Latest News from China - August 30, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

• [Shulan City, Jilin Province] Yongji County Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yu Shujin Arrested
• [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Tianhe District Court Unlawfully Puts Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Shunying on Trial
• [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Canzhuang Gold Mine and "610 Office" Coordinate Civilian Break-in and Arrest
• [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiaojing on Hunger Strike in Brainwashing Unit
• [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Wei Yumei and Her Sister Wei Yufei Each Given Harsh Sentences of Ten Years in Prison
• [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Mi Becomes Mentally Impaired as a Result of Torture in Daqing Prison
• [Liangshan, Sichuan Province] Huili County Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhao Guowei Arrested
• [Haifeng County, Guangdong Province] Lian'an Town Falun Dafa Practitioner Ye Anqiu Arrested for the Third Time
• [Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Zhang Zhaohua Tortured at Bei'an Prison
• [Bengbu City, Anhui Province] Jiang Zhi and another Falun Dafa Practitioner Face Prison Terms after Arrest
• [Jingyu County, Jilin Province] Mr. Zhou Ji'an of Jingyu County Forcibly Taken from His Home
• [Baoqing County, Heilongjiang Province] Lin Xijie Abducted While Appealing in Beijing
• [Chongqing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Chaoshu Arrested
• [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Xiu'e Tortured in Jilin Women's Prison

1. [Shulan City, Jilin Province] Yongji County Practitioner Mr. Yu Shujin Arrested

Mr. Yu Shujin is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yongji County, Shulan City, Jilin Province. He was arrested when police sabotaged a Falun Gong materials production site. On the morning of June 25, 2004, officers from the Nancheng Police Station forced their way into Mr. Yu's home, where three other practitioners were also present, claiming they needed to check residential permits. After discovering Falun Dafa books, the officers started to arrest the four practitioners. Three practitioners managed to escape with righteous thoughts in mind and Mr. Yu was arrested. At present, he is being held at the Shulan City Detention Center. He is in very weak physical condition.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 432
Li Pu, an extremely vicious Director of Shulan City's "610 Office": 8223745, 86-13500900001 (cellular), 7238899
Li Zhuo: 8221698, 86-13596233300 (cellular)
Shulan City Political Judiciary Committee: 8210186
Appeal Office of Shulan City Party Committee and Government: 8223933
Public phone of the Mayor of Shulan City: 8212345
Office of the Head of the Shulan City Police Department: 8224808
Detention Center: 8251265

2. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Tianhe District Court Unlawfully Puts Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Shunying on Trial

Ms. Zhang Shunying is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. On February 25, 2004, police officers broke into her home and arrested her. She was taken to a detention center on criminal charges on April 29 for refusing to renounce Falun Dafa. No one, not even her family, has seen her since.

At 8:30 a.m. on September 1, Tianhe District Court in Guangzhou City was to have put her on trial, charging her with "disrupting law and order by organizing illegal groups."

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 20
Court: 87509187
Main number for public complaints at the Guangzhou City Procuratorate: 38380000
Section of Crime Report: 38282000
Call-in number: 38280667
Office: 38280037

3. [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Canzhuang Gold Mine and "610 Office" Coordinate Civilian Break-in and Arrest

Falun Dafa practitioners Shao Jianhui and Pan Junzhu are both from the Canzhuang Gold Mine in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province. After 2:00 p.m. on August 13, 2004, Wang Peimao, Party Secretary of Political Affairs for the gold mine, abducted Shao and Pan to a brainwashing unit at Linglongtai, Zhaoyuan City.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Office of the Canzhuang Gold Mine: 86-535-8321700
Wang Peimao: 86-535-8224726

4. [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiaojing on Hunger Strike in Brainwashing Unit

Ms. Zhang Xiaojing, in her fifties, is a practitioner in the Xicheng District of Beijing. She was unlawfully sentenced to a forced labor camp. Around August 25, she was abducted from the State Information Center where she works to the Xicheng Legal Education Study Session (which is another name for a brainwashing unit). She has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 10
Xi Yamin, Head of the Xicheng District "610 Office": 88064207
Wang Liming, in charge of carrying out the brainwashing: 88064292
Cui Anmin, in charge of the brainwashing unit: 66036454

5. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Wei Yumei and Her Sister Wei Yufei Each Given Harsh Sentences of Ten Years in Prison

Recently, Qingdao City Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Wei Yumei and her sister Ms. Wei Yufen were each unlawfully sentenced to ten years in prison based on fabricated charges.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 532
Hu Jun, Section Head of Qingdao "610 Office": 3668348 extension 202
Call-in number for the director's office of the "610 Office": 3668348 extension 201
Main number for Sifang Court in Qingdao City: 3761099

6. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Mi Becomes Mentally Impaired as a Result of Torture in Daqing Prison

Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Mi is being held at Daqing Prison serving a prison term of ten years. According to recent reports, Wang Mi is suffering from schizophrenia. In addition, Falun Dafa practitioner Cheng Peiming is serving an eight-year term at Daqing Prison and is being subjected to inhumane torture.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 467
Chen Wanbo, Head of the "610 Office": 5587615, 5588257 (home)
Tang Wen, staff member of the "610 Office": 86-13945831220 (cellular), 8609139 (home)
Jidong County Police Department: 5583923
Li Qinghua, head police officer of the State Security Unit: 5582361, 5583017 (home), 86-13946851124 (cellular)

7. [Liangshan, Sichuan Province] Huili County Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhao Guowei Arrested

Mr. Zhao Guowei is a practitioner from Huili County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Around 11:00 a.m. on August 27, 2004, he received a phone call from the Long Distance Bus Terminal in Huili County, where he worked, and was told to report to the office immediately. Mr. Zhao was placed under arrest as soon as he arrived at the bus station.

Around 4:30 p.m. that afternoon, Zhao was seen being taken into the Chengbei Police Station in Huili County. Practitioner Ms. Han Meng, who was arrested by the Hongqi Police Station on August 5, 2004, is also an employee of the Long Distance Bus Terminal where Zhao works.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 834
Chengbei Police Station in Huili County: 5695964
Long Distance Bus Terminal in Huili County: 5697671
Lu Jianrong, Head of the Huili County Police Department: 5625084, 86-13508203535 (cellular)

8. [Haifeng County, Guangdong Province] Lian'an Town Falun Dafa Practitioner Ye Anqiu Arrested for the Third Time

Falun Dafa practitioner Ye Qiu'an is a taxi driver. On the evening of July 28 a group of people led by Li Haitao, Deputy Party Secretary of Lian'an Town in Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, arrested him while he was driving a cab. Early the next morning, Wang Shaoyuan and another official with the last name "He" of the "610 Office" took Ye to the Sanshui Brainwashing Unit in Guangdong Province for persecution. This was the third time Ye has been taken to the brainwashing unit since being released from a forced labor camp.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Wang Shaoyuan, Deputy Director of Haifeng County "610 Office": 86-13902683923 (cellular)
Li Haitao, Deputy Party Secretary of Lian'an Town: 86-13929388263

9. [Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Zhang Zhaohua Tortured at Bei'an Prison

Mr. Zhang Zhaohua, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Haila'er Branch Railroad Department in Inner Mongolia, was arrested for the second time by the local police in 2001 for appealing for Falun Dafa. He was unlawfully sentenced to seven years in prison and is being held at the Bei'an Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Mr. Zhang has remained firm in his belief in Falun Dafa. Since the spring of 2004, he has been handcuffed and shackled by prison guards. He has been given only two meals each day (50 grams in the morning and 50 grams in the afternoon).

Relevant telephone number:
Group 1 of Unit 4, P. O. Box 805 of Bei'an Prison, Heilongjiang Province: 86-456-6428554

10. [Bengbu City, Anhui Province] Jiang Zhi and another Falun Dafa Practitioner Face Prison Terms after Arrest

Jiang Zhi from Bengbu City, Anhui Province, and another Falun Dafa practitioner with the last name "Fan" from Hainan Province were arrested in September 2002 for producing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. On September 10, 2003, the Dongqu District Court unlawfully put the two practitioners on trial. No sentences were announced in the courtroom. According to sources within the court, the sentences would be determined by the city's political judiciary committee.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Country code: 86; City code: 552
Bengbu City Political Judiciary Committee: 3125743
Li Zhongrong, leader of the political judiciary committee: 2046474 (office), 4033274 (home), 86-13905528178 (cellular)
Justice Bureau: 2046836
Office of Head of Justice Bureau: 2043451
State Security Bureau: 3122313
Office of Head of State Security Bureau: 3110053
Qiu Guolin, of the Dongqu District Court: 3025450
Director Ma, of the "610 Office": 3118610

11. [Jingyu County, Jilin Province] Mr. Zhou Ji'an of Jingyu County Forcibly Taken from His Home

Mr. Zhou Ji'an, 38, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jingyu County, Jilin Province. He was formerly an employee of the Gaotiancheng Group Company Ltd. in Baishan. He was unlawfully sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials before being released unconditionally. On the so-called sensitive date of July 22, 2004, the "610 Office" of the Jingyu County Political Judiciary Committee harassed local Falun Dafa practitioners and abducted Mr. Zhou from his home. His home was also ransacked and Falun Dafa materials were confiscated.

Relevant telephone numbers of members of the Jingyu County "610 Office," Police Department, and the Political Judiciary Committee:
Country code: 86; City code: 439
Chen Zhongqiang, Head of the police department: 223075 (home), 86-13904497243 (cellular), 8971329 (office)
Li Tiejun, Deputy-head of the police department: 7222699 (home), 86-13904497103 (cellular), 8971699 (office)
Zhang Aiguo, Party Secretary of the political judiciary committee: 7225592 (home), 86-13804497977 (cellular)

12. [Baoqing County, Heilongjiang Province] Lin Xijie Abducted While Appealing in Beijing

Lin Xijie is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Farm No. 597 in Baoqing County, Heilongjiang Province. On July 8, 2001, Lin and nine other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Police arrested the practitioners on the train and brutally beat them. Lin's whereabouts have been unknown since that time.

13. [Chongqing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Chaoshu Arrested

Ms. Liu Chaoshu, around 40 years old, is a practitioner from Jinfeng Town in the Jiulongpo District of Chongqing. She made a living by running a small store. In 2001, she was arrested while raising public awareness about Falun Gong at Chenjiaqiao in Shapingba, Chongqing. She was unlawfully held at Maojiashan for a year of forced labor. At the end of her term, she was sent to the Geleshan Brainwashing Unit for persecution for a year. She returned home at the end of 2003.

On August 8, 2004, the local police station and the Jiulongpo Police Department arrested Ms. Liu while she clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

14. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Xiu'e Tortured in Jilin Women's Prison

Ms. Liu Xiu'e, about 37, graduated with a Master's degree. She worked at the Bureau of Transportation Administration at the Jilin Provincial Transportation Department. Ms. Liu was unlawfully arrested at the end of March 2002 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. She is being tortured at the Jilin Women's Prison.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; City code: 431
Main numbers for the Jilin Women's Prison: 5384296, 5381544, 5384663, 5385754, 5385434, 5385317, 5375063, 5385219, 5383093, 5375063, 5375004, 5375062
Note: When calling, ask for extensions of Units 1 through 8, or the extensions of Sections of Prison Administration, Sections of Education, or ask for guards or section heads.

August 30, 2004