Summary of Other Articles and News - April 3, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1) Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Ke, female, is seventy-three years old and is a retired official in Tianjin City. On April 23, 1999, Cheng Ke went to Tianjin Education Institute to tell the facts that she has benefited physically and spiritually from practicing Falun Gong and was beaten by the police. A journalist from Hong Kong called her to ask for information about this event, and Cheng Ke was thus detained on the fabricated charge of "disclosing State secrets." After she was released, again she went to appeal, and again she was arrested. She was beaten many times during her detention. The police kicked her ankle and smashed her bones, causing her toenails to fall off. During forced labor, she was thrown down and her leg was broken. Later on she was released for medical treatment. On December 22, 2003, the local police and the detention center staff broke into her home again. They dragged her into a police car and sent her to Jianxin Female Labor Camp.

2) On October 15, 2003, the police kidnapped five Falun Gong practitioners from Xinjin City, Sichuan Province. The practitioners suffered from inhuman tortures. Later three practitioners were sentenced to "re-education through forced labor." Among them was Luo Qiong, who was sentenced to one-and-half years of forced labor and was sent to Nanmusi Female Labor Education Center in Zizhong City, Sichuan Province. Two other Falun Gong practitioners who were nearly seventy years old were each sentenced to one year of forced labor, and served their sentence at home. Wang Xiang was forced to leave home to avoid arrest after escaping from the detention center.

3) Falun Gong practitioner Li Lianyi from Huadu County, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province was kidnapped at the beginning of the year for spreading truth-clarification materials. He was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. Currently he is detained at the First Labor Education Center at Chini, Huadu County. His wife, Zhao Wei, was arrested during the People's Representative Conference and the Party Conference this year and was detained in the Huadu Timian Drug Rehabilitation Center. Other practitioners detained at Huadu Timian Drug Rehabilitation Center Brainwashing Class during the conferences include: Zhang Maoying, Chen Liping, and Feng Enyan.

4) My name is Zhao Manru. I am a female Falun Gong practitioner. I am sixty-three years old and a retired worker from Kailuan Machinery Factory in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. My three sisters and I were arrested, detained and interrogated, our home was searched, we were sent to labor camps, we were closely monitored, and we were fined, all for practicing Falun Gong. My family was under a lot of pressure. On December 30, 2002, Zhao Yingqi, my brother-in-law, was inhumanly killed by policemen at Hehuakeng Labor Education Center. My mother could no longer cope with the pressure, and she passed away on February 4, 2003.

5) On February 27, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Cui Bingjin from Nanliquan Village of Kenli Town, Kenli County, Dongying City, Shandong Province was ambushed by hidden police while he was taking down a cartoon poster that slandered Falun Gong. Around March 10 he was sentenced to three years of forced labor. Currently he is detained at Wang Village Labor Education Center.

6) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Haixiong, thirty years old, was a worker at Changqing Oil Field Maling Oil Refinery Factory. In 2001 he was arrested for going to Beijing to validate Dafa. Later he was sent to Lanzhou (capital city of Gansu Province) for one-and-a-half years of forced labor. He was rendered unable to walk due to torture. After he was released, the factory did not let him to go to work and did not allow him to live in the apartment building of the factory. His whole family was forced to leave home in order to avoid the persecution. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Yongduo, fifty-eight years old, was a worker at Qingyang Area Second Oil Excavation Factory. He was kidnapped in 2001 and was severely tortured. Later he was sent to Ningxia Detention Center in Gansu Province for one year of persecution, and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Later he was sent to Lanzhou City where he was persecuted for half a year. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Yulin, twenty-eight years old, was an administrator at the Second Oil Excavation Factory Taiche Team. In 2001 he was kidnapped in Ningxia City for clarifying the truth. He was severely and inhumanly beaten. Later on he was sent to Ningxia Detention Center where he was sentenced to eight years in prison. He was tortured to death within a year.

7) Falun Gong practitioners Liu Bogang and Li Weiling are employees at the Second Electricity Factory of Fulaerji General Electricity Plant in Qiqihar City. At the end of 2000 they were kidnapped for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong, and were sent to a labor camp. In July 2002 after they were released the factory forbade them from going to work and set up a brainwashing class at the Department of Security in the factory. They were forced to go to the brainwashing class. Their monthly income decreased from over 1,000 Yuan to 170 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China]. At the end of 2003, having not given up their beliefs, they were dismissed from the factory.

8) On July 17, 2001, Lu Tieli, head of Changtu County Police Station of Tieling City, Liaoning Province gathered a team of villains and broke into Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Qingzhuo's home. They knocked him to the floor, covered his mouth, and pushed and dragged him to the courtyard. His seventeen-year-old daughter was dragged out of bed and was carried out of the room. Zhao Qingzhuo resisted, but they beat him viciously. His whole face was covered in blood as a result. They forced him into their car and stepped on his head. His daughter's mouth was tightly covered. She could barely breathe and could not move.