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Clearwisdom Net
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Shujin from Jilin City, Youngji County, was illegally detained and persecuted in Tiebei Prison for more than a year. He has been tortured to the point that he now has cirrhosis of the liver and his body and stomach are swollen. He cannot eat, has difficulty breathing, and is in critical condition.
Mr. Yu Shujin, 55 years old, has been illegally arrested 10 times in the past several years for validating the Fa and clarifying the truth. In the detention centers and forced labor camps, the authorities persecuted Mr. Yu inhumanly in many brutal ways.
In May 2004, Mr. Yu Shujin was arrested in Shulan City while he was transferring a Falun Gong truth clarification materials production center to another location. Other practitioners got to safety by running away. Police officers under the authority of Xin He and Wang Tingbo persecuted Mr. Yu inhumanely in order to force him to reveal the names of the escaped practitioners. They handcuffed both of his hands behind his back, tightening the handcuffs into the wrist bone and causing bleeding that wouldn't stop. They also beat Mr. Yu violently. Some used wooden sticks to hit him, and others violently kicked his stomach. Mr. Yu was covered with blood, as was the ground around him. Even so, the perpetrators still poured mustard oil into his mouth and nose. During those several months of detention, Mr. Yu Shujin's formerly healthy body deteriorated as a result of the torture, and symptoms of liver cirrhosis and ascites appeared.
On June 25, 2004, the Public Security Department of Shulan City secretly and illegally sentenced Mr. Yu Shujin to 12 years. Because of his poor health, they sent him to Jilin Province's Chongchun City Tiebei Prison. After one year of detention and persecution, Mr. Yu now has liver cirrhosis and ascites and his body is terribly swollen. He can hardly breathe, and is in critical condition.
In the past ten days, Mr. Yu's relatives have already gone to Chongchun fives times to try to get him back. They went to the Tiebei Prison authorities, including the head of the department who is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong and the director of the prison. They even went to the head of the Jilin Provincial Prison Administration, but so far the authorities still will not release Yu Shujin.
Departments and authorities related to this case:
The Judicature Bureau of Jilin Province Judicature Bureau, #992
Xinfa Road, Chongchun City, Zip 130051
Zhu Guozhi, general office director: 86-431-2750001 or 2750020,
86-431-8969266 (Home)
Feng Mingfang, deputy director: 86-431-2750199 or 2750169,
86-431-2700185 (Home)
Liu Zhenyu, deputy director: 86-431-2750185 or 2750205, 86-431-7630589
(Home)
Lu Jun, deputy director: 86-431-2750181 or 2750208, 86-431-8588638
(Home)
Ju Wanzhou, deputy: director 86-431-2750209 or 2750189, 86-431-8977918
(Home)
The Prison Administration Bureau of Jilin Province, #1000 Xinfa
Road, Chongchun City, Zip130051
Li Wencai, head of the bureau: 86-431-2750002, 86-431-2763556 (Home)
Zhang Zhensu, deputy director of the bureau: 86-431-2750004,
86-431-7919580 (Home)
Yu Guangsheng, deputy director of the bureau: 86-431-2750005,
86-431-8586398 (Home)
Xu Fuming, deputy secretary: 86-431-2750006, 86-431-2744928 (Home)
Zhao XianDe, deputy director of the bureau: 86-431-2750007,
86-431-2707063 (Home)
Chongchun Tiebei Prison, Address: #68 Xinyye Street, Chongchun City,
Zip: 130052
Jilin Province
The Legal System School in the Qiaodong District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province is in fact a brainwashing center. The officials there, including Liu Xiaolong, Jia Liyun, Wang Runcheng and others cruelly torture Falun Gong Falun Gong practitioners detained at the school.
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Jianjun was twice at the brink of death, and practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiaolu was tortured until she sustained brain damage. She lost the vision in her left eye and her leg muscles atrophied. She has not recovered. To this day, she still stumbles whenever she walks. On the morning of May 11, 2002, four officers from Gongye Street Police Station illegally arrested practitioner Ms. Li Hong at her home. They took her to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center, where she was completely deprived of personal freedom for 32 months and was violently tortured. She could not meet with or take care of her family. Wang Runcheng, the head of the brainwashing center threatened practitioner Wang Zhong saying, "If you try to escape, I'll shoot to kill!"
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Hong held for nearly three years at a brainwashing center
Practitioner Ms. Li Hong, 38 years old, witnessed her friends and neighbor becoming healthy people of high moral character after they started practicing Falun Gong. Her husband, Mr. Miao Chuanzeng, quit drinking and gambling after he started practicing, and became hardworking and self-disciplined. She joined her husband in Falun Gong practice. She used to suffer from severe breast hyperplasia and as a result she could not raise her arms. She went to medical experts at the Beijing Cancer Hospital and was told she must have one breast removed or she would develop breast cancer. Three months into Falun Gong practice, however, the tumors shrunk. After six months, they disappeared completely.
After the persecution started, in October 6, 2000, Ms. Li, her husband Mr. Miao and practitioner Jiang Chunmei went to Beijing to tell people, "Falun Dafa is great." They unfurled a four-meter-long (approximately 13 feet long) banner that read, "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa" in Tiananmen Square. Plainclothes police officers arrested them. Mr. Miao was sentenced to two years of forced labor. Officers from the Gongye Street Police Station in the Qiaodong District sent Ms. Li to the Shisanli Detention Center and detained her there for 13 days. The authorities extorted money from her father before releasing her. He gave the money so that she could return to take care of her child, who needed her care.
In late August 2001, officials from the Gongye Street Party Committee forced Ms. Li to go to a brainwashing center sponsored by the Gongye Street Party Committee on a daily basis. One day she was told she would not be allowed to return home the next day if she still refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. To avoid further persecution, Ms. Li left home with her seven-year-old son. Eight months later, on May 10, 2002, she returned to Zhangjiakou City and was going to register her son for school. The next morning, three officers from the Gongye Street Police Station took her and her son from home, and held them at the Jijiafang Brainwashing Center. Three days later the police sent her son to her grandmother's home. He fell gravely ill and ran a fever of over 104o F for three days, was traumatized and almost died. Ms. Li's father was devastated that his daughter was detained and his grandson almost died. He lost his hearing in both ears.
Ms. Li's son was sent from home to home during the time his mother was in detention and his father was held at a labor camp. He could not go to school for one year. After he turned nine, his family spent a large amount of money and registered him for the first grade at a school near his grandmother's home. Officers from the Gongye Street Office often harassed him at school and pressured him to force his mother to give up Falun Gong. He was frightened and traumatized and became irritable and unsociable as a result of the harassment.
Ms. Li Hong was held at Jijiafang and Gaomiao; she was detained in solitary confinement at the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center. The authorities hired two people to monitor her around the clock. Every day they made her watch videos that slandered Falun Gong. They also forced her to stand for 20 days in a row and often didn't allow her to sleep. Other times she could only sleep two hours a day. When she closed her eyes, the guards would shock her with electric batons, jab her eyes with their fingers or pinch her. Soon her legs and feet became swollen and she had difficulty walking. She also sustained eye and brain injuries. The officials didn't give her enough food. Two of the people who monitored her stole half of the meager food money allocated for her every month. Ms. Li was given only 3.5 ounces of rice twice a day without any vegetabled or meat, and she was not allowed family visits.
Ms. Li went on several hunger strikes to protest the persecution, and her family also endured tremendous pressure and anguish. Officials from the Qiaodong Judicial Bureau set up a brainwashing center in violation of the law and held many Falun Gong practitioners there. They never issued any warrant nor was there a term limit set for their incarceration. All of the practitioner's rights were taken from them, and all of the practitioners were physically tortured and mentally tormented at the brainwashing center.
Ms. Li's father went to the brainwashing center and demanded her release. The center officials coerced him into writing a guarantee statement, tried to extort 3,000 yuan from him and threatened to lower his pension. Ms. Li's husband had been fired from his job and his family did not have 3,000 yuan. The authorities therefore did not release Ms. Li until the end of January 2005.
On November 7, 2004, Ms. Li's son Miao Sen was on his way home when a plainclothes police officer on a motorcycle wearing dark sunglasses grabbed him and repeatedly interrogated him about the whereabouts of his father. He tried to arrest the child. Miao Sen's classmate went to get his father to help, and his father stopped the officer from taking Miao Sen away.
Practitioner Liu Jianjun was twice on the brink of death
On November 9, 2003, practitioner Mr. Liu Jianjun was installing curtain frames inside a military compound and read Falun Gong books during his break. A soldier reported him and a dozen soldiers searched him. About six soldiers beat and kicked him. They sent Mr. Liu to the Wuyi Road Police Station where he was interrogated. Officers Qiao and Feng from Huayuan Street Police Station and Huahui from the Huayuan Street CCP Committee broke into Mr. Liu's home and took VCDs, one large recorder, two small recorders, VCDs and cassettes, Falun Gong books and other things. The authorities tortured Mr. Liu with the Tiger Bench later that evening. They sent him to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center the next day.
Mr. Liu held a hunger strike at the brainwashing center to protest his unlawful detention. The authorities brutally force-fed him on a daily basis. They bound him to the Tiger Bench and five people went at him at once. One person yanked his hair backward, another person pinched his face and nose; they pried open his mouth with a hard object and force-fed him, which later caused ulcerations in his mouth. He was twice on the brink of death.
The individuals personally responsible for the torture of Mr. Liu Jianjun are Wang Runcheng and Chang Hong, deputy heads of the brainwashing center; Liu and Gao from the Qiaodong Police Department, as well as guard Shi Chunlin and "doctor" Yue. Yue has come up with many brutal methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Jia Liyun, head of the brainwashing center and deputy head of the Qiaodong District Judicial Bureau, and Li Hui and Hou Runping also assisted in persecuting the practitioners. When Liu Jianjun was close to death, the officials frequently extorted money from his family. Jia Liyun and Yue even took 70 yuan from Mr. Liu's mother, which was all the money she had at the time.
Practitioner Ms. Wang Lihua vomits blood after being tortured
At around 3 p.m. on December 14, 2003, two male officers and one female plainclothes police officer from the Wuyi Road Police Department arrested practitioner Ms. Wang Lihua. They took her backpack, Walkman and other things. Then they took her to the Wuyi Road Police Department where they interrogated her and tortured her with the Tiger Bench for one day and one night. At 6 p.m. the next day, Chang Xiaoqing, deputy secretary from the Wuyi Road Party Committee, Ma Zhu from the police department and other officials sent Ms. Wang to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center.
There is a metal gate at the entrance of each of the three floors of the building of the brainwashing center. Each practitioner is isolated in one room. They are not allowed to talk. The authorities spend a large amount of money and hire people to watch the practitioners around the clock. The practitioners and their families have to pay for all of the expenses incurred at the center, and the authorities use various base means in an attempt to destroy the practitioners' belief.
Ms. Wang Lihua held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was tortured with the Tiger Bench. "Doctor" Yue pulled her hair backward and opened her mouth with a pair of pliers. They tortured Ms. Wang until she felt tightness and severe pain in the chest. They had to call the 120 Emergency Service, and that doctor diagnosed her with coronary heart disease. She was taken to a hospital and given IV infusions. Wang Lihua was tortured until she vomited blood in large quantities. Chang Xiaoqing, the deputy secretary of the Street Party Committee then said to her, "So you are throwing up blood? You deserve to drop dead!"
Practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiaolu tortured until she suffered brain damage and lost sight in her left eye
Practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiaolu worked at the Zhangjiakou City TV and Broadcasting Bureau. She went to Beijing twice to peacefully appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong and was arrested. Authorities from the Wuyi Road Police Department held her for over 70 days and extorted more than 40,000 yuan from her. On December 14, 2003, Ms. Zhao was reported when clarifying the truth in another city. She was sent to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center.
Ms. Zhao held a hunger strike to protest the detention. She was tortured to the brink of death several times. "Doctor" Yue, whom the authorities had temporarily hired, administered acupuncture but inserted the needle in all the wrong places; as a result of his "treatment" Ms. Zhao went into convulsions and foamed at the mouth; her body stiffened and she lost consciousness. She was sent to the No. 251 Hospital twice, the Qiaodong Hospital once and the No. 5 Hospital twice for emergency treatment. Ms. Zhao was forcibly given CNS (central nervous system) suppressing drugs in an IV fluid at the No. 251 Hospital. After the infusion her neck stiffened and she lost her memory and her ability to think. She didn't recover for a long time. Even now, Ms. Zhao often experiences nerve pain and loses consciousness. A large bump developed behind her neck around the main nerve; she lost sight in her left eye and is nearly blind in her right eye. Her legs atrophied and she still trips when walking, because the drug(s) damaged her sense of balance.
Although Zhao Xiaolu was in critical condition, the brainwashing center officials took her back and didn't allow her to stay in the hospital. They treated her with Chlorpromazine (a potent tranquilizer used for schizophrenics) at the brainwashing center each night. They increased the dose from five pills to twenty pills. After the drug failed to work, the authorities wanted to hire doctors and nurses to treat and monitor Ms. Zhao around the clock, which would have cost about 1,000 yuan a day in salaries, and which would have come out of her own pocket. The authorities also deceived and intimidated Ms. Zhao's family, "We won't ever release her; if she doesn't die, we'll send her to a labor camp." Her family saw that Ms. Zhao was skin and bones, weighing less than 77 pounds. She was severely dehydrated and the muscles and blood vessels on her legs had been seriously shrinking. She developed bedsores on both sides of her pelvis and was on the verge of death. Her family was devastated. The authorities then lied to her family, saying they were going to send her to a hospital and extorted 2,000 yuan from them. In fact, they never sent her to a hospital. They forced her family to write a guarantee statement and extorted another 10,000 yuan from them. Also, officials from the Wuyi Road Office extorted another 5,000 yuan from her family. Only because she wanted to be a good person according to Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, Ms. Zhao Xiaolu was tortured at the brainwashing center for 93 days and officials extorted a total of 17,000 yuan from her family before she was released. To this day, she still suffers great pain and has symptoms from the mistreatment at the brainwashing center.
Head of brainwashing center Wang Runcheng threatened practitioner Mr. Wang Zhong, "If you try to escape, I'll shoot to kill!"
In late December 2001, practitioner Mr. Wang Zhong went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police officers in Tiananmen Square violently struck his head with police batons, causing a brain hemorrhage and yellow fluid seeped out of his ears. He lost consciousness on the spot. Feng, the deputy head of the Hongqilou Police Department sent Mr. Wang to the Xuanhua Detention Center. Mr. Wang was forced to sleep on the concrete floor. The inmates pinned him on the ground and savagely beat him until they knocked out almost all of his teeth. Officials from the Hongqilou Police Department and from the Hongqilou Office extorted 10,000 yuan from him and released him after 37 days of detention. His work unit officials detained him and reduced his salary to 240 yuan a month for basic living expenses. Several days after Wang Runcheng returned home, Jia Cheng, secretary of the Hongqilou Office deceived Mr. Wang and got him to come to the office. They again detained him for a few days. Jia Cheng and Feng then sent Mr. Wang to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center. Mr. Wang jumped from the second floor in order to escape. He sustained a spinal fracture and broken bones in one foot. He then was forced to live away from home for 30 months in order to avoid recapture.
On May 19, 2003, officers from the Shengli Road Police Department hid in wait and arrested Mr. Wang and another practitioner. The police took a tape recorder worth 700 yuan, two bikes and other things. They sent Mr. Wang to the Shisanli Detention Center where inmates viciously beat him. Mr. Wang Zhong held a hunger strike to protest the abuse, and the inmates stabbed him with needles and beat him again. After three months of detention, officials from the Qiaoxi Police Department and from the Hongqilou Office conspired to send Mr. Wang to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center to have him physically tortured and mentally tormented.
In order to brainwash Mr. Wang Zhong, the authorities forced him to watch Falun Gong-slandering videos daily and do janitorial work. They gave him a small portion of food and salted vegetables at each meal. Mr. Wang was persecuted until his blood pressure dropped and his heart rate became irregular. His mental faculties were impaired and he could not stand steadily. The people in charge used Mr. Wang's money to hire people to monitor him around the clock. They monitored his every word and action. Supervisory personnel from the Qiaodong Police Department often went to the brainwashing center to pressure and persecute the practitioners. Once, Mr. Wang said something that angered Wang Runcheng, the head of the brainwashing center. Wang Runcheng hit him until his mouth was filled with blood. Mr. Wang was held for about 22 months, during which time he was subjected to more inhumane treatment and insults. Wang Runcheng threatened Mr. Wang, "If you try to escape, I'll shoot to kill!"
Mr. Duan Yun shocked with electric batons
Mr. Duan Yun, a practitioner from Ningyuanbao Village suffered from stomach disease, lung disease, heart disease and kidney disease before he started practicing Falun Gong. All of his illnesses disappeared after he started practicing. He also quit smoking, drinking and gambling. On February 13, 2004, village security head Wang Guang, Dong Cunlu, secretary of the Ningyuanpu Village Party Committee, village head Zhang Lin and Zhang Jianjun, deputy secretary of the Laoyazhuang Town Party Committee ransacked Mr. Duan's home and took a tape recorder and other items. They even took the gifts of condolence that his family and friends had given him at his mother's funeral. They took Mr. Duan to the meeting room at the Laoyazhuang Political and Judiciary Committee. Instigated by Zhang Jianjun, deputy secretary of the Laoyazhuang Town Party Committee, about six roughnecks covered Mr. Duan's head and beat him. They sent Duan Yun to the Qiaodong District Brainwashing Center where he was forced to watch Falun Gong-slandering VCDs. Wang Runcheng, head of center, shocked Mr. Duan with electric batons and threatened him in an attempt to make him renounce Falun Gong.
The main perpetrators of the persecution in the Qiaodong District are Zhang Changqi, secretary of the Qiaodong District Party Committee in Zhangjiakou City, Lei Hong, head of the Political and Judiciary Committee's 610 Office, Yan Zhiyou, head of the Qiaodong Police Department, Ma Fuwei, deputy head of the Qiaodong Police Department, and Jia Liyun, Wang Runcheng, Chang Hong, Li Hui and Hou Runping who are in charge of the brainwashing center.
Ms. Jiang Zhenmei was 75 years old. She was a retired employee of Chengdu City Tire Factory in Sichuan Province. Before she started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, she suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and ascites. Her life was in danger because of the illness, and she had to retire early. In 1997 Ms. Jiang was very fortunate and started to practice Falun Gong. She cultivated Falun Gong sincerely, all her diseases disappeared, and she became very energetic.
In July 1999 the Communist regime started persecuting Falun Gong. Ms. Jiang Zhenmei went to Beijing on November 28, 1999, to clarify the truth and appeal for Falun Gong, but Beijing police officers illegally arrested her. She was taken back to Sichuan Province and was detained for 15 days.
Ms. Jiang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong again in 2000, but was again arrested and detained for 30 days. One day in 2001, when Jiang Zhenmei was distributing "truth-clarification" materials, she was arrested once again and held for 45 days. Immediately after that, on September 28, 2001, the authorities sent her to the Wuhou District Brainwashing Center where she was brutally tortured for more than four months. Security guard team leader Zhang Huade savagely beat Ms. Jiang. She was also forced to stand for a long time in the chilly winter wind. After Jiang Zhenmei returned home, the authorities put her under long-term surveillance and arbitrarily harassed her.
Because Ms. Jiang Zhenmei had carried out hunger strikes to protest the persecution during her illegal detention, she had severe physical injuries. Along with the long-term mental stress of the persecution, Ms. Jiang became extremely weak, and died on October 28, 2005.
Ms. Dai Yanfen, 53, was from Team Three, Dafeng Township, Xindu District in Chendu City, Sichuan Province. She started Falun Gong cultivation practice in 1998. Before the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Dai had been persistent in promoting Falun Gong to people. After July 20, 1999, she continued to appeal for Falun Gong and clarify the truth. Lawless personnel from the 610 Office in Xindu District placed Ms. Dai under long-term surveillance, followed her, and put her in detention. Ms. Dai Yanfen's mind and body were severely injured as a result of the brutal persecution she suffered. She died on July 21, 2005.
Ms. Liu Zibi, 48, used to live in Group One of Village Two in Jingxi Township, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. She started practicing cultivation in 1998. Her husband also practices Falun Gong. In 2001, the authorities imprisoned her husband because of his Falun Gong practice. They ransacked the couple's home regularly, and intimidated and harassed Ms. Liu. As a result, her mind and body suffered severe trauma and she developed cirrhosis of the liver. She died on October 20, 2005.
Ms. Wang Xiulan, 53, was a farmer in Lijin County, Shandong Province. After she started practicing Falun Gong in 1994, she became very healthy and her family life became harmonious. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Wang Xiulan's home was ransacked and her husband was "illegally sentenced" to three years of forced labor. After the husband's term was up and he returned home, the couple continued to firmly practice Falun Gong. The police once again went to their home to harass and intimidate them. To avoid further arrest, the couple left home and became homeless. One day in 2005, Ms. Wang's husband was arrested, and is now imprisoned in the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Wang Xiulan's mind and body were severely injured as result of the relentless persecution. She died on October 28, 2005.
Ms. Li Yuzhen was a villager in Guanzhuang Village, Lijin County of Shandong Province. Because she persistently practiced Falun Gong, her home was ransacked and the police detained her several times. Ms. Li's mind and body suffered severe injury, and she died in March 2003.
Ms. Wang Huifang, 65, lived in the resident compound of the 243 Geology Production Division in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. After she started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, all her illnesses vanished. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, she was persistent in clarifying the truth. The police harassed Ms. Wang, ransacked her home and intimidated her many times. They put Ms. Wang into a detention center twice and extorted 8,000 yuan in cash from her. Ms. Wang Huifang's mind and body suffered serious injury as a result of the ongoing persecution, and she developed liver cancer. She died on September 20, 2005.
Mr. Wang Jingzhi, 53, lived in Boerzhuang Village, Gaozhai Township, Mengcun County, Hebei Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1998. In just ten days, his total-body edema, diabetes, tuberculosis and many other illnesses vanished. However, since the persecution started on July 20, 1999, officers from the Gaozhai Police Station harassed him many times. The lawless personnel even lived in Mr. Wang Jingzhi's home at his expense, to control his freedom.
At the end of July 2001, Wang Jingzhi was deceived and was subsequently locked up in the Mengcun Detention Center. He carried out a hunger strike in protest of the illegal detention, and broke out of the detention center three days later. The police swindled 1,000 yuan from Mr. Wang's family members for this. A month later, the police officers ransacked his home, confiscated all his Falun Gong books and once again detained Mr. Wang. He carried out another hunger strike for five days and lost a lot of weight. He developed severe illness. Fearing being held responsible, the authorities had to release him. Because of the relentless harassment, Wang Jingzhi was under great mental pressure. He died in March 2003.
Ms. Qi Yinghua, 20, lived in Lanfeng Village, Hongwei Township, Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. Since she began practicing Falun Gong in 1998, her heart disease, back pain and leg pain all disappeared. After the evil CCP headed by Jiang Zemin started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong in June 2000. She was arrested and handed over to the Qitaihe City Police Department and was kept at the Liulu Detention Center. After she was released, Wang Beifu, the Lanfeng Police Station chief, Chen Lu, Dong Jifu as well as other lawless personnel from the county government often went to Ms. Qi's home to intimidate her. They ransacked her home and fined her. Because of long-term interference, Ms. Qi Yinghua's mind and body suffered severe damage. Under the long-term mental pressure, she suffered a heart attack and died on January 19, 2001.
Yuzhang Prison of Jiangxi Province, located in Xinjian County, is designated as "A Provincial Model of a Civilized Prison." Nearly 100 Falun Gong practitioners have been imprisoned there. Because of their firm belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," the practitioners have suffered brutal torture in this prison.
The following is a partial list of the Falun Gong practitioners whose names we know, who have suffered persecution in Yuzhang Prison.
Mr. Huang Dong'an, born in October 1969, from Jixian County, Jiangxi
Province: Post graduate student
Mr. Xu Jiting, about 40 years old, from Hegang City, Heilongjiang
Province
Mr. Luo Wenbin, born in July 1975, from Nanchang City: Teacher at the 1st
Middle School of Qingshanhu District, Nanchang City
Mr. Chen Baozhi, born in October 1949, from Nanchang City: Employee of
the 5th Construction & Installation Engineering
Corporation of Nanching City
Mr. Sun Wenzhang, born in January 1976, from Ji'an City, Jiangxi
Province: Physics lecturer at the Agricultural University of Jiangxi
Province
Mr. Lai Hui, born in 1961, from Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province: An
employee of Jiangxi Foreign Trade Airconditioner City
Xiao Yuanguang
Huang Zhimin
The police arrested the above-mentioned Falun Gong practitioners in February of 2001 for their belief in "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance," and for their clarifying the truth to people. These innocent practitioners were illegally sentenced to 5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 9 years, up to 11 years. After suffering cruel torture at the hands of the police and having suffered for as long as 10 months of detention, they were illegally imprisoned in Yuzhang Prison at the end of December 2001.
The prison applied all kinds of soft and hard tactics to force the practitioners to "transform" and give up their belief in Falun Gong. First, the practitioners were separated into different labor divisions, with three inmates monitoring each of the practitioners. The practitioners were not allowed to do their Falun Gong exercises and were not allowed to speak the truth. In the meantime, the deputy division head and the team leader monitored the practitioners strictly. They tried to force the practitioners with tactics such as individual interrogation, withholding "family visits," and so on. Then police from the education section forced the practitioners to attend group brainwashing sessions using videotapes, books and other slanderous propaganda that defames Falun Gong. Then, they tried to force the practitioners to write a repentance statement and critical articles within a limited time, following their viewing of these slanderous materials. Those who followed their instructions were given reduced terms as a reward. For the practitioners on whom these tactics had no effect, the police incited the criminal inmates to torture them. The inmates were rewarded with a six-month term reduction if they forced a practitioner to "transform." Under such incitement and seduction, the inmates covered the practitioners' eyes, and beat and kicked them frenziedly. They violently whipped them with steel chains, handcuffed the practitioners' hands behind their backs and hung them up for long durations. They jabbed practitioners' back and knees with steel bars, deprived them of sleep by handcuffing them around the clock, and forced them to do manual labor. They also force-fed the practitioners and locked them in confinement cells for long periods of time. The prison used all kinds of cruel and inhuman tortures on the practitioners.
The practitioners are physically extremely weak and emaciated from the torture. Some of them have been ill for a long time, some are disabled, some have impaired memory and some are still experiencing mental trauma.
Phone numbers of those who are responsible for the persecution:
(Country code 86)
Prison address: Yuzhang Prison, Xijian County, Jiangxi Province, Zip:
310100
Zhang Xiaofeng, Prison Director: 791-3711230 (Prison office)
Shen Jianguo, Deputy Prison Director (responsible for "transforming"
Falun Gong practitioners): 791-3711405 (Office)
1. [Beipiao City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Li Shuzhong Tortured - His Life is in Great Danger
Practitioner Mr. Li Shuzhong from Beipiao City has been illegally held in the Liangshuihe District Detention Center ever since his arrest by the Beipiao City State Security Division on October 21, 2005. He has been carrying out a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and was sent to the Department of Internal Medicine in Beipiao City No. 2 Hospital for emergency rescue. Recently, Mr. Li Shuzhong started to vomit blood and his life is in great danger.
Relevant phone numbers:
Beipiao City No. 2 Hospital: 86-421-5828021
Ward of internal medicine for hospitalization in the Beipiao City No. 2
Hospital: 86-421-5351086 (Physician-in-charge: Dr. Cao (male), who is
in charge of treating Mr. Li Shuzhong)
Director of the Beipiao City No. 2 Hospital, Zheng Liguo (male):
86-13591859686 (Cell)
Doctors in the Beipiao City No. 2 Hospital:
Dr. Zhang Fengyun: 86-421-5818076, 86-13188161825 (Cell)
Dr. Du Fangfang: 86-421-5891981
Dr. Li Juan: 86-421-5864289
Dr. Wan Xiujuan: 86-421-5811801
Dr. Fang Zhanrui: 86-421-6641242
2. [Dongfeng County, Jilin Province] Ms. Wu Chunzhen Illegally Arrested
Practitioner Ms. Wu Chunzhen was illegally arrested by the police at around 8:30 p.m. on November 14, 2004.
Key member in the 610 Office of Dongfeng County in Jilin Province, Liu Shufang (female): 86-13943442227 (Cell), 86-437-6215753 (home), 86-437-6319227 (Office)
3. [Liaoning Province] Mr. Zhang Anjun on Hunger Strike in the Xidayingzi Forced Labor Camp
On the evening of September 22, 2005, police officers Ren Tie (male), Yu Cheng (male), and others from the Xiangyang District Police Department of Chaoyang City in Liaoning Province broke into practitioner Mr. Zhang Anjun's house. They arrested him and illegally detained him for 15 days. After eight days of his detention, Mr. Zhang was illegally sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp. Since November 12, 2005, Mr. Zhang Anjun has been protesting the inhumane torture by holding a hunger strike.
Relevant phone numbers:
The Xidayingzi District Forced Labor Camp of Chaoyang City in Liaoning
Province: 86-421-6658409, Fax: 86-421-6658411
Director of the Xidayingzi District Forced Labor Camp of Chaoyang City,
Yu Wanchi (male): 86-421-6658401 (Office), 86-13304918600 (Cell)
Deputy director of the Xidayingzi District Forced Labor Camp of
Chaoyang City, Jin Yucheng (male): 86-421-6658403 (Office),
86-13904911919 (Cell)
Doctor in the Department of Health of the
Xidayingzi District Forced Labor Camp, Li Mengqiu (gender unknown, in
charge of forced-feeding): 86-421-6658468 (Office), 86-421-2622658
(Home)
Chief of the Fourth Division (this is the division that
detains Falun Gong practitioners) in the Xidayingzi District Forced
Labor Camp, Qi Yongshun (male): 86-421-6658438 (Office), 86-421-2721900
(Home), 86-13504214970 (Cell)
4. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Shu'e and Ms. Jiang Shuzhi Arrested
On November 16, 2005, practitioner Ms. Wang Shu'e from Sandaohezi District of Lingyuan City was arrested by the police. On November 3, 2005, practitioner Ms. Jiang Shuzhi was illegally arrested by the Wanyuandian District police. Both of them are illegally detained in the Lingyuan City Second Detention Center.
Relevant phone numbers:
Wanyuandian District Police Station in Lingyuan City: 86-421-6805969
Sandaohezi District Police Station in Lingyuan City: 86-421-6257006
Chief of the State Security Division of Lingyuan City, Fu Yanling
(male): 86-13500416011 (Cell)
Deputy chief of the State Security Division of Lingyuan City, Chen Zhi
(male): 86-13842156895 (Cell)
Chief of the Second Detention Center of Lingyuan City, Sun Liansheng
(male): 86-421-6883185 (Office), 86-421-6823998 (Home), 86-13942116989
(Cell)
5. [Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region] Ms. Wu Guichuan Illegally Detained
Practitioner Ms. Wu Guichuan from Yitulihe Town of Yakeshi City in Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region was arrested by the local police officers at the train station on November 15, 2005. She is illegally detained in Yakeshi City.
6. [Tianjin City] Ms. Zhang Gaifen (mother) and Ms. Chen Yinghui (daughter) Both Tortured
On the afternoon of February 26, 2005, practitioner Ms. Chen Yinghui and her mother Ms. Zhang Gaifen from Tianjin City were forcibly taken away by eight members of the Dagang District 610 Office of Tianjin City.
In addition, practitioner Ms. Zhao who lived in Dongchang Neighborhood, Xiaowang Village, Hebei District of Tianjin City was also arrested by the police officers from the Hebei District 610 Office of Tianjin City. The location of her detention is unclear.
7. [Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province] Ms. Bao Xiaying Illegally Sentenced to a Forced Labor Camp
Practitioner Ms. Bao Xiaying is thirty years old and is steadfast in her cultivation. She was arrested by police officers from the Fuyang City Police Department in Zhejiang Province, around May 2005, and was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor. Ms. Bao is being detained in the Moganshan District Women's Forced Labor Camp.
8. [Anshan City, Liaoning Province] Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners from Shixiuyan County Arrested
On November 11, 2005, practitioners Ms. Wang Xiaohui and Ms. Bai Jinfen from the Shixiuyan County of Anshan City in Liaoning Province were illegally arrested by the police. They are being detained and tortured in the Xishan District Detention Center of Anshan City.
9. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Sun Yumei Arrested
On November 13, 2005, practitioner Ms. Sun Yumei , in her 30's, who lives in the Daqing City Second Factory, was followed and illegally arrested by police officer Fan Chunming (male).
10. [Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province] Local Police Arrest Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Du Xiumin and Ransack Her House
On November 7, 2005, practitioner Ms. Du Xiumin from Mian County of Hanzhong City in Shanxi Province was reported to the police while she was clarifying the truth. The local police officers also illegally ransacked her house. Ms. Du is being held in the Mian County Detention Center of Hanzhong City.
Relevant phone numbers:
Director of Mian County Police Department of Hanzhong City:
86-916-3292818
Deputy director of Mian County Police Department: 86-916-3292866,
86-916-3292899
Mian County Detention Center: 86-916-3212682, 86-916-3292882,
86-916-3227337
State Security Division of the Mian County Police Department:
86-916-3292805, 86-916-3292806
11. [Sichuan Province] Ms. Li Xihui Illegally Detained in Pi County Detention Center
Practitioner Ms. Li Xihui works at the Sichuan People's Radio Station, and was illegally arrested by the police in Lijiatuo District on October 21, 2005. She is being held in the Pi County Detention Center.