerous to record. The prison guards used pliers to pull out practitioners' healthy teeth, they cuffed them to a cement pole outside for several hours while it was snowing. Some of the practitioners were handcuffed to an iron gate for 49 days in biting cold winter; some were not allowed to touch their beds for several months (every day they were only allowed to sit on a tiny stool to nap for three to four hours); some were in comas as a result of being beaten; some were physically crippled or in a state of mental collapse; still others were forbidden to use the toilet.
One day as I made my bed at the forced labor camp, I found a heart-wrenching 20-page indictment revealing the tortures that Falun Dafa practitioners had suffered in the forced labor camp. This indictment, which had been hidden underneath the bed, recorded several dozen torture methods including: squatting in horse-riding step, sitting on a Tiger Bench, being slapped on the face by drug addicts, being forced to crawl on the floor while the drug addicts rode on them as if they were horses and having socks or dishcloths stuffed into their mouths so that they would not be able to shout. I, who do not shed tears easily, could not keep from sobbing.
In the forced labor camp even the self-described "dregs of humanity" would use various torture methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners at the instruction of the prison guards. The current forced labor camps and detention centers are aptly described as "the hell of this human world." Such a description contains no exaggeration. Even the drug addicts said that inside the forced labor camp the prison guards taught them nothing good, but they did teach them how to be cruel.
In 2003, when I returned home from the forced labor camp, I presented to the leaders of related departments a report called, "Personal Experiences of Persecution Suffered by a Falun Dafa Practitioner," which exposed the illegal acts by those who are paid to uphold the law as they persecute Falun Gong practitioners. I also presented a VCD containing Falun Dafa practitioners and government officials from over 50 countries appealing to the Chinese government to stop persecuting Falun Gong, plus a segment telling the truth about the staged "self-immolation" at Tiananmen Square. My intention was to draw the attention of related government departments to this matter. The legal department conducted an investigation and found the facts of the report to be basically true. However, I was arrested and detained for six months by the 610 Office for speaking the truth about this. During my detention I was beaten, deprived of my right to go to bed and suffered both corporal punishment and the restriction of my personal freedom.
Under the law everyone enjoys freedom of religious belief. Despite this fact, I was deprived of my rights to work and to live by both the 610 Office and my work unit simply because I persisted in cultivating "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." When I sought help from the Shaanxi Appeals Office, I was refused entrance to the Appeals Office because I was involved with Falun Gong. When I sought help from several law firms, I was told that because the Central Government had already defined the nature of Falun Gong as a "political" issue, lawyers were not allowed to defend Falun Gong practitioners. One lawyer told me, "It is China's national condition that once you have been branded with a political "hat" the law becomes useless. We are unable to do anything about it."
The Chinese Business View reprinted stories from the Central Government's media department that claimed that Falun Gong practitioners "invented" 30 torture methods. From my both own experiences, and what I have seen and heard about, the number of torture methods suffered by Falun Dafa practitioners far exceeds 30. The Clearwisdom website has received a great many articles exposing the tortures used in the forced labor camps, so the statement in Chinese Business View that "Clearwisdom felt like it had found a priceless treasure" (with which to malign the government) is absolutely untrue. All of the tortures that Falun Dafa practitioners suffered during their illegal imprisonments have been hidden from the public. We need to use all the modern communication tools possible to awaken what people know in their hearts to be true, and put and end to these criminal acts! When Falun Dafa practitioners get out of prison and stage "torture re-enactments" to show the truth of what they have endured, can you say that they are "fabricating lies," "creating fake photos" and should consequently be labeled as "slandering the government?" Law Enforcement Officials rearrested Liao Yuanhua and ten other practitioners of Hubei Province for doing exactly this. Would you describe this as right or wrong?
The Chinese Constitution provides every citizen with freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I think it is absolutely wrong for officials of the government to use their power to suppress those who dare speak the truth.
The media should fairly and objectively report the current realities of modern society. Before 1999, we could find reports of grand celebrations of Falun Gong, which had been spread far and wide, both within China and throughout the rest of the world. On July 1, 1999, however, Falun Gong was illegally suppressed and by the very next day all people could find was repeated propaganda about the faked "self-immolation," and bogus reports about insane murderers (said to have become so from practicing Falun Gong), all of which totally deviated from the teachings of Falun Dafa. People could do nothing more in response than heave a sigh.
Finally I'd like to say a few words from the bottom of my heart to the readers of Chinese Business View and my kind fellow countrymen. During the various political disturbances brought about by small but well-positioned factions, if you can remain calm and reasonable, rationally consider what is being said without either blindly following or having strong emotional reactions, and do nothing that will assist those acting with malicious intent, you will help us all from becoming seriously misdirected. For the glorious future of both ourselves, and our descendents, to safeguard the legal right of all kind-hearted people to learn the truth, for the proper guidance of our country and society, and to achieve truth, justice and the light of hope for us all, let us exert all of the strength we have!
A sincere advisor
(Clearwisdom.net) At 9:00 a.m. on February 16, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Bai Junjie was illegally put on trial in Qiaodong Court in Zhangjiakou City. During the nineteen days from her arrest to her trial, the involved officials have not followed the law or legal procedures. Bai Junjie has been on a hunger strike for over twenty days in Zhangjiakou City Detention Center. She is very weak and her life is in great danger.
On the afternoon of January 28, 2005, about five policemen (including Wuyilu Police Station Chief Wang Fengjun, deputy chief Shi, and the political head Wu) arrested Bai Junjie's family members and brother-in-law, and brought them to the Wuyilu Police Station for interrogation. The police tried to force them to divulge Bai Junjie's whereabouts. Later, the Wuyilu Police Station, Administration Office, Qiaodong District Police Department, Criminal Police Team, and Qiaodong District Procuratorate acted together to ransack Bai Junjie's home. They also staked out selected sites near Bai's house to try to arrest her. At approximately 7:00 p.m. Bai went back home and she was arrested and taken to the Qiaodong Police Department. Around midnight the lawless persons released Bai Junjie's family members and brother-in-law. At the Qiaodong Police Department, the Wuyilu Police Station deputy chief Shi beat her and tried to get confessions from her. The next day she was sent to the Zhangjiakou City Shisanli Detention Center.
Bai Junjie is a retired employee of the Zhangjiakou City No. 1 Shoe Factory. She was previously often ill, with heart disease, cholecystitis, pelvic infection, cervical vertebra osteophytosis, and others. When her heart disease severely relapsed, she experienced prostration and whole body edema. In early 1995, she started Falun Gong practice. She strictly followed the xinxing requirements of Falun Dafa. As she kept upgrading her xinxing and purifying her heart, her illnesses were all cured. In the ten years since she began practicing Falun Gong, she had not needed any medicine, and her health has been excellent. After Jiang Zemin's gang started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Bai went to Beijing several times to appeal and speak out about the injustice that Falun Gong has received. For this she was illegally detained many times by the Wuyilu Police Station.
At the end of October 2000, the persecution of Falun Gong was continually worsening. Bai and fellow practitioners planned to send out doves of peace to tell people about the beauty of Falun Dafa, but they were stopped by the police from Qiaodong Police Department when they walked to the Xiahuayuan District. Zhangjiakou City Police Department, the 610 Office, and the Qiaodong Police Department reported this incident to the provincial, city, and the CCP Central Committee as a severe case. They also considered Bai Junjie to be a leader of Falun Gong. Former Qiaodong Police Department chief Yan Zhiyou, deputy chief Ma Fuwei, political head Li Quanfu, and other police interrogated Bai continuously for nine days, during which time she was not allowed to sleep. She was forced to sit on a tiger bench, and the police tried to force a confession from her through both coercion and trickery.
On the eighth day after this arrest, Bai's blood pressure became very high, and her life was in danger. Li Quanfu and the other police sent Bai to the No. 3 Hospital, where she was cuffed and tied to a bed for barbarous force-feeding and intravenous infusion. The police also extorted 1000 yuan from her employer. Nine days later, Bai was again sent to the Shisanli Detention Center.
During the illegal detention of 40 days, Bai protested by holding a hunger strike. The Criminal Police Team of the Qiaodong Police Department and medical staff of the No. 3 Hospital force-fed her nine times in a barbaric manner. During the force-feeding, six males acted together, some holding her head down, some pressing down her legs, and some squeezing her nose. They fiercely inserted a finger-thick rubber tube into her stomach through her nose, which was so painful for her that she could not straighten her back.
After a total of 49 days of two imprisonments at the detention center, Bai became extremely weak due to the torture. But political head Li Quanfu led others to the detention center, declaring that she was formally arrested and transferred to Yuanhua City Detention Center. To resist the persecution, Bai staged a hunger strike for seventeen days. Her life was in peril, and only then was she allowed medical bail to seek treatment. Ten days later Qiaodong Police Department informed her that she would be put on trial and sentenced. Since then, Bai was forced to leave home and become destitute to avoid further persecution. Later, the Qiaodong Police Department and Wuyilu Police Station put her on the wanted list and kept trying to arrest her. Local policeman Li Yingbin also continually harassed her family members.
On February 9, 2002, when Bai went home to wash her clothes, policeman Li Yingbin illegally broke into her home to harass her. Li was plotting to arrest Bai, but Bai's family resisted the illegal persecution. Bai finally escaped with righteous thoughts. The Qiaodong Police Department director Yan Zhiyou, deputy director Ma Fuwei, and Wuyilu Police Station chief Deng Jianmin illegally arrested Bai's daughter and son-in-law. They also broke into her home and ransacked it. The police threatened her family members and attempted to extort 80,000 yuan. The police also staked out many locations in an attempt to arrest Bei. Bei's family members went everywhere to borrow money, and the lawless persons took the chance to frenziedly collect money for themselves. Among them, local policeman Li Yingbin extorted 6,000 yuan, Qiaodong Police Department got 20,000 yuan, and Wuyilu Police Station took 2,000 yuan. Despite the payments, Bei's daughter was still sentenced, and her son-in-law was illegally detained for over thirty days. In addition to Bei being persecuted, the persecution has bankrupted her two families, broken apart the families, and put them into great debt.
During the 16th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Conference, former Wuyilu Police Station chief Deng Jianmin led the police to the home of Bei's daughter to threaten them into divulging Bei's whereabouts. Political head Wu led two policemen with two police vehicles to stake out some selected places, including the homes of Bei's relatives and friends, in order to arrest Bei. The police also ordered Bei's employer to stop paying Bei her pension.
On January 28, 2005, Bei was again arrested. She has been on a hunger strike in Zhangjiakou City Detention Center for almost twenty days, and she is very weak. Her life is in grave danger. We again appeal to the Wuyilu Police Station and Administration Office in Qiaodong District, Qiaodong Police Department, Qiaodong Procuratorate, and Qiaodong Court to immediately stop the crimes of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners, and to unconditionally release Dafa practitioner Bei Junjie.
The involved officials and their phone numbers:
Yan Zhiyou, Zhangjiakou City Qiaodong Police Department director, 86-313-2012333 (ask for Yan Zhiyou)
Ma Fuwei, the chief of the National Security Section of Zhangjiakou City Police Department, 86-313-8681234 (ask for Ma Fuwei)
Yang Dong, a policeman from No. 3 Criminal Team of Qiaodong Police Department in Zhangjiakou City, 86-313-4035188 (ask for Yang Dong)
Chen Jianbin, a policeman from No. 3 Criminal Police Team, 86-313-8866000
Cui Weidong, Zhangjiakou City Detention Center director, 86-313-4021947 (ask for Cui Weidong)
Wang Fengjun, Wuyilu Police Station chief, 86-313-2012215
Shi, associate director, and Wu Jingchen, political head of Wuyilu Police Station
February 20, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Deshan, who was a teacher in Dezhou, Shandong Province, was severely tortured in Wangcun Labor Camp. The tortures he suffered include sleep deprivation, beatings, being hung up, being force-fed water and alcohol, and mental abuse. He suffered a mental collapse from the torture and forced brainwashing, which lead to his death in August 2002. Policemen held a conference after he died, in which they claimed that Li Deshan's death had nothing to do with the labor camp.
Falun Gong practitioner Li Deshan
The guards in Wangcun Labor Camp used all kinds of torture on Li Deshan. According to an inside source, in order to force Li Deshan to renounce Falun Gong, guards ordered collaborators to cruelly torture him. They shackled Li Deshan's limbs to two iron beds, then pulled the beds in two opposite directions. This caused excruciating pain, as his body was torn apart. They filled three glass bottles with boiling water, then tied the bottles to one end of several strings and hung the bottles right above Li Deshan's head. If his head moved, he would be scalded, as the boiling water would spill on his head.
Another torture Li Deshan suffered is called "Half-flying." His arms were stretched out with his hands shackled to an iron bed frame. He was hung up with only his toes barely touching the floor. He was hung up like this for half a month. Mr. Li was also force-fed with alcohol by guards and criminals [Note: Falun Gong practitioners do not drink alcohol]. He was jailed in a solitary compartment, monitored by criminals, allowed only 2 hours of sleep every day, and criminals slapped his face for an hour every day. The tortures were repeated almost every day for half a year.
Besides the torture of sleep deprivation, beatings with electric batons and force-feeding, guards Shan Yewei and Liang Junling also made a torture instrument called the "strict control stool" with steel cables. Li Deshan was eventually tortured to death by this torture. The guards forced him to sit on the stool for a long time, and forced him to stay awake. Several collaborators watched him in rotating shifts. They brutally beat him if he changed his sitting position.
Besides the physical torture, the mental torture Li Deshan suffered was even more unbearable. They did not allow Li Deshan to sleep for long periods of time. When his mind was not clear due to the sleep deprivation, they asked Li Deshan to read aloud material that had been written to defame Falun Gong, and recorded his reading, and then they finally let him go to sleep. When he woke up with a clear mind, they played his recording in public. Li Deshan denied that it was his own statement, so the policemen deprived him of sleep and forced him to read the materials again when his mind was not clear, and recorded it and played it again.
Under the extreme physical and mental torture, Li Deshan suffered a mental collapse and eventually died in tears, leaving behind his parents, wife and young children.
In the torture of Li Deshan, collaborator Li Conglin was an active participant. He reported Li Deshan's information to the guards, and targeting Mr. Li's weaknesses, he came up with several methods to torture him. In order to get out of the labor camp himself, Li Conglin tricked his own wife, who is a Falun Gong practitioner, into undergoing brainwashing, and coerced his wife into telling the police that she had produced truth-clarifying materials. The local 610 Office took her away instead of keeping their promise to "let her go home and help her find a job," and they unlawfully sentenced her to 9 years in prison. When he heard this news, Li Conglin was devastated and cursed the local 610 Office for breaking their promise.
Guards in the Wangcun Labor Camp who used all kinds to tortures to persecute Falun Gong practitioners include Zhao Yongming, Zheng Wanxin, Shan Yewei, Zhang Bo, Liang Junling, Luo Guangrong, Sun Fengjun, Wang Xinjiang, Li Qinfu, Liu Lin, and Liu Guowei.
February 23, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) In January 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Pan Xingfu from Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, a former official in Shuangyashan Bureau of Postal and Telecommunications, died due to the long-term persecution he endured for practicing Falun Gong. He was only 31.
Difficult Childhood
Pan Xingfu was born in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province on February 25, 1974. He had two elder brothers and an elder sister. He was the youngest and smartest in the family.
His father died when he was very young, so the burden of making a living fell on his mother's shoulders. In order to make money to send the children to school, his mother learned how to cut hair. They didn't have cooking oil, so his mother made oil from soybeans herself. Since they could not afford coal, she went to the coal factory to pick up the scraps of coal that fell from the unloading truck, and her ankle was broken by falling rock. His mother supported the whole family in spite of such a difficult situation.
Making great achievements in school
Little Xingfu was very smart and diligent, and his grades were always excellent. In 1990, he was admitted into the youth class in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His major was electromagnetic field and microwave technology. (Note: The youth class is a special class for advanced students who are not old enough to attend college, but are ready for college-level courses. It is considered a great honor in China) He was only 17 at that time.
Disasters come one by one
After Pan Xingfu went to the university, rheumatoid arthritis gradually took over his mother's body. In his second year of college, his sister, who was not 20 yet, died from chlorine poisoning at her workplace. Their mother was so grieved that she fell severely ill and became bedridden.
Obtaining the Fa due to the predestined relationship and striving forward diligently
In 1993, when Pan Xingfu was a third year student at the university, he went to Master Li Hongzhi's lectures in Wuhan. He instantly recognized the goodness of Falun Dafa and the profound principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." After he obtained the Fa, Pan Xingfu brought audiotapes of Master Li's lectures to his mother, and after that, the whole family's fate was changed by Falun Dafa. His mother tried to do the exercises, but she could not raise her hands. She kept trying, and then a miracle happened. First, she could raise her hands above her head freely, then she was able to get up, and finally she became as healthy as a normal person again. His mother was illiterate, but the principles of Falun Dafa shed light into her heart. Since then she was healed of all her sickness and was able to live like before. She was not depressed any more and became more optimistic. She never had an education, but quickly learned how to read Zhuan Falun and cultivated very diligently. Her fast recovery revealed Falun Dafa's amazing healing power and many people in her family also started practicing Falun Gong.
Pan Xingfu graduated in July 1994 when he was only 20. He went back to Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang, and worked in the Department of Networking in the Bureau of Postal and Tele Communications. He always conducted himself according to Dafa's teachings. He was responsible and an expert in his field. He was praised by his supervisors and colleagues alike. In 1995, he was awarded "advanced worker," and in 1997, he was awarded "model worker of building our city with science and technology" and he was the only one in the system of postal and telecommunications who had this honor.
In 1998, he was awarded "Trans-century Talent in Postal and Telecommunications System in Heilongjiang Province." (There were only 50 people who had this honor in the whole province, and he was the only one from Shuangyashan City) Later the Bureau of Postal and Telecommunications was split into three companies (Mobile-communications, Telecommunications and Postal communications) and he stayed in the telecommunications company. On December 12, 1999, he was awarded the title of telecommunications engineer. In 2000, he became the director of the Exchange Center of the Telecommunications Bureau and the vice director of the Bureau of Postal and Telecommunications in Youyi County. Among his peers, he was one of the best.
He married his colleague, Zhang Li, on June 10, 1996. Zhang Li, also a Falun Gong practitioner, graduated from Postal-Telecommunications College in Liaoning Province. She was also an excellent worker and was even sent overseas for a period of time for further training. The whole family was happy. His mother knew that it was Dafa that healed her; it was Dafa that made her son so diligent in work, and it was also Dafa that sustained Pan Xingfu and Zhang Li's happy marriage. They were grateful for Dafa's saving grace and cultivated themselves solidly. The whole family experienced the joy of cultivation.
The storm begins
Jiang Zemin's regime started suppressing Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. In July 19, 2000, the political security section of the police department in Shuangyashan City received an encoded telegraph from the Provincial Department of Public Security. Then, the policemen unlawfully jailed Pan Xingfu in the police department for one month for visiting the Minghui website on the Internet (Minghui is the Chinese version of Clearwisdom). He was the director of the Exchange Center of the Telecommunications Bureau and the vice director of the Bureau of Post and Communications in Youyi County at that time. In order to persecute Falun Gong, some authorities fabricated charges, saying that Pan Xingfu "damaged public order." The director of the political security section of the police department Jiang and policeman Ge unlawfully seized his cell phone (valued at 4,000 yuan at the time), his pager and 600 yuan in cash.
Pan Xingfu's family could not keep silent while so many practitioners were jailed and tortured, even tortured to death. In order to clarify the truth to the government, on December 28, 2000, Pan Xingfu and his family went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. On Tiananmen Square, policemen beat him severely and his glasses were knocked off. His fingernails turned black from the beating. Even a 5-year-old child (also a Falun Gong practitioner) was beaten by the policemen. Pan Xingfu was jailed in the Tiananmen Square Branch of the police department, Shahe Labor Camp and the police department in Changhe County. In order to get him to reveal his name and address, more than a dozen policemen tortured him in turns. His hands were painfully tied behind his back with one hand over the shoulder and the other hand against the lower back. Policemen then applied a great deal of force to repeatedly pull the cuffs to hurt him. The handcuffs dug into his flesh around his wrists, and it needed two people to unlock or lock the cuffs.
After he was forced to tell his name, he was jailed the in the basement of Shuangyashan City Government Liaison Office in Beijing (next to the Zuogezhuang market). In the daytime, he and his wife and their 10-month-old baby and all other Dafa practitioners, whether they were old, young, man, or woman, were jailed in a less-than-10-square-meter room with no windows. They were forced to pay 45 yuan for a luggage storage fee and 45 yuan for the room and food. After being jailed in the room for 7-8 days without sunlight or milk to drink, his baby's lips became infected. The baby cried every day until he totally lost his voice. The baby's digestive system was adversely affected and was still in disarray when they returned home.
On the way back to Shuangyashan, Pan Xingfu sent forth righteous thoughts on the train, so he was able to escape and he became homeless to avoid further persecution. After his mother arrived home safely, she was taken away by policeman Wang Xuchun from Wohongqiao Police Station. She was released 4 months later. After appealing on behalf of Falun Gong in Beijing, Pan Xingfu's wife was taken to Wohongqiao Police Station with her baby. She was finally released on bail. Her workplace refused to pay her salary or give her work, and they tried to force her to sign the so-called Guarantee Statement several times. In order to continue to practice Dafa, she left home with her baby to avoid further harassment. In the middle of 2001, she was fired by the telecommunications company. On May 4, 2001, she was unlawfully detained by the section head (whose surname is Han) of the political security section of the police department in Baoqing County and policeman Qiang Gang. She was detained for 4 months before she was released.
The difficult yet great journey of validating Dafa
Pan Xingfu was forced into homelessness. On one winter night, he was walking in the darkness wearing a coat. He saw that the lights in a little house were on, so he knocked on the door and told the host about his situation. The owner of this house happened to be a Dafa practitioner who had owned a gravel business close by. Due to the persecution, he lost the business. The host Pan Xingfu was talking to was the owner's relative. This relative introduced him to practitioners in Acheng City. Since then, Pan Xingfu started his journey of validating Dafa in Acheng City, with two practitioners, Zhang Tao and Xue Dianlong (Both of them have since died as a result of the persecution).
Later, he went back to Shuangyashan City. Since the local policemen were likely to come to arrest him, he could only stay home for a few days. At that time, his wife Zhang Li was strictly watched by her side of the family. Pan Xingfu wanted to see his wife before he left, but it was very hard to inform her. Fortunately, his wife was able to go back to their house. When she opened the door, she was very surprised and overjoyed to see her husband right there in the room. After that, Pan Xingfu spent only a few days at home. He spent most of his time validating Dafa and sharing experiences with other practitioners. He brought confidence to every practitioner in Shuangyashan City. Because of his efforts, Shuangyashan, a small remote city, also had truth-clarifying materials and VCDs.
In May 2001, Pan Xingfu and another practitioner, Ji Songshan, wanted to go to Fuli Town. (Ji Songshan was later killed by the Shuangyashan "610 Office" on June 18, 2003). Shuangyashan patrol officers were inspecting all the vehicles on the road and Pan Xingfu's taxi was stopped. Policemen Xu Hongkai and Shang Ancheng found Dafa books in the taxi, so they jailed Pan Xingfu and Ji Songshan in the Shuangyashan Detention Center, and confiscated a laptop computer and a pager. The city police department tried to bring charges against him, but Pan Xingfu resisted the persecution with righteous thoughts. When he was jailed in the detention center, the telecommunications company sent someone to visit him, saying that they hoped he would be released, and they promised him a good job with a high salary upon his release, but the price he needed to pay was to renounce Falun Gong. Between self-interest and Dafa, Pan Xingfu chose Dafa, and refused the offer.
On January 28 2002, Jianshan District People's Court in Shuangyashan City decided to bring Pan Xingfu to trial. Several hundred practitioners went to the courthouse. Everyone was waiting in silence for the opening of the court session. Thirty minutes later, Pan Xingfu was brought to the room, but suddenly the judge announced that the trial was cancelled. When asked for the reason, he said that the there was not enough evidence. Practitioners asked him to release Pan Xingfu, but were violently pushed out of the courtroom. The unlawful trial was hastily wrapped up.
On March 6, 2002, Pan Xingfu's elder brother (not a practitioner) was informed by the court that the court would put Pan Xingfu on trial on March 7 at 8:30 a.m. He was also told that Pan Xingfu "violated the law by interfering with the enforcement of the Constitution." A court official named Zhang told him that only two family members would be allowed to attend the trial.
At 8 a.m. on March 7, 2002, Jianshan District People's Court again unlawfully put Pan Xingfu on trial. There were many policemen blocking the gate of the court and the walkway. They stopped Pan Xingfu's family and many practitioners from entering the court. They did not even allow pedestrians to stay on the roadside nearby. All the seats in the court were pre-assigned, and all the people who were allowed into the court had a pre-assigned ticket. Since most of Pan Xingfu's family members did not have a ticket, only his elder brother and his mother got in the court room. It was wintertime, but his wife and their 3-year-old child were blocked from entering and were forced to wait outside.
The judgment was not announced at the hearing. Instead, the judge told everyone that the result of trial would be announced 7 days later.
On March 14, 2002, the written judgment was issued. Pan Xingfu was unlawfully sentenced to 5 years in prison.
For Pan Xingfu's family, 2002 is a year they would never forget.
On March 14, 2002, Pan Xingfu was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
On April 15, 2002, Pan Xingfu's wife, Zhang Li, was arrested at home.
At the end of March 2002, Pan Xingfu's second elder brother was sent to Suihua Labor Camp.
In December 2002, Xingfu's second elder brother' wife was sentenced to 2 years of forced labor, and was tortured in Jiamusi Labor Camp
Four people in one family were jailed. All that were left at home were Pan Xingfu's mother, 3-year-old child and his second elder brother's 8-year-old child.
In April 2002, Jiang Zemin's accomplice Luo Gan went to Heilongjiang and gave an order to the local police to arrest 6000 Falun Gong practitioners. Subsequently, Shuangyashan City Police Department started rampantly persecuting practitioners. Within one month, over 100 practitioners were arrested in Shuangyashan City.
On the morning of May 2, 2002, Pan Xingfu's mother had just gotten up and was on her way to the bathroom outside of the house. As soon as she opened the door, the chief of Wohongqiao Police Station and 3 other policemen (one of them surnamed Lu) broke into their house. They did not allow Pan Xingfu's mother to go out to use the bathroom. She argued with them, but it was no use. With no other choice, she found a urine container and relieved herself while the male policemen turned the other away. Then, they searched her house. They confiscated Master's picture and tapes of Master's lectures. Pan Xingfu's mother tried to get them back. Her 3-year-old grandson woke up during the arguing. The child had seen how his parents were violently taken away, so he cried, with one hand holding onto his grandmother, and the other hand holding the policemen, begging them, "Please don't take my grandma away!" When Pan Xingfu's mother refused to be arrested or to get into the police car, the four policemen carried her into the car. In the police station, without following the proper procedure, the policemen filled out the ticket of detention by themselves and sent her to the detention center.
In the detention center, to protest the unlawful detention, Pan Xingfu's mother refused to take any food or water for 15 days. The director of the detention center, Bai Shuwen, with the assistance of other policemen and criminals, violently force-fed her in the hallway. Prison doctor Xu Enjiang pried her mouth open with a sharp tool, and poured corn gruel with a lot of salt added into her mouth. The violent force-feeding injured her mouth and made it bleed. After that, they locked her in an iron chair. Later, when Bai Shuwen saw that her shirt was soaked with the blood from her mouth, he was afraid that others would discover their persecution of Dafa practitioners, so he slapped a criminal who was in charge of watching her and yelled, "Wipe it clean!" Finally, based on the righteous and solid belief in Master and Dafa and her righteous thoughts, the elderly woman walked out the detention center with dignity after 15 days on hunger strike. Her grandson was traumatized by this episode, however, and is in constant fear of the police taking her away again.
In January 2003, Pan Xingfu's wife Zhang Li was illegally sentenced to a nine-year prison term. In April, she was sent to Harbin Women's Prison. After that, his mother began to take care of her grandson and granddaughter. The elderly grandmother not only had to care of her grandchildren, but also delivered winter clothes to four grown ups in jail.
Once, Pan Xingfu's mother went to visit him. It was a remote place, devoid of people. Pan Xingfu was forced to feed pigs. After the visit it was late in the evening. Pan Xingfu's mother could not find any place to stay. Finally, she had to stay in a deserted house for the night.
Suihua Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province is a notorious place, where practitioners are brutally persecuted. In 2002, Pan Xingfu's second oldest brother Pan Xingkun was detained there. The authorities built a four-story building, equipped with surveillance systems and a courtyard garden. The new facility was built specifically for intensifying the persecution against Falun Gong practitioner, forcing them to reform. The special team established in Suihua Labor Camp for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners used tactics that they learned from those in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to brainwash the practitioners. They put to use a variety of torturous means such as imposing long sessions of forced brainwashing and depriving practitioners of sleep. These hardships made some practitioners lose their mental clarity and give in to the brainwashing. For the more determined practitioners, police used physical punishment. For instance, police forced some practitioners to sit on a bench and face the wall for long periods of time.
As a means of deception, the police repeatedly fed practitioners with lies, and they also trained former practitioners who had turned against Dafa to continuously persecute the practitioners. They used many different methods to torture practitioners, including physical and verbal abuse, arbitrary detention beyond their terms, solitary confinement, forced viewing of Dafa-slandering videos, electric baton shocks and forced sitting on a steel chair for extended periods of time. For those who refused to compromise, several criminal inmates were dispatched to monitor them around the clock, forbidding anyone to recite Dafa books and practice the exercises.
After the CCP's 16th National Congress, the Suihua Labor Camp authorities intensified their persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. The police carried out forced brainwashing that harmed the practitioners both physically and mentally.
On September 18, 2002, Pan Xingkun was confined in a small cell and forced to sit on a Tiger Bench, a punishment for resisting the persecution. Police team leader Hao Liangui and deputy leader Fan Xiaodong ordered Zeng Lingjun to violently beat Pan Xingkun. Right after that, the labor camp head Ji Feng told the police to turn up a tape player to the maximum volume to keep Pan Xingkun from sleeping. They provided only one bun for each meal. Pan Xingkun was kept in the small cell for three days and nights. Shortly after that, the police forced all the practitioners to watch TV programs that slandered Dafa and told lies. After Pan Xingkun refused, policemen Fan Xiaodong, Jia Yupeng and Jin Qingfu came to beat him again.
At the end of 2002, because the labor camp's so-called "reform rate" did not reach the quota, the police decided to torture the practitioners again. Before they started, they sent several determined practitioners to the hospital to check their hearts. If their hearts were healthy, the police would torture them. Pan Xingkun was tortured repeatedly during this time. At the end of 2002, when he once refused to sing a song as ordered by the police, five policemen took turns beating and verbally abusing him until he fainted. Later, he was beaten so badly that he lost control of his bladder and bowels. Even then, the police still stripped him of all his clothes and underwear and used four electric batons to shock him for as long as four hours. His body was covered with blisters that remained for many days. Policeman Fan Xiaodong kept shocking him on one leg for a long time. The flesh was burned so badly that everyone saw smoke. The scar is still clearly visible today.
The following policemen participated in torturing Pan Xingkun: Yang Bo, Zeng Lingjun, Fan Xiaodong, Li Jian, Jin Qingfu, and Gao Chonghai. After the torture, Pan Xingkun developed an irregular heartbeat. In March 2003, police tortured him again to punish his defiance, and his mouth was swollen so badly that he could not eat for days.
Pan Xingfu was detained at four different places. First, he was sent to Shuangyashan Detention Center, then Qitaihe Forced Labor Camp, then Suihua Forced Labor Camp and finally to Mudanjiang Forced Labor Camp. He was compelled to do many odd jobs: feeding pigs, making dough, cleaning floors, etc. One day in June 2003, three years after his detention, Pan Xinfu fainted when walking in a hallway. A doctor diagnosed him as having anemia (lack of sufficient red blood cells). Over time his condition worsened. At 3:00 p.m. on June 18, 2003, political instructor Zheng Yuhe in prison ward 16 sent him to the Police Hospital in Mudanjiang City. He was admitted as a TB in-patient. His diagnosis was TB type pleurisy and lung tissue damage.
Since the hospital belongs to the police, Xingfu was sent to a prisoner ward. There are two doors - one at the entrance to the hallway, the other for the ward. The guards kept the ward under tight control. When Pan Xingfu's eldest brother was there to care for him, the police routinely body searched him and checked his cell phone. His brother slept in a bed next to Pan Xingfu. He had to get permission every time he walked in and out of the ward.
Cost in the hospital was high; water alone cost 100 "Yuan" a month. Pan Xingfu's family had to pay for a specialist's doctor visit from another province. Pan was very weak. He could not even use the toilet alone, and his legs suffered from infections of the nerve endings. Pan Xingfu felt a sharp pain whenever the leg was touched. He was put on intravenous drip 24 hours a day. His doctor was Dou Xiangzhi, an internal medicine specialist in Mudanjiang City No. 3 Hospital. The total hospital bill came to 5,198 yuan.
On July 8, 2004, Mudanjiang Prison authorities sent Pan Xingfu to the Shuangyashan City Hospital for infectious diseases to dodge responsibility. His mother finally saw him after a long separation. Pan Xingfu was tortured so badly that his mother could barely recognize him. He could not walk and needed help when sitting up or laying down. He was emaciated and weighed only around 40 kg. Even his 64-year-old mother could easily carry him. Every time he went for an examination, his mother and oldest brother had to carry him from the third floor to the ground floor. The doctors had to draw out liquid from his chest once every five days, and they did this eight times in total. Every time the yellowish liquid from his chest would fill up a gourd ladle. He couldn't even talk without fighting for breath and had high fever and sweating. He had to sit on the bed for a bowel movement. His urine was a reddish color. On July 20, 2004, a frail Pan Xingfu was allowed to go home. His condition did not get better at home, however. He had to lean against the wall when walking and remained extremely thin and frail.
At the end of January 2005, Pan Xingfu's condition suddenly deteriorated. He was losing even more weight and had abdominal swelling. Pan Xingfu died on January 31, 2005 at 11:00 p.m. On February 2, more than one hundred friends and family members held a memorial service for him. Pan Xingfu's mother and the rest of the family were overcome with grief.
Even on such a sad day, the police in the 610 Office did not stop harassing the practitioners. Policeman Du Zhanyi hid in a police car to monitor the memorial. Many undercover officers from Jianshan Police Station were also there. The police from the 610 Office took photos even at the door where the urn was picked up.
We heard later that four practitioners from Lingdong Mine were arrested that day.
February 8, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Ma Guifen, a 58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was employed by the Jinan City Casting & Forging Institute in Shandong Province. She started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996, and her husband and son soon joined her. After the persecution started in 1999, their home was ransacked, and the police extorted money from them many times, leaving them penniless. Her husband and son were both sentenced to three years of forced labor in 2001, while her employer forced her to attend a brainwashing class and write a guarantee statement or he would not pay her salary. Ms. Ma Guifen refused to cooperate. She often did not have enough money to buy food. The long-term effect of this torture and harassment affected her deeply. She died of a stroke on February 18, 2004.
Ms. Cui Guizhi was a 57-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner who lived in Songcun Town, Wendeng City, Shandong Province. She obtained the Fa in 1998, and her long-term diabetes was cured. She was arrested many times, detained in brainwashing classes, and had two thousand yuan extorted from her. She passed away soon after being sent home on September 15, 2002.
Ms. Zhu Yuting was a 58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Gudianxiang Village, Wangdu County, Hebei Province. Before she began practicing Falun Gong, she suffered high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic headaches, and lower back and leg pain. She happened onto a Falun Dafa practice site in 1997, and felt that she had seen Master Li somewhere before. She started practicing that day, and all her illnesses were gone within a half month. She cultivated diligently and became very healthy. After July 20, 1999, officials from the village and township went to her home repeatedly to harass her. Several fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, resulting in the police detaining all of the practitioners in the township in one room, and not allowing them to go home. Ms. Zhu Yuting was brutally beaten by police that day. The police claimed that, although she did not go to Beijing, the others were directed by her to go, and that she was hiding information. Ms. Zhu Yuting passed away as a result of the persecution on December 13, 2000.
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Chao Qiangzhen, 53 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner in Yangpu District, Shanghai City. She began her Falun Gong cultivation path at the beginning of 1998. She went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong and clarify the truth. However, she was unlawfully arrested and sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. She suffered inhuman physical and mental torture. After Ms. Chao returned home from the forced labor camp, the police subjected her to continuous monitoring and harassment, and as a result her physical condition deteriorated. She developed from intestinal cancer, which then spread to her liver and all over her body. She suffered greatly and passed away on February 4, 2005.
Practitioner Mr. Cong Peixi, a 57-year-old engineer, used to work in the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. On November 26, 2004, five people from the Yangpu District 610 Office tricked Cong Peixi into opening the door by pretending that they were delivering a publication. They illegally searched Cong Peixi's house, confiscated his property, and arrested him. Cong Peixi was unlawfully imprisoned in the Yangpu District Detection Center. He was sentenced to one year of forced labor. Now he is in very weak physical condition and his life is in danger. The 610 Office has sentenced Cong Peixi to two years in the forced labor camp. He is forced to do hard labor for more than 10 hours a day. His body has become bent, and his joints no longer function properly.
February 16, 2005
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I am Zhang Jingyan, a practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. In observance of the New Year season, I wish village elders, fellow countrymen and friends a happy New Year, and I wish you joy and good health! The New Year holiday is a good time for the whole family to be together, but because of the persecution, I am forced to live a homeless life even though I have a home, just because I practice Falun Gong and follow "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" in order to be a good person. Every holiday season I miss my relatives, friends and fellow villagers even more. For the past five years I have been illegally imprisoned and sentenced to jail, my family's property was confiscated, and now I live the life of an itinerant. To put that in perspective, this situation has lasted for nearly 2,000 days and nights, with each day and night seeming to last an eternity for me and my family. It is unbearable to recall the past! When I think of my frail old mother-in-law, my lonely husband and our underage child longing for maternal love, when I think of the physical and emotional suffering of my innocent family members and their economic distress, it wounds my heart.
I used to have a bad temper and placed a high priority on my own personal gain. I have a large family. I often fought with my father-in-law, causing my relatives and neighbors a lot of stress. Additionally, because I had lived a hard life, since my youth I'd suffered from myocarditis, stomachache, pain in my legs and back, and my hands and feet were cold all the time. I felt that life was very bitter and I blamed others. Since 1996 when I started practicing Falun Gong, my diseases were completely cured, and for the past 9 years I haven't suffer any illnesses. Furthermore my outlook has changed, and I've come to understand many truths concerning how a person should live; I have become broad-minded and I exercise forbearance when I encounter conflicts. Since I started practicing I haven't scolded or fought with anyone in our family and we are extremely harmonious.
On July 20, 1999 Jiang's regime unexpectedly started the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. While watching the fabricated lies on television, I said to my husband, "I will appeal for help according to the law. In the ancient times there was a saying: If the son won't stand up when his kind father is slandered, then people will call him unworthy. I have benefited a lot from Falun Dafa, I must speak out for my Teacher and Falun Dafa."
On July 24, 1999 I went to the Beijing to appeal for help, but I was sent back under guard by the officials of Shuangcheng Town and imprisoned in the Shuangcheng City Detention Center. I was illegally imprisoned for more than 20 days, and the police of Patrol Union forcefully ransacked my home. From then on the town and village officials frequently harassed my family and me, and they also tried to force my husband to write the Guarantee Statement. A few days before October 1, 1999, Zhang Xiaoyan, Director of the Union of Village Women, observed the reform-through-labor rule and forced me to do cleaning work, similar to dealing with people in "the five black categories" in the Cultural Revolution.
On the eve of the lunar New Year in 2,000, I went again to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong, and I was again imprisoned in Shuangcheng City Detention Center, this time for more than 50 days. I was stuffed in a small cell with more than 30 other people, which was befouled with feces and urine. We were fed two black steamed buns a day, and a little soup with dirt in it. Later I was sent to the 2nd Harbin Detention Center, where I was imprisoned for more than 40 days. There I was subjected to the "Sitting Board" continuously from 6 am to 10 pm. Other people there were out of breath because of it and we were all crowded together when we slept. After that I was sent to a brainwashing class, where I suffered mental persecution. I resisted the persecution with a hunger strike. All of this transpired during the New Year holiday season, and when my elderly father-in-law heard about my situation, his illness got worse rapidly and our relatives had to take care of him for more than half a month. My kind husband was under so much pressure that he got a little absent minded one day and fell, breaking a bone in his foot. Without notifying me, they extorted 6,300 yuan from my family but still they wouldn't release me. Only after I firmly resisted them with a hunger strike did they release me.
In July 2000, I again went to Beijing to appeal. The police on the train required that each passenger curse Falun Gong. Because I refused to slander Dafa, they forcefully detained me in the Shanhaiguan 2nd Criminal Investigation Unit. There the police beat me ruthlessly and swore at me, and I had a big lump on my head when they were done. Then I was sent by police officers from the railway station and village officials to the Shuangcheng Detention Center. In the Detention Center police slapped my face, force-fed me concentrated salt water, and threatened to send me to a forced labor camp. After being imprisoned for more than 80 days and having 2,800 yuan extorted from my family, I was finally released.
A few days before the Chinese New Year in 2001, the village officials sent five Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to my home to take turns watching me. Mr. Hu, a village official, said, "You're getting off easy. If this was the Cultural Revolution, you would have been treated like someone from 'the five black categories' by the militiaman."
One day Mr. Hu ordered me to go to the village, but I refused. Zhu Wangfu, Secretary of the village branch of the CCP, led four or five people from the local police station and drove a car to my home to arrest me. I had to hide in my relative's house. The third day they tracked me to my relative's home and forcefully ransacked the greenhouse. Thus I was forced to leave home and go from place to place, but that didn't stop them from coming to my home daily to intimidate and harass my family. At that time my husband was working away from home, and only my elderly mother-in-law and my youngest son were there. Still they wouldn't give up and kept threatening my family members. Zhang Xiaoyan, Director of the Women's Union, angrily rebuked my family members, and my son was so frightened that he would run back home the moment he saw the police vehicle and shout before entering the door, "Are they here to arrest my mother?" My elderly mother-in-law was so worried and frightened that she became ill and bedridden. In May 2001, police officers and village officials returned to my home to arrest me while I was helping my father work the land. I was forced to leave home and came back in June.
In 2002, I had hoped to be reunited with my relatives for the New Year's holiday, but on December 28 of the lunar calendar, Zhu Wangfu led four or five police from the local police station and broke into my home at around 11 pm to arrest me. They confiscated my family's newly bought VCD machine. The next day, Zhang Guofu, the Director of the Police Department, led a group of police in three vehicles to break into my home. They searched my house from top to bottom and threw everything on the floor. Windows in one room were broken, the door lock was pried open and things were tossed everywhere. They also kept my family members under surveillance, following them everywhere they went, and extorted 1,400 yuan from them without giving them a receipt. When my relative asked for a receipt, they threatened to start arresting people. On New Year's Eve around 9 pm and again early the next morning, the village official Mr. Zhang came to arrest me. I was again forced to leave home. Other families were happily reunited and celebrating the Chinese New Year, while I was forced to leave my family and hide wherever I could.
On April 19, 2002, several hundred riot police came to Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. The entire city was placed under martial law. I was taken to the Police Department of Shuangcheng City. Three middle-aged police officers gathered around and began to beat me. They lifted my chin and punched my throat; they dragged me around by my hair, while at the same time another officer brutally trampled on my feet and legs; they also handcuffed my hands and twisted my hands ruthlessly. Another officer slapped me again and again. After they finished beating me, they sent me to the 1st Criminal Investigation Unit. When I arrived there I could see that the building was still brightly illuminated and I could hear the sounds of people being beaten. They handcuffed me to a radiator and beat my legs with a hard plastic tube until they were covered with bruises.
On April 21, 2002 I was illegally sent to the 2nd Harbin Detention Center. I was subjected to brutal mental and physical torture. The police there slapped my face, beat my back with a wooden board, shocked me with electric batons, and hung me more than a meter from the ground with handcuffs. One of the policemen told me, "Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin has ordered us to do this to you, I don't like doing it, but if I show you kindness, who will take care of my wife and child?" The prison cell measured about 20 square meters, but it was stuffed with more than 40 people. Sanitary conditions were extremely poor. I had scabies all over my body. During this period of time my mother-in-law knew I had been caught, and she was ever restless and often looked out the window murmuring my name. She fell and broke her wrist during this time.
On October 30, 2002, I was returned under guard to Shuangcheng City and illegally sentenced to ten years in prison. Even the police were surprised at how harsh the sentence was.
On July 12, 2003 and August 14, 2003 I decided to go on a hunger strike to protest the sentence and illegal imprisonment. Doctor Dong Deguang from the 3rd Clinic swore at me. They attempted to forcefully insert a feeding tube eight or nine times without success. The tube was roughly the size of a finger. They pushed more than a meter of tube into me and repeatedly pulled it back and forth; my life was in danger at every turn. They forcefully opened my mouth and pinched my nose to force-feed me. Director Zhu Xiaobo and Doctor Liu said, "Two have already died from force-feeding. You're number three!"
Zhu pried my mouth open with chopsticks and maliciously said, "If you don't eat, we will force-feed you twice a day. I have plenty of time to play. Hasn't Wang Wenrong given in now?" As a result of their barbaric persecution, I convulsed and lost consciousness. The inmates in the same cell wept at my plight.
Director Liu Qingyu and instructor Xu Jize threatened, "You'll die for nothing! Who can do anything to us?"
Instructor Sun Shiyou clamored, "Force-feed her if she won't eat! Force-feed her till she dies!"
Police officer Huang Yanchung swore at me continuously. I once said to them, "No matter how you treat me, I don't hate you and I won't complain. I sincerely hope you recognize the truth and will stop being a scapegoat of Jiang's regime. Do the right thing, and you will have a good future." Some police officers sympathized with Falun Gong practitioners after learning the truth.
When I was persecuted to the brink of death, they sent me the first-aid center. One day I walked out of the center with righteous thoughts, so the police arrested my younger sister (who didn't practice Falun Gong), keeping her as a hostage and illegally holding her for more than 10 hours. They went methodically through my relatives' telephone numbers, calling each of them and threatening them repeatedly, including those who lived far away. I was forced to be homeless and deprived of my family. I had to go from place to place.
From ancient times to this very day, good is rewarded with good and evil eventually meets karmic retribution. Good will undoubtedly defeat evil. Please distinguish clearly between right and wrong, good and evil, and make the right choice for the sake of your own future.
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Prior to his January 2003 release from a forced labor camp, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Yanqing, from Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, was tortured until he was in critical condition. After his release, he was forced into homelessness. Finally, on December 11, 2004, he died as a result of the persecution. His wife, practitioner Zhang Huaping, is being held in Team Eight at the Dabei Prison, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Their son is growing up without his parents.
Wang Haoye is the son of practitioners Wang Yanqing and Zhang Huaping. He is now 11 years old and a fourth grade student. He is temporarily living with his aunt Wang Shourong and uncle Ou Honghua.
Haoye's father was a political science teacher at the Beipiao First Advanced Middle School. He started practicing Falun Dafa in February 1998 and strove to improve himself according to the characteristics of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. He dealt with everyone honestly, and his relationships with co-workers, neighbors and students were friendly and harmonious.
Yanqing's wife also started practicing, and they raised their child within the wonderful peace Falun Dafa brought to their family. Falun Dafa also brings stability and harmony to society. Once Jiang Zemin's regime began persecuting Falun Dafa in July 1999, the police frequently harassed Yanqing. In April 2001, the authorities sentenced him to two years of forced labor.
After they forced him to attend brainwashing sessions at the Zhaoyang Xidayingzi Forced Labor Camp, they secretly took him to the Fuxin Forced Labor Camp to continue the torture. They later transferred him to the Huludao Forced Labor Camp.
He had to endure extreme tortures, such as police officers knocking him to the ground while his hands were cuffed behind his back and using electric batons to shock him all over his body. They kept shocking his face and mouth. Wang Yanqing was tortured to near death before they finally released him in January 2003. After he returned home, his health remained poor.
Pei Hua, the head of Beipiao City's 610 Office, continuously sought new ways to persecute him, and Yanqing was forced into homelessness. On December 11, 2004, at age 37, Yanqing died as a result of persecution. Zhang Haoye's mother, Zhang Huaping, was secretly sentenced to four years in prison by the Beipiao City Court.
For more information about practitioner Wang Yanqing, please see:
"How Wang Yanqing, a Middle School Teacher in Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Persisted in His Belief Under Savage Persecution"
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/18/55687.html
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1. At the end of December 1999, staff of the Family Planning Office, Wangxiang Township, Shouguang, Weifang, Shandong Province forced Falun Dafa practitioners to stand on a cold cement floor, poured water about 5 centimeters deep on floor and kept the practitioners standing there for 7 days and nights.
Reenactment of being forced to stand in water on a cold cement floor for a week
Reenactment of being forced to lie on hot concrete under the blazing sun
Reenactment of public humiliation
Reenactment of public humiliation
Reenactment of force-feeding
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1. Searching for the meaning of life
Every baby comes into the world with a first exhausting cry. Why are babies always born crying? I was born in China. From childhood, I was taught to be an atheist. My parents and teachers all told me that a human's life was just this life; time and one's death simply resembled extinguishing a candle flame with no vestige of anything left. In the boundless human world, I always had many questions. Is it really true that this is all there is to a human life? From childhood, I liked to listen to the elders tell stories of past and future lives and to read books about spiritual phenomenon.
As I grew up, I was even more bemused by life. In the boundless world, what was I looking for? I had no answer. I became more and more melancholy day by day. A feeling of fear and sorrow often came up and it came from deep within me.
In 1990, my husband and I moved to Peru in South America, a remote alien land. Although we had just arrived in a foreign country and faced a society with poor economic conditions, bad public security, and terrorists, I had an easy time adjusting. I didn't know why, but, when I set foot on this land in Peru and saw the native people, I felt as if we were friends meeting again after a long separation. Later, we started an import business. After several years of effort, my husband and I became successful. Since our business was importing products from China, we became good friends with the officers from the Chinese Embassy in Peru, from the ambassador and his wife to the regular officers. They often visited our villa. My husband and I were also important guests, always being invited to the Chinese Embassy for all kinds of parties. Materially, I had everything. We also had a lovely daughter. I was supposed to be happy and satisfied. However, when I awakened from dreams in the middle of the night, I often tossed and turned in bed, and had a difficult time falling asleep again. The feeling of sadness, which I could not remove, kept coming up.
2. The special experience of obtaining the Fa
One day in May 1997, a business counselor from the Chinese Embassy unintentionally introduced to me a high level Qigong cultivation method, Falun Gong. Strangely, upon hearing these words, my heart was moved. I immediately asked him to lend me the book. When I received Zhuan Falun with the blue cover, opened it to the first page, and saw Master's photo for the first time, my heart was filled with boundless excitement. In that moment, the feeling of fear and sadness that often bothered me totally disappeared.
When I finished the book, I understood why I had kept thinking of, but could not find, the answer to life's questions. It's Master who taught me the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and guided me on my return journey to my true home. The happiness and peacefulness in my heart and the feeling that my life finally had meaning is something words cannot describe.
The ambassadress of the Chinese Embassy in Peru also started practicing Falun Gong. We often shared our experiences together. Before she returned to China, the business counselor sent me a set of the audiotapes of Master's Fa-lecture in Jinan City, which I put in my car. I listened to Master's lectures every day when I was out driving.
At that time, my husband was neither for nor against my learning Falun Dafa. In July 1999, the overwhelming persecution of Falun Gong started in China. My husband believed the evil propaganda of Jiang's regime and urged me to stop practicing Falun Dafa. The ambassadress who once practiced with me also called me, trying to persuade me to stop cultivation. I told her, "Ambassadress, you have also read the book and done the exercises. Please frankly tell me, is the practice good?" She said, "Of course it is good! My health improved a lot after practicing the exercises. However, since the government doesn't permit us to practice, you must stop it. Moreover, it will have a tremendous impact on your husband's business with China if you persist in it." I answered, "You clearly know it is good, yet you will still give it up. Falun Gong is the cultivation method I have been looking for all my life. I shall persist in it."
Later on, because I insisted on practicing, the Chinese Embassy no longer supported my husband in his business. Neither did they invite us to attend the officers' parties. The overseas Chinese in Peru all talked about my husband's situation, the past resplendence and the present loneliness. Because of the decline in his business and his loss of fame, my husband put all the blame on me and tried to force me to give up practicing. Therefore, my family experienced a lot of tribulations. My husband thus returned to China, for he couldn't continue his business in Peru. I remained there.
3. Keep on Going in Front of Evil Interference
In 2000, I met a Falun Gong practitioner from China. She told me that Peru's first Falun Gong practice site was established in Soldier Park. Every weekend we would study the Fa together. We also began printing truth-clarifying flyers, and we delivered them to many Chinese restaurants in Lima.
Our effort immediately drew the attention of the Chinese Embassy. The embassy people asked the Peruvian police to investigate the immigration status of one practitioner. Taking advantage of the opportunity, we went to the immigration office and introduced Falun Gong to a police colonel. We also told him why Falun Gong was being persecuted in China and how the Chinese embassy was trying to have this practitioner expelled. We pointed out that the Chinese embassy wanted to extend the persecution to overseas practitioners. After we clarified the truth, the immigration police and their superiors, became very sympathetic. Finally, they informed the Chinese embassy that this practitioner had legal status in Peru.
In order to appeal for the end of the persecution, we began to practice the exercises and to study the Fa every Saturday afternoon in a park next to the Chinese Embassy. One afternoon, a truck-load of armed police officers came by and told us to stop practicing there. They had received a phone call informing them that we were terrorists. Imagine that two unarmed civilian women practicing meditation were considered to pose a security risk to the Chinese Embassy behind the high walls and the tightly guarded gate. It is the most ridiculous thing in the world.
From then on, every weekend when we went to the park, police or security would come and tell us to leave. We told the police that Peru is a free country. No law forbids citizens from staying in a public park. We told them that as long as the Chinese government continues persecuting Falun Gong, we would not stop our peaceful demonstration in front of the embassy.
It's now easy to talk about this. But at that time, the two of us knew clearly that we were facing the Chinese Embassy's pressure and threats. When they realized the Peruvian police would not make us leave, they started to bother my husband, using him to cause many difficulties for us. We heard that they even planned to employ some local thugs to bully us.
For more than four years, every Saturday and Sunday, we went to the park. We displayed banners, sent forth righteous thoughts and steadfastly expressed the voice of Peruvian Falun Gong practitioners. The police gradually realized the truth and they became very supportive of us. They assured us, "You are very safe here. We will protect you." Every time I came, and faced the high walls and guarded gate with the Chinese diplomats inside, I felt sad for them. Jiang Zemin's fear of Falun Gong was so strong that he went all out to crush it. Before the persecution in 1999, diplomats in many countries (including such a remote South American country as Peru) were practicing Falun Gong themselves. I, as their respected guest in those days, am sitting here in silence to appeal for basic fairness and justice. I want them to hear my voice: Stop persecuting Falun Gong.
4. Clarifying the Truth to all levels of government and police
To help the Peruvian people, especially government officials and the members of Parliament learn about the persecution, we sent truth-clarifying materials, photos and appeal letters to the office of the President and the ministers. We also visited the President's reception office and asked the staff to distribute copies of the Spanish version of Zhuan Falun, Falun Gong and some VCDs. One week later, we received a letter from the president's public affairs officer.
We also sent a letter and some truth clarifying material to all 118 members of the Parliament to appeal for their help in stopping Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong. A member of the Parliament, Ms. Cesilia Tait, immediately contacted us. After she learned the truth, she was deeply shocked by the cruelty of the persecution. Practitioners' peaceful demeanor and kindness touched her. She wanted to learn Falun Gong.
We also received invitations to teach Falun Gong from some municipal governments. After the mayor of Comas received the truth clarifying material, he invited us to do a Falun Gong demo. After the demo, the mayor spoke to the audience, "Falun Dafa promotes Truth, Compassion and Tolerance and improves our moral standard. This practice not only will benefit people in our city, it is good for the whole country." After his speech, he signed a proclamation for Falun Gong.
The Peruvian National Police Commission Against Corruption organized over 100 police officers to learn Falun Gong on Saturday mornings. Each police officer that came to the practice received a Dafa flyer. They also saw pictures of torture on our photo boards. When they saw the cruel torture display, the police officers were shocked. They repeatedly asked me, "Just because they practice, they were tortured this badly! Is this true?" I told them, "It's true. If I return to China today, the same thing will happen to me. Our names are on the blacklist." On the last day of the class, the National Police issued a certificate signed by their top officer to praise our volunteer teaching of Falun Gong, the ancient Chinese cultivation.
5. Clarify the truth through the media to help more Peruvians know about the persecution of Falun Gong
With the advancing of Master's Fa-rectification, it is our mission and responsibility to do better in clarifying the truth through the media in order to save more sentient beings.
On July 16, 2003, Commercial (El Comercio) newspaper published an article called "Silent Reform" ("La revolución del silencio") that introduced Falun Gong to the public. The article included our photos and described how, since July 1999, Jiang's regime brutally persecuted Falun Gong, using the media to cover up the facts and to frame people by lying about them. The article also gave the details of how Peruvian practitioners' passports were stamped invalid because they practiced Falun Gong. (See details in http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/9/23/40594.html)
On August 13, 2003, the No. 5 America TV Station broadcasted an interview with Falun Gong practitioners in its morning news. During the interview, western practitioners told the reporter that practitioners in many different countries were suing Jiang for crimes against humanity, genocide and state directed torture. We were very moved by the interview. The No. 5 America TV Station covers a very large area, including all of Peru, and most of the Spanish countries in South America. Their broadcast can even reach Florida in the USA.
On November 18, 2003, the No. 2 Peru TV Station broadcasted the interview with us during its evening program by Cesar Hildebrandt. During the interview, we expressed our wish for more Peruvians to know about Falun Gong and about the lies spread by Jiang's regime to persecute Falun Gong. The fact that the Chinese Embassy canceled our Chinese passports unreasonably, illustrated that Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong extends overseas. More people should know about such a tragic regime that willfully tramples freedom and human rights. Hundreds of thousands of Peruvians and its neighbors in bordering countries had a chance to see the precious scenes in which practitioners in China were beaten, and tortured even to death, and how Falun Dafa has spread all around the world. They got to know how those who follow the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" were suffering unreasonable persecution.
From May 2003 to October 2004, we were not only interviewed by C.R.N and R.P.P which are two large and popular radio stations, but we were continually interviewed by many radio stations including COMAS, LATINA, etc.. The most moving interviews were done by Doctor Cai whose special programs were broadcasted on three radio stations. Doctor Cai interviewed us nine times, for one hour each time, over a period of three months. More and more people listened to Doctor Cai's program and many people called us after watching the program to express their support for us. During the weekend, many people came to our exercise sites to learn Falun Gong. A lady who had many different diseases for 15 years recovered quickly after studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. She said movingly, "I didn't know until now how wonderful it is to be disease-free!"
6. Spread the Fa and clarify the truth in other provinces
Fellow practitioners and I often organized small groups in other provinces to spread the Fa to more Peruvians. Everywhere we went we were moved by the warm welcome. In Chiclayo, just after we set up the posters and started to distribute flyers, crowds came and lots of people surrounded us to ask for the flyers. Facing their thirsty and hopeful eyes, we were moved and couldn't calm down for a long time.
During the three days in Chiclayo, five radio stations interviewed us on site. The local No. 9 TV Station broadcasted its interview including the video clip of us doing exercises in its morning news the next day. The yellow clothes became the symbol of Falun Gong in that city. Everywhere we went many people raised their thumbs to show their support and understanding for us.
In Cajamarca, none of the radio stations or TV stations wanted to miss this opportunity. They earnestly set up a special interview for us. It seemed people there were waiting for the universal law of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" all along. Through thirty to sixty minute interviews by six major radio and TV stations, the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong in China was told to thousands and thousands in the audiences. The three local newspapers also reported our activities. Through the local media, many local people got to know where we were going to give free classes. It's hard to forget all those people who came to the teaching site from many areas. After the two hours of teaching was finished, a lady handed a rose to me and said Falun Gong was exactly what she had been waiting for her whole life. (see details at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/5/27/48596.html)
7. Clarifying the truth to the precious Chinese people
There are many Chinese living in Peru. Many of them watch CCTV through cable TV. Since July 1999, Jiang's regime has spread its evil lies to these overseas Chinese. CCTV broadcasted to the world the story of the Tiananmen Staged Self-Immolation and many other programs that framed Falun Gong. Many innocent overseas Chinese were deeply poisoned.
Since the year 2000, we have clarified the truth to the local Chinese people. Besides distributing the truth clarifying materials to Chinese restaurants and Chinatowns, we also mailed truth-clarifying materials or CDs to more local Chinese, which shook the local Chinese communities. When we handed out our truth-clarifying materials, we witnessed the change from an unconcerned attitude at the beginning to a thankful feeling from the bottom of their hearts. They respectfully took the materials with both of their hands. Sometimes, the whole family would follow us with their eyes when we departed.
It is hard to describe how grateful I am when seeing this. Indeed, I realize how important our responsibility is as Fa-rectification period disciples. Let us remind each other and improve together. In this magnificent, historic period, do well on the three things so that we will truly be worthy of Master's benevolent salvation.
Please point out anything that is improper.
January 13, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1994. Since then, I have been immersed in the blessings of the Fa. During the five years of my personal cultivation, with the compassion I had cultivated from Dafa, I established a very good reputation in my school, workplace and society. Since the persecution started on July 20, 1999, under Master's merciful protection, like Dafa practitioners the world over, I have persevered through the five years of persecution imposed on us by the old forces.
During these five years, my most profound feeling is that to follow Master and to strive forward in the Fa-rectification is the happiest of all things!
I. Keeping firm righteous thoughts, the raging wind and waves come and go, "like smoke and clouds"
Since July 20, 1999, the police and the 610 Office personnel started to take turns harassing me at my workplace and at my home. Pressures began to come from the society, my workplace and my home. Later on, the lawless officials even illegally issued documents to expel me from an important position.
Faced with such unfair treatment from every aspect, I went to the local government to clarify the truth. I told them that Falun Dafa was a righteous practice; the government should not and could not distort my Master and Dafa like this, and they should not treat Dafa practitioners like this.
The next day I was expelled. I went to the higher authorities of my workplace and protested the illegal persecution they had subjected me to. I told them that I would keep appealing to their higher authorities. In the meantime, I started picking up odd jobs to make a living.
Seeing that I had more freedom, these lawless persons felt uneasy. They told me they would give me back my job and threatened that if I didn't take it they would expel my parents from their jobs and stop their salaries. I replied, "You shouldn't have deprived me of my right to work. Everyone has his or her own fate, and you were not the ones who gave me this job. Falun Dafa allows me to do better and better work! Why do you keep doing bad things to me?"
As to the sort of "statements" or guarantee statement, to give up Falun Gong practice, they knew it was impossible that I would do this, so they didn't bother to ask. The policemen from the 610 Office said, "It wouldn't work. This guy would keep practicing Falun Gong, even if you tried to kill him." But they wouldn't leave me alone. They ransacked my home and put me into a detention center, in violation of the Chinese constitution.
My cellmates in the detention center were mafia members, gang members, corrupt officials, thieves and so on. Many people's minds were full of lies. Oftentimes a group of them attacked me regarding the Falun Gong issue. After I clarified the truth to them, soon many of them established a good relationship with me. Some learned the exercises, and others said they would find me and learn the exercises after they were freed. Because of the effect of global righteous thoughts from practitioners, I noticed many inmates throughout the detention center had a good attitude toward Dafa, because they all knew a little, directly or indirectly, about the situations of Falun Dafa practitioners' illegal detention in different parts of the country. A thief who used to be ferocious and had been detained in other places could even recite some of Master's poems. The inmates were relatively respectful toward me.
After detaining me for three months, the lawless personnel decided to send me to forced labor for a year. Later, seeing my firm attitude, they suddenly released me. I understand that on the surface I was rescued, but fundamentally, the old forces had perpetrated the persecution; but regaining freedom comes from Master's merciful protection. In fact, everything is in our esteemed Master's hands!
Soon after I got out I read Master's new articles and merged into the current of Fa-rectification even more. Passing through all this came from relying on my righteous faith in Master that gradually strengthens and transcends all conventional thinking. From the very beginning, my righteous faith in Master and Dafa has never wavered.
II. Let go of attachments and forge ahead diligently
We did not come to this world to suffer ordinary people's tribulations; assisting Master in saving people is our lives' true purpose. Since studying Master's new articles I started to do the three things well. With Master's Fa-rectification process moving fast, my environment changed dramatically as well. I was previously afraid to clarify the truth about Dafa, but now I am very active in doing so. I was too lazy to clarify the truth before, but now I look for any opportunity to do so. I used to limit my audience to my friends and family, but later I extended my efforts to any acquaintances and now to everyone I meet on the street.
Dafa gave me more wisdom in clarifying the truth. At first I relied on others to provide truth-clarifying materials, but later I started to edit my own materials and download information directly from the Internet. Now I am providing materials to fellow practitioners. The materials were in black and white at first, but now they are in color and I can also make DVDs. My truth clarification became more flexible also. I can communicate with anyone I meet. Many people in different fields are waiting for us to offer them salvation.
Every attachment is a wall blocking our cultivation path; it limits our ability to clarify the truth. Each time I felt confused I would look for my own attachment with righteous thoughts. After letting go of the attachment, I became more firm in the Fa, advanced to a higher level, and I could do the three things even better. Every bit of progress I made was a process of letting go of my human attachments.
"This is especially so for the Dafa disciples in Mainland China: each must come out and clarify the truth, bringing it to every field and valley, mountain and hill, not omitting a single area where there are people." (Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People)
Master's words tell us how difficult our task is, and also show us the higher standards Fa rectification requires us to achieve. The area where I live has only several hundred thousand people, so at first I worried there were too few people here. Soon I looked inward for my attachments. Afraid of too few people? Our righteous thoughts do not depend on the number of people, as the path Master arranged for us must be the best. Do I truly believe in Master? Could I, a Dafa disciple, have such an attachment? Why, instead of fulfilling my task, am I worrying about it? As soon as I let go of the attachment, the world opened before me.
When our righteous thoughts and righteous actions are strong enough, Dafa will give us unlimited wisdom and power since there is nothing Master is incapable of doing.
"One's gong level is as high as one's xinxing level, and this is an absolute truth." (Zhuan Falun)
"However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is." (Also in a Few Words)
I fully utilized the area map and also recommended that fellow practitioners use the map. We divided the whole area of several hundred thousand people in more than one thousand villages into several parts and made a flexible truth-clarifying plan, according to practitioners, time and proximity. This way we were able to get to know the area better. Our experience is that a systematic, yet flexible plan could help us to clarify the truth much better, and our righteous thoughts are much more powerful, too.
For example, when most of the teachers in the city's No. 1 and No. 2 High Schools were deceived by lies and their misunderstanding of Dafa would put the students in danger, I adopted many different methods to clarify the truth to the teachers. I wrote letters to the principals and mailed them from another city. I distributed truth clarification DVDs to my acquaintances and took every opportunity I could find to clarify the truth to all of the teachers.
We need to clarify the truth from different angles. Some people understood the first time I explained the facts, but for some people would take more than once. I encountered all kinds of people in this process: Some did not understand, some tried to avoid me, and some argued with me. However, with the Fa-rectification process moving forward, most people have awakened by now. Within several months, the situation in these schools changed dramatically. Not too long ago when there were exam questions that slandered Dafa, some teachers suggested their students skip these questions. Many teachers also asked for Dafa books and started to practice the exercises at home.
Writing this article also provided me with a good opportunity to better check my progress. I hope through my experience sharing with fellow practitioners I might find more shortcomings and improve faster, thus doing the three things Master told us to do, better and on a broader, deeper and more solid basis.
February 14, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wu is a senior Dafa practitioner who is nearly 80 years old, but when she recites Master Li's teachings, even many young Dafa practitioners cannot match her. Because all she has in her mind is Dafa, wherever she goes she brings Dafa's beauty, and the truth that Jiang's regime persecutes Dafa without reason. Though she has been illegally abducted by the 610 Office four times, and suffered from all kinds of intimidation, devastation, and torture in the brainwashing classes, she never gave in or felt afraid, nor did she cooperate with the evil. Her righteous thoughts and actions attract attention from the worldly people and frighten the evil.
Nonetheless, Ms. Wu is not satisfied with the good work that she has done, and instead often asks herself to catch up with Master Li's Fa-rectification process. She has said with deep belief that, "The fact that you did well yesterday doesn't mean that you are within Dafa today. Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period really need to constantly break through themselves within Dafa, and study the Fa, obtain the Fa, validate the Fa and dissolve into the Fa." Ms. Wu not only requires herself to strive forward diligently, but also feels happy to share with other fellow practitioners so as to improve and upgrade together as one body.
In August 2004, she learned from the Minghui Weekly Issue that Beijing and New York were the main battlefields of the evil and the righteous. She also saw so many overseas Dafa practitioners closely following Master's Fa-rectification process, devoting so much for the main body of Dafa disciples in mainland China, and doing so well. Ms. Wu felt deeply enlightened and encouraged. Motivated by the sacred duties that Master Li endowed upon Dafa disciples of the Fa-rectification period, she was determined to step forward from her home and from humans, and go to the main battlefield in Bejing to participate in the big battle between the evil and the righteous in the cosmos.
Once she made up her mind, Master Li gave her help. This elderly lady went to Beijing by herself and ran into practitioners Ms. Li Lian, 70 and Mr. Zhang, 90. These three practitioners lived and ate together, and studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, sent forth righteous thoughts, and clarified the truth together. They cooperated with each other to do well in the three things that Dafa disciples of the Fa-rectification period should do. During the National Day period, the two older ladies took Mr. Zhang to Tiananmen Square to send forth righteous thoughts.
After he began studying Dafa and practicing the exercises, Mr. Zhang underwent big changes. His thoughts gradually came back to normal and his mood became stable. His facial expression became cheerful and he could also take care of his own daily needs. Ms. Wu and Ms Li also took Mr. Zhang to hand out Dafa truth-clarifying materials. At the same time he offered salvation to sentient beings, Mr. Zhang's selfishness and attachment to fear were also removed layer by layer. His body became light, and he felt happy.
Of course, conflicts occasionally emerged in their lives from time to time due to notions being different between them. When this occurred they seriously and sincerely pointed out their shortcomings to each other with an attitude of being responsible to Dafa and to fellow practitioners. They rectified problems whenever they emerged, and left no loopholes for the old forces to utilize. They overcame various kinds of difficulties and inconveniences, and established strict requirements for themselves in all circumstances. They showed the noble realm of selflessness and altruism that Dafa practitioners have cultivated from the Fa.
The beauty of Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous actions deeply touched Mr. Zhang's family. Mr. Zhang's children witnessed the incomparable miraculous power of Dafa from their father's big changes, and they also saw that Dafa practitioners who have cultivated within Dafa are good people with high morality. Mr. Zhang's entire family said from the bottom of their hearts that "Falun Dafa is good." The younger daughter of Mr. Zhang held the two lady practitioners' hands and said, "After reading the truth-clarifying materials that you gave me, every morning and evening, I sincerely recite 'Falun Dafa is good' and 'Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truth-Compassion-Forbearance) is good' in my heart."
Mr. Zhang's son is an artist and used to be deceived and utilized by the evil to defame Dafa. After watching the truth-clarifying VCD, he felt much regret, and excitedly said, "I really appreciate your informing me with sincerity, and I appreciate your Master's compassionate salvation." Mr. Zhang's daughter-in-law said, "I really like to listen to you clarify the truth to me. I already know that you are not coming to make money, and that you come to promote Dafa." Ms. Wu said, "Everyone knows that we come here for Dafa, and you really have wisdom, but we need to leave here sooner or later." After hearing this, Ms. Zhang felt worried and said, "I am really unwilling to see you leave. If you really have to go, could you please find us someone who is similar to you? " The son of Mr. Zhang said, "We all hope that you won't leave, but if you really have other important things to do, I cannot delay your important task of saving people just for my family reasons. You are really outstanding that you can firmly follow this path for all this time!" Every word and sentence he said was very touching. He used the word "outstanding" to praise the Dafa practitioners of the Fa-rectification period and spoke from the hearts of everyday people who understand the truth.
Written on February 12, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Li Guilan Sentenced to 21 Months of Forced Labor for Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Guilan from the Huaiyin District, Jinan City, Shandong Province was abducted by the police on November 21, 2004 while distributing truth clarification materials in a market. She was sent to the Liuchangshan Detention Center and was sentenced to 21 months of forced labor. She is currently being held at Division 5 of the No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City, Shandong Province. She has been on a hunger strike and is now very weak. Her life is in danger.
Camp address:
No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province
Warden Jiang Lihang
No. 20 Jiangshuiquan Road, Lixia District, Jinan City, China 250014
She was transferred to this labor camp in October 2000.
Warden Jiang is the main person in charge of persecution of Falun Gong; telephone number 86-531-3732001.
Bi and Liang: group heads from Division 5, responsible for persecution
Wang: current head of Division 5; he used to work in Division 1 and is said to beat people severely
2. [Sichuan Province] Chongqing Prison Guards Pierce Practitioners' Feet with Metal Wire
Four practitioners, including He Mingli from Chongqing, were persecuted for exposing the rape of Dafa practitioner Ms. Wei Xingyan by a perpetrator from the Baihelin Detention Center in Shapingba, Chongqing. Falun Dafa practitioner He Mingli was sentenced to 13 years in prison; the three other practitioners were sentenced to seven years in prison. The Chongqing Intermediate Court did not conduct any investigation, hold a trial, or announce the sentence and secretly rejected the practitioners' appeals and upheld the original unlawful verdict.
He Mingli is currently being held at the Chongqing Prison in Danzishi, the Nanan District, Chongqing. According to a source inside the prison, the guards pierced the feet of two practitioners with metal wires. As a result, their feet are completely disabled.
3. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Guan Fenglan Sentenced to Six Years in Prison and Held at Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison
Ms. Guan Fenglan is an employee at the Feima Industry Corporation, affiliated with the Daqing Petroleum Administration Bureau in Heilongjiang Province. She was abducted from home by officers from Chengxin Police Station in Rang District, Daqing City on the afternoon of October 29, 2001. The perpetrators ransacked her home and took Dafa books, Dafa materials, computers and other items and they sentenced her to six years in prison. She is currently being held at Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. Her only son has been left at home uncared for.
4. [Wugang City, Henan Province] Practitioner Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison; Three Children Left Uncared For
Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yali was originally from Wugang City, Xiaxia, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. She lived in Nanlouwa Village, Yuhuangmiao Township, Tongxu County, Kaifeng City.
In November 2002, Zhang Yali was sentenced to seven years in prison in Wugang City. She is currently being held at the Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province. She has two daughters and one son. Her eldest daughter is six years old and her son is two years old. The authorities had abducted the children from Zhang Yali. Her son was then only ten months old. Zhang Yali was quickly sent to prison. Her husband is very likely also being persecuted.
5. [Jiangjin City, Chongqing, Sichuan Province] Practitioners Xiong Qingguo and Zhang Guangyuan Sentenced to Prison
On December 14, 2004, Jiangjin People's Court sentenced practitioner Xiong Qingguo to 3 1/2 years in prison and practitioner Zhang Guangyuan to 3 years in prison. The verdict is No. 405 Criminal Sentence Statement of Jiangjin City. The two practitioners are from Huagai Village, Bolin town, Jiangjin, Chongqing.
Xiong Qingguo exposed the persecution. On October 16, 2000 he was arrested and held for 15 days and was detained on December 29, 2001 and held for another 15 days at the Jiangjin City Police Department.
Xiong Qingguo and Zhang Guangyuan were abducted by police while distributing truth clarification materials in Xiangjiagou, Hengzhan Village, Zhaiba Town, Xishui County, Guizhou Province. They were sent to the Xishui County Detention Center in Guizhou Province. On July 13, officers from the Bolin Police Station in Jiangjin City ransacked Xiong Qingguo's home. On July 21, they were sent to the Jiangjin City Detention Center.
Perpetrators:
Zhu Dingfu: Public Prosecutor at Jiangjin City's Procuratorate
Jiangjin People's Court: Zhang Hongwei, Ma Chengkai, Cheng Peng and Wang Lijun
6. [Wafangdian, Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Gu Lianfen Abducted While Sending a Cell Phone Truth-Clarification Message
Practitioner Ms. Gu Lianfen, 40 years old, from Wafangdian was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. Between December 26 and December 28, 2004, police abducted her while she was sending truth-clarifying information via her cell phone. The perpetrators were from Fuzhoucheng, Wafangdian.
Another woman practitioner was abducted in the same way. Their current whereabouts are unknown.
7. [Yinchuan City, Ningxia Autonomous Region] Practitioner Wang Jiaming Abducted
On January 10, 2005, practitioner Mr. Wang Jiaming (who is disabled), from Yinchuan, Ningxia Autonomous Region (AP), and his wife, Ms. Mai, were abducted. The perpetrators were from Division 1 of the Yinchuan City Police Department and from the Political and Security Division of the Xingqing District Police Department. Their computer, printer, fax machine, some truth clarification materials and several thousand yuan cash were confiscated. Ms. Mai was released after three days of detention and Wang Jiaming is currently being held at Yinchuan City's Detention Center.
Related work units and phone numbers:
Division 1, the Yinchuan City Police Department: 86-951-6915120,86-951-6716363
Meng Changyi: head of the Politics and Security Division, the Xingqing District Police Department; Zhang Dingsheng is another perpetrator, 86-951-6093922
Shi Hongwei: head of the Yinchuan City Detention Center, 86-951-5058535
8. [Tianjin City] Fengtai Town, Ninghe Authorities Continue to Persecute Dafa Practitioners; Song Zhishan Abducted
Around 6:00 a.m. on January 2, 2005, practitioner Song Zhishan from Xi Village, Fengtai Town, Ninghe County, Tianjin City was abducted from home by a group of police officers. They ransacked his home at noon. The perpetrators are from the county's 610 Office, the National Security Division, the local government and the police.
9. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Practitioner Ms. Peng Meizhi Abducted While Clarifying the Truth
Ms. Peng Meizhi lived in Guangzhou City and worked in a garment factory. About one month ago she clarified the truth in Guangzhou City and the general manager of the factory locked her in a small room and forced her to undergo brainwashing. She refused to cooperate with the perpetrators. Her dorm room was ransacked. She escaped with the power of righteous thoughts and immediately returned to her mother's home in Chini Township, Sulong Town, Luoding City, Guangdong Province.
On February 2, police from Guangzhou City went to Peng Meizhi's mother's home. Four officers carried Peng Meizhi into a police car and didn't even give her time to put on her shoes. Many people in the village cried [upon witnessing this].
10. [Chengyang Town, Shandong Province] Practitioner Ren Dechun Disfigured from Beating
While on a trip, practitioner Mr. Ren Dechun in Jingkou Village, Chengyang Town, Chengyang District, Shandong Province was abducted on February 1. The perpetrators were officers from the Chengyang Police Station. According to an insider, Ren Dechun has been transferred from the Chengyang Police Station to the Licun Prison in Qingdao City. He has been disfigured from beatings, and the perpetrators are demanding 400 yuan from his family.
11. [Jieyang, Guangdong Province] Practitioner Ma Meichan Abducted Again
Practitioner Ms. Ma Meichan from Zhainei Village, Quxi Town, Jiedong County, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province is 54 years old. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was sent to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp by the local police. On January 31, 2005 she was abducted from home by officers from the Chengxi Police Station in Jiedong. The next day, they sent her to the Jiedong Detention Center.
Related work units and their phone numbers:
No. 2 Detention Center in Jieyang City: 86-663-8226439
No. 1 Detention Center in Jieyang City: 86-663-8637092
12. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioners Zhang Bin and Zhan Yinge Sent to the Daqing Forced Labor Camp
Practitioners Mr. Zhang Bin and Mr. Zhan Yinge were recently abducted and sent to the Daqing Forced Labor Camp.
(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Lawless Officers in Laishui County, Hebei Province Persecute Practitioners
For a long time, Laishui County officials, local 610 Office agents, Public Security Bureau officers, and Laishui Detention Center staff have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
In December 2004, the Laishui County Detention Center secretly transferred women practitioners Jin Ruihong, Zhang Xiuqi and Wei Fenglan, who had been imprisoned there for a lengthy time, to the Baoding Forced Labor Camp.
Since Jiang Zemin and his followers began the brutal suppression Falun Dafa, three practitioners at the Laishui County detention center have been persecuted to death. They were Ms. Jiao Fenglan from the Liting area, Mr. Wu Yanshui from Dongnanguan, and Ms. Zhang Xiuxian from Wazai.
In addition, dozens of local practitioners have been illegally sentenced to forced labor camps. One of them is Ms. Liu Jinying, the former deputy chief of the Laishui County Appeals Bureau. The authorities have arrested, fined and held her in the detention center. They have also searched her house many times and confiscated her personal property. She was sentenced without cause to five years in a labor camp. Ms. Liu Jinying has been subjected to cruel persecution methods ever since.
Although she has suffered a mental collapse from the persecution, the camp police still continue to torture her. Her husband, Mr. Zhang Dongshen, was sentenced to more than ten years in a labor camp. He is being inhumanly persecuted. Furthermore, their young daughter has been left alone at home without an adult to take care of her.
