(Clearwisdom.net) After July 20, 1999, the Jiaozhou City "610 Office" (1) mobilized all radio stations, TV stations, and newspapers to openly spread lies and to slander and frame Falun Gong and practitioners. They left no stone unturned when finding means to incite public hatred against Falun Gong. All this so they could justify the persecution against Falun Gong. Since then, many Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested and taken to detention centers, brainwashing centers, mental hospitals, cellars, dark rooms, etc. The "610 office" (1) has enforced the persecution in all townships and villages. The following are accounts of the acts of persecution at various locations.
Zhangying Township - A Rural Community West of Jiaozhou City
In October 1999, police officer Zhou Zhaoshan from the Zhangying Police Station arrested local Falun Gong practitioners under the authority of the township government and detained them in a small office. During the first two days, township officers took turns monitoring practitioners and coerced them into signing guarantees. Several practitioners were fined from 200 to 1,000 yuan (2) and were released.
Two days later, it snowed for half of the night, and the temperature was 12o Celsius below zero [10 oF]. At around 6 p.m., practitioners were taken outside and handcuffed in pairs to trees or windows in the freezing temperatures. Policeman Zhu from Gaoshangou Village hit practitioners with snowballs; Zhang Meikai, the leader of this activity, who was from the East Zhangying Village, ordered police officers to take off a female practitioner's shoes and forced the practitioner to stand barefooted on the snow-covered ground. Zhang Meikai also ordered the policemen to take off all practitioners' cotton padded coats. He forced them to be exposed to the bone chilling wind for 7 hours, according to police officers.
During the next night, the authorities forced practitioners to sit in a semi-squatting position. Some practitioners' hands were raised up and handcuffed to windows, with their body in an awkward position, leaving only the toes touching the ground. They were released after an indeterminate length of time. Some of them had lost consciousness and fell to the ground after being unshackled.
One night, Zhou Maolai from Damengci Village, an employee of the Zhangying Tax Station, showed up, drunken, and wearing military boots. He is about 1.8 meters tall. He forced practitioners to do semi-squatting in a row. One by one, he walked behind the practitioners and kicked their leg joints, and then he walked in front of them and kicked their knees again. While kicking he roared: "Stand in style! Stand in style! I don't believe I cannot control you, I want you to remember I am Zhou Maolai!" At that time, four more people had come also, Xiang (from the Tax Station), An (from the police station, born in Xianjiagou Village), and Liu (from the township government). They used a steel hook that was heated until red-hot to threaten a 14-year-old child. They kicked and beat up practitioners while cursing them. Director Leng of the township tax station held Teacher's picture in his hand and forced practitioners' to curse and step on the picture.
One male Falun Gong practitioner was about 50 years old. He was beaten up in turns by the three of them. After he was knocked to the ground, they pulled him up again and continued with the beating. After he fainted, they still shouted: "Stand up! Don't pretend to be dead!" After they realized that he really could no longer stand up, they asked for a doctor. After a check-up, the doctor said: "If you keep beating him, he will die!" Scared of taking the responsibility if the practitioner died, the three officials left in a hurry.
Fuan and Zhongyun Precincts, Jiaozhou City
These two precincts are located at the center of Jiaozhou City. The police stationed there do not beat practitioners that often, but each location built a steel cage to confine practitioners. At the Fuan Police Station, they once caged seven practitioners at the same time in a cage of less than one square meters area. Practitioners who were locked in the cage included Ms. Li Huixian, Ms. Jiang Guiju, Ms. Liu Hongmei, Ms. Ji Hong, Zhuang Zeqing, Ms. Kuang Benyu, Ms. Sun Hongming, Ms. Sun Mingjing, An, Ms. Zhou Xiuxing, Ms. He Shuqing, Ms. Gao Fen, Wei, and others. Practitioners Ms. Yu Shuzheng, Song Xinjian, and Xu Yanzhong were handcuffed to the handrail of a flight of stairs.
During the Chinese New Year period, from two days before to 8 days after the New Year's day, Mr. Xu Yanzhong was handcuffed to the stair's handrail. There was a chilly winter wind and yet they left him there for 9 days and nights (hallways in China are commonly not heated).
The steel cage at the Zhongyun Police Station is less than two square meters in area. Most practitioners who were detained at Zhongyun Police Station were confined in this cage, including: Ms. Liu Xia, Gong Aiming, Ms. Gao Shuling, Ms. Yan Zhigui, Ms. Zhang Ling, Ms. Ma Xiulan, Ma Yongkang, Zhuang Zejie, Ms. Liu Shuying, Ji Ruitong, Ms. Liu Xiuying, Ms. Yu Xiuzhang, Ms. Zhao Fengxian, Ms. Pan Li, Wang Yihan, Ms. Sun Linfang, Ms. Shen Yan, Ms. Kuang Bencui and Ms. Zhou Caixia.
With so many people in the cage, there was not much room to place one's feet. Neither food nor drink were offered. Sleeping was also forbidden. Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhou Caixia was hung up by her hands on the cage ceiling and was not allowed to use the bathroom for several days and nights, although it was during the cold wintertime. She had to urinate into her trousers.
Yin Fengkun, the deputy Communist Party Secretary of the Fuan Office, tricked Dafa practitioner Zhou to come to the local police station and caged her for about 7 days.
The Zhongyun Office also deducted practitioner's salary. Right now, Li Xiuyun, Xun Xianyong and others earn only 300 yuan a month. Dafa practitioner Zhou Caixia's factory was illegally confiscated and sold by the authorities who personally kept the proceeds from the sale.
The Jiaodong Township, East of Jiaozhou City
Jiaodong Township was formerly called Qiandiankou Township. In 2000, local Dafa practitioners decided to go to Beijing to appeal. On June 9 (lunar calendar), 2000, many Dafa practitioners were arrested at home, while traveling to Beijing, or in Beijing, and taken to the township government courtyard. They arrested practitioners Ms. Yu Xiuxiang, Ms. Sun Zonghui, Hei Ruibao, Yuan Kecun, Li Sheng, Jiang Zigao, Jiang Wanqing, Gao Meijuan's (husband and wife), Xu Guanshu, Xu Guanli, Lu Shenli, Liu Xueliang, Liu Xuewei, Liu Shuhua, and others.
They were forced to sleep on a concrete floor, covered with rotting corn straw and a layer of torn blankets. If one removed the blankets, one saw foul white dust rising from the ground.
The police cruelly did not allow practitioners to sleep or use the bathroom. They had to urinate and defecate in the same room. Local officers had received orders to prevent all appeals to Beijing by the local people they had jurisdiction over, even though that is a citizen's basic right as stipulated in China's constitution! Failure to prevent appeals would bring punishment to the local authorities and they feared this.
Yu Zhenmao and Qi from the former Transportation Station cursed and beat up practitioners around midnight. They forced practitioners to sit in a semi-squatting position, and stripped them. No food was provided. They forced practitioners to drink the water used for washing the face. Yu also forced practitioners to stand with their head touching the wall and with a rod placed between their body and wall. If the practitioner moved even slightly, the rod would fall down and they would receive a beating from the authorities.
In October 2000, Jiang Wanqing, Liu Xuewei and an unnamed practitioner went to Beijing to appeal. They were escorted back and detained. The city public security bureau allocated several police officers to beat them up, and handcuffed the three to steel chairs for half a month. No personal freedom including using the bathroom or sleeping was allowed.
Practitioners were also sent to mental hospitals, the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Center, or forced labor camps for even longer terms where they were subjected to more severe torture.
Beiwangzhu Township, North of Jiazozhou City
The brutal persecution of Falun Gong here in China has been recorded by UN human rights organizations. In December 1999, seven Dafa practitioners, including Han Shue and Xu went to Beijing to appeal. They were arrested. The seven were squeezed into the rear of a car, which is actually only meant for three people, and driven back to their residential area. They were locked up in an empty room at the township government. They were interrogated and tortured, repeatedly slapped in the face, had their hair pulled and their heads were struck with wooden clubs.
Late at night on December 15, 1999, police officers took the cotton-padded jackets off eight Dafa practitioners and handcuffed them to outdoor trees or steel pipes. They were forced to freeze in subzero temperatures for over ten hours. The temperature was 12o Celsius below zero. They were like blocks of ice when they were released and suffering from hypothermia and exposure. To save them from impending death, each practitioner was walked around the courtyard, supported by two police officers, to get their circulation moving and revive them. Police officers detained them for 18 days. They extorted a total amount of close to 30,000 yuan from practitioners before releasing them.
Jiulong Township, South of Jiaozhou City
Dafa practitioner Gao Fen's situation is a clear indication of the Jiulong Township officers' depravity. Gao Fen said, "One day in June 2000, I went to visit a fellow practitioner's home. At around 10 p.m., police officers knocked on the door. Some of them climbed over the wall, some were shouting and some were walking with torches back and forth in the courtyard. They broke into the house, searched the whole place, squeezed us into a police car, carried us to the Fuan Police Station and locked us into a steel cage. Police officers did not offer any food, nor did they allow us to use a toilet. For no given reason, they detained us for seven days, and then sent us to the Jiaozhou City Mental Hospital for further torture (there have been previous reports on the situation in this mental hospital - see: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/27/45537.html and http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/9/44952.html ).
"In October 2000, to validate Falun Dafa and to declare that the guarantee I wrote in the mental hospital under torture was null and void, I went to Beijing again to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. At Tiananmen Square, I was recognized by police officer Sui from the Jiaozhou Public Security Bureau, and was taken back to the local police station.
"At the same time, three other Dafa practitioners were brought back from Beijing. They are Li Qisheng, Wang Xiangye (both over 60 years old), and Wang Xiaochuan (in his 30s) from the Baiguoshu Village. Directed by Wang Huansheng, the head of the police station, police officers handcuffed Li Qisheng to a steel column. In October, it was already very cold. Mr. Li was unable to move. Police officer Cao Shangyi forced us to squat down in the courtyard and beat us one by one. Cao slapped the old man's faces until their faces turned red and pulled their ears until they were swollen and deformed. Cao cursed while beating practitioners. After the beating, police officer Gao Chuanyi shocked Wang Xiangye with electric needles. I successfully removed the handcuffs and escaped, now I am homeless. But Li Qisheng died due to their torture."
Tucun Township, Jiaozhou City
In Tucun Township, directed by former Party Secretary Ma Rusi and Lie Wenfa, officers hung up Dafa practitioners Du Xide and his wife by their hands on a single bar, then removed the sand underneath their feet, and hung them like this for over 40 minutes. Local officers also forced all villagers to share the costs of persecuting Dafa practitioners. In Dakuaijiagou Village alone, each person had to pay 50 yuan to the police as a kind of "persecution fee!"
Jiaoxi Township, Jiaozhou City
In October 2000, directed by Yang Xiaolei, the deputy head of Jiaoxi Township, and Kuang Huazhong, the head of the Jiaoxi Township Police Station, officers abducted Han Daxue and his wife and took them to the township government. Yang kicked Han's wife's face, which caused her face to swell. They also ordered people to take away Han's four-wheel vehicle, which included their entire peanut crop that was loaded on it. Then they ransomed it back to Han for 12,000 yuan.
Nanguan Precinct, Jiaozhou City
On the evening of July 22, 1999, police officers from the Nanguan Precinct, commanded by military section head Chen Peijin, illegally searched many Dafa practitioners' homes. They took away many Dafa books, Teacher's pictures and Dafa lecture audiotapes. Each practitioner was fined 100 yuan. Later on, the authorities frequently harassed Dafa practitioners.
In October 2000, a group of police officers from the Nanguan Police Station broke into Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao's home and took her to the police station. Police officer Liu Xudong first beat her for a while and then forced her to sit on the ground with her legs spread apart. Liu then ordered two men to put a bar on top of her legs and ordered the two men to stand on the bar, which pressed down on her thighs with their full body weight. At that time, approximately eight Dafa practitioners were detained together with Gao. Police officers beat their backs and chests with clubs. When officers were tired from beating the practitioners, they twisted their arms behind their backs and handcuffed their hands together or forced them into the semi-squatting down position. Then the police handcuffed the practitioners in pairs using one pair of handcuffs.
At noon on September 18, 2000, Dafa practitioner Ms. Song was forcibly taken to the
Police Station. Police officer Yu Jin beat the side of her face, which caused her to lose her hearing in one ear, and also blackened her eyes. He then beat her chest with a meter-long square cornered steel bar and then painfully scraped her nose with the sharp edge of a thick sheet of plastic. Police officer Song Yewu especially beat practitioners against their joints, or shocked their head with electric batons. When Song Yewu became tired, police officer Fa would continue the torture where Song Yewu left off.
The townships and precincts discussed above are just a few examples representing different areas in Jiangzhou City. But actually, such the persecution against Falun Gong is rampant in most townships and precincts across Jiaozhou City.
Other units who rampantly persecuted Falun Gong include the city government departments, including the Hydraulic Bureau, Construction Department, and some companies such as the Forging Factory, Company #7, etc.
The crimes of the "610 Office" and some officers of Jiaozhou City in the persecution of Falun Gong are still in the process of being collected and investigated. These facts will be used as evidence in the future trial of those criminal officers who have actively persecuted Falun Gong.
2004-5-11
Notes:
(1) "610 Office": a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.
(2) yuan: Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan.
