February 21, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

  1. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhao Xiangping from Shuangyashan City Is Tortured Continuously for Over Thirty Hours
  2. [Sanhe City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Hao Yafen of the Electric Power Factory in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, Is Under Police Arrest
  3. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Inhumane Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp
  4. [Linxia, Gansu Province] Recent Developments in the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners
  5. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner An Zhenjie Is Under Persecution at the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

[Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhao Xiangping from Shuangyashan City Is Tortured Continuously for Over Thirty Hours

Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Xiangping was often tailed by police officers. Her family members have also been under constant harassment. She was forced to leave her home and move from place to place in order to avoid arrest. When she went home once for a brief visit to see her child and parents, someone notified the police and she was unlawfully placed under arrest. Li Hongbo, Liu Weiguo and a person by the last name of Zhang from 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], Gao Yusheng from the Jianshan District Police Department, the chief and officers from the Fu'an Police Station continuously beat and tortured her for over eight hours. Her entire body was covered with bruises and wounds. Then, because she refused to answer their questions, she was forced to stand and bend down with her legs stretched out and both arms raised high above her back. After thirty hours, Ms. Zhao began to have difficulty breathing. The police finally sent her to the Shuangyashan City Detention Center for unlawful detention.

Currently, Ms. Zhao has endured severe injuries to her body. She cannot fully turn at her lower back, and cannot take care of her day-to-day needs. Her teeth have been loosened as a result of kicks from police officers, and she has difficulty eating. The detention center has assigned inmates to force-feed her every day in order to continue the inhumane persecution.

[Sanhe City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Hao Yafen of the Electric Power Factory in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, Is Under Police Arrest

On the morning of February 14, Falun Dafa practitioner Hao Yafen of the Electric Power Factory in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, was abducted again by the police just outside a post office. She was taken to the police department and severely beaten until she bled profusely. Several other Falun Dafa practitioners have been reported missing.

[Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Inhumane Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp

Since September 2002, the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp (all men's brigades and teams) have been conducting forced brainwashing on Falun Dafa practitioners. The police have rounded up all practitioners who remain firm in their belief, those who have declared the nullification of statements made during previous brainwashing sessions, and those who are on hunger strikes. These practitioners have been sent to isolation cells in the Sixth Brigade (a brigade specifically organized for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners).

Practitioners are tortured by being stretched onto an iron bed with both feet tied to the end of the bed and both hands handcuffed at the other end. The hands are not handcuffed in the normal manner, but instead, each arm is twisted 180 degrees before being handcuffed. Furthermore, the police then apply weight to the practitioner's bodies to cause further pain, and deny them permission to use the restroom. The police order inmates to supervise these isolation cells and to hit practitioners with stools. Any practitioner who goes on a hunger strike is punished by having a tube inserted into the stomach and having it left in the body for extended periods time, causing serious risk of injury or infection.

Head of the Sixth Brigade: Wang Yulin

Telephone number: 86-315-2861363 or 2861431 (main lines), extension 8052.

[Linxia, Gansu Province] Recent Developments in the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners

Falun Dafa practitioners Jiao Yonglin and He Xuehua are under persecution for painting signs written to help people learn the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution [please note: practitioners only resort to these methods after all normal avenues of communication have been denied to them]. They have both been unlawfully held in the Jishishan County Detention Center for over five months. Jiao Tianyun, Ms. Jiao's daughter, was fired from work after her mother was sent to the forced labor camp, and now has no source of income. Ms. He's husband died quite some time ago. Her teenage boy lives by himself with no support or source of income at all.

Former practitioner Chen Yongsheng has turned into a police collaborator and is actively engaged in the persecution of local Falun Dafa practitioners. He has led the police to arrest twelve practitioners. Among those arrested, a former teacher of the First Rank in the Qianshi High School in Linxia County, Shi Guangping, and the former principal of the Linxia City Party's School (a Mr. Chen and his wife), have all been held under unlawful custody for over five months. Insiders revealed that these practitioners are facing prison terms.

[Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner An Zhenjie Is Under Persecution at the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

Falun Dafa practitioner An Zhenjie from the Guzhuangzi Village in Fengrun District of Tangshan City, Hebei Province was spotted by Gao Yuchen and another police officer from the Xiyao Police Station of the Lubei Police Department on January 12, 2003. Mr. An was then abducted by the criminal investigation team of the Lubei Police Department and unlawfully held in custody. He later received a sentence of three years of reeducation through forced labor and is currently held in the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City.

Mr. An's family has not yet received any official notification from the authorities regarding his sentence. They only learned the news because he was able to inform his family through other channels. But when his family members brought clothes to the forced labor camp, the officials at the labor camp first claimed that there was no such a person there. Under the insistence of Mr. An's family, the officials then admitted that Mr. An was indeed in the forced labor camp, but no visits were allowed. They claimed that Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to see their family members unless they get "transformed" by giving up their belief in Falun Dafa.