The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- May 25, 2007

Issued by Clearwisdom Net




  • Mr. Li Wenzhi from Jilin Province Tortured, Sent to Forced Labor Camp for Teaching His Son To Practice Falun Gong

  • Mr. Wang Huizhong Persecuted and Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison



  • Mr. Li Wenzhi from Jilin Province Arrested and Tortured for Teaching His Son To Practice Falun Gong

    On April 18, the police in Wangqing County, Jilin Province, illegally arrested Falun Gong practitioner, Le Wenzhi. He was brutally tortured and his house was searched and property confiscated. The police used the excuse that they had found Falun Gong informational materials, and that Li Wenzhi had taught his son to practice Falun Gong. They then attempted to sentence Le Wenzhi to one and a half years in a forced labor camp.

    Li Wenzhi has already been detained in Wangqing County Detention Center for twenty days. There is currently no one taking care of his son, Li Shaozhen, who is around ten years old. When Li Wenzhi's father, who is over eighty years old, learned that Le had been arrested, and that his grandson had lost his father, at that moment he couldn't stand any more, and suddenly his haematuria became serious and he was sent to the hospital.

    On April 23, the police in Dongguang Town Detention Center tried to put Li Wenzhi's son into the custody of his parents, who were in poor health, and the child's mother. However they did not succeed. They even said that they would put him into a nursing home, however they couldn't. Finally, they could only put the child into the detention center. Although the child could still go to school every day, his father was being held in a detention center. How could the child study well in school? One time his grandmother came to see him and found his pencil box empty of pencils.

    On May 6, Mr. Li's mother came to Wangqing County to ask for his son back. When Mr. Li's mother came to Dongguang Town Detention Center in Qangqin County, the detention center people said that this was May 1, a holiday, and people were not allowed to see their relatives. The second day she went to Dongguang Detention Center again, but the detention center's door was locked. She knocked on the door many times, but still no one came to open it. That day the wind was very strong. She was standing on the side of the road for more than an hour, then she went back to knock on the door again. A policeman came out with an extremely rude and abominable attitude. The elderly lady said that she wanted to see her son. Eventually the officer started to curse her, which made her heart beat fast. Finally she had no alternative but to go home.

    On the morning of May 8, to see her son, the elderly lady could only take her grandson directly to find Guan Qingyou, the leader of the National Security Group. Guan had deceived Mr. Li's mother by saying that if he agreed that he would no longer practice Falun Gong, then they would release him right away.

    In the afternoon, Mr. Li's mother was helped by some kind hearted people to Wangqing County National Security Group. Guan Qingyou drove a car with three people to Wangqing County Detention Center in Zhongan Village. Mr. Li was on a hunger strike protesting the persecution. His original weight was more than one hundred sixty pounds, but now he was very skinny, and walked shakily. His face had turned yellow, and he didn't even have the strength to talk. Suddenly, she couldn't hold her sorrow in any longer. Her heart was so painful, that she cried out involuntary.

    Since Guan Qingyou took in charge of  the National Security Group in Wangqing County, he always followed Jiang Zemin's regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Almost all of the practitioners in Wangqing County had been illegally arrested, extorted, and put into a detention center while Guan had either directly handled or controlled it, while on the surface, pretending otherwise.

    This time Li Wenzhi went on a hunger strike to protest, but Guan said that in Wangqing County, anyone who tries this kind of thing won't succeed. He said that even if he died, it had nothing to do with him. Someone asked Guan, "Li Wenzhi was only at home teaching his son to do exercises and to be a good person. Why put him into a forced labor camp for one and a half years? Guan said, "Whoever I want to arrest, I have a way to arrest them. He also said that he would like to arrest the old lady who is over seventy that lived near Li, and to detain her for fifteen days. That is really evil to the extreme.

    Li Wenzhi's mother wants her son back, but it didn't work out. Her husband was still sick and needed people to take care of him. Therefore she could only go home.

    Now this elderly lady talks about her family's mistreatment to anyone she meets. She tells about how her son was illegally arrested and persecuted, how her grandson has no one to take care of him, and how her husband is at home with a very serious illness. She was also very sick. Everyone that heard about this family's miserable situation felt that it was unfair, and also cried for them.


    Mr. Wang Huizhong Persecuted and Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

    [Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

    Mr. Wang Huizhong, a villager in Guoyuan Village, Hongxiang Township, Liangzhou District, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, is in his 50s. In October 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. There, police officers Zhao Liangping, Zhao Xianxiong, and others from Hongxiang Police Station in Wuwei arrested him and transported him back to the Wuwei City Detention Center for a three-month imprisonment term.

    When Mr. Wang was in detention, Hongxiang Council Chairman Zhu Hunian, Law Enforcement Committee Secretary Fan Sangwen, Judicial Station Chief Zhang Runnian, and Policeman Xue led a group of people to break into Wang Huizhong's house. These people stole 20 bags of wheat (each bag holds about 25 Kg), 14 bags of corn, a washing machine, a cassette player and a TV.

    This was on December 16, 2000. When these officials broke into the house, they lied to everyone in the house saying that there was going to be a brainwashing class. Wang Huizhong and more than 10 other Falun Gong practitioners were forced into a shabby classroom in Hongxiang Middle School for over 10 days. Afterwards they were transported to Wuwei Smoke Quitting Station and persecuted for five more months.

    In May 2002, while Wang Huizhong was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong, he was reported to the police. Wuwei City police officer Chen Fenggong and others, together with police from Gulang County Police Station, a total of more than 10 people in four to five police vehicles, arrested Mr. Wang from his home. He was later illegally sentenced to an eight-year term in prison by the Liangzhou District Court in Wuwei City. Mr. Wang was confined in Lanzhou Prison for three months. Later he was transferred back to Wuwei Prison. In November 2005, he was transferred to Jiuquan Forced Labor Camp, where he has been subjected to even more vicious treatment.