Issued by Clearwisdom Net

 Zhang Zhaopei and his wife are both Falun Gong practitioners. With the help of the Canadian government they have safely arrived in Toronto. During the years in Singapore while they studied and then worked, they witnessed how CCP extended its persecution of Falun Gong overseas.

Zhang Zhaopei and his wife in Toronto

In July 1999, Zhang Zhaopei obtained financial aid from the Singapore government and was enrolled at Nanyang Technological University. At the same time he signed a contract with the Singapore Ministry of Education that he would work in Singapore for three years after graduation.

On July 20, 1999, CCP started the insidious persecution of Falun Gong in China. On campus in Singapore, while watching the CCP's propaganda in attacking Falun Gong, Zhang Zhaopei also got online to read about the introduction of Falun Gong. Eventually he chose to practice Falun Gong.

However, CCP persecution of Falun Gong is not happening only in Mainland China. CCP tries hard to extend the persecution overseas with all kinds of means. With the pressure from CCP and the promise of advantages, the Singaporean authorities started to implement policies to restrict Falun Gong activities and even persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners encounter discrimination. Normal activities are disturbed or prohibited. Police carry on unusual inspections of Falun Gong. Permit applications are often refused. Practitioners' applications for permanent residency or citizenship are delayed or refused. Practitioners are not allowed to use public facilities. Even worse, practitioners are unjustly jailed under false charges and found "guilty" in courts. To add insult to injury, the news media do not fairly report these cases.

On December 21, 2000, some Singapore practitioners gathered at MacRitchie Reservoir Park to grieve over 107 practitioners who died in China due to the persecution. The Singaporean police became unreasonably involved and arrested some practitioners. Zhang Zhaopei was one of them.

"The Ministry of Education unexpectedly cancelled my scholarship," said Zhang Zhaopei. "I had to ask for help from my parents in China and had to get a bank student loan. The contract to work in Singapore for three years after graduation was then still valid."

In June 2004, Zhang Zhaopei graduated from Nanyang Technological University. In February 2005, he got a job offer from Compex, a Singapore company.

"According to convention, students like me who have signed contracts with the Ministry of Education would receive a letter of invitation from the immigration bureau around graduation time, to apply for permanent residency. Once becoming a permanent resident, there would be no restriction to apply for a job. I never received such a letter."

At the end of February, Zhang Zhaopei went to the immigration bureau in person to inquire about the letter. The immigration official said they would respond in one month. Since the company that hired him really needed him in hurry, Zhang Zhaopei went to the immigration bureau again early in March and asked to speed up the process. The immigration official agreed to give an answer in two weeks. On March 19, Zhang Zhaopei once again went to inquire of the status after not receiving any response. They told him the response letter had been mailed but it was mailed to an old address.

Zhang Zhaopei said, "I immediately went to my old landlord that same day and asked about the letter from the immigration bureau. No letter was received. In the following week I would ask the landlord almost every day if the letter had arrived, but it hadn't."

On March 26, Zhang Zhaopei went to the immigration bureau again and inquired about the letter. The immigration official said, "There is no record of him in the computer database since the year 2002 and asked him to fill out the application form again and then wait for two more weeks."

On April 7, Zhang Zhaopei received a letter from the immigration bureau rejecting his application for permanent residency.

"I went to the immigration bureau to ask for the reason. They said there was no reason and suggested I apply for an Employment Pass (EP) instead. But I knew there was a reason. The only reason - that I am a Falun Gong practitioner," said Zhang Zhaopei.

Zhang Zhaopei stated, when he and other practitioners went to public places to clarify the truth and to introduce Falun Gong, police often checked their IDs and sometimes took them away. Once he was taken to a local police station and met a police officer he knew from before. The police officer told him, "Everybody knows it is aimed at Falun Gong. As long as you do not appear during the Chinese leaders visit, you will not get warnings."

Zhang's wife said, "These things brought tremendous pressure to our parents. My mother was so worried for us and was unable to sleep well, which had affected her health."

The company that Zhang worked for submitted his EP application. After not getting any response for six weeks, the company's human resources department sent a person to the Ministry of Manpower to inquire and was told, "There are reasons for not issuing the permit, but we are not going to tell you."

On June 1, the company received the official notice that Zhang Zhaopei's EP application was refused.

Zhang Zhaopei said, "Since my student visa has been canceled after I graduated, during that period I had to often visit the immigration bureau to get a Social Visit Pass. The first pass was valid for one month; the second one was only valid for two weeks. On June 2, when I applied for the third time, the official said, "sorry, both of your Social Visit Pass applications were refused; tomorrow is the last day."

"We do not want to go back China to suffer the persecution," Zhang Zhaopei said. He and his wife had no other ways but to seek asylum.

With the help of the Canadian government, Zhang Zhaopei and his wife obtained Canadian refugee status and arrived without incident in Toronto on October 5, 2005.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/14/112409.html

 Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing is notorious for its brutality and hypocrisy. Many cruel means have been used to persecute practitioners over the past several years, in efforts to "transform" them. To the public, it claimed that its "education" style was "like life-giving spring breezes and showers." This so-called "education" is in fact a retinue of cruel torture and brainwashing. Authorities at Tuanhe use inmate "helpers," "enduring eagle" (sleep deprivation), threats, physical abuse, enforced sitting, hard labor, and other methods to persecute practitioners to get them to recant their beliefs.

For example, practitioner Mr. Li Jingsheng died due to brutal treatment and physical abuse. When he was alive, he suffered cruel torture due to his refusal to "transform," even though he had congenital heart disease, from which he could have died at anytime. During the 2004 Chinese New Year holiday, a practitioner from Miyun County was quickly tortured to death because he exclaimed "Falun Dafa great" during a flag raising ceremony. Because they refused to "transform," practitioners Wen Jizhong and Zhang Jiuhai were in solitary confinement in the training team for a long time.

Many drug addicts are held in Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. Fights over opium break out from time to time amongst them. Right after the 2003 Chinese New Year, deputy warden Li Aiming and the Seventh Division chief were relieved of their duties because of a group fight over opium. They were also active participants in persecuting practitioners. Soon after the big fight, the inmates who smoked opium were forced to become so-called "helpers" to monitor practitioners' activities. In effect, prison guards hired the garbage of the society to help them commit their atrocities. Some of the "helpers" were responsible for reporting practitioners' activities to the prison guards and torturing practitioners. Because of this, some practitioners suffered permanent physical injuries. Practitioner Li Xiangling, almost 70 years old, was held by his collar and kicked. Because the "helpers" watched and abused practitioners, they didn't have to work in the fields and earned "extra credit." Some of them, however, began to understand Falun Gong and expressed interest in learning it after practitioners clarified the facts to them. Some were sent back to their former teams to stamp nails because they were not strict enough and didn't meet the prison guards' requirements.

Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp authorities use the following ways to persecute Falun Gong practitioners:

1. "Enduring eagle" or sleep deprivation. They use this tactic when their arguments are losing ground and when they see that practitioners do not believe in their lies.
2. Solitary confinement. Practitioners are isolated. Nobody, including "helpers," is allowed to speak with them. They try to make practitioners suffer the pain of loneliness.
3. Threats. The prison authorities tell practitioners repeatedly that their sentences will be extended if they don't recant their beliefs. In addition, they are not allowed to see or call their family members.
4. Using family members. If practitioners refuse to "transform," the prison guards abuse them verbally. They say that practitioners are heartless and don't even want to take care of their parents, wives or children. They then slander Falun Gong. Even though the prison authorities have already deprived the practitioners of visiting privileges, at this time they invite their parents, wives and children to speak with them while in tears, and even hint that the family members should kneel down to them to beg them to change their mind.
5. Physical abuse. Initially, many prison guards physically abused practitioners. After their crimes were exposed, they encouraged inmates to abuse practitioners. The former deputy chief of the Second Division Ni Zhixiong, was an expert at this. Practitioners Wang Zhenbao, Li Xin, and Yang Hui all experienced repeated abuse from inmates.
6. Sending practitioners to the Training Team. The prison guards find excuses to send practitioners, "transformed" or not, to the Training Team. For example, practitioners Liu Xiao, Zhang Jiuhai, Li Xin, Tian Enze, and Wen Jizhong were sent to the Training Team.
7. Forced sitting. Some practitioners who refuse to "transform" are forced to sit in the hallway where there is no heat in winter and in the boiler room in summer. One is forced to follow sitting "rules" in which no movement is allowed.
8. Hard labor. Since the 2003 New Year, Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp guards have done their utmost to make money. The Third Division frequently worked overtime to assemble pirated DVD/CDs. The First and Second Divisions folded antithetical couplets and cut pirated books. The Third Division chief, Zhao Jiang, who was awarded "excellent individual" because of his persecution of Falun Gong, was also deeply into this and "neglected" the "ideological transformation" of Falun Gong practitioners and lost his job. He was replaced by the more evil deputy chief of the First Dvision, Liu Xincheng. Currently there are two divisions made up of Falun Gong practitioners. Liu Guoxi is the chief of the First Division and is busy forcing practitioners to work overtime to "plant hair." The section leaders are people who were handpicked carefully for their inhuman natures.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/18/110654.html

(Falun Gong practitioner and a former employee of the Science Academy of China)

 One of the tactics carried out by Jiang Zemin's regime and the Chinese Communist Party in their persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is "ruin them financially." They cut off all financial support and take away people's right to survive (Editor's Note: In western countries, most citizens are guaranteed many basic human rights. In China, however, citizens are granted only the "right to survive."), and even retirees were not spared.

All my life, since graduation from university in 1965 until my retirement, I worked as a researcher at the Science Academy of China. As an associate professor, I won three awards for successful research. In accordance with the regulations of the Science Academy, I applied for retirement in May 1998. I was entitled to a full salaried pension.

Because I practice Falun Gong, I was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. On November 28, 2000, the Research Center for Remote Sensory Application at the Science Academy of China made the decision to cut me off. From December 2000 on, they stopped paying my pension and benefits. In the official document, they slandered my good name and smeared my reputation, all simply because I am a Falun Gong practitioner.

In February 2003, after I was released from prison, I contacted them to ask to have my pension reinstated. The Party committee deputy secretary surnamed Yu at the Remote Sensory Center said to me, "You had been cut off, so we cannot pay you your pension. Your personal profile has been transferred to the Street Administration Office. If you have difficulties, you can apply for social welfare." I said, "This is against the regulations governing retirement policies. The pension of an employee who is already enjoying pension benefits cannot be simply taken away. You may have stopped paying me my pension while I was in prison, but now that I am released, you still have to continue paying this pension. Besides, sentencing me to prison is an act of persecution. I should be compensated!" The Party office head Yang said, "Show us the document saying this!"

The Science Academy of China did not reinstate my pension and cut off my financial support, and the Party committee continued to monitor me. They frequently called me at home to track my whereabouts. I said, "You have cut me off, so I am no longer an employee of the Science Academy of China. You have no right to make me answer to you!" Thereafter I did not answer their phone calls. When they called, my husband would say that I was not in. They would ask where I had gone. He would answer, "That is none of your business!" A few days later, the people from the Science Academy of China's "Stability Bureau" came to look for me. I asked, "What is this 'Stability Bureau'?" They said that it was a new department, but actually, it was a branch of the 610 Office in disguise. I brought up the issue of the pension. I said, "You have barred me from my pension. That is cutting off my livelihood. I must report this." The chief of the "Stability Bureau" said, "The center will reconsider the pension issue." Through my insistence based on facts and reasoning, in order to monitor and control me, they finally agreed to reinstate my pension on May 2003.

In mid-June, I circumvented the monitoring of the Science Academy of China and went overseas to visit relatives. After I went to Australia, the Science Academy of China and people from the Residential Committee harassed my relatives and tried to ferret out my whereabouts. Since the Remote Sensory Research Center Party Committee did not manage to monitor me properly, the "610 Office" reprimanded the Party committee people and made them do a self-criticism report. The Science Academy of China sent orders that Falun Gong practitioners were not allowed to go overseas. Even travel to Macau and Hong Kong for vacation was not permitted.

After August 2003, they have stopped paying my pension again. This is one concrete example of how the evil Chinese Communist Party and Jiang's regime put into practice their persecution edict to "ruin a person financially."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/10/8/111976.html

On August 25, the 4th Prison in Hebei Province reopened after a brief renovation. On the same day, officials detained four Falun Gong practitioners there. Three of the practitioners were, Guo Zhijiang from the 7th division, Jin Hui from the 3rd division, and Zhang Zhishui from the 8th division. Violent inmates were instigated by the police to torture practitioners day and night. The practitioners were forbidden to sleep, go to the bathroom, talk or move. If anyone closed their eyes or moved slightly, they were savagely beaten. The police force-fed the practitioners on hunger strike with highly concentrated salt water.

On August 18, Falun Gong practitioner Cai Baohua was put in solitary confinement by fifth division police officer Yu Chunguang for exercising in the morning. The police ordered several inmates to force feed Cai Baohua when he started a hunger strike.

On August 16, the police from the sixth division instigated violent inmates to beat four Falun Gong practitioners in public. Bruises left from the beatings were still noticeable several days later on the right side of the face of Yang Jingang and the right arm of Ke Xingguo. Yang Jinggang used to be a teacher at the Baoding Middle School. He has been persecuted severely since 2003.

Responsible facilities and personnel

No. 4 (Shijiazhuang) Prison in Hebei Province
Address: No. 3 Beihuanxilu P. O. Box 131
Shijiazhuang City Hebei Province 050061
(Tel: 86-311-87775174; 86-311-87723356)

Xiao Feng, warden: (w) 86-311-87751830, (h) 86-311-83826601
Wei Wensheng, vice-warden: (w) 86-311-87718069, (h) 86-311-83810877
Zhao, Education Department Director
Yue Yuhai, vice-director
Wang Guobin, education division director: (w) 86-311-87751912x6260, (h) 86-311-87751912 ext. 6290
Education division vice-director: (w) 86-311-87751912x6470, (c) 86-3-13784035678
Chen, the eleventh division factory director

Shijiazhuangbeijiao Prison meeting office
Hongxingbeijie Shijiazhuang City Hebei Province 050000
(Tel) 86-311-87777264

Prison Manage Bureau
36 Youyibeidajie Shijiazhuang City
Hebei Province 050000
(Tel) 86-311-83807024,86-311-83624216,86-311-83633039,86-311-83621636

The Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China: 86-10-65205114
10 Chaoyangmennandajie Beijing 100020
Zhang Fusen, minister
Fan Fangpin, Duan Zhengkun, Hu Zejun, vice-ministers
Yue Xuanyi, Central Discipline Committee in Ministry of Justice
Zhang Sujun, political department director

Prison Management Bureau of the People's Republic of China
Du Zhongxing, director of the bureau
Zhang Jinsang, Wang Shusheng, Liang Gang, Hu Yiding: vice-directors

 Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/11/112157.html

On May 1, 2004, the day before his wedding, Mr. Qi Mingli was illegally arrested and sent to the Jinzhou City Detention Center by more than ten agents from the State Security Bureau at Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. The agents were led by Wang Yongan, who is the bureau's deputy director. They transferred him to the Linghai City Detention Center, where Mr. Qi went on a hunger strike.

More than ten days later, agents Li Guiwen and others were still torturing Qi, even though he was extremely weak and his life was in danger. They also took him to the Luotunshanzhuang Brainwashing Center in Fushun City, but Mr. Qi was rejected by the center because of his poor physical condition. He was taken to the Fushun People's Hospital, and then was transferred back to the Jinzhou Affiliated Hospital for emergency rescue and treatment. When his condition improved, the State Security Bureau handed him over to Fang Shaoshen, the leader of the National Security Group of the Taihe Branch in Jinzhou city. The authorities from National Security Group sentenced Qi to three years in a forced labor camp in spite of the fact that Qi's leg was severely injured. Mr. Qi was sent to the Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp. For more than a year, his family members were not allowed to visit him until very recently. His family noticed that his right leg was disabled, and he walked with a limp. He had scabies on his body, swollen face, and vision so poor that he could not identify people. Last year, Mr. Qi's family had a discussion with the forced labor camp deputy director Li Fenglin about offering bail and releasing him for medical treatment. Deputy director Li, who was in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, was very rude and unreasonable, and he claimed: "It doesn't matter where you go. It will not get resolved."

More than a year later, Mr. Qi is still being detained, and the forced labor camp is subjecting him to brainwashing and torture. His illness is still not being treated.

Mr. Qi's family members are making inquiries about the possible causes and responsible parties and asking for compensation for his disabled leg. Furthermore, they are asking for the return of Qi Mingli's right to have a healthy body and personal freedom.

Director Chen Xiaosong, State Security Bureau at Jinzhou city: 86-416-3882999(Office)
Bureau Deputy Director Wang Yongan: 86-416-3883399(Office)
Section Chief Song Zhengming: 86-416-3883970(Office), 86-13941635358(Cell)
Division Chief Hong Jianguo: 86-416-3887327(Office)
Clerk Li Guiwen: 86-416-3883970(Office), 86-416-2253831(Cell)
Secrecy Bureau of the State Security Bureau: 86-416-3882843

There were more than ten people who broke into Qi Mingli's home and some others who beat him. Their names are unknown currently.

Fang Shaoshen, the leader of National Security Group of Taihe District of Jinzhou City: 86-416-5179530(Office)
Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp Director Zhang Haiping: 86-416-4575166(Office)
Political Instructor Jin Fuli: 86-416-4575177(Office)
Deputy Director of the forced labor camp Li Fenglin: 86-416-4575055(Office)
Leader of Second Group Bai Jinlong: 86-416-4575192(Office)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/14/112387.html

 Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Jianzhong from the Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, was burned with a red-hot iron tool, had cold water poured on him, and was then shocked with an electric baton. He was at the brink of death several times. In March 2004 he was sentenced to seven years in prison and is currently being persecuted at the No. 2 Prison in Jidong, Hebei Province. This facility is also called Nanbao Prison. The prison authorities gave orders that Mr. Sun must be "reformed" within three months.

Mr. Sun Jianzhong lived in the Xianghe Neighborhood of the Fengrun District in Tangshan City. After Jiang's group began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Sun was illegally detained at the Fengrun County Police Department because he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and because he was the volunteer assistant at a Falun Gong practice site. After a 24-hour detention, he was sent to Tawan Village in Fengrun Town, where he was held for five days.

In December 2000, Mr. Sun again went to Beijing. He unfurled a banner that read "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" and he shouted, "Falun Dafa great" in Tiananmen Square. The police "arrested" him and took him to the Jiaoxian Detention Center, where they forced him to take off all of his clothes in the freezing winter and whipped him with cold, wet towels. The police tortured all detained practitioners this way.

Li Chunyuan, deputy head of the Fengrun County Police Department, and Wang Zhicun, head of the Fengrun County 610 Office, extorted 10,000 yuan from Mr. Sun's family, claiming it was "to cover expenses for having to pick up Sun Jianzhong in Beijing." They used 6,000 yuan to bribe police officers in Beijing. It is not known how they used the other 4,000 yuan.

Mr. Sun Jianzhong was incarcerated in the Fengrun County Detention Center after he was brought back from Beijing. He was tortured for 18 days and forced to write a guarantee statement. Six thousand yuan in unlawfully assessed fines and another 5,000 yuan "guarantee money" were extorted from him by personnel from the Tawan Village. After he went home, perpetrators from the Tawan Village monitored and harassed him daily. After several days of rational thinking, Mr. Sun realized that he had made a mistake by cooperating with the authorities. He immediately wrote a letter to the Fengrun Police Department in which he announced that his guarantee statement was void.

In January 2001, Mr. Sun was abducted by officials from the Fengrun County Police Department and the Fengrun Town 610 Office. He was sent to the Xiaobali Township Brainwashing Center in Fengrun Town where he was verbally abused and savagely beaten. One night, Shi Aicheng, the brainwashing center deputy head, became drunk. He took Mr. Sun to his office and tried to coerce him into giving up Falun Gong. Mr. Sun firmly refused. Shi Aicheng grew furious and burned Sun Jianzhong's neck with a red-hot iron tong. The scar is visible to this day. In July 2001, after much effort, Sun Jianzhong's family rescued him and took him home.

One day in September 2002, several police officers and village officials led by Li Jinhu from the Fengrun Town 610 Office broke into Sun Jianzhong's home to "illegally arrest" him. He was resting at the time and his wife tried to reason with the officers. They slapped her face several times and struck her to the ground before they again took Mr. Sun to the Xiaobali Township Brainwashing Center. He refused to cooperate and broke free later in the evening. He decided to leave home and live in exile to avoid further abduction.

In December 2002, Mr. Sun was entrapped and the arrested by Qi Lianfu, an officer from Division 1 of the Fengrun District Police Department. The police exhausted all their methods of torture to try to force Mr. Sun to reveal his source of truth clarification materials. When he refused to tell, the police wrapped his head in a plastic bag and tightened the opening at his neck. Mr. Sun soon lost consciousness from lack of oxygen. The police wrapped copper wires around his fingers, and connected them to an old-style hand-crank telephone generator. Turning the crank then generates excruciatingly painful electric shocks. They tortured him around the clock for three days and then sent him to the Fengrun Detention Center. He held a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

By June 2003 Mr. Sun was skin and bones. In order to shirk their responsibility, the perpetrators told his family to take him home to "recuperate." They promised to never abduct him again, yet they sent people to monitor him 24 hours a day. About two weeks later they broke their promise, abducted Mr. Sun once more, and sent him to a detention center. He again went on a protest hunger strike. He was brutally force-fed twice at the Ankang Hospital during that time. When he protested the force-feeding, he was tied to a bed and not allowed to move for several days.

After he was taken back to the detention center the guards ordered inmates to savagely torture him. They shocked him with electric batons, force-fed him urine and tortured him with the Tiger Bench. When he refused to open his mouth during force-feeding, the perpetrators put him in a chair, cuffed his ankles to the legs of the chair and handcuffed his arms behind the chair. They pried open his mouth with a metal bar and tore the flesh on both corners of his mouth. After they opened his mouth they inserted a one-liter coke bottle with the bottom cut off into his mouth to prevent his mouth from closing. Then they poured in urine. They deprived him of sleep for seven days and whacked him whenever he closed his eyes.

Long-term torture had left the left side of his body paralyzed and severely injured his legs. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The authorities were afraid that he would die, so Qi Lianfu told his family to take him home. They dispatched two people to monitor him at home 24 hours a day.

Thirteen days later, the police again went to his home in an attempt to abduct him. His family refused to open the door. The police were furious. Dozens of officers led by Li Chunyuan and Zeng Xianghai broke down the burglarproof door with an oxy-gas welder, hammer, electric drill and other tools. The noise they made while breaking down the door echoed down the street. Several hundred people in the neighborhood came out to see what was going on. The police ignored condemnation from the public and continued to drill the door open.

After they broke in, Ms. Sun's mother, in her 60s, threw herself on her son and protested the abduction. The police grabbed her and threw her aside. They carried Mr. Sun into a police car and sent him to the No. 1 Detention Center in Tangshan City. Mr. Sun held a hunger strike in the detention center to protest the abduction. He firmly refused to cooperate with the detention center doctor, who tried to force-feed him. The guards did not even remove the feeding tube, leaving it in his nose so that they would not have to re-insert it the next day.

In March 2004, the Lubei District Court in Tangshan City sentenced Mr. Sun Jianzhong to seven years in prison, in violation of the Chinese constitution. Mr. Sun shouted, "Falun Dafa great" in court. He appealed the illegal verdict but the appeal was refused. In late March 2004 he was sent to the No. 2 Prison in Jidong, also called the Nanbao Prison.

During the time he was held at Division 2 of the Nanbao Prison, the head of the Division 2 Education Section and others tried to force him to write a "guarantee statement," a repentance statement and a document attacking Falun Gong. Mr. Sun firmly refused and continued his hunger strike. He was brutally force-fed every two days at Division 2. A month later, he was transferred to the hospital at Division 4. They still left the feeding tube inserted for long periods of time and force-fed him diluted vegetable soup. Hao, head of Division 4, and Geng, a team leader that specialized in persecuting Falun Gong, falsely claimed that they were feeding Mr. Sun milk powder, eggs and pig liver soup in order to ensure his health.

After 15 days on a hunger strike in Division 4, Mr. Sun ended it. Hao and Geng thought they could finally "reform" him and they had a "heart-to-heart talk" (in their own words) with Mr. Sun for three or four hours a day. In fact, they were trying to brainwash him. They ordered him to write three statements to give up Falun Gong, but he remained determined. They could not achieve their goal, so they sent people to scrutinize his every move and refused to let him talk to anyone. They brought in several collaborators from out-of-town to verbally attack him. Incessant mental torment could not alter Mr. Sun's firm belief in "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." He often "clarified the truth" to people who were sent to brainwash him, to correct their thoughts. The exasperated perpetrators then decided to "not allow family visits or to let him correspond with family," which is against the Labor Reeducation Law that states, "the person under discipline has the right to receive visits and correspondence in accordance with the law."

In June 2005, Mr. Sun was transferred to Division 5 to be further persecuted. He was held in the Strictly Controlled Group right after he arrived. He was forced to sit on a small stool facing the wall each morning and was not allowed to move. In the afternoon he was forced to do aerobic exercises and go through routine army marches. Because the prison authorities had give orders to the heads of Division 5 that Sun Jianzhong must be reformed within three months, Huang, the head of the Education Section; Li, the political head; Xie, the head of the Strictly Controlled Group; and others spared no effort to torture Mr. Sun physically, torment him mentally, and create further difficulties in his life.

In order to isolate Mr. Sun and a dozen other determined practitioners, they detained these practitioners in solitary confinement and did not allow them to meet, write or phone their families. These practitioners are not permitted to buy food with their own money and are not allowed to take showers in the summer. The authorities are doing everything possible in an attempt to force the practitioners to give up their belief.

Mr. Sun Jianzhong is still being inhumanely persecuted at the Nanbao Prison.

Hebei Province Judicial Bureau
Phone: 86-311-3034886
Fax: 86-311-3032809

Nanbao Prison
Zip Code: 063005
Geng: head of Group 3, Division 4 of Nanbao Prison: 86-13323250375 (Cell)
Li Chunyuan: deputy head of the Fengrun District Police Department in Tangshan City: 86-13832987098 (Cell), 86-311-5188608 (Home)
Zeng Xianghai: deputy head of the Fengrun District Police Department National Security Division in Tangshan City: 86-13703348641 (Cell), 86-311-5179782 (Home)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/11/110189.html

 Mr. Wang Wenge, 38, was a schoolteacher in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. He was incarcerated in Wanghua Prison, Fushun City. Because Mr. Wang refused to cooperate with the prison guards, they subjected him to various methods of torture over an extended period of time. He died in May 2005 according to reports leaked from Wanghua Prison. The details surrounding Mr. Wang's death are still unknown.

Ms. Wang Fengqin, 62, was a retiree from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Ms. Wang had gone to Beijing twice to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and to spread the truth about the persecution. She was arrested several times, sent to labor camps, and forced to attend brainwashing classes. During her final detention, Ms. Wang became extremely weak as a result of the torture, and she had to be released on parole. She died during July 2005.

Mr. Zhang Yuanhao, 59, lived on Shengchen Street in Beiguan Village, Shouguang City, Shangdong Province. Mr. Zhang started practicing Falun Gong during the winter of 1998. His physical and mental health improved dramatically. Since the brutal persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Mr. Zhang was forced to report to the village office every day, and he was sometimes forced to slander Falun Gong. Each time so-called "sensitive" dates approached, the authorities would detain him for several days. On one of those occasions he was detained for two months. This occurred in June 2001, when Shouguang City officials "arrested" Mr. Zhang for allegedly refusing to cooperate with the government. At the beginning of August 2005, he was arrested for posting materials about the truth of Falun Gong. He was jailed in the Chengguan Police Station in Shouguang City. The police extorted 20,000 yuan from his family. Mr. Wang was later diagnosed with heart disease and released on medical parole. Nevertheless, officials from the 610 Office of Shouguang City frequently called his home to harass him. They extorted 2000 yuan from him after threatening to send him to brainwashing classes. Under tremendous pressure, Mr. Zhang died during mid-August 2005.

Ms. Tao Shifen, 60, was a resident of Taiping Town, Wanyuan City, Sichuang Province. Ms. Tao had suffered from double pulmonary tuberculosis, but the symptoms disappeared after she started practicing Falun Gong. In November 1999, Ms. Tao went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested there. The local police escorted her back to Taiping and detained her for six months. During her detention, Ms. Tao's symptoms returned and she became emaciated as a result. After releasing her, the local police continually harassed and followed her. Ms. Tao died on January 30, 2005.

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