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The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Yueyang City, Hunan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. Ms. Chen Chuanying (60 years old) Ms. Chen Chuanying is from Shangpu residential group in Shapu Village,
Shijiang, Yueyang, Hunan Province. Ms. Chen started to cultivate in Falun Dafa
in 1998. She went to Beijing to clarify the truth for Falun Dafa in 2001 and was
arrested, and then detained in Pingjiang Detention Center for 35 days. While
incarcerated there, she tried to practice Falun Gong with fellow practitioners,
but the prison guards threatened to stop the practice with electric batons.
Female prison guard Chen Meihua even forced them to do sit-ups, push-ups, and
stand for a long time as punishment. As an elderly Dafa practitioner over 60
years old, Ms. Chen suffered from the police's personal insults and abuse, and
was finally released under police custody after 35 days of torture. Moreover,
the police had illegally ransacked her home, and given her an illegal fine of
5,000 Yuan [approximately a 10-month salary for an average urban worker.]
However, would a poor farming family like Ms. Chen's be able to come up with
such a large sum of money? Ms. Chen's husband fell into the depths of despair
and almost committed suicide to escape the fine. Under the police's coercion and
threats, he had no choice but to borrow money from friends and relatives. The
police had also harassed them at home, and repeatedly ransacked their home. They
wouldn't give Ms. Chen's family a moment of peace. 2. Ms. Ou Liuying (53 years old) Ms. Ou Liuying traveled to Beijing in January 2000 to appeal for Falun Dafa,
and ended up being incarcerated in Pingjiang County Detention Center for 49 days
and having 5,000 Yuan extorted by the Public Security Bureau. Ms. Ou's family
was deceived by the Jiang Zemin regime's slanderous lies about Falun Gong, and
often tried to hamper her from studying the Fa and practicing the Falun Gong
exercises. After repeatedly clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and revealing
the truth behind the malicious slandering of Falun Dafa, Ms. Ou's family and
relatives now understand the truth about Falun Gong and have changed their
attitude. 3. Mr. Ou Shenqiu (60 years old) Mr. Ou Shenqiu is a Dafa practitioner from Nanjiang Town, Hunan Province. He
was abducted by the Pingjiang County State Security Brigade and taken to the
Pingjiang County Detention Center on November 6, 2003, where the police
interrogated and threatened him with violence and torture. Under tacit
encouragement, the prison inmates poured cold water over him and subjected him
to savage beatings. The security brigade tried to threaten him to write a
letter of repentance and a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and
extorted 8,000 Yuan from his son-in-law when he came to beg the security brigade
to release Mr. Ou. They did not even give him a receipt for the extortion money. 4. Ms. Zou Siying (52 years old) Ms. Zou Siying is from Cenchuan Village, Yuping Village, Pingjiang County,
Hunan Province. As of February 2004, Ms. Zou has been cultivating in Falun Dafa
for over seven years. Since Jiang Zemin started to openly persecute Falun Dafa
on July 20, 1999, Ms. Zou has never faltered in her belief in Falun Dafa,
neither has she said anything against her conscience about Falun Dafa. She has
traveled to Beijing twice to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, and was thus
illegally sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp, where she endured the
most insufferable tortures. The Yuping Village Police Station repeatedly
abducted Ms. Zou, put her in shackles, and paraded her through streets to
humiliate her in public. They also subjected her to brutal beatings. Since Ms.
Zou came out of the forced labor camp, she continues to clarify the truth about
Falun Dafa and expose the facts of persecution against Falun Dafa. One morning in October of 2003, the Yuping Village Police Station fanatically
broke into and ransacked her home again. They confiscated her Falun Dafa
articles and truth-clarification materials, and took her to the police station.
On that afternoon, the police tied Ms. Zou Siying with a rope and made a farmer
keep hitting the gong (a traditional Chinese percussion instrument) aloud while
they paraded Ms. Zou bound in rope through the streets. On that evening, the
policemen interrogated her with cruel torture. Policeman Liu Dengke and five of
his accomplices together crushed her back with a wooden chair. They kept
trampling and pressing on the wood chair with their feet until they were worn
out and short of breath. Ms. Zou Siying said to them, "I am a person of
morality who cultivates according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion,
and Forbearance. You must understand that Falun Dafa is good and the government
is wrong to persecute Falun Dafa. You will meet with retribution for your
crimes." Policeman Liu Dengke replied, "Even if I should meet my
retribution and die tomorrow, I will torture her to death today." They kept
torturing her until late into the night and they finally put her in an empty
room with nothing but a stone bench. In the middle of the freezing winter, Ms.
Zou wore nothing but two thin tops for the upper-body. Moreover, her entire body
was covered with wounds. Liu Dengke had even nicked her eyebrow area severely
with a book. The next morning, policemen roughly brushed her face with a broom,
causing additional cuts and additional pain to her existing injuries. Then they
handcuffed her hands behind her back, and took her to the county detention
center. By the time they arrived at the detention center, Ms. Zou had lost her
ability to walk. She ended up being brought into the detention center by several
people. She was covered with mud and dirt. Her hair was stiff and messy, and she
looked as horrible as the tortures rendered upon her. There were eight other
Dafa practitioners incarcerated in the county detention center at the time. They
were heartbroken when they saw Ms. Zou. She was kept in the detention center
until early February of 2004. 5. Ms. Tang Xiaomei (49 years old) Ms. Tang was an employee at the Dajiangdong Electricity Office in Pingjiang
County, Hunan Province. Ms. Tang started to cultivate in Falun Dafa in October
1997. She suffered from cruel persecution because she clarified the truth about
Falun Dafa after Jiang Zemin started to openly persecute Falun Gong on July 20,
1999. In October 2001 Mr. Li Sansheng, the Assistant Director of Dajiangdong
Electricity Office, ordered employees to write messages on the wall to slander
Falun Dafa. Ms. Tang Xiaomei stood up and tried to stop him. She said, "Falun
Dafa is the Buddha Fa. It is the salvation of mankind. You have been deceived by
Jiang Zemin and his henchmen." Mr. Li Sansheng refused to listen, and
summoned the county's State Security Brigade. They abducted her and ransacked
her home. Ms. Tang Xiaomei was illegally detained in Pingjiang County Detention
Center for 37 days. During the incarceration, Ms. Tang persisted in practicing
the Falun Gong exercises and was punished by being handcuffed for three days and
three nights, being "Locked in a Small Cell"* for three days, and
having cold water poured over her three times. She was later released after her
relative had paid the police the so-called "fine" of 1,000 Yuan and
over 400 Yuan for meals in the detention center. [500 Yuan is the average
monthly income for an urban worker in China.] * Locked in a Small Cell: A small cell is a room of less than three square
meters. It has no window, no bed, no water, and no toilet. A victim is locked in
a small cell for months, having to eat, sleep, and excrete in the same small
area. Since the height of the room is less than 1.5 meters, one cannot stand
straight. To exacerbate the agony, the guards often handcuff the victim in the
small cell door so the victim cannot sleep for many days. In August 2002 the police arrested Ms. Tang Xiaomei at her home and ransacked
her home again. During the process, the police even smashed the doors in her
home. While in the State Security Brigade's custody, Ms. Tang was subject to
interrogation that lasted four days and four nights. During the interrogation,
the police kept her from sleeping and sitting, and tried to force her to stand
or kneel down in front of them. When Ms. Tang refused to kneel down, policeman
Li Jianzhou beat her savagely with a baton. He even poked at Ms. Tang's neck and
asked, "Are you kneeling or not?" "I will only kneel to my
Teacher." Then he switched to an even thicker baton and started to beat her
again. Ms. Tang Xiaomei started to send forth righteous thoughts.
Thirty minutes later, the policemen became less fierce. Ms. Tang
repeatedly tried to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to them, but they claimed
that they had to follow Jiang Zemin's order and the "610 Office's"
documents, otherwise they would be fired. [Note: The "610 Office"
is a Gestapo-like 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. Due to pressure from the international
community, the Chinese Communist government has renamed the "610
Office" on October 15, 2003, and lied to the world, stating that the
"610 Office" has been "disbanded."] This time Ms. Tang was incarcerated for nearly seven months, until February
27, 2003. She was also forced to pay 1,000 Yuan for meals during the illegal
detention. In addition, the Nanjiang Town government went to her work unit and
extorted 1,500 Yuan in the name of a fine from her employer. Originally, one of
her children was eligible to start working for her employer when she left work
in 2000. However, because Ms. Tang refused to stop cultivating in Falun Dafa,
her employer denied her child the job opportunity at the office. On November 4,
2003 Pingjiang County's State Security Brigade, Nanjiang Police Station, and
Nanjiang Town government sent policemen to ransack her home again, and took her
to the Pingjiang County Detention Center for 30 days of detention. During the
incarceration, the prison guard Chen Meihua put handcuffs and shackles on Ms.
Tang and subjected her to torture. The telephone numbers of the people persecuting Dafa practitioners in
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