Latest News from China - 04/14/2001

[Minghui Net] [Beijing] It Is Said That Jiang Zemin Allocated 500 Million Yuan RMB for Internet Sabotage Against Falun Gong A Computer Science graduate of Harbin Engineering University had arranged to work at Harbin Industrial University, Heilongjiang Province upon graduation, but was suddenly transferred to Beijing to sabotage the Minghui Net website. It is said that Jiang Zemin has ordered a financial allocation of 500 million Yuan RMB [US $60 million] for Internet sabotage, including attacking the Minghui Net website. Currently, the number of unemployed workers in China is increasing and many people are still short of food. Nevertheless, Jiang Zemin and his criminal associates have allegedly allocated such a large sum of money to finance scandalous activities. [China] A 13-Year-Old Girl with a Pure Mind Rejects Actions Against Falun Gong My spouse and I practice Falun Gong. My daughter is not a Falun Gong practitioner. Last month, her school had asked her to sign on a banner against Falun Dafa, threatening to expel her from school if she did not. She refused to sign. Sometime later, the teacher in charge of her class asked her to make defamatory statements against Falun Gong in the class. My daughter refused again. Her action demonstrated the pure golden heart of this 13-year-old girl. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Account of Criminal Offenses at Mudanjiang Railway Station Officials at Mudanjiang Railway Station put the Teacher's photo on the ground at the station entrance, so that passengers will have to step on it to enter. Those who avoid treading on it, and those who pick it up, will immediately be arrested. At the long distance bus terminal, all passengers going to Harbin have to step on the Teacher's photo, or they are not allowed to board; if they refuse they will be taken in for investigation, detainment, or fined. This requirement is still in effect today. [Shenyang City, Liaonin Province] Account of Criminal Offenses of Police Officer Zhang in Masanjia Forced Labor Education Camp Like fascist thugs, the police in Masanjia Forced Labor Education Camp continually torture the illegally detained Falun Dafa practitioners. For example, Falun Dafa practitioner Shi Yingchun (female) insisted on reading Falun Dafa books and practicing Falun Gong exercises. Political Instructor Zhang called her to his office and tried to force her to renounce Falun Gong. When Shi refused, Zhang shocked her face, mouth, palms, the soles of her feet, her waist and some sensitive acupuncture points with an electric baton. He even obscenely shocked her breasts in order to force her to write a guarantee letter to renounce Falun Gong. Shi Yingchun firmly refused again. Officer Zhang then called in three criminal prisoners and instigated them to brutally beat practitioner Shi, resulting in many cuts and bruises all over her body. These thugs beat and shocked her for two hours. However, practitioner Shi recited Falun Dafa in her heart, endured the torture, firmly refusing to write a guarantee letter. These thugs did not admit their failure, but forced her to work until 9:00 or 10:00 PM daily, even with her severe injuries. Additionally, Masanjia Forced Labor Education Camp tried to mislead Falun Dafa practitioners by garbling Falun Dafa articles. Falun Dafa practitioner Lin Xiaoyan (female) seriously cautioned them, "Do not try to mislead Falun Dafa practitioners with your deception. Do not sabotage Falun Dafa" Officer Zhang ordered "reformed" persons to lock practitioner Lin in an especially small cell and have her use the same basin for washing her face as for defecating. These thugs forced practitioner Lin to squat in the same position within a square well, only 30 centimeters [about 12 in] in length and width, that had been set up with porcelain bricks, in order to deprive her of sleep at night. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Detains Falun Dafa Practitioners and Extends Their Terms of Detention Wanjia Forced Labor Camp of Harbin City has detained over 30 Falun Dafa practitioners past their original terms of sentence, and has threatened to not release them unless they write three statements (guarantee letter, repent letter, and statement of renouncing Falun Gong). The camp officials extend the detainment terms of the illegally detained practitioners by various means. The practitioners are not allowed to have baths for long periods of time, and the sanitation condition of the camp is poor. Some of the practitioners have been detained in especially small cells with even worse sanitation conditions. Many Falun Dafa practitioners endure considerable physical hardships. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Police Instigate People to Sell Out Their Conscience by Rewarding 500 Yuan RMB for Reporting a Falun Gong Practitioner One day, a policeman went to a restaurant and told the owner, "If a Falun Gong practitioner comes to you looking for a job, take note of his personal data and description, and report them to the police substation. You will be rewarded 500 Yuan for reporting each Falun Gong practitioner." [China] A Passer-By Asks for Falun Dafa Materials that a Practitioner Is Distributing Once, when a female Falun Dafa practitioner was distributing truth-clarifying materials, an onlooker noticed her and loudly asked, "What's this?" The practitioner was a little nervous at his brashness, and walked away. The man followed her and asked, "Why don't you give me one of the Falun Gong flyers that you are distributing?" The practitioner gave a flyer to him and he left quite satisfied. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Police and Authorities of Office 615 Extort Money from Falun Dafa Practitioners Since last October, police have been extorting a deposit of 5,000 Yuan RMB [Approximately 10-month salary of an average urban worker] from each Mudanjiang Falun Gong practitioner they arrest. The police tell them the deposit will be returned if they do not go to Beijing within one year. Otherwise, it will be confiscated, and an additional Transportation Fee of 2,000 Yuan will be assessed for transporting them from Beijing. Those who have attended the "transformation" or "studying" classes of Office 615 [An office created by the government to deal specifically with issues related to Falun Gong] are required to pay 2,000 Yuan, even if they have never been to Beijing to appeal. A staff member of Office 615 said, "We will pay 500 Yuan to the police for each Falun Gong practitioner intercepted on the train. The money must be collected from Falun Gong practitioners and it may be accounted." However, some expenses are not accountable, such as dinners, gifts and bribes given to policemen and authorities, which are usually valued at an average of between 3,000 to 4,000 Yuan per practitioner. For those practitioners who can't afford the money, the police and Office 615 will make their lives difficult by requiring them to report once every two days, and making them suffer through various other means. Police also extort money by searching those practitioners escorted back from Beijing. Since this money is not accountable, the police are free to spend the takings on dining, drinking, prostitutes, gambling and drugs. Another way money is extorted from practitioners is through an exorbitant cost for bail. The average amount needed to bail out a practitioner is about 13,000 or 14,000 Yuan, with the highest bail reported to be over 17,000 Yuan. [Heilongjiang Province] Leaders of the Provincial Party Education College Persecute a Falun Dafa Practitioner At the end of February, the leaders of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Education College told the practitioner Yin Anbang to attend a meeting but actually deceived him into entering a "Forced Transformation Class" in a drug addiction rehabilitation center. One week later, the leaders in the college found some printed articles from the internet in his office desk. They reported this to the police station, and thus caused Ying to be transferred from the drug rehabilitation center to a detention center. Principal of College, Lu Bing, work phone (86) (451) 6358835, home phone (86) (451) 6358635 Library Director Qiu Bijun, work phone (86) (451) 638205, home phone (86) (451) 635881 [Chengdu, Sichuan Province] Police Harass 80 Year-Old Dafa Practitioner At the end of last year, the police from the Fuqing District police sub-station of Chengdu city broke into Granny Peng's house (Peng Xueqiao, 86 years old, is a retiree of the Chengdu Seamless Steel Pipe Factory) and forced her to hand over her son and all materials related to Falun Gong. (Her son, Fang Guangxiao is a 60-year old practitioner who left home to avoid the brutal persecution and make some money to support the family.) She refused, so the police began to search the house. They found nothing so instead the police confiscated her ID card. In the end, the police left while Granny Peng compassionately spoke to them, "You cannot treat Falun Dafa like this. You cannot treat Falun Dafa practitioners so bad. The result for you is going to be bad." [Jinan, Shandong Province] Names of Criminals Who Illegally Hold "Forced Transformation Classes" at Lixia District, Jinan City The following people listed organized or participated in organizing the "Falun Gong Education and Transformation Class" at Lixia District Jinan City.

• Li Guozhong, the general secretary of the Political and Law Committee
• Liu Xiping, the general secretary of the District Party Committee (who had said, "beat those practitioners until they reform")
• Advisor Liu of the Armory Department
• Chief of the Bureau of Appeals, named Ying
• Wang Shengkui and Chen Fayou who work at the Office of Heping Road
• Gao Zhijun from the Office of Combined Issues Administration
• Zhao Hui, the vice general secretary of the Dongguan Branch Office (who had said, "Suppressing Falun Dafa practitioners is the right thing to do.")
• Zhang Xingxiang of the Combined Issues Administration of Sili Street Office
• Chief Guo from the Office at Wendong, also clerks Xu and Wang Jianli
• General Secretary Liu Xiquan of Dianliu Office
• Policeman Xu Lei of the Yaojia Police Station
• Supervisor Wang Zhigang of the police station at Keyuan Road, with a total 16 persons involved

The so-called "studying class" was held in a hotel in the Shandong Competitive Sports School about 3,000 meters north of the Kangshan stop of the Route 17 Bus at Guodian town Licheng District, Jinan City. Starting from October 27, 2000, they have held "studying classes" continuously, attempting to reform the practitioners with all measures. They charge practitioners 10,000 or 20,000 Yuan per term. [Nong'an, Jilin Province] Authorities Illegally Arrest and Fine Falun Dafa Practitioners Before the Chinese New Year, the authorities of Nong'an County began to apply forceful measures against Falun Gong practitioners in all towns and villages under their jurisdiction. For example, they threatened to detain a practitioner, or fine him 5,000 Yuan, or take his house and force him to write a "guarantee letter" or to sign on documents prepared by the authorities. One day, the chief of police station at Qingshan Town and several accomplices went to a practitioner's house to take away his possessions. There was one old couple both about 90 years old that were at home. At that time, one of them was shocked by the rude ransacking and fainted in the bed. The police chief saw it but didn't care at all, instead he said, "China has such a large population. The death of two more people won't affect anything." Some other people at the site persuaded him to stop and finally they didn't take away any possessions but fined the practitioners 2,000 Yuan. [Harbin, Heilongjiang Province] Police Have New Trick to Extort Money When the practitioners were released, their families had to pay cash for bail and were forced to make a year's subscription to a newspaper called "Harbin Daily" by paying the police station. But ever since then no one has received any issues of this newspaper. [Beijing] Chaoyang District Authorities Illegally Arrest Practitioners A new round of totally isolated "forced transformation classes" started again. At 11pm on April 12, practitioner Hu and Zhang were taken away from their home by force. The people who came to arrest the practitioners were Wang Jianjun and Liu (female) from Jingsong Street Office and five people from a local police station (a total of 10 people conducted the arrest). Zhang's daughter was driven out of the house. The Jingsong Street Office has a quota to send 47 practitioners to the so-called "Transformation Class." In Nongguangdongli district, police arrested practitioners on New Year's Day, on the Chinese New Year, and on February 18. Each time they arrested about 7 practitioners (practitioners Bai, Wang, Li, and Zhang were directly sent to the Chaoyang Detention Center). Every time a practitioner refused to open the door for them, they would use a crowbar to break the anti-theft steel gate and arrest the practitioner. Criminal list (Jingsong Street Office area) Wang Jianjun, office phone number (86) (10) 6773-9445; pager 96318 call 835863; Wang Jiandong (Office General Secretary) work phone (86) (10) 6779-8356, pager: 6721-5588 call 7502 An Lianshan, pager: 66706666 call 5070 Guo Yan and Zhang Weihong (Family Issues Committee) (86) (10) 6778-3293 (office) Meng Jucen (86)(10) 6732-1721 (home); (86)(10) 6732-8527 (office) Wang Bingyu (86)(10) 8732-4706 (home); (86)(10) 6732-8527 (office) Jingsong Police Station: (86)(10) 6778-2498, 6778-2448 [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Please Take Notice of the Suffering of Dalian Practitioner Sun Bo Dalian practitioner Sun Bo was detained in the Dalian Drug Addiction Detox Center for 30 days because she had gone to Beijing to appeal in February 2000. She was also fined 8,000 Yuan RMB [Approximately 16-month salary of an average urban worker]. In February 2001, officers took her away again to the Ganjingzi Police Substation. Her present detention site is unknown. Now her husband says that their daughter cries for her mom every day. We appeal to kind-hearted people to take notice of this issue. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Devious Officials Conspire to Arrest More Falun Dafa Practitioners Recently, devious officials in the Weifang government have been holding secret planning meetings again to arrange for the arrest of Falun Dafa practitioners. Previously, many Falun Dafa practitioners had been abducted from their homes at midnight. These officials had tried to apprehend Falun Dafa practitioner Sun Keyun many times, but always in vain. After continuous surveillance of her home, they finally arrested her at a farmers market a few days ago, and sent her directly to Jinan Labor Camp. They caused her husband to be dismissed from work, and now both he and their child stay at home facing financial difficulties. [Beijing] Falun Dafa Persecution at Police Stations and Liaison Offices Chaoyang District No. 2 Police Station, Beijing:

1. Forbidding Falun Dafa practitioners from sleeping.
2. Strip-searching them for money.
3. Punching and kicking Falun Dafa practitioners.
4. Grabbing their hair and banging their heads against walls.
5. Slapping their faces with leather boots.
6. Forbidding Falun Dafa practitioners from talking.
7. Using penal torture devices such as the "airplane cuff" and "swallow fly" to prevent Falun Dafa practitioners from being able to dress themselves.
8. Torturing Falun Dafa practitioners to a point just short of death.
9. Looting the personal property of practitioners.
10. Extorting money from practitioners. On one occasion they looted a half bag of money in one hour. All were from caches valued at approximately 100 Yuan each.

Shahe Liaison Office, Beijing: Practitioners were illegally detained for nearly 100 days. On January 1, Xu Xiulan was extorted of 70 Yuan. Pei Fuzhen was extorted of 113. On January 2, Wei Shufen was extorted of 1,400 Yuan. Shi Qiaorong was extorted of 220 Yuan. Yang Shuping was extorted of 260 Yuan. On January 3, Zhang Rongdi was extorted of 60 Yuan. Guo Wenhua was extorted of 500 Yuan by someone called Wang Zhanwen. Xingtai Liaison Office, Beijing: On January 5, Liu Rongzhen was extorted of 700 Yuan by two officials. Zhaoyang District No. 2 Police Station, Beijing: On January 3, Qiu Xiaoshu was extorted of 270 Yuan. [Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] Partial Information on Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Ethnicity Autonomous Region: Luan Ning went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Pan Qingyun went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Wang Yuzhu went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Ma Zhiwu went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Wang Yuzhou went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 2 years of labor "re-education." Li Shilin went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 1 year of labor "re-education." Shen Dongmei distributed Falun Dafa materials in December 2000, and was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Wang Caijie went to Beijing to appeal in September 1999, and was detained. In June 2000, she was sent to a labor camp because she communicated with other practitioners. Chen Yulan went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa, communicated with other practitioners, and was sent to a labor camp. Feng Jianying went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa and was sent to labor camp. Wen Yulong went to Beijing to appeal, to validate Falun Dafa, communicated with other practitioners, and was sent to a labor camp. Zhu Ling went to Beijing twice to appeal and was detained. In October 2000, because she posted Falun Dafa materials, she was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Zheng Yongxin went to Beijing in July 1999 to appeal. In June 2000, because he communicated with other practitioners, he was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Li Jinhua went to Beijing to appeal in March 2000 and was detained. In December 2000, because she distributed Falun Dafa materials, she was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Zhang Xiaoping went to Beijing in September 1999 and was detained for almost 1 month in Yinchuan City. When releasing her, police forced her to sign the "Detention Certificate," which falsely stated a term of only 15 days. In December 2000, because she distributed Falun Dafa materials, she was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Sun distributed Falun Dafa materials and was sentenced to 3 years of labor re-education. Shan went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 3 years of labor "re-education." Liu Xufei distributed Falun Dafa materials and was arrested. Details are unknown. Xi Hua distributed Falun Dafa materials and was arrested. Details are unknown. Tian Yucheng distributed Falun Dafa materials and was arrested. Details are unknown. Xie Yuqiang distributed Falun Dafa materials and was arrested. Details are unknown. Fan Huimin insisted on practicing Falun Dafa, was dismissed from the Party, and then transferred from the original post to do cleaning work. Jiang was apprehended for communicating with fellow practitioners, but Jiang's location is unknown. Ding went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa and in September 2000 was then arrested for distributing Falun Dafa materials. Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Lu Hongfeng insisted on practicing Falun Dafa and was sent to a mental hospital, where Lu Hongfeng was then tortured to death. Zhongning County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Wang Desheng went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Tongxin County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Lu Xiangdong went to Beijing to appeal and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Accounts of Criminal Offense by Policeman Shi Shulin from Daowai Police Substation Policeman Shi Shulin of Daowai Police Substation often beats Falun Dafa practitioners, not even sparing senior women over 60 years old. This policeman displays a particularly large viciousness against practitioners who clarify the truth of Falun Dafa or print truth-clarifying materials. He holds nothing back when hitting practitioners, and has become even more ruthless under the temptation of earning some "credit" and a bonus. He beats up almost every practitioner he catches. When he caught practitioner Yang Yuqiu, policeman Shi tied Yang's arms with one arm extending down from over the shoulder and the other extending up from behind the back. Yang was held in this position for over 3 hours; this torture caused the elderly woman a great deal of suffering. Others beaten by policeman Shi Shulin include Shi Caixia, Sun Guizhi, Lin Conghua, and others. Telephone number of Shi Shulin: 86-451-8387435. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Criminal Offense by Security Guard Li Qi in Dalian Development Zone Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Xiuyun from Dalian Development Zone, in order to assist the Teacher in carrying out the mission in this world and offer salvation to worldly people, walked tirelessly on foot to Xinghuali town in Shanqian area to distribute Falun Dafa truth clarifying materials. A 23-year-old security guard Li Qi caught practitioner Zhao. Zhao explained the truth of Falun Dafa to him, yet Li Qi illegally turned practitioner Zhao over to police in order to get the bonus offered by police stations for catching Dafa practitioners. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Criminal Accounts of Criminal Offense of Policeman Miao Zhuang from Dalian Bay In order to earn credit and a bonus, policeman Miao Zhuang from Dalian Bay often brutally beats Falun Dafa practitioners. He has also ransacked practitioners' homes numerous times without following any legal procedures. He has even forced practitioners to do his laundry. Practitioner Liu was caught while going to Beijing. Policeman Miao ordered Liu to stand for a whole night as a penalty, and the next day escorted Liu to a detention center for illegal detention. Another female practitioner was detained for two weeks for going to Beijing, after which policeman Miao sent her to a mental hospital where she was detained for a month. Finally, her family had to pay 5,000 Yuan RMB [Approximately 10-month salary of an average urban worker] to have her released on bail. The torture in the mental hospital has severely damaged this practitioner's mentally. After practitioner Wang Lin was caught for going to Beijing, policeman Miao Zhuang beat Wang so hard that his face was covered with sweat. He then ransacked Wang's home, and forcibly took away the only motorcycle Wang's family had to rely on for earning a living by transporting passengers. After Wang Lin's spouse went to Beijing, policeman Miao Zhuang again went to Wang's home to demand money. Oddly enough, as soon as he got to Wang's home, he was afflicted with a stomachache. Yet, he failed to learn a lesson and stop doing bad deeds; instead he went even further in persecuting Dafa practitioners. In the end, he had Wang's house put on lien. In January 2001, policeman Miao Zhuang detained Wang and tortured Wang for an entire day. Miao Zhuang and another policemen had a guilty conscience and were afraid having their actions revealed. In order to take Wang Lin away, they entered the practitioner's home by jumping over the wall during the night. When illegally ransacking Wang's home, the police took the only 100 Yuan that Wang's family had. Their actions are no different from that of robbers. Policeman Miao Zhuang has been even promoted to principal of Songjia Elementary School for actively suppressing Falun Gong. He is still committing criminal deeds to this day.