Latest News From China - 03/08/2002
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1. [Beijing] Li Chunyuan, Detained for Suing Chinese Dictator Jiang, Appeals
His Case
Li Chunyuan is a lecturer in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at
Central College of Minority Nations in Beijing. He went to the Supreme Court in
Beijing to sue Chinese Dictator Jiang for violation of the constitution in
December 2000. Although his case was accepted for prosecution, he was arrested
by the police and put in a detention center on January 17, 2001. Several days
later, he received notice of a forced-labor camp sentence. On the notice it said
that he was arrested because he had conducted "illegal activities" on
campus, which is not true. He was sent to the dispatch office in Beijing, a
place that treats people severely. After more than ten days of hard physical
work, he was sent to Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp in Daxing County, Beijing.
Collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to
brainwashing and torture] denied him sleep and forced him to undergo
brainwashing every day. They forced him to work in the daytime. He often said to
people there, "Jiang has violated the constitution. I followed legal
procedures to sue him. What I did was open and righteous. The court has accepted
my prosecution but hasn't given me an answer. On the contrary, I was detained
and put under such persecution. I will go on with the case." He wrote an
appeal and submitted it, but he has received no reply at all. He remains
steadfast in his faith. In the labor camp, those who don't give up their faith
are often detained longer than their original terms. We hope that practitioners
will send forth righteous thoughts and eliminate the evil in Tuanhe Labor Camp.
2. [A Northwestern City] Practitioners Clarify the Truth
On the cold and windy morning of March 6, 2002, practitioners in a
northwestern city in China put a thousand posters clarifying the truth about
Falun Dafa on electricity poles along main roads. They also hung one hundred
banners on high-voltage transmission lines so that they wouldn't be immediately
taken away. They sent packages of truth-clarifying literature to thousands of
families. Their activities shocked the evil and displayed the great virtue of
Dafa. All practitioners who took part in the activities returned safely.
3. [Qing Yang, Gansu Province] Practitioners Are Held in Detention Centers
and Forced Labor Camps
The Qingyang region in Gansu Province is one of the places where Falun Dafa
was initially spread. Currently the situation there is serious. About 24
practitioners are illegally held in labor camps and ten in detention centers.
Two of them have been detained for a second time. Practitioner Wang Yuxia has
been sentenced to labor camp for a second time. Four to five practitioners have
had no choice but to abandon their homes and live on the street. Two male
practitioners from Donghzi County, Xifeng City, had just been released before
their wives were sentenced to labor camps. Their children are left at home
unattended. In addition, many practitioners are subject to extortion and their
homes are illegally searched.
4. [Northeast China] Practitioners from Several Cities and Counties Hold an
Experience-Sharing Conference
On March 3, 2002, practitioners from several cities and counties in northeast
China successfully held a solemn and sacred experience-sharing conference. The
practitioners who attended the conference are veterans in Fa-study and
cultivation from various places. Representatives from those places talked about
the situations of their local practitioners and told touching stories of how
they eliminated the evil with righteous thoughts, clarified the truth and
offered people salvation while they themselves were being severely persecuted.
Each and every story was moving and world-shaking. They also discussed
shortcomings, such as human mentalities, loopholes in themselves that have been
taken advantage of by the evil forces and the attachment of fear. Each and every
practitioner who attended the conference could feel the great benevolence of
Master and Dafa. Their faith in Dafa was strengthened, their hearts further
purified and their benevolence to sentient beings enhanced. They are determined
to put forth more effort, follow closely the Fa-rectification process, and
complete the last steps. The experience sharing conference held in various
places are sure to help the practitioners become more mature and meet the
standards of Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period.
5. [Hanchuan, Hubei Province] No. 2 Detention Center Illegally Confines 14
Practitioners for a Year
After New Year's Day in 2001,under orders from the City Politics and Law
Committee (610 Office), the police stations in the local counties in Hanchuan
City carried out a large-scale arrest of practitioners. Under the name of
"getting information," the police sent practitioners to No. 2
Detention Center in Hanchuan City for brainwashing and long-term detention.
Currently, there are still more than ten practitioners in the detention center.
Four among them are in their 60's and ten of them are women. They have been held
for a year without fresh air, sunshine, or meeting with their families. The
detention center denies them the right to meet with their families, saying that
they fail to pay the board fee of 450 Yuan for every 15 days.[ Yuan is
Chinese currency. The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 Yuan.]
Upon each visit, the families have to pay large sums of money before they are
allowed see their loved ones.
6. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] The Police Make Money through the
Persecution of Practitioners
1) In December 1999, sixteen practitioners from Hanchuan went to Beijing to
appeal to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. The Politics and Security Office
in the Hanchuan Police Department escorted them to the liaison office of Hubei
Province in Beijing. Head of the office Liu Jiqiang searched them, even in their
underwear. One policeman said that if it weren't for the persecution of Falun
Gong, he wouldn't have been able to make his trip to Beijing (for sightseeing
and fun.) Before returning to Hubei Province, every policeman bought a suitcase.
2) In December 1999, the politics and security office would extort 3000 Yuan
as a guarantee fee and 2000 Yuan as a search fee from any employed practitioner
who went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Xinhe County is even more greedy
and without restraint. In addition to demanding the above fees, each
practitioner is required to turn in 1500 Yuan to the Xinhe Police Department as
a guarantee, and 2000 Yuan to the county government. A practitioner would only
be released after these amounts of money were paid and documents produced with
the government stamps of approval. They also arrest practitioners who don't go
to appeal and then notify their families to turn in 2000 Yuan for each person.
Those who have jobs have to turn in 3000 Yuan. No receipts are given. Many
people said in indignation, "They are more ruthless than gangsters."
3) In December 2000, Xinhe Police Department started a new round of
persecution, headed by political director Chen Yong'an. They either deceived
practitioners or forced them into police vans to take them away. Then they
notified their families to turn in 1000 Yuan as bail. Many people have their
entire savings exhausted by the extortion. After the practitioners have been
detained for 20 days or so, the police department reduced the amount to 500
Yuan. A woman called Ding has an 80-year-old granny at home. When the granny was
sick, Ding asked to go home and take care of her. The police department denied
her request, demanding that first she must pay. Finally, the officials in her
village negotiated with the police and reduced the amount to 170 Yuan, but the
police told other practitioners that she had turned in 500 Yuan. When they saw
that they really couldn't extort any money from her, they released her two days
before the Chinese lunar New Year.
4) Four practitioners in Xinhe County are teachers. Their salaries were
reduced for appealing for Falun Gong in Beijing. The county education committee
told them that this was because they had spent money looking for them. Xiao
Zhikai is a teacher in primary school. He hasn't received any salary for two
years since October 1999. He has been detained in No.2 Detention Center for
nearly two years.
5) Practitioner Huang Zhenkun is an elderly gentleman from Makou Town. He has
been detained for 7 months just for saying, "I am still practicing Falun
Gong," and had 5000 Yuan (the annual income of the local people) extorted
from him. In July 2001, he was going to send some money to his son to buy a
house. The police seized his savings of 20,000 Yuan, charging him with trying to
appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing. He and his wife were arrested and to this day
are being held at Hanchuan No.2 Detention Center.
Thus, the police persecute some Hanchuan City practitioners to the verge of
economic devastation. Many of their families have been torn apart.
7. [Guizhou Province] Enlightenment and Suggestion for Eliminating the
Brainwashing Classes
The evil people in Guizhou Province have been running brainwashing classes
for three months. They continue to arrest practitioners from their homes or
workplaces and adopt various illegal methods to persecute and brainwash them.
Other places in the province follow suit. The persecution is ongoing.
The evil brainwashing classes have been running one session after another.
Practitioners have been arrested one by one. It is not a matter of one person,
or the matter of the person arrested. It is something related to us all. We
shouldn't let the evil run rampant any longer. Each and every one of our
disciples ought to play an active role in eliminating the evil. We ought to take
ourselves as particles of one body, breaking away from any hindrances in
ourselves and from the persecution of Dafa and disciples arranged by the old
forces with the purest and most righteous thoughts.
Here we call upon all the practitioners in Guizhou Province to send forth
righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil brainwashing classes, letting the evil
people receive retribution in this lifetime and awakening the people in the
world. At the same time, we ought to try our best to clarify the truth and offer
people salvation.
8. [Shunyi, Beijing] Yijiafu Police Persecute Practitioners
In the middle of October 2001, practitioners Yang Yuliang and Gao Yan were
taken by the Yijiafu Police Station for interrogation because they validated
Dafa. Yang Yuliang seized an opportunity and walked out of the police station
completely unnoticed. Gao Yan, too, escaped from the police station at 2 o'clock
in the morning. The Yijiafu Police Station froze Yang Yuliang's bank deposit and
forced him into a life of homelessness to avoid repeated arrest.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/3/8/26216.html
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