The Persecution of 45 Practitioners in Li County and Suning County, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Brief Summary of the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Li County,
Hebei Province 1) Practitioner Mr. Wang Xianghui, 36, worked as an accountant at the Guodan
Station for the Li County Electric Power Bureau in Hebei Province. He started
practicing Falun Gong in 1998. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa on
December 18, 1999, after Jiang Zemin started the persecution on July 20, 1999.
Mr. Wang was taken back to Li County by county 610 Office agents and
held at a detention center for 37 days. During this period, he refused to
respond to roll call, and guard Yang Daxue beat him ruthlessly, slapped his
face, and kicked him. Guard Li Guochang stripped off all of Mr. Wang's clothes
and forced him to lie face down on the concrete floor while he kicked him. Mr.
Wang was fined 13,000 yuan before he was released. During the two Party Congresses held in 2001, officials detained Mr. Wang at
his place of work for many days to prevent him from going to Beijing. He refused
to cooperate so he lost his employment contract, was terminated from his job,
and his salary was suspended. His former superiors forced him to work under
their supervision in April 2001, even though his work contract was no longer
valid. Han Xiaofa, head of the Electric Power Bureau, frequently attempted to
force him into writing a guarantee statement, but he always refused.
Officers from the Electric Power Police Station took him to the Power Bureau and
asked him, "Do you still practice [Falun Gong]?" He answered,
"Yes," and was then held in a detention center for 13 days. Wang Yuqing and others from the Power Station Security Section arrested Mr.
Wang Xianghui from his home in June 2001 and took him to the Balizhuang
Brainwashing Center. Mr. Wang Xianghui defied the persecution, leaving the
brainwashing center with the power of his righteous thoughts, and stayed away
from home for more than a year. He exposed the persecution and clarified the truth to the public
through TV broadcasting on August 27, 2002. Xushui County National Security
Division officers arrested and held him in the County Detention Center for more
than a year, during which time he was severely persecuted. He defied the
persecution and went on a hunger strike 11 times. Xushui Court officials sentenced Mr. Wang to 11 years in prison in October
2003. He has been held in Group 2, Ward 1 of Baoding Prison. Political head
Zhang Jianxin of Division 1, Group 2 political head Yang Guanghui, and group
head Li Jun are among those responsible for persecuting Mr. Wang. 2) Ms. He Rongmiao, 45, started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. She used to
suffer from insomnia and stomachaches, which were completely healed soon after
she started practicing. Ms. He and several other practitioners went to Beijing
to appeal in 1999. They were intercepted and taken to the local government
liaison office and then to a school where Xinxing Town officials monitored them.
The practitioners were forbidden to sleep. Local secretary of the Political and
Judiciary Committee Li Hefang forced them to write a "guarantee
statement" before they could go home. The officials also ransacked Ms. He's
home and took a copy of Zhuan Falun and pictures of Master. Ms. He and some other practitioners from the same village went to Beijing to
clarify the truth on December 21, 1999. Beijing plainclothes police officers
arrested them and took them to the local liaison office in Beijing. The county
610 Office agents handcuffed the practitioners together, facing a wall. The
practitioners were taken to the County Detention Center later that night, where
they were held for 47 days and fined a total of 13,000 yuan. Ms. He's husband
was also taken to the town government office and fined 3,000 yuan before he was
allowed to go home. Li Hefang and other officials constantly monitored and harassed Ms. He in
2001. She was taken to the town government office and County Brainwashing Center
in 2002. She was later taken to Zhuozhou Brainwashing Center where she was often
made to watch slanderous videos and was brutally beaten. Once when she touched
her face, official Gao Xuefei and others took her to a small room and brutally
beat her with a stick. The stick had a nail-covered rubber ball on the top and a
metal wire on the bottom. After the beating, the officials force-fed her. A
month later, she was taken back to the County Brainwashing Center. She was
prevented from using the restroom and was handcuffed to a tree in the courtyard.
In the evening, she was handcuffed in an unheated room. Official Hui also handcuffed Ms. He to a thorn bush in such a way she could
neither stand up nor sit. This torture lasted until midnight. After six days of
torture at the County Brainwashing Center, Ms He was fined 4,000 yuan before
being released. 3) Ms. Song Yanshuang was born in 1974 and is a teacher at the Xingren
Village Elementary School in Li County. She became healthy and her family
relations improved after she started practicing cultivation. After the
persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, she and several other practitioners
went to Beijing to clarify the truth. They arrived at the Office of Letters and
Calls in Beijing. When the officials learned that they practiced Falun Gong,
they produced a registration form and told the practitioners to fill it out.
Then the officials called for a police vehicle. There were too many
practitioners to fit in the vehicle, so Ms. Song and another practitioner were
put in the trunk and driven to the local liaison office in Beijing. Each
practitioner there was fined 100 yuan for food expenses. They were later taken
to the Li County Detention Center, where many practitioners were already being
held. Some practitioners had been on a hunger strike for many days and some
practitioners had been verbally and physically abused and forced to kneel on the
floor. One day, guard Huang Xilu attempted to force Ms. Song to give up
cultivation, but she firmly refused. Huang Xilu was furious and said, "If
you were not a young woman, I would beat you!" Her family members paid
1,000 yuan as "bail" before she could go home. Officials from the Education Committee, the 610 Office, and the police
department often harassed Ms. Song at home. Her family members lived in constant
fear under the tremendous pressure. Zhu Guoyu from the 610 Office led a group of people to barge into Ms. Song
Yanshuang's home in the summer of 2001. They took her to the Balizhuang
Brainwashing Center. She confronted the officials and asked, "What did I
do? Why are you treating me this way?" Zhu Guoyu shouted, "Take her
away. I'll take the responsibility if anything happens to her!" Ms. Song
fell to the floor amid the chaos, and her legs were scraped. She was held at the
brainwashing center for ten days and fined 5,000 yuan before being released. 4). Practitioner Ms. Chen Xiyan, 32, works at the Li County Middle School.
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, her home
was ransacked because she printed Dafa materials at home. She was held in a
detention center. Ms. Chen went on a hunger strike, and the guards handcuffed
and shackled her. They tied her up and beat and kicked her. They also sexually
harassed her. 610 Office officials also harassed her many times at her home,
which frightened and traumatized her elderly father who passed away soon
afterwards. The officials sent Ms. Chen to the Baoding Forced Labor Camp and
later sentenced her to three years in prison. They took her to the No. 2 Prison
in Shijiazhuang City. Her grandmother learned about the sentence and suffered a
nervous breakdown. Three years later, Ms. Chen went to the Education Committee,
the Li County Middle School, and the county government many times to appeal. The
officials finally let her teach at Beinian Middle School. They deducted a large
part of her salary and never paid it back. 5). Practitioner Ms. Chen Wenhui, 35, worked at the Li County Court before
the persecution began. She wrote a letter to the Bureau of Letters and Calls in
which she said, "The persecution is wrong." As a result, she was
sentenced to three years of forced labor. She was taken to the Shijiazhuang
Forced Labor Camp and later transferred to the Balizhuang Forced Labor Camp in
Baoding City. The camp authorities forced her to stand, shocked her with
electric batons, stretched her on the Death Bed, forced her to do
heavy labor, refused to let her sleep, and forced her to watch slanderous videos
in an attempt to "reform" her. She returned home after three years and
went to the court, the 610 Office and the government. She even saw Party
secretary Ning Hongmao, but everyone refused to let her resume her work. She had
no choice but to leave home and work odd jobs. The 610 Office agents feared Ms.
Chen would continue to practice Falun Gong, so they lied to her and promised her
work in exchange for her return to town. When she got home, however, she
realized she had been deceived, as the agents did not give her a job. Instead,
they harassed her at her home repeatedly. She left home again and has been
working odd jobs. 6) Ms. Liu Xiaoai was born in 1945 and lived in Xingren Village in Li County.
She went to Beijing to appeal in April 2001, and was arrested and taken to
Shunyi Detention Center where she was hung up and beaten by the guards. She was
also forbidden to sleep. Ms. Liu was eventually transferred to the Li County
Detention Center. She held a hunger strike for two weeks and developed symptoms
of systemic failure, so she was allowed to go home. Within less than a month,
however, officials from the Li County Political and Security Section deceived
her into going to the police department and sentenced her to two years of forced
labor. She was forced to stand and squat and was not allowed to sleep at the
labor camp. The officials also played videos that slandered Dafa and forced her
to work very long hours. They held her until October 2001. 7) Ms. Zhang Xia was born in October 1969 and worked at the Li County
National Resource Bureau. She went to Beijing to appeal at the end of 2000. Ms.
Zhang was arrested and taken to the liaison office in Beijing where the
officials searched her and took 500 yuan from her. She clarified the truth and
went home. She went to Beijing again in early 2001. She was arrested and taken
to the Mancheng Detention Center where she was interrogated many times, and all
of her money was taken away. She held a hunger strike to protest the persecution
and was subsequently released. Superiors at her place of work watched her on
sensitive dates and would not let her go home. They would not let
her go out the front gate of the Resource Bureau and held her there for two
weeks. Ms. Zhang's superiors again refused to let her go home in April 2001. She
managed to leave, however, and went to Beijing. She was arrested and taken to
the Shunyi Detention Center. Her superiors later picked her up and sent her to
the County Detention Center where she went on a two-week hunger strike. Police
department head Wei Zhanliang ordered armed police officers to force-feed her.
She then developed abnormal symptoms. The detention center authorities ordered
her family members to pay 200 yuan without issuing a receipt before they let her
go home. Yao Xiaosong, head of the Land Bureau, ordered section head Zhou
Liangcai and other officials from the Land Section to watch Ms. Zhang at her
home on a daily basis. Within a few days, county head Li Zhigang and Yao
Xiaosong harassed her at her home, claiming they were afraid she would commit
suicide. They took her to a county government hotel and held her there for two
weeks. After she went home, Wang Junchang from the Political and Security
Section and Zhou Liangcai, head of the Land Section, deceived her into going to
the police department. They took her to the Balizhuang Forced Labor Camp in
Baoding City in the afternoon and sentenced her to three years of forced labor. At the labor camp, Ms. Zhang Xia was forced to stand and squat and was
forbidden to sleep. She was forced to watch slanderous videos and do slave labor
for extended periods of time. She was released in October 2001. She went to
bureau head Yao Xiaosong many times and requested to return to work. The bureau
did not let her return to work until the end of 2001. They had deducted eight
months' salary that was never repaid. 8) Ms. Cai Guiju, 39, went to Beijing to appeal in December 1999 but was
taken back and sent to a detention center where she was held for more than 40
days and fined 13,000 yuan. Ms. Cai was again detained on January 1, 2001 and subsequently held in a
forced labor camp for two years. She was forced to rub poisonous lead plates for
more than 12 hours a day. She refused to be "reformed" and was forced
to stand for long periods of time. She was often subjected to brainwashing
tactics and her personal freedom was restricted. Her job at the land bureau has
not yet been restored. 9) Liu Meijia, age 12, followed her mother, Ms. Cai Guiju, to Beijing to
appeal on April 22, 2001. She was held overnight at the Shunyi Detention Center.
Officers from Li County Police Department picked her up the next day and
detained her at the local police department for four days. 10) Mr. Liu Xikun, 38, worked at the Electric Power Bureau. He went to
Beijing to appeal in December 1999. He was taken back and sent to a detention
center where he was held for more than 40 days and fined 13,000 yuan. During the
two Party Congresses in 2000, Electric Power Bureau head Chen Dashui colluded
with the police. Mr. Liu was sent to a detention center without any explanation
and held there for 15 days. The Disciplinary Inspection Committee held him at a
hotel for one month in the summer of 2000 and extorted 3,000 yuan from him. He
appealed in Beijing again on April 25, 2001, was taken back and held for three
months, followed by a two-year forced labor sentence. He was brutally tortured
at the detention center, beaten, and forced to sleep naked on the concrete floor
face-down in the winter while guard Yang Daxue stepped on him. (Yang Daxue died
soon afterwards.) Mr. Liu Xikun was also forced to sit motionless on the
concrete floor from early morning on until late at night. Mr. Liu's salary was lowered by two levels at the electric power plant, and
more than 10,000 yuan was deducted from his salary. Persecution of Certain Falun Gong Practitioners from Yechenzuo Village, Baoxu
Township 11) Ms. Li Chaoying, 65, used to suffer from numerous illnesses including
severe uremia. She experienced frequent dizzy spells, hallucinations and
disorganized speech. The first day she read a Dafa book, however, she felt very
light and walked as though someone had removed all the illnesses from her head.
She was able to live a joyous and disease-free life because of Dafa. Ms. Li went
to Beijing to appeal in 1999 to validate the wonders of Dafa but was taken back
by the local government officials and held for two weeks. The officials deprived
her of sleep during that time and tried to force her many times to write a
guarantee statement. Ms. Li appealed in Beijing again in 2001. She was taken
back and held at the County Detention Center where she was tortured. She was
handcuffed, stretched on the Death Bed, and frequently beaten. A guard once
violently rammed a practitioner's head into a wall. Ms. Li stood between the
guard and the practitioner, and the guard slapped her to the ground. She refused
to cooperate and was sentenced to three years of forced labor. She was tortured
at the Baoding Forced Labor Camp, where the guards used the Death Bed torture
method, forced standing, and electric shock, among other things. After she
returned home from the labor camp in 2004, officers from the County Police
Department still frequently harassed her. 12) Ms. Qi Yunxiao, 47, suffered the same persecution as Ms. Li Chaoying. She
was sentenced to two years of forced labor. 13) Ms. Qi Xiaoxiao, 41, started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. She once had
tuberculosis, tracheitis and many other illnesses, but she completely recovered
soon after she started practicing Falun Gong. After the persecution began in
1999, Ms. Qi and several other practitioners left for Beijing to appeal for Dafa.
They were intercepted in Baoding City and held overnight at the government
compound. They were taken to a local school the next day and held there for
three days. Officials Liu Pingjiang, Liu Jianzhu, and several others at the
county government did not let them sleep. When Ms. Qi and five other
practitioners made a second trip to Beijing, plainclothes police officers took
them to the local liaison office in Beijing and later to the local police
station, where they were held overnight. They were detained at the county
government the next day and handcuffed to a tree outside in the freezing cold.
Liu Jianzhu and other officials shocked the practitioners with electric batons
and extorted 5,000 yuan from each practitioner before letting them go ten days
later. Ms. Qi and another practitioner went to Beijing for the third time in January
2001. They did the Falun Dafa exercises in Tiananmen Square, and the police
arrested them. They were held at the Dongcheng District Detention Center, where
they were verbally and physically abused. The practitioners were transferred to
Chaoyang District 21 days later. Practitioners Liu Jianzhu, Qi Guangping, and
several others were sent back to Baoxu County and were taken to a detention
center after three days. Wang Xinzhai and other officials forbade the
practitioners from practicing the exercises. After 15 days of persecution, the
practitioners were sentenced to two years of forced labor. At the forced labor
camp, guards Li Xiuqin and Yan Qingfen prevented the practitioners from
sleeping. They handcuffed the practitioners on the Death Bed and forced them to
stand and do heavy work, triggering a relapse of Ms. Qi Xiaoxiao's former
illnesses. 14) Ms. Li Shuang, 60, started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. She had
suffered from numerous illnesses that disappeared through Dafa practice. Ms. Li
went to Beijing in 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong, but was intercepted in
Gaobeidian City, taken back to the county government and held there for several
days. When five practitioners, including Ms. Li, went to Beijing for the second
time, plainclothes police officers took them to the local liaison office in
Beijing and then to the local police station, where they were held overnight.
The next day the officers took the practitioners to the county government and
handcuffed them to trees. The officials tried to shock the practitioners with
electric batons but they ended up shocking themselves. The officials released
the practitioners two weeks later after extorting 5,000 yuan from each of them.
Ms. Li Shuang and five other practitioners went to Beijing for the third time
and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" in Tiananmen Square. Plainclothes
police officers took them to a detention center and held them there for a few
days. They then sent the practitioners back to Baoxu County where police
officers headed by Wang Xinzhai and Kang Xiaolu persecuted them. The officers
handcuffed the practitioners and banged their heads against a wall. One month
later, Ms. Li was sentenced to three years of forced labor. Guards Li Xiuqin,
Yan Qingfen and others brutally tortured her. Persecution of Practitioners in Dong Village, Baoxu Township 15) Ms. Wang Congmin, 40, was arrested in Tiananmen Square on May 1, 2000,
when appealing for Dafa. Niu Haifeng and other officials from the Baoxu Township
610 Office took her to a local police station where officers Chen Guixing, Liu
Jianzhu and others from Baoxu Township threatened and ridiculed her. One
official said she would not go home until she paid 20,000 yuan. Ms. Wang was
detained at the County Detention Center and charged with "disrupting public
security." The police said to her, "Do not practice Falun Gong here,
or we'll whip you!" One day, guard Guo Jun beat her for doing the Falun
Gong exercises and handcuffed her to a door for half the day. One evening, Ms.
Wang taught the exercises to an inmate sharing the same room with her, and Guo
Jun again beat her. Guo Jun put handcuffs and shackles on her and connected the
handcuffs and shackles with another pair of handcuffs, so that Ms. she could not
stand up. This torture lasted two days. The handcuffs were removed only after
Ms. Wang went on a hunger strike. The officials said they would not release her
unless she wrote a guarantee statement. When she held a hunger strike after
eight months of illegal detention to protest the persecution, the
officials tried to force-feed her but did not succeed and eventually released
her. Her family members had gone to various officials during that time and paid
8,000 yuan in hopes of securing her release. Before the Sixteenth Party Congress in 2002, Liu Jianzhu, Jun Zheng, and
other officials from Baoxu Township led a group of people to ransack Ms. Wang's
home. They took her to the County Brainwashing Center the following day. Later
on they sent her to another brainwashing class at the Zhuozhou Legal Education
Center to further persecute her. Approximately 50 practitioners were held at
this brainwashing center and were forbidden to speak. They went on a hunger
strike to resist the persecution, and the officials handcuffed them to trees
outside in the cold weather. A female practitioner was force-fed pepper powder.
After 20 days, Ms. Wang Congmin and three other practitioners were taken back to
the County Brainwashing Center. In the evening, an official from Wanan Township
handcuffed Ms. Wang and another practitioner surnamed He to trees in the
courtyard and said, "I'll freeze you to death if you practice Falun
Gong!" The torture lasted until 3:30 a.m. The practitioners were each fined
more than 1,000 yuan, and their families paid the officials another 700 yuan
before they were released. Persecution of Practitioners in Songzhuang, Linbao Township 16) Mr. Li Guangyi, 63, was arrested at his home and taken to the Linbao
Township government on July 21, 1999, by Qi Xiaole, the executive deputy
township chief, and some other officials. He was held at a brainwashing center
for 15 days during which time he was closely monitored, even when going to the
restroom. He had to pay a 200-yuan deposit that was later returned. In late
April 2001, Party secretary Li Li, the head of the police station, and some
township government officials arrested Mr. Li Guangyi and his daughter on the
street and took them to the township government. Li Li ordered some people to
beat and kick the practitioners, slap their faces, and force them to stand. He
also ordered that their hands be hit with sticks until their hands were swollen
like balloons, and they could barely hold chopsticks while eating. A young man
in his 20's kicked Mr. Li from behind. Mr. Li fell over and almost lost
consciousness. Li Li and Qi Xiaole slapped his face until he bled from his eyes.
After Mr. Li Guangyi was released, Li Li deducted 4,000 yuan from his salary. During the two Party Congresses on November 8, 2002, Li Li deceived Mr. Li
Guangyi into going to the township government and sent him to a brainwashing
center, where he was forbidden to leave the room and was followed every time he
went to the restroom. All of the county governments sent personnel to monitor
practitioners held at the brainwashing center. Mr. Li was released one month
later, after being fined 1,000 yuan. He still has the receipt for the 1,000 yuan.
The officers also made him pay 500 yuan for food expenses, but did not issue a
receipt for it. 17) Ms. Song Xinling, 63, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa on July 20,
1999. She was arrested and taken back to Linbao Township. She was sent to the
township government on July 22. She was not allowed to leave the room, and her
family members brought her food. She was followed during restroom visits. Once,
township official Zhan Penghui took her to the office of Party secretary Li Li
and interrogated and beat her there. She was released after ten days, and the
200 yuan deposit charged before the detention was returned to her. 18) Ms. Di Ruiqin, 42, was arrested by township officials Zhan Penghui and
others along with village official Song Xiaoping. She was taken to a
brainwashing center and was not allowed to leave the room she was in. She was
also followed during restroom visits. Her family members brought her food and
she was released after four days. Ms. Di paid a 200-yuan deposit that was later
returned. Village officials Song Xiaoguo and Song Yinwei turned her over to
deputy Party secretary Zhan Xinyue and organizational secretary Zhan Penghui.
She was persecuted at the township government for seven days. 19) Ms. Li Hongxian, 38, was sent to a brainwashing center on July 22, 1999,
while she was holding her two-month-old baby. One evening in December 1999, the
officials took all practitioners in the village to the township government
overnight. More than 100 practitioners were held in a conference room, including
a two-month-old baby and practitioners in their 70s and 80s. One elderly male
practitioner spread newspapers on the floor and tried to lie down and rest, but
an official kicked him over and refused to let the practitioners sleep or talk.
When the baby made a little noise, township chief Huang screamed at the
practitioners. The practitioners were held for ten days and released after
paying illegally-imposed fines. Ms. Li firmly refused to cooperate with the
persecutors and was released without paying the fine. Afterwards, Ms. Li Hongxian was repeatedly taken to the township government.
The officials attempted to force her to slander Master and Dafa and demanded to
know the names of other practitioners. She firmly refused to cooperate with
them. She tore down slanderous posters at the township government. She and her
father, Mr. Li Guangyi, were taken to the township government where Party
secretary Li Li, Li Yinduo, Zhang Xinyue and many other officials interrogated
and beat them. The officials withheld Mr. Li Guangyi's salary in the amount of
2,000 yuan. Officials from the township government and from the police station
frequently harassed and threatened them. They said, "This is an order from
Jiang Zemin. We will keep making trouble until Dafa practitioners give up their
belief." Persecution of Practitioners in Sunzhuang Village, Linbao Township after July
20, 1999 20) Ms. Li Caiping, 40, went to Beijing to appeal in October 1999. She was
arrested and held at the Li County Detention Center for two months. Party
secretary Li Li, deputy Party secretary Zhang Xinyue, and other officials
interrogated her and beat her until some of her ribs were broken. She was
released after she held a hunger strike. Two weeks later, Li Li, Zhang Xinyue,
and police officer Chen Guixing arrested her at home and took her back to the
detention center, where she was held for more than 50 days. Zhang Xinyue and deputy township chief Huang led a group of people to take
Ms. Li to the township government, where the officials beat and kicked her. They
also hit her with wooden sticks until her entire body was black and blue, and
her face was swollen. She was released after three days. 21) Ms. Li Xiaofang, 45, was held twice at the County Detention Center and
the township government for a total of more than three months, in October 1999
and sometime in 2005. She was severely persecuted and fined 3,000 yuan.
Officials at the detention center once twisted her arm(s) behind her back so
violently that she lost consciousness. 22) Ms. Sun Yuxia, 66, was arrested on January 21, 2001. Participating in the
arrest were Zhang Xinyue, deputy Party secretary of Linbao Township, and deputy
township chief Huang. Ms. Sun was taken to the township government and held
there for two days. Later on, police officer Chen Guixing and others sent her to
the County Detention Center. She went on a hunger strike and was released after
two weeks. Zhang Xinyue and Huang arrested her again on April 28, 2001. They
took her to the township government and beat her with wooden sticks and tree
branches until she was severely bruised all over her body. Her face remained
swollen for about one month. 23) Ms. Li Xiaowei, 78, was taken to the township government on April 28,
2001. She was beaten and persecuted for three days. 24) Ms. Sun Lanmin, 50, was arrested on January 19, 2001, at the hands of
Zhang Xinyue and Huang. Two days later they sent her to the County Detention
Center and held her there for two weeks. She was taken to the township
government on April 28, 2001, and subsequently beaten and persecuted for three
days. Party secretary Li Li oversaw the other officials, including about 20
people from the township Land Bureau, the police station, and the township
government. Persecution of Practitioners in Wangxinzhuang Village, Linbao Township 25) Ms. Zhu Yanfang, 45 was reported when posting truth-clarifying banners in
Wangxinzhuang Village at around 10:00 p.m. on June 12, 2005. Five officials from
the Township Police Station and other government agencies arrested her and took
her to the County Police Department. Once there, officers Liu Wenli, Wang
Junchang, Li Shujuan, and several others interrogated her and transferred her to
the City Police Department. She was later taken to the Gaoyang Detention Center
where she was held for one month. Detention center head Hu San and Li tortured
her on a Tiger Bench for one day and one night and also forced her
to work for about 20 days. 26) Ms. Cui Xiaogai, 46, was reported on June 12, 2005, when posting
truth-clarification materials. Officers from the Township Police Station
arrested her and later ransacked her home, taking recorder(s), VCDs,
audiocassettes, Dafa books and other things. Ms. Cui left home to avoid arrest.
During this time, the officials frequently harassed her family members, which
dealt a severe blow to the already broken family. The officials harassed and
intimidated the family members again at 10:00 p.m. on January 27, 2006,
traumatizing these innocent people. 27) Mr. Zhu Yanlong, 42, was arrested along with his wife, Ms. Hong Xia, by
four officers from the Township Police Station on the evening of January 22,
2001. They were taken to the township government where Party secretary Li Li,
deputy Party secretary Li Yinduo, and township head Liu Yanru interrogated them.
Li Li and Li Yinduo slapped Mr. Zhu in the face for 30 minutes, forcibly removed
his clothes, and beat him until he vomited blood. He was taken to a police
station and then a detention center the next day. He was held for 13 days. After
he returned home, 610 Office agents continued to harass and threaten him on a
regular basis. 28) Practitioner Ms. Zhou Aizhen is 46 years old. Official Dong Genli, deputy
village head Qi Xiaole, and others broke into her home at 2:00 a.m. on January
22, 2001. They then took her to the township government where Party secretary Li
Li, deputy secretary Li Yinduo, township head Liu Yanru and deputy township
chief Qi Xiaole interrogated her. These officials took turns beating her for
three hours until her face and legs were severely bruised. Qi Xiaole also hit
her legs with a broom. They told her family to take her home at 5:00 p.m. 29) Ms. Li Ximei, 67, was arrested on around January 14, 2001, and taken to
the township government where she was interrogated and beaten. The officials
refused to let her go home to spend the Chinese New Year with her family. Thus
she could not take care of her sick family member(s). She cut a blood vessel in
her wrist in protest and the officials eventually let her go home, fearing
having to accept responsibility should she die. (Editor's Note: The Falun
Dafa teachings forbid self-mutilation; practitioners are supposed to eliminate
evil with righteous thoughts.) 30 - 31) Ms. Zhan Xinhuan and Ms. Xin Xinggai are both 64 years old. Village
officials Zhang Dongjian, Huo Guozhong ,and others took the two practitioners to
the township government on July 20, 1999, and interrogated them. They would not
let the practitioners leave the building or use the restroom. Their families had
to bring them food. The practitioners were persecuted for two weeks. The village
officials took them to the township government again on November 12, 1999, for a
brainwashing session. The practitioners were released a week later after they
were each fined 500 yuan. Both practitioners were arrested again around January
14, 2001, and taken back to the township government. They were locked in a small
dark room for four days. Persecution of Dafa practitioners in Hu Village, Xinxing Town 32) Ms. Li Heluan once suffered from chronic hepatitis and did not respond to
long-term treatment. She regained complete health, however, several months after
she started practicing Dafa, in February 1996. Officers from Xinxing Town Police
Station arrested Ms. Li and other practitioners when they were posting
truth-clarification banners after the persecution began. The officers took the
practitioners to the County Detention Center. The guards at the detention center
tried to make Ms. Li slander Master and Dafa many times during her two-month
term. They did not give her enough food and did not let her sleep or practice
the exercises. Her family paid more than 2,000 yuan to official Chen Guixing for
her release. Ms. Li was released only after being fined an additional 1,000 yuan.
After she returned home, her family spent another 1,000 yuan on
"gifts" for village officials Bo Dagui, Feng Chengzhang and others. 33) Ms. Liang Tongfang, 18, had been sickly ever since childhood. She
recovered after she started practicing Dafa with her parents in 1997. Her
parents were arrested on the evening of June 3, 2001. The teachers and officials
at her school threatened her. 34) Ms. Wang Suxia, 57, suffered from high blood pressure, heart disease,
chronic lumbar muscle strain, and edema, among other conditions. All of her
illnesses disappeared, however, after she started practicing Dafa in March 1997.
After the persecution began, she joined some other practitioners and went to
Beijing to clarify the truth. They were arrested and taken back to Baoding City
overnight. The practitioners were taken to a local school where officials from
the Xinxing Town government monitored them. The officials forbade the
practitioners from sleeping. Ms. Wang refused to write guarantee statements as
demanded by Li Hefang, secretary of the Politics and Law Committee, so the
officials ransacked her home. Ms. Wang went to Beijing again on December 21, 1999, with some fellow
practitioners. She was arrested in Tiananmen Square and taken to a police
station. Three hours later, Liu, an official from the local liaison office in
Beijing, interrogated her and made her stay standing. Police officers Zhang
Yongjiang and Chen Guixing took her to the County Detention Center and held her
there for more than two months, during which time they forbade family visits.
Her family paid the officials and took them out for luxurious dinners. The
liaison office in Beijing extorted a 3,000 yuan "detention transfer
fee" and another 200 yuan in unexplained charges from her family. The
officials later extorted an additional 10,000 yuan "education and reform
fee" and 50 yuan "material fee" on February 23, 2000. Niu Haifeng
processed the charges. After Ms. Wang's return home, Li Hefang and other officials frequently
harassed and watched her at home. She was placed under around-the-clock
surveillance between April 25 and May 2, 2001. The officials arrested her and
her husband on the evening of June 3, 2001, and extorted 2,000 yuan from them.
They threatened, "Jiang Zemin has issued secret orders: there is no legal
liability for beating a Falun Gong practitioner to death, as it shall be counted
as suicide. You can't get out of it if you don't give us money!" Ms. Wang
was detained for more than 20 days, during which time the officials attempted to
force her to write guarantee statements and slander Master and Dafa. Ms. Wang
refused. The officials extorted another 2,000 yuan from her and made her write
an IOU slip for another 2,000 yuan before they released her. Officers constantly monitored the outside of Ms. Wang's home, harassed her
and took photographs of her at home. She was arrested again by a group of
officials including Li Hefang when posting truth-clarification materials with
other practitioner(s). She was then held in prison for more than four months
where she did not follow the officials' commands. Guard Zhang Dawei whipped her
with a triangular belt. She was subsequently sent to the Baoding Forced Labor
Camp where she persisted in her belief and was brutally tortured. Ms. Wang was
forbidden to sleep and was forced to squat with her arms around her knees, stand
against a wall for extended periods of time, and work day and night until she
suffered a relapse of her former illnesses. Her systolic blood pressure went up
to 225 mmHg [normal systolic blood pressure is around 120 mmHg] and her heart
rate reached 214 beats per minute [normal heart rate is around 60 beats per
minute]. She was diagnosed with high blood pressure, heart disease, high
cholesterol, diabetes and many other conditions, and was sent home on November
20, 2002. Labor camp officials went to her home a year later, on November 9,
2003, to find out her circumstances. Ms. Wang Suxia told them, "I've
recovered through practicing Falun Gong." Persecution of practitioners in Baoxu Township, Yechenzuo Village 35) Ms. Zhang, 38, used to suffer from poor health and had a bad temper. She
started practicing Dafa in 1997, and all of her illnesses disappeared. Her
temper also improved. After the persecution began, she went to Beijing to appeal
along with some other practitioners. They were intercepted in Baoding City and
taken back to Chengxi Elementary School in Li County the next day, where they
were held for three days. They were later detained at the township government
for five days. A group of officials headed by Liu Pingjiang and Liu Jianzhu
refused to let the practitioners sleep and locked them in small rooms filled
with mosquitoes and other bugs. When she and five other practitioners made a second trip to Beijing to
appeal, she was arrested by plainclothes police officers and taken to the local
liaison office in Beijing. From there she was taken to a local detention center
where she was held for more than a month. During this period, Detention Center
head Wang Xinzhai, guard Chen Guixing and others handcuffed her, shocked her
with electric batons, and physically and verbally abused her. Her family paid
20,000 yuan in "fines" before she was released. Ms. Zhang and other practitioners appealed in Beijing again at the end of
2001. She was arrested and taken to the Dongcheng District Police Department
where she was held for more than 20 days. She was transferred to a local
detention center and sentenced to forced labor and sent to the Baoding Forced
Labor Camp, where she was tied on a wooden board, with her arms and legs
stretched to the limit, before being handcuffed and shackled. She was also
tortured on the Death Bed. 36) Mr. Zhu Junmin, 39, was arrested in June 2000 for distributing
truth-clarification materials and detained for one month. His car, cellphone,
and 390 yuan in cash were taken away, but he was never given a receipt. Mr. Zhu
was hung up by his handcuffed hands for a very long time. Four guards including
Chen Guixing took turns shocking him with electric batons, yet the electric
current reverted to the guards, who thought the batons were broken. Mr. Zhu was
later sentenced to one year of forced labor. Persecution of Practitioners in Donghe Village, Xinxing Town 37) Ms. Su Ruixian, 67, once suffered from an arthritic shoulder, gastritis,
cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder), neck problems, and severe,
debilitating leg pain. All of the symptoms disappeared less than six months
after she started practicing Falun Dafa. Ms. Su was able to walk so fast that
people much younger than she could not keep up with her. Local officials
frequently harassed her after the persecution began. A group of officials from
Xinxing Town, including Yang Yongqun, arrested Ms. Su and ransacked her home.
They held her for one day but released her after extorting 3,000 yuan from her
family. They extorted another 2,500 yuan three days later. The officials also
confiscated 500 yuan that they squandered on food and drinks for themselves. 38) Ms. Shi Xiaohua is 63 years old. Village security chief Tian Laolu and
township official Qi Haitao barged into her home one evening in the spring of
2001 and attempted to force her to slander Master. She firmly refused. One
evening in summer 2001, Xinxing Town deputy head Li Hefang took her to the town
government and held her there. Party secretary Zhang Yongjiang attempted to make
her write a guarantee statement, but she refused. She was released nine days
later after the officials had extorted 9,000 yuan from her family. 39) Ms. Wang Huifang, 38, started practicing Dafa in 1998. She went to
Beijing to appeal on July 20, 1999, and was held in Chengguan Town for two
weeks. She returned to Beijing on December 18, 1999, and was held at the County
Detention Center for more than 40 days. Guards Li Shujuan, Chen Guixing, and
others interrogated her numerous times and extorted 13,000 yuan from her. She
appealed for a third time on April 25, 2001, and was held at a detention center.
She commenced an 11-day hunger strike and was released only when her life was in
danger. She was taken to a forced labor camp 20 days later. The guards extorted
5,000 yuan worth of cigarettes from her family during this time. 40) Ms. Liu Suhua, 70, was widowed as a young woman and was confronted with
the deaths of two sons and two grandsons in middle age. She developed many
illnesses from her grief but regained complete health through practicing Dafa.
Falun Dafa gave her a new life. One evening in 2002, officials Zhu Guoyu, Xie
Donghai and others arrested Ms. Liu and took her to Balizhuang Brainwashing
Center. They persecuted her until her systolic blood pressure rose to 222 mmHg
(normal systolic blood pressure is around 120 mmHg), her entire body swelled up,
and her life was hanging by a thread. She was taken to a county government-run
hotel in the middle of the night in 2003, locked in a small room, and prevented
from resting. The officials threatened and intimidated her around the clock.
Official Zhu Guoyu ordered people to harass and threaten her and her family many
times over the past several years. 41) Ms. Liu Guiling, 62, along with her grandson, was taken to the county 610
Office in September 2001. She was later sent to the Balizhuang Brainwashing
Center. Her husband and son both left home to avoid persecution, and the
officials followed Ms. Liu. They destroyed the front gate, the apartment door,
and the courtyard wall of her home. Officers Chen Guixing, Wang Shen, Li
Guanghui, and others from the County Police Department then broke into her home
and took Dafa books, an incense burner, clothes, and other personal belongings.
They also took 400 yuan in cash from her and detained her. Seven months later,
they transferred her to a brainwashing center but released her after two weeks. 42) Ms. Liu Yanju works at a materials production company. She was arrested
in October 1999 by a group of officials including Chen Guixing, who was the head
of the Politics and Security Section at the police department. Ms. Liu was
persecuted at a detention center for 18 days and fined 3,000 yuan. Her superiors
sent her to the Balizhuang Brainwashing Center in 2000. She was arrested again
by Chen Guixing on April 25, 2002 and detained for three months. Her husband was
also detained for five days. The police arrested her once more on February 8,
2003 and persecuted her for three months. They also extorted another 3,000 yuan
from her. She was sentenced to two years of forced labor on September 8, 2003. 43) Ms. Wang Xishun was born in 1951 and lived in Qiqi Village, Beinian
Township. She was detained at the township government for two weeks after the
persecution began on July 20, 1999. The authorities released her after failed
attempts to extort money from her. She was eventually held at the Beinian
Township Brainwashing Center for ten days in 2000 and was sent to the same
center again in 2001 and fined 80 yuan. Ms. Wang was reported in March 2005 and
arrested by officers from Raoyang County, Hengshui City. She was sentenced to
one year of forced labor and persecuted at the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp for six
months before being transferred to the Baoding Forced Labor Camp, where she was
held for eleven months. Ms. Wang was tortured in various ways at the camp,
including being shocked with electric batons. Persecution of Practitioners in Suning County, Hebei Province 44) Ms. Yu Fenglan, 66, lived in Yuanzuo Village, Fuzuo Township, Suning
City, Hebei Province. She left for Beijing on December 2, 1999, to appeal for
Dafa but was intercepted and taken back to Suning County. The officials
handcuffed her to prevent her escape. The handcuffs fell off by themselves
during the trip, but she did not realize it was Master prompting her to leave.
She ended up being taken to the Phoenix Hotel in Suning County. Officers from
the Suning Police Department held her at the County Detention Center on December
4, 1999. The police conducted a body search and took her money and personal
belongings. They put her in a metal cage and made her family and other people
monitor her. The officials slapped her face with Dafa books. They reluctantly
released her on January 4, 2000, due to pressure from various sources and
extorted a 5,000 yuan "deposit" from her, later returning only 4,000
yuan. In the summer of 2000, Li Chenxiang, former 610 Office head, and Xu Qiuli
from the police department ransacked Ms. Yu's home. They arrested her and
extorted 8,000 yuan from her. She was released after 18 days. 45) Ms. Liu Shulan, 54, lived in Yuanzuo Village, Fuzuo Township, Suning
City. She left for Beijing on December 2, 1999, to appeal for Dafa, but she was
intercepted and taken back to Suning County. The officials handcuffed her to
prevent her escape. The handcuffs fell off by themselves, but she did not
realize it was Master prompting her to leave. She ended up being taken to the
Phoenix Hotel in Suning County. Officers from the Suning Police Department held
her at the County Detention Center on December 4, 1999. The police conducted a
body search and took all of her money and personal belongings. They put her in a
metal cage and made her family and other people monitor her. The authorities
reluctantly released her on January 4, 2000 due to pressure from various
sources. They extorted a 5,000 yuan "deposit" from her. The money was
later returned. In the summer of 2000, Li Chenxiang, the former head of the 610
Office, and Xu Qiuli from the police department ransacked her home. They
arrested her and extorted a 6,000 yuan "fine" from her. They
handcuffed her and hung her up and did not let her eat, drink, or use the
restroom. The village division bailed her out. Li Chenxiang harassed
practitioners sexually as well as abusing them physically and verbally in other
ways. He once said to a female practitioner, "I'll get a couple of old men
and have them gang-rape you."
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