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On September 23, 2005, police from Daqing City arrested several Falun Gong practitioners and took them to Daqing Detention Center. Most of them are on hunger strike. At least eight have stopped eating for over 2 weeks. The guards force-feed them daily. Their situation is dire and requires immediate attention.
When the police force-feed practitioners, they are not doing it to help them, but instead use it as a form of torture. For example, a practitioner named Yang Yuhua practiced the Falun Gong exercises in the detention center, so she was force-fed brutally. She died from savage force-feeding on May 12, 2005.
In order to isolate the practitioners from the outside, some practitioners' families did not know their whereabouts even half a month after their arrest.
The practitioners were wearing only thin clothing the day of their arrest, yet the temperature has dropped considerably in the past few days.
Daqing Detention Center requires detention warrants for criminals, but they accept all Falun Gong practitioners without any due legal process or documentation.
We call on international human rights organizations, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners, and people inside and outside China to help rescue the Falun Gong practitioners illegally held at Daqing Detention Center.
Please, pick up your phone and voice your concerns about this attack on "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance!"
Daqing Detention Center phone numbers:
Du: center head, 86-459-4617593
Head office: 86-459-4616098,86-459-4616638
Daqing Detention Center: 86-459-4616163, 4616158 (door guard)
Zhang: Detention center head, 86-459-4616098, 86-13059058777(Cell)
Bai: Detention Center, 86-459-4616161
Deputy head of detention center: 86-459-4616090, 4616099
Main office: 86-459-4616312
Monitoring room: 86-459-4616312
Front office: 86-459-4616158
Office at inside gate: 86-459-4616160
Daqing City Police Department
Cao Zhenhe: political secretary, 86-459-6373066 (Office),
86-459-6280888 (Home),
86-13329500002 (cell)
Lin Guoli: deputy head, 86-459-6375026 (Office), 86-459-6986708 (home),
86-13329500003 (cell)
Liang Ximing: deputy head, 86-459-6390005 (Office), 86-459-6390988
(home),
86-13329500004 (cell)
Wei Chunhua: deputy head, 86-459-6398889 (Office), 86-459-6381983
(home),
86-13329500005 (cell)
Hao Dejiang: deputy head, 86-459-6375029 (Office), 86-459-6381516
(home),
86-13329500006 (cell)
Liu Yong: deputy head, 86-459-6374899 (Office), 86-459-6292999 (home),
86-13329500007 (cell)
Lan Yingjie: deputy head, 86-459-6688059 (Office), 86-459-6689098
(home),
86-13329500008 (cell)
Wang Chunru: head of Politics Bureau, 86-459-6368499 (Office),
86-459-4688828
(home), 86-13329500009 (cell)
Gao Zhenbo: office head, 86-459-6683926 (home), 86-13329390299 (Cell)
Daqing City Public Security Bureau
Lin Zhisheng: head, 86-459-6281231 (Office), 86-459-6688448,
86-13604651999
Wang Xiyan: Party secretary, 86-459-6181232 (Office), 86-459-4611878,
86-13904591292
Zhang Wanyu: deputy head, 86-459-6181233 (Office), 86-459-6362878,
86-13903690009
Kang Jinlong: deputy head, 86-459-6181234 (Office), 86-459-6283599,
86-13804653333
Zhang Wendong: deputy head, 86-459-6181235 (Office), 86-459-6286716,
86-13903693705 (cell)
Daqing City government
Gai Ruyin: Party secretary, 86-459-6181833 (Office), 86-459-4601833
(Office),
86-459-6104941 (home), 86-13304500260 (Cell)
Han Xuejian: mayor, 86-459-6186779 (Office), 86-459-6181228 (Home)
Han Keyan: standing deputy mayor for civil affairs, 86-459-6181097
(Office),
86-459-4607676 (Office), 86-459-5998518 (home), 86-13604659306 (cell)
Li Yongku: deputy mayor, 86-459-6581059 (Office), 86-459-4601059
(Office),
86-459-6377722 (home), 86-13039833033 (cell)
Cui Qiang: deputy mayor, 86-459-6186190 (Office), 86-459-4689590
(Office),
86-459-6395056 (home), 86-13804680568 (cell)
Wang Hongen: deputy mayor, 86-459-6185199 (Office), 86-459-4671596
(Office),
86-459-6188565 (home), 86-13936796666 (cell)
Tian Fengchun: deputy mayor, 86-459-6392628 (Office), 86-459-4605770
(Office),
86-459-6199880 (home), 86-13945997880 (cell)
Tian Liying: 86-459-6186755 (Office), 86-459-4689577 (Office),
86-459-6199733
(home), 86-13604897733 (cell)
Shen Hongyu: deputy mayor, 86-459-6361606 (Office), 86-459-6368029
(home),
86-13329390100 (cell)
Daqing City Politics and Law Committee
Li Dong: deputy Party secretary, 86-459-6392011 (office),
86-459-6387336 (home),
86-13904696199 (cell)
Wang Gui: deputy Party secretary, 86-459-6372469 (office),
86-459-6381758
(home), 86-13904890661 (cell)
Fax: 86-459-4665865
On April 1, 2005, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp centralized all steadfast Falun Gong practitioners into the 1st Group on the 2nd floor and carried out the so-called "rigorous guarding" persecution. The 1st squadron of the 1st group persecuted Ms. Zhang Chungang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dandong, because she refused to wear the prisoner's uniform, refused to do physical exercises and refused to perform slave labor.
In the beginning of April 2005, under the command of station chief Su Jing, the leader of Group 1 Li Mingyu, Xie Chengdong and others locked up Falun Gong practitioners from the 1st Group who were on hunger strike behind an iron gate on the 1st floor and stabbed them with needles.
Because Zhang Chungang conducted a hunger strike to resist the persecution, in late May, she was also taken to the 1st floor to receive forced injections. The labor camp doctor, Cao Yujie, (female, around 50 years old) said when she injected needles into Zhang Chungang, "Let me tell you, my vision is not so good, so I can only feel by hand. I'm not sure how many times it will take me to put the needles in! Quickly eat if you do not want to suffer!"
Between April and May 2005, Zhang Chungang was very emaciated, and her health was deteriorating rapidly. At midnight on a day in May, Zhang Chungang suddenly began twitching, and her life was in danger. Because the persecutors did not allow other practitioners to see her in order to block the news, it is not sure whether Zhang Chungang was sent to the hospital or not.
Zhang Chungang twitched many times in succession. It was a very dangerous situation for her, but the guards at Masanjia treat Falun Gong practitioners' lives as nothing. In May 2005, Cui Hong, a female guard from the 2nd Team of the 1st Group said, "Unless you have cancer and are going to die, don't even think about going home!" The leader of the 1st Group, Xie Chengdong, said, "If you die from your hunger strike, then you'll die in vain. Even if you're dead, we won't let you go home." When there was a practitioner in critical condition due to cruel force-feeding and beating, the leader of he 1st Group Li Mingyu watched from the side and said, "It's all right, you won't die!" Panjin practitioner Li Baojie lost consciousness on the spot due to the barbaric force-feeding at the 1st Team of the 1st Group on April 7, and passed away the following day.
Yang Yaqin, the chief guard on duty (in charge of monitoring practitioners with severe physical symptoms) was looking over Zhang Chungang when she twitched. In June 2005, when Yang Yaqin was supervising practitioners who were receiving injections and being tortured on the 1st floor, she said, "Zhang Chungang's symptoms are very severe, very dangerous." Even so, Zhang Chungang is still being tortured in Masanjia.
Partial name list of police officers in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp:
Zhang Mingqiang, male, in his forties, director of Masanjia Forced
Labor
Camp starting from May 2005. Phone: 86-24-8921-2321 (Office)
Su Jing, female, the chief of Female Station 2
Phone: 86-24-89210822, 86-24-89212252, 86-24-89210454. Switchboard:
86-24-89210074.
Camp medical doctors: Cao Yujie (female, about 50 years old) and Chen Bing (female, about 30 years old).
Group 1: 86-24-89210406.
The leader of Group 2: Li Mingyu, female, 40 years old
Deputy leader: Xie Chengdong (male, 43 years), Wang Shuzheng (female),
phone:
86-13982207608 (Cell)
The leader on duty: Yang Yaqin (female, about 50 years old), Wang
Yingchao (female,
46 years old)
Broadcast studio defaming Falun Gong: Xiang Bofeng
Female team leaders of the 1st Group: Liu Hui, Qi Fuying,
Cui
Hong, Fei
Feng, Zhang He, Zhang Lei, Liu Jing, Zhang Huan, Ren Hongzan, Huang
Haiyan,
Guan Lin, Wang Xiaofeng
Male team leader of the 1st Group: Gao (Ms. Zhang Chungang is in his group), Shi , Tu, Jiang, Li, Xie Jia Chuan.
Group 2: 86-24-89240074.
Group 3: 86-24-89212252.
Location of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp:
Masanjia Village, Masanjia Town
Yuhong District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
Zip Code: 110145
Mr. Sun Lianying is from Jingxian County, Hebei Province. During the several past years, because his family members are all unwavering Falun Gong practitioners, officials have fined his family over 80,000 yuan, which is about 10 years' salary for an average Chinese worker. Mr. Sun was detained three times and sent to a forced labor camp for a three-year term. His sister, Ms. Sun Lianping, was sent to a forced labor camp for a two-year term. His third brother, Lianjun, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. His second brother, Lianfeng, was forced to become homeless to avoid the persecution, leaving behind two teenaged children to fend for themselves. Under pressure from Jiang Zemin's regime and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Mr. Sun's father, Sun Shutian, and mother, Tang Shufen, also suffered from the persecution. Among other insults, their home was ransacked, they were fined illegally, they were verbally abused, and they were forced to lie on TV.
The following is but a fraction of the persecution the Sun family has endured.
A Family Suffering Misfortune Attained Falun Gong and Started Their Lives Anew
Mr. Sun Lianying was born in 1958, the eldest son of Mr. Sun Shutian and Ms. Tang Shufen. He has three brothers, Lianfeng, Lianjun, and Liancai, and a sister, Lianping. Sun Lianying's mother used to be afflicted with tracheitis (a bacterial infection of the trachea) and lung problems. She was too weak to do her household chores, so her eldest did the cooking from the time he was eight. At eleven, he developed acute gastritis, which lingered on and required a daily dose of medication. After stomach surgery, his father suffered from intestinal adhesion problems. Sick for over eight years, his father vomited and suffered from a blocked intestinal system as a result of the surgery.
Sun Lianying's second brother, Sun Lianfeng, suffered heart problems, tracheitis, rhinitis and stomach pains. When Lianfeng reached middle school age, he no longer could attend school because of his illnesses. At the age of 32, Lianying suffered high blood pressure, which could not be cured with medical treatments. He had to take medicine to stay alive. Sun Lianying's wife suffered a high childbed fever after delivering a child. Though she survived, her hands were cold, be it summer or winter. Illnesses and misery plagued the family.
In 1998, Lianying's wife also began to suffer from high blood pressure, which affected her health even more. Then a friend sent his wife the book Zhuan Falun. Sun's wife did not read the book, but Lianying happened to pick up Zhuan Falun and read through the entire book in one sitting. He told his wife that this book was different from other qigong books and that she should read it. Both thought to give it a try and started to practice Falun Gong. Within just a few days Lainying's wife's high blood pressure began to decrease. Within a short period of time both became healthy and finally understood what "being healthy" really meant.
Lianying and his wife then taught the entire family to practice Falun Gong. Through the practice, his mother's tracheitis and lung problems, his father's intestinal adhesion, and his second brothers' high blood pressure disappeared. The entire family benefited from the power of Falun Gong.
Sun Lianying Was Sent to Forced Labor Camps for Three Years Just Because He Said, "Yes, I'll Practice"
On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started to persecute Falun Gong. Lianying and fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. But the building where the appeal office was located was heavily guarded and they were prevented from entering. After Sun was back home a few days, police officer Zhao Mingguang from the Jingxian Police Department detained him for seven days and fined him 1,000 yuan. Under pressure, Sun wrote a guarantee statement.
On October 27, 1999, Lianying went to Beijing again. His 14-year-old son called and said he also wanted to go to Beijing to tell the truth about Falun Gong, so Sun Lianying returned home. Several days later, Zhao Mingguang detained Lianying for a month and extorted 5,000 yuan from him. Police officers tried to force him to write another guarantee statement, but Lianying refused, so the officers forced his relative to write one for him.
On December 28, 2000, Sun Lianying went to Beijing for a third time. He was stopped by police officers far away from Tiananmen Square. The officers ordered him to curse the founder of Falun Gong. He refused, so the police officers beat him, pushed him into a police car. and took him to the railway police station. Later officer Liu Xuewu at Jingxian's liaison office in Beijing sent him back to the Beiliuzhi Township government in Jingxian County.
Zhou Ruixin, the Beiliuzhi Township CCP secretary, head Wang Wanhong, Liu Mingchun, the township police chief, and over ten drunken and abusive individuals decided to torture Sun Lainying. The minute Lianying got off the train, they rushed at him as a group and began to beat him with wooden clubs, fists or leather shoes. The beating injured his head and left many injuries all over his body. One of them hit his eyes with his fists, bruising his eyes. Lainying also got a nosebleed. It was very cold and they found frozen mops to rub on his face, laughing loudly. The officers also forced him to remain in a semi-squat position, with his extended arms pointing forward. Three bricks were laid on his arms. If the bricks fell down, he would be beaten. After several hours of torture, Lainying could no longer see clearly and he became dizzy. At dawn, they bound him with ropes to a radiator, after binding him into a standing position. The water from the radiator soaked into his cotton-padded trousers. When his could no longer stand, they loosened the ropes a little and let him sit on the edge of a bed.
The second afternoon, when CCP secretary Zhou Ruixin asked Lianying if he would continue practicing Falun Gong, Lianying said "Yes!" They sentenced Lianying to three years in a forced labor camp, where he suffered greatly.
Sun Lianfeng Was Forced to Become Homeless
In October 1999, Sun Lianfeng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested late at night in a hotel and detained in a suburban Beijing jail. Although it was snowing, criminal detainees striped Lianfeng and poured cold water over him for half an hour. Several days later, Lianfeng was sent to the Jingxian County Detention Center.
During that time, police officer Zhao Mingguang from the county police department searched Lianfeng's home. CCP secretary Ye, and local officers Wang Yongling, Zuo Guiling, Su Fengqi, Wang Hongliang, and Duan Yongfu frequently harassed Lianfeng at home, including shouting in front of his door or close to the wall at night, which scared his parents-in-law greatly. Zhou Ruixin and Wang Wanhong extorted 3,000 yuan from Lianfeng's family. CCP secretary Ye forced Lianfeng's wife to hand in her identification card and pay 200 yuan. After one month of detention, police officers informed Lianfeng's family to pay 3,000 yuan before picking him up. Under pressure, family members had to borrow 3,000 yuan. They gave the money to the political and security section of the county police department. Officers just gave an informal receipt for the money and released Lianfeng.
In the Spring of 2000, Lianfeng wrote a letter to his local congressional representatives to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. Learning about the letter, police officers forced village secretary Lin Zhiyuan and township officers Zhao Yangming and Su Fengqi to arrest Lianfeng and bring him to the township office, where they bound him to a chair. At 8 p.m., two township officers began to beat Lianfeng, complaining that he had disturbed their trysts with girls at a hotel. They told him that they would teach him what "pain" was like. At 9 p.m., Lianfeng was taken to another room where over ten young men, under the leadership of the deputy township head Zhao Yangming, were waiting for him. As soon as Lianfeng entered the room, they started cursing and beating him. Then they took him outside and bound him to a big tree. Zhao Yangming said, "I'll beat you to death today." At that moment, someone came in and asked them what they were doing. They told the person who had interrupted them, "How dare you support Falun Gong? Do you want to lose your job?" The person left. The second day, Lianfeng was taken to and detained in the jail. He was released seven days later after his family was forced to pay 1,000 yuan.
From then on, officers frequently harassed Sun Lianfeng at his home and forced him to write a guarantee statement, threatening to arrest him. One day in late November 2000, township officers Su Fengqi and Feng Yulian came to Lianfeng's home and extorted 100 yuan, threatening to arrest him if he would not pay. Lianfeng gave them 100 yuan without receiving a receipt. Village head Zhao Denghai witnessed the scene. The next morning at around 4 a.m., village CCP secretary Lin Zhiyuan, police officer Zhao Zhengping, township head Ma and Su Fengqi broke into Lianfeng and Liancai's homes to arrest them. Because of tooth problems, Sun Liancai had not eaten for several days already and was on fluid injections. Officers detained Liancai for four days without providing sustenance. They released him when he was close to death.
Local officers frequently raided Liangfeng's home or broke in by climbing over the yard wall. Once police officers lifted quilts off Lianfeng's daughter when she was sleeping and searched the home thoroughly. Under such brutal persecution, Lianfeng had to leave home and wander from place to place to escape the persecution.
Sun Lianfeng's Second Younger Brother Sun Lianjun Was Sent to Forced Labor Camp For Three and a Half a Years for Clarifying the Truth
After July 1999, Lianjun rented a car to go to Beijing, but police officers stopped him, so he walked to Beijing on country roads.
On December 1999, Lianjun appealed to government officers but was arrested and detained locally. Police officers coerced criminal detainees to beat him. Yu Xueguang, the head of the Jingxian County Detention Center, shackled Lianjun for about 40 days. At the same time, the Beiliuzhi township CCP secretary Zhou Ruixin and head Wang Wanhong extorted 3,000 yuan from Lianjun's parents.
At the detention center, Zhang Haiyan, head of the Jingxian County Court, threatened Lianjun, "Give up Falun Gong and you will be released. If you insist on practicing Falun Gong you will be imprisoned." Lianjun replied, "I just wanted to tell the government what's in my heart." Therefore, Zhang Haiyan illegally sentenced Lianjun to three and a half years in prison. Lianjun was detained at the Hengshui City Prison for a month and then transferred to the Fourth Branch of Fengnan Prison. Police officers coerced four criminals to monitor him around the clock, tried to force him to write "guarantees to give-up Falun Gong," assigned him to the hardest jobs, abused him mentally, and forced him to watch videos slandering Falun Gong.
Sister Sun Lianping Was Beaten Until She Fainted
In December 2000, sister Sun Lianping went to Beijing to appeal, but she was arrested and beaten. She was detained at the Liyuan Police Station at Chaoyang District in Beijing, where she was interrogated by police officer Zhao Zhengjiang. She was then sent back to the Beiliuzhi Township. Zhou Ruixin asked her if she would continue to practice. She responded, "Yes, it is such a great practice, how could I give it up? This is my personal freedom of belief. I have a right to tell the truth. As law enforcement officers, you are the ones who are breaking the law!"
Lianping was consequently taken to the Jingxina County police department 610 Office and detained for 45 days. The county police department head Yang Wenzhuang, police officers Zhang Huasheng, Li Guisheng, Fang Chunsheng, Zhao Mingguang, Liu Zhiijun and others were involved in the persecution. After over 40 days, without any legal procedures, Lianping was sent to the Fifth Group of Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp. Yang Wenzhuang and Zhao Minguang are responsible for this persecution.
In the Fifth Group of Shijiangzhuang Forced Labor Camp, Lianping suffered inhuman treatment for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. The guards kicked her and beat her with rubber clubs. Lianping's head and hands became swollen. Her flesh and clothes stuck together with dried blood, and she fainted twice. She suffered from a rapid heartbeat and could not walk, but police officer Li Ping forced Lianping to walk from the third floor to the first floor. One criminal detainee said, "She cannot walk. I'll send her down." But Li Ping did not agree. This torture resulted in Lianping becoming an invalid for half a month.
On April 24, 2001, Lianping was sent to the First Group for brainwashing. Practitioners were forced to do military exercises and watch videos slandering Falun Gong. If they did not participate, they would be hung up by their handcuffed hands. In June, she was sent to the Fifth Group. She was not allowed to sleep for over ten days, which caused her heart beat to increase to a dangerous rate. Police officers forced her to take medication. Over ten people bound Lianping to a bench, then police officer Li Ping pried her mouth open, injuring her mouth. Guard Lu Hongguo pinched and bruised Lianping's thighs. After the force-feeding, Lianping was handcuffed to two beds and not allowed to sleep. They wanted to force her to write a guarantee statement. If she fell asleep, officers poured water on her or beat her with a club. She was monitored around the clock. Guard Li Ping said, "We'll shock you with electric batons if you do not write the guarantee statement." Guards Ma, Li Ping, Qi Honghong, Lu Hongguo and criminal detainees held her hand to make her write the guarantee, but she refused. After many days of torture, she fainted. The guards then force-fed her drugs. Lu Hongguo also kept the items sent to Lianping by her family, valued at about 300 yuan.
On December 25, 2001, Lianping was detained at the Third Group and was not allowed to sleep for five days. It stopped only when Lianping had problems breathing. Persecutors included Gao Qingwen, Wang Yan, Liu Zhifen, Wang Yuliang, Yang and others. In 2002, she was moved back to the Fifth Group, where Lu Hongguo and Gao Qingwen coerced collaborators to brainwash her for over ten days.
Third Younger Brother Sun Liancai Was Beaten Until He Fainted and Mother Tang Was Forced to Lie
During October 1999, village officers arrested their mother, Tang Shufen, Liancai, and Lianping and took them to the township government, where they were handcuffed and not provided any food. Unable to endure the hardship, mother Tang Shufen fell to the ground, became cold and curled up. Only then was she released.
Liancai and Lianping suffered greatly. Officers handcuffed them and hung them up, forced them to stand for long hours, did not allow them to sleep and rationed their food. The township head ordered officers Gao Peng, Feng Yongsheng, Zhao Yunhai and others to beat Liancai, while Wang watched. Gao Peng used a cup to hit Liancai's feet so hard that the cup broke. The pain almost killed Liancai. Then they asked Liancai whether or not he would continue to practice Falun Gong. Liancai answered, "Yes!" So officers kept on beating him and forced him to kneel down. Feng Yongsheng kicked Liancai's lower jaw with his shoes and beat Liancai, not caring where he hit. They also handcuffed Lianping and hung him up close enough for him to watch the beating. Seeing that he did not give up, three officers moved Liancai to the courtyard to continue the beating until Liancai fainted. Liancai did not regain consciousness until the next morning.
At night, Zhou Ruixin ordered over ten men, including Su Fengqi and Wang Yong, to beat Liancai. They broke Liancai's nose, which bled profusely. The second day, they hung Liancai on an electric pole for an entire day. In the evening, they beat him again and again. Su Fengqi forced Lianping to kneel down to Zhou Ruixin. Lianping said, "I did not break any laws, I am following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good person. I did nothing wrong!" They beat Liancai for several hours.
After a few days, Zhou Ruixin called the Jingxian County Broadcasting and TV department to send two reporters to take videos of Sun's family. They coerced mother Tang Shufen to defame Falun Gong and lie on TV as a condition for the release of her sons and daughter. Under pressure, Sun Shujiang also said negative words about Falun Gong. They also forced Sun's family to treat Zhou Ruixin, Lin Zhiyuan, Sun Shujiang and others to a dinner. It cost Sun's family over 300 yuan, about one month's income for an average Chinese farmer. Officers searched Sun's home again without any legal documents and confiscated some Falun Gong books and a set of audiotapes of Teacher's lectures. Later, Zuo Guiling and four to five officers broke into Sun's family home in the middle of the night and extorted 500 yuan from Sun's family. Zuo Guiling left a written receipt with his signature.
In all, 80,000 yuan was extorted from Sun Lianying's family since 1999. Lianying was detained three times and sent to a forced labor camp for a three-year term. Sister Lianping was detained at a forced labor camp for a two-year term. Third younger brother Lianjun was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison, and the second younger brother Lianfeng became homeless, leaving two children unattended. Father Sun Shutian and mother Tang Shufen were insulted, threatened, fined, and forced to lie on TV.
The following are responsible for the family's persecution:
Zhou Ruixin (since transferred to the Gucheng County Propaganda Department), Wang Wanhong (now at Jingxian County Audition Department),
CCP Secretary Ye, Zhang, Su Fengqi, Deputy township head Wang Yong, Feng Yongsheng (from Silitun Village, Miao Township, Jingxian County), Wang Rongling (female), police head Liu Mingchun(now at the south tollgate of Miao Township), Director Zhao Zhengping (now head of Anlin Township police station), Liu Ming, Gao Peng (in his 20s, currently works at the Beiliuzhi Township), and Xu Zhanling.
Mr. Wang Jinian, 34 years old, was born in Songjianghe Town, Fusong County in Baishan City, Jilin Province. He worked in Changchun City. Before he practiced Falun Gong, he suffered from muscular weakness (myasthenia), had no strength in his body and walked slowly. He recovered his health after he started practicing Falun Gong. In 2001, a local policeman illegally arrested him. He was sent to the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City and was tortured for one year. In December, the camp authorities released him due to the extreme weakness of his body. Because of the severe torture, his condition worsened. He died in January 2002 about 20 days after he returned home.
At the beginning of 2003, another Falun Gong practitioner called Mr. Zhang Quanfu was tortured to death. Mr. Zhang was 65 years old. As soon as he was sent to the 5th Division in Chaoyanggou Labor Camp, he was required to squat for nearly one hour as a punishment. His head had to touch the wall, his hands had to circle his knees and both knees and toes had to touch the wall as well. If these requirements were not met, he would be kicked. However, Mr. Zhang had a steel plate inserted in one leg and could not bend his leg. In spite of his disability, the guard Mao kicked him once. Later Mr. Zhang was transferred to the sixth division. There he was forced to sit on a small stool every day. He was made to sit from around 7 a.m. in the morning until after 9 p.m. in the evening, and sometimes even after 10 p.m. In less than half a year, Mr. Zhang's body suffered from scabies. The scab on the back of his hand was about 2 cm thick. One day I noticed that his scab had disappeared and the pink tissue was visible. Later, I heard from the camp personnel that the guard burned him with boiling water. At that time, Mr. Zhang was in extreme pain and shouted "Falun Dafa is good" as a way of protesting the torture.
The guard kicked Mr. Zhang to the ground and chained him to the bed head post for an entire morning so that he could neither stand nor squat. He was extremely exhausted and could not walk downstairs for lunch. The division head Li Zhongbo asked four camp personnel to carry him to the cafeteria. The camp authorities saw the situation but did nothing to remedy the situation. Only when he was on the verge of death, was he finally sent to the hospital. Mr. Zhang Quanfu passed away in less than a day after he was sent to the hospital.
Another person named Yu Donghui was a vice principal of the City Communist Party School at Liaoyuan City. His health was very good when he was sent to the labor Camp. However, after suffering the "sitting on a small stool" torture for one year, he had scabies and his body was swollen. One morning, he fainted and the camp personnel did not send him to the hospital immediately. Instead, they called his family member in Liaoyuan City, which is far away. When his family member came, they asked for three thousand yuan as a guarantee fee before they would release him. His family member did not bring that much money, so the camp personnel, who did not obey the laws anyway, actually followed the family member to Liaoyuan for the money. In addition, they extorted 2000 yuan more from him for the "travel fee" and "tip."
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qu Shumei of Dalian City, Liaoning Province, was illegally arrested again and sentenced to forced labor for two and a half years in May 2004. She is imprisoned in the First Group of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and is being severely persecuted. Her husband, Mr. Zhu Changbin, was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment and is in Dabei Prison in Shengyang City.
So far, Ms. Qu Shumei has been refusing to cooperate with demands to wear a prison uniform or perform hard labor.
Ms. Qu and her husband Mr. Zhu were once part of a happy family of three. They used to live at No. 3-3-1-1 Nanping Street in the Shahekou District of Dalian City. After the persecution began in 1999, both were arrested and subjected to extortion many times by Jiang's regime. On September 28, 2000, Ms. Qu was arrested by police from the Nansha Police Station of Shahekou District, Dalian City, for posting truth-clarifying flyers. At the police station, Ms. Qu was severely abused and persecuted by one female and three male police officers led by Li Zhenxia. She refused to reveal where she had gotten her truth clarifying materials. Her arms were handcuffed behind her back and her legs were brutally beaten. They then pulled her up by her handcuffs repeatedly until the handcuffs broke the flesh. When one part of her body was torn by such torture, they would work on another part. Her hands were swollen and the pain was so excruciating that she could not even stand up.
Ms. Qu Shumei was sentenced to two years of forced labor and sent to Dalian Forced Labor Camp, where she was brutally persecuted. She developed scabies, which itched unbearably. Every night, she slept for only two to three hours. During the day, she was either working or forced to sit on a small stool. She was not allowed to speak to anyone at all. On March 19, 2001, the enforced "transformation" of many Falun Gong practitioners began. Practitioners were forced to put their hands on their heads while bending 90 degrees with their legs spread wide apart. At the same time, many words defaming Falun Gong and its founder were placed in front of them. When Ms. Qu went on a hunger strike, she was isolated and monitored separately. She developed a high fever and blood appeared in her stool. In March 2001, she was bailed out for medical treatment.
In April 2001, Ms. Qu and her husband, Mr. Zhu, were forced to move from place to place in order to avoid being persecuted. During that time, they lived in rented houses. On the morning of April 22, 2002, a few plainclothes officers and regular police officers barged into their rented house and ransacked the place. They detained the couple at the police station overnight. They were not given any food while detained, but they were beaten and questioned before they were sent to Dalian Detention Center. On June 3, Ms. Qu was released, but her husband was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment during the Chinese New Year of 2003. He has been incarcerated at Dabei Prison.
After being home for a month, Ms. Qu was abducted to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp again. She was brutally tortured, sexually abused, and even locked up in a small cage. She experienced many kinds of tortures. One of them was being handcuffed to a metal pole with her feet barely touching the ground. She was suspended this way for 48 hours without being allowed to close her eyes. The police guards even ordered the criminal inmates to viciously beat and torture Ms. Qu. Her arm, waist and one leg were tied to metal poles, then her other leg was pulled until both legs formed a straight line. After that, the criminal inmates kicked her lower body with their shoes and used wooden planks to hit her. They even pinched and twisted her breasts, tied her lower body with a rope and pulled on it, threw chili powder into her eyes and rubbed it in open wounds, and pushed a mop handle into her mouth and vagina. They repeatedly tortured her this way.
In late February 2003, Ms. Qu was finally released. However, on April 19, 2004, she was again arrested by Xinghaiwan Police Station officers for clarifying the truth to the public. On April 20, 2004, the police used a master key to open her front door and ransacked the place. They confiscated all Falun Gong materials and about three thousand yuan in cash. The police even forced Ms. Qu's teenage son to sign some papers.
Ms. Qu Shumei and her husband are both being illegally detained and her 16-year-old son is being taken care of by her parents.
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Address: Masanjia Village, Masanjia
Township,
Yuhong District, Shenyang Province, Postal Code 110145
Main Switchboard: 86-24-89210074
Zhang Mingqiang and Wang Wei, directors
Female Station 2: 86-24-89210454
Su Jing, the chief of Female Station 2
Wang Naimi, Political Commissar of Female Camp
The First Group (the strictly controlled group) of Female Station 2:
86-24-89210406.
Li Mingyu (female), leader of the First Group of Female Station 2
Wang Shuzheng (female), the deputy leader of the First Group of Female
Station 2: 86-13982207608(Cell)
Xie Chengdong (male).
Huang Haiyan, the Third Squadron of the First Group of Female Station
2:
86-1306610598(Cell).
Chen Bing and Cao Yujie (both females), Prison Medical Doctors
The Second Group of Female Station 2: 86-24-89240074.
The Third Group of Female Station 2: 86-24-89212252.
Nansha Police Station: 86-411-84310233.
Police Chief Li Zhenmin: 86-411-84320290.
Political Instructor Yu Jingchuan (put in a lot of effort persecuting
Falun Gong
practitioners).
Police Officers: Mao Puan; Li Zhenxia; Lin Songpo (put in a lot of
effort
persecuting Falun Gong practitioners).
Xinghaiwan Police Station: 86-411-84802259,86-411-84803259.
Address: Taiyuan Street, Shahekou District, Dalian City, Postal Code:
116021.
Police Chief Mu Daojiu.
Police Officer: Zhang Keli, Zhao Li, and Liu Jun.
Dalian City Forced Labor Camp:
Address: Nanlin Street, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, No. 175
Office: 86-411-6859234, 86-411-6859072.
Director: 86-411-6859797.
Political Commissar Office: 86-411-6859029.
Duty Room: 86-411-6859314
Main Line: 86-411-6859961.
On March 6, 2005, the police arrested Qi Yaru and her fourteen-year-old son Wang Qi, from Heilongjiang Province, Harbin City, Xiangfang District while they were waiting for a bus. Liushun Police Station policemen Zhou Dianlin and others also searched their home. Qi Yaru was held for forty-five days and sentenced to three years of forced labor. She is now being tortured at the Wanjia forced labor camp. Her fourteen year old son Wang Qi must now care for his three year old sister, who cries for her mother every day, and his eighty-seven year old grandfather who needs help getting around.
 Little Wang Qi (fourteen years old), sister (three years old) and their eighty-seven year old grandfather |
 Wang Qi and his father, sister and their eighty-seven year old grandfather |
In Wang Qi's letter to the local police station chairman, he wrote, "Policemen in the forced labor camp are trying to force my mother to write a "guarantee letter" and join the communist party. My mother was forced to sit on a little seat because she refused to write the "guarantee letter" and join the communist party. They handcuffed my mother and hung her up to torture her with a method called the 'Big Hang Up.' There are two forms of this torture: In the first, with both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, the victim is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frame. In the second, one of the victim's hands is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. The victim feels extreme pain as the body is pulled. Also, they would not let my mother sleep. I don't want to think about it any further..."
The following is the rescue letter that Qi Yaru's son wrote to their local police station chairman.
Greetings, Chairman Wang,
I am Qi Yaru's son. My name is Wang Qi, and I am fourteen years old. I read in the newspaper that the Haerbin City's Police Department Chairman visited the labor camp to meet with everyone and resolve all issues according to the law. I believe Chairman Wang must be an honorable government official who cares about common people and their suffering and will help all citizens. I am very happy that this time my mother has the hope of returning home.
This all began when, on March 6, 2005, my mother took my three-year-old sister and me to my aunt's home for a visit. While waiting for a bus at the Xiangfang District, Caizhi Street bus station, two policemen from the Liushun Police Station took my mother away without having any reason. They also ransacked our home. We did not have anything at our home and my mother was sentenced to three years in prison for no reason. This is how my happy family was torn apart.
Chairman Wang, maybe you have a grandchild my age who you love dearly, and thus your heart must have some sympathy for me. I am a fourteen-year-old child living in a broken home with a three year old sister, and an eighty-seven year old grandfather. Other children watch TV, do their homework and play happily outside. I can do none of these things because I have to take care of my sister, who cries every day for mommy, and my immobile eighty-seven year old grandfather.
Ever since my mother was arrested for no reason, my three-year-old sister has been crying every night for her mommy. When I returned from the market I saw my sister had cried herself to sleep on the floor, her cheeks covered with tears. Then I saw my exhausted father who had to go out and work so hard to support our whole family and my heart shattered. I felt alone and hopeless, and my tears started to fall. I hope my mother can return home soon. My mother practices Falun Gong to improve her health and follows "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" to be a good person. She did not break any law, but was arrested and sentenced to a forced labor camp without reason. Policemen in the forced labor camp tried to force my mother to write a "guarantee letter" and join the communist party. My mother was forced to sit on a little seat because she refused to write the "guarantee letter" and join the communist party. They handcuffed my mother and hung her up to torture her with a method called the 'Big Hang Up,' and they would not let my mother sleep. I don't want to think about it any further. In my memory, aren't policemen suppose to catch the bad guys? Why would they torture good people? In my young heart, I have lost trust in policemen.
Chairman Wang, I have lost faith in you. Your actions have caused our family such great pain both mentally and physically. I don't hate you, because I realize you are the victim of lies. I think you must be a compassionate person and therefore I need to clarify the truth to you and the other policemen and awaken your beclouded good senses.
Ever since my mother started to practice Falun Gong, our relatives all have had good things to say about her. From my mother I can tell that all Falun Gong practitioners are good people. Ever since my mother has respectfully cared for my eighty-seven year old grandfather, our family and neighbors have all acted in harmony. Furthermore, my mother always tells us to be good children and follow 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.' We need to respect elders, care for youngsters and we need to respect teachers at school. Whenever there is an issue, we should think about others first. We should not tell lies, fight or curse and we should not do any harmful deed. I have always been a good child and do what my mother tells me to do.
Both my mother and I had severe hepatitis B, before she started practicing Falun Gong. My mother also had severe heart disease and several other kinds of illnesses and she was unable to do anything. We relied on my father to take care of all family duties. After my mother started to practice Falun Gong, all her illnesses went away and neither of us had hepatitis B any longer. Nobody has suffered from any illness in my family for all these years. It has been said that, 'with one person practicing, the whole family benefits' ("Lecture at the Australia Fa Conference," May 2-3, 1999). Therefore, Falun Gong can make people physically healthy, turn people's heart to compassion and improve morality. It has hundreds of benefits for people and not a single bad thing about it.
Chairman Wang, I am a child who has never told a falsehood and these facts are all from my own experiences. It was my mother's compassionate behavior that touched my young heart and let me learn that Falun Dafa is indeed good!
My sister, father, grandfather and I need my mother. Our family needs our mother. As I am telling these truths, my young heart is crying. Why is it that even though my mother is a good person and did not break any law, she was nevertheless arrested, beaten and tortured, and our family is torn apart? I dare not to think anymore, I am in such deep pain! I want to have a happy childhood so much, but I cannot. I miss my mother so much.
Chairman Wang, I hope you can do what is right and let my innocent mother come home! Your kindness to Falun Gong practitioners will show great virtue and your life will have a beautiful future. At the same time you will restore the confidence that you have lost from your people and me. I represent my whole family in sincerely thanking you for sending my mother home.
Sincerely,
Wang Qi
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ma Zexuan from Tianjin was arrested by the local police for practicing Falun Gong. He was detained first in the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp, then in the Qingbowa Forced Labor Camp and later in the Ji County Yushan Forced Labor Camp. The guards in the forced labor camps brutally tortured Mr. Ma with such inhuman methods that his pancreas ruptured. Then he was subjected to brainwashing until finally he suffered a mental collapse.
Mr. Ma Zexuan, 59 years old, is a farmer from Cuihuangkou in the Wuqing District of Tianjin. He was sentenced to forced labor in 2000 for practicing Falun Gong. He was subjected to brutal torture in the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp of Tianjin and then was released for medical reasons.
In May 2002, Mr. Ma was arrested again and detained in Tianjin's Qingbowa Forced Labor Camp. Two weeks later, he was transferred to the Ji County Yushan Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin. Police guard Li Lixin and inmate Yang Shaolin from the Third Group tortured Mr. Ma Zexuan with inhuman methods.
Yang Shaolin and other inmates in the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp used various brutal tortures on Mr. Ma and other practitioners. Instructed by police, the inmates cuffed Mr. Ma's hands separately to the metal bars of a bunk bed with his feet suspended above the floor. The inmates sat on the bottom bed and watched Mr. Ma for a long time. Sometimes, the inmates would jab a needle used for sewing soccer balls into Mr. Ma's leg.
One day in August, the inmates made a bag from an old cotton overall. They put the bag tightly over Mr. Ma's head and secured it at the neck, making it difficult for him to breathe. Then the inmates started to punch and kick him in his abdomen. Mr. Ma was hurt badly, and he struggled and cried out in distress. One inmate punched Mr. Ma very hard in the stomach area, causing his pancreas to rupture. To avoid paying Mr. Ma's medical bills, the labor camp sent Mr. Ma home.
On October 1, 2002, after learning that Mr. Ma had recovered, the forced labor camp sent staff to bring him back to the forced labor camp. He was secretly detained in the Third Group of the Ji County Yushan Forced Labor Camp.
Early in 2003, the forced labor camp established a special group for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Policeman Li Zhan was appointed as the instructor, Wang Bodong as group leader, and Zhang Xuyong, Li Lixin, and Jiang Yongliu as unit chiefs. Motivated by an award of 3000 yuan for each Falun Gong practitioner "transformed," these group leaders viciously punched and kicked Mr. Ma, shocked him with electric batons for long periods of time, deprived him of sleep for a long time by stabbing him with a needle if he closed his eyes, stripped him of his clothes and froze him outside by constantly pouring cold water on him. Inmate Yang Shaolin also participated in the persecution.
In an attempt to break Mr. Ma mentally, the guards and the forced labor camp authorities invited spies who pretended to be Falun Gong practitioners to brainwash Mr. Ma night and day. They played videos attacking Falun Gong and used every deception imaginable on him. Eventually, he suffered a complete mental collapse. At the end of spring in 2004, the forced labor camp had to send Mr. Ma Zexuan home on a medical parole.
On September 12, 2005, the Xinglongtai District Court in Panjin City, Liaoning Province, put on trial four practitioners who had been arrested without due cause. The practitioners are: Mr. Hou Yunfei, Ms. Hu Zhehui, Mr. Xin Minduo and Ms. Bao Juncen. They were physically very weak due to torture from the persecution and could no longer walk. Policemen carried the two female practitioners in blankets. The police pulled the two male practitioners cruelly up and down the stairs. The court ignored procedural obligations and deprived practitioners of legal representation. The trial ended without a verdict within a very short period of time.
At around 9:00 a.m. the same day, police officers took the practitioners to the courthouse waiting area. The entire courthouse was guarded heavily. The police didn't allow practitioners' friends or family members to talk to the practitioners. Plainclothes agents were everywhere taking pictures with cameras and camcorders. Courthouse guards required everyone entering the courtroom to show his or her identification card and apply for a temporary badge. People attending the hearing were questioned repeatedly, and their pictures were taken multiple times.
Observers saw clearly that the four practitioners had become physically debilitated due to the persecution. Policemen carried practitioners Ms. Hu Zhehui and Ms. Bao Juncen in blankets and dragged practitioners Mr. Hou Yunfei and Mr. Xin Minduo up and down the stairs. Mr. Xin Minduo had lost one tooth, and he couldn't straighten either of his legs. During the trial, many of the police officers couldn't face the practitioners' relatives and friends and went downstairs.
At around 10:00 a.m., practitioner Ms. Hu Zhehui's limbs suddenly started twitching uncontrollably, and her face turned blue and purple. Her relatives and friends requested that she be sent to the hospital immediately. The police at first said she was fine. Only after they realized that she was close to death did they call the emergency staff. After receiving an intravenous drip for about an hour, Ms. Hu regained consciousness.
At around 11:20 a.m., the court heard the illegal trial of Ms. Hu Zhehui and Mr. Hou Yunfei. Ms. Hu was carried into the courtroom and could only lie on her back. Mr. Hou was dragged into the room and could only sit bent over. During the trial, they were carried in and out multiple times.
The "defense lawyers" for the four practitioners were court-appointed (Note: The lawyers could only enter guilty pleas for the practitioners and were not allowed to speak in their defense.) Ms. Hu wanted to defend her innocence, but the court refused to hear her. Her lawyer said, "I'm not allowed to enter a not guilty plea for you. I can only enter a guilty plea of misdemeanor." Mr. Hou's lawyer was not allowed to enter a not guilty plea and thus entered a guilty plea for misdemeanor for him as well. At around 11:50 a.m., the illegal trial ended without a verdict within a short period of time.
On August 3, police officers from the Panjin City Police Department "arrested" nine practitioners and a landlord. The four practitioners on trial that day were among those arrested. They were illegally detained at the Panjin City Detention Center. To protest the persecution, quite a few practitioners had gone on a hunger strike from the time they were abducted. Mr. Xin Minduo, Ms. Bao Juncen and Ms. Hu Zhehui were brutally tortured. The police inserted feeding tubes into their noses brutally and left them in for a long time. The police disclosed that they had received instructions from their superiors that the practitioners could be sentenced to up to a twenty-year prison term. Before the trial on September 12, the Xinglongtai District Court tried every possible way to block the news and didn't notify the practitioners' families. The practitioners' relatives found out about the trial after they made inquiries.
After the illegal trial, Ms. Hu Zhehui and Ms. Bao Juncen were carried to the police car. Ms. Hu told her relatives, "I've been on a hunger strike for 39 days. I didn't die because I practice Falun Gong. My teacher protected me. This is an illegal trial, a trial that perpetrates injustice, by a fake court. This is a disgrace to the Chinese legal system." The police put her in the police car before she finished her sentence. Later she saw her husband and told him, "I'll come out alive."
When Ms. Bao Juncen was carried out of the courtroom, she told her relatives in a weak voice, "I will not die. Be strong." The practitioners' behavior moved their relatives.
Perpetrators:
Panjin City Police Department
Panjin City Police Department Xinglongtai District Branch National
Security Group
Qinggong Police Station
Xinglongtai District Procurator's Office
Liaohe Oil Field and Xinglongtai District Court
Panjin City Detention Center
Jing Chengsheng, head: 86-427-2682511 (Office), 86-13909875868 (Cell)
Han, head: 86-427-2682555 (Office), 86-13514278086 (Cell)
Deputy Head, Wang Yonggang, deputy head in charge of Falun Gong
practitioners:
86-427-2862533 (Office)
Bi Ning, deputy head
Panjin City Police Department Xinglongtai District Branch Address:
Shiyou
Blvd., Xinglongtai District, 124010
Yang Zhenfu, head: 86-427-2822003
Sun Tianming, supervisor: 86-13324251388 (Cell)
Zhou Laixing, the chief of Political Security Section: 86-427-2682030
(Office), 86-427-2838165 (Home), 86-13604277978 (Cell)
National Security Group: 86-427-2683315, 86-427-2683316
Xu Hao, National Security Group leader: 86-427-2683315 (Office)
Zhang Yunqiu: 86-13842713579, 86-13019952579 (Cell)
Liu, deputy chief: 86-427-2683326 (Office)
Liu Desheng, Panjin City Political and Judicial Committee Secretary:
86-427-2839045, 86-427-2839049
Panjin City Procurator's Office: 86-427-2825549
Panjin City Court: 86-427-2823173
Xinglongtai District Procurator's Office: 86-427-7823280
Xinglongtai District Court: 86-427-7821409
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Guangxiu, 58 years old, lived in Hechuan, Chongqing City. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in April 2000 and was illegally detained for 18 days. Perpetrators from the Hechuan Police Department extorted 5,000 yuan from her and then sentenced her to one-and-a-half years of forced labor. They sent her to the Chongqing City Women's Labor Camp where she was savagely tortured. After her labor camp term expired, Li Guangxiu was sent to a brainwashing center and has been there up until now.
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/7/111952.html
Falun Gong Practitioner Li Fengxia From Yongji County, Jilin Province Forced from Her Home to Avoid Persecution
In late June 2005, perpetrators in Yongji County, Jilin Province tried to force practitioner Li Fengxia to write Falun Gong-slandering articles but Li Fengxia refused. The morning of July 13 they went to Li Fengxia's home in attempt to arrest her. She was not home and the attempt was unsuccessful. On July 20, 2005 the perpetrators again went to her home. Only her mother-in-law and her two children were home. Li Fengxia and her husband had fled to avoid further persecution.
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/7/111946.html