Summary of Other Articles and News - October 2, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1) 50-year-old Ms Hua Guoxiang is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Zhejiang Province. Last April she was abducted and taken to a brainwashing center located in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, where she was persecuted for six weeks. When she was released, she was merely skin and bones. This year on August 5, she was abducted again and sentenced to two years in prison. On September 22, she was sent to Deqing Labor Camp. Officials that are involved in the persecution also harassed her relatives. In 2002, her nephew was not allowed to join the army. This year, her other nephew was denied the chance to go to college and his younger brother was not allowed to join the Party.

2) Authorities in Jinzhou City Labor Camp, Liaoning Province, have been carrying out another wave of brutal persecution of practitioners since this spring. Over ten practitioners, including Liu Wansheng, Wang Xiaomin, Jia Jingwen and Cao Jinxin were denied visitation by their family members. These practitioners have been reduced to skin and bones from torture and their current conditions are not known. Practitioner Shao Minggang was tortured to the verge of death. Practitioner Li Baoshi was tied up tightly and shocked with electric batons. Jin Baodong was forced to stand against a wall and hold his arms up for an extended period of time. Other practitioners also suffered various kinds of tortures. Shi Zhongyan was tortured to death while he was hung on a cross.

3) Zhang Ziquan is the director of Taihe Town Police Station in Heishan County, Liaoning Province. He actively helps Jiang's regime persecute practitioners. He illegally abducts them and extorts money from them. Many people have been mistreated by him. Since July 1999, one practitioner from Taihe Town has been sentenced to prison, six have been sent to forced labor camps, and at least 30 people have been detained. Zhang has extorted large sums of money from practitioners, in some cases up to 40,000 yuan. Three people from this town have been forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.