Latest News from China - 06/29/2001

[Minghui Net]

• Practitioners of Dongfeng Vehicle Company Hold Hunger Strike for 24 days in Brainwashing Class in Shiyan City, Hubei Province
• Teacher's New Articles Broadcast Over Shijiazhuang Labor Campin Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
• Former Assistant Director of Falun Dafa Assistance Center Locked Up in a Brainwashing Class in Shanghai
• Record of Practitioners Being Persecuted in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
• Local Officials Hold Brainwashing Class in Huainan City, Anhui Province
• Labor Camp Guards Torture Dafa Practitioners in Jilin Province
• Practitioner Li Suqin in Fangshan District is Arrested, Leaving a 13-year-old Daughter at Home Alone in Beijing
• Inside the Detention Center of Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province
• Several Practitioners Missing in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province
• Practitioner Ouyang Ming Holds Hunger Strike in Detention Center in Huanggang City, Hubei Province
• Police Arrests Practitioner Wang Huanjun of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
• Li Yanliang Directs Police to Persecute Dafa Practitioners in Shanhaiguan District, Hebei Province
• Shanghai Police Arrest Practitioners
• Use Caution Around Former Practitioners
• Telephone Numbers of the Beidaihe Railway Station and Offices Persecuting Dafa Practitioners of Beidaihe, Hebei Province

1. Practitioners of Dongfeng Vehicle Company Hold Hunger Strike for 24 days in Brainwashing Class in Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Five practitioners of Dongfeng Vehicle Company have been on a hunger strike for 24 days since they were detained in a brainwashing class. Three practitioners have been on a hunger strike for eight days.

They are:

Name	Gender, Age	Occupation	Duration of Hunger Strike (days)
Liu Qiusong	Male, 53	Retired teacher of Education and Training Department in No.4 Middle School attached to 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	24
Chen Lianqin	Female, 46	Worker of 22nd Sub-factory of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	24
Fang Anquan	Male, 49	Staff of Technical Department in 49th Sub-factory of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	24
Yao Yongfan	Male, 25	Staff of Technology Research Institute of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	24
Ruan Miaomiao	Female, 24	Staff of 61st Sub-factory of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	24
Zhu Zhiyuan	Female, 56	Zhangwan Hospital of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	8
Wu Xianjun	Male, 57	Waterworks of 2nd Vehicle Manufacture Factory	8

Another practitioner whose name is unknown has also been on hunger strike for 8 days.

A total of fourteen practitioners are currently being detained in the brainwashing class. They have held two hunger strikes previously.

In March 2001, practitioner Liu Lan was arrested for performing Falun Gong exercises. During the subsequent "military training," Policeman Guan brutally beat up practitioner Zhu Zhiyuan and Deng Jijun, who held a five-day hunger strike in protest.

Around mid-May 2001, the police department said that they wanted to talk to four representatives of Dafa practitioners. In fact, this was a ruse to detain three of them. These practitioners held a hunger strike for two days in protest.

2. Teacher's New Articles Broadcast Over Shijiazhuang Labor Camp in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

On the night of May 17, practitioners installed three speakers near the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th Labor Camps in Shijiazhuang City, through which Teacher's new articles were broadcast at midnight on May 17 and in early morning of May 18. The police frantically searched for the practitioners who installed the speakers; the practitioners returned safely.

3. Former Assistant Director of Falun Dafa Assistance Center Locked Up in a Brainwashing Class in Shanghai

Two month ago, Yuan Xiaolan, previous assistant director of Falun Dafa Shanghai Assistance Center, was taken away by the police. She was put in a brainwashing class and has been kept there ever since. Yuan had persisted in performing the Falun Gong exercises in public until last August.

4. Record of Practitioners Being Persecuted in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

On Chinese New Year's Eve, practitioners Liu Fengmin, Chen Lixin, Zhang Chunyan and Meng were illegally arrested and placed in a detention center. They protested by holding a hunger strike, and they were released three days later.

After Chinese New Year's Day, practitioner Wu Yun was pursued by the police and forced to flee her home, leaving her parents and children behind.

Right before the May 1^st holiday, practitioner Guo Suzhen was followed by the police.

5. Local Officials Hold Brainwashing Class in Huainan City, Anhui Province

The mayor of Jiulonggang Township in Datong District of Huainan City sent the 50-year-old female practitioner Hong Zhanhui to a brainwashing class, held in a local home for the elderly. In an attempt to escape from the brainwashing class, Hong climbed over the wall in the backyard. When she jumped down, both of her ankles broke. Secretary Sun of the Politics and Law Committee said, "She has to go [to the brainwashing class] even if her ankles are broken." The people working in the class were strongly against it, for Hong could not take care of herself with broken ankles. Finally she was sent home, but still each weekday people came and attempted to brainwash her.

The perpetrators:

Wang Haijin, Chief of Politics and Security Section of the Police Department in Panji District, Huainan City

Xu Hong, Office phone: [phone]

6. Labor Camp Guards Torture Dafa Practitioners in Jilin Province

On April 24, 2001, seeing the firm belief of Dafa practitioners, the policemen in the labor camp intensified their torture of Dafa practitioners. They summoned practitioners to the office of the section chief one by one and used electric batons to shock practitioners' skin, private areas, and mouths. They also used a rubber rod to beat practitioners. Supervisor Xu of section two in group two took off her shoe and hit a practitioner's head violently with the heel to "clear the practitioner's mind." To keep a practitioner from struggling, they tied her up spread-eagled to the bed stand. The handcuffs were so tight that they cut into the flesh. They blasted music at high volumes to cover up the cries from the torture.

A labor camp in Shandong Province even sent people over to learn from their "experiences." One official said, "The key is simply to buy more electric batons, rubber rods, and handcuffs."

Section supervisor Xu Xuequan locked up practitioners Zhang Shu and Wang Wentian individually in the office. He tied up Zhang Shu's legs and pushed his head toward his legs. Then Xu beat him with an electric baton and a rubber rod. Wang Wentian is 59 years old. Xu stripped off Wang's shirt and prodded his chest with two electric batons. When practitioners pointed out their criminal acts, some policemen denied beating practitioners, while some shameless said that the labor camp had the right to do so. They claimed that it was an order from Zhang Peilin and Hu, heads of the labor camp. Chen Tianshu, supervisor of group two, said, "The way we treat you is very normal. This way you can go home sooner. If somebody is beaten to death or severely hurt, you can go talk to the head of the camp."

7. Practitioner Li Suqin in Fangshan District is Arrested, Leaving Her 13-Year-Old Daughter at Home Alone in Beijing

Practitioner Li Suqin in Fangshan District of Beijing was arrested in January 2001 before Chinese New Year's Day, and her whereabouts is unknown. Her husband, practitioner Li Baoshu, was sentenced to four years in labor camp. Currently, their 13-year-old daughter is at home alone.

8. Inside the Detention Center of Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province

The Detention Center of Zhuanghe is where practitioner Shao Shisheng was beaten to death. (Please refer to No.41 in "A List of Falun Gong Practitioners Who Have Died as a Result of the Crackdown" on Minghui Net. http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/special_column/death_list.html)

The detention center began a program of "military training" of Dafa practitioners on the fourth day of the Chinese lunar year. It is just another name for physical torture. On the first day, they forced Hua Yushuang, Ren Dongmei, Liu Fengqin, Wang Yingge, Zhang Yumin, and Xie Guihua to stand on the snowy ground in the shade, wearing thin clothes. They were forced to stand in the cold from dawn to dusk, and the policemen took turns watching them. Though they were wearing winter coats, caps, and gloves, they still caught colds. Walking back and forth anxiously, the policemen kept asking, "Do you still want to practice Falun Gong?" The nearly frozen practitioners in thin clothes answered resolutely, "[We will] firmly cultivate Dafa with an unaffected heart and mind." At the same time, they kindly told the guard about the truth of Falun Dafa.

The next day the torture was even more severe. The guards forced Dafa practitioners to do push-ups on the ice, including menstruating women and elderly people. There was one guard supervising each practitioner. Seeing any disobedience, the guard would step on the hands of the practitioner or use an electric baton. The fingers of the practitioners became blue and numb in the freezing cold. In the evening when senses came back to their fingers, it brought sharp pain, and they couldn't hold anything with their hands. Xu Dejing's hands had blisters for several days due to the freezing. Even some inmates in the cell were moved to tears at the sight.

The guards also forced practitioners to squat down and get up, jump around, and do push-ups hundreds of times, including the elderly. If a practitioner failed to do one properly, he would have to start all over again, or to be shocked by an electric baton. The young practitioners had to do these "exercises" carrying a heavy rock on their back. Male practitioners were taken from the line and "trained" individually. The guards used electric batons to shock their tongues, mouths, necks, and even genital areas. They often did this until the practitioner was on the verge of passing out. The guards used a triangular stick to beat one practitioner for two to three hours until the stick shattered. They even forcefully rammed a practitioner's head against a wall that had bruises covering his body. Guard Li Hongzhu once handcuffed practitioner Hua Yushuang to the jail bars to beat him. As a result, Hua suffered from a great deal of gastro-intestinal pain and had trouble holding down water. Sometimes, practitioners were not allowed to have lunch and had to continue the training in the evening.

This type of torture lasted for more than three weeks.

9. Several Practitioners Missing Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province

Practitioners Feng Yanping, Li Guangping, Li Guangrong, and Shen Kejian have disappeared for nearly half a month. Their family members said that they had been staying at home and didn't go to appeal before their disappearance.

10. Practitioner Ouyang Ming Holds Hunger Strike in Detention Center in Huanggang City, Hubei Province

Ouyang Ming was a lecturer in an industrial school in Huanggang, but he was fired for practicing Falun Gong. He has been in and out of the No. 1 Detention Center in Huanggang. He was spreading Falun Gong flyers when he was arrested recently. When he was taken to the detention center, Ouyang began a hunger strike in protest. His current condition is unknown.

11. Police Arrests Practitioner Wang Huanjun of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province

At about 9:00 p.m. on June 18, practitioner Wang Huanjun (60 years old) was handing out Falun Gong flyers and putting up posters at the intersection near Jianhua Shopping Mall. A policeman suddenly appeared and took Wang away. Wang's current whereabouts are unknown.

Hedong Police Station 86-311-5055880

Hedong Administrative Office 86-311-552742

Changan Police Station 86-311-6049391

Police Department of the City 86-311-7026911

Government Office of Changan District 86-311-6048580

Government Office of the City 86-311-6688114

12. Li Yanliang Directs Police to Persecute Dafa Practitioners in Shanhaiguan District, Hebei Province

In the period of Chinese lunar New Year of 2000, the police in Shanhaiguan District started to intensify their persecution of Dafa practitioners. The directive of Li Yanliang, the Party Secretary of Shanhaiguan District, was passed down to every level in the police system: "Beat those who go to Beijing to appeal within an inch of their lives." This involved all the policemen in the department, even turning detectives into goons to torture practitioners. Some practitioners were beaten for eight hours continuously, and some were severely wounded and couldn't bear taking their clothes off for several days.

The guards in the detention centers also employed more severe forms of physical torture. This included extended sleep deprivation, being forced to squat for long periods of time, standing handcuffed in the courtyard in the cold, being burnt with cigarette butts, being hung in an iron cage with hands cuffed to the back, arms cuffed to the back with a board or beer bottle stuck in between, and having a person stand on a stick placed on the calves of the prone victim.

Those practitioners not detained were not left alone either. The policemen went to the home of every practitioner to ask whether he would go on practicing. If the answer was "Yes," that practitioner would be fined for 3,000 Yuan as a punishment. (Yuan, Chinese dollar. The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 Yuan.) If one refused to pay, the police would forcefully take away all his furniture and belongings. Policemen in the Dongjie Police Station were the most rampant. They confiscated TV sets, VCR's, motorcycles, and cars from practitioners. Zhang Guo, the head of the police station, said that it was in accordance with orders from higher authorities.

Shanhaiguan District has held several brainwashing classes. Any practitioner who doesn't give up Falun Gong is sent to a detention center. If he still doesn't renounce his beliefs, then he is sent to a labor camp. Physical torture is common in the detention centers. In every group of detained practitioners, there are some that have been tortured, including those in their 20's as well as in their 50's and 60's, most of them women. Apart from physical and mental torture, there is financial punishment. The police fined the detained practitioners from 1,000 Yuan to 3,000 Yuan, and no practitioner was given a receipt.

Such persecution is still ongoing. We hope that the kind-hearted people in the world will give us their support and help stop the persecution.

13. Shanghai Police Arrest Practitioners

Zhao Meixian, female. Because she was determined to practice Falun Gong, she was forced to leave home at the beginning of June. She was arrested while speaking out the truth of Falun Dafa.

Ding Youmu, male. At the beginning of June, the police asked him for a meeting and took him away. They then searched his house without a warrant and presented a detention document for his family to sign. The document didn't say exactly how long he was going to be detained, which means they could detain him indefinitely.

Xie Hongzhu, female. She was expelled from the Party for practicing Falun Dafa and arrested recently.

Shen Bilian, female. She was under constant surveillance, and the police recently forcefully took her away to a brainwashing class.

14. Use Caution Around Former Practitioners

Pan Jinqiu, male, in his 40's, is from Guangzhou. He has betrayed Dafa and is helping the police.

Zhang Jinping has been seen walking around Tiantan Park, waiting to arrest Dafa practitioners.

15. Telephone Numbers of the Beidaihe Railway Station and Offices Persecuting Dafa Practitioners of Beidaihe, Hebei Province

Peng Jianshe, head of the Police Station in Beidaihe Railway Station: 86-335-4019001 (His old number is 4019771)

Xing Jun, Head of Beidaihe Railway Station

Police Department Beidaihe Branch: 86-335-4041122

Office of Inspection in Police Department Beidaihe Branch: 86-335-4041082

Office Handling Visits and Complaints from People in Beidaihe District: 86-335-4041101

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