The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- November 9, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

The lawless government officials and the police often extort money from Falun Gong practitioners. They lay off the practitioners, withhold their bonuses and salary, extort money and ransack their homes. Financial deprivation of Falun Gong practitioners held at Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp is even more outrageous.

In late 2001, the labor camp made a rule that each detainee must pay 100 yuan, claiming that the money is used to buy military-style bedding, which the detainee will use and which they can take with them upon release. They said that if the labor camp keeps the bedding, the detainee will get 100 yuan back. The reality is, the detainees are not allowed to use the bedding and are forced to fold it in military style and put it on the bed each morning to maintain the uniformity of the room. Every night the bedding was stored in an appointed corner to maintain its shape. Each bedding set costs 70 yuan at most, which means the labor camp authorities make at least 30 yuan profit from each bedding set, or a total of 15,000 yuan from 500 bedding sets for the whole labor camp. Moreover, the detainees are not allowed to take the bedding with them when they leave, and they never receive a refund. The labor camp keeps the bedding and resells them to newly arrived detainees, again charging 100 yuan for each bedding set.

The labor camp was moved to a new location next to the old site. The old site was "rented" to underground factories that are not licensed and don't pay any taxes. The labor camp forces detainees to do slave labor for these factories and makes money off them. Quite likely, labor camp authorities or their acquaintances are the owners of these factories. The labor camp colludes with the police and factory owners to force Falun Gong practitioners to work in these factories, folding paper toilet seat covers and working with leather. The print shop exploits the highest number of Falun Gong practitioners. The factory owners are eager to take advantage of this cheap labor. The labor camp authorities collect all of the workers' wages.

There is a small canteen in labor camp. It sells nothing but pirated, expired and low quality products priced very high.

The Trial Implementation Methods for Reeducation through Labor and other related laws state that, "Labor camp detainees enjoy the sanctity of personal and property rights, and corporal punishment of persons under labor reeducation is forbidden." These rules, however, are nonexistent at the labor camp, as the guards treat the detainees like working cattle, whom they can insult and hit at will. If a detainee bribes the guards, he will receive different treatment. If he buys a box of cigarettes for a guard, he will be treated humanely for one day, but the guard will turn on him if another box of cigarettes or other "gifts" are not offered the next day.

The labor camp authorities have the following price schedule for sentence reduction: detainees can buy a one-month sentence reduction for 1,000 yuan; a 20-day sentence reduction for 600 yuan, and for 300 yuan, they can be excused from doing work. The sentence reductions at the No. 1 and No. 2 Divisions didn't sell; although each division has two quotas a year, each one is a three-month sentence reduction, because the detainees in those two divisions don't have the money to pay any bribes. In the end, they offered sentence reductions for a price of 1,000 yuan, and the division head pocketed the money.

Camp director Wang Yanwei did not do anything positive for the detainees, even after taking money from them. In 2001 he extorted over 20,000 yuan from a detainee. Each detainee is required to pay 100 yuan on arrival. They are told that the money will be returned when they leave the labor camp. Guo, a convicted thief, went to ask for his money on the day of his release. The guard said to him, "So, you don't want to leave here then?" They didn't release him until almost closing time in the afternoon. Guo again went to the guard who asked him, "Do you still want your money back?" Guo answered, "No." He was immediately released.

In each division there is one detainee assigned to answer to the division head and the guards. To obtain this coveted position, this detainee must pay 1,000 yuan and he must be very clever and obedient. The class and cell leaders also have people waiting on them, as there is a strict hierarchy at the labor camp. Sometimes the guards don't want to go to the dining room to eat, so their "servants" collect sausages and canned food from other detainees. They punish other detainees if they refuse to give up their food. They even take instant noodles and cigarettes from the detainees. In the evening, the guards on duty drink and gamble and order the detainee on duty to keep a lookout for their superiors for them. Once the superior caught the guards gambling; afterwards the detainee lookout on duty was savagely beaten and humiliated.

In late 2003, the guards extended the sentence of determined Falun Gong practitioners. After the additional sentence had expired, the labor camp authorities would no longer report to the National Security Bureau or the 610 Office and would extort large amounts of "guarantee money" from the practitioners, ranging from 3,000 yuan to over 10,000 yuan before they would release the practitioners. Liu Aiguo, head of the No. 7 Division, forced the detainees to curse Falun Gong and Master each day; those who refused would be transferred to another division, while those who gave him money would be allowed to stay. He not only persecuted the practitioners but also persecuted their families. Practitioner Zang Cheng's sister sells flowers and is very poor. The labor camp sent Liu Aiguo to buy flowers. Liu Aiguo went to Zang Cheng's family, lied to them saying that Zang Cheng would be released ahead of time and extorted over 500 yuan from them. There are countless other extortion cases at the labor camp.

All of the practitioners illegally held at Chaoyanggou Labor Camp are forced to do slave labor, including on holidays and weekends. They do not receive a penny for their toil. This is a violation of Decision of the State Council Regarding the Question of Reeducation Through Labor of 1957. In April 2001, the labor camp authorities forced the practitioners to do dangerous and harmful work. Detainees from Division 2 worked at a flooring factory, where they inhaled lots of plastics fumes without any protection. The practitioners did not have enough food and were forced to do long-term labor. When they loaded and unloaded PVC raw material, each person had to carry bags weighing about 50 kg [110 lbs] and lay the bags in a neat and orderly pile. The practitioners sweated profusely and panted heavily, while the guards and head inmates screamed at them.

Between 2001 and 2002, the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp authorities compelled Falun Gong practitioners to dig and carry soil to provide raw material for the brick factory. Four groups, each consisting of seven people, were put to work. One person in each group had to push the one-ton cart while other people dug the earth. One cart carries about 1.5 ton of soil; at the quickest, the cart can make a round trip in one minute. About 800 carts of soil are transported each day. A giant hole was left by Falun Gong practitioners and inmates who were forced to dig the soil.

Some practitioners have been reduced to skin and bones. The work environment around the brick factory outside the No. 4 Division was terrible. The so-called factory is an open field, and a dozen piles of soil provide the raw materials for the factory. There were sieves placed around the soil piles and people sifted the soil. They would be cursed and beaten if they were slow. Some people pushed carts with soil and some pushed carts with hollow bricks. They had to run while pushing the carts. The practitioners were forced to work for ten hours and run about 10,000 meters [about 6.2 miles] a day. The intensity of work far exceeds an average person's physical tolerance. The equipment is outmoded and the sweltering heat added to the suffering. Soil particles and dust floated in the air. The practitioners' eyelids, noses, ears and bodies were covered in soil. The guards and inmates sarcastically called this scene "desert storm."

Due to long-term exposure to heat, the practitioners' skin turned black; the skin on their back cracked open and emitted stabbing pain. Their hands were covered with calluses that cracked open, so painful that they could not touch water. Their families were heartbroken when they met on visiting days. The guards often threatened the practitioners' families and forced them to pressure the practitioners to make them give up their belief in Falun Gong.

The No. 6 Division mostly engaged in agricultural work. The detainees almost never had a break. They worked in the fields, rain or shine. On top of slave labor, Falun Gong practitioners also had to endure torture, including the water dungeon, severe and hunger and scabies.

The labor camp authorities forced the practitioners to work as many as 12 hours a day as punishment under the persecution. Division 3 took paper-processing work, making a paper liner that is placed on toilet seats. This product is exported to Southeast Asia or to Western countries. To make more money, there are no breaks, including weekends, for the workers, aside from the days when the raw material ran out or when the equipment broke down. When the workload increased, even the workers' lunch break was taken away, and they were forced to work all day long, except for quickly eating three meals. Because one has to keep count when folding the paper liners, the practitioners feel dizzy and weak after a day of work.

The intensity of labor continuously increased, and most of the time the guards pressured, threatened or cursed the practitioners. In order to increase the number of products made, the practitioners were forced to work during state holidays including the seven-day National Holiday break starting from October 1. On October 2, officials from Changchun City Judicial Bureau came to inspect work. The guards said to the practitioners, "If the officials ask why you are working during the holidays you must answer, 'We volunteered.'"

The Chaoyanggou Labor Camp authorities wanted the labor camp to be promoted to a bureau-level labor camp by the end of 2002. The authorities therefore proposed to take all measures to ensure that this promotion could be obtained. Regulating the administration is an essential criterion for promotion, but in fact the administration at this labor camp is chaotic and lawless, so the authorities made false records. For example, the detainees' case file is the main component of administration work/record keeping in the labor camp. To assure a promotion, the labor camp authorities organized a group of educated detainees to alter all of the existing case files. Starting from the day the detainee entered the labor camp, the authorities ordered that details be changed or rewritten to present the labor camp in a favorable light. The officials and assigned inmates worked around the clock to embellish the records and make them look good.

The labor camp dining hall cooked meat and chicken when officials came to inspect. When the officials left, the same vegetable and carrot soup would return, yet the officially published menu would still include a sumptuous meal. Detainees are required to memorize the menu in order to "correctly" answer the inspection officials, or they would receive a beating afterwards. Once the inspecting officials saw a beating take place on a monitor screen. They asked camp head Wang Yanwei and official Long, "What's going on here?" Wang Yanwei and Long answered, "They are just playing."

The labor camp also established an Education Section and a Collaborators' Group to brainwash determined Falun Gong practitioners. When TV reporters came to videotape or someone came to visit the labor camp, the authorities would assign certain inmates or collaborators and teach them a set of answers they would give to the visitors while promising them sentence reduction. They ordered the inmates and collaborators to pose as Falun Gong practitioners to deceive the visitors.

The labor camp strictly forbids Falun Gong practitioners from contacting the outside. They withheld and opened practitioners' letters and packages at will, and didn't allow the practitioners any legal rights. They are limited to a few items of food and clothing they can receive from their families, and sometimes family visits are not allowed.

During the 2005 Chinese New Year, a leadership transfer took place at the labor camp. Wang Xiaoming became the new director of the labor camp. He proposed "Six Zeroes" during his New Year's speech, including, "zero death" and "zero escape." The No. 4 Division, the Strictly Controlled Division and the former No. 2 Division led this Six Zeroes movement. Political head Chen Zhigui and guard Li Jun were most vicious. They used the interrogation room as a torture chamber to torment and abuse Falun Gong practitioners. Between March 30, 2005 and May 17, 2005, 18 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured. Each day the electric batons and the practitioners' screaming could be heard. Each practitioner walked into the room but had to be carried out. They did not spare practitioners in poor health, including practitioner Shao Zhenkun who was diagnosed with pleurisy and pulmonary edema, or excessive fluid in his chest that weighed about 2 kg [4.4 lbs], and practitioner Sun Changping who had a protruded spinal disc and needed help walking. They were handcuffed and hung up and were tortured day and night. Practitioners who gave up Falun Gong and later returned to Falun Gong practice were tortured even more severely; practitioners Xiao Ming, Zhao Xianjun and Xu Qingwu were tortured until their bodies were covered in wounds.

Chaoyanggou Labor Camp is nothing more than a concentration camp where Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to savage abuse.

Mr. Li Peiyi from Linquan County, Anhui Province was 68 years old. The 610 Office persecuted him and detained him in a brainwashing center four times, tortured him in a mental hospital once, and detained him in a detention center twice. Mr. Li died in March 2005.

Mr. Li Peiyi lived in Yangqiao Town, Linquan County. Before he practiced Falun Gong, he suffered from septicemia and trifacial neuralgia. For a long time, he was not able to cure his diseases. After he started practicing Falun Gong in 1998, all of his diseases were gone without treatment. He couldn't describe his joy.

After the Chinese Communist Party and Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Li sold his wheat to pay for travel expenses and went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. He was arrested, taken back to Lianquan, and sent to a labor camp in Hefei city, Anhui Province. The labor camp refused to accept him because of his old age. The police extorted more than 5,000 yuan from him before releasing him.

After he returned home, the Linquan 610 Office arrested him and persecuted him in a brainwashing center four times, tortured him in a mental hospital once, and detained him in a detention center twice. The Linquan 610 Office even lied about his age, saying he was 58 years old instead of 66 years old in order to sentence him.

Mr. Li Peiyi was nearly 70 years old. After so much harassment, detention and torture, he was sent home in an ambulance. When he just began to recover, the police from the Yangqiao Police Station went back to harass him twice. Mr. Li Peiyi died in March 2005.

The police in Wanjia Labor Camp are still persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The police have secretly formulated three slogans to slander Falun Gong. The practitioners illegally imprisoned there are forced to recite these slogans or they will be persecuted.

1. On July 15, Ms. Liu Shuzhen refused to recite the slanderous slogans. Police officer Li Changjie pulled her to an empty room and slapped her six times while cursing her. On July 28, Ms. Liu was again pulled to an empty room by police officer Zhao Yuqing to be tortured. She had declared the Three Statements she had written earlier null and void. Zhao Yuqing slapped her three times and tied her hands with ropes. Officer Zhao pulled Ms. Liu to walk very fast and then suddenly released the ropes so that Ms. Liu would tumble and fall heavily onto the ground. Ms. Liu was tortured like this repeatedly. On August 8, police officer Jia Cuiyan reproved Ms. Liu Shuzhen, who had solemnly declared that the statements she had written earlier were null and void. Police officer Jia Cuiyan called her outside and handed her to Police Chief Yao Fuchang. Police Chief Yao took Ms. Liu to an empty room where he put his hands all over her body and then beat her all over, including her back and legs, with electric batons that left her bruised and scarred. Later, Yao also slapped Ms. Liu twice.

2. On August 16, practitioner Ms. Fu Shuxian went to the police chief to discuss the issue of her term being illegally extended by half a year. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Chief Wu Hongxun stomped on her five to six times. Female police officer Liu Xianyu also kicked Ms. Fu once.

3. Ms. Yan Tingzhen, who worked in Harbin in 2005, was illegally sent to the forced labor camp. Since she did not write the Three Statements, on July 22 she was punished and forced to squat down in the same spot the size of a brick from 5 a.m. until midnight. The punishment continued until August 1. When she still did not write the Three Statements, she was further punished by being made to sit on an iron chair until August 3.

4. On July 28, Ms. Song Wenjuan was illegally sent to the labor camp for refusing to write the Three Statements. She was also punished by being forced to squat along with Yan Tingzhen. On August 1, she was forced to sit on the iron chair. On August 3, Ms. Song was shocked twice with electric batons by Police Chief Yao Fuchang for refusing to write the Three Statements.

5. On the morning of August 19, Ms. Song Guiqin and Ms. Fu Shuxian refused to recite the slanderous slogans. Police officer Zhou Muqi punched Ms. Song Guiqin in the stomach with his fist in public and then pulled her to an empty room, where police officer Liu Xianyu slapped her once and cursed her violently. She was then forced to squat the entire day.

6. On the morning of August 20, Ms. Song Guiqin and Ms. Liu Shuzhen refused to recite the slanderous slogans. Police officer Yu Fangli brutally attacked Ms. Liu Shuzhen and slapped her seven or eight times. He punished Ms. Song by forcing her to squat in an area the size of a brick.

Ms. Zhang Yunlan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Liuyang City, Hunan Province, was illegally sentenced to two years of imprisonment for clarifying the truth in February 2004 and was imprisoned in the notorious Baimalong Forced Labor Camp. In a single year, she was tortured to such an extent that she began to become mentally disoriented. Even after Ms. Zhang was released for medical treatment, the 610 Office coerced her son into spying on her and torturing her. Ms. Zhang Yunlan tragically passed away in October 2005.

Ms. Zhang Yunlan, 52 years old, was a practitioner in Jinpan Village, Yonghe Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province. She had suffered from many diseases, but they were all cured after she began practicing Falun Gong in 1998.

In February 2004, while distributing truth clarification materials in her hometown of Liuyang City, people who were deceived by slanderous propaganda reported her to the authorities and she was illegally arrested. She was imprisoned at the Baxianqiao Detention Center in Liuyang City. On February 20, Ms. Zhang was moved to the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhong City and sentenced to two years of imprisonment.

Due to her perseverance in Falun Gong's teachings of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she suffered extremely cruel torture, which was reported on the Clearwisdom website on August 3, 2005. She was forced to stand upright for 35 days, denied sleep, walking, or anything to lean on for support. Her thighs and calves became severely swollen. During those 35 days she only slept three nights, and her endurance was stretched to the limit.

When the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp guards force-feed practitioners who go on hunger strikes to protest the persecution, they often add nerve-damaging drugs to the food or liquid injected into the victims' bodies, causing them to become mentally disoriented, to lose consciousness, to become blind, or to be no longer able to remain balanced while standing or walking. After two years of torture at the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, Zou Wenyu from Pingjiang County, Yueyang City, could not recognize anyone, and Zou Ruxiang also suffered serious memory loss and walked sideways after being released.

Ms. Zhang also went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. Prison police force-fed her so brutally that she became mentally disoriented. She was released on April 30, 2005.

After returning home, the 610 Office forced her son to spy on her and torture her. Her son was made to sign an agreement to monitor his mother, and he collaborated with the 610 Office in committing evil deeds against her. For example, in order to prevent her from leaving the house, he only gave her two small bowls of rice each day, the first bowl after 2 p.m. He confiscated any money that other practitioners gave his mother, and he even physically assaulted his mother by kicking her, causing her knee to become so severely swollen that she could not squat down for an entire week.

After suffering such great trauma in the forced labor camp, her son's mistreatment after she returned home only compounded her physical and emotional pain, and her physical condition deteriorated drastically. Finally, in October 2005, Ms. Zhang Yunlan was knocked down and killed by a car while out alone.

After Ms. Zhang's death, instead of expressing remorse for their heinous deeds, the Yueyang 610 Office began releasing propaganda that Zhang Yunlan had died as a result of practicing Falun Gong, a blatant attempt to instigate hatred toward Falun Gong. On one occasion, an older lady who had known Zhang Yunlan encountered a group of people who had been manipulated by the lies talking about the deceased practitioner. She stood up and said, "What you are saying is wrong. Before Zhang Yunlan was imprisoned, she had a very healthy body, she was very amiable, and she conducted herself elegantly and dressed neatly. By the time she was released from the labor camp, she had lost her sanity. The labor camp was responsible for her problems." After listening to her words, the crowd realized that the authorities had been maliciously slandering Falun Gong.

Related telephone number:

Liuyang City Government: 86-731-3502868

Around 7 a.m. on August 24, Jilin City National Security Group 3 leader Di Shigang, policeman Xu Luqing from Shuangji Police Station in Changyi District, Jilin City and others broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Lijuan. On August 25, Ms. Yang's home was ransacked and she was illegally arrested and taken to the nearby Guoyao Police Vice Squad for interrogation and torture lasting more than 30 hours, (ending at 1 p.m.). Next she was sent to the 3rd Detention Center in Jilin City. At 2 p.m. on September 23, the Shuangji Police Station, located in Changyi District, Jilin City, sent her to the Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province, where she was sentenced to one year and six months in a forced labor camp

At 7 a.m. on August 24, four police officers, including Di Shigang, Xu Luqing and a policewoman, tricked Yang Ms. Yang's mother into opening the door. Di Shigang then pointed at his badge and screamed at the 81 year-old lady, "Remember my name! I am Di Shigang, and I am the one who arrested your daughter!"

The police removed Falun Gong books, truth clarifying pamphlets, a digital camera, six MP3 players, five PDAs, and 1,000 yuan in cash. When Yang's mother tried to take her money back from the police, a female deputy seized it back from her even though she had pleaded for it, explaining that it was her livelihood. The police did not give her any receipt for the personal property they seized.

The police forced Yang Lijuan to go with them to the nearby Guoyao Vice Squad office without allowing her to take a coat. They interrogated and tortured her on the 2nd floor by first pouring mustard solution into her mouth for 5-6 hours before they went to lunch. They resumed torturing her after returning from lunch, including forcing her to sit on a steel chair, handcuffing her behind the back with one arm wrapped over her shoulder (resulting in a permanent scar as thick as a little finger), pulling her hair, slapping her face, using an electric baton to shock her face (resulting in scabs on her face for months afterwards), pressing her ankle with wooden sticks, etc. Yang Lijuan was overwhelmed by the torture and suffered a mental breakdown.

After a month of detention, her family could see that she had suffered a great deal of mental stress. The hoodlums sent Ms. Yang to the 3rd Detention Center in Jilin City at 1 p.m. on August 25. At 2 p.m. on September 23, she was transferred to Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province for one year and six months of forced labor.

Policeman Xu Luqing participated in the abduction, ransacking, torture and interrogation operations against Ms. Yang. He even deceived her family by telling them that Ms. Yang would be released, while in fact he was preparing to transfer her to Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp.

Between August 25 and September 23, Ms. Yang's parents, in their 80's, visited all the relevant authorities. They appealed to many people and departments for help, including Di Shigang, people at the 3rd Detention Center in Jilin City, the Shuangji Police Station, and Yang Jianxin at the Changyi District Police Department. All of their appeals were met with harsh replies and cruel treatment. The Shuangji Police Station even lied to them, saying that Ms. Yang would be released on September 25, even though they had already sentenced Ms. Yang to one year and six months in a labor camp at 2 p.m. on September 23.

After Ms. Yang's family learned that she had been sentenced to the labor camp, they went to Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp to visit her. They found out that Ms. Yang, who used to be a good singer and dancer, appeared to be mentally unstable; her hair was cut very short and her eyes were staring into space. This state was the result of extensive torture, brainwashing and sleep deprivation. One of the deputies named Wang claimed that Ms. Yang was mentally unstable, and nobody wanted to get close to her. Even though Ms. Yang had only one daughter, she told others that she had two children. Her condition improved after her family visited her again.

The sentencing documents handed to Ms Yang's family by the Shuangji Police Station show that the police first abducted her, then ransacked her home and forged evidence. Deputies who participated in the operation took possession of Ms. Yang's personal property, including one digital camera, five PDAs, six MP3 players and about 1,000 yuan in cash.

(Correction: Due to the severe persecution still ongoing in China as well as the information blockade, an earlier report citing the torture of Ms. Yang by nailing bamboo stick underneath her fingernails and hanging her by her thumbs was found to be incorrect after further verification.)

Mr. Tang Xiangshui, fifty-nine years old, was an automobile engineer at the Lanjian Mine, a Mining Company affiliated with the Panzhihua Steel Limited Corporation, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1998 and recovered from multiple diseases. During his trip to Yunnan Province in December 1999, the police searched his body and packages at the Kunming Train Station and confiscated his Falun Gong books and exercise tapes. They roughly handcuffed him, detained him, and cruelly persecuted him. Later, they notified the Public Security Department at his workplace to take him back and continue to persecute him. The Public Security Department extorted five hundred yuan from him, threatened him, forced him to write a guarantee statement, searched his home and confiscated all his audiotapes. Tang persisted in his practice. The staff of the Public Security Department at his workplace came to his house and fiercely pounded on the door. They harassed him for an extended period and monitored his phone conversations. Tang's body and mind were severely harmed and his illnesses recurred. Tang Xiangshui passed away on the morning of July 6, 2004.

Ms. Wang Yuzhen, seventy-four years old, was a practitioner in the Special Steel Factory, Shapingba District, Chongqing City. Her husband, Mao Fengcai, suffered from severe cerebral thrombosis in 1998. The elderly couple began practicing Falun Gong at the same time, when Mao Fengcai had to rely on other people's support in order to learn the Fa. Soon after beginning to practice, Mao became well. After July 22, 1999 however, Mao dared not practice Falun Gong any longer. After that his illnesses recurred and he often had to take medication or have transfusions. In 2001, police from the Zhanjiaxi Police Station went to their home to arrest Wang Yuzhen. Because of some errors about the name and the age, the arrest was unsuccessful. The elderly couple lived in fear, however, and Wang Yuzhen passed away in October 2005.

Ms. Liu Derong, seventy years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner at the Special Steel Factory, Shapingba District, Chongqing City. She suffered from multiple diseases in the past. She learned many types of qigong but her physical condition did not improve. After learning Falun Gong, all her diseases disappeared. After July 20, 1999, being afraid of the persecution, she dared not practice Falun Gong in an open, aboveboard and dignified manner. Her physical condition worsened gradually and she passed away in 2005.

Ms. Wang Fang, forty years old, lived at the Jialing Factory, Shapingba District, Chongqing City. She was going to Beijing with other practitioners to appeal for Falun Gong in December 2000 and was arrested by the security guards from Jialing Factory as soon as she got to the Shapingba Train Station. She was detained for over three months. Not only did she suffer from different kinds of physical punishment by the Public Security staff and monitored by factory leaders and assistants, but she also was kicked and beaten by her husband. She was released after being extorted out of three thousand "yuan". Soon after, while she was clarifying the truth, unlawful people abducted her to a brainwashing center and persecuted her. Her physical condition deteriorated after that and she passed away in September 2002.

Mr. Yu Shujin from Yongji County is in his 50s. He was arrested several times before and suffered brutal tortures. On May 25, 2005, he was again arrested in Shulan City, Jilin Province, and held at the Shulan City Detention Center. He was fed with mustard oil and suffered all kinds of other excruciating tortures there. As a result, he was diagnosed with ascites due to a dysfunctional liver and had a hugely swollen abdomen. Even in this condition, the authorities sentenced him to 12 years of imprisonment and sent him to Tiebei Prison in Changchun City. Recently, personnel from the prison told Yu Shujin's family that his life is in peril. Mr. Yu's family members requested that he be bailed out for hospitalization, but the prison still won't release him.

2. [Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Ms. Pan Jing Again

Practitioner Ms. Pan Jing from Dandong City was previously held at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where she staged a hunger strike there. One year after she was released, during noontime on October 19, 2005, four or five plainclothes policemen broke into Ms. Pan's home and took her away. She is presently being held at the Erjie Police Station.

Telephone number for the Erjie Police Station: 86-415-2138110.

3. [Meihekou City, Jilin Province] Personnel from the National Security Team and the 610 Office Stake Out Practitioner Mr. Qu Hongjie's Home in an Attempt to Arrest Practitioners

On October 10, 2005, several persons from the Meihekou City National Security Team and from the 610 Office staked out practitioner Mr. Qu Hongjie's home and arrested Ms. Yang Fenglan, Ms. Li Yahuan, Ms. Zhang and Qu Hongjie himself. The four practitioners are now being held at the Meihekou City Detention Center. They also ransacked Mr. Qu's home. One of the practitioners has since been released while the remaining three are still in detention.

4. [Yunfu City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Ou Suhong Arrested While Posting Falun Gong Truth-Clarifying Information

On the evening of October 22, 2005, police arrested practitioner Ms. Ou Suhong while she was posting Falun Gong information requesting the release of fellow practitioners from Yufu City. At present she is being held at the Yunfu City Detention Center.

Responsible person: Cheng Huojie, instructor from the Political & Security Section, the Yuncheng District Police Department, Yunfu City. Home phone: 86-766-8830656.

5. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Mr. Pan Gang Tortured in a Small Cell For the Fourth Time

Practitioner Mr. Pan Gang, over 40 years old, is an employee at the Nongan County Revenue Department. In collusion with Nongan police authorities, his work unit sent him into the No. 2 Division at the Weizigou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City because he requested to be reinstated in his job.

At the beginning of October 2005, Mr. Pan was locked in a small cell for the fourth time for clarifying the truth and shouting, "Falun Dafa is great." He was handcuffed and hung up. He was still in the small cell on October 24. It was reported that the first time Mr. Pan was locked in the small cell was because he refused to wear the prison uniform. The second time was because he refused to write the "five statements," and the third time was because he protested the labor camp's denying him family visits.

6. [Mengyin County, Shandong Province] Mr. Ji Fengjia Detained Over One Month

Practitioner Mr. Ji Fengjia works at the Mengyin County Meat Processing Factory. During the night on September 20, 2005, the county's 610 Office staff arrested him from home and put him into a brainwashing center because he refused to watch a Falun Gong slandering and defaming video. He has so far been detained for over one month.

People chiefly responsible:
Li Youcheng, the county Political and Judiciary Committee chief: 86-539-4272923 (Office)
Cui Huadong, the county 610 Office head: 86-539-4811681 (Office), 86-539-4836789 (Home)

7. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Zuo Chengyan Arrested from Home

On around October 17, 2005, when practitioner Ms. Zuo Chengyan from Tonghua City, Jilin Province, was at home, several lawless policemen broke into her house. They searched for and found some Falun Gong books and materials and arrested Ms. Zuo. She is presently being held at the Changliu Detention Center.

8. [Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province] List of Names of Practitioners Sentenced to Forced Labor

Some practitioners from Hegang City are being detained at the Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp. They include:

Ms. Ren Xiuyun, 42 years old, Nanshan District
Ms. Gao Ying, 44 years old, Yongli Village, Xinhua Town
Ms. Ding Liyun, 37 years old, Xing'an District
Ms. Sun Fengling, 41 years old, Xingshan District
Ms. Li Yulan, 43 years old, Nanshan District
Ms. Yu Xiuqin, 62 years old, Dongshan District
Ms. Gao Yuwen, 62 years old, Shuyuan Village, Dongshan District
Ms. Xin Haiyan, 56 years old, Dongshan District
Ms. Wang Lizhen, 55 years old, Xingshan District
Ms. Wang Fengling, 62 years old, Dongshan District
Ms. Hu Aiqin, 64 years old, Dongshan District
Ms. Zhai Shuqin
Ms. Wang Yuqing
Ms. Run Guofeng

Chen Zhongwei, 50 years old, currently is the party secretary of the Weiningying Forced Labor Camp. He is also the head of the local 610 Office in Benxi City. On September 30, 2005, three policemen, under his direction, beat a middle-aged woman who came to visit her relative, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dandong. It was a rainy day. They knocked her down into the mud and then arrested her. They took her to the No. 1 Security Guard Office and handcuffed her to the window bars.

http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/17/112592.html

2. Mr. Li Kun, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Maoming, Is Being Persecuted in the Guangdong Yangjiang Prison

In January 2002, the police arrested Mr. Li Kun, a practitioner from Maoming because he was making Falun Gong truth clarification materials. When questioning Mr. Li, Peng Jian, the sector chief of the police department, ordered police officers to mercilessly beat him until he lost consciousness. They later sentenced Mr. Li to a 14-year term and sent him to the Yangjiang Prison. Mr. Li steadfastly maintains his belief in Falun Gong and never compromises about it. After persecuting him for three years, they still cannot make him renounce his belief. Not long ago, some of the police officers instructed several inmates to forcefully hold down Mr. Li's hand to compel him to write some disrespectful remarks about Teacher and Falun Gong, and then they brutally tortured him.

http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/17/112577.html