(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Persons responsible for persecuting practitioners in Hebei Province:

  1. Gao Songlin, 49, is currently Assistant Party Secretary of the Industry Committee in Chengde Municipality of Hebei Province. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Assistant Party Secretary for Luanping County and was in charge of the Political and Judicial as well as the Public Security Departments. Following his instructions, perpetrators in various sectors such as the police department, civil administration, education office, tax office, neighborhood committees and townships committed crimes against Falun Dafa practitioners, which included ransacking practitioners' homes, arresting them, imposing fines, forcing them into brainwashing classes, and sentencing them to forced labor or prison terms.
  2. Liu Baoqi, over 40 years old, was the former Luanping County police chief. Between April 25 and July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, he personally made arrangements for the police to go to Beijing to arrest practitioners and to persecute them on a large scale. During the 2000 Chinese New Year, the police from Luanping County arrested more than 20 practitioners and sent them to prison. During June and July of 2001, they again arrested a large number of practitioners and brutally tortured them by beating them, hanging them up, and other forms of abuse. They also tried to extort confessions from them using torture. Four of these practitioners were sentenced to prison terms, 19 were sentenced to forced labor and dozens of others were locked up and fined. Liu is currently the police chief of the Shuangqiao District Police Department in Chengde City, Hebei Province.
  3. Cai Jingquan, around 50, is the head of the 610 Office and deputy chief of the police department in Luanping County. He has personally organized numerous brainwashing classes and persecuted practitioners who are firm in their belief and extorted money from them. He used various methods to try to force practitioners to write the so-called "four statements" (similar to "the three statements") and used his despotic power to order practitioners' workplaces and their local area committees to secretly monitor practitioners by hiding and waiting in the dark.
  4. Jiang Xueyong, over 40 years old, is the head of the National Security Brigade in the police department. He aggressively abducted practitioners and subjected them to interrogations and detention and also ransacked their homes. He was personally responsible for abducting, detaining and sentencing to forced labor dozens of practitioners, each of whom was forced to pay a fine. Some practitioners were fined several times. He also participated in the arrest of practitioners on Tiananmen Square.
  5. Xu Yanchen, over 50 years old, was the former leader of the National Security Brigade in the police department in Luanping County. Between 2001 and 2003 he followed practitioners, monitored them in the dark and tapped their phones in order to arrest them. In June 2001, he conducted intense interrogations and secretly put two practitioners into prison uniforms and sent them to prison elsewhere without informing their families. In July 2001, he abducted 13 practitioners and subjected them to inhumane tortures, including hanging them up for long periods of time, withholding food and drink, and not allowing them to go to the toilet. He and others tortured practitioners day and night. They shocked women practitioners' breasts, their mouths and their private areas with many electric batons simultaneously. In 2003 during the SARS epidemic, he again organized a large number of police to ransack practitioners' homes.
  6. Ma Haidong, over 30 years old, is the instructor and deputy head of the National Security Brigade in Luanping County's police department. He has long been involved in arresting, beating and fining practitioners, particularly during June and July 2001, when he and another malicious policeman Xu Yanchen organized the police to arrest practitioners. They subjected seventeen practitioners to torture in their attempts to extort confessions. They humiliated women practitioners, sentenced four practitioners to prison terms, and sentenced another four to forced labor until they decided to collect fines in exchange for their forced labor.
  7. Zhang Hong, over 50 years old, was a former instructor in the township police station in Luanping County. He often climbed over walls into practitioners' homes to search and confiscate their property and to abduct them. He subjected firmly devoted practitioners to severe beatings and sessions of being hung up. He also used electric batons to shock women practitioners' breasts and private parts and force-fed them with alcohol.
  8. Zhang Fude, over 40, was a former Party Secretary of the township's Political and Judiciary Committee in Luanping County, as well as head of the 610 Office. He enthusiastically participated in the arrest and abduction of practitioners and subjected them to fines, extortion, and numerous brainwashing classes.
  9. Nine vicious police officers: Xing Yumin, male, over 50 years old, former head of a detention center; Liang Aiqin, female, over 40 years old, from the township police station in Luanping County; Zhu Tieliu, male, over 40 years old; Chen Limin, male, over 40 years old; Yang Zifeng, male, Li Xianglai, male, Meng Qingming, male, Wang Jiugao and Yin Shuxiang from the Luanping County Police Department. These police officers are extremely vicious towards practitioners. They have ransacked practitioners' homes, abducted them, extorted confessions from them by torture, hung them up and beaten them, deprived them of water, not allowed them to go to the toilet; humiliated female practitioners, and amused themselves by beating practitioners up.
  10. Liu Zhiwei, female, over 30 years old, is a member of the National Security Brigade in the Luanping County Police Department and has actively participated in the persecution of practitioners.