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Vicious Police Acts

Police throughout Jiangsu Province have committed countless crimes in persecuting Falun Gong over the past seven years.

1. 71-year-old practitioner Mr. Zhang Wannian from Yandu County died from persecution

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Wannian, 71 years old, was the head of the Longgang Grain Station in Yandu County. He used to suffer from 11 illnesses including arthritis that resulted in deformed joints and immobility. Zhang Wannian began practicing Falun Gong in 1994. All of his illnesses disappeared without medical intervention within one year.

Mr. Zhang Wannian went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in February 2000. He was illegally arrested and taken to the Yandu County Grain Station Hotel for "reform" sessions. The police forced him to stand up and "reform," after which they savagely tortured him for 13 days. The police saw that he would not give up his belief, so they extorted 7,500 yuan from him, calling it a "case handling fee," and then sent him to the Nanyang Detention Center in Yancheng City. They tortured him there for one month and then sent him to the Longgang Mental Hospital, where they abused him for 45 days. Mr. Zhang Wannian was not swayed by the mistreatment and remained determined in his belief. He was sentenced to one year of forced labor. He went on a hunger strike in mid September 2000 to protest the persecution and was extremely weak after seven days. The police feared taking responsibility should he pass away in their custody, so they hastily carried him home. Mr. Zhang Wannian died one day later.

2. Suzhou City police torture Falun Gong practitioners

The following is the experience of a practitioner from Suzhou City.

"I was arrested by officers from Youyi Police Station in Suzhou City in November 2000 when distributing truth clarification materials. I was held at the police station and interrogated for one day and one night. I was later transferred to that city's No. 1 Detention Center. I refused to give up my belief in Falun Gong and was ruthlessly tortured. The guards forced me to wear the type of heavy torture instruments used on death row inmates, and they prevented me from talking to anyone. They ordered inmates to watch me around the clock. They made me sit motionless on a wooden plank for eight hours a day. After six months of these tortures I could no longer walk, my vision became blurred, and I lost my hearing. I was also incontinent and could not take care of myself. During this period, the guards also injected me with harmful substances. I had to wear shackles for more than 20 days after speaking out against the persecution.

"My first court hearing was held nine months after the initial acts of persecution. I was paralyzed at the time and had to be carried into the courtroom. The second hearing was held 15 days later. I was "illegally sentenced" to eight years in prison. I later learned that my family was not notified of either trial, and the guards blocked all information about me. They prevented me from writing letters or meeting with my family. The court told me that I could apply for medical parole, but after the application was complete, the guards continued to isolate me. Instead of releasing me, they sent me to a forced labor camp. The doctor there looked at my medical exam record and realized that I could not take care of myself, so he sent me back to the No. 1 Detention Center. The guards still refused to release me. One month later a hospital confirmed that my health had deteriorated further, so I again applied for medical parole. The guards sent me back to the forced labor camp, but I was rejected due to poor health and returned to the detention center. As my condition continued to deteriorate, the guards made me ingest large amounts of hormones to raise my blood pressure, followed by huge batches of drugs to lower my blood pressure. They did this to me repeatedly in order to inflict pain. My heart rate was 120 beats per minute at the time. After six months at the detention center I was close to death. They told me that they would release me only if I wrote a Guarantee Statement.

"The police and guards persecuted me for 18 months. After I went home I experienced life-threatening symptoms on two occasions and almost died. Even now, I am still in critical condition. The officials continue to harass my family. They made phone calls and sent many people to look for me. I am currently living in exile from my home in order to escape the police surveillance.

"My mother was so frightened during my detention that she nearly passed away. She suffers from a heart problem. More than ten police officers broke into my home and ransacked it at 2:00 a.m. on the day of my arrest. My 12-year-old daughter, who was home alone, was unconscious for two hours due to extreme fright. She currently experiences severe post-traumatic stress syndrome. My husband developed heart disease during my detention from the severe mental pressure. He underwent emergency treatment and survived, but still has frequent relapses. My aunt, uncle, brothers, sister, and other relatives were all harassed by the police."

3. Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhenggang cremated alive

Zhang Zhenggang, 36 years old, worked at Huaian Industry and Commerce Bank. Officers from the Huaian Police Department took him away on March 2, 2000, for interrogation and sent him to the Huaian Detention Center. At around 8:00 a.m. on March 25, officers from the same police department savagely beat him until he sustained a severe head injury and lost consciousness. He was sent to the No. 1 People’s Hospital in Huaian City without his family's knowledge. The doctor opened Mr. Zhang Zhenggang's skull, removed a blood clot, and gave him oxygen and an IV infusion after the surgery.

Mr. Zhang had a detectable pulse and blood pressure, but was unconscious the whole time. His wife and mother rushed to the hospital after they heard about the operation, but the police refused to tell the family anything about his treatment plan, medical record, or medications. The police saturated the entire ward and prevented any news of Mr. Zhang's condition from leaking out. A doctor performed an EKG at around 6:30 p.m. on March 30. Mr. Zhang had a weak pulse and was still breathing.

About 50 police officers suddenly came into the hospital. They imposed martial law throughout the hallways and wards. They duped Zhang Zhenggang’s wife and mother into going into another room and immediately put them under close watch. Then several police officers shoved some other visiting relatives away, as well as curious patients who had come to the ward. They took Mr. Zhang Zhenggang away when he was still breathing. He also still had a heart beat. They directly cremated his body without the knowledge or consent of his family. They committed intentional murder.

The police later forbade Mr. Zhang’s family and friends from commemorating him or sending wreaths. They prohibited the family from appealing to the courts or suing the police. Zhang Zhenggang’s wife wrote, "A young, lively person entered a detention center, was brutally beaten, and died from the persecution. Zhang Zhenggang, you have been wronged!"

4. Nanjing City police arrest practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuhua and harass her relatives

Nanjing City police officers took practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuhua from home in the summer of 2001. They also confiscated her truth clarification materials and copy machine, among other things. Her grade-school-aged son was present during the arrest. The ruthless police deeply frightened the child when they ransacked the home and manhandled his mother. Ms. Zhang had no other choice but to call her ex-husband of nine years living in Beijing, and ask him to come take care of their child.

After Ms. Zhang Yuhua was taken to the police station, she walked out from under the police’s nose with powerful righteous thoughts. When the police discovered that she had left, they went to her home and demanded that her ex-husband turn her over to them. Her ex-husband doesn’t practice Falun Gong, but he knew from the changes in Zhang Yuhua and their child that Falun Dafa is good. He said to the police in a stern voice, "You took her away, and now you are asking me for her? We suspect that you are responsible for her disappearance. Is she alive or dead at the moment? Now tell me: how did she leave the police station with all of you watching her?" The police looked at each other and couldn’t figure out how Ms. Zhang had managed to leave without a trace. The ex-husband said, "Now you’re asking me for her, but I ask you to find her! My child is uncared for! Also, she did not commit any crime, right? I think you know very well what they [Falun Gong practitioners] are about." The police said that they would come back, and then they left.

The police then went to Beijing and harassed Zhang Yuhua’s parents-in-law and their relatives. They even staked out Ms. Zhang’s ex-husband’s brother home. He was very angry with the police officials. He went downstairs and said to the two police officers, "The person you are trying to capture has nothing to do with my brother; they divorced nine years ago. You have no right to stay here and wait for her; don’t harass me and disrupt my life!" The two officers left.

Jiang's political group persecutes the families of Falun Gong practitioners as well as the practitioners themselves. More and more Chinese people now see clearly the nature of Jiang's group. They support and empathize with practitioners and condemn the dictator’s clique for its crimes. The ex-husband’s cousin called Ms. Zhang Yuhua’s parents and said, "If you ever get in touch with the child’s mother, ask her to come and live with me. I’m not afraid of these evildoers!" The child’s father often says to the child, "Your mother is a good person and deserves great respect. She is a cultivator who persists in the truth. Don’t you feel ashamed in front of your friends; your mother is a great person!"

5. Atrocities committed by Changzhou City Police

The persecution of practitioners at the hands of the Changzhou City police escalated steadily after July 20, 1999. The police often resort to barbaric methods to torture practitioners. Below are a few of the most frequently used methods:

a. Torture aiming to exhaust: Practitioners held at the Xilin Detention Center in Changzhou City are forced to work for 10 or 12 hours per day and are interrogated all night long. They are prohibited from sitting or taking a nap during the interrogation. One practitioner was tortured this way for eight days and nights. Some practitioners were tortured for seven days and nights. Some practitioners are handcuffed and hung up during the interrogation. Many practitioners detained in Changzhou City have endured this torture.

When the police can’t get any information from the practitioners, they hang the practitioners up by their handcuffs. They don't even spare practitioners in their 70s. They also tie the practitioners to a board with several metal chains so the practitioners can't move. This is a punishment usually used on death row inmates.

b. Fanatic beatings: Ji Liming is a police officer at the Changzhou City Liaison Office in Beijing, and Hong Jianxing is head of the Anjiashe Town Police Station in Wujin. Ji Liming habitually beat and kicked practitioners. He dragged female practitioners by their hair while beating them. He banged the practitioners’ heads against a wall and against the floor. Ji Liming once beat a female practitioner until she was covered in blood and his hands were covered in blood, but he refused to stop. Hong Jianxing, head of the Anjiashe Town Police Station in Wujin, is really vicious. Once, after a group of practitioners were brought back from Beijing, he savagely beat each practitioner, hit them with sticks, and shocked them with electric batons. The neighbors could hear practitioners’ wrenching screams late at night.

c. Deception: Practitioner Gao Zhifang from Yonghong Township in Changzhou City was summoned to the village committee in December 1999. They told him that he would be allowed to return home in a little while. He ended up in a forced labor camp for one year. He didn’t even have time to change his slippers before he left home. Police from Lanling took practitioner Ms. Liao, 38 years old, away on the morning of November 4, 2000, when she was buying vegetables at a market. She was told at noon that she had been sentenced to 18 months of forced labor because she practices Falun Gong and had gone to Beijing to appeal. A police station chief once said, "We don’t talk about the law when dealing with Falun Gong people. You can sue us wherever you want, but you’ll never win!"

Dark Stories from the Brainwashing Centers

Since July 20, 1999, officials from different levels of the 610 Office in Jiangsu Province have established all kinds of unconstitutional brainwashing centers. Such a brainwashing center is merely another form of a fascist concentration camp. They are used to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners and force them to give up their belief.

1. Gulou District Brainwashing Center in Nanjing City is another form of an illegal detention center

On January 20, 2001, CCP officials in the Gulou District turned their brainwashing center into another illegal detention center. It has held many groups of practitioners. On arrival, practitioners have to submit to a body search. Anything supplied to them by their families is carefully scrutinized. Practitioners are separated into different cells, and their belongings are subject to being searched at any time. The cells have metal doors with small windows covered with metal bars. A large curtain located a meter away from the front window blocks the view of the window, and a wall is all you can see out the rear window. Surveillance monitors are installed in the ceiling. The lights in the rooms are left on day and night. Time allowed for daily activities is limited, including restroom breaks.

Windows in the room can be closed at any time, no matter how hot the weather is. This is another form of abuse. At 6:00 a.m. each day loudspeakers broadcast a propaganda radio program, sometimes lasting more than four hours. Practitioners are also forced to watch TV programs that slander Falun Gong. Practitioners are prohibited from talking during these presentations and are coerced to comment on them afterwards.

The authorities organized a so-called "Education Assistance Group." This group was made up of people from different fields, including police departments, law bodies, legal departments, government branches, academic institutions, residential community committees, and others. People from this group interrogated practitioners one by one. They compelled practitioners' family members to put pressure on the practitioners using methods such as beating, scolding, or threatening them. The officials made practitioners write so-called "Guarantee Statements." Different district governments got together and organized many people to visit Gulou District Brainwashing Center to learn brainwashing techniques to use in their areas.

Two college students were assigned to the so-called "Education Assistance Group." After they realized what was going on they said, "Normal people would be driven insane in such an environment. What legal procedure is required to detain you here?" We told them, "We were abducted and taken here."

Two female practitioners who were employees at a research institute refused to write the guarantee statement. They had been detained for ten months. Many husbands and wives were sentenced to forced labor for refusing to write the guarantee statement.

Practitioners' bank accounts were frozen. Some practitioners did not receive their salaries for several months, some for as long as six months. The practitioners had to pay 5,000 yuan per month for food and lodging at the detention center. If overdue, the fine would be doubled. When released from the brainwashing center, a payment of 3,000 yuan was required as a so-called "guarantee fee." The employees working there would get a 500 yuan bonus whenever a practitioner was released. They threatened practitioners on their release that if two practitioners were seen together again they could be arrested at any time, anywhere. Recently, the authorities boasted that whoever refuses to write a guarantee statement could be sentenced to up to nine years.

2. Tortures in the brainwashing center in Yandu County

On June 10, 2000, Yandu County officials in Yancheng City held the first brainwashing session for those so-called key practitioners. They tried to coerce the practitioners into to learning and practicing Taiji, which practitioners firmly refused to do so. The staff brought in security officers, who handcuffed practitioners behind their backs and kicked and boxed them. They claimed, "It will not be considered a crime, even if a practitioner is beaten to death." They beat the practitioners until they fell on the ground and then dragged them up to beat them again. Such torture took place over a six-day period. They threatened many practitioners' family members, saying if they refused to give up their beliefs they would be sentenced and sent to the far west of China." Threats like these made some family members beat the practitioners.

On November 20, 2000, Yandu County officials in Yancheng City held another brainwashing session to persecute practitioners. The purposes of the brainwashing session were clearly vicious. One purpose was to prevent practitioners from appealing in Beijing as New Year's Day was coming. The other was to prepare a long-term brainwashing center, which would cause practitioners to lose their jobs and income. The third was to force family members and friends to lose contact with practitioners. The Yancheng government provided 160,000 yuan in funding for those so-called "education assistance officials" to live luxuriously.

Those practitioners who were forced to attend this brainwashing session had to pay 40 yuan per day; 1,600 yuan for the 40-day-long class. The brainwashing center was located in a completely isolated area. Practitioners were forbidden all contact with the outside. Not even their family members and friends were permitted to visit them. Four people monitored each practitioner. The monitors' job was to watch and brainwash the practitioners. The decree was that a practitioner must be brainwashed within 40 days; otherwise, the practitioners would be sentenced to forced labor.

3. The brainwashing base where one can't live or die

Besides the brainwashing sessions run at the county, city, and provincial level, Jiangsu Province also set up so-called '"transformation" bases' in Xinghua, Nantong, Nanjing and Wuxi to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. These places went by the official name "Law Education Base." These bases targeted in particular those steadfast practitioners who had not been brainwashed during their terms in jails, forced labor camps, or detention centers; those who stood very firm in their belief in camps or detention centers; or those the authorities thought they could succeed in brainwashing. Persecution and torture at such brainwashing bases was ongoing. Each center contained dozens of practitioners.

These brainwashing bases were under the direct supervision of the provincial 610 Office, with cooperation from lower levels of the 610 Office. The main enforcing body was the so-called "experienced" police officials who came from police departments, labor camps, detention centers, and jails. Collaborators acted as assistants and directly conducted the brainwashing. Local security personnel were hired as hatchet men. In order to force steadfast practitioners to give up their beliefs, those in charge exploited any tactics they could think of. They proclaimed that those who refused to be brainwashed would not be allowed to live or die.

They forced practitioners to watch Falun Gong-slandering videos on a daily basis, forced them to hand-copy articles slandering Falun Gong, and compelled them to listen to the collaborators' evil indoctrination. Besides such methods, they often tortured practitioners. Following is a description of some frequently used tortures:

a. Long-term sleep deprivation: Sometimes practitioners were deprived of sleep 24 hours-a-day for a few days in a row. Sometimes it would last ten days, two weeks, and even over 20 days. The victims would become absentminded and then be forced to write guarantee statements. One practitioner was deprived of sleep for 22 days, bringing him close to the edge of a mental breakdown.

b. Limited food: They either withheld food entirely from practitioners or gave them less food for days, permitting them to drink only water.

c. Deprivation of restroom use: Those practitioners who refused to cooperate with the authorities would have their restroom privileges denied. Some practitioners had no choice but to soil their pants. Then, if the excrement fell on the ground, several people would open the practitioner's mouth, pinch his or her nose, and make the practitioner swallow the excrement.

d. Exposure to freezing temperatures or baking under the sun: In the cold winter, they removed the practitioners' warm clothing, leaving them only thin clothes or even nothing. Then they poured cold water on them and turned on an air conditioner or fan. When the practitioners were frozen, when their skin had turned purple, or when they lost consciousness, they put them on the bed and covered them up until they awoke. Then they might, immediately or the next day, repeat such a torture if the practitioner still refused to be brainwashed. Even more vicious, they stripped practitioners and threw them into cold water. Practitioner Liu suffered such torture at the Xinghua Brainwashing Base. He was pushed onto a bed and his legs were pulled apart until he screamed in extreme pain and dripped with sweat. Then they soaked him in cold water. The practitioner was unable to walk for several months after suffering such a brutal torture.

In the summer they stripped off practitioners' clothes and forced them to stand under the sun until they fell unconscious and were soaked in sweat. Some practitioners lost consciousness from dehydration; some people's skins peeled in layers from severe sunburns. They tortured the practitioners this way day after day.

e. Facing a wall to stand long hours; sitting on pebbles or squatting on a piece of brick: Practitioners were forced to stand straight up facing a wall, with their noses touching the wall and hands hanging down, for long hours each day. Practitioners would suffer beating and kicking if they moved even a little bit. The abusers might ask a practitioner whether he wanted to sit down. If the answer was yes, they would put Master's photo or a Falun Gong book on a chair and order the practitioner to sit down. If the practitioner refused to sit down, they would force him to sit down. If the practitioner insisted on not sitting, they would put sharp pebbles or smashed glasses on the concrete floor and then strip off the practitioner’s pants and force him to sit down. Then they would push the practitioner around until his bottom and legs were cut and bloody. Or they might get two bricks, remove the practitioner's shoes and socks, and force him to squat on the bricks for a long time. If the practitioner was tired and tried to straighten his wrist or move his feet, they would beat him and force him to continue squatting. This kind of torture would make the practitioner's feet swell and he would suffer extreme pain. Even worse, it would lead to an ankle injury and prevent the person from walking.

f. "Nailed to a board:" Practitioners would be fixed on a wooden board for a long time, with hands and feet spread out in four directions. The whole body looked like the Chinese character for "Da." The practitioners could not move around and were unable to go to the restroom. Practitioner Xie was subjected to this torture at the Weining Brainwashing Base.

g. Insulting Master and Falun Gong: They put Master's photos and Falun Gong books on the ground or on a chair and forced practitioners to sit on them. They even tied practitioners' hands and then squeezed Master's photo into their underwear.

(To be continued)

At around noon on July 25, 2006, Guo Shudong and four others from the Wutu Police Station and the 610 Office of Wutu Town, Changle County, Shandong Province, drove in two trucks to the house of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Guxiang in Xishangtuan. Without showing any documents, they ransacked her house, and confiscated Falun Gong books and truth-clarifying materials. They forced Ms. Liu Guixiang to come with them. When her husband, Mr. Wang Hongfan, tried to stop them, the villains pushed him to the ground and did not let him get back up.

Ms. Liu Guixiang is already over 60 years old. Her entire family cultivates Falun Gong. The whole family has been subjected to various forms of persecution since July 20, 1999, just because they would not give up their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. A harmonious family was destroyed.

On the morning of August 2, 2006, Chen Shaoyong from the county 610 Office, and leader of  the National Security Group along with six others broke into the house of practitioner Ms. Yu Meixia. They handcuffed Ms. Yu and took her away without showing any documents. They said that they would sentence her to two years, and took her to the detention center in Changli County.

Ms. Yu Meixia has been arrested, detained, or sent to brainwashing session many times. Meng Qingquan, the local school principal, to whom practitioners have clarified the truth many times, has continued to actively engage in the persecution. Since July 20, 1999, the 610 Office of Wutu Town, led by Guo Shudong, has assiduously followed the dictates of Jiang's regime and participated in crimes against humanity. They have tortured the arrested practitioners using methods such as brutal beatings, exposure to the bright sun in hot weather, forced standing for prolonged periods of time, scalding with hot water, prison sentences, house searches, monetary fines, etc.

Ms. Zhou Liru, 50, was the deputy manager of Lingdong Power Industry Vacation Resort in Zhalandun City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She was illegally detained in Shanhaiguan for one night when she went to Beijing to clarify the truth in 2000. The police from Zhalandun City then illegally escorted her back to Zhalandun City and detained her in the city detention center for fifteen days.

In early 2001, Zhu Liru and Li Yuxiang went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. The unlawful personnel constantly came to their homes to harass and to intimidate them. The police used devious methods to trick them into going to the local police station and then detained them in Zhalandun Nantou Prison. Prison guard Liang Yunbao beat Ms. Zhou with the "longest death stick" because she refused to wear a prison uniform. These torture sticks are classified as short or long, and life or death. He handcuffed Zhou Liru and Wang Chunyan together for fifteen days. One of Wang Chunyan's arms was tied to the death stick, which was tied to Zhou Liru's feet. This caused severe pain in Ms. Zhou Liru's back, hips, legs and breasts. Her breasts, in particular, suffered extreme pain.

Later, Zhou Liru was sent to Tumuji Forced Labor Camp for two years of forced labor. The camp released her early due to her deteriorating health condition. Her injured breast began to ooze pus, however the police continued to harass and intimidate her after she returned home. Both her mind and body suffered tremendously.

Zhou Liru and Chen Qiulian, also Falun Gong practitioners, were illegally arrested in 2001 when distributing truth-clarifying materials in Zhalandun. Chen Qiulian was illegally imprisoned, while Zhou Liru was released due to a health condition. However, the police forced Ms. Zhou Liru's husband to write a guarantee statement and monitor her actions. Zhou Liru died in March 2005.

Mr. Liu Shuchun was very weak when the Changyi City Police in Shandong Province sent him to the Lechang Labor Education Center. He’d already been on a hunger strike for many days while he was illegally imprisoned in Changle.

During his incarceration Mr. Liu refused to be "transformed," so the guards in the Second Group of Changle Labor Education Center stripped him of his clothes and drenched him with cold water. This was one of their routine methods of torturing practitioners.

During one of the coldest days of the year, with ice-cold water pouring over his body and the northweste wind blowing in through the open windows, Mr. Liu felt like he was being stabbed with thousands of knives. After an hour of this torture he was shivering violently and unable to speak. He felt as if his internal organs were under pressure and he could hardly stand the pain. Every practitioner who’s been tortured this way can attest to the severity of Liu Shuchun’s suffering. Meanwhile the guards shouted and cursed because their hands were so cold from holding the water hose, even though they were dressed in heavy jackets and wore insulated shoes and leather gloves.

When the guards tired of this torture they dragged Mr. Liu back to the Team One dormitory room opposite the bathroom and threw him, naked, wet and shivering, to the floor. They punched and kicked him, yelling, "Tell us, do you want to practice or not?" The racket from the beating and Mr. Liu's pained screams echoed through the west wing of the Labor Education Building. It went on until the scoundrels were dripping with sweat and it was lunchtime. They left him lying curled up on the cement floor with his eyes closed, trembling and breathing faintly. He lay there for more than an hour.

Later that afternoon the thugs stepped up their torture of Liu Shuchun, but they failed to force him "transform." He kept his mouth closed, refusing to speak. They gave him another cold shower and beat him again even more severely than they had before. He was trembling and his groans of pain grew lower and weaker. Gradually his moans could no longer be heard over the noise of the guards yelling, "Do you still want to practice?"

Mr. Liu Shuchun quit breathing, but the punching and kicking continued. At first they didn’t notice that he’d died. Finally Tian Weixiang called the duty officer when he sensed that something was wrong.

In less than six hours, inmates, under the direction of the Changle Forced Labor Center guards, had beaten Mr. Liu Shuchun to death. Shortly thereafter a labor camp vehicle arrived at the west building, and several Second Group guards wrapped him in a piece of cotton mattress, carried him down from the fourth floor, and loaded his body on the vehicle, which then drove away.

Mr. Liu Shuchun’s wife is also a Falun Gong practitioner, and she was detained at the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp at the time. Since there was nobody to claim him, his body, still wrapped in the cotton mattress, was left on the floor of a storage room for two days before they disposed of it, along with his personal belongings and clothes, but Mr. Liu’s name was removed from the bulletin board by the duty officer the same afternoon.

In order to contain the news of an inmate being beaten to death, Changle Forced Labor Camp officials transferred many guards from various departments to the Second Group to more closely monitor the rest of the practitioners. Practitioners weren’t allowed to write letters, make phone calls, or go anywhere by themselves. They weren’t even allowed to speak with each other. Even when a practitioner went to the restroom he was "sandwiched" by two guards. The Second Group guards assembled all the detainees and searched them three times. They turned the men’s briefs inside out and even removed the insoles from their shoes in order to examine them.

Despite the efforts of the authorities to block the news, word of Mr. Liu Shuchun’s brutal murder reached the outside the very same day.

Mr. Liu Shuchun was tortured to death on January 3, 2001, between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in the Team One dormitory, fourth floor, west wing, by the inmates and guards of Subgroup Two, Second Police Group, Changle Forced Labor Camp, Weifang City.

The perpetrators:

Director Xu Lihua and Vice Director Zou Jintian, Changle Forced Labor Camp, who planned and instructed the inmates to beat and torture the illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners. As leaders they are undeniably responsible for the death of Mr. Liu Shuchun.

Chief Han Huiyue, Subgroup Two, Second Police Group, Changle Forced Labor Camp (originally exposed by Minghui Weekly). Sinister and ruthless, Han has used electric batons, beatings, forced standing and sitting, and all day physical exercise sessions to torture practitioners. Practitioners detained in his group have been subjected to hour-long cold-water showers with open windows in winter. After the showers, inmates kick the practitioners around as if they were soccer balls and only stop when they become exhausted. Each practitioner is be put through this again and again, as long as they refuse to be "transformed." Han Huiyue encouraged inmate Zhang to create a whip by attaching a fan belt to a wooden handle and whip the practitioners that refuse to renounce "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Groups of up to eight inmates strip a practitioner and push him to the ground, then two inmates step on the practitioner’s head, four more step on each limb, and the other two take turns whipping the practitioner. They start on the calves and work their way up little by little until they reach the neck. The practitioners’ scars don’t change color even after their three-year labor terms are over. Han Huiyue is the one most responsible for instigating the inmates to so violently beat Mr. Liu Shuchun to death.

Officers on duty that day: group leader Xiao, and instructor Guan. They also encouraged the inmates to deliver the fatal beating and are therefore responsible for the crime.

Inmates who participated in Mr. Liu Shuchun’s murder:

1. Liu Chunxiang, the inmate who led the team. Liu is so wicked that he’s beaten nearly every practitioner detained at the labor camp. He was punished for beating Mr. Liu Shuchun to death with a three-month extension of his sentence, loss of his position, and a transfer out of Subgroup Two.

2. Tian Weixiang of Qingzhou City. Tian has beaten many practitioners. He wasn’t punished at all for his part in Mr. Liu Shuchun’s murder and kept his position until the end of his term.

3. Niu Zhongxin of Weifang City. Niu is crude and malicious and has beaten many practitioners. He received no punishment for the death of Mr. Liu Shuchun.

4. Liu Xuetian of Dongying City. He received no punishment for the death of Mr. Liu Shuchun.

Every practitioner detained in Subgroup Two in Changle Forced Labor Camp from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001 is a witness to this murder. A detailed witness list will be made available to Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG).

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).

Ms. Yang Zehui from Kangping County, Liaoning Province, lives near Donghuan Road, Kangping County. She owns a small food shop and treats every customer according to the standards of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance." She posted the three words at the front of the store on opening day, September 1, 2006.

Local officers from Zhenbei Police Station in Kangping County demanded that Ms. Yang remove the three words, which express the essential principles of the practice of Falun Gong. Ms. Yang Zehui and her family said, "What’s wrong with these three words? There is nothing wrong with doing things according to Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. We believe in it." Yang Xiantao, Zhenbei Police Station chief, directed a group of officers including Xia Pinqing and Wang Jinyun to tear down the three words. Ms. Yang's son tried to reason with them, but Chief Yang Xiantao screamed for the officers to search the shop. Xia Pinqing shouted, "I’m in charge of this area! Hurry up and take them down!" More than two hours passed. Many people gathered in front of Yang Zehui’s store. The police knew that they were in the wrong. They pinned her and her son down, handcuffed them, and took them away. The police then illegally detained Ms. Yang.

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).

Ms. Zhang Liying, 52, lives in Yintan Town, Yinhai District, Beihai City, Guangxi Province. She was ordered to report to the Longtan Police Station around July 20, 1999, and she was forced to sign a document renouncing Falun Gong.

Ms. Zhang Liying went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in July 2000, and was arrested and held at the Longtan Police Station for one day. In the evening the persecutors transferred her to the No. 2 Detention Center in Beihai City and detained her for a month.

Zhang Liying was again arrested in March 2001 and taken to a brainwashing center organized by people from the Longtan Village Office. She was forced to curse Falun Gong and Master, and write a guarantee statement. She was held for 16 days.

Later, about nine officers from the Yinhai District Police Department took Zhang Liying from home to a brainwashing center set up in a drug rehabilitation center. She was forced to watch videos that slandered Master and Falun Gong all day long. She and others refused to cooperate with the officials who made stand in the sun and go through military drills.

Zhang Liying was coerced to appear at the Xiacun Village Office in early spring 2003. She was arrested a few days later and sent to the Xinhai District Police Department where she was interrogated for 24 hours. The police made Zhang Liying stand all night long.

Ms. Zhang was taken to Yinhai District Police Department again in September 2003 [Chinese lunar calendar] and interrogated for three days and two nights. Then she was transferred to the No. 2 Detention Center in Beihai City and held there for fifteen days. Beihai City 610 Office agents arrested her once again, less than three days after her release. She was interrogated at Beihai City Police Department for two days and one night. One police officer punched her in the eyes and forced her to squat.

Ms. Zhang visited another Falun Gong practitioner in 2004, and was arrested and taken to the Longtan Police Station and interrogated for one day. She was transferred to the No. 2 Detention Center in Beihai City and detained for fifteen days. Then, on November 7, 2005 she clarified the truth at a villager’s home, and was arrested and interrogated at the Longtan Police Station for one day. She was subsequently transferred to the No. 2 Detention Center in Beihai City and detained for yet another fifteen days.

Wang Xin and other officers ordered Ms. Zhang to arrive at the Longtan Police Station in 2005, but she refused to cooperate with them. Wang Xin and several others broke into Zhang Liying’s home and ransacked it. The same group of people ransacked Zhang Liying’s home again at a later time and took some Falun Gong materials.

Officers from several different police departments frequently harassed Zhang Liying and ransacked her home in 2006.

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).

Persecutors arrested 65-year-old practitioner Mr. Liu Guihan at the Bolian Tiendi Flea Market in Shunyi County, Beijing at around 7:00 p.m. on May 7, 2006. Participating in the arrest were officers from Guangming Police Station, and the Shunyi Police Department. His family learned on August 16, 2006 that Liu Guihan had been illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. The deceitful police changed the date on the "notice of labor reeducation" to a date two months prior, June 7, 2006.

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).

Practitioner Wang Jingping from Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province was arrested by Zhang Zhengxian, Wang Junfeng, Wang Kequan and others from Yucheng County Police Department's National Security Group.

The police also climbed over the wall and broke into the home of practitioner Mr. Song Shengli. They arrested him and his middle-school-aged son.

Lu Chunwei and others from the Lilaojia Township Police Station in Yucheng County ransacked the homes of practitioners in Lilaojia Township that same day, and they also arrested practitioner Mr. Peng Hongyan later that night.