Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Mr. Li Wenxiang of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province was brutally persecuted several times. In June, 2003 he was "illegally arrested" and taken to Lengshuitan Detention Center after spending two years in a forced labor camp. He was close to death while he was there. He died at 6:00 p.m. on October 17, 2005.

Mr. Li Wenxiang, 55, worked at the Yongzhou City Lengshuitan Refractory Material Factory. After he started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 he became very healthy. He followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and was a good person. He had a peaceful family life. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, he often told people the facts about Falun Gong. In 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and he was subsequently tortured by police. They burned his buttocks with electric batons, beat him and fractured his skull, and he lost consciousness.

On March 3, 2003 he was arrested at his home by police because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor. After many tortures in Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp of Changsha City, he was released in May 2003.

In late June 2003 many banners with the words "Falun Dafa is good" were displayed in Yongzhou City. Yongzhou City Police Department sent out many officers to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. They broke into Mr. Li's home, arrested him and took him to Lengshuitan Detention Center. No one was allowed to visit him. His family members were not allowed to give him clothes. All information was blocked. On August 20, 2003 his family members finally saw him. Mr. Li was emaciated. His body was swollen, and he could barely walk. He was on the verge of death.

After ten months he was sentenced to three years of forced labor. They planned to send him to a forced labor camp in Changde City, Hunan Province, but because he was in very poor health, in danger of dying, they did not send him to the labor camp. Later blood clots were found in his brain and he was released for medical treatment. He was fired by his employer, and his wife was forced to divorce him. He died at 6:00 p.m. on October 17, 2005.

The people directly accountable for persecuting Li Wenxiang:

Deng Sanlong, Deputy Party Secretary of the City Committee in charge of persecuting Falun Gong
Feng Qiaoqiao, Deng Sanlong's wife, head of the Passport Section in the Yongzhou City Police Department
Jiang Yuansheng, director of the local 610 Office

Yang Xiaoping, Chief of Lengshuitan Police Department: 86-139-74616921 (mobile)

Huang Caisheng, Party Secretary of Lengshuitan Political and Judiciary
Committee: 86-133-27266368 (mobile), 86-746-6199010
Li Xianyu and Xu Yi, from the 610 Office at Yongzhou Police Department
Long Menghua, Zhou Chuping and Feng Defu, Political Security Section of Lengshuitan Police Department, Postal code: 425000

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/10/27/113231.html

Daqing City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tang Zengye was illegally arrested on September 23, 2005, and is currently being held in police custody at Daqing Detention Center. She has vomited blood due to the torture she suffered.

On September 23, 2005, Daqing City police officers seized more than 30 practitioners. They sent the women to Daqing Detention Center and most of them were tortured. Since Tang Zengye's arrest, policemen from the provincial police department have tortured her, confined her to a metal chair, and cuffed her hands and feet to hoops so that she could not move. The police also cruelly beat her and incited prisoners to beat her.

Tang Zengye has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The police barbarically force-feed her daily, while prisoners slap her face and smash her head against a metal basin. The police and prisoners berate her constantly. Daqing Detention Center killed practitioner Ms. Yang Yuhua by cruel force-feeding on May 12, 2005. Tang Zengye is now vomiting blood and is extremely weak from the torture.

The police spread the word that arrested practitioners can't be released even if they die inside the prison. Recently they have been plotting to send arrested practitioners to forced labor camps.

Units responsible for arresting Falun Gong practitioners:

(Note: For home or office phone numbers, dial country code + area code before the numbers. For cell phone numbers, dial country code without the area code before the numbers. Country code: 86, area code: 459)

1. Daqing Detention Center:
Du Zhenjiang, Director, 4617593, 4616098, 4667179(Home), 13936726888(Cell)
Bai Yunshan, Instructor, 4616090, 6256942(Home), 13059043155(Cell)
Feng Haibo, Associate Director, 4616162, 6211479(Home), 13089051888(Cell)
Yang Baomin, Associate Director, 4616159, 6686076(Home), 13836720062(Cell)
Dai Jun, 4616163, 6367096(Home), 13359833223(Cell)
Li Shuang, 4616163, 4612656(Home), 13304865799(Cell)
Sun Yingnan, 4616163, 6378776(Home), 13019082212(Cell)
Wu Fei, 4616163, 4192644(Home), 13069660508(Cell)
Chi Na, 4616100, 6680807(Home), 13059099339(Cell)

2. Daqing City Police Department
Cao Zhenhe, Commissar, 6373066, 6280888(Home),13329500002(Cell)
Lin Guoli, Deputy Director General, 6375026, 6986708(Home), 13329500003(Cell)
Liang Ximing, Deputy Director General, 6390005, 6390988(Home), 13329500004(Cell)
Wei Chunhua, Deputy Director General, 6398889, 6381983(Home), 13329500005(Cell)
Hao Dejiang, Deputy Director General, 6375029, 6381516(Home), 13329500006(Cell)
Liu Yong, Deputy Director General, 6374899, 6292999(Home), 13329500007(Cell)
Lan Yingjie, Deputy Director General, 6688059, 6689098(Home), 13329500008(Cell)
Wang Chunru, Politics Section Chief, 6368499, 4688828(Home), 13329500009(Cell)
Gao Zhenbo, Office Chief, 6683926(Home), 13329390299(Cell)

3. Daqing City National Security Bureau:
Lin Zhisheng, Director General, 6281231, 6688448(Home), 13604651999(Cell)
Wang Xiyan, secretary, 6181232, 4611878(Home), 13904591292(Cell)
Zhang Wanyu, Deputy Director General, 6181233, 6362878(Home), 13903690009(Cell)
Kang Jinlong, Deputy Director General, 6181234, 6283599(Home), 13804653333(Cell)
Zhang Wendong, Deputy Director General, 6181235, 6286716(Home), 13903693705(Cell)
Fax: 86-459-6181250

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/10/19/112755.html

Ms. Lu Fengling, a 35-year-old practitioner from Langfang City, Hebei Province, was illegally "arrested" in June 2001 and then given a 10-year sentence. She is being detained at Section 2 of the women's prison in Hebei Province. She is now on a hunger strike to protest her detention.

Before she learned about Falun Gong in 1996, Ms. Lu had severe psoriasis, which tormented her to the extent that she could not sleep at night. She tried so hard to save 200 yuan for treatment. However, a thief stole the money when she went to the hospital for medication. At that moment, she nearly broke down. Her hard life and the ordeal of her illness made her not want to live anymore.

Her elder sister told her that only Falun Gong could save her life. So Lu Fengling thought she would give it a try and started practicing. Her xinxing constantly improved based on the principle of Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance. Within six months she totally recovered from the severe psoriasis. Afterward, she never had the problem again.

On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin began his insane persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Lu wanted to let everyone know the facts about Falun Gong and let them know that Falun Dafa is good. She was detained again and again. On June 19, 2001, at around 9 p.m., Yang Hua from the city police station, Sun Xiwang from the operative team, and 20 to 30 police broke into her home and arrested her. They confiscated her TV set, tape recorder, Falun Gong books and other items. They stole over 4000 yuan in cash. They cooked eggs taken from the family cupboard and then stole the pan. Their outrageous behavior frightened Lu Fengling's daughter, an elementary student, who kept crying.

For nine days and nights the police interrogated Ms. Lu. They tried to force her to admit that she had led other people in preparing the Falun Gong materials, banners, and the loudspeakers in that district. The policeman interrogating her said that if she did not admit this, the police would continue to arrest practitioners. (By that time, they had already arrested over 30 people.) Under this pressure, Ms. Lu truly feared that other practitioners would be arrested. Whether or not she actually did it, she stated that she had led people and did it. Based on this admission, they gave her a ten-year sentence.

Ms. Lu was detained at Taihang Prison in Mengcheng City, Hebei Province, and suffered brutal torture. Because she refused to give up her belief, in 2004 she was transferred to Shijiazhuang Prison for further persecution. Ms. Lu is now on a hunger strike at the women's prison in Hebei Province to protest the illegal sentence imposed on her.

Mailing address of the Women's Prison in Hebei Province:

No.2 of Mailbox 55
Luquan City, Hebei Province
Zip Code: 050222
Phone Number of the No. 2 Section of the Female Prison: 86-311-83939783

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/21/112858.html

 Mr. Jia Qinggui, 59 years old, was a senior electrical engineer with the Lingyuan Steel Company in Liaoning Province. He started to practice Falun Gong in 1994 and benefited greatly from it. He went to Beijing to appeal on April 24 and October 24, 1999, to clarify the truth to the officials about Falun Gong. However, he was detained twice, fined 5,000 yuan, and sentenced to a labor camp for three years. He was laid off from his job in 1999 because he practices Falun Gong.Since his appeal on April 25, 1999, he has been constantly monitored, and his family harassed. There are often phone calls in the middle of the night to see if he is at home and to warn him not to leave home.On July 17, 1999, Mr. Jia was arrested at his workplace and detained in the local police department for 24 hours.On July 19, 1999, he was arrested at home and his home was searched. He was released after one month's detention and paying a 5,000-yuan fine in so-called "bail."On October 24, 1999, Mr. Jia was again arrested at the reception station of the China Government Office in Beijing. He was detained, his home was searched, and he was illegally sent to a labor camp for three years. He went on a hunger strike for 50 days in protest. At the end of 1999, he was sent back to the Lingyuan Detention Center from Chaoyang Forced Labor Camp. The authorities attempted to sentence him to prison but were unsuccessful after half a year, so they sent him back to labor camp.

At the end of 2000, Mr. Jia was sent to Fushun Forced Labor Camp to be persecuted. The police guards used all kinds of tactics to try to force him to give up Falun Gong but they were unsuccessful, so he was sent to a female team. The guards ordered collaborators to torture him. He was tortured to such an extreme that his head was swollen and painful, his face was gory and turned dark blue, and his eyes were congested and swollen shut. However, the collaborators still laughed at him. They threw him up high into the air and let him fall down to the ground, grabbed him by the head and smashed him into a wall, and deprived him of sleep. He could not see clearly, and he felt as if all of his internal organs were injured. After a collaborator inmate kicked him and bumped his head against the heater, Mr. Jia passed out. The police guards took him back to the male team for more torture, and he vomited blood. Mr. Jia wanted to check into the hospital, but the authorities told him to pay for it himself. They did not allow him to see the test results, telling him that he was not hurt. In 2001, they sent him to a new cell to be tortured.

After suffering through such a long period of torture, Mr. Jia Qinggui was very weak. When he bought lunch one day at the beginning of August 2001, he slipped on some rice soup that had been spilt on the floor and broke his left femur. He was taken to the clinic, where a guard twisted his thigh, causing him excruciating pain. One month later, he demanded to check in to a hospital. Again, he was not allowed to see the results, but he was allowed to recuperate at home.

Mr. Jia's left leg is now shorter than his right one and he cannot walk normally.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/12/112268.html

In June 2004, Sun Yan returned home after enduring three years of inhumane treatment. Her family also suffered greatly from the persecution. Her husband Lu Kaili went into exile. Her parents were in their 60's and lived on a meager pension. Her parents and sister both had severe illnesses due to anxiety and depression.

The perpetrators from the Dalian City National Security Division and from the Xinghua Street Police Station arrested Sun Yan six months after she returned home, when she had not yet fully recovered. On December 9, 2004, on her way to look for a job in the Paoya Neighborhood District, Sun Yan was stopped by a stranger who asked for her name. Sun Yan didn't answer him. Two other people went up to Sun Yan and pushed her into a car. They took her to the Dalian City National Security Division and later transferred her to the Xinghua Street Police Station. When her husband Lu Kaili went home at night, he saw the mess the police had left. Several officers from the Xinghua Street Police Station arrested him and took him to the Xinghua Street Police Station. Lu Kaili broke free at 5:00 a.m. the next morning.

On December 10, 2004, Sun Yan was sent to the Yaojia Detention Center and was held at Division 8. Guards Meng Jun and Sha Yin took turns monitoring her.

The police never notified or explained to Sun Yan's family about the ransacking of her home and about her arrest. Her family went to various government departments but could not get any information.

Investigation revealed that Sun Yan was arrested by Chen Xin, a deputy group head from the Dalian City National Security Division and by Yu Jian, Wang Zhiyue and Cao Dexu, officers from Xinghua Street Police Station. Officers Yu Jian, Cao Dexu and a few others later ransacked Sun Yan's home. When Sun Yan's family and friends confronted Yu Jian and Cao Dexu, they said, "The Ganjingzi Police Department is in charge of this case. We can't do anything about it."

Lian Zhanbo and Dou Kaibo are the heads of the Xinghua Street Police Station, and Ge Yunqing is the deputy head in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. When practitioners asked Ge Yunqing why he allowed his subordinates to violate the law by savagely beating practitioners, Ge Yunqing said, "I didn't see it." Police officer Dong Shiguo loudly proclaimed that he would closely follow the footsteps of the CCP and Jiang Zemin's villainous group. He beat many Falun Gong practitioners, including elderly people.

While Sun Yan was held at the Yaojia Detention Center, police officers Yu Jian, Cao Dexu and Zhang Guangchun interrogated her several times. Sun Yan refused to sign their notes taken during the interrogation.

The Ganjingzi Police Department authorities fabricated charges against Sun Yan and turned the case over to the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate. When Sun Yan's family went to the Procuratorate, they were told, "She is a Falun Gong practitioner; there's no use hiring a lawyer. Just wait for the sentencing." After a hasty hearing, the procuratorate officials said they would submit the case to the court.

The procuratorate didn't find any incriminating evidence against Sun Yan, and the case was twice returned to Ganjingzi District Police Department for review. The Dalian City National Security Division pushed the case forward from behind the scenes. When the procuratorate officials asked Yu Jian, an officer from Xinghua Street Police Station, where the evidence was, he said that it was destroyed at the Dalian City National Security Division.

Without any evidence, the Ganjingzi District Court still secretly and unconstitutionally tried Sun Yan on August 5, 2005. The result was not announced.

The police bring Sun Yan down from the second floor after the opening session

The police car that took Sun Yan away after the trial

At 9:00 a.m. on August 5, the police locked the metal gates before the illegal trial was held at the No. 5 Criminal Court on the second floor. Only Sun Yan's family was allowed to be present at the trial if they brought their ID. As a result, Sun Yan's father was the only one present.

At around 10 a.m., Sun Yan appeared in handcuffs. Several officers escorted her from the third floor. Sun Yan's sister cried and shouted, "Sister!" Sun Yan said, "I will persist! I will continue the hunger strike."

The police put Sun Yan in a car and drove off.

Sun Yan's father is hard of hearing. He recalled the woman judge as saying, "Two Falun Gong VCD's were found in Sun Yan's backpack; then [the police] searched Sun Yan's home." He also recalled that "Sun Yan is still insisting that Falun Dafa is great." Sun Yan's father shed tears, "My child is reduced to skin and bones." "They told us only yesterday about today's trial." Sun Yan's sister was suffering from late-stage nasal and throat cancer, and also suffered from depression from worrying about Sun Yan. Her eyes, mouth and cheeks were swollen from crying. Sun Yan's mother could not attend the trial due to poor health.

After August 5, Sun Yan held several hunger strikes to protest the trial and detention. She is now very weak and at the brink of death.

It is learned that Dalian City National Security Division personnel had been planning the arrest of Sun Yan and Lu Kaili for a long time.

In October 2004, after practitioner Gao Rongrong was rescued, the perpetrators frantically searched for and arrested practitioners. They arrested and monitored everyone suspected of being involved in rescuing Gao Rongrong. Sun Yan was held in the same cell as Gao Rongrong at the Longshan Labor Camp. The police suspected that Sun Yan took part in rescuing Gao Rongrong. They didn't want the details of Gao Rongrong's torture to be exposed, so they closely monitored Sun Yan.

They arrested Sun Yan and found the key to her home. Perpetrators from the Dalian City Investigation Division easily found Sun Yan's newly rented home, but they couldn't find anything they wanted, so they left.

In March 2005, Gao Rongrong was again arrested and the police realized that Sun Yan had nothing to do with Gao Rongrong's escape. By this time, Sun Yan had been illegally detained for several months. The National Security Division was afraid Sun Yan would sue them and offered her "government compensation." They planned to send Sun Yan to prison to cover up the persecution and their mistake of detaining Sun Yan.

The Dalian City 610 Office perpetrators held a meeting with the head of the police department, the judge and the public prosecutor. The three officials agreed to carry out a scheme to sentence Sun Yan to prison.

Because they didn't have any evidence, they fabricated evidence. Chen Xin and Wang Zhiyuan from the Dalian City National Security Division, Yu Jian, Cao Dexu and Zhang Guangchun from the Xinghua Street Police Station got together to train themselves to be consistent in their story to frame Sun Yan.

They falsely claimed that Sun Yan was arrested when distributing truth clarification materials, and a lot of Falun Gong materials was found inside Sun Yan's home. They made up a list of things "found" at Sun Yan's home.

The police body-searched Sun Yan and took away her keys. They ransacked her home when none of Sun Yan's family members were present. There was no signature from Sun Yan's family on the made-up list. When the public prosecutor asked perpetrators from the National Security Division and from the Xinghua Police Station about the evidence that supports the ransacking, the National Security Division people answered it was completely destroyed. They are fully intent on sending Sun Yan to prison on fabricated charges.

The persecution has caused Sun Yan's family tremendous suffering. Sun Yan's father underwent two major surgeries for colon cancer and is very weak, and her mother is afflicted with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Sun Yan's sister has worried night and day after Sun Yan was sent to Dalian City Labor Camp. She was diagnosed with late-stager nasal and throat cancer, and she is receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Sun Yan's husband decided leave home to avoid further persecution. Sun Yan's family and friends are very concerned for her.

We hope that everyone can help us end this persecution.

Contact information of those responsible for Sun Yan's persecution:

Xinghua Street Police Station
Address: No. 59 Xinghua Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116031
Phone: 86-411-86602626
Yu Jian and Cao Dexu arrested Sun Yan
Xinghua Street Party Committee: 86-411-86609625

Ganjingzi Police Department
Address: NO 8 Dongwei Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116030
Phone: 86-411-86641909, 86-411-86600583
Head of police department: 86-411-86601368
Liu Zheng: deputy head, Office: 86-411-86600617
Disciplinary Inspection Division: 86-411-86599622
Politics Division: 86-411- 86600461

Yaojia Detention Center in Nanguanling, Dalian City
Address: No. 270 Yaojia Street, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116031

Dalian Detention Center
Main switchboard: 86-411-83631881 (transfer to all divisions at the Yaojia Detention Center)
Main office: 86-411-83792702
Phone: 86-411-86886166, 86887811, 86887816, 86887815, 86887813, 86887812, 86870718, 86870728, 86870857, 86870508, 86871988, 86870728
Female Division, Division 8, Yaojia Detention Center: 86-411-83792763
Jia Ling: division head
Meng Jun: political head, in charge of Cell 8-2, where Sun Yan was held
Lu Yimei: head of detention center; administered tortures
Wang Ying: head of detention center
Bai Enhui and Zhang Xinzhao: public prosecutors at the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate who went over this case

Ganjingzi District Procuratorate in Dalian City
Address: No. 10 Dongwei Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116031
Prosecutor General: 86-411-86601635, 86600619, 86559899
Deputy prosecutor general: 86-411-86571984, 86572004, 86601658, 86571994, 86601556, 86601652, 86562000, 86572014
Li Zenglan: female, judge at the Ganjiangzi District People's Court who tried this case

Ganjiangzi District People's Court
Address: NO 10 Dongwei Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116033
Main switchboard: 86-411-86601588
Criminal Court: 86-411-6600626
Chen Xin: deputy head of Dalian City National Security Division, 86-13009497373(Cell)

Dalian City National Security Division
Address: No. 15 Bailan Street, Zhongshan District, Dalian City, Zip code: 116001
Phone: 86-411- 81907373
Jiang Xueyong: perpetrator from Dalian City "610 Office"

Longshan Labor Camp
Address: Lazigou Village, Zhujia Town, Donglin District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, Zip code: 110173
Li Fengshi: head of the labor camp
Main switchboard: 86-24-24760033
Yue Jun and Yang Min: heads of Division 1, 86-24-24760624, 24760033 ext. 8212
Division 2: 86-24-24761745, 24760033 ext. 8222
Wang Jinghui: head of Division 2
Tang Yubao: deputy head of Division 2
Ma Wei: group head
Zeng Xiaoping: group head
Jiang Yubo: head of the Control Section
Bi Yinhong: guard

Longshan Labor Camp
Main switchboard:
Division 1: 86-24-24760624
Division 2: 86-24-24761745
Division 3: 86-24-24761746
Disciplinary Inspection Division: 86-411-86599622
Office: 86-411-86600617
Examination Section: 86-411-83792352

Dalian City Labor Camp
Address: No. 175 Nanlin Street, Ganjingzi District, Dalian City
Office: 86-411-6859234
Head of labor camp: 86-411-6859797
Office: 86-411-6859072
Office of the Politics Committee: 86-411-6859029
Front office: 86-411-6859314
Politics Division: 86-411-6859331
Control Section: 86-411-6858737
Main switchboard: 86-411-6859961

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/1/109387.html

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II. Physical torture

The policy of Jiang and his cohorts to "destroy Falun Gong practitioners physically," is ruthlessly carried out at Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. Over the past few years, the guards here have used insidious and perverted methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Almost all the time, they order inmates, mostly thug-types, to torture the practitioners. I used to be shocked by movies about the Japanese army invading Chinese villages. We all felt that the Japanese soldiers were cold-blooded. I also used to be horrified by stories about Nazi Germans massacring innocent people; yet, at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp I experienced an evil perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party which I believe is unprecedented in history. In fact the human language falls short of being able to convey the true nature of the CCP, a political party that uses lies, wickedness and violence to commit crimes.

The guards at the labor camp commit crimes without fear of legal repercussions. They curse and beat people at will. They often hit and kick Falun Gong practitioners, shock them with electric batons, hit them with wooden sticks and whip them with triangular belts or wooden boards. They hit people using anything within reach.

Every practitioner that entered the room as a healthy person needed help walking out. After the beatings, the guards locked some practitioners into water dungeons and poured cold water on them until the practitioners curled into balls, suffering from severe hypothermia. The sound of the torture tools hitting the practitioners' bodies, the demonic yelling of the guards and the tragic screaming of the practitioners put together is heart wrenching to hear. When the guards get tired, they order the inmates to beat the practitioners. Some inmates, upon seeing the scene, were afraid of killing the practitioners and dared not torture them further. Even those types of inmates with tattoos on their bodies and tough looks on their faces have said, "I've never seen anything like this; this is scaring me to death."

In late March 2002, several guards wanted to make an example of two practitioners. They called the two practitioners to the instruction room and tried to force them to write "breakaway announcements" to renounce Falun Gong. The practitioners refused. The guards slapped their faces, hit them with wooden sticks, shocked them with electric batons and whipped them with leather belts and triangular belts. Each practitioner was attacked by five guards and shocked by five electric batons. They didn't stop until the practitioners were covered with injuries and could hardly walk. In November 2003, guard Zou, who had been transferred over from Division 5, beat practitioner Fu Yan until he could not walk.

The guards promised the inmates sentence reductions to encourage them to torture Falun Gong practitioners. They told the inmates to do "whatever it takes" to make the practitioners give up their beliefs. The inmates beat the practitioners nearly to death; some practitioners were crippled from the torture, and some sustained internal injuries. Practitioner Li Ou from Division 5 lost consciousness after being savagely beaten in the spring of 2002, and his legs were disabled from the torture. The guards prompted the inmates to use spade handles to hit the practitioners. When practitioner Yang Shu was whacked with a spade handle he sustained a brain concussion and could not eat for many days. The wooden board on the bed was also used as a torture tool. Inmate Zhao Changle from Division 3 said, "If you validate Falun Gong and follow Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, I'll punish you by making you sit on a small stool." If the inmates were in a good mood, they made the practitioners sit in bed; if they were in a bad mood, they made the practitioners sit on a small stool.

The division head didn't feel ashamed when he said to the practitioners, "Soon I'll have the inmates beat you to death!" Some inmates screamed, "I hit you, so I'm a bad person and you are a good person; so a bad person is hitting a good person. Now look if the government will back me!" Some inmates declared, "I'm making your life a living hell."

The guards ordered two inmates to monitor each practitioner, including when the practitioner eats, sleeps, goes to the restroom and takes a shower. They would not allow the practitioners to talk. They deducted points from the practitioners, and each point means one more day at the labor camp. The points accumulated because the practitioners refused to cooperate with the perpetrators. The inmates were rewarded with sentence reductions for "reforming" the practitioners.

When practitioner Dong Wenqiang from a class in Group 2 held a hunger strike, guard Wang Hexing from Group 2 said, "The class head lacks management skills, which is why trouble arises in the class." As a result, class head Hou, nicknamed "electric cannonball," savagely beat Dong Wenqiang and forced him to eat in order to prove his "management skills" and to please his supervisor, guard Wang Hexing.

The guards operated outside the law, and so did the inmates. Inmate Zhang Fuli from Division 6 said many times to practitioner Yu Donghui, "Don't be stubborn! Just write the repentance statements; if the government orders me to beat you up, I won't care about your rights - I'll beat you up. I don't care if you are a good person. I want my reward! We get rewarded for reforming each practitioner, and for each point I earn I get a one day sentence reduction. You are talking about being a good person? Gamblers and drug addicts like us are good people; otherwise, why would we be allowed to watch you guys?" The guards often used Zhang Fuli to torture the practitioners.

The inmates often did not allow the practitioners to sleep or to drink water, and cursed and beat the practitioners if they made a slight mistake doing slave labor. Some practitioners developed scabies all over their bodies and were still forced to sleep on the floor. The practitioners were forced to mop the floor several times a day, and were beaten regardless of how well they worked.

At a meeting in March 2002, the head of the labor camp, surnamed Wang, said, "Inmates who help reform a Falun Gong practitioner will receive 35 points, which translates into a 35 day sentence reduction. During the months of 'Strict Control' the class heads will receive 20 points; the cell heads get 15 points. Class heads will receive 12 points, 10 points or 7 points for reforming a practitioner." As a result, physical and verbal abuse was taking place in all of the divisions. The inmates usually bare their upper body when they savagely beat the practitioners. Many of them have tattoos in the images of snakes, tigers, wolfs or leopards. They used all kinds of cruel methods and torture tools on determined practitioners, including forcing them to sit on narrow stools from 2:00 a.m. until midnight for many days at a time until pus seeped out of the practitioners' buttocks; then they forced practitioners to sit in the chilly wind and poured cold water on them. Many practitioners developed scabies on their bodies.

Perpetrators at the labor camp exhausted vicious methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and they held the practitioners beyond term to further torture them. Sometimes they held the practitioners for five months past their terms, while they released some inmates before term.

There are many different kinds of corporal punishment. They may forbid the practitioners from sleeping 'or using the restroom, force them to sit on the cold concrete floor with their legs double-crossed, force practitioners to sit on small stools and/or force them to do heavy labor. Inmates in each division were encouraged by their guards to invent their own torture methods. Those who came up with extremely vicious methods earned points toward their term reduction. Practitioner Wang Tianming said, "Falun Dafa is great." Inmate Zhang Yu reported this to the guard and was praised, and practitioner Wang Tianming was brutally beaten.

In 2001, the persecution escalated in scale and severity. After the abducted practitioners were taken to the labor camp they were showered with punches and kicks. Practitioners who renounced their beliefs were allowed to sit by the wall. Determined practitioners were forced to sit in the front row and were not allowed the slightest movement. If they bent their head slightly, they would be brutally beaten, or the inmates responsible for monitoring them would "discipline" them. They were not allowed to speak a word from morning to night while the guards used the vilest language to either insult them or attack Falun Gong.

One example shows the CCP's complete disregard for the law. The CCP allocated four million yuan to build a new building. Almost all of the "arrested" male Falun Gong practitioners in Jilin Province were sent there on January 18, 2002. There were approximately a dozen practitioners held in each division when they were in the old building; after the transfer was complete, there were about as many practitioners as inmates. The perpetrators also established Division 7, run by inmates, where they sent all former practitioners who gave up their beliefs. Determined practitioners were persecuted in different divisions, and those who returned to Falun Gong after they gave it up were also sent to different divisions to be persecuted.

There were three rounds of severe persecution in 2002, which the officials call the "Forced Reform Harsh Attack." On March 5, 2002, the perpetrators grew fanatic after some practitioners broadcast Falun Gong truth clarification videos over the local cable network. Luo Gan went to Changchun and expressed his dissatisfaction with the low "reform rate," and as a result another round of brutal persecution began. Determined practitioners at the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp were taken away and tortured for one hour, several hours or days at a time. When they came back they were bruised or deformed. Some were covered in bloody injuries, some could not walk and some were in a coma. The practitioners were placed under 24-hour surveillance and were not allowed to meet with their families.

The most determined practitioners were held in Division 2, where the most blood-chilling torture tools are located. On the morning of April 6, a group of practitioners were taken to the interrogation room and asked whether they would reform. No one answered. One practitioner was taken out and tortured with a spade, a crow bar, leather belts, steel-wire locks, bamboo sticks and bamboo planks. They cuffed the practitioners' arms and legs and four perpetrators would pull the practitioners' limbs in different directions while demanding whether they would reform. If the practitioners remained determined, they would further torture the practitioners. When the practitioners were covered in blood and their bodies deformed, the perpetrators would proceed to pour salt water on the practitioners and shock them with high-voltage electric batons. Their heart wrenching screams could be heard in the hallway.

During the first few days of April 2002, an earth-blanketing sand storm hit Changchun. Many people had never seen such a large-scale sand storm in their life. This happened during the height of the persecution of Falun Gong. After the sand storm the persecution again escalated at Chaoyang Labor Camp, a place shrouded in terror. I often saw healthy practitioners being carried out of the instruction room; during lunch I would see many practitioners with bandages on their heads, their arms in a cast, their hands and feet wrapped in gauze, and so on. Four practitioners from Division 5 were carried to lunch.

This time the perpetrators used varying sizes of electric batons, police batons, white plastic tubes, wooden sticks, metal tubes, and a whip made of steel wires and bamboo planks. The bamboo planks were broken during the beating, and pieces of sharp bamboo stuck in the practitioners' bodies. The perpetrators would then rub laundry detergent and salt into the wounds and pour cold water on the practitioners. They burned the practitioners' palms with fire, hung them up with their hands cuffed behind their backs and beat them.

On April 12, we couldn't see the sun because the sky was reddish yellow from the sand. Beginning from this day, the perpetrators started the so-called "Harsh Attack." At 9:00 a.m. Wang Yanwei, head of the labor camp, held a meeting and the divisions carried out the persecution.

The meeting ended at 9:30 a.m. At 9:40 a.m., beating and screaming filled the hallway, and all perpetrators participated in the torture. They took the practitioners to the instruction room, and about seven guards surrounded each practitioner. With spade handles or electric batons in their hands, the guards tried to force the practitioners to reform. Those who agreed were immediately sent back to their cell to write guarantee statements. As for determined practitioners, they would first beat and kick them, and if the practitioner stayed firm they would grab the practitioner's hair and bang his head against the wall or the concrete floor, or they would whack the practitioner with spade handles until the handle broke.

Some practitioners lost consciousness from the torture, and the guards would pour cold water on them. When they came back to conciousness, the perpetrators would continue to threaten and intimidate them. Guard Jiang Chengcai stomped on the practitioners' toes and whipped the practitioners' heads, chests and backs with rubber clubs. Encouraged by group heads Zhu Dechun and Yu Tie, inmate Yu Changjiang beat the practitioners. About eight inmates beat practitioner Li for three days until he lost consciousness and could not move; he was also incontinent and lost sight in his right eye. At this point, the perpetrators were afraid of taking responsibility, so they were a little more self-restrained when beating the practitioners. However, they still forced determined practitioners to stand with their upper body bent forward and their hands raised above their backs. They also didn't allow the practitioners to sleep.

The first "Harsh Attack" lasted two months, during which time the practitioners were physically and mentally tortured. Some people gave up Falun Gong practice because they could not endure the ordeal, but more practitioners remained firm.

In June, another round of "Harsh Attack" began at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. This time they assigned Gao, an official from the Administration Section, to take charge and lead the inmates and collaborators (former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong), to debate with Falun Gong practitioners. They took advantage of the practitioners' loopholes and did everything possible to destroy their belief in Falun Gong. In the daytime, the guards forced the practitioners to watch Falun Gong-slandering videos. Before playing the videos, Gao would explain the content and ordered the practitioners to discuss the video after it was shown. The practitioners refuted his warped understanding and presented the righteous principles. Gao was furious and said, "If you don't reform, I'll lock you up! After I get off work, I go to a restaurant, but you'll still eat steamed buns and drink cabbage soup!" He ordered the collaborators to attack Falun Gong. The second "Harsh Attack" was more damaging than the first, in that the perpetrators twisted the content of Falun Gong and took advantage of the practitioners' lack of understanding of Falun Gong to destroy their beliefs.

In order to further the brainwashing the perpetrators formed a group consisting of 12 perpetrators led by Wang. They went to the different divisions to spread their twisted theories for five days. They asked Wang Zhigang, who had written two books to attack Falun Gong, to give a report and to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners, but their attempts ended in failure overall. They could not achieve the 95% reform rate after three months. The guards were exasperated because they would each have received 400 yuan a month if they had reached the reform rate.

In September 2002, the division heads went to a labor camp meeting and said they would achieve 100% reform of the practitioners at all costs. The third "Harsh Attack" started right after the meeting. The perpetrators first went after practitioners who returned to Falun Gong after they wrote a repentance statement. They locked the practitioners inside an office so that people could not hear the screaming. They locked all three doors so that the room was completely insulated. First, seven perpetrators stripped the practitioners naked and threatened the practitioners with electric batons and triangular belts in their hands. If the practitioners refused to give up Falun Gong, they would whip the practitioners all over their bodies, except the face, while at the same time shocking the practitioners' ears, head, neck, armpits, genitals and anus with electric batons.

They poured water on the floor, forced the practitioners to stand barefoot in the water, and shocked the practitioners until they fell on the floor. They continued to shock the practitioners until they rolled on the floor in pain. Then they hit the practitioners with spade handles. They broke many belts, electric batons and spade handles during their torture of Falun Gong practitioners. One practitioner shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" They gagged the practitioner's mouth, cuffed his hands to a heating pipe and then whipped him. Some practitioners were hung up and beaten for three days. According to one practitioner who was later released, some guards killed one practitioner by repeatedly whacking him all over the body from head to feet with a thick wooden board.

Many practitioners stepped forward to stop the persecution. The practitioners shouted, "No beating!" When judicial officials came to the labor camp to inspect the work, the practitioners shouted, "I'm innocent. I ask for unconditional release!" Some practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest.

The third round of "Harsh Attack" lasted two months, until November, followed by the fourth round of "Harsh Attack." Each practitioner held at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp was tortured during the day and not allowed to sleep at night.

The perpetrators often forced detainees to do slave labor, such as work in a brick kiln, work in the fields, fold papers for pirated books, and dig ditches. Practitioners who were held at the labor camp earlier were persecuted this way. They were forced to work in the brick kiln in the heat of summer; they often became dehydrated. Practitioners who worked in the fields had to remove grass, shuck corn and pull radishes. Those who worked slowly often did not get a break or water.

Due to malnutrition and long-term torture, the work was not easy for the practitioners. The guards insulted or beat the practitioners if they were slow. A philosophy professor from Jilin University in his 50s was forced to dig ditches when he was running a high fever, only because he is a Falun Gong practitioner.

Sometimes the practitioners had radish soup or frozen cabbage for six months straight. People could smell frozen cabbage when they walked in the dining room. It is heard that the guards embezzled the food money.

Due to chronic malnutrition and poor hygiene, many practitioners contracted tuberculosis and scabies. The perpetrators limited or did not permit the practitioners to take a shower. As a result many practitioners died from scabies or tuberculosis due to the lack of medical treatment and torture. This is part of the evidence of the inhumane persecution at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp.

In October 2004, practitioner Song Wenhua from Tonghua City ran a high fever for several months and eventually lapsed into a coma. He could not eat or drink. The labor camp authorities did nothing and simply told Song Wenhua's family to take him home when he was at the brink of death. They also extorted 5,000 yuan from his family. Song Wenhua died several days after he was taken home. A practitioner from Yushu City contracted tuberculosis but was not given access to medical treatment. He was taken home when he had but one breath left and died a day later. Practitioner Liu Ziwei died three days after he was sent to the labor camp!

The Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp is a breeding ground for crime, despite its deceptive appearance of pink walls and green meadows. Again and again the labor camp authorities sent home practitioners tortured to the brink of death, claiming, "If they die outside the gate it's not our problem."

Case 1: Mr. Zhang Quanfu, 65 years old, was an employee of Jiangyuan County Forestry Bureau, Baishan City, Jilin Province. Since December 1999, he had been detained twice because he went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. After he was released in January 2001, local policemen always harassed him at home. On the evening of March 6, 2002, he was arrested again and sent to Group 2, Division 6, of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, where he was detained and tortured for one year. During detention he suffered all kinds of torture and was also brutally beaten, even when he was near death'. His body was full of boils; he was extremely skinny and could not walk due to muscle atrophy. He had blood and pus in his stool, and his body was covered in scabies. He was beaten before he passed away on January 8, 2003. His son, Zhang Qifa, 38 years old, was also illegally held at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. He was released on January 18, 2003. His body was covered with bruises and his skin was hard and black. His body was full of hard swellings and boils, and his legs hurt so much that he couldn't walk. He had difficulty breathing and couldn't speak clearly. He suffered from pain, itching and constipation. He passed away on January 19, 2003, the day after his release.

Case 2: Mr. Bai Xiaojun, 35 years old, was a professor at the Northeast Normal University in Jilin Province, and lived in Changchun, Jilin Province. On July 18, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was abducted and illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. He was sent to the Fenjin Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City where he suffered arm and leg injuries from beatings and developed severe scabies. He lost the ability to take care of himself. In April 2002 he was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor and was sent to Division 4 of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. In early June 2003, he could not eat due to torture and was transferred to Division 1 in late June. Guard Zhao Jianping beat him in front of other Falun Gong practitioners in the division. He died on July 18, 2003.

Case 3: Mr. Liu Ziwei, 29 years old, from Baishan City, Jilin Province, was abducted and sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp on December 10, 2004. He immediately went on a hunger strike. He was subjected to various inhumane tortures such as being locked up in a small cell, being force-fed, and being hung up on a wall with handcuffs, making his wrists bleed. He was hung up 24 hours a day and not allowed to sleep. The police also gagged Liu with dirty socks to prevent him from calling out. The perpetrators saw that he was dying at 11 p.m. on December 13 and sent him to a hospital. He died on the way to the hospital. He was murdered, and his bodily injuries are proof of that.

Since July 20, 1999, hundreds and even close to 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners were often held at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. In the past six years, 18 practitioners were tortured to death here. They are: Zhang Quanfu (65 years, Baishan City, Jilin Province), Zhang Qifa (Baishan City, Jilin Province), Sui Futao (30 years, Liuhe County, Jilin Province), Bai Xiaojun (35 years, Changchun City, Jilin Province), Yue Kai (29 years, Yushu City, Jilin Province), Li Qiu (41 years, Changchun City, Jilin Province), Tian Junlong (45 years, Manchurian Autonomic County, Yitong, Jilin Province), Ding Yunde (55 years, Tonghua, Jilin Province), Zhen Yongping (Baishan City, Jilin Province), Xu Xijun (29 years, Changchun City, Jilin Province), Huang Baochen (65 years, Yushu City, Jilin Province), Yu Xianjiang (51 years, Changchun City, Jilin Province), Wang Jinian (28 or 29 years, Baishan City, Jilin Province), Li Chuanwen (54 years, Meihekou City, Jilin Province), Gao Chengji (52 years, Baishan City, Jilin Province), Zhang Shengqi (35 years, Baishan City, Jilin Province), Zhen Fuxiang (35 years, Yushu City, Jilin Province), Liu Yongqi (Baishan City, Jilin Province). The youngest of the practitioners was 26 years old, and the oldest was 65 years old.

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On October 10, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Sun Yuncheng was arrested in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. Lawless personnel confiscated her cell phone and phonebook, and then tried to use the information to carry out a large-scale persecution of other practitioners in the Xi'an area. Falun Gong practitioner Xiao Liang, who lives in the same house as Sun Yuncheng, was arrested at the same time. Practitioner Wang Jiali, who works at the Xi'an Jiaotong University, was later arrested at work.

Ms. Sun Yuncheng, 48 years old, was originally an employee at the Satellite Detection and Control Centre in Xi'an City. She started to practice Falun Gong around 1997.

Sun Yuncheng went to Beijing in December 2000 to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was sentenced to one-and-a half years of forced labor and was detained in the Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labor Camp, where she was brutally beaten and severely persecuted. She was once beaten so badly that she became incapacitated. During the unlawful forced labor incarceration, her husband, (a deputy division commander), was implicated, and was forced to be transferred to civilian work. He was also compelled to divorce his wife under stringent pressure. Those were the reasons behind Sun Yuncheng losing her job and her family after her release in June 2002. She had nowhere to go and could only stay temporarily at some practitioners' homes.

On September 12, 2003, personnel from the Xi'an City Beilin Police Station arrested Sun Yuncheng during an act of persecuting another Falun Gong practitioner. Ms Sun was then put up temporarily at another practitioner's house. The perpetrators forcibly snatched the 40 thousand yuan in cash she had from the divorce settlement. In addition, the officials used the excuse of "unknown identity, unknown source of money and refusal to reveal identity" to once again detain Sun Yuncheng.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sun Yuncheng went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She was then sent to the Xi'an City Police Prison Hospital (Ankang Hospital), where she continued her hunger strike. The police subjected her to all kinds of torture. They beat her on her face and mouth and roughly force-fed her. They permitted her to sleep only on a wooden board bed and did not give her any blankets. She was forbidden to go to the toilet, forcing her to relieve herself in her clothing and on the bed. They also injected her with unknown drugs.

In August 2005, Sun Yuncheng went to the Xi'an City Beilin Police Department to get back her 40 thousand yuan that the police unlawfully grabbed from her in 2003. The police first tried to defend themselves, and then tried to stall. But the police eventually had no choice but to return the money. They also hurriedly removed the two boards from their front door that said "Xi'an City Beilin Police Department."

After this incident, the Xi'an City 610 Office focused on Sun Yuncheng as an important Falun Gong target in Xi'an City and instigated the Xi'an City Police Department and National Security Bureau to pursue and arrest her. An agent from the National Security Bureau discovered Sun Yuncheng and tailed her. On October 10, 2005, she was secretly arrested in the Chang'an District in Xi'an City. On October 14, many police officers went to Sun Yuncheng's temporary residence at the Xi'an Jiaotong [Transportation] University to ransack her house. They also posted several agents around her residence for a possible ambush of other Falun Gong practitioners.

Contact numbers for the Xi'an Police Department

Office telephone no: 86-29-87274280
Main telephone line: 86-29-87234500, 86-29-87275121
Direct telephone line for the Police Chief: 86-29-87517095

Telephone numbers of Shaanxi Province 610 Office: 86-29-85582881, 86-29-85582090, 86-29-85582695, 86-29-85582947, 86-29-85582009, 86-29-85582519, 86-29-85582725

Xi'an Jiaotong University 610 Office: 86-29-82665007

Xi'an City Beilin Police Department Branch, National Security Group: (Li Zhi'an) 86-29-87420844, (Bao Xiaoming) (86-29-87455719)

Xi'an City Beilin District Police Department: 86-29-87422862, 86-29-87455117, 86-29-87425341, 86-29-87423315, 86-29-87431184, 86-29-87454471, 86-29-87458026

Shaanxi Province Government Police Hall: 86-29-87215051(main telephone line), 86-29-87265555, 86-29-86165555

Xi'an City Chang'an District Police Department: 86-29-85294733, 86-29-85650911, 86-29-85650937, 86-29-85650933, 86-29-85650927, 86-29-85650925

October 20, 2005

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Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Guilan, 43, is from Toubao Village, Wubao Town, Zhoulu County. In October 2004, Ms. Yang went to Beijing to validate Falun Gong. The police arrested her and sent her to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp, where she was brutally persecuted.

On October 13, 2004, Ms. Yang had just arrived at Tiananmen Square when the police appeared and began to interrogate her. The police found Falun Gong flyers and truth clarifying materials in her possession and used this as evidence to "arrest" her. Ms. Yang grabbed hold of a car tire and refused to get into the police car. Six or seven police officers then grabbed her and pushed her inside the car. Once she was in the car, the police pushed Ms. Yang's head down onto the floor and pulled her hair while stepping on her back. They took her to the Tiananmen Police Station and illegally interrogated her. They asked Ms. Yang for her name and address, but she refused to answer. The police found a local practitioner's solemn statement (a statement declaring one's renunciation of Falun Gong as null and void) and discovered Ms. Yang's address. The local police liaison in Beijing was then called to take her away. At 3 p.m., Zhang from the county police department, Wang, Ji Wenshi and Deputy Director Ren from the Wubao Township Police Station took Ms. Yang to the county detention center. The county 610 Office took her into custody, citing violation of public order as the charge.

That same day, Li Yubin, the Toubao Village CCP secretary, Wang Gui, a police officer, the director of the township 610 Office, and Du You, deputy head of the township, forced Yang's husband Mr. Ye Yongbin to go to the office. They told him that he was being fined 20,000 yuan because his wife went to Beijing. Since Mr. Ye didn't have any money, they confiscated his tractor. The next day these officials called Mr. Ye's brother-in-law to the village commission and forced him to give 5000 yuan to them. They also forced Ms. Yang to write a statement acknowledging that she owed the fine before they would release Mr. Ye. Three days later, the village committee, and the township hall sold Mr. Ye's tractor for 1,500 yuan and then went straight to a restaurant and spent the money on an extravagant meal. After 15 days, the police unlawfully sentenced Ms. Yang to three years in a forced labor camp. Ms. Yang refused to get in the car, so they decided to send her to the Shalingzi City Brainwashing Center first, and detained her there for 35 days. On the morning of December 3, 2004, Dong Fei, head of the township 610 Office, Ren, deputy director of the township police station, and Ma from the county police department, deceived Ms. Yang and took her to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp. She was imprisoned in the 5th Group.

Fan Miaolu, the group leader, tortured Ms. Yang by beating and insulting her at will. Fan threatened Ms. Yang, "I really want to use a needle to poke you to death." The first few days Ms. Yang was in the camp at the end of December, someone found Falun Gong articles among Ms. Yang's belongings. The police forced Ms. Yang to squat down, while Li Yanji and Shi Jiangxia insulted her and shocked her back with an electric baton. They wanted to force Ms. Yang to reveal the name of the person who gave her the articles, but Ms. Yang refused to cooperate. The police brutally kicked Ms. Yang on the legs, knees and back. Shi Jiangxia was very vicious when it came to beating someone. Shi would beat a prisoner until the prisoner's mouth tore open or they sustained a broken arm. These vicious people targeted Ms. Yang and continually beat and persecuted her.

The camp wouldn't allow practitioners to go outside during noon time and had someone keep watch at the gate. On May 27, 2005, at around 2:30 p.m., all of the practitioners were gathered into a big classroom while the police searched their cells from top to bottom. Yang's comforter was torn open and thrown onto the floor. The police found two of Teacher's articles among Ms. Yang's clothing and violently beat her until late that night. They did not even allow her go to the toilet. Li Yanji and Shi Jiangxia slapped Ms. Yang in the face, used a book to hit her face, and scratched her face with their fingers. The book was torn apart during the beating and the pages were scattered. The beating continued into the night. Yang had a fever (101.3F) and diarrhea that night due to the beating. The guards cursed Yang for three days and forced her to do heavy work such as picking potatoes under the burning sun for three months. Ms. Yang became very ill, with headaches and vomiting. Everything she ate, she would throw up or have diarrhea afterward. Her health gradually declined. One day, at around midnight, Yang experienced a sharp pain in her abdomen, perspired profusely, and fainted in the bathroom. An officer on duty saw Yang in the bathroom. He took her back to her cell and then called the director. The officer then said to Ms. Yang, "It's OK as long as you are not dead." At 8 p.m. on August 30, Yang experienced severe pain in her abdomen again. The doctor examined her and said, "She is dying." The police thus took Ms. Yang to the Gaoyang Hospital. An emergency blood test showed that her hemoglobin was as low as 3.9 (normal is 12-16) and she had blood in her urine. Her situation was grave. She had anemia, a urinary tract infection, acute nephritis, an enlarged gallbladder, leukemia and inflammation of the intestines. Ms. Yang was in a coma and stopped breathing many times. Her face and body were pale and she was expected to die at any time. The next day, on August 31, the police called Ms. Yang's family and asked them to pick her up at the Gaoyang Hospital. They required her family to complete some paper work before releasing her. Four days later, when her family took Ms. Yang home, she was severely under weight and couldn't even lift her arms.

The Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp does not allow practitioners to contact each other, talk to each other or go to the toilet. Someone always monitors the practitioners' daily activities, even while brushing their hair. The police often beat practitioners at will. Ms. Chen Aihong and several other practitioners refused to follow the guards' orders to answer roll call or to wear the prison uniforms. Ms. Liu Yuanling refused to wear the uniform. Captain Li Yanji, along with officers Jiang Shixia, Tian Zhili, Fan Miaolu and Wang Qian, stripped Ms. Liu and confiscated all of her clothes. Liu wore only shorts and a vest. Other practitioners were not allowed to provide Liu with clothes or they would also be punished.

Jiang Shixia used an electric baton to beat Ms. Liu Yuanling on her back and trampled on Liu's shoulders and legs. Ms. Liu's shoulders became bruised and swollen. Fan Miaolu used plastic clubs to brutally beat Ms. Liu's neck, spine and back. Ms. Liu immediately fell and couldn't get up. They forced Ms. Liu to sit on the ground and wouldn't allow her to sit on her bed. One day someone gave Ms. Liu a shirt, but another prisoner knocked Ms. Liu to the ground and cut the shirt into strips with scissors. The police ordered three prisoners to get the uniform on Ms. Liu within 10 minutes; otherwise the prisoners would be punished. The prisoners then tortured Ms. Liu by slapping, beating and kicking her. Ms. Liu was tortured to the point that she became very weak. Two prisoners took Ms. Liu to an open area and brutally beat her. Then they dragged her around on the ground as they ran laps. If Ms. Liu tried to defend herself, the prisoners would twist her arms behind her back. When they returned Ms. Liu to her cell, the prisoners dragged her up the stairs, causing injury to her legs. They warned Ms. Liu that the torture would continue until she put on the prison uniform. Ms. Liu still refused to wear the uniform. The police finally gave up on forcing Ms. Liu to wear it.

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The guards at the Shiliping Forced Labor Camp in Zhejiang Province have used many different torture methods against Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to give up their belief. The torture methods include: the water dungeon, the tiger bench, shocking practitioners with electric batons, force-feeding them chili water, hanging and hitting them, confining them, and depriving them of sleep for several days. They have locked some practitioners up in a small cell of less than 10 square meters and tied them to chairs. Day and night, the guards shine strong searchlights on them and put 80-decibel loudspeakers next to their ears. The following are some examples of persecution cases.

Practitioner Jiang Jialin was once handcuffed behind his back onto window bars with his tiptoes only slightly touching the ground. After five days and nights, his hands and feet were swollen from edema, and his skin had blisters as thick as one inch.

Fan Zhongzhuang, a farmer over 50 years of age, was once hung from an iron gate for 15 hours. As a result, his hands and feet were badly injured, and the scar is still visible.

Practitioner Zhang Chuanwen was tortured for several days and nights. Afterwards, the guards pressured him to eat some food that was mixed with unknown drugs. The food seemed to be covered with oil. Some kind-hearted people warned Zhang Chuanwen not to eat the oil, because it might make him lose consciousness.

Practitioner Mr. Zhang Jianbo, age 30, is from Xiantao City, Hubei Province. He was a graduate student at Zhejiang Industry University. He went on a hunger strike for 49 days in the Shiliping Forced Labor Camp in Zhejiang Province. As a result, his life was in imminent danger.

Zhu Hongmai, a staff member of the Quhua Company in Zhejiang Province, was locked up and beaten.

Guo Xianwen, from Yuhuan County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, was segregated long- term. He went on a hunger strike but was force-fed. For nine months, beginning in August 2003, he was locked up in a small cell. His body swelled up all over due to the long-term mental and physical torture. His life was in serious danger several times.

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 Mr. Geng Huaipu, a Falun Gong practitioner in Jiawang District, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp. On September 13, 2005, he did not cooperate with the local 610 Office and managed to escape from the labor camp. Under pressure from the Jiangsu Province 610 Office, his original company, Chemical Plant of Xuzhou Mineral Group, spent 200 thousand yuan to support the police station of Jiawang District and the Security Department of the plant in arresting Geng Huaipu. One group went to Beijing while the other group went to Xinjiang Province.

Geng Huaipu's family was persecuted many times. The Neighborhood Community Office, the plant security department, the National Security Division, Public Security Division, Jiawang District 610 Office, and the local police station continuously harassed them. Their home was ransacked numerous times. His family members were arrested again and again. Geng Huaipu's mother, older brother, and sister-in-law were persecuted to death in February and March 2005. Shi Zhongling, his sister-in-law, was brutally persecuted in the brainwashing center of Xuzhou City, Suining County. Before she passed away on March 22, 2005, the doctors found two fractured ribs, dislocated shoulders, an accumulation of fluid in her chest, and many bruises on her body.

In December 1999, Geng Huaipu was arrested by personnel from the Jiawang District 610 Office and imprisoned in Jiawang District detention center. After being jailed for one year, the court released him unconditionally. However, the 610 Office perpetrators transferred him from the detention center directly to the Fangqiang Forced Labor Camp of Yancheng City. After being imprisoned for one more year, Geng Huaipu was again transferred from the Labor Camp to the brainwashing center of Suining. In the brainwashing class, Geng Huaipu was handcuffed and hung up in a tree for seven days. After being released from the brainwashing class, Geng Huaipu became homeless and was arrested again by the police while he was posting truth-clarification materials in Hefei City. He was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp and was imprisoned in the Nanhu Forced Labor Camp in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. On September 13, 2005, he refused to get into the car arranged by the 610 Office personnel and managed to escape from the forced labor camp.

Because the Jiawang District 610 Office did not succeed in transferring Geng Huaipu from the Nanhu Forced Labor Camp, they requested that the Security Department for the Chemical Plant of Xuzhou Mineral Group and the Neighborhood Community Office threaten and harass him. In addition, they reported the situation to the Jiangsu Province 610 Office. Jiangsu Province 610 Office requested that the Xuzhou City 610 Office and the Jiawang District 610 Office arrest him. Several days ago, the Chemical Plant of Xuzhou Mineral Group spent 200 thousand yuan to support the police station of Jiawang District and the Security Department of the plant in arresting Geng Huaipu. One group went to Beijing while the other group went to Xinjiang Province.

Related information:
Government of Jiawang District: 86-516-7715382
Police Station of Jiawang District: 86-516-7810555, 86-516-7712111, 86-516-7712034, 86-516-7716095, 86-516-7716060

Jiawang District 610 Office: 86-516-7715323
Jiawang District 610 Office: Xia Hui 86-13382698999 (Cell)
Head of Jiawang District 610 Office: Zhao Jianmin 86-516-5869060
Head of Jiangsu Province 610 office: Xu Jianming 86-13813896858

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 Mr. Mi lives in Guyuan County, Hebei Province. In July 1999, when the evil started to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Mi Hong had only been practicing Falun Gong for a month. Since then, he has been continuously persecuted. The local government, the City Police Station and the County Police Station have constantly harassed and threatened Mr. Mi and his family. They confiscated Mr. Mi's ID and residence registration documents. They forced him to get his photo and fingerprints taken. They also forced him to write a guarantee statement that he will never practice again. Near politically sensitive dates, the town and county police stations send policemen to closely monitor Mr. Mi's home 24 hours a day. He is not allowed to go out or communicate with others. He is placed under escort even when he uses the toilet. He has no personal freedom.

On the night of September 28, 2002, Ma Limin (Deputy Head of the Jiuliancheng Township Police Station, Guyuan County, Hubei Province), policeman Qiao Shouyu, Li Chengri (Head of Jiuliancheng Township), Liu Haijun, Yu Shulin and Wang Yanfei, broke the gate at Mr. Mi's house. They entered his house and confiscated his property and Falun Gong truth clarification materials. They arrested Mr. Mi. Qiao Shouyu, viciously beat him and pulled his hair. He shocked Mr. Mi with an electric baton and handcuffed him. They eventually dragged Mr. Mi into the police car.

At the police station, the policemen dragged Mr. Mi into a room and threw him on the ground. Five or six policemen beat and cursed at him. One of them poured hot water from a vase over Mr. Mi's head. Deputy Head of the police station Ma Limin viciously slapped his face. The head of the Police Station Guo Zhenye shouted viciously, "Beat him! Beat him! Beat him to death and throw him into the ditch on the street. We have orders from Jiang Zemin. If we beat him to death, we can just report the death as suicide." The policemen dragged Mr. Mi by the hair and threw him against the wall. They placed an electric baton in his mouth and shocked him for more than ten minutes. Then they forced him to stand facing the wall, with his arms lifted up and his nose touching the wall. If his nose no longer touched the wall, they beat him. The policemen spit in his face. They beat him continuously for more than six hours, until as late as 2 a.m. When the policemen got tired, they forced Mr. Mi to stand facing the wall. When they recovered from fatigue, they continued their interrogation. They handcuffed Mr. Mi behind his back so that he could neither stand nor sit. He suffered severe pain in his arms after being handcuffed and hung up. Qiao Shouyu used a metal bar to beat him.

When Mr. Mi was detained at the detention center, they injured his eyes and he could not see things clearly. His hands and arms were numb and he could not feel anything. He went on hunger strike to protest, but five or six policemen force-fed him with high-density saline water. Using such severe and continuous pressure, they forced Mr. Mi to write a note promising to stop practicing. During the seventy-one days of detention, the police extorted 720 yuan from Mr. Mi Hong. Even to this day, Mr. Mi's eyesight has not recovered.

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 Mr. Sun Fuxi, 68 years old, was a retiree from Yantan City, Shandong Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in December, 1995. In November 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In September 2002, officials from the neighborhood committee forced him to write three "guarantee letters," which placed him under great mental distress. His wife is also a practitioner and had appealed in Beijing three times. She was detained and subjected to brainwashing. During the following years, his home was ransacked many times and he was constantly harassed and monitored. Mr. Sun lived under constant fear and pressure, and died on August 2, 2005.

Mr. Chen Jixiang, 46 years old, was a practitioner from Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Shortly after the persecution began on July 20, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After that the police detained, harassed and fined him many times. In 2003, he was detained and brought to the brainwashing center in Luotaishan Village, Fushun City, where he suffered great mental and physical torture. Mr. Chen died on August 20, 2005.

Mr. Chen Sanqiang, 39 years old, was a practitioner from Zhudian Township, Zhuwa Town in the Xishui County of Hubei Province. After July 20, 1999, he continued performing the five exercises outdoors to validate Falun Gong. He was detained three times and severely tortured each time. Once he was beaten until he lost consciousness and then drenched in cold water to be revived. The continual torture caused him to suffer a physical and mental breakdown, and his liver was damaged. After he returned home, he continued living under ongoing fear. Later he showed signs of liver ascites and died in May 2005.

Ms. Xie Simao, in her 60s, was a practitioner from the Wangsi District of Zhiwa Town in the Xishui County, Hubei Province. Since July 20, 1999, she suffered great mental pressure due to the severe persecution. She died in the beginning of 2002.

Ms. Liang Qunxiang was born on September 9, 1950, and was a resident of Zaoshi Town, Tianmen City, Hubei Province. She used to suffer from cancer. In 1996, she started practicing Falun Gong and her mental and physical condition improved dramatically. After the persecution started in 1999, her younger son was refused enrollment by the military because she practiced Falun Gong. Because of that she gave up the practice. She suffered a relapse of the cancer and spent a lot of money on treatment even though there was no sign of recovery. She decided to start practicing again and publicly declared her words and actions void on the Minghui (Chinese version of Clearwisdom) website. However she was not able to overcome her illness and died on October 19, 2005. One of her family members said, "It was Falun Gong that had extended Ms. Liang's life." They had never seen a cancer patient who could survive for nearly 10 years.

Mr. Wu Jinshan, a practitioner from Zhoukou City, operated a hairdresser salon on Gongnong Street. He clarified the truth about Falun Gong to his customers. The local police heard about it and began to monitor his shop.

On the morning of October 17, 2005, policemen from the Zhoukou police bureau's Shanan branch office arrested Mr. Wu Jinshan and his wife, and detained them at the national security division. They ransacked their house, confiscated many Falun Gong books and materials and searched as well as closed down his salon. Mr. Wu's wife was released the same day, while Mr. Wu was taken to the Zhoukou City Detention Center.

At about 11 p.m. on September 30, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shang Aihua and her non-practitioner husband Mr. Chen Guanquan from Wenyang village, Laiwu, were arrested. Practitioners Yuan Yingjun, Mr. Chen Lianmei and his wife, who were visiting Ms. Shang, were arrested at the same time.

The next day, Liu Qing, the head of the political security division of Laiwu, ransacked Ms. Shang's house and confiscated many of Mr. Chen Guanquan's belongings, including his cellular phone worth more than 1,000 yuan, a tape recorder, two computers (laptops), a laser printer, more than 800 yuan, and Falun Gong materials.

Mr. Wang Youting, 48, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Nanzamu, Qinyuan County, Fushun City. In March 2004, Mr. Wang was arrested while hanging up a "Falun Dafa is Good" banner. The police from the Zhangdang police station ransacked his house and confiscated his motorcycle. Mr. Wang was sentenced to four years in prison and is now at the Nanhuayuan prison of Fushun.

Mr. Li Yuejin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing, has been suffering all kinds of inhuman torture methods since his arrest on March 5, 2005.

On the first day of his arrest, he was beaten into unconsciousness. The yanking, pulling and violent beatings injured his arms. He was almost blinded in one of his eyes. Then, he was sentenced to serve time in a forced labor camp for the third time, where he was treated inhumanly. As of now, Mr. Li has not recovered from the torture. He also suffers from symptoms of arterial leg inflammation. His health has deteriorated, which in part is due to long-term sleep deprivation.

Practitioners Han Yunhuad, Liu Wanjin, an employee of the Water Quality Plant of the Steam Factory of the Daqing Ethylene Petrochemical Company, and Zhao Yumei, an employee of the No. 2 Chemical Factory were arrested between October 18 and 19, 2005.

At about 6:40 p.m. on October 20, five plainclothes and one uniformed policemen came to Ms. Han Huayun's home. They first disconnected the electricity. After one of her family members opened the door to allow them to check the power supply breaker box, they forced their way into her house. The warrant they brought along had no name of the person to be arrested and no date. They then ransacked her house and arrested her.

Some of the Falun Gong practitioners detained at the Xishan division and the Dongshan division of Yongchuan prison, Chongqing City include:

Detained and released practitioners: Zeng Liang, Huang Zhen, Nie Chengjun, Tang Mingju, Pu Zhangzhi, Li Zhi, Tang Minghua, Feng Zhongxue, Luo Xiangxu, Tang Rong, Zhang Shaowei, Wang Hong, Xiao Hongqing, Wang Qi and Huang Xuebang.

Detained practitioners: Wang Rong, Zhang Qike, Zhang Deming, Li Lei, Tian Yipin, Yang Fengjun, Guo Zhongyi, and Chen Zhaoliu.

Ms. Xiao Yunsu, 52, a worker at the 67 (Metallurgy) Factory at Emeishan City, Sichuan Province, was shopping at the market on the morning of August 25, 2005. There, she met Huang Mei and others from the factory's public security division. Huang tricked Ms. Xiao Yunsu into walking with them to a bus that had been brought there ahead of time. They arrested her and took her to the Leshan Brainwashing center.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Wei was taken to the Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp and deprived of his freedom. Several steadfast Falun Gong practitioners are detained in a cell. They are not allowed to leave the cell and talk with others. They are supervised by a specially selected group of people. In order to block the information, the guards do not allow family visits for these practitioners. They do not even allow their relatives to enter the camp.

At the end of September 2005, the Sanmao Rail public security police, located in Guangdong, arrested seven Falun Gong practitioners from the Sanshui Rail residential area. Six of them have been released. Ms. Yu Qian was sentenced to a forced labor camp.

Ms. Yu Qian, 45, divorced (her ex-husband has died), lived with her 16-year-old child. She used to work in Maoming and then relocated to Sanshui. With her being detained at the forced labor camp, her child is alone at home. The child is in a dire situation.

Those who are responsible include:

Zhang Huiyong, Chief of Public Security of Sanmao Rail: 86-13929864417 (cell), 86-758-6161418 (office)

Wei Guangchun, Head of 610 Office, Secretary of the CCP committee and chairman of Sanmao Rail Ltd.

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