Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by "610" Office and Security Section Agents in Kuancheng County, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20th 1999, people
from the "610" Office (1) and the Political Security Section in Kuancheng County
have persecuted the local Falun Gong practitioners in the county to different
degrees: more than 20 people at a time were sent to the brainwashing center, 55
people at a time were detained, 2 practitioners were sentenced to prison, and 12
practitioners were sent to the forced labor camp. Illegal penalties reached
65,000 yuan (2). Many houses of the practitioners were searched and their
property was confiscated. The facts of the persecution of several practitioners are as
follows. Practitioner Mrs. Cuihua Bai, over 40 years old, lived in
Dashizhuzi Township, Tangdaohe Town, Kuancheng County, Hebei Province. She began
to practice Falun Gong in 1996. Because she came out to validate the Fa, she was
detained, arbitrarily fined, and sent to a forced labor camp and brainwashing
center on 7 different occasions. Her family's normal life has been constantly
disrupted. On December 18th 2003, Zeyuan Li, Jinglian Li and
Fengzhi Cao in the "610" Office of Kuancheng County instigated more than 10
people in the Political Security Section and Police Station as well as officials
of the village and township to abduct Cuihua Bai and Zhilin Wang to the
brainwashing center in Chengde. People in the "610" Office extorted 3,000 yuan
from the officials of the village and township, using the hard-earned money from
the people to persecute these good people. Even though the Dashizhuzi Township
is in a poor rural mountain area, the officials in the "610" Office still
required the Dashizhuzi government to provide money, cars, and manpower for the
persecution. Practitioner Ms. Shuge Liu and her husband Shouchun Jing in
Dashizhuzi Township, Kuancheng County, Hebei Province were abducted on October
28th 1999. They were detained illegally for a total of 15 days.
During that time, they were locked in a cold room for 2 days and 3 nights. There
was no bedding in the room. They only had a cold, hard board to sleep on. On May 11th 2000, simply because Shuge Liu tried
to get her Dafa book back from the authorities, she was sent to the brainwashing
center in the county by the Tandaohe Police and then was detained for 30 days. On June 16th 2000, Shuge Liu was sent back to the
county and put into the forced labor camp for one year because she went to
Beijing to appeal. In the forced labor camp, she suffered various kinds of
inhuman persecution. After she was released from the forced labor camp, she was
reported by some misguided people to the authorities when she was handing out
truth-clarifying materials. On the 18th day of the twelfth month of
the lunar year of 2002, head of Police station Xuelong Gao, and Rongyu Zhang &
Yongjun Zhang from the Political Security Section abducted her into a car and
detained her illegally. She went on a hunger strike to protest and was released
after 7 days. Practitioner Shouchun Jing, male, over 40 years old, lived at
Xiliyuan Village, Dashizhuzi Township, Kuancheng County. After July 20th
1999, people from Tangdaohe Police Station of the county's Police Department and
the local government of the village and county always came to harass him at his
home, search his home, confiscate his property, and abduct people from his
house. On July 28th 1999, Shouchun Jing was detained for
15 days. In December 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal and was sent back by the
policemen in the county. He was sentenced to a year of forced labor. On February 25th 2003, the head of the Political
Security Section, Shan Gao, along with Yongjun Zhang arrested Shouchun Jing at
his home by force and sent him to the detention center. In the detention center,
he went on a hunger strike as a protest against the illegal detention. Then he
suffered the persecution of force-feeding with concentrated salt-solution (3),
wearing handcuffs combined with foot shackles (4), and sleeping on a dragon's
bed [a torture method], etc. His body was tortured severely and he had blood in
his stool. Then Yongjun Zhang informed his family members to take him home since
his blood pressure was extremely low and he was near to death. On April 28th, the head of Police Department,
Xuelong Gao, with several policemen broke the door open and entered Shouchun's
house at 11 p.m. They arrested Shouchun and sent him to the detention center.
Because his body was so weak, Shouchun was not sent to the forced labor camp at
that time. While in the detention center, the policemen finished the procedures
to put him into the forced labor camp for two years. He was sent to the Hehuaken
forced labor camp in Tangshan on the second day. However, the camp refused to
accept him and he was sent back to the detention center in the county. During
these 12 days, Shouchun Jing did not drink a drop of water and he was near
death. Only then did the Police Department release him from the detention
center. Practitioners Zhenlin Liu and Cuilan Jiang, were a couple
over 60 years old at Dashizhuzi Village in Dashizhuzi Township, Kuancheng
County, Hebei Province. Because they firmly believe in "Truthfulness,
Compassion, and Forbearance" they were arrested by the police in Beijing. Then,
they were sent back by the policemen and people in the Political Security
Section of Kuanchen County and detained in the detention center illegally. When
the couple was detained, the head of the Department of Armed Forces of
Dashizhuzi Township, Guoqiang Wang, with X Liu from the Tangdaohe Police Station
came to their house around 9 p.m. They forced the eldest child of the couple to
find a tool and pried a lock-box open. They stole pictures of Teacher Li, Dafa
books, bankbooks, and 700 yuan in savings. Zhenlin Liu was sent to the forced
labor camp for one year and Cuilan Jiang was extorted several thousand yuan by
the policemen and the people in the Political Security Section. Practitioner Ms. Guilian Bai, lived at Xiaoshizhuzi Village,
Dashizhuzi Township, Kuancheng County. In December 2000, she went to Beijing to
appeal and was detained illegally in a detention center. During this time,
Dashizhuzi officials including Yuzhu Guo with X Liu of Tandaohe Police Station
went to her house. In the name of searching for Dafa books, they extorted100
yuan from her family. Her family was also forced to pay a 4,500 yuan fine issued
by police and the authorities in the Political Security Section. Practitioners Mrs. Cuilian Guo, Mrs. Cuiyin Wang, and Yushu
Xia lived in Dashizhuzi Township, Kuancheng County, Hebei Province. All of them
were over 50 years old. From July 20th 1999, police in the Dashizhuzi
Police Department along with people from all levels of the government always
came to their home to harass them. Because they persisted in practicing Falun
Gong, they were abducted by the officials in the village, township, and town.
Cuilian Guo was detained on four separate occasions. Cuiyin Wang was detained
three times and Yushu Xia was detained once. In December 2000, after these three Falun Gong practitioners
were detained for one month at the detention center because they went to Beijing
to appeal, Gaoxue Long, the head of the Police Department sent them to the
forced labor camp for one year. In the forced labor camp, they suffered a lot of
persecution, along with bad food and were forced to work to make money for the
camp. Whether it was windy or raining, whether it was hot in summer or cold in
winter, they were forced to work more than 10 hours per day. (1) "610 Office" [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.] (2) Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in
China.] (3) Force-feeding Concentrated Salt-Solution [This causes intense
pain in the gut. Many practitioners have died from this because of the resulting
dehydration.] (4) Handcuffs Combined with Foot Shackles [One of a victim's hands
is handcuffed to the other hand between the legs. The shackle weighs over 20
pounds. The victim cannot go to sleep, walk, stand, use the bathroom, or eat a
meal. They have to walk in a half-squatting and bowing position. Police often
torture practitioners this way for weeks.]
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