Summary of Other Articles and News - April 12, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. [Chongqing] Practitioner Mr. Cao Xianlu Disabled Due to Torture

Mr. Cao Xianlu is a Falun Dafa practitioner living in Bishan County, Chongqing City. He was arrested by police officers from Daxing Substation six months ago and is detained in Bishan County Detention Center. He is unable to walk because he became disabled due to severe torture. Another practitioner, Ms. Wan Chuanling, was passing out truth clarifying material in Shizi Town, Bishan County, six months ago. She was arrested after being reported. She is also in Bishan County Detention Center. Other practitioners who are detained or serving prison terms are: Ms. Jian Ping, Mr. Hong Wei, Su Bin (gender unknown), Ms. Zhu Huaqin, Mr. Wang Jingxiu, Mr. Liu Xinghui, Ms. Wan Chuanyu, Ms. Yang Qin, Ms. Yu Jisu, Mr. Liu Xiangtai, Yan (gender unknown), Ms. Deng Shibi, and Mr. Cao Xianlu's son. The longest prison term among them is eighteen years.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/12/99428.html

2. [Gaocun Township Substation, Yi County, Hebei Province] Persecution Crimes Committed by the Police

Police officers from Gaocun Township Substation, Yi County, Hebei Province, have often harassed practitioners over the past five years. They collaborated with state security agents from the county police department to ransack the homes of practitioners and arrest them. At the end of July 1999, Gaocun Township Police Substation Director Li (male) and Officer Li Ming (male) ransacked practitioner Mr. Zhuo Guibin's home. In August 2000, Director Li and Officer Li Ming ransacked practitioner Mr. Zhai Quan's home in Xishi Village. They arrested Mr. Zhai Quan and detained him for 15 days in Yi County Detention Center. They forced Mr. Zhai to write a guarantee statement and extorted money from him. On the evening of February 17, 2003, Director Li, Officer Li Ming, and State Security Agent Xu Shuzhen (female) from the County Station went to practitioner Mr. Zhuo Guibin's home. They failed to arrest Mr. Zhuo. Early in the morning on March 6, 2003, police officers stormed into several houses to search for Mr. Zhuo. On March 7, 2003, CCP Deputy Secretary of Yi County Zhang Shulin (male) forced many government officials and police officers to go to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to search for two days. At 7 p.m. on June 3, 2003, Officer Li Ming, Yi County State Security Agent Tian (gender unknown), Officer Li (gender unknown) and Village CCP Secretary Zhuo Wanhe arrested Mr. Zhuo Guibin at his job at a middle school dining hall. They detained him in Yi County Detention Center and sent him to three years of forced labor.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/12/99443.html

3. [Tangshan City] Persecution Crimes Committed by Fengrun District State Security Division Head Dong Fucun

Over the past five years, the Fengrun District State Security Division in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, has actively joined in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. The Division Head, Dong Fucun (male), is in his forties. He personally oversees the forced entry and ransacking of practitioners' homes during the nights, arrests and sends them to forced labor camps or prisons, extorts money from them, and mistreats their family members. In 2003, Dong Fucun led a group of villains to break down the security gate of practitioner Mr. Sun Jianzhong's home. They took Mr. Sun away, detained him in the Tangshan City Detention Center, and sentenced him to seven years in prison. In July 2004, State Security Officer Zeng Xianghai arrested practitioner Mr. Wang Zhiling, a resident of Guochiying Village in the Fengrun District, from his workplace and ransacked his home. Mr. Wang and his wife resisted this treatment, and they were released that same night. Five days later, state security officers again arrested Mr. Wang at work. They tortured him with the iron chair inside the State Security Office and sent him to serve three years of forced labor. Mr. Wang Zhiling is now imprisoned in the Hehuakeng Labor Camp in Tangshan City. In December 2004, Dong Fucun lead a group of officers to break into Mr. Wang Zhiling's home. They arrested Mr. Wang's wife, Zhang Hongwei, and sent her to three years of forced labor in Kaiping Labor Camp in Tangshan City. In December 2004, Dong Fucun ordered his officers to ransack practitioner Ms. Hao Shuping's home twice. At the end of 2004, state security officers abducted practitioner Mr. Wang Zequ from Zhongshu Village in the Fengrun District. They ransacked his home, tortured him, and sent him to two years of forced labor in the Hehuakeng Labor Camp in Tangshan City.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/12/99433.html

4. [Lutou Town, Longkou City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Mr. Tang Zhuqiang Is Arrested Again

Mr. Tang Zhuqiang, 37 years old, is a resident of Gushantangjia Village, Lutou Town, Longkou City, Shandong Province. He has been arrested and detained for going to Beijing to appeal. His home has been ransacked five times. When the 610 Office held the first local brainwashing session, four to five villains brought him from his home. He was forced to become destitute and homeless for five years in order to avoid being arrested. When he returned home at 9 p.m. on the evening of March 29, 2005, the police who were waiting there arrested him. He is detained in Zhangjiagou Prison, where he went on a hunger strike for four days. The police guards do not allow any visitors to see him.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/12/99426.html