Latest News from China - 03/23/2001
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[Nanyang, Henan Province] Dafa Practitioner Xiao Jiayong Beaten to Death by Police
Dafa Practitioner Xiao Jiayong (male) from Nanyang, Henan Province, went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to hold up a banner supporting Falun Dafa. He was arrested and sent to a local police station, where he was beaten by four policemen. When he was sent back to Nanyang, the condition of his swollen abdomen got steadily worse. There he died despite medical treatment, leaving his wife and a six years old boy behind. His body was cremated on March 17, 2001.
[Nongan County, Jilin Province] Students Forced to Sign a Promise to Not Practice Falun Gong
There are about 2,000 students in No.10 Middle School of Nongan County in Jilin Province. They were told to sign a promise to not practice Falun Gong, or they would be dismissed from school. There were two students there who practiced Falun Gong. They were dismissed from school because they had been to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and refused to sign the promise. Meanwhile, two meetings were held in the middle school to criticize Falun Gong and to ask for signatures on anti-Falun Gong petitions.
[Changchun, Jilin Province] 2,500 -- 3,000 Practitioners Detained in Heizuizi Labor Camp
According to reliable sources, 2,500 -- 3,000 practitioners are being detained in Heizuizi Labor Camp. Male labor camps in Changchun were so crowded that some were sent to Jiutai City.
The labor camps in Changchun are known for their viciousness, and they employ the most heartless methods to torture Falun Dafa practitioners. Seeing that the practitioners refused to write letters promising to give up Dafa even after enduring so much, the police used more brutal measures. The police beat them up and forbade them to sleep for several days and nights.
Some of the labor camps in Changchun where practitioners are being held include Heizuizi, Fenjin, Weizigou, and Chaoyang.
[Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] The Wicked Baiyun District
After the Chinese Lunar New Year, a middle school student in "Xingzhi" Technical School in Baiyun District was sent back from Beijing, where he had gone to appeal for Falun Dafa. Students in all the middle schools and high schools were then forced to write a statement of at least 1,000 words denouncing Falun Dafa, while students in elementary schools had to write statements of at least 300 words. Teachers in charge of every class were responsible for this assignment. If anyone refused to write, the grades of his entire class would be reduced. Blackboards at the school were filled with materials slandering Falun Dafa. It was reported that even children in kindergarten wouldn't be spared. They were forced to repeat slogans cursing Falun Dafa.
In Baiyun District, a four-story building was constructed and one million Yuan ($120,000) was allocated to transform practitioners of Falun Dafa. Those who refused to write the "Three Statements" ["Break Statement," "Repentance Statement," and "Guarantee Statement"] were taken in for "transformation." A female practitioner was "carried" by force from her workplace by no less than twenty people, including local policemen, town hall officials, managers at her workplace, and officials of the local women's association. She was sent to the "Drug Abstinence House of Baiyun District" and is still being held there now. She has an elderly grandmother, and her father has trouble walking, yet now nobody can take care of them. Ridiculously, her company still officially has her as an employee and pays her base salary.
The Drug Abstinence House in the Baiyun District had been used as a place to convert Falun Dafa practitioners since July of 2000. At the time, there were more than 20 practitioners being kept there. The most recent program started in December of 2000, and practitioners have been constantly sent there. Aside from the two practitioners who escaped from the fourth floor at the end of February, all the practitioners were told that whoever refused to write the "Three Statements" would be detained indefinitely until they were converted or sent to labor camps. For every practitioner, there are two people either from their work units or from the residential committee monitoring them. The expenses of these guards are paid by the government, a waste of financial and human resources. To prevent the two escaped practitioners from going to appeal in Beijing, Baiyun District has sent policemen to stay in Beijing. They are not allowed to go back to Guangzhou until they can successfully bring the two practitioners back with them.
[China] People's Daily Tells Lies Without Doing Their Homework
There is a picture in the column "Democracy and Legal System" in the March 21, 2001 issue of the People's Daily. In that picture, there is a man named Zhu Jinming, a policeman of Tongzhou County of Beijing. He received the title of "Outstanding Policeman of the Nation." He is said to have monitored the activities of Falun Gong for twelve years, secretly investigating Falun Gong practitioners. It was in 1992 that Mr. Li Hongzhi started to introduce Falun Gong to the public. How could this man do this four years before Falun Gong was even introduced?
According to the propaganda of the Chinese government, the reason for the crackdown of Falun Gong was because practitioners went to Zhongnanhai (the political headquarters of China's leaders). It now seems that it isn't as simple as that. Telling too many lies will eventually reveal the truth.
[Dongying City, Shangdong Province] Monetary Reward for Arresting Falun Dafa Practitioners
Practitioner Li Lianjun fled his home in Dawang Town of Guangrao County affiliated with Dongying City, Shandong Province, to avoid persecution. According to some kindhearted people, the town, county, and city government of Li's hometown have had several meetings since October of 2000 to arrange for his arrest. They issued a monetary reward of 5,000 Yuan (Translator's note: the average monthly income of a worker is 500 Yuan) for anyone who reports Li's whereabouts. Obviously the evil intends to lure people who are tempted by material gain into doing their dirty deeds.
In addition, since the large-scale crackdown of Falun Dafa in October of 2000, followers of Jiang Zemin and his accomplices have arrested approximately 30 practitioners in Guangrao County of Dongying City, Shandong Province, of which 16 were sent to labor camps. Males were sent to Wangcun Labor Camp, and females were sent to Lixia District Women's Labor Camp in Jinan, capital of Shangdong Province. It is said that there are more than 500 female practitioners in that labor camp. In addition, there are about a dozen practitioners who have been detained for a long time in a variety of ways, moved from police station to detention house, and then to the communist party school. Currently there are three practitioners being held in the party school. The person in charge there is the director of Political & Security Section of the police department,
Liu Xinsheng. He indulges himself in beating practitioners after drinking. They
took advantage of family members of practitioners and extorted money from them,
ranging from 800 to 2,000 Yuan per practitioner for early release. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] File of Jiang's Dark Reign: Family Broken,
Child Left Alone Practitioner Gao Yulan (female, middle school teacher) in Shenyang, capital
of Liaoning Province, and Li Yongdeng (male, senior engineer of Northeast
Architecture Design Institute in Shenyang) are a married couple. They were
illegally arrested on March 15 by the police. Gao is said to be detained at
Longshan Women's Education Institute, Li in Zhangshi Education Institute.
Detailed information is not yet known. Their son Li Shangrong, also a
practitioner, was arrested last year. Their daughter-in-law, Hexin, (a
practitioner) is missing, along with her several months' old baby. A happy
family was thus broken apart by the crackdown. Jiao Yang (female) and his husband Yan Wei are Dafa practitioners. Yan Wei
went to Beijing to appeal in October of 2000 and was sent back to the police
station in his hometown, then to the labor camp. He is now detained in the
Fenjin Labor Camp of Changchun, capital of Jilin Province. Jiao Yang also went to Beijing in October of 2000 and was arrested there. She
was kept in the detention center in Huadian City, Jilin Province. Because Jiao
had a newborn baby to nurse, her family asked again and again for her release
and turned in a fine of 5000 Yuan. She was then released after one month's
detention. Seven days later, the police found an excuse to arrest her and
detained her for another 28 days. Jiao said to the police, "I am in my
nursing period. It is illegal for you to detain me (her baby was nine months old
at the time)." She was then released. To avoid being arrested again, she
fled from home, leaving the baby girl to her mother. In February of 2001, she
was arrested again. The couple, Shao Hui (male) and Mu Ping (female), was arrested at the same
time in October of 2000. The police suspected that they had organized the
distribution of Falun Dafa flyers. At present, they are still under detention.
Their five-year-old, Shao Linfeng, is being taken care of by Shao Hui's parents.
The department that is responsible for the arrest is the Political &Security
Department in Hongshi Forestry Bureau of Jilin Province. The couple, Chen Guangyu (male) and Tian Huiping (female), went to Beijing to
hold up a banner supporting Falun Dafa. They were arrested and sentenced to a
labor camp. As a result, their two daughters are left home alone. The elder one
is 14, the younger one only 7, and they have nothing to live on. Wei Qishan (male) and Yu Shurong (female) are husband and wife. They both
practice Falun Dafa. Yu was sentenced to two years in the labor camp after going
to Beijing in July of 2000. Wei was arrested by police in Tongxian County on Dec
9, 2000 for printing materials that clarified the truth about Falun Gong. He is
currently still in detention. Their two sons are home alone. The elder one is
16, the younger one 12. They have had no financial resources for a long time. In
spite of that, police are pursuing the elder son, Wei Zhongliang. All kind-hearted people, please help those persecuted men and women and their
children. [Sanhe City, Hebei Province] Education Department Illegally Organizes
"Transformation Class" Around Feb 27, 2000, Practitioners Shang Chao (school teacher in Sanhe City),
Wang Zhanqing (middle school teacher), Liu Fengling (teacher in No.3 Primary
School), and Feng Yulan (teacher in Gaolou Primary School) were taken away by
force from school or home under the directions of Zhang Baofu, Chair of the
Education Department. They were kept in No.5 Primary School. Each of them was
kept in solitary confinement, and thus they were pressured to give up practicing
Falun Dafa. The term for their detention was set at two months. Those who were
not transformed in two months were threatened with being sent to labor camps.
Practitioners were forced to watch videos and read newspapers slandering Dafa.
They were accompanied by guards while having meals, going to restrooms, or
sleeping. They were forced to run long distances everyday. All this was meant to
sap their will and show them as "models" of transformation. Thus, the
school hopes to gain favor with their superiors. Director of Education Department: Zhang Baofu, Telephone: 86-316-3212457 Office of Education Department: 86-316-3212428 [Lanzhou City, Capital of Gansu Province] The Extremely Vicious
Transformation Class in Taoshuping Detention Center in Chengguan District About 45 practitioners have been detained in Taoshuping Detention House for
the last two months. The measures adopted there were extremely vicious. For
example, a simple letter of promise to give up practicing Falun Dafa was not
considered enough. They forced practitioners to watch a large number of
videotapes slandering Dafa and searched for Dafa materials frequently. Two
practitioners were moved to other locations after they were found to possess
Teacher's articles. The police said, "They must be forcefully transformed.
Anyone not converted in three months has to stay in the class for another three
months. Those still not converted will be sent to labor camps." Many
practitioners in the class were taken away from home right before Chinese Lunar
New Year, which greatly disrupted their families. Their financial situations
were also badly affected. At the beginning of March, when two national
conventions were held, the Religion Bureau of the Province started to get
involved in the transformation program. Director Wu is going to decide who has
been "satisfactorily transformed." We hope that practitioners can pass this test with a righteous mind, that
relatives and families won't accept such persecution, and that related
international organizations can pay attention to this situation of human right
violations in the transformation class, and that kind-hearted people can help
with an investigation. [Shulan City, Jilin Province] Wang Wenpeng Goes to Appeal, His Colleagues
Implicated Practitioner Wang Wenpeng is an employee of Industrial & Commercial Bank
in Shulan City, Jilin Province. He went to Beijing in December of 2000 to appeal
for Falun Dafa and to tell people the true stories of Dafa offering people
salvation. He was illegally arrested, sent back to Shulan City, and kept in
police custody. The management of Jilin Industrial & Commercial Bank took
his case as an excuse, saying that their branch in Shulan City failed to
properly educate its employees. Therefore, they are considering an elimination
of the yearly bonus for every employee in the bank (1,000 Yuan for every
employee, about 100,000 Yuan altogether. (500 Yuan is the average monthly salary
of a Chinese worker). It is said that the bonus for bank employees all over
Jilin area might be affected. Wang Wenpeng simply tried to tell people his
experience of practicing Falun Gong. How could it be possibly related to the
monetary reward of his colleagues? One is repressed for having a faith and
deprived of the right given by the constitution to appeal. Now he is said to
bring damage to other bank employees. It is obviously a trick to make people
angry towards Wang Wenpeng and Falun Gong. [Yanjiao Township in Sanhe City, Hebei Province] A Record of the Persecution
of Falun Gong Practitioners By the Police I am from the Yanjiao Township in Sanhe City, Hebei province. I went to
Tiananmen Square in Beijing and held up a banner supporting Falun Dafa. The
local police took me to Shijingshan Police Station in Beijing. Later, people
sent by city hall of Yanjiao took me back. In the Appeal Office at city hall, officials sat down to convert me, but I
did not listen to them. In the end someone said, "There was a male college
student, and he was finally converted after chief officer Tian Shuguang beat him
for three hours. Who do you think you are?" Thus I was sent to the Police
Station of Yanjiao. In the Police Station of Yanjiao someone began an official record of my
words, and after a while, I was taken to interrogation. The officer who
interrogated me was called Yang Fuwen, known as chief officer Yang. He first
asked for my name and the reason for going to Beijing. I told him I went to
rectify the Fa. (Translator's note: practitioners believe that offering
people true stories helps eliminate false ideas or distorted conceptions in
one's mind.) He then asked, "Aren't you living in a socialist country?
Isn't it a regime of the communist party?" I replied, "Yes." He
asked me to come closer and gave me four hard slaps to the face. I saw stars and
my ears rang. He then made me kneel down on the ground and stripped off my coat,
summoning two men to assist him. They tied my hands behind my back, and then
pulled the rope up till my hands reached shoulder level. They pressed me against
the ground, grabbed my hair, and used an electric baton to shock my face and
back. I jerked and convulsed at every shock. Yang shocked at the right side of
my face several times. My face was twitching, and it felt distorted and swollen,
especially my lips. When Yang got tired, he made me kneel near the wall in the
outer room. Someone who stood by said that if I was walking in the street at
night, people would be frightened to death by my distorted features. After a while, Yang called my name. With my eyes closed, I was reluctant to
answer. He prodded at my hands to see if I had cramps. He didn't beat me again,
but he handcuffed me to the heating pipes, where I stayed for the next two days.
I was sent back to city hall after three days in the police station. No one knows how many practitioners Yang has gone through, but almost
everyone who was sent back from Beijing and happened to fall in his hands were
beaten, regardless of sex or age. Compared with them, the beating I received was
a light one. [China] Experiences of Practitioner Sun Yushu Sun Yushu (female) was afflicted with an assortment of ailments before she
started practicing Falun Dafa. She experienced the miraculous power of Dafa in
helping her attain good health without medical treatment. After Falun Dafa was
banned on July 22, 1999, she went to the government office of the province to
tell of her own experience and speak for Dafa. As a result, she was detained for
seven hours. In December of 1999, she went to Beijing on a business trip. It was
assumed she had the intention of appealing for Falun Dafa and was sent back to
her hometown. Afterwards, she was kept in the local detention center for nearly
nine months, where she experienced various sorts of torture. Later, her husband
bailed her out. Barely after leaving the detention center, she was put into a
transformation class. Her being kept away from work has caused her company a
great deal of financial loss. Her husband, children, relatives, and friends all
have been busy running about to help her out. Is practicing Falun Dafa a crime?
Can't practitioners go to Beijing for a business trip? No force, no matter how
powerful, will ever shake one's faith and belief in the truth. Sun expressed her
will to "follow Teacher closely, steadfastly cultivating Dafa,"
(Master Li's words from The Knowing Heart) no matter how much torment she
has to endure. [Beijing] Experience of practitioner Zhang Jialin In October of 1999, I went to the Appeal Bureau in Beijing to tell the
officials my experiences involving Falun Dafa. However, the Security Bureau in
Beijing sent me to the detention center in Daxing County. Eight days later, the
police in my hometown took me back. Their interrogation went on for two days and
two nights. Getting no satisfying answers, they beat and cursed me. I was sent
to a local detention center the following day and kept there for more than seven
months. During these seven months, I suffered all sorts of torture. In addition
to beating and cursing, they wouldn't allow me to sleep. They asked inmates to
keep an eye on me, so whenever I fell asleep, I would be beaten and handcuffed.
The suffering and pain are hard to describe with a few words. Finally, after my
family sought out many people for help, the police agreed to give me parole on
the condition that I would write a promise to give up practicing. Nevertheless,
they ordered me to report to the police station everyday. They even went to
search my house at midnight. One night at around one o'clock, more than ten
people from the city police department, local police station, and civil security
guards broke into my house, but found nothing. Still they asked my husband and
me to go to the police station. When we refused, they literally carried us
there. I escaped later that night. At present, I am leading a vagrant life, not
being able to go home. [Anhui Province] More Practitioners Arrested Xu Song, male, 30, is from Anhui Province. He has a master's degree from
Chinese Science and Technology University (Translator's note: a renowned
university in China) and worked in a software company. He was arrested for
giving out materials telling the true stories of Falun Dafa. He was sentenced to
one year in a labor camp. He Chao, male, 30, from Anhui Province, was suspected of giving out materials
telling true stories of Falun Dafa and was arrested a month ago. He is currently
being detained. Shen Huajun, male, 27, from Anhui Province, was arrested and taken back home
when he went to Beijing to appeal on July 20,1999. He went to appeal again in
January of 2001 and was sent to Shuanggang Police Station in Hefei, capital of
Anhui Province. Shen jumped from the third floor to escape from the persecution.
When he got home, the police and people from his work unit came over to arrest
him, and he was detained for 15 days. Recently, he was arrested again when he
was suspected of giving out materials revealing the truth about Falun Gong. Practitioner Liu Gewu works in the No.2 Automobile Manufacturing Base in
Xiangfan, Hubei Province. Liu was arrested for giving out materials revealing
the truth and sentenced to two years in the labor camp. [Nongan, Jilin Province] Partial List of Practitioners Who Were Illegally
Sentenced to Labor Camp Since July 20, 1999, Nongan County has sent over 150 practitioners to labor
camps. The following is a partial list. Liu Chengjun, male. He was doing some laundry at home in August of 1999, when
police came to take him for a conversation in the Political & Security
Office of the county. He never returned. It is said that after several months he
was sent to Fenjin Labor Camp in Changchun, capital of Jilin Province. It is
also said that he was sentenced to one year, but he still has not come back
home. His family members were not allowed to visit him. Later he was moved from
Fenjin Labor Camp to somewhere else. Zou Yanming, male. At the beginning of 2000, one day when he was at work,
police took him to the Political & Security Office of the county and
sentenced him to two years in the labor camp. His home was ransacked, and his
family members were not allowed to visit him. He is being held in the Fenjin
Labor Camp in Changchun. Jiang Quande, male. The Political & Security Office arrested him for
attempting to appeal in Beijing in 1999 and sentenced him to one year in the
labor camp. His term has long since expired, yet he has not been released. He is
being held in the Fenjin Labor Camp in Changchun. Zhang Yuanming, male. The Political & Security Office took him back in
1999 when he appealed for Falun Dafa in Beijing. Liu Shangkuan, director of the
Political & Security Office took all the money he had (24,500 Yuan) and
never returned it. At the beginning of 2000, Zhang was taken from home and
sentenced to two years in the labor camp. He served time in the Fenjin Labor
Camp in Changchun, where he was tortured to death. Liu Zhongkui, male, Zhao Xiang, male. They were arrested from home at the
beginning of 2000 and sentenced to one year in the labor camp. It has been more
than one year now, yet they have not been released. Diao Xianyan, male, Zheng Jiawu, male, Gu Zhongjun, male. They were sentenced
to one year in a labor camp for appealing in Beijing, and they are still being
detained in the Fenjin Labor Camp in Changchun. Li Min, male. He was taken from home by police to the Political &
Security Office in August of 2000. They ransacked his house and asked him where
he got the materials. He wouldn't reveal his source and received heavy beatings
for one day and one night. Those who administered the beating included staff
working in that office, the police, and even inmates. He was then sent to No.1
Detention center of the county. He was sentenced to three years in labor camps
and is now being detained at the Weizigou Labor Camp in Changchun. Sha Yongjun, male, Wang You, male, Zhang Qiguang, male, Zhang Jie, male. They
were arrested by police in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in October and November
of 2000. Escorted back to their hometown, they were sentenced to two years at
labor camps. One of the two years is to be served at the Weizigou Labor Camp. The Zou Yanjie couple went to appeal in Beijing. After they left, local
police and officials in Halahai Commune broke the lock on their door and took
everything in their home, including the sleeping mat. The couple was sentenced
to a labor camp and still has not returned. Pan Gang, male. On New Year's Day of 2000, police went to his home and asked
him, "What did you do last night?" He said, "Nothing."
Police found he had books of Falun Dafa, so they took away Pan and all the
books. They kept him in the detention center for two months and sentenced him to
a labor camp. He was sent to the labor camp in Jiutai City, because labor camps
in Changchun were all too crowded. Ma Weicai, male. He went to appeal in Beijing in December of 2000 and was
arrested. He was detained for three months and sent to a labor camp in Jiutai
City. The following are all female: Xu Qingyan, Jiangyazhi and her sister, Liu Lu,
Cheng Guiling, Chen Meiling, Zhang Liying, Huo Yunzhi, Pan Li, Han Lihua, Chen
Guixiang, Dou Yuhua, Li Shuqing, Xu Yafen, Zhang Dongmei, Yuan Guiping, Wang
Jing, Li Shuxiu, Zou Yanhui. They went to appeal in Beijing from October to
December in 2000, Arrested by police in Tiananmen Square, they were later taken
back and kept in the local detention center. The Political & Security Office
sentenced them to one to three years in labor camps. They were then sent to
Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun. Wang Zhongling, female, Han Shuqin, female. They were taken from home and
detained in Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun. In Addition: Zhang Yanlong, male. He went to appeal in Beijing in December of 2000 and was
arrested by police in Tiananmen Square. There is no further information about
his current condition. Sun Mei, female. She went to appeal in Beijing in October of 2000 and was
arrested by police in Tiananmen Square. There is no further information about
her current condition. There are still more than twenty practitioners being held in the detention
center of Nongan County for appealing, giving out materials, and making
statements of steadfastly practicing Falun Dafa. Practitioners who went on
hunger strike there were beaten by the head guard with a club until the club was
broken. We hope kind-hearted people everywhere could help them. Lin Xiaoguang and Cao Yugun: Commanders of Police Department in Nongan
County, Jilin Province, Tel: 86-431-3223364, 3225811, 3224945, 3224920, 3222186. Liu Shangkuan: Director of Political & Security Office [China] Street Talk Overheard Under a Cruel Reign: 1. "Now there is only one pure entity in China left, which is Falun
Gong. It is the foundation and hope of China. The XX Party is hopelessly doomed.
Few officials of that party are not corrupt. Anyway, I haven't heard of any
Falun Gong practitioners who are corrupt or embezzle money. When you are trying
to tell people what Falun Gong is, simply say this: Falun Gong practitioners are
not corrupt, nor do they wine and dine themselves with public money, nor are
they tainted with prostitution and gambling. That will explain everything." 2. I don't know about other Falun Gong practitioners. I only know that those
of my acquaintance are good people. They do excellent jobs at work. I don't see
them having any political intentions. 3. I fail to understand one thing. There are so many Falun Gong practitioners
all over the world. Why hasn't a single one committed suicide? I never heard of
any of them committing suicide before Falun Gong was banned. How come they are
said to have committed suicide afterwards? 4. Now I understand about those so-called "transformed people" on
TV. They were forced to convert. I know a Falun Gong practitioner in Tsinghua
University (Translator's note: One of the top universities in China.).
The couple was fired and put in police custody. Their teenage boy was left
without parental care or financial support. Finally, the mother was released
when she wrote a promise to give up practicing. Written on March 23, 2001
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