Summary of Other Articles and News - March 7, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

On the evening of February 21, 2004, about one thousand colorful banners with the words: "Falun Dafa is great" and "The Global Coalition to Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice" were hung up on all the main streets and on the ends of all the lanes in Wuchang City in Heilongjiang Province. On the morning of February 22, the city commissioners held an emergency conference and gave the order to the National Security Department and the "610 Office" (1) of the Public Security Bureau to heavily persecute any Falun Gong practitioners. Presently, it is known that Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Hongwei has been abducted by the police and is being held at the Second Detention Center in Wuchang City as of February 22. He is going on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The collaborator (2) Zhao Shuxian and others have confessed to the police that Ms. Yu Lihua, Ms. Liu Yanchun and Ms. Wu Fenghua are Dafa practitioners, and practitioner Ms. Yu Lihua's home was ransacked and she was forced to leave her home. Meanwhile, her two children have been left in the home without care.

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Wanxia from the Qingdao Licang District of Shandong Province, a thirty-year-old, was kidnapped at her job in September of 2003 because she persisted in her belief of Falun Dafa. She was sentenced to three years of "reeducation through forced labor" and is being held at the Zibo Wangcun Female Forced Labor Camp. She has been persecuted by being not allowed to sleep, punished by standing for long periods of time, and has been beaten and suffers from cold temperatures. She was beaten until her face was swollen, her feet, legs, and back have been injured so seriously that she cannot stand up straight or walk. Her life is in danger.

On January 10, 2004, four policemen from the National Security Department of Helong City and the Bajiazi Forest Public Security Bureau from Jilin Province broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng's home to confiscate her property and try to abduct her. Ms. Zheng's husband felt he had no choice, and to prevent the policemen from taking such outrageous actions, he picked up a knife. The four police were so scared that they ran away from Ms. Zheng's home and shouted: "Help!" Soon many more police showed up. Some of them looked for Ms. Zheng at her neighbor's houses, and others went to Ms. Zheng's mother-in-law's house to search for her. Because of the big scare, Ms. Zheng's mother-in-law became sick for ten days and the family's happiness for the holiday season of Chinese New Years was totally destroyed.

In December of 2003, the police destroyed a Falun Gong material production location in Weiyuan County (in Sichuan Province) and over ten practitioners were abducted. The police took the computer and the printer used to make the truth clarification materials. Some of the practitioners who were abducted are Mr. Liu Wanquan, Ms. Liu Jianping, and Ms. Luo Jianxin and her daughter, etc.

Dafa practitioner Wang Yingdong (Shandong Province) is a forty-seven year old male. In January of 2000, Wang Yingdong kindly clarified the true facts about Falun Gong to the government of Yantai City. As a result he was illegally held at the Zhijia Sub-Police Station for a week and was extorted of about five hundred yuan (3). On November 9, 2003, the officials of the "610 Office" jumped over the brick wall into his home's courtyard, broke into his house, and took him away. Wang Yingdong was held at Yantai City Detention Center (Dongliugong Jail) and was beaten. In the Detention Center, he was hung up in the air by his arms and was forced to work for twenty hours every day.

Evil Actions

The head of the "610 Office" and the head of the Detective Department of Lixia District Public Security Bureau in Jinan city, Shandong Province, Li Dongfang is a muscleman who has been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners for over four years. He is either involved in planing or has directly participated in evil actions such as spying on practitioners, following them, searching their houses, kidnapping, and sending practitioners to Forced Labor Camps. In March 2003, he was directly involved in the abduction of Ms. Peng Guixiang, sending her to the First Women's Forced Labor Camp in Shandong Province. Peng Guixiang has been tortured seriously and no one knows if she is still alive.

Li Dongfang's telephone number: 86-53-12920628 (Home)

The criminal acts conducted by Zhao Lihua, a policeman from the Fushun Qingyuan County Detention Center (Liaoning Province).

One day in November 1999, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Leyou was kidnapped by the police from Gounaidian County Sub-Police Station and was taken to the Qingyuan County Dashagou Detention Center to be tortured. That evening, policeman Zhao Lihua shocked Mr. Wang Leyou's mouth with an electric-baton. In November, when the temperature was ten degrees below zero, Zhao Lihua opened all of the windows in the office and caused Mr. Wang Leyou to suffer from exposure to the cold for more than thirty minutes. Zhao Lihua also often incited criminals to torture Dafa practitioners.

The Youyan County (Liaoning Province) policeman, Li Jipei and others use brutal methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners. For example: they handcuff practitioners' hands behind their backs for long periods of time. The cuffs cut into the skin. Some practitioner's teeth are broken from beatings, and the shock practitioner's whole bodies with electric batons. Li Jipei has sexually assaulted female practitioners and extorted money from them. Youyan County practitioner Ms. Li Guang, aged forty, was arrested and taken to the Detention Center. Li Jipei incited four (or five) policemen to madly beat her. She was beaten severely until her nose was black and her face was swollen. Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Guang was also arrested and tortured on several other occasions. After being released the last time, she was forced to leave her home and her current whereabouts are unknown.

Li Jipei's telephone number: 86-41-27821160 (office)

The officials of the Wuchang City (Heilongjiang Province)"610 Office" ganged up together to illegally extort money from Dafa practitioners. Chairman of the "610 Office" Zhu Xianfu, assistant chairman Cai Zhenshang, and the assistant chairman and the head of the "Brainwashing Center", Fu Yanchun, all regard arresting Falun Gong practitioners as a way to get wealthy. They arbitrarily extort money from practitioners' families. Lalin County practitioner Ms. Chen Chunlan was extorted of 2000 yuan, and still she was sentenced to forced labor. Practitioners Ms. Tang Shuxian, Ms. Zhao Xia and Mr. Gao Jingpo each had 2,000 yuan extorted from them. Practitioners Ms. Guan Zhongyu and Ms. Lang Shuying had 4,000 yuan extorted from them.

The Changan Sub-Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City and the Yuandong Dajie Sub-Police Station have insanely persecuted the Changan District Falun Gong practitioners. Chief Gao Jianjun, deputy-chief Liu Zijun, the head of the Political and Security Department Chai Yanguo, and his assistant Hu Guanghui have been directly involved in persecuting Dafa practitioners. Under their persecution, Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Hongbin was sentenced to three years of forced labor and tortured to death in October 2003. Practitioners Ms. Song Zhining and Mr. Wang Chengbiao both were illegally sentenced to forced labor and are still being held at the Second brigade of the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province. At the end of February 2004, an elder practitioner was abducted and the details are under investigation.

The Chief of Changan Sub-Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City telephone numbers: 86-31-16046234 (office), 86-31-16049296 (office)

The deputy-chief Liu Zijun 's telephone number: 86-31-16676214 (office)

The head of the Political and Security Department Chai Yanguo and his assistant Hu Guanghui's telephone numbers: 86-31-16677321 (office), 86-31-16212954

At 9:00 a.m., on March 4, 2004, led by the Duolun County (Neimenggu Province) Party Committee Secretary Kou Xiaoping and the Chief of Duolun County Public Security Bureau Qi Jianshe, County officials used all available manpower including traffic police to suddenly start searching for Falun Dafa practitioners. The County officials didn't bother to go through practitioners' gates but instead jumped over their brick walls and broke into their homes to madly ransack. The practitioners Ms. Du Yufang, Ms. Hao Jingxia, Ms. Wang Xiuying and Ms. Xu Chunmei were abducted. On March 5, all the practitioners except Ms. Du Yufang were sentenced to forced labor.

The telephone number of Duolun County National Security Department: 86-47-94524222

The telephone number of Duolun County Qiaoxi Sub-Police Station: 86-47-94524431

On September 25, 2001, Song Dongwen, the Yangzhuangke Town Political Judiciary Committee Secretary in Weixian County (Hebei Province) incited Ma Li, Jia Zunjie, Zhang Sheng, Cui Quansheng, Guo Baoyin, Zhang Zhongde, and others to persecute local practitioners by using the methods of spying, kidnapping, detaining, extorting, beating, and forced-feeding. On the same day, eight (or nine) practitioners including Ms. Xin Shuzhen, Ms. Zhou Cuimei, and Ms. Wang Zhanxiang were held at the Brainwashing Center and were beaten many times. Practitioners Ms. Huang Shufen and Ms. Zhang Wenrong both were followed and abducted. Later, they were released after being "fined." In October 2001, practitioners Ms. Liu Yinhua and Ms. Zhang Xiuying were cruelly beaten because they appealed to higher authorities for justice for Falun Gong in Beijing. The musclemen not only forced them to suffer exposure to cold, but also splashed scalding hot water on their bodies. Practitioners Ms. Zhang Xihua, Ms. Wang Fengzhun, Mr. Lui Yangxin, Ms. Zhang Chunying, Mr. Yang Xiufeng, Ms.Wang Zhanxiang, Ms. Zhang Wenrong and others were arrested. Practitioner Ms. Zhang Wenrong was beaten very seriously. There were bruises on her head everywhere, and her waist was seriously injured from kicks. She couldn't drink or eat for eight days, and the officials were afraid that she might die so they force-fed her. Practitioner Ms. Wang Zhanxiang was continuously beaten until she couldn't get up. Zhan Zhongde fiercely kicked her back twice and caused Ms. Wang Zhanxiang to bleed from her lower body.

(1) "610 Office": 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.

(2) collaborator: former Falun Dafa practitioner who has given up his practice under severe pressure and torture and now assists the authorities in the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners.

(3) yuan: Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan