Summary of Other Articles and News - May 20, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Zhongqin, from Qing-an County, Heilongjiang Province, was officially recognized as an "Outstanding Teacher" at the County No.1 Elementary School. However, she was forced to leave her beloved students, dismissed from her job, and extorted 8,000 Yuan(1) because she told her students the truth about Falun Dafa.

In the Northern Suburban Prison in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, each Falun Dafa practitioner is monitored 24 hours a day by 3 to 4 violent prisoners who have committed crimes such as murder, robbery, rape and organized crime. Kindhearted Dafa practitioners are incarcerated within this prison environment. Falun Dafa practitioner Li Mingtao from Handan City was tortured with the "Exhausting the Eagle"(2) torture method and brutal beatings. Police forced iron nails into his left hand's index and pinky fingers six months ago. As a result, one of his fingers is infected and the flesh is rotting.

On May 13, 2004, the State Security Police from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, and police form the Haigang District Station broke into Ms. Li Guanghong's home, abducted her, took away all her Dafa Books and also confiscated her son's computer. She is detained at the Qinhuangdao City, No.2 Detention Center.

All Falun Dafa practitioners who were sent to Gaoyang Labor Camp in Hebei Province are pressured to write a "Repentance Statement" (3) and curse Falun Dafa. Practitioners who fail to cooperate will be brutally beaten, shocked with electric batons or handcuffed for extended periods of time. Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Wu Shouzhi declared her ""Repentance Statement" null and void in November, 2003. Subsequently, she was dragged to the field and beaten until she suffered a mental collapse. Due to the torture, she has become dangerously emaciated. Another Falun Dafa practitioner from Zhangjiakou City also experienced the same abuse.

Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Lu Liangna from Fuxin City, Liaoning Province is 32 years old. She was abducted by the City Police and interrogated on May 24, 2003. Police slapped her, kicked her legs and pummeled her chest violently. One policeman beat her leg with a wooden board, and did not stop even after the board broke in two. Police took turns beating her until midnight. She almost suffered a mental collapse. Police sent her to the Xindi Detention Center on May 25, 2003, where she has been incarcerated for almost a year.

Persecution Facts in Fuyedong Township of Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province:

Based on the limited available information, it is known that:

1. Almost all practitioners' homes have been ransacked, 23 practitioners have been sent to labor camps, Ms. Mi Yanli and Ms. Wang Fengping are still detained;

2. Thirty-nine practitioners were detained and 45 practitioners were extorted money by police, up to 33,816 Yuan in total;

3. Police confiscated 250 Dafa books, more than 50 pictures, 11 sets of Teacher's audio lecture tapes, more than 30 exercise tapes and 11 CD players.

4. In the past 5 years, many families were broken apart, because many practitioners had become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home. Many practitioners also lost their jobs or were dismissed from colleges and universities.

Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Zeng Meihua from Dongkou County, Hunan Province, went to Beijing to appeal on October 4, 2000, and was arrested and detained. Three days later, she was taken back to the Dongkou County Detention Center and detained 14 days and had more than 3,000 Yuan extorted from her. Only 10 days after she was released, police abducted her again and detained her until May 24, 2001. Police came to harass her regularly beginning in 2002, thus she was forced to leave home. She was again abducted on December 14, 2002 and illegally sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp. On March 10, 2003, she was sent to the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. She is suffering from extended handcuffing, solitary confinement, and suffers from sleep deprivation for extended periods of time.

On February 29, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Huang Guixian, who is an editor at Qiannanzhou TV station in Guizhou Province, was abducted and beaten at the Guanghui Police Station. She was sent to the City Detention Center that same night and was again beaten by police in the detention center. They tortured her with ankle shackles, Ba-kou (4) and placed her in solitary confinement. The shackles and Ba-kou were crossed so that her body formed a bow shape and she was unable to eat, sleep or relieve herself. She went on hunger strike for 9 days and was force-fed. She was sent to the Duyun City Drug Rehabilitation Center where she is still in custody.

On the morning of May 10, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners, Mr. Zhang Wei and Ms. Zhao Shuyun (both employees of Railroad Construction Company), Mr. Liu Dejun (employee of Tian-gang Transportation Station) and 2 other unknown practitioners were all abducted from their workplace. They were forcibly sent by train to the Fushun City, Masanjia Labor Camp. The guards forced each of them to pay 3,000 Yuan. They threatened them, saying that if they refused to write "guarantee statements" or participate in the brainwashing classes, they would be immediately sentenced to prison.

(1) Yuan: Chinese currency; the average monthly pay of an urban worker is 500 yuan.

(2) "Exhausting the Eagle": Practitioners are forced to stand on a stool over one foot tall and are deprived sleep at night. Regardless of their level of exhaustion, they are still forced to endure their daily workload, which often involves heavy labor. See Illustrations on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/2/3/18368.html

(3) "Repentance Statement": In this "statement," the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

(4) Ba-kou: A torture device normally reserved for death row inmates, the middle of which is a thick iron plate. After being put on for a few minutes, the victim's arteries of both hands will be blocked and the hands will immediately swell and turn blue and purple, and the heartbeat accelerates.