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(Clearwisdom.net) According to reports, Falun Gong practitioner Li Xianwen, who lived on Gongnongyuan Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, was tortured to death while detained in Xinjin Brainwashing Center in Chengdu City. The exact time of his death is unknown. People involved in the death of Li Xianwen have been hiding the truth. Li Xianwen's mother still does not know about her son's death.
Li Xianwen's wife Yu Guiying is also a practitioner, who has suffered brutal persecution in a labor camp. As a result, she has developed a mental disorder. The labor camp has released her and sent her home.
After Yu Guiying was released, officials from the local police station have been monitoring her around the clock, not allowing anyone to visit her.
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Weidong died as a result of persecution in Jilin Prison on September 10, 2004.
In September 2003, Mr. Cui Weidong was sent to the so-called "Strict Discipline Team" because he wrote a solemn declaration, stating that all the guarantees to quit practicing Falun Gong he made under the persecution were done so against his will and therefore null and void. After nearly four months of persecution, seeing that his condition was deteriorating very quickly, the police sent him to the prison hospital for rescue. He was diagnosed with multiple diseases including tubercular meningitis and pleurisy ascites. The prison authorities allowed him to be released on bail for medical treatment, but with the condition that he write a guarantee to give up Falun Gong. Cui Weidong rejected this demand. The prison hospital sent Mr. Cui back to a prison cell in August 2004. In less than a month, his condition worsened and he died on September 10.
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Lingsheng in Tongling City, Anhui Province used to suffer from leukemia and was cured through Falun Gong practice. After July 20, 1999, he was persecuted for persisting in his belief and passed away in August 2001.
Jiang Lingsheng was born in 1964 and worked at the No. 2 Linen Weave Factory in Tongling City, Anhui Province. He lived at No. 2 Jichangxincun, Tongling City, Anhui Province. In April 1994 and December 1994, Jiang Lingsheng attended two sessions of Falun Gong classes held in Hefei City and Guangzhou City, and was one of the first people to practice Falun Gong in Tongling City. He had leukemia before, but his body was completely cleansed during the classes. He later took a physical exam at Tongling City People's Hospital and was found to be completely cured. He had been very healthy since he began practicing Falun Gong.
Jiang's regime started the nationwide persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. In early December 1999, Mr. Jiang Lingsheng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and to share with the government his firsthand experience of Falun Gong practice and the tremendous benefits Falun Gong had brought him. He was illegally arrested, sent back to Tongling City and detained for 15 days.
He went to Beijing for the second time and was detained for 30 days. His family bailed him out with 3,000 Yuan. In May 2001 he was arrested in Tongling City for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and was unlawfully sentenced to three years of forced labor and transported to the Nanhu Forced Labor Camp in Xuancheng, Anhui Province.
When checking in at the labor camp, he showed symptoms of leukemia and was sent back to the No. 2 Detention Center in Tongling City. The guards at the detention center didn't allow him to do the Falun Gong exercises or study the Falun Gong teachings, and they also didn't allow him to tell others about how Falun Gong had wondrously cured his terminal illness.
The police sent him to Tongling City's Police Hospital for a bone marrow sample. He was given an injection. His condition worsened drastically after the injection and he was sent home. About 40 days later after he was sent back home, he died in the Tongling City People's Hospital on August 3, 2001.
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(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Feng Xiaomin, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, was persecuted for practicing Falun Gong and forced into homelessness. She died on June 1, 2004 at the age of 34 and left behind her son, who is only one year old.
Feng Xiaomin was born in Yian County, Heilongjiang Province in 1970. She graduated from Qiqihaer Normal College and worked at the Sixth Textile Factory of Shijiazhuang City. She lived with her sister and brother-in-law.
Being of small stature and lacking physical strength, Ms. Feng could not complete a full shift in the factory and was often discriminated against because of it. As a result, she cried often and was depressed, thus affecting her health. Seeing her sister and brother-in-law becoming healthier and happier through the practice of Falun Dafa, Ms. Feng also started to practice in 1996. As she continuously read the Falun Dafa books and practiced the exercises, she started to understand many principles. She understood that she should look within herself whenever she encountered a problem, treat others kindly, and conduct herself strictly according to the principles of "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance" to become a better person. Ms. Feng started to feel better spiritually and emotionally, her health improved and she worked harder.
Later, Feng Xiaomin met a fellow practitioner named Wang Xiaofeng; they fell in love and got married. Every morning, the couple went to the group exercise site to do the Falun Dafa exercises, went to work energetically, and studied the Fa (1) in the evening. They continuously purified their mind and body by removing their shortcomings and attachments. On the weekend, they either went back to their parents' home to keep them company or invited her sister's family on sightseeing trips. Ms. Feng lived a peaceful and happy life.
In the early morning on July 20, 1999, a massive arrest of Falun Dafa practitioners began and both her sister and brother-in-law were arrested. Their young son Wang Boru, less than 10 years old, was left home alone. Feng Xiaomin had to resign from her job in order to take care of her nephew. Wherever Ms. Feng went, she brought Wang Boru along to tell people about the wrongful treatment of Falun Dafa and to look for her sister and brother-in-law. She went to the City and Provincial Appeals Offices, and was told that the only place that could solve her problem was the Government Appeals Office. So Feng Xiaomin and Boru went to Beijing. Many police officers were stationed everywhere to prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to exercise their legal right to appeal. Ms. Feng and young Boru had to walk through a cornfield to avoid the police, with blisters covering their feet. Hungry and thirsty, they finally reached Beijing. Plainclothes police were also everywhere to arrest people. Together with many practitioners, Feng Xiaomin went to Tiananmen Square. Several thousand Falun Dafa practitioners sat on the ground, surrounded by armed police. Suddenly, the police started to drag the practitioners into police cars. Hand in hand, the practitioners steadfastly resisted. Then the police began to beat the practitioners, who bravely said, "Don't strike back when beaten and don't curse back when cursed." The scene was both a tragic and magnificent. Some police officers were moved and stopped beating the practitioners. However, a policeman hit Feng Xiaomin on her neck and threw her into a bus to send her back to Shijiazhuang. Since that incident, she has not had a single day of peace.
Police officers from her town tried to force Ms. Feng to write a "Guarantee Statement" to stop practicing Falun Gong, while the Neighborhood Committee monitored her. Out of fear, friends and close relatives tried to persuade Ms. Feng to give up Falun Dafa, since Boru needed her care. Even though she was under immense pressure, Feng Xiaomin bravely persisted in practicing Falun Dafa. Her sister and brother-in-law finally returned home after two months of detention and interrogation. However, they were often monitored and followed.
In the end of December 2000, her brother-in-law was arrested again while at home. Ms. Feng's sister left home to avoid further persecution. The burden to look after Boru fell upon Feng Xiaomin again. After Ms. Feng searched for her sister and brother-in-law for a month, the police sent her sister back home; she had been tortured so brutally that she was on the brink of death. Many people who saw her sister's condition said that she had no hope of her recovering. Still, Feng Xiaomin carefully looked after her sister while she educated herself to understand her rights as a citizen, made phone calls, wrote letters, went to the police bureaus to expose the evil deeds of the lawless police who persecuted her family members, and warned them that if anything happened to her sister, they would be fully responsible. She also firmly demanded the release of her brother-in-law. Because of her care and hard work, her sister recovered in one week and the police did not dare to arrest her sister again. Under that harsh environment, Feng Xiaomin's righteous thoughts and actions shocked the evil and laid the foundation for her sister to live safely at home. (At that time, many practitioners were forced into homelessness due to the relentless persecution).
In May 2001, Feng Xiaomin and another practitioner planned to hike up a mountain to hang up banners that read, "Falun Dafa Is Good." However, they were arrested by police from the Donghualu Police Station, Shijiazhuang City. Feng Xiaomin disappeared for more than 40 days and no one knew of her whereabouts. During this time, Director Shi and policeman Fang Zhiyong from the Donghua Road Police Station tried to get a confession out of Ms. Feng by brutally torturing her, causing her to pass out several times. In order to send her to the First Detention Center of Shijiazhuang City, Director Shi ordered officer Fang Zhiyong to tear up the pages of her health record where the doctor had suggested she was in a life-threatening condition.
The police at the detention center instructed inmates to slap Feng Xiaomin's face dozens of times, which caused her to nearly pass out. Ms. Feng steadfastly resisted and refused to cooperate with the authorities. To protest the illegal persecution, she stopped eating and drinking for more than 20 days and on several occasions, her life was in danger. The detention center did not want take responsibility for her death and did not want to keep her there anymore. The labor camps also rejected her admission, but the Donghua Road Police Station still did not want to release Ms. Feng and wanted to extort 5,000 yuan from her. When Feng Xiaomin finally returned to her sister's home, she had a high fever and felt very weak.
To avoid further persecution and not cause difficulties for others, before she had completely recovered, Feng Xiaomin and her husband decided to leave her sister's home and live a homeless life. Still, the police often harassed her sister even though Feng Xiaomin no longer lived with her. To avoid implicating her relatives, Ms. Feng rarely contacted them. Under such difficult circumstances, Feng Xiaomin's health still recovered quickly. She diligently studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, told people the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution, and sent forth righteous thoughts. In September 2002, Ms. Feng gave birth to her first child and her life became more difficult.
In order to arrest her and her husband, the city's "610 Office" secretly investigated them for two months. Everywhere, the police tried to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners with the excuse of checking on the number of household occupants. As a result, Feng Xiaomin, her husband and her infant baby had to constantly move to avoid being arrested. They often lived under intense emotional stress. Particularly during the period of the SARS epidemic, everyone was required to show their certification letter and identification card everywhere they went. The homeless practitioners often did not bring their ID cards with them. For safety reasons, Feng Xiaomin and her husband had to separate from each other. Ms. Feng took care of their child and life became even harder for her. Under the tremendous pressure, Feng Xiaomin was no longer able to take care of her baby and left her one-year-old infant to her sister's care.
In late May 2004, a kind person found Feng Xiaomin and sent her to her sister's home. By this time, she was in and out of consciousness, and she died five days later after being sent to a hospital. Ms. Feng was diagnosed with inflammation of the brain. The fluid taken out of her brain was light-yellow in color. The doctors suspect that Ms. Feng had received a head injury. Her family members believe that she was tortured by the police. When her family members saw her, Feng Xiaomin was not able to recognize them. She considered everyone a police officer and shouted that she would not allow the police to persecute her. The events leading to the death of Feng Xiaomin are still under investigation.
The "610 Office" of the Police Bureau of Shinjizhuang City is still going after Feng Xiaomin's husband, Wang Xiaofeng.
Feng Xiaomin's sister Feng Xiaomei's phone number: 86-311-5811851,86-311-6730639
Contact Information of the Perpetrators -
Political and Security Branch of the Police Bureau of Shijiazhuang City (83 Minzu Road, Shijiazhuang City, Zip code 050000)
Head, Xiao Shuxiang
Vice Head, Ma Wensheng
Squadron Head, Deng Fang; Division Heads, Li Ruihai, Wang Xiaofeng (responsible for religious affairs), Zhang Qiuli. Police Officers: Ma Yong, Li Yong
"610 Office" of the Police Bureau of Shijiazhuang City
The Yuhua Police Sub-bureau of Shijiazhuang City (2 Jiangtong Road, Shijiazhuang City, Zip code 050000)
Vice Director, Li Jun (the main perpetrator persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners): 86-311-6122610
The leaders of the political and security brigade: Zhang Jiansheng and Han Dengfeng.
Director, Li Xinle
Donghua Road Police Station of Shijiazhuang City (5 Meishi Street, Shijiazhuang City, Zip code 050000) Telephone: 86-311-6032639.
Instructor, Shi
Policeman: Fang Zhiyong
Yuqiang Police Station
Director He and police officer Sun.
(1) Fa: Law and principles; the teachings of Falun Dafa.
September 24, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) Jilin Provincial Women's Prison (also called Heizuizi Women's Prison) located in Changchun City continues to aggressively persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. At present, the situation for practitioners over there is extremely critical. Four or five have had serious pulmonary tuberculosis and are now being imprisoned in the prison's hospital for so-called treatment.
Practitioner Song Yanqun from Shulan City, Jilin Province, is 33 years old. A university graduate, she is currently a foreign language teacher in a local school. On November 15, 2003, she was arrested. Later on, she was illegally sentenced to 12 years in prison and is being held in Heizuizi Women's Prison. Because she has suffered from the brutal persecution for a long time, she contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. When her family members visited her, they requested that the prison give her medical treatment. Policeman Zhou in the prison's hospital unexpectedly shouted, "She could die, but we will not release her! Yu Lixin from Jilin City died at my hands. What can you do to me?"
Currently Ms. Song is extremely weak. There are four or five other Dafa practitioners who are also being seriously persecuted.
We call on international human rights organizations and people who believe in justice to help rescue these good people, who have been illegally imprisoned and brutally persecuted because they believe in "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance."
Jilin Provincial Party Committee's address: 47 Renmin Avenue, Zip code: 130051. Switchboard: 86-431-8927512; Secretariat: 86-431-8927596
Jilin Provincial Government's address: 11 Xinfa Road, Zip code: 130051. Switchboard: 86-431-8919971
Jilin Province Judicial Hall address: 46 Xinfa Road, Zip code: 130051.
Office: 86-431-8919971
Jilin Province Jail Administration Bureau: 86-431-2750068
Disciplinary Inspection Committee, Jilin Province Jail Administration Bureau: 86-431-2750061, 86-431-2750057
Supervising Politics Section, Jilin Province Jail Administration Bureau: 86-431-2750062
Forced Labor Bureau, Jilin Provincial Judicature Hall address: 46 Xinfa Road, Zip code: 130051.
Office: 86-431-2795608, Political Office: 86-431-2799473, Administration Office: 86-431-2799874
Jilin Provincial People's Procuratorate address: 23 Jingyang Blvd., zip code: 130000. Switchboard: 86-431-7668118. General Observation Room: 86-431-7615769
Secretarial Section: 86-431-7615764
Changchun Municipal People's Procuratorate address: 21
Jingyang Blvd, zip code: 130000.
Switchboard: 86-431-7684275; Office: 86-431-7684322
Leader of Disciplinary inspection group: 86-431-7690673
The telephone numbers for Heizuizi Women's Prison:
Xu Guangsheng (head of the prison): 86-431-5375001
Wu Zeyun (Vice Director of transformation): 86-431-5375004
Tang Yajuan (Deputy Director of Criminal Law Enforcement
Section): 86-431-5375010
Li Jian (Deputy head of Politics Branch): 86-431-5375007
Wang Jinghua (Director of the Prison Office): 86-431-5375038
Reception room: 86-431-5375036
The first supervising area: 86-431-5375020
The second supervising area: 86-431-5375021
The third supervising area: 86-431-5375022
The fourth supervising area: 86-431-5375023
The fifth supervising area: 86-431-5375024
The sixth supervising area (where Falun Gong practitioners
are being persecuted most severely): 86-431-5375031
The seventh supervising area: 86-431-5375026
The eighth supervising area: 86-431-5375027
The ninth supervising area: 86-431-5375028.
October 17, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, Huaduchini Forced Labor Camp in Guangzhou City has specialized in illegally detaining and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, and is the scene of some of the most heinous crimes.
The Clearwisdom.net article from August 28, 2004, entitled "The Truth of the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners by Guangzhou First (Huaduchini) Forced Labor Camp" exposed only a small portion of what has actually taken place there, and it is far from a complete picture of the facts. Furthermore, the actual list of Falun Gong practitioners that have been tortured there far exceeds the list provided in the article. Huaduchini guards and labor camp employees use several ways to torture practitioners. The prison guards often mask the brutality of their actions by highlighting the violent actions of the labor camp workers, while the guards appear to be abiding by their promise to "not hit practitioners," and only directing prisoners to carry out the persecution. They attempt to make it seem as though practitioners are going through less torture by perpetrating their crimes late at night, often in remote basement "meeting rooms," but even so, the cries of pain from practitioners being tortured can frequently be heard by other people detained in the labor camp. This type of violence is usually carried out by three or four prisoners, while policemen direct the torture sessions, often attempting to conceal their participation. The materials used in this torture method described below include a strong rope two to three meters in length, cloth-strips typically made from old blankets, old socks, metal hooks, and cleaning rags.
Firstly, the practitioner is forcibly restrained, and then bound at the wrists and ankles. Both arms are then tied using rope to completely encircle the arms, forcing the arms behind the back, and pulling them up tightly. Next the legs are forced into the cross-legged position and tied there. The legs are tied at the knees instead of the thighs in order to cause more pain. Then, ropes are tied around the neck to the legs, forcing the person into the shape of a ball. The mouth is then filled with dirty rags or worn socks, which are secured with string or rope tied horizontally all the way around the head across the mouth, so the victim can't shout out. Finally, another rope is tied to the person's wrists, and the person is hung with this rope from an iron hook on a metal rack. A practitioner might be subjected to this torture for durations ranging from 20 minutes to more than an hour.
Below are photographic illustrations of this torture method. For various reasons, including security considerations, the pictures and descriptions do not reveal certain details, and the features of the person in the illustrations are obscured. Furthermore, the force used to tie up the victim in the pictures is much less than that actually used on practitioners tortured in the labor camp. According to prisoners, this type of torture cannot be withstood by most people for more than ten minutes, and can cause paralysis.
1. The wrists and ankles are bound, concentrating pressure at the joints, and tied so tightly that it often results in extravasated blood (blood escaping the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues), or even necrosis.
 Wrists are tightly bound. |
 Ankles are tightly bound. |
2. Both arms are tightly bound and completely encircled.
 Strong rope or strips of cloth are used, and both arms are tightly encircled. |
 Both arms are tied behind the back |
3. The arms are twisted, pulled up, and tied behind the back.
Both arms are twisted, pulled up, and tied behind the back. The picture above cannot show the actual brutality of the tying. In the labor camp, the forearm (where the red arrow is) is pulled up and tied to the point where it would be completely pressed to the back (from top to bottom), and would actually be in the position of the blue arrow, and pulled up even higher than shown. When the arm is tied in this position (shown by the blue arrow), the muscles are already severely damaged.
Both arms are twisted and tied behind the back. Ropes are used to pull them up tightly.
In the above picture, the red arrows show the actual position of the two forearms. The blue arrows illustrate the final position the forearms are forced into. (The forearms would form an "11," parallel to each other, as shown by the blue arrows.)
4. The legs are bound.
 The legs are tightly encircled. |
 Both legs are tied in the cross-legged position, and held in position at the knees. |
 The ankle is tied tightly to the other leg's knee. |
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5. A rope is tied to the leg, passed around the neck, the slack is removed, and the rope is tied to the other leg, forcing the person into a ball-shape.
6. Shown here tied in the shape of a ball, bent at the waist, and hung from the wrists.
7. The person is hung from an iron hook. (The arrow shows the direction to the point from which the person is hung.)
8. The practitioner's mouth is filled with socks or rags, and then tied horizontally with rope or string.
(Clearwisdom.net) According to an insider, the Training Brigade at Jianshanzi Prison of Heilongjiang Province has abused Falun Dafa practitioners, using all of the instruments of torture at their disposal. No visitors or relatives are allowed to see the practitioners. The guards try to force the practitioners to give up Falun Gong, and if they don't, they are not allowed to leave the prison. Torture techniques are used repeatedly, and practitioners have been subjected to many rounds of torture.
Practitioners held at the Harbin Prison of Heilongjiang Province filed a lawsuit against the prison guards. As a result, all of the practitioners were moved to jails in other cities such as Daqing, Mudanjiang, and Tailai of Heilongjiang Province. Many of them were moved to Mudanjiang Jianshanzi Prison. Due to the information blockade, many details of the persecution are unknown.
Some of the details of the persecution against practitioners at Mudanjiang Prison are as follows:
Mr. Yu Junxiu from Zhejiang Province died as a result of persecution in July 2003. The persecution lasted for three months, which included being shackled to the ground. When Mr. Yu requested to see other practitioners, his request was refused. News about him was also blocked from getting out.
Mr. Li Ruqing was a 66-year-old retiree of the Mechanical and Electrical Factory of the Shangyashan City Mine Affairs Bureau. Between October 7 and 8, 2002, he was arrested for distributing literature about Falun Gong and sentenced to seven years in Mudanjiang Prison. He was tortured to death within two months on October 9, 2003. A male officer from the Prison Affairs Department admitted that Mr. Li Ruqing died a month earlier and stated that Mr. Li Ruqing had refused to give up his beliefs.
Mr. Yu Jiqing, 30 years old, died as a result of the persecution in the No.4 Zone of Mudanjiang Prison. One male guard from the prison admitted that they processed Mr. Yu Jixing's death case, but he didn't provide the exact date when he died, saying that he died a long time ago and the case had been processed.
Mr. Xie Yunhuan was a 29-year-old student studying in Japan. He went to Japan in February 1999 and came back to China to appeal for Falun Gong in February 2000. In March 2001, the National Security Bureau in Beijing kidnapped him. On August 15, 2002, the Jiguan District Court of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, in the name of "using a [slanderous term omitted] organization to undermine the implementation of the law," sentenced him to 10 years in prison. He is now being held at the Mudanjiang City No. 1 Prison in Heilongjiang Province. At the prison, Mr. Xie was forced to work for over 16 hours a day and subjected to countless brainwashing sessions and forms of physical abuse. According to his family, he is now very skinny. His family has not been allowed to visit him because they said a few words in support of Falun Dafa when they visited him.
Mr. Zhang Dehui was beaten until one of his bones was broken and his face and eyes were bruised, simply because the Brigade Head Wei of the No.5 Zone of the prison found a Falun Dafa book in his belongings. The authorities wanted to use this as an excuse to frame another practitioner, Mr. Sun, whom they said had given the book to Zhang. Zhang refused to cooperate with them and was subjected to a brutal beating.
Cell phone of Wei, Head of Brigade of Guards: 86-13836351489
Mr. Wu Yueqing from Shangyashan City was arrested in December of 2001 at a Falun Dafa material production site. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in January 2002. He is now held at the No.23 Subzone of the No.11 Zone. Having been jailed for over two years, he has incurred both mental and physical damage. He has a serious case of tuberculosis and heart problems, and his life is in danger. His wife died last year, leaving their 10-year-old son with his maternal grandmother, who herself has many illnesses.
Mr. Dai Jun, 28 years old and from Mishan City, was sentenced by the Jixi City Mid-Level Court to prison for 6 years for distributing materials about Falun Gong. He is now detained at Mudanjiang Prison. Dai Jun was arrested on April 25, 2002. Staff from the Political and Security Department of Jixi City Public Bureau beat him. They even called in the Criminal Squad of the Xiguan District Subdivision and subjected Mr. Dai Jun to torture around the clock. He was forced to sit on the Tiger Bench and wear a heavy and tight hat, force fed with mustard oil, exposed to harsh wind, punched and kicked, had his feet pricked with thorns, and he was shackled with the hands behind his back. To prevent him from escaping, they tied sticks to his feet and handcuffed him, and then kicked him repeatedly until he lost feeling in his legs and had difficulty walking. He needed support just to walk into the courtroom. After three days and nights of torture around the clock, he was sent to a detention center. Four other practitioners were also abused to various degrees. One of them was a university lecturer. Dai Jun still suffers from dizziness, vomiting, numbness, weak limbs, and weakened eyesight.
According to insiders, many practitioners were subjected to serious persecution in the prison. Over 20 of them have gotten tuberculosis as a result.
Mr. Pan Xingfu's legs have swollen up and he has become deaf.
Cui Hongwei suffered a broken spine and is paralyzed.
Wang Changbai from Qitaihe City suffered a mental breakdown as a result of the abuse.
Shen Jinxiang was beaten brutally by the brigade head and the staff commissioner of the No.4 Zone.
The No. 5 Zone's persecution has escalated. Mr. Zhang Zhaoguang, Liu Jun, Xie Zhimei, and Zhang Qiong have been watched around the clock for 4-5 days.
Not long ago, the province's Minister of Justice, Zhang Fusen, came to Mudanjiang Prison to enforce further persecution against the practitioners, causing several practitioners to be beaten.
Several practitioners are sentenced there to over 10 years.
Names of guards at Mudanjiang Prison, Heilongjiang Province:
Heads of the Jail: Chen Shaogang, Guo Husheng
Staff Commissioners: Wang Jingli, Jia Qinglian, Wang Huijun, Si Haitao, Jin Mei
Head of No. 14 Zone: Li Yahong
Switchboard of Mudanjiang Jianshanzi Prison, Heilongjiang Province: 86-453-6404715, 86-453-6404755, ext. 8655 / 8659 / 8656 / 8716
September 26, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) Below are the circumstances regarding Falun Gong practitioner Yang Xiaojie and his wife Liu Runling in Shijiazhuang City, who were illegally sentenced to 11 years in prison.
They have a 15-year-old daughter named Yang Wenjing, who is a ninth grader. Because her parents were sentenced to prison for persisting in their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance", Yang Wenjing was forced to live with her grandparents, who are in their late 60s and have very little income. Their home belongs to Yang Xiaojie's work unit and is about to be demolished. Yang Wenjing and her grandparents are about to become homeless.
Current address: Room 303 Unit 5 Building 5, No 95 Yuan, South Ping'an Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Grandfather: Yang Gentian, 68 years old
Grandmother: Cui Fugui, 66 years old
Wenjing's father Yang Xiaojie is 39 years old and had originally worked for the China Youth Daily North Division. On September 29, 2000 he and his wife went into exile. Yang Xiaojie was arrested in the evening on September 28, 2001. In July 2003 he was illegally sentenced to 11 years in prison and was sent to the Beijiao Prison, formerly the No. 4 Prison in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.
Liu Runling is 40 years old, and she had worked at the Yuji Cosmetics Store. On September 29, 2000 she and her husband went into exile to avoid the persecution. In the evening of September 28, 2001 she was arrested in the Kaida District in Shijiazhuang City. She was brutally beaten and sent to the Penghou Street Police Station. From there she was transferred to the No. 1 Detention Center, where she is held until now. She was forced to sit on a "metal chair" (a torture instrument) for seven days and nights. The perpetrators then transferred her to the First Detention Center and from there eventually to the Xinle City Detention Center, the Shijiazhuang City's Dongfeng Road Detention Center and are now imprisoning her at Shijiazhuang City's Second Detention Center.
On February 10, 2002, perpetrators from the Qiaoxi District Prosecutor's in Shijiazhuang City issued arrest warrants for nine practitioners, including Liu Runling and her husband, Zhao Lishan, a writer and a member of Hebei Province's Writers' Association; Zhang Shijun, an employee of Hebei Province Weather Bureau; Lan Qizhi, an employee of the Shijiazhuang City Preservation and Transportation Company; Shi Yan from Chengde City, Zhang Lingjiang, a clothes vendor; Niu Mingang, assistant manager of a Freight Station for Shijiazhuang City's Railroad Bureau, and Wang Yunman, an employee at the Shijiazhuang City's Rubber Factory. Official at the Qiaoxi District Court illegally tried them on September 9, 2002. With the power of these nine above-mentioned practitioners' righteous thoughts, the trial ended without a verdict.
In May 2003, Liu Runling was sent to the No. 2 Prison in Shijazhuang City and is being held there.
Work units and people responsible for the persecution:
Beijiao Prison in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Address: NO. 3 West Beihuan Road, Shijiazhuang City
Zip code: 050000
Phone: 86-311-7775174, 86-311-7723356
Wei Wensheng: head of prison
Chen: head in Prison Division 11
Zhao: instructor at the Education Division
Yue Yuhai: deputy division head
No.1 group head at Prison Division 11
Meeting Room at the Prison Administration Section, Beijiao Prison,
Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Address: North Hongxing Street, Shijiazhuang City
Zip code: 050000
Phone: 86-311-7777264
Hebei Province Prison Administration Bureau
Address: No 36 North Youyi Street, Shijiazhuang City
Zip code: 050000
Phone: 86-311-3807024, 86-311-3624216, 86-311-3633039, 86-311-3621636
No. 2 Shijiazhuang Prison
Address: near Zhuoda Rose Garden, No. 218 Cang'an Road
Office: 86-311-382554
Prison Administration Section: 86-311-3835241
(Clearwisdom.net) Zou Farong was born on November 15, 1999. Her family members and friends call her Rongrong. Rongrong is the daughter of practitioner Zou Songtao and his wife Zhang Yunhe. Right now Rongrong lives with her baby-sitter Zuo Yali most of the time, and occasionally at her grandparents'. Rongrong's current address is No. 44-202 Shanxian Road, Qingdao City, 266002.
Zou Songtao, Zhang Yunhe, and their daughter Zou Farong
Zou Farong's parents:
Zou Farong's father is Zou Songtao, who was born on April 8, 1972. On November 3, 2000, Zou Songtao was tortured to death in Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province. He was only 28 at the time.
Rongrong's parents, Zou Song Tao and Zhang Yunhe
Zou Songtao began to practice Falun Gong on April 8, 1996. He was a Falun Dafa assistant in Qingdao City. In mid-1999, he graduated with a Master's degree from the department of Marine Biology at Ocean University of Qingdao (currently Ocean University of China). After the onset of the persecution in July 1999, because Zou Songtao refused to give up his belief, no work unit dared to hire him. The police arrested him at his home many times. On July 22, 1999, the police arrested him and detained him in a small hotel for a month. In October 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In early November, after returning from Qingdao, the police arrested and detained him for a month. During his detention, the police guards and inmates cursed and beat him. When he was released, his ankle was swollen. In May 2000, Zou was arrested again for providing a place for practitioners to share experiences. He was handcuffed to an iron chair (The iron chair is made of steel pipes. Victims are restrained on the iron chairs with both arms and legs tied for a long period of time. See http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html for an illustration) by the director of the Taixi Police Station, Gong Guoquan, in Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Gong beat him with the sole of a shoe so viciously that he bled profusely and his head swelled up grotesquely. He became unrecognizable. He passed out for more than 20 minutes. Later on, the persecutors detained Zou in Dashan Detention Center in Qingdao City for a month. He was released in early July 2000. In July of 2000, Songtao was tricked into going to the Qingdao City Police Department, and was subsequently sent to Qingdao City Labor Camp in Shandong Province. At the end of September 2000, he was abruptly transferred to Wangcun Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province. During his detention in the labor camp, his friends and family members were not allowed to visit him or bring him food or clothes.
On the morning of November 4, 2000, family members of Zou Songtao were informed that Zou was "critically ill." On the same evening, the persecutors informed the family members that Zou had died and asked them come and see them at the labor camp. They claimed that Zou had "committed suicide." The labor camp was unwilling to let Zhang Yunhe go to the labor camp, because Zhang also practiced Falun Gong. However, Zhang insisted on visiting. The labor camp had several people watch closely while she was there. When Zou's family members asked for an autopsy and report from the pathologist, the persecutors refused. They also refused to show the family members the cell where Zou had been detained. They did not let the family members meet with the practitioners who had been detained with Zou Songtao before his death. What's more, the labor camp cremated Zou's body immediately after his death, without permission from Zhang Yunhe. After the family members returned to Qingdao, the local police forbade them from crying loudly in their home, as they wanted to hide the facts from the neighbors.
Zou Farong's mother is Zhang Yunhe, who was born on November 2, 1973. In 1994, Zhang graduated with an associate degree in accounting from Qingdao University. Because of her excellent school record, she was allowed to study for a B.S. degree. She accepted a job at the Bank of China in Sifang District, Qingdao City. One year later, she resigned and accepted a position with Qingdao TFL Chemicals Co. Ltd. as an accounting manager. The company gave her great reviews, as she worked very hard and excelled at her work. In late 1997, she began to practice Falun Gong. In November 1998, she was happily married to Zou Songtao. In April 2000, after Zou was arrested at home, Zhang went to appeal in Beijing. She practiced the Falun Gong exercises in Tiananmen Square. The police arrested her and took her to Changping Detention Center, where 7 or 8 policemen beat her cruelly. They also pinched her until she lost consciousness. The perpetrators then pulled her hair and knocked her head against the tile floor. Later on, Zhang Yunhe was escorted back to Qingdao, after which the local police harassed at her work unit continuously. Under pressure from the police, her company fired her in July 2000.
After Zou Songtao's death, Zhang lived with her daughter and elderly mother, who was in poor health. In May 2001, Zhang was caught distributing truth-clarifying flyers. Therefore she was forced to leave home, going from place to place. In February 2002, Zhang went back to Qingdao. She was arrested together with other practitioners at a practitioner's home. After her arrest, Zhang was detained in Dashan Detention Center for around 6 months. Because she has relatives overseas, the police did not notify her family members of her arrest. Instead, they detained her in secret. The Public Security Department of Shandong Province was directly involved in Zhang's arrest and detainment. It has been more than two years since her last arrest, yet the local police never told her whereabouts to her family members, saying that they were unaware of her whereabouts. The "Anti-Cult Association" and the "610 Office" of Qingdao City were also involved in the imprisonment and persecution of Zhang Yunhe.
Zou Songtao's father is Zou Deming (who is a teacher), and his mother is Cheng Yuwu.
Zhang Yunhe's father is Zhang Qingfa, a retired associate professor from Qingdao University. Zhang Qingfa has re-married and his current wife Li is a doctor who practices Chinese medicine. Their address is No. 10-east-502, Teacher's Dorm of Qingdao University, Shandong Province, 266071.
10/21/2004
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In October 2004, renowned collector Ms. Dai Meiling and her son Tony Dai, President of the Chinese Culture and Art Association in Australia, brought to New York original paintings by several dozen famous 19th and 20th centuries Chinese artists, which their family has collected. These paintings are priceless. They were acquired through the great efforts of several generations of this family. The exhibition is open to the public and free of charge. Exhibited paintings included Qi Baishi's unrivalled works, "Single Horse" by Xu Beihong, well-known painter Zhang Daqian's works, Daoguang Emperor's calligraphies and Empress Dowager Cixi's paintings. The exhibition was held in the Waldorf Astoria and was open to the public from 9:30 am to 9: 30 pm from October 21 to 24.
Ribbon-cutting opening ceremony
Why would the Dai family exhibit its large and precious collection free of charge? Why are they willing to exhibit those original works without the protection of glass covers and controlled temperatures? Ms. Dai said that one of their wishes was to get support from all kind-hearted people to rescue Ms. Qi Bingshu, the granddaughter of the great artist, Qi Baishi. At the same time, she would like to call for an immediate end to the persecution of Falun Gong and restore the reputation of Falun Gong in China.
Calling for the rescue of Ms. Qi Bingshu
Ms. Qi Bingshu, almost 70 years old, is the granddaughter of the renowned painter, Qi Baishi. She herself is also one of the outstanding artists who were influenced by the "Qi style" of painting. But because she practices Falun Gong, she has been subjected to persecution by the Jiang faction, and her whereabouts are still unclear at present.
Prior to her practice of Falun Gong, Ms. Qi suffered from various kinds of illnesses. She often bled heavily and her face was as white as paper. She had to lie on her bed and was unable to move. After she practiced Falun Gong, all of her illnesses miraculously disappeared. She looked as if she were in her 40s.
When some officials in the government began denigrating Falun Gong, Ms. Qi Bingshu hoped to use her own experience to help more people to learn the truth about Falun Gong, from which she had greatly benefited. On April 25, 1999, Ms. Qi Bingshu, though in her 60s, stood in the first row of the people who peacefully appealed to the government. Without eating or drinking anything, she stood there for a whole day and did not sit down even when asked to.
Ms. Qi Bingshu continued to explain the facts about Falun Gong to people and she is steadfast in her practice. Since July 20, 1999, the Jiang faction started using all the state-run propaganda machinery, including TV, radio, newspapers and various documents to defame Falun Gong and its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi. They also utilized the entire judicial system, including the legislature and law enforcement agencies, to apply the policy of "guilt by association" in order to systematically persecute practitioners and involve the entire society in the persecution. Since July 20, 1999, a Cultural-Revolution-like suppression of Falun Gong has swept the entire country.
Shortly after the persecution started, just because Ms. Qi firmly persisted in her belief of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance", local police and people from the Daliushu Psychiatric Hospital in Dabeiyao Town, Chaoyang District, Beijing conspired with her brother to forcibly lock her up in the hospital. Doctors there said that she suffered from "schizophrenia due to qigong" and forcefully gave her injections and various drugs. They also claimed that "she would not be released until her belief in Falun Gong was gone". The more than one year of persecution in the psychiatric hospital made Ms. Qi lose her ability to paint. Her hair turned grey and her hands were shaking. A year later, during the year 2000 and 2001, she was sent to the Third Brigade of Beijing Xin'an Forced Labor Camp and was continually subjected to persecution. Her health was severely damaged.
It was reported that the Beijing Xin'an Forced Labor Camp concealed the facts. When a foreign journalist interviewed the labor camp, the guards hid all the senior citizens and steadfast Falun Gong practitioners. They employed deceptive methods to deceive people inside and outside China.
Ms. Dai's story
Ms. Dai, dressed in her red cheong-sam and black amice, gently told her stories to the honored guests at the opening ceremony.
Ms. Dai is in her 60s this year, yet she is brimming with energy and vitality. She spoke clearly and powerfully and looked very elegant. One could not imagine that she was on the verge of death seven years ago. Ms. Dai immigrated to Australia a long time ago. In May 1995, she suddenly suffered from a very rarely seen auto-immune disease. She had to lie on her bed day and night. Ms. Dai and her family members visited many famous medical doctors and looked into all kinds of folk medicines. She also practiced Taichi. But Ms. Dai was still on the verge of death. In just several months, she had to call an ambulance three times. The first time, she recovered her consciousness after she was injected with a strong drug. The third time, the doctors from the hospital told her son Tony Dai to prepare for her funeral.
Perhaps it is really true that "Heaven helps good and virtuous people". When Ms. Dai was hospitalized, someone introduced Falun Gong to her and gave her a copy of book Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Gong. Lying on the bed, Ms. Dai started reading Zhuan Falun. After reading several dozen pages, Ms. Dai was pleasantly surprised to find that she was able to stand up and she felt better. Since then, studying the teachings and practicing the exercises of Falun Gong has become a part of Ms. Dai and her son's life. Ms. Dai felt better and better, and she obtained real rejuvenation and good health.
In July 1999, Jiang's faction started the brutal oppression of Falun Gong. Ms. Dai felt very upset about it. Falun Gong gave her a second life but in Mainland China, Falun Gong and its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi were unjustly defamed and demonized. For this reason, Ms. Dai and her son Tony went back to China several times to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong. Unfortunately, they were imprisoned and then repatriated. During their detention, Ms. Dai and Tony were interrogated for a long period of time. They were also threatened.
Ms. Dai hopes that more people could be as fortunate as her and benefit from knowing about the Falun Gong and practicing it. When she learned that the nearly-70-year-old artist Ms. Qi Bingshu, granddaughter of Qi Baishi, was subjected to mental torture for practicing Falun Gong, she felt even sadder. Therefore, Ms. Dai and her son decided to tour the world and exhibit her family's priceless collection of original artworks of famous Chinese artists, hoping to give people from different countries the opportunity to learn about the real Chinese culture and spirit, and share her personal experiences with more people, so as to call upon kind-hearted people throughout the world to learn about Falun Gong and help stop the ongoing persecution in China.
Response from society
Numerous guests attended the opening ceremony, as a constant flow of people came to visit the four-day exhibition. On the first day, some people were already waiting before the exhibition began. On the guest book, people left words such as: "It is marvelous;" "We really appreciate Ms. Dai for her selfless contribution and hope for more such opportunities in the future..."
After viewing the exhibition, a mother and daughter who came from Mainland China to visit New York had the following conversation. The daughter said to her mother, "Mom, please also practice Falun Gong!"
A western gentleman sighed after viewing the exhibit, "These paintings are so great! Ms. Dai's story is so touching!"
A 75-year-old history professor expressed that he would also like to practice Falun Gong after he listened to Ms. Dai's story. He said that he was getting aged and he felt pain all over his body.
Ms. Dai and her son felt very happy upon seeing the success of their exhibition. They expressed that they would like to hold an even larger exhibition that would include their entire collection so as to share with people from all walks of life those original works of the famous artists and their spirit. They hope to help more people learn the essence of Chinese traditional culture and the miraculous effects of Falun Gong, and at the same time call for the rescue of Ms. Qi Bingshu and an end to the unreasonable persecution of Falun Gong.
Visitors viewing the paintings
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1. The Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference features truth-clarification
This year's Russian Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was faced with interference from the outset. The Chinese Embassy tried its best to obstruct the conference. The practitioners understood that Jiang and his regime are still trying hard to stop people from learning the truth about the persecution against Falun Gong in China, and that they will take any opportunity to interfere with Falun Gong practitioners' activities. As a result, practitioners from St. Petersburg, other places in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and many from other countries came to Moscow a couple of days before the conference, so as to visit various departments of the Russian Government, the Parliament and the media to tell them the facts about the persecution.
In the evening practitioners got together to study the Fa [the principles of Falun Dafa cultivation practice], share experiences and prepare material for the next day's activities. Each day, they went out in the early morning and visited several government agencies. In a span of several days, they visited almost all of the Russian Government agencies, two hundred or so parliamentarians and all of Russia's major media organizations. Not only did practitioners give them leaflets and Video-CDs, but they also mailed them a copy of the letters that the Russian Falun Dafa Association sent to President Putin, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In these letters, they exposed the illegal activities the Chinese Embassy has employed in the past five years to obstruct Russian Dafa practitioners' activities to expose the persecution. Large-scale efforts to raise awareness of Falun Gong and the persecution were a major distinctive feature of this conference. Veteran practitioners and new ones alike actively participated, and everybody learned a lot from the event.
2. Raise awareness of Falun Gong and the persecution in front of the Chinese Consulate to save the precious Chinese people
The Fa conference this year was held from October the 15th through to the 17th, which coincided with President Putin's visit to China. The Chinese Embassy took advantage of this coincidence to make a fuss, saying, "Activities will be held to enhance the friendship between China and Russia during these three days." Their real purpose was to prevent Dafa practitioners from staging appeals at the Chinese Embassy. Failing to get approval from the authorities to hold appeal activities in groups, practitioners arranged a schedule for representatives from different places to take turns holding a solitary appeal at the Chinese Embassy with a poster in hand, as a single person's activities are not subject to approval from the government. However, the Chinese Embassy repeatedly phoned the police officer on duty in attempts to stop the appeal.
The policeman got annoyed by so many phone calls and he approached a practitioner to ask, "When will you be leaving? I am fed up with their repeated phone calls." The practitioner kindly explained the facts to the policeman, telling him that Dafa practitioners are persecuted to death in China every day; it is the right thing to do to protest against the killing of innocent people, and the police should support justice and protect Russian citizens exercising their legal rights. After hearing the facts, the policeman did not say anything more.
At that moment, a busload of Chinese passengers pulled up at the Embassy. At the sight of the lone practitioner, they came over to take a look at the scene with curiosity. One of them even stood by the practitioner and called to his companion, "Come on! Take a picture here for me." Nonetheless, they didn't have the courage to accept the material. In the light of this situation, practitioners felt that they should not let these precious people miss the opportunity of hearing the facts. They approached the Russian bus driver to explain the facts to him. After hearing the facts, the driver said: "Give me more flyers, so that I can distribute the material to them."
3. This is a piece of pure land
On the last afternoon of the Fa conference, practitioners held a group discussion in a stadium. Many practitioners from other places took their luggage to the stadium. Some practitioners left in succession. People constantly went in and out of the luggage room. On the small bench in the luggage room, there was a high-quality camera. Its owner must have been too busy with other things and left it over there. When the conference was about to conclude, there was not so much luggage left in that room. While people were leaving the stadium, some practitioner took the camera and asked another practitioner from Moscow, "Such a good camera! Not sure who left it here." When the other practitioner took a look at the camera, it was hers. She was moved and sighed, "This is really a piece of pure land."
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200410/22706.html
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners in Vancouver held another anti-torture exhibition in downtown on October 24, 2004 to expose the Jiang faction's brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. "Is it true?" was the question people asked most. They could not understand why the large-scale, cruel persecution is still going on and why it is targeting people are practitioners following Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.
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Demonstration of torture methods used in China to persecute Falun Gong practitioners
During the five-hour anti-torture exhibition, the practitioners kept up a good performance. The actors made sure to show the brutal persecution of practitioners in China. The practitioners in charge of make-up did an excellent job on the ones acting as the victims.
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A lady from Italy said that she thought such persecution and violations of human rights only occurred in Africa. She thanked the practitioners for exposing the truth to her.
"Why are the practitioners persecuted?" This was another frequently asked question. A young man asked while pointing at a photo on a flyer showing the meditation exercise, "Just for practicing this?"
Practitioners talked about Falun Gong and the persecution of practitioners in China. One practitioner said, "In truth-clarification I found that many people did not know about Falun Gong. They often asked, 'What is Falun Gong?' It looks there is still a long way to go in our truth-clarification."
In addition to holding anti-torture exhibitions from time to time, practitioners in Vancouver also clarify the truth in downtown. Groups of two or three practitioners distribute flyers, conduct exercise demonstrations and hold up anti-torture poster boards in downtown. The effect has been very good.
(Clearwisdom.net) Three years ago on October 10, 2002, the head of the Life and Health Department in the region of Bergsjon announced that from that point onwards, October 10 would be known as "Falun Dafa Day" in Bergsjon. In his speech he said, "I enthusiastically recommend this ancient oriental practice of cultivation to our locals. I hope that the goodness of Falun Dafa can bring admirable changes to the people in our region." In order to show people the beauty of Falun Dafa, practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and also taught the younger passersby how to fold paper lotus flowers. They also talked with people about the persecution in China and collected petition signatures calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
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Translated from Swedish at http://se.clearharmony.net/articles/200410/12241.html
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Facts of the Persecution
Practitioner and Sisters Persecuted
My name is Ms. Wang Yumei. I have two younger sisters who are Falun Dafa practitioners, Wang Yufang and Wang Yuhong, and we live in Hengtoushan Forest Reserve and Processing Plant in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. My first sister, Wang Yufang, has been arrested three times. The first time she was detained at the Jiamusi Detention Center, and she almost died from the torture. The second time, she was sentenced to three years in a labor camp after being arrested, and was carried home when she was again near death from the torture she was subjected to. The third time, in December 2003, she was reported and sentenced to three years in prison. The prison refused to accept her because of her poor physical condition, so she is still being held in the detention center. Both of my sisters have been tortured until they were disabled. My youngest sister, Wang Yuhong, has been held in the Jiamusi Labor Camp for nearly five years.
Account of Practitioner Being Force-Fed
From September to December 2003, Education Department Manager Wang Guobin (male) and Yue Yuhai (male) of the Northern Suburban Shijiazhuang City Prison lead police from the Education Department to torture Falun Dafa practitioners with the intent of forcing them to give up their cultivation. Their torture methods included sleep deprivation, standing motionless for long periods of time, sitting motionless on a small stool for a long time, beatings with a mop handle, and pinching their fingers with pliers, among other methods. They also instructed a prisoner named Fan Jiangshan (male) to brutally beat a practitioner, Mr. Yang Xiaojie, breaking his teeth. On the evening of June 2, 2004, Mr. Yang was placed in solitary confinement, because he refused to watch a play that slandered Falun Dafa. He went on hunger strike to protest, and was tortured by being force fed on the morning of June 6. Policeman Wang Guobin inserted a tube through Mr. Yang's nose, and then inserted a wider tube. He then suddenly pushed it down too far while pouring in a thick brine solution, which filled Mr. Yang's lungs, nose, and mouth. He started to suffocate, and suddenly exploded with so much strength that three people could not restrain him. He managed to sit up and pull the tube out. Three days after the forced-feeding, Mr. Yang still suffered from a burning fever, a persistent cough, and he was vomiting blood.
Policemen Carry Out Persecution
Policemen Chen Lihui and Li Jun from the Third Ward at the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp, Changchun City, Jilin Province brutally torture Falun Dafa practitioners.
Policeman Chen Lihui is in his forties. He is originally from Henan Province and currently the Third Ward leader. He forced Falun Dafa practitioners who have severe cases of scabies to do heavy labor, and he would not allow practitioner Mr. Liu Hongwei to visit his dying wife Yu Lixin, who is also a practitioner, and who eventually died due to torture. On April 6, 2004, he directed the police and prisoners to "comb" through more than forty Falun Dafa practitioners in the Third Ward, one by one, trying to force them to be transformed. Many practitioners could not walk, and were covered with wounds after this "combing." He instructed them to have practitioner Mr. Ding Yunde tied to a sitting board (1) overnight. After October 2004, Chen once again directed another round of torture against Falun Dafa practitioners. This time, Mr. Dong Ming was forced to walk with a broken leg, by himself, leaning against the wall to support himself.
Policeman Li Jun is in his thirties. He used to work in the First Ward, but is now in the Third Ward. On December 24, 2001, he instructed prisoners to brutally beat Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Liu Hongwei, Mr. Wang Yonghe, and others. Mr. Liu Hongwei passed out after being brutally beaten by a prisoner with a bed board. They forced Liu Hongwei and Wang Yonghe to sit motionless in the lotus position for more than twenty hours each day, threatening to beat them if they moved. He directed prisoner Zhou Chunwei (male) to force practitioners Liu Hongwei and Wang Yonghe to smoke cigarettes, knowing that it was against the principles of their cultivation practice, and to go through other physical torture. In 2002, he directed prisoner Wang Dechao (male) to frequently cruelly beat practitioner Mr. Gai Yongguang (from Meihekou City, Jilin Province). On April 4, 2002, he shocked (with electric batons), tied up, and used wooden sticks to beat many practitioners, and cursed Falun Dafa and the practitioners. He instructed prisoners to use all their means to force practitioners to write Guarantee Statements to betray their faith. In October 2002, he tied Mr. Liu Hongwei's hands and feet together on a wooden stick, used an electric baton to shock his anus, and shocked many other practitioners with high voltage batons.
Retiree's Family Subjected to Persecution
My name is Ms. Li Ying, I am sixty-seven years old, and am a retired doctor from the Jilin City Synthetic Textile Factory Hospital. I had to leave home and go from place to place in order to avoid being illegally arrested and sent to a brainwashing class at the end of July 1999. I was picked up in November 2000, when I tried to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. The police from the Yanan Substation sent me to detention for fifteen days. On the evening of July 9, 2001, police from the Minzhu Police Substation in Dunhua City, and the Jilin City Police Station came to ransack my home, and they arrested my daughter. They cuffed my daughter onto the heater pipe, and caused my grandson to cry and scream with terror. My daughter was paralyzed one month after being arrested, and was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp, and they did not allow me to visit her.
Personal Accounts of Persecution
My name is Ms. Kong Xianfang, from Jilin City, Jilin Province. Police from the Shijinggou Substation of the Fengman District, Jilin City started monitoring me on July 21, 1999, when I went to Beijing to appeal. They frequently ransacked my home, and arrested and threatened my family. I was detained several times. Police took our TV, two stereos, a rice cooker, and extorted more than 7,000 Yuan from us.
I am Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Dehuai, from Shulan City, Jilin Province. On February 17, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal with fellow practitioners, and we were stopped at the Tiebei Train Station, and sent back to our local town government. I was detained for twenty-three days. We had to pay five Yuan per day as a detention fee, but police used this money to eat out. They also extorted another 1,500 Yuan from us. On December 26, 2000, I went to Beijing again, and was sent to the Jinzhou City Court. Police there beat my lower ribs, kicked my thighs, and forced me to maintain a very painful position ¨C bent down with my hands touching the floor with legs straight, and I was not allowed to move for three hours. If I moved, they kicked me. I was sent to the Shulan City Detention Center, where I was detained for fifteen days. My family was also harassed.
I am Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cheng Zhaoli from Shulan City, Jilin Province. I was arrested on February 19, 2000, by local town government authorities. I was locked up with more than twenty fellow practitioners in a storage room. We had to sleep on the cold cement floor, without heating or food, when the temperature was -22 o F below zero! After 12 days, they extorted 500 Yuan and released me. On January 1, 2001, police from the Lianhua Township arrested me, and held me for fifteen days. During this time, Village Head Li Mingcai (male) and Yang Shoucheng (male) went to my home and stole three pigs, and then asked my family to pay 1,500 Yuan to get them back.
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(1) Sitting Board (Link to torture case) - Every day, practitioners were forced to put their hands on top of their laps, with backs straight, while sitting on benches 18 hours a day. This continued for over fifty days. The authorities even limited practitioners' restroom use. Because of the extended time spent sitting on the hard benches, practitioners' buttocks grew large sores that were very painful. Practitioners could not even urinate normally because of the pain. The labor camp was very humid, and the police did not allow practitioners to have air ventilation or the chance to get some sunlight. Under these conditions and being locked up for so long, countless red scabies grew all over our bodies. The condition was incredibly uncomfortable and painful.
(Clearwisdom.net) The 108th House of Representatives unanimously passed House Concurrent Resolution 304 (full text), on Monday, October 6, 2004, condemning the Chinese government's oppression of Falun Gong in both the United States and China. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., from New Jersey, extended his remarks in support of the House Concurrent Resolution 304 prior to the voting. Congressman Pallone said: "I have an admiration for the practitioners and adherents of Falun Gong and I am invested in the movement both in the United States and abroad. I remain committed to the task of making Falun Gong safe to practice in any country in the world." Below is the text of the statement by Congressman Pallone.
CONGRESSMAN FRANK PALLONE, JR.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
H. CON. RES 304
OCTOBER 4, 2004
I would like to express my support for H.Con.Res 304, a resolution honoring the tradition and practice of Falun Gong. As a cosponsor of this resolution, I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this important piece of legislation.
H.Con.Res 304 calls on the Chinese Government to stop interfering with the religious and political rights of individuals in the United States to practice Falun Gong. The Chinese Government has gone so far as to spread falsehoods about Falun Gong and to harass, detain, abuse and imprison Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners are simply exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of religion and expression, and the actions of the Chinese Government conflict with international standards of freedom and human rights and must end immediately.
I have an admiration for the practitioners and adherents of Falun Gong and I am invested in the movement both in the United States and abroad. I remain committed to the task of making Falun Gong safe to practice in any country in the world. The members of Falun Gong are opposed by a Chinese government that unjustly views them as dissenters. This view is entirely without merit. In reality, Falun Gong is an inherently peaceful, apolitical movement that stresses nonviolence and meditation. Since Falun Gong was outlawed in 1999, hundreds of nonviolent practitioners have been arrested, tortured, libeled, and detained without charge or proof of any wrongdoing.
Sadly, the unwarranted and unprovoked aggression against Falun Gong has not ceased, nor is it limited to China. There have been unprovoked attacks in the United States and Falun Gong members have been subjected to a humiliating and denigrating blacklist.
One incident that I found particularly offensive took place in June 2003. Falun Gong members were attacked and beaten while holding a nonviolent protest in New York City. In an effort to end the discrimination that confronts Falun Gong practitioners, I wrote a letter to the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau requesting an investigation of this case. I hope that justice prevails in this case.
With passage of H.Con.Res.304, we can send a strong signal condemning China's human rights abuses and we can take one step closer to ensuring Falun Gong members the freedom of religion and assembly guaranteed to them by law.
(Clearwisdom.net) According to a recent Xinhua Net report, the Department of Public Security has recently abolished seven departmental regulations and 1077 model documents. The Department of Public Security clearly stated that the policies violating national law and regulation must be abandoned. According to the report, an officer from the Department of Public Security said this elimination of model documents in the Department of Public Security is "the broadest, the most intensive, and the most complete since the establishment of the People's Republic of China." As a concerned citizen of China, I ask how the July 1999 "Six Prohibitions" issued by the System of Public Security to persecute Falun Dafa will be treated?
The first documents that the Department of Public Security should eliminate are the "Six Prohibitions" and various documents issued by the public security system to persecute Falun Gong
(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/8/18/39234.html)
In July 1999, the fourth article of the "Six Prohibitions" issued by the Department of Public Security proclaimed: "Prohibit any gathering, parade, or demonstration that promotes Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) with peaceful sitting or appealing." This regulation violates the constitution and the current law.
Article 35 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China states: "The citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy the freedom of speech, publication, association, parade, and demonstration." The "Six Prohibitions" deprived citizens of their freedom of association, demonstration, and speech. The Constitution is the overall law of the nation. Any other laws or local regulations contradicting the Constitution should not be enforceable.
The "Six Prohibitions" is also against Article 41 of the Constitution. This article states: "The citizens of the People's Republic of China have the right to criticize any public officer at various levels and the right to appeal, to press charges, and to report any official who has done things against the law or failed in his official duty. The related government organization must thoroughly investigate and properly resolve the appeals, charges, and reports filed by a citizen. No appellants should be suppressed or retaliated against."
The Appeals Regulation of the State Department of the People's Republic of China clearly states: "In making appeals, (citizens) may present to the related government agencies their criticism, suggestions or requests regarding any government units and their officials." "Secondly, (citizens) may report and expose officials for violation of laws and abuse of power." "Thirdly, (citizens) may file charges against behaviors that violate their legal rights." The "Six Prohibitions" issued by the Department of Public Security not only violated China's Constitution but also the Appeals Regulation issued by the State Department of the People's Republic of China.
Each sentence of the July 1999 "Announcement" began with the word "Prohibit." It was easily understood that any citizen who believed in Falun Gong would be deprived of his or her basic human rights. Actually, the Department of Public Security has no legal right to legislate or interpret the law, since it is only an organization for law enforcement. Its regulations violated the Constitution according to articles 59, 64, 65, 66, 71, 93, and 111 in the "People's Republic of China Criminal Law." The actions taken by the public security system before the announcement of the "Prohibition Orders," which included the massive nation-wide arrest of Falun Dafa assistants and members of the Falun Dafa Research Association on the early morning of July 20, 1999, and the detention of over 300,000 Falun Dafa practitioners who went to appeal on July 21 and 22, have no legal standing. In some regions, public security organizations deceived Falun Dafa assistants by pretending to want to talk with them and then arrested them upon their arrival; some did not show any arrest or detention warrant; some still have not provided the detention locations to the practitioners' family members or work units even after a long lapse of time and with no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the practitioners. Some public security organizations continue to summon Falun Dafa practitioners, illegally search their homes without search warrants, and detain practitioners for over 30 hours. On July 22, 1999, the Human Rights Watch Group strongly condemned the Chinese Government for its illegal ban of Falun Dafa activities; but the "Six Prohibitions" issued by the Department of Public Security and other documents which attack Falun Gong still became the "legal basis" for the public security system's persecution of Falun Dafa for the past five years.
Documents can be terminated but the crimes cannot be written off
In August 2001 when the international community recognized the truth of the "Self-Immolation," the Chinese Central TV Station simply cut out the scene that showed Liu Chunling being hit by a heavy object, just like an elementary student erases an error on his homework. This revision only made it more obvious that they were trying to cover it up. Will this termination of some documents by the Department of Public Security also be like "erasing an error"? If not, it should thoroughly investigate the conspirators, creators, and executors behind the "Six Prohibitions" and provide the public with a reasonable explanation.
How could they not know that these illegal "Six Prohibitions" caused so many innocent people to lose their families, jobs, homes, and even their lives? Many persecution cases have already been exposed in Chinese society. In addition to the countless Falun Gong practitioners who have died from persecution, the practitioners still suffering brutal torture are even more numerous. Those who created these illegal regulations have caused irreparable damage.
Clearwisdom.net has reported many shocking cases of persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners, for example, the two appalling cases reported on August 13 & 29, 2004. Practitioner Zhang Zhong from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, was unjustly arrested in the spring of 2002 and sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment. Over the past two years, he was tortured in the prison nearly to death several times. Currently skin and bones, he is in a coma and dying.
(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/9/16/52490.html)
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Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zhong subjected to persecution in Daqing Prison, as thin as stick and at the verge of death.
Ms. Wang Xia, 30 years old, from Bayanzhuoermeng, Linhe City, Inner Mongolia, was sentenced to seven years in prison for speaking the truth and clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. She was detained in the Huhehaote City Women's Prison, where she was brutally force-fed with harmful drugs. Her weight was reduced to 45 lb, and she was continuously in a coma. To escape responsibility for her condition, the prison asked her family members to take her out on a "medical parole" on June 26, 2004.
(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/8/14/51371.html)
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Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xia was tortured until she became so thin that all her bones were visible.
Thirty-six year old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong was shocked with electric batons for seven hours by police in Longshan Education and Reformation Center, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, severely disfiguring her face. This news was exposed between June and July of this year. Since August 9, 2004, she has had blood in her urine and cannot eat or drink. After three months of torture, Gao Rongrong had become so thin that all her bones were visible. Her eyes were sunken so deeply into their sockets that they could not close completely, and she looked nothing like before. Doctors said she was constantly at the risk of dying and repeatedly issued death notices, but the officials at the Longshan Education and Reformation Center refused to release her, proclaiming that she would not be allowed to go home even if she did die.
(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/8/18/51489.html)
 Ms. Gao Rongrong, Falun Gong practitioner from the Finance Division of the Luxun Art College |
|  Ms. Gao Rongrong was tortured on May 7, 2004. Her cheeks are covered with burn scars from electric baton shocks. This photo was taken 10 days after the torture. |
The images of these life-threateningly ill and disfigured people are reminiscent of the crimes of genocide committed by Hitler over 50 years ago. Can these unspeakable crimes of the past five years be written off if these illegal documents are terminated?
Remarkably, officials from public security, the prosecutors, and police departments all said of the persecution, "We know you are good people, but there is nothing we can do. This is an order from the higher authorities. If we don't do as ordered, we will lose our jobs." If they didn't complete the task of persecuting Falun Gong, their official positions would be threatened. Some people became "heroes" and were rewarded for their performance in persecuting Falun Gong, such as Su Jing from Masanjia Labor Camp and Li Jirong from Beijing Women's Labor Camp. The illegal "Six Prohibitions" poisoned the conscience of these public security officials.
Punishing the perpetrators is the only way out
Merely terminating the illegal documents is not enough; punishing the perpetrators is the only way to truly end this persecution. If the current Chinese leaders are indifferent and do nothing to stop the persecution, they will continue to poison more people and also have to bear the responsibility for the crimes committed by Jiang's regime.
History will not change its course of development according the will of mankind. Neither the international community nor the legal profession will be indifferent to massive genocide and crimes against humanity. When every country in the world understands this persecution, the criminals will be punished according to international laws and the laws in each country. The International Criminal Court may even establish a special court like that established for the Rwanda genocide crimes. Because the current legal system in China cannot provide justice to the victims, victims around the world will have reason to press charges against the initiators and participants of this persecution in the international society. In fact, this trend has already taken shape: Jiang Zemin has been sued in the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, Taiwan, South Korea, Greece, and Australia for crimes against humanity, genocide, and torture. High-ranking officials who participated in the persecution, such as Li Lanqing, Zeng Qinghong, Luo Gan, Liu Jing, Zhou Yongkang, Wu Guanzheng, Bo Xilai, and Chen Zhili have also been sued in many countries and in the International Court of the United Nations.
China must punish its criminals using current legal means. I hope that all who are concerned about China's future will clearly recognize this issue and work together to end this persecution as soon as possible.
(Clearwisdom.net) When I was a teenager, I wondered why I hadn't been born in ancient India 2500 years ago, and thus couldn't personally hear the Buddha Law. I thought sentient beings could no longer transcend the Three Realms and that we would have to go through the reincarnation cycle of samsara forever.
In the middle of November 1994, I read Mr. Li Hongzhi's book, Falun Gong, and at the end of the month I was told that Teacher was going to give lectures in Guangzhou and asked whether I would like to attend. Without hesitation, I said that I would attend. At that time I had just a faint feeling that this would be very important to my future.
In December 1994, a few days before the lectures, several of us went to Guangzhou together. All the hotels were full, but the four of us managed to find a very small room with only two beds, with which we were very satisfied.
As soon as we left the train, we went to the lecture site. In those days, Guangzhou was shrouded in a harmonious atmosphere. During the first few days of Teacher's lectures, the whole gym was dusty. After that, it became very clear and transparent. Teacher told us that for some reason, the class had been delayed for a few days, and many practitioners, especially those from Urumqi, Beijing, and the Northeast had already been there for a long time and had little money left. To make up for this inconvenience, the class time would be limited to a few days. At that time, I was sitting in the stands behind Teacher, and I only had a view of his back. Teacher often turned back and said: "Those sitting behind me will not be left behind - they are even closer to me."
Some practitioners were unable to get tickets and were left waiting outside. The people in charge coordinated an arrangement so that some of them could sit on the floor of the gym, and others could watch the live recording in the hallway. Afterwards, Teacher went especially to see them.
Every time Teacher stepped into the meeting room, all the practitioners responded with warm applause. After finishing the last lecture, Teacher answered questions from practitioners, and then some practitioners presented him with flowers and silk banners. The scene was very harmonious and wonderful.
When Teacher got to the door to leave, he suddenly turned back to the meeting room and rotated a big Falun in the air and then pushed it out to us. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was the last series of Fa-teaching lectures that Teacher would give.
Whenever I recall this period, I always feel very happy and illuminated by the light of the Fa. "The infinite beauty and wonder are beyond words." (from "Falun Paradise" in Hong Yin, provisional translation subject to improvement).
(Clearwisdom.net) More than two years ago, we began to clarify the facts of Falun Gong over the Internet. In the beginning we only sent emails. Most of the replies we received revealed misconceptions about Falun Dafa. We received several dozen letters daily, but all were vulgar. In the beginning, I did not realize the importance of telling the facts about Falun Gong, but corresponding with these people awakened me to the urgency to do so. Later I visited a chat room on the Internet. It was so much more beneficial and convenient for truth clarification. I found it quite different from writing emails, as one cannot get the others' reaction on the spot when writing. In the process of writing and waiting for a response, it can often take more than a month to help others understand the truth. However, chatting on the Internet conveys the practitioners' goodwill. It can also be combined with voice chat. Rude people would immediately become more polite after hearing your voice. One also can clarify the truth simultaneously to several people on the Internet. We have improved substantially over our beginning efforts, as we can show them videos on the Internet. We found that people who held great misunderstandings would understand the truth after watching the videos.
Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference":
"So looking at things from this perspective, you still need to step up your clarifying the facts some, and still need to do it in greater depth, do it better, and do it more solidly; you absolutely can't just go through the motions. Only when you do it earnestly can you save that many people."
I will now share some of our experiences in the chat room. I hope this encourages fellow practitioners. I hope that more practitioners will clarify the truth over the Internet and step up their efforts. No matter what happens, we can't neglect clarifying the facts. We must also help people who say that they want to learn Falun Gong.
1. People with Misconceptions Instantly Understand the Truth after Watching Our Videos
One person who held a deep misunderstanding persistently wrote to me in defamatory language. He asked me not to practice any more. I sent him some pictures, but he still did not believe the facts. Finally, he agreed to watch a video. I observed him quietly watching the video on the screen. At last he said to me, "What you said is all real! I really appreciate you telling me this! Can you show me more videos? I will watch all you can show me."
Another time, a person I chatted with asked me not to practice Falun Gong. I clarify the facts further to those people with wrong understandings, and have them watch truth-clarification videos. I played the video without difficulty every time, but on that day he was unable to view it no matter what we tried. From the screen, I saw him asking for help from the person in charge of the Internet bar. This person asked him not to watch it after seeing what the video was about. He typed with embarrassment, "You have seen it!" I replied, "I think you are a good person!" He asked, "How so?" I answered, "You are not affected by this person's attitude and still willing to talk to me." This dissolved his embarrassment. I sent forth righteous thoughts, and encouraged him to finish watching the video. He said, "I understand now." He told me that he would come back in a day and try again. I told him about the persecution that Gao Rongrong had suffered, and he asked for Gao Rongrong's photo. He wanted to see how the police had disfigured people. I warned him before I uploaded Gao Rongrong's photo, "Please do not be frightened because you can't imagine the cruelty and brutality of the persecution against Falun Gong!" He said to me after viewing the photo, "This is too brutal! Too hateful!" Eventually he understood the inhuman treatment of Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Once I chatted with a very polite person on the Internet. After I told him that I practiced Falun Gong, he asked me if it was good. He said he also wanted to learn. I told him that he was fortunate, and asked, "Do you know about the Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident?" When I mentioned the doubtful points of this incident, he only kept asking me, "Really? Really?" At first I thought that he held no misconceptions and wanted to learn Falun Gong. However, he suddenly sent me a sentence, "I am a police officer! No one in China will believe you!"
I told him that I held no hostility, and suggested that he pay more attention to the information from overseas. I asked if I could show him movies, and he agreed. After watching the analysis of the self-immolation incident, he appeared to be in deep thought. He was very patriotic and loved his country. He was in deep thought as to why the government could do such things and make up so many lies. He nervously turned off the video. Then his attitude towards me changed to hostility, and he admonished me.
I then calmly and kindly asked him, "Can I talk to you?" He agreed. During the conversation, I told him that Falun Gong is not against the government, and practitioners only oppose this persecution. "I hope you can understand and believe me," I said. "I am not asking you to betray our country; I only want you to make a clear distinction between right and wrong! One more concern, one more kind thought will lessen the occurrence of a disaster." During the process of clarifying the facts to him, he lost his temper several times, and my heart was moved by it. Finally, because I continued to think of what Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Fa Conference": "Since we cultivate a righteous Fa, no matter what we do, we should approach it with goodness," I was able put down my attachments, and he gradually felt our goodness. At last, although he did not express anything in words, he sent me a flower and a smile. I knew that my efforts were successful. He understood the truth! Before logging off, he said, "I won't misunderstand Falun Gong any more."
2. Clarify the Facts to People Who Have No Misconceptions
Once I met a person on the Internet who listened to the truth, and I thought that he held no misconceptions. I wanted to talk in more detail and tell him about my feelings and past experiences. After talking for a while, I found that this person still held some misconceptions and doubts. At that time I only chatted with him, and not too many people simultaneously. I asked him if he would like to hear a song. I sent him the lyrics, and he burst into tears. I was a bit surprised, although the song of "Coming for You" is really touching. He continued to send me the message of "Thank you! Really thank you, I am very moved, and I just want to cry."
Later he typed again, "You made me remember some things, and I remember my friends." Then he sobbed and said, "I was a lucky one, otherwise I would be disabled." I understood that he once learned Falun Gong. We had a long talk. I gave him the software to surf the Internet safely, and asked him to read Teacher's new articles. He said, "You showed me the light!" He kept thanking me. I asked him if he knew about the Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident. He responded in the affirmative. He had watched the fabricated report on TV. He not only had believed it, but also stopped practicing because of it. After watching the truth-clarification video, he continued to ask me questions. At last he asked, "But I do not have time to read the book, what can I do?" His misunderstanding had finally dissolved.
The more people I chatted with and clarify the truth to on the Internet, the more I felt the urgency to do more of it. Although at first they were not friendly due to misconceptions, I could feel that they were kind. I recognized that they were contaminated by the lies and distorted propaganda. They lived in an impure environment. Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference": " So with those people who've been deceived in the persecution, all the more so, how could you not give them a chance? If you don't tell them the facts they will lose their futures forever."
Without control by the evil, it is really easy to make a person understand the truth. Many people said they wanted to learn Dafa, and I was very happy for them..
3. A Girl Not Practicing Falun Gong Said to Me, "Falun Dafa Is Great!"
One day, when I saw a message sent to me by a girl on the Internet, I typed, "My friend, how are you? Sorry for not replying earlier." She immediately replied, "It does not matter, you are a good person!" I was quite surprised and asked, "Do you know about Falun Gong?" She answered, "If you believe it, it will protect you. An incident happened to me, and made me unable to not believe." And then she told me, one day she was talking on a mobile phone in a car. The handset fell out of the window, and the car did not stop immediately. Once the car stopped, she went back along the road they had driven to look for the handset. She did not think that she would find it, after all, the car had gone a great distance! When she walked to a big tree, she looked up and saw a banner reading "Falun Dafa Is Great" was hanging on the tree. She thought, "If I can find my mobile phone, I will believe you!" She found her phone. She was so surprised! She also said she wanted the book.
I feel more and more people are waiting for us to bring them the truth of Falun Gong. A person's username on the Internet is "God, save me." Teacher said in the article "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People":
"For a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple, personal liberation is not the goal of cultivation: when you came, saving sentient beings was your great aspiration, and that is the responsibility and mission history has bestowed upon you in Fa-rectification. Thus great numbers of beings are to be saved by you. Dafa disciples, don't forsake the magnificent responsibility that has been bestowed upon you in Fa-rectification, and even less should you disappoint those beings, as you are now their only hope for entering the future. For this reason, all Dafa disciples, students both new and veteran, should get to work and begin comprehensively clarifying the truth."
Many fellow practitioners have been persistently working on computer technical maintenance and making truth-clarification materials. They silently give of themselves. We are one body and should treasure it. Today I told you these true stories. I hope that we can encourage each other. We should cherish the opportunity we have to find these people on the Internet. They are waiting for us to tell them the facts, and bring them the wonderfulness of Dafa. Finally I would like to quote Teacher's article "In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human" to encourage myself and fellow practitioners. "With validating the Fa, you should save the world's people and do well the three things Dafa disciples are supposed to do. Be diligent! Cast aside your human attachments. Godhood isn't far away."
(Clearwisdom.net) Huang Shangyi, born in Changhua, Taiwan, is currently a graduate student at Bielefeld University in Germany. Mr. Huang first went to a language school in Göttingen in March 2003 to study German for six months. Because of the major change in culture and environment, he was quite stressed. So the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper), which was delivered to the dormitory weekly, was very important for him. He found that this newspaper was very positive and informative, and gave him a unique feeling that was hard to describe. Shangyi quickly discovered that each issue of the Epoch Times had one page dedicated to Falun Gong, and he found that the stories reported there were very interesting and yet much different from what he knew.
When Shangyi was serving in the Taiwanese Army, he had seen a CCTV program about the 2001 Tiananmen Self-immolation incident (the staged tragedy which has been used by the Jiang faction to frame and incite hatred towards Falun Gong). The program left him with a very negative impression about Falun Gong, though he didn't know anything about this practice. He wasn't interested in finding out the truth as he thought Falun Gong had nothing to do with him.
The message from the Epoch Times thus made him very confused and he didn't know whom he should trust. However, to him, the stories by practitioners didn't seem to be lies. He thus wanted to find out the truth. As he learned that Falun Gong books could be downloaded from Internet for free, he thought: "Why don't I check out the books?" Therefore, he read through Zhuan Falun (1) in just a few days.
Shangyi had briefly explored several other Qigong schools before but he didn't pursue them, as the principles of those schools were either not clear or were too hard to understand. When he finished reading Zhuan Falun, however, he found that this book revealed a very harmonious system of teachings. His questions about Qigong were answered and he was completely convinced. He then started to practice the Falun Gong exercises at home.
When Shangyi was doing the second exercise, the Falun Standing Stance, following the video instruction, he felt a mighty energy flow circulating between his two arms. This unprecedented experience shocked him and inspired him to start his cultivation path in Falun Dafa.
First on the right, Huang Shanyi
Since practicing Falun Dafa, the feelings of stress gradually disappeared and Mr. Huang became more and more joyful. Furthermore, he can easily discover his shortcomings and eliminate them as long as he acts according to the teachings of Falun Dafa. Huang Shanyi is becoming very healthy both mentally and physically.
A Heart-felt Wish: Let Every Chinese Person Know the Truth of Falun Gong
 Participating in the Bielefeld Cultural Festival Parade |
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 Participating in a University activity to promote Falun Dafa |
In September 2003, Shangyi started his studies at Bielefeld University. There are about 200 Mainland Chinese and several dozen Taiwanese students studying there. There are only 3 Falun Dafa practitioners at the University, who are all specializing in Education. Shangyi and his fellow practitioners practice and hold group study once a week. Because they study in German, besides studying the Fa (2), Shanyi has also benefited a lot in improving his German and his study skills in general.
From his personal experience, Shangyi saw that those who grew up in Taiwan were still misled by the Mainland media's propaganda; he therefore particularly understands the severity of the misleading state-controlled Chinese media. He realized that the more than 200 Chinese students at the University might have also been poisoned as he was, and thus his biggest wish is to help all the Chinese people know the truth about Falun Gong.
Shangyi has been actively participating in Dafa activities, socializing with other Chinese international students, distributing truth-clarifying VCDs, and joining other Fa-promoting activities. At the beginning, many Chinese students suspected that he was a spy and didn't dare to contact him. Through long-term observation, however, many of them finally accepted him as well as the truth of Falun Dafa, brought to them by Shangyi's sincerity and compassion.
In his spare time, Shanyi has been to tourist sites in Cologne and Heidelberg to distribute Falun Gong materials. There are often many Chinese tourists at these sites, and Shangyi hopes that they can learn the truth about Falun Gong from the materials he gives them, as well as through his upright demeanor.
Though once affected by the Jiang faction's anti-Falun Gong propaganda, Shanyi was able to clear up the misunderstanding through the free information channels and then begin practicing Falun Dafa himself. To him, this "crisis" eventually became the most positive turn in his life. He sincerely hopes that all Chinese people can learn the truth about Falun Gong as he did, and he hopes that all practitioners in China can regain a legal environment to practice Falun Gong as soon as possible.
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(Clearwisdom.net)
[Editor's note: With the help of some kind people, Gao Rongrong recently escaped from the detention in the hospital. This article was written before that.]
Recently, there have been many reports on practitioner Gao Rongrong from Shenyang, who was disfigured by electric shock torture. She's still unconscious, and I'm very concerned and worried about her condition. Meanwhile, I felt very guilty, since I'm also a practitioner from Shenyang. Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference": "Wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the truth and save people." When there's a problem in an area, shouldn't the practitioners from that area take it as an opportunity to save sentient beings and establish mighty virtue? It's also a chance for us to examine how we cooperate with each other as one body. The Clearwisdom Weekly encouraged practitioners to go to the First Hospital Affiliated with the China University of Medicine (also referred to as "Shenyang University of Medicine") to send forth righteous thoughts. However, I don't think that's enough. The reason that the evil factors continued to torture and persecute our fellow practitioner is probably because we didn't sufficiently clarify the facts and we didn't cooperate with each other well enough. In other words, we didn't target the evil's weakest link. We should more deeply and extensively clarify the truth and expose the evil with no omissions, so that the evil has no place to hide.
I think that we should actively talk to the doctors, nurses, patients, patients' families and friends at that hospital to let them know what happened to Gao Rongrong. People will be able to see the evil of the persecution through what happened to Gao Rongrong after they learn the truth.
Of course, we should always pay attention to safety. Finally, let's review together Teacher's words on how we should conduct ourselves.
"Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with mercy--this is establishing the mighty virtue of an Enlightened Being." (Essentials for Further Advancement II, "Rationality")
(Clearwisdom.net) In mid-September, after studying Teacher's new article "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People," practitioners in Sichuan Province successfully held an experience sharing conference in the home of a practitioner living in the countryside. Almost 40 practitioners attended the conference. With regards to security, practitioners applied rational methods -- for example, the notice was spread only by word of mouth, and during the conference, some practitioners stayed at the entrance of the village to keep watch.
The practitioners who coordinated the conference made very careful preparations. To focus on the topic of "Let Go of Human Attachments," they prepared articles about attachment to competition, showing off, jealousy and lust. They looked up Master's lectures on these topics and arranged for practitioners to read them. Practitioners then shared their own cultivation experiences in the recent time period, focusing on the three things that Master requires us to do well (1). Each cultivation experience reflected the practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous actions, and they were all very inspiring.
In terms of finding omissions, problems that remained in sending forth righteous thoughts were pointed out. Some practitioners said that sending forth righteous thoughts was to invoke the divine power of the Buddha Fa, and it should be used whenever necessary. Hence the phenomena of getting tired, having impure thoughts, feeling painful or uncomfortable, and having incorrect hand gestures were all interference that we Dafa practitioners should not acknowledge. When such problems arise, they may have two causes: one may be that we do not grasp well the key elements of sending forth righteous thoughts; the other obstacle could be that we still have problems in studying the Fa and improving ourselves, that is, we still have many attachments. When one's character has not been improved, the energy potency is hindered. Therefore, the effect of sending forth righteous thoughts is not achieved.
This experience-sharing conference inspired practitioners to cultivate more diligently and to step up the pace of truth-clarification and saving sentient beings.
Notes
(1) The three things that Master Li has asked practitioners to do are to study the Fa (the Law and principles, the teachings of Falun Dafa), send forth righteous thoughts, and to clarify the facts of Falun Dafa and the persecution to all people.
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Xianning City, Hubei Province] Personnel from Xian'an District's "610 Office" Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners Zhang Jian and Li Ping
Recently, personnel from the Xian'an District's "610 Office" arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Zhang Jian, a teacher in his 40's from the Huancheng High School, and Ms. Li Ping, an employee in her 50's from a factory in the Xian'an District.
2. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Feng Yanqin Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor; Her Family Members Do Not Know Her Whereabouts
On the morning of July 27, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Feng Yanqin, a retired teacher, was arrested while distributing truth-clarifying flyers to people. She was put into Fangzi District's Detention Center. When her family members went to visit her, the personnel at the Detention Center said she would only be held for two weeks.
On August 8, personnel from the detention center notified Feng Yanqin's family members to pick her up on August 10. But when the family members arrived on August 10, the detention center refused to release the practitioner by giving all kinds of excuses. After Feng Yanqin had been detained there for a full month, her family members went to the detention center again, but she was not there anymore. After the family members' inquiries, the personnel at the detention center told them that Feng Yanqin had been sentenced to three years of forced labor. Feng Yanqin's family members never received any notification and so far they still don't even know Feng Yanqin's whereabouts.
3. [Tanghe County, Henan Province] Practitioners Ji Meishuang and Ma Shuhua Arrested for Clarifying the Truth to People
On September 20, 2004, practitioners Ji Meishuang and Ma Shuhua went to Gucheng Township's School to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to people but were reported to police. Officers from Gucheng Township's Police Station arrested them. They were later sent to Tanghe County's Detention Center. The two practitioners are currently staging a hunger strike.
Some relevant telephone numbers:
(Country code: 86, area code: 377. Please, don't dial area code before a cell phone number)
Li Zhenmeng, person in charge of the "610 Office," Political &
Security Section, Tanghe County's Police Department: 8933538 (Office), 8924523
(Home) and 13503773716 (Cell);
Zhang Zishun, Tanghe County's Detention Center administrator: 8953399 (Office),
8997289 (Home), and 13937758763 (Cell);
Wang Jifa, person in charge of the Political & Judiciary Committee: 8959669
(Office) and 13603410006 (Cell);
Li Wei, Detention Center administrator: 8959110 (Office), 8925810 (Home), and
13803773262 (Cell).
4. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Zhang Jian Arrested While Distributing Dafa Truth-Clarifying Materials
On September 21, 2004, personnel from Daowai District's Taigu Police Station arrested practitioner Zhang Jian while s/he was distributing truth-clarifying materials on the stairs. The personnel also ransacked the practitioner's home. Zhang Jian is now held at the Daowai District Police Precinct's Detention Center.
Officers from the Taigu Police Station who were involved in the case are Liu Wei and Fang Yanjun.
5. [Elunchun Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Practitioner Sa Shujuan is Taken to a Brainwashing Class
On the early morning of September 23, 2004, a person from the Elunchun Autonomous Banner's "610 Office" collaborated with chief Liu and a policeman from Wulubutie Town's Police Station to forcibly take away practitioner Ms. Sa Shujuan from Wulubutie Town, who was busy doing housework. They put her in the Xinyuan Hotel, Dayangshu Town, and bombarded her with brainwashing materials. Sa Shujuan's 10-year-old daughter was left at home without care. Her farm was also left unattended.
Prior to this, these individuals had been to Sa Shujuan's home twice, but were refused entry.
Relevant personnel:
(Country code: 86, area code: 470. Please, don't dial the area code before a cell phone number.)
Jiang Enwu, head of the "610 Office" in the Elunchun Autonomous
Banner: 13804707488 (Cell);
Wang Xiaoshuang, deputy head of the "610 Office:" 13947036138 (Cell);
Xinyuan Hotel in Dayangshu Town: 5729200.
6. [Qingzhou City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Zhang Ruizhen is Taken Away from Home
At around 11:00 p.m. on September 17, 2004, over a dozen officers from Qingzhou City's Police Department broke into practitioner Zhang Ruizhen's home in Tangjia Village, Heguan Township. Two policewomen held Zhang Ruizhen down on a couch and screamed, "You have committed a crime. Do you know it?" Zhang Ruizhen replied loudly, "It's you who have committed a crime. You persecute good people. People who carry out the law are violating the law!" In the meantime, the other policemen were ransacking the place. Zhang Ruizhen's two children were frightened and cried loudly. They took Zhang Ruizhen away by force eventually and confiscated her VCD player, tape recorder and other personal belongings.
People who witnessed this said these officers from Qingzhou City's Police Department were "worse than bandits."
Zhang Ruizhen's husband died a year ago from a car accident and now she is taken away. Her two daughters, eight and fifteen years old, were so scared that they fell very sick. They are being given intravenous drip injections now. Their 70-year-old grandmother is also scared. Right now is harvesting and sowing time, the busiest period of the year. Zhang Ruizhen's family is having a lot of problems handling everything.
7. [Hebei Province] Arrest of Practitioners Luo Shurong and Zhang Yushu
During the evening of September 24, 2004, personnel from the No.13 Section of the Beijing Police Department arrested practitioners Luo Shurong and Zhang Yushu from Hebei Province when the two were clarifying the truth in a Beijing suburb.
8. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Arrest of Practitioners Wang Cuihua, Wu Yuxia
On September 1, some villagers reported practitioner Ms. Wang Cuihua to the police when she was distributing truth-clarifying materials at Chengli Village. On her way back home, personnel from the Zhucaoying Police Precinct arrested and detained her at Funing County's Detention Center.
On September 8, practitioner Wu Yuxia from the Shimen Zhai was reported when she was distributing Dafa truth-clarifying materials. The police from Shimenzhai arrested her and put her into Funing County's Detention Center.
Phone numbers of related persons:
Pan Weixing (Pan Qiang), Zhucaoying Town's Police Precinct
chief, 86-335-6090024 (office)
Li Hao, Zhucaoying Town's Police Precinct assistant chief. 86-13930380999 (cell)
Funing County's Detention Center: 86-335-6017970
9. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Arrest of Practitioners Hua Zhikai and His Wife, Li Xueying
On September 18, 2004, personnel from the notorious Hongqi Road Police Precinct in the Haigang District, Qinhuangdao City arrested practitioner Mr. Hua Zhikai from the city's Technician Training School and his wife Ms. Li Xueying, an employee of the city's Light Industrial Machinery Factory when the couple was distributing Dafa truth-clarifying materials. They are now detained at the city's No. 2 Detention Center. Their home computer and some other personal property were confiscated.
Related phone numbers:
Hongqi Road Police Precinct in Qinhuangdao City:
Zhang Xuezheng, chief 86-335-3063032, 3063021
Qinhuangdao City's No. 2 Detention Center: 86-335-3064697
10. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Prisoner Wang Weizeng Shocks Practitioner Zhaoming with an Electric Baton
Wang Weizeng, a prisoner in the General Crime No. 2 Division, Huludao City's Forced Labor Camp, Liaoning Province, used many excruciating tortures against practitioner Mr. Zhao Ming from the Nanpiao District in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, such as stripping off Zhao's clothes, throwing Zhao on the wet ground, and then shocking Zhao with the electric batons.
11. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Xie Shulan
On September 1, 2004, Wang Rulan, female, secretary of the Wanghua District "610" Office" from Wanghua District's Political and Justice Committee, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, led local police and arrested practitioner Ms. Xie Shulan from Fushun City while Xie was reading a Dafa book at home. The police ransacked Xie's home, took away Teacher's photo and Dafa books. Xie Shulan was sent to Luotaishanzhuang Brainwashing Center, even though Xie's blood pressure at the time was 200/180 mmHg.
12. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioners Jiang Yuxiu and Qian Hong
Practitioner Ms. Jiang Yuxiu, 52 years old, and practitioner Qian Hong, 40 years old, are from the Lizigou Area, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.
On August 30, 2004, Jiang and Qian went to Qianjin Township, Fushun City to distribute truth-clarifying CDs, but were reported to the police by a local farmer who did not know the truth about Falun Gong. The police from Qianjin Town's Police Office arrested Jiang and Qian. Soon after, Jiang Yuxiu's home was ransacked. Personnel from Qianjin Township's Police Precinct took away some Dafa books. Jiang Yuxiu is currently being detained at the Nangou Detention Center in Fushun City. Qian Hong was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
13. [Xishui County, Hubei Province] Arrest of Three Practitioners From Zhudian Township
During September 22 and 23, personnel from the county's police department arrested practitioners Xia Zongyuan, Yang Xiaofeng and Xia Xiaoping from Zhudian Township, Xishui County, Hubei Province.
14. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Hu Shumei Has Been on a Hunger Strike in Dalian City's Detention Center for 14 Days
On September 6, 2004, officer Sun Yucheng and others from the Chunhai Police Station of Dalian City's Zhongshan Police Precinct arrested 54-year-old practitioner Ms. Hu Shumei at her older sister Hu Guilian's home, and then put her into Dalian City's Detention Center. Hu Shumei has been on a hunger strike for 14 days to protest the unlawful persecution. She is extremely weak. The detention center warden personally beat Hu Shumei, who is currently in a very perilous situation.
15. [Weifang Area, Shandong Province] Linqu County Authorities Further Persecute Practitioners
On September 21, 2004, perpetrators broke into the home of Mr. Li Mingxin, a practitioner in Laoyagu Village, Yeyuan Town, and forcibly pulled Li Mingxin into their car when Li was busy building his house. Li asked, "I have not violated the law or done anything wrong! Why are you arresting me?" One of them answered, "Don't you practice Falun Gong? We can arrest you if you practice Falun Gong!" They punched Li Mingxin, packed him into the car and left. They confiscated Li's VCD player, quilts and other personal belongings. They even called Li's family the next day to extort them out of 200 Yuan.
Afterwards, they went to the home of another practitioner Ms. Liu Lanxiang, who lives in the same village, and ransacked Liu's house. They put Ms. Liu into handcuffs and took her away. Liu Lanxiang faced the danger without fear and denounced their despicable conduct. Her over 70 years old mother-in-law fainted upon seeing the illegal arrest. Because of Liu and her mother-in-law's firm resistance, they gave up and left.
16. [Neihuang County, Henan Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioners Guo Lingjuan and Zhu Lingyan
On September 20, 2004, Xie Gui'en, the Political and Security Section chief at Neihuang County's Police Department, led more than ten people from the County's National Security Team as well as officers Shunli and Hongyi from Bocheng Township's Police Precinct and arrested practitioners Ms. Guo Lingjuan and Ms. Zhu Lingyan from their home. Zhu Lingyan is being held in Neihuang County's Prison, and Guo Lingjuan is being held at a brainwashing class in the county's militia training base. Police and personnel from the "610 Office" come and harass her every day. Guo Lingjuan went on a hunger strike from September 20 on to resist the persecution. Currently she's in grave condition.
Phone number of related personnel (Country code: 86, area code: 377. Please, don't dial area code before a cell phone number)
Zheng Xiangzheng, Political and Judiciary Committee chief for
Neihuang County, 13937215968 (cell), 7711262 (office)
Xie Gui'en, Political Security Section chief, Neihuang County's Police
Department: 7715468
Wang Risheng, Neihuang County's Police Department chief, 7726114 (office)
17. [Guangdong Province] Practitioner's Firm Belief in Dafa Moves a Policeman to Stop Persecuting Practitioners
Practitioner Ms. Liang Shaolin from Maoming City, Guangdong Province, used to work at the Maogang Dock. Since December 1999 she has been unlawfully sentenced to forced labor twice. Due to her firm belief in Dafa, the officials confined her in a solitary compartment in Guangdong Province's Sanshui Forced Labor Camp. She was deprived of sleep for three months. A police officer in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp quit his job after witnessing Liang's determination and the benefits she received from practicing Falun Dafa. He understood the truth and refused to be involved in the persecution of good people any longer!
18. [Chongqing] Arrest of Dafa Practitioners Yan Huiju and Yang Yifen
Practitioner Ms. Yan Huiju from the Yubei District, Chongqing was arrested for the fifth time. Practitioner Yang Yifen was arrested at same time. In August 2004, teacher Deng Sui in Baiyun Township and other practitioners were arrested at home. They are currently being held in Yubei District's Detention Center.
19. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Illegal Arrest of Practitioner Sun Xianxin
At about 10:00 a.m. on September 24, 2004, Ms. Sun Xianxin, a 58-year-old practitioner, went to her friend's home. Policemen tracked her and put her into Xishan District's Yongchang Precinct. Later, police searched her home and confiscated Falun Dafa books and exercises tapes. When Sun Xianxin was detained for 24 hours, her blood pressure reached to 240 mmHg. Currently, she is being detained at Xishan District's Detention Center.
Policemen who had participated the arrest: 86-871-4148844
Duan Bin (police badge number: 012376), often beats
practitioners
Lu Wen (police badge number: 012353)
Zhang Li (police badge number: 012373)
Tu Hai (police badge number: 012369)
He Ying (police badge number: 013036)
Li Rui, Xu Zhengrong, leader of Xishan District's National Security Team: 86-871-8100483
20. [Yong'an City, Fujian Province] Arrest of Practitioner Wang Yugang
Practitioner Wang Yugang, the former Yong'an City volunteer contact person for the local Falun Gong practice site, is an English teacher of the Railway Secondary School. Not long after being released, he was again arrest recently.
21. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Practitioner Tian Huiying Is Sentenced to Two Years of Forced Labor
In December 2000, practitioner Ms. Tian Huiying from Poxin Town, the Maonan District in Maoming City, Guangdong Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and then was detained afterwards. She was released before the 2004 spring festival. She was arrested again recently for distributing truth-clarifying materials on a bus, sentenced to two years of forced labor and taken to the Sanshui Female Forced Labor Camp.
Tian Huiying has three children. The oldest son is Lai Guangming, who is 15 years old. He had to work at a relative's place because of his family's poverty. The second oldest son Lai Guanglin, 13 years old, is a pupil at Poxin Town's Shanliao Primary School. The youngest child, daughter Lai Jiaru, is 11 years old and also a student at the primary school.
Tian Huiying's husband seldom came back home in recent years, and right now nobody takes care of the children. The house is shabby and nobody can help to fix it. The two younger children have to depend on each other. After they come home from school, they cook some porridge for themselves. Their life is very difficult.
22. [Chengde City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhang Guifen Arrested for Making Truth-clarifying Materials
Local people who didn't know the truth of Falun Gong reported practitioner Ms. Zhang Guifen from Yanjiawan Township, Weichang County, Chengde City, Hebei Province. On July 27, 2004, Zhang Guifeng was arrested and sent to the Weichang County Police Department's Detention Center.
Phone numbers of related personnel:
Song Jingpo, National Security Team chief: 86-13503348975
(Cell)
Zhang Lixin, another team chief: 86-13903242002 (Cell)
Kou Lixin, the "610 Office" head: 86-13803142190 (Cell)
23. [Changde City, Hunan Province] Arrest of Several Practitioners
At about September 20, after practitioners Su Yongneng, Ms. Xiong Yulan, Liu Jingyun, Ms. Zhang Cuiying and Ms. Zheng from Dingcheng District in Changde City shared experiences together, they were arrested secretly the same night. Their current whereabouts are unknown.
24. [Tianjin] Liu Fujing Is Illegally Detained Again for Posting Truth-clarifying Materials
Practitioner Ms. Liu Fujing, from Tianjin City, is 65 years old and lives at No.5 Ziguangyuan, No.2 Road in the Nankai District, Tianjin. For posting truth-clarifying materials recently, the perpetrators detained her at the Nankai Police Precinct. So far she has been detained about 15 days.
In March 2000, Liu Fujing was detained at the Nankai Police Precinct for 30 days because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Later, during 2001 and 2002, she was detained at the Banqiao and Jianxin Forced Labor Camps for one and half years, because policemen found truth-clarifying materials at her home. In February 2004 she stopped practicing Falun Gong. Her health was getting worse and she had to have a massive surgery at a hospital. The doctor diagnosed her with cancer, but her children told her that it was just choleo-cystitis. Later she began to study the Fa and practice the exercises again, and soon she recovered.
The Political and Security Section, Nankai Police Precinct: 86-22-27350720
September 28, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."
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