Summary of Other Articles and News - February 27, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Persecution Facts

Bolou Labor Camp is located in the southeast part of Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. The persecutors there cruelly torture Dafa practitioners with a method called "Tying the Ropes" [The police/guards tie the practitioner up with a thin rope, circle the rope around his neck, and tie his hands behind his back. Then they use all the force they can muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner, and makes it more and more difficult for him to breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of his bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a practitioner's arm]. They keep pushing the practitioners' hands and tightening the rope until the rope cuts into the practitioners' flesh. Practitioner Wei Kunfeng's arms and hands became nearly permanently disabled from this torture. The persecutors also often kick and beat Dafa practitioners; they force practitioners to walk the floor on all fours (their hands and feet). They provide the detainees only one meal and allow only two hours of sleep every day. They also force the practitioners to do slave labor.

Atrocities committed against Dafa practitioners at District Seven of the Heilongjiang Province Female Prison: The persecutors maliciously beat, force-feed, and torture Dafa practitioners. They cuff the practitioners' hands behind their backs. Then they throw them into the ice-cold washroom, where they are not allowed to sleep at night. Several practitioners lost consciousness as a result. They also dragged the practitioners into a vegetable cellar, where they tortured them for seven days. In late November, the persecutors made the practitioners stand still in a windy location. Practitioner Zheng Hongli fainted on the third day; 65-year-old practitioner Ms. Lu Shuqin had blood in her mouth and stool after she was savagely beaten. Practitioner Wang Shuxia was found to have abnormal blood pressure and heart rate after being tortured, and is currently in a coma.

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Officers from the Ren County Police Department abducted Dafa practitioner Wen Baozhi from Hetou Village, Zhanggu Township, Ren County, Hebei Province on February 4, 2004. They sent her to Xingtai the next day. Ms. Wen Baozhi has been holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution for the past ten days or longer. The upper half of her face is black and blue, most likely as a result of torture. The guards force-fed Wen

Baozhi and injured her in the process so severely that she lost her ability to speak.

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Police officers in Shanghai send healthy practitioners to mental hospitals. They sent three Dafa practitioners, Yang Xueqin, Ma Xinxing, and Cao Guoxin, who did Dafa exercises at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to a mental hospital after August 1999. They forced the practitioners to take medication that is harmful to the central nervous system. The Party Committee and Security Division of the university, the deputy secretary of the department under which Cao Guoxin studies, as well as people from the Xuhui District Police Department are responsible for the persecution.

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Dafa practitioner Qu Shumei, in Dalian City and her practitioner husband Zhu Changbin were a happy couple. After Jiang's group began persecuting Dafa, Ms. Qu Shumei was twice detained at the Dalian Labor Camp, where she was savagely tortured. The guards kicked her private areas with army boots, and beat her entire body with wooden planks. They pinched her breasts and rubbed her private parts with a knotted rope. They also smeared pepper powder into her eyes and into her bleeding vagina. They also crammed a floor mop into her mouth and vagina.

Her husband Zhu Changbin was sentenced to 12 years in prison and is now held at the Dabei Prison in Shenyang City.

Qu Shumei has left home to avoid further persecution.

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Ms. Chen Jingru, a Dafa practitioner and an accountant at Yitong County's Grain Administration in Jilin Province, went to Beijing to appeal on July 20, 1999 and was detained by police. She was released after holding a hunger strike for more than 30 days. After she returned to Yitong County, the local police arrested her again and sent her to the county detention center. Later, in November 1999, they sent her to the Heizuizi Labor Camp in Jilin Province. Because she persisted in her belief, she was cruelly beaten many times and shocked with electric batons. Her sentence was extended by one year and her husband was forced to divorce her due to intense pressure from the authorities. Two months after she was released, in October 2001, she was arrested for the second time and sent to the same labor camp, where she was held until February 4, 2003. Then police arrested her at home on December 4, 2003 and sent her to a detention center, where she held a hunger strike. February 24, 2004 would have been the 83rd day. The guards force-fed her and she is in critical condition right now.

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Dafa practitioners Sun Changde and his wife from Changchun City were persecuted after July 20, 1999. Sun Changde was abducted for the second time on January 14, 2001 [Chinese Lunar Calendar]. One year later he was sentenced to ten years at Jilin Prison. Because of the brutal torture he underwent, his weight dropped from 190 lbs. to about 120 lbs. He cannot take care of himself and has been diagnosed with severe anemia, an abnormal heart rate, and tuberculosis. He also has blurred vision and cannot walk. His family asked to have him released on medical parole, but Zhang, an instructor at Jilin Prison said, "Only two types of situations qualify for medical parole. One is if the family has money, which would automatically qualify for parole, even if the detainee is not ill. The second situation is if the detainee will die a few days after he or she is released." Because the authorities didn't consider Sun Changde to be in one of the two situations, Sun Changde is still being incarcerated.

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Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Hong, in her 30s, from Nuerhe Weaving Factory in Jinzhou City, traveled to Beijing to validate Dafa on January 8, 2000. Beijing police abducted her, sent her back, and detained her in the No. 1 Detention Center in Jinzhou City. Later she was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for three years of forced labor. She was once left outside in the freezing cold, detained in a solitary confinement, and tied up with ropes. Her original sentence expired on January 8, 2004, but the labor camp authorities refused to release her.

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Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Wenjuan, 37, is an employee of the Nuerhe Textiles Factory in Jinzhou City. She was abducted by police officers from Jinxing Police Department in the Lianshan District, Huludao City on January 28, 2000 for putting up Dafa banners. She was then sent to the No. 2 Detention Center in Jinzhou City, where she held a hunger strike for 15 days. They released her because she became extremely weak. Soon after returning home, the police arrested her and sent her to the Masanjia Labor Camp for three years of forced labor. She was detained in solitary confinement for more than four months. Her original sentence expired on January 28, 2004 but it was extended by two months. Right now, her face and legs are extremely swollen.

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Perpetrators from Guangzhou City's "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] arrested seven Dafa practitioners in the evening of February 23, 2004. Among these practitioners are Li Qiong, Xie Yan, Tang Yiwen, and Shi Bing. Tang Yiwen was sent to the Chatou Brainwashing Class in the Baiyun District of Guangzhou City. At the brainwashing class, some police officers sexually assaulted female Dafa practitioners and burned practitioners with cigarettes. Several practitioners have been held there for two years. The whereabouts of the other six practitioners who were arrested along with Tang Yiwen are unknown.

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Persecution cases in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province: Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Juntang was abducted from work in March or April 2001. He escaped the next day with the power of his righteous thoughts. Mr. Liu was arrested again in July or August of the same year. It was heard that he has been sent to the Wangcun Labor Camp in Zibo City.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Rubing, 26, is a student at Liaocheng's Television University. He was forced to drop out of school and leave home to avoid persecution, but was arrested in July or August of 2001.

Practitioner Zhou Huijuan was reported when mailing truth clarification materials to the teachers and students of the University, and was forced to leave home to avoid persecution.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Peng, 25, is a student at Liaocheng Normal University. She was unlawfully detained numerous times and injected with a drug that damages the central nervous system. She was arrested in November 2002 when she tried to rent a room in Jinan City. As a result she was sent back to Liaocheng City and held in detention for more than one year. Right now she is being kept under house arrest.

Practitioner Ning Xiuzhen was abducted and sent to a brainwashing class in March 2003, but was later released because she was found to have serious health problems. Right now she is being kept under house arrest.

Dafa practitioner Wang Jingcui from Daqing City was abducted from home on May 30, 2002 because she clarified the truth about Dafa. She was detained at Daqing City's Detention Center for eight months. Wang Jingcui held a hunger strike to protest the detention and her weight dropped to around 66 lbs. She was sentenced to prison and sent to Harbin's Female Prison.

Wang Liji, a police officer from the Donghu Division, Nanchang City's Special Police Department, suffered persecution in the past five years for practicing Falun Gong. He passed away on February 9, 2004 at the age of 34.