Latest News from China - 2/24/2003

February 24, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

1. [Anshan City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioners Arrested and Shot
2. [Sichuan Province] Solemn Declarations from Dafa Practitioners Detained at the Deyang Prison
3. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Gu Changqin Who is in Critical Condition at Shenyang City's Dabei Female Prison
4. [Tianjin] Illegal Sentencing of Dafa Practitioners in Tianjin University of Commerce
5. [Quanzhou City, Fujian Province] Arrest of Several Dafa Practitioners
6. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Zheng Hongguo from Shaheying Township
7. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chunmei Suffers Excruciating Tortures at the Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp
8. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Persecuted at Fushun City's Forced Labor Camp Sues Police for Their Crimes
9. [Liangshan County, Shandong Province] "610 Office" and Police Personnel Arrest Dafa Practitioners and Ransack Their Homes
10. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioners Zhang Jingyu and Yang Wenming from Shuanghuan Chemical Corporation
11. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Cases of Persecution against Dafa Practitioners
12. [Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Four Practitioners
13. [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Arrest of Practitioners Chen Guodong and Li Fengying
14. [Liaoning Province] Another Round of Persecution against Falun Gong Practitioners

[Anshan City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioners Arrested and Shot

Police recently shot Mr. Xu Zhaobin, a 38-year-old practitioner from Likaipu Village, Shoushan Township, Liaoyang County, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. In 2001, he and his wife had to leave their home in order to avoid illegal arrest. In October 2002, Xu Zhaobin was arrested in Kangping County, Liaoning Province and his whereabouts is unknown. On March 19, 2002, police from Anshan City arrested Xu Zhaobin's wife, name unknown, and her whereabouts is also unknown. Two other practitioners, Mr. Shen Hailong and Mr. Wei, were arrested and charged with broadcasting a Falun Gong truth-clarifying video through Anshan City's cable TV system. Shen Hailong was arrested in Liaoyang City in April 2002. Their whereabouts are still unknown.

In addition, Dafa practitioner Mr. Fu Liang from Liaoning Province is now illegally detained at the Dabei Prison. He has been sentenced to eight years of imprisonment. Dafa practitioner Ms. Fu Yan, who lives in Dashiqiao City, Liaoning Province, was arrested in Beijing and now is illegally detained at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

[Sichuan Province] Solemn Declarations from Dafa Practitioners Detained at the Deyang Prison

We Dafa practitioners who are illegally detained at Sichuan Province's Deyang Prison strongly condemn and protest the events that occurred on January 9 when the head of the No. 5 Division of this prison, together with criminal inmates, brutally beat Dafa practitioner Liang Junhua. We also severely condemn and protest all mistreatment and the inhumane persecution against Dafa practitioners in this prison and the crimes the perpetrators have committed against Dafa.

Due to high pressure, or from deception by hypocrisy, some of us wrote the "Three Statements," but none of us has ever given up the practice and cultivation of Dafa. All practitioners who had written the "Three Statements" have recanted it by means of a written statement, oral statement, or other ways. Now all those who have written the "Three Statements" once again solemnly declare on Minghui (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) that the "Three Statements" we wrote are totally null and void. We Dafa practitioners, persecuted at the Deyang Prison, will closely follow Master's Fa-rectification progress, take the Fa as teacher, and strive forward vigorously together until the Fa rectification comes to the human world.

Editor's note: "Three Statements" are documents coerced under extreme pressure, torture and brainwashing, designed by Chinese authorities to ensure that detained Falun Gong practitioners be appropriately brain-washed. The statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list containing names and addresses of all family, friends and acquaintances of the detainee who practices Falun Gong. This system was concocted by the "610 Office."

[Signed] All Dafa practitioners illegally detained at the Deyang Prison

January 2003

[Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Gu Changqin Who is in Critical Condition at Shenyang City's Dabei Female Prison

Ms. Gu Changqin, from Huludao City, Liaoning Province, is illegally detained at Shenyang City's Dabei Prison. Because of inhumane persecution, she is extremely emaciatiated and very weak. Gu Changqin's daughter, her only relative, is only 17 years old and cannot afford to take care of her mother.

Shenyang City's Dabei Female Prison telephone no. 86-24-88905055

[Tianjin] Illegal Sentencing of Dafa Practitioners in Tianjin University of Commerce

Ms. Min Xiaomei, Mr. Li Zhi, and Mr. Shen Changzhi, three lecturers at Tianjin's University of Commerce, graduated from the Graduate School of Northeastern Normal University. In December 2002, they were taken away and in all likelihood were illegally detained at a forced labor camp in Tianjin City.

Liu Fuzhi, office number: 86-22-26667621
Fax: [phone], Email:á [e-mail]

Contact: Ma Chen

[Quanzhou City, Fujian Province] Arrest of Several Dafa Practitioners

About ten days before the Chinese New Year, using the excuse "to guarantee the security of the People's Congress and the Political Consultation Conference," personnel from the Quanzhou City Police Department in Fujian Province, along with its precinct police departments and "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 Huian County, Jingjiang County, Shishi County, and others, illegally arrested several Dafa practitioners. Ms. Li Qin, Ms. Yu Baoying, Ms. Chen Junjuan, and Mr. Chang and his father were detained. They are presently being held at a prison and suffering brutal torture. Persons from Quanzhou City's "610 Office" and Police Department are preparing to illegally sentence these Dafa practitioners, or send them to a forced labor camp.

[Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Practitioner Zheng Hongguo from Shaheying Township

On the evening of February 19, 2003, in collusion with police from Shaheying Township's Police Precinct in Lianshan District, Huludao City, police from Lianshan District's Police Department forcibly arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Hongguo, from Shaheying Township, on the street.

Around midnight, over a dozen policemen broke into practitioner Mr. Li Kai's home in Gangtun Town, Lianshan District, pulled Mr. Li out of bed, and took him away. During the night of January 20^th, after suffering all kinds of torturous indignities, Mr. Li Kai was sent to Huludao City's Detention Center.

The same people also collaborated with police from Gangtun Town's Police Precinct and took a 67-year-old female Dafa practitioner to Shaheying Township's Police Precinct at 3:00 a.m. She has now been released.

[Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chunmei Suffers Excruciating Torture at the Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp

On January 3, 2002, Ms. Liu Chunmei traveled to Beijing to publicly declare that, "Falun Dafa is Good!" For that, she was subsequently sentenced to one year of forced labor. After staging an 18 day hunger strike at the Beijing Police Station and the Qingyuan Detention Center, she was sent to Fushun City's Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp.

Police there brutally beat practitioners and physically punish them at will. In order to protest the persecution, Dafa practitioner Liu Chunmei staged numerous hunger strikes. In March 2002, Ms. Liu started to vomit blood. Personnel at Fushun City's Forced Labor Camp called Liu's family and ordered them to send money for Ms.Liu to see a doctor. The physician's diagnosis at Fushun City's No.3 Hospital's was tuberculosis. Ms. Liu Chunmei talked to labor camp overseers Wu Wei and Chen Linghua, and asked to be bailed out for hospitalization. Wu Wei and Chen Linghua said, "We won't release you until you are transformed. We will release you as soon as you write the "Three Statements." Dafa practitioner Liu Chunmei answered firmly, "I won't be transformed, even if I have to die!" Wu Wei then locked Ms. Liu Chunmei in a damp solitary confinement, meant for three people, but holding six. Liu Chunmei and Ms. Qin Yuanhui slept on the cement floor. The police often go there to physically punish practitioners. If these practitioners send righteous thoughts or do the exercises, Chen Linghua arranges for a dozen guards to beat them up and shock them with electric batons.

Ms. Liu Chunmei has been vomiting blood for nearly a year and has a constant, low-grade fever. She is unable to go down stairs. As we are smuggling this piece of news out of the camp, Dafa practitioner Liu Chunmei is staging a hunger strike to protest the Jiang regime's persecution against Dafa practitioners.

[Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Persecuted at Fushun City's Forced Labor Camp Sues Police for Their Crimes

This letter of appeal was written by a practitioner being held at Fushun City's Forced Labor Camp and was smuggled out with the help of many people. The paper was torn in several places where it had been folded. The characters where the paper was torn were unrecognizable, so we had to supplement the writing according to the context. We are now publishing this letter of appeal through Minghui and Clearwisdom.

Below is the content and format of the letter:

1. "Qingyuan City's Dashagou Detention Center authorities persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They embezzle practitioners' money to keep for themselves. Practitioners' money and property are turned over to policemen in no time.
2. Fushun City's Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp authorities persecute Falun Gong practitioners. As practitioners refused to give in to their demands, the police beat them up and otherwise punished them physically. They took practitioners to places where no one else was present, then threatened and beat them. They shocked practitioners' faces and groins. Some of the practitioners being persecuted were released; some are still held at the Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp. The police here have become totally inhumane and are unable to tell right from wrong.

The lawless personnel who instigated others to beat up practitioners and those who beat up practitioners themselves include Wu Wei, Chen Linghua, Wang Jun, Lu Kai, Zhang Lei, and Wang Kai. Practitioners being persecuted most severely include Ms. Gao Juan, Ms. Xie Fangyun, Ms. Zhu Yulan, Ms. Li Li, and Mr. Zhang Chuanwen."

[Liangshan County, Shandong Province] "610 Office" and Police Personnel Arrest Dafa Practitioners and Ransack Their Homes

In the afternoon of February 13, 2003, persons from Liangshan County's "610 Office" broke into practitioner Ms. Xiumei's home and took her away, along with her husband, a non-practitioner. They also confiscated a CD-burner and some discs that were used to make truth-clarifying materials; total value around 10,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.]. The whereabouts of the couple are unknown.

On January 27, 2003, some vicious police personnel broke into Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Yuting's home, arrested her, and ransacked her home. Wang Yuting's whereabouts are now unknown.

Telephone number of Liangshan County's "610 Office": 86-537-7331835;

Telephone number of Zhang Zhiyong, the person in charge of the "610 Office:" 86-537-7331878.

[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioners Zhang Jingyu and Yang Wenming from Shuanghuan Chemical Corporation

On February 18, 2003, local police station officials and personnel arrested Dafa Practitioners Ms. Zhang Jingyu and Mr. Yang Wenming from the Shuanghuan Chemical Corporation, their workplace, and sent them to Hubei Province's brainwashing center. As far as we know, the following people are directly responsible:

Wang Yuanyu: 86-712-3591089 (home)
Tu Xingwang: 86-712-3591833 (home)
Li Zhigao, Li Youfa, and Xia Heipi

[Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Cases of Persecution against Dafa Practitioners

During the 16^th National Party Congress, people from the Court of Justice in the Xunyang and Lushan Districts in Jiujiang City illegally sentenced many practitioners to lengthy prison terms.

During the Spring Festival this year, officials intensified the persecution against practitioners. Jiujiang City's "610 Office" authorities threatened and ordered local officials from every work unit to make special requests of their employees. Those practitioners who were working outside the city and came back for family reunions during the Spring Festival were required to write a guarantee statement giving up their Falun Gong practice. In addition, each work unit was ordered to enforce surveillance of practitioners. For "important" practitioners, work units were forced to monitor them around the clock. Many practitioners are now protesting this illegal request. Practitioners are taking this opportunity to eliminate evil with righteous thoughts, clarify the facts to the public, and save sentient beings.

[Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province] Arrest of Four Practitioners

In January of 2003, during a period of 16 days, officials from Qingyuan County's "610 Office" arrested four practitioners.

On January 15, a taxi driver reported Ms. Gai Lijie and Ms. Yin Luhua to the police while they were hanging a Dafa truth-clarifying banner. Ms. Gai Lijie was sentenced to three years of forced labor and Ms.Yin Luhua was sentenced to two years of forced labor. After an eight-day detention, both were sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

On January 26, Ms. Wang Xiuxia was arrested at the Hongtoushan Inspection Station while transporting a copying machine from Hongtoushan Town. Qingyuan Town's "610 Office" enforcers did not get any information from their interrogation, so they sent her to Fushun City's "610 Office." We have heard recently that Ms. Wang Xiuxia was on a hunger strike and is keeping silent (not speaking) to protest the inhumane interrogation.

On January 30, Ms. Wang Faxiang was reported to the police while she was giving Dafa truth-clarifying materials to other practitioners. Before she returned home her home was ransacked. To protest the persecution, Dafa practitioner Wang Faxiang went on a hunger strike after she arrived in the detention center. Her life is now in critical danger. Recently, locals from the "610 Office" sent her to Qingyuan County's Traditional Chinese Medical Center for emergency treatment.

[Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Arrest of Practitioners Chen Guodong and Li Fengying

On February 13, 2003, practitioners Mr. Chen Guodong and Ms. Li Fengying were arrested while they were hanging Dafa truth-clarifying banners. They are now held at the 27th District's Detention Center. Chen Guodong, 70 years old, is a retired engineer from Zhengzhou City's Meiji Factory; Li Fengying is 50 years old. It is thought that the police are planning to send them to a forced labor camp.

Zhengzhou City 27 District Police Office: 86-371-8867000

[Liaoning Province] Another Round of Persecution against Falun Gong Practitioners

Using the excuse of the upcoming People's Congress and Political Consultation Conference, some unlawful officials from the Liaohe Oil Plant plotted to open a brainwashing class in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. They attempted to arrest and persecute determined Dafa practitioners. This area is one of the worst places for severe persecution against Dafa practitioners.