Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Ms. Zhao Yinglan was from Jiansanjiang Farm, Heilongjiang Province. Five people in her family were illegally detained for their belief in Falun Gong and following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." On March 20, 2006, Ms. Zhao's daughter-in-law, Ms. Cao Xiufang, was arrested again. Because of all the sorrow, worry, and pain she went through, Ms. Zhao died on June 16, 2006.

Ms. Zhao Yinglan was 69 years old and lived in the [living quarters of the] Qixing Brick Factory of Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province. She was very ill before 1996 and frequently went to see a doctor. However, after practicing Falun Gong in 1996, her physical health improved and she no longer needed any medication. Her entire family also practiced Falun Gong.

After the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, police and staff from the 610 Office often harassed her. Five people in her family were arrested and detained, including her two sons, one daughter, and two daughters-in-law. Four of them (except her younger son, Tian Baoxing) were sent to the forced labor camp. Her elder son, Tian Baoyu, was sentenced for six years.

Practitioner Tian Baoyu was sent to the labor camp after the persecution started on July 20, 1999. He was tortured in Jiamusi City. In September and October 2001, when his detention term expired, local police and 610 Office agents took him back and sent him directly to Jiansanjiang Detention Center. After vehement demands from family members and the local community, the police released Tian Baoyu. In 2002, however, they once again put him in the detention center along with two other practitioners, using the excuse of "meeting." In January 2001, the police transferred him to Suihua Forced Labor Camp.

Given these long and agonizing experiences, Ms. Zhao Yinglan could no longer bear it. Out of sheer terror, she was became bedridden again and needed to be looked after. In early 2006, she stayed in the home of Tian Baoyu, whose wife, Ms. Cao Xiufang, took care of her.

On March 20, 2006, six police officers confiscated their household belongings. They arrested Ms. Cao Xiufang and sent her to Jiansanjiang Brainwashing Center. On the following day, four police officers went to the home of Ms. Zhao Yinglan's daughter and harassed her.

After being terrorized again and again, Ms. Zhao Yinglan died on June 16, 2006.

The Jiansanjiang Agricultural Administration Bureau has constantly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners since July 22, 1999. Numerous practitioners were detained for long periods of time or forced to do intensive labor on a farm. Many other practitioners were also arrested and sent to Jiamusi Labor Camp or Suihua Labor Camp for further persecution. Ms. Cao Xiufang was sent to Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

In October 2006, the police went to more practitioners' homes and confiscated their belongings. Several practitioners were arrested, including Jin Jinzhe, Tian Xianhua, and another practitioner. After being detained in Jiansanjiang Brainwashing Center, they were secretly transferred on October 15. It was said that Tian Xianhua was detained in Qianjin Town Detention Center in Jiansanjiang.

On September 8, 2006, policemen Liu Zhongping and Liu Feng from Kangping local police station in Lishu County, Jilin Province, arrested practitioner Mr. Meng Xiangqi. They also took away his personal ID card, a bank deposit card with 400 yuan on it, and 800 yuan in cash. Mr. Meng was illegally sentenced to six years of imprisonment. To this day his family has not been notified of the sentence.

On the morning of October 30, Mr. Meng's grandmother, Ms. Zhang Shulan, went to Kangping local police station and requested that the officer responsible (policeman Liu Zhongping) return the money and release Mr. Meng. Officer Liu insulted and humiliated her. Ms Zhang was so angry and upset that she fainted. Later, she was thrown out of the police station. For the whole day she had no food or anything to drink.

Around 7 p.m. that evening, Ms. Zhang went to Liu Zhongping's home to again request that he return the stolen money. Liu blocked her at the stairway, again insulting her. Though his wife tried to stop him, he slapped Ms. Zhang hard across her face, and she fell to the ground. Officer Liu called his son, his daughter-in-law, another policeman, Liu Feng; and a few plainclothes officers. At least three police vehicles and four black vehicles came to the building. They dragged Ms Zhang to a street nearby. Some students and passerbys were attracted to the scene. When they found out that the policemen were beating an old lady, they were all indignant. The policemen and plainclothes officers sneaked off when the situation turned against them.

On October 31, one of Ms Zhang's family supported her by the arm and went to Kangping local police station again. They wanted to talk about how she was beaten the day before. However, the staff in the police station sneaked away. With no other recourse, she went to the police department in the afternoon. The officer told her, "The manager is not available. No one is here to take care of this matter."

On November 1, Ms. Zhang went to the police department again. The officer told her, "Wait for an answer at 1:30 p.m." At that moment, Ms. Zhang felt acute pain and could not wait. After that, she went to the court. A staff member named Cui Ren in the court told her, "There is nothing we can do about it. You need to go to the People's Congress or the procuratorate. They will take care of it." Ms Zhang went back to the police department in the afternoon. Someone named Zhou (whose name was said to be Zhou Xiaoquan) was assigned to deal with her. He was drunk and his language was very unpleasant. Ms. Zhang had no choice but to go to the people's congress. A white vehicle of the police department followed her. When Ms. Zhang went to the building where the County Party Committee was located, someone from the vehicle called the police department, and soon a few more vehicles came. A staff member in the county People's Congress said, "Wait for an answer in the police department tomorrow."

About 8 a.m. on November 2, again supported by her family member, Ms Zhang went to the procuratorate. She told of her desire to report what had happened to her. A manager named Li said, "I will tell the staff to make a record of this." They could see he was obviously stalling. After the persistence of the family to report the incident, he finally said, "Go to the third floor, and talk to chief procurator Zhou in room 307." (Later we were secretly told that Zhou was an office chief instead of chief procurator.)

Ms. Zhang's family member told "chief procurator Zhou" all about what had happened to the 85-year-old lady, how policeman Li Zhongping had insulted her and beat her. Zhou asked when and where Ms. Zhang was struck. Then he said, "Liu Zhongping hit her outside his working hours. This incident is not considered as 'a policeman hitting someone.' It is not considered illegal or a violation of regulations. We don't take care of such incidents here. Talk to the police department." Ms. Zhang's family asked him, "If a policeman came across a robbery or murder after work, he should not do anything about it, because he is no longer a policeman after work, right?" Zhou said, "It is a policeman's responsibility to do something about a robbery or murder. He is considered a policeman at that time. However, he hit someone after work and he is not considered a policeman. So we can't do anything about it. Talk to the director or deputy director of the police department." Ms. Zhang's relative said, "The police department, the court and the procuratorate are all evading responsibilities. We will go to appeal in Beijing." A staff member told him, "No one will receive you even if you go to Beijing. Let me tell you a 'shortcut.' Have an exam in a hospital and bring the diagnosis here." The relative asked him, "Will you do something about it if we bring the exam report?" He hesitated for a while and said, "It's another matter whether we will do something about it or not."

A policeman cruelly beat an 85-year-old lady. However, from the police station to the court to the procuratorate to the county People's Congress, everyone evaded responsibility and would not do anything about it. There is no place to appeal for justice under rule of the CCP.

Policeman Liu Zhongping

Policeman Liu Feng

My name is Huang Min. I am a 37-year-old man living at Dagang Petroleum Field, Tianjin City. I graduated from Jilin University of Technology in 1991. In the summer of 1997, I had the fortuitous opportunity to learn Falun Gong. I have never been ill for over nine years. Ever since I started to practice Falun Gong, I have been very healthy and agile.

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party started to frantically oppress Falun Gong. Wherever I looked and each time I watched TV, read the newspapers, or listened to the radio, I saw the CCP's smear campaign and hate propaganda against Falun Gong. On September 30, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but I ended up being imprisoned for nearly two months before I was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. On November 2, 1999, I was sent to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in the Beichen District of Tianjin City. When I completed the two-year term, they did not release me. Instead, they transferred me to Yushan Forced Labor Camp in Ji County for another year. Afterwards, the police from Gangdong Police Station in the Dagang District of Tianjin City picked me up from the camp and imprisoned me for 30 days before transferring me back to a detention center. Next sentenced me to another three years in Dasuzhuang Forced Labor Camp in the Dagang District, Tianjin City. At the time there was a rule for Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin City—those that the police were unable to sentence to prison would be kept in the forced labor camp forever if they refused to give up and renounce Falun Gong in writing. After being incarcerated in Dasuzhuang Forced Labor Camp for a year, all the male practitioners were transferred to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp and the female practitioners to Banqiao Forced Labor Camp. I was imprisoned there until April 6, 2005. I was illegally incarcerated for five years and seven months altogether, during which I suffered from violence and inhuman abuses numerous times. I will only describe some of the most typical abuses.

While in Changping Detention Center in Beijing, I was incarcerated, along with over 30 other practitioners, in one large cell. One day we were concentrating on studying the Falun Gong books when a prison guard discovered us. After a while, he brought in over 20 prison guards, some with weapons in their hands. They hit every practitioner in sight. After brutally beating us for over 30 minutes, they robbed us and confiscated our Falun Gong books. Nearly everyone of us was injured over every inch of our bodies. Some practitioners' hair was plucked out by the handfuls.

Once at the detention center, the police put the determined practitioners in the same cells with felons and ordered the inmates to abuse the practitioners. Every morning after we finished cleaning the cell, the felons would punch and torture us. There were many kinds of abuse. For example, I was sandwiched by two felons who were standing facing each other. The one in front of me repeatedly punched my chest, which caused me to back down. Then the one standing behind me repeatedly punched my back. They punched me back and forth as though I was a human volleyball. Another torture involved kicking at my outer thighs with their knees until my inner thighs became severely bruised. Afterwards, I was unable to stand or walk. Another type of torture involved forcing us to bend forward 90 degrees while the felons punched hard on our lower backs with their elbows. Another type of torture was to punch at our sideburns. There was also a torture that forced us to stand with our backs against the wall with a quilt or a pillow on our stomach while the felons repeatedly punched our stomach. Another torture involved the felons holding my fingers together with toothbrushes between my fingers and rotating the toothbrushes. After a few rotations of the toothbrushes, the skin and flesh on the fingers broke open. After a few days of the aforementioned types of torture, a healthy practitioner would be severely injured beyond recognition. Later the prison guards told the felons to stop the tortures. They may have been worried that the forced labor camps would not take us if we were dying.

After I was transferred to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, I faced worse treatment and torture. The 13 of us were the first group of practitioners sent to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. Among us there was a t20-year-old young man named Jia Zhiming. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor because he asked the State Appeals Office in Beijing to pass his letter to Zhu Rongji, Premiere of the Chinese Communist regime at the time. Because he knew he was completely within his constitutional rights to send a letter to the State Appeals Office, he refused to sign the court's verdict. On the very first day in Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, Jia Zhiming was subjected to several rounds of brutal beatings. On the first night there, he was subjected to electric shock with stun batons for a few hours. His painful moaning and the noise of electric batons broke the intense silence in the cells, sending chills and fear into everyone who heard his cries in the dark. Jia Zhiming was a very robust and burly young man. After more than a year of torture in the camp, he became a sack of bones beyond recognition.

A few days later, the prison guards corralled the 13 practitioners in the bathroom. Regardless of our age, we were each stripped of our pants and spanked a dozen times with a large wooden plank. There was an unwritten rule in the camp: Each newcomer must be subjected to beating, keep his head down in the first month and learn the "rules" of the game. The first month was the most painful. Because we have never been imprisoned in a forced labor camp, we didn't know how to perform the hard labor. Hence, we were unable to complete the assigned labor. Oftentimes we had to stay up for a few nights in a row to complete the work. During the first month, we often fell asleep when we were walking or standing and, thus, fell down. There was violence everywhere in the camp. In addition to deducting points from us, the felons would beat us when we didn't perform hard labor well, walk in formation well, or worked slowly. But violence would not reduce the endless long-hours of extremely demanding hard labor. Moreover, we were surrounded by felons who constantly fought each other for power, formed factions and cliques, and had fights between factions. Anyone who lives in such an unrelenting hostile environment becomes extremely careful, and nervousness pushed us to the brink of mental collapse. Each day felt like a year. Every day we went out to do hard labor at 6:00 a.m. and oftentimes did not return to our cells until 4:00 a.m. the next day. Even those of us who worked fast had to stay up until midnight. During periods of time when we were given more work, we often had to stay up for several nights in a row.

Around March 2000, the practitioners incarcerated in Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp started a group hunger strike as a nonviolent means to protest the illegal imprisonment and as a way to have the authorities come in to learn the truth about Falun Gong. The Forced Labor Bureau sent people to listen to the report about our group hunger strike, but left without doing anything. Some prison guards did not even care about us at all. They even declared, "You don't have to eat, but you have to work or face my stun baton." We completed our daily work assignments despite the hunger strike. It was not until the fifth day of the group hunger strike that the prison guards started to respond. They took out several practitioners whom they thought were leaders of the group hunger strike and subjected them to brutal beatings, electric shocks, and the torture of forced-feeding, which is the number-one cause of death of Falun Gong practitioners incarcerated in forced labor camps. This group hunger strike lasted for seven days and got the attention of all the felons and prison guards. How could these practitioners perform such physically demanding hard labor without eating? Although we were working on handcrafts, they were physically demanding. Every day we worked from 6:00 a.m. until 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. the next day without any break. Later the head prison guard in our group allowed us to go to sleep at midnight out of fear that we might collapse [and delay the handcraft production that produces revenue for the camp].

In May 2001, the horror was escalated to a new level. The CCP ordered all the forced labor camps to start forced brainwashing sessions and make all the practitioners attend. They tried to make us admit in writing that it was wrong to practice Falun Gong and to renounce Falun Gong in writing. In the morning, we were forced to attend the brainwashing ssession. In the afternoon, we were forced to practice strenuous formations. Each inmate was given a part in the brainwashing work. Some were responsible for beating, some for cursing. At night, we were divided into small groups, each subjected to fierce criticism, verbal insults, and curses. When we showed the slightest objection, we would face the inmates' violence right away. There was a fellow practitioner named Chang Tianxiang imprisoned in my cell. Because he refused to do the "homework" of defaming Falun Gong, he was hauled to the bathroom, where the inmates brutally beat him for over two hours. Each time he passed out, the inmates splashed cold water over him to bring him to consciousness and continued the beatings. They repeatedly beat him until he was bruised all over and had completely passed out. Finally Chang Tianxiang agreed to renounce Falun Gong against his will while he was in excruciating agony and was not clearheaded. They even audio-recorded what he said. But this was not the end of the torment. Before Chang Tianxiang recovered his health from the brutal beating, the inmates stripped him naked and paraded his [severely bruised] body back and forth in the corridor for everyone to see! It was their intention to intimate all the practitioners and show us the consequences of refusing to renounce Falun Gong. It was not until we later boycotted the brainwashing sessions as a group and managed to report the abuse to the on-site prosecutor that they punished several inmates that beat the practitioners.

The prison guards stopped at nothing to make us renounce Falun Gong. They even promised a big reward or a reduction of prison term to the inmates who beat practitioners. They assured the inmates that there would be absolutely no consequences for their actions. As a result, many practitioners were beaten until they became handicapped or even died. Two older practitioners that I knew of, Mr. Chen Baoliang and Mr. Meng Jixiang, were beaten to death in the camp.

Later, more and more practitioners were sent to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, so they had to transfer some of us to other forced labor camps. In mid-September 2001, I was transferred to Yushan Forced Labor Camp in Ji County, Tianjin City. A month later, they started to pressure me with violence in order to make me renounce Falun Gong. The prison guards had four inmates brutally beat me on an average of six rounds a day. When they realized that beating would not work, they resorted to different means of torture. They kept hitting my wrists and finger joints with a pair of forceps used to pick up cotton in the workroom until all the soft issues and tendons were badly swollen. In addition, they hit me on my ankles and toes, the areas that are more sensitive to pain. They made a hammer out of copper wires and used it to hit my head until there were bumps all over my head. Finally they poked my fingertips with large sewing needles until my fingers bled profusely. They also kept chopping the nape of my neck and Adam's apple with the sides of their palms. I thought my Adam's apple must have been broken into pieces. For a very long time, I could not utter any sound and my face was swollen up like a balloon. But the prison guards jeered at me, saying I had gained weight [on account of my swollen face]! I started a hunger strike to protest and eventually I became a sack of bones and weighed less than 88 pounds. They stopped beating me, but they resorted to the torture of forced-feeding. At first, they used a non-medical tube as thick as an adult male's index finger for forced-feeding. They tried to stuff the thick tube in my nose, but of course they couldn't get it in. My nose bled profusely as a result of the torture. Eventually the inmates standing nearby could not bear to watch the torture. They said, "Stop it! He is a human being after all!"

Next they resorted to chopsticks and a wooden club as thick as a finger. They used them to pry my mouth open and pour the food in, but I broke them in half with my teeth. Then they changed to a stainless steel spoon to pry my mouth open. Each time they scraped a piece of skin and flesh off my upper jaw and caused a lot of bleeding and pain. They pried my mouth open twice a day. At first they force-fed me with nutritious food, but later they force-fed me with hot pepper juice mixed with lard, a lot of salt, and cornmeal. It had a dark color and was the consistency of soup. The extremely spicy soup inflicted a lot of pain.

When none of these torture methods made me renounce Falun Gong, the on-site medical doctor told me that I needed more nutrition and he would give me glucose injections. But he added an unknown drug to the glucose. When I refused the glucose injection, about five inmates held me down while the doctor forced the injection. Later the head of the brainwashing class, Liu Julong, told me that they had discussed for two months and made a few plots. In short, they decided to put me on psychiatric drugs. At the time the on-site medical doctor's name was Wang. The inmate that assisted him was named Lu Gang. When the drug did not work, they came up with a new plan. I had been on a protest hunger strike for a few months. The doctor said I must be ill from hunger striking for months, so he used it as an excuse to take me to a hospital for a blood test. After I was brought back to the camp, he said my blood sugar level was very high and he suspected that I had diabetes. The following day, he wanted to take my blood again, but I refused him right away. I told him that I was not ill and I did not have any symptom of diabetes. I added that he shouldn't draw blood from me because I was very frail after several months on a hunger strike. They wouldn't listen. The following day, they had about five men haul me to the doctor and hold me to the ground while the doctor took my blood with a large syringe. After 30 minutes, he took another large syringe of blood from me. That morning he took six large syringes of blood from me in the name of "medical treatment." That concluded his so-called "medical treatment."

In October 2002, the police from Gangdong Police Station in Dagang District picked me up from Yushan Forced Labor Camp and detained me for 30 days before they sentenced me to three years at the Dasuzhuang Forced Labor Camp in the Dagang District. In late 2003, I was transferred back to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. As a result of years of incarceration, torture, and protest hunger strikes, I had become almost disabled. I suffered from problems in my lower back, legs, and neck. I had to walk very slowly. It has been over a year since I was released, but I still cannot perform any physical work. My lower back and legs are always sore.

I was halfway into a hunger strike when I was transferred from Dasuzhuang to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. Once there, they resorted to an even more sneaky torture—complete isolation. I was under the watch of two inmates around the clock in an isolated room. I was made to sit still on a small stool from 6:00 a.m. to midnight every day. Except when I used the toilet, I was forced to sit still on the stool. After over four years of torture, my health was on the brink of collapse. I could no longer endure such an inhuman torture. I finally succumbed to the torture and renounced Falun Gong in writing against my conscience and told a lot of lies. I hereby declare again that everything I was forced to say and write during the incarceration to be null and void. I shall be diligent in my  practice and live up to the title of a Falun Gong practitioner. I shall make up for the losses I have caused and purge the disgrace I have brought to myself.

There used to be a No. 5 Team in Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, formed in 2000. It was notorious for its terror and violence. Later, a practitioner named Zhu Gang was put in this team. The authorities resorted to torture and violence, but they were unable to make him succumb. They were furious. They hung him up in the air and stuffed lit cigarette butts in his nose. When they finally released him from hanging in the air, they took out six cigarette butts from his nose. Finally they admitted defeat and sent Zhu Gang to a psychiatric hospital. They spread a lie that practicing Falun Gong had made Zhu Gang crazy.

In early 2003, the Forced Labor Bureau started the so-called "100 days of intensive brainwashing." From January to March 2003, they focused entirely on making all the imprisoned practitioners renounce Falun Gong. Put simply, it was another wave of ruthless persecution. According to practitioners transferred from Banqiao Forced Labor Camp, the on-site medical doctors and the inmates-turned goons worked together. The inmates kept beating practitioners until they passed out or were in mortal danger. Then the medical doctor would resuscitate the victim so that the inmates could continue beating him while he was conscious. They repeated the process until a practitioner succumbed and renounced Falun Gong. At Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, they used multiple stun batons to shock a practitioner. They tested it on a pig first. Using eight stun batons at the same time, the prison guards killed a pig. Hence, they decided to use "just" seven stun batons to shock one practitioner at a time. They put a black cloth over each practitioner's head and hauled him to a small shack, where the prison guards shocked him with seven stun batons at the same time. The practitioner's skin was burned and turned black. The room was filled with the smell of burning flesh.

In Shuanqiaozi District, Chengdu City lived a family consisting of an old couple, two daughters, and one son-in-law. The elder daughter, Liu Li, was a teacher at Peace Street Primary School in Chengdu. The younger daughter, Liu Ying, used to be a kindergarten teacher. The two daughters opened a shop together, working as nail artists. Son-in-law Chen Yingjun, Liu Ying's husband, was an engineer in a Chengdu factory and is now working in a private enterprise at Mozijiao. Both daughters and the son-in-law are Falun Gong practitioners, and they all enjoyed a happy family life.

Since 1999, under the direct order of Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese Communist Party leader, the entire media of China has been used to defame Falun Gong. Practitioners of Falun Gong are labeled as suicides, killers, or lunatics that neglect their families. Being constantly brainwashed by the propaganda in the media, many Chinese people think Falun Gong practitioners are either mad or seeking political power. But what is the real story?

Since its introduction to the public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong has been spread to 80 countries and regions around the world. The principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance have entered people's hearts, and brought happiness and health to countless people.

Falun Gong and its founder have received more than 2,000 awards, instances of recognition, and supportive resolutions. The main text of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, and other books by Mr. Li Hongzhi have been translated and published in more than 30 different languages.

The founder of Falun Gong has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times because of consistent efforts to peacefully and rationally clarify the truth to the people in the world about the goodness of Falun Gong and the facts of the persecution. On August 14, 2001, a representative of the International Education Development made a statement at the U.N.:

These facts were covered up by the Chinese Communist Party in order to continue its deceit and prevent Chinese people from finding out the truth so that the persecution could be continued. Thus, the entire system of the country, from government organizations to police department, Procurotorate and Courts, every work unit in every area, all were required to carry out Jiang Zemin's orders, even in violation of the constitution and laws. Monstrous crimes have been committed against Falun Gong practitioners. Countless families have been recklessly destroyed.

Let's take a look at how the "610 Offices" under the Chenghua District CCP Political and Law Committee and the Shuangqiao Comprehensive Problem Tackling Center (abbreviated as "Chenghua District 610" and "PTC 610" below) destroyed this family.

After the persecution started in 1999, the two daughters lost their jobs because they chose to continue their  practice. Later on they found other jobs to make a living, and the family had a new addition of a lovely granddaughter. The old couple was very happy.

In August 2005, Xue Yong (male), the head of the PTC 610, pressured Ms. Liu Li to write a Guarantee Statement (not to practice Falun Gong any more), but she refused. On September 6, 2005, when Ms Liu Li was by herself at work, Xue Yong and a few officers illegally arrested her and sent her to Chengdu Legal Education Center at Xinjin (actually a brainwashing center and identified as "Xinjin Brainwashing Center" below) to be brainwashed and to force her to give a Guarantee Statement. Ms. Liu Li was kept in the brainwashing center until the end of 2005.

Ms Liu Li's parents, suffering from the loss of their daughter, had the duty of looking after the grandchildren, and the grandmother soon fell sick. Ms Liu Ying and her father went to appeal at the local government and People's Congress, but were told to solve the problem at the local district level. They went to see the department head of Political and Law Committee, Wang Yu (female), and found out that it was she who gave the original order to arrest their daughter.

While Ms. Liu Li was detained, Xue Yong and Liang Jigui (male) threatened the younger daughter, Ms. Liu Ying, and her husband over the phone, saying that they had to write the Guarantee Statement and leave her parents' home. This caused great tension within the family.

On April 25, 2006, after Ms. Liu Li had been released for more than four months, son-in-law Chen Yingjun was arrested as he stepped out of his house. He was sent to Xinjin Brainwashing Center by Xue Yong and Hu Bing (male). They had followed him for a few months before this happened.

The arrests of Ms. Liu Li and Mr. Chen Yingjun by the Chenghua District 610 is against Chinese law. Article 36 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China states:

"Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief.

"No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion.

Whoever forces others to give up their belief is breaking the law and committing a crime. Jiang Zemin and his associates clearly understand that the means they have used to crackdown on Falun Gong are illegal, so they established the 610 Office (now called the "Evil Cult Prevention Office") at different levels of Political and Law Committees. The lowest level is the Problem Tackling Center. The 610 Office is above the legal system. Families and relatives of Falun Gong practitioners are often told that the 610 Office does not belong to public security organizations, procuratorial organizations, or people's courts, thus the 610 Office members are not law enforcement officials. But the office exercises the power of a law enforcement body, and it has never followed any legal procedures in its functioning. All the arrests they conduct are illegal and against the law.

Article 37 of China's constitution deals with personal freedom:

"Freedom of the person of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable."

"Unlawful detention or deprivation or restriction of citizens' freedom of the person by other means is prohibited, and unlawful search of the person of citizens is prohibited."

But when questioned by family members of Falun Gong practitioners, 610 officials will say, "We are not going to discuss this with you."

Under Jiang Zemin's direct order, the public security organizations, procuratorial organizations, and people's courts not only shield the 610 Office, they also arrest innocent people who merely appeal to the government and speak out against the persecution.

The majority of the people are deceived by the propaganda in the media, so Jiang Zemin and 610 Office crimes are not exposed. Very few people know the truth, and even fewer condemn the persecution, leading the 610 Office to believe they have nothing to fear, and the Problem Tackling Centers dare to treat Falun Gong practitioners arbitrarily.

Xinjin Brainwashing Center is managed by the 610 Office at the Provincial and City level. The founding of the 610 Office is utterly baseless, thus the establishment of the Xinjin Brainwashing Center is also baseless. It was supposed to be for the purpose of "education." Actually it is a prison, or worse than a prison. Someone sentenced to a prison has a chance to be tried first. When someone is serving the sentence, he/she is allowed to have certain freedoms: to move about, have visitors, make phone calls. But in the brainwashing center, the person has to stay in one cell alone, totally isolated from others, with two guards watching his or her movements. People detained in the brainwashing center are not allowed to send or receive letters freely. There is no personal freedom at all. People kept there are like criminals who have never received a sentence.

Article 40 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China states:

"The freedom and privacy of correspondence of citizens of the People's Republic of China are protected by law."

But all of this is just words on paper, ignored in the government's eye.

Kind-hearted people, after you read the above facts, who do you think is violating the law?

At present, Mr. Chen Yingjun is still detained in Xinjin Brainwashing Center. The former chief of the Problem Tackling Center, Xue Yong, has been replaced by the new chief, Fu Qiang, who has already tried to force Ms. Liu Ying to write a Guarantee Statement. He has told Ms. Liu Ying that the same things could happen to her again if she refuses to write the statement.

Mr. Zhang Quanliang, a practitioner from Chongqing City, was secretly sentenced to prison for five years on July 25. The authorities have blocked the news so tightly that even his attorney did not receive any notification.

After Zhang Quanliang’s family members obtained the information, they went to the Yuzhong District Court to ask for his release. The court authority claimed that he had been transferred to the No. 5 Middle Rank Court. It is reported that Mr. Zhang has appealed to that court.

Zhang Quanliang was once sentenced to a forced labor camp for three years. He was subjected to all sorts of tortures and was finally released. But, on December 7, 2005, he was illegally arrested again. State Security Team personnel in the Yuzhong District hung him by handcuffs for six days and nights.

The departments involved in the persecution of Mr. Zhang also include the 1st Division of Chongqing City Police Department, the No. 5 Procurator in Chongqing City, the Yuzhong District Procurator, and others.

My name is Zhang Shuhua. In February 2005, I was illegally arrested at my home by local police and sent to the National Security Group. Afterward, I was sent to the local detention center and imprisoned for three months. After being interrogated and mercilessly beaten by the National Security Group police several times, I was sent to Changchun Women's Forced Labor Camp to serve one year of forced labor.

I did not "reform" in the labor camp, and I refused to write the five statements (similar to the three statements). Eventually, they held me down until I wrote the five statements. Immediately afterward, I wrote a solemn declaration to void what I had written. Since I was forced to do hard labor until July, my once healthy body showed symptoms of high blood pressure, and my heart raced at 180 bpm. I was forced to take medicine. Police Chief Hou Zhihong saw me taking the medicine and said: "With your blood pressure, you may have cerebral hemorrhage or possibly trip and fall. If you are not obedient I will make you have headaches." After taking the medication, my head began hurting so badly that it felt like it had been split in two, I experienced a cold sweat, and my blood rushed to my head leaving my legs weak. I was extremely uncomfortable.

The next day, police doctor Zhang Feng tried to make me take medicine again. I said I did not want to take it because it made my head feel like it was about to explode. They forced me to be silent and called me to the disciplinary room where officer Liu Hu shocked my mouth with an electric baton, loosening my teeth. They then called me into the medical office saying they wanted to measure my blood pressure. When I got there they wanted to give me an injection. I did not cooperate. Doctors Zhang Feng, Li Man, Zhang Zhihui and another doctor in the institute held me down and tried to forcefully give me an injection, but they failed. I shouted, "In no way will I cooperate with you!" After coming back, six people, including doctors Liu Hu, Zhang Fan, Li Man, another doctor in the institute, and Zhang Zhihui from Hulang, held me down and handcuffed me, I shouted, "I am Master's practitioner, I don't want any other arrangements and I completely deny the old forces." Officer Li Man shoved a dirty rag in my mouth and knocked out my front tooth that had previously been loosened by the electric baton. My mouth was filled with blood, and several days later another tooth fell out.

Many red spots like measles appeared on my skin. Within a few days, my hair turned white. I became disfigured, and my complexion became very dark. All these side effects resulted from the unknown drug that the police forced on me.

This is what I had to endure. I am exposing it today to let everyone know how the wicked party persecutes Falun Gong practitioners.