February 11, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

At 7:00 p.m. during the Lantern Festival (February 5, 2004), Falun Dafa practitioners in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province successfully hung a 10-meter long banner in the square in front of the county government. The banner read "Falun Dafa Is the Righteous Way!" About ten thousand people were in the square attending a party and witnessed this heroic deed.

Ms. Liu Cuilan, 55, Ms. Li Xiujun, 40, and Ms. Cao Yanwei, 35 are Falun Dafa practitioners from Xiliangzihe Village in Dongxinzhuang Town, Zunhua City, Hebei Province. In order to expose lies and help others understand the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong, they went out to display truth clarifying banners. On February 6, officers from the Dongxinzhuangzi Town Police Station arrested them. Around 8:00 p.m. that night, the three practitioners were sent to the Zunhua City Detention Center located in the Xisanli Township. Their families brought them some clothes, but the officials did not allow them to leave the clothes at the detention center, nor did they grant the family members a visit with the practitioners. Instead they extorted 200 yuan from them. [The average monthly income of an urban worker is about 500 yuan.]

Several days later, the practitioners' family members went to the detention center again to see them. One of the practitioners was held by guards for a brief meeting with the visitors. On February 17, 20,000 yuan was extorted from one family before their loved one was released. Two other practitioners are still being held, while their families are being coerced to pay an exorbitant amount of cash. Jin Guangtian, head of the police station, led Yu Fu and other police officers in a stake out, twenty-four hours a day, in attempt to capture more Falun Dafa practitioners and win the favor of their superiors.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Jin Guangtian, head of the Dongxinzhuangzi Town Police Station: 86-13832988602 (cellular), 86-315-6998456 (office).
Detention Center: 86-315-6682001.
Brainwashing Center: 86-315-6629367.

Political Security Section: 86-315-6614261.

Mr. Wang Yingdong, 48, is from Dazhuan Village in Gaotong Town, Fushan, Shandong Province. Mr. Wang started practicing Falun Dafa in the winter of 1996. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, his family suffered continuous harassment from the police. He was forced to avoid his home each winter. Still, he persevered in carrying out work to clarify the truth of the persecution. At noon on November 9, 2003, Mou Qidong, head of the "610 Office*," led Yu Bo and about a dozen others to jump over the wall and break in to abduct him. Zou Xinchu, director of the village security office, led Zou Qiuton and others to take a photocopier, a tape recorder, paper, and other equipment.

Since then, Mr. Wang Yingdong has been unlawfully held in the Liugong Detention Center in Fushan for over three months. His family has been denied visits. The condition in the detention center is extremely harsh. The one' meal each day consists of six ounces (200 grams) of small buns and a thin soup with a couple of green vegetable leaves. Despite starvation, inmates are forced to participate in heavy labor. It is not uncommon that the inmates have to work until two or three o'clock in the morning. Everyone has to get up again at five or six o'clock before daybreak for next day's shift. Officer Li Jianguo beats both men and women inmates at will. Liu, head of the detention center, and Yu Bo have brutally force-fed Falun Dafa practitioners, in addition to hitting and kicking them.

Ms. Wang Yingdong has remained calm even under these conditions. He has never given up clarifying the truth, and will face an illegal trial on February 12, 2004 in the Fushan Court.

Hao Yumei, Mr. Wang's wife, is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. She has been forced from her home due to police harassment and has to keep moving from place to place throughout the winter.

Ms. Liu Yuna, also from Gaotong, is another victim. She was illegally abducted at noon on November 9, 2003. She refused to take any food for eleven days straight. During this time, officers Mou Qidong, Li Jianguo, Yu Bo, and prison hospital physician Wang severely beat her and tortured her When she was released, she was barely alive..

On November 22, 2003, four Falun Dafa practitioners in Renshou County in Sichuan Province were unlawfully arrested. The practitioners' names are: Ms. Gu Xia, 23, Ms. Huang Xueying, 35, Ms. Wang Bihua, 38, and Mr. Kang Lin, 40.

Hu Chengwen, a policeman in Renshou County, was involved in the persecution. Hu Chengwen's address is: No. 416 Wenlin Road, Renshou County, Sichuan Province. Telephone number: 86-833-6203623.

Tao Shan is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Longgang District. He was unlawfully arrested by the police at his home early in the morning on February 11, 2004. Mr. Tao remains in custody at the Qitun Detention Center.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Huludao Detention Center: 86-429-3960823, 86-429-3960820.
Huludao City "610 Office": 86-429-3122622.
Chen Weizhi, head of the Huludao City "610 Office": 86-13009299719 (cellular).
Liang Chengdong, deputy director of the Huludao City "610 Office": 86-429-8231192 (office), 86-429-3112662 (home).
Li Siyu, director of the Longgang District "610 Office": 86-429-2095621 (office), 86-429-2095261, 86-13998972359 (cellular).
Yang Demin, member of the Longgang District "610 Office": 86-429-2026235 (office), 86-429-2028280 (home), 86-13942988287 (cellular).

Li Dongzhu was formerly the head of the political security section of the Yanbian Police Department. He was promoted to deputy chief of the Yanji City Police Department, specifically in charge of the persecution against Falun Gong, because of his brutal activities in suppressing Falun Gong.

In December 2002, in order to escalate the persecution and thereby gain more political favor, Li Dongzhu issued and posted 1,000 copies of a public notice across the city. The notice announced that anyone who led the police to a Falun Gong practitioner would be awarded 500 yuan. Anyone who captured a Falun Gong practitioner would be awarded 1,000 yuan. Many plainclothes and patrolling officers were stationed near the posted notices in hopes of abducting Falun Gong practitioners who might come to tear them down. Still, with powerful righteous thoughts from all Falun Dafa practitioners in Yanji City, all 1,000 notices were torn away in less than a month. Li Dongzhu refused to give up and ordered police officers to post the notice again. He also put directors of residential committees and officers from various police stations in charge of the stake-outs near the postings. All police stations have been coerced and enticed to post notices and other slanderous materials attacking Falun Dafa and its founder. Local residents who don't know the facts have been severely misled.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shuping was captured while peeling off the banners that defamed Falun Dafa and its founder. Over 130 Falun Dafa practitioners in the area have been unlawfully placed under arrest, sentenced to prison, sent to forced labor camps, and heavy fines were extorted from them. The police have done everything they could to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief, to stop practicing Falun Gong exercises, and to write so-called "three statements of guarantee" [denouncing Falun Gong].

Li Dongzhu: 86-433-2514600 (office), 86-433-2525232 (home), 86-13804487858 (cellular).

Tan Bangyao is a teacher at the No. 4 Qiyang Middle School in Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. His son Tan Jimin is a student of the No. 1 Qidong Middle School. Both Mr. Tan and his son were illegally arrested for practicing Falun Dafa. On July 21, 2002, Tan Jimin was interrogated by the Qidong County Police Department while his father was held in custody by the Qiyang Police Department. On November 18, 2002, Tan Jimin was again placed in custody by the Qidong County Police Department. A huge amount of cash was extorted from their family in 2002.

Three extortion cases in July 2002:

1. Deng Xu, deputy Party secretary of the Qidong County Political and Judiciary Committee, extorted 13,000 yuan.
2. Li Guowen, deputy Party secretary of the Qiyang County Political and Judiciary Committee, extorted 2,000 yuan.
3. Li Guotai, member of the Qiyang County State Security Brigade, extorted 5,800 yan.

Five extortion cases in December 2002:

1. Hu Guoping, deputy commissar of the Qidong County Police Department, extorted 1,000 yuan.
2. He Zhengrong, head of the Political Security Section of the Qidong County Police Department, extorted 2,000 yuan for meals and entertainment.
3. A deputy Party secretary of the Qidong County Political and Judiciary Committee, extorted 10,000 yuan.
4. The Political Security Section of the Qidong County Police Department, extorted 8,000 yuan.
5. Li Guowen, deputy Party secretary of the Qiyang County Political and Judiciary Committee, extorted an additional 1,000 yuan.

* The "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.