Latest News from China - 06/25/2002
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1. [Longkou City, Shandong Province] Authorities Plan on a New Round of
Persecution
Since June 19, authorities in Longkou City, Shandong Province have begun a
door-to-door registration of Falun Dafa practitioners according to previously
registered name lists. A new round of persecution is being planned.
2. [China] Chinese Authorities Close Down Internet Cafés - Citing the Fire
Incident at a Beijing Internet Café as an Excuse
At present, Internet cafes have been temporarily closed down in many regions.
Starting June 18, Internet cafés in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province were all
sealed. The temporary shutdown has now entered the seventh day, and delivering
information over the Internet at present has become quite difficult.
A while back there was an airplane crash in Dalian City, Liaoning Province.
Why doesn't the government stop all planes from taking off? Clearly, citing the
fire incident in a Beijing Internet café to put all Internet cafés in several
regions out of business is merely an excuse. All practitioners should recognize
that this is another form of interference. We call upon fellow practitioners to
send forth righteous thoughts to break down this information blockade.
3. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Police at the No. 2 Detention
Center in Mudanjiang City Beat Falun Dafa Practitioners Without Restraint
Recently Liu Jinqun, the deputy chief of the No. 2 Detention Center in
Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province has led Hou Lijun and other guards to
brutally beat Falun Dafa practitioners. They have viciously beaten and kicked
practitioners, and stepped on the practitioners' heads and necks. The female
guard Yu Derong has cursed Falun Dafa practitioners, and then struck
practitioners on the shoulders and the back with heavy shackles to vent her
anger. Falun Dafa practitioner An Fanglun had both her wrists and ankles
shackled. The guard then directed several inmates to push An Fanglun onto the
ground and beat him severely. Hou Lijun exclaimed, "You are not allowed to
practice Falun Gong exercises. Otherwise, we will beat you up. I don't dare to
beat female practitioners to death, but I'm ready to beat to death any male
practitioners!"
4. [Xiangfan City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Abducted for
Protesting Peacefully at Her Own Home Gets Out of Prison after Hunger Strike
Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Weishan is an employee of Hanjiang Machinery
Factory in Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. Her firm belief in Falun Dafa has
infuriated the police at the local police station, who have constantly harassed
her. In April 2002, police from Hanjiang Police Station came to her home to
forcibly take Falun Dafa books. In May 2002, Liu Weishan protested at the
doorstep of her own home against the unjust actions of the police by beginning a
hunger strike, abstaining from both food and water. Thirteen days later, Liu
Weishan resumed taking food and water and was recovering at home. Several days
later, the Prosecuting Council of Xiangfan City issued a warrant and she was
forcibly placed under arrest.
Eyewitnesses said that Liu Weishan was very weak and was carried into the
police vehicle by several police officers. Liu resolutely refused to cooperate
with the evil at the detention center, and went on a hunger strike abstaining
from food and water to protest against the unjust custody. She was sent to the
emergency room in the No. 1 Hospital in Xiangfan City for half a month of
force-feeding. Although she was on the verge of death, her belief in Falun Dafa
was as strong as ever. The police worried about taking responsibility, and had
to send her home unconditionally on June 14.
5. [Bozhou City, Anhui Province] Randomly Arrested People Are Tortured - the
Persecution of Falun Gong Victimizes Everyday People
Following instructions from the "610 Office" [an agency
specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each
level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary
systems], the police in Bozhou City in Anhui Province have escalated their
arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners since March this year. The police have put
anyone who looks like a practitioner under arrest. Jiaoling Police Station
arrested Wang, who is in his fifties, but didn't get any result after
interrogation. The police thought that they had never heard of Wang practicing
Falun Gong before, and so he must be someone who is "under deep
cover." Wang was then sent to the Qiliqiao Detention Center for torture and
interrogation to coerce a confession. After failing to get the confession they
wanted to hear, the police beat him without restraint. Wang was injured all over
his body, and he kept yelling and cursing at the police. The police knew that
Falun Dafa practitioners never even say a harsh word against others, yet they
continued torturing him. Wang didn't stop cursing until he almost lost
consciousness and was too weak to say anything. The police still didn't give up,
and they handcuffed and shackled Wang [handcuffing is another form of torture
used frequently by the police]. It wasn't until Wang's family members came
to the detention center that the police were convinced that Wang was not a Falun
Gong practitioner.
Wang's family members saw that Wang was disoriented and there were injuries
all over his body. They were so angry that they filed a complaint against the
police station and the detention center. The leaders of the police department
later learned that Wang's son is a member of the railroad police force and they
started worrying about the consequences of their actions. They didn't want this
case to spin out of control, so, in exchange for the promise of settling in
private with Wang's family, they arranged for medical treatment for Wang and
apologized. The news that the police were randomly arresting and brutally
torturing innocent people spread overnight through the entire police force and
among the public. A senior police officer said, "We have now become a tool
wearing a human mask and possessing no human conscience." Through this
incident, kindhearted people have seen even more clearly the evil nature of
Jiang's political group.
6. [Tianjin Municipality] Police at the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp Instigate
Inmates to Beat Falun Dafa Practitioners
There are five large teams in the Shuangkou Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin.
Large Teams 1, 3, 4, and 5 all have Falun Dafa practitioners in illegal custody.
Among these teams, the No. 1 Large Team is the most vicious. The police often
instigate inmates to beat Falun Dafa practitioners brutally. Practitioners who
have just arrived at the team will have to take the beating from police and
other inmates. This is called "taking the turns." Practitioners are
forced to bend down so their buttocks can be hit by planks or clubs, until some
practitioners agree to "quit practicing." Other tortures, for example
with electric batons, are also deployed frequently.
In the forced labor camp, the police often forced practitioners to stay up
all night to do slave labor. The No. 3 and No. 5 Large Teams have kept tight
control of any leakage of information, and details in those two teams are not
yet available.
The forced labor camp can illegally extend the terms for Falun Dafa
practitioners at its discretion without going through any legal procedure, or
notifying the work units or family members.
7. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Staff at Etouwan Brainwashing Class in
Qiaokou District Claim to "Do Whatever They Can"
The members of the Etouwan Brainwashing Class in Qiaokou District in Wuhan
City, Hubei Province have claimed they "do whatever they can" to force
Falun Gong practitioners to give up Dafa. Authorities have deployed so-called
"crowd tactics," "fatigue tactics," and "physical
penalty" and other tortures in order to break the strong will of Falun Dafa
practitioners. The police and collaborators [former practitioners who now
cooperate with the police in persecuting practitioners due to the extreme
pressure and brainwashing they have endured] often attack individual
practitioners in a ratio of three to one in order to deprive the practitioners
of sleep. Some Falun Dafa practitioners have been forced to stand for six days
straight.
8. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Police Conduct Door-to-Door Screening of
Tenants in Rented Residence in Guanshan Area
Recently, the police in Wuhan have conducted a door-to-door search and
screening of tenants in rented residence in Guanshan and neighboring areas. At
the same time, surveillance and tailing were carried out against Falun Gong
practitioners in these areas.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/6/25/32314.html
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