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Latest News from China - October 30, 2004

November 14, 2004 |  

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1. [Yueyang City, Hunan Province] Newlyweds Mr. Zhou and Ms. Liu Dan Are Imprisoned in a Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Liu Dan and Mr. Zhou used to live on the Luowang Garden Ranch in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. They were married in January 2004 and were arrested at the end of May. At that time, they were doing business and exposing the persecution in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. They were sentenced to three years and two and half years of forced labor, respectively.

Ms. Liu Dan (also known as Liu Meiling) was imprisoned in Zhuzhou City Baimalong Forced Labor Camp (a.k.a. the Hunan Province Women's Forced Labor Camp). She refused to wear signs and would not stand up and answer when being called. The guards cuffed her hands behind her back, hung her up with the handcuffs on for many days and wouldn't let her sleep. They denied her use of the toilet and asked the imprisoned drug abusers to scrub her body with hard brushes, and to "shower her." She had bloody stripes all over and her legs and feet were severely swollen.

According to Ms. Liu Dan, she had not had her period for five months and wanted to eat some citrus fruit. A kind prisoner gave her oranges to eat. She often vomited and had apparent signs of pregnancy. However, the clinic in the forced labor camp insisted that she was not pregnant and wouldn't allow her to have any examinations done at an outside hospital. This labor camp has a record of making 7-8 month pregnant prisoners have drug-induced abortions. We are very concerned about Liu's current situation.

2. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Police Attempt to Kidnap Ms. Wang Di, Who Recently Recovered from an Injury

On October 22, 2004, police officers from both the Dehui City Public Safety Bureau and the Yangshu Town Police Station drove to Ms. Wang Di's home in Heiyu Village, Yangshu Town. They threatened Wang's family to turn her in.

Ms. Wang used to work in Dehui City and rented an apartment there. On the afternoon of April 10, 2004, Officer Ge Xuquan and other officers from the Dehui City Political Security Division went to arrest her and caused her to fall from the fifth floor. Ms. Wang was seriously injured. The provincial hospital, after seeing her twice, diagnosed that she had compression fractures in her first and fourth lumbar vertebrae and segmental fractures in both of her tibias. The hospital announced her to be permanently disabled. The Dehui City Public Safety Bureau sent Wang home to avoid responsibility if anything happened to her. After she got home, she was immobile on the bed and couldn't take care of her daily needs. She continued to have faith in Teacher and Dafa and insisted on reading Falun Gong books and doing the exercises. In less than three months, she recovered from her injuries. The villagers in the neighborhood who witnessed this were amazed.

After the officers from Dehui City learned about this, they wanted to arrest Wang again. They did not succeed the first time and left. However, they came back after 4 p.m. and broke into her house, but couldn't find her. The police ransacked her home from top to bottom.

3. [Beijing] Li Dezhen Is Arrested in Beijing for Clarifying the Truth

On the evening of October 28, 2004, practitioner Li Dezhen was arrested in Beijing while clarifying the truth. Li was arrested when he went to the Beijing Station to pick up a relative.

4. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Four Practitioners Arrested (Photos)

The police arrested Mr. Li Shoudong, Tan Jianping, Zhu Yuehua, and Ms. Wang in Weifang City, Shandong Province, when they were clarifying the truth. Li Shoudong is currently imprisoned in the Kuiwen District Prison.

On the afternoon of October 21, 2004, officers from the Weifang City Public Safety Bureau in the Kuiwen District Division, Wang Jun from the Beiwan Police Station, and the director of the Beiwan Resident Committee broke open the secured door of Li Shoudong's apartment. They kicked open the inside door. They pushed Li's wife onto the sofa and ransacked the entire house. They confiscated all of the Dafa materials, books and Teacher's pictures. One of the officers smashed Teacher's image on the floor. The police also confiscated household properties of the other practitioners arrested. The details are under investigation.

5. [Zhaoyang County, Liaoning Province] Police Arrests Ms. Sun Qingxia

Officer Yang Qingli and two other officers from the Dapingfang Town Police Station in Zhaoyang County, Liaoning Province broke into practitioner Ms. Sun Qingxia's home on October 15, 2004. The police did not identify themselves and wanted to take Sun away, who was more than 50 years old. Sun's son saw this and asked the police to let go of his mother. Sun's brother-in-law rushed over to Sun's house and asked angrily, "What are you doing? Do you have an arrest warrant?" One young officer felt guilty and let go of Sun. Officer Yang Qingli raised his voice and picked a fight with Sun's brother-in-law. The police couldn't take Sun away and called for more police from the Dapingfang Police Station to come in support. Other police arrived and, again without showing their IDs, took Sun away, her son and her brother-in-law. Sun is currently imprisoned in the Zhaoyang City Shijiahetao Prison. Her son and brother-in-law were released.

Sun Qingxia was imprisoned numerous times. The police from Dapingfang Town, Zhaoyang County frequently harassed her at home. Sun had no choice but to leave home to avoid the harassment and had nowhere to stay. She was working during the harvest season in a village and again was arrested. She left a mentally disabled son at home with no one to take care of him.

Phone numbers of the responsible parties,

The Zhaoyang County Dapingfang Police Station: 86-421-8111142

Police officer Yang Qingli: 86-421-8171199 (Home)

6. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Persecution of Mr. Pu Xinjun and His Family

Practitioner Mr. Pu Xinjun lived in room 602, unit 2, building no. 37, Changchun First District, Ranghu Road, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. Police from the Ranghu Road Public Safety Bureau arrested Pu in November 2003 and took him to the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. Pu has not returned since.

Pu left behind a 12-year-old daughter and his wife. Now they live very difficult lives. Pu's work place (Jinhua Resin Factory of the Drill Technology Company) hasn't paid for the heating in Pu's house for two years. In the winter, the house is as cold as a freezer.

7. [Tianjin City] Zhang Yongqi and Fan Jianming Are Imprisoned in Gangbei Prison

Zhang Yongqi, an elementary school teacher from Yushi Village, Huanghuadian Township, Wuqing District, Tianjin City was arrested on March 29, 2004 for clarifying the truth to the students. The Wuqing National Security Brigade together with Lan Cheng, a police officer from the Huanghuadian Police Station, made students put their fingerprints on a prepared accusation statement against Zhang. Two of the students even put down their fingerprints 14 times! The Wuqing District Court sentenced Zhang Yongqi to three years in Tianjin City Gangbei Prison's fifth unit in September 2004.

Practitioner Mr. Fan Jianming was imprisoned in the Gangbei Prison's fifth unit. Fan refused to turn against Falun Gong and the captain Zhang Shihe denied him of family visits for a year or more.

Tianjin City Gangbei Prison telephone number: 86-22-62071158

Zhang Shihe, captain of the Gangbei Prison's fifth unit: 86-13752351556 (Cell)

8. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Current Report on Practitioners in Shuangyashan City

In September 2004, Sun Shujie and three other practitioners from Shuangyashan City went to Beijing to validate Dafa and were arrested. They are now imprisoned in the Jiamusi Railroad Prison.

On October 18, 2004, police officers arrested Wang Junhong, who is from Youyi County, Shuangyashan City and detained him in the Shuangyashan City Prison. The arresting officers were Yao Xiaoguang from the National Security Seventh Division and Du Zhanyi from the "610 Office." On October 19, Wang Youlin and other officers from the Changan Police Station confiscated Wang Junhong's household property.

9. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Zhai Xianyong Arrested While Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Zhai Xianyong is from Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. Police from the Gaoguanzhai Town Police Station arrested him for distributing truth-clarifying materials in Gaoguanzhai Town on October 23 and 24, 2004, and was detained in Zhangqiu City Prison. Phone numbers of responsible parties:

Zhangqiu City Prison: 86-531-3215977

Zhangqiu City "610 Office": 86-531-3212281

10. [Beijing] Shan Zhiying and He Peikang from Shijingshan District Arrested in Hangzhou City

Police arrested Ms. Shan Zhiying and Mr. He Peikang, an elderly couple from Beijing's Shijingshan District, and took them back to Beijing in early October. This couple had to leave home to avoid further persecution in 2001 and were caught in their hometown of Hangzhou City. They are currently imprisoned in a brainwashing center.

11. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Ms. Fu Xiaoqin Sentenced to Three Years of Labor Reform for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Ms. Fu Xiaoqin used to work at a light bulb factory in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. She was sentenced to three years of labor reform for distributing truth-clarifying materials.

12. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Witness Says Ms. Jiang Lanying Was Tortured and Was Emaciated

Ms. Jiang Lanying is 38 years old and is from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. She went out to clarify the truth to people and hang up banners on July 11, 2002. Someone reported her to the police, who arrested her and sentenced her to 5 years in prison. Jiang firmly believed in Falun Dafa and refused to compromise and to be transformed. She started a hunger strike the day she was arrested, and the police brutally force-fed her. She is now in the hospital of Changling Forced Labor Camp in Xinjian County, Nanchang City. According to a witness, Jiang was tortured severely and was emaciated.

13. [Beijing] True Story about a Falun Dafa Practitioner Being Persecuted

A young practitioner from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province went to Beijing to validate Dafa at the end of 2000. The Beijing police arrested the practitioner and burned her neck with an electric baton. The burn scars were obvious and the police claimed that it was because of a necklace they forced her to wear.

A 50-year-old practitioner in Nanchang City was imprisoned in the Nanchang City Second Prison. She refused to give up Falun Gong and wrote, "Falun Dafa is great" on the wall of her prison cell. The police tied her right hand to her left leg with a very short iron chain and did the same with her left hand and right leg. The iron chains were so short that she had to bend forward with her hands crisscrossed. She couldn't eat, sleep, or use the toilet. She had to stay in that position on the floor for many days in the winter of 2000.

A young practitioner went to Beijing in the winter of 2000 to validate Dafa and was taken to Daxing County, Beijing. The local police chained the practitioner on a tree and left the practitioner there for three days without food or sleep during the coldest time of the year.

14. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Five Practitioners Are Still on Hunger Strikes at Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp

The practitioners in the first brigade of the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp protested the persecution with a hunger strike. Eight practitioners were on hunger strikes for five days and five other practitioners are still on hunger strike.

15. [Liaoning Province] China Network Communications in Dalian City, Liaoning Province Forces Two Practitioners to Leave the Company

In mid-September, China Network Communications' correspondent company in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, took the opportunity of the company's going public to lay off two practitioners with outstanding performance at their work, Mr. Zhang Guoyu and Ms. Shen Lian (husband and wife). The couple was listed as the least competent employees (only because they are practitioners, despite the fact that they had outstanding performance in the company) and were forced to leave their jobs because they practiced "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance." Currently they have no income and can't afford daily expenses.

China Network Communications' Dalian branch address:

No. 168, Jiefang Road, Zhongshan district, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China 116001

16. [Wuchang City, Hubei Province] Police Deceive and Kidnap Ms. Zhang Guizhen

Ms. Zhang Guizhen is from Guanshan Village, Wuchang City, Hubei Province. On the morning of September 3, 2004, the police lied to Zhang and took her to the Guanshan Village Brigade. Xu Lian'guo, a member of the village commission, and other police officers arrested her. She is now being held at the Wuhan City Yangyuan Brainwashing Center.

17. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Ms. Zhao Jianjuan and Another Practitioner "Fall" from the Third Floor while Imprisoned

Police arrested practitioner Ms. Zhao Jianjuan on Songbo Road, Dehui City, on the morning of October 22, 2004. The police tortured them with brutal means and forced Zhan and the other practitioner to fall from the third floor. They were taken to an emergency room at a local hospital.

18. [Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province] Information Station Broken into and a Senior Practitioner Arrested

At 11 a.m. on October 22, 2004, an information station in Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province, was broken into. There was a senior practitioner inside at the time, and the practitioner was trapped there for one day before being arrested. The people that participated in the arrest were Li (given name unknown) from the Gaizhou City office in Dongcheng, person(s) from the Gaizhou City National Security Brigade, and a shoe repairman (this person was an informer who lives downstairs).

19. [Shandong Province] Luo Gan Goes to Weifang City to Intensify the Persecution against Falun Gong Practitioners

Luo Gan went to Weifang City, Shandong Province in mid October 2004, and called a meeting on suppressing Falun Gong. Since October 14, six practitioners have been kidnapped to a brainwashing center. These practitioners are Li Hengnan, Ms. Zhang Yufang, Ms. Zhang Huiping, Ms. Jiang Xiuying (left the center with her righteous thoughts), Wang Yiping, and Ms. Guo Li.

20. [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Zhang Guofu, Head of the "610 Office" in the Shuangcheng City Public Safety Bureau, Persecutes Practitioners

At the end of 1999, police from the "610 Office" arrested practitioner Mr. Zhang, who now doesn't have a place to stay. In the process of the interrogation, the deputy director of the Shuangcheng City Public Safety Bureau Zhang Guofu, who was also the head of the "610 Office," smacked the practitioner solidly on his ear. Practitioner Zhang felt extreme pain in his ear, eyes and head. Twenty days later, there was blood and blood clots coming out of his ear. Even now, his hearing has markedly diminished.

In the fall of 2001, Mr. Ba Yumin and another practitioner went to a village to distribute truth-clarifying materials and were arrested and jailed. During this time, Zhang Guofu ordered that Ba was not to have any sleep. Police took turns interrogating him 24 hours a day. There were four people each shift and each shift lasted 6 hours. The police tortured him physically and mentally in trying to find out the source of the materials.