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[Minghui 7/27/2000]
At present, for every disciple both inside and outside of China, clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to people around the world is the most important task in "assisting the teacher in the human world". Summary
of Data: The
Reckless Violation of the Human Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners In
the year since July 22, 1999 when the Chinese government declared Falun Gong
an illegal organization, the Chinese government has attached so little
importance to the lives of Falun Gong practitioners that to date, at least
24 innocent Dafa practitioners have been tortured to death, more than 40,000
people have been illegally detained, more than 5,000 have been sent to labor
re-education camps, and about 100 have been sentenced to prison terms of up
to 18 years with none of them being handled through normal legal procedures.
Furthermore, countless numbers of practitioners have been sent to
mental hospitals where they are forced to take drugs and medication and some
have even been used to test out experimental new drugs.
In spite of all this, at the annual meeting of the UN Commission on
Human Rights held in Geneva in March of 2000, Chinese representatives
shamelessly and publicly stated that the human rights situation in China is
the best it has ever been in history, that the Chinese government had not
detained even a single Falun Gong practitioner, and so on.
As for who is telling the truth and who is lying, please take a look
at the factual materials below. Due
to space constraints and the difficulties brought about by the Chinese
government’s unending efforts in blocking information, the following is
but a small portion of the countless facts. I.
All Different Kinds of Inhumane Tortures, Persecuting Practitioners
to Death Since
July 22, 1999, based on an incomplete count, there have already been 24
Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted to death, and these are
just the ones whose names have actually been confirmed by the media.
Amongst those who have died, the youngest was only 18, the oldest was
59; there were outstanding engineers, there were simple farmers, and there
were ordinary retired senior citizens. 1.
Zhao Jinhua, female, age 42, Zhaoyuan city, Shandong Province.
On September 29, 1999, Ms. Zhao was working in the fields when she
was arrested. Police slapped
her on the face, struck her head, beat and kicked her, clubbed her with a
rubber baton, gave her electric shocks, deprived her of sleep, made her
stand barefoot on the cement floor, and so on.
On October 7, she was tormented to death.
The court medical doctor’s autopsy report is as follows:
Apart from the head, there were several wounds and bruises on the
body. There is blood clotting
beneath the skin within an area 120mm x 60mm large.
Conclusion: Death by
beating with a blunt object. Those
who revealed the news that Zhao Jinhua had been beaten to death, Liu Jinling,
Li Lanying, Chi Yunling, and Chen Shihuan were later arrested on charges of
“illegally leaking state secrets.” 2.
Chen Zixiu, female, age 59, Weifang city, Shandong Province.
On February 16, 2000, she was walking along the street when she was
caught by the person responsible for regulating Falun Gong in her local area
and was brought to the Beiguan police station for supervision.
The next afternoon she was brought to the “Falun Gong Reeducation
Center” Chengguan Street branch that had been temporarily set up.
Government officials used rubber clubs and electric batons to hit her
legs, feet, and lower back, and also used a spiked prod used for cattle to
hit her head and neck, trying to force her to give up practicing cultivation
using these methods. On the
morning of the 20th, the seriously weakened Chen Zixiu was forced
to crawl barefoot out in the snow. Two
days of torture had already caused her legs to be seriously battered, with
pus and blood caked over the dark hair.
Ms. Chen vomited and collapsed, and never regained consciousness.
Her body was full of dark bruises, her ears were swollen and bruised,
her teeth were broken and covered with blood clots. There were bloodstains all over the deceased’s blouse,
bedding cover and underwear… Chen
Zixiu’s death was investigated and reported in detail by a senior
journalist with the Wall Street
Journal and was on the first page of this newspaper on April 20th. Few readers are unmoved by this account, finding it hard to
believe that in today’s day and age, such a tragic incident could occur in
an ancient civilization like China. 3.
In one of the most recent incidents, the death of a 32 year-old
computer software engineer revealed yet another case of the Chinese
government using shocking brutality. Su
Gang, male, age 32, Zibo city, Shandong Province.
On May 23, 2000, he was sent by the police and his employer, Qilu
Petroleum company, to a mental hospital without any signs of mental illness
and was forcibly injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system. Because his family started hunger striking in protest, Mr. Su
was released on May 31. However,
he had already lost his memory, his movements were slow, and he was
extremely weak. It was a
heart-wrenching sight. On the
morning of June 10th, Su Gang passed away due to heart failure. Below
is a list of the Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured to death that
the media have reported on: Chen Ying, female, 18, Heilongjiang province Zhao Dong, male, 38, Heilongjiang province Wang Guoping, male, 40, Jilin province Dong Buyun, female, 36, Shandong province Zhao Jinhua, female, 42, Shandong province Zhu Shaolan, female, 50, Liaoning province Zhang Shuqi, female, 52, Beijing Liu Zhilan, female, 40, Beijing Gao Xianmin, male, 41, Guangdong province Liu Zhuguo, male, 29, Shandong province Chen Zixiu, female, 59, Shandong province Yang Xueqin, male, 36, Shanghai Zhang Zhenggang, male, 36, Jiangsu province Li Yianhua, female, 45, Jiangxi province Li Huixi, male, 40’s, Shandong province Guan Chaosheng, male, age unknown, Hunan Sun Xiuqin, female, 50’s, Heilongjiang Zhou Zhichang, male, 45, Heilongjiang province Wang Xiuying, female, 45, Heilongjiang Mei Yulan, female, 44, Beijing Yao Baorong, female, 52, Gansu province Yin Shuyun, female, 46, Jilin province Tian Shiqiang, male, Sichuan province Su Gang, male, 32, Shandong province II.
Forcing Practitioners into Mental Hospitals, Engaging in Mental and
Physical Abuse In
addition to Su Gang who was mentioned above, all over China there are many
practitioners, some in groups of dozens, who have been forced into mental
hospitals. These originally
completely normal and healthy practitioners have borne inhumane mental and
physical tortures and some have even been tortured to death.
According to the Hong Kong Democracy Center, there are currently at
least 400 mentally normal Falun Gong practitioners who are being forcibly
incarcerated in mental hospitals by the authorities to ‘undergo treatment.’
This indicates that this kind of tactic has already become one of
Beijing’s systematic policies used to suppress Falun Gong.
In
Beijing’s Fangshan district, 53 normal Falun Gong practitioners were held
in the Zhoukoudian Mental Hospital for more than 40 days, enduring endless
inhumane tortures. Nanjing
Falun Gong practitioner Han Jizhen, because she went to Beijing to appeal,
was brought back to Nanjing by police and incarcerated in the Nanjing
Neurological Hospital. The doctor said: “Han
Jizhen wasn’t brought here to the hospital because of mental illness but
because she practices Falun Gong!” Everyday
she was given forcibly given injections or oral drugs, causing her great
suffering and leaving her physically weak. Even
officials of the national civil justice agencies have not been spared.
Judge Huang Jinchun of the Beihai city middle court in Guangxi
province, the director of the Health Bureau of the Public Security
Department in Jiangsu province, high ranking policewoman Ding Jianhua were
all sent to mental hospitals either because they went to Beijing to appeal
or because they continued to practice.
They were sent to mental hospitals and forced to take medication,
causing their reflexes to slow down and their vision to be blurred. The
Chinese government has even used this kind of inhumane suppression against
the state military. According to reports in the Associated Press, Agence France
Presse, the New York Times, and
other media, former lieutenant colonel of artillery of division #89605 in
the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Zhao Xinli, was arrested by the
authorities on May 29th of this year because he disregarded the
Chinese government’s ban and continued to practice Falun Gong.
He was forcibly taken to Beijing’s #261 Mental Hospital and held
there in the name of giving him ‘treatment.’
Everyday, this hospital gave him injections of drugs harmful to the
nervous system, causing Zhao Xinli to become extremely frail and physically
weak. As far as we know, there
are at least five members of the PLA currently incarcerated in mental
hospitals because they were detained for practicing Falun Gong. III.
All Different Kinds of Horrifying Tortures and Abuse The
Chinese government has used various kinds of tactics to suppress and
persecute Falun Gong practitioners. At
the same time that they engage in the mental tactics of high pressure
brainwashing types of torment, they have also used cruel and inhuman
physical tortures. The cruel
goal is to both mentally and physically destroy Falun Gong.
In a world that is now calling for the abolishment of torture, the
Chinese government is disregarding the law and humanity and engaging in all
sorts of horrifying and cruel tortures.
Please see below of a summary of the facts: Inhuman torture of
practitioners engaged in hunger strikes: U.S. practitioner Tang Jian was hunger striking in a
detention center in protest. Two
days into the hunger strike, the head of the detention center ordered four
or five male criminals to press her down on the ground and put her feet in
shackles. Then they held her
nose so she couldn’t breathe and started pouring rough salt with a little
bit of water added to it into her mouth.
They were told not to let her go until they had finished pouring it
in. This practitioner almost suffocated to death. There are also severe physical
punishments for practitioners who have been on hunger strike for several
days, and they also force practitioners to do heavy labor: On September 9, 1999, practitioners at the Beijing Qiliqu
detention center of the Changping district who had been on hunger strike for
about three days were placed under the scorching sun for more than three
hours. Some vomited bile, some
sweated profusely and collapsed, but the public security officers wouldn’t
let them drink water. If they
crouched down to rest, they were beaten and kicked and the officers refused
to give them the water brought to them by the other inmates.
Furthermore, four of them were dragged into the office and harshly
beaten. They have used all kinds of
punishments and equipments to beat up and torture practitioners: The director of the Falun Gong Chungqing assistance center Gu
Zhiyi, female, over 60 years old, was detained on July 19, 1999.
She insisted on practicing in the prison and was subjected to 24
different kinds of implements of torture, including a torture called the “tiger
bench” (a kind of torture intended to break a person’s legs), having
bamboo strips stuck under her fingernails, the electric chair, having an
electric current sent through electrodes attached to the top of her head and
her anus, and so on. Sometimes they would string up
practitioners out in the freezing winter weather and beat them: In Henan province, Xinyang city No. 2 detention center, on
November 1999, the public security officers cuffed Zheng Min’s hands and
feet together and, in weather that was below 0 degrees Celsius (below
freezing), they put her down on the icy cement ground.
A few hours later, they used a rope to tie up her feet and hung her
upside down on the metal fence for hours.
Her hands swelled like bread rising.
Her hands froze and cracked open like a child’s open mouth,
bleeding. There are those who beat
practitioners until the practitioners become disabled: On October 15, 1999, a practitioner from Liaoning province,
Deng Shaosong was arrested in Beijing and sent back to the Maoming detention
center where he was beaten until he went into shock.
When he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, the
hospital diagnosed it as the skull had burst open and the cranial membrane
was bleeding. His left eye was
black and swollen and he couldn’t eat. There are those that handcuff
practitioners and force them to smell the excrement bucket: In November, 1999, a member of the Standing Committee of the
Jingjin County Political Consultative Conference Bai Yuzi was being held in
the Kaiping labor camp in Tangshan city, Hebei province. During the 62 day hunger strike, she was handcuffed from 12
midnight until the morning whereby she was only allowed to wear an
undershirt and underwear, and they kept the door and windows of the dorm
room wide open. One hand was
cuffed to the highest point diagonally while the other was cuffed diagonally
to the lowest point, making it the most uncomfortable position with the
waist bent and half crouching. Then
they put the bucket of excrement that the whole group in the prison had
urinated into to let her smell for the whole night.
When she had fasted for almost 50 days, her arms were strung up and
cuffed onto a tree in the dorm courtyard and she was frozen and fainted in
the snow. Public security officers even
get together with local hooligans to abuse Dafa disciples in Tiananmen
Square. One practitioner
recalls:
On June 25 of this year, we went to Tiananmen Square, and when we
opened up the banner we were carrying, suddenly a big gang of hooligans
wearing very dirty clothing came and grabbed at the banner and started
hitting us. They took the
opportunity to reach their hands into the practitioners’ pockets to steal
money. The military police who
were on duty in the Square came by and, as they shouted: “We’ll beat you
to death!” they would violently jab their knees into the lower bodies of
the practitioners. After we
were shoved into the police van, there were those practitioners who were
covered in blood with their clothes ripped and their eyes swollen and
bleeding. There were those who,
because they refused to let go of the banner had their arms bitten by the
policemen, and one woman who was six months pregnant was beaten and kicked
as she was dragged by the hair and shoved into the van. Local officials forcibly enter
private residences for no reason and beat practitioners:
In a village near Zhaoyuan city in Shandong province, at about 1am on
the morning of July 23, several people burst into Li Wennan’s home and
dragged him to the municipal government offices where they surrounded him,
kicking and beating. When he
fell over and crawled up again, they would continue to beat him and they
didn’t stop until he couldn’t move.
Only then did they send him to the hospital where they found from the
X-ray that he was hemorrhaging inside his chest. After he underwent treatment, he was sent home, but he couldn’t
move for a long time. Local authorities force
practitioners to walk through the streets barefoot in the frigid winter:
In December, 1999, the weather was below freezing.
The local government authorities in Guangrao county in Shandong
province shackled together four Falun Gong practitioners from Liqiaoxi
village who had been arrested and sent back after they had gone to Beijing
to appeal and walked them through the streets.
They were not allowed to wear warm clothing.
In the course of six days, they walked all over Guangrao county and
its neighboring towns and villages. Forced fines, taking
practitioners’ personal property: In
the Xinjian county of Nanchang, all Falun Gong practitioners who are
arrested and put in the detention center must pay heavy fines of between RMB
4,000 and 6,000 (about US$500-750; equivalent to several months’ salary
for most) if they want to be released.
If they are in detention because they went to Beijing to appeal, then
apart from the above fine, they need to add another RMB 6,000.
For some families, their entire life savings aren’t enough to cover
this fine. Even worse,
some savage law enforcement personnel recklessly molest and abuse female
practitioners and engage in many different kinds of tortures in the
re-education labor camps: 1.
On October 31, 1999, among the more than 800 practitioners who were
detained in Changchun city were pregnant women and also women with infants.
Witnesses said: “One policeman kicked the belly of a pregnant woman, and
she was in so much pain that she was sweating all over her face and was
suffering tremendously…” 2.
In Jiangsu province, 31 year old Lu Yunzhen was forced to undergo an
abortion just so she could be detained for a longer period of time. 3.
A Falun Gong practitioner from Hanchuan city in Hubei province, Zhang
Min was seven months pregnant when she went to Beijing to appeal and was
sent back to a local detention center for more than 20 days (September 8 to
October 2, 1999) in a serious violation of a citizen’s rights. 4.
At the beginning of November, 1999, 12 people who were being held in
the women’s division of the Tangshan Kaiping labor re-education camp were
handcuffed to trees because they had dared to practice the exercises.
The officials grabbed their hair, bashing their heads against the
trees, and pulled dirty rags out of the garbage cans to stuff in their
mouths. One of the labor
re-education personnel had not bathed for almost a year, so they took her
underwear, which was stained with menstrual blood, and her socks and stuffed
them in the practitioners’ mouths. After
this, they gave them several rounds of beatings. 5.
A reporter from the Hubei Woman’s
Newspaper Wang Li went to Beijing to make an appeal.
After she returned to Wuhan, on February 18 of this year, she was
taken from her home in the middle of the night without reason and locked in
the Wuhan No. 2 Detention Center. The
guards handcuffed her and had her hanging from the window for three days
with her feet just touching the floor.
They also stripped her and had her lie spread-eagle on a wooden plank
for 11 days. She could only
urinate and excrete lying down. 6.
On September 22, 1999, Yang Xuezhen went to Beijing to appeal, and
when the public security officers found out that she and some others were
Dafa practitioners, the public security officers immediately searched their
bags and did body searches. They
tied her hands behind her back with her feet and used cigarette butts to
burn her hands in 8 or 9 places and then used a lighter to burn her nose. That afternoon, they were sent to the Beijing Qinghe
detention center in a police van. They
were stripped of all their clothes for a full body inspection, they weren’t
allowed to sleep, and they were interrogated until two in the morning.
Their bras were cut and destroyed and they were not allowed to change
sanitary napkins, and so on. They
were not allowed to speak to anyone. 7.
In September, 1999, Qiu Liying was being held at the Tangshan Kaiping
labor re-education camp, when, because she was practicing the exercises, the
guards starting beating and kicking her temples and her chest and even
jabbed their knees into her groin. The
other practitioners in the labor re-education camp who witnessed the
violence of the beatings were so frightened that some of them spat up blood
or fainted. In the 32 days that
she engaged in a hunger strike, the head of the labor reeducation camp never
allowed her to rest a single day and kept her working. The
brutal actions are too much to record; all the tragic cases cause one to
shudder. The facts speak louder
than the argument. No matter
how much the Chinese government denies them, the bloody facts can never be
covered up by blatant lies. The
heavens never let wrongdoers slip through the net of justice.
The brutal actions taken against the will of the heavens have already
been written by history into mankind’s book of shame, and those ignorant
and unconscionable executioners who persecute the practitioners of a
righteous Fa will surely repay all of the bad karma that they have created
through endless misery and pain when the truth of Falun Gong becomes known
around the world. Good begets
good, evil begets evil, it’s not that there is no retribution, it’s just
that the time has not yet come. The
true principles of the universe have never, and will not either today or in
the future, turn or change in accordance with human will. The Truth is eternal; Dafa is everlasting. (Translated on July 24, 2000
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