Summary of Other Articles and News -- January 7, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Persecution Facts

1. We recently learned that Dafa practitioner Ms. Zuo Yan, a former employee of the Jilin City Transportation Bank, was illegally arrested for making Falun Gong truth clarification materials. She is currently being held at the No. 1 Detention Center in Jilin City where she was cruelly force-fed. As the result of the savage torture, her stomach bled and she had symptoms of severe heart disease. She is on the brink of death, yet the persecutors from the "610 Office"* in Jilin City refuse to release her.

2. Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Fudong, a handicapped person, lives in the Jinzhou District, Dalian City. In the spring of 2002 he went back to his hometown to clarify the facts about Dafa, and police illegally arrested him. Due to his disabilities, Wang Fudong could not bend his back, so the police cruelly squeezed him into the trunk of a car and as a result he sustained serious injuries. When Wang Fudong's mother pointed out her son's wounds to the police, the police didn't give a second glance. Furthermore, Wang Fudong was tortured while in police custody, and was later released. Currently he is paralyzed and bedridden. He is emaciated, and large areas of his back are covered with blood and bruises. He also has difficulty eating. Mr. Wang's mother is greatly upset by her son's sufferings and often cries.

3. On February 4, 2000 Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Hongcheng, from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa. The police abducted him and illegally detained him at Linhai City's Detention Center. The guards there hit his thigh with a shovel handle, burnt his neck with cigarettes, hit his head with a wooden stick and poked a needle into his head, scraped the sole of his feet with knives, rubbed his ribs with a screwdriver and a cigarette lighter, among other tortures. Li Hongcheng was sent to Jinzhou City's Labor Camp on March 16, 2000, where he was beaten and detained in solitary confinement and in the "strict control group" almost daily. In mid October 2000 he was transferred to the Panjin Labor Camp. Overall, Li Hongcheng suffered nine and a half months of inhuman tortures at the Jinzhou City Labor Camp and the Panjin Labor Camp. He was released on parole on November 21, 2000 for medical treatment.

4. In the evening of November 25, 2003 police from Shulan City illegally arrested Dafa practitioners Ms. Song Yanqun, Mr. Song Bing, Mr. Fu Hongwei, and Mr. Zhao Jingyan. Right now, persecutors at the Nanshan Detention Center and the Nanshan Custody Center in Shulan City are force-feeding four of them. Practitioners Mr. Xie Guichen and Ms. Li Xiulan have been held there for several months. Many local practitioners and the practitioners' families are joining efforts in filing a lawsuit against those who took part in the persecution.

5. Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Zhimei from Harbin City was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor. A labor camp refused to take her because of a bad eye condition, so the persecutors sent her to the No. 2 Detention Center where she has been held for more than six months. On December 8, 2003 officials from the Nangang "110" Police Department (similar to the U.S. "911" department) abducted Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Wenru from the Daoli District and sent her to Yaziquan for detention.

6. Nearly 30 Falun Gong practitioners are being illegally held at the Dandong City Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Guard Hu Daming kicked practitioner Mr. Shao Zongye's abdominal area and severely injured his internal organs, stomach muscles, and tendons. As a result, now Shao Zongye cannot carry heavy objects and walks with difficulty. They also confined Shao Zongye in a metal cage numerous times.

Another illegally detained practitioner, Mr. Wan Chuhai, was held in solitary confinement for more than half a month, and his term was extended by more than one month.

Practitioners Mr. Wang Binglin and Mr. Song Jiwei were sent to the "strict control" group because they refused to write the "three statements"** to renounce their faith. For that they were shocked with electric batons and put in metal cages that are so small they could only squat in them.

The persecutors stripped practitioner Mr. Wang Changlong naked and shocked his sensitive body areas with electric batons. Wang Changlong suffered physically and mentally from this long-term abuse in detention. He also developed scabies. Recently, the guards have forced practitioners to work outside in severe weather conditions. The skin on the practitioners' arms and legs is cracked and they have blisters, which causes great pain.

One person's heart and retribution

Zhang Xiuming, deputy head of the Chicheng County Police Department in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province looks kind but is in fact absolutely vicious. A total of 150 practitioner arrests were made in Chicheng County, and Zhang Xiuming is responsible for over 80% of them. Most of the Falun Gong practitioners who were sent to forced labor camps fell ill from torture, and the labor camps later refused to accept them. In cases where the labor camp refuses to take a practitioner, Zhang Xiuming would bribe those officials and use connections to make the labor camp accept the practitioner.

This same Zhang Xiuming suddenly fell gravely ill in July 2003 from a strange disease and is currently in critical condition.

* "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.

** The "Three Statements" - Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their belief. 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.