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The Epoch Times
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Some of the world's intellectuals who regard themselves as aloof from worldly affairs, remain silent about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong. " don't get involved in politics" and "We are impartial to the politics of the Chinese Communist Party and Falun Gong" are their favorite phrases when defending their silence.
Not long ago, the Chinese Embassy in Australia issued a statement that criticized the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese article" and Falun Gong as a "reactionary anti-Chinese political group." This is an insult to truth.
From the "politics in command" of the Mao Zedong era to the "stressing politics" of Jiang Zemin's era, the CCP has been telling the country that politics is the venue only of the CCP.
It makes clear that Chinese civilians, including Falun Gong practitioners, have all been deprived of the right to "be political," because only the party has that right. It is their privilege, just as the party has reserved the legitimization of cruelty and torture as its special privilege.
Since July 1999, Jiang and the CCP regime have utilized their political and
social resources and launched a bloody political persecution in an attempt to
exterminate the belief and practice of Falun Gong.
In this political persecution that has known no bounds, the regime as directed
by Jiang has committed and continues to commit hideous crimes of genocide and
has spared no resource to crush freedom of belief to a degree that it is
comparable to the worst dictators in history.
Facing such vast political persecution, insult, arrest, torture, targeted killing and evil propaganda, Falun Gong practitioners have tenaciously persevered in their faith.
They have employed peaceful means to resist tyranny, and have become the model of triumphant faith. They ceaselessly and tirelessly expose the evil to the world and spread the seeds of freedom of belief across many countries.
In recent years, Falun Gong's manifestation and behavior have further proven they are not only protecting their rights to freedom of belief, but also supportive of other communities whose basic human rights are attacked by tyranny.
The CCP criticizes Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful ways as "getting
political." Does that mean that turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to Jiang's
crimes should be called "not getting political"?
Is allowing, through inaction, the CCP to continue its reckless trampling of
human rights "not getting political"?
Is silence in the face of the CCP propaganda machine's fabricated and evil
rumors "not getting political"?
Falun Gong is not a political organization, but a cultivation community, and
Falun Gong has never been political since its inception.
This stems from the fact that -- from the past to the present -- Falun Gong practitioners' ideology and practice have signified that they do not have any interest in state power, and that they simply want to expose to the world the CCP's tyranny.
They only strive for a place in society where they may hold freedom of belief. The CCP's attack on Falun Gong has manifested in the political sphere. Falun Gong's response comes in the political sphere, but it is free of political goals.
When hearing those aloof intellectuals who prefer to remain on the sidelines say things like, "We don't get involved in politics; between the CCP and Falun Gong, we don't oppose or support anyone," I always feel a sense of shame for the way morality has deteriorated.
This hypocracy exposes one's innermost feelings as being without spirit, servile, selfish and devoid of courage in a just cause.
Therefore, I would like to offer words of advice to public figures in intellectual circles who do not approve of or who oppose Falun Gong: Consider the words of Voltaire, who said "Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too," which has often been paraphrased as " may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
The Chinese Embassy's statements that regard the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" as an "anti-Chinese article" and call Falun Gong an "anti-Chinese organization" have shamelessly made the false conclusion that the CCP and the Chinese nation are the same.
In fact, the truth of the matter is quite the opposite, considering the miserable record of the CCP, its despoiling of China's resources (not the least of which, include its people) and its horrid handling of the solemn responsibility of leadership.
History and reality have convincingly proved: The CCP is China's shame and is the most criminal regime in the entire history of the Chinese nation.
Bravely exposing the evil tyranny of the CCP is an expression of the deepest and most sincere love for the Chinese people.
Chinese version: http://epochtimes.com/gb/5/2/27/n829046.htm
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 10,1999, Jiang's regime set up the 610 Office to actively carry out its policy of eradicating Falun Gong. The 610 Office has proven to be a dedicated organization. By December 5, 2004, at least 1,150 Falun Gong practitioners had died from persecution, and members of the 610 Office at various levels have committed serious crimes. The death toll of those officials is also significant.
The reported cases of sudden death among members of the 610 Office are only the tip of the iceberg of what has taken place across the country. As a matter of fact, nothing happens without a cause. There is a cause and effect in everything. Although there are also numerous examples of how officials who treated Falun Gong students with kind thoughts and kind acts were blessed, in this article, we limit our discussion to those officials who received karmic retribution.
Looking at some of these cases, we have seen that many of those who persecuted, slandered, or expressed hatred for Falun Gong have already met with karmic retribution. For example, some directly beat or tortured Falun Dafa practitioners, some assisted in committing crimes against Falun Gong, some turned practitioners in to the police, some damaged Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials, and some spread slanderous lies. The karmic retribution they received has served as both a punishment to them and as a warning to others. The following are some of the characteristics of the retribution received:
Lawsuits have been filed against Jiang and his immediate followers, the primary culprits, overseas, while the public is cursing them in China. Some people may think that the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's regime has nothing to do with them, and they care very little. The numerous cases that have already been reported indicate that those who participate in the persecution will inevitably face karmic retribution. Good is rewarded and evil meets with evil--this is a law of heaven. Jiang's persecution has hurt the entire population. The suppression of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" has hurt everyone. Some have not yet realized they have been poisoned by Jiang's lies. They harbor bad thoughts or even hatred in their hearts, or they have unwittingly helped to carry out the persecution.
We have gathered below a small number of such cases in Sichuan Province. From these cases, we can clearly see the scope and severity of the karmic retribution.
Case 1: Li Chaohong, 31, was an official of the No. 5 Division at Anquan Village in Wukou Township, Miyi County. In order to seek promotion, Li Chaohong and Gao Shengquan have turned many Falun Dafa practitioners in to the authorities for arrest, detention, and forced labor. One night in April 2002, Li suddenly died.
Case 2: Wu Fugang, was deputy director of Longping Police Station in Panzhihua City. On October 2, 2002, he cursed Falun Gong's founder in front of practitioners. A practitioner tried to persuade him to stop, telling him that it was not good for him to do that. Wu retorted, "I bet that I'll outlive you, old woman." The practitioner said, "For your sake, I'm not going to bet with you." Around 3:00 p.m. on November 19, 2002, Wu smashed the car he was driving into a tollbooth and died on the spot.
Case 3: Yang Hua, was former chief of the Panzhihua City Police Department in Sichuan Province. Yang persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners since the suppression started on July 20, 1999. In the following five years, he arrested one group of practitioners after another. Many of them were detained, sent to labor camps, or sentenced to prison. Throughout these years, practitioners tried everything they could to clarify the truth to him and asked him to treat those who held up their beliefs in "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" with kindness. He said instead, "I had surgery in 2000. Whatever retribution there is, I have met it. I've got nothing to be afraid of." He even claimed that he lived for the persecution of Falun Gong. In July 2004, he was detained for negligence as well as taking bribes. After he was removed from his post, Yang Hua was sentenced to four years in prison.
Case 4: He Ping was the head of the security department at the Chengdu Iron and Steel Company Ltd. of the Panzhihua Steel Group (formerly named Seamless Stainless Steel Pipe Factory). He was actively engaged in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by expelling them from the factory, coercing them into signing the "Guarantee Statements," withholding their salaries and even withholding pensions from retirees. He was removed from his job after the theft of raw steel material from the factory was discovered.
Case 5: Chai Faxiang was a member of the political security section of Miyi County Police Department in Panzhihua City. Chai was known for his cruelty in beating Falun Gong practitioners. Over a hundred practitioners suffered from his brutality. In December 2000, Chai doused cold water on Hu Xinyu on a cold winter day. Hu, from Shuitang Village in Panlian Tonw, was over seventy years old. Chai then turned on two fans to blow cold air all over him. Chai also took 800 yuan from Hu during the body search. In November 2002, Chai twisted three pieces of bamboo strips and whipped Falun Gong practitioner Zhu Zhaojie until Zue was beaten to a bloody pulp. Two days after this beating, Chao Faxiang died from a sudden illness.
Case 6: Tang Wen, was former director of Dadukou Police Statin in Panzhihua City, and was later transferred to the Xiangyangcun Police Station. As the director of the Dadukou Police Station, Tang was actively involved in the suppression of Falun Gong. He cursed Falun Gong's founder, arrested practitioners, and conducted surveillance of them. Around March 2001, Tang hit the wall of Liangfengau Channel in Panzhihua City while driving alone and died on the spot.
Case 7: Li Hai, was the former chief of the Meishan City Police Department in Sichuan Province. He was later transferred to be the head of Ya'an City Police Department. Li led officers to arrest practitioners and ransack their homes. After three car accidents, Li still showed no remorse. On the evening of February 22, 2004, Li committed suicide by jumping from the Ya'an City Police Department building.
Some people do not believe in karmic retribution or fate, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. When someone has committed too much wrongdoing, there is no escape from karmic retribution. Sometimes, there is not even a chance for him to repent. It is really quite tragic. Since this persecution concerns everyone, it is one's own responsibility to learn the truth. Knowing the truth is indeed a blessing.
The fates of all of the perpetrators who have committed crimes against Falun Dafa and its practitioners over the past five long years will depend on choices they have made for themselves. Confronted by the heavenly principle that "good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will bring karmic retribution," the officials in China participating in the persecution should heed the warning signs and reverse their course.
Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.
December 6, 2004
The following is an excerpt of the "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004"
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
February 28, 2005
The People's Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which, as specified in its Constitution, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP or Party) is the paramount source of power. Party members hold almost all top government, police, and military positions. Ultimate authority rests with the 24-member political bureau (Politburo) of the CCP and its 9-member standing committee. Leaders made a top priority of maintaining stability and social order and were committed to perpetuating the rule of the CCP. Citizens lacked the freedom to express opposition to the Party-led political system and the right to change their national leaders or form of government.
The Government's human rights record remained poor, and the Government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses. Citizens did not have the right to change their government, and many who openly expressed dissenting political views were harassed, detained, or imprisoned, particularly in a campaign late in the year against writers, religious activists, dissidents, and petitioners to the Central Government. Authorities were quick to suppress religious, political, and social groups that they perceived as threatening to government authority or national stability, especially before sensitive dates such as the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and other significant political and religious occasions.
Abuses included instances of extrajudicial killings; torture and mistreatment of prisoners, leading to numerous deaths in custody; coerced confessions; arbitrary arrest and detention; and incommunicado detention. The judiciary was not independent, and the lack of due process remained a serious problem. 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. Government pressure continued to make it difficult for lawyers to represent criminal defendants. The authorities routinely violated legal protections in the cases of political dissidents and religious figures. They generally attached higher priority to suppressing political opposition and maintaining public order than to enforcing legal norms or protecting individual rights. According to 2003 government statistics, more than 250,000 persons were serving sentences in "reeducation-through-labor" camps and other forms of administrative detention not subject to judicial review. Other experts reported that more than 310,000 persons were serving sentences in these camps in 2003.
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 Government regulated the establishment and management of publications, controlled broadcast and other electronic media, censored some foreign television broadcasts, and jammed some radio signals from abroad. During the year, publications were closed and otherwise disciplined for publishing material deemed objectionable by the Government, and journalists, authors, academics, Internet writers, and researchers were harassed, detained, and arrested by the authorities. Although the scope of permissible private speech has continued to expand in recent years, the Government continued and intensified efforts to monitor and control use of the Internet and other wireless technology, including cellular phones, pagers, and instant messaging devices. During the year, the Government blocked many websites, began monitoring text messages sent by mobile phones, and pressured Internet companies to censor objectionable content. NGOs reported that 43 journalists were imprisoned at year's end.
While the number of religious believers in the country continued to grow, the Government's record on respect for religious freedom remained poor, and repression of members of unregistered religious groups increased in some parts of the country. Members of unregistered Protestant and Catholic congregations experienced ongoing and, in some cases, increased official interference, harassment, and repression. Government officials increased vigilance against "foreign infiltration under the guise of religion." The Government detained and prosecuted a number of underground religious figures in both the Protestant and Catholic Church.
The extent of religious freedom varied significantly from place to place. The Government continued to enforce regulations requiring all places of religious activity to register with the Government. Many provincial authorities required groups seeking to register to come under the supervision of official, "patriotic" religious organizations. Religious worship in many officially registered churches, temples, and mosques occurred without interference, but unregistered churches in some areas were destroyed, religious services were broken up, and church leaders and adherents were harassed, detained, or beaten. At year's end, scores of religious adherents remained in prison because of their religious activities. No visible progress was made in normalizing relations between the official Patriotic Catholic Church and Papal authorities, although both the Government and the Vatican stated that they were ready to resume negotiations aimed at establishing diplomatic relations. The Government continued its crackdown against the Falun Gong spiritual movement, and tens of thousands of practitioners remained incarcerated in prisons, extrajudicial reeducation-through-labor camps, and psychiatric facilities. 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.
The Government did not permit independent domestic NGOs to monitor human rights conditions. However, in September, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Beijing, Sichuan, and the TAR and toured 10 detention facilities. Although the Government extended invitations to the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Torture and the U.N. Special Rapporteur for Religious Intolerance, those visits did not occur by year's end. The Government also extended an invitation to the leaders of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, but the visit did not occur due to restrictive conditions that the Government placed on the visit. In December, the Government postponed a planned seminar by the Organization for Economic Cooperation on Socially Responsible Investment, which resulted in the cancellation of a visit by the OECD's Trade Union Advisory Council to discuss labor issues.
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
During the year, politically motivated and other arbitrary and unlawful killings occurred. 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. Some groups based abroad estimated that as many as 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of official persecution.
Since the crackdown on Falun Gong began in 1999, several hundred Falun Gong adherents reportedly died in custody due to torture, abuse, and neglect. During the year, the Government arrested Falun Gong members and formally charged them with manufacturing claims that they were tortured.
During the year, there were reports of persons, including Falun Gong adherents, sentenced to psychiatric hospitals for expressing their political or religious beliefs. Some reportedly were forced to undergo electric shock treatments.
Petitioners and other activists sentenced to administrative detention also reported being tortured. Such reports included being strapped to beds or other devices for days at a time, being beaten, being forcibly injected or fed medications, and being denied food and use of toilet facilities.
The Government generally did not permit independent monitoring of prisons or reeducation-through-labor camps, and prisoners remained inaccessible to most international human rights organizations. By year's end, the Government had not announced any progress in talks with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on an agreement for ICRC access to prisons, although there were several rounds of consultations between the ICRC and the Government about allowing the ICRC to open an office in Beijing
Arbitrary arrest and detention remained serious problems. The law permits authorities, in some circumstances, to detain persons without arresting or charging them, and persons may be sentenced administratively to up to 3 years in reeducation through-labor camps and other administrative detention facilities without a trial. Because the Government tightly controlled information, it was impossible to determine the total number of persons subjected to new or continued arbitrary arrest or detention. According to 2003 official government statistics, more than 250,000 persons were in reeducation-through-labor camps. Other experts reported that more than 310,000 persons were serving sentences in these camps in 2003. According to published reports of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the country's 340 reeducation-through-labor facilities had a total capacity of about 300,000 people. In addition, special administrative detention facilities existed for drug offenders and prostitutes. In 2002, these facilities held over 130,000 offenders, and the number reportedly has increased. An additional form of administrative detention for migrants and homeless persons, known as custody and repatriation, was abolished in 2003 and converted into a system of over 900 voluntary humanitarian aid shelters. According to official statistics, those facilities had served more than 670,000 people from August 1, 2003 to November 30, 2004. The Government also confined some Falun Gong adherents, petitioners, labor activists, and others to psychiatric hospitals.
Extended, unlawful detention by security officials remained a serious problem. The SPP reported that from 1998 through 2002 there were 308,182 persons detained for periods longer than permitted by law.
A special form of reeducation center was used to detain Falun Gong practitioners who had completed terms in reeducation through labor, but whom authorities decided to detain further.
According to foreign researchers, the country had 20 "ankang" institutions (high-security psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane) directly administered by the Ministry of Public Security. Some dissidents, persistent petitioners, and others were housed with mentally ill patients in these institutions. "Patients" in these hospitals were reportedly given medicine against their will and forcibly subjected to electric shock treatment. The regulations for committing a person into an ankang facility were not clear. Credible reports indicated that a number of political and trade union activists, "underground" religious believers, persons who repeatedly petitioned the Government, members of the banned China Democratic Party, and Falun Gong adherents were incarcerated in such facilities during the year
Since the Government banned the Falun Gong spiritual group in 1999, criminal proceedings involving accused Falun Gong activists were held almost entirely outside the formal court system. In December, a Beijing attorney sent an open letter to the National People's Congress highlighting issues of arbitrary detention and unlawful process in cases involving Falun Gong. The letter focused on the April detention and subsequent administrative sentencing of his client, Huang Wei of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, who was released in 2002 from a 3-year reeducation sentence for Falun Gong activities. On April 13, Huang was detained again, his home was searched, and a security official signed Huang's name on a confession, according to the open letter. Huang was sentenced on June 3 to three more years of reeducation in connection with Falun Gong. When Huang tried to sue the Government in protest, his attorney was denied permission to see his client. According to the letter, court and prison authorities told the attorney that only the 610 Office of the Ministry of Justice could address Falun Gong matters. In the process, the letter described how judges explained that courts are under strict orders not to accept Falun Gong cases and that, in such cases, the courts do not follow normal pretrial procedures. The attorney's letter concluded that such treatment of accused Falun Gong adherents was unlawful.
During the year, authorities monitored telephone conversations, facsimile transmissions, e-mail, text-messaging, and Internet communications. Authorities also opened and censored domestic and international mail. The security services routinely monitored and entered residences and offices to gain access to computers, telephones, and fax machines. All major hotels had a sizable internal security presence, and hotel guestrooms were sometimes bugged and searched for sensitive or proprietary materials.
The Constitution states that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are fundamental rights to be enjoyed by all citizens; however, the Government tightly restricted these rights in practice. The Government interpreted the Party's "leading role," as mandated in the preamble to the Constitution, as circumscribing these rights. The Government continued to threaten, arrest, and imprison many individuals for exercising free speech. A wave of detentions late in the year appeared to signal a new campaign against writers. Internet essayists in particular were targeted. The Government strictly regulated the establishment and management of publications. The Government did not permit citizens to publish or broadcast criticisms of senior leaders or opinions that directly challenged Communist Party rule. The Party and Government continued to control print, broadcast, and electronic media tightly and used them to propagate Government views and Party ideology. All media employees were under explicit, public orders to follow CCP directives and "guide public opinion," as directed by political authorities. Formal and informal guidelines continued to require journalists to avoid coverage of many politically sensitive topics. These public orders, guidelines, and statutes greatly restricted the freedom of broadcast journalists and newspapers to report the news and led to a high degree of self-censorship. The Government continued an intense propaganda campaign against the Falun Gong.
The country's Internet control system employed more than 30,000 persons and was allegedly the largest in the world. According to a 2002 Harvard University report, the Government blocked at least 19,000 sites during a 6-month period and may have blocked as many as 50,000. At times, the Government blocked the sites of some major foreign news organizations, health organizations, educational institutions, Taiwanese and Tibetan businesses and organizations, religious and spiritual organizations, democracy activists, and sites discussing the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The number of blocked sites appeared to increase around major political events and sensitive dates. The authorities reportedly began to employ more sophisticated technology enabling the selective blocking of specific content rather than entire websites in some cases. Such technology was also used to block e-mails containing sensitive content. The Government generally did not prosecute citizens who received dissident e mail publications, but forwarding such messages to others sometimes did result in detention. Internet usage reportedly was monitored at all terminals in public libraries.
The Government continued to wage a severe political, propaganda, and police campaign against the Falun Gong movement. The sustained government crackdown against the movement, which the Government banned in 1999, continued, and there were no reports of public protests during the year. In many cases, Falun Gong practitioners were subject to close scrutiny by local security personnel, and their personal mobility was tightly restricted, particularly at times when the Government believed public protests were likely.
The Constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and the freedom not to believe; however, the Government sought to restrict religious practice to government-sanctioned organizations and registered places of worship and to control the growth and scope of the activity of religious groups. Overall, government respect for religious freedom remained poor, although the extent of religious freedom varied widely within the country. Freedom to participate in officially sanctioned religious activity increased in many areas of the country, but crackdowns against unregistered groups, including underground Protestant and Catholic groups continued and worsened in some locations. The Government continued its repression of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in particular.
Practitioners based abroad reported that the Government's crackdown against the group continued. Since the Government banned the Falun Gong in 1999, the mere belief in the discipline (even without any public manifestation of its tenets) was sufficient grounds for practitioners to receive punishments ranging from loss of employment to imprisonment. Although the vast majority of the tens of thousands of practitioners detained since 1999 have been released, many were detained again after release, and thousands reportedly remained in reeducation-through-labor camps. Those identified by the Government as "core leaders" have been singled out for particularly harsh treatment. More than a dozen Falun Gong members have been sentenced to prison but the great majority of Falun Gong members convicted by the courts since 1999 have been sentenced to prison. Most practitioners, however, were punished administratively. In addition to being sentenced to reeducation through labor, some Falun Gong members were sent to detention facilities specifically established to "rehabilitate" practitioners who refused to recant their belief voluntarily after release from reeducation-through-labor camps. In addition, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners have been confined to mental hospitals.
Police in the past often used excessive force when detaining peaceful Falun Gong protesters. During the year, allegations of abuse of Falun Gong practitioners by the police and other security personnel continued. According to the foreign-based Global Mission to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners, 1,047 Falun Gong practitioners, including children and the elderly, have died since 1997 as a result of official persecution. Other groups based abroad estimated that as many as 2,000 practitioners have died in custody.
As recently as 2003, the Government continued its effort to round up practitioners not already in custody and sanctioned the use of high-pressure tactics and mandatory anti-Falun Gong study sessions to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong. Even practitioners who had not protested or made other public demonstrations of belief reportedly were forced to attend anti-Falun Gong classes or were sent directly to reeducation-through-labor camps, where in some cases, beatings and torture reportedly were used to force them to recant. These tactics reportedly resulted in large numbers of practitioners signing pledges to renounce the movement.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41640.htm
(Clearwisdom.net) From the 21st to 24th of February 2005, an European Union conference was held in Strasbourg, France to discuss the resolutions of the International Human Rights Convention, which will be held in this March. European Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the EU Congress Hall to stage an anti-torture exhibition and an exercise demonstration to remind the EU and the world that the Chinese Communist regime have not let up in their campaign of genocide against Falun Gong. The number of kidnappings, illegal arrests and practitioners killed in this persecution has increased more quickly in recent times. The methods of persecution are various, brutal and savage. The persecution is spreading to other parts of the world: around the Chinese New Year, many practitioners around the world received phone harassment from the Chinese Communist Party. EU should uphold democracy, freedom and human rights and respond to the persecution.
Appeal in the harsh weather
Real-life models re-enacting torture used in China
More than fifty Falun Gong practitioners from France, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark took part in this activity. Although the weather was unusually cold, with wind and snow forcing another protest group to leave the square earlier in the morning, Falun Gong practitioners were not swayed and persisted with their appeal. Practitioners from Paris departed at 1:00 am and arrived at the site at 8:00 am. Many of them were older, but they were very active and did not lag behind the others in displaying banners, distributing leaflets and demonstrating the exercises.
  Photo Displays |
  Group Practice |
Beside the anti-torture exhibition were banners with huge slogans in Chinese, English, French and German, reminding people what is happening in China. The exhibition of photos showed the spread and popularity of Falun Dafa around the world, as well as the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist regime. The attention of passersby was attracted by the Falun Gong exercise demonstration; many people in passing vehicles opened their windows and stretched their hands out to take a leaflet. People visiting the EU lingered in front of the anti-torture exhibition, they talked with practitioners and carefully read the posters about the methods of persecution used. At the end of the afternoon, a passing group of students eagerly stretched their hands out to take leaflets from the practitioners. A gentleman came out of the EU Congress Hall, grabbed the hand of a practitioner playing the role of a torture victim and tried to give her money. The practitioner thanked him and told him that she could not take his donation although she accepted his goodwill, saying the only thing that she wanted was that he supports Falun Gong and calls for justice for the 100 million practitioners who are suffering human rights violations.
Practitioners acting as the torture victims suffered greatly from the cold and shivered from head to foot. One practitioner said: "When she remembered that this has been happening to practitioners in Mainland China every day for almost six years, she finds the cold easier to bear and realises the importance of this activity to raise awareness and call for an end to these human rights atrocities.
German practitioner Wei Xiong, who was detained in Beijing for two years, also came to the site to expose the persecution to EU officials with her personal experience.
Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200503/25175.html
(Clearwisdom.net) Saturday the 26th of February began as a nice, sunny day, and practitioners of Falun Gong visited Pezinok city and held an activity on Radnicne Square to call for public attention to the persecution against Falun Gong, which has continued for almost six years. Documented evidence details the killing of 1,379 practitioners, although Chinese Government estimates put the unofficial figure close to 10,000.
The Pezinok people were interested and wanted to find out more about both the Falun Gong practice and the brutal human rights violations happening in China. They asked a lot of questions and signed their names on a petition calling for an end to the persecution.
The Mayor of the city, Mr. Oliver Solga, personally visited the site to greet practitioners and sign the petition. He expressed his wish to welcome Falun Gong appeals in other busier locations in the city where even more people could get a chance to find out what is happening to practitioners in China.
In the evening there was a Far East Film Festival in Pezinok, which the practitioners visited to demonstrate the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and raise awareness of the persecution.
Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200503/25177.html
(Clearwisdom.net) Before the February 28 Peace Memorial Day, Taiwan Falun Gong practitioners held an Anti-Torture Exhibition from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Children's Park in Tantou County's Chungxing Community on Feb 27, 2005. County representatives Lin Yonghong, Jian Pailing, and Mayor Li Chaoqing attended the activity and gave speeches denouncing the Chinese Communist Party's inhuman persecution of Falun Gong. Later, the mayor of Chaotun Town also joined the activity and called on the people to speak out with voices of justice.
Torture Exhibition Re-enactment
The activity had two parts. Inside the park, the theme was the beauty of Falun Dafa. The activities included art performances, music performances, "Journey of Falun Dafa Photo Exhibit," "Uncompromising Courage" art exhibit, and a booth showing visitors how to fold paper lotus flowers. Outside of the park, the Falun Gong practitioners reenacted torture methods used in China jails and labor camps. Three trucks also drove through the surrounding towns and villages to display the brutal tortures going on in China.
  Dance performance |
  Dance performance |
  Making a paper lotus flower |
The weather had been rainy and cloudy for days. Even at 9 a.m. the morning of the activity, the sky was still dark. But after Falun Gong practitioners began to perform on the Waist Drums, the drizzle stopped and gradually the sky cleared and the sun appeared. More and more people came out to the park to enjoy the good weather.
  People sign to support the petition to end the persecution |
  (From right) County representative Lin Yonghong, Jian Peiling, and Nantou City Mayor Li Chaoqing give speeches |
Inside the park, parents played with children, watched the performances and enjoyed the beauty of Falun Dafa. Outside the park, they saw the brutal tortures. People were surprised. After hearing the introduction, they felt the Communist Party was cruel and showed lot sympathy for Mainland Falun Gong practitioners. Many people signed their names to support the petition to end the persecution.
Commemorating practitioners who died in the persecution
At six o'clock in the evening, practitioners gathered in a corner of the park to commemorate the 1,400 Chinese practitioners who have died in the persecution. The one-day-activity ended with solemn and peaceful music.
March 1, 2005 Tuesday
A SYDNEY woman allegedly imprisoned and tortured for eight months in China would be a test case for the Australian court system, the president of a Falun Gong group said yesterday.
Bankstown artist Zhang Cuiying, 42, yesterday launched civil action in the Supreme Court against the 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.
Falun Dafa Association president John Deller said the case was the first of its type in Australia and was an important step towards convicting the former Chinese president.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Persons responsible for persecuting practitioners in Hebei Province:
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xiao Yali was a resident of Dongfa Village in Zhoujiazhen Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. On March 6, 2004, she died in the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center as a result of brutal force-feeding. (Such brutal force-feeding was by no means intended to improve Xiao Yali's health or provide her with food, but rather administered as a method of torture.) Two six-year-old children were left behind. The boy's name is Sun Ri, and the girl's name is Sun Yue. Both children are now living with their grandparents. Ms. Xiao's husband Sun Wancai is in poor physical health and has tuberculosis. He now owes nearly 10,000 yuan in medical expenses.
Photo of Sun Yue and Sun Ri
At around 4 p.m. on February 28, 2004, Li Yuesheng from the Zhoujiazhen Town Government and Guo Fujun from the Zhoujiazhen Town Police Station, together with another five people, went to Ms. Xiao's home and ransacked it. Around 7 p.m. on that day, about eight people went to Ms. Xiao's home again, including the Township Political and Judicial Committee Director Gao Jinpeng, the police station's Deputy Director Bai, and the Township Government officers Hu Zongshen and Li Yuesheng. They arrested Xiao Yali and took her to the police station. They then illegally detained her at the Shuangcheng City Detention Center. At about 6:40 p.m. on March 6, Ms. Xiao's family received a phone call, asking them to bring money to the emergency room to cover Ms. Xiao's "medical expenses," even though she had been very healthy and not ill at all. Ten minutes later the detention center called again, saying it would be fine to come either on that day or on the following day. At that point, Ms. Xiao was already dead. That evening, more than 20 of Ms. Xiao's family members went to the detention center, but they were not allowed to see the body until the following day. There were round scars on Xiao's forehead and swollen areas on the right side of her back. Her hands were badly injured and purple. Her mouth was also severely swollen. It was a horrifying scene! The police wanted to cremate the body immediately, but the 20 plus family members strongly disagreed. On March 13, her body was cremated against the family's wishes. According to a staff member from the detention center, Doctor Wang (his full name might be Wang Shiyuan) from Division 3 of Shuangcheng Hospital was directly involved in the force-feeding.
February 20, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
Ms. Dong Xiuqin was persecuted many times for practicing Falun Dafa. Because of endless harassment by persecutors, her family tried to prevent her from leaving home, but she managed to go out and find opportunities to "clarify the truth." She was pressured into being homeless for an extended period of time. Upon returning home, her family strictly prevented her from going out. As a result of relentless persecution, she became ill again and died in November 2004.
Ms. Dong Xiuqin, around age 50, lived in the Sanjiaoxian, Changyi District, Jilin City, and had a 24-year-old son. Practicing Falun Dafa improved her mind and body. After the persecution of Falun Dafa began in 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal in September and was arrested. After her arrest she was handcuffed and transferred to her hometown, where she was detained and persecuted in a brainwashing center. On October 22 and 23, a month after being detained in the brainwashing center, she was sent to the Jilin Third Detention Center, where she continued to clarify the truth. She was released several months later.
Dong Xiuqin became the focus of persecution by the local neighborhood committee and district police upon coming back home. They frequently harassed her until her family, unable to bear the pressure, locked her up at home. Despite this, she still looked for opportunities to go out and distribute truth clarification materials. She and two other Falun Dafa practitioners went to Jiaohe City to clarify the truth in the fall of 2001. They were reported to the police and one of them was arrested. Under the threat of being arrested, Dong Xiuqin was later forced into homelessness for an extended period of time.
After she returned home, her family restrained her even more strictly. She developed a tumor the size of an egg in her stomach, but it disappeared through studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. Later, another tumor developed in her lower abdomen, preventing her from managing her daily activities. The incision from the operation to remove the tumor did not heal and she suffered from excessive fluid retention. Ultimately, Dong Xiuqin died in November of 2004.
February 20, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) On Friday, December 10, 2004, after three and a half days of continuous torture, Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Ziwei passed away. Mr. Liu had been unlawfully arrested by Baishan City police and sentenced to three years at Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, the notorious "transformation" base in Changchun, Jilin Province.
Liu Ziwei had been on a hunger strike to protest his persecution since his arrest.
Liu Ziwei, 30 years old, was from Baishan City. On December 10, his earthshaking shouts of "Falun Dafa is Good!" echoed throughout Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, shocking all the policemen there.
Around 9:00 p.m. on December 10, Liu Ziwei was sending forth righteous thoughts in the 01 dorm room of the 5th Division in the No.3 building. The guard assigned to monitor Liu Ziwei, Li Kehai, didn't say anything at that time. The dorm monitor Teng Haidong said it was fine as long as he did not make any noise or cause a scene. After a while, the monitor of the newcomers class Wang Pingang came in and ordered Li Kehai, Xu Gang and Teng Haidong to force Liu Ziwei down on a bed, so Liu Ziwei started shouting "Falun Dafa is Good!" to resist them. In order to silence Liu Ziwei, Wang Pingang ordered Xu Gang to gag him with socks and a towel.
At that time, Shen Jiang, Tan Dongyang and Wang Hongsheng were all present. They said, "It is the order from higher officers that Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to do the exercises. If you have a problem with this, you should talk to the officers tomorrow, and we have plenty of methods to deal with you." Wang Hongsheng suggested that they put Liu Ziwei in solitary compartment. Then the policeman on duty Mao Chen came in with handcuffs. He said, "Didn't you shout? Didn't you make noise? I am going to jail you in the solitary compartment. The Communist Party has a lot of ways to deal with you. You will be tame after being on the "Big Hang Up" (Note: There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames; (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. It feels extremely painful as the body is pulled.). So, Yu Yi, Li Kehai, and Xu Gang dragged Liu Ziwei to the solitary compartment in the 09 dorm room of the 5th Division. Liu Ziwei didn't even have a chance to put his shoes on.
There were five steel cages in 09 dorm room, and each cage has two iron rings on the top of it, which is for the "Big Hang Up." One cannot sit down, since both hands are locked to the iron rings with the handcuffs. One has to hold his hands up all the time, otherwise the iron rings will make the hands swell and turn black. One cannot fall asleep either. This method is used to torture steadfast Falun Gong practitioners. Even a healthy person cannot endure this torture, but Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" when he was too physically weak to stand up by himself. One kindhearted prisoner said, "Mr. Mao, please put him down. Look at how pale Liu Ziwei's hands are." But Mao answered, "It is none of your business. Don't worry, he won't die." So nobody else dared to say anything. (The "610 Office" passed the order issued by Jiang Zemin to the labor camp, "Defame their [Falun Gong practitioners'] reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically." and "When practitioners are killed, their deaths will be counted as suicides.") Mao ordered prisoner Liu Zhengwei to find bamboo chopsticks to force open Liu Ziwei's mouth. Liu Zhengwei told people, "This is the order from Mao Chen: 'In order to stop Liu Ziwei from shouting, open his mouth with chopsticks and insert something in it.'" Mao Chen and prisoners pried open Liu Ziwei's mouth, causing it to bleed in the process, and then gagged his mouth with a towel and dirty socks.
The monitors on duty from 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on December 10 were Li Kehai and Xu Gang, the ones from 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. on December 11 were Fu Lianhe and Zhong Hua, and the ones from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on December 11 were Sun Zhenhai and Tan Dongyang. The prison doctor Li Fei came to the 5th Division at 8:00 a.m. on December 11. He tried to insert a rubber tube into Liu Ziwei's mouth to force-feed him. Liu Ziwei refused to open his mouth, so Li Fei pried his mouth open with a stick, which injured his teeth and gums. They force-fed Liu Ziwei with corn gruel with a lot of salt added. The purpose of putting extra salt in the gruel is to make the victim thirsty, therefore the person would drink a lot of water and eat food, thus breaking their hunger strike. After the force-feeding, Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" again. Mao Chen claimed, "You will be released as soon as you start eating. No eating, no release." Around 10:00 a.m., the head of the labor camp, Wang Xiaoming came to the solitary compartment to talk to Liu Ziwei. The monitor on duty Sun Zhenhai was ordered to leave the room. After being hung up for the whole day, Liu Ziwei talked with the monitor on duty at 8:00 p.m., Zhang Wei, and he released Liu Ziwei from the "Big Hang Up."
After breakfast on the morning of December 12, Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" again. Liu Ziwei was very weak and could not stand anymore, but the monitors still hung him up. Fu Lianhe and Sun Zhenhai dragged Liu Ziwei to the surveillance room to force-feed him. The monitor on duty on the night of December 12 was Shang. Around 10:00 p.m., Tan Dongyang released Liu Ziwei for dinner.
At 8:00 a.m. on December 13, Liu Ziwei was put on a bed in the 01 dorm room. The monitors gave him some daily necessities such as toothpaste and a brush, because they heard that Liu Ziwei's family was going to visit him that day.
His family did come to visit him that day. After dinner, his family saw Fu Lianhe and Li Kehai drag Liu Ziwei to the bathroom. Liu Ziwei did not have any strength and his head hung down over his chest. Around 6:00 p.m., Sun Qunying went into the 01 dorm room and saw Liu Ziwei lying on the bed. Fu Lianhe and Li Kehai were prodding his lower back with their feet. Fu and Li claimed that Liu Ziwei was pretending, and said to him, "If you don't move, your muscles will atrophy, and you won't be able to walk later." The team leaders on duty on December 13, He Jianxin and Wang also cursed at Liu Ziwei, accusing him of pretending to be weak.
Around 10:30 p.m. on December 13, Liu Ziwei died in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp.
Yang Quanguo was on duty. When he reported to He Jianxin, He Jianxin still thought Liu Ziwei was pretending. When he found that Liu Ziwei was not breathing, he called the prison doctor Li Fei. Li Fei inserted some heart attack pills into Liu's mouth and said, "Tell people he died of a heart attack when they ask."
Around 10:40 p.m., the monitor of the 2nd Class in the 5th Division Wang Yadong carried Liu Ziwei away. He Jianxin lied, saying that they took Liu to the emergency room. Around midnight, they came back without Liu Ziwei. Then policeman Wang told Yang Quanguo to destroy all the duty records and make up some fake ones. The people who were involved in creating the fake records were Teng Haidong, Tan Dongyang, Fu Lianhe, Li Kehai, Liu Zhengwei, Wang Pingang and other monitors. They worked on it until the next morning.
Around 10:00 a.m. on December 14, several people from the labor camp sawed off the iron rings on the steel cage in the solitary compartment to eliminate the evidence of their crime. All the witnesses that the investigator from the Judicial Bureau talked to were prisoners, and they provided false testimony. The Bureau did not dare to talk to Falun Gang practitioners to find out the truth. Finally they concluded that Liu Ziwei died due to a heart attack and claimed that it was a result of natural causes.
Liu Ziwei's death also proved what Gao Zhilu, the division leader of the 4th Division, said, "The government proclaimed labor camps are free of any legal responsibility if prisoners die in them. If someone was beaten to death in the labor camp, then we will find some prisoners to give the false testimony, burn the dead body, and then everything will be fine. The Communist Party will not have any legal responsibility and they have a lot of methods to deal with you. We are free to beat you to death. You will not find justice anywhere."
List of persons who are responsible for Liu Ziwei's death:
(Note: For home or office phone numbers, dial country code + area code before all numbers. For cell phone numbers, dial country code before the numbers. Country code: 86, area code:431)
The 5th Division: The monitor of the first class Wang Pingang, monitors on duty Teng Haidong and Shen Jiang. Other monitors: Tan Dongyang, Li Kehai, Sun Zhenhai, Xu Gang, Fu Lianhe, Zhong Hua. (currently, Fu Lianhe, Wang Pingang, Teng Haidong, Tan Dongyang and Shen Jiang are in the 5th Division. Xu Gang and Li Kehai work in the cafeteria. Sun Zhenhai and Zhong Hua are in the 4th Division.)
Policemen from the 5th Division
Division head Zhu Dechun, Team head He Jiangxin 13500882150(Cell)
Policemen: Mao Chen, Zhang Wei 13944009133(Cell)
Prison Doctor: Li Fei
Director of the labor camp: Wang Xiaoming
Address of Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp: Chaoyanggou, Changchun City, Jilin
Province, 130000
Phone number of switchboard of the camp: 4835680
Phone number of director office: 4835680-8001 4835680-8002
Changchun City Labor Camp Inspection Section Phone number: 4666751-3418
Labor Camp Inspection Office in Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp: Gao Jinqing, Liu
Hongyin 4835680-607
Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp director's office phone number: 4833900
Extension: Director's office : 4835680-8001, -8111
Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp reception office: 4835680
Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp Director office: 4839135
Vice Director Office: 4835680-8003, 8004
Political Head Office: 4835680-8002
Disciplinary Inspection Office: 4835680-8005
Management Section Office: 4835680-8090 Management Section Chief Office:
4835680-8091; 8095
Labor Camp Office Director: 8080
Vice Director: 4835680-8081, 8082
Phone number of each division:
Division head of the 1st division: 8011 police office: 8012
Division head of the 2nd division: 8021 police office: 8022
Division head of the 3rd division: 8031 police office: 8032
Division head of the 4th division: 8041 police office: 8042
Division head of the 5th division: 8051 police office: 8052
Division head of the 6th division: 8061 police office: 8062
Division head of the 7th division: 8071 police office: 8072
Disciplinary Inspection office of Jilin Provincial Department of Justice:
2750196
Changchun City Labor Camp Bureau: 2799874
Changchun City Bureau of Justice: 8692170
Director: Li Lin 5805858(Office)
Deputy Director: Lang Lin 5805865(Office);13804326844(Cell)
Yu Guilan: 5805859(Office)
Zheng Sikuan: 5805855(Office)
Liu Hanxing: 5805869(Office)
Ge Baoquan: 5805825(Office)
Liu Ximing: 5805818(Office)
Zhang Jianhua: 5805881
Jilin Province Political and Judiciary Committee: 8942508, Jilin Province 610 Office: 8904870
(Clearwisdom.net) The Nanpiao area, Huludao City, Liaoning province: on July 2, 2004, Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Liang was unlawfully arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. He is detained at the Huludao Forced Labor Camp, where he has been on a hunger strike to protest his unjust detention for more than 200 days. He is suffering from painful forced feeding. His condition is very serious. The policemen there still won't release him. We are calling on everyone to please help him.
Zhao Liang is suffering inhuman persecution once again, simply for steadfastly persisting in his practice of Falun Gong
Mr. Zhao Liang, 27 years old, lived in Anchangxian village, Nuanchitang town, Nanpiao area. Since he persists in upholding the dignity of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" in the face of persecution, he has been subjected time and again to inhumane torture at the hands of police officers, who carry out the orders of the Communist Party's leaders. On June 22, 2004, the Bohai Police Station and officers Sang Guohua, Liu Xuibin, and Sun Wanwen from the Nuanchitang Police Station once again arrested Mr. Zhao, his mother Ms. Qi Chaoying, and his brother Mr. Zhao Ming after they had been forced into homelessness for 2 years in an attempt to avoid recapture and torture.
In the detention center, Liu Junke (who lived in Xingcheng, and whose badge number is 950994) instigated convicted murderer Tong Longyong and criminal Wang Jingtian and others, including another prisoner, to persecute Mr. Zhao by beating him, pinching his arm muscles, tightly squeezing his testicles, and other forms of torture.
On July 2, 2004, Mr. Zhao Liang and Mr. Zhao Ming were sentenced to 3 years in a forced labor camp. They were sent to the Huludao Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Zhao Liang has been on a continuous hunger strike for 200 some days. He is still suffering force-feeding, and his condition is critical.
The difficulty Mr. Zhao Liang and his family have met with in the past several years
The Zhao family consists of five adults who practice Falun Gong: the father Mr. Zhao Hongben, the mother Ms. Qi Chaoying, the elder son Mr. Zhao Ming, the daughter-in-law Ms. Yang Hongxia, and the younger son Mr. Zhao Liang. This is a family with a long history of suffering from painful illness and quarrelling with each other. After practicing Falun Gong, however, the whole family became healthy and harmonious. In July 1999, Falun Gong was banned in China. As of January 2004, this five-member family had been illegally taken into custody 55 times. Altogether, they have been detained in forced labor camps for a total of 9 years. Mr. Zhao Liang has been tortured to the brink of death twice.
The Zhao family's possessions have been confiscated, as they were fined until they had nothing left. Even after all of this repeated persecution, Sang Guohua at the Nuanchitang Police Dept still harassed and threatened them. The whole family was forced to live a homeless, vagrant life to avoid this harassment.
During the 2005 Chinese New Year, millions of families got together to celebrate. Meanwhile, Mr. Zhao's mother Qi Chaoying and his sister-in-law Ms. Yang Hongxia were being tortured at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Zhao Ming was just released after almost having been tortured to death. His father, Mr. Zhao Hongben, an older gentleman, has also been persecuted and his whereabouts are unknown. The eleven year-old granddaughter has to stay with her grandmother, who is the only person available to care for her.
Relevant names and phone numbers:
Chief of City Judicial Department, Shao Shouhua: 86-429-3160055 (Home), 86-13842970888 (Cell)
Huludao city labor camp partial phone list:
Director, Yang Haiyan: 86-429-3128836 (Home), 86-13604290658 (Cell)
Political Commissar, Wu Shushan: 86-429-3126312 (Home), 86-13998908533 (Cell)
Deputy Director, Feng Jichun: 86-429-3961555 (Home), 86-13009294692 (Cell)
Deputy Director, Wang Shuxiang: 86-429-3960958 (Home), 86-13304291662 (Cell)
Deputy Director, Pang Guodong: 86-429-3998033 (Home), 86-13942988577 (Cell)
Deputy Director, Yang Shiwei: 86-429-2129999 (Home), 86-13188530001 (Cell)
Chief of team in charge of persecuting Falun Gong Liu Guohua: 86-429-3960996
(Home), 86-13352399697 (Cell)
Teacher, Song Yunbin: 86-429-2132658 (Home), 86-13352394866 (Cell)
Deputy Team Leader, Qi Zhiping: 86-429-3960727 (Home), 86-13998960668 (Cell)
Fan Yongjie: 86-429-2137692 (Home), 86-13050989626 (Cell)
Zhao Kuiyu: 86-429-2103798 (Home), 86-13842944499 (Cell)
Li Jian: 86-13309894655 (Cell)
Team leader Wang Yongming: 86-429-3960738 (Home), 86-13898960189 (Cell)
Teacher Song Yunbin: 86-429-2132658 (Home), 86-13352390539 (Cell)
Other responsible persons:
The Nanpiao Police Department:
Chief Li Wenzhang: 86-429-4196001 (Office), 86-429-8231199 (Home),
86-13309896818 (Cell)
Political Commissar Lu Hao: 86-429-4192451 (Office), 86-429-2173088 (Home),
86-13842938666 (Cell)
Deputy Chief Sun Fengchen: 86-429-4190875 (Office), 86-429-4192686 (Home),
86-13082247555 (Cell)
The Nuanchitang Town, Nanpiao Area, Police Department:
Chief Zhang Zhi: 86-429-4193219 (Home), 86-13052661171 (Cell)
Supervisor Sang Guohua: 86-429-2909371 (Home), 86-13052661172 (Cell)
Inside worker Liu Xuebin
February 18, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Liang Zhongbin was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor for practicing Falun Gong. After his daughter Ms. Liang Hongguang died because of the persecution, the family was constantly harassed and kept from doing the Falun Gong exercises and studying the teachings. As a result, Mr. Liang's old illnesses reappeared and he died on August 31, 2004.
Mr. Liang Zhongbin was 66 years old. He was a resident of Bushang Village, Qiaotou Town, Weihai City. Because he suffered from many afflictions, he began to practice Falun Gong to improve his health. After practicing for some time, Mr. Liang regained his health. In the fall of 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. For that, the authorities detained him in Weihai Detention Center without due cause. He was then sentenced to 3 years of forced labor. Medical tests showed him to be seriously ill, and he was granted early medical release.
In 2000, the police came to Mr. Ling's home frequently to intimidate and harass him. Mr. Liang and his wife were forced leave home and go from place to place to avoid further persecution. They did not return home until they heard that their daughter, practitioner Liang Hongguang, had died because of the persecution.
Ms. Liang Hongguang, 42, worked on the first floor of the Jixing Market in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. She was recognized and awarded the "Outstanding Service Person" award for several years in a row. She was much admired and praised by her colleagues, friends, supervisors and family members.
On February 27, 2003, at around 7:00 a.m., during the "Two Party Meetings," as Ms. Liang Hongguang was preparing to leave for work, two police officers from Rongcheng City Police Department came to her office to arrest her without due cause. Liang Hongguang tried to escape from the restroom window. Unfortunately, she was injured in the process and died two hours later.
After Ms. Liang's death, police from Weihai City's 610 Office and Qiaotou Police Station often went to Mr. Liang's home to harass him and to try to make him renounce Falun Gong. The prolonged mental duress prevented Mr. Liang from studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. His illnesses reappeared, and he died at 3 p.m. on August 31, 2004.
02/26/2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Li Zhiyong, a staff member at the canteen of the Changchun City Industry and Commerce Bank, was sentenced to four years in jail on fabricated charges after he was arrested. He was detained and persecuted for 21 months by the authorities and sent to Jilin Prison for further persecution on December 16, 2003. There, he was forced to do slave labor, making fake brand-name clothing. As a result of the abuse he suffered, he developed extreme edema. Instead of releasing him, the prison authorities deceived him and his family. Consequently, his edema spread all over, leading to difficulties in breathing and walking.
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Twenty six year-old Li Zhiyong suffers heart effusion, ascites, and proteinuria. His family doesn't have the money for treatment.
Many Dafa practitioners in Jilin Prison developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Some practitioners have been crippled. However, instead of releasing them on bail for medical treatment, the prison authorities tried to force them to give up cultivation by brainwashing and torture. Practitioners Liu Chengjun, Wei Xiushan, and Zhang Jianhua were persecuted to death in Jilin Prison.
Mr. Li Zhiyong was born on June 12, 1978, and previously worked in the canteen at the Changchun City Industry and Commerce Bank. Cultivating Falun Gong since 1995, he has strictly followed the standards of a cultivator. He worked hard without complaints. His good conduct at work was praised by employees across the entire bank.
On the morning of March 11, 2002, while on duty, Li Zhiyong was arrested by police from the Liyuan District Police Department and Chengxi Township Police Station, and taken to the Chengxi Township Police Station. There he was tortured and interrogated continually for two days. Afterward, he was sent to the Changchun City No. 1 Detention Center. After being detained for 21 months, he was sentenced to four years in jail on fabricated charges and sent to Jilin Prison.
In Jilin Prison, the guards did not allow Li Zhiyong to speak with any other Dafa practitioners. He was monitored even when he used the restroom. Moreover, guard Wang Yuanchun brainwashed him daily. Since Li Zhiyong did not write the three statements required by guards, he was regarded as resisting "transformation" and deprived of the right to see his family members, as were many Dafa practitioners in Jilin Prison.
Li Zhiyong developed severe edema due to overwork. He was sent to the prison hospital on May 18, 2004. Later he was sent to Jilin City Central Hospital since his medical condition was serious. During this period of time his family members went to the hospital to visit him, but they were refused entry.
Although he suffered from severe edema, he was handcuffed to the bed. This aggravated his illness.
To reduce costs, the prison authorities transferred Li Zhiyong to the Jilin City Railway Central Hospital after he stayed in the Central Hospital for seven days. The doctor requested permission to apply hormones to alleviate his illness. Since the side effect of the hormones is serious, it was required that Li Zhiyong or his family members authorize the treatment. Since the prison authorities did not allow Li Zhiyong to see his family members, they had to ask Li Zhiyong to sign, but he refused. Under such circumstances, the prison authorities had no choice but to allow his family to visit him so that they could sign. After he stayed in the hospital for more than a month, his health did not improve. To save money, the prison authorities brought him back to the prison.
In the prison hospital, the equipment and conditions are substandard. The Railway Central Hospital told him to take the hormone on an empty stomach in the morning every day without interruption. In the prison hospital, the inmates dispense medicine and injections. They did not follow the doctor's advice and dispensed the medicine after breakfast. When the medicine ran out, they did not reorder in time, so the treatment was sometimes interrupted. Li's illness became more serious. One time when the hospital chief inspected the ward, he heard Li Zhiyong coughing repeatedly. Li Zhiyong was found to have pleurisy. However the hospital concealed the diagnoses from Li Zhiyong.
Later, the doctor informed Li Zhiyong's family that his illness was very serious and the prison hospital's facilities were limited. His life would be in danger if he did not receive treatment outside of the prison soon. Consequently the prison had to send him to the Railway Central Hospital on September 9. The prison feared that his family would appeal to higher authorities and did not want to spend more money. Therefore they had to agree to officially release him on bail for medical treatment. His registered permanent address is Changchun City, while his parents live in Yitong City. Yitong City's authorities refused to accept responsibility for Li, so his release was overturned. His family found guard Zhang Heng, who was in charge of releasing people on bail for medical treatment, and said to him: "Li Zhiyong's life is in danger. He will die if he is not released." Zhang Heng answered: "We have done what we could. His not being accepted has nothing to do with us. It is useless for you to appeal. What's more, it is easy for someone to die in the prison."
His family reported this conversation, the tactics used by guard Wang Yuanchun when trying to "transform" him, the serious illness resulting from overtime labor, his untimely treatment, and his aggravated illness in the prison hospital to the Jilin Province Judicial Department and the Prison Administration Bureau, as well as the procuratorate. Finally, Li Zhiyong was sent home on October 13.
Since Jilin Prison failed to treat or release him in a timely manner, Li Zhiyong was extremely weak and his health continually worsened. He has edema all over, trouble breathing, difficulty walking, and cannot take care of himself.
At present, 26-year-old Li Zhiyong suffers heart effusion, ascites, and proteinuria. His family cannot afford to pay for his treatment. The responsible parties for this are the leaders of Jilin Province, the prison hospital, guard Wang Yuanchun, and Li Yongsheng from the Education Section.
Related phone numbers:
(Note: dial country code + area code before all numbers below except cell phones. Country code: 86, area code: 432)
Address of Jilin Prison: 100 Junmin Road, Jilin City, Jilin Province,132012,
China
Mailing address of Jilin Prison: P. O. Box 315, Jilin City, Jilin Province
132012, China
Switchboards: 4.881551
Prison Political Section: 2409418
Procuratorate based in prison: 4881515
Fax: 4881559
Secretary section: 4881559
Warden of Jilin Prison: Li Qiang
Incumbent political commissar: Liu Wei
Incumbent chief of Education Section: Li Zhuang
Staff of Education Section: Li Yongsheng, Wang Yuanchun
Jilin Province Prison Administration Bureau
(Note: dial country code + area code before all numbers below except cell
phones. Country code: 86, area code: 431)
Director: Li Wencai (concurrent post) 2750002, 2763556 (Home)
Deputy Director: Zhang Zhensu 2750004, 7919580 (Home)
Deputy Director: Yu Guangsheng 2750005, 8586398 (Home)
Deputy Secretary of Communist Party: 2750006, 2744928 (Home)
Deputy Director: 2750007, 2707063 (Home)
Jilin Province Judiciary Department
Direct: Zhu Guozhi 2750001, 2750020, 8969266 (Home)
Deputy Director: Feng Mingfang 2750199, 2750169, 2700185 (Home)
Deputy Director: Liu Zhenyu 2750185, 2750205, 7630589 (Home)
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(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tian Shuanluo is a farmer from Liuzhai Village, Yangping Town, Baoji County of Shanxi Province. She is 54 years old. Before she took up the practice of Falun Gong, Ms. Tian had many of illnesses, she was frequently bed-ridden and needed to take medicine and receive injections. Ms. Tian lived a very miserable life. In 1998, Ms. Tian started to practice Falun Dafa. Shortly afterwards, all of her illnesses were gone and she became a healthy person. Ms. Tian used to be illiterate, but after she began to practice Falun Dafa, she was amazingly able to read all the Dafa books, including "Zhuan Falun."
During these years in which the Chinese Communist regime has carried out their brutal persecution against Dafa practitioners, Ms. Tian has been arrested several times, and her house has been repeatedly ransacked. She has also been sent to detention centers and jails on several occasions. Once Ms. Tian almost lost her life, but because of her firm belief in Dafa and her righteous thoughts, she never forgot about her important mission in Fa-rectification. Under the merciful protection of our great and honorable Master, Ms. Tian escaped from the evil's den again and again, and she continued to merge into the current of the ongoing Fa-rectification to save sentient beings with her righteous thoughts and actions. This article is based on Ms. Tian's personal story as told to a fellow practitioner, who then wrote it down. The article was originally written on April 8,2004, but went unpublished until now. (It was originally published in Chinese on Minghui.org February 16, 2005.)
In the end of 2004, the police again illegally arrested Ms. Tian while she was preparing truth clarification documents. Ms. Tian is currently being held in the Chencang District Public Security Detention Center, Baoji County, Shanxi Province. More than 20 other practitioners are also being detained there.
I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1998, and I followed the ultimate universal principles of "Zhen-Shan-Ren" (truthfulness, compassion and forbearance) to cultivate myself, to upgrade my xinxing, and to become an even better citizen. Both my physical body and my spirit returned to a healthy state. Whenever I read the book Zhuan Falun, I would notice that each and every character in the book glowed brilliantly. It was Teacher who had saved my life as well as my soul. It was Dafa that made it possible for me to live a new and treasured life. I proclaim from deep down in my heart, "Falun Dafa is good, Zhen-Shan-Ren is good!"
One day in May of 2001, certain officials from the Baoji County 610 Office, along with the police officers Kang Baoshuan and Mr. Yan, suddenly broke into my house. They ransacked every room, emptied all the cabinets and took away my most valuable Dafa books, portraits, cassette tapes, a recorder and several meditation mats. On the 29th of that month, I went to Beijing to appeal against the unlawful house search. In Beijing, I met a policeman and asked him where the appeals office was. The policeman asked me, "Why do you want to go to the appeals office?" I told him that my house was ransacked because practice Falun Gong, and now I had nowhere to live, so I came all the way to Beijing to appeal. I continued to tell the policeman how I had benefited from the practice of Falun Gong and all the miraculous things that had happened to me after I started the practice. The officer said, "Falun Gong is really good, but our government no longer allows it." Then the policeman grabbed me and took me to a small room. In the room, I found that there were already 7 or 8 of my fellow practitioners and they were all handcuffed to a row of chairs.
One female practitioner's face was bleeding due to a physical, but she was nonetheless still patiently clarifying the truth to the police staff members around her. She saw me and said, "Don't cooperate with the evil, and don't yield to the persecution." This practitioner's words woke me up and I became even more steadfast in Dafa. Shortly afterwards, they dragged her away and police officers put water melon rinds on top of our heads and the water melon juice trickled down our necks.
That night, all the practitioners were forcefully transferred to another place. I was thrown into an iron cage with another practitioner. The next day, one police officer came over and asked me where I was from. I remained silent, so they decided to put me into the iron cage again. Seeing as there was already a male inmate inside the cage, I refused go in. Then members of the police staff grabbed me roughly and pushed me inside, locking me in. The police officers shouted to the inmate inside the cage, "Now she's yours, do what you want to her!"
The male inmate tried to assault me, but I resisted. Whenever he grabbed me, I would yell, "Help!" Eventually, the male inmate was taken away. I then began a hunger strike to protest the treatment, and the policemen handcuffed me and hung me up for half a day. Only after I was suffering severe back pain did they release me from the hanging. After they let me down, I could barely stand. Two police officers came over and started to beat my head with bamboo sticks. They also tried to drill into my feet with the sticks. While being subjected to these tortures, I kept clarifying the truth to the police officers. I told them that they should try to be good citizens and that they should treat practitioners well.
One of the policemen said, "I know Falun Gong is good. I know all those who practice Falun Gong are good people. I am going to get a Falun Gong book and learn about it."
Several days later, the police officers told me that they were going to give me some injections. I grabbed onto the metal handrail of the staircase firmly and refused to go. The police officers then started to hit my hands with metal bars and I was forcefully taken to a hospital. The physician at the hospital threatened me and said, "If you don't tell us where you're from, we're going to give you this injection and it'll make you tell us." I started to send forth righteous thoughts in my mind and asked Teacher to protect me. As a result, they didn't give me the injection, and I thanked Teacher from my heart for his protection. They continued to torture me, and finally, I was on the brink of losing my life. They decided to leave me alone and sent me back to the train station with another practitioner. The police had beaten that practitioner until he was bruised all over his body. We helped each other along the way, and many people saw us and asked what had happened; I told them that the police had tortured us simply because we practice Falun Gong.
After I returned to Xi'an city in Shanxi Province, I did the sitting mediation in the train station for more than an hour. I became high-spirited once more. Later on, I visited a fellow practitioner's home and stayed there, continuing to clarify the truth, pass out flyers and promote Falun Dafa. One day, several public security staff members suddenly broke into the place I was staying and tried to arrest me. I told them that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner, not a criminal. These security staff people said they had come to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners. One policeman took the book Zhuan Falun from my hand and asked me where I was from and how I obtained all the Dafa materials. I didn't answer. Then the security staff members began beating my legs, injuring them in the process. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Later, I was detained in the Baoji Public Security Detention Center.
In the detention center, I learned that my son, my daughter-in-law and my baby granddaughter (who weren't practitioners) were all detained in the center. The food the center provided was very poor and soon my daughter-in-law had to stop breast-feeding her baby because she wasn't getting enough food to produce milk. My little granddaughter cried constantly out of hunger. A relative of ours came and took the infant home with him. The baby developed a very high fever, which lasted for several days, and then the baby fell unconscious. This made our relative extremely anxious and worried, and he spent all his time with the baby. I started a hunger strike to protest such inhuman treatment and my son and his wife were eventually released from the center. Later on, the Baoji County Education Committee and the Baoji County Public Security Department illegally sentenced me to two years in prison, but I refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing on my part. I refused to put my fingerprint on the sentencing paper and police officers had to take me by force to the Women's Forced Labor Camp of Shanxi Province.
While I was being held at the forced labor camp, I continued to practice the exercises and send forth righteous thoughts. I did not to respond to the roll call of prisoners and I refused to recite the prison's rules. When I practiced the exercises, some inmates would beat me and call me names. At night, they tried to force me to watch slanderous television programs about Falun Gong, but I simply refused to watch them. When inmates asked me why I didn't want to watch the programs I told them, "We practitioners are following the principles of 'Zhen-Shan-Ren,' we will never kill others or ourselves. All those TV programs are fake. They might be able to fool you, but they can't fool me."
A prison guard named Liu Junlan was furious when she heard what I said about the television programs and she shouted, "Beat her!" Several inmates came over and prevented anyone from hitting me, and that made Ms. Liu even angrier. She would then try to get at me from then on.
They threw me into a freezing room to break down my will. I said to myself, "I am a practitioner; I'm not at all afraid of the cold." Then I started to practice the wheel-holding exercise, and as a result, I began to sweat. I didn't feel the cold at all.
In order to protest the persecution, I continued my hunger strike. The prison police staff asked me, "So, why do you want to go on a hunger strike?" I told them, "I'm not guilty of anything, and I'm not a legitimate prisoner, so I don't want to eat the inmates' food." More than ten days later, the prison staff tried to insert a tube into my stomach to force- feed me, and they dragged me to the prison hospital and wanted to give me intravenous injections. I began to send forth righteous thoughts, and in my mind I refused to take any of their filthy substances into my body. The prison hospital staff spent more than 8 hours trying to give me the injections, and I was riddled with needle marks, but they simply weren't able to administer a single shot. Several days later, I was taken to a regular hospital in Xi'an city for a physical examination. While I was in the waiting room, I started to clarify the truth to all the people there. Then I was brought back to the prison, and I kept to my hunger strike. At that time, my physical body was extremely weak, and I thought to myself, "Maybe I won't be able to see Teacher in this physical body." At that very moment, while my life was in danger, a strong righteous thought developed in my mind, "I am Teacher's disciple, I still have my unfinished mission, and I shouldn't die right now. I must live on and I will see Teacher in this physical body." Then I started to recite Teacher's articles and the book Zhuan Falun, and I thought of Teacher's words,
"...one righteous mind can subdue one hundred evils." (Zhuan Falun)
I demanded to be released from the prison at once. Around noon the next day, I was given an oxygen tank and mask and sent back to my hometown. I realized that Teacher had helped me and that it was Teacher who had made it possible for me to escape from that den of evil.
After I returned home, I kept studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. Gradually, my good health returned. I continued to do the three things and took every opportunity to clarify the truth and pass out flyers.
One day, I ran across four young men and I gave them truth clarification material. One of these young men said, "This information is so valuable. We work at a print factory. May I please have another copy? I'd like to make more copies and send them to my relatives and friends." I felt extremely happy for him.
Another time, a lady said to me, "I'd like to give you one yuan for your information. I know it's not easy for you to prepare all these documents." I didn't take the money, but I was deeply moved by that lady's heart. There are just so many kind people in this world who are waiting for us to save them.
A thought suddenly came to me, "If I bought a copy machine, it would be great for clarifying the truth." Eventually, with the help of other practitioners, I really did buy a copy machine, and I learned to operate the machine very quickly. I started preparing truth clarification documents day and night. Because I inadvertently neglected studying the Fa, the evil forces took advantage of me and destroyed the truth clarification materials site that I had established. The destruction of the materials site negatively impacted Dafa, and I had to leave home, again becoming homeless. The evil issued a 10,000 yuan reward for my arrest. Under Teacher's protection, and with the help of practitioners and other kind people, I escaped from the evil's attempts to further persecute me. I moved from Shanxi Province to Gansu Province, and then from Gansu Province to Ningxia Province. Along the way, I begged for food and slept in the open fields. Blisters covered the soles of my feet as well as my face. I had to put up with hunger, thirst and cold. Quite often, I would end up in a lonely open field. Sometimes, finding shelter to hide from the chilling winds was very difficult. Especially at night, it was not always easy to find a resting place. When I was forced out of my house, it was still summer, so I wore only a T-shirt. As fall and winter came, cold winds started to whistle in my ears. Some kind-hearted people gave me some coats to wear. I also collected empty plastic fertilizer bags and stuffed them with paper, wrapping them around my body to keep warm. I only ate one package of instant noodles every two days. I traveled the countryside in these conditions for more than 10 months.
Later, I moved back to Shanxi Province, but I was afraid to go back to my hometown. I learned that my son (who wasn't a practitioner) was illegally sentenced to 4 years in prison after the materials site was destroyed. More than 10 practitioners from Baoji County were also implicated. Now my daughter-in-law takes care of my whole family. My granddaughter was only 3 years old and my grandson was only a few months old. In this way our harmonious and happy family was decimated.
The following is a list of telephone numbers for certain organizations that have been involved in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in Baoji County, Shanxi Province.
Office of Baoji City Administration: 86-917-3213141
Office of Baoji City Committee: 86-917-3214087 and 86-917-3252027
Office of Baoji City Disciplinary Committee: 86-917-3212942
Office of Baoji City, Weibin District Committee: 86-917-3234051
Baoji City Public Security Department: 86-917-3658240
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Falun Dafa practitioner who was recently abducted and held in the basement of the Public Security Hospital in Beijing. I would like to expose the evil that is happening there.
The way the evil persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners is that if you do not comply, they will tie you to the death bed until you yield and cooperate with them. I was tied to the death bed for over 60 hours. It was only when I almost died that they let me go. Right in front of me, a female practitioner had been tied for 25 days, with a tube inserted through her nose and another tube for her urine. It was an unbearable sight. When she was released from the death bed, one of her arms was not able to move. This cruel method is used to persecute older people as well. A white-haired lady from Beijing was tied to the death bed. A female nurse named Zhao Yan, who is extremely vicious, force-fed her. When the older lady refused to cooperate with her, the nurse slapped her on the face three times. The older lady resisted until they exhausted their methods. They had to release her in the end. It was said that four other female practitioners are still being jailed there.
The government covers all medical costs incurred at the Public Security Hospital in Beijing. The hospital uses all kinds of equipment on whoever comes through the door. Patients are given very expensive medications, and the medical staff gets commissions from using the equipment and medication. I heard that before me, three other female practitioners were sent from here to a forced labor camp for further persecution.
February 21, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
I am Li Huifeng, a 32 year old Falun Gong practitioner from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.
At 5pm on January 22, 2001, I was taken away from my home by the policemen from the Third Criminal Police Squad of the Jianhua District, Qiqihar City. The next day I was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar. In July 2001, I was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment by Jianhua District Court, found "guilty" of the charges that the authorities fabricated and imposed on me.
I didn't give in to the verdict of the first trial and lawfully appealed to the intermediate court. I wrote them a letter. However, the Intermediate Court told a lie and said that I had given in to the verdict of the first trial and they would not hear the appeal. On January 24, 2002, I was sent to the Third Prison of Harbin City. On July 1, 2004, I was transferred to Daqing Hongweixing Prison and I have been held there until this day.
Ever since I was illegally arrested on January 22, 2001, the evil police and the prisoners under their control have brutally tortured me. Details of what happened are as follows:
Around 5pm on January 22, 2001, 5 practitioners including myself were staying at the home of Wenjie, another practitioner. Suddenly, 5 policemen of the Third Vice Squad broke into the place. They dragged us away and took us to their office, in our bare feet and with our heads covered.
Immediately after that, they interrogated and tortured me in an attempt to extort some information. They handcuffed my wrists behind my back, and hung my hands to an iron hook that was two meters above ground. At the same time, they tied my feet with the same rope, and they pulled the rope to stretch out my body. It was extremely painful. Furthermore, the policemen kicked me to make my body swing back and forth. They shouted, "My pleasure is built on your suffering!" I was in agony. They then placed an electric baton on my genital area and shocked me. This kind of torture is literally called "On the great hang". I suffered an electric burn to my genitals and I could not lift both my arms for six months. The next day, I was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar City, and there I was tortured for one year. I became emaciated. In July 2001, I was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment and deprived of political rights for four years by Jianhua District Court of Qiqihar City according to the charges that the authority fabricated and imposed on me. I wrote down the words "I refuse to accept the verdict and intend to appeal" in the file of the court service.
After returning to the Detention Center, I wrote my letters of appeal and sent them to the Intermediate Court. However, the verdict of the 2nd trial actually stated that Wenjie (a practitioner who was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment) and I accepted the verdict and did not appeal. The court fabricates documents like these in order to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners.
On January 24, 2002, I was sent to the assembly team for training at the Third Prison of Harbin City. I refused to accept the charge that the government imposed on me, so I was sent to a small cell and was cruelly tortured by the head of the assembly team named Huang, and another guard named Gong Dawei.
It was February and the weather was so cold, yet they did not allow me to wear woolen clothing. Instead, they opened the windows. During the evening, they did not give me anything to keep my body warm. Each day they gave me only a little bit of corn paste. Two prisoners were always present to keep a watch on me.
They detained me there for 39 days, and they only released me when I had been beaten to the verge of death.
Half a month later, I was transferred to the sixth supervision area, and there they appointed prisoners keep a watch on me day and night. My freedom was restricted and I was forced to perform hard labor, write reports on what I was thinking about, such as the so-called "three letters" or "the letters of exposure and critique on Falun Gong", etc. ("The three letters" are documents that the practitioners in prisons are forced to write through cruel torture, to demonstrate that they have given up their belief in Falun Dafa. The so-called "three letters" include "the repentant letter", "the letter to criticize Falun Gong" and "the letter to reveal how badly a practitioner has been affected". The contents of these letters are fabricated.) The Captains Zhu Wenchen and Tang Xinmin cursed and insulted me. They also seized all the money and parcels that my family had mailed to me. As a result, I could not afford to buy anything, not even toiletries. They forced me to sever all communications with my family. Tang Xinmin had ordered a criminal prisoner to beat me, but fortunately, the prisoner did not attack me because he had a good impression of Dafa practitioners.
The directors of the 610 Office in Harbin Prison, Chen Shuhai and Li Fucai, forcefully tried to brainwash me and other Dafa practitioners. They forced us to watch videos that denounced Falun Gong. From 2001 to 2004, the evil policemen in Harbin Prison ordered prisoners to beat Dafa practitioners. The practitioners were either beaten to death or left with horrendous injuries. On July 1 2004, due to external pressure and the accusations lodged by practitioners within the prison, the policemen transferred 108 Dafa practitioners at Harbin Prison to prisons in Daqing, Tailai and Mudanjian cities, so as to cover up the truth about the persecution and continue their evil conduct. Together with 29 other practitioners, I was transferred to Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City that day.
To cooperate with the Reform through Labor Bureau in Heilongjiang Province and conceal the facts about the persecution, Daqing Prison seized all personal belongings of 30 practitioners, except for our clothes, bedding and toiletries. To date, they have still not returned them to us. On July 9, 2004, I was allocated to the 1st supervision area, where I had no personal freedom. I had no rights for family visiting, and my appeal letters to the Procuratorate of Daqing Prison were seized.
The persecution has lasted for 5 years', seriously damaging both my body and mind. My wife Zhang Shuzhe and I were illegally arrested on the same day. She was first detained at the Correction Center and later sentenced to imprisonment. She is still suffering persecution at Harbin Women's Prison. My family has been broken, and all our family members from both my wife's family and my own have lived in distress for a long time.
To every righteous nation with a conscience and to people all over the world, I hereby solemnly lodge my charges against all those who engaged in the persecution of Dafa and Dafa practitioners, those responsible in Police Departments at each level, Detention Centers, Procuratorates, Courthouses, Reform through Labor Bureaus, Correction Centers, "610 offices", the 3rd Prison of Harbin City, the Harbin Women's Prison, and the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City.
Let every virtuous country and person all over the world help wash away the humiliation and uphold justice!
Plaintiff: Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Huifeng
November 15, 2004
February 13, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) In a city of the Liaoning province, an unrighteous phenomenon has occurred and has lasted for quite a long time. Some fellow practitioners feel that one Dafa disciple does very well in Fa-clarification and admires him/her in their hearts. This admiration has gradually changed into worshipping this individual person and forgetting that Dafa disciples should take the Fa as their Master and should use the Fa to determine what to do.
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First of all, when something happens, they follow this fellow practitioner's understanding. They think that this fellow practitioner cultivates his or herself very well and his/her understanding could not be wrong. For example, the truth-clarification material site urgently produced some truth-clarification materials. This practitioner thought it' was better not to pass them out straight away, so the the materials were held up for quite a long time. The important task of saving the world's people was delayed.
Secondly, many practitioners feel this practitioner is "absolutely" reliable and "absolutely" trustworthy, so they tell this practitioner sensitive information carelessly and forget to be responsible for another practitioners' safety. Actually, this practitioner doesn't take minding speech very seriously and isn't very responsible. When exchanging ideas with other practitioners, this practitioner often tells others something he/she knows, which results in many people knowing these things. Trusting somebody is not equal to telling everything about oneself and others without caring another practitioners' safety and lives, and even the safety of the truth-clarification materials site.
This is not an isolated problem for a few specific practitioners, actually many practitioners are devoted to this practitioner in the local area.
Right now the result is that the practitioner who has been worshiped has had some kind of self-inflation and self-admiration. The way he/she talks and does things is not very conscious. If others continue to worship him/her, it will encourage his/her self-inflation without responsibility and finally it will interfere with Dafa disciples saving the world's people. It is really dangerous if this is allowed to develop.
Practitioners who worship him/her, please think it over. For whom are we doing this? Are we doing it for him/her? Should we listen to him (her) or take the Fa as the Master? Are we responsible for this person or for the Fa, our fellow practitioners and saving the world's people?
The practitioner who is worshiped by others, please think it over. Do our Dafa disciples exist for this? Do we want fellow practitioners' commendation and approval, or to finish Dafa disciples' historic missions and not let all beings' great trust down?
In fact, the Fa is like the sea, each Dafa disciple is like a drop of water in the sea. A drop of water only has life and has meaning of life when it dissolves into the sea.
The Fa-rectification is reaching the last period. No matter in which Fa-rectification period, Dafa disciples' irrational and unconscious thoughts or wrong understanding can possibly delay saving the world's people or even destroy countless beings. Fellow practitioners, we must be conscious and take the Fa as the Master for everything. For important issues, we should look to Minghui website's attitude instead of allowing some practitioners to be worshipped.
February 14, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
Greetings, venerable Teacher,
Greetings, fellow practitioners,
My name is Li Cuihui, and I'm a middle school teacher from Pingtung. I'm very honored to be here today to share my cultivation experience with everyone. Through the process of writing my cultivation experience, I realized that this is also a process of purifying myself, a process of being steadfast in Dafa, and of validating Dafa.
Ever since I was a kid I was frail and had various illnesses. For a long time I was stressed out by work. As a result, my entire immune system was weakened. By chance, through a colleague's introduction, I came to know Falun Dafa. At the time I had no idea what Falun Gong was or that it is a great practice of both mind and body. Perhaps it was because I had no intentions, but the second day after I began practicing the Falun Gong exercises, my body underwent a rapid purification. I also experienced the process of having my Third Eye opened within a short period of time as described in the book, which enabled me to see that each word in the book was a Law Wheel in different, dazzling colors that sparkled with golden light. I then realized that Teacher's book was indeed a heavenly book.
My ex-boyfriend of six years often came to the practice site to harass me after he was drunk. He also stopped me on the street and prevented me from going home. He even went to my workplace and claimed that he would make me lose my job. Again and again, I kept enduring his irrational behavior passively.
Because I had just obtained the Fa, I did not have a profound understanding of the Fa-principles. Knowing my situation, fellow practitioners often discussed Fa-principles with me, and I therefore came to realize that this was interference for me, and a test for my xinxing. It was indeed as described in the "Third Talk" in Zhuan Falun:
"When you say you want to cultivate, they won't put up with it, 'You want to cultivate, you want to leave. If you develop gong I won't even be able to reach you, I won't be able to touch you.' They won't let it happen, and they'll do just about anything to block you. They'll try to stop you from cultivating. So they use all kinds of tactics to interfere with you, and they might even come to kill you."
"Maybe later on you'll be slapped in the face a couple times in front of the very person you least want to lose face around, and that's to humiliate you, to see how you handle it, and to see whether you can endure it. Maybe you can endure it but you can't get it off your mind. That's not good enough." (From the "Ninth Talk" in Zhuan Falun)
I knew that I was afraid that my image would be tarnished and I had a deep fear of losing my reputation, which further intensified the tribulation. Through constant Fa-study, I came to realize that I shouldn't endure it so passively. Instead, I should completely reject this interference and let go of my mentality of fear. As long as I elevate my xinxing, there is no tribulation that I cannot overcome.
Teacher says:
"If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will cease to exist." (From "Eliminate Your Attachments" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Therefore, no matter how he treated me, I simply did what Teacher said in "Eliminate Your Attachments" in Essentials for Further Advancement II:
"Just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations,"
and I truly let go of that attachment. I remember the last time he came to the practice site to harass me. I looked him straight in the eye. He finally changed his old habit of constantly harassing me. He actually did not even try to stop me from going home, and I have not seen him since. The karmic relationships during this Dharma Ending Period are absolutely impossible for ordinary people to resolve, yet I was able to resolve it benevolently in one shot. I realized that these tribulations are my opportunities to cultivate. Without these tribulations, Teacher says,
"If the human race was made free of all sickness and lived in total comfort, even if you were given a chance to be a Celestial Being you wouldn't take anyone up on it." (From Zhuan Falun)
I thank Teacher for compassionately and painstakingly scooping me up from Hell and saving me. Had it not been for Teacher's enduring life after life of karma for me, I would not have ended up where I am today.
I have personally experienced Falun Dafa's greatness and miraculous effects. I was exhausted, both physically and mentally, but Falun Dafa was a master key to open my mind and soul. How could I not promote such a good practice to everyone around me every chance I got, so that their minds and bodies could also benefit from it and help them become truly happy people? Therefore, I distribute flyers door to door, volunteered to teach the Falun Gong exercises in schools, and set up practice sites. I use the Fa-principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" to help students with behavior problems. I instilled the Fa-principles into my teaching and brought truth to every class I taught. Students are pure and truthful. If we put gold in their heads, then they are gold; if we put dirt in their heads, then they are dirt. After learning the truth, they said they could not believe that such a dictatorial, brutal regime like the Jiang's faction of the Chinese Communist could still exist. The students' sense of justice was inspired, and they expressed their wish to support the global effort to bring Jiang to justice. They helped me fold truth-clarification flyers, and they gradually learned to hold themselves to the Fa-principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." I was really happy for their future. I also invited communities to develop a plan to double the number of people practicing the exercises in order to bring Falun Dafa's beauty to those in other communities so that everyone could have an in-depth understanding of Falun Gong's truth. I believe that this has had a certain effect in spreading the Fa and clarifying the truth.
Through constant Fa-study, I realized even more that I was a Fa-rectification period Falun Dafa disciple, who shoulders the great mission of saving sentient beings. In "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference" Teacher says:
"Also, with those people that you run into by chance, who you run into in daily life, and the people you run into at work, you should all clarify the truth to them. Even when in your daily life you pass by people so quickly that you don't have a chance to talk to them, you should still leave them with your compassion and kindness."
Hence, I always carry truth-clarification material with me and try my best not to miss out on anyone who might have a pre-destined relationship. If everyone of us remembers our mission to save sentient beings and keeps that thought in our minds at all times, I think the effectiveness of our truth-clarifying efforts will be different.
Among the many possible approaches, I chose to make phone calls to clarify the truth, because I feel that calling is the most direct and fastest way to have an effect. Calling not only can restrain the malicious authorities, it also can alleviate pressure on fellow practitioners. I had deep fears when I started making phone calls and others constantly scorned me. But day after day, after constantly reading on the Minghui website about the evil using all sorts of inhuman and horrendous tortures to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners even more brutally, my mind was greatly shaken. I often shed tears as I read those articles. When I began reading an article, I felt as if I would never reach its end. Teacher says in the "Ninth Talk" in Zhuan Falun:
"...there's a problem with your character if you don't do anything when you see something awful like murder or arson."
Even more so when we are cultivating the Great Law! When we see our fellow practitioners being persecuted, can we stand aside and just watch? Do we still hesitate and fear this or that? I remember once during an experience sharing, when one practitioner suddenly felt unwell, all the practitioners immediately recited Lunyu and sent righteous thoughts at close range for this practitioner. Think about it, who can recite Lunyu and send righteous thoughts at close range for fellow practitioners in Mainland China? If we don't eliminate our human attachments, we will escalate the tribulation of fellow practitioners in Mainland China, because we are one whole body.
Making phone calls is like wandering about from place to place as required of some professional cultivators. (Master refers to this in "The One Who Practices Gets the Gong" in Zhuan Falun.) Some people scorn you, some threaten you, some ridicule you, some people are kind, and some people appreciate you. You run into all kinds of people, and it is up to you whether you are able to guard your xinxing and handle yourself by following the basic requirements of a cultivator:
"Don't even hit back when you're attacked, or talk back when people insult you."(From the "Ninth Talk" in Zhuan Falun)
Amidst our clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings, Teacher lets us cultivate away our various bad human attachments like competitiveness, jealousy, showing off, being overjoyed, fear and pursuit of comfort. There are so many human attachments that we need to give up. Teacher says:
"The whole process of cultivation is a process of constantly getting rid of human attachments." (From the "First Talk" in Zhuan Falun)
Cultivation is not choosing something easy to do and is not about escaping something that is hard. Cultivation is simply tough. Teacher says:
"Cultivation is the process that enables a human being to ascend to heaven and become a god, so how could it not be hard?" (From "My Version of a Stick Wake-Up")
Precisely because it is hard, we can cultivate our mighty virtue.
My biggest realization from making phone calls to clarify the truth is as Teacher writes in Hong Yin II (provisional translation):
Mercy can dissolve heaven and earth, bringing about Spring
Righteous thought may save people in the world
When I clarify the truth with righteous thoughts and a compassionate mind, the effect is the most powerful. When I study the Fa well, I have strong righteous thoughts and the phone calls I make are good. When I do not study the Fa well, I cannot make good phone calls. I realized that, although studying the Fa is important, I could not simply rely on studying the Fa and not cultivate myself. It is not like when you study the Fa well you'll be "insured" and that you do not need to fear anything. Sometimes I got into the frame of mind of the inevitability of interference when I validated the Fa. The evil indeed has never stopped interfering with me, but if I held on to such a thought, wouldn't I also be seeking something? Isn't that a strong pursuit for interference? Now, I see it this way: I completely reject the old forces and reject all interference, I don't even acknowledge the old forces' existence, I don't even think about it. It is very important to maintain righteous thoughts at all times.
When I did not do well in making phone calls, I looked inward to ask myself, "What happened?" Was it because I lacked compassion? Was it because my tone of voice was not kind? When I found my shortcomings, I adjusted my mindset and treated the person with compassion. When what I said was without a shred of selfishness, the person listened to my truth-clarification. It is very dangerous if we have a selfish mind or if we do Dafa work out of our attachment to Consummation, because the gods of the entire cosmos are watching each and every thought of ours so closely and they are afraid even to blink. The path is very narrow. But when we establish a correct foundation, the path is boundlessly wide and spacious.
In "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Washington DC Fa Conference" Teacher says:
"But as Dafa disciples, you cultivate kindness, so you should be compassionate. Whether they're receptive or not, you should always treat them with compassion, and you can't get competitive with ordinary people or look at sentient beings with human thoughts. Just do whatever you should with compassion, regardless of whether they're receptive or not. Compassion comes from a person's cultivation, and it's not something that's acted out; it comes from deep inside, and it's not something done to show others. It's something that exists eternally, and it doesn't change with the passage of time or changes in circumstances."
In "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference" Teacher says:
"Gods are merciful and have the greatest capacity to forgive, and they are truly responsible to beings, instead of focusing on a person's actions at a given time. That's because gods awaken a being at a fundamental level, and enliven a being's Buddha-nature at a fundamental level."
I remember when I heard the news about vicious police shocking practitioner Gao Rongrong's face for seven hours. I called the vicious police and related departments. One man, who worked in the Procuratorate, asked me about Gao Rongrong's situation and promised me to bring this issue to higher authorities. Through fellow practitioners' help, Gao Rongrong successfully escaped from her illegal detention. When we send out our righteous thoughts, Teacher says:
"What could human beings possibly do to gods? If there were no outside factors, would humans dare to do anything to gods?" (From "In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human")
The course of Fa-rectification progresses very rapidly. Many practitioners have gathered in Manhattan to clarify the truth and save sentient beings. When I think about practitioners who have sacrificed their lives in order to safeguard Falun Dafa and about those practitioners who have steadfastly stood in front of Chinese Consulates to send righteous thoughts over the past few years in bone-chilling weather, rain or blistering heat, I am especially aware of my shortcomings. Let's do well the three things that Teacher requests us to do. No matter where we are, let go of all human attachments and let's just set our minds to be diligent and to save sentient beings. Lastly, as mutual encouragement, I would like to end my article with Teacher's poem "Be Steadfast" (Provisional translation from Hong Y in II):
Those who enlighten and leave the world are revered
Those who earnestly cultivate sincerely believe in reaching consummation
In the midst of great tribulation, one should be steadfast
The will to strive forward whole-heartedly cannot be changed
Thank you Teacher! Thank you fellow practitioners. Please kindly correct me if there's anything improper.
(An article from the 2005 Taiwan Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference)
(Clearwisdom.net)
I have been clarifying the truth using different ways in different situations. The following are some of my experiences.
One time when I was on a bus reading an e-book on my PDA, a gentleman sitting beside me asked me if I was reading a novel. I then showed him the page that had the title, Zhuan Falun. Later I discovered that he was an associate professor of foreign literature at one of the top universities in China and that he knew a lot about Falun Gong. He asked me if I practiced secretly at home and I said, "No, I practice openly!" I also told him that after July 20, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested, thrown into a forced labor camp, suffered from the death bed torture, and was hung by my handcuffs from behind my back and other forms of torture. Through several years of truth clarifying efforts, my local residential committee, the police station, the prison, the forced labor camp, and many officials in these organizations realized that we are good people, and they later became my friends. Although right now I could not do the exercises in public, all the other aspects of my Falun Gong activities remain the same. The main form of our current cultivation is clarifying the truth about Falun Gong.
After hearing my words, he said that it was his honor to meet me here. He then said, "Everyday I sit in front of my desk for a dozen hours, and today I became tired, so I decided to get out and take in some fresh air. Then, I met you here unexpectedly. This is a predestined relationship! The ploys of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) couldn't deceive me."
I talked about what Jiang Zemin had done by using the CCP to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, who simply believe in the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. This persecution is in fact targeting our collective morality and conscience. I suggested the he read Zhuan Falun and other Falun Dafa books, which will bring tremendous benefit to him, both physically and mentally, for the rest of his life. He promised that he certainly would do that and asked for my contact information.
One time, I was riding a bus with an older fellow practitioner and I was thinking about how to clarify the truth with wisdom. I then asked her to talk about the story of her surgery and the removal of a large portion of her intestine. She started talking about the cancer in her rectum and how she had been through four surgeries. One foot of her intestine had been removed, and after 40 days of practicing Falun Gong, she fully recovered. After hearing that, one of the people sitting close by asked some questions, and she took the opportunity to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to him and everyone around us.
Another time when I was riding the bus, I noticed that there was only one other person on the bus. I went up and sat beside her, and started talking with her. After I mentioned that I practice Falun Gong, she immediately held my two hands and said, "I have found a fellow practitioner!" She told me she came from the countryside, and was a new practitioner working as a nurse and taking care of an 80-year old lady who was a former CCP Secretary of a medical school. This practitioner was very kind-hearted, but had a very strong attachment of fear. She dared not to clarify the truth to people. She said that she did very well by living her life according to Dafa's principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. This woman and other patients all praised her, and were reluctant to see her go. They increased her pay from 500 yuan to 800 yuan in order to try to keep her. The lady she was taking care of considered her as a daughter, but she never admitted that she was a Falun Gong practitioner to any of them.
As she was telling her story, more and more people came on board the bus, and sat down around us. I started talking with her in a louder voice, so that everyone around us could hear, "You practice Falun Gong, and live your life according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance and according to what Teacher has told us. This is why you have done so well and everyone likes you. But why didn't you admit that you practiced Falun Gong? You live by those noble principles, but you did not tell your patients. Then you are not being completely 'truthful', right?" She nodded. "The older woman treats you so well, considers you as her daughter and you see her suffer so much; but you just practice this precious qigong yourself secretly, without sharing it with her. This is not 'compassion', right?"
We continued talking, "Falun Gong is being persecuted and misunderstood. You should tell people the facts, right?" She kept nodding her head while listening. "I think you should also clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the older woman and the all of her relatives." She said, "Thank you very much for the good pointers. I know how to do things better now."
(Clearwisdom.net) With our Teacher's help, all of the students in our class became Falun Gong practitioners. We have benefited a lot, both physically and spiritually, after we started cultivation. Here we want to share with you some of our experiences in "thinking of others first."
Young Falun Gong practitioner L: "Thinking of others first" makes me much happier.
Before I learned Falun Gong I was always the first one to grab good food, good toys or games. I fought with my younger brother and I always made my mother angry.
After I started the fifth grade, our teacher asked us to read Zhuan Falun. After studying the Fa, my xinxing improved. Now, when there are cookies or juice at home I no longer am first to grab them. I give them to others. When our teacher brings us juice, I save it for my younger brother. Another time my classmate and I both needed to use some clips at the same time. I figured that I was a practitioner, so I let him use them first, and I waited until he was done. I found that "thinking of others first" does not cause me to lose anything. My relationship with others has improved and I am much happier.
Young Falun Gong practitioner G: To be able to "think of others first" makes me feel fulfilled.
"Thinking of Others First" means you should consider other people in all aspects.
One time I was playing with my older brother at home. Our aunt, who lives in the mountains, came to see us. She brought us a box of cookies, and I ate all of them. I was not able to "think of others first," as I did not think of my older brother. I really regret doing that.
Since I started studying the Fa I have realized that I need to "think of others first" in every regard. The more we give, the happier we become. If we think more for others, our xinxing improves, and our life becomes more fulfilled and meaningful.
Young Falun Gong practitioner H: To be able to "think of others first" creates harmony.
We cannot only think of ourselves. We should consider other people and should not fight with other people.
Sometimes my younger brother and I share one toy. In the past I always fought with him for it. Later on I thought that I should "think of others first." I gave the toy to my brother and the fighting stopped.
Another time when we were about to leave school, there were students from other classes outside. It was very crowded, but no one would step back to allow the others through. I thought that I should "think of others first," so I let them go first. How nice it would be if everyone were able to that.
Young Falun Gong practitioner I: "Thinking of others first" creates peace.
When I fought with my older brother for computer access and juice, or fought with my younger brother for control of the TV and food, I won with my strength. I did not "think of others first" at all. When I got these things, I was not happy. I felt guilty, as I should have given them to others. But it was always too late, as I had already caused discord with others, and it didn't help to blame myself. These things happen because my xinxing is not high enough. If everyone could consider others and "think of others first," I believe there would be peace among everyone.
Young Falun Gong practitioner J: To be able to "think of others first" makes me really happy!
Once during lunchtime when I went to get more food, another classmate also came to get food. I gave the spoon to him to let him get the food first.
At home when both my sister and I want to watch TV, I give the remote control to her.
One time I wanted to use the restroom and there were a lot of people. When I finally got my turn, suddenly another classmate also wanted to use the toilet badly. I let him use it first.
There are many more stories. Now I am always able to think of others first. I see gratefulness on their faces, just like blooming flowers, so beautiful and so touching!
These feelings make me so happy!
February 16, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a 74-year-old retired official. Twenty years ago I began suffering from diabetes. I took many different medications that failed to control the illness, and I also had complications with high blood pressure, heart disease, and worsening eyesight. During the last few years, my blood sugar was 27 or 28, and my face had become swollen. I went to the hospital for treatment numerous times, but nothing helped. In 2003, I spent nearly the entire year hospitalized. I would go home, and after only one day, I felt that I had no grasp on my life. In the hospital, I received insulin shots, I was lightheaded and dizzy and needed someone to support me as I walked, and I felt that I had few remaining days. I even prepared my funeral affairs.
I returned home in 2004, on the day before the Lunar Calendar New Year. Over the course of the celebrations, a visiting friend introduced me to Falun Gong. He said that Falun Gong teaches people to be compassionate, and helps one purify the body and keep fit. He also said that after practicing Falun Gong, many people's decade-long chronic diseases disappeared. At the time I thought to myself, "I am a retired official, and an old Communist Party member. For years and years I have done government work, was an atheist, and rejected what I thought was superstition. Moreover, the government does not permit Falun Gong, so how can I practice it?" Later, friends and relatives patiently advised me to first take a look at some Falun Gong books, and then make my decision. With the mentality of "just taking a look at it," I began to read Zhuan Falun. As I went on, I wanted to read more and more, and my body gradually gained energy. The first time I finished reading it, I did not find anything superstitious, or any content against human beings, science, or society, as was claimed by the state media. Zhuan Falun only taught people to be good, and to follow "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." It then occurred to me that this is such a good book, Falun Gong is so good, so why would the central authorities not allow anyone to practice it? On television, there is always news denigrating Falun Gong and misleading people. I firmly set my heart on practicing Falun Gong, a truly magnificent practice.
I read Zhuan Falun a second time. Besides changes in my body, my face also showed a healthy luster, like I was a new person. I stopped taking insulin shots and medicine. Some family members in my home measured my blood sugar, and found that it had become normal. My eyesight gradually became better, and my blood pressure and heart became normal. This was all unexpected by my entire family.
After reading and practicing cultivation for not even two months, my body is much stronger and healthier. I have gained weight and can even do some appropriate physical exercises, such as ping-pong. I have realized that Falun Gong is a great practice. I have also realized that people from different countries all over the world support Falun Gong. In many countries, Falun Dafa associations have been established. Falun Gong has also been given many proclamations and appreciated by their local communities.
Jiang Zemin's suppression of Falun Gong is an enormous mistake, and is a crime directed at the people. Hopefully, instead of listening to Jiang's deception and slander, people will make a clear distinction between right and wrong, and realize that Falun Dafa is good.
(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities in Wanjia Labor Camp of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province use family visits from detained Dafa practitioners' relatives to persecute practitioners and their families. Everyone who comes to visit Dafa practitioners must pass through an entryway where they are forced to step on Teacher's photograph.
Dafa practitioners were grieved to hear this. Thereafter, all the practitioners in Harbin collectively sent forth righteous thoughts regarding this matter. Some practitioners used righteous thoughts to take away the photos. However, the forced labor camp recently wove the photos into a floor mat to facilitate this evil practice.
We Dafa practitioners also looked within and thought about why such an evil thing is happening. We came to a consensus that we had some deficiencies in our coordination and our overall state of improvement. Having realized this, we tried to coordinate better, but the authorities were still endlessly performing this practice. As a result, some of our fellow practitioners felt there was no way around it and became numb to it.
Last night, when I sent forth righteous thoughts regarding this matter, I reconsidered the issue. What is behind the evil forcing people to step on Teacher's photo? How should I, a Dafa disciple, look upon this?
At that moment a strong righteous thought arose in my mind. Then I enlightened to the idea that we practitioners, as one body, do not respect our Teacher enough. For a long time, the authorities at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp have forced detained Dafa practitioners to go against and slander Teacher and Dafa. I think that this is the direct cause for what was happening.
Indirectly, as a whole body some of our fellow practitioners do not attach sufficient importance to cultivation, and do not rightly respect our Teacher. They do the three things superficially. In light of Teacher's recent lectures where he answered practitioners' questions, we found that some practitioners were not very respectful towards Teacher, as evidenced by their tone when asking Teacher questions. This is being used by the evil as an excuse to perform these vicious deeds.
Dafa disciples should be clear that showing respect for our Teacher is of utmost importance. To be in this cosmos, sentient beings, who are restricted by the laws of the cosmos, must do this. However, the evil spirit of the Communists dampened respect for teachers from the heart of Chinese people from a young age. Now, people in China respect parents, elder siblings, and teachers less than ever before. In fact, this is an obstacle to Fa-rectification arranged by the old forces. Today, a lot of our practitioners cannot even detect this. A lot of fellow practitioners have this experience. When they are in front of Teacher's photo, they are even shy to bow to Teacher. In the extreme, some practitioners went astray and developed demonic interference from their own minds, because they don't respect Teacher in their hearts.
Fellow practitioners, let's take a hard look at ourselves, and ask if we have a problem in this regard. If we do, let's get rid of it!
In conclusion, we should not look upon the matter of denigrating Teacher's photo in Wanjia Labor Camp in isolation. It is due to the overall problem of Dafa practitioners in this matter. Meanwhile, we should notify the detained practitioners in Wanjia that they should refuse to turn against or separate themselves from Dafa under the persecution. They should rectify their minds and intensify their righteous thoughts to break the persecution by the evil. As long as we firmly believe in Teacher and Dafa, there will be no tribulations that we cannot pass. Let us send more righteous thoughts, and the evil will disintegrate.
The above is my personal understanding to share with my fellow practitioners.
(Clearwisdom.net) The Taiwan University Aptitude Exam was held near the end of January and the results were published on February 23. Among 160,000 applicants, 106 high school students had perfect scores. One of them was Chong Shanglun from Tainan First High School. In contrast to other students being overjoyed and celebrating, Chong Shanglun chose something different: he started to practice cultivation in Falun Dafa.
Chong Shanglun practicing Falun Gong
Shanglun's mother is a teacher at Tainan City Houbi High School. She suffered from various diseases for many years. Three years ago, she learned Falun Dafa from a friend. When Shanglun saw his mother's quick recovery to health and saw her change from being depressed and irritable to optimistic and peaceful, he knew that Falun Gong was a good practice. After some initial learning of Falun Dafa and attending a Falun Gong Camp for young people, he didn't actually start on the cultivation path because of the high pressure of his studies and the upcoming university entrance exams.
His mother said that Shanglun was a sweet and obedient boy and didn't need to worry about his studies. After he entered high school, he lived in a dormitory and was the suite administrator. When dealing with other students' lives and problems in the dorm, a lot of conflicts occurred and confused him. He often talked to his mother, seeking advice.
Ms. Chen, Shanglun's mother said, "I haven't pressured him to get certain scores in his studies, but I do tell him to keep a high moral standard in his heart. In the present society, morality sounds very abstract, but just following the teachings in the book Zhuan Falun and living according to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" will bring one to a high moral standard. I told him, when negotiating with other students, not to carry the attachment of competitiveness. In such a society where morality is deteriorating every day, it is likely that many students have some incorrect behaviors and a variety of thoughts. I tell him to deal with others peacefully and calmly, communicate with others honestly and compassionately, and the problems may have a unexpected solution."
The mother gradually taught her children the principles of Falun Dafa in daily life. Although Shanglun and his elder sister were not actually practicing Falun Dafa, they were already learning Falun Dafa in their hearts. Six months ago, his sister started to practice Falun Dafa, which gave her brother another push. He said, "My sister's temper changed a lot after practicing Falun Dafa. Before, because of her bad temper, she would argue with mother. Now things are different." So right after he completed the university entrance exams, Shanglun began to practice Falun Dafa.
After he read through Zhuan Falun, he said to his mother, "The Buddha Law is supernormal." A modern student still can accept the ancient traditional Chinese teachings. He said, "The Buddha Law is an unknown area in today's science. Modern science only exists in this material world, but the Buddha Law is the law of the whole universe. It is profound and vast."
Just two weeks after practicing Falun Dafa, Chong Shanglun now has a new view of the world. He says he will persist with cultivating and practicing Falun Dafa.
Falun Gong is popular in over 60 countries and has over 100 million practitioners throughout the world. Among them, there are many people with master's or doctoral degrees, senior professionals, and experts in medical, judicial and academic areas.
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xin Shuhua Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor
We recently received information that Dafa practitioner Ms. Xin Shuhua, an employee of the Tonghua City Railroad Hospital, was arrested in November 2004 when clarifying the truth in Gangou, Tonghua County with several other practitioners. She has been held at the Tonghua County Detention Center ever since. Ms. Xin was brutally tortured because she refused to give her name to the authorities and held a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. She is emaciated and suffering from severe tuberculosis. Her family requested her to be released on medical parole but the authorities have refused.
We were also told that practitioner Qu Xiaofei was sentenced to three years in prison; Liu Xiaochun was sentenced to eight years in prison; Liu Fuquan was sentenced to 11 years in prison; Li Haihong was sentenced to 13 to 15 years in prison; Lu Hong and many other practitioners are still being held at the Tonghua City Detention Center.
2. [Beijing] Practitioners Ta Yumin and Xu Maolan Arrested for Distributing Truth Clarification Materials
Police officers from the Haiding District arrested Dafa practitioners Ms. Ta Yumin and Ms. Xu Maolan from Asian Games Village on the evening of February 2, 2005, when they were distributing truth clarification materials. The police also ransacked their home and sent them to the Qinghe Detention Center.
3. [Mianyang City, Sichuan Province] Two Practitioners, including Ms. Tang Xiqiong, Arrested When Distributing Truth Clarification Materials
Ms. Tang Xiqiong is 64 years old and lives in Beijing. She went to her hometown in Sichuan Province in November 2004 to clarify the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. Plainclothes police followed and arrested her when she was distributing truth clarification materials in Santai County, Mianyang City. Another practitioner, also from Beijing, was arrested along with her. They are currently being held at the Santai Detention Center in Beijing.
Phone number for the Santai County Detention Center: 86-816-5239620
4. [Lianyugang City, Jiangsu Province] Practitioner Ms. Du Xiuju Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Persisting in Falun Gong Practice
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Xiuju is a former teacher from the Technical School in Lianyungang City. Perpetrators from the police department, the "610 Office" and from the Xinnan Police Station arrested her for refusing to give up Falun Gong. After more than five months of detention, she was sentenced to three years in prison and was sent to the Nanjing Prison on January 26, 2005.
Practitioners Jiao Jiaqian, Liu Shuye, Yu Yao, Zhongchong Gaobing and others are still being detained.
5. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Officers From the Sandaohezi Police Station Extort Money and Take Personal Belongings From Dafa Practitioners
At 7:00 a.m. January 26, 2005, perpetrators from the Sandaohezi Police Station including deputy head Yang Guimin, political head Zhang Jinxiu, Wang Dali in charge of household registration and driver Li Gang arrested practitioners Ms. Zhu Fenglian and Ms. Guo Jifen at their home and took them to the police station.
They handcuffed the two practitioners to a metal bed. Zhang Jinxiu verbally abused, threatened and interrogated them for over one hour. The practitioners' families went to the police station to visit them. The perpetrators demanded 10,000 "Yuan" ransom for each practitioner. Each family was forced to paid 4,000 Yuan and write an IOU for 1,000 Yuan. The practitioners were released after 3:00 p.m. that day.
The Sandaohezi Police Station in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province: 86-421-6257006
CCP Committee for Sandaohezi County: 86-421-6257001
6. [Jilin Province] Perpetrators from the Daan "610 Office" Arrested Zou Yuxia, Gao Guiling and Niu Lijie and Sent Them to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp
In the evening on January 26, 2005, a group of police officers broke into Ms. Zou Yuxia's home and arrested her and her husband, who is not a Falun Gong practitioner. They also arrested practitioner Ms. Gao Guiling and sent her to a detention center. The police arrested them because the two practitioners went to the countryside to rent a car to transport Dafa materials clarifying the truth about the persecution.
Four officers from the Changhong Police Station ate and slept at Ms. Zou's home for four to five days in order to arrest any practitioners who came to visit her. Ms. Zou's family tried many times to drive the officers away. The perpetrators wouldn't leave and even threatened to arrest her family. They forced the family members to sign their names before they would let them leave, saying they "interfered with the execution of public affairs."
On February 5, the officers broke into practitioner Ms. Niu Lijie's home. They arrested her and sent her, Ms. Zou Yuxia and Gao Guiling to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Zou was sentenced to three years of forced labor, and Ms. Niu and Gao Guiling were each sentenced to two years of forced labor. Because of her poor physical health, the camp refused to accept Ms. Zou. The perpetrators from the Daan "610 Office" and from the Political and Security Section still refused to release her and held her in a dilapidated room in a custody center. Ms. Zou's husband is being held at the Daan Detention Center.
7. [Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province] Zhou Jiankui Arrested When Clarifying the Truth about Dafa
Practitioner Mr. Zhou Jiankui is 22 years old. He is employed by a biological research company affiliated with the Xi'an Jiaotong University. Around February 2, 2005, he was arrested when clarifying the truth about Dafa. He is being held at the Yanta Police Department, National Security Division, in Xi'an City and his current situation is unknown.
8. [Yi County, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Ms. Li Guibin Sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
Perpetrators from Yi County Railroad Police Station arrested practitioner Ms. Li Guibin, 59 years old, from Yi County, Liaoning Province at 2:00 p.m. on January 31, 2005 . They ransacked her home on February 1. She was first held at the Yi County Detention Center and then sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp on February 4.
9. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Ma Chunli Held for over 50 Days
Practitioner Ms. Ma Chunli was arrested on the street on December 14, 2004, and has been held for over 50 days at the Dehui City Detention Center. She has been on a hunger strike and is now at the brink of death. Her husband Mr. Sun Qian was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and their six-year-old son Sun Mingyuan is left home alone, uncared for.
10. [Linyi City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Li Xuesi Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor after Recent Release
Dafa practitioner Li Xuesi from Cangshan County, Linyi City used to work at a police department. He was sentenced to two or three years of forced labor for persisting in his belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Soon after his release, his home was ransacked and he was sent directly to the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo for three years of forced labor.
Liu Wenda, a retired worker from Cangshan County Court was also arrested.
11. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Personnel from the "610 Office" Arrested Four Falun Dafa Practitioners
On January 30 and 31, 2005, perpetrators from the "610 Office" arrested Ms. Lin Yanmei from Dianbai, Maoming City, Li Jianyu from Poxin Town, Maogang District, Ms. Chen Weiping and Mr. Chen Binggang. Not long ago, the four were arrested again by personnel from a local police precinct, but they were unconditionally released and walked out with the power of their righteous thoughts.
12. [Huazhou City, Guangdong Province] Local "610 Office" Personnel Arrest Mr. Yang Yalan
The local "610 Office" personnel searched Mr. Yang Yali's home because he was distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials. They searched all three floors, but didn't find anything. The personnel from "610 Office" took Mr. Yang away from home, and arrested his younger sister Ms. Yang Yalan on their way back. Mr. Yang has been released, but no one knows where Ms. Yang Yalan is.
Mr. Yang had previously been arrested in 2002 and held in the Maoming Brainwashing Center for over a year, but escaped with the power of righteous thoughts.
Related phone numbers:
610 Office: 86-668-73161610
Chen Po: 86-668-3733959
13. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Mr. Chen Min
On the evening of January 12, 2005, personnel from Fushun City's Police Department arrested Mr. Chen Min, a worker at the First Petrochemical Factory of Fushun. He is a Falun Gong practitioner from Haicheng Street in the Wanghua District, Fushun City. The police confiscated a large amount of Falun Gong truth clarification materials.
After his arrest, Mr. Chen was first held in the Fushuncheng Police Precinct in the Shuncheng District, Fushun City. It was reported that he would be sent somewhere else within 24 hours.
Phone number for the Fushuncheng Police Precinct in the Shuncheng District, Fushun City:
Head of the precinct: Wang Huijun, 86-13504138688 (cell), 86-413-7504130 (office)
Police Officer: Li Miao, 86-13942336767 (cell)
14. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Liu Guiying Arrested at Qingyuan
Ms. Liu Guiying, an employee who kept track of inventory at the Hongtoushan Cooper Mine, Fushun City, has been to Beijing many times to validate Dafa and to clarify the truth. For four years, she has been forced to stay away from home to avoid persecution. On January 25, 2005, Ms. Liu was arrested at Qingyuan. The police confiscated all of the equipment at the Falun Dafa materials production site where they found her.
15. [Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province] Mr. Wang Liguo and Ms. You Guoying Were Sentenced to Five Years and Four and a Half Years, Respectively
The authorities from the Xinqu Court in Wuxi City recently sentenced Mr. Wang Liguo from Gongzhuling, Jilin Province and Ms. You Guoying to five years and four and a half years, respectively. Mr. Wang is now incarcerated in the Wuxi Prison. Ms. You Guoying is incarcerated in the Nanjing Women's Prison.
16. [Rongcheng, Shandong Province] Mr. Shen Zhijun, Mr. Shen Yanyong and Ms. Xi Shuping Were Sentenced to Forced Labor
Mr. Shen Zhijun, 40 years old, from Guanshentun in Lidao Town, Rongcheng City, a teacher at the First Middle School in Rongcheng City, was sentenced to three years of forced labor for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong.
Mr. Shen Yanyong, 35 years old, from Guojia Village of Lidao Town, Rongcheng City, was sentenced to two years of forced labor for writing "Falun Dafa is great" on telephone poles on December 11, 2004.
Ms. Xi Shuping, 54 years old, from Dahuang Village in Xunshan, Rongcheng City, was sentenced to three years for insisting on practicing Falun Gong.
17. [Dazu County, Chongqing ] Ms. Zhou Zhongxing Arrested for Distributing Falun Gong Truth Clarification Materials
Ms. Zhou Zhongxing, a retired worker from a subsidiary company of the Educational Committee in Dazu County, Chongqing, previously served two forced labor terms - in November 2000 and April 2002. Although she was severely tortured many times and later released as "not guilty" in June 2004, she was still kept under surveillance.
In the early January 2005, Ms. Zhou was followed when distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials, and was arrested for the fourth time.
18. [Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province] Numerous Falun Dafa Practitioners Were Sentenced
Since July 2004, authorities from the "610 Office" in Lianyungang City have arrested numerous practitioners who insisted on practicing Falun Dafa. They were Ms. Du Xiuju, Liu Shuye, Liu Naihe, Ms. Niu Jinhua, Ms. Mu Qin and others. Altogether, more then ten persons were placed in long-term detention and sentenced to from three years to four years.
19. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Police Abduct Lu Hongwei for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong
On January 13, 2005, Mr. Lu Hongwei from Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia had his home searched by the police fromof Wudan. Then the police put him directly into the Songshan District Detention Center in Chifeng City.
Related phone numbers:
Wang Jinshan: Police Department of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia (Head of the "610 Office"): 86-476-8337060 (office), 86-476-8215693 (home), 86-13327150680 (cell)
Yang Chunyue, Deputy Chief of the Police Department in Chifeng City, Deputy Head of the "610 Office:" 86-476-8339595 (office), 86-13904766288 (cell), 86-476-8350999 (home)
(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:
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