Latest News from China - 03/22/2001

[Minghui Net] [XX Province] Awe-Inspiring Righteousness Restrains Evil A provincial department held a meeting of Party members to denounce Falun Gong. Several directors were scheduled to give speeches at the meeting. Out of compassion, a Falun Dafa practitioner in the department exchanged ideas with the speakers before the meeting; once again clarifying the truth of Falun Dafa to them and seriously telling them that those who slander the universal principles of "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" would come to no good end. As a result, some speakers tore the texts of their speeches into pieces, some got around the subject while speaking, and some pretended not to know, denouncing instead "Truth, Compassion and Beauty". Nevertheless, two of the speakers didn't pay heed to the persuasion and made slanderous remarks against Falun Dafa. The practitioner refuted their lies with awe-inspiring righteousness. During the dispute, a leader in the department accidentally revealed the truth of self-immolation by telling what he had learned from the provincial public security department: The government had arranged it in advance; otherwise, trying to damage the reputation of Falun Gong would not have been possible. When the practitioner clarified this truth to his colleagues before, they didn't believe him. Now, the department leader had verified his words. As for the two speakers who slandered Falun Dafa, one was hospitalized after the meeting while the other encountered a lot of trouble at home. This gave their colleagues reason to think further upon Falun Gong. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Disclosing the True Face of Daqing Educational Training Center And Its Affiliated Schools After malicious people deliberately created the Self-Immolation Event at Tiananmen Square, a storm opposing, attacking and slandering Falun Dafa swept across China. The leaders of Daqing Educational Training Center responded actively, willing to take Jiang Zemin's evil side. As soon as the new semester started after the winter holidays, they began to organize the so-called "denouncing conference". Gathering together innocent pupils, junior and senior high school students, leaders of the schools, and the so-called "former Falun Gong practitioners" who have been transformed, their style resembled that used during the Cultural Revolution. Those gathered were made to watch videotape recordings and make critical speeches with extremely vicious words. In addition, they called on the schools to carry out what was called the "Million Signatures" activity, forcing every student and teaching staff to sign against Falun Gong on a banner. In total, there are 117 elementary and secondary schools under the Educational Training Center of Daqing Oil Administration Bureau. In order to efficiently carry collect signatures against Falun Gong, they divided the schools into districts. If any student refused to sign, he or she would be severely reprimanded by the teacher and then forced to sign, or even suspended from classes and expelled from school. As for the teachers who refused to sign, they would first be forced to attend the "Transformation Class", then if they still insisted on not signing, they would lose their jobs. This is the truth behind the "Million Signatures Drive" carried out by Jiang Zemin and his like! This defiling of public opinion is the reality during the "time of best human rights"! Out of humanitarianism, we sincerely hope that the Geneva Human Rights Organization can uphold justice, look into this case, which is the most serious violation of human rights in China, and stop the chief architectJiang Zemin. Return innocence to Falun Dafa and to Mr. Li Hongzhi! Make the whole truth of the persecution be known to the world. Evil must not be allowed to fool the good willed Chinese people! Let Falun Dafa practitioners have the freedom to choose their belief and return to their peaceful and auspicious life! [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Short News It has been learned that police are about to track down and arrest Falun Dafa practitioners in Jinan City, Shandong province. Practitioners in Jinan City, please take care. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Jiang Ping, a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Licang District of Qingdao City Is Forced to Leave Home, Her Family Members are Implicated. Around 7 o'clock on the morning of January 20, 2001, instructor Sun, policeman Li Hui and other policemen from Hushan Police Substation in Lichang District of Qingdao City came to Jiang Ping's business stall. They told her that their leader wanted to talk with her and that it wouldn't take long. Jiang Ping didn't know that it was a trap and went with them. Unexpectedly, they drove directly to the Guest House in Lichang District where more than ten Falun Dafa practitioners had already been detained. The leaders of the Politics and Law Committee, Neighborhood Committee, the police substation and the practitioners' working units were all present. They intended to forcefully transform the practitioners. During the so-called "transformation" period, Jiang Ping insisted on practicing Falun Gong exercises. For this, the so-called "reformed people" threatened to hang her up or send her to the Detention Center. On January 31, they promised to release her. Jiang Ping's husband, with their two children, came to pick her up, however, they changed their minds and said that they couldn't release her. Instead, they wanted to take her for a medical examination. Jiang Ping's husband intervened and stopped them. He asked them to let Jiang Ping go home with the children. Later on, the police tried to force Jiang Ping's husband to bring her back. Her husband (not a practitioner) couldn't find her and so was detained for 15 days beginning on February 6. Ever since Jiang Ping left the transformation class, the police have employed a lot of manpower in trying to arrest her. There are plainclothes police around her home and her relatives' homes. Her family members have been followed and robbed of their normal life. Jiang Ping's whereabouts is still unknown. Jiang Ping has two children, a 13-year-old and one who is only three. The peaceful and happy family has been broken apart. Jiang Zemin and his like have robbed her of happiness simply because she insists on practicing Falun Dafa and wants to be a good person following the principle of "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance". [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Damaidao Local Police Station Continuously Harasses Dafa Practitioners 1. From the time of this year's Spring Festival, the police of Damaidao local police station in Qingdao City have begun 24-hour monitoring of Falun Dafa practitioners' homes in the district under their jurisdiction. They have dispatched armed police personnel so that they could stay in the area around the homes of Falun Dafa practitioners and harass them. This is extremely disturbing to the normal life Falun Dafa practitioners and their family members. On the first morning of the first lunar month, one Falun Dafa practitioner went home and saw that the police were monitoring the mother and aunt around-the-clock. This practitioner did not understand what was happening and strongly protested against such behavior to the police. At first, this practitioner thought about promoting the Fa to the police to let them understand the truth of Falun Dafa. Policeman Cao Jianyong did not listen, he even wanted to force this Falun Dafa practitioner to also be monitored. Fortunately, with righteous beliefs and Teacher's benevolence, this Falun Dafa practitioner managed to get away from the control of the police. However, the practitioner's whereabouts there after have become unknown, even now. It is said that the politics and law committee, in cooperation with public security, is pursuing this Dafa practitioner, threatening to put this Dafa practitioner into labor camp. Presently it is still unknown where this Dafa practitioner is. 2. On the eve of the Spring Festival, Damaidao local police station policeman Cao Jianyong and another office worker went to a Dafa practitioner's home. Because they knocked on the door very loudly, the practitioner did not open it for them. Unexpectedly, Cao Jianyong climbed over the wall and entered the practitioner's home like a bandit. He claimed to be 'looking up' the registered permanent residence's documents. Has there ever been, in this world, such a 'looking up [of] registered permanent residence's documents'? 3. Also, according to reliable sources, several Falun Dafa practitioners moved to Damaidao to live in rented rooms because their inhabited area is under a relocation plan. The Damaidao local police station ordered the Falun Dafa practitioners and their family members to move out of Damaidao immediately after the Spring Festival. No one knew from which level of authority they received such instructions. They also basely exert pressure on the landlords, threatening that if the practitioners did not move out, they would setup a "study class" for the landlords. The landlords, against their will and reluctantly, forced the practitioners to move out. The practitioners and their family members had no choice but to leave. Even on the very day they were moving, the police wearing plainclothes, came to the practitioners' places. The police picked up things at will and threw them towards the outside. Such an action caused a lot of confusion among some Falun Dafa practitioners' family member. They thought "Only because we are the family members of Falun Dafa practitioners, must we be deprived of the right of a place to live"? [Pingdu, Shandong Province] Police Use Base Means for Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners Dafa Practitioners in Pingdu, Shandong Province firmly cultivated Falun Dafa, exposed the evil, and distributed massive truth-clarifying materials to everyday people know about Falun Dafa. Pingdu police were utterly discomfited. They secretly issued warrants for the arrest of many Falun Dafa practitioners who were away from home. At present more than 10 people are forced to be destitute and homeless, more than ten people were put into labor camps or prisons. Since July 2000, Falun Dafa practitioners who have been secretly issued the warrant for arrest are: Jiang Mingyao, Xu Zengliang, Qi Shujie, Xu Aifang (Jiang is the former deputy director of Dafa Assistance Center; Xu Zengliang is a doctor of a traditional Chinese medicinal hospital who graduated in 98 from Shandong Chinese Medicine University; Qi is the director of the armed forces department of the town; Xu Aifang is formerly the person in charge of the North District Dafa Assistance Center.) The evil police issued color photos of these four persons to various work units, various villages and towns, and even to many other practitioners and everyday people. They also offered a reward of 1000--10000 Yuan (1 USD = about 8.5 Yuan, the average monthly salary in urban area in China is 400 Yuan) to anyone who would report to the authorities and lead to the arrest of any one of the practitioners. In an attempt to find these four Falun Dafa practitioners and the printing machine they used, the wicked police in Pingdu would frequently harass Dafa practitioners' family members. They tapped all telephone lines of practitioners, and frequently went to their homes to make arrests late at night. Some practitioners were arrested without being allowed to put on clothes. The police also beat them and extorted confessions by torture; many practitioners were injured or crippled from the beating. Their houses were looted; even the pans and pots were completely destroyed, and the cows and sheep were taken away. Pingdu wicked police chief (director of political security section): Shi Weibing; wicked police of political security section: Sun Quanhai, Yu Bin, Zhou Xibin. Political security section telephone: [phone]. [Guangshui, Hubei Province] Stop Evil Things from Spreading Guangshui is a small mountainous city. In their exercise to suppress of Falun Dafa, the police have brutally tortured Falun Dafa practitioners. Since July 22, 1999, more than 38 practitioners have gone to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities under high-handed measures. To deal with practitioner's legal appeals, the police used detainment, labor camp, fines and confiscation and plundering of property among practitioners who set the example by going to Beijing in October 1999. Five were placed under administrative supervision; five were sentenced to labor camps with the maximum term set to 3 years. Even an over 70-year-old practitioner was sent to a labor camp for 1 ?years. Among the 18 practitioners who went to Beijing in November of 2000, the police illegally put them into prison for 2 months. Some are still imprisoned, and some were sentenced to serve terms in labor camps. The police also extorted from the practitioners' relatives fines ranging from 1,000 Yuan to 15,000 Yuan, for those who had gone to Beijing twice. A nurse was fired from her job and is still in prison. The rest were under "double-dismissal"no job, no payment. Practitioners who were released on bail had to pay 3,000 Yuan for the so called "guarantee fee". Xerox machines and a typewriter that practitioners purchased were also illegally confiscated. The 610 Office illegally locked up those who had not been to Beijing for transformation. During the suppression, the evil deeds of the police were in full display. In order to defraud money, they collected fines without providing any receipts and without following any regulations. Misfortune fell onto practitioners as well as their relatives. Some families live in starvation. Their daily necessities have to be provided for by other practitioners. In a country that is ruled by such "law", the law-enforcement personnel violate the law at will. There is not merely imprisonment or confiscation, but also the denial of justice and a lack of human nature. We must stop this evil from spreading as history turns into a new century, when evil will not be given room for existence. Guangshui Police Station Switchboard: 86-712-6232334. [Wuxue City, Hubei Province] Wanton Fine and Imprisonment More than 70 Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested in Wuxue City, Hubei province, among whom several have been sentenced (including two women). Wuxue Police Station and its sub-stations became completely lawless and extremely vicious. In the past, police usually came to arrest a practitioner from home. Recently it is not uncommon that police would pat a practitioner's shoulder on street and say, "Follow me to the police station, and I want to talk to you." Without following any legal procedures, the police can arrest anyone they want. Heavy fines, ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 Yuan, follow the imprisonment. Police have made quite a large, illegal fortune and have indulged in it. The prison has been turned into a 'law education' jail. Put there, one will be charged 1,000 Yuan, and there will be no break, no visitors, and the imprisonment will be indefinitely long with no scheduled trial. Even local people are saying: "People's police arrest innocent people; people's police curse people; people's police beat people; people's police frame people; people's police are tyrannical; people's police aren't even human". Wuxue Police Station Switchboard: 86-713-6222524 [Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province] Seventy-year-old Person Is Put Into Labor Camp According to Dafa practitioners released from a watch house, a 70-year-old woman and her spouse were both detained there and secretly put into a labor camp. What law did the 70-year-olds violate? It was learned that a 58-year-old female fellow practitioner has been sentenced to labor camp for 2 years. At present, the fellow practitioners who are known to have been sentenced to labor camps are: Jiang Yirong, one year; Wang Shaochun, one year and a half; Zhang Qizhong, one year; Tang Wanzhi, two years; Wu Qihui, one year; Jiang Lijun, one year; He Deli, Zhou, Jr. (first name is unclear) and so on. [Jiangyou City, Sichuan Province] Municipal Public Security Bureau Forces Divorce and Destroys Family One Dafa practitioner from Jiangyou city who started to practice Falun Gong in 1999 was labeled as a "director of Assistance Center" by the local police station, merely for teaching elderly people the exercises and cleaning the practicing field Zhongba Theater ahead of time in. This practitioner's property was confiscated and she was put under penal detention. Later, her spouse bailed her out by having to pay a recognizance bail of 5000 Yuan. Instead she was to be monitored at home. The police forced the practitioner's spouse to lock her at home for up to half a year. During this period, this practitioner was once again detained for 15 days because she signed on the "public appeal letter to the People's Congress". The police often threatened this practitioner's spouse, frequently intruding into their home and telling him to divorce his wife. This practitioner was unable to endure their inhuman treatment and went to appeal. She roamed about outside all the while and a warrant for her arrest was issued. We want to ask the police station, what guilt does this Dafa practitioner have? Why do you force people to divorce? [Xinji, Hebei Province] The Black Politics of Jiang's Regime At the end of the year 2000, the deputy director of Qianying village Li Chanhe and his accomplices intruded into practitioner Zhou Chao's home (Zhou has already been illegally sentenced to a labor camp), seized the television, motorcycle, tape recorder, electric grinder, antique chinaware (copper lion), and 380-Yuan cash. Practitioner Zhang Shaoxuan's television and tape recorder were also taken. A Dafa practitioner in Zhouying with the surname Fu was locked up in the watch house without reason. Fu's son, on just grounds, asked the cadre of Qianying village Yang Tiegang to release Fu. Unexpectedly, Yang asked Fu's son to look for a prostitute for him in exchange for the release. [Hefie, Anhui Province] On March 6^th and 7^th, Hefei Police Unifies to Arrest Dafa Practitioners On the night of March 6, 2001, at 10 o'clock, seven people from the Hefei Baohe local police station and street office successively intruded into a Dafa practitioner's home to ask the practitioner "Will you still practice cultivation?" This practitioner refused to reply. Later the seven people came to another Dafa practitioner's home and snatched the picture of the Falun emblem. This practitioner furiously resisted. Since her husband was put into a labor camp for practicing Dafa, only she and her child were left at home. The seven people passed the picture to the person outside the door, who then ran away with it. When this practitioner tried to pursue that person, that person had already gone. The people from the local police station even shamelessly said, "We have not taken your property". This kind of action of stealing and deceiving is even beneath that of bandits. In the morning of March 8th, 2001, after the police illegally confiscated Hefei Dafa practitioner Li Yuling's property, there were people monitoring her whereabouts under her building. In the afternoon when Li Yuling went downstairs to go outside, she was taken away by force. Currently she is under penal detention at the 38^th cell of Hefei First Watch House (practitioners Lu Biying and teacher Zhang from Hefei Industrial University are also imprisoned here) When the police made the arrest, Li's spouse Liu Gongli delivered several just words and was thus, questioned about whether he practices or not. Liu answered yes; he was also forcibly taken away and put under detention on charges of violating public safety regulations. Liu is presently illegally imprisoned at Hefei Second Watch House. Later it was reported that on the 6^th and 7^th, throughout the entire city, the police and street office carried out a new round of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners were arrested or had their property confiscated. Also, a Hefei Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Jie, female, who once appealed together with her family members in December 1999, is presently imprisoned at Hefei First Watch House. Her arrest has been approved, and the evil authorities will prosecute her. Hefei Dafa practitioner Zheng Deming is sentenced to four years imprisonment. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Additional List of People Sent to Labor Camps Zhu Ming, male, employee of Hefei Mine Exploration Plant; Peng Yujuan, female, Building Management Section of China Science and Technology University; Xia Jizhen, female. [Anhui Province] Provincial Modern Drama Troupe Rehearses Stage Play Attacking Falun Dafa Recently, Anhui Provincial Modern Drama Troupe has been rehearsing a stage play titled "The Righteous Way in the Human World" to viciously attack Falun Dafa. We kindly remind the director, play-write and other people involved: Learn about the truth of Falun Dafa. Don't let yourselves be fooled by rumors that intend to mislead. Don't harbor any ill thoughts toward Dafa; and stop aiding and abetting the evil forces. Otherwise, when the truth is fully revealed, it will be too late to regret. Please think with a clear mind and conscience what, after all, is the righteous way in this human world? ! [Guangdong Province] Short News It has been learned that in a few days time, the Provincial Party Committee will conduct a 3-month Falun Gong Transformation Class targeting Falun Gong practitioners who have gone to Beijing to appeal. Upon completion, anyone who refuses to be "reformed" will be sent directly to labor camps. We hope Dafa practitioners see through the nature of this evil transformation, resolutely resist it, and not leave the perverse forces any chance. [Tangxi County, Zhejiang Province] Miraculous Underground Fire Burns with Fragrance and Comes Back Alive upon Extinguishing [Hangzhou News] Recently a miraculous underground fire has been seen in Tangxi County, Zhejiang Province. The flames have burned for one and a half months. On the surface of ground the scope of the fire is only 1 square meter. The exterior of the flame displays yellowish golden color, and it gradually becomes a pale blue closer towards the ground. The flame reaches a height of 50 centimeters and is fairly mild. When standing in the direction that the wind is blowing in, one can smell a light fragrance. To people's surprise, when lying down on the ground close to the flame, one can clearly hear a sound almost identical to that of water boiling. It could be out of fearing that the fire will get out of control that people have placed large rocks surrounding the surface of the burning flames. Yet the flames remain steady. When the reporter poured an entire bucket of water on the flames, the fire extinguished right away. However, after a minute or two, the flames returned as strong as they were before When interviewing villagers of nearby Xijiehe village and workers paving roads, the reporter was told that despite rain and wind the fire has burned since the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day (January 24, 2001?i>by translator). When asked if it could be caused by a marsh or natural gas, they said it was not yet clear. They were certain it was not caused by leakage of the utility company's gas pipelines, since there weren't any in the area. The origin of the flames remains a mystery. Excerpted from the National News Section of Yangzi Evening Newspaper, March 18, 2001