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"The Two Offices" Nicknamed "The Gate of Hell for Appealing"
(Clearwisdom.net) Epoch Times reported on August 3, 2004, that the State Council Appeals
Office and the National People's Congress Appeals Office of the People's
Republic of China are called "The Two Offices" by the people who visit
these offices to appeal for help. Gathered by the entrances to the offices are
many plainclothes police from different areas, intercepting people who are
visiting the offices. It is said that some of these people are not police, but
are thugs hired by the local governments. These people occupied the pathways to
the entrance of "the two offices" and their vehicles lined the two
sides of the pathways to the entrance. They relentlessly beat the groups of
people coming to appeal. The people reported the situation to the police, but
the police oftentimes turn around and detain and beat these people instead. "The Two Offices" nicknamed "The Gate of Hell for
Appealing" On August 3, 2004, Du Mingrong, a woman from Baishan City, Jilin Province who
had come to appeal, was beaten when she was trying to visit "The
Two Offices." Ms. Du is not a Falun Gong practitioner. She told a reporter: Now the police behave exactly like they have gone mad.
They even bite people. Around the entrance of ¡®The Two Offices' are
mostly hired personnel who are paid a certain amount of money for each person
they beat. If the person is beaten to death, the police promise to take the
responsibility. Today I went to the ¡®Two Offices' to report
that the police want to send me to the mental hospital with the false claim that
I am a Falun Gong practitioner. As I was passing by, I saw that they were
beating three people. One old man in his 50s was beaten to the ground with blood
all over his body and looked like he was in critical condition. A man in his 40s
and a woman in her 50s were also beaten. They snatched my handbag away, beating
me and kicking me. I asked for my handbag back. They then tried to catch me, so
I left in a hurry. They do not let us get through the entrance. Every day there
are people beaten bloody and it has become a common occurrence. Reporter: How many of them beat you? Du Mingrong: How many? There were so many of them there and they are all
strong. They beat me until I was confused and disoriented. I could not tell how
many of them beat me. Today there were at least 200 of them intercepting the
people coming to appeal. Reporter: Did they come up to you and beat you without asking any questions? Du Mingrong: They asked me where I came from. If I told them where I came
from, the personnel from my local government would grab me right away and send
me back. So I did not say anything and kept on walking toward the entrance. They
then started to beat me. Anyway, if you try to go in there without answering
them they will beat you. This is not even counted as beating. If your group has
10 to 20 people and you persistently try to get in then you might get in,
although several of your people will get beaten. If you have only one or two
people, it is very easy for them to grab you. They are trained and beat people
very hard. Their morality is very low. They say that they won't let you walk and
they grab your body everywhere. I am 51 years old and they touched me where they
should not have touched. I asked them why they acted so indecently. They really
take liberties with women. We have to put up with all kinds of degradation. Reporter: You were beaten. Did you call the police? Du Mingrong: We called the police, but they did not take any action. Last
time, they beat an old man and injured him. He was seriously injured and could
not move. We called the police and when the police came, I knocked on the police
vehicle window. Because I knocked on their window, the police tried to detain
me. Then the police ganged up with the others. The police have beaten me three times. On January 7, 2004, the policewomen of
Tiananmen Police Station pulled down my pants; they stripped off all my clothes
and snatched away 150 yuan from my underpants pocket that I saved from selling
bottles for recycling. Policemen stepped on me and insulted me. On August 18,
2003, Niujie Street Police Station police, after they had beaten me and
fractured my rib bones, they tied me up for 12 hours. Why does the Chinese
government trample on human right so much? My rib bones were beaten and
fractured by the police and I am still suffering the pain, and my physical
condition is bad. I have been living on the street and I have been eating from
garbage bins; I dare not go home. Because I reported that the police beat people, they now claim that I am a
Falun Gong practitioner and they threatened to send me to the mental hospital. I
don't have any spiritual belief. When Falun Gong started to be introduced to the
public, I even did not know how to write "Falun." I am not a Falun
Gong practitioner and I don't know why they tried to claim that I am. They say
that I have a mental disorder and they want to send me to a mental hospital.
What proof do they have? What evidence do they have to say that I am a Falun
Gong practitioner? If they catch me now, they will probably sentence me to
prison. I am in serious danger. On the 15th of July, a police officer caught me, claiming that I was a Falun
Gong practitioner. I denied it, but then the police beat me anyway. On July 22
when I passed by Tiananmen Square after I visited the Procuratorate to appeal,
the police grabbed me and pushed me into their vehicle. They beat me in the
vehicle and again claimed that I was a Falun Gong practitioner. They forced me
to admit that I was a Falun Gong practitioner or they would keep beating me. I
had to say it before they finally stopped beating me. I know that Falun Gong practitioners are good people. One time at Tiananmen,
they locked Falun Gong practitioners in metal cages that are used to confine
animals. They did not let the practitioners drink or eat, and they even locked
male and female Falun Gong practitioners in one cage. They also did not let the
practitioners use the bathroom. The practitioners did not say anything. They are
really truthful, benevolent, and tolerant. I have to admit that I saw many
virtues shining in them. When the police beat us we would shout for help ¡®The
police are beating people!', ¡®Please help!' But the Falun Gong practitioners
did not say anything no matter how the police beat them. Our people who came to
appeal are not as noble as the Falun Gong practitioners, and our characters are
not as high as that of the Falun Gong practitioners." We have reported many times on the plainclothes thugs intercepting the people
who come to appeal for help in front of "The Gate of Hell for
Appealing." Ye Guozhu, a person engaging in safeguarding the people's
rights, female attorney Ni Yulan, as well as many other people who came to
appeal, have frequently pointed out this crime. Ye Guozhu said that on July 14
he saw an elderly woman with bound feet in the yard of the "Two
Offices." She came from Yunnan Province to appeal for help and she was in
her 80s. But the police security violently dragged her in the yard back and
forth. These crimes have shown no signs of abating, even after being exposed. As the
time for the Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee is
approaching, the Beijing government is anxious to get rid of the people who come
to Beijing to appeal for help. Those young plainclothes thugs ruthlessly beat
people who are in poor health and are suffering, especially the elderly people.
This is an indication of how much the traditional Chinese moral standard is
being undermined. August 3, 2004 |