The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- August 13, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net


  • The Details of Yuan Qingjiang's Death in Daqing Prison

  • I Got Out of the Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp Alive after Suffering Extreme Torture

  • Many Falun Gong Practitioners' Joints Are Dislocated by Multiple Torture Sessions in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp

  • Xie Zhonggui from Guiyang City Arrested, 76-Year-Old Mother Injured By Police

  • Facts about the Persecution of Practitioners in Yushan Forced Labor Camp, Tianjin City

  • Ms. Liu Ying Injected with Unknown Drugs at the People's Hospital in Chengdu City

  • Brief News from China - August 2, 2005

  • Summary of Other Articles and News - July 24, 2005



  • The Details of Yuan Qingjiang's Death in Daqing Prison

    On July 23, 2005, Mr. Yuan Qingjiang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province died from torture in Daqing Prison. Mr. Yuan was abducted on March 7, 2003, and was sentenced to prison. In Harbin Prison, he suffered severe persecution. He was forced to remain standing for 18 days without sleep by police officer Zhang Jiushan and criminals Guan Dejun, Wang Shijun and others and was brutally beaten, which caused excess fluid in his chest, difficulties in movement and loss of consciousness. On July 1, 2004, he was transferred to the No. 6 Squadron of Daqing Prison. After Labor Day (May 1st) of 2005, the Daqing Prison authorities intensified the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Dozens of practitioners who were on hunger strike to protest the persecution were locked in a small cell and were tortured with the " Iron Chair". From May 30 to June 1, Yuan Qingjiang had been tied up for 3 days by the criminals designated by warden Dong Fenghuan and the deputy warden. Moreover, he was brutally beaten by Dong Fenghuan. As a result, he coughed up blood, and developed cirrhosis of the liver with ascites and severe emaciation. Mr. Yuan had to protest the cruel persecution by conducting a hunger strike. When his health was in a very dangerous condition, he was taken by the prison authorities to the prison hospital for so-called "treatment" which was, as the criminals put it, the same as being sentenced to death. Finally, Mr. Yuan Qingjiang died on July 23, 2005.

    Below is the contact information of the persons responsible: Daqing Prison: Hongweixin Street, Ranghu Rd, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, 163159

    Name Title Phone (office) Phone (home) Cell Phone





    Chen Qingfa Political Commissar 5058588 4686358 13329491288
    Wang Jiaren Deputy Director 5050616 4687616 13303691339
    Zhang Yajun Deputy Director 5059122 6388889 13359825633
    Jiang Shuchen Deputy Director 5059808 6783122 13936711131
    Wang Yingjie Deputy Director 5059919 6363870 13329393777
    Tan Ronglai Director of Political Division 5050618 6133365 13304694188
    Xu Zhi Deputy Director of Political division 5059918
    13936702596
    Ma Wenyu Director of Political division 5050613 4621138 13936999985
    Gong Huaqiang Director of Disciplinary Supervision Division 5059590 4660518 13845929612
    Guo Chuntang Chief of Forced Labor Section 5059750 6388886 13039882277
    Jiang Yanzhang Vice President of Labor Union 5058920 4687219 13936918785


    I Got Out of the Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp Alive after Suffering Extreme Torture

    I was imprisoned in the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp by the local police because I practice Falun Gong. I suffered nearly two years of persecution in the labor camp. The guards there treated practitioners in a manner too cruel to describe. I got out alive from the labor camp, but suffered extreme torture.

    On May 17, 2002, when I was at home reading, several people knocked at my door and tried to break in with screwdrivers. I hurried to put away Zhuan Falun and Falun Gong materials. By then, the door had been pried open, and policeman Guo Weishan from the Yonghong District Police Department broke in with a gun in his hand. He aimed the gun at me and said, "Freeze! Falun Gong people." Several people rushed in and grabbed lots of Falun Gong materials. Guo Weishan took away my cell phone, pager, 100 yuan and other items (these things still have not been returned to me). They took me to the Yonghong Police Department.

    The police wanted to interrogate me. Suddenly I became dizzy, my hands and arms couldn't move, and I found myself lying down on the ground. The police didn't care whether I was alive or not, and at midnight they dragged me to the detention center. On June 4, I was taken to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

    Because I persisted in practicing Falun Gong, I was sent to the so-called Training Team, were we had to do "walk training" at 6 o'clock every morning. On the training team there were relatively more elderly people and sometimes they had difficulty walking. Police officers Lin Wei, Chen Jing, Li Yongbo frequently verbally abused us and also slandered Falun Gong. In order to stop the police's evil conduct, on July 8, the entire team consisting of more than 50 Falun Gong practitioners jointly refused to do the walk training. No matter how loud Lin Wei and Cheng Zhenhui shouted, we all stood still and refused to budge. Lin Wei ordered team leader Zhang Xiaodan to beat Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Li-e.

    After the guards came to work, He Qiang called an urgent meeting to decide how to deal with us. After 9 o'clock, he led a group of guards who rushed towards us, brutally beating the Falun Gong practitioners, dragging the older practitioners to the second floor. After being beaten mercilessly, some were sent back to their rooms and those in better condition were dragged to the meeting room where guard Mu Zhenjuan reprimanded the practitioners.

    Finally, the four of us who continued to resist were handcuffed in a room on the second floor. Because the guards were afraid of their evil persecution being exposed, they covered the glass door with paper. During the daytime, we were forced to sit on the floor and they handcuffed us to the bed frame. At night, we were still forced to sit on the floor and were handcuffed facing the bed frame.

    The weather in July was sultry and the guards would not allow the door to be opened (there was no air conditioning). It was hard to breathe. During the night, they left the lights on, and we were forbidden from moving even when mosquitoes landed on our faces. The situation was very hard to withstand. After the 6th day, another practitioner and I developed heart problems and we were in critical condition. Only after the doctor came did they remove our handcuffs.

    On October 23, the labor camp intensified the persecution against all the determined Falun Gong practitioners, subjecting us to brainwashing. We were forced to sit on a stool that was made from enamel-insulated wire with screw nuts on the surface. From 6 o'clock in the morning until 11 or 12 o'clock in the evening, except for meal time, we had to put both hands on our legs, keep our legs apart, keep the upper body straight and not move. Some fellow practitioners' buttocks started to fester. Seventy or eighty people sat in a room smaller than 60 square meters. Every day, they forced us to watch programs that slandered Falun Gong. Every day the guards pulled a few people out and attempted to "transform" them with the use of torture.

    On November 1, guards Gao Jie and Lin Wei handcuffed me in the "big back-cuffing" position [this is a very painful form of torture in which one arm is pulled down the back behind the head and the other hand is raised up from the lower back. The two hands are handcuffed together, causing unbearable pain]. I was handcuffed for two hours in this extremely painful position. I was unable to withstand this torture and was "transformed," against my will and my conscience.

    On November 8, I wrote a solemn declaration, declaring that my previous statement renouncing Falun Gong had been made under duress and was null and void, and gave it to policeman Hong Wei. He handcuffed me in the "big back-cuffing" position again, tortured me for more than an hour, and slapped me on the face. After ripping up my declaration statement, he asked me whether I would write such a statement again.

    In February 2003, the labor camp tried to force us to write the so-called "five statements." I refused to write them. Hong Wei and prisoner Wang Jie handcuffed me in the "big back-cuffing" position again, and tortured me for seven and a half hours. Hong Wei also kicked my hands that were handcuffed. I suffered extreme pain, too painful to describe.

    On March 7, guard Jiang Jianan ordered us to write a report about our "understanding." When I refused, Guard Zhang Yan slapped me. Prisoner Wang Jie handcuffed me again in the "big back-cuffing" position, while Hong Wei slapped me. I had new wounds before my old wounds had healed. I almost lost consciousness from the pain.

    The guards at the labor camp often didn't allow us to use the restroom, and sometimes they only gave us a couple of minutes to relieve ourselves even if we weren't finished.

    What we ate in the forced labor camp was very low-grade corn bread, and salted radish soup. Most Falun Gong practitioners were undernourished and lacked energy. We were also forced to do hard physical labor. If we couldn't complete the work during the set time, we'd be forced to work overtime; we were also frequently beaten and berated by the guards. This is the wicked Chinese Communist Party's so-called "transformation through education, like a spring breeze."


    Many Falun Gong Practitioners' Joints Are Dislocated by Multiple Torture Sessions in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp

    The Fourth Ward of Chaoyanggou Labor Camp located in Changchun City, Jilin Province had a meeting in the beginning of March 2005. They discussed the following:

    The "transformation" rate must reach 95% according to the Central Government's order.

    The Fourth Ward would be designated as the Strict Control Ward, where attacks would be conducted under the direction of Camp Director Wang Xiaoming (male) and the Fourth Ward Leader Tao Zhuangxuan (male). All of the Ward's guards would be involved in "forced transformation" by violence, torture, and deception, starting from March 30, 2005.

    The base torture methods used include pouring cold water on practitioners; pressing down on their legs with force; forcing the double lotus position and then throwing down practitioners to the ground after raising them up in the air; immobilizing the legs and elbow joints with sticks and then using an electric baton to shock the arms, anus, and the whole body; using an electric baton to shock practitioners after pouring cold water onto their bodies; tying up the practitioners with rope and a stick, and then turning the sticks with force, making the rope cut into the flesh; handcuffing and then hanging up practitioners by the cuffs; and beating them with tool handles or other hard objects.

    The torture lasted through the night, and sometimes practitioners were not allowed to sleep for several nights at a time. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Pan Yushun was tortured for 4-5 days continuously. Practitioner Mr. Liu Qinghua was burned by guards on his mouth, face, and ears with lit newspapers. The guards clearly told him, their superiors said that they were allowed to kill up to 490f the practitioners during the "attack" period.

    From March 30 to May 15, seventeen Falun Gong practitioners went through inhuman torture, and each torture session lasted eight hours. Many of them went through multiple torture sessions, causing a large number of bruises and dislocated joints. Afterwards many of them were unable to move under their own power.

    Practitioner Liu Qinghua's term ended on May 19, and he was released. However, practitioners Mr. Wu Shuyu and Mr. Sun Changping both had their terms extended. Mr. Guan Xingxian was tortured until one leg muscle atrophied, and he had to be carried even to go to eat meals. The labor camp still would not let him out on medical parole or let his family visit him.

    Chayanggou Labor Camp phone numbers: 86-431-4835680 (ask to be transferred to the Fourth Ward)

    Perpetrators of the persecution:

    CCP Director Chen (male), Li Jun (male), Zhao Dongli (male), Liu Xiaoming (male), Liu Yan (male), Liu (middle level leader, male), guard Wang (male, people call him devil Wang), and some trained prisoners

    Tao Zhuangxuan (male), 86-13596037816(Cell)


    Xie Zhonggui from Guiyang City Arrested, 76-Year-Old Mother Injured By Police

    Mr. Xie Zhonggui is a Falun Gong practitioner from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. Policemen from the Beijing Road Police Station in Guiyang City arrested him on July 1. On the afternoon of July 6, Xie Zhonggui's 76-year-old mother went to the police station to reason with them. She was beaten and manhandled by six or seven policemen, resulting in multiple injuries.

    Following are diagnostic photos from the Guiyang Medical College and of the injuries the police caused to Pi Yiming, Xie Zhonggui's mother.

    On July 1, Xie Zhonggui was arrested without cause by four policemen from the Beijing Road Police Station, who had waited for him near his residence. The police attempted to force Xie Zhonggui to write the so-called Three Statements and Xie refused. Then they sent him to the notorious Lannigou brainwashing class and detained him there for persecution.

    After Xie Zhonggui's 76-year-old mother Pi Yiming learned of her son's arrest, she went to the police station to reason with them but did not get any result. The afternoon of July 6, Pi Yiming went to the police station again. Six or seven policemen grabbed and twisted Pi Yuming's arms and legs. They harshly stuffed her into a vehicle, causing this 76-year-old woman various injuries.

    Xie Zhonggui used to be a drug user and could not extricate himself from it. It was Falun Gong that saved him and enabled him to regain his life, but now he is being persecuted for being a good person. The following is a statement from Xie Zhonggui's parents.

    Appeal Statement

    We are Xie Zhonggui's father (nearly 90 years old) and mother (nearly 80 years old). Our son is a truly good person. He was arrested without cause by four policemen from Beijing Road Police Station in front of our residence on July 1 because he is a Falun Gong practitioner.

    Our son Xie Zhonggui used to be a drug user, and our family became poor due to his drug use. When his drug addition flared up, he could not control himself and became hostile even toward his own family. Later he could no longer finance his drug use and attempted suicide twice. The first time he was rescued after taking a large amount of sleeping pills. The second time, before he was about to kill himself, one of his good friends who is a Falun Gong practitioner persuaded him to read Zhuan Falun and told him that this heavenly book could change him into a better person.

    After Xie Zhonggui read Zhuan Falun he became a completely changed person. Not only did he give up his drug addiction, he also got rid of his other bad habits. He became very considerate of his parents and cherished his life. Xie Zhonggui conducts himself according to the teachings in Zhuan Falun. In the several years of his practice, he set a higher standard for himself and did not do anything that would harm the country, society, people or his family.

    After July 20 of 1999, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong. Based on his trust in the government, Xie Zhonggui went to appeal according to the constitution, but for several years he experienced repeated persecution and his personal freedom could not be protected. He could not get a peaceful environment at home, as he was forced to stay away from home and wander around homeless. Police arrested him one day and beat him. He was seriously hurt and his whole body was covered with injuries. He had an infected wound on his back that began to fester. The pain was so great that he fainted several times.

    I am his mother. I got cirrhosis at age 30, and my whole body became swollen. The movements of my hand and foot joints were impaired. I had fainted several times. In order not to let my family bear too much of a financial burden, I stopped seeking treatment. Later, after I saw my son undergoing tremendous changes in his thoughts and conduct after practicing Falun Gong, I followed his footsteps and began practicing Falun Gong. After practicing Falun Gong, my health became better and better each day. This is a heavenly blessing for me. Falun Gong saved my son and my life.

    At around 4 o'clock on the afternoon of July 1, 2005, Xie Zhonggui came home to visit his parents. He was arrested without cause in front of our residence. After that I went to the Beijing Road Police Station to ask for my son's release, but they completely denied knowledge of the arrest. The second day, when I went to the police station to demand my son's return, they told me he had been detained at the Lannigou brainwashing center because he did not write the "Three Statements" and refused the "reformation."

    Two people monitored Xie Zhonggui in this brainwashing class 24 hours a day, denying him any personal freedom.

    This is a serious violation of China's constitution, Article 37, which "Prohibits illegal detention and other means of depriving and limiting citizen's personal freedom, Prohibits illegal body searching of citizens," and Article 38, "Citizen's individuality and dignity should not be violated. Any insult, slander, false charge and framing of a citizen is prohibited."

    List of names of police officers responsible:

    Ma Rizhan, Yin Jun, Wang Weizhong, Yang Yan, Xu Jinghai, Yan Sen, Wang Rin

    Beijing Road Police Station, Guiyang City: 86-851-6823578, 6879034, 6832202

    Beijing Road Administration Office, Guiyang City: 86-851-6810230, 6810300, 6815649, 6816035 (Party Secretary Office), 6827445, 6829228, 6866392


    Facts about the Persecution of Practitioners in Yushan Forced Labor Camp, Tianjin City

    Yushan Forced Labor Camp, also called Cai-Shi-Chang [meaning "quarry"], is located in Ji County, Tianjin City. Because of the terror and hard labor in the camp, the mere mention of its name would make any one who had been detained there turn pale.

    In 2001, I was abducted and taken to Yushan Forced Labor Camp for clarifying the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong and distributing truth-clarification flyers. One year later, at the end of 2002, the labor camp transferred all the Falun Gong practitioners detained in all the four divisions of the labor camp, about twenty of us, to the No. 1 Division, which was thus called the "Special Supervision Division."

    Immediately after the 2003 Chinese New Year, following the "spirit" of "the Sixteenth National CCP Congress," which declared Falun Gong a "hostile force," the labor camp began to persecute the fifteen Falun Gong practitioners who had refused to accept the brainwashing. Labor Camp Deputy Director Wang Guifu as well as Zhang and Lu took the lead, while No. 1 Division guards Li Zhan (the political head) and Wang Baodong (the division chief) actually carried out the persecution.

    First, the prison guards prepared many posters and banners that contained language slandering Falun Gong and the founder of Falun Gong. They posted the posters and banners everywhere in the hallways, cells, restrooms and conference rooms, and then forced the Falun Gong practitioners and all other inmates in No. 1 Division to gather in the conference room. They ordered every one to verbally abuse Falun Gong. This practice was repeated several times per day, and every inmate must do it. Every evening from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., the guards ordered all the inmates in the division to attend a "Law Class," and in every morning they forced the Falun Gong practitioners to spend three more hours studying articles that slandered Falun Gong. The guards attempted to use this means to brainwash the practitioners in the long run, and at the same time, poison, threaten, lure and deceive other inmates, so as to make them hate Falun Gong and isolate the Falun Gong practitioners.

    Second, as the atmosphere of terror was continuously created, the physical and mental abuse of the Falun Gong practitioners kept escalating. Under the excuse of taking care of the Falun Gong practitioners' health, the guards forced the practitioners to participate in the punitive "lineup" exercises, which lasted a long period of time. The persecution helpers, or those inmates who helped the guards in watching and persecuting the practitioners (for each practitioner there was one or two inmates following and watching him), under the instigation of the guards, would drag, punch, kick those who resisted the persecution.

    Third, after returning from the lineup exercises, the persecution helpers forced the practitioners to maintain a sitting position called "three straightened and one staring." [This is a way of torturing the practitioners. The "seat" is a small stool that is universally used in labor camps in China. The practitioners are forced to sit on it with the legs kept together. The thighs are kept horizontal and the shins are kept vertical. The fingers point towards each other and the palms are put on the tops of the knees. The neck, back and waist are straightened. This is called "Three straightened." The eyes look straight and stare at a spot designated by the monitors. Blinking is not allowed. As long as a practitioner refuses to be reformed, he or she will have to sit like this without moving for a long time. This is called "three straightened and one staring," which was described at /emh/articles/2004/12/16/55642.html]

    They ordered the practitioners to sit on small stools in a stiff and straight position, and keep in line with each other; otherwise they would be verbally abused or even punched or kicked. In the meantime, several persecution helpers, who were surrounding the practitioners, face-to-face, kept reading those articles that slander Falun Gong, so as to mentally torture the practitioners and achieve the effect of brainwashing.

    Among the persecution helpers, there were several inmate leaders and thugs who made tall paper hats and paper boards, on which they wrote language slandering Falun Gong. They forced a hat on a practitioner's head and hung a board around his neck, and then dragged him to the hallway. They shouted while showing others what they had done to the practitioner. The guards who saw this situation did nothing to stop it. Actually, without the sanctions of the guards, the inmates would have not dared to do such evil things. None of the practitioners were allowed to do anything on their own. Before doing anything, they first had to get approval from the persecution helpers, and then be accompanied by the helpers while doing it.

    Fourth was sleep deprivation. Practitioners were not allowed to sleep for a period from a minimum of five days and nights to as long as several weeks. The guards forced the practitioners to take over all the night shifts (each shift was eight hours long) that were supposed to be assigned to other inmates. During the interim, the persecution helpers also tortured the practitioners through means of swearing, using needles to prick the practitioners' fingers under their nails or other parts of the bodies, pouring cold water on them, threatening, burning fingernails with cigarettes, and others.

    Additionally, the guards also held meetings to slander Falun Gong. In one meeting, two Falun Gong practitioners stood up and loudly spoke, "Falun Dafa Is Good!" The persecution helpers, inmate leaders and thugs took off their dirty socks and stuffed them into the two practitioners' mouths. They then sealed the practitioners' mouths tightly with tape. So these villains, under the instigation and instruction of the guards, used despicable and brutal means, at their will, to torture the practitioners; they have not received any punishment for what they had done, and instead, were rewarded with reductions of their terms of sentence because of their "good" behavior.

    Seeing that they were still unable to shake the Falun Gong practitioners' belief, the guards started to resort to the following means: they instructed the inmates to bring in from the kitchen about ten pounds of coarsely grounded corn flour, mix it with salt and ground hot pepper, put the mixture into a large Sprite bottle, fill up the bottle with tap water, and then force-feed the content of the bottle into a practitioner's stomach. As the salt content was very high, the practitioner who had been force-fed would lose his or her voice in less than half an hour and repetitively have diarrhea. Even so, the practitioner was still not allowed to drink water.

    Fifth, after exhausting all the means of torturing as described above, the guards eventually tore off their masks of hypocrisy, which was their last resort. Driven by their personal interests (a guard who has successfully brainwashed a practitioner will be rewarded with a bonus of several thousand yuan, and the persecution helper rewarded with a sentence reduction), the guards and the persecution helpers started to persecute Falun Gong practitioners using any and all means. Guards Li Zhan and Wang Baodong instructed the inmate leaders and thugs to shock the Falun Gong practitioners with several 160,000-voltage electric batons. The villains who were actively involved in shocking the practitioners were all inmate leaders and inmate thugs, mainly seven of them, who included Yang Shaolin (from Tianjin), Wei Enjie (from Tianjin), Gao Jinhua (from Yanbian City of Jilin Province), Feng Shuangli (from Hebei Province), Hao Chuan (from Baodi County of Tianjin), Meng Fanguang (from Yanbian City of Jilin Province), and Gao Shuangjian (from Tianjin).

    These villains first deceived or dragged a practitioner to a warehouse, which was, in fact, a torture chamber. Located in a rather isolated area, it was difficult for people to hear the noises resulting from the electric shock torture. Several of them then surrounded the practitioner and asked if he would continue to practice Falun Gong or not. If the answer was "yes," they would take off the practitioner's clothes and shoes, knock him down on the floor, and restrain him. They used a blanket to cover the practitioner's head to muffle the screams of pain. Then they started to shock the practitioner all over his body.

    Enduring this was an extremely painful experience. Unable to withstand the shocking, some practitioners wrote the three statements. Among the practitioners, Han Ying and Ma Zexuan received the worst electric shocking. Once, after Han Ying was shocked for a long time, the back of Han's head and the entire back of Han's body were covered densely with blisters. Wang Chuanwu's mouth was also filled with blisters as a result of electric shocking. Additionally, they also did not allow Wang to sleep for a long time. As result, Wang suddenly collapsed in the hallway.

    Falun Gong practitioner Li Shitou, who has a Master degree, was transferred there from the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp. In March of 2003, guard Li Zhan punched and kicked Li Shitou for refusing to accept the arbitrary physical abuse; Li Shitou's eye-glasses were broken as result of the beating. Later, Li Zhan and Zhou Haiying (the inmate leader in the cell where Li Shitou was detained) tortured Li Shitou again with electric batons, trying to force him to accept the brainwashing.

    To strengthen and keep the so-called "transformation" achievements, the guards kept torturing the practitioners mentally, using the following means:

    (1) The guards ordered the persecution helpers to closely watch the activities of the practitioners, who were especially not allowed to say anything about Falun Gong. The inmates who have actively helped the guards persecuting the practitioners included Liu Baoan, Hou Kuaihua, Li Qingyun, Liu Mingyi, Ma Guoling and Liu Yijian.

    (2) The guards forced the practitioners to spend a lot of time watching videos and reading books and newspapers that slander Falun Gong. After watching or reading the materials, the practitioners were also forced to write down "their understandings."

    (3) Every week the practitioners were forced to renew their "Three Statements."

    (4) The guards let three 610 Office members, who pretended to be Falun Gong practitioners, bring in some fake articles, which they deceivingly claimed to be written by Master, so as to use them to deceive the practitioners. They also resorted to stepping on Master's photos, as well as other means. If a practitioner refused to accept the brainwashing, the guards would extend, again and again, his term of forcing labor or even formally sentenced him to prison.

    Every time officials of the Reeducation-through-Labor Bureau visited the labor camp, they would talk with Falun Gong practitioners. Guards Li Zhan, Wang Baodong, Zhang Xuyong and Li Lixin (these four guards were the main ones in No. 1 Division who were actively involved in persecuting the practitioners, but they rarely did the beating by themselves; other guards including doctor Wang from No. 3 Division and Wei Wei from No. 2 Division also participated in the persecution.) were worried that their crimes would be exposed. So before every visit, they always talked to Falun Gong practitioners in order to prevent the exposure of their crimes. They ordered the practitioners to tell the visiting officials how the guards had "transformed" them. The practitioners were not allowed to mention what had actually happened in the labor camp, and they were instructed to only say that they had willingly stopped the practice or they quit because they had been moved by the guards' caring and persuasion; the guards wanted to use these lies to cover the facts of the persecution and deceive the visiting officials. The guards acted this way during every visit.

    The labor camp guards forced the detainees to do slave labor. The guards used batons, rubber clubs, pick handles, and other means to torture the detainees. To make money, the labor camp forced the inmates to work overtime and over-capacity and do dangerous work that nobody wants to do, such as using dynamite to blow up rocks in the mountains, removing and transporting rocks, loading lime, sewing balls and toys (for export).

    The inmates worked usually 15 to 22 hours per day; when they could not finish the work, they were even not allowed to sleep for several days in row. There was no safety or protection gear for the detainees who were asked to go to the mountain to load lime. Lime is caustic, so the inmates, without exception, showed various degrees of burns and pus formation in the infected areas all over their bodies. Nevertheless, they still had to go up to the mountains, and the work there was still very intense.

    Yushan Forced Labor Camp is one of the dark dens in Tianjin City that are used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. In Tianjin City, other labor camps involved in the persecution include Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp, Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, Jianxing Forced Labor Camp, and Qingbowa Forced Labor Camp.

    By early 2005, the practitioners who were abducted to this forced labor camp were released because they were "transformed" or their terms were finished. Most of these practitioners have started to practice Falun Gong again and do the three things that Falun Gong practitioners should do.

    One of them is Chang Tianxiang, 40 year old, from Jinnan District, Tianjin City. After he was released from Yushan Forced Labor Camp in 2004, he studied Falun Gong books and "clarified the truth" diligently. He clarified the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong on commuter buses and received very good results. However, he neglected taking safety precautions. In August 2004, when he clarified the truth and distributed VCDs on a bus, he was reported by someone to the police and thus arrested. Next day the police searched the house he had rented and took away his new computer, worth over 3,000 "yuan", his printer, worth more than 300 yuan, and some truth-clarification materials. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor, and taken to Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Shuangkou Town, Beichen District, Tianjin City. His current status is unknown.

    The facts about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Yushan Forced Labor Camp have not been exposed in detail before. Today I wrote down these facts to thoroughly expose the crimes committed at this forced labor camp.


    Ms. Liu Ying Injected with Unknown Drugs at the People's Hospital in Chengdu City

    Ms. Liu Ying is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. She was subjected to cruel persecution at the Qingyang People's Hospital, where she was repeatedly injected with unidentified drugs until her health was in danger. The hospital then released her on July 19 because they were afraid of being held responsible for their crimes.

    Qingyang People's Hospital, cooperating with the Chengdu City 610 Office, has already systematically murdered about ten Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners who were murdered by this hospital include Deng Jianping, Duan Shiqiong, Chen Guijun, Hu Hongyue, Huang Lisha, Shen Lizhi and other practitioners who have not been officially identified.

    On June 28, 2005, plainclothes police from Qinglong Police Department arrested practitioner Ms. Liu Ying at the gate of her Qinglong apartment community. Ms. Liu shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" while the police were lifting her up and forcing her into a car. Then the police confiscated her family's personal property and sent her to the "Chengdu Legal System Class" for brainwashing.

    After her arrest, Ms. Liu went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution.

    Ms. Liu Ying has been arrested, persecuted and gone on hunger strikes many times. Her body has already been severely abused and injured. After the first day of her hunger strike this time, she displayed symptoms of some illness. She was therefore sent to the Chengdu City Detention Center, where she had been detained and tortured many times. Because of her severe condition, the detention center refused to admit her. She was then transferred to Qingyang People's Hospital in Chengdu City.

    In this hospital, Ms. Liu was injected with an unknown substance. Later she experienced weakness, dizziness, nausea and some other adverse effects. Qingyang People's Hospital is known as the designated hospital for patients from the Chengdu City Detention Center. Many practitioners sent to this hospital were force-fed and injected with drugs, which damaged their central nervous systems. After the practitioners were dead, the hospital staff hid their corpses in the crude morgue at the Railroad Bureau Center Hospital in Chengdu City and cremated them in the Wenjiang funeral parlor without recording their identities.

    Because Ms. Liu Ying refused to submit to the injections, hospital workers stretched out her arms and handcuffed them to the bed frame, immobilizing her and causing her extreme pain. On another occasion her hands were stretched out and handcuffed over her head. After a short time her hands and arms lost all sensation.

    As a further humiliation, the police refused to give Ms. Liu Ying any sanitary pads during her menstrual period.

    Because she had suffered persecution for such an extended period of time, she was diagnosed with anorexia, muscle atrophy, and stomach atrophy. She was deemed to be on the verge of death. Her persecutors were afraid of being held responsible for her bad health and possible death, so they released Ms. Liu on July 19.

    The primary perpetrator in this case is Zhang Fuming, the director of Qinglong County 610 Office in the Qinglong Police Department of the Chenghua Public Security Sub-Bureau.


    Brief News from China - August 2, 2005

    1. [Baiyin City, Gansu Province] Over A Dozen Practitioners Including Mr. Jia Peifu Are Arrested

    Some practitioners from Baiyin City, Gansu Province were arrested by the 610 Office, led by its director Chen Shenghua. Practitioners were having a experience sharing conference on July 30, 2005 when police trespassed in order to arrest them. Currently it is known that there are twelve practitioners who were detained: Mr. Jia Peifu, Ms. Yang Lianhua, Ms. Zhao Yan, Ms. Li Yu and her daughter, and the couple of Ms. Kong Yi.

    2. [Jieyang City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Yang Jingxia Was Arrested by the Jiedong County Chengxi Police Substation

    On the evening of July 30, 2005, Ms. Yang Jingxia was arrested by the Jiedong County Chengxi Police Substation of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province for clarifying the truth. Currently she is being detained at Jiedong County Detention Center.

    3. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Current Situation of Mr. Wang Zhanxiang and Mr. Xu Qian

    At 12:30 pm on July 22, 2005, Mr. Wang Zhanxiang, Mr. Xu Qian and Ms. Ding Shuhua were arrested by the police at Ms. Ding Shuhua's home, located in Hongshan District, Chifeng City. On July 27, it was known that Mr. Xu Qian was sent to Pingzhuang Detention Center. Mr. Wang Zhanxiang was sent to Wudan Detention Center. When Mr. Wang Zhanxiang was arrested, he had at least seven thousand yuan in cash on him. Mr. Wang Zhanxiang has been on a hunger strike for nine days.

    Mr. Wang Zhanxiang was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp in June 2000 for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was tortured by the Wudan Detention Center, Hongshan District Detention Center, Chifeng Forced Labor Camp, and the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp of Inner Mongolia. He was also tortured in Tumuji Forced Labor Camp so badly that he was paralyzed for six months. In April 2003, he was transferred directly from the forced labor camp to a brainwashing class to be further tortured. The police did not notify his family to pick him up until two hospitals both diagnosed him with having serious anemia.

    Relevant phone numbers:
    Li Hongzhu, Secretary General of the Wenniuteqi Judicial and Legal Committee of Chifeng City: 86-476-6323936 (Office), 86-476-6322152 (Home)
    Liang Yongfeng, director of the Wenniuteqi Public Security Bureau: 86-476-6322264 (Office), 86-476-6323793 (Home)
    Batubuhe, deputy director (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: 86-13847961666 (Cell), 86-476-6329336 (Home), 86-476-6386866 (Xiaolingotong)
    Li Jinghai, team leader of the National Security Team: 86-467-6328474, 86-476-6326247 (Office), 86-476-6321351 (Home)

    Wudan Detention Center of Wenliuteqi, Chifeng City:

    Cui Yanfeng, team leader: 86-13847697588 (Cell), 86-476-6340258 (Office), 86-476-6328853 (Home)
    Wang Zhijun, instructor: 86-13754067666 (Cell), 86-476-6340192 (Office), 86-476-6323958 (Home)
    Li Dongwen, deputy team leader: 86-13947605399 (Cell), 86-476-6340192 (Office), 86-476-6328859 (Home)
    Zhang Baofu, guard, 86-13848885828 (Cell), 86-476-6340195 (Office)

    4. [Guangdong Province] Ms. Zhou Meilin and Mr. Lu Pingyi Are on a Hunger Strike Protesting the Illegal Detention

    Ms. Zhou Meilin and Mr. Lu Pingyi from Guangdong Province are jailed in Cell 37 and 33 at the Huicheng District Detention Center of Huizhou City. They are currently on hunger strike to protest their illegal detention.

    5. [Heilongjiang Province] The Mother and Daughter of Ms. Wang Fengyun and Zhao Liping Were Arrested by the Beijie Police Substation of Muling Town

    Ms. Wang Fengyun and Ms Zhao Liping from Muling, Heilongjiang Province were reported to the police as they were posting Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials on the street.

    Approximately eight policemen from Beijie Police Substation of Muling Town went to Ms. Wang Fengyun's home on July 15, 2005 to arrest the mother and daughter of Ms. Wang Fengyun and Ms. Zhao Liping. The next day, they were sent to the Bamiantong Detention Center. The home phone number for Ms. Wang Fengyun: 86-453-3069468.

    Relevant phone numbers

    Beijie Police Substation of Muling Town: 86-453-3068590, director: Zhao Congxiang
    Deputy director, Wang Qiuyan: 86-13206899967 (Cell)
    Instructor, Song Wenming: 86-13091867777 (Cell)

    6. [Shanghai City] Ms. Lu Weidong Tried on August 4, 2005

    At the beginning of this year, Mr. Lu Weidong was arrested by the Baoshan District 610 Office and has since been detained at Baoshan Detention Center. Reliable news sources report that Mr. Lu Weidong was tried at 9:45 a.m. on August 4, 2005 at Baoshan District Court. The name of the judge was Xu Minfang, and the presiding judge's name is Dong Guo.

    Relevant phone numbers:
    Switchboard of Baoshan District Court: 86-21-56604808, 86-21-56692576 (head of the court: Yao Rongmin)
    Reception office of the Baoshan District government: 86-21-56692237, 86-21-56692251
    Shanghai City Superior Court: 86-21-34169666, 86-21-63080000

    7. [Aohanqi, Inner Mongolia] Ms. He Shuyan Was Once Again Arrested

    Ms. He Shuyang from Aohanqi, Inner Mongolia was arrested on the evening of April 11, 2005 together with Ms. Li Xiulan as they were posting their statements. The same night they escaped, but were forced to leave home for two months to avoid further persecution. Since her husband is working out-of-town, her two children had no one to care for them. When Ms. He Shuyan went home to see her children, she was arrested on July 7 from the hospital. She is currently being detained at Aohanqi Detention Center.

    While being held at the detention center, Ms. He Shuyan went on hunger strike to resist the persecution. She was force-fed by the police and tortured so badly that she became very feeble, and was sent home on July 15. When Ms. He Shuyan recovered slightly, the police again arrested her on July 30. She is now being detained at Aohanqi Detention Center.

    Relevant phone numbers:
    Yao Zhenting, deputy team leader of the National Security Team: 86-13947600323 (Cell)
    Yu Lianchao, 86-13848063456 (Cell)
    Detention center: 86-76-4333535

    8. [Chongqing City] Mr. Xin Dajun from Jiangbei Coal Mine of Beibei District Was Arrested and His Current Whereabouts Are Unknown

    Mr. Xin Dajun, an employee of the Jiangbei Coal Mine of Chongqing City was arrested on July 2, 2005. His current whereabouts are still unknown.

    9. [Chongqing City] Ms. Fang Min, a Retired Employee of Qijiang County Was Tortured - Her Life is in Immediate Danger

    Ms. Fang Min, 46, a retired employee of the Sanjiang Smeltery Service Company of Qijiang County, Chongqing City, was detained by the Qijiang Public Security Bureau for 45 days in late 2000. In June 2001 she was again sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp and was not released until 2003.

    On October 17, 2004, Ms. Fang Min was arrested by the police when she was clarifying the truth at Ganshui Town of Qijiang Couty. Currently she is being detained at Qijiang Detention Center. Since she continued doing the exercises and clarifying the truth, she was tortured by the police. As a result of the torture, she could not walk properly nor eat solid food. Whenever she ate food, she became swollen all over her body and she experienced chest pain. Currently her life is in great danger.

    10. [Yueyang City, Hunan Province] Ms. Li Juping and Ms. Yao Qiulian Are Arrested

    On June 4, 2005, Ms. Li Juping from Huarong County went back to her mother's home in Bashan Xuchang of Xingfu Village to visit her father who was sick. At noon on June 5, when she was having a meal at a guest's home, she was arrested with Ms. Yao Qiulian by the police from the Xingfu Village Police Substation and taken to the detention center. The police afterwards ransacked their homes. After they had been detained for one month, the police forced their families to pay a fine of 4000 yuan before they released them.

    Ms. Li Juping was detained for one month in December 1999 after she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was fined three thousand yuan. In total the police stole over eight thousand yuan from her. In March 2000, she was detained for fifteen days and was forcibly sent to the brainwashing class and tortured there. On December 22, 2001 (of the Chinese calendar), she was deceived by the police and was detained for another week.

    Ms. Yao Qiulian was detained for one month in January 2000 because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was extorted of four thousand yuan. Several days after she was released from the detention center, she was sentenced and sent to Zhuzhou Baimalong Labor Camp for one year of forced labor.

    11. [Yingcheng City, Hubei Province] Arrest of Mr. Rao Xuming from Yingcheng City, Hubei Province

    Mr. Rao Xuming from Yingheng City, Hubei Province was arrested on July 29 at his workplace (Yingcheng City Public Security Bureau of Hubei Province) for talking about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Currently he is being secretly and illegally jailed inside the Public Security Bureau. On the same day, the Yingcheng Public Security Bureau illegally entered and ransacked his home. The police stole his computer and harassed and threatened his family members.

    Relevant phone numbers:
    Public Security Bureau: 86-712-3222123, 86-712-3222426 (four digits are for internal numbers)
    Yin Shi, director of the Public Security Bureau: 3236456 (Office), 4758 or 4715 (Home), 86-13307292499 (Cell)
    Political commissioner: Lu Shanhua: 4761 (Office), 86-712-3250556 (Home), 86-13971940286 (Cell)
    Deputy director, Chen Junjie: 4678 (Office), 86-712-3238188 (Home), 86-13907293598 (cell)
    Deputy political commissioner, Zhou Shuiyuan: 4759 (Office), 86-712-3225188 (Home), 86-13607291918 (Cell)
    Deputy director, Chen Xinjin: 4754 (Office), 86-712-3238858 (Home), 86-13307293538 (Cell)



    Summary of Other Articles and News - July 24, 2005

    1. Three Practitioners from Yantai City in Shandong Province Are Being Persecuted in Zibo Women's Forced Labor Camp

    In September, 2004, Ms. Wang Chuanlian was sentenced to three years of "reeducation through forced labor." She has suffered tremendously due to refusing to be "transformed." She wasn't allowed to sleep at all for a long time and was locked up in a small cell. She is currently being monitored by special personnel.

    Ms. Jiao Lixiang was sentenced to three years of "reeducation through forced labor" in September, 2004. She has suffered from serious torture both mentally and physically. Her mood is unstable and she frequently faints.

    Police arrested Ms. Zhou Yanxun at her home in June, 2005. During the time she was in the detention center, she held a hunger strike to protest against the persecution. She has been sentenced to "reeducation through forced labor."

    At present, all three are imprisoned in Group 3 of Zibo Women's Forced Labor Camp in Shandong Province.

    http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/24/106858.html

    2. Shiliping Forced Labor Camp in Zhejiang Province Enslaves Falun Gong Practitioners

    Shiliping Forced Labor Camp primarily incarcerates male prisoners. This concentration camp treats Falun Gong practitioners very cruelly. From 1999, when the camp started to receive practitioners, to the present, the camp has formed an evil system of torture methods which include the following:

    Although the wardens from Shiliping Forced Labor Camp have persecuted the practitioners using many evil methods, they still receive awards from the national government.

    Http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/24/106795.html

    3. Authorities from Mianyang City in Sichuan Province Plan to Illegally Sentence Six Practitioners

    Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Gao Yan, Ms. Ming Zhu, Mr. Feng Wei, Mr. Zhang Chunbao, Mr. Yin Huajie and Yue Bin (physics teacher, gender unknown) all came from Mianyang City in Sichuan Province. They were arrested by police from Beichuan County National Security Department on April 29, 2005 and taken to the Beichuan County Detention Center. On June 3, they were arrested.

    In two months, they will be turned over to the Beichuan County Procuratorate. At present, Mr. Feng Wei has been transferred to the Mianyang City Detention Center, Ms. Gao Yan has been taken to the Santai County Detention Center, and Mr. Yi Huajie has been transferred to the An County Detention Center. The police from the National Security Department of the Beichuan County Police Station not only illegally interrogated Falun Gong practitioners but also confiscated their belongings. In order to achieve their goals, the police even took the practitioners to a secret place where over ten police officers took turns illegally interrogating the practitioners. The police deprived practitioners of sleep and used other methods to force practitioners to "transform."

    http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/24/106889.html