(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Baise City, Guangxi Province] He Zhi and Liao Chunxing Are Given Eight and Seven Years of Imprisonment, Respectively
He Zhi and Liao Chunxing are Falun Gong Practitioners from Baise City. They were arrested in August 2004. In the beginning of 2005, He Zhi and Liao Chunxing were sentenced to eight years and seven years of imprisonment, respectively at the Youjiang District Court in Baise City.
2. [Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province] Persecution of Disabled Falun Gong Practitioner Yuan Chunying
Practitioner Mrs. Yuan Chunying, born in 1963, lives in Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province. She has childhood-onset paralysis in her right hand and feet. Her husband, Wang Niaogen, a village doctor, was born in 1946. He learned Falun Dafa in 1996 and died on January 27, 2004 as a result of the persecution.
Mrs. Yuan has been illegally detained six times, and her husband was detained twice and been sent to brainwashing classes twice.
In January 2000, local police station personnel detained Wang Niaogen for one day and extorted 3,000 yuan from him because other practitioners went to appeal.
In April 2000, Mrs. Yuan went to Beijing to appeal. She was detained for three days in Beijing and 21 days at Dutou Township. The township police station people extorted 5,000 yuan from her and confiscated a large quantity of medicine worth 10,000 yuan.
In October 2000 when Mrs. Yuan and her husband returned from Beijing, they were detained for two weeks.
In December 2000, Mrs. Yuan was detained for six months for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials.
In March 2004, Mrs. Yuan was detained for one month for distributing truth-clarifying materials.
In 2005, Youlan Township Police Station personnel capriciously held Mrs. Yuan for over two months. (In 2003, Dutou Township merged with Youlan Township)
3. [Jiyuan City, Henan Province] Yuan Shengjun Tortured
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yuan Shengjun is from Jiyuan City. Physicians at the Jiyuan No. 1 People's Hospital surgically opened his esophagus to facilitate force-feeding. After such torture was exposed, lawless policemen transferred Yuan Shengjun to the Tiantan Hospital and strictly blocked any information about him. Currently, family members are not allowed to see him. Under instructions from Wang Mingli, chief of the National Security Team in Jiyuan City, and Wang Guoyou, the commissar of the team, Yuan Shengjun was handcuffed and five people monitored him. He is now in peril.
4. [Anqiu City, Shandong Province] Ma Hongxiang and Wang Jinxiang Sentenced for Distributing Falun Gong Truth-clarifying Materials
When Mr. Ma Hongxiang and Mr. Wang Jinxiang, who are both in their 60s, went to a market to distribute truth-clarifying materials, police arrested them and put them into the Anqiu City Detention Center for over four months. In February 2005 they were put in prison. They are currently being incarcerated at the Jinan City Prison in Shandong Province.
5. [Pulandian City, Liaoning Province] Zheng Shuqing Held at Dalian City Brainwashing Class for Clarifying the Truth of Falun Gong
When Ms. Zheng Shuqing, a Falun Gong practitioner from Pulandian City, was clarifying the truth at a shoe shop, officers from the Fengrong Street Police Station arrested her and put her into the Liujia Detention Center. Currently, Zheng Shuqing is being detained at the Dalian City Brainwashing Class.
Liujia Detention Center in Pulandian City:
Address: Liujia Village, Taiping Township, Pulandian City
Phone: 86-411-83148520
Person in charge: Zhou Chengxin
Head: Liu Junliang
Zhang Zhengui, Fengrong Street Police Station chief: 86-411-83112912
6. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Practitioner Yang Liguo While He Clarifies the Truth of Falun Gong at the Xingang Garden
At around 1:00 p.m. on March 30, 2005, personnel from the Quanyong Police Station arrested practitioner Yang Liguo as he clarified the truth of Falun Gong at the Xingang Garden. Yang is currently being held at the Dalian City Yaojia Detention Center.
7. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Yu Xinhua and Dong Meiyan Held at the Shenyang City Dabei Women's Prison
Practitioner Yu Xinhua and Dong Meiyan from Dalian City are incarcerated. They were arrested when three major truth-clarifying materials production sites were raided as part of a so-called "major and important case" in Dalian City in 2003. They are locked up at the Shenyang City Dabei Women's Prison. Yu Xinhua was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment and Dong Meiyan was also sentenced, but her imprisonment term is unknown.
8. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Liu Aidong Abandons Home to Avoid Persecution
A few days ago, police confiscated a letter from practitioner Liu Aidong to his/her daughter persuading the daughter to quit the Chinese Communist Young League. Afterwards, police ransacked Liu's home and confiscated the Nine Commentaries and Master's lectures. Now Liu Aidong must lead a homeless life to avoid persecution. Liu's family is often harassed by police officers, the Party Secretary, and security personnel from the Power Plant of the Southern District of the Tangshan Steel Factory.
9. [Ziyang City, Sichuan Province] Li Yuqiong Arrested for Clarifying the Truth
At about 9:00 a.m. on April 21, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Yuqiong, 60, a retired worker from the Ziyang City 431 Factory, Sichuan Province, clarified the truth of Falun Gong to some people at the Liujiawan Market close to the factory. Factory police discovered this and arrested her. Li Yuqiong was extorted for a confession and her home was ransacked. She is being held in the Ziyang City Detention Center.
People responsible at the factory police department:
Xiong Jianping, Deputy Party Secretary of the factory: 86-832-6282542 (office)
Xiao Zongyuan, Deputy Chief of the Police Department (head of the factory 610 Office): 86-832-6282807 (office)
Li Qichang, Criminal Investigation Team chief, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, 86-832-6282812 (office)
10. [Beijing] Zhang Shuqin and Zhang Peizhi Sentenced to Two Years of Forced Labor for Hanging Falun Dafa Banners
Falun Dafa practitioners Zhang Shuqin and Zhang Peizhi from the Chaoyang District in Beijing went to the Airport Road area to hang banners during the evening on May 13, 2004, but personnel from the Sunhe Township Security Team arrested them. The two practitioners tried to clarify the truth to them but the police did not listen and sent the two practitioners into Chaoyang District Detention Center that same night. Later, the two practitioners were sentenced to two years of forced labor.
11. [Lianzhou City, Guangdong Province] Information About Practitioners Held in Lianzhou City
Personnel from the National Security Team in the Qingyuan City Police Department, and from the 610 Office in Lianzhou City, arrested practitioners Chen Jincheng, Fu Lemin, and Ou Junhua from Lianzhou City in Guangdong Province, and put them into the Liannan and Lianzhou Detention Centers.
Chen Jincheng was sentenced to four years of forced labor, Fu Lemin and Ou Junhua to three years. Chen Jincheng is an associate professor in the local People's Hospital. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor in 2000. Fu Lemin had been sentenced to one year of forced labor.
At the end of 2004, local authorities held a brainwashing session in Lianzhou City. More than 30 practitioners were abducted and taken to the brainwashing class. Tan Xianjun and another female practitioner in her 40s did not give in to the demands of their captors, so they were sentenced to forced labor in January 2005. Tan Xianjun was released from the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in 2004, but he/she was again sentenced to one year of forced labor.
12. [Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Fan Guizhi Given an Extended Term at the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp
Practitioner Ms. Fan Guizhi from Inner Mongolia was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to two years of forced labor. Her prison term has already expired, but she has not been released. While in the forced labor camp, Fan Guizhi was fired from her job and her husband divorced her. She is still being held at the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
