FDI: Cover-ups, Torture, Brainwashing and Death: News of 14 More Falun Gong Dead from Police Atrocities in China
SARS Cover-up Indicator of "Much Larger Problem"
NEW YORK (FDI) -- Reports of the deaths of fourteen Falun
Gong practitioners have recently been confirmed. Many of these cases repeat a
chilling pattern: physical and psychological torture inflicted by corrupt
police, followed by "release" of the practitioners from custody just days or
even hours before they die from their injuries as the police attempt to shirk
responsibility for the deaths.
"The Chinese regime's current cover-up of the SARS outbreak
is sadly an indicator of a much larger problem," comments Falun Dafa Information
Center spokeswoman Ms. Gail Rachlin. "Since 1999, Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch, the U.S. government and many other reputable sources have
documented hundreds of deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China from torture
and other abuse, yet to this day, the Chinese regime maintains that not a single
Falun Gong practitioner has died in custody from police torture or abuse."
Ms. Rachlin concludes, "In fact, information on Falun Gong
deaths is considered a 'state secret' and extremely difficult to verify, so
while the current total of confirmed Falun Gong deaths now stands at 654, the
true number is likely many times higher."
Sources in China have recently confirmed the following deaths
of Falun Gong practitioners:
Police Raid Home, Man Dies Less Than Five Hours Later
Mr. Chen Xiangrui was raided by police from Hengyang
Public Security Bureau in his home on March 11th, 2003 at approximately 9:00pm.
He was interrogated and tortured to death by 2:00am, less than five hours from
the time of his arrest. The following day police kidnapped Chen's parents,
sister and brother-in-law and took them to Jingyuan Hotel in Hengyang City, in
an attempt to force them to sign a release authorizing Chen's cremation.
Refusing to cooperate, all four family members were held for two days while two
truckloads of armed police escorted Chen's body to a crematorium. The
perpetrators in this case held 3 days of non-stop meetings to corroborate their
statements in this case. The result: A public statement claiming that Chen had
died jumping from the fifth floor of the City Public Security Building at 8:45
am on March 12th.
Perpetrators: State Security Detachment of Hengyang City,
Captain Lei Zhenzhong
Man Tortured to the Brink of Death, Then Released as Police
Attempt to Shirk Responsibility
In early March 2003, political instructor Yang Chunming and
Yang Wenbin, a police officer in the intensive training brigade of the Jiamusi
Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province, relentlessly tortured Mr. Zhang
Changming, 50,until he was unconscious. Zhang's head was beaten out of shape
and badly swollen. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment, but
doctors refused to treat him because he was on the verge of death. To avoid
responsibility, the police took Zhang home, where he died as soon as he was
taken inside.
Zhang was the ninth Falun Gong practitioner that we know of
to be tortured to death in the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp, which has been
allocated a large amount of funding since it began to detain Falun Gong
practitioners, including significant increases in guard salaries. Bonuses of
10,000 to 20,000 Yuan are awarded to camp employees who are able to force a
Falun Gong practitioner to give up practicing Falun Gong. In November 2000,
eleven male Falun Gong practitioners escaped, so the head of the labor camp was
fired. The current camp director pleases his superiors by more actively
persecuting Falun Gong, and has directed camp police to use cruel instruments of
torture on all steadfast Falun Gong practitioners in attempts to use brutality
to fulfill the "brainwashing quota."
Head of the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp: 011-86-454-889131 Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp (Office): 011-86-454-889038 Head of the Jiamusi Judicial Department: 011-86-454-8225171 Jiamusi Judicial Department: 011-86-454-8224195
Jiamusi People's Procuratorate
Zhongshan Street,
Jiamusi, Heilongjiang
Phone:
011-86-454-8224195
Jiamusi People's
Court
114 Baowei Road,
Jiamusi, Heilongjiang
Phone:
011-86-454-8224210
The Standing
Committee of the Jiamusi People's Congress
118 Baowei Road,
Jiamusi, Heilongjiang
Phone:
011-86-454-8224036
59 Year-Old Man Beaten to Death under Reign of Terror by
Local "610 Office"
In October 2002, local "610
Office" officials raided Fangezhuang Mine employee Zhao Yingqi's home
and sentenced him to 3 years in Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City. He
was beaten to death on December 31st after going on hunger strike to protest the
brainwashing and torture he was forced to endure.
Perpetrator: Gu Laicun, telephone 0315-3067521, Kailuan
Fangezhuang Mine "610
Office" chief and Party Committee Secretary has ordered surveillance
and curfew for all Falun Gong practitioners in the area to keep them from
leaving their homes. Anyone caught breaking the curfew is detained at will, for
at least one month. Chief Gu has threatened to kill a man who escaped. Gu has
also invented several instruments to torture Falun Gong practitioners.
Police Take Shifts Torturing Woman for Seven Straight Days
Ms. Liu Jinling was arrested on December 19th, 2000 for
holding up a banner of appeal in Tiananmen Square and taken to a nearby police
substation. Liu protested by going on a hunger strike and police responded by
violently beating her chest and face, stripping her down to her underwear and
handcuffing her to a tree outdoors in the winter cold. Liu was dragged inside
and outside every 30 minutes, socks stuffed in her mouth and cigarette smoke
blown in her face, to endure more torture and interrogation. Guards took shifts
torturing Liu until she was extremely weak. After seven days of abuse and
torture, representatives from Harbin's Taiping District Police Station took Liu
back to her hometown. Liu's health never recovered, and she died an untimely
death in May 2002.
Force Feeding Torture Kills Woman
On January 3rd 2000, Mrs. Lu Qinghua and her husband
were arrested at the Beijing Appeal Office and taken to Dehui City Detention
Center after appealing for Falun Gong. Mrs. Lu had long served the Party as a
Deputy of the Dehui City People's Congress. To protest their illegal detention,
Lu went on a hunger strike and on March 7th, guards began to
force feed
her and other practitioners in the detention center. Five male criminal inmates
held Lu's arms and legs, while a sixth gripped her head and a doctor forced a
plastic feeding tube down her throat. Afterwards Lu was in a great deal of pain
and was coughing and having difficulty breathing. The following day her
condition was reported to the warden, but no action was taken and her state
worsened. A second report was made, and she was sent to the hospital, though it
was too late and she died that same night.
A Farmer is Publicly Humiliated, Then Tortured to the Brink
of Death
Mr. Yuan Shengqian, 46, was abducted and subjected to
periods of brainwashing by local officials in the county government hall several
times for practicing Falun Gong. On December 28, 2000, Yuan went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested and sent back to his hometown, where he
was beaten unconscious by local "610
Office" officials. After regaining consciousness, he was forced to wear a
derogatory sandwich-board-type sign and parade through local streets (a
degrading form of public humiliation made popular during China's "Great Cultural
Revolution"). Yuan was then transferred to a detention center in Pengzhou City,
where he was held for one month and sentenced to one and a half years in Xinhua
Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang City. He was continually subjected to various
forms of persecution and inhuman torture that led to severe internal injuries.
Fearing responsibility for his condition, camp officials released Yuan, but his
health continued its decline until he passed away on April 27th, 2002.
20 Police Surround Practitioners' Home in 7-hour Standoff
At 9am on March 5th, 2003 more than 20 police kidnapped Falun
Gong practitioner Du Qingjun on his way to work and surrounded his house while
his 29 year-old wife Mrs. Zhao Shuhong and her friend Lei Mei were
inside. Police cars and fire engines surrounded the building in which they
lived, and broke in after a 7-hour standoff, forcing both women inside to jump
out of the building to escape. Zhao was killed from the jump and Lei was
seriously injured.
Police Station of Songpu Town: 0451-8070014 Politics and Security Department, Daowei Police Sub-bureau: 0451-8387435 Yang Shouyi, Director of the Politics and Security Department, Dongli Police
Sub-bureau: 0451-2104829 ext. 2316 0451-2127521 ext. 2316 0451-2137902 ext. 2316
Woman Persecuted for 2?Years Dies at Age 40
Ms. Liu Yuqing was arrested in Beijing on October 25th,
1999 after appealing for Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square, and detained in Fushun
Rehabilitation Center for 45 days, and then monitored at work until February
2000. On December 31st, 2000, Liu returned to Tiananmen Square to unfold a
banner saying, "Falun Dafa is Good." She was arrested and beaten for 7 days,
released only after going on a hunger strike. On February 15th, she was abducted
from her work in a steel factory, taken to the local police station and sent to
Fushun Detention Center where she was held for 15 days. She was transferred to
Fushun Labor Camp and suffered severe persecution including beatings, various
other forms of torture and sleep deprivation. Her internal organs were so badly
damaged that within a month she was very weak and had blood in her urine and a
fever. Liu's family members took her home for recovery, but police continued to
persecute her. At 8pm on February 9th, more than 10 police from Wanghua district
of the Guchengzi police and another group led by Yu Shoujun of the Yanwu police,
broke into Liu's home and ransacked it. On April 13th, 2002, Liu Yuqing died at
the age of 40. The circumstances of her death are being investigated.
Practitioners Die after Receiving Injections of Unknown Drugs
in Forced Labor Camp
Ms. Xue Xia was persecuted to death on February 21st,
2003. Xue was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor for going to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong on January 1st, 2000 and imprisoned in Shijiazhuang Labor
Camp in Hebei Province, where she was beaten and drugged. The drugs caused
adverse physical reactions including allergies, loose bowels, vomiting and loss
of consciousness. Fearing the seriousness of her condition, labor camp officials
sent her to Xingtai City People's Hospital for medical treatment. The doctor
diagnosed Xue with "brain atrophy," and charged her family members 10,000 Yuan
for medical expenses (the average salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan
a month). After being taken home, she began to slowly recover, but police
continued to harass her on politically sensitive days and national holidays. On
September 27th 2002, two clerks from the Meishi Street Committee led 5 guards
from Shijiazhuang Labor Camp to Xue and her mother, arresting them both. Xue was
sent for medical treatment after collapsing, and by January 4th 2003 she had
already become completely immobile. She died on February 21st, 2003.
Healthy Woman Dies after Forced Labor, Torture and Forced
Drug Treatments in Mental Hospital
Eyewitness accounts from Falun Gong practitioners in Siping
City, Jilin Province indicate that Falun Gong practitioners Han Chunyuan,
her father, Han Deshan, and her elder sister suffered many kinds of
persecution including illegal detention, forced labor and imprisonment. Chunyan
was imprisoned in Changchun Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp and where she
endured cruel torture for an extended period of time for refusing to give up
Falun Gong. She had also been imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital, where she
was injected with narcotics to weaken her will and her health. Shortly after
being illegally sentenced to four years in prison in July 2002, her fellow
practitioners received reports of her death. Only now have practitioners in
China found a channel to report this case to those overseas.
Notorious Labor Camps Relentlessly Persecute Practitioners
Fu Zhiyu and a second unidentified Falun Gong
practitioner were persecuted to death on February 2nd in Fuyu County Labor Camp
in Heilongjiang Province. Qiqihar City Tiefeng Police Substation arrested Fu
Zhiyu in July 2001, and sentenced him to 3 years of forced labor.
Fuyu Labor Camp is notorious for its methods of torture,
which include guards frequently beating Falun Gong practitioners, preventing
them from sleeping and forcing them to stand for long periods of time. During
October 2001, every Falun Gong practitioner in the camp was beaten, some so
badly that they had to be sent to the hospital. In the 40 days following the
widespread beatings, information was blockaded and practitioners' family members
were denied visitation. After the crimes were revealed over the Internet, the
labor camp began to secretly persecute Falun Gong practitioners again, using
criminal inmates to kick them if they were unable to endure extended periods of
corporal and other punishments. One practitioner's ribs were kicked so hard they
were broken. Money sent to practitioners' from their family members is taken by
criminal inmates, and many of the practitioners hair--even those in their
20's--has turned white. To date, 4 practitioners are known to have been
persecuted to death in the area of Qiqihar City.
Police Substation: 452-2425062 Fuyu Labor Camp: 452-3123712 452-3123571 452-2739098 452-2473543 610 office: 452-2425788 452-2787964 Qiqihar City Government: (0452)2407099 Qiqihar City Public Security Bureau: (0452)2486112 Qiqihar City Judicial Bureau: (0452)2473340 Heilongjiang Province Qiqihar City Middle Court: (0452)2553304
Practitioner Dies Several Days after Being Beaten by Police
Mr. Li Xiuren, a resident of Huangjia Village, Hebei
Province was visiting a fellow Falun Gong practitioner's home on December 23rd,
2001. Villagers Zhu Fengli and Zhu Gen reported them to the police, in exchange
for a reward for turning them in. Gaocheng police arrested the practitioners.
They were given no food and deprived of sleep, and beaten if they did not
cooperate while being interrogated. Police took all of their money and on
December 24th, 2001 at 9:00pm, they were taken to Gaocheng City Detention
Center. Li was detained in cell No.1 and subjected to severe torture until his
release. He died 10 days later.
Gaocheng City Detention Center: 8042439
Zengcun Police Substation: 8079036
Zengucn Town Governement: 8079003, Secretary 8079001, Mayor 8079002, Civil
Administration Office 8076759 Huangjia Village Resident Committee: 8079019 Political & Legal Committee Secretary Zhai Zhijun, Village Officials: Sun Sujiang, Zhang Weibing, Li Xinshun Gaocheng City Public Security Bureau: Chief 8110068, Deputy Chief 8110066,8110065,8110063,8110058,8110061,8110060 Gaocheng City Mayer: 8045875, Legal Section Office: 8042233 fax8041724
Man Dies in Harbin City Detention Center
Mr. Wei Shujiang from Taiping Town, Daoli District,
Harbin City in Heilongjiang Province died in Daili District Detention Center on
approximately August 30th. The last eyewitness to report seeing him alive was
his son, who was allowed to visit him 13 days before he died due to his serious
condition. No further details are available.
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NEWS -- Apr. 14, 2003
Falun Dafa Information Center,
www.faluninfo.net
Background
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about),
is a practice of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal
principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." It is a practice that was
taught in private for thousands of years before being made public in 1992 by Mr.
Li Hongzhi. Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture, but it is
distinct and separate from other practices such as the religions of Buddhism and
Taoism. Since its introduction in 1992, it quickly spread by word of mouth
throughout China, and is now practiced in over
50
countries.
With government estimates of as many as
100
million practicing Falun Gong, China's President Jiang Zemin outlawed the
peaceful practice in July 1999 (report),
fearful of anything touching the hearts and minds of more citizens than the
Communist Party. Unable to crush the spirit of millions who had experienced
improved health and positive life changes from Falun Gong, Jiang's regime has
intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice
while quietly imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it.
The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 654
deaths (reports /
sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999.
Government officials inside China, however, report that the actual death toll is
well over 1,600, while expert sources estimate that figure to be much higher.
Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with more than
100,000 being sentenced to forced labor camps, typically without trial.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE FALUN DAFA
INFORMATION CENTER -- Gail Rachlin 917-501-4441, Levi Browde 914-720-0963,
Erping Zhang 646-533-6147, or Feng Yuan 917-941-1097. Email:
faluninfoctr@nycmail.com, Website:
http://www.faluninfo.net/
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