Issued by Clearwisdom Net

A March 4, 2001 news report revealed that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Guibin from Wucheng County, Shandong Province died as a result of being beaten by security officers at his place of employment, a cotton manufacturing facility. Below are some additional facts.

Even after Mr. Chen Guibin became paralyzed from the beatings he remained mentally quite clear. During treatment at a hospital, he told all his friends and relatives about how he was grossly abused and persecuted. Before he was beaten, the three e people who were with him, his wife Zhou Haitao, Falun Gong practitioner Chen Wentian and he had already been illegally locked up for over ten days in a small dark room beside the Political and Security Division area.

On that particular day they summoned Chen Guibin to the Political and Security Division. When he entered the room, four men, including Political and Security Division chief Hou Jincai and Wu Xiaogang, Yang Jiangong and Yao Jinshan surrounded Chen Guibin and put him in handcuffs. The four of them were drunk. They stood on either side of him and beat him severely.

Chen Guibin said, "When they were beating me, my head banged against the strongbox and I lost consciousness. They continued beating me for a long time. Later they carried me out of the Political and Security Division into the open and left me in the freezing snow for over one hour. Eventually they carried me back to the Political and Security Division and left me on a wooden bed. They opened all the windows, locked the door and left."

Around 8:00 p.m. Chen Guibin heard his wife who was detained next door say she wanted to go to the toilet. He shouted to her, "Haitao (his wife's name), they beat me up till I am paralyzed." Through the window Zhou Haitao saw Chen Guibin lying motionless on the wooden bed.

The next day in the morning, Zhou Haitao saw the company's vice-president Wang Jinzhu and asked him, "What is going to happen, now that Chen Guibin is paralyzed from the beatings?" Wang Jinzhu's attitude was extremely bad. He indicated he couldn't be bothered with her. Zhou Haitao saw the general manager Wang Yumin and she asked again. Wang Yumin also ignored her. Later, the security guards forcibly dragged Zhou Haitao back into the small dark room and handcuffed her to the head of a bed.

The next morning, Chen Guibin's mother came to the factory. She discovered that Chen Guibin was beaten until he became paralyzed. She requested a doctor to examine Chen Guibin. The doctor used a needle to prick Chen Guibin's sole, but he did not move his leg. Zhou Haitao, still in handcuffs, asked Chen Guibin, "Where are you hurting?" Chen Guibin, also in handcuffs said, "My neck hurts."

At 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. on the 9th, Chen Guibin was then sent to a hospital. By then he had already been lying paralyzed on the wooden bed for one day and one night. According to the doctor's examination, two sections of his cervical vertebra were badly fractured. A CT scan found that the bone had even protruded. The doctor said, "If you had come a few hours later, he would have died at the factory. His bladder would have burst, as he no longer could pass urine."

Half a month after Chen Guibin became paralyzed, the Yinhe Company manager extorted 3,000 yuan bail money from Zhou Haitao before releasing her. Chen Guibin had already undergone three surgeries at the Shengli Hospital in Jinan Province.

On January 25, 2001 Chen Guibin went home, equipped with an oxygen tank. He passed away on February 7, 2001.

Information from an insider: The reason the security officers at his place of employment dared to beat Chen Guibin to death was their backing from the police and from the 610 Office.

During the beatings of Chen Guibin, police vehicles from the Wucheng County Police Department and from the "610 Office" were parked at the company. Zhang Ruijun and Xu Bingxin from the Political and Security Division of the police department were also present at the scene. The county Party security also gave orders to get a fine of ten thousand yuan from the Yinhe Company, saying it was to pay for the costs of incarcerating the Falun Gong practitioners from the Yinhe Company who went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Mr. Li Guangnian, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jingmen City, Hubei Province, developed problems in his legs after he received an injection from Yang Jingqin (male), associate professor at Hubei Province Shayang Prison General Hospital. No matter whether he is sitting or walking, his legs ache, and he cannot stand up after using the toilet. Li Guangnian has been in this condition for several months.

Mr. Li Guangnian, over 40 years old, is from a rural area in Jingmen City. He firmly persisted in practicing Falun Gong and clarifying the truth of Falun Gong, and as a result he was illegally sentenced to prison. On November 15, 2004 Mr. Li was sent to Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City, Hubei Province. On November 17, he was transferred to Shayang Prison General Hospital, and on November 20, he was put in a ward for inmate patients.

Associated Professor Yang Jingqin from Shayang General Hospital has brutally force-fed Li Guangnian twice and ordered two criminal inmates to assist. Each prisoner sat on Li Guangnian's shoulders, one on each side, while Yang ordered other prisoners and medical staff to restrain Li Guangnian's head, hands, and feet so that he could not move.

During the first force-feeding, Yang Jingqin inserted a feeding tube into Li Guangnian's nose, causing it to bleed. Yang also stuck the tube into Li Guangnian's windpipe. Li Guangnian was choked and could not breathe, and his windpipe was severely injured.

In the second force-feeding, Yang Jingqin inserted the tube into Li Guangnian's mouth instead. Li Guangnian bit the tube very hard and would not let go, so the tube could not reach his esophagus. Yang Jingqin was enraged and without warning he pulled the tube out with such force that he caused bleeding to Li Guangnian's mouth, gums and tongue. Blood spattered onto the pillow and blanket. The scene was horrific.

On November 28, 2004, when Yang Jingqin gave Li Guangnian an injection, Mr. Li felt terrible pain. Afterwards, he gradually developed pain throughout his whole lower body. He now feels pain regardless of whether he sits, stands or walks. He cannot stand up after using the toilet. This situation has continued for several months.

One wonders what kind of injection Yang Jingqin gave Mr. Li Guangnian?

The Gansu Province Women's Forced Labor Camp relentlessly and brutally persecutes practitioners. They force the practitioners who are illegally detained there to write a so-called "thought report" every week. The administration's department chief of the forced labor camp also uses extremely virulent language to ask questions and demands that the practitioners answer. If the practitioners refuse to cooperate, the political instructors, team leaders and police instigate drug addicts to brutally torture the practitioners.

Instances of this brutal persecution described below.

1. Ms. Li Yulian was locked in a small, dark and very cold room during the winter and was forced to stand for 24 hours every day. The police commanded all the drug addicts of the entire team to change shifts every hour to monitor Ms. Li. The weather was so cold that the drug addicts could not bear it even when they were wearing very thick cotton-padded jackets, but Ms. Li was forced to stand for 30 days in this extreme weather, even when she ate. She was also frequently beaten by criminal inmates. The drug addicts' brutal persecution of Ms. Li was all under the direction of team leader Zuo Yanling.

2. Ms. Zhang Yuxia has been illegally detained at the forced labor camp since October 2001. The criminals tied both her hands and hung her from a gate. Ms. Zhang was suspended like this for six or seven days. Another person directly responsible is Zuo Yanling.

3. A drug addict told the practitioners that a practitioner who was over 60 years old was tortured to death because the guards didn't allow her to sleep and finally she couldn't bear it anymore. She also told the practitioners that the forced labor camp only gave the practitioner's family 3,000 yuan for her death.

4. Ms. Zhang Youfu, Ms. Chai Mei, Ms. Zhao Yueqin and Ms. Yan Ping all suffered persecution to differing degrees. Ms. Yan Ping has not been allowed to sleep for several nights. The longest period of sleep deprivation was 23 days. She is also forced to do intensive labor in the daytime. Another practitioner's release was postponed for nine days.

Those still persecuting practitioners are listed below.

Police officers Liu Zizhong, Liu Sheng, Fan Xiaohong, and Jing Xuefen.
Administration Department Chief Nian Xuefeng.
Drug addicts Ma Qingli, Wang Li, Liu Fengling, and Zhou Lan.

The "Strict Disciplinary Program" at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing City is the most vicious and inhuman program at the camp. Falun Gong practitioners sent to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp are placed in the strict disciplinary team without exception. Head official Wang Chen has given the strict disciplinary team free reign to use any torture methods on the practitioners, as long as they are kept alive.

The following are some of the usual torture methods officials at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp employ to persecute Falun Gong practitioners:

1. Starvation - food rations are progressively reduced, starting with half the amount and finishing with 1/6 of a usual portion.
2. Dehydration - water rations are reduced to only one flask-cap full a day
3. Restrictions on toilet usage - permission to use the washroom is restricted to only once in the morning and once at night.
4. Sleep deprivation - sleep is restricted; the guards allow only two to a maximum of 5 hours per day, and sleep can be interfered with at will to the point of no sleep at all.
5. Prolonged sitting - practitioners are forced to sit for long hours on a tiny stool in a strenuous posture.
6. Bathing prohibition - this could last for months.
7. Beating - physical abuse with torturing devices.
8. Extending the period of imprisonment at will without due process.

Falun Gong practitioner Gu Jiushou, 60 years old, was an engineer in a certain organization. When he was illegally arrested and sent to the forced labor camp the second time, he signed a document to renounce Falun Gong under pressure. He regretted it afterwards and publicly declared it null and void. The disciplinary officer then asked him to retract his declaration, but he resolutely refused, so he was subjected to their vicious program of starvation and dehydration. He was also forced to sit on a small stool for prolonged periods of time. As a result of this torture his buttocks were covered with bloody sores. The washroom restrictions coupled with the summer heat made the cell stink unbearably. During this period, encouraged by the guards, inmates Liu Dajiang and Zhang Yi beat Mr. Gu with a steel hanger, bamboo blocks, and a sharp-pointed rod, causing severe injury to his head and ankles. Liu Wenzheng did not allow Mr. Gu any sleep, and beat on his forehead repeatedly. After the beating, Mr. Gu's forehead was very swollen and he almost lost his eyesight. Only a month later, did he begin to gradually recover.

Falun Gong practitioner Tang Weicheng, over 50, is an accountant from a certain company. Mr. Tang was sent to the disciplinary team because he declared a document he had previously signed as void. He was immediately forced to stay awake for 46-hours, then after two hours of sleep, he was forced to stay awake for another 46 hours. For three months he was not allowed to wash himself. Furthermore, he was forced to sit with his head down on a stool while pressing his knees together to keep a bamboo stick in place. If the stick fell off, he would be beaten. This made him unable to raise his head up later due to the strained muscles. Mr. Tang was also heavily beaten with an iron hanger, which left two deep scars on his face. After he completed his sentence, the camp officer Wang Chen extended his sentence for a further three months.

Zhang Yougao, over 60, was an employee from a certain school. It was his second time serving a sentence at the same labor camp. On admission, an officer knocked him down and asked an inmate to drag him by his feet all the way to the disciplinary room. His back was all bruised and cut from the dragging. Afterwards, the inmates stomped on his back, causing internal injuries.

Falun Gong practitioner Wu Qun, who refused to sign an agreement letter denouncing Falun Gong, was beaten brutally by Wan Guochun, head of the disciplinary team. Wu's agonizing screams attracted the attention of the duty officer, Peng Xuhui, who came and handcuffed Wu on to a bed stand and gave him more punishment. After the beating, Wu was pushed under a low bed, with the head bent for a long time. For a long time afterwards, Wu was unable to hold his head straight, and he also lost control of his bladder and bowels.

Another Falun Gong practitioner named Lu was told to fold up bed covers. While complaining to the supervisor that he was too slow, an inmate grabbed hold of Lu's hair and slammed his head against the iron bed stand, which caused a laceration of more than two inches long. Lu was sent to the hospital for treatment, and was later sent to another correction center.

The persecution is still going on in China. The above are only a few cases of the brutal treatment received by Falun Gong practitioners at Xishanping Forced Labor Camp. We hope that the world will learn what is going on in China.

At the end of 2001, we were moved into a new building, which houses the so-called "School for Educating the Mind." This building looks luxurious and modern on the surface, but my fellow practitioners and I have suffered tremendously during the so-called "battle against determined practitioners" there. We went through numerous sleepless nights. I have seen many, many practitioners tortured in the hallway, washroom, clothes drying yard, cafeteria and bathrooms. Especially in the police's bathroom, there are Falun Gong practitioners squatting there every day. Those practitioners are not allowed to have meals in the cafeteria; instead they have to eat in the bathroom.

Starting in December of 2002, the Liaoning Police Department sent some policemen from Jinzhou, Fushun and Benxi to Masanjia. Many practitioners were forced to write the three statements. Later, they were also forced to write "four statements," "five statements", and then forced to "expose and condemn" other practitioners. They have to write "thought reports" and attack other practitioners. If they didn't beat and swear at other people, they would not be considered "fully reformed" and continue to be brainwashed.

That situation lasted for over one month, and each day felt like a year. The very determined practitioners passed the mental trial but physically they were scarred. Some of them had their legs swollen with their ankles black and blistered; some had pus oozing from places around their ankles.

I saw a female practitioner dabbing at the pus with a tissue. She came from Dandong and was around 30 years old. I didn't know her name. He legs were forced into a crossed position and tied with cord for a long time.

Another practitioner was tied with her limbs bent together and hung up for 6 days and nights. At the time of this writing, she could not straighten her back. Her body became swollen because of the static position, and dark patches of black and blue appeared all over her body. Some places of her body necrotized, and some places became as hard as a stone. She also developed a huge sore which became infected after being tortured by electric shocks. Her name is Wang Yunjie. I don't know where she is from.

Another practitioner came from Huludao City. She is blind and has to touch the wall to walk. I don't know her name or how she became blind. But I know she was healthy before she entered Masanjia. There are numerous examples like this.

There were more than one hundred determined Falun Gong practitioners there at that time, and almost all of them have suffered different types of torture. Some of them were forced to wear a helmet. When a guard found somebody dozing, he would pour a bucket of water onto the practitioner's head, and then he would use a pair of chopsticks to bang on the helmet. Some of the practitioners were forced to raise their arms high for a long period of time; some of them were tied onto the heating pipe; some had socks stuffed into their mouths, and some had their hands cuffed behind their backs.

When practitioners' family members visited, some of them told their family, "If I die in here, it must be because they have tortured me to death. At that time you must seek justice for me." Many family members could not believe it until the next visit, when they saw the practitioners were emaciated and injured. They were often stunned by the sight.

As soon as that kind of persecution stopped, practitioners had to labor outside digging and planting trees. Every day they dug dozens of big holes. Their hands became covered with blisters and many still had to work overtime if their quotas were not completed. After that, they had to weed, move mud, and fix the big holes up day in and day out. During the SARS epidemic, they were not allowed visitors from home, so the policemen had that time to persecute the practitioners again. The practitioners suffered the same torture again for another month.

The same methods are still being utilized today. We ask everyone to please help those practitioners being held in Masanjia.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Shaofa was seventy-one years old and lived in Huili County, Sichuan Province. Before practicing cultivation, he used to have stomach problems, ( he'd had an operation to remove three-quarters of the stomach), heart disease, bronchitis, and he was very thin and weak due to being wracked by sickness. Shortly after cultivating Falun Gong in 1998, all of his health problems were miraculously gone.

He clarified the truth to the Chinese government after April 25, 1999. After July 20, 1999, the police went to his home and threatened to have his children fired from their jobs if he did not quit practicing Falun Gong, but he remained resolute in his belief. TV station journalists also tried to force him at his home to slander Falun Gong, but he refused to do this also.

Due to long term harassment and pressure, Mr. Xu Shaofa died on June 24, 2005.

Recently, many incidents of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners have taken place in Huili County, led by the County State Security Division Head Yang Shaoliang. Four practitioners were sentenced to prison terms, more than ten practitioners were sentenced to forced labor, more than 60 detained, more than 40 homes ransacked, and many have been heavily fined.

Mrs. Wei Peixiu, 67, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changyi City, Shandong Province who died as a result of the persecution. Mrs. Ren Fengying, 76, passed away after her daughter and son-in-law had been persecuted. Mrs. Zhu Zongtao, a practitioner from Xiangfan City, Hubei Province, was detained repeatedly and finally died.

Mrs. Wei Peixiu was a retiree of Huayu Inc. in Changyi City, Shandong Province. She suffered from many illnesses before she became a Falun Gong practitioner, and became healthy afterward. Mrs. Wei was known for being friendly and hospitable. Early on in the persecution Mrs. Wei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, was arrested, and was subjected to brainwashing for three days in the company warehouse.

In March, 2000, Mrs. Wei went to Beijing again. She was arrested in Tiananmen Square and detained for one month. Yang Zhili, the Political and Judicial Committee Secretary in Liutuan Town, and Wang Ruibo, Deputy Director of Liutuan Town, escorted Mrs. Wei to a government building. There she was beaten, kicked, forced to kneel on bricks and forced to carry bricks on her back. Her knees bled, and her waist and back were injured from the torture.

At noon on December 21, 2004, the Changyi City 610 Office director, Chen Xiaodong, led Liutuan Town substation police to barge into Mrs. Wei's residence and arrest her. The police ransacked her house and extorted 5000 yuan. Mrs. Wei was illegally detained for 15 days and then brainwashed for a day at Weifang City Industrial Management School. Due to the almost incessant harassment from the police, Mrs. Wei Peixiu died on the evening of September 1, 2005.

Changyi City Police Station, Shandong Province
Wang Wei, director: 86-536-7116909
Chen Xiaodong, officer: 86-13001535238 (Cell), 86-13070751266 (Cell)

Mrs. Ren Fengying, 76, lived in Zaodangbo Production residence, Dianzi Town, Guan County, Shandong Province. Her daughter and her son-in-law, Mr. Dong Xinhai, are Falun Gong practitioners. Since the persecution began in 1999, Mrs. Ren's home has been ransacked several times. She was harassed, arrested, and illegally fined about ten thousand "yuan." Her daughter and Mr. Dong were illegally arrested many times. Mr. Dong was taken away on March 16, 2004. Mrs. Ren and her mentally retarded grandson were left at home alone. Mrs. Ren Fengying passed away on November 17, 2004.

Ms. Zhu Zongtao, 52, was a Falun Gong practitioner in the Second Department of the Electrical Bureau in Xiangfan City. Practicing Falun Gong cured her heart disease. On May 1, 2000, Ms. Zhu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was illegally jailed in Beijing for three months. The Zhongyaun Police Station in Xiangfan City picked her up from Beijing and Ms. Zhu's family had to pay over 10 thousand yuan under the table to the detention center to bring her home. In total Ms. Zhu was arrested and forced to undergo brainwashing in Wuhan City five times simply because she clarified the facts about Falun Gong.

On December 28, 2004, the police arrested Ms. Zhu and another practitioner for distributing truth-clarification materials. Both practitioners were detained in the Xiangfan City Second Detention Center for 10 days. Physical examinations conducted by the detention center doctor and by a local hospital indicated that Ms. Zhu had high blood pressure and serious heart problems. The 610 Office, however, secretly sentenced the practitioners to one and a half years in the Wuhan City Female Forced Labor Camp.

The camp physician decided that Ms. Zhu's health was too poor for her to be kept in the forced labor camp, so on January 10, 2005, she was released. Because Ms. Zhu's relatives did not practice Falun Gong, they blamed her for the financial losses and mental sufferings of the family. Ms. Zhu died of myocardial infection on June 20, 2005.