Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Ms. Liu Shuping's term at the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin has been extended four times. January 1, 2006, was her release date after the second extension of six months. By then, she had been detained at the labor camp for five and a half years. When her family members arrived in the labor camp after traveling 200 li (approximately 60 miles), the staff at the detention center said that her term had been extended for another four months. Now it's been far longer than four months, yet Ms. Liu is still detained at the labor camp.

Ms. Liu Shuping, 50, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wuqing County, Tianjin Province. After practicing Falun Gong, in addition to regaining her physical health, she felt her mind had elevated, too. She had not acted against the government or caused any harm to society or any individual. She was only persistent in practicing Falun Gong and being a moral person following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. She was arrested in early 2001 and illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor.

While detained in the First Team of the Banqiao Women's Labor Camp in Tianjin, Ms. Liu was both mentally and physically tortured. Due to her unwillingness to give up the practice or promise to quit the practice, the guards at the labor camp put her in a dark room with some drug addicts and prostitutes. They stripped her and brutally beat her. She was forced to "sit on the plane" [a torture that makes a person bend in the shape of an airplane]. Seeing that she was still unwilling to give up, they began beating her during the day and keeping her awake at night. Two convicted drug addict inmates or prostitutes took turns to watch her to keep her from sleeping. As soon as she closed her eyes, they would shout, push her, or make loud sounds so that she could not sleep. she went on a hunger strike to protest this torture. The guards then tortured her by force-feeding her.

After several months of hunger strikes and force-feeding, Ms. Liu's body and mind were both greatly harmed. She displayed symptoms of mental disorientation and could not recognize people. She often screamed out of fear and was not even aware when she soiled herself. After their extreme torture caused her to become this way, the guards turned the facts around and said that she "went crazy" because she practiced Falun Gong. Even when she was tortured to extreme weakness, the guards still sent her to the "miscellaneous cases group" and forced her to do physical labor with younger convicts, including drug criminals, prostitutes, and thieves. Despite her age and her small stature of less than five feet, she had to carry sacks of beans that weighed 100-120 jin (approximately 110 to 132 pounds) each.

Two six-month extensions were added to her term at the labor camp. At the end of the second extension, the guards prohibited her from sleeping for weeks at a time. Seeing that she still would not cooperate, at the beginning of 2003, the guards sent her away with the agency that first sent her to the labor camp. They put her in a local detention center. She was again sentenced to three years of forced labor. In less than two weeks, she was sent back to the First Team of the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin.

Ms. Liu Shuping is still detained at the Banqiao Women's Labor Camp and continues to be tortured and harmed. We hereby strongly urge the Chinese government to release all Falun practitioners illegally detained at various prisons, labor camps, mental hospitals, brainwashing centers, and detention centers.

Since 2000, thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been detained at Langfang Brainwashing Center in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Over the past few years, Han Zhiguang, the Director of the Langfang 610 Office, has actively taken part in the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. He incited Zhao Lihua to make use of collaborators Li Shuxiang, former section leader of the Langfang Foreign Trade; Guo Ling; Zhang Jing; and others from the Property Administrative Office of the Petroleum Pipeline Bureau to hold several brainwashing sessions. At various times these sessions were held at "Yuecheng Guest House," "No. 2 Hostel" in the Anci District, "Leyuan Guest House," and "Jiaotong Guest House." Now the brainwashing center is part of the detention center. The center is commonly known to the public as the "Legal System Education Class," but in essence it is one of the most notorious places for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

Over the last six years, several thousand practitioners have been sent to the brainwashing center to undergo a process of so-called "transformation," the purpose of which is to force the practitioners to renounce Falun Gong or to give up their belief in the  practice. Those detained at the brainwashing center had their freedom restricted and were forced to listen to lectures of false reasoning and slander. The practitioners were verbally abused, forced to stand still for long periods of time, and deprived of sleep. Steadfast practitioners were threatened with being sent to a forced labor camp where the persecution against them would be escalated.

The guards at the brainwashing center brutally beat the practitioners, swore at them, and flicked their eyeballs to deprive them of sleep. The brainwashing center used nerve damaging injections as well as force-fed those practitioners who went on hunger strikes to protest the inhuman persecution. The guards also put drugs in the food and water as well as in what they used in force-feeding. Small doses usually can make people become mentally incapacitated without their being aware of it and large doses can make people suffer even more. The victims get dizzy, suffer from headaches, and become mentally disordered. In serious cases, practitioners for a time lost their memory, developed a stiff tongue, had an empty mind, and suffered from extreme headaches and lethargy or sleeplessness. In all cases, the victims suffered severely from constant, lingering pain. Some were even sent to the hospital for emergency treatment and some even suffered a complete mental breakdown.

The brainwashing center of the Langfang 610 Office carried out all these evil deeds behind closed doors. The entire staff, from Han Zhiguang, the head of the 610 Office; Zhao Lihua, a section head; Chen Bin; and others, to the collaborators headed by Zhang Jinxin, Jia Shanlin, and Guo Lin, were all very hypocritical. When you first arrived at the brainwashing center they would express extreme "concern" over you and inquire amiably about your welfare. All these expressions served only one purpose, that is, to "transform" you so that you would give up your belief in the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." If you refused to renounce Falun Gong, they would begin to exert pressure, step by step, and try to persecute you mentally. As a result some practitioners suffered a mental collapse. All those who have been held at a brainwashing center experienced pain and inhuman torture beyond the imagination of everyday people. One practitioner said, "Inside the brainwashing center the days dragged on like years. The mental pressure we suffered was beyond human endurance. I would often wake up with a start and be in a constant state of anxiety. As a result I was not always in my right mind. The depraved officials and the collaborators all acted like they did me favors, but actually they were sugar-coated bullets. They would begin with hypocritical lies and then they would resort to threats and intimidations as well as make ironic remarks. They would also adopt the trick of fighting a protracted 'war' so we would feel tremendous mental pressure every minute. They would use whatever tricks they could in order to make us renounce Falun Gong."

Another practitioner said, "In the brainwashing center, a woman with the surname of Zhao forced me to stand for a long time as punishment, verbally abused me, and intimidated me. Every day she came with thugs to force me to write the 'Five Statements' [similar to the Three Statements]. They also wanted me to write the statements in their words. If I did not obey, they beat me up. They forced me to write the statement again and again until it was in line with what they wanted. I witnessed their staged acts. Every time an official came from above to inspect the center, they informed me in advance and told me to cooperate with them. Otherwise I would be punished or be threatened with a forced labor or prison sentence." This is their true, evil nature behind their hypocritical tactics!

In the beginning of 2006, the authorities illegally arrested Ms. Mi Xiaozheng, a practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, and took her to Langfang Brainwashing Center. Previously, she had been held at the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center. However, she refused to compromise during the eight months of brutal detention. At their wits' end, the Hebei Provincial 610 Office transferred Ms. Mi to Langfang City Brainwashing Center in an attempt to make her compromise under the influence of their hypocrisy.

Every crime at the brainwashing center was committed under the direct orders of Han Zhiguang and Zhao Lihua. As a matter of fact, the crimes committed by the 610 Offices in all cities and counties under the jurisdiction of Langfang City were all directly or indirectly related to these two evildoers.

Han Zhiguang has been the Head of the Langfang City 610 Office since July 20, 1999. He repeatedly incited his subordinates to commit crimes. To deceive the practitioners into cooperating, however, he always put himself forward as a kindhearted person. He sent numerous practitioners to forced labor camps. He was cited for his so-called "merit" in persecuting Falun Gong. He is known to have used a particularly vile form of persecution: those who had been coerced into renouncing Falun Gong would be released only when they had betrayed two fellow practitioners.

Since July 20, 1999, Han Zhiguang and Zhao Lihua have been repeatedly promoted for their efforts in persecuting Falun Gong. They have also received ill-gotten wealth from persecuting Falun Gong. For every practitioner they deceived into renouncing or forced to renounce Falun Gong, they have received a few thousand to ten thousand yuan. In addition, each detainee's workplace has also paid several thousand to ten thousand yuan. Over the past few years, since several thousand practitioners have been detained at the brainwashing center, these two have become very rich. Now they own several houses each.

They are continuing to persecute Falun Gong simply because they are after the money. Obsession with money has made them lose their conscience. As a result, many practitioners have been sentenced to imprisonment or forced labor, some have had their families broken up, and many have been forced to leave home and become homeless in order to avoid being arrested and persecuted. Now the practitioners in the brainwashing center are suffering from the same persecution. I hope that the local people in Langfang and the kindhearted Falun Gong practitioners can see their true, evil nature. Do not be tricked and do not be deceived by their hypocrisies.

Langfang 610 Office, Hebei Province: 86-316-2015211 extension 6162
Han Zhiguan, the major persecutor
Chen Bing, staff member: 86-13832626689
Li Shuxiang, collaborator: 86-316-2082297 (home phone)

On November 25, 2006, Shao Ligui, Zhang Chuanzhu and Wang Yuzhen (Falun Gong practitioners from Fusong County, Jilin Province), remaining steadfast with their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," exposed the lies spread by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), clarified the truth about Falun Gong, and asked people to quit the CCP at Jinshan Forestry Farm of Linjiang Forestry Public Security Bureau. They were, however, reported on by Hu Laidong and arrested by several policemen from both Lijiang Forestry Public Security Bureau and Jinshan Forestry Local Police Station. They are currently detained at the Linjiang Forestry Bureau Detention Center.

It is said that this event shocked the Jilin Provincial Government, the CCP Central Committee, and the State Council. The CCP saw it as an important political incident. The CCP Commission for Disciplinary Inspection appointed some special personnel to go to Fusong to investigate the matter.

So why did the CCP pay so much attention to what may seem like a small matter? It is because the magnificent trend of quitting the CCP has shown the CCP the arrival of its collapse.

Shao Ligui is a former chief of police from the Fusong County Traffic Police Division. In his work, he strictly required himself to follow "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." He never took any bribes, was very responsible, and treated people with kindness. He was a really good policeman. Being the chief of police, he helped people quit the CCP.

The CCP has started to persecute Shao's family members. As a result, Shao Ligui's married daughter was expelled from the police department where she had been working. His son was a junior in a police academy, but he was pressured into leaving the school. In addition, the CCP demanded the Fusong County government to do a "self-check." The Police Department, Water and Electricity Bureau, etc. also had to perform "self-checks." The bonus pay for the entire police department was canceled. All of the salary increase applications were also stopped. All of the associated organizations were asked to pay attention to so-called "protection and control."

The CCP regime confiscated Shao's family property. In addition, it has been "ordered" that Shao is to be sentenced to a jail term. Currently, Shao is being treated as a "model" and is suffering from persecution. His wife has been forced to leave home and become destitute. The Baishan City 610 Office and the Baishan City Police Department are directly involved in the persecution. They are planning to carry out a campaign to "criticize and arrest" practitioners.