(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Xiaoping, a resident of the Kuiwen District in Weifang City, Shandong Province, was incarcerated in the Wangcun Women's Forced Labor Camp in the fall of 2001. That is where I got to know her. As soon as she arrived, she was sent to the most vicious Division No. 5. As she was very steadfast, she was locked up in a solitary cell and made to undergo "reformation" for long periods of time. Several people took turns monitoring her.
As practitioners Dai Xiaoping and Shao Yongmei from the Zhaoyuan area refused to cooperate with the unreasonable demands of the police, the guards used sleep deprivation as a means of torture for extended periods of time, sometimes for several months. The two of them were separated and locked up in solitary cells. They were bombarded with slander and false propaganda around the clock.
Ms. Dai Xiaoping's husband was physically abused until he became partially paralyzed on one side of his body. He could not attend to his daily needs or take care of their school-aged daughter. Even so, Ms. Dai Xiaoping still persists in her cultivation. As she showed no signs of giving in, No. 5 Division head Qu Xiuying said, "In order to try to 'reform' Dai Xiaoping, I had to personally talk to her on a one to one basis more than 200 times."
Qu Xiuying asked for suggestions from other guards, but they were all in vain. The guards tried to use Ms. Dai's mother to get leverage on her, but failed. They gave her a birthday cake and Chinese New Year present in an act of false kindness, but that did not fool her, either. None of the strict monitoring, torture devices, threats and beatings worked. Ms. Dai Xiaoping reasoned with them and pointed out from a legal perspective that what they were doing is against the law.
The guards became more determined to brainwash her. They locked her up and tortured her more cruelly. They vowed that if they did not succeed, they would never let Ms. Dai go. She was isolated from the rest of the incarcerated practitioners. A few months later, I heard that she became paralyzed on one side of her body, and her life was in danger. Some officers became worried that they would be held responsible for her death and transferred out. Dai Xiaoping was severely abused at the Wangcun Women's Forced Labor Camp for more than a year before she managed to get out. She seemed to have aged a lot in that one year, her face getting more wrinkled and her hair turning white.
Ms. Dai Xiaoping's husband was Mou Naiwu, an outstanding teacher at Weifang College. His employers have withheld his salary since October 1999 because he practiced Falun Gong. He became partially paralyzed from cruel persecution and abuse in 2000, and he died on June 13, 2004 as a result of the persecution.
Ms. Dai Xiaoping was fired from the Weifang No. 2 Printing and Dying Factory in October 1999 for her practice of Falun Gong. She lost her source of income, and she and her daughter are in dire circumstances.
Ms. Dai was once again illegally detained at the same camp in November 2007, and we have no details on her current situation.
Wangcun Women's Forced Labor Camp
Chief, Liu Changzeng: 86-533-6690988(Office), 86-533-6689888(Home), 86-13805336562(Cell)
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Mr. Wang Hongshu Taken Into Custody And Beaten Savagely by Officers of Diaobingshan City
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Wang Hongshu is a 50-year-old practitioner. At about 5 a.m. on January 17, 2008, when he was on his way to his sister's home in Faku County, he was intercepted by a car without any license plate. There were two people in the car. They did not show any ID and were not in police uniform. After they discovered that Mr. Wang was a Falun Gong practitioner, they dragged him against his will and tried to force him into the car. Mr. Wang tried to clarify the truth about Dafa to them. They said, "Do not talk with us about this. We must seize you." Mr. Wang refused to cooperate with them, so they beat him savagely. As a result, one of Mr. Wang's front teeth was knocked out, and another became loose, his face became blue and purple and his left eye filled with an abnormally large amount of blood. They held Mr. Wang to the ground for approximately 15 minutes. One of them then called for a police car and forced Mr. Wang into the car and took him to the Police Department.
At the Police Department, a body search was conducted. Before the search, he had 275 yuan cash on him. After the search, there was only 75 yuan left. The 200 yuan disappeared without a trace. At about 8 a.m., Mr. Wang was taken to the office of State Security. Mr. Wang clarified the truth about Dafa to the officers there. Instead of listening to him, they berated him and beat him savagely. Mr. Wang felt so much pain in his waist that he could not stand up. Officer Wang Xueping (male) handcuffed Mr. Wang's hands behind his back. Mr. Wang could not help but tumbling on the bed due to the pain. His handcuffs weren't removed until two hours later.
Mr. Wang continued to clarify the truth about Dafa to the officers. When taking notes of their conversation, officer Zhang Fenglai (male) asked him with whom he had contact. Mr. Wang replied, "as a Falun Gong practitioner, I will not betray any good person." Because of this, Mr. Wang was detained for 15 days.
Since July 20, 1999, Mr. Wang had been subjected to persecution many times. Consequently, his lower limbs developed paralysis, and his lower back had to be fixed with a steel plate. This time, he was taken into custody without any reason and beaten savagely. Due to the beating, the steel plate dislodged. His chest developed serious pain, his throat swelled so much that he could not eat, and he fell into a coma twice.
It wasn't until the fifth day of Mr. Wang being critically ill that the police allowed Mr. Wang to be taken to the hospital for a check-up. He had to be lifted into the taxi by his family members and four cell mates. The doctors discovered that the dislocation of the steel plate in his back caused it to press heavily onto his lower limbs, his chest swelled with fluids and his throat was too swollen to eat. Since Mr. Wang could not afford the medical fee, he had to go home to recover.
Due to several years of persecution, Mr. Wang's family was extremely poor. This time, after he was taken into custody without any reason, Zheng Fenglai, the director of the State Security Division, and Wang Xueping, the deputy director, still extorted 3,000 yuan cash from his family without any receipt.
At the Police Department, a body search was conducted. Before the search, he had 275 yuan cash on him. After the search, there was only 75 yuan left. The 200 yuan disappeared without a trace. At about 8 a.m., Mr. Wang was taken to the office of State Security. Mr. Wang clarified the truth about Dafa to the officers there. Instead of listening to him, they berated him and beat him savagely. Mr. Wang felt so much pain in his waist that he could not stand up. Officer Wang Xueping (male) handcuffed Mr. Wang's hands behind his back. Mr. Wang could not help but tumbling on the bed due to the pain. His handcuffs weren't removed until two hours later.
Mr. Wang continued to clarify the truth about Dafa to the officers. When taking notes of their conversation, officer Zhang Fenglai (male) asked him with whom he had contact. Mr. Wang replied, "as a Falun Gong practitioner, I will not betray any good person." Because of this, Mr. Wang was detained for 15 days.
Since July 20, 1999, Mr. Wang had been subjected to persecution many times. Consequently, his lower limbs developed paralysis, and his lower back had to be fixed with a steel plate. This time, he was taken into custody without any reason and beaten savagely. Due to the beating, the steel plate dislodged. His chest developed serious pain, his throat swelled so much that he could not eat, and he fell into a coma twice.
It wasn't until the fifth day of Mr. Wang being critically ill that the police allowed Mr. Wang to be taken to the hospital for a check-up. He had to be lifted into the taxi by his family members and four cell mates. The doctors discovered that the dislocation of the steel plate in his back caused it to press heavily onto his lower limbs, his chest swelled with fluids and his throat was too swollen to eat. Since Mr. Wang could not afford the medical fee, he had to go home to recover.
Due to several years of persecution, Mr. Wang's family was extremely poor. This time, after he was taken into custody without any reason, Zheng Fenglai, the director of the State Security Division, and Wang Xueping, the deputy director, still extorted 3,000 yuan cash from his family without any receipt.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Practitioners Force-Fed Drugs, Exposed to Swarms of Mosquitoes at No. 2 Women's Prison in Yunnan Province
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Yunnan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) A Falun Dafa practitioner who was recently released from the No. 2 Women's Prison in Yunnan Province revealed that the prison guards forced every imprisoned Falun Dafa practitioner to give up her belief by being "transformed". All of the practitioners were forced to have their blood pressure taken. Subsequently, they were told that they had high blood pressure and needed to take drugs and receive injections. Nerve-damaging drugs were administered for long periods of time.
One day a guard told a practitioner to take her "medicine." The practitioner replied that she was not sick and did not need to take it. The guard then ordered the inmates to force her to take it. When the inmates told the guard that the practitioner refused, the guard said, "You must find a way to force her to take it." The inmates pushed the practitioner down and immobilized her head, hands, and feet. One inmate held her chest down with her knees, pried open her mouth and force-fed the medicine. The practitioner almost lost consciousness.
One practitioner heard another practitioner in the next cell say, "I am not sick and I will not take the medicine. Falun Dafa is good." Sounds of chaos erupted in the cell accompanied by a lot of banging. After a while, an inmate who participated in the commotion came by saying to herself, "A person who was beaten to death in the prison was treated worse than a fly."
One day a practitioner was practicing the sitting exercise. An inmate reported her to the guard. The guard put the practitioner in handcuffs and shocked her chin and her shoulder with an electric baton. She was confined in a small cell (1) for over one month.
The No. 2 Women's Prison is located near a forested mountainous region that is host to swarms of mosquitoes. Most inmates are allowed to use mosquito nets while they sleep. However, Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to use the mosquito nets. One night, a practitioner could not endure the mosquitoes and pulled over a corner of an inmate's mosquito net to cover her face. She was confined in a small cell for over one month. An elderly practitioner was so badly bitten she had bite wounds all over her face. Ms. Shen Yueping, a practitioner from Yuxi City, suffers with a swollen body from the torture she received. There were many other practitioners that were tortured until their bodies were swollen.
When the inmates in No. 2 Women's Prison are not happy, they lash out in anger towards practitioners. The practitioners are often physically beaten and verbally abused for no apparent reason by those inmates. One day an inmate pulled out a handful of hair from a practitioner. Inmates that saw the incident laughed hysterically.
Note:
(1) Small cell - The detainee is confined alone in a very small cell. The guards handcuff the practitioner behind her back in a fixed position, so that she can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. A bucket in the cell serves as the toilet. Only half of a regular meal is served each day. During the night rats run around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.
(Clearwisdom.net) A Falun Dafa practitioner who was recently released from the No. 2 Women's Prison in Yunnan Province revealed that the prison guards forced every imprisoned Falun Dafa practitioner to give up her belief by being "transformed". All of the practitioners were forced to have their blood pressure taken. Subsequently, they were told that they had high blood pressure and needed to take drugs and receive injections. Nerve-damaging drugs were administered for long periods of time.
One day a guard told a practitioner to take her "medicine." The practitioner replied that she was not sick and did not need to take it. The guard then ordered the inmates to force her to take it. When the inmates told the guard that the practitioner refused, the guard said, "You must find a way to force her to take it." The inmates pushed the practitioner down and immobilized her head, hands, and feet. One inmate held her chest down with her knees, pried open her mouth and force-fed the medicine. The practitioner almost lost consciousness.
One practitioner heard another practitioner in the next cell say, "I am not sick and I will not take the medicine. Falun Dafa is good." Sounds of chaos erupted in the cell accompanied by a lot of banging. After a while, an inmate who participated in the commotion came by saying to herself, "A person who was beaten to death in the prison was treated worse than a fly."
One day a practitioner was practicing the sitting exercise. An inmate reported her to the guard. The guard put the practitioner in handcuffs and shocked her chin and her shoulder with an electric baton. She was confined in a small cell (1) for over one month.
The No. 2 Women's Prison is located near a forested mountainous region that is host to swarms of mosquitoes. Most inmates are allowed to use mosquito nets while they sleep. However, Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to use the mosquito nets. One night, a practitioner could not endure the mosquitoes and pulled over a corner of an inmate's mosquito net to cover her face. She was confined in a small cell for over one month. An elderly practitioner was so badly bitten she had bite wounds all over her face. Ms. Shen Yueping, a practitioner from Yuxi City, suffers with a swollen body from the torture she received. There were many other practitioners that were tortured until their bodies were swollen.
When the inmates in No. 2 Women's Prison are not happy, they lash out in anger towards practitioners. The practitioners are often physically beaten and verbally abused for no apparent reason by those inmates. One day an inmate pulled out a handful of hair from a practitioner. Inmates that saw the incident laughed hysterically.
Note:
(1) Small cell - The detainee is confined alone in a very small cell. The guards handcuff the practitioner behind her back in a fixed position, so that she can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. A bucket in the cell serves as the toilet. Only half of a regular meal is served each day. During the night rats run around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
"Restricted Rooms" Used to Torture Practitioners at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province
(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun send steadfast practitioners to "restricted rooms" in attempts to force them to write the so-called guarantee statement. The "restricted rooms" are in a secret location and not easy to find. Any remote room can become a "restricted room," as long as the room is equipped with a wooden bed, handcuffs, and a special belt.
The wooden bed in these rooms supports only a very thin sleeping pad. The guards handcuff a practitioner's hands to the corners of the headboard, then use two specially-manufactured leather belts from underneath the bed to tie the practitioner's knees so as to restrict all movement. Someone constantly monitors the practitioner and forces the her to eat, drink, and relieve herself on the bed for days at a time. The victims are not allowed to clean their faces, hair, feet, or teeth. Not even during menstruation do officials permit the practitioner to be released for personal hygiene. During the entire time, guards and instructors show up one after another, attempting to coerce the practitioner into writing the guarantee statement [promising to abandon the practice]. If they are unsuccessful, they humiliate the practitioner further and verbally abuse her. Then they send collaborators to try to persuade her not to make trouble for the regime or the guards. If the practitioner still refuses to write the statement, the authorities urge the collaborators to use every means of torture on the practitioner, including tightening the belts, no longer providing drinking water, depriving the practitioner of sleep, removing the comforter, and restricting her from relieving herself, trying to break her spirit and make her submit.
To avoid leaving any evidence, they wrap the practitioner's wrists with soft cloth before handcuffing her wrists so as to not leave any marks. However, the torture is so brutal that the practitioner is often handicapped before long. In addition, lying down without a pillow for days makes one feel dizzy and hurt everywhere, and even causes absent-mindedness. Some practitioners cannot stand this torture for more than three days before they agree--against their will--to write the so-called "guarantee statement."
Contact information:
Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp head office: 86-431-85384312 ext 8001
Yue, Management Section chief (This person approves all orders to torture practitioners): 86-431-85384311 ask for the Management Section
Tian, labor camp head: 86-431-85384312 ext 8005
The wooden bed in these rooms supports only a very thin sleeping pad. The guards handcuff a practitioner's hands to the corners of the headboard, then use two specially-manufactured leather belts from underneath the bed to tie the practitioner's knees so as to restrict all movement. Someone constantly monitors the practitioner and forces the her to eat, drink, and relieve herself on the bed for days at a time. The victims are not allowed to clean their faces, hair, feet, or teeth. Not even during menstruation do officials permit the practitioner to be released for personal hygiene. During the entire time, guards and instructors show up one after another, attempting to coerce the practitioner into writing the guarantee statement [promising to abandon the practice]. If they are unsuccessful, they humiliate the practitioner further and verbally abuse her. Then they send collaborators to try to persuade her not to make trouble for the regime or the guards. If the practitioner still refuses to write the statement, the authorities urge the collaborators to use every means of torture on the practitioner, including tightening the belts, no longer providing drinking water, depriving the practitioner of sleep, removing the comforter, and restricting her from relieving herself, trying to break her spirit and make her submit.
To avoid leaving any evidence, they wrap the practitioner's wrists with soft cloth before handcuffing her wrists so as to not leave any marks. However, the torture is so brutal that the practitioner is often handicapped before long. In addition, lying down without a pillow for days makes one feel dizzy and hurt everywhere, and even causes absent-mindedness. Some practitioners cannot stand this torture for more than three days before they agree--against their will--to write the so-called "guarantee statement."
Contact information:
Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp head office: 86-431-85384312 ext 8001
Yue, Management Section chief (This person approves all orders to torture practitioners): 86-431-85384311 ask for the Management Section
Tian, labor camp head: 86-431-85384312 ext 8005
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Inhuman Tortures I Have Suffered in the Past Eight Years
(Clearwisdom.net) On July 23, 1999, I was taken to the Changxing Police Station in Beizhen City, Liaoning Province. He Jinglong, the vice head of the police station, threatened me without reason and forced me to write a guarantee statement. On August 13, Lu Zhenfu and others from the Political and Security Section "illegally detained" me for twenty-six days and extorted over five hundred yuan from me.
In January 2001, Yang Chunpeng and others from the Changxing Police Station deceived me under the guise of "approaching me for more information," and forced me go to the police station. They then illegally detained me in the Beizhen Lockup without following any legal procedures. On the next day, I was transferred to the Beizhen Detention Center. Because I did not cooperate with their attempts to torture me, a female guard by the name of An Bo violently slapped my face with the bottom of a shoe. During my hunger strike, I was unlawfully interrogated and threatened many, many times. The head of the group instigated some male criminals to handcuff my hands to a radiator and a bed railing. One criminal forced a filthy tooth brush into my mouth, and jerked it around while constantly insulting me. Xu Dongbiao, the head of the group, incited several male criminals to savagely force-feed me with rice soup that had several large spoons of salt added. One of my lower teeth fell out when they used a handcuff to force my mouth open, and my teeth on two sides were severely loosened, and can no longer be fixed. They then illegally sentenced me in the detention center. During the appealing period when I strongly demanded to appeal for myself, I was unlawfully transferred to Masanjia Detention Center and was continuously persecuted there.
In Masanjia Detention Center, because I refused to give up my practice, I was forbidden to sleep or use the toilet for a long period of time. Many people insulted and beat me, and even ripped out my hair. They savagely force-fed me with a tube inserted into my nose and down my throat. They put unidentified drugs into the the food that they force-fed me with, and as a result, I had diarrhea multiple times, my body had no strength, I was absent-minded and talked senselessly, and I even lost my memory. Even though I was in such poor condition, at least six criminals firmly pressed on my legs, hands and head, and constantly tortured me with a variety of means and eventually caused me to pass out for a long time.
In March 2001, several people twisted both of my arms to my back and pulled my arms until they could no longer move. Then they pulled my legs straight and pressed my head against the ground, and let a criminal who weighed over sixty-five kilograms sit on my lower back for a long time. In April, the head of the group, Shao Li, instigated people to drag me into a public bathing pool at 10:00 p.m. After they stuffed a towel into my mouth, they pressed me onto the pool drainage's concrete reinforcing bars, and five people forcibly pulled my arms and legs to my back and made them overlap each other. Then they used force to press on my body. One of the instigators told the evildoers not to keep constant pressure on me without moving, because it would cause my body to become numb and I would not feel any pain. By pressing for some time, then releasing, and pressing again, they were able to inflict more pain without causing any noticeable bruises or scars on my body.
After some time, they said that I seemed "too comfortable," so they again pulled my hands toward my back to the extreme, pulled my legs forward with force, and pressed my head down between my legs. Five people then pressed on my head, arms and legs. On that one night, fifteen people participated in persecuting and torturing me. They did not move their hands off of me until dawn when the joints on both sides of my jaw dislocated because of the towel that was stuffed into my mouth. The guard took me to the hospital to have my jaw fixed and lied to the doctor in the bone department, saying that my joints were dislocated when I was reporting my number during the routine morning check.
This cruel torture caused many injuries on my body. For one month, I could not take off my clothing before going to bed. I could not walk independently, and I had constant vaginal bleeding every day for fifteen months. It took a very long time for me to recover. In April 2002, three guards instigated six collaborators to tie my hands behind my back using ropes made from cloth strips, and press me down onto the ground for a long time.
The above is only a portion of the physical abuse that I have suffered during the long period of being illegally imprisoned. The mental and physical persecution that Falun Gong practitioners suffer is inhuman and so evil that it cannot not be described in human language.
In January 2001, Yang Chunpeng and others from the Changxing Police Station deceived me under the guise of "approaching me for more information," and forced me go to the police station. They then illegally detained me in the Beizhen Lockup without following any legal procedures. On the next day, I was transferred to the Beizhen Detention Center. Because I did not cooperate with their attempts to torture me, a female guard by the name of An Bo violently slapped my face with the bottom of a shoe. During my hunger strike, I was unlawfully interrogated and threatened many, many times. The head of the group instigated some male criminals to handcuff my hands to a radiator and a bed railing. One criminal forced a filthy tooth brush into my mouth, and jerked it around while constantly insulting me. Xu Dongbiao, the head of the group, incited several male criminals to savagely force-feed me with rice soup that had several large spoons of salt added. One of my lower teeth fell out when they used a handcuff to force my mouth open, and my teeth on two sides were severely loosened, and can no longer be fixed. They then illegally sentenced me in the detention center. During the appealing period when I strongly demanded to appeal for myself, I was unlawfully transferred to Masanjia Detention Center and was continuously persecuted there.
In Masanjia Detention Center, because I refused to give up my practice, I was forbidden to sleep or use the toilet for a long period of time. Many people insulted and beat me, and even ripped out my hair. They savagely force-fed me with a tube inserted into my nose and down my throat. They put unidentified drugs into the the food that they force-fed me with, and as a result, I had diarrhea multiple times, my body had no strength, I was absent-minded and talked senselessly, and I even lost my memory. Even though I was in such poor condition, at least six criminals firmly pressed on my legs, hands and head, and constantly tortured me with a variety of means and eventually caused me to pass out for a long time.
In March 2001, several people twisted both of my arms to my back and pulled my arms until they could no longer move. Then they pulled my legs straight and pressed my head against the ground, and let a criminal who weighed over sixty-five kilograms sit on my lower back for a long time. In April, the head of the group, Shao Li, instigated people to drag me into a public bathing pool at 10:00 p.m. After they stuffed a towel into my mouth, they pressed me onto the pool drainage's concrete reinforcing bars, and five people forcibly pulled my arms and legs to my back and made them overlap each other. Then they used force to press on my body. One of the instigators told the evildoers not to keep constant pressure on me without moving, because it would cause my body to become numb and I would not feel any pain. By pressing for some time, then releasing, and pressing again, they were able to inflict more pain without causing any noticeable bruises or scars on my body.
After some time, they said that I seemed "too comfortable," so they again pulled my hands toward my back to the extreme, pulled my legs forward with force, and pressed my head down between my legs. Five people then pressed on my head, arms and legs. On that one night, fifteen people participated in persecuting and torturing me. They did not move their hands off of me until dawn when the joints on both sides of my jaw dislocated because of the towel that was stuffed into my mouth. The guard took me to the hospital to have my jaw fixed and lied to the doctor in the bone department, saying that my joints were dislocated when I was reporting my number during the routine morning check.
This cruel torture caused many injuries on my body. For one month, I could not take off my clothing before going to bed. I could not walk independently, and I had constant vaginal bleeding every day for fifteen months. It took a very long time for me to recover. In April 2002, three guards instigated six collaborators to tie my hands behind my back using ropes made from cloth strips, and press me down onto the ground for a long time.
The above is only a portion of the physical abuse that I have suffered during the long period of being illegally imprisoned. The mental and physical persecution that Falun Gong practitioners suffer is inhuman and so evil that it cannot not be described in human language.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Falun Gong Practitioners Illegally Arrested, Harassed
(Clearwisdom.net) In January 2008, local police officers arrested practitioner Mr. Jiang Linying Baoshan Sitang District and also raided his home.
After clarifying the truth of Falun Gong in 2001, Mr. Jiang Linying was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He was persecuted very badly. Local police have harassed him since then, and as stated above, re-arrested him.
Practitioner Ms. Hu Yufang, 76 years old, lives in the Putuo District, Shanghai. Two years ago she openly announced her withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since then her life has not been easy. A CCP operative in the residential committee often comes to her home and threatens her. Her home was raided at the end of 2007. She was taken to the police station and threatened with further imprisonment.
Some other practitioners also were harassed. Seventy-three-year old Ms. Chen Ling was also unable to live a peaceful life. Persons from the residential committee often interrogated her, "Did you go out today? Did you go to his or her home?" Residential committee Party secretary Ji asked her, "Is Falun Gong good, or is the Chinese Communist Party good?" Ms. Chen Ling was held in a detention center five years ago, owing to her practicing Falun Gong. They handcuffed her, forced her to be photographed and provide her fingerprints. The mental torment she suffered was enormous. Her teeth all fell out and her hair turned white. Four generations in her family were affected. Her husband was frightened so badly that he could not eat anything. Her four-year-old old grandson got sick from fear of the police. Her neighbors said indignantly, "Such a nice lady was arrested and her home raided, just because of practicing Falun Gong!"
Until recently, the local police station and residential committee still dispatched people to watch the practitioners. Policemen Wang Xiaokun and Zheng Guofu even went to harass practitioners.
After clarifying the truth of Falun Gong in 2001, Mr. Jiang Linying was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. He was persecuted very badly. Local police have harassed him since then, and as stated above, re-arrested him.
Practitioner Ms. Hu Yufang, 76 years old, lives in the Putuo District, Shanghai. Two years ago she openly announced her withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Since then her life has not been easy. A CCP operative in the residential committee often comes to her home and threatens her. Her home was raided at the end of 2007. She was taken to the police station and threatened with further imprisonment.
Some other practitioners also were harassed. Seventy-three-year old Ms. Chen Ling was also unable to live a peaceful life. Persons from the residential committee often interrogated her, "Did you go out today? Did you go to his or her home?" Residential committee Party secretary Ji asked her, "Is Falun Gong good, or is the Chinese Communist Party good?" Ms. Chen Ling was held in a detention center five years ago, owing to her practicing Falun Gong. They handcuffed her, forced her to be photographed and provide her fingerprints. The mental torment she suffered was enormous. Her teeth all fell out and her hair turned white. Four generations in her family were affected. Her husband was frightened so badly that he could not eat anything. Her four-year-old old grandson got sick from fear of the police. Her neighbors said indignantly, "Such a nice lady was arrested and her home raided, just because of practicing Falun Gong!"
Until recently, the local police station and residential committee still dispatched people to watch the practitioners. Policemen Wang Xiaokun and Zheng Guofu even went to harass practitioners.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Middle School Teacher Zhang Minghui from Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province, Recently Arrested, His Wife and Baby Forced into Homelessness
(Clearwisdom.net)
On January 25, policemen from the National Security Bureau of the Jidong County Police Department, Heilongjiang Province, burst into the home of Mr. Zhang Minghui. Disregarding the safety of the older people and a baby, who was just a couple of months old, they grabbed personal property and took Mr. Zhang away to the police station.
Mr. Zhang Minghui, 36 years old, was a middle school teacher from Yonghe Town, Jidong County. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1995.
On January 25, 2008, at about 7:00 a.m., National Security Team personnel from the Jidong County Police Department and other police officers went to the home of a practitioner with the last name Mu. They were unable to arrest Mu, so they instead went to Zhang Minghui's house and knocked on his back door. Mr. Zhang's mother opened the door to four men. They identified themselves as police officers and said, "We want information about Falun Gong from Zhang Minghui." After they saw Mr. Zhang in the home, they said to him, "Hand over your Falun Gong materials." He clarified the truth to them, but the police once again demanded that he hand over any Falun Gong materials. One policeman twisted Mr. Zhang's arm and the other two pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him. Mr. Zhang's wife saw her husband being humiliated and beaten by the police and tried to help him, but the police officers stopped her. His wife shouted for help and their sister-in-law, who lived in the same area, soon arrived. The policemen ordered her to take the baby away.
Zhang Minghui's wife saw the police handcuff her husband and then they turned on her. She tried to protect herself but she was pushed down to the floor, dragged to the kitchen, and badly beaten. The policemen made phone calls 20 minutes later, and more than ten policemen arrived. They slapped Mr. Zhang's wife, making her lips bleed.
After that, the policemen jimmied the window of the bedroom and searched the room. The took away the following items: two copies of Zhuan Falun and three other Dafa books, a VCD player, a laminator, a binding machine, a paper-cutting machine, two notebook computers, one desktop computer, three ink cartridges, four cell phones (Mr. Zhang had fixed them for somebody else), some printing paper, over 100 spring couplets, a tool bag that contained over 100 DVDs, a bank savings card that had 4,500 yuan that Zhang Minghui's sister had left in his house, and other goods.
The police took Zhang Minghui to the National Security Team of the county police department and cruelly tortured him. The next day, somebody saw that Mr. Zhang hands were so swollen due to the torture that he could not tie his pants up.
On January 26, as a result of police threats and harassment, Zhang Minghui's wife and her eight-month-old son left home and became homeless.
Jidong County Police Chief Xu Dewen: 86-13946809777 (Cell), 86-467-2380368(Home), 86-467-5583923 (Office)
Jidong County Police Department Deputy Jin Jihe (mainly responsible for persecuting Falun Gong): 86-13946821777(Cell), 86-467-5585541(Home)
Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau Director Yu Hongjun: 86-13945854586 (Cell), 86-467-5585496(Home)
Sun Zuoen, Instructor, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13089802270(Cell), 86-13796923123 (Cell), 86-467-5561096 (Home)
Zhang Cheng, Deputy, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13936591788(Cell), 86-467-5556691(Home)
Li Jianhua, Deputy, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13846091678 (Cell), 86-13946801598(Cell), 86-467-5578382 (Home)
Cui Guangri, Mid-level group leader of Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13904871634(Cell), 86-467-5580634(Home)
On January 25, policemen from the National Security Bureau of the Jidong County Police Department, Heilongjiang Province, burst into the home of Mr. Zhang Minghui. Disregarding the safety of the older people and a baby, who was just a couple of months old, they grabbed personal property and took Mr. Zhang away to the police station.
Mr. Zhang Minghui, 36 years old, was a middle school teacher from Yonghe Town, Jidong County. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1995.
On January 25, 2008, at about 7:00 a.m., National Security Team personnel from the Jidong County Police Department and other police officers went to the home of a practitioner with the last name Mu. They were unable to arrest Mu, so they instead went to Zhang Minghui's house and knocked on his back door. Mr. Zhang's mother opened the door to four men. They identified themselves as police officers and said, "We want information about Falun Gong from Zhang Minghui." After they saw Mr. Zhang in the home, they said to him, "Hand over your Falun Gong materials." He clarified the truth to them, but the police once again demanded that he hand over any Falun Gong materials. One policeman twisted Mr. Zhang's arm and the other two pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him. Mr. Zhang's wife saw her husband being humiliated and beaten by the police and tried to help him, but the police officers stopped her. His wife shouted for help and their sister-in-law, who lived in the same area, soon arrived. The policemen ordered her to take the baby away.
Zhang Minghui's wife saw the police handcuff her husband and then they turned on her. She tried to protect herself but she was pushed down to the floor, dragged to the kitchen, and badly beaten. The policemen made phone calls 20 minutes later, and more than ten policemen arrived. They slapped Mr. Zhang's wife, making her lips bleed.
After that, the policemen jimmied the window of the bedroom and searched the room. The took away the following items: two copies of Zhuan Falun and three other Dafa books, a VCD player, a laminator, a binding machine, a paper-cutting machine, two notebook computers, one desktop computer, three ink cartridges, four cell phones (Mr. Zhang had fixed them for somebody else), some printing paper, over 100 spring couplets, a tool bag that contained over 100 DVDs, a bank savings card that had 4,500 yuan that Zhang Minghui's sister had left in his house, and other goods.
The police took Zhang Minghui to the National Security Team of the county police department and cruelly tortured him. The next day, somebody saw that Mr. Zhang hands were so swollen due to the torture that he could not tie his pants up.
On January 26, as a result of police threats and harassment, Zhang Minghui's wife and her eight-month-old son left home and became homeless.
Jidong County Police Chief Xu Dewen: 86-13946809777 (Cell), 86-467-2380368(Home), 86-467-5583923 (Office)
Jidong County Police Department Deputy Jin Jihe (mainly responsible for persecuting Falun Gong): 86-13946821777(Cell), 86-467-5585541(Home)
Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau Director Yu Hongjun: 86-13945854586 (Cell), 86-467-5585496(Home)
Sun Zuoen, Instructor, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13089802270(Cell), 86-13796923123 (Cell), 86-467-5561096 (Home)
Zhang Cheng, Deputy, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13936591788(Cell), 86-467-5556691(Home)
Li Jianhua, Deputy, Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13846091678 (Cell), 86-13946801598(Cell), 86-467-5578382 (Home)
Cui Guangri, Mid-level group leader of Jidong County Police Department National Security Bureau: 86-13904871634(Cell), 86-467-5580634(Home)
Monday, February 4, 2008
My Ordeal at the Suihua Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province (Photos)
By Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Yushan
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Xu Yushan. I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
On June 27, 2006, when I took a train in Jiamusi City to return to Shuangcheng City, railway police officers arrested me at a security checkpoint because they found a Dafa book and five Dafa articles in my possession. I was sent to the Jiamusi Railway Detention Center and held for one month. Then I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor on July 27, 2006 and immediately sent to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp. On October 10, 2006, I was transferred to the Heilongjiang Province "Reform" Base, actually the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. I was released on November 9, 2007.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) always deceives people with lies, such as "humane management is implemented in prisons; there is no beating and scolding, and no persecution of Falun Gong practitioners takes place in detention." Here I will expose what I have suffered during the forced labor period and expose the evil actions behind the so-called "humane management."
I kept clarifying the truth at the labor camp. During breakfast on the morning of November 20, 2006, I called out, "Guards and staff members, please do not be fooled. Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. There are practitioners in over 80 countries worldwide. Thousands practice freely in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Falun Dafa is good!"
The guards set upon me. I was immediately kicked and punched, and later beaten again in the division office. When they tried to hang me onto the upper railing of a bunk bed in the cell, I struggled not to cooperate with them. Team leader Diao Xuesong viciously kicked my lower abdomen so fiercely that I immediately fell to the floor, bathed in sweat. I don't know how long it was before I finally recovered. They hung me between two beds. Later on, Diao Xuesong fabricated a claim that I attempted to practice the Falun Gong exercises and then sent me to a solitary confinement cell for seven days.
The solitary confinement was a room less than four-square-meters, with a metal chair in the middle. There was a three-inch metal board under the chair. The room was gloomy. I was forced to sit in the chair, handcuffed and shackled. A belt across my chest prevented any movement or let me lower my head. A tape player with auto rewind and replay function ran twenty-four hours a day. They inserted earphones into my ears. I was forced to listen to the tape non-stop. The brainwashing content was played extremely loud. After several attempts I finally removed one of the earphones. When the guards discovered this, they taped both of my hands tightly, causing my hands to swell severely. They also tied my upper chest with the cloth strips so tight that I was unable to move. My feet were badly swollen. Two days later, my hands and feet started bleeding. The abusers still tied my hands tightly. The metal chair was very cold to sit on, and my hands tied onto the chair arms were numb and cold. I felt extreme pain and discomfort. Three days later, since I still refused to yield, guards incited the assigned monitors (prisoners Chen XX and Guan Changfu) to torture me. They dumped a bag of hair cut from others into my underclothes against my skin and then put a special heavy cotton hat over my head. It covered my eyes. It was so hot that I started to sweat. The hair made me itch unbearably. I wanted to scratch or rub, but was unable to move my hands, my feet or my chest.
During the time for the restroom break on the second day in the solitary confinement cell, the monitors said they didn't have the key to release me from the chair but they could bring a spittoon for me to urinate in. I felt a little embarrassed and said I didn't need to go to the restroom. However, they started to unbutton my pants. They pulled my genitals out and rubbed something on it. They didn't let me urinate, but just buttoned my pants and left. About ten minutes later I felt excruciating pain in my genitals and I almost lost consciousness. I spent the whole night in painful spasms. Next day they continued to do the same thing. Then I saw clearly what they put on my genitalia. It was tobacco powder that was used in a long-stemmed Chinese pipe.
When the seven-day term ended I still didn't yield to them. Division deputy Liu Wei said it was time to treat me with fiber-glass. The fiber-glass is used for the outside covering of electric wires and also used to make asbestos tile or sheets. That night, monitor Song Xiaojun stuffed a bag of fiberglass all over my body. My hands, feet and chest were tied. I couldn't sit down; if I did, I felt like I was sitting on a needle cushion. I felt extreme pain and itching, which was so unbearable that even death seemed to be the lesser of two evils.
I was weak and skeleton-like from a hunger strike. I was given medicine and milk powder to recover faster. However, it was a scheme. On July 24, 2007, when my health had just improved a little bit, they couldn't wait any more and tortured me again. Section head Bai Jiuyi brought four people from No. 2 Division to torture me. They were division political head Gao Zhonghai, division deputy Liu Wei, team leader Diao Xuesong, and team leader Li Chengcun. Around 8:00 a.m. that day they came to my bed. After they confirmed my stance toward Falun Gong they said, "It seems you are not afraid of death. We will not let you die, but will make you live in a state worse than death. We just want to play with you. When we are tired of playing we will make you completely disabled. Then we let you go home and die at home several days later. The higher-placed officials in the labor camp bureau know you and so do those in other divisions. They all support us to play with you. They will take the responsibility. Since someone else takes responsibility, let us play. We fed you well to help you recover, because we want to play well with you!"
They ordered the monitor to drag me to the other cell. Four men with their shirts off were waiting inside, ready to torture me. They strapped cloth over my mouth to prevent me from crying out, which caused me to lose two front teeth. They fixed a tape player on my body and inserted the earphone into my ears. It loudly played brainwashing propaganda. Then I was handcuffed behind my back and hung from the upper railing of a bunk bed. My feet barely touched the floor. The administration section head arrived to check. He was not satisfied and said, "If you insert a block in the upper railing, his feet can't touch the floor." He repeatedly said, "This enforcement is not enough!"
They constantly berated me. Sometimes they pulled me up by my hair; sometimes they kicked my private parts and twisted my arms. They repeatedly put a lit cigarette into my nose, badly burning the outside of my nostrils, leaving scars. I still feel pain in my nose now. The cigarette smoke kept entering my lungs. They said it was to make my lungs black and to have me get pulmonary tuberculosis or even lung cancer. I still cough a lot even now. They kept smearing the hottest chili on my eyes, ears, anus, and genitalia. They didn't stop when seeing my genitalia starting to bleed. When I lost conscious due to the torture, they threw cold water on me to bring me to. They used cigarettes to burn my toenails and fingernails. I still feel pain in my right little finger.
They also covered my head with two layers of plastic bags and filled them with smoke. When the air and smoke was absorbed, I was dripping with sweat. They would remove the bags after seeing I was unable to hold on any more and allowed me to breathe again. Then they repeated the same torture.
I was tortured in such a way for six hours daily. At night I was cuffed to a bed with bare bed boards, without covers. My feet were tied with cloth strips, which made me unable to move. I was a skeleton, and the hard bed was painful to lie on.
This is the so-called humane management in the forced labor camp; such torture happened openly and unscrupulously at the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. The monitors and prison guards all knew about it. These facts are undeniable. I hope by exposing these criminal acts it might help people to realize: the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is real.
December 24, 2007
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Xu Yushan. I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.
On June 27, 2006, when I took a train in Jiamusi City to return to Shuangcheng City, railway police officers arrested me at a security checkpoint because they found a Dafa book and five Dafa articles in my possession. I was sent to the Jiamusi Railway Detention Center and held for one month. Then I was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor on July 27, 2006 and immediately sent to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp. On October 10, 2006, I was transferred to the Heilongjiang Province "Reform" Base, actually the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. I was released on November 9, 2007.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) always deceives people with lies, such as "humane management is implemented in prisons; there is no beating and scolding, and no persecution of Falun Gong practitioners takes place in detention." Here I will expose what I have suffered during the forced labor period and expose the evil actions behind the so-called "humane management."
I kept clarifying the truth at the labor camp. During breakfast on the morning of November 20, 2006, I called out, "Guards and staff members, please do not be fooled. Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. There are practitioners in over 80 countries worldwide. Thousands practice freely in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Falun Dafa is good!"
The guards set upon me. I was immediately kicked and punched, and later beaten again in the division office. When they tried to hang me onto the upper railing of a bunk bed in the cell, I struggled not to cooperate with them. Team leader Diao Xuesong viciously kicked my lower abdomen so fiercely that I immediately fell to the floor, bathed in sweat. I don't know how long it was before I finally recovered. They hung me between two beds. Later on, Diao Xuesong fabricated a claim that I attempted to practice the Falun Gong exercises and then sent me to a solitary confinement cell for seven days.
The solitary confinement was a room less than four-square-meters, with a metal chair in the middle. There was a three-inch metal board under the chair. The room was gloomy. I was forced to sit in the chair, handcuffed and shackled. A belt across my chest prevented any movement or let me lower my head. A tape player with auto rewind and replay function ran twenty-four hours a day. They inserted earphones into my ears. I was forced to listen to the tape non-stop. The brainwashing content was played extremely loud. After several attempts I finally removed one of the earphones. When the guards discovered this, they taped both of my hands tightly, causing my hands to swell severely. They also tied my upper chest with the cloth strips so tight that I was unable to move. My feet were badly swollen. Two days later, my hands and feet started bleeding. The abusers still tied my hands tightly. The metal chair was very cold to sit on, and my hands tied onto the chair arms were numb and cold. I felt extreme pain and discomfort. Three days later, since I still refused to yield, guards incited the assigned monitors (prisoners Chen XX and Guan Changfu) to torture me. They dumped a bag of hair cut from others into my underclothes against my skin and then put a special heavy cotton hat over my head. It covered my eyes. It was so hot that I started to sweat. The hair made me itch unbearably. I wanted to scratch or rub, but was unable to move my hands, my feet or my chest.
During the time for the restroom break on the second day in the solitary confinement cell, the monitors said they didn't have the key to release me from the chair but they could bring a spittoon for me to urinate in. I felt a little embarrassed and said I didn't need to go to the restroom. However, they started to unbutton my pants. They pulled my genitals out and rubbed something on it. They didn't let me urinate, but just buttoned my pants and left. About ten minutes later I felt excruciating pain in my genitals and I almost lost consciousness. I spent the whole night in painful spasms. Next day they continued to do the same thing. Then I saw clearly what they put on my genitalia. It was tobacco powder that was used in a long-stemmed Chinese pipe.
When the seven-day term ended I still didn't yield to them. Division deputy Liu Wei said it was time to treat me with fiber-glass. The fiber-glass is used for the outside covering of electric wires and also used to make asbestos tile or sheets. That night, monitor Song Xiaojun stuffed a bag of fiberglass all over my body. My hands, feet and chest were tied. I couldn't sit down; if I did, I felt like I was sitting on a needle cushion. I felt extreme pain and itching, which was so unbearable that even death seemed to be the lesser of two evils.
I was weak and skeleton-like from a hunger strike. I was given medicine and milk powder to recover faster. However, it was a scheme. On July 24, 2007, when my health had just improved a little bit, they couldn't wait any more and tortured me again. Section head Bai Jiuyi brought four people from No. 2 Division to torture me. They were division political head Gao Zhonghai, division deputy Liu Wei, team leader Diao Xuesong, and team leader Li Chengcun. Around 8:00 a.m. that day they came to my bed. After they confirmed my stance toward Falun Gong they said, "It seems you are not afraid of death. We will not let you die, but will make you live in a state worse than death. We just want to play with you. When we are tired of playing we will make you completely disabled. Then we let you go home and die at home several days later. The higher-placed officials in the labor camp bureau know you and so do those in other divisions. They all support us to play with you. They will take the responsibility. Since someone else takes responsibility, let us play. We fed you well to help you recover, because we want to play well with you!"
They ordered the monitor to drag me to the other cell. Four men with their shirts off were waiting inside, ready to torture me. They strapped cloth over my mouth to prevent me from crying out, which caused me to lose two front teeth. They fixed a tape player on my body and inserted the earphone into my ears. It loudly played brainwashing propaganda. Then I was handcuffed behind my back and hung from the upper railing of a bunk bed. My feet barely touched the floor. The administration section head arrived to check. He was not satisfied and said, "If you insert a block in the upper railing, his feet can't touch the floor." He repeatedly said, "This enforcement is not enough!"
They constantly berated me. Sometimes they pulled me up by my hair; sometimes they kicked my private parts and twisted my arms. They repeatedly put a lit cigarette into my nose, badly burning the outside of my nostrils, leaving scars. I still feel pain in my nose now. The cigarette smoke kept entering my lungs. They said it was to make my lungs black and to have me get pulmonary tuberculosis or even lung cancer. I still cough a lot even now. They kept smearing the hottest chili on my eyes, ears, anus, and genitalia. They didn't stop when seeing my genitalia starting to bleed. When I lost conscious due to the torture, they threw cold water on me to bring me to. They used cigarettes to burn my toenails and fingernails. I still feel pain in my right little finger.
They also covered my head with two layers of plastic bags and filled them with smoke. When the air and smoke was absorbed, I was dripping with sweat. They would remove the bags after seeing I was unable to hold on any more and allowed me to breathe again. Then they repeated the same torture.
I was tortured in such a way for six hours daily. At night I was cuffed to a bed with bare bed boards, without covers. My feet were tied with cloth strips, which made me unable to move. I was a skeleton, and the hard bed was painful to lie on.
This is the so-called humane management in the forced labor camp; such torture happened openly and unscrupulously at the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. The monitors and prison guards all knew about it. These facts are undeniable. I hope by exposing these criminal acts it might help people to realize: the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is real.
December 24, 2007
Ms. Li Li Recovers from Brain Tumor, Then Is Persecuted to Death by the CCP
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Beijing
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Li Li was from Lishu County, Jilin Province. In January 2001, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of the good name of Falun Gong. She was illegally arrested in August. She was then detained in the Fangshan Detention Center in Beijing. After six months of brutal torture, Ms. Li died on February 1, 2002.
Li Li, 35, was a cashier for a road construction project in Lishu County, Jilin Province. She had a brain tumor in 1991, which was a big burden for her family. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996, and her illness disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Li went to Beijing many times to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. She went to Beijing in 1999 and was sentenced to forced labor. She was treated inhumanely in the forced labor camp.
In 2002, she tried to escape the harassment of 610 Office agents and went to Beijing to continue to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. On July 4, 2001, someone reported her to the police. As a result, she was arrested and detained in Fangshan Detention Center. In August, 2001, agents from the 610 Office of the Fangshan District transferred her to the Fangshan District Brainwashing Center, where she was tortured. In October 2001, she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. The guards brutally force fed her. The guards often beat her, and she had to be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
In December 2001, Ms. Li was transferred from the Police Station Hospital to be tried in a Fangshan Court. She was emaciated and had to receive an infusion. She was sentenced to seven years in prison.
According to detention center employees, she was later detained in a room at a restaurant, where six "staff members" tried to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was brutally beaten.
Ms. Li Li passed away on February 1, 2002.
Relevant persons involved in her persecution and death:
Head of Fangshan Police Station Xu Wenliang: 86-1089337424
Preliminary hearing officers Li Chunlong: 86-13901148260
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Li Li was from Lishu County, Jilin Province. In January 2001, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of the good name of Falun Gong. She was illegally arrested in August. She was then detained in the Fangshan Detention Center in Beijing. After six months of brutal torture, Ms. Li died on February 1, 2002.
Li Li, 35, was a cashier for a road construction project in Lishu County, Jilin Province. She had a brain tumor in 1991, which was a big burden for her family. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996, and her illness disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Li went to Beijing many times to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. She went to Beijing in 1999 and was sentenced to forced labor. She was treated inhumanely in the forced labor camp.
In 2002, she tried to escape the harassment of 610 Office agents and went to Beijing to continue to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. On July 4, 2001, someone reported her to the police. As a result, she was arrested and detained in Fangshan Detention Center. In August, 2001, agents from the 610 Office of the Fangshan District transferred her to the Fangshan District Brainwashing Center, where she was tortured. In October 2001, she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. The guards brutally force fed her. The guards often beat her, and she had to be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
In December 2001, Ms. Li was transferred from the Police Station Hospital to be tried in a Fangshan Court. She was emaciated and had to receive an infusion. She was sentenced to seven years in prison.
According to detention center employees, she was later detained in a room at a restaurant, where six "staff members" tried to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was brutally beaten.
Ms. Li Li passed away on February 1, 2002.
Relevant persons involved in her persecution and death:
Head of Fangshan Police Station Xu Wenliang: 86-1089337424
Preliminary hearing officers Li Chunlong: 86-13901148260
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Mr. Shen Hailong Sentenced to Eighteen Years of Imprisonment and Transferred to Nanguanling Prison in Dalian City
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Shen Hailong, a practitioner from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment because he participated in broadcasting Falun Gong truth-clarifying messages via satellite. Recently he was transferred to Nanguanling Prison from Wafangdian Prison in Dalian City. In Wafangdian Prison, he was brutally tortured.
Nanguanling Prison is a notorious prison. In the past month, practitioner Mr. Bai Heguo, who was transferred there, was brutally tortured to death. Another Anshan practitioner, Wang Hongnan, was tortured to death in the past, but no one was ever implicated in his death.
Mr. Shen Hailong is 32 years old. In 2001, in order to let more people know the facts about Falun Gong, he, Ms. Zhang Li, and others broadcast messages via satellite. Practitioners who participated in this incident were arrested at different times. Ms. Zhang Li was tortured by the Anshan Police Department. Her legs were broken and she passed away at the Anshan Central Hospital. Mr. Xu Zhaobin was wounded by gun shots and was arrested in another city after he recovered from his wounds. Mr. Shen was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment after his arrest.
At first, they were detained in Wafangdian Prison in Dalian City. Recently, in order to deal with an international investigation, Wafangdian Prison officials transferred the practitioners to other prisons. Mr. Shen Hailong was transferred to Nanguanling Prison, where he is forced to sew clothes and work from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. The prison also brainwashes him. The prison guards are very aggressive. They went to his parents' home and harassed them, asking, "Who still practices Falun Gong?" They intended to push Mr. Shen's family members to the prison so as to pressure him.
When Mr. Shen Hailong was arrested, his child was just two years old. His wife was in poor health and had to rely on his parents to subsist. His child would often cry in front of his picture.
Nanguanling Prison is a notorious prison. In the past month, practitioner Mr. Bai Heguo, who was transferred there, was brutally tortured to death. Another Anshan practitioner, Wang Hongnan, was tortured to death in the past, but no one was ever implicated in his death.
Mr. Shen Hailong is 32 years old. In 2001, in order to let more people know the facts about Falun Gong, he, Ms. Zhang Li, and others broadcast messages via satellite. Practitioners who participated in this incident were arrested at different times. Ms. Zhang Li was tortured by the Anshan Police Department. Her legs were broken and she passed away at the Anshan Central Hospital. Mr. Xu Zhaobin was wounded by gun shots and was arrested in another city after he recovered from his wounds. Mr. Shen was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment after his arrest.
At first, they were detained in Wafangdian Prison in Dalian City. Recently, in order to deal with an international investigation, Wafangdian Prison officials transferred the practitioners to other prisons. Mr. Shen Hailong was transferred to Nanguanling Prison, where he is forced to sew clothes and work from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. The prison also brainwashes him. The prison guards are very aggressive. They went to his parents' home and harassed them, asking, "Who still practices Falun Gong?" They intended to push Mr. Shen's family members to the prison so as to pressure him.
When Mr. Shen Hailong was arrested, his child was just two years old. His wife was in poor health and had to rely on his parents to subsist. His child would often cry in front of his picture.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Practitioners Brutally Persecuted in Brainwashing Sessions in Huaihua City, Hunan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) In the latter half of 2007, under direct orders from the Huaihua City 610 Office and Hunan Province, Huaihua City authorities held another brainwashing session to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The following are some of the persecution methods used against practitioners in attempts to force them to renounce Falun Gong: forcing practitioners to watch videotapes and cartoons slandering Falun Gong, holding meetings attacking Falun Gong, and holding classes to spread lies to slander Falun Gong. They also used threats to force Falun Gong practitioners to write the three statements to give up their practice. They beat, handcuffed, hung up and verbally abused practitioners who remained steadfast in their belief.
The "brainwashing class" is located in a bankrupt printing factory in Yingkou Township of the Tianhu Economic Development Region in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. There are no signs at the front gate and it is enclosed by walls. It is a four-story, two-unit building with a total of sixteen rooms to be used as the "transformation base."
From September to November, the Hunan Province and Huaihua City 610 Office transferred people from different area 610 Offices, political and legal departments, police stations, national security departments and other agencies and ordered them to monitor detained Falun Gong practitioners. At the brainwashing center, each Falun Gong practitioner was kept in one room, with two people monitoring each practitioner. At the same time, they arranged for two teams of agents from the Provincial Prison Management Bureau and Provincial Forced Labor Bureau to conduct brainwashing sessions on Falun Gong practitioners.
Chenxi County is the most severe in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Since mid-September, Zhai Xiaoming, head of the 610 Office in Chenxi County, and Li Huimeng, Wei Minggai, Luo Jianhe and others have arrested over ten local Falun Gong practitioners and sent them to Huaihua for brainwashing sessions.
On September 20, while practitioner Yu Shaoqi was at work, Zhai Xiaoming led Wei Minggai, Luo Jianhe and others to break into Mr. Yu's office. They forcibly dragged him downstairs, pushed him into a car and sent him to the brainwashing center in Huaihua. They tell practitioners' relatives that they are sending the practitioners away for "study" and assure them that they live very well. In reality, the practitioners suffer brutal torture and are viciously beaten.
Mr. Yu Shaoqi is disabled. He was handcuffed by Li Huimeng and Luo Jianhe to a window for several hours. He began a hunger strike to protest the persecution, which lasted more than 20 days. Wei Minggai tortured Mr. Yu from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Yu Shaoqi's nose was bleeding and his body was covered with injuries. Finally, Wei handcuffed Mr. Yu in an extremely painful position with one hand brought over his shoulder and the other hand from behind the back. Wei also used a cigarette butt to burn Mr. Yu and struck his back with handcuffs. He kicked and stepped on Yu's disabled foot to further torture him.
They tore off his underwear and plucked out his pubic hair and stuffed them into his mouth. They injured his penis by pulling on it and made it swell with pus. They poked his pubic area with keys, which made Mr. Yu scream in agony.
In another severe case of persecution, practitioner Ms. Gong Huamei was sent to the brainwashing center in Huaihua. She began vomiting blood eight days after she started a protest hunger strike. She refused to cooperate with the "transformation" efforts. Lan Xiaoming from the county 610 Office went to the room where she was detained and threatened her by saying that if she would not agree to be "transformed", they would have Wei Xiaoming rape her. Gong Huamei righteously and sternly replied, "Do you have a mother and sisters at home? Would you treat them like this?" Wei Xiaoming left in anger.
Practitioner Liu Yuan was brutally beaten because he kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good" at the brainwashing session. Li Huimeng, the assistant head of Chenxi County's 610 Office, and Luo Jianhe, Wei Minggai and others beat Liu Yuan about the head and body. Finally, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., they handcuffed him to a window frame with his feet barely touching the floor. They threatened him by saying that they would send him to a forced labor camp or mental hospital for further persecution if he would not be "transformed".
Falun Gong practitioner Ou Jiafa, over 60 years old, also suffered brutal persecution. They tried to force him to write "guarantee letters" but Mr. Ou told them, "I would die before I wrote that."
Finally, the perpetrators forced Falun Gong practitioners' family members or work units to pay several thousand yuan, and then released them one after another.
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