(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
After Falun Dafa practitioners in Nahe City, Heilongjiang Province tapped into a TV signal to broadcast programs that show the public the true side of Falun Dafa, the local "610 Officials" arrested local Falun Dafa practitioners and ransacked their homes.
Ever since Shan Yongsheng became the head of the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Class in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province on July 20, 2003, Falun Dafa practitioners have endured cruel torture. First, they are confined in a solitary compartment, then, deprived of sleep and tortured for long periods of time, which includes the inhuman "one time cuffed and hung up," for as long as 7-8 days, or even 13-15 days!
The head of the Zanhuang County "610 Office," Assistant Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee in Hebei Province, Ding Zengshun, and a police officer from the County Station, Lu Guiping, have illegally abducted Falun Dafa practitioners. The practitioners include Chen Geng, Chen Yaying, and Shuang Xim, among others. Currently, Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Yaying has been sent to the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center, and the other three are being detained in cold rooms in the backyard of the County Hotel where they are being tortured by the "610" officers and collaborators, including Liu Ruiheng. The "610" officer and five police officers are using cruel methods to persecute Dafa practitioners, such as going to Falun Dafa practitioners' homes and trying to force them to sign their names on a form that defames Falun Dafa and Master Li. If practitioners refuse to sign their names, they are arrested.
Police in the Xianning Labor Camp in Benxi City, Liaoning Province pretend to be nice, and try to mislead Falun Dafa practitioners by making them practice Taichi, and give up Falun Dafa. These police officers tried to interfere with practitioner's faith, and tried to make practitioners become doubtful. If Falun Dafa practitioners see through their tricks, they are violently beaten, locked up in a small cell, and put on a stretching bed, among other vicious punishments.
After Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Zhi was unlawfully arrested by Benxi City police, in August, 2003, he was locked up in the Caibei Detention Center of Benxi City. In order to protest the persecution, he has been on hunger strike for more than three months. Another Falun Dafa practitioner from Benxi City, Ms. Cheng Yuejuan, was abducted by police on May 28, 2003, and locked in the Guangming Police Substation. Police put handcuffs on her, cursed her, and beat her up. They later sent her to a detention center, and then sent her to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Guizhen from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province went to Beijing to appeal four times. She was arrested once when passing out truth-clarifying materials in her hometown. She was sentenced to three years of forced labor [and was later rejected from the labor camp for high blood pressure].. In the middle of August, 2003, Xu Guizhen and Ms. Wan Wenjuan were both arrested while passing out truth-clarifying materials near Tanzikou, Nanchang City. They were both locked in the Nanchang County Detention Center for one month. On September 29, 2003 Wan Wenjuan was sentenced to three years of forced labor in the Provincial Labor Camp. Also on September 29, Ms. Xu Guizhen was again rejected by the Provincial No.2 Women's Labor Camp because of high blood pressure. Police officer Cheng Zhijian, among others from the Luojia Substation, tried many times, but could not successfully get her admitted to the labor camp; thus they let her return home. On November17, 2003, however, police officer Cheng Zhijian abducted Xu Guizhen again in front of the National Administration Office of the Jiangnan Material Factory Residential Area.
News and Activities Around the World
Ms. Yoko Kaneko was released in Beijing on November 23, 2003 after serving 18 months in a forced labor camp. Japanese TV stations reported this incident, briefly introducing Falun Dafa, and interviewing released Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Gang in America. Through their testimonials and photos, this TV program revealed the types of torture that goes on in these labor camps, such as shocking with electric batons, force-feeding, and so on. The TV program also covered how Yoko married Atsushi Kaneko, who appealed to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and how Foreign Minister Ms. Yoshiko Kawaguchi expressed that she would try to rescue Yoko the way she would for a Japanese citizen. The TV host said, "The audience probably is in shock, that something like this could happen in our neighboring country China."
The truth and People's Hearts
The following is an excerpt from the article, "Cancer Patient Cured by Cultivating Falun Dafa, a Practitioner Is Forced to Give Up Cultivation and Ends Up Sick Again."
There were more than ten terminally ill patients who were cured after cultivating Falun Dafa. Due to the relentless persecution, however, some practitioners gave up cultivation. Four of them quickly died because their cancer relapsed. One young practitioner had skin cancer, and was cured by Falun Dafa. He went back to school after having dropped out for one year because of the cancer. But the evil forced him to give up practicing, as otherwise he would have been expelled from school. He died within one month, since he was not allowed to practice Falun Dafa.