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On December 31, 2003, I went to Beijing to stand up for the
rights of Falun Gong practitioners and unfurled a banner that read,
"Falun Dafa is Good." I was abducted by plain-clothes police and taken
to a local police
station. I was then sent to a Detention Center in the Dongshan
District,
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, where I was illegally
sentenced to one year of forced labor. I was then detained in the
Chatou Forced Labor Camp, where I
suffered from various types of torture such as physical punishment,
humiliation, and psychological persecution. Among the tricks used to
brainwash
Falun Gong practitioners, they forced Falun Gong practitioners to sing,
"The Same Song." If you refused to sing this song, it would be
construed
as being confrontational. Those who were "transformed"
by force had to sing this
very song. This was an intentional act of brainwashing and
psychological
persecution. A practitioner who had been "transformed" once told me:
"They are
just rogues. They force you to give up everything and also force you to
say that
it is your own will doing so."
In the Chatou Forced Labor Camp, whenever a meeting was held,
a performance during a holiday took place, or when the upper level 610
Office
managers came to inspect the rate of "transformations", as well as when
some
practitioners were "transformed" by force, we had to sing "The Same
Song."
Once a person who had been "transformed" tried to force me
to sing a song and gave me the lyrics. I realized that it was "The Same
Song," so I told that person that I was not in the mood to sing. As far
as
the police and those collaborators
were concerned, if a practitioner refused
to sing the song with them, they viewed it as being against them. My
refusal to
sing "The Same Song" with them was construed that way, and because of
the position I took regarding this song, I was listed as a key figure
for "transformation"
in the labor camp. They started enforcing more strict measures against
me. I
was detained in a solitary cell and was besieged by more than 20
collaborators
every day.
No matter whether it was during the day or at night, I was
not allowed to sleep. I was forced to sit on a small stool with ridges
all the
time so that my bottom started to fester. They also tried to force me
to read
books that defamed Falun Gong and Teacher. I refused to read them so
they just
read them to me and forced me to listen. The summer in Guangzhou is
very hot. In
the burning sun when the temperature was above 40oC, I was
forced to
take a drill, a kind of physical punishment. This drill lasted for a
half-day and
made me often feel dizzy. Under this kind of physical torture and
mental
pressure, I experienced extreme pain and almost collapsed. My hair
became dry
and turned yellow. My endurance reached its limit.
When those who had been transformed were told to sing
"The Same Song," I did not sing it. It was against my will and my
conscience. It was against my belief; it would have been selling my
soul. Can
you imagine the agony? However, if you did not sing "The Same Song",
they took it as a sign that you had not been totally "transformed";
therefore they
would not allow you to go home. At one point, a guard asked me: "What
is your opinion
on Li Hongzhi's Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance? Do you think it is
right or
wrong?" My heart was shocked. Without hesitation, I told the guard
that: "I
think it is correct." Since that was not the answer they wanted to
hear, they
gathered another group of collaborators in order to brainwash me. Then
they put
me in handcuffs and sent me to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp for Men
and ordered
the collaborators there to brainwash me as well.
In a word, they start torturing you psychologically so that
their carefully planned brainwashing steps can be successful.
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xin Wei was a senior technician at the Press Workshop for the Changchun City Tractor Factory before being incarcerated in Jilin Prison. In July 2005, the guards ordered inmates to beat him, causing terrible bruises and impaired vision. He was tortured so severely that he became incapacitated and could not take care of himself.
The police had illegally arrested him in 2002. They fabricated charges and sentenced him to nine years in prison. He was cruelly tortured for three years while being held in Jilin Prison. Xin Wei's father and mother passed away under tremendous pressure on June 5, 2004 and July 28, 2005, respectively.
Xin Wei's wife recently learned of Xin Wei's condition. She first phoned the Education Section of the prison and was told that the person in charge was not there and to call after 4:00 p.m. (although the office staff goes home at 4:00 p.m.) Xin Wei's wife then phoned Liu Wei, head of the prison, who denied knowledge of Xin Wei's condition.
Xin Wei is 43 years old. He used to live in Room 606, Gate 2, Building 6 in the Yongchun Neighborhood Area of Nanguan District, Changchun City. His wife Zhang Shufen was laid off from the Chaoyang Restaurant, operated by the Changchun City Food Service Company. Xin Wei was an alcoholic with a bad temper before he practiced Falun Gong. He often fought with others, and his relationship with his wife was very tense. He quit all of his bad habits after he started practicing Falun Gong in March 1998. His family relationships also improved.
Xin Wei and his family did not live a day in peace after the Jiang Zemin regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. Xin Wei was arrested three times: in 1999, 2000 and 2001. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in August 2002 and is now being held in Group 8 at the Jilin Prison. His wife, Zhang Shufen, lived a difficult life with their 15-year-old child.
At around 6:00 p.m. on September 28, 1999, Wang Wei, the residence registration officer from the Xinchun Police Station, phoned Wang Wei and fabricated something to get him to go to the police station. On his arrival Mr. Xin was sent to the Balibao Custody Center and illegally detained there. It was claimed that Xin Wei was placed in a "monitored living" situation and that he would be released after the October 1 holiday, when many Falun Gong practitioners go to Beijing to appeal. Xin Wei was severely persecuted. He was only permitted to go home on October 6, after which he was forced to report daily to the police station.
In September 2000, Xin Wei went to Beijing to appeal, and was arrested there. Officers from the Xinchun Police Station took him back and detained him at the Balibao Custody Center. They told his family that he would be held for 15 days. After 15 days, Xin Wei's family went to the police station and asked for him. Officer Wang Wei said, "If he doesn't go home today, he'll go home tomorrow."
He didn't return the following day, and his family went to the custody center to pick him up. When they arrived at the custody center, his family was shocked to read on the blackboard: "Xin Wei: one year of forced labor." The police again lied to the family. When the family confronted Wang Wei about lying to them, Wang Wei said, "Our superiors approved this. We can't do anything. Go and talk to the Nanguan Police Department."
Xin Wei was held in a labor camp for one year. First he was held at the Fenjin Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. Later he was transferred to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, where he was savagely tortured. His body was deformed by the time of his release in July 2001.
Around 1:00 a.m. one day in late September 2001, officers from the Shuguang Police Station again arrested Xin Wei, this time from his residence. His family only knew that he was arrested, but didn't know where he was being held. They asked many people but did not find out.
Two months later, in late November 2001, case handler Li Ming from the Shuguang Police Station phoned Xin Wei's family and told them to bring money to take Xin Wei to a hospital. It was then that Xin Wei's family learned for the first time that Xin Wei had been held at the No. 3 Detention Center in Changchun City. When his family finally saw him, Xin Wei had been tortured to the point of disability. He needed help walking and could not take care of himself. His family inquired and was told that the police had taken him to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in the morning, but the labor camp authorities feared he would die there and refused to accept him. The officers then took him back to the police station, but refused to release him. They ordered his family to pay for his medical treatment.
Xin Wei's family took Xin Wei to the Changchun City Police Hospital. The doctor demanded a 5,000 yuan deposit for hospitalization. Xin Wei's family did not have the money. The police saw that Xin Wei was at the brink of death and asked Xin Wei's family how much money they had. The family answered, "2,000 yuan." The police then took the 2,000 yuan without issuing a receipt and released Xin Wei.
At around 9:00 p.m. one night in January 2002, Wang Wei led a group of personnel from the Xinchun Police Department to Xin Wei's home and banged on the door, saying that they wanted to verify something with Xin Wei. Since Xin Wei had been deceived by them once before, his family did not open the door. These officers stayed outside and knocked on the door every few minutes. Xin Wei's wife said, "It's late! You can come back tomorrow!" They saw that the family was not going to open the door, so they said, "Ok, we'll come back tomorrow."
Xin Wei's family thought, "Why would so many people come if they just want to verify something? They were here to arrest Xin Wei for sure." Xin Wei thus escaped right under the police's eyes with his neighbor's help.
Around midnight, the police phoned for Xin Wei. His wife said he was not home. The police said, "Impossible! We never left! How did he manage to leave?" They knocked on the door again and said they wanted to take a look. Xin Wei's wife again told them that Xin Wei was not home. The police refused to leave. They knocked on the door every few minutes and started cursing. They harassed the family until dawn. They then called a locksmith who opened the door for them. They barged in and saw that Xin Wei was indeed not home, so they left. From then on, the police and the head of the Neighborhood Party Committee often harassed his family, so Xin Wei had to stay away from home.
In March 2002, practitioner Wang Lixin from the Caishen Neighborhood Area in the Nanguan District was arrested. The police then waited outside this practitioner's home while forcing her to phone other practitioners and tell them to come to her home. When other practitioners phoned her, the police spoke to them and said, "It's something very important! Come over quickly!" Many practitioners fell for this trick, and the police arrested them.
Xin Wei was one of the practitioners who went. He didn't know the police had surrounded Wang Lixin's home. He went to her home at 7:00 p.m. on March 10, 2002, bringing a bag of truth clarification materials, and was promptly arrested. The police confiscated his materials and sent him to the Nanjie Police Station, where he was savagely beaten. He was later sent to the No. 3 Detention Center in Changchun City.
On June 28, 2002, the Nanguan District Procuratorate in Changchun City falsely charged Xin Wei with "using an evil cult organization to disrupt the administration of the law" (indictment Changan Procuratorate and Criminal Verdict (2002) No. 354).
On August 30, 2002, the Nanguan District Court in Changchun City held an illegal trial of Xin Wei and sentenced him to nine years in prison because he was found to have Falun Gong flyers: "one day in February, 2002," "one day in early March, 2002" and "around 7:00 p.m. on March 10, 2002" (Verdict 2002 #440). Xin Wei appealed the verdict. The Changchun City Intermediate Court rejected his appeal on October 18, 2002 (Verdict #224 in 2002) and upheld the original verdict.
During the so-called trial, the officials did not allow Xin Wei to speak. According to Xin Wei, he delivered truth clarification materials only once, on the evening of March 10, 2002, and did not have 1,500 copies with him, as the police claimed. The false charges that Xin Wei had truth clarification materials in February 2002 and early March 2002 are completely false. The prosecution claimed that it had witnesses. When Xin Wei asked for the witnesses to take the stand, they could neither present the witnesses nor provide their written testimonies. They rejected Xin Wei's appeal despite muddled facts, lack of evidence and protests from Xin Wei and his family.
Xin Wei has been held at the Jilin Prison for over three years, during which time the guards encouraged the head inmates and other inmates to savagely beat and torture him. They tried to brainwash him, and coerced him to "reform" and give up his belief. In March 2005, they again coerced Xin Wei to give up Falun Gong practice and ordered four inmates to monitor him. Xin Wei told his wife, "I won't "reform," even if I die! If I die, it must be that they tortured me to death."
The guards and other thugs planned to use the Death Bed torture on him, but they didn't proceed because they feared he might die on it.
According to official policy, the family of a detainee is allowed one visit each month for 20 minutes each time. The inmates are allowed to buy food with their vouchers and eat while they talk to their families, but Falun Gong practitioners are only allowed to talk with their family members via a phone through a glass partition. The guards eavesdrop and watch them throughout the visits. They would cut off the conversation if they think that something they don't like is brought up. Visits are therefore usually shorter than 20 minutes for Falun Gong practitioners.
It is very hard for practitioners detained in prisons to communicate to the outside world about what is happening to them. One woman with the surname Yu visited her practitioner husband in prison. He was physically supported each time he walked out to see her, and clearly could not take care of himself, yet the prison authorities refused to release him on medical parole.
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I began to practice Falun Gong in 1998 and was arrested in 2003 for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification VCDs. I am recounting below how I was arrested and detained without due process or legal cause.
1. Being Arrested
One day in the spring of 2003, we heard a loud sound. At the same time, the door of our residence was kicked open and glass broke from the force of the kick. Several police officers pushed my fellow practitioner to the ground, put handcuffs on him and slid a black cover over his head. My hands were also cuffed behind my back, and my head was covered in the same way.
The police did not leave, but waited for quite a long time in the small courtyard. They apparently intended to arrest other practitioners who might drop by, but they were not successful. They put us into the police car and took us to the Haidian local police station. They illegally searched our bodies, requested us to "roll on a big board" and put black ink all over our hands. We refused. The police roared, "Then experience the iron chair." They violently pushed us to a pair of iron chairs with backrests. The iron chairs were off the ground, and one had to step on a rectangular footplate to sit on the chair. In front of the iron chair, there was a long iron board like a small table, with iron axes underneath the iron board, which could be moved around the iron board. Police turned the iron board aside, made us sit on the chair and then turned the board towards our chests. The police had a big iron lock to lock the long board and iron chair together, so the person sat tightly in the chair, without being able to move. The police then cuffed our arms behind the iron chair. With the black cover on our heads, we could barely breathe. After a while, our chests felt painful, due to the tightness of the handcuffs. It was very difficult to endure.
Late at night on the second day, several police officers interrogated me without anyone else present. They used promises and threats in their attempts to obtain information. They wanted to know the names of other practitioners. They threatened that if I did not tell, I would be sentenced to more than five years of imprisonment. I did not relent. After torturing me for an entire night, they threw me into a cell. The prison conditions were very bad. There were over 20 prisoners divided into three rows. We were forced to sit on the floor during the daytime, unable to move, and we slept on the floor at night. Police monitored us constantly through a camera. As soon as there was any movement or talking, we received physical punishment - the prisoners in the entire cell had to sit without moving until midnight.
During those days, I was continuously interrogated. I came to understand that police had already monitored and tailed us for about six months. Therefore, several practitioners were arrested one after another. We were detained in different cells and could see each other, but were not allowed to talk. During interrogation, the rooms were next to each other. Sometimes we could hear the interrogators shouting a female practitioner's name and threatening her.
One night, the staff officially declared us arrested. That night, I was the first to be interrogated. It was very quiet in the other rooms. Then after a while, rapid footsteps made people feel nervous. I heard the loud cry of the practitioner who was arrested at the same time as I. He said he was responsible and it had nothing to do with me. Then I heard the sounds of beating. I asked, "Why are you beating people?" The interrogator stared at me and then walked out to stop the beating. I turned around and saw a police officer in uniform who was wearing leather shoes and cruelly stepping on the young university student's face. The practitioner's face was squashed against the ground.
At the sentencing, according to procedure, we were subjected to interrogation and trial procedures. It was winter. During this time, we often were moved to other cells and detained with criminal inmates. I met many prisoners, who often told me, "You practitioners are so good! We had no idea when we were free. We often heard the media attacking you. It was terrible. But in here, we found out that you are very good. When you realized that we wore thin clothes in the cold, you took off your overcoats and gave them to us. You helped us turn over clothes for drying on the heater at night. The TV programs often frame you with incidents of murder and arson. Those lies are really cold-blooded!"
Later, many practitioners were sentenced, one after another. Sentences ranged from five to eleven years. All the practitioners appealed their sentences, and none acknowledged the persecution. Their powerful defense during the trials shocked the evil. Once almost ten practitioners appealed at the same time in court. They spoke righteously, terrified the people in the courtroom, and the message was spread to the labor camps.
2. Being Imprisoned
Another practitioner and I were sentenced by the court. We appealed, but our original sentence was not rescinded.
On a cold morning, I was cuffed and sent to the Beijing Women's Prison.
After a body search, where I was stripped of all my clothes, I was taken to a cell. Two people were assigned to monitor me. During the night, they took turns sleeping, but deprived me of sleep. They tried to force me to write a renunciation of Falun Gong, but I refused. Therefore, they did not let me close my eyes. During the day, they asked me non-stop to give up the practice. They could not make a dent in my firmness, but it became a form of persecution. I was observed through the camera around the clock. One of my monitors was cruel to me all day long. She did not stop cursing. The other one seemed to be nice, and even cooked me some food in the morning. However, after a few days, the prisoner who cooked for me brought several books slandering Falun Gong. She wanted me to read books that taught evildoers how to "transform" others. The books said that when two people do transformation work, one plays the good, while the other plays the bad role. It outlined many tricks of how to abuse practitioners. It emphasized refusing reporters' interviews and visits.
If you don't "transform" in the prison, all your rights are taken away. During the day, all of the prisoners worked in the workshop. At night, they took turns harassing me. To force me to renounce my belief, the guards used the "implication method." They also stopped work for the entire group so that they could attack me together.
One day a practitioner was brought to our team. The guards isolated her in a room and ordered several prisoners to torment her in turn. Her already skinny body became even thinner. She became very emaciated. Still, they did not stop persecuting her.
One day at noon, a frenzied atmosphere permeated the cells. The guards gathered all cell leaders for an urgent task. They cruelly beat a practitioner. Guards locked all of the prison gates. Soon, the prisoners in each cell knew that this newly arrived practitioner had suffered brutal torture all day long. Those vicious prisoners who beat her were actually exempt from working and their terms were reduced.
There was one practitioner from Haidian that told us about her family's plight. Nearly the entire family practiced Falun Gong. Four of her sisters and two younger brothers were tortured to death. Her younger sister died from being hung up and tortured in the forced labor camp. Her mother was arrested and then taken to a labor camp. Her daughter had no one to take care of her. She was taken away by the 610 Office and not allowed to see her mother.
A practitioner named Zizi was deprived of sleep for several months.
The leader of the guards issued an order. Practitioners were not allowed to speak to each other, and even a smile drew their anger. Moreover, whenever steadfast practitioners tried to talk, the guards deducted a work mark, equating to one month of labor, from the cell head's record. Such a deduction affects the yearly review that determines the reduction of prison terms. The prisoners feared that marks would be deducted, so they monitored practitioners movements continuously. This policy created a suffocating environment for the practitioners.
Under such pressure, I began to write articles to tell prisoners the facts. It did not take long for the guards to hear about it. At around 10:00 p.m. one night, the head of the guards rushed into my cell, shouting my name, "We will deal with you tonight!" The head of the guards demanded that I say I was wrong, but I refused.
The head of the guards ordered many prisoners to torment me if I refused to say that I was wrong, and the prisoners who had worked the entire day would not be allowed to sleep.
In the beginning, the prisoners did not let me sit, took turn beating me, and kept me from using the toilet. After midnight, one prisoner rushed at me, began to cruelly beat me and grabbed my throat. Then all of the prisoners attacked me at once, violently beat me, pulled my hair, slapped my face, and hit me wherever they could. The beating lasted for a very long time. One prisoner beat me down to the ground and then ruthlessly stomped on my knee. I don't remember how long it went on, but my kneecap was dislocated. My mouth bled from the beating.
Suddenly, another prisoner held me and cried, and told the others not to treat me like that. The prisoners carried me out to see the head guard. I told the guards that prisoners tortured me. I was told I was dreaming. They refused to bandage my injuries, deprived me of sleep at night, and made me copy the "bylaws" of the prison. I still had to work during the day, although I had already written the "transformation statement." I performed slave labor and was only given a hard steamed bun and a few pickles to eat. Later, the prison doctor quietly told me, "The guards delayed treatment for your leg. You should be in bed without moving with such an injury. Then, a plaster cast should be put on the leg. Yet, they made you go to the workshop, go up and down the stairs, and walk so far."
Afterwards, a scan showed that the cartilage in my leg, as well as the ligaments, were damaged. The doctor said that when it becomes this serious, they have to operate. After I was injured, I hopped on one leg for a long time, and I could not bend that leg. It was difficult to use the toilet. My leg was very swollen all the way up to the thigh, and I could only walk very slowly.
At the end of 2004, the practitioners from one team in our prison made their "solemn declarations," and declared that the brainwashing "transformation" in the labor camp was null and void. Very soon, practitioners in our team also handed in "solemn declarations," one after another. The head of the guards was scared to see us when we gave her our declaration. She was very scared and said, "I do not want it! I won't read it! Don't give it to me!" She refused to accept them over and over again.
Soon after, guards asked practitioners in our team to write the three statements to renounce our belief again. I refused to write it. The head guard called me to her office, beat me in the middle of the night, and instructed young guards to stand in formation. She then ordered me to write the three statements. When I refused, a group of guards rushed over, grabbed my hands and arms, held them down and tried to force me to write the statement. I struggled with all my strength, but there were so many people holding my hand to write the statement. I struggled and repeatedly shouted, "Falun Dafa is good, Falun Dafa is good!"
The guards held down my arms and hands for two days continuously, until I could no longer move them! Although I still do not know what they have written for me, but I think it would be slandering and defaming Falun Gong. After they finished writing, they wet my finger with ink, and applied it to the paper. Even the cell heads and prisoners who had helped police to persecute me could not bear it.
The head of the guards prepared another round of persecution. She planned to use my hand that had no feeling to write words slandering Teacher and Falun Gong. I said to the prisoner sent by the guards, "If anybody forces me to write again, I will immediately go on hunger strike, even if I starve to death."
Soon the camera monitored me around the clock. The guards did not dare to commit any indiscretion. After this, in order to prevent other practitioners in our prison team from helping me, the head guard colluded with prison officials to transfer the practitioners in our team. On that day, the prison gate was locked, I could only see them packing up luggage through the window.
After the Chinese New Year, a new official came to my prison team. She told me her thoughts when she monitored me, "All these years, the higher authorities asked us to 'reform' practitioners. After many years, I realized that we should educate and save people, yet we are persecuting you. You are actually very outstanding. We found that once you give up the practice, it is as if your spirit is destroyed. Therefore, some kind police officers on our team do not want to 'transform' you. But because they did not cooperate with the requests from officials, they were transferred to other teams without Falun Gong practitioners. Those who remained are all vicious."
This is the situation in Beijing Women's Prison, and all over the country. One time a cell head who had persecuted me said that she once witnessed many police cruelly torturing one practitioner. She was so shocked at the time, and she told me that she had seen with her own eyes a practitioner suffering broken bones at the hands of policemen.
This is the persecution I have experienced. Detained Falun Gong practitioners all over China are facing inhuman and brutal suffering.
Ms. Han Guangmei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Junan County, Shandong Province, was arrested on November 26, 2005, along with 18 other Falun Gong practitioners. Ma Zongtao, an officer from the Junan County 610 Office, tortured her severely for an entire night. She was not able to move, and her left leg was swollen. Ma Zongtao also threatened her by saying, "I will definitely beat you to death tonight."
On the evening of November 26, 2005, "610 Office" agents from Junan County arrested 19 Falun Gong practitioners who were having a cultivation experience conference at Zhang Yaqin's house in Xujiahuangzhuang Village. That night, dozens of "610 Office" agents in six police cars and a bus surrounded Zhang Yaqin's house. Ma Zongtao first broke into the house. After breaking in, he locked the door and blockaded everybody inside. With obscene language, Ma Zongtao threatened and harassed practitioner Yang Guangzhen.
Ma Zongtao then called others in by cell phone. They put 19 practitioners into the bus and drove to the county emergency services office. In the emergency services office, Ma Zongtao locked Han Guangmei, a practitioner from Nanshiqiao Village, in a solitary cell. He slapped Han Guangmei four times, and then handcuffed her hands behind her back and interrogated her.
Ma Zongtao spoke a lot of dirty words during the interrogation and Han Guangmei refused to answer his dirty questions. Ma Zongtao then beat her with a rubber club on the ankles and legs. He also threatened that he would beat her to death.
Another man in the room held Han Guangmei and kept her from moving. Han Guangmei refused to answer any questions. They pulled her hands upward forcibly and abruptly. Since her hands were locked behind her back, this caused the bones to make a loud cracking sound and caused excruciating pain. Han screamed and almost lost consciousness.
Ma Zongtao also slammed Han Guangmei's head against a wall many times, causing several large bumps on her head. Han asked Ma not to torture a good person. But Ma yelled, "The Communist Party is my father, and I will beat you to death for the CCP. I cannot vent all my hatred, even if I cut you into thousands of pieces."
Ma tortured Han Guangmei for a whole night. Finally he stopped when he saw how badly she was injured.
It was 6:00 a.m. when Ma stopped. Han Guangmei's body was covered with bumps and bruises. She could not stand up by herself and was in severe pain. The other 18 practitioners were jailed in another room and forced to sit on the cold cement floor all night.
The practitioners were sent to the Junan County Detention Center the next day. The detention center officer saw that Han Guangmei was badly injured and in danger. He then asked, "Who beat her like this? Isn't it too cruel? We cannot take her here!" Han Guangmei told them that it was Ma Zongtao who beat her. Then they asked Ma if this was true. Ma said, "Yes, it was me." So the detention center officers asked Ma to take Han Guangmei to a hospital. Ma took her to the county hospital. The X-ray inspection showed that Han didn't have any broken bones, so the detention center had to take her.
At the detention center, the head of the Junan County "610 Office," Liu Xipeng, gave orders to lock practitioners Yang Guangzhen, Sun Maoqin, Zhao Xiaowei and an elderly lady from Dongliangdian Village, to a fence for a whole night at temperatures well below the freezing point.
The practitioners were forced to sit on the cold ground. The detention center doesn't allow their families to send bedding for them, because the detention center wants to sell quilts at 60 yuan each. The doctor of the detention center, Yu Qingzhi, tried to make money this way. The quilts they sold to practitioners were only 1 centimeter thick (1/3 inch). It was full of low quality stuffing inside and could not keep one warm at all. Yu Qingzhi lied to practitioners, saying that their families didn't send bedding to them. Most practitioners were wearing very thin pants when they were arrested. The third day the temperature suddenly dropped to 17 degrees. Han Guangmei, who was severely injured, was also forced to lie on the cold ground for three days, which caused inflammation in her legs and for her to lose consciousness.
Instead of treating her right away, the detention center asked people to pull her out of the cell. Since all the practitioners and criminals in the women's cells voiced outrage over Ms. Han's condition, the detention center had to send Han to the hospital for emergency care. The detention center was afraid that Han would die and they would have to take the responsibility, so they asked officers from the Junan County Procuratorate to record Han's situation. Han told the procuratorate officers in detail how Ma Zongtao tortured her, and the officers made notes.
When she was sent to the hospital, the detention center didn't inform her family. They also had a female agent from the "610 Office" and Yu Qingzhi watch her the whole night.
After she was rescued the first time, Han was sent back to the detention center. Her health was poor and twenty days later, she was sent back to the hospital. This process happened three times. The last time, the doctor said that her situation was very serious, and she would die if she didn't stay in the hospital. Her legs were beaten so badly that she had inflammations in her blood vessels and periosteum. The Junan County "610 Office" had to pay 2,200 yuan to the hospital and let Han stay there. They didn't inform her family until the second day.
Ma Zongtao lied to Ms. Han's family, saying that he helped her to apply for release on medical parole. Han's family didn't know Ma Zongtao, so they asked if he was the one who broke Ms. Han's legs. Ma lied, saying that he didn't, and said that she had injured her legs by accidentally hitting the door when she was getting out of a car.
The family went to see Ms. Han and found that she could not move. Her left leg was so badly swollen that she could not even put on pants. Her feet were even more swollen. Every time the doctor came to check her, he told the nurse that she needed intensive care. She should not move at all, otherwise she would be in big danger.
The list of the 19 practitioners arrested by Junan county "610 Office" agents is as follows: Han Guangmei, Wang Jiafen from Nanshiqiao village, Lu town; Kong Lihong, Liu Xiuhua, He Shicun (male) from Lianwangya Village; Li Shihua from Dongliangdian village; Liu Xi'e from Huajiabailongwang Village; Han Xihua, Hou Shiying from Hujiabailongwang Village; Wu Weilan from Mengjiahuangzhuang Village; Yang Jihua from Dananhuangzhuang Village; and Meng Fanxiang, Zhang Yaqin from Xujiahuangzhuang Village.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Su Baoli, 34 years old, is from Ligucheng Village, Wangjiazhuang Township, Anqiu City, Shandong Province. Su Baoli was transferred over a period of time between the Anqiu Detention Center, the Wangcun Women's Labor Camp and the Weifang Brainwashing Center for persecution. It is unclear where she is at present. Su Baoli's non-practitioner husband was browbeaten by the police and extorted for over 40,000 yuan. The persecution has been a disaster for the entire family.
After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, police officers Han Fuben, Li Jingbo and another officer from the Wangjiazhuang Police Station illegally arrested Su. Ms. Su was illegally imprisoned in the local police station for persecution and later compelled to become destitute and homeless in order to avoid another arrest. On October 28, 2002, Anqiu City 610 Office agents Li Shenghua and Jia Zaijun arrested her again and detained her in the Anqiu City Detention Center for over 60 days. The police also extorted 30,000 yuan from her family. Su Baoli's husband Li Yongkun borrowed the money from relatives and friends to pay, but it was still not enough. Finally, Li was forced to sell all the wheat the family had left, and the police ended up confiscating the whole sum.
On March 15, 2005, police from Anqiu City and Wangjiazhuang Township arrested Su Baoli again, and her home was ransacked. She was detained in the Anqiu Detention Center, where she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The captors handcuffed her onto a metal chair and force-fed her. Soon her life was in peril after a one-month period of abuse. Anqiu City "610 Office" agents Zhang Jinxiao and Li Shenghua tried to get her husband to pay more money through extortion. They told Su Baoli's husband that he must immediate pay 10,000 yuan for his wife's release; otherwise, Su Baoli would be sent to a labor camp.
Su Baoli's husband, facing multiple extortions from the Anqiu police, felt helpless. He wanted to bail out his wife so that their six-year-old child would not be without her mother, and to spare Su Baoli more suffering in the labor camp. He asked for loans from relatives in the amount of 10,000 yuan. On March 14, he gave the money to the agents at the Anqiu City 610 Office.
After the Anqiu City 610 Office received the 10,000 yuan extortion money from Su Baoli's husband, the Wangjiazhuang Township police sent Su Baoli, whose life was in critical danger by this time, to the Shandong Wang Village Women's Labor Camp. It was April 15, 2005.
The Shandong Wang Village Women's Labor Camp initially refused to accept Ms. Su after the physical examination. Then, the Anqiu police bribed the officials at the Shandong Wang Village Women's Labor Camp with 2,000 yuan to accept her.
By the end of October 2005, the Anqiu City Wangjiazhuang Township Police Station officials came to the camp and secretly transferred Su Baoli, who persisted in her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to the Weifang Brainwashing Center. There they attempted to carry out more inhuman persecution.
Around December 20, 2005, Anqui police officials informed Su Baoli's husband that his wife "had completed the procedure" and was released. Su Baoli's husband searched for her around the homes of relatives and friends but could not find her. He went to the Anqiu City 610 Office with their six-year-old daughter, asking to know Su Baoli's whereabouts and demanding to have the extorted 10,000 yuan returned. Agent Zhang Jinxiao and others said that Su Baoli had escaped from Weifang Brainwashing Center. When Su Baoli's husband asked for his money back, agent Zhang Jinxiao and others dodged the demand. Later they even threatened to put him into the detention center. One of the agents kicked Su Baoli's husband's leg twice and frightened the six-year-old child.
After Su Baoli's husband and the six-year-old daughter got home from the 610 Office, the child became really frightened. She asked for her mom every day. Sometimes even late at night she asked to call her mom on the phone. To make it possible for their daughter to see her mother as soon as possible, Su Baoli's husband called many agencies: the Anqiu City 610 Office, the Anqiu Police Station and the Weifang City mayor's hot line. So far this has not gotten him anywhere. Su Baoli's husband and daughter's situation is quite miserable. They still do not know Su Baoli's whereabouts.
The Tiebei Prison in Changchun City is using a method of giving points to prisoners to reduce their prison sentences. With each point a prisoner amasses, the sentence is reduced by two days. The prison has implemented this policy to induce the prisoners to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Ever since the establishment of the 610 Office the prison has used "personal cangues" (1) to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Each month the "personal cangues" may amass enough points to put them one step closer to being released. The prison authorities make it very clear that "No persecution, no mitigation of the sentence." The prison guards also ordered the "personal cangues" to beat "uncooperative" prisoners that do not participate in the persecution or tries to reason with the prison officials. Prison officials have also threatened to fire prison guards that do not carry out the persecution.
Tiebei Prison is designated as a prison for serious offenders. The inmates incarcerated there were all handed lengthy sentences of 15 years or more, so they are all eager to have their sentences reduced. Besides the point-system outlined, the Tiebei Prison officials also give extra points to "personal cangues": 5 points for a group leader and 3 points for each member.
The Tiebei Prison in Changchun is also named the "Changchun Xinsheng Switch Manufacturing Factory." The 610 Office of the prison is named the "Office of "Transformation" and Intensive Assault." It was established at the beginning of May 2002. One month later it started to pool all of its resources to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
The first practitioner persecuted by the "Office of Transformation and Intensive Assault" was Meng Fanyi, formerly a leader of the Commission for Inspecting Discipline in Shulan City, Jilin Province. At the beginning, Meng was deprived of sleep for three consecutive days and nights. At that time a prisoner who had a sense of justice stepped forward to stop the inhuman torture. However, Meng Fanyi's "personal cangues" reported this to Juan Hailin, the head of the 610 Office. When Juan Hailin found this prisoner who had a sense of justice, he belt-whipped him and sent him to solitary confinement.
Practitioner Qu Hongxiang was held at the No. 2 Prison Area of the Tiebei Prison. Li Wenjun was the Head of the Prison Area and Tang Bing the Political Commissar. In the summer of 2002, because Qu Hongxiang stood firm in his belief in Falun Gong and did not compromise, the 610 Office in collaboration with the prison Party Committee set up a deadline for transforming him. One day the No. 2 Prison Area
Authorities summoned the "personal cangues" of Qu Hongxiang to report to the office. At the time, these "personal cangues" were all having a shower. They rushed to the office half-dressed. The prison guards from the No. 2 Prison Area tried to find excuses to punish the inmates. They asked the "personal cangues," "When you were having a shower, who was able to watch Qu Hongxiang? Does this mean that you must be punished before you are able to watch Qu Hongxiang?" Then the prison guards sounded the bell for emergency assembly, which gathered together the more than 100 inmates of the prison area. The prison guards ordered these "personal cangues" to take off their underwear, which was the only thing they wore at the time, in front of all the inmates. When they were naked, they were ordered to bow and stick their buttocks up in the air. Then the prison guards used police batons to beat their buttocks until they were black and blue. The guards also incited the inmates' hatred for Mr. Qu and intentionally pushed his "personal cangues" to persecute him.
Under the intense pressure, the prisoners persecuted Qu Hongxiang like mad dogs. This method was also used in the winter of 2005, when the prison guards persecuted Shi Chengbin. The prison guards first gathered all the prisoners, fabricated lies to confuse their minds and then pushed them to torture Shi Chengbin.
In July 2002, practitioner Yin Lizhu was severely persecuted at Tiebei Prison. The prison authorities put pressure on warden Yu Hongfei, who refused to carry out the unlawful persecution. They threatened Yu Hongfei with the loss of his job if he could not force Yin Lizhu to renounce Falun Gong by the end of August 2002.
In order to protect his own interest, Yu Hongfei gave up his
sense of justice to put pressure on the "personal cangues" who were
assigned to watch Yin Lizhu. He threatened these "personal cangues"
that if they failed to force Yin Lizhu to renounce Falun Gong, they
would only get the minimum of mitigation points each month. These
inmates intensified their persecution of Yin Lizhu and let Yin Lizhu
sleep for less than three hours a day over four consecutive days.
A virtually unknown persecution incident took place at Northeast Normal University (NENU) in 2001 in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guan used to work in the editorial department of the university's publication "Physics Experiments." Following his illegal detention, people noticed that he always had his head bandaged and that he could not speak coherently. Still, the authorities did not stop persecuting him. He was later found dead at the base of a building. We are not certain at this stage how he fell and hope those who know will provide more information. Following is his story.
Mr. Guan died in 2001 at the age of 33. Because of practicing Falun Gong, he lost his military position and was demoted to civilian work. He got a job in the editorial department of "Physics Experiments" at NENU. He had a good reputation and was well-liked.
In 2000, when he went to Beijing to clarify the truth and to appeal for Falun Gong, he was arrested. After he was released, he exhibited signs of mental trauma. People around him said that after he returned home, his head was always "wrapped up" and he spoke incoherently. It is possible he was injected with drugs that damaged the central nervous system.
As we did not have more detailed information regarding the case, we did not publicly report the case in the past.
Practitioner Mr. Bai Xiaojun, a young lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at NENU, was illegally detained for a year after he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in July 2000. In January 2002, after he had served seven months beyond his term, he was taken to the Xinglongshan Brainwashing Center in Changchun City. Mr. Bai was later detained in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, where he died as a result of persecution on July 18, 2003. This case was widely known among Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun and the general public.
Since July 22, 1999, when the Chinese Communist regime began persecuting Falun Gong, some members of the CCP committees at NENU and its colleges and departments, as well as its affiliated schools, have severely persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. They compelled students, teachers, and general staff members to hand in their Falun Gong books and write "guarantee statements," and they unlawfully searched practitioners' dormitories and homes. They further sent practitioners to brainwashing centers, expelled them from the university, stripped them of their employment, imposed fines on them, and confiscated their home registrations. These officials also collaborated with the police to send practitioners to forced labor camps, detention centers, and brainwashing centers.
These acts, committed in violation of the Chinese constitution, have caused practitioners and their families great physical suffering and mental anguish, making their lives very hard. They also forced students to watch Falun Gong-slandering videos and to sign their names to support the persecution.
Since December 2002, Liu Haimin, deputy secretary of the CCP Committee at NENU, has been involved in the persecution. He clamoured at a university assembly, "It is strictly forbidden to recruit students or teaching staff who are Falun Gong practitioners. Whichever school or department recruits Falun Gong students or teaching staff assumes full responsibility for their actions."
Lecturer Mr. Bai Xiaojun was tortured to death. Ms. Wang
Huilian, a 32-year-old lecturer in the School of Environmental Science,
was illegally sentenced to forced labor and suffered brutal persecution
at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Ma Guohua, a 36-year-old library
employee, was suspended from his employment for refusing to write a
guarantee statement to abandon Falun Gong. Ms. Li Haizhen, a
40-year-old lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at NENU, was
transferred elsewhere for refusing to write the guarantee statements.
Ms. Li Yan, a 37-year-old physics teacher from the NENU-Affiliated High
School, was transferred. Ms. Li had been praised as one of the "Ten
Best Science Teachers" in Changchun City for many years. They demoted
her to teaching assistant for refusing to write a guarantee statement.
In the past six-plus years, the Chinese Communist Party has orchestrated a brutal persecution against Falun Gong. Under orders from the provincial government and the city 610 Office, the Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Department, together with other police authorities, have committed crimes against practitioners working in the railroad system.
Directly Arresting Falun Gong practitioners
In early February 2002 (January 2 according to the Chinese lunar calendar), Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Department officials beat and arrested practitioner Mr. Ding Lihong as he returned home to visit his family. Mr. Ding was operating a train for the Shijiazhuang Railroad Station. Railroad police also threatened Ms. Ge Yanwen, Ding's wife, who witnessed the entire process. "If you call out for help, we will also take you away!" the railroad police told her.
Mr. Wang Huajun was an employee of Shijiazhuang Railroad and worked at South Market. At the end of 2001, railroad police arrested Mr. Wang on the street and sent him to a brainwashing center for further persecution.
Ms. Li Huixin was a railroad employee. On May 8, 2003, Shijiazhuang Railroad police officers, including Tian Heping, followed Ms. Li and illegally arrested her near the Yanfeng Building on Jianshe Street. During the process, they covered her head with a black scarf.
Brutal torture and force-feeding
Ms. Li Huixin was an employee of Shijiazhuang Railroad Station. She went to Beijing to appeal in December 2000. She was arrested, brought back, and detained at the Shijiazhuang Railroad Detention Center. Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to protest her captivity and she was then further persecuted by being force-fed.
Mr. Shen Manliang was a Shijiazhuang Railroad employee. He was illegally arrested in early April 2005 and detained at the Shijiazhuang Railroad Detention Center. The police tortured him and deprived him of sleep. He went on a hunger strike to protest, and he was brutally force-fed many times. He was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp, and is currently detained in the 2nd Group of Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp.
Mr. Liu Lijiang was an employee of Shijiazhuang Railroad. Yuhua Police Station officers arrested him in early April 2005 and transferred him to the Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Department, where he was detained in the Shijiazhuang Railroad Detention Center. During this process, the police brutally beat and tortured Mr. Liu many times with sleep-deprivation.
Following and spying on practitioners
In order to arrest practitioners who were forced to stay away from home to avoid harassment, the Shijiazhuang police used all kinds of tactics to spy on practitioners. For example, they monitored home phone calls, work phone calls, cell phone calls, and pagers. They also sent agents to practitioners' homes or to their friends' homes in order to spy on them closely.
Harassment
In the past several years, Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Department has harassed and persecuted many practitioners at various locations. Sometimes, they went to practitioners' workplaces to threaten them. At other times they went to practitioners' homes to harass them. This has severely affected the practitioners and their families.
Deception
In December 2002, Ding Lihong was tortured to death by police in Shanxi Province. Ding's family did not know about this until a long time afterward.
Persecuting Colleagues
Ms. Yao Jianrong was a police officer with the Shijiazhuang Railway Police Department and has been a very responsible employee. In 2000, she wrote up her cultivation experiences and used them to clarify the truth to people. However, together with Shijiazhuang City 610 Office, the Shijiazhuang Railway Police Department secretly arrested her. The 610 Office tried every possible scheme and eventually sent Ms. Yao Jianrong to a forced labor camp without just cause.
Forcing other units to cooperate to send practitioners to brainwashing centers
The Shijiazhuang Railway Police Department has directly sent or been involved in sending many practitioners to brainwashing centers. For example, practitioners Mr. Ding Lihong, Mr. Wang Xinzhong, Mr. Liu Lijiang, Ms. Li Huixin, Mr. Shen Manliang, Wang Huajun, and Liu Jinjing were all sent to brainwashing centers for further physical and mental torture. Liu Jinjing was the former secretary of the Shijiazhuang Railway CCP Youth League.
Spreading lies and poisoning people's minds in the name of the law
In the summer of 2002, the Shijiazhuang Railway Police Department held several so-called "seminars on the law" in the area. In fact, during those seminars they spread the evil CCP's propaganda to defame and attack Falun Gong. These seminars poisoned many people.
1. [Tianjin City] Ms. Xi Junrong and Two Other Practitioners Detained
Ms. Xi Junrong, 57, lives in Room 401, No. 40 of the Sanshuinan Neighborhood of the Xiaohaidi Area in the Hexi District of Tianjin City. Ms. Li Xiufang, 61, lives close to the Sanshuinan Neighborhood. On December 20, 2005, these two practitioners were distributing truth-clarification materials at the door of the Renrenle Supermarket in the Xiaohaidi Sishuidao Area. Plainclothes police officers from the Zhufeng District Police Station illegally arrested them. Both practitioners have been taken to the Caozhuangzi Detention Center, where they are being tortured.
Mr. Wu Zhaoming, 53, lives in Room 8, No. 1 Courtyard of the Jinjiangli Neighborhood, Xiaohaidi Sishuidao Area of Hexi District. On December 27, police officers from the Donghai District Police Station arrested Mr. Wu. He has been sent to the Hexi District Detention Center, where he is being tortured.
2. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Wang Tianying Arrested
In the early morning of January 2, 2006, the police from the Jiangjiaying Township Police Station arrested practitioner Ms. Wang Tianying from the Jiangjiaying Township, Fengrun District of Tangshan City in Hebei Province when she was distributing the "truth-clarification" materials in her township. The police ransacked Ms. Wang's home at 2:00 a.m. that morning. She is currently being held in the Fengrun Detention Center.
3. [Fengtai District, Beijing City] Ms. Li Yufang Detained
Ms. Li Yufang, 60, is a practitioner who lives near Nansanhuan Road, Muxi Garden, Fengtai District of Beijing. At the end of September 2005, the local 610 Office colluded with the police station and the local residential district office and forcibly took Ms. Li from her home. Ms. Li is currently being held in the detention center in isolation. Her family members are prohibited from visiting her.
4. [Siping City, Jilin Province] Ms. Bao Shuqin and Ms. Wang Yuzhi Arrested and Held in a Brainwashing Center
On November 7, 2005, the 610 Office from the Tiexi District of Siping City in Jilin Province colluded with the River Course Management Office of the Water Irrigation Department of Siping City and forcibly took practitioner Ms. Bao Shuqin, who was working as a staff member of the same work unit, to the Changchun City Legal Learning Center (a brainwashing center) to be tortured and brainwashed.
On November 30, 2005, practitioner Ms. Wang Yuzhi from Siping City was forcibly taken to the Fushun City Brainwashing Center in Liaoning Province, where she was tortured.
5. [Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province] Ms. He Meiting Arrested
In December 2005, practitioner Ms. He Meiting was arrested when she was clarifying the truth on the street. She is being held in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp, where she is being tortured.
6. [Tiantan District, Beijing City] Ms. Zhang Jinping Arrested
On December 26, 2005, practitioner Ms. Zhang Jinping from the Tiantan District of Beijing City was arrested in the Yongdimen Area. That night the Chongwen District Police Department, the Chongwenmen Police Station, and the local residential office all sent people to ransack Ms. Zhang's home.
7. [Shijingshan District, Beijing City] The 610 Office Arrested Ms. Pu Lihua and Four Other Practitioners
At the end of 2005, the local 610 Office arrested Ms. Pu Lihua and four other practitioners from the Moshikou Area of Shijingshan District of Beijing. Ms. Pu was also arrested two years ago, but walked out from the forced labor camp with righteous thoughts. She was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested.
8. [Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province] Mr. Xu Ming Arrested
Recently, the police arrested practitioner Mr. Xu Ming from the Taierzhuang District of Zaozhuang City.
9. [Suining County, Jiangsu Province] Ms. Shu Zhifeng Arrested While Working in Qingdao City
Practitioner Ms. Shu Zhifeng is from Suining County in Jiangsu Province. She was arrested when she was working in Qingdao City in the middle of September 2005. She has two school-age children who are now left alone at home with no one to take care of them. Her mother is a practitioner from Wuhan City and has been held in Suining County.
10. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] On January 15, after a Hunger Strike, Mr. Xiong Jinze Walked Out of the Detention Center
At 8:00 p.m. on December 20, 2005, more than ten plainclothes police officers from the local National Security Group suddenly pounced on practitioner Mr. Xiong Jinze. They pushed him to the ground, handcuffed him, and kicked and punched him. Then they used a black cloth to cover his head and arrested him. After the police took Mr. Xiong to the Changqiao Police Station, he went on a hunger strike, which lasted for fifteen days. His life was in danger. Because they were afraid of being held responsible, the police released him on January 4, 2006.
11. [Shuangliu County, Sichuan Province] Mr. Zhou Yaping Arrested
Mr. Zhou Yaping, 36, is a practitioner who lived in the Xiguan Warehouse, Chengguan Town, Shuangliu County. On December 28, 2005, Luo Shichun (male) reported Mr. Zhou to the police. Police officers Liang Hongquan and others from the Dongsheng Police Station in Shuangliu County then arrested Mr. Zhou. He is currently being held in the Shuanghua Detention Center.
12. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] The Nangang Police Station Arrested a Falun Gong Practitioner for No Reason
At around 12:30 p.m. on June 15, 2005, the police from the Nangang Police Station of Jiamusi City in Heilongjiang Province broke into Mr. Zhao's house to search it. It happened that a Falun Gong practitioner from out of town was in Mr. Zhao's house at the time. This practitioner was arrested. The police confiscated the practitioner's personal belongings that he brought along, as well as Mr. Zhao's personal belongings. The practitioner was held in the Detention Center of Jiamusi City for about forty days and later was put in the Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp. Later, at the end of July 2005, through the active efforts of many people, the practitioner was released from the forced labor camp.
13. [Shulan City, Jilin Province] The Police from the Tianhe Police Station Arrest Ms. Zhang Yue'e and Mr. Zhu
At a little past 3:00 p.m. on January 5, 2006, police officer Lin Shufang (male) from the Tianhe Police Station went to the house of practitioner Ms. Zhang Yue'e and arrested Ms. Zhang, who was reading at home. They also ransacked the house. Later the police drove to practitioner Mr. Zhu Zhaoshui's house and arrested him.
14. [Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Yang Xiumei Arrested for the Third Time
Ms. Yang Xiumei, 62, is a practitioner from Doumen Village of Zhuhai City. At around 5:00 p.m. on January 3, 2006, Ms. Yang was with her fourteen year old granddaughter clarifying the truth. The police from the Zhuhai City Police Department arrested them. On January 4, the police took Ms. Yang's granddaughter to Ms. Yang's house to search it. On January 5, the police put Ms. Yang into the Meixi Village No. 2 Detention Center of Zhuhai City, where she is now being tortured. The first time that Ms. Yang Xiumei was arrested, she was sentenced to two years of forced labor. The second time she was arrested, she was sentenced to three years of forced labor.
15. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Li Zhenjin and Three Other Practitioners Sentenced to Forced Labor
On December 31, 2005, practitioners Mr. Li Zhenjin, Mr. Du Hui, Ms. Wang Shuxian and Mr. Wang were arrested and taken to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp. They have been sentenced to forced labor.
16. [Gansu Province] Mr. Wang Jinping Arrested
At about 9:00 a.m., on November 4, 2005, the fifth Sub-factory of the 404 Factory of the Gansu Province Mining Area called practitioner Mr. Wang Jinping and asked him to attend a meeting at work. Using this means of deception, the police arrested him and took him to the Legal Learning Center of Lanzhou City (a brainwashing center) to be tortured and brainwashed. Mr. Wang still has not been released.
In February 2000, Mr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. He went to Beijing to appeal for the second time in July 2000. Each time he returned from Beijing, the police detained him. The police brutally tortured him. His workplace also stopped his salary. Every month he was only given the basic living expense. The police also constantly went to his home to harass him.
17. [Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province] Mr. Zhang Shida Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
According to those who know, someone reported practitioner Mr. Zhang Shida to the police. The police from the Wanbolin Police Department of Taiyuan City subsequently arrested him and ransacked his home. They confiscated his Falun Gong books, computer, printer and other private property. Mr. Zhang is being held in the Xindian Forced Labor Camp and has been sentenced to three years in prison.
18. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Zhang Zhengquan Forced to Leave Home to Avoid Arrest
Practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhengquan from Qionglai City of Chengdu City clarified the truth to the former CCP Secretary of the Village, Li Shaorong (male). Mr. Zhang advised him to withdraw from the CCP and gave him a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Li Shaorong then reported him. The Chief of the Township Peng Jin (male) led the current CCP Secretary of the Village Gu Hongshuai, the CCP Deputy Secretary of the Village Song Qinghua (male), the Village Chairman Yang Jianhua (male) and the Village Committee Member Xu Bangkun (male) to arrest Mr. Zhang at his home. Mr. Zhang managed to get away, and he was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested.
19. [Shanghai City] Mr. Wu Aizhong and Two Other Practitioners Sentenced to Prison
On December 25, 2005, the No. 2 Middle-level Court of Shanghai City secretly sentenced practitioners Ms. Wu Aizhong, Ms. Zhang Hui and Ms. Liu Lan, following the original sentence made by the Qingpu District Court at the end of September. Ms. Wu Aizhong was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, Ms. Zhang Hui to three years in prison and Ms. Liu Lan to seven and a half years in prison.