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Latest News from China - June 9, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. [Yiyang City, Hunan Province] Dafa Practitioner Guo Zhaoqing on Hunger
Strike in a Detention Center Practitioner Guo Zhaoqing from Yiyang City, Hunan Province is being held in
the Second Detention Center in Yiyang City. Guo has been on a hunger strike ever
since his arrest on May 24, over ten days so far. Guo Zhaoqing's mother, Xiong Biyun is currently being illegally held in the
Taojiang County Detention Center in Yiyang City; practitioner Guo Xueling from
Yiyang City was arrested as well. "610 Office" in Yiyang City:
86-737-4224517 "610 Office" in the Heshan District,
Yiyang City: 86-737-4403610 Yiyang City's Second Detention
Center: 86-737-4435592 Taojiang County Detention Center:
86-734-8824762 2. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Personnel from the Yuhua Donglu Police
Precinct Arrest Wang Shuqin Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shuqin was forcibly taken away from home by
officers from the Yuhua Donglu (Eastern Road) Police Precinct, Shijiazhuang
City, on the morning of May 15. Wang Shuqin, 48 years old, lives in the Railway
Driver School dormitory building on Huaibei Road, Shijiazhuang City. She was
arrested. Surveillance cameras had recorded her while going out to distribute
truth-clarification materials. 3. [Weihui City, Henan Province] Retired Kindergarten Teacher Unlawfully
Arrested Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Cao Jumei, 50 years old, a retired kindergarten
teacher from Weihui City's Yarn Factory school, was reported by someone on May
28, 2004. Personnel from the factory's police precinct arrested her and
confiscated Dafa books and Master's lectures, as well as the Minghui Weekly
(newsletter from the Minghui/Clearwisdom website), etc. She is currently being
held in a detention center. 4. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Arrest of Practitioner Huang Fen Dafa practitioner Ms. Huang Fen, in her forties, is from Chengdu City's
Institute of Nuclear Power Design. On the afternoon of March 13, 2004, around
5:00 p.m., eight plainclothes officers from the Qingyang District Police
Department broke into and searched Huang Fen's home and then arrested her. She
is currently being held in the Pi County Detention Center. Related phone number: Texing Town Police Precinct,
Longmatan District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province,: chief Tang: 86-830-2750167 Yilong County Committee Party
Secretary, Sichuan Province, Jiang Yuanzhong: 86-13092829676 (cell) 5. [Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province] Sixty-year-old Ms. Wang Wanzhen
Forced to Become Homeless Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Wanzhen, a 60-year-old woman from Zhaodong City,
Heilongjiang Province, has suffered persecution many times simply for practicing
Falun Gong. She has been illegally sentenced to three years in prison for
distributing truth-clarifying materials, but was released last year when her
detention term had expired. In April 2004 she rented a small house. When she was
preparing truth-clarifying materials at home, monitors sent by the police
department discovered her. She was then put into a detention center. The
perpetrators were Wang Huanwen, Qianjin Police Precinct chief in Zhaodong City
and policeman Sun Lidong. Fifteen days later she was unconditionally released.
Sun Lidong, though, threatened the home's owner not to rent the house to Wang
Wanzhen anymore. Wang Wanzheng was forced into homelessness, and her whereabouts
are unknown. 6. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Wu Dandan, an Employee of the Jiang'an
Vehicle Factory Leaves Home to Avoid Illegal Arrest Ms. Wu Danan, about 40 years old, is an employee of the Material Section of
the Jiang'an Vehicle Factory in Wuhan City. Before the Spring Festival she was
arrested and taken to the Jiang'an District Brainwashing Center for inhuman
persecution by Jiang'an District "610 Office" authorities, by lawless policemen
from the Xinchunjie Police Precinct and by the factory's security section. She
has been tortured for about a month by many kinds of methods during her
detention. They punished her by forcing her to stand still for a long time,
force-feeding and brainwashing her, and other abuses. Before the Spring
Festival, under her family's strong requests, she was released and said to be
"on leave." The brainwashing center authorities ordered Wu Dandan to return on
the 8th day of the Lunar New Year. In order to avoid cruel mental and physical
torture, she left home and lives a homeless life. |