(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
1) The police abduct three practitioners in Tonghua City, Jilin Province
On November 7, 2004, the police abducted two practitioners in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, while they were clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. A kindhearted person who knows the truth about Falun Gong helped one of the practitioners escape. The other practitioner did not reveal his name. He is still under illegal detention at the time of this writing. In March 2004, Tonghua City police put a bounty on practitioner Ms. Li Haihong. On the night of November 9, 2004, after the Minsheng Police Station in Tonghua City received a tip that Ms. Li Haihong was working at a café on Minsheng Road, they broke into the café in the middle of the night and abducted Ms. Li.
2) Atrocities against female practitioners in Qixia City, Yantai, Shandong Province
Falun Gong practitioners in Qixia City, Yantai, Shandong Province, have been suffering from brutal tortures since they were confined in the detention center because they went to Beijing and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. The police shocked Ms. Wang Yaping six times on one side of her face using electric batons. A policeman named Zhang Xuecheng grabbed Ms. Li Yuzhen by her hair while repeatedly slamming her against the wall and the metal door. Zhang also punched and kicked her and kept her in a metal cage for several hours without a jacket when the weather was so cold that a splash of water would instantly turn to ice. Even Ms. Sun Xiuting, a practitioner in her sixties, has been suffering from the police's torture on a daily basis. Ms. Mou Guiqin was dragged into the dungeon, where she has been subjected to the "Tiger Bench" torture and electric shock. Policeman Ma Tianfei found Ms. Song Wenzhen reciting a Falun Gong book and cuffed her hands to the iron bars next to an open window to freeze her as a punishment. The police found Ms. Bing Weili, Ms. Li Xiuxiang, and nine other practitioners practicing Falun Gong exercises and kept their hands cuffed to the bars next to the windows until after midnight. As a result, Ms. Ke Emifeng's hands suffered severe frostbite, but the police continued to torture her.
3) Ms. Cui Jiafang and Ms. Yang from Kuerle, Xinjiang Province, suffer from torture at brainwashing centers
In mid-November 2003, the 610 Office in Bazhou, Xinjiang Province, abducted Ms. Cui Jiafang, a practitioner from Kuerle, Xinjiang Province, and locked her in a brainwashing center. In March 2004, the 610 Office abducted Ms. Cui again and this time sent her to the Urumqi Forced Brainwashing Center in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province. At first, the torturers feigned kindness in order to coax her into renouncing Falun Gong. Next, they subjected Ms. Cui to continuous cursing and beatings. Finally, Tu from Xinjiang Corps' 610 Office, a person from Kuerle named Yang, as well as police from the local Public Security Bureau, prisons, and forced labor camps, took Ms. Cui to an isolated room where they tortured her late into the night. They eventually gave up when they realized that nothing could force Ms. Cui Jiafang to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. A practitioner named Yang, from Kuerle, Xinjiang Province, was abducted to a forced brainwashing center in September 2003 and subjected to the same torture as above. Many officials took turns watching her, denying her sleep for several consecutive days and nights and forcing her to stand up for long periods of time.
4) Mr. Huang Jiyu and Mr. Zhang Lijun suffer from torture at Xindian Forced Labor Camp in Shanxi Province
Mr. Huang Jiyu is a 56-year-old practitioner from Xinjiang Province. He makes a living selling fruit near Taiyuan City Heating Oil Institute in Shanxi Province. A man reported Mr. Huang to the police when Mr. Huang clarified the truth about Falun Gong to him. The police arrived at the scene quickly and abducted Mr. Huang. Around June 2004, Mr. Huang was sentenced to one year in the Xindian Forced Labor Camp. He was denied a noon break and sleep and was forced to stand up for long periods of time. His legs have become so swollen that he has trouble walking. Another local practitioner named Mr. Zhang Lihun, 42, was an employee at the Youth Palace in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The police from his organization and the Sanqiao Police Station often threatened and harassed him. On March 5, 2001, the police put him into Taiyuan City's Zhencheng Forced Brainwashing Center. His mother has passed away and his wife has divorced him. In August 2004, after someone reported him to the police, he was sentenced to two years in Xindian Forced Labor Camp, which now holds a total of 26 practitioners in Shanxi Province.
5) Two schoolteachers in Liaocheng, Shandong Province are illegally detained
Mr. Zhang Chang'gong, the deputy head of the Political Union at Dongchangfu District's Education Bureau in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, has been persecuting local schoolteachers because they practice Falun Gong. Ms. Fan Xiuqin is a schoolteacher at Erlianban Elementary School in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. She was repeatedly abducted and sent to the detention center and the forced brainwashing center. Mr. Li Yugong, the Chairman of Dongchangfu District's 610 Office, and Zhang Chang'gong together locked Ms. Fan in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been for the past three years.
Mr. Zhang Feng is a young English teacher at Shiyan Junior High School. He was repeatedly incarcerated in the detention center and forced brainwashing center and frequently had money extorted from him by Mr. Geng Boping, former head of Gulou Police Station. In the spring of 2002, Mr. Zhang Feng was put into the detention center and then illegally sentenced to three years in the forced labor camp. He went on a hunger and thirst strike for nine days and nights as a non-violent means to protest the persecution. During those nine days, the prison police goaded the prison inmates to repeatedly beat Mr. Zhang, while the prison police savagely stuffed plastic tubes down his throat, not to nourish him, but to punish him for the protest. Finally, Mr. Zhang was on the brink of death because of the deadly beatings and the punitive forced-feeding. Although he was admitted to the City Hospital, he was transferred to a forced labor camp outside Liaocheng just as his condition stabilized. When the forced labor camp refused to take him because of his alarming condition, he was sent to Dongchangfu District Hospital. This happened in March 2002. Mr. Zhang continued with his hunger strike protest. Since September 2002 Gulou Police Station officials started to have him watched around the clock in an isolated hospital ward despite his having become bedridden. In September 2003, the police stopped having police watch him in the hospital ward but still had undercover police watch him secretly. Mr. Zhang has been protesting the persecution since March 2002 with hunger strikes.
6) Atrocities against Ms. Zhu Huiqun, a practitioner in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province.
Ms. Zhu Huiqun resides in the Central Community Home in Wayao Village, Jiajia Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province. Because Ms. Zhu is determined in practicing Falun Gong, the police illegally detained her three times and sent her to a forced labor camp once. On the evening of July 24, 2002, Mr. Zhou Jianjiang from the Township's 610 Office and a group of policeman broke into her home and abducted her. Another practitioner named Zhen Shuiqing (gender unspecified) was also abducted on the same day. They were both detained in the township's government building and then transferred to Jianyang City Detention Center. A month later Ms. Zhu was sentenced to two years in Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong, Sichuan Province. When Ms. Zhu sang songs composed by practitioners in the forced labor camp, the guards ordered prison inmates to stuff her mouth with a rug. Then the guards kept slapping her face and shocking her with electric batons. She often suffered from prison inmates' punches and kicks. In addition, the guards cuffed her hands and ordered inmates to put her legs on top of each other and tie them up. When Zhu untied herself, prison inmates tied her legs up again, more tightly this time. But after a while, Zhu untied herself again. On the following day, two prison inmates punched and kicked Ms. Zhu and stomped on her back with their feet. They also tortured Ms. Zhu by bending her fingers backward and pinching her nipples hard. When Ms. Zhu passed out due to the excruciating pain, they poured cold water over her head to revive her only to continue the tortures. They made her hold a hoop over her head or carry a broomstick across her shoulders for long periods of time while denying her the use of a toilet.
7) Facts of the persecution against Mr. Liu Haikang and his wife Ms. Sun Chunhuan in Heilongjiang Province
Mr. Liu Haikang is an employee at the Veterans' Cadre Division in Songling District, Daxing'anling Region, Heilongjiang Province. After Jiang Zemin ordered the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Liu coordinated local practitioners to step out and clarify the truth about Falun Gong. In addition, Mr. Liu traveled to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He and his wife, Ms. Sun Chunhuan, were separately abducted and transferred back to the prisons in Songling District. At the end of 1999, Mr. Liu went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong only to be abducted again and taken back to Songling District. In March 2000, he was sentenced to serve time in the forced labor camp. In February 2002, the police abducted him while he was on the train, and repeatedly subjected him to brutal beatings before illegally sentencing him to seven years in prison. Mr. Liu Haikang is now incarcerated at Tailai Prison. His wife Ms. Sun Chunhuan is 49 years old. She went to Beijing in September 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong but was abducted and transferred back to Songling District where the police illegally detained her for over 30 days. In March 2000, the police abducted Ms. Sun Chunhuan again and detained her again for over 30 days. In June 2000, the police abducted her for the third time and illegally sentenced her to one year in the forced labor camp. At the end of 2001, Ms. Sun was sentenced to another seven years in prison. Ms. Sun is now incarcerated in Heilongjiang Province's Women's Prison. While the police repeatedly detained Mr. and Mrs. Liu, their son, Liu Zhijia, was left at home with no one to look after him. Liu Zhijia is only 17 years old, but his parents have been taken away from him. A relative took him in, and now he is studying at an out-of-town school with the help of some kindhearted people.
