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Falun Gong Practitioner Li Maofen from Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province was frequently persecuted, and she died on June 12, 2005. Even on the day of her death the police were still monitoring her from in front of her home. The following is her story:
Ms. Li Maofen, who was over 60 years old, was from Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. Before she learned Falun Gong in 1997 she had many illnesses, including high blood pressure, heart disease, high cholesterol, edema, pain in the lower back and legs, hemiplegia and others. After she practiced Falun Gong for six months, all her illnesses disappeared. On April 25, 1999 she was one of the first group of practitioners in the Zaozhuang area who went to Beijing to appeal to the leaders of the country. On her return, the local police blacklisted her as a Falun Gong organizer and called her to the police station for questioning many times. They pressured her and asked her about the appeal process and who had organized the appeal. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, she went to Beijing to appeal again and was arrested at Tiananmen Square by the Beijing police. Later she was transferred to Changping County and then to Yanqing County. Because she firmly resisted the evil with righteous thoughts, and participated in a group hunger strike for five days, she was released with the help of Teacher's compassionate protection.
To print and distribute Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials Ms. Li arranged financing, bought computer and printing equipment, and operated the truth-clarifying materials production site very well. She made and distributed the materials and expended much of her own resources on her path of validating Falun Gong. Later as the persecution escalated, her time spent studying the Fa was reduced. She was reported for handing out these materials and the police and authorities from the 610 Office searched her home. They forcibly confiscated a lot of truth-clarifying materials, and arrested her and took her to Zibo City. She was sent to a forced labor camp where she suffered severe persecution.
As her righteous thoughts were not strong enough, she gave in to the so-called "reformation." Li Maofen's family bailed her out for 2,000 yuan, however the lawless persons from the Chinese Communist Party continued persecuting her. They arrested her and searched her home many times. Li Maofen suffered from mental trauma, and she declared the voiding of her "reformation" against her conviction many times. Under the long-term pressure and harassment her legs became swollen. The swelling extended up to her lower back, and she was unable to walk or even get out of bed. The benevolent Teacher again helped her stand up.
Later Ms. Li Maofen was again arrested for handing out truth-clarifying materials. The lawless persons followed and monitored her, and forced her family members to monitor her. They also threatened that if she went out to appeal for Falun Gong again they would not allow her son to work. Due to the evil party's threats, her family began to turn against her Falun Gong practice. Her health again deteriorated and her family sent her to a hospital. After she returned from the hospital, with fellow practitioners' help, she again started to study the Fa and practice.
When the corrupt police officers discovered that Li Maofen had frequent contact with fellow practitioners, they again searched her home. Due to the persecution she had symptoms of illness once again, and it was even worse. She even fell into a coma. While she was unable to get out of bed the police again came to search her home and confiscate the truth-clarifying materials. Her family sent her to a hospital again. Due to the on-going persecution, Li Maoying died on June 12, 2005. Even on the day of her death the police had dispatched a police van in front of her home to monitor her.
The female guards from the women's group of the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, have cruelly persecuted practitioners both mentally and physically. They intensely threatened, pressured, and deceived practitioners and sent them to be brainwashed. The following guards have actively persecuted practitioners:
Chen Zhaoguang is 47 years old. She was the head of the Second Women's Group before she was appointed to her current position as head of the labor camp hospital. She was a glib talker and good at making other people suffer. She constantly watched the prisoners assigned to closely monitor practitioners so that the inmates would not develop any personal relations with the practitioners. If they did, their sentence would be extended. When a prisoner did talk with a practitioner, Chen Zhaoguang specifically held a meeting of the prisoners and beat the prisoner who talked. Chen Zhaoguang usually claimed that she had attained a 100uccess rate in "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners, but this is a lie. One day, when she was holding a meeting with practitioners, some persistent practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts directly toward her. She immediately lost consciousness and didn't regain come to until a long time had passed. The guards then had to cancel the meeting and send the Falun Gong practitioners back to their groups.
Yan Hongli is 35 years old. Currently she is the group head of the Second Women's Group, which was created specifically to hold Falun Gong practitioners. She was extremely sinister and ruthless, even crueler than male guards, and was intensifying her efforts to persecute practitioners. Now she specifically works on brainwashing Falun Gong practitioners.
Ge Yanming is around 30 years old. She was specifically assigned to distort the original meaning of Falun Gong teachings to lure practitioners into her traps of false understandings.
An Xuehua is 38 years old. She has participated in persecuting practitioners by brainwashing and force-feeding them. One day, she and Chen Zhaoguang force-fed practitioner Ms. Liu Sujun. At the time Ms. Liu Sujun was endowed with very strong righteous thoughts. She thought, "If you force-feed me, your nose will fill up and you will suffer." As a result, right at the moment, An Xuehua got a runny nose, and had no choice but to cover her nose with tissues. In the meantime, Chen Zhaoguang started to suffer from chest pains and had to leave.
Wang Yanhua, about 30 years old, is head of the Second Women's Group. She actively participated in the brainwashing of practitioners. Worst of all, she forced practitioners to write statements to express their gratitude for the persecution and to denounce Falun Gong whenever they were to be released. If they refused to do so, she would extend their imprisonment. In the meantime, she collaborated with local 610 Office in persecuting practitioners. When practitioners' terms of imprisonment ended, if she thought they had not given up Falun Gong, she would continue to hold them and ask the 610 officials to send them directly to brainwashing classes, where they were cruelly persecuted further.
The guards Qin Xiaoyan and Liu Xiujuan cruelly beat practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong. Tian Ye, Gao Wei and Li Yuru were extremely ferocious toward practitioners.
Liang Qian, 24 years old, is a trainee newly graduated from a university. Nonetheless, she actively persecuted practitioners and was very vicious toward them, showing no human nature. The other female guards who participated in the persecution against practitioners include: Hou, Xie, Jia, Yang Haifeng and Wang Wenjuan.
Jilin Female Prison has illegally detained more than 120 Falun Gong practitioners. Careful arrangements of the Deputy Prison Head Wu Zeyun and Prison Affairs Section Head Li Jian control the prison's education wards and other wards to execute the comprehensive persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
I. The prison's education ward executes the most severe persecution of Falun Gong practitioners among all wards in the prison
Currently, more than 120 Falun Gong practitioners are detained at Jilin Women's Prison. They are almost completely separated from the outside world by tightly shut doors and windows. Except for the occasional shower, no one is allowed to go downstairs. Slave labor is being exacted next door and going downstairs is forbidden even during meal times. Food is delivered to the cell door. One person delivers food for six and all eat in the cell. Besides extended periods of slave labor, practitioners are forced to go through continuous brainwashing over long periods of time. Also, they are not allowed to speak with each other.
Several days before July 20, 2003, more than 40 Falun Gong practitioners started a hunger strike to protest the education ward's forced brainwashing. They refused to wear nametags and requested their return to other prison wards. On the fourth day, Wu Zeyun agreed to their request of not wearing nametags and the practitioners were allowed to go back to other wards. This demonstrated the mighty power of Falun Gong practitioners' one-body efforts. At that time, the prison urgently transferred more than 120 people from other wards to the education ward. The person responsible for the education ward at that time was Head Cao and Wu Chunlin. Now Deputy Head Wei Lihui, officer Hao, and officer Han Hong are among the police in charge. Falun Gong practitioner He Hua had been illegally tied to a bed and persecuted for more than three months.
Here, Falun Gong practitioners are forced to watch videos made by CCTV that slander Falun Gong and Master Li along with defamatory lectures and booklets made by the persecutors.
II. Comprehensive persecution
Falun Gong practitioners Liu Guixia and Ban Huijuan were beaten by more than 20 people when they were sent to the education ward. The prison guards had ordered the beating. The practitioners were also not allowed to sleep. Due to the effects of severe persecution, Ban Huijuan is still unable to speak clearly. The prison guards intimidate Falun Gong practitioners and terrorize them by mentioning how hard the prison life is and the consequences of refusing to "transform." They also try to entice them with "awards" to get them to "transform."
Falun Gong practitioners who may have a big impact on other practitioners are the most severely persecuted. Wu Zeyun, Li Jian and others personally carry out the persecution. Wu Zeyun personally had a long chat with He Changrong, who had been sentenced to 13 years in prison . Even after several attempts, He Changrong refused to "transform." Wu Zeyun then detained He Changrong and sent him to a special ward for further persecution. They put Falun Gong practitioners among education assistants and collaborators who deprive the practitioners of their rest and sleep. They continuously attack Falun Gong practitioners for several days, from morning to night, and force the practitioners to write the "four statements" (similar to the three statements) while their minds are unclear due to the sleep deprivation and mental torment. For example, Wang Liping was tied up and detained in a special ward for more than one month for the incident on February 12, 2004 in which practitioners held up a sign to protest the persecution. She gave in to the torture after more than two months' continuous brainwashing efforts.
On February 12, 2004, more than ten Falun Gong practitioners were detained in the 9th ward and cruelly persecuted for displaying the sign "Stop the 8th Ward's Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners." Li Zhengfang, Lu Yan, Wang Fengyun and Zhuang Yanzhi had been forced to write the "four statements" under torture of being tied up, beaten and cursed. This was a large-scale persecution under the arrangement of Wei Lihui, as well as the monitor of Wu Zeyung and Li Jian. After that, Wu and Li hypocritically came to console and pretended to be friendly. Falun Gong practitioner Yang Guiqin from Dongliao, Liaoyuan City was persecuted to death in the 4th ward. Wei Lihui is the deputy head of the ward. Li Haiyan instigated the person who had been assigned to monitor Yang Guiqin to force her to stand in the dirty restroom, even though Ms. Yang had worked hard for the whole day. Ms. Yang was arbitrarily beaten and cursed with the excuse that she was not standing straight. Her face was beaten to the point of being swollen and deformed. Due to the extended slave labor in addition to being forced to stand and endure beatings every day for six to seven hours, Yang Guiqin died.
Head Guo of the 8th ward along with Zhang Yan and police officers Han and Hu schemed to beat Falun Gong practitioners. They beat practitioners' heads to the point where their faces were swollen and deformed and their eyes could not open. Their heads were wrapped in towels and they were supported by two people to walk to work. The persecution was discovered by Falun Gong practitioners in the 9th ward, and this is what led to the grand event of 10 practitioners' displaying "Stop 8th ward's Persecution of Falun Gong" on February 12, 2004. However, the prison not only did not penalize the criminals, but executed the most severe repression of the 10 practitioners who participated in the righteous action. Liu Guixia was tied up and carried to a special ward of the prison where both her hands were cuffed and she was hung up from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Both her hands had frostbite after more than one month of this torture. After this she was tied onto a bed for two weeks and not allowed to go to the rest room. Even worse, they opened the window to let the cold wind come in and freeze her. Wang Liping was detained in a special ward for one month, while she was being force-fed after going on a hunger strike. She was slapped in the face, beaten and humiliated. Song Weixiang was hung for 168 hours by her hands and feet. Cheng Jie was tied up on the bed and a washboard was put under his body to make him suffer more. Liu Yue was tied to a board and allowed to freeze.
Sun Weixiang refused to write the "four statements" after the February 12, 2004 event. The prison staff found Ms. Sun's home and brought her son and daughter to the prison. Both held her and cried and shouted loudly to get her to sign the statements.
In the elderly and disabled ward, Song Huidan's hands and feet were tied to the four corners of a bed. The police then took away the bed board and so that her wrists and ankles bore her body weight and they put a heavy quilt on her legs to add more weight. It was very painful and her body joints felt like they were about to split.
The original 4th ward guard Ju Yanjie often beat an elderly Falun Gong practitioner. This practitioner was beaten so often that she cried loudly and moaned continuously.
The incidents mentioned above are only a small part of the brutal acts at Jilin Women's Prison against Falun Gong practitioners. These criminal activities usually happen late at night and in the secluded areas, such as the restrooms. While the slave laborers who worked hard for the whole day have fallen asleep and are not allowed to go out of the room, the criminals assigned to monitor Falun Gong practitioners quietly take Falun Gong practitioners out and execute physical torture. From time to time, there are beatings and cursing, crying, and moaning sounds heard throughout the two buildings. However, the prison supervisors pretend not to hear it and encourage the criminals to continue the tortures.
III. The prison police tightly block information to prevent being exposed
Use of violence and terror to sustain persecution is the usual method used by the prison officials. Assigning monitors is the most common method of blocking the spread of news. In the women's prison, one Falun Gong practitioner has four people assigned to monitor her and all of her actions 24 hours a day.
Visits are strictly controlled. The police are afraid of information flow between Falun Gong practitioners and their family members. One person's visit is accompanied by three policemen. All conversations are monitored and recorded, even the facial expressions of both the parties are observed by the police standing alongside. Thick comforters sent to the prison are opened and examined before taken into the prison.
Spontaneous searches at any time are also a common method used to keep up the terror. The police often executed sudden searches, led by the Prison Affairs Section Head Li Jian. They tear things up and even tear open comforters to find the "forbidden" items like Falun Gong articles. Personal property rights and human rights are completely violated by the very people responsible for upholding the law.
Currently, a new round of persecution is being conducted in the prison. Relevant personnel, please distribute the persecution materials to International Human Rights Organizations, Fawang Huihui (list of persecution criminals and their crimes), and World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong.
Judicial Department of Jilin Province: 46 Xinfa Road, Changchun
City, Jilin Province Postal Code 130051
Prison Administration Bureau of Jilin Province: 46-1 Xinfa Road,
Changchun City, Jilin Province Post Code 130051, Phone: 86-431-2750016
Jilin Province Disciplinary Inspection Commission: 86-431-2750061;
86-431-2750057
Female Prison of Jilin Province, P.O. Box 1048, Changchun City, Jilin
Province, Postal Code 130022
Deputy Head of the Prison, Wu Zeyun: 86-431-5375004
Prison Affairs Section Head, Li Jian: 86-431-5375007
Education Ward: 86-431-5375009, 86-431-5375040
Sixth Ward: 86-431-5375032; Eighth Ward: 86-431-5375027
Ninth Ward: 86-431-5375028; Tenth Ward: 86-431-5375029
Eleventh Ward: 86-431-537503; Twelfth Ward: 86-431-5375031
Thirteenth Ward: 86-431-5375033
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Liguang, 42 years old, lives in Gangtun Town, Lianshan District, Huludao City, Liaoning Province. Because she practices Falun Gong, she has been arrested and tortured under orders of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials on numerous occasions. Her home was also ransacked, eventually forcing her to leave the area and wander homeless around the country for nearly two years. In September 2003, Ms. Chen was arrested once again by police officers. During the next more than twenty months of illegal detention, Ms. Chen suffered agonizing struggles inside the infamous Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province.
On the night of September 23, 2003, when Ms. Chen was distributing truth clarification materials, she was accosted by police officers from the Gangtun Town Public Security Station. These officers brutally beat Ms. Chen, arrested her, and then detained her at the Huludao City Detention Center. To protest the unlawful detention, Ms. Chen went on a hunger strike. Six days later she was transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. There, she was force-fed and subjected to brutal physical abuse.
When Ms. Chen was transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, already in a weakened state due to the six-day hunger strike, the camp broke its own regulations by admitting her in such poor physical condition. Inside the prison, Ms. Chen was dispatched to the Second Subdivision of the First Division, where she continued her hunger strike. Each day, several collaborators, together with the prison officials, tried to brainwash Ms. Chen to change her mind about Falun Gong. These collaborators also physically abused Ms. Chen and kept her from sleeping at night. All of the practitioners held there were forced each day to watch television programs slandering Falun Gong, to study government-issued propaganda and to do hard physical labor. Any practitioners who still remained steadfast in their belief in Falun Gong were physically tortured or locked inside tiny prison cells. Some practitioners were locked in these small cells for as long as several months at a time. As a result of this persecution, Ms. Chen's physical and mental health were severely damaged.
On April 1, 2005, the labor camp set up a special division, called the "Strictly Monitored Division," to implement a set of even stricter rules against steadfast practitioners. This division was specifically for practitioners who refused to wear the prison uniform, do the prison exercises, do the assigned physical labor, or take part in the group-study sessions of the anti-Falun Gong propaganda. All "offenders" were to be held and persecuted together inside this division; Ms. Chen was one of them.
Inside the "Strictly Monitored Division," practitioners were allowed only five minutes to wash their faces and brush their teeth in the mornings, and then a further five minutes to use the toilet. No one was allowed to either shower or wash his or her clothes. At certain times, practitioners were not even allowed to drink any water. They were deprived of all personal freedom. The prison guards beat or insulted practitioners to get them to put on the prison uniforms; some practitioners were hit so hard that they fell to the ground. A practitioner named Li Hong was immediately thrown into a tiny prison cell after refusing to wear the uniform; another practitioner named Wang Manli was slapped several times on the face by a vicious prison guard when she tried to stop such barbaric treatment. Wang Manli had two black eyes for quite some time as a result of being struck. The perpetrators in this incident included a prison guard with the last name of Guo and another one with the last name of Liu; both of these guards were in charge of "training" practitioners in this special division.
Ms. Chen was brought alone to the prison guard's reception room to be persecuted there. They tried to force her to put on the prison uniform, and she was slapped on the mouth when she struggled. In the end, Ms. Chen had to wear the uniform. The following day, many of the practitioners inside the "Strictly Monitored Division" started hunger strikes to protest the persecution; they also took off the prison uniforms. Six days later, more prison guards arrived at the division and started force-feeding the practitioners. Ms. Chen was held on the ground with all four limbs pressed to the floor by prison guards; one guard sat on her stomach while others grabbed her hair and ears. These thugs then tried to pry open Ms. Chen's mouth to feed her corn porridge; they held Ms. Chen's nose and mouth after forcing food into her so that she could hardly breathe. Ms. Chen shook her head violently due to the terror of being unable to breathe, and tried to yell out for help. Some depraved prison guards even started laughing loudly at seeing Ms. Chen's struggles. Since then, the division has carried out brutal force-feedings daily; twice each day practitioners are fed in this barbaric manner. Some practitioners have almost died as a result of these brutal feedings. Ms. Chen began to experience a sore throat and vomiting after being force-fed; she also started coughing, developed shortness of breath, and eventually developed a high fever. As a result of this maltreatment, her stomach ached and she also became dehydrated. Many practitioners developed similar symptoms after being brutally force-fed. Ms. Chen was sent to the hospital for examination on several occasions; ultimately she had difficulty urinating and became very weak. At that point, camp officials contacted Ms. Chen's family and asked them to come to take Ms. Chen home.
When the family arrived at the camp, they realized that they had been deceived by the camp officials; Ms. Chen was too ill to go home. Instead of taking her home, they took her to the Shenyang Medical College Hospital for treatment. It was obvious that the labor camp officials wanted to avoid taking any responsibility for Ms. Chen's condition. When another practitioner stopped breathing immediately after being force-fed and was sent to the hospital, she was never seen again at the camp. When yet another practitioner named Wang Jinfeng had her eyeballs roll back into her head after one such feeding, it was suspected that the camp might have put drugs into the food.
By early June 2005, Ms. Chen had been on a hunger strike for two months. She was diagnosed with a uterine melanoma and an ovarian tumor. On June 14, 2005, the labor camp had to release Ms. Chen; when her family came to pick her up, certain camp officials lied to them and said that since Ms. Chen had borrowed money from some other practitioners, the family should repay that money to them. In the end, the family was extorted out of almost seven hundred yuan by these corrupt officials in order to secure Ms. Chen's release.
Shenli Oil Field has many problems with production and labor management, however, their leaders are not working to fix them by implementing measures to increase economic benefits or to improve the standard of living for their employees. On the contrary, department leaders are focused on providing financial help for the 610 Office and the Binhai Police Department to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The support of Shenli Oil Field has resulted in the illegal arrests of practitioners, searching of practitioners' homes, sending practitioners to labor camps, subjecting practitioners to brainwashing classes and so on. In order to meet their goal of "transformation", the police detain practitioners for up to 3 months. Afraid of having their crimes exposed, the police do such things stealthily. They do not dare to let people know the whereabouts of their detention center.
According to incomplete statistics, in the first half of this year there have been 26 practitioners persecuted at Shenli Oil Field. Their names are listed below:
1. At the beginning of the year, four practitioners were sent to a labor camp: Tang Zhancheng and Yang Jian were sentenced to 3 years, Shen Xiaoyuan was sentenced to 2 years and Yang Chenghan was sentenced to one year.
2. At the beginning of the year, a female practitioner was sent to a brainwashing class.
3. Three practitioners, including Wang Rufeng from Oil University Shenli College Finance Section, were sent to a brainwashing class and their homes were searched.
4. Practitioner Yin Shoumei, from Shenli Oil Field Central Hospital, was sent to a brainwashing class and his home was searched.
5. On January 18, practitioner Wang Shuling from Shenli Oil Field Accommodation Department was sent to a brainwashing class and her home was searched.
6. At the end of February, Shenli Oil Field Binhai Police Department attempted a large-scale arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. Under the orders of the 610 Office, work units were required to arrange special personnel to monitor practitioners.
7. At the beginning of March, a practitioner from Shenli Oil Field power supply company, Yu Hailing, was arrested by Binhai Police Department. The 610 Office then sent her to a brainwashing class.
8. On the evening of March 25, a couple of Falun Gong practitioners, Li Yeming and Qiu Hongmei from Shenli Oil Field Design Institute, went to clarify the truth. Qiu Hongmei was arrested by the police. The next day a policeman stole the key from Qiu Hongmei and attempted to search her home. Li Yeming refused to open the door. The police then besieged him for 2 days before finally breaking into the house. The police abducted Li Yeming to the detention center, sent Qiu Hongmei to a brainwashing class and later sent Qiu Hongmei to a labor camp.
9. On April 6, three practitioners, Zhang Zhongxia from Shenli Oil Field, a doctor, Shi Ziying from Shenbei Community Clinic and Zhang Yisheng from a power supply clinic, were taken to a brainwashing class. All three were detained at the brainwashing class.
10. On May 11, Wang Qingmei from the third Construction Company was unwillingly taken to the Oil Extraction Factory brainwashing class. Her home was also searched.
11. On May 13, in the afternoon, Hengtai Policemen colluded with policemen from Binhai Police Department to arrest Zhang Aiquan from the Dongxin Oil Extraction Factory. On the same day, they climbed over the wall to barge into Zhang Aiquan's home, arrested his wife Wang Mingyun, and confiscated their computers and desk.
12. On May 20, at 9 a.m., Hengtai policemen colluded with Binhai policemen and lawless persons from the material supply section, to abduct Yu Desheng from the Accommodate Department Test Institute and send him to Hengtai. They also searched Yu's home, and confiscated his computer.
13. At the end of May, Zhou Baoshun from No. 8 Oil Field had his home searched by police and was taken to the Accommodation Department brainwashing class.
14. At the end of May, Zhong Siping and Zhen Xinrong, a couple from the Oil Field accounts center, were arrested. Later they were released because the police could not find any reason to persecute them.
15. On June 2, 2005, Liang Yu from Gudao Community was sent to a brainwashing class. He was put into an iron cage because he refused to be transformed. He was made to sit in the cage with only his head free. He was tortured until he was extremely weak and not able to speak anymore. A diagnosis of his health condition found that he had many severe conditions, but the guards still did not notify his family. Later, with the efforts of other practitioners and his family members, Liang Yu was rescued from the brainwashing class.
16. In the middle of June, Shenli Oil Field, Shenzhong community, practitioner An Yuzhi was sent to a brainwashing class, was detained and her home was searched. The evil feared their illegal deeds would be exposed, so they kept the detention spot secret, and forbade his family to visit.
17. On June 28, 2005, a high level computer engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, Yang Jianjun, was abducted from the computer center and taken to a detention center. His home was also searched.
The persons responsible for the persecution:
610 Office of Shenli Oil Field: 86-546-8703610, 86-546-8710427,
86-546-8710428 86-546-8710613(F)
Director, Li Zhenjiang: 86-546-8625058(H)
Vice Director, Zhang Guanxian: 86-546-8748404(H) 86-546-8523072(H)
Binhai Police Department, state safeguard section:
86-546-8794443, 86-546-8553767, 86-546-8553569, 86-546-8550139
Director: Zhang Jianlin
Vice Directors: Sun Guorui and Cao Fating
Brainwashing classes:
1) Collect and Transport Company brainwashing class:
Head, Xu Tingde: 86-546-8778 829(O), 86-546-8781658(H)
Head, Wang Zhiqiang: 86-546-8784770(O), 86-546-8551737(H)
2) Shenli Oil Extraction Factory brainwashing class:
Head, Xia Baocheng: 86-546-8624832(O), 86-546-8625037(H)
Wen Shuming, Li Songjun, Wang Cuiyun, Yang Shaoxin, Wang Cunyong
3) Accommodate Section brainwashing class
Head, Zhang Chenggong: 86-546-8554418(O), 86-546-8523093(H)
Xing Lianmin
Ms. Tian Zhirong, 49 years old, lived at Number 40, Aiguo Li, Aiguo Road, the Hexi District in Tianjin. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1998. Before then she suffered from many illnesses and needed frequent emergency treatment. Following surgery, the wounds left would not heal. After Ms. Tian began practicing Falun Gong, the illnesses disappeared without her taking any medication, and she became healthy. After the Chinese Communist Party started to persecute Falun Gong, on December 31, 2000 Tian Zhirong went to Beijing by herself to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, despite the fact that she did not know much about how to get there. Later, Ms. Tian was arrested and incarcerated in the Banqiao Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin. She firmly believed in Falun Gong and has never been brainwashed by the evildoers. After suffering various physical tortures and mental torment, Tian Zhirong became weak. Even when she was released on medical parole for treatment, the police still frequently harassed her. Her husband was forced to divorce her under the intense pressure. In February 2002, Ms. Tian was again arrested and taken back to the forced labor camp for further persecution. After her term was due and she was released, the police still kept harassing and persecuting her. As a result of the relentless persecution, Tian Zhirong died on June 11, 2005.
Mr. Zhang Jinfang, 61 years
old, was from Houtun Village, Shangcang Town, Ji County of Tianjin. He
learned Falun Gong in 1997 and since then, all his former illnesses,
including his headaches, disappeared. Mr. Zhang was often harassed by
the unlawful persons after the persecution began on July 20, 1999. He
was arrested and taken to a brainwashing class in 2000, where he
suffered tremendous physical and mental trauma. His family interfered
with him after he returned from the brainwashing class and prevented
him from practicing Falun Gong. Zhang Zinfang died on May 26, 2005.
Mr.
Fang Hongchi, about 60 years old, was a practitioner in Beijing. He
learned Falun Gong in June 1997. In 2000 he went to appeal for justice
for Falun Gong and clarified
the truth.
After being illegally incarcerated for three months, he left home in
order to avoid further persecution and had to keep moving from one
place to another. Now, it has been verified that Mr. Fang died in 2002
as a result of the persecution.
Ms. Wang Aihua, over 50
years old, lived in the Qiaokou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
She started practicing Falun Gong in 1993. After July 20, 1999, Ms.
Wang was illegally incarcerated in the Erzhigou Women's Prison for 15
days. The perpetrators were members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Later, they went to her home to harass her many times. Ms. Wang died on
January 11, 2003.
Ms. Shen Chunhua, 80 years old, was from
Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province. She was paralyzed and had many
illnesses before she learned Falun Gong. Ms. Shen was bedridden and
needed someone to look after her. In 1996 she started practicing Falun
Gong, and all her illnesses disappeared. She could not only once again
look after herself, but she was also able to take up all the housework.
In December 2000, Ms. Shen went to Beijing twice to appeal for
Falun Gong.
Later, as her normal practice environment was damaged, she suddenly
became ill and died in late April 2001.
Mr. Ma Fatou was a
practitioner from Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. He had many illnesses
before practicing Falun Gong, which all disappeared after he began the
practice. After July 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong started,
his son, daughter and son-in-law were unlawfully arrested and taken to
a brainwashing class for persecution. His home was illegally searched
and he had money extorted from him many times. The persecution caused
Mr. Ma tremendous mental pressure, and eventually led to severe
illnesses. He died on August 25, 2003.
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Articles and News - July 12, 2005
Brutal Torture of Practitioners in Chenzhou Prison
On March 23, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zeng Qihai, Mr. Deng Ye, Mr. Li Xuexian, Mr. Xu Xin, Mr. Zeng Zhiyuan, Mr. Zheng Shifu, Mr. Wang Qingsheng, and Mr. Zeng Yinhua, were transferred from Chishan Prison to Chenzhou Prison. They were isolated and placed under strict monitoring around the clock. They were also forced to do heavy labor, and 24 people were squeezed into one 215 square-foot cell. If there is no labor to do, guards force Falun Gong practitioners to stand outside under the baking sun. On the morning of March 27, guards forced Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Xuexian, who had been on hunger strike several days, to stand facing the wall for six hours. Around 3:00 p.m., prison guards forced him to do torturous physical movements then used electric batons to shock his head. Guards also cuffed his hands onto the metal window frame so that his feet couldn't touch the floor, making his wrists bleed and exposing the bones and tendons. On March 31, guards used electric batons to shock Mr. Li Xuexian's mouth, right temple, and the right side of his face for thirty minutes, causing 800f the skin on his upper lip and 600f the skin on his lower lip to peel off. His mouth and lips were totally swollen and he could not eat. His head and face had six huge wounds from the electric shock batons that all began to fester. He is still being tortured.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/12/105963.html
2. Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Tang Jinming Detained in Shapingba Detention Center
Mr. Tang Jinming is 35 years old and lives in Huiguang Township, Guxi Town, Tongnan County, Chongqing City. On April 10, 2001, he was sentenced to one year of forced labor and tortured in Xishanping Labor Camp. When he was released in April 2002, he learned that his fiancé had left him. On April 7, 2005, Mr. Tang Jinming was abducted again in Chongqing City. Policemen ransacked his home twice. His sister received a call in June and then learned that he is being detained in Shapingba District Labor Camp in Chongqing City.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/12/105962.html
3. Whereabouts of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Pan Changsheng and His Son Pan Haiming from Qingdao City Shandong Province Are Unknown
Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Pan Changsheng (55 years old), his wife Bi Xiuming (55 years old), and their son Pan Haiming (26 years old) live in Xiazhuang Street, Licang District, Qingdao City Shandong Province. On the morning of July 7, 2005, they were tricked into going to the Police Substation by policeman Liu Xiangqian (gender unknown), and have all been sentenced to forced labor. Ms. Bi Xiuming was sentenced to one year forced labor but was released on medical parole since she failed her physical. No one knows where Mr. Pan and his son were sent.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/12/105960.html
4. Persecution Facts of Falun Gong Practitioners Employed by Longkou Ocean Petroleum Shipping Company in Shengli Oil Field Shandong Province
On July 22, 1999, in order to stop Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, two police check points were set up at each main intersection on the road going out of town (Company location). Police forced Falun Gong practitioners to give speeches in a meeting, and broadcast their talks on local TV. At the beginning of September 1999, former Company CCP Office Chair Zhang Faqing (male) and Liu Zongsen (male) abducted Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Fan to the Company owned hotel, detained her more than one month, and extorted her out of more than six hundred yuan for food. At the end of October 1999, Ms. Wang Fan and her husband Du Jianxin went to visit their parents on vacation but were chased back by Liu Zongsen and others who put them under house arrest for more than one month. Mr. Du Jianxin, formerly a sailor, was dismissed from his job. Mr. Du and his wife Wang Fan were forced to become homeless for more than one month in order to avoid being arrested at home at the end of 2000. In February 2001, Li Guolin (male) and Longkou City 610 Office workers abducted Mr. Du Jianxin to Wangcun Labor Camp for more than twenty days, then locked him in Xiadingjia Brainwashing Center (located in Longkou City) for two months. Ms. Wang Fan was locked in the Brainwashing Center for three months despite the fact that she was still nursing her baby. Supported by the Company CCP Committee, Li Guolin also managed to send Falun Gong practitioners Hu Bo (gender unknown), Mr. Xu Shibai, Ms. Zhan Fuzhi, Mr. Lu Yusheng and Ms. Li Guizhen to the Brainwashing Center.