Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Mr. Yu Zonghai is a former art assistant at Mudanjiang City Library. He had achieved a healthy and fit body through practicing cultivation in Falun Gong.

On November 12, 2001, Mr. Yu was illegally arrested by officers from the Gonghe Police Station of the Xi'an Police Department in Mudanjiang City. That same day the police had interrogated and tortured 11 arrested practitioners. When their goals were not achieved, the police used the most cruel means to torture practitioners. Mr. Yu was brutally beaten, and the police poured mustard oil into his mouth and nose.

Later, Mr. Yu was sentenced to a heavy prison term of 12 years. He was imprisoned at the No. 6 Ward of Mudanjiang Prison for persecution. In late October 2004, the prison police personally embezzled Mr. Yu's money that was mailed in by Yu's family. Mr. Yu was unable to obtain the money even after several attempts, so he wrote to the prison warden. The letter, however, somehow got into the hands of the guards. The prison guards instigated prisoners to beat Mr. Yu until he had a bloody mouth and nose. Nevertheless he was still forced to continue doing forced labor.

In late August 2006, Mr. Yu's left eye was injured while he was working in the machine room. His tear gland was cut. If not restored in time by surgery, he would suffer from watery eyes. If his tear gland was removed, it would cause 'dry eye syndrome,' which is even worse than producing lots of tears. If the operation affected the cornea, it would result in eventual blindness. The prison hospital suggested that he be treated in an outside hospital. However, the guards from the No. 6 Ward demanded money from his family, otherwise they would not allow him to get outside treatment. The prison guards said, "If his family does not pay, we don't care if he goes blind." Mr. Yu's brother-in-law paid the money, and he was allowed to undergo an operation at the Police Hospital of Mudanjiang City. However, too much time had passed, and the chances of a successful surgery were low.

Because Mr. Yu was injured while performing labor in the prison, the prison should have been responsible for his treatment. The Government's "Rules for Workers' Injury Insurance," item 14, clearly specifies that "among the following situations it should be regarded as work injury: 1) During working hours and in the working facility, injury caused by reasons related to work." Mudanjiang Prison refused to treat him and missed the best time for the operation, thus causing Mr. Yu's eye to become damaged and teary.

Mudanjiang Prison is nicknamed the "death concentration camp." It is a relatively small facility of less than 35,000 square meters, yet more than 4800 prisoners are imprisoned there. The medical and sanitation facilities are extremely bad. The guards force prisoners to labor over 11 hours daily, including holidays and weekends. In order to achieve economic goals, the prison allocates prisoners to each ward chief, and makes each ward chief responsible for submitting a predetermined profit to the prison. Each ward chief is pressured into achieving the assigned economic profit, and also making some income for himself. This way, without any constraints, they try to extract the maximum amount of labor from the prisoners and yet don't pay them a cent of compensation. The Party also assigns operation of the prison's meal hall to the prison guards, contracting those responsible to submit a profit of 1.5 million yuan annually.

The "sanitary" chopsticks produced by Mudanjiang Prison are not only supplied to the city, but are also exported to Japan. These products take with them severe virus and bacteria contamination. The prisoners often do not wash their faces for 10 to 20 days. They labor daily for up to 12 hours, and if they don't manage to achieve the assigned quotas, they are punished and made to sit after the work hours. Such intensive labor often causes some prisoners to miss their time for washing, brushing, and bathing. Prisoners with health problems are cursed and beaten by the guards. Information about these matters is strictly confidential within the prison. Anyone who leaks this information to the outside is subject to brutal beatings by the police and prisoners.

In 2004, one prisoner wrote on a small piece of paper about the virus and bacteria contamination of the sanitary chopsticks and tried to bury it in the chopsticks to reveal the truth to the buyers. When the examiner discovered it and found out who did it, the guards beat that prisoner with electric batons and wooden clubs until he was almost dead. He was carried to the hospital and left there without any treatment. Several days later he died. When his family came to visit, the prison did not allow them to see him, nor were they told of his death.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/15/137885.html

 From the time when the persecution began on July 20, 1999, through to 2000, policemen from Ren County Police Department in Hebei Province frequently came to our house and harassed us. They confiscated two tape recorders and Falun Gong books. When my husband went out to deliver truth-clarifying materials, he was arrested by officers from the Qiaodong District Police Department in Xingtai City. He was then sentenced to nine years in prison.

My husband began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. In 1997, policemen from the local station extorted 200 yuan from him. On July 20, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and was arrested by male officers He Haiduo, the head of the Political and Security Office of Ren County Police Department; Liu Jingxue; and Liu Zhen'guo. He was detained in Ren County Education Center for more than one month. He had 1200 yuan extorted from him there and no paperwork or records of the incident were kept.

On the night of November 29, 1999, individuals led by He Haiduo and Liu Zhen'guo broke into our house and arrested my husband. He was again detained at the Ren County Education Center. One month later he was taken to Ren County Detention Center, where he was detained in the No. 6 Cell for a long time. It has been reported that most of the prisoners there are death penalty criminals and murderers. My husband was frequently sworn at and beaten during the night. On the night of January 15, 2000, it was very cold. Prisoners in the No. 6 Cell demanded that my husband strip off his clothes and forced him to kneel down, exposing him to the freezing elements all night. During the night, they placed a stool upside down on my husband's head and then placed a pot of hot water on top of the stool. He was also kicked and beaten. He was so badly beaten that his skin turned black and blue. His face was swollen and distorted to such a degree that people who were familiar with him could not recognize him when he went for food the next morning. However, the guards paid no attention to his distressed state. He was released four or five months later and again he had 1000 yuan extorted from him.

My father-in-law and mother-in-law missed their son very much and suffered a lot. They incurred financial difficulties and developed chronic diseases when their son was in prison. They could not afford to go to the hospital to be treated. My father-in-law committed suicide on January 19, 2005; my mother-in-law could not handle the pressure and died on March 2, 2005.

After my mother-in-law passed away, I went to the town government offices and asked the officials to contact Liu Zhen'guo, the current head of the Political and Security Office of Ren County Police Department. I asked him to contact the guards of Tangshan City Prison to notify my husband about the deaths of his parents. Officer Liu Zhen'guo's attitude was very negative. He swore at me and asked why I had contacted him. After this, I still could not visit my husband.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/17/138008.html

On August 23, 2006, authorities in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, instructed the Lubei District Court to put practitioner Ms. Hui Hui on trial in order to sentence her to prison.

Ms. Hui, 43, was a laboratory worker who had been laid off from the Tangshan Second Paper Factory. She has a daughter with a congenital disability, a missing hipbone axis. In 1989 her husband died from exposure to poison gas. In addition to these misfortunes, she also had a housing dispute with her late husband's parents, who had her evicted from the house they shared in 1995. During the dispute, she had to stay with friends or live at her work unit. After a six-month lawsuit, she was finally able to move back into the house and was reunited with her daughter. In the meantime, however, her late husband's parents became her personal enemies.

Ms. Hui's work unit was not a profitable business and was frequently unable to pay her. As a result, her source of income was not reliable.

In about 1997, when Ms. Hui was approaching mental and physical exhaustion, she started practicing Falun Gong and understood the reasons for all the misfortunes she had experienced. From this time on, she conducted herself as a good person according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. In family quarrels, she searched inward for her own shortcomings. On her own initiative, she repaid the full amount of the home heating bill with money from her savings. She also realized that she should pay the house rent, so she gave rent money to her late husband's parents.

At the same time Ms. Hui was laid off from her job, her brother-in-law took possession of the house again. He had all her belongings removed from the house, as well as those of her daughter. Ms. Hui and her daughter became homeless once again. This time, however, she did not file a lawsuit against her late husband's parents. Instead, she assumed a practitioner's perspective and forgave them. She went to them on her own initiative to hand over her house key. She had voluntarily lived with her late husband's parents in a room that was crowded, narrow, and small. They were touched by her kind actions. From this time on, the parents ended their hostility, and the whole family began to live together in peace and harmony.

On the evening of April 15, 2006, the Xiangfeng Police arrested the good Ms. Hui, ransacked her home, and confiscated many of her personal belongings. They held her at the local police station overnight and then sent her to the 1st Detention Center in Tangshan, where she has been ever since.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/5/137155.html