Summary of Other Articles and News - December 27, 2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1) Chen Zhongwei, the party secretary of Benxi Education Center and chairman of the Benxi "610 Office"* has committed many crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. He persecutes Falun Gong practitioners in two ways. One is the brainwashing class that mainly focuses on spiritual persecution. Another is brainwashing using violence and physical torture. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qiu Zhiyan was tortured and had ulcers on all 10 fingers. Song Yuegang was hung up with his body suspended for over 20 days, and was locked to a chair for over a month. Zhao Chenglin was beaten until his head was distorted. He had ulcers on the hips and he was in critical condition. Mr. Wang Jicai's spine was broken. Wang Zhehao from Dalian was beaten so badly his body was covered with blood. Liu Hongchun fell from the 3^rd floor. His skull was broken and he immediately passed out.

2) The police at Qinduankou Prison in Hubei Province ordered the most vicious criminals in the prison to monitor Falun Gong practitioners. During forced labor, the criminals deliberately made things difficult for the practitioners and even forced them to stand for a long time. One Falun Gong practitioner who did not want to write a letter denouncing Falun Gong was beaten by several thugs. They beat him with chairs and fists, and kicked him. When they got tired they used a thin steel wire to hang a bucket of water around his neck until he fainted. Another practitioner was beaten on the chest with a metal pipe until he was close to death. He was later sent to the hospital and could not stand on his own until he had received two days of treatment. One Falun Gong practitioner was forced to stand against the corner of a room and was not allowed to sleep for several nights in a row.

3) In March 2003, the first brainwashing session attempting to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief was held at Luotai Villa in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Staff members at the first brainwashing session used the following methods: 1. Every morning, Falun Gong practitioners were forced to watch videos that slander Falun Gong, and in the afternoon they were forced to share their understandings. 2. Practitioners were forced to write the 3 letters: a letter of regret, a letter of exposition, and a letter of denouncing Falun Gong. 3. The staff at the brainwashing session carried out the so-called "signature and pledge" activities. 4. The staff at the brainwashing session threateningly asked practitioners whether they would lie to journalists by criticizing and slandering Falun Gong. 5. Party secretaries from practitioners' local districts were asked to come to the session to conduct "conversations" with practitioners. During the one-month brainwashing session Falun Gong practitioners and their families were severely hurt both spiritually and financially.

4) In mid November 2002, the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Center started the so-called "Transformation Battle by Force" to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs. The basement of the center became a living hell. The police used electric batons to shock Falun Gong practitioners all over their bodies. They beat and cursed at practitioners. Some practitioners' hair was pulled out in clumps. The whole building smelled of burning flesh. Practitioners were tortured to the point of their bodies being black and blue all over. Some practitioners were tortured so badly that their heads swelled; some were beaten and lost their sight or hearing. Some practitioners were shaved. Many practitioners were tortured to the point of suffering mental breakdowns.

5) Luo Yuze of Yingshan County, Sichuan Province is a retired teacher of Yingshan Middle School. He is over eighty years old. Luo's wife passed away in 2000, and his son passed away in May 2001. Luo, his daughter-in-law, and two grandsons live on his 600 Yuan per month retirement pension. As Luo practices Falun Gong, he was arrested, detained and had his home searched five times. The schoolmaster Li Zhongyue and policeman Tang Kang occupy his house. Luo had to rent a place to live.

6) In October 1999, thirteen Falun Gong practitioners from Dashagou of Qingyuan County, Fushuan City, Liaoning Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested and sent back to the Dashagou Detention Center. One day they were discovered practicing Falun Gong exercises, and the guard beat them up. It was very cold in October, yet guard Liu was sweating profusely from beating the Falun Gong practitioners.

7) Crimes of the Suihua Labor Education Center in Heilongjiang Province: Yang Bo deceived Falun Gong practitioners with distorted facts and false kindness. In addition, he used practitioners' family members to help persuade them to stop practicing Falun Gong. He also threatened practitioners and got the police to torture practitioners. Fan Xiaodong took bribes and created terror. He has participated in the persecution of nearly 100 practitioners. Zeng Lingjun was notorious for beating and kicking people. He beat nearly 50 practitioners. Gao Zhonghai was also very vicious and known to take bribes. He persecuted close to 200 practitioners.

8) Yin Lizhu, a Falun Gong practitioner and former student of Jinlin Institute of Engineering, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on September 27, 1999. He was arrested and detained at the Changchun Detention Center for half a month. He was illegally dismissed from school. In August 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal again and was arrested when the train arrived at Jinzhou City. He was detained for seven days at the Jinzhou Railroad Detention Center. On December 6, 2000 he went to Tiananmen Square alone and was abducted by the police. On December 12, 2000 he was taken by Changchun public security and sent directly to the Qianan Detention Center, where he was detained for over a year. In 2001 he was illegally sentenced to 5 years in prison and was sent to the Tiebei Prison in Changchun, where he is currently being detained.

9) Guo Danxia, a Falun Gong practitioner of Yueyanglou District, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, was abducted in the jurisdiction of Wulipai Police Station. A male practitioner was also abducted. They were first sent to the Hubin Detention Center and then transferred to the Kangle Garden Detention Center.

10) Crimes by the police of Daqing City in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners (attached with facts of the retributions):

I. Crimes by the police of Rang District, Daqing City, in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners: In November 2003, the police abducted Falun Gong practitioners Pu Xinjun, Zang Yuzhen, Gao Shuqin, Zhang Bifang, and Feng Lianxia, etc.

II. The crimes of the "610 Office" of Daqing City: 1. Falun Gong practitioner Chen Bihua from Babaixiang, Daqing City, who was abducted on September 30, 2003 was illegally sentenced to one-year of forced labor. Currently she is detained at Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Center. 2. Falun Gong practitioner Liu Jingfang was abducted on November 17, 2003 and is currently detained at the Daqing Hongweixing Brainwashing Center.

III. Crimes by the police against Falun Gong practitioners in Sa District, Daqing City: Falun Gong practitioners Fan Zhengju, Zhao Xiuying were abducted by plainclothes police on December 9, 2003. Their homes were later searched.

IV. Crimes by the police against Falun Gong practitioners at Longfeng District, Daqing City: 1. In mid-December 2003, the police abducted Falun Gong practitioner Yang Xiuli. 2. Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Shuwen was abducted by the Longfeng Police Department on November 28, 2003.

11) Ms. Li Hongling, 29, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hunan Province. Since 1998, when she graduated from college, she has been teaching English at Xintang Middle School and Xintang Second Middle School in Xintang County, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. She is very much liked by her students and coworkers. In the past four years she has been detained and tortured for continuing her Falun Gong cultivation. On November 19, 2003 Li Hongling was arrested and sent to the Baishi Police Station. She was later transferred to the Zengcheng District Detention Center Criminal Section. The charge was spreading Falun Gong materials.

12) On December 18, 2003 Sun Ke, a citizen of Dehui City, was abducted and severely beaten by police for exposing their crime of detaining Falun Gong practitioners. Police also fabricated facts to harm Sun Ke. Later the scheme was exposed and they released him.

People's Minds and Karmic Retribution

Zhang Lirao, a team head of Huanxiangdian Village in Huashan County, Licheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province inhumanly persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. He made all out efforts to send people to brainwashing classes and labor education centers. In September 2003 he got cancer. Two months later he had an operation, but it developed into lymph node cancer. Currently he can barely talk. His telephone number is 86-531-8605700.

News from China

Around New Year of 2001, the Erdao Township Government of Fengman District, Jilin City, Jilin Province took video cameras to many families, trying to find Falun Gong practitioners, then shoot videos to slander Falun Gong. It was broadcast on the news program of China Central TV station. The program said that over 600 Falun Gong practitioners from that township have been transformed. It is a total lie. In the spring of a recent year, Channel 3 of Fengman District broadcasted that Erdao Township held a brainwashing class, and that Huang San, a self-proclaimed Falun Gong practitioner, said that Falun Gong "harmed him." Several non-practitioners were also on the video. Actually there was no brainwashing class and no one was "transformed." It was a show made by the township government.

* "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.