Chapter 3 Mass Arrest and Police Brutality

3.4.41 Over two thousand appealing practitioners from Shandong Province have been escorted back from Beijing

In recent months, more than two thousand appealing practitioners from Shandong Province have been escorted back from Beijing. Several days ago, several groups of practitioners from Jinan City of Shandong Province were escorted back from Beijing. Each of them was required to pay a fine of 5,000 Yuan (about half of the annual salary of an average employee). All of them were detained in a hotel. All the expenses were covered by practitioners themselves. In addition, some practitioners were directly sent to the detention center for criminal detention, waiting for possible sentence.

Also, police in Jinan City forced each of the contact people of Falun Gong to pay 2,000 Yuan to cover the “expenses” for holding “Thought-altering” classes.

3.4.42 A Professor of Sichuan University, Hong Jirong, was sentenced to three years of forced labor for writing an appealing letter to Mr. Annan

Victims: Hong Jirong, female, 62, a professor of Sichuan University, a Falun Gong practitioner.

Practitioner Ms. Hong Jirong, 62 years old, a professor of Sichuan University was sentenced to three years of forced labor by the Chengdu City police because of her suspected involvement in drafting and signing “an appealing letter to United Nations Secretary-General Mr. Annan from Practitioners in Sichuan Province”.

Nine practitioners from the west campus of Sichuan University have been sentenced for reporting the truth of Falun Gong to Chinese government and international human rights organizations such as the United Nations.

3.4.43 Six practitioners from Sichuan Province who went to Beijing to appeal were given criminal detention and waiting for possible sentence

1. Jiang Hong, female, a teacher in Huayang Middle School, Shuangliu County
2. Zhou Zuqing, an engineer in the 103 Airport, Shuanliu County
3. Sun Chunfan from Shuanliu County
4. Xiang Menghua, Representative of People’s Congress in Shuangliu County
5. Xie Xia, female, a teacher in Huayang Professional High School, Shuanliu County
6. Li Zhijie, from Chengdu City
7. Zhang Aili, from Chengdu City
8. Li Yinxiang, female, from Chengdu City All of them are Falun Gong practitioners in Sichuan Province

Location of incidents: Shuangliu County and Chengdu City of Sichuan Province, China

Six practitioners from Shuangliu County of Sichuan Province who went to Beijing to appeal were given criminal detention and are waiting for possible sentences.

They were Jiang Hong, a teacher in Huayang Middle School, Zhou Zuqing, an engineer in the 103 Airport, Sun Chunfan, Xiang Menghua, who was a Representative of People’s Congress in Shuangliu County and Xie Xia, who was a teacher in Huayang Professional High School. In addition, Xiang Menghua’s certificate of house property and certificate of residence were confiscated. It was said that they would be sentenced before the Chinese New Year (February 5,2000).

Also, Li Zhijie and other practitioners were transferred from Jiu-ru Village detention center to Lianhua Village detention center for the criminal detention because they refused to sign their names on the pledge promising that they would not practice Falun Gong. Zhang Aili was directly sent to Jiuru Village detention center for criminal detention for reading “Zhuan Falun” (the main book of Falun Gong) in the transformation class. Li Yingxiang and other practitioners have already been sentenced.

3.4.44 Song Bangfu went to Beijing to appeal was arrested and sentenced to 3 years forced labor “education”

October 28, 1999, Song Bangfu went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested on Tiananmen Square. After he was sent back to Guiyang City, he was given three years of forced labor “education” without trial.

3.4.45 Practitioner from Yancheng City detained for holding up a Falun Gong banner on Tiananmen Square on New Year’s day

1. Zhu Sufang, female, 53, from Yancheng City of Jiangsu Province
2. Gao Yulan, female, from Yancheng City of Jiangsu Province

practitioner from Yancheng City of Jiangsu Province. On New Year’s Day, she held up a banner reading “Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance” on the “China Century Altar” and then was taken to the Yancheng City Liaison Office in Beijing by the police. Later she was sent back to the local Dafeng City police department for detention.

She started a hunger strike on January 3rd when her Falun Dafa books were confiscated. She was released on 2:00pm on January 16. Her books were also returned to her.

Practitioners from Yancheng City were detained for holding up a Falun Gong banner in Tiananmen Square on New Year's day. This photo was taken before they went to Tiananmen Square.

3.4.46 Jiangsu Province practitioners urge the government to stop violating the human rights of Falun Gong practitioners

The Yangchen City police department has intensified its persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Gao Yulan was arrested at 5:00am of December 31st when she was practicing Falun Gong at home. The police dragged her by her hair, slapped her in the face and kicked her. Moreover, the police insulted her by pressing her head into water. The torture went on for 16 days during which she suffered all kinds of inhumane treatment.

3.4.47 Seven practitioners arrested in Zhongshan at a picnic with local practitioners, all detained in Guangzhou

1. Wang He
2. Lin Kai
3. Lin Xiang
4. Lin Zhiyong
5. Zhao Yu
6. Shen Li, female
7. Song Hongfeng
8. Liang Wenjian
9. Liu Haili
10. Gao Xianmin who died in custody
11. Chen Wuhua
12. He Lihua, female
13. Chen Chunli, female
14. Pang Dongzhen, female
15. Zhang Mengye All of them are Falun Gong practitioners from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Location of incidents: Zhongshan City and Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

The seven practitioners who were arrested last December in Zhongshan City when they were having a meal together with four local practitioners are: Wang He, Lin Kai, Lin Xiang, Lin

Zhao Zhiyong, Yu Shenli, and Song Hongfeng. It was said that they might be given forced labor “education”.

On December 31, 1999, Guangzhou police arrested a dozen practitioners in the Tianhe Park when they were having a picnic. Most of them were given criminal detention, namely, detention until being sentenced. They were Liang Wenjian, Liu Haili, Gao Xianming, Chen Wuhua, He Lihua and Chen Chunli etc. They are in Tianhe Detention Center and have not been released yet. In the Tianhe detention center, practitioners were required to do forced labor as other criminals. They were required to make a certain amount of plastic flowers in a certain time frame and would be punished if they could not finish their workload. Those who continued to practice Falun Gong were put in handcuffs and shackles. Right after a practitioner expressed that he would continue to practice Falun Gong, the director in the detention center gave him a kick on his neck and he spit blood on the spot. Feeling that their legal rights were violated, some practitioners started hunger strikes. On the next day, they were force-fed with high-density salt water. A director in a cell ordered five male criminals to push a female practitioner down on the ground. They used wet towels to block her nostrils and then added a 500g bag of salt of into a cup of water and force-fed her. . Later what she vomited up were grains of salts.

Pang Dongzhen, a graduate student in the Foreign Language Department of Huanan Normal University, was dismissed from the university because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa several times. After she was released from the administrative detention for the second time, she was arrested again when she was having a meal together with four other practitioners at home. She is now under criminal detention.

Zhang Mengye, a former contact person of Falun Gong assistance center in Tianhe District, graduated from Tsinghua University in 1960’s. Since July 22, he has been continuing to practice Falun Gong. He and his wife went to Beijing to appeal and were detained several times. Now he is still being detained in Tianhe Detention Center. It is said that he will be sent to a labor camp.

3.4.48 Daqing practitioners were arrested for signing an open appealing letter to the Chinese authorities.

1. Wang Tianyou,
2. Wang Bin
3. Yang Shuhua, female
4. Hou Shulan, female
5. Guo Yuxia, female
6. Ren Zhaoyan
7. Tao Weiji
8. Li Shumei, female
9. Wang Guofang, female and others All of them are Falun Gong practitioners in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province.

In Daqing, 284 practitioners signed an open appeal letter to the Chinese authorities. Their representatives were arrested before they were able to go to Beijing to deliver this letter. The appealing letter and the banner with signatures were also confiscated. Afterwards, many practitioners were detained. Up to January 3, six practitioners including Wang Tianyou and Wang Bin were given forced labor “education”.

More practitioners from Daqing went to Beijing to appeal by escaping the police’ blocking and interception. Whoever goes to Beijing to appeal will be detained after they are escorted back. Those who refuse to give up Falun Gong after “being educated” (which means physical and mental abuse) will be sent to labor camps. In Ranghu District alone, there are many practitioners who have been detained because they went to Beijing to appeal since the mid-December 1999. Among them were Yang Shuhua, Hou Shulan, Guo Yuxia, Ren Zhaoyan, Tao Weiji, Li Shumei and Wang Guofang etc. Some workplaces forced Falun Gong practitioners to pay more than ten thousand Yuan (more than the annual salary of an average employee) as a deposit. Once they go to appeal, security officers of their workplaces will go to Beijing to arrest them by using this money. Some workplaces warn practitioners that if they go to Beijing to appeal, their spouses or children will be fired.

3.4.49 A major of the armed police force is being detained in Shandong province for appealing for Falun Gong

According to news sources, Yu Fenglai, a major of the armed police force was escorted back to his hometown in Shandong Province on January 4 for detention after being arrested when appealing on Tiananmen Square on January 2. Currently he is being detained in the armed police corps and has already been removed from duty.

3.4.50 Chengdu Falun Gong practitioners were detained for practicing Falun Gong

2. Jiang Yunhong,
3. Li Zhijie, female They are Falun Gong practitioners in Chengdu.

Chengdu authorities have thrown practitioners who refuse to give up their belief in Falun Dafa during the “transformation class” into jails. The practitioners have been sentenced to administrative detention or criminal detention.

Li Zhi, a teacher of the fourth middle school in Xindou, had to resign from her job and divorce her husband in order not to bring trouble to her supervisors and her family. She was sent to the “transformation class” and later to the detention center.

Practitioner Jiang Yunhong was transferred to the criminal Detention Center of Lianhua Village after 15 days of detention in the administrative Detention Center of Jiuru Village of Chengdu City. He was threatened that he would be sent to a labor camp if he refused to give up Falun Gong.

Practitioner Li Zhijie and other practitioners who are still serving their 15 days of dentition have also been informed that they would be sent to the criminal detention center if they refuse to give up Falun Gong.

3.4.51 More than a hundred Falun Gong practitioners in Meizhou practiced outdoor exercises were taken away by police

Location of incident: Meizhou and Heyuan of Guangdong Province, Hunan Province, China

More than a hundred Falun Gong practitioners in Meizhou of Guangdong province practiced exercises outdoors. Police surrounded them and seized dozens, most of them were contact persons. In Heyuan, another area in Guangdong Province, about 50-60 Falun Gong practitioners went out to do the exercises. All of them were taken away. In a county of Hunan province, all of the peasants who practiced Falun Gong did the exercises outside, but none of them was arrested. These practitioners, either in Guangdong or in Hunan, all felt very happy and excited, no matter arrested or not. They thought that it was both exciting and joyful thing to be able to do Falun Gong exercises openly.

3.4.52 Falun Gong practitioners in Xinjiang Province went to Beijing to appeal

When Falun Dafa was declared as an evil cult by the Chinese government, some practitioners of Wusu, Xinjiang Province, went to Beijing to appeal. They were intercepted on their way to Beijing and sent back for detention. Those who arrived in Beijing to appeal were also sent back. They were Li Houzhuang, Chen Huifang, Liang Yuying, Wang Shaofeng and Liu Hongyuan. There were more than 30 practitioners who were detained for an unspecified time. They won’t be released as long as they refuse to give up Falun Dafa. So far, Wang Shaofeng and Liu Hongyuan have been detained for more than two months. The person in charge of the local assistance center, Cui Xulan, had been on a hunger strike for five days before she was sent to a jail. After the members of the former Falun Dafa Research Society were sentenced, Li Houzhuang and Chen Huifang were arrested for contacting practitioners across provinces, they will be punished with heavy sentences.

3.4.53 The police interrogated and arrested several dozens of people on the tightly guarded Tiananmen Square

(AP) Today, one day after the government has sentenced four key Falun Gong members to up to 18 year’s imprisonment, the police interrogated and arrested several dozen people on Tiananmen Square. About 5 people tried to hold up a banner to protest. They were stopped by the police, in uniform and plainclothes, in the square.

3.4.54 Zhang Chunqing, Zhu Hang, and other practitioners are suffering further persecution for exposing police torture they suffered before

1. Liang Qing, female
2. Li Duo
3. Zhang Chunqing, female
4. Zhu Hang, female, female, an associate professor from Dalian University of Science and Technology 5. Zhang Xiaohong, female
6. Sha Yusong, female
7. Yin Xingqin, female
8. Yang Xiujuan, female They are Falun Gong practitioners from Dalian, Liaoning Province.

So far, over 100 female practitioners have been sent to the Masanjia labor camp in Shenyang. Eighteen of them are from Dalian; others are from other places of Liaoning province. The number of male practitioners in the labor camp is unknown.

Liang Qing from Dalian was detained in the Yaojia Detention Center in Nanguanling, Dalian, for going to Beijing to appeal on July 20; she was freed after 26 days of detention. Later, on October 24, she was arrested again at home because she had sent the news about the inhumane police tortures of Zhang Chunqing and other practitioners to foreign media. Her computer and other equipment were also confiscated. Practitioner Li Duo was arrested together with her. Later, Liang Qing was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor; Li Duo was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor.

Zhang Chunqing is now being detained in the Masanjia labor camp for three years of forced labor. Her family only received a verbal notice on her detention without detailed information.

Zhu Hang, an associate professor from Dalian University of Science and Technology, is now being detained in a psychiatric hospital and is inflicted the treatments for mental patients because she refuses to give up Falun Gong.

Zhang Xiaohong is now being detained in the Yaojia detention center because she went to appeal. Sha Yusong has been sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor because his previous experience in the detention center was exposed on the Internet. Yin Xingqin and Yang Xiujuan are now being detained in a drug rehabilitation center because their experiences were publicized on the Internet.

No family members are allowed to visit the sentenced and detained practitioners.

3.4.55 Practitioners from Zhejiang Province arrested for going to Beijing to appeal

1. Zhang Yuwei, female, a Ph.D. student of the Medical Science Department of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
2. Guo Chunhuan, female, a Ph.D. student of the Ancient Literature Department of Zhejiang University
3. Hong Chang, a teacher in Guotai Foreign Arts School of Hangzhou City
4. Fu Weizhong
5. Zhang Jianbo, a graduate student of Zhejiang Industrial University
6. Pan Kaixiang, a teacher of the Psychology Department of Zhejiang University
7. Ms. Zhao, female, Falun Gong contact person in Lanxi City
8. Chen Jun, from Haiyan City
9. Yao Hong, female, from Yuyao City and others

Location of incidents: Hangzhou, Lanxi, Haiyan, Yuyao, in Zhejiang Province, China

At the beginning of November, Zhang Yuwei, a Ph.D. student of the Medical Science Department of Zhejiang University, and Guo Chunhuan, a Ph.D. student of the Ancient Literature Department of Zhejiang University, went to Beijing to appeal. They were under house arrest for about one month. Hong Chang, a teacher in the Guotai Foreign Arts School of Hangzhou City, was under house arrest for about two months. Practitioner Fu Weizhong was under house arrest for more than three months, for the exchange experiences with other practitioners from other places. Now he is out on bail awaiting trial. Zhang Jianbo, a graduate student of Zhejiang Industrial University, has been detained since the beginning of November and has not yet been released. Recently, he has been “officially” arrested and is going to be put on trial. Pan Kaixiang, a teacher of the Psychology Department of Zhejiang University, is now being detained for exchanging experiences with practitioners from Hangzhou City.

In Lanxi City, many practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. The key contact person Ms. Zhao has been detained and has already been “officially” arrested.

In Haiyan City, about 11 practitioners went to Beijing to appeal at the beginning of November. Among them, Cheng Qu has been sent to a labor camp for one year of forced labor. Three other practitioners have been “officially” arrested. The rest of them are also in custody.

In Yuyao City, at the beginning of November, Yao Hong and another practitioner went to Beijing to appeal and were escorted back with handcuffs and shackles. After 45 days of administrative detention, they were freed on December 26.

3.4.56 Practitioners from Sichuan province were given criminal detention to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal

1. Pan Zhengguang,
2. Pan Zhengguang’s wife
3. Pan Hu
4. Li All of them are Falun Gong practitioners from Nanjiang County, Sichuan Province.

Four Falun Gong practitioners from Sichuan province were given criminal detention.

Four Falun Gong practitioners from Nanjiang county of Sichuan province, Pan Zhengguang and his wife, Pan Hu, etc. were escorted back to their hometown from Beijing. To threaten other practitioners, the local police gave them criminal detention (according to Sichuan’s recent policy, they should only be given administrative detention).

In order to prevent more practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, the local government is preparing to give these four practitioners heavy sentence.

3.4.57 Four practitioners arrested for leaking the news that a detained Falun Gong practitioner had been tortured to death by police.

1. Liu Jinling, a woman from Zhaoyuan who was working in a transportation company in Shenzhen
2. Li Lanying
3. Chi Yunling
4. Chen Shihuan

According to a Hong Kong Human Rights and Democratic Movement Information Center, four Falun Gong practitioners in China were formally arrested last week by the authorities under the accusation of “illegally providing information to those outside China” by leaking the news that a detained Falun Gong practitioner had been tortured to death by police. They are facing heavy sentences.

According to the information center, on November 5, members of a special team from the police department of Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, went to Shenzhen and arrested Liu Jinling, a woman from Zhaoyuan who was working in a transportation company in Shenzhen, and took her back to Zhaoyuan. The police accused Liu Jinling of taking part in disclosing Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Jinhua’s death from police torture to people outside China. Besides Liu, Falun Gong practitioners in Zhaoyuan, Li Lanying, Chi Yunling, and Chen Shihuan are also in police custody for the same reason.

3.4.58 Practitioner sent to labor camp for practicing Falun Gong exercise in Tiananmen Square

Victim: Zhu Qingxi, a male Falun Gong practitioner and a former employee of the Hospital of Shengli Oil Field, Dongying, Shandong Province.

Zhu Qingxi, a Falun Gong practitioner and a former employee of the Hospital of Dongying Shengli Oil Field of Shandong province, has been sent to a labor camp in Luoyang of Henan province for 1.5 years forced labor because he practiced Falun Gong exercise on Tiananmen Square in October.

3.4.59 Falun Gong practitioners from Hebei Province sentenced to the labor camp because of going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong

Province
2. Yang Xuezhen, female, from Hebei Province
3. Zhang Shuzhen, female, from Hebei Province
4. Liu Caihua, female, from Hebei Province
5. Tian Guiying, female, from Hebei Province
6. Guo Liyun, female, from Hebei Province 7. Guo Lixia, female, from Hebei Province
8. Jia Xueyan, female, from Hebei Province
9. Duan Jingjing, female, from Hebei Province
10. He Jing, female, from Hebei Province
11. Xu Qiuzhen, female, from Hebei Province
12. Qiu Liying, female, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province
13. Zhou Ximeng, female, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province
14. Bai Yuzhi, female, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province They are all Falun Gong practitioners.

1. Qinghe Detention Center, Beijing, China
2. Kaiping Labor Camp, Tangshan, Hebei Province, China
3. A labor camp in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China

1) Liu Juhua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Tangshan City, has been sentenced to 3 years of labor education in the labor camp of Shijiazhuang City because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong three times.

On September 22, she and another fellow practitioner, Yang Xuezhen, were stopped by a police officer near the Beijing Nationality Restaurant. The officer asked them whether they were Falun Gong practitioners. As soon as they answered “Yes,” the officer started to search their bags.

Then, another four police officers came over and tried to take the Falun Dafa books away from Yang Xuezhen. She said, “I will jump out of the building and die if you take my books.” The police officers thus took her into a room and stripped her clothes off. Then they tied her hands together with her feet from the back. After that, they used the burning head of a cigarette to burn her hands and left her 8 to 9 scars. Then they used the lighter to smoke her nose. In the afternoon, they were taken to the Beijing Qinghe detention center. There, they were body-searched after they were ordered to take off all their clothes. They were then interrogated till 2 o’clock on the next morning and were not allowed to sleep. They were not allowed to talk to anybody either.

Three days later, they were sent to Kai-ping detention center in Tangshan City. A practitioner called Zhang Shuzhen was just escorted back from Beijing. A police officer shocked the acupuncture points all over her body using an electric club. The police beat them using big clubs, and stuffed dirty underwear and socks into their mouths.

2) Some Falun Gong practitioners in Kaiping Labor Camp in Tangshan City were insulted and tortured because they do not want to give up practicing Falun Gong. They were Liu Caihua, Liu Juhua, Yang Xuezhen, Tian Guiying, Guo Liyun, Guo Lixia, Jia Xueyan, Duan Jingjing, He Jing and Xu Qiuzhen.

On November 15, 4 practitioners including Liu Juhua was sent to the labor camp of Shijiazhuang City.

3) In Shijiazhuang, at least 9 practitioners have been “arrested according to law,” and 14 have been sent to labor camps.

According to an official newspaper, Qiu Liying was arrested on October 17 on Tiananmen Square when she was watching the flag-raising ceremony. This was the second time she went to appeal. She had been detained in the police station, detention center and labor camp. Now she is detained together with Zhou Ximeng, Bai Yuzhi and other practitioners. All of them have been given 3 years of labor education.

1. Zhu Ying
2. Wang Yuxian
3. Si Guifan
4. Dan Zhijia
5. Wu Naihuan
6. Wang Jun
7. Chen Fengzhen
8. Liu Ping
9. Ma Chao (two years old)
10. Cui Yaning (two and a half years old)
11. Dai Liguo
12. Yi Houmei
13. He Goujun
14. Jia Jinwen
15. Feng Wenguang
16. Shang Peng
17. Wang Zhifei

“Like all other practitioners, I felt indignant after Falun Gong was defamed as an ‘illegal organization’ by the government on July 22. Later, I decided to go to Beijing to appeal. After I arrived in Beijing on October 9, I learned that policemen from all over the country were waiting outside the appealing office for practitioners who went to appeal. Since we could not appeal, we thus exchanged experiences in parks. Later we moved to the suburb. We were having dinner together when several policemen came in and claimed that they were from Jinzhou. I felt very calm upon seeing them since I had not done anything wrong.

“After they took me to the Longfeng hotel, a dozen policemen started to interrogate me in a room. They asked me where a contact person had been. I told them that I really did not know where he had been. When they learned that I had gone to CCTV and People’s Daily office to appeal, they started to beat and kick me. . After they slapped me and was still unable to get anything out of me, they sank me into water. I stayed in the water for more than ten hours.

“I had not eaten anything in three days. On the fourth day, they asked me whether I would like to eat something. I felt grateful for their “kindness” because at least they feared that I might die of hunger. Later they transferred me to the police department of Huludao City. Before they left, they submerged my head into the water and I lost consciousness. They thus took me out of the water and kicked me until I re-gained my consciousness. They had tortured me like this for more than two hours until the local police department came to pick me up.

“After I was escorted back to the local detention center, four or five officers beat me using police clubs. When I went back to the cell, I found my whole body black and blue. I spent 14 miserable days like that in the detention center.

“I felt I was quite lucky compared to other fellow practitioners. They had suffered even more inhumane treatment such as being beaten, handcuffed, shocked by electric clubs, etc. For those who wrote the repentance letters under such torture, each of them was still fined 2 to 3 thousand Yuan.

“Up to now, a total of 35 practitioners in Jinzhou have been sent to labor camps without trials. Some of them are Zhu Ying, Wang Yuxian, Si Guifan, Dan Zhijia, Wu Naihuan, Wang Jun, Chen Fengzhen, Liu Ping and Ma Chao for 2 years, Cui Yaning for 2 and a half years, Dai Liguo, Yi Houmei, He Goujun, Jia Jinwen, Feng Wenguang, Shang Peng and Wang Zhifei for 3 years.”

Hong Kong Human Rights Information Center disclosed that a Macao resident Zhang Yuhui, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested in Guangzhou when he met some Falun Gong practitioners there. He was taken into custody on November 10 in the second detention center of Kaiping City of Guangdong province. He might be sentenced after Macao’s return to Chinese rule this month. This news reported by AFP and Reuters respectively.

1. Zhang Zhenggang
2. Sun Yingchun
3. Zhang Zhaoyun, female Above are all Falun Gong practitioners in Huaiyin City.

On the morning of November 24, the public security of Huaian City ransacked Zhang Zhenggang’s home. Later Zhang Zhenggang was taken to the department of public security. When Mr. Zhang was interrogated, he insisted that Falun Dafa is righteous. The police officers thus took turns to beat him. The interrogation lasted for a whole day. On that night, he was transferred to a hotel and detained there for three days. On the night of the third day, the police sent him back and he became under house arrest.

On November 25, Zhang Zhaoyuan, Zhang Zhenggang’s wife, was detained with the accusation of “interfering the implementation of law by practicing Falun Gong on the street”. She was detained in the Huaian detention center and forced to do hard labor.

Currently, Sun Yingchun has already been officially arrested. And this news had been posted on the local newspaper in Lianshui.

Beijing (AP) -- Human Right Group reported today, citing a speech given by a high level communist party official, that police in Beijing had detained 35,792 Falun Gong Practitioners during the four months from July to October.

Recently, a “Situation Report Meeting” was jointly held by Chinese Central Propaganda Department, Working Commission of Offices directly affiliated to Chinese Central Government, Working Commission of Chinese Central Offices, PLA General Political Department and Chinese Communist Party Beijing Committee on November 26th. About 3,000 government officials were in the meeting.

At the meeting, the Vice Premier Li Lanqing, gave a special report called “Several issues in fighting against Falun Gong” at the Great Hall of the People. With regard to the number of arrest of practitioners who went to appeal in Beijing (mainly around Tiananmen Square), the report confirmed of the following:

Date

Total Arrests

Daily Average

07/20-07/22

07/23-08/12

08/13-08/17

08/18-08/31

09/01-09/30

09/31-10/03

10/25-10/30

26003

2538

157

389

2400

4230

8667

121

705

3.4.65 Practitioners sentenced to re-education through forced Labor in Heilongjiang Province

On the front page of Daqing Daily November 13, 1999, titled: Eight die-hard Falun Gong practitioners sentenced to Re-education through Forced-labor; Eleven willing to break ties with Falun Gong released on the spot.

Content: Eight diehard Falun Gong practitioners have been sentenced respectively to one to three-year re-education through forced labor. Eleven people who were willing to break ties with Falun Gong were set free on the spot. These 8 people were secretly practicing Falun Gong after the State had outlawed Falun Gong. Some went so far as to practice and promote Falun Gong during their criminal detention. At the same time, the City’s Public Security Bureau has set free on the spot 11 criminally detained who have been transformed through education.

3.4.66 Four Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced to imprisonment in Hainan Province

November 12, 1999 by the Associated Press: Four Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced to imprisonment. This Friday Mainland China authorities will hold its first judicial hearing to bring Falun Gong key members to trial. Four Falun Gong practitioners in Hainan Province have been respectively sentenced to two to twelve years’ imprisonment after the hearings of Haikou Intermediate People’s Court. Song Yuesheng 12 years, Chen Yuan 7 years, Jiang Shilong 3 years, Liang Yuling 2 Years. The similar trials will be held nation-wide after UN Secretary Annan’s visit to China. It is estimated several hundred Falun Gong practitioners will be punished in the same way.

Since October 27, 1999, every public security sub-station in Wuhan City was assigned tasks to send out police in plain cloths to follow Falun Gong practitioners. As Falun Gong has been determined an evil religion, Falun Gong practitioners can be brought to trial publicly now. The Falun Gong practitioners who were sent back under escort from Beijing were divided into two groups, one group consists of the key members. These people were detained under the central control of the City’s Public Security Bureau (the location is unknown); another group consists of ordinary practitioners who were dealt with by sub-stations.

Some of these ordinary practitioners were detained in the sub-station; some of them were confined in hospitals. All were under public security’s surveillance. No one is allowed to approach them. The First Section and the Ninth Section (a department of criminal investigation) of The Public Security Bureau were assigned to deal with these cases exclusively. The First Section would interrogate the accused and try to make the practitioners break down mentally; The Ninth Section would try to extort a confession by torture. Some practitioners were kept handcuffed during their sleep to prevent them from escaping.

1. Cao Kai, a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Growth, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2. Zhang Fang, female, Kai Cao’s wife
3. Yang Jie, a male lawyer
4. Other two lawyers, also Falun Gong practitioners

Yesterday Cao Kai, a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute of Growth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his wife Zhang Fang were detained while appealing to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The day before yesterday, the same experience happened to a lawyer Mr. Yang Jie and another two lawyers. At present a strong police force is deployed at Tiananmen.

3.4.69 Practitioners from Beijing, Guangdong, Liaoning Provinces arrested and detained for their appeal

Deng Shaosong is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Maoming City, Guangdong Province. He was arrested in Beijing when he was there to appeal. He was then sent back to Maoming detention center. He was beaten unconsciousness by the police and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The diagnosis was “fractured skull and hemorrhaging in outer retina.” His left eye rim was black and swollen. He was not allowed any food. Currently, many Falun Dafa practitioners in Maoming are still being detained.

1. Wang Wei, female
2. Hu Shuzhi, female
3. Ning Guiying, female They are Falun Gong practitioners in Anshan, Liaoning Province, China.

Location of incident: Yuemingshan Detention Center, Anshan, Liaoning Province, China

In Anshan City, Falun Gong practitioners Wang Wei, Hu Shuzhi and Ning Guiying were arrested at home on September 24 because they were contacting people of Falun Dafa. They were detained in the local Yuemingshan Detention Center. They were hung up to a heating pipe and were beaten for a night because they all declared to continue to practice Falun Dafa. So far, Wang Wei has not been released yet.

Description: Around October 28, they were arrested on the Tiananmen Square because they were Falun Gong practitioners.

3.4.72 Everyday hundreds of practitioners from all over the country are detained for their appeal to the central government

Location of incident: Central government’s appeal office in Beijing, China

Everyday during the period after the National Day, there are a few hundred practitioners from all over the country who are detained while appealing to the central government’s appealing office. Especially on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week when the central government’s appealing office opens, more practitioners appeal to the Office.

Victim: Zhang Yanli, female, her home address: Erfo Village, Lanjia Section, Nanli District, Huludao, Liaoning Province. Now she stays in Beijing.

On the afternoon of September 4, I went to Beijing to appeal with other practitioners and to present the truth about Falun Dafa to the government. As we stopped by Sanhe City of Hebei Province and prepared to check into the hotels, the police took us to the police station at the transportation center for questioning. About half an hour later, four policemen came in. They slapped my face several times without even saying a word, then asked me if I was a Falun Dafa practitioner. I said “yes.” Then the four policemen started to beat me together. They pulled my hair and kicked me while beating me. They then pulled me up. One stepped on one of my feet while another policeman used a chair to crush my other foot, and then continued to beat me. They also pulled my hands upward over my back, and pushed my head down. Then they slapped my face and searched my body, and used abusive language to curse me. I asked, “Why do you beat me?” They said, “Because you are practitioner of Falun Dafa, we can do whatever we want to you. We have the right to beat you.” Later I found out they were from Public Security Bureau of Linghai City. They beat me for over two hours, then sent me to the Public Security Bureau in Sanhe City to continue their “interrogation.” I was forced to kneel down for half an hour at the beginning. Then I was escorted to the detention center of the Sanhe City Public Security Bureau. At that time, 13 practitioners were detained there including me. The next morning, when the Public Security Bureau of Nanli District of Huludao City sent vehicle to take us back, the detention center demanded 140 Yuan from everyone for so-called half a month detention fee. We were beaten again upon arriving at Nanli District Public Security Bureau and were scheduled to be detained for 15 days under the accusation of “Disturb Public Order.” On the 10th day, police came and asked us if we would continue our practice. After we said we would, they added 15 more days to our detention, and denounced us as taking part in “Illegal Organization.” After such repetitive beating, my neck became stiff; my face was swollen. Under-skin bleeding appeared at the inner side of both thighs and outside of the lower legs. My shoulder had bumpy bruises. The swelling on my neck and face lasted for 7 or 8 days. Only after a month did the pain from the scars on my legs started to alleviate.

Victims: Cheng Shuhua, female, Dong Zhiguo’s wife, work in Advertising Department of Jixi City Cable TV Station

On September 19, 1999, at 4:00pm, in an apartment in Beijing, I was arrested along with 15 other practitioners from Jilin Province, Shenyang, Shanxi Province, Ningxia Province, etc. We were officially taken into custody by Chaoyang Branch Office of Beijing Public Security Bureau in the early morning of September 20th. Before we were taken into prison, they searched our bodies, forced us to take off all our clothes and bend over, etc. I started a hunger strike on September 20. Since the time I was imprisoned until the afternoon of September 24, my hands had been handcuffed to my back all the time. I was forced to stand 13-14 hours without any place to lean on and without any chance to go to a restroom. The prison official verbally and physically abused me. On the afternoon of September 25, three policemen forced me to lie on the ground, forced my mouth open to push food into me and inserted tubes into my nose to my stomach. My nose bled due to my struggling. Blood spread over my clothes and on the wall. I started to eat on the 26th. I was sent home on September 29.

Victim: Wang Junhua, female, an official of Livestock Breeding Bureau of Mishan City

Wang Junhua was summoned to the city police department on September 24. She was asked if she would continue practicing Falun Gong. She said yes. Then she was detained without any paperwork.

Victim: Dong Zhiguo, 42 years of age, work in Security Department of Jixi City

Recently, many practitioners from Jinzhou went to Beijing in succession. Among them, some were sent back by the police. They are held at the detention center, waiting for punishment decisions. It is possible that they will be sentenced. There are about thirty to forty practitioners held in the detention center.

3.4.78 Shangdong Province---Trapping and arresting practitioners for the National Day Celebration Ceremony

At 18:00pm, all districts in the Shandong province uniformly began a massive trapping and arresting of Falun Dafa practitioners who insisted on continuing their practices.

Tens of practitioners were allured to secret jails. An official declared openly: in order to ensure an unruffled National Day Celebration Ceremony, stubborn practitioners will be detained and their freedom will be restricted. These practitioners will be forbidden to contact the outside world and they must be intensively reeducated and reformed. The term of detention is temporarily set to be one month. By the end of that time, those who refuse to change their minds will be detained for an unspecified time. In addition, from now on, this kind of measure will be taken for each holiday.

All practice sites are taken over by the policemen. No one is allowed to practice in the park.

Some practitioners of Shanghai Jiaotong University went to Wantiguan for group exercise. The whereabouts of two are unknown

In April, a Tianjin magazine published an article in which He Zhouxiu attacked Falun Gong with vicious slander. On April 19, 50 Falun Gong practitioners went to the editorial office to clarify the facts and shared their own experience with the staff. They also requested that the magazine retract the original article and offer an apology in the following issue. The staff at the editorial office met with the practitioners but refused to acknowledge their mistake. By April 21, more than 2,000 practitioners were quietly reading “Zhuan Falun” outside the editorial office, waiting to meet with the staff. A few practitioners met with the staff and explained, “the article is dishonest, unethical and violates the government’s policy on Qigong.” The editorial office, however, refused to acknowledge its mistake and dismissed the practitioners. On April 23, the public security bureau began to interfere and started to use violence against practitioners. Four policemen literally dragged away an elderly woman. The police also arrested and beat up the younger practitioners (two practitioners were detained for more than 30 hours from 6:00pm on April 23 till midnight of April 24). Falun Gong practitioners had no choice but to appeal to the city government. They gathered peacefully and petitioned the city government to release the detained practitioners and guarantee their safety. The city government refused to meet with them and mobilize police to send them away. The Tianjin police continued to illegally arrest and detain practitioners. By April 24, Tianjin police had already illegally detained 45 practitioners. Practitioners continued to appeal to the city government on April 25.