Summary of Other Articles and News - August 14, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of Persecution

1. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Elementary School Teacher Ms. Xiu Shufen Imprisoned Several Times for Practicing Falun Dafa

Ms. Xiu Shufen, born on August 24, 1962, is a teacher from Heilongjiang Province. She was detained on June 20, 2000, for practicing Falun Gong, and released after 46 days. In the same year, she was arrested on December 15, at Tiananmen Square, and sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp. She was sent to the Heilongjiang Province, Harbin Addictive Drug Cessation Institute on December 23, 2000, and was released after two years. She was tortured brutally during the time in the forced labor camp. After being released, she was not allowed to teach. She received 350 yuan per month as living expenses. On December 20, 2002, Ms. Xiu wrote a letter to the chairman of the Addictive Drug Cessation Institute and asked him to be kind. The chairman reported her to the authorities. She was detained again and sentenced to a forced labor camp for one year. She served her term in the women's section of the Harbin Addictive Drug Cessation Institute. Because Ms. Xiu insists on her beliefs, the guards often beat and tortured her during her imprisonment. She was released and sent home after a year.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/14/108369.html

2. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhai Baoji from Sent to a Forced Labor Camp

On the evening of July 14, 2005, Chaoyang City policemen arrested Mr. Zhai Baoji. He was sent to the Chaoyang City, Shijiahetao Police Station and detained there. The next day, police officers from the Chaoyang City Police Station searched his home and his wife's shop. The police officers who did the search fabricated evidence and reported it to the city police department. Qi Yuijing, the assistant chief of the city police department, was in charge of this case. He asked the Chaoyuong City Police Department for permission to send Mr. Zhai to a forced labor camp. On August 5, Mr. Zhai was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp and was sent to the Xidayingzi Labor Camp for further persecution.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/14/108340.html

3. [Kuan City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured

Police officers from Hebei Province, the Kuan City Police Department, broke into Mr. Liu Zhenlin's home on April 19, 2005. They confiscated all of his Falun Dafa materials and detained him. He is still being held. On March 22, 2005, police officers arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jing Wenguei in the rice fields. They beat him severely during the arrest. The police then tied his hands and took him away. During the detention, they tried to get him to confess by brutally torturing him. They burned Mr. Jing's mouth and chest with an electric baton. Since then he has been suffering from excruciating pain every day.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/14/108339.html