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News and Events from Around the World
Open Forum
Practitioners Exchange Experiences and Insights
Facts of the Persecution
News from China
(Clearwisdom.net) On the morning of Sunday, May 22, 2005, the annual Singapore "Big Walk" began. At 7:30 a.m., tens of thousands of sports and health enthusiasts lined up outside the national stadium and set off. The atmosphere was quite festive.
On this day, Singapore Falun Gong practitioners appeared in large numbers among the constant stream of people. They wore yellow shirts imprinted with Chinese and English words, "Falun Dafa" or "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and held colorful balloons. Some held yellow banners with the words, "Falun Dafa is good", "Falun Gong brings physical and mental health to a hundred million people", "Falun Gong is practiced in 78 countries in the world" and so on. The Falun Gong practitioners' waist drum troupe led the way, consisting of dozens of enthusiastic practitioners. The sound of the waist drums resounded in the sky and the practitioners' steps were firm and powerful. Several photographers were busy taking pictures of the procession, which received warm applause from the spectators.
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Singapore Falun Gong practitioners' procession in the "Big Walk"
Having been through all kinds of tribulations, this group of cultivators displayed the beauty of Falun Dafa and the power of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to the people lining the streets. "Falun Gong walks together with you!" Peacefully, confidently and calmly, the Singapore Falun Gong practitioners moved forward under the clear sky.
(Clearwisdom.net) On the morning of Sunday, May 22, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners from many areas successively arrived at the Taman Perbandaran, Penang to prepare for a Falun Gong exercise demonstration and anti-torture exhibit.
  Anti-torture exhibit |
  Interview with the media |
  Practitioners sending forth righteous thoughts together |
Before the preparation was done, many people who did morning exercises or took walks to relax came over and wanted to find out what was going on. Practitioners immediately began clarifying the truth to them. After learning about the facts of Falun Dafa and the persecution, one after another, people signed petitions calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. They made their choice of justice and conscience. While listening to the explanation, some people's eyes were wet with tears.
Clarifying the truth
When the activity was close to an end, several media outlets came to cover the event. Two reporters also signed the petition in support of Falun Gong. In a matter of a few hours, more than 120 people signed the petition.
  Signing petition |
  A reporter signing petition |
(Clearwisdom.net, May 20, 2005) On May 14, 2005, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Program on Human Rights and Justice held a large symposium entitled, "Forced Labor in the Global Economy." Attendees of the symposium were from across the USA and the majority of them were scholars, human rights leaders, government officials and media focusing on human rights, law and forced labor. Among those who participated were Deputy U.S. Secretary of Labor Steven Law, chief author of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Roger Plant, Terry Collingsworth of the International Labor Rights Fund and Stephen King, Director of the BBC World Service Trust.
Outside the symposium hall, Falun Gong practitioners staged reenactments of the Chinese Communist Regime's forced labor and torture methods. Among the topics of discussion at the symposium was China's dumping cheap merchandise produced by forced labor.
1. The display of products made by forced labor and the reenactment of torture methods in China shocked symposium participants
In one area of the reenactment of torture methods, there was a large iron cage with two women practitioners with make-up resembling cuts and bruises on their faces. The women were sewing and preparing products for export, such as toys, clothes and chopsticks. The "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" (WOIPFG) made eight large posters to show various products being exported that are produced by imprisoned practitioners in Chinese forced labor camps. Graphs and legends on the posters explained the statistics. Visitors were shocked by the torture means depicted. Many said that they knew there was slave labor in China but never thought it was so rampant and that it was used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
People thanked the Falun Gong practitioners for their explanation of the facts of the persecution and brought press clippings on the forced labor of Falun Gong practitioners to the conference hall to share with others. People were indignant at the Chinese Communist regime's trampling of human rights, and its damaging the balance of trade and the U.S.' labor interests. They expressed the need to take counter measures. One speaker, Mr. Kevin Bales, director of Free the Slaves, accepted the report summary on slave labor prepared by WOIPFG and said he would make further investigations.
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2. Major discussion on China's slave labor
The first half of the symposium was hosted by WBUR-TV, a well known station in Boston. In a question and answer session, a reporter asked, "The slave labor issue in China is encouraged and protected by the whole country's apparatus. For example, the labor camps producing slave labor merchandise get tax deductions and assistance in exporting their goods. China's slave labor is much like the Falun Gong practitioners' reenactment outside the conference hall. Such merchandise, exported to our country, presents unequal competition. What can U.S. labor unions, human rights organizations and government do?"
Though there were a few attendees taking the position that "China's reform is a process and better than before," Terry Collingsworth of the International Labor Rights Fund pointed out, "If we don't talk about the rampant slave labor in China but discuss slave labor in a small village in India, our efforts will be in vain. So far there has been no government to take actual countermeasures against China. But we have to do this."
3. The largest U.S. labor union asked the Bush administration to take action
It was reported that the largest U.S. labor union, the AFL-CIO, passed a petition resolution that represented thirteen million members, including six million workers in the manufacturing industry. Based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, the resolution pointed out that the Chinese communist regime continuously violates its labor force's human rights and as a result of the unequal trade, the United States lost 727,000 jobs. The resolution mentioned that the Chinese communist regime prohibits workers from forming independent labor unions, and uses slave labor and child labor. The Bush administration is requested to take action and countermeasures to the unfair practices of the Chinese regime.
(Clearwisdom.net)
During the Ukraine Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference, in order to commemorate the more than 2000 practitioners who died in the Chinese Communist regime's persecution, on the evening of May 21, nearly 100 practitioners from Ukraine, Russia and the Baltic Sea gathered at the Chinese Embassy in downtown Kiev to hold a candlelight vigil. They protested against the Chinese communist regime's suppression against Falun Gong in China.
During the activity, practitioners handed out a large quantity of truth-clarifying flyers and collected signatures of those who support their activities.
Nearly 100 practitioners protest against the Chinese communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong in front of the Chinese Embassy in Kiev.
(Clearwisdom.net) On the 15th of May 2005, practitioners from Madrid went to Alcala de Hernares to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day, promote the practice and tell people about the persecution in China. Alcala is a historic city, which is listed as a world cultural heritage city by the United Nations. The University of Alcala is one of the oldest universities in Spain. When you set foot in Alcala, you can see cranes in twos or threes spreading their wings and cruising in the blue sky among white clouds, composing a beautiful scene.
  Practitioners heshi (pressing hands together in front of the chest) to wish Master a happy birthday! |
  Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises |
Falun Gong practitioners learned that it was also St. Isidro's Day, the protector of Madrid. A stage was erected in the square whilst drummers, a band and performers were busy preparing, tuning instruments and practicing. The square was buzzing with activity. The practitioners chose their spot and began the activities in celebration of World Falun Dafa Day.
Clarifying the truth to people
Students shocked at the persecution occurring in China
The practitioners gathered at the centre of the square and prepared to set up photos of Falun Gong being practiced all over the world on one side and those of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners on the other. As soon as the first photo of the Falun Gong exercises was set up, people came to learn. When practitioners found out that many of the local people had not heard of Falun Gong, they were really anxious. However, they worked with each other in an orderly manner and took their positions. Some demonstrated the exercises, some distributed leaflets and some made speeches in front of the petition desk. The warm spring wind carried the Falun Dafa music of "Pudu" and Jishi" into every corner of the square, attracting groups of tourists and passers-by to come and find out more.
Just like the old, simple but elegant ancient architecture in Alcala, people in the city are honest and kind. Some shed tears when they saw the pictures of Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted. Some took out their purses to make donations. When they learned that Falun Gong does not accept donations, they eagerly asked how they could help practitioners.
People who learn about the truth sign the petition to support Falun Gong.
People who learn about the truth sign the petition to support Falun Gong.
This gentleman shown in the picture was blind. He came to the desk to sign the petition after hearing the broadcast. He signed his name with a practitioner's help and asked the practitioner to fill in his ID number and address for him. The brother and sister in the middle photo signed their names after having learned the truth about the prosecution of Falun Gong in China. The grandmother in the right photo told her granddaughter to sign her name.
A pair of Chinese brother and sister also signed the petition after learning about the persecution in China.
The grandma asks her granddaughter to sign the petition.
A Cuban man, who saw the pictures and leaflet, told the practitioner that he also lived in a country under Communist authoritarian rule and was very clear about the communist party's brutality and evilness. He also said that the time for the communist party to collapse is not far away.
Almost all the children who passed by showed a special liking for the photos of Falun Gong being practiced around the world and they looked for a long time.
After over six hours of celebrating and promoting Falun Dafa, the practitioners' faces were shining and red with glowing health. Finally, the practitioners unfolded a banner inscribed with "Greetings Master" and put their palms together to send greetings to Falun Gong's founder Master Li Hongzhi. World Falun Dafa Day is on the same day as Master Li's birthday.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200505/26704.html
(Clearwisdom.net) On 20th May 2005, the first "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" International Art Exhibition opened to the public in the Cambridge Union. The President of Cambridge Union and a representative of Falun Gong practitioners delivered speeches. With explanations offered by volunteer guides, many people were deeply touched by the artistic power exhibited by the paintings. They were also moved by the practitioners' uncompromising courage.
 Ribbon-cutting at the opening ceremony |
 People viewing the art exhibition |
The Cambridge Union is a student society of the University of Cambridge located in the centre of town and claims to be the oldest student society in the world. It has more than 4000 members. Jaffar Khan, the President of the Cambridge Union, said in the opening ceremony, "The Union has always been a supporter of freedom; freedom of expression and artistic freedom." He told the audience that Cambridge Union is "pleased and honoured to be the first in the UK to display this exhibit", later commenting on how lovely the pictures are. It is reported that the University of Cambridge will offer the place for the exhibition for four weeks free of charge.
A member of the Cambridge Union, Dr. Kenneth Martin, was very supportive of the exhibit. He said that he is deeply touched by the Falun Gong practitioners' persistence. He quoted a piece of Chinese idiom, "dripping water wears through rock" and said that he believed as long as we keep up our persistent effort, history will demonstrate that "Wrong is wrong, and right will prevail."
A local Falun Gong practitioner spoke about the persecution in China, which inspired a number of these paintings, saying, "The most recent United Nations report on torture and detention shows clearly that China is the worst perpetrator of human rights violations in the world. They persecute Christians, Muslims and Tibetans as well; but this report shows 67% of China's violations are against people who practice Falun Gong." According to the introduction, the authors of these art works are all practitioners of Falun Gong. Four of them personally experienced the brutal persecution and torture.
An older person who came to the UK to visit his family signed with emotion after viewing the exhibition, "This art exhibition is really great! It truly revealed the persecution taking place in China. Falun Gong practitioners are really remarkable!"
A middle-aged woman stood in front of several paintings depicting the persecution suffered by Falun Gong practitioners' children and viewed them for a long time. Her eyes were wet when she talked to this reporter, "It is really touching! Seeing the child shedding tears in the painting, I could not help shedding tears myself. It is so horrible!"
A western gentleman said after visiting the exhibition, "Although I do not practice any form of Qigong, I clearly feel that the energy field is really strong here."
The exhibition is to tour around the UK.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200505/26703.html
(Clearwisdom.net) In order to rescue orphans who have suffered severely due to the persecution of their parents, the World Committee to Rescue Persecuted Falun Gong Practitioners (WCRPFGP) successfully held a charity concert in Montreal on May 16, 2005. The response from the Montreal audience was very warm.
 The Lotus Art Troupe performs a Dai Ethnic dance, "Joy" |
 World renowned tenor, Guan Guimin |
 Soprano Bai Xue's vocal solo, "Thinking of My Homeland" and "To My Fellow Countrymen"" |
On the evening of May 16, more than 400 local residents enjoyed high quality performances from a group of oriental and western artists at the Montreal Oscar Peterson Concert Center. The performers include Alto Yang Jiansheng, Soprano Bai Xue, World renowned tenor Guan Guimin, the Toronto Lotus Art Troupe, renowned flute performer Chen Ningfang, as well as local Chinese and western artists. Waves of warm applause showed the audience's appreciation of the spectacular performances by these artists.
Ms. Yang, a Montreal contact person of the WCRPFGP, was more than happy to see the great support from the audience. She thanked the Montreal residents' concern to orphans of Falun Gong practitioners who have been tortured to death during the ongoing persecution. According to Yang, during six years of persecution, some children were directly abused physically and mentally for their practice of Falun Gong, and some have even been murdered. There are more children who have become orphaned due to their practitioner parent(s) being tortured to death. It has been confirmed that there are more than 200 orphans of this kind, and 17 of them are related to Canadian residents.
  Cello solo, "Longing" by Chen Rutang |
 Zheng playing "Joyful Deities" by a Montreal artist |
 Montreal artist Robert performs "All For You" |
Mr. Chen Rutang, whose son was rescued to the U.S. by the WCRPFGP, performed a cello piece entitled "Longing," which he composed for this concert. The rhythms depicted the sadness of parents who miss their helpless children, and revealed the tremendous suffering of innocent people and orphans caused by the genocide launched by the Chinese Communist Party against Falun Gong.
Ms. Yang expressed her deepest appreciation to the WCRPFGP for the hard work of the artists who used their exquisite art and great compassion to reach out to the Montreal citizens on behalf of the orphans. The purpose of this concert was to raise the public's awareness of the orphans of Falun Gong practitioners and consequently strengthen the efforts to rescue these orphans to North America to live normal lives.
It was reported that this concert raised about CAD $7000, and that the proceeds after expenses will be deposited to a "Rescue the Orphans" fund.
May 20, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) On April 17 2005, after receiving an invitation from the organizers of the Boombamela Festival earlier, five Israeli Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the festival. This was the seventh year of the Boombamela Festival, which took place at Nitzanim Beach. The goal of the festival is to bridge boundaries and social taboos through music, creativity and nature.
The Falun Gong practitioners' booth
The practitioners were invited to take part in activities at the "Freedom" site, one intended to raise awareness of human rights violations and providing information about critical issues. During the four-day festival, the practitioners told the festival visitors about the brutal persecution against Falun Gong that is currently taking place in China.
 Teaching the Falun Gong exercises |
 Signing a petition to call for an end to the persecution |
Hundreds of visitors signed petitions calling to put an end to the persecution. In addition, the practitioners taught the five Falun Gong exercises to many of the visitors and showed them how to make paper lotus flowers. So many people wanted to participate in the activities that the practitioners' booth was bustling even late at night.
Signing a petition to call for an end to the persecution
(Clearwisdom.net, May 20, 2005)
Practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises during the Folsom Spring Carnival
May 14 is the Spring Carnival in Folsom, California, while May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day. To celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and to introduce Dafa to the local people, practitioners in the Folsom area joined the local spring celebration and demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises during the Carnival. Many people watched the demonstration and joined in the festivities.
May 14 was a very sunny day. Though the Falun Gong performance was the eleventh on the program, practitioners came to the celebration site very early and found an open area nearby to do the exercises together. The group practice spot was very spacious and eye-catching. The "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Free Lessons" banners attached to the fence behind the practice site were visible from far away. With their own table, chairs and truth clarification materials, practitioners set up a beautiful Falun Gong booth.
Many passersby stopped at the practitioners' booth and asked for information and materials. Practitioners patiently answered people's questions and told them that Falun Gong is taught for free. Some people left their contact information and said that they would like to learn in the near future.
As oriental culture is becoming very popular in the U.S., the practitioners' performance was very well received. They were invited to do two exercise demonstrations during the event.
(Clearwisdom.net) On May 13, 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, held the first Falun Gong lecture series at the Changchun City Fifth Middle School, Changchun, Jilin Province. He taught Falun Gong to people from all walks of life. There were about 180 attendees. Today, Falun Gong has transcended the boundaries of nationality, race, religion and language, and it is being spread all over the world.
Besides Asia, Europe, Australia, South America and North America, there are Falun Gong practitioners in Egypt, South Africa and other African countries. At the Mid-US Falun Dafa experience sharing conference held in May 2004, one practitioner shared her touching experience in promoting Falun Gong in Egypt, Tanzania and Mauritius. In 2005, at the New York International Fa Conference, another practitioner shared her experience of promoting Dafa in East Africa. She witnessed two local people rapidly recover from very severe illnesses after two or three weeks of practicing Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is also welcomed and respected in Eastern European countries, where totalitarian governments were previously in control. There are practitioners in Russia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. At the Geneva Fa Conference held in 2003, Russian practitioner Mrs. Tanya shared her experience. She used to suffer from cancer and some of her organs had been removed. As her life was near the end, a nurse in the hospital introduced her to Falun Gong. After practicing Falun Gong, her cancer was cured while another cancer patient died. In order to appeal for the end of the persecution of Falun Gong, she went to Tiananmen Square and told people, "Falun Dafa is good."
Falun Gong is also rapidly spreading in the Middle East. In Israel, the number of Falun Gong practitioners has increased a lot in recent years. In big cities such as Tel Aviv, Haifa and Natania, one can see group practice sites with most practitioners being locals. At the Geneva Fa Conference in 2003, an Israeli practitioner shared her experience in promoting Falun Gong in a town where transportation is not convenient.
Even in countries that are conservative towards foreign beliefs, Falun Gong is welcomed. In May of 2002, Falun Gong was given an award by the Indonesia Kalimantan Provincial Bureau of Health. Falun Gong was invited to a conference held in suburban Jakarta, by the Dagelan Islam Institute. Over three thousand Islamic people, members of the National Assembly and the leaders of Islam attended. In March of 2005, Zhuan Falun was translated into Iranian and distributed in Iran, authorized by the government. There are currently numerous practice sites in Iran.
As of this time, Falun Gong books have been translated into over thirty languages and spread to over seventy countries and areas. The practice has gained more than 1,300 awards, over 100 supporting bills, and more than 1,000 supporting dear-colleague letters from government, officials and organizations. Falun Gong has achieved this remarkable recognition in just thirteen years.
For those who do not know much about Falun Gong or who still have misunderstandings about Falun Gong, you may think about it: why can Falun Gong spread so rapidly? Why has Falun Gong taken root in every corner of the world? What force made Falun Gong practitioners so determined in pursuing their belief, even while facing violence and persecution by the Chinese government? If not because of the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," if not because they have been told the true meaning of life and the truth of the universe, if their lives were not touched, who could ever achieve this? Compared to the praise Falun Gong has won in the rest of the world, the brutal persecution launched by the Chinese government has brought such harm to its people. What will it bring to humankind if they continue to persecute such wonderful principles and such kind practitioners?
However, during the six years of brutal persecution, Falun Gong has survived the unprecedented attack, this most forceful and cruel persecution. Falun Gong is becoming stronger and the future is bright. It is truly a miracle in the human world.
History has witnessed, and is still witnessing, the glory of Falun Gong.
May 14th 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) One day in 399 BC, inside a prison at the foot of the Acropolis in ancient Greece, a barefoot old man with disheveled hair was enthusiastically talking with his friends about the dream and the truth he had been pursuing. A guard arrived with poisoned wine in a pottery cup. The old man calmly took a look at the cup and then said to his friends, "Ok, my time is up!" He then poured the wine down his throat.
He was Socrates. This old man, whom later generations regarded as a great philosopher, was not remarkable in appearance: he was short, fat, bald and had a "lion nose." Before he was imprisoned, he stood daily in front of the "Porch of the Temple of Zeus," discussing and seeking wisdom and truth with his students, including Plato and others. Many words of great wisdom had emerged from his mouth. He enjoyed great fame among the young people, but he eventually incurred the jealousy and hatred of some nobles, who accused him of two fictitious crimes. The first crime was that Socrates had neglected and insulted the gods by considering himself as intelligent and as someone who had "studied everything in heaven and on earth." The second was that he had poisoned and corrupted the young people's minds, and roped them in by asserting that he could teach them moral integrity.
At almost the same time, in 493 BC, another old man, already in his sixties, led his disciples and traveled to other states to preach his "Kingly Way" of governing a state. Materialistic politicians, though, did not accept his teachings. When he and his students reached the State of Song, Sima Huanxiao in the Song area did not welcome his arrival. Instead, he went as far as planning to kill the old man. This prompted the teacher and his disciples to hurriedly escape to the State of Zheng. Unexpectedly, during the hasty escape, the teacher and students became separated. When the students realized this, they went everywhere to find him. One person in the State of Zheng told them, "Outside the east gate is an old man with a wide forehead and prominent cheekbones. He looked as bad as a homeless dog. I don't know if he is your teacher." After the students found the old man, they told him what they had been told, and this old man laughed loudly. This man was Confucius, who thereafter influenced China for over two thousand years. Later generations respectfully called him "the Greatest Sage and the First Teacher." This elderly man, who had run into obstacles everywhere, finally decided to quit his position as a government official. Instead, he concentrated his energy on teaching his disciples and compiled history and the classics. As time went on, his disciples collected his major teachings, and thus the book Lun Yun came into being. For this book, it came to be understood that "knowing half of it would be enough for a person to govern a nation."
Shortsighted and self-proclaimed smart persons often lose sight of the truth in the midst of their scorn and contempt. Over two thousand years ago, in the city of Nazareth, which was then a part of the ancient Roman Empire, people often ridiculed Jesus, who came from a carpenter's family, by saying, "Aren't you just the son of the carpenter Joseph? What truth do you know to teach us?" For three hundred years after Jesus was nailed to the cross, the tyrant kings and the Roman nobles ruthlessly tortured his disciples; they were also burned alive or fed to the lions. Jesus' disciples were depicted as demons that hated mankind and that killed infants to drink their blood and eat their flesh during their worshipping rituals. Now the ancient Roman Empire no longer exists, but for the past two thousand years, the universal principles of love and forbearance of Christianity have served as the foundation of Western civilization.
People often say that history is astonishingly similar, and what have the repetitive dramas appearing on the stage of human history taught people?
Thirteen years ago, on May 13, 1992, a qigong master, wearing simple clothes, started to hold a ten-day long qigong seminar in Changchun City's No. 5 Middle School in Jilin Province, China. The 180 attendees of this seminar did not realize at the time that a magnificent, historic human drama had quietly begun on that stage. Several days later, the news that "Falun Gong is miraculous" rapidly spread by word of mouth among the family members and friends of the individuals who had attended that seminar. This qigong practice not only is very effective in curing people's illnesses and making people healthy, but also has the miraculous effect of purifying people's minds. The three words, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," have awakened people's Buddha nature, which had long been hidden and dormant. In just seven years, through spreading from person to person and from heart to heart, Falun Gong was transmitted all over China.
Falun Gong has also been spread overseas and taken root in many countries. When around the world as many as 100 million people practice Falun Gong, its popularity incurred the jealousy of those in power in China; they deemed Falun Gong as "competing with the Party for people's hearts." Soon the government administrative branches, secret agents, the military and the police committed cruel torture, killings and other violent measures against practitioners. The perpetrators even promulgated frightening and bizarre lies on the radio, in the newspapers and on television. The financial and human resources of the entire nation were mobilized to persecute a group of people that just want to cultivate themselves to be kind and good.
Behind the names of 2,200 Falun Gong practitioners who lost their lives-- including Chen Zixiu, Zhao Xin, Gao Xianmin, Liu Chengjun, Zhou Zhichang--are heart-breaking stories. They were men and women from all walks of life, from the countryside, college professors, workers and government employees. In the eyes of their family members they were the good wives, good husbands, kind mothers and strong fathers; they were once as energetic as you and I. They endured extremely inhumane tortures and died during extreme suffering.
Falun Gong practitioners have endured intense hardships for six years. Facing labor camp sentences, imprisonment and being compelled to stay away from home to avoid further persecution as well as people's scorn, Falun Gong practitioners have not harbored any hatred in their hearts. They have used various ways to clarify the truth to people about Falun Gong. They firmly believe that the truth will finally drive away the lies and peace will defeat violence. Just as sunlight will eventually dispel the fog, Falun Gong practitioners' sincerity, forbearance and compassion will also eventually melt the frost and snow that have covered people's minds.
After six years of this violent storm, Falun Gong is still strongly and peacefully standing while that wretch who has become frenzied from jealousy, and who clamored to "eradicate Falun Gong in three months," has been the subject of lawsuits in many countries. This huge eighty-year-old evil Party, which has mastered all kinds of methods to persecute people, has even failed to snuff out Falun Gong.
Following the evil Party's culture and its logic, as soon as someone mentions Falun Gong, many people's first reaction is, "The Chinese Central Government has already decided on the nature of Falun Gong." Indeed, the Chinese Communist Party has "decided on the nature of Falun Gong," and the persecution is still rampant. Zhao Gao during the Qin Dynasty also "decided on the nature of a deer as a horse." The ancient Greek nobles "decided on the nature of Socrates as poisoning the minds of youths," and the ancient Roman Empire "decided on the nature of Jesus' followers." "The nature has been decided" - isn't the universe giving people the opportunity to make a choice between kindness and evil, following one's conscience and going against it, and logical reasoning and blind obedience?
Humans live amidst illusion. Where do we come from and where are we headed? The drama has historically played out in the rise and fall of societies, as well as mankind's glory and misery. Every life has been playing his or her own part in this great historical drama, and every life has an opportunity to make his or her own choice during this critical historical moment. In order for you to have such a precious opportunity, there are people who have given up their lives without regret, because they know that this opportunity is critical for you. Perhaps the thousands of years of recurring history, and the repetitive historical dramas have all been played out for you so that you could have this present historic opportunity. How can you not cherish it?
May 13, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) On May 5, 2005, Hong Kong's highest court handed down a verdict stating that the arrest of 16 Falun Dafa practitioners by Hong Kong police officers three years ago was illegal, and cleared the practitioners of all charges. This was a case where an unfair verdict originally rendered under pressure from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) was corrected through the efforts of Falun Dafa practitioners' clarifying the truth and with help from many upright people.
The defense attorney representing Falun Gong practitioners believes that the final verdict was a victory for freedom of speech in Hong Kong. It's well known that an independent judicial system is critical to justice. But in Mainland China, the judicial system is a tool controlled by the CCP regime and used to persecute Falun Dafa.
On May 9, 2005, the New York Times published an article with facts that raised doubts
about whether the CCP is governing China according to its own laws. One of the examples used was that Falun Gong practitioners being detained at the Second Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province without any legal procedures. The CCP claimed through its media that it governs China by law, but in fact China is run by an authoritarian regime. In July 1999 when Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Dafa, it was done with no legal basis whatsoever. The CCP just used the power of the nation under its control to start the persecution. The persecution has been illegal from the first day. The laws used by the CCP are just a thin veneer for its illegal acts.
Jiang Zemin has said that the law does not apply when it comes to Falun Gong. He gave orders to "defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically", and that "if they are beaten to death, just claim it as suicide." During the almost 6 years of persecution, Chinese police and government officials controlled by the 610 office have ignored the Chinese constitution and laws, killing, beating, arresting, detaining, torturing and sentencing Falun Dafa practitioners at will. The police have been searching practitioners' homes, fining them, and implicating their families without constraint.
Gao Zhicheng is an attorney at the Chengzhi Attorney's Office in Beijing. In the process of making an appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa practitioner Huang Wei, he got a reply from the courts in Shijiazhuang City that said, "According to upper level orders, no cases related to Falun Gong will be accepted and no documents or files will be submitted." The judges openly said, "No laws are to be used for Falun Dafa practitioners." One judge at a court in Liaoning Province said to
Falun Gong practitioners, "One shout of 'Falun Dafa is good' is enough to warrant seven year of prison for you."
In China, when practitioners exercised their freedom of belief and freedom of speech, which are their rights in accordance with the Chinese Constitution, police officers under CCP control have been arresting them at will. The final verdict by Hong Kong's highest court pointed out that protest and demonstrations are legal, and the police arrest was illegal. This was rule of law put into action, and no amount of lies, pressure, and propaganda could change that.
May 9, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) As of May 13, 2005, Falun Gong has been publicly taught for 13 years, and its practitioners have suffered nearly six years of brutal persecution and tribulations. Jiang Zemin once boasted, "I refuse to believe that the CCP cannot defeat Falun Gong." By now, this assertion has been proven to be folly. In spite of the massive persecution, Falun Gong has spread throughout the world. The mighty virtue of the compassionate Buddha Law and the awakening of kindness in people's hearts are being revealed to an ever greater extent in the human world.
In 1999, when Jiang's regime began to utilize the entire nation's resources to vilify and persecute Falun Gong, many people were worried about Falun Gong's ability to survive the onslaught. Today, after six years of persecution, it has become ever more evident that the fortunes of the CCP have turned and it is sliding towards its doom. Falun Gong has been spread even more widely across the world, from 30 countries at the beginning of the persecution to more than 70 countries today.
As early as 1996, the founder of Falun Gong said, "Such a great law is passed to human beings, not to exist just for three or five years. I know that more and more people will come to learn the Fa in the future. There will be quite a large number of people, an unprecedented number of people [that will practice Falun Gong]. Furthermore, this Fa does not only belong to the human world or China. The entire world and more sentient beings are hearing the Fa." (Draft translation "Teaching the Fa at Beijing International Experience Sharing Conference" November 2, 1996) What Master Li said in this speech nine years ago is becoming reality. Human beings are witnessing the spread of Falun Gong all over the world.
Falun Gong has spread to 78 regions
At the beginning of the persecution, Falun Gong had been spread to more than 30 countries worldwide. Besides China, Falun Gong had been disseminated to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and countries in North America, Europe and Australia . In spite of the six-year long persecution, Falun Gong has reached locations in the Asian Pacific area, North America, South America, much of Europe, and some African countries.
According to incomplete statistics, Falun Dafa has been spread to at least to 78 countries and areas: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Nepal, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Sri Lanka, Australia, Indonesia, India, Belarus, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Cyprus, Russia, Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Iceland, Portugal, Macedonia, Mar he, France, Finland, England, Germany, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Luxembourg, Croatia, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Ireland, Austria, Italy, the United States, Canada, Panama, Brazil, Bolivia, Belize, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Tanzania, Tunisia, and South Africa.
As Falun Dafa practitioners clarify the truth throughout the world, people are becoming aware of the evil nature of the persecution, as well as the beauty of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Wherever Falun Dafa has appeared, more and more people have begun to learn and practice it. Although the overall number of Falun Gong practitioners is not readily available, as there is no organizational structure, one can tell that the number of practitioners has increased by attendance at experience sharing conferences.
For example, the first Falun Dafa experience sharing conference in Canada in 1998 was held in an auditorium that held only 400 people. Since 2002, more than 1,500 people have attended the conferences annually. Each year close to July 20th, an experience sharing conference is held in Washington D.C. In 1999, about 800 people attended this conference. In 2000, there were more than 1,000 people, and in 2003, attendance was more than 5,000 people. On July 22, 2004, 350 young practitioners and their parents attended the "Overseas Falun Dafa young practitioners experience sharing conference" in Washington D.C. In Taiwan, the number of practitioners increased from several thousand at the beginning of the persecution to around 300,000 today.
"World Falun Dafa Day" has become an international festival
Since the first World Falun Dafa Day on May 13, 2000, practitioners worldwide have celebrated this significant event every year. Falun Dafa Day is now celebrated throughout the world. In 2000, forty-seven such celebrations outside of China were reported on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. In 2001, the number increased to 80 such events. In 2003, it increased to 89 and in 2004 it increased to 92.
Righteous faith will ultimately overcome the evil
We have not forgotten Jiang Zemin's public boast, "Falun Gong will be eliminated within three months," and soon afterwards he declared victory in "the battle against Falun Gong." However, as of April of this year, the CCP is still trying to sustain the persecution and "defeat" Falun Gong. It is clear that the CCP will not change its evil nature and has continued to use the most brutal and inhumane methods to persecute Falun Gong. During the persecution of Falun Gong, people in China and worldwide have recognized the evil nature of the CCP through seeing its abhorrent behavior. Recently, the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party" gave the world an unprecedented perspective on the CCP's evil nature. After reading these commentaries, hundreds of thousands of Party and Youth League members have publicly withdrawn from the CCP, and the numbers are increasing daily.
The CCP and Jiang Zemin, who embrace lies and violence as ways to maintain their power, may never believe in the power of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." Meanwhile, the mighty power displayed by Falun Dafa, based on the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance," have captured people's hearts. There are people who probably are unable to understand how Falun Gong practitioners could withstand the evil persecution by the CCP, but when they see Falun Gong's peaceful journey, practitioners continuously clarifying the truth and resisting the persecution, they begin to understand the power of righteous faith in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Some people can see clearly the relationship between the CCP persecuting Falun Gong and its ultimate demise. They see clearly the methods it uses and its propaganda in a desperate attempt to ward off the end. It's obvious, though, that the CCP's fate is sealed.
Many people may still remember that since the beginning of the persecution in 1999, kindhearted Falun Gong practitioners have never acknowledged the evil persecution. They utilized various methods to clarify the truth and expose the evil. They were initially viewed as "futilely going against the tide," but nearly six years later, it has become evident that no matter how rampantly the evil acts, it is unable to stop the spread of the universal principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." It is true that those who continue to persecute Falun Gong and refuse to repent will eventually be destroyed. In the end, good will prevail over evil..
(Clearwisdom.net)
At 11:00 a.m. on May 9, 2005, Jakarta's South District Subordinate Court of Indonesia held another trial against six Falun Gong practitioners.
On May 6, 2005, Indonesian practitioners called on the Chinese Communist Party to stop the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They stood in the broad space across the street from Jakarta's Chinese Embassy. With two banners, they held a peaceful and reasonable appeal for about 15 minutes. During the appeal, the atmosphere was tranquil and calm. They did not speak loudly or shout any slogans. At the end of the activity, when all the practitioners had walked 20-30 meters away, a group of policemen suddenly chased them down and carried practitioners in yellow T-shirts to the police car.
In this situation, we felt like the Chinese practitioners who were illegally arrested for peacefully appealing for Falun Dafa at Tiananmen Square. The six practitioners were brought to the police station, where they were detained for the night after providing their statements. In this incident, the Indonesian police and judges unwittingly acted as the CCP's accomplices.
The practitioners provided the following evidence to the judge in their defense: The lawn behind the pavement does not belong to the area regulated by the city authorities; the peaceful appeal was tranquil and calm; only a few practitioners were holding the banners, so they could not possibly have obstructed pedestrian traffic; and the application for the peaceful appeal had been duly submitted to the police station. However, the judge interrupted their statement repeatedly, as if he wanted to suppress the disclosure of the truth.
Finally, the judge found them in violation of the 11th local law from 1988, "Occupying the space in an area to grow trees." The judge sentenced three of the practitioners to six months imprisonment and gave them a two-month suspended sentence. The judge sentenced the remaining three practitioners, who had been detained twice before, to an additional 15 days of imprisonment in addition to the above punishment.
According to the 9th law from 1998, every Indonesian citizen is ensured the right of free speech in public. Based on this, the practitioners refused to accept the unreasonable verdicts and requested to be released unconditionally, indicating their intention to appeal to a higher court immediately.
We strongly appeal to the Indonesian authorities: Do not ally yourselves with the CCP for the sake of temporary benefits.
May 14, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Since the start of this year, the number of practitioners persecuted to death as reported on the Clearwisdom website have increased every week. The number has grown from over 25 a week to over 100 people each week. At this final stage of the Fa rectification period and at this crucial time when so many of the world's people have been poisoned by the evil specter of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and are waiting to be saved, so many practitioners are being persecuted to death. Why would such a phenomenon exist? Every one of our Dafa disciples should think about it carefully, as it is closely related to the Fa rectification process and the salvation of sentient beings.
I began thinking about this at the end of last year, when the weekly death toll rose to 25. Why would so many practitioners be persecuted to death? I noticed that most of the practitioners who were persecuted to death were elderly, and most of them seemed to have passed away from some sort of illness. In my area alone, from late last year to now, several elderly practitioners have suffered from manifestations of severe sickness karma. I will only mention a few cases here. One elderly male practitioner cultivates with his celestial eye open. One winter morning last year, Teacher's Fashen told him to get up and practice the exercises. He opened his eyes and saw that it was snowing and cold outside, so he went back to sleep. Two hours later when an ordinary person knocked on the door, he struggled to get up and open the door right away. Just as he was about to get up, however, he saw a big, dark form press him down, and even the two-inch-thick wooden bed that he was lying on broke. He became paralyzed. Afterwards, the practitioner recovered and enlightened to the fact that he had been persecuted by the evil because he had slacked off. He hadn't been clarifying the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa and only sent forth righteous thoughts once a day. He wasn't practicing the exercises, either. Another elderly lady's son lost his business and fled abroad with his family to escape debt. This practitioner was very concerned about her son and couldn't concentrate on doing the exercises, nor could she calm her mind while clarifying the truth, studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. As a consequence, she tripped and fell and, to this day, cannot control her limbs. Another elderly male practitioner fell and never regained consciousness. He lost his precious human body that was able to clarify the facts and save sentient beings. Another practitioner in her forties was diagnosed with end-stage lung cancer before she practiced Falun Dafa. She later followed her husband to practice. She did not experience any pain or sickness over the next three years. Even the doctor said that it was a miracle. Her daughter and son also started practicing. Nonetheless, she recently passed away all of a sudden. According to her husband, since his wife recovered from her sickness, she hardly ever studied the Fa or practiced the exercises. She was acting like an ordinary person. There are a few more similar cases.
These practitioners who were persecuted to death all have something in common. That is, they were in their senior years and Dafa had extended their lifetimes. Nonetheless, they could not be strict with themselves and many could not balance the relationship between personal cultivation and Fa rectification period cultivation. They always treated themselves as elderly people rather than Fa rectification Dafa disciples. I once gave an elderly practitioner some truth clarification material for her to hand out. She didn't accept them, saying, "You young people are quick and nimble. You can hand out these few materials." I felt pained at the time. I want to share with the elderly practitioners and help them upgrade their understanding of the Fa. This is an urgent matter. Around each practitioner there is a group of sentient beings waiting to be saved. Whether or not one does well is directly related to the Fa rectification process and determines the survival and the futures of those sentient beings.
May 8, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
Story 1:
A Dafa practitioner talked about her own experience. A local police station chief once handcuffed her and slapped her face. She then exposed the police chief's mistreatment of her on the Internet. A while later, when she met the police chief again, he was very polite to her and kept saying, "I didn't beat you, right?" The practitioner said, "Yes, it is you who beat me last time." The police chief denied his crime in front of his subordinates. However, when no one else was around, he said to the practitioner, "How come foreigners all know what I did to you? A Japanese person mailed me a letter condemning me."
Story 2:
Some classmates of a practitioner previously had some misunderstandings about Falun Gong. However, after repeatedly receiving phone calls from overseas practitioners, they changed their attitude towards Dafa. They went on to tell people that they got phone calls from people overseas.
Story 3:
A man surnamed Fu was hired by the local 610 Office to beat Dafa practitioners. Overseas practitioners kept calling him, urging him to stop committing crimes. Every time his cell phone rang, he became very scared and stared at the phone number. He wouldn't answer the phone call until he made sure it was from someone he knew.
Story 4:
A Dafa practitioner called a forced labor camp looking for a person who persecuted practitioners. The practitioner told that person directly that his name has been exposed on the Internet. That person was very scared and did not dare to listen to the whole story of how his crime was exposed to the outside world.
Story 5:
A village official who recklessly persecuted Dafa practitioners received karmic retribution. He became paralyzed and had to lie in bed all day long. One day after receiving a phone call, he asked his family members to tell a local practitioner that he would never again do bad deeds.
It turns out that the phone call was from a practitioner in South Korea. The practitioner said, "I'm calling from South Korea. Aren't you the one who once persecuted Dafa practitioners and are now bedridden because of the bad deeds you did?" Upon hearing this, this official was so scared that he dared not utter a word.
(Clearwisdom.net)
As the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party have been spread, more and more people have seen the true nature of the evil Party. The numerous declarations to quit the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers have frightened the Party.
In Shijiazhuang City, the police and joint neighborhood security teams have been called out at night to stop and interrogate pedestrians in the streets. Falun Dafa practitioners have been followed or placed under surveillance. On several occasions, practitioners have disappeared while distributing materials.
On the afternoon of March 31, six Shijiazhuang practitioners were arrested. They were: Shen Manliang, Dalu (alias), elderly Bai, two unnamed women, and one unnamed man.
At about 7:00 p.m. on April 4, six more practitioners were arrested. They were: Lizi (alias), Xiaotao (alias), Mi Xiaozheng, two unnamed men and an unnamed woman who managed to escape with righteous thoughts in mind.
It has been reported that officers from the Yuhua Police Department and the police station in charge of the Jianling Residential Area carried out the arrests.
April 6, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net)
I witnessed the murder of practitioner Mr. Wu Baowang at the hands of guards in the Shuangcheng Detention Center.
On April 20, 2002, I was illegally arrested and sent to the Shuangcheng City Detention, Center. Wu Baowang was also detained there. In fact, there was only one cell between his and mine. His cell number was 6 and mine was 8. On May 15, 2002, I heard continuous, heart-breaking screams coming from Wu Baowang's cell. At the beginning the sound was loud, but later it became weaker and weaker. I heard him say, "You are doing this to kill me! You don't want me to live!" Later, it was completely quiet.
Before long I learned that the guards had violently force-fed Wu, and the tube had damaged his esophagus, but the prison doctor Liu still poured salt water down the tube. The Shuangcheng Detention Center is known for using high-concentration salted water for force-feeding. Some practitioners vomited in their cells after getting force-fed. They would vomit on their own bodies and shoes. After the liquid dried, the residue was white salt powder. If the esophagus or stomach were damaged when the tube was forcibly inserted, it was impossible to endure the pain of the esophagus or stomach flooding with salt water.
The next day, about 50 or 60 of us shouted, "Where is Wu Baowang?" The guards' political leader said, "He's been sent home." We said, "You are lying! He has died from your torture." The political leader said, "The legal medical expert's appraisal is available here if you have questions." I pointed to the prison doctor Liu and said, "You killed a healthy person just 25 days after he was sent here. A person cannot die from nothing." The prison doctor Liu said shamelessly, "One will continue to be force-fed if one refuses to eat."
The detention center officials did not send Wu Baowang to the hospital until he was already at the brink of death. He died in the hospital from the force-feeding torture, but the detention center informed his family members that he died of a stroke.
Wu Baowang's home was in Shengli Village, Qingling Township, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
Related people and phone numbers:
Bai Shenggang, Qingling Township Police Station Chief: 86-451-53240616 (Office), 86-451-53115387 (Home), 86-13845018916 (Cell)
Shuangcheng City Police Department: 86-451-53116230
Investigation Department: 86-451-53115024
National Security Section: 86-451-53117733
The No. 428 Special Cases Team in Shuangcheng City, dedicated to persecuting Falun Gong: 86-451-53117733
Zhang Guofu: Shuangcheng City Police Department Deputy Chief, former Chief of the No. 428 Special Cases Team
Zhang Shiyue: Chief of the Political and Security Section at the Shuangcheng City Police Department, former Chief of the No. 428 Special Cases Team
Tong Huiqun: Section Chief of the No. 428 Special Cases Team
Staff of the No. 428 Special Cases Team: Liu Guochen, Liu Zhian, Zhao Lianshun, Yin Zhaofa and Wang Shengli
May 14, 2005
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On March 1, 2005, the police arrested Ms Zhang Fengying, a Falun Gong practitioner in Funing County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. They detained her and later sent to a forced brainwashing center. Four policemen monitored her in turn and tortured her. She became extremely weak as a result of the abuse. For a while she was in critical condition and sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Several days later, the police claimed that Ms. Zhang had escaped on March 23. Currently we do not know her whereabouts.
Ms. Zhang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Naziyu Village, Yiyuankou County, Zhucaoying Town. As reported by a local villager, nine policemen, including Ru Hongxi and Song from the Department of Administration and Security of the National Security Team of the Public Security Bureau of Qinhuangdao City, Pan Qiang, Miao Hui from the Zhucaoying Police station and others arrested her on March 1, 2005. They also searched her home. Several policemen carried her into the police car and brutally beat her husband and son. They were also taken to the police station and were not released until that night.
The police took Ms. Zhang to the Funing County Public Security Bureau and tried to force her to tell them where she got the books and materials about Falun Gong and the copy machine, but they could not get any information from her. Ru Hongxi slapped her in the face. She lost consciousness and her body was shivering. The police had to take her to the hospital for emergency treatment. At night they locked her up at the Funing Detention Center and confiscated her watch and the 500 Yuan she had with her.
In the detention center Ms. Zhang went on hunger strike, demanding to be released unconditionally. A dozen policemen carried her out for force-feeding. Half a month later, as they could not get any information from her, they took her to a hotel facing the Funing People's Hospital for a 10-day forced brainwashing session. Meanwhile, they called Zhang Fengying's husband and son every day to harass them, threatening them in an attempt to get her to tell them where she got the materials. They said that if she did not tell them, she would be sentenced to 5-7 years in prison. On March 17, Ms. Zhang's husband and son visited her. They found that she had a hard time talking. She was even too weak to take care of herself, but she was still monitored in turn by several policemen.
After 10 days, the police from Funing County went to Ms. Zhang's home and told her husband that on March 23, she jumped from the second floor and escaped. Her husband found it hard to believe. She had been tortured so severely that she was not able to take care of herself and she was constantly monitored by so many policemen. Therefore, he could not imagine how she was able to run away.
Related Parties and Their Telephone Numbers:
The Funing County Government:
Hu Xicai, Head of the Administration and Legal Department (who collected money), 86-335-6021698
The Funing County Detention Center, 86-335-3012574
Wang Jinzhong, head of the Funing County 610 Office, 86-13011465288(Cell), 86-335-6682199(Home)
Department of Administration and Security, Funing County Public Security Bureau, 86-335-6012230
Ru Hongxi, head of the Department of Administration and Security, Funing County, 86-335-6014819
The Funing County Temporary Detention Center, 86-335-6012960 86-335-6017970
Zhang Zhimin, Political Instructor
Liu Guo, He Zuoyou, Wang Lichun, and Song Changtai, instructors
The Zhucaoying Town Government:
Address: Guozhuang Village, Zhucaoying County, Zip Code 066309 (same address with the police station)
Yu Guhai, Former Zhucaoying County Communist Party Secretary
Wang Shaoguo, current Zhucaoying County Communist Party Secretary
Wang Zhankuan, Communist Party Secretary of the Department of Administration & Law
The Zhucaoying County Police Station:
Pan Weixing, Director of the police station, 86-335-6090024
Li Hao, Deputy Director, 86-13930380999(Cell)
Hou Kaiting, Political Instructor, 86-13933963089(Cell)
May 11, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) After being severely tortured, practitioner Ms. Meng Qingying from Zhucheng City, Shandong Province was paralyzed. The police arrested another practitioner, Mr. Zhao Qingliang, and extorted 20,000 Yuan from his family. They had earlier arrested Ms. Meng's husband Mr. Ren Bingyu and sentenced him to three years of forced labor. Their son Ren Junpeng was expelled from school.
In the evening of April 14, 2005, local police arrested practitioner Ms. Diao Anlan from Zhucheng City Wanjiazhuang Village when she was distributing truth clarifying flyers. Because of the severe pressure, Ms. Diao told the police where she obtained the flyers. That same night, seven police officers headed by Li Jiajun stormed into Ms. Meng Qingying's house in Xicun Village, Jiayue Township. After they searched the house, they arrested Ms. Meng. Since Ms. Meng refused to cooperate with the arrest, the police punched and kicked her, and carried her into a police car.
In the Wanjiazhuang Police Station, police head Yue Yanxi ordered policeman Li Jiajun and others to interrogate Ms. Meng using different violent methods. They first slapped her face over forty times, and then they hit and kicked her back and stomach area. As a result, Ms. Meng's body was covered with bruises, and one of her toenails was torn off. Finally, the torture caused Ms. Meng to be paralyzed, and she had to be carried to a detention center. One eye-witness said, "They beat her so badly that this case will certainly be exposed!"
To protest the torture and illegal detention, Ms. Meng started a hunger strike. Fearing that she might die in prison, the police came to her daughter's house on April 21 and forced her to pay 3,000 Yuan, and then they released Ms. Meng. Even today, practitioner Ms. Meng Qingying remains paralyzed and cannot walk.
On April 12, 2005, political security team head Xu Guangrong and other policemen arrested practitioner Mr. Zhao Qingliang from Zhucheng City Wadian Village. Mr. Zhao was shopping at a farmers' market at the time, and they had no reason to arrest him. Mr. Zhao's older brother, the Party secretary of the village, immediately asked the local police to contact Xu Guangrong to find out the reason for the arrest. The police deliberately sent back word that they would send Mr. Zhao to a forced labor camp. The older brother then informed two other Zhao brothers in the city. The concerned brothers started making contacts with their connections to rescue Mr. Zhao Qingliang. Their effort was exactly what the police wanted. The police used all sorts of fabricated stories to intimidate Mr. Zhao's brothers and family members. Finally, on April 16, 2005, the police extorted 20,000 Yuan from Mr. Zhao's family to get him out.
Because practitioners Mr. Ren Bingyu and Ms. Meng Qingying (husband and wife) once traveled to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, the local police repeatedly raided their house and made arrests. The police extorted nearly 20,000 Yuan from them. In May 2003, the Jiayue Township police chief Yong Yusuo and other police arrested Mr. Ren and took him to the police station. Cao Jinhui from the Zhucheng City 610 Office sentenced Mr. Ren to three years in a forced labor camp without any legal procedure. Mr. Ren is now detained at the Changle Forced Labor Camp. Their son Mr. Ren Junpeng was a student at the Zhucheng Number One Middle School. Because he clarified the facts about the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation and explained to people that Dafa practitioners are not allowed to commit suicide or to kill anyone, his teacher informed the school administration. Principal Li Xianyang then expelled him from the school.
May 14, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Fang, 53, was from Jiangnan Street, Fengman District, Jilin City. She learned Falun Dafa in 1996, and all her diseases disappeared within a short time. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, policemen harassed her many times. She was unlawfully detained twice and jailed in a forced labor camp once. She went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in December 1999 and was detained there. Policemen poured cold water on her head, one basin after another, on a cold winter day. She was sent back to Jilin and detained for fifteen days. She was detained again in February 2000 for attending an experience-sharing gathering at another practitioner's home. She was released five days later due to high blood pressure. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong again in October 2000, and was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp. She was very weak and had high blood pressure when she was jailed in Changchun City's Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. Nonetheless, policemen still beat her with electric batons. She was released for hospital treatment due to very high blood pressure. In 2001, she went to the countryside, where she clarified the truth of Falun Gong and was subsequently arrested. She was released due to her family members' rescue efforts. During the 16th Communist Party Congress in 2002, a kindhearted person warned her that the police were planning to take her to a brainwashing class, so she fled and was forced to become homeless. After the continuous persecution she suffered, Liu Fang was severely injured both physically and mentally. She suffered from a mental collapse in 2003, and in March 2004, she had bleeding in her brain and lapsed into a coma. She passed away on April 13, 2005.
Ms. Liu Lihua, 42, was a resident of West Wulijie Village, Nongan County, Changchun City, Jilin Province. She suffered from inflammation of the nerve endings, which disappeared shortly after she started practicing Falun Gong. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 1999, and was arrested and jailed in the county detention center. Due to the relentless long-term persecution, she developed a brain tumor and passed away on March 10, 2000.
Ms. Cao Xuezhen was from Tangerli Town, Bazhou City, Hebei Province. On July 10, 2001, when she was visiting her husband, Xie Xiwang, who was jailed in Wanzhuang Forced Labor Camp of Langfang City for distributing truth-clarifying flyers, she was threatened by the police. This led to bleeding in her brain and resulted in her death. Before this, their daughter Xie Haihong (a non-practitioner), who used to have anemia, was traumatized by the persecution of her father, which caused her old disease to recur, and she died on April 3, 2001.
Mr. Li Zhongyao, 53, was from Linyuan Village, Guyuan County, Hebei Province. In May 2001, he was jailed in the county detention center and tortured by police with electric batons. He was jailed there for six months and extorted out of 3000 yuan. He was released in December 2001, after which he was harassed by local police officers many times. This caused serious mental trauma, which resulted in his death on July 31, 2002.
Ms. Wang Xiulan, 74, was from Wenan County, Hebei Province. She learned Falun Dafa in 1997, which healed all of her diseases. After the persecution began, she was threatened and harassed by policemen many times. She passed away in July 2001.
Mr. Chi Yuming, 65, was from Baiqi, Xilinhaote City, Inner Mongolia. Mr. Chi suffered from many diseases, and could not walk very long distances without stopping before he learned Falun Gong. After practicing Falun Gong, all of his diseases disappeared, and he became a local contact person. After July 1999, due to the persecution, his old diseases returned, and he died in October 2000.
Ms. Wang Youying, 35, was from Baiqi, Xilinhaote City, Inner Mongolia. She had surgery to remove a tumor in her brain. After practicing Falun Gong, her disease was healed, and she often went to pass out truth-clarifying materials. Since many practitioners were jailed, her family stopped her from practicing, and her old disease returned. Subsequently, her health deteriorated and she died in March 2003.
Mr. Meng Qinglong, 46, was a worker in Huolinhe Coal Company, Chaerhure District, Huolinguole City, Inner Mongolia. He started practicing Falun Gong in May 1997. Subsequently all his diseases were healed. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, he was forcibly laid off from his job for 1 year. His wife was twice jailed in a forced labor camp. He also was unlawfully jailed in a detention center several times. In May 2004, he was jailed in Huolinhuole City Detention Center. He once gave in and renounced Falun Gong, but later he resumed the practice. The police used all kinds of methods to persecute him, including harassing him and confiscating his belongings. As a result, his old diseases recurred and he died on February 11, 2005.
Ms. Zhao Yanping was from Yuelai Town, Huachuan County, Heilongjiang Province. She suffered from many diseases before practicing Falun Gong. After practicing Falun Gong, they all disappeared. After the persecution began her husband and son went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and were arrested by police. On the evening of May 4, 2002, her husband and son were again unlawfully detained by police. The police harassed and searched her house constantly, which caused her old diseases to return. The police continuously knocked on her door day and night. She developed heart disease due to the relentless hounding and passed away on July 30, 2004.
Mr. Xiong Changshu, 60, was from Yuesheng Village, Yuelai Town, Huachuan County, Heilongjiang Province. He was jailed in a labor camp for two years, beginning in April 2002. All of his personal property was confiscated. The county 610 Office and police constantly harassed him. He died on April 9, 2005.
Mr. Han Fuhui, 46, was from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. He was previously blind. He started practicing Falun Gong since 1997, and was very steadfast during the persecution. Due to the persecution, he died on July 3, 2003.
Mr. Liu Guoyu, 70, and his 60-year-old sister were both from Baoqing Town, Baoqing County, Heilongjiang Province. They were harassed by the policemen many times and died in August 2000.
Mr. Dou Chengren, 60, was a retired teacher from Lanzhou Chemical Industrial Company in Gansu Province. After practicing Falun Dafa, his heart disease was healed. After 1999, due to the persecution, he had to work on a farm in Dingyuan Town, Yuzhong County. Due to the long-term mental pressure of the persecution, his heart disease recurred and he died from a heart attack on February 1, 2005.
Ms. Lei Xiuqin, 60, was from Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. She was harassed and detained repeatedly between May 2001 and December 2004. The police also threatened to take away her son's job. Due to the relentless persecution, she fell ill and died on January 2, 2005. She shouted, "Restore Dafa's reputation" before she died. In the detention center, due to the high pressure, she signed a guarantee statement renouncing Falun Gong, and in September 2004, she wrote a solemn declaration to void the renunciation and resumed practicing. Since she did not have Internet access, her statement was not published at that time.
Mr. Hua Qiao, 76, was a retired worker from the Commerce Drivers Association, Qingdao City, Shandong Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1996, and all of his diseases disappeared. After the persecution began, the police constantly went to his house to harass him, and he lost his cultivation environment. He died in August 2002.
Ms. Chen Guifeng, 73, was from Tianjin. She was illiterate, but after starting to practice Falun Gong in 1995, she was able to read Zhuan Falun, after which all her diseases were healed. After the persecution began, the director of the local police station constantly harassed and threatened her until she died in October 2001.
May 1, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Xianju, 39, is a farmer from the Fifth Commune at No. 5 Village of Taihua Commune in the Dingshui District of Nanbu County, Sichuan Province. Her husband works out of town on odd jobs, and Ms. Wu was taking care of her parents and a 13-year-old child.
On March 23, 2005, Wang Chaoyang, a security official of Taihua Commune, called Ms. Wu into the commune's family planning office. Li Anqin, officer from the Dingshui Police Station, and Luo Xiao, the commune's deputy Party secretary in charge of the 610 Office, unlawfully arrested her. She was immediately taken to the Nanchong City Brainwashing Center in a police vehicle. Ms. Wu has been on a hunger strike in protest for seven days.
It was learned that in March 2003, this brainwashing center in Nanchong City identified Ms. Wu Xianju for unlawful arrest. Ms. Wu managed to escape using her righteous thoughts. Another practitioner, Liu Anhui, was also taken to the brainwashing center. This time, Liu Guoqing, a state security officer in Nanbu County, ordered the Dingshui Police Station to arrest Ms. Wu.
Individuals responsible for the persecution:
Lu Wenrong: 86-13088195588 (cell)
Fu Shaolin: 86-13198829186 (cell), 86-817-2195972
Nanchong Brainwashing Center: 86-817-3325788 (office), 86-817-3325768 (guards at the gate), 86-13700973177 (cell number of staff member assigned to
brainwash Ms. Wu Xianju)
March 31, 2005
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From the end of March until now, the 610 Office of Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province and its local district offices have illegally arrested numerous Dafa practitioners. Mostly, they broke into practitioners' residences to arrest them and confiscated their property.
For example, practitioners Fu Xiuyun and Chen Jianxiong from Shenzhen were both arrested on April 14. Their whereabouts are unclear at present.
Liu Peizhen from Nanshan District was arrested on April 14, and is presently detained in Nanshan District Detention Center.
Wang Shuling, who lives in the Municipal Administration Company Housing Complex, and Zhang Fuying, who lives in Shenzhen Huatai Enterprise Company Housing Complex, were arrested from their residences by police from Jingtian Police Station and personnel from the neighborhood committee. Normally, this kind of arrest is coordinated by the local 610 Office. For about one month, practitioners went to the Futian Detention Center to look for these two practitioners. Finally they were told that Wang and Zhang were not detained there. Later we learned that they were both detained at a brainwashing facility at Xili Women's Labor Camp in Shenzhen. Wang Shuling was released after she wrote some kind of statement. Zhang Fuying is still detained there now.
Practitioner Xiao Anjiao from Shaodong, Hunan Province, used to work at a factory in Longgang District in Shenzhen. Xiao Anjiao was arrested and tortured by police from the Longgang District police station.
Not all of the local persecution cases have been exposed yet. Authorities have threatened to sentence many of these practitioners to jail terms.
According to some sources, this round of persecution was conducted by Shenzhen City's local district police stations, national security offices, 610 Offices and some other related agencies. Reliable sources have said that the Ministry of Public Security sent someone to Shenzhen just to supervise this persecution of Dafa practitioners.
Following are some of the related phone numbers: (please dial country code + area code + phone number, or country code + cell phone number. country code: 86, area code: 755)
Chief Li Feng, Shenzhen Municipal Police Department: 84465120, 84464050
Switchboard: 8446-3999
Zhang Yongqiang: 82498983, 84465001; Guan Lingen: 82498600, 84465010
Li Yingcai: 82498999, 84465009; Wang Jianping: 82498966, 84464015
Zhu Jiefeng: 82498870, 84465002; Shi Zhigang: 82498891, 84464001
Liang Fu: 82498822, 84465003; Yu Xinguo: 82498811, 84465005
Deng Yuguang: 82498828, 84465011; Liang Boquan: 82498668, 84464020
Shen Shaobao: 84461801, 82498823; Xu Dongping: 84469001, 83162918
Sun Wenrong: 83228322, 84465899; Cai Yanda: 83209538, 84465801
The Political Division: 82498700
Appealing Number: 84463999
Appealing Office: 84465020
Shenzhen Municipal Police Department Politics and Security Division: 8446-9700, 8229-1373
Internal Department On-Duty Office: 8249-8704 or 8446-5200
Shenzhen Municipal Police Department's Police Service Supervising Team, the special line to accept people's complaint: 84462570, 8331-9020
(provides 24 hours service). Their address is: 4018 Jiefang Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen 518008
Shenzhen Municipal National Security Bureau Switchboard: 25524000, 25404832, 83024825
Extension numbers are as follows:
Fan Zhiqing: 2002; Zhong Yingcai: 2008; Wang Weidong: 2006; Li Zhaoqi: 25524000 (ask for his extension)
Office number: 2015, 2013, 2012, FAX: 25404832
Political Division: 2063
Administrative Division: 2033
Shenzhen municipal CCP Politics and Law Committee
Sun Biao: 82498866, 84464016; Lin Shixi: 25585530; Zhang Zhengjin: 25596748, 84464091; Yang Hua: 25575200, 84464017; Wang Jiannan: 25597425
Wang Fei: 83797363, 83797369
Political Office: 25575211, 25598251
Office: 25598255, 25585532, FAX: 25575199
Comprehensive Administration Office: 25598256, 25597285
610 Office: 83799381, 83799610
Falun Gong Practitioner Special Management Office: 28180494
Shenzhen Municipal Government: 82100000
Shenzhen Municipal CCP Committee Appealing Section: 82105017, 82099316
CCP Shenzhen Discipline Inspection Committee: 82100974, 82103368, 82100171
Shenzhen People's Procuratorate: 25868000
Addresses: No. 2 Hongling N., Luohu District, Shenzhen City, zip code: 518023
Municipal Intermediate People's Court: 83535000 (party secretary, and president of court, Deng Jilian)
Shenzhen Municipal Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: 25666226
Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Legal Affairs: 82099777
Shenzhen Municipal Judicature Bureau: 25560827
Nanshan District Police Department: 26610597
Nanshan District Police Department Appealing Office: #1 Zhongshan Yuan Road, Nanshan District, attn: District Police Department Secretarial Section,
zip code: 518052
Nanshan District Police Department Inquiry: 84466028
Nanshan District Police Department Supervising and Inspection Section: 84466017
Nanshan District Police Department Patrol Team: 26523110, 26568733
Nanshan District Court: 26667142; 26562573
Judge Chen: 26568564
Nanshan District People's Government: 26665155
Nanshan Judicature Bureau: 26665784
Nanshan Detention Center: 26971574
Futian District Police Department: 84461021, 84461185, FAX: 84461025, 82718777
Address: #123 Fumin Road, Shenzhen City
Public Security Section Chief Huang Tao, male, has been participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners since July 20, 1999. Together with Wang Xiang, they have persecuted many practitioners. Wang Xiang, also male, was originally the Chief of the Political and Security Section of Futian District Police Department. He gained favor with the higher authorities for his efforts in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, and was promoted to become the Division Chief of the Municipal District Police Department. His office phone number is: 82718666, extensions 8542, 8543, 8545; his cellular phone number is: 13902434068. Telephone number: 82718033
Futian District Public Appealing Office: 84461142
Chu Wenbo, director, Futian District 610 Office: 84461598, 84461599 (Office), 13902939916 (Cell)
Shenzhen Futian District Police Department 610 Office: 82918514, the director's last name is Wu.
Futian District Detention Center, duty office: 83113218, 84462756
Chief He and the Political Head (female)
Public reception room: 84462756
Futian District Jingtian Police Station: 83916212, 83922110, 83920330
Futian District Lianhua Neighborhood Committee: 82915728, Director Chen Chunfeng: 13500042731
Shenzhen Longgang District Police Department: 84468035, 28919955
Longgang District Detention Center, 2893-0166 extension 111 or 222
Longgang District People's Court, 28916826 (Switchboard), 28916658 (Office)
Longgang District People's Procuratorate, 28913191 (Office), 28913683 (Fax)
May 01, 2005
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1. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Li Shaoqing Forcibly Taken to a Brainwashing Center
On the evening of January 26, 2005, Guo Jin, an officer from the Meihua Police Station, led several other officers to break into Ms. Li Shaoqing's home. They confiscated several sets of Falun Dafa books. On February 1, the police received reports that Ms. Li had returned from her parents' home. The next day, Liang Zheng, the director of the police station, took two officers and arrested Ms. Li at her home. Her husband was not at home. Her son and daughter tried to stop the officers from taking their mother away. The officers held them down very forcefully, and Liang threatened to have them expelled from school if they objected.
2. [Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Zhang Baozhong Arrested Within One Month of Release from Prison
Mr. Zhang Baozhong is from Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. He had been sentenced to three years in prison for practicing Falun Gong and was just released in January 2005. In February, he went out of town to visit his parents-in-law by train. The railroad police arrested him while he was clarifying the truth to passengers on the train. Mr. Zhang is being held in a special cell at Xili, Shenzhen City.
3. [Xicheng District, Beijing] 76-Year-Old Li Jun Arrested at Home
On the afternoon of March 1, 2005, officers in the Gongzhuang area in the Xicheng District went into Li Jun's home. The officers confiscated a computer and books and forcibly took Li Jun into custody.
4. [Beijing] The Haidian Police Department Arrest Ms. Liu Xiangfen
On the evening of February 28, 2005, officers from the Haidian Police Department, led by residential committee officials, broke into Ms. Liu Xiangfen's home in Shangdixili, Haidian District. The officers arrested Ms. Liu and confiscated a CD burner and other materials.
5. [Linxi County, Hebei Province] The Linxi County Police Arrest Ms. Wang Yumei and Mr. Pan Junqiang
Ms. Wang Yumei is from Huangzhuang Village in Hexi Township, Linxi County, Hebei Province. The Linxi police arrested her on February 24, 2005. The officers attempted to extort 3,000 yuan from her family but were not successful. Ms. Wang is being held in the county.
On February 23, 2005, the county police arrested Mr. Pan Junqiang, from Panzhuang, Linxi County.
Relevant telephone numbers:
The Hexi Police Department: 86-319-8593792
The Chief of the Linxi County Police Department: 86-319-8565236
The Political head of the Linxi County Police Department: 86-319-8565800
6. [Xilin, Inner Mongolia] Local Police Arrest Mr. Liu Jianhua and a Practitioner with the Last Name of Cao
On February 23, 2005, the local police arrested Mr. Liu Jianhua and a young practitioner with the last name of Cao from the Brick and Tile Plant at Xilin Guole in Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia.
7. [Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province] The Local Police Send Mr. Liu Jianming to a Labor Camp
Mr. Liu Jianming is from Chongli County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. On January 17, 2005, the local police sent him to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province to serve a one-year term.
8. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Xiurong Sent to a Brainwashing Center
Ms. Liu Xiurong, 40, lives on South Xingfu Road in the Zhifu District of Yantai City. After July 20, 1999, she was arrested twice because she continued to practice Falun Gong and spoke out to clarify the truth. She was forced to become homeless to avoid recapture and continued abuse. Early in February, she returned home and local state security officers started following her. On the evening of February 13, 2005, police officers broke into her home and forcibly took her into custody.
Her husband is against her continuing to practice Falun Dafa. Ms. Liu Xiurong's home number: 86-535-6807858. Her husband's cellular number: 86-13053503890.
9. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] The Police Arrest He Pinfu
He Pinfu, who was arrested by officers from the Yong'an Police Station while distributing truth-clarifying materials on February 23, 2005, is being held at the No.1 Detention Center in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province.
10. [Xushui County, Hebei Province] State Security Police Arrest Ms. Liang Yongfeng
Ms. Liang Yongfeng, 46, is from Xushui County, Hebei Province. She is a former employee of the Environmental and Sanitary Office of the county's Construction and Civil Engineering Bureau. On the evening of February 26, 2005, when she was on her way home, state security officers arrested her. She has been on a hunger strike for three days at the Xushui County Detention Center.
11. [Tonghua, Jilin Province] The Police Arrest Mr. Wang Dianren
At around 8:00 p.m. on November 30, 2004, five police officers ransacked Mr. Wang Dianren's home. They confiscated Falun Gong books and Teacher's portraits. Mr. Wang managed to escape that night and became homeless to avoid recapture. On the evening of February 5, 2005, he returned home. The police received reports and arrested him at his home at midnight. Mr. Wang is being held at the Changliu Detention Center in Tonghua, Jilin Province.
12. [Jingzhou City, Hebei Province] Ms. Wang Meiqing from the Jingzhou District Arrested
At around 10:00 p.m. on February 27, 2005, four patrol guards led by Zhang Xianggu, the security director of Bailong Village in the Jingzhou District of Jingzhou City, joined Lu Jun, an officer from the Yulukou Police Station, and commissioner Hu of the Chengnan Development District, and broke into Ms. Wang Meiqing's home. Ms. Wang, who was having dinner, was handcuffed and taken to the Yulukou Police Station. The officers presented no legal papers and gave no reason for the arrest. Ms. Wang was notified that she would be sent to a brainwashing center in Wuhan City while she was being held in the police station.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Liu Zhiwei, director of the Jingzhou District 610 Office in Jingzhou City: 86-13886636669 (cellular)
Zheng Niangeng, director of the Yulukou Police Station: 86-13907218522 (cellular)
Lu Jun, officer from the Yulukou Police Station: 86-716-8988877
13. [Chongzuo City, Guangxi] Mr. Qiu Guoming Arrested
On December 16, 2004, officers from the local 610 Office and from Jiangzhou Town Police Station in Chongzuo City, Guangxi arrested Mr. Qiu Guoming. The officers confiscated his personal computer, accessories and other materials.
Relevant telephone numbers:
The Jiangzhou Town Police Station: 86-771-7910003
Cai Gao, an officer from Section One: 86-771-7831617, 86-13978726398 (cellular)
Ling Jianguang, deputy chief of the Chongzuo City Police Department: 86-13978169737 (cellular)
14. [Shanghai] Ms. Tan Shaoshu, Ms. Huang Ruidi and Ms. Yao Guizhen Arrested
Ms. Tan Shaoshu, 60, is a retired employee of a pharmaceutical plant in Shanghai. She has been tortured multiple times for appealing for the right to practice Falun Gong and for clarifying the truth. She was arrested in September 2004 for distributing truth-clarifying materials, and her home was ransacked. She has remained in custody since then.
Ms. Huang Ruidi, in her fifties, was a top residential official. She was among the first group of Falun Dafa practitioners sent to a forced labor camp, serving a one-year term. After her release, she was twice taken to a brainwashing center and twice held at a detention center. Her home was also ransacked numerous times. On February 7, 2005, which was two days before Chinese New Year's Day, Ms. Huang was again taken into custody at a detention center. Her parents, both of whom are almost 80 years old, have been living in constant fear.
Ms. Yao Guizhen, about 50 years old, was detained for going to the appeals office in Beijing. She was arrested on February 7, 2005. Also arrested was her non-practitioner son, who is in high school. Her husband begged the state security officers not to arrest their teenage son, but to no avail. The officers took away all the cash in their home and caused much hardship to their family.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Liu Genbao of the Hongkou District 610 Office: 86-21-25658888 ext. 8666
Director Jin: 86-21-25658661
The Hongkou District Police Department: 86-21-63242200
15. [Zengcheng, Guangdong Province] Mr. Feng Bingkun Arrested after Being Followed
Mr. Feng Bingkun is from Zengcheng, Guangdong Province. In February 2005, the police followed him while he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the public. He has since been arrested and held in custody at the Zhengcheng Detention Center. His wife and young daughter have been forced to become homeless, as they have lost all sources of income.
16. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Zhou Yao and Other Practitioners Taken into Custody
Zhou Yao was followed and videotaped by the State Security Department after renting a small vehicle for carrying copies of "Zhuan Falun". Before February 4, 2005, officers from the state security department broke into Zhou's home. The officers arrested Zhou and many other practitioners. The officers then found over 200 copies of Zhuan Falun that had been published in Hong Kong. Fang Ping and Fa Cai are being held at the Erzhigou Detention Center, while Zhou Yao is being held at the Hanyang Detention Center.
Relevant telephone numbers:
The Changqing Police Station in Wuhan City: 86-27-83529456
The Party Secretary at Xinguo Village, Caidian, Wuhan City: 86-27-84066349
17. [Sichuan Province] Mr. Chen Hu Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province
Mr. Chen Hu, 35, from Sichuan Province, went to work temporarily in a factory in Oushui Town, Yongjia County, Zhejiang Province. He was arrested at work and taken into custody at a detention center. He has been notified that he is to serve a two-year term in a labor camp. He is appealing the sentence.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86, area code: 577
The Office of the Deputy Party Secretary of Wenzhou City Political and Judiciary Committee: 88249789
The Office of the Chief of the Wenzhou City Police Department: 88300200
The Office of the Chief of the Yongjia County Police Department: 67227111
The Office of the Section Head of the Yongjia County 610 Office: 67233273
The Yongjia County 610 Office: 67223634
The Office of the Head of the Yongjia County Detention Center: 67252128
March 2, 2005
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[Changchun City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Huilian, a Teacher from the Northeast Normal University, on Hunger Strike
At Heizuizi Labor Camp [Lincang, Yunnan Province] Practitioner Mr. Li Zhen's Health in Danger Due to Torture and Police Refuse to Release him for
Medical Treatment [Rizhao City, Shandong Province] Practitioner's Home Illegally Searched [Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Cheng Xueshan Tortured to Death [Gaomi, Shandong Province] Practitioner Ms. Li Ruizhen from Yaogezhuang Town Arrested by Police [Shanghai] Group Arrest of Practitioners from Weifang District, Pudong [Hengyan, Hunan Province] Shigu District Court to Try Practitioner Ms. Yang Zhilan [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Practitioners Mr. Wang Songwu and his Wife Arrested [Beijing] Practitioner Xu Wei Arrested from Home by Four Policemen [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Li Yuejin Sentenced to Two and a Half Years [Anhui Province] Three Practitioners from Suixi Arrested by Police at Duanzhuang, Xuzhou [Miyun, Beijing] Practitioners Ms. Yu Shuzhen and Ms. Luo Xiuhua Arrested [Miyun, Beijing] Name List of Falun Gong Practitioners who have been Sentenced to Labor Camp from Henanzai Town [Jiyuan, Henan Province] Practitioner Mr. Yuan Shenjun Arrested and on Hunger Strike for Over One Month [Anshan, Liaoning Province] Police from the Yongle Police Substation Arrest Practitioner Ms. Ma Na [Dalianwan, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Ms. Du Yunhong Arrested and Detained [Fushun, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Zhou Shuyou Arrested and Sentenced to Labor Camp [Harbin, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Shufeng Tortured at Wanjia Labor Camp [Ningxiang, Hunan Province] Ningxiang County Public Security Bureau Arrest Practitioner Mr. Wang Gang [Hunan Province] Practitioner Mr. Peng Wenchao Jailed Beyond his Term at Xinkaipu Labor Camp in Changsha [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Shijiazhuang 610 Office Arrests Practitioner Ms. Cheng Wenfeng from Dongsanjiao [Jilin] Lingjianglin District Court of Jilin Province Sentences Four Practitioners Including Ms. Chen Xiurong [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] National Security Staff Monitor and Arrest Practitioner Ms. Zeng Lianhua
1. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Huilian, a Teacher from the Northeast Normal University, on Hunger Strike At Heizuizi Labor Camp
Ms. Wang Huilian, a teacher from the Northeast Normal University in Yingkou City is being detained at Changchun Heizuizi Labor Camp. She started a hunger strike on April 21, 2005 to protest her illegal detainment. Her current situation is not known. Her home phone number is: 86-417-2819966
2. [Lincang, Yunnan Province] Practitioner Mr. Li Zhen's Health in Danger Due to Torture and Police Refuse to Release him for Medical Treatment
Mr. Li Zhen from Lincang, Yunnan Province was arrested in January 2005 by the local police. Currently he is being jailed at the Dapingba Labor Camp of Yunnan Province and being kept in team six. We have learned that he has been on hunger strike for almost three months. Every day he is tortured by the police with force-feeding. His physical condition is very poor. Recently his feet have swollen up. His family members, being very worried, asked the labor camp to let Li Zhen out on bail for medical treatment. The labor camp, disregarding Li Zhen's safety, refused bail with the excuse that the local police do not want to take responsibility for him.
3. [Rizhao City, Shandong Province] Practitioner's Home Illegally Searched
On the afternoon on April 27, 2005, a policeman named Wang Yubao from the Rizhao City Public Security Bureau, a young man named Qin, and a man in his late thirties broke into Ms. Hong Meishuang's store. They did not have any search warrant or legal documents and they proceeded to interrogate Ms. Hong. Next the perpetrators broke into Ms. Hong Meishuang's home and searched it without providing any documents. They found nothing and left.
4. [Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Mr. Cheng Xueshan Tortured to Death
Mr. Cheng Xueshan from Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province was arrested by a group of police (including Zhang Shidong from the Political and Security Section of Fuyuan County Public Security Bureau), when he was passing out truth-clarifying materials at Nongqiao Village of Fuyuan County on April 9, 2005. Three days later, on April 12, he was tortured to death.
5. [Gaomi, Shandong Province] Practitioner Ms. Li Ruizhen from Yaogezhuang Town Arrested by Police
Ms. Li Ruizhen from Yaogezhuang Town, Gaomi City was reported to the police for making truth-clarifying materials. In the morning of May 4, 2005, she was arrested by police from the Yaogezhuang Town Police Substation. Now she is being jailed at Gaomi Detention Center.
6. [Shanghai] Group Arrest of Practitioners from Weifang District, Pudong
On April 6, 2005, a group of practitioners from Weifang District, Pudong, Shanghai, were arrested. The names of nine practitioners are: Zhu Wenxian, Ms. Sun Wenjuan, Ms. Tao Tanying, Ms. Chen, Ms. Yang, Ms. Ge Meiyu, Ms. Ling Meijuan, Fa Zhengping and Ms. Qian Jianying. Ms. Chen and Ms. Yang were released on April 7. The other seven were sent to Zhangjiang Pudong Labor Camp.
7. [Hengyan, Hunan Province] Shigu District Court to Try Practitioner Ms. Yang Zhilan
Shigu District Court of Hengyan City, Hunan Province is prepared to try Ms. Yang Zhilan on May 22, 2005.
8. [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Practitioners Mr. Wang Songwu and his Wife Arrested
In the morning on April 29, 2005, police from the Zhaoyuan City 610 Office of Shandong Province arrested Mr. Wang Songwu at Wenhua District, Zhaoyuan City. At the same time, they confiscated Mr. Wang's phone book and photos of Teacher.
At noon on May 2, they broke into his home a second time and arrested his wife. Currently, their ten-year-old son and sixty-year-old grandmother are left at home alone. Mr. Wang Songwu is jailed at Linglong Detention Center of Zhaoyuan City. The current situation of the couple is not known.
The relevant phone numbers:
Wang Shiliang, the Secretary General of the City Committee: 86-535-8232868 (Office)
Zhang Wei, the Mayor: 86-535-8211771
Jiang Zhongqin, the Deputy Secretary General who is in charge of political and judicial issues: 86-535-8210955 (Office), 86-535-8236878 (Home)
Xu Linhong, the Secretary General of the City Political and Judicial Committee: 86-535-8216988 (Home), 86-13808910011 (Cell)
Cai Ping, the Commissioner of the City Public Security Bureau: 86-535-8213899 (Office), 86-13705358566 (Cell)
9. [Beijing] Practitioner Xu Wei Arrested from Home by Four Policemen
At 10:30 p.m. on April 22, 2005, four policemen suddenly broke into Xu Wei's home and took him away. Currently he is being jailed at Beijing Xicheng Detention Center.
10. [Beijing] Practitioner Ms. Li Yuejin Sentenced to Two and a Half Years
Ms. Li Yuejin from Beijing was sentenced to two and a half years for picking up three VCDs outside of her home. Her family, wishing to appeal the unjust sentence, went with a lawyer to the Tuanhe Labor Camp, but they were turned away. The police said the family could not hire their own lawyer; the police must do it for them. When Ms. Li Yuejin's husband went to the Shijingshan Court to file the appeal, the court did not accept it and said they had to go to the city court.
11. [Anhui Province] Three Practitioners from Suixi Arrested by Police at Duanzhuang, Xuzhou
Three practitioners, including Ms. Shi Mengxia, Ms. Zhang Ping and Ms. Shi Wenxia, all from Suixi, Anhui Province, were arrested by local police near Duanzhuang, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. On May 5, several policemen from Xuzhou, Huaibei, and Suixi searched their homes. Currently the three of them are still being jailed at Duanzhuang Police Substation in Xuzhou.
12. [Miyun, Beijing] Practitioners Ms. Yu Shuzhen and Ms. Luo Xiuhua Arrested
Ms. Yu Shuzhen, 63 years old, was taken away from home by members of the Miyun Public Security Bureau and Zhang Yan of the 610 Office. Currently Ms. Yu Shuzhen is being jailed at Daxing Female Labor Camp in Beijing and is being tortured there.
Ms. Luo Xiuhua, a kindergarten teacher, was arrest by the Miyun County Public Security Bureau and Zhang Yan from Jugezhuang Town in Beijing. She has been jailed for several months.
13. [Miyun, Beijing] Name List of Falun Gong Practitioners who have been Sentenced to Labor Camp from Henanzai Town
From September 2004 to March 2005, six practitioners from Henanzai Town of Miyun County have been jailed at Daxing Female Labor Camp. The whereabouts of one of them is still unknown.
The name list is as follows:
14. [Jiyuan, Henan Province] Practitioner Mr. Yuan Shenjun Arrested and on Hunger Strike for Over One Month
At around 11:00 a.m. on March 30, 2005, under the instruction of Wang Guoyou, the political instructor of Jiyuan City National Security Team and Wang Minli, the team leader, 110 anti-riot police were mobilized to arrest Mr. Yuan Shenjun from his home at Jiyuan Electricity Bureau. Mr. Yuan Shenjun has been on hunger strike since his arrest over one month ago. He has been handcuffed and force-fed with injections by five people at Jiyuan First People's Hospital and Tiantan Hospitals. He was arrested by the Jiyuan Procurator and was tortured under the instructions of the Jiyuan 610 Office and the National Security Team.
15. [Anshan, Liaoning Province] Police from the Yongle Police Substation Arrest Practitioner Ms. Ma Na
Ms. Ma Na, 36 years old, is a resident of Anshan City, Liaoning Province. In the morning on April 30, 2005, Ms. Ma Na was arrested by police from the Yongle Police Substation when she went to the Yongle Residential Area at Tiexi to give out truth-clarifying materials.
The relevant phone numbers:
Yongle Police Substation: 86-412-8812360
The director's office: 86-412-8844801
16. [Dalianwan, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Ms. Du Yunhong Arrested and Detained
Ms. Du Yunhong from Dalianwan of Liaoning Province was reported and arrested on the street at the end of March 2005. Her home was searched. It is not clear whether she is currently jailed at Dalian Yaojia Detention Center or Masanjia Labor and Re-education Camp. Her family has not been allowed to see her.
17. [Fushun, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Zhou Shuyou Arrested and Sentenced to Labor Camp
Mr. Zhou Shuyou from Fushun is a worker from Cangshi Railway Station. At around 9 p.m. on March 21, 2005, he was arrested by police officers Guan Yong and Chen Daqing from section one of the Fushun National Security Team. At 8 p.m. on April 6 he was interrogated and tortured. A policeman named Guan Yong parted his legs and beat him heavily in the lower region of his body. As a result, Zhou Shuyou's testes were swollen severely. In this condition he could hardly walk. Mr. Zhou Shuyou has been sentenced to two years in a labor camp.
18. [Harbin, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Shufeng Tortured at Wanjia Labor Camp
Ms. Wang Shufeng from Harbin is around fifty years old. She was sentenced to three years in Wanjia Labor Camp in 2003. In the labor camp Ms. Wang Shufeng was inhumanly tortured to the verge of death. In 2004, she was sent to the hospital for emergency rescue. During her hospitalization, two policemen monitored her. After she improved, she was sent back to the labor camp.
19. [Ningxiang, Hunan Province] Ningxiang County Public Security Bureau Arrest Practitioner Mr. Wang Gang
On April 25, 2005, the Ningxiang County Public Security Bureau arrested Mr. Wang Gang, Ms. Yang Junying and Wang Zhuo. Wang Gang and Yang Junying are husband and wife. They are over 40 years old. Their son, Wang Zhuo, is over 20 years old. Their home is in Baima Dadao, Ningxiang County. They have all conducted hunger strikes to protest against their illegal detention. Wang Zhuo has been released, but his parents remain in jail.
The phone number for Mr. Zhou, who is the Deputy Commissioner of the County Public Security Bureau, which is mainly in charge of persecuting Falun Gong locally: 86-1387492718 (Cell)
20. [Hunan Province] Practitioner Mr. Peng Wenchao Jailed Beyond his Term at Xinkaipu Labor Camp in Changsha
Mr. Peng Wenchao was born in 1950. He used to suffer from stomachaches, arthritis and other ailments. After learning Falun Dafa, he strived to be a good person by following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance," and through this he gained his health. At noon on February 28, 2004, he was arrested in a police ambush when he returned to his home. He was jailed at Xinkaipu Labor Camp at Changsha. As of May 7, 2005, we have not seen him return home.
21. [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Shijiazhuang 610 Office Arrests Practitioner Ms. Cheng Wenfeng from Dongsanjiao
At around 4:00 p.m. on April 25, 2005, Shijiazhuang 610 Office, together with police from Chang'an District, arrested Ms. Cheng Wenfeng of Dongsanjiao Village, Qiaodong District, Shijiazhuang City. The police searched her home. Currently Cheng Wenfeng is being detained at a brainwashing class in the capital of Hebei Province.
Relevant phone numbers:
610 Office of Shijiazhuang City: 86-311-7026911 ext. 3381
Liang Jianbin, Director for the 610 Office of Shijiazhuang City: 86-311-6686708
Lu Junying, the Deputy Director: 86-311-6686706
Han Xinmin: 86-311-6686708
The reception office: 86-311-6686701
Liu Zijun (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong), the Deputy Commissioner of the Chang'an Public Security Sub-bureau:
86-311-6676214 (Office)
Cai Yanguo, Team Leader of the Political and Security Section: 86-311-6677321
Hu Guanhui, Deputy Team Leader of the organization that persecutes Falun Gong: 86-311-6212954
22. [Jilin] Lingjianglin District Court of Jilin Province Sentences Four Practitioners Including Ms. Chen Xiurong
At noon on December 28, 2004, Ms. Chen Xiurong, Ms. Sun Yunzhi, Gao Shouhe and Chi Minbao were reported to the police when they went to the Xixiaoshan Forestry Farm and Hongtushan Forestry Farm of the Lingjianglin Forestry Bureau to give out truth-clarifying materials. Acting on the tip, police arrested all four of them.
On April 12, 2005, the Lingjianglin District Court handed down sentences to all four practitioners. Ms. Chen Xiurong was sentenced to three years, and Sun Yunzhi, Gao Shouhe and Chi Minbao were sentenced to two and a half years each. They are currently serving these illegal sentences.
23. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] National Security Staff Monitor and Arrest Practitioner Ms. Zeng Lianhua
We recently discovered that Ms. Zeng Lianhua was being monitored by national security staff for 6 months while clarifying the truth over the Internet. At around 9:00 p.m. on March 20, 2005, about twenty policemen broke into her home and arrested her. Her computer, cell phone and phone book were taken away. When her husband tried to stop them from going upstairs, he was beaten up by the police. Currently, Ms. Zeng Lianhua is being jailed at Erzhigou Female Labor Camp.
(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."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
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