Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong practitioner Yang Jianpo from Langfang, Hebei Province has been on a hunger strike in Jidong Prison for 350 days since he was arrested under the persecution. A few days ago, Hao Baoxin, the leader of the 4th Detachment, again refused to permit family visits, citing the "new regulations of 2007."

In the afternoon on January 16, 2007, Yang Jianpo's family members came to the 4th Detachment of Jidong Prison in Tangshan City, requesting to see Yang Jianpo. Their earlier attempts at visiting had been denied with the excuse that they did not have their ID cards on them. This time, all his family members had brought their ID cards and asked the prison to allow them to see Yang Jianpo. After the reception room duty officer contacted the authorities, he told the family members that the authorities did not approve their visit. They were not allowed to see him.

Mr. Yang's family members argued, "We have been through all the required procedures and are immediate family! Why can't we see him?"

The officer claimed, "You'd better go and sort it out with our superiors. We can't help you."

The family members then went to see the prison authorities. However, the division leaders and heads of various sections were not in their offices. They had hidden somewhere else in the prison compound and refused to see Mr. Yang's family members.

There was nothing Yang Jianpo's family could do except wait outside, hoping that they could talk to the leaders when they were on their way home. Later on, Education Section deputy head Wu Likun emerged. Mr. Yang's family members asked him why they were prevented from seeing Yang Jianpo. Wu said, "Yang Jianpo shouted 'Falun Dafa is good' in prison, and when relatives came to see him he always talked about how wonderful Falun Gong is. That's why you are not allowed to see him. If you want to see him, you'll have to go and see division leader Hao!"

When it was nearly 3:00 p.m., the family members saw prison doctor Bi Jixiang come out. They asked him about Yang Jianpo's health. Bi said, " It's still the same."

The family members asked him what he meant by "the same."

Bi replied, "You'd better wait to ask the leaders. I can't help you with this matter."

They waited until 4:00 p.m., when they saw the 4th Detachment leader Hao Baoxin and others come out to go home. Mr. Yang's family members walked up to him and asked to see Yang Jianpo. Hao Baoxin not only refused their request but also threatened Mr. Yang's son. When he saw that Yang's son was not afraid of him he said, "Go back home and get a letter from your local police station to certify that you are Yang Jianpo's family members; then you can come back with your ID cards. This is the new regulation for 2007."

Yang Jianpo's family members argued, "We have come here more than ten times. Surely you know we are Jianpo's family members."

Hao Baoxin said, "This is the new regulation."

Yang Jianpo has suffered repeated persecution over the past few years. On February 20, 2004, he was illegally arrested by agents from the Guangyang Police Precinct in Langfang and sent to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp for persecution. When he was released on June 8, 2004, his weight had dropped to just over 40 kilos (88 pounds), and he was emaciated. Yang Jianpo, Cao Baoyu and other Falun Gong practitioners were arrested once more during the 2006 Chinese New Year when they had gone to clarify the truth to government officials in order to rescue other fellow practitioners.

Mr. Yang suffered severe abuse until he was at the brink of death. Both Langfang City Hospital officials and officials at the Chinese Medicine Hospital issued critical condition notices, and the Langfang Detention Center also issued his release notice. However, persecutors at the 610 Office in the Guangyang District withheld the notices and sent Mr. Yang to Guangyang District People's Hospital for further persecution. In the evening of April 27, 2006, Cao Baoyu died at the same hospital as a result of the persecution. Yang Jianpo was then unlawfully sentenced and locked up in the 4th Detachment at the Jidong Prison. Yang Jianpo has been on a hunger strike since February 5, 2006 to protest the illegal detention and persecution.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/1/20/147235.html

There are two large, well-known enterprises in Shanxi Province. One is the Shuanghecheng Food Enterprise Group and the other is the Fen Liquor Enterprise Group with its headquarters in Fenyang City, Shanxi Province. Both enterprises started using prison labor from Xindian Women's Forced Labor Camp in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, to pack their products in 2006. Before the Moon Festival on August 15, 2006, the camp packed over a million boxes of moon cakes for the Shuanghecheng Food Enterprise Group.

No one who participated in making the boxes, packing the moon cakes, or delivering the food had a health certificate issued by the Epidemic Prevention Department. The environment and the hygienic conditions where the work was done were extremely unsanitary. In fact, the packing boxes were prepared on the ground outside. No one checked or managed the processes. All they cared about was the quantity of output. Most of the inmates doing the work were drug addicts and many of them had diseases.

The Fen Liquor Enterprise Groups’ boxes for holding the liquor bottles also are manufactured by the camp, and most of the liquor is exported to the US. The manufacturing conditions there also do not conform to hygienic standards. The cardboard is cut in the same area where the boxes are glued. As the cardboard is cut, small pieces fly everywhere and the glue that is used smells very bad. Its strong order will linger for a long time in the liquor boxes.

The Meitehao Chain Supermarkets also use camp labor to do a lot of packing. In addition, the camp forces inmates to produce cigarette lighters that use toxic gas. The people who work there and have to inhale the poisonous gas and the strong smells of box glue and oily machines are not issued any personal protection. Many people have had various reactions due to breathing the noxious air.

In the camp, the guards use extremely cruel methods to "reform" and persecute the Falun Gong practitioners who firmly believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." They instigate the drug addict inmates to monitor the practitioners all day. They brutally beat the practitioners and frequently don’t allow the practitioners to go to the restroom or have any rest for 24 hours. The camp is well aware that some of the practitioners have various female diseases and infectious diseases due to the long-term persecution. However, the camp still forces the practitioners to work overtime. The practitioners have to work over ten hours per day.

These well-known enterprises do business with the forced labor camps mainly because the camp's labor is very cheap and they can avoid paying taxes and avoid the quarantine. Doing this not only significantly harms people's health but also, more seriously, it supports the persecution of Falun Gong. Therefore, the international community and the people in China should pay more attention to this issue.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/16/146951.html

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).

Ms. Cui Fengying, 56, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. She started practicing Falun Gong in October 1996. In June 2000, she and two other practitioners went to Beijing and appealed for justice for Falun Gong and were illegally arrested. The Anqing Police Station in Jiamusi sent two policemen (one of them named Lou Changlin) to take Ms. Cui back to Jiamusi. She was sent to a detention center and the police station extorted 3,000 yuan from her family (without any legal procedure). Ms. Cui was released 15 days later.

On October 5, 2000, Cui Fengying went to Beijing again, and was arrested while on the train. The police body-searched her and detained her in a dark room. Then policeman Lou Changlin and others took her and another practitioner, Yu Shuqin (who has since been persecuted to death), back to Jiamusi.

This time, her family was extorted for 4,000 yuan. In addition, policeman Sun Dahong tried to coerce Ms. Cui's husband into paying an additional 5,000 yuan, but her husband refused. Sun then went to her husband's company and forced the company to pay 5,000 yuan. As a result, the company withheld her husband's salary as a way to pay back the money taken by the police.

Sun Dahong also called Ms. Cui's home often to harass her, not even sparing them during the Chinese New Year. Under such circumstances, Cui Fengying was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. While she was homeless, moving from place to place, the police went to ransack her home. Under such tremendous pressure, Ms. Cui's health declined rapidly. She returned home in 2004.

In October 2006, Cui Fengying clarified the truth to other people, and as a result was reported to the police, who then ransacked her home. She was able to escape, but the police took her husband to Jianguo Road Police Station and extorted 5,000 yuan from him. Chen Wanyou from the city 610 Office extorted another 4,000 yuan from him. Ms. Cui was forced to once again leave home. The repeated persecution of her and her family has left the family highly stressed and in financial difficulty. Policeman Lou Changlin still frequently goes to her husband's work unit trying to find out Ms. Cui's whereabouts.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/13/146739.html