Latest News from China -- January 23, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
- [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner He Lijun and Others Are Jailed at the Xiguoyuan Detention Center
- [Zhejiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhu Liming Jailed at No. 2 Prison of Zhejiang Province
- [Suizhong County, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Jihong Sentenced to Three Years in a Forced Labor Camp
- [Anguo City, Hebei Province] Elementary School Teacher Arrested for Teaching the Chinese Characters for "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance"
- [Harebin City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Liqun Arrested for Speaking the Truth About Falun Gong
- [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Qian Is Arrested
- [Bengxi City, Liaoning Province] Facts on How the Head of the Huoliangzhai Police Station, Xu Gang, Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
- [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Eyewitness Accounts of the Brutal Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center
1. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner He Lijun and Others Are Jailed at the Xiguoyuan Detention Center
On December 14, 2003 Falun Dafa practitioner He Lijun was put into Xiguoyuan Detention Center, Section 5, Cell #7. Another practitioner, Jin Yuqiang, is being held in Section 9, Cell #10. Practitioner Jiang Chunbin is detained in Section 8.
2. [Zhejiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhu Liming Jailed at No. 2 Prison of Zhejiang Province
Mr. Zhu Liming was an employee of Liaohe Oil Company in Liaoning province. He was illegally sentenced, and is currently held at the No. 2 Prison of Zhejiang province. He is still being detained, even though his initial jail term ended on January 19, 2004.
3. [Suizhong County, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Jihong Sentenced to Three Years in a Forced Labor Camp
Mr. Zhang Jihong is from Suizhong County, Huludao City, Liaoning province. Around 11:00 p.m. on January 2, 2004 Mr. Zhang was reported to the police for passing out Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials in Baozhuang Village, Fanjia Township. Fanjia Township officer Luo Zhengkun, and police officers Shang Zhigang and Pei Yu arrested him. Later, Zhang Xiwen, the Fanjia Township Police Station Captain, sent him to Suizhong County Detention Center.
The police told Mr. Zhang's wife that he would be released in 15 days. However, on January 16 (the thirteenth day after his arrest), Mr. Zhang was sent to the Huludao Forced Labor Camp. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor and is currently being held at the Huludao Forced Labor Camp.
Some of the responsible parties are:
Fanjia Township officer: Luo Zhengkun; police officers Shang Zhigang, Pei Yu.
Fanjia Township Police Station Captain: Zhang Xiwen, 86-429-6790004 (Office)
Recently appointed Political and Judiciary Unit Leader: Li Changhua
86-13700196626 (Cell), 86-729-6122876 (Office)
Assistant Secretary of Suizhong County Political and Judiciary Committee, also
director of "610 office": Shang Ergui, 86-13130960038 (Cell), 86-429-6131710
(Office), 86-429-6125558 (Home)
Assistant Director of Police Bureau: Wang Liming, 86-13842917169 (Cell),
86-429-6127518 (Office), 86-429-6128682 (Home)
4. [Anguo City, Hebei Province] Elementary School Teacher Arrested for Teaching the Chinese Characters for "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance"
On December 23, 2003 first grade teacher Ms. Cheng Guiying from the Yuxing Elementry School taught her class the Chinese characters for "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance." The parent of one of the student's reported her to the police. Later, five or six police officers arrested Ms. Cheng at her home.
5. [Harebin City, Helongjiang Province] Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Liqun Arrested for Speaking the Truth About Falun Gong
Dafa practitioner Wang Liqun is from Bin County, Helongjiang Province. On January 2, 2004, while clarifying the facts about Falun Gong, Wang was reported to the police, was arrested, and is currently being detained at the No. 1 Detention Center in Bin County.
Related telephone numbers:
National Security Team Leader of Harebin City: Tian Ju, 86-451-84635544
(Office), 86-451-84820671 (Home), 86-13946030600 (Cell)
Xianfenglu Police Station of Harebin City, officer: Dai Xiwen.
Harebin Nangang District 86-451-82315180
6. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Qian Is Arrested
On January 17, 2004 Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Qian and Zhang Qinghua were arrested at a bus stop by police from section six of the Wuhan City Police Department. The police had followed them from Zhang Qian's residence. Zhang Qian is originally from Yueyang City, Hunan Province, but he was forced to leave home to avoid persecution.
Both Zhang Qian and Zhang Qinghua were transferred and interrogated at section one of the Wuhan City Police Department. Even though they refused to give their names to the police, the police found out their identities by searching the Internet. Zhang Qian was then transferred to the Yueyang City Police Department and his whereabouts is currently unknown. The police also found a key on Zhang Qian. They used it to ransack another practitioner's home, which resulted in a loss of property totaling almost 20,000 Yuan. Police did not previously know that practitioner's identity. [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.]
In 2001, Zhang Qian had been illegally sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. Zhang never gave up his belief in Falun Dafa, and now he is being jailed again.
7. [Bengxi City, Liaoning Province] Facts on How the Head of Huoliangzhai Police Station, Xu Gang, Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
Xu Gang was the head of Huoliangzhai Police Station of Bengxi City. In July 2002, Xu instructed police to abduct Dafa practitioner Pan Liangqing from the home of practitioner Ms. Zhang Huishuang. They took Pan to Mountain Caibei and tried to force Pan to write a guarantee statement to give up practicing Falun Dafa. They threatened to send Pan to the Caibei Detention Center if he did not cooperate. When Pan refused their demands, those people slashed Pan several times with a knife.
In September 2002 Xu had Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Huishuang abducted from her home. He then led five or six people to ransack her house. Zhang Huishuang was sent to Bengxi Detention Center (also known as Caibei Dabailou Detention Center), where she was tortured. Afterward, Xu sent Zhang to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp where she was not admitted due to severe health issues caused by the torture. Because of the brutal persecution, which included force-feeding and injections of a substance that destroyed her nervous system, Zhang Huishuang stayed in a coma for two months after being released. To this day, her legs are crippled from the severe treatment she received.
On July 25, 2003, while hanging Falun Dafa banners, Pan Liangqing and Ms. Zhang Huishuang were reported to police. They were arrested and taken to Huoliangzhai Police Station. Pan Liangqing was sentenced to three years of forced labor at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Zhang Huishuang was released after holding a hunger strike.
During the period when Xu Gang was the head of Huoliangzhai Police Station not a single Falun Dafa practitioner was spared from being persecuted. Xu often went to practitioners' homes to harass them or to confiscate their property. Dafa practitioner Yan Yuqing's home was ransacked many times.
8. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Eyewitness Accounts of the Brutal Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center
I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. I was once illegally detained and tortured at the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center.
When I was there, brainwashing center personnel Zhao Jian handcuffed me, poured water over my head, beat me, and used a padlock to hook my nose. He also stepped on my head with leather boots and would not allow me to sleep. The three meals I had every day included a bowl of light corn paste soup and half a flour bun. When my right hand was cuffed, it was very difficult for me to eat. My feet and legs were swollen, and some of the blood vessels in my legs burst due to the torture. One time, officer Wang Ruijuan held my left arm, Zhao Jian cuffed my right arm to a steel gate, and then he started to hit my face. My teeth almost fell out, and my face and mouth went numb from the beating. They used these methods to torture me for almost twenty days. By the end of that time, over a dozen fellow practitioners were released, and I was the only one left behind. To make matters worse, Zhao cuffed my hands to the top bar of the steel gate so that my feet were off the floor. The pain was so excruciating at the time that I couldn't bear it; I did what a practitioner should never do and gave up to them. After I came out from that "hell," I couldn't eat or sleep. I was in agony and I had tremendous guilt in my conscience. I clearly knew that I had let down Teacher, Dafa, and my fellow practitioners. I now solemnly declare that all the things I have written that do not meet the requirements of Dafa are void. [Note: Solemn declaration is published separately.]
Other practitioners were also being tortured in a similar fashion. Practitioner Zhang Zhengming was handcuffed for one month and five days straight. Practitioner Mao Yaping was also cuffed for a month. Practitioner Ding Yang's blood pressure went up to 200, and Ding's feet and legs were swollen with burst blood vessels in the legs. When the perpetrator Zhang Zhigang beat Falun Gong practitioner Liu Wanqiu, he poured water over Liu's head, and Liu was not allowed to wear clothes when entering the room. The cruelest personnel are Yan Yongsheng, Yun Yucheng, Zhang Zhigang, Yang Yuling, Zhao Jian, and Mr. Qi who is the secretary there. In addition, there are several female perpetrators, Wang Ruijuan, Jin Wei, and Han Zhenghua. Jin Wen and Han Zhenghua often download materials from the Minghui website. One night, while my right hand was cuffed to a door, I was able to stand and do the Falun Gong standing meditation. Yang Yuling saw me practicing from the monitor; she thus cuffed my hand even higher and hit me several times using the door.
