(Clearwisdom.net) Before July 20, 1999 there were about 800 people practicing Falun Gong in the Pukou District of Nanjing. After the persecution started, many practitioners refused to give up their beliefs and were detained many times. Their homes were ransacked, and they were continuously harassed. Ms. Zhao Wenying was mentally traumatized. In attempting to escape, Ms. Yu Shuxia jumped from a building and was disabled. Ms. Dong Qiaorong was followed for an extended period, and was later paralyzed due to torture. Many practitioners' family members and work units were also unfairly implicated.

These are some cases of persecution in the Pukou District (including former Jiangpu County and former Pukou District) by people from the local 610 Office and the police.

In January 2000, practitioner Ms Zhou Lifang, Ms. Liang Dongmei, Mr. Dou Wenxiang, Ms. Zhao Wenying, Mr. Wu Zhiming, Ms. Xu Renlan, Ms. Yu Shumei, Ms. Kong Lingzhen, and Ms. Zhu Dongmei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were illegally arrested and escorted to a detention center close to where they live. After one month, the police transferred them to a hotel owned by the police department (Ganlanyuan Hotel) and detained them for twenty more days.

In February 2000, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Chen Xiangxiu, Ms. Ling Jun, Ms. Ji Lianzhen, Ms. Cao Wenjing, and Ms. Dai Shujin went to appeal in Beijing. After they were arrested, the district police department detained them in a hotel and coerced their family members to force them to write a "guarantee statement." Practitioners were also forced to pay large sums of money for their illegal detention in the hotel.

Around July 20, 2000, some police officers (following their superior's orders) arrested practitioner Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Kong Lingzhen, Ms. Chen Xiangxiu, Ms. Wu Chunru and Ms. Zhu Dongmei, and detained them in a hotel in order to "prevent them from going to appeal." At the same time, every work unit in the district tried to extort 5,000 yuan from each practitioner who had previously appealed. When some practitioners refused to pay, the money was deducted from their paychecks.

In August 2000, Ms. Zhao Wenying was arrested on her way to Beijing (to appeal). Because she had appealed many times before, the police sent her to a forced labor camp. She was severely tortured and consequently had a mental collapse. In the same month, Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Xu Renlan, and Ms. Liang Dongmei were detained for a month for doing Falun Gong exercises at Pukou Martyr's Monument.

In late September 2000, police officers from the district Political and Judiciary Committee and the police department ransacked all the homes of practitioners who had appealed before. They confiscated Dafa books, exercise music tapes, and Teacher's new articles. The perpetrators also tried to arrest Ms. Wu Chunru but were stopped by Ms. Wu's family members.

In early October 2000, in order to prevent their homes from being ransacked, practitioners Wu Chunru, Ms. Liang Dongmei, and Ms. Xu Renlan went to the Zhujiang Police Station to reason with the police. They were arrested and held at the detention center for a month.

In early October 2000, Ms. Zhou Lifang, Mr. Wu Zhiming, and Ms. Yu Shuxia went to appeal. The police stopped them on a train to Beijing. They were sent back and were held at the detention center for a month. After that, Ms. Zhou Lifang was detained in a hotel. Several days later, Ms. Yu Shuxia was arrested. Ms. Xu Renlan and Ms. Wu Chunru were also detained in the hotel for some time.

In mid-November 2000, Ms. Xu Renlan, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Zhou Lifang, and Ms. Yu Shuxia escaped from the hotel and went to appeal in Beijing. They were arrested and sent back. Ms. Xu Renlan was sent to a forced labor camp, and the three other practitioners were detained in a hotel.

In November 2000, Ms. Li Guangxia and Ms. Chen Xiangxiu went to appeal in Beijing. They were arrested, detained for a month, and then sentenced to a forced labor camp.

In November 2000, Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Zhu Cuiying, Ms. Dai Shujin, Mr. Tan Xinfeng, and Ms. Geng Yingchao went to Beijing to appeal, and were arrested. Two of them were held at the local detention center, and the other three were detained in a hotel.

In December 2000, Ms. Zhu Dongmei, Ms. Yu Shumei, Ms. Lu Jiaru, Ms. Ling Jun, Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Huang Baoying, Ms. Ling Yun, Ms. Fu Ying, Ms. Geng Yingchao, and Huang went to appeal in Beijing. After they were arrested and sent back, they were all detained in the police-owned hotel.

In late December 2000, the police transferred Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Ling Jun, and Ms. Yu Shumei from the hotel to a detention center. Later, Ms. Liang Dongmei was sent to a forced labor camp. Ms. Ling Jun and Ms. Yu Shumei were taken back to the hotel, and detained for another two months.

In mid-January 2001, the police department sent seven practitioners who persisted in practicing the exercises to forced labor camps. The practitioner's names are: Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Ji Lianzhen, Ms. Dai Shujin, Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms. Liang Dongmei, Ms. Chen Xiangxiu and Ms. Geng Yingchao.

In March 2001, Ms. Li Guangxia was sentenced to a forced labor term.

In March 2001, the police department sent five mentally normal practitioners (who refused to give up their cultivation) to a mental hospital. The practitioners sent were: Mr. Wu Zhiming, Mr. Dou Wenxiang, Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Kong Lingzhen and Ms. Zhu Dongmei. Three of them were detained in the mental hospital for about two years. Expenses for the hospitalization were deducted from their salaries.

In July 2002, Mr. Zheng Kai from Yongning Town was arrested by the local police for practicing the exercises outdoors. He was detained for a month, and then sentenced to one year of forced labor.

In August 2002, the Pukou District 610 Office held a brainwashing session in Zhujiang Town. Over ten practitioners (who had been transformed in the session) declared what they said and did under the influence of the "brainwashing" to be null and void. The practitioners included Ms. Yu Xixiang, Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms. Cao Wenjing, Ms. Ge Hongmei and Ms. Zhou Guofang. They were detained in a hotel and brainwashed for nearly three months. By the end of November 2002, when the brainwashing session ended, Ms. Ge Hongmei and her daughter were sentenced to forced labor terms. Ms. Yu Shuxia, Ms. Cao Wenjing, and Ms. Zhou Guofang were transferred to the local detention center and were held for another three months.

Around October 2002, Mr. Dou Wenxiang was sentenced to a forced labor camp, for visiting Falun Gong websites.

In April 2003, Ms. Yu Shuxia was held for one month at the local detention center, for declaring her previous guarantee statement as void.

In mid-February 2004, over twenty people from the district 610 Office, police department, local police station(s), and work units such as the Sanitation Bureau and Chinese Medicine Hospital went to Ms. Yu Shuxia's home. They tried to take her to a brainwashing session. Ms. Yu firmly resisted and was forced to jump from her second floor apartment to escape. She sustained multiple injuries from the jump. After she returned home from the hospital, members of the city and district 610 Office harassed her at home many times, and ordered her to write a guarantee statement. Ms. Yu refused. In the same month, Dou Wenxiang was arrested and sent to a brainwashing center in Nanjing.

From November 2004 to January 2005, Ms. Geng Yingchao, Ms. Dai Shujin, and Ms. Ling Jun were arrested and held at the local detention center or brainwashing center for nearly two months. The persecutors also ransacked their homes. The work units of two practitioners had to submit 10,000 yuan each to the brainwashing center as "expenses."

During a sports game in Nanjing City in 2005, the Jiangsu Province Police Department ordered all the counties and cities to strictly control practitioners. Ms. Wu Chunru, Ms. Dai Shujin, and Ms. Ling Jun were arrested for mailing truth-clarifying materials. They were held at the local detention center for a month. The persecutors also ransacked their homes.

Since 1999, work units in the district that have participated in the persecution include the city and district 610 Offices, the district police department, Zhujiang Police Station, the district Political and Judiciary Committee, the Industry Bureau, Business Trade Bureau, Sanitation Bureau, Bureau of Education, Tax Bureau, File Bureau, Land Bureau, Construction Bureau, and some work units under the control of the above authorities.

People who participated in the persecution and relevant personnel include Wu Zhengqiang, Bi Chunxiao, Ping Yuanwu, Lu Xueping, Wang Wengao, Li Youfa, Gao Hongmin, Wang Xiaomin, Xiao Ningjian, Mu Zhiping, Xu Keli, Liu Binbin, Wang Qiaozhuan, Wang Lin, Fu Jiabao, Li Jinhua, Zhou Linhua, Jiang Aimei, Wang Zhilin, Li Junwei, Zhou Fei, Hu Jing, Chen Yufang, Yang Liu, Chen Libao, Wang Banglun and Kong Huisheng.

Phone numbers of responsible personnel:
Ji Qin, director of the 610 Office: 86-25-86634348, 86-25-83610656

12/21/2005