Issued by Clearwisdom Net

I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Shatuozi Township, Pingquan County, Hebei Province. The following is my experience at the hands of the local police.

At about 8 a.m. on March 3, 2004, Li Jianbo and Tong Yanhui from the Shatuozi Police Station with two other policemen rushed into my home. I was reading a brochure at the time. Seeing they were coming I put the brochure into my pocket. They said, "What were you reading? Let's see it!" They took the brochure from my pocket and demanded to know where it came from. I told them that I picked it up outside. They ordered me to go with them. I told them I had done nothing illegal and questioned why I should go with them. Right then and there all four of them became violent. Two of them caught me by my arms, one grabbed my hair, and the other one started to slap my face. They also searched my house. Without finding any incriminating evidence they forced me into their vehicle.

After I arrived at the local police station, they handcuffed me to a radiator pipe, beat me with their hands, and even used folded newspaper to hit my face. My face and hands were bleeding from the beatings. One of them, I can't remember which one, then wiped his hand with my blood, went out and lied to the people outside saying that I bit him. The police not only beat me again but also turned around and charged me, the victim, with a crime. The Communist Party regime is really so evil! The excruciating chest pain caused by the beating I had been subjected to lasted more than 40 days.

That day my relatives and other townspeople went to the local police station to plead with them for me. They praised and flattered them and also and found some influential people to persuade the police, but they still refused to let me go. After that we entrusted Li Fu, a man of influence in the county, with pleading for me. Communist regime agitator Li Jianbo not only slandered Li Fu but also took off his own coat and rushed toward Li Fu, intending to beat him. There were a lot of people around. Someone grabbed Li Jianbo around his waist and stopped him.

The local police telephoned the county police to resolve the incident. I had then been handcuffed for over seven hours, with a serious internal injury, obvious other trauma and a bloody face. Tong Yanhui released my handcuffs and ordered me to wash the blood off my face, for fear others would discover what had been done to me. When they arrived, the county police wanted to fine me 3,000 Yuan. They also stated that if we didn't give them enough money, they wouldn't release me and wanted to send Wang Shuying and me to their police department.

Once the local police noticed the county police department taking over, they realized the local police would not get the money. Then Li Jianbo told me, "1,500 Yuan is also ok." Wang Shuying and I were thus detained for a whole day and they extorted 3,000 Yuan in total from us. As a peasant, I only have several hundred Yuan income for a whole year!

Because of the beating I cannot move freely. The second day they also ordered my daughter-in-law to go to the police station, fill out this or that paper, sign documents and leave fingerprints.

 The police in Fenggou County, Fengmao Forest, Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province have never stopped persecuting Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xinchun, even though they crippled him in 2001. At the end of 2005, the police wounded his already disabled legs.

Picture: Police abuse and terrorism led Mr. Wang Xinchun to lose his legs

Wang Xinchun lost both feet due to persecution by the 610 Office, the police department. Nevertheless, police and local officials in Fengmao Forest continue to persecute Mr. Wang. They have repeatedly kicked and beaten him, poured boiling water on him, pinched his neck, and burned him with a lighter. Liu Changmin, deputy manager of Fengmao Forest, violently beat the stumps where his feet used to be, causing him serious injury again.

At around 9 a.m. on October 31, 2005, Mr. Wang was crawling on the road, on his way home. A police car from the Fenggou Police Station suddenly appeared. Chief Min Caichun, Police officers Wang Choumin, and Yang Dawei jumped out of the car and ran towards Mr. Wang. Wang Choumin searched the pockets of Mr. Wang Xinchun's coat and found handwritten Falun Gong materials, so he began to beat him. Mr. Wang Xinchun's face was swollen and was full of bruises. Another policeman Yang Dawei searched the right pocket of Mr. Wang's pants and stole his watch and all of his money, 184 yuan. Mr. Wang Xinchun asked Yang to return his money and his watch and, as a result, was cursed at and beaten. Once again, blood flowed from his two injured, disabled legs.

For detailed information on the persecution Mr. Wang Xinchun has endured, please refer to "How Did I Lose My Feet?"

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The Women's Prison of Guangzhou City, where practitioners have been held and tortured for long periods, uses all of the brutal torture methods from throughout Mainland China to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

After being illegally sentenced to eight years in prison, Practitioner Ms. Yuan Xiaoling was held in the Fourth Group of the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City. Since she was transferred into the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City from the Detention Center of Shenzhen City in October 2004, she has been subjected to long-term torture.

Ms. Zeng Qing, 34, is a practitioner from Shaoguan City in Guangdong Province who was transferred to the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City. She was held there for three years. Because Ms. Zeng maintains a steadfast faith in Falun Gong, she was severely tortured. When she was due for release, the authorities refused to let her leave. Now her whereabouts are not clear.

Practitioner Ms. Cai Wenjun was sentenced to seven years in prison. She was held in the Fifth Group of the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City and was severely tortured.

The following torture methods have been used in the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City to persecute those Falun Gong practitioners who hold a steadfast belief in Falun Gong:

Physical Torture: practitioners are totally isolated and not allowed to sleep, with five to six prisoners monitoring and torturing them in turn; practitioners are subjected to the torture method called "Hanging Up in the Air" (1), during which they are stabbed with needles as soon as they fall asleep; practitioners are not allowed use the toilet unless they beg for forgiveness as a criminal; practitioners are not allowed to take a bath, etc.

Mental Torture: practitioners are forced to read anti-Falun Gong materials. If they refuse to read them, the prison guards read them to the practitioners constantly and force the practitioners to listen. Some practitioners are locked into a dark room and the persecutors write words that defame Falun Gong in white on black cloth and hang the words everywhere in the room.

The detailed situation is more severe than what has been described above. Here we call on all righteous people in the world to help rescue the Falun Gong practitioners who are being held and tortured in the Women's Prison of Guangzhou City.

The Women's Prison of Guangzhou City is located on Guangcongsi Road, Baiyun District of Guangzhou City.

The Guangzhou City 610 Office's mailing address: Guangcongsi Road, mailbox No. 52, Baiyun District of Guangzhou City

(1) Hanging up in the Air (http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/12/81597.html, http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/7/11/79151.html

The practitioners' hands are tied with thin ropes and then they are hung up for several hours, or even several days. Sometimes, the rope is so tight it breaks. Sometimes the rope cuts into the flesh. Some practitioners lose consciousness while being hung up. In many cases, the practitioners are hung by their handcuffs, which causes broken bones. See illustration on
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Ms. Luo Linfeng is a Falun Gong practitioner from the Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Because she persistently practices Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance, she has been persecuted.

Ms. Luo Linfeng is 62 years old and has only an elementary school education. Her family lives in the Wuxingcun Village, Lantian Town, Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Before 1998, she suffered from various illnesses including cerebral thrombosis, mid-ear infection, chronic inflammation of the gallbladder, rheumatism, stomach problems and more. Ms. Luo was unable to work and had been to many hospitals seeking cures. Without income, though, she did not have any money and could not afford treatments without borrowing money. Her family sold rice and other things to raise the money. They also had to borrow a lot of money from relatives and friends, but her illnesses were not cured. Later she heard that practicing Falun Gong could cure illnesses. Ms. Luo started practicing Falun Gong and all her illnesses gradually disappeared. She was again able to work on the farm and do housework.

Jiang Zemin started the persecution and banned Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. Suffering from this unreasonable persecution, practitioners went to Beijing to tell the national leaders the truth about Falun Gong. The police arrested Ms. Luo as soon as she arrived at Tiananmen Square. They took her to the Luzhou liaison office in Beijing and detained her. When Li Chengjun, who is the Party Secretary of the CCP's Huayang People's Commune Committee, and personnel of the Mianhuapo Township Party Committee came to the liaison office, they searched the practitioners, took all their cash, and scolded them. They then sent Ms. Luo and other practitioners to the Luzhou City Detention Center where they tried to force them to "transform."

Ms. Luo was imprisoned in the detention center for three months. The police and local officials failed to force the practitioners to give up their belief. They fabricated lies and said that practitioners came to Beijing to disrupt social order and interrupt public transportation. Ms. Luo was sentenced to one year of forced labor and was transferred to the Huangjinshan Detention Center. There she and Liu Shuhua were forced to work in the kitchen and feed the pigs. They also had to deliver food to the cells, sweep the floor, and get boiling water. These two practitioners had to do nearly all the work at the center. They had to work for more than twelve hours each day without any breaks, except for the little sleep they were allowed. Their living conditions were inhuman and the center's personnel still scolded them.

After Ms. Luo's one year term of forced labor was over, she returned home. Soon after her return, Wu Dequn, the secretary of the Lantian Town women's federation came to her home and tried to compel her to write a "guarantee statement." Ms. Luo firmly refused. Then Wu Dequn forced her husband to write the statement. Because he feared that they would detain her again, he wrote the statement on her behalf and under pressure. When the local officials learned that Ms. Luo refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, they put her under continuous surveillance.

At midnight on December 22, 2002, the village cadres, Yu Zepei and Li Guangming, used the excuse that Ms. Luo had connections with other Falun Gong practitioners and brought several people with them, including a 610 Office official, Gao Xiang from the Lantian Township police station and the Party Secretary of the Lantian Township. They banged on her door and forced her to open it. After they went inside, the party cadres scolded and threatened her. That evening it was snowing and very cold. These cadres took Ms. Luo and her husband to the police station and left them to sit there for several hours. Her husband was shivering due to the cold.

For no reason and with no legal procedure, they forced Ms. Luo to go back to the Sanhuashan Detention Center. They detained her there for two months. Later, they sent her back in a vehicle. The secretary of the township women's federation Wu Dequn again tried to force her to write the "guarantee statement" using the excuse that the government had bailed her out. Ms. Luo firmly refused. Wu Dequn then threatened that if she refused to write it, she would have to pay 600 yuan for living expenses for the two month she was detained at the Sanhuashan Detention Center. Otherwise, they would not release her. That day, they also informed her family to pick her up. They then forced her husband to write a guarantee statement and an "acknowledgement of the debt" for the 600 yuan that they imposed on her.

After Ms. Luo returned home, the Communist Party cadres of the village constantly monitored her. She lived in terror all day long. They did not allow her to have the freedom a citizen is guaranteed by law. Yu Zepei, Li Guangming, Lantian Township Party Secretary Ren, and Gao Xiang of the police station are the main ones who persecuted Falun Gong. Yu Zepei received retribution for his deeds last year.

Ms. Luo Linfeng was detained, fined and robbed of her personal freedom simply because she wanted to have better health and to improve her mind. She did not do anything wrong. Then who is actually violating the law? According to articles 35 and 36 of the Constitution, Ms. Luo's practicing Falun Gong is legal. Going to Beijing to appeal is every citizen's right guaranteed by law. Therefore sentencing Ms. Luo to forced labor is illegal persecution. These acts of the people involved must be investigated.

Xue Lianchun (male), the political commissar of Guan County Police Department of Shangdong Province, and Chen Yuezhi (female), the section chief of the Police Department, are exhausting all means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

In the past several years, police officers headed by Xue Lianchun and Chen Yuezhi have been using the means of arrest, detention, extortion, sentencing and illegal forced labor to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners have been forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. More than ten practitioners have been illegally sentenced to prison. Over two hundred practitioners have been illegally sentenced to forced labor. Several thousand practitioners have been arrested and extorted out of large sums of money.

Throughout these years of persecution, Xue Lianchun and Chen Yuezhi have led police officers to steal belongings and funds from Falun Gong practitioners' family members, forcing them to pay fines totaling millions of yuan. They have never given a single receipt for money or items stolen. After the police illegally arrested several practitioners, they extorted two to five thousand yuan from their families before releasing them. Some practitioners' family members were forced to give Chen Yuezhi "Three Gold" (referring to gold rings, gold earrings and gold bracelets), and also hand in 2,000 yuan in fines, without being given any receipts.

The Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp of Tianjin City brutally persecutes and enslaves illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners. Each group of the forced labor camp extends labor hours from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. or midnight, and those practitioners who fail to work fast enough often have to work continuously for seven to ten days without a break. Every night they only get two to three hours of sleep.

In each group, there are some practitioners who refused to write the so-called "homework" or "exposing and criticism." The forced labor camp applied "Strict Monitoring" and ordered the "Personal Cangues" (persons designated to supervise practitioners' behavior) to follow these practitioners all day long. Practitioner Mr. Ma Jian has been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He has been on the hunger strike for almost seven months.

Following the order from the education staff of the second group, Zheng Junhong (male, police badge number 1224075), police officers Li Hua (male, badge number 1224214) and Meng Zhaosheng (male, badge number 1224100) used electric batons to beat practitioner Mr. Chang Tianxiang, with the purpose of forcing him to work longer hours.

Practitioner Mr. Yan Junling, held in the second group, was diagnosed as having hepatitis, with jaundice and tuberculosis. The authorities refused to release him for medical treatment, neither did they isolate him away from other practitioners, totally disregarding other people's health.

Guard Wang Ju (male) brutally beat practitioner Mr. Feng Yaochen and broke the bridge of his nose, but did not allow him any medical treatment. The guards have already lost their human conscience.

Practitioner Mr. Zhang Guoqing from Wuqing District was arrested and taken to the Damengzhuan Police Station one night in December 2004. He was shackled to the basketball backboard for half a night, freezing cold. Then the chief of the police station, Dong Haifeng (male), ordered eight police officers to hold him down on the ground and tie his hands behind his back. Dong then used an electric baton to shock him. Mr. Zhang was taken to the first group of the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp of Tianjin City, and later transferred to the third group that is designated for strictly monitoring Falun Gong practitioners. Every day Mr. Zhang was forced to sit for twenty-two to twenty-four hours and was not allowed to sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, he was beaten and kicked. He was forced to do strenuous labor until January 2006, when he was finally released.

On January 20, 2006, a day designated for visits in the second group of the forced labor camp, practitioner Li Donglian and another practitioner came to deliver Falun Gong materials to a practitioner in the forced labor camp. They were reported by someone and were immediately arrested. The police found the materials after a body search.