(Clearwisdom.net) About a thousand people began practicing Falun Gong in Dianbai County, Guangdong Province after Master Li Hongzhi first introduced Falun Dafa to the public in 1992.
After July 20, 1999, the Jiang Zemin regime began to suppress Falun Gong, resulting in cases of persecution in Dianbai County. Seven practitioners were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to fourteen years. Forty-five practitioners were sent to forced labor camps. A hundred and eighty-four practitioners were detained, for a periods ranging from a few weeks to a few years. Fifty-eight practitioners were abducted and sent to brainwashing classes, and their families were forced to pay 25 yuan (1) a day for so-called "administration fees" and "boarding expenses." Over the past few years, practitioners have either been fined or were extorted for an aggregate amount exceeding 230,000 yuan. Some practitioners couldn't afford to pay the fines, in which cases the local police stations in their towns dispatched officers to intrude into practitioner's homes and randomly confiscate television sets, refrigerators, washing machines, motorcycles, bicycles and anything else of monetary value. In some rural areas, they took away cows, pigs, chickens and ducks, or even grain, seed and eggs from practitioners' homes. When practitioners were detained or imprisoned in forced labor camps, the guards shocked them with electric batons (2) or tortured them in electric chairs. They also handcuffed practitioners, beat and tortured them, force-fed them through intubation (3), didn't allow them to sleep or sit, forced them to perform slave labor and brutally tortured them in many other ways as well.
- Ms. Li Dongmei in Qijing Town:
She is 27 years old. Officers from the Chaoyang Police Station, in Beijing, arrested her when she went there to appeal for Falun Gong. She was tortured for nine days and nine nights. When she was finally released, her right hand was bleeding and she was unable to lift her left hand. All the clothes she was wearing had been torn to pieces.
- Ms. He Yanhua:
She is 29 years old. Officers from the Chaoyang Police Station, in Beijing, arrested her when she went there to appeal for Falun Gong. The police cuffed her to an electric chair and shocked her with high-voltage electricity for half an hour. Then the police inserted ice under her clothes to freeze her when the temperature in Beijing was already as cold as from -8˚C to --10˚C (14˚F to 18˚F). Several police officers even tried to carry her to the eighth floor and take away all her clothing, in order to freeze her. When they had carried her as far as the sixth floor, somebody stopped them and they were unable to carry out their plan. Later, she was sent back to Dianbai County, Guangdong Province, where she was sent to a forced labor camp for one and a half years.
- Ms. Gan Huiling:
She is over 40 years old. When she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, the police shocked her entire body with electric batons. She had numerous burns, scars and wounds that were dark from bruising and blistering. Her wrists were burned from being held against the hot pipes of a steam radiator (4) and the wounds were seeping pus and blood.
- Mr. Liu Xuejin:
He is over 30 years old. In Sanshui Forced Labor Camp, several guards shocked his entire body with five or six electric batons simultaneously. They didn't allow him to sleep or to sit down. They tortured him physically and psychologically for a long period of time.
- Ms. Deng Meizhen:
She is 71 years old. She was detained in Maoming City Brainwashing Class for more than one year. The guards from the "610 Offices" frequently verbally abused and beat her. Sometimes the guards would cuff both her hands to a window frame for more than ten hours, or sometimes for even as long as a few days, during which time she was not allowed to talk, sleep, or use the restroom.
- Mr. Pan Zeng in Shuidong Town:
He was imprisoned in a forced labor camp for two years. The town government confiscated all of his work tools and other valuables in his home. His wife and three children were left with no source of income and are in dire financial straits.
- Mr. Che Qingyu and Ms. Pan Yanmei (husband and wife) in Shuidong Town:
They were illegally detained for a long time and then were sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. Their daughter was detained for three years before the guards sent her to Maoming City Brainwashing Class and then to Guangdong Provincial Brainwashing Class to torture her both psychologically and physically. Ms. Pan Yanmei was twice imprisoned in a forced labor camp, for two years and one year, respectively. After being persecuted in Sanshui Forced Labor Camp, she can no longer stand up straight, can't walk and is extremely emaciated. Nevertheless, the police continue to persecute her.
- Mrs. Ri Qiong in Poxin Town:
She is around 60 years old. When she was detained in Dianbai County Detention Center, her young granddaughter accidentally drowned when there was no one to take care of her.
- Mr. Li Kun and his son, Mr. Li Xinhua in Poxin Town:
They were sentenced to imprisonment for making truth-clarification materials. Mr. Li Kun was sentenced to fourteen years, and Mr. Li Xinhua, for five years. Their bodies and minds were seriously harmed.
- Mr. He Gengqing:
He is about 30 years old. He was sentenced to eleven years in a forced labor camp. His elder sister was abducted and sent to Maoming City Brainwashing Class, where she was tortured.
- Ms. Huang Yinglian:
The police robbed more than 13,000 yuan from her when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Notes:
- Yuan is the basic unit of currency in China, where 500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker.
- An electrical baton resembles a wooden police club, but contains the equivalent high-voltage electrical charge of a stun gun. It burns skin on contact, is capable of inducing temporary paralysis to incapacitate the victim and, in some cases, may even cause the death of weaker victims.
- Force fed through intubation is a brutal punishment used in prison. The guards force a tube into a practitioner's mouth and down into their esophagus, and then use it to brutally force-feed corn paste or fluids directly into the stomach. The tube temporarily closes off the airway into the throat and suffocates the victims. Because the food or fluid being forced down is not going down the normal way, it further constricts the throat as the initial swallowing muscles are bypassed and the body is unable send it further down. Many practitioners have died from being force-fed.
- In northern China, hot steam radiators are typically installed to heat buildings in cold weather.
