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4.5 Other Persecutions/Mistreatment
4.5.1 Local authorities ransacked practitioners’ homes
Message received: March 2, 2000
Victims:
1. Liu Bohui
2. Chuncai
Location of incident: Xiong County, Hebei Province, China
Description:
Ms. Liu Bohui and Ms. Chuncai, practitioners from Zhanggang Village of Xiong County, Hebei Province, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They got arrested and escorted back to their hometown on February 28. The village government thus sent some people to ransack their homes. All their valuable personal belongings including TV, Washer, and Gas-stove etc. were confiscated. Moreover, their rice reserve was also confiscated. There are non-practitioners in both families. They also attempted to arrest Ms. Liu Bohui’s husband but he escaped. Ms. Chuncai has two teenager children at home and one is ill. Their lives have been disturbed to a great extent.
4.5.2 “Transforming” practitioners by cutting off water and power supplies
Message received: March 2, 2000
Victims:
1. Wang Shulan
2. Jing Jichen
3. Zhang Jingyun
4. Yue Changdao
Location of incident: Pinggu County, China
Description:
There are not many practitioners in the Xiaoruzi Village of Dahuashan Town of Pinggu County. The local practitioner Wang Shulan has been detained for one month because of her Falun Gong practice. The village government finally started to “transform” those determined practitioners by cutting off their water and power supplies. The families of three practitioners Jing Jichen, Zhang Jingyun and Yue Changdao have been cut off water and power supplies since February 5. They have to borrow water and use candles. The village officials said their water and power supplies would be restored as long as they promise that they would not practice Falun Gong. The officials even threatened the practitioners that their family members could be expelled from school and fired from work.
4.5.3 “Transformation Class” ran out of “Educational Materials”
Message received: February 25, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Chengdu City
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
The 18 practitioners in the “transformation class” held in the Chaidianzi of Jinniu district of Chengdu City reported by Minghui Net on February 21 were released on February 15. After one day, they were again detained in the Yinmenkou police station for further “transformation”. Now the police station has run out of “educational materials” for “transforming” them, but the police still demand them to go to the police station every morning 9:00am and leave 6:00pm. They would not be released from the “transformation class” until they promised that they would not practice Falun Gong, not go to appeal, and not gather with other fellow practitioners. The family members and the workplaces of these practitioners have been exhausted by the police.
4.5.4 Police in Meizhou City interfered with group practice
Message received: February 21, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Meizhou, Guangdong Province, China
Description:
At 9:00am on February 9, about 2,000 practitioners from Meizhou City in Guangdong Province gathered in the Central Park of Meizhou City attempting to practice Falun Gong exercises together. There were crowds of people on the street. However, the police officers had already started to guard the street since the very early morning, so practitioners were not able to do the exercises. Some practitioners were arrested.
4.5.5 Beijing government officers demand tourists to curse Falun Dafa and its founder
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
The Beijing government officers are demanding tourists to Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen and Qianmen etc. to curse Falun Dafa and its founder. Such behavior of these uniformed state employees is tarnishing the image of the state.
A regional newspaper in China claimed that 98.7% of local practitioners had given up Falun Gong after being “educated”. But in fact, only a few of them said that they would give up Falun Gong, while the vast majority of them are still continuing their cultivation practice of Falun Gong.
At present, policemen require detained practitioners to pay a bail ranging from several thousand Yuan to 20,000 Yuan (two years’ salary of an average worker in China). This has made life even tougher for practitioners who are already in poverty. We appeal to the government agencies of concern to stop doing that.
4.5.6 Practitioners arrested for selling Falun Gong books and exchanging experiences with other practitioners
Message received: February 7, 2000
Victims:
1. Tan Mimi, Changsha, Hunan Province
2. Feng Fei, Changsha, Hunan Province
3. Chen Yang, male, Changsha, Hunan Province
4. Cao Zhiming, male, Changsha, Hunan
Province
5. Jiang Liying, female, Changsha, Hunan
Province
Location of incident: Changsha, Hunan Province
Description:
Practitioners from Changsha City, Tan Mimi and Feng Fei, have been detained since last August and September, for selling Falun Dafa books, as well as 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, they showed up in 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 practitioners. 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.
4.5.7 Head and political instructor removed from post for failing to prevent practitioners from going to appeal
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victims: Head and the political instructor of the Niushikou police station
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
The head and the political instructor of the Niushikou police station of Chengdu were removed from their posts and will be punished by high authorities because they failed to prevent local practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. According to sources, the authorities hope that pressuring different levels of government officials will enable them to intensify its persecutions against Falun Gong.
4.5.8 Practitioner detained again after release Practitioner detained again after release
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victim: Zhang Xiaoying, female
Location of incident: Sichuan Province
Description:
Only a few days after being released from 15 days of detention for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, Zhang Xiaoying (a Falun Gong practitioner), an employee of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu, was taken to the police station by the security section of her workplace. The police officer asked her whether she would continue to practice Falun Gong, and 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.”
4.5.9 Practitioners required to attend the “transformation education” class
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners from Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
All Falun Gong practitioners living close to Wuguiqiao of Chengdu City were required to attend the “transformation education” class held at the local police station. Practitioners were required to bring their living utensils and could not leave the police station 24 hours a day. They have not met their family members for many days. A practitioner’s son-in-law who is a soldier was threatened by the police station that if he could not make his mother-in-law give up Falun Gong, the police station would ask the army authorities to discharge him and send him back to his hometown. Those who had gone to Beijing to appeal got the yearly bonuses for their family members and relatives revoked by their villages.
4.5.10 Professor sentenced with three years of forced labor “education”
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victim: Hong Jirong
Location of incident: Sichuan Province
Description:
Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Hong Jirong, who was a professor of Sichuan University, was sentenced with three years of forced labor “education”, and was expelled from the Communist Party shortly afterwards.
4.5.11 Practitioner forced to leave his home to avoid trouble
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victim: Mr. Wang
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Mr. Wang was living in the residential area of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu. After being reported by his neighbor, his son was sentenced to one and half years of forced labor education and his wife had to attend the “transformation class” held by the police station for many days. In order to avoid more trouble, he had to move to another place far away from his workplace.
4.5.12 Violation of the Constitution: Official Announcement to All Villagers
Message received: February 3, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitoners
Location of incident: Xiaojia Village, Qingdao, Shandong Province
Description: [The following is an announcement posted by the Committee of Xiaojia Village.]
Announcement to All Villagers
Comrade Villagers,
Falun Gong “organization” has been charged with the crime of “overturning the state power” by the authorities, and whoever refuses to give up Falun Gong will be deemed as a criminal. According to the principle set by the authorities, from now on, any Falun Gong practitioner who has gone out of town to appeal to any govern-mental department beyond the township and to make trouble will be fined 10,000 Yuan after being escorted back by the police. His/Her water supply, electricity and telephone will be cut off. All his/her ID certificates will be confiscated too. He/She will be severely punished by the law.
All backbone members of Falun Gong must write a pledge of breaking all ties with XXX and Falun Gong, turn in their ID cards and pay a deposit of 5,000 Yuan. The township government will hold a class for those who refuse to break ties with the Falun Gong “organization” until they write the pledge and pay the deposit in full.
If one refuses to break ties with Falun Gong, the police department will confiscate all his/her certificates issued by the state. Moreover, the village will not issue any certificates to him/her, or provide any service. All his/her immediate family members will be expelled from school, kindergarten, or state-run workplace until he/she breaks ties with Falun Gong.
Committee of Xiaojia Village
December 18, 1999
With Official Seal
Picture of the original copy of the announcement.
4.5.13 Three-year-old child taken onto a police van
Message received: January 25, 2000
Victims: A Falun Dafa practitioner with his wife and four children, one of the kids is 3 years old
Location of incident: Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Description:
In November 1999, a practitioner from Guangdong Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa with his wife and four children. When they were doing sitting meditation on Tiananmen Square, the police carried their 3-year-old child onto the police van. Up to now, the whereabouts of this 3-year-old child is unknown. The parents are still looking for their child.
4.5.14 Seven practitioners arrested for having a conversation with some local practitioners
Message received: January 16, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Description:
On December 19 of 1999, seven practitioners from Guangzhou City were arrested in Zhongshan City when they were having a conversation with some local practitioners. The next day, they were sent back to Guangzhou and have been detained ever since.
4.5.15 China draws up blacklist of Falun Gong practitioners abroad
Message received: January 5, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners living abroad
Location of incident:
Description:
(Agence France Presse) China has drawn up a black list of 1,000 Chinese followers of the banned Falun Gong mystical sect living abroad, a Hong Kong-based rights group said Wednesday. “The Chinese government has set up a special service in charge of drawing up a black list of Falun Gong members living abroad to stop them returning to China,” the Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said in a statement.
4.5.16 Police officers dismissed or suspended from work for failing to prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal
Message received: January 2, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
The chief police officers of the Huangwan Street police station and other police stations were either dismissed or suspended from their work because they were not able to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal. The complaints from the police officers are heard everywhere in Chengdu.
4.5.17 Practitioners detained or sent to labor camps for appealing
Message received: December 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Since the Chinese government defamed Falun Gong as a “cult” on October 27th, Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua North District, Chengdu, who went to appeal to the central government have been suffering brutal persecutions and intensive surveillance from local police stations and their workplaces. Those innocent practitioners who went to appeal were detained or sent to labor camps without trial under groundless accusations, such as “sabotaging social stability”, “engaging in superstitions” etc. In the small district of Xinhua alone, dozens of practitioners were being detained.
4.5.18 Practitioners under intense surveillance
Message received: December 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Factory of Seamless Steel Pipes, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Practitioners in the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipes are under intense surveillance. The workplaces, residential committees, and heads of residential buildings were all assigned tasks to monitor Falun Gong practitioners. Local police stations have formed “No. 1 Offices” to deal with Falun Gong practitioners, and the workplaces have formed “special teams for handling the Falun Gong problem” that are headed by the secretaries of local branches of the communist party. They are treating the crackdown on Falun Gong as their most important political duties. The Chengdu Factory of Fittings has even posted sentries in front of residential buildings, and Falun Gong practitioners are ordered to report even they want to go out to buy some groceries.
4.5.19 Practitioners threatened with labor “education” if refuse to denounce Falun Gong
Message received: December 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
When it is found out that a practitioner is still practicing Falun Gong, he or she will be fired or his or her salary will be suspended. Five practitioners in the Factory of Steel Pipes were threatened with labor “edu-cation” if they refused to denounce Falun Gong. The retirees will have their pensions cut off if they are found to practice Falun Gong.
4.5.20 Practitioner’s ID card confiscated to prevent them from going to Beijing
Message received: December 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Chengdu, Sichuan Province Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
To prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, a local police station in Niushikou, Chengdu City confiscated the ID cards of local practitioners which are required for travel, and ordered each practitioner to turn in two photos, etc.
4.5.21 Falun Gong crackdown spreads to homes
Message received: November 19, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Daqing, Heilongjiang Province
Location of incident: Daqing, Heilongjiang Province
Description:
(Agence France Presse) Eight followers of Falun Gong have been sentenced to forced labor in China for practicing the banned group’s meditation exercises at home, a human rights group said Friday. The cases indicated Chinese authorities were stepping up pressure on the sect, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said. The eight people -- all residents of Daqing City in the northernmost province of Heilongjiang -- on Monday were sent to Shuanghe Ranch in the province’s city of Qiqihar, one of the harshest labor camps in the country, the information center said. They were ordered to serve terms of one to three years.
4.5.22 Foreign language teacher arrested on suspicion of her taking part in the press conference
Message received: November 11, 1999
Victim: Lei Xiaoting, female
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
Lei Xiaoting, a Foreign Language teacher at the University of Industry, was arrested from her hostel at dawn on November 5. According to the School Safety Office, the police arrested her on suspicion of taking part in the press conference on October 28. She was accused of being an interpreter for foreign correspondents. While in detention, even her parents were not allowed to see her.
4.5.23 Practitioner’s child sent to orphanage after divorce
Message received: November 11, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province
Description:
A husband and wife have divorced, with custody of the child given to one of the parents. However, because this parent has been convicted of being a Falun Gong practitioner, the child has been sent to an orphanage instead of going to the other parent!
4.5.24 Families required to pressure Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs; large fines levied, brutal beatings from criminals
Message received: November 11, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Hebei Province
Description:
In Hebei province, several hundred Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in the Xinji police station and other places since October 27. Some were sent back from Beijing and some were arrested at their homes. Their families had not been allowed to visit them until a few days ago. The police required their families to persuade them to give up Falun Gong, to write a pledge promising not to practice Falun Gong anymore and to leave their thumbprints. Also, a fine of 2,600 Yuan was levied. Only after agreeing to the above would they be released. The police asked criminals to beat Falun Gong practitioners. Their sentences would be reduced if they beat Falun Gong practitioners. Some practitioners were almost beaten to death by these criminals in the detention center. Some police banged their heads against the walls.
4.5.25 Practitioners detained for refusing to turn in ID cards and write pledge
Message received: November 6, 1999
Victims: Zhang Yulan and other practitioners
Location of incident: Mishan City
Description:
Mishan City police department confiscated the ID cards of many Falun Gong practitioners before October 1st for fear of practitioners going to Beijing to appeal. They also required Falun Gong practitioners to write a pledge that they would not practice Falun Gong and not go to appeal. About 20 practitioners including Ms. Zhang Yulan, 54 years of age, have been detained without any legal formalities because they refused to turn in their ID cards and to write the pledge. If they want to get out, they must denounce Falun Gong and the founder of Falun Gong, and then pay 3,000 Yuan as a deposit. Because these practitioners do not want to say things against their conscience, they have yet to be released. After October 25, 3 more practitioners were arrested because they refused to give up Falun Gong.
4.5.26 Hundreds of practitioners were arrested without any reason
Message received: October 31, 1999
Victims: 200 Practitioners
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
At present the Changchun Daguang detention center has close to 200 practitioners under detention. Some of them were recently repatriated from Beijing, and others were arrested locally without any reason. Most have served almost up to the maximum period of allowed detention by law, but because of fear that they will again go to Beijing to appeal, their period of detention has been arbitrarily extended. Some of those labeled as detained under “severe circumstances” were already taken to prison under other excuses for trial and re-education. They are not allowed to be visited by family members while criminals still have that privilege!
4.5.27 Practitioners arrested for practice of Falun Gong
Message received: October 25, 1999
Victims:
1. Lin Lan
2. Xu Qiuxia
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
On the morning of October 26, at around 4:30am, Beijing practitioner Lin Lan, Xu Qiuxia and two others were arrested by the Xiangheyuan police while they practiced in public and were detained. During this period, police in the Northeast regions were conducting raids on practitioners’ homes and arresting them. Those who said that they would continue the practice were immediately arrested and those who replied negatively were required to write a letter of guarantee on the spot.
4.5.28 Four hundred practitioners arrested for practicing Falun Gong
Message received: October 25, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
At the Balipu detention center there were more than 400 detained practitioners. With the exception of about 30 of them, the rest went on a hunger strike, the longest for 7 days and the shortest 3 days. Because they feared practitioners dying during detention, the police have made it a point to release detainees after 15 days. After a few days the police will again arrest those practitioners without rhyme or reason. At one detention center, there are more than 400 detained practitioners and prisons are beginning to release criminals to make space for detained practitioners. Changchun prison, the Nacortic Rehabilitation Center, and Balipu Detention Center are full of detained Falun Gong practitioners, the total number is not yet clear.
4.5.29 Practitioners arrested for protest of the new legislation for dealing more harsh-ly with Falun Gong
Message received: October 24, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
Several dozens of Falun Gong practitioners gathered at Tiananmen Square on the 25th to protest the imminent passing of legislation to deal more harshly with Falun Gong. They were all arrested by the Public Security Department.
4.5.30 Practitioners detained to prevent them from going to Beijing
Message received: October 24, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
Before October 1st, the City of Changchun for fear of practitioners going to Beijing to appeal, unreasonably and illegally detained many Falun Gong practitioners.
4.5.31 Twenty practitioners arrested for attending a Falun Gong discussion meeting
Message received: October 21, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Institute of higher learning, Beijing
Description:
On October 21, at an institute of higher learning, a Dafa discussion meeting was organized. About sixty or seventy people from all over the country and Japan came to attend. Just at the close of the meeting the police arrived. Most of the practitioners promptly left and only about 20 were arrested.
4.5.32 Thirty-four practitioners arrested for attending a Falun Gong discussion meeting
Message received: October 21, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Tsinghua University, Beijing
Description:
On October 21 at noon, amongst some trees near the Tsinghua University Swimming Pool West practitioners held a discussion meeting. There were practitioners from Beijing, outside the capital, as well as local practitioners. At the conclusion of the meeting, police from the local station suddenly appeared. 34 practitioners were arrested, including 14 students from the University. They were handcuffed and taken away to the police station where they were physically abused.
4.5.33 Seven practitioners arrested for practicing in the park
Message received: October 21, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
Seven practitioners were arrested by Public Security Department while practicing at the Xin Hua Park, and their whereabouts are still not known.
4.5.34 Five hundred practitioners arrested in various places
Message received: October 21, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Qinghua University, Beijing
Description:
Hong Kong China Human Rights Information Center revealed information from reliable sources that recently practitioners in Mainland China who openly practice Falun Gong as a protest are increasing in numbers. The retaliation by the Chinese authorities is also getting more severe. In this month alone, in major cities like Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Jinzhou, Changchun, Shenyang, Changsha, Harbin, and Wuhan, about 500 practitioners were arrested in succession.
4.5.35 Practitioners’ right of appealing is deprived
Message received: October 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Central Committee Appeal Office and the State Council Appeal Office, Beijing, China Description:
On October 18, several hundred practitioners went to the Central Committee Appeal Office and the State Council Appeal Office to appeal. They were not received by officials from the State Council but by policemen from the Beijing police department. The police interrogated the practitioners who were appealing and recorded the interrogation. After that, the police asked them to sign their names and leave their fingerprints. As a matter of fact, the police were preparing a file for each practitioner who came to appeal. Practitioners were discouraged from filling in the forms for their appeal in detail. The police even said, “Don’t write too much. It is useless no matter how much you write.”
It is the right of every citizen, as indicated within the Chinese constitution, to appeal to the authorities. The officials from the State Council are responsible for receiving those who come to appeal. The opinions of people should be directly reported to the central authorities. People should also have the freedom to visit the appeal office. But in reality, a lot of policemen from different places are now standing outside the appeal offices. As soon as they find their local practitioners, they will immediately arrest them. Those who manage to enter the appeal office will be detained in the office and then they will be taken back to their hometowns by their local police or agents in Beijing. The basic right of the citizens have been completely taken away.
4.5.36 Practitioners from Dongying were arrested
Message received: October 18, 1999
Victim: Zhou Tianrong
Location of incident: Dongying, Shandong Province
Description:
Dongying, Shandong Province, Shengli Oil Field Medical Center practitioner Zhou Tian Rong and ten others went to Beijing on October 16 to appeal and were arrested on October 17. Their present whereabouts are unknown.
4.5.37 Practitioners from Shenzhen were arrested
Message received: October 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Shenzhen, Guangdong province
Description:
At the dawn of October 15, while practicing in a group at the Shenzhen Shekouzhaoshang North practice site, 8 practitioners were arrested. Two of them will be detained for 15 days the rest do not know their fate yet.
4.5.38 Practitioners from Chengdu were arrested
Message received: October 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
On October 13, at various public parks in Chengdu, the practitioners resumed group exercise and about 80 were arrested and detained illegally. They were isolated and detained for 15 days. Most of them were sent to the Chengdu suburban county of Hua Zhen for further detention.
4.5.39 Practitioners from Beijing were arrested
Message received: October 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
On the 18th of October, at the Beijing Office, the National Office and the Appeal Office there were police vehicles waiting to arrest practitioners. Several practitioners who went to those places to appeal were arrested even before they entered the buildings and put into the vehicles. They did not even have the right to speak!
4.5.40 Practitioners thrown into police cars while petitioning to the government
Message received: October 17, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing
Location of incident: Central Appeal Office in Beijing, China
Description:
The Central Appeal Office was closed on October 16 and October 17 when some Falun Dafa practitioners went there to appeal. On October 18, several hundred practitioners went to the Central Committee Appeal Office and the State Council Appeal Office to appeal. They were all treated quite harshly. There were police cars waiting outside the Appeals Offices. Practitioners from outside Beijing were thrown into police cars before they could enter the door of the Appeals Office. Practitioners from Beijing would be taken directly to their local detention centers for interrogation and detention. Practitioners have been deprived of their right to appeal.
4.5.41 Practitioner couple arrested and sentenced to one year of labor education
Victims:
1. Wang Yuxiang
2. Sun Shufeng, female
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
Wang Yuxiang and Sun Shufeng, who are a couple, went to Beijing to appeal in September. The police sent them back to Changchun before they could appeal. They were detained until October 8. On October 13, Wang Yuxiang was arrested again and was sentenced to one year of labor education. On October 15, Sun Shufeng was also arrested and received the same sentence. In Changchun, the government is pressuring Falun Gong practitioners by appointing their family members as guarantors. Namely, if a practitioner goes to Beijing to appeal, his guarantor will lose their job or be expelled from school.
4.5.42 Practitioner detained, phone under full control by the authorities
Message received: October 3, 1999
Victim: Jiang Xiaojun
Location of incident: Hainan Province
Description:
Hainan Province Assistant Jiang Xiaojun has been imprisoned at the Haikou prison, her husband put under custodial supervision, their telephone conversations monitored, etc. They are under full control of the authorities.
4.5.43 Students, teachers, old couple detained for appealing
Message received: September 30, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners in Changchun
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
On September 25, the Changchun police started to visit and arrest practitioners from a list of practitioners they obtained by various means.
According to a police source, Jilin province has issued an irrevocable order that after a period of 11 weeks, any region found with Falun Gong practitioners involved in appealing will attract punishment for the leaders of that district. The order which came from a high level states, “Any region with 3 Falun Gong practitioners going to appeal in Beijing will receive repatriated practitioners personally by the regional secretary, and if any region has 5 practitioners sent back from Beijing then they shall be received by the mayor, and if the number exceeds 5, then the provincial committee secretary shall proceed to the Central Committee to make self-criticism.” On September 30, 1999, the situation reached a critical point when many practitioners were arrested. A practitioner of three years rang up all the practitioners he knew and only managed to contact one person. Only then did he realize that most of his co-practitioners have already been arrested!
Amongst those arrested was a couple in their seventies, some students who were taken straight from their schools, university students, and some teachers taken while they were in class. According to reliable sources, all Changchun Chinese Medical College practitioners were arrested. The police coupled threats with promises in their raids and did not care about obeying the law. There is no way the number of arrests could be accounted for. Many locations have already been prepared to house those arrested.
4.5.44 Practitioner threatened and under surveillance
Message received: September 26, 1999
Victim: Luo Hui, currently in Beijing, Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun, Jilin Province.
Location of incident: Luo Hui’s home in Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Description
The following is a statement by Luo Hui
At 7:00pm on September 26, local police came to my home. They told me that every Falun Dafa practitioner had to be recorded, and emphasized that no one was allowed to practice even at home. When I mentioned that both the “Six rules” issued by the Ministry of Public Security and the announcement by the central government did not have this regulation, the policeman said he could not explain it, but it is a regulation uniformly passed down through the Changchun City government. They also said that “any citizen who expresses willingness to continue Falun Dafa practice will be scrutinized, and will be taken into custody to take part in uniform political study; if anyone says he will not give up the practice now, he will be detained for 15 days.” He stressed that I was not allowed to go to Beijing, and took my citizen’s ID for “safe-keeping for me.” He demanded that I must call him once a day, and I had to inform him if I planned to go out of town for any reason. He warned me that “whoever goes to Beijing to appeal will be detained upon returning.”
4.5.45 Practitioners arrested for telling the truth
Message received: September 26, 1999
Victims:
1. Qiu Liying
2. Ding Yan
3. Wu Huiqing
Location of incident: Shijiazhuang of Hebei Province
Description:
Shijiazhuang Oil Refinery worker Qiu Liying was arrested and detained at the Liuliqiao police station and repatriated to Shijiazhuang Public Security Department together with six other practitioners. She was arrested because she went to tell the truth about Falun Gong to the leaders in Beijing. She reckons that she merely wanted to let the leaders in Beijing know the truth about Falun Gong, and is not in any way against the Constitution. However, she was still arrested by the Public Security Department. She decided to go on a hunger strike as a means of protest and to regain her personal freedom. On September 26, Qiu Liying had already been on a hunger strike for 10 days and nights. The Public Security Department became concerned that a life may be lost while in their custody, but on the other hand was still afraid she might return to Beijing to appeal, quickly passed the buck to the local unit to supervise Qiu Liying! She insisted that if she were not given her freedom she will continue with the hunger strike. As of today, she is still on a hunger strike.
At the same time, those repatriated from Beijing, Ding Yan, Wu Huiqing, after hunger striking for 5 days, were quickly handed over to their local units and their whereabouts are not known.
4.5.46 Seventeen practitioners detained without any reason
Message received: September 24, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Panjin, Liaoning Province, Dongying, Shandong Province
Description:
On the night of September 23, seventeen practitioners were, without any reason, detained in city of Panjin in Liaoning province.
4.5.47 Practitioners asked to drop their work for questioning and detention
Message received: September 23, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners in Changchun
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
Recently, many Changchun Falun Gong practitioners have been tracked down and arrested. Some were asked to drop their work and go to the police station for questioning and were arrested. On this occasion they were not sent to the detention center but straight to prison. Some people say those arrested will remain in prison for at least six months. In some districts of Changchun practitioners found doing exercise even at home would be imprisoned without trial.
4.5.48 Practitioners under surveillance 24 hours a day
Message received: September 22, 1999
Victim: Men Jiting, female
Location of incident: Dalian, Liaoning Province
Description:
Men Jiting, whose whole family are Falun Gong practitioners, returned from Beijing on July 22 with her daughter. Starting on July 22, civil police spoke with them on an average of once a day, or more usually by phone questioning the whereabouts of the daughter. The phone calls persisted even after 1 am. Her family members have been under surveillance 24 hours a day. She was treated with rough and disgusting behaviors by the police during questioning. On August 30, her son was arrested while practicing Falun Gong. The chief of police from the district visited the family home, removed about 30 pieces of cushions used during practice sessions and burnt them on a nearby roadside.
4.5.49 Classes conducted to dissuade practitioners from practicing Falun Gong
Message received: September 22, 1999
Victims: Practitioners in Shengli Oil Field
Location of incident: Dongying, Shandong Province
Description:
After July 20, in the city of Dongying in Shandong Province, the Shengli Oil Field commenced the “oneteach-one” or “many-teach-one” program to conduct classes for Falun Gong practitioners hoping to dissuade them from the practice of Falun Gong. Those in the organization who are unable to persuade the practitioners to leave Falun Gong are severely dealt with.
4.5.50 Practitioner arrested while practicing at home
Message received: September 21, 1999
Victims: Chen Shuxian, female, 61, Falun Gong practitioner. Address: Judeli 1, West district, Beijing.
Location of incident: Chen Shuxian’s home, Beijing, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Chen Shuxian.
September 21, 1999, when I was practicing at home, police broke into my home and confiscated my audio tapes and cassette players used for my practice. I was then questioned in the police station.
4.5.51 Three hundred practitioners arrested in regional areas
Message received: September 19, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: China
Description:
(From Duo Wei News) Central Agency reporter Manna Wang, Hong Kong. Because of the October 1 National Day celebrations, to preserve social stability, the severe crackdown of Falun Gong practitioners performing their exercises in public have been strictly prohibited. According to the Hong Kong China Human Rights Center, ten practitioners in Changsha have been arrested and their whereabouts is not known. The Center pointed out that in the past week, the regional areas have arrested at least 300 practitioners each. Because the practitioners persisted in their exercise at the police stations they were severely assaulted and abused.
The Center appealed to international society to pay close attention to the Mainland China Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted, and warned Communist China that if the law-abiding citizens are unscrupulously persecuted, then after an accumulation of conflict, they are inviting a case of “officials compelling the citizens to rebel”.
4.5.52 Illegal search of Falun Gong practitioners
Message received: September 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Description:
At 12 midnight, 8 or 9 Guangzhou Public Security personnel produced a “search warrant” and entered the home of a practitioner and interrogated the couple till 5:00am. They removed all the Dafa books, the computer, display unit and printer, personal dairy, phone numbers record book, hand held phone unit from the house illegally.
4.5.53 Illegal detention of Falun Gong practitioners
Message received: September 18, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Nanchang, Jiangxi Province
Description:
About 10:00pm, Dong Hu Public Security Department Branch Civil Police and Nanchang City Public Security Political Protection Division personnel illegally arrested 20 practitioners from the Qing San Hu district, some of them being from elsewhere.
4.5.54 Mail boxes of practitioners under the control of the Public Security Department
Message received: September 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: China
Description:
In Mainland China, many practitioners found their post boxes under the control of the Public Security Department. They were unaware of this until they found false communications from Mr. Li HongZhi planted there.
4.5.55 More than 3,000 practitioners detained
Message received: September 10, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
More than 3,000 practitioners have already been arrested by the Beijing authorities. Most were from other cities on a visit to Beijing. The Public Security personnel have been to hotels to interrogate visitors to the city and any one with any semblance of being a Falun Gong practitioner is immediately arrested.
Many practitioners and contact persons in Beijing have been detained and brought to police stations for interrogation and particulars recorded within their reports. Quite a number of them have been detained for at least a day before being released.
4.5.56 More than 60 practitioners on hunger strike
Message received: September 7, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
At the Beijing Changping Seven Mile Channel detention center, more than 60 practitioners are on hunger strike. As of the 17th, at least 3 persons have been on hunger strike for more than 10 days, while most have persisted for more than 8 or 9 days.
4.5.57 Practitioners supervised closely by local police
Message received: September 7, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Yantai, Shandong Province
Description:
On the night of September 8, police went to various homes of practitioners to search for evidence and materials such as any plans for Falun Gong activities, any telephone conversations with other practitioners, what they are doing, etc. Those released since their arrest from July 22 and 23 are closely supervised and their movements tailed. They have to report all their movements to the police. All the local police are supervising Falun Gong practitioners in all areas, even going to the extent of getting information from practitioners under false pretences. This is in severe violation of the human rights and civil liberty of every practitioner. They cannot even visit friends or relatives lest they inadvertently involve them in this persecution.
4.5.58 Practitioner detained in Shenzhen
Message received: September 6, 1999 Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners Location of incident: Shenzhen, Guangdong province
Description:
The person responsible for the Shenzhen practice site and his wife were arrested on September 9 by the Public Security Department.
4.5.59 Police intensified checking for practitioners on buses and trains
Message received: September 2, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from various places in China
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
As October 1 was approaching, the police checked more closely for Falun Gong practitioners coming to Beijing. In Beijing, many tenants were asked to show their temporary living permits and many people did not dare to rent houses to Falun Gong practitioners. There were policemen or plain clothes policemen on buses and trains checking for Falun Gong practitioners. On August 30, a bus going from Shandong Province to Beijing was checked 5 times. Three old female practitioners were stopped and checked in Dezhou, they were probably sent back to their home towns by force.
4.5.60 Practitioner charged by the police
Message received: August 28, 1999
Victim: An old lady
Location of incident:
Description:
An old lady practitioner told the police, “You said our Dafa practitioners and our teacher are not good. Our teacher never charged us a penny but you charged us so much money.” It looks like the police were taking this opportunity to make a good fortune.
(To be continued)
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