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Latest News from China - 05/30/2001
[China] The Evil must be Completely Eliminated, be Cautious of the
Vicious Forces' New Scheme
Tianmen City police in Hubei Province armed with guns have began to arrest Falun
Gong practitioners. We urge Falun Gong practitioners to please resist with
determined righteous thoughts and to expose and eliminate the vicious forces.
According to reliable sources, in order to detain and persecute Dafa
practitioners, Jiang Zemin's criminal regime is planning the construction of a
new detention center near Chaoyanggou Detention Center in Changchun City, Jilin
Province.
On May 18, Minghui Net reported that the police in Shandong Province convened
a secret meeting in Weifang City's Fuhua Amusement Park Hotel. The topic of the
meeting was the beginning of another round of persecution against Falun Gong
practitioners. Under the guise of searching for "concealed weapons,"
they plan to detain Dafa practitioners and ransack their homes while actually
searching for Dafa materials and Dafa truth-clarifying literature. On May 24,
the vicious forces in Weifang City began to carry out their sinful mission.
On the afternoon on May 24, all authorities from the administration office,
local police station and residential committee of Tuanjiehu area in Beijing
called an emergency meeting. Following to an urgent order from Beijing, they
raided the homes and detained Dafa practitioners again in the area. Without
legal documentation or any warrants, the responsible persons from the
"6.10" Office [an office founded on June 10 to persecute Falun Gong
practitioners] detained and attempted to "reform" Falun Gong
practitioners on a large scale. They claimed they had to carry out and take this
action according to a collective order from Beijing and seven other provinces.
Every level of the government is required to resolutely carry out this order and
meet a certain quota of arresting practitioners.
According to practitioner's observations, there are demons in multiple
dimensions who convened to scheme upon a new strategy. The head demons of
different battle zones command all fiends to join together in the fight. These
dark schemes will be carried out in different dimensions at the same time.
There will be some big events respectively reflected on our Earth. It is just
to see how our Dafa practitioners assist Teacher in the Fa-rectification process
and how everyday people treat those events with their righteous thoughts.
Moreover, at this critical moment our main consciousness must be very strong.
[China] "Suffocate the Evil"
One night, two senior Dafa practitioners from a city were putting up a Dafa
banner when a police car stopped them. The police ordered them, "Get in the
car." The practitioners replied, "We are just taking a walk." The
police forcibly searched them and found a Dafa banner. They asked, "Where
did you get it?" The police unfurled the banner, which read,
"Suffocate the evil." The police looked at each other and did not know
what to do while the practitioners left in a dignified manner.
[Chengdu City, Sichun Province] Practitioners in their Seventies Arrested
While Clarifying the Truth
On the evening of May 16, Chengdu City Dafa practitioner Jiang Zhenmei
(female, 74 years old) and Zheng Miaojun (70 years old) were taken away when
they clarified the truth to the public. The relatives of Jiang asked the vicious
forces to release her, but their requests were rejected. Now the two
practitioners' whereabouts are unknown.
[China] Accusation from a Relative of a Dafa Practitioner
I am a relative of a Dafa practitioner. At about 10pm on May 21, the person
in charge of our county broke into my home and forced me to tell him where my
wife and child were. Unless I did so, he threatened he would take me to the
"reform" class [a class established to brainwash practitioners to
give up their belief in Falun Dafa and accept Jiang Zemin's ideology]. My
child was sick and needed a parent to take care of him. At the time, the vicious
officials tried to forcibly send my wife to the "reform" class. Under
this situation, my wife had to take my son and leave home. Since they could not
find my wife, the vicious officials illegally took me in the car and ordered me
to bring them to the place where they could find my wife.
On the way to the "reform" class, the vicious officials threatened
me in all kinds of ways. They told me if I would not help them to
"reform" my wife, they would trump up charges and convict us of all
kinds of crimes. They told me they could arbitrarily use any means without worry
of being sued. At the "reform" classes in a suburb of Beijing, the
vicious officials asked me to cooperate in obtaining the surrender of my wife,
otherwise, I would be forced to attend the class. I was very calm during this
whole time but also realized they wanted to take me hostage. They would not
release me until they found my wife, they said. Since I did not want to attend
the class or cooperate with the vicious people, I told them that I would find my
wife. They instructed me to bring my wife to the "reform" class the
next day. This way, I was sent back home at about 12am in the morning. In order
not to be manipulated by the vicious people, I left home as well and lived out
in the open. Since then I have not been able to go back to my home. My family is
now torn apart. A 70-year-old grandparent was left at home without any care.
Those vicious people terribly hurt everyone in my family.
[China] Story from Jail: "Peace Pigeon"
Everyone had a nickname in the No.7 cell in a detention center; "Peace
pigeon" is practitioner Xiaozhao's nickname.
Xiaozhao was detained due after appealing in Beijing and was put into a
detention center for 6 months. During his detention period he was transferred to
several different cells. Wherever he was transferred to, the situation in the
cell would greatly improve. There were several felons detained in the No.7 cell.
They always argued and fought over some minor things, which annoyed the guards a
lot. Since Xiaozhao was transferred to No. 7, the order and the environment in
the cell gradually changed. Every morning, Xiaozhao was the first to get up. He
swept the floor, cleaned the toilet and brought the meals back to the cell. He
did not talk back when cursed, never fought back when beaten. He always bought
some daily necessities for roommates who couldn't afford them. He voluntarily
helped others write appeal statements and affirmations. Xiaozhao touched their
hearts with his behavior. He also told them the principles that human beings
should follow and adhere to. Whenever there were conflicts between them, they
would find Xiaozhao to become the judge over right and wrong. Sometimes they
simply told themselves to be "tolerant." This way big conflicts were
diffused into a smaller ones and small ones would disappear. The cell became
more harmonious. Therefore they gave Xiaozhao the nickname "peace
pigeon." However, they were always puzzled and asked Xiaozhao, "Why
would the government detain people like you?"
Now in the No.7 cell another two cellmates have obtained the Fa. They study
and practice every day. They have also taken the initiative to introduce the truth of
Falun Gong to newcomers. They have advanced in their journey on their way back to
their true home.
[China] A Story about a Young "Everyday Person"
One day I went to my colleague's home and heard a story. Her 5-year-old
Xiaoping had been playing outside and saw a friend tearing a small banner. He recognized two
characters on the banner reading, "Dafa." He did not know the meaning
of the other words. He thought it must be something about Falun Gong. Then he
told his friend not to tear the banner up. The friend asked for the reason and
said some bad words. Xiaoping told him Falun Gong is good and tried to stop him.
Then the two kids fought with each other. Xiaoping had never fought with others
before. But that day he grabbed the little banner in his hand and hung it up on
the wall in the apartment building at home. He told his mother the whole story
and asked her to tell him how to pronounce the characters on the banner. And
later he asked his mother to put up the small banner at home.
[Nanjiang County, Sichuan Province] Dafa Practitioners Sentenced for
Appealing in Beijing
Nanjiang County is in the Dabie Mountain area on the border between Sichuan
and Shanxi Province. As it is a remote area, most practitioners there began to
cultivate after 1997.
In October 2000, since they found out Falun Dafa was being slandered, they decided
to appeal in Beijing. Most of them were kind villagers and retired seniors who
had never traveled out of their area. Fourteen people were forcibly sent back
and detained in the local area. Among them, Huang Jun, Zhang Lihua, Wu Shunling,
Song Yongfa, Zhang Yuan, Xu Erxing, Bao Shukai, and Xiong Huhua were sentenced to
15 days in a detention center. On February 8, 2001, six other practitioners were
accused of "interfering with law enforcement using XX [Chinese
Government slandered words omitted]." Those other six are:
Pan Pu, male, 31 years old, farmer, lived in Nanjiang County Lianchi Village
No. 1 Unit. He was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment due to
safeguarding Dafa in Beijing in December 1999 and October 2000.
Pan Zhengguang, male, 34 years old, was sentenced to three years imprisonment as
he safeguarded Dafa in Beijing in December 1999.
Yue Junshong, male, 70 years old, retired worker, lived in No. 160 Dongyuan
Street, Changdong Village, Nanjiang County. He was sentenced to three years
imprisonment as he went to appeal in Beijing and wrote letters to relevant work
units to clarify the truth of Dafa. The term was suspended for three years.
Yue Zhilan, female, 59 years old, farmer. She was sentenced to three years
imprisonment due to appealing in Beijing in October 2000. The term was suspended
for three years.
Chen Beifang, female, 61 years old, retired worker. In October 2000, she went
to appeal in Beijing and she escaped criminal punishment.
Deng Zongcheng, male, 54 years old, lived in No. 3 Unit, Jiangqi Village,
Fenhe Town, Nanjiang County. In October 2000, he went to appeal in Beijing and
he escaped criminal punishment.
[Beijing] The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners from Beijing City
Construction Design Institute
There were six Dafa practitioners in Beijing City's Construction Design
Institute. They were all considered to be "backbones" [or
responsible] and good people in their work units, but were persecuted to
different extents.
He Duanlian, female, graduated from Tsinghua University, engineer. She was
sentenced to a 1-year imprisonment and fired by the institute.
Zhang Jing, female, worker, was fired by her institute and sentenced to a
1-year imprisonment.
Wang Hui, female, advanced engineer, was fired and lost her Party membership
as she resisted being "reformed" by the government. She is now on the
street as a homeless person.
Ran Yuexia, female, senior engineer, was fired. She became homeless because
she resisted being "reformed."
Xie Jishun, male, worker, was fired and lost his party membership. He became
homeless as he resisted being "reformed."
Xin Hong, female, senior engineer, Master's degree from Tsinghua University.
She was fired.
These six Dafa practitioners were fired by the Beijing Construction Design
Institute under high pressure from upper-level government authorities around
Chinese New Year's Day of 2001. After the Spring Festival, the key person who persecuted
Dafa practitioners, the Chairman and Secretary Li Xiaoping, Beijing People's
Delegate, was expelled from his party membership as well as his job as he was
found to have deficiencies. Only a vicious person is one who persecutes
kindness. It is the cosmic principle that evil begets evil.
[Wulabo Labor Farm, Xinjiang Province] Dafa Practitioners Brutally
Beaten Up at the Wulabo Labor Farm
Wulabo Labor Farm forcibly "reforms" Dafa practitioners using
brutal means. Several policemen, led by Ba Xiaomei, shocked practitioner Sun
Shoulan, from Kuitun, with electric batons. The bridge of her nose was broken
from the beatings and her legs were covered with wounds. In spite of her
terrible physical condition, the police kept up the punishment by forcing her to
stand still for two days. When she was eventually sent to the hospital, the
police threatened her and forced her to say that she had injured herself.
[Tanghai County, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioner Zhao Tongluo Tricked
into a Labor Camp
In the morning on May 29, 2001, more than five officials from the County
Politics and Law Committee, the police department and the police station lured
Dafa practitioner Zhao Tongluo into the police car using the excuse of
"learning more about his situation." They did not show any summons,
warrant or notice for a labor camp. Zhao Tongluo disappeared after being taken
into the police car. His family members did not receive any notification or
information. Only after they went to the police station in the evening and
questioned his whereabouts were they told that Zhao Tonglu had been sent to a
labor camp. This was actually a kidnapping.
Zhao Tongluo has been arrested twice. He and his wife have been
"fined" 13,000 Yuan and their pensions have been suspended and another
four practitioners were also being sent to a labor camp with him. Their names are
not yet known.
In addition, before the Spring Festival, town officials humiliated more than
10 Falun Dafa practitioners. Here is what happened: Led by the secretary of
Baozi Town in Zunhua County, Hebei Province, town officials publicly paraded
these practitioners in the streets. At the same time, the officials ordered the
police to collect signatures for "anti-XX [Chinese Government slanderous
words omitted]" and would detain anyone who refused to sign the
slandering statements. This is how Jiang Zemin's criminal regime collected the
signatures. It was indeed shameless!
[Anhui Province] Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Wuhu City and Hefei
City
Yang Jiansheng, the assistant director of the Jinghu District Police
Department of Wuhu City has been promoted to the post of vice-director of the
department because of his "contribution" in persecuting Falun Gong. He
often leads people to search practitioners' homes, arrests and detains
practitioners. He has personally issued three warrants to arrest practitioners.
His work phone: 011-86-553-3867167
In Hefei City, at the end of April, Hu Xiaoqing, who has been
"reformed," brought people to practitioner Xu Xiaoqing's home to
arrest her. When they were unable to open her door they went to the factory to
look for her husband. In order not to cooperate with the vicious forces, Xu
Xiaoqing chose to leave her home and become a homeless person. Once, when she
returned home, the police blocked the front and back doors to catch her. Xu sent
forth righteous thoughts. The police searched everywhere but could not find her.
Later, this practitioner escaped safely.
Dafa practitioner Yang Daixuan had retired from Hefei Electrical Machinery
Plant. In late April his work unit sent someone to bring him to his work unit.
When he arrived the security personnel of the work unit asked him if he still
practiced Falun Gong. He answered, "Yes." The work unit then forced
him to write the "guarantee statement," but he refused. He was therefore
immediately and forcibly sent to attend "reform class" where the
guards put him under 24-hour surveillance. Following that, he was placed in
solitary confinement and forcibly brainwashed. He had to pay 30 Yuan every day
and could not leave his room.
The phone of Hefei Electrical Machinery Plant: 011-86-551-4418444
[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in
Chengdu City
On May 16, practitioner Tang Hogmei went to visit her sister Tang Ying who
is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. The sisters and five other practitioners were
about to go out to distribute Dafa materials. Suddenly, illegally and without
warning, the police broke in and kidnapped them all. On May 22, somebody saw
that the sisters were being brought to Lianhua Village Detention Center in Chengdu
City. They have gone on a hunger strike.
On March 1, personnel from the Shuangqiaozi police station kidnapped Dafa
practitioner Liu Li. She has been detained in Chengdu First Detention Center for three
months for refusing to attend the "reform class." We have since heard
that the vicious forces will sentence her.
Policemen who were directly involved in persecuting Dafa practitioners
Shuangqiao Police Station: Xie Xiping
Chenghua District Police Department: Liang Jing
Chenghua District Investigation Bureau: Liang Zhide
[Hengshui City, Hebei Province] The Situation of Some Practitioners Detained
Long-term in Hengshui First Detention Center
[Hengshui City, Hebei Province] The Real Situation of Dafa Practitioners
being Additonally and Illegally Detained after Their Detention Terms were
Arbitrarily Extended
Posting date: 6/5/2001
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