Latest News from China - 05/29/2003
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. [Jingmen City, Hubei Province] Eight Falun Dafa Practitioners Unlawfully
Arrested in Tuanlin Town In mid-May of 2003, Ms. Su Kezhen, Wang Jingyu, and six other Falun Dafa
practitioners were reported to police while distributing leaflets clarifying the
truth about Falun Gong. The police unlawfully arrested them. At present, Ms. Su,
Wang and five other Falun Dafa practitioners are being held in the No. 1
Detention Center. Ms. Su Kezhen has been on a hunger strike, abstaining from
both water and food, and is currently in the No. 2 People's Hospital in Jingmen
City. Her life is in imminent danger. 2. [Beijing] Falun Dafa Practitioner Shan Yichang, Who Once Worked in New
York, Is Unlawfully Held in the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp; Practitioner Bao Lijun
Is Arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Shan Yichang is from Beijing. He used to work in New
York and went back to China after July 20, 1999. At the beginning of November
2002, he was unlawfully arrested. He was then sent to the Tuanhe Forced Labor
Camp in January 2003, to serve a two-year term. He is being unlawfully held in
the Strict Supervision Unit in the No. 5 Brigade. Falun Dafa practitioner Bao Lijun was abducted on November 9, 2002. Because
of ill health, Bao was twice sent to the hospital while being detained in
Beijing's Shijingshan Division of the Police Department. The police have
consistently ruled out any possibility of "parole for medical
treatment." 3. [Chongqing] Chongqing "610 Office" Deploys Special Agents to
Trap Falun Dafa Practitioners According to reliable sources, under the conspiracy of the Chongching
"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] over twenty informers are pretending
to be Falun Gong practitioners actively engaged in Dafa activities in the
Chongqing area. These informers (including some former practitioners who have
been brainwashed and released from forced labor camps and detention centers) are
on special assignment to gather more information from Falun Dafa practitioners
and to carry out more arrests. 4. [Heilongjiang Province] Judicial Departments Are Mobilized to Stem the
Public from Filing Appeals For several days before and after June 1st, Jia Qinglin, a member of the
Standing Committee of the Politburo (who is notorious for embezzlement), has
been visiting Harbin City, Daqing City, and the Zhaodong area in Heilongjiang
Province. Judicial departments in Heilongjiang Province began carrying out so
called "security safeguard" activities in an attempt to prevent the
public, Falun Gong practitioners in particular, from filing appeals to the
authorities. 5. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Local Authorities Take Advantage of
Registering Transient Population in Order to Unlawfully Arrest Falun Dafa
Practitioners Who Have Been Forced Out of Their Homes The authorities in Shijiazhuang City recently have issued documents demanding
a thorough screening of the transient population across the city. The
registration process will take three months. Police stations are required to
verify residents by going into each family home, village by village, and street
by street. According to internal sources, the intention of this campaign is to
round up Falun Dafa practitioners who have been forced out of their homes and
have to move from place to place in order to avoid illegal arrest. 6. [Hong'an County, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Wu Chengbo Goes
on Hunger Strike in the No. 1 County Detention Center; Practitioner Zhang Qiumei
Is Arrested On April 24th, members of the "610 Office" in Hong'an County
pretended to be concerned about the possibility of Falun Dafa practitioners
being infected with the SARS virus if they were to go out of town. They
conducted an intensive search for Falun Dafa practitioner Wu Chengbo. On April
28th, with the cooperation of colleagues in Mr. Wu's workplace, the "610
Office" abducted him for the fifth time on the grounds that he has
published articles on Clearwisdom.net recounting the persecution he has gone
through. Mr. Wu is currently being held in the No. 1 County Detention Center,
and he has been on a hunger strike. It is said that he will be sentenced to
forced labor. On March 2, 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Qiumei, also from Hong'an
County, was unlawfully abducted by the police and the Hong'an "610
Office." She is being held in the No. 1 County Detention Center. Sources
say that she has already been sentenced to one year of forced labor. 7. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Four Falun Dafa Practitioners Abducted
in the Lianhua Residential Complex At 8:00 p.m. on May 23, 2003, the Huludao City police besieged the home of
Ms. Zhang Guiqin in the Lianhua residential complex of the General Refining
Factory. Ms. Zhang lives on the ground floor; officers broke into her home by
breaking windows near the patio. Ms. Zhang and Ms. Xu Yingqi were unlawfully
arrested. At 4:00 a.m. on May 24, 2003, the police arrested Ms. Song Xiuying and
Ms. Cao Liyan from their homes in the same residential complex. All four Falun
Dafa practitioners are being held in the Huludao City Detention Center. 8. [Urumqi City, Xinjiang] The Urumqi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Xinjiang
Is Constructed Solely for Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners The Urumqi Forced Labor Camp was formerly located in Ulapo. Due to the sheer
number of female Falun Dafa practitioners held there, the authorities set up the
Urumqi Women's Forced Labor Camp on December 15, 2002. The new facility houses
the women's brigades from the Urumqi Forced Labor Camp and several other labor
camps (where Falun Gong practitioners have been held). This is the only women's
forced labor camp in the Xinjiang autonomous region, and it is built
specifically for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Its mere existence is
evidence of the persecution against Falun Gong. 9. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Xiaoping
at the No. 2 Caishu Brigade in Wenjiang District Is Abducted by the Liucheng
Police Station At noon on May 15, 2003, Ms. Liu Xiaoping, who is 39 years old, was abducted
by officers from the Liucheng Police Station. The authorities confiscated Falun
Dafa materials found in the shoe store that she owns. 10. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Numerous Falun Dafa Practitioners in the
Pi County Detention Center Suffer from Severe Physical Abuse Recent reports from the Pi County Detention Center indicate that a round of
frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners is underway. Falun Dafa
practitioner Ms. Chen Guijun from Qingbaijiang, who is over 50 years old, has
been tortured by the police repeatedly. There are bruises all over her body.
Sources say that the detention center authorities have resorted to torture in an
attempt to pressure numerous Falun Dafa practitioners to reveal the source of
Falun Dafa materials, which will then lead to more arrests. May 28, 2003
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/5/29/51227.html
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