Summary of Other Articles and News - 09/16/2003

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

The Law Education School in Guangzhou City is in fact a prison. On the surface it has school facilities, but in reality, people are tortured and interrogated there. Falun Dafa practitioners are tied up and forced to remain standing for long periods of time. If a practitioner refuses to sign his name on a "guarantee statement"*, he is forced to sit, stand, or lie down, and hold this position for a long time. If the practitioner does move, he is immediately beaten. The guards have deprived practitioners of their right to sleep for several days, up to even over ten days. Some Dafa practitioners really could not physically stand any longer, but were nevertheless forced to continue standing.

Falun Dafa practitioner Wen Chunying is a Qiaodong District government employee in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. She was unlawfully arrested while attending a group Fa-study in Chengan County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province at the end of August 2002. She was transferred to the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center this summer. She has been brutally force-fed and beaten by police in the past year. She is physically very weak. Her employer does not dare to take her back because of the pressure he is receiving from his superiors.

Practitioners Exchange Insights

Ever since the beginning of this year, Falun Dafa practitioners detained in the Pi County brainwashing center in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province have strengthened their Fa-study and sending forth righteous thoughts. They also went on hunger strikes without water to protest the persecution. Their family members eventually came to see clearly the evil nature of the persecution, and they made attempts to secure the rescue of the Dafa practitioners. There have been more than ten Falun Dafa practitioners who left there with strong righteous thoughts. However, there are still more than ten Falun Dafa practitioners being illegally detained there. Some of them have been detained there for more than two years.

The following is an excerpt from the article "Escape Danger with Righteous Thoughts."

One evening at the end of May 2003, three Falun Dafa practitioners were abducted while they were passing out truth-clarifying materials in the countryside in Northeastern China and were taken to a local detention center. Together they went on hunger strike without water. One couple among this group of three was brutally force-fed and vomited blood. However, the husband still clarified the truth to prisoners. People saw his suffering and felt sympathetic towards him. Some cursed at the police with tears in their eyes. This practitioner always maintained one thought, "I will walk out of here, and I will not stay in this den of evil." Later, the lawless "610 Officers"** became afraid that this couple would die there of hunger. They sentenced the couple to three years of labor camp and separated them. But their physical conditions did not meet the requirements for entrance into a labor camp. The police had to send them to the doctor. The doctor could not find any blood pressure and sent them to the hospital. The husband escaped through a hospital window with strong righteous thoughts, even though he had gone through eleven days of hunger strike without water. He then returned home and re-joined the efforts of clarifying the truth.

Media Reports

On September 12, 2003, the KYW radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania reported activities of Falun Dafa practitioners rescuing a fellow practitioner being persecuted in China. Mr. Cheng Gang lives in Malton, New Jersey, but was detained in a labor camp last September in China because he practices Falun Dafa. He joined the cross-country tour in order to raise public awareness about the severe persecution happening in China, and to call for public support in rescuing American citizen, Dr. Charles Li, who has been detained in China for eight months.

*"Guarantee statement" is a statement declaring that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong, guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

**"610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.