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Latest News from China - 01/27/2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
[Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Lawless Officials Deprive Dafa
Practitioners' Children of Their Right to an Education
Harbin City authorities did not allow Falun Gong practitioners' children to
take the college entrance examination in 2002. This illegal policy will be
continued in 2003. Many practitioners' children actually didn't practice, but
they were still deprived of their right to take the examination just because
their parents practiced Falun Gong. Furthermore, in a county of Harbin City,
Dafa practitioners' relatives, including practitioner's brother or sister's
families, have not been allowed to join the army since 2001.
[Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Persons in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp
Brutally Torture Steadfast Dafa Practitioners with Excruciating Means
Because the guards of the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp fully realize that the
so-called "transformation" is totally invalid, they still continue the so-called
"test" of practitioners and try to make them write the "three statements" under
high pressure. [Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to
write these as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the "610
Office," the three statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to
never again practice Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family
members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.]
In December, the lawless policemen gathered Dafa practitioners and forced
them to say derogatory things about Teacher. Otherwise, they would be dragged
upstairs to be "tied by ropes and hung up," which is an extremely brutal and
excruciating torture.
[Northeast China] Dafa Banners Fly on Both Sides of the Streets in front of
Detention Centers
Recently in a city in northeast China, Dafa practitioners hung up many Dafa
banners such as "Falun Dafa is Good" at several parks and farm markets, on both
sides of the streets in front of the police department's detention center and
the city's detention center. Within 500 meters of the detention centers, red
Dafa banners could be seen everywhere, such as on trees and telegraph poles.
[Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Dafa Practitioners Liu Qingchun and Wang
Yaping are Arrested by Litai Town's Police Precinct in Kaiyuan County
At about 10:00 p.m. on January 13, when Dafa practitioners Liu Qingchun and
Wang Yaping, from Xiajiapo Village, Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning
Province, went to Dasanjiazi Village in Kaiyuan County to deliver
truth-clarifying materials, they were arrested by officers from Litai Town's
Police Precinct in Kaiyuan County. Now they are being tortured.
[Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province] Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Cai
Huilian
On January 16, 2000 (Chinese lunar calendar) policemen ordered Ms. Cai
Huilian, who was at work, to go to the police department for the purpose of
gathering some information from her. On arriving at the police department, she
was handcuffed and remained in the outdoor hallway of the Political and Security
Department for four days and nights. She was not allowed to fetch clean clothes
from home. It rained and was windy during those days. No one gave her a blanket
or any food. Cai Huilian felt hungry and cold, so she found a piece of cardboard
to sit on, but the policemen kicked it out from under her. One of her hands was
handcuffed to the banisters. As a result, that wrist was swollen and painful. On
the fifth day the policemen lied to her and another practitioner, saying that
they would be released, but they were actually taken to a detention center for
22 days.
In the detention center the guards forced them to recite the detention rules
every day. If they did not comply they would be abused immediately. The guards
also forced them to read a Dafa-slandering newspaper and took them to the place
where they had posted truth-clarifying materials to take their photos.
While the practitioners were in detention, the policemen opened
practitioners' homes with the practitioners' keys. Cai Hulian and two other
practitioners were taken home to be photographed. The policemen also tried to
find Dafa truth-clarifying materials and books at these homes, but they did not
get any. Then they took Ms. Cai and other practitioners back to the detention
center.
[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Shameful Deeds by Zhang Deming and Wang Xianyou,
Heads of Xinzhou District's Wangji "610 Office;" Falun Dafa Practitioners
Arrested
During the 16th National Party Congress, Zhang Deming and Wang
Xianyou from Xinzhou District's Wangji "610 Office," [An agency specifically
created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of
administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems]
Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, relentlessly harassed and arrested
practitioners. They took practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaobing, an elementary school
teacher, to the Liuji brainwashing class. When he was arrested, the school
principal came on the scene and said to the "610 Office" persons, "You cannot
arrest people at will." The policemen shouted loudly, "If you dare to say this
again we will arrest you, too."
People who knew the details said Zhang Xiaobing had not done anything against
the law, but he was nevertheless arrested. Zhang Xiaobing suffered torture and
persecution in the brainwashing class, but he did not give up his belief in
Falun Dafa. Later on he took a chance and escaped. Now he is leading a homeless
life, and no one knows his whereabouts.
[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Trauma Experienced by Falun Dafa Practitioner
Chen Zhihui, Former Director, Teaching Affairs Section from Xinzhou District's
Kongbutiwei School
In July 2000, Mr. Chen Zhihui, former director of the Teaching Affairs
Section in Xinzhou District's Kongbutiwei School, Wuhan City, went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. He was later sent back and fined 10,000 Yuan. [500
Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China, in rural areas
it is 200 Yuan.] What was so incongruous was the issuing of a specific "red
letter" document, claiming that 5,000 Yuan of the fine was necessary because
Chen went to appeal. The other 5,000 Yuan was assessed because Chen's wife, a
non-practitioner, didn't "monitor" her husband.
During the New Year's holiday of 2002, Mr. Chen Zhihui once again went to
Beijing to appeal, where he was tortured and later sent back and fined. He was
also fired from his employment position for persisting in his practice of Falun
Dafa in the detention center and was sentenced to one and a half years of forced
labor. At present, Mr. Chen is forced to live in as a homeless person to avoid
further persecution.
[Hengyang City, Hunan Province] Personnel from the Bajiaotang Police Station
Ransack a Person's Home
At around 6:30 p.m. on October 31, 2002, without any warrant, a dozen lawless
personnel from the Bajiaotang Police Department, headed by department director
Shu Guibao, station director Wen Xiangcheng, Political Committee director Hu
Shouxian and Chen Mingqing broke into and ransacked Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhou
Huaying's home. They confiscated a large amount of Dafa books, Dafa-related
materials, CDs and cash and took the practitioner away.
[China] Police from the Dayou Police Station Arrest Dafa Practitioner Pan
Yonggang
Dafa practitioner Mr. Pan Yonggang is 33 years old. He was just released
after the year of forced labor he endured from 2001 to 2002. On December 10,
2002, officers from the Dayou Police Station arrested him while he was
distributing truth-clarifying materials. Now his whereabouts are unknown.
[Xichang City, Gansu Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioner Yang Bangqun from
Huili County
In December 2002, police arrested 42-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang
Bangqun from Huili County and held her for a week simply because in May of 2002,
she had helped fellow-practitioners who were homeless. Police extorted more than
1,000 Yuan from her family members. |