The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong --September 2, 2005

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Han Junmiao was director of the recruiting office of the Education Bureau in Xiong County, Baoding City, Hebei Province. Before she started practicing Falun Gong she had several illnesses, but after learning Falun Gong and raising her moral standards, these illnesses disappeared without medication. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Han Junmiao experienced many inhumane tortures. She was transferred in and out of three forced labor camps. After she was released from these forced labor camps she endured frequent persecution and brainwashing attempts by personnel from the Xiong County 610 Office. She died on May 6, 2005.

In November 1999, officers from the Political and Security Section of the police department arrested Han Junmiao at her office, and illegally kept her at a detention center. Ten days later, persons from the Political and Security Section told Han Junmiao that she would be sent back home, but instead, they sent her to the Baoding City Mental Hospital. When she arrived, four men held Han Junmiao down and someone injected her with a drug that attacks the central nervous system. The effect of the drug made Han Junmiao unable to sit or lie down. She had to stay up for the whole night. During her two-week stay in the mental hospital, Ms. Han was injected twice with this drug and made to live with patients who had real mental problems. After two weeks of suffering severe mental and physical trauma, she was released.

Early in October of 2000, Dong Aihua, Zhao Daping and Wang Jianjun from the Political and Security Section came to Han Junmiao's office again and took her to a detention center. In November, Han Junmiao started a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. Approximately ten days later, Dong Aihua came and said, "Mr. Ning, the Party Secretary, would like to chat with you. Take your belongings and come with me." After she got in the car she discovered that she was being transferred to the Baoding City Forced Labor Camp. They sentenced her to three years of forced labor without any legal proceedings.

During the 12 days she spent at the Baoding Forced Labor Camp, because she firmly held on to her faith in Falun Gong, she was handcuffed for several nights to the stair handrail in a position that did not allow her to sit down. A dozen police guards pushed her down to the floor and used electric batons to shock her from the bottom of her feet to her waist. They even put an electric baton into her mouth, and shocked her head and back. They also forbade her from sleeping. Then Ms. Han was forced to stand in water for four days and four nights. Nevertheless, the labor camp still couldn't shake Han Junmiao's belief in Falun Gong. She was then transferred to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp.

At the Gaoyang Labor Camp she was again injected with drugs that harm the central nervous system, which made her temporarily mentally incoherent. They kept her in an iron cage for ten days, where she wasn't able to sit down or stand up straight. In December of 2000, for refusing to write the so-called Guarantee Statement to not practice Falun Gong, Han Junmiao was sent to a huge, icy-cold, windowless warehouse. There, she was handcuffed to an iron ring on the concrete floor in a position where she could only squat. She couldn't sit or stand for 24 hours, depriving her of sleep. Washing or any kind of personal hygiene was out of the question.

The torture methods used on Falun Gong practitioners in the Gaoyang Labor Camp also included the Tiger Bench, force-feeding with chili pepper water, being force-fed feces, the Death Bed, and being mercilessly taken out in the middle of the night and beaten by the guards or allowed to be bitten by snakes and vermin.

Someone asked Ms. Han, "Have you experienced these kinds of torture methods?" She replied, "Yes, I have experienced all of the above mentioned tortures." After they failed to make Ms. Han give up her practice of Falun Gong at the Gaoyang Labor Camp, she was transferred to the Fourth Division in Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp to endure further gross abuse and mistreatment.

In October of 2002, even after Han Junmiao had been tortured and abused in three labor camps, she remained steadfast. Her courage made those who persecuted her admire her. She suffered severe physical trauma and became very thin. The shocks from the electric batons left scars on her face, and her hands and feet had bleeding cracks, which any movement would aggravate.

The day Han Junmiao's jail term ended and she was ready to join her family, personnel from the 610 Office in Xiong County sent her directly to the Xiong County Brainwashing Class. Li Chengqun, the 610 Office head, ordered his subordinates to torture her physically. Ms. Han was forbidden to sleep and was force-fed. After more than 40 days there, they still couldn't force her to give up Falun Gong. Li Chengqun sent her to the Baoding City Brainwashing Class where she underwent another month of cruel torture before she was released.

After she returned home, she was very weak, but officials from the 610 Office frequently monitored her, even when she went grocery shopping. On politically sensitive days, several people were watching her inside her house. At night, her family slept in the inner rooms, while the monitoring officials slept in an outer room.

In October 2004, 610 Office head Li Chengqun sent people to forcibly take Han Junmiao away from her home again and sent her to the Baoding City Forced Labor Camp. Due to Han Junmiao's poor health, the labor camp refused to accept her, but Li just left her at the labor camp and departed in a hurry. The labor camp had to call him to take Han Junmiao back. Li Chengqun then sent Han Junmiao to the Xiong County Brainwashing Class for more torture and torment.

As a result of frequent monitoring and constant harassment by the 610 Office officials, Ms. Han died on May 6, 2005. Even during her funeral, the 610 Office officials were monitoring activities at her house.

Yu Zichen, Han Junmia's second daughter, born in January 1992, lives with her father at the family living quarters at the Xiongzhong Vegetable Farm in Xiong County, Hebei Province. She is a 2^nd year student at the Second Middle School in Xiong County. Her non-practitioner father, Yu Jinglong, is 56 years old and suffers from heart disease. Presently the father and daughter have no source of income.

Mr. Guan Zhaoqi, the former Deputy Director of the Daqing Petroleum Supply Company's Pipeline Anti-Corrosion Factory, was detained on several occasions. On September 6, 2002, more than ten officers from the Daqing City Public Security Bureau broke into his home through a fourth-floor balcony window and arrested him. He was sentenced to six years in prison. When he was detained in the Daqing Prison, he was tied up, had cold water poured over him, burned by cigarettes and subjected to other cruel tortures. The captain there said, "There is no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to dealing with Falun Gong."

Mr. Guan Zhaoqi, 51 years old, started practicing Falun Gong in May 1996. He believes in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and always thinks of others first. Before he started practicing, he had various diseases, such as viral myocarditis, cardiac arrhythmia, pneumonia, strain of lumbar muscles, and running nosebleeds. All of these ailments went away after he started practicing. He felt the miracle of Falun Gong deeply. He also shed the bad habits of consuming alcohol and playing mahjong. Wherever he is, people can feel his optimism, sincerity and peacefulness. In 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, for which he was detained at the Fangshan District Detention Center. Mr. Guan's right leg, from the buttock to the knee, was black and blue for two months as a result of beatings by the police.

At around 5:00 a.m. on September 6, 2002, officers from the Daqing City Public Security Bureau, the Provincial Security Bureau and the Daqing City Xibin Police Station surrounded his apartment. At about 5:30 a.m., officers from the Xibin Police Station knocked on his door. Mr. Guan answered it, saying, "You want to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, so I don't want to open the door."

It was the morning rush hour, and many people saw that Mr. Guan refused to open his door. Eventually, the officers called for armed backup. Two of them climbed down from the fifth floor balcony, smashed his windows and broke into his home. One of them then opened the door so that all of the police outside could enter as well. One officer covered Mr. Guan's head with the washing machine cover, while another one brutally beat his head until he passed out. Two officers then handcuffed him and dragged him out.

Three police officers covered Mr. Guan's wife and carried her out. One carried her by holding her handcuffs, and the other two held her legs. While hanging in this fashion she was carried from the fourth floor down to the first floor and then to the police car parked 60 meters away. The handcuffs cut into her flesh so badly that it took a year for them to recover. The police also ransacked their home. They confiscated their computer, printer, video camera, VCR, bank account statements and Falun Gong books. Mr. Guan and his wife kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good!" during the entire process. One officer took the black covering off of Mr. Guan's head and said, "Stop shouting, nobody can hear you."

The car stopped at the Security Bureau's rest house where two staff members took him to a room on the first floor. Once there, his hands were cuffed behind his back to the chair and four staff members monitored him. Because he would not cooperate with the interrogation, they tightened the handcuffs so much that they cut into the flesh of his wrists. Mr. Guan was left cuffed to the chair in this fashion for two days and nights. A man named Zhang, the Deputy Head of the Security Bureau, also slapped his face during interrogations. They tortured him in this way for over two weeks.

On September 21, 2002, Mr. Guan was sent to the City Detention Center. In May 2003, he was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of "disrupting enforcement of the law." On June 2, 2003, he was sent to the Daqing Prison, and was detained in Section Number Seven. On November 11, 2003, the police found him in possession of a copy of an article written by Teacher Li. For this offense he was detained in the "small cell" for fifteen days on orders from Wang Yingjie, the Deputy Head of the jail. While in the small cell, he was not allowed to use chopsticks and slept on the iron bed with no bedding.

From the end of March 2004, the Daqing Prison stepped up its brutal forced brainwashing of detained Falun Gong practitioners. Nearly all of the practitioners were cruelly tortured. Division chief Li Fengjiang, of Section Number Seven; Zhang Chunsheng, of Section Number Thirteen and Cao Baoshu, of Section Number Fourteen brutally tortured practitioners Mr. Guan Zhaoqi, Mr. Zhao Yuan and Mr. Jin Shengjin. One day at the end of March, Li Fengjiang held a meeting to arrange a forced "transformation" plan. It was decided that a practitioner should be transformed in three days and that, "There is no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to dealing with Falun Gong." Prisoners were instigated to carry out the plan. If these goals were not reached, points would be deducted from the prisoners' performance evaluations, and their sentences would not be reduced., Those with outstanding "success," on the other hand, would have their terms shortened. The officials encourged prisoners to persecute the Falun Gong practitioners and every night the guards on duty monitored this persecution.

At around 1:00 p.m., on March 22, 2004, Yang Guojun, the head prisoner of Section Number Thirteen, told Mr. Guan, "All Falun Gong practitioners must be transformed within three days and write the Three Statements. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to sleep for twenty-four hours, and will be forced to stand until you transform. Because we are friends who have been here together for many months, we won't beat you; but if you refuse to write the statements you will not be allowed to sleep. If we don't enforce this, points will be deducted from our performance evaluations and we will be ineligible for reduced terms, so I have no choice."

They didn't make any progress from March 22 to March 24. When Li Fengjiang noticed that some of the prisoners didn't want to torture practitioners they knew, he exchanged the practitioners between the two sections. He exchanged Mr. Guan Zhaoqi and Mr. Zhao Yuan between Section Thirteen and Section Fourteen.

At around 1:30 p.m. on March 24, Mr. Guan was sent Section Number Fourteen. Head prisoner Fan Zhaorao took him into the storeroom, and asked, "Do you still practice?" When Mr. Guan answered that he did, Fan Zhaoqi repeatedly slapped his face. The forcefulness of the beating loosened his teeth and caused his face to become swollen and deformed.

When Fan Zhaorao grew tired, he let prisoners Zhong Haibin, Li Laiquan and Li Dawei torture Mr. Guan in the corridor. They beat him with fists and sticks. Li Dawei beat his knees with a board. Li Dawei and Li Laiquan then burned his ten fingernails with cigarettes, and asked, "Are you going to write it or not?" Mr. Guan still refused. Then they held him on the ground and beat him with sticks and tubes until he passed out. After that, they dragged him to the washroom, poured cold water over him to bring him back to consciousness and then beat him again.

Mr. Guan Zhaoqi passed out three times. Each time they poured cold water on him to revive him. His back was black and blue. They did this until 3:20 p.m., when they were tired and it was also lunchtime. They tied him to the ladder of the bed, where he passed out once more. When he woke up, he found he was lying on the bench in the study room. He heard Fan Zhaorao say, "Captain Li said that there is no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to dealing with Falun Gong." Mr. Guan asked to see the guards on duty. His request was refused, and the guards also hid themselves. Mr. Guan was unable to stand as the result of the torture. They made two people hold him in a standing position, and he was neither allowed to sleep or sit. In order to appease the higher authorities, they let prisoner Fan Zhaorao write the "Three Statements" instead of Mr. Guan.

On the morning on March 28, they forced Mr. Guan to take a test that slandered Falun Gong. He tore it up at once. They gave him the same paper again the next day and told him that it had to be completed and submitted to the Head of the jail. Mr. Guan answered questions with responses that were in accordance with his own understanding of the truth. Because he didn't do what the guards wanted, they tortured him yet again. This time his feet and limbs were swollen, and turned black and blue as a result. He couldn't even put on his shoes. He was not allowed to sit or sleep for eight days and nights, until March 28.

Almost all of the Falun Gong practitioners detained in Daqing Jail were brutally tortured. The brutal beating of Mr. Zhao Yuan perforated his eardrum. Mr. Jin Sheng was stripped naked. Then they poured cold water over him. Mr. Li Lizhuang,who was detained in Section Number One, had a plastic tube inserted into his anus. Then they filled it with cold water. He was also force-fed with feces. On June 7, 2005, Mr. Xu Jishan, who was detained in Section Number Seven, was tortured to death on the orders from the CCP members Li Fengjiang and Zhang Dezhi. CCP member Pan Shaolin, the head of the infirmary, incited prisoner Zhen Yingje to strangle Mr. Cheng Peiming with a rope. He also threatened, "We have a quota of deaths every year, so your deaths will all belong to the normal death count!"

Zhen Yingjie, together with other prisoners, tied Mr. Cheng to a pillar. They then let ten more prisoners beat and abuse him. Mr. Cheng was not allowed to sleep at night. Chang Fengbao, a prisoner, was encouraged to kill Mr. Cheng, but he didn't want to. Instead he reported this to the prison authorities. For what should have been considered a righteous act, Chang Fengbao was sent to Section Number Five, and the higher authorities covered up Zhen's actions. Jiang Shuchen, who was in charge of the Falun Gong issue, said to Mr. Cheng Peiming, "Watch how I will punish you later for this."

Practitioners' lives are in no way safe in the Daqing Prison. In some sections, practitioners are not allowed to leave their cells for years; they are deprived of even the most basic human rights.

Qu Dehong

Mr. Qu Dehong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yongan Town, Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province, was illegally arrested by the state security team of the police department in Jidong County on October 27, 2004. During his imprisonment, the guards tortured him many times, and he was also force-fed with nerve-damaging drugs. His family has asked the county court, the political and judiciary committee, and the state security team to release him, but all attempts have failed.

Mr. Qu Dehong is in a very bad mental state. He is very weak, disabled, and needs help to walk. His skin is dry and yellow, and his only food is some rice soup every day. His life is in danger.

Around 7 p.m. on October 27, 2004, 10 policemen from the state security team of the Jidong County Police Department and two policemen from the police station in Yongan Town broke into Qu Dehong's house. The police leader Yu Hongjun said, "Take out the things." Mr. Qu asked "What things?" His wife, Zhang Yongli, also asked, "What things?" Yu Hongjun then ordered the police to search the house in teams. Mr. Qu's house, garage, and storage room were all searched. After three hours, they found nothing but a card, on which was printed "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." The police put the card away carefully, as if they had found some criminal evidence.

Yu Hongjun demanded to know if their computer was used to download Falun Gong materials from the Internet. Mr. Qu said that it was for his child to do schoolwork. Around midnight, the Jidong County state security team took Mr. Qu and his wife away. They also took 3900 yuan; four cell phones, including the ones Mr. Qu was trying to fix for others; a portable video camera; and a computer. They jailed the couple separately on the fifth floor of the state security team building. The police tortured Mr. Qu for information.

Ms. Zhang Yongli was released on October 28, and she got the money and the portable video camera back. When she was going downstairs, she saw her husband. It seemed that Mr. Qu had been tortured, and he looked very tired. She tried to ask him questions, but the police pushed her away.

Later it was learned that the police officers on the fifth floor of the state security team building had tortured Mr. Qu. Ten policemen tried different tortures, ordering him to tell them everything he had been doing for Falun Gong. The tortures included:

1. Soapy water was put into Mr. Qu's eyes, so that he was unable to open them.
2. Spicy oil was put into his nose, which made him tear.
3. Water was poured into his ear with a small pot. When one ear was full, the police moved on to the other ear.
4. His hand was burned with cigarette butts. There is a burn scar on his hand even now.
5. They whipped him with a leather whip.
6. They beat his feet with white plastic pipes filled with lead and concrete, which won't leave visible injuries.

Although he was tortured, Mr. Qu refused to cooperate with them. Finally, the policemen force-fed him a nerve-damaging drug.

After being force-fed drugs, Mr. Qu sometimes lost control of his mind, and he was mentally unstable. His thoughts and words did not make sense. When questioned by the police, he would answer, but he did not understand the question or his own answer. Afterwards, he could not recall what had happened to him. When his family visited him, they found that he appeared to have a mental disability. When they asked what had happened, Mr. Qu was not able to explain it.

After being tortured for 21 hours, Mr. Qu was hurt badly both physically and mentally. The police sent him to the county detention center. At the end of November 2004, policemen Cui Guangri and He Wenming forced Mr. Qu to sign his name to a blank piece of paper. In the detention center, Mr. Qu was tortured several times. Getting nothing out of him, the police force-fed him again with drugs. The details of this persecution are unknown.

In May 15, 2005, Mr. Qu refused to answer any of the guards' questions and started a hunger strike with another five practitioners to protest the illegal imprisonment. Mr. Qu was on the hunger strike for nine days. The guards beat practitioners with plastic pipes filled with lead and concrete and then asked them if they would eat or not. If their answer was "No," the guards would continue to beat them. Practitioner Li Chongjun, from 8510 farm in Donghai Town, was beaten by policemen Pei Jiaxiang and Ma Li at same time for shouting "Falun Dafa is good" when beaten. He was struck with the filled pipe 200 times. Pei Jiaxiang also beat Mr. Qu. Practitioner Xing Defu, from Mishan City, was beaten by Ma Li. Sun Yintang, from Yongan Town, Jidong County, and Lu Zhengyi and Liu Haiqiu, both from Xingnong Town, Jidong County, were all beaten by the guards.

On June 22, Mr. Qu started the second hunger strike and asked for an end to the persecution. His life has been in great danger since July 3, when he was then sent to a hospital in Jixi City for emergency treatment. He still refused to take any food after 15 days. The guards tied his hands and poured spicy oil into his mouth to force him to take food. After 20 days, they took the dying man back to the detention center.

On July 19, Qu's wife, Zhang Yongli, and five of his relatives went to the political and judiciary committee, asking them to release Mr. Qu. The head of the committee, Jiang Guofa, said that they would not release him unless his family paid the bond. Qu's uncle, a non-practitioner, said to Jiang Guofa, "He has been on a hunger strike for 20 days. Will you take responsibility if he dies? You guys put soapy water in his eyes, spicy oil in his nose, and locked him in the car trunk. If this is not persecution, what is persecution then?" Jiang Guofa then called the state security team, ordering them to check to see if there were any Falun Gong practitioners among Mr. Qu's relatives. The head of the state security, Yu Hongjun, came to the political and judiciary committee with another policemen, and they tried to take Qu's uncle away. His family stopped them. Jiang Guofa took a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party out of his drawer and threatened, "You see, this is made by them. If they keep doing this, all of them will be sentenced to death." Jiang Guofa, the county court, and the county state security team refused to release Mr. Qu Dehong when he was dying after 20 days on a hunger strike, and their excuse was that he was the organizer of the "3.15 event" in 2004. They threatened several times to put Mr. Qu in jail. One judge in the court, Wang Pingyu, said that they would not release him even if he were to die.

Recently, Qu Dehong has been in very serious condition. He has become very thin. His skin is dry and yellow. He cannot raise his arms, and he needs help to walk because his left leg is lame.

After Mr. Qu was illegally arrested, his wife and child suffered a great deal of mental stress, and they are in a financial crisis. Their child may have to drop out of school. Their private property, including a computer and three cell phones, which were confiscated by the state security team, still has not been returned.

After CCTV announced the CCP's decision to forbid the practice of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Mr. Qu Dehong went to Beijing with 11 other practitioners to appeal for Falun Gong. On October 28, 1999, Mr. Qu and his wife attended the international press conference, attended by the Reuters News agency and the Associated Press. They both were arrested shortly afterwards. Mr. Qu was sentenced to three years and six months and put in the third jail in Harbin City. Ms. Zhang Yongli was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp and was sent to Qiaozhuang Detention Center in the Tongzhou District of Beijing.

On March 15, 2004, in order to clarify the truth, Mr. Qu and practitioners Li Chongjun from 8510 farm in Donghai Town; Xing Defu from Mishan City; Sun Yintang from Yongan Town, Jidong County; and Lu Zhengyi from Xingnong Town, Jixi County, hung up many Falun Gong banners along the hundred-mile long road from Heitai Town to Jixi City, which shocked the corrupt authorities and was considered an important case by the local police. These practitioners were all jailed in Mishan City Detention Center and Jidong County Detention Center.

On October 23, 2004, Mr. Qu, with other eight practitioners, went to the Mashan District in Jixi City to give out Falun Gong truth materials, and they were reported. Mr. Qu was arrested at 7 p.m., on October 27, 2004.

Those who tortured Qu Dehong: Team Head Yu Hongjun; Vice Team Head Sun Zuoen; Policemen Cui Guangri, He Wenming, He Wenqing, Pei Jiaxiang, and Ma Li

Police Department in Jidong County
Phone: 86-467-5582361

Chief: ext- 2201
Political Head: ext - 2202
Chief of the state security team: ext--2224
Political head: ext-2333
Vice chief: ext- 2225
Yu Hongjun: 86-13945854586 (cell)
The chief of detention center: ext- 2275; Political head: ext- 2276; Vice Team Head: ext- 2277
Public security team chief: ext- 2262; Instructor: ext-2228; vice chief: ext-2271
The head of political and judiciary committee, Jiang Guofa: 86-467-5586199

Liu Yaokun is a Falun Gong practitioner in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. During the New Year's holiday in 2003, Ms. Liu was arrested by three policemen, and then illegally sent to a labor camp. Police guards brutally tortured Ms. Liu in Jiamusi Labor Camp both physically and mentally. As a result, she can no longer take care of herself, but she is still detained in the labor camp.

Ms. Liu is 45 years old. She was born in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, and later lived in Hegang City. On January 1, 2003, Ms. Liu was at her parents' house in Suihua City when three police officers from Suihua Police Station arrived and forcibly took her to Suihua Detention Center. She was later transferred to Hegang Detention Center. After three months of detention she was sent to a labor camp.

On March 27, 2003, Ms. Liu was sent to Jiamusi Labor Camp. On that day, police guards tortured her with "big back-cuffing" (a very brutal torture method that can inflict disability) in order to force her to give up her practice.

In October 2003, because Ms. Liu Yaokun and a fellow detainee, Cao Xiuxia, refused to follow the camp rules, labor camp official Mu Zhenjuan did not allow them to eat. Not only that, she also beat them, kicked them, slapped them in the face, and even used a needle to stab Ms. Liu. When Ms. Liu asked Mu why she was stabbing her with a needle, Mu said perversely, "Who stabbed you? Can you find a witness?" At that time, Falun Gong practitioner Cao Xiuxia and an inmate, Xu Guanglan, were watching.

Before the Chinese New Year, Liu Yaokun's family sent her 300 yuan; however, she only received 10 yuan.

At the end of October, Ms. Liu could not walk due to pain in her legs. Division Head, Chen Chunmei, Manager, Mu Zhenjuan, as well as policeman, Li Yongbo, forced her to walk. Because Ms. Liu moved slowly, they dragged and beat her.

Policemen Gao Jie, Chen Chunmei, and Li Yongbo dragged Ms. Liu to the second floor. They then beat her, kicked her lower body, and twisted her neck until Ms. Liu fainted. They then left her alone in a cold room on the second floor trapped in the position of "big back-cuffing." Later, they chained her onto the bed frame. Her body was directly exposed to the cold floor for about 40 minutes. At 8 o'clock when the shift changed, the guards found that her heartbeat was unusual, so they released her from the "big back-cuffing," but still left both of her hands cuffed onto the bed frame.

On the following day, Ms. Liu's urine was filled with blood. Then both of her legs went numb and she fell unconscious. After being cuffed for four days and four nights, Mu Zhenjuan asked Ms. Liu to declare herself "guilty" before removing the cuff from her. Ms. Liu did not listen to the unreasonable request. Mu Zhenjuan had no choice but to open the cuff. By then, Ms. Liu was tortured so severely that she needed help going to the bathroom. Upon seeing Ms. Liu could not walk fast, Mu Zhenjuan forcibly stepped on her foot. As a result, Ms. Liu's left foot blistered. On the following day, while going to the dining hall for a meal, Mu Zhenjuan stuffed snow in Ms. Liu's shoes, and did not allow her to wear a hat.

In November, the labor camp required everyone to shout slogans during the morning exercise. Ms. Liu and four other practitioners were left outside in the cold. At one point Ms. Liu felt so cold that she could no longer continue walking and collapsed onto the ground. She was not picked up for more than half an hour. During that time her toes became frostbitten.

Several days later, when Ms. Liu was walking to the dining hall, the political director, Guo Qinhui, asked her to walk faster. Ms. Liu said she had leg pain and could not walk fast. Guo slapped her in the face and said he would beat her again if she mentioned the leg pain once more. Ms. Liu asked officials why they were extending her detention term by 15 days. Guo Qinhui and officer Wang did not give any explanations, but instead beat her, swore at her, and forbade her from going to the dining hall for a meal.

In December 2003, some higher officials went to the manufacturing division for an inspection. Ms. Liu told them that Mu Zhenjuan beat her and stabbed her with a needle. In response, He Qiang, police guard Zhou Jiahui, and political director, Zhu Tiehong, slapped her in the face and kicked her. As a result, Ms. Liu fell onto the ground. Officer Zhang Xiaodan said, "Seems she was not stabbed enough. If her bones had been weakened by it, she would no longer dare to speak." Then they dragged Ms. Liu to another place. Zhou Jiahui kicked her, and handcuffed her onto some heating pipes. Ms. Liu kept twitching, so they handcuffed her to a bed frame.

On the fifth day, He Qiang told Ms. Liu that if she dared to speak again when high-level officials came for inspection, she would be beaten and handcuffed again. Ms. Liu was handcuffed to the bed frame for 18 days. Her leg pain worsened. She had to be dragged to the bathroom, and she was also urinating blood. On that night, He Qiang forced her to apologize. Ms. Liu asked, "What exactly did I do wrong, just because I had leg pain? When something comes up, shouldn't I report this to the labor camp head or higher officials?" Gao Xiaohua said, "If you claim you did wrong in the past, he will unlock your handcuffs."

Right before Chinese New Year, Zhou Jiahui added one more unreasonable rule: "Nobody is allowed to sit down when eating in the dining hall." Ms. Liu asked for a rest. Zhou said no, and intentionally kicked the bench so that she felt down to the ground. When Ms. Liu requested to see the labor camp head, Zhou Jiahui swore at her, and asked people to drag her to the kitchen. Ms. Liu resisted, but they forcibly dragged her into the kitchen, threw her onto piles of coal and kicked her in the head. Ms. Liu's eyes were damaged. They also kicked Ms. Liu in the stomach, swearing as they kicked. The persons on duty were Li Jinbo and Wang Cong.

Later on, when higher officials came for inspection, they transferred Ms. Liu to the second floor. Mu Zhenjuan and Li Yongbo even beat her because of that.

On June 2, 2004, Ms. Liu was forcibly sent to the labor camp again. On the fourth day, she was dragged onto the floor. Ms. Liu told Mu Zhenjuan that she could not bear it since her ribs and hipbones were injured. Mu said she was following orders from high officials. Mu Zhenjuan and Zhou Jiahui also told the labor camp doctor, surnamed Li, to stab Ms. Liu whenever she mentioned the leg pain. Dr. Li agreed, "How about taking a needle now and having a practice?"

After several days, Zhou Jiahui did not allow others to carry Ms. Liu on their back, but instead asked two people to drag her on the ground. As a result, Ms. Liu became dizzy, suffered excruciating pain in her ribs, and had difficulty laying down. One night, officer Sun asked inmates to forcibly push Ms. Liu onto the bed. When Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Chunling carried her on his back to the bathroom, he slipped and fell. Upon seeing that, Officer Sun said, "She [Ms. Liu] is disabled anyways; she deserves this."

Above are just some of the inhuman tortures suffered by Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Yaokun, especially in Jiamusi Labor Camp.

Mr. Jiao Long, 45, from Baiquan County, Heilongjiang Province, started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. His whole family also practices. Even after the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, his family remained very diligent and steadfast in Falun Gong. In July 2000, his wife Zhang Liqun went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested at the Harbin train station. She was illegally sentenced to a one-year term in the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Jiao took over raising their two high-school-age children.

In November 2001, Mr. Jiao was forced into homelessness and had to leave the two children at home alone. His wife Zhang Liqun did not get released until August 2001 because her sentence was illegally extended an additional month and a half. Two months after she was released, she was arrested again while distributing truth-clarifying material to the farmers in the county and was sentenced to three more years in a forced labor camp.

Around 1:00 p.m. on December 11, 2004, Mr. Jiao and fellow practitioner Zhang Bin went to visit another practitioner. As soon as they entered the apartment, a group of police, led by ex-Chief Peng from the Tuanjie Road Police Station and Officer Dong, the Section Chief from the Shaertu District Political and Protection Section, surrounded the whole apartment building. Mr. Jiao and Zhang Bin began clarifying the truth of the persecution to the police and shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" They also clarified the truth to passing pedestrians. The police sealed the apartment from the outside so that Mr. Jiao and Zhang Bin were confined inside the apartment from the afternoon of December 11 until the next morning at 5 a.m. when they found a way to escape from the third floor balcony.

As Mr. Jiao was climbing down from the third floor he fell and broke his leg. When the police found him he could not walk, so they dragged him by his arms all the way to the police car. The police sent him directly to the Tuanjie Police Department rather than getting him medical attention. When they reached the police department, the police pulled Mr. Jiao out of the car, dragged him into the station and started interrogating him. Officer Dong even kicked his broken leg.

The police eventually sent Mr. Jiao to Daqing Hospital for X-rays, which revealed that Mr. Jiao's leg was fractured in several places. Afterwards, the police drove Mr. Jiao back to the police station but would not let him out of the car because some officials from the city were having a meeting inside. A chief came out of the station and said to Mr. Jiao, "We are going to release you. Do you have any relatives in Daqing? Let them bring you home to take care of your leg."

Mr. Jiao replied that he did not have any friends or relatives there and that he would like to go home alone, so the police called a taxi for him. It cost about 400 yuan. When he was arrested, Mr. Jiao had about 1,000 yuan in his pocket but the police had confiscated it. He then had to pay the 400 yuan for the taxi out of his savings.

Because he did not get prompt treatment for his fractured leg, his leg and foot swelled severely, almost doubling in size. To this day his leg has not properly healed.

Below are photos of Jiao Long's broken leg.

On August 2, 2005, the Shuangliao City power plant public security office arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Haiyan, of Shuangliao City, Jilin Province. She was an employee at the plant. Her arrest left her mother and 5 year-old child alone to care for themselves, as her husband, Mr. Wang Zengwu, was already jailed in the Siping City Shilingzi prison.

Under Meng Lingwei's leadership, a handful of employees at the Shuangliao power plant, encouraged by the CCP, persecuted Falun Gong practitioners hoping for a promotion or bonus. At the beginning of 2004, the power plant public security office conspired with the local police station to persecute Mr. Chu Guiyan. Mr. Chu had recently been released from a labor camp when armed officers broke into his home. They also dismissed him from his government position.

Ms. Wang Haiyan and her husband Mr. Wang Zengwu are both university graduates. Ms. Wang persisted in practicing Falun Gong and was demoted from her original position to that of gate guard. On August 2, 2005, her co-workers, with the excuse of unsettled differences at work, had Licheng, the power plant property secretary, and gate guard leader Zhang Defeng (female) deceive Ms. Wang into opening the door to her home so they could go in and harass her. They did not discuss work matters. Instead, they searched every room. They then called the police to search her home because the writing board Mr. Wang uses to teach her child had "Falun Dafa is good" written on it. Her co-workers forced this search despite lacking a search warrant. They discovered Falun Gong materials under a bed. Then they arrested her, imprisoned her in a detention center and tried to have her sent to a labor camp.

Since 1999, the Shuangliao City power plant public security office has actively persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, for which the officers received bonuses. Officer Gao Tiejun monitored Mr. Wang Zengwu, enabling him to discover and destroy a site where Falun Gong truth clarification materials were kept. At about 9 p.m. on December 25, 2001, the Shuangliao power plant public security office, together with the Shuangliao City police station and the Liaoxi police station forcibly searched Mr. Wang's bedroom and confiscated two Falun Gong books. They tried to force Mr. Wang to go along with them, but he would not co-operate. That same night, at about 11 p.m., the Shuangliao City police station political security section chief Jin Guiying and others tricked Mr. Wang into coming to the police station. They then held him in the Shuangliao City detention center. Mr. Wang Zengwu was sentenced and imprisoned in the Siping City Shilingzi prison.

The Jilin Province Shuangliao power plant phone numbers:

Meng Lingwei, Home 86-434-7282116; Work 86-434-7283002; Cell 13629062116

Li Cheng, Home 86-434-7282630; Work 86-434-7283742; Cell 13629062630
Public security office vice department head Gao Tiejun, Home 86-434-7282038; Work 86-434-7283083; Cell 13629062038

Zhang Defeng, Work 86-434-7283759

In January 2004, the Taocheng District Police Department in Hengshui City illegally arrested Mr. Sun Liangsheng and Mr. Kang Yanxiang, Falun Gong practitioners in Hengshui City, Hebei Province. After being illegally detained beyond term for one and half years, they were framed and sentenced to four years in prison by the Taocheng District Court in Hengshui City. Now they have both disappeared and their families have not received any news of them for a long time.

On June 16, 2005, the family members of Sun Liangsheng and Kang Yanxiang went to the 610 Office in Hengshui City to ask about the whereabouts of their loved ones. Staff at the 610 Office did not give them an answer, and instead they arrested more than ten Falun Gong practitioners, including Sun Liangsheng's wife and Kang Yanxiang's brother. Up until now the family members of Sun Liangsheng and Kang Yanxiang have not had any news about Mr. Sun and Mr. Kang.

Sun Liangsheng, forty years old, is an excellent teacher at the Second High School of Hengshui City. Kang Yanxiang, thirty-nine years old, is an employee of the Scientific Committee of Hengshui City. Their supervisors, instigated by the 610 Office of Hengshui City, deceived Mr. Sun and Mr. Kang, abducted them and took them to a brainwashing class. To resist the persecution, they escaped from the class and consequently were forced to become homeless. On January 1, 2004, both practitioners were illegally arrested by the Hengshui Police Bureau under orders of the 610 Office of Hengshui City. Sun Liangsheng and Kang Yanxiang were detained in the Hengshui City Detention Center before being illegally sentenced.

Mr. Qi Zhengui, a Falun Gong practitioner in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, was illegally arrested by the police of the development zone in Hengshui City. He was detained in Hengshui Detention Center and remains there today. Qi Zhengui, around sixty-six years old, had previously been sentenced to two years in a labor camp because of his practice of Falun Gong. The reason for his arrest this time was that on the day when the family members of Sun Liangsheng and Kang Yanxiang went to the 610 Office of Hengshui City to ask about Mr. Sun's and Mr. Kang's whereabouts, Qi Zhengui happened to pass by the Municipal Committee of Hengshui and his picture was taken by the police. The Chinese Communist Party officials wantonly arrest Falun Gong practitioners on any pretext, even when they just go out to do shopping.

List of personnel who are responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners:

Hengshui Municipal Committee -

Hengshui City Party Secretary, Li Junqu

The head of the 610 Office of Hengshui City, Lu Songyin: 86-318-2029198 (Home), 86-318-2026026 (Office), 86-13903289198 (Cell)

Deputy Head of the 610 Office of Hengshui City, Ji Lijian: 86-318-2022518 (Home), 86-318-2065766 (Office), 86-13091189809 (Cell)

Political and Legal Committee Secretary, Wang Baojun: 86-318-2031586 (Home), 86-318-2038201 (Office)

Former Political and Legal Committee Secretary, Zhang Zengliang: 86-318-2065198 (Office)

Taocheng District Police Department of Hengshui City -

Deputy Police Chief of Taocheng District Police Department, Sun Jiancai: 86-13383681006 (Cell)

Director of Taocheng District Police Department National Security Division, Li Yibing: 86-13383681123 (Cell)

Deputy Director of Taocheng District Police Department National Security Division, Zhai Qiming: 86-13383681122 (Cell)

Deputy Chief National Security Division, Zuo Tiehan: 86-13383388305 (Cell)

Practitioner Qin Wei from Beijing was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and is now being held at a prison in Qinghe Town, Beijing.

2. [Cangzhou City, Hebei Province] Yin Xiuying and Zhang Xiong Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Material

On August 4, 2005, practitioners Yin Xiuying and Zhang Xiong from Botou City rented a van with a driver to transport goods to Huanghua City. They distributed some Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials along the way. Police from Huanghua City caught them and put them into a detention center, and impounded the rented van. Police even put the van driver into the detention center. So far the two practitioners and the van driver are still being held.

3. [Xiangfan City, Hubei Province] Liu Xianxiu Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Between 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. on August 9, 2005, practitioner Liu Xianxiu from Xiangfan City went the Fancheng District Boiler Factory residential area and distributed some truth-clarifying materials. She was arrested and is now being held at the Migong Police Station.

4. [Pulandian City, Liaoning Province] Zhou Benxu Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Mr. Zhou Benxu is a resident of Daliujia Town, Pulandian City. In the evening of August 13, 2005 he distributed some truth-clarifying materials and was arrested. Right now he is being held at Daliujia Town Police Station. His home was ransacked that same night.

Daliujia Police Station: 86-411-83460002.

5. [Hongjiang City, Hunan Province] Xue Baoyu Arrested and Sentenced to Forced Labor

Practitioner Ms. Xue Baoyu, 41 years old, was an accountant employed at the Hongjiang City Archives Bureau. On June 30, 2005 Yang Zhubin, director of the bureau, saw Xue Baoyu carrying a bag. He grabbed the bag and asked her what was in it. Xue Baoyu told him, "Don't grab, this is a prophetic book entitled Tuibeitu (Push Back Picture, written by Li Chufeng from the Tang Dynasty). I can give you a copy if you want." Yang Zhubin knew she was a practitioner and the material is related to the facts about Falun Gong, so he said, "Let me take it to the '610 Office'. If it's related to Falun Gong, I'll give it to the 610 Office. If not, I'll give it back to you."

On July 1, 2005, Yang Zhubin led some policemen from the "610 Office" and police department and ransacked Xue Baoyu's workplace and found some Falun Gong materials and discs in her drawer. They then immediately went to her home and found some truth-clarifying materials, discs, banners, Teacher's photos, and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Yi Manrong, deputy director of the Archive Bureau, also participated in the ransacking and signed the search warrant. Xue Baoyu was taken from home to the City Police Department to be interrogated. Later she was put into the Anjiang Baihunao Detention Center in Hongjiang City.

On the afternoon of July 4, personnel from the "610 Office" demanded that Xue Baoyu's family hand in 10,000 Yuan as so-called "deposit money" for putting her under surveillance around the clock for a year. Her family couldn't afford it and refused to pay. The next morning, when Xue Baoyu's parents, brother and sister-in-law went to the police department to demand Xue Baoyu's release, the personnel said Yang Zhubin, the Archives Bureau director, needs to file a petition for her to be released on probation, and then they released her. On July 11, Xue Baoyu went back to work.

At around 5:00 p.m. on August 8, police from Hongjiang City's "610 Office" forcibly arrested Xue Baoyu at work and sent her directly to the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, and forbade her to contact her family.

List of names of chiefly responsible persons:

(Country code: 86, area code: 745. Do not dial area code before a cell phone number)

Zhang Chun'an, Police Department Chief: 139074554625 (Cell);
Yang Zhubin, Archives Bureau Director: 13874462818(Cell),7212053 (Office),and 7212390 (Home);
Yi Manrong, Archives Bureau Deputy Director: 13874433107(Cell);
Yi Zhongxian, Chief of the Political & Security Section, Police Department: 13974503398(Cell);
Yu Yuejun, director of the "610 Office": 13907454018(Cell);
Xiang Qinghua, deputy director of the "610 Office": 13974503138(Cell);
Duan Jianzhou, deputy director of the "610 Office": 13874400189(Cell);
Office of the Political & Security Section, "610 Office": 7220744.

6. [Shifang City, Sichuan Province] "610 Office" Personnel Arrest Practitioner Xiao Jiying

Practitioner Xiao Jiying is from No.2 Team, Tanan Village, Yinfeng Town, Shifang City, Sichuan Province. On August 5, 2005, personnel from the "610 Office," Liao Mingchong, the head of public security team, and Bai Wenxiang, head of the Village, broke into Xiao Jiying's home and arrested him/her.

People who are involved in the persecution:

Bai Wenxiang, village head: 86-838-8455440

Liao Mingchong, head of the village public security team: 86-838-8455455

7. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Several Practitioners Still Being Held at the Yaojia Detention Center

Currently, more than a dozen practitioners are still being held at the Dalian City Yaojia Detention Center, including Tian Yunhai, Sun Liwen, Jin Tingdong, Zang Lianmei, Cui Jian, Xiao Wang, Hu Shuqin sisters, Sun Yan, and Ma Xueqing.

8. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Li Fengling and Liu Huayu Sentenced to Forced Labor

Practitioner Ms. Li Fengling from Shenyang City was sentenced to three years of forced labor and is currently being held at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. The police are not allowing any family visits. Practitioner Ms. Liu Huayu from the Dadong District in Shenyang City was sentenced to four years of imprisonment and is being held at the Dalian City Prison.

9. [Zhengzhou City, Henan Province] Quan Peijun Taken into a Forced Labor Camp and a Brainwashing Class Afterwards

On January 11, 2001, practitioner Mr. Quan Peijun from the Shangjie District, Zhengzhou City was arrested and sentenced to one year of forced labor for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. After his detention term expired, Quan's employer unit refused to rehire him; instead, they paid fees to send Quan to a brainwashing class. At present, Quan is being held at the Wanqing Brainwashing Class in the Xili Lake area in Zhengzhou City.

10. [Zhucheng City, Shandong Province] Four Practitioners Arrested and Their Homes Ransacked for Clarifying the Truth of Falun Gong

During the evening of August 2, 2005, practitioners Ms. Liu Fengmei, Ms. Li Aixiu, Song Xinhui and Ms. Li Zhifen from Xiaoshuibo Village, the Longdu Street Community, Zhucheng City went out to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. A policeman surnamed Sun, around 30 years old, followed, reported and arrested them and put them into a criminal detention center. On August 3, policemen ransacked their homes.

11. [Qishan County, Shaanxi Province] Zhao Gencang Held at the County Detention Center

In April 2005, practitioner Zhao Gencang, over 60 years old, from Gongsi Village, Daying Township, Qishan County, Shaanxi Province, was arrested and is still being held at the County Detention Center.

In November 2004, police arrested Zhao Gencang for his distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials at a local market. Zhao Gencang went on a hunger strike to protest and walked out of the detention center ten days later.

Practitioner Ms. Liu Gaixian from Qishan County, Shaanxi Province has been sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment in the Xi'an City Women's Prison.

12. [Neijiang City, Sichuan Province] Wu Xiaohang Arrested for Clarifying the Truth of Falun Gong to His Colleagues

Mr. Wu Xiaohang, 40 years old, is a teacher at the Taian Secondary School in the Dongxing District, Neijiang City.

On July 19, 2005 Wu Xiaohang clarified the truth to Liu Zhengping, the school's associate principal, but Liu Zhengping reported him. As a consequence, persons from the Dongxing District National Security Team headed by Huang Junzhong put him into the Dongxing District Detention Center.

13. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Yan Tingzhen Detained Separately from Others in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp

At the end of June 2005, personnel from the Harbin City National Security Team arrested practitioner Ms. Yan Tingzhen and sentenced her to two years of forced labor. She is being held at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. Because she refused to give up her belief, the forced labor camp authorities didn't allow her family to see her. They said, "She is too stubborn, so no one may see her in three months." It was reported that Yan Tingzhen is being detained separately right now and all information about her is blocked.

On July 8, 2005, Zheng Xin'an, the chief of the Kun District National Security Team in Baotou City, led seven officers from the Youyi Police Station and went to Yang Yurong's house. They arrested her, ransacked her home, and confiscated materials including the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Yang Yurong is now being incarcerated at the Kun District Detention Center.

Kun District Detention Center: 86-472-2124225, 86-472-2124228

Youyi Police Station: 86-472-2324373;86-472-2361472

Former Cadre at Shenyang Army Base Abducted and Sent to Luotai Mountain Resort Brainwashing Class in Fushun City

Falun Gong practitioner Jin Fujun is a former military cadre from the Shenyang Army Base. In the six years between 1999 and 2005, Jin Fujun was ruthlessly beaten many times because he remained firm in his belief in Falun Gong. He was locked in a cold solitary confinement cell and tortured, which left him disabled. In June 2005, he was abducted and sent to the Luotai Mountain Resort Brainwashing Class in Fushun City to be persecuted and psychologically tormented.

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Falun Gong practitioner Li Zhonglan, 41 years old, lived in Yubei District, Chongqing. She was detained in 2002 for persisting in Falun Gong practice. She escaped with the power of her righteous thoughts but was compelled to go into exile to avoid further persecution. During the more than three years of homelessness, the perpetrators tried several times to abduct her, but she always escaped with the power of righteous thoughts. The perpetrators never ceased to harass her family. They often visited her son at his school and asked him for his mother's whereabouts, thus severely disrupting the entire family.

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Zhang Junfen, female, is the person in charge of the Shangxueyuan Community District in the Erdaojiang District, Tonghua City, Jilin Province. She actively cooperated with the police and the 610 Office on various levels in monitoring, harassing, deceiving, abducting, fining and detaining Falun Gong practitioners, which led to the breakup of dozens of Falun Gong practitioners' families. Many practitioners were forced into exile. Zhang Junfen and other perpetrators ransacked the homes of a dozen Falun Gong practitioners. They also ransacked the homes of five practitioners who lived in a mountain area and then arrested the practitioners. They extorted 10,000 yuan before releasing these practitioners.

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