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Latest News from China - August 31, 2004

September 20, 2004 |  

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1. [Guang'an City, Sichuan Province] Dafa Practitioners Clarify the Facts with Loudspeaker Broadcasts at Various Locations

At around 5:00 a.m. on August 19, 2004, loudspeakers began broadcasting information about Falun Dafa, including the song "Falun Dafa is Great." The broadcasts took place in several locations, including the Chengbei Bus Terminal, Huochai Street, Guang'an Bridge, Cuiping Park, Xijiaoxi area, new Nanmen area and other places. The loudspeakers also publicized Jiang Zemin's crimes, the news that he is being sued overseas, and described Falun Dafa's spread all over the world, with "Pudu" playing as the background music. The "110" (the emergency number in China) police were dumbfounded. They did not dare to take the loudspeakers down and let it play for over an hour. The incident shocked Guang'an City.

After the incident, policemen from Guang'an were assigned to look after the buildings until August 25. On the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birthday, police monitored the practitioners who were not detained, and were paid an extra 20 Yuan per day for the surveillance job. Some practitioners still managed to hang up banners on Nanwansheng Street. Reportedly, four practitioners from outside of Guang'an City were arrested near Deng Xiaoping's former residence for distributing truth-clarifying materials. Details are currently under investigation. Recently, Guang'an residents have been receiving a lot of phone calls clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. This had a great influence on people, and a lot of people came to understand the true situation behind the persecution of Falun Gong.

2. [Yunnan Province] Dafa Practitioner Yang Maoqiao on a Hunger Strike for Over 20 Days

Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Maoqiao from the Nujiang Region has been detained in a forced labor camp for two years. In December 2003 she was released from the forced labor camp. However, in August 2004 she was again put into Yunnan Province's Women Forced Labor Camp in the Dabanqiao area of Kunming City. At present, Yang Maoqiao has been on a hunger strike that has already lasted for over 20 days. Her life is currently in danger.

3. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioner Wang Shengbiao Sentenced

It was reported that on August 31, 2004, practitioner Mr. Wang Shengbiao from Shijiazhuang City was put before the court and sentenced. A fellow practitioner went to the court and was arrested for bringing a tape recorder there.

4. [Rizhao City, Shandong Province] Dafa Practitioner Qin Yujie Arrested

Dafa practitioner Mr. Qin Yujie was a foreign language teacher at Shijiu High School in the Donggang District. On around July 25, 2004 he was secretly arrested.

The students in his class do not know his whereabouts. In his spare time Mr. Qin tutored students for free. The beloved teacher's arrest had a huge impact on the students.

It was said that the school has fired Mr. Qin. Before his arrest, the principal of the school Zhang Qing had tried all means to slander Falun Dafa. Every morning when holding the national flag raising ceremony, he always made statements to infuse students with bad thoughts about Falun Dafa. He created difficulties for Qin Yujie with all kinds of efforts. This time he took the opportunity and fired teacher Qin.

Zhang Qin's telephone numbers:

86-633- 8326809 and 86-13606338729 (Cell).

5. [Xishui City, Hubei Province] Dafa Practitioner Yang Jun Arrested While Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Practitioner Mr. Yang Jun from Xishui City was arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials in Wuhan City and was sentenced to forced labor at the Shayang Forced Labor Camp. On July 24, 2004 his term expired, and his family members picked him up. On July 27, some personnel from Yang Jun's former work unit (Shiyan City's Post Office) collaborated with persons from the local "610 Office." They broke into Yang Jun's parents' house in Xishui City and forcibly arrested Yang Jun. Yang Jun's whereabouts are currently unknown.

6. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Li Xin Severely Tortured

In the summer of 2003, practitioner Ms. Li Xin, 37 years old, an employee of Harbin City's Movie Projector Factory, went to the Baojian Street Police Precinct, Nangang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province to ask for her personal identification, which had been confiscated. Instead of returning her ID, the police detained her. At the beginning of 2004 she was sent to Harbin City's Wanjia Forced Labor Camp and detained at the No. 7 Division. The division head is the notorious Zhang Bo, who has been brutally torturing and brainwashing practitioners.

Because Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xin did not cooperate with the police and refused to give up Falun Dafa, she was subjected to torture by being shocked with electric batons and hung up. Her face and neck were severely burned. Her present condition is unknown.

Wanjia Forced Labor Camp address: 150078, Xinnong Township, Daoli District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, P.R. China.

Phone: (operator) 86-451-84101454, 84101455, 84101509

Zhang Bo: 86-451-84101454, ext. 3472 (Office)

7. [Jianshui County, Yunnan Province] Deng Hui Arrested and Sent to a Brainwashing Center

In August 2001, practitioner Mr. Deng Hui from Jianshui County, Yunnan Province was reported to the police when he was reading Zhuan Falun at work in Kunming City. Officers from Kunming City's Panlong Police Office came to arrest him and ransacked his home. The police found Falun Dafa books and articles, so they sentenced Deng Hui to two years of forced labor. Deng Hui's Dafa wife, also a practitioner, was sentenced to one year of forced labor.

In April of 2004, after Deng Hui was detained for over eight months, he was sent to his hometown at Zutangzi Village, Chake Township, Jianshui County, the Honghechuan Area. The police from Jianshui County's Police Department monitored him closely. On July 13, the police broke into and ransacked his home. They found Zhuan Falun and some new articles. Afterwards, they went to Kunming to interrogate Deng Hui's wife to find out the source of these written materials. On August 26, personnel from Jianshui County's "610 Office," the local police, the local government officials - 20 people in all - went to Deng Hui's home to arrest him. A couple of days later a family member learned that Deng Hui was sent to a brainwashing center. It was said that altogether 12 practitioners were being detained at the brainwashing center.

8. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Behind the Arrest of Practitioner Wang Xiuyun

Recently Ms. Wang Xiuyun reported that her husband Li Yi renounced his belief and turned against Falun Dafa due to torture at a brainwashing center in Chifeng City. Ms. Wang is a practitioner from the Xilutian Mine, Yuanbaoshan District, Chifeng City. Former practitioner Li Yi reported Ms. Wang to the security department. On August 26, 2004, policeman Liu Weimin accompanied several people, including policeman Zhao from the Xilutian Mine Police Office, to Wang Xiuyun's home and arrested her. They took her to the Yuanbaoshan National Security Brigade. Ms. Wang is currently being detained at the Pingzhuang Detention Center in the Yuanbaoshan District.

Phone numbers for responsible people and work units:

Yuanbaoshan District National Security Brigade, Chifeng City: 86-476-3514143

Xilutian Mine Police Office:

Liang Shoujin: chief of the Xilutian Mine Police Office, Pingmei Company, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 86-13088421916(Cell)

Shen Xihua: the responsible person in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, from the Xilutian Mine Police Office, Pingmei Company, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 86-13088421915 (Cell)

9. [Laixi City, Shandong Province] Liu Chungping Arrested for Clarifying the Facts about the Persecution of Falun Gong

At noon on August 26, 2004, when Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Chunping was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong at the Meijing Hotel in Shangye Street, someone reported her to the police. Afterwards, the city's "110' police sent Shuiji Police Precinct officers from Laixi City to arrest her and searched her house as well. Liu Chunping is currently being detained at Laixi City's Detention Center.

Related units and personnel (country code: 86; area code: 532; do not dial area code before a cell phone number):

Li Yuanmin, Shuiji Police Precinct chief: 13953211699 (Cell), 8464718 (Home)
Pang Xuewu, Shuiji Police Precinct associate chief: 13969606299 (Cell), 8487856 (Home)
Yu Dechen, Laixi City's Administration Detention Center chief: 13806396286 (Cell), 8463902
Li Jing, Detention Center Administration, associate chief: 8468969

10. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Police Unlawfully Arrest Ms. Wu Shuzhen

On July 22, 2004, policemen from the National Security Brigade in Ningcheng County's Police Department arrested Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Shuzhen from Tianyi Town, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, the Inner Mongolia AR. Last week, when Dafa practitioners Yan Zhihua, Li Xiuqin and Li Haiming were clarifying the truth about Falun Gong at Wuhua Township, they were reported. Officers from the National Security Brigade of Ningcheng County's Police Department and the Wuhua Police Precinct arrested them. At 9:00 a.m. on August 27, when Dafa practitioner Hua Guiyun was working in a field, personnel from the national Security Brigade and the Tianyi Police Precinct entrapped her and sent her to Chifeng City's Brainwashing Center.

11. [Beijing] Dafa Practitioner Huo Fuguo Arrested

Dafa practitioner Ms. Huo Fuguo, about 40 years old, from Northeastern China, lives in the Fengtai District in Beijing. She was illegally detained at the Xin'an Forced Labor Camp in Beijing from 2001 to 2002, for one and a half years. After her release, she made a living by selling cloths. During the night of July 20, 2004, a group of lawless policemen from the National Security Brigade suddenly broke into her house to search it. They arrested her and took her to a detention center. They claimed to be detaining her for 15 days, but have yet to release her.

12. [Song Yuan City, Jilin Province] Dafa Practitioner Sun Mingxia on Hunger Strike to Protest Illegal Detention

Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Mingxia is from the Ningjiang District, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. At the end of June, the police arrested her and incarcerated her at the Shanyou Detention Center. It was reported that she has been on a hunger strike for over seven days.

August 31, 2004