(Clearwisdom.net) There are four districts, six county-cities and two counties in Weifang City, Shandong Province, which further breaks down into 158 towns and townships with 34 street Party Committees. The area's population is 8.5 million.
Before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong, there were practice sites for Falun Gong in all the parks, squares and districts and in nearly every village. More than 40,000 people went to do Falun Gong exercises at the practice sites on a regular basis. They came from government agencies, companies and villages. The practitioners conducted themselves according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Under high pressure from Jiang's group, Weifang City officials brutally persecuted Falun Gong in order to earn promotions and to make money.
According to the statistics available, more than 120 Falun Gong practitioners have died from the persecution in Weifang City; about 1,000 practitioners have been illegally sentenced to prison and labor camps, and thousands more have been subjected to being held in secret detention rooms in their work places, brainwashing classes, mental hospitals and detention centers. Many practitioners have been fined. Their homes have been ransacked and they have been brutally tortured.
All of these crimes are the direct result of the decrees and urgings from the CCP Party Committee in Weifang City. We will continue to publish investigation reports. The criminals will be brought to justice. Let us together stop this unprecedented persecution. Following are the names of the persecutors and their deeds:
1. Wu GuanzhengWu Guanzheng, Shandong Province Party Committee secretary, Wang Xiuzhi and Gao Xinting, Party Committee deputy secretaries, went to Weifang City and made arrangements for the persecution of Dafa and Dafa practitioners. Wu Guanzheng went to Weifang City on August 9, 1999 and held a discussion forum on the persecution of Falun Gong. The Weifang City Party Committee forwarded his speech to government agencies, companies, workplaces, township and village Party Committees on all levels through various channels.
2. Cao XuechengCao Xuecheng, male, is around 60 years of age. He worked as the secretary of Weifang City Party Committee and the head of Weifang City People's Congress. He worked as the deputy head of Shandong Province People's Congress since December 2002, and he is directly responsible for the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Weifang City. He personally arranged and started the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Weifang City.
July 14, 1999
Police treated some Dafa practitioners in Weifang City even more unjustly, as did their superiors in their workplaces, at the street Party Committee and the village Party Committee. The practitioners went to the city Party Committee and the city government to appeal.
Wang Boxiang, administrative deputy mayor, Hu Gang, deputy mayor, Wang Zhihua, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, and the official in charge of the Appeals Bureau talked with a few Falun Gong practitioners. Their conclusion was that the practitioners' requests were reasonable and they answered all of them. They repeatedly affirmed that they would not retaliate against Falun Gong practitioners who appealed and issued a written statement [to that effect] with a stamp from the Weifang City government Appeals Office. They were actually publicly lying to Falun Gong practitioners, lying later to the whole city and defaming the practitioners. They incited hatred against the practitioners. One practitioner was sentenced to prison for participating in this appeal. Most of the other practitioners who went to appeal were brutally persecuted in different ways.
Good is rewarded and evil will be punished. Wang Lifu, then Weifang City Party Committee deputy secretary in charge of politics and law and appeals, was promoted to president of the Political Consultative for persecuting Dafa practitioners. He received retribution for his crimes and died from cancer on April 13, 2002. Wang Boxiang, the deputy mayor who was promoted to mayor, also developed cancer.
July 23, 1999
After the Shouguang Daily News published a letter written by "Xiao Xing," Li Lanqing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council and head of the central 610 Office personally wrote comments on the article. The Weifang City Party Committee distributed Li Lanqing's comments and further promoted the persecution of Dafa and Dafa practitioners.
July 27, 1999
The Weifang City Party Committee announced that by July 27, 1999, the police, Industry and Commerce Department, the news and publishing industry among other government agencies had confiscated 36,000 Falun Gong books, more than 44,000 audio cassettes, 6,559 videotapes, 3,593 pictures, and 13,500 copies of Falun Gong materials.
Evening, October 27, 1999
The Standing Committee of the Weifang City Party Committee listened and watched a special commentator's "Falun Gong is xx [slanderous words omitted]" and a special feature film, broadcast on CCTV. The content was reprinted in the People's Daily newspaper. The Standing Committee held a discussion forum. The following people attended the forum: Cao Xuecheng, Wang Yufen, Wang Lifu, Chi Zhaohou, Zheng Jinlan, Wang Boxiang, Wang Zhihua, Hu Gang, Yu Ming, Fang Zhongchang, Sun Jialian, Ju Fachang, Bi Keren and others.
End of 1999
Weifang City Party Committee published an article entitled, "The Whole City has Engaged in the Struggle against Falun Gong."
Evening, January 30, 2001
The Standing Committee of the Weifang City Party Committee watched the staged self-immolation in Tiananmen Square that took place on January 23 broadcast by CCTV. Cao Xuecheng, Weifang City Party Committee secretary gave a speech, which started another round of persecution against Falun Gong.
February 25, 2001
Cao Xuecheng, secretary of the Weifang City Party Committee spoke at a "Ban Pornographic and Illegal Publications" city works conference and singled out Falun Gong publications as targets of suppression.
May 15, 2001
The "Shandong Province conference to exchange experiences in educating and reforming Falun Gong people" was held in Weifang City. Wang Xiuzhi, Shandong Province Party Committee deputy secretary, Sun Keqian, deputy head of the Shandong Province Public Security Department, Wang Chengbo, deputy head of the "610 Office" at the Shandong Province Party Committee, Cao Xuecheng, secretary of Weifang City Party Committee, mayor Wang Boxiang, Bi Keren, deputy secretary and other local officials attended the conference. This meeting marked the beginning of a mass-brainwashing campaign against Falun Gong practitioners.
On December 19, 2001, Cao Xuecheng slandered Falun Gong and incited hatred
On June 14, 2002, the "CCP Weifang City Party Committee's Opinions on Studying and Thoroughly Carrying Out Jiang Zemin's Important Speech from May 13 and the Essence of the Eighth Party Representative Assembly Meeting of Shandong Province" slandered and incited hatred against Falun Gong. These "Opinions" were issued to all government agencies.
On July 25, 2002, Cao Xuecheng slandered and attacked Falun Gong during his speech at a city Party Committee theory study central group reading session.
3. Zhang ChuanlinZhang Chuanlin, male, was born in Rizhao, Shandong Province in May 1952. He worked as secretary of the Zaozhuang City Party Committee in Shandong Province, the head of Weifang City People's Congress, and as principal of the Weifang City Party School between September 1998 and December 2002. Between December 2002 and the present he has been working as secretary of the Weifang City Party Committee and as principal of Weifang City Party School. He is the chief person responsible for the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Zaozhuang, and for the escalation of persecution against Dafa practitioners in Weifang City. He incited hatred against Dafa practitioners, slandered Dafa and Dafa practitioners many times and personally arranged for the persecution of Dafa practitioners.
4. The CCP has never followed any law in persecuting Falun Gong. The extent of Dafa practitioners' persecution in Weifang City completely depends on orders issued by the main officials at the city Party Committee and their subordinates. Some of these are the secretary of the city Party Committee, the secretary of the city Party Committee in charge of politics and law, the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee of the city Party Committee, the head of the "610 Office," the police, the national security bureau, and other main officials at a series of government agencies. Cao Xuecheng and Zhang Chuanlin, as mentioned above, are the two secretaries of the city Party Committee. Four deputy secretaries of the city Party Committees are Wang Lifu (term: February 1996--January 2001), Bi Keren (term: January 2001--February 2003), Wang Zhihua (term: February 2003--January 2006), Cui Jianping (term: January 2006--current). These four people's terms mark the four stages of persecution in Weifang City. Persons at the Political and Judiciary Committee and the "610 Office" who follow government orders are on another level. There are also the police, the National Security Bureau, companies and work places. Two people who headed the Political and Judiciary Committee are Wang Zhihua (term: July 1994--February 2003, secretary of the Standing Committee and secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee) and Li Shouyu (term: February 2003--current, secretary of the Standing Committee, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee and deputy mayor).
5. Bi Keren
Bi Keren, male, is around 60 years old. He worked as deputy secretary of the city Party Committee between January 2001 and February 2003 and since then until now was/is also as the deputy head of the city People's Congress.
On July 25, 2002, Bi Keren slandered Falun Gong and incited hatred against Falun Gong in his "speech at city Party Committee theory study central group reading session" where he emphasized that the city government would continue to persecute Falun Gong.
6. Liu Mingke, male, was born in Pingdu City, Shandong Province in August 1957. He worked as secretary of the Changle County Party Committee between December 1997 and January 2001. He also worked as a member of the Standing Committee of the city Party Committee and head of the Propaganda Department from January 2001 and does so now. He is extremely vicious toward Dafa practitioners.
7. In April 2003, Wang Zhenhua, the secretary of the police department Party Committee and head of the police department at the time, published an article entitled "Do a Good Job; Serve the Economy and Spare No Effort in Creating a Great Social Environment" in which he slandered Falun Gong.
Wang Weidong, head of the Weifang City People's Procuratorate slandered Falun Gong in his article "Surround the Focal Point of Economic Development; Work Hard to Strengthen Building of Soft Environment."
8. Wang Xiuhe, male, is around 50 years old. He worked as the 12th deputy secretary of the Weicheng District Party Committee and was the district head between 1995 and 2000. He has also held the position of secretary of the Weicheng District Party Committee and head of the district's People's Congress. Dafa practitioners in the Weicheng District have been severely persecuted. Right now we learned that 18 Dafa practitioners have died as a result of persecution, and that Wang Xiuhe is chiefly responsible for their deaths. Up until November 2004, he distributed his "experiences" in persecuting Falun Gong throughout the city. He incited hatred against Falun Gong in his article, "Build and Solidify Scientific Development Concepts; Work Hard to Promote Building a Peaceful Weicheng." This article was published in a Weifang City Party Committee publication and circulated throughout the city.
9. Ding Hanting, male, in his 40s, is Daotian Town Party Committee secretary in Shouguang City.
Even as late as May 2004, this person was still spreading lies throughout the city. He slandered Falun Gong in his article "Build a Peaceful and Safe Village and Town, Promote Economic Development." This article was published in a Weifang City Party Committee publication and circulated throughout the city.
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