Latest News from China - 12/07/2001
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1. [China] China's Finance Department Covers Up How Jiang Zemin and His
Associates Exploit Detainees
A report issued by China's Finance Department in October 2001, Financial
Statistics 2001 No.11, "The Notice from the Finance Department on the 2001
Account Sheet of Enterprises," includes the account sheet of labor camps
and prisons. Their explanation to the related offices is as follows: records of
products made in prisons and labor camps cannot be made public because it
involves human rights issues, which attracts world attention. The department
requires the related offices to use "55 and others" on the cover of
the account sheets from those places. In the instructions of "2000 Account
Sheet of Enterprises," there is an explanation of "55 and
others." This code is exclusively used by the enterprises of prisons and
labor camps.
As is known to all, prisons and labor camps are part of the state machine.
They are not enterprises, nor are they responsible for turning out products. The
Jiang Zemin administration is making money by using the unpaid labor. The
workload is intentionally overly intense, which is meant to be physical and
mental torture to the detainees. On the other hand, they are deceiving the world
to avoid scrutiny by the human rights organizations. We hope the world will pay
attention to this matter.
2. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Commissar of Police Department
Qiaodong Subdivision Sends His Son to Be Tortured in a Brainwashing Class
Xing Linyong, the commissar of Police Department Qiaodong Subdivision, has
been completely brainwashed by the state propaganda against Falun Gong. Recently
he sent his son Xing Xiao, a Falun Gong practitioner, to the Hebei Province
Brainwashing Center to be mentally tortured. Xing Xiao's wife is also a
practitioner and has been illegally sentenced to prison.
Phone of Hebei Province Brainwashing Center: 86-311-7792624 Ex.8012,
86-311-7792624 Ex.8013
Police Department Qiaodong Subdivision: 86-311-6033009
Xing Linyong, the commissar: 86-311-6033096 (O), 86-311-3010266 (H), Pager:
86-311-7026118 call 1702.
3. [Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province] People Witness the Violence of the
Police
On November 29, 2001, I went to the market in the town of Mengyang in
Pengzhou City. In the seed store of the grocery section, I found about ten
people talking about cultivation practice. They said something about how Falun
Gong teaches people to be good, how you look within yourself to find the
attachment and eliminate it so as to continually improve. I was attracted to
their conversation and felt that they were very reasonable.
Just then a group of people from government offices and the police station
came in, some of whom I knew. They just closed the door and started to beat
those people. They finally opened the door after they felt they had beaten them
enough. They tied the owner and other people in the store together with rope,
including elderly people in their 60's. They took them to the town government
building, closed the door and gave them another beating. Even the party
secretary of the town, Zheng Guihua, participated in the beating. Afterwards I
saw that the store owner's eyes were bruised. A woman in her 40's was beaten so
badly that she lost control of her bowels. None of them escaped the beating. It
was said that they were going to be fined in addition to the beating. Many
people who saw what happened could not hold back their tears, but no one dared
to say anything. At heart we all know that Falun Gong practitioners are good
people.
Why did the authorities from the government and the police treat good people
in this way? We all know that the officials are corrupt. They extort money from
the people and use it to eat lavish meals, visit prostitutes, and gamble. The
local authorities take Falun Gong practitioners as easy to bully, often
harassing them on holidays. During the past two years, we have learned and
witnessed much of the unjust treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. The
authorities arrest and beat them at will, fine them heavily, and even parade
them through the streets as if they were convicts. Meanwhile, the Falun Gong
practitioners have truly followed the principles of "Truthfulness,
Benevolence, and Forbearance," practicing "not returning the beating
when beaten, not swearing back when sworn at." The practitioners are really
good, just like what is said on their flyers, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun
Dafa is the righteous way!" Why are all these good people being so severely
persecuted?
Anyone with a good conscience will be against the evil conduct. We believe
that "good will be rewarded with good, and the evil will receive
retribution." When justice is restored, we are witnesses of the crimes
conducted by the local police and authorities.
Signed, a person with a conscience who knows the facts.
4. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Practitioner Lin Tianci On Hunger
Strike for Several Days
Clearwisdom.net reported that Lin Tianci, a practitioner from Tianhe District
of Guangzhou City was arrested by the 610 Office (an agency specifically
created to persecuteáFalun Gong, with absolute power over each level of
administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems)
again and detained in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp. He has been on hunger
strike for several days to protest the persecution. We ask all the kind-hearted
people to pay attention to this matter and condemn the authorities in his
workplace and the people in the 610 Office who are responsible for his
detention. We call for help to stop the persecution and demand an immediate
release of all the practitioners.
Persecutors of Lin Tianci and his family:
Tangxia Police Station in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City: Chen Huanbin, Ph:
86-208-5651731
Address: Tangxia Police Station in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, zip code:
510630
Appointed officials in the State Audit Agency, Guangzhou Office: Tang
Zhiqing, someone with the surname of Wang, Office Phone: 86-208-5519858
Director of the Human Resources Department: Zhang Qiuping, someone with the
surname of Xiao, Phone: 86-208-5518202
Director of Finance Department: Qiu Lei, Lin Tianzhu, Ph: 86-208-7508373
Address: No. 18, Nanyi Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, zip code:
510620
5. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Two Practitioners Who Sued Jiang Zemin
Firmly Holding Their Righteous Beliefs
In December of 2000, 99 practitioners detained at the No.4 Group in
Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman
persecution, and they jointly sued Jiang Zemin for his persecution of Falun
Gong. Female Practitioners Liu Juhua and Zhu Hong were taken away by the police
to Shijiazhuang No.2 Detention Center for submitting the court papers. At
present, the two practitioners are as firm as ever. Practitioner Zhu Hong still
refuses to answer the roll call like an inmate. Her firm belief in Dafa has
stunned the perpetrators.
Address of Shijiazhuang No. 2 Detention Center: No. 23, Beijiao Street,
Shijiazhuang City, zip code: 050000, Phone: 86-311-7755213, 86-311-7794374,
86-311-7794348
Director Du Xilin: 86-311-7755213,
Instructor Zhang Hongqi: 86-311-7755202,
Vice Director Wang Zhibin: 86-311-7755202.
6. [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Female Practitioner Yang Jianmei Sentenced
to 12 Years and Transferred to No. 2 Prison in Hebei Province
According to reports, practitioner Yang Jianmei was sentenced to 12 years in
prison and transferred on November 3, 2001 from Shijiazhuang No.2 Detention
Center to the No.2 Prison in Hebei Province. When the police took Yang Jianmei
away, practitioners in the detention center, including Liu Juhua (female),
protested and sent forth righteous thoughts to stop the evil. They received
further persecution from the police.
Practitioner Lu Xinshu is also detained in No.2 Detention Center and
sentenced to 8 years. He has recently sent out an appeal. We call the attention
of the righteous people of the world to his case.
Address of No.2 Prison of Hebei Province: No. 218, Cang'an Road, Shijiazhuang
City, zip code: 050051, Phone: 86-311-3831916
7. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] The Latest Persecution of
Practitioners in Penghou Street Police Station of Qiaodong District
The former director of Penghou Street Police Station of Qiaodong District,
Zhao Qingxiang, had received retribution for his persecution of Falun Gong. Zhao
Qingxiang died of a sudden illness in April of 2001, but the police there have
not learned their lesson. In fact, they have become even more rampant. On
September 28, 2001, they arrested Yang Xiaojie and his wife Liu Runling, a
couple who had left home over a year ago to avoid the persecution. The police
detained them at the police station for many days, trying to use physical
torture to extort a confession. Yang Xiaojie was tied to an iron chair for 7
days and nights, but he refused to give in to the perpetrators. Currently the
couple is being detained at the Shijiazhuang No. 1 Detention Center. On
September 29, 2001, the police deceived female practitioner Zhao Xiuli into
going to the police station. It has been over a month, and she has still not
been allowed to go home. They sent her to a brainwashing class in Qiaodong
District, where she was denied sleep for several days. The police took turns
watching her. As soon as she closed her eyes, they would shock her with electric
batons.
The Penghou Street Police Station not only persecutes practitioners, but also
extorts money from their families. The amount ranges from 2000 to 3000 Yuan. (Translator's
note: Yuan is Chinese currency. The average monthly income of an urban worker is
500 Yuan.) The money the police have extorted from female practitioner Zhang
Rongxiu's family in Dongsanjiao has amounted to tens of thousands of Yuan. The
same thing happened to female practitioner Zhang Shuzhen's family from Yuan
Village. Another practitioner, Zhao Xiuli, also lives in Yuan Village, and
authorities extorted over ten thousand Yuan from her family. The method used by
the police is to detain the practitioners first. Then the police force their
families to turn in money to pay for their meals at restaurants and other
entertainment expenses. After they had enough fun, they would release the
practitioners. After some time, they would come up with another excuse and
detain the practitioners again to use the same tricks to extort money. The
reason that Zhao Xiuli was sent to the brainwashing class instead of being
released is perhaps that her family didn't give money to the police.
Phone of the Penghou Street Police Station: 86-311-6103674.
8. [Guanghan City, Sichuan Province] Record of Police Brutality in Nanxing
Township
At about 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on November 20, 2001, the police from
Guangxing Township Police Station of Nanxing Township, Guanghan City,
collaborating with the Violence Prevention Team of the Guanghan City Public
Security Bureau, searched all the known practitioners' homes one by one,
confiscated their valuables and ransacked their homes. Local militia also
participated in this blanket search. The practitioners refused to cooperate with
their illegal actions, and nobody opened their doors for them. Taking advantage
of their manpower, some policemen went into the houses by climbing over the
walls and breaking down the doors. They took away all the Falun Dafa books that
they could find. Other people living in the neighborhood strongly condemned
their brutal acts.
9. [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] A Practitioner in the Brainwashing Center
of Hebei Province On Hunger Strike for 20 Days, Still Being Tortured
Chen Ping, female, about 35 years old, was an employee of the Fourth Plant of
Dongfang Heat and Power Corporation of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. On
November 17, 2001, policemen kidnapped her in Xinji City. She suffered fierce
interrogations with cruel torture until she became unconscious, but they still
did not let her go. Later on, in Shidian Hotel the police from the Political
Protection Team of the Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau tried to force a
confession from her. Although they used all different ways to torture her, she
did not give in to them (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/5/16523.html).
Currently the police have collaborated with her workplace and sent her to the
Brainwashing Center of Hebei Province. In this center, they have tortured Chen
Ping nonstop, denying her sleep for several days and nights. They attempted to
use such a method of psychological torture to destroy a genuine practitioner's
strong will. Chen has been on hunger strike and has not had any water since the
day she was kidnapped in order to protest their inhuman torture and persecution.
It has been over 20 days now, and the situation is extremely urgent. We hereby
appeal to all kindhearted people to give your support to save Chen Ping's life.
These are the telephone numbers and addresses of people involved in the
persecution:
Hebei Province Brainwash Center: 86-311-7792624 ext. 8012, 8013
The Political Security Team of Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau:
Xiao Shuxiang, the Chief Officer, 86-311-7725449
Ma Wensheng, the Vice Chief Officer, 86-311-7726574 (this person murdered a
practitioner in Changzhou, Hebei province)
Deng Fang, Sub-Chief officer
Section Chief Li, responsible for religious affairs.
Dongfang Heat and Power Limited Corporation:
Address: No. 24, Jianhua South Street, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province
Telephone: 86-311-5051970, 5051971, 5053918, 5053917, 5053394
The office of the Political and Legal System Commission of Shijiazhuang City:
Telephone: 311-6886357
The Secretary of the Political and Legal Commission: Zhang Zhengjiang, who is
in charge of persecuting Falun Gong.
10. [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] The Police Kidnap Dafa Practitioners
On September 28, 2001, carrying out orders from the Ministry of Public
Security, Shijiazhuang City police kidnapped 7 practitioners: Yang Xiaojie, Liu
Yunning, Zhao Lishan, Zhang Shijun, Zhang Lingjiang, Shi Yan, and Lan Qizhi.
They have all been brutally tortured during interrogation. It has been further
confirmed that Shi Yan was not imprisoned in Yizhong prison of Tangshan City.
The details of his situation are unknown. It is not clear if he is still alive.
We hereby appeal to all the kind-hearted people to give your concern to Shi
Yan's situation.
A brief introduction to Shi Yan
Shi Yan, male, 29 years old, lived in Dongfang Street of Pingquan Township,
Pingquan County, Chende City, Hebei Province. In June 2000, because of his firm
belief in Falun Dafa cultivation practice, the Public Security Bureau of
Pingquan County issued a nationwide arrest warrant and also went through the
procedures to send him to a forced labor camp for 3 years. Once he was arrested,
he would have been put into the forced labor camp immediately. As a result, Shi
Yan was forced to leave his hometown to avoid the persecution. The police from
Pingquan County, collaborating with the Political Protection Team of
Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau, went to Shijiazhuang City twice, attempting
to arrest him but failed both times. In May 2001, he was arrested by the police
of the Political Protection Team. With righteous thoughts, he managed to escape.
On September 29, 2001, when he was on the way to Kaida District, he was arrested
and sent to Dongli Police Station by the police who had been waiting there. They
tortured him by hanging him up with handcuffs. He was then detained in Jingzhou
Custody Center of Hebei Province. On October 10, 2001, he was taken away from
this center. The police of Shijiazhuang City regarded him as an important
"leader," and they were unwilling to let the officers from Chende City
join in the interrogation of Shi Yan. They interrogated him in Shijiazhuang
Botanical Garden, trying everything to force him to give in to their threats and
promises. All these tribulations never shook his determination to practice Falun
Dafa. Currently his whereabouts are unknown.
11. [Guanghan City, Sichuan Province] Atrocities of the Police of Guangxing
Township Police Station
Since July 22, 1999, the police in Guangxing Township have followed the gang
of Jiang Zemin and Luo Gan and used various ways to persecute practitioners,
including heavy fines from several hundred Yuan to 4000 Yuan (about eight
months' salary for an average worker in urban areas), detention, parading
handcuffed practitioners through the streets, and brutal beatings. They used
bamboo batons to beat practitioners until the batons were broken. As a result,
practitioners were severely injured, and splinters of bamboo stuck into their
flesh. In addition, they violently pushed practitioners' heads into water. They
even ruined practitioners' barbershops, pharmacy shops, sewing stores, and small
restaurants. Even the onlookers said that these policemen acted like bandits.
On November 2, 2000, Liu Yuangao, the head of the Guangxing Township Police
Station, led policemen to a practitioner's home, attempting to arrest another
two practitioners who stayed there. One fellow practitioner refused to cooperate
and jumped out of the police car, suffering severe injuries. On October 24, Liu
Yuangao led a group of police to search a practitioner's house. Liu found a
6300-Yuan deposit book and confiscated it.
At around 7 p.m. of November 20, 2001, Liu Yuangao and Wan Huachun again led
a group of police to illegally ransack a practitioner's house. The practitioner
refused to open the door, so Liu kicked it open. They took away her private
letters, a box of crayons that she bought for her nephew, a pair of gloves
belonging to her grandmother and Falun Gong exercise music tapes. They also
attempted to take the practitioner away. This practitioner sternly refused their
request. Liu even threatened to take away her less than 5-months old baby.
The list of the police who are involved in the persecution of practitioners:
Liu Yuangao, Head of Guangxing Township Police Station, telephone:
838-5226015, Cell: 86-13608106702
Wan Huachun, policeman of Guangxing Township Police Station, telephone:
86-838-5580202, cell: 86-13658104692
Xiao Kaishang, policeman of Guangxing Township Police Station, telephone:
86-838-5580689, cell: 86-13990264518 or 13990262933
12. [Siping, Jilin Province] Five Falun Dafa Practitioners on Hunger Strike
Brutally Tortured at Siping Labor Camp
We have been subjected to various levels of abuse in our attempt to escape
the labor camp. Finally, after having exhausted all other means, we decided to
go on a hunger strike to protest the unfair treatment of Falun Dafa
practitioners.
On August 17, 2001, the five of us started a hunger strike. As soon as the
authorities found out, we were forced into chairs by inmates and force fed with
rubber tubes inserted into our noses. Three days later, one practitioner fainted
while he was being brutally force fed and was sent to the emergency room. He was
able to recover after several days.
Meanwhile, the remaining four of us suffered from injuries inside our mouths
and defecated blood as a result of the force-feeding. A practitioner named Yang
Huiyong was so traumatized in his nose and throat that they could no longer
insert the tube in him. We were all sent to the hospital. A few days later,
Zhang Chao and Wen Yingjia were sent to Jiutai Labor Camp, and Yang Huiyong was
released for medical reasons. Two other practitioners were transferred to
Liaoyuan Labor Camp, where they continued the hunger strike. The guards ordered
inmate Zhang Cheng to choke them with a rope, chop at their necks with the side
of his hands, force their mouths and teeth open with pliers, and force feed them
with salt water and food. Then, the guards took over, shocking the center of
their soles with an electric baton. They also slammed the practitioners' heads
against the wall and hooked the sides of their mouths with their fingers,
contorting their faces horribly. The perpetrators are Fan (first name unknown),
Dr. Ao, Liu (first name unknown), Captain Han, Captain Li, and several others.
13. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] New Round of Brainwashing Classes To Start
More brainwashing classes are being organized to further persecute Falun
Dafa, and some practitioners have been taken into custody. It was said that they
are going after practitioners who practice at home, as well as those who used to
practice but have quit. Many practitioners have left home to avoid being taken
to the brainwashing class, and some are getting prepared to leave town on a
moment's notice. Fellow practitioners, please send forth powerful righteous
thoughts to eliminate the brainwashing classes.
In addition, Niu Xiaoqing, a female practitioner from Lanzhou City was
illegally sent to a labor camp. She was taken away in September in Jinchang City
and is currently being held at Pingantai Labor Camp.
The Lanzhou City Police, Subdivision #1 is considered a model unit in
persecuting Falun Dafa. The following are the perpetrators: Team Leader Wang
Jixu, Team Leader Wei Dong, Ma (first name unknown), and Zhong Biao.
14. [Sanhe City, Hebei Province] A Farmer's Family Brutally Persecuted by the
Jiang-Luo Terror Group
Ms. Lu Chunfeng, age 40, is a resident of Xiaohuzhuang in the suburbs of
Sanhe City, Hebei Province. She has two children. Her husband, Mr. Zhang Xiyuan,
works in the fields, while Ms. Lu maintains the household chores and runs
errands to make a living. Before learning and cultivating Falun Dafa, Ms. Lu was
a very belligerent person, known for fighting with others and having bad
relationships in the neighborhood as well as with her sisters-in-law.
In 1997, Ms. Lu was fortunate enough to attain Dafa. Although she did not
recognize too many words, Ms. Lu kept every sentence of Teacher's words in her
heart. She tried to apply Dafa standards toward everything she did. She no
longer got involved in fighting or scolding others. She was so kind to others.
Everybody said that Ms. Lu had become a different person.
After Jiang Zemin began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Lu thought,
"It is such a good practice and cultivation way to benefit people
physically and mentally. Falun Gong is beneficial to the nation and the society.
I have to reflect this fact to the government." With this good intention,
she went alone to appeal in Beijing. Although Ms. Lu spent an entire day
searching for the Beijing Appeals Office, she still could not find her way
because she is almost illiterate. She ended up being arrested without any
justification by the Public Security Bureau and sentenced to one and a half
years at a forced labor camp. Ms. Lu was sent to No.1 Labor Camp of Hebei
province on November 18, 1999. She refused to accept the unreasonable abuse by
the authorities and conducted a hunger strike. After being tortured and abused
for months, Ms. Lu was then transferred to a hospital for so-called
"medical care". But her health deteriorated, and in June 2000 a feeble
Ms. Lu was sent home. Her husband was shocked and dismayed to see that his
formerly healthy and energetic wife had become so emaciated. Having very little
strength from her depleted condition and from the beatings she sustained for 9
months, she strained to even talk.
Neighbors also felt terribly sad to see the previously active Ms. Lu in such
a horrible condition. Fellow practitioners pitched in to help the poor family.
Unfortunately Ms. Lu has not recovered and still cannot take care of herself.
The family's heavy burden totally fell upon the shoulders of her husband.
What kind of drugs and injections or "brainwashing" methods did
they use to change a formerly clear-headed as well as physically healthy lady
into such a miserable person? An actively working and thrifty farmer's family
has thus been ruined. A tragedy that should not have happened has befallen an
innocent farmer's family.
15. [Hefei, Anhui Province] Female Practitioner Wu Xueti on Hunger Strike to
Protest Mistreatment
Ms. Wu Xueti, a practitioner at Hefei City, was illegally arrested and
detained in a women's labor camp. She has been on a hunger strike for more than
a week. We hope that kind-hearted people will focus their attention on her
situation!
16. [Beijing] The Jiang-Luo Terror Group Wastes Common People's Money in
Conducting "Brainwashing" Classes
It was reported that the authorities in Beijing not only spend tens of
millions of Yuan to construct a "brainwashing base" and kidnap
practitioners into these classes, but they also pressure the practitioner's work
unit or hometown to pay for the fees. They demand 13,000 to 26,000 Yuan per
practitioner from the workplace.
The so-called "teaching assistants" join in to extort money from
people. At a suburban area, the authorities invited former practitioners who
have strayed from their cultivation from Beijing to be "teaching
assistants" at a daily stipend of roughly one hundred Yuan. Local
"teaching assistants" receive 20 Yuan a day.
17. [Sanhe, Hebei Province] Police in Yanjiao District Kidnap Practitioners
The authorities in Yanjiao District in the Sanhe City suburbs, Hebei
Province, have been frantically pursuing practitioners who had left their homes
to escape persecution. The police have also been closely watching, following,
threatening, as well as deceiving the relatives or friends of the practitioners.
For example, the County's Deputy Party Secretary General Mr. Zhang Zihua tried
to threaten and lure relatives of the practitioners. He tells them, "If by
this date, he comes back home, then I guarantee that he will not be sent to
labor camps or jail. Otherwise, the consequences will be more serious."
They also tried to threaten the elder son of the practitioner Zhang Deli to find
and get his father home before a deadline, or risk foreclosure of his cattle
farm.
The police did everything in their power to send agents to northeast China in
hopes of capturing female practitioner Hao Yafen. On two separate occasions,
they also sent Zhang Lianchun, a former practitioner who had strayed from his
cultivation, to go to other provinces to catch a relative, Zhang Lianchun (Translator's
note: the two names are translated the same, but different Chinese characters),
also a practitioner. The Public Security Bureau has arrested many practitioners
and sent them to brainwashing classes. It was reported that some of the female
practitioners have been raped while in detention.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/12/7/21041.html
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