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Chapter 8 Women, Children, and the Elderly
TABLE OF CONTENTS
8.1 WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND THE ELDERLY
8.1.1 Daqingjia Township Government tortured Falun Gong practitioners from January 1 to 3
8.1.2 Falun Gong practitioners tortured in detention, sentenced for up to two years of forced labor "education" 232
8.1.3 Practitioners arrested when spreading Falun Gong
8.1.4 Police force-fed Wang Xian with her hands and feet manacled during her hunger strike
8.1.5 Practitioners from oil plant arrested for practicing exercises in a part and imposed stiff fines
8.1.6 A practitioner sentenced with one year of forced labor "education" for reading Zhuan Falun
8.1.7 A first rank police supervisor "treated" in Nanjing Mental Hospital
8.1.8 Practitioners arrested by the head of village, beaten up and denied access to the toilet
8.1.9 Falun Gong practitioners were put on trial
8.1.10 Mother of a Ph.D. student abused in a Mental Hospital in China
8.1.11 Stripped of clothes and forced to sleep on a cold concrete floor
8.1.12 Severe physical abuses including exposure to cold
8.1.13 Key contact person of Falun Gong in Dalian City secretly sentenced to 9 years in jail
8.1.14 Practitioners in the city of Shijiazhuang were sentenced
8.1.15 Practitioners in Chengdu City were sentenced before Chinese New Year
8.1.16 Forced to stand outdoors in 15° Celsius below zero temperature
8.1.17 China sentenced practitioners to 2 years in jail for exchanging experiences with others.
8.1.18 A professor in Sichuan University was sentenced
8.1.19 A female employee of a steel factory in Chengdu was detained.
8.1.20 Doctor's clinic was confiscated.
8.1.21 Practitioner in Lanzhou was detained
8.1.22 Falun Gong Practitioners detained in the "transformation class" because they were "stubborn"
8.1.23 A Beijing court sentenced two sisters to six and seven years in prison
8.1.24 Sixteen practitioners were sent to labor camps for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong
8.1.25 More Information on the trial of 22 practitioners on January 28
8.1.26 A practitioner sentenced to one year in labor camps for joining the group practice
8.1.27 Beijing practitioner was detained and fined 9,000 RMB
8.1.28 Three females suffered gas poisoning in police station; one of them died
8.1.29 In Tiananmen Square many detained, tortured and beaten on New Year's Day
8.1.30 A Professor sentenced to three years of forced labor
8.1.31 53-year-old woman detained on New Year's Day
8.1.32 A female practitioner was arrested at home
8.1.33 Female graduate students were kicked out by Huanan Normal University
8.1.34 Four practitioners sent to forced labor camps because they had gone to Beijing to appeal
8.1.35 A Court in Shijiazhuang City put Liang Yening on a show trial
8.1.36 A female staff member of the Sichuan Army District was dismissed from the CCP Party
8.1.37 Liu Jing from Jiangxi was tortured In Tiananmen Square Police Station
8.1.38 The contact person of Falun Gong in Wuhan City sentenced to eight years in prison
8.1.39 78 year old woman was detained and monitored by police
8.1.40 Cold water was poured on her back and neck and froze under her feet
8.1.41 Over 100 female practitioners have been sent to Masajia Labor Camp
8.1.42 Falun Gong leaders jailed for up to 18 years
8.1.43 Practitioners tortured for exercising their legal right to audit the trial
8.1.44 Chinese-American scientist detained In China, released by pressure
8.1.45 Ex-China captive claims torture
8.1.46 Liu Juhua from Tangshan City sentenced to 3 years of labor education
8.1.47 A practitioner sent to a labor camp for practicing exercises in Tiananmen Square
8.1.48 Women sent to labor camps for 2 or 3 years without trial
8.1.49 Policeman intentionally let criminal try to rape a detained female practitioner
8.1.50 Female Ph.D. students were detained in Beijing
8.1.51 Three Australian women were arrested in Tiananmen Square and expelled.
8.1.52 Gao was injected with a stimulant in Dalian.
8.1.53 Four foreign female Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Guangzhou
8.1.54 Practitioner's home was ransacked
8.1.55 The court put Gu Zhiyi, a retired senior instructor of Tax School on show trial
8.1.56 Practitioners were required to pay 3,000 RMB
8.1.57 A female practitioner was fired for appealing for Falun Gong
8.1.58 Policemen stripped her clothes off; tied her feet and arms up
8.1.59 China jails first group of Falun Gong contact people
8.1.60 The interpreter for the October 28 press conference was jailed.
8.1.61 A 54yearold and 20 others have been detained without legal formality
8.1.62 Adults were detained; teenagers were home alone
8.1.63 Two women were inhumanely tortured in Dalian
8.1.64 A Chinese policeman loyal to Falun Gong has been detained and charged.
8.1.65 Two female practitioners have been missing
8.1.66 Chongqing Falun Gong contact person was charged
8.1.67 Five women sent to a labor camp in Shijiazhuang
8.1.68 A female practitioner was beaten up and her arm was broken
8.1.69 A woman was thrown into jail for telling the world the truth
8.1.70 A sixty-year old woman tortured by 24 types of torture devices.
8.1.71 A female practitioner's body was cremated in a rush
8.1.72 A female from Tsinghua University and her husband were arrested in Beijing
8.1.73 Four female practitioners were detained without legal procedures
8.1.74 More female Falun Gong practitioners were put into a labor camp
8.1.75 Both wife and husband were detained without any legal formality
8.1.76 Insulted and threatened, a young student jumped out of a train and died
8.1.77 Pipe inserted from the nose into the stomach of a female Falun Gong practitioner
8.1.78 My neck became stiff and my face was swollen
8.1.79 Female practitioners were robbed and beaten in Beijing
8.1.80 A female student of Tsinghua University was arrested
8.1.81 Police ransacked a 61 year old woman's home
8.1.82 Police beat a 56 year old woman and force her to give up her belief
8.1.83 Practitioners have to stay outside in the cold winter weather
8.1.84 Not only mother, but also child arrested and put into jail
8.1.85 A woman was arrested for copying Falun Gong materials
8.1.86 Seventeen students were refused registration by Tsinghua University, Beijing
8.1.87 Five practitioners sent to a labor camp for one year without trial
8.1.88 Practitioner stripped, beaten, doused with cold water, and tortured with electric shock
8.1.89 Two practitioners in Changchun sentenced to one year in a labor camp
8.1.90 Falun gong practitioner continued hunger strike for 11 days
8.1.91 Hundreds of practitioners were beaten and tortured till half dead.
8.1.92 Famale practitioners tortured in Shandong Province
8.1.93 A bank employee was arrested for practicing Falun Gong
8.1.94 Hung up from a heating pipe, three women were beaten all night
8.1.95 Policemen broke arms of detainees.
8.1.96 A Hong Kong woman was arrested in Shenzhen
8.1.97 Employees forced to give up their beliefs or to be sent to labor camp
8.1.98 Two Changchun female practitioners were sent to labor camp
8.1.99 A 50 year old female practitioner died during a hunger strike
8.1.100 Fifty practitioners detained in Shandong, not allowed to sleep for five days and nights
8.1.101 Liang Shaolin was arrested and on hunger strike for 7 days
8.1.102 Falun Gong contact person in Qingdao will be put on trial
8.1.103 Three women were arrested in Tiananmen Square before the National Day Ceremony.
8.1.104 Forty-two year old woman Zhao Jinhua was beaten to death
8.1.105 More than 300 practitioners detained and tortured in Balibao Prison.
8.1.106 A little girl and many women were beaten, chained, and deprived of food and restroom facilities.
8.1.107 A sixteen year old girl detained and humiliated in Beijing
8.1.108 Zhou Ximeng arrested; her private car was confiscated illegally
8.1.109 Practitioners chained to bars, mouths sealed by tape
8.1.110 A nine year old child left to a friend
8.1.111 Practitioners arrested, leaving children at home.
8.1.112 A female college student was detained, beaten, while appealing in Beijing
8.1.113 City government's brutal treatment of practitioners in Linyi, Shandong
8.1
Women, Children, and the Elderly
8.1.1 Daqingjia Township Government tortured Falun Gong practitioners from January 1 to January 3
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims:
1. Chen Xieye
2. Liu Rongxi
3. Liu Juhua
4. Zhang Xuefeng, female, 22 years of age
5. Chen Dianyuan
6. Chen Diancui
7. Chen Yunan
8. Fu Yingxia, female
9. Sun Xinyun
10. Qu Dongkui
11. Fu Caixia, female
12. Li Meixin, female
13. Weng Shaohong
14. Hou Jinxiang
15. Li Zhiming
16. Weng Yueling
17. Fu Xibin
and three school pupils: 11-year-old Su Meina,
12-year-old Weng Kaiqing and 16-year-old
Weng Shaohong
Location of incident: Daqingjia Township, Zhaoyuan, Shandon Province, China
Description:
Provided by a practitioner in Daqingjia Town, January 7, 2000
[January 1, 2000]
Two officials from the Daqingjia Township government, Sheng and Yu, went to arrest Falun Gong practitioner in person, Chen Xieye, who was living in the Xiaozhuan Mountain Village. They started to beat him in the Village office, and continued to beat him upon arriving at the Township government office. Two wood sticks were broken during the beating. They also used police club to beat him.
Practitioners Liu Rongxi and Li Juhua were beaten to the extent that their faces were swollen.
Zhang Xuefeng is a 22-year-old girl. At night, Sheng and other people beat her down to the ground. Then, Sheng pulled her up from the ground by dragging her breast and kicked her from below abdomen area madly, cursing that “I will make you unable to give birth...” After Ms. Zhang was tortured to lose her consciousness, Sheng even spitted into Ms. Zhang’s mouth for several times. After Ms. Zhang gained her consciousness, she found that she had lost her control of excreting and started to vomit madly.
[January 2, 2000]
At night, the officials from the Daqingjia Township government stripped off the clothes of practitioners Chen Xieye, Chen Dianyuan, who is a crippled soldier, and Chen Diancui etc and kept them outdoors for up to 2 hours. That night, it was about 12 Centigrade below zero.
The political secretary Liu and other 7 to 8 people including Wang beat practitioners including Li Meixin who was near dead.
[January 3, 2000]
At around 6pm, it was completely dark in the “jail” that was temporarily set up by the government. A dozen of officials from the Township government led by Lin were waiting outside to torture practitioners. At first, the driver and other people threw ice and snow into the “jail”. Ten minutes later, they started to pour water into the “jail”, for about 5 buckets. Then, the driver guided the door, and asked practitioners to come out of the “jail” one by one and to go to the dark place in the garage. Then, at the order of Lin, four to five people beat up one practitioner using wood sticks and clubs etc. Some practitioners were beaten to lose consciousness; some were beaten to the ground and could no longer stand up. Practitioners were tortured like this from 6:00pm to 10pm. At that time, there were 38 practitioners in the “jail”. 31 of them had been tortured. They were Chen Yunan, Fu Yingxia, Sun Xinyun, Qu Dongkui, and Fu Caixia etc. Li Meixin had been beaten twice in less than ten minutes until she lost her consciousness. Under the care of other practitioners, she gained her consciousness at around 11:30pm, and vomited for a while, and lost her consciousness again. Those people who beat practitioners ran away and locked the “jail”. Practitioners stayed in the “water jail” for a whole night.
Three school pupils, 11-year-old Su Meina, 12-year-old Weng Kaiqing and 16-year-old Weng Shaohong, were also taken to the police station for 58 hours of detention.
When the practitioners were arrested, they were body-searched and robbed first. They robbed Hou Jinxiang 12 Yuan, Li Zhiming 28 Yuan, Weng Yueling 1.5 Yuan, and Fu Xibin 1,300 Yuan etc.
8.1.2 Falun Gong practitioners tortured in detention, sentenced for up to two years of forced labor “education”
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims:
1. Kang Zhiqiu
2. Wang Ming
3. Kang Shiyi, 8 years of age. Kang Zhiqiu’s
daughter
4. Zhao Zhiming
5. Wang Ming
6. Mu Xiangjie
7. Qi Liange
8. Qi Liange’s mother
and 110 other Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Tianjin City and Tangshan City, China
Description:
Practitioners from Jiayuanli of Hongqiao District in Tianjin City, Zhao Zhiming, Wang Ming, Mu Xiangjie and Qi Liange, were detained in the Hongqiao local police station after being arrested in Beijing. Because they refused to give up Falun Gong, they were sent to Banqiao labor camp in Dagang District for up to two years of forced labor “education”. At the end of January, Mu Xiangjie was placed in confinement simply because she said, “please stand out to defend Falun Dafa!” during the morning “exercise”. She was handcuffed to the banisters of the windows for 7 days and nights. She was not allowed to sleep. Moreover, her arms were electric shocked. After she got out of the confinement, she could not move her two legs. There were blisters on her arms caused by electric shocks.
In the police station, if a practitioner practiced Falun Gong in the cell, he/she would be put on the heavy shackles of more than 40 pounds.
At the end of last October, Qi Liange and two other family members went to Beijing to appeal, with her mother left alone at home. The police went to ransack her home in a midnight. Her mother dared not open the door. Therefore, the police broke in from the windows and ransacked the home.
In Tianjin, more than 70 practitioners got detained for 15 days to 30 days only because they said that they would continue to practice Falun Gong.
At the beginning of last September, the Second Detention Center of Tangshan City detained 40 practitioners. Many of them got arrested when they passed by the Tiananmen Square. After 15 days of administrative detention, the police still did not release them and prolonged their detention arbitrarily. They all went to Beijing to appeal again and got escorted back for the second time. In the detention center, they had been shocked by electric batons and beaten up. Some practitioners’ armpits were burned from electric shocks. Some practitioners’ hands and feet were cuffed together for 8 days and nights. Ms. Xu Qiuling and Liu Juhua were once stripped off and forced to stand for two days and nights while they were detained in Beijing. A dozen of practitioners in Tangshan were sent to labor camps.
The first detention center of Tangshan City tortured detained practitioners. A practitioner had been roped to a chair for 7 days and nights. Meanwhile, the police also extorted money from practitioners and their family members.
The New District Detention Center of Tangshan City provided only one slice of steam bun (12g) to detained practitioners. The police said that the convicted criminals would be given enough food, but the practitioners should not.
Practitioners from Tianjin, Kang Zhiqiu, Wang Ming, and their daughter Kang Shiyi, 8 years old, went to the Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Dafa on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. They were escorted back to Tianjin City on the same night. The couple were handed criminal detention. Wang Ming started hunger strike to appeal justice for Falun Dafa and refused to sign any paperwork, because she thought that she had not done anything against the law. She was released three and a half days later. Later in order to recover the cultivation environment, Wang Ming continued to practice Falun Gong in public areas. She was detained for the second time. After her hands and feet were cuffed together for one day, she started hunger strike again and refused to sign any paperwork or make any confessions. Later she was sent to a mental hospital for an examination. The head of the police station said, “I know you are normal.” The examination result was normal. Her husband and daughter went to the police station to appeal for her release. She got released right away. The 40 police officers were all moved by her determination. A police said, “What a good person she is!”
8.1.3 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.
8.1.4 Police force-fed Wang Xian with her hands and feet manacled during her hunger strike
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victim: Wang Xian, female, 46 years of age
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Wang Xian, female, 46, was an official of the Zhanlanlu Apartments Management Department in the Real Estate Management Bureau of Xicheng District of Beijing. On February 4, she got arrested for having given an affirmative answer to the police’s question “are you a practitioner of Falun Gong?” when she passed by Tiananmen Square. She was then detained in the Xicheng District police detention center. When the police asked her to sign on the detention warrant, she refused. She said, “You have no right to arrest me just because I am walking, even if I am a Falun Gong practitioner.” On February 10, she started hunger strike. Up to February 21, it had lasted 11 days. During her hunger strike, the police force-fed her many times by cuffing her hands and feet. However, she vomited all those force-fed stuff. The police also gave her an injection. According to a fellow practitioner who is being detained with her, she now looks skinny and weak.
8.1.5 Practitioners from oil plant arrested for practicing exercises in a part and imposed stiff fines
Message received: February 21, 2000
Victims:
1. Zhou Tianrong
2. Wu Zhengnan
3. Jing Tianming
4. Wang Haixia
5. Tan Jinming
and 89 other Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Shengli Oil Plant, Shandong Province
Description:
On January 29, practitioners from Shengli Oil Plant went to practice Falun Gong exercises in a park and 89 of them got arrested. Later, most of them were released after paying a fine of 2,000 to 20,000 Yuan except 17 practitioners. (6 female and 11 male) They were Zhou Tianrong, Wu Zhengnan, Jing Tianming, Wang Haixia, Tan Jinming and others. One of them was an aged woman. They were first detained in the detention center of the Public Security Bureau of Dongying City. On February 16, they were transferred to another place. Until February 20, they had been on hunger strike for 5 days. A female practitioner had difficulty getting herself around.
Currently, officials of the Shengli Oil Plant talked to practitioners and required practitioner to give up Falun Gong, otherwise, they would be fined from several thousand up to several tens of thousand Yuan
8.1.6 A practitioner sentenced with one year of forced labor “education” for reading “Zhuan Falun”
Victim: Zhang Aili, female
Location of incident: Yingmenkou in Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Ms. Zhang Aili, a practitioner from Yingmenkou in Chengdu City was sentenced with one year of forced labor “education” for reading “Zhuan Falun” (the main text of Falun Dafa) in a “transformation class” held by the Jinniu district police station and detained in the Zhizhong women jail. She has a child going to kindergarten that is taken care of by her husband alone and their life is very hard.
8.1.7 A first rank police supervisor “treated” in Nanjing Mental Hospital
Message received: February 20, 2000
Victims: Ding Jianhua, female, 47 years of age, and three other Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: Nanjing Brain Hospital (mental hospital), Jiangsu Province
Description:
Ding Jianhua, female, 47, a first rank police supervisor and the head of the Department of Health Care of the Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu Province, was sent to the Nanjing Brain Hospital (mental hospital) on October 3 of 1999 to accept forced treatments because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong. The abusive “treatments” have been very detrimental, slowing her reaction and blurring her eyesight. Currently, she is being detained in the 27th Bed of Sixth District in Nanjing mental Hospital. Three other practitioners are also being detained and abused there. They could be visited from 2:00pm to 5:00pm everyday. Practitioners hope that journalists could interview them and expose their sufferings.
8.1.8 Practitioners arrested by the head of village, beaten up and denied access to the toilet.
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims:
1. Zhang Wensheng
2. Wu
Location of incident: Dongmao Village of Chicheng County, Hebei Province
Description:
Practitioners from Dongmao Village of Chicheng County of Hebei Province, Zhang Wensheng and Ms. Wu, got arrested by the head of village and were put on handcuffs and shackles. They were beaten up and denied access to the toilet.
8.1.9 Falun Gong practitioners were put on trial
Message received: February 18, 2000
Victims:
1. Li Houzhuang
2. Li Houzhuang’s daughter
3. Chen Huifang
Location of incident: Wushu of Xinjiang Province
Description:
Practitioners from Wushu of Xinjiang Province, Li Houzhuang and her daughter, Chen Huifang, got officially arrested after having been detained for four and a half months. Ms. Chen is very weak now. The doctor said she was dying. Ms. Li’s condition is also not good. However, their family members were not allowed to visit them. They were taken away from the hospital. It was said that they were put on trial on February 14, 2000.
8.1.10 Mother of a Ph.D. student abused in a Mental Hospital in China
Message received: February 17, 2000
Victim: Han Jizhen
Location of incident: Nanjing, Jiangsu Province
Description:
The following is a statement by Wang Yongsheng, a Ph.D. student of Physics Department of Houston University, U.S.A.
My mother Han Jizhen is a Falun Gong practitioner in Nanjing City of China. She is now being detained in a mental hospital although she is perfectly normal.
On December 23, my mother went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested by a young police officer who slapped her face madly. Later, she was escorted back to Nanjing and was thrown into the Nanjing mental hospital (now called Nanjing Brain Hospital). In the beginning, the hospital refused to accept her. However, under the pressure from the government authority, they took her in. The doctor said she was sent to the mental hospital because she was a Falun Gong practitioner, even though she had no mental illness. In the hospital, she was forced to take injections and medicines, which made her lose her strength and feel terrible. My family went to the hospital to request for her release, but the doctor said, “Since the police sent her here, we have to give her medicines. Otherwise, if she continues to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in the future, we will be in trouble.”
In the name of saving people from illnesses, the hospital has been utilized for political use in the hand of the Chinese Communist Party to persecute mentally normal people. The hospital has severely violated its working ethics.
Before the Chinese New Year’s Day, under the petition of my family, my mother was able to stay at home for two days. Then, the police sent her into the mental hospital again because she refused to give up her practice of Falun Gong. She is now still being abused in the mental hospital. I feel so sad that innocent people are being treated like that.
I appeal to the world for help.
8.1.11 Stripped of clothes and forced to sleep on a cold concrete floor
Message received: February 15, 2000
Victims:
1. Shong Shaomei
2. Wang Chuixiang
3. Lu Xiufang
4. Lu Yuanmei
5. Su Chuiliao
Location of incident: Linglong Local Police Station, Shandong Province, China
Description:
On their way to Beijing to appeal, these five practitioners were taken back to Linglong Local Police Station on December 12, 1999. The head of the security department of the local police station forced them to strip off their clothes, including their underwear and shorts. This occurred during the winter, and it was extremely cold. At night, they had to sleep on the concrete floor in an iron cell. To keep warm, no blankets, quilts, or bedding of any kind were supplied to them. Intentionally, the person watching over them left the windows open during the night. They were so cold that they were trembling. They were denied access to a restroom. They were detained like this for two days and nights. Shong Shaomei would not have survived if she had not been taken to the hospital.
8.1.12 Severe physical abuses including exposure to cold
Message received: February 15, 2000
Victims:
1. Lu Yuying, female
2. Liu Chuihua, female
3. 7 other practitioners of Shandong Province
Location of incident: Linglong Local Police Station, Shandong Province, China
Description:
On their way to Beijing to appeal, nine practitioners were taken back to Linglong Local Police Station between January 23 and 27, 1999. They were forced to strip their clothes off. During the night, they had to sleep directly on the concrete floor of an iron cell without anything to keep them warm. Even family members were not allowed to send the practitioners quilts and bedding. They were forced to do work for the station everyday.
After they were released, their phones were monitored and they lost their freedom. They have to report to the person watching over them if they want to go anywhere.
8.1.13 Key contact person of Falun Gong in Dalian City secretly sentenced to 9 years in jail
Message received: February 11, 2000
Victim: Gao Qiuju, female
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights and Democratic Movement reported that 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 Qiuju Gao 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 the April 25 event”, and “giving the government’s secret documents on cracking down Falun Gong to Zhiwen Wang 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 Jie Yao is being detained in the Beijing Women Prison.
8.1.14 Practitioners in the city of Shijiazhuang were sentenced
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victims:
1. Liang Yening
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.
8.1.15 Practitioners in Chengdu City were sentenced before Chinese New Year
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victims:
1. Wang Xiaosong
2. Li Yan
3. Li Zhijie
4. Luo Minpu
5. Liu Tao
6. Chen Minyong
7. Liu Tao and some other Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province
Description:
Before 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 Public Security Bureau to question the police officers why such a well-known and good person was arrested and sentenced. During the New Year’s celebration in his workplace, everyone felt sad when talking about his suffering.
Currently, practitioners who are waiting for sentence in Lianhua Village Detention Center of Chengdu City are from all walks of life. There are workers, peasants, college students, professors, a school president, senior engineers and retired officials like Cao Anrong and others.
In addition, graduate students of Sichuan University; Luo, Minpu and Liu Tao, a graduate student of Sichuan Industrial College; Chen Minyong, were transferred to Linxia Street Jail of Chengdu City, waiting for severe sentence. They are jailed together with murderers, drug dealers and other criminals. Yunhong Jiang 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” was held by the Chengdu Public Security Bureau. It was still in operation on Chinese New Year’s Day. Many enterprises stated clearly that practitioners could not take vacation during New Year’s Day.
8.1.16 Forced to stand outdoors in 15 Celsius below zero temperature
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victims: Zhou Ximeng, female, and other practitioners from in the Tangshan Labor Camp, Hebei Province
Location of incident: Hebei Province, China
Description:
A fellow practitioner saw Zhou Ximeng, the former contact person of Falun Dafa Shijiazhuang Assistance Center, in the First Women’s Labor Camp of Tangshan City on January 27, 2000. On that day, she was on the eighth day of a hunger strike. Some other practitioners were also on a hunger strike. The number of them was unknown. Their situation was very dangerous.
On January 19, 2000, all practitioners detained in the First Women’s Labor Camp of Tangshan City started a hunger strike to protest the physical abuses directed at Falun Gong practitioners. They were forced to stand outdoors in weather of 15 degrees Celsius below zero; some practitioners had their hands or other body parts frozen.
8.1.17 China sentenced practitioners to 2 years in jail because they exchanged experiences with others
Message received: February 5, 2000
Victims:
1. Jiang Liying, female
2. Chen Yang
3. Cao Zhiming
Location of incident: Changsha, Hunan Province
Description:
Yang Chen, Cao Zhiming and Jiang Liying were arrested in Beijing while they were exchanging experiences with other practitioners. Jiang Liying was secretly given a sentence of 2 years of forced labor. Yang Chen and Cao were given a sentence of 2 years in jail.
8.1.18 A professor in Sichuan University was sentenced
Message received: February 3, 2000 from China Minghui News
Victim: Hong Jirong, a professor of Sichuan University
Location of incident: Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Falun Gong practitioner, Hong Jirong, who was a Professor of Sichuan University, was sentenced to three years of forced labor, and was expelled from the party shortly afterwards.
8.1.19 A female employee of a steel factory in Chengdu was detained
Message received: February 3, 2000
Victim: Zhang Xiaoying, female
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuang Province, China
Description:
Recently, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiaoying, an employee of Seamless Steel Pipe Factory of Chengdu City, was taken to the police station by the security section of her workplace only a few days after she was released from 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 yelled, “Detain her for another 15 days.”
8.1.20 Doctor’s clinic was confiscated
Victim: Doctor Miao, female
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuang Province, China
Description:
The Doctor went to appeal, and her clinic was confiscated. Doctor Miao is living close to Wuguiqiao. Her clinic was confiscated by the Public Security Bureau because she went to Beijing to appeal. She is now under criminal detention.
8.1.21 Practitioner in Lanzhou was detained
Message received: February 2, 2000
Victim: Zhang Jinmei, female
Location of incident: Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
Description:
Zhang Jinmei was detained for 6 days in the police station of Lanhua from November 10 to November 16. She was detained for 15 days in Taoshuping detention center of Lanzhou from November 17 to December 3. She was again detained for 24 days in the police department of Lanhua from November 28 to December 4. She has been detained there since January 18, 2000.
8.1.22 Falun Gong Practitioners detained in the “transformation class” because they were “stubborn”
Victims:
1. Zhang Weihua, female
2. Chen Hexiu
3. Zhu Xia, female. Zhu Xia has been pregnant for 8 months
and 16 other practitioners
Location of incident: Jinniu district police station in Chengdu, Sichuan
Description:
On February 1, the Jinniu district police station sentenced Zhang Weihua, Chen Hexiu and 16 other practitioners except a pregnant woman in the “transformation class” held in the Chadianzhi to 15 days of administrative detention because the authorities felt they were “stubborn”.
Zhu Xia has been pregnant for 8 months. Her husband, Wang Shilin, was sentenced to one and a half year in prison for having gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Her mother was detained for refusing to give up Falun Gong. Her father, who was not a practitioner, has mental problem. She does not work and has no income, so she was exempt from detention. However, the police station required her to come to the police station every morning at 9:00am and stay until 4:00pm in the afternoon. Ms. Zhu Xia is determined about Falun Dafa and handles the pressures easily. Her kindness and noble deeds has touched many police officers.
The “transformation class” held in the Chazhidian has lasted for more than three months. The practitioners in the class only expressed their determination about Falun Gong; as a result, however, they have been detained in the “class” or in jail for such a long time. They have been deprived of personal freedom. They would not be released from the “class” until they promise that they would not practice Falun Gong, not go to appeal, and not communicate with other practitioners.
8.1.23 A Beijing court sentenced two sisters to six and seven years in prison
Message received: February 1, 2000 from AP, AFP
Victims:
1. Li Xiaobing, female
2. Li Xiaomei, female
and 30 other Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
BEIJING (AP) -- A Beijing court has sentenced two sisters who helped lead the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to six and seven years in prison and 30 other members who held a protest to terms of up to two years, a rights group reported today. Dongcheng District Court in central Beijing convicted 32 practitioners in one-day trials in separate courtrooms on Friday, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said, citing relatives of the defendants. China’s entirely government-controlled news media have not reported the trials. The trials were the capital’s biggest since four leading organizers of Falun Gong were sentenced to terms of up to 18 years on December 26.
The sisters ran a shop in Beijing that was the key
place in the capital for buying Falun Gong books, tapes
and other materials. The prosecutors claimed it had sold
1.8 million books, the center said. It added that they were
convicted of running an illegal business. Li Xiaobing got
six years in prison and her younger sister received seven
years.
The 30 other people, from Beijing and Jinzhou, a city in northeastern China’s Liaoning province, were tried on the same day in a separate courtroom and convicted of using the evil cult to undermine the law, the group said. They were sentenced to terms ranging from four months to two years for unfurling a banner in a protest in Tiananmen Square.
(AFP): February 1, 2000 -- The Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights said that about 300 practitioners would be secretly sentenced before the Chinese New Year (February 5)
8.1.24 Sixteen practitioners were sent to labor camps for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong
Message received: February 1, 2000
Victim: Wang Junhua, female, and 15 other practitioners Location of incident: Mishan and Jixi, Heilongjiang Province
Description:
About 16 practitioners from Mishan City of Heilongjiang Province were sent to labor camps for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Wang Junhua, a state official and a member of the Political Consultative Congress in Mishan City, was given three years of forced labor. She was first arrested on September 24 just because she told the police that she would continue to practice Falun Gong. She was then detained for 64 days without any legal formalities. On the eleventh day after she was freed, she was again arrested for refusing to promise not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was sentenced at the end of December 1999 without proper legal procedure. Her family members have not received any written notice about this. In addition, about 29 female practitioners from Jixi City of Heilongjiang Province were sent to labor camps. The number of male practitioners is unknown.
8.1.25 More Information on the trial of 22 practitioners on January 28
Victims:
1 Li Xiaobin 2 Li Xiaomei 3 Chu Tong 4 Li Ling 5 Yao Hong and other Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
On January 28, the People’s Court of Dongcheng District put 22 practitioners on trial in three different court rooms.
Li Xiaobin and Li Xiaomei, who were the former owners of Ditan Cultural Bookstore, were tried in the first room. Five practitioners who had unfurled banners of Falun Gong in front of the national flag were tried in the second hall. Another 15 practitioners were put on trial in the third room.
On October 27 1999, the day before the People’s Daily published an article defaming Falun Gong as an “evil religion”, 17 practitioners climbed up the rostrum of Tiananmen and unfurled banners of Falun Gong. Two of them were escorted back to their hometowns waiting for sentence. The other 15 practitioners were put on trial in Beijing. Among these 15 practitioners, 2 of them pleaded “guilty” due to the overwhelming pressures from the government. But the other 13 practitioners all pleaded innocent and made strong statements to defend Falun Gong. These 17 practitioners did not know one another before this incident. They decided on their action the morning of October 27. During the trial, these 13 practitioners were all at ease.
During the detention, Tong Chu had been on a hunger strike for 9 days to defend her right to study and practice Falun Gong. Li Ling and Yao Hong were handcuffed and hung on a door. Very shortly, Yao Hong lost her consciousness, then Yao Hong fell to the ground. All her cellmates cried and rushed over to help her.
During the defense, a practitioner said, “I had suffered life-threatening illness when I was only 30 years old. It was Falun Gong that saved me. It was Falun Gong that taught me how to become a good person and changed a selfish me to an unselfish person...” The prosecutors, the judge, the lawyers, and people auditing the trial were all moved.
These 15 practitioners were sentenced from 4 months to 2 years in jail. Eighteen practitioners from Beijing were arrested for trying to audit the trial.
8.1.26 A practitioner sentenced to one year in labor camps for joining the group practice
Message received: January 28, 2000
Victim: Wang Ruirong, female
Location of incident: Chaoyang District, Beijing
Description:
Practitioner from Anhuili of Chaoyang District of Beijing, Wang Ruirong, was sentenced to one year of forced labor for joining the group practice of Falun Gong exercises at the Asian Sports Village on December 12. Since then, she has been detained in the Chaoyang District Detention Center. During her detention, many times she has been transferred from one cell to another, and in the process has been beaten by criminals there.
8.1.27 Beijing practitioner was detained and fined 9,000 RMB
Victim: Liu Chunzhi, female
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Practitioner Liu Chunzhi was detained for more than one month and fined 9,000 RMB for going to Beijing to appeal. She was detained again in January, 2000 for refusing to write a pledge to give up Falun Gong.
8.1.28 Three females suffered gas poisoning in police station; one of them died
Victims:
1. Liu Zhilan, female
2. Pu Shunan, female
3. Li Fuhua, female
Location of incident: Zhoukoudian Police Station, Fangshan District, Beijing, China
Description:
On January 10, three practitioners from Changgougu Coal Mine in Fangshan District of Beijing, Ms. Liu Zhilan, Ms. Pu Shunan and Ms. Li Fuhua, went to appeal for Falun Dafa and were arrested. In the afternoon of that day, they were sent to the Zhoukoudian Police Station. They were required to do forced labor such as shoveling the snow and cleaning jobs everyday.
On January 14, they had their lunch in the boiler room of the police station after they finished their work. At about 2:00pm, all three of them suffered from gas poisoning and lost consciousness. They were sent to Yanshan District for emergency treatment. Ms. Li Fuhua, who was thirty years old, regained consciousness at 9:00pm. The doctor asked her, “How are you doing?” She said, “I am all right.” The police asked her, “Will you still practice Falun Gong?” She said, “Yes.” In the afternoon of January 16, she was released. When she was able to move, she started to take care of Ms. Pu Shunan, who was over 40 years old. On the night of January 15, Ms. Pu opened her eyes but then lost consciousness again. During the morning of January 16, she finally regained consciousness.
Ms. Liu Zhilan was over 40 years old. She lost consciousness and was not able to recover. She was already in the mortuary when her family members visited her. The police warned the family members of the three practitioners that they should not disclose the news of Ms. Liu’s death to other practitioners.
8.1.29 In Tiananmen Square many detained, tortured and beaten on New Year’s Day
Message received: January 18, 2000
Victims: Several female Falun Gong practitioners.
Location of incident: Tiananmen Police Station near Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
Description:
When the bell for New Year’s rang, many practitioners from Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and other parts of the world started to practice Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square. The police started to beat them and dragged them into the police vans while continuing to beat and kick them. Some journalists were also pushed into the police vans for taking photos. The cameras of journalists were confiscated.
In the Qianmen Police Station, the police registered and body-searched every practitioner. Some practitioners refused to tell the police their names in order to avoid being sent back to their hometown. Therefore, they were beaten in the room called “Falun Section”. A woman in her 30s was detained there for 72 hours and suffered such inhumane torture that she was not recognizable. There was extravasated blood in her eyes and on her head. Another woman in her 50s was beaten by a police officer using a wooden club. However, the woman being beaten still patiently told the officer to read “Zhuan Falun” (the main book about Falun Gong). Later a woman was admitted because of practicing the Falun Standing Exercise in the Square. The police burned her hands with a cigarette.
8.1.30 A Professor sentenced to three years of forced labor
Message received: January 18, 2000
Victim: Hong Jirong, female, 62 years old
Location of incident: Wengjiang County, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
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 appeal letter “To United Nations Secretary Mr. Annan From Practitioners in Sichuan Province”.
(To be Continued)
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