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Mr. Yang Jianpo, a Falun Gong practitioner from Langfang City, Hebei Province, is illegally detained in the 4th Group of Jidong Jial in Fengnan District, Tangshan City. In order to protest the illegal detention, Mr. Yang has been on a hunger strike for almost five months. Currently, his condition is critical, but the head of the Langfang 610 Office has refused to release him, saying they won't let him go until they obtain approval from the government of Hebei Province or the Central Government. They intend to torture Mr. Yang to death.
During the past several years, Mr. Yang Jianpo has been persecuted repeatedly. On March 30, 2003 he was abducted and taken to the third floor of the east building of the Fengrun Branch Police Department in Tangshan City. Police officer Gao Wei and his supervisor shackled Mr. Yang to a metal chair and took turns shocking him with 110 DC Volts from a telephone cord, and didn't let him sleep for an entire day and night.
On February 20, 2004 officials from Guangyang Police Department in Langfeng City searched Mr. Yang's home, confiscated his property and abducted him. On February 25 he was sent to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City, where he was tortured until he weighed only about 90 pounds; originally he weighed about 190 pounds.
During the Chinese New Year in 2006 Mr. Yang Jianpo and Mr. Cao Baoyu were abducted when they and other practitioners went to clarify the truth to government officials. On April 25, officials went to the hospital and pronounced so-called sentences against them at their bedsides: Mr. Yang was sentenced to six years' imprisonment and Mr. Cao five years. On April 27 Mr. Cao was tortured to death.
About 2 PM on June 19, 2006 Mr. Yang Jianpo's family finally saw him. They were told that a dozen people brought Mr. Yang to the jail in an ambulance from the Langfang City Detention Center on May 10, 2006. Currently, Mr. Yang is very weak and can hardly speak. His hands and feet are cold and pale, he suffers from chest pain, and is terribly thin. His family urged him to eat, but he told them, "I didn't do anything wrong. I'm not guilty... I want to go home immediately."
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/25/131280.html
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xin, a former Ph.D. candidate from
Tsinghua
University, for persistently believing in Falun Gong, has been illegally
detained in the 3rd Group of the Huazi Prison of Liaoyang City,
Liaoning Province. In defense of his fundamental human
rights Mr.
Wang Xin went on hunger strike, opposing the persecution against him.
The
persecution of Mr. Wang Xin has lasted for 99 days, and now Mr. Wang's
body has
become emaciated. We ask that everyone takes notice of this terrible
situation
and helps rescue Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang Xin from
Shenyang
City, Liaoning Province is a 30-year-old former Ph.D. candidate from
Tsinghua
University. In 2001, lawless officials abducted him. Afterwards, in
2002, he was
sent to his original hometown. Since he refused to renounce his belief
in Falun Gong, he was illegally
detained in Huazi Prison.
In the middle of September 2005 prison authorities forced Mr. Wang Xin and the other Falun Gong practitioners to wear ID badges, so Mr. Wang and the others refused and resisted the new regulations. The prison officials deprived Mr. Wang of his rights to family visits, buying commodities, and bathing. They stooped to these most base and evil methods, which are all violations of basic human rights, to persecute the illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners.
Mr. Wang went on the hunger strike to protest this loss of his human rights. At the end of April 2006, in order to protect his right to his own beliefs, Mr. Wang Xin made a few reasonable requests of the management of the prison, but he received no response. For that reason he resumed his hunger strike to oppose the persecution.
Wang Xin is emaciated, and we call on all kind people in the world to pay attention to the health of this excellent student of China, add your voice to those of others, and with one voice condemn this inhuman act of persecution against a Falun Gong practitioner in Huazi Prison.
The Huazi Prison of Liaoyang City
Address: Huajia Village, Huazi Town, Dengta City, Liaoning Province, Postcode: 111312
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/24/131241.html
Ms. Xiao Shufen, 66, is a practitioner in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. She was detained in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison in Harbin for years and died from the persecution on June 8, 2006.
1. Suffering persecution because of clarifying the truth
Since July 20, 1999 when Jiang's regime and the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong, Xiao Shufen had been to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong many times. She often clarified the truth of Falun Gong to different people in different ways. She would clarify the truth anywhere she went and therefore was arrested six times.
On Chinese New Year of 2001, Xiao Shufen visited her son's home. In order to help local people to know the truth of Falun Gong, she wrote the words "Falun Dafa is good" on some small flags and gave them to local practitioners for distribution. When a couple of older practitioners were sticking the flags along the road, they were arrested, which caused Xiao Shufen to be arrested too. Xiao Shufen used to be tall and heavy. When she was released from the detention center, she was much thinner.
At the end of 2002, when Xiao Shufen was posting a sticker reading "Falun Dafa is good" at the No.2 People's Hospital of Mudanjiang City, she was reported to the police and arrested. In the Mudanjiang Police Department, she suffered brutal torture for seven days and seven nights. She was tied to the tiger bench. The evil people dumped hot chili oil into her mouth and covered her head with a plastic bag, which almost choked her to death. They pulled her teeth and squeezed her fingernails with pliers. For seven days and seven nights, she was not allowed to sleep and was constantly tortured. She was tortured to the edge of the death. At that time, there was another fellow practitioner, Li Hongmin, who suffered similar torture and subsequently died from it.
Xiao Shufen, Xu Fuzhi and several other practitioners were secretly sentenced to heavy prison terms and were sent to Heilongjiang Women's Prison in Harbin City in June 2003. The long-term persecution and torture caused Xiao Shufen to suffer multiple physical symptoms. She was then rejected by the prison and sent back to Mudanjiang City. Although she was qualified to be bailed out for medical treatment, Li Changqing, and others in the 610 Office, refused to release her. They conspired with the head of the detention center, Yu Chenglong, and put Xiao Shufen and other practitioners in severe conditions in a detention center for several months. Later they changed Xiao Shufen's age to below 60 and sent her to Harbin Women's Prison again.
2. Suffering persecution and death in the prison
In Harbin Women's Prison, criminals were used to monitor and control Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners were not allowed to talk to each other and were followed even when going to the restroom. Sometimes drugs were mixed into the rice. Practitioners would feel very dry in the mouth and feel numb after eating such rice.
In July 2005, Harbin Women's Prison trained more than 70 people to work on so-called "transformation". They set up the goal to "transform everyone and with no exception." The group head Liu Zhiqiang said, "transform by any means."
In the prison ward for sick people, the third floor was specially used for brainwashing. The prison guards covered all the windows and doors with newspaper and no one was allowed to enter. In each room, there was one "collaborator" and four or five prisoners who were arranged to brainwash the practitioner. They forced the practitioner to watch pornographic videos and beat the practitioner if they refused to watch. The practitioner was not allowed to sleep. Some prisoners wrote so-called "transformation" papers and forced the practitioner to fingerprint them. Some even beat the practitioners until they lost consciousness and put their fingerprint on the pre-written papers. They would get a reward if they brainwashed a practitioner.
On February 19, 2005, over 60-year-old Ms. Xiao Shufen, who had the symptom of high blood pressure and was detained on the fourth floor for sick people, was forcefully sent to the third floor. The Zhang Xiaoying ordered the prisoners to cover her with a cotton bed cover and drag her to the third floor. They hurt her lower back on the stairs. They tried to force her to curse Falun Gong and Master. After she refused, they even choked her.
When the guard Zhang Xiaoying beat Wang Aifang, Xiao Shufen said, "No beating! It is against law." They tied her up and she was tied to a bed for nearly 20 days. The guards inserted a tube through her nose and force-fed her.
The prison authorities used all kinds of cruel methods to brainwash practitioners. When the first stage of brainwashing just ended and the practitioners were still recovering from their wounds, the second stage of the brainwashing started. Since the end of March 2006, the evil head of the prison Liu Zhiqiang dispatched about 80 hatchet men - almost all of them "criminal prisoners" that he trained to torture practitioners in attempts to "transform" them.
On May 28, 2006, Xiao Shufen's children visited their mother in the prison. They never expected to receive the bad news on June 8 that her mother was dead.
Phone number of Harbin Women's Prison:86-451-86639059, 86-451-86639069
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/22/131053.html
Police from the sixteenth section of the prison of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province relentlessly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Following are some cases of the persecution.
1. Falun Gong practitioner dies of long term imprisonment and persecution.
Mr. Pan Xingfu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, was transferred from the Qitaihe prison to the sixteenth section of the Mudanjiang Prison in May 2003. During his illegal imprisonment, the police forced him to do heavy labor, which devastated him both physically and mentally. In late 2003, he suffered from edema in his legs and became too weak to walk. However, the prison guards did not provide him with any treatment. It was not until May 2005 that Mr. Pan was sent to a prison hospital, where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and hydropsy inside his chest and abdomen. The deputy head of the prison, Luan Jinghe, hastily urged the director of the sixteenth prison section, Zheng Yuhe, to release Mr. Pan on medical parole because he was afraid that he would have to take responsibility for Mr. Pan dying in his prison. But Zheng Yuhe, would not allow the medical parole unless Mr. Pan wrote a guarantee statement promising he would give up Falun Gong. However, Mr. Pan refused to write a guarantee statement. Mr. Pan was released from prison during July 2004 without receiving treatment for the tuberculosis and hydropsy. As a result of his long term imprisonment and persecution, Mr. Pan died in January 2005.
2. Mr. Zhang Hongquan, a Falun Gong practitioner from the Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, was transferred from the Harbin Prison to the sixteenth section of the Mudanjiang Prison in July 2004. To protest his illegal imprisonment and persecution, Mr. Zhang refused to obey orders from prison guards to report his number or to crouch on his legs. As a punishment, the police director Zheng Yuhe confined him in a small cell for seventeen days. To protest the persecution, Mr. Zhang went on a hunger strike for eleven days. The police in charge of the confinement cell then sent him to a prison hospital to force feed him with salt water through a tube inserted into his stomach. Mr. Zhang's suffering from the force feeding was so great that he vomited continuously. Later Mr. Zhang was transferred to the third section of the prison for further mistreatment.
3. Mr. Zhang Yutang, a Falun Gong practitioner form Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, was transferred from the third section to the sixteenth section of the Mudanjiang Prison. Because he practiced Falun Gong steadfastly and opposed the persecution, he was constantly beaten by his monitor (an inmate who is assigned to keep watch on Falun Gong practitioners). Mr. Zhang reported to police director Zheng Yuhe that he had been persecuted by the monitor and that the monitor watched pornographic videos and took drugs. However, Zheng Yuhe intentionally told the monitor what Mr. Zhang said. To take his revenge, the inmate continuously tortured Mr. Zhang. He was not allowed to sleep or walk freely and was monitored closely by inmates all day and all night. They also rationed his grain, saying that he would make trouble if he was full. During the daytime, when all inmates went out for forced labor, several personal monitors forced him to write a "guarantee statement," whipping him with leather belts. The prison guards Zheng Yuhe and Lu Xiaohui constantly ordered and instigated inmates to treat him severely. When some Falun Gong practitioners asked Zheng Yuhe why he instigated inmates to persecute Mr. Zhang, he shamelessly asked the Falun Gong practitioners, "Who saw it?"
4. Mr. Tang Xianguo, a Falun Gong practitioner from the Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, was transferred from the Hadagang Prison to the sixteenth section of Mudanjiang Prison in July 2003. In October 2003 he was confined in a small cell for fifteen days by the prison guard Zheng Yuhe as a punishment for doing Falun Gong exercises within the prison. In July 2004, Mr. Tang and another Falun Gong practitioner, Yin Changfeng, jointly went on a hunger strike to oppose the confinement of fellow Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Hongquan. As punishment for their hunger strike, Mr. Tang and Mr. Yin were confined in a cell with their feet shackled for fifteen days. In July 2005, Mr. Tang and Mr. Yin were confined in small cells by prison guards Zheng Yuhe, Lu Xiaohui and Wang Xu because they refused to attend an anti-Falun Gong meeting that was arranged by police. Mr. Tang continuously protested his persecution, and as punishment Zheng Yuhe, Lu Xiaohui and Wang Xu ordered inmates to treat him severely. He was cruelly beaten many times, closely monitored day and night and was forbidden to move freely. Zheng Yuhe even tried to force Mr. Tang to step on a piece of paper with Teacher's name on it, and had him cruelly beaten when he refused to do so.
5. The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the sixteenth section of the Mudanjiang Prison was implemented under the instigation of police director Zheng Yuhe, executive officer Lu Xiaohui and section director Wang Xu. They instigated, intimidated and pressured inmates to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They incited hatred of Falun Gong practitioners by threatening inmates they would not receive reductions in their sentences if they refused to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
The main prison officials who were involved in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the sixteenth section of the Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province were:
Police director Zheng Yuhe (now transferred to the political section
of the
prison), executive officer Lu Xiaohui, and section director Wang Xu.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/6/10/130075.html
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).
The "Wujia Garden" in Xiangtan City is a 610 Office brainwashing center. Agents from the 610 Office illegally arrested many Falun Gong practitioners and took them there. They force the practitioners to sign documents, write guarantee statements and watch videos. More than ten Falun Gong practitioners were recently sent to there.
During the past seven years, Xiangtan City 610 Office agents sent at least thirty five Falun Gong practitioners to forced labor camps. Falun Gong practitioner Xu Ailian from Bu Town, Xiangtan City was sent to a labor camp twice and suffered a mental collapse after being savagely tortured at the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp. At least fourteen practitioners were sentenced to prison. They include Xiao Zhiqiang, Ning Jia, Liu Chunquan, Wang Qingsheng, Liang Xinan, Deng Ye, Lu Songming, Ma Junwen, Tan Aihua, Mo Lichun, Peng Shiqing, Wang Yuexun, and Xie Wangming.
At least ten Falun Gong practitioners from Xiangtan City were tortured to death. Five of these deaths were reported on the Minghui website. Falun Gong practitioner Guo Lifang from Yaowan, Xiangtan City was illegally arrested at home by lawless officials on March 31, 2005. She was tortured to death on April 17, 2005. Her family saw that her body had been dissected. When asked, the officials said, "Yes, we did dissect her body. We wanted to see if there was anything in her stomach." They paid the family 80,000 yuan in "hush money."
Belated 2004 information - Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Zhiming
also
comes from
Yaowan, Xiangtan City. The 610 Office agents and National Security
Bureau (NSB)
agents created a car accident, which injured him. His family sent him
to the
central hospital. The 610 Office persecutors sent a NSB spy to watch
him on
October 24, 2004, but Cheng Zhiming suddenly passed away on October 24
and his
body was frozen for over a dozen days. His family was forbidden from
claiming
the body to hold a funeral for him at home.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/30/131823.html
Ms. Mu Liangyao, over 60 years old, was an employee of the Huayi Paper Factory in Chishui City, Guizhou Province. In January 2000, she went to Beijing to the Appeal Office to tell of the benefits of practicing Falun Gong. As a result, she was abducted by the police and sent back to her hometown. She was then sent to a forced labor camp. Officer Gu Xingying at the Women's Forced Labor Camp in Guizhou province shocked her mouth with an electric-shock baton. In December 2001, Mu Liangyao's home was ransacked. They seized some truth-clarifying material and used her possession of them as an excuse to send her to a forced labor camp for three years. During the three years at Zhongba Forced Labor Camp in Guizhou province, she suffered brutal torture. Mu Liangyao firmly believed in Falun Gong and refused to be "transformed." She had severe damage to her head that led to a tumor. In April 2005, she died in the prison.
Ms. Wang Yuanxiu, 54 years old, lived in Yuwangguan, Wangshou Bridge Village, Shuitu Township, Beipei District, Chongqing City. She began to practice Falun Gong in October 1997. After practicing, her high blood pressure was lowered. On July 20, 1999, the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong. She stopped practicing and her high blood pressure returned. In 2002, she started to practice again. On July 10, 2002, while she was in a group Falun Gong teaching study, she was abducted by police from Shuitu Police Station and Beipei District Police Department. They detained and persecuted her for 15 days and then released her. For a long time she lived in a very stressful situation under persecution and both her mind and body were in great pain. She died in April 2006.
Ms. Xu Xiuzhen, 82 years old, was a resident in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. Because she had illnesses all year long, she had some injections and took some medicines but these did not have much effect. Sometimes, she had to stay in bed. After practicing Falun Gong in 1996, all her illnesses disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Xu Xiuzhen and her daughter (also a practitioner), who lived together at that time, went to Beijing to appeal. They were arrested twice. The police often made harassing phone calls to their home. Sometime the police even went to their home to harass them. Xu Xiuzhen had to move to another place. However, as the police still did not leave her alone, Xu Xiuzhen's daughter also had to leave home. During those few years of harassment and persecution, Xu Xiuzhen suffered both mentally and physically. On April 17, 2006, she passed away.
Ms. Song Jinghua, 54 years old, lived in Sidao Village, Tielinghe Town, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. In 2000, due to her persistence in practicing Falun Gong, she was abducted by city police and police from the Tielinghe police station. They took her to a brainwashing center in Harbin city and detained her there for two years. She suffered a mental collapse. On May 2, 2006, at 9pm, she was hit by a train and died.
Ms. Li Guizhi was a Falun Gong practitioner from Chengguan Town, Yanshan County, Hebei Province. On March 1, 2003, Yanshan police illegally ransacked her home, took away her TV and tape recorder and forced her to go to the Yanshan Detention Center to be persecuted. Later on, they sent her to the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp. After finding out that she was ill, they released her. However Yashan police continued to harass her. In May, the police took her again to Tangshan Forced Labor Camp. Li Guizhi was damaged both physically and mentally. She passed away on March 16, 2005.