Around July 1, 2005, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Lichuang from Tumu Township, Huining County, Gansu Province was deceived into returning to his workplace by the leaders of the workplace. The County Party School was promoting the movement, "Maintain the advanced nature of party members" at that time. That night, Mr. Yang was inhumanly persecuted and tortured to death. His body was thrown into a cellar. The leaders of his workplace lied to his family members, alleging that Mr. Yang picked up three months worth of salary checks and skipped town. They said that they wanted his family to persuade him to return to work. About a week later, local residents found the body in a cellar. Details of Yang Lichuang's death are currently being investigated.
Mr. Yang Lichuang, 37 years old, was a special clerk for the birth control office of the Tumu Township government in Huining County. He had already been illegally detained four times because of his practice of Falun Gong. Mr. Wang was sentenced to one year of forced labor during the first arrest, and after the second arrest he was sentenced to one year and six months of forced labor.
After being persecuted in the Huludao Forced Labor Camp for more than a year, Mr. Hu Shaowei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Huludao City, Liaoning Province, has scabies all over his body and is almost blind. His family members asked the forced labor camp to release him on medical grounds; but the camp authorities responded that Mr. Hu cannot be released until he renounces his belief.
Mr. Hu Shaowei, 35, used to work at the Xinyuan Realty Development Co., a joint venture corporation. After he started to practice Falun Gong in 1998, he began to improve himself and to be a good person, according to the guiding principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." He abandoned his bad habit of laziness and he thinks of others first, a fact recognized by his family members and friends. After the persecution started in July 1999, Mr. Hu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and was arrested. He was sent back to Huludao City and was detained in a detention center for 3 months. While in detention, he got scabies and suffered tremendously from the itching. He was transferred to a forced labor camp, but he was released the next day for medical care because of the infectious nature of scabies.
In April 2004, several policemen broke into Hu Shaowei's house, immobilized him and pressed him to the ground. They searched his house, turning everything upside down and confiscated his books and Falun Gong materials.
Mr. Hu's mother, who was in poor health, was so frightened by the policemen's actions that she had a stroke. However, the policemen paid no attention to her condition and arrested Mr. Hu. Later, when his wife arrived home, she realized that Mr. Hu had been arrested. Currently, Mr. Hu's mother is still suffering from cataracts, caused by the intense fear during the police search.
At present, Mr. Hu is detained in the Huludao Forced Labor Camp. After a year of detention, he again got scabies all over his body. He also cannot see clearly, and he feels intolerable pain all over the body, especially in his hands and feet. His feet now have too many varicose veins for him to wear shoes. His family members asked the forced labor camp to release him on medical grounds, but the camp authorities responded that Mr. Hu cannot be released until he renounces his belief. He therefore continues to suffer this inhumane persecution in the forced labor camp.
We call on the righteous people of the world pay close attention to Mr. Hu's case and to use all means to rescue him.
Contact information of responsible persons:
Shao Shouhua, the Head of the Judicial Bureau of the city, 86-429-3160055 (Home), 86-13842970888 (Cell)
Camp office phone numbers: 86-429-3960700, 86-429-3960702, 86-429-3960703, 86-429-3960705, 86-429-3960706 and 86-429-3960707
Director, Yang Haiyan: 86-429-3128836 (Home), 86-13604290658 (Cell)
Political Commissar, Wu Shushan: 86-429-3126312 (Home), 86-13998908533
(Cell)
Deputy Director, Feng Jichun: 86-429-3961555 (Home), 86-13009294692
(Cell)
Deputy Director, Wang Shuxiang: 86-429-3960958 (Home), 86-13304291662
(Cell)
Deputy Director, Pang Guodong: 86-429-3998033 (Home), 86-13942988577
(Cell)
Deputy Director, Yang Shiwei: 86-429-2129999 (Home), 86-13188530001
(Cell)
Chief of the Discipline Section, Yang Lianyuan: 86-13304299660 (Cell)
Deputy Chief of the Discipline Section, Wu XX, 86-429-3127638 (Home), 86-13019978455 (Cell)
Jail physician who is in charge of forced-feeding:
Wang Dazhu (male): 86-429-3960781 (Home), 86-13052675556 (Cell)
Gao Guirong (female): 86-429-3183344 (Home), 86-13009286525 (Cell)
Since May of 2005, some districts in Shandong Province have tried to hold Minghui schools for young practitioners. Practitioners in Zuiwengxianzhuang, of the Laiwu tourist district held a Minghui trial school where 50 young practitioners attended. On the afternoon of July 20, someone reported them to the police. The police sent the young practitioners home but kept all their belongings, especially their homework and identification cards. The Laiwu police arrested Liu Faling and Feng Aimin. The authorities are persecuting them at the Laiwu City Detention center. Some practitioners have been forced to leave home because of this incident.
Currently the Laiwu City Police Station is investigating, and the Shandong police have also assisted in Laiwu. In order to avoid further deterioration of the current situation, we hope that many practitioners will send forth righteous thoughts focusing on this matter. We also hope that practitioners can search within themselves immediately, as this is necessary to eliminate the persecution.
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9. The "dedicated assignment" system (also called the "sandwiching routine")
The "dedicated assignment" system is used in the Third Forced Labor Camp in Henan Province. In this system, two to four criminal inmates keep a close watch on each practitioner, following the practitioner everywhere around the clock, accompanying him during mealtime and sleep, and even when he uses the toilet. Those criminals severely beat practitioners if they don't obey the camp's rules. Encouraged by guards with the promise of sentence reduction, the designated criminals play the roles of persecutors of Falun Gong practitioners. According to records, after being released, most of the criminals who got involved in persecuting Falun Gong were arrested again and sent back to Third Forced Labor Camp. For example, Li Jinglin, who had been involved in a lot of persecution cases, was also the most active inmate in persecuting Falun Gong. Though he got a two-month sentence reduction, only few months later he was arrested and again locked up in the forced labor camp.
Meanwhile, the officials in the Third Forced Labor Camp use a system that provides better treatment to those who renounce Falun Gong. Their sentences are reduced by at least three or four months, usually in the range of 5-12 months. Once, a person who went astray shouted out a Falun Gong-slandering slogan at a meeting in March 21, 2001. That individual got an 18-month sentence reduction.
As far as solid practitioners are concerned, the perpetrators at the forced labor camp torture them brutally, trying all kinds of methods to force them to give up their belief. The guards boast, "We would rather beat someone to death than fail to "reform" him; for those who are on a hunger strike, we would rather let them starve to death than release them." The forced labor camp links the rate of "reformation" with the guards' work evaluation and bonuses. So, in order to increase the rate of reform, guards use all manner of tortures to deal with the solid practitioners. The guards forbid them to sleep and periodically interrogate them. They torture practitioners physically and mentally and create an environment of terror. Yan Zhenye, the camp director, and the deputy director Qu Shuangcai told the guards that they can use all kinds of methods to deal with Falun Gong practitioners. Their orders are based on Jiang Zemin's secret order, "It is not a crime to beat them [Falun Gong practitioners] to death; it will be counted as suicide."
10. The March 10, 2001 Incident
On March 10, 2001, five practitioners from Group 2, Chen Zhanyong, Cui Yusheng, Liu Qingyuan, Jia Shuangyuan and I started a hunger strike to protest the persecution and to ask for the right to practice. Chen Zhanyong and I were force-fed. Guard Zheng Qi scratched our feet, armpits and ribs with a ballpoint pen. They covered my nose and tried to open my mouth by force. Guard Shi Baolong ordered others to force-feed us by any means they could find. They tried for a long time but failed. I heard that they would use an anesthetic, but for some reason they did not.
Chen Zhanyong, a very steadfast practitioner, is a person who likes a clean environment and clean things. When he was deprived of freedom in the Xuchang Forced Labor Camp, several guards and criminals could not make him give up Falun Gong, even though they pummeled him with their knees, pushed him against the wall and stomped on him. This time, guards found a very dirty criminal and ordered him to blow rice soup into Chen Zhanyong's mouth with a metal pipe.
Guards applied the torture known as "Roasting a whole lamb" on Jia Shuangyuan. This is how it works: The police tied the practitioner's four limbs tightly onto a horizontal pole, thus suspending him, and then punched, kicked, and hit the practitioner with a stick. Before he began practicing Falun Gong, Jia Shuangyuan was arrested and jailed in a forced labor camp because he stole a cow. In the forced labor camp, after we clarified the truth to him, he was amazed by the practitioners' courage and high moral standards. He was beaten unconscious with an electric baton and a metal rod by the 2nd Team leaders Song Naxin, Dong Mao, and the leader Jin Xushan of Group 2. Criminal Wu Zhi carried him back to his cell.
Illustration: "Roasting the whole lamb"
After torturing practitioners and creating such a terrifying environment, guards would force practitioners to read anti-Falun Gong books and write essays. Practitioners are forced to write "understandings" and a guarantee statement. If one refuses to do so, guards would hang him up and beat him with an electric baton and rubber club. They forced those who were compelled to reform to write to their families, and called this "giving abiding love to those practitioners." They forced practitioners to swear, sing and perform calisthenics; the purpose of these things was to destroy the practitioners' will.
Jia Shuangyuan was beaten unconscious twice because he refused to write political essays and because he read the Fa. Guards Song Naxin, Dong Mao and the political head of Group 2, Zhang Qiang, along with six or seven other criminals, beat Jia Shuangyuan with chairs for 1-2 hours. Once Jia Shuangyuan had to lie in bed for two days as a result of the beating.
When torturing Jia Shuangyuan in one room, the head guards, Yan Zhenye and Shi Baolong, even talked to me about "civilized management; the Chinese Communist Party's warm and gentle reformation being like a spring breeze" in another room right across the hallway.
The Xiaolongkou Farm, the Third Forced Labor Camp in Henan Province, is where a widely-known murder took place - within 40 minutes, even before the policemen from out of town who escorted a criminal inmate here had left, the criminal was beaten to death. When talking to me about this "achievement," Yan Zhenye was even proud of it.
After the hunger strike on March 10, 2001, I was transferred to Team 2 from Team 1.
11. The March 21, 2001 Incident ("3-21 Incident")
The most ruthless persecution I experienced in the No. 3 Forced labor Camp in Henan Province was the "3-21 Incident" on March 21, 2001.
In a meeting slandering Falun Gong that was held on March 21, 2001, as soon as a person who turned against Falun Gong said something slanderous, all nineteen of us fellow practitioners spontaneously and at the same time shouted out, "Falun Dafa is good!"
The guards sprang on us, and we were then pulled out of the auditorium. The camp authorities forced Dong Wuyi and other criminal prisoners to beat us until we bled. Three of us lost consciousness. Afterwards, we were "tightened with the police rope" and pulled back to each team's "classroom" for further torture and forced to write "self-examinations." Later on, Feng Shulin, another practitioner whose name we did not know and Chen Zhanyong, who didn't write the essays, had their terms unlawfully extended by a year. The shortest extended term for the nineteen practitioners was three months. I had my term extended for eight months.
One day, under police instruction, the criminal prisoner Dong Wuyi from Team 2 of Group 2 suddenly grabbed my hair and fiercely struck my lower body with his knee. The pain nearly made me faint. After that, I suffered urinary problems for over a month, and for a long time my lower body felt numb and sore.
Right after that, I was tortured with the "tightened rope" torture and pulled to Group 2 office on the third floor. Yao Peng, the political head of Group 2, commanded a criminal prisoner to drag me to Team 1, the "Hitler Group."
After I was dragged up there, they released me from the rope. Then they held a criticizing and denouncing meeting in the classroom. Prisoners were forced to yell a sentence slandering our Master.
Then I was pulled to the "chat room" for "tightening the rope." Because I refused to kneel, guard Zheng Qi commanded prisoners Kang Jingwei, Ba Dong and seven to eight persons to beat me. I suffered kicks to my head and my back, and I felt as if my intestines were punched out. As a result of the beating, I suffered incontinence and my nose was bleeding.
The prisoners tied me up with fellow practitioner Chen Yong. Guard Zheng Qi issued a special order to tie me with both arms crossed behind my back and palms facing each other. The No. 3 Camp invented this torture ("bend over with hands folded at the back"). It hurts even more when someone steps on the legs to force the knees to bend, holding up the chin and setting the back straight. Even though I was stripped of everything but a T-shirt when suffering the "tightened rope," the pain would make me sweat profusely in no time.
Under instructions from Yan Zhenye, the labor camp director, the political head of Group 2 Yao Peng, team leader Xu Jinshan and Education Section leader Shi Baolong, police officer Zheng Qi tried to get me to turn against Falun Gong. When he saw that I was silent, he turned to scold the prisoners of Team 1 and forced them to slap my face. Over a hundred prisoners in a line slapped me and rapped my head. Fellow practitioner Chen Zhanyong came out to protect me without concern for himself and shouted out, "If you want to beat someone, then beat me! Don't beat him!" But Chen Zhanyong's voice was silenced, and he was beaten out of my sight. Then the guards twisted Chen Zhanyong's arms. It hurt so much that he could not help but to cry out. This is how they tried to force me to give in. Facing this, I felt terrible, but I knew from the bottom of my heart, "Falun Dafa is good!" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" How could I give it up!
By noon I was tortured again with the "re-tightened rope," where they loosen the rope for an instant, then tighten it again. This is even more painful, because the arms feel numb when tied for long so that they no longer hurt [the pain comes from the cut-off circulation and then the blood rushing through the veins again]. Then they pushed my head down and yanked my arms up. This torture is known as "flying an airplane."
When I went back to the cell, I was forced to kneel until I agreed to write up the "self-examination." Guard Zheng Qi said with teeth clenched, "If you don't write, the whole class will not be allowed to eat. If you don't cooperate this afternoon, nobody will be allowed to sleep tonight."
This extremely cruel threat was often used on steadfast practitioners. Fellow practitioner Yao Sanzhong, who had been in Group 1 and was tortured to death, had been tortured with the "re-tightened rope" four times back and forth, and his face was beaten and swelled up badly.
12. Distort the persecution; confuse what is seen and heard; disguise the truth and deceive the public
One day, the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp was suddenly placed under martial law. Usually, all prisoners ate their meals on the square. This time, however, food was sent to the workshop or cells. We knew that something happened, but the camp authorities strictly concealed the information. Later we learned that on April 25, 2002, Falun Gong practitioner Li Jian was killed under the persecution.
Since the "reformation rate" resulting from the savage persecution was high, the government declared this camp a "model." Officials who came to visit from all over the country formed a continuous stream. To disguise the labor camp's inside story of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, whenever outsiders came to visit, the camp head and guards would threaten everybody so that nobody would tell the facts, "Whoever dares to tell the truth, we will skin you!" They also used deception to conceal the facts.
The authorities forced us to work usually over 12 hours daily, yet they forced us to state to the outsiders that we only worked for six hours. The task for everybody each day was to weave at least four plaits, yet we were only allowed to say we wove two. We were quite hungry, yet we had to say that we were full. We had to polish 300 pieces of gems, yet were only allowed to say to the outsiders that we were only required to polish 100 pieces. They even made use of some prisoners to deceive the outsiders, saying that no beating was allowed in the forced labor camp. In 2001, when officials from the Bureau of Justice came to inspect the labor camp, the authorities improved our food for three days.
On June 29, 2001, when head of the 610 Office Luo Gan came to a forced labor camp in Shanxi Province to personally orchestrate the persecution of Falun Gong, a deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security came to inspect the No. 3 Labor Camp. The camp authorities were afraid that we would disclose their brutal persecution, so they sent me, along with Chen Zhanyong, Cui Yusheng, Jia Shuayuan, Liu Qingyuan, Yao Sanzhong, Li Yuhan, Bai Hongmin, Ma Luping and other steadfast practitioners by truck to Xiaolongkou Farm, the original location of the Third Forced Labor Camp over ten kilometers away, to pull weeds. This lasted three days. After we returned to the camp, the guards ordered the prisoners to all say the same things and deceive us, telling us that nobody had come for an inspection.
The head of the Bureau of Justice in Henan Province visited the camp several times. Xuchang Television Station staff followed the visitors to videotape the "life-giving spring breeze and rain" in action. Before their visit, the camp authorities prepared everything. They arranged for those from Group 3 who were already forcibly brainwashed and "reformed" to give a joint performance in uniform in classrooms, dining rooms and on the playground. By contrast, they hid us steadfast Falun Gong practitioners or temporarily sent us to other groups.
To deceive the public and distort the bloody persecution, the camp authorities built a garden with people's tax money, hanging high a sign reading "Administer in a Civilized Manner. Rigorously Follow the Law." They implemented an "establish" movement, first to establish a unit "directly under the province," later to establish a unit "directly under the minister." By persecuting Falun Gong, they received political advancement and monetary gain.
The camp was named as one of the "bases for brainwashing and reformation of Falun Gong practitioners" in Henan Province. The Ministry of Justice allocated a special funding of 15 million yuan to persecute Falun Gong, in order to reward their "outstanding achievement." The police held a large gathering to show off their "contributions." They built a four-story pink building, the so-called "Falun Gong Reformation Base" that is used to forcibly brainwash practitioners.
Mr. Xia Diankun was in his 30s and a Falun Gong practitioner in Tonghua City, Jilin Province. He was sent to Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, where he was tortured. During his time there, Mr. Xia contracted tuberculosis. He was released from the camp in August 2004 and died of tuberculosis in mid-July 2005.
Mr. Lin Qiuyun, was a practitioner in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. During the past several years of persecution, he lived a very difficult life and had to move from place to place to avoid being repeatedly arrested. The persecution affected him mentally and physically. Mr. Lin died on May 27, 2005, leaving his wife and three-year-old son.
Mr. Xu Guoqing was around 74 years old, a practitioner in Yuanqi Village, Gelan Town, Changshou County, Chongqing City. He started practicing Falun Gong in December 1998. Prior to that he had lung and heart diseases for over six years and endured lengthy hospitalizations to sustain his life. In less than a month after Mr. Xu started practicing Falun Gong, his sicknesses were healed. He did heavy farm labor in the first half of 1999 but died on July 23, 1999, after hearing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda defaming Falun Gong on the news on July 22, 1999.
Ms. Zhou Cuihua was 60 years old and a practitioner in Nanxiaozhuang Village, Dingxing County, Hebei Province. After she began to practice Falun Gong in 1998, all her sicknesses disappeared. She went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000 and was twice arrested and taken back for detention in the township government office. Ms. Zhou was beaten in the government office and had 5,000 five thousand yuan extorted from her. She was then harassed repeatedly after her release. Ms. Zhou Cuihua died on January 8, 2004.
Ms. Han Xiufang was 64 years old, a practitioner in Nanxiaozhuang
Village,
Dingxing County, Hebei Province. She obtained Falun Gong in 1999 and
practiced
the exercises in public after July 20, 1999 when the persecution
started. Ms.
Han was detained in the township government office and had 500 yuan
extorted
from her. She was harassed many times after her release. Ms. Han
Xiufang died on
February 9, 2004.
1. [Putuo District, Shanghai] Wang Yu Illegally Jailed at Huangpu District Detention Center
Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yu lived in Putuo District, Shanghai City. Police from Huangpu District arrested Mr. Wang on his way to work on the morning of July 11, 2005. Policemen also illegally searched Wang Yu's home without a warrant. Mr. Wang is currently held in Huangpu District Detention Center.
2. [Hengshan District. Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Tan Zhifang ArrestedOn the afternoon of July 22, 2005, Ms. Tan Zhifang was reported to the police for giving out truth-clarification materials near a water reservoir. Two officers from the Shenli Police Substation arrested her and sent her to the Hengshan Public Security Bureau. Officer Sun Mengshan and several others sent Ms. Tan Zhifang to the Jixi No. 2 Detention Center.
3. [Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province] Mr. Zhang Liuyan Illegally Sentenced to Three Years in PrisonPractitioner Mr. Zhang Liuyan, 64, is a retiree of the Yaodu District Electricity Bureau in Linfen City, Shanxi Province. On April 9, 2004 Mr. Zhang clarified the facts to farmers in Xiangfeng County, and he was reported to the Zhangli Village Police Substation. The police held Mr. Zhang in the detention center for nine months. Officers involved in persecuting Mr. Zhang include Cai Jishan from the Political and Security Section. Mr. Zhang was later sentenced to three years in prison. In early January 2005, Mr. Wang was transferred to the Shanxi Province Jizhong (Qi County) Jail. He has been tortured there since then.
4. [Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Mr. Li Chenghua ArrestedMr. Li Chenghua was arrested for passing out truth-clarification materials in Fengnan District, Tangshan City. He is now detained in the Xugezhuang Police Substation in Fengnan District.
5. [Niuxibu Town, Laixi City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Junling Sentenced to One Year in a Labor CampAround 9 p.m. on May 11, 2005, Ms. Liu Junling was reported to the police for hanging up Falun Gong banners. She was taken from her home to the Niuxibu Town Police Substation. The police searched her home without a warrant.
On the following afternoon, Ms. Liu was transferred to the Laixi Detention Center. She was held there for two weeks. Before Ms. Liu's husband picked her up, the Public Security Bureau and the 610 Office sentenced her to one year in the Zibo No. 2 Women's Labor Camp on May 27, 2005.
6. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Mr. Ren Xichang ArrestedMr. Ren Xichang was arrested by the Dongzhan Police Substation in Er'dao District for posting his withdrawal from the Chinese Communist Party and its related organizations around 11 p.m. on July 17, 2005.
7. [Huaibin City, Henan Province] Mr. Liu Xueyou and Other Practitioners Are Still DetainedFrom February 2005 to March 2005, over 20 practitioners in Huaibin County were illegally arrested by Du Fuchi, leader of the National Security Team. As of July 2005, nine practitioners are still illegally detained. These include Mr. Liu Xueyou, Mr. Zhang Yuanliang, Mr. Ren Yuanshen, Ms. Wang Lichang, Ms. Jian Jiazhen, Ms. Li Guilan, Ms. Ge Qinglian, Ms. Xie Xiulian, and Ms. Zhu Xuezhi. Ms. Li and Ms. Xie were interrogated by the police for over seven days without sleep. Mr. Zhang's car, a 2000 Santana, was illegally confiscated.
The main telephone number of the Public Security Bureau: 86-397-7798014
Ask for the Political and Security Section, the Office for the Head of the Public Security Bureau and the Detention Center.
The Judiciary Bureau: 86-397-7787001, 86-397-7799296
The head of the Judiciary Bureau: 86-13937666567 (Cell), 86-397-7723188 (Office), 86-13937666616 (Cell)
8. [Suining City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Duan Qunying Was Arrested and Sent to a Brainwashing ClassNews from Suining, Sichuan Province reports that around 1 p.m. on July 14, 2005, dozens of police broke into Ms. Duan Qunying's home. Ms. Duan was asleep when the police dragged her out of bed.
9. [Tianjin City] Ms. Sun Jingyan ArrestedMs. Sun Jingyan, a teacher at Zhaogezhuang Primary School in Baodi District, Tianjin City, was arrested for clarifying the facts to students.
10. [Xining City, Qinghai Province] Ms. Wang Yuzhi Again ArrestedOn July 9, 2005, Ms. Wang Yuzhi was once again arrested for practicing Falun Gong.
11. [Lushuihe, Wusong County, Baishan City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yang Zhonghong Illegally Sentenced to Forced LaborMs. Yang Zhonghong was sentenced to one year in labor camp. She has been tortured in the Changchun Women's Labor Camp since the Lushuihe Dongshan Police arrested her on May 8, 2005.
Relevant telephone numbers:
Directors of the Dongshan Police Substation:
Tang Longping: 86-439-6365338 (Office), 86-439-8944988 (PDA)
Yang Xiaoqiu: 86-439-6371229 (Home), 86-439-8945229 (PDA)
Li Zhenfeng: 86-439-6362637 (Home), 86-439-8963921 (PDA)
Zhang Fuwei: 86-439-6362252 (Home), 86-13159799225 (Cell)
12. [Leshan City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Li Ronglai and Other Practitioners ArrestedMr. Li Ronglai, Mr. Wei Lang, and other practitioners were arrested in late June 2005. They have been persecuted in the Shawan District Detention Center in Leshan City.
13. [Henyang City, Hunan Province] Ms. Li Caifeng Illegally Sentenced to Forced LaborIn late April 2005, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, Hengyang County 610 Office and the National Security Team arrested Ms. Li Caifeng. On May 4 on the lunar calendar, Ms. Li was sentenced to one year of forced labor at Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City.
14. [Chang'an Town, Donggang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Pan Baoyan Has Been Jailed for Nearly Three MonthsMs. Pan Baoyan was arrested by the Chang'an Police Substation on May 10, 2005. She has been persecuted in Donggang City Detention Center for almost three months. Police has not set a release date for Ms. Pan.
15. [Tongnan County, Chongqing City] Ms. Zhang Hua ArrestedMs. Zhang Hua was arrested on July 21, 2005 by six or seven policemen. Her handbag and phone book were confiscated.
16. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yang Guoshan and Ms. Lili Illegally DetainedOn June 30, 2005, Ms. Yang Guoshan and Ms. Lili from Yantai were arrested from Yantai College by Laishan District 610 Office. Ms. Yang is being persecuted in the Zhifu District Detention Center, and Ms. Lili in the Fushan District Detention Center.
1. Hengtai County Police Arrest Shengli Oil Plant Practitioners
Police from Hengtai County, Zibo City of Shandong Province, went to Shengli Oil Plant and arrested many practitioners, including Zhang Aiquan, Wang Mingyun, Yu Desheng, Yang Jianjun, Zheng Ruihuan, Liu Yulan and others. They also ransacked the practitioners' homes. Zhang Aiquan, Wang Mingyun and Yu Desheng were brutally persecuted by police from Hengtai County Police Department. Zhang Aiquan's daughter and Yu Desheng's wife went several times to visit them, but were refused.
A Chinese version of this news article is available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/7/16/106257.html
2. The Persecution of Practitioners at Suihua Labor CampSince Suihua Labor Camp was designated a base to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in 2000, it received a large amount of funding from higher government agencies. In 2002, it built a costly 4-story building for Group 2--the group that exclusively persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. The new building appears as a luxurious hotel, but is, in fact, a place for torture and brutal persecution. Three stories are used to illegally detain Falun Gong practitioners. The first floor is the enforcing squadron that exclusively detains practitioners that refuse to give up Falun Gong. The second and third floors are used to detain practitioners that yielded under the pressure, or those they think will possibly "transform", as well as collaborators. Before 2003, the majority of the practitioners detained there were from the Farming Bureau, Forestation Bureau, and coalmines. Since 2003, determined practitioners from Mudanjiang, Fuyu, Jixi and some other areas were also detained and persecuted there.
The following people in Suihua Labor Camp are notorious for their cruelty:
Yang Bo, Political Instructor of Group 2
Gao Zonghai,
Deputy Political Instructor of Group 2
Fan Xiaodong,
Deputy Leader of Group 2
Zeng Lingjun, Leader of Squadron 1, Group 2
Chen Xinlong, Leader of Squadron 3, Group 2
Liu Wei,
Deputy Leader of Squadron 2, Group 2
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/7/16/106292.html
Summary of Other Articles and News - July 29, 2005
1. Ms. Yu Wanlan Sentenced to Three Years in Prison, Her Relatives in Taiwan and the U.S. Are Worried
Ms. Yu Wanlan is a teacher employed by the Institute of Humanities at Central China Normal University. She was arrested in October 2004 while passing out "truth-clarifying" materials in Beijing. Ms. Yu was detained in the Haidian District Detention Center for more than eight months and then sentenced to three years in prison by the Haidian District Middle Court on June 2, 2005. Ms. Yu and her family have appealed her sentence. She has only one functioning kidney, and her family is very concerned about her health inside the prison. Ms. Yu's grandfather was a CPR Hubei Province Army General before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power. Her uncle Zou Dinghua is now a high-ranking official in Taiwan, who has written a letter expressing his concern for Yu Wanlan's well-being.
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/7/29/107253.html
2. Members of Several Families Sentenced to Forced Labor
On March 24, 2005, practitioners Mr. Xu Zhongrang, Mr. Li Rongtang, Mr. Tian Shiwu, and Ms. Li Yuxia (Mr. Li Rongtang's daughter), all from Xinglonggang Town, Fujin City, Heilongjiang Province, were reported and arrested while passing out truth-clarifying material in Yongqing Village, Jinshan Town. The CCP Fujin City Political and Judiciary Committee, the 610 Office, and the police had Mr. Xu Zhongrang and Mr. Li Rongtang sentenced to six years in prison and Mr. Tian Shiwu and Ms. Li Yuxia sentenced to three years in prison. Mr. Xu Zhongrang's wife Liu Hailan was released in February 2005 after serving two terms of forced labor for clarifying the truth to people. Mr. Xu's daughter Xu Zhuo has been sentenced to two years of forced labor. Mr. Xu Zhongrang himself has been detained once and sentenced to forced labor for two years. Mr. Li Rongtang's wife Wang Changfen simply told people about how Falun Gong completely eliminated her sicknesses, and she was subsequently sentenced to forced labor for two years. Mr. Li Rongtang has been detained once, has paid out more than 10,000 yuan extortion fees, and has served two terms of forced labor, the second time lasting three years. Other practitioners detained in Fujin City are: Ms. Wang Xiuyun, Mr. Li Shaotie, Ms. Qi Lizhen, Ms. Liu Hong, Mr. Liu Zhimin, and Mr. Zhao Qingxiang.
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