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(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Yang Lixia is a Falun Dafa practitioner in A'cheng City, Heilongjiang Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. She followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" to be a good person. Her body was purified, and she recovered from cerebral arteriosclerosis, sciatica and rheumatism. In the past five years, because she clarified truth about Falun Gong, she was illegally arrested many times and suffered many hardships.
Mr. Zhang Bingxiang, Ms. Yang Lixia's husband, was imprisoned for two years in a labor camp for persisting in his belief in Falun Gong. He was severely persecuted and passed away on January 3, 2004 of the Lunar Calendar (January 24, 2004) after he was released from the labor camp. Ms. Yang's daughter was illegally imprisoned in labor camps twice for clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. When she was first imprisoned in a labor camp, she was not yet 20 years old. She was released on August 13, 2004. Ms. Yang reunited with her daughter just for a few days before she was illegally arrested again on August 15, 2004. Ms. Yang is currently imprisoned in A'cheng First Detention Center by A'Cheng Police Station and the "610 Office".
In September 1999, Ms. Yang Lixia went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but her right to appeal was denied. Around 2am, the police took her from her hotel to an underground parking garage. The A'cheng City Political Security Office and Du Liping from Ms. Yang's company sent her to A'cheng First Detention Center and interrogated her that same night. Zhang Zhongfan, Deputy Director of A'cheng City Police Department, and a political commissar named Xing interrogated Ms. Yang. The police department forced Ms. Yang's family to pay 10,000 Yuan for so-called "bail" and illegally detained her for 116 days.
On the eighth day after Ms. Yang Lixia was released, the Party Secretary named Chen from her company came to talk to her. Ms. Yang clarified the truth about Falun Gong to him, but Chen called the "610 Office" for orders. The "610 Office" instructed him to call the Security Office in her company, which sent Ms. Yang to Heping Police Station in A'cheng City. Ms. Yang was later transferred to A'cheng Second Detention Center.
On the day before Chinese New Year, Falun Gong practitioners in prison attempted to study articles written by Teacher and practice the Falun Gong exercises. However, the male guards severely persecuted them. They beat the practitioners with plastic tubes and brooms, striking them so hard that the brooms bounced out of their hands. Once when the practitioners were sitting in meditation, guard Yang Qi fiercely whipped Ms. Yang's back with a ring of metal keys. She could hardly breathe and suffered from acute pain that lasted for many days. Whenever the practitioners practiced the Falun Gong exercises, the guards poured water on them to freeze them during the winter. The guards beat them for a whole month, starting on Chinese New Year's Eve.
In the Chinese New Year holiday season, when the practitioners were illegally imprisoned and suffered from all kinds of torture, their families were also subjected to a lot of suffering. Practitioners started a hunger strike to protest and demanded to be released unconditionally. The guards brutally forced-fed the practitioners. They handcuffed the practitioners, grabbed their hair, pinched their noses, and used sticks to pry open their mouths. Many practitioner's mouths were injured by the sticks. Beer bottles were then used to force-feed the practitioners. This time, Ms. Yang was illegally imprisoned for 114 days, and her family was extorted for 3,000 yuan.
In July 2000, Ms. Yang Lixia was arrested again for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In the police car, the police beat her face with a plastic tube. Her face and eyes were so swollen that she could not see. She was detained in Changping Detention Center and Malianwa Police Station. Ms. Yang refused to tell them her name, so the police cuffed her to a metal pole outside in the yard. There were a lot of mosquitoes in the evening. She was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and was bitten repeatedly by the mosquitoes. A policeman tightened her handcuffs again and again to increase the pain in her wrists. The policemen forced her to stand outside with her hands cuffed all night and interrogated her. The next day, the chief of the detention center detained her in Changping for another half day, with her hands cuffed. Some practitioners were brutally beaten without even being allowed to put shoes on first. Ms. Yang went on a hunger strike to protest, and was released 6 days later.
In December 2000, Ms. Yang Lixia held a banner appealing for Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square. The police beat her brutally, causing her nose to bleed heavily, injuring her eyes and leaving a big knot on her head. She felt dizzy and vomited. Still, the police handcuffed her to a table leg for a whole night. The next day, the police deceived her into telling them her address in order to send her home to treat her eyes. She was illegally detained in Fangshan for four days, and in A'cheng Second Detention Center for another 34 days. She was later imprisoned for two years in Wanjia Labor Camp.
In Wanjia Labor Camp, practitioners are often brutally beaten by guards and criminals for persisting in practicing Falun Gong. Once Wu Jingying, the head guard, led a group of female guards to drag Ms. Yang outside. Thanks to the help of other practitioners, they failed to drag her out. Another time, a male guard seized her hair and dragged her all the way to the chief's office on the second floor. Because Ms. Yang persisted in practicing Falun Gong, the guards confined her in a solitary compartment and hung her up with a rope for one day and one night.
Ms. Yang Lixia practiced Falun Gong in the solitary compartment. The guards beat her brutally and hung her until her thumbs went numb, which persisted for several months. When she refused to attend the formation drill in prison, the criminals beat her and scolded her, ripping out three buttons from her shirt in the process. A guard named Zhang chased her to beat her and ripped out a lot of her hair, just because she tried to protect Teacher's articles. Falun Gong practitioners were also beaten for sending righteous thoughts. A guard hit Ms. Yang with a rod, causing her middle finger to be black and blue for several days.
Once, the guards searched the practitioners and took away Teacher's articles. The practitioners went on a hunger strike for 33 days. They refused to be forced-fed and were brutally beaten. Two criminals held down Ms. Yang's shoulders and forcibly inserted tubes into her stomach twice a day. Ms. Yang's body was covered with scabies, with running pus. She had a high fever at the time of the hunger strike. She felt pain and itching all over her body, and couldn't sleep at night.
On August 27, 2002, male police guards entered the 7th brigade in Wanjia Labor Camp and started even more severe persecution. They forced practitioners to sit on small stools all day. They prohibited practitioners from talking to each other, and ordered criminals to follow them when they went to the restroom. Ms. Yang Lixia refused to recite the prison regulations and report to the guards. Guard Sun Guoqing kicked her, shocked her with electric batons and wrenched her arms hard. After that for several months, Ms. Yang's arms hurt whenever she tried to move them.
On September 20, 2002, guard Chang Shumei called Ms. Yang to the 3rd floor. A former practitioner who turned against Dafa under torture came to brainwash her. Ms. Yang refused to listen, so guard Yao Fuchang kicked her and punched her in the shoulder. Then Yao forced her to squat down in a room with her hands behind her back. Yao ordered four criminals, including Bai Xuelian, to watch to make sure she squatted down without moving. Whenever Ms. Yang tried to move her legs, Bai kicked her. They tortured her from 9pm until 3:30am the next morning. Ms. Yang went to bed at 3:30am, and then had to get up at 5am. At 8am the former practitioner came back to try to brainwash her, but failed. At around 1pm, the guards cuffed Ms. Yang's hands behind her back. They tied the handcuffs to the bars in a metal window frame, with a rope to suspend her. Ms. Yang could barely touch the floor with the tip of her toes. Her whole body trembled with pain. The pain was so severe that large drops of sweat dropped from her face. The cuffs got tighter and tighter, and bit into her flesh.
Because Ms. Yang Lixia persisted in her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance", the guards attempted to extend her imprisonment terms for another year, but their plan failed.
On August 15, 2004, Ms. Yang Lixia was reported to police when she was distributing truth-clarification materials in Xiaoling Township, A'cheng City, and she was arrested again. She is currently imprisoned in A'cheng First Detention Center. During her imprisonment, the police interrogated her many times, trying to force her to reveal where she got the truth-clarification materials. They brutally beat her when she refused to tell them. One day, some people from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province came. They interrogated every Falun Gong practitioner detained there, and then brutally beat them. All of the practitioners there were very firm and refused to give in.
September 26, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) The Falun Gong practitioners held at Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City are mostly male. Over the past few years, the guards have ordered inmates to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Below are pictures and illustrations of several tortures used at the labor camp.
1. Tying up the legs
In late December 2002 in Room 9 of Building 3, Cheng Diankun, the labor camp warden and the main perpetrator in charge, along with guard Shi Fengyou and four or five inmates, tied up the legs of 28-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Xianyong in a kneeling position. Liu Xianyong had lived in Faku. They tied his hands together and then tied the other end of the rope to a bedpost. They pulled on the rope until it could no longer stretch, gagged him and taped his mouth shut. They tortured him this way for three hours, four or five times daily, for several days. Liu Xianyong was a thin person and often had a stomachache. Because he was also forced to do manual labor such as making comb boxes and making combs with rubber heads for over four months at Division Four in the labor camp, he was very weak. The ropes cut off the circulation in his hands, and he also had severe leg cramps. Later, his legs became swollen and numb, and he needed help going to the toilet.
The perpetrators also tortured women practitioners this way, including Xia Wen, who was transferred here after her term at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp had expired; Zhang Jie, around 50 years of age, a business inspection cadre from Dalian City; Wu Yanping, around 40 years of age from the Dadong District, Shenyang City; Li Ailian, around 30 years of age from Faku, all of whom were tortured for two or three months. Over half of the ten rooms on the third floor were used to hold brainwashing sessions. People often heard beatings and verbal abuse as well as screaming coming from those rooms.
2. Hanging up and electric shock
The perpetrators at the labor camp force visiting family members of practitioners to step on the picture of Falun Gong's founder. In late December 2003, practitioners Jiao Guolian, in his 50s, from the Yuhong District; Wang Yongli, in his 30s, from the Xinchengzi District; Cai Wenzhang, 37 years old, from the Dongling District; Guo Dianhui from the Tiexi District; Lu Yuanfeng and Zhu Hongjun from Faku County; Wu Chongfeng from the Xichengzi District; and Wei Changrui and Li Tiekun all protested together and demanded that the labor camp repeal the picture-stomping policy. Song Baishun, an instructor at the labor camp, sent these practitioners to different divisions to be "strictly controlled." Later he sent the practitioners to brainwashing classes in a small building. Song Baishun and division head Chen Wei led guards including Wei Maojin, Teng Fuxun, Fan Guangjing, and Ma Zhigang to strip off practitioners' coats and shock their sensitive body parts such their mouths or armpits. Then they hang the practitioners up with their hands cuffed, tie their legs with a rope, and deprive them of sleep. Inmates take turns monitoring the practitioners. The guards shocked practitioner Guo Dianhui's mouth until his mouth and cheeks were blistered and he could not eat. They shocked Cai Wenzhang's armpits and ordered inmates to tie up and beat Jiao Guolian until he had difficulty walking.
3. Wearing a tall hat
The perpetrators would make a paper hat and put it on the practitioner's head. They would hang two pieces of fruit from the sides of the practitioners' head and then comb the practitioner's eyebrows to humiliate him. They also would fold a paper bullhorn and scream Dafa-slandering words through it into the practitioner's ears. Some determined practitioners were on the verge of a nervous breakdown from lack of sleep and this abuse. In early 2001, practitioner Liu Jianguang from the Dadong District was tormented this way.
4. Beating with wooden bed boards
In August 2001, guard Shi Fengyou headed up a "collaborator group" from the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp and the Longshan Forced Labor Camp. Collaborators are former Falun Dafa practitioners who have turned against Dafa. They went to the third floor in the Tiexi District Mental Hospital to brainwash those practitioners illegally held there. Shi Fengyou ordered perhaps ten collaborators to harass practitioner Mr. Hu Lin, a 32-year-old researcher at China Aviation Shenyang's Aircraft Design & Research Institute. Because Hu Lin refused to give up his belief, Shi Fengyou forced him to squat and whacked his back with three wooden boards put together until the boards broke.
5. Stabbing the soles of the feet and shocking with an electric baton
Around 8:00 p.m. one day in early December 2001, instructor Song Baishu and four inmates took practitioner Zhang Guoyi, who hadn't eaten anything for four days, to Room 7. This is a large, unheated room, around 200 or 300 sq meters, with windows on three sides. It's usually used for storage and is nicknamed the "natural refrigerator." Song Baishun ordered the inmates to immobilize Zhang Guoyi on a ping-pong table. Two inmates violently stabbed the soles of Zhang Guoyi's feet with the sharpened end of a toothbrush. Then another inmate, Dong, broke the toothbrush and jabbed the sole of Zhang Guoyi's feet with the broken, sharp end until his feet bled. After forty or fifty minutes of torture, Song Baishun ordered the inmates to immobilize Zhang Guoyi again and shocked his mouth with an electric baton for nearly ten minutes.
6. Squatting above push pins
One evening in February 2002, practitioners Zhang Guoyi and Yan Hongwei were taken to Room 5, where they were forbidden to sleep. Four or five perpetrators forced Zhang Guoyi to squat on a brick. If he moved, the inmates would kick his back with the heels of their boots. One inmate placed pushpins on the ground below Zhang Guoyi's buttocks and also in front of him. If he fell backwards or forwards, the pushpins would jab into him. He was forced to squat all night in the same posture until he lost the feeling in his legs and his feet were so swollen he could not wear shoes.
7. Shocking with several electric batons
Around midnight on August 3, 2002, Song Baishun called Zhang Guoyi to the office. In the middle of the room was a quilt with four or five inmates standing around it. Three fully charged electric batons were on the table and three more were hanging on the wall. Song Baishun asked what Zhang Guoyi thought, and Zhang Guoyi said, "It's not wrong to be a good person according to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance." Song Baishun immediately ordered the inmates to strip off all of Zhang Guoyi's heavy clothing. They immobilized him on the quilt and cuffed his hands behind his back. Song Baishun and division head Chen Wei each sat on a chair and repeatedly shocked Zhang Guoyi's mouth, armpits, stomach and arms with two electric batons. Song Baishun kept hurling insults. Zhang Guoyi felt his chest tightening up, as if his heart was about to burst out of his chest. His body jerked violently and the handcuffs cut into his wrists. When the two batons ran out of electricity, they started again with two other batons.
Another division head, Wei Maojin, who is in his 30s, shouted, "If he still doesn't give in, let's shock him in his anus!" Division head Pan Jinwei, in his 40s, was also present. This torture lasted nearly three hours, and Zhang Guoyi's mouth was so swollen he could hardly speak. Blisters the size of eggs appeared in his armpits and on stomach and arms. There was hardly any skin left intact on his upper body. His wrists were swollen and black and blue. The inmates said, "You Falun Gong practitioners are all good people! Why are the division heads so hard on you?"
8. Sitting on small stools
A small stool is 20 cm long, 25 cm wide, and 17 cm tall. On the stool is a corn flour bun to provide a context for how small the stool is.
The picture shows the small stool often used to torture Falun Gong practitioners at the Zhangshi Labor Camp, the Longshan Labor Camp and the Masanjia Labor Camp. The stool is made of hard plastic. The practitioners are forced to sit on it until their buttocks turn black and blue and sometimes even develop boils.
9. Eating small, corn flour buns
On the stool pictured above is the steamed bun given as food to practitioners at the Zhangshi Labor Camp and also at the Xinshou Division of Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau. (The Xinshou Division was originally located in the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp but was moved to the Shenxin Labor Camp in the summer of 2002.) The buns are made of corn flour and other ingredients. In the Xinshou Division, the authorities tell the guards not to give the practitioners enough food. Male practitioners are given one bun and two spoonfuls of vegetable soup at each meal. Any remaining food is flushed down the toilet. The practitioners are forced to do slave labor, including manual labor. If they don't meet the quota, they are given only half a bun or nothing at all. As a result, the practitioners suffer from constipation and they can't have a bowel movement for weeks or even a month at a time. The time and frequency they are allowed to use the toilet is limited, and if they exceed the time limit, the guards will beat and punish them by forcing them to squat with their buttocks pointing up.
Other torture methods used at the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp can be found at:
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/30/82915.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/12/52361.html
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Jing Haizhang, 73 years old, was a resident at Changjiang Residents' Committee in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On August 8, 2002, personnel from the Changjiang Police Station arrested Jing Haizhang as he was distributing Falun Dafa truth clarifying materials at Bitang Park. After being illegally detained in the police station for 48 hours, he was bailed out and fined 50,000 Yuan. Two weeks later, he passed away.
September 27, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
First Method of Torture:
Location: Solitary confinement in the women's division of the Dalian Forced Labor Camp.
Purpose: To force Falun Dafa practitioners to sign a "repentance statement," a "Guarantee Statement," and a self-criticism.
Description: Square-shaped metal cage made of welded steel bars, about 1.8 meters high, 2 meters long, 1 meter wide.
The victim is tied with her back to the back of a chair and the rope crossing between her legs. The victim is then lifted up against one side of the metal cage until her feet no longer touch the ground, the horizontal bar of the cage used for support. Her arms spread apart, and each hand is handcuffed or tied to the pipe.
One leg is then raised and held up by one of the thugs while another stabs the victim's hands with scissors or beats on her feet with a plank, aiming repeatedly for one spot. Then the other leg is forced in the opposite direction. The thugs continue to torture the victim until they get tired.
Variations of this torture include:
a. The victim is suspended from the center of the cage. Both of her legs are pulled out between the vertical bars on opposite sides of the cage and fastened to the bars. Then the thugs pull her legs further and further apart.
b. The victim's legs are lifted and the thugs insert a broomstick into her vagina and poked it around vigorously. To muffle the cries and moans of anguish, the thugs gag her with a dirty rag and tape her mouth with yellow tape.
Many victims have suffered massive hemorrhages because of this torture, but even when this happens, the prison guards do not give up.
Second Method of Torture:
Location: Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and the women's division at Dalian Forced Labor Camp, Shenyang Province.
Purpose: To break the practitioners' hunger strikes.
Description: A specially designed "bed," called the "death bed" by some practitioners in Shenyang. The "bed" consists of a metal board, with a hole at the position of the hips. The victim's hands and feet are stretched apart and tied to the sides of the bed. The victim's pants are cut open or taken off, and all waste products fall through the hole. During force-feedings, the thugs not only rotated the feeding tubes intentionally to torture the victims but also used very dirty tubes.
The lower bunk is taken out of a bunk bed (1 m x 1.8 m) that had previously been used for sleeping in Dalian. Only about three boards are left to support the body, one for the torso, one for the legs and one at the waist. The victim is shackled to the bed with all four limbs spread apart and a bucket placed below to catch waste. A force-feeding tube is inserted, which, for convenience, is never taken out. Some of the victims' stomachs have been seriously and permanently injured because the rubber tubing was inserted directly into the stomach wall. As a result of this torture, the victims tire very quickly, and they can lose as much as 11 pounds within one or two days. In order to prevent the victims from committing suicide because of the unbearable torture, the perpetrators put a helmet, similar to a motorcycle helmet, on their heads. Some of the victims' ears have started to fester because this helmet often wasn't removed for long periods of time.
The victims passed days and nights in this condition, from about one week to over a month, until they gave up their hunger strike or until they were found dying.
Third Method of Torture:
Location: Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang
Purpose: To force Falun Dafa practitioners to give up their beliefs.
Description: The victims' legs are tied together in the lotus position with rope, from early morning to late at night, for over 10 hours at a time.
(Clearwisdom.net) Around 5 p.m. on September 6, 2004, several police officers from the Chunhai Police Station (under the jurisdiction of the Zhongshan District Police Department, Dalian City, Liaoning Province) headed by Sun Yucheng, broke into the home of Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Wencan, who is in his 60s. The perpetrators abducted him, his wife Hu Guilian, and Hu Guilian's younger sister Ms. Hu Shuhai. Before the abduction, Liu Wencan had been detained in Dalian Forced Labor Camp, where he was tortured so severely that he was rendered disabled. As a result, Mr. Liu cannot take care of himself. After being detained for one day and one night at the Chunhai Police Station, where he was threatened, he was released. His wife Hu Guilian and his sister Hu Shuhai were transferred to the Dalian Detention Center. The police said that they would sentence the two women.
Liu Wencan's family has been detained many times. Around 10 p.m. one day in October 1999, police officer Wang and Zhang Jinying (female, since retired) from the Chunhai Police Station broke in and ransacked Liu Wencan's home. They forcefully took away more than 10 pictures of Teacher Li and of the Falun emblem. The perpetrators also arrested Mr. Liu's wife and their daughter Liu Li and detained them for a week.
On January 21, 2000, guard Zhao Guangyuan arrested Liu Wencan and Hu Guilian for practicing the exercises in public. The couple was detained for 15 days, and the police confiscated their portable CD player. Mr. Liu requested the return of the item many times, but the police did not comply. To protest the illegal detention, Mr. Liu refused to sign the detention document. Zhao Guangyuan said, "You think that we cannot deal with you if you don't sign it? We can fix you anyway!"
On February 17, 2000, Hu Guilian and her daughter Liu Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. At the train station in Dalian City, the police abducted the two practitioners and detained them in the Drug Rehabilitation Institute of the Dalian Bureau of Judiciary for a week. They were only released after paying a fine of 5,000 yuan (1). By that time, the Drug Rehabilitation Institute had been turned into a detention camp to torture Dafa practitioners. The police there tortured the mother and daughter.
On June 30, 2000, several practitioners came to Liu Wencan's home to visit the couple. The Chunhai Police Station labeled the visit as an "illegal gathering." Officer Zhang Jinying ransacked Mr. Liu's home and stole many items, including over 50 Falun Dafa books, one set of the 9-day lecture series on video and one set of the 9 lectures on audio. The couple and the visiting practitioners as well as a practitioner's child were all arrested. Except for one practitioner and the practitioner's child, who were "released on bail" (it's actually extortion) by their family members, the other six practitioners were all sentenced to terms of forced labor. Liu Wencan was sentenced to 1 year and Hu Guilian was sentenced to 2 and a half years. Both of them were then detained in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp. The labor camp wrote on their documents, "possession of Falun Gong materials", as the reason for the couple's detention.
Since the couple was detained in the labor camp, their daughter Liu Li was left home alone. A fellow practitioner, Ms. Ma Xueqing, took care of Liu Li after work. One night in July 2000, guard Wei Quan (who has since been transferred) from the Chunhai Police Station ransacked their home. The perpetrator stole two incense burners made of pure copper (each worth about 300 yuan). Wei also beat up the two girls. He grabbed Liu Li's hair with all his strength and kicked her in the back. As a result, much of her hair was pulled out, and even the skin on her scalp was pulled off in several places. Ms. Liu's back was covered with bruises. In the end, the police arrested the two girls and detained them at the Dalian Detention Center.
In August 2001, after Liu Wencan was released from the forced labor camp, police guards Zhang Jinying and Jiang Degang from Chunhai Police Station came again to ransack Mr. Liu's home. They stole 4 audiotapes of Teacher's lectures and a picture of Teacher. When Zhang Jinying was calling the police station asking for reinforcements and a vehicle to come and make the arrest, Mr. Liu pushed the two police guards out the door and locked the house.
In March 2002, while Liu Wencan's older daughter Liu Min was talking to a friend on the No. 31 Bus about her parents' experiences of being sent to labor camps, a plain-clothes agent reported her. Police from Lianhelu Police Station stopped the bus and abducted Liu Min. The perpetrators detained her at the Dalian Detention Center for a month, and then sentenced her to two years of forced labor. She was sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where the persecutors brutally tortured her, including forcing her to stay outside in the freezing winter. (Translator's note: The winter temperature in Northeast China can easily reach -30 degrees Celsius or -22 Fahrenheit.)
At around 4 p.m. on April 24, 2002, the day before a "sensitive" date (Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing on April 25, 1999 to appeal to the central government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Later, the authorities take special effort to ensure no practitioner go to appeal on and around April 25.), a few guards from the Chunhai Police Station including Dong Liang ransacked Liu Wencan's home once again. They forcefully took away an audiotape and 50 truth-clarifying fliers. The persecutors arrested the couple and detained them in the Dalian Detention Center for a month, after which they sentenced them to terms of forced labor. Liu Wencan was sent to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp for the second time. In February 2003, Mr. Liu was tortured so severely that he was left physically disabled. As a result, Mr. Liu has not been able to take care of himself. Hu Guilian was sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. On March 27, Ms. Hu escaped from the labor camp with the help of her righteous thoughts.
On April 25, 2002, the Dalian Skin Disease Dispensary tried to force Ms. Liu Li to sign her parents' detention card. When Liu Li refused, guard Wang Hongwei from the Chunhai Police Station arrested her on the spot. After being detained in the Dalian Detention Center for a month, Liu Li was sentenced to 2 years of forced labor and sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. At this time, all four members of Liu Wencan's family were detained in forced labor camps: Liu Wencan was in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp; and his wife and daughters, Hu Guilian, Liu Min, and Liu Li were detained in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
When Liu Wencan was released for medical treatment (after he was left disabled from the abuse) in March 2003, his home had been empty for a year: there was mildew in the rice, and innumerable moths had hatched and were flying around in his home.
From May 2003 to May 2004, Liu Wencan was harassed and monitored by a group of perpetrators.
Contact information:
Chunhai Police Station: 86-411-82717435; Chief: 86-411-82702150
Sun Yucheng: 86-411- 82717435 (Sun was responsible for the latest arrest and charges)
September 19, 2004
(1) Yuan is the unit of Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaoman has been resisting the persecution. On July 19, 2004, she walked out of the labor camp, openly and nobly. Her term was up on May 2, but the labor camp authorities wouldn't release her because she did not cooperate with them. She had refused to attend classes, do physical exercises, perform manual labor, or fill out forms. On July 18, guard Wang Jing told her that she would be released the next day. However, another guard, Zhang Guimei, insisted she fill out a form and sign it. Ms. Liu Xiaoman refused. Finally, with righteous thoughts, she walked out of the labor camp.
2. On July 2, 2004, more than 70 people from the Advanced Study Class at Jilin Province's Communist Party School came to the labor camp to deliver "care" and books, including two computers. After the meeting started, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Division One said loudly, "Falun Dafa is great! You are lying!" The police officers and guards went into a panic, and several of them took her out of the meeting room in a hurry. Another practitioner, Ms. Song Xiyu from Division Four, yelled immediately afterwards, "Falun Dafa is great!" Several guards took her out, too. They tied her onto a "dead person's bed" after they returned to Team Four. The guards, Feng and Liu Zhiwei, tied her hands and feet to the bed and shocked her with electric batons. Since Ms. Xiyu was sent here on November 5, 2003, she has been on a hunger strike for over three months, during which time her hands were tightly cuffed to a bed. She suffered a minor mental collapse from this torture. Former practitioner Wu Yunhua, who has turned against Dafa, taped her mouth shut and tied her to the bed, with her hands behind her back during the day. Whenever Ms. Song Xiyu screamed, the guards would refuse her food. Some guards said that she had schizophrenia, but they wouldn't release her for treatment.
3. On June 16, 2004, when Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gu Jinfen refused to attend a class, she was dragged to the guards' room and shocked 19 times by guards Zhang Shuhua, Wang Zhufeng and Wang Jing using electric batons. She was badly injured by this torture. Her term was up in July, but we are not sure if she has been released.
4. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Geng Liandi was shocked with electric batons 11 times, hung up for two days, deprived of sleep for over 20 days, and often kicked by guard Wang Jing. She was released on June 15.
5. Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Yuxiang endured shocking with electric batons on July 6. She used to be in Team Two, supervised by guard Liu Zhiwei, who was frustrated by Falun Dafa practitioners' kind warnings not to shock others. When Wang Yuxiang told her that there was nothing wrong with cultivation practice, she became angry and beat Wang Yuxiang with a wooden board on July 29 and 30. As a result, Ms. Wang Yuxiang's face was swollen, and she had a difficult time sleeping. Liu Zhiwei also assigned former practitioner Zhang Xiue, who had turned against Dafa, to watch Wang Yuxing, threatening that they would use further violence against her if she did not attend the work detail.
6. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Du Hongfang is from Jilin City and has been persecuted many times. She was arrested in 1999 and sentenced to one year of forced labor. Because she wouldn't give up Falun Gong practice, her term was illegally extended for another year. After she returned home, on June 18, 2002, she was arrested again and sentenced to another two years of forced labor. After her term was up, the authorities would not release her because she wouldn't write the "Guarantee Statement" or give up practicing Falun Gong. After she had been detained for 40 additional days beyond the end of her term, a guard told her at lunch, "We called your sister-in-law and told her to come pick you up." But they took her away in the labor camp vehicle, and nobody really knows where she was taken. This is an old trick. They also duped the inmates, telling them that they would reduce their terms by 10 or 20 days if they would do bad things, but they never fulfilled their promises, even to them. The inmates have started to understand Falun Dafa practitioners, and some relatively kindhearted ones have begun to help us.
ID Badge numbers of some of the guards:
Zhang Guimei 2200305
Xu Yan 2200307
Feng 2200311
Wang Jing 2200308
Li Xiaohua 2200305
Some guards do not wear a badge. They only wear it occasionally when an audit is expected. These guards are usually quite vicious.
Division Four used to have us work on unauthorized books. Since the central government forbids printing these kinds of books, they have made an exception to have us work on Buddhist books. The work took three months. We have also worked on five other books, including one about Picasso and one about Van Gogh. We have worked on medical textbooks and others, too. Besides this kind of work, the camp administrators and guards have helped a liquor shop avoid paying taxes.
The labor camp guards even make money on practitioners' clothes. When practitioners' terms are up and they are released, their clothes remain behind and the labor camp guards sell them to people who arrive later. Lately, they have been extorting 10 yuan from each practitioner before he or she leaves. Besides clothes, they make money from practitioners' slippers, hot water pots, chairs and other personal belongings.
The guards also fake the time schedule. There is no naptime after lunch, but the guards had the supervisor in charge of labor sign for two hours of naptime so that the schedule would look good to visitors.
The Jilin Provincial Political and Judiciary Committee, along with the Women's Affiliate and the labor camp authorities, held so-called training classes such as "Good Housewife Training," "Domestic Management," "Hair Styling," "Cosmetics," "Flower Arranging," and others. Some courses only held one class and nothing was taught, but they would have an exam to make it appear to be a regular course. They would take photos of the class and display them along the hallway, in order to dupe visitors. For example, they said that there were 106 students in the first group. They collect 50 yuan for each class and promise to reduce someone's term by ten days for earning a certificate.
September 4, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Yuan Lin, 50, is a teacher for graduate studies at Beijing University. On May 20, 2004, in a meeting with nearly a thousand attendees, she exposed how guards at the Beijing Women's Prison beat and abused Falun Gong practitioners. The guards of the prison also tortured her. The prison punished Ms. Yuan Lin for disclosing the illegal acts of prison guards. She held a hunger strike in protest and was subjected to daily force feedings.
Ms. Yuan Lin was illegally detained twice for two months. She was arrested a third time in December 2001. She was transferred to and secretly detained in the detention center of the seventh division of Beijing Public Security. During that time, she was sent to the Beijing Police Hospital four times. Ms. Yuan is over 1.70 meters (5 feet 8 inches) tall, but she was tortured to the point where she weighed less than 88 pounds, and she couldn't even walk steadily. After suffering from torture for nine months, Ms. Yuan Lin was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in September 2002.
In the summer of 2002, during the imprisonment before her sentencing, Zhou Ying, the assistant warden, and Tian Fengying, ordered guards (Chen Jing and Li Xiaobing, a former practitioner who was brainwashed) to brutally beat her, which caused her to lose hearing in one ear. Chen Jing beat her and ordered her to sit with her legs double-crossed or to squat for periods as long as 24 hours. The guard didn't allow Ms. Yuan to use the bathroom for several days. Chen said, "Unless you write a 'Repentance Statement' (1), you are not allowed to use the bathroom."
On May 20, 2004, Ms. Yuan Lin exposed the persecution that she had suffered. Ms. Yuan said, "I want to report that the guards of the prison's tenth division ordered others to beat Falun Gong practitioners who refused to reform. They did not allow us to use the restroom or to sleep." Immediately a few criminals from the tenth division muffled her and dragged her out of the meeting hall. Another Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Gong Ruiping, also stood up to confirm the fact that prisoners in the tenth division had beaten her and injured her leg. Leaders from the Beijing Supervision Bureau and other related units that were present became embarrassed and angry.
Zhou Ying, assistant warden in the Beijing Women's Prison, and other guards were infuriated. On May 26, 2004, they sent Ms. Yuan to an intensive training center to persecute her. At the same time, the prison intensified their persecution against steadfast Falun Gong practitioners, which included closer monitoring and brainwashing. For example, they set new rules stating that Falun Gong practitioners could not speak to each other for more than ten minutes. After practitioners were forced to finish their forced labor for the day, they had to attend all kinds of brainwashing lectures or "study sessions." They were forced to listen to lies that slandered and attacked Falun Dafa and Teacher, and they jointly suffered attacks from the prison guards and their accomplices.
Responsible persons:
Zhou Ying, female, 41 years old, assistant warden in Beijing Female Prison.
Phone number: 86-13701383101 (cellular)
Tian Fengqing, female, 45 years old, former divisional head in the third
division in Beijing Female Prison, currently deputy director in the
administration office. Phone number: 86-13520877187 (cellular)
Note:
(1) The so-called "Repentance Statement": In this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, to promise to give up Falun Gong, and to never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
September 14, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 20-24, 2004, the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly was held in New York, and heads of governments and senior officials from countries around the world converged in New York to attend the summit. Practitioners from Toronto, along with Falun Gong practitioners from around the world, also gathered in New York to display the beauty and peace of Falun Gong to the public, in the hopes that government officials and the media could learn about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong initiated and directed by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who also extended the persecution and hate propaganda to other countries.
During the summit, Falun Gong practitioners held a series of truth clarification activities, including press conferences, live anti-torture exhibits, the "Great Wall of Courage," and group practice of the exercises. Toronto practitioners joined the truth clarification at street corners. During the one-week activity, practitioners happened to meet many delegates and media members that attended the summit, handing out Falun Dafa information and materials to them, and explaining to them the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution happening in China. Practitioners also noticed that more and more New Yorkers have learned the truth about Falun Gong, and they condemned the persecution and supported the Falun Gong practitioners' righteous acts. On the one-week trip to New York, there occurred many interesting stories. The following are several episodes.
  Live anti-torture exhibit beside the hotel where delegates of the summit stayed |
|   People learn the facts beside the anti-torture exhibit |
|   People are startled by the brutality of the persecution |
  People are startled by the brutality of the persecution |
|   People who learned the truth sign the petition to condemn the persecution |
|   People who learned the truth sign the petition to condemn the persecution |
Former Canadian Prime Minister Carefully Saved the Truth Clarification Material
On September 21, the first day of the Toronto practitioners' visit to New York, they came across former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on the street. When he was Canadian prime minister, Mr. Chretien had expressed his concern many times over the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong. In October 2001, when he attended the APEC Summit in Shanghai, Mr. Chretien expressed his concern to the Chinese leader over China's human rights situation, especially the suppression of Falun Gong. With the help of the Canadian Government, more than 15 Canadian Falun Gong practitioners and their family members were rescued and released from detention in China. Prior to this time, Canadian practitioners have clarified the truth to MPs of all levels in the Canadian government, and delivered many Falun Dafa truth clarification materials to them.
As recalled by two practitioners who ran into Mr. Chretien, during the UN summit, he and two MPs saw Falun Gong practitioners in yellow T-shirts once again on the street. He smiled in a friendly way to the practitioners and nodded and passed by. One of the practitioners pointed at them from the behind, and said, "I'm from Toronto." Mr. Chretien and the two MPs immediately turned their heads and walked back to the practitioners, happily shaking hands with them. When a practitioner told Mr. Chretien that they were Canadian Falun Gong practitioners, he showed the two practitioners a copy of folded Falun Gong truth clarification material in his pocket. A practitioner recognized that the material was the one Canadian practitioners made and delivered to these MPs previously. Practitioners were very pleased that Mr. Chretien still carefully kept the truth clarification material for such a long period of time.
Righteous Restaurant Owner
Several Toronto practitioners walked along the street to hand out materials and clarify the facts while holding photo display boards with the words, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and photos of group practice and brutal persecution. When they passed a restaurant near the Chinese Consulate, the restaurant owner was standing right in front of the entrance. Practitioners just passed by him, and heard someone call out from behind, "Stop." They thought this owner did not see clearly the content of the display boards and wanted to stop them and look carefully. This restaurant owner had received Dafa materials and learned the facts. He hoped practitioners would walk around in his restaurant holding the display boards to allow every customer to take a look at them and learn the truth. The practitioners walked around along the 30 tables in the restaurant while holding truth clarification display boards. The restaurant was full of people wearing suits. They all turned around to see such an unusual sight in the restaurant.
The owner also requested a stack of truth clarification materials from practitioners, and followed behind the practitioners' display boards to pass out literature to people at each table, telling them, "This is Falun Dafa, very good." Or "This is the persecution happening in China, please take a good look at it!" After the stack of materials was gone, he asked for another stack to continue distributing. Finally before the practitioners left, the owner shook hands with them and wished them good luck.
Be Sure to Bring the Exhibit and Exercise Demonstration to Our School
When several practitioners held an anti-torture exhibit at the site of the World Trade Center, and handed out materials and explained the facts about Falun Gong, they saw a group of young girls who were tourists, and walked up to them to hand out truth clarification materials to them. These girls saw that practitioners' exercises demonstration was beautiful and also felt startled by such brutal persecution. One girl told practitioners that she was in charge of a human rights group at a university. She hoped practitioners would go to her school to bring such a beautiful exercise demonstration and the anti-torture exhibit, to allow students there to learn about all this. She said if practitioners wanted to come, she could reserve a place and arrange a time immediately. She also said that their human rights group has branches in several dozen universities in the USA, and practitioners could go there to hold such exhibits.
She expressed that she would like to help practitioners contact other schools and bring such beautiful exercises and truth clarification of the persecution to those universities. Finally, before this group of young ladies left, they left their contact information and hoped the practitioners would get in touch with them as soon as possible.
The World Needs "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance"
A woman from Peru worked at the building near where Falun Gong practitioners were holding an anti-torture exhibit. She was startled by the brutal persecution exposed through the anti-torture exhibit the first time she passed by. At the same time, she was deeply attracted to the peaceful and harmonious exercises and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and expressed that she would like to learn the exercises on the spot. Later, she told practitioners that the night before she saw practitioners, she had a dream. She dreamed that a group of people were holding an activity at the place of our anti-torture exhibit. Some children wrote for people some words that were strange to her. She also heard beautiful and peaceful music in her dream. Today, as soon as she walked to the place of anti-torture exhibit, she heard the exercise music, and it was exactly what she heard in her dream. She saw "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" on the truth clarification flyers, the same words those children in her dream wrote. She immediately learned to do the five sets of the exercises, and happily requested more materials from practitioners, saying that she would mail them to her friends and family members in Peru. She also hoped that practitioners would introduce Falun Dafa in Peru. She said people in Peru are very much in need of such beautiful exercises and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance."
When practitioners were holding display boards and handing out materials, they also met many New Yorkers, who after learning the truth, inquired earnestly about where to learn the exercises, and how to help stop the brutal persecution. A young man got the information about practice sites in New York, and thanked practitioners for bringing the truth and such beautiful exercises to New Yorkers. He hoped practitioners would tell other practitioners to be sure not to stop their truth clarification activities; they must keep it up to let all New Yorkers learn the truth. The practitioners told him that they will definitely keep it up, and also told him that it was not easy for Falun Gong practitioners to do this. In order to help more New Yorkers learn the truth, practitioners traveled from around the world using their own savings and vacations to join the activities. The young man nodded and shook practitioners' hands to express his thanks and said, "You are remarkable."
Looking at the back of the young man who left, practitioners said in their hearts, "Please rest assured, New Yorkers, Falun Gong practitioners will definitely keep it up, to spread the truth of Falun Dafa to every corner of Manhattan, and to let the truth of Falun Dafa enter the hearts of all New Yorkers."
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, a tall Caucasian practitioner has been hoisting posters and distributing Falun Gong fliers at Hong Kong bus stations. Because he stands out among all the Chinese faces, his presence attracts a lot of attention. Sometimes, he talks with tourists from Mainland China and gives them Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. His Chinese name is David Mo and he has been practicing Falun Gong for 4 years. Below is David's cultivation experience, and his explanation of why he came to Hong Kong to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to Mainlanders.
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I am an Australian, and I have been working in Taiwan for 6 years. I love Chinese culture and studied Chinese in the past. One morning in 2000, I saw people doing Falun Gong exercises in a culture center. I did Yoga before and was interested in doing meditation. I felt Falun Gong was very peaceful, which is the thing that our society lacks; therefore, I started to practice Falun Gong.
As soon as I started to read Zhuan Falun, I came to understand everything that had puzzled me for so long. I found my goal in life. Though I knew some Chinese, the Chinese Zhuan Falun was still too difficult and profound for me to comprehend. I went to see my Chinese teacher and asked him to teach me to read this book. Therefore, he helped me read through Zhuan Falun once. Since then, my understanding of Chinese has increased very fast--just like Master Li said, that Western practitioners can quickly learn to read Chinese Zhuan Falun if their mindset is right.
My health condition was not so good before; however, I became illness-free after I started this practice 4 years ago. My major is computer programming and my job is developing and maintaining programs. When I was young, one of my habits was to play with computers and I also tried to develop some programs, though I was never successful. After I start cultivation, my wisdom and endurance has been constantly improving, and I developed some programs successfully. Falun Gong is so great. Cultivation helps me make my dream into reality. Now, I am healthy, fluent in Chinese, good at programming and have a high-income job.
The cultivation environment in Taiwan is very good. Practitioners practice and share experiences in groups and have helped me a lot in cultivation. From other Taiwan practitioners, I learned that many Mainland Chinese go to Hong Kong for sightseeing. While Falun Gong is banned on the Mainland, Falun Gong is legal in Hong Kong. Because of the brainwashing from the government-controlled media, most Mainlanders don't know the truth of Falun Gong and the persecution. Therefore, I decided to go to Hong Kong to clarify the truth to Mainlanders because Falun Gong has benefited me so much. When Mainland Chinese tourists see me, they are all surprised. People all know that Falun Gong originated in Mainland China; however, they never expected to see a Caucasian in a yellow Falun Gong T-shirt telling them the facts about Falun Gong in Chinese.
Being in Hong Kong, a precious opportunity for Mainland Chinese to learn the truth of Falun Gong thus has been created, and I hope that more people will come to take advantage of that opportunity.
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 24, 2004, an anti-torture exhibition was held in the West End railway station of Dallas, TX to call for an end of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. It was a busy area, as a bus stop and long-distance bus station were nearby. Crowds of people were coming and going, especially at lunch time. The practitioners' anti-torture exhibition caught the attention of many people. Some asked what had happened. Some read the truth-clarification posters, while others talked with practitioners to learn more.
  Passers-by look at posters |
|   Passers-by study the posters carefully |
"You are doing the right thing"
Many people heard of Falun Gong and the persecution for the first time, as practitioners explained the facts to them.
One woman told a practitioner that she adopted a Chinese child and she knew China well. She hoped we would continue our efforts. A gentleman came forward to talk to a practitioner in fluent Chinese. He said that he lived in China for six years and knew China. When the practitioner explained to him that the Jiang faction maintained the persecution with fabrications and slander, he said that they could do this because newspapers there do not report the truth.
After listening to the truth clarification, many people expressed their support to the practitioners and signed their names to support Falun Gong. A lady said, "Thank you very much for letting me know this. You know? You are doing the right thing!"
  Practitioners explain the facts |
|   A passer-by signs to support Falun Gong |
|   A passer-by signs to support Falun Gong |
I want to learn Falun Gong
One man had heard of Falun Gong before but did not have the chance to learn. He viewed the photos showing the exercises one by one and said that he would go to a practice site to learn. A young man asked a practitioner to teach him the exercises on site.
An Asian came to talk to a practitioner. He said that his father was from China and his mother was from Thailand. He could not speak Chinese well. He had purchased the book Zhuan Falun in Thai when he visited Thailand recently. The practitioner welcomed him to the practice site to join in the group exercise.
A passer-by learns the exercises
Practitioners cooperate well in truth clarification
Practitioners expose the torture
It was hard to stay for several hours under the scorching sun. Due to limited manpower, rotation of the participants in the anti-torture exhibition was not possible. A reporter interviewed them and asked about their thoughts.
One practitioner in the exhibition said, "I feel it is a sacred thing to help more people learn the facts of the persecution of Dafa practitioners in China through our demonstration. I did not feel tired after a few hours of standing there but I was moved. I wanted to have people know the truth from the bottom of my heart."
A practitioner acting in the role of a policeman was in his 70s. Standing for several hours, when asked whether he felt tired, he said, "No problem. I can move a little compared with the practitioner representing someone being tortured." Regarding whether he liked playing the role of a Chinese policeman, he said that it was needed in order to expose the persecution and help more people learn the facts.
People ask for information about the torture of practitioners in China
Ms. Zhang, a contact person for the exhibition, said that this one followed the first exhibition a week ago, "We found it to be a very effective way to help people know about Falun Gong and the persecution. Practitioners who worked came to support the exhibition during their lunchtime. We will conduct similar activities in downtown Dallas in the near future."
(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of the 25th of September, Falun Gong practitioners from Belgium and Holland gathered together in Rotterdam, the city with the largest Chinese population in Holland. An anti-torture exhibition acted out by practitioners was held in the Schouwburgplein city centre, not far from Chinatown. Many passersby were drawn by the exhibition and display boards. Lots of them stopped to have a close look and asked for more details about the persecution. Many of them had heard about Falun Gong before but not the persecution. After listening to practitioners explaining what was happening in China, they learned about the cruelty of Jiang Zemin's regime and its crimes against humanity. Many people found it inconceivable and felt very shocked but also sad; they also shared their sympathy with practitioners and their family members who had suffered from the persecution. There were also people who were passing by taking photos of each exhibit.
It is early autumn in Holland now, but the weather is already cold. During the entire activity, practitioners just carried on with their righteous thoughts in the cold wind. On the other side of the street some practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises with peaceful music in order to let people know the facts, that these are a group of good people who practice Truth, Compassion, Tolerance and are being brutally persecuted in China right now. By staging the exhibition, we wanted to arouse people's conscience so that we can end the persecution together. If everyone knows about the brutality of this persecution, then it will surely end because Jiang's regime will not find any space to hide.
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(Clearwisdom.net) The 18th of September was the opening day of the 171st Munich Beer Festival, which lasts for sixteen days. Tourists from all over Germany and the world traveled to Munich to take part and the city was constantly busy. In Marienplatz in the city centre, Falun Gong practitioners from Munich and Bavaria held an information day and anti-torture exhibition to show people how Jiang Zemin uses his regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China.
On one side of the exhibition, beautiful music and exhibition boards informing people that Falun Dafa is spreading all over the world caught people's attention. They stopped to have a look and accepted the leaflets handed to them by the practitioners. On the other side of the exhibition, there was a re-enactment of practitioners being tied up on a Tiger Bench and locked up in a cage. Standing nearby was a policeman with a fierce look. The acting conveyed to the people that all these things are happening in China's forced-labor camps. People were shocked: many were gazing at the scene with their eyes wide-open and couldn't believe that this is happening every day in China. When being told what was being shown here was only the tip of the iceberg and the real persecution in China is even crueler than this, people were indignant and signed their names on a petition to bring Jiang Zemin to justice.
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  A tourist learned Falun Gong sitting meditation |
|   A tourist brought a flower to pay tribute to practitioners who have been persecuted to death in China |
The Jiang Zemin regime has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners for over five years since July 1999. Tens of millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been forced to sign their names on a guarantee to give up practicing Falun Gong. Many of them have been taken to be brainwashed because they refused to sign and many of them have been taken to forced labor camps to be "re-educated". At present, over 100,000 practitioners are imprisoned in all sorts of forced labor camps and mental hospitals. 1047 Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed as being tortured to death. Numerous practitioners have been forced to leave their homes or families, and have lost their jobs.
The Jiang regime has used the whole of China's state apparatus and propaganda machine to conduct a campaign of annihilation against Falun Gong and deprived those who practice of their basic human rights. In order to escape condemnation from the international community, the persecution has changed its form recently. The regime has tried to hide the persecution and suppression of Falun Gong practitioners even more deviously.
In the past few months, reports about practitioners being tortured have come out one after another. Gao Rongrong was electrically shocked on the face for seven hours and tortured to the brink of death in Longshan forced labor camp; Wang Xia became a human skeleton in Linhe City Inner Mongolia; Wang Guijin, who had been pregnant for nine months, was forced to have an induced labor in Huaiyang County Henan Province: These are the unbelievable facts. At present Jiang Zemin has a lawsuit brought against him for crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity by practitioners from many countries all over the world.
Upon first seeing the exhibition, two Germans said, "Oh, it is the Falun Gong religion." On hearing this, a practitioner told them what Falun Gong was and why Falun Gong has been persecuted in China. After hearing the facts, they went to the petition board to sign their names at once.
A tourist group from Northeast China approached the exhibition and a western practitioner went over and gave them some leaflets. Among the tourists, there was one who had interviewed Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, before the persecution began. When the western practitioner told him that Mr. Li is a good person, that tourist was startled at first and then his memory seemed to return quickly. He said, "Yes, he is a very good person," showing a genuine smile.
The people's longing for Dafa was encouraging to everyone. The practitioners who were playing the roles of tortured practitioners and the perpetrators continued on silently, although they had been in the scorching sun for several hours. Many practitioners were too busy to take lunch because they wanted as many people as possible to hear the truth. A young Chinese student, when he began looking at the anti-torture exhibition, was very angry and started shouting that the practitioners were losing face for the Chinese people. The practitioners patiently told him the whole story of the persecution, from the self-immolation deaths in Tiananmen Square that Jiang staged to frame Falun Gong and the Jiang regime's crimes of genocide, to the Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful opposition. Finally, that young man became quiet and took a Video-CD and some leaflets with him. He said that he would watch the video and read the materials carefully when he got home.
Source http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200410/22231.html
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the persecution
On September 6, 2004, Yang Zihua from the Miyi County National Security Bureau in Sichuan Province, Zhang from Linbinggu Town, and five perpetrators from the Binggu Police Station ransacked Falun Gong practitioner Yang Xingxiu's home. They took her to the Binggu Police Station. At noon on September 8, they cuffed Yang Xingxiu's hands behind her back and hung her up until she passed out at around 10 p.m. On September 9, Yang Xingxiu was sent to the Shangmiyi Detention Center, where the guards beat her until she lost consciousness. When she came to, she vomited everything she had eaten. On September 14, Yang Xingxiu passed out again, and the perpetrators released her on September 15.
The guards at Changchun City Female Labor Camp, led by division head Liu Lianying, often verbally abused and shocked practitioners with electric batons and tried to force them to write a repentance statement. Several practitioners, including Han Chunyan, were severely tortured and almost had nervous breakdowns. Practitioner Sun Xiuxia was bruised all over her body from the torture. Xu Guorong, a practitioner in her fifties, was shocked with electric batons many times, and guard Wei Dan kicked her until she could barely walk. Guard He Huanping jabbed practitioner Yang Guiping's breasts with needles and yanked them with his hands. He Huanping also kicked practitioner Zhen Xiaoming's lower back until it turned black and blue. Practitioner Zhen Donghui held a hunger strike for a month and was force-fed everyday. One practitioner was tortured to death in 2003.
Practitioner Ms. Shi Yuhuan, a former worker at Chongli County's Weaving Factory in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, was reported on July 2, 2004, and arrested. She was held at the county detention center for ten days and held a hunger strike for eight of those days, after which she was unconditionally released. On August 31, 2004, Shi Yuhuan was sent to the Zhangjiakou City Brainwashing Class in Shalingzi. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Practitioner Dong Shijun is an employee of Gongan County Healthcare Institute in Hubei Province. Because she was determined in Falun Gong practice, she was severely persecuted by people from the Gongan County "610 Office." She was abducted numerous times and sent to a detention center. She was also sent to a brainwashing class three times to be tortured. In mid-August 2003, the guards from Gongan County "610 Office" abducted her and sent her to the Jingzhou City Brainwashing Class. Because she was determined in her practice, she was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. They refused to release her when her sentence expired in August 2004 and extended her sentence by two months. Seeing that she still refused to give up her belief, they sent her to a brainwashing center in Wuhan City.
(Clearwisdom.net)
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(Clearwisdom.net) The attachment of pursuit can appear in almost any conflict or obstacle of ordinary people. Many troubles and tribulations cultivators have faced were also the result of not giving up human notions, which caused many undesired results.
For example, when the persecution started, some practitioners took their personal gain or loss or their fame seriously; or had a strong attachment to Consummation. As a result, the old forces saw these and used them to create rumors and deceive people, and thereby extend the persecution.
The persecution in China has been very brutal. Many practitioners have been affected, yet they have reacted as everyday people suffering from the persecution, hoping the end will come soon, so that they can get past this painful period. This is understandable from an everyday person's angle. However, as practitioners, it is very improper to have this attachment. The Fa has higher requirements for cultivators than for everyday people. When the attachment gets strong enough, it makes practitioners forget about righteous thoughts and righteous actions, and forget that as practitioners, their great pre-historic vow was to save sentient beings.
In the past two years, we have seen that people in different areas have seriously violated Falun Dafa's requirements. Although there were not many of these people, due to their strong attachment, their actions got a lot of publicity and had a bad influence on the practitioners in the surrounding areas and local residents. Many of the incidents were directed by the "610 Office" and police from behind the scenes, but why was there always a small portion of practitioners who followed and supported them? Through Fa study, I gradually understood what was behind these phenomena: Other than not studying the Fa well and too many human notions, one of the main causes was the attachment of pursuit.
The attachment of pursuit is a big obstacle to clarifying the truth. Clarifying the facts is for the sake of everyday people, who will have a good future when they understand the truth. However, this outcome is obtained naturally through our unselfish truth clarification, and based on us being truly responsible to the audience during truth clarification, telling them about the greatness of Falun Dafa and facts of the persecution without having any pursuit. When we do it this way, the results are good.
Teacher unconditionally rectifies Fa and saves us. He does not want any compensation in return from us for all that he gives to us. His words and deeds are what we should follow. Furthermore, it is Falun Dafa practitioners' duty to save sentient beings, so it should be unconditional and purely benevolent. However, some practitioners have the strong purpose of establishing mighty virtue for themselves when they clarify the truth. These kinds of selfishness and pursuit often tend to bring about unexpected problems, and can greatly affect the results. Some practitioners have the attachments of competitiveness and doing things as a job, and especially when they are tired or do not study the Fa well, their attachments emerge: They are interested in the return from clarifying the truth, and they are after what positive words and deeds everyday people will express after hearing the facts. Furthermore, in order to pursue these kinds of things, their attitudes and words are polluted with unkind things and carry some forceful intent.
Cultivation is a serious matter, and our understanding of each principle Teacher taught us and how we deal with each problem we encounter in our cultivation reflect whether we are serious and sincere about cultivation. In fact, many of us carry strong energy fields as a result of cultivation. When our attachment of pursuit emerges, an everyday person in our field will easily feel the impure ingredient. If he does not know much about the facts, or even has some bias against Falun Gong due to propaganda he has been subjected to by Jiang and his followers, when he thinks that our efforts to clarify the truth to him are for some ulterior motive, he will instantly stay away from us and the opportunity will be lost. Then we will have pushed him away, which is against Teacher's requirement for us in "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People."
Furthermore, there are many practitioners who have not been able to get rid of their attachments for a long period of time. It is because they do not want to or cannot do so, causing them to be unable to catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification.
To put it briefly, we must let go of the attachment of pursuit, especially as Fa-rectification has progressed to this point. The period of validating the Fa by Falun Dafa disciples is also near its end. We should no longer ignore this issue.
September 11, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) In 1994 I developed a very strange condition: I suddenly felt intolerable pain in a nerve in my right foot. The medical examination showed hyperplasia of the lumbar vertebrae. In order to alleviate the pain, I underwent surgery, which cost me 6,000 yuan. After returning home the condition recurred, and whatever medicine I took and whichever doctor I saw all seemed useless. My elder sister then scraped together 20,000 yuan and took me to a specialty hospital for an examination, which revealed that I had a brain tumor pressing on a nerve. We asked the best surgeon to remove the tumor. After the surgery, everybody thought that I was completely cured. But no more than a few months later, the condition recurred and became even more severe. I lay on a bamboo bed everyday, with a fan blowing on me. When an acute attack would occur, people had to wet me down with cold water. All the food I ate had to be cold. My wife assisted me with my bodily functions and rushed about for me. Because the pain was too severe to endure, many times I thought of death. I went to the hospital for help, but the doctors said that it was the scar tissue from the last surgery, and they could do nothing more for me. I then prepared my will and waited for death.
In June 1998, a friend sent me a copy of Zhuan Falun, claiming that this qigong was truly wonderful, and asked me to read it. I was skeptical, but I started to read the book. The first day I could only read one page. Later on I gradually became interested in it. I read it during the daytime; my wife read it at night. As a result, my energy level greatly improved. One evening a month later I began to walk, holding onto the bed frame with my hands. From then on I slowly stood up to do the exercises. During winter nights when I woke up, all my clothes were soaked through. I wondered, why did I sweat in such cold weather? Later, in reading Zhuan Falun, I realized that it was Master who was purifying my body.
When I was suffering from the disease, there were always many things that I couldn't understand. I wondered why I had so much karmic debt in this life, why this condition still didn't improve after I had endured two surgeries and had the tumor removed. Through studying Falun Dafa, all of my prior questions were answered. Falun Dafa enlightened my cultivation path. Master said, "Cultivation practice is the only way to find yourself comfortably free of illness and to accomplish the goal of being truly free!" (Zhuan Falun) Every word of Master's is absolutely true!
Because of Falun Dafa's mighty power, two months later I could stand up to do exercises, sit up to eat, and go to the toilet by myself. Everybody felt happy for me. In the following weeks my body continuously improved. Now I can do all kinds of farm work and can walk for almost four miles without feeling tired. From my own experiences of having benefited from Falun Dafa, and truly experiencing the wonders of Dafa, I want to tell everyone in the world, "Falun Dafa is what brought back my life! Falun Dafa gave me a second life!"
(Clearwisdom.net) For some time, there have been many cases of severe persecution of practitioners, some of which are outrageous. I would like to share my thoughts on this, in hopes that they can be helpful to those who are going through similar tribulations. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
The mission of Fa-rectification disciples is to save people. Even though we are in a difficult period, we should not inadvertently replace "saving people during the Fa-rectification period" with "personal liberation." If we do, we will deviate from our starting point. Such loopholes in our moral character manifest themselves in the following: when doing things for Falun Dafa, we have our attachments to "pursuit" and "self." The point is whether we treat it as personal cultivation or Fa-rectification cultivation. (Some practitioners believe that as long as they do work to validate Falun Dafa, they consider it Fa-rectification cultivation.) Do we do it for ourselves or are we not thinking about ourselves at all? Are we validating ourselves or validating Falun Dafa?
The manifestation of our deviations from our starting point in this dimension is very complicated. For example, those who are jailed may take certain actions such as going on a hunger strike, exposing the facts of the persecution, and holding the perpetrators responsible. With pursuit of and expectation for the desired outcome and focusing on the action itself, the action may not be motivated by understanding of the Fa principles and compassion for sentient beings; rather they may be based on self and pursuit. If the goal is not reached within a certain time frame, they can become depressed. Instead of spending more time studying the Fa, cultivating their character and rectifying themselves, they focus on the technical issues. They may be disappointed in the outcome and complain about external factors. (In fact, they are questioning Dafa. Without a clear understanding of Dafa and by just following the formalities, they will be even more trapped in their plight.)
Some practitioners have been persecuted severely, yet they are still focusing on "self," thinking of how to get out faster, what to do after being released, and what will happen if the persecution is intensified. They ignore all the opportunities to clarify the truth and to save people selflessly.
Due to this fundamental problem, they are in fear in front of the evil. Behind fear is self and a manifestation of personal cultivation; even in the human world, we acknowledge the principle: "Fearlessness comes from selflessness." As a Dafa disciple, we are immersed in Dafa. In all circumstances, we should be responsible for the Fa and the sentient beings. All we should have in our minds should be Dafa and to save sentient beings, not the consideration of self-interest.
Another example is exposing the evil on the Internet. What matters are your motives that are sometimes hidden so well that you have to keep digging until you find the root. If you just say, "Master Li said to expose the evil, so we will expose the evil," it may sound right, but the hidden selfish thought is, "If we do as Master Li instructs, our environment will be better." Due to deep-rooted selfishness, the purpose of exposing the evil is far removed from the purpose of saving people. With a selfish purpose, some choose to understand exposing the evil without giving it much thought, which will cause safety issues.
What Master Li says has deep inner meanings; they are not simple orders. After cultivators have purified their own minds and positioned themselves correctly, because Dafa cultivation is formless, no matter how you do it, your path will be cleared.
Because the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners takes place in dark jails and forced labor camps, other than the perpetrators, only a very limited number of practitioners and their family members know about it. If practitioners can use all available opportunities to clarify the truth to everyone rationally and wisely, explaining how they have been abused and exposing the atrocities, and at the same time demonstrating the tolerance, kindness, rationality and peacefulness of Falun Dafa practitioners, that will be the real, direct, living truth of Falun Gong. We will also be negating the arrangements of the old forces and turning around the persecution to eliminate evil, save people and walk our paths righteously. This will also be helpful to the sentient beings and our families.
This is only possible after Fa-rectification cultivators enlighten to the Fa and the Fa principles and let go of self. It is also the manifestation of the selfless, compassionate and dignified state of Fa-rectification cultivators.
Let us study a section from Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students:
"Question: When we don't have any [preconceived] notions or preset plans, the effect of validating the Fa is excellent, and when the opposite is true the effect is poor.
Teacher: Yes, with a lot of things you do, when you are free of human notions your own attachments won't get mixed in. If, beyond being responsible to the Fa, you have no human attachments, none of your own things, and none of your personal factors mixed in, then you are sure to do that thing well. Whereas once you've mixed in your own factors, then you can't do that thing well.
There's something you must pay attention to: you are validating the Fa, not validating yourselves. A Dafa disciple's responsibility is to validate the Fa. Validating the Fa is cultivation, and what you remove in the cultivation process is none other than the attachment to self; you can't, instead, go and exacerbate the problem of validating oneself, even if you do it unwittingly. When you're validating the Fa and cultivating, that is a process of removing self, and only when you do that are you really validating yourself. That's because ultimately you have to let go of all your human things, and only after you've let go of all your human attachments can you step out from the throngs of everyday people."
(Clearwisdom.net) September 10th is Teacher's Day in China. Students usually give their teachers a gift on this day.
Xin Yu (alias), a 13-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner in Jilin Province, hopes more people will understand the truth about Falun Dafa. Xin Yu has excellent grades. She has been diligent in Fa study, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. She has taken every opportunity to raise her classmates' awareness about Dafa's situation, and has validated the goodness of Dafa with her words and deeds.
Her friends admire her very much, since despite all kinds of hardship, she has persisted in her practice of Falun Dafa and has never given in. Once, the school gave every student an exam sheet that included questions that slandered Falun Dafa. Xin Yu immediately tore the sheet to pieces. Afterwards, the school tried every means to coerce her, including canceling her classes and dismissing her. She never wavered. As a result, the school had to give up. Her classmates were amazed at her courage and wanted to learn Falun Gong from her.
On the eve of Teacher's Day in 2004, Xin Yu meticulously prepared a gift for her teacher. She chose a pretty cup, put Falun Dafa truth clarification literature inside it, and then wrapped it up with some nice wrapping paper. She gave the gift to her teacher and sincerely said, "I give you this gift with all my heart. I hope you will cherish it."
Xin Yu also wanted me to say hello to all young Dafa practitioners across the world. She especially hopes that young practitioners in Minghui schools overseas will cherish their cultivation environment, forge ahead diligently, and work to raise deceived Chinese people's awareness about Dafa using all means. In the meantime, she hopes all kind people the world over will learn the truth.
(Clearwisdom.net) I am an older Falun Dafa practitioner with only four years of schooling, and I am not good at writing articles. I would like to exchange insights with my fellow practitioners who have yet to step forward and clarify the truth about Falun Gong. Immersed in Falun Dafa, remembering the mission endowed to Falun Dafa practitioners, the three tasks that Master asked us to do [study the Fa, clarify the truth, and send righteous thoughts], and while purifying oneself, I feel that clarifying the truth about Falun Gong is a joy that Fa-rectification has bestowed on practitioners.
When I first began clarifying the truth, I had the attachment of fear. But thinking about my mission and Master's compassionate salvation, I felt that the task must be done well. At first when I went to the villages, I brought truth clarifying materials with me. The chickens didn't cluck and the dogs didn't bite; it was up to me to explore the vast open plains and skies. Now I clarify the truth mainly in the city. I make use of every opportunity by clarifying the truth to the people near me. First, one must be doing things the righteous way and know that clarifying the truth is a cultivator offering salvation to people, and is not like ordinary people pursuing something.
Every day I bring along with me a few pieces of truth-clarifying material. I handle things according to the current situation and clarify the truth either by talking or handing out materials. With righteous thoughts and righteous actions, what is holding one back from stepping out to clarify the truth is all simply the human mindset.
I am not good at writing, and would appreciate if fellow practitioners would compassionately point out any shortcomings.
September 22, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) A fellow Falun Gong practitioner in Shandong Province is a village head. He persisted in clarifying the truth using a loudspeaker at the village broadcasting station during these past few years. He used his wisdom to help the people understand the principles of Falun Gong and the words of Hong Yin [A book of poems written by Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong]. He usually used meal times to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. The villagers were especially keen to listen to him. After a few years of hard work, the villagers lived together harmoniously and peacefully. This is because they all used the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" to guide their behavior. As the neighboring villages were not far away, they could also hear his voice from the loudspeaker. Whenever this Falun Gong practitioner clarified the truth about Falun Gong, the neighboring villagers would say, "Be quiet, listen, it is Falun Gong talking again!"
As he performed his various tasks very well, the officials in the township were all very impressed with him. When any dispute that was difficult to resolve emerged in the villages under the township administration, the township officials invited him to solve the problem. He took this golden opportunity to clarify the truth and tell them about the principles of Falun Gong, while resolving the issue at the same time.
One time, two villages had some disputes and it was close to developing into an armed conflict. The officials could not resolve the issue, so they invited this practitioner to make a trip to visit them. He gathered with the representatives from the two villages, told them about the principles he learned from Falun Gong, and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. After that, the two villagers shook hands and reconciled on the spot. The township head gave him a thumbs-up, "Look at that Falun Gong practitioner! What he says really makes sense!"
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(1) A coworker was assigned by higher authorities to monitor her colleague, a Falun Gong practitioner. In the past, in order to persuade the practitioner to give up practicing Falun Gong, this coworker often called the practitioner at midnight, came to her house to watch her, even staying overnight.
Later, this coworker traveled abroad. When she saw how many people outside of China practiced Falun Gong and were able to explain the truth about the persecution in public, when she realized that Falun Dafa was not only permitted but also supported overseas, and when she was able to truly experience the peaceful environment, she understood the truth about Falun Gong. After she came back to China, she went to see the practitioner right away and told her, "Now I understand the truth. Feel free to practice Falun Gong as much as you want. I won't bother you. As for the higher authorities, I will handle them." She also told her friends what she had seen abroad.
(2) As I was speaking with a woman, I mentioned Falun Gong. She jumped in to say, "It's not a big deal to practice Falun Gong. Isn't it just a group of old people doing some exercises after they retire? If it had not been for the persecution, I would not have heard of it. Now, the whole world knows about Falun Gong. By now, they have persecuted many good people to death. We'll see what kind of fate Jiang Zemin will get!"
(3) An older woman, around 90, has read several Falun Gong books many times. She also received encouragement from her son-in-law, who is a practitioner. Police have searched their home many times, illegally arresting her son-in-law on several occasions and even sentencing him to prison. During his imprisonment, the family lost their main source of income and was forced to live a very hard life. The old lady had to pick through the leftover vegetables from the markets to feed her family.
At first, she was very angry but eventually calmed down. Although she lives a very difficult life, she remains optimistic and strong. One day she told me cheerfully, "I have to live well. Sooner or later Falun Gong will be redressed. I want to see the final fate of Jiang Zemin. I want to see the day when the whole world celebrates together!"
September 14, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wang Shengbiao Appeals An Eleven and a Half Year Prison Sentence
2. [Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province] Over 80 Falun Dafa Practitioners in Boli County Arrested
On September 7, 2004, about 80 practitioners attended an experience-sharing meeting in a nearby township of Boli County. Boli County's Police Department sent out over six police vehicles and several officers to arrest practitioners. Around 80 practitioners were arrested and they are being held at Boli County's Detention Center.
3. [Liaoning Province] Personnel in the Liaohe Oil Field's Central Hospital Persecute Practitioners and Their Families
In October 1999, some personnel in the Liaohe Oil Field's Central Hospital fired practitioner Bao Juncen, who went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, accusing him of skipping work. They counted the period when Bao was in detention as being absent from work. Later, they colluded with personnel from the local police precinct and arrested, threatened and otherwise tormented practitioners in the hospital. They suspended retired practitioners' pension for over 16 months. Recently, they took away the hospital jobs of the family members of practitioners Ms. Zhang Shuyan and Ms. Kou Youyuan in order to create conflict at home. Then they tried to force practitioners to write the so-called "Three Statements" to give up practicing and denouncing Falun Gong. As they failed, they forced their family members to write some fake "three statements," in attempt to look good with their superiors.
4. [Yintong County, Jilin Province] Arrest of Several Practitioners
At 3:00 a.m. on September 12, 2004, police arrested Ms. Chen Xiuqin from Menjia Village, Yintong Town, Yintong County, Jilin Province, when she was hanging banners in Wangjia Village.
At 11:00 a.m. on the same day, police arrested practitioners Mr. Gong Lin and his wife Sun Yafang from Menjia Village. The details are under investigation.
5. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] The Tianhe District Court Attempts to Take Dafa Practitioner Li Yongjun to Trial
On April 23, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Li Yongjun from Chongqing and 32-year-old Ms. Dai Yanhong from Renhe Town in Guangzhou City were arrested from home. After being on a hunger strike for three months after the arrest, Dai Yanhong is now released. Her weight was less than 30 kg (about 66 lbs) with a height of 1.6 meters (about 5'5-1/2").
According to insiders, Li Yongjun will be brought to this unlawful trial and may be sentenced at 8:30 a.m. on September 21 in the Tianhe District Court. We call for his urgent rescue.
6. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Dafa Practitioner Tan Shaowei Give Long Prison Term
Because practitioner Ms. Tan Shaowei participated in public Falun Dafa group practice on June 18, 2000, she was sentenced to two years of forced labor. She was later sent to Guangzhou City's "Law System School" and the Huangpu Brainwashing Center.
Tan Shaowei's husband was forced to divorce her in 2002. Tan Shaowei was tortured at the Huangpu Brainwashing Center. She has been in a coma three times and is still being held at present. Her elderly father is left at home without care.
7. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Arrest of Practitioner Zhu Shengli
On August 11, 2004, No.1 Section chief of Lushan District's Police Department named Huang, in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, ordered personnel from the Xingang Police Precinct and more than 20 military policemen to surround the home of practitioner Mr. Zhu Shengli, over 30 years old. They arrested Zhu without reason. Zhu has three under-aged children. Since the family's land was confiscated, the whole family relies on Zhu to buy some goods for resale and his wife runs a small store. His family has led an extremely difficult life because of his labor camp detention. His recent arrest has left the family in shambles.
8. [Shouguang City, Shandong Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Liu Chuanmei
Dafa practitioner Liu Chuanmei lives in Wangpei Village, Sunji Town, Shouguang City, Weifang Area, Shandong Province. On September 7, 2004, she was arrested from home. The details are unknown at present.
9. [Beining City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Du Shangkun in Heishan County
On September 10, 2004, personnel from Heishan County's Police Department arrested practitioner Du Shangkun from Goubangzi Town, Beining City, Liaoning Province.
10. [Chongqing] Zhang Guangyuan and Xiong Qingguo Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials
During the morning of July 12, 2004, personnel from the Guizhou City's Zaiba Police Precinct and the Bailin Police Precinct arrested practitioners Mr. Zhang Guangyuan and Mr. Xiong Qingguo when they were distributing truth-clarifying materials. Their homes were searched. Some truth-clarifying materials were confiscated. Their current circumstances are unknown.
Personnel who ransacked these practitioners' houses:
Officers from the Bailin Police Precinct: Deng Hailin, Zhou Shiyou, Lou Yufang
Personnel from the Bailin Town's government: Li Shunxiang, Wang Peng, Dai Guiyong
11. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Detention of Li Xiaojian at the Jiang'an District Brainwashing Center
Practitioner Mr. Li Xiaojian is a laid-off employee of Wuhan City's Railway Administration Bureau in Hubei Province. On the morning of September 7, 2004, personnel from Jiang'an District's "610 Office," along with contingents from a local police precinct and a community security team arrested Li and sent him to Jiang'an District's Brainwashing Center.
Deng Bin, Wuhan City's "610 Office" chief: 86-27-82863396
12. [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Wang Manli
At 5:00 p.m. on May 8, 2004, the Nanfen Sisanling Police Precinct chief came to practitioner Ms. Wang Manli's home. Wang did not open the door, so the chief ordered the local locksmith to pry Wang's door open. Then the police ransacked Wang's home, arrested her and took her to the local police office, where they beat her until midnight.
Afterwards, Wang broke the handcuffs and jumped from the second floor to escape. Her back and legs were injured and the police caught her and took her back. At 10:00 p.m. on May 9, the police notified Wang's family and told them to take her home.
Soon after, on the afternoon of September 6, 2004, the Sisanling Police Precinct chief came to Wang's home again and abducted her to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. The corrupt police chief told one of Wang's family members later that since they did not give him money, he made the decision to arrest her again.
13. [Xiantao City, Hubei Province] Practitioner Chen Yongbo Arrested and Sent to a Brainwashing Center
On the morning of September 3, personnel from the local "610 Office" arrested practitioner Mr. Chen Yongbo from Xiantao City, Hubei Province when he was working and sent him to a brainwashing center.
14. [Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Arrest of Practitioner Wang Jincai and His Wife Tang Yafang
Three days after officers from the Heping Police Precinct arrested practitioner Mr. Wang Jincai, they put his wife Tang Yafang into Acheng City's No. 1 Detention Center.
Wang Jicai had been so brutally tortured at the detention center that he had difficulty urinating, so he was hospitalized. His family discovered that he was put in shackles at the Traditional Chinese Hospital. On September 8, the police ordered his family to send the bedding for Wang and his wife because they would be sentenced to forced labor.
The forced labor camp did not accept Wang the following day, September 9, because of his poor health and sent him back to Acheng City's Detention Center.
Wang and his family do not understand why he and his wife were arrested.
15. [Tianshui City, Gansu Province] Arrest of Practitioner Hei Huiyu
On August 10, 2004, the police from Lanzhou City and Tianshui City arrested practitioner Ms. Hei Huiyu from the Xinghuo Mechanical Company, Ltd., Tianshui City, Gansu Province. After torturing Hei for two weeks, police transferred her to Qingshui County's Detention Center. She has been detained almost a month now.
16. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Arrest of Practitioners Wang Yuqing and Zhang Guoliang
On April 23, practitioner Wang Yuqing from Guangzhou City was arrested and taken to Zhuhai District's Brainwashing Center and was transferred to Yuexiu District's Brainwashing Center in July. Recently he was again transferred, this time to the Sanshui Brainwashing Center.
In the middle of August, practitioner Zhang Guoliang, a pilot from the Nanhang Airline, was arrested and his whereabouts are unknown.
17. [Beining City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Du Shangkun
On September 10, officers from Heishan County's Police Department and the Goubangzi Police Precinct arrested practitioner Du Shangkun from Goubangzi Town, Beining City, Liaoning Province. The police did not allow the family to visit Du and the detailed information is unknown.
18. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Arrest of Practitioner Xu Gui'e
On September 10, 2004, practitioner Ms. Xu Gui'e from Qingshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province was arrested. Some time ago, one of her family members reported her to the police when she was recording the Dafa truth-clarifying VCD. She went into exile, but was nonetheless arrested.
19. [Jilin Province] Practitioners Detained at the No.2 Prison Are Being Cruelly Tortured
Recently, some collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture] were transferred to Jilin Province's No.2 Prison. The three collaborators from the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp were extremely vicious. They savagely tortured steadfast practitioners, using all kinds of excruciating methods such as "binding on a dead person's bed" and "hanging up"[hung up by four limbs in the air]. They deprived the practitioners of sleep for several days in a row and ordered prisoners to be "personal cangues (1)." As soon as they saw practitioners close their eyes, the prisoners would prick the practitioners with a needle or beat them cruelly. The most vicious, excruciating method is hanging practitioners up and then pouring boiling water on them. Li Wei, the No.2 Prison deputy chief openly claimed, "Once you die, I will bury you immediately!" Practitioner Li Lin went blind from brutal torture, but the prison still refused to release him.
20. [Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province] Arrest of Several Practitioners
On June 4, 2004, many practitioners in Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province were arrested, including Zhang Huayu, Zhang Yali, Yu Lihua, Liu Yanchun, Zhou Jiguang, the Dr. Zou and his wife, Zhang Guojun and spouse, Zhang Huayun and Yao (given name is unknown).
21. [Rizhao City, Shandong Province] Two Practitioners Are Sent to a Forced Labor Camp
It was reported that in the beginning of September, two practitioners in Rizhao City were sentenced to forced labor. They are Qin Yujie, an English teacher of the Shijiu United Secondary School and Yuan Yan, an employee of the Train Transportation Company of Rizhao City's Harbor Bureau.
22. [Dehong State, Yunnan Province] Arrest of Practitioners Wu Xinming and His Mother Yang Fazhao
Practitioner Mr. Wu Xinming is an employee for the Mang City Life Insurance Company in Luxi City, Dehong State, Yunnan Province. Because his friends unintentionally mentioned that Wu Xinming showed them a truth-clarifying videos, Hao Yujian and Xie Yunjie from Luxi City's Police Department and the Huaqiao Farm arrested Wu Xinming and his mother Ms. Yang Fazhao, also a practitioner, from home. After a month of detention, Ms. Yang Fazhao was released but Wu Xinming is still being held at Luxi City's Detention Center.
Phone numbers of those responsible for these illegal arrests:
Hao Yunjian, 86-692-9299527
Xie Yunjie, a policeman, 86-13988258887 (Cell)
23. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Yuan Peng
At about 9:00 p.m. on September 8, 2004, lawless policemen from Sifangtai Lishi Village's Development District, Fushun City arrested practitioner Yuan Peng from Fushun City.
24. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Qiu Renzi's House Is Illegally Searched
Around August 20, 2004, two officers from Gaoling Town's Police Precinct in Mouping District, Yantai City went to Shaxiangzi Village in Gaoling Town, broke into practitioner Qiu Renzi's home and confiscated all the Falun Dafa books they could find.
Note:
(1) Personal cangues: Cangue, the name of an instrument of torture, is now used to indicate the person who was designated to supervise and torture practitioners.
September 14, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net) Sun Heting was formerly the Deputy Chief of the Chengguan Police Department in Pingyuan County, Shandong Province. Since July 20, 1999, he followed Jiang's regime closely, persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners and defaming Falun Dafa. In October 1999, when he was the head of the Yaozhan Town Police Station, he violently beat practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa and fined them from 300- to 5,000 yuan [1]. The total fines of over 10,000 yuan all ended up in his own pocket. He detained practitioners in the police station, ran brainwashing classes for months, and monitored practitioners for very long periods.
In 2000, Sun Heting became bedridden due to an illness that affected his legs. At that time, practitioners whom he had violently beaten even went to his home to advise him to become a kind person. In 2001, because he was involved in a death case in Yaozhan Town, he was transferred to Koufang Village Police Station. But he would not repent of his wrongdoings. Instead, he continued to persecute practitioners, searching their homes and arresting them. Because of this, he was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Chengguan Police Department. In early 2004, he arrested three practitioners, sent them to the detention center, and forced their families to pay a fine of about 3,000 yuan.
Sun Heting was living an immoral life with a prostitute for a long time, and they both used to conspire to extort money from underground whorehouses. In August 2004 the two quarrelled. Fearing his crimes would be exposed, Sun killed her. Now he has been arrested and is awaiting sentence.
[1] Yuan-500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.
September 19, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.
Policewoman Luo Xiurong suffers mental problems and cerebral hemorrhage
Policewoman Luo Xiurong, 44 years old, cruelly persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners while working in a detention center in Xiangcheng City. Soon after, she developed bone spurs in her cervical and lumbar vertebrae and heel bone, and she also suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
Right after January 1, 2004, she started having mental problems. She sought medical treatment, but she didn't dare to tell those who knew her that she was ill, because she was afraid they would think she was receiving karmic retribution. Some Falun Dafa practitioners had told her to treat Dafa practitioners well. When she was asked why she persecuted Dafa practitioners, she said she had followed the orders of Xie Zhongzhou, a member of the "610 Office."
Chen Qingyi, Deputy Mayor of Xiangcheng City, killed in a traffic accident
Deputy Mayor of Xiangcheng City Chen Qingyi, 47 years old, was head of the propaganda department of Xiangcheng City and the director of the Office of the City Committee. As head of propaganda, Chen fully used his powers to order and incite the media to boldly attack and defame Dafa and its practitioners.
At the beginning of September 2004, Chen died when a big truck overturned unexpectedly and crashed right into his car as he was driving on the highway. By the time of the accident, two other main people in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in Xiangcheng City had been dismissed from their jobs. The former mayor Meng Weizhong was also killed in a traffic accident.
Police officer Ge destroys police vehicle and loses the ability to speak
Police officer Ge was a driver at the Doumen Village Police Station in Huaiyang County, Henan Province. He used to drive around and arrest Falun Dafa practitioners.
One day, he shocked a lot of people by arresting Falun Dafa practitioner Yang Dezhi, who was disabled and suffering from general paralysis. He refused to listen or to believe the compassionate advice of Falun Dafa practitioners, who told him not to treat Falun Dafa unfairly.
In the beginning of August 2004, he was badly injured when he collided with a cement pillar in his police vehicle. The vehicle was totaled and he bit through his own tongue during the impact, making it highly possible that he will never recover normal speech.
