Summary of Other Articles and News -- August 3, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Di Yuhua is a teacher. She has been sentenced a second time to the No.7 Ward of Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp, beginning in December 2003. Another round of violent measures against Falun Dafa practitioners at the camp began in March 2004, including standing still for long periods of time, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, brutal beatings, etc. In order to resist further torture, Ms. Di refused to join the slave labor program beginning in April 2004. Because of this, the police have forced her to sit absolutely still, facing the wall without regular meals or sleep, which has resulted in severe emaciation.

On September 27, 2002, five Falun Dafa practitioners detained in the Education (brainwashing) Ward of the Tieling City Labor Camp in Liaoning Province escaped with the power of righteous thoughts. Several days later, Mr. Wang Jun was arrested beaten up and put in ankle shackles. Ward Director Li Jie shocked Cui Junxue with an electric baton all over his body, including his genitals, because he and others never reported the escape. Li Jie put lit cigarettes into Cui's mouth, burning his mouth and gagging him with smoke and ashes. Policeman Wang Dongqing kicked Mr. Wang Xuanhua and yanked on his tongue. He also shocked many other practitioners, causing them to scream in pain. In May 2003, police brutally tortured practitioners, Mr. Wang Weixin, Mr. Guan Yunzhi, Mr. Zhu Zhanhua, Mr. Yi Guanghui, etc., with electric shocks on their backs, necks, and chests, leaving blisters and scars.

Falun Dafa practitioners in Fushou City, Fujian Province sued policeman Ye Zhaosen, because of his crimes in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Zhaomei. Ms. Chen has been abducted and detained, her was home ransacked, her personal belongings were confiscated, and her house door was welded shut. In addition, she was harassed, insulted, humiliated, beaten, interrogated with torture multiple times and tortured for 80 hours continuously. She was also harassed after appealing, dismissed from her job and sentenced to the No.2 Fuzhou City Detention Center, where she is still detained.

On July 22, 2004, Xingguan Neighborhood "610 Office" Head Mu Wang from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, together with Xingguan Police Substation Vice Director Yin Shuanghong and 5 policemen arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zuo Yingfen. She was sent to the Lannigou Brainwashing Center. While there, she was locked in the small cell. They also assigned an assistant to force her to watch VCDs that slandered Falun Dafa and Master Li, in an attempt to brainwash her.