Details of the Persecution Mr. Li Wenmou, 72, from Tonghua City, Jilin Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Li Wenmou, 72 and a Falun Gong practitioner, is from Tonghua City. In late July or early August 1999, six officers from the Railroad Police Division, led by division head Hong Daoye, arrived at Li Wenmou's residence and ransacked it. They took Falun Dafa books, a sword, and other personal belongings.

A few days later, more than 20 people harassed Mr. Li and attempted to coerce him to give up his practice of Falun Gong. The people who harassed him included Mechanical Section Party Secretary Xu Jingfu and Railroad Bureau Party Secretary Zhang Rong. Mr. Li refused to cooperate. While Mr. Li was taking a walk, the police arrested him and took him to the Dongchang Districit Police Department. Deputy Chief Zou Mingji from the Laozhan Police Station sent him to Changliu Detention Center in Tonghua City, where he was illegally detained for 15 days. Prior to October 1, 1999, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel were determined to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal. They compelled Li Wenmou to report to Changliu Detention Center daily for six days, to be detained for two hours each day.

In July 2000, Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested by Tiananmen Square police. He was released at 8:00 p.m. Once at home, local police arrested him and had him sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. On September 2-3, 2000, he was taken to Tonghua Forced Labor Camp, where all the practitioners, regardless of age, were physically assaulted and shocked with electric batons. Guard Sun Jianfu urged criminal inmate Zhan Wandong to slap the practitioners with the bottoms of his shoes. He also told the criminals that, if they beat practitioners, they would get credits and reductions in their sentences. Li Wenmou was made to do hard labor every day and forced to watch slanderous videos and undergo compulsory brainwashing.

At 10:00 p.m. on October 28, 2002, the residential street committee supervisor, Dong, female, led Deputy Police Chief Cao and policeman Zhang to once again ransack Mr. Li's house. (Dong has since died.) Prior to the 2003 Chinese New Year, Mr. Li was taken to Caoyangou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun for one and a half years.

While at this camp, practitioners who refused to write the "five statements" (similar to the three statements), promising to stop practicing, were beaten and shocked with electric batons. They were also made to sit on small stools for long periods of time and made to work from early morning to late at night, often until 11:00 p.m. Li Wenmou was incarcerated in the No. 4 Division. One practitioner from Baishan City refused to write the guarantee statement. As a result, five guards beat him. They also used two electric batons to shock him simultaneously and used a belt to whip him, continuing for more than an hour. The practitioner was covered with injuries upon returning to his cell. Guard Zou from the No. 4 Division threatened that, unless he reformed, "We will send you to the No. 2 Division and torture you even more severely."

Because Mr. Li Wenmou refused to give up his belief, his term was unlawfully extended by two and a half months.

May 10, 2008

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/11/178190.html

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