The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- April 12, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Content

  • The CCP Hastens Live Organ Removal to Destroy Evidence of its Crimes

  • Many Falun Gong Practitioners Missing from Nanjing City

  • Three Missing Person Cases in Hubei, Liaoning, and Shandong Provinces

  • CCP Established Concentration Camps in Remote Areas of Northwest China to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

  • Macau: Practitioners Hold a Candlelight Vigil to Commemorate Fellow Practitioners Who Have Died in Chinese Communist Regime's Persecution

  • People Living Near Sujiatun Concentration Camp "Heard of Such Tragedies"

  • Zhang Keming from Yilan County, Helongjiang Province, Died of Persecution

  • Ms. He Zhengxiu Dies as a Result of Long-term Persecution

  • The Persecution of Farmer Wang Xiaolun and his Family over the Last Six Years

  • Beijing Police Department Illegally Detains Falun Gong Practitioner Couple; Daughter Abroad Appeals for their Rescue

  • Information about Three Practitioners in Hubei, Hunan, and Hebei Provinces Who Died from Persecution

  • The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Guan Lianbin



  • CCP Hastens Live Organ Removal to Destroy Evidence of its Crimes

    The atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in labor camps and prisons for sale and cremating their remains to destroy the evidence were recently exposed. To destroy evidence of this horrific practice, the CCP is transferring practitioners in a hurry to labor camps and prisons and is cremating their bodies to destroy the evidence.

    Patients receive calls recently and are urged to have organ transplantation surgery

    Based on inside sources, organ transplantation centers in China have been asked to look for business from foreigners. "There is no such shop after passing by this village," meaning, there won't be another opportunity like this again. If the organs of Falun Gong practitioners are not used, they will be disposed of soon.

    Practitioner Ms. Yi said that her friend received a call from China recently. Over the phone, he was told that a kidney source has been located and paired for him and he needs to go to Guangzhou to have the kidney transplantation surgery within one week. Her friend told Ms. Yi, "I received the call on Tuesday (April 4) unexpectedly. I was asked to leave before April 10."

    Large-scale organ transplantation operated in Tianjin No. 1 Hospital at the end of March

    Based on other inside information, many foreigners went to Tianjin No. 1 Hospital to have liver and kidney transplants done at the end of March. The operations were conducted at night. The operating department is located on the 11th and 12th floors of the hospital. The monitoring department is located on the 6th floor. The ward is located on the 4th and 7th floors. The insiders said they don't know where so many donors of livers and kidneys came from and wondered whether this relates to the practitioners imprisoned in Sujiatun Concentration Camp. Immediate investigation is urged to avoid the CCP's killing practitioners to destroy witnesses. The patients receiving organ transplants stayed in several hotels in Tianjin.

    Recently many foreigners have gone to China to receive organ transplants

    Foreign patients have to wait for several years for organs in their home country. But they can get organ transplants in China so quickly that they find it hard to believe.

    Asian Times reported on April 4 about Japanese patients going to China for organ transplants. The report stated that recently many Japanese patients, whose cases looked hopeless in Japan, got organ transplants quickly in China. One organ transplantation center in Shenyang claims in its website that it can find suitable organs for patients within one week.

    The article stated that it is questionable how these Chinese hospitals can have such a large pool of donor sources. The article discussed the CCP's well-known practice of removing organs from death-row prisoners, but they are not the main source of the organs. Chairman of Japan Transplant Recipients Organization, Suzuki visited a hospital in a "major city" in China, which had conducted 2,000 organ transplants last year alone. However, Amnesty International estimates that the CCP executed 3,400 prisoners in one year.

    The article gave an example. When 62-year-old Hokamura Kenichiro's kidneys failed, he waited more than four years for a new kidney. As a native of Japan, where less than 10 kidney transplants are performed a year, the 62-year-old businessman was desperate. He tried to go online to check out rumors of organs for sale.

    He was astonished by just how easy it was. Ten days after contacting a Japanese broker in China in February, he was lying on an operating table in a Shanghai hospital receiving a new kidney. A doctor had only examined him that morning. "It was so fast I was scared," he said.

    The article stated that Hokamura is just one of several hundreds of Japanese patients going to China for organ transplants recently.


    Many Falun Gong Practitioners Missing from Nanjing City

    Many Falun Gong practitioners are missing from Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. They include the following:

    1. Mr. Ma Zhenyu was a volunteer practice site assistant in Nanjing City before the persecution. He was sentenced to prison, but no one knows where he is.

    2. Mr. Yu Jianshe was a volunteer assistant in Nanjing City before the persecution began in 1999. A city 610 Office worker said that he was released, but he has not been seen.

    3. Ms. Zhang Aihong was a lecturer employed by Nanjing Industrial University. A city 610 Office worker said he was released, but he has not been seen in the last couple of years.

    4. Ms. Xia Jufen was sentenced to 11 years in prison because she was involved in a "big case." She was first detained in Nantong Women Prison, but now no one knows where she is.

    5. Mr. Huang Jiangang lived in Xiaguan District and never gave in to the persecution under any circumstances. The city 610 Office took him away as soon as he was released from Jiangsu Province's Fangqiang Labor Camp in December 2002. There hasn't been any information about him ever since. His older sister (a Canadian citizen) has been looking for him everywhere.

    6. Mr. Xu Jun lives in Xuanwu District, Nanjing City. He was taken away by 610 Officer agents in the first half of 2002 as soon as he was released from Fangqang Labor Camp because he never accepted the brainwashing. He has been missing ever since.

    Above is just part of the information we have. Shanghai is a major city for organ transplants in China. Analysis of the data regarding transplant operations in Shanghai suggests that there must be a large organ donor pool existing nearby. The safety and lives of the above-named practitioners are in question.


    Three Missing Person Cases in Hubei, Liaoning, and Shandong Provinces

    Ms. Zhou Qingyun from Hubei Province Missing Since 2005

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Qingyun, 58, lives in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. She disappeared on May 27, 2005, when she was on her way home from her relative's house. Her family members have searched all labor camps and brainwashing centers in Wuhan City, and posted a missing persons report in the Chutian Weekend newspaper, but there is still no information about her.

    Ms. Zhang Xiuren from Liaoning Province Missing since 2002

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuren, 44, lived in Menghutun Village, Dahenan Town, Dengta City, Liaoning Province. She had to leave home due to police harassment between 2001 and 2002, and no one has heard from her since.

    Ms. Yu Chunhua Missing Five Years

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Chunhua lived in Qugezhuang Village, Laixi City, Shandong Province. She walked to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on February 9, 2001, and never returned home.

    In 2003, a vegetable trader from Qugezhuang Village had a meal in Dalian City (Liaoning Province) with a person from Pingdu City, Shandong Province. That person from Pingdu said, "There is a Falun Gong practitioner from your hometown (Qugezhuang Village, Laixi City) who is very steadfast!" and he described how this practitioner was very firm in the practice.

    This vegetable trader returned home and told folks how that person from Pingdu City described Ms. Yu Chunhua. Ms. Yu Chunhua's family searched everywhere, going to the Pingdu City Police Department, the Detention Center, and the Dashan Detention Center in Qingdai City to look for her, but they could not find her.

    Up until now, there has been no information about Ms. Yu Chunhua's whereabouts. Ms. Yu Chunhua was probably detained in Pingdu City.


    The CCP Established Concentration Camps in Remote Areas of Northwest China to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    In the beginning of 2001, I was detained in a prison hospital in a big city. After I clarified the truth there, a guard secretly told me that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had established a facility especially for the persecution of Falun Gong in the Northwest of China. All prisoners were treated as "anti-revolutionary" criminals, and were forced to do unimaginable slave labor every day. They had no hope to survive and return home. The facility is surrounded by desert, and there were some alleged dangerous criminals detained there as well.

    In August 2002, I walked out of the detention center. A labor camp director who had been moved by the benevolent compassion of Falun Gong said to me, "Be sure to guard your safety from now on, because I heard from upper levels that they have built camps in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and other remote places, especially to detain Falun Gong practitioners. At least a hundred thousand practitioners are detained. The cruelty is beyond your imagination, and no one can come out alive."



    Macau: Practitioners Hold a Candlelight Vigil to Commemorate Fellow Practitioners Who Have Died in Chinese Communist Regime's Persecution

    On the evening of April 9, 2006, practitioners in Macau held a candlelight vigil to commemorate fellow practitioners who have died as a result of the Chinese Communist regime's persecution in Sujiatun and other concentration camps and forced labor camps in China. They condemned the regime's atrocities in setting up secret concentration camps, removing organs from living practitioners, and selling them for profit. It is reported that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intends to commit mass killing for the purpose of eliminating witnesses and destroying the evidence. Practitioners called on all communities to pay close attention to the situation and to stop the CCP's outrageous crimes.

    According to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, the Falun Gong Association and the Minghui website have initiated and established the "Integrated Committee to Investigate the Secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp and the Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China." Practitioners in Macau also call on all institutions, organizations and people of conscience for supports and help, so as to get the persecution facts out as early as possible, to track down and bring the murderers to justice, and to end the brutal persecution and national catastrophe that has been going on for nearly seven years as quickly as possible.


    People Living Near Sujiatun Concentration Camp "Heard of Such Tragedies"

    A Falun Gong practitioner in Italy often "clarifies the truth" to a vendor who came from the Northeast China and helped some people withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Recently, someone who came from the Sujiatun District told him that his relative worked for that hospital, and he heard about the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners before he left the country two years ago.

    This vendor has read a lot of truth clarifying materials, and is very sympathetic to the Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in China. He often said, "I was a taxi driver, and I was witness to so much of the dark side of Chinese society. My roommates are all from Liaoning Province. We all know that all of those facts exposed in your truth-clarifying materials are true, and we folks all know how the Falun Gong practitioners are being tortured in the Masanjia Labor Camp and Dabei Prison."

    A few days ago, this man learned about the harvesting of live organs from Falun Gong practitioners in Sujiatun. Yesterday he told this practitioner that four of his roommates came from Sujiatun. They were all very sad to hear about such a tragedy. One of them came to Italy two years ago and said that his relative works in that hospital, and he had heard of the crimes of harvesting organs from live practitioners when he was still in China. People were all questioning why China has fallen to such a degree - it's like a living hell! It chills you to the bone to hear of such crimes. These men truly wished to bring the truth-clarification flyers home and expose these crimes to others.


    Zhang Keming from Yilan County, Helongjiang Province, Died of Persecution

    Mr. Zhang Keming, a firm believer in Falun Gong, suffered from brutal persecution for several years. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor in 2002 despite his poor physical condition. He was severely tortured in the Changlinzi Labor Camp. Zhang Keming passed away on March 26, 2006.

    Zhang Keming was 56 years old. He used to work in a boiler factory. All three member of his family began to practice Falun Gong in 1996. His diabetes disappeared shortly after he started practicing.

    After the persecution began, Mr. Zhang's entire family was illegally arrested when they went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. They were taken back to the Police Department in Yilan County and held in the No. 2 Detention Center. The police confiscated 4,800 yuan from their pockets and tortured them. Mr. Zhang was forced to maintain the "flying the airplane" torture position for over 5 hours. (In this torture, the head is bent down until it cannot go down any further, while the hands are pulled up and held up at the highest point against the wall. The practitioner is forced to hold this position unchanged for a long time period. If a practitioner refuses to comply, he/she will be shocked with an electric baton or beaten to the point of losing consciousness. The police will then roughly wake up the practitioner and continue the torture.) They beat his bottom with a belt until it was completely bruised black and blue. Mr. Zhang and his family were held illegally for over one month. Three thousand yuan was extorted from them. After their release, policeman Cui Guodong frequently came to harass the family at their home, confiscating their Falun Gong books and threatening them.

    Long Deqing and Han Yunjie from the Political Security Department arrested Mr. Zhang Keming and held him for 45 days in 2000 because Mr. Zhang did the Falun Gong exercises outside. He began a hunger strike in protest and was released home after the police extorted another 3,000 yuan.

    In October 2001, Policeman Zhang Huanyou arrested Mr. Zhang after a villager reported him for distributing Falun Gong truth clarification materials. He was held in a motel and handcuffed to a heating pipe in the bathroom. The police beat him brutally, dragging him around by the handcuffs. The handcuffs cut deeply into his wrists. After two days, Zhang Keming was sent to the detention center for another 15 days. To avoid being arrested, his daughter became homeless after she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 2001.

    On December 29, 2001, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thugs raided Mr. Zhang's home and arrested the couple. Mr. Zhang began a hunger strike for 40 days. The police instigated the inmates to beat him up constantly. He was sentenced to 2 years in the labor camp despite his poor physical condition and he became emaciated. His wife was released when her physical condition was not fit to be in the labor camp.

    Mr. Zhang was held in the Changlinzi Labor Camp for 2 years and suffered many forms of torture. He was deprived of sleep for a long period of time. The police beat him on the face and shocked him with electric batons in sensitive areas of the body. He was forced into the torture position of "Five Horses Splitting a Body" in which the four limbs are pulled in four directions until they are stretched extremely tight. He was then beaten up so much that he was in excruciating pain. Mr. Zhang developed scabies. His skin was ulcerated and infected over his entire body. He was injected with unknown drugs. In September 2002, the guards in the No. 4 Battalion in the Changlinzi Labor Camp intensified the persecution and torture in order to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners and to force them to sign "guarantee statements." They gloated over the rate of their "transformation."

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yue Baoxue was tortured in the "Big Hang Up" position around the clock for 7 days. There are two forms of this torture: 1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to a metal window frame; 2) One hand of a practitioner is handcuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in opposite directions. It is extremely painful as the body is pulled apart. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Zhenfeng was tortured in the "Big Hang Up" position for 3 days. Both practitioners' hands were red and swollen, and wounds covered their bodies.

    On November 9, 2003, shortly after Mr. Zhang was released from the labor camp, Zheng Jun from the police department and Policeman Liu Guochang and ten other police officers harassed Mr. Zhang and his wife three times during the night. They broke into their home and arrested the couple and held them for 15 days.

    Over the six years of the persecution, officers from the police unit, the 610 Office, and the Political Legal Committee harassed Mr. Zhang countless times. They arrested his wife and daughter on numerous occasions and extracted thousands of yuan from them. The long-term torment on his mind and body took its toll, and Mr. Zhang never recovered his health. He began to experience excessive sweats and had symptoms of coughing, spitting up phlegm, and vomiting blood. He had generalized edema. Zhang Keming finally passed away on March 26, 2006. His family highly suspected that the unknown drugs that were injected into him in the labor camp played a role in his death.


    Ms. He Zhengxiu Dies as a Result of Long-term Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Zhengxiu was a farmer who lived in Jiulong Village, Jiuchi Township, in Wanzhou District, Chongqing City. Her home was ransacked and she was sent to forced labor and detained in brainwashing classes multiple times. She died on March 18, 2006.

    Ms. He Zhengxiu was 59 years old and started cultivating Falun Gong at the end of 1996. In March 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and clarify the truth. As a result, her home was ransacked and the authorities extorted five thousands yuan from her. Because she remained steadfast in Falun Gong, Ms. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor in September 2000. The abuse she suffered in detention severely damaged her physical body. She was released on medical parole and returned home at the end of 2001.

    Soon after, Ms. He was locked up in the Wanzhou District brainwashing center for two years, where she was verbally abused and beaten. 610 Office agent Hu Xiaozhong once saw Ms. He Zhengxiu reciting Falun Gong scriptures, so he instructed several guards to drag Ms. He Zhengxiu to the hallway and beat her brutally.

    Ms. He went back home after two years of torture. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) closely monitored her. They constantly came to her door, and even questioned her when she went out grocery shopping. As a result of the long-term mental and physical torture, Ms. He Zhengxiu's health declined and she died on March 18, 2006.

    Even when Ms. He Zhengxiu was dying, personnel from the police department, station and neighborhood office ransacked her home, and assigned special people to take turns watching her house until her funeral.


    The Persecution of Farmer Wang Xiaolun and his Family over the Last Six Years

    (Clearwisdom.net) Wang Xiaolun is a farmer from Wangjiafang Village, Xiongxian County in Hebei Province. He and his wife, Guo Donghua, both started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. Through practicing Falun Gong they were able to maintain good health and a harmonious family. However, since July 20, 1999, during the more than six years of persecution against Falun Gong launched by Jiang's regime, Mr. Wang and his family have been subjected to severe persecution. Three of their four parents passed away prematurely due to the fear and anxiety caused by repeated harassment and threats from the County Government, Shilipu Township Police Station, the local village leaders and other lawless personnel. The two practitioners decided to leave their home and become homeless in order to escape further persecution. They have been unable to take care of their family, including their children. Consequently, another happy family has been torn apart by the persecution.

    Gaining good health and a harmonious family from cultivating in Falun Gong

    Before practicing Falun Gong, Wang Xiaolun had several different illnesses, including chronic gastritis, chronic inflammation of the throat membranes, and chronic leg and back pain. He spent a huge amount of money on medical treatment, but the illnesses were not cured. He felt miserable and upset, and was always having fights with his wife. His wife could not bear his demeanor any more and wanted to divorce him.

    In early 1997, their former classmate introduced them to Falun Gong. After practicing the exercises and studying the Fa, they began to understand how to be good people, and they started to discipline themselves according to Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. When faced with gains and benefits, they let others pick first. They also got along very well with their neighbors and friends. Wang Xiaolun used to gamble by playing mahjong. After starting Falun Gong practice, he stopped this bad habit. In addition, all of his illnesses disappeared and his relationship with his wife also improved. Their daughter also benefited from her parent's practice. Before they decided to leave home to avoid the persecution, she had never had any sicknesses.

    In 1998, Wang Xiaolun's sister-in-law was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. She went to a hospital and suffered a lot. After spending a lot of money, her cancer was still not cured. She started to practice Falun Gong. Within a few months she was cured. Their 80-year-old grandma felt that Falun Gong was amazing due to its ability to cure diseases so in the spring of 1999 she too began to practice the exercises and study the Fa with her family members every day. Within a couple of months, the leg pain that had been bothering her for over twelve years disappeared. She also stopped smoking. She was very excited. Seeing all of the positive changes in the young couple, Wang Xiaolun's parents supported them whole-heartedly. Mr. Wang's entire family benefited from his belief in Falun Gong, and everyone lived in the warmth of Falun Gong's mercy.

    Suffering from persecution after appealing and clarifying the truth

    In July 1999, the wicked persecution started. On July 19, Wang Xiaolun and his wife went to Beijing to appeal and clarify the truth of Falun Gong. They were illegally arrested by the police and detained in the Fengtai Stadium in Beijing. That same night they were taken back to Baoding City. The next day they were transferred to a Xiongxian County brainwashing class and detained for several more days. The police tried to force the couple to write a guarantee statement and give up their belief in Falun Gong in order to get released. Ever since then, Wang Xiaolun and his family have not had a moment of peace.

    When they were held in the brainwashing class, Mr. Wang's parents suffered tremendous pressure. With the large-scale lies and slander on TV, combined with threats from the village Chinese Communist Party (CCP) branch secretary Wang Sanjiang, Wang Xiaolun's parents were forced to turn in all of their Falun Gong books. Because their residence used to be a local exercise site, the village security head and other personnel from Xiongxian County harassed them frequently.

    One day, a deputy CCP secretary from the township went to their village. He ordered Wang Xiaolun and his wife Guo Donghua to go to village head Wang Zhangji's home, where the deputy secretary threatened them, and ordered them to stop going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. He ordered them to guarantee that they would not go to Beijing. Wang Xiaolun refused to cooperate with this unreasonable demand and replied that appealing is a human being's freedom and right. Freedom of belief and the right to appeal are protected by the Chinese Constitution, and are the basic rights of a citizen. The deputy party secretary was irritated by his comments and left.

    At about 10:00 p.m. the next evening, security head Wang Yunxiang, accompanied by several county policemen, broke into Wang Xiaolun's home. Mr. Wang was practicing the Falun Gong exercises with Donghua and another practitioner at the time. These hoodlums started to randomly search the house, stealing the exercise music tape. Then they took the three practitioners to the Criminal Team office, interrogated them for three hours and released them after midnight.

    The next day, Mr. Wang went to his parents' house and learned that his parents and grandparents had been worrying about them for the whole night. His mother even got blisters all over her mouth due to extreme concern. They couldn't help but cry when they saw the couple safe and sound. But several days later, the Politics and Security Section head Zhao Shuhui from the county once again brought two agents to Wang Xiaolun's residence to threaten Mr. Wang and his family. The family suffered tremendous mental pressure, and their parents and grandparents worried about them all the time after that.

    Wang Xiaolun left home to avoid further persecution

    On January 1, 2000, Zhao Qixue and others from Xiongzhou Township confiscated the ID cards of all the Falun Gong practitioners in Wang Xiaolun's family. The cards have not been returned as of today. On the afternoon of March 2, police officer Zhao Shuhui led more than 20 people to Mr. Wang's home and asked if he still practiced Falun Gong. Mr. Wang replied in the affirmative. Those lawless people then arrested and detained Wang Xiaolun. The so-called arrest certificate was issued and signed by Zhao Daping from the police station.

    Inmates in the detention center beat Mr. Wang savagely on the face and the legs with wooden clubs. His legs were severely injured and he was disabled for a month. During this period, his family members were forbidden to visit, and were prevented from leaving any personal items for him. Wang Xiaolun's parents were afraid that after working for an entire day, Xiaolun would not be able to fall asleep at night. They tried to figure out some way to get him out of the detention center. They did their best to find some connections to pay a bribe. Wang Xiaolun was finally released on April 26, 2000, but the family was also extorted out of 3,000 yuan. Including the money for bribes, his family spent over 7,000 yuan. For a farmer's family, this amount is so large that it is virtually impossible for them to earn.

    On July 20, 2000, the Xiongzhou Township Political and Legal Committee Head, Guo Xiangdong, went to Wang Xiaolun's home to harass his family again. They wanted to take Guo Donghua away for a couple of days and keep her during the so-called sensitive days (July 20, 1999, is the date that marks to beginning of the persecution). The police totally ignored Ms. Guo's daughter's pleas for her mom, and detained Guo Donghua for two days. After they got a guarantee from the family, she was released. On September 27, Guo Xiangdong threatened the young couple again, saying that they had better stay home. In the afternoon, someone from the township's armed forces department went to Wang Xiaolun's home and told him that someone from the neighboring village was arrested, and that he should be more careful not to go anywhere. Wang Xiaolun and Guo Donghua thus felt great pressure. They decided that to avoid being arrested, Mr. Wang should leave and hide for a while.

    Wang Xiaolun left home with his wife pregnant. He has been destitute and homeless for six years now. After he left home, the party sent someone to his home to arrest him. They failed to find him; therefore, the official harassed his family members many times. Since they could not arrest Mr. Wang, they arrested the pregnant Guo Donghua as a hostage.

    Village security official Wang Yunxiang brought Guo Xiangdong and some others to Wang Xiaolun's home to take Guo Donghua away. Ms. Guo refused to go with them. They then took her against her will. Wang Xiaolun's mother said, "Please don't hit her. She is pregnant." Guo Xiangdong told his gang, "Take her away. I'll be responsible for whatever happens." Hence they took Guo Donghua to the Shilipu Police Station and locked her up inside a small, dark and humid room. She was monitored constantly and was even followed by someone during toilet use. Her family members had to send food for her. It was harvest season and the family was very busy. The corn in the field needed to be harvested, and the vegetables needed to be sold at the market.

    Wang Xiaolun's father became sick from worrying about his son and his daughter-in-law's situation. Thankfully, some relatives eventually helped them harvest the corn and sell the vegetables. Guo Donghua's mother had to send food to her daughter every day. During this period of time, lawless people constantly harassed Wang Xiaolun's sister and her family. The lawless officials detained a pregnant woman for several days.

    After Wang Xiaolun decided to leave home, his elderly grandmother was heartbroken and worried. She was so concerned about his safety that she became sick. She was unable to get up for the entire winter. Prior to this, after having begun Falun Gong practice, she had been healthy, and, as mentioned above, had even quit smoking. She missed Xiaolun all the time and wished that he could come back home.

    One day before the Chinese New Year in 2001, Cao Zhiqing, head of the Shilipu Police Station, brought several people to Wang Xiaolun's home again and asked if Mr. Wang had been home. They said that if he had, the family members were supposed to report this to them. The whole family was very frightened, and they all cried. The older people were unable to fall asleep for the entire night. The next morning, Grandma did not get up for breakfast. She hid in her room and cried.

    Guo Donghua forced to leave home with her son

    On January 23, 2001, Jiang's regime and his followers staged the so-called "Tiananmen Square Self-immolation." This incident shocked the world and deceived many people into thinking negatively about Falun Gong. Thus, the persecution worsened. Persecutors from the CCP hired men from the village to monitor Wang Xiaolun's home. At the end of February 2001, Guo Donghua gave birth to a son. There were people monitoring her home even during the delivery.

    At around 2:00 a.m., two months after the baby's birth, some people banged loudly on the door. Wang Xiaolun's father opened the door and more than twenty men barged in, led by Guo Xiangdong and Zhao Qixue from Xiongzhou Town, and Cao Zhiqing, chief of the Shilipu Police Station. One of them even carried a camcorder. As soon as they came in, they asked Guo Donghua if she still practiced Falun Gong. Ms. Guo said yes. Then she started to clarify the truth to them. They attempted to take Guo Donghua away. Holding her baby, Ms. Guo refused to move. By then, grandma had awakened. Seeing that there were so many people at her home, she was frightened and began to tremble. Finally the men left. Guo Donghua's family couldn't sleep from fright.

    The next morning, Guo Donghua went to find Wang Yunxiang, and told him not to harass her family again. She said that doing so was not good for him. She also talked about how her family had benefited from practicing Falun Gong. Wang Yunxiang told the CCP committee head Wang Sanjiang about her coming to see him. Wang Sanjiang said, "If she doesn't behave, get someone to deal with her again."

    Wang Xiaolun's mother heard about this. She was very scared and said to her daughter-in-law, "Quick, hide somewhere." Then, Guo Donghua took her two-month-old son to a relative's home and stayed there for over ten days. After she returned home, the family lived in anxiety and fear. From then on, whenever sensitive dates approached, persecutors would go to her home and harass them. The elderly members of the family cried every time they came.

    The night of February 4, 2002, Cao Zhiqing led several people to Wang Xiaolun's residence again. They harassed the family and searched the house. He threatened Mr. Wang's parents, "We posted a notice for your son's arrest on the Internet. When he comes home, report it to the authorities!"

    In 2002, the evildoers became even wilder. It seemed as if their harassment of Wang Xiaolun's family would never end. During the wheat harvesting season, at past 10:00 p.m., three practitioners from Wangjiafang Village were taken to a brainwashing class. Families were forbidden from visiting. They forced practitioners to slander Teacher and to step on Teacher's photo. They also demanded payment of a "fine." These morally bankrupt evil Party members claimed they would come get Guo Donghua next time.

    Ms. Guo was constantly in a state of anxiety. She worked in the fields during the day, and at night she took her son with her and slept in other people's places. She was worried that if she was arrested again it would bring bigger pain to her elders. The long-term psychological pressure became too overwhelming. Finally, hoping to lessen the pressure on the elders, she left her daughter behind, took her one-year-old son and became homeless.

    Prior to the Sixteenth National Party Congress, a wide search of people's residences was conducted. Guo Donghua worried about her infant son being harmed if she were persecuted. Her son did not have warm winter clothes. Enduring the agony of leaving her son behind, she delivered him to a relative and asked her family to take care of the child.

    Harassment continues; three elders pass away

    Wang Xiaolun's father endured a huge amount of psychological pressure under the persecution. That, coupled with the hard physical labor he had to do, made him seriously ill. He came down with esophageal cancer. He received treatment at the Renqiu Hospital. Nevertheless, persecutors from Xiongzhou Town followed the father to the hospital in hopes of catching Wang Xiaolun and his wife. They also stalked Wang Xiaolun's younger sister, harassing her at home and monitoring her.

    Over ten days passed. Suddenly Mr. Wang's grandma died from anxiety and fear. Her death was directly caused by the persecution. Every time they were harassed in their home, grandma got so frightened that she couldn't speak. When they were gone, she couldn't sleep. In addition, she missed her grandson and granddaughter-in-law, and worried about her sick son. She didn't tell her family that she didn't feel well, because she didn't want to add more trouble to the family. She endured the mental pain secretly and passed away on the morning of November 13, 2002. The persecutors stationed guards at the funeral ceremony and the resting place, and kept watch. They were still trying to catch Wang Xiaolun and his wife.

    Grandma's sudden death hit Wang Xiaolun's father and aunt heavily. Later, with Falun Gong practitioner's help, the father started practicing Falun Gong. His health improved; however, the persecutors didn't stop their harassment. During the 2003 Chinese New Year's Eve, after midnight, the perpetrators jumped over the outer wall of the family home and knocked down the door to the house. They went straight in and woke up the sleeping parents. They intimidated them and said, "Has your son come back yet?" Wang Xiaolun's parents and the young children were so scared that they didn't know what to do.

    In the spring of 2003, the father's health was eventually restored. The CCP agents still harassed the family often. Every time they were harassed, Mr. Wang's father was so scared that he dared not to study the "Fa" or do the exercises for several days. Father did all the fieldwork. Due to the hard labor and continuous harassment, he suffered severe mental anguish and physical discomfort. He became afraid to study the Fa or doing the exercises. Then, in the winter of 2003, his old illness returned. He went to get treatment. During the time of the treatment, Shilipu Police Station Chief Cao Zhiqing led a group of men, including people from the 610 Office, to harass and intimidate him for two consecutive days. The elderly man was very frightened.

    On January 29, 2003, the persecutors harassed them again. The old man's condition worsened. On February 20 they harassed him once more. During the critical last days of his illness, people from the 610 Office monitored him day and night. On March 22, 2004, the old man died under extreme pain. He knew that his wife's health wasn't good. Before he passed away he told his wife two things: "You should practice Falun Gong," and "If you hear from Xiaolun, you must not let him come back."

    During the two-day funeral proceedings, plainclothes officers were standing around at the resting place, and inside and outside of the village searching passing vehicles. Friends and relatives of the Mr. Wang's father were detained and searched. On the morning of the burial, several police vehicles were circling the village. They followed the family to the resting place and stayed there, attempting to arrest Wang Xiaolun and his wife.

    The elder's death was a huge blow to the family, especially Wang Xiaolun's mother and aunt. Mr. Wang's mother missed her husband terribly. She was devastated from the deep sorrow, cried day and night and couldn't concentrate. One year has passed since her husband's death and she still wishes for her husband to come back.

    Prior to beginning the  practice, Wang Xiaolun's aunt suffered from many health problems, including esophageal cancer and insufficient blood supply to the brain. These illnesses disappeared once she began Falun Gong practice in 1998, and her health was good for a long time. When the persecution began in 1999 she was very frightened, especially after seeing what Wang Xiaolun's family suffered. She was often worried about them. Even though her children were very much against her practicing, she still did the Falun Gong exercises in secret. Her health was good. However, Xiaolun's grandmother and father's death hit her too heavily. Extreme anger and grief caused her not to be able to study the Fa or do the exercises. Her old illnesses returned and she died on May 15, 2004.

    Only Wang Xiaolun's mother and his two young children are now left in the family. Financially, they rely on friends, relatives and Falun Gong practitioners for help. The relatives do all the fieldwork. To this day they are still being harassed. In September 2004, several Falun Gong practitioners from Xiong County went to Beijing and were arrested. The perpetrators made arrests all over the town. Police officers from the Shilipu Police Station went to Wang Xiaolun's home before dawn.

    In November 2005, the police went to Mr. Wang's daughter's school to intimidate her. They also demanded the schoolmaster not to tell anyone about them being there. During these several years, Wang Xiaolun's home phone was monitored.

    The persecution is still going on.

    The above recounts six years of persecution committed by the CCP in Xiong County against Wang Xiaolun's family. All of this happened because Mr. Wang and his wife wanted to practice Falun Gong to be decent people.



    Beijing Police Department Illegally Detains Falun Gong Practitioner Couple; Daughter Abroad Appeals for their Rescue

    On March 19, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fu Yongan and his wife Mrs. Liu Xianglan were arrested at home in Beijing. Mrs. Liu was held at Qinghe Detention Center in Haidian District and the whereabouts of Mr. Fu Yongan are unknown. Their daughter, Fu Chen, in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A, exposed the news and appealed to Falun Gong practitioners and all those who have a sense of justice to pay close attention to this matter. She asked for help in finding out the location where her father is being held, and to request that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) release her elderly parents, who practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," unconditionally.

    Fu Chen called her parents on March 24, 2006 and found that no one was home. Later she learned that on March 19, the police from the Police Department in Beijing raided her parent's home, confiscated the computer, and illegally arrested them. Information revealed that the Police Department found some Falun Gong articles in the computer and tried to use them as evidence to sentence them to a forced labor camp.

    Mr. Fu Yongan, age 63, and Mrs. Liu Xianglan, also age 63, are from Beijing. They both retired from Tsinghua University. They began to practice Falun Gong in September 1995. They participated in appealing for Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, and they were arrested on July 20,1999. Ever since then, the police have illegally detained them on sensitive dates.

    On March 28, their son received a letter from his mother requesting two sets of clothes and 200 yuan, and asked him to send them to: East district 2-6#, 25 Longgang Road, Qinghe Town, Haidian District, Beijing. Zip 100085. Phone: 86-10-62902266. Mrs. Liu believed that her husband is also being held there but she has not seen him. At this current time, no one knows the whereabouts of Mr. Fu.

    Fu Chen told us that during the Cultural Revolution, her parents were sent to a farm labor camp in Jiangxi and they contracted an illness called Schistosomiasis. The parasites invade the host's blood system, then they spread everywhere through circulation, and no medicine is able to cure this illness. After they came back to Beijing, they went through an "experimental treatment." The physician combated poison with poison and attempted to kill the parasites. Her mother's condition worsened and began affecting her nervous system. She had to take large amount of medicine on a daily basis to control the illness. Her father previously had a kidney stone. After they began practicing Falun Gong in 1995, their health noticeably improved, her father's kidney stone disappeared, and her mother was cured without any medicine.

    Fu Chen requested that whoever knows the facts of the case offer more information, collect the department name, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of those who are responsible for the persecution, and ask Falun Gong practitioners who read this news to begin clarifying the truth and rescue the elderly couple.


    Information about Three Practitioners in Hubei, Hunan, and Hebei Provinces Who Died from Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mrs. Gao Aihua, 42, lived on Hanzheng Street in the Qiaokou District of Wuhan City, Hubei Province. In 2000, she went to Beijing to clarify the facts and appeal for the justice for Falun Gong. She was detained in the Wuhan City First Detention Center. She was then transferred to Hewan Forced Labor Camp and persecuted there for one year and six months. On August 2, 2002, a group of scoundrels led by Officer Zhu from the Hanjiadun Avenue Police Station broke into Mrs. Gao's house. They pinned Mrs. Gao to the ground then pulled her up by the hair and took her to the Etouwan brainwashing center. After 18 days on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful detention, Mrs. Gao was released. In September 2003, the Hanjiadun Avenue Station police arrested her again. This time they sentenced Mrs. Gao to 18 months of forced labor in the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City. Mrs. Gao's relatives did not know her whereabouts for a long time, and they were afraid to ask the police. Mrs. Gao refused to submit to the persecution while she was in prison. As a result, she was hung up for 15 days and subjected to a variety of tortures. Mrs. Gao's husband divorced her while she was imprisoned. Long-term torture severely injured Mrs. Gao. She died on March 20, 2006.

    Mrs. Luo Yingtao was a doctor in Changsha City, Hunan Province. Before she became a Falun Gong practitioner, she had had malignant galactophore cancer that had metastasize to the bone. No effective cure was available. She was very thin and weak as of late 1995. Her left hand and arm were swollen to three times their normal size. She could not go to sleep because of the pain. She knew her days were numbered. In January 1996, Mrs. Luo started practicing Falun Gong. Not long after, all of her illnesses disappeared and her cheeks became rosy red. When the persecution began in 1999, Mrs. Luo went to Beijing twice to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She told the government about the improvements in her health from practicing Falun Gong. Because of her appeal, Mrs. Luo was under police surveillance for a long time. The police took her to the police station whenever sensitive dates approached. At one time, all of Mrs. Luo's relatives were unemployed because of the persecution policy. Even her child was suspended from school. As a result of this long-term persecution, Mrs. Luo collapsed and died on December 3, 2002.

    Mrs. Shen Xiaojing, 43, was a practitioner in Kaiping Town, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Practicing Falun Gong cured Mrs. Shen's heart disease and high blood pressure. During the persecution, Mrs. Shen appealed to the town officials. As a result, she was detained for five days in Kaiping Town and for 15 days in Tangshan Detention Center. In May 2001, she went out to clarify the facts, and the Kaiping Town 610 Office arrested her. She was then sentenced to three years and six months in prison. During the imprisonment, Mrs. Shen was subjected to physical and mental torture. The 610 Office repeatedly harassed her even after her release. On October 19, 2004, Kaiping District Police arrested some 15 practitioners, including Mrs. Shen. The long-term persecution caused Mrs. Shen's former illnesses to reappear. She died on October 17, 2005.


    The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Guan Lianbin

     [Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

    - Belated News - Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guan Lianbin from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province went to Beijing in October 1999 to clarify the truth. He was illegally detained at the Huanghua Police Station, (of the Aimin Police Department in Mudanjiang City).

    Around 8:00 p.m. on October 22, 2002, officers from the Huanghua Police Station illegally arrested Guan Lianbin and took him to the police station. They wrapped his head with a plastic bag, removing it only after he lost consciousness. This torture was repeated numerous times. They also force-fed him pepper water and mustard oil, tied him up with a rope and deprived him of sleep. They tortured him brutally for nine days. On February 14, 2003, Guan Lianbin was unconstitutionally sentenced to five years in prison along with more than 30 other practitioners from Mudanjiang City. He was forbidden to appeal the sentence and was sent directly to Ward 6 of Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Because Mr. Guan persisted in Falun Gong practice, the guards cruelly tortured him. They detained him in solitary confinement continuously and forced him to do intense manual labor. They also beat him and prevented his family from meeting with him.