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Latest News from China -- 07/03/2002

July 06, 2002 |  

(Clearwisdom.net)

  • [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Authorities Force Officials from Each Unit to Pay Fees to Attend Falun Gong Persecution Training Classes
  • [Hunan Province] Authorities Trample Citizens' Freedom of Belief
  • [Guizhou Province] Dafa Practitioner Walks out of Jail, Openly and with Dignity
  • [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Long Term Illegal Detention and Inhumane Brainwashing of Practitioners in Haizhu District's Welfare Institute and at Guangzhou City's Law School
  • [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] "610 Office" Personnel Force All Work Units to Persecute Dafa Practitioners
  • [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Kidnapping of Dafa Practitioners at the Hands of Police from the Heping Residential Area
  • [Guiyang City, Guizhou Province] Personnel from Xiaohe District's Police Station Kidnap Dafa Practitioners for Ransom and Extortion

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[Changchun City, Jilin Province] Authorities Force Officials from Each Unit to Pay Fees to Attend Falun Gong Persecution Training Classes

Changchun City authorities had prearranged to hold a ten-day "training class" at a school, located at Qingpu Street, Luuyuan District of Changchun City, for the purpose of teaching officials from each unit how to persecute Dafa practitioners. At the same time, the authorities didn't forget to extort a 100 Yuan "accommodation fee" from every attendee. [Note: 500 Yuan is the average monthly income in urban areas of China.]

[Note: a "unit" in China refers to all kinds of organizational entities, such as work units, residential street offices, district groups, residential dormitory supervisory personnel, police departments, security departments and others.]

Changchun City authorities are currently holding a brainwashing class at Xinglong Mountain to persecute Dafa practitioners. The personnel of the city's "610 Office" [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] and those officials who ignore justice for the profit motive colluded with each other, to entrap and arrest Dafa practitioners.

[Hunan Province] Authorities Trample Citizens' Freedom of Belief

Recently, the authorities of Hunan Province started a new round of persecution against Dafa practitioners. It was said that all those Dafa practitioners who had not written the "guarantee statement" would either be sent to brainwashing classes held by every work unit or a brainwashing center conducted by a police department.

[Guizhou Province] Dafa Practitioner Walks out of Jail, Openly and with Dignity

On June 19, 2002, a Dafa practitioner from a remote village in Guizhou Province was reported to the police when she was playing a Dafa truth-clarifying CD at home and then that practitioner was illegally taken away and detained for 15 days. Her home, as well as her parent's home was ransacked. Her 2-year-old child was left without care. During the detention, she went on a hunger strike in protest. Finally, applying righteous thoughts, she walked out of the jail openly and with dignity.

[Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Long Term Illegal Detention and Inhumane Brainwashing of Practitioners in Haizhu District's Welfare Institute and at Guangzhou City's Law School

Haizhu District's Guirong's Welfare Institute in Guangzhou City has been used as "Zhuhai District's Law School" by the Zhuhai "610 Office" [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] for long-term detention of Dafa practitioners. This place is located on the top floor of the Welfare Institute building. In contrast to the other floors, its windows and balcony are tightly secured with iron bars. Many practitioners have been illegally detained there for more than a year. Every room is equipped with closed circuit TV that continually broadcasts Data-slandering tapes, eight hours a day. Practitioners are forced to watch the program. The authorities plotted to indoctrinate the audience with these vicious lies. Practitioners consider this inhumane mental persecution as vicious as physical torture.

This despicable method spread of indoctrination has reached and will be used at Guangzhou City's Law School, where officials were about to install this type of closed circuit TV to use it in the same way. Steadfast Dafa practitioners, though, consider this merely a game, put on by buffoons. Even those everyday people who collaborate with the brainwashing have already tired of this kind of political indoctrination and have become disgusted by it. Why has it been spread then? It just shows that the evil authorities have run out of methods to use against Falun Gong practitioners.

[Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] "610 Office" Personnel Force All Work Units to Persecute Dafa Practitioners

Since June 2002, people from the Guangzhou City's "610 Office" have carried out another round of persecution against Dafa practitioners. Practitioners whose names are on the list compiled by the "610 Office" were all forced to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement." (The "guarantee statement" implies that practitioners will no longer practice Falun Dafa, will no longer associate with other practitioners, will never again go to Beijing to appeal and are sorry they practiced Falun Dafa in the first place). The personnel threatened they would send practitioners who refused to write the statement to brainwashing classes. They even threatened the practitioners' work units and compelled them to cooperate. Some work units have threatened Dafa practitioners with being fired from their jobs.

[Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Kidnapping of Dafa Practitioners at the Hands of Police from the Heping Residential Area

Recently, police from the Heping District continually kidnapped many Dafa practitioners. They are now staked out in Room No.1, 4th Floor, Unit 3 of Building 12 in an attempt to arrest more practitioners.

[Guiyang City, Guizhou Province] Personnel from Xiaohe District's Police Station Kidnap Dafa Practitioners for Ransom and Extortion.

Chen Dengliang, chief of the No.2 Section of Xiaohe District's Police Station, deputy chief Zhou Jingsong and some other scoundrels forcibly assigned quotas for all factories in the Xiaohe District to send practitioners to brainwashing classes. They forced every Dafa practitioner who was sent to brainwashing classes to pay them 2,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income in urban area of China] for "living expenses." Every unit was to assign a so-called "assistant" and pay 2,000 Yuan for this person. Twelve Dafa practitioners from Guiyang City's Xiaohe Engine Factory resolutely refused to cooperate with them and were forced to leave home and live in exile. Some policemen even claimed, "If you pay 2,000 Yuan, I can guarantee your safety." In the Anshun District, police extorted 2,000 Yuan before they would release a practitioner. Isn't this the same as bandits' kidnapping for ransom?