The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- October 6, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On the morning of September 23, 2005, Harbin City police launched a massive hunt for practitioners. On the same day, practitioner Ms. Lu Lihua was arrested and sent to the No. 2 Detention Center of Harbin City (Yazijuan), where she was tortured. At around 7:20 p.m. on October 2, 2005, Ms. Lu passed away on her way to a hospital.

According to insiders, there were many purple bruises on Ms. Lu's face, her chest, and her back.

Ms. Lu Lihua was 43 years old (she was born in August 1962). She was a self-employed businesswoman. At around 6:00 a.m. on Friday, September 23, 2005, the police arrested her at her home. Other practitioners who were arrested around the same time included Li Hong Kui, Dai Jingmin, Wang Zhulan, Yang Maohua, Lu Yan, and Li Ge. Ms. Zhou and her husband (who lives in Youyi Road, Daoli District) were arrested at around 1:00 a.m. by persecutors from the city 610 Office, city police department, Daoli District Police Department, and Gongcheng Police Station. Practitioner Yang Yunqiu and Wei Shuxia were arrested while visiting Ms. Zhou. Practitioner Li Yequan, Yuan Mi, and Zheng were arrested in Qiulinhouyuan Hotel (on the 7th floor of the building). Police from Nangang District State Protection Team and Xinglu Police Station arrested practitioner Zhang Yuefang (a resident of Nangang District) at her home. Practitioner Yang Guiying was arrested around the same time, and the police closed down her hotel.

The No. 2 Detention Center of Harbin City is located at No. 158 Gongnong Avenue in Daoli District. Like the No. 1 Detention Center of Harbin City, the detention center was under the management of the No. 7 Division of the Harbin City Police Department. The two detention centers are also called "Harbin City Detention Center" (the local residents call it "Yazijuan" or "Guxiang Detention Center"). Most of the arrested female practitioners in Harbin City are detained in the No. 2 Detention Center before they are sentenced to jail terms or sent to a forced labor camp.

We sternly warn the persecutors who have been following Jiang's regime, "Immediately stop your criminal deeds." We also ask fellow practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts intensively, to eliminate all the evil that persecutes Falun Gong practitioners in Harbin City and to disintegrate all obstacles that interfere with saving sentient beings. We also hope all practitioners clarify the truth to people who are known to be rational and hold wisdom, and who will come forward to help rescue all detained practitioners.

Related phone numbers (Please dial country code before cell phone numbers, and country code + area code before all other phone numbers, country code 86, area code: 451. No area code for cell phone numbers)

The No. 1 and No. 2 Detention Center of Harbin City:
No. 158 Gongnong Avenue in Daoli District, Harbin City, 150070
Operator: 84302813
Pre-interrogation division: 84308265

Harbin City Police Department:
No. 9 Hongxing Street, Daoli District, Harbin City
Director: 84681111
Reception Section for appeals and lawsuits: 84681592
Case handling Section: 84681491
Law Section: 84619858

Heilongjiang Province 610 Office, Fu Manjiang: 53609924
Harbin City 610 Office, Zhang Xiaoman: 84690027

Nangang District Police Department:
No. 567 Xianfeng Road, Harbin City
Director's Office: 82516000
Director Xu Degang: 53644618 (Home), Address: 4-1-1 No. 5 Shenyang Road, Nangang District
Political Protection Section Director Zhang Qingbin: 82543484;82543482 (Office), 138-04501704 (Cell)
Law Section: 82543501
Case-handling Section: 82543469
Office: 82543531
Social Order Section: 82543516
Patrolling Team: 82514288
State Security Team: 87664173, Team Head Wang Liguo: 13069876949 (Cell) Policeman Zhang Xumin: 13304641100 (Cell), Policeman Zhou Songbin.

Recently, due to large numbers of truth-clarifying banners and words appearing everywhere in a certain area in Donggang District, the Political and Judicial Committee, the police department, and several other departments have been following and monitoring practitioners for more than forty days. Finally, between the afternoon of August 23, 2005 and the morning of August 24, 2005, they illegally arrested eleven Falun Gong practitioners (Wan Xiuhua, Gai Yannian, Zhang Honglan, Sun Shurong, Sun Ronghua, Xin Shulan, Sun Shuqing, Wang Qiu, Pan Changxin, Sun Shuying and Wang Chun at Gushan Hill and Pusa Temple areas.) At around noontime on August 29, Falun Gong practitioner Sun Juan was reported to the authorities while clarifying the truth, and was arrested and taken to the Donggang Detention Center by the Qianyang Police Station.

The ones responsible for this large scale abduction are: Political and Judicial Bureau Secretary Chen Fumao, Deputy City Mayor and  Chief Lai Jianhua, as well as Deputy Bureau Chief Kong Xianmin, who gathered more than 50 policemen to support them in this raid. Under instructions from Lai Jianhua and Kong Xianmin, the avid support and cooperation of Re-education member Gao Feng and Deputy Office Chief Song Dali, and the National Protection Team, Wang Runlong was in charge of this operation. Ren Dashui from the Haiyanghong Police Station at Pusa Temple Town was another main accomplice, while the Pusa Temple Police Station, Huangtukan Police Station and the Gushan Traffic Police Team also participated and cooperated.

The recent large-scale arrests are another example of persecution towards Falun Gong cultivators by criminals in the Donggang area under their superior's orders.

On June 14, when the Dandong Political and Judicial Committee Secretary Wang Baozhi was transferred to work in the Judicial and Committee area in Donggang, he declared that, "We have to persecute Falun Gong resolutely!" and that Falun Dafa is "a great enemy, we have to strengthen our notions in fighting against them." In this arrest operation, policemen brutally assaulted Falun Gong practitioners with punches and kicks, and many policemen forcibly threw practitioners onto their cars without showing any credentials. Moreover, they broke into and ransacked practitioners' housing, confiscating practitioners' possessions for themselves, and even took the money that some practitioners carried on themselves and put it in their own pockets. No forms, paper work, or lawful procedures were carried out. Moreover, the Donggang City Stability Protection Office has even awarded praise to those people and departments who were involved in this operation. Wang Runlong, Sun Ke and other such officials were even promoted and awarded high salaries.

During the past six years of persecution, the Donggang police station has followed the Jiang regime and has imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners into labor camps, jails and brainwashing classes etc. to persecute them. Hundreds of practitioners have been arrested, illegally detained, and blackmailed. To date, there are still practitioners imprisoned in Shenyang and Benxi Prisons, as well as the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Liu Mei and Liu Yanjun have already been tortured so brutally that they are emaciated and living on the brink of death. Shi Jinying and Li Xinliang were forced into mental collapse due to persecution. University student Wang Qiang was persecuted to such an extent that he is now in a persistent vegetative state (a coma), and Zhao Kaisheng, Li Ji, as well as 29-year-old Lian Ping were persecuted to death.

In the early morning of September 23, 2005, policemen from Daqing and Harbin Cities, Heilongjiang Province, conducted a mass arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. According to current information, at least 16 practitioners from Daqing City and 14 practitioners from Harbin City were arrested.

At around 5:00 a.m. on September 23, 2005, the following Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Daqing City: Ms. Chen Changxiu of Yueyuan Community, Ranghulu District; Ms. Li Shumei of Leyuan Community; Mr. Yu Chen, his wife and son-in-law of Xizhai Community; Mr. Bai Yufu and his wife Zhang Lixin of Donghu 8^th Community; Li Qingzuo, Li Junmi and Jia Xianjun from a Chinese medical clinic in Donghu District; Liu Li, who lives west of Longfeng Factory; Ms. Chen Qingli who lives in New Dongfeng Village, Shaertu District; Ms. Tang Zengye and Ms. Lan Sufang of the Daqing City Third Oil Extraction Factory; Zheng Hongjun and other practitioners who live in Babaijiong Area. In addition, Ms. Yu Guixiang of Jingyuan Community, Ranghulu District, who was held by police for a long time, is now in the 5^th ward of Longnan Hospital for emergency treatment. Ms. Meng Qingyun of the Second Changqing Community, Ranghulu District was placed under house arrest. She walked out with righteous thoughts at noon. Mr. Li Yi and his wife from Leyuan Community, Ranghulu District, and Ms. Gao Guifen and her husband, daughter, and grandson from Petroleum College of the developing district were also harassed and arrested, Their exact situations are not yet known.

At around 6:00 a.m. in Harbin City, the following Falun Gong practitioners were abducted: Zhang Yuefang from Nangang District, Ms. Yang Guiying, Li Hongkui, Dai Jingmin, Ms. Wang Zhulan, Yang Maohua, Lu Yan, Li Ge, Ms. Lu Lihua; Ms. Zhang Yan, Ms. Yang Yunqiu, Ms. Wei Shuxia, Xiao Zhou and his wife, who live near Youyi Road, Daoli District.

Insiders, please provide the details. We hope that you can help to expose the persecution of these Falun Gong practitioners in a timely manner.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Lijuan from Jilin City was illegally arrested on August 24, 2005. Her parents, both in their 80s, are going to various authorities trying to rescue her. She is still being held in detention.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Lijuan from Jilin City

At 8:00 a.m. on September 21, 2005, Ms. Yang Lijuan's parents went to the Jilin City Police Department and asked to see Di Shigang, the officer who had arrested their daughter. Both the National Security Division officers at the police department and the heads of the police department refused to meet with the elderly couple and falsely claimed that Di Shigang was not present. After repeated requests from Ms. Yang's parents, a man who called himself "Yang Wei" from the National Security Division at the City Police Department came out to see the couple at 10:00 a.m. The elderly couple said, "Di Shigang from Division 3 of the National Security Division arrested our daughter. We want to speak with him, because we heard that our daughter was shocked in an electric chair, had bamboo sticks hammered into her fingers and was force-fed water. We want to see our daughter." Yang Wei said, "People from Shuangji Police Department arrested your daughter. They are personally responsible. You have to go to them and get a permit to meet with your daughter before going to the detention center. There is no point in seeing Di Shigang. Besides, he has been transferred to another place." When asked to where Di Shigang was transferred, Yang Wei refused to answer.

The current condition of Ms.Yang Lijuan's father

Ms. Yang's father became very excited at the police department, and his family was afraid he would suffer a relapse of his old illness. Yang Wei was afraid of being held responsible should anything happen to Yang Lijuan's father, so he repeatedly told the man and his wife not to come to the police department again. The couple then went to Shuangji Police Department, where the authorities admitted to arresting Ms. Yang Lijuan, and that they were handling her case. However, the case had been transferred to the Changyi Police Department. They told the family to go to Yang Jianxin at the Changyi Police Department. The phone number is 86-432-2485263. They said, "The city police department is really irresponsible. They are evading their responsibility after they did something bad."

The authorities at the Shuangji Police Department told Ms. Yang's father to wait at home because his daughter would be released on September 24 after one month of detention.

On September 23, Ms. Yang's parents went to the No. 3 Detention Center in Jilin City and requested to see their daughter. A female guard named Xing said the head of the detention center would not allow them to meet with Ms. Yang, "because of the law." When Ms. Yang's father insisted on seeing her, the authorities arranged for them to see her from about 50 feet away. Yang Lijuan's father has poor eyesight and can only see things about five inches away, so he could not see his daughter at all. They could not verify whether or not Ms. Yang had been tortured in detention.

Ms. Yang Lijuan has been illegally detained for one month. According to insiders, the persecutors have applied twice for her to be sentenced to forced labor but did not receive approval. Yang Lijuan was nevertheless sent to a forced labor camp on the afternoon of September 26. For details regarding the persecution of Ms. Yang Lijuan, please refer to related reports on the Minghui (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) website.

Jilin City National Security Division
Address: No. 51 Beijing Road, Chuanying District, Jilin City
Zip code: 132084
Di Shigang: 86-432-2409796 (Office)

No. 3 Detention Center in Jilin City
Liu Xuezhi, head: 86-432-2578266 (Home)
Liu Changjun, political head: 86-432-7807299 (Cell)
Huang Jianmin, deputy head: 86-432-7807298 (Cell)
Cong Maohua, political head: 86-432-2026730 (Home)
Xing Shufen, guard: 86-432-2026730 (Home)
Zhang Shaoqing, detention center doctor: 86-432-2433954 (Home)
Cao Jingyu, guard: 86-432-2433954 (Home)
Dong Yushu, guard: 86-432-2482155 (Home)

Minzhu Police Station of Changyi Police Department in Jilin City
Phone numbers: 86-432-2552473, 86-432-2563286
Jiang Zhuo, local police officer

Changyi Police Department
Address: East Jiefangda Road
Zip code: 132041
Head of the police department: 86-432-2485301, 86-432-2485303
Political secretary: 86-432-2499302

National Security Division: 86-432-2485537

Jilin City Police Department
Address: No. 51 Beijing Road
Zip code: 132084
Fax: 86-432-2454682
Main switchboard: 86-432-2409221
Head office: 86-432-2409110, 86-432-2488110

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Zhimin from Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province was illegally arrested on June 9, 2005 for hanging a banner that read "Truth Compassion Forbearance." Three months later he was sentenced to four years in prison, although no incriminating evidence was found.

Liu Zhimin was 31 years old and lived at the Auditing Bureau Family Dormitory. He used to have a bad temper, but after learning Falun Gong he conducted himself according to Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. He quit his bad habits and his family also benefited from his changes. In 2000, Liu Zhimin was arrested and sent to the Acheng City Detention Center for practicing Falun Gong. He was held for over two months and the police extorted 500 yuan from him.

At 10:00 a.m. on June 9, 2005, a group of police officers stopped Liu Zhimin in front of the dormitory building and dragged him into a car. Liu Zhimin shouted, "Why are you arresting me? What did I do?" His parents heard him and went downstairs, trying to stop the police. The police later ransacked Liu Zhimin's home and took Falun Gong books.

Liu Zhimin was taken to the Minzhu Police Department in Acheng City. Zhang Guomin and Xu Shifei tortured and interrogated him. They questioned Liu Zhimin about the source of Falun Gong books. They whipped him with leather belts, and verbally abused and beat him when he refused to answer. Liu Zhimin was sent to the Acheng City Detention Center later that night where he has been held for over three months. Mr. Liu experienced chest tightness and difficulty breathing while in detention. He was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. After his condition improved slightly, he was sent back to the detention center.

On September 5, 2005, the Acheng City Court tried Liu Zhimin in an illegal procedure. They notified Mr. Liu's family of the trial. Liu Zhimin was not allowed to have a lawyer, and no one besides his family was allowed in the courtroom. Four judges held this secret trial. The judge read a document saying Liu Zhimin was "hanging a banner that reads 'Truth, Compassion, Forbearance'" and within half an hour the trial was over.

Liu Zhimin has elderly parents and a young daughter. He is the sole breadwinner in a family of five. His wife is sick and his family can't afford the school tuition for his daughter because of Liu Zhimin's incarceration. His father was severely traumatized by the sudden turn of events and cried whenever he met someone. His mother suffered a relapse of her old illnesses. His parents asked their daughter, who lives out of town, to move in with them and take care of the broken family.

When Liu Zhimin's family went to the Minzhu Police Department and asked a deputy about Liu Zhimin the deputy said, "It's none of our business! Go to the court." His family said, "We are his family! How can we not care about him? Aren't you, the police, supposed to serve the people? What's with your attitude?" The deputy answered, "You are not 'the people'. You are family members of a Falun Gong practitioner." Liu Zhimin's family said, "Aren't Falun Gong practitioners people as well? Don't they have rights?" The deputy got mad and said, "Then go to the government and appeal against us. Tell them that I refused to receive you."

On September 26, Liu Zhimin's family went to the court and found deputy court administrator Han Yang. They asked him about Liu Zhimin and were told his case had been reported to Harbin City and a response was expected soon. On September 27, his family received a phone call and was told Liu Zhimin was holding a hunger strike. The persecutors demanded 2,000 yuan from his family to cover "medical expenses," but his family did not have the money. They went to the detention center and asked to see Liu Zhimin. The guards demanded a 100 yuan "reception fee."

When Liu Zhimin's family saw him, they learned that his verdict had been issued four days earlier. He had gone on a hunger strike right after he received the verdict because he thought it was unjust. Obviously, Han Yang was lying to the family and concealing the fact that the verdict was sent to Liu Zhimin on September 22.

When he met with his family, Liu Zhimin said repeatedly, "I'm innocent! I shouldn't be here. There is nothing wrong with being a good person."

His family went to the Acheng City 610 Office many times but the officials made up excuses and denied any responsibility.

After Liu Zhimin's family went to many sources and appealed for help, a lawyer wrote an appeal for them.

Here, we want to call attention to the illegal incarceration of Liu Zhimin, as we must end the persecution of innocent people.

I am Gao Yan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Longchang County, Sichuan Province. After "April 25," 1999, local police officers and staff from the 610 Office harassed me, ransacked my home, and fined me. I was taken three times to mental hospitals and tortured for a total of over 130 days. I was detained in detention centers twice for over 170 days. I was sent to forced labor camps twice, once for one year, and another time for three years. The 610 Office extorted 25,000 yuan from me, and charged me over 5,000 yuan for drugs they forced me to take while detained in mental hospitals. My husband divorced me, as he could not bear such tremendous pressure.

I have suffered unbelievable mental and physical pain because of this persecution. Now, I'm telling the world of my suffering. I hope that all kind people of the world will hear the truth about the cruel persecution in China and become active in stopping the persecution.

1. Detained for Appealing, Family Members Threatened

I began to practice Falun Gong on November 16, 1998. After "April 25," 1999, I appealed to the County Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee with fellow practitioners. Alas, the county "Eliminating Pornography Office" arrested and detained us for several hours. During that time, they threatened to kill me and forced me to turn in my Falun Gong books. On September 10, staff from the local police station began to step up their pressure on me. Prior to January 2000, Song Dewen, the security section head of my work place, and company leaders came to my work station many times to threaten me. They did not allow my son Tong Yuanjie to attend the provincial key middle school, decreased my salary, and ended up firing me. They also threatened my husband, who in turn beat me many times because of the pressure he was put under.

On January 5, 2000, several police officers from the Longchang County First Police Station came to my work place. At that time, my husband was on a business trip, and only my 14-year-old son was with me. They tried to force me to write a guarantee statement to give up my right to appeal. I refused. One policeman waved a handcuff in front of me, and policewoman Qian Lanying put pressure on me. I clarified the truth to them. Realizing that I would not give up, they called the manager of my husband's company and asked me to hand in the key to my work place and my home. Knowing that my life belonged to Falun Gong, I was fearless. They illegally arrested me and took me to a detention center. They forcibly fingerprinted me, and demanded that I sign the detention certificate. I told them that I had not committed a crime. I asked them to state the reason for my arrest. The wicked officers said, "I have not come up with an accusation yet." Yet, they detained me.

Between January 5 and March 27, staff from the county 610 Office ordered my husband many times to beat me in order to force me to give up my belief in Falun Gong. They also told my son and relatives to persuade me to renounce my belief. They asked former practitioners who had renounced the practice under pressure to send me letters. But no one could change my belief in Falun Gong. Before the Chinese New Year, they brought my husband to where I was detained and coerced him to write a guarantee statement on my behalf. They wanted my consent. I refused without hesitating. At the detention center, I clarified the truth to my cellmates. They quickly understood and believed in Falun Gong. One girl said her mother practices Falun Gong. One lady said that if she had known that committing bad deeds would result in retribution, she would not have committed bad deeds. They studied Falun Gong and did the exercises with me. One day, the police head found out that I was doing the exercises so he put me in shackles for a week.

2. My Husband Was Unable to Recognize Me after I Was Tortured

On March 27, 2000, security officers and managers from my work unit and officers from the county 610 Office came together to trick me and my husband. They said, "The [work] unit has paid 4,800 yuan to bail you out. We came to take you to a hospital for a physical check up." I refused to go, and my husband did not agree either. But they forced me into a car and took me from the detention center to a mental hospital where I was injected with drugs and force-fed. Three days later, my husband came to visit me, but the doctors said that the 610 office did not allow me to have contact with anyone. They did not allow my husband to enter the ward. Some of the patients told me that someone was looking for me. At that time, I had been injected with a hormone-like drug at the mental hospital. These drugs made me dizzy and I had convulsions. I was unable to stand, and my entire body became swollen. With great effort I shouted my husband's name. Hearing my voice, he walked back and forth in front of me, searching for me. I told him that I was Gao Yan. He was shocked. He could not believe that I was tortured so badly that he no longer could recognize me within a just few days. He cried.

When Liang Cheng from the 610 Office came to see me, someone had asked him why they detained me in a mental hospital. Liang told them, "We wanted to crush her will." I told them, "I am as strong as diamond and will not be crushed."

One day in late May, my husband was hit by a motorcycle on his way home from work. Only then did the 610 Office agree to let me go home and take care of my husband. This time, I was detained at the mental hospital for over 60 days, and they had extorted over 1,000 yuan from me for medical expenses.

3. Appealing Again and Detained Again

On July 15, 2000, fellow practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal. On July 18, local police officers and managers from my work unit arrested us and took us back home. On the train, policewoman Qian Lanying confiscated our money (about 2,000 yuan). We went on a group hunger strike on the train.

On July 21, we arrived at Longchang County. Police detained practitioners Lan Zhujiang, Yi Bin, Wang Youbi and I in a mental hospital. The 610 Office staff forced our families to pay 5,000 yuan each to cover the travel expenses to Beijing. This time we went on a hunger strike for 13 days. On July 31, police officers insinuated that we would be released on August 1. We were not released. On September 8, staff from the 610 Office sent us to the Sichuan Province Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong County, where collaborators tried to brainwash us. I rebuked them for betraying Falun Gong. After returning to Longchang, I was detained a second time and they extorted 2,000 yuan.

In mid-December, my former work unit forced me to accept a compensated layoff. I had lost my job. Hearing that I received money from my former office, staff from the 610 Office forced my family to pay 20,000 yuan before allowing me to sign the paperwork with my former work unit. My husband and mother had to borrow money from a number of sources. This was a huge sum for my family.

4. Lawyers Dared not Take on My Case

My husband knew that staff from the 610 Office had acted outside the law in their treatment of me. He found a friend who is a lawyer and asked him to sue the 610 Office. But the lawyer dared not take the case. Some lawyers said, "No matter how much money you pay, nobody dares to take Gao Yan's case. The CCP let it been known, and documented that whoever takes such cases would lose their business."

On January 19, 2001, my husband came back home immediately after leaving for work. He cried and told me that he wanted to divorce me. To force my husband to stop me from practicing Falun Gong, the 610 Office did not allow our son to take the college entrance exam. He beat me. His parents and sisters said, "If Gao Yan continues to practice Falun Gong, you should break her legs."

I had compassionately clarified the truth to my husband, but was not surprised when he asked for a divorce. Clerks in the civil service center said, "Chinese New Year is coming, don't divorce at this time. We need approval from your community office first." So my husband said at least we could write a divorce agreement. I told him, "OK. Anyway, you have suffered so much pressure from the 610 Office. I agree to the divorce, but in your mind, you should know who you should side with."

On the afternoon of January 20, officers Ye Lin and Liang Cheng from the 610 Office came to my home to arrest me. My husband said angrily, "I used to believe that police officers protected people. Now I realize that you are the worst people." Ye Lin instantly defended himself, "Do not be angry. We are just following orders. It has nothing to do with us." Then they arrested me and sent me to a one-year detention at a forced labor camp. I saw the date on the sentence paper. It was dated December 4, 2000. That was before the 610 Office asked my family to pay the 20,000 yuan deposit.

5. First Term in a Forced Labor Camp, Forced to Divorce

On January 20, 2001, I was sent to the Sichuan Women's Forced Labor Camp. At first, police officers forced us to stand up with both hands raised high and the head touching the wall for three entire days. Many of us had swollen feet and hands, and our faces were pale. We were given no water. Police officer Zhou beat up practitioner Ms. Luo Meng, and forced her to stand under the yard wall. Police officers beat us with electric batons and extended our terms at will.

After the staged Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation incident, police officers and criminal detainees tortured practitioners more than usual. One time, police officers Zhang Xiaofang and Liao Xiaolin used electric batons to shock practitioners Ms. Peng Shiqiong and Ms. Han Guangrong. I saw the burn marks on Ms. Peng's face. Ms. Peng remained resolute and said that there is nothing to be afraid of since Falun Dafa is in her heart.

In April 2001, my husband, his lawyer friend Liu, a judge and a lady clerk came to the forced labor camp. The judge told me, "Your husband has paid us a 600-yuan court fee. Today, you will be divorced, whether you agree or not."

My husband cried and did not want to divorce in his heart. But he said, "I have no other choice. Our son needs to go to school. My parents are old now. They do not want to suffer together with us. I had to choose a divorce." I said, "Don't cry anymore. I understand your choice." The judge asked, "How about your property?" I told them, "All will go to him. It's not easy to support my son." Soon after, I received the divorce certificate in the mail. The court verdict says, "Tong Kaihua and Gao Yan were married of their own free will. They have a son Tong Yuanjie. Husband and wife have enjoyed a good relationship. Now the wife practices Falun Gong and will not change her belief, even after being brainwashed by police officers over a long time. She is currently detained at the Sichuan Women's Forced Labor Camp. The judge granted the divorce and the real estate property belongs to Tong Kaihua, to be used to support his and Gao Yan's son."

On January 9, 2002, I was released and went back to Neijiang City. I stayed with my parents. On May 13, 2002, I went back to Longchang and rented a room from a fellow practitioner. On June 20, my parents' home was searched and I was arrested while there. Police officers detained me at a transition station. I went on a hunger strike. The policewomen handcuffed me to a steel door.

6. Detained in a Mental Hospital the Third Time, and Sent to Forced Labor Camp the Second Time

Four days later, I was detained in a mental hospital for the third time. I was bound to a steel bed from morning until between 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. daily, and injected with unknown drugs. Receipts from the Neijiang City Second Mental Hospital prove this. One 400 yuan receipt indicates that I was injected with "protective drugs." Another receipt is acknowledged by the Management Section of Sichuan Women's Forced Labor Camp and dated July 17, 2002. The Longchang County 610 Office sent me directly from the mental hospital to the forced labor camp. After a physical check-up, the labor camp refused to take me, but the 610 Office forced the camp to take me. Then the labor camp asked them to pay 500 yuan before they would accept me.

By that time, I had been on a 20-day hunger strike, had been injected with large doses of drugs, and been bound up for a long time. I had no control of my legs. Squadron Captain Luo Wei told me, "The police paid 500 yuan for you. The management section added 200 yuan to your account, and 300 yuan was kept by the management section." Later I asked police officers at squadron eight about the 300 yuan issue. They said that they knew nothing about this money. Three years later, my mother told me that the 610 Office had extorted this money from my mother. I learned later that my landlord was arrested for renting a room to me and was fined 5,000 yuan before being released. Another fellow practitioner was sent to forced labor camp for a three-year term because she helped me find a room.

On August 21, 2002, I was transferred from squadron eight to the group specialized in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. As soon as I entered the steel door, I saw that several practitioners were handcuffed to several big trees, with arms twisted behind their backs and their mouths sealed with tape. In the courtyard, practitioners were forced to watch videos that slander and defame Falun Gong. Some practitioners were handcuffed to trees because they shouted things like "Falun Dafa is good!"

7. Cruel Physical Tortures

During the CCP's 16th Congress, police officers took turns monitoring us and tortured us more viciously. Tortures included beating, force-feeding, strapping on a bed, beating after being stripped naked, gang beatings, deprived use of the toilet, forced to drink urine, sleep deprivation, handcuffing, being shocked by electric batons, etc. Taking a bath or shower was out of the question.

One time, we heard that people from Australia were asking if there was a "water dungeon" in squadron eight. It was noon that day. We were forced to stand in there as usual. Squadron Captain told the visitors that we stood there out of our own will. Peng Shiqiong and Luo Teng replied, "No, it's not true!" Later, criminal detainees rushed at me, Peng and Luo, knocked us down and beat us viciously. Then Peng and Luo were hung on a big tree with rope.

After the beating, before dawn the second morning, the three of us were detained in a small room. Ms. Peng was handcuffed with one hand to the rear window. Luo Meng was handcuffed with both hands at the front window. I was forced to stand against a wall. We were not allowed to sleep for fifteen days. I don't know how often I fell unconscious. Each time, criminal detainees kicked my face or stepped on my ear to wake me up. My head was covered with injuries and swollen.

Once they tried to force us to read books that defamed Falun Gong. We refused. Therefore, criminal detainees cruelly beat us. Criminal Chen Qi bound and hung practitioner Ms. Tao Yuqin to a bed, which caused Tao to sweat profusely and her face went pale. Squadron Captain Li used a flashlight to check Tao's pupils to see if she was still alive, and released her when he thought her to be near death.

Criminal detainees Deng Ailing, Li Hong and Chen Qi are all very cruel and tortured us with many methods. They force-fed us water until we were close to death. Squadron Captain Li shouted, "I'll kill all of you and have your blood spill everywhere!" Police officer Yang and Jiang frequently held electric batons in their hand and threatened us.

Ms. Wang Huiying was also detained in the small room with the three of us. Ms. Wang also refused to read books that defamed Falun Gong. She was bound by rope into a double crossed-leg position for many days, and she had no choice but to relieve herself in her pants. In the cold winter, the skin on her buttocks festered because of sitting on the ground for a long time. Doctor Chen had to put medicinal ointment on Ms. Wang and Ms. Peng Shiqiong every day.

8. Beaten for Clarifying the Truth

Before the 2003 Chinese New Year, Communist Party Secretary Hai from Longchang County and Ye Lin from the 610 Office visited us at the forced labor camp. As soon as Ye Lin saw me he asked, "Gao Yan, why is your face swollen and blue?" I told him that it was because Squadron Captain Li beat me. Ye Lin then introduced me to Hai. I clarified the truth to Hai.

Police officers and criminal detainees monitored us. Seeing I that was telling the truth to Hai, they called me back. Criminals took turns beating me three times, and did not allow me to use the bathroom or sleep.

In 2004, our squadron was forced to do labor. Police officers were ordered to forcibly "reform" practitioners within two weeks. Crying and noises of beating were heard every day from the intensively monitored rooms. Collaborators such as Yao Jianhua, Qiao Jianqun and Huang Xuefen helped the evil people to brainwash us, asked criminal detainees to beat us, and forged our names on a repentance statement. Practitioner Jiang Xianfeng was restrained and her neck held tightly by several people. They took her hands to put her fingerprint on the repentance statement. Huang Xuefen wrote a letter and said that this was in my name. I warned her and told her that she had no shame. Huang said if I did not give my fingerprint, they would force me to do it. One day, Wang Dabi, Li Ruiying and others tried to brainwash me. Li Ruiying grabbed me by the hair and smashed my head against a wall. Wang Dabi kicked me with heavy leather boots. When I was brought back, the inmates were startled, "They really beat people!" Li Ruiying coerced inmates to force me to stand as punishment. Since I refused to be "reformed," my term was extended for 45 days.

I was ordered to do embroidery. Determined practitioners were forced to complete almost 1 kg. (2.2 lb.) of thread each month. We were forced to get up at 5:00 a.m. and work until late at night. We could go to sleep only after midnight. Older practitioners were unable to finish the quota, so they were allowed to sleep only three to four hours daily. Almost 20 hours of intensive work damaged my vision. They came up with "A, B, and C" meals as a means of punishing those who did not obey orders. Determined practitioners could only eat C meals, which were inferior food products. We were not allowed to buy food from the labor camp's grocery store.

My term was to end on June 13, 2005. The Longchang county staff did not pick me up until June 15. After my release, everyone could see that my hands, feet, and legs were swollen. Intensive work had damaged my vision. Embroidery work requires that one bend the neck down for long periods of time. Both Liu Fengxia and I had neck pain. Doctors said my neck ligaments were injured.

People Involved in the Persecution:

Chen Jiamin, an officer from the county 610 Office.
Cai, a policeman from Gaosishan police station in Neijiang City.
Wang Youfen and Dr. Huang from the 2nd Mental Hospital in Neijiang City.
Li Xia, Kang Feng, Liu Ping, Yin Dan and others from Sichuan Women's Forced Labor Camp.
Criminal detainees: Zeng Guirong, Tong Zifen, Chen Jia, Mai Zonglian, Liang Quan, Zeng Qimei, Lu Juan, Zhang Shangyi, Song Li.
Collaborators: Cai Huarong, Wan Qing, Li and others.

The Changzhou City Brainwashing Center, known as the Cangzhou City Legal Education Center, is located in the courtyard of an artillery regiment in the western outskirts of Cangzhou City. The brainwashing center includes a one-story building and a house. The north side of the building is used to specifically detain Falun Gong practitioners. The house is used for offices.

(1) A Nazi Concentration Camp with Chinese Characteristics

Since the brainwashing center was established in November of 2001 up through December 2004, more than 30 brainwashing sessions have been held and 235 Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted. Around eight to ten practitioners are arrested and sent to each session. Many methods are used to torture them.

There are a dozen small rooms on the north side of the building. Each practitioner is locked in one room with two "personal guards" who monitor the practitioner 24 hours a day. There are two beds in the room and the guards take turns sleeping on one bed. They closely monitor practitioners' every move to deprive them of their personal freedoms. In the evening, practitioners are not allowed to turn off the light in their room and every window is fitted with iron bars.

Practitioners on the first floor are forced to watch or listen to video programs that slander Falun Gong. These brainwashing sessions try to make practitioners loose their reason and their human nature, so they will renounce Falun Gong. The iron gate on the first floor is kept locked all day. Two guards take turns guarding the gate and no one is allowed to enter except the staff.

The 610 Office of Cangzhou City is the main persecutor and controls the brainwashing center. The people involved in the persecution include: Lu Runzhang, Head of the 610 Office; Li Dong, Director, and Li Yifeng, Deputy Director of the brainwashing center. The professional "teaching staff" in charge of persecuting Falun Gong includes Zhu Changqing, Zhu Jinbo, Liu Zhenjiang, Yi Zhenwei, Chi Binglan and Wang Zhong.

(2) The Legal Education Center is a Center for Violating the Law

The Legal System Education Center, the 610 Office, the police department, the sub-district office, the neighborhood committee, work units and the police substations have deceived a lot of practitioners to get them to go to the brainwashing center. They told them that they were having a meeting or going to a study session. Some practitioners were taken from their workplaces or homes without any legal procedures. Hui Feng, the Deputy Director of the Xinhua District 610 Office, indulges in arresting practitioners. He has had 19 practitioners taken to the brainwashing center and has often harassed their families. As a result of Hui's harassment, a 70-year-old man had a recurrence of an old illness, and the practitioners' family members left home to avoid further persecution. The family was thus broken apart. However, the Chinese Communist Party still publicly states, "The Party has not given up hope of finding them."

A Center that Violates the Law

At the brainwashing center, practitioners are deprived of all their rights of personal freedom, while they are concomitantly tortured both mentally and physically. They are not allowed to talk to each other so they must use the restroom or go to the dining room only one at a time.

Lawyer Zhang Xinpeng was head of the "Transforming" Division. To persecute the practitioners, he fabricated lies, deceived and framed practitioners with fabricated charges, threatened, coerced and abused the law. When these methods failed, he asked collaborators Wang Shuang and Han Yin and other former practitioners who enlightened along an evil path to disturb practitioners' righteous beliefs and righteous thoughts by distorting and slandering Falun Gong. Then the "teaching assistants" of the transforming division slandered Falun Gong and distorted the facts and teachings of the practice, while using the sentiments of family members to threaten and coerce practitioners into renouncing their beliefs.

Other methods used to mentally persecute practitioners were forcing practitioners to read books that slander Falun Gong, and repeatedly showing video programs with fabricated and slanderous contents with the volume turned very high. Therefore, even if practitioners did not watch the program, they are still forced to hear everything. During the whole process of persecution, the officials also try to persuade the practitioners to renounce Falun Gong.

When all these tricks fail to transform the practitioners, they then physically torture them. They pair up, with each pair taking turns being on duty for four hours. They force practitioners to stand still for long periods of time and deprive them of sleep, calling this type of torture, "stew the eagle" (1). Practitioner Ms. Wang from Cangxian County was forced to stand still for three consecutive days and nights. She was also not allowed to sleep, eat and drink. One perpetrator kicked Ms. Wang in the stomach and slapped her face, causing her to lose control of her bladder and bowels.

Steadfast practitioners who hold hunger strikes are tortured with the "dead person's bed" (2). They tightly tie practitioners' shoulders, chest, abdomen, thighs and legs to the bed so that they cannot move. Then they insert a feeding tube into the practitioner's nose. Practitioners are forced to relieve themselves on the bed because they are not allowed to use the restroom. As a result, the room becomes very foul smelling so that even the guards' helpers will not enter the room. There are three of these rooms where practitioners are tortured for only a few days to dozens of days consecutively. A practitioner who worked at a bank in the city refused to renounce Falun Gong and went on a hunger strike was tortured this way. They beat him until his face became swollen. His mouth bled and his clothes tore. They also bought two electric batons and installed an extra safety door to further persecute him. Doctors from the No. 2 Hospital were employed to carry out the forced-feeding. During the forced-feeding, food often entered into the practitioner's trachea causing him to cough vehemently before he lost consciousness. A medical examination revealed that this practitioner suffered heart and kidney failure because of these tortures. The hospital then issued a terminal illness notice and did not treat the practitioner. Only after the practitioner's family and the director of the bank where he was employed strongly requested that the practitioner receive treatment, did the hospital conduct an emergency treatment. Several days later, the practitioner's health was out of danger.

(3) Hypocritical Tricks

When a practitioner enters the brainwashing center, he/she is "invited" to have a chat. The "teaching assistants" take turns talking to the practitioners around the clock using deceptive persuasion to express their sympathy. For a period of time, they appear to show concern for the practitioners. Practitioners who do not see through their pretension and mistakenly think they are good people, fall into their trap and do things that a practitioner should not do. Practitioners are continuously threatened with, "There's no way for you to leave the center unless you are transformed. You will be sent directly to the forced labor camp where conditions are worse than they are here if you refuse to renounce Falun Gong." They use these threats to force practitioners to give up their beliefs and make compromises against their will. If the practitioners see through these tricks, then they resort to any conceivable means to torture them.

Every room in the brainwashing center has a television set so the persecutors can deceive the practitioner's families. They tell the family members that the living conditions in the center are good and practitioners are allowed to watch TV programs every day. As a matter of fact, the TV sets are used to show video programs that slander Falun Gong. They repeatedly play these programs to confuse practitioners about what is right and wrong. They also ask collaborators to force their crooked understandings upon the practitioners and slander Falun Gong to coerce practitioners to give up their beliefs.

Li Dong and Li Yifeng are two main staff members in the brainwashing center. They talk very amiably. However, in slandering Falun Gong they make sarcastic and vicious remarks. Sometimes they openly slander Falun Gong and propagate the philosophy of struggle advocated by the evil Communist party. Collaborators Han Ying and Wang Shuang worked in the center for two years (now both have left the center) and claimed that they had transformed such and such number of practitioners. They have committed grave sins. Some practitioners were not sober-minded and succumbed to the brainwashing. They then offered to be their accomplices. When their consciences became clear, they tried to leave. After they contacted practitioners and read Teacher's new articles and other Falun Gong materials, they realized their mistakes and repented. Then they published their solemn statements on the web site to declare that their words and deeds under forced brainwashing were null and void, and they continued practicing Falun Gong.

(4) Accumulating Wealth by Unfair Means and Plotting against Each Other

The brainwashing center extorts money from practitioners, who are forced to pay between 2000 to 4000 yuan as a "tuition fee." They deduct this sum from the practitioner's salary or extort it from their families. They also frequently extort money from the practitioners' work units. If they cannot extort any money from the practitioners, their families or work units, they will not release them.

While they persecute practitioners, they also scheme against each other for material benefits.

(5) The Persecution Still Continues

The persecution in the brainwashing center is still going on. The long-term torture causes both physical and mental injuries to the practitioners and their families.

They have now changed the fixed brainwashing sessions, which used to last for 20 days with eight to ten practitioners in each session, to a rolling session. Now, every time one practitioner leaves the center, another one is sent in. The brainwashing now runs all year round.

As soon as practitioners enter the gate of the brainwashing center, they are separated from the outside world. Even those so-called teaching assistants (normally designated by the practitioner's work unit or family members) assigned to monitor the practitioners feel oppressed when they stay in the brainwashing center. Therefore, they rotate once every week. Still, some teaching assistants have made many complaints claiming that they have no personal freedoms.

However, for two consecutive years, this brainwashing center was awarded the title of "Advanced Group of Hebei Province in Preventing and Dealing with the Evil xx." It was also awarded the first prize for its so-called merits in transforming practitioners. The brainwashing center also dispatches staff members to take part in the so-called battles of intensive assault (an even worse form of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners), and to other parts of the country to help the local perpetrators persecute practitioners and pass on their experiences of how to transform human nature.

They also deceive, coerce and induce the leaders of the work places where practitioners work, their families and the teaching assistants and collaborators to become their accomplices in their work.

Those practitioners who have refused to be transformed are quietly sent back home. There are some practitioners who have compromised with the evil as a result of coercion. However, many of them who have caved in under pressure later became clear minded. They now see clearly the evilness of the brainwashing center, have published their "Solemn Statement" and have once again plunged themselves into the current of Fa-rectification.

List of perpetrators at the Cangzhou Brainwashing Center:

Address of the Cangzhou Legal Education and Training Center:
Inside the Courtyard of the Artillery Regiment, West Outskirt of Cangzhou City, Post Code: 061000
Office: 86-317-2063230, 86-317-2063112

Lu Runzhang: Director of the Cangzhou 610 Office
Li Dong: Deputy Director of the Cangzhou 610 Office; lives in the Western Ring Residential Area of Cangzhou City; telephone: 86-317-2189001 (Home)
Zhang Shuqin: Li Dong's wife who works at the No. 10 High School of Cangzhou City
Li Yifeng: Deputy Director of the Brainwashing Center; lives in the Western Ring Residential Area of Cangzhou City; telephone: 86-317-2017044 (Home)
Huifeng: Deputy Director of the Xinhua District 610 Office, in charge of arresting Falun Gong practitioners; 86-317-2106595 (Home), 86-317-3586252
(Office), 86-13931778095 (Cell)
Helpers to the Guards: Zhu Changqing, Zhu Jinbo, Liu Zhenjiang, Ji Zhenwei, Chi Binglan and Wang Zhonghe

Notes:

(1) Stew the eagle: Practitioners are forced to stand 24 hours a day continuously for over a month and are not allowed to sit down or sleep. The persecutors take turns yelling and screaming at them, scuffling with them and beating them during this time.

(2) Dead Person's Bed: The practitioner's four limbs are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. He not allowed toeat, drink, or use the bathroom. This treatment lasts from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This torture causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically. Many practitioners die from this torture. See illustration at

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Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Pan Benyu from Qiqihar City was illegally arrested in October 1999 for persisting in Falun Gong practice. He was sentenced to forced labor, and was brutally beaten and tortured. After being released he exposed the guards' crimes of persecuting and murdering Falun Gong practitioners and was persecuted even more severely as a result. During the 2005 Mid-Autumn Festival, Mr. Pan's son, Pan Yonglie, 15, was arrested and taken to the police department for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. Mr. Pan Benyu is currently living away from his home to avoid further persecution. Below is his personal narration of the persecution.

"They poured boiling water and cold water on me and hit me with a bench until it broke."

My name is Pan Benyu. I live in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. I used to work at the Qiqihar Railroad Sanitation Center. I want to expose the persecution as I experienced it to the United Nations, human rights organizations and international courts.

On October 26, 1999, I was sent to Division 1 at the Nianzishan Forced Labor Camp in the Qiqihar Railroad Bureau. Division head Jiang Baili ordered the inmates to violently kick my chest until I passed out. Then they poured cold water on me. I shivered and could not stand straight. They burned me with cigarettes and hit my head with hard plastic clubs each day until my head became swollen and I could not even count off during roll call. Jiang Baili screamed, "If you follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, I'll beat you until you are disabled, you won't get any food, and I'll cuff you to a tree in the summer and feed you to the mosquitoes!"

In September 2000 I appealed to the labor camp and the court about Jiang Baili's atrocities but received no response. In November 2000 I filed charges against Jiang Zemin for his crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. On November 20, 2000 I was transferred to the Fuyu Forced Labor Camp. Right after I got out of the vehicle, Jia Weijun, the head of Division 4, shocked me with electric batons. He often ordered the inmates to beat me.

In February 2001 the guards beat me for nearly one hour and then hit my head with a bench causing four gaping wounds on my head. The bench was broken and I lost consciousness. They proceeded by pouring boiling water on me.

On March 16, 2001, Falun Gong practitioners Ma Yong, Li Qi, Guo Dianhui and Li Weiling refused to watch a Falun Gong-slandering video. Guard Jia Weijun shocked the practitioners with electric batons. I ran out of my cell in the east end of the cell block and stopped him. The inmates pinned me to the floor. Practitioner Wang Baoxian then came out of his cell in the west end and shouted, "I absolutely won't tolerate persecution of Falun Gong practitioners." Jia Weijun dragged Wang Baoxian to a dark room and shocked him with electric batons for nearly one hour. Later, he extended Wang Baoxian's sentence by six months.

My Detention was Illegally Extended

On June 18, 2001, thirty-two Falun Gong practitioners demanded their unconditional release. Jia Weijun encouraged six inmates, including Zhang Baoshan, Liu Jianjun and Li Yan to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Jia Weijun said, "Hit them! If they die, I'll be responsible!" The inmates beat all of the practitioners, including over 60 year-old Yang Licheng. Other practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is great" and they stopped the beating.

I told Li, the labor camp political secretary about Jia Weijun's role in the atrocity against Falun Gong practitioners. In response, Li prompted Jia Weijun to forbid Falun Gong practitioners from using the restroom for a whole morning. The practitioners held a hunger strike in protest.

When officials from the city Political and Judiciary Committee and the 610 Office came to the labor camp, I told them about the guards beating Falun Gong practitioners, and about how they transferred six practitioners, Ma Yong, Wang Baoxian, Zhang Xiaochun, Guan Changan, Lan Hongjun and Sun Jianjun to the Fuyu Detention Center and didn't permit restroom use. The labor camp authorities retaliated against me. On July 5, 2001, they announced that I was under criminal arrest and sent me to the Fuyu Detention Center. I did the Falun Gong exercises at the detention center, and guard Chen hauled me outside the cell. He clamped my hands and feet with a torture device called "hand sticks" [these sticks can cause pain and swelling, and long term use can lead to permanent disability]. He whipped my face with a belt until blood ran down my face. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is great." Almost all of the inmates in the twelve cells also shouted, "Falun Dafa is great! No beating allowed!" The guard was shocked.

The deputy head of the Heilongjiang Province Public Procuratorate came to the detention center for an inspection. I said, "Report!" The officials that accompanied him said, "Say that again and you'll be dead!" Practitioner Wang Baoxian also said "report." After the officials left, the guards forced him to carry a big stick on his back, put "hand sticks" on him, gagged him and then savagely beat him.

During my detention I submitted an appeal statement to Zheng, the former chief justice for Fuyu County Court, and to Peng, the deputy head of the Fuyu Public Procuratorate. Later I was informed that my case had reached the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court issued a judicial opinion that I did not fulfill the criteria for detention and should therefore be released. Yet, the 610 Office refused to release me, and instead held me at the Fuyu Detention Center for one year past my term without issuing any official extension of my sentence.

Practitioners Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Baoxian Died Under the Persecution

Practitioner Zhang Xiaochun took the lead in reciting Lunyu on Falun Gong Day. The perpetrators conspired and issued an arrest warrant. Zhang held a hunger strike to protest the illegally extended detention. During the first five days of his hunger strike he was taken to a hospital where he was force-fed. On the tenth day, Liu, deputy head of the detention center, said, "This detention center does not have money to pay for the force-feeding. If you don't eat, we'll kill you." He asked Zhang Xiaochun whether he would eat, and Zhang Xiaochun said, "No." Liu transferred Zhang Xiaochun from Cell 7 to Cell 5 (they often transfer practitioners after they've arranged for cruel torture). They force-fed Zhang Xiaochun concentrated saline solution. At 9:00 p.m. on June 29, 2002, Zhang Xiaochun died as a result of force-feeding.

On July 12, 2002, we were escorted to the Fuyu Court where an illegal trial was held. The persecutors ordered me to sign the death certificate for Zhang Xiaochun and I refused. Two court security officers struck me to the ground and handcuffed my hands behind my back. They dragged me to the court and illegally tried me. The public prosecutor said, "You committed a crime by shouting 'Falun Dafa is great.'" I said, "I shouted 'Falun Dafa is great' to stop guard Jia Weijun from beating the practitioners to death. They beat a 60-year-old man like a rag doll, and inmate Zhang Baoshan knocked out my tooth. The real criminals are Jia Weijun and Zhang Baoshan. Zhang Baoshan is guilty of assault for knocking out my tooth, so he should be sentenced to between one and three years in prison. I am the victim! I am innocent! All Chinese citizens have the right to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing, as the constitution states, and all Chinese citizens have the right to criticize heads of the Party and state. The government officials should not retaliate against those who criticize them. It is a fact that I was illegally sentenced to forced labor. As public prosecutors, you are violating the constitution and the Criminal Law by persecuting me. Where is your conscience?"

Li Guangping, the chief justice, gestured the security officer to stop me from defending myself. Wang Baoxian wrote, "the gravest injustice of 10,000 years," and Li Guangping kicked Wang Baoxian.

On August 1, 2002, I received the verdict, which stated that I was sentenced to four years in prison. I appealed at the Qiqihar City Intermediate Court. On August 15, 2002, my appeal was overruled and the original sentence upheld. Chief justice Guo Yinghua asked me whether I would continue to appeal, and I said I would. Public prosecutor Guan Yimin threatened me, "If you appeal again, we'll have you beaten to death at the Beian Prison."

Wang Baoxian wrote in his appeal statement how he was beaten at the detention center. Liu, deputy head of the detention center, was exasperated. He transferred Wang Baoxian from Cell 7 to Cell 6 and brutally beat him until Wang Baoxian's liver, spleen and kidneys were injured. On August 18, 2002, Wang Baoxian was beaten to death.

Wang, the procurator at the detention center, bore false witness for Lin Guotao, one of the inmates who beat Wang Baoxian to death. He said Lin Guotao did not beat Wang Baoxian, although he was one of the main perpetrators who beat Wang Baoxian to death. Wang Baoxian once told his wife that the injuries on his eyes were the result of beatings at the hands of Lin Guotao.

Six practitioners I knew personally died from torture and beating. Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Baoxian died at the Fuyu Detention Center, and Liu Xiaodong died at the Fuyu Reeducation Division.

Continuing to Appeal - Solitary Confinement Cell

On December 25, 2002, I was writing an appeal statement at the Beian Prison when an inmate hit my head, causing bleeding. Deputy division head Zhang Tongxin snatched the draft from me. After my repeated requests they gave me a copy of the original document.

In March 2003 I gave the appeal statement to the prison authorities and asked them to submit it to the court. On April 25, 2003, I asked the guards whether the court has responded to my appeal and they said, "No! What's the hurry?" I said, "The Communist Party murdered two Falun Gong practitioners. Certainly people in the Party are afraid that I would sue the perpetrators, so they blocked the information and locked me away at Beian Prison so I can't file a lawsuit. Which government in the world is capable of such a nefarious deed? Only the Chinese Communist Party!" Zhang Tongxin heard my words and detained me in solitary confinement, the condition of which is worse than the other cells.

After I returned to my cell I said to the division head and Wang Guoliang, the group political head, "I gave my appeal statement to you guys four months ago, how come I have not heard anything from the court?" They said they didn't submit it for me. I said, "What right do you have to withhold my appeal statement? The constitution, the Criminal Law and the Prison Law all state that Chinese citizens have the right to appeal. The judicial Party officials persecuted Falun Gong practitioners to death; they are afraid of the truth being exposed, so they blocked the information and sentenced me to four years in prison. I have been wronged! Instead of submitting my appeal for me, you withheld it. According to ancient Chinese laws, you have committed a major crime and should be executed. You deceived the ruler of the country by withholding information from him, and you are persecuting me, an innocent person. According to current laws, you are shielding murderers and should be sentenced to prison."

I continued to appeal and I wrote a criminal indictment charging Jiang Zemin with the persecution of Falun Gong. Zhang Tongxin again locked me in solitary confinement. While being held in the solitary confinement cell I asked to meet with officials from the Heilongjiang Province High Court, but the prison authorities refused.

They detained me in solitary confinement because I appealed and filed charges against Jiang Zemin. Practitioner Zhou Yanjun from Division 3 also filed charges against Jiang Zemin. He was isolated. Practitioners Zhao Changhai and Feng Zhisheng in Division 7 were sent to solitary confinement for filing lawsuits against Jiang Zemin. Because we exposed Jiang Zemin's crimes at the prison, the prison authorities encouraged the inmates to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They ordered the inmates to take turns monitoring Falun Gong practitioners and to not allow us to sleep. Practitioners Zhao Changhai and Feng Zhisheng were not allowed to sleep for eight days and eight nights. The inmates hit them every time they nodded off. Inmate Bai Fulin shouted, "Stop hitting 'Falun Gong,' don't kill them!" The guards locked Bai Fulin in solitary confinement and canceled his chance for an 11-month sentence reduction. Bai Fulin said, "So this is the people's government? They lock people who try to stop beating in solitary confinement while those who are doing the beating are free outside the law."

Zhang Tongxin arranged for five inmates to monitor me and not let me sleep. The inmates knew that I was a good person, so they stood and watched out for me instead of torturing me. Zhang Tongxin personally came to me and tried to take me to the solitary confinement cell. I refused to go and he dragged me. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" Zhang Tongxin said he would torture me to death in solitary confinement. He didn't give me any bedding or quilt and shackled me to a ring fixed on the floor for about one month. The guards brought a guarantee statement and ordered me to sign it. I refused. They handcuffed my hands behind my back and cuffed them to another ring on the floor, so I could neither sit nor lie down. They used the smallest "hand stick" on me. My hands swelled severely within two hours. I held a hunger strike and vomited blood. I asked them to take the hand stick off. The guards said they would not remove it unless I signed the guarantee statement. I firmly refused to cooperate with them.

When will good people stop suffering?

Officials from the Provincial Judicial Department came to the prison to inspect the work. They came to the solitary confinement and I shouted, "Government officials murdered Falun Gong practitioners. They were afraid of their crimes being exposed, so they covered up the truth and sentenced me to four years in prison. They detained me in solitary confinement for appealing! They are using torture devices on me and they want to kill me!" I shouted for more than 20 minutes. They ignored me.

Because I told the Provincial Inspection Team the truth, the prison authorities retaliated against all Falun Gong practitioners held in solitary confinement cells. About eight of us were each given only two bowls of rice soup a day, with a spoonful of rice in a bowl of water. I was so hungry that I saw the white wall turn pink and often passed out from hunger. I told secretary Feng that I urinated blood from being so cold and not having any bedding or quilt. He answered, "Who are you trying to impress? If you urinated blood, drink it yourself." I said I vomited blood from a long-term hunger strike. He answered, "You deserve it!" I asked that the torture devices be removed so that I could use the restroom. He told me to relieve myself in my pants. I said to him, "I've never treated you wrong! Why are you so vicious toward me?" He answered, "Why would we lock you up if we didn't want to teach you a lesson?"

My bicep muscles ulcerated because the blood circulation was cut off. Small pieces of flesh budded from the joints, and the pain was excruciating. Time went by one minute at a time. I was locked in solitary confinement for more than seventy days.

My moral character improved after I studied Falun Gong. I offered several people salvation and turned in money I had picked up in the streets. Yet I was fired, lost my personal freedom, and was beaten and tortured. My wife divorced me, my parent(s) are hospitalized, and my 15-year-old son Pan Yonglie was abducted and sent to the police department when he was clarifying the truth during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even now, the police are still pursuing me, and I'm forced to move from place to place.

Names of perpetrators
Jiang Baili: Qiqihar Railroad Forced Labor Camp
Beian Prison: Liu Youtang, Tan Zhonghua, Zhang Tongxin
The above perpetrators are extremely malicious toward Falun Gong practitioners

1. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Circumstances of Four Detained Practitioners

Practitioners Zhi Zhanmin, Wei Haiwu, Zhang Rongjie and Mr./Ms. Du from Baoding City were transferred to the Baoding City Detention Center from the Hebei Province Security Department. Practitioner Liu Yongwang is being held at the Baoding City Legal Hospital. Liu Yongwang, Zhi Zhanmin and other practitioners are staging a protest hunger strike. It's known that Wei Haiwu's condition is very serious and manifesting as symptoms of diabetes. Zhi Zhanmin and three other practitioners were transferred to the Baoding City Legal Hospital for emergency transfusions. They'll be sent back to the City Detention Center when the transfusion is completed.

Relevant telephone numbers:
(Country code: 86, area code: 312. Do not dial area code before a cell phone number.)
Ding Yaping, Baoding City Security Department head: 3135050 (Office), 3115958 (Home) and 13903225266 (Cell)
Jiu Zhenguo, chief of the Political Section: 13011907721 (Cell)
Baoding City Detention Center: 5027634
Office of the Baoding City Legal Hospital: 2026542
Emergency Rescue Section of the Baoding City Legal Hospital: 2027999

2. [Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province] Police Arrest Three Practitioners

At around 3:00 a.m. on September 23, 2005, Dong Delin, deputy chief of the Jinshantun Police Department, Yue Zhenhua, chief of the Tuanjie Police Station, Zhang Xingxu and some other policemen broke into practitioners Wang Zhiqian and Wang Kunpeng's home and took them away. They took the practitioners to a police station and confiscated a computer and some Falun Gong books from their home.

At around 8:00 a.m. on September 23, 2005, chief Zhang Xingxu from the Jinshantun Police Station and policemen Wang Zhongping and Ji Zhanxing arrested practitioner Chen Guiqiu on his/her way back home. On the evening of September 23, Wang Zhiqian and Chen Guiqiu were detained at a detention center.

Telephone numbers of the responsible units and personnel:
(Country code: 86, area code: 458. Do not dial area code before a cell phone number.)
Party Committee of Jinshantun District: 3738601 and 3738901
610 Office: 3735610
Police department: 3738505, 3738512, 3738517 and 3738506
Tuanjie Police Station: 3738591
Political & Judiciary Committee: 3738695
Dong Delin, deputy police department chief: 13945892000 (Cell)
Yue Zhenhua, Tuanjie Police Station chief: 3734320 and 13845883000
Policeman Zhang Xingxu: 3737217 and 13846695255
Policeman Wang Zhongping: 13845872949
Ji Zhanxing: 3739410 and 13846683315

3. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Wu Biyun Transferred to the Chatou Brainwashing Class

On the morning of September 6, 2005, personnel from Haizhu District's 610 Office collaborated with personnel from a local street administrative committee and arrested practitioner Wu Biyun at the entrance of her apartment building. After being detained for fifteen days, Wu Biyun was transferred to the Guangdong City's Chatou Brainwashing Class for further detention.

4. [Shanghai] Zhang Ying Arrested and Taken to the Baoshan District Detention Center

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying from Shanghai is 36 years old and lives on Nanshan Road in the Baoshan District. On the morning of September 24, 2005, local 610 Office personnel forcibly arrested her and secretly ransacked her home. At present, Zhang Ying is being held at the Baoshan District Detention Center.

5. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Five Practitioners from Bai Yufu and Li Qingzuo's Families Arrested

After 6:00 p.m. on September 23, 2005, several policemen from Daqing City Donghu Police Department broke into the homes of practitioners Bai Yufu and Zhang Lixin (a married couple) and Doctor Li Qingzuo's in District No. 8 and No. 9, respectively. They confiscated their computers and printers, truth-clarifying materials, and some books and other materials. They arrested Bai Yufu, Zhang Lixin, Li Qingzuo, Li's daughter Li Junmi, and Li's daughter-in-law Jia Xianjun: a total of five practitioners. At present, it is not known where they are being held.

6. [Antu County, Jilin Province] Xu Yachen is Arrested and His House Ransacked

On September 23, 2005, personnel from the Erdaobaihe No. 2 Police Station arrested practitioner Mr. Xu Yachen who was on his way to his friend's home. They ransacked Xu's home and confiscated Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials, Falun Gong books and other materials.

Phone number of the No. 2 Police Station of Baihe Forestry Police Department: 86-433-5718134

7. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Chen Minghui is Arrested and His House Ransacked

On September 21, 2005, practitioner Mr. Chen Minghui from Dalian City was having a meal after work with some coworkers in a restaurant near Zhongchang Street Refrigerated Warehouse of Jinzhou District, Dalian City, where he works. All of sudden, three cars drove up. Several plainclothes police officers jumped out of the cars and arrested Chen Minghui. Currently his whereabouts are unknown.

On the morning of September 24, several people in a car blocked Chen Minghui's wife on the street. They forcibly took her back home for searching. They confiscated a few Falun Gong books and Chen's tools. Even light bulbs, power surge equipment, and fish threads were taken away.

8. [Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Police Torture Practitioner Zhang Jingyan During Interrogation

In early 2000, practitioner Ms. Zhang Jingyan was arrested and put into Liaoyang County Detention Center because she was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials with fellow practitioners. She was transferred to Liaoyang City Police Department. During the interrogation, personnel from the National Security Team of the Police Department tortured Zhang. Police grabbed Zhang Jingyan's head and smashed it against the wall until Zhang's head was bruised. They then cuffed her hands behind her back, pushed her down to the ground, and pulled her arms up. Zhang's arm was fractured due to this. They forced her to tell them where she got the truth-clarifying materials, but Zhang Jingyan didn't say a word. They dragged her on the ground back and forth and force-fed her two pots of cold water. They tortured her using all possible means and put her into a cell late in the night.

Zhang Jingyan reported the tortures to the related county officers and requested medication. But the City Police Department did not respond. Then she reported it to officers in the detention center. Eventually, she was hospitalized. But the fracture could not be fixed. She asked to be released. Police denied her request. Later, she was released after she had been on a hunger strike for nearly ten days. The names of the people who tortured her are unclear, but the head is surnamed Wang.

9. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Sun Donglin and Her Husband Severely Tortured

Several months ago, plainclothes policemen secretly ransacked the home of practitioner Ms. Sun Donglin from the Northern District of Qingdao City, Shandong Province. Her whereabouts are unknown. Police also arrested her husband, a practitioner and the Chief Officer of Qingdao City Garrison Command. Police tortured him in an attempt to force him to give up his belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," but this didn't work. After detaining him for a few months, they colluded with personnel from the Northern District 610 Office and put him into a brainwashing class in the District. They continued torturing him.

After the couple was arrested, the police ransacked their home. Several plainclothes policemen lived in their home and waited for other practitioners. Sun's daughter came back home and found the home was in a mess and several strange men came at her. She was so frightened that she asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here in my home? Where are my parents?" She screamed for help. The special agents had no choice but to take her to see her father at the District Brainwashing Class. She cried when she saw her father because her father looked very old and thin, as he had been tortured severely. The father said, "My daughter, I am being held and tortured because of practicing Falun Gong and believing in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." If I die, it is because of their torture."

10. [Qingyang City, Gansu Province] Ms. Huiqin and Ms. Yang Xiufang Arrested While Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Ms. Huiqin, and Ms. Yang Yiufang, both in her 40's, are Falun Gong practitioners from Xiaojin Town, Qingyang City, Gansu Province. On September 23, 2005 when they were distributing truth-clarifying materials at Jiao Village, Ning County, they were reported to the police and then arrested. Huiqin was arrested and Yang Xiufang escaped using righteous thoughts.

During the afternoon on September 24, personnel from Ning County Police Department, Jiao Village Police Station and Xiaojin Police Station searched Huiqin's house. They pried open all the trunks and confiscated some Falun Gong materials. Later, they went to search Yang Xiufang's house and took her away. Further details on her are unknown.

11. [Chongqing] Six Falun Gong Practitioners in Dadukou District Recently Arrested

During the afternoon of September 24, 2005, over ten policemen from Dadukou District illegally broke in through the windows and arrested practitioner Ms. Chen Tingfen and her daughter Ms. Chen Mengchun at their home. They searched the house and confiscated Falun Gong books and truth-clarifying materials. Other practitioners were arrested and their houses searched, including the Huang Guangming couple, Zhang Zhengwei, and Deng Yangsen, who is over 60 years old. Currently, six practitioners are being detained at Dadukou District Detention Center.

Other units who participated in the persecution were Yuejin Village Police Station, Chunhui Road Police Station, Xinshan Village Police Station, the street residence committees and secret agents of the No. 1 Section of the District Police Department.

12. [Anhui Province] Persecution of Li Cuifeng and Her Family

On September 24, 2004, personnel from Hefei City National Security Team arrested practitioner Li Cuifeng at a materials production site in Fuyang City and sent her to a forced labor camp. On September 13, 2005, personnel from the Linquan County 610 Office and the Tanpeng Police Station arrested her husband, practitioner Zhao Yunguang, and her father-in-law, practitioner Zhao Chongyun, who is in his 80s. Their two children, a 14-year old son and a 12-year old daughter, could not go to school. Work on the house, which is half-way through construction, had to be suspended. When the police went to arrest them, they even confiscated some materials for house construction. They were also fined.

13. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Three Practitioners' Houses Ransacked and Two Practitioners Arrested

It was reported that recently three practitioners' houses were ransacked and two practitioners were arrested.

Practitioner Ms. Zhan Guirong is an employee of Mudanjiang City Engine Factory. At 10:00 p.m. on September 21, 2005 personnel from the Hailin Police Department and Qianjin Police Station arrested and detained her in Hailin City.

At 7:00 a.m. on September 23, 2005, several officers from Mudianjiang City Police Department pried open the door of practitioner Ms. Zhang Ping's house when she and her mother were sleeping. Policemen broke into their house, broke the windows, and arrested Zhang Ping. They also confiscated a printer and some truth-clarifying materials.

Mudanjiang City Police Department: 86-453-6282222
Political and Security Team of the City Police Department: 86-453-6282523

1. Eleven Practitioners Abducted and Their Homes Ransacked

Beginning at dawn on September 6, 2005, the Hebei Province Police Office, the Shijiazhuang City Police Department, the Hebei Province 610 Office, and associated police stations dispatched a large number of police and remote-monitoring vans to simultaneously arrest eleven practitioners in three major districts in Shijiazhuang City. They also ransacked the practitioners' homes. It was heard that this action was reported as a major case to the Police Ministry. The practitioners arrested included Zhao Chunlong and his son and Wang Ruoe and others.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/10/110115.html

2. Practitioners Ms. Wang Caiqing and Ms. Cao Airong in Qingyang City, Gansu Province Were Illegally Sentenced

In Qingyang City the police arrested Ms. Wang Caiqin, 44, and Ms. Cao Airong, 41, along with six other practitioners, at the home of local practitioner Cao Liping on the evening of October 30, 2004. The police then ransacked their homes and fined them 200 yuan each. Ms. Wang was brutally tortured by the police during the investigation. On August 10, 2005, Qingyang City Municipal Court sentenced Ms. Wang to four years in prison and Ms. Cao to two years in prison. They are both in the Xifeng District Detention Center.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/10/110146.html

The First Prison in Hebei Province is notorious for its persecution of Falun Gong. Because the prison authorities block all information, it is very difficult to obtain details about the torturing of Falun Gong practitioners held there. Many practitioners have not been allowed to meet with their families, even after several years of detention. Practitioner Li Jun from Zhangjiakou City was illegally detained for more than one year. His family went to visit him seven times, each time traveling over 1,000 miles. They have spent a few thousand yuan over the year on travel expenses, yet they were never allowed to meet with Li Jun.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/30/111512.html

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying From Shanghai Abducted Again

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying from Shanghai was twice detained and held in a forced labor camp. She was tortured until she was at the brink of death. At around 9:00 a.m. on September 24, 2005, one year after Zhang Ying escaped from a labor camp and brainwashing class, she was abducted again by personnel from the local 610 Office, and is currently being held at the Baoshan District Detention Center. This is the third time Zhang Ying has been abducted.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/30/111488.html