Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tian Yunhai from Dalian City, Liaoning Province, has been persecuted by Communist Party officials many times. He was illegally sentenced to prison in 2006 and was later sent to Panjin Prison to be further persecuted. He has been on a hunger strike in Panjin Prison for five months to protest the persecution and his current health is critical. Several days ago his father saw him being carried out when he visited his son at the prison. Tian Yunhai could neither stand up nor sit straight and didn't even have the strength to speak. He could only slightly move his lips and could barely sit through the visit that was only a few minutes long.

Tian Yunhai's father petitioned the authorities to release him on medical parole, but the officials said they couldn't make that decision. The father was also prevented from seeing the prison head when he requested it. Infirmary Ward doctor Gao Junman and head Zhang Yawei said they could not guarantee Mr. Tian's life and safety. When Mr. Tian's family asked for medical parole, no one said they could take the responsibility [should anything happen to him]. The local court and procuratorate evaded responsibility.

About one month into Mr. Tian Yunhai's hunger strike his friend called Prison Administration Division head Hu Meifa at the prison. Hu Meifa said in a nonchalant tone, "We didn't follow the law when banning Falun Gong. Why are you talking to me about the law now?

Many of these so-called "administrators of the law" break the law, violating the sanctity of the law. Because they know that the Communist Party is a law unto itself, they are emboldened to commit crimes without restraint in the name of the law. When Tian Yunhai's friend subsequently called Hu Meifa, Hu Meifa didn't answer, or he hung up immediately. One time Hu Meifa said, "Tian Yunhai is dead" before hanging up.

Mr. Tian Yunhai, 34 years old, lived in Dalian City. He has a Bachelor's degree and is originally from Changchun City. He worked in the 1st Division of the13th Bureau of Railway System. He was kind, honest, and helpful toward others. Officers from the National Security Group in Dalian City headed by Chen Xin and Dong Jian arrested Mr. Tian in broad daylight on July 1, 2005, and brutally beat and tortured him.

Wang Jian, from the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate in Dalian City, and Judges Chen Jing and Wang Lijuan from the Ganjingzi District Court, fabricated charges against Tian Yunhai. They illegally tried him and sentenced him to ten years in prison without notifying his family. He was jailed in the 6th Group of the 1st Ward of Panjin Prison.

While in prison, Mr. Tian stopped the guards from savagely beating other practitioners. In return, the guards tortured him with the tiger bench and electric batons. He went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution and is now being held at the infirmary room in Ward 5.

1. Ms. Li Zhonglan started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. She was reported in May 2002 while distributing truth-clarification materials and clarifying the truth about the persecution on a bus. Ms. Li was arrested and taken to the Fuxing Police Station but escaped using the power of righteous thoughts. She lived a homeless life to avoid arrest and did not return home for more than three years. The police found her having a meal with others at a restaurant called Nong Jia Le on October 6, 2005, during the Fifth Asia Pacific Cities Summit in Chongqing City. The police immediately arrested her, took her to the Yiwanshui Detention Center and held her there for one year. While in detention, she lost a tooth from being beaten, and also sustained facial scars that took a very long time to heal. The brutal torture to which she was subjected made Ms. Li appear skeleton-like. The Yubei District Court sentenced her to three years of forced labor in September 2006 and sent her to Yongchuan Labor Farm (a tea farm) in early October.

2. Mr. Wang Daohua, 70, lived in Shuitu Town, Beipei District, Chongqing City. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and benefited physically and mentally. He was determined in his belief in Falun Gong. The police ransacked his home in 2000 and took all of his Falun Gong books, including Zhuan Falun. Mr. Wang and his wife were sent to Shuitu Town Brainwashing Center. He was subsequently transferred to a nursing home called Home of Happiness where he was forced to do heavy manual labor by working to build a highway. He was detained there for five months. Mr. Wang firmly practiced Falun Gong and refused to "reform" or cooperate with the authorities. He was sent to a detention center in 2001 and sentenced to two years of forced labor, to be served at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp. He continued practicing Falun Gong in 2003 after he went home, and clarified the truth to rescue people. He was reported in October 2003 and sent to Beipei Detention Center. Mr. Wang was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and sent to the Yongchuan Prison in Chongqing City, where he is still being held.

3. Mr. Wu Shangming is a retired worker from the Beicheng Group in Beipei District. He started practicing Falun Gong in the spring of 2000 after he retired. Falun Gong taught him how to become a truly good person, but he was persecuted by the Communist regime for practicing Falun Gong and clarifying the truth. Beginning in 2002, officers from Beipei Police Department's First Section frequently went to his home trying to arrest him. He left his home and lived a difficult life. The police also harassed his children.

Mr. Wu and practitioner Chen Zhaoliu were arrested at the same time in March 2003 and taken to Beipei Detention Center. The police subsequently ransacked Mr. Wu's home and took Falun Gong books, watches, keys, ID cards and other belongings, which they never returned. Mr. Wu was sentenced to three years in prison in July 2003 and sent to the Yongchuan Prison, where he was held until March 2006. He followed Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance with rock-solid determination and didn’t believe the guards’ lies when they promised him a sentence reduction in exchange for renouncing his belief. He overcame tribulations with righteous belief in Falun Gong.

4. Ms. Yin Hongrong is from Dadi, Tankou. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and was freed from numerous illnesses. Furthermore, Falun Gong principles taught her how to be a good person. She firmly practiced Falun Gong after the persecution began on July 20, 1999, for which the Communist regime severely persecuted her.

Ms. Yin and some other practitioners went to Beijing to clarify the truth. She was arrested and held at Beipei Custody Center for 15 days, including two days in a solitary confinement cell. After she returned home, she was taken to Shuitu Town Brainwashing Center where she was made to take part in building a highway. She was in her sixties, and the workload was too much for her. The officials hit her with bamboo sticks and detained her for five months. Because of her unwavering belief in Falun Gong, the officials held her in a custody center for 15 days followed by a nursing home, where she was completely deprived of personal freedom. Those who monitored Ms. Yin often verbally assaulted her and other practitioners. The officials also ransacked her home and took Falun Gong books, gold earrings and other personal belongings. Ms. Yin firmly believed in Falun Dafa and refused to write guarantee statements. As a result, she was sentenced to two years of forced labor and sent to Maojiashan Forced Labor Camp in 2001. She was held there for six months and later released on medical parole.

Ms. Yin Hongrong was discovered clarifying the truth in late December 2002. She was arrested again and sent to Beipei District Detention Center. She was later sentenced to four years of forced labor and sent to the Yongchuan Prison in Chongqing City.

5. Ms. Zhang Ping lived near the Shuitu Farm in Beipei District, Chongqing City. She started Falun Gong practice in 1997 and experienced the wonders of Falun Gong, including freedom from all illnesses. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, she went to Beijing with other practitioners to clarify the truth. They were arrested at Tiananmen Square and tortured through force-feeding. She was taken back to Beipei and her home was ransacked. The officials extorted more than 2,000 yuan from her, declaring it a "fine," and held her at Beipei Custody Center for 15 days. Shuitu Town  officials ransacked her home again in 2005 and took all of her Falun Gong books and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.

6. Ms. Tang Jinbi, 52, lived in Tankou, Beipei, Chongqing City. The Chinese government persecuted her many times. She and other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal and clarify the truth in 2000. They were detained at Beipei Custody Center for 15 days and each extorted of 1,000 yuan. Ms. Tang was held at Shuitu Town Police Station on February 3, 2000 and transferred to Beipei Custody Center on February 4, 2000. Her home was ransacked, she was extorted of 9,000 yuan and she was detained for 12 days. Ms. Tang was arrested again on September 15, 2005 and held at Beipei Custody Center for 12 days for refusing to "reform." The police ransacked her home and confiscated Falun Gong books.

7. Ms. Huang Xianling lived in Wanshou Village, Shuitu Town, Beipei District. She persisted in practicing Falun Gong and was sentenced to two years of forced labor in July 2002, having been deprived of personal freedom. The guards assigned drug addict inmates to monitor practitioners around the clock. The practitioners were forced to follow the officials’ requirements, sleep very little, and stand for extended periods of time, and they were allotted only a small amount of diluted porridge for nourishment. They were forbidden from washing themselves or taking a shower for long periods of time. They were locked in dark solitary confinement cells and were made to run long distances in sweltering heat.

8. Mr. Yan Jiangping started Falun Gong practice after he saw how his wife’s illnesses were miraculously and completely cured soon after she began practicing on August 21, 1997 [Chinese lunar calendar]. She had previously taken medications and injections but remained sick. Mr. Yan understood the principles of how to be a truly good person and he quit smoking, gambling and other bad habits. He improved physically and spiritually.

Mr. Yan Jiangping and six other practitioners Huang Xianling, Huang Xianfen, Duan Chengqiong, Wang Yuanxiu, Peng Zhen, and Zhou Changlan were practicing at his home on the evening of July 10, 2002. Peng Yi from Shuitu Town 610 Office, He Youquan from the Bei District 610 Office and officers Guo Shuang and Peng Longrong from Shuitu Police Station suddenly broke into the home and arrested all seven practitioners. They took three copies of Zhuan Falun, a radio recorder and many copies of truth-clarification materials, and transported the practitioners to the Shuitu Police Station. Practitioners Yan Jiangping and Wang Yuanxiu were transferred to the Fuxing Police Station on July 11, 2002, for interrogation and persecution. The police handcuffed Mr. Yan to a windowsill so his feet barely touched the floor. The handcuffs cut into his wrists, making his hands numb and causing them to bleed. He did not recover for a long time. Mr. Yan was transferred to a detention center on July 13, 2002 and was sentenced to two years of forced labor.

Mr. Yan Jiangping had not thoroughly studied the Fa and also had many notions. He forgot that he was a Falun Gong practitioner. When inmate Yao San told him, "You, the Falun Gong people, if you refuse to write guarantee statements, once you are transferred to another place, the inmates will beat you like an animal. If you want to use the restroom, the inmates will write your Teacher’s name on a piece of paper and flush it down the toilet before they let you use it. There are lots of persecution methods to make you write the guarantee statements."

Mr. Yan ignored his conscience and once compromised. He left the labor camp in May 2004.

9. Ms. Liu Guibi lived in Shuitu Town, Beipei District. In the spring of 2000, Shuitu Town officials sent her to the Yaowangguan Brainwashing Center in Shuitu Town. She was later transferred to the Tankou Brainwashing Center. Wang Zuxin, political head of Shuitu Town Police Station, and officer Peng Xiangrong ransacked her home many times without presenting their ID. On one occasion they took her to Shuitu Town Police Station to interrogate her, detained her at Beipei Custody Center for seven days, and persecuted her at a brainwashing center set up inside Shuitu Town Nursing Home. Another time, after they had ransacked her home they held her at Beipei Detention Center for one month and then sent her back to Shuitu Town Nursing Home brainwashing center. The officials smashed and destroyed the front gate of her home. She was repeatedly sent to Shuitu Town Nursing Home brainwashing center, off and on, for about two years. While in detention, Tang Guoyou from Shuitu Town government kicked her. Chen Junbo from Shuitu Town and the notorious Longshan Elementary School principal Huang Tongshan were also quite vicious. She was forced to work in highway construction and listen to Huang Tongshan read articles that slandered Master Li and Falun Gong.

10. Ms. Li Jinfang lived in Shuitu Town, Beipei District. She went to Beijing to appeal in February 2000 and was arrested. Officials from Shuitu Town government directly sent her to Beipei District Detention Center where she was held for one month. Afterwards, Shuitu Town government officials sent her immediately to the Yaowangguan Brainwashing Center, then transferred her to Shuitu Town Enterprise Office Brainwashing Center. In the middle of the brainwashing session, they sent her to Beipei Custody Center and held her there for 15 days. The guards at that custody center savagely beat her.
Following that stay, she was taken to the brainwashing center at Shuitu Town Nursing Home where she was held for nearly two years. During this time, Tang Guoyou and Chen Junbai from Shuitu Town government kicked her and hit her with bamboo planks and forced her to help build a highway. In the summer, the officials made practitioners stand outside at a dry dam in the sweltering heat. The Communist regime uses schoolteacher Huang Tongshan, who forced Falun Gong practitioners to listen to him read articles that slandered Master Li and Falun Gong. Huang Tongshan also forbade Li Jinfang from eating, and savagely beat practitioner Mr. Sun Pingui, who is in his sixties. Huang made Mr. Sun stand on one foot, tiptoed, and when his body became unsteady, Huang kicked him until his feet were covered in blood. Huang tortured Mr. Sun this way for two hours.

11. Mr. Wang Zhongge lived in Wanshouqiao Village, Shuitu Town, Beipei District. He appealed in Beijing on December 21, 1999, and was arrested by officers from the Tiananmen Police Department when doing the exercises in Tiananmen Square. He was held at the Chaoyang Police Station in Beipei overnight, sent to Beipei Detention Center the next day and held there for one month. Yang Wujin then extorted 2,849 yuan from him, saying the money was for covering expenses incurred in coming to Beijing to pick him up. A female employee from the Chaoyang Street Committee in Beipei District and an officer from the Residential Section of Beipei District Police Department had also gone to Beijing with Yang Wujin. Another practitioner, Ms. Lin Tingting, was also taken back to Beipei with Mr. Wang Zhongge. Ms. Lin lives on Chaoyang Street in Beipei District.

Soon after Mr. Wang went home, Shuitu Town government held a brainwashing session on Yaowangguan Street in Wangshouqiao. They took some local practitioners to the session and soon transferred the practitioners to a brainwashing center held at Shuitu Town Enterprise Office where Huang Tongshan read newspaper and magazine articles aloud slandering Master Li and Falun Gong, and refused to let practitioners speak. The local officials held Mr. Wang and Sun Xiaoli from Dadi Village, Shuitu Town at Beipei Custody Center for 15 days. Peng Longrong and Guo Shuang, officers from Shuitu Police Station, arrived in a vehicle, arrested the two practitioners and took them to the brainwashing center.

Afterwards, Shuitu Town government moved the brainwashing center from the Enterprise Office to Shuitu Town Nursing Home. Fifteen days later, practitioners Wang Zhongge and Sun Xiaoli were sent to the new brainwashing class. Shuitu Town CCP Committee secretary Tang Guoyou kicked Mr. Wang, and Chen Junbo from Shuitu Town government also beat and kicked him. The local government forced the practitioners to work in highway construction without paying them, and then extorted money from the practitioners to "cover living expenses." They also used other punishment, including forcing the practitioners to stand outside in high temperatures for long time periods.

All Falun Gong practitioners persisted in their practice and refused to bow to the perpetrators. The head of Shuitu Town Police Station targeted practitioners Wang Zhongge and Sun Xiaoli for further persecution. The police sent the two practitioners to Beipei Detention Center in May 2005 and held them there for about one month. Mr. Wang was later sent to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp, and Sun Xiaoli was sent to Maojiashan Forced Labor Camp.

At Xishanping Labor Camp, Mr. Wang and another practitioner, Han Yiming, a professor at Southwest Normal University, were held in the same cell. They continued to do the Falun Gong exercises. For this, guard Long Haibo hit them. Long Haibo and inmate Li Rui handcuffed the practitioners to a basketball rack and a door. Mr. Wang and Han Yiming were later held separately.

Mr. Wang’s wife took their three-year-old son to the Xishanping Labor Camp to visit him. Guard Li Zongquan tried to make Mr. Wang give up Falun Gong by manipulating his love for his family. Mr. Wang’s wife desperately wanted her husband to return home. She believed Li Zongquan’s lies and left her son at the labor camp [for her husband]. The boy was quiet and didn’t make any noise when sleeping at night, but during the day when the guards made Falun Gong practitioners stand in military postures, the guards pulled the boy aside. The child cried but the guards didn’t care and still kept threatening him.

The guards made practitioners do heavy labor, do prisoners’ exercises including leapfrog and push-ups, and listen to the guards read articles that slandered Master Li and Falun Gong. They also made the practitioners write critiques, reporting their understanding of these libelous articles. The guards stripped practitioners Zhou Jian and Chen Jianhua naked. They held the practitioners on the floor and tied them with ropes. Due to this mistreatment Zhou Jian’s shoulders were numb, even after one month. Practitioners Kang Hong and Han Yiming were thrown into water dungeons. Many practitioners had their illegally-imposed sentences extended. At the Strictly Controlled Squadron, practitioners did the Falun Gong exercises on the drill ground as a group. Guard Wang, about 60, vehemently struck practitioner Wang Zhongge several times with his police baton.

Later, The 1st Squadron of the 7th Group was established at the Xishanping Labor Camp for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong. Most practitioners at the labor camp were transferred there. During one camp-wide meeting, practitioners Wang Zhongge and Chen Jianhua were handcuffed and taken up to the podium. A guard announced that their sentences would be extended. Both practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa!" The head of the Riot Control Team savagely beat the practitioners. Mr. Wang never cooperated with the perpetrators. His sentence was extended three times by a total of ten months. His one-year sentence had become a 22-month sentence. The regime couldn’t "reform" him and released him in March 2002.

After Mr. Wang returned home, Peng Yi from Shuitu Town 610 Office and officers from Beipei District Police Department, as well as those from the Shuitu Police Station, ransacked his home and confiscated many Falun Gong books and truth-clarification materials. The police tried to take Mr. Wang with them but he refused to cooperate.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Pan Wenying is a retired worker of Shengli Petroleum Field's Xianhe Petroleum Factory. On September 6, 2006, while walking on the street, he was arrested by security officials from Xianhe Petroleum Factory and  Binhai Police Department. His family members made inquiries to every possible government unit and finally found out that he had been transferred to Shengcai Brainwashing Center.

The staff of the brainwashing center possessed no evidence against Mr. Pan. They tried to threaten him and force him to confess that he had distributed Falun Gong materials and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. They also tried to force him to disclose where he obtained these materials.

Mr. Pan was confined to a dark room, where the windows were covered with newspaper so that no light could come in. In such a dull environment, the staff of the brainwashing center again attempted to force him to confess and to give up practicing Falun Gong. As a result of torture, Mr. Pan's chest became tight, his blood pressure was high, and he fainted several times. In spite of these ill reactions, he was not allowed to go home, and his family was not allowed to visit him.

Later, Mr. Pan was sent to Shengcai Hospital for medical treatment, albeit under close surveillance.

No matter how the police threatened and tortured him, Mr. Pan did not speak a word. As of January 16, 2007, he had been illegally detained for over four months. During the past two months, Mr. Pan has been the only person detained in the brainwashing center. If he is released, the brainwashing center staff will lose their salaries and bonuses.