(Clearwisdom.net)
1. The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Zhiping
Mr. Liu Zhiping started to practice Falun Gong before 1999. After Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Li Zhiping was sent to a brainwashing center in August 1999. People involved in his persecution include Li Zhensheng (head of Zhaogezhuang Town), Jia Yongbao (head of the town's CCP committee), Li Yin (head of the political and judiciary committee), Fang Yongwu, and others.
On Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Day in early April 2000, 610 Office officials in Laishui County told police officers from the Zhaogezhuang Police Station to arrest Liu Zhiping from his home and take him to the Laishui County CCP school. Liu was detained there for 18 days and was fined 3370 yuan. The following work units were involved: the Laishui County 610 Office, the county government branches, the Zhaogezhuang Town government and Police Station. Those directly involved in this persecution were Li Zhensheng (head of Zhaogezhuang Town) and Jia Yongbao (head of the town Party committee).
On July 20, 2000, practitioners Liu Zhiping, Wei Chunlan, Cao Jiwei, Liu Xiuhe, Meng Qingying, and Meng Qinglian were called to the town government and then illegally detained there. The practitioners held a hunger strike to protest their detention. They were released three days later. Although they didn't eat anything, they were still ordered to pay 100 yuan for meals. People involved in the persecution include Li Zhensheng, Li Yin, Yang Xiuhua (from Laishui County), Liu Xingyue (from Baijian), Zhang Xiushan (from Baijian), Jia Yongbao, and Zhang Wengang. The work unit directly involved in the persecution was the Zhaogezhuang Town government.
Two days before the Qingming Festival in 2001, Liu Zhiping was arrested and detained in the Zhaogezhuang Police Station for one day. Police officers involved in the arrest were He Yuxin, Ren Mengtian, Zhen Zhanjiang, and Ma . When they arrested Liu, they threw away his shoes and tore his clothes. His family had 200 yuan extorted from them.
On November 2, 2002, Li Zhensheng led seven or eight people including Fang Yongwu and Li Yin to break into practitioners' homes at around 11:30 p.m.. They arrested practitioners Liu Zhiping, Wei Chunlan, and Meng Xianbin and took them to the town government office. Next day the practitioners were sent to the Laishui County Detention Center. After being detained for about 50 days, Liu Zhiping started a hunger strike to protest the detention and later was sent to the county brainwashing center. Liu Zhiping's family requested his release several times. They had 1,000 yuan extorted from them and also spent about 300 yuan for meals. During the last several years, they have been fined more than 5,520 yuan by Liu Zhiping.
2. Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Cao Qingmei
Ms. Cao Qingmei is over 70 years old. She had several diseases before she started to practice Falun Gong. One of them was a tumor in her throat, from which she suffered a lot. She had spent several thousand yuan to have it removed through surgery. However, it grew back again. As she was struggling at the edge of death, she obtained Dafa in 1997 and soon all of her diseases disappeared. She also knew how to be a good person and discovered the purpose of life.
After the CCP and Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong, Cao Qingmei also suffered from it. In the spring of 2000, Cao Qingmei and three other fellow practitioners went to the Laishui County government to clarify the truth. Armed police officers of the "110 "[emergency number in China, equivalent of the 911 system in the U.S.] unit arrested them. They were taken to the courtyard of the county police department and handcuffed from the back to concrete poles for more than three hours. Later they were sent to the detention center and detained for three days and nights. Then they were sent to the county's CCP school and had to endure brainwashing sessions for two weeks. During that time, the police and locally hired thugs brutally tortured Cao Qingmei and other practitioners. They whipped the practitioners with wet ropes made of hemp or with whips made of electrical wires. They also beat them with mop handles. The practitioners had to kneel on the mop handles, on concrete blocks with sharp corners, or on the ground for long hours. They forced the practitioners to move around on their knees. They tied the practitioners' hands behind their backs and forcefully pulled up their arms behind their backs, causing severe pain. They tried all kinds of ways to try to force practitioners to write a guarantee statement to give up Falun Gong.
The work units involved in this were the Laishui County 610 Office, the county government branches, the Zhaogezhuang town government and police stations. People involved in the persecution and torture included Li Zhensheng, Fang Yongwu, Li Yin, Yang Xiuhua, and others. When Cao Qingmei was released, they also extorted 3,300 yuan from her.
In July 2001 of the lunar calendar, people from the Zhaogezhuang town government and police station and the head of the village, Meng Zhaojian, and village committee member Meng Qingwei went to Ms. Cao Qingmei's home. They searched and ransacked her home and arrested her. They also handcuffed her in the yard of the town government and exposed her for an entire day to the hot sun. She was fined 200 yuan.
On August 31, 2006, Ms. Cao and two other practitioners were followed by police officers when they were clarifying the truth. They were first detained in the Laishui County Police Department and later in the county detention center. The next day, the deputy of the town police station and the head of the village searched and ransacked three practitioners' homes. They took away all of the Dafa materials, a tape recorder, and two tapes. Cao Qingmei started a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was released on September 4. Her family was fined 450 yuan.
All told, what has been illegally confiscated and extorted from Cao Qingmei over the past several years amounts to about 4,190 yuan.
Related contact list:
Liu Shuhua, deputy of Zhaogezhuang Town: 86-312-4578756
Zhaogezhuang Town Police Station: 86-312-4578695
3. Persecution of Dong Guangqin
Ms. Dong Guangqin was from Xiaofengkou Village, Zhaogezhuang Town in Laishui County. Because of her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," she was sent to a brainwashing center and fined 50 yuan after July 20, 1999. On October 1, 1999, she was detained in the town government with other practitioners to prevent them from going to Beijing to appeal. The village cadres harassed and threatened her afterwards. Dong Guangqin died on January 23, 2003.
4. A persecution case as told by a young practitioner
In March 2002, I was expelled from school because I clarified the truth in my school. The head teacher of my class was Cheng Fengxia. The principal of the school is Zhang Ze.
At midnight on August 25, 2002, led by Ren Mengtian, head of the Longmen Township Police Station, more than 30 police officers including Du Jianzhu broke into my house. Without showing any legal papers, they broke the locked cabinets and searched the house. Du Jianzhu verbally abused me while they conducted the search. They took away a copy of Zhuan Falun and Zhuan Falun Fajie--The Law of Zhuan Falun Explained. My father was taken to the local police station. After they had extorted 3,000 yuan from him, they still sent my father to the detention center. When my mother and I went to the police station to inquire about my father, Ren Mengtian beat us brutally. Three months later, Wang Fucai and Dai Chunjie sentenced my father to two years of forced labor. My father was sent to Balizhuang Forced Labor Camp in Baoding City. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Du Jianzhu and Li Man from the Longmen Township Police Station colluded with Zhang Yongzhi from the township government. They came to our home to harass us.
My father suffered from brutal abuse in the labor camp. He was so weak that he couldn't take care of himself. On June 25, 2004, my father was allowed to come home. However, the next day, police officers Li Man and Sun Zhongmin from the local station immediately came to our home to harass us. Later Li Man often followed and monitored my father. One week after my father had returned home, Wang Fucai from the county 610 Office and Dai Chunjie from the political and security section came to harass us again. They were very aggressive and ordered my father not to go outside.
Related work units:
Longmen Township Police Station: 86-312-4617110
Longmen Township government: 86-312-4617137, 86-312-4617179
