Summary of Other Articles and News - May 28, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. Falun Dafa Practitioners Persecuted by Officials in Yangcun Town, Dingxing County, Hebei Province

Since the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in Yangcun Town, Dingxing County, Hebei Province have arrested practitioners, confiscated and destroyed their Falun Gong books, denied them the right to seek employment, and forcibly confiscated their ID cards. After Cai Shuangju was arrested, she was first brutally beaten in the township government office, and illegally detained at the county office until October 1, 1999, when officials from the township police station brought her back, and then continued to detain her there. During her detention at the county, she was fined 800 yuan. At the township, she was extorted of 1,000 yuan as earnest money by the township officials, then another 1,000 yuan as a fine. Practitioners Li Xiuqin, Wang Hongying and others went to Beijing to appeal. After the police arrested them in Tiananmen Square, they were sent to Baoding City and detained for one day. Li Xiaoluan went to Beijing to appeal, and after being illegally detained for two days, the township officials took her to Dingxing Detention Center, detained her for forty days, and fined her 900 yuan. When she was taken back to the township office, she was extorted another 1,000 yuan. The persecutors of Falun Dafa practitioners include Ren Jintian, Zhao Changliang, Wang Hua, Fang Liming, Xu Yan, Lai, and Liu.

Chinese version available: http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/5/28/102791.html

2. Middle School Teacher Chi Xiaolan Abducted Repeatedly in Deyang City, Sichuan Province

Chi Xiaolan is a teacher at the No. 5 Middle School in Deyang City, Sichuan Province. She clarified the facts about Falun Dafa to students on May 9, 2001. On May 13, police from the Deyang City Police Station and Deyang City National Security Office arrested her at her home and illegally detained her. On June 26, 2001, she was tortured with the "back cuffing" torture (1), with the handcuffs cutting deep into the flesh. She was then paraded around the city, and sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp. On January 2, 2005, at about 4:00 p.m., she was reported to the police when she clarified truth on the way to the fruit market. She was arrested and taken to the Jingdong Police Station in Deyang City. At about 11:00 p.m. on the same day, she was taken to Jingyang Detention Center. According to informed sources, she was sentenced on January 11, 2005 without due process. On January 12, 2005, she was sent to the Chuanxi Women's Prison, but was rejected by the prison authorities. She was then sent to Jianyang Women's Prison, and rejected again. So she was brought back to Jingyang Detention Center and detained there. Right after the Chinese New Year, Chi Xiaolan was illegally sent to Miaoxi Prison, and is currently detained there.

Chinese version available at: http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/5/28/102796.html

3. Practitioners Abducted and Taken to Brainwashing Classes in Baoding City, Li County, Hebei Province

Zhao Guo is a Dafa practitioner in Wujiaying Village, Li County, Hebei Province. At about 11:00 p.m. on May 9, 2005, Zhao Guo's family was tricked into opening the door, and Zhao Guo was taken away. Zhao Guo's clothes were torn apart, and he was savagely beaten, precipitating the recurrence of his heart disease symptoms. Under orders from the 610 Office in Li County, the Guodan Township government and police abducted Zhao Guo and took him to the Baoding Brainwashing Center. At about 4:00 a.m. on May 10, under orders from Li County's 610 Office, the Wanan Township government and police went to Li Village practitioner Yang Jianmin's home to arrest him. With righteous thoughts, Yang Jianmin escaped. The Wanan Township government thus illegally arrested Yang Jianmin's elder brother, practitioner Yang Jianchang. On the same day, Li County's 610 Office arrested three practitioners, and sent them to brainwashing centers to forcibly "transform" them.

Chinese version available at: http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/5/28/102808.html

4. Daqing Practitioner Zhang Lijuan Relates Her Numerous Experiences being Illegally Detained and Tortured

I am Ms. Zhang Lijuan, age 33. On October 27, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, and was arrested and taken to the Qianmen Police Station, then later sent to Daqing Detention Center. At the detention center, I was put in solitary confinement for practicing Falun Gong exercises. I was forced to raise my hands over my head, and stand against the wall. After being detained there for one month, I was transferred to the district detention center for fifteen days. When the term expired, they did not release me but extended it for another fifteen days. I went on hunger strike to protest, and five days later, I was transferred to the Sa District Public Order Detention Center and detained there for two months. When the term expired, it was extended for two more months. During this time guard Yao often kicked me in the back, and deputy director Guo Chunguang often grabbed my hair and beat me. On June 16, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal. At Changchun City, the railroad police stopped me and detained me at the police station at Changchun Station for one night. After I was returned to Daqing, I was illegally detained at Sa District Detention Center. After one month, I was illegally sent to Shuanghe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Qiqihar City for a one year term. For practicing the exercises, the police guards forced me and two older ladies to run around the yard fifty times. Manager Wang Mei cuffed me onto a heating pipe and forced me to squat for an entire night. Later, I was taken to a small cell, and handcuffed behind my back onto the door. I was deprived of sleep, and my term was extended by more than four months. On February 7, 2002, the district court illegally sentenced Dafa practitioners. I went there to lend my support. The police viciously beat me on the head and back. I was sent to the detention center for one month, then transferred to Sa District Detention Center and detained there for more than one month. I was then sent to center for substance abuse in Harbin City for a three year term. At the center, I was forced to sit on a small stool for extended periods of time every day. Manager Wang Limei cuffed my hands behind my back, and onto a heating pipe. Guard Dong Shaoxin beat my head and legs. The intensive labor I had to perform and the torture I received devastated me both mentally and physically.

Chinese version available at: http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/5/28/102817.html

Note:

1. "Back cuffing" - The practitioner's hands are tied behind his back with one hand over the shoulder and the other hand against the lower back. The police then apply a great deal of force to pull the two hands toward one another and handcuff the two hands together.