Latest News from China - April 30, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Song Yueying is Injected with High Doses of an Unknown Drug Causing Her to Become Mentally Disoriented

• [Benxi, Liaoning Province] Mr. Song Yuegang is Tortured and Critically Ill at Wafangdian Prison

• [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Du Jincai and Search His Home

• [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Police Conduct a Campaign to Mass Arrest Local Dafa Practitioners

• [Guilin City, Guangxi Province] Public Security Bureau Authorities Send 67-Year-Old Practitioner Mr. Liu Yaoming to a Forced Labor Camp

• [Tangshan, Hebei Province] Zhang Fengying Suffers at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp

• [Baise City, Guangxi] Mr. and Mrs. Huang Jianzhong Are Arrested And Have Disappeared

• [Tangshan, Hebei Province] A Truth-clarification Material Production Site in Luannan County Is Destroyed

• [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Wei Huishu is Arrested and a Truth-clarification Material Production Site is Destroyed

• [Guangzhou, Guangdong Province] Ms. Hu Guilan is Sentenced to Seven Years In Prison
• [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Lu Yan from the Tiexi District is Taken to a Brainwashing Center
• [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhang Ruxing Has Been Arrested

• [Xiaogan City, Hubei Province] Dafa Practitioner Ju Ling has been Seized by Authorities Again

• [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Dafa Practitioner Liu Guoying Is Arrested

1. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioner Song Yueying is Injected with High Doses of an Unknown Drug Causing Her to Become Mentally Disoriented

Shenyang City Dafa practitioner Ms. Song Yueying is over 50. In October 2001, the police arrested her while she was distributing materials that explain the facts regarding the persecution of Falun Gong . To protest her unlawful detention she began a hunger strike, but in retaliation, the police injected her with an unknown drug. The dose was quite high and caused her to become mentally disoriented, begin shouting loudly and rendering her unable take care of herself. It wasn't until she deteriorated to this state that the police finally allowed her family to take her home. At present she still has not fully recovered.

2. [Benxi, Liaoning Province] Mr. Song Yuegang is Tortured and Critically Ill at Wafangdian Prison

Benxi Dafa practitioner Mr. Song Yuegang was arrested for publishing truth-clarification material, and sentenced to 10 years in Wafangdian prison. Because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa, he has been persecuted very brutally by the prison guards. He has now been diagnosed with serious pulmonary tuberculosis and is critically ill.

3. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Du Jincai and Search His Home

On April 26, 2004, a group of policemen suddenly arrived at Mr. Du Jincai's workplace to arrest him. The authorities also searched his home. His wife became a target as well simply for being married to Du Jincai. She was forced to leave their home to avoid further persecution by the authorities.

Du Jincai, 41, from Lianshan District, Huludao City, was a former volunteer assistant of Huludao City's Falun Dafa Assistance Center. The police detained him on July 23 and September 22, 1999 after Jiang's political group banned Falun Dafa. The authorities sent him to the Huludao City Forced Labor Camp for three years on October 30, 1999. On another occasion, the authorities extorted approximately 20,000 yuan (1) from him.

The relevant departments' telephone numbers:
Huludao City Lianshan District Public Security Sub-bureau
Bureau chief Yang Yaowei: 86-429-2161999 (Office), 86-429-3113789 (Home),
86-1394290999 (Cell)
Commissar Zhang Naiping: 86-429-2160507 (Office), 86-429-3120813 (Home),
86-13009282813 (Cell)
Disciplinary Inspection Secretary Jiang Ping: 86-429-2160615 (Office),
86-429-2160828 (Home), 86-13942927666 (Cell)

4. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Police Conduct a Campaign to Mass Arrest Local Dafa Practitioners

After Luo Gan convened a secret meeting to plot the arrest of Dafa practitioners in Qingdao, Shandong Province, the police raided Dafa practitioners' homes in Weifang City late at night on April 24, 2004. Some practitioners were arrested. According to preliminary information, five practitioners were detained at the Kuiwen District Guangwen Local Police Station, and Li Jiangang was detained at a local station of the Kuiwen Public Security Sub-bureau. Currently some practitioners are being strictly monitored and followed. Some who are still at home are being constantly harassed, monitored and threatened with arrest or Forced Labor, and some are missing. The details of this situation are under investigation.

5. [Guilin City, Guangxi Province] Public Security Bureau Authorities Send 67-Year-Old Practitioner Mr. Liu Yaoming to a Forced Labor Camp

Mr. Liu Yaoming, is 67 years old and a retired senior Engineer at the Guilin Rubber Design Institute. Because he is steadfast in practicing Falun Gong, Guilin City Xiangshan Public Security Sub-bureau searched his home and arrested him on March 24, 2004. The police summarily sentenced him to the Guangxi District No. 1 Forced Labor Camp for two years on April 13, 2004. On the same day, someone reported Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Yanzi after she was observed explaining the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa to the public. The authorities sent her to the Guangxi District Female Forced Labor Camp for three years without a trial.

6. [Tangshan, Hebei Province] Zhang Fengying Suffers at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Zhang Fengying, 50, began to practice Falun Gong in Tianjin in March 1994.

She went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in 2000, and she was arrested and given a three-year sentence at the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp without benefit of a trial. While in the labor camp, she has suffered a lot at the hands of the authorities. The Kaiping Forced Labor Camp authorities use brutal methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in their attempt to force them to renounce their belief.

Zhang Fengying and other fellow practitioners are also suffering in the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp. On February 5, 2001, several Dafa practitioners were tortured and forced to stand outside, exposed to adverse weather conditions for an extended period of time. Several guards dragged Zhang Fengying to a secret room where a group of six people were holding electric batons. She was beaten and electrically shocked with the batons for several hours. One of her teeth was knocked out, and her mouth was full of blood, but the authorities would not let her spit it out in order to cover up any evidence of their crimes. The police lifted up her clothes and beat her with electric batons. Her body was covered with bruises, and her hair was pulled out and lay everywhere on the floor.

In June 2001, Zhang Fengying, and all other practitioners in the team, were hung up by their handcuffs in the assembly hall. A few police beat them with wooden clubs to the point where the force of the blows caused the skin on their buttocks to become lacerated and they became incontinent from the trauma. Despite this, the authorities, still did not allow the practitioners to go to the toilet. The police deprived them of sleep around the clock for eight days. They beat any practitioner they saw closing her eyes and shouted, "That's what we are doing, we are here to beat you."

7. [Baise City, Guangxi] Mr. and Mrs. Huang Jianzhong Are Arrested And Have Disappeared

About 11:30 p.m. on April 23, 2004, people claiming to be the "armed police" unreasonably seized Guangxi Baise City practitioners Mr. Huang Jianzhong (53 years old) and his wife Feng Huizhen (48 years old) at their factory dormitory. Another four local practitioners were also arrested on the same day. Their whereabouts are unknown at this time. Their daughter and relatives were also unable to find out. After that, the municipal government sealed up Huang Jianzhong's factory, immediately putting several dozen staff members out of work, and also causing the family to be separated.

At end of last year, the local police illegally arrested Huang Jianzhong in Hezhou City, Guangxi Province. He was released in January this year after he had 40,000 Yuan extorted from him by the police.

8. [Tangshan, Hebei Province] A Truth-clarification Material Production Site in Luannan County Is Destroyed

One of the truth-clarification material production sites in Luannan County was searched. Four practitioners, including Ms. Zhang Lianzhi were seized. They are now detained in the county detention center. The details are under investigation.

9. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Wei Huishu is Arrested and a Truth-clarification Material Production Site is Destroyed

On April 21, 2004, Fushun City Qingyuan County practitioner Ms. Wei Huishu was delivering truth-clarification VCDs and other material. The authorities seized her when she got off the bus. The police destroyed the large material production site in Qingyuan County, which had operated for three years, and arrested several dozen people. Wei Huishu has been transferred from the Qingyuan County Dashagou Collection Center to the Fushun City Detention Center.

10. [Guangzhou, Guangdong Province] Ms. Hu Guilan is Sentenced to Seven Years In Prison

On March 28, 2003, Liaoning Shenyang practitioner Ms. Hu Guilan, around 50, was arrested and detained at Guangzhou Baiyun District Detention Center. She was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on March 25, 2004, and is now being held in the Guangzhou Women's Prison in Taihe County.

11. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Lu Yan from the Tiexi District is Taken to a Brainwashing Center

At 9 a.m. on April 20, 2004, Zhang Wei, from the Tiexi District Xingda Community Office led political and judiciary committee plainclothes personnel to the home of Dafa practitioners, Ms. Lu Yan. They tricked her into going with them to the community office for a chat. When Lu Yan went downstairs, a police car was waiting, and they forcibly took her away. Later after verifying her identity, the political and judiciary committee personnel directly forced Lu Yan into a brainwashing program held at Zhangshi Reformatory's "legal school". Later, in the afternoon, Lu Yan's daughter went to the community office to inquire about her mother's situation. The officer lied, "She just went to study for a few days."

Lu Yan's husband, Wang Shungeng, is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. He was reported to the authorities in December 23 and has been illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor. He is now detained in the Zhangshi Reformatory, and their daughter is alone at home.

The relevant telephone numbers:
Shenyang City Tiexi District Xingda Community Office: 86-24-25426274,
Community officers: Shang Jie, Zhang Wei, Secretary Wei
Zhangshi Legal School administration section: 86-24-25811657
Administration section chief: Shi Fengyou 86-13309888036 (Cell)

12. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhang Ruxing Has Been Arrested

Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Ruxing, a farmer from Yaozhuangzi Village, Luofa Township in the Anci District of Langfang City, Hebei Province, was arrested at the end of April.

13. [Xiaogan City, Hubei Province] Dafa Practitioner Ju Ling has been Seized by Authorities Again

In the beginning of April 2004, Xiaogan City Xiaonan Public Security Bureau staff member Ms. Ju Ling was arrested again. The policemen involved in the arrest were Leng Yanlan, Huang Rui, and Wei Youshan. Ju Ling was once detained at the Shayang Qilihu Forced Labor Camp.

14. [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Dafa Practitioner Liu Guoying Is Arrested

At 10 p.m. on April 25, 2004, Shuangcheng City public security officers went to Lanling County and arrested Falun Gong practitioner Liu Guoying. At noon the next day, Lanling County Public Security Sub-bureau authorities went to Liu's home and extorted money from his family members. Other details are unclear.

(1) Yuan: 500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.