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3.4 Arbitrary Arrest of Falun Gong Practitioners
3.4.1 Many practitioners still being detained
Message received: March 2, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Harbin, Hilongjiang Province, China
Description:
During the Chinese New Year, dozens of practitioners from Harbin went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After being escorted back, they were released after 15 days of detention after signing a pledge that they would not go to Beijing to appeal or other similar pledges.
Many practitioners got released after signing the pledge that they would not go to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. However, many of them refuse to sign such a pledge, and are still being detained.
3.4.2 China arrested practitioners who cosigned the open letter to the National People’s Congress
Message received: March 2, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Recently, all practitioners who co-signed the open letter to the National People’s Congress in the first run have been arrested.
3.4.3 Authorities forcing a pregnant practitioner to have an abortion in order to detain her for longer term
Message received: March 1, 2000
Victim: Lu Yuzhen
Location of incident: Feng, Jiangxi Province, China
Description:
Lu Yuzhen, female, 31 years of age, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Feng City in Jiangxi province and is now during her pregnancy. In January, she exercised her constitutional right by going to Beijing to appeal to the State Council Petition Office for the righteousness of Falun Gong. Later, she was arrested by the Jiangxi police station. The authorities are pressing her to have an abortion because they decided to detain her for a long term.
We urgently appeal to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights to investigate this case and offer your humanitarian help as soon as possible.
3.4.4 Practitioners calmly endure all persecutions
Message received: February 29, 2000
Victims:
1. Long
2. Yang Shuhua
3. Liao Qizhen
4. Zhang Xiaofeng
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China Description:
The Institute of Social Science of Sichuan Province was imposed a fine of 10,000 Yuan because the wife of its employee, Mr. Long, went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong. Meanwhile, Mr. Long himself was fined 10,000 Yuan. Later, Mr. Long was fined another 8,800 Yuan.
Yang Shuhua, Liao Qizhen and three other practitioners from Baohe Village of Chenghua district of Chengdu City went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong. They were first detained in a drug-stopping institute for 48 hours after they were escorted back from Beijing. Later, they were transferred to the Baohe Village police station for 15 days of detention center, where they were tortured by police using electric batons. After Yang Shuhua was detained for 12 days, she was thrown into a small and dirty iron cage for 3 days and nights. They got released after paying a heavy fine. The village government announced that the bonus of all appealing practitioners for the next three years would be confiscated. The village also confiscated the clinic of Doctor Liao Qizhen. The clinic is worth 200,000 Yuan.
Zhang Xiaofeng, a faculty member of the Aviation School of Chengdu, was detained for 30 days for having gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He got released after paying a fine of 6,300 Yuan. Now the school has suspended his salary and is pressuring him to resign.
Falun Gong requires practitioners to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. These Falun Gong practitioners have endured all these persecutions with calm.
3.4.5 Practitioners arrested during Jiang Zemin’s visit; some still in police custody
Message received: February 29, 2000
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
Description:
Some practitioners in Guangzhou City and other places were arrested during Jiang Zemin’s visit in Guangdong Province. Some of them are still being detained.
Police claimed that the authorities ordered them to arrest practitioners whenever they gather together, no matter what they are doing.
3.4.6 Practitioners arrested for copying a Falun Gong open letter
Message received: February 29, 2000
Victims:
1. Zhu Yifang
2. Cheng Tao
3. Liao Chenyu
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
In the afternoon of February 26, the Qingyang district police station arrested three practitioners. They were Zhu Yifang, who was copying the Chengdu practitioners’ open letter to the National People’s Congress, Cheng Tao and Liao Chenyu. The police also ransacked their homes and confiscated their Falun Dafa materials and computers. Now the police are waiting in their homes in order to arrest those who would come to sign the open letter. Huayi Service located near the Huangwa Street Office was closed down and the owner was arrested. These practitioners have been given 15 days of administrative detention. The police planed to give them criminal detention after 15 days of administrative detention.
Writing letter to government departments is the constitutional right of every citizen. We urge the National People’s Congress, the news media, and all kind-hearted people to investigate this issue.
Qingyang District Police Station is located at Jianghan Street, Chengdu; Phone: 011-86-28-6645100
Huangwa Street Police Station is located at Jixiang Street, Chengdu; Phone: 011-86-28-6630345
3.4.7 Help! pregnant woman still in custody
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victim: Zhu Xia
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Ms. Zhu Xia, who is pregnant for 8 months, is detained alone by the Guangrong district police station. The contact number of the police station is 011-86-8628-765-6434. She is about to give birth but the police refuse to release her. We appeal to all international human rights organizations, media and kind-hearted people to pay attention to this shocking incident.
The Yinmenkou police station phone number is 011-86-8628-752-9986. The address is Yinmenkou Overpass, 2 Lunar Road, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.
3.4.8 Suppression on Falun Gong intensified before the “Two Conferences”
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The Beijing Bureau of Public Security issued an internal document on arrests of “active” Falun Gong practitioners at a large scale before the Conference of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese Political Consultative Conference, the so called “Two Conferences”. Yesterday, all police stations held a meeting planning on how to arrest those “active” practitioners at a large scale, how to investigate the initiators and organizers who wrote appeal letters to the National People’s Congress, and how to closely monitor Internet “activists”, especially those who send Emails to the National People’s Congress.
3.4.9 Falun Gong practitioners out of water and electricity
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victims:
1. Ding Chenxiu
2. Wang Shulan
3. Jian Jicheng
4. Zhang Jingyun
5. Yue Changdao
Location of incident: Guanghan, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
On February 21, a practitioner from Guanghan, Ms. Ding Chenxiu, got arrested on her way to Beijing. There are very few Falun Gong practitioners in Dahuashan district of Pinggu County. Wang Shulan was detained for a month because she continued to practice Falun Gong. The people from the village tried to bend the will of Falun Gong practitioners by cutting the water and electricity supply. The electric cable and water pipe were cut and taken away from the home of Jian Jicheng, Zhang Jingyun and Yue Changdao since this January. They had to ask for water from neighbors and use candles. The people in charge told them if they stop practicing Falun Gong, the water and electricity supply will be provided right away. They were also threatened to have their sons and daughters expelled from their school or job.
3.4.10 Practitioners arrested during a discussion in a park
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victims: Luo Zhengming and 11 other Falun Gong practitioners in Guanghan City
Location of incident: Guanghan, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
On February 20, more than 200 practitioners from Guanghan came to the Qiaotou Park where they used to practice the exercises together. They exchanged their experiences in the past half a year. At 3pm, 2 practitioners came with some materials. Two police officers rushed over immediately to rob the materials. They also called other police officers to come over to help them. These two practitioners were dragged into the police van. We all went to the police van and told the police with our kind intention, “we just want to be good people. We do not struggle for fame, interest and do not get involved in politics.” Twenty of us recited “Lun Yu” and other articles. We asked them kindly, “Falun Gong practitioners are all striving to be good people. Why do you arrest us?” Some practitioner asked the police whether they had read the book “Zhuan Falun” and whether they knew the facts about Falun Gong. The police could not answer and responded, “you should talk to high authorities.”
That day, it was a traditional holiday, so more and more people gathered around us. In order not to interrupt the traffic, and to be considerate for others, we had to clear the way and let the two fellow practitioners being taken away. 10 minutes later, 9 other practitioners including Luo Zhengming were also taken away.
3.4.11 Over 400 practitioners in detention
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victims: Over 400 Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun City
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Description:
On February 19, the police in Changchun arrested many practitioners. They continued to arrest practitioners for 3 days. Over 400 practitioners are being detained in Balibao detention center. 16 of them are in male cell. The number of practitioners in female cell is unknown. 3 couples are being detained. Apparently, the authorities are implementing the “severe attack” on Falun Gong, which was scheduled to start in the middle of February.
3.4.12 Practitioners arrested when spreading Falun Gong
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victim: Cheng Yanyan
Location of incident: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Description:
Three practitioners including Ms. Cheng Yanyan got arrested when spreading Falun Gong in the Zhaotong City of Yunnan Province. Now they are being detained in the Panlongyi Detention Center of Kunming City in Yunnan.
3.4.13 Police detained some practitioners because Chinese president visited Shenzhen City
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Shenzhen
Location of incident: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province
Description:
Recently, Chinese president Jiang Zemin went to visit Shenzhen City. The police arrested some practitioners on February 20 and detained them for more than two days. Practitioners got released after Jiang left Shenzhen.
3.4.14 Police arbitrarily arrested Falun Gong practitioners in Shijiazhuang City
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Shijiazhuang
Location of incident: Shijiazhuang, Heibei Province, China
Description:
In the Chinese New Year’s Eve, practitioners in Shijiazhuang held a group practice outside the Yanshan Hotel. Starting from the New Year’s Day, the police started to investigate about the group practice and have not had any result. Currently, the local police started to arbitrarily arrest practitioners. Many practitioners got arrested and beaten up. The situation there is very harsh. A female practitioner’s neck was injured from the torture.
Also, the authorities had already found out that more than 300 practitioners from Hebei province went to the Tiananmen Square to unfurl banners of Falun Dafa or practice Falun Gong exercises on the New Year’s Eve. The Beijing government had already severely criticized Hebei authorities.
3.4.15 Practitioners unfurl banners of Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square to appeal to the Government
Message received: February 21, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims:
1. Yang Hongjun
2. Li Chunlin
3. Tan Haidong
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
On February 14, 2000, practitioners Yang Hongjun, Li Chunlin and Tan Haidong unfurled two banners of Falun Dafa on the Tiananmen Square. The two banners read “Return Innocence to Falun Dafa” and “Falun Dafa is Righteous”. Yang Hongjun said that on the same day, 9 other practitioners from Guangzhou, Anhui, and Shanghai etc unfurled a 15 feet long banner that read “Falun Dafa, truthfulness-benevolence-forbearance” on the Tiananmen Square. Practitioners from Fangshan District of Beijing unfurled a 12 feet long banner that read “Falun Gong Lives Forever”. There were also practitioner from Jiangxi, Shandong, and Northeastern Provinces joining the brave act.
About 10 seconds after Yang Hongjun, Li Chunlin and Tan Haidong unfurled the banners, they were beaten up and detained for interrogation separately.
According to Yang Hongjun, the police officer that interrogated him said that his sister-in-law was also a Falun Dafa practitioner and he sent food and other things to practitioners regularly, therefore, he needed 300 Yuan from him to buy things for practitioners. Yang Hongjun was moved by this police officer’s words and gave him 300 Yuan regardless of whether he told truth or not.
3.4.16 Arbitrarily detention; stiff fines; confiscating personal properties
Message received: February 20, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims: Falun Gong prctitioners in Jining
Location of incident: Jining, China
Description:
In the period during the Chinese New Year, the local police officers in Jining City started to arbitrarily detain Falun Gong practitioners. They detained every practitioner who was suspected to continue to practice Falun Gong, to keep Falun Dafa materials, to have contact with practitioners in other places, or to have signed the appealing letters. In ten days, they detained about 200 to 300 practitioners. Meanwhile, they ransacked their homes and confiscate many personal properties such as TVs, VCRs and cellular phones etc. They also imposed stiff fines on them. Each of them and their workplaces were required by the city government to pay 5,000 Yuan and 10,000 Yuan respectively in order to get released. The local police officers were very enthusiastic in doing this and regarded it as a way for gaining profits. The stiff fines brought great difficulties to those practitioners who already lost their jobs because of their practice of Falun Gong.
3.4.17 Practitioners arrested, removed from their posts
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims:
1. Li Zhenge
2. Zhang Dianshu
3. Wu Dongsheng
4. Nie Jianyong
They are residents of Liubinbao Village in
Yanqing County. There was also a couple
from Yanqing County
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
In January 2000, Li Zhenge, Zhang Dianshu, Wu Dongsheng and Nie Jianyong from Liubinbao Village of Yanqing County went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong - the right of citizens guaranteed by the law. They were arrested and escorted back to their hometown by the local police officers. They were forced to lie on the snow for up to four hours.
A couple from Yanqing County was removed from their posts because they refuse to give up Falun Gong.
3.4.18 Practitioners in Guiyang arrested for reading “Zhuan Falun” on the train
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners in Yunnan Province
Location of incident: Yunnan Province
Description:
Two female practitioners both were contact persons from Zhaotong of Yunnan Province got arrested when reading “Zhuan Falun” on the train to Kaili City in Guizhou Province. They were picked up by their local police officers after one day of detention there.
3.4.19 Practitioners detained for practicing Falun Gong exercises in public
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims: Six Falun Gong Practitioners in Haidian district of Beijing
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
In the morning of February 16, six practitioners from Haidian district of Beijing were taken away by the local police when they were practicing Falun Gong exercises in a public area. After a whole day of interrogation, one of them was detained. The other five practitioners were picked up by their family members and people from their workplaces at around 8:30pm.
3.4.20 Eight Falun Gong practitioners were arrested when practicing exercises in a park
Message received: February 17, 2000
Victims: 18 practitioners
Location of incident: Liyushan Park of Urumuqi, Neimengu Province, China
Description:
At 8:00am February 15, eight practitioners were arrested from the Liyushan Park of Urumuqi City when they were practicing Falun Gong exercises together. So far their whereabouts are still unknown.
3.4.21 Chengdu police arrested many practitioners
Message received: February 15, 2000
Victims:
1. Xiang Ying and her mother, Falun Gong
Practitioners
2. Yan Dinghui and other two Falun Gong
practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
Description:
Before the Lunar New Year, Chengdu police department sentenced many practitioners.
Practitioners Xiang Ying and her mother got arrested in their apartment in the Guangrong district because an official from the residential committee heard their practice music. After being detained for 15 days, they were sent back to their hometown in Meizhou. They were threatened that should they ever return to the Guangrong district, they would be arrested as soon as they were found.
Before the Lunar New Year, Yan Dinghui and the other two practitioners got arrested when they were practicing Falun Gong in the Xinhua Park. They are now detained in Lianhua Village detention center waiting for sentence.
3.4.22 About 70 Falun Gong practitioners detained in a drug rehabilitation center of Dalian City
Message received: February 14, 2000
Victims: about 70 Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
Description:
On the Lunar New Year’s Day (February 5), many police officers appeared on the Xinhaiwan Square. They questioned people whether they practiced Falun Gong or not. If they said yes, they would be taken away. About 70 people of all ages were taken away and were thrown into a drug rehabilitation center of Judicial Bureau of Dalian City. The police demanded that their family members pay 2,000 Yuan but did not allow them to visit the practitioners. These practitioners are still in police custody.
3.4.23 Over two hundred Falun Gong practitioners arrested during a Falun Gong conference
Message received: February 13, 2000
Victims: 210 Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Puling, Guangdong province, China
Description:
In the suburb of Puling city, Guangdong province, starting from February 8, many practitioners held a Falun Dafa experience sharing conference for several days. On the afternoon of February 10, about 100 police officers came and arrested about 210 practitioners.
3.4.24 Some Falun Gong practitioners were taken away from their homes when doing meditation
Message received: February 13, 2000
Victims: over 30 Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
On February 6, some practitioners were taken away from the their homes when they were doing meditation exercise
On the morning of February 12, about 30 practitioners were arrested at the Taoranting Park in Beijing when practicing Falun Dafa exercises.
3.4.25 A Department of Security Official of Hebei province jailed for appealing for Falun Gong
Message received: February 13, 2000
Victims:
1. Mr. Tao Hongsheng, an official in the
Department of Security of Hebei Province, a
Falun Gong practitioner
2. Mr. Wu Bing, a teacher from the 18th middle school of Shijiazhuang, a Falun Gong
practitioner
3. Mr. Tao’s wife and daughter
Location of incident: Hebei Province, China
Description:
Mr. Tao Hongsheng, an official in the Department of Security of Hebei Province, got arrested on December 25, 1999 when he and Mr. Wu Bing, a teacher from the 18th middle school of Shijiazhuang City, unfurled a banner reading “Falun Dafa” on Tiananmen Square. Mr. Tao’s wife and daughter also got arrested. This incident had made a stir among the Central Political-Legal Committee, the state security department and the police departments. He was directly escorted back to the department of security of Hebei province for house arrest. Two people worked on him for seven days. However, he always insisted that Falun Dafa is a righteous practice and the decision of the government was wrong. Therefore, Mr. Tao was expelled from the party and removed from the post. He was given a sentence of 3 years of forced labor. Mr. Wu was given a sentence of 2 years of forced labor.
Mr. Tao’s wife and daughter were escorted back to the local police station. They were forced to write pledge and pay the fine. Mr. Tao’s wife refused to do that. The department of security had already confiscated their apartment in order to put pressure on Mr. Tao’s wife.
3.4.26 President of Architecture Institute arrested for supporting Falun Gong
Message received: February 11, 2000
Victims: Jiang Zhonglin, a senior engineer and his wife.
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
Description:
Jiang Zhonglin, a senior engineer and the President of the Mingyuan Architecture Institute, and his wife were arrested by the Chengdu police for writing to Jiang Zemin to report his experience of practicing Falun Gong, and publishing the letter on Chinese Minghui Net (a Falun Gong website).
3.4.27 Practitioner detained for doing exercises at home
Message received: February 11, 2000
Victim: Zhang Xiaoyu, female, a Falun Gong practitioner from the Guangrong district of Chengdu City
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
Description:
Zhang Xiaoyu, practitioner from the Guangrong district of Chengdu City, was arrested because when she practiced Falun Gong exercises at home, an official of the residential committee heard the practice music and reported her. She was given 15 days of administrative detention. The police officers in the Guangrong police station told practitioners that practicing Falun Gong exercises is against the law.
3.4.28 Key contact person of Falun Gong in Dalian City was secretly sentenced to 9 years in jail
Message received: February 11, 2000
Victim: Ms. Gao Qiuju, 59 years of age, a trade company manager
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movement reported that Ms. Gao Qiuju, a key contact person of Falun Gong in Dalian City, was recently sentenced to 9 years in prison by the Court of Xigang district of Dalian City.
The center said that the authorities sentenced Ms. Gao Qiuju on February 1, while her family did not receive the notice of the sentence until February 10.
The 59-year-old Gao Qiuju was the president of a foreign trade company. She became the key contact person of Falun Gong in Dalian City in 1994. She was arrested on July 24 1999 under the accusation of “organizing April 25 event,” “giving the government’s secret documents on cracking down Falun Gong to Wang Zhiwen in Beijing,” etc.
The center also disclosed that the four major contact people who were sentenced on December 26 of last year, Li Chang, Wang Zhiwen and Ji Liewu are being detained in the No. 1 Prison of Beijing, and Yao Jie is being detained in the Beijing Women Prison.
3.4.29 Falun Gong members was beaten when jailed
Message received: February 9, 2000
Victims:
1. Niu Jinping, 46 years of age
2. Zhang Lianying, female, 38 years of age
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Steelworker Niu Jinping says he has been beaten by police and jailed in a squalid cell, yet he refuses to renounce his membership (should be “belief”. There is no membership in Falun Gong) in Falun Gong. “I’ve never broken the law in my life and my basic right to exist - my job, my salary, even my lunch allowance - has been stripped away,” said another Falun Gong member Zhang Lianying, 38, an accountant. “I have to speak out,” she said.
Niu was given a strong sedative and put through a battery of psychological tests at the Huilongguan Hospital in Beijing. He was released seven days later. “My case was reported very promptly on the Internet, and the hospital paid close attention to that,” he said. Weeks after his release, the now jobless Niu went to the southern city of Guangzhou for a Falun Gong meeting, an act that got him a 28-day detention spell in the Beijing suburb of Shunyi.
Zhang, who joined Niu at the Guangzhou meeting and was dealt the same 28-day sentence in Shunyi, recounted a similar cycle of petition, followed by detention and eventual loss of her job. She said she was trussed up and dragged by her ponytail repeatedly and had witnessed a version of water torture in which buckets of ice-cold water were poured down the backs of detainees.
Released on January 6, the pair have since been hounded by local police and warned against joining fresh protests. Both said they heeded the protest warnings but have not stopped meditation. “I was a drinker, a gambler and a womanizer until I took up Falun Gong,” said Niu, who also credited his breathing exercises with curing nerve and heart ailments. “I simply cannot not practice Falun Gong,” he said.
3.4.30 More than one hundred practitioners were detained in Changchun City
Message received: February 9, 2000
Location of incident: Changchun, Liaoning Province, China
Description:
On February 4, more than one hundred practitioners from Changchun City went to the local government to appeal for Falun Gong and got arrested. All of them were sent to the Daguang detention center of Changchun City. On that same day, all the practitioners started hunger strike.
3.4.31 Practitioners in Shijiazhuang arrested when doing group practice
Message received: February 8, 2000
Location of incident: Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China
Description:
On the Chinese New Year’s Eve (February 5, 2000), Falun Gong practitioners in Shijiazhuang City decided to practice Falun Gong together in front of the Hebei Opera House, which is located at the intersection of Construction Avenue and Yuhua Street. Earlier before the practice time, more than 100 police officers and 20 some police vehicles had already occupied the place. Several police cars were around the opera house. Before the practitioners started the group practice, the police started to arrest them at the Hebei Opera House and the Culture Exhibition Center. About 107 practitioners had been arrested. While the police were arresting the practitioners, they used dirty language to insult the practitioners and beat them. They also took away some practitioners without giving any reason.
When the police started to arrest practitioners, many practitioners were in front of the Yanzhao Hotel, which is located to the south of Hebei Opera House. They decided to practice the exercises there because it was impossible for them to practice at the Hebei Opera House. About 20 practitioners stood in lines and began to do the exercises in the debris of firecrackers welcoming the Year of the Dragon. More and more practitioners came to join in the practice. A practitioner volunteered to stand out chanting the instructions of the exercise. She was more than 60 years old. Her voice was loud and clear. The practitioners’ movements were neat and peaceful. More and more practitioners joined the practice. They wanted to tell the country and the whole world that Falun Dafa is righteous. Falun Dafa teaches people to be kind and good. Falun Gong is a wonderful practice, which can help people to gain high morality, healthy body and happy mind. They would like to tell the truth to the whole world, even at the cost of arrest or lives.
3.4.32 Practitioners in Shijiazhuang were sentenced
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victims:
1. Liang Yening, female
2. Duan Rongxin
Location of incident: Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China
Description:
According to sources, Liang Yening and Duan Rongxin were given sentences of 6 and 8 years in jail respectively on February 1, 2000.
3.4.33 Practitioners in Chengdu City were sentenced before the Chinese New Year
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victims:
1. Wang Xiaosong
2. Li Yan
3. Li Zhijie
4. Luo Minpu
5. Tao Liu
6. Chen Minyong
7. Tao Liu and some other Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Before the Chinese New Year, some practitioners in Chengdu were sentenced. Wang Xiaosong was given a sentence of 7 years in jail. Li Yan, Li Zhijie and some other practitioners were sent to labor camps.
The arrest and sentence of Wang Xiaosong made a stir in his former workplace, the Dayi County Education Department. His supervisors and colleagues all went to the department of public security to question the police officers why such a well-known good person was arrested and sentenced. In the New Year’s celebration of his workplace, everyone felt sad when talking about his sufferings.
Currently, practitioners who are waiting for sentencing in the Lianhua Village detention center of Chengdu City are from all walks of life. There are workers, farm-ers, college students, professors, school president, senior engineers and retired officials (such as Cao Anrong) etc.
In addition, graduate students of Sichuan University, Luo Minpu and Tao Liu, graduate student of Sichuan Industrial College, Chen Minyong, were transferred to Linxia street Jail of Chengdu City, waiting for severe sentences. They are detained together with murderers, drug dealers and other criminals. Jiang Yunhong was also transferred to the city jail.
To prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal and exchange experiences with each other, the “transformation class” held by the Chengdu public security department were still in operation on the Chinese New Year’s Day. Many enterprises stated clearly that practitioners could not take vacation during the New Year’s Day.
3.4.34 Persecutions in Changsha, Hunan Province
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victims:
1. Tan Mimi, female
2. Feng Fei
3. Chen Yang
4. Cao Zhiming
5. Jiang Liying, female
Location of incident: Changsha, Hunan Province, China
Description:
Practitioners from Changsha City, Tan Mimi and Feng Fei, have been detained since last August and September for selling Falun Dafa books, and promoting and defending Falun Dafa. Their family members are not allowed to visit them. Moreover, their family members must pay about 1,000 Yuan per month to the detention center.
On January 23 of this year, they showed up in the public for the first time in the Furong Court. The court has not sentenced them yet and will make the decision after the advising group from the central government visits Changsha on February 19. They are now being detained in the First Detention Center of Changsha.
Moreover, Mr. Yang Chen, Mr. Cao Zhiming and Ms. Jiang Liying were arrested in Beijing when they were exchanging experiences with other practitioner. Jiang Liying was secretly given a sentence of 2 years of forced labor. Chen Yang and Zhiming were given a sentence of 2 years in jail.
3.4.35 Kept in police custody for being uncertain about whether to go to Beijing to appeal
Message received: February 3, 2000
Victim: Zhang Xiaoying, female, an employee of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu City
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Recently, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiaoying, an employee of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu City, was taken to the police station by the security section of her workplace. She had just been released for a few days after 15 days of detention for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police officer asked her whether she would continue to practice Falun Gong. She said yes. The police officer then asked her whether she would go to Beijing to appeal again. She said that she was not sure about that. The police officer then struck the table and roared, “Detain her for another 15 days!”
3.4.36 Persecutions in Nanyang, Henan Province
Message received: January 27, 2000
Victims:
1. Fan Jinting
2. Zhang Yulian
3. Jiao Zhiyun
4. Xiao Yongzhen
5. Niu Juan
6. Wang Xiuyun
7. Kui Yujuan
8. Lu Hongcheng
9. He Xin
10. Gao Yuqing
11. Doctor Zhang of The Cancer Hospital
12. Su Guilian
13. Jiao Zhiyun
14. Yao Peijie
15. Peng Dongmei
16. Li Wenting
17. Liu Chunzhi
Location of incident: Nanyang, China
Description:
Since April 1999, many practitioners in Nan-yang City went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. Several hundred practitioners have been illegally detained for 15 days to 4 months. Currently, dozens of practitioners are still being detained.
Some practitioners were on hunger strikes in the jail for up to 7 days. Some practitioners refused to write the pledge promising that they would give up Falun Gong and would not go to Beijing to appeal, even though they were under great pressures. Because of that, they have suffered more tribulations physically and mentally.
[1] Some practitioners were put in handcuffs and shackles for more than one month. For example, practitioners Fan Jinting, Zhang Yulian, Jiao Zhiyun, Xiao Yongzhen, Niu Juan, Wang Xiuyun and Kui Yujuan, etc. were put in handcuffs and shackles for a long time in jail.
[2] Some practitioners were humiliated in jail by officers and criminals. For example, Lu Hongcheng was once forced to bend down to smell the toilet for more than 4 hours.
[3] Some practitioners were illegally detained just for exchanging experiences with other local practitioners.
[4] Some practitioners were thrown into jail for writing to the local officials to report the truth about Falun Gong. Practitioners He Xin, Gao Yuqing and Doctor Zhang from the cancer hospital were detained for more than one month for writing to their supervisors or city officials to report the truth about Falun Gong.
[5] Some practitioners were under house arrest for 24 hours a day. For example, Su Guilian, Jiao Zhiyun and Yao Peijie were monitored by their workplaces after they were freed from the detention center. The police monitored some practitioners’ home phones. Some practitioners’ ID cards were confiscated and they were required to pay 2,000 Yuan to 5,000 Yuan as deposit.
[6] Practitioners Peng Dongmei and Li Wenting were illegally detained for more than three months before they were given a sentence of 2 to 3 years of forced labor only because they refused to write the pledge to give up Falun Gong.
[7] Practitioner Liu Chunzhi was detained for more than one month and fined 9,000 Yuan for going to Beijing to appeal. She was detained again in January for refusing to write the pledge to give up Falun Gong. She has been detained up to now.
3.4.37 More persecutions against Falun Gong practitioners in Chengdu City: detention of family members, homes ransacked, 18-19 hours of hard labor, tortures, humiliations, and fines
Message received: January 20, 2000
Victims:
1. Cheng Zhan
2. Li Xiaojun
and others
Location of incident: Longquanyi District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Three practitioners from Longquanyi District of Chengdu City, among them Cheng Zhan, who went to Beijing to appeal, were arrested and their homes were ransacked. Because their workplaces refused to pay the 350,000 Yuan penalty to the police department, they are now serving criminal detention (i.e., detention while waiting for possible sentences). Recently, some other practitioners from Chengdu City including Li Xiaojun are also serving criminal detention.
The local police also detained a dozen of the family members and relatives of these three practitioners who also practiced Falun Gong. After their homes were ransacked, they were all taken to the police station for 3 days of detention. The police officers constantly asked them whether they would continue to practice Falun Gong, and they all answered “yes.” Then, they were all given 15 days of detention. They were released later after their workplaces or family members paid several thousand Yuan (amounts to several months of salary of an average employee in China). All the released male practitioners had their heads shaved by the police. Many of them had bruises due to police torture. They were forced to do hard labor for 18 to 19 hours everyday while in police custody. They were subject to insults from both policemen and other detained criminals. There was not enough food for them. Now they are under intense surveillance by the security sections of their workplaces as well as the police station.
3.4.38 Practitioners in Xiangyang and Liaoyuan were detained
Message received: Jan 18, 2000
Victims: Zheng Gang and others.
Location of incident: Xiangyang, China
Description:
When Zheng Gang and a couple of practitioners talked over the phone, they were monitored. Now three of them are being detained in the detention center in the Xiangyang area. They were illegally detained without having done anything wrong.
3.4.39 Detention in Changchun Women’s Jail
Victims:
1. Lu Chunyun
2. Yu Chunning
3. Ding Xiaoxia, an English teacher in No. 1
middle school teacher
4. Li Shulan, 50 years of age, a retired teacher
at No. 1 middle school
and others
Location of incident: Liaoyuan, Jilin Province, China
Description:
They are being detained in the Changchun Women’s Jail. The family of one of them did not receive any legal formalities. It was said that about 30 practitioners from other places are also being detained in that jail.
3.4.40 Former hospital president were brainwashed and persecuted for practicing Falun Gong
Message received: Jan 18, 2000
Victim: Li Qihua, 80 years of age, was the former pres ident of the 301 Hospital of the People’s Revolutionary Army and a well-known medical specialist in China
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The Party and the Army put a great deal of pressure on Mr. Li Qihua, the 80-year-old man with constant brainwashing, threats and coercion, and forced him to confess and give up Falun Gong. The ‘confession’ publicized by the government came from the notes taken during his conversations with government officials. They used grueling tactics to force him to sign those notes every day. Initially, he refused to sign them and pointed out that they were not his original words. They then continued to coerce him on a daily basis and made the old man exhausted both physically and mentally. The officials then begged him, “Please just sign it. Then it will be over and we can all take a rest.” He had no other choice but to sign. In fact, the ‘confession’ that was promulgated later on is quite different from the notes that he actually signed. Someone else wrote the beginning paragraphs. The old man did not know this at all. In addition, even after Mr. Li signed the note, he was not given much rest. There were still people coming to brainwash him every day. The three guards sent by the government closely watched him. He was not allowed to go downstairs and to answer the telephone, and was totally isolated.
(To be Cnontinued)
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