Over 10 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested and Detained in Changchun Brainwashing Center

(Minghui.org) The 610 Office was set up on June 10, 1999, by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials under the leadership of Jiang Zemin for the express purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. It is very similar to the Gestapo.

Officials of the 610 Offices in all parts of the country illegally set up brainwashing centers to provide “legal education.” They arrest and detain local practitioners and pick them up when their prison terms or forced labor terms end in an attempt to force them to renounce their belief against their will and be “transformed.”

Falun Gong practitioners follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, yet Party officials try to “transform” them at these brainwashing centers.

Changchun Brainwashing Center in Jilin Province, also known as the “Changchun Legal Education and Training Base," operates under the Changchun City 610 Office. More than 10 practitioners from Jilin Province have recently been arrested and are being detained there. The police are continuing to arrest more practitioners.

Mr. Guo Yanxiang, an employee of the Shanghewang Township Central School in Jiutai City, was arrested on July 22, 2013, and taken to the Changchun Brainwashing Center by officials from the Jiutai City 610 Office.

Ms. Liu Jiqin from Niuweiba Mountain in Nongan County was arrested on August 10 and taken to the Wugongli Detention Center. Her family visited her in the morning on August 12 before she was transferred to the Changchun Brainwashing Center later that day, along with several other practitioners from Nongan County.

Mr. Sun Xitian from Huangyuquan Township, Mr. Wang Yong from Xinnong Township, and 70-year-old Ms. Zhang Guiying from Kaoshan Township in Nongan County were also arrested on August 10. Ms. Zhang was slapped until her face was swollen and her mouth bled. The three practitioners were then taken to the Nongan County Brainwashing Center. Officials from Changchun Brainwashing Center took Ms. Zhang away the next day.

Mr. Yang Wanchun from Qiangang Township in Nongan County and seven other practitioners were recently arrested. Besides Mr. Yang, all the other practitioners are currently detained in Changchun Brainwashing Center. Their names are unknown.

The majority of the more than 10 practitioners illegally detained at the Changchun Brainwashing Center are women. Each female practitioner is accompanied and monitored by the director of her local China Women's Federation Office.

In the Changchun Brainwashing Center, practitioners are forced to watch videos that slander Falun Gong and to write the so-called three statements renouncing their belief. Whoever refuses to write the statements is not allowed to have visitors. Those who have written the statements have to complete a course and go through brainwashing. Only when one passes an “inspection” conducted by officials of the provincial 610 Office and is thought to have truly given up the practice is he or she given a “diploma” and released.

Changchun Brainwashing Center is located at 9588 Qingnian Road in Changchun City, just south of Fenjin Forced Labor Camp. This forced labor camp is not currently accepting new inmates, and many of the guards and staff members of the brainwashing center are former labor camp employees.

We urge Falun Gong practitioners in the Changchun region to strengthen your righteous thoughts and disintegrate the persecution at the brainwashing center. We also suggest that local practitioners communicate with family members of the detained practitioners and convince them to ask that their family members be released or file lawsuits against the brainwashing center.

List of officials of the Changchun Brainwashing Center (published by the Minghui website on November 16, 2012):

Liu Xiaofeng (刘晓峰), director of the Changchun Brainwashing Center: [phone] (Office), [phone] (Cell)
Zou Jun (邹军), Changchun Brainwashing Center: [phone] (Cell)
Zhang Mingjiu (张明久), director of the Jilin Provincial 610 Office: [phone] (Office), [phone] (Cell)
Yu Guoqiang (于国强), director of the Jilin Provincial 610 Office
Li Guanghui (李光辉), commissioner of the Jilin Provincial 610 Office: [phone] (Office)
Wang Guanglie (王光烈), deputy commissioner of the Jilin Provincial 610 Office: [phone] (Office)
Changchun City Political and Legislative Affairs Committee: [phone] (Office), [phone] (Office), [phone] (Office), [phone] (Office)
Zhang Dexiang (张德祥), Changchun City 610 Office: [phone] (Cell)
Wang Liandong (王连东), Changchun City 610 Office: [phone] (Cell)
Zou Baoli (邹宝力), Changchun City 610 Office: [phone] (Office), [phone] (Cell)
Li Xingtao (李兴涛), director of the Changchun City 610 Office: [phone] (Office), [phone] (Cell), [phone] (Home)
Ren Wangqi (任王琦), deputy director of the Changchun City 610 Office: [phone] (Office)