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Latest News from China -- February 19, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province] Officials of the No. 854 Farm Assist
in Arresting Falun Dafa Practitioners
During the Chinese Spring Festival season (the latter half of January 2004)
Falun Dafa practitioners in the No. 854 Farm of Hulin City documented the
persecution they have experienced and produced leaflets for distribution in
order to explain the facts to the public. Local officials who participated in
the persecution were greatly shocked. Hao Linhou, Head of the farm was outraged.
Prior the Chinese New Year's Eve, Ms. Xiao Chunying, in her sixties, was
connecting trains in the Mudanjiang Railroad Station when security staff found
Falun Gong materials in her bag. The Mudanjiang Railroad Police Division
arrested her.
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xiang Jihong, in her forties, has been persecuted
many times. On January 30, assisted by leaders of the No. 854 Farm, the
Mudanjiang Railroad Station Police Department, based on an internally compiled
list, took Ms. Xiang to Mudanjiang City.
On February 9, 2004, again with the assistance from the No. 854 Farm, Falun
Dafa practitioner Ms. Ding Xinghua's home was unlawfully searched. Ms. Ding is
in her forties and has been persecuted by the farm leaders who sent her to
Wanjia Forced Labor Camp for two years and have twice before assisted the police
with her arrest. She has also been taken to Jiamusi City.
Relevant telephone numbers: Country code 86; City code 467 Hao Linhou, person in charge of the No. 854 Farm: 5967698 (home), 5968058
(office), 86-13836505999 (cellular). Zhao Hongying, member of the No. 854 Farm police station and "610 Office":
5967636 (home), 5968954 (office), 86-133009957331 (cellular). Office of the Head of the police station: 5968361. Office of the deputy Head of the police station: 5968972, 5968472.
2. [Feidong County, Anhui Province] Cases of Abused Falun Dafa Practitioners
Ms. Zhang Guiqin, in her thirties, was brutally beaten at a detention center
in June 2000. After over twenty days of continuous torture, she was in critical
condition. The detention center authorities were afraid of being held
responsible for her death, so they released her, and she died soon afterward.
Her two daughters are in middle school, and her husband, Guan Weihai, also a
Falun Dafa practitioner that has been arrested several times, has lost his job.
After Ms. Zhang's death, Falun Dafa practitioners from Hefei, the capital city
of Anhui Province, came to attend the funeral service. The police were worried
that the news of her death would spread, so they unlawfully detained her husband
for fifteen days.
Ms. Li Cuiping, in her fifties, and Ms. Song Ling, in her seventies, had been
held in custody numerous times for practicing Falun Dafa. In 2002, they were
arrested for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. Both were
unlawfully sentenced to prison. Ms. Song is serving out her term under house
arrest due to her age.
Ms. Zhang Yushu, in her fifties, has been unlawfully detained numerous times,
and endured inhumane torture. Once, she was stretched out and tied to a board
for nine hours. Not until she was at the brink of death and her cellmates
persistently cried for help did the police finally take her off the board.
Later, she was unlawfully sentenced to two years of forced labor, the term for
which expired at the end of 2002. After her release, she went to a photocopying
shop to print Falun Gong materials, and she was reported to the police. She has
since been sentenced to prison.
The individual responsible for these acts is Gao Ligang, head of the No. 1
section of the police department and head of the Domestic State Security Brigade
of the Feidong County Police Department. Gao's cell phone number is
86-13956070178.
3. [Siping City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Yanping
under Arrest Again
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yanping, 36, is from the Guanli District of
the Liaohe Farm in Siping City. She went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to
appeal for Falun Dafa just prior to the Chinese Lunar New Years Day in January
2004 and was unlawfully placed under arrest. She is being held the Siping City
Detention Center. She had been sent to forced labor camps three times prior to
this.
In addition, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Dai Chunhua, 33, formerly a nurse at
the Lishu County No. 1 People's Hospital in Jilin Province, died from the
brutality inflicted by the Siping Police in early 2002.
Responsible individuals and organizations are:
Country code 86; City code 434 Office of the Head of the Liaohe Farm Management District Branch Police
Department in Siping City: 5859001, 5853200. Siping City Police Department: 3182090, 3182011. Political Section of the Siping City Police Department: 3182086, 3182189. Legal Section of the Siping City Police Department: 3182071. Office of the Head of the Siping City Detention Center: 3320127. Alternative Office of the Siping City Detention Center: 3320328. Office of the Deputy Head of the Siping City Detention Center: 3320440. Call-in Office of the Siping City Detention Center: 3321451, 3321150. Main number of the Lishu County Police Department: 5223868. Office of the head
of the police department: extension 4001. Other extensions: 4002, 4003. Sun Jingfu, deputy Head of the Lishu County Police Department in charge of the
persecution of Falun Gong: 86-13904355761 (cellular), 5223868 extension 4003
(office). Wang Fei, director of the Lishu County "610 Office": 5234610 (office), 3520017
(home), 86-13904359737 (cellular). [The "610 Office" is 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.]
4. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Qi Xiuhong of
the No. 1 Automobile Works Unlawfully Arrested
On February 16, 2004, the Qimaocheng Police Station in the Luyuan District of
Changchun City arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qi Xiuhong, an employee of
the No. 1 Automobile Works. Plainclothes police had been on stakeout near her
residence.
Officials of the Qimaocheng Police Station are Zuo Zhonglin, head, Liu Haixia,
deputy head, and Du, director.
Telephone number: 86-431-7635159.
5. [Yongji County, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Shefang
Persecuted
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Shufang, 60 years old, is a farmer in
Sanjiazi Village, Beidahu, Yongji County, Jilin Province. People who had been
deceived by the propaganda put forth by Jiang's regime about the persecution of
Falun Gong reported Ms. Liu Shufang to the police while she was distributing
truth-clarifying materials in 2003. Ms. Liu was subsequently sentenced to three
years of forced labor at Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, where she
is currently being held.
Head of the Yongji County Police Department: 86-432-4231266 (office). Yang Chunyu, Head of the Beidahu Town Police Station: 86432-4288419 (office). Cao Guimei, Party Secretary of the Sanjiazi Village in Beidahu Town:
86-432-4288795 (home).
6. [Gongyi City, Henan Province] Elderly Teacher, Gao Xiangzhi, Passes Away
Due to Unjust Treatment
Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gao Xiangzhi, over 70 years of age, was a retired
teacher in Jiajinkou Town, Gongyi City. Gao began practicing Falun Dafa in
January 1997, and was extremely resolute in his belief. After practicing Falun
Gong, all of Gao's chronic illnesses disappeared.
After July 20, 1999, as part of the Jiang regime's persecution, the local
Jiajinkou government and police station went after Falun Dafa practitioners
everywhere, ransacking their homes, confiscating Falun Dafa books and materials
and holding brainwashing sessions. Falun Gong followers were coerced into
cursing Falun Dafa and its founder, and were required to report to the police
station three times a day, even after writing so-called "guarantee statements" [renouncing
Falun Gong]. All of these mental and physical abuses had deprived Gao of the
opportunity to read Falun Dafa books, or to practice the Falun Gong exercises.
Eventually, Gao Xiangzhi passed away as a result the unjust treatment.
7. [Changle County, Shandong Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Wu Xiangying
and Her Son Tian Zhimin Unlawfully Sent to Forced Labor Camps
On the evening of November 16, 2001, Falun Dafa practitioners Wu Xiangying,
in her fifties, and her son Tian Zhimin, 23 years old, were distributing Falun
Gong truth-clarifying materials at Zaohang Village, in Zhuhan Town. Informants
spotted them and called the police. The two practitioners were taken into
custody and severely beaten. Ms. Wu was later sentenced to three years of forced
labor at Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Tian was also sentenced to three years
of forced labor at Changle Forced Labor Camp.
8. [Fuyuan County, Heilongjiang Province] Police Take Falun Dafa Practitioner
Dai Zhizhong to the Forced Labor Camp Again
Dai Zhong is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Conggou Township in Fuyuan
County, Heilongjiang Province. Two days before the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day
in January, Dai was carried home from the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp in critical
condition as a result of police brutality at the camp. Recently, after Tai's
health had improved a little, the police returned him to the Jiamusi Forced
Labor Camp.
Relevant contacts:
Country code 86; City code 454 Guo Jilong, Head of the police department: 2132422 (office), 2132732 (home),
86-13863673666 (cellular). Wang Guanghua, Deputy Head of the police department: 2131029 (office), 2131109
(office), 86-13945400687 (cellular). Zhang Sidong, Head of the Political Security Section: 2135110-5972 (office),
2131008 (home). Zhang Shuyi, member of the Political Security Section: 2135110-5972 (office),
2133089 (home), 86-13945494193 (cellular).
9. [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Shuangcheng City "610 Office"
and Police Department Arrest Numerous Falun Dafa Practitioners
On the evening of Falun Dafa Day (February 12, 2004), as well as on the
previous day, two extensive police roundups were carried out against Falun Dafa
practitioners in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. It has been reported
that eight female Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested. They are Lu Guizhen,
Yu Xianna, Liu Junshuang, Lin Yanjie, Zhang Hongmei, Wang Xiuju, Meng Qingzhi,
and Mu Xiuqing. Five male practitioners who were also arrested are: Zhang
Shiping, Jia Ying, You Shiguo, Wang Shiwei, and Guo Shijun.
Relevant telephone numbers: Country code 86; City code 451 Jiang Hongwei, Head of the Shuangcheng City "610 Office": 86-13936022121
(cellular). Jin Wanzhi, Section Head of the State Security Section: 53115778, 53005826
(home). Guo Jingyou, Head of the Shuangcheng City Police Department: 86-13309643399
(cellular). Zhang Guofu, Deputy Head of the city's police department: 53115778 (home). Wang Qingfeng, Commissar of the Shuangcheng City Police Department:
86-13796181678 (cellular).
10. [Jingzhou City, Hubei Province] Cases of Shashi District Falun Dafa
Practitioners under Persecution
In Shashi District, Jingzhou City, at least ten Falun Dafa practitioners have
been sentenced to three to five years of forced labor, including Chen Youhong,
Liu Yazhen, Chen Jingjiang, Yang Xianfeng, Deng Tianyu, Xu Ying, Dai Tangfu, Li
Zhangming, Shi Yuliang, Cheng Jiawang, and Zhou Derong. There have been more
than twenty occurrences of forcibly transferring Falun Dafa practitioners to the
forced labor camp. Among the victims are Guan Mingfeng, Jin Haiyan (twice), Zong
Aifang, Song Chang, Fu Wanhua, Qian Hui, Jiang Dalin (twice), Rui Niangui, Liu
Yong, Xie Lijuan, Dai Rong, Zheng Guangfen, Wang Qiong, Li Yongfang, Zheng
Xiaofang, Nai Xinfang, Cai Xiaolian, and Zhang Yuhua. There have been over two
hundred cases of unlawfully extending the duration of custody for practitioners.
In addition, a large number of practitioners were forced into brainwashing
classes.
11. [Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Peng Xiaodong
Arrested
On February 10, 2004, police officers from the local police station in Tonglu
County abducted Falun Dafa practitioner Peng Xiaodong into custody, where he
still remains.
Contact information for the company where Peng was employed: Fuchunjiang Tourist Company Ltd. No. 179 Fuchun Road Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province Zip code 311500 Telephone number: 86-571-64600497; Fax number: 86-571-64600255. Peng's office telephone: 86-571-64633133.
12. [Shantou City, Guangdong Province] Chaonan District Falun Dafa
Practitioner Zhou Xuyuan Taken to a Brainwashing Center
On February 12, 2004, various officials broke into Falun Dafa practitioner
Zhou Xuyuan's home. Among the group were officials from the Chaonan District
Police Department in Shantou City, Qiu of the "610 Office," Liu Xiaodong of the
district's comprehensive management office, Wu Weibo of the Xiashan Town Police
Station and members of the Residential Committee. They found one leaflet that
exposed the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong and some videotapes of
Falun Gong lectures. On the following day, they used this leaflet as their
excuse for forcibly abducting Zhou Xuyuan to the brainwashing session located in
the Political and Judiciary Committee Building on Haibin Road in Shantou City.
Telephone numbers of responsible individuals: Qiu, Director of the "610 Office" in the Chaonan District Police Department:
86-13902711661 (cellular). Liu Xiaodong, member of the Chaonan District Comprehensive Management Office:
86-13192177045 (cellular). Hong Zhenyao, Head of the Xiashan Town Police Station in Chaonan District:
86-13502921812 (cellular). Zhou Hanqing, Party Secretary of the Xiashan Town Political and Judiciary
Committee: 86-13903046922 (cellular). Wu Weibo, group leader of the Xiashan Town Police Station: 86-13903048582
(cellular). Xiaoshan Town Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-661-7775428. Xiashan Police Station: 86-661-7761321.
13. [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Yuan Qinglun,
Zhang Xiaolan and Liu Xiuqin Abducted
Late in the evening on February 3, 2004, in preparation for the Benxi City
Falun Dafa Day on February 4, practitioners Mr. Yuan Qinglun, Ms. Zhang Xiaolan
and Ms. Lin Xiuqin went to Xujia Township, in the Nanfen District of Benxi City,
to hang banners and distribute leaflets. Director Fan, of the township's
patrolling security brigade, led two security staffers in arresting the
practitioners, who were then taken to the Guojia Police Station in Nanfen
District. Telephone number of the police station: 86-414-2121677.
14. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners
On the afternoon of January 12, 2004, several dozen police officers broke
into a one-story house near Hunhe Station in Shenyang City. Falun Dafa
practitioner Mr. Zhai Hui, Ms. Li Caixia, and a female practitioner from out of
town were arrested. The practitioners are being held in a detention center in
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
15. [Huludao, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xiao Fengzhi
Arrested in Suizhong County
Late in the evening on February 13, 2004, officers from the Political
Security Section of the Suizhong County Police Department unlawfully arrested
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xiao Fengzhi. She is being held at Suizhong County
Detention Center.
Relevant telephone numbers: Country code 86; City code 429 Suizhong County Detention Center: 6183469. Wang Limin, Deputy Head of the police department: 86-13842917169 (cellular),
6127518 (office), 6128682 (home). Li Changhua, Head of the Political Security Brigade: 86-13700196626 (cellular),
6122876 (office). Shang Ergui, Deputy Party Secretary of the County Political and Judiciary
Committee, director of the "610 Office": 86-13130960038 (cellular), 6131710
(office), 6125558 (home). Liu Zhongli, Party Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee:
86-13909897877 (cellular), 6123401 (office), 6122042 (home). Wang Wenjiang, Deputy Party Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee:
86-13700196429 (cellular), 6123235 (office).
16. [Anhui Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuxiang Taken to the
No. 2 Detention Center in Huainan City
Ms. Wang Yuxiang, around 45 years of age, was arrested on the afternoon of
January 28, 2004, while she was posting signs at the Huainan Police Department
that clarified the facts about the persecution. She is currently being held in
custody at the Huainan City No. 2 Detention Center.
Telephone numbers: Country code 86; City code 554 Huainan City No. 2 Detention Center: 6664246. Li Jianming, member of the Huainan Political and Judiciary Committee: 6654956. Wang Guangshe, Tianjia'an District police officer: 3620718.
17. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Members of the "610 Office" and Police
Arrest Ms. Tang Hui and Other Falun Dafa Practitioners
On January 29, 2004, in an effort to apprehend those who had tapped into
closed-circuit TV programs, agents of the Handan "610 Office" and officers from
the Congtai Branch Police Station took into custody the entire family of a
cousin of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Tang Hui. The cousin and her family are
not practitioners, and under great duress, they revealed Ms. Tang's whereabouts.
On the same evening, Ms. Tang Hui and another practitioner were arrested.
On February 5, 2004, Handan Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Han Meng was taken to
the Liangfangdong Police Station after informants called the police because he
was clarifying the facts to the public. Mr. Han is being held in Handan No. 1
Detention Center.
18 [Chongqing] Dr. Liu Yunming, a Physician in Jiangjin, Unlawfully Arrested
On January 15, 2004, police in Rentuo, Jiangjin arrested Chongqing Falun Dafa
practitioner Dr. Liu Yunming, a physician, about 50 years old. Prior to his
arrest, Liu had been forced to stay away from his home and move from place to
place to avoid the persecution. Dr. Liu's telephone number is 86-23-47609343
(home).
19. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Officers at the Handan Forced Labor Camp
Torture Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Fengshan
Mr. Li Fengshan is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Quzhou County, Handan City.
Arrested by the local police station in April 2003, Mr. Li was sent to the
Handan Forced Labor Camp without going through any legal procedures. The police
so brutally tortured him that Li lost consciousness for an extended period of
time. He wrote and signed the "four statements" [renouncing Falun Gong]
before fully coming to his senses. After he fully regained consciousness, the
police ordered him to write articles attacking Falun Dafa and its founder. Li
then resolutely refused. The outraged officers handcuffed him to a tree in the
yard, and then ordered several inmates and collaborators to torture him. [The
collaborators are former Falun Gong practitioners who had gone astray due to
brainwashing and torture.] Mr. Li remains in custody at the forced labor
camp, enduring all kinds of abuse.
20. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Officers from the Chouzhuang Police
Station Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Haiping and Her Non-Practitioner
Husband
Around 9:00 a.m. on February 13, 2004, seven or eight thugs broke into the
home of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Haiping. They forcibly took Ms. Sun and
her husband, who is not a practitioner, to the police station. Later that same
evening, they also ransacked the home of Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Wenjun, in
Yuezhuang City, and took Liu away. The whereabouts of those who were abducted
remain unknown.
21. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Hua Caixia
Imprisoned at the Dalian Forced Labor Camp over Two Years
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hua Caixia, 35, was unlawfully taken to the
Dalian Forced Labor Camp two years ago, and has remained there ever since.
22. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Huang Yanjin and Other Falun Dafa
Practitioners Remain Unlawfully Imprisoned at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Huang Yanjin, Ms. Li Xiuqin and Ms. Wang Yanqiu
are from Dawangzhangzi in Lingyuan City. In 2000, they were unlawfully taken to
the Dawangzhangzi Detention Center and detained for over a month before being
released. In August of 2002, the practitioners were again taken to the detention
center for refusing to give up their practice of and belief in Falun Dafa. They
have since been transferred to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
Telephone number of the Dawangzhangzi Police Station in Lingyuan City,
Liaoning Province: 86-421-6188108. Ju Wenxiang, Head of the police station: 86-421-6157318 (home).
23. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Numerous Falun Dafa Practitioners
Unlawfully Arrested by the Nu'er Police Station in Taihe District
Around 7:00 p.m. on February 15, 2004, the police broke into the home of Ms.
Jin Yuzhen, a Falun Dafa practitioner at Wanghutai Village in Nu'erhe Township,
Taihe District, Jinzhou City. Besides Ms. Jin, eight other people were watching
the videotaped lecture by Falun Dafa's founder, including her husband Zhang
Shaoshan, 70-year-old Wang Dehua and son Han Guojun, Di Qingfu and his wife, Di
Baosen and his wife Chen Xiujuan, and Li Chunming. The police took all nine of
them to the Nu'erhe Police Station. Mr. Di Qingfu and his wife were later
released because of their advanced ages.
Around 11:50 p.m. on the same night, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xiaomin had
gone to Liu Minchun's home to get more information on what had happened to the
others, but when he got there, police officers were already there notifying
Liu's family about the detention. Wang was interrogated and later placed in
custody. These eight people are currently being held at Jinzhou City No. 1
Detention Center.
Zhao Xiaoming, Head of the Nu'erhe Police Station: 86-416-5139243.
24. [Yongnian County, Hebei Province] Numerous Falun Dafa Practitioners
Arrested
After the unlawful arrests of Mr. Cheng Peiju and his son, Lu Zhonghai, Li
Fen, more Falun Dafa practitioners have been arrested, detained or otherwise
harassed.
On January 27, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Ma Xiaofen was detained for
three days.
Late in the evening on January 30, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Suyun
was arrested in Mingyang Village, and quickly taken away without even being
allowed to put on shoes.
Late in the evening on January 31, 2004, officers from the No. 5 Crime
Investigation Brigade climbed over a residence wall and abducted Falun Dafa
practitioner Bao Yinqiang.
Around January 31, 2004, officers from the No. 3 Crime Investigation Brigade
and from the Liuying Police Station ransacked the home of Falun Dafa
practitioner Mr. Hu Jinshe. Allegedly looking for Falun Gong materials, they cut
open mattresses and body-searched Hu's wife.
Around January 31, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Li Jianmin was forced to
leave home to avoid arrest after the police had made two previous visits
attempting an arrest.
Around January 31, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Han Xueli, of the Leather
and Cotton Warehouse, was forced to leave home after the police had previously
attempted an arrest.
Late in the evening on February 3, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Jin Guihua,
a Post Office employee, was arrested.
The police also arrested Falun Dafa practitioner You Wensheng from Beidu
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