Summary of Other Articles and News - April 29, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Huang Min from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was sentenced to prison because he was involved in tapping into the cable TV system to broadcast Falun Dafa truth clarification materials. He is being held in No.11 Ward of the Shandong Provincial Prison. He has been on a hunger strike since April 10, 2004.

2. In February 2004, practitioner Ms. Tian Fang from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia was detained in Hexi Detention Center in Tongliao City because she had gone to visit her sister, Tian Miao, in Hohhot Prison. Facing such unreasonable persecution, Tian Fang went on a hunger strike on April 16. Police now torture her with force feeding. The severe torture is affecting her both mentally and physically, endangering her life.

3. Practitioner Mr. Yang Kai is 28 years old. He was abducted and sent to the Liuchangshan Labor Camp in Jinan City, Shandong Province in June 2001 and sentenced to a three-year term. His parents and two sisters are all Falun Dafa practitioners. In September 2001 police abducted his father, Mr. Yang Yuexiang, and oldest sister. They are in labor camps as well. His other sister left home to avoid arrest. At the same time, police abducted his mother and sent her to the Liuchangshan Legal Education Center Brainwashing Class. His father had a heart attack in July 2002 and was released on a medical parole. One of his sisters was abducted and sent to the Shandong Provincial Women's No.1 Labor Camp, from which she escaped in April 2003.

4. In June 2001 Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. He Xunming (an officer of the Shandong Provincial Import and Export Committee) was sentenced to three years in a labor camp. He has been imprisoned in the Jinan City Labor Camp and suffers in a Strictly Monitored Group. He has been held in a small cell(1) multiple times. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Du Zezhou from Jinan City was sentenced to three years in a labor camp beginning in October 2001. He also has been locked in a small cell multiple times. Practitioner Mr. Guan Fagang, has also been sentenced to three years a labor camp beginning in October 2002. He went on hunger strike for three months on May 13, 2003 and is now very weak. Practitioner Mr. Li Jian is a disabled person with only one arm. He was sentenced to two years in a labor camp in October 2002 and suffered from sleep deprivation, beatings, etc.

5. Police Officer Wang Jiushan and others from the Jiaocheng District Station, Haozhou City, Anhui Province forced Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shi Leimin to make false statements in order to obtain their family's bank account numbers. They beat up Mr. Shi multiple times, until he passed out. Mr. Shi's buttocks were severely bruised as the result of their beatings.

6. On April 21, 2004 practitioner Ms. Li Mingyan from Huludao City, Liaoning Province was arrested and taken to the Lianshan District Police Substation. Police sent her to Masanjian Labor Camp and tried to force her to serve a three-year term without notifying her family. The labor camp refused to take her, since her physical condition was not good, so Lianshan policewoman Li Yajie pulled some strings to have the labor camp admit her. Ms. Li Yanming has now been on a hunger strike for seven days to protest the persecution.

7. Practitioner Mr. Li Wenjun from Jilin City, Jilin Province went to Beijing to appeal three times. He lost his job in June 2000 and was sent to Jilin City Labor Camp for two years. In March 2001 he was transferred to Jilin Provincial Yinmahe Labor Camp in Jiutai City. He walked out of the Labor Camp in June 2002 in a dignified manner (never gave in). He was abducted again on March 17, 2004 and sentenced to another three years in the Yinmahe Labor Camp on April 16, 2004. He has been on hunger strike ever since his arrival.

8. Practitioner Mr. Cheng Dadong is 28 years old and a resident of Xintaimen Town, Lianshan District, Huludao City, Liaoning Province. His father Cheng Guoxue (53 years old), his wife Ren Yuan (25 years old), his mother-in-law Liu Xiuxia (52 years old) and his mother are all Falun Dafa practitioners. In the past three years, they all left home in order to avoid arrest. Despite this, police found and abducted Cheng Dadong, his father and wife on March 15, 2004. Their current whereabouts are unknown.

9. Falun Dafa practitioner Huo Dong (gender unknown) from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province was detained in No.2 Detention Center in the winter of 1999 because he had gone to Beijing to appeal. Police extorted 4000 yuan(2) from him. He was abducted again in the fall of 2001 because he had gone to Beijing a second time and was sent to the Lingyuan City Mental Hospital. The doctor there injected him with something that made him feel as if he would suffocate and possibly die. The mental hospital extorted more than 800 yuan from him. In the spring of 2002, he was detained again because he appealed a third time. He went on a hunger strike to protest and was force-fed in the mental hospital and again injected with nerve damaging drugs. He escaped from the hospital, but for a long period of time he could not sit still. His memory and ability to walk were both impaired.

10. On March 23, 2004, police from Tieshan Substation, Lushun City, Liaoning Province picked up Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Cuixiang (in her 60's) from Zhangjia Village and took her to the Zhaojiagou Detention Center in Lushun City. After 22 days, following no due process of law, she was sentenced to two years in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp.

11. On February 14, 2004, 4 to 5 police from Weidong District Station, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province went to practitioner Ms. Zhao Lianying's home. They took her husband, Ma Youliang, daughters Ma Shuling and Ma Shujun to the police station, because they had decorated the door of their home with the words "Falun Dafa is good". Police extorted 210 yuan from Ms. Zhao when she sent clothing to her family member in jail that evening. Her husband Ma Youliang and daughter Ma Shujun were detained 15 days with the excuse that they "interfered with public service." Her other daughter, Ma Shuling was detained 10 days.

12. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Zhongyu was detained, sent to a labor camp and dismissed from his job. He worked for the Wangtong Company in Anda City, Heilongjiang Province for over 20 years.

(1)The detainee is locked up alone in a very small cell. The guards handcuff practitioners behind their back in a fixed position, in which the practitioners can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp with no sunshine. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. The stench in the small cells is often so bad that it is difficult to breathe.

(2)Yuan: Chinese currency; the average monthly pay of an urban worker is 500 yuan.