The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- July 15, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

  • The Cases of Missing Practitioners in Shandong, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang and Liaoning Provinces

  • The Gross Physical Abuse and Mental Torment I Suffered in Jilin Prison Between 2002 and 2005

  • Exposing the Crimes in Hehuakeng and Handan Forced Labor Camps

  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Piao Yingjie Suffered Brutal Torture in Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Center in 2002

  • Practitioner in Her 70s Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence in Chongqing City

  • Falun Gong Practitioners Zhang Shujun and Others Brutally Tortured in Nanchang City



  • The Cases of Missing Practitioners in Shandong, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang and Liaoning Provinces

    Shandong Province Falun Gong Practitioner Xu Huaxin has been Missing for Five Years

    Mr. Xu Huaxin lived in Shangjiazhuang Village, Beiluo Town, Shouguang City, Shandong Province. He used to have severe rheumatism in his legs. When he began practicing Falun Gong in the winter of 1998 his life changed completely. He was able to work in the fields and became even-tempered.

    Between July 22, 1999 and January 2000 he went several times to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. Beiluo Town government authorities illegally detained and beat Mr. Xu Huaxin, ransacked his home and fined him. They also pressured him to write a repentance statement in order to force him to give up his belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." In late March 2001 Mr. Xu went to Beijing to appeal and was detained at the Beiluo Town Police Station. The officials from the Beiluo Town government beat and punished him. They dug a hole in the ground, forced Mr. Xu to sit in the hole, and then poured cold water on him. Two weeks later his family had him released on bail. In late September 2001 officials from the Beiluo Town Police Station searched his home without cause. They confiscated Teacher’s pictures, the money Mr. Xu had earned selling apples and checks he hadn’t yet cashed. Mr. Xu Huaxin asked them to return his belongings, but was instead illegally detained. He managed to escape during the physical exam that was administered before he was to be sent to a detention center. After that he became homeless in order to avoid being arrested at his home. On November 9, 2001 he went to Beijing again to appeal. His whereabouts are unknown to this day.

    Falun Gong Practitioner Xu Yaoxian from Jiamusi City has been Missing for Four Years

    Forty six year-old Ms. Xu Yaoxian has been missing since she left home on October 7, 2002. In November 2002 her name appeared on a list of people who went to Beijing to appeal. During the last four years her family has continued to search for her without success. In early April 2006 her family went to the Jiamusi Police Department and asked for her, but the officials there said they knew nothing. Her family went and asked for her at the detention center in Harbin but they also denied any knowledge of her.

    Ms. Xu Yaoxian began practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and her health was restored. She recovered from severe tracheitis and bronchiectasis. After July 20, 1999 she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong three times. The first time she went to Beijing to appeal on July 8, 2000 she was arrested and detained at the Jiamusi Detention Center for more than 50 days. In October 2000 she went to Beijing to appeal the second time. On November 4, 2000 she went to Tiananmen Square and held up a banner that read, "Falun Dafa is good!" After she was arrested she was sentenced to one year at a forced labor camp. Ms. Xu was detained to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

    Ms. Xu Yaoxian worked at the Jiamusi Hui People’s Food Factory. Later all the employees were transferred to the Lihua Food Factory in Jiamusi City. Factory head Shi Tianfu asked her to submit a resume and promised to pay her a 170 yuan stipend every month. After he found out Ms. Xu practiced Falun Gong he refused to pay her any more.

    Ms. Xu Yaoxian’s family’s address: Hongxia Community, Nan’gang Office, Qianjin District, Jiamusi City, 86-454-8135529

    Practitioner Wang from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region is Missing

    In late October 1999 some Falun Gong practitioners from Xinjiang met Mr. Wang from the Hetian Area when they went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. On October 25, 1999, Mr. Wang quit his job and left the Hetian Area on a train to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. When the train stopped at Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province the police found Falun Gong books in Mr. Wang’s bag and detained him. That night Mr. Wang managed to walk out of the Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Station, though all of his clothes and identification had been illegally confiscated. He continued on his way, walking along the train tracks to Beijing. On October 28, 1999 Mr. Wang went to the National Appeals Office and made his appeal. That day he was detained. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

    Falun Gong Practitioner Xiaofeng (Alias) of Fushun City, Liaoning Province has been Missing for Two Years

    Liaoning Province Falun Gong Practitioner Yu Zhong is Missing

    Falun Gong practitioner Yu Zhong worked at the Transistor Company Limited in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. He’s been missing since October 2000. His whereabouts are unknown to this day.


    The Gross Physical Abuse and Mental Torment I Suffered in Jilin Prison Between 2002 and 2005

    I am a practitioner from Changbaishan, Jilin Province, who was sentenced to five years in February 2002 because I clarified the truth of Falun Gong. On June 28, I was sent to the Education Team in Jilin Prison. After four months of brutal torture I had lost 60 pounds—from 140 to 80.

    There are three teams in the Educational Ward: The Comprehensive Inspection Team, the Strictly Monitored Team, and the Education Team. The guards put practitioners in solitary cells in the Strictly Monitored Team. Each cell contains a torture instrument called the Stretching Bed. The prison officials ordered several criminal inmates to manage other practitioner inmates.

    On June 28, 2002, at 2 p.m. they took me to the Comprehensive Inspection Team and restrained me on the Stretching Bed. They inserted a tube through my nose into my stomach and force-fed me with salty rice soup. Later they pulled me up and forced me to walk. When we walked to the Education Team a group of criminals came up to me, made fun of me, teased me, and verbally abused me. I told them, "You are deceived by the regime. What you are doing is sinful."

    Seven criminal inmates monitored me at night. I heard loud screams from the Strictly Monitored Team next door. The screams were horrifying. The criminals told me, "Somebody is on the Stretching Bed now. They stretch his legs and arms. That person will either die or be disabled if they keep stretching him for a long time. Jilin Prison is extremely brutal."

    Since I was very weak they stopped torturing me physically for a time, but they never stopped the mental torment. People from the Education Section and the Prison Affairs Section, several ward officers, Chief Wen, Chief Pang, and several instructors came to brainwash me in turn. They tried to convince me to "reform" and forced me to watch videos that slandered Falun Gong. They also ordered criminal inmates to keep me under surveillance and try to make me reform.

    In November 2002, the prison officials, using various torture methods, tortured more than 100 practitioners. The methods included the Stretching Bed, a "V" shaped Hanging Instrument, Strictly Monitoring, Solitary Cell Jailing, Sitting on Hard Wood or Bumpy Surfaces, beatings with a belt or stick, and other cruelties. The guards beat practitioners ruthlessly, sometimes even breaking their sticks. They would not stop until the practitioners gave up their belief.

    Some practitioners developed lung disease from the torture.

    Besides the physical torture, policeman Li Yongsheng from the Education Department, who is in charge of "reforming" practitioners, also tried to brainwash us. He forced us to listen to the radio and watch a video that slandered Falun Gong. They played a tape of the staged Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation incident and other lies to pollute people's minds. To resist this unconstitutional violation of human rights I started a hunger strike again and petitioned them to stop slandering Falun Gong. I told them that I would not eat until they stopped. On the sixth day I was sent to the Strictly Monitored Team and locked restrained on the Stretching Bed. Criminal inmates applied all kinds of additional torture. They hit my eyeballs, kicked my head, and stepped on my arms and legs, which were being stretched. My wrists hurt with excruciating pain and became paralyzed.

    Policeman Li Huiyu told the other inmates, "What is hell on earth? This is it!" After the torture they started force-feeding me. Several inmates held my legs and head. I felt that my head was going to explode. I could hardly breathe. Ding Zhaosong pushed a tube very deeply into my stomach through my nose saying, "His stomach is really deep. Look, his stomach is really deep." They fed me salty rice soup and pushed on my stomach. I felt the rice soup going all the way down to my intestines. I rushed to bathroom, expelling salty water and blood. They locked me on the stretching bed again. Li Huiyu said, "You are only 1.68 meter tall now. I guarantee that you will be 1.70 meter tall after the stretching." He also stated that nobody could endure this for more than two hours.

    Three days later the Prison Affairs Department chief came and said, "Let’s see who is tougher; you or the government!" Since I refused to renounce my belief, my wrists were swollen and bleeding from the torture. I still have scars on my wrists. Whenever I lie down my arms hurt and are still numb.

    Fifteen days later (on New Year's, January 2003) I was released from one department but still jailed in the Strictly Monitored Team. I was forced to sit straight up in the full lotus position, facing the wall, hands on knees, and I was forbidden to move, otherwise they would beat me. I was forced to sit like that from 4:30 a.m. to 7:30 pm. every day. I was permitted meal and bathroom breaks. I was exhausted from this torture. My legs hurt and the skin on my buttocks peeled off. My feet were swollen and the skin on my feet also peeled off. According to official prison rules, the maximum time in solitary confinement is three months, but I was incarcerated there for one year. The long-term torture paralyzed my legs and I have difficulty walking, even now.

    More than ten practitioners arrived in October 2003. Wu Yifeng, a college professor, yelled, "Falun Dafa is good" as several criminal inmates carried him in. The instructor ordered the inmates to restrain Professor Wu on the Stretching Bed. His whole body was lifted and stretched, and only his buttocks touched the bed. His hands and wrists swelled quickly. Criminal inmate Xu Zhigang told to two others, "Give him a massage!" The other two rubbed Professor Wu’s hands and feet against the metal rings, making his hands and feet bleed and swell. Professor Wu became incontinent from the torture. Urine soaked the wounds on his buttocks, injuries stemming from torture in another prison ward.

    Since I frequently protested the brutal persecution of Falun Gong, guards Xu Zhigang, Ding Zhaosong and Gao Yulin were angry. They beat me severely and made my back swollen. I had pain from my back to my chest. One of my fingers was broken and swollen.

    At the end of October 2003 my weight had dropped to 70 pounds. I coughed constantly and had a fever. Every morning I coughed up red mucus. I was sent to the hospital on November 20. I was diagnosed with serious lung disease and was in grave condition. Since I refused to collaborate with the evildoers I was again place in solitary confinement. They injected me with drugs and poured medicine into my mouth. My mind was not clear and I could not take care of myself. It was now wintertime. I wore only thin clothes. The cell window was broken, and the snow came into my room. I had constipation. My anus was ruptured and bleeding. Twenty days later, the guards took me to the hospital again.

    In the hospital I heard that practitioner Liu Chengjun was next door. He had been force-fed and was in serious condition. A few days later he was sent to another hospital. Somebody told me later that Liu Chengjun died as a result of the persecution.

    In April 2004 I was transferred to the Old and Disable Ward. A fellow practitioner told me, "There are too many Falun Gong practitioners in Jilin Prison. About 40 of them were sent to Meihekou Prison."

    I heard about the persecution of many practitioners. According to a reliable source, Yang Feng was tortured to the point of extreme weakness and can barely walk by himself. Sun Qian was hung up and force-fed, which made his face swell. Because he had started a hunger strike to protest, the prison officials forbade all family visits. Policemen beat Cao Zhonghua and broke some of his teeth because he read Falun Gong articles. Zhang Hongwei was jailed in the Strictly Monitored Team and in a solitary cell for two years, making him extremely weak and unable to walk unaided. Yang Guang’s legs were disabled and he could not take care of himself. It was said that some practitioners had developed lung disease, brain disease, or liver disease and that some had died from torture. A practitioner was beaten to death in a brainwashing center. The police took his body to the hospital and claimed that he had died from some sort of disease.

    At the beginning of the 2005 Chinese New Year I started a hunger strike again to protest the persecution. My lungs were in very bad condition then. I coughed constantly. Five days later I was sent to a hospital. I strongly asked the prison to release me and refused any therapy or food. I was then locked into a solitary cell and force-fed drugs and food.

    In March 2005 I protested the persecution again. On March 31, 20 practitioners and I were transferred to Tiebei Prison in Changchun.

    I refused to collaborate with evildoers in the Tibei Prison, so police guard Liu cruelly beat me. He also stepped on my feet, making them swell. He also severely pinched my face, making two marks. Two months later I became very sick. My left lung didn’t function at all, and my right lung became worse. The bronchial tubes were so swollen that I could not breathe or swallow food. I was sent to two hospitals. Since the prison could not afford the fee, they told my family to take me home in June 2005.


    Exposing the Crimes at the Hehuakeng and Handan Forced Labor Camps

    In November 2005, the Falun Gong practitioners (about 13 of them) who refused to give up Falun Gong were transferred from Hehaukeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan to Handan Forced Labor Camp for fear that their brutal torture would be discovered by the international investigation organization. The following is the account of the persecution the Falun Gong practitioners suffered.

    The persecution that Li Zhen and Wang Xiulan, husband and wife, suffered:

    Li Zhen and Wang Xiulan started to practice Falun Gong in 1997.

    On the morning of July 20, 1999, the vicious policemen from Kaiping Local Police Station, Zhang Zhiqiang and two others, broke into their home. Without showing any documents, they seized Li Zhen and detained him in Pingquzhuang Elementary School for several days. Because Li remained steadfast in his belief, he was transferred to Kaiping Criminal Police Team where he was detained. He was not allowed to make any phone calls. His family members were not allowed to visit him. He was forced to undergo brainwashing.

    In March 2000, Li Zhen and 12 other practitioners sent letters of appeal to different levels of government offices. The letter to Kaiping Town was withheld by some vicious persons. Hence, the 13 of them were arrested and taken to the Kaiping Local Police Station. Then they were transferred to the Kaiping Criminal Police Team where they were detained for more then 10 days. After that, they were transferred to the Detention Center in Changningdao where they were detained for 15 days.

    In 2001, Li Zhen wrote two letters to explain the truth about Falun Gong. He handed them to Gao Shukui who works at the Kaiping Appeals Office. A few days later, in the evening, three persons from Quzhuang Team and Zhang Zhiqiang from Kaiping Criminal Team went to Li Zhen's residence and ransacked the place. After that, they took Li to the Kaiping Local Police Station. Mr. Li was locked inside a metal cage which measured about 1.2 meters. He could not stand up in there. Ten days later, he was transferred to the #1 Detention Center in Tangshan City. Mr. Li remained steadfast with his belief in Falun Gong. He stated that the so-called guarantee statement that he was forced to write was invalid. For this reason only, Li was imprisoned for nine months. In winter, 40 buckets of cold water were poured on him; he was hit on the face numerous times; was forced to stand for long periods of time without sleeping; was forced to sit on an iron stool; and was locked inside a small cell, etc. Eight months later, he was transferred to the brainwashing class in Kaiping where he was persecuted for over a month. Five thousand yuan were extorted from him. Due to the long-term persecution, Mr. Li suffered physical and mental damage. At 40, he lost almost all of his hair, and what remained was all white.

    In April 2002, policeman Zhang Zhiqiang brought three other police to Li's residence and ransacked his home. They also hit and kicked Li and Wang Xiulan. The police then arrested Li and Wang and detained them in the basement of the Kaiping Local Police Station where they hit Li and Wang's faces, and kicked and hit them with brooms. As a result, Wang was unconscious for 48 hours. It was only then that the police notified the family, who carried her to the emergency room.

    In August 2002, Kaiping Local Police Station collaborated with Duan Xianglan from Quzhuang Team, who used 3000 yuan and sent the evil police, Zhang Zhiqiang to arrest Wang Xiulan, and Chen Xiulian and detained them in the brainwashing class in Kaiping for over a month. Because of the torture they suffered, Ms. Wang continuously spit blood. The police then had no choice but to send her to the hospital. In the meantime, they forced her to sign the three statements.

    At about 10:00 p.m. on October 19, 2004, six policemen headed by Liu Shuting from Kaiping Local Police Station ransacked Li Zhen's residence again. They took away a tape recorder and several books. They arrested Mr. Li and two other visiting practitioners then. Altogether, 13 practitioners were arrested and sentenced to forced labor.

    In Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan, Li Zhen refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong, hence he was shocked with high voltage electricity, hit on his face, and forced to stand for a long period of time. As a result, he was very weak. In November 2005, he was secretly detained in the Labor Camp in Handan. His family members have still not been notified. They are neither allowed to call Li Zhen, nor to visit him. Kind hearted people, please help rescue Li Zhen.

    Sun Jianmin's experience:

    Sun Jianmin is 58 years old. Both he and his wife practice Falun Gong. They were physically and mentally healthy. They had a good life.

    On May 24, 2001, more then ten practitioners went to Kaiping Park to practice the exercises in the cypress wood. The police from the 610 Office in Kaiping and Kaiping Local Police Station surrounded the practice site. Li Guojun from the local police station gathered some goons who hit and kicked the practitioners. They used clubs and leather belts to hit the practitioners. Practitioner Meng Qingfu was beaten and lay unconscious for over four hours. The responsible persons were Yang, who was the squadron leader, Liu Dexing, and Ma. The practitioners were bruised all over, and they were detained in Kaiping Local Police Station for over 20 days. After that, they were transferred to the #1 Detention Center in Tangshan where they were detained for over seven months. One woman practitioner escaped, but the evil authorities then detained her husband as a substitute.

    On October 19, 2004, Sun Jianmin's residence was ransacked by Kaiping Local Police Station. The Falun Gong materials and video tapes were taken away. The policemen, Dai Jianjun and Wang Bao brought some other evil men to do the search. They also used brutal torture, such as using high voltage electric clubs to shock his head and the whole body. These tortures caused Sun to suffer from cerebral hemorrhage. Police Zhang Fan kicked and hit Sun. After being tortured for two days, Sun was transferred to the Detention Center in Tangshan where he was tortured for 28 days. After that, he was transferred to Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp and was sentenced to three years of forced labor. Later, he was tortured to the point of illness. On October 19, 2005, he was released on bail for medical treatment.

    A brief description of the persecution experienced by Li Zhen and Zhang Li in Hehuake Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan:

    They were forced to stand for a long period of time. As a result, their legs were swollen, and they couldn't walk. They could not stand still either, hence they fell, causing their mouths and noses to bleed. However, the prison guards continued to torture them.

    The prison guards ordered the inmates to beat the practitioners. If the clubs were not enough, they would hit their faces. They also used the handle of a pickaxe to hit the practitioners, which caused the practitioners to be bruised all over their bodies. The pain was hard to bear. The practitioners also had to endure other tortures. Zhang Wenliang was not allowed to sleep.



    Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Piao Yingjie Suffered Brutal Torture in the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Center in 2002

    For refusing to give up Falun Gong, practitioner Piao Yingjie was arrested on April 17, 2002 and her home was ransacked. She was sent to the Daqing City Detention Center where she began a hunger strike and was subjected to brutal force-feeding. On June 13, 2002 she was sentenced to two years of forced labor and detained in the Drug Rehabilitation Center and Heilongjiang Province Women's Forced Labor Camp located at Harbin where she suffered from long-term, inhuman torture.

    The Heilongjiang Province Women's Forced Labor Camp is indeed a hell in the human world. Police use all kinds of methods to abuse and persecute steadfast practitioners. Groups of collaborators were initially arranged to brainwash the practitioners who would be taken away at 5:00 a.m. and could not return until 9:00 p.m. or 10:00 p.m. The police and collaborators would brainwash the practitioners with those evil things all day long and not let practitioners’ brains rest.

    When the above method didn’t work, the practitioners would be detained in a room with all the doors and windows completely sealed. The practitioners were forced to sit on a small stool all day long and were subjected to nonstop berating from the collaborators.

    At the end of November 2002, the guards started a so-called "fortification fight." Piao Yingjie and other steadfast practitioners were taken to a basement that had been especially set up with torture implements and ground metal rings everywhere. There were also separate small rooms equally equipped. The police held electric rods in their hands and threatened to turn them on. Doing so made crackling noises and emitted blue lights.

    All the steadfast practitioners were jailed together. Some were forced to squat on their heels and handcuffed to the torture tools, and some were handcuffed to the ground metal rings. No one had permission to sit, go to the restroom, or talk or look at others. Those who talked would have their mouths taped shut. Those who had looked at others would have their eyes taped shut.

    An older woman named Ms. Sun Xiumin wore a pair of thick cotton pants. The practitioner was unable to squat for that long a time and had to sit down. The police forbade her to sit and slid a basin with cold water under her from behind. She thus had to sit in the cold water, soaking her pants.

    These police urged criminal prisoners to remove the practitioners’ coats, and to open the window and let cold air in. Piao Yingjie's hands, face and legs were badly swollen. She could not straighten her legs due the swelling. Long-term squatting down made her knees bleed and the scars are still visible.

    The practitioners were deprived of sleep for 96 hours for four consecutive days. On the fourth night, they escalated the persecution. Many police officers held the electric rods and forced practitioners to squat down, with the upper body straight up and keeping still in this position. Whoever moved a little bit would be beaten and yelled at by criminal inmates. Those who refused to write the Three Statements would suffer from electric shocks, torture, ruthless beatings and berating. Some practitioners were covered with bloody wounds from pinching, and some passed out from the electric shocks.

    Piao Yingjie was unable to stand up or walk due to the torture. However, she was still dragged into a small room. A group of criminal prisoners came upon her and beat and hurled insults at her. Police shocked her with an electric rod and poured water on her body and her head, to wake her up when she passed out. Team leader Wang Limei ordered the criminal prisoners to pinch Piao on places on her body that cannot be detected. Piao Yingjie still refused to write the "Three Statements." The criminal prisoners tried to physically force her to write, but failed. They wrote it down for her. After she refused to sign it, they took her to a small room and used a specially designed torture tool. The criminals Liu Yali and Wang Rongmei removed her clothing, leaving her only the undergarments. She was forced to stand barefoot on a specially made torture instrument that had a thin strip of metal in the vertical position, which felt like standing on the blade of a knife. They also put a plastic stool on her head. She was forbidden to sleep or to go to restroom. They used all kinds of torture methods on her to try to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong.


    Practitioner in Her 70s Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence in Chongqing City

    On January 28, 2005, practitioners Fan Defang and Yuan Suxian were arrested and sent to the Dadukou District Detention Center in Chongqing City. Yuan Suxian died as a result of the persecution she faced. and On June 9, 2006, Dadukou District Court suddenly held a hearing and sentenced Ms. Fan to three years in prison.

    Ms. Fan, 74, is from the Longpo District in Chongqing City. She is a retiree of the Chongqing City Construction Industry Group Company. Her address is Xiejiawan Village, Building 2, Unit 1, 6th Floor, #2, Longpo District (an article on Clearwisdom.net dated February 12, 2006, contains detailed information about her persecution).

    On February 8, 2006, after Yuan Suxian's death, Ms. Fan received a hearing notice dated January 20. The notice specified the charges against her and ironically listed Yuan Suxian as a witness for the prosecution.

    After charging Ms. Fan, the Dadukou District Procuratorate postponed the hearing date from February to June. On June 9, the Dadukou District Grand Court suddenly held the hearing and sentenced Ms. Fan to three years in prison. She is currently under temporary detention in the Dadukou District Detention Center. Reports indicate that she will be sent to Yongchuan Prison after three more months of custody at the detention center.



    Falun Gong Practitioners Zhang Shujun and Others Brutally Tortured in Nanchang City

    After 4:00 p.m., on March 28, 2006, several Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhang Shujun, Chen Wen, and Chen Xiangyang, were arrested at their truth clarification materials production site by police from Qingyunpu Police Department and Daishan Local Police Station in Nanchang city. On the afternoon of March 29, they were taken separately to the Daishan 510 Hotel in the Qingyunpu area and tortured for two days. Zhang Shujun was handcuffed and hung onto a burglarproof security grid. Her heels could not touch the ground and her body could not remain straight (the burglarproof security grid and window wall were separated by only about a foot.)

    Under orders from the manager and assistant-manager of Daishan Police Station, director Zhang Jun from Qingyunpu Police Department and policeman Deng Xiangyang, two patrol officers each held one of Zhang Shujun's legs, and pulled her into a straight line, violently pushing, pulling and shaking her. Zhang's lower back was scraped and bruised under the shaking. She was repeatedly tortured for six hours. During the torture, Zhang Shujun was not allowed to close her eyes. As soon as she closed her eyes, the police called the patrol officers to beat her mercilessly. Policeman Deng Xiangyang also fiercely hit Zhang Shujun's toes with the chair legs, causing her feet to be covered with blood and her flesh wounded. Currently, her hands and fingers are numb,and her whole body aches. Practitioner Chen Wen suffered the same torture. The condition of other practitioners arrested is unclear.

    The parties directly participating in this persecution also include Hu Xiaojun, Zhu Li, and chief Li (possibly from the municipal police department in Nanchang). They claimed to have sent more than fifty people to arrest the practitioners.

    The apparent reason for the destruction of this materials site is that practitioner Chen Xiangyang's home was ransacked by police from Qingyunpu Police Department on March 27. Chen Wen and Chen Xiangyang were not home. Chen Wen's son came to the materials site the next morning to inform them, and he was followed by the police. After 4:00 p.m. on March 28,the police broke into the materials site and confiscated all of the equipment. They also took a checkbook with 18000 yuan. Afterwards the police went to Zhang Shujun's home and took her checkbook and cash totaling more than 10,000 yuan. Other details are unclear.