April 21, 2003

Over 200 Falun Dafa practitioners unlawfully held in the Harbin Women's Prison have stopped participating in the forced labor as a means to resist the persecution. So far, over a dozen practitioners have been placed in solitary confinement. There are over 50 Falun Dafa practitioners placed in a special group, each of whom is monitored by three criminal inmates. Practitioners in the team have their arms forcefully restrained behind their backs and have completely lost their freedom. Other practitioners have also been ordered to sit on stools for long periods of time as a punishment. Falun Dafa practitioners have been banned from seeing their visiting family members and their access to telephones has also been restricted. They are not allowed to talk to each other and are deprived of the most fundamental human rights. The persecution is still escalating.

Telephone numbers for the Harbin Women's Prison:

86-451-6684001 (with extensions in each of the twelve wards).

86-451-6694053 (duty office).

Ms. Li Mingying is over 60 years old. Wang Zhaoshan and Officer Yi handcuffed her by holding both of her hands behind her back, and then they pressed her head down. Whenever she raised her head a little, one of the officers would straddle her neck to hold her head down. They also kicked hard at her legs and feet. They stretched Ms. Li's legs apart and pressed her body toward the ground, and then they pulled her up by the handcuffs. This was done over and over again. While torturing her, they yelled, "If you refuse to denounce Falun Gong, we will continue the torture, and we will keep showing you 'respect' like this." This torture went on for an entire morning, until Ms. Li eventually passed out. After the inhumane torture, both of her wrists were deeply cut by the handcuffs. Her inner thighs and legs were injured from the stretching, and she could not walk normally. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Hongmei and others were also tortured by officers who stretched their legs and pulled their hair.

Wang Zhaoshan has even handcuffed Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Luo's hands behind her back and stuck his fingers into her vagina.

Over 70 Falun Dafa practitioners in the Hebi area were placed under arrest during the Party's 16^th National Congress [around last November]. The Hebi City Police Department followed and arrested 24-year-old Mr. Wang Bin in Xinxiang City. Mr. Wang was later held in the Chengxi Detention Center in Hebi City. In March, he was secretly sentenced to one year of forced labor "re-education" and transferred to the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City, Henan Province.

Hou Qilu, deputy head of the Shengliqiao Police Station has been in charge of the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioner since July 20, 1999. Two Falun Dafa practitioners (Liu Huanqing and Zhang Xiaoru) have already died of persecution in his jurisdiction. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Ganglin was detained several times. Before the October 1^st National Day in 2002, officers from the police station abducted Mr. Li. His blood pressure was extremely high at that point, and twice the detention center refused to take him in. The third time the police succeeded in throwing Mr. Li into the Handan City Detention Center, and he has remained there ever since. Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qi Shuchun had also been abducted to the detention center several times. She was then unlawfully sentenced to two years of forced labor. She is currently staying away from her home to avoid persecution, but the police continue to harass her parents at home. Hou Qilu and other police officers are directly responsible for their criminal acts against Falun Dafa practitioners.

Hou Qilu's telephone number: 86-310-6196017.

Mr. Xu Huijian is 30 years old. He graduated from the Changchun Optical Instruments Institute and was arrested in Siping City in January 2001 for his belief in Falun Dafa. He has been secretly held in custody and his family has not been notified.

Ms. Wang Yan is around 20 years old. She was arrested several times after going to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in October 1999. She was dispelled from the Jilin Agriculture School and later held for an extended period of time in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. When she was unlawfully held in the Jiangyuan County Detention Center, she continued to practice Falun Gong exercises. As a result, she was hung on the doorframe on one wrist by a pair of handcuffs for an entire night. The next morning the officers poured cold water on her to bring her about. She has remained in the forced labor camp since then.

It took elderly Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Shushan over twenty days to walk to Beijing and go to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa around the Lunar New Year's Day in 2001. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor and held in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. On January 25, 2003, Mr. Zhang's continued refusal to give in to the persecution resulted in his being sent to the Xinglongshan Brainwashing Center by the Shuangyang District "610 Office."* Mr. Zhang was suffering from a skin rash and boils. After staff of the brainwashing center forcibly injected medicine into him, his leg swelled up and turned black. Mr. Zhang's health deteriorated so much that the police had to escort him home around the end of March and the beginning of April. This practitioner has since recovered, and he is grateful to Teacher, who has compassionately looked after him throughout the Fa-rectification.

* The 610 Office is 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]

Mr. Zhang Wucheng, 48 years old, is a farmer from Luohandong Township in Jingchuan County. In August 2002, he was abducted by the police. He has since been unlawfully held in Xiguoyuan Detention Center in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.

Mr. Zeng Yonghao was an undergraduate student majoring in storage and transportation at the Southwestern Petroleum Institute. Mr. Zeng's grades were among the highest at his school. He was unjustly expelled in the second half of 1999 for his firm belief in Falun Dafa. He continued to uphold and validate Dafa and was detained three times. At the end of July 2002, Mr. Zeng Yonghao was abducted from his home in Chongqing by the police and taken to the Lingquansi Detention Center (see related Clearwisdom.net report
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/3/26/33817.html) It has recently been learned that the court in Chongqing is planning to sentence him to jail. We hope practitioners overseas can help him to break away from the persecution by phoning or faxing the perpetrators.

Listed below are telephone numbers of the responsible individuals and organizations.

Suining City Lingquansi Detention Center: 86-825-2910144
Suining City State Security Department: 86-825-2252126
Liu Anyuan, chief of the Suining City Police Department: 86-825-2231998
Liao Zhongping, deputy chief of the Suining City Police Department: 86-825-2220818
Zhang Guangfeng, Party secretary of the Suining City Police Department: 86-825-2220818
Suining City Procuratorate: 86-825-2224021
Chief of the Suining City Lingquansi Detention Center: 86-825-2233533

9. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhu Xiuying from the Chengdu Steel Pipe Factory Is Unlawfully Sent to a Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Zhu Xiuying was arrested on March 4 for posting materials that present facts about Falun Dafa. She was released on April 4 after the police extorted a large sum of money, yet on April 8 she was again arrested and unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor.

In the evening of February 17, 2003, Wang Baicheng was abducted. We have found out that Wang is being held in the Hailun City Detention Center in Heilongjiang Province.

Mr. Li Bin was abducted on March 21, 2003 in Xintai City, and since then he has been on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful persecution. After ten days of his hunger strike, he was transferred to the Linyi City Brainwashing Session, where he continued to hunger strike. So far he has been hunger striking for over twenty days, and each day he suffers from the torture of inhumane forced-feeding.

Ms. An Qiufen, 23 years old, is from Tangshan City, Hebei Province. She was a college sophomore when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in July 2000. She was subsequently detained and held in the No. 2 Detention Center in Tangshan City. They later transferred her to a brainwashing center, where she has remained since.

Since July 20, 1999, Li Tingxu, a division chief of the public security division of the Dalian City Petroleum and Chemical Company, Liaoning Province, has participated in the frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. He has sent almost twenty practitioners to prison, including senior and outstanding party members, model workers in the city, and other pioneering workers. He conspired with police officers to arrest Dafa practitioners by deception and lies. As a result, some practitioners have become handicapped and some have become mentally impaired due to the abuse and torture. Many practitioners have been forced to stay away from their homes to avoid further persecution. He has insisted on dismissing practitioners from their jobs and the Party to cut off their sources of income.

Li Tingxu was named a "model worker" for leading the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. We appeal to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong to bring Li Tingxu to justice, and investigate and prosecute all those in the Dalian Petroleum and Chemical Company who have engaged in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners.