Chinese Government's Severe Violations Of Falun Gong Practitioners' Human Rights

Chinese Government's Severe Violations

Of Falun Gong Practitioners' Human Rights

(Updated on January 5^th)

 

 

THE FOLLOWING IS ONLY AN INCOMPLETE LIST. WE WILL UPDATE THIS AS WE RECEIVE MORE REPORTS.

Chinese government blocks the passage of information in all means, including:

1. Forcing domestic peoples to be silent by using their dictating power like army and police;

 

2. Preventing international media, even those physically in China, from obtaining the first-hand facts;

 

3. Spreading lies all over the world after cutting the contact between people and foreign media.

People have risked their lives to get this information out of China. Thus, for some happenings, we may not have exact location and time. All phone lines, email, and Internet web sites in China are closely monitored or cut off. We now reveal to the world a small sample of the faxes and emails that friends and relatives have received from Falun Dafa practitioners.

As early as before July 20th, Falun Gong practitioners had already been harassed, wiretapped, tailed. However, the situation became extremely severe after July 20th and the persecution towards Falun Gong was escalated as shown in the records below. Thus, this report is divided into two parts:

• Part 1. Before July 20th

 

• Part 2. From July 20th to August

 

• Part 3. From September to October

 

• Part 4. From November to December

The situation in China is still developing and getting worse by the hour. We call on all kind-hearted people in the world to appeal to the Chinese government to stop these brutal persecution and respect human rights and to allow Chinese citizens the basic right to read the virtuous book and to practice the health enhancing exercises of their choice.

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Part 4 From November up to present

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November 1, 1999

Zhejiang Province

• My name is Xiang Jin-ying, a Falun Gong practitioner from Haiyan County of Zhejiang province. On October 25 when I appealed in Beijing, I was beaten up by the police. My left upper arm was broken from the torture.

 

• On October 25, 3 of us went to the Tiananmen Square to appeal. On. Police asked us whether we were Falun Gong practitioners or not. When we said yes, we were sent to a nearby police station where it had already held 50 to 60 practitioners. The police dragged a dozen of us out and handcuffed us. (one hand goes back from the shoulder, the other hand goes back from the waist, which is an extremely suffering way of being handcuffed) The police also made us kneel on the ground and bumped our heads onto the wall. A police even dragged my arm with force regardless that I was handcuffed. Suddenly, my arm broke with a crack. Cold sweat emitted out from my forehead because of the pain. I endured the pain silently.

 

• Later we were sent to a courtyard in Beijing and interrogated there. we would be beaten up if we answered that we were Falun Gong practitioners. Later we were stripped and searched. We were sent to the detention center at 1 o'clock of October 26. My arm was found severely injured.

 

November 2, 1999

Appealing from a mother---Save my daughter

• My family is living in Dalian. My daughter Liang Qing was arrested at the end of October because she practices Falun Gong. She was directly thrown into the jail (not common detention center) under the accusation of "leaking state secrets". My daughter is not a state official. She has no way to access state secrets, how could she leak the state secrets. She was thrown into the jail for some groundless accusations only because she refuses to give up her belief. Is that true that all Falun Gong practitioners can be arrested at will and then sentenced with some groundless accusations?

Chengdu, Sichuan Province

• An official in a village near Chengdu fined Falun Gong practitioners at his will. Those who went to Beijing to appealá peacefully were fined 8,800 Yuan; those who signed their names on the appealing letters were fined 5,000 Yuan.

 

November 3, 1999

Shi-jia-zhuang, Hebei Province

• Duang Rong-xin, a key contact person of Shijiazhuang Falun Gong Assistance Center, was "officially" arrested under the accusations of "disturbing social orders" and "leaking state secrets". Xu Xin-mu was "officially" arrested under the accusation of "leaking state secrets".

 

• 9 Falun Gong practitioners, Zhou Xi-meng, Qiu Li-ying, Wu Hui-qin, Huang Wei, Dang Lan-feng, Liu Feng-ming, Wang Jin, Bai Yu-zhi and Liu Li-hui were sentenced to labor education. Falun Gong contact people in many places are facing show-trials.

 

• More practitioners from Ren County of Hebei province were escorted back from Beijing. Falun Gong practitioners started hunger strike as soon as they were thrown into jail. Some has been on hunger strike for 9 days. They were put on shackles because they continued to practice Falun Gong in jail.

 

November 4, 1999

Beijing

• The persecution of Falun Gong in China is still escalating. In Harbin, a city in the northern part of China, all Falun Gong practitioners' identification cards have been confiscated. All contact people are being closely monitored. It was said that any contact person must ask the police station for permission if he or she wants to leave home two hours.

 

November 5, 1999

Beijing

Another Falun Gong practitioner Detained in Hospital for Mental Diseases

• November 4, noon, 3 people wearing white long gowns came to the home of a Beijing practitioner, Niu Jing-ping. Niu was just released from the detention center. The three people claimed that they were from the police station and asked Niu to go with them.. When Niu asked them where they would take him, they told him to go to the police station.

 

• According to Niu's brother, the Beijing Chaoyang district police station issued a certificate that Niu has mental disease. These three people took Niu to the hospital. At that time, a Falun Gong practitioner also witnessed this. His whereabouts is unknown.

 

• On the morning of October 28, Niu Jing-ping was arrested when he appealed to the National People's Congress. His daughter was also arrested at that time. When they were taken to the Tiananmen police station, there had already been several hundred Falun Gong practitioners. The police constantly beat up practitioners because they recited Mr. Li Hongzhi's articles. Niu's daughter (only 17 years old) was severely beaten up. Very soon they were all taken to the Fengtai Stadium. In the Stadium, there were about 1,200 people detained there. On the second day, detained practitioners were transferred to several detention centers. Niu and others were sent to the Chaoyang Shuangqiao detention center.

Duowei News

Four more Falun Gong contact people were prosecuted in China

• On November 5, 1999, Liaoning Anshan procuratorate prosecuted four Falun Gong practitioners with the accusation of "violating the enforcement of law using evil religion". One of them was Wang Zhi-guo, who used to be a policeman of Anshan City police department. He was a speaker at that secret news conference and criticized Chinese government's crackdown on Falun Gong at the secret news conference held in Beijing on October 28. Therefore, he could be heavily sentenced.

Dalian, Liaoning Province

Zhang Chun-qing Was Arrested on "revealing state secret"

• In Dalian City, Zhang Chun-qing was "officially" arrested several days ago. She could be sentenced under the accusation of "leaking state secrets". As a matter of fact, she only told the world her experience of being inhumanly tortured in the detention center. Zhang Chun-qing's experience in the detention center can be found at:

http://www.minghui.ca/eng/china/exp_in_jail.html (with photos)

• Zhu Hang who had suffered inhumane torture in the same detention center is now missing. Her whereabouts is unknown.

 

November 6, 1999

China

• The Daguang detention center held more than 200 people. Most of them are Falun Gong practitioners. Two meals are served everyday. Each meal consists of a small steamed bread of corn and a bowl of cabbage soup.

 

• Now many practitioners are detained in Tiebei jail, Balibao detention center, and some other places. Many of them have met the "criteria" for labor education. The criteria include going to Beijing to appeal for more than twice, not giving up practicing Falun Gong, and not giving up appealing etc.

 

November7, 1999

Hebei Province

Falun Gong Practitioners Sent To Labor Camps Even Without Trial

• According to the newsroom of the BBC World Service, A Hong Kong-based human rights group said yesterday (11/7/99) that at lease five hundred Falun Gong practitioners from Hebei province have been sent to labor camps. Some of them were sent to the camps without trial to avoid publicity.

 

November 8, 1999

China

China Charges Student On Falun Gong E-Mail-Report

• A Hong Kong-based human rights group said on Monday November 8 that China has charged Zhang Ji, a student at Qiqihar University, with spreading Falun Gong information on the Internet. The group said that since August the student sent information on what was happening to Falun Gong in China to United States and Canada and downloaded latest news about Falun Gong from the Internet and passed the news to other Falun Gong practitioners. Zhang, 20, was arrested last month and was expected to be sentenced to jail for three to five years, it said. Chinese police had stepped up monitoring of the Internet to prevent Falun Gong members from communicating with the outside world or with each other within China. They also make use of special software to read email messages of Falun Gong Practitioners.

Wuhan City, Hubei Province

• Since the government defamed Falun Gong as evil religion, the police stations can openly use torture devices to interrogate Falun Gong practitioners. Those who were escorted back from Beijing are detained in the police stations; some are detained in the hospitals. The public security officers monitor them. They cannot be contacted by outsiders.

 

• The first and ninth sections for investigating criminal offenses are interrogating them. The first section uses non-stop interrogations in order to destroy people mentally. The ninth section extorts confessions by physical tortures. In order to prevent practitioners from escaping, the police handcuff them even when they are sleeping.

 

November 10, 1999

Jinzhou, Liaoning Province

Practitioners in Jinzhou Were sent to Labor Camps

• I called According to a practitioner in Jinzhou, who just got out of the detention center, about 40 practitioners in Jinzhou were sentenced to 2 to 3 years of labor education without any open trials. Some practitioners were arrested at home. The police asked them whether or not they would continue to practice Falun Gong. They would be immediately taken away if they answered yes. A practitioner was taken into custody when he was working in the farming field. He was sentenced to 2 years of labor education.

 

• Many practitioners have been escorted back from Beijing. To be released, one must write a pledge promising that one will stop practicing Falun Gong, and will not go to Beijing to appeal. In addition, a "deposit" of 2,000 ~ 4, 000 Yuan is required.

Foreign journalists protest "harassment" in China

• According to Reuters (November 10), "The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China issued a protest on Wednesday against what it called official 'intimidation and harassment' linked to coverage of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. 'Our members have been followed, detained, interrogated and threatened,' said a letter sent to the Foreign Ministry and the cabinet spokesman."á "The Foreign Ministry and security forces maintain that foreign journalists who covered the event had engaged in 'illegal reporting'."á "Several of those reporters are now under heavy police surveillance."

 

• For details, please see: http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9911/10/bc.religion.china.journalists.reut/index.html

 

November 12, 1999

China

Families help Falun Gong Practitioners to Renounce their Beliefs; Large Fines Levied, Brutal Beatings from Criminals...

• In Hebei province, several hundred Falun Gong practitioners have been detained in the Xin-ji police station and other places since October 27. 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 2600 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 bumped their heads against the walls.

A young teacher was suspected to have attended the Falun Gong news conference in Beijing

• Lei Xiao-ting, female, is a young teacher in the Foreign Language Department of the University of Industry and Business of Beijing. On the morning of November 5, the Beijing police took her away from her dorm and into custody. The security section of the University said that the police suspected her of having attended the news conference on October 28 and being an interpreter for those foreign journalists. Currently, her parents cannot visit her.

Adult was sentenced with imprisonment and Child was sent to the orphanage

• I am a Falun Gong practitioner in China. I got to know that Ma Xue-jun, a key contact person of Falun Gong assistance center in Jiamushi, was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment. His wife does not work. His child is going to school. After he was sentenced, his family lost their financial source. I do not know how they can support themselves.

 

• In Jiamushi, if a couple is divorced their child will be legally taken care of by one of them. But if an adult is sentenced with imprisonment because of practicing Falun Gong, the child will be sent to an orphanage instead of giving the child to the other adult.

The plainclothes agents encircle and beat appealing practitioners

• On November 10, two practitioners went to the Appealing office. About 20 to 30 plainclothes agents encircled each of them. These two practitioners did not know each other. The plainclothes stood in two layers. The inner layer was responsible for beating, interrogating, and searching; the outer layer was responsible for blocking the view of people passing by. Sometimes, the agent in the outer layer even jumped in to beat.

 

November 13, 1999

7 Shijiazhuang Falun Gong practitioners were "arrested" while in Custody

• In Shijiazhuang of Hebei province, 7 more practitioners, Zhang Jian-zeng, Liang Ye-ling, Xu Liang, Zhang Kai, Li Jin-xiao, Ren Yue-ying and Zhang Bo-yu were arrested on the accusation of "disturbing social orders". These practitioners had been in custody before they were "arrested".

Mainland China

• AP reported that at the end of this month, the Chinese government will trial 300 important Falun Gong practitioners including 7 from Shijiazhuang who are on hunger strike. In the past 10 days, 35 practitioners have been sent into labor camps for up to 3 years of labor education in the northern part of Hebei province alone.

Sichuan Province

• On October 12, Luo Zhi-jun, a graduate student of Sichuan Institute of Industry in Chengdu, was arrested at a fellow practitioner's home in Pi County. He was dismissed from the Institute after 15 days of custody. Also 4 students were ordered to monitor him. Now Luo Zhi-jun was sent back to his hometown in Jiangxi province.

Helongjiang Province

• In a city of Helongjiang province, about 26 practitioners have been illegally detained since before October 1st. Most of them were treated as "dangerous members". The police detained them to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal. Some have been detained for more than one month. A female divorced practitioner has old and ill parents and a young daughter at home. A blind practitioner was forced to sit for 8 to 9 hours everyday and could not move his legs. Some practitioners were beaten up while being hanged because they continued to practice in the detention center.

 

• If one wants to get out, one must sign on the pledge that denounces Falun Dafa and promises to give up Falun Dafa. Also a fine of 3,000 Yuan is required.

 

• A practitioner could not afford the fine. The police thus threatened him that they would prolong his detention and even detain one of his family members (also a Falun Gong practitioner). A police station near this city detained 3 practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal. They started hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. The police forced their family members to persuade them. If it did not work, the police would also detain their family members.

 

November 14, 1999

300 Falun Gong Members Face Trials, As Detainees Fast, Group Says

• BEIJING, Nov 13, 1999 -- (Agency France Presse) At least 300 members of the banned Falun Gong group are awaiting trial in China, while up to 1,000 are expected to be sent without trial for "education through labor" in camps, a Hong Kong-based rights group said Saturday.

 

• China's State Council announced earlier this week that 111 followers of the group had been formally arrested as of November 4. On Saturday, the center said scores of others had been arrested since.

 

• Meanwhile, the center estimated that more than 1,000 members of the group were locked up in some 300 Chinese "education through labor" camps, with at least 150 in an all women camp in Changchun, in the northern province of Jilin, and some 50 in a camp in Tangshan, Hebei province.

 

• China's state press also reported fully on Saturday on the trial of the Haikou four, who were said to have organized an illegal exercise session of 183 local Falun Gong members in a Haikou park on August 8, two weeks after the central government banned the group.

 

• The court sentenced Song Yuesheng to 12 years, Chen Yuan to seven years, Jiang Shilong to three years and Liang Yulin to two years on additional evidence that the four traveled around China and "exchanged experiences" with other Falun Gong members, the leading People's Daily newspaper said.

 

• The rights group estimated that hundreds of members of Falun Gong throughout China face sentencing and that more than 1,000 have been sentenced so far.

 

November 15, 1999

Recent Experience of Mine, by Niu Jing-ping who had been detained in a mental hospital

• On October 28, when my daughter and I went to the Great Hall of the People to appeal, the police stopped us. The police dragged my 17-year-old daughter by hair onto the police car. The police brutally beat her up because she refused to get on the police car. We were sent to a yard behind the Museum of History where about 700 hundred practitioners had already been detained. A practitioner wanted to go to the restroom. A policeman gave him a kick and said, "You should stay home if you want to go to the restroom. Where are you from?" He said, "I am a graduate student of a university." The police continued to beat him up. My daughter spoke loudly, "Do not beat people!" The police then beat her up.

 

• At one o'clock on the night of October 30, some practitioners and I were sent to the detention center. We were stripped off in the cold weather for one hour. The police ordered the criminals to beat us up."

 

• At 7:00am the next day when I was washing clothes, several people came to my home, claiming that they wanted to do health examination for me. They thus brought me to the Huilongguan Hospital (a hospital for mental diseases). I have been arrested, beaten up and detained. Moreover, I was forced to take medicine for 7 days in a mental hospital. When asked for a certificate of diagnosis, the hospital refused and told me, "We will detain you again if you go to appeal."

 

• I know that 4 more practitioners are still being detained in this mental hospital.

 

November 16th , 1999

Beijing

The "Falun Dafa" Banner Held Up at the Tiananmen Square

• At Beijing time 9:00am, November 16, 1999, about 30 Falun Gong practitioners practiced Falun Gong exercise at the Tiananmen Square. They held up a 10-feet red banner reading "Falun Dafa", another name for Falun Gong. After 45 seconds, the plainclothes agents came over and pulled down the banner.

 

• They continued to do the exercises for 8 minutes, although the police tried to drag, grab and push them onto the police van. After these practitioners were all pushed onto a police van, some other practitioners started to practice.

 

• A police vehicle hit and injured a tourist when moving fast to get the practitioner group. Two reporters who were taking photos on the site were stopped by the police, but one of them escaped detention.

Both Reuters and Associated Press covered this news today. Associated Press covered more details on what had happened.

Guizhou Province

• Currently, about 50 practitioners are being detained in detention centers, drug-stopping institutes and other places in Guyang City. Among them, Zhou Shu-feng, a former employee of department of tax, was fired; the whereabouts of Chen Tuo-yu and Jiang Ming is still unknown. Chen Tuo-yu's wife was an officer of a labor camp and she was also fired. They had an 8-month-old baby. Wang Ying had also been detained although she had not gone to Beijing to appeal. Wang Ying was on hunger strike in the detention center for 5 days. Her family did not know her whereabouts until she was released. Currently all detained practitioners cannot be visited. More practitioners are still heading for Beijing.

 

November 17, 1999

Wuhan, Hubei Province

• After I was escorted back to Wuhan at the end of October, I was sent directly to a detention center where many Falun Dafa practitioners from different places had already been detained. When we continued to discuss Falun Gong together, the head of the criminals reported us to the police officer. The officer then ordered a group of female criminals to slap our faces and we were ordered to stand still for a whole day.á A practitioner argued with them while standing there, a female criminal thus kicked and punched her madly, and bumped her head against the wall. Suddenly, this practitioner started to vomit and her face became pale.

 

• On the next morning when they were running, a female criminal kicked and punched one old practitioner because she ran slowly. After she was beaten to the ground, she stood up and continued to run.

China

• Since November 9, a city government detained some of us who had gone to Beijing to appeal in a middle school for "education". Up to now, 21 practitioners have been sent in the "education" class. Some were transferred here from the police station. Some were sent here after 15 days of detention. Every morning, either the police officers give us a class, or each practitioner is "educated" by 2 to 3 police officers.

 

November 18, 1999

Hong Kong, China

5 Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong Are Detained by Beijing Police

• Hong Kong "New City Broadcast Station" reported that, according to a Falun Gong practitioner whose last name is Peng, on November 18, 5 Falun Gong practitioners and a 6-year-old kid from Hong Kong held up a banner reading "Falun Gong" on Tiananmen Square. The police immediately took them away. Their whereabouts is unknown.

 

• Ms. Peng said that these 5 Falun Gong practitioners from Hong Kong voluntarily went to Beijing to express their concerns over those arrested Falun Gong practitioners and to voice their objection against Chinese government's crackdown on Falun Gong.

 

November 19, 1999

Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province

• About 100 Falun Gong practitioners from Qinhuangdao (a city very close to Beijing) went to Beijing to appeal around October 14. They were all detained and escorted back to Qinhuangdao on November 19. They continued to practice and study Falun Gong in the detention center. Since there were too many practitioners in the detention center, they were later transferred to different detention centers in the seven districts of Qinhuangdao.

 

• Up to now, all except few of them who were released under the guarantee of their families are still being detained and cannot be visited. They have been detained for a whole a month. However, according to inner sources, whoever went to Beijing to appeal after July 25 would be sentenced to at least two years of labor education.

 

• The whole family of a contact person had gone to Beijing to appeal and they all were detained. Only his daughter-in-law was released after paying 200 Yuan because she had a baby. Recently, the police station ordered their landlord to take back the apartment that they rented. She has no financial resources. It was said that their whole family would be sentenced.

Liao-yuan, Jilin Province

• In Liao-yuan, Jilin, all detained Falun Gong practitioners are required to pay 3,000 Yuan. If one cannot afford it, the grain stock in one's home will be taken away.

 

• Hu Chun-xiang, a Falun Gong practitioner from An-xu Town of Dong-liao County, was able to get rid of her cancer after practicing Falun Gong. Because she does not want to give up Falun Gong, her grain stock was confiscated. Her husband was detained.

 

• Jin Jiang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yi-ma Village of An-xu Town.á One day, when he was working in the farm field, a village official came over and asked him whether or not he would continue to practice Falun Gong, he answered yes. So he was detained for 15 days.

 

• The grain stock of Qu Hong-mei, a practitioner from the Si-yi Town of Dong-liao County, was also confiscated.

 

• In order to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners, the police officer of the detain center collected 60 Yuan from the family of each of the detained Falun Gong practitioners to buy color TV. Up to now, 4 TVs have been brought.

 

• In Liaoyuan City, 9 family members of Falun Gong practitioner Sun Li-zhu are being detained. To go to Beijing to appeal, they raised 7,000 Yuan by selling their personal properties. They had stayed in Beijing for about 3 months. After Falun Gong was branded as "evil religion", they stood out to defend Falun Gong, thus they were thrown into the detention center. After 15 days of detention, they still refuse to give up Falun Gong. Therefore, they were transferred to the local General Machinery for further detention.

 

• After Wang Hong-mei from Deheng Company was released from the detention center, she was detained in the security section of her workplace.

 

• Yang Xu and her 8-month-old baby were detained in the detention center. At that time, her husband was also being detained.

 

• Before Annan came to China, some practitioners had been released. Later they were detained again. On November 17, 8 practitioners including Sun Xiu-zhi and Liu Duan-sheng were sentenced to labor education

 

November 22, 1999

Shenzhen, Guangdong Province

• It was reported by AP that Li Jian-hui, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shen-zhen, was put on trial by a court in Shen-zhen City, after being detained for two months. An official whose last name is Lin said that Li Jian-hui was charged with "damaging the law by using an evil religion". His case is still under investigation.

 

November 24, 1999

China

Report: China sends 12 Falun Gong members to camps

• BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities have sent another 12 members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to labor camps, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said.

 

• The 12 were sent away for doing Falun Gong meditation exercises in public in defiance of a government ban on the movement. The center said the number of Falun Gong practitioners sentenced nationwide to labor camp terms may exceed 2,000. Police in China can hand down labor camp sentences without trial.

 

• One facility, a labor camp for female prisoners in the northeastern city of Chang Chun, is holding 150 practitioners with sentences ranging from one to three years, the human rights center said.

Beijing Practitioners Zhang Dong, Zhou Li-jia and Their Family Members Are Missing

• Beijing practitioners Zhang Dong and Zhou Li-jia, who are a couple, Zhou Li-jia's mother and some Falun Gong practitioners from Northeastern China who stayed at their home, were reported to the police by somebody. Their home was then ransacked. It was said that on the day when their home was ransacked, a practitioner received a phone call from Zhang Dong who only said, "My home was ransacked." Up to now, their whereabouts is unknown. I have called their cellular number and home phone number many times but nobody answered.

 

November 25, 1999

China

Report: China puts four on trial for printing banned Falun Gong books

• SHANGHAI(AP) _ Four followers of Falun Gong went on trial Thursday on charges of illegally publishing 50,000 books for the banned Falun Gong, said the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human rights and Democratic Movement in China.

 

• Members have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. The Information Center, which is well informed about Chinese legal and dissident activity, says as many as 2,000 Falun Gong members have been sent to labor camps.

 

• On trial Thursday were Tan Min, a travel service employee, and three printing plant managers--Hu Guodong, Huang Shubai and Li Lin,á the center said in a statement.

 

• They were arrested in August and accused of printing books and 5,000 pictures of Falun Gong leader Li Hongzhi, the center said. They face up to seven years in prison if convicted.

 

• Xu Jinliang was the manager of the Shandong Youth Science and Technology Culture Service Center in the Shandong provincial capital of Jinan in eastern China.

 

November 26, 1999

Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

15 Falun Gong practitioners arrested in Guangzhou including 4 foreign citizens

• As reported by Chinese news net, 15 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police while practicing in Guangzhou on November 25. The four arrested foreigners include one Chinese American, two Chinese Australians and one female Swedish student. The remaining 11 people had been sent to a detention center.

 

• The Swedish student, Anna, was released after one day's detention. After her release, Anna revealed that while they were exchanging their cultivation experiences in a private home in Guangzhou early yesterday morning, the police entered suddenly and arrested them. During the arrest, one practitioner was forcefully hit to the wall and lost consciousness. Anna said that during her detention, the police not only continuously interrogated her and forcefully searched her purse, but also did not allow her to eat or call the Swedish consulate for help.

 

• A spokesman at the American consulate in Guangzhou confirmed to AFP the American had been arrested, but he said her status and whereabouts were unknown. It was the first time Chinese authorities have arrested foreigners in their persistent crackdown on members of the banned spiritual group.

 

• He said the consulate was informed of the arrest by journalists Friday and immediately contacted the Guangzhou police who confirmed they arrested the woman, but would not say what they were doing with her.

 

• According to Gail Rachlin, a spokeswoman for the Falun Gong group in New York and the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, the four are:
  • Sun Jie, a 30-year-old US citizen and computer software consultant from Denver, Colorado, who has been practicing Falun Gong for two years;

   

  • Anna Hakosalo, a Swedish exchange student studying at Dalian University in northeast China, who has been practicing Falun Gong since 1995;

   

  • Jiang Huijie, a 35-year-old Sydney woman who has been practicing Falun Gong for two years;

   

  • Jiang Xili, a 40-year-old Sydney woman and computer networking engineering who has been practicing Falun Gong for three years.

 

 

November 29, 1999

Dalian, Liaoning Province

• Falun Gong responsible person Ms. Gao has been secretly arrested long time ago. Even though she suffered severely, she did not give up. She was injected with stimulant, but she still says nothing.

Beijing

35,792 Falun Gong Practitioners were Detained

• HONG KONG (Reuters) -- China detained at least 35,792 members of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement between July 20 and October 30, a Hong Kong human rights group said on Monday.

 

• Vice Premier Li Lanqing had reported the number at a recent government meeting on the fight against Falun Gong, the Information Center of Human Rights & Democratic Movement in China quoted unidentified sources as saying.

 

November 30, 1999

Beijing

• BEIJING (AP) - Thirty members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement have been sent to labor camps in northeast China, adding to the followers of the banned Falun Gong jailed without trial nationwide, a rights group reported today.

 

• Most of the 300 labor camps throughout China now contain members of Falun Gong, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China reported.

 

• The 30 followers from three cities - Jiamusi, Shuangyashan and Changchun - were sent to labor camps last week either because they went to Beijing to appeal the ban or practiced the group's now outlawed slow-motion meditation exercises in public places, the rights center said.

 

• It estimated 2,000 Falun Gong members have been sent to labor camps and said the number was growing. Police in China have the authority to send criminal suspects to labor camps for up to three years without trial.

Haikou City, Hainan Province

• Also today, a court in southern Hainan province rejected the appeals of four Falun Gong leaders sentenced to between two and 12 years in prison, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Song Yuesheng, Jiang Shilong, Chen Yuan and Liang Yulin were sentenced Nov. 12 in the first trial of Falun Gong members, two weeks after China's national legislature approved harsher punishments of cult members.

 

• BEIJING, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A Chinese court rejected the appeals of four leaders of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement on Tuesday and upheld sentences of up to 12 years in prison. The high court in Haikou, capital of the southern island province of Hainan, also found the lower court verdict to be "correct".

 

• Song Yuesheng -- described by state media as an "organizer, schemer and commander" of Falun Gong in Hainan -- was sentenced to 12 years in prison for organizing 13 illegal protests in the province between July 22 and September 9 and escaping from police custody.

 

• Co-defendant Chen Yuan was jailed for seven years on similar charges of "using a cult to violate the law."

 

• Jiang Shilong received a sentence of three years.

 

• Liang Yulin, a woman, was given a two-year jail term.

 

December 1, 1999

Huai-an City

• In November, Mr. Zhang then wrote a letter to the Huai-yin City Government explaining that Falun Dafa is a righteous cultivation way and also wrote a letter to the central leaderships requesting them to return justice to Falun Gong.

 

• On the morning of November 24, the public security of Huai-an City ransacked Zhang Zheng-gang's home. Later Zhang Zheng-gang was taken to the department of public security. On his way to the police station, Zhang Zheng-gang recited "Lun Yu" (the preface of Zhuan Falun) in the police car; then his face was slapped for six times by a police officer. When they arrived at the department of public security, the police threw him onto the ground, which caused an extreme pain in Mr. Zhang's back. On the night of the third day, the police sent him back and he became under home arrest.

 

• On November 24, Zhang Zheng-gang's wife, Zhang Zhao-yun, who is also a Falun Gong practitioner, was intercepted by police from the local Chengxi police station on her way home. She was pushed to the ground by some policemen. On November 25, Zhang Zhao-yuan was detained with the accusation of "disturbing the implementation of law by practicing Falun Gong on the street". She was detained in the Huai-an detention center and forced to do hard labor.

 

December 2, 1999

China

Macao resident Zhang Yu-hui was arrested in China and might be sentenced

• A Macao resident Zhang Yu-hui, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested in Guangzhou when he was on his business trip there.á He was taken into custody on November 10th in the second detention center of Kaiping City of Guangdong province. He might be sentenced after Macao's return to Chinese rule this month.

 

December 3, 1999

Beijing

Beijing Trial was postponed

• On the afternoon of December 2nd, the four defenders for the trial of four Falun Gong contact people (Wang Zhi-wen, Li Chang, Ji Lie-wu and Yao Jie) were informed that the trial scheduled on December 3rd was postponed.

 

• Before December 2nd, some policemen talked with some practitioners that there would be a trial and asked them whether they would like to audit the trial. On the night of December 2nd, many practitioners were taken to the police station and were not allowed to go out. On December 3, 1999, many practitioners went to the People's Court. Some journalists might have also gone there. Many police vans stopped near the First Intermediate People's Court. They arrested all practitioners who went there. It was really a trap.

At least 9 more practitioners were arrested at the Tiananmen Square

• Chinese police arrested at least 9 practitioners at the Tiananmen Square including two women who had mediated at the Tiananmen Square.

 

• A Japanese took a picture for these two women when they meditated. The police thus destroyed his camera. The police also interrogated a foreign journalist for one hour and confiscated his film.

Zhaoyuan County, Shandong Province

• About 10 people were arrested for "spreading the news of Zhao Jinhua's death"

 

• After Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Jinhua from Zhaoyuan County of Shandong province was beaten to death by the police, the Chinese public security had not investigated the matter and punished the murder; instead, they searched for those people who had disclosed the news of Zhao Jinhua's death.

 

• Up to now, about 10 people had been arrested for spreading the news of Zhao Jinhua's death. It was said that all of them are being detained in Zhaoyuan and are not allowed to be visited including their family members. It is very possible that they will be sentenced.

 

December 5, 1999

China

• The Chinese government's crackdown on Falun Gong has been escalating. The head of a factory told a Falun Gong practitioner in his factory that anyone could be arrested if he/she practice Falun Gong exercises in public areas for more than three times.

 

December 6, 1999

Anhui Province

• Many Falun Gong practitioners from An-hui province have gone to Beijing to appeal. Although they learned that the first group of practitioners who went to Beijing had already been arrested, several more groups of practitioners still went to Beijing at the beginning of December. So far, those practitioners who had been escorted back from Beijing are under custody. Now all practitioners who are employed are suspended from their jobs and are forced to accept the "transformation" education.

Beijing

• In Tsinghua University, several dozens of practitioners stood out to appeal for Falun Dafa. The university thus ordered them to withdraw from school or persuade them to quit school.

 

• In the Chinese Academy of Science, about 8 graduate students stood out to appeal for Falun Dafa. They were then detained as "criminal suspects". They are Ph.D. Student Cao Kai from the Institute of Developmental Biology, graduate students Chen Kai-qu and Li Xiao-dong from the Institute of Mathematics, graduate students Hong Wei and Zhou Li from the Institute of Microbiology, Ph.D. students Yuan Xiao-fan and Meng Jun from the Ecology Center, Ph.D. student Yan Xiaohua from the Institute of Animals. Yan Xiaohua has been dismissed. Cao Kai has been detained twice, and he was named as the most problematic Falun Gong member. He is now suspended from his research.

 

December 7, 1999

Beijing

Urgent report: Expose Chinese Government's Assassinating Scheme

• According to reliable sources, the Chinese intelligence agency has already dispatched secret agents attempting to assassinate Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong. They may try to create traffic accidents or use other means. Several teams will operate the assassination simultaneously and independently. Each team will work out their own scheme without communicating with each other. In the end, the local Chinese sinister gangs or other assassinators will be employed to implement the assassination. They will also try to cover up afterwards. In order to achieve the goal of sparing none, they may consider creating some disputes so as to create a false impression that the sinister gangs kill the whole family in revenge.

 

• The Chinese authorities hope that if the assassination were successful, the Falun Gong "organization" would automatically dissolve.

China Expels Three Australian Falun Gong Members

• China has expelled two Australian Falun Gong members for demonstrating in Beijing. On Sunday officials put Yi Qin and Zeng Jianling on a plane to Hong Kong after they spent a night in jail following their arrest by police on Tiananmen Square Saturday. The two had unfurled a banner calling for an end to attempts by Beijing to extradite Mr. Li Hongzhi who lives in the United States and for an end to a crackdown on Falun Gong.

 

Decmeber 8, 1999

Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

China's crackdown on the Falun Gong is tearing suburban Denver family apart

• Jian Tang, 39, a Highlands Ranch mother and software engineer for Alltel Communications Inc. was detained Nov. 25 in Guangzhou, China. Police handcuffed Tang and imprisoned her in a bedless third-floor room. She and other arrested Falun Gong practitioners start a hunger strike. She is not allowed to see her family and friends. Since she is only a resident in Denver but doesnt hold a USA passport, she has little chance to be released.

 

December 10, 1999

Huai-an City, Sichuan Province

Si-chuan practitioners go to Beijing to appeal one after another

• Since November, practitioners from Si-chuan province have gone to Beijing to appeal one after another. Everyday in Cheng-du, Mian-yang, Le-shan and other cities, dozens of practitioners go to Beijing to appeal. Up to now, several hundred practitioners including Zhang Ying and Li Xiaoju have been escorted back after being arrested in Beijing. Most of them are still in custody.

 

• Authorities in Si-chuan province have made severe rules against the appealing activities of practitioners. Any practitioner who has gone to Beijing to appeal after November 25th will be accused of "making trouble". If a communist party member goes to appeal, he/she will be urged to withdraw from the party, or will be expelled from the party.

 

• In every region, the official of the highest rank will be in charge of Falun Gong "problem". If over 5 people in that region go to Beijing to appeal or over 10 people in that region gather together, this official will have to file a written self-criticism to the provincial government. If this happens twice in a region, the provincial government will circulate a notice of criticism on this official to the whole province. If this happens for three times, disciplinary action will be taken to punish this official.

 

• It was told by the family members of some arrested practitioners that the police had told them that Falun Gong practitioners will be detained for 15 days if they are arrested for the first time. If they are arrested for the second time, they will be given a sentence of 3 or more years.

 

December 13, 1999

Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province

The Story of a Falun Gong Practitioner from Jinzhou

• After I went to Beijing to appeal 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 and were arrested by policemen there.

 

• After they took me to the Longfeng hotel, a dozen of policemen started to interrogate me in a room. When they learned that I had gone to CCTV and People's Daily office to appeal, they started to beat and kick me madly, and they also slapped me many times. After they gave me dozens of slaps, and still could not get anything from me, they thus sank me into the water. I stayed in the water for more than ten hours.

 

• I had not eaten anything in three days. Later theyá transferred me to the police department of Huludao City. Before they left, they sank my head into the water and I lost consciousness.á 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 madly 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 treatments such as being beaten up, being handcuffed, being shocked by electric clubs etc. For those who wrote the repentance letters under such tortures, each of them was still fined 2 to 3 thousand Yuan.

 

• Up to now,á a total of 35 practitioners in Jinzhou have been sent to labor camps without trials. Some of them are Zhu Ying, Wang Yu-xian, Si Gui-fan, Dan Zhi-jia, Wu Nai-huan, Wang Jun, Chen Feng-zhen, Liu Ping and Ma Chao for 2 years,á Cui Ya-ning for 2 and a half years, Dai Li-guo, Yi Hou-mei, He Gou-jun, Jia Jin-wen, Feng Wen-guang, Shang Peng and Wang Zhi-fei for 3 years.

 

December 14, 1999

Shandong Province

Four Falun Gong Practitioners Facing Heavy Sentences for Exposing a Practitioner's Death from Police Torture

• According to a Hong-Kong based 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.

 

• Police arrested four Falun Gong practitioners, Liu Jinling, Li Lanying, Chi Yunling, and Chen Shihuan for disclosing Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Jinhua's death from police torture to people outside China. It is believed that the four practitioners will be prosecuted soon. The information center believes that they could face sentences of over 10 years in prison.

Latest Report on China's Persecution Against Falun Gong Practitioners

• Zhu Qing-xi, a Falun Gong practitioner and a former employee of the Hospital of Dong ying Sheng-li Oil Field of Shandong province, has been sent to a labor camp in Luo-yang of Henan province for one-and-a-half year labor education because he practiced Falun Gong exercise on Tainanmen Square in October.

 

• Currently, the Oil Field is detaining several practitioners. One of them has been detained for about 4 months.

Hebei Province

1)á Liu Ju-hua, 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 had gone to Beijing to appeal for three times.

• On September 22 when she and another fellow practitioner Yang Xue-zhen were stopped by a police officer near the Beijing Nationality Restaurant. The officer asked them whether they wereá 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 Xue-zhen. 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 took her clothes offá and made her barefooted. Then they roped 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. On the same afternoon, they were sent to the Beijing Qinghe detention center. There, they were searched after they were ordered to take off 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 Shu-zhen was just escorted back from Beijing. A police officer shocked the puncture points all over her body using an electric club.á The police beat them using big clubs, and stuff dirty underwear and socks into their mouths.

2)á The experience of Falun Gong practitioners in Kai-ping detention center in Tangshan City.

• On 7pm of November 2, 1999, the policemen on duty suddenly called Falun Gong practitioners outside to give them an "education". The main point was that practitioners must accept the labor education in earnest and they were not allowed to practice Falun Gong. They then asked those who still wanted to practice Falun Gong to stand out, and threatened that they could be punished. Still, ten practitioners stood out. They were Liu Cai-hua, Liu Ju-hua, Yang Xue-zhen, Tian Gui-ying, Guo Li-yun, Guo Li-xia, Jia Xue-yan, Duan Jing-jing, He Jing and Xu Qiu-zhen. The police officers thus handcuffed all of them to the trees nearby. They started to recite "Lun Yu" (the preface of Zhuan Falun).

 

• A policeman whose last name was Du shouted, "Silence them!" Then the labor educator Wang Yan-qiu and other educators picked up some dirty rags and stuff them into the mouths of practitioners. After that, Wang Yan-qiu asked another educator Chen Xiao-ya, to take off her socks and underwear. Chen said, "I am still in the period." They squeezed those stuff into the mouths of practitioners. After a while, those stuff were spitted out. They thus found some tapes and sealed the mouths of practitioners. Meantime, they slapped practitioners' faces. Duan Jing-jing's face was slapped to swell. Yang Xue-zhen's mouth was broken. Du and other policemen were just standing by and watching. When they spit those stuff out, Du scolded those educators, "all of you are stupid." These practitioners were tortured like this for four hours.

 

• On November 3, the practitioners started hunger strike. On the seventh day, they were forced to have some food. They were fed with cereal and milk through a thick and hard plastic pipe (not a plug-in-nose pipe for medical use) for many times. Some practitioners' noses were bleeding during the process of forced feeding. Also, some practitioners were handcuffed on the playground for days. Some practitioners became very weak and could not stand up for long. Thus, they were handcuffed while being hung up. Liu Cai-hua was one of them. Sun Fu-yun was shocked by police with electric club. Liu Ju-huaá was beaten up by police with hard rubber club. On November 15, 4 practitioners including Liu Ju-hua were sent to the labor camp of Shijiazhuang City.

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

• According to an official newspaper, Qiu Li-ying was arrested on October 17 on the Tiananmen Square when she was watching flag-raising ceremony. She had been detained in the police station, detention center and labor camp. Now she is detained together with Zhou Xi-meng, Bai Yu-zhi and other practitioners. All of them have been given 3 years of labor education.

Changchun City, Jilin Province

Practitioners from Changchun Forced to Do 18-19 Hours of Hard Labor Everyday

• Many Falun Gong practitioners are being detained in the Hei-zhui-zi female labor camp in Changchun. They had all been sentenced to one year of forced labor "education" without trial because they refuse to give up their beliefs in Falun Gong and they had appealed to high authorities. They are almost in isolation from the outside world because authorities do not allow their family members to visit them regularly. According to reliable sources, they are forced to work for 18-19 hours per day, and the labor is extremely demanding. They are now on hunger strike against the inhuman treatment.

 

• In Changchun City, about 100 Falun Gong practitioners are still being detained. Hope the world will pay attention to the severe human rights violation by the Chinese government.

Sichuan Province

Three Graduate Students Expelled from Schools for Suspected Involvement in Drafting the Appealing Letter to Annan

• Two graduate students from Si-Chuan University, Luo Ming-pu and Liu Bin, and a graduate student from Si-Chuan Institute of Industry have been expelled from their schools because they were suspected by the authorities to have taken part in drafting the "Appealing Letter from Falun Gong Practitioners in Si-Chuan Province to the General Secretary of United Nations, Mr. Annan" and collecting signatures.

 

• Is this consistent with what the Chinese government have promised General Secretary Annan about human rights in China?

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

• China Jin-jiang district police station in Chengdu City held a "brainwash" class for 12 Falun Gong practitioners from the Factory of Seamless Steel Tube.á During the class, practitioners also needed to pay 10 Yuan each day to attend the class until they satisfied the police's requirements.

 

• There are also two practitioners from another district. One of them said, "My husband has gone to Beijing to appeal. The police ordered me to pay 2,000 Yuan for the air ticket of the police officer who would go to Beijing to get him back, and another 3,000 Yuan as the deposit for my not going to Beijing to appeal. I cannot afford that. Therefore, the police ordered me to close my business and attend the class here everyday."

Practitioners in Chengdu City Suffering Persecutions and Surveillance from Local Government

Since the Chinese government defamed Falun Gong as a "cult" on October 27th, Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua North District, Chengdu City, have been suffering brutal persecutions and intensive surveillance from local police stations and their workplaces.

1) Arresting, detention, and deprivation of personal freedom:

• Falun practitioners voluntarily went to Beijing to express our opinions to related central government offices peacefully and kindly. However, not only we were not allowed to exercise this basic right conferred by the Chinese Constitution and laws, but also were we arrested and detained by police.

 

• Those innocent practitioners who went to appeal were detained or sent to labor camps without trial under the groundless accusations such as "sabotaging social stability", "engaging in superstitions" etc. Their personal freedom was deprived. In the small district of Xinhua alone, dozens of practitioners were being detained. Some have been detained for months.

2) Illegal financial penalties and persecutions against family members:

• The practitioners who were escorted back from Beijing must pay for all the expenses of those police officers who went to Beijing to escorted them back, including their round-trip flight tickets. The expenses range from 1,000 Yuan to 5,000 Yuan. Such penalties are simply unprecedented in the practice of police departments.

 

• To prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, a local police station in Niu-shi-kou, Chengdu City confiscated the ID cards of local practitioners, and ordered each practitioner to turn in two photos etc.

 

• Five practitioners in the Factory of Steel Pipes were threatened with labor "education" if they refused to denounce Falun Gong. The retirees will have their pensions cut off if they are found to practice Falun Gong. In addition to that, the family members of Falun Gong practitioners are also under pressure from their workplaces and related government departments. For example, Falun Gong practitioners and their family members were not allowed to be hired or promoted by some workplaces or recruited by the army.

 

December 16, 1999

More Overseas Practitioners Arrested in China

• At 11pm on December 14, three Falun Gong practitioners from California, United States, were arrested by the police in Shengzhen when they were exchanging experiences at the home of a fellow practitioner. In addition, about 20 practitioners from overseas were arrested by the Chinese police after they attended the Hong Kong conference.

A Brief News from A Labor Camp in China

• I was sent to the labor camp on November 3. Now 6 practitioners from Shijiazhuang City, 2 from Shenzhe County, 2 from Zhao County, 4 from Tangshan City, 4 from Handan City, 1 from Langfang city and 7 from Chengde city have been sent to this labor camp.

 

December 17, 1999

Beijing

Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Beijing

• On December 12, eight practitioners were arrested while practicing Falun Gong in the Asian Olympic Village in Beijing. Their whereabouts has been unknown.

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

• About one hundred practitioners who are being detained in the Jiu-ru-chun detention center in Chengdu City refused to sign on the pledge that they would not practice Falun Gong in public, not go to appeal and not secretly contact other practitioners. They are now on hunger strike. Some practitioners have been on hunger strike for 5 days. Since too many practitioners are being detained, the detention center becomes very crowded. Many of them have been transferred here after being detained for 5 to 6 days in the drug-stopping center.

 

December 19, 1999

Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

• On December 19, seven practitioners from Guangzhou were arrested by the police of Zhongshan City when they were having a conversation with four local practitioners during their meal without any reason. On December 20, these seven practitioners were escorted back to their hometown for 15 days of detention. Some practitioners refused to sign on the detention certificates because they thought their basic right as a citizen had been violated.

 

December 20, 1999

Another Five Practitioners from Australia Arrested

• Five Falun Dafa practitioners from Australia were arrested when they were exchanging experience with other practitioners at the home of a Beijing practitioner. That Beijing practitioner was also arrested. Now their whereabouts is unknown.

 

• A practitioner from Ireland called Liu Feng went back to China during the Christmas break to appeal to the Chinese authorities for Falun Dafa. He went to appeal alone with a letter on December 19. He has been missing since then.

 

December 24, 1999

Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Four Falun Gong practitioners from Sichuan province were given criminal detention

• Four Falun Gong practitioners from Nan-jiang county of Si-chuan province, Pan Zheng-guan, Pan Hu etc were escorted back to their hometown from Beijing. To threaten other practitioners, the local police gave them criminal detention (according to Si-chuan'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.

Beijing

Beijing Practitioners Were Prevented from Auditing the Trial of Four Major Falun Gong Contact People

• * Today many practitioners received a notice from the police station that there will be a trial next day and they should not go to the Court to audit. Some practitioners were ordered to stay at home; some practitioners were ordered to watch TV report of the trial; some practitioners were ordered to go to the police station to report before 9am-tomorrow morning.

 

December 26, 1999

Beijing

The Latest Report on the Show-trial of Four Falun Gong Contact People

• On December 26, Chinese government put the four major contact people of Falun Gong on trial in the First Intermediate Court located at the Shi-jing-shan District of Beijing. At 10:00am, the police blocked the roads to the Court about 1km away. The police checked the identification cards of all passersby. Once a Falun Gong practitioner was found, he/she would be immediately arrested.

 

• At noon, a large number of police officers appeared outside the First Intermediate Court of Beijing. Many plainclothes agents appeared at the nearby crossroads, subways and bus stations to search for Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners were arrested and taken to the Shi-jing-shan Stadium. Some practitioners were even taken to the local police stations from their homes.

 

• The First Intermediate Court of Beijing sentenced the former Falun Gong contact people Li Chang 18 years, Wang Zhi-wen 16 years, Ji Lie-wu 12 years and Yao Jie 7 years without an open trial.

Zhejiang Province

• Many practitioners in Zhejiang province are going to Beijing to appeal.á At the beginning of November, Zhang Yu-wei, a PhD student of the medical science department of Zhejiang University, and Guo Chun-huan, a PhD student of the ancient literature department of Zhejiang University, went to Beijing to appeal. They were under home arrest for about one month.

 

• Hong Chang, a former teacher in the Guo-tai Foreign Arts School of Hangzhou City, was under home arrest for about two months.

 

• Practitioner Fu Wei-zhong was under home arrest for more than three months for exchanging experiences with other practitioners from other places. Now he is baited out waiting for trial.

 

• Zhang Jian-bo, 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 Kan-xiang, a teacher of the psychology department of Zhejiang University, is now being detained for exchanging experiences with practitioners from Hangzhou University.

 

• In Hai-yan 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 Yu-yao 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.

 

December 27, 1999

Liaoning province

Zhang Chun-qing, Zhu Hang, and other practitioners are suffering further persecutions for exposing police tortures they suffered before

• So far, over 100 female practitioners have been sent to the Ma-shan-jia labor camp in Shenyang. Eighteen of them are from Dalian City; others are from other places of Liao-ning province. The number of male practitioners in the labor camp is unknown.

 

• Liang Qing from Dalian City was detained in the Yao-jia detention center in Nan-guan-ling 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 Chun-qing and other practitioners to foreign media. Her computer and other equipments were also confiscated. Liang Qing was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor.

 

• Zhang Chun-qing is now being detained in the Ma-shan-jia 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 Industrial University, is now being detained in a hospital for mental patients and is forced to accept the treatments for mental patients because she refuses to give up Falun Gong.

 

• Zhang Xiao-hong is now being detained in the Yao-jia detention center because she had gone to appeal.

 

• Sha Yu-song 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.

 

• Yi Xing-qin and Yang Xiu-juan are now being detained in a drug-stopping center because their experiences were exposed on the Internet.

 

• All sentenced and detained practitioners are forbidden to be visited by their families.

 

December 29, 1999á

 

Guizhou

• The Disciplinary Committee of Xishui (county) of Guizhou (province) expelled the former Deputy Secretary of Tuchen City, Lu Anqiu, from the Communist Party because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa. The Public Security Bureau sentenced him to 3 years in a labor camp.á
• Towards the end of 1999, about 20 practitioners were sent to labor camps. It is said that practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal more than once would be sent directly to labor camps.á

Beijing

Three Falun Gong practitioners from Singapore Are Being Detained in Beijingá

• Three Falun Gong practitioners from Singapore, Wu Guo-rui, Xiong Chang-nei and Xiong Shou-yong, who are students of Nan-yang Institute of Technology, went to China on November 6 to appeal to the Chinese government to stop its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. So far, they have been detained by the Beijing police for over one month. It is believed that they were arrested at Tiananmen Square four or five days after they arrived in Beijing. These three Chinese students are recipients of scholarships awarded by the Department of Education of Singapore.á

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December 30, 1999á

Chong-qing, Si-chuan Province

• Recently, the police department in Si-chuan received a secret notice from the Ministry of Public Security. The notice ordered them to punish Falun Gong practitioners as heavily, and as soon, as possible. The secret notice also required them to expand punishment of "important members of Falun Gong" to all Falun Gong practitioners. Whoever continues to "associate", "appeal" or "attack" will be punished with either administrative detention, criminal detention, labor education etc. The secret notice stated explicitly that it was allowed to sentence Falun Gong practitioners to death.á
• Since December, the Si-chuan government and the public security department have intensified the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners throughout the province. The police stations require all practitioners to attend "the transformation classes" and to sign the pledge of three guarantees. They were not allowed to leave the classes unless they agreed to sign. As to those practitioners who have been detained before, they will be detained indefinitely if they do not promise that they will not go to Beijing to appeal and will not associate with other practitioners.á
• Wu-gui-qiao police station in Cheng-du (city) cut off the telephone lines of local Falun Gong practitioners. Public security departments in Shuan-liu, Wen-jiang and other places confiscated some practitioners' ID cards, property certificates etc and threatened that if they continued to practice org o to appeal, their apartments would be taken back by the state (in China, many people are living in state-own apartments). Many police departments have received a notice that if they could not transfer local Falun Gong practitioners, the officials would be dismissed. If as soldier or a state employee has some family members who practice Falun Gong, he/she will be suspended from work until the family members give up Falun Gong. Many practitioners have to divorce their spouses. In order not to bring trouble to their family members, some practitioners wrote statements terminating the relationships.á

Wu-su County, Xing-jiang Province

• As soon as the Chinese communist regime defamed Falun Dafa as an "evil religion", some practitioners from Wu-Su County hit the road to Beijing to appeal and they have already been escorted back by police. They include Li Hou-Zhuang, Chen Hui-Fang, Liang Yu-Ying, Wang Shao-Feng, Liu Hong-Yuan. They are now being detained together with another 30practitioners from the same county. The police would release them only as long as they promised to give up Falun Gong, otherwise, they would be detained indefinitely.á
• Wang Shao-Feng and Liu Hong-Yuan have been detained for two months so far. A former contact person of Falun Gong, Cui Xiu-Lan, went on a hunger strike for five days, and she was transferred to a labor camp directly. Another contact person, Tan Lu, and a practitioner have also been sent to a labor camp.á
• It was said that Li Hou-Zhuang and Chen Hui-Fang (who are now in police custody) would "be arrested immediately" and charged with "association across provinces and cities", and would be sentenced heavily.á

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December 31, 1999

Guangdong Province

• Two practitioners from Nan-Hai and a local practitioner were arrested at the home of the latter on December 30. Their family members are not allowed to visit them.

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January 1, 2000á

China

• At the first second of the new millennium, about 20 practitioners were arrested at Tian-an-men Square while they were trying to hold up a banner of "Falun Dafa". Among them, 10 came from Australia. All these practitioners are in custody now.á
• At 11:40am on January 1, 2000, two Falun Dafa practitioners held up a banner that read "Falun Turns Forever", and they were arrested immediately. The morning of January 1, arrested practitioners filled seven or eight police vans.á
• A student from Wu-Han Police School went to Beijing to appeal. After he was released from detention, he continues to practice Falun Dafa. Now, he has gone to Beijing again to appeal.á

Practitioners From Japan Did Group Practice on the Tiananmen Square to Celebrate the New Millennium

• On the eve of the new millennium, a dozen practitioners from Japan gathered at Tiananmen Square to practice Falun Gong and were arrested by the Chinese police. Six practitioners with Japanese passports and one practitioner with a Taiwan passport were deported and sent back to Tokyo on the afternoon of January 1st, 2000.
• Over 40 practitioners from Japan volunteered to go to Beijing. Some with Chinese passports were denied entrance to China at Beijing or Shanghai customs. When being questioned for the reason, the customs officers said perfunctorily that they were simply following the orders of their supervisors. Practitioners lost their personal freedom for more than 12 hours and were put onto the airplane returning to Japan the next day.á
• On December 31, practitioners who successfully arrived in Beijing went to Tiananmen Square. When it was approaching midnight, thousands of people gathered at the Square. The practitioners started to practice Falun Gong as soon as the new millennium arrived. Japanese practitioners also found many practitioners from China and Hong Kong practicing Falun Gong separately at different locations of the Square.á
• As soon as the police noticed them, they rushed to the practitioners and dragged them onto police vans. Many female practitioners were dragged into the vans by their hair. The police force seemed inadequate because a group of Japanese practitioners were not taken away until they had practiced Falun Gong for about ten minutes. They were sent to detention centers in Beijing. Some police officers' hands became swollen or even bloody from beating up practitioners. Many police officers became very tired. Many people and foreign journalists witnessed police officers beating up practitioners.á
• Practitioners with Japanese passports were sent back to Tokyo after being detained for 12 hours while practitioners with Chinese passports remained in custody. When this news was written, Zhang Yu-fu and his seven-year-old son were already being escorted back, by police, to their hometown in Harbin. Zhang Yu-fu's mother-in-law had been informed to pick up the child. Zhang's wife is also a practitioner and she had been denied entrance to China twice. The whereabouts of other arrested practitioners are unknown.á

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January 2, 2000

Beijing

• The Fangshan Changguan police station has sent over 50 practitioners they arrested to a mental institution (located in Zhou-Kou-Dian) and have not released them yet. According to the authorities, the practitioners were held in custody so that they could not appeal during the period China was reclaiming Macao. Each of them had to pay 800 to1000 Yuan for the "expenses". It was said that the officials in the police station had the right to decide when to release them.

 

Part 1. Before July 20th

Part 2. From July 20th to August

Part 3. From September to October

Part 4. From November to December

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(... the situation is still developing. Due to the severe blockage of communications networks (telephone/fax/email/web sites), we have no news from the villages and many more other cities where there are significant numbers of Falun Dafa practitioners. All we know is that the Central government has ordered that the whole country forbid the practice of Falun Dafa. People who dare to continue to practice Falun Dafa will be dishonorably dismissed from the Communist Party, from school and from their jobs. All this because Falun Dafa is a traditional, high-level Qigong practice that focuses on Truth, Benevolence and Forbearance and offers people better physical and mental health and has attracted millions of people all over the world are learning and practicing it now.)

This information was collected by some Falun Dafa practitioners in North America.

All kind-hearted people around the world,

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