Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Because of practicing Falun Gong, Hong Kong resident Mr. Chen Yingtian's wife Ms. Yang Xiaolan is being illegally detained, and not allowed to reunite with her family. Mr. Chen Yingtian provided the following statement.

The 11th Group of the Forced Labor Dispatch Division of Beijing City is created specifically for illegally detaining female Falun Gong practitioners and has applied the "transformation" process that destructs human conscience.

Hong Kong resident Mr. Chen Yingtian and Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xiaolan from Zengcheng City were married in mainland China before 1999. However, because Ms. Yang practices Falun Gong and refused to give up the practice, she was persecuted by the 610 Office of Zengcheng City Police Department. Currently, Ms. Yang is being illegally detained, and not allowed to reunite with her husband and their child. Mr. Chen Yingtian provided the following statement.

I am Chen Yingtian, a Hong Kong resident. Yang Xiaolan and I are a legally married couple, registered with the Zengcheng Civil Affairs Office. Around 1998, my wife and son applied for permanent residence in Hong Kong, to reunite our family. My wife is a Falun Gong practitioner, and in November 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials sentenced her to two years of forced labor, then illegally added five months to her sentence, imprisoning her in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp. In the spring of 2001, the Guangzhou Municipal Entry/Exit Administration Bureau authorized my wife and son to become residents of Hong Kong. At that time, my wife was illegally detained, so my son arrived in Hong Kong and reunited with me. My wife's certificate of settlement in Hong Kong was canceled. After she was detained for two years and five months, she was finally released in April 2003. My wife requested to return to Hong Kong and reunite with all our family members, but the Shitan Town Police Station officials told us that the higher authorities in the government state that practitioners who are in forced labor camps are not allowed to apply for the visiting or settlement card to Hong Kong within three years after completion of their sentence. In October 2003, my wife was again illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor by the CCP officials and imprisoned at the Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison in the Baiyun District of Guangzhou City.

Under this extreme mental stress, my wife's grandmother and mother passed away in 2003 and 2005, respectively. On October 26, 2006, my wife was finally released. However, the officials from the Zengcheng Municipal 610 Office, local police station and Comprehensive Administration Office continually called to harass and threaten my wife and her relatives, and monitored all of her activities and movements. They threatened her, and caused her enormous mental stress.

Since July 20, 1999, my family has never been allowed a stable lifestyle. My wife is a very kindhearted person, does not return violence with violence, and only does peaceful activities, including clarifying the facts and accounting for herself.

On May 25, 2007, my wife and I applied for entry into Hong Kong at the Entry/Exit Application Center of Zengcheng Municipal Police Station (Tel: 86-20-82629963). Later, we also applied for a visiting pass to Hong Kong and Macao, which would allow her to travel to Hong Kong to visit me and our son. She has never done anything illegal. On June 23, my wife found out that her application for residency in Hong Kong had been approved online, but the Entry/Exit Administration Section of the Zengcheng Municipal Public Security Bureau did not inform her. Only after our relatives in Guangdoing checked with the Entry/Exit Administration Bureau staff (who later urged the Zengcheng Public Security Bureau to inform us), did we receive a confirmation phone call from them on July 22.

On July 23, my wife and I traveled from Hong Kong to the Entry/Exit Administration Section (Tel: 86-20-83115725) of Zengcheng City Police Department to pick up the written notice, but the administration section staff refused to provide the documents, and said that the 610 Office officials wanted to talk with my wife. The deputy director of the Domestic Security Division, Lai Bosheng (86-13922381886(Cell)), and the instructor, Wen Xingqun (86-13809288373(Cell)), came out and insisted on talking with my wife alone in a room. My wife did not want to go. After several negotiations, they reluctantly allowed me to accompany my wife. They specifically asked my wife not to go to Beijing during the Olympic Games, or distribute any Falun Gong fliers. They also demanded that she periodically report her location to them. Wen Xingqun even pressured me to closely watch her or throw her out of our home if I found any Falun Gong materials. After the conversation, I accompanied my wife to the Guangzhou Municipal Entry Exit Administration Bureau to submit her picture for the certificate. The staff told us that the average time period to obtain the certificate was one month. I returned to Hong Kong on July 24. My wife wanted to take some time to visit her father in Sichuan Province, so she bought a train ticket to Sichuan Province for July 25. She contacted one of her friends in Guangzhou, Ms. Zeng Jinxiu (a native of Hunan) to go shopping with her to get some items for her father. Around 8:00 p.m. on July 24, my wife and Ms. Zeng were illegally arrested at the Dongpu Shopping Center by police from the Chepi Station (86-20-82307575). The officers claimed that they gave retailers two DVDs of the 2008 Chinese New Year Spectacular. After detaining them for more than thirty hours at Chepi Police Station, they were taken to Tianhe Detention Center. On the second day, after I received the news, I immediately went to the Shitan Police Station in Zengcheng to find out the situation. The people from the Zengcheng Municipal 610 Office and police station told me that they would be released after 15 days. At that time, I was extremely anxious. After the difficult 15-day waiting period, I received a call from the Zengcheng Municipal 610 Office, informing me that my wife had been taken to "the Law School" at 56 Xizhoubei Street, Chatou, Baiyun District, Guangzhou City (tel: 86-20-81730648). My wife told me that the CCP used the law school to persecute practitioners. She was illegally detained there for three months.

On the morning of October 21, 2008, the director of the Shitan Town Comprehensive Administration Office, Liang Haixiang (86-20-82920836(Office), 86-13509283218(Cell)), who received instructions from the Zengcheng Municipal 610 Office, called me in Hong Kong and told me, "The certificate for settlement in Hong Kong for your wife will expire soon. You should come this afternoon to Shitan and stay in a hotel tonight. Your wife will be released on October 23. You will meet your wife with us and pick up the certificate to return to Hong Kong." I dropped all of my work and traveled to Shitan immediately. In the afternoon, Liang Haixiang found me in the hotel and said, "There are some problems with your wife's certificate, so you can't meet her tomorrow." These people represent China's governmental officials; their behavior is completely untrustworthy.

When it was close to noon on October 23, they released my wife and took her to the Shitan Comprehensive Administration Office. My wife told me that the police in the "Law School" and Wang Jianlai, the deputy director of the 610 Office (86-20-82723610(Office), 86-20-82622833(Home)) continually lied to her and said, "You will obtain the certificate in a little while and return to Hong Kong." After they arrived at the Shitan Comprehensive Administration Office, they told us that they would not give her the certificate. When my wife asked them to return her passport and pass card to Hong Kong and Macao that they held, they refused. They told my wife that they were concerned that she would meet with other practitioners after returning to Hong Kong, which was against the state requirements. They also requested her future address in China after being released, along with telephone and cellphone numbers. They also requested that she report her location to them twice a month.

My wife and I went to the Guangzhou City Entry/Exit Administration Bureau (86-20-83115725 (office)). We inquired about the permit several times, patiently, and finally the staff told us that they withheld my wife's Hong Kong residence permit under the request of the Zengcheng City 610 Office. They told us that if we wanted to get the permit, we needed to go back to talk to the Zengcheng City 610 Office. My wife returned to the Zengcheng City 610 Office, and spoke to the Deputy Secretary Zhong Baochao (86-13809283208(cell), 86-20-82638678(home)) of the Zengcheng City Political and Legal Committee, and Deputy Director Wang Jianlai of the 610 Office. They kept denying their involvement in delaying her residence permit. Instead, they said that she needed to go to Zengcheng City Police Department Entry/Exit Administration Section. My wife went to the Entry/Exit Administration Section and talked to the Section Chiefs Chen and Lin 86-20-82629871(office). Section Chief Lin said, "I will issue you the notification to pick up your permit if the 610 Office instructs me to do so. If they don't instruct me, I definitely will not issue you the notification. You need to talk to the people from the 610 Office." My wife then went back to the 610 Office. This time, the officials of the 610 Office locked their door, and did not answer her phone calls.

Although my wife's Chinese Residence Card lists her residence as Shitan, Zengcheng City, she has never worked or lived in Zengcheng City. She only knew a retired lady in Zengcheng. The officials of the 610 Office were also aware of this. They brought Director Xiao Shuqi and Liang Haiyang of the Shitan Comprehensive Management Office together to talk to this person, and warned her not to host my wife when she traveled to Zengcheng.

To control my wife's every movement, the officials of the 610 Office said to her, "You can stay in Shitan. We'll arrange a job for you." My wife said, "You go home every day to be with your family. Why don't you let me go home to be with my husband and child? You claim that practitioners do not care about their family and relatives, but what really happened here is that you broke apart my family and won't allow me to be with them. You are not letting me have a normal life." The fact is, my wife has never done anything to violate the law, but the officials from the 610 Office withheld her Hong Kong residence permit illegally. When my wife kept asking them for the permit, they were rude and treated her terribly.

On October 30, 2008, the 610 Office officials instructed policeman Zhou Zhiquan (86-13902339895 (cell)) from the Shitan Police Station to call me. He asked me to go with my wife to Zengcheng City Police Department Entry/Exit Administration Section to pick up "the Notification to Pick up Hong Kong Residence Permit" and also cancel her residency. They also pressured me to go to the 610 Office to write a guarantee statement that my wife would not participate in any Falun Gong activities or contact any practitioners in Hong Kong. They also asked my wife to write this statement. I went with my her to the Entry/Exit Administration Section on the morning of October 31, to ask for the Hong Kong residence permit, but the Section Chief Lin said that he needed to get the approval from the 610 Office first. My wife called the 610 Office many times. When they finally picked up the phone, my wife criticized them for continually delaying the process of her case and creating many unnecessary troubles for us. Under her insistence, the staff of the 610 Office called Section Chief Lin. We finally received the "Notification to Pick up Hong Kong Residence Permit."

To be safe, we immediately asked our friend in Guangzhou to go to the Guangzhou City Entry/Exit Administration Bureau to verify whether her Hong Kong residence permit was still valid. The staff at the Document Review Section on the third floor told him that it was still good and that we needed to process it quickly. My friend was then told to check at the Inquiry Office at the fifth floor. At the fifth floor, without even looking at her permit number, the staff there told my friend that the Zengcheng person's permit had expired. This meant that this staff knew about this case in advance. Why were the answers from the third floor and the fifth floors different? The officials of the Zengcheng 610 Office and the police of the Shitan Station tricked us into canceling my wife's residence at Shitan and then gave us an expired residence permit. The 610 Office officials purposely delayed the issuance of the residence permit to my wife and instructed Zengcheng City Police Department Entry/Exit Administration Section and Guangzhou City Entry/Exit Administration Bureau to illegally withhold her permit which she was previously granted legally. On Monday, November 3, 2008, my wife went to the Acceptance Section, Guangzhou City Entry/Exit Administration Bureau, to check her status. The policeman on duty (police ID number 017438), looked up her case and said: "The Zengcheng City 610 Office has instructed us not to issue a permit to Yang Yaolan to go outside of China."

The CCP officials have created countless problems for my family, again and again. My parents and I lived in the United Kingdom for many years. Whenever there was a natural disaster in China, we donated generously to our country and our fellow countrymen. We love our country very much. However my wife's painful experiences made my parents and me very disappointed with the government. My beloved and forever-safeguarded country has been ruined terribly by a small group of rotten people. I have refrained from complaining for so long, but I can't hold back any more. I must stand up and shout for my country, for my wife, and for all the kind people in China. Stop this persecution! Stop these crimes to innocent Chinese people! My wife is not a bad person, but now she has no place to go and no protection. The officials of the Zengcheng 610 Office are such big villains and liars! I am appealing to the whole world. I hope that just organizations and kind people around the world will pay attention to my family's painful experiences. My wife is still under illegal detention. The officials from the Zengcheng 610 Office and Shitan Comprehensive Management Office and Police Station are still torturing her physically and mentally. I hope that this kind of inhuman torture is eliminated soon so that my wife can return home. I hereby denounce the CCP staff of the Zengcheng 610 Office, Shitan Comprehensive Management Office and Police Station. Stop the harassment and persecution of my family! Stop the brainwashing attempts and persecution of my wife! Stop all these illegal acts! Give me back my happy family!

Claimant: Mr. Chen Yingtian, Hong Kong Resident

The 11th Group of the Forced Labor Dispatch Division of Beijing City, also known as the "Assault Team," was founded in late 2006. This group was created specifically for illegally detaining and persecuting female Falun Gong practitioners. The "transformation" process is in fact a destruction of human conscience.

Endless "Conversations"

When Falun Gong practitioners were transferred from detention centers to The 11th Group, they were isolated in small cells and monitored by one or more instructors in the group. The group leader of the group then immediately comes to "talk" to these practitioners. The contents of their conversations were defamation of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If practitioners show disagreement, the conversations go on endlessly. Their goal is to force practitioners to go against their wills and sign the so-called three statements, promising to give up the practice and betraying their conscience. If a Team leader does not achieve this goal, a group leader takes her place. These people use great pressure to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. If practitioners sign the three statements, the squad leader takes them back to the session. Practitioners are forced to watch videos or read books designed to defame Falun Gong. After they finish, they have to write their "understandings" of Falun Gong. Their "understandings" must meet the requirements set by the group leader. At the end of the two-month session, practitioners are forced to make speeches which are over ten pages long to "expose and criticize" Falun Gong.

Depriving Practitioners of a Normal Life

Those practitioners who show steadfastness in their beliefs and refuse to sign the three statements are continuously isolated in small cells. The Tenth Session uses double-teams that are specially designed for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. It is located at the end of a hallway. Once practitioners enter that session, they won't see anyone else inside, nor would they know what happens outside. They only meet with four double-team instructors. These "instructors" are mostly drug addicts, and some have been in and out of the session repeatedly over the years. Because of this, they are used by the group leader as helpers. They commit crimes against practitioners and attempt to destroy their righteous belief. Their acts are no less evil than the group leader's. Under the group leader's instruction, they monitor the practitioners' behavior, restrict their freedom, and defame Falun Gong; and they sometimes resort to violence.

Practitioners who are sent to the Tenth Session are normally surrounded by four double-team instructors. They sit on a small bench, with their faces toward the window, and they are not allowed to move. They must have permission from the group leader in order to eat, use the toilet or sleep. At mealtime, the group leader doesn't tell the practitioners and lets them go hungry. She comes over only when the food is already cold. When practitioners need to use the bathroom, the group leader forces them to do it in their wash basins. They can't even use the bathroom if the group leader doesn't show up. During nighttime, the group leader comes to give "lectures," trying to deprive practitioners of sleep and force them give up the practice. Moreover, the group leader doesn't allow practitioners to contact their families, take showers, or buy personal necessities.

Forced to Take Medicine

When older practitioners are sent to the group, they are forced to have a physical checkup. Some practitioners show symptoms of high blood pressure because they just came out of the forced brainwashing "transformation" session and they still feel the psychological pressure and tension. The group leader then forces these practitioners to take medicine, deliberately creating more pressure for them. Some practitioners are forced to take four to five kinds of medicine. They have petitioned to the group leader because of some side effects resulting from the medicines, but in the end, they are forced to take even more medicines instead of less. If they object, the group leader knows they have not been "transformed." Even when practitioners' blood pressures return to normal, the group leader still forces them to take medicine and has said, "Patients with high blood pressures need to take long-term medication."

"Ideological Transformation"

Threats and intimidations are used throughout the period of detention. Some group leaders indoctrinate practitioners with the "eight glories and eight shames." The content is filled with materials meant to defame Falun Gong.

Endlessly writing "understandings" and CCP culture brainwashings are the main focus of this ideological persecution during the "transformation" process. This place was created to transform Falun Gong practitioners by exploiting their weaknesses. If a practitioner doesn't cooperate with the group leader, shows resentment, or tries to speak the truth, the group leader talks to the practitioner individually and slanders Falun Gong even more viciously, and asks her to write another "understanding" or self-examination. When the group leader believes a practitioner's attitude has relapsed, she sends her to the double-team session, where she is cruelly tortured until she finally yields to persecution.

The system inside the labor camp is also part of the persecution. Before mealtime, everyone is forced to recite "Order 23", which includes loyalty to the evil party, socialism, admitting one's wrongdoings, and complying with the disciplines of the labor camp, etc. Practitioners are forced to take non-stop standardized written examinations, and memorize the terms and provisions. If they don't pass the exam, they must retake it until they pass. Term reductions are linked to their study performance.

Covering Up the Truth

Zhang Dongmei, group leader at Eleventh Division, is the main force of the persecution. She was known as the expert of "transformation" in the Deployment Department. The Clearwisdom website has exposed her persecution of practitioner Zhang Lianying. She uses increasingly devious approaches to continue the persecution.

Zhang Dongmei and other group leaders try to cover up persecution facts. Although there is a "complaint box" at the hallway, it is there only in name. Zhang Dongmei has ordered the security guards who are on-duty to keep a close eye on the "complaint box." If someone drops in a complaint report, she removes it from the box. When people come to inspect the facility, the group leader tells the squad leader not to tell the truth and lets them know they will solve any problems internally. Of course, they won't solve any real problems, they just want to cover up the truth while continuing to persecute practitioners.

Team leaders of The 11th Group:
group leaders: Zhang Dongmei, Wang Junli, Li Xiaoxin, Zhang Lili
Team leaders: Zhou Juan, Gao Fang, Sun Ying, Si, Xiaoxu, Zhao Ranran, Lin Jing, Wang Yan, Wang Huan, and Gao Lifang

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/11/21/190199.html