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The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Hecheng District, Huaihua City, Hunan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Yi Chunxiu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in
May of 2000. The district police officers, together with Shi Yuxiu, the ruling
Party Secretary of Tuanjie Community, and more than 10 other officers searched
her home, took away her Dafa books and extorted 1,500 yuan (1) from her family.
On October 12, 2000, headed by Shu Yong, officers from the local "610 Office"
arrested Ms. Yi at a fellow Dafa practitioner's home. She was detained for one
month, and was fined 1,500 yuan. On June 6, 2001, Yi Chunxiu delivered materials
explaining the truth of Dafa to Gongping, Zhijiang, and was arrested by four
police officers. The four dragged Ms. Yi by her feet for several hundred meters,
and also beat her with an umbrella until the handle broke into three pieces. At
the Zhijiang Detention Center, Yi Chunxiu was handcuffed many times, once for 13
hours. The head of the detention center police, officer Zhao, punched and kicked
Ms. Yi, leaving more than ten injuries on her body. On September 1, 2001, Yi
Chunxiu was illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp for one year. Under such
high pressure, her husband, who is not a Falun Gong practitioner, is on the
verge of a mental collapse. Ms. Yao Zhumei is 68 years old. Before she practiced Falun Gong, she was
semi-paralyzed with heart disease. She could not raise her right arm, and could
not stand up. She spent tens of thousands of yuan on medical treatments, but her
disease was not cured. Through practicing Falun Gong, she regained her health.
In May 2000, Ms. Yao, together with five other Dafa practitioners, went to the
Women's Association in Beijing to verify the goodness of Dafa in person. There
she was detained by the local "610 Office" for two months, then subjected to
another month of brainwashing. The "610 Office" also colluded with Ms. Yao's
employer to extort her out of 7,000 yuan. In January 2001, Yao Zhumei was
arrested because she handed out Dafa truth-clarification materials. She went on
a hunger strike for 7 days to protest the persecution, and was released. In
March 2002, Xiao, the head of the Yingfeng Police Station, under false
pretenses, got her into a room on the second floor of the Xiann Hotel. There she
was illegally interrogated, and was deprived of sleep for two days. Ms. Zhou Ailing is a Dafa practitioner from Qiancheng. Only a few days after
she delivered a baby, officers from the local government searched her home, took
away Dafa books and tried to coerce her into defaming Falun Gong on TV, which
she refused to do. Since she would not tell lies, she and her newborn baby were
forced to go back to her mother's home in Jiangsu Province. In 2001, Ms. Zhou
brought some Dafa truth-clarification materials to town. Local police officers
tried to arrest her. Zhou Ailing left home to avoid the ongoing persecution.
Police officers detained her husband, who is not a practitioner, for seven days,
and fined her family 4,000 yuan.
Ms. Liu Qingying was arrested on October 7, 2000 because she clarified the
truth of Dafa and the persecution to people. She was detained for 15 days, then
held at another detention center for a month, and was fined several thousand
yuan.
On May 1, 2001, officers from the Yingfeng Police Station, Hecheng District,
arrested Yang Jinlian. She was held at a detention center and later a jail. Ms.
Yang failed to pass the entrance physical exam when sent to a forced labor camp,
and was released. But she was still fined 1,000 yuan.
Ms. Zhou Yunxia is an employee at the 7th Construction Company of
Huaihua City. She was arrested in late 2000, and was detained for 15 days. Ms.
Zhou was arrested again on May 1, 2001, and was fined several thousand yuan. In
October 2001, Zhou Yunxia was arrested while handing out Dafa
truth-clarification materials in Ningxiang, Xiangtan City. Ms. Luo Yunxia was detained for 15 days because she went to Beijing to appeal
on June 12, 2000. At the end of the same month, the Tuoyuan Police Station and
the "610 Office" interrogated her for a whole day. On October 12, 2000, Ms. Luo
was at a friend's home when police officers Shu Yong, Wang, and more than ten
other officers from the Political and Security Section, arrested her and
detained her for one and a half months. In January 2002, Ms. Luo was sharing
experiences with several Dafa practitioners at a practitioner's home, when ten
police officers arrived in six police cars, abducted her and illegally detained
her.
Ms. Liu Guifen is a worker in a cotton mill. On July 23, 1999, under false
pretenses, she was talked into going to the Yingfeng Police Station and was
interrogated by Wang, the head of the Political and Security Section. On October
4, 1999, Ms. Liu headed to Beijing to appeal, but was stopped and arrested on
the train. Police officer Shu Yong detained her for seven days. On November 5,
1999, Ms. Liu was deceived again into going the Tuoyuan Police Station. On
October 12, 2000, Liu Guifen was arrested from her home and was sent to a forced
labor camp for a one-year term. Mr. Wei Guimei is an employee of the 7th Construction Company of
Huaihua City. In mid-June 2000, Mr. Wei was arrested and detained for 15 days
because he went to Beijing to appeal. That October, he was arrested at Ningxiang
and was sent to forced labor camp for one year. In 2002, Mr. Wei was again
arrested at Ningxiang. His salary was deducted and he was again sent to a forced
labor camp. Now Mr. Wei has been released. Since he continues to practice Falun
Gong, his company evicted him from the company apartment. Now he has nowhere to
stay.
Mr. Zeng Guangbin is an employee of the 7th Construction Company
of Huaihua City. He was detained for 15 days when he went to Beijing to appeal
in 2000. In the same year, he was arrested in Ningxiang while handing out Dafa
truth-clarification materials.
Wang Aizhang and He Saixian were both detained for 15 days for going to
Beijing to appeal on December 23, 2000.
Ms. He Manyu went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, and was detained for 15 days
by the "610 Office." In December 2002, she was arrested at home, detained for 40
days, and fined 3,000 yuan. Ms. Yang Shiai, Ms. Tang Kaiju, and Ms. Zhang Yuanyu all went to Beijing to
appeal in 2000, and were detained for 15 days. Ms. Yang was fined 2,000 yuan and
Ms. Tang was fined 2,500 yuan. In December 2002, Ms. Zhang was detained at home
for 15 days by the Huaihua City "610 Office."
Mr. Li Yingchun went to Beijing to appeal in June 2000. He was detained for
one week in Beijing and then for 15 days at Huaihua. He was fined 2,000 yuan. Mr. Hu Tingyu was reported while delivering Dafa truth-clarification
materials together with three other practitioners on June 19, 2001. Police
officers arrested him and detained him at the Yingfeng Police Station, and then
at the 2nd Detention Center. He was fined 3,000 yuan and sentenced to
one year in a forced labor camp. In February 2002, Mr. Hu and four other Dafa
practitioners were studying the Fa (2) at a fellow practitioner's home in Shimen.
Police head Tian of the Shimen Police Station arrested him. He was handcuffed,
his Dafa books were taken away, his clothes were torn apart and he was fined
2,000 yuan. Mr. Yang Xiaohui opened his own clinic in the east part of the city. In
August 1999, the "610 Office" detained Mr. Yang because he went to Beijing to
appeal. In October 2000, police officer Shu Yong and officers from the Tuoyuan
Police Station abducted him and detained him for 30 days. In March 2001, Mr.
Yang was abducted again at the Eastern City Vegetable Market, but he escaped. In
July 2001, Yang Xiaohui was reported on for delivering Dafa truth-clarification
materials in Anjiang. He was arrested and detained at the Huaihua City Detention
Center. In September, he was sentenced to a forced labor camp. On the way to the
forced labor camp, he managed to escape in Zhuzhou City and walked to Changsha
City along the railroad tracks. On September 29, 2002, before the "October 1st
National Day," the Hecheng "610 Office" and police officers arrested over 20
Dafa practitioners in one day and truth-clarification materials production sites
were destroyed. Yang Xiaohui was among the arrested practitioners. He was
detained at the Huaihua City Detention Center for about one year. In 2003, the
Hecheng District Court sentenced him to 9 years in prison. He was also forced
into a divorce. Relevant phone numbers in Huaihua City:
Huaihua City "610 Office":
86-745-2710851
Public Security Bureau: 86-745-2738000
Political and Judicial Committee:
86-745-2723352
City Government: 86-745-2715899, 86-745-2712515,
86-745-2713769
City Communist Party Committee:
86-745-2716229
Notes
(1) Yuan is the unit of Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average
monthly income of an urban worker in China.
(2) Fa: Law and principles; the teachings of Falun Dafa. |