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Additional Persecution News from China - March 19, 2007 (42 Reports)
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. [Fuxin City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Zhao Hua Has Been Staging a
Hunger Strike for 59 Days Practitioner Ms. Zhao Hua was arrested in September 2002 and later sentenced
to seven years of imprisonment. She is now being held at the No. 3 Team, No. 14
Ward, No. 2 Prison at the Shenyang City Dabei Prison Complex. She has been
staging a protest hunger strike since January 19, 2007 (59 days to date). Ms.
Zhao was transferred to the General Hospital at the Shenyang City Prison Complex
on March 13, 2007. Some relevant telephone numbers: Shenyang City Prison Complex switchboard: 86-24-89296556, 89296438 2. [Shihezi City, Xinjiang Autonomous Region] Practitioner Wang Xinmin
Suffers Brutal Torture Practitioner Mr. Wang Xinmin, in his 30's, was arrested and detained in
October 2006 only because he clarified the truth and hung a
truth-clarifying banner. During his detention, the guards beat him so hard that
his legs were fractured and his chest was seriously injured. He suffered all
kinds of excruciating torture. He faces a possible four-year
prison sentence at present. He appealed to higher authorities and
told them that the guards had tortured him so badly that he has become disabled.
However, he is still being held. 3. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Practitioner He Qingkui and His Wife Arrested Practitioner Mr. He Qingkui and his wife from Jilin City were arrested on
March 13, 2007. In addition, the Falun Dafa materials production center located
in the Jiangcheng High School was destroyed. 4. [Shulan City, Jilin Province] Supplemental Information Regarding the
Arrests of Practitioner Xu Wenguo and Others Shao Tianfeng and other officers from the Ping'an Town Police Department
arrested practitioners Mr. Xu Wenguo, Ms. Wang Hongyan, Mr. Sun Yanhe and Ms.
Zhao Yuzhi on the evening of March 3, 2007. The police officers beat the
practitioners violently. A policeman grabbed Ms. Wang by the hair, brutally
kicked her and punched her in the head. Ms. Wang still has scars on her head. The officers took Ms. Wang's key, opened her door and ransacked her home.
They confiscated four copies of Zhuan Falun, a cell phone
valued at 400 yuan, some clothes and other belongings. They even
arrested her mother Ms. Zhao Yuzhi, who happened to be visiting. They took her
to the Ping'an Town Police Department and handcuffed her to a tiger
bench for one night. Mr. Xu, Ms. Wang, and Mr. Sun were hung by their
wrists for a whole night. Mr. Sun's face was injured and his ears beaten until
they bled profusely. Mr. Xu was beaten so badly that he could not straighten up
and has to hold his stomach when walking. The practitioners were transferred to the Shulan City National Security Team
on March 4, 2007. Policeman Li Jiazhe put spicy mustard oil in Ms. Wang's eyes
and nose, and beat her badly again. She immediately fainted. Mr. Xu was sentenced to two years of imprisonment; Ms. Wang and Mr. Sun to
one-and-a-half years; and Ms. Zhao to one year. They are now being held at the
Shulan City Nanshan Detention Center. In addition, Qilixiang Township Police Station chief Huang Chengguo and other
policemen arrested practitioner Ms. Nie Hao from Songlin Village, Ping'an Town. 5. [Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province] Police Officers from the Beixing
Farm Attempt to Persecute Practitioner Cheng Guixiang Personnel from the Qitaihe City Beixing Farm Police Station followed
practitioners and monitored their telephones. Officers drove three police cars
to Qitaihe City on February 19, 2007 (the second day of the Chinese New Year)
and attempted to persecute practitioner Ms. Cheng Guixiang who had chosen to
live away from home to avoid harassment. When Ms. Cheng sent her undergraduate
student daughter Ma Ying out of town to go back to school on March 4, she
noticed a police car following her the minute the bus took off. Some relevant telephone numbers: Zhang Zhen, Beixing Farm Police Station chief: 86-464-8861042, 86-13846447111
(Cell) 6. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Follow-up Report on the Arrest of
Practitioner Liu Litao Personnel from the Xiaolingzi Police Station and the Taihe Police Department
arrested practitioner Mr. Liu Litao. Mr. Liu's family member went to the
Xiaolingzi Police Station on March 14, 2007 and demanded the personnel return
the 550 yuan in cash and the motorcycle they had confiscated. Policeman He Baoyu
refused. The family member went to the Taihe Police Department later on and
requested to see Mr. Liu to give him some clothes and other items, but a
plainclothes policeman denied the request and only allowed the family member to
leave the clothes there. Some relevant telephone numbers: Policeman Ge Yuewu: 86-13941604837 7. [Shandong Province] Practitioner Lin Yuexia Sent to the Linqing Detention
Center Practitioner Ms. Lin Yuexia and a senior woman clarified the truth in
Daiwanxiang Township on March 16, 2007. They were reported to the police at 1:00
p.m. As a result, personnel from the Daiwanxiang Township Police Station
arrested them. The senior woman was later released. Ms. Lin was sent to the
Linqing Detention Center a few hours later. Police officers ransacked Ms. Lin's
home on March 17 and confiscated a lot of Falun Dafa books. 8. [Jilin Province] 610 Office Personnel Persecute Practitioners 610 Office personnel planned the arrests of several practitioners
in Jilin Province. Officers from the National Security Division have monitored
and followed practitioners for a long time. When they found a
truth-clarification materials production center or anything they deemed
suspicious, they would deploy some plainclothes police officers to monitor the
activities there and then report to the Jilin City 610 Office. Later on, 610
Office personnel ordered officers from the city's National Security Division or
National Security sections at local police stations to arrest practitioners. 9. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Personnel from the Changjiu Street Police
Precinct Harass Practitioners Personnel from the Changjiu Street Police Precinct have harassed
practitioners in their precinct for a long time. They often call practitioners'
families and order practitioners to appear at the police station in an attempt
to arrest them or find out the whereabouts of practitioners who have chosen to
live away from home. They have even brazenly monitored and followed
practitioners, or harassed practitioners at their homes since March 2007. 10. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] A Practitioner Surnamed Song Was Arrested
Two Months Ago A practitioner surnamed Song, an employee from the Jilin City Ferroalloy
Company, was reported. Personnel from the Xinjian Police Station subsequently
arrested him/her and took the practitioner to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp two
months ago. 11. [Heilongjiang Province] Practitioners Including Meng Xianzhi from the
Shuangyashan Farm Arrested Practitioners Mr. Meng Xianzhi, Mr. Shan Zhiping, Ms. Yu Xiujun, and Ms. Ye
were arrested and are currently being held at the Hongxinglong Administration
Bureau Detention Center of Heilongjiang Province. Mr. Meng's and Ms. Ye's Dafa
books and some truth-clarification materials were confiscated. Mr. Shan's laptop
computer, some CDs, several Dafa books and some truth-clarification materials
were also confiscated. Hongxinglong Political and Judiciary Committee deputy chief: 86-469-5861540 12. [Shulan City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Zhao Xiuying and Her Family
Harassed Ms. Zhao Xiuying's family members were awakened during the night by a loud
sound from a door and window being smashed on March 3, 2007. Policeman Shao
Tianfeng from the Ping'an Town Police Department got into their home by breaking
a bathroom window. He ransacked the home and took two audio tapes and two
calendars. 13. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] A Practitioner Surnamed Shi Was
Followed A practitioner surnamed Shi was followed and monitored on March 16, 2007. Two
people followed him/her again on March 18, 2007. 14. [Daqing City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Zhang Xu Arrested Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xu, about 36, was reported on March 12, 2007 when she
was clarifying the truth. Police officers thus arrested her and ransacked her
home, but she was released that night. 15. [Beijing] More than Twenty Practitioners from the Fangshan District
Arrested Collusion between officers from the Fangshan District 610 Office, the police
department and the Hebei Town Police Department led to arrests on February 22,
2007. These persecutors arrested practitioners Mr. Yin Quanji, Ms. Xu Wenping's
husband, Mr. Xu Wenxiao and his wife, Cai from Dongzhuangzi Village and Mr. Zhu
Junshui from Banbidian Village. Twenty-three practitioners have been arrested so
far. 16. [Tianjin] Persecution of Practitioner Zheng Qinglan Leads to Mental
Breakdown Practitioner Ms. Zheng Qinglan has been held in the No.2 Division of the
Tianjin Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp since October 2006. She is a widow and
her son is a university student in Fuzhou City. Her relatives and friends
usually go to visit her on the 26th day of every month. Her son
returned from Fuzhou City and visited her on January 28, 2007. When he again
visited his mother on February 26, he saw that she was emaciated and her hair
had turned almost white. She seemed to have lost a lot of weight and was at the
point of a mental breakdown. 17. [Beijing] Practitioner Zhao Rongmin Sentenced to Three Years of
Imprisonment Chaoyang District Court agents sentenced practitioner Ms. Zhao Rongmin from
the Guanzhuang Area, Chaoyang District, Beijing to three years of imprisonment
in early March 2007. She is presently being held at the district's police
department detention center. Ms. Zhao had previously spent time in a forced
labor camp for two years and was released in May 2004. Personnel from the
National Security Section of the district's police department arrested her on
July 19, 2006 and held her until her recent sentence. Ms. Zhao's husband is working in another city. Her elderly father-in-law and
middle-school-aged daughter have to fend for themselves. Chaoyang District Police Department Detention Center: 86-10-65760427,
65475604 18. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Elderly Practitioner Liu Fengzhai Tortured
at the Baoding City Forced Labor Camp Practitioner Ms. Liu Fengzhai, in her 70s, has been tortured at the Baoding
City Forced Labor Camp for refusing to renounce Falun Dafa. Guards Liu Qingyong and Zhang Zhanqiang deprived her of sleep, locked her up
in a small cell, and forced her to sit on a small stool for a long time. They
incited criminal inmates to mistreat her. The guards forced her to finish a
heavy work assignment daily. If she refused, she was beaten or abused in a
different way. However, all these tortures would not make Ms. Liu give up Falun
Dafa. 19. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Two Truth-Clarification Materials
Production Centers Damaged A truth-clarification materials production center at Fengdengwu Tanghedian
Village, Fengrun District, Tangshan City was ransacked, as was the one at
practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaodong's home in Shaojiajie Village, Shigezhuang Town,
Fengrun District. Fortunately, no practitioner was arrested. 20. [Jizhou City, Hebei Province] Persecution of Practitioner Cai Guangyue Practitioner Mr. Cai Guangyue was born in 1978. He learned that he had severe
heart disease one month before the National College Entrance Examination in 1998
and might not be able to attend the exam; however, he started to practice Falun
Gong and recovered his health. He was successfully enrolled in the Shandong
Province Dongying Petroleum University. Mr. Cai was dismissed from the university in 2000 because he practiced Falun
Gong. His mother sent him to the Jizhou City Brainwashing Center in April 2001
in order to force him to give up practicing Falun Gong. He was released from the
brainwashing center in August 2001, and his mother sent him to the university,
where he would be forced to renounce Falun Gong before being re-admitted.
However, he returned home after going halfway to the university because he did
not want to give up Falun Gong. Personnel from the city's No.4 Police Division
arrested him in February 2007. Police officers from Hengshui City and Jizhou
City ransacked his home. An arrest certificate has been issued for him. He is
presently being held at the Jizhou City Detention Center. 21. [Boye County, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners' Homes Ransacked Following that, the officers went to harass Ms. Zhang Qiaoying at her home.
They confiscated some of Master's new writings and some truth-clarification
materials. The officers also ransacked Ms. Li Meizhi's home, but didn't find anything. 25. [Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province] Policemen from the City's 610 Office
Confiscate Practitioners' Money and Belongings and Harass Them 26. [Qufu City, Shandong Province] Four Practitioners Arrested 28. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Personnel from the National Security
Team of the Jiangling Police Department Arrested Four Practitioners Before the
Chinese New Year 31. [Macheng City, Hubei Province] Practitioner Tao Lahuai Arrested 33. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Practitioner Zhu Mulan Detained 34. [Hengyang City, Hunan Province] Practitioner Liu Ying Detained 35. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Zhang Xiuzhen Arrested When
Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials in Guang'an County (Country code: 86, area code: 817. Do not dial area code before cell phone
numbers.) 36. [Chongqing] Practitioners Zhang Zhifen and Pi Zhong Sentenced to Forced
Labor Ms. Zhang Zhifen, around 50, a retired worker of the Chongqing No. 4 Cotton
Factory, was sentenced to one year of forced labor. Police officers often
persecuted her. Police officers often persecuted Ms. Pi Zhong, in her 50s, from Heyang Town,
Hechuan District. She was sentenced to forced labor. Her husband divorced her
because he could not bear all the persecution. Jiang Li, Police Department chief: 86-23-42875158, 42841133 (Office),
42822141 (Home), 86-13908344572 (Cell) Police officers broke into the home of practitioner Ms. Zhou Yanfang, age 40.
They arrested her, ransacked the place and confiscated many books and materials
at 9:00 a.m. on March 15, 2007. She is presently being held at the Zhanjiang
City Legal System Education School. Police officers ransacked practitioner Ms. Zhuang Huaxian's home in the
Xiashan District on March 8, 2007. They confiscated Master's picture, a copy of Zhuan
Falun and a few exercises tapes, but did not arrest her. 38. [Hubei Province] The Whereabouts of Seventy-Year-Old Practitioner Ding
Genmei Are Unknown Following Her Arrest Practitioner Ms. Ding Genmei, over 70, lives on the first floor of the
Jiefang Gongyuan Road Dorm in Yongqing Street, Jiangan District. Policemen
arrested her from her home in February 2007 and confiscated a computer, a
printer and some other items. They took her to the Dongxihu District Erzhigou
No. 1 Women's Detention Center. Her current whereabouts are unknown. 39. [Chongqing] Practitioners Wen Jianrong and Cao Shufang Arrested Police officers arrested practitioners Mr. Wen Jianrong and his wife Ms. Cao
Shufang, a retired couple from the Liangping County Experimental Middle School
in Chongqing City, on March 16, 2007. 40. [Guiyang City, Guizhou Province] Doctor Zou Jinying of the Guizhou
Aluminum Factory Persecuted in the Lannigou Brainwashing Center Practitioner Ms. Zou Jinying, about 60, is a doctor working for the Guizhou
Province Aluminum Factory. Personnel from the Baiyun District Hongshan Police
Station in Guiyang City arrested her on March 9, 2004 and sentenced her to three
years of forced labor. After the detention term expired, she was directly sent
to the Lannigou Brainwashing Center for further persecution because she refused
to give up her belief in Falun Dafa. 41. [Nanping City, Fujian Province] Current Situation of Ms. Zhu Jinhua, a
New Practitioner Personnel from the Shaowu City National Security Division arrested new
practitioner Ms. Zhu Jinhua when she was clarifying the truth before the Chinese
New Year. She is presently being held at the Shaowu City Detention Center. Practitioner Ms. Wei Jianyu is still being held at the Shaowu City Detention
Center even though her detention term has already expired. 42. [Zhulu County, Hebei Province] Supplemental Information Regarding the
Arrest of Practitioner Zhang Shuzhen Seven or eight officers from the Political and Security Team from the Zhulu
County Police Department, the Zhulu Town Government and the Zhulu Town Police
Department broke into practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuzhen's home, arrested her and
ransacked the place on the afternoon of March 13, 2007. It is unknown where Ms.
Zhang Shuzhen is being held. (Country code: 86, area code: 313. Do not dial area code before cell phone
numbers.) Li Hai, Zhulu County Police Department chief: 7985001, 5227826, 13903135216
(Cell) March 18, 2007 Posting date: 4/1/2007
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