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Persecution Facts

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. My name is Zhao Ruizhen. I am a 55-year-old female Dafa practitioner from Dongying City, Shandong Province. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Dafa began, I was detained under "security detention" - once at the Shengli Oilfield Detention Center in Dongying City, twice at Shengli Oilfield Telephone Station in Dongying City, and twice at the Shengli Oilfield Brainwashing Class in Dongying City. My phone was tapped, and I left home for one year to avoid being persecuted.

2. Dafa practitioner Tian Baodong from Haicheng City, Liaoning Province was illegally detained and tortured numerous times. On the evening of April 17, 2002 he was abducted and sent to the Haicheng City Detention Center where he was forced to do slave labor from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Six months later he was sentenced to one year of forced labor and sent to the Anshan City Forced Labor Camp. By 2003 he could no longer walk, and he is now on medical parole and cannot work.

3. Dafa practitioner Shuai Liangcheng from Yangwan Township, Suji District, Middle District in Leshan City, Sichuan Province is a clinically disabled retired soldier. Police officers abducted him at his workplace around 8:00 a.m. on April 6, 2004.

4. At around 4:00 p.m. June 17, 2003, lawless police officers from the Dongji Police Department in Liaoyuan City broke into the home of Dafa practitioner Lu Chunyun, ransacked his home, and took him to a detention center. They tortured him for nine days and held him for four months. On October 14, 2003 they sentenced him to two years of forced labor.

5. Dafa practitioner Wang Qingxin from Songyuan City, Fuyu County, Jilin Province, was persecuted until he was on the brink of death. He fainted many times and held a two-week hunger strike. The persecutors tortured him using many methods. Wang Qingxin escaped in the evening of April 12, 2002. His Dafa practitioner wife, Song Xiubo, was then abducted and taken to the police station. The perpetrators wanted to torture her but her old illness recurred, so they gave up. On April 24, 2004, the perpetrators tried to abduct Song Xiubo again but she had left town. The only people left at home are Song Xiubo's parents who are in their 70s and seriously ill, and the young parents' nine-year-old child.

6. Dafa practitioner Zhou Zeyu, 58, from Jinshi City, Hunan Province went to Beijing to appeal, and was beaten by persecutors from the "610 Office." (1) In December 2000, authorities from Jinshi City arrested more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhou Zeyu. They hung Zhou Zeyu's elder sister Zhou Zeying, who is in her 60s, by her handcuffed wrists for five hours. They also arrested Zhou Zeyu's younger sister, Zhou Zelan, and her children several times, and extorted over 10,000 Yuan (2) from them. Zhou Zelan's husband passed away after being harassed by people from the "610 Office," the police station, the street committee, and other government agencies.

7. Dafa practitioner Lu Yongzhen, 62, from Jinshi City, Hunan Province went to Beijing to appeal, and was detained many times. On April 2, 2001 she was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. On June 11, 2003, Lu Yongzhen was again arrested and held at a detention center for two weeks, then sent to a custody center. On September 4 she was sent to the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City to be held for one and a half years. The labor camp refused to take her, so the persecutors took her back to the detention center where they held her for another six months.

8. Dafa practitioner Deng Chaogang, from Qiyang City, Hunan Province, went to a Dafa practice site assistants' meeting in Changsha City on June 19, 1999. He was arrested and detained for two days. In January 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested on Chinese New Year's Eve. Six days later he escaped from a train. On March 16, Deng Chaogang was again arrested and held at the Qidong Detention Center for two months, during which time he was tortured with the "Tiger Bench" (3) and the "Carrying a Sword in the Back" (4) tortures. On January 1, 2001 he went to Tiananmen Square to unfurl Dafa banners and was arrested. He was sent to the Dongcheng Detention Center in Beijing where he was tortured for four and a half months, during which time all of his fingernails were pulled off and his toe was disabled. He was then sent to the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp for one and a half years of detention, and then released in June 2002. On August 22, 2003, he was arrested once again by police officers from the Tianxin District Police Department in Changsha City while he made truth clarification VCDs. The guards at the detention center didn't allow him to sleep. An illegal trial was held on April 8 and no verdict was reached. He is still being held at the detention center.

9. My name is Si Bing. I am a 47-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner. I am a doctor. After July 20, 1999 I went to Beijing four times to appeal and was sent to the Xiaodao Forced Labor Camp in Guangzhou City, where I was tortured. On February 23, 2004, the police abducted me from work and sent me to the so-called Legal Education School, a brainwashing class in Guangzhou City.

10. Dafa practitioner Xu Jiayu from Fulaerji, Qiqihar City was abducted and detained many times. In May 2000, Xu Jiayu went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa and was sent to the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp in Qiqihar City. She was unconditionally released between August and October 2001. In April 2002, a group of persecutors broke into Xu Jiayu's home from her balcony. They abducted and tortured her with the "Big Hang Up" (5) around the clock for six days. They scraped her feet with metal spikes until they were covered with blood. After four or five months of detention in the Fulaerji Detention Center, Xu Jiayu was secretly sentenced to prison, and was sent to the Harbin Female Prison.

11. Dafa practitioner Wu Jiufa, who is in his 60s, had his home ransacked on January 17, 2000 by officers from the police station. The next day he was sent to a custody center and held for two months. He was then sent to a brainwashing class where the persecutors tried to force him to say things against Dafa and Master. The guards beat him with large wooden clubs, and extorted over 5,000 Yuan from his family. In the past few years, the authorities constantly extorted money from his family, which made his family destitute.

Perpetrators and their crimes

Police officers in Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province beat Dafa practitioners as follows:

In November 1999, officers from the Qingyuan County Police Department held all Dafa practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal, at the Dashagou Custody Center in Qingyuan County, where the guards force-fed alcohol to the practitioners, and poured alcohol on them, then beat and whipped them. Practitioner Ma Xiuwen was shocked with electric batons, and 19-year-old female practitioner Zang Yuyun was whipped with a triangular whip until her whole body turned black and blue. Fifty-year-old practitioner Zhang Chuangui was forced to smoke, drink alcohol, sit with a bowl of alcohol on his head, and was beaten, handcuffed, and shackled. Practitioner Teng Jixiang's head was rammed into a wall, and practitioners Jiang Defang, Gai Yongjie, Liang Shujuan, Zhang Guixiang, and Qu Guizhen were brutally beaten. Practitioner Yu Xiaomei's collarbones were broken during the beatings, so she cannot take care of herself.

(1) "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.

(2) Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.

(3) "Tiger Bench" - A small metal bench that a practitioner's knees are tightly tied to for long periods of time, and the practitioner is forced to remain motionless in this position. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioner's lower legs or ankles to make it harder for them to tolerate this abuse. (For a detailed description of this and other forms of torture used in forced labor camps, see

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html)

(4) "Carrying a Sword in the Back" - The practitioner's hands are tied behind his back with one hand over the shoulder and the other hand against the lower back.á The police then apply a great deal of force to pull the two hands toward one another and handcuff the two hands together.

(5) "Big Hang Up" - There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames; (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. One feels extremely painful as the body is pulled.