Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Mr. Ma Xingxiang, his wife Ms. Zhang Shengfen and their two children lived in a village in Yaodianzi Town, Yishui County, Shandong Province. Mr. Ma’s whole family received tremendous benefits from practicing Falun Gong. Their marriage and family life became more harmonious and happy. In 1999, personnel from the Yaodianzi Town committee, the 610 Office, the government, and the police station carried out former dictator Jiang Zemin’s order to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Those officials have committed huge crimes against Yaodianzi Town practitioners. Mr. Ma’s family also suffered very brutal persecution.

Before Ms. Zhang Shengfen practiced Falun Gong, she suffered from many kinds of diseases. Her chronic gastric disease made her extremely skinny. She couldn’t eat any raw, cold, or spicy food. Later, she had cholecystitis, gallstones, anemia, and other ailments Her body felt very tight and heavy. She was unable to work in her family field, and later on she could no longer even cook for her family. She frequently left her hometown to seek a cure for her diseases. Although Ms. Zhang spent a lot of money on medical expenses, her physical condition didn't improve at all.

In February, 1996, Zhang Shengfen fortunately started to practice Falun Gong. After only a little more than 20 days of practicing Falun Gong, all her diseases were cured. The tremendous changes in her body and mind allowed family members, relatives and friends to see the wonder and power of Falun Gong. Therefore, her husband Ma Xingxiang also started to practice Falun Gong. Soon after, he gave up all of his bad habits and his family became very harmonious. In just two years, Falun Gong spread to over ten villages in Yaodianzi Town and more people received the benefits of practicing cultivation in Falun Gong.

After the Chinese government started to persecute Falun Gong, several officials approached the home of Mr. Ma. They were led by the party committee secretary of the town, Gao Zhenguo, and the Political Judiciary Committee Secretary, Wang Sike. Others involved included Zhang Yudong, Wu Gang, Cheng Shibo, Lei Fudong, Shi Jun, Wang Fei, Wang Huantao, Lin Qingfu, and Jiang Shudong—over 20 people in all. They climbed over Mr. Ma's fence and pounded on the door of his house. They went in and illegally took Mr. Ma's Falun Gong books, Falun Gong's exhibition posters, a stereo player, videotape player, meditation cushions, and other items.

At that time, Mr. Ma and his wife had gone to appeal to the higher authorities, seeking justice for Falun Gong, and their two children were the only ones at home. Mr. Ma's daughter was 16 years old and his son was only nine. During those days, just about every night, the children were awakened by pounding at their door. Once, the boy was so scared that he even hid himself under the bed.

A few days later, Mr. Ma was brutally beaten by Chief Jiang Shudong and others in the town police station. They exposed him to the sun in the summer while making him half squat, and hit his legs with a rubber baton for several hours. They took turns beating him. Around that time, practitioners Mr. Huang Changming, Mr. Wu Guangyu, and Mr. Qi Chunjie were also beaten in the police station.

Jiang Shudong kicked Mr. Ma in the face. The blood poured out of Mr. Ma's mouth and his face soon became very swollen. Ms. Zhang Shengfen was also illegally detained in the police station.

The authorities also took Mr. Ma's daughter to the the central school where many practitioners were held early on in the persecution. They had the practitioners sit on the floor with their legs stretched out and their arms held up. Then they forced the practitioners to watch programs on television slandering Falun Gong. They dragged Mr. Ma's daughter, Ma Na, outside and forced her to stand in the hot sun just because she refused to read newspapers that slandered Falun Gong. A policeman even kicked her twice. Na was released after being held for four or five days. Mr. Ma's family was fined 3,750 yuan on this occasion.

In October, Ms. Zhang and her daughter were arrested again in Jizishan Village. Ms. Zhang was dragged out of a crowd of people by Wang Sike. She was thrown on the ground in front of the crowd and severely beaten. The purpose of this incident was to threaten the other practitioners. Wang Sike brutally kicked Ms. Zhang in the abdomen several times and punched her in the face and head. As if that abuse was not enough, he then dragged her to a room where four people fiercely kick her with their boots, punched her head, and slapped her face. They didn't stop beating her until her mouth and nose were bleeding. The perpetrators were Lei Fudong, Wu Gang, Shi Jun, and one other person.

The next day, Ms. Zhang was taken to the detention center where she was held for the next month. Sixteen-year-old Ma Na was beaten by Wang Sike, Zhang Yudong, Cheng Shibo, and several others. She lost consciousness for a long time. This time, Mr. Ma's family had over 2,000 yuan extorted from them.

Once more the authorities came to Mr. Ma's home and took some of his family's belongings. They also arrested Mr. Ma and brutally tortured him. Meanwhile, many other practitioners were also arrested. Those responsible were Zhang Yudong, Shi Jun, and others. They used various methods to torture the practitioners for about two weeks. The methods used included: punching and kicking, beating the practitioners' hands with a bamboo stick, hitting the practitioners' legs with a nail-board, sleep deprivation, not allowing the practitioners to go to the restroom, forcing the practitioners into a half-squat position, forcing the practitioners to stand in the position of "a golden chicken standing on one foot," knocking the practitioners' heads against a wall while holding their hair, forcing the practitioners to lift their arms and stretch their legs out while standing still, and other brutal methods. Many practitioners were beaten very severely. Some practitioners had bruised noses and swollen faces, vomited blood, and could no longer walk.

After Ms. Zhang Shengfen was imprisoned in the detention center for a month, she was held at the town government building for three days. She was fined 1,500 yuan. Although a family member brought food to her every day, the authorities still forced her to pay another 500 yuan for her living expenses during imprisonment. Her young son frequently cried. From then on, whenever he heard the siren of a police vehicle, his heart would pound and he became very nervous. He started to worry about whether the CCP authorities would come to take his mom, dad, and older sister away.

The authorities frequently harassed Mr. Ma's family. Sometimes they went to their home during the day and at other times they were there at night. They often took Ms. Zhang away in the middle of the night and let her go home the next day. The reason they harassed her was that she talked briefly with some practitioners in the marketplace. The authorities have deprived Falun Gong practitioners of their basic rights and freedoms. During those several years, Mr. Ma's family lived under constant threat of being separated by the authorities at any time.

On one occasion, practitioner Mr. Zhang Shengqi from Fengtaizhuang Village gave Mr. Ma's family a flyer containing the words, "Falun Dafa is good." Even though Mr. Ma didn't post the flyer on his gate, Ms. Zhang Shengfen was still arrested by nine people. Wang Sike sat on a chair and encouraged someone else to cruelly hit Ms. Zhang over 20 times with a rubber stick and fiercely slap her face more than ten times.

In May, 2002, practitioner Ms. Ma Na went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. At Tiananmen Square, she shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" She was arrested by the police and taken to the Tiananmen Police Station. After she was held for several days in Beijing, she was taken back to the Yaodianzi Town Committee, where she was held another ten days. During her imprisonment there, Ma Na was force-fed several times. Later she was taken to the Fengjiazhuang Brainwashing Center in Yishui County by Wang Zhaocai (the Political Judiciary secretary) and others, where she was held for almost a month.

In June 2002, Ms. Ma Na was sentenced to three years of "reeducation through forced labor" in the Shandong Province No. 1 Womens' Prison located in Jinan City. At that time, she was still not yet 18 years old. During her imprisonment, the guards attempted to brainwash her. To achieve this goal, they tortured her by not allowing her to sleep, locking her in solitary confinement, and forcing her to work long hours. She suffered tremendously both physically and mentally.

Meanwhile, Wang Zhaocai incited Wang Fuwen, Wang Huantao, and others to arrest Ms. Ma Na's mother and father. Her mother, Ms. Zhang Shengfen, walked out of jail with righteous thoughts while the authorities were on watch. Her father was forced to leave his hometown to avoid being arrested. Ma Na's grandparents and little brother were left at home with no one to take care of them. During that time, Mr. Ma's family grew two Chinese acres of vegetables in a big shed, which normally would have earned them an income of more than 20,000 yuan if they sold the vegetables. Because there was no one to take care of the vegetables, in the end, they got no income from them. Wang Zhaocai threatened to remove Wang Fuwen, Wang Huantao, and Lin Qingfu from their positions at the office because they were unable to arrest Mr. Ma and his wife. This caused the authorities, as well as some other people who didn't know the truth about Falun Gong, to develop hatred toward the practitioners.

Mr. Ma's son, now 12 years old, once again lost his mother, father, and sister. His grandfather was very sick and bedridden and his grandmother was also very weak and sick. He didn't know where his father and mother were or where his sister was imprisoned. He was frequently awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night and often cried: "Dad, Mom, quickly come home!" Mr. Ma's family members were arrested, beaten over ten times, and fined more than 7,700 yuan.

My name is Meng Qingzhen and my wife is Zhao Yuhua. We are both Falun Gong practitioners at Fengjia Village, Longjiang County, Heilongjiang Province. Because we both suffered from many illnesses, we started to practice Falun Gong in 1998. After we began our practice, our illnesses disappeared without our noticing them. The manifestation of the wonder of Falun Gong further strengthened our determination to practice it.

Since the persecution started in 1999, we decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong to clarify the truth and to prove with our own personal experiences that Falun Gong brings no harm but only a lot of benefits to people.

In October 2000, when we went to Beijing's Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth to people, a few police thugs came and knocked us down. Stopping us from exposing the truth, they beat us, pushed my wife to the ground, and then dragged her to their vehicle for further beating. They took us and other practitioners to the Tiananmen Square police station, and locked us up in iron cages to force us to give them our names and residential addresses.

Then, the policemen from our local police station and the police department of Longjiang County, Wang Jin, Wang Hongwei, and police chief Zhang Guo from Heigangzi Police Station, together with Sun Chengyi, the party secretary of Fengjia Village, and the village head, forcefully shipped away 3,500 kilograms of soybeans that belonged to us and extorted 800 yuan from our parents. In addition, they auctioned off our land for only 1,000 yuan and pocketed the money. The officials and police officers in Longjiang County illegally sentenced us to forced labor camps, leaving our child and our parents without any care.

During our extended imprisonment in the forced labor camps, they forced us to attend brainwashing sessions, and beat and physically abused us many times. They forced us to become slave laborers. We were released in May and July 2001 respectively. In 2002, the perpetrators continued to persecute us, forcing us to leave home to avoid further persecution. Once again, our daughter was left behind and failed to get any care. She had a sudden onset of heart disease and died.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Zhongren lived in Linghe Village, Linghe Town, Anqiu City, Shandong Province. He started cultivating Falun Gong in 1996, and said very excitedly after reading Zhuan Falun, "This is the Fa I am supposed to receive. My mother told me on her deathbed, 'You must wait to receive the Fa.'" He became very strong and healthy from the practice. Not only could he take care of himself, but he could also do lots of farm work.

After the Chinese Communist Party "CCP" began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Sun Zhongren went to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. He was illegally arrested on the way, and was detained in Linghe Town Police Station. Mr. Sun went on a hunger strike to protest his arrest, and was released.

Upon returning home, the town government assigned one person from his village to closely monitor Mr. Sun at home.

In 2002, policemen from the local station harassed Mr. Sun at home. They forced him to undergo brainwashing, ransacked his home, and took all of his Falun Gong books away. Ever since then, Mr. Sun Zhongren was bedridden for more than one year. He could not take care of himself, and he died at the end of 2003.

In the past seven years, at least 18 Falun Gong practitioners from the city of Anqiu have died in the persecution. They are: Ms. Su Baolan, Ms. Guo Ruixuw, Mr. Niu Xigong, Ms. Cao Guiying, Mr. Song Xishan, Ms. Song Jinfang, Ms. Wang Shirun's mother-in-law, Mr. Sun Zhongren, Ms. Li Chunhong, Mr. Zhang Guanglin, Ms. Wang Lanfen, Mr. Zhou Chengsen, Mr. Zhanghua, Ms. Ji Xiulan, Mr. Zhou Baisheng, Zhou Shurong (gender unknown), Wang Zuoying (gender unknown), and Mr. Li Zemin. Ten practitioners from Anqiu have been sentenced to heavy prison terms, with the longest being twelve years. More than one hundred practitioners from Anqiu were sentenced to forced labor camps. Some have been sent twice to labor camps. Many practitioners suffered broken families and have been forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. Practitioners have had their retirement salaries withheld, some as long as four years. Countless practitioners' homes have been ransacked. Grain, farming tools and possessions have been taken away from practitioners' families (typically in Guanzhuang Town and Nanliu Town in 1999). Anqiu CCP Deputy Secretary Wang Naiping (male, also former CCP Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary) and former CCP Deputy Secretary (also current mayor) Wang Jihuai (male) are mainly responsible for the persecution in this area.

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[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

On the evening of September 28, 2006, Shuangcheng City National Security agent Tong Huiqun and others arrested five practitioners: Ms. Sang Guizhen, Ms. Wang Liqun and her daughter Ms. Wan Meijia, Mr. Jia Junjie, and Ms. Li Lan. At the same time, Ms. Sang’s house was ransacked, and they confiscated her personal items, including a computer and a copy and recording machine.

Ms. Wang Liqun was arrested by force even though her physical condition was so poor that she could not take care of herself. After she was illegally arrested, Ms. Wang appeared to be dizzy and was not able to see clearly. She died in the Shuangcheng City Second Detention Center during an interrogation. National Security agents pressured her family members not to expose the truth of her death.

Because of the persecution, Ms. Wang’s husband had been forced into homelessness for years, and after his wife died, he was still not able to return home. Although Ms. Wang’s daughter, Ms. Wan Meijia, was released, practitioners Ms. Sang Guizhen and Ms. Li Lan are still being persecuted at the detention center.