 A police van arrives. Four police officers come up to drive Mr. Wang’s grandmother away. |
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Kaiping Labor Camp in Tangshan City
In October 2000, a group of Falun Gong practitioners from all parts of Hebei Province were sent to the Kaiping Labor Camp. There was a shortage of cells, so bungalows with brick beds [a heatable brick bed used in northern China] were built in the men’s group, located behind the women's group. A dozen practitioners slept on one large brick bed. We could only sleep on our sides. A wall separates the right side of the bungalow from a large classroom on the left where Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to brainwashing and torture. A solitary confinement cell is in the center.
In early 2001, the male detainees were ordered to construct a building in the women’s squadron. We assume that all the female detainees have moved into the new building by now. There is a vegetable garden behind the bungalow. Falun Gong practitioners are often hung from the trees. When government officials come for an inspection, the labor camp authorities hide all steadfast Falun Gong practitioners.
In late May 2001, Falun Gong practitioners in the women’s squadrons held a hunger strike for a month. Most of them were taken to the first floor of the labor camp hospital inside the men’s group. Later, it was learned that about 200 women Falun Gong practitioners were also held on the hospital's second floor. We never saw these practitioners. Most of the practitioners held in the women’s group at that time had "reformed," and renounced Falun Gong, after torture and brainwashing.
Guards at the Kaiping Labor Camp:
Wang Xueli, male, in his 40s. He used to be a section head and his crimes were exposed many times on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. He is very cruel.
Yan Hongli, female, in her 30s; was later promoted to be in charge of persecution against women Falun Gong practitioners in the men’s squadron.
Wei Qun, female, in her 30s; worked at the women’s squadron.
Zhou, female, a group head, in her 40s; was in charge of persecuting women Falun Gong practitioners at the time.
Chengde City Detention Center
Between November 2002 and April 2003, Zhang was the only female guard at the Chengde City Detention Center and was later promoted to deputy head there. She framed me when I was illegally sentenced to prison. She and camp doctor Zhang, who followed Jiang's group in persecuting Falun Gong, force-fed Falun Gong practitioners who went on a hunger strike for months at a time. Guard Li Tiejun is so vicious that even the inmates said he would receive divine retribution. He persecuted Falun Gong practitioner Tang Liaozi who held a hunger strike, but the details are unknown.
In early 2003 a new building was constructed inside the labor camp; probably all the detainees are held in that building now.
Taihang Prison in Baoding City, Hebei Province
Between late April 2003 and January 2004, one had to enter about four gates before one could get inside the women’s group at the Taihang Prison in Baoding City, Hebei Province. The women’s group is called the 2nd Group and includes three squadrons: Squadron 2, Squadron 3 and Squadron 4. Ge Shuguang, a woman in her 30s, was the head of the group. She was transferred to the Hebei Province Women’s Prison, perhaps as the head of the Education Section. Ma Huanran, a woman in her 30s, was the head of Squadron 2; Yan, a woman in her 30s, was the political head. Huo, a woman in her 30s, was the head of Squadron 4. Her brother took pictures of female inmates and Falun Gong practitioners in civil clothing. The detention center authorities later withheld the Falun Gong practitioners’ pictures. All women Falun Gong practitioners held a hunger strike. We heard that Huo’s brother was fired. All of these above named people actively persecuted Falun Gong.
Location of groups and occasions of incidents: Squadron 2, Group 2 consists of a few rooms on the left side of the third story. Ge Shuguang’s office is located there and contains a tape recorder, a VCD player, various ribbons, CDs and silk banners. It is said that there is a small, dark room at Squadron 3, Group 2. The only window in the room is a small opening on the door, surrounded by walls on all four sides. This is also a place of torture.
Falun Gong practitioners detained in Taihang Prison's
Squadron 2:
Ms. Zhou Yu, in her 40s
Ms. Liu Xiaofeng, in her 30s, came from Tangshan City
Ms. Du Yuqin, in her 30s, has two sons who attend an elementary school funded by a government-sponsored charity. Her husband died soon after returning home from a torture-plagued hunger strike imprisonment at the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp
Ms. Guo Jinhua is in her 40s
Ms. Lu Fengling, in her 30s. She came from Langfang City and was later transferred to the Shijiazhuang Prison
The Falun Gong practitioners mentioned above are extremely weak.
Ms. Wang Xiaoming, a former volunteer assistant at the Zhangjiakou City practice site who was once held at Squadron 3 was in her 40s. She was kept inside a cell. We have learned that she was released after her illegal sentence had expired in late 2004. In early 2006 she was sent to Hebei Province Women’s Prison
Ms. Wang Hong, in her 20s, is being held in Squadron 4.
There were then more than 60 women Falun Gong practitioners held in the Taihang Prison. The number of "reformed" practitioners and determined practitioners was about equal. The head of the Education Section and his predecessor were both men who vehemently persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Zhao, the head of Taihang Prison, was rewarded for his "outstanding achievement" in reforming Falun Gong practitioners, although the prison authorities deceived their superiors. His wife Wang was the only prison doctor and also participated in the persecution. The prison authorities often ordered collaborators, the so-called "assistant educators," to humiliate and torture determined practitioners. They deprived the practitioners of sleep and called it "taming the eagle." One inmate said that they once deprived Falun Gong practitioners of sleep for eight days. Some inmates or "watchdogs" monitored the practitioners’ every move. They often coerced, threatened, beat and verbally abused the practitioners.
Information about Shijiazhuang Women’s Prison in Hebei Province between January 2004 and May 2005
There are seven groups at Shijiazhuang Women’s Prison. Falun Gong practitioners are held in Squadron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Most of these practitioners were forced to do long hours of slave labor. The cafeteria is located in Squadron 6. No Falun Gong practitioners are held there. Squadron 7 is for new arrivals.
The Rujian Group is tops in terms of severity of torture. The guards there were extremely brutal. When they see a Falun Gong practitioner whom they deem "unstable" [not completely "reformed"], they would "reform" her all over again. Fan, a woman in her 30s, is the head of the Rujian Group.
Determined Falun Gong practitioners are held at the solitary confinement cell at the women’s group, another very dark place inside the prison.
Yu, a woman in her 50s used to head the women’s group. Li, a political head in her 40s, was later promoted to the head of the prison district that includes Squadron 1, Squadron 3 and Squadron 4. Wang was a section head in her 40s. Her husband also worked at the prison. Bi was in her 40s and was the political head of the prison district that includes Squadron 1, Squadron 3 and Squadron 4. These officials sometimes faked kindness to deceive and persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
These Falun Gong practitioners were held in Squadron 4: Peng Yun, in her 40s; An Xinting (she has probably been released); Zhao Aifang, around 40 years of age; Xia Yunsheng is around 40 years; Shen Shexiang, in her 50s, and a few more practitioners whose names I cannot recall.
Practitioner Peng Yun started practicing Falun Gong in 2001 as a common inmate at the detention center. She was very determined in her belief in Falun Gong. Squadron leaders tortured her on numerous occasions because she delivered and read Master Li’s articles. In the evening of May 18 or May 19, 2004, Peng Yun refused to turn over Teacher’s articles to the officials. Guard Zhang Wenxia forced the whole group of about ten detainees to go downstairs. She snatched the articles from Peng Yun and sent Peng Yun to a solitary confinement cell. Peng Yun went on a hunger strike and later started eating again. Each day the guards gave her only several cold and hard corn buns and a little salted vegetable. Peng Yun was released from solitary confinement after about three months. She had lost almost 22 lbs. Peng Yun’s husband is probably Ding Huixian. He works at the Xingtai Metallurgy Factory or at the Xingtai Steel Factory. He appealed several times for a review of Peng Yun’s life sentence, but his request was rejected because Peng Yun talked about Falun Gong.
Zheng, the former political head of Squadron 4 and the former head of Squadron 1 are the heads of Squadron 4. Guard Zhang Wenxia is still working there.
Falun Gong practitioner Bai Yuzhi is held at Squadron 1. She lost sight in both eyes during a hunger strike and had problems with mobility of her limbs. There are several reports about her on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website.
Falun Gong practitioner Xie Xiugai is being held in Squadron 2 and has been kept inside a cell for a long time.
Practitioner Lu Fengling is being held in Squadron 3. She was transferred from the Taihang Prison in early 2005 and is held inside a cell long-term. Practitioner Tong from Chengde City was arrested with her mother in Beijing. Her mother is held in Squadron 1. (Her brother lives in Shuiquangou in Chengde City). These two practitioners are physically very weak.
Women Falun Gong practitioners from the Taihang Prison, Chengde City Detention Center and from the Shijiazhuang Prison were transferred to the Hebei Province Women’s Prison.
My name is Ms. Zhou Yongping and I live in Nong’an County, Jilin Province. Since I insisted on practicing Falun Gong and following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," I was brutally persecuted by police from the First Division of Changchun Police Department. They tortured me by making me sit on a Tiger Bench, making me wear only underwear while staying outside, and beating my head as if it were a punching bag.
On February 2, 2002, when I went to my son’s work unit, I was secretly followed by bad people from that unit. They monitored me on the bus all the way to Changchun City. I did not know they were following me.
When I got off the bus in Changchun, I was arrested by the police from the First Division of Changchun Police Department. They took me to a room on the fourth floor of the office building of Changchun Police Department. They handcuffed me to a chair. I was searched, and all my personal belongings were confiscated. They then took me to another room with a chair in the center that was made of thumb-sized iron rods. They put me on the iron chair and tied my hands to the armrests. Then, they placed an iron rod horizontally in front of my rib cage and locked both sides of the rod to the chair.
Around 5 p.m. 10 people entered the room. The whole room was filled with an atmosphere of terror. One of them, acting like a senior official, said, "Her case is complicated. Don’t hurry." After that person left, about six to seven people remained in the room. They began to torture me so that I would "confess." One of the officers said, "Do you know what this place is? This is the First Division of the Changchun Police Department. All of us here were selected from the Criminal Corps and the Public Security Sub-Bureau. Do you know what this iron chair is? It is a Tiger Bench. Do you know what kind of people sit on it? They are criminals on death row and leaders of Falun Gong practitioners, like Yang Guang, Yang Feng, and others. You could face the same consequences as they."
At that moment, a policeman holding an object I couldn’t identify came up behing me. He used that object to punch the acupuncture point between the thumb and the index finger of my left hand. A purple swelling the size of a ping pong ball appeared on the back of my left hand. Then they handcuffed me behind my back, lifted my hands (while handcuffed) over my head to the front, pressed my upper body toward my legs, and cruelly pressed my head until my face touched my thighs. Two policemen fiercely struck my back with their fists, while my chest and abdomen were pressed against the iron rod. All this caused me excruciating pain. Every second I felt out of breath.
I became unconscious. They pulled my hands back over my head and returned me to an upright position. They said, "We will do it every five minutes. We are divided into groups and each group has two people who take turns every two hours. You will see how many times you can bend during the night." hey again pressed my body down and I lost consciousness. They sprayed me with cold water to awaken me and then used electric batons to shock my neck, face, and mouth. They poured cold water on me and then shocked me with the electric batons. My head became crooked from the shocks. A policeman cruelly gripped my hair so that my head could not move. Once the batons’ power was used up, they would quickly recharge them and continue torturing me.
Later on, another two policemen came and beat my head with their hands. One person stood in front to hit my face and the other one stood in back to beat the rear of my head. They beat me as if they were using my head as a punching bag. They tortured me almost until dawn, when they were so tired that they fell asleep.
The next day around 4:00 p.m., another group of people came. They covered my eyes with a blindfold and took me from the fourth floor. They put me into a vehicle which was equipped inside with a Tiger Bench. They drove for 30-40 minutes to an unknown location. (Later, I learned that it was Jingyuetan in Changchun City.) Before the blindfold was taken off, I was tied to a Tiger Bench in a room. Around 10 people surrounded me. Everyone looked wicked. One of them had a full beard and wore a yellow coat. He said, "If you do not obey us, we will torture you to death. No one knows where this place is and you were secretly arrested. There is a big pit behind this house. After your death, we will bury you in the pit and no one will know about it."
They allowed me to wear only underwear. They tied me to the iron chair and covered my eyes with a blindfold. They put me outside still tied to the iron chair to freeze me. It felt like the coldest day in winter. I was chilled and shivered the whole night. The chair shook as well.
When dawn broke, they moved me to a cold room and started to interrogate and torture me. They did not allow me to put clothes on until the third night. In the afternoon on February 5, they sent me to the Changchun Third Detention Center. I was numb by that time. Moreover, after being tortured, I was in a very poor state. I shivered and could not stand. The officials from the detention center examined me and found that I was severely tortured. They refused to accept me. One of the police who sent me to there said, "Don’t worry. She practices Falun Gong. If there is a problem, I will take responsibility." The police then wrote a note to the detention center.
The Third Detention Center accepted me reluctantly. A prison guard saw that my whole body shivered. He asked me if I was a Falun Gong practitioner. When I replied that I was, he also asked me if I was tortured with the Tiger Bench. I replied, "Yes." He angrily said, "This group of police is too evil. How can they torture Falun Gong practitioners so horribly?"
The three days and nights of cruel torture seriously devastated my body and mind. I lay on the bed in the detention center for over a month. I shivered all the time. My feet were so cold that they swelled and were so painful that I could not stand. I could not see things clearly. I threw up frequently and had difficulty breathing. After being illegally detained in the Third Detention Center for two months, I was sentenced to two years in prisonsand sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province.
On March 2, 2006, Jilin City practitioner Wang Jianguo was arrested by the Nanjing police in Chuanying District led by Tan Xinqiang. Forty days later, he was persecuted to death in No. 1 Detention Center of Jilin city. Mr. Wang was only 30 years old.
On May 11, Chuanying District Police Department called Mr. Wang’s family members, letting them go there to sign documents. The family members were very angry: "They [the police] even want to cremate the body and eliminate evidence after killing people! That is impossible!" The police also called and asked for Mr. Wang’s parents’ whereabouts, in order to plot further persecution.
On May 12, 2006, three of Mr. Wang’s family members went to the Jilin City Government, to protest the injustice done to the innocent Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang’s grandmother, in her 80’s, sat in front of the government compound with Mr. Wang’s photo and a big one-word sign, "Injustice." Many people stopped and watched.
Mr. Wang’s grandmother cried as she was telling others about her grandson being persecuted to death. Later, a police van came, and four police officers came up to drive her away. She said, "I will stay here, and go nowhere else. I need to talk with the mayor. My grandson was a Falun Gong practitioner. He was a good person, and he was persecuted to death. Nobody cared about this."
A police van arrives. Four police officers come up to drive Mr. Wang’s grandmother away. |
Several dozen people were gathered on the stairs in front of the government building. They came to appeal, and most of them were wearing white caps. On the top of the stairs, there was a line of 7 to 8 police blocking the entrance to prevent people from entering.
Mr. Wang’s family members distributed truth-clarification material about his death to the gathering of people. Many people came up to take and read the material carefully. Some people were reading as they walked away, and were still reading even when they were far way.
There were several policemen not far away behind Mr. Wang’s grandmother. There was also a middle-aged man in a yellow jacket a few steps in front of her, who kept watching her all the time. Across the street at the Jilin City government building, a table was set up, and three persons stood there—one in his 40’s and two in their 20’s—with two plates and a blood pressure monitor. However, they did not wear health care uniforms, but instead appeared sneaking and suspicious. It was not difficult to tell they were most likely not medical professionals, but secret agents from the National Security Bureau. They have done similar things in the past to persecute other Falun Gong practitioners.
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Two secret agents pretending to be medical staff who checked blood pressure
Close to the city government, there were also some police who appeared to keep order. Among the crowd, there was a person who was about 40 years old. He was wearing dark glasses, in a white jacket and blue jeans. He appeared to be extraordinarily active, and kept asking, "Why didn't Mr. Wang's parents come?" It was easy to tell he was a secret agent. There were also two plainclothes police chatting nearby.
 At noon on May 12, 2006, a suspicious person (could be a secret agent) was video-recording this behind a flowerbed. |
After 7:00. p.m. on the day when Mr. Wang’s grandmother went to the city government calling for justice, two persons from the National Security Bureau came to Mr. Wang’ s relatives, asking for his grandmother’s whereabouts. They said there must have been a so-called instigator behind this—they could not arrest an elderly lady in her 80’s. They also asked for Mr. Wang’s parents’ whereabouts.
How could a table to measure blood pressure show up in front of the city government building? Mr. Wang was persecuted to death, and the police are now coming after his parents—exactly what do they want?
Xing Lianzheng, a director from the National Security Bureau, once went to Mr. Wang’s home around August or September in 2005. He was looking for Mr. Wang’s father, but failed to find him. He heard Mr. Wang owned a convenience store, but was not sure about that. The Jilin National Security Bureau planned with the Nanjing Police Station police to check on this. However, after Tan Xinqiang from the Nanjing Police Station examined the store in the morning of March 2, five police officers came in a van around 1:30 p.m., carrying a search warrant and illegally confiscating items in the store. Later, Xing Lianzheng from the Jilin National Security Bureau reprimanded the Nanjing Police Station on this, because they originally planned to use the store as a trap to arrest more Falun Gong practitioners. While illegally interrogating Mr. Wang and his wife, the police said, "Now we are unable to use your store [to trap practitioners], but we have many other ways."
The 7th Group of Baimalong Women's Labor Camp specializes in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The group is divided into three squadrons. The 1st Squadron detains Falun Gong practitioners who are imprisoned illegally for the first or second time. the 2nd Squadron consists of Falun Gong practitioners who are imprisoned for the first time and who have been "transformed" by force. The 3rd Squadron is a strictly controlled team for determined practitioners.
No matter which team they are in, Falun Gong practitioners are all under strict surveillance and close management. Every action and movement, such as eating, using the restroom, using the sink, taking a shower, and so on, are all under strict control. The police arrange criminal drug-addicts and sex offenders to monitor Falun Gong practitioners one-on-one 24 hours a day.
The prison leaders force Falun Gong practitioners to do slave labor. Those who refuse to work suffer scolding on the spot, and are punished by being forced to stand for extremely long periods of time, denied use of the restroom, water and showers. Moreover, their labor camp terms are extended. Falun Gong practitioner Hu Xiaoxian was released after her term was extended by more than 4 months; Lei Jianli was not released after her term was up; Duan Xiaoying was not released for months after her term ended; Zeng Liping was supposed to be released in October 2005, yet she was imprisoned for several more months. (She was not released until her body had become very weak after a 2-month long hunger strike). Zhu Guilin’s term was increased by several months. Sui Yuxiang, Lu Yuzhu, and Liu Juhua were not released after their terms were past due. The three were force fed when they went on hunger strikes.
My term was supposed to expire on April 23. They transferred me to the 1st cell of Squadron 3 on March 28, where there were three vicious people on duty. As soon as I entered the room, they impatiently wanted me to write a guarantee statement, which had already been written by them in advance. They required that I copy it myself without leaving out one word, and did not permit me to change one single character. As I paid no attention to them, they started to beat me, claiming that it was a demonstration of their authority. They also forced me to watch many brainwashing video tapes, but I did not open my eyes, so they hit me again. At first, they hit me with their hands. Lei Xiaoling, a wicked woman, said her hands had become so painful due to beating me. Then they used plastic shoes to slap my face, eyes, ears, and mouth. As a result, my upper lip swelled very big, and my ears were bleeding. Having beaten me, the evil woman Li Ying tried to force me to write the guarantee again, saying I should do so if I wanted to avoid more torture. She said that this was just the beginning, and that there had been no one so far who didn’t write after entering this room. I paid no attention to her. Then she forced me to squat down onto a brick block to watch a video tape full of fabricated rumors. The brick seat was just a little over 30 centimeters in dimension. I was not allowed to step beyond a drawn line, and I was supposed to crouch there with my hands on my knees. Otherwise, I would suffer beatings by them. I was wounded all over my body, yet I was not allowed to speak out. I asked them, "Why do you beat me?" Li Ying said, "You don’t know what ‘Attack Team’ means do you? (It means "to make you surrender by ruthlessness, beatings and force). This is the best place. Nobody would know if someone is killed." They forced me to kneel down. I requested to stand for a while. Lei Xiaoling said, "You are not allowed to stand. I know you can stand. Some (of you practitioners) can stand for several hours. If you’re afraid of squatting, write (the guarantee) quickly." I said force couldn’t change the minds of people. Li Ying said, "(We) do not want your heart but just your surface. It’s all unimportant, no matter whether you write it voluntarily, or we force you by controlling your hand to write, or we write lies for you."
People taken to the 3rd Squadron of the 7th Group for persecution often changed. The police took Falun Gong students imprisoned in Squadron 1 and 2 in turn to Squadron 3 at any time to torture them. Falun Gong practitioner Liu Juhua had suffered "intensified" persecution there 3 times. Each time, after she got out of there, she was wounded all over her face. The period of time for intensified persecution differed from a dozen days to several months. As soon as I had gotten out of there, an elderly woman, Yang Sanchun, who was 68 years old, was confined in the 1st cell. Li Ying told me that as soon as one steps out of there, another would come; whoever was the most defiant of the authorities at the time. She said that room always had someone in there.
By the so-called policy of six characters- "educate, influence and save,"- the labor camp has deceived many everyday people. From the outside one cannot see that the police beat people, and it doesn't appear that they got involved in persecuting Falun Gong students. In reality, all evil deeds were done under their plans, control and manipulation. Sometimes practitioners’ fingers were bundled together with a string and then "stirred" by a very rough stick, which made the fingers bleed a lot. Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Xiaohong was tortured like this. Several evil people controlled her hand simultaneously to write the three guarantees. Police forced Hu Xiaoxian to sit on the floor with the window open during the cold winter at temperatures of 3 to 4 degrees (Celsius) below zero. In the summer, at temperatures as high as 40 degrees (Celsius), seven Falun Gong practitioners were pulled down to the ground and exposed to the baking sun. Among them was Li Jumei. As a result of forced-feeding, Zeng Liping’s front teeth were knocked out in 2004. Boiling water was mixed with gruel at temperatures of 80 degrees (Celsius) and poured onto the face of Jiang Meilan. In 2004, one foot of Falun Gong practitioner Hu Dongxia from Xiangtan was broken by the guards. After she became disabled, her family strongly requested her release on bail for medical treatment.
Zhou Aihua suffered inhumane tortures. She was beaten with a small stool until the seat broke off. She was wounded all over her body. They pushed her down a long coffee table right on her head and pinched her throat with their hands. Six or seven of them suppressed her to force her to write the three guarantees. The so-called "three guarantees" were produced through this kind of brutal, inhumane treatment. The police directed murderers in secret, frequently adopting the evil party’s "false, wicked and violent" measures. They used numerous methods of deceit, pretending to be ignorant, as if they didn’t know about the persecution of Falun Gong. In order to flatter the police officers, the detained murderers concocted so-called "evidence," and persecuted practitioners with high-pressure, just to gain a little personal profit. When persecuting Zhou Aihua, the wicked police officer He Yulian said, "Do whatever (you) can to her as long as (you) don’t kill her." Falun Gong practitioner Li Qing had been persecuted by the evil until she lost the normal function of her mind, but she still suffered merciless beatings everyday.
Here, I expose the inhumanity and brutality in Baimalong Labor Camp. What I saw and know is just the tip of the iceberg. There are still many more Falun Gong students who have been wounded, crippled and killed. The total number is not known. There are many Falun Gong students who are suffering evil persecution every day.
Falun Gong practitioners who are illegally imprisoned at present in the 7th Group include Liu Muhong, Lei Jianli, Zhu Guilin, Jiang Xinghua, Liu Xueqin, Liu Yuwei, Liu Juhua, Lu Yuzhu, Wang Manyu, Zhou Aihua, Wen Huiying, Yang Sanchun, Duan Xiaoying, Li Qing, Li Jiaju, Liu Kaihua, Wang Jianyun and Sui Yuxiang. (There are still more, whose names are unknown).
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Li in Zhanjiang City of Guangdong Province was a fourth year student in the Fine Arts School of Shantou University, Guangdong Province. She has been illegally sent to a forced labor camp three times since November 1999, and she suffered extremely cruel treatment because she persisted in practicing Falun Gong. Recently, agents from the Zhuhai City 610 Office arrested her again and sent her to the brainwashing center in Zhanjiang City.
In late November 1999, Chen Li was illegally sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labor camp because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She suffered cruel treatments such as being shocked with electric batons and confined with handcuffs and shackles when she was at the Shaoguan Prison. To avoid further persecution she became homeless after she was released. In April 2001, she was illegally arrested in Zhuhai City for continuing to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. She was tied up to a cross for twenty days. Afterwards, she was illegally sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp.
In April 2003, she was released after her term expired. She sent the school authorities the application to resume her interrupted school numerous times. The school authorities and 610 Office refused her application, offering various excuses. In October 2003, she was arrested without reasonable cause by the Shenzhen City 610 Office when a Falun Gong practitioner visited her home. She was illegally sentenced to one year in the forced labor camp, where she suffered both physically and mentally. She had been harassed and monitored by the 610 Office since she was released in October 2004. She lived a miserable and homeless life.
Chen Li's sister, Chen Jing, was a fine arts teacher at the Xiangzhou 2nd Primary School in Zhuhai City. She was illegally imprisoned in a forced labor camp for three and a half years for practicing Falun Gong. After she was released from the prison, she was sent to a brainwashing center for two months because she refused to be transformed. Later, her family members bailed her out. She was compelled to leave home and endured a miserable life because she was unable to withstand the unceasing harassment from the 610 Office and the residents' committee.
On May 9, 2006, police from the 610 Office looked for Chen Li. They arrested her when she was looking for a job in Zhuhai City. Afterwards, she was sent to a brainwashing center in Zhanjiang City.
She has been on a hunger strike at the brainwashing center for almost one week. Although her family members negotiated with the brainwashing center, they still refused to release her. Furthermore, they have barbarically force-fed her.
Practitioner Mr. Gao Dong, in his 40s, was an engineer employed by Zhenxing Company Exploration Bureau in Liaohe Oilfield. Around August or September 2005, he was persecuted again and sent to the brainwashing center in Luotai Mountain Village, Fushun City. Sources indicated that he was tied and handcuffed to the bed, force-fed, and infused with liquid for three months. We are unable to obtain more detailed information regarding Mr. Gao Dong’s current situation.
Mr. Gao Dong has been continuously persecuted for the past six years, ever since November 1999. Most of the time, he was illegally imprisoned, being re-educated through labor in Panjin and Benxi, detained at the brainwashing center in Fushun, and in a mental hospital.
In April 25 and July 20, 1999, Mr. Gao went to Beijing twice to appeal. In October 1999, when he appealed to clear the charges against Falun Gong, he was detained and brutally beaten by the public security department in Youtian. He was then sent to the reformatory in Panjin. Because he insisted on practicing Falun Gong, the police in the reformatory applied various tortures to torment him, including the Death Bed, forced stationary positions, electric baton shocks, being hung, being hit on the head with a plastic baton, forced-feeding, allowed to wear only underclothes during the harsh winter, being hit with a shovel while lying in the snow, and abuse by other prisoners. They subjected Mr. Gao to almost every torture, leaving him barely breathing. Because the reformatory did not want to bear the responsibility, when Mr. Gao was on the verge of death, he was taken to his hometown in Haicheng.
However, Mr. Gao Dong miraculously lived. Once he had slightly recovered, he wrote a letter to the unit condemning the department of security and the 610 Office in Youtian for their illegal persecution. The Politics and Law Committee Secretary of the 610 Office in Youtian, Yu Qingshan, ordered personnel to take him to a cell in Youtian to be persecuted once again. Overnight, the police tortured him until he stopped breathing.
Because Mr. Gao stopped breathing for such a long time, insufficient oxygen to his brain caused abnormalities in his mental state. Even still, the authorities would not release him and instead sent him to the reformatory in Panjin. Mr. Gao resisted the persecution by going on a hunger strike. The reformatory in Panjin then transferred him to the reformatory in Benxi. Eventually, Mr. Gao became absent-minded and suffered memory loss. He also became incontinent and had difficulty swallowing food due to the forced-feeding.
In the fall of 2003, Mr. Gao was transferred from the reformatory in Panjin to the reformatory in Benxi. The policemen and their assistants there tried to "transform" him day and night. They ridiculed him and assigned him personal cangues. ["Cangue¡± is the name of an instrument of torture. Here, it is used to indicate the person designated to monitor practitioners] on him. Due to the long-term torture, Mr. Gao deteriorated, mentally and physically. He became extremely depressed and emotionally repressed. In the spring of 2004, he developed insomnia for days, and his mental state became abnormal. The officers at the reformatory did not want to be responsible, so they released him on bail to seek medical treatment. Chief officer Liu of the hospital's drug rehabilitation center falsely blamed Falun Gong as the cause of Mr. Gao Dong's mental disorder.
During Mr. Gao’s hunger strike at the reformatory in Benxi, Ding Huibo pumped air into Mr. Gao’s stomach, using a big syringe for force-feeding, and also added more salt to the porridge.
After approximately more than a year of persecution in the mental hospital (the time frame needs to be verified), the authorities sent him to the brainwashing center in Luotai Mountain Village, Fushun. Twice every day, Mr. Gaowas forced-fed by policeman Wu Wei, who was not a doctor. This went on for three months.
Mr. Gao had had a happy family of three. His wife was an employee at a unit in Youtian. Unable to withstand the mental pressure, she was forced to divorce her husband and took custody of their young son. Due to her son's continuous persecution, Mr. Gao’s mother suffered tremendously, mentally and physically and lost her eyesight. His aging father now has to take care of mentally disordered Mr. Gao and his blind wife. They live a very difficult life.
Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Meng Lijun is from Guanzhuang Township, Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. She was arrested at the end of September 2005 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. While imprisoned, she was injected with a poisonous drug, causing her to lose her memory.
Ms. Meng Lijun has been mistreated multiple times during the persecution of Falun Gong. However, it was during the September 2005 arrest that she was injected with nerve damaging drugs in Jinan City, resulting in her memory loss. In spite of, or because of, this circumstance, she was made to face her charges for arrest at trial.
The prison authorities did not notify Ms. Meng's family before her scheduled trial, but brought her husband, who had been threatened, to the Court on that day. Ms. Meng, incapacitated by the drugs, was thereby sentenced to 10 years in Shandong Province Women’s Prison. The Administration of the Prison refused family visitations until one month ago, when Ms. Meng Lijun's 80-year-old mother and her niece came to visit. It was as if they were seeing a different person. Ms. Meng could not remember her past, she could not remember Falun Gong, and she only cried, "I want to go home! I want to go home!"
Ms. Meng's mother felt heart break upon seeing that her loving daughter had become so spiritually injured. Ms. Meng used to take care of her mother and disabled younger brother, often coming back home with a smile. She never complained about hardship. Even when she was tortured in Jiangshuiquan Labor Camp in Jinan City and brutally force-fed in Jinan City Detention Center in 2004, she never shed a tear. Seeing her crying like this now, how could her mother's heart not be broken?
Ms. Meng Lijun has a young daughter and a 12-year-old son, who have, since September 2005, been without their mother's care.
1. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Detong Arrested
On the morning of May 26, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Detong was visiting his friend’s home in Cangkou District, when he was arrested. He was first held in the police station and later transferred to the Dashan Detention Center.
2. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Shao Chengluo Currently Held in the Qingdao City Chengyang Detention Center
3. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Sun Li Still on a Hunger Strike
Practitioner Ms. Sun Li from Shijiazhuang City has been illegally held in the Shijiazhuang City No. 2 Detention Center for almost nine months. At the beginning of May, Ms. Sun Li went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and the fabricated accusations against her. She was handcuffed for several days. On May 12, the Yuhua District Court of Shijiazhuang City had a second trial for Ms. Sun Li and practitioner Mr. Duan Shengsheng, and also pretended to be kind enough to allow the practitioners’ family members to be present to defend them. However, the sentence given on May 18 was still the same as the initial sentence.
Ms. Sun Li continued her hunger strike on May 12 and her situation
is very urgent.
4. [Jilin Province] Practitioner Mr. Sun Qian Held in the 2nd Prison of Jilin Province, Now Suffering from Open Tuberculosis Due to Torture
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Qian has been tortured in the 2nd Prison of Jilin Province for an extended period of time. He has been suffering from necrotic gastritis which is getting worse, and also from lymphatic tuberculosis which has developed infectious abscesses, and he has received no effective medical treatment. Now it has turned into the open form of lymphatic tuberculosis. Even under such a severe situation that could affect one’s life, the 2nd Prison of Jilin Prison still is not allowing him to be released for medical treatment.
5. [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Practitioner Ms. Sun Zhifen Lost All Her Teeth But One From Torture in the Harbin Women’s Prison
Ms. Sun Zhifen is a practitioner from Shuangcheng City in Heilongjiang Province. She went to Beijing to appeal, but was arrested and held in the Shuangcheng City Detention Center. She protested the persecution through hunger strike and was later released. Subsequently she was arrested again for distributing truth-clarification fliers and was taken to the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp and illegally sentenced to over one year of forced labor. During this period of time, because she steadfastly practiced Falun Gong, she was frequently yelled at and also beaten by the guards, losing many teeth. Later she was illegally sentenced to eleven years of imprisonment and was transferred to the Harbin City Women’s Prison where she has been tortured. Her body is currently very weak physically and she has only one tooth left.
6. [Fucheng County, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Ms. Guo Xingrong Subjected to Torture and Extortion
At the beginning of April 2006, the CCP Secretary of Jingzhuang Village, Matou Town of Fucheng County, Li Shuangrong (male), openly defamed Falun Gong on the Village Broadcasting. Practitioner Ms. Guo Xingrong went to him to clarify the truth about Falun Gong and advised him not to do so. Li not only did not listen but also reported Ms. Guo to the Matou Town Police Station.
The Chief of the Matou Town Police Station, Zhang Weihong (male), instructed the Deputy Chief, Xuan Yongdong (male) to lead police officers including Tan Yulong (male), and colluded with the Chief of the State Security Division, Wei Guoqing (male) and others, to go to Jingzhuang Village to try to arrest Ms. Guo Xingrong. They failed. Police confiscated Falun Gong books and other items.
Around noon on May 12, Ms. Guo Xingrong came home to have lunch. Suddenly, two police cars drove up and five or six police officers exited the vehicles. They forcibly arrested Ms. Guo and took her to the Fucheng County Police Department. She was illegally held in the Fucheng County Detention Center. On May 19, police extorted thirty-seven thousand yuan from Ms. Guo’s family members and relatives before they released her.
7. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Supplementary Information on the Arrest of Practitioners Ms. Yu Fengchun and Ms. Liu Xianglian
At about 2:00 p.m. on the afternoon of May 16, 2006, practitioners Ms. Yu Fengchun and Ms. Liu Xianglian were forcibly taken to the underground Security Office by seven or eight Public Security Guards when they were clarifying truth on the fourth floor of the Meiqiao Market of Jiangshan District of Shuangyashan City.
Ms. Yu Fengchun kindly clarified the truth to them, but one Public Security Guard, with the name of Wang Danian (male), punched her with his fist and cursed at her. He also called the Yonghong Police Station and took the practitioners there. After ransacking Ms. Yu Fengchun’s home, police took Ms. Yu to the detention center, while it is not clear what happened to Ms. Liu Xianglian. Ms. Yu Fengchun’s is currently very weak physically. The detention center staff took her to have a checkup and later were afraid of keeping her. She was released home on the evening of May 24.
The phone number for the Yonghong Police Station: 86-469-4222194
8. [Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Xu Mingying and Other Practitioners Illegally Detained in the Daguang Detention Center of Changchun City
At about 6:00 p.m. on May 29, 2006, practitioner Ms. Xu Mingying, whose home is located at Qima Road of Changchun City, was forcibly taken away by three police officers from the Kuancheng District of Changchun City. Police also ransacked her home and confiscated Falun Gong materials. Ms. Xu’s husband and sister-in-law were also arrested at the that time. At about 11:00 p.m. that night, her husband was released. On May 30, Ms. Xu Mingying and her sister-in-law were illegally sent to be held in the Daguang Detention Center of Changchun City.
9. [Xiuyan County, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Mr. Tong Benwen and His Wife Have Disappeared
Mr. Tong Benwen is a practitioner who worked as a physics teacher for the third-year students in the Xiuyan County No. 2 Middle School of Xiuyan County in Liaoning Province. Between May 21 and May 27, 2006, Mr. Tong Benwen and his wife were using the Internet at home when police took them away. Police confiscated a large amount of truth-clarification materials and CDs when they ransacked the home.
10. [Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province] Supplementary Materials on the Recent Situations of Six Illegally Arrested Falun Gong Practitioners
Reportedtly, on May 27, five arrested practitioners from Gongzhuling City, Mr. Kang Baoxuan, Mr. Fang Huanzhang, Xiao Cai (gender unknown), Ms. Wang Ying and Ms. Zhang Shulan, who were arrested on May 11, were all transferred to the Gongzhuling City Detention Center. They have been handed over to the court, and prepared for illegal sentence. The other arrested practitioner, Ms. Sun Minghong, was sentenced to two years of forced labor.
Police from the Shiwu Police Station confiscated 4,870 yuan from Mr. Kang Baoxuan’s home. The family members requested the return of the money but police returned only 2,370 yuan, while the remaining 2,500 yuan was retained. His taxi cab was also confiscated by the Shiwu Police Station.
11. [Tianjin City] Supplementary Information on the Arrest of Four Falun Gong Practitioners Including Mr. Liu Yongjiang
On May 24, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yongjiang from Sunlinzhuang Village, Dajianchang Town, Wuqing District of Tianjin City and Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Sun Xiuhua, Ms. Liu Yufeng and Mr. Wang Wenlong from Xiafengzhuang Village were arrested while they were clarifying the truth and distributing truth-clarification materials. They are currently being illegally held in the Wuqing District Detention Center. Mr. Liu Yongjiang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Sunlinzhuang Village, Dajianchang Town, Wuqing District of Tianjin City. On July 20, 2003, Mr. Liu was arrested while he was repairing electronics in the retails sales department. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was first held and tortured in Yushan Forced Labor Camp of Ji County and later transferred to the Tianjin City Forced Labor Camp where he was held until February 2005.
12. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Mr. Liu Yusheng Arrested by Daquang Police Station
Practitioner Mr. Liu Yusheng from the No. 1 section of Nuanquan Village, Daqingju Township of Dehui City in Jilin Province was reported to police on May 10, 2006, when he was working at the 2nd Road Field of Changchun City, because he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong while working. He was arrested and is possibly being held in the 2nd Road Field Detention Center. Police have prohibited his family members from visiting him.
13. [Hejing County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region] Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Dong Xinping Tortured Again
Mr. Dong Xinping, around 40 years old, is a practitioner who worked at the Lanmeng Breweries of Hejing County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal and was tortured by the Hejing County Police Department. He was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor. After he was released, he was repeatedly harassed and threatened by police. On April 30, 2006, several people from the Hejing County Police Department went to Mr. Dong Xinping’s home and lied to Mr. Dong, telling him that he was wanted at the Police Department for a conversation. When Mr. Dong went there, they locked him into the Hejing County Detention Center and are still holding him there.
14. [Shandong Province] The Shinan Court of Qingdao City About to Have an Illegal Trial Against Practitioners Ms. Ou Yunjie and Ms. Liu Zhirong
On September 22, 2005, police from the Shinan Police Department of Qingdao City illegally arrested practitioners Ms. Ou Yunjie and her daughter Ms. Liu Zhirong and also ransacked their home. The prosecutor of the Shinan Procuratorate, Fu Xiuzhen (female), and others prosecuted Ms. Ou Yunjie and Ms. Liu Zhirong in December 2005. On January 25, 2006, the Shinan Court had an illegal trial against the two practitioners.
Ms. Ou Yunjie has been illegally held since she was arrested. Shortly after Ms. Liu Zhirong was arrested for the first time, police released her as "bailed out to wait for trial." On May 29, 2006, police used to excuse of "having a conversation" with Ms. Liu Zhirong to deceive her into going to the court and illegally arrested her again.
At 9:30 a.m. on June 1, 2006, the Shinan Court of Qingdao City will have an illegal trial against Ms. Ou Yunjie and Ms. Liu Zhirong at the No. 3 Detention Center of Qingdao City.
In addition, in recent days, seven to eight practitioners have been illegally arrested by the Licang District Police Department.
15. [Yinchuan City, Ningxia Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Mr. Zhao Lin and Mr. Shi Xiufeng Arrested
Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhao Lin and Mr. Shi Xiufeng from Xixia District of Yinchuan City were arrested by the Xixia District Police Department of Yinchuan City in the middle of May, while they were clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and distributing truth-clarification materials. They are currently being held in the Yinchuan City Detention Center.
16. [Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province] Information on the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Cong Lihua
Ms. Cong Lihua is a practitioner from Dongguan Town, Shuangchen City in Heilongjiang Province. One day in 2002, she went out with fellow practitioners to paint truth-clarification statements and was arrested by local police officer Liu Peidong (male) and others and was taken to the police station. She was taken to the Shuangcheng Detention Center on the same day. She was illegally held there for three months and was then transferred to the Harbin City Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in May 2002. She was sentenced to two years of forced labor. She was illegally held and tortured there for twenty months before she was released. After she was released, she learned that during the time when she was held in the detention center, her family members had handed over two thousand yuan to Zhang Guofu (male), the Deputy Director of the Shuangcheng City Police Department, in hopes of speeding up her release. Zhang Guofu (male) accepted the money. He not only did not release her, but instead he sent her to the forced labor camp.
17. [Daxing’anling City, Heilongjiang Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Yang Yunjie Arrested
Mr. Yang Yunjie is a practitioner from Tahe County of Daxing’anling City in Heilongjiang Province. On May 25, he was arrested by police from the County Political Security Office and his home was ransacked. Police confiscated computers and truth-clarification materials. Mr. Yang Yunjie is currently being held in the detention center.
18. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Practitioner Ms. Xu Meiying and Her Sister-in-law Arrested
Ms. Xu Meiying, about forty years old, is a practitioner who lived in the neighborhood of Qima Road, Kuancheng District of Changchun City. She was arrested at her home on May 29, 2006. Her sister-in-law (not a practitioner) was arrested at the same time. The two of them were held at two different places (detailed location is not clear). Police confiscated some Falun Gong books and two machines from Ms. Xu Meiying’s home. Police also illegally took many video recordings at Ms. Xu Meiying’s home.
19. [Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province] Many Practitioners Including Mr. Aqiang Illegally Held for Over Two Months
Many practitioners from Qingyuan City in Guangdong Province have been illegally held for over two months. They are: Mr. Aqiang, Mr. Lin Zai, Ms. Axia, Mr. Aren, Ms. Aping, Ms. Wu Yi, Ms. Zhen Yi and others. Police continue to persecute them and refuse to release them.
20. [Rizhao City, Shandong Province] Many Practitioners Including Mr. Li Jianbo Illegally Sentenced to Long-term Imprisonment
Practitioners from Rizhao City have been severely persecuted for making and distributing Falun Gong materials as well as the Nine Commentaries. They are: Mr. Zhu Wenzuo, Mr. Zhu Xianhe, Ms. Si Chaoling, Mr. Li Jianbo, Ms. Yang Chuanying, Mr. Li Bo, Mr. Qin Hongjun, Ms. Chen Min and others. Among them, Mr. Li Jianbo was illegally sentenced to eight years of imprisonment, Ms. Yang Chuanying to seven and a half years of imprisonment, Ms. Si Chaoling and Mr. Li Bo to seven years of imprisonment each and Mr. Qin Hongjun and Ms. Chen Min to four years of imprisonment each.
21. [Qinhuang Island, Hebei Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Feng Sulan Arrested
At around 10:00 p.m. on May 24, seven or eight police officers from the National Security Groupof the Funing County Police Department and the Liushouying Police Station broke into practitioner Ms. Feng Sulan’s home and illegally arrested her. She is currently being held in the Funing County Detention Center.
22. [Yunfu City, Guangdong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Ruan Guihuan Held in the Sihui Prison
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ruan Guihuan from Yunfu City was taken to the Sihui Prison from the Dalang Detention Center of Yunfu City around May 25, 2006. When Mr. Ruan Guihuan appealed the case to the Middle Level Court, the original sentence was kept. At the Detention Center, every 8th and 18th of each month are the visitation dates for family members. On May 18, when Mr. Ruan Guihuan’s family members went to the Detention Center to visit, the guards refused to allow them to see Mr. Ruan Guihuan.
23. [Qingyang City, Gangsu Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Feng Xinglei Illegally Held in the Tianshui Prison
Mr. Feng Xinglei, 32, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Fengyuan Village, Dongwan Town, Jingyuan County in Gansu Province. In 2002, because of distributing truth-clarification materials, he was illegally sentenced to four years of forced labor. He was held first in the Dashaping Prison of Lanzhou City, and later in the Dingxi Prison and is currently held in the Tianshui Prison.
24. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wen Baizhang Arrested
Ms. Wen Baizhang, seventy years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu City. He is a retired worker from the Military District Service Office of Sichuan Province. On the afternoon of April 22, he was reported to police when he was distributing truth-clarification materials. His home was ransacked that night and he was taken to the Jinhua Town Brainwashing Center of Wuhou District and has since been held there.
25. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Supplementary Information on the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Jiao Meishan
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiao Meishan has been illegally held and tortured in the 2nd Detention Center of Shijiazhuang City since he was arrested on March 3, 2006. The Xinhua District Procuratorate attempted to illegally sentence Mr. Jiao Meishan. At present, the case has been returned to the Xinhua District Police Department and the Lianmeng Road Police Station.
26. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Practitioners Mr. Dong Zhiyu and Mr. Chen Rongjun Arrested
Mr. Dong Zhiyu, 29, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He was arrested when he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the officials of his workplace. Later he was forced to leave home and went to Shenyang City to avoid being arrested again. On the night of December 26, 2005, when he was distributing truth-clarification materials, he was arrested by police from the Huanggu District. His current whereabouts are not clear. Another practitioner, Mr. Chen Rongjun, was arrested at the same time. Mr. Chen Rongjun is currently being held in the Liaozhong Detention Center.
27. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Suzhen Arrested by Jiaozhou Road Police Station
On the morning of May 17, 2006, practitioner Ms. Liu Suzhen, about 60 years old, whose home is located on the Jiaozhou Road in Qingdao City, was reported to police while she was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. She was arrested and taken to the Jiaozhou Road Police Station and her home was ransacked. She is currently being held illegally in the Dashan District Detention Center of Qingdao City.
28. [Zhuolu County, Hebei Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Wang Suping Harassed by the Local 610 Office and State Tax Bureau
Yang Weibing (male) and others from the Disciplinary Examination Section of the State Tax Bureau of Zhuolu County illegally interrogated practitioner Ms. Wang Suping on April 19, claiming someone had reported Ms. Wang for distributing truth-clarification materials.
On April 30, Zhou Zhihua (male), Yang Xiyu (male), and others illegally blocked Ms. Wang Suping from going to Beijing City to visit her granddaughter who was hospitalized due to severe illness. Zhou Zhihua also repeatedly called Ms. Wang to harass her. They forced Ms. Wang to report to them every day via phone calls.
On May 29, Zhou Zhihua and others colluded with Li Zhiming (male) and others from the County 610 Office to interrogate and harass Ms. Wang Suping again and attempted to extort a fine of 5,000 yuan. They also planned to again interrogate Ms. Wang on June 1 and required her to write the so-called Guarantee Statement to take away her freedom of belief and her basic human rights.
29. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Practitioner Ms. Wang Guirong Arrested
Ms. Wang Guirong is a practitioner from the No. 8 Farm of Tanghai County. On the evening of May 30, she was reported to police and was subsequently arrested.
30. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] Practitioner Mr. Li Yang Arrested
At around 9:00 a.m. on May 23, 2006, six police officers from the Hanchuan City 610 Office and the National Security Grouparrested practitioner Mr. Li Yang, who worked at the Hanchuan City Xinhua Bookstore, and took him to the brainwashing center. The Xinhua Bookstore of Hanchuan City sent some staff members to the brainwashing center as assistants and also paid 3,000 yuan to the brainwashing center.
31. [Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province] Practitioners Mr. Lai Jiamiao and His Wife Ms. Lin Xingru Harassed by Police
At the end of May, police from Jiaoling County twice harassed the home of practitioners Mr. Lai Jiamiao and Ms. Lin Xingru, under the guise of checking the anti-burglary net. During the lunar Chinese New Year, police also illegally ransacked the factory owned by the couple, but failed to find anything.
32. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Ms. Dong Dong Arrested
At about 9:00 a.m. on May 19, 2006, when practitioner Ms. Dong Dong went to visit her friend, a group of police broke into the home and arrested Ms. Dong Dong; her friend, Ms. Zheng Tianqiong; and her daughter, Ms. Xiao Chen, who are also practitioners.