The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- January 4, 2006

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Policemen from Baoding National Security and National Protection, the Police Bureau of the Northern District of Baoding City and the Police Station of Hancunbeilu arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Huiru from Baoding City, Hebei Province. The detention and torture made her blood pressure rise to above 220. Now, her life is at risk. The policemen feared being blamed, so they asked her family members to take her home from the brainwashing session on December 10, 2005. However, the police still go to her house every day to harass her. The police also arranged for her to be monitored in an attempt to arrest her again when she recovers from the life-threatening condition.

On the evening of December 2, 2005, the homeless Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Hurui (also known as Li Hui with a pseudonym of Zhao Qin) was arrested on her way to her mother's house. It was not the first time she had been arrested. The policemen drove three police cars to her mother's restaurant and arrested Ms. Li without showing any documents.

Please continue to pay attention to the situation of Falun Gong practitioners Yang Jianliang (pseudonym Li Zhong) and Liu Yueying who were detained and persecuted in the Baoding Forced Labor Camp; Gao Yuhuan and Li Xiaolong detained in the Baoding Detention Center; the sister-in-law of one of the aforementioned practitioners detained in the Xushui Detention Center; Shao Guisheng detained in the Rongcheng Detention Center; and Wang Liping detained in the Xiaobailuo Brainwashing Center in Baoding City.

A group of people from the different levels of the 610 Offices, the Police Departments, the State Security Divisions, the Procuratorates, the Police Stations and the CCP Residential District Agencies of Baoji City in Shaanxi Province jointly carried out a large-scale arrest of Falun Gong practitioners in the area of Baoji City, from October 14, 2005 to October 28, 2005. Several sites that produce Falun Gong truth-clarification materials were destroyed. From the beginning to the end, more than thirty practitioners were arrested and taken to brainwashing centers and labor camps where they are now being tortured.

The brainwashing centers are separately located at the following four sites: the Guest House of the Baoji City Engineering and Mechanical Factory (earlier it was called the Major Repair Factory), the Guest House of the Nitrogenous Fertilizer Factory, the Lingyun Guest House and the Qunzhong Road Office. Practitioners Ms. Sha Yulian, Ms. Ru Hongxia and Ms. Zhao Yu'e have been illegally sentenced to forced labor and sent to camps in Xi'an City. Those practitioners who have been sent to the brainwashing centers include Ms. Xu Mingxia, Ms. Zhang Caixia, Ms. Wang Juxiang, Ms. Nie Daimin, Ms. Li Lianyu and others.

On the afternoon of October 14, a male practitioner named Mr. Zhang was working when perpetrators from the Douji District Police Station of Baoji City, and the CCP Residential District Agency, forcibly took Mr. Zhang away from his work unit in spite of opposition from the local workers and the needs of the work unit for his labor.

Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoying is sixty-five years old. She is a retired teacher from Jinling Elementary School. She lives in the family residential buildings of the Agriculture Bank of Baoji City. Around 6:00 p.m. on October 14, 2005, police officers suddenly broke into Ms. Wang Xiaoying's house and took her away. Furthermore, her family members are prohibited from visiting her.

When the police officers from the Baoji County Police Department went to arrest practitioner Ms. Ru Hongxia, Ms. Ru's younger sister happened to be visiting her. The police officers also arrested her sister.

During this period of time, vicious people from the Weibin District Police Department, the Jintai District Police Department, the Jintai District Police Station and the CCP Residential District Agency separately broke into several practitioners' homes and employed a variety of despicable methods attempting to arrest practitioners (such as pretending to be someone from the Gas Company wanting to check on the heating system) to deceive practitioners' family members into opening the door. Because many practitioners negated such conspiracies ahead of time with their righteous thoughts, the attempts often failed. Some perpetrators ransacked practitioners' homes and threatened practitioners' family members, including their children.

On October 26, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee of Baoji City forced the local television stations and newspapers to defame Falun Gong again in an attempt to poison people's mind.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Linlin, age 28, from Shandong Province, was arrested in Shanghai and illegally sentenced to three years and six months in prison. Ms. Li was sent to the Shanghai Women's Prison on September 15, 2005. She is suffering from inhumane torture in the Fifth Division of the prison.

Ms. Li Linlin's home is in Songjialukou Village, Nanzhang Town, Rencheng District of Jining City in Shandong Province. She is a graduate of the Nanjing Meteorology College in Nanjing City. In 1997, she fortunately began to learn Falun Gong  practice. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Ms. Li refused to give up the practice. Because of this, although she had only six months left before she would graduate, the college suspended her for one year.

In order to clarify the truth and for justice of Falun Gong, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested without cause and was held for one month in the Yanzhou City Detention Center in Shandong Province. In October 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. Police officers blocked her from going there and sentenced her to two years in a forced labor camp. Ms. Li was held in the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp of Zibo City in Shandong Province where she was subjected to forced brainwashing. One year later, Ms. Li was released and returned to college. In 2003, Ms. Li started to work in the Meteorology Department of Jining City in Shandong Province.

In April 2004, Ms. Li was forced to leave her job because she was clarifying the truth and validating the Fa. In May 2004, Ms. Li went to Shanghai to find work. On the evening of January 8, 2005, police officers of the Changning District Police Station of Shanghai arrested Ms. Li again because she was making truth clarification materials. The police officers confiscated her computer, suitcase, cell phone and graduation certificate. Ms. Li was held in the Changning District Detention Center.

On the evening of August 9, 2005, Ms. Li was sentenced to three years and six months in prison. On September 15, 2005, Ms. Li was sent to the Shanghai Women's Prison and has since been suffering from inhumane torture in the Fifth Division of the prison.

Falun Gong practitioners illegally held in the Jilin Province Prison are suffering from severe torture every day. Especially in the The Third Ward, prison guards have purposefully made the living conditions very odious. Within only 160 square meters, they held 160 practitioners. Sometimes everyone could only get one cup of water to drink at night. The persecution in the prison is continuing and the prison guards are doing bad things every day.

Recently the Prison in Jilin Province has escalated the persecution. Starting in September, the prison guards carried out a new round of inhumane persecution. Practitioners Mr. Zhu Dexiang and Mr. Zhang Wenfeng refused to cooperate with the prison guards' orders. Because of this, both of them were held in a maximum security cell for over one month. Practitioner Mr. Jin Chengquan was subjected to the torture method of "locking up in a small cell" (1) and was held there for over one month. Practitioner Mr. Yuan Junfeng refused to follow the prison guards' orders and refused to wear a nametag. Because of this, he was dragged into the center of the main courtyard to be tortured.

The guards at Jilin Province Prison also persecute those prisoners who have helped Falun Gong practitioners. Some of the prisoners were held in maximum security cells, while others were tortured with "locking up in a small cell." Inmate Mr. Cheng Peng was held in a maximum security cell for one month after the prison guards found a copy of Hong Yin where he was being held.

Jilin Prison in Jilin Province:

Warden, Li Qiang (male): 86-431-4881551 ext. 3001, 86-13843218517 (Cell)
Deputy warden, Liu Changjiang (male): 86-431-4881551 ext. 3003, 86-13904429905 (Cell)
Deputy warden, Wang Wufan (male): 86-431-4881551 ext. 3006, 86-431-4883619, 86-138-04411837 (Cell)
Deputy warden, Zhao Xinchao (male): 86-431-488155 ext. 3008, 86-431-4882313
Main office: 86-431-4881551 ext. 3009, 86-431-4882313
Prison CCP political department: 86-431-4881551 ext. 3666

Note:

(1) Locking up in a small cell - The detainee is locked up in a very small cell individually. The guards handcuff practitioners on their back in a fixed position, in which the practitioners can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. During the night, rats run about. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe. http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/24/84888.html.

Following Falun Gong's arrival in Gaoshi Town, Sichuan Province, many people were cured of diseases. One blind man in particular regained his eyesight very quickly after practicing Falun Gong. Many of the local practitioners from Gaoshi Town also protected Falun Gong by going to appeal in Beijing after the CCP began the persecution in 1999.

Mr. Song Tianguo, a well-known teacher in the town, was put in jail several times for practicing Falun Gong. His school leaders once reduced his monthly salary from more than 1,000 yuan to 120 yuan. Now he is paid only 400 yuan a month though he is teaching many classes. The rest of his regular salary is divided among the school leaders. The police also illegally stole his 5,000-yuan bank deposit.

Mr. Lin Chunquan is also a teacher in Gaoshi. Though widely regarded as an honest person he was sent illegally to a detention center and jail. While detained at the Weiyuan Detention Center he was beaten up by detainees, and the wardens even tied him to a bed as a method of torture.

In 2001, while imprisoned in Xinhua Jail in Mianyang, the wardens left drug addicts to monitor Mr. Lin. They exposed him to the snow during winter and the scorching sun in summer. Wardens Wei Ze and Zhao Yong encouraged the detainees to beat him. He was only allowed two to three hours of sleep a day. A female police officer told him, "I thought you were dead."

His employer, the Nongjian Middle School, was also active in the persecution under the direction of principal Chen Duanliang and then-provost Xia Zehua. In 2000, Mr. Lin's salary was lowered to 120 yuan per month, and then Chen Duanliang lowered it again to 60 yuan.

The current provost, Yang Guobin, reported Mr. Lin to the police in March 2004, on the excuse that he tore up a poster slandering Falun Gong. Policemen Li Gang, Lie Renping, and Gou Ping went to ransack Mr. Lin's home and put him in the detention center again. Yang Guobin threatened to report Mr. Lin again if he talked about quitting the CCP to the students. They threatened to dismiss Mr. Lin because he remains firm in his practice of Falun Gong.

The authorities are still withholding a large amount of Mr. Lin's salary.

These corrupt officials have not met with good ends. Chen Duanliang was reported by others for corruption and was severely injured during a fight with a teacher. His skull was fractured. Xia Zehua had to pay a large sum of money to the hospital after he beat up his wife and badly injured her.

Police active in the persecution Liu Renping and Zeng Erwa: 86-832-8122007
Gaoshi Middle School's principals Zhang Jian and Huang Zongfu: 86-832-8122081
Nongjian Middle School: 86-832-8495157
Provost of Nongjian Middle School Yang Guobin, Cell Phone: 86-13568016380
Center School: 86-832-8495902
Gaoshi Town Hall: 86-832-8122002, 86-832-8122001, 86-832-8122003

The Liaoning Province Masanjia Forced Labor Camp carried out "Closed Governance" in its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners could not take a bath, have visits, receive telephone calls, or hot water. They even put up surveillance devices in the bathroom to monitor practitioners. In March 2005, practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuying was on a hunger strike to protest the "Closed Governance" and was brutally force-fed. On April 25, she cried out loudly, "Falun Dafa is good" and was beaten, kicked, burned with electric batons, handcuffed to an iron stand for two days and a night, and locked up in a small cell for eight consecutive days. Practitioner Ms. Huang Shumei practiced the exercises and was handcuffed for an undetermined amount of time and locked in a small cell. Many practitioners were on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. They were all force-fed. The authorities also put unknown drugs into the food and force-fed it to practitioners.