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"Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination" (Dafa is Indestructible) Latest News from China - 07/06/2001
[Minghui Net]
1. A New Round Of Brainwashing to Begin
According to orders from Office 610 (A government agency created
specifically for the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners), there will be
a nationwide campaign to arrest Falun Gong practitioners starting in mid-July.
The authorities will carry out a new round of forced brainwashing of Falun Gong
practitioners. Those who refuse to write repentance statements are to be sent to
labor camps indefinitely.
We hope that all the practitioners will send forth righteous thoughts to stop
this evil. We also hope that detained practitioners can escape, and that other
practitioners will use this opportunity to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to
the brainwashed practitioners. They should also record the names and deeds of
the policemen who are responsible for persecuting practitioners, and attempt to
make contact with other genuine practitioners.
2. Jinan City, Shandong Province - Practitioners Arrested in Large Numbers
Since Jiang Zemin and his accomplices started a new round of nationwide
persecution at the beginning of June, Dafa practitioners from Jinan City have
faced constant arrest. The police have also confiscated computers and printers
from the practitioners. On July 2, Li Xiaoping and two other practitioners were
arrested.
3. Yuci City - Practitioners Detained and Put on "Trial"
Wang Xiangyi and other Falun Dafa practitioners from the Fifth Section at the
Third Railroad Bureau of Yuci City wrote a letter to the National People's
Congress, in accordance with rights granted to them by the Chinese constitution.
The letter merely exposed the local persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. As
a result, they were arrested on March 8, 2000, and they have been detained since
then.
In February 2000, eight Dafa practitioners, including Wang Qingsheng and Zhao
Kai, from the Mechanics Section at the Third Railroad Bureau of Yuci City rented
a car to go sightseeing. During their trip, the police from Yuci City stopped
and arrested them. Wang Qingsheng, Zhao Kai, and two other practitioners are
still being detained. They were put on trial, but there was no verdict due to
insufficient evidence of any wrongdoing. Still, the judges didn't release them.
On March 8, 2001, the judges conducted two closed-door trials, where the
practitioners defended themselves. The judges had nothing to say in reply and
closed the trials without any conclusion.
In May 2001, 23 practitioners were sentenced to three years or more to labor
camps by the lower courts, and later these cases were reported to the Provincial
Court. At the end of June, the Provincial Court did not approve the sentences,
but suggested local brainwashing. Their intention is to send those who resist
the brainwashing to labor camps.
During their detention, the practitioners' families are not allowed to visit
them, since the practitioners are labeled as "political offenders."
4. Wang Village, Shandong: Female Labor Camp Officials Brutally Torture Dafa
Practitioners
The guards in the Female Labor Camp tightly control steadfast Dafa
practitioners, strictly forbidding even those in the same cell to speak to each
other. If they see a practitioner's lips move, they interpret it as reciting
Teacher's articles, and abuse, threats, and torture will soon follow. They don't
allow practitioners to sit with leg crossed, nor to contact each other. Two
people cannot stay in the bathroom at the same time. An atmosphere of terror
surrounds the entire labor camp.
Once, eleven practitioners performed Falun Gong exercises together. They were
taken outside and shocked by the guards one by one. The guards also forced every
practitioner to write repentance letters. Some practitioners' hands and feet
were seriously burned and covered with blisters. Many of them didn't give in,
and they were then hung up for a long time. Those who still did not give in were
assigned to a "hard-line" class and tortured further.
At the same time, the police showed videos slandering Falun Dafa and Teacher
every day. When the video is on, they forbid practitioners from closing their
eyes or lowering their heads. They also force practitioners to applaud after
watching the videos, and those who refuse to do so are tortured and shocked with
electric batons.
5. Police Use Government Relations to Send Female Practitioners to Labor Camp
At the end of October 2000, the police department in the Middle District of
Jining City, Shandong Province sent seven Falun Gong practitioners to Wangcun
Women's Labor Camp. After physical examinations, some of them were found to have
serious diabetes, heart disease, renal problems, and high blood pressure. The
labor camp refused to take them in, as their physical conditions made them
unsuitable for the work in the labor camp. However, the police department used
their relations in government agencies to keep those practitioners in the labor
camp.
6. Police Kidnap Female Practitioner and Extort Money from Her Family
Falun Dafa practitioner Ma Hongwei (female) from Jining City, Shandong
Province realized her mistakes in the past and returned to her path of
cultivation. Because she said to the authorities at her work place that
"the brainwashing campaign against Falun Dafa practitioners is very
wrong," she was arrested and detained by the police in the politics and
security section of the police department in the Middle District of Jining City.
The police forced her family to pay 3,000 Yuan for her release. (Yuan,
Chinese dollar. The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 Yuan.)
Falun Dafa practitioner Li Yufeng was released after a 13-day hunger strike,
but later he was arrested again after an informant turned him in. The police
have beaten and force-fed him repeatedly to no avail, and finally they gave up
and released him.
7. Jining City Officials Extort Money from Practitioners
The local police sent Falun Dafa practitioner Yan Xinlan (female) from Jining
City, Shandong Province, to Wangcun Labor Camp last year. The labor camp was
going to release her for health reasons, but Zhang Deping, secretary of the
Politics & Law Committee in Middle District of Jining City, compelled her
family to pay 10,000 Yuan for her release. The family could not come up with the
money, so Zhang and Liu Yalei, chief officer of the Politics and Security Squad
in the police department of Middle District of Jining City, said shamelessly,
"If you don't have 10,000, 5,000 will do." The family did not have
5,000 Yuan either, so finally they settled for 3,000 Yuan.
Some families have been forced to pay tens of thousands or even hundreds of
thousands of Yuan, yet their detained family members still have not released.
They have to pay to even visit their family members in jail. The police have
bankrupted many families of Falun Dafa practitioners in this manner.
8. Three University Students Forced to Leave School
Near the end of June, the administrative personnel in Northwest University of
ShaanXi Province asked students Mu Junfeng, Kong Hongqiao, and Zhang Shengbo if
they were going to continue practicing Falun Gong. Because his answer was
"Yes," Mu Junfeng was separated from others and kept in isolation in
preparation for brainwashing. Kong Hongqiao has been under constant
surveillance, and Zhang Shengbo is in the same situation. The officials said,
"If they don't change their minds, we will send them to the transformation
class." Under these circumstances, the three practitioners have left
school. Mu Junfeng and Kong Hongqiao just graduated, but the university refuses
to give them their diplomas and degrees.
9. Illegal Police Activities in Jiangsu Province
Dafa practitioners in Qidong City, Jiangsu Province have distributed a lot of
truth-clarifying materials to the local population. They revealed how
practitioner Huang Hanzhong was tortured to death by the police. As a result,
the local police have escalated their persecution of practitioners.
On the evening of May 30, several policemen broke into Gao Yixin's home. (Gao
was released from Fangqiang Labor Camp of Jiangsu Province on March 14.) They
ransacked his home and took him away. Gao was taken to the Xiyi Police Station,
where they tortured him for nine days and nights, keeping him awake and beating
him severely. His arm was broken at some point during the beating. Gao is now
detained in a jail in Qidong City, where he faces a sentence of three to seven
years.
Around June 1, dozens of Falun Dafa practitioners were forced to go to the
brainwashing class in Qidong. Those who refused to go were literally carried
there. They were told that those refuse to denounce Falun Gong would not be
released.
A female practitioner whose family name is Huang refused to give in. She is
severely hurt from physical abuse and still hospitalized. Yuan Lan (from
Qidong), working in Shanghai, was arrested also.
Practitioner Chen Guanghui in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, was suspected to
be the person who posted the police killing of Huang Hanzhong on the Internet.
The local police followed him for two weeks and arrested him on June 19 in
Beijing. While those who murder practitioners and slander Dafa escape justice,
those who reveal the truth are arrested. According to sources, Chen Guanghui has
escaped from the Lianyungang police station, but his whereabouts are unknown.
We hereby demand a trial for the murderer of Huang Hanzhong. Release Gao
Yixin, Yuanyalan, and other practitioners. It is the law of heaven for the good
to be awarded with good, and evil with evil.
10. Practitioner from Shanghai Missing
At the beginning of June, Falun Dafa practitioners Zhao Hongdong and his wife
went to hand out Falun Dafa flyers in the street. Zhao has been missing since
then.
11. Policeman Jing Xiaoming Tortures Practitioners
Jing Xiaoming, a policeman in the Yangqiao police station in Beijing (Tel
86-10-67214739), is infamous for torturing and detaining Falun Dafa
practitioners.
12. Telephone Numbers of Office 610 in Jimo of Qingdao City, Shandong
Province
86-532-8512251
86-532-8512062
Posting date: 7/15/2001 |