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Facts of the Persecution

In October 2004, Zhang Guochen, former director of the Nongan County Police Department in Jilin Province, was transferred to the Dehui City Police Department in Jilin Province as the new director. He orchestrated several rounds of persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners, including the abduction of dozens of practitioners between October and December.

Practitioners Zhao Xishun, Wang Zhongbin, Ma Li and others have been sent to forced labor camps, and practitioner Li Decheng was sent to Division 1 of the Changchun Police Department. On December 14, personnel from the Politics and Security Division of the Dehui City Police Department raided several Dafa materials production sites in Tienan and confiscated many items. Practitioners Ma Chunli, Su Dan, Sun Dawei, Bai Ruisong, Sun Changsheng, Zhu Guoyou, Yu Shuhua and others were unlawfully detained at the Dehui City Custody Center and Dehui City Detention Center. Ma Chunli's husband, Sun Qian, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and their five-year-old child has been left home alone.

On November 23, 2004, personnel from the Changyi District Police Department in Jilin City, led by Du Xingze, head of the National Security Team and officers from Dongjuzi Police Station, abducted over a dozen practitioners. Among them were practitioners Sun Jingyun, Liu Chunhua and Wu Yuzhen. The incident happened at the morning market near the dormitory of Jilin City Carbon Factory. They ransacked Sun Jingyun's home when no one was present. Ms. Wu Yuzhen held a hunger strike for over one month and was sent to Jilin City No. 1 Detention Center where she was cruelly force-fed. She is now on the brink of death. On November 17, 2004, practitioners Ms. Li Juan, 42 or 43 years old, and Ms. Xu Baixiang, 59 years old, from Shuangji were abducted and are now being held at the Jilin City No. 1 Detention Center. There are currently more than a dozen practitioners being held at the Jilin City No. 1 Detention Center, where the daily food consists of rice mixed with sand.

On July 20, 1999, practitioner Ms. Fan Ailan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was taken back to the local police station. Officers from the local police station isolated and interrogated her. On December 18, she again went to Beijing to appeal and officers from the Hedong Police Station took her back from Beijing and extorted 180 yuan from her, calling it a "transportation fee." Officers from the Qingyuan Street Police Station illegally fined Fan Ailan's work unit 1,000 yuan. Consequently, the factory deducted two months' salary from Fan Ailan's wages. On October 22, 2003, Fan Ailan was abducted and sent to the Hebei Provincial Legal Education Training Center, which is actually a brainwashing center.

On May 14, 2001, practitioner Lu Guixia was arrested and placed under criminal detention and sent to the Taoyuan Police Station. On March 10, 2003, Lu Guixia was abducted again and sent to Division 5 of Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp to be brainwashed. He was forced to pay a 600-yuan "meal fee" and a 3,000-yuan "training fee."

Practitioner Bao Jingfeng went to Beijing to appeal on July 22, 1999. She was arrested and held at the Taoyuan Police Station. The police, acting outside the law, also exerted pressure on her and her husband's work units and caused both of them to be fired from their jobs.

Practitioner Mr. Liu Ruiyuan, 64 years old, had gone to Beijing to appeal after the persecution started on July 20, 1999. Personnel from the Security Section of the Xinjian Mine in Shenyang City intercepted him and Xu Shengli took 2,340 yuan from him. Later, Liu Ruiyuan went to the Qitaihe City Civil Administration Bureau and donated 5,000 yuan, all the money he had, to an orphanage. His act of kindness was "repaid" with a sentence of three years of forced labor. Xu Shengli also confiscated the donation of 5,000 yuan. Mr. Liu Ruiyuan was sent to the Xigemu Forced Labor Camp in Jiamusi City where he was tortured. He was shocked with an electric baton, tied to a metal chair and not allowed to sleep at night. Because he persisted in his belief in Falun Dafa, he was held ten days past his term. He held a hunger strike and was released in late December 2002.

After he returned home, Liu Ruiyuan distributed truth clarification materials and was arrested again. He was tortured and held at a detention center for 15 days. On the evening of January 28, 2003, his home was ransacked for the second time. The perpetrators found his experience-sharing paper in which he said he would never give up Falun Gong. The perpetrators grew furious after reading his paper and took him to the police station where they beat and kicked him. They also lied and claimed that he owned computers and copy machines. Liu Ruiyuan was sentenced to two years of forced labor and was sent to the Suihua Forced Labor Camp, where he was again tortured and subjected to brainwashing. His salary was deducted many times. Mr. Liu passed away as a result of the continuous persecution. His body was found on December 2, 2004.

On May 12, 2004, practitioner Zhang Jingdong of Suibin County gave his classmates some truth-clarification pamphlets and was reported. On May 20, officers from the Suibin County Police Department arrested him. They, together with personnel from the Suibin County Court and Suibin County Procuratorate, jointly persecuted Zhang Jingdong and urged the Hegang Intermediate Court to convict him. On August 17, officers at the Suibin County Police Department interrogated him and the Suibin County Court authorities falsely convicted Zhang Jingdong of "using a [slanderous term omitted] to interfere with administration of law" and sentenced him to six years in prison.

Zhang Jingdong appealed to the Hegang Intermediate Court. In early November 2004, the Hegang Intermediate Court had someone submit the appeal, and this person returned without doing anything decisive. Zhang Jingdong then held a hunger strike. On the morning of January 12, 2005, Zhang Jingdong received the verdict, and on January 13, 2005, he was sent to the Xianglan Group Training Base, a brainwashing class near Jiamusi City.

Practitioner Chen Baoan lives in Dajinge Village, Shiqiaozi Town, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province. In August 2000, he was fired from his job for refusing to give up Falun Gong. He went to appeal for Falun Gong, was taken back and held at the Adult Education Building in Shiqiaozi Town. In November, his work unit put him under house arrest, and on December 27 [Chinese Lunar calendar], his work unit sent him to Zhucheng City Detention Center where they held him and tortured him for one month. After his release, the authorities held Mr. Chen at a brainwashing class for one month, during which time they often extorted money from him. Chen Baoan's work unit only gave him the minimum amount for living expenses during his detention.

My name is Chen Xuefen, and I am a 38-year-old woman. I am a Dafa practitioner and live in Lanjia Village, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province. I appealed for Falun Dafa after the persecution began. After returning home, several officers took me to the police department and held me at a detention center for two weeks. From then on, the village officials often sent people to watch my every move. In April 2001, several police officers came to my home, but I left safely with the power of righteous thoughts. In the afternoon, Cao Jinhui led a few officers and they went to the home of my brother-in-law, where I was visiting at the time. They handcuffed me and sent me to the Lubiao Police Station where they didn't give me any food and forbade me to use the toilet. After my release, I went into exile for over two months. The police often ransacked my mother's and my home. In December 2001, Cao Jinhui and a few officers broke into my mother's home when I was there eating. They took me away and sentenced me to three years of forced labor.

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Practitioner Zhang Jimei is in her 30s and lives in Changming Village, Duozhuang Town, Mengyin County, Shandong Province. In 2001, Mengyin County 610 Office personnel sentenced her to three years of forced labor because refused to renounce Falun Gong. She was barbarically tortured at the Jinan City Women's Forced Labor Camp until she suffered a mental collapse. Ms. Zhang continued to practice Falun Gong after she was released in June 2004, and soon, her mental and physical health was restored. Around 7:00 p.m. on December 11, 2004, Zhang Jimei distributed truth-clarification materials at Xinglong Village in Jiepai Town, Mengyin County. Village Party Secretary Mo Jilin reported her, and officers from the Jiepai Town Police Station abducted her for the second time. They also went to her home where her 70-year-old mother-in-law was doing the Falun Gong exercises. They shocked the elderly woman with high-voltage electric batons until the back of her hands turned charcoal black.

Wang Jianping and Yan Zhigang are the ones responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong at the Linyi City Working Committee in Shandong Province. They abducted the practitioners and sent them to brainwashing classes or mental hospitals to be tortured. They sentenced determined practitioners to forced labor and detention, and they forced the practitioners' spouses to divorce them. Some practitioners died from torture as a result of their orders. Factory owners and practitioners Fu Guoling, Xu Zengheng, He Delan, Han Kaiying, Wang Mingyan, Sun Mingxing and others were detained at an Armed Militia Training Base in the Luozhuang District. The authorities there beat the practitioners. The practitioners appealed, but the authorities sentenced them to forced labor.

In the winter of 2000, a large group of practitioners was abducted and sent to the Mengyin County Brainwashing Class, where the practitioners were tortured with a method called "training the hawk." This means the practitioners were not allowed to sleep for seven days. They also beat the practitioners, stripped them naked in freezing weather, detained them in solitary confinement and locked them beside swamps to expose them to mosquitoes and other insects.

After May 1, 2001, Wang Jianping and Yan Zhigang held four or five brainwashing classes. In July 2001, they held another brainwashing class at the Linyi City Party School. They forced the practitioners to run daily, but didn't give them any water. They made short practitioners carry tall practitioners until they collapsed and vomited.

They sent practitioner Song Yulong to the Linyi City Mental Hospital, where the doctor injected him with nerve-damaging drugs and shocked him with high-voltage electric batons. This resulted in Song Yulong not being able to eat or drink. He suffered a mental collapse as a result of the torture. They released him when he was on the brink of death and yet monitored him around the clock after his release. Shortly after that, the authorities sent him to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo, Shandong Province.

Wang Jianping and Yan Zhigang also forced practitioner Yang Lifen's husband to divorce her. One practitioner developed liver ascites while being held in prison. The authorities still sent him to a brainwashing class where his condition worsened and his whole body swelled up within a few days.

Another practitioner had been cured of a terminal disease through practicing Falun Gong. The perpetrators sent her to a brainwashing class and forced her to renounce the practice. As a result, she suffered a relapse of her old illness and passed away within half a year of her release.

A female employee from the Luguan Chemical Factory was beaten until her body was soaked in blood and her hair and clothes formed a gel-like mass and stuck her body. She was then sent to the Linyi City Mental Hospital where she was injected with nerve-damaging drugs. Personnel from the Linyi City 610 Office took her and sent her to a brainwashing class where she was tortured until she suffered a mental collapse. There are many similar cases of persecution in Shandong Province.

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