Latest News from China - 10/23/2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

• [Wuxue City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Cao Meilan's Life Is in Danger
• [Shayang Town, Hubei Province] Liao Yuanhua and Other Practitioner Being Jailed in Fanjiatai Prison Are on Hunger Strike
• [Sichuan Province] Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions
• [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Chen Weiyi Is Tortured at Dalian Forced Labor Camp
• [Dongming County, Shandong Province] Sister Practitioners Zhang Yu'e and Zhang Fenglan Unlawfully Arrested
• [China] Zeng Qinghong Comes Across Truth-Clarifying Banners
• [Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
• [Suining City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Detained in the Linquanshi Detention Center
• [Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province] Police in the Detention Center Beat up Falun Dafa Practitioners
• [China]Truth-Clarifying Phone Calls from Practitioners outside China Shock the Evil
• [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Brainwashing Class Held near Jingyuetan
• [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Arrested
• [Zhuolu County, Hebei Province] Criminal Record of "610 Office" Clerk Li Zhiming
• [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Torture Methods used in Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp for Drug Addicts
• [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Criminal Record of Policewoman Zhang Li from the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp
• [Huanggang City, Hubei Province] Jiang's Regime Deceives Students by Instilling False Information
• [Chicheng County, Hebei Province] Criminal Record of Qiu Jianguo, Party Secretary of the Chicheng County Council
• [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Coerced on a Large Scale to Write "Statements of Guarantee"

[Wuxue City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Cao Meilan's Life Is in Danger

Cai Meilan, about 39 years old, is from Jiangjialin Village of Wuxue City. On September 14, 2003, she put up truth-clarifying materials at the Hubei Guangji Medicine Plant. Security guards from the plant reported her. Cai Meilan and two other practitioners were unlawfully arrested. Cai Meilan went on hunger and water strike since the day she was arrested, protesting against the illegal detention. In the Cuijiaju Detention Center in Wuxue City, police guards force-fed her every two days. Fifteen days have passed, and her life is in great danger.

Chen Gangming, Party Secretary of the Politics & Law Committee, 86-713-6224520 (home number)

[Shayang Town, Hubei Province] Liao Yuanhua and Other Practitioner Being Jailed in Fanjiatai Prison Are on Hunger Strike

Liao Yuanhua and other practitioners jailed in Fanjiatai Prison of Shayang Town have been on hunger and water strike since late September. Some of the practitioners' lives are in great danger.

[Sichuan Province] Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions

On the evening of September 25, 2003, Sichuan practitioners successfully set up eight speakers inside a city and in the nearby suburban area to clarify the truth. This greatly shocked the evil.

On October 1, 2003, the grand opening of a business in a county in Sichuan Province invited dozens of media and community representatives. On September 30 and October 1, over a hundred Falun Dafa banners appeared in the towns of that county. At a particularly scenic spot in the city, a huge banner with the words, "Jiang Zemin Is Being Sued in International Courts for Persecuting Falun Gong!" was put up.

[Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Chen Weiyi Is Tortured at the Dalian Forced Labor Camp

On July 7, 2003, practitioner Chen Weiyi was stopped and reprimanded for helping others make their beds. Chen Weiyi asked the director what was wrong with that. The director took him to his office. Then Chen Weiyi was kept in another room alone, under strict supervision. His hands were cuffed to a metal bed without any quilt or bed sheet, and a security helmet was forced on to his head. Chen Weiyi went on a hunger strike to protest against the persecution. He has been force-fed since the second day of his strike.

Director Liu Zhongke threatened Chen Weiyi with an extension of his jail term. The head of Chen Weiyi's class also tried to coerce him to acknowledge that he was wrong. Chen didn't yield. Eighteen days later, Chen Weiyi was told that he had been transferred to another class, and his handcuffs would be unlocked if he stopped the hunger strike. Hearing this, Chen started to eat. However, only one of his handcuffs was opened, and he was forced to sit on a stool for long periods of time. Fifteen days later, the director asked him to write a statement of guarantee not to break the rules and regulations of the camp. Chen insisted that he was not wrong and refused to write the statement. Later, he was released from strict supervision and transferred to another class.

[Dongming County, Shandong Province] Sister Practitioners Zhang Yu'e and Zhang Fenglan Unlawfully Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Yu'e and Ms. Zhang Fenglan are sisters. One is from Zhangjie Village of Datun Township, Dongming County. The other is from Xiangfuzai of Cao County. By the end of May, police from the Politics & Security Section of the Heze Public Security Bureau, Dongming Public Security Bureau, and Datun Police Substation unlawfully searched their homes, arrested the two sisters, and detained them in the Dongming Detention Center. The police rarely allow their family members to visit them. Their parents are in their 70s, and they have little kids at home as well. Zhan Yu'e has a family business dealing with lumber. Over 10,000 Yuan cash in her closet was taken out and thrown on the floor on the day of illegal search [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China]. After the police left, her family members found that 5,000 Yuan was missing. The two sisters' family members paid tens of thousands of Yuan in order to have them released. However, the police still didn't release them. The police even filed a lawsuit against them for no reason. It has been reported that they will be put on trial at the end of October or early November.

[China] Zeng Qinghong Comes across Truth-Clarifying Banners

Zeng Qinghong, a member of the Chinese Central Political Bureau, is a key figure in the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Dafa and Dafa practitioners. On October 21, Zeng Qinghong came to the Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corporation in Anshan City of Liaoning Province. On the way, he came across Falun Dafa banners and became infuriated. In the evening, people from public security offices, procurate offices and the people's courts gathered at the Qianshan Procuratorial Training School and schemed to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners.

[Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners

Policemen from Section No.1 of the Public Security Bureau often follow and monitor Falun Dafa practitioners and unlawfully search practitioners' homes. They usually arrest practitioners first for no reason and then try to find so-called "evidence." They have unlawfully detained and sentenced several hundred practitioners to force labor or prison.

People involved in the persecution include:

Yu Deqing, Assistant Director, (in his fifties, in charge of persecuting Falun Dafa), 86-415-2103279 (office number)

Li Zhongcheng, a policeman from the Sidaogou Police Substation (He worked at the Qianwei Police Substation and has experienced retribution for his wrongdoing before)

[Suining City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Detained in the Linquanshi Detention Center

Ms. Zhengjing, a practitioner from Renli Township of Suining City, and Liu Hepei, a practitioner from Yongji District of Suining City, were unlawfully arrested in early October. Their homes were unlawfully searched. Currently they are being detained at the Linquanshi Detention Center.

Deng Qiugui, a practitioner from Suining City, was unlawfully arrested after a Dafa truth-clarifying material site was sabotaged. The landlord reported Deng Qiugui's identity to police and Deng's home was ransacked. Currently, Deng Qiugui is being detained at the Linquanshi Detention Center. Because of the torture, he has had a recurrence of old illnesses. He is suffering greatly and feeling extremely weak.

Ms. Zhang Zhenhua, a practitioner from Dazhou City of Sichuan Province, was unlawfully arrested at the same Dafa truth-clarifying material site and is being detained at the Linquanshi Detention Center. Subjected to extremely poor conditions, she is suffering from scabies. Sleeping on the cold and wet concrete floor, she is enduring a great deal of suffering.

[Gaizhou City, Liaoning Province] Police in the Detention Center Beat up Falun Dafa Practitioners

Jiang Chunhao, a police guard, used torture instruments on practitioners, cuffed them to one place for long periods of time, force-fed them, and beat them up at will. Once, when prisoners and practitioners were let outside, he beat up practitioners in front of over thirty prisoners. He struck them in the mouth, punched them in the chest, and then beat them with his shoes. When he eventually became tired, he instructed prisoners to beat the practitioners. His phone number is 86-417-7651940.

When a newly arrested practitioner was detained, He Qinghua, a policewoman, instructed the cell head, "Don't give her toilet paper. Don't give her anything. Let her be miserable." Once she stripped off a 20-year-old practitioner's trousers and beat her buttocks violently with a wooden board.

[China] Truth-Clarifying Phone Calls from Practitioners outside China Shock the Evil

We thank practitioners outside China for making truth-clarifying phone calls to China because it indeed shocks the evil. A supervisor at our working unit who actively cooperates with the "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] in persecuting Falun Dafa has been restrained after getting a call from overseas.

[Changchun City, Jilin Province] Brainwashing Class Held near Jingyuetan

A six-department committee of Changchun City is holding a brainwashing class near Jingyuetan to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners.

[Hefei City, Anhui Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Arrested

It is confirmed that Ms. Huang, a practitioner in her 30s, from the Anhui General Fiber Plant of Hefei City (formerly known as the Nuclear Industry Parts 821 Plant), was unlawfully arrested by the "610 Office" a few days ago. Her husband Luo Jing had been reported and detained because a large amount of truth-clarifying materials were found at his home during an illegal search. He was detained in forced labor camp for over a year.

Xu Xianglin, director of the Security Section of the plant, has become very aggravated since she was added to the list of criminals for her crimes of aiding the evil in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. She reported to the "610 Office" that Ms. Huang is still practicing Falun Gong.

Currently we don't know where Ms. Huang is detained. Her husband and 6-year-old child are left alone at home. Her home number is 86-551-3518251.

Xu Xianglin, Director of the Security Section, 86-13965051219 (cell), 86-551-3519524 (office).

[Zhuolu County, Hebei Province] Criminal Record of "610 Office" Clerk Li Zhiming

The "610 Office" in Zhuolu County persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners using various means under the leadership of Director Zhao Xuan and Assistant Director Li Zhiming. Li Zhiming, in particular, employs many vicious means in trying to force practitioners to write so-called "statements of guarantee" to stop practicing Falun Dafa. At the Songhua Brainwashing Class, Li Zhiming swore at and beat up practitioners. Among other forms of cruelty, he has shocked elderly female practitioners with electric prods and punished pregnant women by making them kneel down on the floor. Zhong Weidong, Party Secretary of the County Council, thinks highly of him for his crimes, and awarded him a Citation for Third Degree Merit. Li Zhiming's persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners continues today.

[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Torture Methods Used in Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp for Drug Addicts

Inside the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp, each Falun Dafa practitioner, since the day he or she arrives, is surrounded by two or three former practitioners who "enlightened" along an evil path as a result of brainwashing. Practitioners have no freedom at all. They cannot go to the bathroom when they need to. They are flooded with lies and pressured to write the so-called "Three Statements" [ Created by the "610 Office," the three statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners]. Whoever refuses to write the statements is forced to write with five or six people forcefully grabbing his hands. If he still doesn't write, drug addicts are instructed to beat him or he is shocked with electric prods. If all these fail, the practitioner is forced to do hard labor beyond his physical endurance. Currently, the forced labor camp has been changed to an all male camp. Female practitioners have been transferred to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp while a new female labor camp is constructed using public funds.

[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Criminal Record of Policewoman Zhang Li from the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Wang Ping, from Huangshi City, exchanged a word with a fellow practitioner during detention on February 27, 2003. Zhang Li saw that and instructed the drug-addicts to beat her up. Eventually, even the drug-addicts couldn't bear to beat her. Then Zhang Li did it herself. She shocked Wang Ping's breasts with an electric prod. After being shocked, Wang Ping has had trouble using the bathroom.

Ms. Cheng Guiping, from Huangshi City, shed tears when a fellow practitioner was released on February 28, 2003. Zhang Li saw it and beat her up. In May, Cheng was transferred to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp, where she has been hospitalized. She has suffered from mental problems as a result of the torture.

Ms. He Ping, from Jiayu Township, tried to stop Zhang Li when Zhang was beating up Wang Ping on February 27, 2003. Zhang Li subsequently beat her up as well. Several wooden sticks were broken during the beating. Zhang Li also kicked her repeatedly.

[Huanggang City, Hubei Province] Jiang's Regime Deceives Students by Instilling Lies

Slanderous words against Falun Dafa are compiled into Section Three "Advocating Science," Chapter One "I Want to Be a Qualified Little Citizen" of the book entitled Students Moral Cultivation Textbook for junior primary school pupils in Huanggang City and nearby counties. It is published by Yuanfang Press, #666, Wulanchabu East Road, Hohhot. 010010 (post code), ISBN7-80595-766-5/G, executive editors: Chen Shasha and Qi Tieying

[Chicheng County, Hebei Province] Criminal Record of Qiu Jianguo, Party Secretary of Chicheng County Council

Qiu Jianguo is the Party Secretary of Chicheng County Council. Since July 20, 1999, he has regarded persecuting Falun Gong as a good chance to get promoted. First, he put practitioners under house arrest, and then unlawfully arrested practitioners and extorted money from them. After that, he searched practitioners' homes and sent practitioners to forced labor or prison. Over 1,400 practitioners were persecuted by him. Among which, 50 were unlawfully detained in forced labor, three practitioners were sentenced to prison, 20 practitioners' homes were unlawfully searched, over 50,000 Yuan was extorted, and over 20 practitioners became destitute and homeless. Brainwashing sessions are being held continuously. A big team of around 100 security guards was established by the "610 Office," the Public Security Bureau, the Judicial Bureau and the Inspection Bureau, to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners.

[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Coerced on a Large Scale to Write "Statements of Guarantee"

Recently, some street offices, neighborhood committees, police substations and former "610 Offices" once again asked Falun Dafa practitioners to denounce Falun Dafa and to promise that they would not practice, go to appeal in Beijing, or distribute flyers. Otherwise, practitioners are threatened with a salary deduction, brainwashing in the Xinjing Brainwashing Class, forced labor reeducation, and so on. Practitioners are either threatened or "given talks" by several people to write statements against Dafa. The authorities are going through a systematic process to try to undermine the practitioners' beliefs.