Summary of Other Articles and News - July 12, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1) My name is Liang Caizhen. I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Dafa began, my home has been illegally searched, my salary suspended, and my family harassed. I have also been detained and forced to attend brainwashing sessions just because I practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance."

2) My name is Yong Fangzhi. On May 20, 2004, the police searched my home, abducted me, and took me to the Lishan Division of Anshan City Public Security Bureau. They then took me to the hospital in Tiedong District for a physical check-up. At the hospital, I was also given a detention card. When my blood pressure was taken, it was very high, measuring 240/130mmHg. Immediately, the police told the doctor to lower my blood pressure. First I was given an intravenous injection, and then an intramuscular injection. Immediately after the second injection, my heart started to beat fast and irregularly. I also felt an unbearable and intense pain in my lower abdomen, and I became light-headed and dizzy. After the injections were given, the police sent me to the First Municipal Detention Center, but the detention center refused to accept me because of my health condition. They had to send me back home. On June 10 the evil policemen abducted me again, along with my husband, and took us to the Lishan Division of Anshan City Public Security Bureau. From there we were sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. When they checked my blood pressure, it was 250/170mmHg. They thought my life was in danger and refused to accept me.

3) Mr. Yin Cangsheng, 72, is a retired official and a Falun Gong practitioner from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province. In March 2004, he was reported to the authorities by Sun Xicai (cell: 86-13845800885) and arrested while distributing Falun Gong truth clarifying materials. Mr. Yin was illegally sentenced to four years in jail. His current health condition is very poor.

4) In November 2000, Ms. Yang Jie, a practitioner from Zhongwei County, Ningxia Hui Province, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. For that, she was sentenced to two years of forced labor. Later her term was extended for another year. In the forced labor camp, she worked 16-17 hour shifts every day. She was also beaten by the policemen with electric batons, "cuffed and hung up" (1) for ten consecutive days, and forced to stand in front of a wall for thirty days, all because she refused to give up the practice of Falun Gong. The perpetrators monitored her around the clock. One time she fell asleep and was beaten, cursed, and insulted. Although she was released in September of 2003, she was still monitored and harassed by the police. Ms. Yang left home in 2004 to avoid further persecution and has been homeless since.

5) Jiao Jiagan is an employee of the Power Supply Company of Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. In October 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was detained for one month. In December 2000, he was illegally detained by his workplace while the leaders of his company coerced his family members to sign a document giving them permission to institutionalize him. The document was prepared by the "610 Office" (2). Having no other choice, Mr. Jiao went to Beijing to appeal again. For going to Beijing, he was sentenced to two years of forced labor. In the forced labor camp, he suffered all means of torture, including carrying heavy loads on a shoulder pole, beatings, insults, forced-feedings, and sleep deprivation. In 2003 he returned to work at his company. For two weeks, he was forced to attend brainwashing sessions every day. Since the end of December 2003, he has been detained at the brainwashing center.

6) Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Leng Xiuxia was a teacher at the Third Middle School in Lingdian County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. She was fired because she refused to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," and was abducted many times. On May 1, 2002, she was secretly sent to the Drug Abstention Center of Harbin City and was subjected to forced labor for three years. Practitioner Mr. Cao Guozhi was also a teacher at the Third Middle School in Lingdian County. For continuing to practice Falun Gong, he has been illegally detained, beaten, and suffered other forms of physical torture. In May 2002, Mr. Cao was abducted again when he was distributing truth-clarification materials. Because he refused to write the so-called "Three Statements" (3), he was secretly sentenced to four years in jail in Daqing City. Currently, he is still detained in jail and suffering much torture.

The Shooting Incident in South Africa

On July 7, 2004, Hong Kong Falun Gong practitioners sent a letter to the Legislative Committee informing the members of the terrorist act committed by Jiang's Regime: the hiring of someone to shoot at Falun Gong practitioners in South Africa. The letter stressed that this incident shows the evil nature of Jiang's Regime.

The Chairman of The Chinese Religion Persecution Investigation Committee, Mr. Li Shixiong, when interviewed by a reporter of the Epoch Times said, "With no doubt, this incident was intended to attack the Chinese. Why would the people of South Africa meaninglessly attack the Chinese? This is the key to understanding the case. It must be Zeng Qinghong behind the whole incident. There is no doubt. All of the national leaders and embassies of any country will protect the people of their own country. Only China is different. The function of its embassies is to collect information, investigate, control, persecute, and even murder its people overseas."

Good Is Rewarded with Good

There is a practitioner in a city of Hebei Province whose relative has a two-month-old baby that suddenly contracted an odd disease, consisting of a high fever and a comatose state. The hospital diagnosed that the infant had serious cerebral and gastric hemorrhaging and may die at any time. After hearing this, the practitioner immediately went to the hospital and told the child's mother and aunt that by repeatedly saying, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good" silently, and with a pure heart, can benefit the child. The very next day the baby came out of the coma. The family members continued saying, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance is good." A week later, the baby recovered and left the hospital. Filled with emotion the child's grandmother held the practitioner's hand and said, "I will continue saying, ¡®Falun Dafa Is Good' and ¡®Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good.'"

Facts of Crimes Committed by Evil People

Jia Jiwei is the director of the Police Station of Hongqi Township in the city of Wuchang, Heilongjiang Province. In April 2002, he abducted practitioners Na Yanbo and Zhang Yanchao. The practitioners were preparing to broadcast Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials to protect the people's legal right to know the truth. Later Zhang Yanchao was tortured to death, and Na Yanbo was sent to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp of Harbin City.

In April 2004 the evil policemen of the Ximing Town Police Station kidnapped practitioner Ms. Li Jinlan from the field where she was farming. Four or five policemen carried her into the police car. They sent her to the 264th Hospital for a physical check-up, which showed that she was not physically qualified to be sent to the forced labor camp. Regardless of the results, the policemen still sent her to the forced labor camp. Afterwards the policemen kidnapped another practitioner, Ms. Cao Chunxiang, who lives in the same village as Ms. Li Jinlan. They sent Ms. Cao Chunxiang to the Xindian Women's Forced Labor Camp.

Notes:

(1). "Cuffed and hung up" - With both hands cuffed, one is then hung from a basketball support or the beam of a building with the toes barely touching the ground or not at all. The hands and arms soon become paresthetic and numb.

(2). "610 Office" - 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.

(3). The "Three Statements"- Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the "610 Office," the three statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.