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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Yang Xiuzhong was a Senior Lab Technician employed by the Southwest Petroleum Institute. Since he firmly cultivated Falun Dafa even after July 20, 1999, the Institute's administrators put him on a blacklist. He was placed under house arrest, forced to retire early, had his home ransacked, was detained, was forced to live under constant monitoring, had his home phone bugged, and was followed and harassed constantly. Due to the constant mental and physical torture, he died in June 2003, at the age of 61.
In 1983, Mr. Yang contracted Hepatitis B, which turned into severe cirrhosis of liver, and he also suffered from hepatic portal vein cirrhosis in 1994. He became very weak. In addition, he contracted the skin disease vitiligo. He had to be hospitalized for more than 10 days every semester, and spent more than 1,000 yuan on medicine every month. His diseases were a burden for his employer and his family, and constituted a mental burden for him.
Therefore, he was overjoyed when he started practicing Falun Gong in March 1996. Soon after he started to learn the Fa and practice the exercises, his severe cirrhosis and vitiligo disappeared. He became a healthy person, as Falun Dafa gave him a new life. He solidly believed in Falun Dafa and conducted himself strictly according to the standards of a practitioner. He worked very hard and always thought of others first. He saved a lot of money on medical costs each year, and avoided the financial burden to his workplace and family.
However, after July 20, 1999, he was placed under house arrest by his employer and forced to attend brainwashing sessions because he refused to give up cultivation. Facing people who tried to brainwash him, he explained the truth about Falun Gong by using the example of his own dramatic mental and physical recovery. He was laid off temporarily in November 1999 for more than 6 months, and paid only 60 yuan in salary per month, because he absolutely refused to be brainwashed. In July 2000, he was arrested and detained in the Shunqing District Detention Center in Nanchong City, his home was ransacked, and his yearly bonus was confiscated. In July 2001, his home was ransacked for the second time. He was forced to become destitute and homeless for a period of time in order to resist abduction to a brainwashing class. After he returned to the Institute, his salary was frozen for several months. Due to the prolonged persecution and constant mental pressure, his mind and body were both damaged severely and, tragically, he died in June 2003.
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Liu Wensheng was a school teacher at Lingbei Township Elementary School in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1998 and his body became very healthy afterwards. Since July 20, 1999, Lingbei Township Police Station has persecuted him on numerous occasions. He was arrested and tortured many times. His home was also ransacked. In September 2001, he was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. While going from place to place, he suffered tremendous hardships. As a result, he passed away on October 18, 2003, at the age of 41.
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Gao Guoyuan was fifty-five years old when he died. He lived at 205 Lianhe Street, Dadong district, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, and worked at the Shenyang construction machine factory. In October 1999, he appealed to China's central government in Beijing to end the persecution of Falun Dafa perpetrated by Jiang Zemin's regime. When Gao Guoyuan stepped forward to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa [a right guaranteed in the Chinese constitution], but the authorities detained him for fifteen days.
In November 1999, Gao Guoyuan was held at the Shenyang Beidaying Detention Center. He was subjected to brutal torture for one month that left him mentally traumatized. Afterward, he could not take care himself.
In November 2000, Gao Guoyuan was arrested and taken to the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp. There, he was tortured until his physical and mental health collapsed. He was released in April 2001, but he never regained his health, and he passed away in July 2002.
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Sulan was sixty-five years old when she passed away. She lived in the Huanggu section of Shenyang City. She also was arrested and sent to the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp, where ten people tortured her. The guards did not allow her to sleep, and she was bombarded with lies about Falun Dafa. She was set free after 50 days of torture, and she passed away on June 1, 2003.
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Jin Zunyi, born in 1974, graduated from a radio and TV broadcasting school. He worked in the Chang Yun Company in Jiangxi Province and he started to practice Falun Gong in March of 1999. On September 23, 1999, Mr. Jin went to Beijing to peacefully and lawfully speak out against the wrongful persecution of those who practice Falun Gong and was arrested on October 13, 1999. He was then transferred back to Nanchang City by train. He died en route.
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Hearing of Mr. Jin's death, his parents, elder sister and the local police from Nanchang City Police Department and Xinjian Township Police Station went to Beijing. His family saw that his body was in three parts. One of his legs was severed from the groin with a sharp cross section that looked like it had been hacked off, yet the police stated that he died as a result of jumping from the train.
According to an insider, on October 13, 1999, the Nanchang police arrested Mr. Jin Zunyi alongside several other Falun Gong practitioners and were transferring them to Nanchang City. At the time, there were seven policemen and four Falun Gong practitioners. Among the Falun Gong practitioners were Mr. Jin Zunyi and Jiang Genjin, who died as a result of persecution at a later time.
It was heard later that Mr. Jin jumped from the train to avoid further persecution for practicing Falun Gong. A policeman from Wazijiao Police Station in Nanchang City, Chen Yue, departed the train at the next station to chase after him. After over an hour, police officer Chen Yue phoned back to Nanchang City, saying that Mr. Jin broke his leg and died after being sent to the hospital.
(Clearwisdom.net) The little girl in this photo is Ji Yawa. She is now 15 years old and a middle school student in Weifang City, Shandong Province. Her childhood was a happy one. In this photo she was smiling joyfully in her mother's arms, and her mother was smiling cheerfully, too. Her father was the one who took the picture.
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Ji Yawa's father started to practice Falun Dafa in 1994, when Yawa was a small child. Yawa's father contracted hepatitis B, and he suffered so much that he could not go to work. He tried to seek a cure everywhere and tried all kinds of medicine. Yawa's mother had to take care of all of the household chores, and the family was in a tough situation. Ever since Yawa's father started to practice Falun Gong, he changed into a different person. Seeing the miraculous effects of Falun Dafa, Yawa's mother started to practice Falun Dafa, as well. Yawa told others, "Since my mother started to practice Falun Dafa, she never yells at me anymore."
However, when the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Yawa's family's life, like so many other families, was turned upside down.
On Christmas Eve 2000, the day the Chinese people refer to as "the night of peace," disaster struck Yawa's family. Yawa's mother Lou Aiqing died that day as a result of the persecution.
 Falun Dafa practitioner Lou Aiqing dies On December 24, 2000 |
On the morning of December 23, 2000, Saturday, Yawa's mother called her on the phone. Yawa was sleeping when she heard the phone ring. Yawa's mother told her that she was being held in a detention center again. Before she was detained, she had left home to avoid being captured. Yawa had not seen her mother for a long time, but she always felt that her mother was just beside her. After getting the phone call from her mom, Yawa thought that her mom would be home soon.
On December 25, Christmas Day, as soon as Yawa arrived at home from school, someone from her mother's work unit came to ask her grandmother, aunt and Yawa to go to her mother's work unit. Her mother's supervisors told them that Yawa's mother had passed away on December 24. Yawa was only 11 years old at the time. She was shocked. It was only the day before yesterday that she heard her mother's voice. She burst into tears.
At this most excruciating moment, the little Falun Dafa disciple was still considering others first and did not want to bring more pain to others. The principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" that Falun Dafa practitioners are following are deeply rooted in their hearts, even when enduring tremendous sufferings.
After Yawa's mother's death, Yawa went to a forced labor camp to visit one of her aunts. Her aunt didn't know at the time that Yawa's mother had died. She asked Yawa, "How is your mother? Is she doing well?" Yawa didn't want her aunt to be heartbroken while being imprisoned in the labor camp. She replied, "My mom went somewhere far away from home." As she said this, she couldn't hold back her tears.
Yawa often talked about her mother. She said to her grandmother, "Grandma, the days without mom are so long." Later, Yawa read the statement that her mother wrote before her death. When she learned the whole story of how guards had beaten her mother cruelly, tears poured down her face.
Yawa missed the days when she validated Dafa with her mom. After July 1999, her mother went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong three times. When Yawa's mother asked her whether she wanted to go to Beijing as well, Yawa replied "I want to go!" In October 2000, Yawa and her mother went to Beijing together.
Yawa and her mother were both sent back to the Guangwen Police Station in Weifang after they went to Beijing. Yawa was held there for two days. She witnessed the police beating fellow women practitioners, including her mother.
After Yawa came home, Guangwen Police Station officers called Yawa's school to inform them of Yawa's situation. Then Yawa's teachers told her to write a "Guarantee Statement" to give up Falun Gong. As she refused to write the statement, her teachers didn't allow her to participate in classes and forced her to crouch outside the classroom. Yawa then wrote a report on the true story of Falun Gong and how the practice of Falun Gong benefited her father, her mother and herself. Her teacher read her report and told her, "The schoolmaster will talk to you in a few days. Just tell him you will no longer practice Falun Gong." Yawa replied, "I won't say that. I will never say I would no longer practice Falun Gong." Since then the schoolmaster has not broached the subjected again.
One day in early 2000, Yawa was notified during dinner that her father was captured. In March, fellow practitioners from out of town had an experience-sharing meeting at Yawa's home. Police came and arrested all of them. The next day the police took her mother to their home and ransacked their house. Yawa's mother tried to stop their illegal action. One of the police officers opened a window and yelled at Yawa's mother, "Why don't you jump out the window. We'll report that you committed suicide!" He then opened the master electric switch box and said. "Why don't you electrocute yourself? Go right ahead!"
Seeing the police's outrageous actions, Yawa said to them sternly, "You can't do that! You don't even have a search warrant. You don't have any documentation. This is illegal!" One of the police officers replied, "Who said it's illegal? The government said that this is what we should do to Falun Gong followers."
The police wanted to leave after they found Falun Gong materials, but Yawa and her mother stood at the entrance to prevent them from taking the books. One of the police officers grabbed Yawa's mother's long braids and dragged her to the police station. Another police officers pulled Yawa's arms and threw her onto the bed. During the days when Yawa's mother was detained, the police came again and wanted to take her father away.
 Young Falun Dafa Disciple Ji Yawa |
Yawa felt that dreadful things would soon happen to her family. She wept and said to the police, "You arrested my mother. What should I do if you detain my father?" The police told her, "We'll just ask your father a few questions. He'll be back soon."
Yawa did not believe him and insisted on going with her father. The police forcibly took her father away. Yawa cried out, "My mother was arrested. I can't let my father leave me!" She held her father's hand and would not let go. The police still forcibly separated Yawa and her father.
Yawa's father was thus taken away and sent to a forced labor camp.
After Yawa's mother passed away and her father was sent to a labor camp, Yawa often dreamed of her mom and felt the saddest when her classmates' parents went to visit them. She has become quiet and is no longer the same child who was beaming in the older pictures. She said that she would continue to do what her mother had not been able to finish, which is to expose the evil persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
After Yawa's mother's death, her family members didn't want to cremate her body immediately. Yawa's relatives wanted to keep her body until after the New Year. However, the police and the responsible persons from the Township Business Bureau forcibly had her mother's body cremated after promising the family a pension.
It has been almost four years now since Lou Aiqing passed away. Yawa's family has not received a single penny. Time and time again, the elderly people of the household went to the Township Business Bureau supervisors to ask for the promised money. The supervisors always tried to evade them. Zhou Lizeng, the former assistant head of the bureau, was the one who assured that the pension would be paid. Now he would say, "The government caused Lou Aiqing's death. It didn't have anything to do with our bureau." As of now, they still owe Lou Aiqing ten months of salary and the pension they promised.
Yawa is only a fifteen-year-old girl. In the past five years she has witnessed the cruel persecution of her loved ones. It's really difficult to imagine how one day in the future Jiang's followers will face these kind-hearted people and their children or grandchildren.
Accounts of persecution suffered by Ji Yawa's family members
Ji Yawa's mother:
Ji Yawa's mother, practitioner Ms. Lou Aiqing, was a former employee of the Supply and Marketing Corporation of the Bureau of Township Enterprises in Weifang City, Shandong Province. Lou Aiqing was arrested many times because of her practice of Falun Gong, and her supervisors forcibly suspended her from her job many times. In October 2000 she was imprisoned for going to Beijing to request the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. Later, she was sentenced to incarceration in a forced labor camp for three years of forced labor. Lou Aiqing left her hometown to avoid being sent to the labor camp.
On December 20, 2000, at around seven p.m., Lou Aiqing and Xu Bing (Lou Aiqing and Xu Bing were murdered at the same time) posted signs that read "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and "Falun Dafa is a righteous way" in the Huangdao District in Qingdao City. They were arrested by Changjiang Road Police Station officers from the Huangdao District. The police used torture during interrogation, trying to find out the source of the Falun Gong materials they had and also their names and addresses. On December 22, the police found out the information after subjecting both Lou and Xu to excruciating abuse. Later, police in Weifang City sent them back to the Kuiwen District Detention Center. On December 25, at around 5:00 p.m., the police notified Lou's family that she had died at 6:00 a.m. on the 24th (It was not until 36 hours later after Lou's death that the family was notified.) Lou's family members went to the crematorium the next day. The police had already been there, and Lou Aiqing was covered with thick make-up. Her family members found many wounds and bruises on her body.
At the crematorium, Ji Yawa found that her mother had bruises everywhere. There was a bruise the size of a foot on one of her thighs. She asked a police officer present named Gu Zhiyong about the injuries. Gu Zhiyong told her that Lou Aiqing was limping when she was sent back from Qingdao City and said nothing more.
Lou Aiqing's family members took photos of her body as evidence. When the police found out about this, they went into a panic. They sealed off the dorms of Lou Aiqing's work unit. Even elementary school kids were not allowed to go out. The police detained incoming and outgoing cars for questioning. The police station dispatched many policemen to search for the film Yawa's family had taken of her mother's body. The police station people threatened Lou Aiqing's family and her work unit. After being subjected to several hours of questioning and threats, Lou Aiqing's family had no other way out. They eventually submitted the negatives. The police station blocked any flow of information to the community. They claimed that Lou Aiqing had died of a heart problem and forced the two practitioners' families to cremate their bodies immediately. Xu Bing's eight-year-old son and Lou Aiqing's 11-year-old daughter thus lost their mothers. On December 28, 2000, Xu Bing's body was cremated. The next day, so was Lou Aiqing's body.
Yawa's father
Yawa's father, practitioner Ji Jun, was an official in the Township Business Bureau in Weifang City, Shandong Province. He was imprisoned many times because of his practice of Falun Dafa. In November 2000 he was sentenced to the Qingdao Forced Labor Camp for three years, where he suffered from all kinds of torture. He didn't know that his wife was killed while he was detained in the forced labor camp. The anguish that he suffered upon finding out about his wife's tragic death after his release was indescribable.
Yawa's Aunt
Yawa's aunt, practitioner Lou Hongmei, was subjected to criminal detention three times and administrative detention on many occasions. After her husband Li Tianmin was arrested, she was constantly harassed. Her telephone was tapped and her residence was monitored. Their private business, where they performed photocopying and typewriting services, was searched or shut down many times. They had to eventually hand over this business to others.
On October 27, 2000, Lou Hongmei was sentenced to three years of forced labor. Her husband was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. While Lou Hongmei was detained in the labor camp, her sister Lou Aiqing was tortured to death.
Ji Yawa's Uncle
Ji Yawa's uncle Li Tianmin is 37 years old. He used to be the Falun Dafa volunteer assistant for Weifang City. On July 20, 1999 he was arrested for "revealing state secrets," a charge which the court later declared invalid, and "organizing Falun Gong practitioners in Weifang City to take over and attack the city government." He has been imprisoned since then.
On February 2, 2000, the Weifang Intermediate Court sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. Li Tianmin defended himself in court. When the judge asked him to sign his name on the deposition record, Mr. Li rolled up his sleeves and pant legs, showing his injuries and bruises to the audience, "This is the result of their extorting confessions by means of torture." The audience members were astonished. The judge was dumbfounded and had nothing to say.
Li Tianmin suffered inhumane tortures in the prison. At the detention center he tried everything to gain the right to study the Fa and doing the exercises. He was eventually allowed to study the Fa and practice the exercises openly. At the Chinese New Year it was snowing hard in Weifang. He recited "Lunyu"[preface of the book Zhuan Falun] loudly when he was in an open space outside his cell, and sent greetings to Master and fellow practitioners in the detention center. One fellow practitioner was moved to tears when he heard Li's sincere voice. Whenever Li Tianmin was interrogated in the detention center, he took the opportunity to try to see and encourage fellow practitioners to remain steadfast.
In March 2000, Li Tianmin was sent to the Weibei Ranch in Weifang City and was detained there.
Li Tianmin's mother passed away two years after he was sentenced to imprisonment. In those two years she cried so much that she almost lost her eyesight. In the morning of the Chinese New Year she cried bitterly. When she heard that Lou Aiqing was tortured to death, she thought of her son in prison and her daughter-in-law in the forced labor camp. She could not sleep for days and subsequently went into a coma for three months. Li Tianmin's mother once said, "Tianmin is the best son, the most filial son among all my children." When Li Tianmin's mother was dying, her family members asked the Department of Public Security to let her meet her son before her death; however, the Department of Public Security were conducting their "discussion and investigation" at all levels for the matter and refused to authorize it. Li Tianmin's mother passed away without seeing her son.
Ji Yawa's Grandmother
Ji Yawa's grandmother, practitioner Fan Fumei, is 67 years old. In 2000 she was arrested and imprisoned for going to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In the past several years, she suffered through the family tragedies of the death of her second daughter Lou Aiqing, her youngest daughter Lou Hongmei being sent to forced labor camp, and two son-in-laws being sentenced to imprisonment and sent to a labor camp. Hearing of their daughter's death, her husband stayed in bed without taking any food or drink for over four days.
Ji Yawa's Grandfather
Ji Yawa's grandfather is a new practitioner. Having experienced all of the family tragedies and faced with all these tremendous tribulations, he decided to choose the path of cultivation.
Telephone numbers of responsible persons in the Township Business Bureau and the Supply and Marketing Corporation of the Township Business Bureau in Weifang City:
Han Shujian (director of the bureau): 86-536-8240058 (Office) 86-13905369270
Zhou Lizeng (the former deputy director of the bureau): 86-536-8232260 (Office) 8253688 (Home)
Han Bingxin (the former manager of the Supply and Marketing Corporation): 86-536-8232260(Office) 8253688(Home)
Manager Liu (the current manager of the Supply and Marketing Corporation): 86-536-8232293(Office)
The Director's Office: 86-536-8237287, 86-536-8237294
Note: Lou Aiqing's former work unit: the Supply and Marketing Corporation of the Township Business Bureau in Weifang City
Chiefly responsible persons in Lou Aiqing's work unit: Zhou Lizeng, Han Bingxin
Chiefly responsible persons for Lou Aiqing's death: "610 Office" in the Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Changjiang Road Police Station, Huangdao District, Qingdao City, Public Security Detention Center in the Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Sun Kuizhen (head of the Public Security Detention Center, the Kuiwen District, Weifang City, responsible person in "Office for handling Falun Gong issues"
(Clearwisdom.net) After Su Rong assumed the position of Party Secretary General in Gansu Province, he continued to follow Jiang's regime and further intensified the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Below are the facts.
I. Falun Gong Practitioners are Monitored, Tracked, Arrested and Sentenced At Will
During the second half of 2003, the public security agencies and national security bureau were very active while operating undercover at the same time. The staff followed and kept track of Falun Gong practitioners everywhere. They assigned dedicated personnel to follow and monitor the practitioners who were so-called "key members." In the beginning of December, at least six Falun Gong information production sites were destroyed in Gansu Province. In Lanzhou City alone, four sites were destroyed. Sixty to seventy practitioners were illegally arrested. Practitioners who were arrested were immediately subjected to interrogation, forced confession by torture, beaten, threatened, and electrically shocked. Later, some were sent to brainwashing classes, forced labor camps, or detention centers. Still others were secretly detained in a place unknown to the outside world. It has been almost one year now since they were arrested, but their relatives haven't heard anything about their whereabouts.
In December 2003, Zhao Xudong was tortured to death by police in the detention center two months after he was arrested. Zhao Xudong's mother, Bai Jinyu, was arrested at the same time. She was beaten so severely that she is still unable to walk.
On the evening of June 16, 2004, as soon as practitioner Ms. Liu Xiuying arrived at the doorsteps of her home at around 8 o'clock, policemen who had been waiting there dragged her to a police car and sent her to the 26th Division of the Lanzhou City Police Department. There they tortured her in different ways, including beating and forcing her to sit on the "Tiger Bench." Moreover, the police stomped on Liu Xiuying's face and mouth with their feet. Liu Xiuying was injured so severely that she could not move. The police were afraid the detention center would not take Liu Xiuying, so they sent her to a brainwashing class. When Liu recovered a little bit, the police sent her back to the detention center by deceiving her and attempted to sentence her to imprisonment.
Ms. Liu Xiaoli, a Falun Gong practitioner in Yuzhong County, was a former employee of Jingyuan County Hospital. In early July 2004, three former colleagues of Liu Xiaoli and two people from the 610 Office came to Liu Xiaoli's home and tried to force her to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement." Liu Xiaoli firmly refused. They then took turns coming to her house every day. After Liu Xiaoli protested by going on a hunger strike, they retreated.
Some twenty days later, on August 14, they arrested Liu Xiaoli from her home and sent her to Heping Female Forced Labor Camp in Yuzhong County. As of now, Liu's family members still have not been able to visit her.
In July this year, the court attempted to sentence over a dozen practitioners, including Mr. He Yingguo. After the court hearing started, Falun Dafa practitioners clarified the truth in the court and defended themselves on the basis of the law. They also proclaimed, "Falun Dafa is good!" in the court. The judge had to suspend the illegal trial.
II. Staff Members of the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center of Lanzhou City Used Torture Methods to Abuse Falun Dafa Practitioners
The Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center of Lanzhou City is a place dedicated to torturing Falun Dafa practitioners. They use all kinds of vicious and brutal methods in an attempt to force practitioners to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." In a spacious courtyard, there's a brainwashing center on one side and a forced labor camp on the other. Practitioners who were illegally arrested and sent to this place lost their personal freedom. The police resort to violence in their attempt to "transform" practitioners. Practitioners are deprived of sleep. Staff came to "talk" to practitioners one group after another. Seeing that it was a slow process to "transform" practitioners, the police handcuffed the practitioners together and hung them from an iron door of a solitary confinement cell. When the practitioners protested loudly, the personnel sent them to the basement and handcuffed them with their hands cuffed behind the back. Some Falun Gong practitioners' bodies became swollen after being cuffed for a long time and they lost the control of their bladder and bowel movements. There were wounds and bruises on their wrists from the handcuffs.
Practitioner Ms. Han Zhongcui suffered from the most severe torture. In mid September 2003, she was arrested for a second time and subjected to solitary confinement. When she was taken out by someone one week later, she could not move her hands or feet, and her pants were filled with excrement. About ten days later, she was incarcerated in the basement and handcuffed with her hands cuffed behind her back. This time, after she was released from the torture, she was near death. As soon as she recovered a little bit, she was incarcerated for the third time. Similarly, practitioners Wei Zhouxiang, Liu Wanqiu and others were also incarcerated with their hands cuffed in the solitary confinement cell many times. The police would not even release a female practitioner named Zhang Juxiui, who was in her 70s. They tortured her with the same cruel methods. Zhang Juxiu was hung up for one week. By the time she was released from the hanging torture, she couldn't move at all and lost consciousness. She had red and white stripes on her back, and has not recovered even after a long period of time.
III. The Forced Labor Camp is Where Human Rights are Violated and Falun Dafa Practitioners are Tortured
In the international community, the imposition of slave labor and brainwashing has long since been abandoned. However, in China, it is still utilized. Moreover, more and more labor camps have been established across the country. There used to be only one forced labor camp in Lanzhou City and its vicinity. Now there are three forced labor camps, and one is just for women. The staff members in the labor camps are very cruel to the detainees, especially to innocent Falun Gong practitioners. They use more and more inhumane methods and these labor camps have become a place where practitioners are openly tortured. All practitioners were sent to labor camps without any legal procedures. As soon as the lower level reports the practitioner and the supervising level approves it, the practitioner would be subjected to two or even three years of forced labor. Practitioners in the labor camps are deprived of all their freedoms. They are not allowed to sleep and are forced to wear torture devices. They are subjected to verbal abuse and physical punishment. The tortures they have suffered included being "hung up and beaten," solitary confinement, forced to crouch in the basement, and not being allowed to eat, drink and go to the bathroom. The guards in the labor camps use these brutal methods to force practitioners to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." However, the practitioners firmly believe in Master Li, and their strong will in cultivating Falun Dafa is indestructible.
As a result of numerous cruel tortures, Song Yanzhou, a practitioner in Wuwei, had five of his ribs broken and died afterwards. Hou Youfang was a special honored teacher in Jinchang City. She suffered from massive internal bleeding and bone fractures in numerous places as a result of fierce beatings. She died from the torture. Zhang Zhao from Zhangye City and Si Yongqian from Tianshui City were both mentally traumatized after being tortured. Mr. Ma Yuefang is a practitioner in Jinchang. His leg was broken as a result of beatings in Pingantai Forced Labor Camp. When he had surgery for his broken leg, the doctors didn't use anesthesia when applying the metal plates. They purposefully torture the practitioners, causing extreme, unbearable pain that is beyond a human being's threshold of endurance. Chen Gang from Tianshui City was beaten so badly that he could not walk. Cui Yonglin was hung up in the shape of a cross and even the handcuffs were broken as a result of extended periods of being hung. Practitioners Bai Xianggui and Chai Qiang were forced to stand with legs stretched apart, and the police put two big stools between their legs to stretch them and cause extreme pain. The police came up with the most cruel and vicious torture methods to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. As the top leader of Gansu Province, Su Rong cannot escape responsibility.
IV. Detention Centers and Prisons Are "Living Hells"
All practitioners who were sent to detention centers and prisons were sent to a living hell. Zhang Zhenmin is a practitioner from Lanzhou City. In Hualinshan Detention Center, a guard tortured her with a method called "backward bending" simply because she was firm in her belief. He put shackles on her feet and handcuffed her hands behind her back, and then he used a thick metal wire about 16 inches long to wire the handcuffs and shackles together. This torture method forced Zhang Zhemin to kneel in an arched backward position for a very long time. Ms. Zhang's hands were cuffed together tightly behind her back, causing the whole body to be swollen and the handcuffs to cut her flesh and become embedded into her wrists. Zhang Zhemin was tortured like this for more than 40 days. When the cuffs were removed, she could not straighten her back, move her legs or raise her arms for several days. Liu Qiuxiang suffered from the same torture method for 40 days, and Han Yuping for 30 days. They could not straighten their backs for three days after the cuffs were removed and could only walk in a crouching position. The muscles on their arms were as stiff as wood.
Yang Xuegui, a Falun Gong practitioner from Lanzhou City, was transferred from Xiguoyuan Detention Center to Dashaping Prison in Lanzhou City. In the prison, a group of police stripped off his clothes and brutally beat him. Yang Xuegui could not move for many days. When his family members went to visit him in the hospital, he could not straighten his back and remained in a bent position. Before he could recover, he was sent to Linxia Prison several hundred kilometers away. In Linxia Prison, he was forced to sleep on the cement floor for more than seven months.
Another practitioner, Wang Peng, was incarcerated in Dingxi Prison. Under the instruction of the director, the guard shocked Wang Peng with several electric batons. The practitioners Jiang Chunbin, Jin Jilin and Wen Weilong were also detained in Dingxi Prison. The police forbade them from contacting any other people. They were not allowed to walk around, sleep, participate in any activities, buy anything from prison stores or have their family members visit them, not to mention that their right to read Falun Gong books and practice the exercises was taken away.
Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiaodong was only 32 years old when he was tortured to death by police in Xiguoyuan Detention Center on October 24, 2003. Practitioner Zhao Xudong was a former employee of the Lanzhou Chemical Corporation. He was only 34 years old when he was tortured to death at the Hualinshan Second Detention Center in Lanzhou on February 7, 2004, only two months after he was sent to that detention center. According to a witness, when Zhao Xudong was tortured to death, 40% of his hair was white; his neck and back had visible wounds and bruises.
A female Falun Gong practitioner whose family name was Tang fell or was pushed from a building in the Female Prison of Lanzhou in July 2004 and died.
On September 3, 2004, at noon, the police in Dingxi Prison ordered the criminals to beat Falun Gong practitioner Bi Wenming. Other people in the prison could hear the vicious beating and Bi Wenming's shouts of "Falun Dafa is good!" After the beating, the police shocked Bi Wenming with electric batons, causing Bi Wenming to die on the spot.
The series of cruel facts are evidence that Su Rong followed Jiang's criminal regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
Su Rong not only has his hands stained with the blood of Falun Gong practitioners in Jilin Province and Qinghai Province, his hands are also stained with the blood of Falun Gong practitioners in Gansu province. Su Rong has committed unpardonable crimes against Falun Gong practitioners.
We Falun Dafa disciples in Gansu Province are filing a class action lawsuit against Su Rong for the crime of torture, genocide and crime against humanity.
As for persecutors like him, Falun Gong practitioners will investigate their crimes and bring them to justice, no matter how long it will take. One day, Su Rong will be brought to justice and will be remembered only for his shameful crimes.
(Clearwisdom.net)
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Mr. Zhang Sixi was a Falun Gong practitioner from Heping Village, Shatang Township, Delong County, Ningxia Province. At the end of May 2003, Zhang went to drop off a supply of paper used to make truth-clarification materials. However, he was followed along his way and was arrested in Lingwu City by Li Cun, Zhang Anzhong and others from Division One of Yinchuan City Police Department. During his detention, police from Delong County Police Department and Guyuan City Detention Center all participated in persecuting Zhang. Du Weihai, section chief of Delong County Police Department, beat Zhang's head many times, and for three months he did not inform Zhang's family of his detention location. As a result, Zhang's family could not deliver clothes to him and he had to suffer from being cold due to lack of warm clothes.
While in detention, because of the torture, Zhang suffered from dizziness and numbness of the limbs. Later he was transferred to Wuzhong Prison. He was found to have unusually high blood pressure. After the hospital failed to cure his symptoms, the prison had a doctor and six policemen send him home in a hurry, because they did not want to take the responsibility should he die in the prison. At that time, Zhang was already partially paralyzed, and his blood pressure was 250mm. Six months after returning home, he passed away.
Responsible parties:
Division One Chief Li Cun of Yinchuan City Police Department: 86-13909591266(Cell)
Division One Deputy Chief Zhang Anzhong of Yinchuan City Police Department: 86-951-6915120 (Home), 86-13909571157(Cell)
Division One Section Chief Du Weihai of Yinchuan City Police Department: 86-954-6013119 ext. 3136 or 3135 (Office), or 3156 (Home)
Instructor: Wen Xiaolin
Guyuan City Detention Center
Wuzhong Prison Deputy Political Commissioner Liu: 86-13007939868(Cell)
Wuzhong Prison Education Section Chief Yin Zineng: 86-13014222058(Cell), 86-953-2661041 ext. 3010(Office)
Ningxia Province Prison Administration Bureau Li Wei: 86-951-6193017 ext. 8027
(Clearwisdom.net) At the Shibalihe Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Zhang Yunqing and Jia Meili, along with drug addicts and sex offenders, have repeatedly tortured steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners. Zhang and Jia, two ex-practitioners, have taken part in devising and executing tortures. They have forced practitioners to stand upright and stay awake continuously for several days and nights. When practitioners become unconscious after severe torture, these evildoers pressure them into signing the so-called transformation letter, a declaration renouncing their belief in Falun Dafa.
Furthermore, Zhang and Jia have goaded other Shibalihe Camp inmates to humiliate and torture practitioners using despicable tactics. One such tactic is to grab women practitioners' breasts and yank them forward to cause bleeding and excruciating pain. The perpetrators have also stabbed practitioners' vaginas with a screwdriver. They have grabbed hold of practitioners' hair and pounded their heads against the wall. Several practitioners in this camp have lost their lives to such savage tortures.
When a practitioner dies, the Shebalihe Camp not only refuses to inform the victim's family, but also unceremoniously disposes of the corpse. Should family members inquire about the status of a detainee, the camp claims that the practitioner was absent. More often than not, this claim indicates that the practitioner has been tortured to death.
At the end of each quarter or the beginning of the next, the Shibalihe Labor Camp forces practitioners to take a written test that fabricates evidence for reducing the term of imprisonment. The camp also imposes a so-called security check that is intended to confiscate any Dafa material. The camp guards conduct a body search on every practitioner and inspect all personal belongings.
Upon returning to his cell after a day of hard labor on April 5, 2004, an illegally detained practitioner discovered that his clothes container had been turned inside out; quilts and clothes were thrown all over the floor, and sheets of paper were torn to pieces.
Though the guards occasionally feel guilty, they claim that, "These are camp regulations. We must obey."
The head of the persecution, Jiang Zemin, visited the Shibalihe Forced Labor Camp on July 30, 2004.
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Rucheng is a 33-year-old practitioner in Liaoning Province. On June 3, 2004, during his illegal detention in Lingyuan Prison (also named No.1 Prison in Lingyuan) in Liaoning Province, the Lingyuan Prison guards used three 150,000-volt electric-shock batons simultaneously on Mr. Zhang's face for half an hour. Mr. Zhang's face was distorted from the electric shocks. Both cheeks, his chin and lips were seriously swollen and covered with blisters, and blood continuously dripped down from his face.
Later, Mr. Zhang told others, "At that time, I felt as if the front and both sides of my head were struck violently and simultaneously by three heavy hammers. I wanted to shout but could not open my mouth." Mr. Zhang could only take liquid food for three days. His abdomen was red, swollen and covered with big blisters from the electric shocks. There were also injuries to his hands, feet and lower back.
 Some scars detached from Zhang Rucheng's face after being shocked by electric baton |
The guards who shocked Mr. Zhang were Sun Shouguo, chief team leader in No.2 production division, Qu Jinshan and Liang Ximing, the two leaders of No.1 team in No.2 Division.
1. Cruelly Tortured with 150,000-Volt Electric-Shock Batons
On the morning of June 3, guards Sun Shouguo and Qu Jinshan heard Mr. Zhang practicing the exercises so they entered the prison cell and brought Mr. Zhang to the "Strictly Monitored Team." At that time, guard Liang Ximing was already in the "Strictly Monitoring Team." As soon as Mr. Zhang entered the team, they asked the prisoners to handcuff him behind the back while another group of prisoners brought three electric batons. Mr. Zhang called out loudly, "It is illegal to use electric batons. Falun Dafa is good!"
These three guards immediately ordered the three prisoners to forcibly push Mr. Zhang into an empty room that is used especially for beating and electric-shocking the practitioners. Then, they pressed Mr. Zhang onto the ground and each of the three guards shocked him.
The three guards simultaneously shocked each part of Mr. Zhang's body, on the head, waist, abdomen, hands and feet. As Sun Shouguo was shocking Mr. Zhang, he said, "Don't stop shouting, don't stop shouting." He also said, "These electric batons are national property, so it is legal for me to use them."
After shocking Mr. Zhang for a while the three of them stopped to take a rest, then Qu Jinshan began to viciously shock Mr. Zhang's face. Sun Shuoguo came over and used one foot to press down on the chest of Mr. Zhang and shocked his mouth. Liang Ximing also shocked Mr. Zhang's face.
After Mr. Zhang was tortured for about half an hour the three guards left. Later, the prison guards locked Mr. Zhang up in the so-called "self-reflection room" for several days.
The electric shocks caused great damage to Mr. Zhang. His face was distorted, both cheeks and chin were swollen, he could not lower his head and his upper and lower lips were swollen so bad they almost covered his nostrils. The swollen parts of his body were covered with blisters. Most of the blisters broke and blood continuously dripped down from his face. His abdomen was also swollen and covered with big blisters.
Monday, June 7, was the day the prosecuting attorney in the prison prosecutor's office conducted a "routine inspection." Mr. Zhang reported the facts of his being shocked to the prosecuting attorney Li Changlin and showed him his injuries. After seeing this, Li Changlin was very surprised and accepted Mr. Zhang's report.
Mr. Zhang asked to have pictures taken of his injuries in order to prosecute the three criminal guards. Li Changlin agreed on the spot and asked Mr. Zhang to contact the head of the "strictly Monitored Team" for this. Later, when Mr. Zhang contacted the person in charge to have the pictures taken, his request was rejected.
When Li Changlin was about to leave, he said to the head of the "strictly Monitoring Team", "Normal supervision is normal supervision, how could you do this?" After hearing this, Mr. Zhang thought Li Changlin would deal fairly with this case, but Li only pretended to help, and protected the three lawless guards secretly.
2. The Prosecuting Attorney in the Prison Protects the Criminal Guards
In order to exculpate the three lawless guards from the charges, Li Changlin intentionally manipulated the specific wording on the inquiry note in an attempt to explain that the injuries caused by the three guards were not serious, and that they were forced to use the electric batons on Mr. Zhang, etc. As for the injuries from the electric shocks, Li Changlin only vaguely mentioned in the inquiry note that "there is injury," and later changed it to "slight injury."
Mr. Zhang pointed out that it was inaccurate to use the words "traumatic injury" and that it should be "serious burn injury". Most of the skin on his face came off from the electric shocks - was this a slight injury? Because Mr. Zhang insisted that he should use the words "serious burn injury", Li Changlin said angrily, "You need a better attitude, otherwise I will not accept your case". Similar things were said several times during the process of inquiry.
Li Changlin also told Mr. Zhang, "Practicing Falun Gong bothers other people who are resting." Mr. Zhang said, "Our practice is very quiet, the movements are slow, it does not bother other people." Li told another prosecuting attorney, "Write down 'practicing Falun Gong bothers other people at rest'".
After taking down the note, Mr. Zhang said to Li Changlin, "The head of the "strictly monitoring team" did not want to take pictures for me, so I have to ask you to do it."
Li Changlin evaded the issue and quickly left.
About two or three days later, Li Changlin came to tell the result of the case: What the three guards did was overzealous and a notice would be circulated to criticize them. Mr. Zhang said, "It's not that the way they worked was overzealous. This was a criminal act and I am not satisfied with this result." Li Changlin said, "This is the best I can do."
Mr. Zhang requested to call home to ask his family members to find a lawyer to file a lawsuit. Li Changlin asked him to talk with the officials in the prison. When Mr. Zhang went to see the official in the "strictly monitoring team" for the phone call, they verbally agreed but did not act. Mr. Zhang still cannot get in touch with his family members.
Mr. Zhang's case of being tortured with electric batons was ended like this by the prison policemen's delays and the protection of the guards by the prison prosecuting attorney, Li Changlin.
Lingyuan Prison in Liaoning Province:
Address: Auto Engine Factory in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province
Zip code: 122500
The guards who shocked Zhang Rucheng:
Sun Shouguo: chief team leader in No.2 production division of Lingyuan Prison
Qu Jinshan: leader of No.1 team in No.2 Division of Lingyuan Prison
Liang Ximing: leader of No.1 team in No.2 Division of Lingyuan Prison
The prosecuting attorney who protected the criminal guards:
Li Changlin: prosecuting attorney in prosecutor's office of Lingyuan Prison
November 9, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. He Yuanhui in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province was abducted from her home in 2002. The perpetrators were Liaoyuan National Security officers and members of the 610 Office.
They brutally beat and tortured her, hammering bamboo slivers under all of her fingernails and committing other forms of torture. In September 2002, He Yuanhui was unlawfully sentenced to ten years in prison. She has so far been detained for two and one half years in Jilin Prison located in Jilin City, Jilin Province.
Since being imprisoned, He Yuanhui has not cooperated with the perpetrators, and she has been suffering severe persecution. Her original body weight of 140 Jin (156 lb.) has dropped to only 70 Jin (78 lb.) Due to the persecution, she also suffers from severe pulmonary tuberculosis. She coughs up blood and cannot even walk. Her family members have been to the prison several times, asking to allow her to receive medical treatment, but the prison authorities have rejected all such requests. Presently, He Yuanhui's life is in grave danger.
According to collected information, Jilin Prison now illegally imprisons several hundred Falun Gong practitioners, all of whom are being tortured! Some practitioners have contracted pulmonary tuberculosis due to the persecution, but prison authorities do not allow them to be released on bail for medical treatment. Instead, they forbid practitioners from doing the Falun Gong exercises and attempt to brainwash them.
We appeal to all human rights organizations and people with a sense of justice and conscience to pay attention to the brutal persecution taking place in China's prisons.
Jilin Prison phone number: 86-432-4881551
He Yuanhui's address in prison:
He Yuanhui
Team 1 of the 11th Jail Ward, PO Box 315, Jilin City, Jilin Province 132012
P. R. China
(Clearwisdom.net) On October 5, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong, whose face had been disfigured by electric baton shocks in the Longshan Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, escaped from the No. 1 Hospital affiliated with the China Medical University. The local authorities were thrown into panic. To prevent the extensive exposure of their crimes, they are taking all measures to find her. The police stations and the police precincts at the railroads, at commercial aviation sites and at Shenyang's oilfield and peripheral cities and regions received orders to apprehend Gao Rongrong. In addition, they received a "Notice for Assistance in Investigation" originating with the letterhead from Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau.
Photo 1: The "Notice for Assistance in Investigation" from Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau
Besides being forwarded to police stations and police precincts, this notice was also distributed to the city's district neighborhood administrative offices, communities and subdivision residential committees. It was further distributed to information stations, real estate agencies, the household management service companies and others.
With this notice being distributed to all of these municipal entities, the atrocities committed by the Shenyang City Judicial Bureau and related departments are also being exposed. For many, this is validating what they had already heard about the persecution Gao Rongrong has suffered. Some said with indignation, "I cannot see anything wrong with Falun Gong. Now I know that it's those so-called law enforcers taking advantage of their power to persecute good people, and they never do anything good! Who would assist them?"
Photo 2: On May 7, 2004, Gao Rongrong's face is covered with burns from electric baton shocks. The picture was taken ten days after the torture.The notice raised many questions from those who saw it. Why was Gao Rongrong sent to a forced labor camp? Why was she sent to a hospital? What caused the obvious scars on the left side of her face, which the notice referred to as a distinguishing mark? Gao Rongrong's picture on the notice has no scars on her face. Why did the notice use a picture without scars? The notice said that she was abducted by 4-5 men -- how could that have happened with several policemen guarding her night and day?
As early as several months ago, the public was made aware of the fact that officials in the Longshan Labor Camp disfigured Gao Rongrong's face and otherwise tortured her in following directives from the Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau.
The notice says that there are obvious scars on the left side of Gao Rongrong's face, but the attached photo was taken before the disfigurement.
The Judicial Bureau and related departments have many copies of photos and videotapes of Gao Rongrong after the disfigurement. They know that it resulted from being subjected to seven hours of electric shocking. Tang Yubao and other policemen in the Longshan Forced Labor Camp committed this atrocity. After the shocking, Gao Rongrong's face was charred and covered with burns.
After Jiang Zemin and his followers launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, all kinds of illegal acts have taken place. Policemen at Tiananmen Square told Falun Gong practitioners that mentioning Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance was illegal, so it's no wonder that the notice asking for Gao Rongrong's apprehension mentions no crime, other than stating that she was a Falun Gong practitioner
Gao Rongrong is a law-abiding citizen who follows Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance to be a good person. An innocent civilian was disfigured, but in order to hide their crimes, the police further imprisoned and persecuted the victim.
The notice says that Gao Rongrong was "abducted" from the hospital. As a matter of fact, abductions and kidnappings have become common occurrences conducted by Jiang's regime and its 610 Offices, the police, the prosecutors and judicial officers at various levels, used as a means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. During the past five years, huge numbers of Falun Gong practitioners have been abducted or taken away to detention centers or so-called study sessions, and have suffered physical and mental torture. More than 6,000 have been illegally sentenced to prison, more than 100,000 have been sent to forced labor camps, and more than 1,000 have been verified as having died as a result of torture.
Phone numbers for the Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau and other law-violating departments listed on the notice:
86-13704000168
86-13604020077
86-24-22855022 (Re-education Through Labor Management Division, Shenyang City's Judicial Bureau)
86-24-22700714
(Clearwisdom.net)
Party Secretary Gao Xiaolan of Beijing's Tiantan Hospital acted as the prime agent in following Jiang's regime in persecuting Falun Dafa and practitioners since July 20, 1999.
Recently three practitioners from Tiantan Hospital have been detained in forced labor camps. One practitioner escaped and is on the run to avoid persecution, and a dozen practitioners were sent to brainwashing classes. Because two released practitioners did not cooperate with Gao Xiaolan's orders to write a so-called "letter of guarantee," one of them was not given a job and the other one still has not been able to get his monthly retirement pension of about 1000 yuan and only receives the minimum 600 yuan.
Party Secretary Gao Xiaolan directed, controlled and participated in Tiantan Hospital's persecution of Falun Gong. The hospital's criminal activities to date are as follows:
After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Beijing Tiantan Hospital assigned more than 30 practitioners to brainwashing classes. Practitioners were divided in groups, and the party secretary of each section of the hospital was responsible for brainwashing one of the groups. They would extend the classes overtime, on into the evenings, to bombard the practitioners with defamatory statements and slanderous propaganda. They forced some practitioners to go on a TV station to "profess" what they did "wrong" one by one, doing everything they could to coerce practitioners into giving up the practice.
In October 1999 Jiang Zemin superseded China's Constitution and outlawed Falun Gong. Practitioner-employees of Tiantan Hospital frequently went to Beijing to appeal to the Central Government on behalf of Falun Gong. The hospital would then demote the practitioners, pay them a salary of only 300-400 yuan, force them out of their positions, and assign them janitorial duties or work as doorkeepers.
In 2000 during the "Two Conferences" (National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference), in order to prevent practitioners from appealing to the Central Government, Beijing Tiantan Hospital transferred its practitioners to a detention facility outside of the city for as long as two weeks, regardless of how much manpower and money were involved.
Before July 20, 2000, the hospital decided to pay the four practitioners who went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa only minimum wages. They also deprived them of their original positions with the hospital but retained them there for a one year probationary period.
Around the Chinese New Year 2000, the hospital transferred seven or eight practitioners into the Beijing Women's Labor Camp twice for forced brainwashing.
Between July 20 and October 1, 2004, Gao Xiaolan cooperated with the local authorities to have practitioners Wang Chunhua, Wan Jinmin, and Liu Xiaoli arrested and sent to the police station. One of them was then sentenced to a forced labor camp for two years.
At about 9 a.m. on July 5, Gao Xiaolan arrested Wan Jinmin, Wang Rumin and two others and sent them to the so-called "totally segregated brainwashing class", whose forty staff members included police officers, security agents and collaborators.
Persons responsible for the persecution in Beijing Tiantan Hospital:
Party Secretary - Gao Xiaolan
Vice Party Secretary - Ren Yuliang
Security Division Chief - Wang Youliang
Tiantan Hospital Tel: 86-10-67016611
(Clearwisdom.net) On April 25, 2004, Mr. Zhang Jinsheng, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, was arrested by the National Security Bureau of Fushun City and detained at the Dashagou Detention Center in Qingyuan County. In late October 2004, he was illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison, and on November 5, he was sent to Shenyang Dabei Prison.
In early April 2004, there was a 30,000-yuan reward for the arrest of Mr. Zhang because he was accused of communicating with Falun Dafa practitioners outside of China. When he was arrested and taken to a detention center, the police viciously tortured him using a variety of methods to try to force him to disclose his association with practitioners from other countries. Mr. Zhang's skull was fractured while being tortured, but he still did not give in to the police's demands.
The detention center refused to release Mr. Zhang even though they had no grounds to arrest him. Instead, he was put on trial in late October and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment. While in court, Mr. Zhang shouted out, "Falun Dafa is good," and wrote down the same words where he was supposed to sign his name. The judge became angry and added another five years to his sentence.
Contact information for people involved in persecuting Mr. Zhang:
Fang Guohong, County Procurator
Office number: 86-413-3036055, Residence number: 86-413-3037972, Cell Phone: 86-13842325555
Lin Kejun
Office number: 86-413-3023929, Residence number: 86-413-3027277, Cell: 86-13504231042
Du Haiyun, Associate Procurator, Office number: 86-413-3023630, Residence number: 86-413-3021914, Cell: 86-13700130567
Zhang Jinjie, County Court Director, Residence number: 86-413-3023483, Office number: 86-413-3023558, Cell: 86-13904933276
Fu Yanzhan, Associate Court Director, Residence number: 86-413-3022229, Office number: 86-413-3022639, Cell: 86-13904230726
Wen Zhongbo
Residence number: 86-413-3022365, Office number: 86-413-3036846, Cell: 86-13704934915
Wang Weixian: 86-413-3024608, 86-413-3031750, 86-13941302788
Postal Code for Qingyuan County: 113300
(Clearwisdom.net)
Son of Ms. Li Rong, a practitioner from Changchun City who was tortured to death
Qi Chenglin, whose nickname is Meng Meng, was born in December 1993. Chenglin is now 10 years old and attending the fifth grade. Qi's mother, Li Rong, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in November 1999. After this, she was sentenced to a year of forced labor. Once this sentence was completed, Li Rong was detained for another 40 days in the labor camp. In March of 2002, Li Rong was tortured to death. After his mother's death, Qi Chenglin lived with his father, who had help from Qi Chenglin's grandparents.
Son of practitioner Ms. Li Li, who was tortured to death
Li Li was a resident in Lishu County, Jilin Province. Her son Zhu Junyu is 13 years old. Junyu is living in the Number 5 Group, Fenghewei, Dongguang Village, Lishu Town, Lishu County. He is a sixth grader at the Number 2 Primary School in Lishu Town. Since his father remarried, Zhu Junyu has lived with his fraternal grandparents, who are getting by on their pensions.
Practitioner Li Li started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. In January 2001, Li Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong for a second time. Afterwards, Li Li stayed in Beijing to clarify the truth to people. In August of 2001, the police arrested her illegally and detained her in the Fangshan Detention Center in Beijing. During her detention there, Li Li went on a hunger strike for nearly four months. The persecutors detained and brutally tortured her in the detention center for six months, finally causing her death on February 1, 2002.
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, the Inter-Club Council (ICC) from Santa Rosa Junior College in California passed a resolution to express condemnation of the Chinese Communist Government's persecution and acts of atrocity against Falun Gong practitioners. Below is the resolution.
ICC, Santa Rosa Junior College
Resolution
Expressing Condemnation of the Chinese Communist Government's Persecution and Acts of Atrocity against Falun Gong Practitioners
Proposed by: Santa Rosa Junior College Falun Gong Club.
Whereas, at numerous colleges and universities in California and across the United States, the student body includes Falun Gong practitioners, and student organizations include Falun Gong Associations;
Whereas, Falun Gong is a peaceful self-cultivation practice deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture, with tens of millions of practitioners in over 60 countries; and
Whereas, Falun Gong practitioners aspire to have inner peace and physical health through qigong exercises, meditation, and adherence to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance; and,
Whereas, Falun Gong is non-religious, completely voluntary, and free of charge; and,
Whereas, the Constitution of the People's Republic of China provides to the citizens of that country freedom of speech, assembly, association, and belief; and,
Whereas, on July 20, 1999, former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, in spite of much opposition from within the Chinese government, officially banned the practice of Falun Gong and initiated a brutal campaign of brainwashing, torture and murder, which continues today; and,
Whereas, former Communist Party leader, Jiang Zemin threatened the entire country of China with a genocide of conscience, exercised power over all parts of society to force the persecution on the government and the people and tried to exercise the genocide of conscience overseas; and,
Whereas, demonstrations by Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China and the United States have always been peaceful, meditative sessions; and,
Whereas, the 2003 US Department of State Annual Human Rights Report (documented) that, (Chinese) police often use excessive force when detaining peaceful Falun Gong protesters, including some who were elderly or who were accompanied by harassment, fines, job discrimination, imprisonment, torture, and sometimes death; and
Therefore be it resolved, that we condemn the persecution and human rights violations of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China and abroad;
Therefore be it further resolved that we condemn the persecution and human rights violations of Christians, Catholics, Protestants, and other religious/spiritual practices by the Chinese Communist Government in mainland China and abroad;
Therefore be it further resolved that the distribution of this resolution include, but not be limited, to:
President George W. Bush
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Assistant Secretary of State in charge of East Asian affairs James Kelly
Senator Diane Feinstein
Senator Barbara Boxer
Congressperson Lynn Woolsey
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Speaker Nunez, California State Assembly
Senator Wes Chesbro
Senator John Burton
Assembly Member Joe Nation
The California State Student Association
The University of California Students' Association
United Nations Human Rights Commission
Assembly member Carol Liu, co-chair Asian Pacific Islander Caucus
Senator Kevin Murray, chair Legislative Black Caucus
Assembly Member Marco Firebaugh, chair Latino Caucus
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
The Rohnert Park City Council
The City Council of Cotati
The CSU Board of Trustees
Dr. Charles B. Reed CSU Chancellor
CSU Statewide Academic Senate
California Faculty Association
Dr. Ruben Arminana Sonoma State University President
Sonoma State University Academic Senate
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
National organization for Women
Dr. Charles Lee
The Nanjing Forced Labor Camp
End Note: See Attached -- Falun Gong Report (latest edition)
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(Clearwisdom.net) Teaching is a respected profession, and it is a teacher's responsibility to impart knowledge and truth. Teachers help shape the character and ideology of the next generation. One of the most important aspects of a teacher's character is honesty. Speaking the truth should be a teacher's most important virtue. In other words, even under pressure, a teacher still needs to tell the truth.
What is happening to teachers under China's current educational system? Three teachers in the city of Liupanshui in Guizhou Province have been driven from the lecture podium and sent to a brainwashing center for telling the truth. In the brainwashing center, these teachers were forced to write the "Three Statements": a "Guarantee Statement" to stop practicing Falun Gong, a "Repentance Statement" for telling the truth, and a "Disclosure Statement" to denounce the "crimes" of Falun Gong.
These three teachers were responsible professionals and had a positive effect on the educational system and their students. Their students respected them. They were forced to leave their jobs because they believed in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance and thought highly of Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang once told her students that people today often commit crimes because of their morality. She said, "Any student has the right to question authority, including the teachers, and students should not give up this right casually. One's opinions should be based on the truth, not someone else's opinion, and one should draw conclusions based on one's own thinking and analysis. The truth about Falun Gong should only be told by those who have read the Falun Gong books, practice Falun Gong, or know people who practice Falun Gong." At the end of class, Ms. Wang wrote a poem called "Weight" on the chalkboard: "She put her life on the line in the scale of life, making everyone else seem weightless." Ms. Wang asked her students, "If it was time for you to put yourself on the line on the scale of life, would you do it?"
That was Ms. Wang's last class. She has not yet been allowed to return to the podium, where she had been lecturing for 10 years.
Under political pressure, there are many teachers in China who have told countless lies, perpetrating misinformation and poisoning the minds of their students. How many of them have read the Falun Gong books? Not many. What they know are only sound bites and government-sanctioned propaganda about Falun Gong they get from TV. Some of them have taught the students that Falun Gong gets involved in politics. Some teachers, in order to keep their jobs, say they had no choice but to tell lies that they knew to be false. According to them, "I am only a teaching tool."
Teachers are also in the difficult position of defending indefensible claims in textbooks. The textbooks have accusations against Falun Gong that are totally unreasonable, and the students have doubts. In China, no matter how the teachers deal with this issue, there are only two potential outcomes. Those who say that Falun Gong is good may lose their teaching qualifications and their jobs. These teachers may be sentenced to labor camps and might not come out alive. The alternative is to slander Falun Gong as required, and their jobs are safe and sound.
When I walked into the Liupanshui City First Middle School, the words written on the first chalkboard I came across were by Mr. Tao Xingzhi, a well-known Chinese educator: "In everything you teach, you teach people to be truthful; among everything you learn, you learn how to be a good person." Ms. Wang, who had just been removed from her teaching position, was sitting in the library on the third floor. It was June, time for potential teachers to take their qualifying exams. Each new teacher is faced with a difficult choice -- follow the basic requirements for being a good teacher, or succumb to the pressure of slandering good people?
(Clearwisdom.net) More and more people have come to know the truth about Falun Gong as a result of cable TV signal interceptions in China discussing and spreading the facts to the public. This is one of the biggest and most gratifying events since the first cable TV signal interception took place over two years ago.
At 8 p.m. November 20, 2004, the Beijing satellite TV system was tapped into and broadcasted a documentary video entitled "Between Heaven and Earth". Viewers in different areas reported seeing varying lengths of the video, from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. Many people finally understood that the staged self-immolation in Tiananmen Square was masterminded by Jiang's faction to frame Falun Dafa and its founder, and to deceive the Chinese people. After seeing the truth clarification video, some viewers told others, "Jiang took away people's right to tell the truth. It was despicable for the Party to cover up the truth," and "Falun Gong is amazing."
During the last two years, in many areas, including Changchun, Hebei, Sichuan and Beijing, TV systems were tapped into and truth clarification videos were broadcasted. The initial TV signal interception took place on March 5, 2002. Practitioner Mr. Liu Chengjun and his fellow practitioners successfully tapped into 8 channels of Changchun's cable TV network and aired "Falun Dafa Around the World" and "Self-immolation or Staged Event," for about 50 minutes. There were over one million viewers.
After the broadcast, Jiang Zemin ordered to "kill those responsible without pardon" and Luo Gan went to Jilin to arrange further persecution and issue a "shoot to kill" order. In Changchun, 6000 riot police conducted a large-scale manhunt and arrested more than 5000 practitioners. At least 8 practitioners were tortured to death for their suspected involvement in the TV broadcast, and 15 others were sentenced to 4 to 20 years in prison.
Liu Chengjun was shot in one leg during his arrest. Police tortured him by beating him brutally with wood batons, tying him on "Tiger bench" for 52 days, handcuffing him on a "Dead person's bed" and breaking his leg. After being tortured for one year and 9 months, Liu Chengjun died on December 26, 2003 at the age of 32. To cover up their crimes, police cremated his remains at 10 am that same morning despite his family's objections.
The above picture provided by China News Net on April 1, 2002 shows that Liu Chengjun didn't even have enough strength to keep his natural sitting position after severe torture. This picture was published by a website that typically downplays the Jiang regime's brutality. It's likely that Liu Chengjun's torture was even more severe than the picture could express. |
Practitioners Mr. Liu Haibo, Mr. Liu Yi, Mr. Hou Mingkai, Ms. Li Ying, Ms. Li Shuqin, Ms. Shen Jianli (a teacher from Department of Mathematics, Jilin University) and a male practitioner over 30 years old were tortured to death for their alleged involvement in the TV signal interception.
Amnesty International issued an urgent call on March 15 and April 11, 2002 to take immediate action to save the lives of the Changchun Falun Gong practitioners.
Practitioner Mr. Cheng Fengxiang from Hebei Province was sentenced to eleven years in prison for his role in helping to broadcast the truth about Falun Dafa on Chinese television. In protest, Cheng Fengxiang started a hunger strike, which has continued for over 150 days. He now suffers from back and chest pain, ice-cold hands and feet, and abnormal kidney, heart, and stomach functions. With serious dehydration and an inability to absorb the force-fed nutrients, he is now on the verge of death.
Why is Jiang's faction so afraid that the truth about Falun Gong will become known? Why does Jiang's faction block the truth with all the state machinery, and imprison or kill Falun Gong practitioners who tap into TV signals?
Practitioners continuously clarify the truth and peacefully resist the persecution, which is not what Jiang expected when he initiated the persecution and attempted to eradicate Falun Gong within three months. Facing the brutal persecution, Falun Gong has not been eliminated, but exists today with unprecedented rationality, steadfastness, and peacefulness. The principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" that Falun Gong practitioners follow have been spread to more people. For Jiang's faction, the more people know the truth, the harder it is to sustain the persecution, and the nearer his faction is to its end. Therefore, blocking the truth is the Jiang faction's lifeline. Accordingly, the persecution is more brutal for those who intercept TV signals.
However, the truth about Falun Gong is spread through various effective ways. The people viewing the documentary video were surprised and pleased to tell others, as it awakened their conscience. For the sake of this precious conscience, Falun Gong practitioners are risking their lives to give people the opportunity to learn the truth.
(Clearwisdom.net)
A Dajiyuan reporter (Chinese version of The Epoch Times) had a sincere talk with a Chinese government official who is in charge of ideology in China. The official disclosed how the mouthpieces of the Chinese Communist Party, the "Party's Newspapers" require subscription quotas in order spread the propaganda from the central government to the township and villages. For safety reasons, the official's name is withheld.
Official: We are in charge of things within the domain of ideology, including criticizing Falun Gong. In addition, newspaper subscription is also within the domain of ideology. Did you know this? Now it is the end of the year. We are very busy. Every province, city, county, and village is working on the circulation of the "Party's Newspapers" which refer to People's Daily, Economic Daily, and Qiushi Journal. A subscription quota is imposed on each province. Each province then imposes a quota on each city with designated provincial newspapers. Each city then imposes it on each county with designated city newspapers. It is imposed like this from one level to another. It is said that each level of the government can decide whether they subscribe to them or not, however, it is not allowed to not subscribe to them. The task is huge. Generally speaking, a township government must subscribe to more than 100,000 copies. It is a heavy burden for peasants. Furthermore, the readability of these newspapers is very low. They are usually about issues related to work, regardless of the levels. The major content is the same. But you have to subscribe to them.
Reporter: Many Chinese people say that it is enough to read just one of these newspapers to know what's in all of them.
Official: This is to maximally keep the same pace with the central government. Some officials at lower levels complain, "Since it is of no use, why do we have to do it?" When we have meetings with our subordinates, we explain it like this, "This is a political task. We don't have other options since the task from our supervisors is not small. If we cannot finish it, the image and work performance of our whole province and the whole city will be affected. For instance, every level of the government will invite a reporter from a big newspaper to have dinner at the end of the year and invite him to relax a bit in the ballroom after dinner, offering a lady (a prostitute) to him. When we stay on good terms with the reporters, this guarantees that he will report more about the work achievements of our province and of our cities."
Reporter: Do you come across many difficulties when imposing the subscription quotas for the Party's newspapers?
Official: It used to be very difficult. Now there is a policy from above: Every township, county, and city must make an effort to finish the subscription task by the end of the year. The task for a county is over 2 million. If you cannot finish the subscription task for the 2005's Party newspapers by December 31, 2004, the county committee's Party Secretary in charge and the Chief of Treasury Bureau will have to go to the capital city to attend a meeting, bringing checks with them. They will finish by transferring money there. Anyway, you have to subscribe to them. The governments at lower levels follow suit. In the end, there are so many newspapers that everyone can have one or two copies. There is a lot repetition in the newspapers of all levels. For example, what is in the first section of the provincial newspaper is also in the first section of the city newspaper. If Liaoning Daily publishes the news about Li Changchun's inspection in Liaoning Province, Shenyang Daily will have the same piece of news. People's Daily seems also to have the same in the first section. It is overlapped among the newspapers at all levels. It is of no use.
Reporter: What is the use of your controlling your subordinates to the point of being hypocritical?
Official: We have no alternatives since politics is all like this. When it is imposed from above, shouldn't the subordinates carry it out?
Reporter: Politics in other countries is not like this, is it?
Official: Of course, it is definitely not like this. Isn't this a dictatorship? For example, the first section of Shenyang Daily is for the content about the Party Secretary and the Mayor. The news about their inspecting the subordinate levels must be the news in the first section. This is a rule. If the Party Secretary does not have any activities while the Mayor inspecting the lower levels, the report about the Mayor's inspection must be the first news in the first section. The activities of the main deputy Party Secretaries are also published in the first section but with smaller space. The second section carries the news about the deputy mayors and other officials such as Deputy Director of people's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference. It is of this nature. And it is regulated. In fact, what the officials say and how they say it are all the same. That is why it is said that Chinese newspapers and news reports on CCTV are of no value for reading and watching. The first twenty minutes of the news report on CCTV about the domestic news is always the same. There is a big harvest somewhere and there is a prominent achievement in reform somewhere. The news before this is arranged according to the officials' positions in the standing committee such as who is meeting whom. Of course, the general party secretary is always the first one. The rest are arranged according to their position in the standing committee, regardless of the importance of the activities. Only the international news has some content from abroad. The newspapers are the same. There is no use reading the first part. It is all done in the same manner. All these are unwritten rules.
Reporter: Why don't you wake up and why do you still do the same thing when you have reached such a point? Don't you think that you are deceiving yourself? I think the Communist Party is already on shaky ground.
Official: It is true that it's on shaky ground. However, we have to keep our jobs. For example, we have to write those articles saying that there is a big foreign trade development in a certain city and a certain city's economy has moved to a new level, the peasants have benefited, and so forth.
When speaking of international media's reports on some rebellious incidents in China, the official said that he did not want to listen to these things. Often, there are hundreds of people appealing at the gate of government buildings.
Reporter: I know you have "The Premier's reception day, The Mayor's reception day, and The County Magistrate's reception day." Do they meet people who are appealing?
Official: Yes, they do. They basically shift responsibility as much as they can when the matter is small. They may look after the bigger things. However, most of the things are small conflicts associated with economic benefits. What you call "violent rebellion" is called "conflicts between officials and the public" by us. The relationship between officials and the public is very tense in China. Everyone knows this. There is a document called "Notes on News Reporting" in China stipulating that any report on group violence, rebellious incidents, and appealing must be approved by a certain level of government officials and must match reports by the Xinhua News Agency. Even one word more is not allowed. You cannot report it even if you know it. You must get approval first. Only when the higher officials say yes, can you report it. And you must report it exactly the same as Xinhua News Agency does.
Reporter: Does the reporter feel guilty as a journalist when doing this?
Official: (Laughing) They are, after all, better off than the peasants. The peasants don't even have enough to eat, do they?
Reporter: No, they don't. How can you ignore this when you see that they don't have enough clothes and food while the corrupt officials commit crimes?
Official: We have no options. If you stand up to show sympathy to them, the day you stand up is the day you lose your livelihood. Then you will be in the same boat they are, at best. The worst case is that they put you in jail.
Reporter: I recommend that you read "Nine Articles Commenting on the Communist Party" published in our Dajiyuan Newspaper (Epoch Times). It comments on the basis of Communist Party's ideology. Although you are a Party member, you cannot be always deceived by lies from the Party.
Official: The articles we write every day are lies. Of course I know this. I am clearer about this than you are. But we have no alternative.
Reporter: You write articles to deceive yourself as well as others. Wouldn't you say that you have committed huge crimes?
Official: Of course, I don't believe what I write. So I cannot deceive myself. Nor do others believe it. For example, the peasants don't believe it. Nor do they read it. There are two classical sayings in Chinese: "He who has been written about reads it. He who has written it reads it." Except for these two kinds of people, no one else reads it. For example, if I write about someone's good deeds, some great things, or the government of one level serving the public, whoever the leader was that I wrote about will read it. He reads what I write and he also reads what he writes. Another person reads what he writes. Others won't read it. As soon as it is printed out, it becomes waste paper.
Reporter: You think that nobody reads it, but some people will read it. In China, lies are accumulated level by level. When there are too many lies and everyone spreads lies like this, people at the bottom will take them as truth. Don't you think it is not worthwhile to spend your life lying?
Official: Not worthwhile? What can you do about it even if it is not worthwhile? What do you think we can do under such circumstances?
Reporter: Many Chinese people think the same as you do, which has led to your cynicism.
Official: This is the inferior quality of human nature. That is, one can only speak for others when his life is safe.
Reporter: You said that Chinese people are just holding on to their lives. I don't think they are just doing that. Your living standards have become higher and higher. What extent has the pursuit of material goods reached? What kind of mess has it created between men and women? To my knowledge, capitalism in foreign countries in the world hasn't yet reached this point. Is it the issue of not having enough to eat? It is far beyond that. People have fallen prey to the pursuit of material gain.
Official: There is a part of the people who are like that. My human nature is very kind.
Reporter: Is it? I hope so! However, don't do bad things. What you have written is not based on facts, is it?
Official: There are some facts. It is the same as yours (He refers to Dajiyuan.) For example, you write a bit when there is no such thing. You expand it when there is such a thing. You change an individual's benefits to a group's benefits. An article is created when you just change a little.
Reporter: (Laughing) When did we (Dajiyuan) ever do this? We are always truthful. If we violate this principle, our conscience will feel disturbed. We are a media in a democratic country. If we tell lies, nobody will read our paper, nor can we survive. You should stop writing those lies. You have fabricated so many lies to deceive people. Without mentioning other things, let's say how many Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted to death by the Party when your lies are everywhere? If there is a final trial on this some day, can you say that you did not disappoint your conscience and higher beings?
Official: (Thinking) Well, in the future, I have to be responsible to society to the best of my ability.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/11/30/55107.html
Part 2: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/1/55119.html
7. Undaunted in times of danger, Horrified but not endangered
Each time I was released, I immediately threw myself into the mighty current of Fa-rectification. When I heard that fellow practitioners in my hometown, Tangshan City, could not obtain Teacher's recent articles and Dafa material, I delivered it myself in a big leather trunk. At that time, the "self-immolation" case had just been fabricated and the evil was at it's most rampant point. Inspections at the railway stations were very rigorous, and when passing the ticket check-in entrance every passenger was forced to unpack their package for inspection. At that time I did not know of sending forth righteous thoughts, but I said in my heart: "I do not allow you to inspect my package." As a result, each time I passed the entrance, the inspector either turned around, or chatted with others and I took the chance to pass by unnoticed. Then the inspector inspected the passenger behind me. Each time the passengers in front of and behind me were inspected while I passed smoothly by with Teacher's help.
Later I realized that this was not a good way to supply materials. It would be better to help them set up a materials site. Therefore a practitioner in our area who was computer literate helped practitioners in Tangshan City to set up a materials creation site. Several months later another practitioner was abducted by the police, and he disclosed the existence the materials site, but he did not know the exact location. So the police scouted around. At this time Teacher had told us how to send forth righteous thoughts, and the Minghui (Clearwisdom) editors also notified us of the specific times to send forth righteous thoughts. Therefore we added the idea of protecting our materials site while sending forth righteous thoughts. This way we escaped several searches. All the neighborhood apartments were searched but the police did not enter our apartment while we were sitting inside sending forth righteous thoughts.
Later we moved into a Bungalow. One day when I walked into the courtyard, about six policemen followed me and asked for my ID. I stood in the yard while sending forth righteous thoughts, since there was printed material everywhere in one room and 40 boxes of new printing paper in the janitor's room. I was calm and cool-headed at the time, and I coped with them while sending forth righteous thoughts. Finally the police did not enter any rooms. When I sat down inside my heart began to beat violently, I felt the fear after the event. What a false alarm it was. I could not help expressing my gratefulness to Teacher. At critical moments, my graceful Teacher was looking after me. As long as I have righteous thoughts and no attachments of fear, nobody can harm me. The materials site ran smoothly for one and a half years without any interference. One box after another of Dafa truth-clarifying material was distributed to nearby areas, and saved a large number of sentient beings from poisonous lies.
8. As indestructible as diamond
At the end of November 2001, one practitioner who had contact with us was abducted by the police and disclosed the location of our materials site, and myself as the person in charge. At 9:00 a.m. on December 2, I was abducted while I was delivering Dafa materials to another practitioner. To help the practitioner escape, I shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is great!" "The Tiananmen Square self-immolation was faked." As a result, many passersby crowded around. Then I began to tell them Dafa facts. The police beat and kicked me violently. I said, "Look, this is the so-called "good treatment" of Falun Gong practitioners propagandized by TV programs".
The police took me to the police station, and said complacently, "We got you at last. We have awaited your arrest for a long time." To obtain more information about the materials site, they tried to reach me with human emotion. They asked my acquaintances to persuade me. "As long as you speak a few words about the materials site, you will be released." I said nothing about the materials site, but clarified Dafa facts to them. I also told them, "It is absolutely impossible for me to betray my fellow practitioners." They responded, "We have plenty of means to make you talk." I answered, "You may do whatever you like, but I will not utter a word until death!"
At night they began to torture me. They bound my hands and arms behind my back with a rope, and then lifted the rope with a stick. As a result, all of my weight was on the rope and I suffered extreme pain in my hands and arms. After I was lifted to a certain height, they released the rope and I was dropped down. They called this torture "lifting the ropes." I was lifted and dropped 3 times that night. Without loosening the rope, my arms were too numb to sense any pain. But they loosened the rope each time to let me regain consciousness, so as to suffer the extreme pain. Then I was tied up again. The pain was hard to describe. After the torture of "lifting the ropes" I was tied tightly to a chair. The police beat my feet with a stick as thin as a finger, so savagely that the broken bits were scattered everywhere. As a result the flesh and blood in my feet were blurred. Then they began to beat my body with a thick club. They poked one end of the club into my leg and pressed hard with their whole weight. Then they held down my head with their legs to beat my back. I told them, "It is impossible for me to utter any fellow practitioners' name!" I sent forth righteous thoughts while staring at them.
They tortured me this way for three days while depriving me of sleep. During the day the police did not torture me much. They just beat my swollen and painful areas with a club, and then tried to force me to confess. They also brought six bags full of files, claiming that 28 people had confessed to the authorities about my identity.
On the fourth day they tried to make a video. They made me sit on a stool and then wrapped me with an overcoat. I realized that they were seeking to forge facts, so I flatly refused to cooperate. An officer then squatted behind the stool where I sat and stretched his hand inside the overcoat to drag my hair back so that my head was lifted. Another officer stood behind me to force me to look as if I was tearing a book with both hands. I grasped my fists to my chest so that they could not get their way. One officer tore a book and threw it onto me, another seized the chance to sprinkle water on my face to concoct a tear. I closed my eyes without any expression. I thought that as long as I refuse to open my mouth they could not fabricate any facts. They messed about for half an hour without success. Then they threw the video-recorder onto the table and began to savagely beat me. Afterwards they attempted to video tape me again. They made three or four efforts in vain. Each time they used brutal violence, with leather shoes, fists, and palms falling onto me like raindrops. I was covered with bruises and cuts, and some of my body parts were numb. At last they had to give up. Even two years later, some parts of my body are still numb today.
I was sent to the detention center at about 11:00 p.m. that day. Before leaving I said to them compassionately, "I do not hate you even though you beat me to such a state. I simply wish that you would not treat other Dafa practitioners this way. I have no grievance with you. Can you live with your conscience--" I sensed that my compassion touched them, and they revealed their shame.
Director Bai and Officer Liang interrogated me the next day in the detention center. I showed the tolerance and mercifulness of a cultivator. Instead of hating them, I clarified Dafa facts for more than three hours totally for their good. I mentioned why I cultivated Dafa steadfastly, why I returned to my hometown from afar to distribute Dafa materials, and why I spoke for their own good. My compassion touched them. Director Bai was moved to tears. Officer Liang was unable to sit still and walked about back and forth. I could sense that they were condemned by their consciences. They asked me nothing during the three hours. The interrogation turned into a chance to save them by Dafa. They did not ask to see me again.
In the detention center, the police ushered the practitioner who betrayed me to identify me. She nodded recognition. My tears gushed out. No matter how savagely I was beat in the police department, I did not shed a drop of tear. However, when a fellow practitioner, with whom I had related so well at all times performed this way at the key point, I cried sadly, not for her betraying me, but grieving for her act.
On the fifth day, when I saw that the police force-feed practitioners who were on hunger strike, I began to send forth righteous thoughts. The police came to beat me, and I shouted loudly. Afterwards they set about to force-feed me. The way of force-feeding, feeding directly into mouth, in Tangshan Detention Center is very barbaric. The police beat and pried my teeth with a steel lever and a hammer. I closed my mouth tightly so they could not feed me. They tried hard to carve my neck and pinch my face so that my face and neck were bloody. Since my mouth was closed, they pinched my nose. I was almost stifled. At this time it seemed that Teacher read loudly and calmly near my ears,
"There are a lot of yoga masters in India who can sit submerged in water for days or be buried underground for days, they can make themselves completely still, and they can even control their heartbeats..." (Zhuan Falun)
I enlightened right away. If others can be breathless for several days, I can also do this. Since this idea emerged, I was breathless too. After a few seconds, an inmate shouted himself blue in the face, "Stop, she will die." They stopped at that moment and let me go. I fell to the ground and lost consciousness, and they began to rescue me.
Since the force-feeding failed, they took me to a clinic in the detention center for an intravenous infusion. I refused to cooperate, and told them, "I demand release unconditionally. I am innocent. You must release me!"
On the seventh day, they took me to the psychiatric hospital. I was asked to change into patient's clothes, and a nurse took me to a room to change. When she took off my clothes and saw me covered with bruises and cuts all over, she could not help but cry. She put on my clothes right away. I told her that they beat me like this just because I cultivate Dafa to become a good person. I have been abducted fifteen times. I am totally innocent. I have been on a hunger strike for seven days. She immediately brought me back to the doctor's hospital. I told the doctor, "As a doctor, your duty is to heal the wounded and rescue the dying. Before cultivating Falun Dafa, I suffered from a bladder tumor, and I urinated blood often. I had serious dropsy and high blood pressure. Soon after I began Dafa cultivation, all of my diseases disappeared. How can I be ungrateful to my Teacher and give up Dafa--" After speaking, I was asked to do urine test. I responded, "I have been on hunger strike for 7 days. I urinate blood instead of urine." Then the police Liang from the police department said, "As long as you admit her, I will pay double the fee." The doctor closed his book loudly, stood up indignantly and said sternly and firmly, "Even if you pay me 100,000 yuan, I will not admit her. How can she survive--" After speaking, he turned around and left.
(Clearwisdom.net) Originally I was not planning on going to Manhattan. When my family, who are also practitioners, asked me if we would go, I thought we wouldn't be able to afford the trip. However, we eventually were able to work it out.
  Practitioner clarifying the truth to police |   Practitioner clarifying the truth to a passerby |
  Practitioners starting the activities at 6:30 a.m. |   Practitioner holding banner in the chilly wind |
Looking in My Heart and Studying the Falun Dafa Books Carefully
I started distributing flyers on the first day I got to New York. In order to distribute more flyers, I kept thinking of showing the compassion of a practitioner, continuously sending forth righteous thought and telling people, "Please read our story."
When I got cold looks from New Yorkers, I blamed myself for not having a righteous field. If I cultivate myself very well, I should have a very peaceful field around me and more people will want to take the flyers.
Ever since I got to New York, I started studying the Falun Dafa books more carefully and became more diligent in doing the exercises. I heard some fellow practitioners say that cultivation is quicker in Manhattan. I didn't agree because I thought there shouldn't be anything like intensive cultivation. I finally understood what they meant.
Sometimes my attachment to this material world would lead me to pay attention to New Yorkers' attire, but I immediately reminded myself that I came to clarify the truth and save sentient beings. Sometimes when I got out of bed, I felt unwilling to go out to distribute flyers and being questioned by police. But as soon as I got on the street, my reluctance would completely disappear and I would be surprised that I even had such a thought.
Rationality
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Standing on the street, I thought, "What do New Yorkers think of us? Why are we here in the subway? Will they be tired of us if they see us everyday? Will they think our exposure of the persecution makes China lose face?"
I finally straightened out my thinking. We are thinking of everybody's future. Our smiles and compassion are a righteous force. In chilly mornings when people hurry on their way to work with things on their minds, our smiles will bring them warmth like meeting old friends. The persecution of Falun Gong has hurt a countless number of families.
Sincerity
I greeted everyone with my most sincere smile and righteous look, no matter if they took flyers or not. When there was nobody around, I read "Falun Gong Today" to myself, just to practice my English. Later, I started reading it to the crowd, thinking some people may hear some of the truth even though they were passing by in a hurry. Some people gave us a thumbs-up. Some smiled at us. Some copied our exercise movements. Some took pictures of us.
My Regret
One day, a few fellow practitioners and I were distributing flyers in the subway when a police officer told us that we were not allowed to distribute any commercial materials there. I told him it was about human rights. The officer still wouldn't allow us to distribute anything without permission from the subway office.
At another place, a woman wouldn't let us distribute flyers because some people threw away the flyers, which increased her workload. We told her about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and gave her a bookmark. She accepted it and let us continue with the distribution.
On the next day, some other practitioners also had some obstructions. I didn't quite understand what the problem was. We had communicated with the related departments and sent forth righteous thoughts. Why did problems keep coming up?
I eventually found the answer:
"Everything that Dafa disciples are doing today is for the sake of saving people. Otherwise what are you doing it for? Clarifying the truth in an upright and open manner are the very things Dafa disciples should do. I'm also telling you that all beings in today's world came for the sake of the Fa. If you want a being to clearly understand this point, you should go and clarify the truth to him. It is a master key, the key that can unlock that thing all beings have had sealed off for a long time and been awaiting for ages." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference")
Even though we told the police that we were distributing materials about human rights and we had permission from the responsible state office, we didn't tell them the facts about Falun Gong. I hope they will have a chance to hear it from other practitioners.
(Clearwisdom.net)
As the grand force of Fa-rectification progresses forward, there are fewer evil elements. This has manifested in the human world in the following ways: Jiang, Luo, Liu and Zhou have been sued in various countries, Jiang has stepped down, and Falun Gong's name may be cleared in China. As Fa-rectification Dafa disciples, what kind of mindset should we have when we look at the present situation? Actually, the so-called "redressing Falun Gong" is simply using the ordinary world's forms to rectify people's minds and to save more beings on an even larger scale. "Redressing Falun Gong" is absolutely not a grace granted by someone or a political party. It is an inevitable result from practitioners' breaking through the old forces' arrangements and opposing the persecution for the past five years.
Every being comes here for the Fa, and whatever position they take when faced with Falun Dafa, they are facing the choice of assimilation or opposition. If a government official actively did justice for Falun Gong, then that is their inherent duty as a human being, and Dafa will bless his future.
"On the surface, we're seeking support for Dafa from the world's people. This is the thinking of the worldly human side, manifest in this human place. Yet it's reversed on the other side. Whoever supports Dafa or advocates for Dafa is establishing for himself his being's existence in the future and is laying a foundation for obtaining the Fa in the future." (From Guiding the Voyage)
Being attached to clearing Falun Gong's name is the manifestation of one's being selfishly attached to the ending time and one's personal consummation. If it ends today, how many people who are deceived will be weeded out? If it ends today, how many practitioners who have made the great, sacred vows but still have not stepped forward by now will be destroyed? If it ends today, have we reached the new cosmos's beings' standard of being selfless?
"My Dafa disciples who have strong human thoughts: the path I'm leading you down heads toward godhood, yet some students just tenaciously cling to human notions...and when hardly any of the evil remains in Fa-rectification as Dafa disciples validate the Fa with righteous thoughts and clean out the evil, and as the world's people begin to see things clearly, you are putting your hope for an end to the persecution in ordinary people." (From "In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not human")
"For a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple, personal liberation is not the goal of cultivation: when you came, saving sentient beings was your great aspiration, and that is the responsibility and mission history has bestowed upon you in Fa-rectification. Thus great numbers of beings are to be saved by you. Dafa disciples, don't forsake the magnificent responsibility that has been bestowed upon you in Fa-rectification" (From "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People")
At present, no matter what kind of situation practitioners are facing in the ordinary world, our minds should not be swayed by it. We should continue to use legal means to clear away the remaining damage and continue to do well the three things. Every step we take will become a reference for the future.
"The various correct states that you are displaying at this time in each and every regard, and how you handle things in all kinds of situations, are all being left for history." (From Guiding the Voyage)
The closer we are to the end, the more steadily, firmly, and righteously we should walk well each step of ours in the future, because we are creating and blazing a pure, upright and bright path for the cosmos' beings in the future.
(Clearwisdom.net) In March 2002, policemen searched my home. They then took me to the local police station. They tried to extort a confession from me through torture. After about eight hours of torture, they asked me, "Will you continue to practice Falun Gong if we release you?" I told them, "I have the truth in my hands. Of course, I will continue practicing Falun Gong." So the policemen sent me to the detention center.
Once I got to the prison, a group of criminals came up to me and prepared to give me the normal beating for a newcomer. When the leader of the gang realized I was a practitioner, he asked me to show the Falun Gong movements to them. I sat in the lotus position and did the movements for the fifth exercise. After watching me do the exercise, they applauded. The gang leader also praised my posture with the double-crossed legs. Later, when two criminals were rude to me, the gang leader immediately sent somebody to stop them. The gang leader asked me, "What is good about Falun Gong?" I told him, "Falun Gong is the Buddha Law. It emphasizes virtue and teaches people to be truthful in their actions and deeds by assimilating to the characteristic of the universe, which is Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Falun Gong teaches us to improve ourselves by always considering others first and becoming truly selfless."
The gang leader nodded and told me, "I had to wait months for you. Once you walked in the prison, I recognized you." I was puzzled. How did he recognize me?
The gang leader then told me, "When I was born, two old monks came to my home and told my parents, 'Your new son is our master, who has reincarnated in your family. Remember to bring him to the temple to forge a relationship when he is five years old. The boy will have tribulations and spend six years in jail when he is 25 years old. In jail he will meet an older man who is the reverse of his age, which is 52. That man will tell him the most important thing. You must make sure the boy remembers this.' Today everything the monks said has come true. I'm 25 years old and you are 52 years old."
I suddenly understood that the gang leader had a predestined relationship with me. He had ended up here to learn about Falun Dafa. He had come for the Fa. The gang leader also believed we had a predestined relationship. He told me, "Here you don't need to do any of the various duties. You can sit in meditation or do the practice. Without my say so, nobody would dare touch you."
The prison was monitored very strictly. The gang leader asked me to tell them stories when I wasn't practicing the exercises. I would remember a story with a good moral to promote Falun Dafa and gradually, one by one, the inmates accepted Falun Dafa. I also helped them understand the principle of karmic retribution, and they eventually gave up their habit of resolving things with physical violence.
When the inmates realized that Falun Dafa was great, the gang leader was sent away to a forced labor camp. Because the predestined relationship had ended, I realized that I shouldn't be detained there anymore. Two days later my detention ended.
I gave all my personnel belongings to the criminals and told them to remember Master's teachings. All the criminals shook hands with me to say good-bye.
The local policeman who came to bring me back witnessed this scene and said, "You are so good at getting along with them. They all respected you very much." I responded, "Falun Gong taught me Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Good is rewarded with good." After all the paperwork was done, the policeman told me to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong. I said, "Even if you shot me right now, I would not write such a statement!" The policeman relented and said, "It's ok. You don't have to write it. But remember not to talk casually about this after you get out. I really admire your character." I said, "That comes from Master's teaching."
In the company of relatives and friends, I left the prison in a dignified and upright manner.
(Clearwisdom.net) One day, I saw a middle-aged woman who worked in a restaurant taking a break outside. I went over to say hello to her.
After awhile, I told her that I practice Falun Gong. She said, "You still dare to practice?" I told her how Falun Dafa is being spread all over the world, and that Master Li Hongzhi (founder of Falun Gong) teaches people to abide by the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." I also told her how Falun Gong could cure illness and completely restore one's health.
As I was talking, another two people came out to listen. I talked a little bit louder and continued telling about the beauty of Falun Dafa and the severe torture happening to practitioners in China.
After they heard what I said, they went inside and told more people to come out and listen. In total, nineteen people came out, including cooks, waitresses and the other employees. There were also passersby who stopped and listened to what I was saying.
I told them, "The police use over sixty methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners. There are over one hundred psychiatric hospitals that still jail practitioners, injecting them with unknown drugs that damage their nervous system and memory. Some practitioners are tortured into disability, insanity, and even death."
They were shocked and said, "Why are they doing something so inhuman?" They continued, "This is violating the law and committing crimes! You should go to the court to file a lawsuit against them!" I said, "Jiang Zemin issued an order: 'Beating them [practitioners] to death counts as their committing suicide. Cremate the body directly without identifying the person. These cases will be handled without investigating or affixing responsibility.' We have been appealing for Falun Gong in accordance with the law. As a result, we are arrested and sent to prison or labor camps. Where can we go to file the lawsuit?" They were then able to understand why we have to go out to clarify the truth to the public.
By this time, there were several passersby who stood there and listened, and I continued to talk about Miss Wei Xingyan, who was raped by uniformed policeman right in front of two female prisoners. I also told them about Ms. Gao Rongrong, a practitioner from Shenyang City who was shocked with electric batons for seven hours by two policemen from Longshan Labor Camp, Shenyang City. Ms. Gao's face was seriously burned and disfigured. I told them about Mr. Chen Chengyong, a practitioner from Guangzhou city, whose body was dumped outside and abandoned after the police tortured him to death.
I then continued to talk about the local police substation and labor camp torturing Mr. Qiu Zhiyan and Ms. Zhang Cuizhen to death, and the fact that the police from Hedong Police Substation, Benxin City, beat Ms. Wang Lianying to death, a woman who was over 70 years old. I talked about Ms. Ma Yumei and Ms. Jiang Chunyan, who were tortured to the point of mental collapse.
One person asked me why they hated Falun Gong so much. I told them that their supervisors gave them a quota to "reform" a certain number of practitioners. If they failed to meet the quota, they would be punished. In order to meet the quota assigned to them, or in order to get a bonus, some of the police went all-out. They had simply lost their conscience and would torture the practitioners in order to increase their salaries or get promotions and bonuses. The head of the 610 Office Liu Jing said to practitioners in the labor camp, "While forcing the practitioners to reform, some have become disabled. You people should understand that the Party and Country demand forced reform, and the purpose is to save you." He not only did not punish the officers who committed those brutal acts, including murder, instead he asked the practitioners to understand them!
One of the listeners said, "The police committed such serious crimes. You should go to the Central Government." I said, "Yes, but Jiang himself violated the Constitution and the law and gave the orders that began the persecution. That is the source of all the evil, so where can we go?"
One of them said, "Jiang should meet with karmic retribution! Otherwise, you should use violence to solve the problem." I told him, "We would never use any means that violates the law, nor would we resort to violence. Some people accused us of being against the Party. However, we are actually just against the persecution and have opposed it peacefully and rationally. We want to safeguard our human rights and freedom of belief."
Nineteen people from the restaurant were all listening to me. Sometimes they went inside to take care of their customers. Later, those that had left came back and listened some more. This went on for over 2 hours. They told me, "Falun Gong is so great. Your Master is so great. He teaches his practitioners to be so brave and determined. You can even talk openly to us about the truth under the current situation."
Some of them asked, "Falun Gong is so good. Can we also practice?" I said, "Of course. I have books at home. If you want to know more about Falun Gong, go and read the books of Falun Gong. The books are really priceless." They said, "We'll gladly take them home and read them."
Before leaving they said, "We liked listening to what you said. When you are free, please come to talk to us again." Looking at them, I could not help feeling happy for their bright futures.
(Clearwisdom.net) As part of an anti-torture exhibition tour of Northern England, Falun Gong practitioners visited the ancient city of York on Sunday, November 21, 2004.
Practitioners quickly displayed eye-catching banners, set up a tabled for signature collection and posters that exposed the torture methods used in Chinese labor camps and prisons to try to force Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Some of the practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while others distributed leaflets introducing Falun Gong to the local people and visitors in the city centre. Practitioners collected petition signatures calling for an immediate end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China and for bringing the prime instigator of the persecution, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, to justice. They also asked the public to help rescue their relatives in China who are deprived of their basic human rights just because they practice Falun Gong.
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Residents signed practitioners' petition in support of bringing Jiang Zemin to Justice
A gentleman came to the practitioners and said that he read reports today about western nations deliberately ignoring the serious human rights violations in China due to potential financial investment opportunities. He immediately came to sign our petition when he saw the activity concerning human rights in China.
A York city councilor, who received our invitation letter informing him of the anti-torture exhibition, came especially to sign our petition
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People come to find out about Falun Gong and the ongoing persecution in China
A Chinese girl spent a long time reading our posters. A practitioner went to talk to her and gave her some information material. She said that she did not believe this torture was happening in China. The practitioner explained to her that all of the torture cases displayed on the posters were real. Because the persecution is unlawful, it is carried out behind closed doors and is hidden from the general public in China. If people in China knew the brutality of this persecution, then the persecution could not have continued. The girl said that she understood that just because she hasn't seen them, it doesn't mean that these things are not happening.
During the activity, it rained and many petition forms got wet. This made signing them difficult. But people tried very hard to put their name down clearly. Despite being able to speak little English, one practitioner joined the others to inform passers-by about the ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China and achieved very good effects. Passers-by were able to understand him and came to sign our petition. The anti-torture exhibition in York ended very successfully.
Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200412/23432.html
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Linghai City, Liaoning Province] Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Refuses to Release Ms. Sun Jiping; Her Life Is in Imminent Danger
Ms. Sun Jiping is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Linghai City, Liaoning Province. On September 21, 2004, she was unlawfully taken to the No. 5 Sub-Group of Unit 1 at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
After suffering extensive abuse, Ms. Sun's life is in imminent danger. She is very weak, suffers from cramps all over her body, and cannot walk. Her family has contacted the labor camp authorities demanding her release. Her husband has been waiting at Masanjia for three days (from November 5 - 8). However the labor camp authorities not only refuse to release Ms. Sun, they won't even provide any medical treatment for her.
2. [Shantou City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Zhang Shengli, in His Seventies, Injected with Unknown Drugs
Mr. Zhang Shengli, over 70 years old, is from Gurao Town in the Chaoyang District of Shantou City, Guangdong Province. On June 7, 2004, he was forcibly taken to a brainwashing center from his home for no reason. The brainwashing center is located at the former Shantou City Detention and Education Facility. Mr. Zhang has been held there for over six months as he refused to sign the "Three Statements" [renouncing Falun Dafa]. At present, police officers and guards are administering the injection of unknown drugs into his body.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 754;
Shantou City "610 Office": 8457149; fax, 8443127;
Shantou City Detention Center: 2517562; fax, 2517562;
Shantou City Detention and Education Facility: 2519820; fax, 2519820.
3. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Details on the Arrest of Ms. Han Li from Dalian City
On October 29, 2004, Li, Party Secretary of Jiaofang Neighborhood Administration Office, and Wang Hong of the Political and Judiciary committee of the neighborhood administration, broke into the home of Ms. Han Li's mother. They did not find Ms. Han there. Around 11:00 a.m. officers arrived at Paoya Residential Complex where she was doing some maintenance work. The officers and officials were from the Jiaofang Neighborhood Administration Office in the Ganjingzi District of Dalian City, Jiaofang Police Stations, Paoya Police Station, and the Comprehensive Management Office of Shanzhongcun Neighborhood Administration Office. The officers tried to coerce Ms. Han to quit practicing Falun Gong, which she solemnly rejected.
The officers then forcibly took her into custody without presenting any legal paperwork. The next day when Ms. Han's mother went to the police station to see her, the officers lied, saying that they knew nothing about her. After going through many channels to locate Ms. Han, her family found out that she is being held at Huanbao Hotel at No. 3 Xinghai Station in Dalian. Each practitioner is being held in a separate room and is monitored by three people. Ms. Han is now on a hunger strike in protest of the illegal detention.
Han Li is a nurse at the Petro-Chemical Hospital of Dalian Petro-Chemical Company. She was dismissed from the company in 1999 for her steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. Li Tingxu, head of the security division at the company, and Zhang Yi, the general manager made the decision to dismiss her. She was not able to go back to work or find a job in a state-owned company. Instead she was sent to various places for persecution by the local police station, including Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, Dalian Forced Labor Camp, Dalian Drug Rehabilitation Center, and Shenzhen Detention Center.
Individuals and organizations involved in the persecution of Han Li:
Country code: 86; city code: 411;
Li, Party Secretary of Jiaofang Neighborhood Administration Office: 86608018;
Wang Hong, of the political and judiciary committee of Jiaofang Neighborhood Administration Office: 86600771;
Yan Changzheng, head of Haimao Police Station: 86773981, 86672191;
Pan Renji, director of Comprehensive Management Office of Shanzhongcun Neighborhood Administration Office: 86678923;
Paoya Police Station: 86498105;
Sun, Party Secretary of Ganjingzi District Political and Judiciary Committee: 86505660.
4. [Beijing] Ms. Cheng Yufeng Arrested
Ms. Cheng Yufeng is from Daotian Village at Changyang Town in the Fangshan District of Beijing. On October 30, 2004, officers from Fangshan Police Department arrested her. She is being held at Fangshan Detention Center.
5. [Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province] Mr. Lu Gaojun from Heilongjiang Province Unlawfully Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Last week, Jiangbei People's Court in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province sentenced Mr. Lu Gaojun to three years in prison. Mr. Lu is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Heilongjiang Province who was forced to leave home to avoid arrest and persecution and stayed in Ningbo City. In the first half of 2004 he sent text messages via cellular phone to raise public awareness of Falun Dafa. He was arrested after being found out and is being unlawfully held at Ningbo Detention Center.
Main telephone line at Ningbo Detention Center: 86-574-87116955.
6. [Songyuan City, Jilin Province] Ms. Huang Jinrong Arrested by Officers from Qianjin Police Station in Ningjiang District
Ms. Huang Jinrong, 37, lives in the Ningjiang District of Songyuan City, Jilin Province. She was taken into custody by the Ningjiang District No. 1 Branch Police Department in 2001 simply because all four members of her family were practicing Falun Dafa. Sun Bingren, head of the political security section of the branch police department, and Sun's driver unlawfully extorted 24,000 yuan from her family before Ms. Huang was released.
On the afternoon of October 30, 2004, officers from Qianjin Police Station arrested Ms. Huang while she was raising public awareness of Falun Dafa. She is being held at the Songyuan City Detention Center.
7. [Xingtang County, Hebei Province] Two Falun Dafa Practitioners Remain in Custody at Police Department
Officers from the political security section of the Xingtang County Police Department arrested ten Falun Dafa practitioners after they were done distributing truth-clarifying materials and raising public awareness of Falun Dafa. Eight practitioners have been released and two remain in custody.
Telephone number of the political security section of the Xingtang County Police Department: 86-311-2981844 extension for the political security section;
Lu Guofa, head of the political security section: 86-311-2985809 (home); 86-13603319564 (cellular);
Han Shuhui, of the "610 Office": 86-311-2982883 (home); 13032671239(cellular).
8. [Yunfu City, Guangdong Province] Yunfu City Court Attempts to Sentence Five Falun Dafa Practitioners
On November 12, 2004, Yunfu City Court in Guangdong Province was planning to openly put on trial and sentence Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Xu Shuhua, Ms. Lin Jinghong, Ms. Chen Jiequn, Mai Yuefa and Ms. Li Meihua.
When the court held its initial hearing on October 13, the five practitioners defended themselves convincingly. The judge was left without an argument and could not proceed with sentencing.
9. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Ms. Wang Sumei Unlawfully Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Sumei, from Shuangtai Township in Changyi City of Weifang City, Shandong Province, had been living away from home for over three years in order to avoid arrest from her home. In November 2003, she was arrested in the Zhifu District of Yantai City, Shandong Province. Ms. Wang was held at Zhifu Detention Center for over six months. In the autumn of 2004, Wang Sumei was secretly sent to Jinan Women's Prison in Shandong Province by officials of the Changyi City Police Department in coordination with the detention center authority. She is to serve an unlawful prison term of eight years.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Wang has been held in custody numerous times, suffering all sorts of inhumane torture each time. Officers from the Changyi City Police Department and the city's "610 Office" periodically broke into and ransacked her home. There was one time when the officers broke into the wrong house and ransacked her neighbor's home instead and smashed quite a few items. In the end the police paid Ms. Wang's neighbor 800 yuan and demanded that she keep silent about the incident.
10. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Current Situation of the Family of Deceased Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wang Xianyou
Mr. Wang Xianyou died on January 7, 2001 as a result of inhumane force-feeding while he was on hunger strike at Fenjin Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. His eldest son Wang Liquan, 28, works at odd jobs in Beijing after graduating from college. His daughter Wang Liqun, 25, also works on odd jobs in Beijing. She only has an elementary school education. Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Zhou Guiyun, 55, and his mother-in-law Wu Guilan, 75, have a hard time making a living and are supported by the two children working in Beijing, and by other relatives.
11. [Shiyan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Liu Lan Inhumanely Abused at Wuhan Women's Prison
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Lan, 31, is from Shiyan City, Hubei Province. At the end of October 2002 she was arrested and sentenced to prison in Beijing. She has been held in the Wuhan Women's Prison since her transfer there in May 2004. By October 2004, she had been on hunger strikes three times in protest over the persecution. Ms. Liu is being held in isolation in a small cell, with surveillance equipment installed. The police have prevented any information about her to be passed out of the prison. When her family went to visit her recently, Liu Lan had become emaciated and was completely out of shape. Two bruised scars were seen on either side of her mouth (a result of brutal force-feeding for an extended period). She also had a difficult time walking.
12. [Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia] Mr. Zhang Chunjie and Mr. Cui Hong Again Placed under Arrest
On May 13, 2004, Manzhouli City Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Zhang Chunjie, Mr. Cuihong and Mr. Zhang Guoyun were arrested after police received reports that they were distributing truth-clarifying materials. They were taken to Manzhouli City Detention Center. Zhao Lishi, deputy head of the Manzhouli City Police Department, and Wang Qinghai, head of the State Security Unit, each extorted 10,000 to 30,000 yuan from the three practitioners before releasing them on parole.
On November 9, 2004, the police carried out a deceptive plan, telling the practitioners to attend brainwashing sessions; actually officials had decided to send them to a forced labor camp. Guo Weimin, manager of Manzhouli Water Company assisted Zhao Lishi and An Qingyuan, of the state security unit, in arresting Zhang Chunjie at work. Cui Hong was also arrested on the same day. Zhang Guoyun avoided the arrest only because he wasn't at home that day.
Individuals who participated in the persecution of these three practitioners:
Country code: 86; city code: 470;
Zhao Lishi, deputy head of the police department: 6228180 (home); 2621058 (office); 86-13500600678 (cellular);
An Qingyuan, of the state security unit: 86-13947043969 (cellular);
Guo Weimin, manager of the water company: 6227288 (home); 86-13704706322 (cellular).
13. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Song Guozhen from Haizhu District Thrown into a Brainwashing Center
Ms. Song Guozhen is retired. Early September 2004, not long after she returned from visiting her hometown in Northeast China, officials of the "610 Office" took her to a brainwashing center. She has been there for over a month. No further details are available, as officials have prevented any leakage of information.
14. [Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province] Cangxi County Police Launch an All-Out Campaign to Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners
Ms. Qiu Laifeng was arrested a few days ago while distributing truth-clarifying materials at Qiping Town in Cangxi County.
Mr. Cui Kai, formerly head of the Cangxi County Health Bureau, had been arrested and held in custody three times. On November 7, 2004, officers from Yuedong Police Station and the head of Wenchang Police Station arrested Mr. Cui. He was released the next day. But at 9:20 a.m. on November 9, Li Xiaofu, head of the county detention center, came to Mr. Cui's home at Yuedong in person and unlawfully took him to the detention center.
Li Changgeng, former head of Wenchang Food Outlet, was arrested at 9:20 a.m. on November 11, 2004.
Individuals and organizations responsible for the persecution:
Country code: 86; city code: 839;
Sun Wanchao, head of Guangyuan City "610 Office": 3605558 (home); 3262212 (office);
Qiping Town Police Station: 5752073;
Qiping Town Justice Station: 5752082;
Qiping Town Court: 5752095;
Wenchang Town Police Station: 5812054;
Wenchang Town Justice Station: 5812040;
Head of the county police department: 5222461;
Office of county government: 5222422;
Office of head of county government: 5226788.
15. [Zhijiang City, Hubei Province] Mr. Zhu Hancheng Arrested and Tortured
Mr. Zhu Hancheng is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Zhijiang City, Hubei Province. He was unlawfully taken into custody in 2000 for downloading Falun Dafa articles from the Minghui.org website. Officials from Zhijiang City "610 Office" ransacked his home numerous times. In addition, they also took possession of almost everything in the software store he owned and operated. As a result, the store had to be shut down, which brought significant losses to Mr. Zhu's family.
In July 2004 Mr. Zhu downloaded truth-clarifying contents and burned CDs for distributing in the family quarters of the No. 61699 Army based in Zhijiang City. Qian Rong of the 61699 Defense Factory alerted the authorities and Mr. Zhu was arrested and taken to Group 1 of Unit 3 of Shayang Forced Labor Camp in Qilihu, Zhongxiang City.
Officers from the Zhijiang City Police Department took possession of computers, CD burners and other personal property at Mr. Zhu's home. His wife, who has been dismissed from her job, barely has enough for her and their kindergarten-aged child to live on.
16. [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wen Jizhong Suffering Inhumane Treatment at Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing
Mr. Wen Jizhong, 52, is from Ligezhuang Village in Chengguan Town, Miyun County. He has a son and a daughter, both young and still living at home.
In the second half of 2003, leaders of Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp isolated practitioners who had refused to be transformed for long periods of time throughout the labor camp. So-called "hardcore classes" were formed. Mr. Wen Jizhong was sent to a "hardcore class" in Unit No. 1 at Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. Later he was held in isolation in an intensive training unit for over eight months. After the dissolution of the intensive training unit, he was transferred into the same unit (formerly a "hardcore class") that practitioner Bai Shaohua was in. Mr. Wen has remained firm in his belief despite inhumane torture and coercive brainwashing tactics.
17. [Xiamen City, Fujian Province] Siming District Court Unlawfully Put Falun Dafa Practitioners on Trial
In early May 2004, six Falun Dafa practitioners, including Mr. Xu Guoping, were arrested. From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. the six practitioners were unlawfully put on trial at Siming District Court in Xiamen City. When local practitioners heard about this, they arrived at the court voluntarily. Several practitioners went into the courtroom and observed the proceedings.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Yang Tai'an, of Kaiyuan Political Security Section: 86-591-5302972 (office); 86-13806022533 (cellular).
18. [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yu Yali, Liu Xiangyun and Ms. Chu Zhongmei Unlawfully Sentenced to Prison
On April 22, 2004 Jinan police unlawfully arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Yu Yali, Liu Xiangyun, Ms Chu Zhongmei and Su Shuzheng. According to reliable sources, the Tianqiao District Court in Jinan City has held trials of the practitioners and sentenced Yu Yali, Liu Xiangyun and Chu Zhongmei to ten years in prison each. The decision has been filed with the provincial and municipal courts for approval. The central government has been notified as well. It has been reported that the sentencing was to be announced next week. Information on the sentencing of Su Shuzheng is not yet clear.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Courtroom for Criminal Cases at Tianqiao District Court: 86-531-5964850;
Judge and assistant judge: 86-531-5964876.
19. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Officials at No. 3 Steel-Smelting Factory of Wuhan Steel Company Take Falun Dafa Practitioner to Brainwashing Center
Officials at the No. 3 Steel-Smelting Factory of Wuhan Steel Company helped the Hubei Province "610 Office" to forcibly take Ms. Liu Xiaolan, an employee of the factory, to Tangxunhu Brainwashing Center. She has been held there for over a month.
Telephone number of the factory's Party Committee: 86-27-86894635.
20. [Ningxia Autonomous Region] Reports on Several Falun Dafa Practitioners under Persecution
Ningxia Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ma Zhiwu has been twice sentenced to forced labor since the persecution began on July 20, 1999. He has recently been suffering various kinds of inhumane torture administered by uniformed guards at Baituzigang Forced Labor Camp in Ningxia for refusing to give up his belief in "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance." Mr. Ma has been tortured with shocks from electric batons, been handcuffed and hung up, hung up by his feet, deprived of sleep for an extended period, and forced to engage in intensive labor. Labor camp authorities even instigated inmates to brutally beat him, and he suffered broken ribs as a result. Mr. Ma is on a hunger strike to protest his illegal detention; his life is in imminent danger due to the inhumane abuse he is suffering at the labor camp.
Ms. Mo Ping, 27, is a taxi driver in Shizuishan City, Ningxia. At the end of June 2004, half a dozen plainclothes police officers arrested her while she was on her shift driving. Ms. Mo was unlawfully sentenced to three and a half years in prison on September 10.
In July, three Falun Dafa practitioners, Ms. Zheng Fengying, around 60 years old, her husband, and her niece, all from Wuzhong, Ningxia, were arrested.
21. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Ye Cuilan of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Arrested
Ms. Ye Cuilan is a retired employee of the News Media Institute at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Police arrested her on October 24, 2004. She is being held at Tangxunhu Brainwashing Center in Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 27;
Security Division of Huazhong University of Science and Technology: 87543364, 87543664, 87543864;
Tangxunhu Brainwashing Center: 87924870.
22. [Siping City, Jilin Province] Police Officers at 110 Emergency Number Arrest Ms. Wei Guiqin
Ms. Wei Guiqin is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Siping City, Jilin Province. On October 29, 2004, informants alerted the police while she was distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. The 110 emergency response police arrested her and took her to the Beimen Street Police Station in the Tiedong District of Siping City. Wang Xueyin, director of the police station, along with another officer, drove to Ms. Wei's home to ransack the place.
Ms. Wei is currently being held at the Siping City Detention Center.
Individuals and organizations that have participated in the persecution:
Yin Liye, head of Beimen Street Police Station in Tiedong District, Siping City, with badge number 301130: 86-434-2206168;
Wang Xueyin, director of Beimen Street Police Station, with badge number 302171;
Beimen Street Police Station: 86-434-3515461.
23. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Most Recent Report on Ms. Chen Xiaojuan and Ms. Wu Jingjun
Ms. Wu Jingjun graduated from Jiangxi Finance and Economics University and was the deputy head of the accounting section at Import and Export Trade Company of Lightweight Industrial Products, a subsidiary of Jiangxi Province Foreign Trade Bureau. She once served three years of forced labor for practicing Falun Dafa. She lives with her husband and their 4-year-old son.
Ms. Chen Xiaojuan, 40, a graduate of Jiangxi Finance and Economics University, was a clerk at Import and Export Trade Company of Lightweight Industrial Products. She was also sentenced to three years of forced labor for practicing Falun Dafa. She was released at the end of her term only because she stayed on a hunger strike in protest of her illegal detention.
The two practitioners have been dismissed from their jobs at Import and Export Trade Company. On September 20, they were arrested by 110 emergency response police while distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials in Guixi City, Jiangxi Province. They were initially held at the Guixi Political Security Unit and later transferred to the Legal Section of the city's police department.
More information about Ms. Chen Xiaojuan is as follows:
Born on May 24, 1964, Ms. Chen Xiaojuan is from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. Her former employer is the Import and Export Trade Company of Lightweight Industrial Products, a subsidiary of Jiangxi Province Foreign Trade Bureau. She started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. She was sent to Jiangxi Province Psychiatric Hospital by the provincial "610 Office" for further persecution, and held there from May 2000 to July 2000.
In 2000, Ms. Chen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa a second time. She was arrested and held at Nanchang City No. 2 Detention Center. During her hunger strike there, she was force-fed high-density salt water made from 200 grams (about half a pound) of salt, for escalated torture. In January 2001, Ms. Chen was unlawfully sentenced to three years in prison for distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials.
On September 20, 2004, she was arrested again by the Guixi City "610 Office" while distributing truth-clarifying materials.
24. [Chongqing] Ms. Li Yinying Arrested by State Security Police
At 2:00 p.m. on November 10, 2004, nine state security officers broke into Ms. Li Yinying's home in the Jiangbei District of Chongqing City and arrested her. Ms. Li's current whereabouts are unknown.
Relevant telephone number: 86-13330207655.
25. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Mr. Zhao Xishun, Ms. Ma Li and Others Unlawfully Sentenced to Forced Labor
Since October 21, 2004, the Dehui City Police Department, the Political Security Committee and local "610 Offices" in Dehui City, Jilin Province have carried out planned arrests of Falun Gong practitioners. It has been reported that about 20 people have been arrested.
Mr. Li Decheng was taken to the No. 1 Division of the Changchun Police Department. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Mr. Zhao Xishun was sent to Liaoyuan Forced Labor Camp where he is serving an unlawful forced labor term.
Ms. Ma Li and others were sent to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp.
Mr. Wang Zongbin and Ms. Zhao Jinmin were sent to Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai. Ms. Zhao was not admitted after failing to pass a physical exam. She remains in custody with other Falun Dafa practitioners at detention facilities in Dehui City, Jilin Province.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 431;
Zhou Hongwu, Party Secretary of Dehui City Political and Judiciary Committee: 7237559 (office); 7219988 (home); (cellular) 86-13943121016 or 86-13904397518;
Guo Guangtian, head of Dehui City Police Department: 7222192 (office); 7275949(home); 86-13364633001 (cellular);
Li Yuke, director of Dehui City "610 Office": 7234600 (office); 86-13943021087 (cellular);
Ding Richao, head of Dehui City Detention Center: 7273438 (office); 8225551 (cellular);
Li Yazhou, physician at the detention center: 86-431-8225552 (cellular);
Wu Dezeng, head of Dehui City Custody Center: 7272546 (office); 7227791 (home); 86-13604397629 (cellular).
26. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Ms. Huang Ronghua Arrested by Police in the Xishan District
Ms. Huang Ronghua, 64, was arrested in the Xishan District of Kunming City at 3:00 p.m. on November 5, 2004. On November 11, police ransacked her home.
27. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Ms. Wang Shuzhen Arrested
Ms. Wang Shuzhen lives at No. 29 East Jiangwan Road in the Changyi District of Jilin City. Before being unlawfully fired for practicing Falun Gong on November 11 2000, she had been a uniformed guard at Jilin Provincial Prison.
In October 2000, Ms. Wang was sentenced to two years of forced labor as she had appealed for Falun Gong. According to internal sources at the police department, Ms. Wang wrote a letter to Wang Yunkun, Party Secretary of Jilin Province, on June 22, 2004, asking for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested by the State Security Group of the Jilin City Police Department and handed over to the Minzhu Police Station in the Changyi District of Jilin Province. Ms. Wang is being held at Jilin City No. 3 Detention Center to be sent to a forced labor camp.
28. [Hunan Province] Six Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested in Beijing and Sent Back to Their Hometown in Hunan Province
On October 11, 2004, six female Falun Dafa practitioners from Hunan Province bought tickets to tour Tiananmen Square. They are Zou Meiying, Deng Shunhua, Tan Zhongtian, He Qionghui, Tan Lurong and Guan Pingtian. Female police officers conducted body searches on the practitioners and then arrested them as they refused to follow the officers in cursing Falun Dafa.
29. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] 70-Year-Old Mr. Fan Yongde from Haizhu District Again Placed under Arrest
Mr. Fan Yongde, 70 years old, is a retired government employee from the Guangzhou City Bureau of Water Channels. He was arrested by Guangzhou police in 2001 for practicing Falun Gong and unlawfully sentenced to two years of forced labor.
Around 10:00 a.m. on November 11, 2004, Mr. Fan was again arrested
30. [Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province] Ms. Sun Yingchun from Lianshui County Sent to Dafeng Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province
The September 18th report on the Minghui.org website announcing that Ms. Sun Yingchun, a middle school physics teacher in Lianshui County, Huaiyin City, Jiangsu Province, was unlawfully sentenced to forced labor has caught the attention of people upholding justice both in China and overseas. Local officials were intimated and they did not dare to send Ms. Sun to the labor camp for a while. Recently, they finally decided to forcibly take her to Dafeng Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province.
Ms. Sun Yingchun was arrested under the suspicion that she had exposed the severe persecution against Mr. Chen Guanghui to media outside of China. Mr. Chen was formerly a department manager and deputy chief of the computers section at the Lianyungang Branch of China People's Construction Bank. He was unlawfully detained on September 10, 2001 and sentenced to eight years in prison on September 12, 2002. Mr. Chen was incarcerated in Suzhou Prison, where he remained unconscious due to inhumane torture. His life was in imminent danger.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 517;
Lianshui County Police Department: 2321027;
Head of Lianshui County Police Department: 2321325;
Liancheng Police Station: 2321035;
Lianshui County People's Government: 2321089.
31. [Songyuan City, Jilin Province] Police Arrest Former Head of Guo County, Ms. Li Guoqin, and Other Falun Dafa Practitioners
Ms. Li Guoqin is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Changlong Township in Qianguo County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. Around 8:00 a.m. on November 8, 2004, she and another practitioner were followed by Li Guoyou, an officer from the Changlong Township Police Station, on their way to Falun Dafa practitioner Shen Weiliang's home at Daxing Village. The police arrested the two practitioners.
Around 1:30 p.m. the same afternoon, the police also placed Shen Weiliang under arrest. Shen managed to escape with righteous thoughts in mind while being handcuffed. The other two Falun Dafa practitioners, both of them women, are being held at Qianguo County Detention Center.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Changlong Township Police Station in Qianguo County: 86-438-2570030;
Li Guoyou, officer: 86-438-2570164 (home).
32. [Linyi County, Shanxi Province] Ms. Qi Hongjuan Detained and Sentenced to Forced Labor
Ms. Qi Hongjuan, over 30 years old, is from Linyi County, Shanxi Province. She has been detained and fined by local police numerous times for practicing Falun Gong. Her home has also been ransacked periodically. Before the October 1, 2003 National Day, Ma Shunsheng and other officers from the political security group of the county police department jumped over the wall around her home and dragged Ms. Qi to a brainwashing unit. Over thirty other practitioners from the same county were also held at the brainwashing facility with her. In June 2004, Ms. Qi was again unlawfully detained until the October 1 National Day and was sentenced to forced labor afterwards.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Li Zhouquan, director of Linyi County "610 Office": 86-13834702885 (cellular); 86-359-4037014 (office).
33. [Yishui County, Shandong Province] Ms. He Maofen from Gaoqiao Town Arrested
Ms. He Maofen, 57, lives at Gaoqiao Town in Yishui County, Shandong Province. She was arrested on November 10, 2004 for raising public awareness of Falun Dafa. Her home was also ransacked.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 539;
Sun Zuojun, Party Secretary of Gaoqiao Town:2811109 (office); 2320966 (home); 86-13905492966 (cellular);
Ji Xingguo, head of Gaoqiao Town government: 2811106 (office); 2252578 (home); 86-13969902299 (cellular);
Liu Liyi, Party Secretary of Gaoqiao Town in charge of persecution: 2811108 (office); 2229992 (home); 86-13562926504 (cellular).
34. [Shandong Province] Ms. Jiang Xugui from Dongying City Unlawfully Sentenced to Forced Labor
Ms. Jiang Xugui, 49, has been laid off from Guangrao Distribution Outlet in Guangrao County, Shandong Province. She used to suffer numerous illnesses, which all disappeared after she started practicing Falun Gong.
On October 10, 2004, Ms. Jiang was arrested by officers from the Guangrao County Police Department while raising public awareness of the persecution against Falun Gong in Xiying Township in Guangrao County. The "610 Office" of the Guangrao County Police Department tried to extort cash from her family and was rejected. Officials of the "610 Office" sent Ms. Jiang to the Dongying City Detention Center for unlawful custody for over a month before demanding cash fines from her family. The officials also dispatched people to her home to investigate the family's financial situation. After verifying that her family indeed could not come up with such fines, the authorities sent Ms. Jiang Xugui to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City for three years of forced labor in early November.
Liu Xinsheng, leader of Guangrao County "610 Office": 86-546-6444135.
35. [Baotou City, Inner Mongolia] Mr. Ren Dechen and His Entire Family Arrested by Baotou City Police
Late in the evening of September 20, police officers in the Jiuyuan District of Baotou City broke into Mr. Ren Dechen's home without presenting any legal identification or paperwork. The officers who took part in the raid were Wei, head of the police department, Officer Sun Lijun from the police department, and Zhang Jiahao and Lu (female) from the Procuratorate. They ransacked Mr. Ren's home and then unlawfully went to his eldest daughter's home for search and arrest. Two men and three women at Mr. Ren's home have all been placed under arrest.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Qin Pusheng, director of the "610 Office": 86-472-4353236 (home); 86-13947734777 (cellular);
Li Zhibin, head of Donghe District Branch Police Department in Baotou City: 86-472-3156338 (home); 86-13039558833 (cellular).
36. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Fang Yongde Unlawfully Held in Custody
On the morning of November 11, Mr. Fan Yongde from Guangzhou City was raising public awareness of Falun Dafa near Chenjiaci. Police unlawfully detained him after receiving a report from informants.
37. [Chongqing] Police Arrest Ren Xiaoling and Other Practitioners
On November 6, 2004, Ms. Ren Xiaoling and Ms. Chen Changlan from Chongqing City went to Caijia Town in Jiangjin City to distribute Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials to the public. Officers from the Jiangjin City State Security Unit arrested them. They are being held at Jiangjin City Detention Center. It has been reported that another male practitioner was also arrested at the same time.
38. [Beijing] Ms. Ji Guixia from Pinggu District Arrested by Police
Ms. Ji Guixia from the Pinggu District of Beijing was arrested by the police on November 2.
(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)
News from outside China
On the morning of November 6, 2004, about 50 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese consulate in Melbourne, Australia and called for bringing Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang, the main perpetrators responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong, to justice. This persecution has lasted for five years and is still ongoing.
Batlow, a small country town in Australia's Snowy Mountains, is famous for its lovely mountain scenery and crisp, juicy apples. On October 23, it hosted its first Apple Blossom Festival in many years. A Falun Dafa/Petals of Peace display was organized and practitioners from Canberra and Goulburn traveled there for the day. Many beautiful origami lotus flowers were distributed with a small Falun Dafa flyer folded and tucked into each one. People were very glad to receive this gift. When applying for a stall, the practitioners gave the planning committee some truth-clarification materials, which were warmly received.
Persecution Facts
1. Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Qingyang City, Gansu Province
Few practitioners in Qingyang City have been spared from having their homes ransacked and being illegally fined. Beatings and torture are also commonplace. Nearly 50 practitioners were sentenced to forced labor. Practitioners Lu Yinxia, Wang Yuxia and Shi Xiqin were sentenced to forced labor for the second time. Practitioners who were unlawfully sentenced to prison include Zhang Rongjuan, who received a 17-year term; Liu Zhirong, 15 years; Xu Feng, 14 ½ years; Guan Qiang, 11 years; Ma Yuling, 6 years; Jiao Lili, 5 years; Zhang Xiumei, 4 years; Li Ruihua, 3 years; Wang Zhihua, 1 ½ years; Gao Lijin, 8 ½ years; Sun Lifang, 4 years; Zhang Jiyu, 2 years, and Jin Yanping, 3 years (to be served outside of prison).
2. Crimes committed by Li Dong, head of Yishui County's 610 Office and Li Jianping, head of Yishui County's National Security Bureau in Shandong Province:
Li Dong, head of the Yishui County 610 Office, is the brother of Li Jianping, Yishui County's National Security Bureau head. Since Li Jianping took office last year, seven Falun Gong practitioners in Yishui County were sent to forced labor camps and another seven practitioners were detained. Since 1999, more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners in Yishui County have been sent to forced labor camps. Practitioners Wang Yongdong and Gao Mei died from torture, and more practitioners were arrested, detained, tortured, and fired from their jobs. The 610 Office and the National Security Bureau are the two main governmental agencies in charge of the persecution, and Li Dong and Li Jianping are the ones most responsible for the persecution in Yishui County.
3. Persecution at the Baoding Prison, Hebei Province
Between July and September 2002, Wang Yuhai, instructor at Division 3 at the Baoding Prison, ordered inmate Yan Jun, imprisoned for murder and a former employee from the Shengli Oil Field in Qingdao City, to beat and torture Falun Gong practitioner Ke Xingguo from Beijing. He tied Ke Xingguo up and inserted a feeding tube into his stomach through his nose and left it there for a long time. He also did not allow Ke Xingguo to sleep.
Between September and October 2003, guard Wang Yuhai handcuffed and shackled practitioner Zhang Lingjiang from Shijiazhuang City. He detained practitioner Mr. Zhang Lingjiang in a solitary confinement cell and did not allow him to sleep. Later, he forced Zhang Lingjiang to sit on a two-inch-wide stool for eight days.
4. Persecution at the No.1 Guangzhou City Forced Labor Camp
Li Guoming, an instructor at Division 2 of the No.1 Forced Labor Camp in Guangzhou City, did not allow practitioners to sleep and ordered the inmates to torture the practitioners. He often attacked and slandered Falun Gong and the practitioners at group gatherings and at morning exercises. He deceived the inmates with lies and encouraged them to torture Falun Gong practitioners. His police number is 4416044. The first two digits, 44, stand for Guangdong Province; 16 stands for the No.1 Forced Labor Camp, and 044 is his number. Other guards, Zhou Jianhong, He Guichao, Bi Dejun, Hong Yuanpeng, Chen Fumin, Lu Weimin and Wu Xinhe, have also persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
1. Exposing the Persecution to a Meeting of a Hundred People--Ren Baokun Arrested
On October 29, 2004, the Zhuozhou City government of Hebei Province held a meeting to encourage everyone to "get involved in the spirit of the16th Congress. A woman from the Party School was giving a speech slandering Falun Dafa and Master Li. Practitioner Mr. Ren Baokun, who is the Diaowo Township National Guard coordinator, stood up and proclaimed the truth to those listening to the propaganda. His words silenced the meeting for twenty minutes, until the Diaowo Township Party Secretary pushed Mr. Ren out of the room. At the same time, more than one hundred people in the meeting applauded to support Mr. Ren. Later the Diaowo Township Party Secretary sent Ren Baokun to the detention center. The leader of the "610 Office" and police ransacked his home. We call on all practitioners to strengthen their righteous thoughts and assist in the rescue of Ren Baokun, and obtain his release as soon as possible. Other persons directly responsible for persecuting Ren Baokun are Yang Yugang from the police station, 86-312-3853255, and Diaowo Township Vice Party Secretary Wang Chao, 86-1383-2278081 (cell).
2. Practitioner Ms. Yang Wanxian from Shilin County, Yunnan Province, Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Ms. Yang Wanxian is a forty-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shilin County, Yunnan Province. The county "610 Office" police and the county Agricultural Vocational School closely monitored her after her release from a labor camp in August 2003. On September 1, when Ms. Yang shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good" at the Agricultural Vocational School assembly, the State Security police arrested her and sentenced her to three years in prison. She is now in the Yunnan Provincial Second Prison. Because she was firm in her cultivation, police and prisoners beat her repeatedly. She was injected with brain damaging drugs and is now incoherent and very slow to respond. Her brother, sister and brother-in-law all died under unusual circumstances since she has been in the labor camp. Her husband, under great pressure from the local officials, divorced her. Now her mother, who is in her seventies, lives at home alone.
3. Practitioner Mr. Tang Zhanchen from the Oil & Gas Shipping Company of the Shengli Oil Field Arrested
On the morning of November 11, 2004, personnel from Shengli Oil Field "610 Office," the Binhai Police Station, and the Security Guards of the Oil & Gas Shipping Company suddenly stormed in on practitioner Mr. Tang Zhanchen's home, arrested him, and took him to the Oil Field Pumping Company Hotel. They then sent him to a brainwashing session held in the Material Supply Office. There were seven practitioners already detained there. Another practitioner, who works at the same company with Mr. Tang, was arrested several days earlier and is detained in another brainwashing session held in the Oil & Gas Shipping Company. The arrest of Mr. Tang is another of many recent arrests at the Shengli Oil Field. The Field Administration and "610 Office" are the responsible parties. They held long-term brainwashing sessions and made many practitioners pay fees for their own persecution. Some practitioners were forcibly injected with unknown drugs, sent to mental hospitals, and force-fed. Others were sentenced and transferred to a labor camp directly from the brainwashing sessions. We warn these lawless officials to stop doing any more harm and persecuting innocent people!
4. Practitioner Zhang Yanping Is Being Tortured
Ms. Zhang Yanping, a Falun Dafa practitioner born in 1965, is an employee of the Retired Officials Bureau in Saertu District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. She went to Beijing with her husband to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa on June 1, 2001, and was arrested and held at the Xihongmen Police Substation in the Daxing District of Beijing. Director Li Changyou interrogated her for three hours and used an electric baton to shock her eyelids, mouth, and other parts of her body. She was sent to the Saertu District Detention Center in Daqing City. In order to protest their extended detention, she went on hunger strike for more than twenty days. She was force-fed everyday by six or seven people who physically restrained her. Her weight went from 143 to 88 pounds, and she was released unconditionally. During her detention, police ransacked their home and confiscated Falun Dafa books and a computer worth 15,000 yuan. Her family was fined 12,000 yuan, as a "traveling to Beijing" fee. After she was released, her employer would not assign her work for almost six months, because they feared retribution from the local authorities. The Saertu District Government punished her by reducing her pay to 200 yuan per month for basic living expenses for half a year. If she continued voicing her support for Falun Gong, she would be terminated from her employment.