Reports from Sichuan Province and Jilin Province

Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Some Regions of Sichuan Province (Case Collection)

[Mianyang City]

Falun Gong practitioner Xia Hai, a graduate student of, 26 years old in the 9th Institution of the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, was sent to the Xinhua Labor-reform Farm for labor-education due to appealing to the Central Government in Beijing on behalf of Falun Gong. From the time when he arrived in Winter until now, the prison administrators only allow him to wear one sark, to cover an extremely thin quilt at night, yet he has done very heavy physical labor. Facing the persecution, Xia Hai is very firm and persevering.

Dozens of Falun Gong Practitioners, including Wu Zhengrong, Hu Zhaoyi, and Gao Bing, jointly signed a letter to the People's Congress on behalf of Falun Gong on February 26. As a consequence, police in Mianyang arrested them without notifying their family members, and incarcerated them in the Xiaoqiao Chokey. While in prison, they are tortured and abused , and were deprived of food for two days. Currently, Gao Bing is still in custody

Gao Bing and his family are peasants, and his child is only 3 years old. His wife is not a Falun Gong practitioner, none the less, her village branch-secretary levied a fine of 5000 Yuan, otherwise, they would dismantle her house. His wife told the branch-secretary: she did not have money to pay the fine . If you dismantle my house, my whole family will have to go to Tiananmen Square to beg for food. "Well, if like that, then forget it,."the branch-secretary said, "The superior fined me , so I had to admit that I had a bad luck. "

Jiang yiyun, a Shuangshe villager in the city of Jiangyou, was arrested for the second time for signing a letter to the People's Congress. Currently, he is missing.

[Deyang City]

Falun Gong practitioner, Lu Jian, a chief of the Confidential Section in the Deyang City was criminally detained for 28 days simply because he wrote a letter to the commissions of Sichuan Province and the Deyang City on behalf of Falun Gong last November. . One month after his release, he was rearrested without cause, and was sentenced to one-year of labor-reform. At present, he isincarcerated in the Xinhua Labor-reform Farm.

Ms. Wu Huizhen tried to go to Beijing twice to appeal, but was stopped and sent back. . After being detained for 3 months, she was recently sentenced to labor-reform. At present, she was incarcerated in the Nanmu-temple woman prison of Zizhong County.

It is reported that, at present, practitioners in custody include Luo Zhiyu, Zhou Min, and others, all due to appealing in Beijing. Due to writing to the People's Congress, practitioners who are still in jail include Li Rongfei (retiree from the Deyang Second Heavy Machinery Factory), Wang Aiyun, etc.

Gong Xingcan, a staff in the Deyang Post Office, was arrested for appealing in Beijing. After being detailed, he has been dismissed by his work unit.

More than 300 Falun Gong practitioners, including Meng Hualong, of the Deyang Factory of Flame Resistant Materials, are all under resident surveillance because dozens of practitioners in the factory went to Beijing to appeal.

[Zhiyang]

Wenbin Li, an employee of a subsidiary of Chengdu Tobacco Factory in Zhiyang, was detained by the police because he went to Beijing and appealed to the government. He was fired afterwards.

[Guangyuan]

Ms. Guozhen Su was sent to a labor camp and would be kept there for two and a half years because she went to Bejing to appeal to the Central Government on behalfof Falun Gong. No one is taking care of her mother now, a blind old lady who stays at home by herselfThere are many similar cases in Guangyuan recently.

[Shuining]

Ms. Chengqiong was detained by the police because she went to Beijing and appealed to the government in December, 1999. She has been missing since being released from the detention center.

[Chengdu]

Yun, a Falun Gong practitioner in Mianyang, was deceived by the ticket office of Civil Airline in Chengdu and captured by Zhu and Liao, two policemen who pretended to be Falun Gong practitioners (please refer to news from Minghui on February 29). He was detained in Jiuru Detention Center in Chengdu for 10 days, and then transferred to police from Mianyang.

Six Falun Gong practitioners from Chengdu Seamless Steel Factory including Dairong Chen, Xiao , Du and others went to Beijing and appealed to the Office of Civil Affairs. Upon being registered, they were sent to the Office for Chengdu Affairs in Beijing and detained there for three days. After being transferred back to Chengdu police, they were detained in a Drug Rehabilitation Center for seven days, then placed in Jiuru Detention Center until now. Meanwhile, Fang Jing and many other practitioners have also been kept in Jiuru Detention Center because they wrote to the People's Congress (about Falun Gong).

An Editor-in-Chief from a newspaper agency in Chengdu went to Beijing to report on the NPC Conference. He was detained by the police ashe walked by Tiananmen Square because the police suspected him to be a Falun Gong practitioner. He was astonished when he was taken to the Office for Chengdu Affairs in Beijing and detained there together with the six ladies mentioned above (Chen etc.). He requested to call 110 (emergency phone number to alert the police, similar to 911 in US) to report the absurd treatment, but was denied. Two days after going on a hunger strike, his identity was verified and he was released.

[Longquanyi District in Chengdu]

Zheng Li, a Falun Gong practitioner in Factory 062, a subsidiary of The National Department of Aeronautics and Industry, went to Beijing to appeal to the government. He was sent back to Longquan by the police and been detained since. When Xiufang Tu, his wife, went to give him some clothes, she was asked if she was also a Falun Gong practitioner. After answering "yes", his pregnant wife was also detained. Their house was searched thoroughly by the police afterwards. The document from the hospital showing Xiufang's pregnancy was presented to the police by her relatives. But the police ignored it and insisted to detain her for 15 days before her release.

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Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Jilin Province (Case Collection)

[Shulan City]

In September of 1999, Mr. Wang from Shulan City traveled to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was arrested by the police and sent to a Jilin Representative Office in Beijing. There, he was tortured and ultimately jumped from the fifth-floor of the building and died. However, no one from the police department, or any government agency, paid attention to his death. The whole event ended unofficially without an investigation.

Villager Xie Guichen from Shenshou village of Baiqi Town in Shulan city was detained because he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was on a hunger strike for 7 days during the detention. The police force fed him in Baiqi police station and then sent him back to a re-education camp. Because he would not give up practicing Falun Gong, he was sent to Nanshan detention center of Shulan city for 50 days. He was forced to drink urine and to smell stints in the lavatory. His teeth were loosened from beatings from the prisoners in the detention center; his face was bruised and swollen from beatings. And, at night other convicts would pour buckets of cold water on him from head to toe so he could not sleep. Currently,, he is still under detention along with 40 other Falun Gong practitioners in Baiqi detention center.

Zhaoping, Zhu from the 6th community of Baoan village was requested by some policemen to beat female Falun Gong practitioners at the Local Government's Representative Office in Beijing for appealing in Beijing. He refused to do so. Therefore, the police continuously beat and tortured him for more than ten days. The police then sent him back to his hometown. He has been held in the Baqi Seniority Home until now.

It is reported that Jiang Yihong (Communist Party member) from the 4th community of Baoan Village was going to be sentenced to 3 years in prison by the police because he went to Beijing twice to appeal to the government.

[Changchun city]

More than 3000 Falun Gong practitioners who were sentenced to one-year labor education are now being held in the Heizuizi Female Jail in Changchun City. These practitioners were physically abused and forced to work. These practitioners are charged with the crime of disturbing social order because they insisted on practicing Falun Gong or appealing to the government. The sentences were given without going through due process.

(Translated on Mar. 22, 2000)