(Clearwisdom.net)

In mid-August 2003, an "expert group" was dispatched from Beijing to Shuangcheng, Daqing, and other cities in Heilongjiang Province to hold brainwashing classes to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Claims were made that "ground breaking work is to be laid in Heilongjiang." "610 Offices" [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] across the province sent in people to learn new strategies to be able to more comprehensively persecute Falun Dafa practitioners.

The "expert group" is made up of a dozen or so individuals, who were either among the key personnel from various provinces or former Falun Gong followers who enlightened along evil paths. They resorted to sleep deprivation and combined threats with enticements and brutal tortures to coerce practitioners into signing "four statements" denouncing Falun Gong. Some practitioners who did not study the Fa well enough gave in to the pressure and some even gave up practicing.

It has been learned that Heilongjiang authorities plan to heavily fund the construction of a "transformation base" on Taiyang Island in Harbin City.

Recently a village cadre in the Xingtai area has revealed that the town government called for a meeting to assign areas for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. A demand was made that all the Falun Dafa practitioners in each township, town, or other organization or enterprise sign a "statement of transformation" by the end of November or face abduction to the brainwashing in Xingtai City, Hebei Province.

On the evening of September 16, 2003, a large police force was mobilized in Jilin City to unlawfully arrest Falun Dafa practitioners. It has so far been confirmed that those under arrest include: Mr. Liu Hongwei, Mr. Zhao Yingjie, Ms. Wang Guihua, Mr. Li Xintong, Ms. Sun, Ms. Liu, and others. Their whereabouts remain unknown, and the police have unlawfully confiscated cash and valuable items totaling over 10,000 Yuan. [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.]

In early September Zhengzhou Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Yueyun was delivering Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in her hometown when someone who did not know the facts about the persecution turned her in to the police. She was unlawfully arrested in Zhengzhou City by the Dengfeng Police Department of Henan Province and sent to the Dengfeng Detention Center. On September 5, Ms. Zhao was unlawfully sentenced to five years in prison. She was transferred to the Henan Provincial Women's Prison located in Xinxiang City on September 10.

On September 9, 2003, Daqing Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Tongling, from Chengsancun in the Rang District, was abducted under the building where she lived. A total of eight people, including the security staff from the Sanan Enterprise where she worked and officers from the Chengxin Police Station in Rang District, carried out the abduction. Ms. Liu was sent to the Hongweixing Brainwashing Center in Daqing City. She has rejected any cooperation with her abductors. Wherever she goes, she stages a hunger strike to protest her unlawful arrest. At the same time she explains the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong to the staff in the various facilities. Her actions have caused fear among the persecutors. Afraid she might influence others, authorities sent her to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Institute to serve a term of forced labor. Ms. Liu has expressed her determination to continue her hunger strike to her last breath to break away from the evil and unlawful persecution.

The individual primarily responsible for the persecution:

Meng Qinghong, Deputy Manager of the Sanan Enterprise in charge of persecution Falun Gong: 86-459-5797366 (home phone number).

Police officers at the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp in Qiqihar City have been forcing family members to read pre-drafted statements defaming Falun Dafa and its founder on days when visits are scheduled. Family members who refuse to comply are denied visits. Many family members are so anxious to see their loved ones that they give in.

(1) The second edition of The Ideological and Political Textbook in the Fulltime General

High School Curriculum for the Senior Year had its first printing in June 2003. It was compiled by the Committee on Moral Education for Elementary Schools and Ideological and Political Courses for High Schools and published by the People's Education Press. The New China Bookstore in Liaoning Province distributes it. The remarks printed in Lesson 4 "The Nationalities and Religions in Our Country," pages 128 to 129, defame Falun Dafa and its founder.

Address of the People's Education Press: No. 55, Shatanhou Street, Beijing, ZIP 100009. Web site: http://www.pep.com.cn.

(2) The Guangming Daily Press publishes a drill series entitled The Road to Talent. This political textbook for the senior year in high schools contains numerous statements defaming Falun Dafa and its founder.

September 19, 2003