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Latest News from China - 06/10/2001
[Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province] Practitioner Wang Ailing Tortured to Death by
Police
Wang Ailing (female, 52) went to Beijing to validate the Fa on January 1st,
2001. She was illegally arrested and detained for 9 days by the Beijing Police
Bureau. After she started a hunger strike, local police from Zhangjiakou took
her back from Beijing. In spite of the fact that her husband was paralyzed and
needed be taken care of, the police sent her to the detention center, where she
was brutally beaten. A few days after being detained, she experienced high blood
pressure and abdominal pain, but the police would not release her. They kept
force-feeding her until the 59th day of her hunger strike. The police
even extorted money from her family. When she was finally carried back home, she
could not take in any food and was incapable of taking care of herself. In
April, the police came to her home again to take her away, but when they saw
that she had been tortured so severely that she could not move, they left. On
May 16th, Wang Ailing passed away.
[Lanzhou, Gansu Province] Dafa Practitioners Released After Holding a Hunger
Strike for 11 Days
The illegal "transformation class" in Qilihe had to release most of
the Dafa practitioners after a four-day hunger strike, but at the time they
still held the other six practitioners. Those six practitioners continued hunger
strike, and the person in charge of "transformation" said, "Write
down something, whatever you like, and I will release you all." However,
the practitioners firmly refused. On the 11th day of the hunger
strike, one of the practitioners passed out. The person in charge was afraid and
reported it to the higher authorities to no avail. He told his superior,
"You will only pay attention when these people die? If workers lose their
jobs and die, nobody cares; but if even one practitioner dies, it will appear on
the web." The higher official came and had to release those six
practitioners. As of now, all 31 practitioners who had been illegally detained
in the "transformation class" have been released.
[Yanqing, Beijing] The Local Police Brutally Torture Dafa Practitioners
23 practitioners (including a practitioner with a less than 8-month-old baby)
who validated the Fa in Tiananmen Square on April 25, 2001 were arrested and
sent to Yanqing County. The police there forced every practitioner to pay 30
Yuan [Chinese dollars, the monthly salary of an averaged worker in cities of
China is about 500 Yuan] as "transportation fee". They numbered
and photographed practitioners. When some practitioners did not want to comply,
the police forced them to have their photos taken by pulling their hair. They
then sent practitioners to different departments and offices of the local police
station. Every department or office assigned ten or more policemen to
interrogate each practitioner overnight. They took shifts during the
interrogations and did not allow practitioners to sleep. They made up various
lies to deceive practitioners, and they also threatened and beat them. They even
burned one practitioner's face with a lighter and did not allow practitioners to
use the restroom. All these vicious measures they took were to force
practitioners to give their names and addresses. After two days and nights of
torture, the practitioners were sent to the detention center.
After the practitioners started a hunger strike, the detention center
officials decided to force-feed them that night. As a result, one practitioner
passed out and had to be hospitalized. They said that as long as they had a
certificate of death from the hospital, they took no responsibility. Some
practitioners did not cooperate, so the police tied them to a bed and force-fed
them with an intravenous drip. During the night, a practitioner fainted twice,
but the police just left him tied up.
On May 1st, an official from the Yanqing detention center came to
the hospital with a bunch of prisoners. They tied up all practitioners in the
hospital and brought them back to detention center. There, they force-fed the
practitioners with tubes. Three practitioners who refused to give out their
names and addresses were force-fed like this for 11 days without having the
tubes taken out. Two of them resisted by pulling out the tubes, and the police
ordered the prisoners to tie them to chairs. Two of the practitioners lost
consciousness, and their lives were in danger. Because the higher authorities
instructed the police not to release practitioners without "hard"
work, they forcefully subjected the practitioners to intravenous drips. When the
practitioners still did not cooperate, the police used electric batons to shock
them.
On May 16th, the police came to force-feed practitioners again.
One practitioner resisted and was tied up to a chair by three inmates. Three
practitioners shouted out "Suffocate Evil, Eliminate Evil," so they
stuffed socks and towels into the practitioners' mouths. As a result, one of the
practitioners fainted immediately. To shift the responsibility, the police sent
the practitioner to the hospital again. Finally on May 17th, the
practitioners were released due to their health condition.
[Xuchang, Henan Province] The Court Gives a Mandatory Sentence to Dafa
Practitioner Zhang Peisheng
Practitioner Zhang Peisheng (36, female) from Xuchang is a university
graduate. In October of 2000, she was arrested while clarifying the truth of
Dafa and distributing Dafa materials on the street. She was detained in the
Xuchang Detention Center for eight months.
The courts in the Weidu district of Xuchang once began proceedings against
Zhang Peisheng, and she defended herself. There was no conclusion of the case at
the time. The court planned another hearing and gave her a mandatory sentence.
The regime of Jiang Zemin and his lackeys broke the constitution, disregarded
citizens' human rights, and arbitrarily arrested people. They fully deserve the
criticism that they have received. We request the government to release Zhang
Peisheng and all Dafa practitioners who have been illegally detained in
detention centers, prisons and labor camps.
[Jinan, Shandong Province] Judge Wang Shengrui of the Jinan Intermediate
People's Court Is Illegally Imprisoned
Wang Shengrui (35, male) is a judge of Jinan Intermediate People's Court. On
June 1st, 2001, his child's birthday, the court's chief and party
committee secretary secretly arranged for him to take a business trip to Licheng
under false pretenses, where they arrested him and kept him in custody at a
secret location.
The Jinan Central Area Police Sub-Bureau was involved in this event. To
protect themselves, officials of the Intermediate People's Court conspired with
the Central Area Police Sub-Bureau and requested the problem be resolved
internally.
Wang Shengrui is known as a fair and impartial judge. He was illegally
arrested only because he didn't give up his beliefs and firmly practiced Falun
Dafa. He has been deprived of his individual legal rights. As an independent
judicial organization, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court shamelessly
violated the constitution and broke the law.
[Boli, Heilongjiang Province] Police Commit Heinous Crime at the Train
Station
Around June 1st, a group of wicked policemen put a picture of Teacher on the
ground of the check-in entrance at Boli train station and forced travelers to
step on the picture before passing through. If anyone refused, police arrested
him immediately. We hope that Dafa practitioners will send out righteous
thoughts to eliminate this evil.
A Heli practitioner went to see relatives in Jiamusi with her child. Because
she wore a Falun button, the police at Jiamusi train station illegally searched
and arrested her. The child was crying loudly, but the wicked policemen
forcefully arrested the parent anyway. The practitioner has been imprisoned by
the local police for more than one month so far.
[Xuchang, Henan Province] Practitioner Bai Hongming Is Illegally Sentenced
to Three Years in a Labor Camp
Bai Hongming (40, male) is a member of the [party name omitted] party
and a university graduate. On January 22, 2001, while he was at home busy
preparing for Chinese New Year, suddenly a group of policemen rushed into his
home and turned it upside down. Although they did not find anything, they still
took the couple away. Their son, an elementary school student, cried in vain and
went to his grandmother's home. The police then sentenced Bai Hongming to three
years in a labor camp without any legal basis or procedure. In Bai Hongming's
words, "It is my fifth arrest. The first time I was imprisoned for two
weeks in July 1999, the second time was in January 2000, the third time was in
May 2000, the fourth time was in October 2000. Each time it was one month in
jail, the fifth is three years."
Citizens who practice Falun Dafa in China do not have basic human rights, and
most attorneys do not dare to defend practitioners. Practitioners Xu Meilian,
Miao Huiling, Li Yuping and another ten people from Xuchang are being illegally
imprisoned and forcefully brainwashed. We urgently appeal for kind people around
the world to pay attention to their fate, and request Chinese government to
unconditionally release all imprisoned Falun Dafa practitioners.
[Shenzhen, Guangdong Province] Police Illegally Organize a
"Transformation Class"
The Shenzhen 610 Office [An office created by the government to deal
specifically with issues related to Falun Gong] and Police Bureau organized
a notorious "transformation class" in March. A wicked policeman named
Wang Xiang (the vice-chief of the Shenzhen Futian Area Police Sub-Bureau) was
instrumental in forcefully arresting many practitioners from their homes or
workplaces. Some practitioners resisted the vicious actions with their lives,
thwarting attempts to take them away. Many practitioners were compelled to leave
their homes.
The illegal "transformation class" was set up at Xili asylum, which
currently imprisons over 60 practitioners. Former practitioner Wang Yajuan
initially accepted wrong understandings of Fa when she was imprisoned at
Guangdong Sanshui Labor Camp. After being "reformed", she has been
active in spreading lies and deceit about Dafa, as well as in
"transforming" practitioners. Along with other 20 so-called
transformed people, they formed the transformation group with 610 Office, Police
Bureau and the local police. Each practitioner is monitored around the clock,
and they face the threat of being sent to labor camps if they refuse to be
"transformed"
[Anxi County, Gansu Province] Vicious Police Step Up Persecution of
Practitioners
Anxi County has instituted new policy to heighten persecution. Practitioners
from Anxi County who went to Beijing to appeal have been illegally imprisoned
for "disturbing social order." Practitioners who haven't gone to
Beijing to appeal are still interrogated by the local police, and even people
who said, "Falun Dafa is good" are to be imprisoned for a month.
Someone who wrote a letter to higher authorities reporting the Police Bureau's
illegal behavior has already been imprisoned.
After being released, practitioners lost their jobs, and family members were
required to pay 5000 Yuan [Approximately 10-months salary of an average urban
worker] for a "guarantee fee". On May 2001, each practitioner was
compelled to pay 200 Yuan in fines. If the practitioner refused, the fine would
be doubled or the practitioner would be detained. Family members of
practitioners were affected also. Some were laid off from workplaces, because
they were blamed for not taking "good" care of their relatives. Some
practitioners' homes were searched, and sometimes police even illegally searched
practitioners' relatives' homes. Practitioners were under constant surveillance,
and many practitioners were forced to write pledges. Some workplaces have not
paid their wages since last April. Some have gotten back their jobs but were
assigned menial tasks, paying only 300 Yuan a month, and some have not been
allowed to come back to work at all.
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