[Beijing] Office of Letters and Call is now a "trap"
It's said recently that letters of petition from Falun Gong practitioners are being accepted in government's Office of Letters and Calls. Several practitioners from a certain city went to Beijing to appeal. The Office of Letters and Calls indeed "allowed" the petition of Falun Gong practitioners. Staff in the office were very hospitable, and their attitude was extremely "polite." They carefully guided you to fill in this and that, especially one's name and address (those who refuse to fill in these two items were put into custody right away). After practitioners had filled out the forms, they were immediately sent to liaison offices in Beijing of their respective regions. According to internal sources, petition letters are not submitted to higher level organizations at all. They are directly forwarded back to where the practitioners have come from.
[Mudanjiang (City)] Absolutely illegal: monitoring lens is placed inside a bedroom
A practitioner in Mudanjiang had been considered a backbone member of Falun Gong. In October police installed wireless monitoring camcorder in her bedroom to put her under surveillance around the clock. Her normal family life has been seriously encroached upon.
As of November 6, over 600 Dafa practitioners in Mudanjiang have been illegally detained. Although the police have sealed off all channels of information and banned any visiting of family members, reports that practitioners were beaten and tortured have come out continuously from labor re-education camps. It won't be long before the brutal acts of police are exposed to the world.
[Yantai (City)] Mental Rehabilitation Center of Yantai persecutes Falun Gong practitioners
Details as follows
Wang Kelun, an employee of Yantai Harbor Administration Department, went to Beijing to petition on July 1. The police substation of the harbor detained him for 15 days on charges that he propagated "feudalistic superstitions to disturb social security." It was because he refused to sign his name when he was released on the 16th. His work unit held him up for another week without allowing him to see family members. Wang hence went on a hunger strike. The next day his work unit sent Wang Kelun and two other Dafa practitioners to the harbor hostel for "study sessions" to carry out detainment under false pretenses. When he was released on July 23, he was forced to go off duty with his salary suspended, and to be transferred to a different work unit to transform his thoughts. What this really did was to put him under monitored labor. He was only given minimal living expenses, and was expelled from the Party. August 11 this year, Xixia Mental Rehabilitation Center told Wang Kelun's father, "The Harbor Office will soon arrest your son." His father took it as true, and called on Wang Kelun to come back to his hometown Xixia. The rehabilitation center carried him to the hospital with an emergency medical vehicle, and treated him as one of the mentally ill. In hospital, doctors and nurses six in all held him down by force for injections, force feedings of drugs, and threats. Wang lost energy all over his body, has been in a trance, and has been unable to sleep at night. His arms and legs were cramped for over two months. At the same time the hospital sealed off information. Wang Kelun was not allowed to meet anyone from outside, nor were telephone calls allowed. When relevant personnel from the harbor went there to gather information, Wang was not allowed to meet them.
So far, the Harbor Administration Department quietly permitted this act of wile and abduction by ignoring it. This practitioner is in immediate danger.
A teacher (whose name is unknown) of the Center Primary School of Zangjiazhuang (Town) in Xixia (City) had her salary suspended and was put under detention since July 20 last year. She was tortured this year. Below is the teacher's verbal account of the encounter.
On March 7, 2000, Two teachers and I were sent to a mental hospital. I said, "I am not mentally ill at all, please let me go!" One doctor said, if we set you free, we will be sent to the detention center." In the end, the president of the hospital said, "We are a hospital owned by the Party, and thus have to listen to the government. If you insist on practicing Falun Gong, you have the mental illness of being stubborn!" After that, I was tied up, force-fed drugs, injected, and infused with fluids.... The drugs caused me to feel nauseous when I was sitting or lying down, with the entire body weakened, arms and legs trembling, and bones softened.... One month later, two officers of the city's public security bureau asked me to attack Dafa and defame the Teacher on TV, and I answered, "No way!" They then said, "Then don't even think about getting out. Just stay here forever!" On the 100th day, my family tried hard to bail me out. In the same hospital, a practitioner of the last name Yan (male, over 50 year old) and a practitioner of the last name Lu (female, 25 year old) have also been inhumanely treated.
[Wendeng (City)] Police of Wendeng locks practitioners through cheating
Various branch bureaus in the city and substations in towns and villages of Wendeng Public Security Bureau lied to Dafa practitioners from September 28 to October 9 by claiming the bureau chief or the substation head wanted to gather information, and then charged them with the crime of "disrupting social security and order" and put them under a 15 day detention. So far over 20 people had been detained. The whole city had mobilized over 2000 plainclothesmen. Among all Dafa practitioners whose names were registered, not a single one was omitted. If the practitioner refused to go, he or she would be taken away by force. A meeting was convened on the evening of October 9 after the campaign. In the meeting, secretary Wang Qiang fiercely said, "Even if 3000 people were arrested by mistake, not a single one could be left out!" He then said, "As long as he goes to Beijing, his tendon has to be cut, so he can never walk." Details are as follows.
Case I: Xu Yingguang, female, 44 year old, employee of Wendeng Department Store (who has been off duty). 9:00 PM October 7, four police climbed over the wall to enter the yard of Xu's mother's house. Since the door wasn't opened for them, they waited the whole night and didn't leave till 4:00 AM. As Xu Guangying was not willing to go to the police team's office, staff from the branch bureau broke into Xu's mother's home a second time. They didn't leave until after the inquiry of Xu's family members, "Why do you break into a civilians house on your own? Why do you want to take people away, and on what legal ground?" The next day, Xu's husband wasn't allowed to go to work. The approach was: Whoever practices Falun Gong, No family member is allowed to go work.
Case II: Zhan Shuying, female, 55 year old, retired cadre from Wendeng Factory of Farming Tools. Seven people lifted her into a vehicle and took her into a detention at the branch bureau in the city. Then two section chiefs of last names Li and Cong interrogated her in an office on the second floor for over two hours. She was then sent to a detention center. During this period she was beaten with a 3-foot long pricked club cut from a Chinese scholar-tree. During the detention, she didn't read whatever the authorities took down as notes, nor did she sign her signature.
Case III: Li Xufen, female, 35 year old, resident of Daishan (Town) of Wendeng. When she was selling goods at a sales booth on the morning of September 28, she was lied to by Leshang police substation and told to go to the substation and was put under detention for 15 days. Two days before her release, she was sent to a detention center, and it was said she had to stay there for at least one month.
Case IV: Shi Yongling, female, 33 year old, university graduate, who works at Wendeng orchard station. Because of her petition in Beijing, police from Kouzi substation went to her parents' home and detained her after dinner on 29th for 15 days. Afterwards she was sent to detention center together with Li Xufen.
[Beijing] Clever Method to Validate Dafa
One practitioner wrote "Falun Dafa is Good" on his shirt, then put on a coat. After arriving at Tiananmen Square, the practitioner took off the coat and showed the words on shirt to the tourists. After the policemen noticed that, they began to chase the practitioner. But the practitioner escaped after leading the policemen running in circles. The tourists at the site laughed.
[Laiyang (City), Shandong (Province)] Party Secretary of Bookstore Prosecutes Practitioner
Ning Shuzhi, an employee of a bookstore in Laiyang, was sent to Laiyang Mental Hospital by the party secretary of the bookstore, Cui Jixing and Ning's family members because she went to Beijing to appeal. After being fined 1000 Yuan (about US$120), she was released.
But after she was released, the general manager, Liu Wentian, and the party secretary, Cui, as well as the director of security section of the bookstore went to her home to put her under restraint. They handcuffed her and locked her with a 10 feet steel chain and three locks, through which Ning was attached to a truck tire. She had been restrained like this day and night, even during her sleep. She had been kept locked until she wrote a "guarantee statement" on May 14, 2000.
Two weeks later, in order to appeal about her experiences she went to Beijing again. She was arrested and sent to the liaison office in Beijing (Hongkou Hotel), where the party secretary Cui beat her with a pair of steel handcuffs. Her face was cut and she bled.. He then beat her with a beer bottle. Ning's arms were cut by the sharp glass edges when she raised er harms to protect her head. Some policemen in the office felt it was too harsh and stopped Cui.
After Ning was brought back to her hometown, she was attached to the truck tire with steel chains again. Ning went on a hunger strike to protest the brutal treatment. One week later, she was unlocked after the leader of the district police department started to investigate this matter.
[Yantai, Shandong] Zifu District of Yantai Prosecutes practitioners
In Zifu district, Yantai, the first section of the police department was responsible for prosecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Since last July they have sent many practitioners in Zifu district to labor camps. Some practitioners are: Zhang Xiaoqiang, Ma Shengchun, Liu Fang, Tang Yumin, Wu Shiquan, Zhao Wei, Xu Yuying, Duan Xin etc. They also used many illegal methods to suppress innocent Falun Gong practitioners such as: taping phone calls, monitoring residences, spreading false messages, physical abuse, fining, confiscating houses, threatening, cheating etc.
[North China] Dafa Banners Hung in Streets
On the morning of November 13, 2000, more than ten banners, saying such things as "Falun Dafa is Good" and "The Fa is Vadilating the Human World," were hung over streets in a city of north China.
At about 7:30 am, I heard some people riding on bikes saying: "Hurry up, look at the Falun Gong banners." I turned back and saw the yellow banners with red words, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" and "The Law Rectifies the Cosmos." It was very impressive. Although the police took the banners away, people were still discussing the merits of Falun Dafa during the week.
[South China] Practitioners Welcome Special Agent with Dafa Banners
According to insiders' information, the Ministry of Public Security was going to send special agents to a big city in south China to monitor the local suppression process so as to strengthen the prosecution of Falun Gong practitioners. To show their attitude toward the Dafa, on the night of November 10, 2000, many practitioners painted on a lot of walls and poles with "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," "Falun Dafa is Good," "Return a Clear Name to Falun Gong" and "Stop Prosecuting Falun Gong" etc.
[Mudanjiang, Harbin] Mayor Orders Police to Torture Practitioners
According to a reliable source, since the police were unable to transform nearly 500 detained Falun Gong practitioners, the mayor of Mudanjiang, Zhang Qiuyang, held a police meeting on October 24th. Zhang criticized the police department on their efficiency and strength of interrogation. He ordered them to use the methods for anti-revolutionaries and criminals to treat Falun Gong practitioners. If it still doesn't work, he then asked, "Don't you have hands? ... We must let them speak out (give up practicing Falun Gong)." He was flagrantly instigating policemen to break the law.
They shall know that the final judgment is waiting for them, and they will have to pay back for all the evil and illegal things they have done. The law of the universe will judge everything.
[Laiyan (City), Shandong (Province)] Practitioners Sent to Mental Hospital
Falun Gong practitioner Hu Yan from Laiyang was detained in Laiyang Detention Center again. Since the fact that the government deprived her of income until she was penniless was exposed to the public, the town government was so angry that the director of Tangezhuang police station, Xu Xishou, transferred her to Yantai Psychiatric Recovery Center (Laiyang Mental Hospital) to intensify her persecution.
Another Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Ping from Jiangdong Village, Jiangdong Town was also sent to the mental hospital by the authorities.
[Zhangzhou (City), Fujian (Province)] Dafa Assistant Detained in Labor Camp
Chen Meifeng, the Falun Gong assistant of Zhangzhou Assistance Center was detained in Zhangzhou First Detention Center, Cell #3-7. Another eight female practitioners have been detained in a labor camp in Fuzhou for one year without any trial.
Liu Wei (vice director) and Li Ruijin, from first section of Lucheng District Police Station of Zhangzhou Police Department, instructed some street gangs to spray dirty oil and ink in front of the houses of Falun Gong practitioners and beat the people who dared to argue with them.
[Zhuhai (City), Guangdong (Province)] Police Strengthen Suppressing Falun Gong Practitioners
Police in Zhuhai strengthen their suppression of Falun Gong practitioners. Below is the list of some persecuted Falun Gong practitioners:
Huang Guilan, female, 37
Zhu Yueyan, female, 10, daughter of Huang. They were arrested at home on November 5, 2000.
Li Xiulian, female, 50, was arrested while pasting Falun Gong materials in the street on November 1, 2000. Her home was confiscated.
Chen Cuie, female, above 60, was arrested from her residence and her home was confiscated on November 4, 2000.
Tan Weihua, female, 40, was sentenced to two-year labor education.
Zeng Qing was sentenced to two-year labor education.
Ouyang Jian, female, about 40, was sentenced to imprisonment for 8 years for appealing in Beijing on September 30, 2000.
[Feicheng, Shandong Province] Practitioner Sent to Labor Camp
Zhang Xiuli, a practitioner and worker of Yangzhuang Coal Mine, Feicheng, was taken away by Feicheng Police Department from his home without any reason or legal process on the morning of October 25, 2000. She was sent to Jinan Women Drug Addiction Clinic for two years labor education. Her mother was very sad and angry, so she went to the Police Department for an explanation. But the director hid away because he has no explanations.
On October 25, 2000, Li Kailiang, a practitioner of Xifu Village, was also taken away by Feicheng Pingguoyuan Police Station because he had been to Beijing to appeal last year. He was transferred to Zibo Wangcun labor camp for two years labor education.
[Jinan (City), Shandong Province] Special Authority Established to Suppress Falun Gong
Recently, a special organization of 80 members was established in Jinan to deal with Falun Gong cases. The organization strengthened the suppression of Dafa practitioners by arresting the "back bone" practitioners. On October 25th, many practitioners were arrested and sent to labor camps. Their homes have been confiscated. Some other practitioners were forced to a "Study Class" to be transformed.
[Laiyan (City), Shandong] Town Government Prosecutes Practitioners
Bolinzhuang Town government, Laiyan, have instituted a prosecution against Dafa practitioners since March. Authorities took the practitioners to the town government and forced them to do heavy labor for them. Besides, they forced the practitioners to drink liquor. They forced the practitioners to defame the Dafa and the Teacher. If practitioners refused, they beat the practitioners with wooden sticks, rubber batons, and electric shock batons. Some practitioners lost consciousness. One practitioner was tied to a tree under the burning sun till he was unconsciousness.
They restrained the practitioners for more than 30 days and fined each 1000 to 5000 Yuan (equal to US$120 to US$600, one to five months' salary for an average worker).
[Yunan Province] Bai Nationality Old Lady: Who Can Read Zhuan Falun for Me?
Somewhere in Yunan province, there is an old lady of Bai nationality (an ethnic minority in China). Her daughter and son-in-law are both Falun Dafa practitioners and wanted by the police. They left the hometown so the old lady was at home alone. Another practitioner heard about her and visited her. As soon as the old lady saw the practitioner coming, she said that she had already seen the practitioner in a dream two days before. The practitioner asked her if she was afraid that police might take away her children. She said: "No, I am not afraid. They are all honest persons. If the authority wants to arrest them, then do it. Anyway, nothing in this society is worth living for." The lady can't read or write so she can only listen to the lecture tapes. She was anxious to hear if anyone can read the book "Zhuan Falun" to her.
[Shandong Province] Blocks Passage of Information of Detained Practitioners
In August 2000, Justice Department of Shangdong Province issued an order: for detained Falun Gong practitioners, their relatives (especially those relatives who are also Falun Gong practitioners) are not allowed to visit them; hand delivery of clothes or any other personal items is forbidden. They may be sent only through the post office; making phone calls and writing letters are also prohibited.
The government was attempting to block all passage of information about detained Falun practitioners. Because of studying the Fa and practicing Falun Gong, some practitioners were placed in confinement without being provided with vegetable dishes. The meal for them each day was only a very small quantity of steamed buns. In Team No. 10, "capable" guards from other detention centers were pooled together to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners. One guard beat a practitioner to the floor with a high-voltage electric baton because he thought the practitioner did not clean the floor very well. Another practitioner was given an electric shock when he was trying to persuade a guard. Later, all Falun Gong practitioners went on a hunger strike. Two or three days later, they were force-fed corn soup. Detailed information is not known
The environment inside looked "humane." There was a decorated floor, clean windows, desks and chairs. It was said that there was an iron bed with handcuffs and fetters in the confinement room. The leaders of other teams are not allowed to come in and out without special permission. The detailed information inside is unavailable. Iit is not hard to imagine what a dangerous situation those practitioners are in.
Falun Gong Practitioner in Mainland China
Nov. 2000
[Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Current Situation About Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province
Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Zhentou Police Sub-Station:
- Liu Lijiang, male, 30, was illegally detained for 15 days in Shijiazhuang Railroad Police Station after going to Beijing to appeal. Around noon on October 28th, 2000, Liu was spotted on his way to a fellow practitioner's home by a guard who was monitoring Falun Gong practitioners. He was arrested and sent to Zhentou Police Station when he was found carrying stencil papers on which Falun Gong materials were carved. In less than a day, the Zhentou Police Sub-Station sent him to Shijiazhuang No. 2 Detention Center. His home was searched. Police took away his practice music tape, his hand-written "Zhuan Falun," a notebook computer and a printer. Liu is still detained.
- Lu Ziqiang, male, more than 50, retired worker of an electric machinery plant, was arrested at Zhentou Police Sub-Station when he was distributing Dafa materials on the night of October 31, 2000. He is now illegally detained in Xinle Detention Center. Chen Ying, female, more than 40, unemployed, was arrested when she was distributing Dafa materials on the night of October 31, 2000. She is now illegally detained in Xinle Detention Center.
Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Shengli Beidajie Police Station:
- Zhang Jiasheng and Zhu Huilin (pseudo name), senior citizen practitioners, were reported to police by evil people when they were distributing Dafa material in a retired cadre center near their home. In the local police station, police threatened them in order to find the source of the materials. But the two practitioners believed that Falun Dafa is righteous and they were innocent. Because of their steadfastness, the police beat and kicked them, and pulled their hair to slam their heads against the wall. Even more ruthless, they ferociously beat the two senior citizens with an iron stick ... After the beating, police searched Zhu's home. Those evil policemen slapped Zhu's face several times in the broad daylight, which caused a very bad impression on onlookers. The people realized the evil nature of Jiang Zemin and those like him. More and more people sympathize with, understand and support Falun Dafa practitioners. Those two senior citizens are still detained. We appeal for their immediate release and the restoration of their freedom, so that the evil policemen could lessen the crimes they have committed.
- Ma Shuqin, female, more than 60, a people's representative of Qiaodong District, Shijiazhuang; deputy director of the Residency Committee of No. 4 Living Area of Chemical Fertilizer Plant; was arrested without any reason when she was at work. She was dismissed from her duties. She is now detained in the Shijiazhuang No. 1 Detention Center.
- Geng, shuqin, female, 42, worker of Shijiazhuang Chemical Fertilizer Plant, had to leave home when she heard that she would be arrested. Her husband, Men Zhaowen, has been illegally detained in Linshu County Detention Center for almost one year since--January 2000. Nobody is taking care of their son who is just in high school. Jiang Zemin and his evil followers forced people to be separated from spouses and children. That's another crime they committed.
[Wuhan (City), Hubei (Province)] The True Situation of Persecution on Falun Gong Practitioners by Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Since the large-scale suppression on Falun Gong in China on July 1999, the Huanzhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei has closely followed the orders from the central government. If he or she keeps practicing Falun Gong, a student will be suspended or expelled from school; a teacher or a worker will be dismissed from their position. The university used various methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, such as holding "studying classes," locking up practitioners inside the university, deducting salaries, sending practitioners to detention centers, sending them to labor camps, and implicating relatives. Below is a list of some persecuted students, teachers and workers:
- Li Junmin, male, Ph.D. candidate of the Telecommunications Department, was detained by the Police Division of the university because he appealed in Beijing twice. He was suspended from the university for one year. But when the suspension period was over, the university still did not resume his enrollment. Since Li believed in Falun Gong firmly, the university canceled his right to study toward his Ph.D. degree, and ordered him to complete a master's degree thesis within two months and leave the university.
- Wang Xiaoxiang, male, Ph.D. candidate of the Automatic Control Department, was detained many times by the Security Division because he went to Beijing to appeal three times. The university suspended him for one year. He hasn't resumed his studies yet.
- Wang Junzhen, male, graduate student of the Physics Department, was sent to "studying classes" many times by the university because he went to Beijing to appeal four times. He was scheduled to graduate in June 2000. But the university expelled him with the charge of his multiple appeals in Beijing. He was denied both a graduation certificate and a master's degree certificate.
- Liao Chunhua, female, teacher of the university, graduated from the Chemistry Department with a master's degree, was sent to "a studying class" because she went to Beijing to appeal twice. She refused to be "converted" so the university dismissed her from public employment and expelled her from the Communist Party.
- Li Changjun, male, graduated from the Computer Science Department with a master's degree in June 1999. He was arrested by the Security Division on charge of illegal assembly when he was chatting with friends on campus. He was sent to his hometown, Suizhou, Hubei and detained by the Police Department there. His employer, a field-tax bureau in Wuhan, refused to employ him and sent his documents to his hometown.
- Chen Weipeng, Yang Xi, Xiang Xinrong, and Xiang Xinyan, undergraduate students, were sent to "studying classes" and detained for "transformation" after they went Beijing to appeal. They were suspended from study. They won't be allowed to resume their study unless they write "Guarantee Statements." At this time many students are still unable to resume their studies.
- Xu Chunzhi, female, administer in the university logistic store, was detained by the university because she went to Beijing to appeal many times. She went on a hunger strike. But the university sent her to labor camp for two-year labor education. Nobody is taking care of her son, a teenage student.
- Wang Zongxiang, female, administer of the student dormitory, was dismissed by the university because she continued to practice Falun Gong. The students living in the dormitory managed by Wang expressed their opinion to the university leaders in hope that she would not be dismissed. But the university did not consider their opinions and did not even permit Wang's husband (not a practitioner) to work on campus.
- Xiao Zhixiang, male, associate professor of Telecommunications Department, was detained in a detention center owing to his appeal in Beijing. After he came back to the university, the university deducted most of his salary and only gave him basic living expenses. The security division called his home every day to keep track of him.
