(Clearwisdom.net) Gejiu City is located in a crater-like depression around a lake on top of a mountain.
It is the site of the country's largest tin deposits and Yunnan Tin Industry Company is the city's largest mining corporation. The corporation employed up to fifty thousand employees. Due to their hazardous occupation, most workers have contracted many incurable illnesses such as lung cancer, liver cancer, rectal cancer, breast cancer, and so on. Many workers die very young. The number of cancer patients per capita in this city is the highest in the world. Due to the enormous number of patients, the country has built a hospital to specifically treat cancer patients.
In the mid 1990s, many workers in the city witnessed the miraculous healing effects of Falun Gong and benefited from its teachings. Many people started practicing Falun Gong. In two to three years' time, the number of Falun Gong practitioners in the city reached over ten thousand. Many people learned the meaning of life and the purpose of cultivation and they strove forward diligently.
Since July 20, 1999, the political and legal system of Gejiu City's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) followed Jiang Zemin's policy to persecute Falun Gong. The prefecture's political and legal committee and the city's political and legal committee direct Gejiu City's police, "procuratorates," courts and 610 Office staff to confiscate Falun Gong practitioners' homes, as well as kidnap, detain and sentence practitioners. The National Security Group's leader, Zhong Chongfu, and the director of the city's 610 Office, Chen Yongqi, also directly guide and participate in the persecution. Many practitioners are forced to write the three statements, to hand in Falun Gong books and materials, and to give up practicing Falun Gong. Some work units where practitioners work have also been fined, forced to cancel their existing contracts, or pay a guarantee fee. The persecution has caused many work units that formerly supported Falun Gong to join the authorities in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Honghe prefecture's CCP committee and the prefecture government were formerly in Gejiu City. Since 2003, the CCP committee, the prefecture government, and other related state organizations were moved to Mengzi County.
Practitioner Ms. Wan Qiaoying, in her 40s, was illegally sentenced to five years in prison. She was forced to stand for a long time, locked in a room, forced to lie on a death bed, and she was injected with unknown drugs. In February 2007, when Ms. Wan's family visited her, she had been abused so badly that she could not even speak or walk. Still, the police refused to release her. The police grabbed Ms. Wan's hands in front of her family and tried to force her to press her fingerprint on a document, but Ms. Wan resisted. On May 24, 2007, she was on the verge of death. Her mind was not clear. The prison was afraid of being held responsible so they hurriedly told Ms. Wan's family to take her home. Ms. Wan is still not fully clear-headed. She can only lay in bed most of the time and cannot remember the persecution that she went through. Her health is still very precarious.
Despite the severe persecution, practitioners have chosen to clarify the facts of the persecution to the world's people. They give out truth-clarifying materials and VCDs. Many people have learned the truth about the persecution and the evilness of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to practitioners' efforts. Many hae chosen to quit the CCP and its related organizations. Some have even started to learn Falun Gong. The world's people are beginning to learn the beauty of Falun Gong and the beauty of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance."
While practitioners continue to clarify the facts, the CCP continues to escalate the persecution, including following practitioners and monitoring their phones and their work units. They have never stopped persecuting them since July 20, 1999. Over the past eight years, practitioners have been arrested every year. Many were forced into brainwashing centers, forced labor camps, and prisons. At least 100 were arrested, and over ten were "illegally sentenced" to prison. More than 30 were sent to forced labor camps. Almost ten practitioners were forced to go into exile. Even more were forced to attend brainwashing sessions.
Practitioners in the Yunnan Tin Industry Company were among the worst persecuted. Several dozen practitioners at the company's subsidiary lead factory were also arrested. (Some practitioners in the factory were even arrested three times.) We have listed the details below.
Practitioners who were illegally sentenced to prison:
Mr. Chen Yao, Ms. Xie Manhua, Ms. Ma Lin, Ms. Xu Liping, and Mr. Zhang Zhengqiao, each for three years
Ms. Qiao Wanying, Ms. Li Huiling, Ms. Jiang Yuhua, and Ms. Gao Mengyuan, each for five years
Practitioners who were imprisoned in forced labor camps, brainwashing centers and detention centers (the detention center is located in the Baiyun Hotel, Gejiu City, Chasangguo Station):
Ms. Liu Yan, Mr. Lu Ziyi, Ms. Li Xian, Mr. Yang Linke, Ms. Song Chengying, Ms. Zhang Ping, Ms. Li Ping, Ms. Yang Sufen, Ms. Wang Youfen, Ms. Li Fengying, Mr. Dong Mingzu, Mr. Lin Chongfu, Mr. Xu Huiping, Ms. Gao Mengyun, Ms. Jiang Yuhua, Mr. Jiang Qiao, Ms. Yang Wenyun, Mr. Yin Xiusheng, Ms. Zhang Guixian, Ms. Wang Lichun, Ms. Dai Jinlan, Ms. Zhang Liyun, Ms. Su Qiongbo, Mr. Zhang Ping, Ms. Yang Lifen, Mr. Wang Zhongping, Mr. Wang Yuping (Qu Jing).
Some of the above Falun gong practitioners had their homes confiscated or they were taken into custody more than three times. Some were imprisoned in forced labor camps more than twice. Some were as old as 72. Nearly 20 practitioners are currently detained in Kunming Second Women's Prison, Dapingba Forced Labor Camp of Chuxionglufeng County, Dabanqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Kunming City, and Gejiu City Detention Center. Practitioners Dai Jinlan, Zhang Guixian, and Wang Lichun are still currently in a detention center.
Persons and organizations responsible for these acts of persecution:
Director of Honghe Prefecture 610 Office Tian Jintang, male, 50s: 86-873-3733616
Deputy director: 86-873-3733617
Secretary: 86-873-3733618
General office: 86-873-3733619
Director of Gejiu City 610 Office Chen Yongqi, male, 50s: 6-873-2138227 (Office), 86-873-2122068, 86-13808772309 (Cell)
Deputy director Lei Bo, male, 40s: 86-873-2123708 (Office), 86-13312665290 (Cell), 86-13608732056 (Cell)
Gejiu City Chasangguo Station Brainwashing Center: 86-873-2212575
National Security Group of Gejiu City Police Bureau, deputy chief, Zhong Chongfu, male, 50s: 86-13508732626 (Cell)
Police officers Zhao Hanmin: 86-13908734563(Cell), 86-13987300225 (Cell); Xu Qingfeng: 86-13908731976 (Cell); Qin Jinyun: 86-13987316698 (Cell), 86-873-2134464
Gejiu City Detention Center: 86-873-2123845, 86-873-2187716, 86-873-2123846
Gejiu City Police Bureau and Police Station: 86-873-2122842
