The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- December 18, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

In the "Tears and Blood of Dalian" series, we have disclosed the evil CCP's brutal persecution that began on July 20, 1999, against Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sun Yan, who practiced "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Recently Ms. Sun was again arrested and imprisoned in the Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City for a year. The Dalian 610 Office, Dalian Ganjingzi District Court, and the Procuratorate worked together to frame Ms. Sun and sentence her to three years in prison. Ms. Sun may be sent to Dabei Prison.

Ms. Sun's husband, Mr. Luu Kaili, is also a Falun Gong practitioner and in his 30s. He used to work as a technician and engineer in the information department of Dalian Hoist Technology. After July 20, 1999, Mr. Luu was also persecuted by the CCP. Recently the CCP arrested him and imprisoned him in the Liaoyang City Detention Center.

Recent picture of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Luu Kaili

1. Persecution in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City

After the persecution against Falun Gong began in 1999, Mr. Luu Kaili and two other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. They were arrested and illegally sent to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp for a year.

The three practitioners were forced into hard labor at the camp and were often beaten. The guards used to try and force them to give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." The practitioners refused to give up their beliefs and the guards regarded them as "stubborn members" and sent them to the Shenyang City Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for further persecution.

In Masanjia, the guards forced Mr. Luu to do prolonged, labor-intensive work on a farm, causing him to become physically very weak. Work in Masanjia was especially tiring, planting corn and rice. The practitioners were never fed well. Every day they were given a steamed bun plus lightly salted muddy-looking soup with a few leaves on top. Because of malnutrition, physical torture, mental abuse, and being overworked, Mr. Lv's legs started to swell up and he couldn't walk. Even though he was in such terrible condition, the guards had other prisoners carry Mr. Luu in a basket so he could work removing corn kernels. Mr. Luu went on a hunger strike to protest and asked to be released with no charges. He and several other practitioners, during their year of imprisonment, went on hunger strikes multiple times for a total of several months. In April 2001, they went on a hunger strike for over a month and during that time, the camp force-fed them every day with alcohol, hot-chili noodles, and salt. The practitioners were tortured until they became extremely weak.

The guards brutally tortured other practitioners the way they tortured Mr. Lv. They used a bed slat to beat a practitioner on his back because he protested the persecution. This practitioner's back was so injured that it later festered, became putrid, and had maggots growing on it. When he took off his clothes, the maggots would fall off.

In April 2001, when Mr. Lv's one-year term was about to end, the guards in Masanjia extended it for another six months and transferred him back to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp to continue the persecution.

2. Persecution in the Dalian and Guanshan Forced Labor Camps

On April 19, 2001, Mr. Luu and four other practitioners were transferred to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp.

In 2001, the insane "3-19" and "4-11" incidents took place in the Dalian Camp. Several hundred practitioners in the camp suffered from extreme torture. The police tortured Liu Yonglai and Ms. Wang Qiuxia to death and broke the necks of Qu Hui and Ms. Xue Nan, paralyzing them. Chen Yong had internal injuries and was persecuted to death after being sent to the Guanshan Forced Labor Camp. Male practitioners including Liu Changhai, Cong Wei, Jiang Yuntian, Zhang Ruiming, Gao Feng, Wang Enchang, and Liu Xiyong were brutally beaten, shocked with electric batons, and tortured with the tiger bench. Female practitioners including Sun Yan, Fu Shuying, Chen Hui, Man Chunrong, Chang Xueling, Yang Ming, Li Ping, Wang Lijun, Qu Sumei, Zhong Shujuan, and Chang Xuexia were often brutally beaten, shocked by electric batons, and tortured with the medieval method of "Five horses pulling the body apart" and with a stick or brush jammed into their private areas. The above mentioned is only a small part of how the Dalian Forced Labor Camp tortured and persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.

Picture of Liu Yonglai

Picture of Chen Yong

Picture of Wang Qiuxia

Picture of paralyzed Qu Hui

Pictures of Qu Hui's bedsore and the backbone exposed

At noon on April 19, Mr. Luu and the other practitioners arrived at Dalian Forced Labor Camp. As soon as they put their luggage down, the guards and prisoners jumped on them and tortured them, trying to coerce them into giving up Falun Gong.

After six months, Mr. Luu was transferred to the Guanshan Forced Labor Camp. In Guanshan, the guards forced him to perform intensive labor.

We still have not obtained the details of the persecution Mr. Luu and other practitioners suffered in the six months after they were transferred back to the Dalian Camp from Masanjia. The truth will be revealed one day. The following is a list of the guards and prisoners that participated in the torture.

She Baokun, Deputy Director of the Dalian Judicial Bureau

Hao Wenshuai, Zhang Baolin, and Zhang Ziliang: Director, Deputy Director, and Political Commissioner of the Dalian Forced Labor Camp

Guards: Qiao Wei, Wang Jun, Zhu Fengshan, and Jing Dianke

Prisoners: Gao Zhonghe, Gao Yongping, Chi Diandong, and Gao Peichun

In October 2001, Mr. Luu was finally released from the Guanshan Forced Labor Camp after his sentence had been illegally extended for six months.

3. The Dalian Public Safety Bureau Extended the Persecution and Sent Mr. Luu to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp Again

The authorities didn't loosen their control over Mr. Luu and still looked for opportunities to catch him.

In October 2001, a few days after he was released from the Guanshan Forced Labor Camp, Mr. Luu was watching a practitioner's house while this practitioner was away. Officers from the public security first division, the Zhongshan division of the Dalian Public Safety Bureau, and Officer Xing from the Taoyuan Police Station broke into that practitioner's home and found truth-clarifying materials disclosing the brutal persecution. The police arrested Mr. Lv, his wife Sun Yan, and four other people. Mr. Luu and Ms. Sun were sent to the Dalian Yaojia Detention Center.

To protest the arrest and persecution, Mr. Luu started a hunger strike. He was locked in a small isolation cell with his wrists and ankles cuffed. They were configured in such a way that he was unable lie down or stand up. There was a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach to force feed him. He could barely breathe, and he was in excruciating pain. It is not uncommon for a practitioner to die from such force-feeding.

In November 2001, Mr. Luu refused to sign all of his "educational convictions" but was still sentenced to two years and sent to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Lv's wife Sun was sentenced to three years and transferred to the Dalian Camp also from the Yaojia Detention Center.

4. Another Wave of Persecution in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp

Dalian Forced Labor Camp has never stopped persecuting practitioners, even after the extreme incidents that occurred on March 19, April 11, and May 10, 2001. Fearing that the evil persecution would be exposed, the means used to persecute practitioners became more secret and covert.

In 2002, the total number of male practitioners held in the Dalian camp was over 100. The guards sent the practitioners who refused to perform force labor, wear nametags, or to obey all the evil regulations to the "strict management" team. The team members, who were criminal inmates, beat the practitioners. They put helmets on their heads, handcuffed them, and then forced them to stay on beds that were made of a few wooden slats. The practitioners could only get off the bed when they had to go to the toilet. Practitioners were forced to stay in beds like that for 10 to 20 days or even up to three months. Then the practitioners were made to sit handcuffed to a chair for 17-18 hours. During that time the guards brainwashed the practitioners and tortured them mentally and physically. The guards didn't allow practitioners to see their family members, went through their mail, and even monitored practitioners when they used the toilets.

Because the practitioners only had boiled vegetables to eat, they suffered from severe malnutrition. The environment was dark and humid, and many people had scabies and suffered from severe itching. At night, practitioners were so itchy that they would scratch until they were bleeding and some even until their fingernails fell off. They could barely sleep at night and suffered from extreme mental pressure. The guards used the excuse of putting medicine on the practitioners to take them to the strict management team and try to coerce them into renouncing Falun Gong.

By offering the other inmates reduced sentences, the guards are able to coerce them to persecute practitioners so that the guards will not be held responsible when the crimes are exposed. The guards ordered the inmates to brutally beat and shock the practitioners with electric batons. They even force fed practitioners on hunger strikes with alcohol. Practitioners including Li Zhongke, Luu Kaili, Liu Xiyong, Qu Fei, Song Shuwu, Sun Shizhen, Shi Yueli, Chen Shenghu, Wang Shiming, and Jia Qi suffered this treatment.

Inmates who participated in beating practitioners included Kong Jun, Liu Guoshan, Qu Haibo, Yang Rijie, Tan Jimin, Xu Hui, Liang Changsheng, Lin Baiqian, and You Fugui.

The guards who ordered the prisoners to beat practitioners were mainly leaders from the 8^th Group.

Group leaders: Liu Zhongke, Jing Dianke, and Jiang Tongjiu

The leader of  "Four-prohibition" Group Song Hengyue

Squadron leaders: Peng Dahua, and Lo Xiaochen

On December 27, 2001, Mr. Luu was sent to the 8^th Group, which was dedicated to persecuting male Falun Gong practitioners. To protest his illegal imprisonment and forced labor and to ask to be released without charges, Mr. Luu refused to participate in forced labor and went on a hunger strike. Starting in January 2002, he and another practitioner, Li Zhongke (the older brother of practitioner Li Zhongmin who died in the persecution), were locked in a small isolated cell in the strict management area and brutally tortured. The guards locked them individually in small houses, put boxing headgear on them, and cuffed their ankles and wrists to beds to immobilize them. They were not allowed to brush their teeth or wash their faces, let alone take showers. This continued until October 2003.

When Mr. Luu was locked in the small cell by the strict management team, the guards tortured him without stop. One day in July 2002, he went on a hunger strike. Officer Jing Dianke and other inmates started to beat him heavily. They used high voltage electric batons to shock him. His ears swelled up grotesquely after this. The inmates also shocked Mr. Luu on his private parts and on the inside of his thighs. They also wrote dirty phrases on those parts. Liu Zhongke, the leader of the 8^th Group, was at the torture scene the whole time supervising. Liu claimed, "As long as I am present, no beatings will take place." However, all the persecution was carried out under his orders.

When practitioners were on a hunger strike, officers Jing Dianke and Song Hengyue force-fed them two bottles of strong alcohol each time. Practitioners Li Jisheng, Li Zhongke and Luu Kaili were force fed with strong alcohol more than once. Mr. Luu fainted and remained unconscious for 24 hours from too much alcohol. His muscles also atrophied from prolonged cuffing.

To avoid others hearing his screams and to prevent him from recognizing the faces of the torturers, officers Dian and Song ordered inmates Gao Zhonghe, Gao Yongping, Xu Hui and Lin Le'nan to turn off the light and cover their faces with bed covers before they beat Mr. Lv.

In November 2002, Mr. Luu started to resist the persecution. He refused to perform intensive labor and started to do the Falun Gong exercises in public. Group leader Liu Zhongke ordered inmates to cuff Mr. Lv's hands to the top of two separate bunk beds. Mr. Luu looked like a T-shape hanging in the air. This torture is called "hanging by the handcuffs." Dalian Forced Labor Camp learned it from the Huludao Forced Labor Camp. The police hung Mr. Luu up at 5 a.m. and released him at 12 a.m. every day for a month. He still refused to compromise under this torture. Liu ordered inmate Zhang Guanghong from the Mr. Dalian City area to wrap Lv's head with a bed sheet and use a 90 cm (35 inch) long bed board to beat Mr. Luu from head to toe.

In June 2003, Mr. Luu went on a hunger strike while assigned to the strict management team to protest the persecution. Zhang Baolin, the Deputy Director of the Dalian camp, tortured Mr. Luu by inserting a big tube into his nose and roughly force feeding him. Zhang fed Mr. Luu two bowls of corn porridge each time with a large syringe and asked while he did the force feeding, "Is Falun Gong good?" Mr. Luu answered, "Yes!" Then Zhang ordered inmates to beat him. Zhang has now been promoted to Political Commissioner of the camp, where guards are encouraged to beat practitioners and are rewarded for doing so. By August 2003, Mr. Luu had been on a hunger strike for three months and the inmates could no longer shovel food into his stomach, most likely due to the fact that his nose and esophagus were damaged. Liu put on a kind-looking face and said, "Kaili, I beg you to eat. Don't be so hard on yourself and do me a favor." Mr. Luu did not fall for the ploy.

While Mr. Luu was being tortured, the guards were also intensifying their persecution of other practitioners. At 10:30 a.m. on December 27, 2002, in the 4^th floor in the 8th Group of the Dalian camp, Jing Dianke, the deputy leader, led several inmates to practitioner Mr. Li Zhongke's cell. The inmates first told the others in the same cell to leave and then locked the door. Jing first used chopsticks to stab at Mr. Li's mouth because he was on a hunger strike. His mouth started to bleed heavily. His lips were torn and there was blood all over the floor and the window. Jing then started to viciously insult Mr. Li's character. Those who stayed in the same cell with Mr. Li were Mr. Luu Kaili and Li Jisheng (61 years old, from the Kaifa District, Dalian City), who were also tortured physically and mentally.

The practitioners in the 8^th Group later learned of this incident and started to protest this inhumane persecution. Liu pretended that he knew nothing and claimed that he never allowed beatings in his presence. Liu ordered Jing to stop torturing practitioners for a few days so they would calm down. A few days later, however, Jing started to intensively torture Mr. Li Zhongke again and tried to force him to renounce Falun Gong.

Jing Dianke, from Zhuanghe County, Dalian, has been very active in persecuting practitioners. For being successful in persecuting practitioners, he was promoted twice, from team leader to group leader. He has practitioners' blood all over his hands. Whenever he tortured practitioners, he looked like a different person, showing his demonic nature. Even the inmates said, "Jing looks like a ghost." Other leaders thought Jing had a mental disorder.

Jing was the one who invented so-called "strict management." The staff isolated the practitioners that refused to cooperate with them in a small room and put them on a so-called "dead man's bed." The staff either ordered inmates to beat the practitioners or sometimes they themselves did it. Another torture was to force feed practitioners alcohol. Jing was one of those in Dalian camp who dealt with practitioners. He was a leader of a small team at that time. When Jing realized practitioners didn't drink alcohol, he started to force feed it to practitioners. Jing once force-fed Mr. Luu two bottles of strong alcohol, which caused him to lose consciousness for a whole day. Jing did the same to Mr. Li Zhongke as well, causing him to vomit a lot.

After 2002, Jing Dianke ordered Wu Jun and Gu Chun to torture practitioner Mr. Luu Kaili. Jing also wrote on Mr. Luu and Mr. Li's bodies words slandering Falun Gong and Teacher's teachings in order to torture practitioners mentally and force them to give up their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Jing made this comment, "Without you Falun Gong practitioners, I would not be where I am today."

In September 2003, even though Mr. Luu was close to serving out his full term, he was still wearing handcuffs and shackles. Because he was confined to a bed or restrained on a small stool for prolonged periods of time, he wasn't able to move and his legs became very thin as the muscles atrophied. A kind staff member that the guards appointed to watch practitioners once tried to help Mr. Luu and was severely scolded by officer Song Hengyue. Mr. Luu still had to wear the boxing headgear even when the weather was really hot and was not allowed to shower. Mr. Luu ate very few boiled vegetables and was not allowed to drink enough water.

In the city of Dalian, the city government and people like Bo Xilai and Xia Deren, who violate human rights, are responsible for the more than 50 practitioners persecuted to death, the over 1,000 practitioners arrested, and the nearly 100 practitioners still in prisons. Their participation made possible the brutal torture of practitioners in the Dalian camp and such incidents as those that occurred on March 19, April 11, and May 10 in 2001 or the incident that happened in January 2004.

In October, Mr. Luu was released from the Dalian Forced Labor Camp, but he couldn't go home because of the persecution.

(To be continued)

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Honglan, 41, lives in Huangliu Village, Huangkou Town, Wuqing District, Tianjin City. After April 25, 1999, the local officials started persecuting Li Honglan. Between 1999 and 2003, officers from the Wuqing District Detention Center, the Cuihuangkou Town Police Department and the village Party officials, including Ma Xueyi, Ma Hongwu, Xiao Guangchen and Xiao Wenyu, constantly harassed Li Honglan at her home. They ransacked her home, detained her, fined her and tortured her. They electrically shocked her through a wired telephone, force-fed her, slapped her face and forced her to stand in a military posture. They tried to make Li Honglan give up her belief in Falun Gong.

Li Honglan started practicing Falun Gong in June 1997. She learned the meaning of life through practicing Falun Gong. She conducted herself according to Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, and her family lived in harmony. She and her family were severely oppressed during the persecution.

After April 25, 1999, the officials started monitoring Li Honglan. They tapped her home phone, and village officials followed her every day. After the persecution began in July 1999, village officials including Ma Xueyi, Ma Hongwu and Xiao Wenyu staked out the village entrance. They stopped Li Honglan when she left the village, inquired about her destination and followed her. In the evening, about seven officials went to Li Honglan's home and watched the practitioners studying the Fa in the courtyard. In the morning they watched the practitioners doing the exercises. Li, head of the Economics Committee, demanded that Li Honglan hand over Falun Gong books and lecture cassettes. Li Honglan refused. Officials from the town government then threatened and intimidated her.

In mid-June 1999, about six officials including Ma Zehu, Xiao Wenyu and Ma Yugui went to Li Honglan's home. Ma Zehu took out a newspaper and read the news in front of Li Honglan. He said after he finished reading, "Our superiors sent us here."

At around 8:00 p.m. on July 17, Li Honglan's home phone was disconnected while she was using it.

In the morning of July 18, Ma Hongwu, an official from the village security committee, told Li Honglan to report to the town government "for a meeting." Most Falun Gong practitioners in Huangkou Town were told to attend a meeting at the town government. After the meeting the officials demanded the practitioners publicly renounce Falun Gong. Some practitioners refused. The officials phoned their families, and some went to beat and pressure the practitioners. They didn't let the practitioners go home until they wrote a guarantee statement. More than ten practitioners were detained at the town government. Officials assaulted and threatened them. In the evening, the officials made each of the practitioners stand in front of a tree in the yard without moving, so that the mosquitoes could feast on them.

In the afternoon of July 18, the town government sent more than ten perpetrators to ransack Li Honglan's home in the rain. They took three of Master's pictures, four pictures of the Falun emblem, one copy of Lunyu, one small picture of Master, and one hand-written copy of Zhuan Falun. On the evening of July 18, Li Honglan was still held at the town government. They forced her to bend over and stay in that position.

Early on the morning of July 19, the officials put practitioners Li Honglan and Yang Suyun in the trunk of a car. They drove these two practitioners and two other practitioners, Meng Zhaoying and Wen Xiuzhen, to the Wuqing District Detention Center. They were held there for seven days with the fabricated charge of "disrupting public order." The detention center charged them 63 yuan when the practitioners' families took them home.

After Li Honglan was detained, her husband Wang Youlian was taken to the police department. Li Hongxin, head of the police department, beat him. Their seven-year-old son was left home uncared for. After Li Honglan was released from the detention center, Cui Weixian, an officer from the Cuihuangkou Town Police Department, made her report to the police daily and write her daily "understandings," trying to force her to renounce Falun Gong.

On September 8, Li Honglan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She returned home on the evening of September 9 and was summoned by personnel from the Cuihuangkou Police Department. Lu Jian, deputy head of the police department, and police officer Yang Yongli vehemently slapped her face. The next morning, police officer Wang Shoucheng shocked her with electric batons for over thirty minutes. Afterwards, he made her squat without moving. He said, "I'll make you squat like this until you collapse and die."

On September 10, Li Honglan was sent to a brainwashing session held at the Cuihuangkou Town government and was detained there for seven days. She was forced to read Falun Gong-slandering articles and write so-called "understanding" statements.

Late at night on September 16 she was charged with "jeopardizing the social administrative order" and detained at the Wuqing District Detention Center for fifteen days. The arrest warrant was signed on September 13. Authorities from the Wuqing District Detention Center refused to release her at the end of fifteen days. They detained her for another ten days under the same false charge. They explained that they were afraid she would go to Beijing during the October 1 national holiday to appeal for Falun Gong. Ten days later they still refused to release her and claimed because she went home nine days early after being detained on July 19, 1999, she must be detained for nine more days. She was eventually released on October 25. The detention center authorities extorted 576 yuan from her before letting her go, which means they charged 14 yuan for each day of detention.

More than 100 practitioners are held at the detention center. Each cell holds between 15 and 19 practitioners. The practitioners cannot turn over when sleeping because the room is overcrowded. After 34 days of detention, Li Honglan was sent to the Cuihuangkou Town Police Department About eight practitioners were held at the police department. The practitioners are forced to stand against a wall or be subjected to brainwashing each day.

On October 27, two practitioners went to Beijing to appeal and were arrested. They protested the unlawful detention at the police department. Local police officer Cui Weixian went to Li Honglan and asked her, "What do you think about the two practitioners going to Beijing to appeal?" She said, "There is nothing wrong with it! It's their right as guaranteed by the constitution."

Li Honglan and her uncle Li Shuzhong, also a Falun Gong practitioner, were held at the police department during the day and were allowed to go home at night. They were forced to stand against a wall at noon and mop the floor, clean the yard, clean cars and cook.

On the morning of November 13, Li Honglan went to the police department. Her uncle Li Shuzhong told her with tears in his eyes that he was not allowed to go home the night before. The police put wires on his thumbs and electrically shocked him through a hand-cranked telephone. They forced him to give up Falun Gong practice before allowing him to go home. Li Honglan was held at the police department for 25 days, until November 23. She was forced to report to the police department daily until December 31.

In October 1999, local officer Cui Weixian confiscated Li Honglan's ID and never returned it. After July 20, 1999, Cui Weixian and security officer Ma Hongwu often harassed her at her home. They pressured the division officials to "reform" her. Xiao Guangchen, secretary of the Bureau's Party Committee and Ma, the village head, often phoned her and disrupted Li Honglan's life.

On August 19, 2000, Li Honglan went to Cuihuangkou Town to clarify the truth and distribute truth clarification materials. Persecutors Ma Wenqiang and Qi Junzhen reported her. (These two people have since received karmic retribution). Three days later, police officers Cui Weixian, Du and three others broke into Li Honglan's home. They didn't show their IDs and ransacked her home. They took 13 Falun Gong books, two sets of Master's Fa lecture cassettes given in Dalian City and Guangzhou City, and they took Li Honglan to the police department. On August 22, she was illegally detained at Wuqing District Detention Center and was held there for thirty days. She was extorted 420 yuan upon release.

During the detention, the center authorities took Li Honglan and Liu Chengjun, also a practitioner, to the Wuqing District Party School Brainwashing Center. The perpetrators designated a specific seat to a practitioner who is to be "reformed." Liu Liang, secretary of the Cuihuangkou Town Political and Judiciary Committee, police officer Cui Weixian and head of the Cuihuangkou Town Women's Committee sat next to the practitioners. Many security officers stayed inside and outside of the conference room. They played videos that slandered Master and Falun Gong. Several collaborators spoke, and the practitioners were divided into groups to be "reformed." The practitioners were later sent to the Wuqing District Detention Center.

On December 1, 2000, Li Honglan and Yang Suyun went to visit practitioner Zhou Zuoxia, who had just been released from a labor camp. Zhou Zuoxia had been "reformed" at the labor camp, and he phoned the police department to report the practitioners' visit. Before Li Honglan had arrived at home, Ma Hongwu and Cui Weixian led about eight police officers to ransack her home and took two Falun Gong exercise audiocassette tapes. Li Honglan was arrested when she got home and was taken to the police department and interrogated. Li Honglan and Yang Suyun refused to cooperate with the renewed detention and refused to sign the documents. The police officers said that they could send the practitioners to a detention center, even without their signature. They charged Li Honglan with "inciting and disrupting the social order" and detained her for fifteen days. She was extorted out of 240 yuan before going home.

On December 16, 2000 Li Honglan's family took her home. Ma Hongwu, the village security officer, also went to her home. He said to Li Honglan and her family, "The town government said you can't come home. You have to go to the brainwashing session held by the town government." Then he took her to the brainwashing session. More than ten practitioners were already being held there. They were forced to clean the building including the staircase, pull weeds and unload merchandise on a daily basis. In the evening they were driven into the courtyard without any warm clothes on. Each practitioner was taken to a room on the third floor with the lights off, where about five perpetrators viciously beat the practitioners and demanded that they give up Falun Gong practice. Zhang Shushan, Liu Hongsheng, Gao Bochen and Chen Yuhua were among those who beat the practitioners.

On the evening of December 16, 2000, Li Honglan was taken to a room on the north side of the third floor. Five perpetrators told her to kneel. She refused, and they kicked her until she collapsed on the floor and cursed at her.

On the evening of December 17, 2000, Li Honglan and practitioner Zhang Xuelian were detained inside the conference room on the second floor. Overseers Zhang Shushan and other government officials forced Li Honglan and Zhang Xuelian to stand in a military posture facing the heating pipes, with their hands on the hem of their pants and their backs straight. The perpetrators put a book on each practitioner's head and hit the practitioner if the book slanted. Li Honglan stood there until she lost consciousness.

On the evening of December 18, 2000, the persecutors took Li Honglan to a dark room on the third floor where five persons, including Li, Meng Qingyong, the secretary of the Party Youth Committee and Chen Yuhua were standing. One person told Li Honglan to kneel and she refused. The persecutors kicked her and beat her. They grabbed her hair and slapped her across her face until she saw stars and her cheeks were swollen. They pushed her into the yard to expose her to the freezing weather. This lasted until early morning the next day. On December 29, Gao, the deputy secretary of the town Party committee, and Liu Liangqiang, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, demanded that each practitioner give their opinion on Falun Gong and slander Falun Gong . On December 31, 2000, the division secretary bailed the practitioners out after the practitioners' families each paid 3,000 yuan "guarantee" money. The money was never returned.

In January 2001, Lu Jian, deputy head of the police department, and police officer Cui Weixian broke into Li Honglan's home once again. Without presenting any ID, they ransacked her home and confiscated two Falun Gong books. They took her to the police department and electrically shocked her with a telephone. They forced her to take off her socks and tied both ends of the electric wire to her big toes before they cranked the telephone. Li Honglan confronted the police about the torture. Lu Jian and Cui Weixian slapped her face and said, "You are tortured because you gave people truth clarification materials." They held her at the police department for seven days, during which time she remained at the police department during the day and returned home at night. They didn't find any incriminating evidence against her, so they finally let her go home.

At around 1:00 p.m. on September 11, 2002, Wang Shuwang, the new deputy head of the police department, and police officer Cui Weixian led eight officers and broke into Li Honglan's home. They entered the yard and locked the door. They barged inside the home and ransacked it. Li Honglan confronted them and tried to stop this criminal act. Wang Shuwang ordered two officers named Li Shui and Sun Zhigang to watch her and not allow her to move. The police continued to ransack her home. During this time, practitioner Gao Ling arrived to visit. The police then opened the door. They pulled Gao Ling inside and locked the door behind her. They asked her why she was visiting Li Honglan. They didn't find anything they wanted, and the neighbors denounced them. Nevertheless, they took Li Honglan to the police department. Wang Shuwang forbade Li Honglan's relatives to call her husband to inform him about her arrest and the ransacking.

On the evening of September 11, 2002, the officers again tried to ransack Li Honglan's home but didn't succeed. At 5:00 a.m. the next day, the officers did break into her home and went through everything. They opened eight sealed wheat storage bins, which caused the wheat to grow mold, and rats ate the wheat. At 6:00 a.m., Li Honglan's ten-year-old son was trying to go to school. Wang Shuwang forbade him to open the door. He pushed the child inside a room, but the child insisted on leaving. Wang Shuwang threatened to take him to the police department. The child was frightened and fell ill. He could not go to school that day. On the second day Li Honglan was held at the police department, Liu Weimin, the new head of police department, got drunk. He put his legs on the office desk and used vulgar language to intimidate and verbally attack Li Honglan. Wang Zhenguo, head of the Coordination Division, stood beside Liu Weimin. He screamed at Li Honglan and threatened to physically harm her.

On the evening of September 13, the police officers sent Li Honglan, who hadn't eaten or consumed any fluids for two days, to the Wuqing District Detention Center, to be held for thirty days. They charged her with "disrupting the social order and jeopardizing the social administration." Li Honglan held a hunger strike at the detention center to protest the persecution and requested unconditional release. On the seventh day of her hunger strike the detention center authorities force-fed her through a thick tube inserted into her nose and stomach. Cui Zonghai, the political head, doctors Cheng and Ji, and several others took part in force-feeding. She was released after forty days of a hunger strike. She was extorted out of 420 yuan and more than 50 yuan for a "medical fee" upon her release.

On March 18, 2003, Cui Weixian and his assistant Mao went to Li Honglan's home again. Cui Weixian tricked her into going to the police department and later sent her to Wuqing District Detention Center. On the seventh day, the district hospital sent a group of doctors to force-feed her until her nose bled and she vomited for a long time. She was released after eight days of detention.

The family of Hu Zhengxi held a funeral procession in Niubitan on May 9. Hu Zhengxi had been arrested three times before and placed in the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City by the wicked party. At the beginning of May 2004, when she was released from the forced labor camp, her body was emaciated, and she was extremely weak.

Hu Zhengxi had been detained more than once after she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong at the end of 1999. She was confined in the Changde City First and Second Detention Centers from the end of 1999 until April 2002. She was illegally sentenced by the Dingcheng District 610 Office to two years of forced labor in July 2002. Hu Zhengxi suffered all sorts of cruel tortures in the Baimalong Labor Camp, and later she succumbed to the forced brainwashing and deceit of the guards and collaborators. After her release on June 30, 2003, she awakened to the truth and was overcome by regret, and she started stepping forward to clarify the truth. On February 21, 2004 she was arrested while handing out truth clarification materials, sentenced by the Dingcheng District 610 Office to two and half years of forced labor, and again sent to the Baimalong Labor Camp and subjected to severe persecution.

She resisted the authorities' unreasonable requests and went on a hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest against the illegal detention and abuse. Finally she was tortured to the brink of death, and her body was emaciated. Despite this, her hands and legs were still cuffed by the guards, and she was hung up in the Zhuzhou Chemical Hospital. The labor camp authorities were afraid of being held responsible, so they informed the local police, and she was taken home at the beginning of May. Upon her recovery, several days later the police broke into her home and sent her to the Changde Rehabilitation Hospital (a mental hospital) for further persecution.

On July 29, 2004, officials from the CCP again sent Hu Zhengxi back to the Baimalong Labor Camp from the mental hospital. Hu suffered all kinds of abuse there, and several of her teeth were pried off. Despite her extremely weak and ill condition, the labor camp still illegally admitted her.

In the labor camp, in late April 2005 Hu Zhengxi again went on hunger strike to protest against the persecution. She was in critical condition after twelve days, and on May 4 she was sent to the Zhuzhou Chemical Hospital for emergency treatment. At 6:30 pm on May 5, 2005 Hu Zhengxi died due to the brutal torture by the Zhuzhou Baimalong Labor Camp.

During the past six years, the Chinese Communist Party has brutally persecuted Falun Gong. Ms. Wang Xiuqing is one of the millions of practitioners affected by this persecution. She has been arrested four times, subjected to brainwashing twice, and detained in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun once. The long-term persecution affected Ms. Wang physically and psychologically, and it took her life on November 3, 2005.

Ms. Wang Xiuqing, 53, was living with her parents in Taiyang Village, Laotougou County, Longjing City, Jilin Province. After her parents passed away, Ms. Wang led a hard life alone. Her health was very poor back then. In the fall of 1997, she came across Falun Gong and began practicing. Her chronic illnesses rapidly disappeared, and she regained good health. Ms. Wang told every friend that "Falun Dafa is wonderful" and "Falun Dafa saved my life."

When the persecution started in July 1999, the Laotougou County police illegally arrested Ms. Wang and took her to a brainwashing class, which was organized by the Longjing City government. Ms. Wang was later transferred to the Fifth Team in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp, where a female warden named Wang Limei tortured her using various methods. Torture could not force Ms. Wang to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. With strong righteous thoughts, she walked out of the labor camp.

Since then, Ms. Wang has continued to clarify the facts and expose the evil. Laotougou Police again arrested her and persecuted her in the Longjing City Public Security Bureau. Ms. Wang escaped again with righteous thoughts, but she was forced to become homeless.

The severe persecution destroyed Ms. Wang's health. She died on November 2, 2005.

Officials in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province Persecute Practitioners

After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, some officials in Jiaozuo City have been closely following the Chinese Communist Party to suppress, arrest, and jail innocent practitioners. In 2004 alone, 12 practitioners were secretly sentenced to prison. In 2005, the authorities utilized spies to help them arrest practitioners. Practitioner Mr. Han Sigang has been held in Qinyang City Detention Center for months. From September to October, two brainwashing sessions were held. Currently, 610 Office personnel are monitoring and following practitioners, so as to arrest more practitioners.