Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Huinan from Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province was tortured at the Suzhou Prison for five years. He died on January 4, 2006. His wife and two daughters are illegally incarcerated. Following are details:

Yu Huinan was 60 years old and lived in Room 403, Building 5, at No. 12 Muxingqiao near the New Muxing Residential Neighborhood in the Canglang District, Suzhou City. He was a member of the Suzhou City Science Committee. He learned Falun Gong in a class held in Jinan City in 1994.

In late December 2000, officers from the Canglang District Police Department in Suzhou City illegally arrested him. His daughters Yu Qin and Yu Fang were also arrested. In March 2001, Yu Fang was sentenced to three years of forced labor. In October 2001 Yu Huinan and his older daughter Yu Qin were sentenced to eight years and seven years in prison, respectively.

Mr. Yu Huinan was savagely tortured in the Suzhou Prison, but he persisted to practice his righteous belief in Falun Gong. In March 2004 Canglang District police agents illegally arrested his wife Weng Jianzhen and sentenced her to one year of forced labor.

Yu Huinan and his whole family were incarcerated and tortured by the Communist regime.

On December 21, 2005 Yu Huinan was tortured to the brink of death at the Suzhou Prison. Prison officials sent him to the No. 5 People's Hospital in Suzhou City for emergency treatment, but he passed away on the evening of January 4, 2006.

Suzhou Prison usually only accepts criminals with sentences of ten years or longer. It has been used as a long-term facility to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The prison authorities order two or three inmates to watch each practitioner upon arrival. They strictly monitor the practitioners and forbid them to talk about Falun Gong-related things.

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Practitioner Chen Guang, former manager of the Lianyungang City branch of  China Construction Bank and deputy head of the Computer Section, was sentenced to eight years in prison for practicing Falun Gong. He was sent to Suzhou Prison. Mr. Chen suffered severe brain damage on July 29, 2005 and has already been in a deep coma for six months. Police constantly monitor him at the 1st Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University. His family is not permitted to take care of him.

Phone numbers of individuals and organizations/institutions responsible for the persecution:

Suzhou PrisonOffice: 86-512-65225635

head of the prison: 86-512-65215988
Office of the Political head: 86-512-65212988
Prison Administration Section: 86-512-65212386
Jiangsu Province Prison Administration Bureau, located in Nanjing City, 86-25-86265061
Manager's office, China Construction Bank in Lianyungang City: 86-518-5411000

Falun Gong practitioner Lu Shulin from Yushu City, Jilin Province is currently imprisoned at Jilin Prison. Currently his entire body is swollen, he has high blood pressure, he can barely move half of his body, and he is in danger of losing his life. He has since been sent to the Jilin City Second Central Hospital (formerly Zhanqian Railway Hospital) for treatment. Nevertheless, the Jilin Prison police refuse to release him.

When Lu Shulin's family members visited him on December 19, 2005, they found that his health had severely deteriorated. Lu has not been able to go to work for a long period of time already. In late December, they were again notified by the prison staff to bring in money for hospital treatment. Then, when the family brought the money to the prison, the prison accepted it but did not allow them to visit Mr. Lu.

Currently, Lu Shulin's family members have only heard from the prison police that he has high blood pressure and heart disease, but were not notified as to the severity of these diseases. They were told that his blood pressure ranged between 130 and 220, and his entire body is swollen, he suffers dizziness, he vomits constantly, and is in grave danger.

Mr. Lu Shulin, 41 years old, was ambushed and illegally arrested by policemen from the Zhengyang Police Station in Yushu City on the morning of March 3, 2003. He was taken to the police station and chained onto a metal chair for an entire day. During interrogation he was beaten by policeman Shi Hailin and passed out several times during the physical interrogation while the police tried to force him to submit to their demands. The Public Security Bureau and the Qingshan Police Station have also broken into his house and ransacked his property, confiscating Falun Gong books and materials as well as his computer. In November 2003, the Changchun City Middle Courts sentenced him to 6 years of imprisonment. Thereafter, the evil persecutors brought Lu to the Seventh Prison District in Jilin Prison for brainwashing sessions.

According to sources, another Falun Gong practitioner, Wu Keli from Yitong City, is also imprisoned in the Seventh Prison District in Jilin Prison and has also been persecuted severely. Both of his legs are ice-cold and numb, and he has difficulty walking. He cannot even feel the warmth if he puts both legs by the fire. The prison police have refused to allow his family members to give him thick socks.

The main persecution methods used on Falun Gong practitioners in Jilin Prison include forming strictly controlled teams, putting practitioners in very small cells, tying practitioners onto beds and pressing down hard on their limbs, instigating criminals to violently beat practitioners, physically assaulting practitioners' private parts, 24-hour surveillance, forced feeding, not allowing family members to visit or write letters, not allowing them to gain access to the prison inspection team to report these injustices, and destroying appeal letters in order to cover up their heinous crimes and keep their evil deeds from being exposed. The prison has also inflicted long-term tortures on steadfast practitioners who refuse to give up their belief.

In February 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Cui Weidong was severely tortured after writing a Solemn Declaration voiding anything he was forced to say or sign that was against Falun Gong and firmly stating that he would uphold his belief. He was sent to the hospital after his health deteriorated severely. In May 2004, he died as a result of the persecution.

He Yuanhui was incarcerated in August 2003, and her health deteriorated continuously after being persecuted in the brainwashing sessions. In 2005, she passed away as a result of the persecution. Mr. Liu Chengjun also died from torture in December 2004 after emergency rescue treatment in the Sino-Japan Friendship Hospital failed.

Address of the Jilin City Second Central Hospital: 36 Zhongxing Road, Jilin City, Postal Code: 132000. Phone: 86-432-2544177(Office)

Jilin Prison Switchboard: 86-432-4881551

The following are the prison extension numbers:

3001 Prison Chief Li Qiang
3002 Deputy Chief Wang Yufan
3003 Deputy Chief of the Political Committee Liu Changjiang
3004 Deputy Chief Wang Chengwu
3005 Deputy Chief Liu Wei
3077 Monitoring Group
First Prison District 3061
Second Prison District 3062
Third Prison District 3063
Fourth Prison District 3064
Fifth Prison District 3065, 3085, 3095
Sixth Prison District 3066, 3086, 3096
Seventh Prison District 3067, 3087, 3097
Eighth Prison District 3068, 3088
Ninth Prison District 3059, 3089, 3099
Tenth Prison District 3110, 3120
Eleventh Prison District 3111, 3131

On December 31, 2005, the Shizhong District Court in Leshan City, Sichuan Province illegally sentenced Falun Gong practitioners Li Ronglai, Wei Lang and Lu Dongrong to ten, eight, and seven years in prison, respectively, for broadcasting a truth clarification video over cable TV in Leshan City in March 2003.

Since July 20, 1999, some party members and officials in Leshan City have followed the Jiang Zemin regime's genocidal policies regarding Falun Gong practitioners to "ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically," and "killing Falun Gong practitioners is considered nothing and should be counted as suicide." They ransacked their homes, arrested and sentenced them, tortured them, put them in labor camps and levied heavy fines against them. These acts gave Leshan City one of the most severe records in China for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The persecution in Leshan City is summarized below:

Since July 20, 1999, the authorities in Chengdu City have been using a house arrest system to persecute practitioners. The authorities threaten practitioners' families to confine the practitioners in their homes, which are located mostly in the countryside.

First they passed along Jiang Zemin's orders "to ruin practitioners' reputations, bankrupt them financially, destroy them physically" and that "killing them will be counted as suicide, the bodies will be cremated directly without identification" to the local police or village CCP secretaries. They forced the family members to closely watch the practitioners at home, to not allow them to go out of town, to keep them from doing the exercises, to forbid them from mentioning going to Beijing to appeal, etc. They turned the practitioners' homes into prisons and the practitioners' family members into guards. If any family members refused to cooperate with them, they would threaten to make them jobless, to confiscate their fields, and to withhold their living allowances. These threats were made according to orders from Zhou Yongkang, the Sichuan Provincial Governor at the time. Under these circumstances, many practitioners' family members were forced to enforce the house arrests.

Local policemen and village CCP secretaries often check on these families to see if they are doing what they were ordered to do, extort money or goods from anyone who is failing to follow the order, arrest and detain practitioners, and torture practitioners with cruel means. Practitioner Zhang Yubin from Xiaoluo Village, Chongyang Town, Chongzhou City (under the jurisdiction of Chengdu City), refused to follow the orders, and his family had to pay a 4,000-yuan fine. Zhang Yubin was arrested, locked in a small cell (1), and brutally beaten. Later Zhang Yubin was injected with nerve damaging drugs that caused a severe mental breakdown. This practitioner still cannot take care of her own daily needs.

In the small village of Xiaoluo, two practitioners have been tortured to death, Ms. Fang Guiming and Ms. Wang Xiuyun. One practitioner was tortured to the point of being disabled, Zhang Yubin. We will expose other persecution cases as time goes on.

Note:

(1) In a "small cell," the detainee is locked up in a very small cell individually. The guards handcuff the practitioner behind his or her back in a fixed position so that the practitioner can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served during the daytime. During the night the rats roam freely. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.

There are three teams in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, and around 60 practitioners are detained in the No. 1 Team. In that team, around 10 practitioners are detained in one room and don't wear the labor camp uniforms. Around 200 practitioners are persecuted in the No. 2 Team and have to wear their labor camp uniforms. Over 200 practitioners are detained in the No. 3 team, including firm practitioners and those who have renounced Falun Gong. Those Falun Gong practitioners who are recently detained are sent directly to the No. 3 team. Most of the other detainees in these teams are used by the jail guards to monitor practitioners, but they have understood the truth about Falun Gong. Some of them have written solemn statements to nullify what they had previously written and said.

The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp is still very severe. If practitioners refuse to cooperate with the guards' demands, the guards beat them. Some practitioners detained there are still being tied up for the death bed and brutally tortured. From time to time, guards search the whole cell. Folded clothes and bedding are searched through and thrown around.

When one Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang who is nearly 60 years old, Ms. Shi Guirong, tried to clarify the truth, jail guard Gao Yuntian beat her until she fell from the stool down to the ground. This practitioner still kept clarifying the truth to them, so guards pinched her and cursed at her. Afterwards, she started a hunger strike. Because she felt very uncomfortable, she went to lie on the chilly ground. The monitoring detainees reported this to the guards, but none of the guards came to have a look. The guards knew that she had high blood pressure and a heart problem. This practitioner's only daughter came to visit her many times, but because of her refusal to wear the labor camp uniform, the practitioner was not allowed to see her daughter. The physical and mental torture could not shake this practitioner's firm belief and righteous thoughts towards Falun Gong, and it is hoped that other practitioners can support her in leaving the camp as soon as possible.

On September 27, 2005, several practitioners in a cell refused to cooperate with the guards on their "security inspection." The guards forced them to stand for so long that some practitioners' feet were swollen. The guards also forced practitioners to sit on stools, saying sarcastically that the ground was too cold for them to sit on. When practitioners refused to sit, the guards forced them to move from a room with sunshine to another room without sunshine, to purposefully freeze them and didn't allow them to move back until after one month. A monitoring detainee was concerned that the room was too cold and gave one practitioner a pair of cotton shoes. She was punished for doing so by having 5 days added to her sentence.

Practitioners detained in other rooms are forced to stand or sit on the cold ground without a mattress. Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Shuxia refused to cooperate and policeman Xie Chengdong slapped her twice. Falun Gong practitioner Liu Zhenwen refused to cooperate and was handcuffed and tied up for several days. Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Lirong felt ill and had a headache. She sat on a stool and crawled closer to the bed. Guard Li Mingyu pushed her with his feet, asked how she felt and claimed to care about her health. She said, "We are forced to sit 15-16 hours every day from morning until evening. Whose body can stand it?" Guards then tied her down for two days and one night. This practitioner was not released until the guards saw that she didn't eat at all during this period. Ms. Zhang was then tied down for another 2 days.

Another practitioner named Zhang Wenhong was on hunger strike for seven days, and the guards force-fed her. She shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Later, this practitioner started to eat. After a while she was called outside. Guard Xie Chengdong kicked her to the ground, and then beat and kicked her. This practitioner hadn't eaten for 7 days and nights, yet the policeman still gave her a vicious beating. When she woke up the next morning, she could not move at all and didn't recover until several days later.

The above is just a part of what I have witnessed. This was the situation before the middle of December 2005.

These are the names of some of the guards in the No. 1 Team of Masanjia Labor Camp who persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

Male: Xie Chengdong, Gao Yuntian, Li Wei.

Female: Li Mingyu, Zhang Lei

Mr. Li Shunxian, 61, was from Jiuqudian Village, Hedong District, Linyi City, Shandong Province. He worked in the Machine Tool Plant in Linyi City. Due to a serious disease of the liver, he was not able to work and had to rest at home for a long time. In 2001, the liver disease developed into liver ascites and he contracted diabetes as well. He was at the brink of death. After he practiced Falun Gong for several months, he recovered from all his diseases. He and his wife did not give up their belief after the persecution started on July 20, 1999. His wife was arrested several times and persecuted. The local Communist government, the village officials and personnel from the local 610 Office detained Mr. Li several times. They extorted money from him and fined him. He was traumatized and lived in fear. Due to this extensive persecution, he suffered a relapse of his diseases and passed away in February 2004.

Ms. Wang Chongxia, in her 60's, was from Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. She was a practitioner from Jin'an Chemical Plant in Wohushan area. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. She went to Tiananmen Square to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong on December 22, 2000. The police from the Qianmen Substation arrested her. Later on the perpetrators from the Shanxi Government Office in Beijing detained her and she was then sent to Taiyuan City by the police led by Gao Feng from the Dunhuafang Police Substation in Xinghualing District. The police also raided her home. Then she was transferred to a Custodial Station in Taiyuan and was detained there. In April 2001, she was sent to a brainwashing session located in the Zhenchen Male Labor Camp in Taiyuan City. She did not get home until July. Policeman Gao Feng continued to harass her by visiting her home frequently. Serious symptoms redeveloped and she passed away in June 2005.

Mr. Xie, in his 60's, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Anda City, Heilongjiang Province. He was detained and persecuted in Beijing in 2000. He died ten days after he came back home. Before he started to practice Falun Gong in 1998, he had suffered from many diseases. He practiced Falun Gong diligently and recovered quickly. He kept his determined belief in Falun Gong after the persecution started in 1999. In December 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested in Tiananmen Square. He kept shouting out "Falun Dafa is good!" the whole time. He was detained in the police substation near Tiananmen Square for two days. Then his lung disease recurred. He died ten days after he returned home.

Mr. Liu Binglie, 74 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. He did not give up his practice of Falun Gong and went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. The police harassed him and threatened him many times after he returned home. They then detained and persecuted him. He was traumatized. He suffered a relapse of an old illness and passed away on January 15, 2004.

1. Mr. Zhang Dexiang, who was around 70, was a practitioner from Jilin Province and a retired driver of the Motor Vehicle Team in the Tonghua County Agriculture Manufacture Material Company. He lived in the Xingfu Community on Guangming Road of Tonghua City.

Mr. Zhang started to practice Falun Gong on June 5, 1998. Shortly after he started the practice, his symptoms of pulmonary emphysema, asthma, cough, and fatigue all disappeared.

After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Mr. Zhang drove with his son and daughter-in-law to Beijing to clarify the truth. The police blocked them on their way to Beijing and forced them to return. After this, the police from the Guangming Road Police Station constantly went to Mr. Zhang's home to interrogate, search, harass, threaten, and intimidate the family, especially on dates such as July 20, October 1 and the end of the year, which they considered to be "sensitive" dates.

The extended period of psychological stress caused the recurrence of Mr. Zhang Dexiang's old illness symptoms and he passed away in the middle of May 2004.

2. The mother of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Ping from Lanzhou City in Gansu Province was a Falun Gong practitioner. Unfortunately she passed away in September 2005, after her daughter was arrested and taken to the Hualinping Detention Center of Lanzhou City.

Ms. Zhang's mother was repeatedly arrested and detained because she went to Beijing to protest and to distribute Falun Gong truth-clarification materials. She was tortured while being held in the brainwashing center and was severely hurt psychologically. In October 2002, shortly after she was put into the brainwashing center, she fainted and was sent to the hospital. Prior to the arrest of Ms. Zhang Ping, authorities from the Sixth Division of the Lanzhou City Police Department followed and monitored Ms. Zhang for one month. Between the end of May 2005 and the beginning of June 2005, five police officers from the Sixth Division of the Lanzhou City Police Department arrested Ms. Zhang. The police officers carried an arrest warrant from Hu County of Shaanxi Province issued in January 2003 to force Ms. Zhang Ping's mother to sign her name in acknowledgement.

3. Ms. Yu Yonghua, who was over 70, was a practitioner from the Third Group of the Gelanyandong Village, Changshou District of Chongqing City. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1997. Prior to that, she suffered from many types of illnesses. Nine months after she started to practice Falun Gong, all of her illnesses disappeared and her body became healthy.

After July 20, 1999, due to the severe persecution of Falun Gong, and also due to the intense pressure from the local government in which her second son held the position of the Chief of the Village, her oldest son and daughter-in-law kept her from doing the exercises and studying the Falun Gong books. Consequently, Ms. Yu's old illnesses recurred and she passed away in January 2003.

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Over the past six years, police officer Li Yuzheng (male) from the Shabei District of Zhoukou City, Henan Province, has arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Siying six times, cruelly tortured him, fractured three of his right ribs, and injected him with nerve damaging drugs. As a result, Mr. Zhang now suffers from brain damage. Mr. Zhang's wife divorced him and took their son with her. His friends and relatives do not dare to contact him. His elderly mother has had to go to the hospital many times due to the mental stress of constant harassment and threats. They are living in very difficult circumstances.

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

On January 12, 2006, police officers from Leqing City, Zhejiang Province ransacked Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Qingdeng's home and stole 8,000 yuan in the process.

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Muling City Police Department Chief Sun Jibin (male) has been in his current position for less than six months, but more than 30 Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested at his direction. Many have been sent to forced labor camps and subjected to cruel tortures. As soon as these practitioners were arrested, they were told to pay at least 10,000 yuan to keep from being sent to forced labor camps. The Muling City Police Department has received the "Advanced Department" award from the national police system.