The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- November 1, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Content

  • Witness to the Persecution at Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province

  • Many Practitioners Are Detained in Fushun Prison, Liaoning Province

  • Ms. Dong Jingya on Hunger Strike for Over Six Months

  • Chengdu City Falun Gong Practitioner Jiang Yunhong in Critical Condition from Persecution

  • Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xining City, Qinghai Province

  • Three Practitioners from Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Shandong Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution



  • Witness to the Persecution at Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province

    In May 2002, I was sent to Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province. I witnessed many vicious and brutal persecution methods inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners.

    Method 1: At that time, almost all Falun Gong practitioners who were sent to the labor camp had been beaten by electronic batons. Some of them instantly lost the control of their bladders. A guard once inserted a baton into a female practitioner's private parts, which caused great damage.

    Method 2: There are a group of prisoners assigned to be "control coordinators" or "cell assistants." They helped police persecute Falun Gong practitioners. They followed practitioners who were new to the labor camp, even following them to the rest room. "Strictly monitored" practitioners were monitored by several people 24 hours a day in an isolated cell. These people took turns writing monitoring reports.

    Method 3: Using collaborators and people who had been deceived by their evil understandings to transform resolute practitioners. The steadfast practitioners were attacked 24 hours a day, non-stop. There wasn't a moment spared. Often practitioners were deprived of sleep for several days. Practitioners were slapped on their faces, and also ordered to copy statements slandering Falun Gong.

    Method 4: Organizing so-called "criticism" sessions, "brainwashing" classes, and "quality assurance tests on the transformed."

    In the labor camp, I got in touch with many local practitioners. Furthermore, I have witnessed the local government's brutal persecution methods. It is the law enforcement agencies who are breaking the laws.

    Sixty year-old female practitioner Shen, from Jinfang City, was hung up for more than ten days. Her toes barely touched the ground. The marks of the resulting injuries to her arms remained for a long time. Almost every practitioner in the Nandong area was beaten. Their bodies are blue and purple. Many of them are senior citizens. Many practitioners in Wuxi were sent to mental hospitals. Practitioner Mrs. Long from Kunshan, who was in her 50s, had her clothes stripped off.

    Days and nights without sleep is a common method of torture. I myself was detained in the detention center for four nights and three days. I was questioned constantly, and a few policemen stepped on my right foot, making it completely bruised.

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/20/112786.html


    Many Practitioners Are Detained in Fushun Prison, Liaoning Province

    Fushun Prison is located on Ningyuan Street, Shunchen District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Many practitioners from Liaoning Province are detained there.

    Side Front Door, Fushun Prison, Liaoning Province

    The current condition of the practitioners detained in Fushun Prison.

    Persecuted to Death - Mr. Peng Geng was a practitioner from Panjin City. In 2004, he was detained in Fushun Prison, Liaoning Province. During the detention period, his health deteriorated and he often spit blood. Mr. Peng lacked a normal diet. After the police department in Shenyang arrested him in November 2002, he was continually on a hunger strike. As a result, he was brutally force-fed and tortured using many different methods under the guise of being "saved" in this false manner. Due to the persecution, he passed away on July 15, 2005

    Current Condition Unknown - Mr. Li Shangshi was the former head assistant of the Panjin City Falun Gong Assistance Center. In 1999, Mr. Li was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. In 2003, after he was released from Dabei Prison in Shenyang City, he continued to help with truth clarification projects. After he was arrested on April 20, 2004, he was sent to the Panjin Detention Center. In September 2004, he was sentenced to 14 years and was detained in Fushun Prison. Mr. Li has been on hunger strike since September 28, 2005. His situation is unknown at this time.

    Sentenced to 3.5 years of Detention - Mr. Dong Tingyuan, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Tiexi District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. At the end of May 2004, he was arrested and taken to the Tiexi Detention Center in Shenyang. He was transferred to Fushun Prison in early November 2004 and was sentenced to 3.5 years.

    Husband and Wife Sentenced to 10 Years in Separate Prisons, 12-year-old Daughter Left in Custody of Grandparents - Mr. Wang Jingchun, male, is from Shuoshan Town, Liaoyang County, Liaoning Province. He was born in 1969 and graduated from a middle school. He was detained on January 24, 2000, and on March 18, 2001, for a total of 15 days. On April 6, 2001, and later on December 27, 2003, he was arrested again. Currently, he is serving a 10 year sentence and is detained in Fushun Prison. His wife, Ms. Wang Jinping, was sentenced to 10 years and is in a prison in Shenyang. Their 12-year-old daughter is being taken care of by her grandparents.

    Current Whereabouts Unknown - In July 2004, police officers from Fushun arrested Ms. Dong Haibo. The news was that she was in Fushun prison. Her family members visited Fushun Prison several times but the authorities denied them any visits. Later, they heard she had been transferred to the Masanjia Labor Camp. Her family members went to Masanjia and were denied from seeing her there also. They have not seen her for nearly a year. In February 2000, Ms. Dong's husband was sentenced to 13 years and is detained in Fushun Prison.

    Relevant Information:

    Fushun Prison, Ningyuan Street, Shunchen District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province

    Main Telephone: 86-413-7675904
    Fushun Prison:
    413-7673211-636
    413-7673211-485
    413-7673211-436

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/18/112657.html


    Ms. Dong Jingya on Hunger Strike for Over Six Months

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dong Jingya from Shenyang City has been on hunger strike in the 1st Group of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for more than 6 months. Police Chief Xie Chengdong, and others from the 1st Group, said on the telephone (phone number: 89210406) on October 13, "Nobody is allowed to see her. They also claimed that Ms. Dong had been regularly force-fed.

    Ms. Dong Jingya was engaged in architectural design work at the Liaoning Province Construction Design Institute. In 1997, she started to practice Falun Gong, and benefited a lot, both in body and mind. She worked diligently and was dedicated to her profession. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, Ms. Dong was compelled to remain homeless for three to four years to avoid persecution. On March 6, 2005, she was illegally arrested by Shenyang Municipal National Security Team and was imprisoned illegally in Masanjia 2nd Women's Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Dong Jingya went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She once had such symptoms as a "reverse-flow" stomach, vomiting, blurry vision, kidney failure, shortage of blood in her cardiac muscle, and so on. In July 2005, because she turned off a tape recorder that was slandering Falun Gong, she was handcuffed to an iron railing, located at the end of a bed, by the Masanjia guards.

    Falun Gong practitioner Li Baojie from Panjing City in Liaoning Province was suffocated on the spot on April 7, 2005, while being force-fed with food by the "doctors" and the 1st Group guards of Masanjia. Li Baojie passed away on April 8.

    Xie Chengdong was one of the primary people responsible for the persecution when Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Gao Rongrong from Shenyang, and Li Baojie from Panjing, were persecuted to death at Shenyang "Medical School" and the 1st Group of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp respectively. (At the "medical school," Xie Chengdong was once in charge of negotiating with the family members of these two practitioners. Xie also reported to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, coordinated related issues, etc.)

    Note: Please dial the country code before all cell phone numbers, and the country code + the area code for all other numbers. The country code is 86 while the area code is 24.

    The Address of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp:
    Masanjia Village, Town of Masanjia, Yu Hong District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, 110145

    Zhang Mingqiang, Director of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp: 89212321 (headquarter department)

    Wang Wei, Deputy Director: (one of the deputy directors who specially manages the persecution of Falun Gong, former chief of the management section) 89212261 (office)

    Su Jing, Chief of the 2nd Female Station: 89210822, 89212252, 89210454

    Telephone switchboard: 89210074
    Zhao Laixi, Deputy Chief: 13236642655(cell), 89120908(home)

    Cao Yujie (female, about 50 years old), and Chen Bin, (female, about 30 years old), the prison medical doctors of Masanjia clinics who force-fed food

    Telephone of the 1st Group of the 2nd Female Station: 89210406

    Li Mingyu, female, 40 years old, Leader of the 1st Group
    Xie Chengdong (male, 43 years old), Deputy Leader of the 1st Group (also deputy-head of the 2nd Female Labor Camp)
    Wang Shuzheng, (female, about 30 years old), Deputy Leader of the 1st Group: 13982207608 (cell)

    There are 12 female team leaders and 6 male team leaders altogether in the 1st Group.
    Team commanders (female): Liu Hui, Qi Fuying, Cui Hong, Fei Feng, Zhang He, Zhang Lei, Liu Jing, Zhang Huan, Ren Hongzan, Huang Haiyan, Guan Lin and Wang Xiaofeng
    Team leaders (male): Gao, Shi, Tu, Jiang, Li Wei and Xie Jiachuan

    Group leaders on duty: Yang Yaqin (female, about 50 years old), Wang Yingchao (female, 46 years old)
    Broadcasting office which slanders Falun Gong: Xiang Baifeng (female, about 50 years old)

    2nd Group phone: 89240074
    3rd Group phone: 89212252

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/18/112651.html


    Chengdu City Falun Gong Practitioner Jiang Yunhong in Critical Condition from Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Yunhong from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province had been under cruel torture, interrogations, and torment ever since the local police abducted him in July 2005. He is now in critical condition and is unable to take care of himself. He is currently detained at the Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City, a hospital that has participated in torture and been responsible for the resulting deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners.

    Mr. Jiang Yunhong, 37, was an engineer working at the Chengdu Air Compressor Factory. He was sentenced to a labor camp twice after the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999. He was abducted many times, each time suffering torture and cruelty. He was dismissed from his job and his local residence registration was revoked.

    On July 22, 2005, Jiang Yunhong visited another Falun Gong practitioner, Yuan Bing. Less than 15 minutes later a group of local police deputies broke in and took him to the Xinjin Brainwashing Center in Chengdu City. Jiang Yunhong has been on hunger strike ever since to protest and resist the persecution.

    Starting at midnight on July 22, the police started torturing and interrogating him. The police handcuffed his hands to both sides of a chair, and forced him to sit on the chair without sleep for 6-7 days. Every minute or two the police beat him. From time to time they kicked him, punched him, or slashed his eyes with rough paper sticks. They also poured cold water over him to keep him constantly soaked.

    The National Security Group of the Chengdu City Public Security Bureau and the 610 Office deputies joined the torture after 2-3 days. They beat him more savagely than mere punching and kicking. They applied various macabre methods of handcuffing him, causing Jiang to pass out several times. The persecutors tried hard to find the most painful way to handcuff his hands from behind the chair, then pulled his head back while striding on his cuffed hands, causing severe pain to his hands and wrists. Very soon his wrists were swollen and bleeding. One policeman scratched, pulled, and pinched Jiang's leg and punched his thigh. He even used his knee to press against Jiang's thigh, and stomp on Jiang's thigh, again inflicting severe pain.

    After more than two months of inhumane torture, Jiang Yunhong could no longer take care of himself. He is detained at the Number 4 bed, on the fourth floor at the Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City.

    Qingyang District Hospital is the designated hospital of the Chengdu City Detention Center and is in fact a site where Falun Gong practitioners are tortured. Many Falun Gong practitioners were force-fed and injected with nerve damaging drugs at this hospital. More than 10 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death by staff of the Chengdu City Detention Center and the Qingyang District Hospital.

    Chengdu City Public Security Bureau:

    Office 86-28-86407072; 86-28-86627201
    Command Center 86-28-86407212; 86-28-86623870
    Political Department 86-28-86407223; 86-28-86406110; 86-28-86625380
    Chengdu City Detention Center 86-28-86407825; 86-28-86407838
    Deputy Director Xu Maoqiang 86-28-86407830(Office)
    Prison Doctor Han Kun 86-28-86407839

    Chengdu City Qingyang District Hospital 86-28-86633874; 86-28-86247602 (Reception Center)
    Hospital Chief Wang Daoyuan 86-28-86642003(office)
    Party Secretary Gao Wei 86-28-86697275(Office)
    Deputy Hospital Chief Pu Wutai
    Hospitalization Internal Medicine department 86-28-86245591; 86-28-86632755
    Hospitalization Surgical department 86-28-86631996
    Hospitalization Monitor and Supervisor 86-28-86697275; 86-28-86251306; 86-28-86633874

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/13/112305.html


    Brutal Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xining City, Qinghai Province

    In the past several years, practitioners outside of China have stepped up their effort in exposing the inhumane persecution of practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They also started to bring the perpetrators to justice through lawsuits. In November 2004, Su Rong, the former Party Secretary of Qinghai Province and leader of the CCP delegation to Zambia, was sued in Zambia by practitioners for his part in the brutal persecution. When the Zambia police issued an arrest warrant for him, he managed to escape and eventually went back to Gansu Province. This incident shocked the citizens all over Qinghai Province.

    As a result, many police officers in charge of persecuting practitioners had to change from carrying out their missions publicly to doing so in secret.

    Last year, under the instruction of the Political and Judiciary Committee of Xining City and Qinghai Province, personnel from the Qinghai Province Police Department, National Security Group, and the 610 Office started to arrest practitioners at night and in plainclothes.

    At the end of 2003, practitioner Ms. Ge Yanhua, in her forties, from Chengbei District, Xining City, was arrested by officers from the Xining City Police Department, and was sentenced to three years of forced labor.

    In early 2004, police officers from Xining City Police Department illegally searched practitioner Ms. Wang Xianjin's home in Chengzhong District, Xining City. Ms. Wang, 60, was arrested and held in the Ershilipu Detention Center in Xining City.

    On February 20, 2004, plainclothes policemen from the Xining City Police Department drove six cars and illegally searched many practitioners' homes. They arrested two practitioners from Chengdong District, Xining City - Ms. Wang Guizhi and her daughter Zhang Qingyuan. They are being held in the Ershilipu Detention Center (telephone number: 86-971-5311982). The National Security Groups of Chengdong District and Chengzhong District in Xining City were in charge of these activities.

    In October 2001, while clarifying the truth on the Big Cross Overpass in Xining City, practitioner Ms. Zhang Qingyuan was arrested and later illegally sentenced to forced labor. She was not released until the end of 2003. Two months later, she was arrested again. Practitioner Ms. Wang Guizhi, in her sixties, resisted the illegal arrest, and the police officers forcibly pushed her into a car. One month after her detention, Zhang Qingyuan was sentenced to one year of forced labor.

    Since last April, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security has organized the persecution activities. Plainclothes policemen were stationed outside the homes of practitioners or hid in cars to follow and monitor practitioners. They also listened to practitioners' phone conversations.

    On April 13, 2005, practitioner Ms. Wang Guizhi was secretly arrested by police officers from the Xining City Police Department Chengdong Branch and the local police station. The Party Secretary of Chengdong District Political and Judicial Committee sent her to a brainwashing center for more than two months. She was not released until the end of June.

    On July 9, 2005, practitioner Ms. Wang Yuzhi was clarifying the truth to a plainclothes policeman from the local Xiguan Street Police Station in Xining City. The policeman forcibly took her to the detention center. Ms. Wang was sentenced to two years of forced labor.

    On February 21, 2005, practitioner Mr. Dang Fabang, who was forced to become homeless to avoid persecution, went home to visit his wife and child. He was arrested by police officers from the Xining City National Security Department, Xining City Police Department and Pengjiazhai Police Station. He was taken to the Xining City National Security Department and was tied to a Tiger Bench. His four limbs were secured by special locks. Police officers took turns to watch him and did not allow him to sleep. Three days later, Dang was able to escape.

    In July 2005, police officers from the Xining City Police Department and police stations went to homes of practitioners in their districts and took their fingerprints by force.

    At around noontime on July 25, 2005, the director and deputy director of the Huangzhong County Police Department (both with the last name of Zhang) led two police officers from their department and four police officers from the Zongzhai Township Police Station to illegally search the homes of five villagers in Xiejia Village of Zongzhai Township. One home was searched even when the owner was not there. The police officers confiscated a large sum of money and personal belongings. They arrested 43-year-old practitioner Ms. Song Jubang and physically abused her during the arrest.

    It was reported that in August, Song was illegally held in the Ershilipu Detention Center. In order to protest the arrest, Ms. Song went on a hunger strike. The police officers brutally cut her throat open and inserted a feeding tube to force-feed her. Ms. Song was sentenced to two years of forced labor.

    Lv Benqian was appointed as the Director of the Xining City Police Department in 2003. He is currently a standing member of the Xining City Party Committee and the Party Secretary of the Political and Judicial Committee. Under his direction, the 610 Offices, National Security Department and Police Department in Xining City have intensified their persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. He is directly responsible for all the persecution cases mentioned above.

    Lv Benqian's home phone number: 86-971-6145909
    Deputy Director of Xining City Police Department, Huang Shujiang.
    Telephone number of Ershilipu Detention Center: 86-971-5311982

    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/9/112040.html


    Three Practitioners from Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Shandong Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution
     

    Ms. Liu Yugui, age 59, was a resident of Tielinghe Town, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. Her home was repeatedly ransacked and she was fined over 6,000 yuan because she practiced Falun Gong and clarified the truth to people.

    In June 2002, her eldest daughter, Liu Lihua, was "arrested" by lawless officials for clarifying the truth and sentenced to seven years in prison.

    Her younger daughter, Liu Fenghua, was arrested while posting truth-clarification posters in Qingdao City and taken to a forced labor camp for three years.

    Ms. Liu Yugui was illegally arrested when she went to the city police department to look for her daughter. She was held in the Xinglong Detention Center for over three months. She was so brutally treated that she could not even walk. In October 2003 she was arrested again by the Yangming Police Branch and confined to a metal chair for six days. Both her mental and physical health were severely compromised. She died on October 29, 2003.

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    Ms. Wan Su'e was 50 years old and lived in Qianjin Village, Shuguang Township, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province. Before she started to practice Falun Gong, she had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and arteriosclerosis. She overcame these illnesses after she began practicing Falun Gong.

    After Jiang's regime started to persecute Falun Gong, she was repeatedly harassed and threatened by the local police and village security director. In June 2002 officials took her to a brainwashing center, where she was tortured and coerced to finally give up Falun Gong. After she was released from the brainwashing center, her neighbor monitored her all the time. She could not escape surveillance.

    On July 1, 2005, she showed symptoms of a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away.

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    Ms. Feng Huaizhi, over 50 years old, was a family member of an employee of the Second Ore Mine of Shengli Oil Field, Shandong Province. After the persecution began, she was harassed. Her work unit sent people to monitor her so that she could not study or practice Falun Gong. Later she showed signs of serious illness and passed away.


    Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/16/112554.html