Summary of Other Articles and News -- September 9, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yin Xiaolan from Tianshui City, Gansu Province went to Beijing to appeal numerous times for Falun Dafa. She was also detained many times. She became destitute and homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home. On December 12, 2001, Ms. Yin was abducted by the Qincheng District Party Political Security Office. She was hung up by handcuffs for several days and beaten until her body was covered with bruises and open wounds. Ms. Yin has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and jailed at the Women's Prison. Practitioner Mr. Zhang Youfu from Jingning County had his term extended by 6 months after his 3-month term ended at the Lanzhou City Pingantai Labor Camp, simply because he continued doing the Falun Dafa exercises. He was beaten often by other prisoners, locked in solitary confinement, had all four limbs tied up and was subjected to sleep deprivation.

On September 5, 2001, 69-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Baoting from Gaotang County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province was detained at the Gaotang County Detention Center for 3 months and 7 days. She was then sentenced to 1 year in the Wangcun Labor Camp. The Wangcun Labor Camp dared not accept her because of her age. The police returned her to the city's detention center and then transferred her to a temporary detention center. On September 4, 2002, Ms. Wu was directly sent to a Brainwashing Class held in Liaocheng City, where she was beaten with rubber batons and shocked with electric batons. On January 13, 2004, she was released after she paid more than 20,000 yuan (1) through extortion during this 2-year period.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cao Meixiang from Xinanwu Village, Yuli Town, Rushan City, Shandong Province was detained in the Town Police Substation in 2000 because she went to Beijing to appeal. During her detention, she was not allowed to breast feed her 3-month-old baby. Police Liu used an electric baton to shock her, forced her pay 2,000 yuan in fines, and later went to her home often to harass her. In 2002, Ms. Cao was abducted because she clarified the truth to people about Falun Gong and the persecution. She was not released until she became severely ill. At the end of January 2003, the police once again tried to arrest her from her parents' home, but failed. Ever since then, Ms. Cao has had to move frequently to avoid being illegally arrested.

Ms. Fang Yi was a lecturer in the Physics Department at the Zhaoqing College, located in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. She was born in 1954. In 2001, Ms. Fang was abducted and placed in a brainwashing class. She has been under close surveillance ever since. In February 2002, Ms. Fang was detained for one month, because she refused to give up cultivation. She was detained another month in June 2002. In June 2003, Fang Yi was dismissed from her job and arrested by the local "610 Office" several days later. At the end of June 2003, Ms. Fang was sentenced to 3 years in the Guangdong Provincial Sanshui Labor Camp.

Mr. Zheng Qunfei is a 37-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner who works in the Liaohe Oil Field, Panjin City, Liaoning Province. On August 30, 2004, he was abducted from his workplace -- the Ciyutuo Oil Collecting Plant, and sent to a brainwashing class in Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

In order to arrest Falun Dafa practitioners, State Security Agent Gong Xiuping (female) of the Tongzhou District, Beijing City often assigns two of her assistants, Song Yanhua and Wang Xueli to go to practitioners' homes to harass them and threaten their families, and to extort money. In June 2003, a former Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Ying (female, 36 years old) was coerced into becoming a spy among the local Falun Dafa practitioners. This resulted in more than 10 Falun Dafa materials production centers being destroyed and several dozen practitioners being arrested and tortured. Liu Ying later felt that what she had done was terribly wrong and wanted to quit working for the security police. She later committed suicide by jumping out of a building after she was threatened by Gong Xiuping.

Zhang Pengda, a policeman who works at the Laishui County Detention Center in Hebei Province, often beat or cursed detained Falun Dafa practitioners. During the winter of 2000, since the cells were not insulated, the cold wind blew right through the cells. Falun Dafa practitioners detained there had to labor for more than 10 hours daily, making artificial flowers. Some of their hands were frostbitten, with the skin cracked and bleeding.

(1) Yuan is the unit of currency in China; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.