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Latest News from China - May 4, 2004

May 16, 2004 |  

(Clearwisdom.net)

1. [Yichang City, Hubei Province] Sixty-two-year-old Woman Arrested for Her Belief

Ms. Zheng Jumei, 62, is from Team Two of Luojiaping, Yaodian Township, Yichang City. Since she began practicing Falun Dafa, her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance has become unshakable, and she has been arrested many times for refusing to give up her belief. After each arrest, the Yidu District "610 Office" (1) clerks and the detention center police have tortured her to the brink of death before releasing her.

On April 27, 2004, Zheng Jumei was visiting her sister in Xiantao City. At around 2 o'clock the next morning, she was abducted again.

2. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] At Least Seventy-Six Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested Within Four Months

Although records are incomplete, it is known that within the first four months of 2004, at least seventy-six Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the greater Huludao area.

Forty-five of the arrested practitioners are from Huludao City, five of which are from areas immediately surrounding the city. Eighteen are from Xingcheng City, and thirteen from Suizhong County.

Intense persecution has driven many practitioners to become homeless and destitute. These poor, homeless Huludao practitioners were arrested primarily to negatively impact the operation of truth-clarifying materials sites. In the list that follows, the date and alleged reason for the arrests are recorded:

Five from the area surrounding Huludao:
Five practitioners were arrested on February 14, 2004 for clarifying the truth. Three of them were released following their hunger strike. The other two are still held in custody, one in the Huagong District of Huludao City and the other in Xingcheng City.

Forty from Huludao City:

Yao Yanhui, homeless and destitute, was arrested January 19, 2004 and detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Tao Shan, arrested February 12, 2004, is detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp after being tracked down while homeless.

Yang Shuzhen from General Petroleum Plant, arrested March 2, 2004, is detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Four practitioners from Pangyingdi Village were arrested on March 3, 2004 for clarifying the truth at Gangyaoling Town. Two of them have been released. A third is detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp while the fourth, Zhou Mingheng, is serving a two-year term at Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Sun Wenlan, Director of Qiupigou Primary School in Nanpiao District, was reported to the police for clarifying the truth and was arrested on March 8, 2004.

Zhuang Shiyu, Ren Bao, Ren Yiqiu, Chi Fengzhen, Hu Ba (nickname), Lao Si (nickname) and Zhang Haimin were arrested March 9, 2004 and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Cheng Guoxue, Cheng Dadong and Ren Yuan, homeless and destitute, were arrested March 15, 2004 and are detained at Jinzhou No. 2 Detention House.

Chen Zhiguo and Gao Yanjing were arrested March 22, 2004. Chen Zhiguo is detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp, while Gao Yanjing is detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Zhang Shiwen and spouse, from New District, were arrested March 31, 2004 and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Mu Qin and Wang Zhuo, homeless and destitute, were arrested March 31, 2004, and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Fan Dezhen, homeless and destitute, was arrested March 31, 2004 and detained at Huludao Detention Center. He went on a hunger strike and was sent to have a physical examination. Mr. He was diagnosed with hepatitis, so he was released.

Hu Baochun, homeless and destitute, was arrested April 1, 2004 and detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Tian Dayong, from Xinqu, arrested on the morning of April 1, 2004, is detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Pei Guangbin and Yang Yuhong, homeless and destitute, were arrested April 2, 2004 and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Yang Hong and her daughter, homeless and destitute, were arrested early in the morning on April 2, 2004 and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Wang Ruiqi, homeless and destitute, was arrested April 2, 2004 and is detained in Beining, Jinzhou City.

Huang Lizhong, homeless and destitute, was arrested April 2, 2004 and is detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Three practitioners from the Petroleum Plant No. 5 Residential Area , homeless and destitute, were arrested around April 2, 2004 and are detained at Huludao Detention Center.

Li Mingyan, homeless and destitute, was arrested April 21, 2004 and is detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and is currently on a hunger strike.

Gong Changlan and her husband, whose last name is Wu, homeless and destitute, were arrested April 27, 2004.

Du Jincai, homeless and destitute, was arrested April 27, 2004 and is detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp. (See news item 3, below, for details about Du Jincai.)

Eighteen from Xingcheng City:

Li Chunsheng
Miao Jun arrested February 18, 2004.

Seven practitioners from Fengtun Village, in Yuewang Township, arrested February 25, 2004, were taken to a brainwashing class.

Ren Youpeng was arrested February 29, 2004 for clarifying the truth.

Wang Guihua was arrested April 8, 2004.

Three practitioners including Yang Erqin, all from Zhoujia Village, in Sijia Township were arrested April 8, 2004.

Four practitioners from Gucheng were arrested April 8, 2004.

Thirteen from Suizhong County:

Zhang Jihong, arrested January 2, 2004 for clarifying the truth, is detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Huang Shujian, arrested at 11:00 p.m. on February 11, 2004 for clarifying the truth, is detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Xiao Fengzhi, arrested at midnight on February 13, 2004 for clarifying the truth, is detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Ma Suyuan, arrested at midnight on February 13, 2004 for clarifying the truth, was detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and later released after going on a hunger strike.

Liang Jianlin, reported for clarifying the truth and arrested on February 21, 2004, is detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Zhang Xiaomin, arrested March 4, 2004, is detained at a forced labor camp.

Yang Xiaojun was arrested March 25, 20004 and released the next day.

Li Chunli, homeless and destitute, was arrested March 20, 2004 and escaped several days later.

Lu Shuling, from Wangfengtai, was arrested March 22, 2004.

Zhang Jinzhen, from Weizigou Village, in Xiping Township, was arrested March 28, 2004.
A practitioner from the rural area, whose name is unknown, was arrested.
Jin Jiang and his wife, Wei Limei, were arrested April 8, 2004 for clarifying the truth in Botou City, Hebei Province.

3. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Du Jincai Detained at Huludao Forced Labor Camp

Du Jincai, former chief assistant of the Huludao City Falun Dafa practice site, lives in Nongmin New Village. On October 30, 1999, Du Jincai was taken to Huludao Forced Labor Camp for an imposed term of three years, until late September 2001, when Du was released. On April 26, 2004, National Security Team police in the Lianshan District abducted Du Jincai, who had been working in the telecommunications department of Huludao Chemical Industries. Without any justification, police confiscated the television, VCD player and other personal belongings from Du's home. While in custody at Huludao Detention Center, Du Jincai went on a hunger and water strike to protest the persecution. Four days later, Du was transferred to Huludao Forced Labor Camp.

Relevant phone numbers:
Country code 86; City code 429
Huludao Lianshan Public Security Branch
Zhang Junsheng, head of the National Security Team: 2160442 (office), 3128366 (home), 86-13704291651 (mobile)
Yu Guiqiu, political instructor: 2160442 (office), 2125982 (home), 86-13904290368 (mobile)
Liu Shijun, assistant director of the National Security Team: 2160442 (office), 2130156 (home), 86-13998965500 (mobile)
Chen Fengliang: 2154204 (home) 86-13998944238 (mobile)
Liu Xingcheng: 2124644 (home) 86-13050978864 (mobile)
Yan Weiguang: 2160978 (home) 86-13709894283 (mobile)
Zhang Jiuliang: 86-13942948855 (mobile)
Zhang Jiuling: 2601088 (home), 86-13050980088 (mobile)
Jin Yongxiang: 2124241 (home), 86-13009285557 (mobile)
Zhao Lianshuang: 4401493 (home), 86-13842948003 (mobile)
Yang Lijun: 8230885 (home), 86-13704290855 (mobile)

4. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Tan Shuqing Detained at a Brainwashing Center

On the evening of April 21, 2004, police broke into the home of Tan Shuqing, in Guankou Town, Wuhan City. The practitioner was abducted and taken to a brainwashing center in Wuhan.

5. [Huainan City, Anhui Province] Huainan Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Relentlessly Persecuted

Ms. Wang Yuxiang, 46, lived in Xinhuai Village, in the Tianjia'an District of Huainan. She was taken to the detention center simply because she had been heard explaining the truth of Falun Dafa to those around her on January 17, 2004.

Jin Lida has been subjected to persecution for a long time. Less than a week after Jin was released from a forced labor camp, the Huainan "610 Office" sent Jin to a mental hospital for more intense persecution.

6. [Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province] Searching for Missing Practitioner Hu Zhenfeng

Miss Hu Zhenfeng, a Falun Dafa practitioner in her twenties from Zhanjiang City, graduated from Zhanjiang Ocean University shortly before the persecution of Falun Dafa began in July 1999. There has been no news about her since October 1999, when she was last seen going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa.

7. [Chongqing City] Practitioner Zhang Qiyong Arrested

Chongqing practitioner Zhang Qiyong had made an appointment to meet a fellow practitioner near the Flower Garden on the north side of Chongqing. Soon after they arrived there, a group of plainclothes policemen showed up and abducted them.

  1. The "610 Office" is 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.