(Clearwisdom.net) In 2007, many Communist regime officials continued their crime spree targeting Falun Gong practitioners. These actions happened with the instigation and direction of CCP Committee Secretary Chen Jianguo in the Ningxia Autonomous Region, the former head of the Ningxia 610 Office Su Deliang (who later was transferred to the Ningxia Political and Judiciary Committee), and the current 610 Office head Yao Yingli, persecutors from the legal systems, the Political and Judiciary Committee and others from the 610 Office. The result was that one practitioner died as a result of persecution, nine practitioners were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, one practitioner was sentenced to forced labor camp but served the sentence outside the camp, eight practitioners were sent to brainwashing centers, hundreds of practitioners were arrested, had their homes searched and were harassed.
The following is a brief description of the specifics:
Mr. Chao Zhiming Died as a Result of Persecution
Mr. Chao Zhiming had been the manager of the Feilong Corporation, part of the state-owned Lingwu Farm in the Ningxia Autonomous Region. His wife Ms. Zhu Xiuying was an employee at the corporation's alcohol factory. The couple retired early because of poor health. In 1997, after they had practiced Falun Gong for a year, their illnesses disappeared. Ms. Zhu Xiuying, who had been illiterate her whole life, experienced a miracle -- she was able to read all of Zhuan Falun. She presented a speech at a cultivation experience sharing conference later, as the only practitioner from Ningxia Autonomous Region, in Lanzhou City. The practitioner couple was steadfast in cultivation.
Jiang Zemin's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. The couple was relentlessly persecuted from then on. During the past eight years, police searched their home close to twenty times, and they were arrested, illegally detained and harassed at home numerous times. The police confiscated the Chaos' personal belongings. The persecution caused a resurfacing of their physical ailments. The medical costs for their treatments during the past few years added up to about 120,000 yuan. One one occasion, when police searched Chao Zhiming's house, policeman Wu Hao ran into the kitchen and dragged Ms. Zhu Xiuying, who was cooking, to the floor. He dragged her for several meters, breaking her arm in the process. With her severe diabetes and a broken arm, Zhu Xiuying fell and broke her leg, which resulted in her complete disability. She died on January 25, 2006.
Zhu Xiuying's mother, over 80 years old, could not endure the mental trauma and also died in August 2006.
Mr. Chao Zhiming suffered paralysis on one side of his body and experienced speech difficulties due to the stress induced by years of persecution. He could not take care of himself, but police still did not go easy on him. In June 2006, the Political Security Group's Party secretary Yang Yuqiang as well as Yang Yufeng, head of the Political Security Group and two officers from the Chengzhen Police Station of Lingwu City broke into Chao Zhiming's home. They pushed him onto a couch and berated him. Mr. Chao tried to stop them when they started to take away his son's computer. They finally stole two external hard drives instead.
In June 2007, about 30 police officers from the Yinchuan City 610 Office, from the Yinchuan City Police Department, the Yongning Police Department, and the Lingwu Police Department broke into Chao Zhiming's home and harassed him.
On August 18, 2007 he suffered a stroke. His family took him to the hospital, but he could not be cured. He died on the afternoon of August 22, 2007.
Those responsible for persecuting Mr. Chao include Li Cun, Jin Chunhua, Zhang Anzhong, Wu Hao, Ma Yinglong, Li Ming, Zhang Zhanlin, Yang Yufeng, Yang Yuqiang, Ma Yuelin.
Illegally Sentencing and Sending Practitioners to Forced Labor
1. On February 7, 2007, Wang Jianguo and three other practitioners were heavily sentenced.
On September 14, 2006, practitioners from Yinchuan City, Wang Jianguo, Si Yurong, Chen Xueying and Han Ruixian went out to clarify the truth and were arrested. Participating in the arrest were personnel from the Domestic Security Division in E'ertuokeqianqi in E'erduosi City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The police tortured the practitioners using metal chairs and deprived them of sleep. Police officers searched their houses and took away desktop computers, printers, electronic books, and mp3 players. Officials from the Ningxia 610 Office, from the Ningxia Police Department and from the Yinchuan City Police Department eventually sent the four practitioners back to Ningxia and locked them up. They deprived them of sleep for several nights to torture them.
On February 7, 2007, Tongxin County Court officials in Ningxia tried the four practitioners. The four told their stories in court, explaining how they had physically and mentally benefited from Dafa. They spoke of the CCP's illegal persecution of Falun Gong. The practitioners exposed the persecution and torture at the hands of the police and refused to acknowledge the trumped-up charges. The court twisted the truth and illegally sentenced the practitioners. Wang Jianguo and Chen Xueying were each sentenced to eight years in prison. Han Ruixian was sentenced to five years. Si Yurong was sentenced to three years, with five years of probation.
2. On July 11, 2007, practitioner Zhao Yuhu and three other practitioners were secretly sentenced. On the evening of December 7, 2006, the persecutors monitored and tapped practitioners' telephone lines. This was ordered by the Ningxia 610 Office and the Police Department, the 610 Office, the First Division of the Police Department, and Xingqing District Domestic Security Division. These people had followed and arrested practitioner Zhao Yuhu, Cai Guojun, Jiang Hongying, Zhang Xiaoping from Yinchuan City and five practitioners from Shizuishan City including Mu Zhihong. Five practitioners were locked up in the Yinchuan City Detention Center where they were subjected to ruthless torture. On May 29, 2007, having been manipulated by persons from the Yinchuan City 610 Office, Xixia District Court officials in Yinchuan City tried the practitioners. The officials did not expect resistance from four practitioners including Zhao Yuhu with righteous thoughts. The court then secretly tried them. The four practitioners appealed. On July 11, 2007, the Sixth Court of the Middle Courthouse in Yinchuan City still upheld the secret sentences: Zhao Yuhu, 7 years; Cai Guojun, 5 years; Zhang Xiaoping, 5½ years; Jiang Hongying, 4 years.
3. In July 2007, the Shizuishan City Court sentenced practitioner Mu Zhihong to three years in prison.
4. In October 2007, practitioner Gu Jingjie, an employee from the Sixth Middle School in Yinchuan, the Jinfeng District, was sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labor camp (on probation).
Practitioners Arrested and Taken to Brainwashing Centers
1. In January 2007, practitioner Sun Jianfeng, an employee from the Yinchuan Electric Plant, was arrested at work and taken to the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Center in Lanzhou City.
2. Prior to the Communist Party's 17th Congress, the Ningxia 610 Office instigated officers from a surrounding police station as well as residential committee personnel to arrest practitioners Xin Linyuan and Si Yurong and take them to a brainwashing center. They took Shan Jining to the brainwashing center from the women's forced labor camp. They also took Lingwu City practitioners Dai Yuzhen and Xie Xiaona to a brainwashing center from the Yinchuan Women's Forced Labor Camp.
3. Practitioner Ma Zhiwu, an employee of the Ningxia Railway Bureau, was sent to a forced labor camp and was sentenced. He has been persecuted in prison for eight years. His term was to expire on November 7, 2007. Around midnight on November 6, officers from the 610 Office, along with officers from the Xixia District Xihuayuan Police Station transferred Ma Zhiwu from the Wuzhong Prison to a brainwashing center where he is still being detained.
4. Yinchuan practitioner Zheng Yongxin has been persecuted in prison for eight years. His term was to expire on November 11, 2007, and his family traveled over 300 kilometers and waited in front of the prison gate that morning to take him home. But then the family observed the 610 Office agents putting Zheng Yongxin in a car and driving off. They did not even get a chance to talk to him. It was said that the 610 Office used several police officers to take Zheng Yongxin away.
Zheng Yongxin is currently being detained and persecuted in a brainwashing center.
Illegally Arresting and Harassing Practitioners
1. On June 4, 2007, officials from the Yongning County Police Department arrested practitioner Nan Yongsheng, who was locked up at the County Detention Center for several days.
2. On the evening of June 13, 2007, Yongning County Police Department personnel arrested practitioner Wu Yanming from Lingwu City and held him at the County Detention Center for several days.
3. On June 14, 2007, agents from the Yinchuan City 610 Office along with officers from the Yinchuan City Police Department, the Yongning County Police Department and the Lingwu Police Department broke into practitioner Zhao Shouguo's home. The persecutors videotaped him and took many valuable belongings from his home and attempted to arrest him. Practitioner Zhao Shouguo and his wife resisted, and the police were unsuccessful.
4. On June 27, 2007, perpetrators hired by the Wenchang Police Station in Zhongwei City arrested practitioner Qin Wanfu from that city.
5. At around 10:00 p.m. on July 5, 2007, police from the Zhongwei City Domestic Security Division arrested two practitioners' family members and held them until 7:00 p.m. the next day.
6. On July 6, 2007, officials from the Tiedong Police Station in the Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City arrested practitioner Ms. Zhang Guifang and her son Wang Jianjun. The police searched Zhang Guifang's house and held her at Yinchuan Detention Center for several days.
7. On August 7, 2007, Wuzhong Domestic Security Division agents arrested practitioner Ma Zhiwu's wife and six other relatives who were visiting him in the Wuzhong Prison. They were detained for one night and were extorted 20 yuan each.
8. On August 28, 2007, Dawukou District Police Department officials in Shizuishan City arrested practitioner Li Ailing.
9. On August 30, 2007, several persecutors held a meeting. The officials were from the Yongning County 610 Office, from the Ningxia Political and Judiciary Committee, the Ningxia Police Department and from the local residential committees. They decided to start investigating all practitioners in Yongning County and establishing written profiles on all of them so they could be persecuted. They also sent plainclothes police agents to follow and monitor practitioners, and tap into their phone lines. They attempted to escalate the persecution, but did not succeed.
10. On September 15, 2007, Dawukou District Police Department officials broke into practitioners' houses to search. If they found computers that had access to the Internet, and printers, they arrested the practitioners. They registered practitioners in the Dawukou District and took samples of the practitioners' handwriting, for use in the future.
11. On around September 15, 2007, Dawukou District Police Department agents arrested practitioners Lin Ailing and Yang Tianyun.
12. On September 17, 2007, the Dawokou District Police Department deputy head Fu Fukui and Domestic Security Division leader Jing Ping led a group of police officers and some people from the local residential committees. The individuals broke into practitioner Ms. Li Lanfeng's home and arrested her and Liu Xiaoning from Zhongwei City, along with Li Lanfeng's husband Chen Baozhong. Police took away Dafa books, tapes, a picture of Master Li, and a notebook computer.
13. Prior to October 1, 2007, Huinong District police in Shizuishan City searched practitioners' homes one by one. They arrested practitioners and interrogated them one by one. They coerced the practitioners to register, sign [a document] and be fingerprinted. They harassed more than 100 practitioners. Police arrested the uncooperative practitioners and persecuted them further in a detention center.
14. On October 18, 2007, Yinchuan City police arrested practitioner Guo Jinhua from Xinjiang Autonomous Region and later searched her temporary residence. They held her in the Yinchuan Detention Center for several days.
15. On November 10, 2007, Chengguan Police Station officer Guo Jun in Qingtongxia City went to Qingtongxia Professional Middle School and arrested a woman practitioner, teacher Yuan.
16. On November 18, 2007 plainclothes officers from the District Police Department in Zhongwei City pretended to buy goods from practitioner Yang Yulan's shop in a market. When Yang Yulan started clarifying the truth to them they arrested her and searched her house.
All the responsible parties who have persecuted and are still persecuting Falun Gong practitioners have records on the Internet. The mission of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) is "To investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions, organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong, and to bring such investigation, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and deep we have to search, to full closure."