Summary of Other Articles and News - 11/28/2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Guochen from Daqing City was illegally sentenced to eight years in jail because he refused to give up his belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. He is currently being detained at the Daqing Prison.

In 2000, Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Xianyan, who worked for the Shengli Oil Field Shengda Corporation, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, where police arrested him. After he was sent back to Daqing City, the authorities at the Shengda Corporation illegally detained him for more than two years. During the detention, the perpetrators didn't give Yan Xianyan any bed covers and didn't let him sleep on a bed. Yan Xianyan's wife is also a Dafa practitioner. When she was distributing truth clarification flyers, she was illegally arrested and so savagely beaten that she sustained severe brain damage. Right now she cannot take care of herself.

Corrupt officials in Gansu Province illegally send large groups of Dafa practitioners to prison, labor camps and brainwashing classes and use the most base and malicious means to torture these practitioners. The captors at Lanzhou City Prison closely monitor Dafa practitioners, assigning three inmates to one practitioner. They do not allow the practitioner to speak. The prison authorities reward inmates with a reduction in their sentences, which encourages them to torment Dafa practitioners. The practitioners who refuse to keep silent are directly sent to the forced labor division where they are forced to do slave labor. The inmates immediately beat those practitioners who shout things like "Falun Dafa is good" and then they are shackled and sent to solitary confinement.

The people in charge at the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center send determined Dafa practitioners to the Lanzhou City Labor Camp where they are detained in solitary confinement cells or in the basement, where they are hung up and tortured with a triangular metal tool. The brainwashing center was built in the courtyard of the labor camp.

In March 2000, Dafa practitioner Ms. Shan Bopei from Pingjiang County, Hunan Province went to Beijing to appeal. She was abducted by police officers from Pingjiang County Police Department who took her back to Pingjiang County. She was illegally detained for more than one month at a detention center following her abduction. Her work unit unreasonably cut her salary by two levels and dismissed her from her job under administrative detention. Since 2000, the persecutors have sent Shan Bopei to a detention center three times and a custody center five times. They ransacked her home three times and extorted more than 4,000-Yuan cash from her. They tap her phone line and follow her around. Several days ago, Shan Bopei was again abducted and her home was again ransacked. She is currently being detained.

The Truth and People's Hearts

1) In July 2003, a construction worker overheard someone talk about the significant health-improvement effects of Falun Dafa, and how it teaches people to be good. He thought, "How wonderful it would be if I had no illness! I want to learn that." The next day he went to the home of a Dafa practitioner, who gave him Dafa books. After he went home, he stayed up the whole night and finished reading all the books he had obtained. His family was a little worried at first, but then they saw the changes in him - all his illnesses were gone in one day! He became even-tempered, so his family supported him. Soon, his daughter and nephew joined him in cultivation.

2) The Party secretary of a village said, "In our village, the Falun Gong practitioners are always the first ones to pay their taxes, utility bills and to do to various kinds of work. I just don't see why they [Jiang's regime] say Falun Gong is evil. If everyone could be like those practitioners, I would not have to worry about any neglected work ."

Other News from China

A brainwashing class was founded in Taiyangdao, Harbin City. Recently, a Falun Gong practitioner was abducted. The guilty ones are officials from the local "610 Office." Also participating in the abduction were authorities from the street administration office and his work unit. They tried to force him to write an article criticizing Falun Gong. He was beaten because he refused to do it. Officials from the Provincial Public Security Department said to him, "This is an order from the central government! It says we need 100% "reform" rate. How do we reform you? Simply by torturing you until you are near death."