The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- April 26, 2006

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  • Call for Urgent Rescue of Practitioner Yang Jianpo, Who is in Critical Condition

  • No Further Information on Ms. Sun Fenghua After She Was Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

  • Three Falun Gong Practitioners Missing for Years

  • Mr. Li Shaojun from Ezhou City, Hubei Province Missing for Several Years

  • Missing for Six Years: Wuhan Practitioner Ms. Yao Guofen

  • Beijing Policewoman Leaked Information about Secret Concentration Camp for Detaining Falun Gong Practitioners

  • Ms. Wang Liya from Nanning City Illegally Detained For Seven Months, Her Lawyer Was Threatened

  • Ms. Han Fengxia Arrested For Trying to Rescue Her Husband

  • Abuse of Four Falun Gong Practitioners at the Shanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp



  • Call for Urgent Rescue of Practitioner Yang Jianpo, Who is in Critical Condition

    Practitioner Yang Jianpo from Langfang City, Hebei Province was transferred from the Chinese Medicine Hospital to Beidajie Hospital on April 13, 2006. He is now just skin and bones and on the verge of death. The authorities are still attempting to send Yang to prison for further persecution. We hereby call for all practitioners who read this news to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil and help Yang get out of the evil den as soon as possible.

    On March 30, 2003, while Mr. Yang was detained in Fengrun District Police Office, policemen Gao Wei and others took him to a room on the third floor and shocked him continuously with a hand-cranked telephone (110 volts). They also did not allow him to sleep for nights. On February 20, 2004, Yang was sent to Kaping Labor Camp in Tangshan City. When he was released on June 8 that year, he was merely 90 pounds. On February 5, 2006, he was abducted by the local 610 Office and National Security Group police officers. The next day his wife, Nie Chunling, and daughter went to the National Security Group in Guangyang District to ask for his release. However, they were brutally beaten by Xin Pingyu and other people there until they passed out.

    On April 14, 2006, Mr. Yang's family went to Langfang Detention Center to visit him. However, they were told he had already been released. Mr. Yang's family said, "We just came here from home and we didn't see him come back home." Then they were told to talk to the police department.

    The family then went to the police department asking to see the police chief. The security guard told them that the police chief was out for a meeting. The family then requested to meet with the National Security Group and was told that no one from the group was available because they all went out last night to arrest Falun Gong practitioners.

    The family still firmly requested to meet with someone. The security guard had no choice but to call the leader of the National Security Group, Gang Chenggang. However, after learning that it was Mr. Yang's family, Gao said, "Don't let them in. Yang Jianpo has been transferred and is now awaiting sentence."

    Mr. Yang's family went to different hospitals to inquire about his whereabouts. His family knew clearly that his internal organs were all withered and could not function well. The only place he could be transferred to would be a hospital. However, all hospitals in the area were threatened by the police not to reveal any information about Mr. Yang. Later, from a kind hearted insider, the family learned that Mr. Yang had been transferred to Langfang Hospital to the Chinese Medicine Hospital in mid-March, and then again to Beidajie Hospital in mid April. Every hospital Mr. Yang was in issued a critical condition warning. However, the police still refuse to release him and right now they are trying to send him to prison again.

    Mr. Yang's mother cannot eat or sleep well and she is worrying about her son every day. H's wife Nie Chunling was once detained in a detention center where she was brutally force fed. She bled profusely during the force feeding. Her thumbs were also stomped by police and the nails were all gone. Due to her poor health from being tortured, plus worrying about her husband, Nie Chunling is leading a very difficult life.


    No Further Information on Ms. Sun Fenghua After She Was Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sun Fenghua, 44, lived in the Honggang District, Daqing City, Helongjiang Province. She had many diseases, but became very healthy after practicing Falun Gong. After the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Sun Fenghua was arrested and detained many times. She had to leave her house to escape from being persecuted in 2001. She was arrested by policemen in Harbin City on May 15, 2003.

    According to a report on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website on November 8, 2003 ("Harbin City Practitioner is Tortured Until Disabled and Illegally Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Prison," /emh/articles/2003/11/23/42515.html), the police repeatedly shocked her with an electric baton, which left her body covered with scars. The police also connected live 220-volt electric lines directly to her hands resulting in an immediate loss of consciousness and loss of the ability to walk.

    According to the report, Ms. Sun Fenghua was sentenced to fourteen years in prison by the Court. She was detained at the Harbin City Women's Prison. However, Falun Gong practitioners detained in Harbin City Women's Prison said that they have never met her, and have not even heard about her. Her husband has already divorced her and no family members cared about her after she was detained. No further information has been heard about her for the past three years.

    If anyone knows about Ms. Sun Fenghua, please supply the information.


    Three Falun Gong Practitioners Missing for Years

    Wang Xiaosheng from Jilin City, Jilin Province

    Mr. Wang Xiaosheng, 36, 1.68 meters (5'6") tall, used to work in a railroad company. He began to practice Falun Gong around 1996. On April 23, 2001, he was taken away by the Jilin Security Bureau. He later escaped detention, but no one has heard anything from him ever since.

    In the past five years, Mr. Wang's family has been worrying about him day and night. His mother often cries at night and his father often smokes to relieve anxiety. The recent exposure of Sujiatun concentration camp only made the family more upset and frightened. It is said that people held in Sujiatun may have been subjected to extremely cruel torture and their organs removed. Given the fact that Mr. Wang hasn't contacted his family for the past five years, his family is afraid that he might already be dead.

    Dang Jilai from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

    Mr. Dang Jilai, in his 30s, went missing in July 2000 in Chongqing City. After learning of the Sujiatun concentration camp, we are extremely worried about Mr. Dang's safety. We don't know where he is right now. We hope he can contact us, either directly or through the Minghui net, after seeing this article on Minghui.

    Li Yongzhe from Tieli City, Heilongjiang Province

    Mr. Li Yongzhe is of Xian ethnicity. When the persecution began in July 1999, he was attending Jiamusi University and about to graduate. Soon he went missing. His family went everywhere trying to locate him, but without success. His mother is living in South Korea and longing for the return of her son. Anyone who has information about Mr. Li, please let us know his situation.


    Mr. Li Shaojun from Ezhou City, Hubei Province Missing for Several Years

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Shaojun, who was born around 1970, is 1.72 m. (5.6 ft.) tall, married, and was employed by the Echeng Steel Company, at Wuhan City Steel Corp. Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong between July and August in 1999 and never returned.

    Mr. Li Shaojun's mother, sister and brother-in-law are all practitioners of Falun Gong. In April 2000, his mother said that Mr. Li had contacted some family members and after that there hasn't been any information.

    Mr. Li's mother has been detained and sent to a brainwashing class. She passed away during the period between 2002 and 2004.

    Mr. Li Shaojun was married in 1999. His newly-wedded wife left Li's home many years ago. It was said that she was pregnant then and had a miscarriage.

    Mr. Li Shaojun's sister, Ms. Li Shaoxian, was the first one sent to a forced labor camp in Ezhou City. In 2002, Mr. Li's brother-in-law Cao Zhengguo was sentenced to nine years in prison and he is now detained at the Hubei Province Qinduankou Prison at Hanyang District, Wuhan City.

    At present, Mr. Li's father is the only person left at Mr. Li's home. He is an injured worker with a disability. He often cries to others saying that his son Mr. Li Shaojun may no longer be alive.



    Missing for Six Years: Wuhan Practitioner Ms. Yao Guofen

    Ms. Yao Guofen, a practitioner from Wuhan, Hubei Province, was detained and persecuted in a mental hospital in November 1999. In March of 2000 she was forced to become homeless. She has not been heard from since.

    Ms. Yao Guofen, 68, is a retired employee of the Zhongnan Hospital (belonging to Wuhan University, also called the Second Hospital of Hubei Medical School). She lived on the main floor, door 3, building 11 in the residential area of Zhongnan Hospital. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. After learning Falun Gong, all of her old ailments disappeared. She once told a fellow practitioner: "I never imagined that I could obtain such a great practice way."

    When the evil persecution began on July 20, 1999, her workplace did not allow her to practice any more and forced her to write a letter to "renounce" Falun Gong. She protested in public by practicing the exercises in an open area near the hospital gate. Later, because her husband did not allow her to practice, she went to her daughter's home in Guangzhou. On learning of her whereabouts, her workplace sent someone to force her to return. They made her write a guarantee note saying that she would not practice Falun Gong any more. She was prohibited from leaving her home, and forbidden to talk with anyone.

    Around November 9, 1999, Ms. Yao snuck out of the house while her husband was asleep and went to appeal in Beijing. Later, she was arrested and detained at a forced labor camp. She refused to reveal her name and address, but the police found out within a month and informed her workplace to take her back. She was detained at the hotel of her workplace for several days under the watch of security guards. Her refusal to write a guarantee statement and to turn in her Falun Gong books led her to be forcibly taken to the Psychological Department of Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University (former First Hospital of Hubei Medical School).

    In the hospital she was injected with nerve-damaging drugs and forced to swallow pills. She did not cooperate and spit out the pills after the hospital staff left the room, but another patient reported her, so Yao Guofen was forced to swallow the medicine again. However, she went to the washroom to vomit out the medicine by sticking her fingers into her throat. After such torture, she was released from the hospital. It was two days before the Chinese New Year.

    Her husband was very strict with her. In order to prevent her from going to Beijing again, he did not allow her to leave the house and refused to give her any money. One night she told her husband that she wanted to stay with her daughter for awhile. Her husband reported this to her workplace and to the police branch. The fear of being abducted and sent to the mental hospital again forced Yao Guofen to leave her home without any money when her husband was sleeping at night. It has been over six years since she left her home, and nobody has heard from her since. Even the death of her husband did not prompt her to come back.


    Beijing Policewoman Leaked Information about Secret Concentration Camp for Detaining Falun Gong Practitioners

    I am a Falun Gong practitioner in Beijing. I was illegally detained and persecuted in Beijing Xinan Women's Labor Camp (a.k.a. Beijing Women's Labor Camp) between 2000 and 2001. Around the end of 2000 a policewoman told me: "Don't ever think that if you can persist until the end of your sentence, then you will be okay. I am telling you, if you don't "transform," you will never get out of here."

    I asked her, "When the term is up, what excuse can they use to hold us here?"

    She replied: "The deadline can be extended. If one term is extended once and is not enough, another can be added. Do you remember Zhou Ming? His term was extended twice."

    I said: "After extending twice it will be another year. According to the rules, the extension cannot be instated more than two times."

    She laughed, but kept a poker face, and said: "Don't think the CCP won't come up with a scheme to keep you. Now, the northwest area is constructing a base just for detaining stubborn Falun Gong practitioners. Whoever refuses be 'transformed' eventually will be sent there. Once you go there, you will never come out."

    When I heard what she said, I thought she was just threatening us, so I did not take it seriously. But today I read the revealing article by the Hubei Falun Gong practitioner on Clearwisdom. I noticed that the police in Hubei Shayang Labor Camp also told them about sending them to the northwest desert area. Thus, it was not a coincidence. Almost certainly there were some related secret orders from the central government, and the police from different labor camps were also talking in the same tone. The lesson is that we should never use ordinary common sense to judge the evil Communist Party's behavior, because their conduct is inhuman. Also keep in mind that it was set up by the old forces; their evilness is really beyond humans' imagination and endurance. If Falun Gong practitioners treat it with an everyday person's heart, then we could be destroyed by it. And if people do not recognize the evil nature of the Party, they will eventually be dragged into hell by it.


    Ms. Wang Liya from Nanning City Illegally Detained For Seven Months, Her Lawyer Was Threatened

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Liya's residence in Nanning City, Guangxi Province was ransacked on September 12, 2005. Perpetrating this illegal home invasion were personnel from the Nanning City 610 Office, and persecutors from the Qingxiu District Police Department and from the National Security Group. They confiscated Ms. Wang's computer, printer, copies of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" and other belongings. The lawless personnel threatened her family members not to interfere and cited Ms. Wang as being "involved in national secrets" to stop the lawyer the family hired from intervening.

    Through the efforts of family members and the lawyer, Wang Liya was finally able to see her lawyer in January 2006, after she had been detained for more than three months. Her lawyer subsequently received many phone calls, threatening him to stop "interfering" in Wang Liya's case. These phone call were made by personnel from the Guangxi Province Judicial Bureau, the Nanning City Judicial Bureau and many other related departments. They tried to coerce the lawyer to drop Wang Liya's defense and insinuated that he could not defend a Falun Gong practitioner.

    Wang Liya has so far been illegally detained for seven months. She had to endure much physical abuse and mental torment during the detention period. Persecutors from the National Security Group of the Qingxiu District Police Department deprived her of sleep for 5 days, hoping to use this method to collect so-called evidence and testimony. Officials at the Nanning City No. 2 Detention Center further persecuted Wang Liya and other practitioners. They subjected them to longer work hours and harder work. They also frequently used torture devices to abuse the practitioners, further "justifying" their cruelties by saying the practitioners did not complete their tasks or went on strike.

    Qingxiu District Procuratorate officials have since transferred the so-called "evidence" fabricated against Ms. Wang to the Qingxiu District Judicial Bureau and tried to use the false accusation, "making use of a [slanderous word omitted] organization to break the law" to sentence Wang Liya to imprisonment.


    Ms. Han Fengxia Arrested For Trying to Rescue Her Husband

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

    Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Guiming from Tonghua City, Jilin Province is on hunger strike and detained in the Siping City Prison. On February 20, 2006, the Administrator of the Siping City Prison came to Tonghua City, and told Mr. Wang Guiming's wife Han Fengxia (who is also a practitioner) that Mr. Wang's life was in danger due to hunger strike. Ms. Han Fengxia went to Siping Prison many times in March 2006, but was refused the right to visit her husband.

    After she tried with all her might to visit her husband but still failed, Ms. Han Fengxia had to return home to Tonghua City. At around 4:00 p.m. on April 4, 2006, State Security Agent Jing Guiquan (male) from Lingdongchang District Police Department and two other 610 Office agents ransacked Ms. Han Fengxia's home and arrested her.


    Abuse of Four Falun Gong Practitioners at the Shanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp

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

    The names of four Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained at Shanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp are Jia Yuzhen, Li Runfang, Ma Yueying and Jin Jing. These practitioners have firmly resisted "reforming" and are being savagely abused as a result. They are deprived of personal freedom and are only permitted four hours of sleep per day. They are constantly watched, and the guards order drug addicts to physically abuse and mentally torment them. The practitioners are forced to do slave labor for between 15 and 18 hours per day. They are forced to take drugs and go to hospitals when they are not ill. When the Falun Gong practitioners went on a hunger strike, the persecutors force-fed them. Later on, to force the four practitioners to "reform," they made the practitioners stay awake 24 hours a day, which caused some to suffer hearing loss and temporary blindness.