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68 Practitioners from Dingzhuang Village of Chengan County, Handan City, Arrested And Tortured by Local Police
6/4/2003 (Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners from Chengan County live in poverty and
danger because of the persecution. They are arrested, condemned, fined and sent
to forced labor camp. Many practitioners have been arrested several times. Each
time, thousands or tens of thousands of dollars were extorted from them.
Families with a few practitioners are in heavy debt and lead a hard life. Police
didn't give receipts for most fines and bail. Police have also ransacked their
homes or arrested them at will, without showing any warrant. Ms. Zhao Guizhu was
arrested just because police needed to fill their quota. Some practitioners were
arrested from home without reason. Wang Zhangfeng's husband and Ding Qiaofeng's
husband were arrested for resisting the police's arrest, even though they are
not practitioners. Ding Qiaofeng's parents kneeled down to plead with the
police, but no one listened to them. Ms. Cao Yuping, 65, was arrested and sent to the police station last Fall.
The police said the old lady would be released if they receive 2000 Yuan [Chinese
currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is about 500
Yuan, but only 200 Yuan for a rural worker.]. The lady and her
daughter-in-law were already fined over 10,000 Yuan, and the family had no money
to hand over. Before the 16th Communist Party Congress, the
daughter-in-law was arrested to fill the quota. On Aug 31, 2002, 68 practitioners from Dingzhuang Village were arrested. At
the time of the arrests, police blocked the door, some grabbed money or
property, some beat up practitioners, prevented them from putting on shoes,
dragged them out and bound them up. The practitioners shouted out together:
"Falun Dafa is good!" Two male senior practitioners were carried out.
A middle-aged lady with an injured leg was dropped in the courtyard and forced
to partially kneel down. A young female practitioner didn't answer their
questions, but clarified the to them. Surrounded by police, she was hit and
kicked, over and over again, stepped on by boots, burned with a cigar, while the
other policemen laughed at her suffering. Many practitioners were threatened, hit and abused, even teenage girls and
seniors over the age of 60. Practitioner Xun Ruilin died from barbarous
force-feeding in the Linzhang Detention Center. Zhen Hua was sent to the
hospital twice, due to injuries from being beaten. She nearly went blind and her
heart disease reoccurred. A practitioner didn't report their name, and refused
to have their picture taken. In Operative Team 3, police pressed his head and
beat it against the wall, and struck his feet with a metal plate. Li Sheting was
severely injured and had severe lower back pain. In the detention center, practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest.
Police yelled abusively as they force-fed them. In one intubation, a pipe was
taken out, with blood from a practitioner's throat. A practitioner who didn't
report her name had her throat injured several times, due to force-feeding. She
almost suffocated to death when doctors made many unsuccessful attempts to force
the feeding tube into her stomach. Police deliberately made a show of torturing
her in front of others. Prison doctor Gao even said: "We can give her a
shot of anesthetics and force the tube in." Superintendent Hao was transferred to this detention center when
practitioners were arrested. He often monitored, punished, and abused
practitioners. He hates Falun Gong. When Cao Yuping did the Falun Gong
exercises, he dragged her by the hair and forced her to stand in front of a
wall. Many practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest . Another time, he
told her: "if you do the exercises again, let us see which one is hardest,
your Falun Gong or my stick." Once he dragged a few practitioners from bed
and forced them to remain standing. Often he intruded into the female cell and
forced practitioners to be on duty, and did not allow the weaker ones to sit
down, even though they shouldn't be on duty according to the detention center's
rule. There was a practitioner who wrote to him, to persuade him to be good, but
he burnt the letter with a lighter on the spot. The detention center continues to detain a few practitioners who are very
weak. Li Sheting is still suffering from lower back injuries. Xia Wenzhong has
high blood pressure. Zhang Meiqing, nearly 60, went on a hunger strike many
times to protest. She was injured after being struck by a plank and sent to the
hospital after her cell was searched. She is very weak. Yu Ruifang, nearly 60,
was delivered to labor camp and refused admission. Police didn't release her for
a long time, because they couldn't extort money from her. Song Xiaolan, fell
over due to high blood pressure, severely injuring her head, and developed all
kinds of symptoms such as a slowed heart beat, heavy breathing, stomach aches,
back pain, and impaired vision. Police Station Telephone:
86-310-7212662 Responsible person: Captain Tian, Captain Yang and
Commissar Ma Detention Center responsible person: Superintendent Fan, Superintendent
Yin and Superintendent Cheng Posting date: 6/22/2003 |