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Latest News from China - January 4, 2005
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Liang Loutu,
Zheng Bao and Ke Zhengji Secretly Given Long-term Sentences In May 2004, personnel from the 610 Office and the police station arrested
Falun Gong practitioners Liang Loutu, Zheng Bao and Ke Zhengji from Maoming City
and ransacked their homes. In August 2004 the practitioners were secretly
sentenced as follows: Liang Loutu was sentenced to nine years, Zheng Bao seven
years and Ke Zhengji seven years. 2. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Dong Linlin Held at the
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp On the afternoon of September 18, 2004, practitioners Zhao Yunshan and Ms.
Dong Linlin were arrested at their homes. Zhao Yunshan is now being held at
Fushun City's Forced Labor Camp. Dong Linlin is being held at the Masanjia
Forced Labor Camp. Dong Linlin was originally from Heilongjiang Province. She
moved to Fushun City after getting married. Her husband is also a Dafa
practitioner and was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment. His whereabouts are
unknown. 3. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Practitioner Zhang Shunying Sentenced
to Seven Years of Imprisonment On December 29, 2004, Tianhe District Court sentenced Falun Gong practitioner
Ms. Zhang Shunying, an employee of Guangzhou City's Telecommunication Equipment
Company, to seven years of imprisonment. For several months, police haven't allowed family members to visit Zhang
Shunying. They even forbade them to talk while in court. Her family members
stood close to her and could see that she seemed dazed and gaunt and she was
quivering all the time. The only sentence she said that they could hear was,
"I don't obey. The government deceived me." The whole court hearing process took just a few minutes. The court didn't
allow any defense. The judge only said that she can appeal in ten days and
immediately closed the court. Another practitioner, Li Yongjun, was sentenced to six years of imprisonment
in the same court on December 23, 2004. Telephone number for the Tianhe District's Court: 86-20-38280000. 4. [Dianbai City, Guangdong Province] Practitioners Wu Yuecheng and Yang
Qiujuan Arrested for Making Truth-Clarifying Materials On December 27, 2004 practitioner Mr. Wu Yuecheng, in his 50's, was arrested
while making some Dafa truth-clarifying materials in the Diyitan District. He is
now being held at Dianbai City's Detention Center. On December 27, 2004, practitioner Ms. Yang Qiujuan, 34 years old, was
arrested while making some Dafa truth-clarifying materials in Diyitan District.
She is now being held at Dianbai City's Detention Center. 5. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Wang Yuxian Arrested for
Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials On December 14, 2004, practitioner Wang Yuxian from the 420 Factory was
arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials on Jianshe Road and was
later transferred to the Shuanglin Police Station. Her/his home was ransacked
right away. 6. [Guang'an City, Sichuan Province] Zhang Zhengquan Arrested for
Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials On the morning of October 11, 2004, practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhengquan was
arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials on his way from Sansheng
Town to Liuyin Town in the Beibei District, Chongqing. He is now being held at
the Beibei District Detention Center. 7. [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Practitioner Wang Yanling Has Been on
Strike for Over Two Months; Her Life is in Peril Dafa practitioners Ms. Yang Lujia and Mr. Chen Yunlong are still being held
in a Qiliyan "Monitored Cell." Ms. Wang Yanling from Zhengzhou City
was arrested in September 2004 and is now being held at Zhengzhou City's No. 1
Detention Center in the No. 8 Section (now moved to the vicinity of the
airport.) Wang Yanling has been on a hunger strike for over two months. Her life
is in peril. 8. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Wen Xiuzhi Arrested While
Clarifying the Truth Practitioner Ms. Wen Xiuzhi from Chaoyang City clarified the truth of Dafa in
a motor coach from Beipiao City to Chaoyang City. A policeman claimed from the
National Security Team arrested her when the coach arrived at Chaoyang City's
Hospital. Her whereabouts are unknown. 9. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Practitioners Tang
Fenglan, Zhao Hongxiang and Zhao Juan Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying
Brochures On December 9, 2004, practitioners Ms. Tang Fenglan, Mr. Zhao Hongxiang and
Ms. Zhao Juan from the Xiloutian Mine, Pingzhuang, Yuanbaoshan District were
arrested while distributing truth-clarifying brochures in Shanxi Province. On
December 28 they were transferred back to the Pingzhuang Detention Center. Telephone numbers of related units: (Country code: 86, area code: 476) Zhang Zhenqing, Pingzhuang Detention Center warden: 3514140(Office),
3500473(Office); 10. [Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Jin Hailan Sent to a Brainwashing
Class On September 21, 2004, authorities from the Pingshan Police Station, Cai,
head of Pingshan Town Government, together with personnel from Pingshan Forestry
& Medical Center arrested practitioner Ms. Jin Hailan from Acheng City when
she was at work and put her into a brainwashing class. They took three
practitioners away. Police prohibited Jin Hailan from sleeping and ordered many
people to surround her and pressure her to write a Guarantee Statement against
her will. After she was released on September 27, Jin Hailan told personnel of
relevant units that the statements she wrote under pressure are void. One day in the beginning of November 2004, a policeman by the last name of
Zhao arrested Jin Hailan again and sent her to Acheng City's Detention Center.
She hasn't been released to date. 11. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Police Torture Zhang Haiduo and Other
Practitioners in Tangshan City's Forced Labor Camp On the afternoon of January 17, 2002, practitioner Mr. Zhang Haiduo from the
Langfang District and another practitioner were sent to Tangshan City's
Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp for a three-year-term. They were assigned to the
"Stringently-Monitored-Team" under the charge of policeman Gao Jingwen.
They were ordered to sign their names on a prepared Guarantee Statement, but
refused and were thus badly beaten. Police ripped off all their clothes, tied
them up with ropes and shocked them with electric batons. Prisoners assigned to monitor them took turns beating them until the
practitioners fainted; then they poured cold water on them. Every day they were
forced to sit on a very narrow stool as punishment. Police urged prisoners who
monitor them to burn the practitioners' hands and faces with cigarettes. They
cuffed the practitioners' hands on chairs and stabbed their fingers with steel
pins. They also put heavy logs on their legs and had prisoners stand on either
end of the logs. The practitioners were tortured so badly with each incident
that they lost consciousness. Their legs eventually became swollen and turned
black and blue, and they couldn't walk. For a long time they required two people
to drag them to the washroom and for meals. Even after seven or eight months
they could only move little by little, but with great difficulty. The two practitioners still refused to renounce Falun Gong. After being
tortured for seven to eight months, they were transferred to the No. 5 Team to
do forced labor. January 4, 2005
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