Summary of Other Articles and News - June 19, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Practitioners are Persecuted by Police and Staff Members at a Psychiatric Hospital in Shandong Province

Practitioner Ms. Liu Dayuan of Shandong Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Upon arriving at the Appeals Bureau, she was body-searched, beaten, and kicked by policemen. Then they transferred her back to Shandong Province's Jining Psychiatric Hospital for further persecution. By force, the medical doctors and nurses there injected nerve-damaging drugs into her body. Later they released her for fear she would die in the hospital.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/19/104357.html

Tieta Police Station of Kaifeng City, Henan Province, Persecutes a Senior Practitioner

Ms. Tao Wenhua is more than 60 years old. After practicing Falun Gong she got rid of many illnesses. On December 1, 2000, Ms. Tao went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. For that, officers from the Tieta Police Station persecuted Ms. Tao and her family members several times. The first time they illegally detained her for 35 days and 30 days the second time. The police station also extorted money totaling 8,700 yuan from her family and her plant. They also illegally searched her house four or five times. On September 16, 2002, police officer Wei Hualin took Ms. Tao from her house to the police station. On September 25, 2004, they confiscated her books and illegally detained her for 14 days. In addition to this, the Tieta Police Station three times forced Ms. Tao to attend brainwashing classes totaling up to ten months. While being detained at the brainwashing class, she was not allowed to go outdoors. Thus, Ms. Tao has been severely damaged both mentally and physically. Her children have also been implicated. Police officers keep threatening her three sons, causing much stress in their lives. The neighborhood committee chairman Zhu Tianxiang is also frequently harassing Ms. Tao's family, disturbing their peace.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/19/104355.html

Practitioners Are Persecuted at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai City

(1) To prevent news leaking out, the police officers at Tilanqiao Prison have frequently transferred persecuted practitioners from one place to another; (2) The transferred practitioners are in terrible situations. All unlawfully detained practitioners are forced into slave labor, and are overworked; (3) Practitioner Mr. Jiang Yexiang was illegally sentenced to 4 years and 6 months. He is almost due for release. Since October 2004, Mr. Jiang has gone on hunger strikes lasting as long as 8 months. He used to be hefty, but now he is extremely thin. It is said that recently Mr. Jiang has been hospitalized.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/19/104390.html