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Five Falun Gong Practitioners Missing in Shanxi Province

2010-07-10T19:11:00.000-07:00

By a Clearwisdom correspondent in Shanxi Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ren Yong from Datong City, Shanxi Province, was recently illegally arrested in Huairen County, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province. Ms. Cui Yuping and other practitioners were later arrested when they visited the police station to ask about Mr. Ren's arrest. Five Falun Gong practitioners have been missing since then.

When Mr. Ren was telling people the facts about Falun Gong at around 4:30 p.m. on June 24, 2010, he was arrested by officers from the Huairen County Yunxi Police Station, and later sent to the Huairen County Domestic Security Division. Ms. Cui Yuping went to the police station, asking about Mr. Ren's arrest, and she was subsequently arrested.

On June 25, another six Falun Gong practitioners, including Cui Yutao, Tian Fusheng, An Meili, and Shi Suguo, went to the police station asking for an explanation of Ren Yong and Cui Yuping's arrest. They also told the people there the facts about Falun Gong. They were detained by the local police station officers.

Officers Niu Quanxi and Sun Jianjun from the Datong City Domestic Security Division sent Ms. Cui Yuping and four other Falun Gong practitioners to the Datong City Nanguan Police Station on the afternoon of June 26. Another practitioner, Shi Suguo, was sent to the Xinpingwang Police Station, and two other practitioners were sent back home.

At around 2:30 a.m. on June 27, Sun Jianjun, together with four or five other policemen, broke into Ms. Cui Yuping's home without a search warrant. They confiscated two computers, Falun Gong books, and personal belongings. Since one of the two computers belonged to someone else in Cui Yuping's family, they tried to stop the police from taking that computer, but the police threatened to arrest them.

Shi Suguo was transfered from the Huairen Detention Center to the Xinpingwang Police Station in Datong City, Kuangqu District on the afternoon of July 27. Without any search warrant, officers from the Xinpingwang Police Station combed through Shi Suguo's house three times. Eight hundred yuan was found to be missing afterwards.

Cui Yuping, Ren Yong, Tian Fusheng, and two other Falun Gong practitioners are currently still missing.

Posting date: 7/10/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/6/28/226129.html

Practitioner Zhang Yunting Forced into Homelessness and Passed Away in 2008

2010-05-06T18:31:00.001-07:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Yunting from Dandong City passed away in October 2008. Due to the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, he was forced into homelessness, and his wife left him.

Mr. Zhang Yunting was born in 1961. After the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong in July of 1999, Mr. Zhang went outside to practice Falun Gong. He was taken away by police from the Badao Police Station in Yuanbao District, Dandong City, and was detained for 15 days. Another time he was arrested and detained for over 10 days by the Liudaokou Police Department.

In June or July of 2001, Mr. Zhang was forced to move due to harassment and being followed by policemen and national security guards. One time, a banner related to Falun Gong was hung on a building in Dandong City. National security guards assumed that he had hung up the banner and arrested him. Mr. Zhang was handcuffed to a piece of heating equipment for two days and nights. He was released later due to lack of evidence.

In July 2006, Mr. Zhang Yunting had extravasated blood in his brain, and was sent to a hospital by relatives. He remained bedridden and was sent to a home for the elderly in the second half of 2007.

He passed away on August 25, 2008.

Posting date: 5/6/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/4/23/222056.html

Chinese Academy of Science Pressures a Father to Turn In His Son for Practicing Falun Dafa

2010-05-03T09:46:00.000-07:00

By a correspondent in China

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Yu Ya'ou, a PhD candidate at the Chinese Academy of Science, South China Botanical Garden, was deprived of his right to defend his thesis because he included a sentence expressing his gratitude to Falun Dafa. After the New Year, the leadership in the South China Botanical Garden, under instructions from the 610 Office, tried to persecute Mr. Yu by using enrollment regulations and student management provisions of the school. They also told his father to report to the 610 Office and help them send his son to a brainwashing center.

On March 22, 2010, Mr. Yu received a tip from one of his professors. He said, "Hi, Yu Ya'ou. I wanted to let you know that we sent an overnight letter to you at your father's address." When the letter arrived, Yu refused to accept it, because he knew that the school had sent it under pressure from the 610 Office.

On April 8, the person in charge of household registration at the school told him that he had been dismissed from the graduate school and that his household registration had been changed back to his original city.

Yu Ya'ou has completed all of the school's scholastic requirements and has submitted his thesis. We have to question by what authority the school deprived him of his right to defend his thesis, based solely on his expression of gratitude to Falun Dafa. We question and denounce the school's denial of Yu's rights because of his faith. Furthermore, one of the officials of the school said, "In this situation, Yu Ya'ou must be sent to the brainwashing center. Our original plan was to send him to the brainwashing center for three months after his graduation."

Under these serious and threatening conditions, Yu Ya'ou was forced to leave the school in order to avoid life-threatening persecution.

Because Yu Ya'ou refused to accept the change of residence certificate, someone from the security branch of the school called Mr. Yu's father and pressured him to help them force his son to attend the brainwashing center in Guangzhou. They even tried to convince his father that Yu Ya'ou would be allowed to be granted his degree and get a job after the brainwashing.

Before this incident, Mr. Yu and his wife, Li Shan Shan, were arrested and taken to a forced labor camp by the Security brigade police on June 9, 2008. They were taken by force to the Railroad Convalescence Home where they were brainwashed. The brainwashing center extorted 50,000 yuan as "tuition" from Yu Ya'ou's parents.

According to police, Mr. Yu and his wife were arrested after the father of another Falun Gong practitioner reported them and his own son to the police.

The reason Chinese Communist Party personnel kept ging to Yu Ya'ou's father to "settle the problems," because both Ya'ou and his wife are unemployed. Ya'ou's father is the sole support for their family of four. As they were unable to get any concessions from Ya'ou, they tried to deceive, threaten, entrap, and coerce his father. They even went to his father's workplace to pressure his boss, vainly attempting to force Ya'ou's father to turn in his son.

Posting date: 5/3/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/4/22/221975.html

Ms. Zhang Weihua Dies as Result of Persecution in Sichuan Province

2010-03-31T13:08:00.000-07:00

By our correspondent from Sichuan Province, China

Name: Zhang Weihua (张卫华)
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Address: #62, 4th Section of Liulichang Village, Jinjiang District, Chengdu City(琉璃场村4组62号)
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: January 29, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 20, 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jinniu Brainwashing Center in Chengdu City (成都市金牛洗脑班))
City: Chengdu
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, solitary confinement, torture, force-feedings, physical restraint, home ransacked, interrogation, detention, denial of restroom use

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Weihua used to suffer from asthma, but her health greatly improved after she began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after the persecution began in July 1999. She was arrested multiple times, detained, and sent to a forced labor camp and brainwashing center, which damaged her health. She died on January 29, 2010, at the young age of 32.

Ms. Zhang's family had to move to her parent's house in 2001 to avoid police harassment. Her mother, He Jianqing is also a practitioner. Her father, Zhang Changwen did not practice. He was a factory director.

On the morning of May 13, 2005, about 20 officers from the Yangliu Village Police Station, a branch office of the Jinjiang District Police Department in Chengdu City, broke into the home of Ms. Zhang and her husband, Zhou Jingdong, located in Liulichang Village. The police searched their home for more than half a day. At dusk, they blocked the areas around the home and took the couple to the Pi County Detention Center in Chengdu City. Ms. He Jianqing, Ms. Zhang's mother, was forced into a brainwashing session held at the intersection near Chengren Street in Chengdu City, while her father, Mr. Zhang Changwen, was under huge pressure, and her younger brother was forced to leave home to avoid arrest.

Upon entering the detention center, Ms. Zhang was forced to strip off all of her clothes and be searched. All of her buttons and zippers were cut off, and her 102 yuan in cash was stolen. She tried to clarify the truth to the police, but they did not listen. She started a hunger-strike to resist the persecution. The police attempted to force her to eat by beating her and cursing, but it was no use. They then sent several criminal inmates to try to persuade her to eat. When she did not heed them, they force-fed her. Prisoner Ma Xiaoqiang sat on her, holding her arms down, and another male prisoner inserted a three-foot-long tube into her nose and force-fed her three boxes of milk. She was miserable, vomiting non-stop, getting her face, head, and clothes all dirty.

When the force-feeding did not work, they gave her an intravenous injection. She still would not cooperate so they tied her to a metal bed. Afterward, the criminal inmates tortured her in every way imaginable. They even took urine from the restroom and used it to "wash" her face and brush her teeth.

On the afternoon of May 27, 2005, guards took Ms. Zhang to Qingyang District People's Hospital. There was a special patient ward guarded by armed police, monitoring cameras, and locked gates. This was specially used for sick prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners on hunger strike. Some practitioners have been tortured to death here. Guards restrained Ms. Zhang in bed 45 and handcuffed and shackled her ankles. During the day, her cuffs were sometimes taken off, but during the night, she would be both handcuffed and shackled. There was a bucket for her to use as toilet. She was locked like this for up to three and half days at a time. 20 days into her hunger strike, Ms. Zhang Weihua was in critical condition. Only then did they release her.

After she was taken home she was supervised in her home by three officers from the Yangliu Village Police Station. One of them was Yang Hongqiang. The next day (June 7, 2005), an officer from the Yangliu Village Police Station and other policemen took Ms. Zhang to the Jinjiang Police Department Brainwashing Center, where she was detained with her mother. Her husband, Zhou Jingdong, was still in the Pi County Detention Center.

After his wife, his daughter, and his son-in-law were all arrested and taken away, Ms. Zhang's father, Zhang Changwen, had a hard time maintaining the empty home. There were also three policemen at his home waiting to arrest other practitioners, should they visit. Around June 7, Mr. Zhang told others that the police might start torturing him. There were signs afterward showing that from June 7 to June 9, officers from the Yangliu Village Police station or Department I of the Jinjiang District Police Department locked him up, threatened him, and carried out a brutal and violent interrogation. On the night of June 9, Mr. Zhang's family was notified that he had died of a sudden stroke.

The same day, despite Ms. Zhang just learning of her father's death, she was take to the Air Force Hospital. She kept on her hunger strike and was finally released after one more week in custody. Local police assigned officers to watch her 24 hours a day at her home. In order to avoid further mistreatment, Ms. Zhang escaped home by climbing out of her window. Police arrested her mother, taking her to the Jinjiang District Brainwashing Center again. Her younger brother, Zahng Weiguo, and all her friends were under 24-hour surveillance.

On the afternoon of November 20, 2007, Domestic Security agents from the Xindu District Police Department of Chengdu City stormed Wuli Village, ransacked the place, and arrested Ms. Zhang and two other practitioners. The police were afraid their violent methods would be made public, so they covered their heads with bags and forced the practitioners into the police vehicle. Around December 11, 2007, officers from Guangrong Community Police Station picked up Ms. Zhang from the Xindu District Police Department and took her to the Jinniu Brainwashing Center.

After she finally returned home, six community security guards were assigned to watch Ms. Zhang by living in her home. The long-term surveillance, detention and tortures severely damaged Ms. Zhang's health. She died at the untimely age of 32.

Earlier report:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/6/28/62328.html

Posting date: 3/31/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/3/20/220098.html

Ms. Zhang Fengzhen Paralyzed as a Result of Beatings Suffered at Liaoning Women's Prison--Dies after Five Years

2010-03-30T07:08:00.000-07:00

By a correspondent from Liaoning Province, China

Name: Zhang Fengzhen (张凤珍)
Gender: Female
Age: 63
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: March 9, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2001
Most Recent Place of Detention: Liaoning Province Women's Prison (辽宁省女子监狱)
City: Shenyang
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, force-feedings, extortion
Key Persecutors: Guo Haiyan, An Rui (prison guards); Shan Xia, Yang Jing, and Zhang Yingying (inmates)

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Fengzhen died in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, on March 9, 2010. For five years, she was paralyzed and suffered pain as a result of vicious beatings she was subjected to while unlawfully held at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, for refusing to renounce her belief in Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance.

Ms. Zhang was arrested in 2001 for distributing Falun Gong-related materials. The Heping District Court in Shenyang City illegally sentenced her to three and a half years in prison. In March 2003, she was taken to the Liaoning Province Women's Prison (then known as Dabei Prison). Prison guards ordered inmates to beat her nonstop for six hours. As a result, her liver was ruptured. She was extremely weak when she was released in 2005. Shortly after her release, she became entirely paralyzed, and later lost the ability to speak.

A description of what she suffered in prison was previously published by the Chinese Minghui site in 2006:

"I am a Falun Gong practitioner. I was unlawfully placed under arrest by the Heping District Court in Shenyang City in 2001 for distributing Falun Gong materials. During the trial, I was ordered to sit in the defendant's seat. I told them that the seat was reserved for Jiang Zemin [the CCP head who initiated the persecution of Falun Gong]. I was then told to just stand there. The attorney assigned to me did not even try to defend me. I was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. I was taken to Dabei Prison in March 2003, which has since been renamed Liaoning Province Women's Prison."

"When I arrived at the ward, Guo Haiyan, a section head of the No. 3 Division, asked me whether anyone else in my family practiced Falun Gong. She then ordered me to memorize statements inmates were required to recite whenever they were to enter the guards' office. I told her, 'I am not guilty and will not recite those statements.'"

"Guo was angry when she saw me standing firm with my arms behind me. She cursed me, then asked again in a threatening tone, 'Are you going to do as you are told?' She told a guard named An Rui to take me out of the office. An called over an inmate called Shan Xia, who had been convicted of theft. An gave Shan a few orders and left."

"Shan took me to a warehouse for stacks of cloth. Then another criminal inmate, Yang Jing, came in. They immediately asked me whether I would recite the statements and I told them no. They started punching and kicking me as they had been ordered to do by the guards. Shan started to kick me in the head. When I fell down, they dragged me upright and kicked me in the head again."

"A third inmate, Zhang Yingying, later joined Shan and Yang. All three were in their early 20s. They cursed while attacking me, 'Who do you think you are? We've taken care of stronger ones.' They stripped off my clothes, whipped me with electric wires, and smeared slanderous words about Falun Dafa on my back. The three took turns beating me from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., nonstop."

"I suffered severe injuries. My face was bruised and swollen. I felt excruciating pains in my internal organs, as well as when urinating. I was not able to stand with my back straight. A bitter taste filled my mouth. Even breathing caused pain all over my body. I was not able to turn over in bed. It hurt whenever someone bumped into me. I demanded a physical examination, but the guards did not heed me. I went on a hunger strike for over a week to protest. The guards tried everything to make me eat, but I refused to cooperate. They ordered four or five people to force-feed me, but I refused to swallow. There were spills all over my clothes. There were numerous cuts around my neck, although they had wrapped neck with a towel during the force-feeding.

"After eight or nine days on a hunger strike, I was taken to the prison hospital for an examination. It turned out that my liver was severely ruptured, my lungs and heart were functioning abnormally, and my blood pressure was high. To cover up their crimes, the guards lied to me and told me that I had a liver tumor. They told my family that I was not in good enough health to be able to see them, but they refused to release me on medical parole. They took 1,000 yuan from my family 'to cover medical expenses.'"

A fellow Falun Gong practitioner in the prison at about the same time as Ms. Zhang gave another account, which was published on July 24, 2008, by the Chinese Minghui website:

"Ms. Zhang Fengzhen was in her 50s. When I first saw her, she had to be supported by others to walk. At night, she needed help to slowly lay down on her bed, and she had no strength to even turn over. At one point, the guards ordered three criminal inmates, Yang Jing, Zhang Yingying, and Shan Xia, to beat her for six hours. Ms. Zhang still refused to renounce Falun Gong.

March 16, 2010

Related article:
"Account of Persecution in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison" http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/8/6/99576.html

Posting date: 3/30/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/3/16/219884.html

Mr. Mei Chunfu Dies as a Result of Persecution

2010-03-21T10:38:00.001-07:00

By our correspondent from Henan Province, China

Name: Mei Chunfu (梅春富)
Gender: Male
Age: 63
Address: Shawuo Township, Qi County, Henan Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 7, 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jilin City Detention Center (杞县看守所)
City: Qi County
Province: Henan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, solitary confinement, torture, physical restraint, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Mei Chunfu had many diseases before practicing Falun Gong. He became a healthy person in both mind and body soon after practicing, and his entire family was moved by the miracles of Falun Gong. Since July 1999, after the persecution began, he was detained for almost seven years, endangering his life.

Mr. Mei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 1999. The police arrested and detained him in the Qi County Detention Center. The guards tortured him with tightening the ropes (1) and ankle shackles; they punched and kicked him, locked him up in a small cell (2), and deprived him of drinking water. Because Mr. Mei persisted in practicing his faith and did not accept the brainwashing, the guards locked his shackles together with handcuffs, which meant that he could not stand up or sit down, and he had to stay in a very painful bent position. When it was meal time, he was still not released from this torture, and had to hold the bowl with both handcuffed hands, bending his head down hard. Mr. Mei clarified the truth to guards, and was locked in the small cell another 15 days without drinking water. He could not bear the thirst, and had to drink some dirty water from the toilet bowl.

In May 2000, Mr. Mei went to Beijing again to appeal. He was arrested and picked up by the Qi County police, detained in the Qi County Detention Center, and sentenced to three years of forced labor in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp.

Not long after he was released from the labor camp, Mr. Mei went to Kaifeng City to visit family on March 16, 2004. He was talking to people about Falun Gong on the way, and was arrested and sentenced to another three years of forced labor at the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp.

In the autumn of 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhagen was tortured to death in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp. To avoid an investigation, the camp administration transferred all detained practitioners to the Xuchang City Forced Labor Camp, where Mr. Mei was again tortured.

Only two months after his release from the Xuchang City Forced Labor Camp, Mr. Mei was still suffering both mentally and physically from the torture. On the afternoon of February 7, 2007, Qi County Domestic Security Division Chief Liu Hongtao had Shawuo Township police take Mr. Mei and his family to the Township Police Station. After a few questions, Liu said, "His thoughts are still not converted, take him in." They detained Mr. Mei again.

Mr. Mei went on a ten-day hunger strike to protest his illegal arrest. He had not recovered from the forced labor camp, so ten days on a hunger strike caused him to be emaciated, and he could not walk. The Qi County Detention Center authorities were afraid he would die, so they notified his family to pick him up.

The police never left him in peace, and kept harassing him at home. Mr. Mei never fully recovered, and died in 2009.

(1) The torture method "Tightening Rope" utilizes a finger-size hemp rope soaked in water. The persecutors set it on the Dafa practitioner's neck, and tightly wrap it around the arms. In order to maximize the pain for the victim, they often strip the practitioner down to his underwear. Usually, over three persecutors work together to apply this torture. When the rope reaches the wrists, it is tightened. They pull the practitioner's hands behind his back, both ends of the rope are inserted through the portion of the rope on the neck, then two persecutors forcefully pull down both ends of the rope as hard as they can and then tie it. At this time, the blood circulation is cut off and the victim will experience increased heart rate, excruciating pain in both arms and within a few minutes, heavy sweating.

In order to make sure the rope is as tight as can be, the persecutors insert glass bottles and wooden sticks under practitioner's wrists, so the rope will sink deep into his flesh. Meanwhile, they also slap the practitioner's face and shock him with electric baton(s). Each session of "Tightening Rope" lasts ten to twenty minutes. After the rope is loosened, the victim has lost the feeling in his arms, and it takes a long time to regain it. For those who have experienced this torture, their arms are often disabled in severe cases, or they cannot raise their arms or they lose some function in the arms. The marks left on the arms by the rope usually don't disappear for one or two years. See case on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/1/31/44607p.html

(2) The detainee is locked up in a very small cell individually. The guards handcuff practitioners behind their back in a fixed position, in which the practitioners can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. During the night the rats are running around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.

Written on March 18, 2010

Posting date: 3/21/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/3/19/220042.html

Mother and Daughter, Both Hong Kong Residents, Detained for Nine Months

2010-03-11T07:49:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 4, 2009, Hong Kong residents Ms. Li Yaohua and her daughter, Zhang Yibo, were arrested in the Xuhui District of Shanghai by personnel from the Tianlin Police Station and the local 610 Office. They have been detained ever since, for a total of nearly nine months. Their case files have been sitting in the Xuhui District Court for over four months. They are still being detained in the Xuhui District Detention Center along with other practitioners Zhang Qin, Lu Yuzhi, and Ye Ying and her daughter.

Since the practitioners' arrest and detention, the local police authorities have been to Ms. Li's husband's workplace to harass him. In mid-November of last year during U.S. President Obama's visit to Shanghai, the local police assigned several policemen to watch the husband 24 hours a day. His workplace terminated his work contract at the end of last year.

Ms. Li Yaohua's father, Li Shanzhen, is 91 years old. In order to try to secure the release of his daughter and granddaughter, Mr. Li visited the Tianlin Police Station, the Xuhui District Police Branch, the Shanghai City Police Department, the local Procuratorate, and the local People's Congress Standing Committee. He was unsuccessful each time.

Ms. Li's son, Zhang Yiyuan, teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles in the United States. He initiated a rescue effort overseas and gained attention from the international community. California State Assemblymen Chuck Devore and Van Tran wrote to Han Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai, and President Obama and requested that the Chinese Communist regime immediately release Li Yaohua and Zhang Yibo.

In November 2009, Mr. Li Shanzhen and Mr. Zhang Yiyuan flew to Taiwan from Shanghai and Los Angeles, respectively. They appealed to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), and the Taiwan Ministry of Justice.

Due to pressure from the international community, Shanghai authorities have repeatedly delayed the proceedings. Reportedly, in early February of 2010, Xuhui District prosecutor Xu Zhenhui attempted to persuade Ms. Li Yaohua to plea guilty in return for a lenient sentence, but she did not agree.

February 27, 2010

Posting date: 3/11/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/28/219000.html

Suspicious Circumstances Surround the Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Xu Chunhua

2010-03-10T08:39:00.000-08:00

By our correspondent in Liaoning Province, China

Name: Xu Chunhua (豏春华)
Gender: Male
Age: 60s
Address: Liuwentun Village, Qilihe Town, Yi County, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Death: February 23, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Unknown
Most Recent Place of Detention: Unknown
Province: Liaoning

(Clearwisdom.net)

On February 23, 2010, a shepherd discovered a body in a well near Liuwentun Village and reported it to the Qilihe Town Police Station. Authorities have identified the body as that of Mr. Xu Chunhua. The cause of death is still under investigation.

Mr. Xu disappeared three months ago. Someone said that he had been arrested and imprisoned at the Yi County Detention Center. On December 28, 2009, a family member of Mr. Xu visited the detention center, but guards told him that no such person was in the center. The family asked others to check for the whereabouts of Mr. Xu, and was told that, "the person practicing Falun Gong was sent to a forced labor camp." The family asked the detention center for the name of the forced labor camp, but were told that no such person was ever in the detention center.

Mr. Xu Chunhua was a practitioner in Liuwentun Village, Qilihe Town, Yi County, Liaoning Province.

Posting date: 3/10/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/26/218863.html

Eyewitness Account: Falun Gong Practitioner Driven to Mental Collapse at a Forced Labor Camp

2010-03-07T10:28:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) As shocking as it is that Ms. Liu Zhimei, a Falun Gong practitioner and a former Tsinghua University student, was driven to mental collapse at the hands of Communist Party regime prison guards, she is certainly not the only one. ("Former Tsinghua University Student Ms. Liu Zhimei Sustains Nervous Breakdown From Injections of Unnecessary and Harmful Drugs" http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/2/18/114775.html) Minghui reporter Hua Qing recently interviewed Ms. Zeng Zheng, a practitioner living in Sydney, Australia, who recounted a similar incident she witnessed while in detention.

Ms. Zeng Zheng holds a master's degree in geochemistry from Beijing University. She began her cultivation practice once she discovered answers to questions about life and the universe in Falun Gong's teaching. After the persecution started, she was once detained at Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp for one year and was brutally tortured.

While speaking with people in Sidney about Falun Dafa and the persecution, Ms. Zeng often brings up what she once saw with her own eyes: a practitioner was driven to mental collapse in the labor camp. She told the reporter, "Information about Tsinghua University student Liu Zhimei being driven to a mental breakdown reminded me of the true reason why some detained practitioners who suffered from ruthless torture had severe mental problems. I witnessed a practitioner's mental collapse."

Ms. Zeng continued, "With me in the labor camp was a young woman in her 20s from Gansu Province who had been arrested for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong. She was initially determined in her belief. After five days and nights of non-stop torture, however, her mind broke down. I was present the night she had a nervous breakdown. She was perfectly normal one minute, but the next minute I noticed a confused and blank look in her eyes. The look appeared sort of stupid. Then she burst into really loud and silly laughter. I knew right away she was no longer her true self. At that moment I felt a chill running down my spine and realized what I had seen was the most frightening thing in the world. Nothing compares to the fear that a bubbly person was deprived of her basic ability to think and suddenly became mentally abnormal. I had no idea what torture she was subjected to prior to that moment, or if she was given any kind of injection, but I will never forget that moment."

Ms. Zeng also recalled that she was once given an IV containing unknown substances. "That was during my hunger strike when the guards took me to the clinic for an IV on the fourth day. Somehow the doctors couldn't get the drug into me, so they ordered a criminal detainee to do it. As soon as the detainee began the IV process I became extremely uncomfortable and muddle-minded. I felt as if I was floating in air without any strength at all. I had to lean against a dresser in the clinic. I couldn't even hear what they were talking about. They sort of ' phased out' of my sight, just like in a movie."

Ms. Zeng mentioned a very vicious torture involving using electric needles at acupuncture points, which can cause excruciating pain or even lead to a mental breakdown. She said, "Between 2000 and 2001, another practitioner and I were sent to and taken out of two places almost at the same time: Beijing Forced Labor Dispatch Division and Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. She had just turned 20 and was a pretty young woman with big eyes.

"Prior to being sent to the dispatch division, she was held at the Dongcheng Detention Center, where the guards used every conceivable means to torture her. Despite their attempts to have her give up Falun Gong, she always held firm to her belief. Later on the guards resorted to the above-mentioned electrical torture, using an electric needle to apply high-voltage electricity at her acupuncture points. She lost consciousness immediately. She was mentally disoriented when she regained consciousness and had lost her memory. She couldn't take care of herself at all. The guards manipulated her any way they wanted. When told to do so, she simply transcribed all the slanderous materials they gave her without objection. When there was nothing to do she was just like a living dead person. Because her eyes were very big, her blank looks were even more prominent. She became thinner and thinner, and later on, she was extremely fragile.

"While at the dispatch division I saw how much effort it was for her to take even a small step. After she swayed for a long time she 'threw' her left foot forward, since that foot didn't seem to belong to her. She almost lost her balance and swayed precariously. She would find her balance after rocking back and forth for quite a while. Still shaking, she bent down with difficulty and pressed her hands on the ground. After panting for a while, she suddenly pushed up and threw her right foot forward. She often had to remain on all fours for quite a while before gathering sufficient strength to straighten her back and then to move on."

Posting date: 3/7/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/21/218477.html

Brutal Persecution at the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labor Camp

2010-02-25T14:01:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) There is an intensive management district inside the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labor Camp. Most of the Dafa practitioners are held there. The prison authorities divided a large room into 8 square meter rooms with one door and one small window. It usually held three people, one Dafa practitioner and two other inmates who were monitoring the Dafa practitioner at all times. The Dafa practitioner is not allowed to go to the bathroom outside. Everything was forced to be done in the room and the room's air was terrible, particularly in the summer time. One could hardly breathe due to lack of fresh air and the clothes would stick to the body because of the sweat. Dafa practitioners were also subjected to slave labor.

Dafa practitioner Huang Jinrong requested an appeal to study the Fa and practice the exercises but she was cursed out by the guards who confiscated her appeal letter and instigated inmates Suo Liping and Liao Lixia to beat her up. They poked her with needles, bit her, grabbed her hair and hit her head against the wall. Huang Jinrong still has headaches to this day as well as nausea. The guard Lu Xiuying cuffed Dafa practitioner Huang Jinrong to the bed and wouldn't let her sleep or clean herself. Inmate Suo Liping also used up Huang's money and Liao Lixia extorted 100 yuan from Huang. The prison authorities openly encouraged such abuse under their authority.

Since Dafa practitioners have been kind to everyone some inmates with kind hearts do believe that Dafa practitioners are all good people. The relationships between them were good most of the time. It is the guards who instigated hatred in the inmates in order to help them persecute Dafa practitioners.

The guards would add pressure to the inmates and threaten them if Dafa practitioners refused slave labor, refused to wear the prison outfits or refused to report.. In order to prevent the circulation of Dafa articles, they used the excuse of a safety check and search Dafa practitioners and their belongings. Whoever refused would be subjected to an extension of their sentence. If they found Dafa articles or pens, the guards would extend the sentence terms of the inmates, forcing the inmates to intensify their monitoring, and even beat and curse the practitioners.

Posting date: 2/25/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/12/217995.html

The Recent Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Liaoning Province Women's Prison

2010-02-23T10:51:00.000-08:00

By our correspondent in Liaoning, China

(Clearwisdom.net) Liaoning Province Women's Prison is located in Shenyang City. Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally detained and persecuted there for a long time. The persecution is especially bad in Division 10. Practitioners there are pressured to "transform." Newly detained practitioners have to sleep on the ground and are deprived of sleep at night. Two inmates take turns to monitor one newly detained practitioner. In addition to not being allowed to interact with others, they were also forced to read books or watch DVDs that defame Falun Gong.

In Division 10, detainees are often forced to work overtime at night, and they often have to work on Sundays. In late 2009, detainees often worked until past midnight or all night long, in addition to all day. Li Jing, a supervisor in Group 2 of Division 10, had inmates Sun Yanan and Liu Shu beat and verbally abuse practitioner Ms. Qi Ximin and try to force her to write statements criticizing herself.

On September 23, 2009, because practitioner Ms. Wang Chunyan (Group 2 of Division 10) did not wear the inmate badge, team head Li Jing called her to the office. Prison ward head Dai Jing wanted to put her in the solitary confinement cell. When stepping out of the office, Ms. Wang called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" and fainted. Because of that, the guards did not persecute her any worse.

On December 2, 2009, because practitioner Ms. Liu Xingge (Group 2 of Division 10) did not wear the inmate badge, supervisor Li Jing called her to the office. Several people were at there, including guard Cui Jie, officer Wu Jiaxu, and Group 5 head Sun Weijing. Prison ward head Dai Jing came in and asked why Ms. Liu did not wear the badge. Ms. Liu did not answer.

Seeing Dai Jing with an electric baton in her hand, Ms. Liu told her, "Please do not do this to me--it is not good for you. I am not a prisoner; why should I wear the badge?" Dai Jing grabbed Ms. Liu by her clothes, and Ms. Liu called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" They held Ms. Liu down on the floor as she continued to call out, "Falun Dafa is good!" Dai Jing forced Ms. Liu's left hand behind her back. Wu Jiaxu, Sun Weijing, and others held Ms. Liu's feet. Then Dai Ying attempted to stuff a rag in her mouth, but failed even after several attempts. As Dai Jing stamped on her back, they handcuffed her. Dai Ying pushed her against the ground; she then stood up again. Dai Ying said, "Put her [Ms. Liu] in the solitary confinement cell."

Upon hearing that Ms. Liu's detention term expired on January 29, 2010, Dai Ying said, "Then let her term expire while she is in the solitary confinement cell. That way, she will be kept for at least another week." In the beginning, Ms. Liu was handcuffed with her hands in front of her, but Wu Jiaxu changed it so that she was handcuffed behind her back. Not wantin Ms. Liu to shout out anything, Dai Jing attempted to stuff a rag into her mouth, but failed. They then used tape to wrap Ms. Liu's head, from her mouth to her hair in the back. Inmates Qiu Jie and Shen Xiaoli carried her into the solitary confinement cell, which was very cold. She was held there for over a month, from December 2, 2009, to January 6, 2010.

Ms. Li Yuhua, a practitioner detained in Group 4 of Division 10, was put in a solitary confinement cell from October 10 to 19 because of an argument with Dai Jing.

Practitioner Ms. Huo Xiuqing, because of her high blood pressure, didn't do forced labor. She was force-fed with drugs by inmates Qiu Jie and Shen Xiaoli before October 1, 2009. They also forced her to stay a whole day in an open area in the hallway. Her feet were injured because of the cold.

Practitioner Ms. Du Jingqin's (detained in Group 5 of Division 10) blood pressure was too high for her to work. However, after finishing work in the evening, the guards did not allow her to sleep. Instead, the guards ordered 12 inmates in her cell to take turns reading defaming books to her, two people a shift, till 10:00 p.m. They also ordered her to sit on a small stool, but she refused. Inmates then sealed the door and windows with newspaper and covered her with her own bed sheet before they beat her.

In Division 9, the determined practitioners, after they first arrived, were hung up in their cell, force-fed cold water, and had cold water poured over them. Then they were forced to do hard labor. Practitioner Ms. Fu Yan (detained in Group 5 of Division 9) refused to do hard labor and was put in a solitary confinement cell on November 15, 2009. She returned to the cell on December 9. But several days later, she was put in a solitary confinement cell again. It was very cold in the cell, and Ms. Fu did not have a quilt or winter clothes to keep herself warm. She had two tumors on her neck, which have now become malignant.

In Division 8 practitioners who refused to do hard labor were held in solitary confinement cells. It is very cold there, and they are not provided with a quilt or winter clothes. Practitioner Li Mingyan, detained in Division 3, was reported to have passed along Master's articles to other people. She was thus put in a solitary confinement cell in December 2009, and has not been released as of January 6. When personnel from Hebei Province came to visit, practitioner Jiang Wei stood up to clarify the truth. She was put in a solitary confinement cell for nearly one month.

Personnel at Liaoning Province Women's Prison:

Division 10: Dai Jing, division head; Wu Jiaxu, aide; Sun Weijing, head of Group 5
Division 9: Wu Li, division head; Li Keqiao, officer
Division 3: Guards Ma Xiuyan and Li Chunfang
Division 2: Xu Zhaohui, division head; Zhang Lei, guard

Posting date: 2/23/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/14/218159.html

Mr. Xian Chunwei's Three Forced Labor Terms

2010-02-22T08:00:00.001-08:00

By our correspondent in Shandong Province, China

Name: Xian Chunwei (霰春伟)
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Address: Zhuanghanmiao Village, Mihe Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 5, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Mingshui Labor Camp in Zhangqiu, Jinan City (济南章丘明水劳教所)
City: Jinan
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Detention, solitary confinement, forced labor, torture, physical constraint, sleep deprivation, beatings, extortion, force-feeding
Key Persecutors: Zuo Hengfa (左横法), Pan Hongmin (潘洪民)

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Xian Chunwei, an employee of the Urea Division of Qingzhou Fertilizer Factory, began practicing Falun Gong in 1995. Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, the Qingzhou Police Department and Domestic Security Division agents frequently harassed his family, including breaking in and ransacking their home. They also arrested and tortured Mr. Xian numerous times. Mr. Xian was held at forced labor camps three times for a total of six years and is currently detained at the Mingshui Labor Camp in Zhangqiu, Jinan City.

Qingzhou Fertilizer Factory director Hou Chuntao and Party secretary Chang Chengshu joined security chief Jiang Sheng in detaining Mr. Xian in the factory's garage. They nailed the windows of the garage shut. There was no toilet there and Mr. Xian had to relieve himself inside the garage. Mr. Xian eventually broke free and went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and officers from the Qingzhou Domestic Security Division detained him for one month. After his release, Party Secretary Chang Chengshu and others detained and tortured Mr. Xian again. When officials tried to arrest him again in October 2000, he left the factory and went into exile.

Officers from the Qingzhou Domestic Security Division arrested Mr. Xian from his rented home on February 20, 2001 and took personal possessions from the apartment. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor and taken to Changle Labor Camp in Weifang City, Shandong Province.

The guards and inmates at the labor camp tortured Mr. Xian. The prison extended his term by nine months because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa. After he was released, Xian Chunwei went to former practitioners who were deceived by Party propaganda and explained to them the facts about Falun Gong in the hopes that they would see through the vicious persecution. Qingzhou Domestic Security Division head Zuo Hengfa charged him with "counter-revolutionary activities" and sentenced him to two years of forced labor in June 2005. Mr. Xian was taken to Wangcun Labor Camp in Shandong Province. He was sent to the Strictly Controlled Team. Detainees in this team were forced to do hard labor and worked overtime almost on a daily basis.

Qingzhou Domestic Security Division officials arrested Xian Chunwei again during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and sent him to the Kuiwen District Party School in Weifang City for a brainwashing session.

When Mr. Xian went to the Qingzhou Road Police Station in Qingzhou City to get his ID on June 5, 2009, the police detained him. An officer (the last four digits on his badge: 0421) savagely beat him. One man who claimed to be the police chief screamed, "How can you prove that we beat you?" Qingzhou Domestic Security Division officials including Yang Haifeng and Zhang Laian took Mr. Xian to the Qingzhou Brainwashing Center at the former Guashi Police Station in Qingzhou and robbed him of all the money and belongings that he was carrying.

The police handcuffed Mr. Xian backward to a metal chair at the brainwashing center and chained his feet, so he could not move. They locked him in this posture for 35 days, during which time they took turns forcing him to stay awake and would brutally assault him if he dozed off.

Domestic security official Zhang Laian and Zhu Gang from the Mihe Town Birth Control Committee and Zhang from the Mihe Town administration ordered official Liu to buy hard liquor and force-feed it to Xian Chunwei. They also poured cold water on his head and neck. Yang Haifeng, Pan Hongmin and Zhang Laian said, "Our superiors ordered us to do it; there's nothing we can do [but to obey]."

Mr. Xian went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and brutality. Domestic Security Division head Zuo Hengfa took him to Yidu Central Hospital on June 7. Mr. Xian shouted, "Falun Dafa is good." The officials took him back to the police station, fearing that other people would hear him exposing the persecution. They threatened him, "We have lots of ways to 'take care' of you; you'll wish for death."

Officials Zuo Hengfa, Yang Haifeng and Pan Hongmin also ransacked the home of Mr. Xian's fiancée in Weifang City and terrorized her and her family. They then ransacked his rented apartment in Weicheng and harassed the landlord and neighbors. One month later, Qingzhou Police Department agents and those from the Qingzhou Domestic Security Division sentenced Mr. Xian to one year of forced labor and held him at Mingshui Labor Camp in Zhangqiu, Jinan City.

After the Qingzhou police took Mr. Xian to the brainwashing facility, his family anxiously looked for him everywhere. The officials told them, "We don't know where he is; we haven't seen him." Deputy police chief Yang Xitao and brainwashing center head Duan even threatened his family, telling them to stop seeking him.

Persecution of Mr. Xian's family

Officers Liu Dayong, Xi Gang and others from the Mihe Town Police Station ransacked the home of Xian Chunwei's parents in Zhuanghanmiao Village and took away lots of personal belongings. Mr. Xian's father said, "Liu Dayong, the person wearing glasses, with a black mole on his face, took 460 yuan, which was my six-months' savings that I was going to use to buy coal for the winter. He also took a bag of old cassettes and a letter."

When Mr. Xian visited his parents in January 2009, the same officers again tried to arrest him. Neighbors and passersby stood up to the police and demanded to know why they took the family's winter heating money. Liu Dayong denied it, saying that he did not take any money, and then he changed the story and said that Mr. Xian's parents signed a document to agree to give him the money. Mr. Xian's parents are illiterate. As more and more villagers gathered, Liu Dayong threatened, "If you don't let me through, I'll arrest you." The farmers refused to budge and the police finally left after a one-hour stalemate.

Some officials responsible for the persecution of Xian Chunwei:
Zuo Hengfa, Qingzhou City Domestic Security Division Head: 86-536-3229829 (Home), 86-15953665166 (Cell)
Pan Hongmin, Qingzhou City Domestic Security Division Head, former head of the Mihe Town Police Station in Qingzhou City

Posting date: 2/22/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/6/217623.html

Mr. Liu Yuhe's Family Reveals How He Was Tortured in Prison

2010-02-20T07:16:00.001-08:00

By our correspondent in Jilin Province, China

Name: Liu Yuhe (刘玉和)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: Unknown
Most recent place of detention: Jilin Prison (吉林省吉林监狱)
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, illegal sentencing, force-feeding, beating, torture, electric shocks, hung up, solitary confinement

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Liu Yuhe from Jilin Province was illegally sentenced and sent to Jilin Prison, where he was tortured. His family members' demands for justice have gone unanswered. To protest the persecution, Mr. Liu went on a hunger strike, but the prison guards tortured him with forced feeding.

Mr. Liu suffered severe injuries in prison. He lost control of his bowels and bladder and was in critical condition. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment. His family authorized a lawyer to sue Jilin Prison officials for abusing him, but the prison authorities threatened the lawyer with retaliation.

To rescue Mr. Liu, his family filed an accusation with the Jilin Province justice system, and demanded that he be released on medical parole. The have yet to receive a reply.

The following is Liu Yuhe family's accusation.

During his detention, Liu Yuhe was tortured repeatedly. His family made strong demands for the offenders to be punished. This demand has yet to be answered. To protest his illegal imprisonment and maltreatment, Mr. Liu launched a hunger strike, but the police responded by force-feeding him. Currently, Mr. Liu has lost the ability to care for himself. He lost control of his bowels and bladder and is under emergency care in a hospital.

The end of May 2009, the Jilin Province Prison Administration personnel investigated guards Li Yongsheng, Wang Yuanchun, and others for their roles in instigating criminal inmates to torture and harm Mr. Liu. Prison officials covered up the facts and locked him into a small cell as revenge.

Based on our knowledge, on November 2, 2009, Li Yijiao, the prison affairs section head; Sun Fengjun, a guard from the strictly controlled team; and Sun Wen, the prison doctor, tortured Mr. Liu badly. After that, we went to the prison to visit Mr. Liu. Guard Zhang Meng from Ward Five answered our phone call, and another guard said, "Liu Yuhe is in the hospital and he is not eligible for a family visit." When we asked why, he cursed at us.

To protect Liu Yuhe, we hired a lawyer to defend him.

On November 13, 2009, we went to Jilin Prison again to see Mr. Liu, but the guards wouldn't let us in, saying he was under discipline in the hospital. When the lawyer asked to see him to obtain his signature on the contract, the prison officials refused his request. On November 16, we went to the prison one more time to make sure he was all right, but the guards once again turned us away. We demanded to see the residing prosecutor at the prison, but to no avail.

Since our voices fell on deaf ears, I want to briefly recount the persecution that my brother Liu Yuhe suffered and ask for help.

Liu Yuhe was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Chuanying Court of Jilin City on September 11, 2007. At Jilin Prison, he was repeatedly assaulted by criminal inmates and tortured by guards, and he suffered severe injuries.

Beginning July 31, 2008, the prison intensified his maltreatment. On that day, a guard and several criminal inmates escorted him to the strictly controlled cell and forced him to sit on a narrow bench from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day. His entire body weight rested on the bench, so his buttocks hurt badly. When he could not sit straight any longer, the guards told inmates to push hard against his neck and to use electric batons on his head.

In October 2008, Mr. Liu was sent to a strictly controlled cell again. Under guard Sun Fengjun's direction, inmates Sun Xinghe, Fan Tiejun, and Liang Xinming used ropes to hang up him and tortured him for two days, causing severe injuries. To this day, his hands still feel numb and he gets sharp pains in them. They also did not allow him to use the toilet for two days. As a result, his pants and clothes were soiled. He was forced to sit on a narrow bench for more than a month.

In the afternoon of November 28, 2008, guard Dai Jun took Mr. Liu to the strictly controlled cell again. On January 14, 2009 at 8:00 a.m., criminals Sun Xinghe, Liang Xinming. and Fan Tiejun began to hit him violently. At 7:30 p.m., Fan Tiejun took him outside of the strictly controlled cell and began to strip off his clothes with the assistance of inmates Ma Jingyu, Sun Xinghe, and Cui Yong. They pinned the naked Liu to the floor and began punching and kicking him. They blamed him for reporting the violence to the authorities even as they continued to beat him, "How dare you tell others about the beating? You are supposed to keep your mouth shut about things that happen here. We know you wrote a letter to the prosecution office to accuse Ma Jingyu and Sun Xinghe for beating you. We've wanted to beat you for a long time, so we are beating you today! Will you dare to report it again?" Guards Liu Tong and Li stood nearby while the beating went on, but they pretended to see nothing. Guard Dong Jian said, "How could we call this place a strictly controlled cell if we don't beat people?" After a long time, the inmates were exhausted and stopped. But at 8:10 p.m., inmate Liang Xinming pushed him to a restroom and beat him again. He was severely injured, had a bloody nose, and vomited; he also suffered a heart attack. Fan Tiejun and Ma Jingyu were scared, so they forced him to swallow some medicine for a heart attack and let him go.

In April 2009, Mr. Liu was locked up in the strictly controlled cell again. During his detention there, he repeatedly complained to the prison staff and higher agencies about how he had been abused. The guards assaulted him repeatedly and locked him in a solitary confinement cell. While covering up their crimes, the guards tightened their grip on him. Since the beginning of the persecution, more than ten practitioners have died in Jilin Prison. Now, Mr. Liu Yuhe is in critical condition. We demand that he be released on medical parole. We fear for his life. If something happens to him, we will definitely fight for justice for him.

I demand that legal actions be taken against the guards and inmates that used violence on my brother, Liu Yuhe. I also demand monetary compensation on behalf of Liu Yuhe.

Liu Yufa, November 16, 2009

Posting date: 2/20/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/1/217367.html

Three Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

2010-02-19T11:49:00.001-08:00

By a correspondent from Hubei Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Shuqian, a retiree of the Xianning City Building Company in Hebei Province, died at age 83 on December 12, 2009. She had suffered through many years of persecution.

Ms. Wang Shuqian from Xianning City, Hubei Province, Dies After Suffering Persecution for Many Years

In August 1999, Ms. Wang was arrested at the Wenquan Mall, then detained at the Chalukou Police Station, where she was locked inside a metal cage. The persons responsible for her persecution were Song Ruisheng, Du Zhiqiang, and Bai Yuping.

Ms. Wang was arrested at the front gate of the Building Company compound in September 1999. She was imprisoned in the Wenquan Shuanghe Detention Center for 15 days, and had 300 yuan extorted from her. The persons responsible for the persecution were Song Ruisheng, Du Zhiqiang, Bai Yuping, and Chen Dijian.

In January, 2000, Ms. Wang was arrested at her home by officers Song Ruisheng, Du Zhiqiang, and Liu Jingxi, and imprisoned at the Wenquan Shuanghe Detention Center for 15 days.

Ms. Wang was put under police surveillance for five months, beginning on May 24, 2000. During this time, she was not allowed to leave the Building Company family compound.

On December 20, 2001, Ms. Wang was detained at the Wenquan Shuanghe Detention Center for 15 days.

Ms. Wang was arrested in front of the Wenquan Qianshan Television Tower at 5:50 a.m. on July 10, 2002, and detained at the No.1 Bridge Police Station. The police deprived her of sleep, turned her home into a prison cell, and cancelled her pension. The persecutors included Wang (first name unknown, director of the No. 1 Bridge Police Station), Song Ruisheng, Qian Jianxin, Du Zhiqiang, Cheng Lebing, Zhou Jianyong, Tu Jilin, Liu Jinlong, and Bi Mingyun.

At 9:00 a.m. on April 2, 2008, a security guard reported Ms. Wang to the Wenquan Economy Zone Police Department while she was talking about Falun Dafa to others in front of the Wenquan Department Store. Jin Guoxing, director of the Domestic Security Division of the Wenquan Economy Zone Police Department, followed Ms. Wang to her home. Ms. Wang fainted in front of her door. Jin called Bi Mingyun along with other officers from the Chalukou Police Station. When they arrived at her home, they ignored Ms. Wang, but took the house key from her purse, opened her door, searched her home and took her books, a computer, and a printer. Ms. Wang regained consciousness after the officers had left.

In June 2008, the Building Company tore down Ms. Wang's home, claiming that they would build a new building. Ms. Wang was forced to move to her daughter's home in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province.

Ms. Wang Shuqian died at the age 83, on December 12, 2009.

Mr. Xu Baiyi Dies after Being Tortured in Jilin Prison

By a correspondent from Jilin Province

Mr. Xu Baiyi, a practitioner from Jilin Province, died at the age of 55, on January 29, 2010. He was tortured in the Jilin Province Prison since 2002. Two years ago he became paralyzed from the abuse.

Mr. Xu was born in 1955. He was six feet tall, in good health, and a successful businessman. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999, Mr. Xu went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa. He was subsequently arrested many times and he eventually lost his business and his family.

When Mr. Xu was imprisoned in 2000 at the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp in Jilin City, Jilin Province, he was injected with unknown drugs. As a result, his teeth were damaged and he had difficulty eating.

Mr. Xu received a heavy prison sentence in 2002, and was imprisoned in the Jilin Prison,where he was subjected to countless tortures. He was finally released in 2008 because he was paralyzed from the abuse.

Mr. Xu was taken to the Yili Garden Senior Center in Yishan Road, Jilin City, because he had lost both his business and family during the persecution. He was under police surveillance. Officers at the Gaoxin District Police Station did not allow practitioners to visit him. His health continued to deteriorate and Mr. Xu passed away on January 29, 2010.

Shandong Province Practitioner Ms. Yu Xianlan Dies After Being Persecuted

Ms. Yu Xianlan, 69, a practitioner in Shandong Province, died at around 4:00 a.m. on January 21, 2010.

Ms. Yu had suffered from persecution since 1999.

Ms. Yu's entire family was arrested in 1999 for appealing in Bejing on April 25, 1999. Ms. Yu was separated from her family and released after being detained for three days. Three months later, Ms. Yu and her husband were arrested again for appealing on July 20, 1999. They were detained for a month in the Changping District, Beijing. They were then transferred to Jinan City, Shandong Province, where they were imprisoned for six or seven months and money was extorted from them before they were released.

Over the years, Ms. Yu's home was repeatedly searched. Their three children, as well as their daughter-in-law and son-in-laws have been arrested, sentenced, and imprisoned. Some of the family members are still in prison.

Posting date: 2/19/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/5/217574.html

Disabled Falun Gong Practitioner Ai Qingfeng Illegally Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

2010-02-17T07:15:00.001-08:00

By our correspondent in Liaoning Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ai Qingfeng from Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province was forced to leave home to avoid being persecuted. Over a period of eight years, his fingers were constantly frozen in the cold temperatures with the ensuing result that he lost eight of his fingers and his ability to work. In 2009, he was illegally arrested and was unjustly sentenced to five years in prison. Currently, he is held in Kanjiashan Prison, Shenyang City.

Mr. Ai Qingfeng is 54 years old and his home is in Dingjiabao Village, Liuerbao Town, Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province. Mr. Ai made a living by fish farming and through some other small businesses. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and he has benefited in a number of ways from the practice. He quit smoking and drinking and no longer had a bad temper. With his customers he always kept his word and he loved to help others. His fellow villagers had a great impression of him.

Because Mr. Ai would not give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, in 2001 officers from Tiexi Police Station Branch of Yanfen Street, Shenyang City went to his home many times in an attempt to arrest him. They did not succeed and he had to continually leave his home over the eight years to avoid persecution. In that time he lost his eight fingers in the cold weather; he only has two thumbs left.

On June 18, 2009, Mr. Ai was arrested in the Qianjin Fish Market in Xinmin City by a group of police officers, including Liuerbao Town Police Station director Chen Fei, officer Guo Hui, and another officer with the surname Su. He was held in Liaozhong County Detention Center for six months. Recently he was unlawfully sentenced to five years in prison by Liaozhong County Court.

Kangjiashan Prison:
Inquiry phone: 86-24-89698326
Captain of the second prison yard: Pan Songchu

Posting date: 2/17/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/5/217608.html

Ms. Li Yanchun Sentenced to Ten Years In Prison

2010-02-15T11:44:00.000-08:00

By our correspondent in Liaoning Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Li Yanchun of Huludao City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Lianshan District Court in Huludao on November 18, 2008.

Ms. Li was arrested at her home on June 1, 2008, by officers from the Lianshan District Police Department and Domestic Security Division. The arresting officers were Zhang Jun, Captain of the Domestic Security Brigade, Liu Shijun, Deputy Captain of the Domestic Security Brigade, and Yang Guirong, Wang Shumin, Zhou Zheren, Zhang Linji and Yu Guiqiu.

The arresting officers searched Ms. Li's home, confiscated many of her personal belongings, interrogated her and, at one point, knocked her down and kicked her in the head before transporting her to the Suizhong Detention Center in Huludao.

Ms. Li was later taken to the Lianshan District Procuratorate. Prosecutors from the Procuratorate Wang Jun, Zhang Liang, and Zhang Xiaoquan filed charges against Ms. Li in the Lianshan District Court.

Ms. Li was tried in the Lianshan District Court on November 18, 2008. Ms. Li's family hired attorney Zhai Yihe from the Tianbang Law Firm in Liaoning Province to defend her, and Mr. Zhai entered a plea of not guilty. In a highly irregular move, the judge sentenced Ms. Li while the court was in recess. Ms. Li appealed to the Huludao Intermediate Court but the judge, under pressure from the local 610 Office, upheld the original sentence. This was not the first time that Ms. Li has been persecuted for her belief in Falun Dafa.

Ms. Li is 44 years old and used to work in the petroleum refinery in Huludao. She learned Falun Dafa in 1996 and, after the Chinese Communist Party banned Falun Dafa and began persecuting its practitioners in July 1999, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested at the Huludao Train Station and taken to the Lianshan District Public Safety Bureau. For 35 days she was locked in the Huludao City Detention Center before she was taken to a brainwashing center, where she was tortured for two months. After Ms. Li was released, she was fired by her employer because she refused to renounce Falun Gong.

After that, in November 1999, police officers from Longgang District Public Safety Bureau broke into Ms. Li's home to arrest her, but she was able to escape. After this, officers came to her home regularly and harassed her son, frightening him so much that he refused to go to school. Failing to find Ms. Li, police officers harassed her family members as well.

The names of those who participated in Ms. Li's persecution include:

Presiding judge of the Lianshan District Court in Huludao: Li Dehai

Side judges: Yao Li and Zhang Liming

Clerk: Ma Hui

Presiding judge of the Intermediate Court in Huludao: An Jing

Side judges: Zhang Daqing and Gao Ensi

Clerk: Xue Chunlai

Agents of the Huludao City 610 Office: Zhu Rongjiu and Liang Chengdong

Police officers from the Huludao City Public Safety Bureau: Pan Jichun and Gu Changjiang

Lianshan District Public Safety Bureau: Zhang Shaokui

Longgang District Public Safety Bureau: Wang Jie and Yue Hua

Posting date: 2/15/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/1/217387.html

Ms. Wang Yurong Dies Seven Days after Being Released from Detention

2010-02-13T06:49:00.001-08:00

By our correspondent from Shaanxi Province, China

Name: Wang Yurong (王玉荣)
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Address: Baoji City, Shaanxi Province
Occupation: Early retired employee of Baoji City Medical Use Glass Factory
Date of Death: September 22, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 10, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Lingyun Hotel in Baoji City (宝鸡凌云宾馆)
City: Baoji
Province: Shaanxi
Persecution Suffered: Forced injections/drug administration, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Yurong began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, and she benefited greatly in both mind and body. On September 9, 2009, police officers led by Liu Hutang, an agent from the Weibin District Domestic Security Division, and officers from the Qiaonan Police Station arrested Ms. Wang's husband (not a practitioner) and forced him to call Ms. Wang and ask her to come home.

On September 10, 2009, Ms. Wang was arrested upon returning home. The police ransacked her home and detained Ms. Wang in the Lingyun Hotel under 24-hour close monitoring. The police hired assistants to stay in the same room and bring food to Ms. Wang every day. Only five days later, Ms. Wang appeared mentally confused, and she often bumped her head against the wall. It is very possible that drugs were put in her food.

On September 15, 2009, the Weibin District Police Department notified Ms. Wang's husband to come pick her up and bring her home. She died on September 22, 2009, just seven days after her release.

Baoji Police Department: 86-917-3658240, 86-917-3658249
Zhang Xinan, Director of Baoji City Police Department: 86-917-3658202, 86-13991700198 (Cell)
Xia Junming, Weibin District 610 Office Director: 86-917-3312797 (Office)
Chen Shuangqi, Director of Weibin District Police Department: 86-13891796888 (Cell), 86-917-3651001 / 3323168 (Office)
Li Jiansheng, First Office Director of Domestic Security Division of Weibin District Police Department: 86-917-3323159 (Office), 86-138091771 (Cell)
Liu Hutang, agent of First Office of Domestic Security Division of Weibin District Police Department: 86-13891714995 (Cell), 86-917-3323159 (Home)

Written on February 11, 2010

Posting date: 2/13/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/12/217992.html

Falun Gong Practitioners Discouraged from Working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2010-02-11T13:48:00.001-08:00

By a correspondent in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) In November 2009, the Clearwisdom website published an article entitled, "The Persecution of Mr. Yu Yaou, a Doctoral Student at the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/12/14/113118.html). This article described how Mr. Yu and his wife were arrested and monitored and about other, hidden means used to persecute this couple.

Mr. Yu was in graduate school at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and in August 2005, he started his work at the South China Botanical Garden, where he worked hard and was an honest person. His advisor told him on many occasions that he was welcome to stay and work in the group after he graduated. Mr. Yu was arrested in 2008, after which he had much trouble continuing his work at the garden. A police officer told him, "Don't even think about government jobs because you are a Falun Gong practitioner."

In November 2009, Mr. Yu's advisor told him, "I know you work hard and are very considerate of others. If it was up to me, I would keep you. However, I am not sure what the government leaders would do." Mr. Yu decided to talk to officials at every level who had exerted pressure on his advisor.

His appeals made these officials persecute him further, and they ordered his advisor to make certain Mr. Yu graduated by January 30, 2010, and that he leave Guangzhou soon after. Mr. Yu has been working hard writing his dissertation and preparing for his defense. He believed the time of his graduation should depend on his progress in his research rather than on a order from government officials. He refused to comply with the arrangement.

Mr. Yu's advisor told him again that, because of his personal schedule and pressure from above, he wanted Mr. Yu to defend his dissertation on January 26. Mr. Yu gave his advisor four reasons why he would not: "The Party secretary once told me that I may not be given a doctoral degree because of my practice. This is against the law and should be resolved before I proceed to defend my dissertation. Secondly, I have written two manuscripts for submission. If I continue to work here, I will have time to publish them and obtain my degree. If I am forced to leave, I may never publish them or get my degree. It is not the proper time for me to defend my work and then leave. Thirdly, I am being deprived of the opportunity to work in CAS without a reasonable explanation. Being able to work is important to me and this problem needs to be resolved before I defend. Finally, I have not finished a lot of work for the science project I am in. It is only responsible and ethical that I stay and finish the job. I therefore refuse any scheduled defense that is forced upon me."

Mr. Yu's wife, Ms. Li Shanshan, worked in a plant-chemistry related group. She often worked overtime and stayed late. In 2008, she and her husband were arrested together right before the Beijing Olympics. The government launched large scale arrests of dissidents, petitioners, and Falun Gong practitioners before the games to make sure no protests occurred during the international event and in front of the cameras. Ms. Li could not go to work for a year and a half. When she returned to work on December 14, 2009, her supervisor and a Party official told her that she needed to re-apply for her position. She refused to accept the conditions requiring her to go through a "three month trial period" before she could be officially hired.

Ms. Li's supervisor had told her before that she had passed the trial period and was officially employed. Ms. Li read the hiring and managing policies of the garden and could not find a regulation stating that she be fired before her arrest. She asked personnel in Human Resources and the Party secretary but received no answer.

An insider told Ms. Li, "Officials of the garden want your husband to complete and finish defending his PhD dissertation before they will allow you to go back to work. [The officials and Human Resources] push you around because you practice Falun Gong. They won't tell you that." The informer explained, "No one wants to get into trouble and be responsible for Falun Gong practitioners. The pressure from above is too much. You are a temporary worker, and no one cares if you come back to work, but your husband is a registered student and that is the problem."

In the CAS, the persecution of Falun Gong implicates those who work with practitioners. When a practitioner becomes problematic in the Party's eye, the practitioner's supervisor or advisor will shoulder a lot of pressure or even lose his job. Under such a policy, a practitioner's teacher, classmates, supervisor, and friends are targets of the persecution as well. As a result, practitioners are treated unfairly at work.

Posting date: 2/11/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/26/216936.html

Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Beijing and Jilin Passed Away After Persecution in Labor Camps

2010-02-10T14:24:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net)

Mr. Liu Zhenhua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing, passed away

Mr. Liu Zhenhua lived in Tianshuiyuan of Chaoyang District, Beijing. Before practicing Falun Gong, Mr. Liu had several illnesses such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia, glaucoma, etc. After practicing Falun Gong, all of his illnesses were gone. In early 2006, he was taken into custody by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police from his home and was sentenced to two years of forced labor. In the forced labor camp, he was persecuted by the guards and criminals, which caused his illnesses such as diabetes and glaucoma to return. He almost lost sight in both eyes. In June 2007, he was released for medical treatment. The CCP staff members continued to constantly harass him. On August 26, 2009, Mr. Liu Zhenhua passed away. He was 63 years old.

Mr. Jin Guangzhu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanbian of Jilin Province, passed away

Jin Guangzhu was born in 1964 and lived in Shitou Village, Liangshui Town, Tumen City. Before practicing Falun Gong, although he was an upright honest person, he had a very bad temper and often caused trouble for his family. His family worried about him a lot. Because he had severe arthritis, he had serious pains in his legs. He began to practice Falun Gong in 1999. After starting to practice, he underwent great changes both physically and mentally. He no longer had pains in his body. Moreover, he did not drink alcohol, neither did he smoke cigarettes. He did not cause any trouble for his family any more and he both respected elderly people and cared for younger ones. He became his household's supporter. His parents stated that it was Falun Gong that had saved their son.

In January 2001, Mr. Jin Guangzhu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was illegally arrested and sent to Yanji Forced Labor Camp, where he was inhumanly and brutally tortured. He was beaten up. Once he was locked in a frozen storage room for one week only because he did not obey the rules of the forced labor camp and picked up his 5-year-old daughter who had come to visit him. The forced labor camp did not give him any bedding. He was shivering from cold all the time. Each day they only gave him two small steamed buns (one in the morning and one in the evening). It was far beyond what his body could endure. When he was released, his face was pale and he had no energy. After he returned home, he had cancer and went to the hospital but the treatment was ineffective. He passed away in May 2008.

Article written on January 25, 2010

Posting date: 2/10/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/2/216972.html

Ms. Li Jumei Seriously Ill in Detention Center; Her Husband Died as a Result of Persecution

2010-02-08T15:24:00.000-08:00

By our correspondent from Hunan Province, China

Name: Li Jumei
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 6, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jilin City Detention Center (吉林市看守所)
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, beatings

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 18, 2010, Dafa practitioner Li Jumei from Jiahe County, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, suddenly fainted at a detention center, hemorrhaging from her lower body. At that time she had already been persecuted for more than six months. She was sent to a hospital. Ms. Li came back home from the hospital in the afternoon in January 21, 2010, however, she is still being monitored by the Jiahe Police.

Guo Huisheng, Li Jumei's husband, was a cadre in the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Jiahe Government. He and Li Jumei wrote a letter to Xi Xiaogang, the director of the Lanshan Police Department, to request that Dafa practitioner Xiao Silan be set free. Xiao Silan had been arrested in Taipingxu, Lanshan. Because of their letter, the 610 Office and the State Security Bureau severely persecuted the couple. In the evening of August 6, 2009, they were taken away by dozens of police. Their house was illegally ransacked twice while they were not in. Guo Huisheng was brutally beaten by four police officers at the police station.

On October 6, 2009, Guo Huisheng fainted at the detention center and was sent to a hospital. After brain surgery, he was still unconscious. He could not move, and his heartbeat was weak. He passed away in the hospital on October 12, 2009. (Related article: http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/10/19/111715.html)

Li Jumei is a teacher from the Zhuquanwan Elementary School in Jiahe. She had bone cancer before practicing Falun Gong and was in a state of despair. She became healthy after practicing Dafa. Because of the great benefits she received from Dafa, she simply wanted to tell more people about how amazing Dafa is, but she was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She was taken to Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou twice by the 610 Office.

On January 12, 2010, the Jiahe Court opened a session to try Li Jumei. Her family was not informed of the trial. During the trial, Li Jumei exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

Li Jumei became ill in the detention center, and was sent to the hospital. The result showed a relapse of bone cancer. Her family tried to take her home several times. On January 18, 2010, Li Jumei fainted because of bleeding in her lower body. That is when she was sent to hospital and returned, still under the constant surveillance of the Jiahe Police.

New head of Jiahe County, Li Laihua: 86-13973532815 (Cell)
Secretary of Discipline Committee in Jiahe, Zhao Zheng: 86-13907359339 (Cell), email: jhjwzz9339@sina.com
New Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, Li Dexiao: 86-735-6633796 (Office), 86-13873519169 (Cell)
Chief judge of Jiahe People' Court, Huang Jianlong: 86-13808448373(Cell)
Director of the Jiahe 610 Office, Zhang Chifei: 86-735-6626101, 86-13786503812(Cell)
Director of Jiahe Police Station in Chenzhou, Hunan, Luo Yonggang: 86-13973536018 (Cell), email: luo153138@ovi.com
Deputy Director of Jiahe Police Station, Li Xianshun: 86-13487852666(Cell)
Director of State Security Bureau in Jiahe Police Station, Huang Zhennv: 86-13975557699(Cell)
Political Director of State Security Bureau in Jiahe Police Station, Hu Yonghui: 86-13973546350(Cell)
Secretariat of Lanshan County, Wei Xiangjiang: 86-13807461618(Cell)
Deputy Secretary of Lanshan County, Cai Jianjun: 86-13174261168(Cell)
Secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee in Lanshan, Tang Xiaoming: 86-13974641168(Cell)
Director of the 610 Office, Li Chengjie: 86-13487466465(Cell)
Head of Lanshan Police Department, Xi Xiaogang: 86-13974683966(Cell)
Director of Domestic Security Division, Huang Xiaolan: 86-13907467398(Cell),86-746-2211301(work), 86-746-2213908(home)
Political Commissar, Li Xiaobing: 86-13974637828(Cell)

Related article:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/11/1/112012.html

Written on January 24, 2010

Posting date: 2/8/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/25/216898.html

Ms. Wang Huimin Dies as Result of Persecution

2010-02-07T10:20:00.001-08:00

By a correspondent from Jilin Province

Name: Wang Huimin (王慧敏)
Gender: Female
Age: 63
Address: Jilin City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: January 3, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jilin City Detention Center (吉林省九台拘留所)
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Huimin started to practice Falun Dafa in 1994. After becoming a practitioner, she was considerate of others and was considered a good person. She was praised by her relatives, friends and neighbors. When she started practicing, many of her ailments, including cerebral thrombosis, disappeared. Although Ms. Wang was a good person, she was mistreated and tortured for ten years. On January 3, 2010, Ms. Wang died at home from many years of abuse.

On July 20, 1999, the CCP started to persecute practitioners of Falun Gong. Because Ms. Wang was a local assistant, agents from the local area neighborhood administration office and the local police station went to her home to harass her and force her to give up practicing. She firmly resisted. In October 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was sentenced to one year of forced labor. During this period, she was tortured both physically and mentally. After she returned from the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City in 2001, she was continually harassed and monitored. She was forced to leave home to avoid being mistreated.

In 2002, Ms. Wang was arrested by police officers from the Jilin City Department and the State Security Bureau and sentenced to seven years in prison. During this time, she was tortured until she became paralyzed. She was later taken home by the police on a stretcher.

In October 2002, because the Sixteenth CCP Conference was to be held, police officers started to arrest Falun Gong practitioners; over forty practitioners were arrested. Practitioners were held in a detention center at the Huapi Factory, Jilin City. A brainwashing session was held in an attempt to forcefully "transform" practitioners of Falun Gong. Ms. Wang maintained righteous thoughts and went on a hunger strike for eleven days to protest the persecution while requesting to be released without any conditions. Not one of the forty practitioners was "transformed." This brainwashing session was organized by He Baoxi, the chief of the Jilin City 610 Office.

Around July 20, 2000, the city police department assigned local police officers to arrest Ms. Wang on a sensitive date. She did not cooperate with them and did not open the door to her home. She opened the window and told her neighbors and people passing by about the persecution and clarified the truth to them. Many people criticized the police for their behavior. However, the police officers did not pay attention to people's objections and broke the windows and arrested her. Ms. Wang's neighbors witnessed her being lifted onto a stretcher with a sheet covering her lifeless body. They guessed that Ms. Wang was hit so hard that she became unconscious.

In September 2007, she was taken home in a car by police officers. She had been tortured so severely she was unable to take care of herself. Her sister stayed at home for a month to care for her.

During the Beijing Olympics, police officers from Jilin City assigned agents of the neighborhood administration office to harass Ms. Wang. She was not allowed to go out. She took the opportunity to clarify the truth to the people who monitored her.

In October 2008, Ms. Wang and other practitioners went to the Jiutai Forced Labor Camp. They were surrounded by several police vehicles. When Ms. Wang and two other practitioners cried out "Falun Dafa is good," the police pulled their hair and kicked them. They arrested Ms. Wang along with the other practitioners; they were held at the Jiutai Detention Center for six days.

The Jilin City 610 Office, the Jilin City Police Department, the State Security Division, the Jilin City Police Department and the Dadong Neighborhood Administration Office have all tortured and harassed practitioners. As a result, Ms. Wang and her family experienced a great amount of stress and her family was almost broken apart. Over the last ten years, she was arrested over ten times and was severely tortured. Twice she was hit so hard that she became paralyzed. She was injured both physically and mentally. Being unable to tolerate further abuse, her health deteriorated and she could not eat or sleep. On January 3, 2010, Ms. Wang passed away.

Written on January 14, 2010

Posting date: 2/7/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/17/216415.html

After Several Imprisonments, Ms. Chen Qinfang Illegally Subjected to Forced Labor Again

2010-02-05T06:18:00.001-08:00

By a correspondent in Shanghai, China

Name: Chen Qinfang (陈琴芳)
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Zijinsan Village, Anting Township, Shanghai
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 1, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Kunshan Detention Center (昆山看守所 )
City: Shanghai
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, hung by handcuffs, forced labor, solitary confinement

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Chen Qinfang went shopping at Zhongyu Square Farmer's Market in Huaqiao Township, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province on November 1, 2009. She was suddenly abducted and taken to Kunshan Cao'An Police Station. After the subsequent ransacking of her home, her family did not hear from her again.

After Ms. Chen was illegally arrested, personnel from the police station never told her family where she was being detained. She didn't even have a change of clothing. In the chilly weather of early November, her family wanted to send her some warm clothing, but they didn't know where she was being held.

Ms. Chen's family received no notice until the night of November 24 when they got a call. The police told them to go to Kunshan Detention Center the next day. Only then did her family know that Ms. Chen had been secretly sentenced to a one-year forced labor term. She refused to give up her belief.

Ms. Chen was in tears when she told her family how she was persecuted by the police. In order to frame her, the Cao'An police took out four pieces of paper money with "Falun Dafa Is Good" characters written on them and claimed that those bills were taken from her. She had only carried a red purse with "The World Needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" characters on it.

Twice before Ms. Chen had been persecuted while being detained at Qingpu Women's Forced Labor Camp because of her truth-clarification activities. One time it was for two years while the other time it was for one year. While at the forced labor camp, her arms were fastened behind her back and she was hung from the window's iron bars. She was detained in an isolated cell. In the summer, she was forced to work for long stretches, day and night. She was reported while clarifying the truth using paper money in Huaqiao, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. She was detained again.

The communist regime has exhausted it's most shameless and devious methods to persecute kind people who live by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Posting date: 2/5/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/25/216926.html

Hundreds of People in Shuangcheng, Harbin, Call for the Release of Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Lanying

2010-02-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

By a Minghui correspondent in Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net)

On December 2, 2009, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Lanying was illegally sentenced to a four-year prison term by the Shuangcheng People's Court, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Ms. Li and her husband Mr. Gao Guang'en were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CPP), which made people in Shuangcheng angry at the local government. More than four hundred people stood up and called for the unconditional release of Ms. Li. At the end of December 2009, Ms. Li's family appealed to Harbin Intermediate People's Court.

Ms. Li was born on October 15, 1956. She lives in Min'an Village, Wujia Town, Shuangcheng. Before practicing Falun Gong, she suffered from many diseases and her husband lost his ability to work due to his cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. At one time, this drove the couple to thoughts of suicide because of their diseases and poor living conditions. However, when they heard about Falun Gong, they started practicing it, and within only a few months, all their chronic diseases were gone. They benefited tremendously from Falun Gong physically and mentally, and they were able to start a new life.

However, soon the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong and Mr. Gao was illegally held in a detention center and severely tortured. When he was released, the local police broke into their home, kidnapped him, ransacked their home and harassed them again and again. On January 5, 2006, sadly, Mr Gao passed away due to the brutal torture. (Please refer to http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/3/7/70579.html)

On September 9, 2009, when Ms. Li was talking to people about Falun Gong, Zhang Dahai, head of Shuangjing Village, and Wang Jun, Party Secretary, reported her to the police. Xu Kai, director of Wujia Police Station, and police officers Yang Zhongwei and Wang Changqi abducted her and broke into her home. They took a computer, a printer and other personal property. Later, they sent Ms. Li to Harbin No. 2 Detention Center (which is also called Duck Nest).

On September 28, 2009, Ms. Li's family went to Wujia Police Station and demanded her unconditional release. However the police refused and Yang Zhongwei, vice director of Wujia Police Station, shouted at them rudely: "Just go ahead and try to sue us!"

Tong Huiqun from the Shuangcheng Domestic Security Division, together with police officers from Wujia Police Station, falsified evidence against Ms. Li and submitted it to the Procuratorate three times, concocting a false charge against her. Their charge was rebutted the first two times, however, on the third occasion, Zhang Hailong, a prosecuting officer from Shuangcheng Procuratorate accepted the case without investigating. He submitted the charge to Shuangcheng People's Court.

On December 2, 2009, Shuangcheng People's Court placed Ms. Li on "trial." A day before the trial, Ms. Li's family asked when it would take place, but they were told that the date had not been decided. Through her family's efforts in making different inquiries, they finally found out that Ms. Li was going to trial in half an hour. They hurried to the court and saw Ms. Li who was very weak due to the torture. Although it was a bitterly cold winter in northern China, she was only allowed to wear slippers. It was verified later that when Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to protest, the police brutally forced-fed her several times. They even threatened her, saying: "If you still say you won't quit practicing Falun Gong, we will force-feed you every day!"Ms. Li was badly tortured and she developed high blood-pressure and became very weak.

The whole process of the illegal trial lasted for less than 20 minutes. Judge Wu Haomin, two judicial officials Zheng He and Xu Bingquan, secretary Zhao Yu, prosecuting officer Zhang Hailong, several police, and Ms. Li's family were the only people allowed to be present at the trial. The judge and judicial officers asked a few token questions and then called it a day.

Seeing Ms. Li in court, her family knew that she had been brutally tortured. They requested to see Ms. Li in the detention center, however, the prosecuting officer in the detention center said: "We cannot let you see her, because if you saw her, Ms. Li could appeal. If that happened, then our efforts would be in vain."

On December 9, 2009, the judges from the Shuangcheng People's Court broke the law and illegally sentenced Ms. Li to a four-year prison term. She appealed to the Harbin Intermediate People's Court. Wang Yutang from the second tribunal accepted her appeal.

Ms. Li is in now in Shuangcheng Detention Center. More than four hundred villagers from Wujia Town and neighboring towns, and people in Shuangcheng, decided to help her by signing a petition that asked the police to unconditionally release her. Some of these people had seen for themselves how Ms. Li changed miraculously after practicing Falun Gong, and others heard about the miraculous change. They knew that Ms. Li and her family were persecuted by the CCP, and they wanted to give a hand.

Personnel involved in the persecution and their contact information:

Wang Yutang, judge of Harbin Intermediate People's Court: 86-451-2377094, 86-451-82377430
Wujia Police Station: 86-451-53250513, 86-451-53250817
Xu Kai, director of Wujia Police Station: 86-13796119995
Shuangcheng People's Court: 86-451-53168586
Shuangcheng Procuratorate:86-451-53132517

related article:
http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/12/12/113066.html

Written on January 12, 2010

Posting date: 2/4/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/14/216201.html

Everybody Should See This Show!!

2010-02-03T15:02:00.000-08:00

Deceased Dafa Practitioner's Family Seeks Justice

2010-02-03T06:24:00.000-08:00

Name: Xu Dawei (徐大为)
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Address: Ying'emen Town, Qingyuan County, Fushen City, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Once employed as a cook in a restaurant
Date of Death: February 16, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 2001
Most Recent Place of Detention: Dongling Prison in Shenyang City (沈阳东陵监狱)
City: Shenyang
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, forced injection/drug administration, beating, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture

(Clearwisdom.net ) (By a correspondent in Liaoning Province) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Dawei was persecuted in four prisons in eight years since 2001. In the last prison--Dongling Prison in Shenyan City--she was so severely tortured that her health was completely ruined: she was abnormally skinny, suffered from a mental disorder, and was unable to eat. She passed away two weeks after returning home on September 26, 2009.

Her family appealed to the appropriate departments and organizations last year. Dongling Prison and its supervising unit, the Judiciary Committee of Shenyang City, threatened her family to keep them from appealing, but Ms. Xu's sad story caught the attention of some people with conscience who agreed to handle the case according to the law.

The lawyer hired by the family recently filed legal papers, including a Complaint for Compensation, to the Dongling Prison and will send them to the relevant judicial departments in Shenyang City as well.

Relevant information:

Phone number used by the Dongling Prison when calling Ms. Xu Dawei's family: 86-24-24714624, 96-24-62343403
Mr. Guo Baoyuan, 47, head of Section 3 (where Ms. Xu was persecuted) in Dongling Prison, warden number: 86-24-2112114

Related reports:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2009/3/11/105509.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2009/5/31/107885.html

January 21, 2010

Posting date: 2/3/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/22/216718.html

Mr. Liu Ruisheng Dies as a Result of Persecution

2010-02-02T11:28:00.001-08:00

Name: Liu Ruisheng (刘端胜)
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Address: Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Middle level Manager in Liaoyuan City Power Bureau
Date of Death: January 3, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 4, 2006
Most Recent Place of Detention: Liaoyuan City Detention Center (辽源市看守所)
City: Liaoyuan
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, torture, force-feedings, extortion, dismissed from workplace, physical restraint, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Jilin Province) Mr. Liu Ruisheng began practicing Falun Dafa in 1995. He strictly disciplined himself according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and was well-loved by his boss and colleagues. On November 1, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa, and he was picked up by agents from the Power Bureau Police Office and directly taken to the Liaoyuan City Detention Center. Mr. Liu was sentenced to 15 months of forced labor, which he served in the Baiquan Forced Labor Camp in Liaoyuan City. His employer was forced to dismiss him from his job, leaving him wtih no income. His wife was also forced to divorce him under huge pressure. In the labor camp, Liu Ruisheng was shocked with electric batons many times and locked in a metal cage. This cage had no light and was too small for him to stand up or lie down, making living very miserable.

In April 2003, Mr. Liu was arrested for the second time and sentenced to three years of forced labor. He was imprisoned in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. He was even more cruelly tortured there with methods such as electric baton shocks and being stripped then forced to stand in a tub in the winter while guards sprayed cold water on him. In the latter torture method, he was not allowed to move, or the guard would beat him. They tortured him in this manner for several hours. The abuse ruined Mr. Liu's physical health, and he became ill with severe tuberculosis. He was released on medical parole in January 2005.

On April 23, 2006, Liaoyuan City Domestic Security agents arrested Liu Ruisheng at his home and detained him in a detention center for three months. Mr. Liu vomited blood several times, and he was released on bail on July 28, 2006. His health improved in a month, but the Domestic Security agents and local police officers kept harassing him, monitoring all his activities, and restricting his personal freedom.

On the evening of December 4, 2006, several officers came to Mr. Liu's home again, claiming that they were checking his physical condition, and they deceived him into answering some questions, after which they took him away. They called his parents around 8 p.m. and said that Mr. Liu would be returning home in a few days.

The very next day, on December 5, 2006, Mr. Liu Ruisheng and eight other Falun Dafa practitioners were all sentenced to prison. These nine practitioners all appealed the decision, but the Liaoyuan City Middle Court sustained the original sentencing and issued final sentencing on January 24, 2007. Mr. Liu was sentenced to nine years in prison.

At noon on January 26, 2007, five male practitioners were taken to the Shiling Prison in Siping City, and four female practitioners were taken to the Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp in Changchun City on January 29, 2007. Mr. Liu had tuberculosis and fluid in his chest, so he was detained in the Liaoyuan City Detention Center for three more months.

Due to his severely compromised physical condition, Mr. Liu's family demanded that he be released on parole. Afterwards, the local police constantly harassed him at home, sending agents to watch him. He had no income and lived a very difficult life. Mr. Liu died on January 3, 2010, survived by his elderly parents and young child.

Written on January 31, 2010

Posting date: 2/2/2010
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/1/217363.html

Young Teacher Jailed for Over Ten Years; Her Whole Family Suffers Persecution

2010-02-01T15:40:00.000-08:00

By a Clearwisdom correspondent in Guangdong Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) Because of her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, a young female teacher was arrested in November 1999 and is serving a prison sentence of 13 years. Her husband became homeless and destitute after serving four years in prison and her mother has been in a forced labor camp for two years. Her brother and sister-in-law have been sentenced to two and a half years and two years of forced labor respectively.

Unjust 13-Year Prison Sentence

Ms. Zhu Yuhong was born in 1975 and was a teacher at Jiafu Primary School in Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province, as well as the person in charge at the Huanan Agricultural College Assistant Center. She was one of those charged in the first group arrest and heavy sentencing of Falun Gong practitioners in Guangzhou in November 1999. Because she refused to supply any information to the police or betray her belief, Ms. Zhu was sentenced to 13 years. She is currently being detained in the Guangdong Province Women's Prison.

In November 1999, a truth-clarification materials production site at Huanan Agricultural College was destroyed and 16 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by police from the Tianhe District 610 Office and Wushan Police Station in Tianhe District. Ten practitioners were sentenced to anywhere from three to 13 years. Six practitioners were sent to a forced labor camp. Most of these practitioners were students, such as Zhu Dezhi, who was sentenced to 11 years.

Zhu Yuhong graduated from a performing arts school and is a skilled vocalist and dancer. She was an outstanding language teacher and was only 24 years old at the time of her arrest. She was detained at Tianhe District Detention Center for the first three years after her arrest, before she was transferred to Guangdong Province Women's Prison in 2003. Because Zhu Yuhong told people in the detention center about Falun Gong and exposed the lies set forth by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), she was put in foot shackles, beaten and locked up in a small cell until her buttocks festered with sores. The guards refused to give her treatment. Only when maggots began to crawl on her body did they release her.

On New Year's Eve in 2002 , Zhu Yuhong and several other practitioners were practicing the Falun Gong exercises together. Police Station manager Zhu Yongwen and a guard with the last name of Zheng locked them up in confinement and instigated other prisoners to mercilessly torture Ms. Zhu. When she learned that she was given a sentence of 13 years for practicing Falun Gong, she ran out of the cell and went to the guard's office to appeal. She was charged with escaping, however, and tortured with "thread needle and shackles." She was forced to remain on the ground. She could not eat, sleep or go to the toilet by herself and suffered enormous physical and mental torment. Moreover, police refused her family visits and refused to answer any inquiry from her family members regarding her well-being.

Husband Sentenced to Four Years and Remains Destitute

Mr. Shi Huiwen, Zhu Yuhong's husband, was born in 1970 and was a graduate of Huanan University of Science and Technology. He was an outstanding engineer for Guangdong Province Steel and Iron Research Institute. Mr. Shi was sentenced to four years in January 2003 and taken to Shaoguan Beijiang Prison.

While detained in Tianhe District Detention Center, guards forced Shi Huiwen to sit by a pond for two months, and "reconsider his crimes." In Shaoguan Beijiang Prison, Deputy Warden Zhu Jianping led a team of officers to attack Mr. Shi. He was subjected to sleep deprivation for over a month.

After four years in prison, Shi Huiwen returned to his former workplace. However, Tianhe District 610 Office agents did not stop tormenting him. Tianhe security officers secretly instructed the network officer at Mr. Shi's workplace to change his IP to a fixed IP, so they could monitor his Internet activities.

In the afternoon of April 11, 2007, the Tianhe District 610 Office in Guangzhou City again initiated a mass arrest of local Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners Xu Juhua and married couple Lin Jianping and Hu Wenjin were arrested, while Shi Huiwen, who was not at his workplace at the time, escaped arrest. At that time, police officers from the Guangzhou Police Station colluded with the Zengcheng Police Station and forcefully broke into Mr. Shi's workplace dormitory. They stole his computer, a removable disc, a USB cable and other personal items.

Mother and Brother Suffer Brutal Persecution

On November 22, 2004, at approximately 10:30 a.m., policeman Ruan Peihong from the Chigang Police Station and residential committee staff member Wei Hongqing, in the name of "fire prevention," entered the Flying Tiger Window Blind Shop on West Yiyuan Road. The officers claimed that they needed to use the restroom, but instead climbed up the wooden ladder and entered the shop. They saw Liu Huaiying, Zhu Yuhong's mother, and shop owner Xie Wenrui's mother-in-law reading a Falun Dafa book. They abruptly snatched the book from Ms. Liu's hands. She fell down the stairs and then ran to the street.

The police chased her down the street and arrested her. They also arrested Zhu Rencheng, the shop owner's husband and Zhu Yuhong's brother. The police ransacked the shop without a search warrant. They stole a computer, printer, laminated paper and other personal belongings.

Xie Wenrui, Zhu Yuhong's sister-in-law, was by then the only adult left in the family. It was a cold winter, and she had only given birth two months prior, when she was forced to close the shop. Her finances were limited and she still had to take care of her baby. She continued to wonder where her mother-in-law and her husband were and if they were okay. After a long time, she finally heard that her mother-in-law and husband had been sentenced to two years and two and a half years of forced labor respectively. Liu Huaiying was taken to Guangzhou City Chatou Forced Labor Camp, and Zhu Rencheng was taken to Brigade No. 3 at the Guangzhou City No. 1 Forced Labor Camp.

Liu Huaiying continues to practices Falun Dafa at the camp. She is often punished by chief Lu, who forces her to sit naked on a small stool for long periods of time. He beats her with electric batons until she loses consciousness, and then pours cold water on her. Sometimes she is forced to stand for a long time and subjected to sleep deprivation. The police officers also incite inmates charged with drug offenses to often curse and beat Ms. Liu. In the "strict discipline" room, where many Falun Gong practitioners are detained and where she had been held for some time, windows are sealed up with newspaper and no contact with others is allowed. Practitioners held in this room are not allowed to shower and toilet use is significantly limited. Only brief family visits are allowed and the purchase of daily items are restricted. Practitioners are monitored by two prisoners each and cannot exercise any personal freedom. Broadcasts of propaganda slandering Falun Gong are played loudly and almost continuously in the discipline room to brainwash practitioners.

Ms. Liu Huaiying, over 60 years old, was denied family visits for a long time. Only after family members filed formal complaints was Ms. Liu allowed to meet with her family. She shed tears as she talked about her experience in the camp, how police often beat people and how they tortured her until she fainted, pouring cold water on her to wake her up. She talked about how the camp officials used every brutal method to persecute detained Falun Gong practitioners, forcing female practitioners to sit naked on a small stool and torturing them with electric batons. It is well-known that practitioners' bodies have countless scars from torture.

Xie Wenrui, Zhu Yuhong's sister-in-law, once served two years of forced labor. In addition, because Zhu Yuhong's uncle persisted in practicing Falun Gong, he suffered maltreatment and passed away. Zhu Yuhong's uncle was a Guangdong Provincial government official, over 60 years old. He received many benefits from practicing Falun Gong, and many of his illnesses disappeared without treatment.

Written on January 20, 2010

Posting date: 2/1/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/21/216654.html

Doctor Yang Lijun from Yingkou, Liaoning Province Threatened With a Summons

2010-01-31T10:09:00.000-08:00

By a Minghui correspondent from Liaoning Province

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Yang Lijun, 64 years old, is a pediatrician. She is not only a good doctor, but also known by friends and neighbors to be a very nice person. She worked at the Tongji Hospital in Bayuquan District. Later she opened her own clinic at Haixing, Bayuquan District. Before she practiced Falun Dafa, she suffered from many illnesses. She became healthier after she practiced Falun Dafa. She treats her patients like her relatives and charges the lowest fees. For people who have no money or for low-income seniors, she will reduce her fee or treat them for free.

In the past ten years, Ms. Yang and her relatives have suffered many instances of severe persecution.

In October 1999, Yang Lijun was arrested. She was released after over twenty days detention at the Bayuquan District Detention Center.

Later, police from the Bayuquan District National Security Division and Haixing Police Station often harassed her. In 2004 she was sent to Yingkou Brainwashing Center. Although her relatives tried their best to stop it, she was still sent to be brainwashed. Dr. Yang and her fellow practitioners clarified the truth about Falun Gong to personnel in the brainwashing center. Many of them came to understand that Falun Gong is innocent and that this persecution is illegal. The brainwashing session was then discontinued.

Around 10 o'clock in the evening on September 23, 2009, police from the Bayuquan District National Security Division ransacked her home and arrested her. She was later released due to a severe heart problem and high blood pressure. But police asked Yang Lijun and her relatives to sign the paper of release for medical reasons, and threatened that she could not leave the city and needed to cooperate with the investigation.

Around the time of the New Year of 2010, Cao Ning, a procurator of Bayuquan District Procuratorate, called her and demanded that she come to the Bayuquan District Procuratorate to verify information for them. On the phone, he said they would not arrest her, but that he just wanted to verify her information.

Later a relative of Yang Lijun went to the Procuratorate to find out more. They said that they wanted to verify information with her regarding the Bayuquan District National Security Division's arrest of Falun Dafa practitioners on the evening of September 23, 2009. They wanted to find out whether Yang Lijun was qualified for exemption for medical reasons. They would send police to arrest her if she did not come to the Procuratorate.

Around January 10, 2010, three policemen from the Bayuquan District National Security Division, including one whose family name is Li, went to Ms. Yang's home again. They threatened her relatives to find her right away. Otherwise, they said they would issue a warrant for her arrest on-line.

Situation of Other Practitioners

The following practitioners were arrested on the evening of September 23, 2009: Yu Zhihong and her son Wang Zhiyuan; Dong Bing and his father and brother who don't practice Falun Gong (they were released one month later); Shen Guanghai and his wife Teng Wenmin; Bi Shijun and his wife Sun Li.

The following male practitioners are still detained at the Bayuquan District Detention Center: Wang Shenlun (46 years old), Wang Shenlun's son Wang Zhiyuan (19 years old), Dong Bing (34 years old), Shen Guanghai (37 years old), Bi Shijun (around 40 years old).

The following female practitioners are still detained at the Bayuquan District Detention Center: Yao Qiang (61 years old), Wang Shenlun's wife Yu Zhihong (45 years old), Teng Wenmin (30 years old), Sun Li (over 30 years old).

Wang Shenlun was arrested on June 10, 2009 by the Bayuquan District National Security Division, and his home was ransacked. Later the Procuratorate, court and police rigged the whole thing and secretly sentenced him to a five-year jail term. Wang Shenlun wanted to appeal, and his family members hired a lawyer for him. But Yingkou Intermediate Court rejected the appeal.

Bayuquan District National Security Division

Although the Bayuquan District National Security Division belongs to the Police Bureau, the 610 Office is directly in charge of them. It hence becomes a tool to persecute Falun Gong. Since the persecution, there have been several team leaders. Qin Shilong has been sentenced to jail due to corruption. During the search, the floor of his home was removed so they could look underneath. Wang Yousheng was transferred to the Payuquan Detention Center as political head. Wang Hongkui is the current team leader. He was deputy team leader when Wang Yousheng was team leader.

The team leaders and policemen participated in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. They ransacked practitioners' homes and fined them illegally. Many practitioners were arrested, fined and sent to labor camps and jails.

Posting date: 1/31/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/17/216416.html

Account of the CCP's Long-Term Persecution of a Carpenter and His Wife

2010-01-27T14:09:00.001-08:00

Name: Liu Naichuan (刘乃传)

Gender: Male
Age: 48
Address: Zhongshanqian Village, Shuanghou Township, Yinan County

Occupation: Carpenter
Date of Death: April 26th, 2008
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 4th, 2005
Most recent place of detention: Mengyin County Detention Center (蒙阴县看守所)
County: Mengyin
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Beatings, torture, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Key Persecutors: Gao Hongbin, former head of Shuanghou Township Police Station, Yinan County (transferred)

Zhang Jinggang, former deputy secretary of Shuanghou Township Political and Judicial Committee (transferred to Zhangzhuang Township, Yinan County)

Zhang Changguo, head of Shuanghou Township Police Station: 86-13581071666 (Cell),
86-539-3711006 (Office)

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Liu Naichuan was a carpenter from Yinan County, Shandong Province. He and his wife Ms. Liu Tianying were persecuted repeatedly for believing in Falun Dafa. Mr. Liu Naichuan died in 2008 from injuries sustained due to torture.

Mr. Liu Naichuan and Ms. Liu Tianying have a son and a daughter. Although they were not wealthy, they lived a decent life. Unfortunately, Mr. Liu contracted a serious illness at the age of 33. He could not eat, was often short of breath, and was losing weight gradually. He thought that a few doses of traditional Chinese medicine would cure his disease, but it did not work and he became bedridden. A medical checkup at the county hospital showed that he suffered from an advanced stage of tuberculosis. The doctor told Ms. Liu Tianying that most of her husband's lungs had deteriorated, gave him some medicine and "put him into God's hands". The couple went home in despair. After that, all the housework and farm work became Ms. Liu's sole responsibility. Though life was very difficult, she did not complain. Instead, she always looked for some folk medicine to relieve her husband's suffering. When their son saw that it was too hard for his mother, he dropped out of school to help.

In 1998, Ms. Liu Tianying's parents learned Falun Gong. Not long after, all their illnesses disappeared, so they passed on the news to Ms. Liu and asked Mr. Liu Naichuan to learn Falun Gong.

Mr. Liu believed in what his parents-in-law told him. Since he could not get out of bed, Ms. Liu helped him to practice in bed. He learned the exercises set by set, and sometimes, even when he was sweating profusely, he did not want to take a break. Later when they listened to the nine lectures given by Teacher, they became even more determined to practice the exercises. Mr. Liu's tuberculosis disappeared before they even noticed. Ms. Liu Tianying was overjoyed and felt that her life was full of hope again. All this gave her long-suffering family a new life. As a result, she also began to practice Falun Gong. Her husband vowed to do all he could to help spread Falun Gong.

However, the good times did not last long. At the end of July 1999, when Mr. Liu's family was having dinner, news came of the persecution and the CCP's slander. That evening, Mr. Liu did not eat much and felt very unhappy. He thought that Falun Dafa was very good and that he was living proof. Why did the television station talk such nonsense?

A few days later, he went down the mountain to inquire about the news, and learned that many local practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. However, they were all being held in the police station to undergo brainwashing. He planned to go to Beijing also, but found out that he was under surveillance. Village leaders went to his home to warn him not to go out. Immediately after their warning, Gao Hongbin, head of the Shuanghou Township Police Station, led several thugs to Mr. Liu's home and forced their way inside. They pushed Mr. Liu into a police car and took him to the police station. The officers interrogated and threatened him at the police station, and kept him from going to Beijing.

In order to help the local people to learn about Falun Dafa, Mr. Liu often walked tens of kilometers at night to post truth-clarification banners, distribute materials and put up posters. In 2002, Gao Hongbin led a group of officers to break into Mr. Liu's home again. They ransacked his home before taking him to the police station for questioning. They attempted to make him confess, so that they could arrest more practitioners. After failing to get a confession, the officers detained and tortured him until he lost consciousness. He was then released.

Returning home, Mr. Liu continued to study the Fa and practice the exercises. As a result, he recovered quickly. Over the years, Mr. Liu spared no effort in telling people about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution.

On March 4, 2005, 610 Office officials of the Mengyin County Police Department and officers from Duozhuang Township Police Station went across the county border to break into and ransack Mr. Liu's home. They arrested Mr. Liu and his wife, and confiscated Falun Gong materials and books. The couple was taken to the Duozhuang Township Police Station, and then the police transferred Mr. Liu to Mengyin County Detention Center. Wang Wei, a 610 Office official of the Mengyin County Police Department, punched and kicked Mr. Liu. He tried to force Mr. Liu to reveal his fellow practitioners, under threat of a forced labor camp sentence. Mr. Liu refused to cooperate and suffered another beating.

In less than one month after Mr. Liu was taken to Mengyin County Police Department, he was coughing up blood and dying as a result of the harsh torture. The Mengyin County Police Department 610 Office released Mr. Liu, after forcing his children to pay them more than 3,000 yuan. Ms. Liu Tianying was transferred to the Yinan County Detention Center. After being tortured for three days, she was transferred back to Mengyin County Detention Center. During her detention, her face was deformed from the torture, and she was in a coma for a period of time. She was eventually released over one month later.

Upon his return, Mr. Liu could only lie in bed. He was unable to walk and coughed up blood often. On April 26, 2008, Mr. Liu passed away at the age of 48.

At the end of May 2008, officials from the 610 Office, the Police Department and the National Security Division of Yinan County, as well as officers from the Shuanghou Township Police Station led by Wang Jiqing, came to Mr. Liu's home again. Ms. Liu Tianying was not home at the time. The officers went to ransack other practitioners' homes first, and later returned to her home to try to arrest her.

Posting date: 1/27/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/16/216325.html

Police in Guangzhou Seize Tickets for Shen Yun Show in Hong Kong

2010-01-20T06:39:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Guangzhou City) CCP State Security agents secretly monitor ticket sales for the Shen Yun performances in Hong Kong, and try to stop people from mainland China from going to Hong Kong to watch the show. On January 8, 2010, Yang Fan's family in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province was harassed, and forced to hand over their four tickets to Shen Yun.

Mr. Yang Jun and his wife Li Jia live in Qingshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. They bought seven tickets to see Shen Yun in Hong Kong, and hoped to go watch the show together with family. They arrived at his son Yang Fan's home in Guangzhou, happily looking forward to the show.

CCP State Security agents and police found out about their ticket purchase via telephone eavesdropping. On January 8, 2010, five officers from Qingshan District Police Department of Wuhan City, Guangzhou City Police Department, and Panyu District Police Department stormed into Mr. Yang Fan's home in Panyu District, Guangzhou City, and forced the four to surrender their Shen Yun tickets. Otherwise, they would have been taken into custody immediately.

Mr. Yang Jun and his family had no choice but to give up their four tickets. His daughter-in-law is due to give birth in just two weeks. Meanwhile, the police demanded to know where the other 3 tickets were.

Mr. Yang Jun and his wife are both Falun Dafa practitioners, and clarified the truth to the police. The five officers finally left, but assigned neighborhood CCP personnel to closely watch the family.

The following day, eight officers stormed Mr. Yang Fan's home to demand the other 3 tickets, but they could not find Mr. Yang Jun. They returned to harass Mr. Yang Fan repeatedly, demanding to know his parent's location. Mr. Yang Fan's family thus endured huge mental pressure, especially with his wife about to give birth.

Zhang Zujun, Qingshan District Domestic Security Division of Wuhan City: 86-13100600709 (Cell)
Officer Feng from Guangzhou City Police Department: 86-13924150363 (Cell)
Officer Fang from Guangzhou City Police Department: 86-1390227723 (Cell)

Written on January 15, 2010

Posting date: 1/20/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/15/216342.html

Chang Guiyun is Tortured at the Heizuizi Women's Prison

2010-01-19T20:05:00.001-08:00

Name: Chang Guiyun (常桂云)
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 21, 2008
Most recent place of detention: Heizuizi Women's Prison of Changchun City (长春黑嘴子女子监狱)
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin

Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, torture, physical restraint, interrogation, detention

By a Clearwisdom correspondent in Jilin Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Chang Guiyun, aged 59, from Jiaohe City, Jilin Province, is being severely persecuted at the Heizuizi Women's Prison of Changchun City. She has lost all her teeth, lost a lot of weight, her facial features have become deformed and her hair has turned grey. She is unable to speak clearly or perform daily functions well.

Ms. Chang is forcibly brainwashed and constantly watched by inmates who are assigned to monitor and torture practitioners. She is forced to sit on a small plastic stool for 15 hours a day. She is also forced to watch video programs defaming Dafa, and then has to repeatedly write essays renouncing her belief in Falun Dafa. She is not allowed to go to bed until she finishes writing the essays. Every day from five in the morning until night, Ms. Chang and other practitioners are brainwashed this way. Under such great pressure, many practitioners have started showing symptoms of mental stress, and some have developed physical problems that they never had before, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, uterine cancer, ossein proliferation. These diseases cause loss of mobility and a decline in their health.

Due to the torture in the prison, Ms. Chang's arm was broken, and her cerebral thrombosis recurred. She has lost a lot of weight, her hair has turned grey, her teeth have all fallen out, she dribbles from the mouth, has difficulty eating, and she is constantly tearful. Upon seeing her condition, her family could not help but cry. During family visits, Ms. Chang just sobs. It is hard to tell the degree to which her physical and mental health has been affected by the persecution.

Ms. Chang was arrested by the police in a computer store on March 21, 2008. On July 4, she and four other practitioners Shi Xiuzhen, Zhang Min, Pang Shuwen, and Liu Baochun were sentenced by the Jiaohe Court. Ms. Chang was sentenced to eight years imprisonment. When detained at the Jiaohe Detention Center, she was tortured with various methods, including Hang Up, Hanging Up in the Air, and Tiger Bench.

Ms. Chang is a good person who has not committed any crime. She is jailed because of the persecution and the illegal trail. Due to Ms. Chang's poor health condition, her family requested the prison to release her on medical parole, but their request was rejected without any reason given.

January 8, 2010

Posting date: 1/19/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/9/215963.html

Repeated Persecution Suffered by Ms. Dong Xiuqiong from Huili County, Sichuan Province

2010-01-18T06:43:00.000-08:00

Name: Dong Xiuqiong (董秀琼)
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Address: Huili County, Liangshan Zhou, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 9, 2007
Most recent place of detention: Huili County Detention Center (会理县拘留所)
City: Huili County
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, beatings, extortion, interrogation, physical constraint, home ransacked.

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a Clearwisdom correspondent in Sichuan Province)

Ms. Dong Xiuqiong's statement of her experiences of persecution:

Before I started practicing Falun Gong, I had all kinds of illnesses: heart disease, autonomic dysfunction, cholecytitis, nephritis, enteritis, tracheitis, lumbar disc hyperosteogeny, and hyperplasia. These illnesses caused pain over my whole body and I could not take care of myself in my daily life.

After I started practicing Falun Gong, I gradually recovered from many of my illnesses. I could sleep well and do some household chores. My family members did not need to worry about me any more, and I saved a huge amount of money on medical expenses for our family. My family lived a happy life.

After the persecution began in 1999, the police often called and harassed us and would not allow me to practice Falun Gong. To help people who had been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) learn the truth about Falun Gong, we began to distribute truth-clarification materials. For doing this, we suffered frequent persecution.

One night in July 2002, I, my younger sister and younger brother, also practitioners, traveled some distance to Xinfa Township to distribute truth-clarification materials. We were reported by a villager whose last name is Liu. He kicked me, beat me and caused my nose to bleed. A big lump appeared on my head, and my body was black and blue. He also took 386 yuan away from my younger sister and me. He kept 100 yuan and gave the rest of the money to Yu Minggang, a police officer from the Tongan Police Station.

Yu Minggang and three other police officers handcuffed our hands behind our backs and then bound them with rope. They stuffed our mouths with tissues and gloves. They forced us to kneel down inside a Jeep and then drove us to the Tongan Police Station. Around 2 p.m. the next day, Yang Shaoliang and Li Youngkun from the National Security Team transferred us to the county detention center from the Tongan Police Station. My younger sister was detained at the detention center.

At the detention center, I was interrogated three times (twice by Wu Yan and Li Youngkun, once by Lu Jianrong and Li Youngkun.) They asked me where I had gotten the materials. I did not tell them. They threatened my family members and ordered them to force me to tell. I still did not tell them. They detained me for 24 days, then extorted 3,000 yuan from my family and released me. Before they let me go, they read me a piece of paper: "You are not allowed to go back to your parents' home. You are not allowed to distribute materials. You are not allowed to get in touch with other Falun Dafa practitioners."

From 2003 to 2004, my family often suffered harassment from the Chengnan Police Station. Deng from Chengnan Police Station brought several police officers with him, as well as Ma Jianlin and Wen Xiaohong from the National Security Team. They came to harass us and make it impossible for us to live a peaceful life.

On November 28, 2005, a fellow practitioner and I went to Nange Town to distribute truth-clarification materials. We were arrested by Wang Dingjun, the militia commander, Peng Xinglong, the chief of the village, Sun Dehua, the Party Secretary of the village and a militia. Wang Dingjun called Hongqi Police Station. Two police officers came and took us to the Hongqi Police Station. Yang Shaoliang and Jiang Fengliang from the National Security Team went to the police station and violently dragged us to the detention center and detained us there for 15 days.

On December 22, a fellow practitioner and I went to Dajuan village, Nange Town to post truth-clarification posters. Once again, Peng Xinglong reported us. We were arrested by the National Security Team and detained for 15 days.

On March 9, 2007, a fellow practitioner and I went to Aimin Village of Guoyuan Town to clarify the truth. We were reported by a villager. Yang Shaoliang, Jiang Fengliang, Pu Maohua, and Liu Jianping from the National Security Team came and tried to arrest me. I would not go with them. Yang Shaoliang dragged me on the ground for several meters. Later they detained me in the detention center. On March 12, Liu Jianping interrogated me. They handcuffed both of my hands. When they could not get answers for their questions, he took a book and slapped my face hard with it twice. At the detention center, since I did not agree to give my fingerprints, Qin Shijun, the director of the detention center, Deng Huiming, and Lu Hongyou ordered criminals to put shackles on my feet. On March 28, they wanted to photograph me. Because I was wearing shackles, I could not walk at a fast pace. Police officer Zhou Chaoyong slapped my face. They took off the shackles until April 5, the day I was to be transferred to the detention center. On May 15, because I was quite sick, Qi Xiingyou, the director of the detention center and two drug addicts took me to a hospital for a checkup. The doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure and heart trouble. They had to send me back to my family so that they could monitor me.

From 2008 to 2009, once again my family was harassed by the police. During the Olympic Games and the Huili Pomegranate Festival, they ordered my husband to monitor me and would not allow me to step out of the house. On the morning of April 25, 2009, Yang Shaoliang led several police and ransacked my home. They took away a copy of the book Zhuan Falun, MP3s, and a copy of Minghui Weekly.

Posting date: 1/18/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/11/216082.html

Li Yuhua from Yilan Town of Heilongjiang Tortured Brutally

2010-01-17T08:04:00.000-08:00

Name: Li Yuhua (礼玉华)
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Heilongjiang Yilan
Occupation: Self-employed

Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 25, 2002
Most Recent Place of Detention: Wanjia Forced Labor Camp (哈尔滨市万家劳教所)
City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Detention, extortion, interrogation, force-feedings, brainwashing, beatings, solitary confinement, torture, hanging up, electric shock, physical constraint, sleep deprivation and forced labor.

(Clearwisdom.net) Li Yuhua has been detained four times since 1999. She was detained in the No.2 Detention Center of Yilan Town for 267 days. She was also sentenced to a four-year term at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province. Between 1999 and 2003, she was detained at a detention center or forced labor camp.

Ms. Li Yuhua recounts the persecution she experienced during those years below:

First Detention

I went to Beijing to clear up misconceptions about Falun Gong on January 15, 2000. I was illegally arrested by Yilan Town police officers in Beijing and agents from the Chinese Communist Party Appeals Office. Three days later, I was taken to the Yilan Town Detention Center by Yilan officer Long Yunfei.

Sub-team leader Lin Zhong forced me to jog outside despite freezing weather. Lin Zhong also poured cold water over practitioners.

The food, such as corn buns and cabbage soup, was dirty and contained grass, soil, rat feces, flies and other contaminants.

I was tortured in the No. 2 Detention Center for 72 days and the guards extorted 720 yuan from me for food and fined me 500 yuan. I own a company for business clothing. While in the detention center, around New Year's Eve, one of the busiest times of the year, I lost 9,000 yuan.

Second Detention

On the afternoon of June 1, 2000, Cui You, head of the Yilan Town Chumu Police Station, ordered police officer Lin to arrest me and bring me to the station. Lin and other officers took me to the Yilan Town Police Station on June 26 and then transferred me to the Yilan Town No. 2 Detention Center.

Sub-leader Lin Zhong ordered Shang Dezhong and other prisoners to force-feed me. I was also taken to a brainwashing session and had to watch television programs that slandered Falun Dafa.

Lin Zhong, Guo Ying, Su Di and another three prisoners beat us and confiscated the Falun Dafa book Zhuan Falun.

They made us pay 540 yuan for food, and an additional 3,000 yuan, and I was detained for 60 days. I was tortured by Yilan police for half a year. In addition, my business went bankrupt.

Third Detention

On November 25, 2000, I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is righteous!" on Tiananmen Square. Several police and plainclothes officers pushed me to the ground. I repeated, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is righteous!" three times. I was taken to the Tiananmen police station. Yilan Beijing police officer Han Yunjie, who has since died, recognized me. I was taken to the Yilan No. 2 Detention Center by a Chumu police officer.

Lin Zhong ordered five to six male prisoners to force-feed me and put me on a small stool, a torture instrument. My legs hurt and I could barely breathe. Then, five to six prisoners pulled me by my hair. Two prisoners held my hands and others pinched my nose to stop my breathing through the nose. Another pinched my face. One used a chopstick to probe my teeth and another brushed my throat with a tooth brush. Then, they poured salt water into my mouth and I was almost asphyxiated.

I fainted and one of the prisoners carried me back to my cell. I threw up and my hair, face, neck and clothes were covered by the regurgitated concentrated salt water.

The third detention lasted 30 days. I was sentenced to forced labor for one year starting on December 28, 2000.

First Forced Labor Camp Imprisonment

At around 5 a.m. on December 28, 2000, I was taken to the No. 7 Division in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, by Wang, head of the No. 2 Detention Center.

Zhang Bo, the team leader of the No. 7 Division, put me into solitary confinement for 2 weeks because I refused to renounce Falun Dafa.

Another practitioner recited Falun Dafa teachings in the canteen. Guards from the No. 9 Division put her in solitary confinement. All firm practitioners went on a hunger strike and demanded that the practitioner be released. Male guards came into the canteen and beat and screamed at us. I was put into solitary confinement.

We had to attend brainwashing sessions and watch CCTV's "Focal Point" programs, which maligned Falun Dafa and Teacher.

Fourth Detention

At 9 p.m. on April 25, 2002, Li, the head of the Chumu police, ordered about five policemen to break into my home and ransack it. They confiscated Teacher's photo and Falun Dafa materials. Li called Lu Junshan, head of the Yilan police, for direction and was told, "Take her to the detention center."

I was taken to the Yilan No. 2 Detention Center. In June 2002, Wang Yutao transferred me to the Harbin Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. I did not pass the health test, so I was taken back to the Yilan No. 2 Detention Center, where I was held until August 8, a total of 75 days.

Second Forced Labor Camp Imprisonment

On August 8, 2002, Zheng Jun, the head of the No. 2 Detention Center, took me to Harbin Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, Heilongjiang Province. Yao Fuchang, sub-head at the camp, kicked my back. I was forced to squat for eleven days from morning to midnight.

On the afternoon of August 19, team leader Zhao Yuqing ordered prisoner Bai Xuelian to torture me with the "big hang up." My blood pressure was already 190. Yao Fuchang then shocked

my head, eyes, ears, lips and throat with an electric baton, increasing the electric power frequently.

Then, I was tortured on the iron chair. Yao Fuchang shocked me with an electric baton until I was at death's door. He asked Wang, the camp doctor, to give me medicine. Prisoner Bai Xuelian and another prisoner claimed that I was just pretending, so they beat me again. I suffered sleep deprivation for quite some time.

On October 16, 2002, I was forced to squat for three days and nights for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. In the afternoon, Zhao Yuqing took me to an office and kicked me on the way in. I again was tortured on the iron chair and Yao Fuchang shocked me with an electric baton.

At the end of 2003, I was taken to the No. 12 Ward and had to perform forced labor. I was not allowed to sleep until I met my quota.

Sometimes during January 2004, practitioners, including myself, were forced to bind books. The machine was very old. No one wanted to start the machine, as it did not look safe. The smell in the room made it hard for people to breathe and whoever was in there for a long time came down with a headache. Li Baibing, a supervisor, was worried about being poisoned. Around 6 p.m. on February 28, Harbin practitioner Zhao Fengyun died while working in that room. The next day, we shouted: "Falun Dafa is Good! No labor work. Mourn for Zhao Fengyun!" Practitioners who joined this activity were tortured for seven or eight days.

My Family's Suffering

My family suffered great financial losses due to my 260 days in detention. I was unable to work during one of the busiest seasons of the year. My store was forced to close down, eliminating my source of income. My husband had a heart attack and my daughter was upset because she could not afford her school tuition.

Guards of the No. 2 Yilan Detention Center extorted 4,670 yuan from us. My business lost 20,000 yuan. The four years in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp resulted in a loss of 80,000 yuan.

The persecution brought great suffering to my family.

Posting date: 1/17/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/1/6/215784.html

Ph.D. Student Develops Mental Disorder after Serving Two Terms in Forced Labor Camp

2010-01-12T07:16:00.001-08:00

Name: Huang Hongqi (黄红启)
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Address: Huangpi District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Occupation: Ph.D Student in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Dalian Institute of Technology
Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 30, 2006
Most Recent Place of Detention: Chini Town Second Forced Labor Camp in Huandi District
Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province (广州市花都赤泥镇第二劳教所)
City: Guangzhou
Province: Guangdong
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, solitary confinement, torture, physical restraint, interrogation

Key Persecutors: Nei Jingyu (那景寓), Fan Hongtao (范红涛), Han Guiwu (韩贵武)

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent in Hubei Province) Mr. Huang Hongqi, a quiet student in a Ph.D. program, was twice sent to a forced labor camp, where he suffered five years of brutal mistreatment that caused him to have a mental breakdown.

Mr. Huang was working on his Ph.D. dissertation at the Dalian Institute of Technology when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. As a Dafa practitioner, he joined the effort to clarify the truth to people about Falun Gong, but he was arrested in September, 1999. Police from Dalian City, Liaoning Province arrested him, and in December, 1999 sentenced him to two and a half years of forced labor. He was held in the Dalian Correction Center. The Dalian Institute of Technology stripped him of his Ph.D. candidacy. He refused to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa and was beaten, shocked, and subjected to the tiger bench torture. He suffered additional consequences because of the torture he endured in the camp--he lost hearing when his eardrum was ruptured and his nose was damaged during brutal force-feeding.

In July 2003, officers from the National Security Office in Wuhan City, Hubei Province arrested Mr. Huang. He was often moved from place to place with his eyes covered. He was threatened and then promised 10,000 yuan to become a spy for the government. He rejected it. He suffered a mental breakdown after six months of mistreatment. Mr. Huang was disoriented, extremely nervous and fearful of policemen and police cars. He was constantly worried about being followed or monitored. He would close all the windows and doors in the house and was afraid to leave home.

On January 1, 2006, Mr. Huang took a train south to visit his girlfriend. The next day, at about 4 p.m., a policeman with the surname Huang, from the Guangzhou Railway Public Security Office, arrested him at the train station and detained him in the office on 30 Guangyuanxi Street. On February 14, 2006, his parents went to the public security office to see him. Nei Jingyu and Fan Hongtao told his parents that Mr. Huang was detained because he was found carrying a Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party book and his computer contained Falun Dafa material.

A few months later, Mr. Huang's family was informed that he was sentenced to two years of forced labor and was held in the Chini Town Second Forced Labor Camp in Huandi District Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. Once again, Mr. Huang was the subject of brutal persecution: guards slammed his head against the wall, and kicked his lower back while he was forced to kneel. The harsh treatment devastated him and further aggravated his mental disorder. He was incoherent, could not recognize his parents, and drank and smoked. To avoid being held responsible for his condition, the camp released him two months earlier than the release date.

In November 2007, he was released. After his release, he was extremely nervous and was afraid to live at home. He would turn ash white whenever his past experiences were brought up.

However, in June 2008, Han Guiwu, the deputy director of the 610 Office in Huangpi District, Hubei Province, ordered Mr. Huang's family to take him to a brainwashing center. They threatened to come and get him if he was not taken there. Mr. Huang was frightened and trembling. He wanted to hide but there was no place to do so. In the end, the 610 Office gave up trying to brainwash him.

In the past two years, Mr. Huang's mental illness has recurred on and off. Recently, he seemed to get worse - constantly worrying that the National Security agents were watching him. He broke and destroyed windows, doors, furniture and a computer in his own home. He was beaten and badly hurt a few times when he was out. On December 9, 2009, fearing that they could not control him, his family admitted him to the Lutai Mental Hospital in Huangpi District, Hubei Province for treatment.

The persecution thus destroyed a once outstanding and promising young intellectual.

Written on December 19, 2009

Posting date: 1/12/2010
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/21/214753.html

Illegally Imprisoned and Tortured, Ms. Jiang Zhifang Almost Loses Her Eyesight

2009-12-21T08:04:00.000-08:00

Name: Jiang Zhifang (蒋智芳)
Gender: Female
Age: 57
Address: Xigao Township, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province (四川省广汉市西高乡)
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 21, 2006
Most recent place of detention: Sichuan Women's Prison in Yangma Town (养马镇四川省女子监狱)
City: Jianyang City (简阳市)
Province: Sichuan Province (四川省)
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Imprisonment, Illegal sentencing, Home Ransacked, Extortion, Reeducation through labor.

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a Minghui Correspondent in Sichuan Province) Ms. Jiang Zhifang believes in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and she practices Falun Gong. In the past ten years during the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, her home was searched several times. She was also illegally arrested and sentenced to forced labor camps several times. She suffered all kinds of persecution and torture. On September 21 2006, She was once again arrested by Yang Bin, a policeman at the National Security Bureau in Guanghan. Later, she was sentenced to three years of imprisonment by Shi Xiaoli, the judge at the Guanghan court which is controlled by the CCP.

In June 2007, Jiang Zhifang was taken to the Female Prison of Sichuan Province in Yangma Township, Jianyang City. The following policemen along with the criminals at the prison brutally persecuted her and tortured her: Yu Zhifang, Deng Qinwen, Chen Qiong, Min Lu, Zhu Xi, Xu, Chen Li, Tan Feiyan, and etc.

She almost lost her eyesight completely and was not able to take care of herself. Even when her health was in such a bad condition, the CCP officials didn't let her go. Yang Bin from the National Security in Guanghan, Bao Xingyue, Cai, and Hu Jia from the Xigao Police Substation, Qin Daoxue who is the Secretary of the CCP's committee at the village, Yang Chengquan who is the Head of the village, together with another policeman, broke into Ms. Jiang's home on September 28 2009. They didn't have any legal documents with them. When Ms. Jiang wasn't watching them closely, they placed twenty Falun Dafa truth-clarification DVDs in her living room. Then they hurriedly took some photos and claimed they found these materials at her home. They tried to force her to say she got these materials from another Falun Dafa practitioner from the same village. They were trying to incriminate another Falun Dafa practitioner.

Jiang Zhifang said, "My eyes are not good. However, my brain still works. Since I was released from prison, I fell down several times when I was walking. Therefore, I seldom go out. Nobody came here either." Policeman Yang Bin realized that she would refuse to help them incriminate the other Falun Dafa practitioner, so he threatened her, "If you don't admit this, we will put you in prison for another two years." Another policeman threatened to hit her. Then somehow his conscience spoke to him and he eventually put his fist down.

Jiang Zhifang was released from the Female Prison of Sichuan Province. However, seven days later, she was once again arrested and detained at the Guanghan Detention Center for twenty-two days.

Posting date: 12/21/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/9/214095.html

Mr. Yu Kaixin and His Wife, Ms. Tan Shunbi, Face Sentencing

2009-12-19T11:25:00.000-08:00

By a Minghui Correspondent in Chengdu City

(Clearwisdom.net) On November 18, 2009, Mr. Yu Kaixin and his wife, Ms. Tan Shunbi, were arrested by the Jinsha Police Station while clarifying the truth. They are being detained in the Pi County Detention Center. Police officers threaten that they will be sent to prison. Their family now feels great pressure to pay the bribes the officials demand.

Mr. Yu Kaixin is a retired teacher in his 60s. He used to have many diseases, but since he began practicing Falun Gong, all have disappeared, and he has become significantly stronger. He and his wife have been arrested many times and even brutally beaten because they refuse to give up their beliefs.

In 2000, they were arrested by public security officials while they were clarifying the truth. Mr. Yu Kaixin was illegally detained for ten days.

In November, 2008, Mr. Yu Kaixin and his wife, Tan Shunbi, were reported by public security officials and arrested by the Caitang Police Station while they were telling people about Falun Gong. Mr. Yu Kaixin shouted loudly "Falun Dafa is good." Police officers responded with tear gas, leaving his face swollen and distorted. Police forced him to the ground, took him to a police station and brutally beat him. They pressed a steel bar against the wife's mouth until it bleed. Even now, part of her mouth is still not healed. Later, they both were taken to a detention center and detained for nearly one month. They were transferred to the Xinjin Brainwashing Center for more than 20 days while police extorted money from their family for their release.

In September, 2009, Mr. Yu Kaixin was beaten by police officers when he was clarifying the truth. The police officers covered his eyes and dragged him on the ground for a long distance until his pants were tattered. Later he was detained in the Jiulidi Police Station for ten days.

In October, 2009, Ms. Yan Shunbi was arrested by plainclothes police while she was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong at the Jinsha Train Station. She was detained in the Jinsha Police Station for 15 days.

Posting date: 12/19/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/12/5/213836.html

Human Rights Day in Bratislava (Photos)

2009-12-17T07:46:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) More than half a century ago, on December 10, the international community stipulated basic human rights which must be guaranteed to all people under all circumstances. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This day became an international day of human rights.

China was one of the countries which voted in favor of the declaration. In contrast to this, it is one of the largest abusers of human rights in the world. Article 5 of the declaration states: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

Falun Gong practitioners from Slovakia remembered this day on December 10, 2009, by holding a rally and collecting signatures on a petition. They informed public about human rights violations of Falun Gong practitioners in China, at the hands of the communist regime. These people are detained in forced labor camps, persecuted, and tortured for their beliefs.

The passersby asked about the absurd persecution. One older lady who passed by, signed the petition without any hesitation, saying, "You don't have to explain it much to me. I was in a concentration camp when I was young." Sad facts from China could be related to by many people from older generations.

More than a hundred people signed the petition during the event. A reporter from a state press agency wrote a piece about the rally.

Posting date: 12/17/2009
Category: Community Events

Large Scale Organ Harvesting in Guizhou Province Exposed (Photos)

2009-12-14T07:28:00.000-08:00

By Shuguang in Guizhou Province

(Clearwisdom.net) In 2009, the mainland Chinese magazine "Finance and Economics" disclosed a case of organ harvesting from a living person and murder committed by the deputy chief physician Zhang Junfeng and two other doctors at the liver transplant section of the Guangzhou City Zhongshan University affiliate No. 3 Hospital (also known as Zhongshan No. 3 Hospital). They brought a homeless person from Xingyi, Guizhou province to the hospital for blood tests and matching, took all the usable organs from his body, and then threw the corpse into the reservoir.

Organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been widely reported outside of China, and for many years the United Nations has been requesting that the CCP publicly acknowledge the widespread practice of organ harvesting. For many years, reporting anything related to organ harvesting has been the CCP's top forbidden area. Within a month of publishing the above-mentioned article, "Finance and Economics" was ordered to suspend its publication for three months to reorganize and the Chinese Propaganda Department did not allow the media to follow up on the report.

After this event was made public, people inside and outside of China were in an uproar, and as soon as "organ harvesting" was mentioned, attention returned to Falun Gong. As early as December 22, 2000, the Minghui website reported evidence that the CCP was harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs. Other media further exposed the massive evil conduct of the CCP in harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs, a practice which reached its peak around 2003.

Perhaps readers who hear about this for the first time will be shocked as never before. How can such an inhumane thing happen in modern civilization? Perhaps some people will think it is inconceivable, even unbelievable; however, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners has indeed reached extreme inhumanity. Even though the CCP has been covering up the truth for many years to avoid causing public outrage, these evil acts have been conducted on many people, including people who are not practitioners.

1. Use of Execution Vehicle

According to the "Guizhou Metropolis Newspaper", on February 20, 2004, the Zunyi City Intermediate People's Court began to use the nation's first large-scale execution vehicle, which cost over 600,000 yuan. People were executed in this vehicle with a medical injection. Since then this "vehicle of death" has spread to every region of China.

execution vehicle

execution vehicle

The exterior of the vehicle looks like a conventional bus, but the compartment's interior is like a hospital operating room. As early as 60 years ago, the Nazis took the lead in using a similar execution method. In order to save time in transporting the criminals and Jews, Nazi scientists developed a sealed truck which could send carbon monoxide into the vehicle from the exhaust pipe, and kill 50 people at one time.

In the eyes of CCP officials, the biggest advantage of the execution vehicle is the convenience of taking organs from criminals for profit: their eyes, kidneys, livers, pancreas, lung and all other useful body parts, are harvested. These organs are then rushed to hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, sold to rich people awaiting transplants, or sold to "organ transplant tourists" from overseas.

Because of traditional Chinese customs, very few people donate organs. Most people want to have an entire body after the death of a loved one. Almost no Chinese agree in their wills to donate their organs, nor do they discuss this topic with family members. However in recent years, the number of China's organ transplants has skyrocketed. Take the occurrences of liver transplants as an example. According to official CCP statistics, there were only 78 transplants nationwide in the eight years before 1998, but by 2003, there was a dramatic rise to over 3000 liver transplants. In 2005 alone, China carried out nearly 4000 liver transplants and 10,000 kidney transplants, however only 300 of those kidneys were from willing donors. China has many big hospitals that provide the shortest waiting period for organs in the world. During the six to seven years after 2000, some hospitals publicly declared that the waiting period for organs was one to four weeks, or even just several days. Many big hospitals performed multiple transplant operations at the same time, around the clock.

This astonishing speed and quantity is actually hiding a question: In China, where do these large numbers of human organs come from? To guarantee such a large quantity and ready availability of human organs, there has to be an organ donor bank of living people. These individuals must be strictly controlled, as they need to have blood tests and other medical testing at any time, and then, to maintain freshness and activeness of organs, they must be harvested in conjunction with the arrival time of patients. So who are the people that form such a live organ donor bank?

In July 2006, Canadian researchers publicized a 49-page investigative report on the "Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China". Members of this independent investigation, David Kilgour, Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific and David Mates, renowned human rights attorney, indicated that in the past five years, it was determined that at least 41,500 organ transplants had unclear organ sources. Very possibly, they were from Falun Gong practitioners. The report provided 33 kinds of undeniable evidence.

2. Organ Banks

At the end of August, the CCP admitted to the world for the first time that organs were being taken from executed convicts, and they acknowledged that over 650f organ transplants in China are from executed prisoners. The CCP had previously vigorously denied taking organs from executed prisoners, calling such an act heartless, cruel and barbaric. This blatant assault on basic human rights does not belong in the world. Now that the CCP has actually acknowledged this in public, its primary goal is to cover up the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Organ harvesting from living people has became a part of the CCP's established health system,

The CCP states that there are about 1800 executions each year; however, during the persecution of Falun Gong from 1999 to 2005, organ transplant operations increased to 60,000 cases. This is dozens of times more than the number of executed prisoners, so where were these organs coming from? After the CCP's organ harvesting was made public in 2006, the number of liver transplants suddenly plummeted. The number of liver transplants in 2007 was only half of what it was in 2005.

On March 8, 2006, a former CCP reporter in Japan disclosed to the Epoch Times newspaper in the United States, "there was a special place" in the Sujiatun area, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province of China, where massive numbers of Falun Gong practitioners were detained. They would be killed eventually and their organs removed for transplant. The crime of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners in China's forced labor camps and concentration camps began at the end of 2000. It was a common occurrence and still continues in forced labor camps, prisons, secret concentration camps and related hospitals in China. On some Chinese hospital websites, you could even find a guarantee of finding matching donors for livers and kidneys within a short time. We all know even in the United States, with a very developed tradition of organ donation, the average wait time for an organ is two to seven years because of the difficulty of finding a completely compatible organ. However, in China's hospitals, matching livers and kidneys could be found within 24 hours. This witness added that many people base the organ transplant data on the CCP's official information but, in fact, the underground private organ transplant activity is many times greater than the pubic figures. The organ transplant management system is the Army; therefore, there is a need to pay specific attention to many military installations, where the genuine concentration camps are found.

Philosophy Prof. Christopher Martin at the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas told a reporter: This is not only a crime committed against its people by a political power, but also an extreme crime against humanity. In China so many people are killed for organs that are meant for saving people. This is a huge crime; moreover, since this results from a government policy; that makes this the government's crime.

When the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, the coordinated policy of Jiang Zemin and the CCP regarding the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners was to: "defame their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically." Falun Gong was discredited and demonized by the CCP media, and practitioners suffered arbitrary arrest, detention and maltreatment. Jiang issued a secret order against Falun Gong practitioners: "It is not a crime to beat them to death, just accuse them of having committed suicide, don't report the death and have them cremated." The persecution was then pushed to the level of hysteria. In CCP prisons, forced labor camps, detention centers, mental hospital and brainwashing centers, Falun Gong practitioners who refused to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" have suffered cruel mental and physical torture, sexual violation, and harm from drugs that damage central nervous system. Although the CCP has not publicly sentenced Falun Gong practitioners to death up to now, the incomplete statistics at the Minghui website indicate that 3336 Falun Gong practitioners are verified to have been killed due to torture. Organ harvesting is the direct execution method of Jiang's policy to "destroy them physically".

Organ harvesting began from the secret orders of Jiang and the Central Committee of the CCP. Orders were sent to every military area, and the Army became the main responsible organization for the CCP's management system of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. The Army, medical departments, 610 Offices, police, detention centers and prison system coordinated and conducted blood tests on Falun Gong practitioners nationwide. They were registered into a computer system, as a unified live organ bank. They worked together to imprison the practitioners, designate those whose organs are needed, transport them, remove the organs and then cremate the corpses to cover up the evidence. Because the crime of harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs was exposed, the international community's attention was aroused and the CCP moved the organ harvesting underground and destroyed evidence on a large-scale basis. However, the organ harvesting is still happening.

At the beginning of May 2006, an investigative reporter from Sound of Hope International Radio questioned doctors at the Shandong Weihai Navy 404 Hospital about a transplant. One doctor promised a family member of a patient requesting a liver transplant that lots of organs would arrive in mid-May, all from healthy adult death penalty prisoners. The 404 Hospital deals mainly in liver transplants. The hospital indicated that a living liver was located in Guizhou, removed at the Shanghai Hospital, and then assigned to the 404 Hospital. When asked if the organ source involved anything illegal, the doctor guaranteed that everything from the Guizhou side was perfectly legal, so there was no need for the patient to worry.

Based on what the doctors at the Weihai Navy 404 Hospital disclosed, it was inferred that Guizhou has a living organ bank. Just like the witness who exposed the plots going on behind the scenes at the concentration camp said, they are lying their way through the legal procedures. Because of Guizhou's unique topography, the military installation is complex. Many of the mountains are home to secret military bases that the CCP has used for war preparation in the past. If large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned there, it would not be easily discovered by the outside world. Therefore it is important to expose the behind-the-scenes plotting layer by layer, and prevent the imminent killing of more Falun Gong practitioners.

3. Two Guizhou Falun Gong Practitioners Had Organs Removed and their Corpses Discarded

In August 2006, the overseas media filed many reports about Guizhou Falun Gong practitioners Fu Keshu of Kaiyang County and Xu Genli of Jinsha County. The practitioners had their organs removed and the their corpses were thrown into the wilderness. The pictures of the remains were horrible to view and shocked many people both inside and outside of China. At the same time it also allowed the population of Guizhou to clearly see the CCP's evil and terror for the first time.

Fu Keshu

Xu Genli

At the end of April 2006, after being missing for half a year, the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners Fu Keshu of Kaiyang County and Xu Genli of Jinsha County were found at Five Fingers Peak in Jinggang Mountain. It was apparent to those who saw them that their organs had been removed. The eyeballs had been dug out and Xu Genli's visceral organs were taken out of the young man. Dr. Xu Jianchao from the kidney branch of Yale University analyzed the pictures and saw many signs indicating that their organs were removed while they were alive. However, the CCP police claimed they both committed suicide, so the families' requests for further investigation were denied.

After hearing of this atrocity, the author of this article, also a resident of Guizhou, called an army hospital in the capital Nanchang, Jiangxi where Jinggang Mountain is located, claiming that a family member needed an organ transplant and inquiring what the wait would be. The hospital was quick to respond, "If you can get 60,000 yuan together, we will have a donor very quickly and your relative may have the surgery in a week."

Canadian independent investigators Kilgour and others said in Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China: "The CCP's crime of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners is a grotesque form of evil new to this planet". Every small piece of information from different aspects callously explains this matter's real and huge scale.

4. United Nations Requests Investigation

At present, under public opinion pressure from the international community, politicians in 18 countries have requested the United Nations to take action. The United Nations' counter-torture committee issued a report, requesting an investigation of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners, and requested that the responsible people be brought to justice.

Recently a Spanish Court made a historic decision and indicted CCP ex-leader Jiang Zemin and four other high-ranking CCP officials on charges of genocide and torture for their role in the persecution of Falun Gong. The court notice indicated that if the defendants are found guilty, they will face at least 20 years imprisonment. This prosecution is against the nationwide persecution and acts of "genocide" initiated by Jiang on Falun Gong practitioners who firmly practice "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance". The defendants have four to six weeks to dispute the charges. If there is no response, the court will issue an international warrant for their arrest.

Carlos Iglesias, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs said, "This historic decision by a Spanish judge means that Chinese Communist Party leaders responsible for brutal crimes are now one step closer to being brought to justice. Those who commit monstrous crimes need to know, their day in court is coming. Peaceful and innocent Falun Gong practitioners are cruelly persecuted only because of their belief; this is not allowed by the law and will of the people. Justice is inescapable. Nobody will escape this just trial. The people of China, the Chinese people with 5000 years of precious history and culture, can't allow the CCP to trample on their values. I sincerely hope that the light of justice shines on the great land of China as soon as possible."

The organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners is the gravest of the many crimes the CCP has committed against Falun Gong practitioners.

Posting date: 12/14/2009
Category: Opinions
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/12/2/213386.html

Ms. Jiang Nan Abused in Mental Hospital in Sichuan Province

2009-12-13T10:23:00.000-08:00

Name: Jiang Nan (姜楠)
Gender: female
Age: 39
Address: Deyang City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Teacher at the Deyang City No. 2 Middle School
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 7, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: The Deyang City Mental Health Center (德阳市精神卫生中心 )
City: Deyang
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Fired from job, held in detention, hospitalized in mental hospital, and administered unknown drugs against her will
Key Persecutors: Peng Haibo, Ms. Jiang's ex-husband, Deputy Village Chief of Jingyang Village, Jingyang District, Deyang City, Sichuan Province; Chief of Armed Force Unit in Jingyang Village, and prison guard at the Deyang City No. 1 Prison designated to persecute and detain Falun Dafa practitioners: 86-13708109538 (Cell). Doctor and Chief Wang of the Deyang City Mental Health Center: 86-13881011580 (Cell). Doctor Zhou: 86-838-2873030 (Office). Wei, director of the Deyang No. 2 Middle School: 86-15183818857 (Cell). Lu Yan, Chief of Hospital Administration: 86-838-2873778 (Office)

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Sichuan Province) Ms. Jiang Nan was arrested on August 7, 2009, while she was distributing materials about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution. She was taken to the Deyang City Mental Health Center, where she was forced to take large doses of unknown drugs for almost four months.

Ms. Jiang, 39, a teacher at the Deyang No. 2 Middle School, began practicing Falun Dafa at the recommendation of her ex-husband, Peng Haibo. After she became a practitioner, her sinusitis, dermatitis, and eczema all disappeared. Her husband stopped practicing after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. He also forbade his wife from practicing, and he hit and kicked her whenever she did the exercises. He also destroyed her Falun Dafa books. Since Ms. Jiang was unable to do the exercises at home, she would do them in the school where she worked. When the school officials and teachers found out about it, she was suspended and a confession was extorted from her.

In 2008, her husband divorced Ms. Jiang after discovering that she had clarified the truth to a fellow teacher. She suffered an emotional breakdown and was suspended from her job and was told to stay home and have her illness treated.

Despite the brutal persecution, Ms. Jiang quickly overcame all difficulties and persisted in clarifying the facts and talking about the goodness of Falun Dafa. She did not consider her own safety and she persevered in talking to people about Dafa and advising them to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

On August 7, 2009, an informant reported Ms. Jiang to the police while she was distributing informational material in Longqiao, Deyang City. The police arrested her, broke into her home, and took about a dozen Falun Dafa books and other personal items. They handcuffed her in the presence of an official from her school and took her to a mental health center against her will. The police told the officials at the mental health center that she could not leave the hospital without the permission of school officials. They also told her that she would be given a criminal sentence if she continued to practice Falun Dafa. Her school principal said that Ms. Jiang had to admit that she suffered from mental illness in order to avoid a criminal sentence.

In the mental health center, Ms. Jiang was forced to take many unknown drugs. Several people tied her to a bed or a chair and forced her to ingest them. She was tied her to a bed or chair for prolonged periods and did not receive proper care. She soon became emaciated .

In November of 2009, Doctor Zhou of the mental health center told Ms. Jiang's family that she was well enough to be discharged from the hospital, but her school supervisor was required to pick her up. Ms. Jiang's family contacted director Wei of the Deyang City No. 2 Middle School, but he did not go get her from the medical center. Ten days later, Ms. Jiang's family again asked Wei to get Ms. Jiang from the hospital. Wei replied that he would go to the hospital before the end of the week.

A plea is being made to all people of justice to join efforts to stop the CCP's persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners and rescue the hundreds of thousands of good people like Ms. Jiang Nan.

Posting date: 12/13/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/12/2/213667.html

Ms. Huang Jiazhen Grossly Abused at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province

2009-12-10T11:32:00.000-08:00

By a Minghui correspondent in Jilin Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Huang Jiazhen from Tumen was mistreated at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp, No. 6 Division, beginning in 2004. The local police arrested her again in January 2009, and held her at the local detention center for six months. She was able to escape during that time, but was arrested again. She was once again sent to the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp, No. 6 Division, in September 2009.

Ms. Huang held a hunger strike to protest the abuse and mistreatment, which was carried out by the criminal inmates who monitored her. With her arms and legs cuffed to four corners of a bed, she was immobilized and not released even when she needed to use the toilet. She was not released from this torture until she developed a fever and needed an IV transfusion. The labor camp officials refused to let her family visit her or bring her clothes.

Ding Caihong and Zhu Dan are division heads in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at the No. 6 Division of the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp.

Posting date: 12/10/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/12/6/213918.html

Four Practitioners from Zhaoyuan City Heavily Sentenced Without a Trial

2009-12-08T07:19:00.000-08:00

By a Minghui correspondent from Shandong Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Shuchun, Ms. Wang Haohong, Mr. Li Yongjie and Mr. Peng Yuekuan from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, were arrested and then heavily sentenced by the Zhaoyuan Municipal Court. As of November 9, 2009, they have been held for five and a half months. Ms. Zhang Shuchun was sentenced to seven and a half years, Ms. Wang Haohong seven years, and Mr. Li Yongjie five years, while the sentence of Mr. Peng Yuekuan is unknown.

On November 9, a so-called trial was held, while in fact there was nothing legal about the proceedings. The only ones present in the courtroom were Wang Haitao, the vice presiding judge, and one of his staff members. The only ones in the audience were five of the defendants' relatives. After Wang Haitao arrived in the court room, he and his staff member hastily wrote down some things. When they were done writing, Wang Haitao announced the judgments to the defendants' relatives. The relatives of the Dafa practitioners were very angry and asked the court, "How can you make such sentences without an open court?" Wang Haitao answered, "There is no need for an open court."

The mothers of Zhang Shuchun and Wang Haohong, are both almost 80 years old. So that they would not miss their daughters' court hearing, the two elderly mothers waited for seven days outside near the detention station where Ms. Zhang and Ms. Wang were in custody. During that time a cold front came through and the temperature dropped significantly. At night, they slept on corn stalks near the detention station. They were not able to see their daughters in the court; they could only hear the harsh sentences against their daughters.

Ms. Zhang Shuchun, Ms. Wang Haohong, Mr. Li Yongjie and Mr. Peng Yuekuan were brutally arrested in Xingbei Village, Xiadian Town in May 2009. The arrest was reported by the Clearwisdom website. They have been held in Zhaoyuan City Detention Station for five and a half months. Dafa practitioners Mr. Wang Renqing and Mr. Wang Lianglin were also arrested at the same time. They are still detained and suffering persecution in the notorious Ling Nan Jin Brainwashing Center.

Ms. Zhang Shuchun, Ms. Wang Haohong, Mr. Li Yongjie, and Mr. Peng Yuekuan have been suffering severe persecution from the Chinese Communist Party during the past decade. This persecution has been reported by the Clearwisdom website on many occasions. Ms. Zhang Shuchun, Ms. Wang Haohong and Mr. Li Yongjie were forcibly displaced for many years. Mr. Peng Yuekuan has previously been sentenced to five years. He has been arrested again, just less than a year just after he finished serving five years in jail.

Dafa practitioners, Ms. Wang Meifen, Ms. Li Yufeng and Ms. Yang Songmei have also been arrested recently and have been detained in brainwashing centers.

We hope that the situation of the persecuted practitioners in Zhaoyuan City will come to the attention of advocates of justice at home and abroad.

Posting date: 12/8/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/11/16/212732.html

Painting: Lotus Flower

2009-12-07T07:25:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) This painting by an American practitioner depicts a lotus flower as seen in another dimension. The background was done with computer graphics and then filled in with watercolors.

The Decade-Long Persecution of Ms. Luo Junlan

2009-12-07T07:24:00.000-08:00

By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Sichuan Province

Name: Luo Junlan
Gender: Female
Age: 56
Address: No. 231 Dongping Street, Lanjiang Town, Suining City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 9, 2005
Most Recent Place of Detention: Lezhi County Detention Center
City: Suining
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, hung up, beatings, malnutrition, torture, extortion, home ransacked

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Luo Junlan has been persecuted for ten years. Government officials have harassed her, ransacked her home, and arrested her on 29 occasions. She once lived away from home for more than two years to avoid the persecution.

Below is her personal account of the persecution.

I live at No. 231 Dongping Street in Lanjiang Town, Suining City, Sichuan Province, and am a seamstress. I used to suffer from various illnesses, including migraines, chronic pharyngitis, gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), angina pectoris and stomach problems, and was eventually diagnosed with gastric cancer. Fortunately, I began practicing Falun Gong in January 1999. Master saved my life, but Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong six months later by spreading vicious lies and fanatically persecuting the practitioners.

Communist Party officials harassed me, ransacked my home, and arrested and detained me for a total of 29 times in the last ten years and also tapped my phone.

Persecution and torture in Beijing in 2000

I joined four other practitioners to go to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong on February 18, 2000. One of the practitioners left a note for her husband, who submitted it to the police, leaking our travel plans. The police came to my home in my absence and arrested my 16-year-old niece. They locked her in a small, dark room for one hour and interrogated her as to my whereabouts. She was terrified and burst into tears.

The police divided into two groups and went separate ways to intercept us. One group rented a private car that belonged to a person named Xia Guanghua and went to the Chengdu Train Station; the other group, headed by Fenshui Town Police Station head Rong Huaneng, went to the Mianyang Train Station. The five of us were intercepted at the Mianyang Train Station ticket checkpoint at 7:00 p.m. on February 28, 2000. They led us inside the waiting room and took our copies of Zhuan Falun. They declared I was the organizer and handcuffed me and pushed me into a vehicle. It was a bit past 2:00 a.m. by the time we arrived at the police station. Official Tang Yuying body-searched us. Then they locked us in a small dark room.

Liu Zhongyun, a street thug in his 30s whom the police had hired, took me out of the room at 8:00 a.m. the next day and led me to the interrogation room. Liu Zhongyun and police officer Yang Chao, in his 20s, each grabbed a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed me spread-eagled to the metal frames of a window so that my feet barely touched the ground. Yang Chao kicked my feet with his boots to part them; then he took out a spiked stick and began whipping me with it, starting from the neck and going down to my toes. He cursed me and demanded, "Who told you to go to Beijing?" He also used vulgar words against Master and Falun Gong. After he became exhausted, Liu Zhongyun took over the beating. Violent blows rained on the insteps of my feet. They also verbally assaulted me and whacked my left thigh. I did not scream or shed a single tear; instead I shouted "Master" in my mind. I would have certainly been permanently handicapped had it not been for Master bearing everything for me.

Yang Chao eventually let me down and handcuffed me behind my back to a chair. The chair was right beneath a ceiling fan that they turned to maximum speed, saying, "So you don't get sick from practicing Falun Gong? We'll let it blow on you for 20 minutes and see if you catch cold!" He shut the door and left. A while later he came in and saw I was perfectly fine, so he turned on another fan, also at maximum speed. He again shut the door and left. I recited Lunyu and "Tempering the Will" from Hong Yin. I felt incredible warmth throughout my body. Yang Chao returned at noon while holding a bowl of food and eating. Since I was still perfectly healthy he said, "Forget it." He undid the handcuffs and locked me in a dark room. I was not given any food.

They took me to the interrogation room again at 8:00 a.m. on the third day, February 20, 2000. Yang Chao and Liu Zhongyun again handcuffed me spread-eagled to the window frame. I could see the tax bureau through the window right behind the police station; many tax bureau employees saw the police beating me. The front door of the interrogation room was open to the street, and many people gathered and wondered why I was hung up. I shouted at the crowd, "I practice Falun Gong and am a good person who lives by Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." They still did not give me anything to eat at noon. I was handcuffed for more than ten hours. In the evening they locked practitioner Li Yuqiong and me in a small, dark room with filthy water on the floor and called it a "dungeon."

They tried to coerce us to write guarantee statements and extorted 5,000 yuan from each of the other four practitioners. They released the other four practitioners after five days of detention, but they demanded 10,000 yuan from me for my release. My family was destitute. They borrowed 10,000 yuan, a debt that we have not been able to repay to this day. Official Wang Benhua counted my money and Liu Yongjun wrote a receipt for 9,000 yuan. I was held for six days before being released. Liu Yongjun said, "If you guys won't appeal in May, we'll return your money after May." But he broke that promise.

Once home again, my thumbs were numb for a long time, and I was covered with purple bruises. The bruises on my left thigh remained for six months.

Yang Chao came to my home at 6:00 p.m. on May 10, 2000, and pounded on the door for more than an hour. I was not home at the time. They wanted to persecute me because they thought I might celebrate Master's birthday.

Liu Yongjun took eight practitioners, including myself, to the Suining Party School on May 13, 2000. Several hundred practitioners were sitting on the floor in the conference room at the Party School. The officials ordered two collaborators from Nanmusi to "reform" us.

Officials Liu Yongjun and Duan Zhenhua called practitioner Wang Chunlan and myself to the town office on June 29, 2000, and demanded that we promise not to appeal or practice Falun Gong, and that they were going to record it on tape. We refused, and they detained us. Wang Benhua and Tang Yuying monitored us for three days to prevent us from appealing on July 1, 2000. They also extorted 200 yuan from every practitioner.

Duan Zhenhua and police officer Tang Guishu broke into my home the evening of November 2, 2000, and hastily said to me, "We just came to see if you are home. Wang Yunping and Wang Chunlan went to Beijing today to appeal and were arrested in Chongqing. Chongqing police called us." I eventually learned that seven practitioners had set off on this trip; all of them were arrested and incarcerated.

Official Zhong Wenfu and ten officials, including Liu Yongjun and Yang Chao, ransacked my home on the evening of December 15, 2000. Zhong Wenfu was the head of the Armed Division. Yang Chao took my copy of Zhuan Falun, recorder(s), and exercise tapes and transported me to the police station. They also arrested five other practitioners and transferred the six of us to the town government office in the middle of the night. Seven other practitioners were arrested the following day.

I saw official Lu Shaohua repeatedly slap practitioner Mr. Liao Qinghai's face. Mr. Liao was in his 20s. Zhong Wenfu dragged him next door later on, and we all heard beating and cursing. They brought journalist Lu Lin from Suining City to videotape the proceedings. They attempted to coerce us to curse Master and Dafa. I refused. When they pointed the video camera at me, I said, "I used to suffer from stomach cancer, and Falun Gong restored my health. I did not take a single pill." They shut off the video camera before I could finish and would not let me say anything else.

Zhong Wenfu's wife cooked for us. Each meal consisted of thinly diluted congee and bok choy, but they charged each person 50 yuan a day, although rice sold for only 80 cents per half kilogram [1 lb]. They held me for four days and didn't let me sleep. Two persons monitored me in two-hour shifts watched me. We all had 5,000 yuan and 100 yuan in "living expenses" extorted from us. We gave the money to Liu Yongjun. They let us go home only after we had six people guaranteeing on our behalf that we would not appeal for Falun Gong.

Practitioner Tang Deshu visited me in my home on December 24, 2000, for five minutes before Dongping Street official Pan Jiafu reported us to the police. Soon, Zhong Wenfu and eight officials arrived at my home. They yelled at me, saying, "What is Tang Deshu doing in your home?" They turned everything upside-down but couldn't find anything. They swore at me and left.

My 12-year-old son forced out of school and other information

Huang Lirong, president of the workers' union at my son Luo Wen's school, called my son to his office the morning of April 5, 2001. He slapped my son's face several times and said to him, "Your mother practices Falun Gong." My son left school. That was the end of his formal education. He went to Yunnan at the age of 12 and learned to be a car mechanic.

Practitioner Su Qionghua died from persecution on December 20, 2000. Yang Chao and five other officials pounded on my door at 9:00 p.m. that day. I refused to open and stood on the balcony and asked what they wanted. Yang Chao said, "We heard you guys are going to make trouble in Suining City, so we are taking you to the police station tonight." I said, "How could I make any trouble? I was sleeping. You guys are making trouble." They left. Zhong Rongfa and another six officials later came at 2:00 a.m. and almost beat my door down. They arrested me and five other practitioners and held us for two days. At the police station we learned that Su Qionghua had died as a result of abuse and gross mistreatment. They were afraid that we would appeal for Su Qionghua.

Duan Zhenhua gave me a 200-yuan receipt the morning of June 2, 2001, and said, "Every Falun Gong practitioner is fined 200 yuan." He deducted the 200 yuan from the 9,000 yuan receipt issued from the time before.

The local police arrived at my home without a warrant or prior notice at all times of the day and night and felt free to ransack it after I was illegally arrested in 1999. Police officers Yang Chao and Sun Qifu, the secretary of the Politics and Law committee, and government official Zeng Guangli led people to ransack my home almost every week in June 2001. Yang Chao brought five people to my home during the day on June 7, 2001, in my absence. Sun Qifu brought eight people that evening. They ransacked my home but did not find anything related to Falun Gong. They arrested practitioner Li Yuqiong and her 11-year-old son Cai Jinquan that day.

Sun Qifu again brought eight people to ransack my home, at 9:00 p.m. on June 13, 2001. They still found nothing, yet arrested practitioner Rong Ping, who was staying at my home.

Yang Chao, Zeng Guangli, and two other officials ransacked my home at 8:30 p.m. on June 20, 2001. They did not find anything to incriminate me, but Zeng Guangli took my identification card. When I asked for my card back later on, they said they had left it at the police station and could not find it. When Zeng Guangli eventually gave me my card back, he ordered me to write a receipt. I said, "Why should I write you a receipt? That's ridiculous." He left.

Beaten for refusal to write a guarantee statements, arrested and robbed

Official Pan Jiafu told all the Falun Gong practitioners in the local area to go to the town government on October 28, 2002. I refused to go. In the evening, Lu Shaohua and four other officials dragged me to the town office. I saw that all the practitioners who had gone there during the day were locked up. More than 30 Party officials stood around the practitioners. Zeng Guangli held a pen and paper and attempted to coerce me to write a guarantee statement--to promise I would not hand out Falun Gong flyers, hang up Falun Gong banners, cross out Falun Gong-slandering propaganda at public places, appeal for Falun Gong, or do the Falun Gong exercises. I refused to write it. Rong Faneng ran toward me, holding a teacup in his left hand. He grabbed my collar with his right hand and dragged me into a room, punched my neck, and struck me to the ground. I thought, "I am a Dafa practitioner. I cannot lie on the ground." I immediately sprang up. Rong Faneng attacked me with extremely vulgar language, shoved me into a police vehicle, kicking my back, and drove to the police station. At the police station they locked me onto a chair. Practitioner Xiao Fayu said Rong Faneng also hit her. Street Party Committee official Peng Fang and police officer Tao Chunming took me home a little past midnight.

Police officers Wu Cunzhong and Tao Chunming came to my home at 3:00 p.m. on October 30, 2002, and demanded my identification card number, to prevent me from appealing, since the Sixteenth Party Congress was approaching.

Street Party Committee official Li Miejiang arrived with five people the evening of October 2, 2003, to ransack my home. They returned at 9:00 p.m. only an hour after they had come the first time, to harass me again by pounding on my door.

Street Party committee head Chen Xirong arrived with eight people the evening of October 5, 2003. They pounded on my door to harass me. In order to avoid further persecution, I went to remote Yunnan Province on October 12, 2003, and lived there for nine months.

Four practitioners and I went to Tailai Street in Lezhi County on August 9, 2005, to hand out flyers and speak with passersby about Falun Gong. Someone reported us to the police. We were arrested and taken to the county detention center, where we were held for ten days. The police also ransacked our homes and took 2,495 yuan from me.

The police pounded on my door the evening of March 10, 2006, but I refused to open it. They did it again at 4: 30 a.m. the next day. I still refused to open it. Beginning on March 18, 2006, Chen Xirong and a group of people harassed my relatives at my mother's home three times within ten days. They pounded on my door at all hours of the day and night after that.

I left home again to avoid additional persecution

A group of police officers broke into my home at 5:00 p.m. on June 28, 2007, and blocked the door to prevent anyone from going in or out. They ransacked my home and took images with Master's portraits, Falun Gong books, VCDs, and MP3 players. I left safely under Master's protection. They arrested my daughter-in-law and intimidated her so that she would turn me in. They asked her, "Where are the machines?" meaning the computers used to produce Falun Gong materials. She said, "The machine is downstairs." She meant the sewing machine, since we run a home-based sewing business. They asked, "Who came to your home?" They meant which Falun Gong practitioners had contact with us, and she answered, "People come everyday to have their clothes made." They interrogated her for a few hours. During this time other police ransacked several Falun Dafa materials production sites and arrested many practitioners.

I have not returned home since June 28, 2007. The officials looked for me and posted a 2,000-yuan reward for anyone who reports me to the police.

Lanjiang Division 10 Party secretary Liu Shengjun and Lu Shaofu, younger brother of division official Lu Shaohua, came to my home on October 16, 2007, and tried to arrest me. They also told my neighbors to report me and promised them monetary rewards for doing so.

They held a public meeting on July 19, 2008, and encouraged all Party members to find and arrest me. Whoever did would be awarded 500 yuan. From the next day on, Division 10 head Luo Shuokai stood at the train station and said, "Whoever reports Luo Junlan to the police will be given 500 yuan." Luo Shuokai also mobilized my neighbors to keep me under surveillance and report me. My neighbors mistakenly thought that a false report would also earn them money, so they falsely told the officials I had returned home when I had not. The result was a total farce. After getting the neighbors' "tip," Lu Shaohua and nine other officials went to ransack my home and arrest me at noon on April 22, 2009. My retired uncle, his wife and son were living at my home to take care of my uncle's 93-year-old father. Lu Shaohua stood in the doorway while the other officials turned everything upside down. They even lifted the mattress and looked underneath for Falun Gong materials. My non-practitioner uncle nearly got into a fight with the police.

They rummaged through my uncle and his family's belongings and took my Falun Gong DVDs and two calendars printed with Falun Gong information. They did not find me, so they took my 66-year-old uncle, Luo Guanzhong, and 65-year-old Aunt Tang Qihui to the police station and interrogated them for several hours. My uncle and his family decided to return to Chengdu City to avoid another "attack" by the officials.

Even now, the authorities are still trying to arrest me. According to an insider, they have raised the reward for whoever finds me to 10,000 yuan and sent officials to look for me in Suining City.

More than 20 practitioners' homes were ransacked over the past three months, some four times. Practitioners Yuan Shulin, Liu Yuqing, and Jiang Jiaqing were arrested, and two of them are still in police custody. Jiang Jiaqing was released after handing over 10,000 yuan in extortion. The police also took a bank deposit slip worth 27,500 yuan, which still has not been returned.

Posting date: 12/7/2009
Category: Persecution Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/23/213159.html

Painting: Lotus Flowers in Other Dimensions (Photo)

2009-12-06T10:45:00.002-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) This painting was provided by Hong Kong practitioners. It was made with computer software.

Ms. Deng Kuiying Died One Year Ago in Custody after Being in a Vegetative State

2009-12-06T10:45:00.001-08:00

Name: Deng Kuiying (邓葵英)
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Retired employee of a nursery school in Qinghe Area in Haidian District, Beijing
Date of Death: September 6, 2008
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June, 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Beijing Forced Labor Camp (北京劳教所)
City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Beijing) Ms. Deng Kuiying was arrested for the first time on March 8, 2006, when passing out truth clarifying materials, and was detained for more than one month in the Haidian District Detention Center in Beijing. Upon her release, her former employer sent her to a forced brainwashing center for more than six months. She continued to be closely monitored after her release in October 2006.

At the beginning of June 2007, Ms. Deng was arrested for the second time when passing out truth clarifying materials in a store, and was sentenced to two years of forced labor in the Beijing Forced Labor Camp. She was deprived of her visitation rights for more than one month, until she was tortured to a vegetative state. When her family finally saw her, she was unconscious and had a very weak heartbeat.

After suffering one year in the hospital, Ms. Deng died on September 6, 2008.

Written on December 3, 2009

Posting date: 12/6/2009
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/4/213800.html

Poem and Painting: Sound of the Cosmos (Photo)

2009-12-04T07:43:00.000-08:00

By Yuan Ming

(Clearwisdom.net) August 10, 2004

Kathleen Gillis

Canvas: Sound of Cosmos(2004)

This is the final battle,

From far to near,

From heaven to earth

An intermittent dark cloud rolls,

Rows of heroes demonstrate might.

This is an eternal magnificence,

Lightning and thundering,

Earth is shaken and heaven is shocked,

Life and history,

All are renewing.

This is huge surging,

The universe revolves,

The spring returns to earth,

A ray of truth shines among boundless maze,

Sound of cosmos echoes between heaven and earth.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/8/10/81464.html

Mr. Sui Jingjiang Dies as a Result of Injections of Unknown Drugs Given in Changlinzi Men's Forced Labor Camp

2009-12-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

Name: Sui Jingjiang (隋景江)
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Address: Taipinggou Village, Sheli Township, Acheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Death: November 26, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 8, 2006
Most Recent Place of Detention: Changlinzi Men's Forced Labor Camp in Harbin
City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Sui was a kind and honest farmer. He previously had lung cancer, but after practicing Falun Dafa, his cancer disappeared. His miraculous recovery validated Falun Dafa, and he enjoyed a healthy life. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa after the persecution began but was arrested and sent back to his hometown, and detained many times. In January 2001, he was arrested by local police, detained for two months in the Acheng District Detention Center for several months, and then sent to a brainwashing session held in the Textile Vocational School.

Around May 1, 2001, the police took him to the Orientation Ward at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, and then transferred him to the Changlinzi Men's Forced Labor Camp. Section Chief Hao Wei ordered him to get an injection for high blood pressure. Mr. Sui said that he felt fine and there was no need for a shot, but Hao insisted. Mr. Sui discovered there was no label on the "medicine" bottle, so he asked the medical worker why not and what kind of drug she was giving him.

The doctor replied viciously, "Don't bother to ask, I will be responsible!" After the injections he felt miserable, almost like he was paralyzed. His limbs turned purple and they did not work properly. The next day the deputy section chief came and forced him to have another injection, and then a third. He couldn't remember exactly what happened. He was a very smart person and worked as an electrician in the village, a highly-skilled job, but after the injections he became very slow, was unable to raise his head, and had no energy. His persecution did not stop there.

After a checkup several months later, he appeared to have very high blood pressure and was released. Upon arriving home, he had a bad case of scabies, and his skin festered. Through his practicing Falun Dafa, his health recovered.

On August 8, 2006, more than 30 officers surrounded Mr. Sui's home to arrest him and ransack his home. They detained him for more than 20 days in the Acheng District Detention Center and then again took him to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. Soon after he arrived, a guard gave him another poisonous injection. This shot caused Mr. Sui to totally collapse. He lost his memory and became mentally unstable, constantly laughing at himself, and he said everyone else's faces were purple. He often saw things and talked nonsense and wore thin clothes in the winter and ran outside.

Mr. Sui's wife, also a practitioner, returned home after her release from Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. She read the Fa to hi, and shared her understandings when he was relatively clear minded. The local practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts together to help cleanse his dimensions. His condition did get better, but then he got worse. He died on November 26, 2009.

Written on November 30, 2009

Posting date: 12/4/2009
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/1/213612.html

Watercolor Painting: Spring Cherry Blossom In a Misty Vale

2009-12-03T17:59:00.000-08:00

By Bai Yifang

(Clearwisdom.net)

Letting Go of the Attachment to Sentimentality and Managing Family with Compassion

2009-12-03T17:57:00.000-08:00

From the Sixth Internet Experience Sharing Conference for Practitioners in China

By a Dafa Disciple in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings Master! Greetings all fellow practitioners!

I've been a Dafa disciple for over ten years. Looking back at my cultivation journey, there were many occasions where I didn't adhere to the standards of the Fa. Therefore when I was initially asked to submit an experience-sharing paper, I felt I had nothing worth mentioning. Yet, with fellow practitioners' encouragement, I collected my thoughts and decided to share my personal experience of cultivating away the attachment to sentimentality and of harmonizing the environment in my own family. I hope fellow practitioners who have similar attachments can learn from my experience so that we can all transform our families into harmonious cultivation environments.

Like any other girl, I too dreamed of having a wonderful family since I was little. The wish came true when I met my soul mate, got married, and became a mother.

After the persecution started in 1999, I was illegally arrested and sent to forced labor camps multiple times due to my distributing truth-clarification materials and going to Beijing to appeal. The main reason was that I couldn't let go of the attachment to sentimentality. That strong attachment made me fail to act by the standards of the Fa. It was then used by the old forces as a loophole to persecute me and my family.

After I was released from the labor camp, I found that my husband had completely changed into a maniac. He was indulging in alcohol, and he was beating and cursing at people. Even his own child gave him looks of disgust. My husband was no longer that caring person, and I interpreted it as his way of venting--I could imagine what he had to go through for the family while I was gone. However, the changes in him were beyond my wildest dreams. Not only did he have a mistress somewhere, but he formed habits of whoring, gambling, and smoking as well. In addition, he did not allow me to practice Dafa.

Although my husband didn't practice Dafa as diligently as I did before, he knew Dafa was good, and he had benefited from learning Falun Dafa. It was inconceivable for me to understand how he changed so much. He used to be this kind and honest person, whom I always took pride in. How could he trash himself to such a horrible stage? Thinking about the old, happy days and looking at the present man and the home around me, I could not accept the reality. Despair took over. I was buried in tears, and I completely stopped studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and clarifying the truth. I regretted marrying him and being cheated on for so many years. I wanted to divorce him and to stop the humiliation.

One day after I drank a whole bottle of alcohol, I started crying. My heart screamed at the top of my lungs: "Please help me Master. It is so painful. I can't stand it any more." When I woke up, I felt all my internal organs were churning. Yet getting drunk didn't solve my problem. It made me feel even worse. I calmed down and asked myself "What are you doing? Are you still a cultivator? What is the purpose of your life? Is the happiness pursued by sentient beings true happiness? What would happen after I obtain it? Doesn't the fact that I feel so sad show that I haven't let go of the attachment to sentimentality? As a cultivator, shouldn't I let go of the attachment? I was still pursuing it while I asked Master for help! My tears started streaming down again. Only this time I was ashamed of myself facing Master. I was determined to let go the attachment to sentimentality and to my husband.

The thought totally changed my attitude towards my husband. I no longer cared about what he did or where he went. I acted as if he didn't exist. If he came home, I cooked for him. But if not, I wouldn't bother to ask. Instead, I studied the Fa and did exercises whenever I had time. Although it was depressing, it felt a lot quieter at home. There was no cursing, shouting, or crying.

As I continued to study the Fa and advanced myself within the Fa, I began to reflect. Master wanted us to let go of the attachment of sentimentality, and to completely negate the old forces' arrangement, whereas I had such a strong attachment. When I encountered problems, I only viewed them as xinxing tests instead of digging deeply to locate the root cause. Studying the Fa made me realize that the old forces seized my attachment of sentimentality and magnified it in order to entrap me further. As a result I failed to cultivate as a true practitioner, failed to act by the standards of the Fa to a point that I almost wanted to give up my cultivation. Furthermore, while the old forces were using my husband to persecute and destroy me, they were also using me to persecute and destroy him. Was this just a small problem? I suddenly realized how serious the situation was, and how horribly I acted. Had it not been compassionate Master who gave me hints over and over and protected me like to a child, I would have destroyed not only myself, but also countless sentient beings who had a predestined relationship with me. Dafa re-equipped my lost heart with righteous thoughts. With that, I knew what to do. I must let go of the attachment and get rid of the interference imposed on me by the evil forces. I should be compassionate toward my husband and harmonize my family environment.

From then on, instead of saying things that hurt his feelings or doing things that embarrassed him, I put heart into taking care of my husband. Due to his alcoholism, his own child became less respectful to him. I pointed out to our child that his dad used to be a kind man. He wasn't born like this. It was the pressure from the social environment that changed him. He must understand that his dad's life wasn't easy. To my husband, I made him realize that his drunken behavior pushed his own child away. He didn't listen initially. Despite what I told him, he came home drunk and watched me with his eyes half-shut. If I did anything that wasn't to his satisfaction, he'd act as if to blow up. I reminded myself that Master required us to not fight back when punched or insulted. I must maintain my xinxing and be kind to him with compassion. Despite what he did or said, I remained unaffected and took care of his day-to-day life. He stopped verbally attacking me as he used to.

My husband was the eldest son in the family. Since his dad passed away many years ago, his mom lived with us. The fact that I didn't get along with her affected my relationship with my husband in a negative way. Thinking about what I had done for this family and the humiliation I got in return (my husband often punched and kicked me in front of his mother), I allowed hatred to grow in my heart. If I hadn't practiced Dafa, I would have fought back fiercely. They took advantage of me so much! I didn't believe I had any predestined relationship with them. I knew I shouldn't treat them the same way they treated me, yet I couldn't let go of my hatred.

When I made my determination to harmonize my family environment, I realized, through studying the Fa, that in the past I didn't endure, let alone keep my compassion in the face of my husband and his mother's unfair treatment. Whenever the opportunity came to improve my xinxing, instead of searching inwardly as Master taught in the Fa, I held anger in my heart. My mind was filled with human thinking. Although I didn't blow up, hatred was deeply planted in my heart. Like a shining beacon, the Fa lit up the cultivation journey that lay ahead of me. I no longer hated them. I could face my mother-in-law with an open heart. I could take good care of her day-to-day life and not be affected by her comments or reactions. Sometimes the hatred surfaced when a memory of how she used to treat me flashed back, but I instantly got rid of it with righteous thoughts. I knew it belonged to the evil forces, not me. Little by little, I was able to keep a smile on my face when I was with her. I was able to let the selfishness go and put my sister and brother-in-laws' needs first. If there was still something I couldn't get over, I studied the Fa.

Little by little, Dafa changed me. It also gradually affected my husband. The times he came home drunk were less. Our child stopped giving him disgusted looks. His mother told everybody that I was like her own daughter. More excitingly, my husband started studying and reciting the Fa. Seeing such a change in him, I wept again. I felt Master's great compassionate power. I was sincerely glad that my husband was back on track.

One day I dreamed of my husband and I going to college hand-in-hand. I told him seriously after I woke up, "Dafa is our real predestined relationship. Perhaps we both made pledges to come down to practice Dafa and to return upon consummation. Therefore we must cherish this predestined relationship with Dafa." He agreed, "Master's immensely compassionate. My previous wrong deeds were inhuman, yet Master didn't give up on me. From now on I must act according to the Fa so that I wouldn't feel regretful to Master and to the Fa." Hearing his words, I burst into tears again. I was so grateful to Master and to the Fa.

Now my husband can clarify the truth to sentient beings and assist them in withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party. As for the rest of the family, my mother-in-law reads Dafa books daily and my child has become a Dafa practitioner. None of the relatives hold anything against Dafa. Our family once again became peaceful and harmonious. All these were attributed to Master's immense compassion and mercy, and to Master's perseverance in not giving up on his disciples. I did nothing but cultivate diligently and did the three things well so as to return Master's kindness of his merciful salvation, to be worthy of what Master had done for us, and to fulfill the holy mission bestowed upon us. Lastly, let us borrow Master's words in "The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos" from Hong Yin II (Translation Version B) to encourage each other:

"Mercy can melt heaven and earth into spring
Righteous thought can save people of the world"

Please kindly point out anything that is incorrect in my understanding.

Posting date: 12/3/2009
Category: 6th Internet Experience Sharing Conference of China
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/8/211544.html

A Beautiful Piece of Art by a Dafa Practitioner

2009-12-02T08:23:00.000-08:00

Falun Dafa is Good!

Ms. Jin Lianshun Dies Soon after Release from Detention

2009-12-02T08:22:00.000-08:00

Name: Jin Lianshun (金莲顺)
Gender: Female
Age: 69
Address: Fuyuan Community, Xinfeng Third Block, Yanji City Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
Occupation: Retired from Yanji City Cigarette Factory
Date of Death: September 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 19, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yanji City Detention Center (延吉市看守所)
City: Yanji
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Jilin Province) Ms. Jin Lianshun, an ethnic Korean, began practicing Falun Dafa in 1995, and her seizures disappeared. Her children were overjoyed to see that she was no longer depressed, she let go of her mental stress, and she never suffered from seizures anymore.

On August 19, 2009, Ms. Jin saw that the weather was good, so she took a walk downstairs. She told her neighbors while chatting how her severe seizures had been cured. One of the neighbors reported her to the community administration. Soon after she returned home, a group of officers arrested her, and her home was ransacked. The police took all her Falun Dafa books and her laptop. They interrogated her and detained her 15 days in the Yanji City Detention Center.

Suddenly facing the terrifying environment, Ms. Jin was shocked. She would speak or shout while sleeping, which disturbed the inmates in the detention center. The prisoners were afraid that she would die and urged guards to release her quickly, but the authorities refused. When she was released after 15 days of detention, she became very thin and weak. She could not get over the stress caused by this incident, and she died a few days later in September 2009.

Her children were all working overseas and called her for two days without receiving an answer. Her relatives got into the house and found that she had died a few days earlier. Her body was cremated on October 5, 2009.

Written on November 26, 2009

Posting date: 12/2/2009
Category: Death Cases
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/27/213376.html

Let's Not Allow Relationships to Affect Our Cultivation

2009-12-02T08:21:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) I am writing to let practitioners know about some incidents that have had a negative effect on the cultivation of practitioners in our area. Please be on the lookout for these things.

1. Depending on fellow practitioner for personal gain

Of course, if fellow practitioners need help, it is normal to offer help. After all, we are learning to be compassionate. However, a few practitioners have not yet eradicated "greed." They are constantly asking for help on matters for personal convenience and making it difficult for fellow practitioners to do the three things. To help such a person is to support his greed.

2. Fearing criticism from fellow practitioners

Some practitioners tell others not to remind them of their attachments, saying "I know what my attachments are and if I don't, Master will remind me. Furthermore, I am studying the Fa anyway." This is clearly an attachment that reveals a fear of criticism. Actually, listening to practitioners' opinions will speed up improvement.

3. Fear of pointing out the attachments of fellow practitioners

There are many viewpoints as to whether it is helpful to point out the attachments of fellow practitioners. Some say you can do it as long as it is done in a compassionate way. Others say you are forcing your viewpoint on others, which will create disharmony and hurt people. As a result, at Fa-study meetings no one wants to talk about existing problems. (Of course, it is important to look inward and cultivate one's own thoughts. When we criticize others, we must also be careful to do it in a compassionate way.)

Actually, I think the attempt to maintain harmony is based on human notions. It also reflects the fear of being criticized by others. Giving hints and talking in a roundabout way are based on the Chinese Communists Party's (CCP) culture. A practitioner should be straightforward.

There was a fellow practitioner who loved to do more and have a large truth-clarifying material production center. He amalgamated several centers into one. Some practitioners knew the action would attract attention and increase the risk of detection but did not point it out to him. The site was eventually destroyed by the CCP. Had they pointed out the increased risk, the loss could have been smaller.

4. Fearing confrontation

Many of us (myself included) do not want to point out other's attachments directly for fear of creating disharmony because there are practitioners who cannot accept criticism. Hence, they discuss the issue behind the person's back. I think this is also Party culture and it will create a more complex environment.

A few practitioners play it both ways. In front of the person, they say, "You are carrying a heavy workload. Do you need some help?" To others, "This greedy guy wants to control everything." These practitioners are acting like everyday people.

5. Basing support on personal relationships

When different viewpoints are on the table, the support of a given viewpoint is based on the relationship with the person who voiced the opinion instead of the Fa. If his friend failed to support him, he would say, "Why do you support that guy instead of me?"

A fellow practitioner made a Dafa book, but did not want to follow the guidelines provided by Clearwisdom. It had a low-quality cover which was shorter than the book itself. When he was questioned about disrespecting Master, he replied, " It is the content, not the beauty of the cover that matters." He also used low-quality DVD discs to record Shen Yun shows. Some failed to work. Some other practitioners supported him saying, "It is all right to be able to get by with this type of disc. Different people are at different levels and hence do things differently. It is not right to enforce your own view on others." It seems like they are following the Fa, but they are protecting their own attachments and trying to validate themselves.

I think these kinds of incidents originate from human notions. Many are due to Party culture. There is a lot of fear: of criticism, of offending people, and of the possibility of getting hurt. I want to expose all of these things and try to change starting with myself. I believe each of us must improve in order to improve our environment. When each of us improves, we will be able to cooperate better and save more sentient beings.

Posting date: 12/2/2009
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/17/212743.html

Chicago: Westerners Support Efforts to Stop the Persecution--Chinese People Courageously Quit the Chinese Communist Party (Photos)

2009-12-01T07:41:00.000-08:00

By a Falun Gong practitioner in Chicago
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners in Chicago held activities at Lichaoling Square, on Chinatown's Yonghuo Street as usual on the sunny weekend after Thanksgiving Day, on November 28, 2009. They exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong to the public, and told them about the Falun Gong practitioners who have remained steadfast in their beliefs in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance during the past ten-years of opposing the persecution. They emphasized the news about the Spanish National Court's recent decision to indict five high-ranking CCP officials including former CCP head Jiang Zemin, along with Luo Gan, Bo Xilai, Jia Qinglin and Wu Guanzheng. These five defendants are charged for committing crimes of genocide and torture against Falun Gong. Many people showed interest in the information, and many Westerners took the initiative to sign the petition supporting Falun Gong, condemning the CCP, and calling for an end to the persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the exercises

Passersby look attentively at display about Falun Gong and the persecution

Helping people learn the facts and work together to stop the persecution

People sign the petition to stop the persecution of Falun Gong

Young man learns the exercises at the event

Many overseas Chinese students came to celebrate Thanksgiving Day in Chicago, and passed by and learned about the facts of the persecution. Many took the book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and registered to quit the CCP, the Communist Youth League and the Communist Young Pioneers. Thirty-five Chinese, mostly young students, renounced the CCP and its affiliated organizations that afternoon.

Posting date: 12/1/2009
Category: Rallies and Protest

Practitioners Should Not Feel Vexed

2009-12-01T07:39:00.000-08:00

By a practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) I live in a very dusty and dry city. My furniture and floors always have dust on them. As a result, I have to clean my home every day, which has always bothered me a lot. Today, I did it again. I suddenly realized that practitioners should not feel vexed. I should not feel bothered by the dust in my home.

I thought about it further and realized that I am annoyed by many things. When telemarketers leave messages on my answering machine, I delete them impatiently. I am depressed if my child works slowly when I help him with assignments. When having a discussion with someone who is very talkative, I become annoyed. I was bitten by a dog when I was young, so I don't like dogs at all now. But there are many people who have pets in the city, and the pets also relieve themselves on the street. I get angry about this. Whenever I saw other children's urine in the elevator, I became very upset. I was very upset by these things and this certainly had a negative influence on my life and my cultivation. I didn't realize this however, during the first ten years of my cultivation.

Teacher said,

"If you always keep a compassionate heart, and a peaceful state of mind, when you run into problems you'll handle them well because it will give you space as a buffer. If you are always compassionate and friendly to others, if you always consider other people when you do things, and whenever you have issues with other people you first think about whether they can take it or whether it will cause them harm, then you won't have any problem. So, when you cultivate you should follow high and even higher standards." (Zhuan Falun)

As a cultivator, I did not do well with respect to forbearance, nor did I do well with compassion, both qualities which are essential to the characteristic of the universe, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

The moral standard of society these days is sliding down a thousand miles a day. So many people act irrationally and selfishly, without any consideration for others. I know now that as a practitioner, I should not complain when people are being unfair. Instead, I should use my compassion to help them realize their wrongdoing so that they may correct themselves.

Because of my limited cultivation state and education, I find it hard to express my feelings when talking about such a profound Dafa. Please kindly correct anything inappropriate.

November 10, 2009

Posting date: 12/1/2009
Category: Practitioners' Insights

Released After Six Years in Prison, Mr. Sun Guo Still Subjected to Relentless Persecution

2009-08-06T09:24:00.000-07:00

(Clearwisdom.net) For over ten years, Mr. Sun Guo and his family in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province have suffered from brutal persecution by the CCP because of their steadfast belief in Master Li and Falun Gong. Mr. Sun Guo was detained for over six years, from September 2002 to December 2008. His wife has been forced to leave their home and has been wandering around in a homeless state for years to avoid persecution. Both of them were fired from their work units. During his detention in prison, Sun Guo's parents, who were over 80 years old, suffered from the stress and pressure of their son being in prison and constantly worried about his safety. Because of that, they passed away one after another. His mother-in-law kept being harassed by the 610 Office police, and the security staff from the Electric Bureau frightened her so much that she suffered a mental breakdown. She has been sent to the hospital several times.

After Sun Guo was released, he was still being closely monitored by the 610 Office and the CCP's staff within the Zhaoyuan City Electric Bureau. Day and night, specially assigned people took turns monitoring and following him.

Here are some persecution details.

Since July 20, 1999, when the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong, led by the heads of Zhaoyuan Electric Bureau, Jiang Honghai and Tong Suzhang, the officials have been actively involved in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, especially in the case of Sun Guo. Before Sun Guo was sentenced in 2002, they had tried many times to force Sun Gong to hand over the Falun Gong books and to write the so-called "guarantee statement" to give up practicing Falun Gong. They assigned people to specifically monitor Sun Guo's home and follow him around. They bugged his home phone and even cut off his phone service. For years, during the "sensitive days," the security staff even slept in front of the door of Sun Guo's home in order to watch him day and night and to prevent him from going anywhere. Even when Sun Guo went back to his hometown to celebrate the Chinese New Year, he was still followed, which made the entire family and all the relatives feel very uneasy and uncomfortable during the holidays.

On April 3, 2002, Sun Guo was placed on the wanted list of the Zhaoyuan City 610 Office. He was forced to leave home and wander around. He was fired from the Electric Bureau. More than ten police and security personnel from the 610 Office and the Electric Bureau surrounded Sun Guo's home and forced his wife to hand over Sun Guo; otherwise they claimed they were going to arrest his wife. His wife was forced to leave the house as well to avoid being arrested. Their young daughter was left home alone. They even followed and monitored their daughter for more than 40 days, which caused her extreme mental anguish.

In September 2002, because of distributing truth-clarification materials, Sun Guo was arrested in Biguo Town, Zhaoyuan City. After being detained in the detention center for half a year, Sun Guo was illegally sentenced to eight years in prison and was sent to No.1 Prison in Shandong Province. During his detention, Sun Guo suffered inhumane torture and almost lost his life. He was released in December 2008.

During his detention, since his wife had to leave home as well, the family had no income. His daughter had great difficulty paying the cost of going to school. Any normal family life was completely disrupted.

After returning home, Sun Guo went to talk to Jiang Honghai, the head of the Electric Bureau, to ask for his job back. He was refused. Later, after asking several more times, he was given a temporary position.

Recently, the officials in the bureau said they were given official orders from a higher authority to step up the persecution. Once again they started to monitor and follow Sun Guo around. He was monitored at work, at home and when outside, which put a great deal of pressure on his family. Even his right to live a normal life is being violated.

Zhaoyuan Electric Bureau:
Jiang Honghai, Bureau Head, 86-535-8219588(Office), 86-535-8238258(Office), 86-535-8219888(Home), 86-535-8180070(Cell)
Tong Shuzhang, Deputy Head, used to be in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners; he has now been sentenced to thirteen years in prison because of a corruption charge.
Liu Jianping, Head of the Party Committee (CCP). He is now in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
The security guards' office in the north resident compound of the Electric Bureau, 86-535-8219049; The guards working there have been assigned to monitor Sun Guo specifically.

Ms. Li Shihong's Family Persecuted for Ten Years

2009-07-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

By a Dafa practitioner from Wuhan City, Hubei Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Lu Hai, a 13-year-old boy, had to live with his grandmother, Song Wenxiu, after his father, Lu Qiqi, and his mother, Li Shihong, were illegally arrested last year.

Then, on June 12, 2009, when Jiang'an District Court in Wuhan City, Hubei Province held an illegal trial for three Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Song Wenxiu wanted to be present. When she neared the courthouse, she was arrested by the Riot Division at the Jiang'an District Police Substation. She was later illegally detained in the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Center in Jiang'an District.

Poor little Lu Hai now has to live all by himself. He has lost his dear grandmother, who fended for him. In Lu Hai's memory, there were few times when his whole family was ever together over the past ten years. His father, his mother, and even his grandmother were often arrested. There are many incurable wounds to his fragile heart.

A few days after his grandmother was arrested, officers from Danshuichi Police Station and agents from the Domestic Security Division of Jiang'an District Police Substation went again to his school. By means of deceit and threats, they interrogated Lu Hai and forced him to sign a document. They pressed his fingerprint on the written statement of his interrogation record.

Ms. Song Arrested and Home Ransacked in Broad Daylight

On March 31, 2009, after Ms. Song Wenxiu came downstairs from her apartment, she was captured by a crowd of plainclothes officers hiding outside her apartment building. They rushed at her and grabbed her, and covered her mouth with their hands, then forced her into a police wagon. At the same time, they took the key to her apartment from her pocket. The one with the key immediately rushed to her apartment upstairs and ransacked her home. He took cash, a laptop, a printer, and Dafa books. Ms. Song's apartment was a mess. That afternoon, when her daughter, Ms. Li Shihong, came home, she was also arrested by plainclothes officers hiding and waiting for her outside.

Those responsible for this case are the team leader, whose last name is Luo, from the Domestic Security Division of Jiang'an District Police Substation, and Wan Baozhu, an officer from Danshuichi Police Station. At around 6:00 p.m. that day, Ms. Song was released, but her daughter, Ms. Li Shihong, was illegally detained at the No. 1 Detention Center in Wuhan City. Again, Lu Hai had to live with his grandmother, Ms. Song, alone. When they cleaned up their home, they found that a lot of money (about 1,200 yuan) was missing. They had hoped to live on that money. No matter how they begged the police, the head of the police station didn't admit that they had taken the money. Ms. Li Shihong's arrest did away with the family's only source of income, since Ms. Li Shihong's husband, Mr. Lu Qiqi, was also illegally detained at a prison in Guangdong Province, which is more than 1,000 miles away from their home.

In order to find something to charge Ms. Li Shihong with, agents from the Domestic Security Division of Jiang'an District Police Substation, and a policeman with the last name of Li from the Danshuichi Police Station, visited Lu Hai's school. They didn't care that Lu Hai was taking the mid-term examination at the time, and they forced his teacher to bring him to her office. They interrogated him for two hours without a break. They wanted to know who his mother contacted and what his mother had done. Little Lu Hai couldn't bear this interrogation and made a phone call to his aunt when he went to the restroom. His aunt later helped him and took him home.

A Once-happy Family That Practiced Cultivation

Little Lu Hai had a happy family in those early years. His father and mother both cultivated Falun Gong. Since they followed the teachings of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, their health improved significantly, both physically and mentally, and they became virtuous people with high moral standards.

His father, Mr. Lu Qiqi, was a former state-registered engineer in the field of building design. He had a job with a high annual salary of more than 100,000 yuan. His boss also highly praised him. Lu Hai's mother, Ms. Li Shihong, is a nice person and treats others warmheartedly. People who know her all say that they can feel the compassion and selflessness of a Falun Gong practitioner from her behavior.

Ten Years of Tribulations

On July 20, 1999, the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Gong. Because Lu Hai's parents and grandmother didn't give up their belief in Falun Gong, they were repeatedly harassed, illegally arrested, detained, and sent to forced labor camps and even prisons.

In March 2000, CCP agents arrested Ms. Li and held her for five months. She was detained at the brainwashing center in the Huangpi District of Wuhan city. In late 2000, without a warrant, the authorities broke in and ransacked Ms. Li's home. She was then taken to the Qiaokou District Brainwashing Center in Wuhan City and later sent to an undisclosed forced labor camp for one year. During that time, her husband was taken by the authorities to the Sanatorium of the Wuhan City Police Department, the Wuhan City Second Detention Center, and the brainwashing center of Jiang'an District in Wuhan City. He was later forced to stay away from home to avoid capture.

At that time, Lu Hai was only four years old and had to stay with his grandmother. During the first half of 2002, Ms. Li was arrested and sent to the Baibuting Brainwashing Center, where she was brutally beaten to the point that she was near death. Her family took her home from the hospital.

In April 2004, Mr. Lu went missing. In September, the family received an anonymous call and learned that he was jailed in Shayang City, Hubei Province. He was then transferred to the brainwashing center in the Jiang'an District of Wuhan for one year. In October 2005, Mr. Lu was sent to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City. In December 2007, he was arrested again while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials in Shenzhen City, and sentenced to four years in prison by the Baoan District Court in Shenzhen City.

Actually, what little Lu Hai's family has experienced is only "the tip of the iceberg." It is one story among many that make up the huge tragedy that our nation is now suffering from. Since the CCP launched the inhumane persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, how many Falun Gong practitioners have suffered as a result of the unbelievably brutal persecution? How many happy families have been crushed during this evil persecution? The suffering of little Lu Hai's family clearly reflects the evil nature of the CCP, highlighting the disaster that our nation and our people as a whole are having to endure.

The evil persecution hasn't stopped and the evildoings continue. We hope all those who are righteous and compassionate will help stop the persecution and help the many good people in China who are being persecuted right now. Let the Chinese people get prepared to witness the bright future of the nation that is on its way.

Imprisoned and Tortured for Eight Years in Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison, Mr. Jiang Yong Goes Missing Once Again (Photo)

2009-07-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong is 38 years old. In 2001, he was illegally sentenced to eight years by the CCP. He was detained in the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai for eight years and subjected to various types of torture. Only a few months passed since Mr. Jiang Yong had returned home and then he went missing again on June 13, 2009. There is still no sign of him at the time of this report. This incident is related to the widespread arrests by the Shanghai authorities in advance of the World Expo. We ask that human rights organizations around the world pay close attention to this matter.

Shanghai City practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong

The following are the experiences of Mr. Jiang Yong over the past eight years.

In January 2001, Mr. Jiang was arrested by the Hunan Road Police Station in Xuhui District. It was winter and the police stripped off all of Mr. Jiang's clothes, poured cold water over him while turning on the air conditioner to blow cold wind at him, and they shocked him with electric batons. Mr. Jiang was interrogated in this way for approximately eight days.

Afterwards, Mr. Jiang was sentenced to eight years, and taken to the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai. The guards tortured him in various inhumane ways. In May 2005, while in the Sixth Section of the prison, guard Shen Yanrong put Mr. Jiang in a room that was approximately 36 square feet in size for 24 hours straight. Mr. Jiang was also forced to sit on a very small stool with his arms behind his back without moving.

In 2007, Mr. Jiang Yong placed a letter in the jail examination mailbox, accusing the jail of lacking human rights. Guards Qian Haifeng and Cheng Yubiao used this incident to force Mr. Jiang into the Second Section's strict control ward. Because Mr. Jiang yelled "Falun Dafa is good!" the guards sealed his mouth with tape.

In the strict control ward, guard Guo Hai (former platoon leader of the ward specially formed to persecute Falun Gong practitioners) ordered other inmates to beat Mr. Jiang to the ground and handcuff his hands behind his back. His handcuffs were linked to a fixed hoop on the ground with a chain less than one inch in length. Mr. Jiang was unable to stand and could only sleep face down. Every day he would be kicked awake by guards after sleeping for only a few hours.

After returning to the Sixth Section, guard Ge Zunyang ordered other inmates to beat Mr. Jiang after he was found publicly practicing the exercises. His head was forced into the toilet, urine was splashed on the ground and his face was pressed against the ground in the urine. The jail inspector Sun Liming witnessed the beating of Mr. Jiang, but he walked away without saying a word.

When Mr. Jiang once again practiced the exercises, he was beaten again and choked. To protest the treatment, he took off his prison clothes and he was taken to the strict control ward again. Guard Wang Xibin ordered inmate Xie Xueping to beat and kick Mr. Jiang's chest. Xie stomped on Mr. Jiang with the heels of his shoes, handcuffed Mr. Jiang's hands behind his back and tied Mr. Jiang's feet with ropes used for death row inmates before execution. Wang Xibin applied the "gnaw the bone" torture device, making the corners of Mr. Jiang's mouth bleed and become bruised. Mr. Jiang went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and he was taken to the prison hospital after his condition became critical.

Around the sixth year of imprisonment, Mr. Jiang's mother passed away in 2007, due to old age, poor health, and the longing for her son. At the time, Mr. Jiang was still in the strict control ward. The jail would not even let him see his mother one last time.

Around April 2008, Mr. Jiang was taken to the strict control ward once again after he went on a hunger strike. The strict control ward did not want to admit him, but the director of the jail's punishment division, Yang Changyuan, requested that they admit Mr. Jiang. The rules of the Tilanqiao Prison clearly states that a person who is tied to a bed and cannot take care of their own basic functions must be released after a week, allowed to clean and move the limbs before being tied again. However, in the strict control ward of the Second Section, Mr. Jiang was tied to a wooden board for four weeks due to the hunger strike. He was released only after his stomach began bleeding and he was taken to the Nanhui Prison Hospital in Shanghai for emergency treatment. Days after being released from the hospital, Mr. Jiang was taken to the prison's general hospital after his life became endangered due to gastric perforation.

In September 2008, The captain of the Second Ward in the Sixth Section, Ding Jun (ID: 3101595), Wu Leming (ID: 3101373) and other guards bound Mr. Jiang and forced him out of Nanhui Prison's general hospital. Mr. Jiang yelled "The CCP persecutes Falun Gong, the CCP is a evil cult!" Several guards shocked him with electric batons, and sealed his mouth with tape.

After returning to the Sixth Section, a total of six or seven people including the deputy captain Fan Zhenqun (ID: 3101368) and guard Xu Meng (ID: 3101395) shocked Mr. Jiang with electric batons at the same time. Fan Zhenqun personally shocked Mr. Jiang in various spots and said, "My electric treatment is better than the hospital treatment!" Due to the long periods of electric shocks and beatings, Mr. Jiang's mouth bled profusely, the flesh on his ear rotted and numerous places bled on his body. Even after such severe torture, Fan Zhenqun continued to tie Mr. Jiang to the wooden board so that he couldn't move. After long periods of shocks and being tied tightly, Mr. Jiang's legs became numb and he couldn't walk properly.

Mr. Li Hongkui Suffered Seven Years of Torture and Persecution During Two Illegal Jail Sentences

2009-07-24T10:32:00.000-07:00

(Clerawisdom.net) Mr. Li Hongkui, an electrician from the Fangzheng Forestry Bureau of Heilongjiang Province, remained steadfast in practicing Falun Gong's (also known as Falun Dafa) Truth- Compassion-Forbearance and suffered brutal persecution in jail for the past seven years. He suffered both physical and mental torture. His wife and relatives also endured enormous pressure.

Mr. Li, 54 years old, began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. After he began practicing Falun Gong, he required himself to follow the requirement of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance in all aspects of his life. In his work unit, he is a good worker. At home, he is a good father and husband. Dafa changed him into a man with virtue and good health.

Mr. Li Hongkui went to Beijing in February 2000 to appeal for Falun Gong. The police from Heilongjiang stationed in Beijing arrested him and sent him to their precinct in Beijing. There the police took turns interrogating him and did not allow him to go to sleep for 24 hours. The police tried to force him to give up his belief. They confiscated over 200 yuan and did not give him a receipt. They later handcuffed him, took him to Fangzheng Forestry Bureau and detained him in a solitary compartment in the detention center. He suffered all kinds of torture in the detention center. One day, guard Zhang Xueshan instigated six criminals to beat him and force him to give up his practice. He did not give in.

Guard Chen Quan ordered criminals to torture Mr. Li by forcing him to adopt the very painful "flying an airplane" posture for several hours. Once he was forced to "fly the airplane" for over four hours. He vomited blood. The criminals that were torturing him let him down since they were afraid that he might die. Because he was persistent in practicing Falun Dafa and refused to write a so-called guarantee statement to give up his practice, he was illegally sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp in March 2002. The police would not release him when his term expired and continued detaining him.

From February 2000 to May 2003, Mr. Li Hongkui was in the detention center at Fangzheng Forestry Bureau. He was forced to work over ten hours each day and often suffered beatings and verbal abuse. He protested several times with hunger strikes and suffered brutal forced-feeding. Guard Chen Quan and Liu Qibo beat him for over half an hour one night without any provocation.

May 2003, Mr. Li Hongkui escaped from the detention center and became homeless for over four months.

On May 20, 2004, Mr. Li Hongkui posted some Falun Gong banners in a park and was kidnapped by Sun Biwu and others from the national security team in Fanglin. Sun Biwu, Zhang Haicheng, and Li Changhai handcuffed Mr. Li Hongkui's hands to a steam-heating pipe. Each of them held an electric baton and forced him to tell them who he was working with. He did not say anything. They then would shock him repeatedly. Sun Biwu slapped his face and kicked him violently. Zhang Haicheng grabbed his hair and poured water into his mouth. These three men beat him madly from 10 p.m. on May 20 until noon the next day. His face and eyes turned black and his body was covered in black and blue. He sustained several fractures to his ribs. He felt great pain whenever he breathed. He suffered pain all over his body and his clothes were torn apart.

His wife went to see Jiang Feng, the secretary who was in charge and Sun Zhongjie, the head of the political and law committee in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, and staff members of the Procuratorate, to report her husband's beating. None of them admitted the beating and said that his wounds were from his resisting arrest.

He was then illegally sentenced to a four-year term and sent to Hulan Jail in Heilongjiang. In the training unit of Hulan Jail, the guard forced him to watch videos slandering Falun Gong and write a "guarantee letter" to give up his belief. He did not write and suffered punishment. The guard forced him to hold his hands on his back and bent his back 90 degrees and asked the criminals to watch him. He was not allowed to move at all. If he moved, the criminals would beat him up. Sometimes he had to keep that position for over three hours and he kept vomiting. At night, nine people slept on a 1.5-meter wide bed and he could hardly rest. Every day he had to peel garlic for 13 to 14 hours. If he did not finish his task, the guard would order criminals to beat him or verbally abuse him. After being persecuted for over five months at the training unit, he was transferred to No. 13 jail district and detained there. He was released in May 2008.

Seventy Year-old Ms. Li Mengshu Dies as a Result of Imprisonment in Sichuan Province

2009-07-23T07:38:00.001-07:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Li Mengshu, 70, lived in Jiangcheng Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province. On March 15, 2007, she went to the Zhouchang area in Yangma Town to clarify the truth, and was reported and arrested by officers from the Yangma Town Police Station and Jianyang City Domestic Security Division (Yan Yiquan, Luo Jiao, Lu Hui, and Chen Ke). She was detained in the Jianyang City Detention Center. Her family went to request her release, but Domestic Security refused them. Her family demanded that they show legal documents, but the agents would not issue any. Instead, they told her family, "Go ahead and sue us!"

Ms. Li's husband could not take the stress. He got sick and died on April 22, 2007. Ms. Li was not allowed to say goodbye to him. On June 8, 2007, Ms. Li was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and sent secretly to the Sixth Ward of the Chengdu City Women Prison on July 26, 2007.

After the sentencing, Ms. Li's salary was withheld. The guards did not allow her to practice Falun Gong and brutally tortured her until her life was in danger several times. The prison administration saw that she could not take care of herself, and in fear of being held responsible for her death, ordered the Jianyang City Police Department to pick her up. However, the latter delayed doing so for three months. The prison had to take her home in January 2009. She died at 4:00 a.m. on April 21, 2009.

Ms. Li Mengshu's home address: 158-Anxiang Street, Jiancheng Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province, zip code 641400

Chengdu City Women Prison located in Hong'an Town, Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, zip code 610109
Yangma Town Police Station Director Zeng (given name unknown)
Prosecutor Huang in Jianyang City Procuratorate
Jianyang City Domestic Security Division: 86-832-7226655
Yan Yiquan, Jianyang City Domestic Security Division chief, 86-832-7263848 (Home)
Chen Ke, Lu Hui, Luo Jiao, Jianyang City Domestic Security Division chief officers
Tang Jianguo, Jianyang City 610 Office chairman: 86-832-7210610 (Office), 86-832-7261234 (Home), 86-13320685898 (Cell)
Zhong Shiquan, Jianyang City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee secretary: 86-832-7221166 (Office), 86-832-7213369 (Home), 86-13980382369 (Cell), 86-832-7288818 (Xaiolingtong)

Former PhD Candidate from China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) Zheng Xujun and His Wife Incarcerated at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

2009-01-18T12:08:00.002-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners and husband and wife Zheng Xujun and Su Nan from Beijing are being detained at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Zheng Xujun is forced to take on heavy work in the men's camp. The couple was illegally arrested on February 26, 2008 at their home in Changping, Beijing. Zheng Xujun was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor, and Su Nan was sentenced to two years. Because Su Nan refused to sign the monthly report, she was beaten on October 8 and October 27. Zhao Guorong (team leader of the 1st Division), Zhang Liang (a section chief), Gao, and team leader Zhao beat her on October 8, 2008. They electrically shocked her hands and throat. Zhao Guorong and team leader Xiao Li beat her with hard plastic sticks on October 27, 2008. They pushed her down to the floor and kicked her, causing her to bleed from the mouth.

Mr. Zheng Xujun started his PhD program in 1996 and was sent to a joint research program at the University of Liverpool in England in January 1999. After he returned from England, he was compelled to stop his PhD studies and was forcibly brainwashed. In March and November 2000 he was arrested for mailing and putting up truth-clarification materials. CEPRI then dismissed him from university. People from CEPRI then changed his address to a non-existent one and kept his registration in the security department of CEPRI, turning him into an "illegal resident." Mr. Zheng has thus been deprived of the most basic citizen's rights.

At the end of 2001, he was sent to the "Beijing Legal System Training Center," a brainwashing facility, where he suffered abuse for more than six months. He was locked in a tightly sealed room. Fluorescent lamps lit the room twenty-four hours a day, and armed police officers took turns monitoring him around the clock. Later on he was sent to a forced labor camp for a year and a half, in addition to the six months at the brainwashing center. Mr. Zheng Xujun was detained for a total of over two years.

Zheng's wife Su Nan worked for the People's Liberation Army's General Armament Department. Her department segregated her in confinement for five months in July 1999 because she appealed for Falun Gong. Her CCP membership and military status were canceled in 2000 for her belief.

In September 2000, she and two other practitioners went to appeal in Beijing. Two residents at Mafang Village, Qinghe, Beijing reported them, which led to their arrest. They were detained at the Haidian Detention Center, and they were later transferred to the 7th Division of the Beijing Police Department and then sent back to the Haidian Detention Center. The Haidian District Court sentenced her to three years in prison. Su Nan went on a hunger strike for 27 days at Haidian Detention Center to demand her release. During that time she was forced to stand outside in the wind and snow for a whole day after being on hunger strike for over ten days. The same night she almost died. Since then her hands become pale whenever it is cold, and her bones ache. She has not had her menstrual cycle since then and has become physically very weak.

Su Nan was later severely abused and tortured at the Sichuan Women's Prison and then at Chuanxi Women's Prison in Sichuan.

In a meeting at the Chuanxi Women's Prison, political commissioner Zhang and prison ward head Wang publicly claimed, "Falun Gong is nothing. A practitioner dying is like a dog dying. Spending 50 yuan to take you out to be cremated can be counted as you committing suicide."

They instigated the inmates to shout slanderous slogans. When more than ten practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," they were sent to solitary confinement cells and tortured there. Su Nan was sent to a solitary cell and was "tied with ropes." This torture involves the following: the ropes are soaked first and then the practitioner is tied up from the wrists all the way to the shoulders then to the back and the neck. The arms would soon lose circulation, as the ropes dried out and tightened. After half an hour to an hour the person might lose consciousness. It might cause death after two hours. Prison warden Wang had killed a male prisoner using this torture method. As soon as the practitioners become unconscious, guards loosen the ropes. When practitioners awaken again, they get tied up again.

Su Nan was handcuffed and locked to a window higher than her neck. She was only loosened three times - when using the restroom and ten minutes each time when it was time to eat. She was cuffed for 24 hours a day. When she was on hunger strike, she was only let go when they force-fed her and when using the restroom once at night. She was forced to stand day and night there. After 11 days, her hands were cuffed at her back to the window. She had to bend forward and could not stand up straight. She was extremely weak on the 15th day, and her whole body was swollen. She often lost consciousness, but the guards still did not call the doctor.

Once when Su Nan had one hand tied to the window, she nearly died. The inmates called the prison doctor, and she was sent to the emergency room at the Yaan District Hospital.

The perpetrators at the Chuanxi Prison forced the practitioners who refused to give up the Falun Gong practice to run on the playground. When the inmates were tired they took turns to rest, but practitioners had to keep running. When they could not run anymore, they were beaten and kicked, so they had to keep running until they collapsed. Some were sent to the emergency room. One older practitioner was tortured to death after only one month of incarceration there.

Su Nan has returned home but has been very weak physically. She cannot raise her arms. Even so, the authorities sentenced her to two years of forced labor.

Because CEPRI had canceled Mr. Zheng's registered address, he could not lead a normal life. The CEPRI authorities refused to let Zheng Xujun have his doctoral dissertation passed, so he is unable to obtain his PhD.

On March 20, 2008, domestic security agents from Changping and agents from the Xisanqi Police Station broke into the couple's home and ransacked it. They sent the couple to the Changping Brainwashing Center for a month. Persecutors there (including section chief Lian, Dong, collaborator Gao Ruihua and Dong Fu) abused many practitioners. They forced practitioners to watch slanderous videos. If practitioners remain persistent in their belief, they are sentenced or subjected to forced labor.

On April 19, 2008, the couple was transferred from the Changping Brainwashing Center to the Changping Detention Center. On May 19, 2008, the couple was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. In June 2008, they were sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and have been persecuted there. Su Nan's relatives tried to visit her, but the guards denied their request. Su Nan is being forced to work at the camp's shop under abysmal hygienic conditions, laboring from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. She is often beaten while working.

Three of Mr. Tian Fujin's Family Again Sentenced to Prison

2009-01-18T12:08:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Six members of Mr. Tian Fujin's family are Falun Gong practitioners. During the nine years that Falun Dafa has been persecuted, all six have been sentenced to imprisonment or forced labor. Mr. Tian's home was also searched several times and most of his property was stolen by the local police. The family has been unable to reunite for nine years. The total sum of their detention terms is 30 years.

On June 5, 2008, agents from the Horqin District 610 Office and police officers from the Yongqing Police Station searched Mr. Tian's home once more and confiscated his property. People involved in the search included Baojirimutu, Li Fengqin, director of Yongqing residents' committee, and police officers from the Yongqing Police Station. Mr. Tian Fujin, Ms. Liu Xiurong, Ms. Tian Fang, and Mr. Tian Shuangjiang , who is Mr. Tian Fujin's son, were arrested and detained. Only a 12-year-old child was left at home. Mr. Tian Shuangjiang was released the next day. But his parents and sister were detained at the Hexi Detention Center and subjected to abuse.

During the Olympic Games, Ms. Liu Xiurong was transferred to the Ganqika Town Detention Center, where she developed heart disease from being abused. The authorities of the detention center asked her family members to pay money so that Ms. Liu could receive a check-up. Ms. Tian Xin, the second daughter of Ms. Liu, went to visit her mother after she was released from the labor camp. Ms. Tian Xin did not have any money, so the guards lied and said that Ms. Liu had recovered and it was no longer necessary to do a check-up. Ms. Tian Xin asked to see her mother, but was refused. Meanwhile Ms. Tian Fang was transferred to the Naiman Prefecture Detention Center. Wang Bo, director of the State Security Division in Horqin District, continually harassed Mr. Tian Shuangjiang and demanded that Mr. Tian go to the police department frequently. Also, Wang Bo went to his home to harass him. As a result, Mr. Tian Shuangjiang was forced to become homeless and has been unable to return. Because of cooling temperatures, Ms. Tian Xin took cotton-padded clothes to the detention center for her parents and sister. However, the guards in the detention center refused to accept the clothes and tried to force her to buy the costly clothes sold in the detention center.

On November 3, 2008, the Horqin District Court tried three members of Mr. Tian Fujin's family. They were charged with attempting to overthrow the state and violating the law. They were suffering from severe abuse. As a result, Mr. Tian Fujin was in a somewhat muddled state; Ms. Liu Xiurong's voice was hoarse, and Ms. Tian Fang and her parents were extremely emaciated. At first, the judge questioned the three individually. He asked Mr. Tian Fujin if Ms. Tian Fang had been involved in making Falun Gong materials. Mr. Tian Fujin said no. Then he asked Ms. Tian Fang the same question, and Ms. Tian Fang said no. Later, the judge brought the family together, and asked Ms. Tian Fang the same question again. Ms. Tian Fang responded with no. But the judge had deceived her by saying that Mr. Tian Fujin had already acknowledged this to be true. At that time, Mr. Tian Fujun was too weak to defend himself. Ms. Liu spoke with kindness and said that the material was for saving people and providing them with a good future. The judge ignored her and proceeded to convict them. The so-called "evidence" for convicting Ms. Tian Fang was that she had distributed articles written by the founder of Falun Gong in the detention center. Ms. Tian Fang was released from the Huhehaote City Women's Prison in September 2007, and because she had committed "crimes" within five years of her release, the substantiating "evidence" fell into the category of a repeat offender, whereby, she was given a severe penalty.

On December 10, 2008, the Horqin District Court in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolian, sentenced Mr. Tian Fujin to three years of imprisonment, Ms. Liu Xiurong, Mr. Tian Fujin's wife, four years of imprisonment, and Ms. Tian Fang five years of imprisonment.

Guo Min, judge of Horqin District Court: 86-13947504843 (Cell)
Wang Bo, director of State Security Division in Horqin District, switchboard: 86-475-8254444 ext. 5111, 86-13947540101 (Cell), 86-475-2212020 (Home)
Baojirimutu, of Horqin District "610 Office": 86-13904750523 (Cell)

Crimes Committed against Practitioners in the Shandong Province First Women's Labor Camp

2009-01-18T12:07:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) The Shandong Province First Women's Labor Camp is located at 2 Xiangshuiquan Road in Jinan City, Shandong Province. All the practitioners detained here were first forced to go through a medical examination at the Police Hospital. Then each practitioner had to have a blood test, but the test results were unavailable to us practitioners.

All the newcomers were handcuffed and gagged with duct tape and taken to a special team designed just for practitioners. The guards assigned two inmate "helpers," former practitioners, to monitor the newcomer practitioners. As these helpers talked to practitioners, the guards tried to determine which helpers the practitioners wanted to talk with. Their goal was to find ways to get practitioners to give up their belief. At the beginning of each practitioner's term, the guards repeatedly called her family, telling them to come visit her. The guards often threatened the families, telling them to persuade the practitioner to give up her belief by using the threat of divorce or ending family relationships.

When we went on a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment, the guards held us down and force-fed us by inserting a tube into our nostrils. Many of us bled profusely. The guards were afraid we would reveal this brutal treatment to our visiting families, so they later completely banned all visits.

The guards have developed a host of tactics and methods of torture to persecute detained practitioners. Below are some major ones.

Putting Practitioners in Small Cells and Brainwashing Them

Many practitioners were held in a small cell alone since the first day they arrived--for three months in a row or even longer. One practitioner was held alone for three months. Because she had no chance to talk to anyone, she lost the ability to speak normally when she was finally let out of the small cell.

While in the small cell, we were forbidden to see anyone except the guards and the helpers. The door was always closed, and we had to eat, drink, relieve ourselves, and sleep all in the small cell. We had no dignity, and the guards physically abused us at will. Sun Qunli was a guard who often beat and cursed practitioners. The verbal abuse was extreme, aiming to have us feel we were the most incapable, stupid, and disgusting person in the whole world. The guards also tried to instill the idea that only they were the dearest people in our lives. Guard Sun Jun said, "Why are you afraid of being "reformed?" In our team, the reform rate is 100 percent. I'd say it's just a matter of time before you give up your belief."

The guards played videos slandering Falun Gong and Master all day long, from 6:00 a.m. till midnight, sometimes for over a month. They wrote Master's name on the floor and benches and then forced us to step on them. They also marked our shoes, arms, and legs with Master's name.

We refused to acknowledge we were detainees, so we were then denied restroom privileges and not allowed to sleep or wash ourselves. We had to urinate into our teacup. We also refused to have our hair cut or put on detainees' uniforms, so seven to eight guards held us down one at a time to cut our hair and strip off our clothes. All the items that our families sent us were taken away. Only the clothes were left to us.

Forcing Practitioners to Squat for Long Periods of Time

We had to squat for over 10 hours at a time or even longer. Two helpers watched each practitioner, making sure we did not move. Their plot was to wait for our vulnerable moments to force us to write statements to denounce our belief. If we urgently needed to use the restroom, we would be told to write the statements first. When we refused to comply they would all over swarm us, put a pen in our hands, and have us write. Then they forced our fingerprints on the statements, saying, "Now that you have written such statements, your Master no longer wants you." We certainly would not acknowledge such "reform," but that was exactly how they achieved their 100 percent "reform" rate.

After such torture, we usually could not walk for over a week.

Forcing Practitioners to Sit on Plastic Benches

The plastic benches used in this torture were only about 12 cm tall, with many holes on them. We were ordered to sit on these benches with our backs upright, hands on our laps, and eyes forward. We were not allowed to talk to each other or to stand up and walk around. Every day from four o'clock in the morning to midnight we had to sit there, motionless. Sometimes we were forced to endure such torture for several months in a row. Two helpers were assigned to keep an eye on each of us. If they thought our seated posture was not good enough, they would kick us. In the summertime, the benches were very damp. Our flesh got stuck in the holes on the benches and soon festered. It was very common for us to have a couple of pot marks on our bottoms. When we went to use the restroom, we had to be careful when taking off our pants because the rotten flesh, pus, and blood all stuck to the pants.

Denying Practitioners Washing Privileges

This was a despicable tactic. The guards often intensified the torment by using this method on us on very cold or hot days. In the hottest days in the summer we were forbidden to change our clothes or wash ourselves. The guards ordered the helpers to wrap the only faucet in the restroom with plastic bags. We were even prevented from seeing to our personal hygiene during our menses. We all had heat rash.

Depriving Practitioners of Sleep

Sometimes we were forbidden to sleep for five days in a row, or even longer. We could not even blink our eyes or we would invite beatings from the helpers. In order to keep us awake, these helpers poured cold water on us. They also stabbed us with their ink pens. Many of us had bruises everywhere.

In addition to the physical sufferings, such long-time sleep deprivation resulted in mental problems for some of us. Yet the guards blamed Falun Gong for this outcome.

Subjecting Practitioners to Forced Labor

Every day we got up at 5:00 a.m. and labored until 11:00 or 12:00 at night. Each meal took no more than 30 minutes, and the rest of the time we were all working. Later on, the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom) exposed this abuse at the labor camp, and the camp's supervising agency gave orders that we be let off work at 8:00 p.m. Actually, we were still made to work well beyond that time. The guards' trick was to have us work in our cells after 8:00 p.m. We couldn't go to sleep until 11 or 12; sometimes even 1 o'clock in the morning. Later on the supervising agency became more rigorous in its camp inspections, and the guards were forced to order everyone to lie down at 10:00 p.m. every night.

The workshop was a dangerous place. The fuzz from the plush toys was everywhere. Even though we wore surgical masks, our mouths, nostrils, and bodies were still full of the fuzz. Many of us developed a cough and skin diseases. In addition, the mask given to us was never replaced. So, no matter how long our term was, we had to wear the same mask over and over again.

Every day we had four restroom breaks: at 5 and 9 in the morning, 3 and 8 in the afternoon.

Everyone was given three jobs to finish each day. However, when we were done with our assignments, the guards increased our workload to five jobs. When we were able to do five jobs every day, the guards dumped more work on us. The workload kept increasing until we reached our capacity and were totally exhausted. At the end of every day we were all tired beyond words, yet we still had to sit upright and hold daily meetings.

We were given two washing breaks every day, one in the morning and the other at night. Every team (consisting of at least 12 people) got a total of only five minutes. No matter what we did, be it washing our face, brushing our teeth or washing our clothes, we had to be out in five minutes as a team. If we failed to finish our things on time, we would be scolded at different meetings. According to the actual camp rules, every team is to be given 10 minutes every week for thorough personal hygiene and cleaning the cells. However, we often didn't get such breaks in several months. Oddly enough, whenever the supervising agency sent people to inspect the labor camp, they would for sure see newly painted walls, well-maintained machines, newly replaced linens, and spotless rooms.

There was a surveillance camera in every corner, hall, workshop, and detention cell. The guards could see clearly what was going on anywhere inside the labor camp.

In one strictly monitored team headed by Yang Xiaolin, there were 12 detainees, three of whom were practitioners and the rest criminals charged with prostitution, drug dealing, and battery. The three practitioners were made to wear blue badges while non-practitioner detainees wore yellow badges. The practitioners were forbidden to talk to anyone and were under round-the-clock watch by the guards and non-practitioner detainees. The guards often incited those non-practitioner detainees to verbally and physically abuse practitioners, promising to reduce the terms of those that cooperated the more they cooperated with the guards.

The guards often softened their attitudes toward practitioners whose terms were about to expire, because they feared the released practitioners would expose their crimes. They would reiterate that all the torture the practitioners suffered was initiated by the helpers and that all they did was shower practitioners with tender care and love.

Camp head Hao Taofang
Deputy heads Hao Xiuyun, Liu Yulan, Wang Qinghe, Yang Ping ,and Niu Xuelian
Phone number of the labor camp: 86-531-88931747
Political committee members Yang Qing, Diao Chunfeng, Pan Zhisheng
Discipline committee head Lu Weidong

Mr. Jin Lilin Serving Seven-Year Sentence--Wife Passed Away after Struggling Alone for Years

2009-01-13T07:19:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) On the morning of December 22, 2008, the wife of Mr. Jin Jilin, a resident of Jinjiaya Village, Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City in Gansu Province, passed away after struggling alone for years, trying to raise their family. The children were severely traumatized by their mother's death, and with the grandmother lying sick in bed, the children have no one to turn to. Those who know the family's situation are moved to tears.

In September 2000, police officers from Yuzhong County ransacked Mr. Jin's home and arrested him. He was later sentenced to one year of forced labor. In May 2002, he was arrested and detained by police officials from Lanzhou City and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was often transferred from one prison to another and tortured wherever he went. Even his father was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested.

While Mr. Jin was imprisoned, his wife had to struggle to pay for their two children's schooling. Since she worked so hard for so many years, she became so exhausted that she got ill. In late November 2008, Mr. Jin's wife fainted after experiencing chest pains.

When she went to the local hospital for a physical examination, she was diagnosed with "advanced gastric cancer with lymph node metastasis." Because she couldn't afford proper medical treatment, she opted for a less expensive treatment.

When Mr. Jin's wife became seriously ill, the family asked the prison authorities to release Mr. Jin. On December 2, 2008, guards from the Lanzhou City Prison went to Mr. Jin's home to do a "home visit." While they were there, they took footage of his home and his family. They brought the video back to the prison and showed it to Mr. Jin, saying, "As long as you write a guarantee statement, we will release you immediately." The guards blatantly attempted to use the family tragedy to pressure Mr. Jin into giving up practicing Falun Gong.

After Mr. Jin's wife died, their son, along with several village residents, went to the Lanzhou City Prison and begged the guards to release Mr. Jin so he could make funeral arrangements for his wife.

Zhang Haijun, instructor of the District No. 9 Section of Lanzhou Prison, said that since Mr. Jin didn't stop practicing Falun Gong, he was in the wrong. Zhang also denied the son's request to see his father, claiming that Mr. Jin had to be watched very closely in order to prevent an "accident."

In early November 2003, Mr. Jin was tortured in the West Orchards Detention Center and then taken to Dashaping Prison in a police car. As Mr. Jin was getting out of the car, he shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!"

The guards dragged Mr. Jin into the prison, then handcuffed and shackled him in a cell full of practitioners for seven days. Other practitioners were also handcuffed and shackled, and a metal cable connected each person to the next. They guards did not let them use chopsticks to eat and forced them to sleep on a cold concrete floor without any blankets.

When the guards saw that Mr. Jin would not give up his faith in Dafa--even after being severely tortured--they transferred him to Dingxi Prison in early March 2004. While he was there, Mr. Jin again shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" and clarified the truth. When the guards heard him shouting, they immediately shocked and beat him with electric batons. After torturing him like this for quite some time, Mr. Jin was covered in blood and bruises. He was later confined for 50 days to a small cell, where he was closely monitored.

In December 2005, Mr. Jin was transferred to the Lanzhou City Prison. From September 2007 to November 2008, the guards allowed no visits from Mr. Jin's family.

Yang Wancheng, warden of Lanzhou City Prison
Zhang Quanming, chief administrative supervisor
Li Zongming, chief of the Education Section
Wang Changlin, deputy chief (responsible for torturing practitioners)
Zhang Donghong (female)
Zhang Haijun, captain supervisor of the District No. 9 Section of Lanzhou Prison (police ID#: 6203583): 86-13609344958 (Cell)
Lanzhou Prison Discipline Inspection Section: 86-931-8323059
Lanzhou Prison office: 86-931-8362876

December 25, 2008

Mr. Liu Yizhi and Ms. Bai Hongzhen in Prison Since October

2009-01-13T07:18:00.002-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) On the morning of August 6, 2008, practitioners Mr. Liu Yizhi and Ms. Bai Hongzhen were illegally tried in the Xunyang District Court in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. When their family members arrived at the court hearing, they were searched. The trial lasted less than an hour, and the families heard no news of a verdict until November 1. Mr. Liu phoned home to inform his family that he had been secretly sentenced to two years in prison. Ms. Bai was sentenced to five years. On October 21, they were transferred to Hongdu Prison in Xinjian County.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Mr. Liu Yizhi and Ms. Bai Hongzhen were arrested. Ms. Bai was tortured in a mental institution. At around 9:00 p.m. on the April 28, 2008, Li Ming, head of the National Security Team from Xunyang Police Station in Jiujiang City, went to Bai Hongzhen's home accompanied by Kong Jiang. Four police officers beat Ms. Bai to the ground with a thick rope. They arrested her and tied her legs and arms together. They also arrested Mr. Liu, who was visiting Ms. Bai at that time. Wang Yonggen, the head security officer of the No. 2 Construction Company, and Ma Daorong were involved in these abusive arrests.

Liu Yizhi's mother is over 80 years old, and his son was planning to study at the university. They are both in need of financial support. Mr. Liu was arrested again on April 28, 2008. His family now must rely on his wife's small business as their sole source of income.

Ms. Huang Jinrong, 46, is from Dawangmiao Village, Jinjipo, Xunyang District of Jiujiang City. She has been sentenced to two years of forced labor. Since beginning Falun Gong practice, she has become healthier both mentally and physically. However, Ms. Huang has been arrested several times and sent to forced labor camps just because she wants to be a good person through studying Dafa. Back in August 2001, she was sentenced to forced labor. Her mother-in-law went to the police station to request her release. She was bitten by a dog and fell, fracturing a bone in one of her hands. Ms. Huang's mother was extremely worried about her daughter and soon became ill. She passed away not long afterwards. When Ms. Huang was detained in Majialong Forced Labor Camp, she was forced to take unknown drugs and suffered a mental collapse. After she returned home, it took a long time for her to regain her health.

New Chief of Changlingzi Forced Labor Camp Applied Pressure to Intensify the Persecution

2009-01-13T07:18:00.001-08:00

(Clearwidsom.net) Changlingzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City is one of the principal camps where the Chinese Communist Party persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. For a long time practitioners have been subjected to inhumane tortures in this camp. Particularly when the new warden, Zheng Yunfeng, arrived, he used "restructuring" as an excuse to apply pressure to all the guards to make them intensify the persecution of Dafa practitioners.

When the new warden arrived, the forced labor hours were extended, and inmates must now work from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Those that refuse to work or are unable to finish their quotas are labeled "not-reformed" and their jail terms are extended. Practitioners are prohibited from talking arbitrarily or moving about, and they are only allowed to use the restroom at designated times. Missing a time means they cannot use the restroom and have to to urinate into a bottle. The camp lets other inmates manage the practitioners, who are constantly reprimanded.

The food is very poor and the camp is involved in dishonest, deceptive practices. The menu states that there are two dishes for each meal, when in reality there is only soup. Inmates are instructed to lie when people come to do an inspection, saying that the food is great and that they get to take a shower once a week.

Ten practitioners are currently being persecuted in the camp. They are: Sun Kaiqing, Li Lizhuang, Zhang Yu, and Hao Mingwei of Harbin City; Liu Fang of Wuchang City; Jiang Zhi of Bayan County; Yu Lianhe of Fangzheng County; Wang Lihui in Shuangcheng City; Guo Hiacheng of Bin County; and Chang Guofu from Zhaoyuan County.

On the morning of December 18, 2008, guard Sun Minggang pinched practitioner Yu Lianhe's ear and kicked his thigh while he was doing the exercises. To generate hatred against Dafa and practitioners, the guards got all the inmates who monitored practitioners to sit with the practitioner who did the exercises and woke up all the other inmates. The practitioners went on a group hunger strike to protest, which caused the guards to intensify their persecution. On the morning of December 20, 2008, Division IV captain Hao Wei ordered practitioners into the field to shovel snow. The practitioners didn't have warm enough clothes and refused to cooperate. Hao ordered the guards and the inmates to tie Mr. Yu Lianhe and Mr. Liu Fa to benches and tape their mouths shut, then forced the rest of the practitioners to go to the field. After he finished shoveling snow, Mr. Yu and the guard got into a dispute. The guard pulled him aside and got another guard, Xu Yanpo, to beat and verbally abuse him. Mr. Yu's face was swollen. Afterwards, Mr. Yu and Mr. Sun were dragged to Division I to be put in solitary confinement. Mr. Li Lizhuang went to talk with the guards and was also put in solitary confinement.

Shuangcheng City practitioner Mr. Dong Liantai was also tortured. He was made to sit on a steel chair and be force-fed. The food ended up in his lungs. The guards had to immediately release him on medical leave lest he die in the camp. Only eight days after his release, Mr. Dong died in extreme pain from damage to his abdomen and a high fever.

In October 2008, the forced labor camp officials destroyed all records of the persecution of practitioners to remove evidence of the atrocities committed in the camp.

Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp personnel:
Warden Zheng Yunfeng
Division I captain Yang Jintang
Division IV captain Hao Wei
Guard Sun Minggang

Guards in Wangcun Labor Camp Cruelly Tortured Me

2009-01-11T10:12:00.003-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) I was lucky to learn Falun Dafa in August 1997. The principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance rectified my deviant path of life. I have come to know many Falun Dafa practitioners ever since, and I can see the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa through them.

On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime initiated a persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. As a benefited practitioner, I am responsible for clarifying the truth. Facing unreasonable suppression, I went to appeal many times, but I was beaten, arrested, detained, placed under house arrest, and finally, sentenced to forced labor in July 2000. Later, I was transferred from the Weifang City Labor Camp to the Wangcun (Shandong Province) Labor Camp.

In order to try to force me to give up cultivating Falun Dafa, the guards used all sorts of torture means. They handcuffed me as soon as I entered the camp, and I remained cuffed 24 hours per day for 141 days, until December 2000. I was detained in a 40-square-foot cell with a coffin-shaped bed. I was cuffed onto the metal gate and forced to stand holding the gate for 79 days. They did not allow me to sleep for the first ten days. If I closed my eyes, the guards would punch me, beat me, or curse me. By the tenth day, I could not bear such inhuman torture and protested. I requested that they let me sleep during the night. Just because I dared to raise such a basic request, the guards in the tenth ward took me to a room where more than a dozen guards surrounded me, each holding an electric baton, and shocked me for the whole morning. That was the darkest morning of my life. The scars resulting from the shocks took two years to fade. I was tortured to the degree of unconsciousness. Then they let me sleep for several hours per night, but they still handcuffed me to the bed.

The room in which the guards shocked me is one floor directly below my cell. I could almost hear the noise of the electric baton shocks every day, practitioners' screaming, and guards cursing. The air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh. Guards constantly maliciously laughed. They were devoid of kindness, and they had forgotten that the people paid them, they are among the people, and they should serve the people, and therefore they should not torture kind Falun Dafa practitioners who follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Mr. Hua Yuliang (an employee of the Weifang City Construction Bank), Mr. Zhang Zhao (an employee of the Weifang Diesel Engine Factory), Mr. Li Xinjian (an employee of the Weifang City Senior Citizen Center), and many other practitioners have also endured the same cruel torture that I did. Twenty-eight-year-old Mr. Zou Sontao, an educated man with a Master's degree from the Qingdao City Oceanography University, was tortured to death there on November 3, 2000.

The torture I went through in the forced labor camp is almost too painful to think about. I did not expect to walk out of there alive. My parents cried every day. My family was not allowed to visit me because I refused to accept the brainwashing. They tried with all their might to find out if I was still alive in the camp, and they were severely mentally traumatized. Upon being released from the forced labor camp, my wife cried and told me, "While you were serving in the camp, we were under the same pressure outside the camp. Do you know how hard it was for us to survive these miserable years? It was too much suffering!"

Cruel Torture in Wangcun Forced Labor Camp: Brainwashing with "Stew the Eagle" and Electric Shocking in Water Dungeon

2009-01-11T10:12:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) The Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, also called the Shandong Province Second Forced Labor Camp, is located in Wangcun Town, Zhoucun District in Zibo City, Shandong Province. It is the biggest forced labor camp in Shandong Province, and there are around 2,000 Falun Dafa practitioners detained there.

Since July 2000, a large number of practitioners have been sentenced to forced labor in Shandong Province, and they have been served the most severe terms in the nation. Normally, forced labor terms are 1-3 years long, but 900f detained Falun Dafa practitioners in Shandong Province have been sentenced to three years of forced labor.

The Shandong Province's evil party officials have conducted a brainwashing "research" project, beginning in July 2000, in Wangcun Labor Camp. First, they used physical torture and forced brainwashing by showing slanderous videos. The "strict control cell" chief guard Xu Shouyi revealed that many practitioners would be dragged out of the "strict control cell," then dragged back, causing much of their skin to tear, and their body would be covered with electric baton shock marks or wounds from beating. The "strict control cell" was very crowded, and practitioners slept with their handcuffs on and could not turn.

Mr. Hua Yuliang from Weifang City spoke with the guards rationally, and the guards could not say anything, but they still applied an electric baton into his mouth and burnt his mouth until it was covered in blisters and he could not drink or eat. Finally, the guards used a very cruel method and had ten collaborators take turns talking to him with their deviated understandings 24 hours per day; they did not let Mr. Hua sleep at all.

All firm Falun Dafa practitioners detained in Shandong Province have been transferred to the Wangcun Labor Camp to be brainwashed. In September 2000, more than thirty practitioners were transferred from the Licun Labor Camp in Qingdao City to the Wangcun Labor Camp. Among them, Mr. Zou Songtao, an educated man with a Master's degree from the Oceanography University in Qingdao City, was tortured to death with a dozen high voltage electric batons shocking him (see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/7/26/24522.html). Mr. Jiang Mingzhai is still being tortured in the Wangcun Labor Camp. There were also 18 practitioners transferred to the Wangcun Labor Camp from the Jinan City Labor Camp. In order to force them to give up their faith, guards locked them in a water dungeon (1) around the clock and ran a low electricity current in the water to shock them.

In the beginning of 2001, the guards changed their torture means and deprived practitioners their right to sleep unless they accepted the brainwashing. Guards in Shandong Province labor camps were widely using such methods. They had collaborators take turns brainwashing steadfast practitioners with their deviated understandings at all times. They call the method "Stew the Eagles" (2).Under such cruel brainwashing, some practitioners could not bear the sleepiness, turned away from Falun Dafa, became collaborators, and in turn, started brainwashing other firm practitioners.

Those practitioners that still did not accept the brainwashing after enduring the torture would be beaten by guards. Those forced to accept the brainwashing would go through "Legal Education," followed by overtime heavy labor. From 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every night, they still had to watch CCTV news and "Focus Forum," writing their "understandings" every day. There is also a weekly "Criticizing (Falun Gong) meeting." Guards believe that "Stew the eagles" plus slave labor, repeatedly viewing brainwashing materials, and brutal beatings will lead to successful brainwashing. But coercion cannot change people's hearts, and most practitioners who accepted the brainwashing once became clear-minded later, and declared the brainwashing null. The guards extended those collaborators' terms and threatened them to prevent them from becoming clear-headed.

The Shandong Province 610 Office holds a brainwashing session working together with the Wangcun Labor Camp. There are two Shandong Province Level brainwashing sessions, one is in Zibo City (Wangcun Town, close to the camp), the other is in Jinan City. Each practitioner taken to the Wangcun location, from all over the province, has to pay 5,000 yuan. There were 19 practitioners arrested together in 2001 in Longkou City, fined 100,000 yuan, and sent to be brainwashed in the (Wangcun) Zibo City brainwashing center. They were all bused to Wangcun Labor Camp and forced to go through collaborators' brainwashing. One female practitioner among them was deprived her right to sleep for a week while collaborators were brainwashing her. She was forced to sit on a small stool, and her lower body became swollen. Practitioners on hunger strikes were force-fed. The guards would pull the tube back and forth, causing stomach bleeding. Some practitioners' stomachs were severely damaged. The guards also took very solid practitioners to a mental hospital. According to incomplete statistics, there were nearly 1,000 practitioners arrested from the province and forced to go through brainwashing in the Wangcun Labor Camp right after they arrived at the province's Zibo City brainwashing center.

(1) Wearing a cotton coat and pants, some practitioners are forced to sit down beside the cell vent in a very uncomfortable contorted position, unable to stretch or lie down. The water dungeon area is very small and one can't lean against the wall for support. The practitioner is forced to sit on the cold cement floor. The police would then pour water onto the floor, soaking the coat and pants with freezing water. After they repeatedly pour water into the dungeon, one's body will be completely soaked and partially immersed in water. Oftentimes the water can get to be chest deep. Ice-cold water and wind would chill one to the bones. If one does not yield to them, this torture continues indefinitely. See illustration at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/5/49890p.html.

(2) Practitioners were forced to stand 24 hours a day continuously for over a month and not allowed to sit down or sleep. The persecutors took turns yelling and screaming at them, fighting and beating them during this time. See case on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/1/30/44560p.html

Ms. Xu Chunmei Dies as a Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

2009-01-11T10:11:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xu Chunmei, 55, was a retired teacher from Daqing City's 49th Middle School. She began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998, and became very healthy. She strictly disciplined herself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She worked tirelessly without complaint, and never fought with others over personal interests. She was deeply loved by her students, the students' parents, and her colleagues. She was awarded an "Excellent Teacher" prize many times.

Ever since the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, countless practitioners have been detained, sent to forced labor camps, imprisoned, and even tortured to disability or death. Ms. Xu feared being mistreated, and gave up her cultivation for a while. She retired, and discovered she had a minor illness in 2005. She came back to cultivation, and clarified the truth to people.

On June 24, 2008, she went to clarify the truth with fellow practitioners at Firestone Mountain in Anda City. A large group of officers from the Firestone Police Station arrested and detained them in the Anda City Detention Center. More than a dozen practitioners were detained in one room, with no water to drink, and very little food to eat. They had to sleep on the damp, cold floor. Ms. Xu became very weak, and started to pass blood in her urine. Her body was swollen and her face was very pale. The guards ignored her condition, and the 610 Office agents kept interrogating her. She endured extreme mental pressure and physical mistreatment.

On July 25, 2008, Ms. Xu was released, together with several other practitioners, but they were each fined 10,000 yuan. The center's administration ordered them to report to the Detention Center monthly. Ms. Xu quickly recovered through studying the Fa and doing the exercises upon her return home.

On August 24, 2008, the Anda City Detention Center brought her back to report on her situation. The guards wrote down a report, and then forced her to sign her name. Many practitioners were arrested during the Olympic season and sentenced to imprisonment. She saw fellow practitioners being tortured until they could not walk, and had to be helped by others to walk to the court. She could not bear the painful experience, and passed out several times.

The Anda City Detention Center kept calling her to come in and report her situation. She was very worried of being brutally mistreated again. She could not eat or sleep, her head was swollen, and she had difficulty breathing. She again developed blood in her urine, and her heart, lungs, and kidneys were all failing. She died at 7:30 a.m. on December 7, 2008. The administrations of the Firestone Police Station, Anda City Detention Center, and 610 Office are responsible for her death.

Ms. Jiang Xianyi and Mr. Wang Peiming Died under Persecution in Guangdong Province

2009-01-10T08:59:00.001-08:00

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Ms. Jiang Xianyi Died a Few Months after Being Released from Sanshui Labor Camp

Ms. Jiang Xianyi, 58, lived in Baishizhou Community, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City. She began cultivating in 1998, and she became a healthier and better person. Her heart and lung problems disappeared. In order to validate Falun Dafa and save sentient beings, she often went to the remote countryside to clarify the truth.

On May 23, 2006, she was arrested while passing out truth clarifying materials in Nanshan District, and detained in Tongle Village Detention Center. She went on hunger strike to protest, was injured severely by force-feeding, which resulted in her having difficulty eating, and she could not stop coughing. She refused to accept the brainwashing, and was then sentenced to three years of forced labor at Sahnshui Women's Labor Camp.

In August 2008, Ms. Jiang Xianyi was emaciated, weighing only about 70 pounds, and coughing non-stop. The hospital refused to accept her for treatment. The guards were afraid of being infected with a disease, and feared being held responsible for her life, or paying for her medical costs, so they called her family to pick her up. She continued coughing and had difficulty eating. Less then six months after returning home, she was take to the hospital on December 31, 2008, and died at 12 o'clock on January 2, 2009.

Mr. Wang Peiming Died Three Years ago in Chenghai City

Mr. Wang Peiming, in his 50s, used to be a volunteer for Chenghai City's Falun Dafa Assistance Center. He also volunteered at the Shantou City Assistance Center (which was legally registered with the Shantou City Physical Education Bureau). After July 20, 1999, he and fellow practitioner Mr. Cai Hanshen were detained for two weeks in a secret place by the Waisha Town 610 Office, and were not allowed any visitors. He was severely threatened and insulted, forced to go through brainwashing, and write guarantee statements.

In June 2000, Chenghai City Police Department and 610 Office made a series of large scale arrests. They detained Mr. Wang for three days in the Police Compound building, then transferred him to the Baisha Detention Center. His house and store were sealed, and his car was taken to be used by officers in Baisha Town Police Station. He was threatened badly, and the police extorted money from him. Officer Li Dongming of the Shantou City Police Department threatened to torture Mr. Wang to death many times if he refused to give up his faith.

The Shantou City Police Department, Chenghai City Police Department, and 610 officers violated legal procedures and detained Mr. Wang for two years in the Baisha Detention Center. During those two years, Mr. Wang endured lots of torture.

After being released from the Baisha Detention center, officers from Waisha Station and 610 Office forcibly took him into custody again, and detained him in a secret place for two months. There they used all the brutality they could to force him to give up his faith, and write a "transformation statement" against his will. Theoretically he was free, but his spirit was destroyed-- a terrifying ending worse than the loss of personal freedom. He felt regret and guilt for a long time, and died on September 19, 2005.

Husband Given Illegal Prison Sentence; Wife Sent to Brainwashing Center

2009-01-05T14:25:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Jiang Zonglin was formerly the superintendent of the Mingyuan Architecture Design Institute, a part of the Chengdu City government. On August 2, 2007, he was arrested at home by police. Jiang's family never received any legal documentation and only heard much later that he was subjected to brainwashing. He was not allowed to sleep for sixty straight hours.

On September 27 and October 10 of 2008, Wuhou Court set a trial for Jiang Zonglin, Zhong Fangqiong and eight other practitioners. Defense lawyers retained by the family pointed out that no law defines Falun Gong as a cult or illegal organization. Jiang Zonglin did no harm to society and should be released. However, the court handed Jiang Zonglin a five-year sentence.

On Monday, December 8, 2008, which is the petition reception day for the Sichuan Province government, Jiang's wife Xie Chengxin went to the government office to appeal for her husband. However, she was taken away and threatened by Fuqin Street 610 Office member Xie Shilong, policemen Wu Lirong and Jinqin community officer Ye Kaixing.

On December 12, 2008, Xie Chengxin and Jiang Longyin were clarifying the truth at Zhaojue Temple, and they were reported by a monk. Officers from the Qinglong Police Station then arrested them. In the afternoon, they notified the Fuqin Police Station and the Fuqin Street Committee to pick them up. Xie Shilong then sent these two practitioners to the Jingniu Law Education Center for brainwashing. The family pointed out that this was illegal. Xie Shilong said, "You go ahead and accuse me!" He then shuffled the family to the Jingniu 610 Office.

The Director of the Jingniu Brainwashing Center is Li, and two people that work there are Li Daquan from the Simaqiao Street Committee and Xia from the Hehuachi Street Committee. There is another person there named Li Lian. Two of them are retirees receiving a salary from the brainwashing center, and they get bonuses according to the number of Falun Gong practitioners being detained. In addition, they get an allowance when they sleep overnight at the brainwashing center and get call-back pay for the weekend, which is 20 yuan per day.

After Falun Gong practitioners arrive here, they are isolated, and each person is monitored by two people. The people doing the monitoring are usually unemployed or retirees hired by the center. The room is 24 square meters. There are three beds, a long desk and a TV that broadcasts CCP propaganda around the clock at a high volume. The monitors are to report to the center authorities if the practitioners try to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to them. They forbid the practitioners from reciting Dafa books, doing the Falun Gong exercises or talking to them about Falun Gong. The practitioners are forced to watch the propaganda programs all day. At 8 p.m. every night, guards lock a practitioner and two monitoring people in the room and unlock the door at 7:30 a.m. The outside is monitored by three guards, and the yard is guarded by two large dogs.

Fuqin Street Committee staff: Xie Shilong 86-13183801139 (Cell)

The Persecution of Practitioners in Shandong Province Men's Prison

2009-01-05T14:23:00.001-08:00

By a person with inside information at Shandong Province Men's Prison

(Clearwisdom.net) The Shandong Province Men's Prison, also known as the Shandong Province No. 1 Prison, is located in Jinan City. It is notorious for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The guards in the No. 11 Ward use all types of torture techniques such as brainwashing, hypocrisy, cajoling, force-feeding, sleep deprivation, sitting on a board (1), solitary confinement, shocking with an electric baton, mental torment, criticism, denunciation, and humiliation to compel practitioners to do things against their will and renounce Dafa.

The prison authorities claimed that they were successful in "transforming" 100 percent of the practitioners, and that none of them returned to the practice of Falun Gong. As a result they were commended by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the prison was designated an "advanced" institution. The prison is open to the public and receives visitors nearly every day. The visitors include police officers, students, and sometimes foreigners. The prison authorities conceal the unceasing persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners and this outright pretense continues to poison people.

The No. 11 Ward is specifically set up to persecute Falun Gong. Guards encourage inmates to abuse practitioners. Except for some felons, most of the inmates are CCP officials guilty of corruption. They were high ranking officials that lived through the Great Cultural Revolution, so they are familiar with exercising a series of tactics to discipline others. When the prison authorities linked personal gain, such as sentence reduction, with the abuse of practitioners, the inmates became hostile to the practitioners and acted as the CCP's thugs.

To "transform" the practitioners, the prison gave governing power to the inmates to monitor, strictly control, and beat practitioners. The prison set up a so-called "strictly controlled team" and a "consolidation team." Any practitioner who refused to renounce his belief would be abused by the "strictly controlled team." Seven or eight inmates were assigned to torment one practitioner. The inmates were murderers, gang members, or those guilty of corruption

The practitioners who held steadfast to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and their belief in Teacher were locked in a remodeled cell, with the door and windows sealed tightly. The practitioners were detained separately, and inhumanly tortured at night. Their cries could be heard throughout the entire ward. To cover up their crimes, the thugs stuffed socks, towels, or rags into the practitioners' mouths.

They also wrote Master Li's name on the practitioners' benches and beds with virulent intent. Practitioners were forced to swear at people, otherwise, they would be deprived of sleep. Some were forced to sit on a small bench for a long time until their buttocks festered. They were forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong and if they closed their eyes, the thugs would push open their eyelids. Some of the practitioners held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and were brutally force-fed.

The following is brief information about some of the male practitioners that are being persecuted in the Shandong Province Men's Prison.

Mr. Zhang Lejin, who lives in Northeast China, was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for tapping into a TV signal to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. As a result of abuse in detention, he developed a disease of the rectum and has great difficulty defecating. He has suffered immensely.

Mr. Huang Min of Northeast China was also sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for tapping into a TV signal to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. He has suffered long-term inhuman abuse, such as force-feeding, beatings, and and denigration.

Mr. Wang Fengyu, in his 50s, lived in Laiwu City, Shandong Province. He was sentenced to nine years. He was force-fed and beaten and became extremely weak as a result. His family was prohibited from seeing him for a long time.

Mr. Shi Zenglei lived in Linyi City, Shandong Province. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. He was brutally beaten and injured and still experiences pain. The guards broke his spirit by criticizing and denouncing him at meetings that were structured similar to those that occurred during the Great Cultural Revolution. Consequently, he became extremely weak and had difficulty taking care of himself.

Mr. Liu Guixian lived in Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong Province. He was sentenced to nine years. He suffered brutal abuse and became extremely thin.

Mr. Gao Hongjie lived in Anqiu City, Shandong Province. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. He was beaten, cursed regularly, deprived of sleep, and forced to sit on a small, backless stool for long periods of time.

Mr. Wang Xidong lived in Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong Province. He was brutally beaten. Once he was struck on the back of the neck and fainted instantly. As a result, his cervical vertebra was severely damaged and he frequently felt dizzy.

Mr. Li Jianqiang, an alias, lived in Jiaodong Peninsula, Shandong Province. He was subjected to long-term "strict control." He was deprived of sleep and beaten. His leg was disabled and he was forced to sit on a small, backless stool for long periods of time and his buttocks festered as a result. He endured excruciating pain. He is currently in a weak state and his face is gaunt due to the abuse he has suffered. He held a hunger strike to protest the abuse and was force-fed. Everyone in the ward witnessed the persecution inflicted on practitioners by the guards and inmates. Some of them said admiringly, "I witnessed with my own eyes that Falun Gong practitioners are very brave."

Mr. Zhao Weidong was sentenced to seven years. The guards abused him over a long period of time both mentally and physically. His family is very poor and cannot afford to treat his son, who is disabled. His wife does not have an income. Both the wife and son are awaiting his return.

Mr. Yi Xiangyang, in his 50s, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. He was beaten, deprived of sleep, hit with an electric baton, and all his teeth were knocked out. His family is very poor and could not afford to buy meat during the spring festival. His son could not bear the circumstances and tried committed suicide without success.

The guards and their accomplices were still not satisfied with the practitioners who had given up Falun Gong against their will. Further mental abuse was inflicted on them. Meetings that criticized and denounced them were organized. They were forced to listen to slanderous video and tape recordings. They were also ordered repeatedly to write articles slandering Falun Gong and "confess" that they had committed a crime. They were severely demeaned both mentally and physically. Their mental anguish was severe and difficult to mend. Not only did they lose their personal freedom but they were also mentally devastated.

Note:

(1) Sitting on a board - Every day, practitioners were forced to put their hands on top of their laps, with backs straight and sit on benches 18 hours per day. This continued for over fifty days. The authorities limited practitioners' restroom use. Because of the long time spent sitting on hard benches, practitioners' buttocks developed large sores that hurt badly. Practitioners could not urinate normally because of the pain. Because of being locked up for long periods of time under wet and damp conditions with no ventilation or sunlight, practitioners developed scabies, which were extremely itchy and painful. See case at: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/7/29/24631.html.

The Persecution of Practitioners in Shandong Province Men's Prison

2009-01-05T14:23:00.000-08:00

The Brutal and Torturous Ordeals That Ms. Miu Cui Has Endured

2009-01-04T14:02:00.003-08:00

By a practitioner in Hunan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Miu Cui, a Falun Dafa practitioner in her 50s, is from Pingjiang County in the Yueyang area of Hunan Province. She was tortured many times because of her firm belief in Falun Dafa. At 9 p.m., on May 27, 2007, prison guard Li Jun and several prisoners in the Hunan Women's Prison, used a rope to tie Ms. Miu's wrists behind her back and then hung her up in the air. They tried to force her to sign a statement to say she would renounce her belief in Falun Dafa. In excruciating pain, she lost control of her bowels and started to bleed from her vagina. The guard then took her down her, dragged her to the bathroom to clean herself up, and then hung her up again. She was tortured repeatedly until 4 a.m. the following day. A month later she started to bleed from her vagina again. When a doctor from the provincial hospital examined her, he discovered that she was in the last stages of uterine cancer and he told her she probably had a maximum of three months to live.

The following is Ms. Miu Cui's story.

Practitioners are tortured in detention centers

In December 1999, Ms. Miu and several other practitioners went to Beijing to protest the persecution of Falun Dafa. They were arrested and detained for three days, without food or water, at the Youjie Detention Center in Beijing. On the fourth day, Liu Riguang from the Yueyang City 610 Office took the practitioners to the Pingjiang County Detention Center, where they were tortured.

Those that participated in torturing practitioners in the Pingjiang County Detention Center in 2000 included Hong (given name unknown) and Mao Bofan from the county Public Safety Bureau and Li Shangpeng, Hu Heping, Wang Meilan, Zhan Jianchi, Yu Gui, and Chen Meihua from the detention center. They often tortured practitioners by handcuffing them and suspending them off the ground, using electric batons on them, locking them in solitary confinement, beating them, and pouring urine on them.

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One day Ms. Miu was doing the sitting meditation, a Falun Dafa exercise, when guard Wang Meilan saw her. Wang yelled, "You are dead if you continue." Ms. Miu didn't listen to the guard. Wang went into her cell and shocked her on the head and neck with an electric baton. A thick, smoldering smell came from her burning skin. Ms. Miu was then put in solitary confinement for 20 hours. When she was put back in her cell, she was already unconscious.

Because there were already many practitioners in this detention center, Mao Bofan from the Pingjiang County Public Safety Bureau was responsible for separating them. Ms. Miu was transferred to the Yueyang County Detention Center, where there were already six practitioners.

All the practitioners in the Yueyang County Detention Center went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards brutally beat and force-fed them. To force-feed the practitioners, they ordered other prisoners to drag them out of their cells one-by-one. They handcuffed them behind their backs and beat them until they fell down. Then the prisoners stood on the practitioners' legs and shoulders to hold them down. The prisoners then forcefully inserted a plastic tube up through each practitioner's nose and poured concentrated salt water down the tube. The practitioner's stomach would quickly swell up and become extremely painful. The practitioner's nose would often bleed copiously and there would be blood, salt water, and dust all over their hair, face, and chest.

All the practitioners were force-fed eight times. Their noses swelled and festered, their chests were in excruciating pain, and they could barely breathe. They could hardly walk and were bleeding from their mouths. Ms. Miu was later transferred back to the Pingjiang Detention Center. That night she had diarrhea and a fever and vomited. She was severely ill for several days. Her weight dropped from 110 lbs to 60 lbs and she lost most of her hair.

Sentenced and tortured in prison

On June 13, 2000, Ms. Miu was put on trial for practicing Falun Dafa. On the day of the trial, she read her letter of defense to the judges, prosecutors, court staff, and spectators so that she could clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. The judge was speechless and ended the trial in less than 30 minutes.

In July 2000, Ms. Miu received her verdict from the judges. She was informed, "We know you are innocent, but we have to follow orders from above." She was sentenced to three years and sent to the Hunan Women's Prison on March 23, 2001.

Luo Jian, a guard at the prison, was a major participant in the persecution of practitioners there. She spoke harshly to the practitioners and brutally tortured them. On Ms. Miu's first day there, she was forced to do intensive work. Prison guard Luo ordered prisoners Chen Wenhong and Zhen Liutao to monitor Ms. Miu around the clock. Ms. Miu's job was to cut the threads off a large pile of bed sheets, fold them, and pack them all. She was not allowed to walk, talk, drink water, or go to the toilet.

Ms. Miu worked from 6:30 a.m. until 1 a.m. the following day. After three days, her face and legs were severely swollen, and she couldn't bend her fingers or walk. She believed she was innocent and did not deserve to be treated this way. The next day she went to guard Luo's office and told Luo she would not work anymore. Luo did not want to listen and decided to punish her by making her stand for prolonged periods of time for five days. Ms. Miu's body was severely swollen all over and she developed a bad fever. On the sixth day, she refused to go to work and stayed in her cell to write an appeal letter. Luo took her paper away and ordered her to continue standing for the next few days.

Brainwashing

On May 17, all 11 practitioners were ordered to be brainwashed by prison guard Hao Chunling. Every practitioner was monitored and closely followed every day by two guards and four prisoners from 5 a.m. to 3 a.m. the following day. Practitioners had to run, do push-ups, squat for long periods of time, stand for long periods of time, climb walls, and sit on a 'T'-shaped chair for long periods of time. Practitioners were shouted at, deprived of sleep and use of the toilet, shocked with electric batons, and forced to transcribe from books assigned by the prison.

During her 57 days of imprisonment, Ms. Miu still maintained she had not committed any crime by practicing Falun Dafa. When the brainwashing attempts failed to make her renounce her belief in Falun Dafa, she was returned to the intensive labor ward and tortured.

One day, a prisoner who knew the truth about the persecution brought Ms. Miu Teacher's latest lecture from 2002 in Washington, D.C. When prison guard Luo found out, Ms Miu was handcuffed and paraded in front of everyone in the prison to humiliate her. Luo them put her in a solitary confinement cell that was infested with bugs and mosquitoes. Ms. Miu went on a hunger strike to protest.

Three days into the hunger strike the warden came, so Ms. Miu quickly wrote an appeal letter to inform the warden of how she had been tortured. Three days later she was let out of solitary confinement and Luo was removed from her position within a week.

Tortured again

After Luo was removed, Ms Miu was still forced to work more than 18 hours a day. Ms Liu and Ms. Jin Xinchun, another practitioner, decided to expose what was going on in the prison to Li Yunfeng, the head of the provincial forced labor bureau, who would visit the prison in November 2001.

Li Yunfeng did visit the prison on November 17, 2001, and 30 minutes after the two practitioners started working, they were ordered to go back to their cells. When they refused, prison supervisors Huang Can and Li Jun, along with other guards, dragged the two practitioners out of the workshop and handcuffed them to a handrail until the visitors had left.

In November the weather is cold, but still the guards forced both practitioners to lie on top of an iron bed and handcuffed them there from 6 a.m. to midnight and then handcuffed them under the iron bed from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. This torture continued for seven days and nights. As a result Ms. Miu's hands festered and her whole body was swollen.

After the incident on November 17, prison guards intensified the persecution of practitioners. Prison guard Li Jun beat Ms. Miu until she fell to the ground, then stood on her back. Ms. Miu was forced into the torture position called "Carrying the double-edged sword on the back." In this position, her hands were handcuffed behind her back and she was hung up in the air by her wrists. Her body weight pulled on her shoulders, elbows, and wrist joints, causing excruciating pain. Within 10 minutes her clothes were soaked in sweat and she lost control of her bowels. She lost consciousness in 20 minutes. When she regained consciousness, she noticed that her wrists were bleeding severely. The prison guards ordered practitioners to write a statement to say that they would never try to appeal to officials visiting the prison, but all of the practitioners refused. The next day the guards paraded the practitioners in front of other prisoners to humiliate them. A guard then tried to choke Ms. Liu and yelled at her to lower her head. Ms. Miu soon fainted and was put in solitary confinement for 15 days.

The torture called "Three Gates"

"Three Gates" is also called "Gate of Hell." When practitioners were sent there, they were searched and had to kneel on the ground, raise their hands, and shout "Criminal (practitioner's name) is here to report." Many practitioners refused to do this, so they were beaten and shocked with electric batons.

At 1 a.m. on September 15, 2002, prison guard Tang yelled at Ms. Miu, "Why don't you kneel down? I am making you kneel down today!" Tang took out a high voltage electric baton to shock her. As Ms. Miu was shocked, the sparks could be seen in the dark. She was in extreme pain as she rolled back and forth on the ground. Later, guard Li Jun ordered prisoners Li Yuanmei, Xu Jun, and Wu Yanfei to kick and beat Ms. Miu while she was on the floor. Immediately, blood started gushing out of her nose and mouth.

Hung by the wrists while handcuffed behind the back

In the evening on September 26, 2002, Warden Zhao Lan ordered 4,000 prisoners to watch a video that slandered Falun Dafa. A dozen practitioners shouted, trying to clarify the truth. Warden Zhao ordered the guards to take Ms. Miu, Ms. Yan Hong, Ms. Zhang Yaya, and Ms. Liu Daju out and beat them severely. As a result, Ms. Miu could not hear through her right ear for two weeks. The practitioners were then handcuffed and put in solitary confinement. They were also denied any examination or treatment for their injuries.

Ms. Miu was in solitary confinement for two weeks. When she returned to her cell, she was tortured with the "Carrying the double-edged sword on the back" method again. Several days later, she developed a fever that would not go away and she couldn't drink water. Prisoners Li Wumei and Xu Jun lied to the guards, saying that Ms. Miu was on a hunger strike. The guards then dragged Ms. Miu from her bed to the ground. They dragged her from the fifth floor to the first floor, then to the workshop. In less than 30 minutes, her clothes were all ripped and her back, bottom, and the heels of her feet were severely injured. She was then handcuffed to a window ledge in the workshop.

Ms. Liu attempted to put her ripped clothes in a bag to save as evidence of how the prison guards torture practitioners. Two weeks later her clothes were gone. Other prisoners had stolen her bag and destroyed the evidence. To cover their crimes and let the wounds on her body fade away, the guards stopped torturing Ms. Miu in 2003 and let her return home on March 25, 2003.

Police against Ms. Miu

On June 20, 2003, Ms. Miu, Ms. Zhang Lihong, and Ms. Zhang Lanhui went to Lijiaduan in Miluo City to distribute truth-clarification materials. Zhou Bo and other police officers from the Lijiaduan Police Station arrested the three practitioners. They and officers from the Miluo 610 Office then tied them to chairs and beat them with wooden rods and shoes to extort a confession from them. The practitioners started to bleed as a result of the beatings. The police then forced the practitioners to kneel down and denied them food or use of the toilet for 17 hours. The police then locked them up in the Xiangyin County Detention Center.

In the detention center the practitioners refused to eat for six days. Guard Hu Jianjun and officials from the Miluo City 610 Office later questioned them, but Ms. Miu refused to be interrogated. An officer then grabbed her by the neck and hit her head against a wall; she fainted immediately. Ms. Miu's health started to deteriorate. The three practitioners were taken to the Xiangyin People's Hospital for emergency treatment. An officer from the Miluo City 610 Office still intended to sentence the three practitioners, no matter what.

Several days later, the Miluo County Court set up a trial in the practitioners' room in the hospital. The practitioners were still on oxygen and couldn't move. As a judge entered the room she covered her nose and said, "It smells so bad here. It is like there are three corpses here." Several days later the verdict came: Ms. Miu was sentenced to six years, Ms. Zhang Lihong and Ms. Zhang Lanhui were sentenced to four years each.

On January 16, 2004, guard Hu Jianjun from the Xiangyin Detention Center and Xu Jianqiu, a forensic medical doctor, took the three practitioners, who were still carrying oxygen tanks, to the Hunan Women's Prison. The results of medical exams given at the 112 Police Hospital stated that Ms. Miu had multiple illnesses and the other practitioners had very high blood pressure and could have a stroke at any time. Therefore, the three practitioners were unfit to be sent to prison. Hu and Xu quickly used their connections to put the practitioners in prison.

Tortured again in the Hunan Women's Prison

The number of imprisoned practitioners increased from eleven in 2001 to over 200 in 2004. Their ages ranged from under 20 to over 70. Ms. Miu, Ms. Zhang Lihong, and Ms. Zhang Lanhui were all tortured by the "Three Gates". Those who took part in torturing the practitioners were Li Chunhui, Li Jun, Luo Jian, and Mao Huiping.

All practitioners were monitored and closely followed by two prisoners 24 hours a day. They had to perform over 15 hours of intensive labor each day. Their jobs were to peel broad beans, skewer pieces of lamb meat, weave mats using split bamboo, fold tissue paper, and do embroidery. To prevent them from having any contact with the outside, the guards put 12 to 14 people in a room less than 30 square yards and the practitioners had to live, eat, wash, and sleep there. In summer, the water that was used to soak the broad beans had a terrible smell, and the room was infested with bugs. In winter, everything was wet and damp because the room was full of water buckets with beans in them. Practitioners were not allowed family visits, parcels, shopping, or talking to anyone. The guards often searched their room and would take away paper, pens, and other personal belongings and burn them.

On May 5, 2007, guard Luo ordered several practitioners to drag Ms. Miu to the brainwashing center. The brainwashing center was deeply hidden within the prison, and all the windows and doors were closed. No one was allowed in or out, except those who tortured the practitioners. Practitioners taken there suffered physical and mental torture for a long time. Some of them became incoherent and some died. Ms. Li Deyin died in May 2007, less than three months after she was put in the brainwashing center.

Those who participated in the torture in the brainwashing center included Zhao Lan, the warden; Xiao Ping and Zhou Chan, supervisors of a prison ward; Li Jun, Luo Jian, Mao Huiping, and Deng Jin, all guards; and Huo Rong, Liu Qin, and Li Yanling, all prisoners.

Life in danger as a result of torture

At 9 p.m. on May 27, 2007, guard Li Jun and several prisoners from the Hunan Women's Prison tortured Ms. Miu with "Carrying the double-edged sword on the back." They wanted to force her to sign a statement renouncing her belief in Falun Dafa. She was in such excruciating pain that she sweat heavily, lost control of her bowels, and started bleeding from her vagina. The guard loosened her, dragged her to the bathroom to wash herself, and hung her up again. She was tortured repeatedly until 4 a.m. the next day. A month later she had blood flooding out of her vagina. A doctor from a provincial hospital examined her and found out that she was in the last stages of uterine cancer and had a maximum of three months to live.

In order to cover up their crimes and rid themselves of responsibility, guards from the Hunan Women's Prison quickly bailed her out for medical treatment and sent her home on January 19, 2008.

Officers from various 610 Offices and the police often still go to Ms. Miu's home to harass her. During the Olympics, domestic security officers constantly monitored her. On December 2, 2008, three people from the Hunan Women's Prison and three officers from the Yueyang 610 Office found her and told her to have a health check-up. Their intention was to put her back in prison once her health had recovered. Her exam results remained the same as before, so the officers had to give up.

Mr. Yan Shoulin Arrested for Defending Practitioners in Court

2009-01-03T06:05:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of December 2, 2008, practitioners Mr. Yan Shoulin, Ms. Yang Chunmei, and her younger brother Yang Bin from Dengshahe Town, Jinzhou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, were arrested. Yang Bin has since been released and sent home, Yang Chunmei is still being illegally detained at the Liangjiadian Police Station, and Yan Shoulin's whereabouts are unknown.

The practitioners, along with Ms. Yang Chunmei's husband, own and operate a photo shop.

In March 2008, Ms. Gu Li and Ms. Qiu Shuping from Dengshahe Town, Jinzhou District of Dalian City were arrested by the local authorities while telling people the facts about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. On August 27, 2008, the CCP-controlled court put them on trial. Practitioner Mr. Yan Shoulin defended Ms. Gu Li and Attorney Wang Yonghang from Dalian City defended Qiu Shuping.

The two lawyers presented their defense arguments in court. Their main points were: (1) The court charged Ms. Qiu Shuping of "sabotaging law enforcement." However, Ms. Qiu did not know which law she sabotaged. Nor did she know how she sabotaged its enforcement. Even the judge and prosecutors do not know which law Ms. Qiu had sabotaged. (2) There was no criminal act.

After the lawyers concluded their defense, practitioner Gu Li was sentenced to three years in prison and Ms. Qiu Shuping to four years.

After the trial, Mr. Yan Shoulin was frequently followed. Attorney Wang Yonghang's license to practice law was taken away by the government, and the law firm he worked for terminated his contract.

At around 1:30 p.m. on December 2, 2008, Mr. Yan and his family were working in their shop when a group of unidentified individuals broke in, started punching and kicking Mr. Yan, and then arrested him. His wife Yang Chumei protested the violence and the arrest. She was then taken to the nearby police station by four plain-clothes policemen. Yang Chunmei's younger brother Yang Bin was also arrested.

The whole incident lasted almost three hours, during which time their neighbors and passersby condemned the police officers' brutal behavior. One of the police officers flashed his official ID badge and threatened on-lookers not to get involved or get close.

Ms. Li Yanhui from Zhoukou City, Henan Province, Illegally Sentenced to Four Years of Detention

2009-01-03T06:04:00.002-08:00

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Ms. Li Yanhui, who worked in a Chinese medicine hospital in Zhoukou City, Henan Province, was recently illegally sentenced to four years in the city detention center by CCP officials. Her second trial will be held soon. Ms. Li has been on a hunger strike for more than 10 days. The police have been inserting a tube into her stomach to cruelly force-feed her. She is very weak and cannot walk without leaning against the walls.

Ms. Li Yanhui is in her 40s and was an anesthetist in the Chinese medicine hospital. After she began to practice Falun Gong, she became a good person by following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She worked conscientiously and was always very kind to others. Her colleagues and patients consistently praised her.

A group of police officers under Gao Feng of the CCP National Security Group, the Shanan Division of the Zhoukou City Police Department, followed Ms. Li Yanhui for nearly a month. They arrested her on August 21, 2008, at work. The hospital administrator led the police to search her house. Ms. Li's mother was so frightened by the sudden police intrusion that she fainted.

We appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to help to rescue Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Yanhui.

Zhoukou City Police Department, the Shanan Division:
Zhao Jianshe, chief: 86-394-8228222 (Office), 86-394-8223602 (Home), 86-13592223333 (Cell)
Li Fengli, political commissar: 86-394-8238222 (Office), 86-394-8122369 (Home), 86-13603949966 (Cell)
Liu Yingdong, deputy president: 86-394-8267286 (Office), 86-394-8261009 (Home), 86-13700820058 (Cell)

Zhoukou City 610 Office:
Yu Yiyun, president and director of the politics and law committee: 86-394-8269628 (Office), 86-394-8231268 (Home), 86-3703873781 (Cell)

Zhoukou City Detention Center:
Meng Xianzhang, head: 86-394-8122191 (Office), 86-394-8589266 (Home), 86-13938042679 (Cell)
Liu Guoxiang, instructor: 86-394-8680889 (Office), 86-13938098769 (Cell)
Song Haiqiang, deputy head: 86-394-8584485 (Office), 86-394-8263836 (Home), 86-13700829955 (Cell)

Witnessing Ms. Tian Huiying's So-called "Suicide Attempt" in the Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp

2009-01-03T06:04:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tian Huiying was killed in a so-called "suicide attempt" in July 2005 as claimed by the Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp. She was 50 years old. I witnessed the entire process of her being persecuted.

Before her death, Ms. Tian Huiying was detained at the No. 6 Team of the No. 1 District in Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp. She was often monitored by criminal inmates who would beat her up. Her hands and feet were black and blue with bruises. At night, I often saw her with an empty bucket standing near the door. She wanted to get some water but could not (since there were so many drug addict inmates and limited water usage). Therefore, she was the only one who was standing on one side when they were lined up. However, the guards claimed that she refused to wash herself. As a result, the drug addicts said she smelled bad and treated her even more poorly.

One day during July 2005, the forced labor camp held an art performance and invited some disabled people to sing songs. That day, during lunch time, people from the No. 6 Team were lined up to get ready to go to the cafeteria to have lunch. When they passed by the door of the No. 4 Team, a car carrying performance equipment drove out of the cafeteria (which is also used as a stadium). The car drove out of the cafeteria, passed the door of the No. 4 Team, and struck Ms. Tian Huiying. The wheels of the car drove over her legs and feet. She immediately lost consciousness.

Later on, the team leader and police said that Ms. Tian had run towards the car to commit suicide and that the people who were monitoring her could not stop her. In fact, there were no guards at the scene. Moreover, the two criminals who were monitoring Ms. Tian were very strong young men. How could they have been unable to stop Ms. Tian Huiying, who was emaciated and only skin and bones? I witnessed with my own eyes that Ms. Tian Huiying was walking on one side of the line. The car hit her on purpose.

The next day, the police told the people in the forced labor camp that nobody was allowed to talk about the event, not even to mention it to people in other teams or outsiders. They threatened that anyone who leaked the news would be punished with an extended term. The police also spread the lie that Ms. Tian Huiying was fine, and that only her feet were hurt. In order to block the news, people in the forced labor camp were not allowed to make outside calls for two months.

In fact, it was well known that Ms. Tian had not run towards the car to commit suicide. The guards were afraid of being held responsible for what happened, so they reported to their superiors, people in other teams, and to her family members, that Ms. Tian had committed suicide by running towards the car. Some witnesses tried to tell what really happened, but the police said, "It is not true even though you saw it with your own eyes!"

Teacher Zhao Yongcai in Shulan City Subjected to Persecution by School and Local Government for Many Years

2009-01-02T06:24:00.001-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Zhao Yongcai, and I am a teacher in Shangying Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province. Before the persecution began on July 20, 1999, I practiced Falun Gong at the practice site at Shangying Train Station. Around June 1999, police officer Yu Wenzhi from the Shangying Police Station came to the practice site and collected practitioners' names, addresses, and work information. On July 20, my company forced me to turn in my book and asked me to write a "pledge letter" to renounce Falun Gong. I refused, and I was taken to the police station that night. The town mayor Chen Yuman and Shangying Town Central School principal Guo Qingfeng then began verbally abusing me there. After that night, I was continually harassed, detained, sent to forced labor, and fined by the local authorities.

1. Persecuted by Shangying Town Central School

On October 1, 1999, the Shangying Town Central School detained me and another practitioner, Yao Yuguo, at the school for two days. They sent Qian Junsheng and Wei Xuliang to watch us. Some time in November 1999, they detained us again for two days while the central government was having a conference in Beijing. On politically-sensitive dates they asked the former principal of Zhengyang Elementary School to come and watch Yao and me and turn in reports.

2. Beaten Severely by Police in Prison and Forced Labor Camp

I went to Beijing to validate Dafa in 2000, and I was savagely beaten by plainclothes police and sent to the Huairou District Prison in Beijing, where I was beaten again by guards and inmates. When I went to Beijing, the Shangying Town Central School sent Chu Qingsheng and Wei Xuliang to Beijing to look for me, and they deducted their trip expenses, over a thousand yuan, from my wages. They took me to the Shulan City Police Department and charged me with "disturbing social order." They put me in the Nanshan Prison, where I was beaten by inmates. Around April 2000, I was transferred to the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province. The guards there used six electric batons simultaneously to shock me, and beat me for three hours, trying to force me to give up Falun Gong.

3. Shangying Town Central Principal Fines Me

In mid-November 2001, I was released from the forced labor camp. The Shangying Town Central School had Chu Qingsheng and Ren Desheng, an accountant, come get me. They arrived on November 13, although the release notice said I was to be released on November 11, so I was jailed for two extra days. When I got back to the school, they deducted a year of my salary, and the education bureau deducted two thousand yuan from me. They didn't show me any receipts except for a note by Wen Changji. They also charged me an extra 500 yuan to cover the principal's debt to them. I was then transferred from the Shangying Town Central School to the Jiefang Elementary School.

The Shangying Police Station also searched my home without a warrant three times between 2001 and 2006.

4. Persecuted by Nanshan Prison and Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City

On May 11, 2006, the Shulan National Security Division came to my house and conducted a search. They didn't find anything they were looking for, but they still took me to the police station. The next day, they took me to the third floor of the Shulan Police Department, where the National Security Division is located. That evening, Li Zhuo and three other policemen poured mustard oil into my nostrils, attempting to force me to "confess," and detained me in Nanshan Prison. They charged me with "obstructing justice" 37 days later. I was sent to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City in December 2006 and detained there for one and a half years. The Intensive Ward's warden Li Yunpo ordered Xu Dian's group to beat me several times. A few other wardens and guards also participated in persecuting me. In late April 2007, I was forced to pick through melon seeds to make money for the labor camp.

5. Continued Persecution by Shangying Town Central School

On November 11, 2007, I was released from the labor camp. The Shangying Town Central School principal Xu Yanhai asked me to write a "guarantee statement," otherwise they would not assign a job for me. After a seven-day deadlock, I was sent to a remote school, Taikang Elementary School. Town Central school deducted one and a half years of salary from me, citing them as penalties for missing classes, fines by the education bureau, expenses for the 610 Office, and expenses for looking for me, including 5000 yuan for expenses from preventing me from engaging in activities. I did not get to keep any of the receipts. When the news of my arrest was exposed on the Internet, the Shulan Police Department arrested my wife and forced her to disclose the name of the person who had uploaded the news. They also confiscated my work permit.

I lived close to the school after I was released from the forced labor camp. The Town Central School principal Xu Yanhai ordered the village elementary principal Liu Xirong to watch me and report to him. During the winter vacation of 2007, I planned to go and find some extra work. Wen Chanji from the education bureau and Wang Ganshi from the 610 Office came to the school and threatened me, telling me not to do so.

When I was living in Taikong Village, police from the local station came to my home three times. The first time the station head said that he was just taking a look. The second time, they threatened me and forced me to write a guarantee statement. On August 1, 2008, they came again, arrested me, and took me to a brainwashing center.

Ms. Wang Yanqin Arrested by Police, Leaving Her Sick Husband Unattended

2009-01-02T06:23:00.000-08:00

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Yanqin is a Falun Gong practitioner and lives in the Tang Village of Kouzhuang Town in Qianan City, Hebei Province. In July 2008, officials arrested her ahead of the Olympic Games and did not release her until October. Ms. Wang was arrested again in late November, and her whereabouts are unknown. Her husband, who is severely ill, has been left unattended.

Ms. Wang is about 48 years old. Since July 1999, she has been severely persecuted. In 2003, several policemen (Peng Minghui, Pu Yonglai, Ha Fulong and others) dragged her by the hair, beat her, and poured cigarette lighter fluid into her mouth. They then ignited the fluid and severely burned her mouth and tongue. She was unable to eat or speak, and due to the beating they gave her, she could not walk for seven or eight days.

In 2004, Ms. Wang was forced to stay away from home to avoid arret. Her son was working in a city far away, and her daughter was a middle school student. Around the time of the Chinese New Year, Ms. Wang returned home. But before she was able to have a meal with her family, she was arrested and taken to a labor camp. During that time, her husband had a stroke and no one was around to look after him. He had to crawl to the homes of neighbors in the village to get any food. His health is still precarious today.

In October 2007, before the CCP 17th Congress, officials came several times in an attempt to arrest her but failed. In July 2008, before the Olympic Games, policemen broke into her home and arrested her. Ms. Wang, wearing only a shirt and shorts, was taken away and not released until October. By then, it was already very cold, but she was still wearing only the clothes that she had on when she was arrested back in July.

In 2008, Ms. Wang was persecuted several times. Her crops were left unattended and did not grow well. What did grow could not be harvested and was either stolen or left to rot in the fields. In late November, officials arrested Ms. Wang again, and her current whereabouts are unknown.