Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by the Police Department and the Political and Judiciary Committee of Donggang City, Liaoning Province
By a Dafa Practitioner in Donggang City, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, under orders from Jiang Zemin and
lured by personal fame and gain, the Political and Judiciary Committee and the
Police Department of Donggang City have savagely persecuted many Falun Gong
practitioners. More than one hundred practitioners have been jailed. Three have
died from torture. One is permanently disabled. Dafa practitioners were extorted
tens of thousands of Yuan, (1) had their homes ransacked, and they were
subjected to fines, detention and brainwashing. Some practitioners were forced
to give up the practice and later died from relapses of old illness. Many
practitioners refused to yield to the evildoers and were forced out of school or
fired from their jobs. Many were compelled to escape from home and went into
hiding. Many families were broken up. In the following we will present a few
persecution cases in Donggang City. Practitioner Wang Daxin denied college entrance because she believes in
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" On July 20, 1999, Ms Wang Daxin from Gushang Township went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. In August, Donggang City police in Beijing arrested her.
Wang Daxin's university entrance test score had been announced at that time, and
she passed the online admission requirement. The police released Wang Daxin
after they accompanied her back to Donggang. On September 9, however, the police
and staff from the Political and Judiciary Committee came to try to force her to
give up Falun Dafa as a condition for university admission. Wang Daxin refused.
She told them that Falun Dafa is great, and there is nothing wrong with
practicing "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Yang Feng, head of the political
and judiciary committee, told policemen Song Xiaohe, Zhou Hengchen and Wang
Chengyi to detain Wang Daxin for 15 days in the Donggang City Detention Center.
Later she was sent to the Donggang City Jail for another 30 days. Because of
this persecution, Wang Daxin lost her opportunity to study at a university. Persecution physically disabled Wang Qiang and caused his mental collapse In September 1999, Dafa practitioner Wang Qiang from Tufang Village in
Qianyang Township went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested by
Donggang City police and later sent to Donggang City Detention Center, where the
police encouraged criminal inmates to violently torture and humiliate him. In
October 1999, Donggang City police sentenced Wang Qiang to two years of forced
labor and later sent him to Dandong City Forced Labor Camp. The labor camp police used all kinds of torture to try to force Wang Qiang to
"reform" and renounce Falun Dafa, but he firmly refused. The police put Wang
Qiang into the "strictly monitored" cell and tortured him even more severely.
The police deprived Wang Qiang of sleep and forced him to squat all day long in
this cell. Wang Qiang's legs were badly swollen. To protest the abuse, Wang
Qiang went on a hunger strike. The police tried to force-feed him, but Wang
Qiang refused to open his mouth. The police knocked out Wang's front teeth while
prying his mouth open. Blood spurted out of his mouth. The pain was so intense
that Wang Qiang passed out. One month later, Wang Qiang was released from the
"strictly monitored" cell. By now he had lost so much weight that he looked like
a skeleton. He suffered a mental collapse. Doctors from Dandong No. 203 Hospital
said that he had "muscular nerve necrosis" and "severe mental illness." In
October 2000 Wang Qiang was released on medical parole. Back home, Wang Qiang's
condition improved. He indicated that he wanted to resume Falun Gong practice
and study. Policemen Song Xiaohe, Zhou Hengchen and Wang Yunlong came again to
torment him. Wang Yunlong was later promoted to chief of the Political and
Security Section. They forced Wang Qiang's family members to beat him up,
driving him into mental collapse for the second time. Wang Qiang is now reduced
to a nearly vegetative state. He has lost the ability to live a normal life. Healthy person forced into mental hospital and dies Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Hong of Dadong Township went to Beijing to appeal in
early 2000. She was arrested by Donggang police and sent to a mental hospital,
where she suffered severe mental trauma. After she was sent back home, the
police forced her family to restrict her freedom. Her family put her under
virtual house arrest and would not let her leave. She could not contact other
Dafa practitioners. In May 2000, Li Hong suffered a mental collapse due to the
constant harassment and died from drowning. Dafa Practitioner Zhao Kaisheng from Donggang City, Liaoning Province
tortured to death Dafa practitioner Zhao Kaisheng, 61, was a resident at Jinjiang Street,
Dadong District, Donggang City, Liaoning Province. The police unlawfully
detained him on September 10, 1999. His family bailed him out later with a 2,000
Yuan "deposit." In June 2000 he was again detained for 15 days without being
formally charged. On December 13, 2000 he was arrested again following a trip to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. He suffered 70 days of persecution in a detention center
and the police confiscated 10,600 Yuan from him. On February 21, 2001 he was sentenced to two years of forced labor at the
Dandong City Forced Labor Camp, where he suffered all kinds of inhuman
treatment. He was released after his health had rapidly deteriorated. Shortly
after his release, local police began to frequently harass him at home. Having
suffered serious physical and mental torture, Zhao Kaisheng's health
continuously worsened. He died on April 23, 2002. Liu Yanjun's Family destroyed by the persecution On July 1999, the Party Legal Office and the police in Donggang tried to
force Dafa practitioner Wang Yuanjing to give up practicing Falun Dafa and
ordered him to "reform" his wife Liu Yanjun. The police threatened to fire both
of them from work if they refused to cooperate. Faced with such tremendous
pressure, Wang Yuanjing became ill with stomach cancer. On August 1999, Liu
Yanjun accompanied her husband Wang Yuanjing for a medical check-up at Beijing's
No. 301 Hospital. Policeman Wang Yunlong stopped them at the Dandong City Train
Station. Wang Yuanjing explained the reason for going to Beijing and showed him
the official referral letters from his employer and from the City Public Heath
Department. Still, Wang Yunlong refused to let them board the train. He said,
"The authorities ordered that you must not go to Beijing!" Facing such a
ridiculous demand, Wang Yuanjing decided not to comply. He pushed the police
aside and got onto the train. The Political and Judiciary Committee and the Police Department of Donggang
City immediately dispatched Director Li from the Party United Front Department,
Wang's employer, and Wei Jingde from Donggang Number Three Middle School, Liu
Yanjun's employer, to fly to Beijing. That night, Wang Yuanjing, who had arrived
in Beijing, learned that Donggang police also threatened his friend who helped
to arrange the hospital visit. Wang became so worried that his situation
worsened rapidly. To avoid causing trouble to his friend, Wang Yuanjing decided
not to visit the No. 301 Hospital, and that he would return to Donggang the next
day. Director Li and Wei Jingde met him at the Beijing train station. Seeing
that Wang was extremely ill, the two men held Wang's arms and helped him onto
the train. Wang died shortly after he returned home. In December 2000, Liu Yanjun and other Dafa practitioners went to Beijing to
appeal. Song Xiaohe, deputy head of the Political and Judiciary Committee,
personally traveled to Beijing to arrest Liu Yanjun. Dozens of other
practitioners were also arrested. Liu Yanjun and other Dafa practitioners were
taken to a hotel in Beijing, which was used as a makeshift detention center by
the Donggang City government. The policemen who traveled with Song Xiaohe
tortured Dafa practitioners cruelly, causing Liu Yanjun to suffer partial
paralysis. Using the same method they had used to abuse practitioner Liu Mei,
Song Xiaohe and Donggang police charged Liu Yanjun as "organizer of a Beijing
appeals group" and handed her over to the prosecutor. Donggang City Court later
sentenced Liu to six years in prison and sent her to Dabei Prison in Shenyang
City. In addition, officials from Donggang Education Department fired Liu Yanjun
from her position at a middle school. After that, Liu Yanjun's 14-year-old
daughter was the only one left at home. Liu Yanjun's family was thus destroyed.
The persons responsible for this case are: Song Xiaohe, Zhou Hengchen, Wang
Yunlong, Yang Feng and Liu Hua. Persecution of practitioners Liu Mei, Zhang Wei, Liu Meirong and Zhu
Changming In 2002, under direction from the Political and Judiciary Committee and from
Donggang Police Department, officers Liu Hua, Zhou Hengchen, Wang Yunlong and
Wang Yuanjun intensified the harassment of Dafa practitioners. In April 2002
they arrested practitioners Liu Mei, Zhang Wei, Liu Meirong, Zhu Changming and
four others. The police subjected practitioners Zhu Changming, Li Xinliang, Lian Ping to
barbaric torture and inhuman abuse. Dozens of policemen dispatched by Zhou
Hengchen and Wang Yunlong tortured practitioner Liu Meirong so badly that she
lost consciousness. Later, Donggang City Court sentenced Liu Meirong to three
years in jail and sent her to Shenyang Dabei Prison. Her crime: they found a
Falun Gong truth-clarifying flyer in her home. After the police abducted her, practitioner Zhang Wei escaped with the power
of her righteous thoughts. To capture her, Donggang police staged a manhunt.
Zhou Hengchen ordered the police to arrest a friend of Zhang Wei's and later
Zhang Wei's husband. Zhang's husband was tortured so badly that he almost died
and was hospitalized. Three months later, Zhang Wei was arrested again. While in
detention, Zhang Wei went on a hunger strike to protest. The police tortured her
with forced-feeding. After frequent tube insertion, Zhang Wei's throat was too
swollen to allow a tube to go in. To save themselves the hassle, the police just
left a tube in her throat. One month later, Zhang Wei had become severely
emaciated and she was near death. Ignoring her condition, Donggang police
department sent Zhang Wei to the Shenyang Dabei Prison. After police head Zhou Hengchen issued the arrest warrant, policemen Wang
Yunlong, Liu Wenquan and another dozen policemen took practitioner Liu Mei away.
At the time of the arrest, the policemen forced Liu Mei into the police car
roughly and recklessly, not even waiting for the car to stop. Liu Mei lost her
balance and dropped to the ground. She was knocked out instantly. Wang Yunlong
and others threw the unconscious Liu Mei into the car and drove away. Doctors later diagnosed Liu Mei with a severe concussion. After Liu was
arrested, she began to suffer a prolonged high fever. On the second day
following her arrest, police transferred Liu Mei to the first branch of the
Dandong Police Department. The police there tortured her with all kinds of
methods to force her to give up Falun Gong. They stripped off all her clothes
except her underpants. They used electric batons to shock her. They used rubber
clubs to hit her head until she passed out. After four months of torture and
detention, Liu Mei's health deteriorated severely. Her lung functions were
drastically reduced, probably due to the prolonged high fever. Even under such
dire circumstances, the police refused to allow her to undergo medical
treatment. They didn't inform her family and even denied their request to visit
her. In August 2002, after repeated appeals from Liu Mei's family, she was
escorted back to Donggang for an exam in the hospital. After Liu Mei's family
pre-paid the hospital 400 Yuan, they began the medical check-up, but the
hospital staff kept asking for more money during the process. Liu Mei's
situation was extremely serious. She suffered a high fever, but part of her arms
and legs were ice-cold. The exam was not completed in one day. The hospital told
them to return the next day. They would then check her stomach in the morning
with a gastroscopy examination. The next morning, though, when the family
members arrived, Liu Mei was gone. Family members went to the detention center
and found out that the Donggang police had already secretly sent her to the
Shenyang City's Dabei Prison. Her relatives questioned, "Liu Mei was very ill. Her check-up was not yet
completed. Why was she transferred?" Director Wang of detention center said with
a straight face, "Liu Mei isn't ill. Everything is fine." At that time, Liu Mei
was undergoing an exam at Dabei Prison, revealing that Liu suffered from
tuberculosis. Dabei Prison refused to accept Liu Mei based on this condition and
she was sent back to Donggang. Even then, the police still refused to release
her to seek medical treatment. Fearing the contagious disease, both detention
centers in Donggang and Dandong refused to take Liu Mei. Then Donggang police
sent her to the Fengcheng Detention Center, without any concern for her life.
Fortunately, someone informed Liu Mei's family. They strongly demanded to take
her back. The police gave in and released her to her family. In November 2002
Donggang police again sent a seriously ill Liu Mei to Shenyang City Dabei
Prison's Female Branch, where she suffered inhuman torture. On March 10, 2004,
Liu Mei's relatives finally got an opportunity to visit her. By then, she was
skin and bones and fighting for her life. People like Liu Mei and several hundred thousand Dafa practitioners in China
who are in detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons are suffering from
insidious persecution. Their only "crime" is their belief in
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" and their pursuit to live a morally upright
life and their firm insistence to tell people, "Falun Dafa is great!" In recent years, no matter how badly they have suffered in the persecution,
Dafa practitioners in Donggang never stopped in their efforts to clarify the
truth of Falun Dafa to people. They keep on telling people the facts of the
persecution. They compassionately tell people that good will be rewarded and
evil will be punished. Since May of last year, several dozen practitioners were arrested in Donggang.
On March 15, 2004, police again arrested practitioners Pan Guizhen and Zhao
Xiufang from the Beijingzi District. We appeal to everyone to stand up and support the Falun Dafa and Dafa
practitioners. Please help Liu Mei and other Dafa practitioners. For more on Liu Mei see:
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/4/3/46684.html (1) Yuan is the Chinese unit of currency. The average income of an urban
worker in China is around 500 Yuan.
Chinese version available at
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