(Clearwisdom.net) Officers from the State Security Subunit in the Changping District of Beijing have often shown up at the homes or work units of Falun Gong. Without showing any legal documents, they would first abduct the practitioners and then conduct searches. Falun gong students thus abducted have been sent to the brainwashing center run by the Changping 610 Office. They have, throughout the day, been forced to watch fabricated news reports that slander Falun Gong and its founder. If anyone refuses to watch, security guards would surround and hold him or her down. Some work units have been asked to send in dedicated personnel to watch their abducted employees around the clock.

In the brainwashing center, officials have placed numerous Buddhism books, instruments, brochures and songs to force practitioners to change their belief. The officials have claimed that almost all those "transformed" have turned to believing in Buddhism.

Li Gang, Cheng Liawei, and Hai Long are among the Changping District State Security Subunit officers who are directly engaged in the persecution. They coerce Falun Gong students to write critiques and statements renouncing Falun Gong. All such articles have to follow an official guideline. Otherwise the student would be considered stubborn and having the wrong attitude. The officials have lied to the students that if they followed these instructions, they would soon be released. In fact, these materials have been gathered as "evidence" to be used for sending the Falun Gong students first to the detention center, where the Procuratorate would turn a deaf ear to their appeals. The statements and other documents written and signed have been used as evidence in sentencing them to prison.

We strongly appeal to the international community to pay attention to the unlawful acts by officers at Changping District State Security Subunit in Beijing, to investigate the officers Liu Gang, Cheng Laiwei, Hai Long and others who are primarily responsible for the crime, and to demand the unconditional release of Falun Gong students who have been sentenced to prison in violation of the law.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Country code: 86, area code: 10
Zhou Zhenhua, director of office of the Changping District Government, coordinating all activities of the government office): 89741585
Wang Yonglin, deputy director of office of the district government: 89741578
Wang Shuzhen, deputy director of office of the district government: 89741529
Zhou Xiaodong, deputy director of office of the district government: 89741525
Yang Jianhui, head of No. 1 Secretariat Section: 69742730
Li Chang, head of No. 2 Secretariat Section: 69746530
Weng Min, head of the Comprehensive Section: 89741530
Zhang Hua, head of the Information Section: 89741520
Ji Shuyi, head of the Supervision Section: 89741533
Address: No. 19, Zhengfu Street, Changping District, Beijing, postal code: 102200
Gao Deren, head of Changping Court: 89797974, 89788340 ext. 55409
Wang Zhenshi, Zhao Qingqian, of the Changping Court
Crime-reporting telephone number of Changping District Procuratorate: 69722000
Crime-reporting email: luoqx@eyou.com

January 15, 2005