Summary of Other News and Articles -- 12/18/2001
(Clearwisdom.net) Breaking the Information Blockade, Clarifying the Truth and Saving Lives Spread the truth from person to person, from heart to heart. Clarifying the
truth through social relationships is flexible, safe and effective. There are
some aspects that we need to pay special attention to such as reading more of
Teacher's books and scriptures and being persistent while clarifying the truth.
With more experience, it becomes easier to do a better job of clarifying the
truth. News from China Today, 151 people published solemn declarations, announcing regret about
their words and actions while being persecuted by the evil that did not conform
to the standard of a practitioner. They declared that what they did at the time
was null and void. They will continue to cultivate steadfastly and compensate
for the damage brought to Dafa. They will catch up with Teacher's Fa
rectification process and become qualified Dafa disciples. Linyi City, Shandong Province practitioners used their righteous thoughts to
break the evil force's arrangements. A policeman used a cable composed of four
#8 iron wires to beat a female practitioner until her body was covered with
wounds. Another male practitioner was surrounded and attacked by four policemen.
They tried to use sleep-deprivation to force him into giving up his beliefs.
Both practitioners walked out of the detention center openly and with dignity,
holding their righteous thoughts. The "610 Office" attempted to send
practitioner Li Xiu and Mei Zi to brainwashing class in Wangchun. They both sent
forth righteous thoughts and walked out safely, right in front of the policemen's
eyes. Three sisters in A'cheng City in Heilongjiang Province were persecuted by
Jiang Zemin's criminal group for practicing Dafa. They were arrested, detained,
tortured and had money extorted from them many times. Because of the persecution
they were forced to leave their home. Police officers at the No. 1 Detention Center in Qiongshan City, Hainan
Province used brutal tortures such as beating with sticks and fists, kicking,
handcuffing behind the back, submerging into water, and sleep deprivation on
practitioners. A practitioner's spine was broken from beatings, and he was on
the verge of death. Even so, the police officer pointed a gun at him and said
threateningly, "I can beat you to death, throw you out of the window, and
then claim that you were beaten to death because you tried to escape." Qinghua University residential office staff members Chen Kequan, Ren Xihua
and Wu Jingjun from the Zhongguancun Police Station recently began another round
of persecution of Dafa practitioners who attend Qinghua University. Wu Jingjun
declared, "We've arrested and sent to jail every practitioner at Qinghua
University, and now it's time to deal with the retirees. If they don't write 'guarantee
letters,' we'll send them to brainwashing class." We have received numerous reports of practitioners being illegally detained,
sent to forced labor camps and brutally tortured in Leshan City and Jianwei
County, Sichuan Province. Details of the bloody violence used in a brainwashing class in Pingshan
County, Hebei Province are being revealed. Officials forced practitioners to
stand outside under the scorching sun, handcuffed them to a tree for up to seven
days and seven nights non-stop, force-fed them water with hot pepper, and burned
them with cigarettes. A wooden stick, around 1.3 inches in diameter, broke from
being used to beat the practitioners. Several thugs brutally beat a 65-year-old
retired teacher and former county political consulting committee member, Li
Shouwo, until he passed out three times. Some Facts about the Persecution against Dafa Practitioners in Sichuan
Province 11 practitioners in Dazhou City were illegally detained, sent to forced labor
camps, or sentenced to jail terms. A female practitioner was sentenced to 9
years in jail for printing and distributing truth-clarifying literature around
the 2001 Spring Festival. She is now being detained at Jianyang Prison. A brief summary about the persecution against practitioners illegally
detained in Pingchang County. Wu Xianjian, the National Security Section Head in
the local Public Security Bureau, tortured Dafa practitioners brutally. He
punched and kicked practitioners, and forced them to jump repeatedly or remain
bent over for long periods of time. He said, "I will kill you with a knife
and then tell people that you committed suicide." National Security Section in Pingchang County: 86-8276234126, Assistant
Section Head Mou Xingfu: 86-8276227605 Over 30 practitioners in Weiyuan County were extorted, sent to forced labor
camps, and sentenced to jail. Practitioner Sun Yongde was extorted out of more
than 6000 Yuan and tortured to death. A brief summary of the persecution against 5 practitioners in Pi County. A
female practitioner was extorted out of 5000 Yuan on February 17. Later she was
transferred to the brainwashing class in Pi County, where she was extorted out
of another 2000 Yuan. List of practitioners persecuted on September 12 in Jingyan County. The
perpetrators sent practitioners to forced labor camps, paraded them through the
streets to humiliate them, and tried the practitioners in public. Some
practitioners were put into water dungeons. In Nanjiang County, 8 practitioners were persecuted. 73-year-old Yue Junsong
was sentenced to 3 years in a forced labor camp. 13 practitioners were illegally detained in Dazhu County. Zhang Hongqiong,
wife of the Wan County prosecutor, was arrested for posting Dafa fliers. Zhang
was forcefully paraded through the streets and sentenced to 4 years of forced
labor. A brief summary of the persecution against practitioners in Wanyuan. 18 practitioners in Bazhong region were illegally detained, extorted, sent to
forced labor camps, and jailed. Over 30 practitioners in the Emei region were persecuted. Some were extorted
out of 30,000 Yuan, and several practitioners were forcefully put on the
"Dead Person's Bed" or "Big Letter Board" (reference
available at: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html)
and tortured for 7 days by the guards in Shizhushan Detention Center. Clarifying the Truth On the night of December 2, a young man who was not Chinese said to the Falun
Gong practitioners who were clarifying the truth on Chang'an Street in front of
Tiananmen Square, "We all know the truth. You should clarify the truth to
the Chinese people. Be careful though." On the afternoon of October 22, I slid some truth-clarifying literature into
the trunk of a car. Then someone walked over to me while shouting, but I
approached him calmly and said, "Nothing special. It's just a copy of
truth-clarifying literature about Falun Gong. Think about how vicious Jiang
Zemin's regime is in persecuting Falun Gong. How can you just stand by and do
nothing? You should stand up and call for justice." He kept nodding his
head while listening. I wrote some words on the walls along the hallway in our residential
building, "Do not accept money that does not belong to you. Do not keep
property that does not belong to you. Do not do things that are not
righteous." Several days later, I noticed one more sentence had been added
there: "Do not say things that harm others." I attained Dafa in October 1998, but I did not really come to realize the
profound meaning of Dafa and become a genuine Dafa disciple until 8 to 9 months
later. When I attended the Taiwan Fa Conference in December 2000, I suddenly
realized that the Fa is so great. I could no longer practice only at home. I
knew that I must step forward to expose the evil. Validating Dafa is the
responsibility of every Dafa disciple. An 82-year-old lady in the rural area had heard only a little bit about Dafa,
but she remembered "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" and changed
tremendously. One day, her daughter-in-law told her that the police would come
to search for Dafa books soon. She responded immediately, "Get the book and
place it in my bed. I'll just lie in bed; see who dares to touch me!" News from Overseas Voice of America reported on December 16 that Falun Gong practitioner Zhang
Min died on December 5 in a detention center in Yilan County, Heilongjiang
Province, after being beaten continuously by the police. Five American Dafa practitioners who went to Tiananmen Square to appeal last
month paid a visit to the U.S. State Department on December 14. They also
visited their senators and representatives. In the afternoon, they talked with
the International Religious Freedom Committee for 2 hours. In the evening, 3 of
them went to the Chinese Embassy to appeal peacefully.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/12/19/21639.html
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